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Speaker 1: clayb on Thursday being a significant day here on NFL
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Speaker 1: Network because we have the edition of the East West
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Speaker 1: Shrine Bowl, which you can see tonight eight thirty pm
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Speaker 1: Eastern right here on NFL Network. Of course, not the
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Speaker 1: only bowl game that we are looking forward to. We're
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Speaker 1: looking forward to the Super Bowl, super Bowl fifty seven
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Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday, February twelve, and it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs taking on the Eagles. Yes, all the principal players,
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Speaker 1: they're smoldering, giving some looks other than Darius like he's
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Speaker 1: having a good time. But looking forward to Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: fifties seven, where the Chiefs have nineteen guys with Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl experience. There are eight Eagles who won the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl in one of them at the podium today, Brandon Graham,
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Speaker 1: I'm in your thirteen and finally got double digits this year.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm contributing to help the team as much
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Speaker 1: as I can. So you know that's been the best
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Speaker 1: for me because it's just you know, who would have
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Speaker 1: thought in the year thirteen, I will still be here
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Speaker 1: after we won the Super Bowl, uh, that first time,
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Speaker 1: and then how things went last year with me tearing
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Speaker 1: mice here, I mean my Achilles and now coming off
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Speaker 1: the Achilles and having one of my best years. And
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Speaker 1: and I'm not even playing half to half the snaps
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Speaker 1: that I ever played. I mean that I've been playing,
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Speaker 1: um being previous. So I would just say that's the
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Speaker 1: difference for me is just you know, according to year
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Speaker 1: thirteam and making it with a team like this. Let's
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Speaker 1: welcome in our Stacy Dls for more on these Eagles,
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Speaker 1: Stacy are Good morning to you. How Nick Sirianni preparing
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Speaker 1: this team considering the magnitude of what's to come on
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Speaker 1: the twelve Yeah, Patrick, good morning to you, and good
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Speaker 1: afternoon to everybody on the Central and East coast. Now. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's preparing him like he has all season long, and
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Speaker 1: you're gonna hear a word from him as we get
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Speaker 1: ready for this Super Bowl. At his process, it's the
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Speaker 1: Philly process, and it's something that he has really infused
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Speaker 1: into his team from the beginning. Nick Sirianni. And there's
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Speaker 1: three things that he goes about each day. He wants
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Speaker 1: his players not to go one and know each week,
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Speaker 1: but to go one and know each day. One of
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Speaker 1: those things is practicing with a high, high intensity. They've
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Speaker 1: done that all year, they did it leading up to
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Speaker 1: their massive NFC Championship performance last week. And the second
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Speaker 1: one is detail in your job description and meeting, so
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Speaker 1: be be locked in there. And the third one is
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Speaker 1: speed to the snap and walk through. So all really
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Speaker 1: important things. Now here's the one part about it. Distractions
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Speaker 1: are such a big part of the Super Bowl, right Patrick,
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Speaker 1: And obviously the Eagles dealing with a very ugly and
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Speaker 1: horrifying distraction this week with their rookie offensive lineman uh
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Speaker 1: Josh Sills who's no longer on the active roster Commissioner
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Speaker 1: exempt list, uh, But handling those types of things internally,
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Speaker 1: but on a bigger scale heading into this Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: week and what will become of the media and the
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Speaker 1: distractions surrounding these players in the nucleus of this team.
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Speaker 1: And so for Nick Serriani, the next game is always
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Speaker 1: the biggest game, but he wants his players to eliminate
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Speaker 1: distractions daily and that's at practice this week so that
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Speaker 1: they can go one to know each day to win
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Speaker 1: the ultimate prize in their goal, which is obviously Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven. And it's something that they've been able
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Speaker 1: to manage all season, especially on offense stacy, where they
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Speaker 1: can beat teams in so many different ways. How are
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Speaker 1: they able to do that? Oh, my goodness, you just
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Speaker 1: said at Patrick, It's just been really impressive to watch
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Speaker 1: on the full scale, right, the totality, the volume of
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Speaker 1: what they've put together. Because as Jalen Hurts told us
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Speaker 1: in his press conference after the NFC Championship, they can
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Speaker 1: win on the ground, they can beat you through the air,
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Speaker 1: and he made a reference to the San Francisco forty
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Speaker 1: Niners and Damiko Ryan's and company. Uh, you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to take away those explosives. We're seeing one of those
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Speaker 1: right there. It wasn't a catch. Wasn't a catch. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's for Twitter to debate and continue to debate. Right,
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Speaker 1: But they take away those explosives because this is the
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Speaker 1: most explosive offensive team in terms of what they've been
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Speaker 1: able to accomplish in big plays this year. Uh. Patrick.
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Speaker 1: But then they've got the ground game and here's here
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Speaker 1: are the numbers. Okay, it's it's very simple. Through the
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Speaker 1: playoffs into two games, Patrick two hundred and eight rush
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Speaker 1: yards per game, seven rushing touchdowns, four of them last week,
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Speaker 1: three of them against the Giants in the Divisional round.
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Speaker 1: The great offensive line leads to the great uh combo blocks,
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Speaker 1: which leads to the bursts that we see from all
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Speaker 1: four of these runners. Jalen Hurts included, but it is Sanders, Gamewell,
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Speaker 1: and Scott. They have all made impacts at different times.
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Speaker 1: It'll be very interesting to see how they attack the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, who rank eighteenth in terms of their
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Speaker 1: past defense Patrick because teams have frankly tried to take
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Speaker 1: away their perimeter game. So they've beat him on the
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Speaker 1: ground and it's been a great solution. It really starts
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Speaker 1: with their quarterback and Jalen Hurts. Yeah, it's truly a
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Speaker 1: chess match to determine how Steve Spagnola approaches this Eagle's
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Speaker 1: offense and the guy, as you said, that makes it
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Speaker 1: all go and Jalen Hurts. In fact, Jalen Hurts just
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Speaker 1: now at the podium. So let's listen in Stacy, that's
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Speaker 1: what the quarterback has to say. Um, I'm getting there.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've made it clear this whole time that
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Speaker 1: it's been something I've been dealing with and you know,
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Speaker 1: getting there and give us a number. I can't. He's
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Speaker 1: getting better, you feel getting better with time? Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: know we uh, we we have a heck of opportunity
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Speaker 1: in front of us. In excuse me, we have a
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Speaker 1: heck of opportunity in front of us, and we've worked
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Speaker 1: really hard to be where we are now. So UM,
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Speaker 1: to have the opportunity is it's something that you earn,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's it's something that you learn,
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Speaker 1: so you want to work really hard to take advantage
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Speaker 1: of it. Recently, a lot of examples and red quarter
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Speaker 1: gays guys, it's a super bowling it does. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to win that way. I guess like if someone with races,
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Speaker 1: how much pride you take? How do you stick on
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Speaker 1: a quarterback? Later? Yeah? I think every every every every
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Speaker 1: guy has a unique way of doing what they do. Um,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to turn on the TV and see
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Speaker 1: everybody playing the game the same way. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily take pride and playing a game in
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Speaker 1: a certain way. I just take pride and being who
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Speaker 1: I am, Um, you know if everybody does it different,
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Speaker 1: you know, and everybody has something different that makes them
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Speaker 1: specially and great, you know, but just try and go
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Speaker 1: out there and play the game to win. A few
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Speaker 1: years ago, I guess Rivers before how much you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: remember about him on that stage and talk all about
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Speaker 1: I have even I think any anyone like Mike Vick,
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Speaker 1: cam Randall, Cunningham, McNabb, all of those types of guys
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Speaker 1: are guys that, um, a lot of young kids looked
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Speaker 1: up to. Um, a lot of young black kids as well.
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Speaker 1: I mean Steve McNair, all of those guys. So, um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: what what do you intrusting the starting quarter back Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl where it's the first time. Yeah, I think it's history.
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Speaker 1: I think it's something that's worthy of being noted. And
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Speaker 1: it is history. You know, it's come a long way.
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Speaker 1: I think there's only been seven um, African American quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: to play in the Super Bowl. So, um, to be
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Speaker 1: the first for something, it's pretty cool. So I know,
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Speaker 1: to be a good Is there a moment Sunday night
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Speaker 1: after Kansas City one when you realize that there was
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Speaker 1: this historical significance with the Super Bowl? No, not to
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Speaker 1: everybody else start talking about it. But I think, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's history, and it's always uh
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Speaker 1: cool to be on a good good not necessarily good
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Speaker 1: or bad, but you know, be in history. I guess
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Speaker 1: I don't know what do you take away from the
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Speaker 1: first time you played against the Chiefs and it was
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Speaker 1: only like a year ago basically, but it was like
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Speaker 1: early in the season, maybe your fourth game as as
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Speaker 1: a full time starter, and just from where you were
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Speaker 1: then to where you are now. Yeah, I think, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think I had a really good team
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Speaker 1: last year. Um have a really good team this year. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think in terms of us, we just
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Speaker 1: have to go out there and do kind of what
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Speaker 1: we've um done all year. Just go out there and
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Speaker 1: trying to execute at a high level. You know. We
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Speaker 1: know we have a huge challenge in front of us
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Speaker 1: with with what they do on defense and um the
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Speaker 1: front seven and how active they are up front. But
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Speaker 1: we want to just go out there and kind of
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Speaker 1: play clean, play clean. I think Jellen Hurts said there,
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Speaker 1: not trying to be proud of playing the game in
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Speaker 1: a particular way, just trying to be proud of the
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Speaker 1: way that he plays the game. Joining us now, I'm
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Speaker 1: Mark Raws and Brian Balding. What impresses you the most
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Speaker 1: about the way Hurts is playing this game right now? Well,
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Speaker 1: I've gotten to know him pretty good Patrick over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years here in Philly, and I think
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Speaker 1: the thing that impresses me most is just his consistency
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Speaker 1: in his decision making. They has the quarterback to do
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Speaker 1: a lot in Philadelphia. They have learned a lot of RPOs,
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Speaker 1: run pass options. He's got to make that decision, decision
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Speaker 1: to run not run, decision to extend to play, make
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Speaker 1: the throw or run. Like his decision making has been
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Speaker 1: pretty good. And then with that um his ball security.
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Speaker 1: Decision making and ball security has been outstanding all year
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Speaker 1: in an offense where a lot of different guys touched
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Speaker 1: the ball in a variety of different ways. He always
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Speaker 1: seems to be in control and in command, just take
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Speaker 1: he is in his press conferences, and so that has
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Speaker 1: not changed from you know, the first game of the
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Speaker 1: season against Detroit all the way up until you know,
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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. He's been a great decision making,
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Speaker 1: a big decision maker, and that shows really a command
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Speaker 1: of the offense and what Nick can change Stike and
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Speaker 1: or trying to do. Yeah, well, you know, you can
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Speaker 1: go down a laundry list of positives with Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: and the things that impress you this year, but really
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Speaker 1: throughout his whole career, and as a former scout, I
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Speaker 1: always go back to the foundation of how they looked
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Speaker 1: in college and some of the concerns with Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: at Alabama why to really beat him out. He always
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Speaker 1: had the playmaking, the leadership, the running ability was that pocket,
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Speaker 1: quick decision making and delivery, quick release in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: and that was sort of the concerns even when coming
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Speaker 1: out of the draft, that was a little bit of
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Speaker 1: the concern of how quick he processed things and found
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Speaker 1: his first, second, third reads last year even a little
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Speaker 1: bit of those concerns, so coming into this year was
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Speaker 1: still that and he get better at those things, and
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts got tremendously better at just reading the defense,
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Speaker 1: making quick decisions and getting the ball out accurately. You know,
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Speaker 1: I really haven't seen a player, just the quarterback get
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Speaker 1: better so fast and a send so fast, the way
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Speaker 1: he works at it, the type of person he is,
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Speaker 1: you know, he would try to put in the work
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Speaker 1: and sort of get better at it. But for him
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Speaker 1: to just go from where it was a question mark
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Speaker 1: to now it's really a strength of his game. The command,
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Speaker 1: the vision, the decision making, the quickness of processing. That really,
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Speaker 1: to me is the most impressive part of how Jalen
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Speaker 1: Hurts has improved his game. Patrick and Baldy, and it's
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Speaker 1: really been impressive to see to go along with all
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Speaker 1: the other dynamic things that he does, real quick market
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Speaker 1: Pat just you know last week he met he had
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Speaker 1: tenny completions and he missed a couple of goal balls.
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Speaker 1: One was to a J. Brown against her various ward
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Speaker 1: and he's been hitting those passes all ye that this
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Speaker 1: week that he's going to work on those go balls
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Speaker 1: this week and when he comes to game time down
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Speaker 1: in uh Glendale, Arizona, I'd be surprised if they don't
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Speaker 1: connect on a couple of deep shots in that game.
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Speaker 1: You wonder what the impact the shoulder had, But at
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Speaker 1: least statistically twice as good. He had nine touchdowns, eight
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Speaker 1: inner options from inside of the pocket. In two he
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Speaker 1: had twenty touchdowns and four interceptions from inside of the pocket.
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Speaker 1: That's the type of improvement you see from somebody who
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Speaker 1: works on the game like Jalen Hurts does. We'll be
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Speaker 1: back with Mark Ross and Brian Baldinger as we continue
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Speaker 1: here on NFL. Now, let's talk for us. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: look at what's new right now. I'm gonna inside a
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Speaker 1: report from NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport, who's there in Mobile.
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Speaker 1: We got some coaching news going on. Ian. Let's start
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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. What's the latest there? He has some more
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Speaker 1: hurry up and waiting for the Indianapolis coach there interviewing
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Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn for a second time. Of course, the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Lions defensive coordinator very well, respect It sounds like he
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Speaker 1: did really well the first time. He is there a
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Speaker 1: second time today, and then Shane stike In, the Ego's
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, expected to have a second interview later this week,
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Speaker 1: either Friday or Saturday, before the Egos head to the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, which you would think would mean that's time
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Speaker 1: for the coach to wrap it up, but you would
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Speaker 1: probably be wrong. According to Mike Garafoe and myself, the
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Speaker 1: coach are likely to do a third round of interviews,
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Speaker 1: which I think would be unpreceded. I have scoured the
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Speaker 1: Twitter escape and I've not seen any other team doing
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Speaker 1: a third round of interviews. So potentially they will have
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Speaker 1: two or three actual finalists and then pick a coach
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Speaker 1: at some point and probably the not very near future. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's more work for you guys,
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Speaker 1: and let's go for five. Let's see how far the
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Speaker 1: Colts can go on this. I'm interested to see how
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Speaker 1: many can we do? Just win? Can it in? Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about Arizona. What's the latest on their coaching situation.
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Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals are interviewing Brian Callahan, the Bengals o C.
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Speaker 1: That is today, The interviewed LU and a room of
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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator yesterday than Mike Cafco. The Giants o
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Speaker 1: C was earlier in the week, and that is all
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Speaker 1: right now. That is scheduled for the Arizona Cardinals. There
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Speaker 1: is a potential that they hire a coach at some
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Speaker 1: point before the Super Bowl week starts, maybe Friday, maybe Saturday.
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Speaker 1: There is also the possibility that they say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: because we're only eight days away from the Super Bowl ending,
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Speaker 1: because we've gone all this time, let's just wait and
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Speaker 1: if they decide to just wait, the two candidates they
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Speaker 1: would likely take a look at would be Shane styke
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Speaker 1: In the Eagles offensive coordinator, very well respected, and then
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon, the defensive coordinator. Minderstanding it was Gannon with
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Speaker 1: someone they wanted to talk to if the Eagles had lost.
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Speaker 1: Obviously they did not. But if they wait, that is
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Speaker 1: where the direction that they would likely be heading. All right,
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Speaker 1: Interested to see how this shakes out after Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: fifty seven, to get more for me and Rappaport throughout
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Speaker 1: the day, looking ahead to recent Senior Bowl coming up Saturday,
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Speaker 1: right here on NFL Network. Thank you Ian down there
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Speaker 1: in Mobile. Hey yesterday you remember it was? It was
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Speaker 1: wasn't too long ago. Tom Brady finally called it a
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Speaker 1: career for good. Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner, already thinking
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Speaker 1: about him making an official as a New England Patriot.
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Speaker 1: Not only do I want it, our fans are clamoring
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Speaker 1: for it, and to us, he is, always has been,
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Speaker 1: and always will be a Patriot and we will be
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Speaker 1: bringing him back after I have not. I don't like
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Speaker 1: to make a commitment for him, but we will do
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Speaker 1: everything in our power to bring him back, have him
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Speaker 1: sign off as a patriot, and find ways to honor
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Speaker 1: him for many years to come. Uh, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: some of these Chiefs injuries. How is me Cole Hardman?
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Speaker 1: It does not sound very good for Mcole Harmon, the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs veteran receiver dealing with a pelvis injury.
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Speaker 1: Really for the last not just several days, but several
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Speaker 1: weeks and several months, was back in it for the
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Speaker 1: a f C Title Game. Played just a handful of
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Speaker 1: plays before he realized that he simply could not go.
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Speaker 1: So he thought maybe a couple of weeks of rest
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Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl. As Andy Reich should reporters a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago, he doubts that Hardman will be ready.
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Speaker 1: That is not great news for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Speaker 1: Probably better news for a couple of their other receivers,
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Speaker 1: ju just Miss Schuster dealing with a knee injury, ka
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Speaker 1: Darius Tony dealing with a couple of different lower body injuries.
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Speaker 1: Both of these guys figured they should be good to
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Speaker 1: go in the Super Bowl and near ready to practice.
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Speaker 1: Are good news on that front. Tough for me Cole
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Speaker 1: avoiding being having a situation where he's having to miss
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Let's talk about the Saints. The odyssey
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Speaker 1: that was the Sean Payton trading situation now finally out
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Speaker 1: of the way, and now they're looking for a defensive coordinator. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Dennis Allen the head coach, obviously a defensive head coach,
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Speaker 1: is one of the better defensive coordinators in the league,
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Speaker 1: still gonna call plays, but changing out the defensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. Chris Richard, who is the co defensive coordinator. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they have parted ways. That happened yesterday afternoon. Just I
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Speaker 1: would say philosophical difference is there nothing, Majors, Dennis Allen
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Speaker 1: wanted to go in a different direction rather than have
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Speaker 1: Christo Shard be the full time coordinator. He is now
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Speaker 1: out and Joe Woods, the former Brown's defensive coordinat according
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Speaker 1: to colleague Tom post Sero myself interviewing for the New
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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, has really been one of the better secondary
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Speaker 1: coaches in the league over the last decade or so.
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Speaker 1: And this is an interesting distinction because d A as
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Speaker 1: they call him, is still going to called. The defense
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Speaker 1: of Joe would would come in kind of lend a
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Speaker 1: hand work a lot with the secondary. Maybe do what
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Speaker 1: he does best would seem to be a good higher
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Speaker 1: if in fact this is direction of the Stags go.
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Speaker 1: The messaging out of New Orleans was all about continuity.
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Speaker 1: Now a bit of change going into the season for
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Speaker 1: the Scanty and Rapp report there in Mobile with the
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Speaker 1: latest from around the league, especially injuries and the coaching searches.
17:38
Speaker 1: We're back here on NFL now. An Eagles assistant coach,
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Speaker 1: Autumn Lockwood, is going to be the first black woman
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Speaker 1: to coach in a Super Bowl. Congratulations to her. This
17:49
Speaker 1: Black History Month and as we celebrate Black History Month,
17:52
Speaker 1: we honor those in the past and the present that
17:54
Speaker 1: have made a mark on the NFL. Colts wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Jr. Shares a story on who had a
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Speaker 1: big impact on him and Lintonnell was a standout safety
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Speaker 1: who in nineteen sixty seven became the first African American
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Speaker 1: player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As
18:13
Speaker 1: we continue to celebrate Black History Month across the league,
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Speaker 1: who shared the accomplishments of the passing present as the
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Speaker 1: Giants first black player, Tonell was a key piece of
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Speaker 1: the team's famed Unbrella defense. He played fourteen seasons and
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Speaker 1: further distinguished himself through his service in the U. S.
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Speaker 1: Coast Guards from nineteen forty three to nineteen forty six.
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Speaker 1: He was a pioneer, a patriot, and one of the
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Speaker 1: most important figures in the games history. In the nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty seven he became the first African American player inducted
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Speaker 1: into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was a
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Speaker 1: fitting honor for a career that saw him excel at
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Speaker 1: multiple levels of the game. Folks, we have a lot
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Speaker 1: of college All Star games to look ahead to here
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Speaker 1: on NFL Network, the East West Shrine Bowl tonight eight
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Speaker 1: pm Eastern, Theresa's Senior Bowl Saturday, tom East, and the
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Speaker 1: HBC Legacy Bowl on February. More on the Shrine Ball.
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Speaker 1: Let's get the right Luis and Bucky Brooks. Four days
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Speaker 1: of practices are in the books, and we are ready
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Speaker 1: for kickoff tonight here from Allegian Stadium in the East
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Speaker 1: West Shrine Ball. And look, Bucky. I think the success
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Speaker 1: of a couple of guys in the last year's game,
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Speaker 1: which you saw here in NFL Network, might have influenced
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Speaker 1: the way that some teams were evaluating this year's crop
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Speaker 1: of players when you think back to the way that
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Speaker 1: Brock Purty and Isaiah Pacheco and last year's game really start,
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Speaker 1: and so are there some guys in the quarterback group
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Speaker 1: from both of these rosters that might have a similar
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Speaker 1: impact to what we saw from Brock Purty for the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners this year. Absolutely right. Do you
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Speaker 1: think about developmental prospects who have big time talent and potential.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with Dorian Thompson Rominson, this guy from u C.
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Speaker 1: L A who has a ton of experience, five year starter,
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Speaker 1: has done it on the big stage. Is a dual
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Speaker 1: threat playmaker who really intrigues you with what he could
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Speaker 1: be at the next level. He is someone that you
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Speaker 1: de they want to keep an eye out. And then
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Speaker 1: on the other side, how about produced Aid and O'Connell.
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Speaker 1: You talk about experience. Coaches have really raved about his
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Speaker 1: accuracy and his ability to command the huddle. We'll have
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to see that, see what it looks like
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Speaker 1: on the big stage to phenomenally productive quarterbacks trying to
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Speaker 1: put their best foot forward on the field here tonight.
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Speaker 1: And then from the running back group, Isaia Pacheco, of course,
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Speaker 1: still going with the Kansas City Chiefs as they get
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Speaker 1: ready for Super Bowl fifties seven. You could kind of
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Speaker 1: get a sense for the type of impact that he
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Speaker 1: was going to have based on his performance here in
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Speaker 1: the Shrine Bowl. A lot some running backs that might
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Speaker 1: fit that bill this year. Well, you know when you
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Speaker 1: go to the Big ten more Ibraham was they cast
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Speaker 1: me out. You're talking about a guy who was a
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Speaker 1: physical runner three one thousand yards seasons during his time
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Speaker 1: as in going and Gopher. He has one to keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on and Entaman Thompson Thomas from Utah when
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Speaker 1: you think about a big, physical back, kind of reminds
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Speaker 1: me a little bit of like Gary Blunt. There's always
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Speaker 1: a place for those big backs, particularly short yards four
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Speaker 1: minute backs. He has a chance to really open some
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Speaker 1: eyes this week, yep, and did in the week of practice.
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Speaker 1: And so now when the bright lights are shining, can
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Speaker 1: they what they've learned in practice put it to good
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Speaker 1: use when the lights come on here tonight. Looking forward
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Speaker 1: to kick off the thirty Eastern time here on NFL Network.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch the Shrine Bowl. Can't wait to
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Speaker 1: watch the Singer Bowl on Saturday on NFL Network. If
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Speaker 1: you want to live look at practice, go to Plus
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Speaker 1: crop of NFL stars on NFL Plus on your phone
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Speaker 1: or tablet. Go to Plus dot NFL dot com for
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Speaker 1: a deeper dive ellen some of these prospects. Let's welcome
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Speaker 1: in pfn F lead national draft analysts Mike Renner. Mike
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Speaker 1: take us through some of these guys, starting with a
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Speaker 1: talented whiteout out of Houston. Tank Deal. How's he performance? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Tank Dale has been, in my opinion, the best wide
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Speaker 1: receiver here. Yes, he is undersized, just over a hundred
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Speaker 1: sixty pounds, but I think we've seen with successive guys
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Speaker 1: like Davante Smith Darnell Mooney, the NFL more willing to
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Speaker 1: go to bat for these undersized wide receivers, and that
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Speaker 1: size really only shows up when you get contacted by
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Speaker 1: defensive backs. That's what you worry about, is those guys
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Speaker 1: not be to fight through contact and in the reps
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Speaker 1: and the one on ones. Though Taketoll hasn't even been touched.
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Speaker 1: He has so such quick feat that I think he
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Speaker 1: can get off the line of scrimmage. The production at
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Speaker 1: Houston led the FBS and receiving yards led the FBS
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Speaker 1: and receiving touchdowns. I think we're seeing that translate here
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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, and I think he's turning heads of
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Speaker 1: a lot of evaluators now. In terms of size concerns,
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Speaker 1: Jail Skinner definitely has none of those. You don't even
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Speaker 1: need to get the tape measure out to see his size.
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Speaker 1: How's he done this week? Yeah, I've been very impressed
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Speaker 1: with his movement skills for a six ft for safety,
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Speaker 1: and that's the biggest thing there at six four eleven pounds,
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Speaker 1: very reminiscent of what we saw from a guy in
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Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton's last year, because they have him out here
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Speaker 1: playing a lot in the slot where he was a
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Speaker 1: box safety at Boise State, a guy who could really
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Speaker 1: find the football. But I think we're seeing the slot
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Speaker 1: position in the NFL moved towards these longer guys because
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Speaker 1: teams have to defend the run with light boxes, so
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Speaker 1: that slot position is basically a glorified linebacker and a
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Speaker 1: lot of schemes now, so we saw the success with
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Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton's slot with the Ravens, I think teams are
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Speaker 1: envisioning a guy like Jail skinner in that similar role,
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Speaker 1: and he has shown that he is capable of doing that.
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Speaker 1: A guy who can really find the football, that really
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Speaker 1: has a nose for the ball and then has enough
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Speaker 1: cover skills to get by. Maybe not on a leaka
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Speaker 1: in that regard, but really a unique player that could
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Speaker 1: go higher than maybe his production might suggest. Yeah, a
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Speaker 1: guy that could cover backs on the backfield, maybe deal
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Speaker 1: with some tight ends. Speaking of what about Luke Musgrave,
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Speaker 1: how has he performed? Yeah, the Oregon State tight end
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Speaker 1: is one of the most physically impressive players here regardless
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Speaker 1: of position. Six ft six two pounds and he went
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Speaker 1: over twenty miles on the GPS yesterday. Only three other
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Speaker 1: wide receivers went over twenty miles in the GPS. And
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Speaker 1: he's a tight end. This guy is a different breed now.
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Speaker 1: He's still a raw route runner. But he only played
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Speaker 1: two games this past fall, then had an injury, came back.
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Speaker 1: You see that natural athletic ability. Everyone's looking for that
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Speaker 1: tight end that can stretch vertically. So maybe working his
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Speaker 1: way into the first round conversation with his production, with
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Speaker 1: his wins in the one on one down the football field.
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Speaker 1: Bowling Green defensive tackle Carl Brooks was a first team
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Speaker 1: PFF all amere two. Now he's got a chance to
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Speaker 1: show his stuff at the Senior Bowl. How things gone
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Speaker 1: for him in Mobile? Yeah, the Senior Bowl was made
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Speaker 1: for guys like Carl Brooks because at Bowling Green he
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Speaker 1: played on the edge. He was a stand up two
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Speaker 1: point outside linebacker at three under pounds. He's not gonna
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Speaker 1: play that in the NFL. Playing on the interior here,
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Speaker 1: a position he really didn't play at Bowling Green, and
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Speaker 1: still dominating the quickness off the ball, the hand you said,
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Speaker 1: she really knows how to use his hands really well.
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Speaker 1: And the power on the interior. Usually that's what you
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Speaker 1: worry about for the guys moving from the edge of
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Speaker 1: the interior. Really hasn't showed that at all. So probably
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Speaker 1: working his way into the day two conversation with his
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Speaker 1: performance here in Mobile. So much opportunity for one on
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Speaker 1: one and then of course who gets the shine? Saturday
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Speaker 1: at two thirty on NFL Network for the game. Mike
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Speaker 1: ren Ter, lead draft analysts for PFF. You can't wait
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Speaker 1: for the game, can't wait for half time, can't wait
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Speaker 1: for more show? Because we got time for one more thing.
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Speaker 1: Joining me now with camera wolf Mark Rawlson, Ian Rappaport
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Speaker 1: Camp which here one more thing. Yeah. Talking to a
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Speaker 1: lot of the Pro Bowl stars about the retirement of
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Kirk Cousins said Brady started when he was
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Speaker 1: in seventh grade. He's still playing in cousins twelfth year.
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Speaker 1: He was at all of just the complexity in the
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Speaker 1: length of Brady's career. Tyreek Hill said he doesn't think
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Speaker 1: Brady is done. He said he thinks he'll put some
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Speaker 1: Bronk bro Gain and Icy Hot on and come back
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Speaker 1: at some point as well. And Michael Parson says he
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Speaker 1: needs Tom Brady to sign his jersey. Said, I had
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Speaker 1: the last sack, so I badly need that last jersey.
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Speaker 1: What what a congratulations? You're old. I don't believe you,
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Speaker 1: and I need you to do some work for Tom Brady.
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Speaker 1: More across, you're one more third. So going on in Philly.
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Speaker 1: I'm in Philadelphia. Nothing more sacred than that Rocky statue.
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Speaker 1: Well the forty Niners. Apparently a forty Niners fan put
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Speaker 1: a jersey on that Rocky statue there and check it out.
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Speaker 1: And on the Kelsey Brothers podcast this week, Jason was
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Speaker 1: telling Travis he better make sure that new Chiefs fan
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Speaker 1: tries to put a jersey on Rocky there, or it'll
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Speaker 1: be another beat down coming because the Niners did it.
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Speaker 1: The Giants did it for two with putting new jersey
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Speaker 1: on the on the Rocky statue. There some deliberation, maybe
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Speaker 1: even equals. Fans are doing it to inspire the team,
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Speaker 1: but who knows what's going on their Patrick Yeah, after
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Speaker 1: the sense he mayor nobody's touching that. I and what's
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Speaker 1: your one more thing? Sources tell me that Travis Faguette,
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Speaker 1: the world champion arm wrestler, is going to wrestle Tom
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Speaker 1: Pellisero on NFL. Plus he's also the dad of Tyson,
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Speaker 1: who's out here thrown behind me, one of the senior
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Speaker 1: boat quarterbacks. Let's hope that Pellisaro gets absolutely destroyed and embashed.
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Speaker 1: I just hope that everybody's okay. I'm looking forward to that,
26:37
Speaker 1: and of course today is ground all day. Everybody My
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Speaker 1: one more thing, while we can question puksa Tony Phil's
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Speaker 1: meteorological capabilities when he sees his shadow in the past
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Speaker 1: five times the NFC team has won the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Who knows. I'm not saying, I'm just saying, perhaps Puny
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