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NFL REPORT: Eagles-Cowboys Rematch in Dallas and Can the Bills Beat the Chiefs To Move Up In The Playoff Hunt? · NFL Game Previews

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Speaker 1: Prescott back again.
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Speaker 2: He steps up, he pumps, he fires and has caught Buddy's.
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Speaker 3: Tackle tackles of steveee Lamb at the two yard line
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Speaker 3: at the game of solod Woth the Eagles.
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Speaker 4: Win, who was an instant classic between the Cowboys and
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Speaker 4: the Eagles a few weeks ago. And we're gonna get
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Speaker 4: it again on this upcoming Sunday, Steve Wich, James Palmer,
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Speaker 4: this is the NFL report. We're gonna get right to
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Speaker 4: that game. But this is what we got on the show.
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Speaker 4: We have Agent eighty nine, Steve Smith's gonna be joining us.
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Speaker 4: We have two Walter Payton Men of the Year nominee
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Speaker 4: Steven Dolphin's fullback alec Ingold and Chargers safety Derwin James.
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Speaker 4: And it's a Thursday, so you know we got Baldy's
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Speaker 4: favorite films. So Steve a monster played by the Eagles
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Speaker 4: defense right there. The Eagles defense apparently did not show
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Speaker 4: up to the link. This past Sunday against to the
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Speaker 4: San Francisco forty nine Ers, it is all and gloom
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Speaker 4: in Philadelphia. People are standing outside the Novacare Complex with
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Speaker 4: giant signs saying run the ball to the wall. Walk
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Speaker 4: nothing less from the Philadelphia faithful. Is the sky falling
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Speaker 4: in Philadelphia realistically? Or is everyone overreacting to the performance
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Speaker 4: they had Sunday against San Francisco.
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Speaker 5: I mean, come on, man, I mean I don't get it,
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Speaker 5: like all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the
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Speaker 5: Eagles suck get out of here with that. I mean,
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Speaker 5: we were talking. Let's rewind all of us media types,
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Speaker 5: everybody to a month ago talking about this brutal six
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Speaker 5: game stretch that the Philadelphia Eagles had on their schedule.
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Speaker 5: Oh boy, if they can get through this, they're gonna
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Speaker 5: be okay.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if they're gonna get through this.
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Speaker 1: They're three and one thus far. Right, those three.
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Speaker 5: Games came in that contract schedule before they played the
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Speaker 5: forty nine ers, who were coming off of a longer break,
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Speaker 5: and the forty nine ers put it on them, right, they.
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Speaker 6: Took a loss.
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Speaker 5: They're getting ready to go face the Cowboys in Dallas, US.
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Speaker 5: This is the game, though, This is what's important. If
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Speaker 5: the Eagles lose this game and they don't look good, okay,
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Speaker 5: then it's gonna be like all right now, now they've
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Speaker 5: got to maybe reassess some things. But if they win
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Speaker 5: this game, hey man, the earth is back on its
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Speaker 5: axis in Philadelphia, and people can stop tripping because this
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Speaker 5: is still going to be a football team, a good
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Speaker 5: football team.
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Speaker 1: They playoff football team.
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Speaker 5: Maybe they don't get home field, but they still can
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Speaker 5: win with the style of football they play. And JP,
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Speaker 5: I want to say this too, because you know, I
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Speaker 5: gotta mention our colleague. David Carr brought up the issue
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Speaker 5: of hey man, Jalen Hurts doesn't look right. Maybe they
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Speaker 5: should put in Marcus Mariota for a couple of games
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Speaker 5: and let Jay and let Marcus play until Jalen gets healthy.
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Speaker 1: No, no, when a quarterback might be nicked up, you
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Speaker 1: put him back in.
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Speaker 6: There if he's your best player.
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Speaker 5: Look in that game when Jalen Hurts had to go
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Speaker 5: to concussion protocol, Marcus Mariota came in for about three
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Speaker 5: plays and they got Jalen back out there. For a reason,
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Speaker 5: Jalen is a much better player. If Nick Sirianni were
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Speaker 5: to put Marcus mar Hilda out there and they lose
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Speaker 5: that ballgame, then it will be his butt in a
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Speaker 5: swing more than anything when it comes to the venom
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Speaker 5: of Eagles fans. So let Jalen play, even if he's
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Speaker 5: not one hundred percent. And this game Sunday is going
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Speaker 5: to be fantastic because you know the Eagles are going
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Speaker 5: to be geared back up to face a Cowboys team
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Speaker 5: that you know almost had a foot on their necks
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Speaker 5: in early November.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a great game in November. And listen,
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Speaker 4: I was at training camp. I watched a number of practices.
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Speaker 4: Let me just say, watching Marcus.
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Speaker 6: Out there and Juriel out there, bur reel.
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Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts at forty percent is better than Marcus Moolder
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Speaker 4: running this offense. Well, usually happens, Steve. When a quarterback
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Speaker 4: is nicked up in a sense, a quarterback that is
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Speaker 4: as mobile as Jalen Hurts is, you find ways to
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Speaker 4: maybe protect them in a sense or limit some of
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Speaker 4: the things that they that you know they do that
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Speaker 4: puts them in harm's way, But you don't take them
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Speaker 4: off the field, not when they're a legitimate MVP candidate.
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Speaker 4: At the top of the conversation, and I'm glad you
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Speaker 4: said it in terms of the gauntlet that they've gone through,
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Speaker 4: because if you look at it, after the Cowboys they
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Speaker 4: go to Seattle, then they have giants, cardinals, giants to
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Speaker 4: finish the season. Let's not overreact on what's happened during
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Speaker 4: this stretch with the Philadelphia Eagles. There's two things that
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Speaker 4: stand out to me. One, they didn't have Dallas Goddard
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Speaker 4: for a big stretch of this and that was a
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Speaker 4: huge thing that was missing during their game against the
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Speaker 4: forty nine Ers. Maybe that's the game that was exposed
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Speaker 4: the most, but this is one of a lot of.
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Speaker 6: People around the league.
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Speaker 4: Steve tell me it's top five, maybe top three tight
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Speaker 4: ends in all of football, A complete tight end that
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Speaker 4: helps this team in the run game. As everybody's talking about,
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Speaker 4: the run game was not effective against San Francisco.
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Speaker 6: He is a tremendous run blocker.
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Speaker 4: He didn't have Cam Jurgens their guard for a good
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Speaker 4: stretch of that, which hurt their run game as well.
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Speaker 4: And Jalen being nicked up a little bit hurt the
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Speaker 4: run game as well. Now teams were sitting there in
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Speaker 4: that too high safety situation that who busts that open,
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Speaker 4: Steve to help the two guys on the outside, it's
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Speaker 4: Dallas Goddard unning up the middle of the field in
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Speaker 4: that intermediate passing game, which, let's no slight to Albert
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Speaker 4: Okawebanam or Jack or Jack Stall or whoever's playing tight
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Speaker 4: end for them, that the trust factor is not really
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Speaker 4: there with Jalen Hurts and those guys as it is
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Speaker 4: with Jalen Hurts and Dallas Goddard. This changes their offense.
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Speaker 4: I don't think we make a big enough deal about
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Speaker 4: how talented Dallas Goddard is. The other part is this
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Speaker 4: defensive front has been playing a boatload of snaps. What
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Speaker 4: we raved about super Bowl Week and in the playoff
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Speaker 4: run last year was they rotate so many guys on
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Speaker 4: their defensive line. That rotation has not happened. Josh Wewtz
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Speaker 4: already played more snaps than they did all of last season.
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Speaker 4: Hassan Reddick has played a boatload of snaps. The youngsters
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Speaker 4: in the middle are not used to playing this many snaps.
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Speaker 4: In Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, They're used to playing
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Speaker 4: a handful of snaps. I think they're a little exhausted upfront,
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Speaker 4: which the way I mentioned the end of the season,
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Speaker 4: Steve with the Giants the Cardinals, the Giants, they may
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Speaker 4: have a chance to wrest some guys a little bit
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Speaker 4: more limit some snaps.
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Speaker 6: There is no need to panic in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 5: Hi, JP, there might be reason to panic in Kansas
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Speaker 5: City though. The Chiefs face the Bills this week, and
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Speaker 5: the quarterback Patrick Mahomes had something to say about this
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Speaker 5: very important AFC matchup for us.
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Speaker 7: It's about kind of keeping it within the locker room.
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Speaker 7: And we're still sitting there on top of the AFC West,
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Speaker 7: and I think we have a lot of the stuff
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Speaker 7: out in front of us. We used to go out
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Speaker 7: there and capitalize on it. And I think if we
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Speaker 7: can start this week with a great week of practice
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Speaker 7: and try to beat a really good football team in
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Speaker 7: Buffalo Bills, it's kind of like next next week we'll
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Speaker 7: be talking about how great we are.
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Speaker 6: So it's kind of just how the NFL works.
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Speaker 5: All right there, JP? Right the wait, right, we're great
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Speaker 5: if we lose. But here's the thing. If they lose, Okay,
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Speaker 5: the rest of their schedule is candy. The Kansasity Chiefs,
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Speaker 5: as he said, are going to win the AFC West.
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Speaker 5: But you don't hear the Chiefs talking about winning the
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Speaker 5: AFC West. You hear them talking about playoff seating for
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Speaker 5: the AFC. So that's a little different twist in the narrative.
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Speaker 5: I want to get it to you, James on this game,
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Speaker 5: and especially for Buffalo, like they've got an opportunity here
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Speaker 5: coming off of a bye to go on on a run.
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Speaker 5: Their schedule is pretty damn difficult going down the stretch.
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Speaker 5: If they are going to get into the playoffs, it
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Speaker 5: is tough.
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Speaker 6: Steve and I look at it from two sides.
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Speaker 4: The one side is even if Buffalo is eliminated and
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Speaker 4: they really pretty much have to win out from here
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Speaker 4: on out, and they're well aware of that. They're calling
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Speaker 4: this a playoff game in Buffalo, from Sean McDermott to
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Speaker 4: Josh Allen, all of them. But if they don't even
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Speaker 4: get it, we know how good of a football team
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Speaker 4: this is. They've kind of hurt themselves early on obviously
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Speaker 4: with their up and down play in their turnover issues.
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Speaker 4: But they play Miami, they play Dallas. They can hurt
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Speaker 4: some of these teams down the stretch in terms of
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Speaker 4: where these postseason teams want to be positioned. Steve and
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Speaker 4: I think Hold are saying, Bill Josh Allen could be
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Speaker 4: playing spoiler.
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Speaker 1: Come on now, we don't want the build.
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Speaker 5: Do you think they went to the season they Let's
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Speaker 5: play spoiler right now, they are six to six, right,
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Speaker 5: if they lose this game, there are six ' seven though.
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Speaker 1: They got they wanted no, but then they've got Dallas.
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Speaker 5: They've got Dallas, the Charge the Patriots, and like you
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Speaker 5: said that Week eighteen game against Miami, let's.
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Speaker 6: Eliminate the spoiler thing. Though.
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Speaker 5: If they win, okay, seven and six again Dallas Chargers,
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Speaker 5: New England Miami, would they have to do? Do you
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Speaker 5: think they have to win out to get this or
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Speaker 5: can they take maybe one loss and beat the Dolphins
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Speaker 5: just to maybe set them up in some tiebreak scenarios.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they could maybe lose one. They're gonna need some
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Speaker 4: help from some other teams that maybe slide off. And
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Speaker 4: there's some chances with some of the quarterback situations around
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Speaker 4: the AFC that maybe some of those teams do fall off.
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Speaker 4: I don't think anybody wants the Bills to be in
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Speaker 4: the postseason. If you look at the way this offense
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Speaker 4: has turned around over the last two games, offensive coordinator
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Speaker 4: Joe Brady running it. They've scored over thirty points in
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Speaker 4: each of the last two games. Steve, when I talk
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Speaker 4: to people in Buffalo, it's hey, Josh is in a
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Speaker 4: rhythm man Joe gets him in a rhythm. And when
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Speaker 4: he gets in a rhythm as Dion Dawkins, their left
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Speaker 4: tackle told me put the cape on. That's when Josh
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Speaker 4: Allen turns in to Superman and he is virtually unstoppable.
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Speaker 4: We saw in the last game they played, and they
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Speaker 4: gained a lot of confidence in that game against Philly
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Speaker 4: that they very much could have won, but they saw
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Speaker 4: how good they can be. They can really go into
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Speaker 4: Kansas City and legitimately win this game. I'm excited to
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Speaker 4: be at this game because every time these two quarterbacks
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Speaker 4: are out there, it's a bonkers type of environment. And
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Speaker 4: Josh also says that Pat owe them some money for
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Speaker 4: Wyoming beating Texas Tech. So maybe that exchange I can
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Speaker 4: catch that game, or maybe it's a hoodie. I don't
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Speaker 4: know what the situation is.
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Speaker 5: I will tell you this, you will not see Clark
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Speaker 5: Kent under center for either of.
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Speaker 1: The teams in this game.
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Speaker 5: And like you said, JP, you are going to be
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Speaker 5: in for a dandy James. We come back here on
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Speaker 5: the NFL Report our guy agent eighty nine, Steve Smith.
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Speaker 5: Let's give all some thoughts on the Baltimore Ravens coming
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Speaker 5: off of a bye Lamar Jackson and how they can
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Speaker 5: maybe replace Mark Andrews.
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Speaker 1: The NFL Report coming back.
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Speaker 6: You just admit it.
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Speaker 5: We're back at the NFL Report, Jave Palmer.
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Speaker 1: We are joined by our dude, Steve Smith, the.
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Speaker 5: Former Panthers and Ravens wide receiver works for NFL Network
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Speaker 5: now Pro Football Hall of Fame semi finalists eighty nine.
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Speaker 3: I go, first of all, it's not going well. Put
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Speaker 3: my title bar back up. Put the title bar back
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Speaker 3: What happened?
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Speaker 1: What's it?
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Speaker 6: Guy?
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Speaker 1: Who?
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Speaker 3: Wow?
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Speaker 8: Wow?
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Speaker 5: Steve for those of you on the podcast, for those
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Speaker 5: of you on the podcast, Steve who can't say it?
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Speaker 1: It's said?
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Speaker 3: So, first of all, has it has my It has
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Speaker 3: all of my stuff? Steve Smith Senior, eighty nine. That's
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Speaker 3: that's on all my social media. And then you put
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Speaker 3: Steve Smith Junior, Hey, are you good? Are you gonna
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Speaker 3: stay with us? Here's our thing? Here, here's the thing.
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Speaker 3: It just tells me. The universe is telling me. My
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Speaker 3: Lord and Savior is telling me. I gotta go onto
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. I gotta go into twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Humble.
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Speaker 3: I gotta be able to adjust and be okay with it.
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Speaker 3: So I'm okay with Steve Smith Junior or senior, because
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Speaker 3: Steve Smith is a name that makes people do a
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Speaker 3: lot of different things that either love me or hate me,
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Speaker 3: but either one, you're still talking about me.
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Speaker 4: They fixed this the that's Deuce's real name, right, Steve
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Speaker 4: Smith Junior.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like that's on his birth certificate.
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Speaker 3: It's it's it's technically on his birth certificate is Steven
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Speaker 3: Latrell Smith Junior and Steven Littrell Smith Senior signed his
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Speaker 3: birth certificate.
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Speaker 1: So that's how I roll.
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Speaker 5: All right, So it's legal, it's all leg all right,
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Speaker 5: we got doctor football.
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Speaker 1: They only got you for a few minutes, brothers.
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 5: Look, so the Baltimore Ravens are coming off of buy right,
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Speaker 5: they're they're they're leading the division, the number two team
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Speaker 5: in the AFC.
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Speaker 6: What do you think?
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Speaker 1: You know this team?
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Speaker 5: Well, what do you think Harball and those coaches have done.
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Speaker 5: You know, Mark Andrews is out with that injury during
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Speaker 5: this buy to maybe redesign or tweak the offense to
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Speaker 5: kind of make up for his absence as they take
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Speaker 5: on a very good Rams team this weekend.
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Speaker 3: When you lose a caliber type of player, like Mark Andrews,
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Speaker 3: a guy who is a trouble maker for the defense
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Speaker 3: between the hashes and Lamar Jackson ken throw the ball
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Speaker 3: all over the field, But where he goes and does
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Speaker 3: his major surgery work is with Mark Andrews in years
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Speaker 3: prior with eighty nine and the tight end in between
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Speaker 3: the hash marks.
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Speaker 1: But now he has a plethora of guys.
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Speaker 3: They go out and draft Rashad Bateman, then they draft
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Speaker 3: Zay Flowers, they acquire Odell Beckham, Junior, Nelson Aguilar, and
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Speaker 3: so they have all of these guys on the outside.
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Speaker 3: But now with Mark Andrews not terrorizing defenses in between
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Speaker 3: the hashes, you have to have somebody that fills in
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Speaker 3: as somebody that can step up impact the offense, but
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Speaker 3: also who can be a horror zon donald threat, a
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Speaker 3: vertical threat, and can make defenses second get second guests
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Speaker 3: themselves and allow the defensive coordinator to stay up at
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Speaker 3: night trying to figure out if they're missing Mark Andrews.
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Speaker 3: We can't take plays off now because of his absence. Somehow,
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Speaker 3: some way we have to be better in the absence
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Speaker 3: of Mark Andrews, and that's really hard to do, but
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Speaker 3: that's what happens when we have these cliches. Next man up,
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Speaker 3: you play your cards that you're dealt with. It's appeal battle.
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Speaker 3: Don't judge a book by his cover. That's all the cliches,
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Speaker 3: Next man up. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: when a guy goes down with his type of impact,
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Speaker 3: the world still turns. The game is still expected to
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Speaker 3: be played, and unfortunately you got to play that game
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Speaker 3: without your one of your marquee guys.
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Speaker 4: I kind of want to stick with this, Steve, because
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Speaker 4: in the first block, White and I were talking about
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Speaker 4: Dallas Goddard being out for Philly during the stretch.
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Speaker 6: That's been overlooked in a lot of fans' minds on.
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Speaker 4: What impact that has on Devonte Smith and aj Brown
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Speaker 4: on the outside, the way defenses are able to sit
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Speaker 4: in two safeties and don't expect.
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Speaker 6: A threat down the middle of the field.
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Speaker 4: Can you kind of talk to us about the importance
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Speaker 4: of the tight end spot, what it does for those
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Speaker 4: guys you mentioned on the outside, like Zay Flowers and
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Speaker 4: Rashad Bateman and Obj. What life is like outside when
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Speaker 4: you don't have that threat in the middle of the field.
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Speaker 3: Well, you got to have most offenses have two tight ends.
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Speaker 3: One's a tight end as a pass catcher who impacts
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Speaker 3: the pass game, and then there's a guy who's really
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Speaker 3: there to support Chip and he's an outlet, but he's
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Speaker 3: not really as dangerous to be in the past game.
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Speaker 3: Dallas Gotter has the ability and has shown he can Chip.
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Speaker 3: He can be an impact in the run game, which
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Speaker 3: makes him every down tight end, but he is missing
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Speaker 3: in the past game. And I also believe because of
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Speaker 3: Dallas got Her, even though he hasn't had the numbers
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Speaker 3: this year that we've known him to see b because
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Speaker 3: you got to remember when they trafted Dallas got Her
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden out the middle.
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Speaker 1: Of the season, what do they do?
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Speaker 3: They trade zach Ertz because of Dallas got Her. How
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Speaker 3: good of a football player. And let's be honest, at
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Speaker 3: the age of zach of zach Ertz. It made zach
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Speaker 3: Ertz spendable. And now zach Ertz has been released as
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Speaker 3: well from the Arizona Cardinal. So Dallas got Her is
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Speaker 3: a guy who stretches his presence on the football field.
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Speaker 3: You have to keep a counsel, no guy, you know,
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Speaker 3: like the quarterback with Jalen Hurts. You have all eleven
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Speaker 3: players that have to get impact the impact the game
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Speaker 3: because of Jalen Hurts legs.
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Speaker 1: But Dallas Gotter also makes you part of.
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Speaker 3: That eleven where everyone has to keep their eyes on
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Speaker 3: their luggage.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has to be understanding.
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Speaker 3: The run game and then making sure that a tight
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Speaker 3: end air quotes, a slow tight end, a big body
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Speaker 3: tight end like Dallas Gotter, who's all about that action,
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Speaker 3: all about that business, who wants to finish you and
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Speaker 3: finish with his pass forward. You can't really replace him.
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Speaker 3: All you can do is hope other guys can. And
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Speaker 3: I believe that the Little Dove Eagles have other guys
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Speaker 3: that are capable of being on the field and expanding
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Speaker 3: and putting pressure on the defense because of their presence.
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Speaker 1: But Dallas Godters is surely missed.
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Speaker 3: And then this guy that the defense luckily does not
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Speaker 3: have to account for when he's not on the field.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, see on Answy with the Ravens.
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Speaker 5: If Isaiah likely if they've done something with him, Todd
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Speaker 5: Monkins regular tight ends if they can utilize him in
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Speaker 5: some way like Mark Andrews. But Stee Let's also address
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Speaker 5: what's going on, especially in the AFC, and that's quarterbacks being.
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Speaker 1: Down and you know, injured.
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Speaker 5: And I want you to kind of take these two
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Speaker 5: different scenarios because I don't want to put a blanket
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Speaker 5: statement on backup quarterbacks, because some players have practiced with
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Speaker 5: backups or played with their backups, like in Indianapolis, Gardner
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Speaker 5: Minshew's been there for a while, right. We saw even
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Speaker 5: in Cincinnati those guys have practiced with Jake Browning all season.
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Speaker 5: But justin Jefferson is coming in off the shelf, and
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Speaker 5: you got to play with Josh Dobbs, Like.
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Speaker 1: How hard he came off the street.
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Speaker 5: Came off the street, right, So what's the difference, you know,
17:22
Speaker 5: especially with your experience, Yeah, and trying to get you know,
17:24
Speaker 5: chemistry or trying to get something going in those scenarios.
17:28
Speaker 3: Well, when you know, Steve, when you're talking about practicing
17:31
Speaker 3: with a guy, you can be in practice and practice
17:34
Speaker 3: with a guy and that guy actually never throws you
17:36
Speaker 3: a football pass because he may be in a huddle,
17:39
Speaker 3: he may throw you warming up, or he may throw
17:43
Speaker 3: you a pass while you're there, but he's not actually
17:46
Speaker 3: running the ones, the reps with the ones and situational football.
17:52
Speaker 3: And so Gardner Minshew was running with the Ones in
17:55
Speaker 3: training camp, and that's a different situation.
17:59
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure Jake Brownie was not running with
18:04
Speaker 1: the Ones.
18:06
Speaker 3: Until you had Joe.
18:10
Speaker 1: Burrow with his calf injury.
18:12
Speaker 3: But to see what Jake Brownie has been able to
18:15
Speaker 3: do and how he's done it and the way he
18:18
Speaker 3: has done it the other day, no one saw that
18:21
Speaker 3: coming because the first game.
18:22
Speaker 1: He did look great.
18:23
Speaker 3: But now he's running on all cylinders and it's pretty
18:27
Speaker 3: cool to just watch. Zach Taylor has done a phenomenal
18:30
Speaker 3: job of implementing the run, and let's be honest, they
18:34
Speaker 3: actually are running the more, running the ball a little
18:37
Speaker 3: bit more efficiently, and given Joe Mixon an opportunity when
18:41
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow was back there that they.
18:42
Speaker 1: Weren't giving him.
18:43
Speaker 3: And I just hope, no matter what the situation is,
18:46
Speaker 3: that they can run the football play action. You see
18:49
Speaker 3: the RPO game going right now, But the RPO game
18:53
Speaker 3: doesn't matter if you only do the P and O
18:55
Speaker 3: and not implement the r right and so let's let's
18:59
Speaker 3: let's if things can continue to keep going the way
19:02
Speaker 3: they are. This could be a surprise situation that no
19:05
Speaker 3: one saw coming, and Jay and Brownie didn't see it.
19:09
Speaker 3: But he's a guy, he's a journeyman and a fellow
19:11
Speaker 3: PAC twelve guy. So seeing his opportunity to take a
19:14
Speaker 3: full advantage of it and watching his smile and just
19:17
Speaker 3: seeing he's just as shocked as everyone else.
19:19
Speaker 2: Not shocked in hey, I've done this, but shocked in
19:24
Speaker 2: the way that how well he's doing it, and the
19:27
Speaker 2: way he did it so quickly, really on a big stage,
19:32
Speaker 2: was really great to watch.
19:34
Speaker 1: It's tough.
19:35
Speaker 9: Awesome.
19:36
Speaker 6: See we got to can we have you on like
19:37
Speaker 6: every single week? Is that doable? There's like nine more
19:39
Speaker 6: topics I wanted to get to, but we don't have time.
19:42
Speaker 3: Well, you, I mean, let's talk about let's let's talk
19:45
Speaker 3: about that that hell Mary, because I'm pretty excited.
19:48
Speaker 1: I got a whole I'm pretty excited to talk about that.
19:52
Speaker 1: What's gonna have for me? Palmer?
19:53
Speaker 4: This may not make the show, but this is going
19:55
Speaker 4: to make the podcast. So I'm going to keep this
19:57
Speaker 4: going right here, okay, because we can go look in
19:59
Speaker 4: the podcast for him. What is your take on the hell?
20:03
Speaker 6: Mary? I texted you last night.
20:05
Speaker 4: I said, I want to talk about what goes into
20:08
Speaker 4: the preparation during the week, what goes into the proper
20:11
Speaker 4: execution of the play. And is it like like international
20:16
Speaker 4: waters down there, there's no rules.
20:19
Speaker 6: It's pure chaos. You're expecting to get pis and it
20:22
Speaker 6: not be called.
20:24
Speaker 3: So hell Mary's practice all the time. There's a number
20:28
Speaker 3: of plays that offenses run all the time, situational football,
20:33
Speaker 3: and obviously if you have a good coach, you're always
20:36
Speaker 3: working on situational football. But hell Mary's always run after
20:40
Speaker 3: a certain practice just so you can get it.
20:42
Speaker 8: Now.
20:43
Speaker 3: It how they do it is, Hey, the offensive live
20:49
Speaker 3: is live. Defense is not, and defenses live offenses not
20:53
Speaker 3: because you want to just get the practice in. It's
20:56
Speaker 3: important now the hell, man, I'm not gonna say guys cheat.
21:02
Speaker 1: If you're not cheating, you're not trying. But let's be honest, a.
21:05
Speaker 3: Little chickenwayn here and there don't hurt anybody, right, So
21:09
Speaker 3: it's it's basketball on sterroids.
21:11
Speaker 1: And I'm not a very good basketball player, don't claim
21:14
Speaker 1: to be.
21:15
Speaker 10: Uh.
21:15
Speaker 3: I thought I was a good basketball player until an
21:18
Speaker 3: accident happened, which is I realized after I tried off
21:22
Speaker 3: for a basketball team.
21:23
Speaker 1: The accident was I ain't very good, right, So that's
21:27
Speaker 1: that's what it happened. But boxing out, boxing out.
21:32
Speaker 3: Holding uh, you know, tugging up the jersey a couple
21:36
Speaker 3: of years ago. Because I'm in Pittsburgh right now and
21:39
Speaker 3: I'm going back in my mind my AFC North days,
21:42
Speaker 3: the Black and Blue Division. I had a walk off home,
21:46
Speaker 3: a walk off pass Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco threw me
21:50
Speaker 3: a pass against Cincinnati Bengals up the middle of the
21:52
Speaker 3: field and I was going against a uh we were
21:55
Speaker 3: fighting for position of the free safety, can't remember his
21:58
Speaker 3: name exactly, and he pushed me and I pushed him,
22:03
Speaker 3: except I guess my push was substantially harder according to
22:08
Speaker 3: the referees, and that they said that that allowed me
22:12
Speaker 3: to catch the football and I scored and they said
22:14
Speaker 3: it was passing the finish. What now I would say,
22:18
Speaker 3: I probably now as an analyst, I look back, Did
22:22
Speaker 3: I push off? The lie is of course not the truth, absolutely,
22:28
Speaker 3: But it just happened, and it's all about getting in
22:32
Speaker 3: better position, and it's just natural. You kind of put
22:36
Speaker 3: those landing you put your arms out your landing gear
22:40
Speaker 3: and you try to box out and you're just trying
22:42
Speaker 3: to time it out before the other guy does. And
22:46
Speaker 3: unfortunately I got caught red handed but on a recorded line.
22:53
Speaker 1: I would say not to my recollection.
22:57
Speaker 6: On a collect call.
22:58
Speaker 5: On a collect call recorded line, Hey JP, Steve, we
23:04
Speaker 5: gotta go bro, but we appreciate you man.
23:08
Speaker 1: I love rock.
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Speaker 8: You gotta be.
23:12
Speaker 1: Not to my recollection.
23:15
Speaker 3: You have a collect call from the Los Angeles County
23:17
Speaker 3: Correction Office.
23:19
Speaker 1: Steven Smith calling.
23:22
Speaker 6: Well accept, all right, We'll be back, joins the program.
23:32
Speaker 4: Al Golds coming up the Walter Peyton Man of the
23:35
Speaker 4: Year nominee for the Miami Dolphins. What he has done
23:38
Speaker 4: in the adoption community in this country is absolutely remarkable.
23:44
Speaker 6: You have to hear what he has to say next.
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24:17
Speaker 5: Consider the league's most prestigious honor, The Walter Payton NFL
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24:25
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24:29
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Speaker 6: Man of the Year.
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Speaker 5: All right, JP, and now we are joined by the
24:46
Speaker 5: Miami Dolphins nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year,
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Speaker 5: fullback Alex Ingold. Alex, congratulations on this man, because not
24:56
Speaker 5: only is this a prestigious honor, right, you're one of
24:58
Speaker 5: thirty two you are with the club and I can
25:02
Speaker 5: honestly say this that might be the most civically and
25:05
Speaker 5: community active in the NFL. And for you to get
25:09
Speaker 5: this over your other teammates really says a lot.
25:13
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got a lot of guys.
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Speaker 11: Man. You think about Bradley Chubb, everything he's done. Tron
25:17
Speaker 11: Armstead is another big guy. You had Jalen Phillips last
25:20
Speaker 11: year be the Man of the Year, and even the
25:22
Speaker 11: past winners, right, Dan Marino, Jason Taylor. A lot of
25:25
Speaker 11: good work happens down here in South Florida. So really
25:28
Speaker 11: just honored to be a small little piece of this.
25:30
Speaker 11: It's fun to be a part of this team extremely
25:33
Speaker 11: successful right now. So yeah, man, on and off the field,
25:36
Speaker 11: it's a big honor and I'm really excited to represent
25:39
Speaker 11: the Dolphins as best I can.
25:42
Speaker 4: Well, we'll bring up the team in a minute. We'll
25:44
Speaker 4: bring up football in a minute. Out we got to
25:46
Speaker 4: talk about you and off the field. Come on, man,
25:49
Speaker 4: don't be bashful. In a sense. What I love is,
25:51
Speaker 4: you know, so many of you guys go out there
25:53
Speaker 4: and you have these causes and they mean so much
25:55
Speaker 4: to a lot of you personally, But you're on almost
25:58
Speaker 4: another level than some of these other guys that go
26:00
Speaker 4: out there in terms of how your connections fallow.
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Speaker 6: Could you just kind of dive deeper into that.
26:05
Speaker 4: And really maybe does that bring you an added joy
26:09
Speaker 4: in a sense through everything you're doing.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that purpose thing is huge, right And
26:14
Speaker 11: to be adopted myself, and then to be able to
26:17
Speaker 11: have a foundation that helps advocate for kids that have
26:20
Speaker 11: been adopted are in foster care. Like playing football on Sundays,
26:24
Speaker 11: it makes that number thirty, that last name on the
26:27
Speaker 11: back the Dolphins, It makes everything just mean a little
26:30
Speaker 11: bit more when you're able to represent the community that
26:33
Speaker 11: you've been building, the games, playing Madden one on one
26:36
Speaker 11: with the kid in foster care that you try and
26:38
Speaker 11: connect with, and then you can relate to them because
26:41
Speaker 11: of all of the different things we've walked through together.
26:44
Speaker 11: Maybe at different times, maybe it has different goals than
26:46
Speaker 11: I do, but at the end of the day, we're
26:47
Speaker 11: really just trying to be the best versions of ourselves
26:50
Speaker 11: and chasing those big dreams. So it really is cool
26:53
Speaker 11: to bring that adoption advocacy into the NFL to represent
26:56
Speaker 11: it the best I can, and to kind of walk
26:59
Speaker 11: the walk and talk the talk when you talk to
27:01
Speaker 11: those kids in the group homes or anywhere else in
27:06
Speaker 11: those adoption homes or foster care systems.
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Speaker 5: Alex, this is so great because I spoke to people
27:10
Speaker 5: who've been adopted, like Kyle van Noy. You know, he
27:12
Speaker 5: was someone who was adopted when he was younger as well.
27:14
Speaker 5: But you know, you do the hands on work in
27:16
Speaker 5: the Miami community, but you're the national spokesperson for adopt
27:20
Speaker 5: us Kids. I mean, this is much grander than just
27:24
Speaker 5: kind of the local range. How did you get into
27:27
Speaker 5: that role and what do you do? Because you were
27:29
Speaker 5: honored by the US Government Department of Health and Human
27:31
Speaker 5: Services for all of your activity.
27:34
Speaker 11: I think the biggest thing and the biggest piece of
27:36
Speaker 11: inspiration was honestly watching Kalais Campbell give his Walter Payton
27:40
Speaker 11: Man of the Year nominee acceptance. This award accept I
27:43
Speaker 11: was at the NFL Honors show with Josh Jacobs.
27:46
Speaker 8: He was up for Rookie of the Year.
27:47
Speaker 11: At that time, Kyler Murray had won that one, but
27:50
Speaker 11: I just remember being so inspired by Kalais and just
27:53
Speaker 11: understanding the impact that one person could have.
27:56
Speaker 8: Immediately after that, I was.
27:58
Speaker 11: Like, you know what, I've already kind of done a
27:59
Speaker 11: couple of these give backs, maybe a holiday drive, maybe
28:02
Speaker 11: a shoe drive. I want to dive into what means
28:05
Speaker 11: the most to me. And Kalaius really inspired me to
28:08
Speaker 11: do that just by listening to that speech. And then
28:11
Speaker 11: we took it and we ran with it. So adopt
28:12
Speaker 11: Us Kids started in Oakland, California when I was playing
28:15
Speaker 11: with the Raiders over there, moved to Las Vegas, back
28:18
Speaker 11: home in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and now down here in
28:20
Speaker 11: South Florida. So adopt Us Kids does a great job
28:24
Speaker 11: being able to educate their spokespeople but also starting those conversations.
28:29
Speaker 11: You know, you talk about adoption. I'm sure you guys
28:31
Speaker 11: start talking with your families and all of a sudden
28:33
Speaker 11: you realize how many unique backgrounds families have and just
28:36
Speaker 11: being vulnerable and sharing that having that conversation. There's so
28:40
Speaker 11: much more love to give when you have real, vulnerable
28:42
Speaker 11: conversations like that.
28:44
Speaker 9: Awesome.
28:45
Speaker 6: I love that.
28:45
Speaker 4: I love that, and I love that you mentioned back
28:47
Speaker 4: home in Green Bay, like the birthplace of football. Not
28:50
Speaker 4: many people can call that home, which is so special
28:54
Speaker 4: essentially for you. Let's get to football a little bit, Alex, Like,
28:58
Speaker 4: how do you view I know your coach said, it's
29:01
Speaker 4: not a thirteen week season. I know we're number one.
29:04
Speaker 4: Talk to me when we play a thirteen week season.
29:06
Speaker 4: But being number one in the AFC with what you're
29:08
Speaker 4: seeing throughout the conference, then you get to that spot.
29:12
Speaker 4: How much does that almost I don't know, a carrot
29:15
Speaker 4: through the back end of the season when you're already
29:17
Speaker 4: sitting in it.
29:19
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think December football is like the most important
29:21
Speaker 11: time to play ball, right, and you have to be
29:23
Speaker 11: at your best.
29:24
Speaker 6: So when you're.
29:25
Speaker 11: Starting at that one seed in the AFC, it gives
29:29
Speaker 11: a little bit of validation of the process that you've
29:31
Speaker 11: been working on thus far. But it doesn't mean that
29:34
Speaker 11: you know, we're going to put anything in neutral, right
29:36
Speaker 11: it's kind of invigorating. It's motivating to kind of keep
29:39
Speaker 11: doing what you have been doing, that growth mindset, the
29:42
Speaker 11: improvement that we all take to be present, deliberate every
29:46
Speaker 11: single day at practice. And then it's like, man, we
29:48
Speaker 11: have a lot of opportunities at home here in December.
29:50
Speaker 11: You got to take advantage. You got to show up
29:52
Speaker 11: with your best stuff every single Sunday. So, I mean,
29:55
Speaker 11: that's really the motivating factor. It's cool to have that
29:58
Speaker 11: one seed right now. It's better than not. But at
30:01
Speaker 11: the same time, man, it's just validating that process that
30:03
Speaker 11: we got to stick to, stay locked in and focused
30:06
Speaker 11: and make all your dreams come true with a great
30:08
Speaker 11: run into January and February.
30:10
Speaker 5: As you mentioned, opportunities at home four of the final
30:12
Speaker 5: five at.
30:14
Speaker 1: Home, ALEC.
30:15
Speaker 5: A lot of the public chatter about the Miami Dolphins
30:17
Speaker 5: is like they're fun to watch, they're this and that,
30:19
Speaker 5: but they have not beaten a team with a winning record.
30:22
Speaker 1: Do you guys think about that.
30:23
Speaker 5: First off, you're not going to have many opportunities into
30:25
Speaker 5: the back end of the season to kind of prove
30:28
Speaker 5: people wrong.
30:28
Speaker 6: But is that even a conversation.
30:31
Speaker 11: I mean, when you think about the talent level in
30:34
Speaker 11: the NFL. Around the NFL, every single week you got
30:37
Speaker 11: to show up and you can get into narratives they're
30:40
Speaker 11: disproving this or proving yourselves right or wrong or whatever
30:43
Speaker 11: you want to say. At the end of the day, Man,
30:45
Speaker 11: every single Sunday, any given Sunday, that's why we love
30:48
Speaker 11: playing football. That's why you love the NFL. That's why
30:50
Speaker 11: every single team has a shot because of that talent level,
30:53
Speaker 11: because of the quality of coaches across the NFL.
30:55
Speaker 8: Man.
30:56
Speaker 11: So I think that narrative is going to stick with
30:58
Speaker 11: us till we beat those good teams. And it might
31:00
Speaker 11: come in December, it might come in January, but whenever
31:02
Speaker 11: it comes, it's going to be motivating. And I think
31:04
Speaker 11: that's kind of those things you got to pick up
31:06
Speaker 11: along your journey on a team that just helps you
31:09
Speaker 11: motivate and push you to be the best version of yourself.
31:13
Speaker 6: A lot of this conversation is moving forward.
31:15
Speaker 4: What we're seeing right out and what we're seeing in
31:17
Speaker 4: the AFC is a lot of quarterbacks that are banged up.
31:21
Speaker 4: It's one of your biggest jobs protecting Tua. How much
31:24
Speaker 4: do you guys talk about that in the building, You
31:27
Speaker 4: know what I mean, with the number of star quarterbacks
31:30
Speaker 4: we have seen go down this year, how much is
31:32
Speaker 4: that a real conversation in the building to where like
31:35
Speaker 4: that is a focal point of making sure that Tua
31:38
Speaker 4: is playing these games that you're talking about come January February.
31:42
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's a team concept right to keep
31:44
Speaker 11: the quarterback safe, to keep him on his feet. You
31:46
Speaker 11: talk about the O line, We've had the most O
31:49
Speaker 11: line combinations. I think it's been eight different starting offensive
31:52
Speaker 11: linemen in thirteen weeks of the season so far. So
31:55
Speaker 11: the guys that have been been there, you know, the
31:58
Speaker 11: standard is the standard. Guys are stepping in and stepping up.
32:00
Speaker 11: But it's also the wide receivers. It's also the running backs.
32:04
Speaker 11: It's helping in blitz protection, it's making sure that you're
32:06
Speaker 11: running your routes the right way, recognizing the defense. So
32:10
Speaker 11: as eleven guys on the offense, it takes everybody to
32:12
Speaker 11: keep the quarterback up, keep them healthy, and I think
32:15
Speaker 11: we take that extremely personally and trying to make that
32:17
Speaker 11: a focal point of our offense. It's no secret and
32:20
Speaker 11: I think across the league when when you want your
32:22
Speaker 11: starting quarterback playing this fastball in December and January, it
32:26
Speaker 11: takes all eleven. It's not just on an offensivelignment or
32:29
Speaker 11: a quarterback or one person. It's a full team thing.
32:31
Speaker 11: And that's the beauty of football.
32:33
Speaker 8: Man.
32:34
Speaker 5: That said, with the evolution of what you guys do offensively, right,
32:37
Speaker 5: if a team were to look at your game film
32:38
Speaker 5: for week five and try to apply that to today, Okay,
32:43
Speaker 5: here's we saw in week five.
32:44
Speaker 1: We got to stop what they did.
32:45
Speaker 5: Would any of that tape matter or have you guys
32:48
Speaker 5: just evolved beyond that?
32:50
Speaker 9: Yeah?
32:50
Speaker 11: I mean I think you evolve every single week. The
32:53
Speaker 11: film that we put out on week five, that was
32:56
Speaker 11: from week two of training camp, that was in the making.
32:59
Speaker 11: That momentum has been building since August. So I think
33:03
Speaker 11: everything that we're getting to add into the wrinkles of
33:05
Speaker 11: the offense, the execution, the technique, the fundamentals that's been
33:09
Speaker 11: drilled in us since OTA is in April all the
33:12
Speaker 11: way through, So the ability to be coachable, to listen
33:15
Speaker 11: to that coaching, to execute it on a Sunday, it.
33:18
Speaker 8: All plays a part of it.
33:19
Speaker 7: Man.
33:20
Speaker 11: So it's really cool to be playing on an offense
33:23
Speaker 11: that's able to score forty five. Well, I take that back.
33:26
Speaker 11: We didn't score forty five because Andrew Van Ginkle had
33:29
Speaker 11: a pick six. Want to shout out my guy, rescousing
33:31
Speaker 11: guy with that pick, long flowing locks. I swear he
33:35
Speaker 11: has more touchdowns than I do. And he plays on defense.
33:37
Speaker 11: I don't understand it.
33:38
Speaker 5: But shots fired at the play caller, shot fired at
33:42
Speaker 5: the play caller, al wats the ball.
33:45
Speaker 11: I'm just happy for my guy gains Man. He's been
33:48
Speaker 11: he's been working his tail off. He's a stud.
33:51
Speaker 4: But everything you just said in terms of execution and
33:54
Speaker 4: knowing the fundamentals and to make all of these moving
33:57
Speaker 4: pieces work, I'm kind of curious out with all the
34:00
Speaker 4: moving pieces, yours are maybe more creative and fun to
34:03
Speaker 4: watch than anybody else's in football, specifically the guy that
34:06
Speaker 4: is drawing it all up. And we've talked on this
34:08
Speaker 4: show a bunch about the motion that you've had that
34:10
Speaker 4: you guys use using twenty one personnel out of higher
34:13
Speaker 4: rate than maybe anybody else in all the football, maybe
34:15
Speaker 4: you and the Niners, Like what is the week like
34:17
Speaker 4: with Mike in the way that he moves all of
34:20
Speaker 4: you around. And how necessary is your spot to make
34:23
Speaker 4: some of this stuff work in terms of your versatility
34:26
Speaker 4: to be to be able to do those things.
34:28
Speaker 11: I mean, you take a Tuesday off day, right, and
34:30
Speaker 11: that's the players like sacred day off. You had the
34:33
Speaker 11: Monday where you tend to piece everything together from the
34:36
Speaker 11: week before, you watch the film, you try and improve
34:38
Speaker 11: from it. You get that technique, you get those reps
34:41
Speaker 11: all right downloaded, We're good to go Tuesday. From that
34:44
Speaker 11: Monday to Tuesday until we see coach on Wednesday, I
34:47
Speaker 11: don't know if he sleeps. He is up there drawing
34:50
Speaker 11: up every single play, thinking about every single defense. He's
34:53
Speaker 11: watched every game one hundred times. And by the time
34:55
Speaker 11: you show up Wednesday, it is full on headle to
34:59
Speaker 11: the met Well, you know, it's it's really fun to
35:03
Speaker 11: be in those Wednesday meetings when you show up on
35:05
Speaker 11: Wednesday morning, because it's like, if you're a little sleepy,
35:08
Speaker 11: if you had your off day, you didn't do too much. Man,
35:10
Speaker 11: get your coffee and get ready to go, because we're
35:12
Speaker 11: about to install about one hundred plays, one hundred different ideas.
35:15
Speaker 11: And then it's like dude, we got to do that
35:16
Speaker 11: in the walkthrough, we got to do that in practice,
35:18
Speaker 11: and then you got to go out and play it
35:19
Speaker 11: on the game. So it's an absolute blest to be
35:22
Speaker 11: able to show up on a Wednesday and make things
35:24
Speaker 11: come to life on Sunday.
35:25
Speaker 5: So al he talked about the tactical stuff Mike McDaniel does,
35:28
Speaker 5: and we're seeing on the end season hard knocks. By
35:31
Speaker 5: the way, I'm waiting for about fifteen cameos from you
35:33
Speaker 5: this week, including this interview. Well, what I mean, culturally,
35:36
Speaker 5: what did you do, because it seems like you guys
35:38
Speaker 5: have so much fun. You got Tua unveiling the braids,
35:41
Speaker 5: You've got guys in meetings doing certain things. I mean culturally, Again,
35:44
Speaker 5: you've been in this league for a minute.
35:45
Speaker 6: We got seatbelts.
35:46
Speaker 5: What is he What has he been able to do
35:49
Speaker 5: to keep it interesting for you.
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Speaker 1: Guys till you guys keep playing like.
35:52
Speaker 11: This When you talk about seatbelts, right there, the little
35:56
Speaker 11: roller coaster thing that has been like a year and
35:58
Speaker 11: a half in the making that didn't just happened this week.
36:01
Speaker 11: We were getting coached up on how to celebrate from
36:04
Speaker 11: day one OTAs when guys would make a play.
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Speaker 8: He's like, guys, you work so.
36:08
Speaker 11: Hard all this time, all this sacrifice, celebrate you have
36:12
Speaker 11: a plan.
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Speaker 8: And he's going through all.
36:14
Speaker 11: These celebrations, He's circling Christian Wilkins because he was like
36:17
Speaker 11: the only guy that was showing everybody that he just
36:19
Speaker 11: made a play. All of a sudden, Javon Holland starts
36:21
Speaker 11: making plays all of a sudden, Tyreek Tua has his
36:24
Speaker 11: own swag. And then eventually you get to a point
36:26
Speaker 11: where you're doing roller coaster rides that you practiced on
36:28
Speaker 11: a Friday, like three plays into the game against the Commanders.
36:33
Speaker 11: So it's been a process, man, But dude, I think
36:35
Speaker 11: it's all about buying into the system, being yourself, enjoying
36:40
Speaker 11: the amount of time, effort, and energy you sacrifice for
36:42
Speaker 11: one another as a part of a team, and like,
36:44
Speaker 11: that's where you get excited to excel and execute for
36:48
Speaker 11: your brother, and that's where the strain comes from. That's
36:50
Speaker 11: where the execution comes from. That's where the exis and
36:52
Speaker 11: o's come from.
36:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is awesome. That is awesome.
36:56
Speaker 4: It's so fun out to watch you guys play football,
36:58
Speaker 4: But it's probably more enjoyable probably for people like Steve
37:01
Speaker 4: and I to watch what you do off the football field.
37:03
Speaker 4: So congratulations and gain rats Alec for everything that you
37:06
Speaker 4: have done for your Walter Payton Man of the Year nomination.
37:10
Speaker 11: I appreciate you, guys, James and Steve. I appreciate the time,
37:14
Speaker 11: the effort, the energy man. It's good to be up
37:16
Speaker 11: here to use this platform for some good.
37:19
Speaker 8: It's a responsibility.
37:20
Speaker 11: And I'm excited to hear from all other thirty one
37:23
Speaker 11: nominees and see all the great work they're doing as well.
37:26
Speaker 5: What a great interview, what a great man, Alec Ingold.
37:29
Speaker 5: And we come back Ryan Boldinger. Oh, you want to
37:33
Speaker 5: talk about the Rams passing game as you see it
37:36
Speaker 5: is taken off again here on the NFL Report.
37:44
Speaker 4: Welcome back into the NFL Report. It's my favorite segment
37:47
Speaker 4: each and every Thursday. I got my popcorn. It's Baldy's
37:49
Speaker 4: favorite films, Baldy Breakdowns. It's kind of a you know,
37:52
Speaker 4: a similar thing that I can't use the same name, Baldi.
37:54
Speaker 4: That one's just exploded on the social media world. So
37:57
Speaker 4: this is our version Baldi's favorite film. And I want
38:01
Speaker 4: to I want to start with the surging Los Angeles
38:05
Speaker 4: Rams and what they've done in their passing game with
38:08
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford. I mean, they don't drop the football. They
38:11
Speaker 4: Stafford doesn't really get sacked. What have you seen from
38:14
Speaker 4: this group that is now kind of turning some heads
38:17
Speaker 4: in the back end of this season about AT being
38:19
Speaker 4: a dangerous team.
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Speaker 12: Well, I mean, first of all, they've they've stayed healthy
38:23
Speaker 12: the last few weeks. Up front, Jackson at left tackle
38:26
Speaker 12: on a veil of the rookie and Coleman, and you know,
38:28
Speaker 12: you just go through Mason, you know, you go through
38:30
Speaker 12: the lion Hanstein. They're they're good upfront, you know. But
38:34
Speaker 12: then you know, Matt Stafford is under center a lot.
38:36
Speaker 12: There's a lot of play action. But I think a
38:39
Speaker 12: couple of things. Kyron Williams being healthy right now. They're
38:43
Speaker 12: five and zero when he carries the ball fifteen times
38:45
Speaker 12: or more. He gave him eighty eight yards rushing last
38:48
Speaker 12: week against a good, you know, a good front in Cleveland.
38:51
Speaker 12: Like he makes a difference. But these timing routes from
38:55
Speaker 12: Stafford to cup to Nikua to DeMarcus Robinson to two
39:00
Speaker 12: at Well to Higbee, like they're all a part of
39:03
Speaker 12: this passing game right now. And I'm not going to
39:06
Speaker 12: say it looks like it did two years ago when
39:09
Speaker 12: they won a Super Bowl, because nobody looks like Cooper
39:11
Speaker 12: Cup that year.
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Speaker 9: But the timing does, though. The timing with a lot
39:15
Speaker 9: of these guys.
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Speaker 12: DeMarcus Robinson caught a corner route last week, caught a
39:18
Speaker 12: touchdown pass last week.
39:20
Speaker 9: The timing was perfect. And you know, a lot of
39:23
Speaker 9: people always want to.
39:24
Speaker 12: Talk about quarterbacks arms, how far can they throw it?
39:28
Speaker 12: You know, like when he threw that go ball down
39:30
Speaker 12: the middle of the field to Puka last week. The
39:33
Speaker 12: ball was in the you know, it was twenty yards,
39:35
Speaker 12: but it was perfect to Puka and he ran the
39:38
Speaker 12: last the next fifty yards for the seventy yard touchdown.
39:41
Speaker 12: Like he's getting the ball out of his hands so
39:43
Speaker 12: fast because he trusted receivers. And I believe Baltimore this
39:47
Speaker 12: weekend will have their hands full with this passing game.
39:51
Speaker 6: I gave Baldi.
39:52
Speaker 9: Look.
39:52
Speaker 5: The one thing that the Rams never have to do
39:55
Speaker 5: is throw into double coverage because they are schemed up
39:57
Speaker 5: for individual matchups. The staff are fines speaking of individual matchups.
40:02
Speaker 5: And James had a great one on one interview with
40:04
Speaker 5: this player post game. Will Anderson, the edge rusher, from
40:09
Speaker 5: Alabama down to Houston. He all of a sudden is surging, baldy,
40:15
Speaker 5: what's going on?
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Speaker 12: You know, it's interesting, see because last week they played Denver, obviously,
40:20
Speaker 12: and Denver came in with this offensive line that played together,
40:24
Speaker 12: like all five guys, they were all improving. On the
40:26
Speaker 12: first play, ye will Anderson beach Mike mcglinchy inside and
40:30
Speaker 12: he hits Russell Wilson right there.
40:31
Speaker 9: That's the first play of the game right there.
40:33
Speaker 12: He hit him on the first play, and then he
40:35
Speaker 12: kept hitting him and pushing the pocket.
40:37
Speaker 6: And now you.
40:37
Speaker 12: Could see all the individual skills of why they wanted
40:41
Speaker 12: to trade up to take with a third pick taking
40:43
Speaker 12: the ball right there. The sacks, I mean, he's affecting
40:47
Speaker 12: the quarterback, the line of scrimmage.
40:48
Speaker 9: And you know, we knew he played with great energy,
40:51
Speaker 9: but it's just relentless. You know.
40:53
Speaker 12: I love seeing outside linebackers, defensive ends make plays on
40:56
Speaker 12: the other side of the field, and so you know,
40:59
Speaker 12: just keep and Russell Wilson on his inside shoulder. Right
41:02
Speaker 12: there is a fundamental lot of passtrusters don't understand, like
41:06
Speaker 12: he's a very smart player, but you've seen his athletic
41:09
Speaker 12: ability right now, really explode and take over some of
41:12
Speaker 12: these one on one matchups.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, bought it.
41:15
Speaker 4: This week, their safety Jaalen Pechero told me he's a savage.
41:18
Speaker 4: He just can't be stopped right now, like it just
41:20
Speaker 4: will Anderson cannot be stopped right now with the way
41:22
Speaker 4: that he is playing. And let's stick with the defense
41:26
Speaker 4: and go to Kenny Clark.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead, go ahead, Baldy.
41:29
Speaker 9: Oh you're going to say that. Jonathan Greener, Jonathan Greener
41:32
Speaker 9: in Houston side. You know, we're gonna be talking about
41:37
Speaker 9: him on.
41:37
Speaker 12: The show here, like his ability to push the pocket
41:40
Speaker 12: and a variety of moves to help, like now you
41:42
Speaker 12: got two off the edge, you know, to go with
41:44
Speaker 12: Malie Collins and the guys inside. Like all of a sudden,
41:47
Speaker 12: his front is starting to develop there in Denver.
41:49
Speaker 4: All right, Houston, it really is, buddy, it really is.
41:54
Speaker 4: Let's stick to defensive front. Kenny Clark, the Packers somehow,
41:56
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, this is the top ten defense.
41:58
Speaker 4: I think they're ninth in scool as a defense. What
42:01
Speaker 4: have they done up front him specifically that has altered
42:05
Speaker 4: things and changed things the second half of the season.
42:09
Speaker 12: Well, you know, he's always been a good player. He's
42:11
Speaker 12: been paid to be a good player, but I think
42:12
Speaker 12: kind of under the radar type good because his ability
42:17
Speaker 12: just to penetrate and to get pressure, Like in that
42:20
Speaker 12: Thanksgiving Day game against Detroit, he's getting Jared Goff off
42:24
Speaker 12: the spot where he wants to like set up shot
42:27
Speaker 12: by himself, and then Rashan Gary and Preston Smith and
42:30
Speaker 12: the other guys you know, kind of.
42:31
Speaker 9: Fed off them.
42:32
Speaker 12: But I'm looking at that inside push, that inside pressure,
42:36
Speaker 12: the inside quick escape from Kenny Clark right now, that's
42:39
Speaker 12: helping the pass rush. And suddenly, you know Green Bay's
42:43
Speaker 12: defense with Joe Barry calling the signals like, it looks together.
42:47
Speaker 12: It looks like the front is taking over these games.
42:50
Speaker 12: They've had the injuries on the back end, but Jonathan
42:53
Speaker 12: Owens has stepped up, you know, all these Valentine has
42:56
Speaker 12: stepped up.
42:56
Speaker 9: Like I think it starts though.
42:58
Speaker 12: Upfront and specifically with the play of Kenny Clark and
43:01
Speaker 12: his ability just to get instant pressure on the quarterback
43:04
Speaker 12: in the middle.
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Speaker 6: Baldy he was arguing the.
43:06
Speaker 5: Best player on the field and they played the Thiefs
43:08
Speaker 5: last week. I mean, he was he lived in resetting
43:12
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. Well, let's talk about another team,
43:15
Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty nine ers, where we often know
43:17
Speaker 5: they functioned their best when their pass rush in secondary. Mary,
43:21
Speaker 5: we know about the pass rush, and they are starting
43:24
Speaker 5: to get home more, but that's in part because of the
43:26
Speaker 5: way the secondary is playing, right Baldy.
43:29
Speaker 9: Well, it's interesting, Steve.
43:31
Speaker 12: I talked to Nick Bosa a couple of weeks ago,
43:34
Speaker 12: and you know, the pass rush. You know, they'd got
43:36
Speaker 12: Chase Young and the pass rush was really coming on,
43:39
Speaker 12: and Nick just looked at me and said, hey, it
43:41
Speaker 12: helps the quarterbacks got to hold the ball. And last
43:43
Speaker 12: week we saw Jalen Hurts hold it a lot because
43:46
Speaker 12: they mixed up their coverages. See, they played a lot
43:48
Speaker 12: more man coverage and we used to seeing it from
43:50
Speaker 12: San Francisco, so they mixed that up and they really
43:53
Speaker 12: plastered the receivers. I think it caught the Eagles off
43:56
Speaker 12: guard a little bit. And really there was the times
43:58
Speaker 12: where Jalen just did not have places to go, and
44:01
Speaker 12: then they came back to their zones and took away
44:04
Speaker 12: you know, Devonte Smith and I mean you could count
44:07
Speaker 12: Philadelphia's right there, like probably got the six of them
44:10
Speaker 12: before they got them down to the ground, but they've
44:12
Speaker 12: really changed up the coverages and even the loss of
44:15
Speaker 12: one of our favorite players, Steve you.
44:17
Speaker 9: Know, Talano Alvongo, Like Jayra Brown.
44:20
Speaker 12: Has played really well in the back end. He fits
44:22
Speaker 12: in with Tayshawn Gibson what they're doing. And then the
44:25
Speaker 12: addition of Domodore Lenore at this slot position, the slot
44:30
Speaker 12: receiver position opposite Ambry Thomas, you know, an opposite Tavaria's
44:34
Speaker 12: war that's really kind of locked down the secondary.
44:37
Speaker 9: It's it's really been what's made.
44:39
Speaker 12: This secondary special and why they're I think the ranked
44:42
Speaker 12: number two in defense in the league right now.
44:45
Speaker 4: Body, I love when you come on every Thursday because
44:47
Speaker 4: you pick these things that I think the rest of
44:48
Speaker 4: the league is not paying enough attention to, and you
44:51
Speaker 4: put a spot life on it some of these position
44:53
Speaker 4: groups that aren't getting a lot of attention because if
44:55
Speaker 4: you want to talk to Niners defense, you're always going
44:57
Speaker 4: to talk what Nick Bosen company up front. But I
44:59
Speaker 4: appreciate what you're bringing man every Thursday, Baldy, It's always
45:02
Speaker 4: something different. Yeah, it's making me a better football fan
45:05
Speaker 4: and a better reporter of this League's appreciated. Baldy good
45:08
Speaker 4: to see it Thursday. I don't know nine other shows
45:11
Speaker 4: we have. Oh you will, we know you will.
45:14
Speaker 9: I'll see you all next week. Man, you got guys
45:19
Speaker 9: yep coming up on.
45:20
Speaker 4: The NFL Report, Derwin, James, the Chargers, Walter Payton Man
45:25
Speaker 4: of the Year nominee. He's versatile on the field. He
45:27
Speaker 4: might be more versatile off the field. With every hand
45:30
Speaker 4: he has his charity in. It's simply remarkable. Drwin joins
45:34
Speaker 4: us next. Hey, it's James Palmer and you're listening to
45:41
Speaker 4: the NFL Report podcast along with myself and Steve Weisch.
45:45
Speaker 4: But remember, if you want to see our beautiful faces,
45:47
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45:48
Speaker 6: Fifteen Monday and Thursday. That's seven fifteen pm Eastern.
45:54
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45:57
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46:00
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46:03
Speaker 6: NFL dot Com Slash NFL channel. Find us all of
46:07
Speaker 6: those spots, all right, Davis.
46:13
Speaker 5: Now we are joined by the Chargers Walter Payton Man
46:16
Speaker 5: of the Year nominee. It's a second consecutive year he's
46:19
Speaker 5: gotten that nomination. Derwin James at three time All Pro
46:23
Speaker 5: safety Derwin, congratulations on the nomination.
46:26
Speaker 8: Thank y'all, Thank y'all appreciate that.
46:28
Speaker 6: Absolutely, he derwy.
46:29
Speaker 5: So, we see a lot of the things you're doing
46:32
Speaker 5: are kids here back home in Haines City, Florida. What
46:37
Speaker 5: kind of started this because this doesn't you know, two
46:39
Speaker 5: times in a row. What kind of got you into
46:42
Speaker 5: being so involved? Because you have your finger on so
46:45
Speaker 5: many causes.
46:47
Speaker 10: It started as when I was a kid, you know,
46:49
Speaker 10: growing up, always said like if I ever made it
46:51
Speaker 10: to the platform the NFL, that I wanted to change
46:54
Speaker 10: my community and change other people's life, you know, with
46:57
Speaker 10: my platform, and you know, and God bless me to
46:59
Speaker 10: get to the NFL to this day, and you know,
47:02
Speaker 10: I'm trying to do that.
47:03
Speaker 8: Keep that promise I called with myself, Derwin.
47:07
Speaker 4: I look at how versatile you are on the field,
47:09
Speaker 4: lining up in pretty much every position imaginable. It's only
47:12
Speaker 4: fitting that you kind of have your hands in so
47:15
Speaker 4: many different charitable you know, operations off the field.
47:19
Speaker 6: When I look at it, it's like girls flag football.
47:21
Speaker 4: It's youth you know, camps and backpacks and school supplies.
47:25
Speaker 4: Back in Florida, you're doing the same thing in California.
47:27
Speaker 4: You're with Snoop with impossible meat, You're if you're feeding
47:30
Speaker 4: people for Thanksgiving, baby formula, animal shelters. You know what
47:35
Speaker 4: you know, is there anything that you don't want to
47:38
Speaker 4: touch on in terms of helping the community around you?
47:42
Speaker 8: No, I just like I want to help as many light,
47:44
Speaker 8: as many feeling as I can.
47:45
Speaker 10: It's just something about it when I just see the
47:47
Speaker 10: smiles and the people that just so thankful, you know,
47:50
Speaker 10: and as people, we take so much stuff for granted,
47:53
Speaker 10: you know that others don't really have, and just to
47:55
Speaker 10: see their faces and the joy they get it, it just.
47:57
Speaker 8: Make my heart smile and make me warm. So I
48:00
Speaker 8: just that's the part I get out of it.
48:02
Speaker 6: Darwin.
48:03
Speaker 5: You know, we hear about players and coaches and so
48:05
Speaker 5: many people doing so many great things. But has there
48:08
Speaker 5: been a kid that maybe you've established a relationship with
48:12
Speaker 5: or something that that you've done, that you've actually felt
48:16
Speaker 5: the impact of their of your works on them.
48:20
Speaker 9: Oh.
48:20
Speaker 10: I say about seventy percent of the stuff I do
48:22
Speaker 10: because I try to put my heart into it and
48:23
Speaker 10: I try to really be at present, you know, I
48:25
Speaker 10: don't just try to look at it as a one
48:27
Speaker 10: off or a checkof thing. I try to be there
48:29
Speaker 10: and you know, be in the moment, be present for
48:31
Speaker 10: the people that I'm you know, trying to do something
48:33
Speaker 10: for it. It's being with the kids, taking them shopping,
48:36
Speaker 10: or just having a day with the with the elderly
48:39
Speaker 10: with the disco, you know, just making sure everybody feel
48:42
Speaker 10: like somebody and you know that I'm not too big
48:44
Speaker 10: or I can't be touched, so you know, I just
48:46
Speaker 10: like to just keep that with me.
48:50
Speaker 6: You mentioned the elderly with the disco.
48:53
Speaker 4: There's thirty two Walter Payton Man of the Year nominees
48:56
Speaker 4: and I don't know if any of them through a
48:58
Speaker 4: disco party with DJ food, glowing floor, seventies theme Derwin.
49:04
Speaker 4: For those older in our community, what made you want
49:08
Speaker 4: to get involved in that aspect, because let's just be honest,
49:11
Speaker 4: that's not a group that we see a lot of
49:13
Speaker 4: NFL players. No slight to anybody recognizing and wanting to
49:17
Speaker 4: reach out.
49:17
Speaker 10: To because I feel like our grandparents are just especially
49:21
Speaker 10: my grandparents, they're like the founders of the family. They're
49:24
Speaker 10: like the backbone to the family, and you know, everybody
49:27
Speaker 10: depends on them, man, you know, and I just feel
49:30
Speaker 10: like they're people too there and a lot of people
49:32
Speaker 10: forget about them, you know. We always think about the
49:34
Speaker 10: youth and camps and stuff. But I feel like they're
49:36
Speaker 10: people too, you know, and they might not be as
49:38
Speaker 10: young as they was once before, but I feel like
49:41
Speaker 10: they're the backbone to a lot of people's families, and
49:44
Speaker 10: you know, just for them to come out and feel
49:46
Speaker 10: like they're somebody for a whole day, you know, why not?
49:48
Speaker 8: It feels good. They had a lot of fun with it.
49:50
Speaker 6: Derwin is a grandfather.
49:52
Speaker 5: I feel like you're speaking to me, my brother. So
49:53
Speaker 5: thanks so much for looking out for us old folks.
49:57
Speaker 8: Oh y'all still young man?
50:00
Speaker 9: There we go.
50:00
Speaker 5: Hey, want to hit you on a couple of football
50:03
Speaker 5: questions while we get on this. You guys have five
50:06
Speaker 5: games left, you know, your situation where there's really no
50:10
Speaker 5: margin for error. But you guys have the potential to
50:12
Speaker 5: go on, say a five game run to get into
50:15
Speaker 5: the playoffs. What needs to happen for you guys to
50:17
Speaker 5: do that?
50:19
Speaker 8: Take it one game at a time. Man.
50:20
Speaker 10: You can't look too far ahead down the road and
50:22
Speaker 10: realize that every game from here or not, you know,
50:24
Speaker 10: it matters to us, not that it didn't matter before,
50:26
Speaker 10: but we realized the opportunity that in front of us,
50:28
Speaker 10: and you know the situation we put ourselves in.
50:30
Speaker 8: So we just taking it game by game.
50:32
Speaker 10: Start with Denver this Sunday, a big divisional game, and man,
50:36
Speaker 10: we gotta get it done this Sunday.
50:40
Speaker 4: Sean Payton says he needs to find a way to
50:42
Speaker 4: contain your pass rush. But I look at the other
50:44
Speaker 4: side of the ball, and you look at the conference
50:46
Speaker 4: in the AFC, the number of quarterbacks that have gone
50:48
Speaker 4: down derwin. What kind of advantage do you feel like
50:51
Speaker 4: you guys have right now that you have a quarterback
50:53
Speaker 4: as talented as yours is and Justin Herbert, with as
50:56
Speaker 4: many quarterbacks that have gone down in the AFC, is
50:59
Speaker 4: that an advance this stretch right now?
51:02
Speaker 10: First of all, I want to say prayers to enny
51:03
Speaker 10: of the quarterbacks that's injured out there.
51:05
Speaker 8: I never like to see no one hurt in this game, especially,
51:07
Speaker 8: but you.
51:07
Speaker 10: Know, just making for sure having a quarter like Justin
51:10
Speaker 10: you know in our corner who's healthy, and you know,
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Speaker 10: like you said, it starts there when you have a
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Speaker 10: guy like that that can make all the throws and
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Speaker 10: give you a chance to win the game. We don't
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Speaker 10: have We don't have no doubt that he's able to
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Speaker 10: get the job done for us. We go out there
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Speaker 10: and do our part on defense and get them the ball.
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Speaker 9: Derwin.
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Speaker 5: You also were kind of at the at the beginning
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Speaker 5: the tip of the spear. A trend we're seeing on
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Speaker 5: defenses now, and that's the hybrid safety. Right, you play safety,
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Speaker 5: looks you play outside linebacker principles at some time. What
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Speaker 5: about that trend that you're seeing across the NFL now
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Speaker 5: that you helped the model.
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Speaker 8: I feel like offenses are more complex now.
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Speaker 10: You're seeing more motion on the run timely most you're
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Speaker 10: seeing guys move, You're seeing tight ends that can.
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Speaker 8: Run and block. You're seeing receivers that can also do that.
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Speaker 10: So if they're going to be versatile, we got to
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Speaker 10: be able to be versatile to cover them as well.
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Speaker 8: So I feel like that help us a lot for sure.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, then I'm gonna end it with this because Darren,
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Speaker 4: you know you and I have talked on the phone
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Speaker 4: a bunch preparing for games.
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Speaker 6: We love talking ball. I know you love talking ball.
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Speaker 4: So kind of get a crystal ball out there and
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Speaker 4: think about the future of the NFL A little bit
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Speaker 4: with what you just said, how do you think some
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Speaker 4: of these positions in the middle of the field on
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Speaker 4: defense are going to change. We're already seeing the size
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Speaker 4: and the build of linebackers kind of change, right, We're
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Speaker 4: kind of seeing people like you moving all over the field.
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Speaker 4: What do you think is going to continue to happen?
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Speaker 4: As you mentioned, these offenses keep putting people in different
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Speaker 4: spots so you can defend them.
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Speaker 10: I feel like the game overall is going to keep evolving,
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Speaker 10: you know. I feel like you say, guys, you're going
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Speaker 10: to see bigger guys that can move, and you're gonna
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Speaker 10: see guys that can, like I said, cover, guys that
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Speaker 10: can bliz, that can do everything. Just like the game
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Speaker 10: of basketball, You're seeing guys that are bigger now that
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Speaker 10: can shoot from anywhere.
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Speaker 8: It's ye, mors is evolving.
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Speaker 10: And I feel like it's definitely offense evolving and guys
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Speaker 10: on defense evolving too.
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Speaker 6: I love that.
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Speaker 8: I love it.
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Speaker 6: If you're going to game more fun and players like
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Speaker 6: you even.
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Speaker 4: More valuable, Durwin, but you're more valuable off the field.
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Speaker 4: Two time Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee for
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Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Chargers. Congratulations again. I look at the
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Speaker 4: list of everything that you do. I don't know how
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Speaker 4: you still study football. Yeah, play at the level you
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Speaker 4: play with everything you're doing off the field.
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Speaker 8: Man, Yeah, thank you all man appreciated, Derwin.
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Speaker 4: I think Derwin Steve has more than twenty four hours
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Speaker 4: in a day. But if you have only twenty four
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Speaker 4: hours in a day, please use one of those on
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Speaker 4: Mondays and Thursdays at seven fifteen Eastern on the NFL
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Speaker 6: That are out there. That's two b Roku, Pluto, all
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Speaker 6: of those.
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Speaker 4: Steve are also a podcast re versatile, just like Derwin
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Speaker 4: James is Steve.
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Speaker 6: What are you looking forward to? Most? Real?
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Speaker 4: Quick two words about this weekend, Lamar Jackson