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  Speaker 1: This is Denna Salent, head coach of the New Orleans Saints,
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  Speaker 1: and you're listening to the NFL Report. That's right, DA,
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  Speaker 1: this is the NFL Report, and I'm Steve Whites with
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  Speaker 1: my co pilot James Palmer and JP. Yeah, the NFL
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  Speaker 1: season is over, but now we are in draft season
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  Speaker 1: when college fans the NFL fans actually coalesce and believe
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  Speaker 1: in the same thing, and that's finding out which one
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  Speaker 1: of these college superstars or which these college superstars is
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  Speaker 1: going to make their team better. And to help us
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  Speaker 1: with that conversation today we have got Doug.
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  Speaker 2: Williams, one of the greatest ever do like personal athletic hero.
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  Speaker 1: We're also going to be joined by NFL Media's Greg
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  Speaker 1: Rosenthal and we're talking free agents, and boy is rosie
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  Speaker 1: packet a punch. But JP, let's talk about quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: teams that need them.
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  Speaker 3: It's the most important position in all of sports, Steve,
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  Speaker 3: If teams that have great ones or far above average
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  Speaker 3: ones are constantly competitive and consistently in the super Bowl conversation,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about eight teams that have varying Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl windows. Right now, those eight teams are not mentioned
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  Speaker 3: in this block because they have quarterbacks. We'd like to
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  Speaker 3: talk a different group of eight teams, teams that are
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  Speaker 3: desperate for a quarterback so they can get themselves into
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  Speaker 3: that other group. Let's take a look at where some
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  Speaker 3: of these teams stand. Here's where they're picking. You look
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  Speaker 3: at the Bears with the first pick, Commanders, two Patriots,
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  Speaker 3: three Giants, six Falcons, eight, Vikings eleven. Will break them
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  Speaker 3: down with the Kirk Cousins situation, Broncos twelve.
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  Speaker 4: Raiders, thirteen, Steelers twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you're looking towards the draft, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: we'll cover first, Daniel Jeremiah, our draft expert Steve has
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  Speaker 3: four going in the first round, that's quarterbacks, and four
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  Speaker 3: going in the first eight picks, six total in his
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  Speaker 3: top fifty prospects. So if we're looking at this group,
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  Speaker 3: not everybody is going to land a quarterback in the draft.
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  Speaker 3: Let's look at that first group of those teams picking
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  Speaker 3: maybe in the top three and then maybe include the
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  Speaker 3: Giants at six. What do you see happening with a
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  Speaker 3: couple of those teams.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, some of these teams are gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: get up.
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  Speaker 1: So we know the Chicago Bears have the first overall pick,
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  Speaker 1: and the rampant speculation is it's going to be Caleb Williams,
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback out of USC. So let's kind of move
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  Speaker 1: on from them, because I've said the Washington Commanders at two,
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  Speaker 1: this is where the draft actually starts.
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  Speaker 2: And do the Commanders maybe trade.
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  Speaker 1: Back a spot or two and still get their guy,
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  Speaker 1: be it Drake, may be it Jaden Daniels out of LSU,
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  Speaker 1: or do they sit there at two and not mess
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  Speaker 1: around and make sure they get the quarterback that they want. Fine,
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  Speaker 1: So now at three, the Patriots, they have to draft
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback. Let's not play around. I don't think anyone's
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  Speaker 1: moving off that pick. So let's say three of these
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks are gone. Now JP a team like the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: at eight. When we talk to Terry Fonte, though, I
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  Speaker 1: very much got from the general manager that they want
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  Speaker 1: to draft a quarterback. They're gonna have to leap frog
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  Speaker 1: the Giants at six to get up and get a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the real chess starts getting played. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where I think the gamesmanship and the aggressiveness in
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  Speaker 1: giving away draft picks comes into play big time, because
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get to in a minute. The veteran quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: out there on the market, including the trade value, just
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  Speaker 1: aren't what you want to build your team around.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: I love where the commanders sit because they're probably sitting
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  Speaker 3: with a mindset of who do we like more, Jayden
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  Speaker 3: Daniels or Drake May and a lot of evaluators. It's
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  Speaker 3: still very early and we'll be talking this over the
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  Speaker 3: next few months. The combine is not even here, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of evaluators I've already spoken to Steve have
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  Speaker 3: these two much closer than maybe people assume.
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  Speaker 4: And so who do you like best?
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  Speaker 3: I think that plays a big part of this who
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  Speaker 3: fits your scheme best? And I think the commanders are
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  Speaker 3: in a very good spot to pick either one of
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  Speaker 3: the two or if they don't force your.
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  Speaker 4: Hand at two.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other part of it, and you want to
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  Speaker 3: see who wants to come up. I think mentioning the
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  Speaker 3: Falcons coming up, I think is a very very poignant message.
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  Speaker 3: I think that is a team that maybe doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: look to go the veteran route. I know some people
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  Speaker 3: have tied justin fields. We'll go to him in a second,
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  Speaker 3: but it just gets the sense we had Terry Fottna
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  Speaker 3: on this show, Steve didn't. He just sound like we
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  Speaker 3: value draft picks. We value though building through the draft.
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  Speaker 3: In a young quarterback coming in, even if we have
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  Speaker 3: to move up for him, looks to be more something
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  Speaker 3: the Falcons would do. Remember, they have established, you could say,
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  Speaker 3: roster Steve on both sides of the ball, to where
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  Speaker 3: they could think they could give up a future first
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  Speaker 3: round pick to move up for mate. They have plenty
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  Speaker 3: of salary cap space, they could make that jump. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's one team you really have to keep an
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  Speaker 3: eye on moving up, as well as the Giants sitting
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  Speaker 3: at six because they don't have to go up as far.
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  Speaker 3: I find New England faascinating sitting there at three. I
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  Speaker 3: really do, just because of where they're going to stand
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  Speaker 3: with what I'm what we're saying with picks one and two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, and just real quick, you know
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at and the know the Vikings at eleven,
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos at twelve, and the Steelers at twenty. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be very hard for them to get up.
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  Speaker 1: That's a ton of freight JP. But one player who's
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  Speaker 1: connected to some of those teams. Not all of them, well,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them is justin Field. Let's hear what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say on the Brown Brothers podcast about
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  Speaker 1: his situation, in which he sounds like he knows he's
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  Speaker 1: gone from Chicago.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to stay in Chicago or what's up? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Of course, of course I want to stay, to be honest,
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  Speaker 6: but I'll be trying to, like, you know, with all
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  Speaker 6: the talk, it's hard to you know, I guess kind
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  Speaker 6: of just boom being one place, but I can't see
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  Speaker 6: myself playing in another place. But I know how that
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  Speaker 6: league is, Like he was probably the same way before
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  Speaker 6: you left Green Bay. But I mean, if it was
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  Speaker 6: up to me, I would want to stay in Chicago.
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  Speaker 6: I love the city, the city's lit, the fans they're
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  Speaker 6: you know, they're great, and the people. But it's a business.
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  Speaker 6: I an't got no control over it, so whatever happens happens.
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  Speaker 6: But I feel like the biggest thing with all this
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  Speaker 6: going on right now, I just wanted to be over, like,
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  Speaker 6: just let me know if I'm getting traded, let me
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  Speaker 6: know if I'm staying this and that.
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  Speaker 3: I think we all feel the same way, justin I
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  Speaker 3: think we all want to know if you're getting traded
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  Speaker 3: or not, because I do think this is kind of
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  Speaker 3: the lynchpin of this offseason right now, Steve, because there's
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  Speaker 3: so few veteran quarterbacks that could land a spot and
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  Speaker 3: if a team desperately wants them, which is something the
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  Speaker 3: Chicago Bears probably are banking on, to my understanding, they're
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  Speaker 3: evaluating all of this. They're going to go in g
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  Speaker 3: Indianapolis with a plan. Obviously not tell anybody that plan,
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  Speaker 3: but Ryan Poles is going to sit there and listen
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  Speaker 3: to every offer that is out there for justin fields
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  Speaker 3: and every offer that's out there for number one. What
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  Speaker 3: fascinates me most about field, Steve is we've seen flash
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  Speaker 3: of a really, really good quarterback. Go ask Sean Payton
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  Speaker 3: who he faced in the first half of their game
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  Speaker 3: against the Chicago Bears, and then look at who he
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  Speaker 3: faced in the second half.
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  Speaker 4: It was almost like two different guys. But what you
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  Speaker 4: would be doing is the guess is.
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  Speaker 3: Giving up a a second round pick or a third
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  Speaker 3: round pick for a quarterback that you could essentially have
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  Speaker 3: for the next two seasons with his fistier option for
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  Speaker 3: really a grand total of about twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Five million dollars. That's not a terrible spot to be in.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't love one of these quarterbacks at the
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  Speaker 3: top of the draft and don't have the ability to
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  Speaker 3: trade up for one of them, you could use a
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  Speaker 3: second or third round pick and get two years to
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  Speaker 3: evaluate Justin Fields. Is that accurate if you want to
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  Speaker 3: take a jump at him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say so.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the finance, the financial aspect of it is
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  Speaker 1: clearly a boom, especially because he's such a boom or
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  Speaker 1: bust type of roll of the dice. And at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, I look at some of the teams who
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  Speaker 1: were talking about the Falcons, their new coordinator Zach Robinson's
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  Speaker 1: coming from la Eric Goff and Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 2: That scheme does not fit Justin Fields. Right, you're looking.
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  Speaker 1: I told you we talked about Pittsburgh and Arthur Smith
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  Speaker 1: wanted no parts of him in the draft. Don't see
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  Speaker 1: him getting sweet on Justin Fields all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: the Bronco as you mentioned Sean Payton, accuracy is his
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  Speaker 1: number one thing in a quarterback that is not Justin
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  Speaker 1: Field's history. So once again, with the thirteenth overall pick,
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  Speaker 1: I like the Raiders making a trade for Justin Fields
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  Speaker 1: with one of their later round picks. They've got the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth pick to kind of add to maybe get him
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  Speaker 1: some more weapons. He said, Chicago is lit, Vegas is
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  Speaker 1: more lit, so that if he wants to be looking
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  Speaker 1: in at the environment, he can go that that fan
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  Speaker 1: base would love him.
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  Speaker 2: Let's also look at kurtk Couzins.
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  Speaker 3: Do you find it interesting though, Steve, that like you
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  Speaker 3: go and get Getzi out of Chicago and then you
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  Speaker 3: repair him with Justin Fields as quarterback?
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  Speaker 4: Is that kind of bizarre?
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  Speaker 2: We don't and we don't see that happen. But I mean, what.
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  Speaker 4: Else, that's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Where they gonna go, Okay, kirk Cousins, right, Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 1: is like that the Wilson Russell Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna give you what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: What they can do, Steve, what do you get They
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  Speaker 2: could go.
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  Speaker 3: After Kirk Cousins. They could go after Kirk Cousins. You
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  Speaker 3: know why they could? They could thank Jimmy Garoppolo for
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  Speaker 3: that because of his ped suspension. They are off the
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  Speaker 3: hook for a good chunk of money. It's about eleven
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  Speaker 3: point two five million off and then another eleven point
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  Speaker 3: two five million off because of what transpired with the suspension.
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  Speaker 3: We do know that Kirk Cousins could be somebody that
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  Speaker 3: could fit into what they do down there.
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  Speaker 4: DeVante Adams likes him a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Set it this offseason, say that he's a quarterback that
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  Speaker 3: can find you in the football no matter where you
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  Speaker 3: are in the field. This could be something if they
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  Speaker 3: believe they can compete right away, and I think Antonio
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  Speaker 3: Pierce does believe that they're one of the few teams
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  Speaker 3: that could compete right away, and I think that's why
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  Speaker 3: they could be one of the very few teams that
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  Speaker 3: could be interested in Kirk Cousins. The other part of
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  Speaker 3: it is, remember last year when the when the Las
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  Speaker 3: Vegas Raiders were looking to trade up maybe to one
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  Speaker 3: or two for a quarterback, didn't do it. What happens
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  Speaker 3: in Houston with CJ. Stroud at number two? Do they
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  Speaker 3: go we gotta go up and get somebody? What does
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  Speaker 3: Mark Davis say about that? I find the Cousins situation
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  Speaker 3: very interesting because it's him, it's Field Steve, and then
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  Speaker 3: he mentioned it's Baker Mayfield, and then that might be
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  Speaker 3: it for your veteran options before you get into Ryan
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  Speaker 3: Tannehill and say Gardner Minshew.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa and I love Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying that Russ is moving out of his
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  Speaker 1: thirty five million dollars manson to go slumming?
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  Speaker 2: He's going down here.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know what you do with the town Holmes with
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  Speaker 1: like Matt Jones and Ryan Tannehill, give me.
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  Speaker 3: The spot that will Land Russell Wilson and maybe I'll
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  Speaker 3: just tease it. We'll discuss that with Greg Rosenthal later
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  Speaker 3: in the show.
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  Speaker 4: Steve.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to our special guest though, in the next block. Steve,
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to our nestal guest in the next block
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  Speaker 3: and Doug Williams Super Bowl champion quarterback. Doug Williams, to
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  Speaker 3: be specific, and also right now is the senior advisor
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  Speaker 3: for President Jason Wright in Washington. We're gonna get his
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  Speaker 3: take on the HBCU Legacy Bowl that you're at right now, Steve,
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  Speaker 3: but we're also gonna get his take on the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: coming out in the straft.
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  Speaker 1: The best draft al duel players from historically black colleges
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  Speaker 1: and universities put on the pads one last time so
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  Speaker 1: they're worthy of getting drafted.
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  Speaker 2: The third annual.
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  Speaker 1: All State HBCU Legacy Bowl Saturday, four pm Eastern, exclusively
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  Speaker 1: on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus. Oh JP,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm down here Yomen Stadium at Tulane with
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  Speaker 1: all the greats, and we're joined by the greatest, my hero,
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  Speaker 1: my man, co founder of the Black College Football Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame, co founder of the HBCU Legacy Bowl, Doug Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Doug, appreciate you joining us.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks Thve for having me Man. I appreciate being on.
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  Speaker 2: So as I did that beautiful read right there.
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  Speaker 1: This is the third annual, you know, time we've done
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  Speaker 1: this down here with this HBCU Legacy Bawl. We saw
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  Speaker 1: last year, Doug, about fifteen guys from this game get
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  Speaker 1: at a minimum rookie camp tryouts.
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  Speaker 2: Several of them made rosters.
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  Speaker 1: We saw the dB Bolden out of Jackson State get
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  Speaker 1: drafted by the Patriots three years ago. You and James
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  Speaker 1: Shack Harris came up with the concept for this game.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you look at some of the success you
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  Speaker 1: had at getting players from historically black colleges and universities
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL, what can you say about the purpose
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  Speaker 1: and the success of what's happened here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know what I can say, from year one
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  Speaker 5: to where we are today, I feel pretty good about that,
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  Speaker 5: but still not satisfying. And I think this year crop
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  Speaker 5: of guys, you know, we got way more talent that
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  Speaker 5: showed up this year than we have had since we've
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  Speaker 5: been here. There's no doubt in my mind. You know,
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  Speaker 5: anywhere from five to six guys should be drafted. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I don't do the drafted, but I'm saying that should
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  Speaker 5: be and not only that, but should get many more
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  Speaker 5: get an opportunity to end up as free agent or
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  Speaker 5: get an opportunity in somebody's training camp that they can
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  Speaker 5: earn their right onto a team. And it makes me
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  Speaker 5: feel good. And James and how we talk about this
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  Speaker 5: all the time about opportunity, and what we're doing here
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  Speaker 5: is giving these guys an opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I love that, Doug, because we know.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorite things about the NFL is if
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  Speaker 3: you're talented, league, teams are going to try to go
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  Speaker 3: out there and find you, and you can find your
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  Speaker 3: way into the NFL in a variety of ways. Every
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  Speaker 3: team is down there, Every team in the NFL is
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  Speaker 3: represented down there. Looking at these players. What have you
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  Speaker 3: heard from that side of things about what you've built
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  Speaker 3: over the last three years in terms of the caliber
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  Speaker 3: of players that the league is making sure they go
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  Speaker 3: down there and take a decent look at I.
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  Speaker 5: Think what has happened This gals not a little freeboy
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  Speaker 5: by telling you about certain players. At first, they was
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  Speaker 5: kind of like everybody else. I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 5: think what they've seen from this combine and from these practices.
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  Speaker 5: You know they call our people name man and you
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  Speaker 5: know running back Howard he stood out like a soul thumb.
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  Speaker 2: We got Jarvin Howard from UH.
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  Speaker 5: From w he had August Petrice from Southern University, the
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  Speaker 5: guy that's in law school. And then you had the
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  Speaker 5: offensive lineman. A lot of people don't they don't get
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  Speaker 5: a lot of love sometimes, but that's one lineman here
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  Speaker 5: that that really jumped out at me. And that's that's
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  Speaker 5: him Hill from Texas Southern. And then you got the
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  Speaker 5: right the Owings from Texas Southern who had a great year.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he showed up. And you know we got Smith,
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  Speaker 5: the defensive back. He's an undersized guy, but we know
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  Speaker 5: he can run fast and tight end man. We got
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  Speaker 5: this tight end number fifteen. I'll tell you what. If
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  Speaker 5: he's not a pass catcher, he certainly should be somebody blocker.
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  Speaker 5: And he from Steve's school. Now, you know, we talked
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  Speaker 5: about the tight end from Steve's school, but if you
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  Speaker 5: watch him through the week, he has probably been one
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  Speaker 5: of the most consistent players on the field as for
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  Speaker 5: his running round and catching the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're talking about Brendan Brown, the tight end from
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  Speaker 1: Howard who's been excellent, and James. There's a tight end
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  Speaker 1: out of Arkansas Pine Bluff named Tristan Ballard.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, his body like this is one where an NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Team sees him and immediately is like, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: about anything. We got to get him into a camp
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  Speaker 1: just because he's he's listed at six five, two forty,
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  Speaker 1: but his body should be in the louver right it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't dropped the pass. He he looks very well coached.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he he's not a raw product. He looks
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  Speaker 1: pretty polic So it don't it'd be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: if he gets, you know, into a camp.
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  Speaker 5: Not only that, but but his body alone gets him
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  Speaker 5: into a camp. Because you look at a guy that
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  Speaker 5: plays tight end, you know there's something you got tight
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  Speaker 5: ends today, they can get running backs to the Eds.
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  Speaker 5: And then he's the guy that if you teach it right,
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  Speaker 5: he's a guy that can get you to the Eds.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I affirm to bleed that. And the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we can't take nothing away from these quarterbacks
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  Speaker 5: because Musa at times that looked real good. And Richard's man,
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  Speaker 5: he's just a guy that in today's game. But what
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  Speaker 5: Richard can do from a running standpoint, and he's not
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: a runner, but he can throw the football. But you know,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: if the rush come, he can get away. And that's
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: what you like in your quarterback today, because if you
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: can't get away from the rush today, you in trouble.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Right you're talking about Davis Richard. We're seeing right here.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: He's a two time MIACT Offensive Player of the Year,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: one of the best offensive players to come out of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: black college football in years. And you also mentioned Jeremy Moosha,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: he's SWACKED Offensive Player of the Year, the quarterback out
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: of Florida A and M who started his career at
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Hawaii also had to stop in Vanderbilt before he went
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: down there and lit it up for the rat and
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: so so We're looking a little bit at Moosha right now.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Doug Moosa is somebody you know you heard lear me
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: talk about he's got his third his third Division I program.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: But this week we see he's got the incredible arm talent,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: but the consistency is.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: The big question mark with him.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Is someone who evaluates quarterbacks When you look at someone
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: like him who can put the ball just anywhere, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: hasn't generated the consistency like that, What does that tell
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you is that somebody you want to give a look
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: on talent alone and you coach him up or.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Do you think I think as a coach you you
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: love then opportunity to work with him, because at the
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: end of the day, it's all about the middle part
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: of it. And you know, when you see a receiver,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: all of them not gonna be wide open. Somewhere along
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: the line. You got to be that guy to put
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: it where he can get open. And I think that's
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: the one thing that is hampering him is not letting
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the ball go when they even you know, that's the
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: old police saying, when they even they leave it, he
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: wants to see weight and all the time you're not
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: going to run with You got to give him a
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: chance to make make the play, and I think once
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: he gets the mind up to get the ball out
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: of his hand to look quicker than what he has,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: he'll be all right.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I gotta change gears here for a moment, though, because
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: your former team in Washington is in need of a
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: quarterback as well.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: We're sitting here breaking down current team.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Still your team, I mean former team as in you
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: used to be the quarterback. They're still employed by the team,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: still working there with Jason Wright and working there at
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the front office. I understand, but you used to play
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: that position.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: There in Washington. What what is you know?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: What is your thought on how quickly things with a
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: new regime there the number two pick cap space, there's
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: still talent on that roster on both sides. On how
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: quickly things can start to turn around in Washington.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I think I think we're gonna surprize the people. I
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: think we'd be a lot quicker than a lot of
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: people expect, you know, because of the cap space that
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: we do have, because of the draft capital that we
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: do have. You know, when you got five picks within
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: the first one hundred and you got what eighty some
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: million dollars cash space. We got something to work with.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: And I think the coaching staff that has been assimilate
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: by Dan Quinn and and Adam speaks volume of the
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: guys in there. You know, the building feels so much
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: different from because you got guys from from different places.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: It's not a bunch of guys from one place coming
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: in after leaving another place. You got guys from different
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: different culture, with different attitude, with different mentality, but they're
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: all it is working towards the same goal and that's
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: getting the commanders up to snuff. And I really think
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: that this year is gonna be a surprise year for
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: a lot of people and not gonna surprise us because
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: you know, talking to Dan, Dan is that type of guy.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: He knows what he wants and I think he'll get
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: it done.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned dan quincho.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Let's goin to keep on with that, because when they
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: had his introductory video, you're the first person he walked
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: up to with his hat on backwards.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: He said, Ah, Doug, what's up?
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Bro?
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: But you know, well, you know Dan is that dude, right,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: He is somebody. When you're around him for two minutes,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: you want to be around him for two years. How
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: do you know the cultureship that's going on there that
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is such an ideal fit.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Let me tell you that that morning that he walked
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: into the building, and what I did. I stood back,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: you know, because I know Dan, I'm you know over
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: the years, and I just stood back.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I think what happened when Dan walked in that building, man,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: you could just see the whole building change, the people
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: that was greeting him. And he looked over and said, oh, Doug,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: you know to me, that was that old thing for him.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: And you know the same time, you could feel the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: whole building kind of shaken a little bit because they
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: was glad to see him walk through that and it
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: hadn't been anything different than when he walked through the
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: first day than it is today because the whole building,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: the people that's in that building, they feel pretty good
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: because the way he come in with his infections attitude.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Everybody is somebody to Dan, and that's what makes the difference.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Nobody is above anybody, you know, everybody feel the same.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: And working with Adams, you know, it's just a different
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: feeling in that building today.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I love that, Doug.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I feel like every conversation I ever had with Q
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: in my life kind of just stays with me.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: It just has an impact in some sense.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: It just kind of just sticks with you because it's
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: so engaging and I've learned so much from him about
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the game just interacting with him, and I love that aspect.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Before we go, Doug, I do have to ask you this,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: being a quarterback, you've spent so much time for your
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: current team evaluating quarterbacks over the years.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: What have you learned in this process?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe just I don't know if it's overlapping, but just
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: certain traits you've seen over the years that just are
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: value to you when they translate into the league. Is
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: there anything that stands out with the number of guys
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: you've evaluated?
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know. My thing is I like a number one,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: a tough guy, you know, who don't mind standing there
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: getting getting the job done. But at the same time,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: you got to be smart enough to know when you
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: have to move, when to throw the ball away, not
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: to take a sack in times. You know, I look
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: at it now from the time I played, and I
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: know it's been a long time ago, but you watched
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: a lot of these quarterbacks they'll take a sack running
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: to throw it away. I'm a firm believer. Don't take
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: a sack because you put your team in a worse situation.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Now you know it was second down in ten, you
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: get sacked nine, third down and sixteen to me, throw
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: the ball away. But a lot of them, I think
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: is worried about their passing percentage and they they take
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: a sack. I don't know that that's hurting the team,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: but it's helping them from a percentage standpoint. And I've
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: seen a lot of that over the years, and I've
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: just been the whole school. That's the one thing that
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: rubs me the wrong way.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Interesting, very very chy.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I have never thought about that or hurt anyone say
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: something about that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Doug.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Doug, we can sit here and talk all day. We
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: know you got to get back down here at the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: field of two lane. We got another practice coming up.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: much what you've done with the Black College Football Hall
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of Fame and this All State HBCU Legacy Bowl. Creating
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: opportunity for folks to get until the NFL.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: That's what coach Rob always saying. All it takes is
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: an opportunity.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Well, there we go. Appreciate you, Doug.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Coming up next on the NFL Report, are some teams
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: window narrowing or some as wide open as the patio
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: living room Leni in front of James Palmer's house. We'll
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: find out more on the NFL Report when we come back.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: A touchdown wins the game play action fake?
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: What du City? Harden to hard?
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: What the catch? Kansas City?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: When's they g twenty five twenty two and the Chiefs
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Kingdom has started its own.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: History class for the first time. And six thousand, nine
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: hundred and.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Forty four days there is a back to back Super
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Bowl champion and it is the Kansas City Chiefs. Welcome
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: back to the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve Whites with you.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: If you're watching the show, Steve, you don't see it
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: very often. Ice Spice and then Andy Reid back to
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: back shots. You'll see that very often. But Bucky Brooks
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: had this on NFL dot Com and we wanted to
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: break it down a little bit for you. Here are
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: eight teams that he believes have the biggest Super Bowl windows.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Right now, Steve and I do not believe all of
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: these windows are of the same size, are of the
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: same quality. But let's start from the top and will
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: work our way all the way down. As the Kansas
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: City Chiefs have a window, Steve. It's one of those
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Florida ceiling type windows Hawaii, and they just kind of
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: fold into the wall entirely and the entire space is
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: now indoor outdoor living.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: That window is massive.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: They have pillars and Andy Reid, Steve Spagnolo, and Patrick Mahomes.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: They've learned to win in a new way this past year,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: which I think makes them even more dangerous because Mahomes
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: is developing different ways to beat you now. And I
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: do believe in their general manager, Brett Veach, is going
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: to be very aggressive in getting him another weapon this
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: offseason that helps them move forward in the world they'll
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: be living in after Travis Kelcey and I want to
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: sneak this in real quick. Harrison Bucker, one of the
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: best kickers in the game is there at Kansas City, Steve,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: and I think we saw this postseason how important that
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: is to consistent success in the postseason.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: The Chiefs have it all right now in the biggest window.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Which is why Yeah, I mean, I know, yeah, they
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you got the biggest window because of fifteen, right, I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: mean that window is not going anywhere. We've seen the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Chiefs reinvent themselves twice now as well. You lose Tyreek Hill,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you win with a revamped offense line with a Super
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Bowl there last, you're saying, Okay, we didn't need that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: explosive wide receiver to win. Then they reinvent themselves this
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: year as a defensive team. So you've got the best
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: player in the NFL and Patrick Mahomes. You've got an
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: organization that finds ways to rebuild itself, much like the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Patriots did during its dynasty, and like we've seen some
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: NBA teams do during their dynasties.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: LUs take it to the fact that that defense JD.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Is young as hell.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Almost all of the guys in the secondary are like
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: third to fifty year players or second to fifth year players.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: So they're going to be around for a while. And
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: we could sit there and talk about salary cap. Salary cap.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: They've already got the quarterback paid. They know how to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: divvy things up in a way where they can keep
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the nucleus of this team together for quite some time.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to another team Bucky listed that
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: is a Detroit Lions wide open. Another huge window. I mean,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: this is as big as Ford Field. This is a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: very young team. He's a very young head coach and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: general manager who have established a format on how to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: rebuild through the draft. Jared Goff has shown he's a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: fine quarterback. I mean, they don't have to do anything
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: at that position either. They get themselves a little bit
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: more help off the edge and on the interior defense
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to stop the run, little help of the secondary. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: mean I said three big things, but they're not major things.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I think Detroit is going to be a player for
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a quite some time JP.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Because I see some similarities outside of the quarterback, which
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Jared Goff is very good, and they can win a
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: lot of games and they can win a Super Bowl
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: with Jared Goff. I see the similarities in terms of
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: head coach and GM being lockstep in terms of how
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: you're building this. You mentioned the young defense, The Chiefs have.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: The young nucleus that this Detroit Lions team has might
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: be the best young core of players in all of football.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: From Jamior Gibbs, Sam Laporta, Aiden Hutchinson, Brian Brandon Branch,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: all of these Jack cong the list goes on and honestly,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: for how youthful and good this group is, and also
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: liked Kansas City Chiefs. We saw this past year. In
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: one season, we've seen the Lions win games in a
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: variety of ways. Steve and I think that's a big,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: big part of this. Next the Ravens, who I believe
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Steve was the best team in football during the regular
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: season this past year. And two things stand out to me.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Most Lamar Jackson won the MVP in his first year
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: in a new system. I think that's a pretty good
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: start to this window that they're in right now. The
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: second part is you and I have talked about this.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think there's another team in football to where
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: they lose players within the season and you're thinking they're
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: key players, and they find ways to continuously keep winning.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: It's because the roster's so well built. It's because they're
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: so deep, and the coaching staff is so good, and they.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Lose coaches every year, they lose front office guys every year,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and they're still because of the institutional stability that they
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: have there one of the best organizations in the NFL.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Plus they've got Lamar.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: All right, GP, let's go for some of the bigger
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: windows to the Dallas Cowboys.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I have them with boilers windows.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You know you might see on about the eighty seven
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: floor of a hotel, like it's way too small for you, that's.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Not opening up.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I think this is a they're on about a one
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: year window. As your head coach, Mike McCarthy got one
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: year left on his deal. They're aging on the offensive line,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: They've they've got an absolutely you know, star studded secondary,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and you know, guys like Micah Pargin's on the defense.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: But it's still kind of a hodgepodge of talent. But
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I think offensively, Dak in that one year window with
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's why that window to me isn't a big one.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think Bucky has them here because I
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: think Dak took his game to another level this past season,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: added some things about playing more consistently outside of the pocket,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: extending plays. I think that's a big part of this
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: offense moving forward. But I do think losing dan Quinn
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: is a big knock, not just to the defense. You
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: know this Cowboys locker room really well, Steve, It's to
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the entire team in what dan Quinn was able to
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: do there in Dallas I'm interested to see how wig
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: this window is moving on to the forty nine ers next.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I think mainly Steve. I'll just say this for two
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: two main reasons. It's one, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: had built something brilliant together in terms of how they
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: build a team. To you, brock Party on a rookie
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: contract with a lot of talent around him.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. This window's kind of like with
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: this nucleus is a two year window.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: That's not saying they can't continue on if brock Perty
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: keeps on doing his thing, but they've got so much talent.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: But at some point you've already seen some signs of
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: age on Eric Armstead. It was a little banged up
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: this year as well, Fred Warner, George Kittle, Trent Williams,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: like some of these guys, all of a sudden, Father
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: time is.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Gonna come knocking on the door.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: So I think this nucleus has got about another two
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: years to kind of get through. Plus we're also seeing
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: teams like Detroit some other teams that we're gonna be
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: talking about in just a few seconds knocking on the window.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cleveland Browns and the AFC North
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: because Okay, this window can slide open a little bit.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I think they've got enough talent on their defense, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: they've got a great coaching staff, but I think the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: division and you know, there's just something about offensively, can
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: they consist lead, just do enough to keep up with
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnaties of the world, in the Ravens of the world,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and even Pittsburgh to that point.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Steve, this is one of those windows that's in a
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: bathroom that's all cloudy and you can't see through it
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: like it's there. But I'm not sure like you can
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: really see through this window because I'm just I covered
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson a lot.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: When he was in Houston, and we haven't in.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Four years now seem him play like he did as
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: one of the best quarterbacks in football in twenty twenty.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: And yes he's coming off of an injury to his
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: throwing shoulder. I just find this to be a fascinating window.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: We know what Jim Schwartz brings, we know the defense,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: they have a new offensive coordinator and Ken Dorsey. How
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: is Nick Chubb coming back off of the massive knee
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: injury had I find this one just very fascinating. I'm
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: a little more certain, honestly about the next one.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: In the Green Bay Packers.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I think what we saw in the way they finished
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: the season, with the way Jordan Love played with young
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: pieces that are interchangeable to make things difficult on defenses.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: And we know they have a good defense. They change
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: defensive coordinators, but this screw. I think I have more
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: confidence in a window as I do than the Cleveland Browns.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I do too, in terms of like a window being sizeable,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: because right now they've got a nice window, and Chip
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and Joanna are on their way up from Waco, Texas
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: from the Magnolia rehab and they're getting ready to build
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  Speaker 1: a whole new unit because you've got Jordan Love and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: his receiving corps growing together. Now they've got to replenish
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that offensive line a little bit because David Boxieri we
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: saw injuries of this completely stapped him and left tackle.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: But with their running backs and what they've got established,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I think this is a team that just did it
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  Speaker 1: right again. All Right, New York Jets are on Buckis'
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: list is having a window. This window right here is
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: made out of kleenex.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: There's no team that has a more urgent push to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: get to the super Bowl. Otherwise you talk about something
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: flaming out, it just doesn't It just they're built absolutely
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers to come back to win. They have
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: talent somehow. The team won seven games last year without
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. But if it doesn't work, they're gonna blow
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: out everybody. Oh but they're still gonna be stuck with
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: like ten fantastic third and fourth year players because they
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: drafted so well. But they've got to retool it again.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: So if they don't win it this year, that kind
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of janky assemblage of the program they have there is
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: just a weird type of setup.
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  Speaker 2: JP.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I love these window analogies we're using. Steve I used
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: to take a Greyhound about eleven hours home from college,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, sporadically, the little tiny window that
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: opens at the top of a Greyhound that just lets
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: a little bit of air in. That's kind of the
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Jets window that I'm looking at. This is a forty
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: year old quarterback, yes, a four time MVP, yeah, But
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: a forty year old quarterback coming off of an achilles,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: with an offensive line that needs to be completely put
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: back together and I think that to me stands out. Yes,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: there's talent other spots. They have top tier talent, honestly
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: at some very important spots, say pass rushers and corners
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: and wide receivers and lone secker. But I just look
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: at that offensive line and it really makes me scared behind.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: You know, that's protecting Aaron Rodgers. Is there anybody on
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: this list that you think should be on this list
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: that's not that's not.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Los Angeles Rams because I think
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: over the next two years they've got an opportunity to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: get back to the Super Bowl and win one. Matthew
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Stafford again, we have not talked about how well he
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: played last year.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: He was fantastic.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: You've got some peaches, Cooper Cups still there, Pooper Nakua
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: is still there, Rob Havnstein, their tackle is still there,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Kyron Williams and Money Aaron Donald. They have got pieces.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and JP.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: You know what else they have this year that they
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: haven't had for twenty sixteen, A first round pick and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: cap space. I think this is a team that's going
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to be very aggressive because they know they got a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: couple more years in Matt Stafford and Aaron Donald and
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup and they want to get back to the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: title game. They've got the personnel and the coaching staff
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to do so.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Look at how dangerously we're down the stretch this past season,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: in a year where everybody was like, who's playing what spot,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: We're regrouping, we're rebuilding, and there they were at the
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: end of the season, playing really, really good football. On
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford playing brilliant football in his last game of
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: the season, even though.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: He came up short.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the Philadelphia Eagles, Steve, and I look
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: at a team that was maybe a questionable holding call
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: away from winning the Super Bowl two years ago, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: now they're not even on this list. They were ten
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: to one at one point and then obviously things just
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: spiraled out of control at the back end of the season.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: But you still have one of the better offensive lines
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: in football, maybe the best wide receiver duo in all
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: of football, and aj Brown and Demonte Smith the top
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: five tight end in Dallas Goddard. I think the defense
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: needs to get faster, needs to get younger, but I
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: think having them not on this list, in the Super
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Bowl window not being opened, are we forgetting what Howie
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Roseman has done over the last five six years. When
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: they made the mistake of giving Carson Wentz a contract,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: and everybody thinks that should sink a franchise.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: It didn't.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: In Philadelphia. Howie Roseman is one Executive of the Year
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: multiple times over the last couple of years. And if
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: anybody can fix things quickly in some spots of need,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I think it's Howie Roseman. So WOU I would look
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: at Philly as still having a Super Bowl window right now,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: and Steve we didn't mention the Bengals, but Joe Burrow
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: tells us the windows as long as he's playing.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: And he's one thousand percent correct.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to the Eagles real quick
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: because the biggest holes at High Rosen need to defea
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: are on that coaching staff. You know that that to fix,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I should say, is on that coaching staff. They made
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the changes. We'll see if that gets things back together
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to mesh with some of that talent. But that was
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the issue. You know, you hear about all the stuff
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: going on up there. I think that's how the Eagles
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: can get back. You know what else teams can get
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: back is to free agency Russell Wilson's not a free
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: agent yet, but he's going to be out there, all right.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Can Russell Wilson, who we said is moving on down
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: in home value.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Is you're gonna make a difference.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk to our Greg Rosenthal after the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: break here on the NFL Sport all that tape Elsie.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: All right, we are back at the NFL Report Steve
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Whitch here with my guy James Palmer, and we're bringing
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in NFL media is Greg Rosenthal and Rosie, you've got
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: a great column coming out on Monday. I know it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: great even though it hasn't come out yet, because you're
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: talking about some of the free agents that are about
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to hit the market.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: JP and I. You know, we love you so much.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Greg.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna put a twist on it because
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: some of the guys we're gonna talk about aren't quite
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: free agents yet.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, you're good with that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: I'm good with whatever.
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: You know, two of the most respected and handsome men
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: at the NFL I want to do.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're right into it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Here we go.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's let's dive in Russell Wilson, who
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: is still under contract for not much longer with the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: We'll play where in twenty twenty four.
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, he's so hard to figure out. I
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: don't think it's Pittsburgh, which people have thrown out there.
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna throw in Washington and he'll be like a
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: backup slash one b to whoever the number two overall
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: pick is, because that's the role I see him, and
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: it's not the role that he's going to want.
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: But when when you.
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: Guys look around the league, where do you see the
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: starting opportunities for Russell Wilson? Necessarily I don't really see him.
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: So I think he could fit more as a guy
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: that is paired with a rookie, And for some reason,
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: he just seems like a guy who would land in
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: Washington and maybe he's their week one starter, but whoever
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: they draft is their week five starter.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Rose.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: I could kind of see that because because if you
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: look at it like we're looking at all these and
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: earlier in the show we broke it down all these
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: quarterback needy teams that are near the top of the draft,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: or teams like Atlanta or the Giants that might want
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: to trade up a little bit, and then there's that
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: group that the Vikings and the Broncos and the Raiders
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: are all part of.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: In the other part of the first round.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Maybe somebody you know, or a couple of teams end
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: up settling for that next group of quarterbacks that are
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: in the second round, and Russell Wilson is paired at
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: one of those because I do believe and Steve I
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: agree with Greg like he is probably in the bridge
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: quarterback type of range right now for where he lands,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: and there's not a lot of spots where that player
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: actually is needed, which makes this really kind of fascinating.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: So we'll stick with the quarterback spot.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: This guy is not a free agent, Greg, And we're
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: just deviating entirely from this article that we're discussing and
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: promoting Justin Fields. Yes, where will he get traded? Justin Fields?
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: And the Greg Rosenthal brain, Where does Justin Fields go?
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: I think the Raiders make a lot of sense. Doesn't
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: he just seem like a Raider? I know, Luke Getzi's there,
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: he's been saying this. See we agree, we agree too much,
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: but he just feels like the type of guy that
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: Mark Davis would go get give a chance He's a
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: really unique guy to be available. I can't really think
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: of it, you know, Steven James, Maybe you guys can
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: think of some it. There aren't many quarterbacks who become
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: available for a trade that actually have a long track
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: record as a starter.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's started a lot of games.
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: He's not like Kevin Cobb coming looser, Jimmy g you know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: just getting traded off of like seven starts, Like we've
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: seen a lot of Justin Fields, who actually has a
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: lot of potential and at least has a very good
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: baseline play where he can be a starter. We know
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: in the NFL, I don't think there's any chance he's
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: playing in Chicago, And so with Getzi and the Raiders, I.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: Think he gives them some juice in twenty twenty four.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: What do you think I've been saying it? I have
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: been saying the exact same thing, Rosie.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Plus, in that division where you have all these offensive
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: head coaches who have not faced a quarterback like Justin Fields,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I think the shock value alone in year one with
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the Raiders could give them a ton of bounds.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: All right, here's another one talking.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Now we're going to free agency, the player will be
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you will be most shocked.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: To see change teams.
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: Is I'm gonna start with Chris Jones.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: I mean, with that shock you guys at this point,
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: I think when I normally make these lists of the
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: top one O one, the top guys just get franchise tag.
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: His franchise tag is going to be thirty two million
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: dollars somewhere in that neighborhood. So I think number one
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: and number two on my list A little exclusive here
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: for the NFL Report since the list isn't actually out.
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: Chris Jones and Kirk Cousins. I think they both changed teams.
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: Because I think at some point the Chiefs have to decide,
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: maybe we got the very best out of this guy,
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: and Lagarious Sneed is actually our bigger priority, and Chris
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: Jones ends up changing teams.
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: What do you think?
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I'm interested in that one because we all remember Greg
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: how the contract negotiations went or.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Didn't go this past offseason.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: If you want to know an inside kind of vibe
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: of Chris Jones, this is what I've always been told
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: by people close to him. Chris didn't care about money
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: when he had none, So imagine what Chris thinks when
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: he has some he really does not care. He will
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: hold out if he believes that's where he thinks he
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: should be, if he wants a certain number, he doesn't care.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: We saw it during training camp. He doesn't care if
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: money is flying out of his pockets. He's the only
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: guy we really saw go.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Out and do that.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: The interesting part about it, Greg would be so much
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: of what SPAGS does. Almost their entire run scheme is
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: based off of Chris Jones, and so there would be
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: there would have to be an adjustment up front. But
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I think this team is drafted extremely well. I think
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: he's playing really well at a high level. He deserves
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: probably every penny he has. But we've noticed from Brett Viach,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: if he believes it's time to cut, he's gonna cut
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: and move on and find another spot to fill. And
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: we know that they also have Lagarius Sneed, who I
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: think they could tag Sneed.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: I think that could possibly be what they end up doing.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: And I love that you mentioned Kirk Cousins because I'm
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: the guy I didn't get a chance to chime in
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: on the Raiders. I believe Kirk Cousins could land in Vegas.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: I think that's a spot where he could end up
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: landing and I could elaborate on it further, and I
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: would do that at another time. Let's move on to
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: who has to be brought back? Greg Like on this
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: list of one one, what team needs to bring back
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: player X or it is a massive mistake.
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: Okay, I'm throwing out a different name than you expect.
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: Jonathan Gernard is the guy for me on this list.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: I love that great year.
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: He love that he developed every year in his career
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: as a textant, better and better and better. And then
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: when Demiico Ryans gets there, he just turned into a
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: great second pass rusher, And I love you know what
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: they have on the other side with the interesting But
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: I think having those two guys locked up, you have
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: a ton of cap space. Don't go searching for the
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: next guy. You've developed this great player. And so to me,
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: having those two guys up front reminds me of some
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: of those forty nine ers Demiko Ryan's team where you
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: really started upfront with that four man pass rus You've
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: already got the duo for the next four or five years.
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: Just keep them, just keep.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Them, you know what, guy?
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: My guy is Christian Wilkins with the Dolphins because with
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver now the DC.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: You saw what he do with Justin Matdowicke.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: You've seen how he's developed the line, and he's an
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: old defense He played defensive line.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: He coach defensive line with the Ravens.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I think with Christian Wilkins, he could be the next
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: level superstar. We see how much he means at defensive front.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: They let him go with two edge rushers coming off
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: with significant injuries.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Bad move. They need to go ahead and pay Christian Wilkins.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they'll keep them.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: I wanted to comment on the Jonathan Garnard spot.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Greg I love one because what jumped out at me
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: right away, guys was I'm looking at Aiden Hutchinson, who
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: has nobody on the other side, and there's times where
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: you saw Hutchinson get to the quarterback and there's nothing
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: coming from the other angle. And Jonathan Garnard had a
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: great year, and I think if you have a pairing
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: like him and will Anderson, this one I really really like.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Greg.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I look at I look at a couple other players.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Antoine Winfield Junior. To me, he'll probably get tagged, but
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: there's no way he can depart from Tampa as good
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: as the season he's he had maybe the best season
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: for any safety in all football. Another one, what do
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: you I want to put Greg's knowledge here? Josh Allen
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: the year he had in Jacksonville? Is that necessary to
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: bring him back down to Jacksonville in terms of he
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: was really the one wrecking everything in the second half
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: of the season when they needed they needed a defensive
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: player to go out and make plays.
• 45:13
  Speaker 9: No question, I just assume he'll be tagged. To me, Look,
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: he got Defensive Player of the Year votes this year.
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: He went from he was always a very good pass
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: rusher and he went to great this year. He was
• 45:25
  Speaker 9: the best player on the team. He's the best player
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: on the defense. He was the best player on the team.
• 45:28
  Speaker 9: So the one thing that annoys me, you know that
• 45:31
  Speaker 9: you'll see the column drops on Monday. You know, they
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: take away so many of the good players with the
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: franchise tag and then the list just is in as
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: pretty so Josh Allen will be one of those guys
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: I believe taken.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Off the list.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Rosie fifteen seconds Exter were tight on time. But James
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: his favorite player is a free agent Drew Tranquil Oh. Yeah,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: linebacker for the Chiefs, we're all doing. Man, he loves
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: me like a high rate rank.
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: He's in my top sixty five or so. I love
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: me some. Drew Tranquil. I thought I was out. I
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: had a limb with him last year. I had him
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: very high.
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: And the Chiefs they were looking for help and they
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: saw my rankings and they're like, this guy's gonna help
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: us win a Super Bowl.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: They I can't remember which conversation it was Greg that
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: I was having with Brett Veach where he was like,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: I was looking at Greg Rosenthal's top one oh one,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and that's kind of what pushed us over the edge on.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Getting Drew Tranquil.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: But you are right, like he was so valuable to
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: that team throughout the course of this season. Smarts in
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: the middle of the defense is just brilliant. And you
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: know what, Greg Rosenvel's got a lot of smarts as well, Steve,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of smarts.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Thank you for joining the NFL Report, Greg, appreciate it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Coming up the behind the scenes look of the NFL
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: combine what happens really in Indianapolis. Steve and I break
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: it down next on the NFL Report. Welcome back to
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: the NFL Report. The NFL Combine, presented by Nobles starts
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: next week. The D line and Linebackers kick things off
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: next Thursday, followed by the DBS.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: And tight ends on Friday.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Offensive skilled players step into the limelight on Saturday at
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: one pm Eastern, before the O line wraps it all
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: up on Sunday afternoon, all here on NFL Network and
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: NFL Plus. I'm on my way to Indianapolis on Monday, Steve,
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: and I think people have one thought of what goes
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: on in Indianapolis. It's what they see on the TV screen.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: But in your mind, with all the years that you've
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: covered the Combine in Indianapolis, what stands out to you
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: that maybe people don't know about the ongoings in Indianapolis.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: First off, Jp, I'm not going to have a nice
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: halibit at the Ocean Air for me one night.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: You got to make sure you can make that happen.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: So some great things about the Combine kind of behind
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: the scenes, especially for us in the media, is we
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: get to sit down at tables and stuff and speak
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: to some of these draft prospects.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Remember, we cover the NFL.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: We don't get to spend a lot of time talking
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: to these draft prospects, which is the same thing that
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of these head coaches and coordinators are going
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: through because they're coaching in the season. So this is
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: their first exposure, you know, to a lot of these
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: players in watching them do on field drills.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: But jp also some.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Of these interviews, these kind of ten to fifteen minute
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: speed gating interviews they do with these prospects at like
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: ten pm at night, after they've been scouting and watching
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: film all day. So I think the first interaction with
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of these collegiate players is one of the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: things that a lot of people don't understand that it's
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: not just the stuff they're seeing on the field, but
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: again the stuff that happens behind the scenes and those
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: important to those conversations.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: It's funny, Steve, a lot of people have told me
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: with the are in these interviews, how prepared or over
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: prepared or scripted some of.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: These players are in these combined interviews.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: They almost want to see them in their building and
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: sit down with them, maybe at the quarterback position, with
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: you know, a whiteboard if you will, or whatnot, spend
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: a little more time with them. The other part is
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: so many contracts are talked about between agents and general managers,
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: and Ryan Poles is going to be in a lot
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: of rooms that were not I'm gonna see talking to
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: teams about potential trades that go on. Those are the
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: two biggest things that happen in terms of trading picks
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: and in trading players and you know, working out new contracts.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: All right, because of the combine, Steve, next week, we
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: only have one show and that is going to be
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: on Thursday at seven o'clock.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: So my time in Indie eating.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Halibit, apparently in your mind is what's gonna end up happening.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: So I'll see you Thursday when we take that bad Boy.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Enjoy New Orleans.