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The Insiders Podcast: Texans' 2024 Expectations and Bills OT Dion Dawkins' Outlook on the Team · NFL Game Previews

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Speaker 1: Welcome Inside with the Insiders. Alongside Ian Rappaport, I am
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Speaker 1: Tom Pelicero. Seven weeks from tonight, the NFL regular season
0:17
Speaker 1: kicks off with the Ravens and the Chiefs. So much
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Speaker 1: to talk about through the course of this show, and
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Speaker 1: as always, we are jammed pack Dion Dawkins, the Bills
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Speaker 1: offensive tackle, one of the most knowledgeable guys in the game.
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Speaker 1: He is going to be on this show. We'll also
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Speaker 1: have Michael f Florio, our fantasy guru, taking a fantasy
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Speaker 1: span on some recent news around the NFL. We'll allstock Bears,
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Speaker 1: will talk Bucks, Commanders, and Dolphins. But let's start out
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Speaker 1: in Houston because for the first time today we had
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Speaker 1: a real live NFL practice the Texans, the first full
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Speaker 1: squad report. There. They are out on the field. Different
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Speaker 1: expectations for that team this time around. Do you think
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Speaker 1: about all the TJ Strow It's only year two for me,
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Speaker 1: so I have a lot to learn.
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Speaker 2: I want to get better.
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Speaker 3: I'm willing to get better, and I'm willing to be
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Speaker 3: vulnerable about that, you know. And I asked questions as
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Speaker 3: hard questions, you know, And I want to know.
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Speaker 1: Why I'm doing what I'm doing.
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Speaker 3: And you know, and last year I got to see
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Speaker 3: a lot of success from that.
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Speaker 2: Also some things that I need to get better at.
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Speaker 4: Now is your second year, and now it's you know you.
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Speaker 4: They say there's a comfort level, so you can be
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Speaker 4: a little bit more vocal right to the entire team,
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Speaker 4: not just speaking to the offense, but the team has
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Speaker 4: his ear and he can lean on that a little
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Speaker 4: bit more. And just CJ doesn't have to change anything.
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Speaker 4: CJ just has to be himself right, and that's what
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Speaker 4: it's made CJ is special players is him being.
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Speaker 5: Himself talking number one games, expectations, ever one games, good
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Speaker 5: football and good execution win football games. So ultimately, that's
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Speaker 5: what it's going to come down to. So the rest
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Speaker 5: of it, honestly, it's a big waste of time for
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Speaker 5: us to spend time on things that don't.
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Speaker 6: Matter or that we don't control.
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Speaker 1: Nick Canceario has been a big busy man through the
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Speaker 1: course of this off season. Big names like Joe Mixon,
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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, the Neil Hunter now all a part of
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Speaker 1: this Texans team. You can tell at times in the
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Speaker 1: Nick Casseio spent a couple of decades with Bill Belichick
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Speaker 1: because that answer that we clipped there was actually like
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Speaker 1: ninety seconds long of him saying everything about none of
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Speaker 1: this matters. We're just getting better day by day, one
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Speaker 1: day at a time. It's a friend of the show,
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Speaker 1: but realistically, here Ian, this is a different landscape for
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Speaker 1: the Texans to come into as opposed to the team
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Speaker 1: that won ten games over the previous three seasons combined,
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Speaker 1: it won ten games last year. If they won a
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Speaker 1: playoff game, what's next.
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Speaker 7: Well, when you have the general manager out there on
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Speaker 7: the first day, his words really set the tone for
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Speaker 7: what he wants the players and the fans and the
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Speaker 7: media to understand. And I think Nick Casserio really does
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Speaker 7: speak from the heart when he says they haven't done
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Speaker 7: anything yet, which is all true. What the Texans have
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Speaker 7: done is set the table for themselves, right. I mean,
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Speaker 7: the reason they have these expectations are because one they
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Speaker 7: drafted a quarterback who is looking like a rock star
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Speaker 7: and had a great rookie year and looks poised to
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Speaker 7: do the same or potentially better his sophomore year. They
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Speaker 7: have acted like a team that has money to play
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Speaker 7: with it. I hate the term all in, but that's
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Speaker 7: kind of what the Texans have been doing without really
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Speaker 7: giving up future assets. They traded first Stefon Diggs, They
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Speaker 7: signed several of their key players, had a big free agency,
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Speaker 7: including as you mentioned it, daneil Hunter, one of the
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Speaker 7: top free agents available regardless of position. So when it
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Speaker 7: was a difference maker on the edge, and they can
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Speaker 7: do all this because they have a great young quarterback
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Speaker 7: who's not making very much money.
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Speaker 8: They have set themselves up for future success.
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Speaker 7: But as Casiriro said, it's really a matter of just
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Speaker 7: going out and doing it, and the fact that Bobby
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Speaker 7: sloaktro offensive coordinator, and several other key staff members are
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Speaker 7: still there just allows them even an even better opportunity
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Speaker 7: just to reboot and for Stroud himself.
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Speaker 8: To get better. They got to do it. But everything
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Speaker 8: is looking pretty good right now for the Texans.
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Speaker 1: For all the losses and all the upheaval the Texans
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Speaker 1: that have over the previous few seasons, it was obviously
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Speaker 1: what Nick Cassario's plan was. Now, it helps when you
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Speaker 1: trade a quarterback who has no future on your team
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Speaker 1: for three first round picks and more, But it was
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Speaker 1: about signing all those veterans who maybe the other teams
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Speaker 1: would have been minimum guys. Give them two three million dollars,
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Speaker 1: increase the competition, get a bunch of veteran presents in
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Speaker 1: the building. Now you go out and you make these
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Speaker 1: big time types of moves. You put it right. The
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Speaker 1: quarterback's not making a lot. You've got additional financial flexibility,
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Speaker 1: at least for the next couple of years. Here, let's
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Speaker 1: see about this Houston Texans team in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: They're not the only team getting back in the building.
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Speaker 1: The Jets rookies also reported the training camp today, including
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Speaker 1: that guy, the third round pick, Malachai Corley, the dynamic
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Speaker 1: wide receiver out of Western Kentucky, one of the final
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Speaker 1: draft picks league wide to sign his rookie deal. The
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Speaker 1: Commander's rookies also reported the training camp today, where there
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Speaker 1: have been a lot of changes for Washington over the
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Speaker 1: past years since Josh Harris bought the team. The latest
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Speaker 1: Jason Wright no longer the Commanders team president and is
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Speaker 1: assuming a role of senior advisor. Right is expected to
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Speaker 1: leave the organization by the end of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four season. I will say this ian for Jason Wright.
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Speaker 1: There are few organizations that had more challenges, more pitfalls,
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Speaker 1: more booby traps that you had to try to jump
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Speaker 1: around than Washington over the past several years. Here, once
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Speaker 1: he interviewed for the Packers CEO and president job, it
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Speaker 1: was fairly obvious that he knew his time in Washington
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Speaker 1: was coming to an end. And this is just another
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Speaker 1: example of how Josh Harris, from the football side to
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Speaker 1: the business side, is continuing to turn over a lot
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Speaker 1: in Washington.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 7: And usually we wouldn't spend a ton of time talking
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Speaker 7: about team presidents. I mean we usually reserved those conversations
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Speaker 7: for coaches or star players, changings or whatever it is,
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Speaker 7: being caught moving on whatever it is. The reason this
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Speaker 7: is a topic, the reason why this is pretty big
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Speaker 7: news is because of what it symbolizes. Basically, Jason Wright
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Speaker 7: was the last big time piece of the former era.
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Speaker 8: And look, we've spent a lot of time, a lot
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Speaker 8: of hours, a lot.
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Speaker 7: Of days and weeks and months talking about all the
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Speaker 7: issues with the Daniel Snyder regime in Washington.
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Speaker 8: There were many, many, many. This is basically the last
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Speaker 8: piece of it.
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Speaker 7: And Josh Harris and all his people that he brought
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Speaker 7: in from coach, general manager and Adam Peters now a
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Speaker 7: new quarterback. Team president was really the last big thing.
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Speaker 7: And look, they're going to have a search now, They're
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Speaker 7: going to go through it. They're going to hire a
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Speaker 7: new president. And the fact that Jason Wright is still
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Speaker 7: there as an advisor is good perhaps help with the transition,
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Speaker 7: but I think it's also clear if he gets another job,
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Speaker 7: they will say that's fine, split now move on. It
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Speaker 7: is essentially over for Jason Wright and the Commanders and
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Speaker 7: really the start of a full turning of the page
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Speaker 7: in Washington.
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Speaker 1: The Commanders are one of the big mystery teams in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. To me, you've got a second time head
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Speaker 1: coach in dan Quin, but in his first season, he
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Speaker 1: got a rookie quarterback in Jaden Danes, you got some
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Speaker 1: of those other veteran parts around. The Team's really the
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Speaker 1: excitement level high in Washington in a very competitive NFC
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Speaker 1: East Division. All Right, let's take a break here, because
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Speaker 1: coming up, we've got a very big man who is
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Speaker 1: very very happy to be here. Dan's Dion shows the
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Speaker 1: moves Bill's tackled. Dion Dawkins Next on The Insiders this
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Speaker 1: week on July sixteenth, Dion Dawkins and his Dion Dreamers
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Speaker 1: Foundation co host of the seven to one six Community Day,
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Speaker 1: an annual opportunity for community building, kids' activities, and free
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Speaker 1: products for Buffalo residents. The event was the latest in
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Speaker 1: Dion Dreamers mission to advocate for and support vulnerable communities.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to of the insiders. Tom Pellicero and Ian
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Speaker 1: Rappaport joined right now by that guy, Dion Dawkins. Dion
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about with you. But first off, I'll
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Speaker 1: just say I thought it was fifty to fifty. What
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Speaker 1: do you'd have a shirt on for the interview? So
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Speaker 1: we appreciate your dressing, tood job. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: You are so on point because I thought about it,
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Speaker 3: but I said, I'm a chill today.
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Speaker 1: I'm a chill, So tell me about the Dion Dreamers Foundation,
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Speaker 1: this event. I know you love giving back to the community.
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Speaker 1: What's all this about for you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, this was a beautiful one.
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Speaker 3: Like you know, trust it gives helped put this event
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Speaker 3: together and the seven one six event. It's become like
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Speaker 3: an annual thing. And the zip code in Buffalo is
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Speaker 3: seven and one six, So every year on July and sixteenth,
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Speaker 3: I just bring a lot of attention to the East
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Speaker 3: side of Buffalo, which the East side of Buffalo is
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Speaker 3: one of the most the more rougher areas in Buffalo,
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Speaker 3: and you know, people tend to forget about the east Side.
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Speaker 3: You know, people sometimes like are scared to even drive through.
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Speaker 3: So we have a nice, big day, a lot of
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Speaker 3: the vendors, food, We have the food out there, the
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Speaker 3: ice cream, the trucks, the toys, the blow up everything.
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Speaker 2: It's just like a big kind of like a big block.
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Speaker 3: Part where everybody can just come out seat vendors where
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Speaker 3: if they need stuff done that they can get things
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Speaker 3: done and they could just be free and just be
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Speaker 3: one and just to connect all the communities all in
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Speaker 3: one day, which is July sixteenth, which is super cool.
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Speaker 8: Awesome event.
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Speaker 7: Pictures and video look great and very very cool thing
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Speaker 7: that you do. We got a lot going on here.
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Speaker 7: You guys are about to start camp. We got a
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Speaker 7: whole new rookie cost We had a lot to ask
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Speaker 7: you about. But I want to turn back the clock
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Speaker 7: pretty quickly. First, a couple months ago, we were I
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Speaker 7: think it's fair to say unsure about your status with
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Speaker 7: the bills. You tweeted and I think put on Instagram
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Speaker 7: to a message that I would say was offensive mostly
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Speaker 7: to people who hate ram stressing. You basically said goodbye
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Speaker 7: to Buffalo, trolling all of us, and then signed a
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Speaker 7: three year, more than sixty million dollar deal. Two questions,
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Speaker 7: First of all, do you hate all of us? And
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Speaker 7: second of all, how does it feel to have some
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Speaker 7: security with the only team that you've known in the NFL?
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Speaker 2: Man, I don't hate anybody.
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Speaker 3: I actually love you guys, and the media is so
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Speaker 3: much I have so much fun. I think that you
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Speaker 3: guys are a big part of everything. So I like
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Speaker 3: to poke and pull when I can. And being a
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Speaker 3: part of like Buffalo, it's the coolest thing ever man.
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Speaker 3: And honestly, being able to play at a place that
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Speaker 3: you can, you know, for your concrete, mix your concrete
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Speaker 3: and just settle it down and just to create it,
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Speaker 3: just to create. And I just think that it's cool, like,
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Speaker 3: you know, like I'm happy that I can go on
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Speaker 3: Josh's journey with them.
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Speaker 2: You know, they put all their.
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Speaker 3: Pieces inside of that Josh Allen guy, you know, which
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Speaker 3: is my quarterback, and it's just a blessing that they
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Speaker 3: trust me to be there, to trust to block for
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Speaker 3: Joshu's in Blindside, which is super cool. And I'm just honored.
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Speaker 3: Buffalo is a great thing, and I don't have to move.
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Speaker 3: I don't have to pick up shop and food and
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Speaker 3: start over. Bro like this NFL thing. I promise you
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Speaker 3: it's the best thing, but it could be the worst
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Speaker 3: for a lot of people. And I am truly honored
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Speaker 3: and truly blessed to be able to be in one
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Speaker 3: place and I have to worry about getting into apartment
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Speaker 3: or oh I need to run a house or all
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Speaker 3: these things, and I could just pick up shop, come
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Speaker 3: to Florida, train, come back to Buffalo, and just keep
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Speaker 3: that same and routine, because consistency is the key. And
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Speaker 3: when I can play ball, know where my family will be,
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Speaker 3: know where they are.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a pretty cool and cool thing.
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Speaker 3: So I'm thankful for the Pagoula's and I'm thankful for
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Speaker 3: being McDermott and Cromer for wanting to shign you way back.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of other veterans that have been a
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Speaker 1: part of that journey in Buffalo who are not back.
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Speaker 1: A bunch of guys on defense, the secondary is going
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Speaker 1: to look a whole lot different. And of course there's
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Speaker 1: that guy who caught a lot of balls from Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen sofon Diggs is a big personality. He's also a
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Speaker 1: highly productive player. How do the dynamics change both in
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Speaker 1: the locker room and on the field for your offense
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Speaker 1: and your team?
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Speaker 2: Well, great question, bro. I think every year the team
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Speaker 2: looks different.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we play in the league where there's gonna be
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Speaker 3: changes of pieces.
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Speaker 2: The pieces are going to shuffle, the chessboard pieces are
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Speaker 2: going to do and what they do.
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Speaker 3: But when you lose a guy like Stefan, you lose
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Speaker 3: a lot of character.
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Speaker 2: Like, you lose a lot of character, and.
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Speaker 3: You lose a lot of I would say attitude and
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Speaker 3: swag because you know, Josh is very I mean, Diggs
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Speaker 3: is very comfortable and who he was, and he brings
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Speaker 3: a lot of energy everywhere and he goes.
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Speaker 2: But I think Bean and the people that.
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Speaker 3: Are upstairs and I call them the people like upstairs,
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Speaker 3: which is the management and who runs and gets the
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Speaker 3: guys here, they do a good job of keeping the
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Speaker 3: guys in a consistent not plastic changes where it's just like, oh,
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Speaker 3: Stefan is going well, but like we have guys that
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Speaker 3: have learned, We have guys that have been there, and
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Speaker 3: we have guys that are going to fill those positions.
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Speaker 3: But I know that I could try to paint it
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Speaker 3: however however, and I can. But Diggs was one of
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Speaker 3: my favorite teammates. Man, he was one of my favorites.
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Speaker 3: He was just hisself and he had a lot of passion.
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Speaker 3: And I think if we're talking about Diggs because he's
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Speaker 3: the biggest one, he's the biggest change employer and Mike,
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Speaker 3: I mean, shoot, man, you are right.
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Speaker 2: There is a lot of guys that are not there.
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Speaker 3: But this is the NFL. Guys come, guys go. Guys
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Speaker 3: have to be ready, you know. I think regardless of
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Speaker 3: who's in those spots, we know that they're going to
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Speaker 3: give it there. They're all you know, like fourteen, twenty one,
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Speaker 3: twenty three, all those numbers might not have those same faces,
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Speaker 3: but you know, we're shooting for the stars like everybody
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Speaker 3: is counting us out, which I'm cool with, you know,
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Speaker 3: like we could fly underneath that radar and hit everybody
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Speaker 3: with uppercuts. So I'm perfectly fine with it. But I'm
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Speaker 3: going to support and those guys from a distance. It
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Speaker 3: is definitely different, and I'm still adjusting to it. I'm
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Speaker 3: trying to answer it, But I'm just adjusting to it
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Speaker 3: every day.
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Speaker 2: Because it is different, man, it really is.
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Speaker 3: Like Poyer was my locker made he was right next
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Speaker 3: to me, had shack, you know, ker Micah's voice around
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Speaker 3: the corner, and you know, seeing Steph every day with
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Speaker 3: his outfits and with just his personality and his charisma.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's a it's a different flow. But I
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Speaker 3: think over this Ota journey, it's been good. It's been
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Speaker 3: very very good. The young guys and the new guys
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Speaker 3: have called on to what we do here and how
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Speaker 3: we play here and how we practice and how we
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Speaker 3: go to and from work. They have jumped on board,
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Speaker 3: and it's a it's a good pace. It's a good
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Speaker 3: pace now. But honestly, camp is going to show at all,
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Speaker 3: you know, like we can't fake it and we can't
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Speaker 3: live on it. Like it'll show, like if if we're hurting,
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Speaker 3: it will show.
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Speaker 2: If we're not, it will show.
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Speaker 3: And if the beat is still clicking and the train
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Speaker 3: is still you know, chuck and chuck and chucking along,
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Speaker 3: then you'll see that as as well.
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Speaker 2: But I missed the guys. I definitely miss them. I
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Speaker 2: love them.
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Speaker 3: I still talk to them, and uh, you know, I
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Speaker 3: salute them, and I'll be rooting for them through the
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Speaker 3: TV screen. We're landing in different states while they're landing
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Speaker 3: in different states, not on our plane eating our food.
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Speaker 1: You know, that was the best most all encompassing answer
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Speaker 1: I could have ever asked for about the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four bills. All right, so five days to report the camp.
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Speaker 1: I know you got a five mile walker in to
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Speaker 1: go doing that for Lardale heat. So get the shirt off,
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Speaker 1: get out there, go walk. We'll be seeing you soon.
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Speaker 1: Up there there it is, there, it is. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: we'll be seeing you. Man.
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Speaker 8: The thank you man. That that was all we wanted.
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Speaker 8: That's all we wanted.
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Speaker 1: Thanks j I appreciate you, man.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all. Thank you so so much. Bro. I'll
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Speaker 2: talk to y'all soon.
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Speaker 1: Chick around after this Ian shirt comes off, or we
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Speaker 1: talk about Caleb Williams and his impact on that Bears organization.
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Speaker 1: That's right, the number one pick. He's back in the
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Speaker 1: midling along with the rest of the rookies in Chicago
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Speaker 1: veterans join on Friday. Stacy Jail joins us next.
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Speaker 5: With the first pick in the twenty twenty four NFL draft,
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Speaker 5: the Chicago Bears select Caleb william.
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Speaker 1: Quarter back on the cowbarning stud.
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Speaker 9: Williams is absolutely ludicrous.
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Speaker 3: Really ninth pick Bear select Room Doujay wide receiver, Washington.
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Speaker 1: Robot Junjay what open Jay dude. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: inn Siders, Tom Pillaciero and Ian Rappaport joined now by
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Speaker 1: our friend Stacy DALs is going to have a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun I think for years to come covering this
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Speaker 1: young Bears nucleus. Stacey. Obviously, the Bears drafted calebly was
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Speaker 1: for the talent, for the highlights, for all those things
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Speaker 1: we've seen. Now they've had some time on task and
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Speaker 1: of course he reported with the rookies earlier this week,
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Speaker 1: how do they feel about the competitive drive, the makeup,
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Speaker 1: all those other types of intangible things that go into
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Speaker 1: being the type of quarterback and leader they think he
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Speaker 1: can be.
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Speaker 10: Hey, Tom anyan absolutely great tea up Tom, because that's
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Speaker 10: really the thing this offseason, this entire offseason for Caleb
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Speaker 10: Williams is I think he has matched everything as of
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Speaker 10: right now that the Bears expected him to be and
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Speaker 10: perhaps exceeded those expectations. In fact, head coach Matty Berflus
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Speaker 10: has talked about to an extent that he has exceeded expectations.
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Speaker 10: But my takeaway talking to Bears folks this offseason, including
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Speaker 10: a few coaches, is just how competitive he is.
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Speaker 8: His competitive nature.
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Speaker 10: We know that he has really had to take a
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Speaker 10: step back and learn the position at the NFL level
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Speaker 10: and understand cadence, command, snap count. That has been his
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Speaker 10: evolution and his growth process with Shane Waldron the offensive
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Speaker 10: coordinator in this offense and all of these really this
18:17
Speaker 10: new look offense for the Chicago Bears, and my approach
18:23
Speaker 10: to training camp, gentlemen, will be how much has he
18:26
Speaker 10: progressed with that cadence, with taking that play call and
18:30
Speaker 10: delivering it to his teammates and that offensive line, and
18:34
Speaker 10: how that evolution will transition here into training camp. And
18:37
Speaker 10: they did report early they have the Hall of Fame game,
18:40
Speaker 10: of course, which will kick off our preseason in the NFL.
18:44
Speaker 10: But by all accounts, his competitiveness has really floored this team, fellas,
18:49
Speaker 10: and I think that is going to translate very well
18:53
Speaker 10: for Chicago Bears and a fan base guys that literally
18:56
Speaker 10: cannot wait until the season starts.
19:00
Speaker 7: You know, say see I remember in January and into February,
19:03
Speaker 7: people are kind of waiting and wondering, like, why don't
19:05
Speaker 7: the Bears just declare that they're not going to trade one.
19:08
Speaker 7: Why don't they just say they're going to take Caleb Williams,
19:11
Speaker 7: kind of get the ruse over with and just kind
19:13
Speaker 7: of get going on the planning. But the reason they
19:15
Speaker 7: didn't was because they wanted to spend as much time
19:18
Speaker 7: when them is tremely possible before essentially trading justin Fields
19:22
Speaker 7: and declaring that they were going to move on and
19:24
Speaker 7: end up taking Caleb Williams they wanted.
19:26
Speaker 8: It wasn't like they needed film study. It's not like
19:28
Speaker 8: they needed to see him on the field. Everyone knew
19:30
Speaker 8: how talented he was.
19:31
Speaker 7: I think it was very obvious he was the number
19:33
Speaker 7: one overall pick based on his film. It was them
19:36
Speaker 7: getting to know him, understanding what makes him tick, what
19:39
Speaker 7: kind of a competitor he is. So not surprised to
19:42
Speaker 7: hear you say they've been floored by his competitiveness and
19:45
Speaker 7: all the intangibles. That's what they kind of thought going in.
19:48
Speaker 7: But Tom, it really is an unbelievable challenge for Caleb Williams.
19:52
Speaker 7: I would say, even more so than most rookie quarterbacks.
19:55
Speaker 7: First of all, there's so much he has to learn.
19:57
Speaker 7: Kind of similar I would say the CJ. Stroud year
20:00
Speaker 7: in camp just had to learn basically everything about having
20:03
Speaker 7: to be a pro quarterback. Then going out and starting
20:05
Speaker 7: Week one, no big deal. But Caleb Williams also has
20:08
Speaker 7: the expectations that almost no other rookie quarterback had. He
20:12
Speaker 7: has a good roster, he's got a pretty good offensive line,
20:15
Speaker 7: he's got a lot of skill guys, he's got a
20:18
Speaker 7: highly paid running back, got a really good tight end.
20:21
Speaker 8: He's got everything he would want.
20:22
Speaker 7: So everyone, including all of us, are going to expect
20:25
Speaker 7: him to hit the ground running. That is not always
20:28
Speaker 7: the way it works for rookies, and he's going to
20:30
Speaker 7: have big city scrutiny it is. I think he's gonna
20:33
Speaker 7: be really, really good, but it is a real challenge
20:35
Speaker 7: for him to get through it.
20:35
Speaker 1: I think another interesting thing when you talk about how
20:38
Speaker 1: much time the Bears were spending with Kayleb Williams in
20:40
Speaker 1: the pre draft process. Remember coaches aren't allowed to talk
20:43
Speaker 1: football with players in the offseason right until they actually
20:46
Speaker 1: come in for the program. That doesn't apply to draft picks.
20:49
Speaker 1: So what I was told is in the weeks leading
20:51
Speaker 1: up to the draft, they were doing zoom calls with
20:53
Speaker 1: Kayleb Williams, staying in regular touch and just talking football
20:57
Speaker 1: to understand not just the person, but the player and
20:59
Speaker 1: how he sees the game. So a little bit of
21:01
Speaker 1: a head start then you might get with some other
21:04
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in the NFL. Stacey, you're the best. Look
21:08
Speaker 1: forward to talking to you and seeing you on the
21:10
Speaker 1: sideline in Lake Forest and beyond. His inside training camp
21:13
Speaker 1: gets ramped up here at the end of next week,
21:17
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild, thank you very much. Of course,
21:20
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams the first quarterback of six off the board
21:23
Speaker 1: in the top twelve picks in this year's draft. Go
21:25
Speaker 1: back to twenty twenty and there were now a handful
21:29
Speaker 1: of highly drafted quarterbacks who have all gone on to
21:32
Speaker 1: certainly degrees of success. You would fair to say, look
21:36
Speaker 1: at that list, that's a pretty good draft class. Even
21:39
Speaker 1: in hindsight as we bring in our camera and wolf course,
21:43
Speaker 1: one of the names on that list, to a tongue
21:45
Speaker 1: of Bialowe, one of the players that we have talked
21:47
Speaker 1: about a lot, along with Jordan Love among others, in
21:50
Speaker 1: terms of potentially getting the contract done prior to the
21:54
Speaker 1: Dolphins reportant for training camp next week. And Cam, you've
21:56
Speaker 1: told us repeatedly not only is to a slim down substantially,
22:00
Speaker 1: but also he did not do everything through the course
22:03
Speaker 1: of the spring. So how far along are we in
22:06
Speaker 1: terms of potentially getting a deal done And if it's
22:08
Speaker 1: not done by Tuesday, what do we expect from Tua
22:11
Speaker 1: in training camp?
22:13
Speaker 11: Yeah, Tom, negotiation is still ongoing. I've been told they
22:15
Speaker 11: have made a lot of progress. They're hopeful still to
22:19
Speaker 11: get something done before the start of the season.
22:22
Speaker 2: But nothing done yet.
22:23
Speaker 11: And as far as timeline, that soft marker that I
22:26
Speaker 11: would watch is the date that you mentioned, July twenty third,
22:29
Speaker 11: that's five days from now when they report for veterans
22:32
Speaker 11: for training camp. And you know, Chris Greer has talked
22:35
Speaker 11: about this to us in the past and said, hey,
22:37
Speaker 11: there's no deadline, but they are hopeful and it's ideal
22:40
Speaker 11: to get something done before the started training camp. And
22:42
Speaker 11: if you look at quarterback deals in the past, justin
22:44
Speaker 11: Herbert Steel was done July twenty fifth last year, a
22:47
Speaker 11: day before the started training camp. Joe Burrow was done
22:51
Speaker 11: till September seventh, a day before the start of the
22:53
Speaker 11: regular season. So often training camp and regular season starts
22:57
Speaker 11: are those markers when deals are done. So we'll keep
22:59
Speaker 11: an eye on it in the next couple of days,
23:01
Speaker 11: but if it's not done by training camp, the eyes
23:03
Speaker 11: will be on what does Tua do. I'm told that
23:06
Speaker 11: he's in great shape. He's been getting his teammates ready
23:09
Speaker 11: this offseason for kind of social events off the field,
23:12
Speaker 11: and he's with the mindset of having an even better
23:14
Speaker 11: year than he had last year. But he was honest
23:16
Speaker 11: with us last month and saying that he felt antsy
23:18
Speaker 11: with no deal. He struggles to separate business from personal
23:23
Speaker 11: and so does he skip any practice eleven on elevens
23:26
Speaker 11: like he did in camp. That's a question that will
23:28
Speaker 11: come up if there is no deal in five days,
23:30
Speaker 11: and his teammates have definitely been extremely vocal about getting
23:34
Speaker 11: a deal done. His left tackle, Toronto Armstead, set on
23:37
Speaker 11: up in Adams earlier. He said it's going to happen.
23:39
Speaker 11: He said, we need to to go anywhere we're trying
23:41
Speaker 11: to go. All our dreams, goals and aspirations are relying
23:45
Speaker 11: on number one and the organization knows that. So you
23:47
Speaker 11: got Toronto Armstead, Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, Javon holland Jayalen
23:52
Speaker 11: Ramsey all maybe their top five players outside of Tua
23:55
Speaker 11: being very vocal they need to get something done, and
23:57
Speaker 11: so I don't hear any worry they're going to get
23:59
Speaker 11: something done. I think right now is just the win.
24:02
Speaker 7: Is the question that's exactly right, And it's not like
24:05
Speaker 7: the question is really like does he deserve an extension?
24:07
Speaker 8: It really would be.
24:08
Speaker 7: I haven't talked to anybody in any facet of life
24:12
Speaker 7: who does not believe too deserves an extension. It's really
24:14
Speaker 7: just a matter of finding the right price. Is it
24:17
Speaker 7: kind of right around Jared Goff? Is it right around
24:19
Speaker 7: Trevor Lawrence? Is it a little below them? The quarterback
24:21
Speaker 7: market is very well defined. It's going to start with
24:25
Speaker 7: a five, it's going to be in the fifties. Just
24:27
Speaker 7: is it more like fifty three? Is it more like
24:28
Speaker 7: fifty five? Or is it kind of a little bit
24:31
Speaker 7: on the lower end. And you know, Tua did seem
24:34
Speaker 7: to lay out the playbook of how he's going to
24:36
Speaker 7: handle things. He's a good dude, He's a classy dude.
24:38
Speaker 7: He's also a quarterback who is a leader. So hard
24:41
Speaker 7: to imagine someone like him doesn't show up. More likely,
24:44
Speaker 7: if a deal doesn't get done by training him, he'll
24:46
Speaker 7: kind of be careful.
24:47
Speaker 8: He'll sit out, he'll take.
24:48
Speaker 7: Care of himself and make sure he didn't put himself
24:50
Speaker 7: with harms the way before he gets that money. But
24:52
Speaker 7: certainly this does feel like something that is coming. It
24:56
Speaker 7: does feel like there's a lot of optimism that eventually,
24:58
Speaker 7: at some point, soon it's going to get done.
25:00
Speaker 8: And you know, for the Dolphins and.
25:02
Speaker 7: For Tua, it's really a victory for everyone because if
25:05
Speaker 7: you had gone back four years, three years, there was
25:09
Speaker 7: real questions about whether or not Tua is a franchise quarterback.
25:12
Speaker 7: I don't believe there's any questions anymore as far as
25:15
Speaker 7: that goes.
25:15
Speaker 8: Just no matter of what's the rice price to pay.
25:18
Speaker 1: Him, well, if the priss gets too high at some point,
25:21
Speaker 1: that's where the Dolphins have decisions to make as well.
25:23
Speaker 1: I had a GM for another team tell me recently,
25:26
Speaker 1: if it gets up in that high fifty sixty million
25:29
Speaker 1: dollar range, I'd let him play it out. In other words,
25:31
Speaker 1: if you want to leave all this money on the
25:32
Speaker 1: table after everything we've been through organizationally with you, then
25:36
Speaker 1: that's fine. Let's play it out and let's see where
25:37
Speaker 1: we are next March. Of course, as we also know,
25:40
Speaker 1: when you wait on these big contracts, the price generally
25:44
Speaker 1: ends up going higher. Cam, Thank you very much. I'm
25:47
Speaker 1: sure we'll talk with you about this again in the
25:50
Speaker 1: very near future. Let's stay in Florida after this, because
25:53
Speaker 1: that guy Baker Mayfield did get his deal back in
25:56
Speaker 1: March locked in a Tampa starter. Will it be another
26:00
Speaker 1: NFC sells title for the Bucks. Sarah wats joints to
26:03
Speaker 1: discuss that.
26:03
Speaker 6: Next the insight, Baker is playing with green HEADI they
26:14
Speaker 6: took sore ribs on his left side and a spring ankle.
26:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, here you go up easy completions and we're gonna
26:26
Speaker 4: stay ahead of them the whole game.
26:28
Speaker 6: Little Stuff's gonna work you guys.
26:29
Speaker 1: Keep breaking tackles, Chap. This fights a little buck, gets
26:32
Speaker 1: through a tackle, spins off a tackle. He fights us
26:35
Speaker 1: way to the fifty yard line.
26:39
Speaker 6: Here's another broken tackle.
26:41
Speaker 8: This is the rookie tile comer.
26:43
Speaker 6: Tuck stops night of miss tackles.
26:53
Speaker 2: Play.
26:53
Speaker 1: If you're throws it up for grabs towards the it's
26:55
Speaker 1: calm tuck stuff tackle bang.
26:58
Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, welcome back to the insiders, Tom pilisero
27:05
Speaker 9: Ian rapport joined now by Sarah Waltsh and Sarah Baker Bayfilot.
27:09
Speaker 1: He got his contract, no longer on a one year deal,
27:11
Speaker 1: no longer wondering as he bounced around multiple different teams
27:14
Speaker 1: in a single season. But I'll try to capitalize with
27:17
Speaker 1: the Tampa roster that's undergone some changes. So they're back.
27:19
Speaker 1: They report to camp on Tuesday. What are the Bucks
27:22
Speaker 1: going to be looking for?
27:23
Speaker 12: When you talk about changes, I can tell you one
27:25
Speaker 12: thing that never changes. Mike Evans is the guy here
27:28
Speaker 12: in Tampa for more than a decade now. He has
27:30
Speaker 12: been building that Hall of fame resume and then linked
27:34
Speaker 12: up with Chris Godwin when he was drafted by the
27:35
Speaker 12: Bucks in twenty seventeen, and together those two have been
27:38
Speaker 12: one of the most productive receiving.
27:40
Speaker 13: Duos in the league.
27:41
Speaker 12: However, one of the questions for the Buccaneers is they
27:44
Speaker 12: really need someone to emerge.
27:46
Speaker 13: Is that number three threat for this offense?
27:49
Speaker 12: Since twenty twenty two, Mike and Chris combined for seventy
27:53
Speaker 12: two percent of the Buccaneers receiving yards.
27:56
Speaker 13: So the Bucks would love for somebody.
27:58
Speaker 1: To step up.
27:58
Speaker 13: Now there's a new offensive court and Liam Cohne.
28:01
Speaker 12: He had said that Godwin would move back into the slot,
28:04
Speaker 12: which is where he does best. But when you talk
28:06
Speaker 12: about the candidates who are we keeping an eye on
28:08
Speaker 12: at training camp as that approaches, well, there's a couple.
28:11
Speaker 12: Trey Palmer was a rookie last season. He had three touchdowns.
28:14
Speaker 12: One was in the season opener, another one was a
28:16
Speaker 12: fifty six yard touchdown. In the postseason against the Eagles,
28:20
Speaker 12: he had just under four hundred yards.
28:22
Speaker 13: They would love for him to emerge and be that guy.
28:25
Speaker 12: And then this year they drafted a rookie by the
28:27
Speaker 12: name of Jaalen McMillan out of Washington in the third round.
28:30
Speaker 13: Cohen was really high on him.
28:32
Speaker 12: When I talked to him a couple of weeks ago,
28:34
Speaker 12: he said, he's really flashed in these off season workouts.
28:37
Speaker 12: They signed Sterling Shepherd, Baker's old college teammate from Oklahoma
28:41
Speaker 12: back in June. They're not entirely sure what we're going
28:44
Speaker 12: to get out of a Shepherd at this point, and
28:46
Speaker 12: so one of those three guys, I mean, look, they
28:48
Speaker 12: would love it for all of them to be productive,
28:51
Speaker 12: but you have to have Mike and Chris healthy. Baker
28:53
Speaker 12: knows that, and then you really to be successful need
28:56
Speaker 12: a third guy behind them. And then another name I
28:58
Speaker 12: threw out there as Kate Atton, one of their tight ends,
29:01
Speaker 12: really came on late in the season, was really good
29:03
Speaker 12: in the postseason.
29:04
Speaker 13: So they hope that they can continue to see the.
29:07
Speaker 12: Emergence of cade Aughten, because look, everyone knows it's Mike
29:12
Speaker 12: and Chris, and they would love to have some more
29:14
Speaker 12: help there when it comes to being a receiving threat
29:17
Speaker 12: for the Buccaneers, Baker and Todd would love nothing more,
29:20
Speaker 12: guys than to spread the wealth around a little more.
29:23
Speaker 8: God, what a great problem to have.
29:25
Speaker 7: You know, this Bucks team really has a feel of
29:27
Speaker 7: like a reboot, right, I mean basically what they did.
29:30
Speaker 7: I mean there's some changes on the roster obviously, and
29:32
Speaker 7: there's still some deals to be done. Tristan Worth certainly
29:35
Speaker 7: potentially the highest pay tackle in the NFL at some point,
29:37
Speaker 7: certainly has a deal that is out there and could
29:41
Speaker 7: get done at some point. But they basically resigned all
29:44
Speaker 7: their guys. They rebooted things that you know, what we
29:46
Speaker 7: did last year, we liked it. Let's try to do
29:48
Speaker 7: it again, but a little bit better, of course, this
29:50
Speaker 7: time with offensive coordinator Liam Cohen as probably the most
29:54
Speaker 7: the biggest new face and most important new face there.
29:57
Speaker 7: But a third receiver is an amazing problem because basically
30:00
Speaker 7: what that means is the Bucks have almost everything else,
30:03
Speaker 7: and that's kind of what it feels like. And so
30:05
Speaker 7: to me, for Baker Mayfield to have some stability, to
30:08
Speaker 7: have some security, to have different offensive coordinator, yes, but
30:12
Speaker 7: certainly a familiar system and a lot of familiarity there,
30:15
Speaker 7: it feels like this is probably the best situation they
30:18
Speaker 7: could be in, the best situation.
30:20
Speaker 2: He could be in.
30:20
Speaker 7: And why I think there's some optimism they could be
30:23
Speaker 7: just a little bit better than last year and kind
30:25
Speaker 7: of continue their upward trajectory.
30:27
Speaker 12: I think they assume that they're going to be a
30:29
Speaker 12: little bit better than last year because there was so
30:31
Speaker 12: much uncertainty with Baker and you didn't know if he
30:33
Speaker 12: was going to run away with the job the way
30:36
Speaker 12: that he did. But going back to that number three threat,
30:39
Speaker 12: they really haven't had that since Antonio Brown when they
30:43
Speaker 12: put him on the field, and then you of course
30:45
Speaker 12: had Gronk back in the day. They just had options,
30:48
Speaker 12: and as soon as he was gone, no one's really
30:51
Speaker 12: seized that position.
30:52
Speaker 13: So that's what they're looking for.
30:53
Speaker 12: And then of course that becomes even more important given
30:56
Speaker 12: the issues that they have had with the running game.
30:59
Speaker 13: They would love to run the foot better.
31:00
Speaker 12: That has been an issue for the last couple of years,
31:02
Speaker 12: and Liam that's obviously high on his chart of things
31:05
Speaker 12: to get going. But when you can't run the football,
31:07
Speaker 12: it was really obvious who they're going to go to.
31:10
Speaker 12: Chris has had an issue with his knee not last year,
31:12
Speaker 12: but Mike has just been the epitome of good.
31:15
Speaker 13: Health for all his years playing here in Tampa.
31:17
Speaker 12: So they've been really fortunate in that sense that they
31:20
Speaker 12: have those guys and that they're available and they push
31:22
Speaker 12: through things and they're the toughest guys you could possibly
31:24
Speaker 12: ask for. But for this team to take the next
31:27
Speaker 12: step and go to the next level, and Baker has
31:28
Speaker 12: said over and over again that is the plan. We're
31:30
Speaker 12: not happy just going to Detroit and losing in that
31:33
Speaker 12: divisional round. Now it's how do we get to the
31:35
Speaker 12: next step. They have much bigger aspirations. But I think
31:38
Speaker 12: something you said is really interesting and to me because
31:41
Speaker 12: when the big flashy news stories that you're typically breaking
31:45
Speaker 12: the off seasons, when guys are changing teams and they're
31:47
Speaker 12: getting the monster contracts.
31:48
Speaker 13: There were some monster contracts on the Bucks.
31:50
Speaker 12: I just think that they're not as heavily publicized because
31:53
Speaker 12: it's just the Bucks returning to the Bucks. And that's
31:55
Speaker 12: what Jason Lay said. He goes, if you know, if
31:57
Speaker 12: you out looked at my hall, if you went out
31:59
Speaker 12: and said you've signed this guy and this guy and
32:00
Speaker 12: this guy, you'd go, this is a pro bowler. This
32:02
Speaker 12: He's like, I've got a Pro Bowl haul. It was
32:05
Speaker 12: just those guys are my own guys, right, So I
32:07
Speaker 12: think that goes under the radar a little bit. He
32:09
Speaker 12: had an all star class that he signed. He just
32:12
Speaker 12: happened to already have them in his building.
32:15
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32:17
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33:22
Speaker 1: season games played by any offensive or defensive lineman. Kyle Pitts, well,
33:29
Speaker 1: I'd be trying on a new position here, working not
33:31
Speaker 1: only at the tight end position, but also at wide receiver.
33:36
Speaker 1: Everybody who's been riding the hike trade on Kyle Pitts
33:39
Speaker 1: for several years now and thinking about him in fantasy,
33:42
Speaker 1: is this the breakthrough? Is this the time a new
33:46
Speaker 1: coaching staff, a new offense. Is this the Kyle Pitts
33:49
Speaker 1: breakouts season? We got just the man to tell us.
33:53
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33:55
Speaker 1: our fantasy guru, Michael f Floria. Michael left with the
33:59
Speaker 1: wider receiver slash tight end tag. Now potential that could
34:03
Speaker 1: be there. I'm having like Marcus Colston flashbacks. The difference
34:06
Speaker 1: there was that was a fake tight end. It was
34:08
Speaker 1: really a wide receiver. This is a tight end who
34:11
Speaker 1: might play some wide receiver. What, if anything, does it
34:13
Speaker 1: mean to you about Kyle Pitch's value in upcoming fantasy drafts?
34:18
Speaker 14: It matters, but it doesn't change a whole lot because
34:21
Speaker 14: this is what he did last.
34:23
Speaker 2: Year as well.
34:23
Speaker 14: And as someone who's been chasing the Kyle Pitts hype
34:25
Speaker 14: train for years now, I could tell you, like I'm excited,
34:28
Speaker 14: but last year, twenty nine percent of his snaps were
34:31
Speaker 14: out wide, forty eight were from the slot, only twenty
34:34
Speaker 14: two were used as a traditional tight end. But what
34:37
Speaker 14: matters is the new play caller and the new quarterback
34:40
Speaker 14: two years ago, if he had the highest rate of
34:42
Speaker 14: uncatchable targets at sixty percent last year, Ritter and Heineke
34:47
Speaker 14: combined to be bottom two in catchable target rate.
34:50
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Kirk Cousins.
34:52
Speaker 8: Was top two.
34:53
Speaker 14: So he's gonna get a lot more catchable targets and
34:55
Speaker 14: we know what he can do with that. We saw
34:57
Speaker 14: flashes of that this rookie year, this is the year
34:59
Speaker 14: every on the Kyle Pitts breakout. It's happening now, or
35:03
Speaker 14: it may never happen.
35:05
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on to somebody who was a
35:06
Speaker 1: full time wide receiver though he wasn't there to do
35:09
Speaker 1: anything in mini camp. Brandon Ayuk, after a month long
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Speaker 1: standoff with the forty nine Ers that is still ongoing,
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Speaker 1: officially requested a trade earlier this week. My understanding has
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Speaker 1: been that has not changed the forty nine ers perspective.
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Speaker 1: They've always been in the camp of you're going to
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Speaker 1: be on the team in twenty twenty four from a
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Speaker 1: fantasy perspective, and maybe the possibility even that Ayo could
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Speaker 1: miss some time into camp, maybe even toward the season,
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Speaker 1: what does that do to his stock?
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Speaker 14: I think realistically he's going to end up playing this
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Speaker 14: year in San fran and I think that's the best
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Speaker 14: case scenario for everyone involved. Ayuk has become their top
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Speaker 14: d threat, their top receiver in the red zone.
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Speaker 8: He is so efficient.
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Speaker 14: His yards per route ran last year was the fourth
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Speaker 14: best and the next gen stats era. I think his
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Speaker 14: efficiency would go down if he left, Maybe his volume
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Speaker 14: would go up and make up for that. He only
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Speaker 14: had one hundred and five targets last year. If he
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Speaker 14: was to leave, maybe Washington, Buffalo, the Chargers some places.
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Speaker 2: That could help.
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Speaker 14: But Rock Perdy better be hoping that he does not leave,
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Speaker 14: because last year half of his deep completions went to
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Speaker 14: Brandon Ayuk and just about half of his deep yards
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Speaker 14: and touchdowns also went to Ayuk. So that would take
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Speaker 14: party and make him more of a QB two for
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Speaker 14: fantasy purposes if he was to lose his top white.
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Speaker 1: Outright, everybody's always looking for additional quarterbacks, especially me, who suddenly,
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Speaker 1: after like fifteen years in the same league, they decided
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Speaker 1: to add a super flex spot and I voted against it,
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Speaker 1: and nobody cared. And now people are starting two quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: and I don't properly allocate my cap dollars and so
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Speaker 1: I never have a worthwhile. Second one, tell me about
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, who certainly seems to be progressing in the
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Speaker 1: right direction. He's not gonna be on puff to start camp.
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Speaker 1: He's got maleak neighbors. Now, is he's somebody worth drafting.
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Speaker 8: In super flex?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, in one quarterback league it's a lot more borderline,
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Speaker 14: but in two quarterback formats for sure. Forget that just
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Speaker 14: in twenty twenty two, a less than two years ago,
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Speaker 14: he was a top ten fantasy quarterback. Now, I know
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Speaker 14: that was largely due to what he gave with his legs.
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Speaker 14: So the knee obviously, to see it healthy is a
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Speaker 14: huge plus. But the big thing you mentioned the Lak Neighbors.
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Speaker 14: He's gonna have the best receiver that I think he's
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Speaker 14: ever played with in Neighbors, who is being drafted right
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Speaker 14: now as a top twenty four wide receiver. So you
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Speaker 14: want Daniel Jones healthy if you're investing in the Elak Neighbors,
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Speaker 14: and this can only be a good thing for his
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Speaker 14: fantasy value.
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Speaker 1: Michael f thank you as always your fancy insights. We
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Speaker 1: will have them every week throughout this NFL season. Once again,
37:37
Speaker 1: always appreciate you being here. Speaking of the Giants, Darius
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Speaker 1: Slayton had some interesting comments recently on the All Gas,
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Speaker 1: No Breaks podcast talking about the newest member of the Giants'
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Speaker 1: Elik Neighbors.
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Speaker 15: Honestly, in my opinion, he was just he reminds me
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Speaker 15: of Jamar Chase. It's like a clone. Yeah, that's the
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Speaker 15: comp I had for him too there right, How tall
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Speaker 15: is Jamar though.
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Speaker 8: Jamorrow was at least six feet Jamorge is six He's
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Speaker 8: listed six.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, so Leak's about six foot yeah, about the same size,
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Speaker 15: Like dimensionally they're about the same and his body.
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Speaker 8: Movements, it's it's actually kind of weird.
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Speaker 1: Trading camp's continuing to ramp up, and we've got some
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Speaker 1: news on a pretty significant player for a team in
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Speaker 1: the NFC. South as Ian Rapport tweeted a short time
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Speaker 1: ago getting clarity on NFL rules. Saints offensive tackle Ryan
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Speaker 1: Ramcheck is now out for the season. Officially. That comes
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Speaker 1: as a result of the veteran tackle who's been dealing
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Speaker 1: with lingering knee issues landing on the reserve physically unable
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Speaker 1: to perform lists.
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Speaker 14: Ian.
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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in back into the conversation here. As we
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Speaker 1: all know, there are some confusing parts of NFL rules,
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Speaker 1: and there have been a lot of changes recently to
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Speaker 1: how the lists end up playing what happens based on
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Speaker 1: when guys go on list. But for Ramcheck, it is
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Speaker 1: abundantly clear he's not playing in twenty twenty four and
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Speaker 1: you have to wonder if this is the end of
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Speaker 1: the line.
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Speaker 7: It certainly could be the end of the line for
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Speaker 7: Ryan Ramchik really one of the cooler success stories, emerged
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Speaker 7: as a big time offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints,
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Speaker 7: signed a massive contract nearly one hundred million dollars.
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Speaker 8: Is going to end up collecting a lot of.
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Speaker 7: That, but his career for sure could be over now
39:28
Speaker 7: he is out for the season.
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Speaker 8: He's dealing with a knee is sure, and he of course.
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Speaker 7: Has had some injury concerns over the years, but dealing
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Speaker 7: with the kneessue now.
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Speaker 8: They thought it was going to get better. I thought
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Speaker 8: it was going to turn the corner.
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Speaker 7: It just did not improve like the Saints and of
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Speaker 7: course like Ramcheck had hoped, and by virtue of him
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Speaker 7: being placed on the reserve pup list rather than the
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Speaker 7: active pup list before the roster cutdown date. He is
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Speaker 7: now out for the season, not able to play this
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Speaker 7: season obviously, as you mentioned, it may not play next season.
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Speaker 7: The Saints drafted Tyali Fawanga in the first round there
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Speaker 7: tackle the the future, a clear sign that they knew
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Speaker 7: this was coming.
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Speaker 1: And just so people don't freak out, because there's going
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Speaker 1: to be dozens of these pup moves coming up here.
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Speaker 1: As Ian just mentioned guys who go on active pup.
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Speaker 1: You can be activated from that at any time. That
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Speaker 1: can be for a variety of different reasons. Reserve pup
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Speaker 1: at this time of year is season ending, and it
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Speaker 1: is for Ryan Ramchick. So some bad news there for
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr in the Saints' offense. They're hoping good news
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Speaker 1: to come for Trevor Lawrence and a remodeled Jaguars offense
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Speaker 1: where you will not be thrown to that guy who
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Speaker 1: caught the first two touchdowns to this highlight reel, Calvin Ridley. Anymore.
40:36
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Jaguars and some new looks as well.
40:45
Speaker 1: The Polynesian Bowl announced today that Gary Kubiak and Ron
40:48
Speaker 1: Rivera have been selected as head coaches for the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five edition, to be played this January live on
40:54
Speaker 1: NFL Network. The annual All Star Game features one hundred
40:57
Speaker 1: of the top senior high school football player in the
41:00
Speaker 1: country showing their skills for college recruiters in Honolulu. In
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Speaker 1: other youth football news, the NFL Flag Championships, presented by Toyota,
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Speaker 1: to kickoff tomorrow in Canton. Nearly three hundred regional squads
41:12
Speaker 1: are competing in both toys and girls brackets. In This
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Speaker 1: first of its kind tournament, round of sixteen covered starts
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Speaker 1: You can also access these new and really old Jaguars jerseys.
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Speaker 1: They announced their new Prowler throwbacks. We've seen a few
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Speaker 1: good ones through the course this offseason. They're going to
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Speaker 1: wear these against the Colts. They're up there, man, everybody
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Speaker 1: in the mid nineties, as we welcome you back to
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Speaker 1: the insiders TN Pila sero Ian rapport. Everybody in every sport.
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Speaker 1: It was pastel colors, right. You had the teal Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: you had the light blue Panthers. The Colorado Rackies were
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Speaker 1: kind of a soft purple, say with the toy Raptors.
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Speaker 1: The Grizzlies were team I like going back to like
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Speaker 1: the tea. That's that's what everybody's closed were too. What
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Speaker 1: is your favorite? There's been a lot of throwbacks, not
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Speaker 1: the all new alterna wars, the throwbacks. What's your favorite?
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Speaker 1: We're going to see in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 7: This was tough because like cool throwbacks are kind of
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Speaker 7: a thing now. And for those of us who are
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Speaker 7: our age, you know, early forties ish, this is kind
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Speaker 7: of our childhood, right, But for me it was.
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Speaker 8: I said early forties.
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Speaker 7: Anyway, it's Seattle, It's the Seahawks, it's the like early
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Speaker 7: nineties Seattle. I mean those are beautiful, right, that's Steve Largent,
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Speaker 7: Walter Jones?
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Speaker 1: Is it larger?
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Speaker 8: Is there a Bosworth out there? I mean those are
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Speaker 8: some Those are some great teams.
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Speaker 7: Walter Jones was also one of my favorites because he
42:45
Speaker 7: never went to training camp and then all he did
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Speaker 7: was be a pro bowler and he was awesome. Just
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Speaker 7: held out, held out, then showed up in bald You
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Speaker 7: gotta like those kind of guys. These uniforms are sweet.
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Speaker 7: Definitely my favorite.
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Speaker 1: Some other good ones from like the eighties style, those
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Speaker 1: Broncos ones that looked like they were introduced in a
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Speaker 1: light beer ad. We're pretty solid. But you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say here, Ian not true throwbacks. You throwbacks
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Speaker 1: to several eras, but the giant century red You're not
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Speaker 1: ten pants? Maybe love me some tan pants. Look at
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Speaker 1: how gorgeous those are going to be? Ian, did you
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Speaker 1: get the ten jersey said maybe to a country club. No,
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Speaker 1: that's what I said. Did you get one of those
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Speaker 1: jerseys sent to you the Canadians.
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Speaker 7: No, I got a Jaguars, but what giants didn't send
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Speaker 7: me anything yet at least, but you know I do have.
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Speaker 7: I'm not saying i'm I'm just saying my dress is