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Zach Wilson Gets Medical Clearance, Bill Belichick Comments on Mac Jones Recovery, OJ McDuffie Joins the Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: this hour with other quarterback news, and that's news out
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Speaker 1: of New York. Where hi there, Ian Rappaport. NFL Network
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Speaker 1: insider Robert Sala made the change today that he told
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Speaker 1: us back in August he would make when Zack Wilson
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Speaker 1: was finally ready to get back on the field. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of no surprise here, Andrew, which is
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Speaker 1: good because this having gone exactly as the Jets hoped
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Speaker 1: and planned, is good news. Zach Wilson, officially cleared by doctors,
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Speaker 1: is on track to start on Sunday. Gets the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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Speaker 1: which if you think back to when the Jets first
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Speaker 1: had this discussion right before the first week of the season,
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Speaker 1: what they said was we hope he plays Week four
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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. Now he is playing now. It's not
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Speaker 1: just the meniscus tear that he had surgery on to trim.
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Speaker 1: The menis because that Zack Wilson is battling. It's also
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Speaker 1: the bone bruise, which can be very painful, but it
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Speaker 1: also can trick players into thinking that they are healthy.
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Speaker 1: Maybe four weeks out, five weeks out, that's really where
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Speaker 1: you injure yourself because you think you could are good
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Speaker 1: to go, but you really are not. Week six is
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Speaker 1: when the time is the time when the bone bruise
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Speaker 1: is good to go and you really can't do any
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Speaker 1: more damage. That's where Zach Wilson is. That's why he
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Speaker 1: is now on track to start on Sunday for the Jets.
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco goes back to the bench and it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be Zack Wilson and Mitch Bisky still very much the
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Speaker 1: number one quarterback for the Steelers in that game Sunday
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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I now for the previously mentioned Bill Belichick
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Speaker 1: conversation with the media today in Foxborough about his quarterback
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Speaker 1: Mac Jones. Does the plan bill for Max have any
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Speaker 1: kind of procedure? How long with the process here? Day
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Speaker 1: by day? Phil, Day by day? That's the plan? Day
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Speaker 1: by day. Are you and the team on the same
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Speaker 1: page with Mac and his team as it comes to
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Speaker 1: the injury and how to burn progress move forward? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what the what the nature of
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Speaker 1: the question is day by days getting better? See how
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Speaker 1: it goes day by day? Does he have a high's
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Speaker 1: brain day by day? What do I look like a doctor?
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Speaker 1: An orthopedic surgeon like? I don't know, talk to the
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Speaker 1: medical experts. So I guess he's day by day. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: A couple of interesting things strike me out of that.
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Speaker 1: First of all, if you read that online, read it
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Speaker 1: on Twitter, which is where I first saw it, Uh,
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Speaker 1: it kind of seems like he's being a jerk, but
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Speaker 1: he's kind of smiling and playing along, and there's that
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Speaker 1: giving any answers. He's giving the answers that he came
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Speaker 1: in to say, which is fine. But he's definitely having
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Speaker 1: some fun with the day by days. Before we started
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Speaker 1: that side sound on tape TV so there were actually
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Speaker 1: even more day by days before there. I want more
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Speaker 1: of them, give me all of the day by age.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we can we do the thing where we
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Speaker 1: count them and then it goes ding ding ding. We
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Speaker 1: should do that. We can work on that for one
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Speaker 1: more thing. But but here's what here's what's amazing about
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Speaker 1: Belichick is he doesn't accept the premise of any question.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't like. He's never going to give you more
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Speaker 1: than he plans. He came in to say he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be day by day and he's getting better. So when
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Speaker 1: someone asks a question, are you on the same page
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Speaker 1: with Mac? He like takes some time and it's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to address what that question is
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Speaker 1: even about to give you an answer that would in
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Speaker 1: any way convey anything about what you're asking. He really
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Speaker 1: is the master of making sure that no one gets
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Speaker 1: what they want with their questions that he doesn't like.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Mac Jones day by days get a little better,
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Speaker 1: we'll see. Belichick's not a doctor. Yeah, are you guys
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Speaker 1: are on the same page? Like with the treatment? I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what that means, right, And I don't
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Speaker 1: know why they wouldn't probably, but I mean, yeah, meantime,
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Speaker 1: Jamis Winston Ian was very clear in London today that
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Speaker 1: he wanted to practice and was told that he cannot.
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Speaker 1: The Saints are likely going to practice Jamis tomorrow with
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Speaker 1: the bad back. Jamis always wants to practice, so really
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Speaker 1: this is fine and wanting to be out there on
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Speaker 1: the field. It's really about the Saints trying to get
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Speaker 1: him as healthy as possible. He watched the last game
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Speaker 1: from the Saints. You can't say that Jamis Winston looked
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Speaker 1: fully healthy. I mean, he did not look like himself,
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Speaker 1: didn't look like he got everything on his passes and
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously made some mistakes and throws you wouldn't want,
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Speaker 1: you know, he would want back. But this is about
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Speaker 1: getting him to Sunday, getting him healthy. Did not practice today.
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Speaker 1: She saw Andy Dalton, you saw some of Taysom Hill,
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Speaker 1: and it sounds like we'll see maybe a little more
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Speaker 1: of Tassomill going forward, which you know, if you're the
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Speaker 1: Saints offense, any spark is good spark, So that actually
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Speaker 1: makes some sense. Okay, let's get to the serious story here.
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Speaker 1: The Buccaneers are training in Miami there game for now
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Speaker 1: is still on Sunday, night Hurricane Ian hitting the west
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Speaker 1: coast of Florida. But Ian Rappaport, NFL Network Insider, we
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Speaker 1: do now have a contingency plan. Yeah, very clear and
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Speaker 1: specific contingency plant. If the game is not played on
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Speaker 1: Sunday night in Tampa, it's gonna be played in Minnesota
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Speaker 1: at US Bank Stadium, which at least allows every team
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Speaker 1: to plan and do some advance work and just kind
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Speaker 1: of get ready in the event the league does end
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Speaker 1: up moving the game. According to Jeff Miller, the league
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Speaker 1: executive who provided this update, it is still too early
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Speaker 1: to tell. UH. There's really no firm time on and
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Speaker 1: when they need to make a decision. Obviously rather sooner,
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Speaker 1: you know, sooner rather than later. There's no firm timeline.
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Speaker 1: It's also not expected to be played in Miami because
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Speaker 1: they don't want to divert local resources away from the
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Speaker 1: hurricane UH and basically use those resources to help put
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Speaker 1: on a football game which is obviously not nearly as important.
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Speaker 1: So Minnesota likely the home of this game in the
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Speaker 1: event it does need to get moved. And to your
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Speaker 1: point about South Florida. Here you see the hurricane moving
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Speaker 1: up the west coast, but certainly south Florida feeling the
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Speaker 1: effects significant effects of HURRICANEY and so much so that
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Speaker 1: Dolphins took off early today for Cincinnati rather than to Linger.
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Speaker 1: Wanted to get there safely and obviously our best wishes
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Speaker 1: to everyone in Florida. Please stay safely and rappaport. Thank
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Speaker 1: you NFL Network inside or that game is scheduled for Sunday,
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Speaker 1: scheduled meantime for earlier that day at one o'clock hockey
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Speaker 1: Eastern time. How about this one? We got Lamar Jackson
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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen one PM. Sean McDermott in Baltimore. I
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Speaker 1: mean you just you look at what Josh has been
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Speaker 1: able to do, and then you look at Lamar's game
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Speaker 1: and and they're they're a little bit different in terms
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Speaker 1: of you know, their strengths maybe and um, but just
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Speaker 1: it's good for the league. I mean, these are two
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Speaker 1: young quarterbacks that played at such a high level. Um,
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Speaker 1: they give you headaches. They're they're hard to stop because
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Speaker 1: of their multidimensional and and what they do and how
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Speaker 1: they can do it. Um. And so a lot of respect,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure run the league for Josh and of course
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Speaker 1: we love Josh and and a lot of respect for
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Speaker 1: Lamar in this case too. I have to have a
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Speaker 1: lot of respect for both of these quarterbacks the way
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Speaker 1: both of them have played this year, James Palmer, Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: You know I used to get laughed at sometimes when
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Speaker 1: I said that Josh Allen was the most elusive quarterback
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Speaker 1: and made as many players on the run, uh not
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Speaker 1: named Lamar Jackson, but but you see it with both
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Speaker 1: of them. These guys have kind of sort of changed
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Speaker 1: the way we evaluate quarterbacks and now the quarterback positions
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Speaker 1: played absolutely Andrew. When you think about this evaluation, like
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Speaker 1: both of these guys were lightly regarded in terms of
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Speaker 1: the draft. There were guys that we poked holes in
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Speaker 1: their games when we watched them in college. Not accurate enough.
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Speaker 1: Can they play from the pocket? Can they play traditional quarterback? Well,
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Speaker 1: both of these guys have become superstars and what it
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Speaker 1: has done their success has opened the path for other,
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Speaker 1: i would say non traditional quarterbacks to have success, guys
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Speaker 1: that have athleticism and running skills. It allowed offensive coordinators
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Speaker 1: to have enough imagination to maybe bring in some of
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Speaker 1: those collegiate concepts to help these quarterbacks have success at
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Speaker 1: the pros. When you look at the way the Buffalo
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Speaker 1: Bills run their offense and the way the Baltimore Ravens
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Speaker 1: run their offense. Neither one is a traditional office, but man,
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Speaker 1: it puts defensive coordinators and bonds because now you're dealing
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Speaker 1: with what they do with threat playmaker who can hurt
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Speaker 1: you not only with their legs, but now with their
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Speaker 1: arms and Bucky you talking about not traditional offense. As
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Speaker 1: you look at what the Ravens went and did this offseason,
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Speaker 1: it was very similar to the look that they had
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Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen when Lamar Jackson won the m
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Speaker 1: v P. Unanimously, It's let's bulk up our offensive line.
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Speaker 1: Let's get deeper at the running back spot, Let's get
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Speaker 1: a couple more tight ends because he loves to work
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Speaker 1: the middle of the field, and let's try to have
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Speaker 1: the same success. The interesting part is the offensive line
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Speaker 1: hasn't really played up to par. He's been the entire
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Speaker 1: running game. Now. JK. Dobbins did return last week, and
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Speaker 1: you expect that role to increase in him to carry
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Speaker 1: some more of the workload and running the football, and
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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews has really been the only tight end to
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Speaker 1: flourish for this team. It's interesting you could think that
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Speaker 1: he's actually playing Andrew better than he did in that
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Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen m v P season. Thus far, through
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Speaker 1: these first three weeks, he's specifically been so good on
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Speaker 1: first and second down that's set up a lot of
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Speaker 1: what he's been able to do running this offense. And
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Speaker 1: now you have Devin Duvernet, you have a guy that
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Speaker 1: you're seeing maybe a big play weapon, you have Rashod Babe,
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Speaker 1: and you have these options. I'm talking about him playing
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Speaker 1: great right now. It looks like it's trending in the
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Speaker 1: right direction to maybe have even more six tess with
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Speaker 1: Dobbin's coming back and these other guys getting better each week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think he is playing better than than his MVP
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Speaker 1: season statistically and just passing the eye tests. And these
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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks combining for over seven hundred yards of total
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Speaker 1: offense between them through these three games. Here on the
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Speaker 1: Bill side of things, this is a tough one James
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Speaker 1: or rebound game. After that exhausting effort in a loss
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Speaker 1: in Miami. What's their thought going into this one? Well,
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Speaker 1: it is a difficult situation going into the player I
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Speaker 1: just described in Lamar Jacksons specifically with the defense that
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Speaker 1: you have, and you played your last game really without
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Speaker 1: your entire starting secondary. But I would go back to
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Speaker 1: the preseason game that I covered there against the Denver Broncos,
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Speaker 1: when I was talking to people on the on the
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Speaker 1: Broncos organization, going, man, this team is just unbelievably deep.
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Speaker 1: That's what we saw in that game, second and third stringers,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we saw against the Dolphins. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is the team that everybody is talking about in
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Speaker 1: Miami Bucky. But at the same time, this defense that
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Speaker 1: I mentioned, without their secondary and the explosive receivers and
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Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle and Tyree Hill, held them to about what
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Speaker 1: two some odd yards and fifteen first downs. Offensively, the
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Speaker 1: offensive line was in shambles, and then Josh Allen throws
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Speaker 1: from four yards. I would say this team is still
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Speaker 1: in a very good spot because they could have very
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Speaker 1: well won that game. Without some miscuse. You're gonna be shorthanded,
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Speaker 1: it looks like against the Ravens. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: you have to be happy with your fifty three man roster.
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Speaker 1: If you're Sean McDermott, Oh, they build the right way.
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Speaker 1: They'll build the way every NFL executive wants to have
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Speaker 1: his team built, their homegrown guys that have been developed.
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Speaker 1: They are not afraid when they have their opportunities, and
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Speaker 1: it's the perfect blend of coaching matching the personnel. Meaning
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Speaker 1: when I look at them, I can't say they they're
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Speaker 1: necessarily the most talented defense, but man, what they asked
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Speaker 1: their players to do, it fits with the stress of
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Speaker 1: their game, which is why they're successful. When I look
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Speaker 1: at Baltimore, I see a bit of a defense in transition.
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Speaker 1: This is a team that has always played great defense
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Speaker 1: over the last twenty years. Now they're still trying to
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Speaker 1: put it together. You had a new defensive play calling
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald coming from the college game back to the
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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, trying to do a little more. Own eyes
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Speaker 1: see what's going on. And so it's a bit of
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Speaker 1: a struggle. But the one thing that we know about
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, they're going to test the toughness of
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill because they're gonna try and hit him
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Speaker 1: in the mouth. We will get a chance to see
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Speaker 1: if the Buffalo Bills, who are played gray finesse on offense,
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Speaker 1: if they're physical enough to be one of the last
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Speaker 1: team standing in the end, the Baltimore Ravens will give
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Speaker 1: them that test and the Ravens defense getting some new
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Speaker 1: faces on the field. Jason Pierre Paul scene today on
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Speaker 1: the practice field for the first time at Owens Mills
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Speaker 1: just signed wearing number four, which looks weird. Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: four defense. Thank you, James Palmer to night as well,
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Speaker 1: Tyreek killworst ten. He's also really fast. Does that speed
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Speaker 1: run through Cincinnati on Thursday night? Oh Jay make the
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Speaker 1: face standing by. We have a former Dolphins wide receiver
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Speaker 1: who can move just a little bit himself coming up
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Speaker 1: next on NFL Now, brol gro Tyler Boyd waddling his
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Speaker 1: way for six touchdown. The way they're not to put
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Speaker 1: off the game up from behind, it comes out what
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Speaker 1: it all man, unbelievable clutch. Don't Tyreek Hill Bangels drop
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Speaker 1: the stide. The Dolphins have pulled off the improbable three island.
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Speaker 1: They are pulling off the improbable sometimes because they have
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Speaker 1: those two guys, Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle next gen
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Speaker 1: stats here powered by a WS Look what they have
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Speaker 1: done compared to the rest of the league. When two
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Speaker 1: is throwing the ball downfield, that is ten yards or
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Speaker 1: more down field. They're pretty good and we're gonna see
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Speaker 1: that speed on display tomorrow night in Cincinnati. This guy
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Speaker 1: had some speed as well. O J. McDuffie fifth all
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Speaker 1: time in Dolphins franchise history with five thousand, seventy four
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Speaker 1: receiving yards. He led the league in receptions in with ninety,
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Speaker 1: a career high for him and his Dolphins career. Now
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Speaker 1: is a podcast had a good name, Fish Tank any One.
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Speaker 1: O J. McDuffie ahead of tanp joins us live on NFL. Now,
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Speaker 1: O J, how are you and your family doing down
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Speaker 1: there with that storm bearing down? We're doing well. We're
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Speaker 1: doing well. You know, we're still praying for our neighbors
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Speaker 1: to the west, making sure they're good over there and
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Speaker 1: making sure we can bring anybody in and needs to
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Speaker 1: come in. But so far, so good. A lot of rain.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that you know, the West coast is used
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Speaker 1: to seeing a lot of these storms that we've seen
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Speaker 1: over the East coast, So I just hope they're heating
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Speaker 1: the warnings and you know, getting the shelter or even
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Speaker 1: evacuating if they have to. Absolutely here. Here's hoping everyone
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Speaker 1: is okay, and if you haven't moved yet, obviously find
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Speaker 1: some shelter with that storm bearing down on the West coast.
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Speaker 1: It's we've talked so much about the Bucks this week,
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Speaker 1: Oh j how they are in the Dolphins building right
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Speaker 1: now getting ready for the game. There are no excuses here,
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Speaker 1: but I can't imagine the headspace the Dolphins are in
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Speaker 1: that emotional game Sunday in the heat. We saw everyone exhausted.
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Speaker 1: Two us got the bad back. They had to leave Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: This is a tough task for them at three and
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Speaker 1: all I know, but to go on the road to
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati to face Joe Burrow. Yeah, it's a huge test.
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Speaker 1: You know, it really is a huge test, not only
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Speaker 1: for you know, the team itself, but for our new
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Speaker 1: headman's probably hadn't had to deal with a situation like this,
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Speaker 1: you know, for one of the storms down here. Leaving
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Speaker 1: a little earlier today than they would have normally left,
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Speaker 1: and then of course been a Thursday night in a
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Speaker 1: short week, so it's all adjustina for everybody. Um, he's
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Speaker 1: got a hell of staff which helps a lot um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the helping with these different decisions. And he's
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Speaker 1: got a pretty much veteran team that knows how to
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Speaker 1: handle their business. So tough little trip up to, you know,
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Speaker 1: if to Cincinnati playing against a really, really good football
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Speaker 1: team still riding a high, I'm sure, but I'm sure
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Speaker 1: they've turned the page and you're getting ready to go
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Speaker 1: all right when I'm talking about the guy over your shoulder,
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Speaker 1: O J. The artist rendering of the great Dan Marino
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, who obviously is still part of the franchise,
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Speaker 1: a guy that you played with. When we've seen some
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Speaker 1: of the numbers, especially Week two when two or through
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Speaker 1: six touchdowns and they comeback win in Baltimore, we have
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Speaker 1: not seen these numbers since Dan Marino. What do you
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Speaker 1: say to that? You know what, man, Danny is a
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Speaker 1: He's a unicorn, you really is. You know, you look
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Speaker 1: what he did in the mid eighties, you know, throwing
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Speaker 1: four or five thousand yards in the season and forty
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Speaker 1: eight touchdowns. You know that wasn't touched for a long
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Speaker 1: long time. And to the game change. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I think the game has changed to right now to
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Speaker 1: where these these guys can go out there and put
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Speaker 1: up gaudy numbers. Can you do it consistently? He's always
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Speaker 1: the question. But I love the fact that to has
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Speaker 1: found that confidence, in that courage to pick these shots,
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Speaker 1: get the ball all the time, find his great receivers
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Speaker 1: in wall and hell and and make big things happen.
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Speaker 1: You know, game plan and all, it's all that matters
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Speaker 1: for a lot of these guys, and I think two
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Speaker 1: of does a great job with our game plan and
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Speaker 1: executes it really well. Right now, you know what sends
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Speaker 1: out to me, oh j We talked about the speed. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Tyreck Hill and jayl and Waddle have the speed and
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Speaker 1: they're on third and twenty until you see Waddle get deep.
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Speaker 1: I mean that that was a game changing play. But
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Speaker 1: we heard so much of the offseason with good reason
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Speaker 1: about how the run game is gonna gash teams this year.
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Speaker 1: Are you surprised we haven't necessarily seen that yet. I
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Speaker 1: am surprised a little bit. But the reason I'm not
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Speaker 1: so surprised because you know, we've had guys in and
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Speaker 1: out of that lineup every single game. You know, we
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Speaker 1: have guys in and out of the different positions left
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Speaker 1: and right, tackle some some guard positions, and so the
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Speaker 1: run game always seems to fall behind the rest of
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Speaker 1: the game. Um. But I think the fact that coach
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Speaker 1: McDaniel sticks to it is the most important thing. We've
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Speaker 1: got some home run hitters, you know, for most of
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Speaker 1: and you know and Edmonds. We've got some guys that
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Speaker 1: can hit home runs right away when they get the
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Speaker 1: rock in her hands. And so we're not gonna shot
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Speaker 1: away from it. We just gotta keep working on it
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Speaker 1: until then. We'll keep keep passing the ball around the
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Speaker 1: yard and let our other wife, let our wife receivers
18:13
Speaker 1: do a lot of work. All right, he's hitting that
18:14
Speaker 1: the deep shots. We know, he's great on the slants
18:17
Speaker 1: and the bubbles and all those things that we've seen
18:19
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. From to uh under the
18:22
Speaker 1: other staff, Oh j what is the one thing that
18:25
Speaker 1: you would like to see from to uh? Assuming he's
18:28
Speaker 1: health a back and ankle and all that in a
18:31
Speaker 1: perfect world. Well, you know what, I think. I think
18:34
Speaker 1: he's doing what I wanted to do. I wanted to
18:36
Speaker 1: go with whatever the game plan is, and I think
18:38
Speaker 1: the game plan has been just that. You know, look
18:40
Speaker 1: at the last two games. We got down a lot
18:43
Speaker 1: and he was able to go out there and throw
18:44
Speaker 1: the ball around the yard and make big numbers. The
18:46
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, you know, four hundred yards passing, and I
18:49
Speaker 1: think that's that was part of what we had to
18:51
Speaker 1: do with that at that point last game. You know,
18:54
Speaker 1: they weren't giving us anything deep. They wouldn't. They knew
18:56
Speaker 1: they want to keep everything in front of was, you know,
18:58
Speaker 1: beat up secondary, and so he took whatever they gave us.
19:01
Speaker 1: I think the best thing about Tour right now is
19:03
Speaker 1: he's taking the game plan in doing whatever needs to
19:06
Speaker 1: be done to be successful and not worried about gaudy numbers,
19:09
Speaker 1: but making sure that we're successful. Wasn't offer as the
19:11
Speaker 1: Dolphins try to go to four and oh for the
19:13
Speaker 1: first time since your team coached by Don Shula, the
19:18
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and worked on Shula into the show
19:20
Speaker 1: here Dolphins Bengals coming up tomorrow. O J McDuffie's podcast
19:24
Speaker 1: Fish Tank eight one, O J. Stay safe. Always good
19:27
Speaker 1: to see it. Thank you very much, appreciate you having
19:29
Speaker 1: me Andrew, Yes, sir, oh J McDuffie. Everybody coming up
19:32
Speaker 1: next they get a quarterbacks, we will continue the quarterback conversation.
19:36
Speaker 1: Maybe talk to I don't know, can we work in
19:39
Speaker 1: some Kyler Murray as well? Our Hall of Famer Kurt
19:42
Speaker 1: Warner warming in the wings he's coming up next. All right,
19:54
Speaker 1: let's double back to the Arizona Cardinals that they're on
19:56
Speaker 1: the road this weekend Carolina to face the Panthers. A
19:58
Speaker 1: week ago, we sat here and told you they were
20:00
Speaker 1: gonna fix their first half offensive issues. They were gonna
20:04
Speaker 1: come out with a better rep a better game plan,
20:06
Speaker 1: something different in the first half. It did not happen.
20:10
Speaker 1: Who puts together that first half game plan in Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah,
20:15
Speaker 1: it's definitely collaborative. Um, you know, different position coaches have
20:19
Speaker 1: different thoughts, different ideas, different um assignments as far as
20:23
Speaker 1: what area they specialize in. And then um, we talked
20:27
Speaker 1: through it with the quarterbacks and see what they like,
20:29
Speaker 1: where they don't like, and try to come to a
20:30
Speaker 1: good place with it. I mean it's you know, obviously
20:33
Speaker 1: he's played color. It's just you know, he dolls it up.
20:36
Speaker 1: But uh, we as as a as a unit, we
20:38
Speaker 1: kind of have a ideal. What's coming up. Okay, let's
20:42
Speaker 1: do cs I Cardinals offensive issues here. It's the quarterback room.
20:47
Speaker 1: Great to have a Hall of Famer Kurt Warner here
20:49
Speaker 1: is always on Wednesday. Kurt. It was the only story
20:52
Speaker 1: last week, I mean, the only story, Like Zach Allen said, Hey,
20:55
Speaker 1: this is the million dollar question. I granted he's the
20:58
Speaker 1: defensive player, how do we collectively as a team played better.
21:01
Speaker 1: They've been outscored fifties six to thirteen in the first half.
21:04
Speaker 1: What's going on? Well, I mean, Andrew, it's not as
21:09
Speaker 1: easy just saying hey, we're gonna flip a switch and
21:11
Speaker 1: we're gonna be better this week than we were last
21:13
Speaker 1: week at the beginning of the game. A lot of
21:15
Speaker 1: it comes down to having something positive happen early, you know,
21:19
Speaker 1: when when you talk about the script. We heard a
21:21
Speaker 1: lot of talk about the script just a second ago,
21:23
Speaker 1: and I remember when we were put together script when
21:25
Speaker 1: I was playing, and I always wanted some easy completions
21:28
Speaker 1: early in that script. Give me something to get me
21:31
Speaker 1: into the game, to get us a couple of first downs,
21:33
Speaker 1: so that things can be positive and we can build
21:36
Speaker 1: off of that. And that's been the biggest thing with
21:38
Speaker 1: the Cardinals is they haven't got anything really going early
21:41
Speaker 1: in the game, and then I feel like they start
21:43
Speaker 1: pressing like Okay, nothing's working, and then it comes down
21:46
Speaker 1: to Kyler having to run around and make plays to
21:49
Speaker 1: spark this team. They got to find a collective way
21:52
Speaker 1: to generate some good, easy completion plays offensively early so
21:57
Speaker 1: they can feel good about themselves and put a drive
22:00
Speaker 1: together and then I think things start to snowball from
22:02
Speaker 1: there and and maybe find a better way to run
22:04
Speaker 1: the football is well. Fifty eight attempts last week for
22:06
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray for a Mayor three fourteen. That's five point
22:09
Speaker 1: four yards and attempt. He targeted Hollywood Brown seventeen times
22:15
Speaker 1: pretty much any time he wasn't on the same side
22:17
Speaker 1: of the field as Jalen Ramsey. All right, Kurt. Meantime
22:20
Speaker 1: here in l A, Trevor Lawrence came to town. We
22:23
Speaker 1: talked a lot all week about that Jaguars front seven
22:26
Speaker 1: and can the Chargers protect Justin Herbert. Let's give Trevor
22:29
Speaker 1: Lawrence the do because with Doug Peterson, he really has
22:35
Speaker 1: matured year two. What do you see, what's the difference? Well, Andrew,
22:40
Speaker 1: I'm actually breaking down Trevor Lawrence in my QB Insider
22:43
Speaker 1: segment on NFL Plus, So everybody go out and get that.
22:46
Speaker 1: Check it out and you can see a little more
22:48
Speaker 1: in depth. But uh, Andrew, you know, we always talk
22:50
Speaker 1: about players from year one to year two making their
22:53
Speaker 1: biggest strides, and that's what I'm seeing from Trevor Lawrence.
22:56
Speaker 1: Doesn't hurt that Doug Peterson has been inserted as their coach.
22:59
Speaker 1: I like the scheme and what he's putting together. It's
23:02
Speaker 1: easy to understand as a quarterback. But you're seeing a
23:04
Speaker 1: lot of good things. You're seeing recognition of defense, recognition
23:08
Speaker 1: of pressures. You're seeing a comfortability in the pocket. A
23:12
Speaker 1: lot of times young guys will look at their first
23:13
Speaker 1: guy and if he's not open, they start to panic.
23:16
Speaker 1: They want to take off, they want to try to
23:17
Speaker 1: create outside the pocket. I'm watching Trevor Lawrence this year
23:21
Speaker 1: being more comfortable in the pocketing goes from one to three.
23:24
Speaker 1: Bodies are around him, and because he's confident in where
23:27
Speaker 1: he wants to go with the football and knowing things
23:28
Speaker 1: are gonna be open, he'll stand in the pocket differently
23:31
Speaker 1: than he did a year ago. So the combination of
23:34
Speaker 1: being in year two with Doug Peterson in the scheme
23:38
Speaker 1: that they have, it looks to be a really, really
23:40
Speaker 1: confident Trevor Lawrence and it's showing up on the field.
23:43
Speaker 1: I know you're digging in on the rams of the
23:44
Speaker 1: Niners as well. You're calling that game Monday night in
23:47
Speaker 1: Santa Clara on Westwood thought it was interesting last week,
23:51
Speaker 1: and obviously that game Sunday night against Denver was ugly
23:54
Speaker 1: all sides that Jimmy Garoppolo said, Hey, it's really my
23:57
Speaker 1: first week working with these guys. Like, I mean, he
24:00
Speaker 1: didn't have a training camp. Forget about not having a preseason,
24:03
Speaker 1: he didn't have a training camp. Did we all collectively
24:07
Speaker 1: maybe go too fast too soon with how everything is
24:10
Speaker 1: solved for the Niners now that Jimmy is back, well,
24:15
Speaker 1: probably because you know, you have to respect the league
24:19
Speaker 1: and you have to respect the players that it's not
24:22
Speaker 1: just as easy as oh, just throw me back out
24:24
Speaker 1: on the field and I'm gonna be able to do
24:26
Speaker 1: everything that I've done in the past. I mean, Jimmy
24:28
Speaker 1: was going through the issue with his shoulder. He wasn't
24:31
Speaker 1: going through training camp, and so it's not as easy.
24:34
Speaker 1: And I'm not even just talking about throwing the football.
24:36
Speaker 1: I'm talking about seeing the field, getting acclimated with the
24:40
Speaker 1: speed of the game. He hasn't really played any football
24:43
Speaker 1: in a long time, and so there were times that
24:46
Speaker 1: it looked like the game was going fast. He wasn't
24:48
Speaker 1: seeing the defense and he put the ball in harm's way,
24:51
Speaker 1: And so that'll be something that we've got to determine.
24:54
Speaker 1: Was that because of the rust and the time off.
24:57
Speaker 1: We've seen some of that in the past from Jimmy
24:59
Speaker 1: Garoppolo as well, kind of trusting the system without truly
25:02
Speaker 1: seeing the field, and so, um, yeah, maybe we you know,
25:05
Speaker 1: we jumped to things a little bit early, just expecting
25:08
Speaker 1: the Jimmy G that we've seen in the past. But
25:11
Speaker 1: we'll get an indication here over the next couple of weeks.
25:13
Speaker 1: Is this Jimmy G being Jimmy G Or was it
25:16
Speaker 1: just the rust of not having a lot of training
25:19
Speaker 1: camp in a lot of reps because of that injury
25:21
Speaker 1: in the situation in San Franciscan. In our final forty
25:23
Speaker 1: five seconds, now, Kurt, my favorite topic are a weekly Kurt,
25:26
Speaker 1: how does it feel to play quarterback with this kind
25:29
Speaker 1: of injury? Uh? This week it's too a tongue of
25:31
Speaker 1: boloa and a bad back. Well, you know, Andrew, I
25:35
Speaker 1: have never dealt with a bad back. All I can
25:38
Speaker 1: tell you is I've been around people with bad backs
25:41
Speaker 1: and they look like they're about thirty years older than
25:43
Speaker 1: they actually are, and everything that they do. Every movement
25:46
Speaker 1: is affected by it, and so you know that's my concern.
25:49
Speaker 1: You know, we talked last week about Justin Herbert and
25:51
Speaker 1: the rib cartilage. That was the same thing. Every movement
25:54
Speaker 1: you make, especially as a quarterback, you know, twisting your
25:56
Speaker 1: body causes pain. I believe the same is going to
26:00
Speaker 1: be true with two. And now I don't really know
26:02
Speaker 1: the extent of the injury. Did it just lock up,
26:04
Speaker 1: is it just muscle tightness? But I don't think it's
26:07
Speaker 1: gonna be an easy thing. Really gonna have to get
26:08
Speaker 1: it loose and um, you know, enduled that pain a
26:11
Speaker 1: little bit. If he's gonna be able to go out
26:13
Speaker 1: there and rip the ball as he has been the
26:15
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, we will find out his status
26:17
Speaker 1: and if he can't go tomorrow, it's gonna be Teddy
26:19
Speaker 1: Bridgewater potentially against the Cincinnati Bengals. Kurt Warner, our Hall
26:24
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterback. What's good to have you on, Kurt,
26:27
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Let's move on to the London game,
26:29
Speaker 1: as everyone's going to get up early for game day
26:31
Speaker 1: morning on Sunday, uh to see the Vikings and the Saints.
26:35
Speaker 1: And how about these Vikings fans a Manchester group here
26:40
Speaker 1: supporting their Vikings come Sunday. The Vikings don't even get
26:44
Speaker 1: there until Friday. Right now, they're in Minneapolis and flying
26:47
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. The Saints, however, are already there and
26:52
Speaker 1: they were back on the practice field today wearing some
26:54
Speaker 1: pretty cool helmets, their new black helmets, the alternate ones
26:59
Speaker 1: that they'll be wearing at Tottenham on Sunday. What a
27:02
Speaker 1: day for Chris Lave this past week nine hatches a
27:05
Speaker 1: buck forty seven that got the rookie wide receiver. An
27:08
Speaker 1: interview with Stacy Dale's Saints rookie wide receiver Crystal Love.
27:13
Speaker 1: Taking just a bit of a break from your London preparation.
27:18
Speaker 1: Where's your body at? That's feeling good? I mean a
27:21
Speaker 1: couple of weeks in. I mean it's a long rookie year,
27:24
Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm going good. I'm getting a
27:26
Speaker 1: lot of treatment, a lot of stretching, so I feel
27:28
Speaker 1: like I'm good. You're getting a lot of targets, obviously,
27:31
Speaker 1: and you should. Um, how have you adjusted so quickly
27:34
Speaker 1: to the game the NFL league. I feel like it
27:36
Speaker 1: was natural. I feel like my teammates helped me allot
27:39
Speaker 1: get to this point. And they didn't make it easier
27:41
Speaker 1: on me, especially having Mike Jarvis, having James at quarterback
27:45
Speaker 1: and hey k and Mark in the backfield, I feel
27:47
Speaker 1: like to help me a lot, just help me keep
27:50
Speaker 1: pushing forward. Ye, Jamie is obviously is pushing through some injuries.
27:54
Speaker 1: So how is the football coming out? Understanding? You guys
27:57
Speaker 1: want to clean collectively the turnovers up? Right? Oh, he's good,
28:00
Speaker 1: he's good. Yeah, you can see you could tell he's
28:03
Speaker 1: dealing with injury. But the end of the day, he's
28:05
Speaker 1: a fighter, he's a competitor, and we all respect him
28:08
Speaker 1: and we all love him as a quarterback. So I
28:10
Speaker 1: definitely respect him and I can't wait to see what
28:12
Speaker 1: he does throughout her You guys are one and two,
28:14
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like with the talent on this team,
28:17
Speaker 1: you should be right. This roster's loaded offensively. Where is
28:21
Speaker 1: your wide receiver group? Despite the injuries to Jarvis obviously
28:25
Speaker 1: in Michael, you know, where's your mindset and your confidence? Uh?
28:29
Speaker 1: Confidence at all time high still no matter what I
28:32
Speaker 1: feel like, you can't lose a confidence and the mindset
28:35
Speaker 1: and that every change its competitors at the end of
28:38
Speaker 1: the day and rough start. But we're gonna clean it
28:41
Speaker 1: up and we're taking a day by day. He's trying
28:43
Speaker 1: to get better. Cliche question, how important is this win
28:46
Speaker 1: for you guys here in London and and sort of
28:48
Speaker 1: a galvanizing week. It's just you guys sort of here
28:51
Speaker 1: all by yourselves, tucked away, getting ready for the Minnesota Vikings.
28:55
Speaker 1: That's huge. It's a huge, huge game for us just
28:59
Speaker 1: to get back and reset. But we take it as
29:02
Speaker 1: as one game. I mean, I mean we lost laws
29:05
Speaker 1: to one one, but we're just trying to get another one.
29:08
Speaker 1: And like I said, we're taken a day by day.
29:10
Speaker 1: You're trying to get better and we will be ready
29:11
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Thank you, Chris, appreciate it. But one of
29:14
Speaker 1: two Saints. Try to get even here with the game
29:16
Speaker 1: against the Vikings that you can see on NFL Network
29:19
Speaker 1: and on NFL Plus if you want to stream it
29:21
Speaker 1: at nine thirty Eastern time, right and early on Sunday,
29:25
Speaker 1: even earlier for us here in l A. Kick off
29:29
Speaker 1: seven am. Do the math. Four am. If you're in
29:32
Speaker 1: l A, do the math. What do I look like?
29:36
Speaker 1: A doctor? An orthopedic surgeon? Like I don't know, doctor, doctor, doctor,
29:43
Speaker 1: doctor Bill Belichick. Everybody time for one more thing before
29:47
Speaker 1: we go. James Palmer doctor go first. Yeah, I feel
29:51
Speaker 1: like he's on as well, on his way to a
29:52
Speaker 1: children's book with that day by day situation. But I
29:54
Speaker 1: know we're all excited about the Redeemed Team documentary coming
29:57
Speaker 1: after we saw that Kobe Bryant clip of him talking
30:00
Speaker 1: about he's gonna run through his brother Paul Gassaul right
30:02
Speaker 1: when they play them in the Olympics. Well, that was
30:06
Speaker 1: a video that Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni saw on
30:09
Speaker 1: the bus ride to Washington. Thought it was unbelievably fitting. Right,
30:11
Speaker 1: they're going against their brother in Carson Wentz where they
30:14
Speaker 1: sack him nine times. The interesting part is final score
30:17
Speaker 1: of that game to eight m M. I see what
30:23
Speaker 1: you did there, Ian Rappaport war Mooring thing. That's pretty
30:28
Speaker 1: cool thing that the league is doing for weeks four
30:30
Speaker 1: and five. So starting this week, two hundred players get
30:33
Speaker 1: to celebrate their international place of origin in the place
30:36
Speaker 1: they associate most closely with, with either flags or dick
30:40
Speaker 1: cows on their jerseys or helmets. So more than two
30:43
Speaker 1: hundred players, coaches and executives get celebrate. It is pretty
30:47
Speaker 1: cool you got alright. At halftime of the Vikings Saints game,
30:51
Speaker 1: I know we all cannot wait to see Young Blood perform.
30:56
Speaker 1: If you're watching, NFL Network will be showing you clips
30:58
Speaker 1: of that. If you're watching a broad Sky Sports will
31:02
Speaker 1: play the entirety of the show at halftime. Blood will
31:05
Speaker 1: be great to see his fantastic My one more thing
31:09
Speaker 1: is an injury um day. Christian McCaffrey joke last week
31:11
Speaker 1: that if he has to use the men's room, he's
31:13
Speaker 1: probably gonna end up on the injury report. Well, actually
31:16
Speaker 1: on the injury report today for what the Panthers are
31:19
Speaker 1: calling a thigh injury. Did not practice something to monitor
31:24
Speaker 1: there in Carolina. Backing up, Ian, did you say deco
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