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Speaker 1: Sickle touchdown and that ties the game at twenty. Butckers
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Speaker 1: with the Chiefs as the a n C champions. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to the Manifest Capture Game Fight her Crackberty has been
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Speaker 1: Air Profit Control. The Clock of Eagles is heading to Arizona. Everybody,
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Speaker 1: we love to do another hour of NFL Now, Patrick
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Speaker 1: Clay Bond, Steve Why is here in the NFL l
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Speaker 1: A newsroom as we've got our team set for Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl fifteen seven, the Chiefs and the Eagles. The Eagles
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Speaker 1: with the dominant performance and the Chiefs winning in the classic,
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Speaker 1: winning in a classic and a great game with the
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Speaker 1: Bengals again. Bengals fans are unhappy with their mayor and
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Speaker 1: the officials. The Chiefs fans they're happy with their quarterback
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Speaker 1: in their kicker. Yeah they should be. They should be
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Speaker 1: We'll talk more Chiefs later, but let's look back to
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Speaker 1: the earlier game. It was between the forty Honors and
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. Jalen Hurts looking to get another playoff win,
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Speaker 1: and there's this set coach Nick Sirianni making a decision
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Speaker 1: on fourth and three, and it turned out to be
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Speaker 1: the right one, big time play. Look at this throw.
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Speaker 1: Davante Smith goes up snares it. Replay shows he actually
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Speaker 1: didn't catch it, but he had to wear with all
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Speaker 1: to say, let's hurry up, let's run the play, and
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Speaker 1: they got the playoff. So Kylie Shanahan doesn't challenge, and
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Speaker 1: this is the end result. It is a Miles Sanders
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Speaker 1: touchdown on second and goalie and Jason Kelsey have a
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Speaker 1: dance in. Nick Sirianni gaps him up and then the
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Speaker 1: fort is gonna chance on offense. Early in the game,
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Speaker 1: they have a tight end on a Son Reddick and
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Speaker 1: he smashes brought Purdy's elbow. Yeah, I mean this, this
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Speaker 1: changed everything. She brought Purdy as the hands coming forward,
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Speaker 1: his elbow gets whipped back. Suffers right now is being
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Speaker 1: called the uc el spraininger. Are wrath words reboarding and
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Speaker 1: app but he could not come back into the game.
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Speaker 1: That had to kill him until his coach, I can't
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Speaker 1: go yah said he could barely have feeling, could only
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Speaker 1: throw the ball five yards. So incomes Josh Johnson fourteen
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Speaker 1: to seven. Johnson takes his eyes maybe looking at the
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Speaker 1: snap instead of Son. Reddick has a phone. Boy, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and then that opened up the flood gates. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Niners have stayed competitive to that point, and the
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Speaker 1: Niners finished things off blood Boston Scott gets to the outside,
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Speaker 1: the Monte Smith gets a nice block on ward, and
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Speaker 1: Boston Scott has a touchdown not against the Giants. I
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Speaker 1: think it's like his eighth not Giants touchdown of his career.
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Speaker 1: And then uh, Josh Johnson would later leave the game
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Speaker 1: with the concussion. So Brod Perny comes back in the
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Speaker 1: then Jalen Hurts rods the wave of Eagles into the
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Speaker 1: end zone. So dominant with that quarterbacks. I just love
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Speaker 1: that muchpit formation. I'm telling you something big is coming
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Speaker 1: out of that Super Bowl. They get tick books. He's
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Speaker 1: calling its. He's called the trick player, the pumble rouse key.
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Speaker 1: Maybe snap it to somebody that's he's pretending to be
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Speaker 1: off the field. Either way, The Eagles dominant yet again,
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Speaker 1: defense holds another playoff team to less than ten points
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Speaker 1: seven points for the forty Honors thirty one to seven.
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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni going to his first Super Bowl, Brandon Graham
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Speaker 1: going to another one with philipil It's something you you
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Speaker 1: dream about your whole life. And uh, like I said
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Speaker 1: to the guys that whether you we've all been dreaming
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Speaker 1: about it, whether you were dreaming about it when you
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Speaker 1: were to ten, uh fourteen eighteen or when you got
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, um this is something we all dream
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Speaker 1: about and we get to do it because you know,
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Speaker 1: we did it better than anybody else in the NFC
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Speaker 1: this year, So how we knows. Guys put together, great team,
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Speaker 1: great personalities people actually that really you know, I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to be here, and man, I'm just excited because
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Speaker 1: I know that, you know, we ain't done yet, and
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Speaker 1: them boys still hungry like like like like Jayalen said,
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Speaker 1: were starving, starving for and then you can tell just
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Speaker 1: about how we practice. So I'm just enjoying being in
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Speaker 1: here right now, even though white pebody cuts me out
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Speaker 1: because I'm late because I'm kids gotta go to school
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Speaker 1: tomorrow let you know what, we're having fun, just trying
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Speaker 1: to just keep enjoying this moment right now. A couple
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Speaker 1: of football family moments from the two Eagles there in
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Speaker 1: terms of their quarterback, the highest win percentage by the
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback including the playoffs in a single season, Jalen
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Speaker 1: Hurts right there, sixteen and one with a chance to
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Speaker 1: be yet another yes on this list. In fact, they
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Speaker 1: only know comes courtesy touchdowntown. But that loss to Eli
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Speaker 1: Manning and the Giants, because there's Mark Ross as well
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Speaker 1: as Omar Louis to talk about this game. Omar, in
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Speaker 1: that locker room, you heard from the Philly faithful and
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Speaker 1: the fans yesterday. What did the Eagles say about their
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Speaker 1: trip to this people, well, nothing about Jubilasian. In that
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Speaker 1: Eagles locker room, a lot of talk about not being
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Speaker 1: finished the jobs certainly not done yet, but so many
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Speaker 1: different stories coming out of the locker room. You have
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Speaker 1: a guy like Fletcher Cox, who liked Brandon Graham. There
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Speaker 1: was a part of the Super Bowl fifty two championship
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Speaker 1: Eagles team, Lane Johnson, Jason Kelsey, pillars of that team
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Speaker 1: still around for this one, and Cox told me that
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Speaker 1: he appreciates this journey even more this stage in his career.
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Speaker 1: He appreciates how hard it is to get there. And
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Speaker 1: then you have a player like Hassan Reddick, who had
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Speaker 1: the game changing play the sack fumble on brock Prudy there. Remember,
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Speaker 1: he was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round.
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Speaker 1: Was considered a bust, average just two and a half
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Speaker 1: sacks his first three seasons, and his last year as
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Speaker 1: a Cardinal, he starts to come to life. His last
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Speaker 1: three years, he's averaging better than thirteen sacks per game,
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Speaker 1: including sixteen this past season with the Eagles. He comes
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Speaker 1: home here to Philadelphia, and now he returns to Arizona
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Speaker 1: a super Bowl hero. He told me how life comes
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Speaker 1: full circle like that, he can be more thrilled to
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Speaker 1: have this opportunity. It's two of the many storylines will
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Speaker 1: follow all two weeks leading into Super Bowl fifty seven.
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Speaker 1: But certainly the Eagles appreciative of this opportunity, which is
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Speaker 1: exactly how they're treating it. And Mark, this Eagles team
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Speaker 1: runs for a hundred forty eight yards the forty and
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Speaker 1: owners hadn't seen the team run for that many yards
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Speaker 1: against them since week six. A dominant performance up front. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it really it's endless with who you can talk
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Speaker 1: about on this Eagles team. As Omar mentioned, I mean
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Speaker 1: every single position group that the Eagles have. You've got
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Speaker 1: Pro bowlers and stars, young guys, veterans. Whatever you want,
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Speaker 1: the Eagles have it and we've seen that on display
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Speaker 1: all year long. With they can win games in any
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Speaker 1: way possible that you want. They can go high scoring,
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Speaker 1: they can grind it out, they can run at you,
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Speaker 1: they can play defense and shut you down and get
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Speaker 1: sacks and at all. But as you mentioned, it all
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Speaker 1: starts up front with those those dudes up front, with
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Speaker 1: Kelsey and Lane Johnson who completely just blew hold wide
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Speaker 1: open holes play after play for the running backs there.
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Speaker 1: You know, I really protected Jalen Hurts. Jalen had a
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Speaker 1: lot of time. I didn't think he looked on comfortable
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Speaker 1: throwing the ball yesterday only fifteen completions a one yards.
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Speaker 1: But again the mark of the Eagles is he made
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Speaker 1: huge plays when he needed to make the plays, and
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Speaker 1: then they ran the ball. The defense didn't really have
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Speaker 1: to put in much work at their certain point once
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Speaker 1: the top two quarterbacks one out there. But this is
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Speaker 1: just the mark of this team where they are just
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Speaker 1: so talented and well coached and starving. As Jalen said,
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Speaker 1: and Brandon Graham said that Jalen have they had that
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Speaker 1: hunger and they get feeling that they're right there. They've
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Speaker 1: shown this all year. It's not a flute. This is
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Speaker 1: a talented team there. Patrick and Mark you mentioned that
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Speaker 1: about the defense being able to face a one dimensional
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Speaker 1: team because of the injuries that came to the quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: In set for for San Francisco, Brock Party leads with
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Speaker 1: the elbow injury and then Josh Johnson uh leaves the
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Speaker 1: game with a concussion. Here's what Brock Party and the
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Speaker 1: forty Niners have to say after the game. You know,
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Speaker 1: my arm I just felt like it stretched out. Um
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Speaker 1: just felt like really a lot of just shocks all
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Speaker 1: over from my elbow down to my wrist, front and back.
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Speaker 1: UM just paying really all over for this to happen.
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Speaker 1: It's in the first drive, really of man, like, this
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Speaker 1: is the kind of game we have to play After
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Speaker 1: the first drive and I'm just I'm just frustrated. Um,
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Speaker 1: But it's more sad for those guys than anything, because
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Speaker 1: they deserve to go to win and to win the
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Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, it's not ideal. It sucks. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: you never want to see, you know, any of your
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Speaker 1: teammates get hurt, let alone obviously the quarterback position, it's tough.
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Speaker 1: How does that feeling of losing the actual champion game
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Speaker 1: because I don't have a quarterback appreciate to be honest,
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Speaker 1: Yeah about it. Pretty clear and concise response from George
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Speaker 1: Kittle there. How else are the forty Niners dealing with
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Speaker 1: those injuries and and as a result of laws some more. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: nothing but disappoint an incredible disappointment. Some of the folks
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Speaker 1: in the locker room saying that this was probably the
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Speaker 1: hardest of these recent magn magnet games of this magnitude
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Speaker 1: type of losses, the Super Bowl fifty four loss, last
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Speaker 1: year's NFC Championship game, because they really didn't stand a chance. Now,
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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey did point out how hard they fought, and
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Speaker 1: he said it's a testament to how this team has
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Speaker 1: been able to reach these heights the last several years
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Speaker 1: because of the fight in the locker room, and he
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Speaker 1: said they were still believing they could win even when
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Speaker 1: they were down twenty one to seven, because you never
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Speaker 1: know how a game could bounce your way if they
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Speaker 1: get a pick six or a special teams touchdown. So
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Speaker 1: they were still fighting, they were still scratching and clawing
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Speaker 1: a testament to the work ethic of this team. But
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Speaker 1: there wasn't much to say otherwise. As Deebo Samuel said,
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Speaker 1: you know, because of not having a quarterback that could
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Speaker 1: throw more than five to ten yards. There in the
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Speaker 1: second half, a lot of people asking, hey, how come
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Speaker 1: they didn't do wildcat with Deebo and Christian McCaffrey and
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Speaker 1: George Kittle said, well, if you don't have a quarterback
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Speaker 1: that can throw the ball down field, the Eagles know
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Speaker 1: exactly what's going to happen. They would have loaded the
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Speaker 1: box with end people. So not much really to hope
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Speaker 1: for there. They certainly gave a valiant effort, but not
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Speaker 1: clearly not the way the forty Niners wanted to end
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Speaker 1: their season. Yeah, there was certainly no question on who
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Speaker 1: the forty Niners wanted to play Steve at quarterback yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Now the question starts to turn the clock to what
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Speaker 1: are they gonna do? Yeah, well, it's hard to say
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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do until they get the m R
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Speaker 1: I exam results back from brock Purty's elbow. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, right now we're saying it's a sprain, reporting
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Speaker 1: it's sprain. But if there's something where maybe has to
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Speaker 1: have surgery, something that could change what they do. But
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Speaker 1: we know Jimmy Garoppolo at one time super Bowl quarterback,
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Speaker 1: he's a free agent, he's probably gone. Trey Lance, who
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Speaker 1: was the starter to open the season, who they've invested
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Speaker 1: a lot in, he's coming back from that foot injury.
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Speaker 1: And then there's Brock Purty, who showed everybody that he
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Speaker 1: is a worthy starter. You have players like Fred Warner
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Speaker 1: saying he's no reason why we're in the super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: So at the very least, you would expect Rock Purty
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Speaker 1: and Trey Lance to come back in some form of
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Speaker 1: competition and training camp next year to see who who's
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Speaker 1: gonna be their quarterback. But do they have conversations with
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, do they flirt with Aaron Rodgers or do
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Speaker 1: they stay status quote? I mean that that's that's an
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Speaker 1: interesting thing because two young quarterbacks on those contracts, s
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Speaker 1: Mark Ross will attest, will alle you do a lot
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Speaker 1: of things with your roster, but also one thing with
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Speaker 1: the forty nine, you better have depth at that position
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Speaker 1: because their quarterbacks team to get hurt every year. It
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Speaker 1: was last year where we saw and injured Jimmy Garoppolo
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Speaker 1: come up short just a little bit late against the
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Speaker 1: Rams and go back not too long ago the fortys
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Speaker 1: having more injured, maybe they bringing everybody. Have six quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: available for the forty Thanks to Mark Ross, antonmart Louise
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Speaker 1: will be back in the East as we continue here
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Speaker 1: on NFL now, but let's us discuss some news and
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Speaker 1: notes around the NFL. Will get to Tom pilisera was
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Speaker 1: down there at the Senior Bowl in Mobile. Some news
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Speaker 1: regarding the salary cap. Tom will can tell us Patrick
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Speaker 1: the NFL informed teams within the past hour that the
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Speaker 1: three salary cap will be a record two four point
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Speaker 1: eight milli million dollars per club. That is a huge
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Speaker 1: jump from two d eight point two million dollars per
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Speaker 1: club this year. The NFL Players Association has begun paying
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Speaker 1: off some of those COVID delayed benefits. That's still an
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Speaker 1: ongoing process here. But the new revenue streams that have
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Speaker 1: come up in terms of the seventeenth game, as well
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Speaker 1: as the new media deals, the Sunday ticket deal, all
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Speaker 1: of that is infusing the salary cap, and you can
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Speaker 1: anticipate that this growth is going to continue here in
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Speaker 1: the future years. This is also going to allow teams
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Speaker 1: now to have a better idea of where the cap is,
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Speaker 1: allowing them to negotiate with some of their own free agents.
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Speaker 1: Also setting the stage for some of the trade talks
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Speaker 1: and other things that we're gonna be seeing over the
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Speaker 1: next couple of months. Patrick, Oh, it's gonna be that time,
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Speaker 1: but the most wonderful time of the year, Tom, and
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Speaker 1: we will hopefully have all the coaching searches settled by then.
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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the Arizona Cardinals and
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Speaker 1: where they currently stre I sure hope we will have
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Speaker 1: the coaching search is not finalized before free agency, Patrick,
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Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals are a team that's conducted a number
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Speaker 1: of different interviews. Today, they put in a couple of
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Speaker 1: interview slips on coaches who newly became available for first interviews,
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Speaker 1: specifically Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callaghan and defensive coordinator lou
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Speaker 1: on A Rumo. Callahan had an interviewed last year with
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Speaker 1: the Broncos. He impressed them interviewed for the Colts job
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Speaker 1: earlier this year. He's not the play caller in Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: but a really respected voice for Zach Taylor on that staff.
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Speaker 1: Got his start in Denver, working with the likes of
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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, who has spoken highly of Callaghan through the years,
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Speaker 1: and for on a Rumo. He had an interview last
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Speaker 1: year with the Giants. Zero interviews so far in this cycle.
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Speaker 1: One of the most respected defensive minds in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: We've seen the work that he's done against some of
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Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the league. The Cardinals, who remember
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Speaker 1: once upon a time, restarted their search late in the process,
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Speaker 1: ended up hiring Bruce Arians, who didn't have any interviews either.
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Speaker 1: Now talking to a guy in lou on a Rumo
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Speaker 1: who could be a sleeper candidate in this whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Patrick led that Bengals defense to back to back great
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Speaker 1: runs and looking back for what it seemed like nobody
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Speaker 1: wanted the defensive coordinator job in Cincinnati, Juan Romo stepped
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Speaker 1: up has done a tremendous job. They're speaking of defensive coordinators.
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Speaker 1: Damiko Ryan's has some options tough he does Patrick, and
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Speaker 1: the most notable option is in Houston. The expectation, as
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Speaker 1: we've been reporting, is that Damiko Ryan's will meet with
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Speaker 1: the Texans in the coming days here and there is
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Speaker 1: mutual interest on both sides in getting a deal done
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Speaker 1: to make Damiko Ryan's the new coach for his old team,
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Speaker 1: the Texas. Ryan's course starred for Houston back in his
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Speaker 1: playing days. He was drafted there. He also has family
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Speaker 1: ties to the area. He met his wife in Houston,
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Speaker 1: She's from that area as well. Ryan's has been one
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Speaker 1: of the most coveted candidates in this cycle. All five
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Speaker 1: teams with vacancies put in request to interview him. Yully
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Speaker 1: took two of those interviews, one with the Broncos, who
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Speaker 1: were really impressed by him. He was a top candidate
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Speaker 1: for them and the Texans, where Ryan's appears to be
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Speaker 1: the top candidate. Nothing done as a few minutes ago here, Patrick,
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Speaker 1: but certainly sounds like it's head of that direction with
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Speaker 1: Damiko Ryan's going back to Euston, so potential change there
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Speaker 1: and we solve the mutual decision to part ways in
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Speaker 1: Dallas between their offensive coordinator and the team leadership. What
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Speaker 1: can you tell us about Kellen Moore and his new
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Speaker 1: landing spot. Kellen Moore did not waste any time. He
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Speaker 1: has agreed with the Los Angeles Chargers to become their
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Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator. This is one of the most coveted
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Speaker 1: jobs around the NFL ever since they parted ways with
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Speaker 1: Joe Lombardi earlier on this offseason. Brandon Staley wanted a
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Speaker 1: new identity on that offense, and he gets one in
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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, who had one of the most explosive offenses
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Speaker 1: in the league over the past couple of years in Dallas. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: both sides decided that it was probably the time for
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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore to move on. More knew that he had
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Speaker 1: other opportunities, namely this one with the Chargers and for
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Mike McCarthy has never installed or run his
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Speaker 1: brand of the West Coast offense. Still some things to
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Speaker 1: figure out in terms of who the offensive coordinator will be.
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Speaker 1: They'll have to run a process for that. Who's gonna
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Speaker 1: play caller going to be could be McCarthy himself. What
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Speaker 1: we do know is that the expectation would be McCarthy
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Speaker 1: is going to install his offense now, meaning that all
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Speaker 1: those parts they're surrounding Dak Prescott maybe looking a little
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Speaker 1: bit different. Come into the Cowboys have had sixty seven
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Speaker 1: takeaways in the last two years. Apart of why they
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Speaker 1: were able to be so successful, we have seen some
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Speaker 1: change as was expected in Dallas, just not at the top.
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Speaker 1: Tom Pilla Sero live there at the Senior Bowl where
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Speaker 1: he will be all week ahead of the game. Thank you, Tom,
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Speaker 1: and we come back here on NFL Now the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: going back to the Super Bowl and a couple of
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Speaker 1: defensive players going back to the mic to yell at
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Speaker 1: James Palmer and some doubts. We'll talk to James about
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Speaker 1: that next when the Pio kick up the bomb running Innocemtom,
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Speaker 1: Patrick Clay and Steve Wish is back with you here
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Speaker 1: on NFL Now and Patrick Mahomes on that injured ankle,
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Speaker 1: playing through it, playing against quarterback that he is lost
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Speaker 1: to executive matchups. There was discussion about the name today,
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Speaker 1: not Today, says that fan and also says the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: third and ten crucial play at the game. I hope
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Speaker 1: steps up and finds MBSD for it touches, I mean,
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Speaker 1: and it's a rope. When you watch it, he basically
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Speaker 1: throws it off of one leg. That is just armed
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Speaker 1: talent right there. And so later on third quarter, Oh,
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Speaker 1: my homes, I would like to have this one back.
17:21
Speaker 1: Adrian Hubbard jumps on topic. The baul just exploded out
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Speaker 1: of his hand. Sometimes in that cold weather, it comes
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Speaker 1: out like a block of ice. Fourth quarter now, Chiefs
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Speaker 1: leading by seven. Fourth and six, Joe says, jamar down
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Speaker 1: there somewhere, and he is, I mean, look at it.
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Speaker 1: The vertical turn to catch it in between two bragnet defenders.
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Speaker 1: That's with big time playmakers do. So a second a
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Speaker 1: goal after that catch it, j p Ryan going into
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Speaker 1: the end zone and the Chiefs take the extracra point
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Speaker 1: to tie. We're all knoten up at twenty and Joe says,
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Speaker 1: we'll get the ball two more times we could score
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Speaker 1: go to the Super bowls third and eight inside of
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Speaker 1: forties seconds, and Chris Jones says, sit down, and playmakers
18:01
Speaker 1: Patrick show up when they need to show up. So
18:05
Speaker 1: a great return by sky More sets up a third
18:09
Speaker 1: and four from my homes and he's running, hitching his
18:13
Speaker 1: getting up and then he gets a free pip team
18:15
Speaker 1: from Joseph Side. I was ready, and that's what a
18:18
Speaker 1: lot of films will remember. Yeah, the eight seconds left.
18:22
Speaker 1: It probably had still held marry it from there. But
18:24
Speaker 1: now they get the Hearson Bucker field goal attempt yards
18:29
Speaker 1: and the Buck kickers Andy Reid so loving and calls him,
18:32
Speaker 1: puts it through. And the Kansas City Chiefs are going
18:35
Speaker 1: to yet another Super Bowl. And and this time Travis
18:39
Speaker 1: Kelsey is gonna have a chance to play against his
18:41
Speaker 1: big brother. Haven't talked to him yet, but h cool,
18:48
Speaker 1: cool scenario to be in. You know, um my mom
18:52
Speaker 1: can't lose. I'll just leave it at that. It's gonna
18:56
Speaker 1: be amazing feeling playing against him. And uh, you know,
18:58
Speaker 1: obviously I respect everybody over there in the Eagles organization,
19:01
Speaker 1: and um, you won't see me talking too much track
19:05
Speaker 1: do we get to know how much respect and how
19:06
Speaker 1: much Uh I love Uh, I love my brother. But um,
19:09
Speaker 1: it's just it's definitely gonna be Uh. It's gonna be
19:12
Speaker 1: an emotional game, that's for sure. But I had a
19:14
Speaker 1: great time there, so fourteen years a long time, huh.
19:18
Speaker 1: And um, I'm happy for them. I'm happy for the city.
19:21
Speaker 1: Um Uh, they're passionate, they love football. Matt can't wait
19:25
Speaker 1: till uh Kansas City and Philly clash. It's gonna be
19:29
Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome, man, all right, what a great
19:31
Speaker 1: what a great super Bowl would be. So many storylines
19:34
Speaker 1: pre made for the Super Bowl. We've got James Palmer
19:36
Speaker 1: and Mark Ross back with us. James, we saw Patrick
19:40
Speaker 1: Mahomes shout out the training staff. We didn't see the
19:42
Speaker 1: work last week, but he was willing to talk about
19:45
Speaker 1: everything they did to get him ready to play. How
19:47
Speaker 1: can we expect that ankle to be approached in the
19:49
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Well, that was one of the
19:53
Speaker 1: things I was Patrick talking to a lot of people
19:55
Speaker 1: in the locker room about. Right, we know that he's
19:56
Speaker 1: going to have a little more time to prepare for
19:59
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl as opposed to what happened with this
20:02
Speaker 1: ankle injury the time he'd prepared for this one. But
20:04
Speaker 1: let me take you through the week, and it's gonna
20:05
Speaker 1: be similar to kind of what they're gonna do over
20:07
Speaker 1: these next two weeks I'm told as to where they
20:09
Speaker 1: kind of manipulated the game plan as it went, as
20:12
Speaker 1: he felt, and as they put it together. There were
20:15
Speaker 1: things where they thought, well, we're not gonna put them
20:17
Speaker 1: under center in these certain places and we can run
20:18
Speaker 1: them out of the gun. Let's just be smart out
20:20
Speaker 1: of this right, specifically when you have teams coming at
20:23
Speaker 1: you with a pass rush like we've seen with Cincinnati
20:25
Speaker 1: having and like with Philadelphia that led the NFL in
20:28
Speaker 1: sacks fifteen ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs. So how
20:31
Speaker 1: do we find ways to keep him safe? That was
20:33
Speaker 1: when they went through the week, and it was an
20:35
Speaker 1: interesting practice. On Thursday, I was told he was actually
20:37
Speaker 1: having a lot of discomfort in that right ankle was
20:40
Speaker 1: up to his ship and they were wondering what they
20:41
Speaker 1: were gonna have to even change to a further extent,
20:44
Speaker 1: But it was really the training staff, as you mentioned,
20:46
Speaker 1: made some changes in how he was wrapped and how
20:48
Speaker 1: he was taped, and then they moved forward through Friday.
20:50
Speaker 1: And that's the other part I want to make make
20:52
Speaker 1: a point about it is because on Friday it was
20:54
Speaker 1: less about Patrick's injury and it was all the guys
20:56
Speaker 1: around him. And that's gonna be one we're gonna be
20:58
Speaker 1: looking at heading into the Super Bowl. Jujuice Smith Schuston
21:01
Speaker 1: was battling through something all week and then you saw
21:03
Speaker 1: it get reaggravated in the game and he could and
21:05
Speaker 1: finish McCole Hardman with the pelvis injury, couldn't finish the game.
21:08
Speaker 1: They were down to Marcus Kemp about three receivers out
21:11
Speaker 1: there around Patrick Mahomes and obviously Travis Kelsey dealing with
21:14
Speaker 1: the back spasms. These are all injuries. Obviously Patrick's right
21:18
Speaker 1: ankles the big part of it, but all the other
21:20
Speaker 1: injuries on the offensive side of the ball that they
21:22
Speaker 1: need to be concerned with. But there's also game planning
21:24
Speaker 1: already going on in the locker room with that defensive front,
21:27
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, with the Philadelphia Eagles playing five across,
21:30
Speaker 1: maybe more than almost any team does. How do you
21:32
Speaker 1: find ways to protect Patrick Mahomes from that pass rush
21:36
Speaker 1: when they bring so many guys and it can be
21:38
Speaker 1: a hat on a hat and a lot of those
21:39
Speaker 1: rushing situations. Yeah, I mean it's probably quick passing game.
21:42
Speaker 1: One player you didn't mention who got hurt, Darius Tony,
21:45
Speaker 1: player they got mid season. He's been just a jack
21:48
Speaker 1: of all trades offensively for them, a big part of
21:50
Speaker 1: their offense. He got hurt, they get him back again.
21:53
Speaker 1: That opens things up. But let's get back to Patrick Mahomes.
21:56
Speaker 1: You talked about the injury, the way he battled through
21:58
Speaker 1: it in so many circumstances. Again, he shows off the
22:02
Speaker 1: armed talent here, but the high ankles brain that is
22:04
Speaker 1: a just injury. They have to hope he did not
22:07
Speaker 1: re aggravate anything here while the adrenaline was flowing in
22:10
Speaker 1: this game, because that could slow down the rehab process
22:13
Speaker 1: even though they have two weeks. Look, there no doubt
22:15
Speaker 1: he's gonna show up. If he showed up for this game,
22:17
Speaker 1: he's gonna show up for the biggest game out there.
22:19
Speaker 1: They've got to be careful how to manipulate it. And
22:22
Speaker 1: the fact that the Chiefs could not run the football,
22:25
Speaker 1: that's something they're gonna have to figure out. Maybe we
22:27
Speaker 1: see more Jerick McKinnon. We saw some Pacheco, but McKinnon
22:30
Speaker 1: with somebody, he was used a lot on protection in
22:33
Speaker 1: this game. He is a dual threat as a runner
22:35
Speaker 1: and a pastor who could help out the Homes. But
22:37
Speaker 1: to see Mahomes what he did for his team in
22:40
Speaker 1: that game, James, you talked about the way he practiced
22:42
Speaker 1: all week. That makes everybody else say, I have no
22:45
Speaker 1: excuse not to go out there and give it the
22:47
Speaker 1: best that I have. And so that's a look at
22:50
Speaker 1: the team that will have a chance to talk about
22:52
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and the next couple of decades,
22:55
Speaker 1: perhaps depending on how long Patrick Mahomes decides to play.
22:59
Speaker 1: But Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals see their hopes
23:02
Speaker 1: come up just a little bit short. The weren't as
23:05
Speaker 1: close this time around, but it probably fall to the Chiefs.
23:08
Speaker 1: He has two picks and sacked five times, a lot
23:10
Speaker 1: of those in the first half, and the disappointing end
23:13
Speaker 1: to Joe Burrows. It's warrible, you know, because this team
23:18
Speaker 1: has invested so much in each other to get to
23:21
Speaker 1: this point and um, you know, we've been playing playoff
23:24
Speaker 1: football really since Halloween. We just didn't know it. You know,
23:26
Speaker 1: we had to win ten games in Rowe to be here,
23:28
Speaker 1: and um, you know, just really proud of the way
23:31
Speaker 1: the guys show up. They are so consistent every single day.
23:34
Speaker 1: The way they fought to the final whistle today. Um,
23:37
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's it's hard to find anything
23:40
Speaker 1: you wouldn't like about this football team. I feel great about,
23:43
Speaker 1: you know, the direction that we're headed. Uh that's the
23:46
Speaker 1: great thing about the NFL. It's not it's not college.
23:48
Speaker 1: We only got four years you've got as many years
23:51
Speaker 1: as you want to hopefully, Uh so we'll come back,
23:54
Speaker 1: have a great offseason and and get better as a team,
23:59
Speaker 1: get better individually, and and come back next year ready
24:02
Speaker 1: to go. Joe Burrow doesn't have to worry abou coming back.
24:05
Speaker 1: James Guy's got one year left, He's got a fifth
24:07
Speaker 1: year option. How did the Bengals look to the future
24:10
Speaker 1: here Zach Taylor talking to the media just a few
24:14
Speaker 1: minutes ago, Patrick did say, Yeah, those discussions about a
24:17
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow extension already start today internally as they talk
24:21
Speaker 1: about him and the other players that they're gonna have
24:23
Speaker 1: to discuss about coming back and returning to the Cincinnati
24:27
Speaker 1: Bengals roster. But Tooth made things jump out at me
24:29
Speaker 1: this offseason. We're gonna keep our eye on and leading
24:31
Speaker 1: into the three season. It's the growth we saw of
24:35
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow taking another step. I don't want to compare
24:37
Speaker 1: him to Patrick Mahomes by any means, but you both
24:39
Speaker 1: remember the explosive plays that we're happening at Cincinnati last year,
24:43
Speaker 1: then him having to make some adjustments, same as Mahomes
24:45
Speaker 1: has had to make some adjustments, and when this coaching
24:47
Speaker 1: staff halfway through the year, really started putting more on
24:50
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's plate in terms of what he saw and
24:52
Speaker 1: what he was allowed to call at the line of scrimmage.
24:54
Speaker 1: You saw this offense move even better. Remember Week thirteen
24:57
Speaker 1: against the Kansas City Chiefs. They run for a hundred
25:00
Speaker 1: and fifty two yards in that game because he checked
25:02
Speaker 1: two runs constantly from what he saw at the line
25:05
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. The growth he had there obviously the contract
25:07
Speaker 1: as a discussion point. But I think the other part
25:10
Speaker 1: of it, Steve, is how physical this team is. That's
25:13
Speaker 1: not gonna go away. If guys say, like Jesse Bates,
25:15
Speaker 1: who's extremely important leave or or Von Bell or Joe Mixon.
25:19
Speaker 1: There is a physicality to the Cincinnati Bengals that is
25:21
Speaker 1: known around the league and that isn't changing heading into
25:25
Speaker 1: next season. Yeah, James, James, no doubt that Cincinnati. He
25:29
Speaker 1: played a certain style. That physicality he talked about, which
25:32
Speaker 1: disappointed for me. I didn't think was on fool display
25:35
Speaker 1: yesterday in the game against the Chiefs. On offensive side
25:38
Speaker 1: of the ball, the much maligned offensive line that showed
25:41
Speaker 1: up again where I thought they got dominated five sacks
25:44
Speaker 1: there from that front. Chris Jones showed why he's the
25:47
Speaker 1: best defensive tackle in football, really got after Joe Burrow.
25:51
Speaker 1: I didn't think Joe Burrow was sharp, but then also
25:54
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, the lack of
25:56
Speaker 1: physicality where I just thought they were not aggressive enough
26:00
Speaker 1: in getting after a compromise Patrick Mahomes. I know they
26:03
Speaker 1: had a success in the past asked with only rushing
26:06
Speaker 1: three or four and dropping eight into coverage, but I
26:09
Speaker 1: thought yesterday they would really try to switch up and
26:12
Speaker 1: blitz Patrick Mahomes and really bring a lot of heat
26:15
Speaker 1: to see if he could move around to get him
26:17
Speaker 1: off of his spot. And the way they played yesterday
26:20
Speaker 1: I thought was very non aggressive and played in the
26:22
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes strengths of what he had. How he had
26:25
Speaker 1: to play yesterday by letting him just hang out in
26:27
Speaker 1: the pocket, let the short, quick game getting getting to work,
26:31
Speaker 1: and then he only had to move at certain times,
26:34
Speaker 1: namely the big play at the end that's set up
26:35
Speaker 1: the field goal for the win, where he really had
26:38
Speaker 1: to show if he could move or not. So Yes,
26:40
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati team has been defined by their physicality, their
26:43
Speaker 1: talent by Joe Burrow, but I just thought overall on
26:47
Speaker 1: the offense and deffensive side of the ball. Yesterday, it
26:49
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a disappointing game and they
26:51
Speaker 1: still had a chance to win. That just shows you
26:53
Speaker 1: how talented and well coached they are. Yeah, painful film
26:56
Speaker 1: review session coming up for the Cincinnati Bengals. Well see
26:59
Speaker 1: if they could keep a lot of that team together
27:01
Speaker 1: and try to make another run in the postseason. We're
27:08
Speaker 1: back on the NFL now before we go, we got
27:10
Speaker 1: time for one more thing. Mark Ross, you are up first.
27:13
Speaker 1: You're world War thing. Well, Patrick, there has been seven
27:16
Speaker 1: black quarterbacks to start the Super Bowl in NFL history.
27:19
Speaker 1: Three of those have one, but this is the first
27:22
Speaker 1: time that two black quarterbacks will face off and start
27:25
Speaker 1: against each other in the Super Bowl. Eleven black quarterbacks
27:28
Speaker 1: started the season. Here's two right here the very and Patrick.
27:31
Speaker 1: I saw Warren Mollon celebrating that this morning. The fantastic
27:35
Speaker 1: opportunity for those guys and a lot of fans as well. Steve,
27:37
Speaker 1: you're one more, not forget four players. HBCU ties are
27:40
Speaker 1: also a playing in this game. But we all always
27:43
Speaker 1: hear the term I am my brother's keeper. The Cincinnati
27:47
Speaker 1: Bengal showed that with the utmost class and reverence when
27:51
Speaker 1: they lifted up Joseph o Si post game after he
27:55
Speaker 1: made that terrible personal file penalty which allowed the Chiefs
27:58
Speaker 1: to kick the field goals. Will salute to the Bengals
28:00
Speaker 1: teammates being their brother's keeping. Now you can see b
28:04
Speaker 1: bj right net to Osa at his locker during that
28:07
Speaker 1: interview we showed earlier omar Baraueves or one more well
28:12
Speaker 1: we had done at Kelsey, Travis and Jason Kelsey's mom
28:15
Speaker 1: on the show on Friday, we asked her her thoughts
28:18
Speaker 1: on what it would mean to her if they met
28:21
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. She said it was something that
28:23
Speaker 1: they've been dreaming about since they were ten years old,
28:26
Speaker 1: since they grew up in Cleveland. They thought or hope
28:28
Speaker 1: they might have done it as Browns. But but here's
28:32
Speaker 1: what else she had to say, dreams are coming true.
28:36
Speaker 1: I know that they've been thinking about this since they
28:38
Speaker 1: were ten years old. The scenario was that they would
28:41
Speaker 1: be playing for the same team and it would be Browns,
28:43
Speaker 1: but that didn't work out. So anyway they were playing
28:48
Speaker 1: in the NFL, there won't be they won't be on
28:51
Speaker 1: the same field and they won't be on the field
28:54
Speaker 1: at the same time, but they will be playing you know,
28:58
Speaker 1: hopefully if it works out in the Super Bowl, that
29:01
Speaker 1: would be awesome. Um, you know it's elation, but also
29:07
Speaker 1: you have to worry about someone's going to come out
29:09
Speaker 1: a loser, and um, that's gonna be rough. But there
29:13
Speaker 1: won't be any fistic cuts on that yet. Great stuff
29:17
Speaker 1: from Donna storylines. One of the great storylines will be
29:21
Speaker 1: following their Super Bowl fifty seven. Yeah. I also considered
29:25
Speaker 1: her eyes a little bit of tampering from Donna Kelsey
29:27
Speaker 1: as well. She's trying to make this thing happen. We'll
29:30
Speaker 1: see my my one more thing before we go. Guys.
29:32
Speaker 1: The Chiefs and the Eagles have an opportunity here. Whoever
29:35
Speaker 1: wins the game in State Farms Stadium coming up on
29:38
Speaker 1: February twel twelve will have more wins at State Farm
29:41
Speaker 1: Stadium than the Arizona Cardinals did in two Both of
29:45
Speaker 1: those teams went in there. The Kansas City Chiefs did
29:47
Speaker 1: it in week one, the Eagles did it a few
29:50
Speaker 1: weeks later. The Cardinals only won one game at home.
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