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The Latest on Aaron Rodgers, NFC South Discussion, & Kelvin Beachum Joins The Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: Here on NFL Network. In the NFL Los Angeles Newsroom,
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Speaker 1: I'm Patrick Claybon. We heard from Pro Football Hall of
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Speaker 1: Famer and Packers legend Leroy Butler earlier today saying that
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers would break Jets fans hearts in one of
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Speaker 1: two ways, either going and not having success or by
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Speaker 1: staying with the Green Bay Packers. The reason not those
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Speaker 1: things are both options is because of what is new
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Speaker 1: right now coming to the NFL Network newsroom. As of
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Speaker 1: earlier this week, the Jets sent a contingent to Malibu,
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Speaker 1: California to speak with Aaron Rodgers. Tom Pellacero and Mike Garafollo,
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Speaker 1: our NFL Network insiders with us now on NFL Now, Tom,
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Speaker 1: where do we stand with regards to Aaron Rodgers and
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Speaker 1: the Jets? Patrick, We continue to wait, and so do
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Speaker 1: the Packers and the Jets, who have course flew to
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Speaker 1: Malibu on Tuesday to meet with Aaron Rodgers. Here's where
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Speaker 1: it stands as of now. The Jets want Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: to be their quarterback. The Jets know in their minds
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Speaker 1: what they're willing to do in terms of the draft
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Speaker 1: pick compensation that would go to the Packers in the trade,
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Speaker 1: as well as what they would do with Rogers contract,
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Speaker 1: and the Packers if Rogers comes to them and says
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Speaker 1: that he wants to move on and head to New York,
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Speaker 1: are open to working with him to facilitate that trade. However,
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Speaker 1: Rodgers holds the keys here. He is due close to
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Speaker 1: sixty million dollars fully guaranteed in twenty twenty three, effectively
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Speaker 1: has veto power over any deal until they know what
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Speaker 1: Rogers wants to do. When he has said all options
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Speaker 1: are on the table, including played in Green Bay, going
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Speaker 1: to a new team, and even retiring, nothing really moves
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Speaker 1: forward here and the entire quarterback market, Frankly, as we
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Speaker 1: head into free agency in a few days, Mike remains
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Speaker 1: on hold, no doubt about it. And if you're looking
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Speaker 1: for from the Jets, they're not going to give you
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Speaker 1: one because they don't want to rush him or make
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Speaker 1: it seem like they're putting any pressure on him. They
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Speaker 1: kind of want him to go through the process in
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Speaker 1: his own timeline. Sort of his own timeline, I mean,
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Speaker 1: by the time we get the next week and free
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Speaker 1: agency begins, the Jets are gonna have to look at
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Speaker 1: contingency plans. So Aaron Rodgers knows that they're on a
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Speaker 1: clock in that regard and seem to indicate to them,
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Speaker 1: like from what I'm told, like he indicated to all
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Speaker 1: of us that a decision was coming soon. But I
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Speaker 1: believe he first said soon around Super Bowl time. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's almost a month since then, so I don't
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Speaker 1: know exactly what soon means, but the Jets certainly need
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Speaker 1: clarity before they get to next week. So we'll see,
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Speaker 1: and they will see, and everybody will see. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know what it's like to put something out there
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Speaker 1: and to worry that Aaron Rodgers might see it and
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Speaker 1: might call you out on it publicly. And I'm sure
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Speaker 1: the Jets are kind of in the same boat. Patrick Well.
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Speaker 1: And as we've discussed, soon isn't just relative for people,
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Speaker 1: A time itself perhaps could be relative, and maybe Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers sees it that way. We saw a manifestation of
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Speaker 1: time towards a deadline and the Giants getting everything done.
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Speaker 1: They get the deal done with Daniel Jones that they
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Speaker 1: tag say quon Barkley. Are they stopping there? They still
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Speaker 1: working on a deal long term with say Quon Mark.
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Speaker 1: They're still working on a deal, and I know that
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Speaker 1: they would love to get it done in the near future,
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Speaker 1: maybe before the start of the free agent window. But
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Speaker 1: now the real deadline on this is going to be
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Speaker 1: the middle of July, right so potentially this could trag
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Speaker 1: on until then before the sides get a deal done.
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Speaker 1: If not, he has to play on the tag for
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Speaker 1: this season, and I don't know that anybody really would
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Speaker 1: be happy with that. It's much lower than where they've
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Speaker 1: already offered him. I mean, they were into the twelves
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Speaker 1: from what I heard, they're up to thirteen. Probably gonna
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Speaker 1: have to go a little bit higher than that on
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Speaker 1: an average per year basis to get a deal done.
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Speaker 1: Ten million dollars would be would be an underpay, There's
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Speaker 1: no question about that. For sae Quon Barkley was now
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Speaker 1: eligible for a free agent contract, But because of that
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Speaker 1: deal with Daniel Jones, now the tag comes into play.
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Speaker 1: So Joe Shane, the general manager of the Giants, acknowledging
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Speaker 1: that Barkley is frustrated right now. A lot of guys
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Speaker 1: would get the tag are frustrated, But look, I would
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Speaker 1: say to say Quon Barkley, there's a lot of time
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Speaker 1: between now and the start of the season, and again
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Speaker 1: between now and the middle of July. So let's see
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Speaker 1: how this goes and it decides can come back together
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Speaker 1: and get a fair deal for a running back which
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Speaker 1: Tom is a lot of times hard to value. Well, Mike,
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Speaker 1: the franchise tag is not always bad for players. There
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Speaker 1: are certain positions where it is actually a weapon because
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Speaker 1: it gives them bargaining power. Running back is not one
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Speaker 1: of those positions. Because the tag number is so low, Barkley,
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Speaker 1: if you were to play on the tag this year
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Speaker 1: for ten million dollars, and we'll see whether that's an
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Speaker 1: option for say Quon and his mind. If he got
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Speaker 1: tagged again in twenty twenty four, that tag would only
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Speaker 1: be about twelve million dollars. So if you're talking about
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Speaker 1: twenty two over two being the baseline for negotiations, that's
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Speaker 1: so far below what sa Quon Barkley would view his
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Speaker 1: market to be that this could potentially present some challenges
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Speaker 1: in terms of Barkley getting from the Giants. Wood he
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Speaker 1: feels is a fair market off. As you've mentioned they
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Speaker 1: did have a significant offer out to say Quon back
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Speaker 1: in November during the bye week. It did not get
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Speaker 1: done at that time. We'll see how all parties decide
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Speaker 1: to approach this. Now as we head into the spring,
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Speaker 1: they've got the quarterback locked in. Daniel Jones doesn't have
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Speaker 1: that one year, thirty two million dollars cap number that
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Speaker 1: the Giants would have to deal with if you were
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Speaker 1: under the tag, So that part of it's good. There
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Speaker 1: are resources available. Can they close that gap? We'll see, Patrick, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Quon dealing with the circumstances that previous running backs have
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Speaker 1: had to deal with, and now, due to the existence
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Speaker 1: of the franchise tag, perhaps that number not necessarily where
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Speaker 1: it could be for running backs, especially running back of
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Speaker 1: sa Quans caliber. As we look ahead, looking forward to
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Speaker 1: spending some time with you guys during the free agency frenzy,
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Speaker 1: some teams already making some cap space moves, Tom will
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Speaker 1: can you tell us there, Well, there were a few
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Speaker 1: that came in overnight. Patrick. You'll continue to see this
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Speaker 1: leading up to next Wednesday. The Chargers restructuring both their
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Speaker 1: top receivers Key and Allen and Mike Williams clearing about
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Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars in cap space there. The Dolphins doing
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Speaker 1: the same with Bradley Chubb. The Panthers announced the one
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Speaker 1: with Taylor Moton yesterday. They cleared eleven million dollars. To
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Speaker 1: be clear, these are what are known as simple restructures.
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Speaker 1: They are not pay cuts. The players still get all
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Speaker 1: their money. It's an accounting mechanism. The teams take a
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Speaker 1: big chunk of base salary, turn it into a bonus
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Speaker 1: which is pro rated over the lifetime of the deal.
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Speaker 1: That allows the twenty twenty three cap number to go down,
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Speaker 1: but every dollar spent means a dollar hits the cap eventually,
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Speaker 1: and those cap numbers for those players now go up
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Speaker 1: in future years. PATTERN looking forward to seeing how you
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Speaker 1: talking too fast? Slow down? I want to get all
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Speaker 1: this hold on. Although I try to smash something to
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Speaker 1: give you a time as a flat circle here, No,
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Speaker 1: that's it was a really sloppy stomp there. That's the
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Speaker 1: thing is a slightly mangled hexagon. No, any time that
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Speaker 1: you have a circle and you know it's going to
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Speaker 1: be flat from some perspective, that just like time. Just
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Speaker 1: like time. I always maneuvering, always furiously taking notes like
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Speaker 1: Mike Garafol Well, thanks to Tom Pollisaro, Mike garf Well,
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Speaker 1: the look at some of the circumstances around the league,
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Speaker 1: no worries about Geno Smith and three agency signing a
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Speaker 1: three year deal could be worth up to one hundred
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Speaker 1: and five million dollars, gets forty million dollars guaranteed at
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Speaker 1: signing Geno Smith and the Seahawks leadership having a chance
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Speaker 1: to speak today all right in Washington. Yeah, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to stay here. I was hoping we can get something
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Speaker 1: done quickly. I didn't want to have to, you know,
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Speaker 1: test the free agent market. Um, you know, obviously if
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Speaker 1: I had to, and then I had to. But I
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Speaker 1: think everyone did a great job at making this work
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Speaker 1: and now it's about, you know, having it payoff in
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Speaker 1: the future. Great day for us, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: and all of us had so much fun getting to
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Speaker 1: this point. There's a lot of years when Gino had
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Speaker 1: to sit there waiting, and the story that that hasn't
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Speaker 1: been unveiled about believing in yourself and confidence and trust
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Speaker 1: and never giving up is just it's a vivid illustration
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Speaker 1: for g and it's been so much fun to see
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Speaker 1: this happen. He always knew we just had to let
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Speaker 1: it out. You know, that was what you did. You know,
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Speaker 1: you always knew that you could do this, and that's
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Speaker 1: why when it happened and the opportunity was there and
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Speaker 1: you take over the reins of it, you handled it
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Speaker 1: so so flawlessly, and uh, it was grateful just to
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Speaker 1: watch it happened and it was as a blast. I
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Speaker 1: believe hopefully it's an inspiration, you know, to everyone, you know,
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Speaker 1: just to continue to believe in yourself, to work hard,
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Speaker 1: to never waver in your confidence, and then to be opportunistic.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you get opportunity, you got it wrong
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Speaker 1: with it, and so I believe hopefully everyone can see
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Speaker 1: that when they see me. I had a chance to
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Speaker 1: see Gino on the field saying that he would not
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Speaker 1: right back. He did right back by signing that contract
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Speaker 1: as James Palmer joins us now on NFL. Now, now
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Speaker 1: that the deal is signed, what are we expecting to
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Speaker 1: see from Gino in the Hawks offense in twenty three? James, Well,
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Speaker 1: you expect growth. And he talked about he said he
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Speaker 1: was throwing the football yesterday Patrick and the ball was
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Speaker 1: flying out of his hands. He's excited to get back
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Speaker 1: on the field because he mentioned it. Even though he's
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Speaker 1: been in Seattle for the last three years watching Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson and watching this offense and learning it and learning
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Speaker 1: how to win. He mentioned as a starter, this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be the first time in his career, dating back
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Speaker 1: to high school, he's in the same offensive system as
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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for two years in a row. So
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Speaker 1: they do expect growth because they were surprised by the
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Speaker 1: start of the season. They knew that he could operate
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Speaker 1: this offense, and we know the formula that Pete Carroll
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Speaker 1: has put together to win in Seattle, but when they
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Speaker 1: saw him out there, they opened up the passing game
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Speaker 1: more than they had in years past because he was
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Speaker 1: still effective with the deep ball, still accurate with the
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Speaker 1: deep ball. Remember tied with Josh Allen for the league
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Speaker 1: lead in deep ball touchdowns, and he was still able
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Speaker 1: to do that and still protect the football. They expect
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Speaker 1: there's going to be growth, but there's also gonna be
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Speaker 1: growth on this roster because of this deal. You know,
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Speaker 1: Smith said it, he wanted to be paid as a
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Speaker 1: top ten quarterback because that's what he believes, and that's
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Speaker 1: where the numbers stand right now. When a couple more
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Speaker 1: of these deals get done, He's probably at the start
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Speaker 1: of the season going to be sitting right about the
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Speaker 1: fifteenth highest paid quarterback in football. The incentives that are
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Speaker 1: in there and this getting done before free agency, Patrick
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Speaker 1: allows the Seahawks to now look at free agency a
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Speaker 1: little differently as opposed to this dragging out. It benefited
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Speaker 1: both sides the way this was done, and that was
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Speaker 1: talked about in the press conference. That can be aggressive
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Speaker 1: in free agency. Also a unique opportunity Seattle never picking
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Speaker 1: this high. They got four picks in the first two rounds,
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Speaker 1: had a great rookie class last year. Where do we
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Speaker 1: even start with this draft class potentially for Seattle James.
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Speaker 1: That's the interesting aspect of this Patrick, when you look
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Speaker 1: at them picking at number five that Broncos pick after
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Speaker 1: their collapse this past season. This is the fourteenth draft
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Speaker 1: John Snyder and Pete Carroll have gone through together. The
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Speaker 1: last time they picked this high was their first year
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Speaker 1: together when they picked Russellocoon at six, and that was
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Speaker 1: because of the previous regime. Because they win so consistently,
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Speaker 1: they don't pick this high and they don't have the
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Speaker 1: look to go after some of these top tier pass rushers,
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Speaker 1: and they could do that with number five. You look
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Speaker 1: at Daniel Jeremiah's latest top fifty prospects, some of those
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Speaker 1: guys right at the top, whether they're edge rushers or
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Speaker 1: defensive linemen, they can go after those guys with number five,
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Speaker 1: which is very interesting. But also Pete Carroll did say
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Speaker 1: this contract has not deterred them from looking at all
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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks at potentially number five to build for
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Speaker 1: the future. They met with all of them at the combine,
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Speaker 1: and Judo Smith in this press conference said he will
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Speaker 1: welcome the competition, but will also teach a young quarterback
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Speaker 1: at the same time. Yeah, bottom three run defense. The
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Speaker 1: offense had a lot of success, especially towards the middle
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Speaker 1: of the season. We'll see how Seattle approaches twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to James Balmer joining us here on NFL Now
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Speaker 1: to discuss the Seattle Seahawks. There is a notable void
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Speaker 1: in the NFL after twenty three seasons of Tom Brady.
11:55
Speaker 1: Brady con where do the Bucks move? We talked Bucks
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Speaker 1: with Judia Batista and Sarah Walsh next on NFL Now,
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Speaker 1: trying to change Bill mauv on Dacent ain't no realrange
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Speaker 1: a very solid quarterback class in twenty twenty three. On
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Speaker 1: the way to these teams who are picking in the
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Speaker 1: top ten, some of them in need of a young
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Speaker 1: quarterback and some of them already in possession of the
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Speaker 1: quarterback of the future. So how does this shake out?
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Speaker 1: Let's start with some focus on the NFC South. We
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Speaker 1: see the Falcons and the Panthers there picking eight and
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Speaker 1: picking nine. Let's welcome in Sarah Walsh and Judy Petisa
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Speaker 1: for more on that division. And Sarah, we've got one
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Speaker 1: quarterback for sure in the South, and that is Derek
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Speaker 1: Carry's going to New Orleans. Everywhere else it seems like
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Speaker 1: things could be in flux. What are the Panthers and
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Speaker 1: Frank Reich have to say about picking in the top
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Speaker 1: ten and maybe needing a quarterback. Yeah. I spoke to
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Speaker 1: Frank Reich at the combine last week and also their
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Speaker 1: GM Scott Fitterer, and I think they're on the same
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Speaker 1: page that this organization is going to exhaust all possibilities
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Speaker 1: and all options when it comes to the quarterback position.
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Speaker 1: But I also get the sense that they are exhausted
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Speaker 1: at the idea of this rotating carousel that they have
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Speaker 1: had at quarterback now for a couple of seasons. And
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Speaker 1: in fact, bitter Or said, they want to figure out
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Speaker 1: the way to best fix this and not just put
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Speaker 1: a patch on things. And he said the best way
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Speaker 1: to do that really is through the draft, because you
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Speaker 1: can get a guy for five to ten years. Now,
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Speaker 1: you just showed it. The Panthers have the ninth overall
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Speaker 1: pick right now. They haven't used a first round pick
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Speaker 1: on a quarterback since Cam Newton back in twenty eleven.
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Speaker 1: But you know, another big takeaway I had from conversations
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Speaker 1: with those guys, as right said, the biggest lesson he
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Speaker 1: learned from his time in Indianapolis is what is the
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Speaker 1: best way to have stability at the quarterback position in
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Speaker 1: the long term future in the short term. And so
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Speaker 1: that is something that when you hear what they're saying,
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Speaker 1: I think it sort of gives you an idea the
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Speaker 1: sense of plans they have there in Carolina. Judy, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Saints realized that they needed a long
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Speaker 1: term answer. Ever since Drew Brees left, they sort of
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Speaker 1: cycle through a number of quarterbacks. So they finally got
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Speaker 1: their answer in getting Derek Carr. That means they are
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Speaker 1: the only team in the NFC South, where a really
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Speaker 1: settled quarterback situation, so that automatically puts them at the
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Speaker 1: top of the division. Of course, I'm not sure how
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Speaker 1: much that says. This is a division that was one
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Speaker 1: at eight and nine last year, and the Saints are
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Speaker 1: in a dire salary cap situation, so it's hard to
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Speaker 1: say how much more work they can do on a
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Speaker 1: roster that frankly needs some refreshing. Their twenty five million
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Speaker 1: dollars over the caps that they're going to have to
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Speaker 1: do some work there. This roster is good enough for
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Speaker 1: them to win the division, certainly, especially because so many
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Speaker 1: teams are still in flux. But I think the real
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Speaker 1: question is are the Saints good enough, even with Derek
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Speaker 1: Carr in house now, to take on the San Francisco's
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Speaker 1: and Philadelphias of the world. Probably not yet, and it
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Speaker 1: probably is going to take at least another cycle through
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Speaker 1: of the roster. Yeah, there was one team, notably that
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Speaker 1: was able to contend for Super Bowls and now Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady's Sarah, you were able to talk to the new
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Speaker 1: officive coordinator, Dave Canalis. They've got one quarterback that's currently
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Speaker 1: there in Kyle Trask. What did he have to say
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Speaker 1: about the young signal caller out of Florida. I think
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Speaker 1: they're going to give Kyle Trask every opportunity that would
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Speaker 1: be afforded to a guy that you used a second
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Speaker 1: round pick on. And it's sort of funny because I
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Speaker 1: think the narrative around the league is, especially after the
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady air you call, are they going to really
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Speaker 1: go with Kyle Trask at quarterback? And I think the
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Speaker 1: thinking is is, well, why wouldn't you try this guy
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Speaker 1: out at quarterback? Because you used a second round pick
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Speaker 1: on him, and you use a second round pick on
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Speaker 1: him because at some level you really think that this
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Speaker 1: guy can contribute and help your organization. Now, in the
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Speaker 1: very limited game film that Trask has in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: which really includes the preseason, Dave Canalis as he sees
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Speaker 1: a guy that is courageous in the pocket, that can
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Speaker 1: step up, and he's not asking him to save the day.
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Speaker 1: He's not asking him to win the game just on
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Speaker 1: his own shoulders alone. He's asking him to manage the game.
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Speaker 1: And Canalis believes in his new system that Trask should
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Speaker 1: be able to do that. So that leaves the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons the only team we haven't discussed yet. First of all,
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Speaker 1: the big thing to know about them is they have
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Speaker 1: the second most salary cap space right now, sixty three
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Speaker 1: million dollars available to them to spend, so they can
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Speaker 1: do a lot of work. And frankly, that roster needs
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of everything. They need an overhaul on defense,
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Speaker 1: and they need a wide receiver. But at the quarterback
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Speaker 1: position they seem okay with Desmond Ritter, even though they
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Speaker 1: have a top ten pick. He showed some things last
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Speaker 1: year when he was on the field. The Falcons, interestingly,
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Speaker 1: were one of the very first teams to put out
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Speaker 1: the word that they would not be interested in Lamar Jackson.
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Speaker 1: Remember they were in on Deshaun Watson last year and
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Speaker 1: did not want to go with the guaranteed contract. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: that is what is keeping them away. If you believe
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Speaker 1: that they would not even talk to Lamar Jackson, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see how that plays out.
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Speaker 1: But with all that money available in free agency, he
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Speaker 1: should be an active period for the Atlanta Falcon. A
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Speaker 1: division influx when not too long ago, so much talent
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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position thanks to ju Batista and Sarah
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Speaker 1: walsh Im The view of the NFC South here on
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Speaker 1: NFL now, coming up here on NFL Now. Well, we
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Speaker 1: get a chance to see Anthony Richardson four point four
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Speaker 1: to three in the forty yard dash forty and a
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Speaker 1: half inch vertical, ten and nine broad jup at two
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty four pounds. But he also put in
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Speaker 1: work on the white board with coach Mariucci in this
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Speaker 1: edition of Drawbine play Come on in here, Anthony Richardson
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Speaker 1: for Gators. Yes, how you doing it? I'm good about it.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this for you. Sit down, come around,
17:42
Speaker 1: let's have some fun. Okay, So I'm watching you on film.
17:46
Speaker 1: I'm watching this play. It's in the red zone that
17:47
Speaker 1: you have and you ran it repeatedly. Remember this. This
17:50
Speaker 1: guy's coming across here, and this guy here is coming
17:53
Speaker 1: come kind of corner and he's got some kind of
17:55
Speaker 1: digg and we got a Shalla cross right here. And
17:57
Speaker 1: you're always in shotgun. Read this play for me, This
18:00
Speaker 1: one right here, This is our man alert. It's pre progressing.
18:03
Speaker 1: Let me go one to back, either say call the
18:08
Speaker 1: play slot left dagger. That's it, slot left dagger, slot
18:12
Speaker 1: love boy dagger. Richardson fires. So you're an athletic guy,
18:20
Speaker 1: A dual threat quarterback. Right, that's who's the best quarterback
18:24
Speaker 1: in this draft? I am? Why that is what I'm
18:27
Speaker 1: cambout doing. I can do a lot of things that
18:29
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks can't do, like what making people miss open field,
18:31
Speaker 1: running people over, and then I can I can throw
18:33
Speaker 1: the ball just as well at anybody in this job.
18:35
Speaker 1: So I feel I can do it all. Who's your hero?
18:38
Speaker 1: My mom is definitely my hero? Why No, just everything
18:41
Speaker 1: she's done, everything that she came with doing. You know,
18:45
Speaker 1: I'm growing up just seeing her hard. She works for
18:47
Speaker 1: my brother and she in Gainesville. Yes, you're kind of
18:50
Speaker 1: a rock star down there, aren't you? A little bit?
18:54
Speaker 1: All right, Well I'm gonna show you a play. Okay, Okay,
18:57
Speaker 1: be familiar with the West Coast offense at all? Not really? Okay? Well,
19:00
Speaker 1: get ready? All right? So here's trips right, This is
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Speaker 1: why deep We did that sometimes so we could stay
19:07
Speaker 1: big on big and he could help inside. Right. Zebra left,
19:10
Speaker 1: This was a zebra. You know what I would be.
19:12
Speaker 1: I would beat Jerry Rice. Ever heard Jerry Rice? Yeah?
19:15
Speaker 1: The best? Okay, Zebra left? We put him in motion
19:18
Speaker 1: to a stack over here. Okay, all right, and here's
19:20
Speaker 1: t o right over here. Right. He's a Hall of famer.
19:23
Speaker 1: He's a Hall of famer. You know that quarterback, that's
19:25
Speaker 1: Steve Young. Never played and shotgun in his life. Anthony
19:28
Speaker 1: played under the center, all right, seven step and we're
19:31
Speaker 1: talking seventy four protection. Seventy four is maximum protection where
19:35
Speaker 1: you have one edge over here and the back on
19:37
Speaker 1: this edge, so it's only a three man route. Here
19:39
Speaker 1: we go. This is JJ Stokes. He's gonna run right
19:41
Speaker 1: through that free safety. Right. If the free safety isn't
19:43
Speaker 1: cover two, he's going to run through that. We're looking
19:46
Speaker 1: at him on the way back. If he messes around,
19:48
Speaker 1: we're throwing it in there for a touchdown. If not,
19:50
Speaker 1: if he stays home, here comes the zebra bake Byam
19:53
Speaker 1: right here. Instead of a shake, which is outside the
19:55
Speaker 1: bank is on the inside, all right, So he turns
19:57
Speaker 1: his corner all the way around, and if that free safety,
19:59
Speaker 1: and if he stays near this guy right here, we're
20:02
Speaker 1: throwing that in there for a touchdown. You got that?
20:05
Speaker 1: Pretty simple? How do we control over here? Here comes
20:07
Speaker 1: too and he's gonna run either the shake or if
20:11
Speaker 1: it's covered two, he's gonna run that to keep that
20:13
Speaker 1: safety out of the hair of that throw. So that
20:15
Speaker 1: is trips right, why deep zebra left seventy four Zebra
20:20
Speaker 1: bake got it? Okay, who do you pattern your game
20:24
Speaker 1: after growing up? For me, it was Cam Newton. He's
20:27
Speaker 1: ability to run the ball and to the ball, just
20:29
Speaker 1: be physical rights give me a weakness on the field
20:34
Speaker 1: footwork at tims. Okay, sometimes I can get a little
20:37
Speaker 1: ansy and sloppy. That effect your accuracy sometimes maybe at
20:41
Speaker 1: times it Cam, but sometimes it helps him play for
20:43
Speaker 1: you and not gonna throw the ball ball better Richardson
20:45
Speaker 1: getting some heat, grows on the run and he feels
20:47
Speaker 1: a striker. What is your favorite college moment this past
20:52
Speaker 1: season's going against LSU. I'll just signed to create space
20:56
Speaker 1: in the pocket and I seen in LA and Trevor
20:58
Speaker 1: is right down, ain't go black black guy right there,
21:01
Speaker 1: and they didn't. I just take off. Okay, you remember
21:13
Speaker 1: my play, draw my play? I got it too. You
21:17
Speaker 1: got good paymanship. Appreciate that seventy four? Yeah, okay, so far,
21:24
Speaker 1: so good. Draw that up? I got. Well, we got
21:30
Speaker 1: a triangle that center. That's goods you. Well, it's my
21:34
Speaker 1: guy right here, all right? Stack, who was my guy
21:36
Speaker 1: who was my guy that was zer Rice. Yeah, for
21:39
Speaker 1: you occupied this side of the defense, or you're gonna
21:44
Speaker 1: run the shake round as you would call it. Where
21:46
Speaker 1: is he going? I would we would call this a
21:48
Speaker 1: divide ro you know, you be wanting to divide the
21:50
Speaker 1: feel and for the parlor. Now you want to occupy
21:53
Speaker 1: this backside safety. This is the bank round as you
21:56
Speaker 1: would call it. Okay, you know, just spind this corner around,
21:59
Speaker 1: lose him and what's the protection? Seventy four? Nice pro max.
22:03
Speaker 1: So if they're blitchers, you're still pretty good, right, Yes,
22:07
Speaker 1: progression one, two and three over here with the alert
22:09
Speaker 1: not bad. But when you go through these interviews with
22:12
Speaker 1: these teams, Anthony, what do you want these general managers
22:15
Speaker 1: to know about you? Just just like getting to know
22:17
Speaker 1: who I am, how much I care about football. They
22:19
Speaker 1: can see you know, how physical, how fast around far
22:22
Speaker 1: I throw on the tape, But getting to know me
22:25
Speaker 1: and how much I love football. You've done SI and
22:27
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the main thing that with the matters,
22:29
Speaker 1: you're gonna be all right. Many thanks for doing this area,
22:32
Speaker 1: Congratulations for everything and good luck to you. Thank you
22:34
Speaker 1: all right, Anthony Richards and everybody back here on NFL
22:42
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23:01
Speaker 1: to one of those free agents coming up here. It
23:04
Speaker 1: is Alvin Beacham on March fifteenth, who is set to
23:07
Speaker 1: become an unrestricted free agent after playing every single game
23:11
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals twenty two Perhaps a chance to
23:15
Speaker 1: go back, maybe eyeing the spot where he started things
23:19
Speaker 1: out in New York. So many questions, but we got
23:23
Speaker 1: Calvin Beacham right here to answer those. Congratulations on a
23:26
Speaker 1: solid season, man, looking back, looking at those those Arizona
23:30
Speaker 1: Cardinals highlights, starting all seventeen games. Is this an in
23:34
Speaker 1: your time in Arizona or perhaps an opportunity for you
23:36
Speaker 1: to go back? You know it's it's an opportunity. We'll
23:40
Speaker 1: see how it out plays out. Um, you never know
23:42
Speaker 1: how the business will shake out, but you keep all
23:45
Speaker 1: your cards on the table, and it's an exciting time
23:47
Speaker 1: to be a free agent. The cap just went up,
23:50
Speaker 1: so we know that there's more money out there, but
23:52
Speaker 1: really excited to be a part of this journey and
23:54
Speaker 1: see where it takes me from here. And so we've
23:56
Speaker 1: seen the changes that the franchise is undergone, new look
24:00
Speaker 1: in the front office, new head coach. Are what are
24:03
Speaker 1: your reactions to the move that the Cardinals franchise has
24:06
Speaker 1: made since the start of last season. You know, the
24:10
Speaker 1: thing is, this is a performance based business, and people
24:12
Speaker 1: perform well, you get compensated and you get get to
24:15
Speaker 1: have a job. If you don't perform well, they move
24:18
Speaker 1: on and that's just the nature of the nature of
24:20
Speaker 1: the NFL. But I think, you know, mister Bigwell and
24:22
Speaker 1: the organization have put themselves in a situation to be
24:25
Speaker 1: successful moving forward. They brought in some key hires and
24:28
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how things shake out. Coach Gannam
24:31
Speaker 1: was exceedingly excited for the opportunity to work with Kyler.
24:34
Speaker 1: You've been able to work with Kyler up close and personal.
24:38
Speaker 1: What's your view on the way that Kyler has matured
24:40
Speaker 1: as a football player on and off the field. You know,
24:43
Speaker 1: he started to take some steps forward. But the thing
24:46
Speaker 1: is is I think a number of people, myself included,
24:49
Speaker 1: we're excited to see him take another step forward. You know,
24:51
Speaker 1: he has an evaluation, a healthy contract that he received
24:54
Speaker 1: in the offseason, and we're excited to see him We're
24:56
Speaker 1: go into that particular valuation. With that valuation becomes more expectation,
25:00
Speaker 1: more obligations, and more responsibility. So excited to see him
25:03
Speaker 1: take home those responsibilities and as expectations. Kevin, is there
25:06
Speaker 1: a specific example of a moment or a circumstances you
25:09
Speaker 1: can think of where you could tell people where Kyler
25:12
Speaker 1: has exhibited a need to grow in a particular circumstance.
25:16
Speaker 1: You know, I just think being able to spend time
25:18
Speaker 1: with his teammates outside of the building. That's one step
25:20
Speaker 1: that I saw him take a lot this particularly year,
25:23
Speaker 1: and I was really proud of him in that particular regard.
25:25
Speaker 1: The question is how do you take that up to
25:27
Speaker 1: another level? How do you spend time with teammates during
25:29
Speaker 1: the offseason, and not only just to select group of teammates,
25:32
Speaker 1: but as many of those team as as possible. This
25:35
Speaker 1: is a relationship business at the end of the day,
25:37
Speaker 1: and when those relationships are strong, it bowls well on
25:40
Speaker 1: a football field. When those relationships are fractured, it shows
25:43
Speaker 1: on a football field. So if he's able to continue
25:46
Speaker 1: to build on what he's already started again, I'm excited
25:49
Speaker 1: to see what comes from. Let's talk about another quarterback,
25:52
Speaker 1: because while you were in New York, Aaron Rodgers had
25:54
Speaker 1: won one MVP. You go to Arizona, who wins two
25:57
Speaker 1: more MVPs. If we're juxtaposing the success the quarterbacks have
26:01
Speaker 1: had for the Jets with Aaron Rodgers, there's not much
26:03
Speaker 1: of a comparison. What would do for the franchise to
26:06
Speaker 1: have Aaron Rodgers there? You know, I think it was
26:10
Speaker 1: in a lightning boat through that particular franchise and through
26:14
Speaker 1: that fan base. Um, that fan base is avid, they
26:18
Speaker 1: love the Jets. My kids still chant that Jets chant
26:22
Speaker 1: from time to time. But I know it would do
26:24
Speaker 1: a ton for that franchise and also bring just a
26:27
Speaker 1: different level of excellence to that particular position there in
26:31
Speaker 1: there in New York, Kelvin, at this point where you
26:33
Speaker 1: would potentially maybe you could be going back to to
26:36
Speaker 1: either one of those teams, it could be a third
26:38
Speaker 1: team that you've played with. At this point, do you
26:41
Speaker 1: think about the timeline for an end or is that
26:44
Speaker 1: something you're just going to cross when you get there. Man,
26:47
Speaker 1: I have no insight into when I'm going to stop.
26:51
Speaker 1: If I can play three or four more years, that
26:53
Speaker 1: would really feel good. At this point. My kids in
26:56
Speaker 1: their school schedule kind of dictate how much longer I
26:59
Speaker 1: can play. But if it was up to me, man,
27:00
Speaker 1: if I can play or five more years, it would
27:02
Speaker 1: be a blessing, a blessing to the people that you
27:05
Speaker 1: work with. If you won the Community Award for the
27:07
Speaker 1: PA five times. About to get on a plane to
27:10
Speaker 1: fly to Zambie, tell us about the work that you're
27:11
Speaker 1: going to do there. Yeah, excited to be able to
27:14
Speaker 1: go and serve a Zambia. You know, donate it two
27:17
Speaker 1: whales last year raising funds to be able to get
27:20
Speaker 1: to garner the support to donate another well. That well,
27:25
Speaker 1: in essence, does twenty eight hundred gallons of water a day.
27:29
Speaker 1: That pretty much supplies water for three hundred people per day.
27:32
Speaker 1: That's an essence for football teams. That's one NFL division
27:36
Speaker 1: a day that that water will supply. So excited to
27:38
Speaker 1: go get my hands dirty. My wife and I are
27:40
Speaker 1: heading over that Saturday night, and excited to be able
27:42
Speaker 1: to spend time actually doing the work. It's one thing
27:45
Speaker 1: to just donate and put capital somewhere, but I think
27:47
Speaker 1: it's another thing to actually be able to go and
27:49
Speaker 1: see it, touch it, understand the people that are around
27:51
Speaker 1: in that much like I said earlier, it's a relationship business.
27:53
Speaker 1: I'm excited to go be a relationship start in our region.
27:56
Speaker 1: For people who don't have to deal with this, it
27:58
Speaker 1: probably comes as a shock that a lot of people
28:00
Speaker 1: don't have access to clean and safe water. Having that
28:04
Speaker 1: conversation with people, what's the reaction there, because it seems
28:08
Speaker 1: like so many people aren't even aware that these issues
28:10
Speaker 1: are being faced by so many people around the world. Well,
28:13
Speaker 1: it's been faced here in America and it's being faced
28:16
Speaker 1: at a much deeper level internationally. I mean, it's still
28:19
Speaker 1: issues of water in Jackson, Mississippi, still issues of water
28:22
Speaker 1: in Flitt, Michigan. There were issues with water when I
28:24
Speaker 1: played for the Jets during the work. It's issues here
28:27
Speaker 1: in America, but it's nothing like the issues that they
28:29
Speaker 1: have on the global front and in some of these
28:31
Speaker 1: third world countries. It's one thing to say, hey, I
28:33
Speaker 1: need to get some more bottles of water. It's another
28:36
Speaker 1: thing where you have no access to water, like period,
28:38
Speaker 1: no access to water, you can't feed the cows or
28:41
Speaker 1: feed the animals that you want to be able to
28:42
Speaker 1: take part in to be able to feed yourself. So
28:45
Speaker 1: water is almost like oil and gold to some of
28:48
Speaker 1: the folks in these countries because they don't have access.
28:50
Speaker 1: And I'm excited to be able to shine a light
28:52
Speaker 1: on that, to talk about that and show people how
28:54
Speaker 1: important it is to be able to do something about
28:58
Speaker 1: you know, the problem where everybody keeps talking about, well,
29:00
Speaker 1: let's actually go find a solution, let's find a way
29:02
Speaker 1: to come together, and the NFL talks about it takes
29:06
Speaker 1: all of us, all right, let's let's see what that
29:08
Speaker 1: really means, and let's go do it, and let's go
29:09
Speaker 1: find a way to serve you on the global front.
29:11
Speaker 1: You can definitely make the case more valuable than oil
29:14
Speaker 1: or goal because it actually impacts not just the material condition,
29:18
Speaker 1: but the ability of people to actually live and especially
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Speaker 1: children have the lives that they need to have. Some Kevin,
29:24
Speaker 1: you're going on this trip and you're going to be
29:26
Speaker 1: helping and serving people in global communities, but also as
29:30
Speaker 1: free agency is going to start, how are you managing
29:32
Speaker 1: the time to juxtapose those conversations with the work that
29:36
Speaker 1: you're doing. Man, those conversations will happen naturally. I put
29:41
Speaker 1: my best foot forward for seventeen weeks throughout the NFL season.
29:45
Speaker 1: That work and that body of work speaks for itself.
29:47
Speaker 1: It's nothing that I can say there's going to change
29:49
Speaker 1: the mind of what you see on take. Mike Thoma
29:51
Speaker 1: used to say this all the time. You're fim is
29:53
Speaker 1: your walking, talking, breathing resume. I let the film do
29:56
Speaker 1: the talking, and if somebody wants to take part in
29:59
Speaker 1: the services that I offer, they know how to get
30:01
Speaker 1: in touch with me. Exceedingly simple. The man's had so
30:04
Speaker 1: much success help so many people. It just lays it
30:07
Speaker 1: out playing Kelvin, thank you so much, not just for
30:09
Speaker 1: coming on the show, but for the work that you've
30:11
Speaker 1: always done in the work you're about to do down
30:12
Speaker 1: in Zambie. Thanks for spending time with us on NFL
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