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Von Miller out for season, Garoppolo future, Eagles/Giants, OBJ Update, Kurt Warner, and Ryan Shazier · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabels on the podium right now, trying to explain that,
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Speaker 1: in his words, he had nothing to do with John
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Speaker 1: Robinson's firing. Will play that in a little bit. We
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Speaker 1: have everything you need to know injury wise about week
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Speaker 1: fourteen as we get ready for a game and one
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Speaker 1: day right here in the building right next to us
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Speaker 1: the Raiders and the Rams for our studio in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: I'm Andrews Ciciliano, and this is Von Miller. He is
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Speaker 1: done for the season. The breaking news forty minutes ago
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Speaker 1: he has an a c L tear. Doctors went in
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Speaker 1: yesterday exploratory surgery to clean up the injury from Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: and found an a c L tear. Thirty three years old,
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Speaker 1: eight sacks, heart and soul of that defense. Done for
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Speaker 1: the year. Very unfortunate situation for Vaughan. Obviously in our
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Speaker 1: team care for him obviously like like we would any player.
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Speaker 1: We know how much this means to him in terms
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Speaker 1: of playing and and being with the team, So we
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Speaker 1: look forward to getting him back. Obviously off the field
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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season and his leadership, and
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Speaker 1: we're certainly thinking about him as he recovers. Will miss him.
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Speaker 1: But as I said last week when he was out
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Speaker 1: at the time, for the time and an opportunity for
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Speaker 1: other guys to to to step up, and the reactions
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Speaker 1: swift from all around the National Football League. From Michael Parsons,
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Speaker 1: we blurred out a colorful word that isn't fit for
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Speaker 1: the TV screen, but he says, praying for you, big
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Speaker 1: brow this one. When you saw the injury Ian, Mike
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks on Thanksgiving, you fear the worst, and then
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Speaker 1: Ian there was some hope. Oh, it isn't that bad.
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Speaker 1: Now we find out it is. Now this has been
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Speaker 1: an absolute roller coaster for not just Bills fans, but
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Speaker 1: also the Bills themselves and for von Miller. Immediately upon injury,
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Speaker 1: it seemed that von Miller had dodged a Oh it
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Speaker 1: escaped the worst. He went on the podcast, his own
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Speaker 1: podcast and said he could actually be back after missing
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Speaker 1: just one game, and the Bills put him on IR
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Speaker 1: to let his lateral meniscus heal. Now, my understanding was
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Speaker 1: it moved to a different part of the knee because
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Speaker 1: there was so much damage because the force was so great.
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Speaker 1: The original plan was no surgery than just based on
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Speaker 1: the range of motion and a couple other factors. They
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Speaker 1: went in yesterday and did not really exploratory surgery, more
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Speaker 1: surgery to take the lateral meniscus from the wrong channel
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Speaker 1: where it was and move it into the right place.
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Speaker 1: When they did that, when they went in, they found
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Speaker 1: what m Ris and other scans did not show, which
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Speaker 1: is that he did in fact have a tear in
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Speaker 1: his A c L. They have repaired it, but of
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Speaker 1: course he has now done for the season. Should make
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Speaker 1: a full recovery and be back next year. Mike, but
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Speaker 1: a crushing, crushing blow for Buffalo. Don't blink. That was
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Speaker 1: von Miller's mantra to this team. Don't blink, and this
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Speaker 1: is going to be the ultimate. They got to take
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Speaker 1: his advice for losing him and for what he means,
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Speaker 1: not just as a pass rusher, but because of that mentality,
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Speaker 1: that don't link mentality that he was trying to impart
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Speaker 1: on this entire defense and this entire team. Signing him
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Speaker 1: was so much more than just getting to the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: It was establishing or helping to establish a culture that
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Speaker 1: they had already built and maybe helping them get over
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Speaker 1: the hump and get to the super Bowl. So that's
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Speaker 1: another big part of this. Don't just think about what
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Speaker 1: he means on the field, and think about what he
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Speaker 1: means to these guys who are now going to have
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Speaker 1: to step up. The A J. F and s Is
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Speaker 1: of the world, the Gregory Russos of the world, the
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Speaker 1: Shack Lawson's Tim Settle. That's a guy on the inside
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Speaker 1: that they signed from Washington who can get after the
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Speaker 1: passer have given the opportunity. It's just going to have
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Speaker 1: to be made up from all parts of this defense
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Speaker 1: to compensate not only again for what he does on
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Speaker 1: the field, but also what he does from a leadership standpoint.
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Speaker 1: Von Miller leads the Bills and sacks he as a
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. Two of those eight came in their win
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Speaker 1: over the Chiefs earlier this year, which is why they
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Speaker 1: have that tidebreaker, which is why the Bills are now
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Speaker 1: in first and Bucky. We spent the hire off season
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Speaker 1: talking about the fact that when you get von Miller,
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Speaker 1: it's not so much for the regular season, it's the
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Speaker 1: close in the postseason to sack Mahomes in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: without him, how much do their championship hopes take a hit? Oh,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I still think this is a team that
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Speaker 1: is one of the heavyweights in the a f C.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it certainly takes a hit because you're losing
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Speaker 1: a premier pass rusher. But make no mistake, the Buffalo
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Speaker 1: Bills are going to be in the conversation as one
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Speaker 1: of the teams that could be the last team standing.
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Speaker 1: This is a team offensively, they still have all the firepower.
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Speaker 1: They can force opponents to play their game, meaning offense
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Speaker 1: ticks up. They forced you to chase points, so now
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Speaker 1: you have to throw the ball to catch up. Mike
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Speaker 1: mentioned a bunch of young players that they have in
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Speaker 1: the in the stable that they can throw at it.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that it changes, it may force Leslie
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Speaker 1: Fraser to change his style. They've been a team that
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Speaker 1: has been able to rush before play coverage in the
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Speaker 1: back end, and because Von Millier company have been so
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Speaker 1: good and so effective, they've been able to do that.
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Speaker 1: When that they may have to bring a little more pressure.
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Speaker 1: They may have to blitz more, put their corners and
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Speaker 1: expose them to a little more man to man. The
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Speaker 1: good thing is White is back in the mix. They
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Speaker 1: have a good set of corners. They should be fine.
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Speaker 1: It's not the same, but this team is still a
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Speaker 1: rated rock as a Super Bowl content, and the Bill's
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Speaker 1: got the Jets this week without von Miller. We knew
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Speaker 1: that he was on I R, but we now find
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Speaker 1: out today he is not coming back the rest of
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Speaker 1: the year. Bucky's coming back a little bit later though,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bucky. Mike Ian. We have other news, obviously,
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Speaker 1: including out of San Francisco yesterday with news that Jimmy Garoppolo,
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Speaker 1: yes has a broken foot. Yes he's not going to
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Speaker 1: play in the regular season, but I'm telling you there's
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Speaker 1: a chance he does not need foot surgery, which means maybe,
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Speaker 1: just maybe, if brock Purty can get him deep into
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Speaker 1: the postseason. Gara follow, could we see Garoppolo again? It's possible,
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Speaker 1: but you just mentioned the scenario in which brock Purty
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Speaker 1: takes him deep into the postseason, whether it's the conference
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Speaker 1: championship game or the Super Bowl. If he gets them
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Speaker 1: all the way there, you're gonna then pull him out
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Speaker 1: to bring Jimmy Garoppolo back when he might be rusty
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Speaker 1: or not recovered. The point I'm trying to make is Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's still a two month or so recovery for Jimmy Garoppolo.
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Speaker 1: So we're pushing right up against the Super Bowl for
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Speaker 1: his potential return to the field. I spoke to some
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Speaker 1: sources yet or say, yeah, it's still unlikely that he's
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Speaker 1: going to be back on the football during the season,
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Speaker 1: which encompasses the postseason, by the way. But the bigger
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Speaker 1: news here for Garoppolo for the long haul and even
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Speaker 1: for the forty Niners, is that there was no ligament damage.
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Speaker 1: There's a break in his foot, yes, but there was
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Speaker 1: no ligament damage, which is why the initial concern was
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Speaker 1: this was going to be a upwards of six month recovery.
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Speaker 1: You get it, Liz Frank. Ligament that requires surgery, it's
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Speaker 1: half a year or so before you're fully back, and
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Speaker 1: even then you might be affected as well. So that
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Speaker 1: was really good news for Garoppolo for the long term
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Speaker 1: because he gonna be a free agent, so by the
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Speaker 1: time he gets to March, he is going to be
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Speaker 1: fully healthy. That is huge for him. He expects to
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Speaker 1: get some interest elsewhere. I'm sure that forty would love
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Speaker 1: to have him in a backup scenario. But if he's
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Speaker 1: fully healthy by March, and there's teams that need quarterback help,
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Speaker 1: including potentially the Rams. Who knows. I mean, they're certainly
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Speaker 1: looking for long term solutions and had an interest in
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Speaker 1: Garoppolo before the season. Who knows. It's good news for
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Speaker 1: Jimmy long term. I still think the chances are slim.
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Speaker 1: We see him on the field in two and that
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Speaker 1: includes here. Now, there are a lot of ifts right there,
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Speaker 1: but you are already writing topic bars. Do you bench
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Speaker 1: Brock pretty for Jimmy Garoppolo in the playoffs for late January?
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Speaker 1: Signed me up for that a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport Love Smith's uh was kind of defiance on
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Speaker 1: the podium. Wouldn't name his starting quarterback? He did today
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Speaker 1: he made another switch. It is Davis Mills. Remember him.
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Speaker 1: He was the guy who started the first part of
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Speaker 1: the season, showed a lot of promise, made a lot
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Speaker 1: of plays and kind of the wheels came off a
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Speaker 1: little bit. And it's just he's just not a lot
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Speaker 1: of help around him. Just it's a young team. They're
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Speaker 1: just not very good and he ended up making some
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Speaker 1: bad decisions costs, ended up getting benched. Well, he is back,
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Speaker 1: so the Davis Mills sort of evaluation for the future
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Speaker 1: whatever he ends up being a really good backup or
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Speaker 1: maybe more. That continues now for the Texans. Meanwhile, the
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars have a situation surrounding their starting quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: He has a toe sprain, a big toe sprain from
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Speaker 1: that that scary hit on Sunday where we thought surely
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Speaker 1: something was very, very badly wrong that he came back,
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Speaker 1: came back in the game. Well, it's not his knee,
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Speaker 1: it's actually his big toe. Did not practice today. We'll
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Speaker 1: see about his availability moving forward. Okay, So Tyler Huntley
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Speaker 1: likely um and uh and I'm sorry, Brock. Pretty that
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Speaker 1: would be fifty four starting quarterbacks this year for some reason.
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and the toe can't go. C J. Bethred
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Speaker 1: would be fifty five starting quarterbacks this year in fourteen
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Speaker 1: weeks in rapp report, Mi cal follow is that? Where
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Speaker 1: does that rank? I'll tell you it's two more than
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Speaker 1: last here, fifty five fifty three last year through this point.
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Speaker 1: So good question, Mike, and we'll fill in more context
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Speaker 1: a little bit later. The Eagles have started only one
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Speaker 1: quarterback this year. Jalen Hurts. That guy has a playoff
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Speaker 1: clinching scenario this week. The Eagles are in with a win.
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Speaker 1: It's Nick Sirianni and the Eagles against the Giants. Every
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Speaker 1: game is a big game. And and to have guys
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Speaker 1: that are sitting in this in these seats out here
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Speaker 1: that are you know, have played in big games, that's huge. Right.
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Speaker 1: So this this is a division right, we know how
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Speaker 1: awesome the division rivalries are here in with with New
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Speaker 1: York and Dallas and in Washington, and just happy to
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Speaker 1: be part of that. And so I'm glad we got
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Speaker 1: guys in this building that have that know what it's
9:49
Speaker 1: like to be in big division, you know, rivalry games,
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Speaker 1: because that's the next one. And so you know, I
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Speaker 1: know we've got a really good team that we're about
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Speaker 1: to play this week, and uh, you know we're gonna
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to be on it to to go
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Speaker 1: out there and get a victory. Really tough schedule for
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Speaker 1: the other team for the Giants. He go Commanders, Eagles commanders.
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Speaker 1: But right now, the Giants are holding on to that
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Speaker 1: six spots in the NFC at seven four and one.
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Speaker 1: The other half of that tie with the commanders, and
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Speaker 1: they are in the eighth position to the NFC right now,
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Speaker 1: out of it at seven five and one. I told you, Buck,
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Speaker 1: you would be back here. He isn't Judy Batista with
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Speaker 1: us as well? Who's going to be covering this game
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Speaker 1: this coming Sunday as the Giants Judy try to get
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Speaker 1: that running game that carried them the first half of
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Speaker 1: the year back into four. Yeah, they are in a
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Speaker 1: real rut with the running game and the first seven
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Speaker 1: games of this season when everything was rosy for the
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Speaker 1: New York Giants, they were averaging a hundred seventy three
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Speaker 1: rushing yards per game the last five games, and we
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Speaker 1: know what's happened in the last five games. They don't
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Speaker 1: have a victory in any of them, one tie, four losses.
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Speaker 1: They're down to a hundred sixteen rushing yards per game
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Speaker 1: and they are under four yards per carry, So they
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Speaker 1: are in a real rut. Si Kwan Barkley is in
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Speaker 1: a rut. He is under seventy yards in each of
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Speaker 1: the last three games. He's also not really making any
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Speaker 1: big plays in the in the passing game. Why do
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Speaker 1: they need to get out of this run? Well, a
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Speaker 1: few things. First of all, the running game is the
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Speaker 1: best way to keep Jalen Hurts on the bench, which
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Speaker 1: is certainly where they want him. And also because they've
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Speaker 1: got to keep that pass rush off Daniel Jones. We
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Speaker 1: know this is the formula for opponents of the New
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Speaker 1: York Giants now. They want to take away the run
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Speaker 1: and put the game onto the passing game so that
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Speaker 1: they can tee off on Daniel Jones. The Eagles passed
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Speaker 1: Rusch has thirteen sex in the last three weeks. They
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Speaker 1: have to stop that. They've got to get the running
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Speaker 1: game going if the Giants are going to hold onto
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Speaker 1: that playoff spot. Eagles have lost the last two years
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Speaker 1: to the Giants. In MetLife Stadium Book, you thought it
11:45
Speaker 1: was interesting. Nick Sirianni on the podium about twenty minutes ago, said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: the Titans played us defensively last week, specifically to stop
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Speaker 1: the run, which the previous week we ran for three
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Speaker 1: sixty three. It's like that look we got was to
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Speaker 1: stop the run, and so you know, they threw the
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Speaker 1: ball over the top of their head. What's the that's
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Speaker 1: way to defend them. You know, it's tough, because I
12:07
Speaker 1: think the best way to defend him is you have
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Speaker 1: to stop the run, because if you allow the Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: Eagles to run the ball, they're running down your throat.
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Speaker 1: And they like playing that style because it allows them
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Speaker 1: to control the game. For all the improvement that Jalen
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Speaker 1: Hursts has made, even being an m v P candidate,
12:21
Speaker 1: when you think about the best way to make the
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Speaker 1: Eagles play, you have to put it on his shoulders.
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Speaker 1: This year, time and time again, he's checked off all
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Speaker 1: the boxes when it comes to being tested as a passer.
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Speaker 1: But the best way to knock this team off is
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Speaker 1: you have to make him throw. You have to make
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Speaker 1: him make enough plays in the passing game to do it,
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Speaker 1: and you run the risk of being blown out like
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans were because a J. Brown DeVante Smith.
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Speaker 1: Those guys can win Dallas. Guy that controls the middle
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Speaker 1: of the field, and when Jalen Hursts is on his game,
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Speaker 1: look man, he is looking like an m VP candidate.
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Speaker 1: This offense has been unstoppable to date, but you have
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Speaker 1: to continue to test the quarterback to see if he
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Speaker 1: can live up to the expectation each in every week.
13:01
Speaker 1: As a kid who grew up back there in NFC
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Speaker 1: East Territory, it's great to have the NFC East playing
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Speaker 1: meaningful games like this in December. Here this is the
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Speaker 1: first time in twelve years these two teams meet where
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Speaker 1: they are both two games over five hundred when they
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Speaker 1: kick off. Looking forward to this one coming up on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bucky, Thank you Judy. By the way, Nick
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Speaker 1: Serrianti was asked today about his interest the Eagle's interest
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Speaker 1: in Odell Beckham Jr. He says, we are thrilled with
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Speaker 1: the wide receiver room that we have, so I guess
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Speaker 1: take the Eagles out of it. But Beckham has met
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Speaker 1: with the Giants, he's met with the Bills, and earlier
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Speaker 1: this week he met with the Cowboys. Mike McCarthy how
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Speaker 1: to go. I thought the business one very well. I know,
13:43
Speaker 1: personally extremely impressed with O'Dell and Jorge, our time together,
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Speaker 1: like this vibe, you know, and and just uh just
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Speaker 1: enjoyed everything about our talk. And we didn't talk a
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Speaker 1: whole lot about football, talk more about a life and family.
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Speaker 1: So I think for the most part, I thought it
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Speaker 1: was a very very positive, productive visit. Very positive Jane
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Speaker 1: Slater as the Cowboys get ready for the Texans. Positive
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Speaker 1: of yet no signing as Odell Beckham Jr. Tweets a
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Speaker 1: chess piece moments ago. I don't know if he's watching
14:12
Speaker 1: Queen's Gambit or he's suggesting that he's playing chess. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Is he gonna sign what do we know?
14:18
Speaker 1: Great movie? By the way, if you haven't watched it,
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Speaker 1: Here's what I know about the O. B. J situation.
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Speaker 1: It's no secret Jerry Jones was enamored with this player
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Speaker 1: ahead of his visit to Dallas. Now, the problem was
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Speaker 1: that they weren't able to see him conduct a workout. Now,
14:32
Speaker 1: not dissimilar from teams like the Bills and Giants, But
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Speaker 1: the issue that I'm hearing internally is the fact when
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Speaker 1: you can't see him run routes, you can't see him cutting.
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Speaker 1: Is he going to be available to play this season?
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Speaker 1: That is why they wanted to make the move. They
14:46
Speaker 1: wanted to have him available this year. I'm hearing they
14:49
Speaker 1: felt like it would be a push to even have
14:50
Speaker 1: him available if let's say, the Cowboys got all the
14:53
Speaker 1: way to the Super Bowl. So in the absence of
14:56
Speaker 1: feeling confident about that, no offer was made. Now they
14:59
Speaker 1: have rolled the dice on players with jury concerns in
15:01
Speaker 1: the past, Jalen Smith comes to mind, but I would
15:04
Speaker 1: remind viewers that in that situation, Jalen smith surgery was
15:08
Speaker 1: done by Dr Dan Cooper, the Cowboys team doctor, so
15:11
Speaker 1: they felt like they had plenty of information there. Still,
15:14
Speaker 1: just the mention of O b J, you could say,
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Speaker 1: helped motivate this wide receiver's room. I mean, I look
15:20
Speaker 1: at the last four games for Ceedee Lamb. He's had
15:22
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, you had two scores from Michael Gallup, and
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Speaker 1: it seems like this offense is clicking. As one player
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Speaker 1: told me, they love to have OH b J. But
15:30
Speaker 1: they're not relying on him, not relying on him. As
15:33
Speaker 1: they get ready for the Houston Texans here a one
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Speaker 1: win team. James Washington is on the mend as well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, James Slater. Here's what the Eagles and the
15:42
Speaker 1: Cowboys have remaining as Dallas sits two games behind Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: the Texans and the Jaguars. The next two weeks for
15:51
Speaker 1: the Cowboys the Giants and the Bears, and then that
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Speaker 1: meeting Week six teen with Philadelphia winning the first in
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Speaker 1: the NFC Beast when they met a couple of months ago.
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks back with me, Bucky. Jeff chitty A, writing
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Speaker 1: in his first read on NFL dot Com that after
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Speaker 1: watching last week, and I know it was only the Colts,
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Speaker 1: but I guess he liked the fourth quarter, he has
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys as the best team in the NFC. Do
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Speaker 1: you buy that better than the Eagles? I can't buy
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Speaker 1: it right now. The Philadelfia ecause have been too good.
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Speaker 1: They've shown there sales to be the number one seed
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Speaker 1: in the league. Look, this is a team in Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: that has everything that you could want in building a
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Speaker 1: championship contended. They have a dominant offensive line. They can
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Speaker 1: run the ball that will, they have playmakers on the outside,
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Speaker 1: and they have a quarterback planing at m VP level.
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Speaker 1: When you go on the defensive of the ball, they
16:45
Speaker 1: can rush the passer and they can cover. So when
16:47
Speaker 1: I look at the recipe for being a championship team,
16:50
Speaker 1: check check check, check check. The Eagles check all the boxes.
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Speaker 1: So before I can annoint the Cowboys, and it's always
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Speaker 1: great when the Cowboys in the conversation. Not quite yet,
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Speaker 1: the Philadelfi Eagles remained at the top of the list,
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Speaker 1: But the Cowboys are come check check check check. Eagles,
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Speaker 1: do yes, have the best record in football at the
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Speaker 1: number one seed right now in the NFC. Funny thing
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Speaker 1: happened in the final three minutes Monday night in Tampa.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice it? The Bucks offense worked. Do they
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Speaker 1: go hurry up all the time? Now, hurry up and
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Speaker 1: come back. We'll tell you nothing fake can stop me.
17:27
Speaker 1: Play action, fake Brady rolling, throwing the cod ball, touch
17:30
Speaker 1: the fire, the Candons, Bucks bake at six tonight. Here's
17:35
Speaker 1: the snap. Brady dropping looking, Brady throws football. It's called
17:39
Speaker 1: touch say day for Sod White, Shod white, touchtop bucket, fire,
17:44
Speaker 1: the candod Parady with a dark take, Brashod White finishers fire,
17:49
Speaker 1: the Cannons, Bucketeers rallied Bucketeers one on Monday Night football.
17:54
Speaker 1: A huge comeback there for Tom Brady. Mike Render joins
17:57
Speaker 1: us now from PFF and Mike sitting there on the
17:59
Speaker 1: couch Monday Night. I thought that this segment might be
18:01
Speaker 1: about Todd Bowl's decision to punt on the plus four,
18:05
Speaker 1: but we'll save that for another time. Let's talk Tom
18:07
Speaker 1: Brady because in the final three minutes they went hurry up.
18:10
Speaker 1: We've seen this before. Everything clicked. It's like I'm on autopilot.
18:13
Speaker 1: Let me handle this, and they marched up and down
18:15
Speaker 1: the field. Why don't they do that more often? What
18:17
Speaker 1: do the numbers say? That's a very good question. And
18:20
Speaker 1: there really is no more damning statistic of this coaching
18:23
Speaker 1: staff than the fact that they are second in e
18:26
Speaker 1: p A per play in the two minute drill this
18:28
Speaker 1: season ran more snaps into Middrill than anyone else in
18:31
Speaker 1: the NFL this season, and in EPA per play the
18:35
Speaker 1: rest of the game compare the rest of the NFL.
18:37
Speaker 1: So when it's schemed up, when it's basically Byron Left,
18:40
Speaker 1: which is play is called, the offense has been saying
18:43
Speaker 1: that when it's Tom Brady leading the show, well, it's
18:45
Speaker 1: been one of the best offenses in the NFL. At
18:47
Speaker 1: some point they just have to turn the keys over
18:49
Speaker 1: to Tom, say this running game is doing nothing for us.
18:52
Speaker 1: They're not getting any play action off of it either,
18:54
Speaker 1: to say, hey, just let them go quick pass the game.
18:56
Speaker 1: There's really been no better quarterback menfel history that when
18:59
Speaker 1: it's just him, when it's just the past a game,
19:01
Speaker 1: when there there's no threat of the run, has been
19:03
Speaker 1: as effective as Tom Brady. So at some point, come
19:06
Speaker 1: playoff time, they're gonna have to just let Tom Ready
19:08
Speaker 1: run this thing. Yeah. Is it sustainable for four quarters?
19:11
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it worked when they needed it most,
19:14
Speaker 1: and they pulled out a victory there to hold on
19:16
Speaker 1: to first in the NFC South. You tweeted Sunday when
19:18
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was putting together another masterpiece against the Chiefs
19:22
Speaker 1: that Burrow has entered the m v P chat. Would
19:26
Speaker 1: you vote for him right now? I don't know if
19:27
Speaker 1: i'd vote for him right now, but I think the
19:29
Speaker 1: guy on the other side of the ball that game
19:31
Speaker 1: was your front runner is your front runner, Patrick Mahomes,
19:34
Speaker 1: and he took him down one head to head and
19:36
Speaker 1: outplayed him resoundly in that game. Top five grade quarterback
19:41
Speaker 1: right now, top five in touchdown passes, top five in yards.
19:43
Speaker 1: But to me, the stat that really hits home how
19:46
Speaker 1: good Joe Burrow has been is that is when not
19:49
Speaker 1: using play action, because play action can oftentimes be schemed up.
19:52
Speaker 1: Give you open, guys. When not using play action. These
19:54
Speaker 1: first in completion percentage, first in yards, first in touchdowns,
19:58
Speaker 1: basically as a drop back pass or There was no
20:00
Speaker 1: one that can touch Joe Burrow in the NFL right
20:02
Speaker 1: now and all you needed was a little semblance of
20:04
Speaker 1: the running game. Running game at the beginning of the
20:05
Speaker 1: season was a complete mess. They changed from an outside
20:08
Speaker 1: zone heavy team to a more gap scheme heavy team.
20:10
Speaker 1: Just getting that run game going a little bit has
20:12
Speaker 1: kicked started this offense to one of the best in
20:14
Speaker 1: the NFL. At the very moment Joe Burrow was doing
20:16
Speaker 1: that to the Kansas City defense, Davante Adams was having
20:20
Speaker 1: fun with the Chargers defense since Week nine. The traditional
20:24
Speaker 1: stats here Davante Adams Mike averaging a hundred and thirty
20:28
Speaker 1: two point eight receiving yards a game. What are the
20:30
Speaker 1: advanced metrics tell us that he's pretty darn good. You
20:34
Speaker 1: know that the guy that we saw in Green Bay
20:37
Speaker 1: was not an product of Aaron Rodgers. That he himself
20:40
Speaker 1: may have been helping out and pumping up Aaron Rodgers
20:42
Speaker 1: the last two years for those m VP campaigns more
20:45
Speaker 1: than he was getting a little credit for us. So,
20:46
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, the advanced members are off the charts, top
20:50
Speaker 1: ten in broken tackles, top ten and contested catches, and
20:54
Speaker 1: leads the NFL round and touchdown catches and deep touchdown catches.
20:58
Speaker 1: At that point, Davanta Adams. Is he the best shoo
21:00
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I'm not sure. He's probably the most
21:02
Speaker 1: complete receiver in the NFC. Yeah, and um he makes
21:05
Speaker 1: guys who are paid large salaries look silly. Almost every
21:10
Speaker 1: Sunday he is dominant and we saw that in there
21:13
Speaker 1: win over the Chargers. Microenner PFF. Always great to have
21:16
Speaker 1: you on. Thank you, Sarah. Catchy next week. But one
21:18
Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of the week Every Wednesday, our
21:20
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback is with us Kurt Warner live
21:23
Speaker 1: from the QB room. Kurt, thanks for being here. Let's
21:26
Speaker 1: talk forty Niners the news last night. There's a chance,
21:29
Speaker 1: it's it's not a great chance, but there's a chance
21:32
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Garoppolo could be back if the Niners make
21:34
Speaker 1: a late run. But they would have to make that
21:36
Speaker 1: late run into the postseason with Brock Purty. I know
21:39
Speaker 1: it's a very small sample size, very small. Did you
21:42
Speaker 1: see anything last week that tells you that this kid
21:46
Speaker 1: has it in him to make a run? Well, I
21:49
Speaker 1: mean I think of run when when we're looking just
21:51
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, you know, maybe a bit of
21:53
Speaker 1: a stretch and I don't think he's gonna go in
21:55
Speaker 1: there and you know, just take over games. And he's
21:59
Speaker 1: not gonna be a guy that you're gonna ask to
22:00
Speaker 1: throw thirty five times. But make a run. When you're
22:03
Speaker 1: talking about a really good football team with the best
22:06
Speaker 1: defense in the league and all kinds of playmakers around
22:09
Speaker 1: you and the ability to run the football, yeah, I
22:11
Speaker 1: think they could make a run. And here's what I see.
22:13
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. We've you know, a lot of people up
22:15
Speaker 1: and down on who he is as a quarterback. I've
22:18
Speaker 1: always liked Jimmy because he he wins and be he
22:21
Speaker 1: makes big plays in in big moments for this team
22:25
Speaker 1: to win. When I look at Brock Purty, I'm not
22:27
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna be a guy that's going to continually
22:29
Speaker 1: make a bunch of big plays for you. But I
22:32
Speaker 1: do believe Brock Purty can make more layups than Jimmy Garoppolo.
22:37
Speaker 1: He can see the field, get the ball out to
22:39
Speaker 1: the right guys and allowed them to do the work
22:41
Speaker 1: for them. And so that to me is going to
22:44
Speaker 1: be key. Is what does Brock Purdy give us? What
22:46
Speaker 1: is that uh that extra that he can give us
22:48
Speaker 1: at the quarterback spot. And having watched to play him
22:51
Speaker 1: play a lot in college uh in a little bit
22:53
Speaker 1: last week obviously, UH he did some of that, and
22:56
Speaker 1: so I think the team is good enough if he
22:58
Speaker 1: can give them something, give them the layups for them
23:00
Speaker 1: to move on and make a run on the playoffs.
23:03
Speaker 1: Interesting this week, far from a layup, are facing Todd
23:06
Speaker 1: Bowls and you're facing Tom Brady as the other quarterback. Cured.
23:10
Speaker 1: I was in Vegas last night for the UH for
23:12
Speaker 1: the College Football Hall of Fame seventy anniversary dinner, great event,
23:15
Speaker 1: and a bunch of us are talking about OH b
23:17
Speaker 1: J and Dak Prescott and it just kind of hit me, like,
23:21
Speaker 1: if you're Dak, if you're a quarterback, and let's say
23:24
Speaker 1: Odell signs, but like can't play until mid January, would
23:28
Speaker 1: you want that in the middle of the playoffs? Like, Hey, Dak,
23:32
Speaker 1: are you throwing out that guy? Why aren't you throwing Adam?
23:34
Speaker 1: More like, would you want to try to work someone
23:36
Speaker 1: new in during the postseason? I would not mind it
23:41
Speaker 1: at all. If you're talking about the O b J
23:43
Speaker 1: that we've all seen. And here's the thing, Andrew, you
23:46
Speaker 1: can uh, you know, when when we talk about chemistry
23:49
Speaker 1: between a quarterback and a receiver. You know, it's one
23:52
Speaker 1: thing if you're gonna ask that receiver to run, you know,
23:55
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of different routes in your playbook. If
23:58
Speaker 1: I was going to get O. B J back later
24:01
Speaker 1: in this deal and when we need to kind of
24:03
Speaker 1: plug him and play him, I use him for things
24:06
Speaker 1: that are a little bit more straight line, like I'm
24:08
Speaker 1: gonna run him on go routes. I'm gonna run him
24:10
Speaker 1: on post routes. I'll run him on shallow routes, which
24:12
Speaker 1: are things that aren't so much. When's he gonna break down,
24:15
Speaker 1: When's he gonna come out of this How's he gonna
24:17
Speaker 1: come out of this route? Because I haven't seen much
24:19
Speaker 1: of that. So yes, I believe if he's the talent
24:22
Speaker 1: that we've all seen O. B J to be, you
24:25
Speaker 1: can plug him in in certain situations and you can
24:28
Speaker 1: use him in certain fashions to make your team better
24:31
Speaker 1: and to allow him to be a big playmaker for
24:34
Speaker 1: your football team. So yes, healthy the O. B J
24:37
Speaker 1: that we saw last year with the Rams, I will
24:39
Speaker 1: take it, okay. Jane Slater in Dallas reporting that as
24:43
Speaker 1: if yet, the Cowboys have not offered Beckham a contract.
24:47
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield's contract went over to the Rams yesterday, Kurt.
24:50
Speaker 1: They're the only team to put in a waiver claim.
24:53
Speaker 1: And there's at least a rumbling rumbling that maybe he
24:58
Speaker 1: sees the field tomorrow night. Kurt. He didn't get there
25:00
Speaker 1: until last night. I mean, how bonkers is that. I
25:03
Speaker 1: know the systems are little similar here Stefanski and McVeigh,
25:07
Speaker 1: but could you ever imagine showing up and playing forty
25:10
Speaker 1: eight hours later? I mean, the only way you could
25:12
Speaker 1: imagine it is if it is similar enough that I
25:15
Speaker 1: can call the plays and actually know what the plays mean.
25:18
Speaker 1: I mean, if the system is the same and you're
25:20
Speaker 1: calling the exact same plays they I can envision it.
25:24
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been playing at times throughout this season.
25:28
Speaker 1: He's in shape, and so it's not too far fetched
25:31
Speaker 1: as long as you can understand that part of it.
25:33
Speaker 1: If if there's any doubt whatsoever and he's calling a
25:36
Speaker 1: play and he's not sure what he's supposed to be
25:39
Speaker 1: doing or what everybody around him is going to be doing,
25:41
Speaker 1: then you just can't put him out there. So I
25:43
Speaker 1: understand this is this is a bit of a stretch,
25:46
Speaker 1: but I do believe that there's a lot of similarities
25:48
Speaker 1: within systems. If that terminology is similar enough that he
25:52
Speaker 1: can he can really decipher in that from coach to
25:55
Speaker 1: headset and headset to snap he can decipher what he's
25:58
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing. That would be wild, also wild,
26:01
Speaker 1: also pretty cool. By the way, I know, we played
26:04
Speaker 1: this on Sunday. Let's play it again. Let's let's give
26:06
Speaker 1: a ride of applause for your son Kate and the
26:08
Speaker 1: Kansas State team, the Wildcats that won the Big twelve
26:11
Speaker 1: championship game this past Saturday. And this is live from
26:15
Speaker 1: your wife Brenda's phone and her Twitter. You guys celebrating
26:20
Speaker 1: their big wink did five receptions. Honestly, I thought he
26:23
Speaker 1: caught that deep ball that fifty yard or great you know,
26:25
Speaker 1: adjustment of the air regardless, even though they didn't give
26:27
Speaker 1: it to him. Um, how cool was that for you guys?
26:30
Speaker 1: It's so cool. I mean, it's so cool to watch
26:31
Speaker 1: your kids succeed in anything. And this has been a
26:34
Speaker 1: bit of a bit of a journey for for Kate.
26:36
Speaker 1: As uh, you know, I went through my own journey.
26:38
Speaker 1: He's gone through his own journey, starting getting Nebraska and
26:40
Speaker 1: then transferring over to k State. But just just a
26:43
Speaker 1: really cool moment for him, a guy that loves football
26:46
Speaker 1: when he's gotten his opportunities this year has really shined
26:49
Speaker 1: and now has a chance to to say that he's
26:51
Speaker 1: a champion, a Big twelve champion, And for that they
26:54
Speaker 1: get a chance to go to the Sugar Bowl and
26:55
Speaker 1: play against Alabama, one of the best teams in the country.
26:57
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a great challenge for them. But
27:00
Speaker 1: I'm just so excited that in his last year he
27:03
Speaker 1: gets to finish up this way with success on the
27:05
Speaker 1: football field and tremendous team success. Congratulations to k Stay,
27:09
Speaker 1: huge win there and good luck in the Sugar Bowl
27:12
Speaker 1: against Alabama. Thank you as always, Sir Gert Warner or
27:15
Speaker 1: whole of Fame quarterback with us every Wednesday. Former Steeler
27:19
Speaker 1: Ryan Shazier walking out of the set. You're watching NFL
27:23
Speaker 1: now on a Wednesday. How cool is this to have
27:33
Speaker 1: your podcast promode in Times Square? This is pretty cool?
27:37
Speaker 1: From Ryan Shazier's Twitter. Ryan Shazier, the former Steelers linebacker.
27:42
Speaker 1: Don't call it a comeback. This man here is literally
27:46
Speaker 1: a walking miracle. What a comeback for Ryan shas here
27:49
Speaker 1: and now it's the name of your podcast with our
27:52
Speaker 1: old Pal Dave Damnit Shack. Good to see it. Ryan
27:54
Speaker 1: Chase here, goot to see you as well. How's the
27:56
Speaker 1: podcast business trip? It's going well, it's going well. I'm
27:59
Speaker 1: really enjoying it. Uh. We we talked about amazing comeback
28:02
Speaker 1: stories and with me, you know, having a that story
28:05
Speaker 1: of my own, just to be able to talk about
28:07
Speaker 1: inspiring stories and just just different stories throughout all of
28:11
Speaker 1: the dynamic of sports, is is really fun? How important
28:14
Speaker 1: for you is it to tell those stories? And not
28:18
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna have a comeback like you? Obviously here you
28:20
Speaker 1: had Taylor lauana Is coming back from a knee injury.
28:22
Speaker 1: But how important is it to add your perspective as
28:26
Speaker 1: others try to make their comeback. One thing I think
28:28
Speaker 1: that's really different from our perspective than a lot of
28:31
Speaker 1: other people's is I actually had to come back, and
28:33
Speaker 1: the comeback I've I've had is something that a lot
28:35
Speaker 1: of people never expected to happen. So I think that
28:39
Speaker 1: that really as a different perspective. So when we talk
28:42
Speaker 1: about football, I can talk on that perspective. But we
28:45
Speaker 1: talked about um a lot of different stories. With one
28:49
Speaker 1: of the stories with one of the kids in a
28:50
Speaker 1: littally Well series when he got injured. We talked about
28:53
Speaker 1: that come back and just what the families are thinking
28:56
Speaker 1: about what the person is going through in that moment,
28:59
Speaker 1: what you have to go through. So I think I
29:01
Speaker 1: have two different dynamics of the story that I can tell.
29:03
Speaker 1: How often do people walk up to and say you're
29:06
Speaker 1: my inspiration? Yeah, I probably hear that a living more
29:09
Speaker 1: than I want to. But to me, that's a good thing,
29:11
Speaker 1: you know, But I probably hear that I hear more
29:15
Speaker 1: than once a week, but sometimes it's, Uh, if I
29:17
Speaker 1: go outside of my house, I hear it almost every day.
29:19
Speaker 1: You say more than you want to? Why no, you know,
29:21
Speaker 1: because of the day. Uh, everybody is known for something,
29:25
Speaker 1: and to me, I wanted to be known for just
29:27
Speaker 1: being a great person and a good person and a
29:30
Speaker 1: great football player and just you know, for somebody it's like, hey,
29:34
Speaker 1: you overcame a lot, and I just like what you overcome.
29:37
Speaker 1: It inspires me. And I'm not saying that as a
29:39
Speaker 1: bad thing. It just that's a lot of times when
29:41
Speaker 1: somebody doesn't know. But that's when the first thing is
29:42
Speaker 1: they say podcast drops every Thursday with as we said,
29:45
Speaker 1: our old pal Dave Damage check. It's called don't call
29:47
Speaker 1: it a comeback. You're gonna have l l on by
29:50
Speaker 1: the way, just for the don't call to come back thing. Hey,
29:52
Speaker 1: if if we could possibly get him on there, we
29:54
Speaker 1: would definitely love to have him when there. You know,
29:56
Speaker 1: he's definitely had some few comeback stories himself, So hey,
30:00
Speaker 1: I listen. I'd listen either way, but with l definitely liten.
30:03
Speaker 1: I want to talk about your Steelers and a come back. Now,
30:05
Speaker 1: Mike Tomin has never had a losing season. They are
30:08
Speaker 1: five and seven, but they have one now three out
30:11
Speaker 1: of four. Can they make a second half of the
30:15
Speaker 1: season come back and have Tomlin avoid for that first
30:18
Speaker 1: time having a losing season. So I actually just had
30:22
Speaker 1: a conversation with a good friend of mine and we
30:25
Speaker 1: made a small bed and I was like, hey, I
30:27
Speaker 1: think that it still does gonna go to gonna go nine,
30:30
Speaker 1: seven and nine to finish off their last nine games,
30:34
Speaker 1: and right now they won two of them, they lost one,
30:36
Speaker 1: so I think that they can make can come back.
30:39
Speaker 1: Coach Tomlins before has started the season off, you know,
30:42
Speaker 1: oh and four before the start of season and one
30:45
Speaker 1: and four started season before. So just to understand how
30:49
Speaker 1: he's been able to overcome those you know, deep depths
30:53
Speaker 1: of being down and just you know, causing his team
30:57
Speaker 1: to be able to win. I think he's he's somebody
30:59
Speaker 1: that can turn this st around. What do you think
31:01
Speaker 1: of Kenny pick It so far? So I'm really excited
31:04
Speaker 1: what I'm saying for Kenney Picket right now after this
31:06
Speaker 1: bye week. He's been playing really well. At the beginning
31:08
Speaker 1: of the season. Obviously he had a few turnovers, but
31:11
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you get thrown in in the
31:13
Speaker 1: middle of the season. You don't have a lot of
31:14
Speaker 1: chemistry with your guys, and and Camp did and play
31:17
Speaker 1: with them. At the beginning the season, he wasn't really
31:19
Speaker 1: practicing with them as much, and the only guy he
31:21
Speaker 1: kind of had chemistry with was George Pickens. And now
31:24
Speaker 1: he's started to get more chemistry with the old line,
31:26
Speaker 1: with the running backs, with the with the receivers, and
31:29
Speaker 1: you can see in the last two or three games
31:31
Speaker 1: he hasn't really turned the ball over and that's allowing
31:33
Speaker 1: us to be in position to win. All right. Also
31:35
Speaker 1: a comeback for your buck eyes because we found out
31:37
Speaker 1: on Sunday after the Michigan loss, they have new life
31:40
Speaker 1: as well, and they are in the playoff. What would
31:43
Speaker 1: it take for the buck Eyes to complete that comeback
31:47
Speaker 1: and win this thing after we saw after what we
31:50
Speaker 1: saw Thanksgiving weekends, I think the biggest thing for the
31:53
Speaker 1: for the buck Eyes to win this game is too
31:56
Speaker 1: just be effective on defense. One of the biggest things
31:59
Speaker 1: that we had a problem with the last few years
32:01
Speaker 1: is our defense hasn't been where it needs to be.
32:04
Speaker 1: And going into the Michigan game, our defense has been
32:07
Speaker 1: very consistent and they had a bad game that game
32:10
Speaker 1: and that's why we end unfortunately losing. But if we
32:13
Speaker 1: are silent on defense, I think we have a solid
32:15
Speaker 1: chance because our offense is dynamic. Even with Jackson Smith
32:18
Speaker 1: and Jay Claimington the NFL this whole season, we've still
32:22
Speaker 1: been a top five offense the whole year. So if
32:25
Speaker 1: our defense can play like they've been playing all year,
32:27
Speaker 1: we have the offense to beat every team in the
32:29
Speaker 1: college playoffs. And they get that second chance here when
32:32
Speaker 1: they made the playoff and they were one of the
32:35
Speaker 1: final four. On Sunday, before we let you go, Ryan
32:37
Speaker 1: Shay's here, Our director, Fred Johnson is a huge Steelers
32:41
Speaker 1: fan and he wanted to put this picture on the screen.
32:44
Speaker 1: That is you with his son, also a big Steelers fan, Freddie.
32:48
Speaker 1: This is at a game a couple of years ago.
32:50
Speaker 1: You got to meet Freddie, so we wanted to put
32:53
Speaker 1: this on the screen then say how much that meant
32:55
Speaker 1: to Freddie that he got to meet you that day.
32:58
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Is it was a great time
33:00
Speaker 1: and looking at that stadium, that little that was at
33:01
Speaker 1: San France, and uh, I definitely remember that moment, so
33:05
Speaker 1: a lot, uh, thank you guy for me in still
33:07
Speaker 1: of fans in this uh this being supportive of me.
33:11
Speaker 1: Ryan Shase here, it's great to see it. Don't call
33:13
Speaker 1: it a comeback with Dave Damashek the new podcast, new
33:17
Speaker 1: episode drops every Thursday. Good look to your buck, guys,
33:20
Speaker 1: Good look to you, sir. Thank you so much. Ryan
33:22
Speaker 1: Shays here, everybody, alright, time for one more thing before
33:25
Speaker 1: we go with Judy Batista going first. Well, obviously we're
33:28
Speaker 1: going to be talking a lot about Frock Purty probably
33:31
Speaker 1: this weekend, many many weeks if Kyle Shanahan as accurate
33:34
Speaker 1: with the injury report, which is good because I want
33:37
Speaker 1: more tweets from Carry Purdy, Big Bird Purty. That's Brock's mom.
33:41
Speaker 1: This was adorable. Proud of you to you next week.
33:45
Speaker 1: Love mom and Dad. I love that she signs the tweets.
33:48
Speaker 1: I want more of Harry Purdy. Yeah, we want more
33:51
Speaker 1: as well. And more is gonna be Tom Brady this week.
33:53
Speaker 1: James Palmer. One more thing, well, thank you, Andrew. Congratulations
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Speaker 1: to Christian Kirksey of the Houston Texans being there, Walter
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Speaker 1: Payton Man of the Year nominee, my Man, Drew Doherty
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Speaker 1: through this out. When Kirky was recognizing and thanking everybody,
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Speaker 1: gave a shout out to her own. Rhet Lewis's sister,
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Speaker 1: Morgan Kleine Schmidt, who does unbelievable work with the Houston
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Speaker 1: Texans players off the field, saw her last Sunday. She
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Speaker 1: is a great person and amazing at what she does
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Speaker 1: helping all those Houston Texans players be active in the community.
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Speaker 1: Congratulated her and everybody who was nominated. Morgan absolutely getting
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Speaker 1: some love there. Love, meet some Christian Kirksey as well.
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Speaker 1: Great stuff at the community in Cleveland and Incus Fucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: One board thing. When you look at the Vegas Raiders
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Speaker 1: on Thursday night, I want you to think about Josh
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Speaker 1: McDaniels using a simple adage, it's about players, not plays.
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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs and Davante Adams account for sixty of the
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Speaker 1: Raiders scrimmage jars. Josh Jacobs is the leader Russia, Davante
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Speaker 1: Adams is the top five. So rather than worry about
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Speaker 1: all of these players and get everyone involved, No, the
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Speaker 1: ball goes to the best players and you win games.
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Speaker 1: Josh mcganny just kind of feeded out. In base it's
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Speaker 1: about players and coaches as well. Congratulations Bucky Brooks to
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Speaker 1: your Granada Hills Charter football team which won the city title,
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Speaker 1: now moving on to get the semis this week. God
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Speaker 1: Buddha Beach going for a state title. Go Highlanders and
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Speaker 1: coach Bucky Brooks, Let's Go Buck. NFL Now is a
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