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Deshaun Watson Discussion, Odell Beckham Jr. Visits the Giants, & Bills - Patriots Preview for TNF · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. Happy game day to you. It
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Speaker 1: is officially week thirteen. This evening NFL Now from our
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Speaker 1: news room in Los Angeles. Thank you for being here.
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Speaker 1: My name is Andrew Ceciliano. All the big Sunday games again,
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Speaker 1: we are live in Foxborough. We will put those games
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Speaker 1: on your screen coming up shortly right now. However, we
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Speaker 1: opened this hour in Cleveland where DeShawn Watson was on
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Speaker 1: the practice field yesterday and today for the very first
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Speaker 1: time since mid August, he was on the podium. He
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Speaker 1: did not look backwards. He only looked forward. As a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, he only wanted to take football questions
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Speaker 1: ahead of the Browns game in Houston on Sunday. I
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Speaker 1: understand that you guys have, uh, you know a lot
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Speaker 1: of questions. Um, But with my leave a team and
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Speaker 1: like clinical team, UM, there's only football questions that I
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Speaker 1: can really address at this time. And I also want
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Speaker 1: to think most importantly, ja Kobe, the big brother he's
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Speaker 1: been to to me and everyone in that locker room.
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Speaker 1: The passion, the grit, the leadership he has shown, uh
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Speaker 1: these past weeks. Everyone who done seeing it I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's a he's the ultimate guy that everyone wants to,
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Speaker 1: you know, follow, So he's been awesome for me. Our
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Speaker 1: relationship has been great, the bond has been great. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and we're going to continue to grow from there and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, help win some some more football games for
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. So I'm hoping to answer any football questions,
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Speaker 1: Tom Sellan. Part of your agreement with them we was
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Speaker 1: to undergo counseling and therapy while you were away. What
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Speaker 1: did you learn about yourself during that time? And how
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Speaker 1: do you apply that to now and going forward? Um? Now,
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Speaker 1: I respect your question, I understand, but that's that's more
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Speaker 1: in that phase of clinical and legal stuff. And uh,
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Speaker 1: you know I've been advised to, you know, stay away
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Speaker 1: from that and keep that person. So, Sean, here's a
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Speaker 1: there's a football question that's I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna call you. How do you feel about playing your
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Speaker 1: first game in Houston? Uh? You know, I'm inscided. I'm
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Speaker 1: excided to just play football in general, um, in front
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Speaker 1: of Cleveland Browns fans, but also in front of some
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Speaker 1: of the Houston Testans fans. Uh. You know, I respect
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Speaker 1: the whole organization of the Houston Testans. I respect them
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Speaker 1: in their family. I respect everyone that was there that
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Speaker 1: drafted me in seventeen. There's been great memories, fund memories.
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Speaker 1: Uh you know, I still have a home in Houston.
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Speaker 1: I still have friends and family that that's still in Houston.
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Speaker 1: Relationships and still there people some of the players on
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Speaker 1: the team you know I played with, are seeing, you know,
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Speaker 1: come up from you know, maybe practice squad or from injuries.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm excited to get in front of
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Speaker 1: all those fans. I have so much love for the
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Speaker 1: city of Houston and Ashtown and everyone in that city
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Speaker 1: pretty much knows that. Uh So I'm decided to do that.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the most important thing is, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be in front of Cleveland Browns fans
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Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, this is a football question. It also
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Speaker 1: ties into some of the other stuff. It's it's football related. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: what do you say to fans who might still believe,
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Speaker 1: after all this happened, that DeShawn Watson should not be
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Speaker 1: the face of an NFL franchise. What do you say
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Speaker 1: to those folks? Like I said, I'm focusing on football
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Speaker 1: and that's My main focus is football and preparing to
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Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Brown so I
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Speaker 1: can ascute the game plan to try to get him
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Speaker 1: win This Sunday, Scott Shaun, was it important to you
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Speaker 1: to come back for this Texans game? When you agree
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Speaker 1: to this? I don't, um now. I was just trying
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Speaker 1: to do whatever I can do to to play football
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Speaker 1: in two So you know, most of the settlements stuff
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Speaker 1: with the NFL was mostly my agency and legal team.
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Speaker 1: I had no control. My main focus was doing everything
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Speaker 1: I need to do so I can play this year.
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Speaker 1: And what kind of what do you think the reaction
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Speaker 1: or happens for will be? Like, um, I'm not sharing.
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Speaker 1: My main focus is locked in on the game plan
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Speaker 1: and trying to scute and make sure that I'm keeping
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Speaker 1: the standard, the standard for the Cleveland Brown so we
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Speaker 1: can try to with and the standard is right now
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Speaker 1: there are a four win team right on the fringe.
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Speaker 1: I think you could say of the playoff race. Obviously
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Speaker 1: five and and seven would look hack of a lot better.
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Speaker 1: This week, James Palmer was there in Cleveland, Mark Ross
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Speaker 1: with me as well. There's a lot to unpack there.
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Speaker 1: Let's keep it of the football, James, at least for now,
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Speaker 1: what has Deshaun Watson been doing these last eleven weeks
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Speaker 1: to try to get ready for this thing on Sunday?
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Speaker 1: And you mentioned trying to get ready for this thing
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Well, most of the guys we've talked to
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Speaker 1: over the last two days have said, yes, there's more
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Speaker 1: buzz with Deshaun Watson back at practice. There's more media
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Speaker 1: here in Cleveland because of everything that's gone on. But
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Speaker 1: they've all said it's been a very seamless transition because
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Speaker 1: of what Deshaun Watson has done in the eleven games
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Speaker 1: that he's been away. He watched a lot of football
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Speaker 1: watch guys like Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, but also
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Speaker 1: studying a lot of defensive schemes, setting a lot of
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Speaker 1: the offensive system and schemes that they run near with
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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski actually asked for cut ups of his wide
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Speaker 1: receivers like them Ray Cooper when he had time with
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Speaker 1: the Raiders or the Cowboys to study those guys and
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Speaker 1: how they liked the football and how they operate. Donovan
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Speaker 1: People's Jones told me today that he's had a lot
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Speaker 1: of conversations with Shaun Watson once he was allowed back
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Speaker 1: in the building on October tent then allowed in those
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Speaker 1: meetings about how they operate and scrambled drills, how he
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Speaker 1: wants the football in certain instances, and once he was
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Speaker 1: allowed back in those meetings. Over the last few weeks,
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Speaker 1: he's tried to address his teammates, his receivers, his skill
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Speaker 1: guys the same way Jacoby Brissette has to try to
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Speaker 1: make this a very seamless operation between the two, and
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Speaker 1: it seems to be the case this week. Obviously, a
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Speaker 1: game is different, Obviously when they hit the field on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: it's different. But throughout this week they've seemed to think
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Speaker 1: it's been very seamless. Okay, so we have a quarterback
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Speaker 1: who won a game last week, whose teammates love in
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Speaker 1: in Jacoby Brissett, who now steps back Mark Ross and
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson steps in. It didn't really look good in
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Speaker 1: the preseason trying to camp mixed reviews. It's been seven
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Speaker 1: hundred days since he played a regular season game. What
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Speaker 1: do you expect. I'm gonna focus on football, Andrew and
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Speaker 1: execute this segment here and talk about Deshaun Watson at
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Speaker 1: his in his prime, is a top five quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the NFL undisputed to his talent that he has. But
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Speaker 1: that is a long time to not actually play in
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Speaker 1: a football game. And when you always hear about practice
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Speaker 1: versus the game, and it changes. What changes Mostly it's
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Speaker 1: the speed and the intensity of a practice compared to
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Speaker 1: a game that you just cannot simulate at all in practice.
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Speaker 1: And then it's also the intricacies of the defense of
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Speaker 1: what the defense has given you. In practice, the defense
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Speaker 1: is really playing off cards. The coaches get the the
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Speaker 1: defenders cards that the offense works works off of and against.
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Speaker 1: But in the game it's all the unknowns of what
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Speaker 1: that defense is going to present to you. So with
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Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson having that step up, not a year
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Speaker 1: or two years, seven hundred day, I mean that is
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Speaker 1: a long time to have. Okay, now jump right into
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Speaker 1: an NFL game and try to be a year prime.
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Speaker 1: I would expect him to be rusty, look rusty the
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Speaker 1: offense and look rusty, not look as efficient and effected
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Speaker 1: as it did in Spurts under Jacoby Brissette. We won't
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Speaker 1: even talk about the leadership aspect because I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's going on behind the scenes there. If he's been
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Speaker 1: a great leader or not, but just on the field,
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Speaker 1: I would expect there to be some sort of growing
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Speaker 1: pains with DeShawn Watson, not just magically going there and
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Speaker 1: be an m v P type level player. And we're
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Speaker 1: saying this as they get ready to face a Houston
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Speaker 1: team that has been to be blunt barely competitive the
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Speaker 1: last two weeks, outscored fifty to nothing in the first
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Speaker 1: half the last two weeks, and right now, with one
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Speaker 1: win in one tie holds the number one overall pick
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Speaker 1: next year. All right, Mark Ross, James Palmer, thank you,
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Speaker 1: Coming up to night. It is the kickoff on a
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Speaker 1: week thirteen. The builds in the Patriots, the first one
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Speaker 1: in New England. The second one is going to be
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, week eighteen. We are streaming tonight as we
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Speaker 1: are on Prime Video. As always, this is a remat of,
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Speaker 1: if you want to call the remap the playoff game
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Speaker 1: a year ago in which hither Mike Giardi, Hi there,
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Speaker 1: Brian Bauldinger, Um, the Bills didn't punt, didn't attempt to
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Speaker 1: fuel goal GRD. All they did was score touchdowns. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all they did was score touchdowns in that game. And
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Speaker 1: they also scored touchdowns in the game right after Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Here in fact, the Patriots haven't forced the Bills to
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Speaker 1: punt since the first series of the third quarter of
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Speaker 1: their first meeting last year. That's twenty possessions includes a
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Speaker 1: couple kneel downs in there, but that is outrageous, that
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Speaker 1: is unacceptable for the Patriots. Adrian Phillip said, we got
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Speaker 1: our face kicked in. Jonathan Jones, who didn't play in
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Speaker 1: those games, their defensive back, said it was like watching
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Speaker 1: your little brother get into a fight and you couldn't
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Speaker 1: help him. The Patriots got absolutely stomped, gave up eighty
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Speaker 1: points in those last two games. So part of their
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Speaker 1: focus this offseason was how to deal with Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: how to get faster. They tried to remake their linebacking corps.
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Speaker 1: Dante Hi Towers not back, Kyle Van Noise not back.
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Speaker 1: But the problem is the guys that they brought in
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Speaker 1: to be the faster, quick of guys Devon played as
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Speaker 1: well as the thumpers like Jillanni Tavai and Juwan Bentley.
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Speaker 1: The one good thing for the Patriots is their secondaries
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Speaker 1: played really well. Jack Jones is elevated Marcus Jones when
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Speaker 1: he's got a chance. Those are both rookies. They played well.
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Speaker 1: So the Patriots are gonna need to do a good
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Speaker 1: job on the back end because I would think Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen has some time. Yeah, and let's not give this
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Speaker 1: Patriots defense any less respect than it deserves. Their fourth total,
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Speaker 1: sixth and scoring and they are top ten against both
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Speaker 1: the rush and the past. Josh Allen deserves all the headlights,
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Speaker 1: or rather the headlines. Caven speak English today, Um, but yes,
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Speaker 1: as you show this Patriots defense is played well. Thank
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Speaker 1: you Baldi, thank you Bike Gi already live there in
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Speaker 1: Foxbor ahead of the kickoff on week thirteen and Tana,
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Speaker 1: let's get the insiders in here now, Tom Philoso, Ian
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Speaker 1: Rappleport is a big day off the field as well,
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Speaker 1: not just in Foxburg, but in New York as Odell
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Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. And is in the building after a month
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Speaker 1: more than a month, many months, many weeks, a lot
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Speaker 1: of hours on the net. We're talking about Odell Beckham Jr.
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Speaker 1: His freidency, his knee, where he's gonna visit. He's actually
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Speaker 1: visiting a team today, the first of three visit that
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Speaker 1: Beckham has lined up. He is with the new York
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Speaker 1: Giants today, gonna stay till tomorrow. He goes from New
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Speaker 1: York slash New Jersey to also New York to go
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Speaker 1: visit the Buffalo Bills and of course hang out with
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Speaker 1: his friend Von Miller, still recovering from that knee injury.
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Speaker 1: Von Miller, the chief recruiter for the Bills, had a
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Speaker 1: huge part in sort of securing this visit and making
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Speaker 1: sure the Bills get a look. And then he's gonna
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Speaker 1: go home, spend Sunday watching football like the rest of us,
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Speaker 1: then go visit the Dallas Cowboys. That is a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a whirlwind for Beckham. It also puts him
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Speaker 1: in a position where, assuming the physical goes well and
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Speaker 1: the knee injury obviously a huge part of this, he
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Speaker 1: could get with a team, practice a little bit and
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Speaker 1: be ready for the stretch run, which is exactly how
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Speaker 1: it worked out for Beckham last year with the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champions. The big difference being last year ian at
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Speaker 1: least Odell Beckham Jr. Was practicing through the course of
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Speaker 1: training camp and wasn't hyper involved in the Brown's offense,
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Speaker 1: but at least was on the field in some capacity.
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Speaker 1: In this case, you're getting a thirty year old wide
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Speaker 1: receiver who's going to walk in the door at some point,
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Speaker 1: we believe in December, and the question becomes how quickly
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Speaker 1: can Odell Beckham Jr. Assimilate and learn an offense, get
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Speaker 1: the rhythm and timing and temple he needs with his
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Speaker 1: new quarterback, and actually make an impact on the field.
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Speaker 1: We also know and have been saying that Odell Beckham Jr.
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Speaker 1: Potentially could be looking for a multi year contract that
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Speaker 1: could use the tail end here to be the jump
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Speaker 1: off with a new team into three cap space then also,
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Speaker 1: of course, is always going to be an issue here.
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Speaker 1: The Bills, by the way, did clear a little bit
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Speaker 1: of cap space this morning restructuring trade abous Whites deal,
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Speaker 1: but that was going to happen either way because they
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Speaker 1: just didn't have a whole lot of cap space to
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Speaker 1: work with Andrew as White, who did get back of
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Speaker 1: the field for the first time of the year on
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving a plate only fifteen snaps and really didn't see
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Speaker 1: the field after the first quarter. Let's get to justin fields.
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Speaker 1: All the talk and obviously about Aaron Rodgers, and he
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Speaker 1: seems to be okay. He says he should be okay
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Will find out more today if and when
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Speaker 1: he does practice justin fields. I think we've kind of
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Speaker 1: overlooked this one a bit. Left shoulder. What's his status, Well,
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Speaker 1: he was limited yesterday. I would expect more of that today.
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Speaker 1: Still dealing with partially torn leghments and his non throwing shoulder.
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Speaker 1: And you know there are times when other athletes, other quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: have had this in a non throwing shoulder and have
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Speaker 1: taken two or three weeks to come back. So the
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Speaker 1: fact that he's still limited maybe not a great sign
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Speaker 1: that he'll be able to play, and also not a
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Speaker 1: great sign they signed another quarterback, Tim Boyle ended up
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Speaker 1: coming over to the active roster for the Chicago Bears,
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Speaker 1: an indication that at least he will be active on
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Speaker 1: game That you wouldn't sign someone from someone else's practice
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Speaker 1: squad unless you're gonna have them active on game day.
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Speaker 1: Maybe doesn't bode well for justin fields. We'll see how
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Speaker 1: he plays the week out and what his status is
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Speaker 1: going forward. Okay, then there's Lamar Jackson tom as the
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Speaker 1: Ravens get ready for the Broncos. Lamar left practice early
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Speaker 1: yesterday with what the Ravens were calling a quad any
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Speaker 1: injury update there, lander Ley Ravens have begun practice at
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Speaker 1: Owen's Mills, and according to reporters on the scene, Lamar
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Speaker 1: Jackson is back on the practice field and working. He
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Speaker 1: came out about fifteen minutes into practice, is joined in,
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Speaker 1: is participating in drills. That is a good sign for
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Speaker 1: a player who in the past few weeks here as
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Speaker 1: deal with an illness, a hip, now a quad. Usually
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Speaker 1: Lamar finds a way to play, though, certainly with something.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be monitored up until kickoff on Sunday against
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Speaker 1: the Procos. And I want to jump right in here.
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Speaker 1: Um So, Andrew, we at the Insiders appreciated your viewing
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Speaker 1: on YouTube or whatever fast platforms you watched it interestingly enough,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, interestingly enough. You got to mention and just
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Speaker 1: remember we kid because we love First of all, we
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Speaker 1: called that the siciliano where you ask a question and
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Speaker 1: then just tell all the information that your person might
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Speaker 1: give eventually and then continue to ask. But anyway, I
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Speaker 1: only watched the first ten minutes. See I didn't. I didn't.
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Speaker 1: When When when was that in the show? I Love You?
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Speaker 1: Is that late in the show? Oh it's yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: your biggest face I have to send most important that
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Speaker 1: I turned to YouTube for more insight, hence insider. Yeah,
14:27
Speaker 1: well that was insight into our world a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but mostly Andrew that we care about you, um and
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Speaker 1: that I should have no bearing in our relationship. So
14:36
Speaker 1: don't send me a mean text. Afficly, I don't send
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Speaker 1: you a mean text. I actually texted you that said
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Speaker 1: I liked it. I also texted you to say I
14:44
Speaker 1: just tuned in to hear Gara Folo get frustrated that
14:47
Speaker 1: there was a delay because Mike gets frustrated. Sometimes there's
14:52
Speaker 1: some more insight from the insiders. We give you insight.
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Speaker 1: I think we have it on the rematch of the
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Speaker 1: a f C Championship game coming up next, my bag.
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Speaker 1: I gotta so. The Eagles have the best record of football.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles put on a display this past Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles ran for three hundred and sixty three yards,
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Speaker 1: three hundred of which came from that guy, Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: and it's running back number Sanders. The Eagles also know
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Speaker 1: that they got a pretty good test this week, another
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Speaker 1: good test against the Titans. They definitely have a mentality
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Speaker 1: about themselves, you know, they fly to the ball. Um,
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Speaker 1: they're disruptive at every position, you know, and I know
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Speaker 1: they're well coached, you know, so you know, we have
15:40
Speaker 1: to be prepared to play against a really good team,
15:43
Speaker 1: a physical football team, physical defense, UM, fast defense. You know,
15:48
Speaker 1: it's it's a really good team about the play. Uh
15:51
Speaker 1: the Eagles also in those tasty Dales, they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: there Sunday that they have a really good team as well,
15:56
Speaker 1: one that once again got a national audience and once
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Speaker 1: again and people going last Sunday night. Okay, yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: And it's because of how balance they are, right, they
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Speaker 1: can do it in every facet of the game. And
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Speaker 1: they're obviously third in terms of rushing offense, in terms
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Speaker 1: of passing offense andrew in the NFL, but number one
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Speaker 1: in the red zone, number one in big place, and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna beat you everywhere. Their left tackle Jordan my
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Speaker 1: Latta told me yesterday that this is the most balanced
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Speaker 1: team offensively he's been a part of in Philly now
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Speaker 1: for five seasons. And Nick Sirianni said it after their
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Speaker 1: win right against the Packers, he said, we've shown we
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Speaker 1: can win throwing the ball. We've shown we can win
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Speaker 1: running the ball, and that's what you have to do,
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Speaker 1: especially when you get to the playoffs, if you want
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Speaker 1: to win big games. They think they can do that.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna face a really good Titans team obviously, and
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Speaker 1: their focus is running the ball with Derrick Henry. So
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Speaker 1: I say, hey, forget long live the King. Well, maybe
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Speaker 1: long live the king, but how about force feed the king.
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Speaker 1: That's what they have to get back doing. If you
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Speaker 1: think about Derrick Henry Andrew in the month of December
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Speaker 1: or later. In the last five seasons, he leads the
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Speaker 1: NFL with a hundred and thirty nine rush yards per game,
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Speaker 1: twenty three care's per game, nineteen rushing TVs. Again, that's
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Speaker 1: from December and beyond. They are going to feed him,
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Speaker 1: and Mike Rabowl said it in as much this week.
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Speaker 1: They've got to get him more involved in the last
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Speaker 1: three games, averaging just under three yards per carry. I
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Speaker 1: just got off the phone with tight end Austin Hooper
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Speaker 1: and he told me, listen, there's no secret we run
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Speaker 1: the ball. Derrick Henry is the feature guy and they
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Speaker 1: have got to get him to the second level and
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Speaker 1: create more opportunities if they want a chance to win
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, they win by playing bullyball and Derrick Henry's
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Speaker 1: one big play this past Sunday was actually in the
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Speaker 1: passing game of play where Trayline park spell on that
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Speaker 1: football and the Endzo and I got the touchdown. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Stacy Dale's. Speaking of the Russian game, the Cowboys defense
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Speaker 1: did the job that only against Daniel Jones and that
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Speaker 1: Giants passing game, but they kept se Kwon Barkley in
17:49
Speaker 1: check this past week, only thirty nine yards from him,
17:53
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys get another test this week. Hi there
17:56
Speaker 1: Jane Slater against um Jonathan Taylor, who the Colts seemingly
18:01
Speaker 1: remembered after the first quarter to give the football to
18:04
Speaker 1: this past Monday Andrew in the last hour we talked
18:08
Speaker 1: about penalties. Run defense is what I want to focus
18:11
Speaker 1: on for this one, because both have been Achilles Hills
18:13
Speaker 1: for this team. You know, when you look at this
18:15
Speaker 1: team heading into their matchup against the Vikings and Dalvin Cook,
18:18
Speaker 1: they had one of the league's worst run defense. They
18:20
Speaker 1: were ranked twenty night. They've had a slight improvement since then.
18:24
Speaker 1: If you go back to that Vikings game, they held
18:26
Speaker 1: him to eleven carries seventy two yards and then you
18:29
Speaker 1: just reference to their say Kwon Barkley eleven carries for
18:32
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards. Now they've got Jonathan Taylor. We talked
18:35
Speaker 1: to Micah Parsons about him. He described him as a
18:37
Speaker 1: guy that falls forward, he's got extra juice at the end.
18:41
Speaker 1: He's a smaller Derrick Henry. But this is not a
18:43
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor that we saw last season. He's only had
18:46
Speaker 1: one one yard game. I did ask Micah Parsons, have
18:49
Speaker 1: they fixed the run defense? He said, we'll see, but
18:51
Speaker 1: they at least know that teams are going to run
18:53
Speaker 1: the ball against him. When you consider they have the
18:55
Speaker 1: number one ranked pass rush in the league. They've got
18:58
Speaker 1: five players right now are three players right now? Rather
19:00
Speaker 1: they have five plus sacks as a team forty five.
19:04
Speaker 1: So expect now Ryan, with some of his struggles this year,
19:06
Speaker 1: to continue to keep it on the ground. But we'll
19:08
Speaker 1: see if the Cowboys have finally figured out this run
19:10
Speaker 1: day because they do have Derrick Henry in the month
19:12
Speaker 1: of December as well as Jalen Hurts. Okay, so circle
19:15
Speaker 1: both of those guys in the calendar as you try
19:17
Speaker 1: to stop the run. As the Cowboys are two games
19:19
Speaker 1: back of Janaln Hurts and the Eagles right now in
19:21
Speaker 1: the NFC playoff picture thank you, James Slater. Or they're
19:24
Speaker 1: live at the Cowboys head of their Sunday night game.
19:26
Speaker 1: Before that one gets played, we got the Bengals in
19:29
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the a f C Championship Game rematch.
19:32
Speaker 1: But good news, it looks as if Jamaar Chase is
19:36
Speaker 1: going to be back. He's missed the last four games.
19:39
Speaker 1: It was a hit injury that happened week six, So
19:44
Speaker 1: that was the main part in me missing the Titans game,
19:46
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I didn't want to
19:47
Speaker 1: come back. I didn't know that was too early, too fast,
19:49
Speaker 1: you know. So I just told that, you know, I
19:51
Speaker 1: want to worry about long term and we all want
19:54
Speaker 1: the same page with the staff and in a change
19:55
Speaker 1: today all on the same page with me. We'll just
19:57
Speaker 1: make sure the long term wise that I'm handling everything right.
20:00
Speaker 1: With Jamar Chase saying he might have been able to
20:03
Speaker 1: come back last week. Hi there, wolf Mark Ross, but
20:06
Speaker 1: he didn't want to push un told Zach Taylor before
20:08
Speaker 1: the game that he wasn't ready to go. And I
20:10
Speaker 1: know you saw him their week seven, but he said
20:12
Speaker 1: yesterday that was an aggravation week seven of the injury
20:15
Speaker 1: Week six al right, that aside Jamaar Chase, maybe Joe
20:18
Speaker 1: Mixing Cam, what's the latest, Yeah, Andrew. Jamar Chase said
20:22
Speaker 1: he's expecting to take some reps and two hundred and
20:25
Speaker 1: sixty six is a number that should be on the
20:27
Speaker 1: chief's mind. That's the rookie record of yards he put
20:30
Speaker 1: up in week seventeen against the last year. And so
20:32
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase talked about, like you mentioned, being cautionary last week,
20:36
Speaker 1: so he could get back this week, and so they're
20:39
Speaker 1: expecting to have him back there. Joe Mixing also practiced
20:43
Speaker 1: yesterday as a limited participant, and he is training towards
20:46
Speaker 1: exident at concussion protocol and playing Sunday. Both of these
20:49
Speaker 1: guys will be a huge boost for this Bengals offense.
20:52
Speaker 1: Burrow has been a top five quarterback in passing yards
20:55
Speaker 1: and points since Chase has been out, but we all
20:58
Speaker 1: know what Chase and Mixing can do for this offense.
21:02
Speaker 1: Of course, these offenses are getting all the headlines rightfully,
21:05
Speaker 1: so Barrow with Mahomes, this is a super awesome game here.
21:08
Speaker 1: But let's talk about the defenses. For both of these teams,
21:10
Speaker 1: which are quite similar when you look at the stats
21:12
Speaker 1: and points per games and yards giving up, and I
21:15
Speaker 1: think the game will come down to who can close
21:17
Speaker 1: the game on defensive play here and play there. And
21:19
Speaker 1: I just trust and like the Chiefs closers on d
21:23
Speaker 1: Cincinnati has Trey Hendrickson and Sam Hubbard, good scrappy players.
21:27
Speaker 1: But the Chiefs who have Frank Clark, who you saw
21:31
Speaker 1: before his expense suspension what he did that Trent Whims.
21:34
Speaker 1: Not many guys in league can do that. So you've
21:36
Speaker 1: got Frank Clark as a closer. But the biggest X
21:38
Speaker 1: factor is by man Chris Jones, currently the best defensive
21:41
Speaker 1: tackle in football. Yes that includes you, Aaron Donald, and
21:44
Speaker 1: Chris Jones can take over games and we've seen him
21:47
Speaker 1: take over games this season so far ten sacks, eleven
21:51
Speaker 1: tackles for lost from that inside position, and when he
21:54
Speaker 1: gets tuned up, this guy can dominate at ends of games.
21:57
Speaker 1: So I would expect to see healthy, uh playmaking of
22:01
Speaker 1: Chris Jones at the end of this game. Andrew, it's
22:03
Speaker 1: you say that because yes, today on the podium, Joe
22:06
Speaker 1: Burrow said, Chris Jones is the best interior pass Rushman
22:09
Speaker 1: in the NFL that he caught himself and he said,
22:12
Speaker 1: you know, maybe other than Aaron Donald, right, So he
22:14
Speaker 1: caught himself. Was like he heard it and he said,
22:17
Speaker 1: I I can't forget Aaron Donald, who factored at the
22:21
Speaker 1: very end of that Super Bowl fifty six, just saying
22:24
Speaker 1: Mark Ross Campbell, Joe Burrow remembers, certainly. Coming up next,
22:27
Speaker 1: we're back live in Cleveland. More from Deshaun Watson as
22:31
Speaker 1: he gets ready from his return or for his return
22:34
Speaker 1: from an eleven game suspension. August eighteen. That was the
22:44
Speaker 1: last time anyone heard from DeShawn Watson. He's been back
22:47
Speaker 1: in the building for a couple of weeks. He is
22:49
Speaker 1: back on the practice field now as the number one quarterback.
22:53
Speaker 1: The Browns in Houston to face Watson's old team, the Texans,
22:58
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We have to see Sunday. Honestly, Uh, I
23:04
Speaker 1: gotta say, I don't want to. You know, it's it
23:06
Speaker 1: might take time, it might not take time, you know.
23:08
Speaker 1: I just you want to go out there and do
23:10
Speaker 1: what I want to do, make plays as much as
23:12
Speaker 1: I possibly can. Um, you know, two years is definitely
23:16
Speaker 1: alone time. But at the same time, you know, I've
23:19
Speaker 1: been doing this for since I was six years old, so, uh,
23:23
Speaker 1: you know, just like you know, riding a bike. I
23:25
Speaker 1: want to go out there and just find the pedals,
23:27
Speaker 1: get my you know, transition going, and then just let
23:31
Speaker 1: everything kind of come to me. Don't press it, don't
23:32
Speaker 1: try to make anything bigger than whatever really is. So
23:36
Speaker 1: James Palmer was there for that. He's with us now
23:39
Speaker 1: Live from Cleveland on NFL. Now. That was Deshaun Watson.
23:41
Speaker 1: James answering the question, like what do we expect from
23:44
Speaker 1: the football like it's been seven hundred days almost, like
23:48
Speaker 1: do you know if you're going to be able to
23:51
Speaker 1: play well? I mean, there are a lot of unanswered
23:53
Speaker 1: questions for Sunday, there really are. And I asked him
23:59
Speaker 1: a very similar question, Andrew, you know, how do you
24:01
Speaker 1: knock the rust off when you get out on the
24:03
Speaker 1: football field on Sunday? And he didn't really know how
24:05
Speaker 1: to answer that. He's I'm not entirely sure how rusty
24:07
Speaker 1: I'm going to be. You heard him say there. He's
24:09
Speaker 1: not sure if it's going to take a series or
24:11
Speaker 1: a half or a game or several games to get
24:13
Speaker 1: back to the type of player we saw him play.
24:15
Speaker 1: At two years ago. That's an unknown. We don't know
24:18
Speaker 1: how he's going to work within this offense that has
24:20
Speaker 1: played very well with Jacoby said as the quarterback through
24:23
Speaker 1: the first eleven games of the season. I've talked to
24:25
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper and to Donovan People's Jones about their chemistry
24:29
Speaker 1: that they're trying to build over these couple of weeks
24:31
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson, and they're not entirely sure how this
24:34
Speaker 1: is going to go once they actually get on the field.
24:36
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, the head coach, has said multiple times he's
24:39
Speaker 1: not sure how this is going to operate or how
24:42
Speaker 1: smoothly it's going to operate once they get on the
24:44
Speaker 1: football field. And then the other question we're asked about
24:47
Speaker 1: is the atmosphere down in Houston. What's going to go
24:49
Speaker 1: on there. I've talked to a couple of Texans players
24:51
Speaker 1: this week who told me they're not sure what that
24:54
Speaker 1: atmosphere is going to be like, they're not sure what
24:56
Speaker 1: their fan base then, being one nine and one how
24:59
Speaker 1: interested they will be in Deshaun Watson coming to town.
25:02
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be very interesting. There's a lot of
25:04
Speaker 1: unknowns on Sunday, hopefully before the game and during the
25:07
Speaker 1: game we'll start getting some of those answered. Or I'll
25:09
Speaker 1: flip that around from the Houston perspective, maybe him coming
25:12
Speaker 1: to town will prevent people from coming in. Other words,
25:15
Speaker 1: we want to stay away and don't want to be
25:18
Speaker 1: in the bill. They have no idea what the atmosphere
25:20
Speaker 1: is going to be like. And if you're watching at
25:22
Speaker 1: home saying, well, what did he say about the allegations,
25:25
Speaker 1: about the suspension, about maybe what he has learned about
25:27
Speaker 1: himself for how he has worked on himself through these
25:30
Speaker 1: last eleven weeks, wouldn't go there, wouldn't talk about it,
25:33
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson said today football questions only man he didn't
25:38
Speaker 1: budge from his company line. Thank you, James Palmer. They're
25:42
Speaker 1: live in Cleveland. We are now live in Foxboro. Ahead
25:46
Speaker 1: of Thursday night. Football Week thirteen kicks off this evening
25:49
Speaker 1: with a great one of the a f C East.
25:51
Speaker 1: We have the Bills at eight and three. We have
25:53
Speaker 1: high there, Mike Gardi. The Patriots at six and five
25:55
Speaker 1: right now, out of the playoff picture in the eight
25:58
Speaker 1: seed and trying on a short week, although they've had
26:02
Speaker 1: the entire off season to figure it out, trying to
26:05
Speaker 1: find a way to deal with Josh Hollen Well, and
26:09
Speaker 1: you remember when the Patriots used to dominate this rivalry
26:12
Speaker 1: with Bill Belichick as the head coach. Now, all of
26:13
Speaker 1: a sudden, this whole thing is turned upside down. The
26:16
Speaker 1: Patriots have lost four of their last five to the Bills,
26:18
Speaker 1: and a couple of those games here was thirty eight
26:21
Speaker 1: to nine. Then, of course we remember the postseason beat
26:23
Speaker 1: down in January where it was the thirty point game.
26:26
Speaker 1: It is completely flipped. The Bills are the team to
26:29
Speaker 1: beat in this division. The Patriots note, and they've started
26:31
Speaker 1: circled this game. They understand there's a lot at stake
26:34
Speaker 1: for them, never mind the playoffs standings, but also just
26:36
Speaker 1: wanting to show the Buffalo Bills that this division isn't
26:39
Speaker 1: just about you anymore. But the Bills, they're saying, hey, guys,
26:43
Speaker 1: one game at a time, we just want to go
26:45
Speaker 1: want to know this week, but I want to remind
26:46
Speaker 1: you about Sean McDermott after the loss last year in December,
26:49
Speaker 1: the first game that was played in that ridiculous weather
26:52
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and someone asked him if there's a psychological
26:55
Speaker 1: impact of having Bill Belichick on the other side and
26:57
Speaker 1: he said, let's not go give him Bill Belichick more
26:59
Speaker 1: credit than Bill Belichick deserves. So there's something here. And
27:02
Speaker 1: the Bills players, and I've talked to them in the past,
27:05
Speaker 1: they believe that it gets kicked up a little bit
27:07
Speaker 1: when they played the New England Patriots for obvious reasons. Yeah,
27:10
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27:12
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27:15
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27:19
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27:22
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27:25
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28:31
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28:33
Speaker 1: in the a f C, the Miami Dolphins to a
28:35
Speaker 1: tongue of Bloa red hot as they are taken on
28:38
Speaker 1: Kyle Shannahan, Jimmy Garoppolo and the three seed in the NFC.
28:43
Speaker 1: It has been a breakout season by every metric campwell,
28:47
Speaker 1: Mark Ross for two, A tongue of byloa, whether it's
28:50
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, whether it's the speed they added on offense,
28:52
Speaker 1: whether it's I don't know him finally feeling comfortable Cam
28:57
Speaker 1: this is another big test for him. Yeah, Andrew, what
29:00
Speaker 1: a story too has been this year? You mentioned what
29:03
Speaker 1: the cause of it has been. It's really starts with
29:05
Speaker 1: support leading to confidence. Mike McDaniel all in on tour
29:10
Speaker 1: from the Jump, told him how good he was and
29:12
Speaker 1: convinced Tah that he could be even better, and we're
29:15
Speaker 1: seeing that throughout the season. His receivers tyreek Kill and
29:18
Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle have allowed him to trust throwing to spots
29:21
Speaker 1: in this offense, would anticipation and accuracy in the way
29:25
Speaker 1: he's done throughout the year, and his comfort and confidence
29:28
Speaker 1: overall has led to him being able to play this ball,
29:31
Speaker 1: no external distractions, no worrying about are we training for
29:34
Speaker 1: Deshaun or do the coaches believe in me? He is
29:37
Speaker 1: showing the true potential and you've seen defenses play them differently.
29:41
Speaker 1: He is crushed man covers this year, crushed it and
29:44
Speaker 1: so teams have played deeper and deeper and deeper, and
29:47
Speaker 1: even the team they played this week, forty Niners coach
29:49
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan said, I didn't really believe it when I
29:52
Speaker 1: first saw it. I was wondering about Toah, but I
29:55
Speaker 1: turned on the tape from the first preseason game and said, Wow,
29:58
Speaker 1: this guy looks different, this guy looks comfortable. And they
30:01
Speaker 1: played the forty Niners this week, the number one defense
30:04
Speaker 1: quite a test. But we've seen the Dolphins and to
30:06
Speaker 1: go through adversity before and I don't count them out
30:10
Speaker 1: doing it again on Sunday. And you talk about comfortable
30:13
Speaker 1: Cam and they've also two has also been comfortable because
30:16
Speaker 1: they played for the worst defenses in these last four
30:18
Speaker 1: games where they scored over thirty points in the Lions, Bears, Browns,
30:22
Speaker 1: and Texans who have not been able to get him
30:25
Speaker 1: out of his comfort zone on the field. And that's
30:28
Speaker 1: the best version of two where you see that offense
30:30
Speaker 1: so flowing so easily in such rhythm, the Alabama version
30:34
Speaker 1: of two, where he's in rhythm and these defenses have
30:37
Speaker 1: not been able to get him out of that rhythm.
30:39
Speaker 1: I think the forty Niners will be able to particularly
30:41
Speaker 1: inside with big Eric Armstead, pressure in the face, and
30:44
Speaker 1: of course Boas is always there. Those are the two
30:47
Speaker 1: areas where to it does struggle with people in his
30:48
Speaker 1: face and then when he has to get out of
30:50
Speaker 1: his rhythm. So really look for that in his game
30:52
Speaker 1: against the Niners. And again the weather may factor here.
30:56
Speaker 1: I know it's only Thursday. I'm not a weather van
30:59
Speaker 1: traffic and weather on the fours here, however, are the
31:03
Speaker 1: Tens actually chance of rain? Just saying pack accordingly, Thank
31:09
Speaker 1: you Cam and thank you Mark Ross. What if I
31:11
Speaker 1: told you that for the eighth time this season. I'm
31:14
Speaker 1: not suggesting the Jets are cheating or anything or stuffing
31:17
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31:19
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31:22
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