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Snyders exploring Commanders sale; Blockbuster trades; Falcons LB Rashaan Evans · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: I know this is NFL, that one NFL network where
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Speaker 1: you're here every day at one pm Eastern time. You
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Speaker 1: lived five years in Washington, d C. You see with
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Speaker 1: the Howard University of my last years when Doug Williams
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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl championship for that club. I know
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Speaker 1: how much that club means to the citizens of that
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Speaker 1: city in that region. And that's where I guess are
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Speaker 1: jumping off point, because you've got big news. Absolutely. I
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Speaker 1: was born and raised there, right down the street from
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Speaker 1: where Joe Gibbs used to have his team practice. This
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Speaker 1: is significant news that broke this morning. That is Commander's
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Speaker 1: owner Daniel Snyder. A release today from the team said
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Speaker 1: that that they have hired Bank of America Securities to
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Speaker 1: consider potential transactions. Does that mean sell the team? Does
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Speaker 1: that mean sell a piece of the team? What exactly
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Speaker 1: does that mean? Ian Rappaport, Tom Pellicero, and Judy Batista
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Speaker 1: all with me? May nineteen, Ian is when Daniel Snyder
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Speaker 1: had his purchase of the team then with a different
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Speaker 1: name Affirm for eight hundred million dollars from Jack Kent
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Speaker 1: Cook Translate what today's press release means? What do we know?
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Speaker 1: I reached out to a commander's spokesperson to help me
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Speaker 1: translate and help bus translate what actually this means? What transactions?
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Speaker 1: Is Daniel Snyder looking to sell just a small piece
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Speaker 1: of the team, take on a minority partner or witty
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Speaker 1: actually finally sell the entire thing with the spokesman person
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Speaker 1: said to me, we are exploring all options. That is
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Speaker 1: extremely significant, guys. This is the first time the Daniel
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Speaker 1: Snyder or anyone representing him has even acknowledged the possibility
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Speaker 1: of selling the team. Every single other time that he
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Speaker 1: has had the opportunity to acknowledge this or say it
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Speaker 1: or it has been all denials, denials, denials, saying that
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Speaker 1: he will never sell the team. This is the first
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Speaker 1: time publicly the Dan Snyder says he may actually sell
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Speaker 1: the team. And you guys know how this works. Once
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Speaker 1: the door of possibility is open, there's gonna be many
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Speaker 1: many people looking to kick it wide open. The interest
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Speaker 1: in the Commanders just going to be significant. It is
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Speaker 1: going to be lucrative. There's so much here, including a
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Speaker 1: potential stadium that Daniel Snyder previously had tried to get
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Speaker 1: built but had no success doing it. This is the
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Speaker 1: first time we can realistically talk about Daniel Snyder no
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Speaker 1: longer owning the Washington Commanders, Tom Ian. This comes just
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Speaker 1: fifteen days after Colts owner Jim Mercy, during the NFL's
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Speaker 1: fall Meeting, became the first and to this point only
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Speaker 1: owner to come out publicly and saying that he believes
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Speaker 1: there is at to remove Dan Snyder as the owner now.
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Speaker 1: The Commanders, in response to that, wrote a letter to
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Speaker 1: the other owners talking about how honored that they all
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Speaker 1: should feel that they are NFL owners, but also put
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Speaker 1: out a statement with some keywords saying that when the
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Speaker 1: various investigations are complete paraphrasing Mr. Ursay, will see that
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Speaker 1: there is no reason for them to sell the Commanders
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Speaker 1: and they won't. So just two weeks later, suddenly the
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Speaker 1: Commanders are exploring doing exactly that, with Daniel Snyder engaging
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Speaker 1: with Bank of America to potentially sell the team, and
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Speaker 1: as you said, evaluate all the options here. So why now,
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Speaker 1: I'm told it is not because of an imminent resolution
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Speaker 1: to Mary Joe White's investigations, nor to the congressional investigation
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Speaker 1: into Dan Snyder and the Commanders. But with all these
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Speaker 1: different investigations, with one owner saying what plenty of others
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Speaker 1: feel privately that Daniel Snyder should be removed, and also
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Speaker 1: the ongoing stadium issue here and at least makes sense
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Speaker 1: for Daniel Snyder to line up his options if in
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Speaker 1: fact he does end up selling. There is a procedure
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Speaker 1: that goes into this. Thirty two owners have to approve
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Speaker 1: any sale. There's a vetting process, the banks are involved,
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Speaker 1: it takes months, and so at minimum here by doing
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Speaker 1: this now Dan Snyder will know what his options are
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Speaker 1: and be prepared to sell the team if that day
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Speaker 1: in fact comes where he decides he's going to move
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Speaker 1: on after a quarter century and charge in Washington. Let's
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Speaker 1: be clear, this is months in the making. Owners were
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Speaker 1: talking about would there be enough of them to vote
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Speaker 1: him out, all the way back in the spring um
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Speaker 1: and it has built up since then. Even before Jim
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Speaker 1: Orsay went to public with his feeling that there was
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Speaker 1: merit to remove Dan Snyder, owners were privately saying that
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Speaker 1: the best path would be to try to convince Dan
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Speaker 1: Snyder to sell. They thought that there were twenty four
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Speaker 1: votes to ounced him, but everybody knew that that would
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Speaker 1: be messy, that it could potentially end up in court,
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Speaker 1: and they wanted to avoid that. And there was a
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Speaker 1: feeling among owners that they needed to go to Dan
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Speaker 1: Snyder if he needed to be convinced. But somebody was
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Speaker 1: going to have to convince him that the best thing
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Speaker 1: to do would be to sell to avoid what would
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Speaker 1: be a humiliating fight with the other owners, and also
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Speaker 1: to reap the rewards of this franchise. It's certainly if
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Speaker 1: he sells, the entire thing will be a windfall. As
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Speaker 1: you pointed out, he paid less than one billion dollars
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Speaker 1: for the franchise, it certainly would be expected to go
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Speaker 1: for at least six billion. This is considered one of
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Speaker 1: the gold standard franchise huge rich history. There is the
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Speaker 1: possibility of a stadium to be built. Certainly, the feeling
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Speaker 1: is that under new ownership the possibility would be to
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Speaker 1: get a stadium built in the district, which has always
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Speaker 1: been what everybody had hoped for. So this is months
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Speaker 1: in the making leading up to the possibility and the
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Speaker 1: acknowledgement that a sale is possible. Again, owners would have
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Speaker 1: to approve it, but there are always key bowl around
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Speaker 1: who the league knows would be interested if an ownership
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Speaker 1: opportunity ever became available, So it is not like they
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Speaker 1: just say, let's put the sales sign up and then
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Speaker 1: we wait to see who's interested. They certainly have a
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Speaker 1: good idea that there would be interest in this. Multiple
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Speaker 1: people could be interested in this, and that of course
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Speaker 1: could bid the price up further. But this was not
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Speaker 1: a snap decision by any means. This has been months
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Speaker 1: of pressure building on Dan Snyder to make a decision,
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Speaker 1: and certainly if it leads to a sale, guys, that
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Speaker 1: is certainly the preferred path from the league office and
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Speaker 1: the other owners and Judy. This wouldn't be without president.
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's think about what the Panthers. It was
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Speaker 1: Jerry Richardson right, There was an investigation into him, There
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Speaker 1: was disciplined and to him, he was not forced to
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Speaker 1: sell his team by fellow owners, but he decided to
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Speaker 1: sell his team just after all of the bad press,
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Speaker 1: all of the bad news of the disciplinary things that
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Speaker 1: came after a sexual misconduct investigation with him, at least
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Speaker 1: in terms of language that was used to things like
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Speaker 1: that around the workplace, so there is somewhat of a
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Speaker 1: precedent with this. We also saw the Phoenix Suns have
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Speaker 1: a similar interdance with Server. Their owner wasn't forced to sell,
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Speaker 1: but other owners are like, it is time for you
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Speaker 1: to go, so all of us can move on with
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Speaker 1: our business, including you, as you just said, Judy having
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Speaker 1: their cash winfall. And I would say, guys, you know,
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Speaker 1: we this is obviously important. This is business. This is
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Speaker 1: much much bigger than anything that happens on the football field.
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Speaker 1: But there is the football thing that that we cover.
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Speaker 1: And we now talk about the Commanders having eve ended
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Speaker 1: up having played really well over the last couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks and now have another thing to deal with, and
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Speaker 1: the fact that we got Taylor Heineke and Ron Rivera
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the Commanders having to go out
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Speaker 1: and play games while we are all now publicly debating
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Speaker 1: their sale and what is going to happen. It's basically
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Speaker 1: been business as usual because that's been the way it's
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Speaker 1: been for the last several months. But just another thing
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Speaker 1: for this organization to now deal with. The only change
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Speaker 1: here is I would say the fans and many people
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Speaker 1: outside the commanders are probably a little more optimistic about
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Speaker 1: the end result than they were previously. We will get
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Speaker 1: to the football side of it coming up shortly. As
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Speaker 1: you said, it has certainly been a week in Washington
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Speaker 1: here Ron Rivera morty the loss of his mother, and
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Speaker 1: we sent our condolences. They've also opened up on the
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Speaker 1: football field here the window for Chase Young to be
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Speaker 1: back on the practice field. He was there today and
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Speaker 1: there were helicopters, according to reporters present today at Ashbourne,
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Speaker 1: circling over the practice field and is certainly a story
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Speaker 1: that will not go away, in one that we will
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Speaker 1: continue to report on and monitor as the day and
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Speaker 1: as the weeks and months go on. Thank you Ian,
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Speaker 1: thank you Tom, and thank you Judy. It's been a
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Speaker 1: week not just in Washington but around the NFL. Look
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Speaker 1: at this, it's kind of an eye chart. But how
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Speaker 1: about all these trades that happened yesterday, there were many
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Speaker 1: of them. We counted twelve trades yesterday, the most on
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Speaker 1: the deadline day in the last thirty years. You go back,
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Speaker 1: open it up, like two weeks, maybe it's as many
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Speaker 1: as eighteen trade. The headline yesterday was Bradley Chuck former
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Speaker 1: fifth overall, going to Miami with a five in exchange
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Speaker 1: for one and a four and Chase Edmonds and he
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Speaker 1: may actually play this week. It's hard to get players
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Speaker 1: UM quality players like that. It comes at a cost.
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Speaker 1: And yet you have to say um by to a
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Speaker 1: guy that you've UM invested in team defense and what
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Speaker 1: that another UM edge rusher, especially if his quality can
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Speaker 1: add to the defense, that can make our team that
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Speaker 1: much better. UM. It can make people at UM at
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Speaker 1: the position group he plays, UM, the defensive front. UM.
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Speaker 1: It can help UH corners and safeties. It's all collective,
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Speaker 1: and so that's what I'm most excited for, is not
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Speaker 1: anything UH individually with him. It's more of how it
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Speaker 1: will help UM our defense do what it's trying to do.
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Speaker 1: It's also gonna look weird wearing number two. Bradley Chubb
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Speaker 1: is gonna wear two now, granted, Melvin Ingram, there were
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Speaker 1: six same position. That just seems a bit off to me.
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Speaker 1: And yes, I'm an old man yelling on my lawn
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Speaker 1: about jersey numbers. Ro Kuan Smith is gonna wear eighteen
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Speaker 1: with the Ravens, not exactly a linebacker uniform, but I digress.
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Speaker 1: Ro Kwan used to be obviously with the Bears. The
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Speaker 1: Bears traded him. The Bears traded Robert Quinn, but they
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Speaker 1: also traded four Chase Claypool, so it's not a fire sale. Um,
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Speaker 1: they're both buying and selling. There's part of me UM
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Speaker 1: that's bummed because this was a guy that I thought
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Speaker 1: was gonna be here for a long time. I felt
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Speaker 1: like we put a lot of effort forward to get
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Speaker 1: that done and we came up short and we couldn't
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Speaker 1: find common ground. And that's just a part of this business,
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Speaker 1: which I think we all understand. I like the way
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Speaker 1: justin this trending, and I think adding another um, big
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Speaker 1: body whose physical, explosive, great leaping ability, can stretch the
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Speaker 1: field but also is violent with the ball in his
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Speaker 1: hand as well as the blocker, I think that enhances
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Speaker 1: everyone around him. Are you betting on yourself at this point? Having,
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Speaker 1: you know, torn down this team and rebuilding it. Are
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Speaker 1: you is at the risk you're taking care At the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm a decision maker and the leader,
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Speaker 1: and you gotta step up and you gotta make those decisions.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, if it's not,
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Speaker 1: then that's that is a kind of a roller coaster
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Speaker 1: of emotions. Here, Hi, they're Stacy Dale's Live at House
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Speaker 1: all Ryan Poles on the podium yesterday it's the Bears
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Speaker 1: of the Dolphins. Fittingly this week you trade away Quinn,
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Speaker 1: you trade away Row. Quad fans are like, wait for
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Speaker 1: next year, but wait, waititute now we're going to trade four.
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Speaker 1: Chase Claypole, walk me through what's going on in that building? Well,
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Speaker 1: walking you through is very simple, Andrew Ryan Poles continues
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Speaker 1: to put his imprint on this team. For a guy
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Speaker 1: that spent X amount of years in Kansas City, started
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Speaker 1: there as a scouting assistant in two thousand nine under
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Speaker 1: that regime and part of the recruitment of Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: What your takeaway is this is a complete buy into
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Speaker 1: the quarterback justin Fields. He mentioned it there in that
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Speaker 1: clip that we heard. They loved the trajectory of Justin Fields,
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Speaker 1: and we have seen him come alive these last few
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Speaker 1: games incorporating those legs into the mix, which has given
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Speaker 1: him more confidence throwing the football. And so why not
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Speaker 1: go add another as Ryan Poles alluded to, big bodied
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Speaker 1: receiver and Chase Claypool. This is really blockbuster because it
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Speaker 1: reflects on buying into the quarterback Justin Fields. This defense
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Speaker 1: will continue to get retooled. They didn't want to lose
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Speaker 1: value by giving by keeping and retaining Robert Quinn and
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Speaker 1: ro Kuwan Smith, and Ryan Poles said it very clearly.
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Speaker 1: The finals were on the table, they were established one
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Speaker 1: of the finals. Well, they were the numbers and they
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Speaker 1: could not come to common ground with Roquan Smith. But
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Speaker 1: this Chase Claypool addition for a guy in his third season,
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Speaker 1: Andrew who in his first two years over a hundred
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Speaker 1: targets in Pittsburgh right his rookie campaign over a hundred targets,
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Speaker 1: his second season over a hundred targets. So he's a
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Speaker 1: guy that's really smart, and I think they're going to
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Speaker 1: plug in and play right away and expect him to
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Speaker 1: make a difference with Darnell Mooney and company. But Bears
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Speaker 1: fans are certainly buzzing here. Charlie Yuke is buzzing about
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Speaker 1: this Claypool edition. Well, we'll explain who that is. Charlie Yuke,
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Speaker 1: one of our bosses, our senior coordinating producers. I remember
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Speaker 1: what Charlie's title is now, guy with an office upstairs
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Speaker 1: that oversees all of this. He is a huge Bears
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Speaker 1: fan in a Chicago native. And I walked in yesterday
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Speaker 1: and I said, really, a two for Claypool? Really, because
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Speaker 1: I didn't like the deal that he was like, no,
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Speaker 1: he loved it. I digress. Yeah, he's watching his office
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Speaker 1: likely right now, slumped in his chair. Um. Bradley Chubb.
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Speaker 1: The other side of it here, Mike McDaniel said he
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Speaker 1: may play this week. What kind of impact do we
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Speaker 1: see him having in Miami? The Bears gotta get rid
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Speaker 1: for him now, Yeah, immediate impact. We know what Bradley
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Speaker 1: Chubb couldn't do. I could rattle through his numbers, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is this defense needed help. They're
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Speaker 1: already a really good football team there in the hunt,
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Speaker 1: so why not add a player that you believe can
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Speaker 1: take you to a Super Bowl? And that's what they're
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Speaker 1: getting in Bradley Chubb. They believe if you look at
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Speaker 1: their defense Andrew very quickly. They're giving up two sixty
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Speaker 1: two past yards per game, that is the seventh most
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. They have seven takeaways only this season,
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Speaker 1: and they've been struggling to get pressure without blitzing. That
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Speaker 1: is critical. Without blitzing, which is for or fewer pass
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Speaker 1: rushers up front. Just thirty seven pressures and only five sacks.
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Speaker 1: So what he does he do he allows them to
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Speaker 1: do with the Buffalo Bills are doing with Von Miller.
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Speaker 1: Get pressure with four and allow that back end to work.
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Speaker 1: That will help the team defense, is Mike McDaniel, the
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Speaker 1: head coach, alluded to in his press conference this morning.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, this has been in the works
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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, as Chris Greer, the general manager,
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Speaker 1: also alluded to in his press conference today. So get
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Speaker 1: get pressure with for Andrew, let that back end really
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Speaker 1: operate with those defensive backs and linebackers. I I love
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Speaker 1: the addition and it will see how many snaps he
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Speaker 1: gets on Sunday at Soldier Field, where I will be
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Speaker 1: this week, which is a very good game considering the
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Speaker 1: way the Bears played the last couple of weeks. Mike
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Speaker 1: McDaniel was asked today about the idea being all in,
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Speaker 1: like the Dolphins making this trade, they're all in, and
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Speaker 1: he said, yes, there's all in, but a lot of
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Speaker 1: us in the NFL. Also remember the old Jerry Glanville
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Speaker 1: NFL not for long, right, So you make these moves
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Speaker 1: so you can capitalize here Stacy Dales, thank you. Live
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Speaker 1: at Hollis Hall in Lake Forest. Meantime, at the trade
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Speaker 1: deadline yesterday, the Green Bay Packers, three and a half
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Speaker 1: games out of first, did not make a move, did
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Speaker 1: not go get a wide receiver to help Aaron Rodgers,
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Speaker 1: who happened to write before the trade deadline beyond the
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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee show for Eastern I think is the cutoff maybe,
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Speaker 1: so we're coming up on it hopefully. I was kind
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Speaker 1: of hoping there might be, you know, some news during
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Speaker 1: this show that we could break in lifetime. That would
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Speaker 1: be pretty cool. I have had conversations with Brian Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, the past few weeks. I'm not sure what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen, but but I know that we've you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised to hear that maybe we were in
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Speaker 1: on the on the Claypool and then we'll see what happens. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the reporting is Bucky Brooks Steve White here that the
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Speaker 1: reason the Bears had to give up a two is
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Speaker 1: that the Packers also offered a two for Chase Claypool.
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Speaker 1: But here they are the team we saw Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: Alan Wizard did practice today, Steve. So that's good news. Guys.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the team you're gonna get. Yeah. Look
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Speaker 1: and you know, as you heard to say, it's not
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Speaker 1: like they did not try to add help there. It's
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Speaker 1: just at the Packers too, is probably going to be
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Speaker 1: a higher draft pick than the Bear I mean a
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Speaker 1: lord draft pick than the Bears too. So you know,
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Speaker 1: you gotta do what you gotta do. But so so Bucky,
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, moving forward now, there's no more complaining for
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers about what he's having to work with and
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Speaker 1: what needs to get better. This is the soup that
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Speaker 1: he's got a stir and eat. So now these players
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Speaker 1: have to get better. They've got to find find ways
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Speaker 1: to make this offense a little bit better, and that's
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Speaker 1: something that they have not been able to do. They've
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Speaker 1: had changes on the offensive line, but there are no
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Speaker 1: more excuses. This is what you have to work with.
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Speaker 1: The Packers are not the only team in this situation.
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Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers again can't really talk about his pieces
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Speaker 1: anymore because this is whom he is expected to make better. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's expected to make them better as the franchise quarterback.
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Speaker 1: I think the game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday
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Speaker 1: night gave the Packers an opportunity to experiment with the
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Speaker 1: formula that I believe is best for them going forward.
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Speaker 1: We saw them commit to running the ball. We saw
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Speaker 1: A J. Dillon and Aaron Jones help this team go
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Speaker 1: for over two hundred rushing yards. We saw Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: take a step back in terms of not throwing it
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Speaker 1: all over the yard. They're very efficient when your jobs
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Speaker 1: had a solid game. And so now what you do
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Speaker 1: with this young team, this young white receiver corps. You
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Speaker 1: want to build upon that run the football, eventually add
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Speaker 1: some play action passes, and then maybe you hold out
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Speaker 1: hope that you can convince O. B J to join
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Speaker 1: in the mix to give them a dynamic playmaker, because
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Speaker 1: the one thing that they're missing in this office is
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Speaker 1: someone who can take the top off the defense, someone
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Speaker 1: who can give them their vertical stretch presence, because if
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Speaker 1: you're going to run the ball like they said they
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Speaker 1: could run the ball on Sunday, you gotta have someone
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Speaker 1: to take it deep because it goes run, run, run,
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Speaker 1: or deep. That's the way it operates when you run
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Speaker 1: the ball. Brandon Cooks can take the top office. Also
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Speaker 1: do eighteen million next season, real quick here. Tom Pella
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Speaker 1: Sero reports Steve that the Rams turned out multiple offers
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Speaker 1: for running back Hammakers, who's been sitting out in the
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Speaker 1: doghouse if you were the last couple of weeks and
18:42
Speaker 1: now maybe they put him back on the field. And
18:45
Speaker 1: that's what I've been here from the organization. Like as
18:46
Speaker 1: bad as things have been with cam Akers, it's not
18:49
Speaker 1: a reparable between him and head coach Sean McVeigh. So
18:52
Speaker 1: they refused the trades. Now they're gonna see you if
18:54
Speaker 1: they can make amends and get him back on the field.
18:57
Speaker 1: They know he fits their offense. They know he knows
18:59
Speaker 1: their offense. So if he can come back with his
19:02
Speaker 1: head on right and they can make amends with what
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Speaker 1: they want to do, maybe they can get part of
19:06
Speaker 1: that run game going. But it definitely does seem like
19:08
Speaker 1: steps need to be taken to bridge that relationship. Yet
19:13
Speaker 1: a relationship needs to be bridge because I'll be honest,
19:16
Speaker 1: the Rams need camp Akers more than the camp Akers
19:18
Speaker 1: needs to Rams. The Rams have to be able to
19:20
Speaker 1: run the football to get back on track. They cannot
19:23
Speaker 1: be a one dimensional team and think that Matthew Stafford
19:25
Speaker 1: can throw them into the postseason. They gotta get back
19:28
Speaker 1: to being a physical football team. And without running the
19:30
Speaker 1: ball at this team is all fines. Cam Akers did
19:33
Speaker 1: tweek this week that he misses football. That was before
19:36
Speaker 1: the deadline. Now after the deadline, the fact that he's
19:38
Speaker 1: still on the roster. Will he be back on the
19:40
Speaker 1: field remains to be seen. Thank you Bucky, Thank you Steve,
19:43
Speaker 1: And we get ready to put the Sunday night game
19:46
Speaker 1: in the spotlight. Derrick Henry ran over the Texans? Will
19:49
Speaker 1: he run over the Chiefs? Will they shut down the
19:52
Speaker 1: Chiefs like they did last year? That's next? All right,
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20:00
Speaker 1: from Mike arra Folo, who reports that the Washington d C.
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Speaker 1: Trobe Police Department has scheduled a press conference later this
20:08
Speaker 1: afternoon to update several active investigations. Mike says that sources
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Speaker 1: tell him one of the updates will be an arrest
20:16
Speaker 1: in connection with the August shooting of Commanders running back
20:20
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson. Thankfully is okay and thankfully back on the
20:25
Speaker 1: football field. More details when we get that, Mike garre
20:28
Speaker 1: Foller reported, means I'm back on the football field. It's
20:31
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Bills coming up this week. Six
20:34
Speaker 1: and one against five and three, first place against second place.
20:40
Speaker 1: Who saw this coming in the a f C East.
20:44
Speaker 1: Probably the most complete football team and we'll see all season.
20:47
Speaker 1: Um the offense, defense, special teams. Uh, they're deep. Um,
20:53
Speaker 1: they're they're littered with Pro Bowlers and uh in all
20:57
Speaker 1: three phases and uh, farewell coach. They play hard, quarterbacks, outstanding,
21:03
Speaker 1: their defensive front, very deep, disruptive. It's a damn good
21:08
Speaker 1: football team. This is a really good Jets football team.
21:11
Speaker 1: They played great defense. They've got great talent. Um, they've
21:15
Speaker 1: got great speed offensively, great speed defensively. And and I
21:19
Speaker 1: think that's been well documented with with the players that
21:21
Speaker 1: they have on both sides of the ball. Uh. If
21:24
Speaker 1: the Mutual Admiration Society here, Judy batistaid, Bucky Brooks, everyone's
21:28
Speaker 1: saying nice things about the opponent this week, um as
21:32
Speaker 1: as Judy. Everyone there is also trying to say nice things.
21:35
Speaker 1: They're meaning New York about Zack Wilson at least in
21:38
Speaker 1: the building, but also being pretty firm he's got to
21:42
Speaker 1: play better if they're going to make a playoff run. Yeah,
21:45
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas Today's Zoom yesterday after after the trade deadline passed,
21:49
Speaker 1: and one thing he said, let me read it to you.
21:51
Speaker 1: When you take care of the ball, with our defense
21:54
Speaker 1: and special teams, we're gonna be a tough team to beat.
21:56
Speaker 1: Just focus on the turnover battle, focus on eliminating self
22:00
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. Now, he went on to say that was
22:03
Speaker 1: directed at the entire team, just Zeth Wilson, but obviously
22:07
Speaker 1: the emphasis is going to be be a lot more
22:09
Speaker 1: careful with the ball. Zach Wilson had three interceptions in
22:13
Speaker 1: the loss to the Patriots last week, if you remember,
22:15
Speaker 1: two of them were particularly ugly, and he said, by
22:18
Speaker 1: his own admission, is just really bone headed decisions on
22:21
Speaker 1: his part. One thing to keep in mind, though he
22:24
Speaker 1: is especially struggling under pressure. He is being pressured of
22:28
Speaker 1: his dropbacks. He's completing just thirty one per cent when
22:32
Speaker 1: he is under pressure. That is second lowest in the league. Amazingly,
22:36
Speaker 1: the only person who is lower than him is Tom
22:38
Speaker 1: Brady when facing pressure. But the point still remains, Zack
22:41
Speaker 1: Wilson has to play better. He's got to play cleaner.
22:46
Speaker 1: Somebody who knows the Jets organization said to me this week,
22:49
Speaker 1: forget wins or losses, forget whether you win or lose
22:52
Speaker 1: against the Bills. Just hold onto the ball. Yeah, dude,
22:57
Speaker 1: I think this is a big challenge. Is a big
22:58
Speaker 1: challenge for Zach Wilson because when you go back and
23:00
Speaker 1: watch how he played at b y U, he was
23:02
Speaker 1: always a gunslinger and was a little wreck this with
23:05
Speaker 1: the football. So now you're playing for a defensive oriented team,
23:09
Speaker 1: meaning this team's best way of winning is to let
23:12
Speaker 1: the defense lead the way. And so you're asking Zach Wilson,
23:15
Speaker 1: who has always been a playmaker throughout his life, to
23:18
Speaker 1: now be a game manager. You heard it in his
23:21
Speaker 1: comments after the game where he talked about it's frustrating
23:24
Speaker 1: to have to throw the ball away or when the
23:26
Speaker 1: defense wins and I can't fit it down the field.
23:29
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like someone who really understands the value
23:32
Speaker 1: of the ball. So maybe someone in the build that
23:34
Speaker 1: can get with him, Robert Solo, one of the offensive coaches,
23:37
Speaker 1: can tell him, hey, man, you take care of the ball.
23:40
Speaker 1: We win a lot of games. You get a lot
23:42
Speaker 1: of credit on Broadway because until he's able to check
23:45
Speaker 1: his ego and kind of play more of a managerial
23:48
Speaker 1: style instead of pushing the envelope as a gun slinger,
23:51
Speaker 1: the Jets will always have these ebbs and flows in
23:54
Speaker 1: their perform I just love that this game means something.
23:57
Speaker 1: Last time the Jets and Bills met in November or
24:00
Speaker 1: later where they're both two games over five d was
24:03
Speaker 1: week sixteen of the eight. It was Flutey and Vinny
24:08
Speaker 1: Testaverdie and Wade Phillips and Bill Parcels and yeah, let's
24:14
Speaker 1: get that video for later in the week. Thank you Judy,
24:17
Speaker 1: Thank you Bucky. Give it to Henry. Outside of the
24:24
Speaker 1: Tan puts a move on to the five, stiff arm
24:26
Speaker 1: dives over the pylon, touch Dad Titans. That was a
24:31
Speaker 1: man size run, deep man and the one kiss Henry
24:38
Speaker 1: left guard into the end zone. Mike Keith has a
24:44
Speaker 1: lot of fun calling Derrick Henry touchdown runs. He owned
24:47
Speaker 1: the Texans last week. Now he's going to try to
24:49
Speaker 1: face a very good Kansas City defense, one that we
24:52
Speaker 1: do not talk about enough, one that did the job
24:54
Speaker 1: two weeks ago when they were in Santa Clara beating
24:56
Speaker 1: the forty niners before thereby, this is the Sundane Night game, Bucky,
25:01
Speaker 1: Steve White, this one paper, and I mean I love
25:06
Speaker 1: this game because look, the Titans have one, what five
25:08
Speaker 1: in a row. They look like the Titans we know
25:10
Speaker 1: and love. Oh yeah, and the Titans have beaten the
25:13
Speaker 1: Chiefs four straight times in the regular season, So matchups
25:18
Speaker 1: this is a tough thing with the chief But this
25:19
Speaker 1: Chief team, Bucky, it is different. Right. Offensively, the Chiefs
25:23
Speaker 1: can put points on the board. Those five teams the
25:25
Speaker 1: Titans just beat, they can't score, right, So and we
25:28
Speaker 1: see the the variety of the offense. Now the Chiefs
25:31
Speaker 1: are playing with two that can keep the ball, they
25:33
Speaker 1: can possess it. They're not just a big play team.
25:36
Speaker 1: So this is one. If the Chiefs get to lead,
25:38
Speaker 1: you know, the Titans are gonna stay with the run.
25:40
Speaker 1: But is that going to be the formula? If Kansas
25:42
Speaker 1: City can continue to score like we saw them do
25:46
Speaker 1: against the forty nine two weeks ago. This is the
25:48
Speaker 1: biggest tallenge that faces the Titans each and every week.
25:50
Speaker 1: Can they stay true to their identity despite the teams
25:53
Speaker 1: that they're facing. What I love about Mike Rabel is
25:56
Speaker 1: they don't sugarcoat it. They know exactly who they are.
25:59
Speaker 1: They are run first team. They got the king in
26:01
Speaker 1: the backfield, and the king is going to get fit,
26:03
Speaker 1: and so it is on the Chiefs defense to find
26:07
Speaker 1: a way to slow the guy down, to find a
26:09
Speaker 1: way to stop the monster from getting loose. And what
26:12
Speaker 1: you're beginning to see from the CNC Titans, Oh, they're
26:14
Speaker 1: feeding the pig. They're giving him the ball early often,
26:17
Speaker 1: they're giving it to him late, They're giving it to
26:19
Speaker 1: him when everyone knows he's getting it and he's still
26:21
Speaker 1: able to be successful. The Tennessee Titans walk into the
26:24
Speaker 1: stadium each and every week saying, we're going to run
26:27
Speaker 1: it at you. We dare you to stop it. We'll
26:29
Speaker 1: see if you can see the Chiefs are up to
26:31
Speaker 1: the challengel If you include scrambles by Malik Willis that
26:33
Speaker 1: ran the ball forty five times last week, Malike Willis
26:35
Speaker 1: through the ball only ten times. Ryan Tannehill's ankle obviously
26:40
Speaker 1: an issue this week, something to minor. I think he's
26:41
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Sunday night, Chiefs, Titans, this city, Thank you,
26:47
Speaker 1: Bucky blow Air's a deep down field for t J. Yeah,
27:00
Speaker 1: this is is that a flag? D J. Moore climbed
27:04
Speaker 1: up into the seats. Un sportsmanlike conduct offense number two
27:09
Speaker 1: for removing his helmet. This will be a forty eight
27:12
Speaker 1: yard extra point to kick his up and million good
27:17
Speaker 1: n So we go to overtime. Now they've got a
27:22
Speaker 1: chance for a fuel goal to win the kid it's up.
27:26
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wow to kick by two. It's hump
27:32
Speaker 1: and it's good. And the Falcons winning thirty seven to
27:37
Speaker 1: thirty fourth. Oh man, I mean, what a back and forth,
27:42
Speaker 1: crazy game. The last ten possessions and before the overtime
27:47
Speaker 1: folk team scored all ten times. Anyway, look at this
27:50
Speaker 1: the first place Atlanta Falcons. How does that sound? First
27:54
Speaker 1: place Atlanta Falcons for the first time entering Week nine.
27:58
Speaker 1: Rashaan Evans, who's live with us now and Falcons Gammon
28:01
Speaker 1: Flabbery Branch since two thousand and six, see watching so
28:05
Speaker 1: happy he were as Falcon's colors here today. Uh Rashawn
28:09
Speaker 1: just watching back that thing, like, have you ever been
28:11
Speaker 1: involved in a more bunkers game than that? Yeah? I
28:15
Speaker 1: mean I've been in a lot of games in my day,
28:18
Speaker 1: but this one probably tops it off. You know, you
28:21
Speaker 1: got a lot of emotions, is like a roller coast
28:24
Speaker 1: and then you know, you get the opportunity to be
28:26
Speaker 1: able to win the game. And we were able to
28:28
Speaker 1: do that. Man. So I'm really proud of the guys for,
28:30
Speaker 1: you know, just fighting through and making sure that you know,
28:32
Speaker 1: we got the job done. So Sean, after the game,
28:35
Speaker 1: you said, you feel good about being number one, first
28:38
Speaker 1: place in the NFC South, but the hardest thing right
28:40
Speaker 1: now is to maintain and be there and stay there.
28:44
Speaker 1: You guys have played with this underdog chip since training camp,
28:48
Speaker 1: but now you guys are kind of the hunted. Does
28:51
Speaker 1: the mentality change? I think at this point, right now,
28:56
Speaker 1: you gotta understand that you're gonna get the best game
28:58
Speaker 1: of of everybody in the league at this point. Um,
29:01
Speaker 1: you know, everybody knows that you're number one. Everybody knows
29:03
Speaker 1: that you know you're you're you're in the rhythm right
29:07
Speaker 1: now to be able to place yourself in the playoffs.
29:09
Speaker 1: And I think for us right now, we just gotta
29:11
Speaker 1: stay focused and maintain the things that we've been doing,
29:14
Speaker 1: and that's making sure that we don't make a lot
29:16
Speaker 1: of mistakes, make sure that we're detailed, make sure that
29:19
Speaker 1: we are you know, continue to push and be better
29:22
Speaker 1: and better each and every week. And you know you
29:24
Speaker 1: do those things, you put yourself in a good position
29:26
Speaker 1: and have to think as well, Rashwan, and I know
29:28
Speaker 1: you focus on your team and your team only because
29:30
Speaker 1: that is what you can control. You also know that
29:33
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is not going down to that a fight
29:34
Speaker 1: looking over your shoulder, and the Saints got plenty of weapons,
29:39
Speaker 1: they're gonna get healthy. And that Falcons team, I'm sorry,
29:42
Speaker 1: Falcons Panthers team pushed you guys to the limit. So
29:45
Speaker 1: no matter what the rest of the league may say
29:48
Speaker 1: about the standings in your division, you know there's still
29:52
Speaker 1: a second half of football here, oh no doubt. Um,
29:55
Speaker 1: you know you playing this great game, and you know
29:58
Speaker 1: these guys get paid just like us. These guys are
30:01
Speaker 1: elite at what they do, and you know, each and
30:03
Speaker 1: every game at this point like a playoff game for us.
30:06
Speaker 1: So um, you know it's gonna definitely take all of
30:09
Speaker 1: us to make sure we're on the top of our game,
30:11
Speaker 1: make sure on our p's and queues um each and
30:13
Speaker 1: every Sunday, because we know we're gonna get their best.
30:16
Speaker 1: Which I spent a lot of time with you guys
30:18
Speaker 1: in training camp, and your head coach Arthur Smith instilled
30:21
Speaker 1: a belief in his players from day one. Forget what
30:25
Speaker 1: everyone else is saying about you. You guys are gonna
30:27
Speaker 1: be good. You guys are gonna compete. How much did
30:30
Speaker 1: that mean to you? Guys with so many new players,
30:33
Speaker 1: including yourself joining this roster, it means a lot. Um.
30:37
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of use it as fuel, use
30:38
Speaker 1: it as motivation to uh, you know, be better than
30:42
Speaker 1: what the critics are saying. Um. Also we'll say, you know,
30:45
Speaker 1: we're try not to you know, look in or try
30:48
Speaker 1: to pay attention to those things, but you know, it
30:51
Speaker 1: can be a way to use fuel to the fire.
30:54
Speaker 1: And I think that's exactly what we're doing. Um. You know,
30:57
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're not trying to
30:59
Speaker 1: do anything more, anything less than what we're doing. UM.
31:02
Speaker 1: You know, making sure that we just play our style
31:04
Speaker 1: of football and the way we like to play each
31:06
Speaker 1: and every Sunday. Um, and you know great things will happen.
31:10
Speaker 1: Was talking about you former first round picture, leading the
31:12
Speaker 1: team and tackles here. How rewarding is it because I
31:15
Speaker 1: know it didn't end the way you wanted it to
31:16
Speaker 1: end with the Titans. To be here and playing this
31:21
Speaker 1: well right now for a first place team, it feels
31:26
Speaker 1: good man. UM. You know it's one of those things
31:28
Speaker 1: where you're you're using things that happened in the past
31:32
Speaker 1: to you know, help shape the things that learn from
31:35
Speaker 1: the things that you did in the past to help
31:36
Speaker 1: shape the things that you're you're doing now. And you know,
31:39
Speaker 1: me being a guy that's going into the fifth year
31:42
Speaker 1: now and in his fifth year, UM, you know, I've
31:44
Speaker 1: learned a lot of things. UM. It's helped me in
31:46
Speaker 1: my leadership, has helped me understanding you know, it's not
31:49
Speaker 1: always about you. You know the team always is always
31:52
Speaker 1: gonna come first, and that at the same time, you know,
31:55
Speaker 1: you know you play your role in doing it the
31:57
Speaker 1: best of your ability. It's enough. And you know, at
32:00
Speaker 1: this point right now, I'm just happy to be a
32:02
Speaker 1: part of a great organization, a great team, Guys that
32:05
Speaker 1: love each other, Guys that counted each other. UM. In
32:08
Speaker 1: our locker room is continue each and every week to
32:11
Speaker 1: be better and better. Um. So I'm just, you know,
32:13
Speaker 1: really excited to see what happens in the next couple
32:15
Speaker 1: of games, man too, to see where we play. What
32:18
Speaker 1: about a player like you, Marcus Mariota comes over from Tennessee,
32:23
Speaker 1: lost his starting job for a couple of years, was
32:25
Speaker 1: over with the with the Raiders and comes back and
32:27
Speaker 1: he is now you're starting quarterback and leading you right now.
32:31
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's you know, it's like a it's
32:33
Speaker 1: like a beautiful story. Man. You know that's the thing
32:36
Speaker 1: I love about this game. Man. You know, things don't
32:39
Speaker 1: go as well as you might want it, but you know,
32:41
Speaker 1: you always have another opportunity, um, you know, each and
32:45
Speaker 1: every year to be able to position yourself or at
32:48
Speaker 1: least change the narrative about yourself, to be able to
32:51
Speaker 1: be in a better place, in a different place. And
32:53
Speaker 1: I think Marcus is doing that and to be able
32:55
Speaker 1: to see him grow as a quarterback from Tennessee to
32:58
Speaker 1: the Raiders until now. Um, you know, it's been beautiful man.
33:01
Speaker 1: He's he's taking that leadership role in leading us and
33:04
Speaker 1: these and the in these wins. Man. And you know,
33:06
Speaker 1: he's doing a really good job of just playing his game.
33:08
Speaker 1: He's not allowing anybody to you know, control the narrative
33:12
Speaker 1: about you know, what he's done in the past. I
33:14
Speaker 1: think he's taking full advantage of the opportunities that he's
33:17
Speaker 1: has and he's making the best of real quick before
33:20
Speaker 1: I let you go, Rashaanna know he's not of the
33:21
Speaker 1: building right now, but he is your former Alabama team.
33:24
Speaker 1: At your reaction the locker rooms reaction to the Calvin
33:27
Speaker 1: Ridley trade yesterday, Yeah, man, I mean it's always good
33:31
Speaker 1: news that a guy that you won games with, a
33:34
Speaker 1: guy that you sweat, sweat, blood and tears that you
33:37
Speaker 1: had it bowman, to be able to see him, uh,
33:40
Speaker 1: have another chance and be able to you know, extend
33:43
Speaker 1: his career. Um. I know he's gonna do very well.
33:46
Speaker 1: Um you know, I know he's working hard. I know
33:48
Speaker 1: he's doing all the little things that he needs to
33:50
Speaker 1: do to be prepared. And you know, it's gonna be
33:52
Speaker 1: fun seeing Calvin out there, you know, around guys up
33:55
Speaker 1: for sure, potentially next year with the Jaguars. Next game
33:58
Speaker 1: for you guys, though, the l A Chargers the first
34:01
Speaker 1: place Atlanta Falcons this week taking out the Chargers, Sean,
34:05
Speaker 1: congratulations on the good start. Best to luck the rest
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