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The Insiders Podcast: Caleb Williams Reports to Training Camp and the State of the AFC West · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: Does Patrick Mahomes really need more weapons? Well he got
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  Speaker 1: another one.
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  Speaker 2: Rookie tight end Jared Wiley among the first year players
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  Speaker 2: and quarterbacks working out at Chiefs training camp in.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Joseph, Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile in Houston, the full Texans squad out there for
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  Speaker 2: the second consecutive day, led onto the field by C. J. Stroud,
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  Speaker 2: All thirty two teams reporting the training camp in the
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  Speaker 2: next five days. We've already reported for duty.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Steve Watch, I am
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  Speaker 2: Tom Pellisero, jam packed Friday night show for you. Jermaine Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: Jets defensive end, going to join the show, his thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that Jets defense, Aaron Rodgers, and a whole lot more.
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  Speaker 2: We got the AFC West State of the franchise. As
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  Speaker 2: that series continues here, we're going to continue to put
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  Speaker 2: together a flag football.
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  Speaker 1: Team to the Olympics. Why not, it's four years away.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get planning.
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  Speaker 2: Folks will talk Panthers, We'll talk a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: other teams, but let's talk right now about the full
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  Speaker 2: squad that reported today.
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  Speaker 1: That is the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 2: And I can never get enough of these shots of
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  Speaker 2: the players coming in, you're checking out. I mainly look
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  Speaker 2: at the cars, Steve and making sure they blurred all
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  Speaker 2: the license plates.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want any trouble.
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  Speaker 1: There is anyone gonna show up in overalls.
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  Speaker 2: Oy Caleb Williams, as far as I'm aware, no overalls
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  Speaker 2: for him, but he did get a chance to speak
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  Speaker 2: with those lovely reporters in Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that we're all starting from the same
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  Speaker 4: spot because there's guys like Keenan where he he you know,
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  Speaker 4: he came in and you know, I May We were
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  Speaker 4: in the hotel together for a while and and and
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  Speaker 4: we'd be sitting down just you know, eating dinner and
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  Speaker 4: playing cards and then we'd you know, have a break
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  Speaker 4: and we rattle off some plays. And that was when
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  Speaker 4: I was first learning and and and he kind of
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  Speaker 4: have like an idea of what the play was. So
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  Speaker 4: it's nice having you know, people like that around, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of vets, and I know it helps rooms
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  Speaker 4: have people like that around to where it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you get out there, he's teaching you movements, he's
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  Speaker 4: teaching you how you know works in the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: Have people behind me. Brett Brett Tyson.
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  Speaker 4: They've played, they've been in it, they've been with other
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  Speaker 4: you know, great, great quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 5: So it's only helping. But you know, we're really excited.
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  Speaker 2: The bar is certainly high for the number one overall
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  Speaker 2: pick of the Chicago Bears. Caleb Williams steve the bar
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  Speaker 2: very low for Bears quarterbacks historically, over all the past
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  Speaker 2: sixty years or so, it's been certainly a motley crew.
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  Speaker 2: This now is what Kayleb Williams is walking into a
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  Speaker 2: better situation that we've seen for a lot of number
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  Speaker 2: one picks through the years, with all the additions that
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  Speaker 2: they made, the weaponry they put around him, also the
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  Speaker 2: defense that they have with Matt Eberflus here, what are
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  Speaker 2: your expectations, What do you be watching for as Caleb
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  Speaker 2: Williams and the Bears get out there as a whole
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  Speaker 2: on the practice field starting tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I love Matt Eberflus came out today and said
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  Speaker 6: he's gonna play between forty five and fifty five snaps
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  Speaker 6: in preseason games. Remember they have four preseason games because
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  Speaker 6: they're playing in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game,
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  Speaker 6: And this could be something where we see him even
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  Speaker 6: in that game, get a series or two, and then
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  Speaker 6: you double it the next game. In a third preseason game,
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  Speaker 6: you let him play a half and maybe start the
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  Speaker 6: third quarter, and then you sit him for that final
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  Speaker 6: preseason game. But I think that will get him everything
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  Speaker 6: from getting used to stretch lines, to stadiums to everything.
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  Speaker 6: The little quirtch we don't necessarily think about kind of
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  Speaker 6: that go with the game itself.
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  Speaker 7: That'll get him ready. Tom and I think it's very important.
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  Speaker 6: In the preseason with the Bears, with this improved roster,
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  Speaker 6: getting him ready to start Week one.
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  Speaker 2: They got an experienced play caller in Shane Walders came
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  Speaker 2: over there from Saley's worked with different types of quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: through the years. He's got a lot of weapons around him.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the Keenan Allen acquisition, when you
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  Speaker 2: look at DJ Moore still being there in Roe Madoonsa
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  Speaker 2: and signing DeAndre Swift cold the Bears seemed to draft
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  Speaker 2: the tight end every year for like a decade. The
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  Speaker 2: table is set here, but again, the expectations will be high,
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  Speaker 2: even though that bar is low.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly how low.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the Bears quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era, Literally
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  Speaker 2: the worst overall there's been some positive moments. Josh McCown
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  Speaker 2: had a pretty decent run for like half of the
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirteen season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Jay Cutler.
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  Speaker 2: They made a run with Jay Cutler. They went to
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  Speaker 2: a super Bowl with Rex Scrozman. This is where that's true.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Cayleb Williams now is walking into. You
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  Speaker 2: know what was experienced, Well, not quite the entire super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl era of Bears quarterbacks, but certainly a good chunk
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  Speaker 2: of it. Our buddy Adam Rank, who often appears on
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  Speaker 2: this show.
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  Speaker 1: To talk fantasy football.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be back to do the AFC West
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  Speaker 2: State of the Franchise later on. He's a brilliant analyst
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  Speaker 2: of the game. But in this moment, Rank, if we
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  Speaker 2: welcome you into the show, I just want you to
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  Speaker 2: put on your Bear's super fan hat for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: You've waited a long time for what looks like potentially
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  Speaker 2: the face of the franchise quarterback they have not had
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  Speaker 2: in your lifetime. As you say them rhyming seem arrivy.
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  Speaker 2: You see him hitting the practice field tomorrow, What are
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  Speaker 2: the emotions like? What's going through your body and your
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  Speaker 2: brain right now?
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  Speaker 8: First of all, this is very unfair to Jim McMahon,
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  Speaker 8: who was a very good quarterback who won a Super Bowl. Obviously,
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  Speaker 8: Jay Cutler had some fine times, and then it's Walter
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  Speaker 8: Payton on the halfback option, the three best Bears quarterbacks
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  Speaker 8: in my lifetime. The one thing that I really appreciate
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  Speaker 8: about what the Bears have done with Caleb Williams so
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  Speaker 8: far is that he comes into camp with no competition.
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  Speaker 8: Remember a couple of years ago, when Mitch Trubisky was there,
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  Speaker 8: they had signed Mike Glennon and they did the song
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  Speaker 8: and dance with them. When Justin Field was brought in,
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  Speaker 8: they had Andy Dalton on the team, and again it
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  Speaker 8: was well, we're going to sort of work him in.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't really have a plan. There has been a
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  Speaker 8: plan since day one for Caleb Williams, and the plan
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  Speaker 8: was to get him on the field as quickly as
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  Speaker 8: possible and surround him with the most talent that's ever
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  Speaker 8: surrounded a number one overall draft pick. So I think
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  Speaker 8: that the expectations should be a little bit higher because
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  Speaker 8: I think that people tend to forget this Bears team
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  Speaker 8: won seven.
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  Speaker 3: Games last year.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't have the number one pick because they were awful.
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  Speaker 8: It was because Carolina was awful. Now they've got a
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  Speaker 8: great opportunity to go out there and make some noise.
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  Speaker 8: And in addition to those seven wins, they had three
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  Speaker 8: losses where they had over a ninety percent chance of winning.
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  Speaker 8: It didn't work out for them. We should have high expectations,
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  Speaker 8: and I say we as a collective, not just Bears fans,
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  Speaker 8: but fans of the NFL in general, because this Bears
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  Speaker 8: team is going to hit the ground running.
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  Speaker 2: Jim McMahon undefeated as the Bears starting quarterback in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty five when he happened to be playing with the
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  Speaker 2: greatest running back of all time and probably the greatest
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  Speaker 2: defense of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing against Jim McMahon.
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  Speaker 2: He started sixty one games total for Chicago. I would
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  Speaker 2: certainly think that they're going to try to hit the
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  Speaker 2: over with Caleb Williams Rank, We'll be coming back to
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  Speaker 2: you on this story a whole lot more, but stick around.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be with us later on in the show.
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  Speaker 2: There's also another rookie quarterback in the NFC North who
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  Speaker 2: now is officially under contract. That is JJ McCarthy, who
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  Speaker 2: agreed to terms today with the Minnesota Vikings on his
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  Speaker 2: fully guaranteed four year contract with a fifty year option
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  Speaker 2: in plenty of time before the Vikings rookies report to
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  Speaker 2: camp on Sunday. JJ McCarthy Steve walks into a situation
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  Speaker 2: where he's not the unquestioned starter like Caleb William. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a certainty that he's out there in Week one.
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  Speaker 2: But when you trade up even one spot and you
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  Speaker 2: go and get a guy in the top ten at quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: everyone knows JJ McCarthy's time is coming. That competition with
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, who started a bunch of games for a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of teams, will be one of the fascinating storylines
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  Speaker 2: following camp.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, look and the meter is running. Like
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  Speaker 6: you said, he drafts a quarterback dot high. He's going
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  Speaker 6: to be the starter at one time and at one
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  Speaker 6: point this season. But head coach Kevin O'Connell came out
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  Speaker 6: and said, you can't write it necessarily down as to
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  Speaker 6: when that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: It is more of a field thing.
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  Speaker 7: So of course in training camp it's.
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  Speaker 6: Going to be how much does McCarthy take to the offense,
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  Speaker 6: how much does he understand opposing coverages, how much does
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  Speaker 6: he understand the protection plan. But more than anything, and
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  Speaker 6: this goes overlooked a lot of time times, is how
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  Speaker 6: do the other ten guys in the huddle respond to him?
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  Speaker 6: If all of a sudden there's a little more bounce
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  Speaker 6: in their step over and over like okay, then maybe
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  Speaker 6: you accelerate getting him on the field, like this is
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  Speaker 6: the guy we feel comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: You saw that when the Niners put in Rock Purty,
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  Speaker 6: they played a different style of football than they played
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  Speaker 6: with Jimmy Garoppolo.
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  Speaker 7: That's when you understood that he was a guy they
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  Speaker 7: feel comfortable with.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's what Kevin O'Connell, the head coach
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  Speaker 6: of the Vikings again, is going to be really factoring
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  Speaker 6: into when it's time to pull the plug on.
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  Speaker 7: Darnold and to put JJ McCarthy in the starting line.
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  Speaker 2: One of the questions on JJ McCarthy coming on in
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  Speaker 2: the draft, of course, was well, why didn't they throw
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  Speaker 2: the football more? They were a run dominant team, they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to pass the ball a lot. He impressed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people with what he did is pro day.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that he slung it the way that he
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  Speaker 2: did played his way into being a guy who nobody
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  Speaker 2: would have had as a first round prospect probably going
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  Speaker 2: into this season, ends up a top ten pick, is
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  Speaker 2: certainly going to have a lot of eyes on him
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  Speaker 2: in camp in Minnesota. Meanwhile, a couple picks later, Bonnette
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  Speaker 2: became a Denver Bronco. That was really not a surprise
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of people within the league, who said,
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  Speaker 2: fifty two careers starts the son of a coach. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to do exactly what Sean Payton tells him to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's the perfect fit in Denver. Nick said recently that
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  Speaker 2: he expects a and I quote very respectful competition with
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  Speaker 2: Zach Wilson and Jared Stidham. Respectfully, it's hard to imagine
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  Speaker 2: this competition doesn't go in the direction in Nix.
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  Speaker 1: It's respectful right now.
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  Speaker 6: In off season workouts, hey guys, and thanks for the
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  Speaker 6: help this and I really appreciate you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: pick up after you. You pick up after me. Now
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  Speaker 6: it's time for somebody to go get it. And Bo Nicks,
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  Speaker 6: you were drafted to go get this job.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 6: You hear a lot of people say that Zach Wilson
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  Speaker 6: really looked good in offseason workouts as he should have.
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  Speaker 6: He's got veteran experience, he's got incredible talent, But this
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  Speaker 6: is a young player that Sean Payton wants to build
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  Speaker 6: his team around.
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  Speaker 7: So we're going to see how this competition goes.
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  Speaker 6: Because as much as you know that there's still kind
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  Speaker 6: of a grace period as to what they're going to
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  Speaker 6: do with the Broncos, Sean Payton has to win ball games,
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  Speaker 6: right people, Nothing's going to get fired, but at some
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  Speaker 6: point people are going to say in New Orleans, was
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  Speaker 6: it Breeze or was it Peyton? If Sean Payton doesn't
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  Speaker 6: continue to win ball game. So I think this is
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  Speaker 6: a situation where he's going to put the best person
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  Speaker 6: in but bo Nick is the guy they're going to
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  Speaker 6: groom to get in there. So that respectful competition might
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  Speaker 6: get disrespectful pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been in a transition phase through the course
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  Speaker 2: of the Soft Seed and you trade away Jerry Judy,
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  Speaker 2: John Cortland Sutton who still wants a new contract, and
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  Speaker 2: that situation remains to be resolved here as we lead
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  Speaker 2: up to the reporting date for training camp next week,
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  Speaker 2: they've got a lot of young guys that they're excited about.
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  Speaker 2: Ly one of Bonex's former college teammates. They've invested in
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  Speaker 2: that position, but who emerges as the pass catchers is
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  Speaker 2: going to be certainly one of the big storylines as
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  Speaker 2: we talk about the Broncos moving forward. Meanwhile, another contract
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  Speaker 2: situation that remains unresolved is in Green Bay, where Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Love Well to this point, has not gotten a new
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  Speaker 2: deal to replace the one year that's left on the
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  Speaker 2: Bridge Deal, the band aid deal that he signed last
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  Speaker 2: year to avert the Packers having to exercise his fifty option.
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  Speaker 2: Reporters tried to ask Jordan love at his charity event
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  Speaker 2: last week, a pr guy who doesn't understand that the
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  Speaker 2: media shows up to those events so that they can
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  Speaker 2: get off one question about football topics jumped in would
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  Speaker 2: and let him answer it. The answers, though, Steve, are
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  Speaker 2: going to come soon. It's not a matter of if
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  Speaker 2: the Packers get something done with Jordan Love, it's a
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  Speaker 2: matter of when. And the price is about as high
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  Speaker 2: as you could possibly have bet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Look, this is a guy who waited a long time
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  Speaker 6: to start, so waiting to get this deal done is
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  Speaker 6: something he's probably like, Okay, it's going to get done,
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  Speaker 6: like you said, Tom, But it is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to get one of.
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  Speaker 6: These crazy fifty million dollars a year plus APY contracts
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  Speaker 6: that's kind of the going rate in three or four
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  Speaker 6: years from now. That may be kind of a bargain
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  Speaker 6: floor rate, a middle of the market rate. So he's
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  Speaker 6: probably going to get something like that because he proved
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  Speaker 6: over the back half of the last season that the
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  Speaker 6: investment that they have made in him in terms of
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  Speaker 6: developing him and sticking with him to replace Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 6: was worth it. And he is the reason why and
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  Speaker 6: what we saw at the end of last year and
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  Speaker 6: how he to b is why the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 6: are going to be in the playoff conversation all season
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  Speaker 6: long because they have pieces in place, including Tom a
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  Speaker 6: group of young receivers and tight ends.
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  Speaker 3: Who he's come up with.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that kind of growth period together with his
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  Speaker 6: receiving targets, along some of the running backs that they have.
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  Speaker 6: With Josh Jacobs coming over, they've got pieces in place
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  Speaker 6: to support him.
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  Speaker 2: Also had Marshawn Lloyd in the draft, they got j
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  Speaker 2: Dillon back. Every wide receiver and tight end on the
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  Speaker 2: team last year was a rookie or a second year player.
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  Speaker 2: And those guys delivered down the stretch. Another year of experience,
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  Speaker 2: another year for Jordan Love. This is a situation where
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  Speaker 2: the player has the leverage. The price is only going
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  Speaker 2: to go up if he continues to do what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if they can come to it accord prior
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  Speaker 2: to training camp so that everybody can turn their full
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  Speaker 2: attention to.
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  Speaker 1: The regular season.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, a veteran player got a deal with a new
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: team Earlier today, The Ravens agreed to terms on a
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  Speaker 2: one year deal with former Bears All Pro safety Eddie Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: He was released back in Fibruary. Thirty years old at
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  Speaker 2: this point, but you know, the Ravens like those veterans
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  Speaker 2: in their secondary. Now they add another one. Meanwhile, a
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: longtime NFL running back is called it quits. Kenyon Drake,
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  Speaker 2: who ran for over thirty eight hundred yards, announced today
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  Speaker 2: that he is retiring. He was part of this play,
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  Speaker 2: one of the wildest in NFL history, from Devonte Parker
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  Speaker 2: to Kenyan Drake.
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  Speaker 1: He fakes the pitch and then outruns.
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  Speaker 1: Stumbling to try to get him at the goal line.
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  Speaker 2: back in in the coming days. But can Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 2: this highlight, Cliff Calvin Ridley.
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  Speaker 1: He's now a Titan, still in the.
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  Speaker 1: But will that offense that was a bumpy of.
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  Speaker 2: Times last year be able to hit the ground as
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  Speaker 2: they report to camp for answers on that. Let's welcome
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  Speaker 2: in our Cam Wolf alongside me, Tom Pelisero here on
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  Speaker 2: the Insiders Cam Jaguars rookies reporting to the building today, obviously,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: so the quarterbacks also.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Making their way in.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Tell me about these young guys and who potentially can
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: help out Trevor Lawrence in twenty twenty four.
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Tom, let's start with Brian Thomas Junior. I can't
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: wait to see him in training camp. He's their first
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: round big and he's got a big opportunity to replace
• 15:27
  Speaker 9: the role vacated by Calvin Ridley. Remember Ridley had that
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: last minute switch to go to the Tennessee Titaness, their
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: division rival, and that's over one thousand yards seventy six
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: receptions out of the door, and Brian Thomas has an
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: opportunity to get that role very quickly. Trevor Lawrence loves
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: to throw the deep ball, and it just so happens
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: that Brian Thomas one of his best skill sets is
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: creating vertical separation down the field.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: I talk with coaches this all season.
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: They discussed how everything they saw on tape at LSU
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: has shown up early in OTAs his speed, his ability
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: to separate, and I can't wait to see him pass
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: going against number one defenses in training camp. I was
• 16:06
  Speaker 9: at LSU's pro day where everybody was talking about Melik
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: Neighbors and Jaye Daniels, and I had one GM just
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: rating to me about Brian Thomas.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: He said, I see Brandon Iyuk in this game. I
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: think what he can.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: Do in the NFL is a lot more than what
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: he was asked to do in LSU, and he can
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: be a number one receiver sooner than later. And tom
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: last thing, I talked to one Jaguars coach about Brian Thomas.
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: He had one nugget of constructive quitter's criticism. He said,
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: I want him to be more vocal. He's been so smart,
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: he's getting so much, but he's quiet. And I don't
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: know about you, tom My. Coaches and teachers had the
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: opposite complain about me. They said I wouldn't shut up,
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: and I was less than one percent of the talent
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: that Brian Thomas was, So I think he'll be all right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And here's the thing that was a real comparison that
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I heard the same thing through the course of the process,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: which was if you just look at the measurables on
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, you look at Brian Thomas's highlight reel, it
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: arguably is as good or better than Malik Neighbors. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors was the in that program. He was the
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: one who wanted the ball. He was the emotional leader.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas the play was up and down. He didn't
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: always see him exude that type of passion. So it'd
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: be fascinating to see how the dynamics kind of work out,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: especially because there is a big void for somebody to
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: step forward as that number one wide receiver. Meanwhile, Trevor Lawrence,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: we know he got paid, he got the fifty five
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: million dollars per year. His own play has been inconsistent
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: at times. The Jaguars offense didn't play well down the
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: stretch last season. Heading into twenty twenty four, Cam, what
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: are they looking for out.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Of Trevor Lawrence.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, big money.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Trevor comes with big expectations, and look, that's the reality
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: of their situation, the perils of pressure and expectations. Jaguars
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: fans expect them to get back to where they were
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: in twenty twenty two. The highlight of the Trevor Lawrence
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: and Doug Peterson are in that second half of the
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: season where they made the playoff one, they won a
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: playoff game, and last year they took a step back.
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: They collapsed late in the season, and so Trevor Lawrence
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: has talked about that and he said, I accepted as
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: the franchise quarterback. I don't feel any extra pressure. But
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: the one thing he does need to work on is
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: his turnovers. He's had sixty turnovers in his first three seasons,
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: most of any quarterback. And while he's shown a lot
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: of potential he's a really good quarterback. To get to
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: that great level with some of the elite quarterbacks that we.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Talk about all the time, those turnovers have to take
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: a dip.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: And talking to the people in that building, they believe
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: sometimes it's just him being a superhero trying to do
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: too much at times, and they hope this year with
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: him being more vocal in the offense, being more comfortable
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: and having more experience than he can take the safer
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: route at times. Remember Trevor's not even twenty five yet
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: so even though he's big money, he's still learning and
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: they thinking you're four, he can elevate and see that
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: next level of his game. I can't wait to get
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: to do Vault because one early thing to watch will
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: be his chemistry with those receivers Brian Thomas as we discussed,
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: but also Gabe Davis.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Coming in filling in as well.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: How early do they click with those two fast outside receivers.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: We know he's going to be throwing the ball to
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram, but those other two that
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: could be the key to unlocking how far is Jaguars
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: team can go and if they can steal that division
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: back from the Houston Texans, who.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Have had a lot of hype this offseason.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Cam stick around.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk with you about another former number
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: one overall pick in just a little bit. But first
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit about another highly drafted quarterback
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: from a year ago. That is Anthony Richardson of the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts, who made four starts as a rookie last season,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: got injured in three of them. Season ended he had
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: shoulder surgery. Everything seemed to be heading into the right direction.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Did miss the last day of mini camp. Sounds like
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: they just threw a ton of balls the day before
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: decided to hold him back. Richardson said himself that he's
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: been feeling really good as we get set to head
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: into training camp.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Here, Steve Anthony Richardson, year two.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Job one obviously, don't take those hits, stay on the front.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: What else can he do if he accomplishes job one?
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Well, first off, you know, Chris ballad general manager, said
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: he's going to be a full go when they start
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: training camp, So that's a good sign. Like you said,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: the durability protecting himself. But Shane Stike and his head
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: coach is showing to be a very creative play designer,
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: so they're going to do some things to get him
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: on the move but also play him in the pocket.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: The thing that Anthony Richardson has to live up to
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: is nine and eight. That's the record that they had
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: last season when he wasn't there most of the time
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: when Gardner Minshew was playing quarterback. They don't want to
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: dip below that line there, which would put him below
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: five hundred when he's supposed to be the answer to
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: their problems. They don't have some of the drama they
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: had last year. Tom remember this time they had Jonathan
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Taylor wanting a contract extension coming into training camp.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: That was an issue.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: It's all calm seas right now if they're our seas
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: in the Midwest, Indianapolis. So Anthony Richardson, he's got an opportunity.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: You're seeing him right here just doing an RPO. He's
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: running it, but he's got to protect himself. What he
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: does is that's not going to go away. That's part
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: of their offense. It's part of what they're going to
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: be able to do because he is such a special
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: athletic talent. But again, just approve the accuracy, stay on
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: the field. I think Shane Stiken and the supporting staff
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: are going to help him.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Part of that supporting staff.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: That defense, that defense is stacked. They had Laotu lot
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: to off the edge to combine with Putty pay at
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Sampson abucom they could get a lot of takeaways to
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: get Anthony Richardson some more possessions.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Cam as he says, has Duval covered. I'm going to
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: be in India on I believe August fifth excited to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: see Anthony Richardson two point Oh are you excited to
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• 21:37
  Speaker 2: lot of intrigue around the Jets, though arguably less hype
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: than a year ago. We kind of did this. We
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: saw four snaps of that guy Aaron Rodgers. What does
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four hold for him? What does it hold
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: for a defense and some of its bright young stars
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: like that guy Jermaine Johnson. He's with us, but talk
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: about the twenty twenty four Jets. Next on the Insiders,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: A big season for the New York Jets kicks off
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: in Earnest four days from now. That is when the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Jets veterans will be reporting to training camp. Aaron Rodgers,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: of course, and also guys like that Jermaine Johnson and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: that stacked Jets defense hoping to make up for what
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: ended up being a have a little bit of a
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: weird twenty twenty three season, as we welcome in Jermaine
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Johnson headed into year three in the NFL. It's great
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to see you again. Man, four days away for reporting
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: to camp. How are you feeling, No.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: We're feeling good, man, I'm feeling great. Body feels good.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: I always like to say this ahead of a new season.
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: It's like I got a new car. I can't wait
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: to pull it off the lote.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: So obviously we you know, we see a lot of
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers there, but I'm glad we got your face
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: in that little hype video because this defense top to
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: bottom looks like it's set up to be among the
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: NFL's best. What do you see being around that team
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the spring, and what's your expectations
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: for this season?
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, you said it there.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: We're looking to be the NFL's best, and there's not
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: a doubt in our mind we are. So we just
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: got to build on what we did last year. And
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: you know, we do a great job of, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: holding no excuses. So whatever the case may be, we
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: have to prevail. And you know, it's hard for a
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: team to beat if they scored zero points, So that's
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: always the goal.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: So Robert Sala, I know we's spent more time working
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: with the offense, being around the offense in those meetings
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: for the course of the offseason. Tell me about Jeff Oldbrick,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a guy who probably doesn't get talked about a lot
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Becauseola has got a defensive background, But I know from
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: just talking to people around that building that he's a
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: guy who's really valued.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: One hundred percent.
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: I mean I was just in there today talking to him,
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: and I mean he's a guy that's done it at
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: a high level and has been successful doing it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: So it's always.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: Easier when you have a coach like that, you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: leading you because you know you've they've done it and
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: they've done it at a high level. So yeah, I
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: mean that speaks for itself. Let alone kind of how
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: he enters the day every single day with a you know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: a great head on their shoulders and a great outlook.
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: And I mean he's a guy that's hitted me of
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: just getting through, you know, and battling triumph, you know
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: what I mean. So I'll just look up tremendously to
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: him and you know how he operates for sure.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about that quarterback number. Eight.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: We got all four snaps from him last season. He
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: was there through most of the spring activities. What do
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you see right now at Aaron Rodgers.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: First ballot Hall of Famer. That'll never change.
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: So, like you said, four snaps into the you know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: twenty twenty three season, we lost him and that was
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: a huge hit. But I mean, like you said, he's
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: been at all the voluntary stuff and he's been balling
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: being here, and so I mean, I'm just excited to
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: play with him. I grew up watching them, and you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: I'm excited to be his teammate, and i know he's
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: going to come through for us, and you know, my
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: goal is to just come through for the team.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: You grew up though, Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Were you a
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Vikings fan? Were you rooting against Aaron Rodgers all those
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Packers years?
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: I couldn't help it. I couldn't help but do that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: And you know, being a Vikings fan back then was
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: pretty hard. You know, he always got there but didn't
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: really make anything shake. So, I mean, Aaron's been dogging
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: guys in the league for quite a long time now,
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: So I'm just excited. You know, I'm going to be
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: on the right side of it, and you know, backing
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: him up.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Obviously a lot was made of Aaron not being at
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the two days of the mandatory mini camp. He was
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: traveling at the time. Coach Sall said it was on
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: excuse how much of it all did the locker room
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: care about that? And how much if any, does it
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: impact he as he had in the training camp here.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Zero impact. I mean we didn't care.
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: He had stuff he had to handle, and like you said,
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: he's been at all the voluntary stuff, So it doesn't
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: really make much sense to sit there and scrutinize a
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: guy that's been at all the things he doesn't have to,
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: especially a first ballot Hall of Famer that you know
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: a lot of people would think that, you know, why
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: would you have to go to that or why would
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: you go to that? Still, but I mean he has
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: been and he's been stepping up and being the leader
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: for this team as everybody expects him to be and
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: he expects of himself. So I mean there's zero impact.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: We know he's he's airing on and off the field,
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: and you know he's going to be a great leader
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: that everybody looks up to and you know, continue to
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: be so.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: So tell me about yourself here, Jamine.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I remember we first met on the practice field down
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: in Mobile, Alabama at the Resa Senior Bowl. You you
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: had a long road to get to this point, to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: get into the NFL. Seven and a half sacks last season.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: What's next? Where do you go from here?
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Go up?
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Progress? One percent?
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: I always like to say that, you know, the slope
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: to you know, progress looks like this. It doesn't look
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: like this. So if you're staying the same, you're getting worse.
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: So the goal is to just keep getting better and better.
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: And uh, you know my mangal is to just be
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: be everything and then some for my team and you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: do my job and then a little bit more.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: You finally, you finally got your pick six, right, so
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna be adding to that, even catch
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the balls up the jugs machines, Like, what what's next
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: year for you?
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: One hundred percent? I need I need like two more
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: of those. Those those one of the best fields ever.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: Uh So yeah, one hundred percent go out there and
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: make spectacular plays and uh, you know, be extraordinary and
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: be a superstar.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: That's what I got on my notebook.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: See I'm watching I'm watching the replays here in studio.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Like if you didn't tell me, if you didn't you know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: if I didn't know, who was that you for home?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Is that demo Samuel on the Jets once the big
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: man gets the ball in.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: His hands, like you were you were motoring out there?
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Man, hey man, you just go check out the huddle.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: I was a little receiver in high school, a little
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: bit started both ways, so you know, I wasn't new
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: to it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Now you're on and now you're on the Goon squad
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: right based on the based on the shirt you got here,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the godfather of the Goon squad.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: One hundred percent. And uh, you know a funny story
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: about this shirt. This is actually a tribute to, uh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: you know, all the practice squad guys we have on
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: our team that service us and give us a great look.
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: And this is a you know shirt that the that
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: the coaches made and the equipment made for those guys,
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: because you know, without them, the team wouldn't be the
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: team and we wouldn't get the looks we get. Uh,
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: So shout out to them, Shout out to the Goon
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: squad always.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: That's really cool. That's you know, yeah, it takes everybody.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: It takes everybody to make the type of run, playoff run,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: maybe championship run that you guys want to put together
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: this year. After after everything you've been through over the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: past year, all the you know, the emotion and the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: hype that went into last season. You step back into
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the building four days from now for training camp. What's
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the message that you want to convey and you hope
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: everybody takes in in that Jets building.
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: I want to know every week, want to know every practice,
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: want to know every rep. I mean, just take it slow,
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: handle what's on the plate in front of you, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: you know, shop with carry water. It's corny, it's cliche,
• 28:31
  Speaker 10: but you know, it couldn't be more than the truth.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: So I mean, just just look at that. Don't make
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: things bigger.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Than it is.
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: Don't let the moment be bigger than you, be bigger
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: than the moment, ball out be you. I mean, we
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: got super bowler bus. So that's kind of how we're
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: looking at it. That's how I'm definitely looking at it.
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: So with that being said, like I said, it's just
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: want to know every week, want to know every practice,
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: Want to know every rep.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl or bus that all starts July twenty third
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: or four to training camp to Maine. Have fun, good
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: luck man. Thanks a Lov for coming on the show for.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: So man, and you know I'm having fun out there.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I can't wait.
• 29:09
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• 29:11
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• 29:14
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  Speaker 1: Can the Chiefs make it a three piece? That's the
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  Speaker 1: mission they are on as.
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  Speaker 2: They get set to report to Saint Joseph as a
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: full squad on Saturday. We get into the state of
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  Speaker 2: the AFC West and boy have there been some changes.
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  Speaker 1: That's next on The Insiders.
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  Speaker 6: Thirteen seconds to Go, twenty two to nineteen San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: A touchdown wins the game. A you got Church right,
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  Speaker 1: Boss Shuttle, Tom and Jerry Roy Yellow let.
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  Speaker 7: Jacksau City down.
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  Speaker 9: To pat super Bowl champion The Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: Back to back Baby with another set back Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: not done, dog. I want three. I want back to
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: back to back.
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  Speaker 2: Now going for three in a row, going for his
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  Speaker 2: four super Bowl overall for Patrick Mahomes after a season
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  Speaker 2: in which, let's remember, the Chiefs posted their worst regular
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: season record of the Patrick Mahomes era. It was not
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  Speaker 2: an easy path to get there, and yet once again
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City on top.
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  Speaker 1: Can they make it three in a row? For more?
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  Speaker 1: In the state of the AFC West, Let's rank.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in Adam Rank to the insiders along with me,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Tom Peliicero rank. The Chiefs rookies have reported. The veterans
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: are in camp tomorrow. What are you looking for? What
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: is the state of the Chiefs as they enter this
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  Speaker 2: three peak push?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you heard Patrick Mahomes say it right there.
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  Speaker 8: He wants number three and a big reason why he's
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: firmly in the goat chase, chasing down Tom Brady as
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: the best quarterback of all time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it comes down to those two guys.
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  Speaker 8: And now Patrick Mahomes has an opportunity to do something
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  Speaker 8: that Tom Brady's never done, which is.
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  Speaker 3: Win three Super Bowls in a row.
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  Speaker 8: And it's interesting when people talk about this, they're like, well,
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: look how far Patrick Mahomes has come already. You're like, yeah,
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: Tom Brady did the same thing, Like he won three
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: and four years, he lost two super Bowls, won two
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: Super Bowls, lost a Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl,
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: went to Tampa Bay and won a Super Bowl. So
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: Patrick Mahomes still has some work to do, but to
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: do something that hasn't been done in the NFL standards,
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: And I don't want the Packer fans coming after maybe
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: like we've won three NFL shut up, we got it. Okay,
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: you won three NFL titles in the twenties, the nineteen twenties,
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: we get it.
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  Speaker 3: But this is something that's unprecedented.
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  Speaker 8: And if there is one guy that I have faith
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  Speaker 8: in doing it, it's Patrick Mahons because last season, as
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: you said, it wasn't an easy road. They didn't even
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: need home field advantage and they still walk through that
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  Speaker 8: AFC like nobody who's business. So I'm not putting it
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: past them, but it is very difficult. The last team
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  Speaker 8: that he became close Dallas Cowboys nineteen ninety four. They
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: got all the way to the NFC Championship Game, felled
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  Speaker 8: by the forty nine ers, and that was as close
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: as anybody's ever gone.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Adam, we gave you your Bears super fan time.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: At the top of the show, I was told this
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: was going to be analyst Adam Rank, So no more
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Packer shots.
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  Speaker 1: Let's focus on the ball for.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: The rest of the segle. Let's go to Denver. Okay,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: let's go to the Broncos. Another year here with Sean Payton.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: What is the state of this Denver team that obviously
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: has had some big changes, including at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 3: I think it all comes down to the quarterback and
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: what they have with bow Nicks.
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  Speaker 8: This is going to be determining what happens with the
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: future of this franchise and really the legacy of Sean
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  Speaker 8: Payton moving forward. The one thing about this quarterback is
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: that we've seen him for a long time. Like this
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: guy was playing college football against Justin Herbert for crying
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: out loud, and now he's going to be going out
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: and being in the same division as him. And listening
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: to some of the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about him. I was watching something with Jordan Palmer.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: And they were kind of comparing him to a more
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: athletic Drew Brees, and I'm like, Okay, let's let's pump
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: the brakes a little bit. It's kind of like when
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: you hear comics talking about a comics comic, like, yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: that's usually not the greatest thing. But he has done
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: some nice things during his college career, and if this
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  Speaker 8: one pans out for the Broncos, I think it'll kind
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: of help alleviate some of the problems they've had over
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: the last couple of years. They do probably need to
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: upgrade the wide receiver room a little bit. Jerry Judy's
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: obviously not there, but would love to see somebody step
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: up alongside of Courtland Sutton. Maybe maybe it's you know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: I'm now blanking on the guy's name, the rookie from
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: last year. I can't even think of it anymore. I
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: lost it because I was so upset in fantasy. He
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: started the first four games and then the Sean Payton
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: got rid of him. I'm drawing a blank. Yeah, Marvin Moore,
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: I want Marvin Mins the Steve though.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna let you, I was gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: more time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, all right, you mentioned Justin Derbert in there.
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  Speaker 2: The Chargers. Obviously, Jim Marbaugh is coming in. It's a
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: massive story It's massive expectation because Jim Harborough's first year
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: with the forty nine Ers, they go thirteen and three,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: They roll right into the NFC Championship game.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: What's the state of the Chargers? All those superstars and.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Now the head coach is coming off a national title.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big thing.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, outside of a special teams blunder, the forty
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: nine Ers would have been in the Super Bowl and
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: they went to overtime against the Giants and ended up
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: losing that game. Giants go on to beat Tom Brady
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: and all that good stuff. Jim Harbaugh has made quick
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: turnarounds in San Francisco and of course with Michigan. But
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: to me, this seems eerily similar to what he had
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: when he took over Stanford. Stanford was kind of a
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: downtrodden program that he needed a few years to get
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: them up to speed. They started off four and eight
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: in his first year at Stanford and then eventually became
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: one of the powers in the Pac twelve and then
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: going on and having some run as a national powerhouse
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: as well.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that's what we're looking at with the Chargers.
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  Speaker 8: They have won too many holes to fill before they
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: truly become one of the elite teams in the AFC,
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  Speaker 8: which I truly believe will happen.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh is that good. This team will be good.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: Drafting Joe All was a huge move for them because
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: you want to be good in the offensive line, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: I think that's going to be a huge thing with
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: him and Greg Roman, and it's probably to the detriment
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: of Justin Herbert's fantasy. But at the same time, Kamari Vadal,
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: by the way, I want to throw this out to
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: Kamari Vidal is a player to watch. I've already switched
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: over Tom like I'm finishing this state of the franchise,
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: and then you would think, like after doing thirty two
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: of these, they'd give me a day off. Now I
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: got to go back and start doing fantasy profiles starting
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: on Monday. Kamari Vidal is somebody to watch out. But
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: I think the Chargers will be there eventually, but probably
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: not this year.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Kamani Vindol, the grandson of Hank Aaron. You've got him
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: as a fantasy target, and he was a fancy target.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: This is a whole other segment.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: That's a whole other stinger. We can do that on Monday.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I'll come back.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Sound good, I'll be here, You'll be here. Well, we
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: got nothing but time. The Raiders.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, they've had a wild few years here, from John
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Gruden to making the playoffs with Rich Vasacci, to Josh
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: McDaniels to Antonio Piers. Now Pierce has the full time
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: head coaching job, doesn't.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Necessarily know who is starting quarterback is yet. What's the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: state of the Raiders.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I really like what the Raiders did with Antonio Pierce.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: It kind of harkens back to the glory days of
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: Al Davis, who would go out there and get these
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: coaches who might have been a year or two off
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: of the prize, like they weren't like household names, Like
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: he picked up John Madden and then Tom Flores and
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: then Mike Shanahan and then even John Gruden Lane Kiffin
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: like he always had this knack of finding these these
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: coaches to become the leaders of this team.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: And that's what the Raiders are at right now.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: And I thought that the team responded last year with
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: Antonio Pierce. The offense was better, the defense was better.
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: DeVante Adam actually seemed happy for a moment. I'm sorry
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: that's a borderline Packers shot, but it's not.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I like what the Raiders are doing.
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: I truly believe that Gardner Minshew is kind of an
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: upgrade for them.
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  Speaker 3: I really do. I thought Gardner Minshew.
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: You talked about it in a segment previously about how
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: well he played for the Colts last year. I believe
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: he becomes the quarterback for the Raiders and they're very
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: competitive this season.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Real quick, before we let you go, Rank, Marvin Mims
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: is draftable in fantasy.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Yes, Marvin Mims was great for the first four weeks
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: and then, for whatever reason, disappeared and I was not
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: happy about it. I want a full Marvin Mims season.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: We're gonna make you disappear until Monday. Give you a
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: take the weekend, Okay, take a break, Oh thank you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We'll see it very soon.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: That's Adam Rank. NFL is back. So is the top
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: one hundred? Well, Max Crosby make another appearance. I'm gonna
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: say it's a pretty good chance.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Yes. Find out who the players voted as the best.
• 37:55
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• 38:01
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  Speaker 2: com to sign up today. Probably not gonna hear Bryce
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Young's name on that list. This year a disaster all
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: around the Carolina Panthers in twenty twenty three, but could
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: it take a big step forward in twenty twenty four.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Camp Wolf's get to join next to talk about some
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: new players who might help Young take a big step forward.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: That's next on the Insiders.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: The Panthers rookies reporting for duty, Xavier Lee Ghent, Jonathan
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Brooks and the rest of the crew. The worst team
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: in the NFL is no way around it. Two and fifteen.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Last season, the Bears ended up with the number one
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: overall pick.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: They get Caleb Williams.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Panthers hoping for a big step forward from last year's
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: number one pick Bryce Young. As we welcome back in Cameron
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Wolf with me Tom Pellisero here on the Insiders, Let's
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: focus on the rookies, Cam with those guys coming to
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: work to obviously they need all the help that they
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: can get around Bryce Young and certainly Dan Morgan use
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: some of the relatively limited resources he had to try
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: to show up those positions.
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Tom, let's not sugarcoated This was the worst offense
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: of football last year. They needed help badly, and Zay
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: were Lagette their first round pick. They traded up in
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: the first round to get him. It's going to be
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: a huge weapon for Bryce Young. He's a huge target,
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: six twenty two pounds and I don't know what I'm
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: more excited about to hear his deep southern draw that's
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: when viral on social media, or to see him catching
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: passes For Bryce Young, they needed this level of talent infusion,
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: and it's really going to be an important period early
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: in training camp to see him because he missed a
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: lot of OTA's with a hamstring injury and all with
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: mini camp, and so they want to see how he
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: can develop that chemistry of Bryce. Adam Thielen was their
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: leading receiver last year. He'll be thirty four the start
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: of this season, and so Lagett has a big opportunity
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: to take hold of that offense along with Deontay Johnson.
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: And the other guy I'm eager to see is Jonathan Brooks,
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: running back they drafted in the second round. He's coming
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: off of twenty acl in November, so he's going to
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: start the training camp on the non football injury list
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: coming back from that injury, but Dave Canalis said a
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: month ago that at some point this summer before the season,
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: they hoped to work him back in. Once he's ready
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: to go, he could quickly emerge as the lead back
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: in that offense. Dave Canallis wants to lean on the
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: run game, and so Brooks and Legett could be huge
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: weapons for Bryce Young for years to come.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Speaking to Dave Canalis, he is there for a lot
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: of reasons in Carolina, but the biggest one fixed Bryce
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Young because that was not the Bryce Young we saw
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: last season that had made himself the number one pick
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: during his time at Alabama.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: How do they do that?
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: What are the keys as we move forward here for
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Bryce Young and Carolina?
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Tom, talking to people in that building, that's the
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: big thing I've heard is that they're aligned in their
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: communication with Bryce Young. Last year, the situation was there's
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: a lot of different coaches with different visions and it
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: became clutter, too many cooks in the kitchen. But Dave
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: Canalis and his staff they've worked together in a lot
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: different spots and they've really been aligned in how they're
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: speaking to him, their vision of what they want to
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: have for him. And I talked to a key Panthers
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: figure earlier this offseason and he said the biggest thing
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: he noticed in Bryce is that he's much more upbeat
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: and positive. And he said that's something we didn't see
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: a lot last year, and that kind of mirrors Dave
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: Canalis if you've seen him.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: He's very upbeat and positive.
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: And remember he coached Baker Mayfield as his offensive coordinator
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: and play caller in Tampa Bay last year.
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: The hope is that this year he can unlock Bryce.
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: One big thing that Dan Morgan the GM did for
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: Bryce is get two big guards and Robert Hunt and
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: Damian Lewis to be able to protect that interior. Bryce
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: is a short quarterback. You need that interior in the
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: pocket to be good. He was sacked sixty two times
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: last year. He's got to have a shot to survive
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: this year, and they think he'll be in a better
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: position to succeed.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Cam Thank you very much.
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: Bruce.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Shown's pretty accurate quarterback. Could he maybe be an Olympic
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: flag football type of guy? Who would you pick to
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: be the quarterback of the flag football team? Steve Which
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and I have some idea is we'll bring him to
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: you next on The Insiders. We'll be back on Monday
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: with more of the Insiders, and that guy is gonna
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: join US forty nine Ers tight end George Kittle. What's
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the latest going on with Brandon Ayuk?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: What are the expect Tason's like for a forty nine
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Ers team?
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Was oh so close to another Lombardi in the case
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Kittle and a whole lot more when The Insiders comes
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: back on Monday. Meanwhile, over on NFL Plus, we got
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: highlight Skalore in the Flag Football Championships. There are tons
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: of teams. You can watch all the games and plays
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: like this. Look at the hands right there. Check it
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: out right now on NFL Plus. Welcome back to the Insiders.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Tom Pilaicero, Steve White play football at Olympic Sport in
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. If there's an active NFL player you
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: want is your quarterback for.
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: The US, who is it?
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: Act, It's gonna be Kyler Murray because if he has
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: to scramble, he's gonna be a tough dude to get
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: the flag off of.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: But he's also got.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: A rocket man. You watch this guy throw it. Kyler
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: Murray would be perfect for the Olympic Flag football team.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, Brock Purdy, I'm this first in yards
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: per attempt the light window throws last season, he was
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: first in almost every downfield passing Instead, He's one of
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the best in the NFL in rhythm and he can
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: move to those the two characteristics I want with my
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Olympic quarterback.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I could see Brock Purdy being that guy.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, if they don't decide to have the
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: active NFL players in, just fire up Tom Brady. It'll
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: be like we can still get out there and diced up.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Next week on this show, everybody's
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: in camp. You should be here too. See it.