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Speaker 1: this is a day and Hi, welcome from our newsroom
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Speaker 1: the football world trying to process today's news, and that
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Speaker 1: is we've lost Franco Harris at seventy two years old,
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Speaker 1: three days before Franco was to have his thirty two
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Speaker 1: retired in Pittsburgh, three days before the Steelers and all
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Speaker 1: of us here were to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of
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Speaker 1: the Immaculate Reception, the play for which this great Hall
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Speaker 1: of Famer is most known and most remembered. Franco Harris
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Speaker 1: died this morning, and he leaves behind such a rich
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Speaker 1: and wonderful legacy on and off the field. Yesterday, Mike Tomlin,
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Speaker 1: in advance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Immaculate Reception,
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Speaker 1: was asked his memories of that great play. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: was in section that day. UM, you know, UM, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was eight months old. UM, but now I think
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Speaker 1: it's funny. Um. Surprisingly, I probably met seventy five people
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Speaker 1: that was there that day. UM. It's just one of
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Speaker 1: those beautiful things in the history of our game. And
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Speaker 1: it's just it's humbling to be in close proximity to it. Um.
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Speaker 1: There are many things that make it the play that
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Speaker 1: it is, and you know, the most significant play in
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Speaker 1: the history of our game, and it's just an honor
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Speaker 1: to be in proximity to it. You cannot write the
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Speaker 1: history of the Steelers franchise and there's six Super Bowls.
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Speaker 1: You cannot write the history of this great game without
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Speaker 1: including Franco Harris. He helped push that Steeler franchise that
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Speaker 1: had forty years of no postseason success into greatness and
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Speaker 1: the Steelers that we know them now. Franco Harris seventy
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Speaker 1: two years old. Will continue sharing memories of the great
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Speaker 1: Franco Harris. Throughout this show, we also focus on the
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Speaker 1: games that we're about to see starting tomorrow and then
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Speaker 1: the rest of the weekend. Obviously the Steelers and the
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Speaker 1: Raiders coming up here Saturday evening in Pittsburgh and Rappaport
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Speaker 1: Mike care Folow on NFL Network. We had a quarterback
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Speaker 1: change today, Mike, let's start with that in Indianapolis. Tell
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Speaker 1: us what Jeff Saturday is doing. He is going to
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles, a guy that he really doesn't know a
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Speaker 1: whole lot about, a guy that's kind of been the
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Speaker 1: backup and kind of quietly going about his business. And
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Speaker 1: now from what I gather, Saturday realizes you a lot.
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Speaker 1: This guy is a little bit more competitive and ready
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Speaker 1: to prepare for this game that I expected once he
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Speaker 1: finally got the nod and the word that he was
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Speaker 1: going to be the starter. So now Nick Foles takes
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Speaker 1: over as a starting quarterback for a Colts team that
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Speaker 1: put up a ton of points the other day. Now, granted,
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Speaker 1: the defense chipped in and the offense did not play
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Speaker 1: well in the second half. So Saturday looking for some
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Speaker 1: kind of spark on that side of the ball for
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Speaker 1: this team period as they come down the stretch. Nick Foles,
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Speaker 1: now we'll start a game for the sixth different team
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Speaker 1: in his NFL career. Gonna be interesting to see what
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Speaker 1: he's able to do with this Colts team. They certainly
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Speaker 1: have weapons and uh a good offensive line. So let's
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Speaker 1: see what Nick Foles can do. All right, Nick Foles,
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Speaker 1: next man, uh Ian Rappaport, meantime for time. Now Tomorrow's
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Speaker 1: game here the Jaguars and the Jets. We know that
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Speaker 1: Zack Wilson is going to go for the Jets. Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence is questionable. He's okay, right, he is okay. Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence expected to start at the Jacksonville Jaguars. And this
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Speaker 1: is status ad tuation that he's been really for the
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Speaker 1: last three or so weeks. He is getting better, starting
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Speaker 1: to feel it less during games, which is a good sign.
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Speaker 1: Dealing with that sprained big toe, which you guys know
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Speaker 1: is an injury that really can linger, and it has lingered.
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Speaker 1: Thus Trevor Lawrence being limited, dusted, team taking it easy.
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Speaker 1: It's just short week. Adapt they did basically anything this week.
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Speaker 1: But Trevor Lawrence should be fine, and he should actually
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Speaker 1: be more than fine. I talked to head coach Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson last week about Trevor Lawrence. Could not say enough
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Speaker 1: good things. And I'll tell you the two main things
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Speaker 1: that stood out to me, guys. One, he loves putting
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Speaker 1: the team on his back, loves those got to have
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Speaker 1: in moments loves coming through. The other thing is as
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Speaker 1: he gets more confident, he's taking more deep shots. So
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Speaker 1: you're seeing a few more big plays for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: and talking a little more trash as well. You've seen
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Speaker 1: him talking back to some defense. Is Trevor Lawrence is
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Speaker 1: feeling it right? Yeah, Mike. It's always a bad sign
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Speaker 1: when a quarterback has an injury concern and that team
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Speaker 1: goes out and signs another quarterback, such as the case
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Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Yeah. Uh, Ryan Tannehill facing an uphill battle.
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Speaker 1: That's the way Tom Paala Sero mentioned it yesterday on
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Speaker 1: our air at NFL Network. We are all hearing that
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Speaker 1: it's going to be more than I mean, it's it
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Speaker 1: sounds like Ryan Tannell has got no shot to play
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Speaker 1: this week and then we'll see about everything after that.
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Speaker 1: But the Titans going out and adding Josh Dobbs to
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Speaker 1: the roster after Dobbs was released by the Browns when
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson came back, So that's not a great indication again,
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Speaker 1: not just for this week, but beyond it. So now
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Speaker 1: they turn things over as we expect to Malik Willis
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Speaker 1: to see what he can do with a team that's
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Speaker 1: still in the pole position in their division, but those
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Speaker 1: Jaguars are right behind them. All of a sudden in
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Speaker 1: this race is tightening. So the Titans gotta tighten it up.
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Speaker 1: I keep saying tight. Gott to tighten it up here
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Speaker 1: and try to hold off Jacksonville as we come down
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Speaker 1: the stretch, potentially with Malik Willis and Josh Dobbs behind him.
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Speaker 1: I see who he did there. I see who you
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Speaker 1: did there. Uh. The ravens Ian are no longer in
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Speaker 1: pole position to the a f C North. They are
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Speaker 1: not signing another quarterback. But Lamar Jackson is still not
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Speaker 1: on the practice field. Uh it was not in the practice. Yes, say,
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Speaker 1: we'll see about today whether or not he practices. And
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Speaker 1: you know the interesting thing here is this was the
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Speaker 1: week that I think a lot of people expect to
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson would be back at practice and then we'll
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Speaker 1: see maybe ramp up during the for the game or
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Speaker 1: or maybe not. A PCL injury that was one to
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Speaker 1: three weeks generally, this is around the time frame he
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Speaker 1: would return down these You know, PCL is not a
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Speaker 1: simple injury, and it can take players a little bit
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Speaker 1: longer than expected. But I think the common thought was
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Speaker 1: that he would be back this week. As of yet
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Speaker 1: has not been back, so that means, you know, we'll see,
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Speaker 1: but you may see another week of Snoop Huntley, which
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Speaker 1: you know, led John Harbaugh to say after the game
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Speaker 1: they just need more offense. It's not gonna help though,
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Speaker 1: not having Devin DuVernay, who has been their standout return
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Speaker 1: and one of their really good receivers. He is out
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Speaker 1: for we think the season, depending on how far the
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Speaker 1: Ravens go. He has a fifth meditarsal fracture in his
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Speaker 1: foot happened yesterday at practice, a broken b owner's foot
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Speaker 1: face about eight weeks of recovery, so the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: if the Ravens mak it would be a little short
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Speaker 1: of that. We'll see, but out indefinitely and on our rs.
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Speaker 1: And it's maybe one of the reasons they claimed Sammy Watkins,
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Speaker 1: who's back now in Baltimore. They got him off of
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Speaker 1: waivers yesterday from the Packers. The Ravens still did run
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Speaker 1: for nearly two hundred yards on Saturday, but they produced
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Speaker 1: only three points. They get Desmond Ritter and the Falcons
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Speaker 1: coming up this week in Baltimore. Thank you, Ian and
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Speaker 1: thank you, Mike. Meantime, we get the Eagles and the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys in the NFC East Philadelphia, a chance to wrap
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Speaker 1: up the one seat, a chance to wrap up home
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Speaker 1: field advantage, a chance to let Jalen Hurts rest for
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Speaker 1: a month if they can beat the Cowboys. As for
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, all they're doing is trying to bounce back
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Speaker 1: from it overtime walk off laws in Jacksonville. When you
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Speaker 1: have the ability to the boust back resilience where you know, eever,
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Speaker 1: how you want to um look at it. Uh, you
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Speaker 1: know that directly you know points to me is to
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Speaker 1: to the culture in the locker room. I mean, did
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Speaker 1: these guys believe, um, there's there's never a dent um.
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Speaker 1: You know, we we all have to answer questions and
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Speaker 1: we have other responsibilities. But the everyday function of you know,
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Speaker 1: getting together, meeting, walking through, communicating, connection, commitment. Uh, this
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Speaker 1: is a very very consistent block room. So I think
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Speaker 1: it directly reflects that. Look, the Cowboys can still win
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Speaker 1: the East. Jane Slater, they backed into a playoff spot
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Speaker 1: while flying home to Dallas this past Sunday, probably already
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Speaker 1: landed actually by the time they found out here in
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Speaker 1: that other game ended in Washington, but they need some
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Speaker 1: help here and they have to beat the Eagles this week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what's crazy about this thing, Andrew. When you look
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Speaker 1: at the Cowboys right now, if they win out the
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Speaker 1: next three, and let's say the Eagles lose their next three,
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys win because the second tiebreaker, of course is
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Speaker 1: the division. Well, the Cowboys have the winning rocker in
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Speaker 1: the division, so they would claim the title in the
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Speaker 1: NFC East. So we'll see if Jalen Hurts plays on
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Speaker 1: Saturday or if it's Gardner Minshew. But look, if you
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Speaker 1: go look at Gardner Minshew, he's got thirteen rushing touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: And here's an area that the Eagles can really exploit.
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Speaker 1: It's just Cowboys run defense. It's been a problem all season.
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Speaker 1: The Jags put up a total five hundred three yards.
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Speaker 1: Of that, two hundred of those came on the ground.
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Speaker 1: And as I said, Gardner Minshew, he's shown that he's
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Speaker 1: become a bigger threat with his passing game. He's certainly
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Speaker 1: showed you that he can be a dual threat with
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Speaker 1: his legs, and then he's got all these weapons around him.
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Speaker 1: You know, the big debate that Micah Parsons brought up
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Speaker 1: with von Miller. Is this Jalen hurts m v P
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Speaker 1: or is it a system? I guess we'll find out
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Speaker 1: if Gardner Minshew's under center on Saturday. But he's certainly
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Speaker 1: got enough weapons. Baldi talked about the last hour the
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Speaker 1: offensive line guys like a J. Brown. So this one's
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Speaker 1: not going to be easy for the Cowboys, particularly when
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Speaker 1: you consider they're not gonna have Layton vander Esch. He's
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Speaker 1: dealing with the pensioner. Mica Parsons has missed two days
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Speaker 1: of practice with an illness. We'll see if he plays
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. But the big area that the Cowboys are
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Speaker 1: getting beat on is in their passing game now with
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Speaker 1: the loss of two of their starting corner Okay, what
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Speaker 1: about the passing game for the offense? Here dak through
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Speaker 1: the pick. Obviously you expect him to bounce back here.
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Speaker 1: I had some trouble thrown the deep all this year
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Speaker 1: when it comes to you know, his interception right in
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Speaker 1: bols down field. But just where is he this week?
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Speaker 1: As as this is the game of the week for them,
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Speaker 1: I mean they got to win this game. Yeah, Look,
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Speaker 1: Dac is as frustrated as I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: fans are. You know, he's got nine games where he
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Speaker 1: started this season, he's thrown eleven picks. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people are talking about these picks this season, but last week,
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Speaker 1: this one was a costly one. Albeit he's as frustrated,
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Speaker 1: like I said, as anyone else. But you've got Jerry
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Speaker 1: Jones going on one oh five through the fan and
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Speaker 1: saying that his play was outstanding. He said he wasn't
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Speaker 1: playing against chopped liver, but he can't overlook they was
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Speaker 1: seventeen point lead. They lost that game with a walk
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Speaker 1: off pick six. And when we asked him about these
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Speaker 1: picks this season, it was last week. He told us
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Speaker 1: each pick has a story and we can go back
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Speaker 1: to the tapes. I know, Bald, he's talked about this.
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Speaker 1: That last one it was literally in the chest of
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Speaker 1: Noah Brown. So a lot of this has been communication
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Speaker 1: with his wide receivers. Now, they went out and got
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Speaker 1: you t Y Hilton, who after spending ten hours in
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Speaker 1: this building since they signed him, said he was ready
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Speaker 1: to go, both both physically as well as intellectually. When
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Speaker 1: it came to the playbook, they decided that morning he
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to play the more curious thing. And Kellen
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Speaker 1: Moore was asked about this, he said, it was quote
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Speaker 1: a goofy game when you go back and look at
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Speaker 1: it was the fact they didn't get Michael Gallup involved.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy that only had two targets I
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Speaker 1: think for what two yards last week. That was his
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Speaker 1: fifth game where he's seen two or less targets this season.
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Speaker 1: Both Kellen Moore Jerry Jones said, you've got to get
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Speaker 1: this guy more involved. They did sign him to that
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Speaker 1: big contract this all season. He's healthy, so a lot
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Speaker 1: of that doesn't quite make sense. All Right, we get
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Speaker 1: a rematch of Week six, a game played by the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys with Cooper Rush. This time it might be Garden
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Speaker 1: Minshew for the Eagles. We roll on here on NFL dow.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of weather, it's gonna be mad again for the
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Speaker 1: Bills on Saturday, not at home, but in Chicago. What
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Speaker 1: is on the line, the stakes for Josh Allen and
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Speaker 1: company coming up next? All right, this one should be
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Speaker 1: fun on Saturday, and even more fun with the weather.
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Speaker 1: After you watch the Bills playing the snow this past week,
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Speaker 1: They're gonna play in the snow, the rain, and maybe
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Speaker 1: even sub zero wind chill Saturday in Chicago against Justin
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Speaker 1: Fields and the Bears. Now the Bears have been eliminated
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Speaker 1: and the Bills are already in the postseason. You know
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Speaker 1: that if the Bills win Saturday in Chicago, they get
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Speaker 1: to twelve and three and they will wrap up their
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Speaker 1: third consecutive a f C East title. All of this
12:47
Speaker 1: Mike Giardi for a team that went nearly a quarter
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Speaker 1: of a century without winning the division. The keys for
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Speaker 1: the Bills, as they see them in this one are
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Speaker 1: what well. I wanted to talk specifically about cornerback Tradavious White.
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Speaker 1: I think when you looked at their defense, and we
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Speaker 1: did during the course of the office season and into
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Speaker 1: the summer and then the fall when he was out
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Speaker 1: recovering from that torn a c l he suffered a
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Speaker 1: thanksgiving You know, you kept saying yourself, well, Tevius will
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Speaker 1: be back, Tradevious will be back. And when we finally
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Speaker 1: heard from Tredevius, which is about the beginning of November,
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Speaker 1: he talked about how what a change this has been
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Speaker 1: for him to be on the sidelines and for people
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Speaker 1: to look at him and say that's trade Avious White,
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Speaker 1: not the football player. They're just looking at him. As
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Speaker 1: this guy said, I had to find my greater purpose
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Speaker 1: in life. But you know when he's still good at
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Speaker 1: he's still really good at football. And Leslie Fraser talking
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Speaker 1: about the idea that look tred Avious is probably not
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Speaker 1: going to be the guy that we saw before the
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Speaker 1: injury until next year. But the guy they're seeing right
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Speaker 1: now is still pretty good and as Fraser said, probably
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Speaker 1: someone that you want to take over pretty much anyone
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Speaker 1: else at that position. First is starting that Jets game
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, he dealt with Garrett Wilson sixty two
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Speaker 1: percent of the time. He was in a percent of
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Speaker 1: the snaps after being on a snap count earlier, and
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Speaker 1: he played pretty well in that game. And then I
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Speaker 1: thought he took it to another level against Miami. And yes,
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Speaker 1: he gave up the long touchdown, but he's not the
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Speaker 1: only guy that's been beat by Jalen Waddler Tyreek Hill.
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Speaker 1: But he was around the football at Ton and I
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Speaker 1: just sort of went back and looked at it, and
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Speaker 1: it was the way he was breaking on the football.
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Speaker 1: To me that was really impressive because I think he's
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Speaker 1: shown that he can flip his hips and run with
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Speaker 1: a guy but it's that hesitation sometimes do you trust
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Speaker 1: the knee. I think Teas still says there's a way
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Speaker 1: just to go, and he's sort of managing his own
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Speaker 1: expectations because he wants to be that guy right away.
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Speaker 1: But he's playing pretty well right now and that makes
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Speaker 1: that defense a heck of a lot better. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: talked so much about skill position guys offensively coming back
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Speaker 1: from the knee, injury, testing and trusting the knee. It
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Speaker 1: goes the same way. It's the same thing for a
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Speaker 1: defensive player like Trudevious White, and he is getting there.
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Speaker 1: That game is at one o'clock on Saturday. Also at
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Speaker 1: one o'clock on Saturday, Bill Belichick and the Patriots are
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Speaker 1: going to try to do something that has not been
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Speaker 1: done really for like a month and a half, and
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Speaker 1: that is consistently might get to Joe Burrow. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: really is something right because they've done such a good job,
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Speaker 1: Cincinnative shoring up that front line, the offensive line, which
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Speaker 1: again at the beginning of the year seemed like it
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Speaker 1: was the same as last year. They were still having
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Speaker 1: a hard time protecting Joe, but now they're protecting him well.
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Speaker 1: And when you protect the quarterback at this level. Um
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Speaker 1: with that ability with those receivers, you see what happens
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Speaker 1: four touchdown passes in the second half against Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 1: So Bill Belichick, Steve Belichick, Grade Mayo, the brain trust
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Speaker 1: of that defense. They have to figure out a way
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Speaker 1: to get him confused, to make him make some mistakes.
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Speaker 1: And that's also been something that's been difficult to do
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Speaker 1: as well. I think Burrow talked about it saying, look,
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Speaker 1: we understand they're gonna show us some things that we
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Speaker 1: haven't seen before. But here's what I'll tell you. Todd
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Speaker 1: Bowls and that Tampa defense, they spun the dial a
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Speaker 1: ton on Joe Burrow. They didn't play the same coverage
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Speaker 1: play after play, kept changing the looks that some of
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Speaker 1: these coverages came out of. I'm sure the Patriots will
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Speaker 1: try to do the same. They've had some luck, obviously,
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Speaker 1: they held down Davante Adams. They want to force Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow off his number one reach, which would be Jamaar Chase.
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Speaker 1: The thing is number two and number three are t
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Speaker 1: Higgins and Tyler Boyd, two guys that can beat you
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Speaker 1: on their own as well. Just ask the Buccaneers. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that that staff from research is just not six games
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Speaker 1: now in a row for Joe Burrow where he has
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Speaker 1: not been sacked three or more times. First six game
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Speaker 1: stretch like that in his career, first six game stretch amazing.
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Speaker 1: And you see the results here. They have a winning
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Speaker 1: streak going. Thank you, Mike Giardi. As we get ready
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Speaker 1: for the Patriots and the Bengals coming up on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and get ready for the Jaguars and the Jets tomorrow,
16:23
Speaker 1: why is Trevor Lawrence feelings so confident these days? We'll
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Speaker 1: ask Kurt Warner, our Hall of Fame quarterback straight ahead.
16:35
Speaker 1: This is a big game. It's a rivalry game, it's
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Speaker 1: a division game. It goes to Sanders pushing polls. He's
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Speaker 1: in Ku Tuckbown lunches, but Epopsy fires, It is deflected,
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Speaker 1: and then stun got up on the fucking witter. Something hurts,
16:51
Speaker 1: he fires. He's got Brown who eats a man with
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Speaker 1: the fine slots for the fuck doown. The Eagles are
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Speaker 1: up fourteen to nothing us. He lets apply funny and
17:03
Speaker 1: we're definitely not in Tansas anymore. Rush hand off Elliott's
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Speaker 1: big hole for the walk to down touchdown? Is Zekiel
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Speaker 1: Elliott play fake throws into the five to fir and
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Speaker 1: walk into the end zune and we got a walking
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Speaker 1: it's all these the seventh team. It goes into the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Um, but this thing is still not over.
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Speaker 1: It's far from over. Rushes back. He is going deep
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Speaker 1: at end. Teck came point Carder Johnson not as they say.
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Speaker 1: That's awful, diggles. They are going to six and hold.
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Speaker 1: And that was week number six. Now we head into
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Speaker 1: week number sixteen. The Eagles are already in. They can
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Speaker 1: wrap up the NFC East and they can wrap up
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Speaker 1: home field as well the number one seed and a
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Speaker 1: weekend off in the NFC if they can beat the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. But they're gonna have to do it. As
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Speaker 1: we enter the QB Root with our Hall of Famer
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Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, Kurt in all likelihood, with Gardner Minshew, how
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Speaker 1: radical a changed to Nick Siriani's offense? Do you think
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Speaker 1: we're gonna see? You know, Andrew, I don't think we're
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Speaker 1: gonna see that radical of a change in what they do. Uh,
18:18
Speaker 1: you know, I went back and looked at a number
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Speaker 1: of the throws that Gardner Minshew has made in this
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Speaker 1: offense over the last couple of years, and Uh, they
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Speaker 1: play the way that they play. They're gonna run the
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Speaker 1: R P O. S um where they've got the quick
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Speaker 1: throws on the outside. They'll even put it in his
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Speaker 1: hands sometimes to run the football. Now, he's not gonna
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Speaker 1: be as dynamic in some of those areas as you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get from Jalen Hurts. But I believe they're going
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Speaker 1: to call the game and play the game in a
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Speaker 1: very similar fashion. Gardner Minshew has has shown the ability
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Speaker 1: to execute this offense to make big plays down the field,
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Speaker 1: but that's gonna be the real question is Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: has been making a lot of big plays. You can
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Speaker 1: Gardner Mitshew supplement that obviously has been making plays in
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Speaker 1: the run game with his legs. What can we get
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Speaker 1: from Gardner Minshew right there? But I believe the scheme
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Speaker 1: of this offense will stay are very similar this weekend. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and we assume the scheme stays the same Tomorrow night
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Speaker 1: for Doug Peterson and Trevor Lawrence, despite the fact that
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Speaker 1: we could have some big rain there in New York. Curd,
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Speaker 1: it seems as if the light has gone on for
19:18
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. He has not only he's not throwing picks,
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Speaker 1: he's thrown touchdown as they're winning games here, but there's
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Speaker 1: a confidence about him. What do you see from Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence on the film? Well, the first thing I'll say
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Speaker 1: is I think Doug Peterson was great, Uh. For Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence is that he's brought in an offense that to
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Speaker 1: me when I watch it, it makes sense, uh, And
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Speaker 1: I like that as a quarterback, I know what they're
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Speaker 1: trying to do, I know where they're trying to attack,
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Speaker 1: and it's easy to tell a young quarterback eight, this
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Speaker 1: is where we need to get your eyes on this
19:46
Speaker 1: particular coverage, all things that Trevor Lawrence is really really
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Speaker 1: good at, and so it leads itself to some easy
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Speaker 1: plays and also some big plays. The biggest thing for
19:55
Speaker 1: me with Trevor Lawrences I want to see the consistency
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Speaker 1: continue to get better in terms of there'll be a
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Speaker 1: number of throws in every game where it's just like,
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Speaker 1: how did he missed that? You know what happened there
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Speaker 1: that that forced him to miss that throw? And it's
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Speaker 1: more physical, I think than it is mental oftentimes, and
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Speaker 1: so that consistency level hasn't been quite where I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be, But as he gets more comfortable, it's gotten
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Speaker 1: a little bit better. But that, to me is the
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Speaker 1: final step for Trevor Lawrence is to go into games
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Speaker 1: and make all the layups he's supposed to make and
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Speaker 1: then add some of those big plays that he's making.
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Speaker 1: Remember a couple of weeks ago, you and I spoke
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Speaker 1: when Zach Wilson had first been benched here from Mike White,
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Speaker 1: that you thought of the time, organizationally, the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do was to stick with Zack Wilson. They get
20:40
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson again this week after playing last week. He
20:42
Speaker 1: got him in field goal range late with a kind
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Speaker 1: of a miracle throw there to Elijah More. What did
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Speaker 1: you see from Zach Wilson? Do you see any progress?
20:50
Speaker 1: Kurt um Uh, There's still a long way to go
20:54
Speaker 1: with Zach Wilson. Again. I talked about the consistency with
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. I need some consistency from Zack Wilson and
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Speaker 1: and why he's making the decisions that he's he's making
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Speaker 1: and in the ability to make the throws when he
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Speaker 1: decides to make him. There's there's some technique laws that
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Speaker 1: he's got to clean up because it's causing some issues
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Speaker 1: in passes that I know he can complete. I've seen
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Speaker 1: him complete. But then there's you know, the plays that
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Speaker 1: we saw in this past game. There were a number
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Speaker 1: of balls that were really fifty fifty balls, and he
21:23
Speaker 1: was bailed out on a number of those throws. And
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Speaker 1: you've got to eliminate those things. I get it certain situations,
21:29
Speaker 1: certain times a ball is okay, but it can't be
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Speaker 1: a staple of what you do. I need more consistency
21:36
Speaker 1: in moving the football. And so again, I knew Zack
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Speaker 1: Wilson was gonna be a bit of a project with
21:42
Speaker 1: the fact that he didn't play that much in college.
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Speaker 1: So we've got to grow when we've got to learn.
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Speaker 1: But we want to see that progress. And that's why
21:49
Speaker 1: I felt like they should have stayed with him to
21:51
Speaker 1: help him work through some of these things and find
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Speaker 1: out what he is. But I saw those same issues
21:56
Speaker 1: this past Sunday, even though he made some big plays
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Speaker 1: and gave them an opportunity to win. Okay, let's let's
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Speaker 1: use the word progress as you just did with another
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Speaker 1: second year quarterback. Because Trevor Lawrence check we see it
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Speaker 1: all right there in the playoff on here, Zack Wilson,
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Speaker 1: you just had your answer, what about Mac Jones? Because
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Speaker 1: last year they were in the playoffs, Last year they
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Speaker 1: seemingly had their guy, and this year with Matt Patricia
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Speaker 1: as the offensive coordinator and all the issues associated with that,
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Speaker 1: can you fairly evaluate Mac jones second year? And I'm
22:30
Speaker 1: gonna give myself a little plug here on QB Inside
22:33
Speaker 1: are coming tomorrow on NFL Plus, I actually break down
22:36
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense and go into a little more depth
22:38
Speaker 1: so people there can can check it out. Um. But
22:41
Speaker 1: you know this is a tough one for me because
22:43
Speaker 1: I was a big Mac Jones fan. Um. I like
22:46
Speaker 1: what he did last year. I agree, probably the best
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Speaker 1: rookie that we saw last year, and now it's gone
22:53
Speaker 1: haywire and it is across the board. I can't just
22:56
Speaker 1: pin this all on Mac Jones. They've got some issues
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Speaker 1: with the play design and the play calls. They've got
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Speaker 1: some issues with the weapons on the outside. But Mac
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Speaker 1: Jones is having some issues to some some easy reads
23:08
Speaker 1: for Mac Jones, easy reads that I saw a year
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Speaker 1: ago that I saw from him at Alabama. He's missing
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Speaker 1: those reads. He's impatient with what he's doing in the pocket.
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Speaker 1: And I understand when things are chaotic around you, that
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Speaker 1: can make you chaotic as a quarterback, but you can't
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Speaker 1: let it. If you're gonna play in the National Football
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Speaker 1: League and be a franchise quarterback, you've got to play
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Speaker 1: good football regardless of what's going on around you. And
23:31
Speaker 1: Max not playing great football right now. He's got his moments,
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Speaker 1: he makes his plays, but he's missing a lot of
23:37
Speaker 1: things that I saw him make last year. He's missing
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Speaker 1: a lot of things mentally that I expect him to
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Speaker 1: do every single time he goes out, no matter what
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Speaker 1: the issues are around him. So there's a lot going
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Speaker 1: on there, and everybody's taken their turn. But I just
23:51
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening with Mac Jones because it doesn't
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Speaker 1: look like the Mac Jones that I saw his last
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Speaker 1: year at Alabama and I saw last year in New England.
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Speaker 1: And the frustration has written all over his face there
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Speaker 1: when the play is not coming in in time, and
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Speaker 1: it's just it's seemingly to your point trickles down, Kurt. Obviously, Um,
24:07
Speaker 1: we're morning the loss of a great Hall of famer.
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Speaker 1: Today you are our Hall of Famer, and We're always
24:11
Speaker 1: happy to have you on here on Wednesdays. You and
24:13
Speaker 1: I were talking off there as you get ready to
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Speaker 1: go to Pittsburgh to call that game the Steelers and
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Speaker 1: Raiders on our air Saturday night, the fiftieth anniversary of
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Speaker 1: the Immaculate Reception. Your memories of your fellow Hall of
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Speaker 1: Famer Franco Harris. Yeah, there will be a sadness that that,
24:30
Speaker 1: you know, that covers that game, No doubt. We were
24:32
Speaker 1: excited to to celebrate the Immaculate Reception and everything that
24:36
Speaker 1: went into that and the players that went into that. Um.
24:38
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up a Cowboys fan, Andrew and
24:40
Speaker 1: so I had a respectful dislike for that man right there.
24:44
Speaker 1: And Frank o'harris, Uh, such a talented player, but I
24:47
Speaker 1: watched him beat my Cowboys and Super Bowls and really
24:50
Speaker 1: kind of dominate the seventies. But as I got to
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Speaker 1: know Franco throughout my career and we crossed passed, and
24:56
Speaker 1: I saw him every year in Canton, that dislike disappeared
25:01
Speaker 1: within seconds. So I don't know if you can meet
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Speaker 1: a more humble, a sweeter spirited guy than franko' harris.
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Speaker 1: Is that I enjoyed every single time I saw him
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Speaker 1: across the room, I had to make my way to
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Speaker 1: him to have a conversation because I loved to smile.
25:17
Speaker 1: I loved his spirit. Uh. The great thing about Franco
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Speaker 1: is that every time he had a conversation with him,
25:22
Speaker 1: he always made it about the other person. You know,
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Speaker 1: he was an icon. He was like, I looked up
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Speaker 1: to a guy that helped me to fall in love
25:29
Speaker 1: with this game that meant so much to me. But
25:32
Speaker 1: every time I went to talk to him and I
25:34
Speaker 1: wanted to find out about him, he turned it around
25:36
Speaker 1: um and made it about me. And that's just how
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Speaker 1: special this individual was and why he was so endeared
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Speaker 1: and loved in Pittsburgh, but so endeared and loved around
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Speaker 1: the football community. And we've lost a really, really good
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Speaker 1: human being in a special individual that meant a lot
25:53
Speaker 1: to the game, but meant way more off the field
25:56
Speaker 1: than he meant on the field. And so I'm saddened,
25:59
Speaker 1: But I will remember him very, very fondly because he
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Speaker 1: was a special, special man, absolutely and sad. Today will
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Speaker 1: still be a very special special night. It will be
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Speaker 1: a celebration of the life of a great Hall of
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Speaker 1: Famer that we lost today, looking forward to your call
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Speaker 1: Kurt Saturday. Thanks as always, Happy holiday to you, Brenda
26:18
Speaker 1: and the family, Kurt Warner, everybody. Franco Harris was seventy
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Speaker 1: two years old Saturday. He was to become just the
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Speaker 1: third member of this great franchise to have his jersey retired.
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Speaker 1: His final interview was yesterday on Sirius XM Radio with
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Speaker 1: Chris Matt dog Russo. Memories of the immaculate reception. When
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Speaker 1: I see the film and I see it in real time,
26:49
Speaker 1: it just blowed my mind. How quick that is. I'm saying,
26:52
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean that ball flies back right,
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Speaker 1: brash Old throws up ball and then boom, just seconds
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Speaker 1: up ball is you know, is upon me. And I
27:06
Speaker 1: had no idea how I reacted so quickly and got
27:11
Speaker 1: it and and kept in stride and even looked up
27:15
Speaker 1: a little bit, just you know, to try to get
27:17
Speaker 1: to layer to land. I'm saying, how did all that
27:20
Speaker 1: happen in just those few seconds? It didn't make any sense,
27:25
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Because you know, like I
27:27
Speaker 1: just like I just don't understand it now. I've always
27:31
Speaker 1: had great reflexes, right, but you don't practice stuff like
27:36
Speaker 1: this and and I'm just trying to see how quick
27:41
Speaker 1: it was and how quick you have to react with
27:46
Speaker 1: something that's never happened before, so kind of blows my mind.
27:52
Speaker 1: That was franko' harris just yesterday, his final interview, we believe,
27:57
Speaker 1: before we lost him. This morning, I said franko Harris
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Speaker 1: was going to become only the third Steeler to have
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Speaker 1: his jersey retired. One of the other two joins us
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Speaker 1: now also a Hall of Famer, the great Mean Joe
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Speaker 1: Green with us on the phone here on NFL Network. Joe,
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Speaker 1: our condolences, thank you for joining us here, especially considering
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Speaker 1: the circumstances. How are you going to remember your friend
28:19
Speaker 1: and your teammate, Frank o' harris. Oh, just as just
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Speaker 1: like Church said, a special human being. When is the
28:35
Speaker 1: last time you spoke to him? Joe? Oh, probably two
28:41
Speaker 1: months ago something like that. When we're in Pittsburgh. Got
28:46
Speaker 1: celebrating the honors inductions. Terry Bradshaw is on this morning
28:51
Speaker 1: and he said this was to be on Saturday, the
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Speaker 1: greatest moment of Franco's post football his retirement life. Joe,
29:00
Speaker 1: I just can't get over the timing here, as he
29:05
Speaker 1: was going to have his moment as everyone from that
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Speaker 1: great game fifty years ago was going to have that moment. Oh,
29:15
Speaker 1: it's incredible, It's incredible. It's this is like a bad dream,
29:22
Speaker 1: and I'd like to wake up and find it all.
29:26
Speaker 1: I'm true that I've been experienced in the last ten
29:29
Speaker 1: to fifteen hours. Joe, what kind of teammate was Franco?
29:35
Speaker 1: Couldn't get it? Better? Have a better teammate. Franco came
29:41
Speaker 1: to work early, and he left the lake and he
29:45
Speaker 1: was always positive. I never said a negative thing about
29:50
Speaker 1: anyone or anything. You guys were larger than life in
29:55
Speaker 1: that city still to this day. Are What did he
29:59
Speaker 1: mean to Pittsburgh? Oh? Just with the I macinate recession
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Speaker 1: done to UH to our football team. UH. Prior to Franco,
30:16
Speaker 1: we were not very good. And with with Franco coming
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Speaker 1: his rookie year seventy two, this year was this his
30:25
Speaker 1: rookie year, and we started to run the football and
30:29
Speaker 1: Franco was was obviously a star from the way he
30:35
Speaker 1: handled him stuff and on an off the field, and
30:40
Speaker 1: that that gave us UM an attitude that we could
30:45
Speaker 1: win against anyone, anyone, and we nearly did. If we
30:51
Speaker 1: are UM lost the n f C Championship game too
30:57
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins. UH. The week after this UH a
31:02
Speaker 1: macinate recession game, and we went on to UH. In
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Speaker 1: the next five years we win five or six years,
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Speaker 1: we went four four Super Bowls. There we we were
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Speaker 1: offensively called it on pit of the National Football League
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Speaker 1: brought to seventy two. People forget there are some lean
31:25
Speaker 1: years there for really forty years before you guys got
31:29
Speaker 1: it together. Seventy two was just to taste of the
31:32
Speaker 1: greatness to come. Joe, we appreciate sharing your thoughts and
31:37
Speaker 1: UH all of us here at NFL Network send our condolences.
31:41
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, thank you, thank you so much. The
31:45
Speaker 1: great nine Joe Green Hall of Famer morning, his teammate
31:49
Speaker 1: Franco Harris, who went to Penn State and then stayed
31:52
Speaker 1: in State load and Nitney Lyons fans and Western Pa.
31:56
Speaker 1: They got one of their own, and then they drafted
31:58
Speaker 1: one of their own again in pat Friar Youth last year.
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Speaker 1: It was Franco Harris who was on stage announced the
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Speaker 1: Pat Friar muth pick the Steelers side and put this
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