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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio primary newsroom here in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: My name is andrews Ceciliato, a newsroom where we had
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Speaker 1: an eye opener this morning out of Nashville where the
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Speaker 1: Titans announced the fire. General manager John Robinson demand pictured
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Speaker 1: on the left there next to head coach Mike Vrabel.
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Speaker 1: And yes, the team has lost two in a row. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the roster may not be what you'll want it to be,
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Speaker 1: but they are seven and five. They are in first
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Speaker 1: barring some kind of colossal collapse. John Robinson and Mike
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Speaker 1: Vrabel are putting together a team that will win the
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Speaker 1: a f C South and be in the postseason. Here's
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Speaker 1: a statement from Titans ownership from Amy Adams Strunk, and
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Speaker 1: you could read along with you, but with us. But
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Speaker 1: the key part here on the screen is I believe
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Speaker 1: there is more to be done and higher aspirations to
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Speaker 1: be met. More to be done, higher aspirations to be met.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank John for his dedicated work to
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Speaker 1: set this organization on an upward trajectory, and I wish
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Speaker 1: him and his family the best. This one is a
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Speaker 1: surprise here, Mike Garretfolo and Tom Pellicero again there in first,
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Speaker 1: no one is really going to challenge the Tennessee Titans.
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Speaker 1: They should win that division barring a colossal collapse one
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Speaker 1: month short of his seventh anniversary with the franchise, Tom,
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Speaker 1: what happened here, well, Andrew, My understanding is this was
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Speaker 1: about the frustration that the Titans brass up to the
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Speaker 1: ownership level head with the direction of the roster assembled
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Speaker 1: by John Robinson, even at a time that the Titans
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Speaker 1: are on track, as you mentioned, to win the a
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Speaker 1: f C South and go to the playoffs for the
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Speaker 1: fifth time in Robinson's seven seasons. You've heard a little
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Speaker 1: bit of that from Mike Rabel at various points this season.
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Speaker 1: There was one stretch and one point at which during
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Speaker 1: a press conference he was being asked repeated question about
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Speaker 1: the offense, and he said, if you haven't figured it
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Speaker 1: out by now, this is how we're going to have
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Speaker 1: to play. That was indicating that they've had to have
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Speaker 1: a very run centric offense surrounding Derrick Henry in part
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Speaker 1: because of what they liked at the wide receiver position.
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Speaker 1: They traded away a J Brown back before the draft,
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Speaker 1: got a guy in Trailan Burke's who certainly has shown
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Speaker 1: a lot of promise but to this point has not
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Speaker 1: been able to stay on the field. And Brown just
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Speaker 1: came in this past Sunday with his new team, the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: and had more catches, yards, and touchdowns than the entire
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Speaker 1: Titans receiving corps combined. It's never one thing with a
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Speaker 1: move like this. Certainly, if you look back through John
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Speaker 1: Robinson's draft history, he's had some big time hits A J.
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Speaker 1: Brown and Derrick Henry and Harold Landry, Jeff Simmons, Jack Conklin.
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Speaker 1: There also have been some high profile mrs Isaiah Wilson
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Speaker 1: being chief among those. Caleb Farley hasn't played much. There's
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Speaker 1: been some misses in free agency as well, bring in
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Speaker 1: Vic Beasley Junior on a big money deal, trading for
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Speaker 1: Julio Jones. But again, any time you assess a roster,
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Speaker 1: you're going to see both good and bad. You certainly
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Speaker 1: get that if you look through John Robinson's career here
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Speaker 1: he's under contract through the seven draft, which means he
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Speaker 1: now walks away with another four years of pay. Like, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a lot of times when you're surprised by a story
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Speaker 1: and you start to have some conversations with some folks
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Speaker 1: around the league. Uh, in the aftermath, it starts to
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Speaker 1: make more sense. This one's starting to make less sense
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Speaker 1: the more conversations I have, and at the timing of
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Speaker 1: the firing, because there's no real reason to do this
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Speaker 1: right now, the timing of the firing seems to indicate, Yes,
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Speaker 1: Titans fans, it was this guy's fault that A. J.
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Speaker 1: Brown was on the field going against your team instead
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Speaker 1: of going for your team. And look, that appears to
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Speaker 1: be a mistake clearly. I mean A J. Brown wound
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Speaker 1: up getting a deal that was fair for him. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't top of the receiver market. They dressed it up
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Speaker 1: with some money on the back end, but it was
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Speaker 1: below that top rung. It's basically where he should have
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Speaker 1: been paid. And for the Titans to say, well, that
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Speaker 1: wasn't in the budget, well what did you expect? Now? Listen,
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Speaker 1: A J. Brown's had some knee stuff in the past,
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Speaker 1: and maybe you think the longevity of what he's uh
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to do for you and that's the
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Speaker 1: reason that you move on from him. Now. I didn't
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Speaker 1: mention that to somebody at some point said, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe that was the thought process, and the person said
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Speaker 1: to me, well, guess what that's good gm ng to
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Speaker 1: then say, well, if we don't want this guy here
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Speaker 1: for the long haul, let me turn it into a
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Speaker 1: pick with a guy at his position that we think
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Speaker 1: can do similar things and be just as good as him.
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Speaker 1: And Tom. You talked about Traylon Burke's getting hurt. I
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Speaker 1: mean he's hurt right now because he got smoked while
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Speaker 1: holding onto a touchdown past the other day and so
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Speaker 1: we had a hustle touchdown last. Yeah, it's just it's
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Speaker 1: it's the reason that we keep saying that we keep
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Speaker 1: hearing from other people like no, no, no no, I'm missing
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Speaker 1: something here is because from a football standpoint, yeah, there
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Speaker 1: were mistakes made along the way, but there were a
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Speaker 1: lot of good things that John Robinson did as a
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Speaker 1: general manager. From a football standpoint, it continues to be
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Speaker 1: a head scratcher for folks around the league. Sure, and
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Speaker 1: tight Titans fan on line one is going, Isaiah Wilson
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Speaker 1: should be enough to get fired. No one else would
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Speaker 1: have taken Cala Farley. Not true, but there were red
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Speaker 1: flags certainly on his medical and he's only played twelve
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Speaker 1: games in two years. But there is a longer resume
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Speaker 1: here and they're gonna get a home playoff game again
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Speaker 1: this year and all likelihood, granted, they had a home
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Speaker 1: playoff game last year and they were one and done
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Speaker 1: beating up Howie Roseman champion took Jalen Reagor. Howie Rosen
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Speaker 1: took Jalen Reagor over Justin Jefferson. You trust the guy's
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Speaker 1: entire body of work, and when you're gonna make a mistake,
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Speaker 1: you can come back from it. That's all I'm sad.
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Speaker 1: Team is now eleven and one. Meantime, Erica Costa's team,
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens just making the transition here with general
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Speaker 1: managers Mike as a quarterback in Lamar Jackson, who John
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Speaker 1: Harball said yesterday is unlikely to play this week. What's
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Speaker 1: the latest on Jackson? Yeah, yeah, I'd say it's more
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Speaker 1: than unlikely. I mean, I don't think we're expecting to
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Speaker 1: see him out there this week with a uh knee
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Speaker 1: sprain there that, like Hardball said immediately after the game,
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Speaker 1: is not a season ender by any stretch. Sounds like
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be down for a couple of weeks here
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Speaker 1: and basically is gonna be how he recovers and how
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Speaker 1: he bounces back. And I go back to last year
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Speaker 1: and that ankle issue or whatever it was that just
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Speaker 1: never seemed to quite heal himself. Lamar Jackson's gotta get
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Speaker 1: in there, He's got to rehab, He's gotta do everything
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Speaker 1: he can to get back out on the field as
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Speaker 1: quickly as possible. So week to week is a is
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Speaker 1: a fair assessment. I'd say somewhere in the realm of
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Speaker 1: one to three weeks somewhere around there, we'll see how
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Speaker 1: quickly Lamar Jackson can get back on the field, which
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Speaker 1: means Tyler Huntley will start in his place at all likelihood,
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Speaker 1: as you said this week against the Steelers, and he
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Speaker 1: faced the Steelers last week or last year. And Tyler Huntley,
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Speaker 1: what's that? I love me some, Tyler hunt I think
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Speaker 1: he loved me some. Tyler Huntley as well, loved him
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Speaker 1: at the East West Shrine Bowls some years ago in
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Speaker 1: Tampa as well St. Petersburg. All right, Titans, get the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars getting back to them. What's Trevor Lawrence's status, Tom,
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Speaker 1: And if Trevor Lawrence did undergo an m R I yesterday,
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Speaker 1: the coach Doug Peterson said was on his foot and
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Speaker 1: his toe. My understanding is there were no major issues
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Speaker 1: turned up by that m R. I Peterson and had
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Speaker 1: said that everything seem to be trending in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: So certainly sounds like a good bet the Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: will be out there this week against the Titans, despite
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Speaker 1: will initially looked to be a very gruesome injury that
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Speaker 1: he suffered on Sunday. Other good news, Raiders running back
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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs listed as limited on the injury report yesterday.
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Speaker 1: He's dealing with that calf that occurred a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, as well as a quad injury that popped
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Speaker 1: up this week. My understanding there is barring something going
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Speaker 1: sideways here, Josh Jacobs does look like he's on track
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Speaker 1: to be available Thursday night against the Rams, which is
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Speaker 1: a big deal for the Raiders because this is a
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Speaker 1: guy who has, let me check the numbers here, two
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Speaker 1: more yards from scrimmage than anyone else in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: The Raiders are winning right now, obviously had that monster
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Speaker 1: game in Seattle. If he continues on this course, are
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Speaker 1: we talking about Josh Jacobs dark horse m VP candidate
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Speaker 1: by the end of this season, not that far fetch.
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Speaker 1: One way or another. He's making himself a lot of
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Speaker 1: money right is leading the league and rushing right now.
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Speaker 1: They didn't pick up his fifth year option. This is
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Speaker 1: a salary drive of all salary drives. Tip of the
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Speaker 1: cap to Josh Jacobs and to Tom Belser and Mike Arri. Folo, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: thank you. Before we turn the page the week fourteen,
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Speaker 1: let's look back at the end of Week thirteen. Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady and the Bucket Ears and another one against the Saints.
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Speaker 1: Candide sweep him after you know, losing so many in
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Speaker 1: a row aside from the playoffs. They were down big
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but Brady rallies and back with a touchdown
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Speaker 1: to kay Doton and they would get the ball back
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Speaker 1: after Taysom Hill couldn't hang on to a pass on
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Speaker 1: third and seventeen. Look at the clock, thirty nine to go.
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Speaker 1: On this snap, Julio Jones goes up high and brings
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Speaker 1: it down near the five yard line. Yes, Julio Jones
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Speaker 1: still plays for the Bucket Ears, and he made a
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Speaker 1: play there and then from the six with eight seconds
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Speaker 1: ago and still with a time out, the rookie Rashad
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Speaker 1: White catches it at the two turns up field, reaches
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Speaker 1: over the goal line, and it is another fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: game winning drive for Tom Brady and the six and
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Speaker 1: six NFC South leading buck in years. Just like we
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Speaker 1: drew it up great route by show, a great catch,
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Speaker 1: made a great call. So it was, you know, we
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Speaker 1: thought we did a touchdown. I didn't see the the
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Speaker 1: one we hit to Chris and then uh, I thought
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Speaker 1: I threw it in about a quarter of a second.
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Speaker 1: I was like, how is there? All? I told about,
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Speaker 1: how's there a whole I do? I caught him through
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Speaker 1: it and they put us back on I think the
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Speaker 1: fifteen and then still found a way. So it's a
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Speaker 1: you know, a great team win. We've been pretty good
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Speaker 1: in the uh you know, no huddle, two minute drills
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Speaker 1: and um, you know that. UM A lot of games
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Speaker 1: come down to those types of players. Our guys made
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Speaker 1: him at Our defense really stepped up and played great there,
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Speaker 1: played amazing all year, kept us in the game and
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Speaker 1: allowed us to you know, get the ball back there
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Speaker 1: with a chance to win with a couple with you know,
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Speaker 1: two minutes left. Look, I got to find a formula
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Speaker 1: that allows us score more points more consistently. And I
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Speaker 1: know we're still searching through it and we've had a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys in and out and we're trying to
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Speaker 1: find some good formulas and we gotta, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep grinding outstanding effort. Hey just informed me
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Speaker 1: the last time the Bucks swept the Saints was fifteen
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Speaker 1: years ago. Every week, every week gotta be like this
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Speaker 1: team effort. We're going out to San France on Friday. Okay,
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Speaker 1: another big game. Outstanding job. Guys break it down first
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Speaker 1: and that was a hard fought win. But we killed swing.
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Speaker 1: We kill swing, and we came out on time. We
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Speaker 1: knocked the ass out. Locker room after the game. Steve
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Speaker 1: White is with me. Sarah Walsh was at the game
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Speaker 1: there as well. Another amazing Tom Brady come back. I
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Speaker 1: heard Todd Bowl say San Frand they do get the
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Speaker 1: Bucks this week in in San Francisco. Brady is from
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Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Brady said San Frand normally people from
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Speaker 1: the Bay Area hate when you say San fran That
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Speaker 1: kind of stuck out to me last night. What else, Sarah,
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Speaker 1: other than nonsense from me, did we learned last night
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Speaker 1: about the Buccaneers well, we learned this team is capable
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Speaker 1: of pulling a rabbit out of the hat at the end,
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Speaker 1: which we knew. But I think just to give you
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Speaker 1: some context, you heard Todd Bowls talk about that they
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Speaker 1: hadn't swept the Saints in fifteen years. For people that
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Speaker 1: haven't closely followed this series, the Saints have really really
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Speaker 1: been a thorn in the Buccaneers side for a long
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Speaker 1: time now. So this was a big deal. No matter
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Speaker 1: how they got the win, it was a huge deal
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Speaker 1: for this organization to knock the Saints out the way
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Speaker 1: in which they did, and to sweep him in the
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Speaker 1: regular season. You go back fifteen years, there's nobody on
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Speaker 1: that roster. Mike Evans was asked about that. He said,
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Speaker 1: never in my time do I know what this feeling
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Speaker 1: is like to be able to do this to this team.
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Speaker 1: And then if you go back and look at some stats,
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Speaker 1: here's another one. They hadn't scored a touchdown against the
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Speaker 1: Saints at home since two thousand nineteen. Jameis Winston was
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Then Tom Brady was asked about that afterwards,
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Speaker 1: and he actually joking said, I thought what you're saying
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Speaker 1: to me as an insult, but I can't even say that.
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Speaker 1: He's like, it's actually absolute facts. So this is how
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Speaker 1: much trouble the Saints have presented to the Buccaneers over
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Speaker 1: the years. So I think that they have some perspective
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Speaker 1: waking up on this Tuesday, going, yes, we didn't look
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Speaker 1: great on offense really until the last three minutes of
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Speaker 1: the game, but we'll take that win anyway you can
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Speaker 1: get it. And Todd Bowles did say, you saw him
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Speaker 1: really happy in the locker room afterwards, but to us
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Speaker 1: when he stepped up to the podium, he said, we
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Speaker 1: sputtered around on offense for a couple of quarters, and
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Speaker 1: it seems like we really can't get things going until
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Speaker 1: the end of games. That might work in the NFC South,
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Speaker 1: marching your way and punching your ticket into the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: but as you know, Andrew, that recipe is not gonna
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Speaker 1: last you very long in the postseason. And the Bucks
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Speaker 1: are well aware of that. Yeah, And they're also well
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Speaker 1: aware that this game is a big deal for Tom Brady,
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Speaker 1: bar area guy coming back here to face his team
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Speaker 1: in Santa Clara and face let's get ready for the
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Speaker 1: This guy was, you know, just born when Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: started playing football. Thing here Steve brock Purty, which, barring
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Speaker 1: something unforeseen, will be the forty Niners starting quarterback this Sunday.
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Speaker 1: What do you see on Sunday? And what do you
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Speaker 1: think moving forward? First off, people in the Bay also
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Speaker 1: don't like you when you say Frisco San franciscause you
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Speaker 1: gotta go San Francisco. But I mean, look, brock Purty,
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Speaker 1: you know this is gonna be a challenge for him
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Speaker 1: because Todd Bowles is very good at disguising fronts as
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Speaker 1: the game goes along, right, he's brock Purty is gonna
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Speaker 1: see a ton of different looks and prep and preparing
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Speaker 1: on film looking at this Bucks defense, and then when
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Speaker 1: he gets them face to face. The good thing is
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Speaker 1: you see him here against the Dolphins. The Dolphins do
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Speaker 1: a lot at him too. I mean again, I'll say
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Speaker 1: one more time. They tried to warm him up throughout
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Speaker 1: this game, and he was very key. Look at this
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Speaker 1: great throw to Kittle. Dude, he's hitting Deebo, Samuel Christian McCaffrey,
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Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings, Brandon Io. He did a fantastic job. But
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Speaker 1: now the stakes are gonna be a little bit higher
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Speaker 1: because this Bucks defense does not allow teams to score.
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Speaker 1: The good thing for the forty Niners is they don't
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Speaker 1: allow teams to score, and they're playing a Bucks offense
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Speaker 1: that does not put a lot of points on the board.
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Speaker 1: So brock Purty is gonna be chat challenged in this game.
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Speaker 1: But again, the support staff around him should be able
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Speaker 1: to really help out. It should be a very good
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Speaker 1: matchup um again with with the Buccaneers. We'll see if
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Speaker 1: I can tell. The first order of business for Todd
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Speaker 1: Bowls as we turn the page now and look forward
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Speaker 1: to this next week, is digging up some film on
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Speaker 1: brock Party. He was asked about him this morning when
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Speaker 1: he addressed the media, and he just said, I don't
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Speaker 1: know a lot about him, and that's probably fair Todd.
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Speaker 1: You're not alone on that one. But I can tell
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Speaker 1: you one thing that this defense does want to do better,
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Speaker 1: and that is coust turnovers. This team, which is generally
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Speaker 1: really good at takeaways, or this defense, I should say,
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Speaker 1: we haven't seen it as much as of late, and
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Speaker 1: they've been very solid at times, but through the first
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Speaker 1: three weeks of this season, Bowls defense had eight takeaways
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Speaker 1: through three games and since then, since week three. They've
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Speaker 1: got just three takeaways and one of them was an
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Speaker 1: interception on sort of a throwaway Hill Mary pass at
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Speaker 1: the end of a half. Now Bowls that said they
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Speaker 1: want to get better at that. They know that they
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Speaker 1: need to do that, and they need to do what
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Speaker 1: he said because it helps the offense out. And look,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to find any way they can to help
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Speaker 1: out this Buccaneer's offense. But I don't think there's any
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Speaker 1: question that Bowls a defensive guy, and this defense is
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Speaker 1: salivating over the opportunity to go against this rookie quarterback
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. And one last thing, what is the
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Speaker 1: deal with the San francing Because I know I've made
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Speaker 1: the mistake before where I said San fran and I,
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Speaker 1: you know, like get hammered for it. What what's so
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Speaker 1: wrong I'm telling you, sounds good to me. I've done
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Speaker 1: it too. Not being from the West Coast, I've gotten
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Speaker 1: in trouble. San Franco, Frisco, No, nos, nope, no knows.
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Speaker 1: You talk to somebody from the Bay, No, I know,
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Speaker 1: and it sounds bad. Everyone wants to point out that
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Speaker 1: Brady got caught on a hot mike. You know, cursing
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Speaker 1: after the game last night. To think that stood out
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Speaker 1: to me was the fact that he said San France
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Speaker 1: to me, that was they do not like well, it's
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Speaker 1: from there, like you. That's why it's surprised then, bat
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Speaker 1: And as for the age thing, brock Purty was born
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Speaker 1: four months before Tom Brady was dropped, four months before
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Speaker 1: he was drafted, and he is on the list for
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Speaker 1: the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Week. Brock Purdy
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Speaker 1: is a nomedy. So too is Brian Robinson, Christian Watson,
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Speaker 1: Garrett Will Cities here every week, Ron Bran Bland, who
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Speaker 1: Jane Slater mentioned yesterday, and Tarik Woolen seven tackles and
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Speaker 1: yet another pick six picks now tied for the NFL
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Speaker 1: lead as a rookie. You're Pepsi zero Sugar Rookies of
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Speaker 1: the Week. Yeah, we will talk. O'Dell. What does Jerry
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Speaker 1: Jones say about the visit last night? When? When? When? When? When?
16:55
Speaker 1: Robert Dango? Alright, you're watching NFL now, NFL Network. Thirteen
17:01
Speaker 1: months ago today, November six, twenty one, The Brown's cut
17:07
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. He eventually went to the Rams. What
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Speaker 1: a super Bowl towards knee up and now he's still
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Speaker 1: looking for a new team. He was in Dallas yesterday
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Speaker 1: meeting with the Cowboys. Here is Jerry Jones this morning
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Speaker 1: on the radio. You know, I just think this is
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Speaker 1: an opportunity that is rare because of his availability. But
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be one way or the other. There's not
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Speaker 1: a failure here. I'm talking about the actual signing or
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Speaker 1: not signing. There's not disappointment here. Uh. If this thing works,
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Speaker 1: it will improve this team now, it'll improve it this year. Uh.
17:42
Speaker 1: If we uh don't don't have that, then we're in
17:46
Speaker 1: a positive situation as well. It has to improve us
17:50
Speaker 1: now and uh, you know that's uh that's a pretty
17:56
Speaker 1: tall order. And it has to improve us in a
17:58
Speaker 1: way that uh makes sense for us as we look
18:02
Speaker 1: not only this year, but as it impacts the years
18:05
Speaker 1: to come. Rooted to the financial aspect of it. All right,
18:09
Speaker 1: we'll try to make sense of that in a second,
18:11
Speaker 1: but we'll just show you last night, Oh b J
18:13
Speaker 1: sitting courtside Michael Parsons Trayvon Digs at the MAVs game.
18:16
Speaker 1: By the way, big big win for the MAVs beating
18:17
Speaker 1: the Sun's thirty three from Luca. They were chanting his
18:21
Speaker 1: name at the arena last night during the time out,
18:25
Speaker 1: Mike careful of Tom Delasero chanting O b J O
18:28
Speaker 1: b J. And then this morning Jerry Tom still seemed tentative.
18:33
Speaker 1: I think the medical seemed to be a bit of
18:36
Speaker 1: an issue. What do we know, well, Andrew. Part of
18:39
Speaker 1: what we know is that this is one of those stories.
18:40
Speaker 1: There's only so much we can add because literally everything
18:43
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Is doing right now is documented between
18:46
Speaker 1: social media and Jerry Jones on the radio and every
18:49
Speaker 1: other form of this that we could possibly have. You
18:52
Speaker 1: take your whole story time went through the medical yesterday.
18:56
Speaker 1: I mean basically, I'm just coming to make some stuff
18:58
Speaker 1: up last night. Went to the Mavericks game, of course,
19:00
Speaker 1: but Trayvon Diggs and Michael Parsons back in the building
19:03
Speaker 1: today going to meet with coaches and continue those conversations.
19:06
Speaker 1: But Jerry Jones alluded to it here. You really got
19:08
Speaker 1: a couple of different moving parts. One of them is
19:11
Speaker 1: the medical. And that's not to say that something turned
19:13
Speaker 1: up here that scared the Cowboys off. No, it's just
19:16
Speaker 1: the reality of a guy who hasn't played a whole
19:18
Speaker 1: lot of football really over the last two years. Obviously
19:20
Speaker 1: played really well in the Rams playoff run before he
19:23
Speaker 1: retore his A c L. But he hasn't been out there.
19:26
Speaker 1: There's a ramp up type of a period that he
19:28
Speaker 1: would have to go through. And then on top of that,
19:30
Speaker 1: you have the financial piece. Odell Beckham Jr. Ideally wants
19:33
Speaker 1: a multi year deal, give the team a little bit
19:35
Speaker 1: of a taste of it this year and get his
19:37
Speaker 1: feet wet and then be ready to roll in three. Well,
19:39
Speaker 1: what's the number where that makes sense for Odell to
19:42
Speaker 1: sign with anybody at this stage? And how much are
19:44
Speaker 1: you gonna get out of him during the stretch runt
19:47
Speaker 1: of this season at a time that you're operating pretty
19:50
Speaker 1: good as an offense. It's all those parts fitting together here.
19:53
Speaker 1: What we do know is that Jerry Jones generally gets
19:56
Speaker 1: what Jerry Jones wants. He's made very clear he wants
19:59
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. The price tag is gonna be a
20:02
Speaker 1: big piece of this. I think you did a great
20:03
Speaker 1: job filling in the blanks, Tom, and let me add
20:05
Speaker 1: this to Oh, Jerry was asked this morning, Uh, would
20:09
Speaker 1: you sign him? Are you confident signing and without working
20:11
Speaker 1: him out. Quote, I'm not confident at all. That's the
20:15
Speaker 1: quote that that kind of stood out to me. Um, So, yeah,
20:19
Speaker 1: there's that. If your signs, we'll let you know. Until then,
20:23
Speaker 1: he's in Dallas, Jimmy Garoppolo has done for the year,
20:28
Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch. You're trying to figure
20:30
Speaker 1: out the forty Niners quarterback situation. That's real football and
20:33
Speaker 1: fantasy football. Down the stretch here as you get ready
20:35
Speaker 1: for the postseason, you may be doing the same. What
20:40
Speaker 1: do you do is there's somebody out there in the
20:42
Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live crew. Now, Patrick Claimant take it away.
20:47
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And because of the rest of
20:49
Speaker 1: you were watching this show, we know you're up to
20:51
Speaker 1: date on all of the quarterback injuries that we had
20:53
Speaker 1: in week thirteen. So for fantasy purposes, there might be
20:57
Speaker 1: some guys you need to go out and get rink.
20:58
Speaker 1: Who's the first, Jared goff I had, I'd a pause,
21:02
Speaker 1: Jared Goffin. There was somebody who last week we talked
21:05
Speaker 1: out on the Q and A show, We talked about
21:07
Speaker 1: him on the Hot Sauce all this stuff, and he
21:09
Speaker 1: went out there and he crushed it because the Lions
21:11
Speaker 1: are back to being a fun football team. They're spreading
21:15
Speaker 1: the ball around, they're scoring a lot of points, and
21:16
Speaker 1: this week they got the Minnesota Vikings, who gave up
21:19
Speaker 1: a ton of production to Bike White and the New
21:21
Speaker 1: York Jets last week. They've been doing it over the
21:23
Speaker 1: last month or so. There. I know they're starting to
21:26
Speaker 1: get a little healthier now, especially in the defensive secondary.
21:29
Speaker 1: But there's still an opportunity, especially for the Lions, who
21:31
Speaker 1: are on a roll right now. So if Jared Goff
21:33
Speaker 1: is still available in your league, he would be my
21:36
Speaker 1: number one guy. Well right talked about Mike White, and
21:38
Speaker 1: Mike White getting the started quarterback for the Jets has
21:40
Speaker 1: really changed things in that New York offense and we've
21:43
Speaker 1: really been on him the last couple of weeks and
21:45
Speaker 1: his two starts he's had over three hundred passing yards
21:47
Speaker 1: and both of them, and you look at his schedule
21:49
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, He's got the Bills, the Lions,
21:51
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and the Seahawks. It's a very forgiving schedule.
21:54
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for quarterback help, surprisingly, Miguel Blancos
21:57
Speaker 1: out there on the waiver wire, and could be the
21:59
Speaker 1: guy to help lead you to a championship. Yeah, and
22:01
Speaker 1: if you need quarterback help just for this week, like
22:03
Speaker 1: a streamer, ryant the Hill is someone that I like
22:06
Speaker 1: a good amount because of the matchup against the Jaguars.
22:09
Speaker 1: Jared Goff just scored his most fantasy points against them
22:11
Speaker 1: in two months. The week before that, Lamar Jackson had
22:14
Speaker 1: his high in the last two months. The Jaguars are
22:16
Speaker 1: just a get right spot right now. They're giving up
22:18
Speaker 1: the second most fantasy points for game the quarterbacks in
22:21
Speaker 1: the last month, but they score up points as well,
22:23
Speaker 1: and the Titans defense gives up production, meaning that this
22:26
Speaker 1: could low key be a high scoring game. Stream Ryan Tannehill.
22:28
Speaker 1: One guy who's gonna be involved in some low scoring
22:30
Speaker 1: games is going to be Tyler Huntley, the backup quarterback
22:33
Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens. In his last three of his
22:36
Speaker 1: last four games, he's got ten or more carries. The
22:39
Speaker 1: floor is nice and safe for Tyler Huntley, and I
22:42
Speaker 1: think that could be a safe start for you over
22:44
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks if you want to save option.
22:47
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22:58
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls. The brand new Week
23:02
Speaker 1: fourteen Power Rankings currently available at n f L dot Calm.
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Speaker 1: Eagles number one. You heard Dan Hands who say bang?
23:12
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are number two. The Bengals are up five,
23:14
Speaker 1: the number three. They beat the Chiefs. Chiefs sinc The
23:17
Speaker 1: number five, So obviously Bengals are better than the Chiefs.
23:21
Speaker 1: I mean, that does make sense here. But you have
23:24
Speaker 1: the cowboys Hands, who was great to see you, by
23:27
Speaker 1: the way, right see you as well have the cowboys
23:29
Speaker 1: who just beat up on the cold. You're not like
23:31
Speaker 1: when I talked before you introduced me, unprofessional and yours
23:35
Speaker 1: just two people talking, Okay, I mean who cares um?
23:37
Speaker 1: Cowboys ahead of the Bengals. The Bengals be the Chiefs.
23:41
Speaker 1: Cowboys beat beat the Colts. Oh you go only be
23:46
Speaker 1: who's on your schedule? And they also scored thirty three
23:48
Speaker 1: unanswered points in the fourth quarter. But no, the Cowboys
23:52
Speaker 1: make sense to me as the number two. I love
23:54
Speaker 1: the one to punch of the Eagles Cowboys the top
23:58
Speaker 1: the rankings. That that felt right to me in the moment.
24:01
Speaker 1: So when you factor in um with that deep sense
24:05
Speaker 1: could do. Now. I know they lost an important part
24:07
Speaker 1: of their secondary in Brown, and we're gonna see how
24:09
Speaker 1: they react to that. But I think they're going to
24:11
Speaker 1: hold things together. And when Dak Prescott is playing at
24:14
Speaker 1: this level with a running game that's as good as
24:17
Speaker 1: it is, they're going to continue to mow down opponents.
24:19
Speaker 1: And I don't think the NFC East is over either. Jeff,
24:23
Speaker 1: I know you do it. Jeff Chitty just said he
24:25
Speaker 1: has the Bengals better than the Chiefs. Clearly they've beaten
24:27
Speaker 1: him now three times for the calendars, saying two, you
24:30
Speaker 1: have the Bengals here as the best team of the
24:32
Speaker 1: a f C. It's listen. The power rankings, as you know,
24:36
Speaker 1: are a snapshot, not the well that too, but it's
24:40
Speaker 1: right now and right now where I stand here in
24:43
Speaker 1: December entering week four, team that there's no team I
24:46
Speaker 1: trust more in the a f C than the Bengal
24:48
Speaker 1: So much of that obviously goes back to the dude
24:50
Speaker 1: behind center, and that's certain magic that Borrow possesses. But
24:55
Speaker 1: the offensive lines improvement and Jamaar Chase being back, and
24:58
Speaker 1: how strong and discipline the defense is playing, and this
25:02
Speaker 1: team just believes and you just get the feeling there's
25:04
Speaker 1: no team that they feel like they can't beat. And
25:07
Speaker 1: I think that's true. They're gonna be a tough out. Yeah,
25:09
Speaker 1: totally agree with you. The forty Niners have the number
25:11
Speaker 1: one defense in football. We see that, and I'm guessing
25:14
Speaker 1: it's the reason you still have them at number seven.
25:17
Speaker 1: So there's gotta be some faith here in brock Purty
25:20
Speaker 1: or is this old defense here? It's a toughie in
25:23
Speaker 1: the power rankings? Land here, Andrew, because what do you
25:25
Speaker 1: do with a for a superpower that loses it's starting quarterback?
25:30
Speaker 1: Like do you put a team in the bowl game
25:31
Speaker 1: if they lost their quarterback? Kind of thing. It's kind
25:34
Speaker 1: of so what I did obviously, as you say, great
25:35
Speaker 1: when it gets the Dobbins, but I still drop them,
25:37
Speaker 1: but keep them in the top ten out of respect.
25:40
Speaker 1: And now it's weight and see and it's crushing and
25:42
Speaker 1: I saw, I saw what you guys did there, by
25:44
Speaker 1: the way, with you in the last segment. Uh, the
25:46
Speaker 1: in bold letters the forty nine or Super Bowl dreams
25:49
Speaker 1: are over. That's what Jeff ro that's NFL dot Com
25:51
Speaker 1: right now. I know you're doing that for when they
25:53
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and they do there the season
25:55
Speaker 1: the San Francioc fort and nine is they're gonna use
25:57
Speaker 1: that in their video montage, which is cool. So good
26:01
Speaker 1: job by your entire team here, Okay, would they use
26:04
Speaker 1: his well me in to break saying the Lions are
26:06
Speaker 1: America's team? You have them at seventeen up three big
26:09
Speaker 1: spots here. I love it. And they were thirty one
26:11
Speaker 1: in these power rankings after week nine, so that tells
26:14
Speaker 1: you what has happened here, what's transpired. And I gotta
26:18
Speaker 1: give a lot of respect to a guy who when
26:20
Speaker 1: I covered Hard Knocks with Colleen Wolfe this summer and
26:23
Speaker 1: did the podcast, we talked about where's the offensive coordinator
26:26
Speaker 1: with Ben Johnson, and uh, I'll tell you where he is.
26:29
Speaker 1: He's in the lab putting together a great game plan
26:32
Speaker 1: week after week. And now what you're seeing with this
26:34
Speaker 1: offense with a healthy DeAndre Swift, Aman Ross Brown and
26:38
Speaker 1: all these other pieces and an offensive line that allows
26:40
Speaker 1: Jared Goff to be the best version of himself. This
26:43
Speaker 1: is sustainable and they're going to continue to score points
26:46
Speaker 1: and with the defense getting better. They beat the Vikings Andrew,
26:50
Speaker 1: they beat the Vikings this week. They're knocking on the
26:53
Speaker 1: top ten in these rankings. I just think it's monkers here.
26:56
Speaker 1: The Vikings have a clinching scenario that isn't tied to
26:58
Speaker 1: the Packers, isn't tied to the Bears. It is tied
27:02
Speaker 1: to the Lions. Real quick. Here, the Raiders, who were
27:04
Speaker 1: going to see here at so on Thursday up two
27:06
Speaker 1: to fift. I like the Raiders. I like their chances
27:09
Speaker 1: here to be in that in the hunt column, uh
27:12
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Just because they have so many big
27:15
Speaker 1: time players having big years, it doesn't make any sense
27:18
Speaker 1: that there's still two games under. And I think it's
27:20
Speaker 1: gonna average out now. Their schedule ends very difficult, but
27:23
Speaker 1: there's a very good chance this team is seven and
27:25
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