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The Panthers sign Adam Thielen, Baker Mayfield joins the show, & an interview with Steve Calhoun · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. Bro thea free agency so well, let's just
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  Speaker 1: say the off season begins today. The Panthers now control
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  Speaker 1: the draft. Sources say they have traded up from the
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  Speaker 1: number nine overall pick all the way to number one,
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr agreeing to a contract with the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears are signing Tremaine Edmonds, the star linebacker
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  Speaker 1: formerly of the Buffalo Bills. Jimmy g headed to the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders after six years with the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
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  Speaker 1: Seed is a blockbuster trade. The New York Giants acquiring
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  Speaker 1: start tight end Darren Waller. Or Orlando Brown is on
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  Speaker 1: his way to the Bengals. The Lions are signing former
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  Speaker 1: Bears running back David Montgomery. Javon Hargrave was going to
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers for four years eighty
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  Speaker 1: four million dollars. Breaking news here. Cowboys all are releasing
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. It's official now. In Miami, the Dolphins have
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  Speaker 1: an outstair trade with the Rams for safety Jalen Ramsey.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back on the air tomorrow, waiting on Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: So there's there's nothing you could say. There's nothing you
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  Speaker 1: could say that they can make it better other than
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  Speaker 1: that it's over. It's Monday. It's still the offseason. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to NFL Now on NFL Network from our news room
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. We are done watching college basketball for now.
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  Speaker 1: That is Steve White. My name is andrews Ceciliato. Sorry
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  Speaker 1: about your two teams, but at least you had two
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  Speaker 1: smoke in. You had two teams in. Yeah, Howard Missoo
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  Speaker 1: both taken Els. Howard and Massoo both out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Both syrac House did not make the tournament. More in
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  Speaker 1: that coming up a little bit later. Also coming up soon,
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, we have a team on the record,
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  Speaker 1: a GM on the record saying no to Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Will tell you what that team is. Let's start in Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: to the team that has the first overall pick in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Draft because they traded with the Bears. Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold out of there, DJ Moore out of there. What
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  Speaker 1: does Frank Wright now do with the number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick for the first time since they made that deal,
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  Speaker 1: since they announced it last Wednesday, that Carolina Panthers are
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  Speaker 1: on the podium trying to well not tell us what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do. Okay, we'll show you this instead.
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  Speaker 1: We'll tell you later what Frank Wright and and Scott
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  Speaker 1: Fitterer said today on the podium. Here's what our mock
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  Speaker 1: drafts are. This was before free agency. Peter Scronsky, Cyrus Torrens,
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  Speaker 1: will Levis, will Levis, will Levis. They are not picking
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  Speaker 1: number nine overall. They are picking number one overall. He
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  Speaker 1: interapt before it is our NFL Network insider. He joins
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  Speaker 1: us out with some other moves that the Panthers made,
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  Speaker 1: most notably high there Ian Adam Feeling tell us about
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  Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, big free agent signing last night, Adam Theland,
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  Speaker 1: former Viking stalwart. He agrees to their terms on a
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  Speaker 1: three year, twenty five million dollars deal. This is actually
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  Speaker 1: a really strong deal for Theland. Thirty three years old,
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  Speaker 1: obviously struggled with some lower body injuries last year, not
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  Speaker 1: his best season, but he gets a deal that gives
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  Speaker 1: him ten million dollars in year one and eighteen million
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  Speaker 1: dollars fully guaranteed over the first two years. Is basically
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  Speaker 1: means that Theland will be on the team the next
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  Speaker 1: two years. There's still some conversations going on with DJ Chark,
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  Speaker 1: the former Jaguars receiver most recently of the Lions. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if they're able to strike a deal there. But
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  Speaker 1: all the Panthers have done this offseason is surround their
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  Speaker 1: new quarterback, whoever this person is with weapons, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst. They got Andy Dalton to come in as
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  Speaker 1: a stand in. They got Miles Sanders. Now Adam Feeling
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  Speaker 1: in a receiver for the Carolina Panthers. All right, Adam
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  Speaker 1: Feeling gets to deal with some pretty decent, guaranteed muddy.
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  Speaker 1: That was one of the notable moves yesterday. Another one
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  Speaker 1: is an interesting one. As we spoke so much about
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia on the challenge, Howary Roseman had Ian in keeping
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  Speaker 1: guys and trying to keep an NFC championship team together.
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  Speaker 1: Trounca Gardner Johnson was a guy that they got. The
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  Speaker 1: Eagles got from the Saints right before the season began.
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  Speaker 1: He played reasonably well. But as we bring in Jim
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  Speaker 1: Trotter to this conversation as well, there wasn't a big
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  Speaker 1: contract out there and Ian he gets a one year
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  Speaker 1: deal in Detroit. Tell us about that. Yeah, it ends
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  Speaker 1: up being one year six point five million dollars at
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  Speaker 1: its base with a chance to make eight million. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: good situation for Gardner Johnson. Ends up back with Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Glenn and some other people that he was with with
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  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Stats. Certainly some familiarity there. Should be
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  Speaker 1: able to to fit right in and succeed be right Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: very very difficult free agency for Gardner Johnson or the
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  Speaker 1: Saints when he was back with them before they ended
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  Speaker 1: up trading him, made a long term contract extension offered
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  Speaker 1: to him, did not accept it. They ended up trading him.
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  Speaker 1: Was with the Egos, had a successful season. They made
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  Speaker 1: an offer to him before free agency. What happens is
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  Speaker 1: there's only so much money and there's only so many chairs,
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  Speaker 1: So the Eagles make could offer to him, he does
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  Speaker 1: not accept it. They say okay, they move on. They
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  Speaker 1: bring back Darius Slay, they bring back James Bradbury, and
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  Speaker 1: at that point it was essentially done, leaving him with
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  Speaker 1: the best option meaning to land with the Detroit Lions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Andrew, what's really shocking here is that CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Garner Johnson was on the market this song. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a twenty five year old playmaking birth little safety.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand it's a depressed market, but from this stampoint,
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised as well how the Eagles handled this number one.
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  Speaker 1: They offered him a three year backloaded contract for a
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  Speaker 1: maximum of twenty four million dollars, and seventeen plus million
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  Speaker 1: of that was in year three, So why would C. J.
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  Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson take that? But I'll say this to you,
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  Speaker 1: this speaks to the value they placed on the player.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles were given an opportunity to match that one year,
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars offer to Gardner Johnson and they declined.
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  Speaker 1: So clearly he did not fit into their plants, which
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  Speaker 1: is shocking because this is one of the more talented
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  Speaker 1: young safeties in the game today, Andrew. And he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Detroit and maybe he cashes in next year. But
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  Speaker 1: it's always better to cash in sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Jim. More from Jim coming up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later. I At the meantime, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to one of the other ones that turned some heads yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Not that Brandon Cooks got traded. We've seen this coming
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  Speaker 1: for a while. He's wanted out since right before last
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  Speaker 1: year's deadline. But how this deal went down, the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: kind of did the reverse Amari Cooper here. They got
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  Speaker 1: a good player and didn't have to give up a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really nice deal for the Dallas Cowboys. They end up
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  Speaker 1: paying twelve million dollars of Cooks's eighteen million dollars fully
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed sour Texans are picking up six million and this
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  Speaker 1: is a five this year and a six next year
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  Speaker 1: going to the Texans basically to dump Brandon Cooks his salary.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a wild, wild ride for Brandon Cooks.
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  Speaker 1: I would say basically his entire career has been that
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  Speaker 1: he's been awesome and catching the ball, great at making plays,
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  Speaker 1: great at getting traded. All three of those things are true.
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  Speaker 1: So he lands again tie Eric Dickerson for the NFL
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  Speaker 1: record for most traded players. But really this was about
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  Speaker 1: the Texans saying that he was a key member of
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  Speaker 1: the Texans right around the time of the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Then he wanted out, and he wanted to say he
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  Speaker 1: wanted where he wanted to go. There was a lot
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  Speaker 1: here going on to The Texans are probably just fortunate
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  Speaker 1: to dump the salary and the Cowboys get someone to
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  Speaker 1: add a little juice to their offense. That is what
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  Speaker 1: they were looking for. And you know, I would say
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  Speaker 1: this probably takes them out of the Odell Beckham Junior sweepstakes,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm not sure they were in at this offseason anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But now they're at him. We'll try to decipher O'Dell
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  Speaker 1: tweets a little bit later as he plays the contract
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  Speaker 1: game with the media and the fans. You're speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the contract game. Laramie tunsl In is the champion of
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  Speaker 1: the contract game. I mean they at the contract Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame one day if the NFLPA ever makes one,
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  Speaker 1: should put a statue of Laramie Tunsel outside. Yeah, Tunso
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  Speaker 1: got the bag, as they say again, three years, seventy
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars for one of the best left tackles
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. This according to Saint Omni, his advisor,
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  Speaker 1: he gets fifty million dollars fully guaranteed, sixty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in total guarantees thirty two million dollars in year one.
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  Speaker 1: It is a massive deal also as the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: re up after a couple of years as well, just
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  Speaker 1: given the short term nature of this contract. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot to like for him, but if you're the Texans,
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  Speaker 1: there's also a lot to like for you. I never
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  Speaker 1: got the sense they were going to trade him another
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  Speaker 1: from rumors that never felt real. This was about making
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  Speaker 1: sure that your next quarterback, whoever that is, has a
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  Speaker 1: personal protector, has a blindside protector. Laramie tuns again one
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  Speaker 1: of the best. You gotta pay for the best. Texas
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  Speaker 1: did pay, but this is a very very good player
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  Speaker 1: to keep in the full fascinating when you too look
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  Speaker 1: at the Orlando Brown contract, what he got Jowan Taylor
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  Speaker 1: obviously replaced him back in Kansas City. Brown now fell
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  Speaker 1: into the Bengals laps, and now Laramie Tunsil signs another
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  Speaker 1: huge dya Thank you and Rappaport back a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later with more news, and there's plenty of it here
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  Speaker 1: around the league. Thank you. Ian. Back here with Steve watching,
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  Speaker 1: let's welcome James Palmer into the conversation as well as
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  Speaker 1: you try to figure out the Texans. Knowing here, James,
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  Speaker 1: they still do have the second overall pick. Brandon Cooks
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  Speaker 1: is out as we expected, Laramie Tunsil gets another big
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  Speaker 1: bag your thoughts, Drew, seems like every move to Houston
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  Speaker 1: Texans make it somehow is connected to the quarterback right
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  Speaker 1: and Ian's right. Any quarterback in the NFL would want
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  Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsil protecting their blind side, specifically a rookie that
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  Speaker 1: could possibly be starting right away, which what a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us believe. But also look at the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line. They have a very good right tackle
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  Speaker 1: as well in Titus Howard, so their exterior side of
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  Speaker 1: that offensive line and protecting those edge rushers in a
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  Speaker 1: very good spot. Your eyes should be though on how
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  Speaker 1: things pan out this season early on in training camp
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  Speaker 1: as well, on the interior portion of that line, they
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  Speaker 1: go get Shack Mason, a very upgraded spot there at
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  Speaker 1: the right guard. Left guard is a bit interesting. It's
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  Speaker 1: Kenyan Greene, who they pick fifteenth overall last year in
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  Speaker 1: the first round that he struggled in his rookie year,
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  Speaker 1: did miss almost all of training camp because of a concussion,
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  Speaker 1: but he is a question mark as well as Scott
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  Speaker 1: Questenberry at center. And then the Brandon Cook steal. When
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  Speaker 1: you look at who's catching passes from this potential rookie
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  Speaker 1: playing right away, Cooks leaves to go get Robert Woods
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  Speaker 1: at the start right before free agency began. He knows
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  Speaker 1: this system very well. He's a physical receiver. That's a
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  Speaker 1: plus to help some of these younger guys. They have
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  Speaker 1: Noah Brown that they added, which ironically came from the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: But the two young players Steve is where I have
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  Speaker 1: my eye on. It's Miko Collins, a former third round
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  Speaker 1: pick from twenty twenty one, six four. They feel like
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  Speaker 1: he has a lot of potential. I'm told he spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time with Andre Johnson learning to be
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  Speaker 1: a physical, big bodied receiver in the red zone. They
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  Speaker 1: think he could take a jump. And then it's John Mechi.
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  Speaker 1: We know the health issue that he had during his
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  Speaker 1: rookie season, but this guy caught ninety six balls from
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young his last year in Alabama. He could be
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  Speaker 1: an interesting play with their chemistry and their relationships, some youthfulness,
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  Speaker 1: but there also needs to be Steve probably some additions
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  Speaker 1: as well to that wide receiver group, and it has
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  Speaker 1: to be Probace Young and that T T Stil. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know how these quarterbacks are going to go the
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  Speaker 1: first two, but we do know what that number two
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  Speaker 1: overall pick that the Texans are going to go quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Remember they've got the number twelve overall pick James, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they's dined Larry Mee Tontl and they've
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  Speaker 1: got the situations on the offensive line taken care of
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  Speaker 1: alleged to believe they're kind of out of that market
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  Speaker 1: in the first round, which could be now an edge rusher,
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  Speaker 1: right someone Damiko Ryans is now the head coach. We
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  Speaker 1: know he's a defensive guy and the edge really sets
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  Speaker 1: the table in the scheme. So maybe that's an area
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  Speaker 1: that they go, or maybe they go interior. But you
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned wide receiver and tight end. These are positions
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  Speaker 1: that are gonna be right there in that sweet spot
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  Speaker 1: at twelve. Maybe they go with somebody like Addison the
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver ad at USC or one of these tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: That's another position in this offense. Bobby Slowe coming over
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  Speaker 1: from the forty nine ers, he's gonna have a kind
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  Speaker 1: of that stretch zone scheme. But we know how vital
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  Speaker 1: having tight ends and multiple tight ends in that scheme is.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's somewhere they go, or else they can go
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver or tight end with one of those early
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  Speaker 1: picks in the second round as well. I've gotten early
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  Speaker 1: pick in the second round. But what the Huston Texans
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  Speaker 1: have done foundationally with that interior offensive line, like you mentioned, James,
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  Speaker 1: setting up their quarterback and also setting up their draft
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  Speaker 1: to address some other needy spots. All right, that twelve
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  Speaker 1: obviously part of the Deshaun Watson trade that would have
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  Speaker 1: been Cleveland's pick if they lost Edge Actually to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: ok ron Quo signing a free agent contract their last week,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely as sending player former ram All right, let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to two though. I found it interesting James this
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  Speaker 1: morning Peter King's Football Morning America is Monday column here
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  Speaker 1: where Ryan Pole suggests they were pretty close maybe to
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  Speaker 1: trading down to two and giving Houston number one. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think, Well, it is interesting that came out
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  Speaker 1: because there was a lot of talk out of Houston,
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  Speaker 1: and Steve mentioned it too. With all the work that
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  Speaker 1: they need to do that holding onto draft picks is
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  Speaker 1: extremely important to nickos Sario and Demiko Ryan's in terms
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  Speaker 1: of this full rebuild that we know that they're in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of. I think when you take case Keenum
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  Speaker 1: right out of the gate at the start of free agency,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's showing that we're in a rebuild and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be playing a rookie quarterback. I think
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  Speaker 1: when you look at two, they're doing all their due diligence.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told on CJ. Stroud and Bryce Young, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the two guys that everybody hears about as one two.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be at their pro days this week.
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  Speaker 1: They've sat down with them at the combine. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: that they feel like they both check almost every single box.
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  Speaker 1: But where things might be very interesting and different in
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  Speaker 1: this draft is the meat of the draft for the
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  Speaker 1: Houston Texans. And that's why I bring this up. Where
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  Speaker 1: they didn't move up, they still have all these picks
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of draft. They have thirty three, sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: seventy three, and one oh four. Now. Also, it's interesting, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: because this new staff that came in with Demiko Ryans
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  Speaker 1: has now changed this draft board to an extent, about
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent of their board has changed. I'm told in
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  Speaker 1: those middle rounds. It's because fit is so important for
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  Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans and his group to where there might be
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  Speaker 1: some guys at this previous scouting staff valued that they
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  Speaker 1: thought maybe the previous coaching staff valued Steve. But this
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  Speaker 1: group values them differently. That shuffled the middle area a
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  Speaker 1: little bit for how this new staff wants to pick
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  Speaker 1: these players and have the right fit for them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: five picks out of the first seventy four James. But
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  Speaker 1: here's something also to look at when I talk about
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Slowitt coming over from the forty nine ers quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Height's not really a big deal to them, right. Rock
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  Speaker 1: Purdy was maybe six feet so if Bryce Young at
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  Speaker 1: five ten and change whatever he was, is a concern
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  Speaker 1: for the Carolina Panthers, which we don't know. The Houston
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  Speaker 1: Texas been gladly welcome them, which is why they probably
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  Speaker 1: said we'll fit it too. We'll take either one of
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  Speaker 1: these quarterbacks because we think both of them will fit
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  Speaker 1: with what we're trying to do in our scheme. They
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  Speaker 1: moved up to one. Maybe that meant they were sweeter
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  Speaker 1: on one than the other, but again they seem very
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  Speaker 1: comfortable by not making that move Andrew and staying it
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  Speaker 1: too with either one of these quarterback prospects. Frank Reich
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  Speaker 1: earlier today was asked a quarterback have to be a
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  Speaker 1: certain height, He would not go there. He was pressed,
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  Speaker 1: what exactly are you looking for in a quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: he made some joke about that would be like KFC
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  Speaker 1: giving away their their secret recipe. I never thought about
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  Speaker 1: that jokes on Monday, but yeah, okay, so there's that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get that for you a little bit later. Thank you, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, James. Coming up. Jordan Love is the guy
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  Speaker 1: right right? We think? Ye, how exactly is Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to take over some unique insights? Straight ahead?
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  Speaker 1: You're watching NFL now on a Monday. Jordan Love comes
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  Speaker 1: in the quarterback for the Green Bay package while I
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  Speaker 1: stay your most Oh my godness, Jordan Love made them
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  Speaker 1: hey pill devotion, touch down pass play. I'm far down
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  Speaker 1: by Jordan Love. Hey face me, I'm a legiar. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: let's Fashlove bakes the hand off, he's into the end
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  Speaker 1: zone and he spends the football like a time. What
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  Speaker 1: an interesting and important offseason for Jordan Love. And I
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  Speaker 1: am happy to be joined here today with Steve Calhoun,
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  Speaker 1: private quarterback and receivers coach. And one of your most
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  Speaker 1: important quarterbacks is Jordan Love. And you've worked with him
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  Speaker 1: since his freshman year of high school. Obviously, this offseason
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  Speaker 1: very public trade situation with Aaron Rodgers and it makes
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  Speaker 1: it seem like it's not official yet, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: like this will be Jordan Love's team in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: And so Steve, let's jump right into it. What have
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  Speaker 1: your conversations and workouts been like with Love heading into
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: this offseason repairs to be Love season in Green Bay? Yeah? Absolutely, well,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I mean our conversation has never really changed from from
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: year one to you know, him just finishing year three.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: You know, we just talk about the stuff he needs
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: to do to prepare to be the best quarterback for
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, whether his number is called or
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: he has to be you know, sit behind another you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: sit behind Aaron for another year or possibly. But you know, definitely,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I mean it's not like he says, oh my god,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you know, I might have the opportunity to be the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: guy now, so now my focus is going to go up.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I'm about to start working out harder. It's just always
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the same, you know, we're preparing every day to become
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the best Jordan Love that he could possibly be and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: work on his fundamentals and it's throwing mechanics and really
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: understand the playbook as well as you know, Coach La
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Florida and Steve, we see some of these workouts with
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Jordan right here. Um, you know, I know you've been
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: working out with him for the last two weeks in
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Orange County. Can you give us insight on what you
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: want to see with Jordan and some of these workouts. Yeah,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, definitely just him to continue to develop as
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a passer. The biggest thing for me is, you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I'm coaching every small detail from where his left foot
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: plants and where his you know, his arm is coming
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: through on a slot. You know, just coaching all those
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: details and see if he can make the correction without
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: me saying it, because I won't you know, I won't
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: be in Green Bay with him. So just by the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: way the ball comes out or the fighter the ball is,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: he'll understand exactly what he needs to do to make
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: those adjustments to be a really accurate passer. So just
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: those and you mentioned the left foot kind of thing
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that you're working on with him. With that, I know
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: we've talked, and you mentioned Matt Lafloor has given Jordan
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: notes over the last two years. Can you give us
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: insight on maybe how Matt Lafleur's tips for Jordan play
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: into how you train him in the offseason. Yeah. Absolutely,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's that's that's coming from the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: head coach. So if he thinks, if Coach Laford thinks
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: it's important, of course, you know, as he passes information
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: on the Jordan and Jordan passing on to me. I mean,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that's gonna take That's gonna be the top of my
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: workout because I have a scheduled workout of what I
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: want to do with Jordan, you know, every time we
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: get together. But you know what Coach Laford as is
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: asking Jordan to do, that definitely goes to the top,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you know, to just talk about you know, how he
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: wants his left foot to be flat on the ground
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: as he's coming through you know, throwing the football because
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that would create more balance, and balance creates more accuracy.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So you know, it's just a little tips like that.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You know that Coastal Florida is giving Jordan and he's
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: passing along to me, and I definitely prioritize him and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: put him at the top of the list of Jordan's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: workouts and Steve. There's a lot of Packers fans who
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: were excited about the opportunity to see Jordan love. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: know some of the clips we showed show him throwing
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to Romeo Dubes. Can you give us insight, I know
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: you're working out with him today, maybe what today's workout
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: would look like for Jordan's love for Packers fans wanting
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to know. Yeah, well, you know, with Romeo, you know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I've I've actually been training since college, so you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he's very familiar with myself and my program, and also
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: with Jordan, Um, you know, I mean we're just really
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: kind of just starting at the basics, you know, especially
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: with Romeo. You know, he's not in the full running.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: He's really just been hitting the hard in the rate room,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: getting his body prepared for the NFL. But yeah, we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: just want to work at the top of the route,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you know, whether it's some out routes like you see
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: right there, or some curls or some dig routes. You know,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: we just want to work at the top and just
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: kind of build our way up to running a full
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: route and just start to get into their route tree
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and their playbook. So I'm sure there's going to be
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: more guys coming out here to California, Christian Walkins and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: also Aaron Jones. I know that Jordan had mentioned to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: me that they're planning on coming out just to start
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to get that time in, you know. But but you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: with these clips you see here, you just want to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: start to build up. You don't want to go, you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: from zero to one hundred. We just want to start,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you know, real slow and work the top of the routes,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: get you know, get Georgian's footwork, the time up with
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Romeos top of the routdale and then we'll start to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: put it all together here in the next few weeks. Stephen,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you mentioned that incoming work with Aaron Jones. I spent
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: some time with him on GMFB and he had great
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: things to say about Jordan Love and his rating this
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: when he ends up being the guy for the Packers.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: But I want to transition to another quarterback you work
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: with as well, who's having another important offseason. Tennessee quarterback
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Handon Hooker was in the Heisman race one SEC Offensive
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Player of the Year before tearing that acl. What have
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you seen from him in his workouts as he's four
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: months removed from that injury. Yeah, wow, just the detail,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the focus, the drive to you know, to rehab, you know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: five six days a week, you know, just to try
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to stay ahead of the curve as far as you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: trying to get back you know, for training cap you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: but as you see hearing these clips, you know, he
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: just got clear to throw standing up, you know, this
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: past Monday, last week Monday, so you know, I had
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: him out there with Jordan. Um. You know, he got
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a chance to see, you know, some of the footwork
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that's Jordan does that they do, you know in the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: NFL versus you know, what they're doing at Tennessee. So
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Jordan was a great sounding board for hinding not only
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: talking about the footwork, but just talking about how he's
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: going to come in as a rookie. Um, and you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: know they're gonna you know, obviously build a great relationship,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you know, through through me, and you know, I definitely
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: want to connect you know, those two and anybody else
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that's in my kind of like my family tree. I'm
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: armed in dangerous you know, to be able to pass
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: information back and forth my older guys and given knowledge
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to the younger guys. You're just kind of what they
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: can expect. But Hindon has been doing a great job,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you know, just you know, he's anxious, you know, if
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: he wanted to start to take a drop, but the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: doctors like, hey, to take it slow, and so I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: got to really, you know, be on him about not
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: really trying to push it, you know. So we're just
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: standing and thrown right now, you know, the same thing
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: at the top of the routes, you know. But he's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: progressing really nicely and I'm looking forward to see, you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: where he lends in the draft. Absolutely clear to throw
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: standing up is definitely a big step for Hand and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Hooker as well. And thank you Steve for all the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: info and insight you're giving us on Jordan Love and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Hand and Hooker. Looking forward to more from those workouts
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: in Orange County. Absolutely appreciate you guys having me at all, right, see,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: thank you Cam, thank you coming up next. That guy
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: sitting down at one buck Place to do quarterback in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the Bay Bucketeers, everybody Mayfield joining us next. NFL now
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: NFL Network, Scissors in charge. It's amazing to look back
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: on some of the great moments of twenty fourteen or
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Remember I'm sorry and think about Week
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: fourteen and how great this was. I was in the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: building this day. Don't know that I've ever seen anything
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: like it, Baker Mayfield, Like what thirty six hours after
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: landing in Los Angeles led this amazing comeback, the touchdown
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: down the sideline of Van Jefferson as remarkable a comeback
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: considering the circumstances as I think I have ever seen.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And now here he is today citing his new contract
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: at one Buck Place, the new quarterback of the Tampa
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Bay Bucket ears fresh off the podium and live now
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: on Bucks Cam. Baker Mayfield, how how does it feel
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to be a buccaneer? It feels pretty good. It feels
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: feels different to say that, but it feels really good. Yeah,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Baker the buck Why the Bucks, Baker? You know what
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: it's uh, They've historically had success and obviously in recent
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: years as well. To me, I want to come into
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a place where I'm able to compete and able to
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: showcase my talents for you know, the next chapter of
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: my career. I think everything happens for reasons, so I'm
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: excited to see where this journey goes. Hey, we showed
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that video there a week fourteen last year, which was
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: just ridiculous considering the circumstances here. Big picture though, what
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: was that month, like for you in La with Sean mcfigh, Like,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: what'd you get at of that? It was a WorldWind.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'll say that definitely not how I drew it up,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but it it taught me just to roll with the punches,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to be patient, and I was having fun playing ball again,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I'll say that they made it fun obviously, you know
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the situation I stepped into. They were already eliminated from
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, so there was really nothing to lose, so
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: let's just go play ball, have fun, enjoy it and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: getting to know my teammates on you know, quick notice.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: It was always enjoyable and then we'll share those memories
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: for a lifetime. Yeah, and they loved you here. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: know they wanted you back here. Obviously that didn't work out.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's back and healthy and they're looking at a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: new season here and now you're moving on to Tampa. Here, Baker,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it's been four teams in like nine months. It has
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: been a year. I saw the post from Emily saying
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: happy place now you're wife, you guys are in Tampa.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: This is a happy place now, Like, what have these
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: last nine months been? Like? Have you had a chance
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to reflect on this journey. I've had a little bit
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: of time. You know, the off season really didn't start
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: until a few weeks ago. We finally had a chance
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to move out of Cleveland and move out of Charlotte.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: But this past this past year has been a lot
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of a lot of learning, a lot of growth, you know,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: taking a step back and trusting in God's plan and
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you know, wherever I'm supposed to be, He's gonna put
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: me there, and I need to trust that. And so
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it's been it's been amazing to see where He's taken
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: me and us. And you know, I'm so excited for
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: this next chapter and being in Tampa and uh, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: seeing what this place has to offer. And obviously it's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a great team. So I'm excited to join and see
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: how I can help. I don't want to make it
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: seem like we're sitting on the cash. But you went there,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you said a lot of growth. Where do you think
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the growth spin? If you're willing to go there to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: say it one more time, you said, there's been a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: lot of growth. Where do you think the growth spin? Oh? Um,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: all over? I think you know, when I had to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: take the back seat in Carolina and just how can
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I affect our team? How can I help us win
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: in whatever role or capacity I'm in. You know what,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I know I have a lot to offer. I've played
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of ball, but I know I'm a great teammate,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So how can I help this team win? And that's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: that was a huge thing for me, to not being
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback but also still helping us win and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: how can I continue to push everybody else around me
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and through that process and it's um, it was definitely
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: teaching me patients. Not something that comes natural for me,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: but I enjoyed it. Hey, what are the Bucks told
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you about the offense you're walking into, about the pieces
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: you're gonna work with about? I mean, equally as important,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I would think, you know what their quarterback plans are
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: potentially in the draft, if they have any quarterback plans. Yeah, obviously,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you know, got some some veterans here, Chris Godwin, Mike Evans,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and then bringing back Russell Gage as well, got some
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: young talent in the running back room and also Kadot
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and the tight end, so U you know what, it's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: going to be a competition. They're very straightforward when they
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: tell me that it's going to be a competition between
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Kyle and I and I enjoy that, and I hope
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Kyle does as well. That it's competition brings the best
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: out of everybody. So let's enjoy. Let's go together, let's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: push this team, and we should all have the same
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: goal in mind. That's the win at all come February.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So how can we go through this process and make
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: sure everybody's getting better along the way, and let's just
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: enjoy it. But you know, when it comes to the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: draft plans, I mean I landed in Tampa probably about
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: twelve hours ago, so I don't have much for you there. Yeah,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: totally getting um. We found this while going through the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Google machine. Want to show you here one last thing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, you and Tom Brady sat
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: down for that NFL one hundred video, which was awesome,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: like Jim Brown and Barry Sanders and at se Quon
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: jumping over tables and everything like that. Yeah, would you
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: ever imagine Baker when you sat here that day, that
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: one day. I don't want to say replaced because look
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: it's Tom Brady. Don't replace Tom Brady, but that you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: would be the next guy up after Tom Brady. Um No, no,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: never would have imagined that. Oddly enough, that was filmed
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in Foxborough. But yeah, like I said it earlier in
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: our press friends that I'm not Tom. I'm not going
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to try and beat Tom. He's the greatest quarterback to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: ever play the game and he deserves that recognition. I'm
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: gonna be myself and Tom was himself. I think all
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the greats to try and try and do it their
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: own way, and so I respect everything he did. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: obviously people around here have worked with him, so I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: gonna try and pick their brain about how he did it,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: how he operated, and certain things that you know, we're
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the difference makers and who he is. So I'm excited
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: about it. Those are those are big shoes to fill,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna try and wear my own totally.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Getting great commercial and now a great opportunity for you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: here in Tampa. Baker Mayfield, congratulations on the new contract
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and the new deal and the new team. Good luck
• 29:45
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