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NFL REPORT: Cowboys, Steelers, Browns, Colts, just how good are they? · NFL explained.

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Report. I am Steve White here
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  Speaker 1: with my guy James Palmer JP. We are approaching the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter pole of the NFL season. Will be four
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  Speaker 1: games done after Monday night. This is where teams find
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  Speaker 1: out who.
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  Speaker 2: They are JP.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they find out who they are. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: One thing I'd like to add to the NFL game experience.
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  Speaker 3: We're at a lot of these games, Steve. I was
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  Speaker 3: at a MLS game. The Colord Rapids play right down
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  Speaker 3: the street for me, playing against Vancouver, sat in the
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  Speaker 3: supporter section with my son. We need more drums and
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  Speaker 3: horns and hell, bring the vouzelas back. I love the
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  Speaker 3: environment of the musical side of a soccer game that's
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  Speaker 3: not at NFL contests.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think at Philly if we brought
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  Speaker 1: some of those potential weapons into the stadium in stadiums
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  Speaker 1: like that. No, it's true. You know the real deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, we've got a great show.
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  Speaker 1: Also, we're gonna have Niner safety Talano Ufonga on here.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be joined by Brian Baldinger for his breakdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Jane Slater's gonna be coming in talking Cowboys, Pats plus
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  Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara's return and Stacy Dale's and Cameron Wolf on
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  Speaker 1: the Big Bill's Dolphins matchup.
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  Speaker 2: But jap before we get started, we have to follow
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  Speaker 2: the frenzy.
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  Speaker 1: We have to go back to Met Life Stadium where
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is going to be taking all eyes off
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  Speaker 1: of the home team product the New York Jets. Thank
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  Speaker 1: goodness for those fans when they play Kansas City this week,
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  Speaker 1: and she's gonna be there to see her her bo.
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  Speaker 1: He admitted it on his podcast Travis Kelsey. He said,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a front. So it debunks my theory of
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  Speaker 1: the new tight Ends series that's the spinoff of the
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback series.
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  Speaker 2: You know him and Taylor are really a night of JP.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it also debunks a lot of what well it
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  Speaker 3: actually doesn't debunk with all my friends in Philly think,
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  Speaker 3: which she's trying to infiltrate the defending Super Bowl champions
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  Speaker 3: from within because she's a diehard Eagles fan. We'll see
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the season if that's actually how
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  Speaker 3: this thing is really playing out. But get to steve
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  Speaker 3: some of these teams, because we know the Chiefs are
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  Speaker 3: for real, so they're not on our list of questioning
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  Speaker 3: teams whether they're for real or not. You mentioned the
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  Speaker 3: quarter point is usually where most coaches in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: if you ask them, say, now I know what my
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  Speaker 3: team really is, what we really have, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: play little game'renna go straight down the list. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: talk about how good are they? I'm also gonna call
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  Speaker 3: it my for real meter? How for real are these
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  Speaker 3: teams still on your for real meter? How for real
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  Speaker 3: are the Dallas Cowboys after what happened against Arizona Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: the shocker of Week three?
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  Speaker 2: They're for real?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, no one's gonna win them all, but
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  Speaker 1: we look their defense is so legit JP and one
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  Speaker 1: thing we've seen about these teams that have jumped out
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  Speaker 1: to these early starts.
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  Speaker 2: Is great defense.
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  Speaker 1: We can talk about all the offenses we want, but
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  Speaker 1: the great defenses are keeping them together.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this about the Cowboys, though, they've got.
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  Speaker 1: To get things going in the red zone offensively big time.
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  Speaker 1: Dak still has to see the feel better and Mike
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy's got to cost some better plays.
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  Speaker 2: This defense can only carry them so far.
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  Speaker 1: For the past few seasons, they've led the NFL and takeaways.
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  Speaker 1: They've got Micah Parsons, but lose trade digs at corner.
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  Speaker 2: They've got it kind of work their way through that.
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  Speaker 2: They will.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've got great coaching on that side. And
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  Speaker 1: the fall the Dallas Cowboys are for real. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, you could think just three games in
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  Speaker 3: the issues in the red zone as we're seeing them here.
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  Speaker 3: If you're watching the show, not just listening to the show,
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  Speaker 3: is they were number one in red zone offense a
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  Speaker 3: season ago, so you could think that, Steve, they would
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  Speaker 3: correct some of these. There's only three teams worse than
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  Speaker 3: them in terms of the red zone so far in
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  Speaker 3: this early part of the season. To me, what jumps
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  Speaker 3: out is that you've lost some of those red zone
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  Speaker 3: staples that you've had over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Dalton Schultze tight end has gotten more targets in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone last year than any other player on the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: He's gone. We know how dominant Zekeel it was in
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  Speaker 3: that short yardage red zone portion, Steve, that actually is
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  Speaker 3: really if you talk to defensive coordinators, that's an advantage
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  Speaker 3: there when you have the short yardage part because running
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  Speaker 3: is so important and you have the boundaries that help
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  Speaker 3: your defense in a sense, and the power back of
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  Speaker 3: Zeke Elliott, both those guys being gone. What I'm also
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  Speaker 3: curious is that's also is that you don't see Dak
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  Speaker 3: using his legs very much since really that that brutal
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  Speaker 3: ankle injury. Before that, he was a threat. You go
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  Speaker 3: back and look at the stats before that ankle injury,
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  Speaker 3: he was a threat to use his legs in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone. That's another part that you know. Dak hinted.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's something I come back on. But if they
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  Speaker 3: fix these red zone stuff like they're they're right back
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  Speaker 3: to where to where we've seen.
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  Speaker 1: Them angle offensive lineman healthy. We know the durability of
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  Speaker 1: their offensive line has been an issue.
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  Speaker 2: All right, JP.
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  Speaker 1: Are the Pittsburgh Steelers the two and one Steelers for real?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know yet. I don't know where my fur
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  Speaker 3: real meter is. My fur real meter is somewhere around
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  Speaker 3: US six. And we're talking about an offense in Dallas
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  Speaker 3: that we think you fix the red zone problems. Boom,
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  Speaker 3: they right back to it because they are having long drives,
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  Speaker 3: great drives. I'm still curious about this Steelers offense, and
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  Speaker 3: there's still been so many questions. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: there's an offensive coordinator in football Steed that's questioned more
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  Speaker 3: by the fans of their team than Mac cannell. Oh
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  Speaker 3: had a really really strong game. There is who yes, Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: look at okay, okay, well, all right, okay, Luketz, that's
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  Speaker 3: actually a good call anyway, Matt Canada did play did
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  Speaker 3: set things up for Kenny Pickett very well in this
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  Speaker 3: last game. And what did we see. It's because they
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  Speaker 3: ran the football pretty well and they were able to
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  Speaker 3: play off of play action. I think Kenny Pickett personally,
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  Speaker 3: I've a chance to talk to him in training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Him operating out of play action giving a defense the
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  Speaker 3: ability to have to think about the run game with
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  Speaker 3: Najie Harrison company, that showed me that this offense has
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  Speaker 3: the ability to go out and make some plays and
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  Speaker 3: sustain some drives. Who saw all these different things they
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  Speaker 3: can do. Mike Tomlin talked about it this week, just saying,
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  Speaker 3: if we can do all these different things, you can
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  Speaker 3: be more diverse in your play calling, something that we
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  Speaker 3: didn't see. They've had their work cut out with them
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of dominant pass rushers going after this
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. But I think that's just one game where
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  Speaker 3: we've seen Kenny Pickett and Mat Canada go out there
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  Speaker 3: and play really good offensive football. I still need to
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  Speaker 3: see it a little bit more because there's still some
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  Speaker 3: questions I.
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  Speaker 1: Would agree with that, but again, they opened up against
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco and Cleveland, two of the best defense they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna con found just about everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I do need to see a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: But one reason I still love the Steelers the past
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  Speaker 1: two Decembers and January is their record nine and three.
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  Speaker 1: This group of players finishes the season well, especially when
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  Speaker 1: the weather gets a little bit inclement and they are
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  Speaker 1: holding teams during that span jp to five points a
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  Speaker 1: game less, So they tend to play their best football
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the season. That's why if they
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  Speaker 1: can kind of hold water and keep on going in
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  Speaker 1: the direction that they're going in, I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be very good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I like it. Also, we haven't seen Joey Porter
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  Speaker 3: Junior a whole lot. It's kind of increased in snaps
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  Speaker 3: a little bit as he's gone on. He's kind of
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  Speaker 3: getting to few where they'rekinda doing that with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the rookies, so maybe they'll start getting some more
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  Speaker 3: time as they move on with this season. Let's move
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  Speaker 3: on with this, Steve to the Cleveland Browns. Let's stay
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  Speaker 3: in the division. Are the Browns for real in your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, remember, James, this is the team I called
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  Speaker 1: to win the AFC North coming into the season. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: we knew the defense is going to be good. But
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  Speaker 1: good grief, I mean, what's going on is insane. I mean, know,
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  Speaker 1: we we know Miles Garrett, but again, the guys in
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  Speaker 1: the secondary, the corners, what they're doing up front is
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  Speaker 1: just is just insane. I mean, Oba Ogaronkuo and Taki Taki.
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  Speaker 1: These are players that we're not talking about on the
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  Speaker 1: second level this defense, who are absolutely raising Kane on
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  Speaker 1: that secondary level.
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  Speaker 2: So offensively, that still remains the question.
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  Speaker 1: Now that Nick Chubb is out again, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be more of a the Shawn friendly based offense. I
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  Speaker 1: like what they did last week with Elijah Moore, the
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  Speaker 1: slot receiver who plays out of the backfield. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: think he's gonna become more of a threat expand this
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  Speaker 1: offense a little bit. But the Cleveland Browns, unless they
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  Speaker 1: just absolutely melt down and we know what has happened
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  Speaker 1: in the factory of sadness st But I think they
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  Speaker 1: are going to still be there when it's not there
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  Speaker 1: for real.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all I know them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this this defense is actually off the charts. We
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  Speaker 3: have been given up a touchdown I think so far.
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  Speaker 3: Like they're they're playing phenomenal defense. I think on the
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  Speaker 3: offense side, Steve, I love that you mentioned Elijah Moore
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  Speaker 3: lining up in the backfield. What else did they do
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  Speaker 3: to kind of add some wrinkles. You saw Jerome Ford
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  Speaker 3: line up all the way out wide and play that
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  Speaker 3: receiver spot. The ability to make some of these things
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  Speaker 3: what I need to see, though, I need to see
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  Speaker 3: a Mary Cooper stay healthy for them to stay real.
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  Speaker 3: I do think that's key to this entire offense. I
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  Speaker 3: talked to Deshaun Watson after their final preseason game, and
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  Speaker 3: really so much of our conversation was based on their
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  Speaker 3: relationship and the importance that is a true number one
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver. And man was he living and he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: talk much, Steve, but he was not happy about being
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  Speaker 3: called out of bounds when he wasn't anywhere close to
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  Speaker 3: being out of bounds. He would have had an avalanche
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  Speaker 3: of yards in Week three. So finding other ways to
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  Speaker 3: get these guys involved in the game in other spots
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  Speaker 3: is an interesting wrinkle. Deshaun using his legs, playing out
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  Speaker 3: of the shotgun, I like, and you're going to see
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  Speaker 3: more of that. But I think of Mary Cooper staying
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  Speaker 3: healthy and Deshaun Watson limiting turnovers and not hurting this defense.
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  Speaker 3: The only game this season he didn't have a turnover
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  Speaker 3: was last week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, JP, we've kind of stated semi obvious stuff here.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have enough time to get to all the
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  Speaker 1: teams we had on the rundown. But that's okay because
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  Speaker 1: I want to hit a team you talked about on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: Colts at two and one show amendous promise.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, are they for real? Are the Colts and Shane Steiken?
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  Speaker 1: Are they in the real deal category?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is what they have. They lead the division
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  Speaker 3: right now. In their next three games Rams, Titans, Jags,
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  Speaker 3: they can win all of those games. Steve, and I
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  Speaker 3: think what we've learned from Shane Steiken's group, and the
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  Speaker 3: reason I talked about him is I thought he's got
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  Speaker 3: a tremendous job coaching this team so far. We saw
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  Speaker 3: how resilient and tough they were coming out of that
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  Speaker 3: game in overtime in a win over the Baltimore Ravens.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm interested in seeing is do you continue to
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  Speaker 3: see Anthony Richardson's growth. We saw Gardner Minshew come in
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  Speaker 3: for a game and play well, But I do like
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  Speaker 3: the amount of time I'm told Gardner Minshew's spending with
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson day off, watching film, Shane Stike and everything
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  Speaker 3: around him. Do they continue to see him grow? Zach
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  Speaker 3: Moss has emerged in the run game, and could they
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  Speaker 3: get Jonathan Taylor back as they've massaged this whole situation.
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  Speaker 3: What is that backfield with Zach Moss and Jonathan Taylor?
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  Speaker 3: If he comes back healthy as a one two punch,
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  Speaker 3: that could be one of the best backfields in football.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, But let's not forget where the Colts
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  Speaker 1: also are winning their games. That's on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. They're playing excellent up front guys like
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  Speaker 1: the Forest Buckner. Could he pay right the high draftic.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got three, if not.
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  Speaker 2: Four sacks already.
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  Speaker 1: He is playing exceptionally well, and a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on in the show, ar Gar Brian Baldinger is going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about another.
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  Speaker 2: One of their defensive players who he loves.
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  Speaker 1: But coming up next, we've got Stacy Daills, we have
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  Speaker 1: got Campbell, and we have got Jane Slater to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them games, some of the biggest games coming
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  Speaker 2: up in week four. We're often running at the NFL Report.
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  Speaker 4: We're just getting started. I am so proud of everyone.
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  Speaker 4: I want you guys to enjoy it, but keep it
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  Speaker 4: in perspective.
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  Speaker 2: It is a third win.
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  Speaker 4: We care about our standard and our standard open.
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  Speaker 5: We got to keep me going.
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  Speaker 3: Who welcome back to the NFL Report. We're just getting
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  Speaker 3: started with a seventy burger. It's just the beginning. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be Bills Dolphins in Buffalo, and I'm very
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  Speaker 3: envious Steve of Stacey Dale's mostly all the time, but
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  Speaker 3: she's gonna be the one that's gonna be at this game.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm very envious of her again once on this Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: But Cam, I'm gonna start with you though, because you
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  Speaker 3: hit us up with a text this week and we're like,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, this locker room, I've been talking to guys
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  Speaker 3: in here, and they have not enjoyed what's going on
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  Speaker 3: against the Buffalo Bills of late in these matchups. What's
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  Speaker 3: going on down there in Miami.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, James and Dolphins have been the darlings of the
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  Speaker 6: NFL the first three weeks after you put up seventy.
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  Speaker 6: It's usually that way. But they're facing their big boss.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if you play video games, there's the big
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  Speaker 6: boss at the end of the hill, and it's the
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  Speaker 6: Bills for them. Right they haven't won in Buffalo since
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  Speaker 6: twenty sixteen. They're nine to two against two to nine
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  Speaker 6: against Josh Allen and their time there and talking to
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  Speaker 6: some of the guys, it's like, man, we gotta beat
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  Speaker 6: these guys.
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  Speaker 7: We have to, we have to.
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  Speaker 6: It feels like the final checkpoint for them to show
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  Speaker 6: that they're actually legit, because remember they started three to
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  Speaker 6: oher last year and then fizzled off, and so this
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  Speaker 6: definitely feels like a checkpoint. Guys were mentioning the last
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  Speaker 6: time they were in Buffalo, they remember getting hit with
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  Speaker 6: snowballs in that playoff game from fans.
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  Speaker 5: From behind them.
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  Speaker 6: It won't be snowing this week, but it's become a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of a feisty rivalry. Christian Wilkins likes to
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  Speaker 6: get into it with the Bills, hawfinsive lineman and Josh
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  Speaker 6: Allen and Mike McDaniel had a great line this week
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  Speaker 6: when he said, if you can't get motivated for a
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  Speaker 6: game like this, you need to check your pulse or
• 12:57
  Speaker 6: get into another career.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey, James, didn't you just have.
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  Speaker 8: Popcorn with Baldy on the last segment It's back baby?
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  Speaker 7: Have you tried.
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  Speaker 8: Tried some air delicious goodness skinny pops?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 8: What eighty calories?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Eighty calories? That's right? Watching my figure?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well I loved everything Cam just said. My point
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  Speaker 8: is is I'm going to take some chips or I'm
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  Speaker 8: going to get some popcorn because this is going to
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  Speaker 8: be an incredible football game on Sunday at high Mark Stadium.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you better bring the popcorn because are we
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  Speaker 8: going to get a shootout or are we going to
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  Speaker 8: get a defensive juggernaut in.
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  Speaker 3: This football game?
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  Speaker 8: But what you know, as I've I have to say
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  Speaker 8: maybe mb Cam because he gets to cover this Miami
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  Speaker 8: team every single week.
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  Speaker 7: They are just an absolute joy to cover. I was
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  Speaker 7: on the phone with a couple of players.
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  Speaker 8: Yesterday, and I think it all starts with, you know,
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  Speaker 8: not just from the.
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  Speaker 7: Top down, but really Mike McDaniel and how special he is.
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  Speaker 8: And you know, I spoke one of the players yesterday
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  Speaker 8: with alec Ingold, who's a full back and he does
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  Speaker 8: such a fantastic job and the really all facets for
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  Speaker 8: this team, I asked, and what is it about Mike
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  Speaker 8: McDaniel that's so special? And what was really interesting about
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  Speaker 8: his response? It wasn't he didn't start with the x's
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  Speaker 8: and o's, and he didn't start with the brilliance and
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  Speaker 8: the mad scientist that Mike McDaniel is. He said that
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  Speaker 8: Mike empowers human beings and he empowers them to be
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  Speaker 8: the best version of themselves. Every single conversation that Mike
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  Speaker 8: has with his players, alec Ingold told me, is so
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  Speaker 8: intentional and from the moment that you walk into that
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  Speaker 8: facility and get ready for really the entire game plan
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  Speaker 8: on Wednesday, he has everything covered. He has every dimension covered,
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  Speaker 8: and then by the time.
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  Speaker 7: You get to game day.
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  Speaker 8: I thought it was really cool, he said, we are
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  Speaker 8: so prepared and Mike is just so relaxed on game day.
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  Speaker 7: That was really unique.
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: To me because when we watch him coach on Sundays,
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: he has that real and caim you could speak to
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: this that real calmness about him that I think is
• 14:59
  Speaker 8: really infiltrated Tua. And one of the reasons Tua has
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: played with such poise and really that operation has been fantastic.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: Yes, Stacy, he brings confidence to the group. They really
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: embody him because I remember when he got hired, a
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: lot of questions whereas can this guy lead? He leads
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: his way, his team flows their way. If you just
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: watch Tua on the podium over the last twelve months,
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: you see a complete different energy about him. We were
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: just joking with him yesterday about him throwing the ball
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: righty and lefty and he just, you know, just kind
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: of just laughs and completely is himself popping into interviews
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: in the locker room. These are elements that we didn't
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: see in the first two years of his career. And
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: that's a direct derivative of Mike McDaniel. And what's so
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: intriguing is you see his scheme. We know him because
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: of his humor, but we see a scheme really taking
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: over this year. Frank Smith, the offensive coordinator, was talking
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: today and said that he's had high school coaches texts
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: him this week trying to figure out their motion. What
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: can we do to copy your exit motion? With the
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: running backs, with Tyre Kill, all these elements, and so
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: he's connecting with the players, as you mentioned, Stacy, with
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: his energy, with this personality, with this with this realness.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: But he's also revolutionizing how they go about this league,
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: as Sean McDermott said this week, with the way they
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: use motion.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Stacey, you know, I want to get to you real
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: quick because I want to get to the Buffalo side,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: because we know the Bills have the number two offense
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: in the NFL behind the Dolphins. But you said, the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen conversation is he's learning to take the checkdown.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: That's something that's really kind of helped him, especially after
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Week one.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: How could that.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Come into play against an offense where a quarterback really
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: knows the importance of the checkdown.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I think after we witnessed Josh throw a
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: multitude of interceptions to start off the season. You know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: I had the Buffalo Bills a couple of weeks ago
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: against the Raiders, and one of the conversations I had
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: with an executive is was essentially, you know, take what
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: the defense gives you, don't get bored doing that.
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: Josh Allen is such a talent.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: I was on the phone with another executive this morning
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: that is not related to this game, and we were
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: just talking about quarterbacks and Josh Allen is just such
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: a rare talent and he's so massively gifted, not only
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: in terms of his physical stature and his size, but
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: his ability to rock at the football. And with that
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: being said, he gets a little bored sometimes, as it
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: was explained to me, and just taking what the defense
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: gives you.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: He's going to have to do this. You know, Vic
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Fangio has.
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: Already had an impact, as Cam is well aware, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: you guys are well aware. In Miami, the players have
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: bought into it. The players are you know, I've been
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: quite impressed with this Miami defense thus far this season.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: And you know it will be a tall order though
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: to go into Buffalo, because we know that Josh can
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: put up points. But I'll finish with this. This is
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: the storyline. Is this offense against Sean McDermott. As he
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: has said, I'm continuing to knock the rust off as
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: the defensive play caller this year because we know Leslie
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: Frick Fridge is not there, and as he continues to
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: do that, he is the number one takeaway defense in football,
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: number two total, number two scoring defense. This is a
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: really good unit, and I think the storylines are just
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: jumping off the page in every dimension for this game.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: I love, if I can go.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: In here briefly, I love what Stacy said about Josh
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: facing this defense because the big difference with Big Vangio
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: is they take away that big play. Javon Hollanders safety's
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: played incredible ball in the back end, but the Dolphins
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: score a lot of points. And so what you said
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: about Josh Allen wanting to take the check down, I
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: wonder if there's going to be moments in the game
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: where Josh looks over to the other sideline. It's like
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: I might have to make a play. I might have
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: to go into my superman Josh Allen mode to be
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: able to keep up with this offense and how they
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: balance that. That's why this game is going to be
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: so fun to watch. I'm definitely enviously you, Stacy.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: We are all envious of Stagy that list. The Chiefs
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: do that to teams over the last couple of years
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: a bunch. So yeah, that's something that you've seen in
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: effect opposing offenses for sure. Thanks Stace, Thanks Cam. Appreciate it, guys.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: But let's jump to Week five. I've right now, guys,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: because listen to this Week five as a monster international
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: matchup that can only be watched exclusively on NFL Plus.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: It's the Bills, It's the Jaguars at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: in London. It's a dynamite venue. October eighth at nine
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: thirty am Eastern. You want to watch that game, sign
• 19:18
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• 19:21
  Speaker 9: Y'all put us on top of the world.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: We knew, we know who we are.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: And in that same sense, I'm sure the media got
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: got what they wanted for us. That hadn't been but
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: one undefeated team in this league ever ever, So uh yeah,
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: it sucks. It's humbling, but to say it's a wake
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: up call. We knew we had a lot of adversity
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: and we just just didn't get it done. And I
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: think it just goes back to myself, the offense and
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: the red zone. So I mean, we get better at there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: We win this game, but we've got to fix that
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: area period.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Those Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott after the team upset loss
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to Arizona last week.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: And now let's bring in our Jane Slater.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: To see if she can answer some of the questions,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: especially something that Dak brought up there with that stage.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks it, Jane, red zone offense that.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Has been an issue when last year, the last couple
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: of years it has not been what is the deal
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and how can they fix it?
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: Jane Well, I would argue maybe try somebody else there
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: inside the twenty than Jake Ferguson. I find it interesting
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: that he is seeing more targets than Brandon Cooks, Tony Pollard,
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: and Ceedee Lamb combined. Why you were talking about last year,
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: through three games, they were four for six in terms
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: of scoring touchdowns inside the twenty. This year they're six
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: for fifteen, So they've got to figure out something now.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: I think what's hurting them right now, honestly, guys is
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: losing their offensive lineman. Last week, we were told Tyron
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: Smith was dressed out, he was even named a team captain.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: He was active. Ultimately when he went through warm ups
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: he wasn't ready to go.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: You were also missing Zach Martin and your son Tyler
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: be honis you remember last year some of the issues
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: for Dak Prescott, and I'm not talking about just inside
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: the rud zone.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: I'm talking about period at the line of scrimmage.
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: He was doing too much. In other words, he was
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: calling out some of the protections. They want to take
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: that off of his plate.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: I asked Dak Martin today, could that have been an
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: issue the last.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Couple of weeks. His defense of that was no. He
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: seems to think the offensive line did a pretty good job.
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: He also pointed out, Hey, they work with these these substitutions,
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: these younger guys a lot in camp. We saw them
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: rotating the guys out quite a bit during OTA's And
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: it was even Mike McCarthy today who said they spend
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: a particular amount of time during the week Mondays and
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: even solid up there on the board today. They have
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: the young guns meetings, so there are cognizant of Hey,
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: in the past, injuries have slipped us up. Let's not
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: let injuries slip up up slip us up this year.
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: I'm just wondering what's going on with this offense as
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: a whole. I did reach out to someone inside the building, Steve,
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: because I know you and I will talk about things offline,
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: and one of my questions was, is what's this offense
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: being a little too conservative with dak In other words,
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: have they overcorrected to mitigate some of.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Those interceptions last year.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: I don't know the answer to that, but it does
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: seem like one of my buddies here, Patrick Walker, did
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: this great article talking about middle of the field shots,
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: deep shots down the middle, they don't exist this year.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: I found that very very interesting and I want to
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: know why. So I'll see if I can't get the
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: answer to that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Jane, I want to ask you about Tony Pollard real quick.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Just you know that that end part of the red zone,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the short red zone, has been an issue for the Cowboys.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: They're getting inside the ten that was Zeke's domain for
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: a long time. What's the look of Tony Pollard in
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: the run game, maybe in the red zone or other aspects.
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: Look, I think Tony Pollard's actually done a really nice
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: job here this year. And you know, we can make
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: the case about Ezekiel Elliott and whether this team would
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: have been better to have him or not have him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: Yesterday he told me there were minimal discussions about him
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: even returning. So inside this building, the wisdom was price
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: tag and it just didn't make sense. Now, their hope
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: was obviously that they would not get the same back
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: of Ezekiel Elliott with Tony Pollard. Their hope was sort
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: of running back by committee. We've seen them do that
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: around here before. Remember when they did that with the
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: wide receivers. It didn't work, So I think they're still
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: trying to figure this thing out. What worries me a
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: little bit for Tony Pollard though, is it's feeling a
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: little bit like DeMarco Murray's final years here where they're
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: running him into the ground. I mean, through the first
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: three games, he's got more touches than we saw from
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: him all of last year. So I want to know
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: how sustainable that's going to be. Are they going to
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: start working in their full back hunter Lepki. Are they
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: going to start seeing more of Rico Dwell what we
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: see more of Douce Vaughn. So I think they're still
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: filling out some of their personnel. As it relates to
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: Mike McCarthy's new offense.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I like that the overworth the comparison to DeMarco Murray. Hey,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: while we're on running back chain, let's slip down to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: New Orleans real quick. Alvin Kamara is coming back from
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: his three game suspension. We know they're not going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: have Derek Carr, so it's gonna seem like Alvin's going
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to solve all their problems because they're going to have
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to have a short passing game and the running.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Game with Jameis Winston at quarterback.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him finally getting back
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: on the field after that three game suspension.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: Well, getting Alvin Kamara back is huge. He's you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: he is such a difference maker. He's such a game changer.
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: I think I was there a couple what was it
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: this six touchdown game against Minnesota a couple of years ago,
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: back in December. I was there for that one, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: obviously sitting that guy out for three games, he's ready
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: to play. The only thing that I'm curious about, guys,
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: and I'm gonna throw this one back to you, is
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: why not utilize Taysom Hill as a quarterback? Why are
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: we moving away from that when we saw it points
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: that worked and that's not a shot at Jamis Winston.
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: In fact, Jamis Winston typically plays up when it comes
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: to playing against the.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Tampa Bay Bucks.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: But I just don't understand why they're not considering at
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: least the use of I understand not moving him out
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: of the tight end position altogether, but why aren't they
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: utilizing him a little bit more in this offense, particularly
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: when things haven't really changed since Sean left. I mean,
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: this is still a Pete Carmichael offense. I can't make
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: sense of it. What are your thoughts on that?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: My thought real quick, jab, since we're close on time.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: They've tried it with Taysen before and over the long haul.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: It hasn't worked. It has worked in spots that That's
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: pretty much all I could think of it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I'd see more snaps though, for sure, I'd see more
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: snaps I think so normally see when Derek was in there. Yeah.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: The bigger question that Jane answered to me on the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: phone before we talked about is Alvin Kamara corrected the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: pronunciation of his name, Jane pronounce it correctly for the people.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: Well, he says, his mom says Kamara, but he goes
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: by Kamara is what he will tell his friends. So
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: he says, you can say Kamara or Camara. I know
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: here on the NFL network, I've said it different ways.
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: I don't know all of you guys have said it
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: different ways.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: So there you go. Either way works.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: All right day, Thank you so much, And coming up
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: next on the NFL Report, we're throwing up the t
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: with Niner safety talanoa Whofonga Aka Hoff Next on the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: NFL Report.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the NFL Report, James Pummer, Steve Whitch
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: with you and Steve. They did it last year. Best
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: defense in football to San Francisco forty nine ers and
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: three games in right where they left off a season ago,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: a top five defense and pretty much everything. The only
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: team to not allow a completion of over twenty air
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: yards this season. This defense is firing all cylinders, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: that pass defense not giving up deep throws. We need
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: some info on tonight.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: We're about to get that info because we're getting ready
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to bring in a key member of that secondary, all
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: very safety Talana Hufanga Huff. Thanks so much for joining
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: us here on the NFL Report.
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: Thank you guys, someone for having you said.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Hey man, you're off the great start the season. Two picks,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: both on tipped passes. Though you're like the king of
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the tip pass. I NT bro, Like, what exactly is
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it where you're always in position to be the recipient
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of the tip drill?
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: Honestly, all glory to God, but first and foremost we
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: practice it each each day. We got tip tip drills,
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: turnover circuit and for me just to go through those
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: jails and kind of just practice what they preach and everything.
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: So when it happens in the game, you gotta be
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: ready for it. And Fred has blessed me with two
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: of them. So all shouts out, shout outs Bred helping
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: me out.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Steve called you Hof. Can I call you Huff? Are
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: we close enough to do that?
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: Of course?
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, perfect? Perfect. Let me ask you, I mean, this
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: is your second year as a starter, now, so what
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: have you what did you do this offseason to take
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: another step? Because did you have success in the first
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: year as a start, So what did you do to think,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: all right, I need to go, I need this much
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: further in my game? What aspect did you look into?
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: Well, honestly, I think you can involve your whole game truthfully,
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: your weaknesses, your strengths. Is always wanting to be the
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: best at all of it. Continue to grow. I think
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: for me my vision, especially having a new coach that
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: really preaches the vision aspect of it and Coach Wilkes
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: allows me to be more of a leader in the
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: back end and be able to see more and communicate.
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: So when you involve your whole game, I think that's
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: what helps everybody elevate their game to around you. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: just being a guy that can they can lean on,
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: and guys that can help other guys be put in
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: place to make plays.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Tell them if you can expand on that, because Steve
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Wilkes is your new defensive coordinator and you and you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: just said he said the vision aspect of that is important.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: What is Steve done and what exactly do you mean
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: when you say expanding the vision aspect of playing that position?
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: Well, I think one of one of the greatest comments
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: that he always says is, you know, the formation is
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: talking to you. You know, understanding what you see is
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: what you're probably gonna get, allowing you to play faster,
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: seeing what you're going to see before the snap pat
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: snap counts starts, so allowing yourself to put other guys
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: in position too. So I think he allowed the safeties
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: to be a little bit more free in the back,
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: making the vision kind of more allowing us to play
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: what we do and make the plays that we can,
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: but helping other guys be put in place too. So
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: it's a lot of just interest the season of the formation,
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: but it's been really good for us for sure.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Don't know.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I'm curious, you know, from just watching your games, it
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: seems like there is a chip on this entire team shoulder,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: both sides of the ball. I feel like I see
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: it in the play calling that Kyle has and the
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: way he goes after certain players, what's said in your
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: locker room postgame, and it seems like this revolves around you.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Guys know how good you were last year and it
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: didn't finish for a variety of reasons. Obviously we know
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: a couple of them the way you wanted it to.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Is that chip legitimate? Like is that talked about in
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the locker room? Because it seems like a more motivated
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: team maybe than anybody else in football right now.
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, honestly, I think everybody in the league
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: should have a chip on the shoulder. I think that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: just what the game comes with, you know, every day,
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: even any given Sunday, anybody can get beat and so
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: for us, it's allowing us to have that chip on
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: our shoulder going there with the mindset that we want
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: to win. We want to allow ourselves to be in midseason,
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: midseason shape that we had last year. We kind of
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: wanted to start that off a little bit sooner this
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: year because you know, some of the early on losses
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: last year kind of put us in a tough spot
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: towards the end. But for us, just allowing ourselves to
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: get going, that's kind of where we're trying to get
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Tell No, we know this roster is loaded, and this
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: is crazy because, like I mentioned, you were first team
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Pro Bowler last year, first team All Pro, and when
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: people talk about the talent on your defense, they tend
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to go Bosa, Armstead.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Hardgrave, Warner green Law. It's like, what about talent?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: No, he's a pro bowler and he doesn't as you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: can mention in the top five.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: What about that?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And just what about the overall abundance of talent that
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you guys have.
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: Honestly, if they didn't have to mention my name at
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: all and guys got all the credit, I'm all for it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: I think you're allowing yourself to get those those guys
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: up front do what they do. It helps our job
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: in the back end. So as a safety in corners,
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: you know, we try to help out in any way
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: we can to give them extra time just to get
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: back there and get a sack. But those guys up front,
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: you know, they lead the way. A guy like Freddy
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: commands the defense. He's the leader on our on our
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: defense and allows us to play free too, So you
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: know that run game is really set the tone from
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: them and then allows us the pass game. We can
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: give hi an extra extra second so they can get home.
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: We'll do it anytime, all right.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Steve mentioned all the talent on the defensive side. Then
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: let's go to the offense, and we got Christian McCaffrey,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: and we got George Kittle, and we got thebo and
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: we got up and we got the list goes on
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: and on. Best all around athlete on the San Francisco
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: forty nine ers.
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: Man probably coach Kyle what jokingly, I don't know, Kyle.
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: He he puts those guys in the spots. You know,
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: I think this was a was a tough conversation, is
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: who would you build your team around? If you had
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: one player to play all eleven spots. And so when
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: when you think about it, a guy like George, when
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: a guy like George Kittle that can can do the
• 31:56
  Speaker 11: pass protection, you can run the ball, can block and catch.
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: I don't know if he can throw, but maybe a
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: guy like Kid or I'd probably say he's probably up there.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So okay, that's a good answer, man, because normally, you
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: know Toner, you know, guys are like Okay, who could
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: basically go out in a basketball court and dunk and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: light guys up.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: But I love the way, yes that you spun that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of your offense, first three games, thirty points,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: thirty points, thirty points?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: What's the deal?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And are you anticipating thirty against the Cardinals this weekend?
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: Oh? Man, honestly, I'm just hoping for a win. So
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: regardless of what it looks like, you know, we're just
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: gonna preach. Want to know, this week thirty would be cool,
• 32:36
  Speaker 11: maybe a little bit more than thirty, But I really
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: don't know. It's crazy that it happened three weeks in
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: a row, though, I'll tell you that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to stick with the offense because I
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: went a safety's perspective on your quarterback in brock Purty,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: this is maybe the only show that says he's playing
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: he deserves the respect. Now with as much as he's
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: played that he should be in the conversation with a
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: lot of these other quarterbacks. What does Brown Party do
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: that that makes him a very good quarterback? Because I
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: think everybody just says right telling like the weapons he has,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: it's easy. No, what does he do as a quarterback
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: that impresses you as a safety?
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah? Well, I think first and foremost is his prep.
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: I think, you know, I'm a guy that I'm two
• 33:16
  Speaker 11: lockers down from him, so I see what he does
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: on a daily basis in terms of his prep. Guy
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: that shows up each and every day. And I think
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: he commands the huddle. You know, anybody can be plugged
• 33:26
  Speaker 11: into a system and have a bunch of weapons, but
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: it's how can you command the guys, earn the respect,
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: and on top of that, I perform when needed to.
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: And a guy like him, he's showing that each and
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: every week last year and so far this year, so
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: obviously that he's the top quarterback in this league. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: for me just get to go against him ups our game.
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: The competition, So from that say, safety perspective, very blessed
• 33:49
  Speaker 11: just to go against him, for sure.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Got to ask you about your cousin and fellow USC
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Trojan tu Lee too.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is balling right now. Man two sacks, nine tackles.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: He seems to be living in opposing backfield. What about
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: his start? And could you foresee him kicking off the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: sheets the way he has.
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: You know, I'm very close to him, my little cousin
• 34:11
  Speaker 11: and honestly his older brother as well. He was my roommate.
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: He plays for Philadelphia. He got a sacked this last
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: Monday night as well. So just very proud of them.
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: You know, we trained together and these guys are just
• 34:23
  Speaker 11: they got motors and they're doing what they're supposed to
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: do and we're allowing it. We're throwing the t's up everywhere,
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: and so very very blessed just to be a part
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: of a special group like that with my cousins. For sure.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Every time I turn on the screen, i feel like
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing one of the like the team from somewhere,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: you know, whether it's at the college, jovel or the pros.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: It's pretty awesome toime to take over finish it with
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: this USC see you. I'm sitting here in Denver right now.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: What are we going to see in Boulder? A couple
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: of really talented quarterbacks going at it?
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah, hopefully we see a USC win. You know, obviously
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: I've got a pool for my team where I went
• 35:00
  Speaker 11: to college. But for sure, very very excited to watch
• 35:03
  Speaker 11: coach Prondo. You know, I've been following it so far
• 35:06
  Speaker 11: and it's really cool to see the way he changed
• 35:08
  Speaker 11: the program over there in the mindset. Obviously it's gonna
• 35:11
  Speaker 11: be a class Obviously, I would love for it to
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: be a blowout, but I know Coach Prime is now
• 35:16
  Speaker 11: on things up and turning the tables over there. For sure.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Tal No, you're not gonna give the Prime and he
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: bulletin board material because you know, you know he takes
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: everything personal.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: But look, man, we can't thank you.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Enough for joining us because you know, you're such a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: special player.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: I know you you're a special dude.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Man, do a lot of things to make people lives better.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: So again, really appreciate you taking the time.
• 35:36
  Speaker 12: Man.
• 35:37
  Speaker 11: I appreciate you. Guys, Thank you so much.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Following up next, Bryan Baldinger, Yeah, you know, the king
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of the breakdowns, he's going to break down some offensive
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and defensive rookies. You're watching Jalen Carter or the Eagles
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: because he has been a grown man up.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Next on the end, Fell.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Report are back at the NFL Report and we are
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: now joined by Brian Balden.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Well not yet because JP is eating popcorn, because again
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: he's always watching Baldi's.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Watching bald these films.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: So we just had the interview with Talaa Hufanga in
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. You and I MC the Polian Football Hall
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: of Fame and Trium at ceremony where your dear friend
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Vai Sikahema, one of the first Tonguan players to ever
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: play in the NFL.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I wasn't trined in the policies and football Hall of Fame.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: That's right, Jp for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Saint
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals. But Baldi, Talanoa Hufanga, Tui Poluto and then
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: his brother Marlin are all coming off big, big games
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and breaking down the film.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: And let's start with Talanoa.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Of these three Tonguan just terrors on the field on
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: What have you seen from these guys?
• 37:03
  Speaker 12: Well, I mean playmaking, playmaking ability by all of them.
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: You know, when you look at talanoa like he can
• 37:12
  Speaker 12: be your deep free safety and get those tape tipball
• 37:15
  Speaker 12: interceptions that you asked about James. He could be in
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: the box playing right next to Fred Warner and Dre
• 37:21
  Speaker 12: and be in the backfield at the snap okay, and
• 37:24
  Speaker 12: making a tackle for loss. He could be on the
• 37:26
  Speaker 12: blitz off the edge. You can really just about you
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: can line them up and have him cover the tight end.
• 37:32
  Speaker 12: Like he's just all over the place and he just
• 37:35
  Speaker 12: has instincts for the game, real instincts. And then he
• 37:39
  Speaker 12: just has this ability to crash your party, you know.
• 37:42
  Speaker 12: So that's that's Toalinoa. Now, if you look at Touley,
• 37:46
  Speaker 12: like I did the Minnesota Charger game last weekend at
• 37:49
  Speaker 12: us Banks h Stand hum up in Minneapolis, he was
• 37:52
  Speaker 12: the best defensive player on the field, Like he had
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: seven pressures. If you look at the sack by Bosa,
• 37:58
  Speaker 12: the sack by Morgan Fox, the guy that got there
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: first was Tooley, Like he won his one on one
• 38:04
  Speaker 12: and then Kirk Cousins, you know, scrambled out of the
• 38:06
  Speaker 12: way and here comes Bosa. And the thing that I
• 38:08
  Speaker 12: love about Tooley is Bosa gets to sack, but I
• 38:12
  Speaker 12: felt like Tooley was celebrating more than Bosa was. And
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: when Fox got to sacked, I felt like Tuley like
• 38:19
  Speaker 12: his celebrations were like big time. And then if you
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: look at Marlon, if you look at you know, just
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: the Eagles and their defensive tackle rotation right now with
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: Fletcher Cox, Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter and Marlin, I mean,
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: that's as deep and as strong a defensive tackle rotation
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: as there is in the NFL right now.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: They as good as anybody in the middle. And Marlin
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: is a big part of that.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Let's let's talk about another guy in the middle of
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: that defense, Baldy, because I think there's back to back
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: plays right that Jalen Carter had in their last game
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: that were just incredible. I think he gets the pressure
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: up the middle and then then he forces the fumble
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: on the very next play. What is Jalen Carter in
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: your eyes? When you look at the film jump out
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: you which aspect of his game so far has been
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the one that you most enjoyed.
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: He just moves bodies, James big bodies and maybe like
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: one or two guys at a time, physically. You know,
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: he broke you know, a blocking sled in Philadelphia this year.
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: It was a big deal, like nobody's ever seen a
• 39:16
  Speaker 12: blocking said it broke. But his his power is tenacious.
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: But then with that, I see a lot of rookies
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: come in and they just played power football. But this
• 39:27
  Speaker 12: guy actually knows how to rush the quarterback. He knows
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: how to get on the edge, he knows how to
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: like he punched the ball out right there. You know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 12: he caused the safety last week by just crushed the pocket.
• 39:39
  Speaker 12: He has almost inhuman power. But then he's also because
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: he's not quite the rookie that we expect, because he's
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: got past rush ability and his rise. In just three games,
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: he's already becoming one of the more dominant interior defensive
• 39:58
  Speaker 12: linemen in this league. After three games, I mean he's
• 40:01
  Speaker 12: grown already. And just the amount of snaps that he's taken.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, So we heard about two starting rookie you know,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: defensive players here, uh you know, Jalen and Tuley offense
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: side of the ball, And this is the guy you
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: break down all the time that you clearly love his emerges.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Dwan Jones the tackle for the Brown fascinating.
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: Well, it's interesting because you know, the the Browns played
• 40:23
  Speaker 12: four preseason games this year because they have the Hall
• 40:25
  Speaker 12: of Fame game. So Bill Callahan, the offensive line coach, said,
• 40:29
  Speaker 12: you know, let's get this kid ready. So he played
• 40:32
  Speaker 12: a ton of snaps and that in fact, a couple
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: of preseason games he took every snap. So I'm like, Okay,
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: who's this guy with the wingspan of a Pacific manta
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: that's playing out there?
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Because sometimes.
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: No, sometimes it's left hand is in Cleveland and his
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: right hands in Pittsburgh. Like it's the biggest wings band
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: you've ever seen. Right, So then you go, okay, all right,
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: he's got size.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: We get that. We saw that in Ohio State. We
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: saw that the combine.
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: We all did the measurements, right, But then you see him,
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: okay against Sam Hubbard, dominant against Sam Hubbard against Cincinnati,
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: went in there for Jack Conkline.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: He got hurt.
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: Unfortunately he's a right tackle. But you know, even against TJ. Watt,
• 41:13
  Speaker 12: he wasn't bad against TJ.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Watt.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, TJ just has a motor. He's just gonna
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: keep going and going and going. You got to get
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: used to that.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: But he was.
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: Outstanding last week. He looks entrenched to play the next
• 41:26
  Speaker 12: ten years at that position. And he's a big guy
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: that has good movement, good sets, and I think you
• 41:32
  Speaker 12: can count on to play consistent football right now.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Body. I did their last preseason game and I remember
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: talking to their coaching staff on the sideline and they
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: were like, something has clicked here at the end of
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: this preseason with Dwan Jones, and they thought it took
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: a minute, but they had loved it heading into the season.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: I love that breakdown. How about a wide receiver Jayden
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Reid sticking with these young guys from the Packers. What
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: have you seen with him so far? Because they haven't
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: had one of the receivers yet to play for them,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: and Christian and hasn't played.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: So you know, you look at you, look at you.
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: Just last week, you know, yeah, Jayden Reed, second round pick,
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: Dontavious Wicks, the fifth round pick out of Virginia, Lucas Musgrave.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: It's all rookies out there, but this Jayden.
• 42:12
  Speaker 12: Reed, now like he's slippery, he's fast, he plays inside,
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: he plays outside. He called a spray fade last week
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: and that big seventeen nothing comeback. You know that they
• 42:23
  Speaker 12: had against the Saints. He caught the big play on that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: He just looks like he knows how to run routes.
• 42:28
  Speaker 12: I know Jordan Loved trusts him like he keeps going
• 42:31
  Speaker 12: to him. And so he's second on the team right now,
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: next to Romeo Dobbs in receptions. He's got a couple
• 42:36
  Speaker 12: of touchdowns he's been he's just fluid. He's very fluid,
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: and he's very smooth. He runs good routes and he
• 42:44
  Speaker 12: can beat man coverage. Like you can't ask for anything
• 42:47
  Speaker 12: more from your second round pick, because for a long time,
• 42:50
  Speaker 12: Green Bay never got the rookie receivers on the field,
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: like you know, go back to you know, Davonte Adams
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: and way before that, Like those guys never made a contribution.
• 42:59
  Speaker 12: They just sat and watched and made mistakes. But this
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: kid's out there contributing right away right now.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Well, I love how each week, though, you really single
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: out this particular veteran for the Indianapolis Colts has been
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: in the league for a while, a wonderful human being,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: but he is really rounded into a stud linebacker that
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Zire Franklin.
• 43:19
  Speaker 12: Well you know he's from Philly, Steve, so you know
• 43:21
  Speaker 12: It's part of me is I'm you know, I'm a
• 43:22
  Speaker 12: little pat you know, James, right, I mean he's a
• 43:25
  Speaker 12: Philly kid, Yeah, I know.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 43:27
  Speaker 12: The thing about him is, you know you had you
• 43:29
  Speaker 12: had Shaq Leonard there and he was, you know, maybe
• 43:32
  Speaker 12: the best playmaking linebacker in.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: Football for a while. Then he had then he got hurt.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Bobby o'caoke was there.
• 43:38
  Speaker 12: He's got a big free agent contract, so last year
• 43:41
  Speaker 12: Shaq got hurt, Zier got a chance to start. The
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: kid has started not just twenty straight games in a
• 43:47
  Speaker 12: row now for the Colts, but he's played every snap
• 43:50
  Speaker 12: in twenty straight games. I don't know if another player
• 43:53
  Speaker 12: has played every snap for twenty straight plays twenty straight
• 43:57
  Speaker 12: games in his league. And then you watch him last
• 43:59
  Speaker 12: week and you watch, you know, him chase down Lamar
• 44:03
  Speaker 12: Jackson the open field and catch him like you don't
• 44:05
  Speaker 12: see that, Like when you see a number forty four
• 44:08
  Speaker 12: come out on one side of the field and there's
• 44:10
  Speaker 12: Lamar on the run and he gets caught by Zier Franklin.
• 44:14
  Speaker 12: You go, that catches your eye, that says, you know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 12: wait a second, maybe what I'm seeing he's more than
• 44:20
  Speaker 12: just a hoover vacuum cleaner, you know, cleaning up sack
• 44:24
  Speaker 12: tackles right here like he is all over the field,
• 44:29
  Speaker 12: and anybody that underestimates this Colts defense just isn't paying
• 44:34
  Speaker 12: attention because what they did to Baltimore now they look
• 44:37
  Speaker 12: they just reduced him to just you know, dnking and
• 44:40
  Speaker 12: dunking down the field. And Zaire is a big part
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: of that right now. He's he's really he's been fun
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: to watch. You're gonna get a breakdown from him probably
• 44:48
  Speaker 12: every week. He leaves the team and tackles every single week.
• 44:51
  Speaker 12: Number forty four for the Colts is the real deal.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Well, the JP's got the pop Warren I got, you know, no,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: it's my favorite segment of the week. I mean, this
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: is I've got to go get like some raisin uts
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: or something for tonight. Baldy, we don't have time to
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: talk about Max Prosby, but I'm sure he's gonna be
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: dominant again this week, so we're gonna talk about him
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: next Thursday.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: We appreciate the reach references from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. The
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: MAT's right comparisons.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: We'll see you next Thursday.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Baldie, And coming up, which teams might be on thin Ice.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is a segment you're not gonna want
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: to miss here on the NFL Report.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve White
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  Speaker 3: with you, Steve, how good is Baldy? Is this your
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  Speaker 3: favorite thing every Thursday that we.
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  Speaker 2: Have He's great. He's great.
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  Speaker 1: He's everybody's favorite thing. He's everybody's favorite, not just us
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  Speaker 1: in the media world. How about players listen to this
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  Speaker 1: from Javon Holland, the Dolphins safety, asked about being PFF's
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  Speaker 1: number one safety, he said, quote, really, only the one
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  Speaker 1: that's more important is what Baldi thinks. He's like the
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  Speaker 1: best analysts I've come across. If I'm in Baldy's breakdowns
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the week, then I know I
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  Speaker 1: did something that we don't do something right every Thursday. Here,
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  Speaker 1: we know we do something right every Thursday here, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: because we have Baldi on. Quick note before we get
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  Speaker 1: to the end of this, end of this segment and
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  Speaker 1: the end of this show, Steve.
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  Speaker 3: David Baktiari, the left tackle for the Packers, put on
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  Speaker 3: ir Ian Rappaport are NFL insider saying that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's four games at minimum. He also said, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see if he comes back this season. That could be
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  Speaker 3: a big blow to the Green Bay factors. And how
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  Speaker 3: about Steve. Some teams that are suffered some pretty passive
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  Speaker 3: blows early in this young season that we're in the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs a year ago, reeling early on here, Let's start
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  Speaker 3: with you and the Giants at one and two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, they play Seattle this week, and
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  Speaker 1: we know Seattle they're a tough team. If the Giants
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  Speaker 1: don't win this game, their next two games are at
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  Speaker 1: Miami and at Ball James.
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  Speaker 2: That means they'd be steering at one in.
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  Speaker 1: Five and based with Philadelphia and Dallas in the division,
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  Speaker 1: that means the Giants would almost have to be perfect
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to win at.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle and try to get some momentum going, otherwise they
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  Speaker 1: will not be going back to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough. I just feel like everything asks to me
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  Speaker 3: perfect for them to get wins, including their quarterback Daniel Jones.
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  Speaker 3: How about the Chargers, I'm gonna go with them. They're
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  Speaker 3: one and two facing the Raiders. I think Steve personally,
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  Speaker 3: this is a team as well as his offense has
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  Speaker 3: played can go on a run, and I think they
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  Speaker 3: have a bye week in a couple of weeks see
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  Speaker 3: where Derwin James is in terms of health wise. That
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  Speaker 3: gives them an early opportunity to figure out what they
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  Speaker 3: want to do without Mike Williams, who's been lost for
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  Speaker 3: the season. But I just think Justin Herbert's been too good.
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  Speaker 3: They can put up too many points that down the
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  Speaker 3: stretch if they just fix a few things with their defense,
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  Speaker 3: specifically in the secondary. What can j C. Jackson do
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  Speaker 3: for them? We'll see moving forward, but I think they
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  Speaker 3: have the ability to write the ship specifically because the
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  Speaker 3: division they're in as well, with the Raiders and the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos in there.
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  Speaker 1: That's the type of team that could go on a
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  Speaker 1: seven game win streak.
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  Speaker 2: So I am not that worried about the Chargers and James.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: They're one and two, right they were supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the AFC favorites coming in. They're playing over London against
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons this week. But I like the Jags
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  Speaker 1: because I think, like last year, remember they won five
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  Speaker 1: straight games to finish their season, then won a playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: They've got the potential to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is, and this is an intriguing one, after
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  Speaker 1: they play the Falcons in London, they have another game
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  Speaker 1: in London, right then they've opted not against the Bills,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, and then.
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  Speaker 2: They've opted not to take the buy. So they come
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  Speaker 2: back and they.
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  Speaker 1: Play the Colts at New Orleans and at Pittsburgh before
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  Speaker 1: they have a bye. So they have got to start
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  Speaker 1: winning this week otherwise, regardless of the type of run.
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  Speaker 2: They make, it is going to be an uphill climb.
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  Speaker 3: They just got to be better than the Trenches Steve
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  Speaker 3: on the offensive side of the ball, on the defensive
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  Speaker 3: side of all quarters Rush. I think one of the
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  Speaker 3: things is that they have been eating their clippings a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, at least that's what dub Peterson says. I'll
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  Speaker 3: finish this off with the Vikings at zero to three.
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  Speaker 3: You and I were talking offline. I think, actually I'm
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  Speaker 3: more confident in the Vikings, who are winless going against
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers this Sunday, than I am against you for
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  Speaker 3: the Giants. I think this team is talented. Obviously, you
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  Speaker 3: have a guy in Justin Jefferson that an entire game plan,
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  Speaker 3: his model to stopping him and he still gets roughly
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty yards a game. It's remarkable, but
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  Speaker 3: they won so many games by one score a year ago. Steve,
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing some highlights or low lights, as you like
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  Speaker 3: to call him, with some turnover issues. That's been a
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  Speaker 3: problem hanging on to the football for the Vikings. But
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  Speaker 3: I still think they're a good team. I actually have
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  Speaker 3: some confidence in them in a sense. I think that
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  Speaker 3: part kind of surprises myself a little bit. But at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, I do like what the Vikings have.
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  Speaker 1: DeBie, the Vikings better be Carolina. Caroline's had a tough
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  Speaker 1: time getting to the end zone. Plus they got Detroit
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  Speaker 1: and Miami next. Hey, j PB, you gotta get out here.
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  Speaker 1: In the NFL Report Week four, coming up, Dolphins Bills.
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  Speaker 2: That game is gonna be off the chain. Now.
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  Speaker 3: You can't say change a chance. The Chant of the
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  Speaker 3: Chance Steven.
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  Speaker 2: The Report on Monday. Listen to the podcast