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NFL Report: Caleb Williams' Pro Day & Colts CB Kenny Moore II · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the NFL Report on a Thursday, James Palmer, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: whitch with you. I Am heading for vacation next week.
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  Speaker 1: Steve's gonna be heading to the owners meeting, so him
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  Speaker 1: and Judy Batista are gonna have a dynamite show on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Check out the guest list for that one when Monday
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  Speaker 1: rolls around. But how about our guest list. You saw
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  Speaker 1: him right there, Kenny Moore. The Indiapolis Colts resigned their
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  Speaker 1: Starslock Corner to a massive new contract. We love to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that position on this show, Steve. Also we
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  Speaker 1: have Brian Baldinger breaking down which three teams improved themselves
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  Speaker 1: the best through the trenches on the Lancer line. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of the trenches, talks about the top edge rushers in
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  Speaker 1: this draft where they could potentially go off the board.
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  Speaker 1: We'll also have Alvin Rbie who in an inspire change
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  Speaker 1: initiative with the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Steve.
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  Speaker 1: He is the founder of Barbershop was It Books, which
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  Speaker 1: is an incredible initiative to get kids to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and read. And I know, Steve, you spent some
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  Speaker 1: time in a higher institution. That was the University of
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  Speaker 1: Southern California at their pro day with Caleb Williams. I
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  Speaker 1: need to know what happened at that pro day when
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows he's going number one to the Bears.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look a really interesting thing real quick.
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  Speaker 3: Kenny Moore, by the way, JP is the first repeat
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  Speaker 3: performer I think here.
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  Speaker 2: Second time around. Yes, it is on the NFL report.
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  Speaker 3: So Kenny Moore, right, I Caleb Ford to have I
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  Speaker 3: love for it, asould say either having you back on. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's get to Caleb Williams because again we're all assuming
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  Speaker 3: safely that he's going to be the first overall pick
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  Speaker 3: on the Chicago Bears who have that pick. They came
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  Speaker 3: about eight d James. It's standing right behind Caleb during
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  Speaker 3: this workout was Matt e Reflus to head coach Ryan Poles,
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  Speaker 3: the assistant GM. You're seeing eb Reflus and Polls right
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  Speaker 3: there right behind him over his right shoulder, keeping a
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  Speaker 3: close eye on. And there's a lot of communication between
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  Speaker 3: all the Bears, Brass and Caleb throughout the morning. So
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  Speaker 3: but the one with Caleb that we saw was that
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  Speaker 3: you know, he stayed in the pocket, right, nothing real
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  Speaker 3: flashy like this is how good I can be under
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  Speaker 3: calm circumstances, I said, is the case for most of
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  Speaker 3: his junior season at USC, even though the year before
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  Speaker 3: he was absolutely fantastic and winning the Heisman. So after
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  Speaker 3: this workout, which is calm, Google actud fifty scripted throws,
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  Speaker 3: no tight ends is part of that workout.
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  Speaker 2: I caught up with Caleb.
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  Speaker 3: But here's what he had to say about some of
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  Speaker 3: the next moves coming up. Yeah, I'm sitting here with
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams and Caleb a nice a nice workout right there.
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  Speaker 4: Just your assessment and also the fun.
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  Speaker 3: You had because we saw you laughing with you guys,
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  Speaker 3: hugging up everybody after the workout.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always one of the most important things.
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  Speaker 1: Is to have fun.
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  Speaker 5: I made sure my guys heard that a bunch of times,
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  Speaker 5: whether it was last night when I sent him a text,
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  Speaker 5: and then throughout this you know, this morning, in this
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  Speaker 5: day so far, making sure that was the first and
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  Speaker 5: first thing that I said to them in the text
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  Speaker 5: or when I'm talking to him. So I had to
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  Speaker 5: go out there and show that I was having fun
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  Speaker 5: and by example, and then obviously go out there and
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  Speaker 5: handle business.
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  Speaker 2: Now we do.
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  Speaker 3: The majority of your workout is gonna be from the pocket,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of assess how do you think things went?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I missed a couple. I missed a couple of
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  Speaker 5: passes down the field deep ball, wise, vertical, and then
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  Speaker 5: I had I think one or two I think one
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  Speaker 5: behind my receiver. So you know, work on those things, right,
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  Speaker 5: It's all right.
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  Speaker 4: It still was a very good workout.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we know you're the presumpted number one pick yep.
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  Speaker 3: The Bears had a large contingent here in fact, coach
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  Speaker 3: Matty Ebrafolus and GM mind Poles right behind you. Just
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they traded justin fields and they cleared
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  Speaker 3: some runway for you to land.
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  Speaker 4: Is that your full expectation to be headed there?
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  Speaker 5: It's a good question. I wouldn't say it's my full expectation. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: things can happen, things can change throughout this time. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's around thirty three days or so, thirty days
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  Speaker 5: until you know April twenty fifth, and so you know
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  Speaker 5: a lot can change. You take it day by day,
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  Speaker 5: handle it and handle and control which you can control.
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  Speaker 3: And with that is your head coach here at USC
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  Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley, and he said, expectations is something you've dealt
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  Speaker 3: with even coming out of high school today, all thirty
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  Speaker 3: two teams were here. How have you and how do
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  Speaker 3: you deal with everything that's going to be expected of you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, first and foremost, I have a great mom and dad.
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  Speaker 5: It starts there, started there, from when I was born
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  Speaker 5: and them raising me to this twenty two year old now.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know, I took and I took my
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  Speaker 5: own road, and and and you know, as I got older,
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  Speaker 5: and then obviously I got coach Riley. I've had coaches
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  Speaker 5: in high school Coach Andy Driver's uh, Danny Schefter and
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  Speaker 5: and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, help keep molding me. And I'm still molding.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be the man I am, you know
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  Speaker 5: many years from now, twenty years from now when I
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  Speaker 5: retire hopefully and and can play ball hopefully for a
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  Speaker 5: really long time.
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  Speaker 4: Great last question, just what what's next?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what's on your schedule in terms of visits
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  Speaker 3: things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're still.
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  Speaker 5: Figuring the visits out. We'll have all of that solved
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  Speaker 5: pretty here, pretty soon. We wanted to make sure we
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  Speaker 5: came out here, put on a show for everybody, and
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  Speaker 5: and focusing on my training for you know, my first
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  Speaker 5: my first game and o t as of of the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's the last question, but quickly Keenan Allen, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: receiver was here. What about seeing him? It was right,
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  Speaker 3: you guys, hang it up for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I've known I've known Keenan for a little
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  Speaker 5: bit now hung out. He was at the he was
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  Speaker 5: at the Chargers of the time obviously, and then you know,
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  Speaker 5: now he's at the Bears for like I says, here
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  Speaker 5: for a fourth round pick, which is crazy last year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's a beast, good guy, awesome dude to
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  Speaker 4: be around.
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  Speaker 1: He can give you a lot of knowledge.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Caleb, Hey, thanks for the time, man, Well done,
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, good luck, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: There'd be a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Things I just wanted to make sure to clarify coming
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  Speaker 3: out of that interview. First off, even though he failt,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to go on his visits after the workout,
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  Speaker 3: the Bears brass was there.
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  Speaker 2: I was told by someone there.
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  Speaker 3: They got there Monday, They had dinner with Caleb, they
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  Speaker 3: spent time with him.
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  Speaker 2: So they've done a tremendous amount of homework.
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  Speaker 3: The communication going on to the Bears and Caleb really
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  Speaker 3: leaves no question as to what's going on and what
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  Speaker 3: I said, you expect to be the pick.
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  Speaker 2: By the Bears.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, well, I can't expect it. You wanted
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  Speaker 3: to say yes, but he says, look, you know they
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  Speaker 3: could trade the pick. They can do this or that.
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  Speaker 3: Add Some folks on social media like, well, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: sound too enthusiastic. You'll be just fine to be get
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  Speaker 3: drafted by the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree. I love that Keenan Allen was there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen a player that is probably
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  Speaker 1: going to be the number one target of that quarterback
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  Speaker 1: that's going to go number one at the Pro Day.
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  Speaker 1: I've just never seen it. You see guys go back
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  Speaker 1: to the ra Alma mottern. Keenan Allen's a cow guy,
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  Speaker 1: so this is usc. He was there to see his
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  Speaker 1: future quarterback, which I thought was really cool. The second
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  Speaker 1: part of it, Steve, is I love that you described
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  Speaker 1: this as the exact opposite of what we've seen from
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  Speaker 1: a lot of top quarterbacks and what can they do
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  Speaker 1: with wow throws? What can they do moving? I remember
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  Speaker 1: going to a variety of these, from Trevor Lawrence to
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones to CJ. Stroud, what can you do athletically
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  Speaker 1: outside of the pocket. That's what we need to sell
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  Speaker 1: these scouts on. That's not anything Kayleb Williams needs to
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  Speaker 1: sell anyone in the NFL on on what he can
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  Speaker 1: do with his legs outside of the pocket, creating scrambling,
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  Speaker 1: what he was able to do inside the body. And
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  Speaker 1: the big thing I hear as I throw this back
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  Speaker 1: to you around the league is his footwork staying within
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  Speaker 1: the pocket is maybe unmatched in this draft coming up,
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  Speaker 1: and that is extremely important with messy pockets in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that that's the kind of the approach
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  Speaker 1: he had with this pro.
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  Speaker 3: Dem and that's one of the things that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people say give the comparison to Patrick Mahomes, not
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  Speaker 3: that he's Mahomes, but footwork and things like that. Somebody
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  Speaker 3: who knows a lot about Caleb Williams, head coach Lincoln Riley,
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  Speaker 3: brought him from Oklahoma to USC.
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  Speaker 2: I caught it with him.
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  Speaker 3: Here's some thoughts about Caleb's future as you go to
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  Speaker 3: the NFL.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he probably will be just about as
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  Speaker 7: prepared as you could be to go into situation like that.
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  Speaker 7: And that's one of those things that you probably can't
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  Speaker 7: completely simulate it until you actually get in the middle
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  Speaker 7: and experience it. But you know, winning a Heisman Trophy
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  Speaker 7: at USC, you know, in the middle of Los Angeles
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  Speaker 7: is probably about as close.
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  Speaker 1: As you can get.
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  Speaker 7: And so he's used to being under the microscope, used
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  Speaker 7: to kind of having his game and everything he does
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  Speaker 7: and everything that he says dissected every which way. There's
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  Speaker 7: certainly some new challenges and I know he's going to
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  Speaker 7: have some ups and downs, just like every rookie that
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  Speaker 7: goes into that league.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, he loves the game.
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  Speaker 7: I think he's going to continue to improve and I
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  Speaker 7: think you know, whatever team he ends up with will
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  Speaker 7: be very happy with him coach.
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  Speaker 8: Lastly, just when you look at the metrics of everything
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  Speaker 8: he's done for only fourteen interceptions in his three years
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  Speaker 8: as a starter, one that tells you he's accurate, but
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  Speaker 8: too he's a good decision maker. In coaching him and
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  Speaker 8: seeing all of that high touchdown to low interception ratio,
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  Speaker 8: how do you think that translates to the NFL, because
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  Speaker 8: we know those are two things that are significant at
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  Speaker 8: playing at that level.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's important. I mean, I think it
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  Speaker 7: shows that he values the ball. You know, sometimes I
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  Speaker 7: think people turn on a highlight and they think he's
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  Speaker 7: just this reckless player, that's this gunslinger, and honestly he's not.
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  Speaker 7: He's he's at times, even early in his career, was
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  Speaker 7: even maybe even more conservative than I wanted him to be.
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  Speaker 7: But he always valued taking care of the ball. He
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  Speaker 7: always had a patience that honestly was even better on
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  Speaker 7: game day than it was on the practice field, which
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  Speaker 7: for a lot of young qbs it's the opposite. He
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  Speaker 7: always seemed to kind of calm down and settle down,
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  Speaker 7: even be a little bit more patient on game day
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  Speaker 7: even as a young player, which I loved and so
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  Speaker 7: so Yeah, it's going to be obviously very important as
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  Speaker 7: the windows tightened down in that league as you face
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  Speaker 7: the type of pass rushers that he's getting ready to face.
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  Speaker 7: But to show that he's already had that ability at
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  Speaker 7: a young age, I think bodes well for him.
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  Speaker 1: What insight from Lincoln Riley with you there, Steve into
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  Speaker 1: the makeup of Caleb Williams, The main things that jump
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  Speaker 1: out at me. One is the way he maybe takes
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  Speaker 1: more risks in practice, which is probably where you should
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  Speaker 1: be with the football at the quarterback position a little more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, deliberate with the way he throws it during
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  Speaker 1: the games. When you have one thousand and ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: pass attempts in fourteen interceptions over three years, I think
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  Speaker 1: is pretty good at protecting the football. Because the last
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  Speaker 1: three years with the Bears, they had fifteen interceptions, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: interceptions and twenty interceptions Kayleb Williams fourteen over his last
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  Speaker 1: three I look at the receiver group that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to walk into, Steve, and you look at Keenan Allen
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  Speaker 1: and Dj Moore and Cole Kament and Gerald Everett. All
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  Speaker 1: of these guys have high football IQs and they're where
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  Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. And I think that's huge for
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  Speaker 1: the system that he's walking into and.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Look the one thing again, ninety three career touchdowns as
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  Speaker 3: a collegiate starter, fourteen interceptions. He has put the ball
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  Speaker 3: on the ground with fumbles. Okay, again the numbers are
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. Of what we've seen, he has
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  Speaker 3: put the ball on the ground, hasn't lost many, but
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  Speaker 3: that's something he is going to have to tighten up.
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  Speaker 3: But like you said, when he goes to Chicago, the
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  Speaker 3: situation is much better than what Justin Fields walked into
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago when he was the first
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  Speaker 3: round pick. Well, coming up, we're talking about quarterbacks going
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  Speaker 3: into good situations. Ryan Baldinger is going to let us
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  Speaker 3: know which teams have moved in the trenches, including those
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  Speaker 3: teams that might be rafting a rookie quarterback. Next on
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  Speaker 3: the NFL Report, roll that tape, ELC.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back into the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve Whitch,
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  Speaker 1: I have my popcorn. That means, Baldy, we're back in
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  Speaker 1: the thickest things. We're evaluating everything post free agency. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Baldinger joins us for Baldy's favorite films, and Baldy, we
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  Speaker 1: came to you with this question your three teams that
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  Speaker 1: during free agency improved themselves in the trenches. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: with number three, Carolina Panthers. Two massive guards come there
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Hunt and Damian Lewis. What do you see
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  Speaker 1: out of what Carolina did I do like that those
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  Speaker 1: guys have blocked for shorter quarterbacks in their past. In
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  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson into a tongue of Iolo I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if that matters, but they have.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, Bryce Sengi is the biggest guy, but
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  Speaker 9: he needs better protection than what we saw last year.
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  Speaker 9: You're gonna take Bryce number one like they did, and
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  Speaker 9: there was this struggle by everybody in that organization. Coaches fired,
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  Speaker 9: gms fired, everything changed. You got to do your very
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  Speaker 9: best to support your franchise quarterback and give them every
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  Speaker 9: opportunity be successful. And I think Robert Hunt played very
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  Speaker 9: good for the Miami Dolphins. They ran the ball very strong.
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  Speaker 9: Tua had a good season, back to back good years there,
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  Speaker 9: especially when healthy, and Damian Lewis has been doing that
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  Speaker 9: you know in Seattle. So I think they got two
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  Speaker 9: really good guards. I think they got to figure out
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  Speaker 9: the center position still, but it's a good draft for centers.
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  Speaker 9: I would expect them to draft one. You know, Austin
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  Speaker 9: Corbett got hurt last year and it just kind of crumbled.
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  Speaker 9: But I think Carolina they look better inside right now.
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  Speaker 6: With Hunt and Lewis than they did at any point
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  Speaker 6: last year.
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  Speaker 10: And Baldy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you look at Carolina right now, the
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  Speaker 3: way they're you know, they're trying, I guess, to remake
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  Speaker 3: their team Is this the best way to for them
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  Speaker 3: to kind of start. We keep talking about how they
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  Speaker 3: didn't have any why receivers, but to fortify that interior,
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  Speaker 3: Is this the best first step, so to speak.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. And I always think that it's like everybody's going.
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  Speaker 9: To pay attention to the tackles, especially in this draft,
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  Speaker 9: and it's a good class for tackles. But I mean,
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  Speaker 9: if your interior, if your center isn't strong, if your
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  Speaker 9: guards can't just keep the pocket flat. I don't care
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  Speaker 9: if you're Bryce Young or if you're Joe Burrow or
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  Speaker 9: if you're Mahomes. I mean, you've got to get those
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  Speaker 9: positions fixed so that your quarterback has a chance to
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  Speaker 9: deliver the ball short yards goal line.
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  Speaker 6: You got to get a yard.
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  Speaker 9: You better be able to move people up front and
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  Speaker 9: be able to retain possession, finished strives in the end zone.
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  Speaker 9: All those kind of things are really important to the
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  Speaker 9: success of any offense, but especially in offense that's trying
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  Speaker 9: to be rebuilt and try to you know, compete right
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  Speaker 9: now this year, I think it starts up front and
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  Speaker 9: in the trenches.
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  Speaker 6: I think they got two you know, guys that are
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  Speaker 6: still young.
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  Speaker 9: You have the best football right in front of them
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  Speaker 9: on their second contracts.
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  Speaker 6: You can build with those guys and around those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Your quarterback sack sixty two times, protecting him up the
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  Speaker 1: middle obviously extremely important. I just want them to change
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  Speaker 1: their identity as well. I want the Panthers to kind
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  Speaker 1: of have that, you know, in your face identity. I
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  Speaker 1: love that Damian Lewis said that when he was you know,
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  Speaker 1: at his press conference, I'm going to be the type
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  Speaker 1: of guy that puts your face in the ground. They
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  Speaker 1: need that in Carolina. Let's go to your second team.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the trenches. In the Houston Texans, Nikosara
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  Speaker 1: not a big spender in free agency usually, but he
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  Speaker 1: went out and made a number of moves to help,
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  Speaker 1: especially this defensive line. We know the way Demiko Ryans
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  Speaker 1: thinks that if you need an elite defense, the D
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  Speaker 1: line's a big part of it. And if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a contender in the AFC Baldy, you got
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  Speaker 1: to go after these AFC quarterbacks. No question.
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  Speaker 9: That's how Nick's thinking, That's how Demico's thinking, James, and
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  Speaker 9: so you know, Demiko comes from, you know, a franchise
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  Speaker 9: in San Francisco where they wanted to be eight deep
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  Speaker 9: on the defensive line, and so look Malik Collins, Sheldon Rankins.
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  Speaker 6: They were good last year, but they.
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  Speaker 9: Have now added you know, obviously Daniel high Turn after
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: Chris Jones was signed re signed by Kansas City and
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: giving that big, huge signing bonus. I thought Danil Hunter
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: was the next best free agent and all free agency,
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: coming off his best season playing opposite of Will Anderson
• 15:12
  Speaker 9: right now. Then you add Deniko Autrey and I know this,
• 15:15
  Speaker 9: I know Deniko got Nick Casario excited. This guy is
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: just one heck of a football player wherever you play
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: in Tennessee. Yeah, I thought he was part of the
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: best defensive line of football three years ago. He can
• 15:27
  Speaker 9: rush inside, outside, he's got counting the playoffs, James, He's
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: got thirty sacks the last three years with the Titans.
• 15:34
  Speaker 9: He's used to being in a dominant front four defensive team.
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: That's what this looks like. Then you add fully Fooicosi
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: and Mario you know, Williams, and you add some of
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: those guys in front. You know, fully you know, can
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: really be that that guy that can eat up the
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: double teams, the free up Aziz al Shai here and
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: you know, all the linebackers Christian Harris that they have there.
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: I think this is quickly being built into one of
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: the better defensive fronts and all the football.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: They were already great last year against the run.
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: At one point last year they were number one in
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: the NFL against the run. I think they finished number two.
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: So they already kind of have that mindset that we're
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: gonna stop the run. That's the first phase of getting
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: after Mahomes and Josh Allen and Lamar and some of
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: these teams that you got to get pasted in the AFC.
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: They're on the way right now. I thought this front
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: really took a step up in I life. I love
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: Jonathan greenerd but when he's left to sign of Minnesota
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: and they went after and got to Neil Hunter, I said,
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: they just upgraded that position.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Which is crazy because I mean, you're talking about how
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Grenard was just so good down there. But Hunters of
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: guys continues to win, right He can win those individual
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: and those double teams, and you got to consistently have
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: that guy, but you also have to have tackles to
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: keep those guys off your quarterbacks. This leads us to
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: your number one team that is upgraded in the trenches.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Who you got, Baldy, because I do think these moves
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: are actually more hit or miss. You hit big or
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: you miss big with these moves.
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: Well, the New York Jets and so you know, obviously
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: the Jets were a mess last year.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers four plays. I mean, we know the story.
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: But you know they have to get this thing right
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: that nobody has been a more fractured injured offensive line
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: than the New York Jets. They've just missed on players.
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: And so Tyron Smith comes in. Look, he has protected
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: the backside of Tony Romo and Dak Prescott over the
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: last eleven years. He's been excellent, but he has miss time.
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: You know, he did play fifteen games last year, So
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: that's if they could get thirteen to fifteen games out
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: of Tyrant.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: That's a win.
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: Three years ago, the ahead Morgan Moses and he played
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: great for him, and then they let him walk.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: To the Baltimore Ravens, where you literally, you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: Know, was the starting right tackle a team that led
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: the league in rushing, was a dominant player there. He's
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: going into his eleventh season. He did miss a couple
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: of games last year with an arm injury, but for
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: the most part he's been healthy. They get Morgan Moses back,
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: and then they went and signed John Simpson was a
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: big fan of he came out of Clemson. He started
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: every game last year for the Baltimore Ravens. They led
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: the league in rushing. But it's it's not just that,
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: it's the way that he plays. Steve like he's a puller,
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: you know. They run traps, they run powers, they run
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: counters like he's used to, getting in space and clearing
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: bodies out of the way. And I can see an
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: offensive line right now with John Simpson on one side,
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: Ali Vera Tucker on the other side, where they get
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: that power game going with Breeze Hall. They drafted Joe
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: pitt Tipman last year to be their center. He became
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: their center last year. I can see for the first
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: time the Jets can put a starting five out there.
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: I don't think they're finished yet. They're picking number ten.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: It's an offensive tackle draft, but I can't see them
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: taking number ten right now with an offensive tackle.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: After what they've just done.
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: They can start address the receiver position, the tight end position,
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: some other things that could help Aaron Rodgers.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Baal Jay bald these givens yet fans hope,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, they're gonna lose their minds.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I love it because this is what I wanted to
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: get to, though, Baldi, with the players that they signed,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned the number tenth overall pick, and this
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: is what I want your take on, because you're right,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: they can get another offensive lineman with ten and they
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: could totally go that route and that guy is not
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: plugged in to be an immediate need type of player
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: in their rookie season maybe, But also you mentioned the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: other ways that they can go. I also look at
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the ability now if you're not forced into that, but yeah,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: you can go go brought Bowers, you could go to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the tight end spot. You could go with rideyways you
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: get an edge rusher to replace Huff. But also you
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: could maybe maybe move back because they only have picks
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: ten in seventy two in the top one hundred. That's it,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: so you could potentially if somebody wants a quarterback right,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: you could make a move to even get yourself a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: little bit deeper.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: No question.
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: Joe Douglas from Baltimore and Philadelphia, where you know whether.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: It's Ozzie Newsom or Howie Roseman.
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: The guys that he has worked for are used to
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: dancing up and down that draft board and really recuperating value,
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: and so that's certainly a possibility right now. Both tackles
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Tyron Smith and Morgan Moses. They're both thirty three years old.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: You know, you got to you gotta think about the future.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: But Aaron Rodgers, I don't know what, you know, what
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: is his time frame here, two years at the most,
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: like you should probably give him every chance to be
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: successful and to see just you know, the talent that
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: he is. Give him every chance right now. Obviously, signing
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Mike Williams might take him away from wide receiver, maybe
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: brock Bauers, you know, you know, maybe other you know,
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: a franchise type player. But at the same time, it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: not a bad idea to kind of look to the
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: future because Aaron Rodgers isn't going to be there forever.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: True.
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: So they have a lot of flexibility at number ten
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: to go up, to go down to draft the future,
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: or to get themselves to start player where they can
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: plug them and just say, you.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Know what, we're going for it all. We're in this
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: thing to win it. Let's go for it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: This year and if it doesn't work out, yeah, we'll
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: be back in the market again.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: They're going for it all Baldy.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: They got their hands up on the roller coaster.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: There is no planning for the future on this with Hey,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: so boal, let me get so we know at the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: top of the draft, the first three picks likely are
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: going to be quarterbacks, right we also you got that cluster.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: You got the Vikings, Raiders, and Broncos. They also need quarterbacks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Which team, speaking of the trenches, is kind of best
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: set up to help a rookie quarterback succeed in terms
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: of an offensive line.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Well, you know if the offensive lines also a function
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: of you know, how your receivers win on the outside.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: And so if you're the Minnesota Vikings right now, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: I know Sam Darnold is there but at eleven or
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: if they you know, stay there and move whatever, if
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: they're looking at a quarterback, I mean, you hand it
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: off to Aaron Jones, It's going to be nice to
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: throw to Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison's or TJ.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Hockinson's gonna be nice for anybody.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: But I feel like they've got a pretty good offensive
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: line as it is they have protected Kirk Cousins. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: you know, you think about last week's last year's big
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: win from Minnesota when they beat the forty nine ers
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: and Kirk Cousins dropped back forty five times in that game, Steve,
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: he wasn't sacked one time. You know, they did a
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: pretty good job of protecting a variety of quarterbacks last
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: year after Kirk got hurt. And so I feel like
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: the Vikings are the best set up right now to
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: handle a young quarterback coming in and possibly potentially playing
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: right away.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Man, this is such great soft Baldy JP. This is
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: such good stuff, Like this is what we love to
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: do on the show, Baldy, have you on and just
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: let's talk to real football stuff, not just the Hyperboley
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: and all that, so real good stuff.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But Baldi, we know you're ready on vacation. We're gonna
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: be looking for.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: More of your breakdowns from underwater, So save travels, my
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: friend bon voyage.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah all right, thank you, Steve. I did a crash
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: course and I studied. All okay, I'll see you next week, guys.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Coming on after the break Oh, we are talking edge
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: rushers with more specifically Lance Zerline.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Our draft analyst, and.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Man, is he got it loaded up for you? Stick
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: around and come back to the NFL Report. Pull the tape.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Elsie back at the NFL Report and you look at
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy, Tarol Austin, a Steelers defensive coordinator there at
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the Alabama Pro Day. Mike Tomlin was in the house,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and they're probably keeping their eye on edge rusher Dallas Turner. Well,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the top players in the country's supposed to be a
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: very high pick. We're going talk about that in a minute,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: but before we get to that, let's go to our
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Tom pellisera who is at the pro day. We caught
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a spot with Dallas Turner.
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: I feel that I should be the first defensive player
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: off the board because of the tnasty I bring to
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: the game, my IQ, how fast I play, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: just being the most versatile agent and draft as well,
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: you know, being able to pass, rush and drop me
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: and you know, and just help my teammates and be
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: the best team out can possibly be.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: So I know you're sticking around Tuscalos.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: After this, we got some team visits where all you headed.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: I'm headed to I know, I gotta go to Atlanta, Minnesota.
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: I gotta go to Chicago and Arizona.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Right doubtas Turner naming three teams that could use an
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: edge rusher. But you look at this board right here,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: there's an awful lot you've got.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: The Bears will probably use a ninth pick on one
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: if they use it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Atlanta, the Jack the Vikings, the Broncos, Seahawks, Rams, Dolphins, Buffalo, Bills, Lions.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Who doesn't need an edge rusher? But James Palmer. We're
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: back here on the NFL Report. We're gonna bring in
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: our draft expert, Lanzer Lion who knows there is edge
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: rusher as well. And Lance, you just saw Dallas Turner
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: there with Tom Pellis hero say he should be the
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: first defensive player off the board. First off, just your
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: thoughts on Turner.
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: Well, so, Dallas Turner, you know I first noticed him
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: when he was really giving Charles crosswork at Mississippi State.
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: When I was studying Charles Cross a couple of years ago,
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: and I had to go to the roster because if
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: you're not draft eligible, I have time to look at
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: you right now. But I got five hundred players to
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: write up. But I made note of who's number fifteen.
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: Dallas Turner. Wow, I'm gonna remember this kid, and here
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: we are two years later, and you know, I think
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: he's a similar player. He's a little bit gangly looking
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: on the hook, but he was over two hundred and
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: fifty pounds at his pro day, which was heavier than
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: at the Combine. I think that's great. Twenty reps in
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: the bench, which I thought was nice. But really, Steve,
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: what kind of separates Dallas Turner is? Yes, he comes
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: from the Alabama pedigree of rushers, but he is a
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: really elite athlete. I mean from an explosion standpoint. At
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: the Combine, his speed numbers, his ability to bend and
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: make things happen once he's inside the pocket, change direction
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: in Hound quarterbacks were trying to get away from him.
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: I think if you want a guy who has that
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: the rush talent that's typical of Alabama rushers, and then
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: you want to look at the athletic profile that it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: an elite profile, including extraordinarily long arms and wingspan das
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: Dallas gives you. Dallas Turner gives you a very unique
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: set of skills, so to speak. When it comes to
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: the pass rush. There's four key rushers in the first
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: round but he's a guy that kind of blends all
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: of them together.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I love that he's a Liam Neesen. He blends it
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: all together. Lance. I love you mentioned the speed, I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: mean four four seven at the combine that was about
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: its fluid crist you could see a big man run
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in the forty as smooth as he looked. And you
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: mentioned the athletic ability a fantastic basketball player in high school.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I know everybody always kind of looks at those traits
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: as well when they're evaluating some of these guys. To
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: spread that out, you mentioned these edge rushers, and there's
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: about four of them you mentioned. But where do we
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: see I know you have another mock draft coming out
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: soon and it's not out yet, but where would we see,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: as we hinted at it, the first defensive player go
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: off the board. And will it be Dallas Turner?
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: I think it could be Turner. I think it's going
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: to be between Turner and Verse, Jared Verse, and I'll
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: get into Jared Vers in a second. But you know,
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: Chop Robinson from Penn State is a huge projection player,
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: great traits, but he's not there yet, so I think
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: he will probably be fourth. A lot to his draft
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: standing is going to be, you know, determined by his medicals.
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: But I think when you start looking at you guys
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: talk to Balding, and you started looking at the way
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: some of these teams are coming together from a free
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: agency standpoint, and now it may change. You know, the
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: Jets may look at a pass rusher, for example, with
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: their selection. I think that you know, Minnesota obviously, if
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: they ended up staying there and not making a move
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: for quarterback, which we anticipate, I think they need rush
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: and so I think probably the earliest you're going to
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: see a pass rusher would be maybe the Falcons could
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: be the absolute earliest at eight, but you could make
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: a point for going even earlier than that, because these
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: are really i think, high ceiling, high floor players at
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: this particular position at the edge, and especially Jared. Let's
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: start talking about Jared verse for a second. I mean,
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: Jared Versus is a powerhouse. He is as explosive as
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: it gets into the blockers, very heavy with his hands.
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: He's good against the run in the past. You know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: Dallas Turner is not going to be as good against
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: the run as Jared Versus. He has become a real
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: issue for tackles to handle the same way Aaron Donald
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: was this unusually powerful guy inside for his size. Jared
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: versus unusually powerful and twitchy with his upper body strength
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: against tackles who are much heavier than him. He's got
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: a great bull rush. He improved some of his rush
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: technique and rush moves headed into this year. So I
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: think going back to school, he really made himself a
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: more complete player. But I don't think you know, we
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: look how many of these things that we're showing you
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: or run plays. That's one of the things that separates him,
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: I think, from the other and why I think he's
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: going to be the first guy off the board personally
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: is that he is a two way defensive end with
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: tremendous toughness.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: You know, I love hearing stuff like this because you
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: talk about Atlanta there at eight. We know Raheem Morris
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: kind of plays at hybrid thirty four. You know he's
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: gonna give you that that even look. But you want
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: to have somebody who can play the run in the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: past like him, And you've got a Grady jer and
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: you've got David on Jamadi. You've got tackles who can
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: make plays. So somebody like him might be a perfect
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: fit right there.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And you talk about a.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Hybrid guy and this is a guy we both love
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: lands out of the University of Missouri, Jarius Robinson, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: this is everybody. But this is where I want you
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: to educate people, because he's listed in some places as
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: an edge, other places as a d tackle. A few
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: years ago we'd say he's a thirty four or five
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: tech team, but he's shown a little bit more than
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: that though, Like when you're evaluating a combo big man
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: like him, he's a big freaking guy, like two eighty five.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: How do you kind of put him in there when
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: you're talking about the turners and the verses and chop Robinson.
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: It's a it's a great question. It's what I had
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: to do last year with Keon White, who ended up
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: going to New England out of Georgia Tech. Very similar
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: body type, similar gameplay. The Texas just signed Denico Autry
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: in every The talk in Houston on my sports talk
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: show is, well, wait a minute, is he gonna play edge?
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: Is he gonna play defensive tackle? He's a little small,
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: Dimico doesn't play a traditional odd front, So what are
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: you gonna do? You want to put good football players
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: on your team. Listen whether they're rushing or playing bass
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: off the edge. I think the way I envisioned it
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: Steve Is, I think he's gonna play bass edge on
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: first down and second down. On the rundowns. You want
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: that power off the edge. But then when it comes
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: down to pure sub package rushing, when we're in third
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: and six and you know they're gonna throw, we're gonna
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: bump them inside and use his quickness and that lean
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: mass to really overwhelm and out quick some of the guards.
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: So I think, you know, for me, it used to
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: be a bigger concern when you when you had players
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: and they didn't fit neatly into a bucket. Now they're
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: called hybrids. Now they're good. Before we used to call
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: them tweeners, tweeters, no good, hybrids great. So you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: for me, Darius Robbins, whatever you want to do with them,
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: Can he play defense tackle? Sure, he can gain ten
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: more pounds and play there. He lost weight to play
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: d end and he's in great physical shape right now.
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: So I think it's a matter of what you wanted
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: to do, And that's why I think it's such a
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: good fit for the Lions. I keep plugging them in
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: with the lions of my monographing. I just think it
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: really fits when Aaron Glenn and Dan Campbell won up there,
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: and I think he fits into that front that they're looking.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: For from Detroit too, So that would be huge.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Anybody to help Aiden Hutchinson Man, you get him somebody
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: else it is. It is going to be something to see. Lance.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I love that and I love that that's the way
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: you finished it because I was already thinking here and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: this is what I wanted to follow up with. You
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: mentioned tweeers, and you mentioned those guys that you always
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: kind of go, well, do they if they don't have
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a position, does that mean they they are a knock?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: But then when we see people play it at the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: highest level, say, I'm not making the comparison, but a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Chris Jones that can move inside and outside, a different
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: type of players that can do it. But if you
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: can't do it at that type of level, is it
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a knock still? But if you if you don't get
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: into that elite category to where you can do multiple things, I.
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: Think it's tough. I mean, it really depends on who's
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: drafting him. And I always when I put grades on players.
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: My assumption is always that the team that views him
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: as the best particular fit with the scheme is who's
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: going to draft him. So if you have a zone
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: scheme running back or a gap scheme running back, I'm
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: assuming the offensive coordinator and the offensive play caller is
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: going to get with the general manager and say this
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: is the guy who fits, this is the guy who doesn't.
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: So it's going to make sense if they're going to
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: be on your board, if you have a game plan
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: for them. And I think there's something also to be
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: said for I think the best coaches understand how to
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: get talent acclimated and how to work around as special
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: players strengths and weaknesses COLLIDEJAKANTSI undersized defensive tackle, but he's
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: already showing flashes over there with the Bengals, And I think,
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: you know, is he small for a defensive tackle in
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: the first round? Absolutely? But can he do something that
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: makes the Bengals a good football team? Yes, he can
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: keep him out of the instances where he's going to
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: be double team by guards and centers and driven off
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: the ball and put him in positions to be a
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: pin trader. And the disruptor. So it's up to the
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: team to put the player in the right type of scheme,
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: in the right situation, and then for coaches to work
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: around the weaknesses and accentuate the strengths.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: So let's let's stay here, let's stay in this pocket.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: When we look at the number of quarterbacks, look, Minnesota
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: made to move you know, give us that second first
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: round draft pick to probably move up. So let's say
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: there's gonna be four to five quarterbacks.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: We're talking about these edge rushers.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: We also there's some elite wide receivers at the top end.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: How is that going to affect the stacking of the
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: draft in terms of pushing talented players like maybe a
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Darius Robinson or top Robinson to the back part of
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the draft or some teams sitting there in their twenties
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: could be like Merry Christmas.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So it's tricky. This draft seems to have a
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: flow now. Free agency has kind of tricked it out
• 33:47
  Speaker 10: a little bit. But it's gonna be an early you know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: it's gonna be early quarterbacks, right, and then I think
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: the next thing is going to be wide receivers. As
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: start to go, we'll see the top three yride. Receivers
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: come off the board with sprinklings of offensive tackles, so
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: it's gonna be quarterback followed by wide receiver. Then comes
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: offensive tackle with the chance of one rusher and Brock
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: Bowers being considered there. Now Brock is the wild card.
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: I don't know where Brock goes. I thought the point
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: that you know, Baldy made the point about maybe Rock
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: Bowers could go the Jets all of a sudden. That
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: makes a lot of sense when you think about what
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: they're trying to do with the all in approach for
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers. But you know, but then it's going to go.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: It's going to take on an offensive tackle followed by cornerbacks,
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: and then here come the wide receivers led by Brian
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: Thomas again and Chop Robinson. The wild cards in this
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: one who could fall I think are a lot too
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: due to health, Chop Robinson due to inexperience, and then
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Bowers just because tight ends are hard to slot in
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: the top ten, top twelve pix of the draft, and
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: I think Terry and Arnold versus Quinnon Mitchell is a
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: real wild card in terms of who's going to be
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: first corner off the board. I'm starting to think it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: going to be Mitchell one, Terry and Arnold two.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Man, Lance, we're going to get to these corners with
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you on another show because we had a plan for it,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: but man, we love these edge rusher so we had
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to stick with that. We will get you to the corners,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I prom always. And I also like that you stole
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: my idea of rock Bowers to the Jets and gave
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it to Baldy, so I appreciate that as well. But Lance,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for the insight on all of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: these guys. I like Dallas Derner, you like Jared Verst.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I love the way we're going because these two right here,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it might be the first defensive player off the board.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be really, really, really fun to watch. We're
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: gonna have you back to talk corners.
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: Looking forward to it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, appreciate it. Coming up on the NFL Report,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Speaking of corners, how about Kenny Moore just got himself
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a handsome bag to return to the Indianapolis Colts and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: manned that nickel position. Steve, we love that spot. Love
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. We're gonna talk
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to Kenny Moore after this on the NFL Report. Welcome
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: back to the NFL Report. James Palmer, Steve Witch with you,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and Steve Weird joined by our first repeat guests. Let's go.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And it's only fitting that Kenny Moore of the Indianapolis
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Colts joins us as our first repeats team because Kenny,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you know what we think of your position on this show,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: how much we love talking about the slock corner spot,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and how much we love to break down what you
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: do in the middle of the field. First though, I
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: have to say thank you for joining us, and secondly,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: congratulations on the contract. What's the first thing that goes
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: through your mind once you know that is sign sealed,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: delivered and you know that you're locked in. What goes
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: through Kenny Moore's mind?
• 36:35
  Speaker 12: First off, is great to be bat with you guys,
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: to be the first repeat that's pretty awesome. First of
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: that went through my mind whenever we got the contract,
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: you know, signs student to deliver. I was just thinking about,
• 36:49
  Speaker 12: you know, I'm ready to go work again because I
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: know I know where I'll be at, I know the
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: people that I'll be with. You know, I get to
• 36:55
  Speaker 12: see all my friends again. So from here we just
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: got to you know, put some banners up and go
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: back to work. So I'm fully excited to be with
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: the organization again. And then, like I said, just to
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: know you know where I'll be.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I love that you're excited to do with the organization again.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean there was a lot of reports
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: at least that nobody was really certain that was going
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: to be the case. Were you Were you close with
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: any other teams?
• 37:17
  Speaker 12: I mean, yeah, there were negotiations and talks with you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 12: quite a few teams. But the coach, they were in
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: it the entire way. They never pulled out. They never
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: uh you know, came into the talks you know later
• 37:32
  Speaker 12: later on in the h the process, but.
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: They stuck it out the entire way.
• 37:39
  Speaker 12: And you know, they believed in me and they wanted
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: me back now in the organization.
• 37:42
  Speaker 13: I'm glad to be back.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: So so with that, I mean, they want you back
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: in the organization. What does it feel like as a
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: player though, to know you've had an impact on a
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: community and on a club as to where they invested
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: with you the way they did in three more years?
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: Oh man, that's a great question. They just know what
• 37:58
  Speaker 13: I give at this point.
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: You know, one thing of knowing you know, I guess
• 38:04
  Speaker 12: what a player does and knowing what he gives. I
• 38:07
  Speaker 12: think you know the world of that you know they
• 38:09
  Speaker 12: value and appreciate. You know, not only the player that
• 38:11
  Speaker 12: I am, but the person I am throughout a community
• 38:14
  Speaker 12: and how I'm able to make an impact and just
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: being the kind of guy that wants, you know, everybody
• 38:19
  Speaker 12: to be included. So yeah, it's a great image to
• 38:22
  Speaker 12: have on such a prestige and organization.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: I love that.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: And Kenny, you sign this contract three years, thirty million dollars,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: yet you're the highest paid guy for about I don't
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: know a day, couple of days, and Daron Johnson gets
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: paid too, and it's right up there with yours. Well,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I won't know, does that.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: Bug you at all?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: But also, what is it like seeing you guys in
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: this role when I talk to defensive coordinators and how
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: important it is that you guys are getting your due
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: playing this position.
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: I like to say, you know, we're just pioneers of
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: the position. You know, we wear the heavy.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: Hat and a hard hat.
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: We do a lot of things that made a lot
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: of things come together, and uh, you know, for this
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: position to be rotating that safety to be able to blitch,
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: to be able to cover, and to be able to
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: you know, read zones and read the quarterback. And it's
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: a lot of things that we got to be able
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: to do to be able to be uh inside quarterback
• 39:17
  Speaker 12: or a slot cornerback, you know, the outside corners. Everybody
• 39:20
  Speaker 12: can't do it. And so you know, to run whenever
• 39:23
  Speaker 12: he whenever he made.
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: The jump to be the next highest paid it was
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: really great for him. It was great for the position.
• 39:31
  Speaker 12: And I think he and I and many more to come,
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: you know, we got to walk for you know, the
• 39:35
  Speaker 12: others to run you know later in the day, later
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: and later in football. So I think we're just making
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: history here and you know we're all just trying to
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: play the position at the at the highest level.
• 39:46
  Speaker 13: We just need you know, more Nichols to do the
• 39:48
  Speaker 13: same thing.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is music car eers because like James said,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: we we love that slot dB position, especially the time
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: when you seeing like you know, the regular safeties are
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: are floating out there on the market like they are,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: so teams are reprioritized. Well, you talked earlier, Kenny about
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: saying you're back in Indianapolis with your friends.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: The Colts have re signed.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: So many players that were free agents there, going from
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Zaia Franklin to some of the players like that, to
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Michael Pittman, the wide receiver. And what about you know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: bringing back so many players, especially a guy like Pittman
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: who you probably bang with a lot in practice.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: He said, what is it like?
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bringing back so many guys who you know, who've
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: been there before.
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, just having a continuity.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: You know, I was there a couple of years in
• 40:30
  Speaker 12: before Michael Pittman Junior came into the Coast facility, and you.
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: Know, I'm able to watch him grow over the years.
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: You know, I was there when zay Yere was on
• 40:39
  Speaker 12: the brink of going to another team, you know, getting
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: cut his rookie year. To now he's been extended. It's
• 40:45
  Speaker 12: been great, and his role has been, you know, the
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: leader of the defense. He's been you know, with myself
• 40:50
  Speaker 12: and Buck, you know, we're all just trying to do
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: this thing together, and if we're gonna win, we want
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: to win together. So we don't want to see anybody leave.
• 40:57
  Speaker 12: We want to make sure that, you know, we stay
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: accountable to each other and make sure we put the
• 41:01
  Speaker 12: hard work in you know, day in and day out.
• 41:03
  Speaker 13: And we can go out here and win some games together.
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: You know, the guys that I'm actually proud of, you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: as the people that they are to you know, seeing
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: them grow.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: You guys won some games. I'll say right here on
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: this show, Kenny, I thought your head coach should have
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: been Coach of the Year and what Shane Stikeen was
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: able to do in his first year in Indianapolis. Now,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew is out of the building, even though he
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: played great subbing in for Anthony Richardson throughout the course
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of the season. Now this is Ars team. What have
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: you seen or heard or talked to your quarterback about
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: moving forward with him being the guy and the face
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: of your franchise. If you're going to win more of
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: these games in year two with your head coach and
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: your quarterback.
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: I think he has enough people in his ear, you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 12: telling him of what we need. And I'm pretty sure
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: he knows exactly, you know, the position that he's in.
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: They've given him an incredible position to be in, to
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: lead the coach, to lead the.
• 41:54
  Speaker 13: City and Indianapolis to win.
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: So I talked to him on the day that I
• 42:00
  Speaker 12: I'm back, and he was fired up to have me back,
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: and I was just saying, way, just having him as
• 42:04
  Speaker 12: my partner back and him there, you know, being supportive.
• 42:07
  Speaker 12: But I'm ready to go and I'm ready to be
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: supportive of him this spring as he gets back on
• 42:12
  Speaker 12: the field and see what we can do together.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Look, you've made some more fans in Indianapolis with a
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: good Samaritan act the other day taking somebody whose car
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: broke down to the shop and give me some money
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: to buy some tools to change his tire. So good
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: for him. Kenny Moore, thank you so much. I wish
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: you had more time, but again thanks for joining us.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Congratulations on everything.
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: First repeat so much, absolutely so.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: When we come back on the NFL Report, you know
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: you want to take your son and get.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: His haircut like Patrick Mahomes.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Well, coming up, we'll be joined by someone who can
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: tell you how you can get that type of crispy
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: cut and enjoy reading.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Books at the same time. Interesting stuff on.
• 42:49
  Speaker 14: The NFL Report. Welcome back to the NFL Report.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: One of the many highlights of Super Bowl Week in
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas was an event that had nothing to do
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: with the outcome of the Chiefs forty nine ers Matchup.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: NFL Inspired Change, in conjunction with the Clark County Library District,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: hosted a grand opening to celebrate the launch of Barbershop Books.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: This is a nonprofit organization that focuses on creating child
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: friendly reading spaces for boys in barbershops.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look.
• 43:32
  Speaker 15: We are here today because the NFL and partnership with
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: the NFL Foundation have helped Barbershop Books come to Las Vegas.
• 43:42
  Speaker 16: Welcome, Welcome to the Las Vegas Park County Library. This
• 43:48
  Speaker 16: is a great day and it's an incredible honor to
• 43:51
  Speaker 16: be hosting the kickoff of Barbershop Books to our Las
• 43:55
  Speaker 16: Vegas community today. The Barbershop Books literacy program is just
• 44:00
  Speaker 16: another stellar example of bringing the library to more places
• 44:04
  Speaker 16: where people gather.
• 44:06
  Speaker 15: We're partnering with the Las Vegas Clark County Library District
• 44:10
  Speaker 15: to create.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Child family reading spaces and ten.
• 44:13
  Speaker 15: Barbershops right here in Las Vegas.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: We're going to be bringing together one hundred and fifty kids.
• 44:21
  Speaker 10: That's a lot of kids.
• 44:22
  Speaker 15: We'll have some reading stations, and then we're also going
• 44:25
  Speaker 15: to be given away free haircuts and three books.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: To read.
• 44:32
  Speaker 17: That one I've been in the education library sector for
• 44:36
  Speaker 17: almost thirty years. Which has driven me in education and
• 44:39
  Speaker 17: libraries and children has been just the impact and the
• 44:42
  Speaker 17: change that literacy can have on kids.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Are there, we go, what a great project, JP, And
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: now we are joined by the founder of barbershop Books,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: that is Alvin Erbie. Alvin Banks are joining us here
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: from New York and just tell us this concept of
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: barbershop books.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Where did it start?
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: So?
• 45:02
  Speaker 18: I was teaching first grade in the Bronx and there
• 45:05
  Speaker 18: was a barber shop across the street from my school.
• 45:08
  Speaker 18: So one day after school, I'm getting a haircut in
• 45:10
  Speaker 18: one of my students, you know, comes into the shop,
• 45:12
  Speaker 18: plops down on a sofa.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: And he's just kind of you know, auntsy, looking bored.
• 45:17
  Speaker 18: And all I can keep thinking is like, he should
• 45:20
  Speaker 18: be practicing his.
• 45:21
  Speaker 13: Reading right now.
• 45:22
  Speaker 18: And I wish I had a children's book, but I didn't.
• 45:25
  Speaker 18: So it was really that chance encounter with one of
• 45:27
  Speaker 18: my students, Alvin.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I love the piece that we watched, I said, I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have an eleven year old. I think I saw a
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: couple of Captain Underpants books, a lot of different books
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: that he reads at home as well. As we were
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: looking through all this different stuff featured there. You do
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of different things, and you have taken this
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  Speaker 1: to a grand scale. I mean, you've done Ted talks,
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  Speaker 1: You've been in the New York Times, You've been on
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  Speaker 1: you know, Oprah's type stuff. Where do you want this
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  Speaker 1: to go? Because you do have grand aspirations, So how
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  Speaker 1: far in your mind do you think this could go?
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  Speaker 18: I wanted in every barbershop where their children. You know,
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  Speaker 18: I think that over the next five years, we'd like
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  Speaker 18: to get to twenty five hundred barber shops.
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  Speaker 10: But I think that that's.
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  Speaker 4: Really just the beginning.
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  Speaker 18: I think there's there's so many opportunities with partners to
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  Speaker 18: create spaces in the community that inspire children to read
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  Speaker 18: for fun.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Alan, you know, look part of this, you know
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  Speaker 3: you're you're here on the show because your partners with
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  Speaker 3: the NFL and trying to get this done, and you
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  Speaker 3: just talked about getting in twenty five hundred barber shops.
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  Speaker 3: What does kind of the sponsorship and then being partners
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  Speaker 3: with a huge brand like the NFL do in terms
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  Speaker 3: of making headway for you to reach your goal.
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  Speaker 1: It's really important.
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  Speaker 18: I think that you know, it signals to other you know,
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  Speaker 18: organizations and entities that this is is work worth investing in.
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  Speaker 18: And I think that.
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  Speaker 4: What it did is it created a model.
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  Speaker 19: Right many of our cities have of local football teams,
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  Speaker 19: and so I think that, you know, it creates an
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  Speaker 19: opportunity for us to say, hey, look at this really
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  Speaker 19: great example of what's possible right when you come together
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  Speaker 19: with Barbershop Books and with amazing partners like the local library.
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  Speaker 1: I love that Altu real quick were tight on time.
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  Speaker 1: When Roger Goodell shows up in Las Vegas with you
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  Speaker 1: guys to read with kids, what impact does that make
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  Speaker 1: and what did you see from Roger Well?
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  Speaker 19: I mean one I was was.
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  Speaker 18: A little surprised, but also excited that he took the time.
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  Speaker 4: I think it signals again that this was.
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  Speaker 10: Something that really was important to the NFL and.
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  Speaker 18: To him for him to take time out and I
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  Speaker 18: saw him he was having a good time, you know.
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  Speaker 18: So I think it was just an impactful event all
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  Speaker 18: around the kids, the adults, everybody out whatever.
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  Speaker 3: The founder of Barbershop Books with a fantastic project. I
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  Speaker 3: was just in an inglewood in Ingwood, California to get
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  Speaker 3: my fade tied up. I'm a little crispy right now.
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  Speaker 3: The other day, and then we know books there the
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  Speaker 3: kids in the shop, so we got to get some books. Alvin,
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  Speaker 3: it's my barbershop. Thank you so much for let's go.
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