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  Speaker 1: You want a training camp quad box, You've got a
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: training camp quad box. Patrick Mahomes going deep to Xavier
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  Speaker 1: Worthy for Shon Bateman catching one down field in Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: the Packers are on the field, the Seahawks are on
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  Speaker 1: the field, and right here on this show we are all.
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  Speaker 2: Together as well. Welcome inside with the inside.
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  Speaker 1: The Fallhouse a full roster right here alongside Ian Rabinsbord,
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  Speaker 1: Judy Batista, and Mike Garafolo. I am Tom Tellicero, No
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. In that Ravens clip right there, he's out
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  Speaker 1: ill for the second straight day. We'll get it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more into that. Talk about the Ravens later
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  Speaker 1: on in the show. We got some training camp battles
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  Speaker 1: beginning to heat up at the quarterback position. Maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of clarity coming how things are going to
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  Speaker 1: start out at least in Minnesota. Well, it's got a
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  Speaker 1: big time guest forty nine ers tight end George Skittle,
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  Speaker 1: the perennial pro bowler, going to be with us right
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  Speaker 1: here on this show in a little bit. He joined
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  Speaker 1: Ian and Judy earlier on today. But let's start out
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  Speaker 1: in Green Bay where Jordan Love not a part of
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  Speaker 1: that little highlight. You saw right there, Josh Jacobs on
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  Speaker 1: the field, Christian Watson's on the field, Jordan Love on
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  Speaker 1: the field, but not dressed for practice. That's because his
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  Speaker 1: contract not yet done in green Bay. Although green Bay
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  Speaker 1: GM Brian goodecun certainly sounded an optimistic tone on the subject.
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  Speaker 3: It's important for him to be out there, obviously, you
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  Speaker 3: guys know how important practice is, and you know working
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  Speaker 3: with his teammates. So but as of now, until we
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  Speaker 3: get that resolved, you know, he will not be practicing.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be taking part in he reported last week. It's
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  Speaker 3: taking part in everything.
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  Speaker 2: Else, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So when Brian goodecoun says Ian that they are close,
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  Speaker 1: as we all know, there is no such thing as close.
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  Speaker 1: You either have a deal or you don't have a deal.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly there's been progress. It's pretty obvious at this
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  Speaker 1: point the point that they need to get there. It's when,
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  Speaker 1: not if. We still are left wondering when Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: will have a deal.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest question for the Packers in the last I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, three or four however many years, is really
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  Speaker 4: is Jordan Love the air parent to Aaron Rodgers and
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  Speaker 4: is he going to be the franchise guy. They are
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  Speaker 4: very very close to solidifying now with the kind of
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  Speaker 4: big money, massive extension that's starting quarterbacks and frankly star
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks get We've seen a couple of them this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt Jordan Love is going to join them. That
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  Speaker 4: question of is he going to get a deal really
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  Speaker 4: does not need to be answered. Just listening to the
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  Speaker 4: words of gentleman jer Brian Gudikinz, it's really just a
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  Speaker 4: matter of how much and does he become the highest
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  Speaker 4: paid does he eclipse Joe Burrow If he gets a
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  Speaker 4: long term deal, it's a little bit of a shorter deal.
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  Speaker 4: Money comes down a little bit, gets another bite at
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  Speaker 4: the apple much quicker. There's a couple different ways to
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  Speaker 4: figure out this deal, and it does sound like they
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  Speaker 4: are not there yet. But for the Packers, who they're
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  Speaker 4: going to have to practice without Jordan Love in the meantime,
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  Speaker 4: that is an okay problem because the bigger questions are
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  Speaker 4: on the way to get an answered.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like it's coming soon now as soon as
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  Speaker 5: relative right, could soon be hours, days, weeks. I'd probably
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  Speaker 5: measure it in days. And you can hear the confidence
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  Speaker 5: that the Packers have in this one.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you waving at me? What did I do?
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  Speaker 2: Would I say anything wrong?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyway, It's gonna be a big number.
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  Speaker 5: And the top of the quarterback market with Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 5: and Joe Burrow is at fifty five million dollars per season.
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  Speaker 2: Could Jordan Love exceed that? Yeah? Could?
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  Speaker 5: And you may say that's crazy, he's only got one.
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  Speaker 2: Year of starting experience. Well, you know what if you
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  Speaker 2: don't do it now?
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  Speaker 5: And he goes out and he's second in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: and touchdown passes again, that numbers only going up next year.
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  Speaker 2: And the Packers understand that.
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  Speaker 5: And the Packers have shown the confidence in him all
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  Speaker 5: along the way by drafting him, by turning it over
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  Speaker 5: to him, and getting rid of Aaron Rodgers, so that
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  Speaker 5: confidence and everything that they showed comes back to them
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  Speaker 5: at the negotiating table. It's like, okay, now, sign to
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  Speaker 5: pony up the dollars and show the competence. And one
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  Speaker 5: more thing on the confidence duty, the allowing of the
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  Speaker 5: hold in. I always think that that's a sign of
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  Speaker 5: good faith for a team in the middle of a
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  Speaker 5: contract negotiation. It shows confidence in them. Are in love
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  Speaker 5: from the team that they believe he'll be okay despite
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  Speaker 5: any misrep.
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  Speaker 6: Well, this seems to be the most respectful, like least
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  Speaker 6: angst ridden. Big time contract is the contribution that we've
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  Speaker 6: seen this offseason. I mean for the player to walk
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  Speaker 6: out literally chatting with the head coach to begin his
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  Speaker 6: hold in tells you everything you need to know about
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  Speaker 6: the dynamic right now in Green Bay. They are obviously
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  Speaker 6: very confident this is going to get done.
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  Speaker 2: There's no ill will right now.
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  Speaker 6: Another thing to keep in mind if you are a
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  Speaker 6: Packers fan and saying, oh no, he's going to miss
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  Speaker 6: practice time, that's never good, especially for a young quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: Remember the very beginning of training camp now is that
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  Speaker 6: ramp up period, So he's not really missing anything significant
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  Speaker 6: in terms of practice. They get into the heavy duty
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  Speaker 6: practice later on.
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  Speaker 4: If this gets.
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  Speaker 6: Done in the next few days, Jordan Love is not
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  Speaker 6: even going to miss anything of great significance and all
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  Speaker 6: of this will be behind them by the time they
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  Speaker 6: get into the nitty gritty of football.
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  Speaker 1: You can never do necessarily deals in the exact order
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  Speaker 1: of priority. Certainly Jordan Love priority number one for the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: but Ian there's more than one guy on the team.
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  Speaker 1: Packers got another deal done yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: They did a big time deal for a big time
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  Speaker 4: defensive star. Maybe not a household name. If you watch
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  Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers football, you know how good Kenny Clark
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  Speaker 4: is at football. And he has been paid already in
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  Speaker 4: his career. He got a big time extension just a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years in. Now he gets another one three years,
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  Speaker 4: sixty four million dollars on the highest paid defensive lineman
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL for the nose tackle gets twenty nine
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  Speaker 4: million dollars in year one in this deal done by
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  Speaker 4: Doug Henderson and C. J. O'boy of Wasserman and for
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  Speaker 4: the Green Bay Packers. You're right, it's obvious Jordan lovers
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  Speaker 4: priority number one making sure that Kenny Klirk was paid.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a guy, brid Gudegud said today he
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  Speaker 4: wishes all players were like He's a leader, he's a
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  Speaker 4: locker room guy, he loves football. Getting this done was
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  Speaker 4: very important to them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ian, Mike Judy stick around more with you
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment here as we go back to
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay. One of the great training camp traditions in
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  Speaker 1: the entire NFL, the riding of the bikes to and
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  Speaker 1: from practice. They've been doing this in Green Bay for
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  Speaker 1: a long long time, and if memory serves, I believe
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  Speaker 1: I've seen Stacy Dales doing a similar ride to that
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  Speaker 1: once upon a time. On our Inside Training Camp coverage,
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  Speaker 1: which begins with Back Together Weekend this Saturday and Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: rolling into itc one week from now, Stacy joining us.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to Brian Goodakunz today, Stacey, he speaks the
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  Speaker 1: first day of training camp every year. What did you
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  Speaker 1: make of his words and also what he's specifically said
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  Speaker 1: about Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 7: Well, as we all expected. Tom, no concern on my end.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, just a quick shout out to Mooch
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  Speaker 7: if you're watching Mooch go ash wobbinon right little bobblehead action.
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  Speaker 7: Mooch sent me that recently I beat him on the bikes.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, Tom a few years ago, so I'm
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  Speaker 7: real proud of that.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 7: I want to remind everybody that the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 7: last season were the youngest team in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 7: Not only that they were the youngest team in the
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  Speaker 7: Super Bowl era, the youngest roster, I should say to
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  Speaker 7: win a playoff game. Jordan Love is at the helm
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  Speaker 7: of all this the reason they have not come to
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  Speaker 7: a deal in Green Bay. And frankly, I'm quite surprised
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  Speaker 7: that it is training camp week, to start of training
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  Speaker 7: camp week for the Packers and they didn't get it
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  Speaker 7: done and slightly disappointed. I'm sure Matt Lafleur also slightly
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  Speaker 7: disappointed Tom because he found out yesterday as he revealed
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  Speaker 7: this morning. But the reason they haven't gotten this thing
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  Speaker 7: done yet is because they are concerned for the long term.
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  Speaker 7: Jordan Love is twenty five years old. Again, they were
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  Speaker 7: the youngest roster in the NFL last season. They are
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  Speaker 7: thinking long term in green Bay. They believe they have
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  Speaker 7: a win ready team right now. In fact, they believe
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  Speaker 7: in Green Bay they have a championship caliber roster, they
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  Speaker 7: have the culture put together, they have the talent put together.
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  Speaker 7: They believe around Jordan Love to win right now. But
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  Speaker 7: Brian Gudekunst, he is a man that is, i would
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  Speaker 7: say in this league, conservatively aggressive. He knows what he wants,
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  Speaker 7: but he's going to take his time and make sure
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  Speaker 7: everything gets done the right way for the long term.
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  Speaker 7: A couple of the things that I found very optimistically,
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  Speaker 7: you sort of gauging if you will. That he said,
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  Speaker 7: is they have confidence that both sides want the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: He said, we're close.
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  Speaker 4: So those are two really good things.
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  Speaker 7: And he said and declared, we know that Jordan Love
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  Speaker 7: is our franchise quarterback. They're all in on love. They
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  Speaker 7: want to make sure down the road this roster and
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  Speaker 7: the money's surrounding all of their players makes sense. And
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  Speaker 7: then I think they pulled the trigger and like Mike Garrifolo,
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  Speaker 7: I think it's days and they get it done because shoot,
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  Speaker 7: you know this, Tom Malifleur wants that guy on the field.
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  Speaker 7: I'll just remind you real quick. From weeks eleven to
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  Speaker 7: eighteen last season, he led the NFL in both passyards
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  Speaker 7: and passing touchdowns. He was second last season with thirty
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  Speaker 7: six thirty two, I should say passing touchdowns, I believe
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  Speaker 7: behind Dak Prescott. So they're all in on love.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Stacy, and thank you to bobble Head mooch.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to hearing more from the both of you, well,
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  Speaker 1: at least hearing from one seeing the other. You know
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  Speaker 1: exactly where I'm going very very soon. The Bengals also,
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  Speaker 1: of course, have their franchise quarterback that is Joe Burrow,
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  Speaker 1: who missed the end of last season because of an
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  Speaker 1: elbow injury. Significant news out of Cincinnati today coach Sack
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  Speaker 1: Taylor's saying Burrow has been cleared for contact. We know
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  Speaker 1: what they limited his throws a little bit in the spring,
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  Speaker 1: just easing him back into action, but no limitations out
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  Speaker 1: there's still like a touch your franchise quarterback in training
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  Speaker 1: camp when it's time for the contact to come. No
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  Speaker 1: restrictions on Joe Burrow. As we welcome back in Mike
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  Speaker 1: ied Ian, Andy Judy, We've got a situation where Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen him at his best, We've seen him go
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  Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl. We've also seen him deal with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of injuries here in recent years. A fully healthy,
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  Speaker 1: fully cleared Joe Burrow, what are your expectations for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we know if Joe Burrow is fully healthy and
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  Speaker 6: on the field, they are a super Bowl caliber team,
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  Speaker 6: especially because they have t Higgins and Jamar Chase still
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  Speaker 6: together with him. But that is the big question. How
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  Speaker 6: are they going to manage Burrow and can you stay
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  Speaker 6: on the field. If there's any negative about Joe Burrow,
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  Speaker 6: and I mean there really are not many negatives about
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  Speaker 6: Joe Burrow as a quarterback. It is the question about
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  Speaker 6: his durability. The last time he talked before the break
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  Speaker 6: here this summer, he spent a lot of time talking
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  Speaker 6: about how he's managing his body and the different things
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  Speaker 6: he's doing to manage his body, and trying to keep
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  Speaker 6: sort of the long rain goal in mind that it's
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  Speaker 6: a really long season and he needs to get through
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  Speaker 6: the season and he needs to be healthy and playing
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  Speaker 6: well at the end of the season and going into
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  Speaker 6: the playoffs if this team is going to have a chance.
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  Speaker 6: So going into training camp and then certainly going into
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  Speaker 6: the season, I'm really interested to see how the Bengals
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  Speaker 6: manage him because managing him is going to be important.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly.
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  Speaker 6: His instinct we saw last year, is to go all
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  Speaker 6: out all the time. He wants to be on the
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  Speaker 6: field no matter how he feels physically. It's going to
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  Speaker 6: be on the Bengals to maybe pull him back a
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  Speaker 6: little bit, especially in training camp and in the preseason,
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  Speaker 6: to manage him to keep him healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Ian We also heard from Bengals owner Mike Brown today,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: the ever reclusive Mike Brown.
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  Speaker 2: It talks to reporters.
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  Speaker 1: As Judy point on our caller earlier today, one time
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  Speaker 1: a year at the luncheon, he had some interesting things
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  Speaker 1: to say in clean on Jamar Chase, saying that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to bend over backwards to get that deal done.
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  Speaker 1: He chased for the long haul. It doesn't necessarily sound
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  Speaker 1: like anything is going to come quickly.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: At it's face, the comments were good. It was positive.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he declared Jamar Chase a big time priority
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  Speaker 4: for the organization. Didn't say the same thing for Ti Higgins,
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  Speaker 4: which really makes you wonder about his future in the
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  Speaker 4: organization after this year. On the franchise Tach, I doubt
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  Speaker 4: they would tag him again. Topic for a different day.
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  Speaker 4: This is about Jamar Chase and the fact that they
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  Speaker 4: want to get a deal done. But Mike Brown I
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  Speaker 4: would say, not that optimistic about getting one that did.
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  Speaker 4: This is time of year it's tough to do deals.
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  Speaker 4: Which it's not really true. They did a deal with
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow around this time a couple of years back
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  Speaker 4: or whatever. Said he's not going to rule it anything,
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  Speaker 4: but this is really when players get focused on football.
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  Speaker 4: That to me sounds like doing it after three years
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  Speaker 4: like the Vikings tried and were unable to do with
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  Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson. It's just it's hard. It's hard, and so
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  Speaker 4: even though Jamar Chase wants his money, he's going to
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  Speaker 4: want and now we'll see if he's there how we
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  Speaker 4: we'll see how he reacts to it. But it does
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  Speaker 4: sound and gets a challenge that Mike Brown thinks might
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  Speaker 4: be a little too difficult right now to get done.
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  Speaker 1: We also heard a little bit from another franchise quarterback
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  Speaker 1: we haven't seen a whole lot on the field because
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  Speaker 1: he played four snaps last season. Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: who of course was there throughout the course of OTAs,
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  Speaker 1: was not there for the mandatory mini camp that drew
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  Speaker 1: a lot of scrutiny. Will hear more from Rogers when
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  Speaker 1: he reports the camp on Tuesday and speaks to reporters.
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  Speaker 1: But he was on the Pardon Might Take podcast and said,
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  Speaker 1: in part, the thing that people don't understand was that
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  Speaker 1: when I was in the NFC North years ago, it
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  Speaker 1: was five practices in three days.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's not mini camp.
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  Speaker 1: They could arbitrarily put a tag on whatever week OT
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  Speaker 1: is they want and say this is the mini camp week,
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  Speaker 1: which makes it mandatory than the other weeks, but it
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  Speaker 1: was an OTA schedule A lot of words, Mike to
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  Speaker 1: basically say, Aaron Rodgers didn't think it was important for
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  Speaker 1: him to be there, so he wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: What do you make of it? What he's saying is
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  Speaker 2: what I agreed with at the time.
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  Speaker 5: All the practices that he had before during OTAs which
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  Speaker 5: were technically optional, not technically they were optional, he was
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  Speaker 5: there for those. These practices during mini camp are just
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  Speaker 5: like those practices.
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  Speaker 2: So would you.
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  Speaker 5: Rather he have been there for the only two mandatory
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  Speaker 5: practices of the spring and miss everything else, or would
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  Speaker 5: you rather him get all that other work in the
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  Speaker 5: spring and then miss the mandatory part. Now, the Jets
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  Speaker 5: had an awkward situation because it was just a trip,
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  Speaker 5: and they can't really excuse it because it was some
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  Speaker 5: kind of a family emergency or something like that, especially
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  Speaker 5: because Hassan Reddick at the time was holding out for
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  Speaker 5: contractual reason. So the Jets, I thought, walked a pretty
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  Speaker 5: good line here. And I say that because they didn't
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  Speaker 5: tick off Rogers by highlighting him.
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  Speaker 2: They had to make it clear.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously the media was going to know that
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  Speaker 5: he wasn't there for these practices, so he's not ticked
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  Speaker 5: off about it.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't seem concerned about it. Judy.
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  Speaker 5: He's going to talk about it again tomorrow, like Tom said,
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  Speaker 5: and then that's it, like that storyline is going away.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's time to see Aaron.
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  Speaker 5: Rodgers back on the field practicing with the Jets and
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  Speaker 5: getting ready for a season.
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  Speaker 6: I actually did not think that was the most interesting
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  Speaker 6: thing Aaron Rodgers said in that interview. I thought the
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  Speaker 6: most interesting thing he said was he was asked about
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  Speaker 6: how long he's going to play, how much longer? And
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  Speaker 6: he said, I don't know, I'm not sure. And he
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  Speaker 6: said this one for sure, meaning this upcoming season, and
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  Speaker 6: then he said, I wanted to do two good ones
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  Speaker 6: to give us a chance to retire a Jet win
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  Speaker 6: two super Bowls. So, okay, last year, we know, obviously
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  Speaker 6: was a disaster with the Achilles injury, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: the first five minutes of the season. So if he's
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  Speaker 6: saying this one for sure, that all of a sudden
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  Speaker 6: opens up the question of is this it for Aaron Rodgers?
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  Speaker 6: No matter how it goes, is it possible that we
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  Speaker 6: don't see him back next year? He wants to win
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  Speaker 6: two Super Bowls for the Jets, which obviously would be
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  Speaker 6: incredible given the Jets history. If they could get one,
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  Speaker 6: I think that would be an absolute gift. But I
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  Speaker 6: thought that was really interesting from Aaron Rodgers, sort of
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  Speaker 6: opening the door before this season even starts to the
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: possibility that this could be it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, impossible for us to go into the season. I'd
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: have some doubt about from Aaron Rodgers whether he's going
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: to play in two years or whatever. I remember we
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: started this thing thinking it'd be two years for the
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Jets and then that would be it, and then he
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: got injured. Maybe we read the timeline. I have different
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: questions though, he's going to Egypt in the summer. Like,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: I know it's cool that people go places, and I
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: went to Greece, but I thought maybe a trip to
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: the Dali Lama. Again, didn't that seem weird to anybody else?
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: It's too hot.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just more fascinated with the idea that mandatory is
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: really a state of mind. I'm going to try to
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: use that next time I have one of those online
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: safety training courses. Although recent days events, maybe those things
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: are a little bit more important than I might have
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: estimated before. Meanwhile, other quarterback news out of Minnesota the
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Vikings reporting the rookies and veterans now in training camp,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: including their new quarterbacks Sam Donald and JJ McCarthy. Kevin
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: O'Connell said Donald is going to take the majority of
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: reps when training camp began, despite of course, the fat
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: they traded up to take McCarthy at number ten overall, Mike,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: probably not a surprise that Donald starts out atop the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: jet chart.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Based on where we.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Stand right now, and granted we are in late July,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: we haven't taken a single repon training camp.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: We haven't seen in the preseason.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I would not be shocked at all if we get
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to week one and Sam Donald is the starter. They
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: gave him solid backup money bridge quarterback type money. From
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: everything I've heard, he's had a really good spring. They're
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: not going to rush the timeline on JJ McCarthy, though
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: we also know if McCarthy lights it up in the preseason,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: we'll have some interesting conversation.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Well, that's the part we don't know, So we can't
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: sit here and pretend like we do know. We're gonna
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: have to watch the preseason games, watch him on NFL Network.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: We roll them all the time. You'll be able to
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: see them here, will you see? JJ McCarthy makes a
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: staging the place to make some noise and threatened Sam
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Donald possibly, But outside of that, everything's been pointing towards
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Sam Donald being the starter for Week one for a
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: few reasons, not the least of which is that they
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: believe that Sam Donald has the ability to be a
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: good starting quarterback in this league, and now with these
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: targets around him, with this offensive coaching staff.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Like this is the time. There's no more excuses or
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: anything with Sam Darnold. This is the best.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Situation by far that he has had in his NFL career.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: So let's see if he can show that promise that
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: made him the number three overall pick years ago. The
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: other thing with McCarthy, and this was leading into the
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: draft to talk, he came from this pro style offense
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: under center, running the football, all that stuff working off
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: of that, so that made him pro ready, but he
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: also wasn't leaned on as much as some of these
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: other guys in the NFL. You're gonna have to throw
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: it forty times for four hundred yards. He hasn't really
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: done that in the past, so he's got some learning
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: to do as he comes along here.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm also gonna make an admission.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we can get that social of
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the Vikings quarterback entering the facility video one more time.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I was watching out of the corner of my eye.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen it. I still have to watch it
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: for five seconds. Don't know if that was JJ McCarthy
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: or Sam Darnold, which I love A good Spider Man
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: meme type of a quarterback situation is that that's McCarthy, right,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You easily remember when they had the Josh McCown Sam
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Darnold next to each other on the bench with the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Jets and they're both doing the same thing to their hair.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: The Vikings have recreated it. They're just going to hold
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: close or winning the gains that is Je said in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: those days. All right, we'll be back, and you know
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: what else is back? Football is back. Celebrate by watching
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: his teams across the league take the field for training.
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs one of the early starting teams because they,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: of course play in the kickoff game against the Ravens.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Can they make it a three peat? Or could the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: forty nine Ers make another run at the Chiefs.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: And this time finish the job.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: We got just the guy to answer that question. Forty
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: nine Ers tight end George Kittle, the pro bowler is
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: joining the.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Show a little bit later.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Stick around, it's all in the instives.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Thirteen seconds to go, twenty two to nineteen San Francisco.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: A touchdown wins the game. Hi got touch Bright bunch
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  Speaker 2: ed Shuttle, Tom and Jerry Roy Yellow got Tomano play
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• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Right side trow Tuckstown, CHUSA.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Say to back super Bowl champion the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Back to back, Baby, that's another set back. Hey, we're
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: not done, dog.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I want three. I want back to back and back.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes has some new targets. There's one of them.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown Chiefs camp already in mid season four May Reid.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: With those early morning practices, they'll have the pads on
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: soon enough. Chiefs one of the early reporting teams because
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: as we are counting down to their opener, the NFL
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: season opener against the Baltimore Ravens. Welcome back to the Insiders,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Tom Pelliicero, now joined from Kansas City by our guy,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Chedia. Jeff, you just saw Hollywood Brown making plays.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: We showed Xavier Worthy with a notable catch in camp
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show. What are you hearing so far
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: about Worthy? The first round pick and the speed element
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: that he coupled with Hollywood and everybody else can bring
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to this offense.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: Tom, I can tell you there is a ton of
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: excitement about Hollywood Brown, especially Xavier Worthy. They love what
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: he brings in terms of speed, his ability to play
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: different positions, and the way he's rebounding from a hamstring
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: injury that really plagued him in many camps and OTAs.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: He's been able to really get after it. You shoe
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: the deep speed here. They love his ability to catch
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: the football. They also know he's got a lot to learn. Hey,
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: Coach Amy Reed said he's going to have to really
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: get up to speed here. The first installament was on Sunday.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: He's got twelve more to go. He'll learned a lot
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: of shifting, a lot of motion, but they love the
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: way he's been coming along in this offense, and they
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: know he's going to bring an explosive element to this team.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: You go back to last season, and obviously the Chiefs
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: end up repeating his Super Bowl champs, right, but it
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: was a hard road. They won eleven games, they had
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to go on the road in the playoffs for the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: first time. A big part of the reason they were
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: able to stem the tide wasn't Mahomes in the offense.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It would that being one of the best defenses in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the NFL. What have the Chiefs been saying here in
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the early portions of training camp about their opportunity and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: their chances for continuing to play that well on the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: Well, they're excided about the challenges, and Chris Jones, their
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: star defensive tackle, talked about just you.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Know, understanding that it's the new season.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: They've lost some key pieces, most notably cornerback Lajeriusnea was
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: one of the best players in this position last year.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: But Jones made a point of talking about Trent McDuffie
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: and how important he is going to beat to this team.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: A guy who's going to his thirty year but it
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: was an all pro cornerback last year. If he's able
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: to pick up when a jeriou Steed left off as
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: the top corner, and they're able to find a Knight
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: answer on the other side, whether that's Josh Williams, Jalen Watson,
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Navi Johnson, they really believe they're going to be able
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: to maintain what they did last year and stay. Spagnolo,
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: their defensive porter, talked about with the Giants. They had
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: a great defensive win championship. The next year they were
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: really bad. He told these guys, can not let that
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: happen to you. Understand, it's a new season. You have
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: to go out there and reclaim what you did last year.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Jeffery, thank you very much. Look forward to chatting with
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you a lot more as we ramp up to back together.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: We get inside training camp and all of the coverage
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: we got moving forward. You know what else we've got
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: here on NFL Network, Good Morning Football is soon to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: be back. One week from today. Good Morning Football returns
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: live from Los Angeles. That's July twenty ninth, right here
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: on NFL Network at NFL Plus. Cannot wait to see
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Jamie Kyle, Peter Achbar Sherry.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: The whole crew can't wait to see this guy after
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the break.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers Berni Approval tight end George Kittle right
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: here on the show.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: It's the Insiders.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: Ah, I love and honor.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: This says really right, it's Mike Dare you have to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: wait for me? Oh?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I love football?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Look at it. You just did that door sky. You
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: gonna go hot?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Fine?
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Why do you follow me around?
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: Is because I'm cute?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I thought so. People probably there. I'm a complete cycle.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: You don't do dwelly Do you understand me for what
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I am? You don't?
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: Okay?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Very Welcome to The Insiders. Forty nine Ers superstar tight
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: end and friend of the show, George Kittle, who is
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: the only one on show right now wearing a shirt
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: that might be better than mine. What's going on?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Man? Oh man?
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: Just wrapping my cup Noodles fantasy football T shirt because
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Noodles carries about your fantasy football draft, and that's why
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: they're providing surd fry noodles.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: They want to take five minutes to eat ups to you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Almost any picks in your draft, go to auto draft
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: just makes a cup noodles go draft and come back
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: and get them out of the micrope EASYPD lemon, squeeze man.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: I got Terry hockey for you, taky beef, I got honey, sesame.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: I got all that you need also, And I mean, like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: did you just get off the golf first this morning,
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: because you look fantastic, dude.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, I've been playing a lot of golf. I'm not
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: gonna lie this. The summer is not about football, yes,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: but it's also about golf. I'm getting a little better.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about training. Get before we let
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Judy jump in here. You guys get started in only
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: a matter of days. There's been a lot of, obviously
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: discussion about the forty nine ers. Tell me mindset wise,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: you are entering you or I think it's the eighth season,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: you're looking forward to it? You kind of like this
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: about the grind. Where are you at right now?
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: I got to play football again, and I'm very excited
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: about it and just being back in the locker room
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: with the guys up tomorrow. See everybody, I'm very much
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: looking forward to it. The fact I got to play
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: football too in California, so I'm not like down you know,
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: in the South and that humidity. I'm really looking forward
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: to being back out there and just making more plays
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: with the guys, you know, building stronger bonds and just
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: starting this journey.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: We really looking forward to it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: George, you and Brandon are you ked a really amusing
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: emoji back and forth? Which I'm still not entirely clear
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: what you guys were saying to each other, But I
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: do want to ask you about Brandon. We know he
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: is not satisfied with where things are with his contract
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: and he was like a new one. How important is
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: it to you and the team for him to return?
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: Well, first off, I love Brandon. He's a fantastic teammate
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: and he does everything that you want him to do.
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: I made those emojis up. I clicked on random things,
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: and so that's what that emoji meant. I had a
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: great time that my DM for full of people asking questions.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: I absolutely love doing that. But uh, you know, I
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: he's just a phenomenal football player. He does everything that
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: you want him to do as a wide receiver, including
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: taking touchdowns for me once in a while, which I'm
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: totally okay with. But he's just such a dynamic receiver
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: and he's just such a very important part of our offense.
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: So yes, getting Brandon I you the money that he
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: deserves is I know. I hope nothing but the best
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: for him. There's unfortunately not much that I can do
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: to help out with that except just cheer him on
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: from the sidelines and hopefully we figure something out because
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: he's one of my favorite teammates I've had. And when
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: you have a receiver that can you know, run every
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: single route, catch all the tough footballs, just be open
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: in the right time, but also is a grind. He
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: grinds in the run game, blocks everybody you wanted to.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: You see all of his highlight right in the run game.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: And when you have a guy that does all that
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: type of stuff and just sets the tempo and sets
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: the tone, those guys are really important to your offense.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my dms are filled with those questions too, So
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: welcome to my world. Do you guys have had the
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: same off It's coordinator essentially Kyle Shanahan for some time.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: The playbook is ever evolving and ever changing. When you
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: get to training camp this week, are you is like?
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: What does Kyle have drawn up for us? And what's
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: that like? When you get to camp every year and
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: you're like, we're gonna add this rink over that, or
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: kind of look at the new look offense.
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: I guess, well, the nice thing is about, like when
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: you go back to OTAs and they do all the installs,
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: you see some of those new wrinkles. So a lot
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: of guys have been exposed to those new wrinkles already
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: and being able to see some of that stuff is awesome.
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: And yes, you know, Kyle's been my office supporting in
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: my entire NFL career, which is something not a lot
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: of guys can say. His his first time as a
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: head coach was my rookie season, so I've learned a
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: lot from him, and just I'm always going prepared for
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: training camp because then a new rinkle could come in
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: the middle of a meeting.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: He might just change his mind on something.
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: But I really appreciate that because he's always trying to improve,
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: He's always trying to get better. He's always trying to
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: find new ways to get our players open and for
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: Brock to get him the football.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: So I'm always looking forward to that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: But it is it's a it's a mental grind, it
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: really is, because we have a very dense playbook with
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: a lot of words, a lot of emotions, a lot
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: of formations. But that gives us really good chances of winning.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: And you know, we have won a lot of football games,
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: so he's I think he's doing a prett good job
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: of that. But I'm excited to see the new new
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: wrinkle that he's already changed since the spring.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: We're excited to see that as well. George, you rock.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Thank you as always for joining us on the Incenters.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: We look forward to having you back, maybe with a
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: little more lent the interview at some point soon.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, sometime soon. I'll be back.
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: But in any insider tips for me right now? Anything
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: I can, you know, talk to the boys and locker
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: roomb out tomorrow. Got anything good for me?
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: How about this? I'll text you and as long as
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: you don't say it came it comes from me, then
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: we're good deal.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: I have a goldfish memory. I'll forget about it in
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: three seconds. Man, don't worry about it.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Thank you, man, I really appreciate you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Guys. Great.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: George Kittle, by the way, is also the founding father
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: of the prestigious tight End University. Any kid would love
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: to graduate there, especially if they play tight end. You
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: could see ten End University Special live on CBS Saturday,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: October twenty sixth, the day before National tight End Day. Hopefully,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: just like last year, they will send me another weird
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: looking T shirt. Coming up, Lamar Jackson misses another practice, Well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: how did the team possibly survive without him? On Day
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: two or three or whatever it is. Tune in and
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: find out oh ive report of the Ravens coming up.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: When The Insiders.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Continued, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, the reigning NFL MVP, dropping
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: out of practice on Sunday because of an illness, also
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: did not practice on Monday.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Here's what John Harbaugh I had to say. Was Lamar
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: close or kind of saying as yesterday? Really I couldn't
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: really say, yeah, she's still sick. Couldn't make it today.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom feliserro Gudi Batist to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: join now by Steve Whitch.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't be a Ravens training camp, or any.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Practice for that matter without some mysterious Lamar Jackson illness
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that causes him to miss time and probably ultimately won't
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: stop him from playing even if they were a game
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: this coming Sunday, Steve, let's talk about some of those
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: guys up.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Front in front of Lamar.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: We've talked so much about Derrick Henry, what that adds
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to the mix for the Baltimore offense. But tell me
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: about that line and how important that is for Baltimore
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom and Judy.
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: To me, that's the big question going through training camp
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: is how this offensive line is going to shape up.
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: They've got three players no longer there, including starting tackle
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: Morgan Moses who's now with the Jets. So they've got
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: to figure out who's gonna play at both guards and
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: then at right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: And that's going to be a.
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: Situation because we know last year this offensive line it
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: protected Lamar Jackson very well, and losing some of those players,
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: will it be rookie Roger Rosengard now right tackle, joining
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: maybe Andrew Vorhees in Ben Cleveland at the guards?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Well, Daniel for aalle, come in there and competing and
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: get one of those spots.
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  Speaker 10: This is going to be a work in progress to
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: see how this offensive line takes place. You know, Ronnie Stanley,
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: the left tackle, has been solid there for years, but
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: he battles.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Injuries from time to time.
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: So this is a huge part of the components what
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: the Ravens can be going up in a division with
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: some of the best defenses in the league, Judy, not.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Just a division.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: To me, this is one of the big X factors
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: in the race at the very top of the AFC,
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: because we know the Ravens are at the very top
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: of the AFC. But right now, as they go into camp,
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: they've only got the center and the left tackle locked in.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: Everything else is for gradge John Harbaugh is hoping they
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: have it settled by the second week of camp. He says,
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: if it goes into the preseason like well, maybe just
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: one position or two positions, but not the whole thing
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: in flux. So he wants this settled, as he put it,
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: sooner the better. The Baltimore Ravens have a history of
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: being able to put guys in there and develop them
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: and keep.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Going as they roll along.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: So I don't think that this is a high stress situation,
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: but this is certainly something to watch in training camp
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: because of course you've got Derek Henry. As you pointed out, Steve,
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: they protected Lamar really well last season, and of course
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Lamar had a spectacular season on the way to the
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: AFC Championship Game.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: But for the Ravens to be an elite.
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: Team again in the AFC, this has to get settled,
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: and it has to get settled pretty quickly.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Here one of the biggest men I've ever stood next to,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Daniel fa a Leiley only one start through his first
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: two seasons with Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: If he can step in, that would certainly be a
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: big impact for that line.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the other side of the ball here, Steve,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: because Mike McDonald now is the head coach of the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. John Arbaugh Derna Search named thirty two year
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: old Zach orr as his defensive coordinator. Now, we've seen
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: some former players step into elevated roles quickly. Here this
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: is still a really fascinating higher one are the early
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: returns on Zach orrs DC.
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  Speaker 10: You mentioned that he's thirty two years old, right, He's
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: a former player with the Ravens and someone who coached
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: with the Ravens, so it's someone that they developed. He
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: knows this game and he's gonna be welcome with a
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: ton of talent, which includes safety Eddie Jackson who was
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: just signed and one thing you can look for or
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: to continue to do is to build up the middle
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: of this defense. We know they've got Pierce at nose tackle,
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: roqwand Smith in the middle. Didn't you add Eddie Jackson
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: to Marcus Williams, two important veteran free agent safeties to
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: go along with Kyle Hamilton at safety. That clearly is
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: the important framework of what Zach Orr is going to
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: do with this defense.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: The youthful energy that he brings, much like Mike McDonald brought,
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: is something that John Harbaugh wanted to continue. But the
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: fact that he's got so much experience and talent at
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: the safety positions and up the middle again with Pierce
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: and with Roquan Smith inside, that is going to be
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: the crux of what should once again be a dominant
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: defense again with Justin Mattobuicke and some of those guys.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Up front as well.
• 35:00
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• 35:33
  Speaker 1: quarterback competitions around the league. Who's the man in Vegas?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Is it Minshew? Is it a O'Connell. Either way, he's
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: still got a mustache. That's next on the inside, it's
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a new day in steel City.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Russell Wilson going to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Steelers acquired Justin Fields. Russell has told positions.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Now definitely don't have the mindset of c The Denver
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Broncos have now added Zach.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Will boot nick Man. There's going to be heavy competition there.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: The Minnesota Vikings s lot Jay Ga McCarthy.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has had a really good spring. He's been
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: dialed in. This is also team of a quarterback competition.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: They get Gardner Minshew fifteen million dollars to have.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Ain't no connolo is a frienly competition.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: And when I say freely, we shake hands because maybe
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: when we go out there we're trying to holth Be.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: The guys were New England Patriots. What Drake May They
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: brought in Jacoby Brissett. I'm ready to go compete. We
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: got a handful of quarterback competitions around the league. This
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: is the one that I might be the most fascinated with.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: Ah.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, after an off season of speculation and talking about
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: these things things over and over, we're finally into training
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: camp where the quarterback competitions start to sort themselves out.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders. Tom Pelasero, joined once again
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: by Steve White. You just saw it there in that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: music video, narrated very aptly. I got to say, by me, Steve,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: what's the quarterback competition that you've really got your eye on?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 10: We got to look at Denver, Tom, because you know
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: they go on, they draft Bo Knicks, they trade for
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: Zach Wilson, they have Jared Stidham there. First off, you've
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: got Zach Wilson, who's barely older than the rookie, and
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: he's going into his third year in the NFL, our
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: fourth year in the NFL, and he's someone when you
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: when you talk to people from up there who are
• 37:18
  Speaker 10: watching some of these offseason workouts who looked really good
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: as he should. He's got starts there, he's got the
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: arm talent, he understands what's going on. He should be
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: ahead of bow Knicks. But his bow Knicks, who said
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: they have this respectable competition, going to use his status
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: and his accuracy in some of the things that they
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: liked about him to win this battle.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Or could be Jared Stidham who's been in this system
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: for a year.
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: I think this comes down to Zach Wilson and bow Knicks, though,
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: Tom and It's going to be very intriguing to see
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: what Sean Payton decides as the big factor as to
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: who he goes with as the starter. Could it be
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: the experience Zach Wilson has, or could it be the
• 37:55
  Speaker 10: future and the promise of bow Knicks who could be
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: groomed for several years who they've committed to by the
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: draft status.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: What about in Las Vegas Steve same division here, the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Raiders have Aiden O'Connell, who took over after Jimmy g
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: was benched when Josh mcdams was fired last season, helped
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: them win some games whatever the stats were. Ad O'Connell
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: is the quarterback of a winning football team a bunch
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of times down the stretch. But then they give Gardner
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Minshew fifteen million dollars fully guaranteed in free agency.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: How do you see this thing shaking?
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you got the fourth round draft pic versus a
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: sixth rounds draftic for the starting job. The sixth rounder
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: being Minshew, who's got you know, roughly three dozen career
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: start more than three dozen career starts.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: And he's gotten a certain moxie.
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: Even though his defensive end, Max Cross, we called him
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: an lab. We won't go into what that acronym stands for,
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: but he's got something to him that gets players to
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: perform for him. That said, in speaking with Antonio Pierce
• 38:47
  Speaker 10: earlier this spring, he says, this competition goes to Aid
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: and O'Connell. Yeah, he's got some hot sauce as well.
• 38:54
  Speaker 10: As you mentioned, he went five and five best to
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: started for the Raiders. He's got something that his teammates like.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: This offense.
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's sputtered at times, but it flowed at times
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: as well while they were trying to figure out their identity.
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: So I think this is going to be a very
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: even very fair competition. But again, I keep going back
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: to what Antonio Pearce told me is that everything goes
• 39:13
  Speaker 10: through a no'connell.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: We'll see how things work out in a couple of weeks.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: See if you can spell that out, you can spell
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: out the acronyms here A little confident that none of
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: those words are banned on NFL.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: The little last boy, he called him a little last boy.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, stee will that you know that
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: lab end up on the top one hundred list eventually,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: maybe someday we'll see are we.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Able to nail you down on a number one for
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: the top one hundred for this year? Who should be
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: number one on top one hundred? The best player in
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: the NFL?
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Oh wow?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Number one got to be Tyreek Hugh Tirik. Yeah, bro,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: that guy is different. The rest is pure speed side
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: step the man touchdown, Ravan. I just think you just
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: a missed in the NFL action postsa Christian Keffer.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Obviously I'm number one man.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Trent Williams is the best football player in the NFL.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Miles Garris should be number one on the list to
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: be the greatest. Pat Mahomes, Yeah, I'm not saying that
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: guy's name.
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: Patrick Mahomes offense, TJ wat defense, calm down.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that's the truth. Tell me otherwise.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Connor Heywood, we're at the controversial type of selection here.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: You know who is definitely on this list the top
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred players twenty twenty four announced by the NFL
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and social media earlier today.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence checking in at number ninety four.
• 40:41
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• 40:48
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• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the rest of our insiders, I and Rappaport,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Judy Batista and Mike Garafolo as well. The first time
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: we've had all four of us in over a month.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: First time we've seen Judy Battista in a while. Here,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Where have you been, Judy? Tell us about your travels,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: give us the itinerary recap, of your off season.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: How have we been.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: I had a really nice few weeks at home with
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: the family. We really did not do a whole lot
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: of travel this offseason, although Tom, I understand maybe you
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: made up for all the rest of us with travel.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: You had some travel adventures.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, So, I was in Los Angeles last week hosting
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the Rich Eisend Show as well as The Insiders.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Little problem.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Friday night direct flight from Lax back to Minneapolis canceled.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Saturday direct flight from Minneapolis to Lax canceled, rerouted to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City where the connection was canceled, got rebooked
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: through San Francisco, bump the standby on that one, rescheduled
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: to go through Portland, at which point I decided, you
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm not going to go west when I
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: live east.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: And that's right, the one two hundred and fifty two
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: mile drive.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I did it over a roughly twenty six hours span
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: from Sunday into Monday, got all the way back here.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I got a lot of.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Notes from some of my colleagues and NFL Network, among others,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: saying you're not really doing it, are you?
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, I am, And I was counting it down throughout
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: the course of the day here. It really wasn't bad.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: The first nine hundred miles or so, kind of breeze along.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I stayed in I don't even remember the name of
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the town.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Last night in.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: South Dakota they had a hot tub dipped in there
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: for about ten minutes. Enjoyed it and made it back
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: in time to host this show. Meanwhile, Mike and Ian
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: were sending me photos on Saturday during my travels master
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: from the racetrack.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And I was getting legitimately so mad.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I was already so frustrated by the travel situation, and
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I think at one point Ian I texted you guys
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: something like, please stop, I am getting really mad.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: No, it was way more dire than that. But this
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: is a kid's show, so I'm not going to go there.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: There were definitely a couple of shots with Mike and
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: I pouring beer on each other. We're like, should we
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: send this a time whereas he can get and I
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: think I said, I'm gonna have good friends here to
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: send it now You'll never have them