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  Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the Insiders. I am Tom Pelissera. We
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  Speaker 1: are just seventy three short days away from kickoff in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four NFL season. And don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: me sitting here all over at the top of the show,
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  Speaker 1: like Jalen hurts, I'm gonna have a lot of help.
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  Speaker 1: That's because five time Pro Bowl right tackle Lane Johnson
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  Speaker 1: joining me and Brian Baldinger on the show tonight. What's
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  Speaker 1: ahead for the Eagles? Are they looking forward to that
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  Speaker 1: Brazil trip in week one? We'll get into a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that with Lane Johnson during this show. We'll also
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  Speaker 1: talk about the arms race, literally arms in the AFC South,
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  Speaker 1: Can anybody topple? CJ Stroud and the Houston Texans Al's
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  Speaker 1: talk dark horse MVP candidates Kyler murrayby in that mix,
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  Speaker 1: Jared got tons to get into. But let's start with
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  Speaker 1: some big news from early this morning out of Green Bay,
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  Speaker 1: where the Packers Board of directors unanimously approved Ed Policy
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  Speaker 1: as the French his new chairman, president, and CEO, a
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  Speaker 1: move that effectively makes Policy the deve facto owner of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL's only community owned franchise that will start in
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  Speaker 1: July of twenty twenty five, when Mark Murphy, who has
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  Speaker 1: held that post since way back in two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: set the cycle off as he hits his seventieth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: They ran a thorough search, but ed Policy, the son
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  Speaker 1: of longtime forty nine Ers president, Carbon Policy is the
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  Speaker 1: man an in house hire in Green Bay. As we
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  Speaker 1: welcome in more of our friends right here Stacy Dales.
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  Speaker 1: That covers the Packers quite a bit, as well as
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  Speaker 1: our front office analyst, Mark Ross.
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  Speaker 2: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking this morning going back to my Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay Prescauzette days, and that was at a time of
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  Speaker 1: the transition from not just Brett Favre Aaron Rodgers, but
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  Speaker 1: it was Bob Harlan to Mark Murphy. Mark Murphy has
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  Speaker 1: held that post ever since. Not just have the Packers
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  Speaker 1: had three quarterbacks effectively for three decades, they've had three
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  Speaker 1: team presidents overseeing the entire operation.
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  Speaker 3: So I posed this question to you.
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  Speaker 1: Mark, Brett Faha won a Super Bowl, Aaron Rodgers won
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, So I would argue maybe they could
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  Speaker 1: have won more than one Super Bowl. Jordan Love and
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  Speaker 1: the Packers, how set up are they in your mind
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  Speaker 1: to get that Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 4: And maybe another Well, you talked about the stability, Tom,
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  Speaker 4: and you forgot about the people making the decisions and
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  Speaker 4: the stability there. Ron Wolf goes to Ted Thompson, goes
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  Speaker 4: to Brian Gudakis.
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  Speaker 2: They all Kevin in that green Bay tree.
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  Speaker 4: That stability in the front office with the decision makers
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  Speaker 4: allows for stable decision making with quarterbacks. Ron Wolf traded
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  Speaker 4: for Far Ted Thompson drafted Aaron Rodgers, and now Goody
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  Speaker 4: got his guy a Jordan Love. And he got Jordan Love,
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  Speaker 4: but he also surrounded him with a ton of young
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  Speaker 4: talent who.
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  Speaker 2: He gets to grow with together.
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  Speaker 4: And you get to make those decisions as a GM
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  Speaker 4: because you have the stability to say, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: this is not a knee jerk season here or there. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to allow you to draft these young guys
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  Speaker 4: and grow together. And so far it has been worked
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  Speaker 4: out tremendously in one season with Jordan Love and all
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  Speaker 4: his young receivers and tight ends and offensive linemen. So
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  Speaker 4: Green Bay really has been the standard bearer Stacey of.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have the quarterback, got.
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  Speaker 4: To have the stability on the back end, and just
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  Speaker 4: in one season, I know you'll talk about it might
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  Speaker 4: be even better in a year two for Jordan ro
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  Speaker 4: Love and.
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  Speaker 5: Grow absolutely, Mark, and congratulations to Ed. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's just an organization that seems to make smart decisions
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  Speaker 5: all the time, right, And that is the case when
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  Speaker 5: it comes to quarterbacks. And I've done reports on comparing
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  Speaker 5: you know, Brett Farve's first season to Aaron Rodgers first
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  Speaker 5: season to Jordan Love's first season, and it got markedly
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  Speaker 5: better last year. And when you talk about year one
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  Speaker 5: to two, this actually is his fifth season in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 5: So listen, Mark and Tom. He knows this offense, but
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  Speaker 5: I would describe it as the old cliche night and
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  Speaker 5: day from last offseason to this offseason. And Jordan Love
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  Speaker 5: has openly talked about how much better a feel he has.
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  Speaker 5: They often picked pretty good head coaches too, with his
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  Speaker 5: head coach and play caller Matt Lafleur specifically, how much
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  Speaker 5: better a feeling he has for what Matt Lafleur is seeing,
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  Speaker 5: what he's calling based upon what he's seeing, and guys,
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  Speaker 5: that absolutely permeates this entire young roster. It was the
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  Speaker 5: youngest offense in the National Football League last season, and
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  Speaker 5: it will be one of the youngest subsequently.
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  Speaker 6: This season.
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  Speaker 5: Last year was the first time, as Jordan Love has
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  Speaker 5: talked about that a lot of his young players, a
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  Speaker 5: couple of those guys, big time rookies. We're hearing play
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  Speaker 5: calls for the first time in the NFL. And it's
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  Speaker 5: at a point now where he has acknowledged he can
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  Speaker 5: actually change the call at the line of scrimmage in
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  Speaker 5: his second full time season as starter. So things look
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  Speaker 5: really exciting for the Green Bay Packers offensively with just
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  Speaker 5: another young offense that I think guys, they could have
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  Speaker 5: some superstars in the making on that receiver corp.
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  Speaker 3: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: This is also a franchise. It's not the afraid to
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  Speaker 1: pay the quarterbacks a lot of money. They had the
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  Speaker 1: highest paid quarterback for a long time a decade or
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  Speaker 1: so ago with Aaron Rodgers. The difference was back then
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  Speaker 1: that was at twenty two million dollars per year. Now
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  Speaker 1: the top of that mark is one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent beyond it at fifty five a year. Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: did the band aid deal last year. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: books for like eleven million this season. He's not going
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  Speaker 1: to play for that. In your mind, from a front
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  Speaker 1: office perspective, what is the magic number to make sure
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  Speaker 1: you're locking in Jordan Love for the long haul here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know they've been working on this, of course
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  Speaker 4: behind the scenes. We don't see it publicly, but of
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  Speaker 4: course they're working on it and working out different ways.
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  Speaker 4: And it's always that final number. You talk about, Tom
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  Speaker 4: and who what was the last one? What's fifty five
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  Speaker 4: year for Trevor Lawrence. Now that's kind of the number.
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  Speaker 2: We'll we get fifty six per year, we'll get up
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  Speaker 2: to sixty.
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  Speaker 3: It just all.
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  Speaker 4: Depends on how they're going to structure the deal. But
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  Speaker 4: whatever that number ends up being, are they going to
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  Speaker 4: get it in there before Tua's deal gets in We'll.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about to it later.
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  Speaker 4: Now does that throw off the number for what the
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  Speaker 4: next big number is to the next in line? Interesting
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  Speaker 4: thing for me, we talked about this last week. Who's
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  Speaker 4: ever the next one up is the best contract? But
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  Speaker 4: for me, Jordan Love also has a chance to be
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  Speaker 4: a top five quarterback as well. So not only is
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  Speaker 4: he just the next one up, I think he has
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  Speaker 4: a chance to be that's one up as well.
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  Speaker 2: When it's all said done, Tom and Stacy, guys, and.
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  Speaker 5: I would just say, didn't Jordan Love just get engaged
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  Speaker 5: to his partner and now fiance. I think things are
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  Speaker 5: going really well for Jordan Love. Oh guess what nice
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  Speaker 5: job control room. We have a shot of it right here. Congratulation,
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  Speaker 5: congratulations to this couple, because listen, if you're getting engaged
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  Speaker 5: in the offseason in a place like that, Tom and
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  Speaker 5: Mark and you are due for a big contract extension
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  Speaker 5: after the way we've seen this young man evolve in
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  Speaker 5: this organization sitting behind Aaron Rodgers all these years. Good
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  Speaker 5: things are in store for him. He deserves it. And shoot,
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  Speaker 5: they might have a pretty good defense in Green Bay
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  Speaker 5: this year too.
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  Speaker 1: We start off the segment talking about would Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: get that ring? And maybe more? We don't actually know that,
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  Speaker 1: but we know who does have a ring, his new fiance,
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  Speaker 1: Ronica Stone. Congratulations to the spy couple. What a great
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  Speaker 1: soap opera pairing of names. By the way, Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: and Ronica Stone. That's some days of our lives stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Elsewhere in the NFC North, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got some drama, some soap opera type stuff around this
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  Speaker 1: division in terms of the quarterbacks who are coming in.
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  Speaker 1: That of course begins, but the number one overall draft
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  Speaker 1: pick Caleb Williams, who now is one of just five
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  Speaker 1: first round picks who have not signed their rookie deals.
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  Speaker 1: Four of them happened to be in the same division.
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  Speaker 1: You got Caleb Williams Romadoonze who surely is waiting for
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  Speaker 1: Kayleb Williams deal to get done first. Same thing with
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy and Dallas Turner, as well as Marius Mims
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Stacey, you're there in Chicago. You spent a
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  Speaker 1: great deal of time around that Bears team through the
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  Speaker 1: course of Mini camp and everything else. When you talk
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  Speaker 1: about this Bears team and you talk about what Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Williams can do moving forward, where does he fit into
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  Speaker 1: the bigger picture in terms of the quarterbacks coming up
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  Speaker 1: here and what this Bear's team hopes to accomplish in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Tom, to put it simply, he fits in perfectly
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  Speaker 5: well to the big picture, so much so that I
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  Speaker 5: would just say, given what I've witnessed, observed, and gleaned
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  Speaker 5: over the course of this offseason, he is ready for
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  Speaker 5: the demands and the pressure that go along with being
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  Speaker 5: the franchise quarterback of the Chicago Bears in a city
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  Speaker 5: like Chicago. That is absolutely demanding success.
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  Speaker 6: They are so.
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  Speaker 5: Overdue, I guess is the word for success, and especially
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  Speaker 5: at the quarterback position, at least they feel because I
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  Speaker 5: live here in Chicago. The thing that he's done really well,
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  Speaker 5: besides integrating himself into the community, and that is a
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  Speaker 5: genuine integration, is the forging of his relationships, not only
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  Speaker 5: with Maddi, but with his new teammates. He has great
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  Speaker 5: reverence and respect for them. So there's a humility that
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  Speaker 5: he has brought. If you talk to any of his teammates,
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  Speaker 5: there's a humility despite being the first overall pick, that
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  Speaker 5: he's brought to this locker room. I think the teammates
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  Speaker 5: love that part about him. And then it's the on
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  Speaker 5: the field stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You guys.
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  Speaker 5: Putting it very simply, Caleb Williams as good as he is,
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  Speaker 5: as well as he can sling the rock if you will,
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  Speaker 5: He has so welcomed the learning curve and what it
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  Speaker 5: will take in terms of cadence and command. Right, it
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  Speaker 5: ain't clap, let's get and go with the play call
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  Speaker 5: from the sideline. It is he has got to read
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  Speaker 5: that thing out to his offensive line and to the
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  Speaker 5: rest of the offense. He's got to get up under
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  Speaker 5: center and make sure that whole thing is a working operation.
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  Speaker 5: He has welcomed that challenge, and I anticipate that with
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  Speaker 5: all the talent there on that roster, things could be
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  Speaker 5: maybe not perfect, but a little bit more smooth than
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  Speaker 5: maybe we anticipate we'll see in training camp.
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  Speaker 1: It's so fascinating, Stacy, because a big part of the
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  Speaker 1: narrative with Caleb Williams coming out was just going to
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  Speaker 1: be what type of a a guy was he going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the locker room? Is he all about
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  Speaker 1: all these other things that aren't football. As teams did
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  Speaker 1: their homework and the Bears did their homework, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of what they got back out of the USC program
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  Speaker 1: was hemates.
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  Speaker 3: Love the guy.
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  Speaker 1: He goes to the Heisman Trophy ceremony, he brings all
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  Speaker 1: of his offensive linemen, the backup quarterback has a birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb shows up. They had him go out the Bears
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  Speaker 1: did with some of his veteran teammates prior to them
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  Speaker 1: selecting him as part of his thirty visit here. They
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  Speaker 1: came away convinced this guy is the right person as
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  Speaker 1: well as player to help us move forward in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Miami seems like they've got their guys. Well it's to
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  Speaker 1: a tongue Iloa, the Dolphins quarterback, but they have not
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  Speaker 1: yet gotten to a contract with him either. Tiny Tua
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  Speaker 1: as we I guess are gonna call him now here
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  Speaker 1: spoke about his contract situation with the Porters a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 7: Am I concerned about it? I'm not concerned about it,
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  Speaker 7: But there's a lot of discussions, you know, that we've
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  Speaker 7: had that you know, we just are trying to move
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  Speaker 7: that thing into the right direction where we can both
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  Speaker 7: be happy it personally.
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  Speaker 3: Does your agent update you like every time they're a toss?
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  Speaker 7: Well, my my agent updates me. But for me, I
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  Speaker 7: don't like updates like every time, Like, you don't got
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  Speaker 7: to tell me the little things. Just tell me things
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  Speaker 7: that that matter. Are we getting to where we want
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  Speaker 7: to or are we not? That's it.
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  Speaker 8: Did you think there'd be more progress at this point?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think there's been a lot of progress at
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  Speaker 7: this point from where we started. There's been a lot
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  Speaker 7: of progress. Now, you know, you can ask the other question,
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  Speaker 7: then why aren't we seeing you know, in agreement. Well,
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  Speaker 7: that's the tough part about it. That's why it's it's business.
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  Speaker 7: That's why you got one side and the other trying
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  Speaker 7: to work to meet in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in our friend Camera Wolf, who's down there
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  Speaker 1: in South Florida, spends a lot of time around that
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins team.
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  Speaker 2: Cam.
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  Speaker 1: I feeling we've had this conversation once or twice over
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  Speaker 1: the past several months here with Tua Takaba Loa. Give
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  Speaker 1: me your breakdown of where we stand right now and
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  Speaker 1: how this thing proceeds in the month or so leading
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  Speaker 1: up to training camp.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Thomas teammates are calling him skinny to a first
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  Speaker 9: of all, now that he's down the two fifteen down
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  Speaker 9: from where he was last season, so he's lost about
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  Speaker 9: ten or fifteen pounds from there. But a big thing
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  Speaker 9: for the Dolphins as they go forward in an offseason,
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  Speaker 9: obviously to of Tongue Balloa's contract extensions at the forefront,
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  Speaker 9: but they are embracing really the negative narratives that will
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  Speaker 9: follow them through this year three of the Mike McDaniel era.
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  Speaker 10: There's had a lot of good in these two years.
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  Speaker 9: Number one ranked offense resurgence of Tua on the heels
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  Speaker 9: of that big contract extension, two winning seasons, two playoff
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  Speaker 9: ascension appearances, but the big negative no playoff wins and
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  Speaker 9: a four ten ten record in December and January. And
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  Speaker 9: so I asked met Mike McDaniel in our last media
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  Speaker 9: session two weeks ago, how do you coach your team
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  Speaker 9: to get better come winter and playoff time?
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  Speaker 10: He told me something interesting.
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  Speaker 9: Listen here, he said, for half the offseason, he's had
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  Speaker 9: staff meetings at seven to twenty four or three twenty
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  Speaker 9: four or five to twenty four, all for the number
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  Speaker 9: twenty four to mark the amount of years the Dolphins
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  Speaker 9: have gone without a playoff win. That's an NFL high
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  Speaker 9: twenty four years. So he wants the team to assess
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  Speaker 9: about it, to embrace it, rather than let it overcome
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  Speaker 9: them when that narrative comes up. And so the reality
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  Speaker 9: is the spotlight is on this Dolphins team and it
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  Speaker 9: will get brighter if and when Tua does become one
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  Speaker 9: of the NFL highest paid quarterbacks. And as we talked
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  Speaker 9: about in the top, negotiations are still ongoing, as Tuas said,
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  Speaker 9: and I've heard there has been progress, but nothing done yet,
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  Speaker 9: and both sides still want to get a deal done
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  Speaker 9: by the start of the season. If it is done,
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  Speaker 9: I expect to come in in the range of recent
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  Speaker 9: quarterback extensions like Jared Golf, Trevor Lawrence, Joe Burrow, all
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  Speaker 9: in that fifty three to fifty five million range. But
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  Speaker 9: structure and guarantees are often the trickiest thing with this
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  Speaker 9: And one thing I'll say Mark Tua used the word
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  Speaker 9: ANTSI last time he talked and describe as motions of
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  Speaker 9: not having a deal done at this point. He did
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  Speaker 9: practice in the spring, but sat out eleven on eleven drills.
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  Speaker 9: I'm curious to see what happens if there is no
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  Speaker 9: deal at the start of training camp. Does he miss
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  Speaker 9: eleven on eleven camp? That becomes a little bit more significant.
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  Speaker 2: Cam.
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  Speaker 4: It does feel like we talk about this every week.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, these contracts are complicated people. This is why
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  Speaker 4: it takes a while. It's not like, hey, here, take
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  Speaker 4: this money and keep moving on. There's so much to
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  Speaker 4: these contracts that you go back and forth with your
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  Speaker 4: agent and your cat guy or a couple of cat
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  Speaker 4: guys with it with the players agent. So that's why
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  Speaker 4: it takes a while. It will get done. I have
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  Speaker 4: no question that it will get done. And as we
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  Speaker 4: talked about too, is the next man up and the
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  Speaker 4: improvement and the record in the playoffs and the lack
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  Speaker 4: of wins against big time teams. Tua has to get better,
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  Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel. Of course he's going to take take the
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  Speaker 4: brunt for himself and say as a coach, I had
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  Speaker 4: to get better. But Tua has to get better too, Cam.
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  Speaker 4: And that's that quick offense where he gets the ball
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  Speaker 4: out fast and when they can out scheme people, they roll.
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  Speaker 4: But when they can't do that, Tua has not shown
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  Speaker 4: the ability to kind of take, Okay, what's my next
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  Speaker 4: move off of this the skinny to a losing weight,
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  Speaker 4: help them out with the movement, avoiding the rush and
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  Speaker 4: making plays on the move. Is that going to be
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  Speaker 4: the new facet of his game that it improves, but
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  Speaker 4: he has to show that ability to handle the rush,
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  Speaker 4: have that second option when things aren't quick and move
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  Speaker 4: around skinny to Is he going to do it? Tom, Tiny, Tim,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want to call him, Tom, But we'll go
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  Speaker 4: with Cam skinny toa that sounds better.
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  Speaker 3: Cam, real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Before we let you go here, you mentioned fifty three
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  Speaker 1: to fifty five, which I think is where a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people probably thought the tool contract would come in prior.
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  Speaker 3: To Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: Now Trevor Lawrence on the books at fifty five, matching
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. You can go back and forth on the structure,
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  Speaker 1: but do you still think realistically this there's a chance
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  Speaker 1: that this deal could get done for under fifty five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars per year.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 9: I think, as Tua said, clearly, the market is the market,
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  Speaker 9: and I think Trevor Lawrence set the floor as far
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: as the AAV and I think the guarantees as we
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: look deeper into the deal, I think that'll be the
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: elements there's still deciding upon.
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: I don't expect him to take lower than what Trevor
• 15:52
  Speaker 10: Lawrence just took.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Cam Mark, thank you very much. Do not go anywhere.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: We will be back with you shortly here. Meanwhile, elsewhere
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: in the AFC, we also had a move today by
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, who informed defensive tackle Isaiah Bugs
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: they are releasing him after multiple offseason arrests. Bugs bond
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: was revoked after his most recent arrest. He is currently
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: in jail as multiple legal cases play out. Bigger issues
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: to worry about than football at this point in Kansas
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: City is moving on coming up after this, cam Wolf
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: will be back. He's all over the place, all over
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the AFC East, the AFC South and Blowyer. There's some
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in that ladder.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Division.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Will break them all down, the latest insights on every
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: one of those guys, from C. J. Stroud to Anthony
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Richardson and beyond. Who has a chance to take down
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Stroud and the Texans. We'll talk about it on the inside.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: The easiest way to break down Trevor Lawrence's new contract.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: He got all the money, all of it, five year,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five million dollar contract ascension with
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: a hundred and forty two million dollars fully guaranteed. The
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: fifty five million dollar per year apy matches Joe Burrow
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: for the most in NFL history. So what does Trevor
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Lawrence have to do to live up to that type
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: of contract? For answers on that, we bring back our
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: friend Cameron Wolf here a fascinating division. First of all,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Cam overall here. If you're going down the list right
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: now in terms of the most intriguing teams, I don't
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: know if the Jaguars are in the top couple that
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: most people would say, but let's focus on Trevor Lawrence here.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: You get paid like that, the pressure mounts even more
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: than it normally would on a number one pick. How
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: does he live up to it?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: Tom, First, I can't win South This year youngest.
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: Quarterback division in football, all four starters under twenty five
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: years old, and the most experienced and highest paid one
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: is Trevor Lawrence.
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: And external expectations will.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Always rise with big money contracts, and the expectation for
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: the jag is a successful twenty twenty four season turning
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: to the playoffs, not just getting there, winning at least
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: one playoff game like they did in the first year
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: with Doug Peterson and Lawrence together.
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: And look, Lawrence talked to reporters earlier this.
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: Month and said he doesn't feel any extra pressure or
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: expectations because he always carried the pressure as a franchise quarterback.
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: But now all eyes are on him. Can he make
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: that jump from good quarterback to great quarterback? That's what
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: his contract represents. A quarterback that can lead his team
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: against Patrick Mahomes, against Josh Shallen, against Lamar Jackson, against
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: Joe Burrow, and one controllable area the Jaguars really want
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: Lawrence to take that next step is turnovers He's had
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: sixty turnovers in his first three years NFL High twenty one.
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: They think it comes from him being a little bit
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: too much superhero in those moments. They think experience and
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: also comfort will help, and he's already been a more
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: vocal guy in that building in terms of what he
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: wants in the offense.
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: I'm eager to see in training camp that early chemistry with.
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: Gabe Davis in first round pick Brian Thomas Junior, so
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: they can get off to a fast start.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: That's superhero mentality too, may contribute to some of those injuries.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: We know that he was banged up.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He plays through a lot, but he's not always at
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent when he's on the field. You better
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: be one hundred percent if you're going to try to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: take down c J. Stroud and the Texans, who if
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: he went rewound to a year ago Cam we're talking
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: about realistically, what can he do? He'll probably start, but hey,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: it's a new coaching staff, aholl new instead. They're one
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of the most fun teams in the entire NFL through
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the course last season, year two.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: What's next?
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll talk to multiple league azexs, who says c J.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Stroud and Houston have jumped Jacksonville and Trevor Lawrence is
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: the class the AFC South and the best threat to
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: challenge Kansas City in this division. Now they have the
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: hunted label on it. And one thing I've continued to
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: hear about CJ is they're going to give him more
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: control and ownership of this offense. He has a high
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: football IQ and has earned it. In the addition of
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Stefan Diggs, more attention will be on how CJ manages
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: these three receivers, all with a alpha dog mentality. We
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: know Digs, but you got Nico Collins, big money dude
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: as well, and then Tank Dell coming off a really
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: hot rookie season. It's a role that CJ welcomes. You're
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: building quick chemistry already with these receivers. And a quick
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: story about CJ. Jaguars Dbs raved to me after a
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: game last year saying that he was a top five
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: superstar talent by middle of the season, and they said
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: their receivers broke open deep instead of short. That's just
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: a sign of CJ telling his receivers what he wants
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: and being clear with them overall.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson same draft class, but his rookie year starts
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: four games, doesn't finish three of them because of injuries. Here, Cam,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: how is he doing medically as we look at the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Tom, I'm told Anthony Richardson's arm is good. He's healthy.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: He was back thrown on the field during spring workout,
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: slinging sixty yard passes. I'm told remember he had surgery
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: on that ac joint in October of last year. He
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: did miss the last day of mini camp earlier this month,
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: but that was termed to me as general shoulder soreness, precautionary,
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: not worthy of much concern. I'm told he's going to
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: train during summer break in Jacksonville with his private coterback
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: coaches will hewlet It and Tom Cormiley, and he'll report
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: to Indy from camp in late July. One thing Shane
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: steike In, the head coach, really wants him to work
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: on is being smarter in how he runs, being more selective.
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: They're on the same page with that. Anthony richards has said,
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to change my play style completely, but
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: I will be smarter and my goal is to play
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: every game this year.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the only new head coach in that division. It's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Brian Callahan in Tennessee. He said a lot of positive
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: things about Will Levis, including here on this show The
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Insiders back in March. What's the plan for Will Levis
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to not just be a fun story. He has guys
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: owing and eyeing with some of the throws he makes
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in those micdup segments on the sideline, but actually put
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: them in that AFC South Max Yeah.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Tom.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: One thing that was told to me early Brian Callahan,
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: the head coach, showed him a lot of Joe Burrow
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: tape and a glimpse of what this game will be like. Look,
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: Levis is not Joe, but they think that he can
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: seceed through a lot of the receivers they've added in
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: this offense, Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd to go with
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: DeAndre Hopkins. And I talked to a tight coach earlier
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: this week who told me that, look, one thing I
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: noticed during the spring is Levis really started to master
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: the offense in the latter stages and he also has
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: a trip plan with its receiver this summer. That's all
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: the elements of a young quarterback trying to take ownership.
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: He has that big arm, but he was inconsistent with
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: his accuracy. It was notable, though, that the Titans did
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: not sign at Kirk Cousins or draft of Michael Pennix.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: They believe that Levis can be this quarterback and they
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: can develop them. But if not, then maybe they're back
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: in the quarterback hunt next summer.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: They gave one of the biggest humans I've ever been
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: next to J. C. Latham with their first round pick camp.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You know who else? One of
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the biggest humans I've ever seen in my life? Our
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: next guess it's Lane Johnson, the five time Pro Bowl
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: right tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: After what happened down the stretch last season.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: How do they get back on track in twenty twenty four?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Baldy and I with Lane Johnson answers right after this.
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: On the inside, I don't know what's next, but I
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: look forward to the new challenges and opportunities that'll wait.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: And I know that I carry with me the lessons
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: for my time here and that forever and that forever
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: we shall all share the bond of being Philadelphians.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Can only imagine some of those emotions.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: He's all right there from Jason Kelsey were about this,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: going to London seeing his brother's girlfriend Taylor Swift show
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and then bragging about how many friendship racelets he got.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Good for you, Jason, keep enjoying retirement. Meanwhile, it's onward
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and hopefully upward for the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Whose offensive line gonna look a little bit different.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Than it has for quite a while, particularly at that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: center position where Cam Jurgens is stepping in. It certainly
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: helps when you've got a five time Pro Bowl right tackle,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and what do you know, he happens to join us
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: right now. It is Lane Johnson. Lane, thanks a lot
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: for being here. Your buddy end Ours Brian Baldeger is
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: here as well. I would ask how the off season's going,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: but I'm guessing you don't really look at this time
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: period right here.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: As the off season. What are you up to? What's
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: going on?
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so we're have about a month until what camps starts.
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: So getting in shape is nice and hot down here
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: in Oklahoma. It's one hundred degrees today, so getting in
• 24:24
  Speaker 13: shape and getting ready for the ways to countdown, Lane, for.
• 24:29
  Speaker 14: The first time since you came into this league in
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: twenty thirteen, Jason Kelsey won't be there, and we know
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: everybody but basically understands that this guy was far more
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: than just a great football player.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: He was a great person. He was a leader. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: almost feel like like he is the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: What what is the offseason been like without Jason out
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: there on the field and kind of heading things up
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: and leading the room and all the things that he's
• 24:57
  Speaker 14: done since you came into this league.
• 25:00
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it is a lot different. You know, we have
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: seen him in the building quite a bit, so I
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: think he'll be around, you know, a little bit during
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: the season. But you know, he was just such a
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: passionate player. He obviously loved what he did and he
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: loved helping guys. So I think one day he'll make
• 25:14
  Speaker 13: a great coach. But I know he's busy. He's happily busy,
• 25:18
  Speaker 13: and yeah, I think he's very consent and yeah, just
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: you know, I think one of the best centers are
• 25:25
  Speaker 13: not the best center that'sart played the game.
• 25:28
  Speaker 14: Plane you proudly wear an Offensive Line Masterminds T shirt
• 25:32
  Speaker 14: right now.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: I'm a little jealous. I don't have one on right now.
• 25:35
  Speaker 14: But this is the seventh year of the Offensive Line
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: Mastermind it is. It's grown exponentially every year. I thought
• 25:44
  Speaker 14: last year was the best year that we've had. Tell
• 25:47
  Speaker 14: us the fans and the audience out there a little
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: bit about what got you started behind this thing, because
• 25:53
  Speaker 14: you've been there from the very beginning. You and Duke
• 25:55
  Speaker 14: Manuweather down in Frisco, Texas. Tell us what the idea
• 25:59
  Speaker 14: was when you started this.
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so I think, you know, I credit von Miller
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: is starting you know, really the summits for you know, positions,
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: So I think he influenced obviously me talking about it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 13: Duke is one to reach out and said that we
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: should start something like this, So, you know, it was
• 26:19
  Speaker 13: something I felt like the Alvins line had a great
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: brotherhood and you have lots of vets and Hall of
• 26:24
  Speaker 13: Fame guys that are just ready to spread knowledge, willing
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: to spread knowledge. And I was like, we can get
• 26:29
  Speaker 13: these guys all in one room and have a weekend together,
• 26:33
  Speaker 13: you know, really at the right time of the year.
• 26:35
  Speaker 13: I think it could be great for you know, everybody
• 26:37
  Speaker 13: involved in And it started with around twenty five guys
• 26:41
  Speaker 13: and I think we're gonna have around three hundred and
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: fifty this year. And it's just you know, we break
• 26:46
  Speaker 13: up in two position groups. There's a you know, lots
• 26:49
  Speaker 13: of great players there that have played that position, so
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: you get a chance to improve your insight, improve your knowledge,
• 26:56
  Speaker 13: and you know, I think the timing of it right
• 26:58
  Speaker 13: before camp really gets you into the right state of
• 27:02
  Speaker 13: mom you know.
• 27:03
  Speaker 14: I mean, I think people understand, even people that didn't
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: play football understand if the offensive line is the brotherhood,
• 27:10
  Speaker 14: like we we kind of bond together within our own team,
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: each individual team. We do it after like myself, like
• 27:17
  Speaker 14: long after I've retired, Like there's always that sort of bond.
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: I feel like that's a big part of the success
• 27:24
  Speaker 14: and the growth of the masterminds.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's truly a unique position. You're in
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: a position of service suit.
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: So you know, our job is to protect the quarterback
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: and open up holes to the run game. So we're
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: really a fan of everybody you know on the offensive side.
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean, we spend so much time together
• 27:44
  Speaker 13: and so much of what we do, and our success
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: depends on the guide to the left and right of us,
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: you know, being in sequence, knowing the play call, knowing
• 27:51
  Speaker 13: the proper set lines, and you know, a lot of
• 27:54
  Speaker 13: a lot of that is what we talk about and
• 27:55
  Speaker 13: discuss at the summit, you know, talk about recovery, talk
• 27:59
  Speaker 13: about training. But really, you know, I think the Hall
• 28:03
  Speaker 13: of Fame panel has really taken off the past couple
• 28:06
  Speaker 13: of years, getting guys obviously in that category. I think
• 28:10
  Speaker 13: there are words speed, volumes, and you see he's got
• 28:14
  Speaker 13: soak it in and it's been really tremendous loss.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Blaine.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: One of your teammates, Darius Slay, posted something on social
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: media the other day saying, how do we get an
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman on the.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Cover of Madden?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Have you have you given any thought to do we
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: get a grassroots type effort like the one that got
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Peyton Hillis on the Madden cover many years ago? Do
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: we think we could start that right now? Make the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: pitch for a big guy to land on that cover?
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: Man, I thought I thought Kelse would have been a
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: great candidate, you know, to be on the cover. I'm
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: just not sure which one, which one I would go on.
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: I think I'd w to Kels with a long hair
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: with the hair touching the shoulders, so.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I think that'd be a good one.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: Lade.
• 28:55
  Speaker 14: One of the things that's coming up this year as
• 28:57
  Speaker 14: this game continues to grow is the Eagles are going
• 29:01
  Speaker 14: to Brazil this year to play your first game Friday night,
• 29:04
  Speaker 14: opening weekend of the season against the Packers.
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: Have you had time to kind of.
• 29:08
  Speaker 14: Think about the travel, the excitement playing like down in
• 29:12
  Speaker 14: South first game ever in South America like that.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm excited about it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 13: I'm glad that it's the first game of the year
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: so we'll get some time to recover from it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean really don't know what to expect.
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: I mean, you see the stories about you know what
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: what jersey we're gonna be allowed to wear, but you know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 13: I think all that'll be solved shortly. But yeah, I
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: mean usually training camps a busy time of the year
• 29:37
  Speaker 13: because you're having open practices, your your scrimmaged against other
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: teams and travel them to their place, so.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: You know it won't be long. But I really am
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: looking forward to it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 13: Had a good time in London until I got rolled
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: up on any play, but you know, had a good
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: time until then, But really looking forward to.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Lane.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: We all know what you guys did Philadelphia for about
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a two year span there for the past half of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, obviously all the way through twenty two
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: through the Super Bowl run and then last year we
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: all forget you were one of the hottest teams in
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: football up until about November there.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: We all also know how it ended.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: What's the best optimistic scenario you can think of in
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: terms of you see this team right now, what's the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: best case you can make for this team getting back
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to being that Eagles team we've seen before starting Week one?
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean we have a lot of new faces,
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: a lot of turnovers, so but felt comfortable with the
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: way that we drafted, got some great players and just
• 30:31
  Speaker 13: really when you look at our roster, we have a
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: lot of size. You know, obviously we have to go
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: prove things and are eager to do so. But when
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: you just look at the guys walking around the building,
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: we got size, we got speed.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And guys willing to work.
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: So, you know, every year is different, and I wish
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: I had the answers to you know, why the second
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: half of the season that went the way it did.
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: But you know it was something I went by so fast,
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: and I know effort wasn't a problem.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: So but looking forward.
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: To obviously this new offense under Keller Moore going to
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: be some things changed up for us up front, and yeah,
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: just excited.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Man talks the year. It's crazy how fast it goes by.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Lane real quick.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 31:13
  Speaker 14: One guy that does have great size and speed is
• 31:16
  Speaker 14: your newest teammate, Saquon Barkley.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: You've around him this offseason, you're out there on the
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: field with him.
• 31:23
  Speaker 14: What have you seen, felt and enjoy about getting No Saquon,
• 31:28
  Speaker 14: I know you knew him from the Pro Bowl and
• 31:29
  Speaker 14: stuff like that, but as a teammate now as an egle,
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: I think he feels super excited about this part of
• 31:36
  Speaker 14: his next career.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, obviously, I mean once you're saying you'll never forget this,
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: you know, fensically imposing guy. I think he walks around
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: around two thirty. You know, he likes the golf, so
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: we've been golfing a few times. He's he's ultra competitive.
• 31:51
  Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean when you see obviously what he
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: can do at the running back position and we can
• 31:56
  Speaker 13: flex him out and receiver and he can you know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: he can go. It's it's really unbelievable. I never thought
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: that he would be playing for us, but you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: here it is. I know that he's excited. We're definitely
• 32:10
  Speaker 13: excited up front and yeah, man, I think he's boysed
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: for for a big, big year.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Three hundred and fifty offensive linemen headed to the Mastermind Summit.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Awesome what you've built, Lane, real quick, I know, bald,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: he's going to be joining you there as well. He's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: gonna get a T shirt. You're wearing a T shirt?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Do you make him in a medium? And if so,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: can I get one of those?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: We got we got a bunch of great sizes. Yeah,
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: we'll tind of get some info. See if they run
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: a little bit or large, a little bit looser, if
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: they're tight fitting, so we'll get the ross ozk.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Youth Excel also works.
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  Speaker 1: Lane, thanks a lot for being here, man, Joy, thank you,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Eagles kickoff Week one in Brazil. Lions kickoff
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: in Detroit Sunday night football against their old friend Matthew
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Stafford and the Rams. Could be the start of a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff MVP push. Don't laugh, we'll talk MVP dark
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: horses next. On The Insiders, Lamar Jackson was, of course
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: your twenty twenty three NFL MVP.
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  Speaker 3: Can he make it two in a row?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: We will begin to find out starting seventy three days
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: from tonight when Jackson and the Ravens kick off the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four regular season against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Time now for on the Clock presented by Ram Trucks,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Peliserra along with Mark Ross here on The Insiders,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: our friend Judy Batista, who will be back on this
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  Speaker 1: show I'm sure very soon, has a new story mark
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  Speaker 1: on NFL dot com slash Batista outlining some of these,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: she puts in dark horse candidates for NFL MVP who
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: could potentially take down Lamar Jackson. The first name on
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: her list Jared Goff of the Detroit Lions. Your thoughts,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Judy crushed this article.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, in the year's past, anywhere he associated
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: with the Lions is a dark horse because they had
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: never done anything. But it's a new error for the
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Detroit Lions, and Jared Golf is at the forefront of that.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: And first of all, you got to produce Tom and
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: he did that last year. But most importantly, he'll be
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: even better because his offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is coming
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: back a model ras Saint Brown has the huge contract,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: but also Jamison Williams, who the year he came out
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: of the draft or receiver I thought was the most
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: explosive receiver in that draft. He'll be back first full
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: time of starting, no no suspensions, no injuries. He's going
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: to add even more of a playmaking elopment for Jared Golf.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Jamier Gibbs, the running back from last year, will be
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: even better. So Jared Golf is going to put up numbers.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: He's they're gonna win. They made the NFC Championship game
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: last year.
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  Speaker 2: They'll win.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: He'll have the spotlight, five prime time games and a
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Thanksgiving game. So it's going to be right out in
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: front of everybody for Jared Golf to say, put up some.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Numbers on on time and when he's going to be
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the MVP.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Positively tom Another name that jumped out of me on
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Judy's list Kyler Murray of the Cardinals, And when you
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: think about it a little bit deeper here, I don't
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: think it's that crazy now. Obviously they got to accomplish
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a lot just to try to compete within their own division.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: But with Kyler Murray last year, he was coming off
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: of the ACL, he wasn't ready at the start, he
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: was in a new offense. You still saw a few
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: flashes down the stretch. We know he thinks really highly
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of the OC there, Drew Petsing, Is it enough? Does
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: it all add up? Mark to Kyler Murray being an
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: MVP candid here in twenty twenty four?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why not?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Judy dug deep on this.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: One too, And Tom you mentioned it's almost that people
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: forgot that Kyler Murray was the offensive player of the
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: year when he came out, made the Pro Bowl twice.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: You know, it's almost sad. Who's Kyler Murray can't play anymore?
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: You saw a little bit of the flashes when he
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: got back. Now he should be fully healthy.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Oh and he has.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison Junior at his dispolder, who I thought was
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: the best wide receiver prospected ten fifteen years, So that
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: should help out as well. Kind of replicating that Kyler
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Murray the DeAndre Hopkins a situation that they had a
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: few years ago. So yes, if Kyler Murray, the dynamic
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: playmaker with his arms and his legs, highlight plays may
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: not have the winning element like Jarrett Golf has in
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: a lot of primetime games, but just as far as
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: a dynamic playmaker, he should be in the mix as well.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I'm worder to help far down the list, we have
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to go. Mark, the'll flat out say no way. Does
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Sam dartle get us there? Does Russell Wilson get us there?
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Julia? I'm supporting Judy.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: I'm always gonna support Judy.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: You and I are sitting here doing the show. You
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: don't have to help her. She's not watching it on
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: whatever island she's on. Okay, Mark, thank you very much,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: appreciate you as always here.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Could Josh Allen be another one of those guys.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Who gets into the MVP mix ore Stacey Dale's going
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to be back after this to talk about what Josh
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Allen is trying to do to be even better without
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. That's next on the inside. If I told
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you Trey McBride caught eighty one passes last season, would
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you believe me?
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: It's true?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: And he's going to try to kick off his twenty
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: twenty four in style when he joins the Insiders tomorrow
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: night at seven Eastern time. Stevan Diggs ol he always
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: catches a bucket of balls. Now he's going to be
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: trying to do that in Houston, where one of his
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: new teammates, case Keenum. You might remember they connected on
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a pretty big pass against the Saites some years ago.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Keenum said at his annual youth football camp over the
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: weekend that Diggs hasn't lost a step. So where does
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that leave Diggs's latest old team, the Buffalo Bills. Well,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: they brought in some new faces to this team between
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Keon Coleman, the high draft pick Curtis Samuel Khalil Shakir
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Is back Mark wiz Voldez Scantling in case you missed
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: that one, he is now remember that team as our
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Collins and Chase Claypool. But is it enough for that
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Bill's offense with Joe Brady now the full time offensive
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: coordinator to be on track? Welcome back to the Insiders.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: It's Tom Pildasero, joined again by our friend Stacy Dale. Stacy,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen been there a lot physically. He puts himself
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: through a lot physically that included an elbow injury a
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Tell me what this Josh Allen
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: this offseason is trying to do to make sure he's
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: in top form for an offense that no longer has
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: his top receipt.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Well, I think if you look at the full screen, Tom,
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: that we just saw understanding. It's his seventh season. They
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: won the division. Last season, they lost to Kansas City
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: in the divisional round. They went eleven and six on
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: the regular season. Josh Allen is sitting there also looking
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: just like Bill's Mafia at this new roster that they
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: have assembled. My dad, Hey, Dad, he's watching. He is
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: a diehard Bill's Mafia fan. And there's some questions, right
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: who's going to step into the not just Stefan Diggs Roll,
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: but they gave Davis Roll and the production monsters. Those
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: two specifically have been for the last four years for
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Josh Allen, which to me makes Josh Allen's job this
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: season tom perhaps the most high pressurized and most responsible
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: if you will, that he has to become in taking over,
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: truly taking over what this team does offensively.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: He's got to get all these new guys in check.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: Keon Coleman.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: We know Khalil shak Here's he's pretty good and he's
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: going to do some good things inside and outside.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: They have a lot of trust in him.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: But Curtis Samuel's new NBS is new Mark Wes Baldes, Scantling,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: and of course Chase Claypool will see if he can
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: revitalize his career in Orchard Park. But the bottom line
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: for Josh Allen, understanding all those things that I just mentioned, Tom,
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: it's all back to mechanics, because you alluded to as
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: you entered our conversation into the mix today, the injuries.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Even just last year he had the elbow issues, some
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: shoulder issues, and he openly talked about how he had
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: to change the way he threw the football last year
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: and the trajectory of how he threw the football because
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: of some of those nicks to his armor, if you will.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: So for Josh Allen, this month is really critical. It's
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: getting back to really specific I would almost say, you know,
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: not as in his words, just refining, but really retooling
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: the fundamentals. And that's what they've been working on and
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: some of their opening drills through mandatory mini camp. So
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I expect to really sharp Josh Allen because he's got
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: to be sharp.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: For the group around him.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Bottom line, the Bills need to find some dogs. Maybe
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: they can borrow your Stacey always love when he makes
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a little cameo here on the Insiders Don't move all
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: over this coming up right after this, we got to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: talk about what Joe Burrow and Justin Jefferson we're doing
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: in Europe over the weekend and where exactly parts of
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: their suits wet. The long story, We'll try to wrap
• 40:55
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• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Stacy Dale's and Cam Wolf. Stacy, first of all, your
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: thoughts on this new role here for Travis Kelsey.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: I'm curious how they rehearsed this.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, that could have been really interesting, that's all
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: I'll say.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: I mean it doesn't look like it goes real there anyway. Cam.
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that I really don't have much here.
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: I mean it's this is me trying.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I yeah, all right, Let's move on to something more ridiculous,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and that is what Joe Burrow was wearing at the
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Vogue Fashion show recently here as well, hy Man justin Jefferson.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Wait for it, wait for it. Here's the key question
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: on this one cam.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: If I show up in that week one to a stadium,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: do I get fired?
• 42:38
  Speaker 13: Ah?
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: No, because now Joe Burrow has done it. And I
• 42:42
  Speaker 10: will tell you this Tom.
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: At first, I was very against the shirtless the backless shirt,
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: and then I thought about it. I'm like, it's a
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: cool summer here in Florida, and so are you ready
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: for it?
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: Me and my wife have been doing some wardrobe and
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: I decided to.
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: Change my bless.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: That's I do not have a little more low back
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: than I bargained for. Their cam say, what do you think?
• 43:14
  Speaker 9: This is the June and I'm I'm practicing my wardrobes
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: thanks to the Joe Burrow Who've got plenty of time
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: to get ready.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: For the only the only difference, Cam, Let's be honest,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: the only difference between your backless and Joe's backless.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: That man got paid.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know what you're getting paid, but
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: that man right there, that man.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: Got paid to wear that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: So for anybody who wants to opine over what Joe
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Burrow is wearing, he got paid and you, my friend,
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: did not.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: For that I did not.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: And this difference was a few hundred rear decies.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: But whatever, see tomorrow.