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Eagles - Texans Preview, Dolphins - Bears Discussion, & Tim Settle Joins The Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers Rams game, might we see Cam Acres on the
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Thanks for joining us. I'm ANDREWS Ciciliano.
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Speaker 1: Let's get right to week number nine. You heard it.
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Speaker 1: The only the only remaining a defeated team of the NFL,
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles in a place where they have never lost. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I would take it a step further. N r G
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Speaker 1: Stadium is what you're looking at right now. It's where
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Speaker 1: James Palmer is. James Palmer, the Philadelphia Eagles at seven
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Speaker 1: and oh and Mark Ross with us as well, have
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Speaker 1: never lost to a football team from Houston. They never
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Speaker 1: lost to the Oilers, they have never lost to the Texans.
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Speaker 1: So there's that tonight, Yeah, there is that, Andrew, And
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Speaker 1: you know Nick Serriani's approaching this game. His message to
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Speaker 1: his team all week has been similar to a game.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're playing in weather. Since they're playing on the
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Speaker 1: short weekend, it's unlike any other week. It's the team
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Speaker 1: that believes they have an advantage usually has the advantage.
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Speaker 1: And the Eagles believe not just that their seven and
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Speaker 1: oh have the advantage in this game for several reasons,
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Speaker 1: one of them, before they played the Steelers this past Sunday,
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Speaker 1: they had a bye week. During that bye week they
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Speaker 1: prepared for both the Steelers and the Houston Texans. They
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Speaker 1: went through first down, second down, third down, four minute
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Speaker 1: red zone, went through a lot of that game planning
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Speaker 1: during the bye week. So with these just few days
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Speaker 1: they had before they arrived in Houston yesterday, they didn't
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Speaker 1: have to put all of their game planning in just
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Speaker 1: those few days. They've had a jump in their preparation. Also,
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Speaker 1: that game against the Steelers, I mentioned most of the
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Speaker 1: starters on offense didn't play the final nine minutes of
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Speaker 1: the game. Center Travis Kelsey, Travils, Jason else his brother
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Speaker 1: told me that his is the freshest he's ever felt
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Speaker 1: after a football game. So the Texans mark believe that
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Speaker 1: the Eagles didn't have to run the football against the
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Speaker 1: Steelers a whole lot. They're gonna come into this game
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Speaker 1: and run the football consistently, one of the best rushing
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Speaker 1: attacks in all of football against the Texans rush defense,
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Speaker 1: which is dead last in the NFL. Love Smith says
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Speaker 1: running that rpo game with Jalen Hurts the best in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. At it, that's what they're expecting to see
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Speaker 1: from this offense. Well, James, I think for Philly faithful,
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Speaker 1: the biggest concern tonight will be how soon can the
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Speaker 1: Eagles blow the Texans out so they can go go
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Speaker 1: start watching that Phillies World Series game. I'm expecting this
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Speaker 1: to be a second quarter onslaught ap we've seen the
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Speaker 1: Eagles do throughout this season. But as you mentioned, the
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Speaker 1: run game. Okay, well, last week was A J. Brown's game,
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Speaker 1: had a monster game to go with his excellent year.
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Speaker 1: But okay, let's stop a J. Brown. Here's DeVante Smith,
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Speaker 1: come at you, Dallas Goddard. Here's the run game. So
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Speaker 1: the big concern for the Texans is who do you
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Speaker 1: stop in this Eagles offense? Oh yeah, Jalen Hurst can
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Speaker 1: work his magic as well with his arm and his legs.
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Speaker 1: So I just think this is such a well balanced
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Speaker 1: Eagles team with so many playmakers at so many positions
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Speaker 1: to go with the stellar offensive line that keeps it
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Speaker 1: all together. And I expect this this the Eagles team
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Speaker 1: the role tonight despite the short week, the preparation. As
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Speaker 1: you mentioned, teams do that often, so I think I
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Speaker 1: expect to see this Eagles team just working on all
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Speaker 1: cylinders against this subpart Texas team. Texans team Andrews seven
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Speaker 1: wins against one and a half wins. The tie does
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Speaker 1: count as half a win. That's what the Texans have
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Speaker 1: their won five and one. And you mentioned the second quarter.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles have scored more points in the second quarter
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Speaker 1: this year, a hundred and twenty six. And then the
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Speaker 1: Texans have scored in all the quarters and sixteen Mark Ross,
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Speaker 1: James Palmer there, thank you, gentlemen. More and tenaf coming
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Speaker 1: up a little bit later. Actually, let's dive a little
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Speaker 1: bit deeper now in what Houston is going to be
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Speaker 1: working with our inside a report Insiders Singular today. Hi there,
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Speaker 1: Ian Rapp report. Brandon Cooks, well, thank you for being here.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate Brandon Cooks was not traded. On Tuesday, Brandon
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Speaker 1: Cooks took to Twitter clearly was not happy about it.
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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks also isn't playing tonight, We've learned. So where's
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Speaker 1: this thing heading? Yeah, we'll see where this heads after tonight.
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Speaker 1: I know the Houston Texans would like to get Brandon
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Speaker 1: Cooks back in the fold, get him back playing for
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Speaker 1: this team, as he is contractually obligated to do, just
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Speaker 1: like I'm contractually obligated to be right here talking to
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Speaker 1: you guys. But Brandon Cooks is not going to play tonight.
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Speaker 1: According to me and colleague Mike Garretfold, Who's going to
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Speaker 1: be there for the game on the field, hanging out
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Speaker 1: with James Palmer. WI sit here and talk about it.
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Speaker 1: So Cooks obviously not happy, clearly wanted to be traded,
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Speaker 1: Clearly wanted to be elsewhere, wanted to go to a contender,
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Speaker 1: And there was some potential contenders that were in the
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Speaker 1: mix on him, including the Rams. I know the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: had some discussions. Part of the issue here, A lot
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Speaker 1: of the issue was his fully guaranteed contract after this year,
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Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars fully guaranteed. Had Cook's been willing to
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Speaker 1: take that down drastically give it up, I have no
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Speaker 1: doubt a trade would have happened. He was not. He
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Speaker 1: was only willing to do just a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a haircut, I would say, or moved some money around.
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Speaker 1: Was not good enough for some teams, so he didn't
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Speaker 1: go anywhere. But now not playing tonight. Yeah, the eighteen
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Speaker 1: million next year not some kind of bonus structure. He
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Speaker 1: is do eighteen million dollars in base salary next year.
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Speaker 1: Texans gave him that extension. I get it, you know what,
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Speaker 1: to trade me up. I'm not going anywhere for free
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Speaker 1: and likely not playing football this evening. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: get to the cam Akers situation. A couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: Ian it looked as if Sean McVeigh was done with
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Speaker 1: cam Akers. He was not traded at the deadline, same deadline. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks was frustrated with On Tuesday and then yesterday
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Speaker 1: McVeigh stepped to the podium and kind of hinted that maybe,
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Speaker 1: just maybe they can patch things up. What do we know,
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Speaker 1: there's not a lot of other options. I mean, cam
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Speaker 1: Akers remains a member of the Rams. He has really talented.
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Speaker 1: His athletic numbers, from what I've heard, are better than
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Speaker 1: they were before his achilles injury. Just hasn't really been productive.
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Speaker 1: I know, I had some philosophical and football differences with
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. Wanted the football more, wanted to be in
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Speaker 1: every down, back, all of those things. But there's really
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Speaker 1: no other option for these guys than to work something
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Speaker 1: out unless the Rams side. You just cut a really
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Speaker 1: talented player, and I really don't know why they would
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Speaker 1: do that. So yeah, I think they're trying to get
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Speaker 1: him back in the mix. He is expected to be
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Speaker 1: at practice today, which is not a surprise. Where else
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Speaker 1: would he be. And then we'll see where this is
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Speaker 1: going forward. How productive can he be? And more importantly, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: can the Rams find everything that helped him be successful
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Speaker 1: early in his career? Can they do that this year? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And they block it up right now, which is clearly
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Speaker 1: an issue. Can makers not in the building last week?
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Speaker 1: He was back in the building yesterday briefly to meet
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Speaker 1: with Sean McVeigh and expected here's the headline, as you said,
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Speaker 1: back on the practice field today. Game stat is still
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Speaker 1: very much up in the year though for Sunday. Bradley
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Speaker 1: Chubb is expected to play Sunday Ian for the Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: They got him on Tuesday, the only trade involving a
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Speaker 1: first round pick and understandably, you give up a first
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Speaker 1: round pick, you're gonna sign this long term. That's a
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Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal. It's a five year,
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Speaker 1: hundred and ten million dollar extension based on new money.
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Speaker 1: Still has a pretty hefty salary for this year as well,
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Speaker 1: so you tack it all on and it adds up
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Speaker 1: to almost a hundred and nineteen million dollars on the
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Speaker 1: six year overall contract for Bradley Chubb. As far as
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Speaker 1: these specifics UH sixty three million dollars in injury guarantees,
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Speaker 1: UH fifty three million dollars becomes full I believe next
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Speaker 1: off season, so about thirty three million dollars fully guaranteed
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Speaker 1: out signing a really nice sum for Bradley Chubb. He
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Speaker 1: has in all a maximum value of a hundred eleven
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Speaker 1: million dollars when you include incentives. And I think the
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Speaker 1: most important thing for the Miami Dolphins is he's there,
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Speaker 1: he's paid, and he's ready to play for them. That's
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Speaker 1: probably something that you know, he was always gonna get
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Speaker 1: paid wherever he went, but him on the field is
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Speaker 1: the most important thing for the Its potentially ready to
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Speaker 1: play as early as this Sunday, as the Dolphins are
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Speaker 1: in Chicago to face the Bears. Thank you, I and
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Speaker 1: Rappaport our inside are singular today. Back a little bit later,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people are reading this trade this way.
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Speaker 1: That is, you're giving up next year's number one. You
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Speaker 1: are now all in onto a tongue of Ilo and
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Speaker 1: his play this year has certainly led all of us
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Speaker 1: to believe they have to be Mike McDaniel said the
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Speaker 1: same thing as well this week. I think for for myself,
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Speaker 1: it's proven that, you know, I can, I can be
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Speaker 1: consistent with my play in every game. UM. I'm not
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Speaker 1: necessarily focused on whatever the weather is or um, you know,
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Speaker 1: whatever the climate is there, you know, just focusing on
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Speaker 1: what I can do to um, you know, make positive
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Speaker 1: plays or help our team positively, um by handing the
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Speaker 1: ball off eighty times or throwing at eighty times whatever
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Speaker 1: that entails. Yeah, the numbers are kind of off the chart.
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Speaker 1: Look what two it did the last couple of years.
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Speaker 1: All kinds have been decision and you know, vague answers
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Speaker 1: from the podium about whether or not he's the future
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Speaker 1: this year the future. Yeah, it's him, and it's now
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Speaker 1: out and the numbers certainly prove it. Obviously, it helps
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Speaker 1: to have Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill. Hi, there's Stacy
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Speaker 1: Dale's live in Chicago again. Dolphins up there to face
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Speaker 1: the Bears this week. What's the biggest change though, overall
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Speaker 1: aspect of to his game. Where are they saying? You
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Speaker 1: know what they say about Dolphins Andrew the mammal They
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Speaker 1: love to put on a show. Dolphins can actually the
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Speaker 1: mammal jump anywhere from fifteen to thirty yards in the
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Speaker 1: air when they perform. Well, guess what Too is doing.
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Speaker 1: He's thrown at fifteen to twenty five yards this season
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Speaker 1: and those receivers and Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill do help.
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Speaker 1: But it's been really impressive the differences into a Tungo
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Speaker 1: vila this season. He leads the NFL with nine yards
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Speaker 1: per past attempt. That is outstanding, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: those deep shots don't even really reflect those nine yards
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Speaker 1: per attempt. It's the passerrating he lives the NFL and passerrating,
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Speaker 1: which Andrew is really just a reflection of a whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of efficiency. When a quarterback grows the football. His
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Speaker 1: is at one thirteen, but he has doubled that passer
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Speaker 1: rating on deep shots right, that's twenty plus yards down
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Speaker 1: the field versus his first two seasons in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League. Not only that, he's got four deep touchdowns again,
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Speaker 1: twenty plus yards on those touchdowns. That is more than
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Speaker 1: his two years combined to start in the NFL. And
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Speaker 1: so I love this. Yesterday when we got to hear
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Speaker 1: from to A in his presser, he was asked, where
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Speaker 1: have you grown the most as a quarterback? And he said,
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Speaker 1: I think I've grown with the deep balls. Huh. And
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Speaker 1: he he asked the media, don't you guys think And
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Speaker 1: then he said it's a subtle job, but it was
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Speaker 1: a job because that's all he's been criticized for thus
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Speaker 1: far in his career, while it has improved significantly. And
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Speaker 1: these Bears, no, they have to get get after him
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Not only do they have to have disguised
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Speaker 1: as safety. Eddie Jackson told me, they've got to get pressure,
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Speaker 1: but they have to get depth down the field because
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Speaker 1: of his ability to throw it and the speed of
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Speaker 1: those receivers. That'll be a big key. Eddie Jackson telling me,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a better two receivers right
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Speaker 1: now in the league. Then Waddle and Hill and what
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Speaker 1: they're doing maybe Smith and Brown with the Eagles, but
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Speaker 1: they're outstanding and that speed is at a different level. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: absolutely here and we saw it last week with over
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Speaker 1: three total yards from scrimmage, Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Kill
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Speaker 1: in that victory in Detroit. Thank you Stacy Dale's in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: It is a two game NFC North road trip here
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Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. As we continue in NFL that with
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Speaker 1: sad news, the football world mourning the loss of let's
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Speaker 1: just say it like it is, quite simply, the greatest
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Speaker 1: punter in NFL history. We lost Ray Guy this morning,
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Speaker 1: the only punter in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: You know the phrase hang time legend has it? Football
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Speaker 1: came up with that term for this guy, for Ray Guy,
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Speaker 1: three times Super Bowl Champion, seven time Pro Bowler, All
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Speaker 1: Decade teen Team in the seventies, the only punter ever
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Speaker 1: selected in the first round when the Raiders took them
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Speaker 1: twenty three overall. Wait to him at a Southern miss
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Speaker 1: and seventy three. This is when he got his gold
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Speaker 1: jacket in two thousand and fourteen. We mourn Ray Guy today,
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Speaker 1: who was seventy two years old? Are you ready? Are
12:23
Speaker 1: you ready for football in Germany? Next week Novem We
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Speaker 1: debut in Germany live on NFL Network. Tom Brady and
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Speaker 1: the Bucks, Geno Smith and the Seahawks Sunday Sunday Sunday
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Speaker 1: a week from Sunday, nine thirty a m. Eastern Time,
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Speaker 1: NFL Plus. You're ready for that? Before that, Brady in
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Speaker 1: the Bucks have to beat the Rams. They've lost nine
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Speaker 1: of ten to the Rams. They are in second. The
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Speaker 1: Bucks are on the NFC South, but they're only a
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Speaker 1: game back. We're only halfway through. Yeah, I mean, we're
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Speaker 1: right and we're right in the middle of the year.
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Speaker 1: It's a um you know, here in the thick of
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Speaker 1: the fight, and you know it just has not You
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Speaker 1: just haven't played well enough to get our record to
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Speaker 1: a point where we can be super excited about where
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Speaker 1: we're at. So we have a lot of football left
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Speaker 1: and we got to do a better job. And I
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Speaker 1: think the only thing you think about is what we
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Speaker 1: work on today? Did we improve it? You know what
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Speaker 1: are we gonna work on tomorrow? How we gonna improve that?
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Speaker 1: And then prepare yourself for a game and to go
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Speaker 1: and play well. So you know, it's not um, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of football to play and we've got
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Speaker 1: to play better. That's just the reality of the situation
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Speaker 1: we're in. In the first year of here, there was
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Speaker 1: a stretch I think it was November where you guys
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Speaker 1: lost the three out of four. I think we're going well,
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Speaker 1: but you kind of sat down and got together with
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Speaker 1: Bruising environ and kind of mapped out what needs to
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Speaker 1: be changed, and you guys took off from there. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Have you got to that point? Yeah? Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: we talked about all the time, and I think we
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Speaker 1: have a you know, a great relationship with everybody, just
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Speaker 1: you know, talk about kind of where we're at and
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Speaker 1: what we think we need to do better. I don't
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Speaker 1: think everything kind of speaks for itself. Slow starts that
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Speaker 1: opportunities to make two point players have been third one
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Speaker 1: we have been great, and red area there long as
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Speaker 1: I haven't been great, we've been running the ball good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's a lot of reasons why, you know,
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Speaker 1: things go well and why they don't go well. So
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Speaker 1: every play feels like, you know, when you're in the
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Speaker 1: situation where and every play feels like it's critical. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's tough part. You know, you you don't feel like
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of margin of air. And and that's
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Speaker 1: why you know, it's it's a tough sport and we
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Speaker 1: gotta we gotta fight through it. There's no other way
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Speaker 1: to it. It's not like it gets easier, It's not
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Speaker 1: like it gets any less competitive. Um, you know, no
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Speaker 1: one feels sorry for us, nor should they. You know,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to win those games. We're trying to win
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Speaker 1: them and we just haven't done a good job the
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Speaker 1: last six weeks doing that when things feel critical because
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Speaker 1: they start to mount. So for example, like the short
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Speaker 1: yardage plays right, Like, if it's going well, you don't
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Speaker 1: think as much about it, I would assume. So when
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Speaker 1: you get in situations like that where that pressure mounts
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Speaker 1: because it hasn't been the results you want, I guess
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Speaker 1: what what can you do to alleviate a normal third
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Speaker 1: and one feeling like that this is like a huge ordeal?
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Speaker 1: And then I know we talked last week about you know,
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Speaker 1: us doing a good job execute and that's what that's
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Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Our great players need to
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Speaker 1: go out and execute well. The guys that are in
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Speaker 1: there their first year or two, you know, we're shot
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Speaker 1: or nick or you know, Hainzi cade Co. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to put too much on those guys. That's
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Speaker 1: the reality. They're getting used to playing. They haven't played
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Speaker 1: a lot of football. So the guys that have played
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Speaker 1: at a lot of football, we gotta do a better job.
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Speaker 1: And that's part of what leadership is all about. And
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Speaker 1: it's pushing people in practice, and it's trying to get
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Speaker 1: a bigger sense of urgency. Um. You know, when you're
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Speaker 1: wheneverything's going well, you know, it's things things, it feels
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Speaker 1: really good and easy, and when they don't go well,
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Speaker 1: it feels really hard and it feels like a challenge.
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Speaker 1: So I think the point is you either back down
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Speaker 1: to the challenge or you step up to the challenge.
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Speaker 1: And the fact that we're in this situation. You know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully you can look at at the end of the
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Speaker 1: year when all the games that played down, you realize,
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Speaker 1: all right, we dug really deep. We learned a lot
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Speaker 1: about ourselves, and we try to figure these things out
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Speaker 1: and we battled through them, you know, because it doesn't
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Speaker 1: always go the way that you want. It's the reality
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Speaker 1: of UM the sports. So just keep fighting as hard
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Speaker 1: as you can. You you know, you believe in your teammates,
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Speaker 1: you communicate UM, you try to make it better, and
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Speaker 1: that's what you work at every day. Tom Brady on
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Speaker 1: the podium moments ago. Brian Baldinger, Mark Ross back with
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Speaker 1: me here. The Ramps have had the bucks number in Tampa,
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Speaker 1: especially here. They've won their last five that includes the
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Speaker 1: playoff game last year in the divisional round. Mark. Neither
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Speaker 1: of these teams is out of it here. There are
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Speaker 1: three win teams, but no one's running away. All due
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Speaker 1: respect to the Seahawks more than them. At a second
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Speaker 1: with either division kind of feels like a must win.
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Speaker 1: You have faith in either of these teams, well, begrudgingly yes.
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Speaker 1: So let's go with history here with Tom Brady, and
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Speaker 1: it's never lost four games in a row, three game
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Speaker 1: losing streak right now, it's never lost four So we'll
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Speaker 1: go with the history that he has to bounce back.
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Speaker 1: And also, there are two games under five hundred tom
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Speaker 1: Brady is and he's never been three games and five
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Speaker 1: that was even as a starter at Michigan. So let's
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Speaker 1: just go with history that they'll rebound, and Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: talked about getting better and practicing, and of course teams
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Speaker 1: say that when they're struggling, but a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: just don't have the talent to get better to do that.
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Speaker 1: The Bucks have the talent. They've got Brady, they've got Evans,
17:22
Speaker 1: they've got God when they've got four nets, so they
17:24
Speaker 1: have the talent to get better. It just seems as
17:26
Speaker 1: if they have to get on the same page as
17:28
Speaker 1: we saw it last week with a lot of mishumunication
17:31
Speaker 1: between Brady and Evans a lot of time, so get
17:34
Speaker 1: on the same page. And also they've got to do
17:37
Speaker 1: a better job running the ball. There last in the
17:39
Speaker 1: league with only sixty one yards per game, the only
17:41
Speaker 1: average three yards per carrier they're running back. So it
17:45
Speaker 1: all starts there with the offensive line has to block
17:47
Speaker 1: better and for net and the run game has to
17:49
Speaker 1: get going to create some sort of semblance of balance
17:52
Speaker 1: for this Buck's offense which will let Brady thrive with
17:55
Speaker 1: those with those all pro receivers that he has. There
17:58
Speaker 1: So a lot to be worked out there, as Brady
18:00
Speaker 1: talked about, but I have faith that the Bucks have
18:02
Speaker 1: the talent ball, the to pull it together. And we've
18:05
Speaker 1: seen Brady worked magic before. Let's see him do it again. Well,
18:09
Speaker 1: I don't believe they're gonna get balanced, Mark, I mean
18:11
Speaker 1: they were unbalanced last year. They just threw themselves deep
18:15
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. And so you know Brady's talked about,
18:18
Speaker 1: you know, all the young guys that he's that he's
18:20
Speaker 1: that they got to count on and they're just learning
18:22
Speaker 1: the game. I think you gotta go to the veterans.
18:24
Speaker 1: I mean, both these teams have to depend on the stars.
18:27
Speaker 1: And so one of those matchups is Mike Evans against
18:30
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. I mean, Mike Evins caught sixteen passes and
18:33
Speaker 1: two games against the Rams last year. But he's the
18:36
Speaker 1: go to guy if you want to convert on third
18:39
Speaker 1: and one, if you want to convert in the red
18:40
Speaker 1: zone and the areas that Tom Brady just talked about,
18:43
Speaker 1: what's our problem, Mary's you gotta go to your go
18:45
Speaker 1: to guy, and that's Mike Evans. And so Jayalen Ramsey
18:48
Speaker 1: is out there. We saw him get beat in the
18:49
Speaker 1: playoff game. Got uh the Bucks back into that game.
18:53
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the game within the game
18:55
Speaker 1: tonight is Evans and Brady against Ramsey and the defense.
18:59
Speaker 1: I know Jalen once that matchup. We don't know how
19:02
Speaker 1: often and how frequently we're gonna see it, but it's
19:04
Speaker 1: something I'm to be watching for tonight because I think
19:07
Speaker 1: it's gonna tip the scales and who wins this game.
19:09
Speaker 1: Ramsey allowed two touchdowns in the opener against the Bills,
19:12
Speaker 1: the lost of Buffalo here at so far back week
19:15
Speaker 1: number one. He has allowed since then only one touchdown
19:18
Speaker 1: in six games. Obviously dropped the pick last week, but
19:21
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey has not been the Rams biggest issues. Certainly
19:25
Speaker 1: hope to use him against Mike Evans effectively on Sunday.
19:27
Speaker 1: Thank you Baldy and thank you Mark Ross. Coming up next.
19:31
Speaker 1: A lot of awards for the Bills as well. After
19:34
Speaker 1: they beat Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. Now they try
19:36
Speaker 1: to beat the Jets. The man in the middle there,
19:39
Speaker 1: Tim Settle set to join us live in Buffalo straight ahead.
19:49
Speaker 1: We talked so much about Josh Allen. Let's give some
19:52
Speaker 1: love to this guy, and let's give some love to
19:54
Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense allowing only fourteen points a game and
19:57
Speaker 1: did the job last week on Aaron Rodgers, partly because
20:00
Speaker 1: Tim Settle got his first sack at a couple of
20:03
Speaker 1: years on the very first play of the game, he
20:06
Speaker 1: sacked Aaron Rodgers and that set the tone. And he's
20:08
Speaker 1: live with us now in Buffalo ahead of their game
20:11
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Great to have you, Tim, How are
20:13
Speaker 1: you good? Thank you for having so if memory serves
20:17
Speaker 1: here till I think your very first career sack was
20:19
Speaker 1: against Tom Brady and then you come back and you
20:23
Speaker 1: get Aaron Rodgers. Those are two pretty good skins for
20:28
Speaker 1: the wall there. Man. Yeah, yeah, My first one was
20:34
Speaker 1: Tom when I was in Washington, I remember. Was my
20:37
Speaker 1: second is my second year, and then uh, last week
20:41
Speaker 1: was Aaron. You know, uh this beginning after. I'm happy
20:45
Speaker 1: I was able to get him. You know, it's part
20:47
Speaker 1: of it, you know, once in the next and it's
20:50
Speaker 1: set the tone. And we'll get to the Jets and
20:52
Speaker 1: what that game means for your team coming up in
20:54
Speaker 1: a second. But the celebration, Tim, you're all about the penguin, right,
20:58
Speaker 1: it's gone back. I think all the way to high
21:00
Speaker 1: school you celebrate with the penguin. Um. Jalen Waddle kind
21:03
Speaker 1: of has a similar set of ration now has he
21:06
Speaker 1: been has he been stealing your act? Tim? Yeah, for sure,
21:12
Speaker 1: sure you can look. You can look at their receipts.
21:14
Speaker 1: I've been doing it for a long time. You know
21:16
Speaker 1: I'm not tripping. You know his last name, it kind
21:18
Speaker 1: of goes with it. But now I've been doing it.
21:20
Speaker 1: I've been doing it first. It is what it is.
21:23
Speaker 1: Who do you think doesn't better? Oh? Come on, man,
21:26
Speaker 1: he looked still. But Tim, you gotta have more opportunities, right,
21:34
Speaker 1: I mean Jalen waddles getting the end zone almost every week,
21:36
Speaker 1: sometimes two times a week like last week. How are
21:39
Speaker 1: we going to get two more sacks? Man? This gotta stay. Uh,
21:43
Speaker 1: you know you never know when your player is. You know,
21:44
Speaker 1: I just gotta stay, keep rushing and keep keep getting
21:47
Speaker 1: out there. You know they come a bunch of souh.
21:50
Speaker 1: We're on a good really high high energy, high high
21:53
Speaker 1: end defense. You know they come in bunchets. You know,
21:56
Speaker 1: you just gotta don't one of leven friends. Just keep
21:58
Speaker 1: getting out there. They're gonna day far right into your loft. Hey, Tim,
22:01
Speaker 1: on a personal level here, when you left Washington, you
22:03
Speaker 1: went to Buffalo. You sat at the post to him
22:05
Speaker 1: there with your son, and you said you wanted to
22:06
Speaker 1: go to a winner. Um, how different is it there?
22:09
Speaker 1: And what has it been like to work with guys
22:12
Speaker 1: like von Miller, a consummate pro every week, a guy
22:15
Speaker 1: who's gonna end up in Canton one day. Yeah. At first,
22:19
Speaker 1: I enjoyed my time in Washington, you know. Uh, I
22:21
Speaker 1: felt like the top of change, the scenery. You know,
22:24
Speaker 1: I've definitely seen they had a dynamic quarterback here, you know. Uh,
22:29
Speaker 1: I've seen that they had a defense that just needed
22:31
Speaker 1: a few more pieces, and you know they were they
22:33
Speaker 1: were on it early. So uh, this just talking with
22:36
Speaker 1: my my family and my team, you know, it was
22:38
Speaker 1: easy to make this decision, and you know, I just
22:40
Speaker 1: wanted to come in here and be a part of
22:42
Speaker 1: what they got going, you know. Uh, you know, every
22:45
Speaker 1: there's a lot of emphasis here on what we need
22:47
Speaker 1: to do or what we want to do. And you know,
22:49
Speaker 1: I love that, you know, Uh, I feel like that,
22:52
Speaker 1: you know, I can help the team get a tour
22:53
Speaker 1: they need to get to. And I mentioned Josh Allen.
22:55
Speaker 1: Obviously he's your leader here. He's the guy everyone rallies around.
22:58
Speaker 1: He's the guy that played so well this past Sunday,
23:01
Speaker 1: plays well every week. Loves the contact, loves running the football,
23:04
Speaker 1: and loves the celebrations. He's got the handshakes with everyone
23:07
Speaker 1: on the offensive side, and you guys help him out
23:10
Speaker 1: with the celebrations as well. Like what's this whole dirty
23:13
Speaker 1: dancing thing where they're holding them up in the air?
23:16
Speaker 1: Like what? What? Like? What's going on with that? I
23:19
Speaker 1: don't know it's talking about? I don't know. You see,
23:22
Speaker 1: that's that's something that big big I've seen that. I've
23:26
Speaker 1: seen it a couple of times this year. But you
23:28
Speaker 1: know you won't catch me going that. I'll make sure
23:31
Speaker 1: Josh is protecting it all the time. That looks like safe.
23:35
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's an old movie thing, evidently from
23:38
Speaker 1: dirty dancing. What kind of challenge do you guys have
23:42
Speaker 1: heading into met life this week? Tim? Try to get
23:45
Speaker 1: your first division win against the Jets. Um. You know,
23:49
Speaker 1: we we know that we got a you know, a
23:51
Speaker 1: hot Jets team. You know that your defense is playing outstanding.
23:54
Speaker 1: You know they've been able to get uh rush the ball.
23:57
Speaker 1: You know the last three game they've been able to
23:58
Speaker 1: uh get a hundred plus rushing yards the game, and
24:02
Speaker 1: you know, we know that they're gonna play hard. You know, Uh,
24:04
Speaker 1: listen to be game, and we know that we're gonna
24:07
Speaker 1: get their best down. And our thing is just keep
24:10
Speaker 1: playing what we've been doing, keep going we've been doing,
24:12
Speaker 1: getting after uh, stopping our run, getting after this young quarterback.
24:17
Speaker 1: You know this, this this, keeping it poised, keeping the game,
24:20
Speaker 1: players simple, and just this playing ball. Had a sack
24:23
Speaker 1: last week, also got a hand on the pass and
24:25
Speaker 1: ended up in a Matt Mulatto interception. Huge hand in
24:28
Speaker 1: the Bills beating the Packers. Trying to do the same
24:31
Speaker 1: this week against the Jets. With the Jugs machine to
24:34
Speaker 1: the background, Tim Settle, it's your turn on the machine man,
24:36
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Good luck this week. Thank you
24:38
Speaker 1: so much for having you got a Tim Settle there
24:40
Speaker 1: live in the Buffalo ahead of their game coming up
24:42
Speaker 1: with the Jets. They beat the Packers. Now, what's next
24:46
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers after they didn't make a
24:48
Speaker 1: trade at the deadline and they gotta go to Detroit?
24:53
Speaker 1: Packers reports straight ahead. Listen, Like with the Bucks, like
24:57
Speaker 1: with the Ramps, it is not over for the Green
24:59
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. It is not all doom and gloom. Yes
25:02
Speaker 1: they are three and five, and yes the Vike things
25:05
Speaker 1: are running away with the division at six and one,
25:07
Speaker 1: but a wild card is still a very real possibility.
25:10
Speaker 1: But they have to win now. When we start expecting
25:16
Speaker 1: to win and not hoping to win, things can change
25:19
Speaker 1: a little bit. It just takes one game, could be
25:21
Speaker 1: one quarter, one play that can alter the trajectory of
25:25
Speaker 1: a of a team, you know, both possibly and negatively,
25:28
Speaker 1: and hopefully we make uh that play, that quarter, that half,
25:33
Speaker 1: whatever it's going to be this week to put us
25:35
Speaker 1: in the right direction. This week, they are facing the
25:38
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. They actually lost to the Lions Week eighteen,
25:41
Speaker 1: a year ago, so they are back in Detroit. Stacy
25:44
Speaker 1: Dale's Mark Ross with me. Stacey thought it was interesting
25:47
Speaker 1: what what Matt Laflor said today. They said, Hey, you're
25:49
Speaker 1: you're facing the worst defense and football. It's like, oh,
25:51
Speaker 1: we're not scoring points against anybody, so it's not gonna
25:53
Speaker 1: be easy. Yeah, pretty candid. They better score some points.
25:57
Speaker 1: So guess what the Detroit Lions at home? You guys,
26:00
Speaker 1: they maybe one in six, but they average thirty six
26:03
Speaker 1: points per game at home. And when Aaron Rodgers was
26:05
Speaker 1: asked yesterday, are you guys ready for a shootout against
26:08
Speaker 1: the Lions, His response was, quote, we'd better be. The
26:11
Speaker 1: problem is is they're not healthy. The good news today
26:14
Speaker 1: on the practice fields that Elton Jakins with that foot
26:16
Speaker 1: injury is back out there. So too our Al Lazard
26:20
Speaker 1: wide receiver with the shoulder injury, Christian Watson and the
26:22
Speaker 1: concussion protocol, but he's practicing. David baktr E missing his
26:26
Speaker 1: second straight day. Aaron Rodgers said it, Mark and Andrew,
26:30
Speaker 1: well yesterday, we haven't been healthy. We need our entire
26:33
Speaker 1: roster to be able to play. They've had so many
26:35
Speaker 1: shakeups a receiver, They've had so many shakeups with this
26:38
Speaker 1: offensive line, and so for Rogers, they have to get healthy.
26:42
Speaker 1: They need the roster on the field, and then they
26:44
Speaker 1: have to be able to push the ball down the field.
26:46
Speaker 1: It's one thing, Mark to have a j. Dillon and
26:48
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones involved. It's another thing to have chemistry and
26:51
Speaker 1: symmetry with those receivers. The offensive line starts there, and
26:55
Speaker 1: then you've got to have those guys back and healthy
26:58
Speaker 1: in order to push the ball down the field, which
27:00
Speaker 1: is what Aaron Rodgers does best. Yeah, definitely, Stacy and
27:04
Speaker 1: they have to be healthy, be because when I look
27:06
Speaker 1: at Green Bay there's just not a whole ton of
27:08
Speaker 1: talent or a lot of depth with their team on
27:10
Speaker 1: the offense. And usually Aaron Rodgers could mass mask that,
27:14
Speaker 1: make everybody better, get everybody involved. But again, he's not
27:18
Speaker 1: the same Aaron Rodgers as he once was, where he
27:20
Speaker 1: can be magical and make everything around him great. So
27:24
Speaker 1: that's what the concern. And then you talk about the
27:26
Speaker 1: confusion a lot of guys in and out which caused
27:28
Speaker 1: them to not to be on the same page. So
27:31
Speaker 1: this gotta be this has to be the game for them.
27:33
Speaker 1: This has to be to get right against the Detroit
27:35
Speaker 1: team that is last in the league in yards giving
27:37
Speaker 1: up and last in the league and points giving up.
27:39
Speaker 1: So they have to go in there. And you mentioned
27:42
Speaker 1: the run game. They actually ran the ball last week
27:44
Speaker 1: against the Bills. Now was when they were down and
27:46
Speaker 1: they were running it and Bills were just giving up
27:48
Speaker 1: chunk plays because of that. So let's see if they
27:51
Speaker 1: can sustain that run game with their two best players
27:54
Speaker 1: who I think on the offense outside of Rodgers, and
27:56
Speaker 1: then take those shots down the field. But again, who's
27:58
Speaker 1: gonna who are you gonna hit down the field? What
28:00
Speaker 1: receiver they're really scares defenses that can make plays. So
28:04
Speaker 1: a lot of the questions that have to have to
28:05
Speaker 1: be answered. And Matt Lafort wasn't quite channeling his Intervince
28:09
Speaker 1: Lombardi with that quote there and exactly and listen to
28:13
Speaker 1: offenses change, players evolve and vice versa. But Aaron Rodgers
28:17
Speaker 1: has not thrown for three yards nor three touchdowns in
28:21
Speaker 1: any game the entire year. That's never happened through eight
28:24
Speaker 1: tries to change that, tries to get a win this
28:26
Speaker 1: week in Detroit. Thank you, Stacy, thank you. Mark. Coming up,
28:29
Speaker 1: we have time for one more thing before we go
28:33
Speaker 1: about Gino again, all right, t r T one one
28:42
Speaker 1: more thing before we go. Jim Trotter's going first. Yeah,
28:45
Speaker 1: you know, Andrew. I want to start by sending my
28:47
Speaker 1: condolences to the family of Ray Guy as well as
28:50
Speaker 1: Raider Nation. Like I grew up in the Bay Area,
28:52
Speaker 1: I got to see a lot of Raider games. Here's
28:55
Speaker 1: how special Ray Guy was. When the Punning team came out.
28:59
Speaker 1: Typically you would go and get something to need or
29:01
Speaker 1: go and get, you know, take a bathroom break. But
29:03
Speaker 1: you never did that with Ray because you always knew
29:06
Speaker 1: you might see something special and he usually delivered. So
29:09
Speaker 1: from me. He was one of those guys that was
29:11
Speaker 1: a special player, particularly in later nation, and so I said, Mike,
29:14
Speaker 1: don't to hit his family and absolutely quite simply the
29:18
Speaker 1: greatest punter we ever saw, Ian Rappaport. One more thing,
29:23
Speaker 1: The NFL has been handing out monthly awards for rookie
29:26
Speaker 1: since the first time ever. Uh, there are actually three
29:31
Speaker 1: monthly awards on the same team the first time ever.
29:35
Speaker 1: Geno Smith Offensive Player of the Month, two Rookies of
29:38
Speaker 1: the Month, Kenneth Walker and Tarik Woollen. Seahawks are kind
29:42
Speaker 1: of loaded for the future. That's a lot of hardware, alright,
29:45
Speaker 1: congratulations to those Seahawks. One more thing, James Palmer, well,
29:51
Speaker 1: and I think we're all well aware that this game
29:53
Speaker 1: in Houston is gonna have a lot of eyeballs between
29:55
Speaker 1: these two fan bases on what's happening on the field
29:57
Speaker 1: behind me as well as what's happening in Game five
29:59
Speaker 1: between the Phillies and the Astros and the Texans know that.
30:02
Speaker 1: So over fifty of the TVs here at NARG Stadium
30:06
Speaker 1: are gonna have Game five on the video boards, are
30:08
Speaker 1: gonna have Game five updates on them as well to
30:11
Speaker 1: try to keep these fans in this stadium up to
30:13
Speaker 1: date on that World Series Game five. Okay, we've actually
30:16
Speaker 1: seen this before. It happened in twenty eleven, The Rangers
30:18
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals, the Cowboys, and the St. Louis Rams.
30:21
Speaker 1: My one more thing if you haven't figured it out yet,
30:24
Speaker 1: I didn't win the lottery, so I will see you
30:30
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