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Aaron Rodgers' Trade Update, Discussion on the Eagles, & Dan Hanzus' Free Agency Power Rankings · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: I know it is the offseason, nobody has played a game,
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  Speaker 1: but we had like a frenzied free agency, so Dan
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  Speaker 1: han Zeus is going to be here to re rank
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  Speaker 1: the teams ahead of the NFL Draft in the league
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  Speaker 1: My name is Andrew Ceciliano. Thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 1: We also have hot off the presses, a brand new
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  Speaker 1: mock draft and the very first mock draft that Daniel Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: our draft expert, has done since we got back from
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  Speaker 1: the combine, and DJ has Bryce Young going number one
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  Speaker 1: overall to the Carolina Panthers. Frank Reich Scott Fitterer has
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  Speaker 1: said yesterday that the top four quarterbacks are all in
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  Speaker 1: all likelihood gonna come in and visit the Panthers. Bryce Young,
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  Speaker 1: who works out in two days live on NFL Plus,
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  Speaker 1: DJ has going one. CJ. Stroud works out tomorrow on
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  Speaker 1: NFL Plus. DJ has him going to then Will Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: then Anthony Richardson at number four. DJ has two more
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the first round. He has Will Levis getting
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen with the Bucketeers and hended hooker Brian Baldinger
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  Speaker 1: going number twenty three to the Minnesota Vikings. We talk
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks last hour. What I also found fascinating is that
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  Speaker 1: DJ has b Jean Robinson, the running back, going fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: overall to the Patriots. What say you to that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's an interesting pit by DJ, and I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: that he's wrong or right. Romandre Stevenson had a great
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  Speaker 1: year last year. In the second year took over for
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  Speaker 1: Damian Harris. Average five yards a carry. You can't expect
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  Speaker 1: any back in this league to average more than that,
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  Speaker 1: and he caught sixty nine passes. He kind of did
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  Speaker 1: it all. But this offense, Andrew, let's face it, it it
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  Speaker 1: needs some pop, it needs some juice. And if there's
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  Speaker 1: one player on offense right now that you know you
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  Speaker 1: can get that, and that's Bijean Robinson in this draft.
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  Speaker 1: And if you know one thing, I think, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Billy O'Brien or Bill Belichick, they want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball. And it's just gonna make life
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  Speaker 1: easier for Mac Jones, and so if you had a
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  Speaker 1: one two punch of Bijean Robinson and Romandre Stevenson, you
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  Speaker 1: would have to respect that running game of the pager.
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  Speaker 1: I know, the run game isn't gonna win you a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of playoff game, but it's gonna get you
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, you know, and then how you play
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  Speaker 1: because this offense needs some juice, and Bijon is that guy,
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  Speaker 1: I think in this draft, and so I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a nice selection by DJ. A little out
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  Speaker 1: of the box, but not far fetched at all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: out of the box. Also will Levis falling to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Buccketeers. That would be fascinating though,
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  Speaker 1: will Levis and Baker Mayfield and yes, Kyle Trask as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, hit the Patriots, let's do the Bills. In
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  Speaker 1: the AFC East, DJ has him taking a wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: with twenty seven overall at a TCU has him taken
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  Speaker 1: Quinton Johnson, which would give Josh Allen a lot of
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  Speaker 1: size on the outside, and that's what he brings. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of different receivers in this draft.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Addison and Jay Flowers are great routers and Jayleen
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  Speaker 1: Hyant's got great speed. But right now, Johnston has a
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  Speaker 1: combination of size. He can run the go routes, he
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  Speaker 1: wins contested balls, He's great in the red zone. Like
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  Speaker 1: you can't coach his size and speed combination and his
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  Speaker 1: leaping ability. And you put that with Josh Allen's arm,
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  Speaker 1: you know, along with what Stefan Diggs does, whatever Gabriel
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  Speaker 1: Davis gives you, like, this is a viable botafied passing
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  Speaker 1: offense now. And I think Quinton Johnston is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that could really make this thing flourish. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it'll be there twenty seven. He's my favorite receiver
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  Speaker 1: in the draft because of the things I just spoke about,
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  Speaker 1: And so some other teams may covet that same big
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  Speaker 1: X receivers the way you see from a DK Metcalfe
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  Speaker 1: and some of those type players in his league. But
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  Speaker 1: that's what he's capable of doing. And I think you'd
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  Speaker 1: be a great fit if he could last to Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. You put him opposite Stefon Digs. The news yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Devin's Singletary out and Damien Harris is in. As he
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  Speaker 1: said at Running back there in the backfield behind Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Boldinger, Thank you, Sir, Baldi's coming right back in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime. Need to check the box here on our
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  Speaker 1: daily update, our daily dose if you will of Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: If you were waiting for the trade to go down
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  Speaker 1: this morning, think again. As of now it is not
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  Speaker 1: yet gone down. But because Mike Garifolo is here, he's
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  Speaker 1: our edit on the Organsider today, we're gonna ask either
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  Speaker 1: Mike ask what Mark Murphy is saying this time, or
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  Speaker 1: I guess for that better not saying this is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit new. He can't talk about it. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: can't talk about it. Well, he's sworn the secrecy. Well yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's the way it's supposed to be. But
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  Speaker 1: we knew from the comments previous, previously from Mark Murphy
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  Speaker 1: that it seems pretty clear that the Packers are looking
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  Speaker 1: to move on to Jordan Love and complete this trade
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  Speaker 1: with the New York Jets. So I again tell you
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  Speaker 1: that we are just in a waiting period, and I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if this is something that we're waiting
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  Speaker 1: on through the month of March into the month of April.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe closer to the draft, because that's where the point
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  Speaker 1: where the Jets are going to tell the Packers, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know the value of our picks right now. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you want this year's picks versus next year's picks, because
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  Speaker 1: if you wait till after the draft, then it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be next year's picks. Now, the Packers might just
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  Speaker 1: be willing to wait through that and then say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we think your picks are gonna be better next year
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  Speaker 1: because you're upgrading a quarterback, so now we need more
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  Speaker 1: picks in addition to what we were already asking for.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's a process playing out. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a stair down. There's no rush on the
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  Speaker 1: Jets end. They'd only need Aaron Rodgers in there, shure,
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  Speaker 1: they'd love to have him sooner rather than later. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not like he's got to get in there and
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  Speaker 1: get caught up with the system. He can have his
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  Speaker 1: own throwing session wherever he wants with his wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: He can set that up in California, he can come
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  Speaker 1: to Jersey to do it. It's not a great rush
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  Speaker 1: on the Jets end. It's not a great rush on
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  Speaker 1: the Packers end. So we'll see where it goes. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Murphy's not gonna tell us, although we're gonna try again.
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  Speaker 1: We've got the league meetings next week in Arizona. We'll
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  Speaker 1: try to get something out of it. Which maybe something
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  Speaker 1: happens with Mark Murphy, the Packers president there and Woody Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the Jets owner, expected to be there as well, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe they get together and something actually happens. I also
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  Speaker 1: think there's an interesting date here to watch after the draft.
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  Speaker 1: The draft is z April twenty seventh, but the week
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  Speaker 1: after is the deadline for picking up fifth year options,
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  Speaker 1: and the Packers would have to pick up Jordan Loves
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  Speaker 1: fifth year option, which right now, if he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the guy you'd think they'd pick up. But that
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  Speaker 1: is locking him in for twenty twenty four at an
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  Speaker 1: eight figure yeah salary. Just another right date, which which
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  Speaker 1: the Giants did not do for Daniel Jones and said,
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  Speaker 1: if we have to come back and give you the
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  Speaker 1: franchise tag, we're willing to do that. It's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a gamble. It's a bad problem or it's a
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  Speaker 1: good problem to have. Excuse me. Maybe the Packers do that,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see and obviously jack the price up. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Shane said, if if you knew that Daniel James would play,
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  Speaker 1: I would also say this too. By the way, there
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  Speaker 1: are agents of backup quarterbacks that would like to get
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  Speaker 1: their clients into Green Bay, and the packers are like,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, well, let's see where this Rogers. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of got everything on hold. From that standpoint for you,
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  Speaker 1: all right, what's the deal with DeAndre Hopkins? We had
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  Speaker 1: the trade for Brandon Cooks over the weekend. Is DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins the next veteran wide receiver to get moved? Ian
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  Speaker 1: Rappaport reporting this morning that talks are heating up for
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. I'm told that nothing is imminent, but Rappaport
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  Speaker 1: has got a pretty good track record of reporting things,
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  Speaker 1: So I'll stand by my colleague and say, yes, talks
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  Speaker 1: are heating has messed up, talks are heating up. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's only joking, but yes, DeAndre Hopkins got
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  Speaker 1: a big number this year, nineteen and a half million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what I was told today from a financial standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: He's not looking to do what he did last time,
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  Speaker 1: which was that trade from Houston to Arizona and then
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  Speaker 1: boom huge contract extension on top of that, which is
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  Speaker 1: part of the reason we're at a big number this year.
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  Speaker 1: This is more of he understands he's got to make
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  Speaker 1: the contract more palatable for whatever team is acquiring him.
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  Speaker 1: If not so much about the finances, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: it's more of a fit and a competitive standpoint for
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins here. All right, we just saw the conversation
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  Speaker 1: Mike with Baldy about Bejean Robinson going fourteen to the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Daniel Jeremiah is mocking. What's today's date. It's
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  Speaker 1: only the twenty first tier of March. We're still five
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  Speaker 1: weeks away from the draft. Bejean Robinson, though, was visiting
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  Speaker 1: the team today that has the tenth overall pick, is
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  Speaker 1: the tenth overall pick and the thirtieth overall pick, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles getting that tenth from a trade with the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans Saints last year. So I don't see it happening
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  Speaker 1: at ten for Bijean Robinson and the Eagles. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he lasts till thirty. DJ's got him at fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: So maybe this is some kind of slide up scenario. Potentially,
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  Speaker 1: or the Eagles just saying, hey, we've got these pre
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  Speaker 1: draft visits, we're going to take an advantage of them.
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  Speaker 1: So they are meeting with Beijean Robinson today in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: That's what that post was about there last night. He
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  Speaker 1: had arrived in town last night. Look, we know how
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  Speaker 1: talented he is. We know also that running backs in
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  Speaker 1: the first round a lot of teams say not, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to do that. The Eagles haven't taken on
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty six when it was Keith Buyers. It
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  Speaker 1: was more than just a running back, and certainly it
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  Speaker 1: was a different era back then in the NFL. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see how he Rosemen doing it at ten, But
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  Speaker 1: you know, who knows what that last pick or maybe
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  Speaker 1: a slide up scenario. I know DJ has talked about
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles and Bijean Robinson being an amazing fit. He
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  Speaker 1: feels like it would be a good time for Howie
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  Speaker 1: to do something he's never done, which is take a
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  Speaker 1: running back in the first round. We shall see, all right,
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  Speaker 1: be Jean Robinson sitting there today in Philadelphia. They're picking
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  Speaker 1: ten and thirty in good job working Keith Buyers into
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  Speaker 1: the show. We're now going to work Cam Newton into
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  Speaker 1: the show, because Cam made himself a news item last night,
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  Speaker 1: putting out a well produced video in which he calls
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  Speaker 1: out other quarterbacks in the NFL, said, there aren't thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: bleep it. He bleeps better than me out there, and
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  Speaker 1: then he is working out today at Auburn Pro day. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: is there any noise of Cam Newton getting back in, Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's noise at the pro day today and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if we have even still shots yet. He showed
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  Speaker 1: up in some Zuba's pants. I saw some shots on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter from from very far look like they might be
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  Speaker 1: Auburn ubas pants. Yeah, go check it out. That Cam
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  Speaker 1: Newton certainly looking at some of these, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: if there's not thirty two, he's looking at the starters,
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  Speaker 1: but he's also looking at the backups and some of
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  Speaker 1: these guys that have signed, I'm sure with a chance
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  Speaker 1: to potentially compete depending on the team in the situation
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  Speaker 1: and who's the starter. So Cam Newton saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: if I gotta show people that I still got it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show people that I still got it instead
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  Speaker 1: of having to go work out for teams, let me
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  Speaker 1: do it at Auburn's pro day. Also gonna throw it
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  Speaker 1: to his younger brother who was out of William and
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  Speaker 1: Mary formerly of Auburn, as Tom Pallacero noted. So that
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  Speaker 1: is happening shortly down there at the Auburn pro day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if it's impressive enough for some teams to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let's take a look at Cam new
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  Speaker 1: all right, he's wearing Auburn colored zooboz. Looks like he's
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  Speaker 1: lost some weight. Well, we'll effort these photos. Try to
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  Speaker 1: work him in a little bit later, Cam Newton, different outfit, certainly, Garafolo,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, La la la la la la Jeper Fields
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  Speaker 1: cutch inside looking for the b line into the end
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  Speaker 1: zone for the touchdown. Look to bienzone touchdown justin Fields
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  Speaker 1: and he hit the gas early. Bion's looking at prout
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  Speaker 1: down throw screen much twenty touchdown in the pocket. Now
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  Speaker 1: runs away in the thirty five to thirty get the
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  Speaker 1: first down. He got out of trouble. I have no idea, guys,
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  Speaker 1: pretty good, Now what do you do? Heading into year
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  Speaker 1: number three here? The Bears have made it pretty obvious
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  Speaker 1: here the last two weeks going back to the combine
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  Speaker 1: that the role of having the number one pick, which
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  Speaker 1: they since traded is not to replace Justin Field. Justin
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  Speaker 1: fields A big part it is to build around Justin fields.
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  Speaker 1: And they have not been shy Brian Baldinger in making
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  Speaker 1: moves here and spending money and trading down to number nine.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they trade again, maybe they move back up.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of what Ryan Poles has done
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  Speaker 1: in terms of putting Justin Fields in a position to
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  Speaker 1: succeed in year three? Well, it really helps Andrew that
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  Speaker 1: he has the number one pick based on the three
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  Speaker 1: wins a year ago. Disappointing for all Bear fans, But
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  Speaker 1: with the number one pick in a year where you're
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  Speaker 1: getting these quarterbacks that are is just in heavy demand,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't always happen that way, and so that you
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  Speaker 1: can make a trade, you know, between Caroline and yourself,
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  Speaker 1: drop down to nine, acquire a bunch of extra picks
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  Speaker 1: and Dj Moore which becomes their number one receiver. You
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  Speaker 1: get Darnell Mooney back, you get Robert ton Unit a
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  Speaker 1: tight end with you know, with colecome At, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you bring in Nate Davis, who's been a four year
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  Speaker 1: starter Tennessee at guard, and all of a sudden you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've identified Justin Fields as our starter. What can we
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  Speaker 1: do to help him? I think it helped that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: matt Eberfloss hired Luke Getsy to come in to be
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator because I like Luke a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: I really like a lot of things he did with Justin.
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  Speaker 1: And you can see this thing coming together, maybe pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And look, I don't know, ninety million dollars for Tremaine
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  Speaker 1: Edmonds and t J. Edwards is worth the bang. But
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  Speaker 1: he likes his two inside linebackers. They never come off
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  Speaker 1: the field if there's productive as they weren't Buffalo and Philly,
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  Speaker 1: he probably, you know, really struck gold and those two
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  Speaker 1: players right there, all right, try to get Tremaine Edmonds
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  Speaker 1: to play the role that they had Mattieberflus had with
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  Speaker 1: Darius Leonard back in Indianapolis. Who spend the money? You
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  Speaker 1: tried to upgrade that defense. It certainly needed to be upgraded.
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  Speaker 1: I want to flip here to the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 1: ask the same question about putting a quarterback, a young
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in this case Jordan Love in position to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit different here, though, Baldy Brian Goodacoon's
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  Speaker 1: because until they make the Aaron Rodgers move, assuming they do,
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  Speaker 1: they're a little bit handcuffed as to the other moves
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  Speaker 1: they can make to put guys around Jordan Love, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so Jordan Love still says, yeah, what about me,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's my turn now? And I don't have Robert Tanyan,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have Alana's ard and I've seen receivers
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  Speaker 1: go out the door of the year before, and what
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  Speaker 1: am I? You know, Okay, we've got Christian Watson and
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  Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs and Aaron Jones. Okay, all right, what else
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  Speaker 1: do we have? Because there's they literally have sat on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines here and watch all the free agency, all
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  Speaker 1: this money, and really that's been the Green Bay's modus offer,
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  Speaker 1: Ronde is they don't partake in free agency very often.
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  Speaker 1: And you wonder, Okay, they've won a super Bowl, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Brett Farr and won with Aaron Rodgers, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: if they had played in free agency a lot more
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  Speaker 1: than they did, maybe they'd have more than two Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowls between those two Hall of Fame quarterbacks. And so
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  Speaker 1: George Love is sitting there, knowing the track record and
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  Speaker 1: knowing that they're not going to overpay for players. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to build to the draft ball. Okay, if you
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  Speaker 1: hit on your draft picks. And right now, there looks
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  Speaker 1: to be some real holes in that offense right now
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  Speaker 1: for Jordan Love to take, you know, go underneath center
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  Speaker 1: whoever that's going to be, and you know, start the
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  Speaker 1: off season. And if they had made this move with
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers a couple of weeks ago, maybe they could
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  Speaker 1: have been a little bit more aggressive in free agency.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they could have filled some of those holes right now. However,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of had a sale made, as Garafolo just said,
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  Speaker 1: there with Mark Murphy sworn to secrecy, Brian Baldinger, thank
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  Speaker 1: you all rights to the bucket. Here's Baker Mayfield is
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  Speaker 1: on the show yesterday, fresh off signing his new contract
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  Speaker 1: with the Bucks. He is yet again betting on himself
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  Speaker 1: and trying to fill in his own way some very
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  Speaker 1: big shoes. Listen, I'm never gonna be Tom Brady. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason he has won so many Super Bowls. He's
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of all the time, there's no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna try and beat Tom. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be me. That's what's gotten me to this point. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it differently, but that's what makes this league
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  Speaker 1: so special. Everybody puts their own touch on it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's an honor to follow up with somebody
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: like that. And I'm definitely the people that have played
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: with him around here, I'm gonna pick their brain this
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to the things he did, there's no doubt about that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Mayfield told me after that he's gonna walk at his
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: own shoes. Now try to walk in Tom Brady's shoes.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: As we have a full scale change here across the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: NFC South at quarterback a division last year, Sarah Walsh
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: that was only really separated by one game here, anyone
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: could have one, and I mean Carolina Panthers well documented
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: could a one of Week seventeen. The Bucks obviously did,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: but everybody was in it. And now we have, I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: guess a quarterback battle. I mean, you think the former
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick has the clear advantage here over
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Kyle Trask, but it's not like they're handing Baker the job.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I think Baker Mayfield does have the clear advantage. I mean,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: look at his NFL experience to compared to Kyle Trasks,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and there's no comparison. Their Trask has thrown just nine
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: NFL passes. He has just three NFL completions. It's really
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: been like a red shirt couple of seasons for Kyle Trasks.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Since Tom Brady got here, which is the same time
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Trask arrived, he was a second round draft pick. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: think they have to give Kyle trasky chance to win
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: this job. They need to see what they have in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: that second round pick. But most people believe that when
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Week one rolls around, it will probably be Baker Mayfield
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: starting for this Buccaneers team. Now, one way that this
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers offense is going to be vastly different from the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: ones that we've in the past couple of years is
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: this offense is not going to revolve around just one guy.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And that is not said with disrespect to Tom, but
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. This team was built around Tom Brady. It
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: was built to win, It was built to win a championship,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and they accomplished all of those goals. And Jason Lytton
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles said as much as the combine that this
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: is no longer going to be about just one guy.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: So when Baker was asked what it's going to be
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: like to play in this offensive system, and granted, nobody
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: really completely knows because it's a brand new offensive coordinator
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and Dave Canalis, Baker said it's is going to be
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: his job to distribute the ball. He understands Canalis wants
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to run the ball better. That was certainly a weakness
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of this Buccaneers team a year ago. You've got basically
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: three offensive line positions up for grabs when it comes
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: to the starters. The only definitive starters there Ryan Jensen
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and Tristan Worth. So they really need to solidify that line.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I suspect they'll try to do that through the draft
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: as well. But Baker's job is to be a ball distributor.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dave Canalis coming Sarah from c Addle where he
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: was the quarterback coach. This past year, Gino Smith had
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a pretty good season defensive side of the ball. Obviously,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: cash is an issue here of the salary cap is
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: an issue. Last year, surprising people brought Carlton Davis back.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: This year, I think surprising people brought Lavante David back.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: What's this defense looking like under Todd Bowles here in
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the off season where we sit Sarah. I think this
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: defense is no question that this defense is going to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: be the strength of this Buccaneer's team. Baker said as
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: much yesterday. He said, this defense is going to be
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: really good. That's what's so attractive about coming to the Buccaneers.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: He said, he understands that the defense led by Todd
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Bowles is going to keep games very low scoring, so
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: then it's on them as an offense to best that. Now,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Jamal Dean. The return of Jamal I think was a
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: real surprise to some people because he was a very
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: attractive free agent, and said the Bucks managed to bring
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: him back four years, fifty two million dollars. So that
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: was a huge win for a buccaneer's team that I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: think was prepared that the reality was he was going
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to be so sought after that they would lose him.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So huge victory for the Buccaneers. They're a huge victory
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that they were able to bring Lavonte David back. Andrew
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and I apologize because clearly my voice is going a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: huge victory to get through the segment without your voice going. However,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I was trying Andrew, thank you, you did it. You
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: stuck the landing. You are watching NFL now on a Tuesday.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Let's turn our attention yet again to the reigning NFC champions. Yes, Swedo,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: they are in position to resign Jalen Hurts. What that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: contract looks like? I don't know, take a guess, but
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: as they try to figure that out, and oh he's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: earned it, look at who's coming in and going out
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: of the door the Novercare Complex in Philadelphia. Can you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: tell that Adrian in Research who put this board together
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: is an Eagles fan because he not only included all
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the player movement, he included all the coaching movement as well.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: This is not Adrian Jeff Shidia hannicking about how they've lost.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: This is him just saying that it's a lot and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: they've also fought a lot of guys in fought a
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: lot of guys back James Bradbury, Darius Slay for example,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey also big, have they done enough trying to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: keep a division winning in a conference winning team together.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: You're making my segment for me, and I know the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: NFCS has a head of a Pea champion in a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: long time, but I like what the Eagles have done.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The names you mentioned with Kelsey, Fletcher Cox as part
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of that group, Brandon Graham as well. I think they
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: kept the culture going there. And some of these guys
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: are older in age, they're in your thirties, but when
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you're run that team last year, you really noticed the chemistry,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the love in the locker room. Having those guys back
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: will make a difference in General manager Howie Roseman spoke
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to this at the combine where he said, look, people
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: act like the office and starts when we start freaking out.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: They've been preparing for this and so they have some
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: answers like Jordan Davis to replace a Jabon Hargrave and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: then Nakobe Deane to replace the TJ. Edwards. They have
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: people in the mix, so they'll be ready, and I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: think they're still the best team in the NFC East. Okay,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: let's go to the NFC South. There mentioned again the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, who were in it with Steve wilkeson until
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Week seventeen this past year. They have the number one pick.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: They likely go with the rookie quarterback. They could go
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: with Andy dald at least to start here. Remains to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: be seen how long he would hang on to that job.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: But with feeling with Miles Sanders and with the state
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of that division, can Frank Right win it in year one? Well,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I think it's quite possible because anybody could have won
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it last year. It wasn't like it was that difficult
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: of a division. And I know Derek Carr landed in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. But when you look at how the Carolina
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Panthers are setting themselves up to play football with a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, they have what you want. They have a
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: good run game with Miles Sanders replacing the Deante Foreman.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: They add a Hayden Hurst at tight end. People freaked
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: out when they lost you Day Moore and at trade
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to Chicago, but Adam Feeling comes in, you know, a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: veteran receiver as well. But what I like it is
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a defense and Scott Fitterer there. General Manner has talked
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: about his excitement for this defense, how explosive and athletic
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: it can be. Their middle of the road last yearful
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you look at guys like Ryan Burns, J. C. Horne,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and you add a playmaker safety like Bond Bell, they
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: are going to be better on that side. Of the football.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So defense, run game, young quarterback. Yeah, they can do
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it in that division. We're telling you there's a chance,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: especially in the NFC South. Thank you, Jeff Jadid. Big
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: congratulations to Devin mccordy, noted brother of the star of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, who at this hour is doing his
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: big goodbye in Foxboro, announced his retirement recently after thirteen
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: seasons a three time Super Bowl champion. He's on the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: podium now talking about a lot of things, in gluding
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: his former teammate Kevin Falk And I think back to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: just my time here was really defined by my rookie year,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: my lock or being by Kevin's because Kevin played running back,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: played fourteen seasons of running back. But he would always
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: just pour into me. We would sit there and he'd
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: be like, man, you know, you gotta get a routine.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Like whatever your routine is, you just do it day
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in and day out. If they move the game, you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: just move your routine. But you stick to your routine.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So I used to get in a sauna every day
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: because keV got in a song. I hated getting in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the sauna, but he was like, build a routine. I was,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know, what I want to do, So I'm
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: just gonna follow Kevin James Sanders and that's what I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: would do for like half my rookie years. I figure
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: out I don't like this, I want to get in
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the cold up and then each year I might switch
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: something up little, but I stuck to that routine for
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: thirteen years. And that's what this building has been a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: part of for me. Has been so many individuals that
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: cared about other individuals more than themselves, taking the time
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to do great things. And I think that starts off
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: with mister Kraft. Any random morning you come down in
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the morning meeting where bills running to meet, and mister
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Kraft will be sitting in the back of the meeting
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: room and other guys would come to this team as
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: free agents and they'd be like, who is that, and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's the owner. That's mister Kraft, and they'd
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: be sitting there like he comes at these meetings. I'm like, yeah,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: he truly loves this business. And I'm just so thankful
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that my time here started with the two guys at
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the top really believing in me and wanting me to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: be here. Bro the even free agency, So wow, let's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: just say the off season begins today. The Panthers now
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: control the draft. Sources say they have traded up from
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the number nine overall pick all the way to number one,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Derek Carr agreeing to a contract with the New Orleans Saints.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears are signing Tremaine Edmonds, the star linebacker
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: formally of the Buffalo Bills. Jimmy g headed to the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Raiders after six years with the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Seed is a blockbuster trade the New York Giants acquiring
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: start tight end Darren Waller or Orlando Brown. He's on
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: his way to the Bengals. The Lions are signing former
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Pairs running back David Montgomery. Javon Hargrave was going to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine is for four years, eighty
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: four million dollars. Breaking news here. Cowboys are releasing Ezekiel Elliott.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: It's official now. In Miami, the Dolphins have an outstare
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: trade with the Rams for safety Jalen Ramsey. I'll be
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: back on the air tomorrow waiting on Eric. So there's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: nothing you could say, There's nothing you could say. They
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: can make it better, You're right. Other than that, it's over.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Free agency has kind of sort over. That was all
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: last week. And by the way, I said safety Jalen
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Ramsey because the Dolphins announced him as a safety. Then
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: they took the tweet down and called him a corner.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Either way, a lot of people have spent a lot
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of money in the last week. This also includes resigning
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: your own guys. So let's redo the power rankings everybody
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Power Rankings everybody. Dan Hanzus puts
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: them together and high Dan, not surprisingly, the Chiefs are one,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the Eagles or two. You get it. But let's move
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: down your New York Jets and you say that this
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: is assuming Aaron Rodgers is there. Have moved up from
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: sixteen to nine, So you got them in the top ten, Dan,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but you don't have them like in the top five
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: or six. Well, you refer to me before the break
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: as a Jet spokesman. Pushback on that, but you understand
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Andrew that I do my best as as a analyst
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to keep my Jets fandom out of these things. And
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I'm doing that. I'm doing my best. This is straight
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: up looking at this roster and looking at what a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: not a good quarterback, but a potentially great quarterback could
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: do for an offense. Now, we need that offensive line
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to be healthy. And I don't say we as the Royal,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: we as the Jets and more talking about football and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the coverage of it covered myself there. The offensive line
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: needs to get healthier. They need to add is probably
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: through the draft, and they're gonna need to hold on
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to that first round pick. I think that's what's holding
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: up that trade. But you have a great trio of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: wide receivers, you have interesting tight ends. Breeze Hall could
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: be a star. If Aaron Rodgers is good too, great
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: this offense is going to score a lot of points.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, they had arguably the best
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: defense in football for a large portion of last season
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: top ten. They deserve that spot. Let's see what happens next.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: He's got to get there first. Now he's got to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: get there first. We have a lot to get to. Oh,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: by the way, I just want to throw this thing
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in real quick. You call this leverage gate like Watergate
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: was nineteen seventy four. This isn't you. This just means overall,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: like why we so have to use the suffix and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: gate for anything? I don't get it anymore. I think
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we can move past that. That said, let's get to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the right calls. You're the Vikings who won the division, right,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: who had a home playoff game, who lost. Obviously, going
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: from ten to sixteen, I know they've lost some pieces
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: on defense, but that's a big drop, Dan, Yeah. And
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: part of that is because and I did the Power
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: rankings with you every week for NFL Now and we
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: talked about it often that I really struggled to put
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Vikings in a place as an NFL superpower despite
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: their record, which ended up at thirteen and four, because
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it did feel like this was a much closer to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a nine or ten win team and it was just
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: one of those years. And I stand by that. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I do think the roster is changing. Adam DeLand now
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: is out of there. I thought the Alexander Madison signing
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: was interesting in that Dalvin Cook, I don't know if
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: he's on this roster. Week one, Harrison Smith took a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: haircut to stay around. I like the Brian flores hiher
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: The defense needs to be better, but I just see
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: this team is closer to the middle than a true
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: upper echelon team, and maybe in a little bit of
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: transition this year as well, Andrew, So we had Tom
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Brady on I'm sorry, I had Baker Mayfield on yesterday.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Who who is you know? Now? The daunting task of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: replacing Tom Brady? Dan, The Bucks were a playoff team
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: last year at twenty four, at twenty three, you have
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: them at twenty four and al due respect to Baker,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a Baker guy. Here. You have them
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: basically the same with Tom Brady on the beach and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield there's their new quarterback. Yeah, because Tom Brady,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to me, for most of last season was about a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: league average quarterback. Is as crazy as that is, and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I think that's part of the reason he's retired is
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: because of that. I think Baker comes with the highs
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and lows. But as we talk about, Andrew, it's not
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the power standings, it's the power rankings. They did make
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, but they were not a very good team.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I think they're a middling team another team in transition.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I think Baker wins this job over Kyle trust the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: former second round pick. And it's interesting to me that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: they brought back Lavante David and doesn't look like Mike
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Evans is going anywhere. So they're looking to win the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: NFC South. But I think this is, you know, right now,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to me, an eight or nine win type team at best.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Hence their placement. I got twenty seconds. Sean Payton, in
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: my opinion, should get the Broncos more than three spots up.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: You're not impressed. It's not that I'm not impressed. I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: just he has a big job ahead of him and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: such a huge question mark with Russell Wilson. I like
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: what they did adding McGlinchey and powers to the offensive line.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: If you get to see if Wilson can play the guitar,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: then give him some better protection than see what he
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: can do. I thought it was very interesting Andrew Jared
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Stidham the aggressive move to get him. I just wonder
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: how long Wilson's rope is. I would say maybe six weeks.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be a full season
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Wilson struggling. If that indeed is the road they go down,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you now have me thinking, can Russell Wilson play the guitar?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And if so, can it be worked in somehow into
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: an awkward offseason commercial. Dan Hanzus the Power Rankings dot
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Com Power rankings. The Jets are in the top ten
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, even though they don't have Aaron Rodgers.
• 31:48
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