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NFL REPORT: Ravens vs 49ers on Christmas Day, Which team will play Grinch, Colts CB Kenny Moore interview · NFL Game Previews

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: What's going on.
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  Speaker 2: This is Zaire Franklin, linebacker the Anneapolis Colts, and this
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: is the NFL Report. Welcome back to the NFL Report,
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: James Palmer, Steve Whitch with a new addition in that
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Zaire Franklin, and we have one of his teammates, another
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: member dominant player on this Colts defense, one of the
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: best slock corners in all football. Kenny Moore is kind
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: of joining the show. We'll also have Cameron Wolf and
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Jane Slater breaking down the Dolphins Cowboys game. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if anybody knows those two teams better than those two, Steve.
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  Speaker 2: We also have Brian Baldinger breaking down a number of
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  Speaker 2: players that maybe are flying under the radar that you
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: need to pay better attention to. And also the coach
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: David Saw talking about a couple of quarterbacks as Jalen
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: Hurt's broken.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Coach Shaw will tell us.
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  Speaker 2: I do have an opinion on that, And Steve, I'm
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  Speaker 2: rocking green because this is our final show before Christmas.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll be rocking green on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll be part of the NFL Network Holiday Classic.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: We're calling it on Christmas Eve in Denver, Broncos hosting
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots. I bought a new coat. It will be
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: extremely cold, but it will be a blast to be
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  Speaker 2: on the sideline with Kurt Warner and Rich Eison and
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Sherry Burst.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, a JP, you are like the king of coats, right,
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: you know? Last week on NFL Game Day preview and
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: Sujan we broke out in your your Tom Ford or
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: Tom Fraud whatever it is looking jacket. But it was
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  Speaker 4: absolutely clean.
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  Speaker 3: That bad boy was hot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, streets that looked absolutely clean. But we've got so
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  Speaker 4: many important playoff type games this weekend, which you have
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  Speaker 4: all kinds of playoff ramifications in JP. It all starts
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  Speaker 4: on Christmas Eve, Monday night with the Ravens and the
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco forty nine ers. Let's generate the hype machine,
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  Speaker 4: roll the tape LC.
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  Speaker 3: Ravens at the sixteen yard line. Lamar wants to throw
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  Speaker 3: lops of the end zone, looking.
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  Speaker 4: First man he's gone on Isaaiah likely touchdown?
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  Speaker 3: Ravens.
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  Speaker 5: They snap at thirty hundred seven seven step Drop gets
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  Speaker 5: chased out of there.
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  Speaker 6: We'll throw on the run wide open.
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  Speaker 7: McCaffrey makes the Cats goes down, gets up touchdown, see
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  Speaker 7: m see.
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  Speaker 4: The Niners radio with a great cod right there. It
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  Speaker 4: is always good to hear from Greg. But JP again,
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  Speaker 4: we know how domin these are the two best teams
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  Speaker 4: in each conference. They can say this is in a
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl preview. It sure does look like a Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl preview. So let's start with the offenses. With these
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  Speaker 4: great offenses, which player or which unit is going to
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  Speaker 4: be most impactful in this game?
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  Speaker 2: We both had this answer, and then I think you
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  Speaker 2: may be changed, And that shows me that we both
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  Speaker 2: believe we've got at Jackson is the most important player
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  Speaker 2: in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing against Brock Purty.
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  Speaker 2: He's actually my front runner for the MVP, But the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens without Lamar Jackson are nowhere near where they are
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  Speaker 2: right now. If he's not out there because of what
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  Speaker 2: he does in the run game, what he does in
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  Speaker 2: the past game, obviously, but what he can do for
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  Speaker 2: this offense and what he can do against talented defenses,
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  Speaker 2: he's just an X factor.
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  Speaker 3: Steve. I just think he's the.
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  Speaker 2: Most important player to either team in their future moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: And I look at what the forty nine ers have
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  Speaker 2: been carved up in terms of the run game. I
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: look at what Lamar Jackson in this Raven's number one
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  Speaker 2: ranked rushing attack. Although they lose their dynamic back with
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  Speaker 2: the ACL and Keaton Mitchell, but what he can do
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  Speaker 2: with this rushing attack keeps Brock Purty and all that
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  Speaker 2: talent from the San Francisco forty nine ers off the field.
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  Speaker 2: We're watching highlights of him get eight and then go down.
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  Speaker 2: These long, sustaining drives they had against the Jaguars in
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  Speaker 2: the second half were remarkable. They finished with over almost
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty yards rushing in that game. I
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  Speaker 2: look at them maybe using Lamar with the aggressiveness of
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  Speaker 2: this defensive line of the forty nine ers that love
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  Speaker 2: to get upfield, they have to stay disciplined and they're
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  Speaker 2: thin in the middle. We'll see what happens with Javon Hargraves,
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with Eric Harmson. But he loves
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  Speaker 2: to go through those A and B gaps up the middle.
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  Speaker 2: If they're thin in that sense, he can affect this game,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, in just a lot of different ways, and
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  Speaker 2: it manage.
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  Speaker 3: It fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious to see because this late in the season.
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  Speaker 2: There's been some talk about this Niners defense being a
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  Speaker 2: little tired. We know how hard Kyle Shanahan works them
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  Speaker 2: in practice. Well, if they're on the field a lot
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  Speaker 2: because of Lamar Jackson and they're chasing him around, how
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  Speaker 2: exhausting is that going to be Monday night?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they still don't give up a lot of points.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the main thing with the forty nine's
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  Speaker 4: And I agree with Lamar is the most dangerous person
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  Speaker 4: on the field. And he talked about his runs. Look
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  Speaker 4: at his run totals last three games. He's up above
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  Speaker 4: thirty all those all those last three games. But I
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  Speaker 4: think the most important unit in this game is gonna
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  Speaker 4: be the Niners receivers, led by Deebo Samuel. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: you got Brian Ayuk, you got George Kittle, you got
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  Speaker 4: the juice man, Kyli Yuschek, who can have of course
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  Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey. But this is a team like even if
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  Speaker 4: the Ravens want to sit back and zone, and they
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  Speaker 4: do play a lot of man and they've got a
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  Speaker 4: big corner in Marlon Humphrey who can do some things.
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  Speaker 4: The nine to find ways because of their diversity. You
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  Speaker 4: look at the big games and the big opponents. Against Dallas,
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  Speaker 4: it was George Kittle, right, Dallas said, we're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: let Debo and we're not gonna let Ayuk beat this team,
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  Speaker 4: so they carved him up with Kittle. So then you
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  Speaker 4: come back to the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh deebo Samuel goes
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  Speaker 4: for about a buck seventy five in the air and
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  Speaker 4: runs the ball. And mind you, James, this is a
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  Speaker 4: team where these guys make the most. They only throw
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  Speaker 4: the ball about twenty seven times a game, so when
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  Speaker 4: they get their hands on the ball, they do damage.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I think is gonna happen. Here. Talked
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  Speaker 4: about how the Ravens offense moves a change. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to control the clock in this game. There's a good
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  Speaker 4: chance of that. But again, the Niners receivers make the
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  Speaker 4: most out of what they happen. Okay, here's here's something
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  Speaker 4: that's not being talked about enough the matchup. Look at
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  Speaker 4: these inside linebackers in this game. Right, You've got Roe Quantson,
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  Speaker 4: Patrick Queen for the Ravens, and you've got dra Green
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  Speaker 4: Law Monsters and Fred Warner for the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 4: This is a total fifty to fifty toss up. But
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  Speaker 4: for the sake of some interesting discussion here, which unit
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  Speaker 4: of inside backers do you think impacts this game the most?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I you know, I think it might be the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens in all honesty because of what they have to
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  Speaker 2: handle up front with Christian McCaffrey. If they can handle
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  Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey, I think that's an extremely important aspect of
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  Speaker 2: what this front seven can do.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, George Kittle, as you.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned, and then you have to maybe make those impacts, Steve,
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  Speaker 2: because your secondary is gonna have their hands full with
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  Speaker 2: the group that you just mentioned. And that's why I
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  Speaker 2: think this group up front is gonna have to be
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: able to handle business as well as they can with
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens because I don't know how long they want
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  Speaker 2: Brought Perry to be making.
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  Speaker 3: Decisions back there to go to the unit that you
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  Speaker 3: broke down.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say this this, uh, these linebackers with
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  Speaker 2: with Baltimore, Well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go ahead and say it's Fred Warner and
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  Speaker 4: Drake Greenlaw. They're great in coverage, they've got the speed,
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  Speaker 4: both can spy Lamar Jackson, who you pointed out.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: But JMBF, we don't have a ton of time left.
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  Speaker 4: We do know it's a holiday weekend, all right. We
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  Speaker 4: do know it's it's Christmas time right here. So which
• 7:31
  Speaker 4: player is going to deliver the goods this weekend? It
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: could be any game of the NFL, not necessarily as
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  Speaker 4: Niners Ravens game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say delivering the goods is Jalen Hurts. He's
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  Speaker 2: gonna bounce back.
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  Speaker 3: These last three.
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  Speaker 2: Games are the easiest schedule in the NFL for the
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles, and they have to do two things over
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  Speaker 2: these last three games to get themselves back on track.
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  Speaker 2: They have to get explosive plays back. They have to
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  Speaker 2: eliminate the turnovers. Jalen Hurts was the best quarterback the
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  Speaker 2: pocket in the NFL Steve this year, he's thrown more
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  Speaker 2: interceptions from the pocket than anyone else in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see him get back on track in
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  Speaker 2: terms of throwing the football, making the correct decisions. Teams
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  Speaker 2: have been taking away the explosive plays, but Nick Sirianni
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  Speaker 2: believes there's still places where he can make impactful explosive
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  Speaker 2: plays in this passing game. With the defensive looks they're getting.
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  Speaker 2: It's his decision making in those I want to see
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  Speaker 2: thrive against the Giants on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think the dude who's been in
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  Speaker 4: his bag and is carrying the biggest bag to deliver
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  Speaker 4: the goods he's been Buffalo Bills running back James Cook. Oh,
• 8:35
  Speaker 4: and guess guess who there the Bills are playing this week? Oh,
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: they're playing the Chargers. Yeah, that's been a real stand
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  Speaker 4: up crew lately. Oh, James Cook. Oh, he can be
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  Speaker 4: delivering the goods inside. He can be delivering the goods outside.
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  Speaker 4: He can be delivering the goods in the screen game.
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  Speaker 4: Oh No, he's gonna be spreading cheer for his Buffalo
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  Speaker 4: teammates all over the place in this game, even if
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  Speaker 4: he's a distraction. Let's Josh Allen get going very quickly, James,
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: we are tight on time. What team is gonna play
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: the Grinch this Christmas weekend?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big Houston Texans fan, But the Cleveland Browns
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  Speaker 2: defense goes likely going against case Keenum. Listen, they are
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: not the Titans defense. This is gonna be a difficult go.
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  Speaker 2: And I know if this happens real quick. We'll say it.
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  Speaker 2: If they lose the Houston Texans, their chances of the
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: postseason dropped from fifty three percent down to thirty percent.
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  Speaker 3: If they win seventy two. If they lose thirty percent,
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  Speaker 3: that could be a grinchable move by the Browns.
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  Speaker 4: How about you, Steve, I am staying within the division.
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: I think Baker Mayfield and those Tampa Bay Buccaneers, oh
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  Speaker 4: are going to send the Jacksonville Jaguars back to Whoville.
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  Speaker 4: Will They'll be singing the blues of the Who's And
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: because look, Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers just playing very
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  Speaker 4: good football, complimentary football on both sides. The Jags might
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  Speaker 4: not have Trevor Lawrence, who still a concussion protocol that CJ. Bethard.
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  Speaker 4: This could just be a situation and where the Buccaneers
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: are rolling, the Jaguars are reeling. That's just not gonna
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  Speaker 4: set up for a happy holiday moment. But it's holiday time.
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  Speaker 4: We're not gonna sit here and again talk about Whoville
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  Speaker 4: and the Grinch Gritch because we're getting ready talk about
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: another big game coming up in our next block, and
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: that is that Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins, O neither one.
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: It could be good teams, right, one's not good on
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: the road? Right, what's gonna get We're gonna be joined
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  Speaker 4: by our own Cameron Wolf and James later after the
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  Speaker 4: break here on the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: Report any other narrative that has to do with good
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  Speaker 5: teams or playoff seeds or the next three games, all
• 10:51
  Speaker 5: that stuff. I gave them the clearance to tell all
• 10:56
  Speaker 5: members of the media to with all due respect's off.
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: With all due respect, with all due respect. That was
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  Speaker 4: Dolphins head coach Mike Daniel, living by the credo I
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: live by, and James Falmer. We are now joined by
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: Darrevin Wolf and Jane Slater to discuss the big game
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  Speaker 4: of the weekend between the Dolphins and the Cowboys. And
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  Speaker 4: Jane coming into this game. We saw the Cowboys last week.
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: Their defense is got run all over and now they're
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: facing one of the best rushing teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: How can they plug those holes?
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  Speaker 8: With all due respect, Mike, I appreciate what they're saying there,
• 11:37
  Speaker 8: and I do think it's funny that you can say
• 11:39
  Speaker 8: with all due respect and really get away with saying anything.
• 11:41
  Speaker 8: It's kind of a joke. I have with one of
• 11:43
  Speaker 8: my guy friends. But in terms of plugging the whole
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  Speaker 8: of the run, well, they've got to seal the edge, Steve.
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  Speaker 9: That's something that they've been sort of struggling with.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, this weekend doesn't look like Jonathan Hankins
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  Speaker 8: is going to be trending in the direction of playing
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  Speaker 8: and that's a problem. You know, they've really in the
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  Speaker 8: off season, especially when they're got Mazzie Smith, they had
• 12:01
  Speaker 8: hoped to really plug up that interior. And while Mazzie
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  Speaker 8: is a great kid and I think he's got a
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  Speaker 8: bright future, you talked to a lot of people internally
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  Speaker 8: in the building and he's just been a little bit
• 12:11
  Speaker 8: slow to pick up on some of the things that
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  Speaker 8: they want him to. Well, that likely means that they're
• 12:15
  Speaker 8: going to plug and play him there, and that's not
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  Speaker 8: exactly good when you consider what Raheem Mostert is capable
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  Speaker 8: of as well as a chan cam.
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  Speaker 10: Your thoughts, Yeah, I think the Dolphins know that the
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  Speaker 10: Cowboys gave up two hundred sixty six rushing yards last
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  Speaker 10: week and that is going to be very center of
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  Speaker 10: their game plan. You mentioned Raheem Moster, He's having a
• 12:32
  Speaker 10: career year twenty touchdowns. He just broke Ricky Williams franchise
• 12:36
  Speaker 10: record as far as rushing touchdowns for the Dolphins. But
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  Speaker 10: I think this past game they played against the Jests
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  Speaker 10: was very important because they learned how to play without
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  Speaker 10: Tyreek kill. It was the first game he had missed
• 12:46
  Speaker 10: since Mike McDaniel became the head coach, and talking with
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  Speaker 10: people around the building, there was a lot of uncertainty
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  Speaker 10: about how they would play, and Jayleen Wattle stepped up
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  Speaker 10: had one hundred and forty two yards off eight catches.
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  Speaker 10: Raheem Moster had two touchdowns and Mike McDaniel on two.
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  Speaker 10: A show they are not dependent on Tyreek two went
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  Speaker 10: off this week in the podium about all his doubters,
• 13:04
  Speaker 10: saying he's only good because of Tyreek. He said, if
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  Speaker 10: I'm the worst player, if that fits your narrative, go
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  Speaker 10: for now. They are expecting to get Tyreek killed back
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  Speaker 10: this week against the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: He was at practice today.
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  Speaker 10: I just left there about an hour ago, and he
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  Speaker 10: will be back adding that.
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  Speaker 3: Element and it should help the rest of those guys.
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  Speaker 10: Wattle, who had been frustrated at times this season on
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  Speaker 10: his production, now has a renewed element of confidence. And
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  Speaker 10: now Mike McDaniel has shown on tape that he can
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  Speaker 10: beat you with other elements other than Tyreek. So good
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  Speaker 10: for the Dolphins offense against a really good Cowboys pasty.
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  Speaker 2: I love, Jane what you said about making sure you're
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  Speaker 2: aware of the edges. One of the best things that
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  Speaker 2: this offense does with the Dolphins is running the football
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  Speaker 2: on the outside. Cam knows that maybe better than any
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: of us here talking and how they're able to put
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: the ball on the outside in their playmaker's hands, running
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: the ball and having explosive plays there but outside but
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: outside of those tackles, Cam, you look at the different
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: spots that Ceedee Lamb could line up for this Dallas
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: Cowboys offense. Does Jalen Ramsey move inside against Ceedee Lamb?
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  Speaker 2: We had Taron Johnson on the show just last week
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  Speaker 2: with the Bills talking about how good Ced is in
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  Speaker 2: the slot. Will Jalen follow him around camp?
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  Speaker 10: Well, first, if I hope so, Vic Fangio talked to
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  Speaker 10: us today and said he's gonna get he would have
• 14:18
  Speaker 10: his popcorn ready for that matchup, because that sounds like
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  Speaker 10: must CTV.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't reveal the game plan.
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  Speaker 10: But here's what I know they made a late switch
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  Speaker 10: last week having Jalen Ramsey follow Garrett Wilson the Jets receiver,
• 14:30
  Speaker 10: when Xavier and Howard was ruled out with the hip injury.
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  Speaker 10: And my understanding is if xaviing Howard does not played
• 14:36
  Speaker 10: this week, they would do the same for CD Lamb. Now,
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  Speaker 10: x did return to practice today and if he plays,
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  Speaker 10: I expect him to do a lot of what they've
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  Speaker 10: done this season, have Ramsey on the right side, xaving
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  Speaker 10: Howard on the left side. The slot element is interesting though,
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  Speaker 10: because Cater Kohu, the young corner, has struggled a bit
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  Speaker 10: in the slot and that's where Ceedee Lamb loves to eat.
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  Speaker 10: I'd expect the success that Ramsey had in the slot
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  Speaker 10: helps them pull that trigger to go to Ramsey a
• 15:01
  Speaker 10: lot quicker within that slot. Banjo is a little bit
• 15:03
  Speaker 10: stubborn in his defensive styles, but they know Cede Lamb
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  Speaker 10: can take over this game, and so they will not
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  Speaker 10: hesitate to move Ramsey into the slot. They want to
• 15:11
  Speaker 10: get Dak off of this game, and so this past
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  Speaker 10: d which has seen a lot of uptick and pass
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  Speaker 10: rush over the last few weeks, definitely wants to get
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  Speaker 10: hands on CD Lamb in the slot and no better
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  Speaker 10: player for that than the physical Jalen Ramsey.
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  Speaker 8: And you certainly heard Jalen Ramsey talking after that meeting
• 15:28
  Speaker 8: with the Jets that it was a boring offensive game
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  Speaker 8: plan for him, it was boring for the Cowboys up
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  Speaker 8: there in Buffalo. And look, I do think Ceedee Lamb
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: and this team is going to bounce back this week.
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  Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy has yet to lose back to back games
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  Speaker 8: in his Aaron Dallas, They've got thirty seven consecutive. But
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  Speaker 8: I do think this is going to be the matchup
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  Speaker 8: to watch because you know, look, while Ceedee Lamb eats
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  Speaker 8: in the slot, he's also really good on the outside.
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  Speaker 8: Then you also have to account for a guy like
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: Jake Ferguson, who I think could also be I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: a real key part of this game. I haven't seen
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: enough from Tony Pollard to say that the rushing game
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: is necessarily going to be there for them, but Jake
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: Ferguson could be a difference maker in this one. The
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: problem with the Cowboys, outside of their narrative about them
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: not beating teams with winning records, the other narrative is
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: how bad they've been on the road. Guys, when I
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: went and looked at some of their numbers, they're averaging
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: eighteen less points on the road and one hundred and
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: twenty seven less yards.
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: It's not good.
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: And when you're meeting a team, it's so bad. And
• 16:25
  Speaker 8: so when you're meeting a team like the Miami Dolphins,
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: it has an explosive offense. I think the key really
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: for the Cowboys is you've got to score early and
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: often when they do.
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: That, it's typically successful.
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: I think that's successful for any team, but the Cowboys
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: certainly don't seem to like playing from behind that.
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: Well, absolutely, Jane, it's going to be seventy eight degrees
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: in Miami. I can't wait to be there. And they
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: love their home field advantage and they want to hope
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: the Cowboys road struggles continued. And one more thing about
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: the Lamb Ramsey thing we were talking about earlier. I
• 16:53
  Speaker 10: talked to Ramsey after the game about his frustrations not
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: being targeted. He said that maybe this week that changes.
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: He kind of gave me a little wink, whatever that means.
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: And earlier today we talked to Sam Madison, their cornerback coach,
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: and he said that he tells Ramsey consistently.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: To keep patient, keep patient.
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: Eventually they're going to have to throw you the ball,
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: and if you do, you have to make them pay.
• 17:13
  Speaker 10: And so they're hoping they can get dak to throwing
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: the ball a little bit on Sunday.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Hey, with all due respect, I wouldn't just really real play.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: We don't have we don't have a ton of time.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: But Jane, we know how good this Cowboy secondary is.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: You talk about Tyreek Hill coming back to play. We
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: know Jalen Waddle. What is some of the thinking, because
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: they really change up week to week on how maybe
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: they can slow down some of the underneas stuff the
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Dolphins do and not allow some of the stuff to
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: get behind them.
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: I mean it's a good question, uh, when you start
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: looking at some of these gam I mean, the thing is,
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: I think we got so disrupted by the fact that
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: they gave up the two hundred and sixty six yards.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: But let's just talk about how.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Dan Quinn's defense sometimes is played against some of these
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: really good teams with some of these weapons. I mean,
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: I go and I look at the Eagles game. When
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: I look at the Rams earlier this year, they do
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: tend to struggle a little bit when they've got explosive weapons,
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: and so I.
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: Don't know necessarily what they're going to do.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: I think we've seen them pick on to Ron Bland
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: at times, but when they've done that, he makes them
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: pay late later with an interception. We saw that a
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: couple of weeks ago. He had a late one. So
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: right when you think you've got him figured out, you don't.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: I do think that they're going to be using Micah
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Parsons a little bit more of a chess piece.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: There's been a lot of discussion here in Dallas.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: Do you continue to have him as one of your
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: edge rushers or do you use him as a linebacker,
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: because I do think you enough to pick.
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: Your poison with them. Right, you could have him back.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: There's a linebacker to help you slow down the run,
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: but then you're allowing a guy like Tyreek Hill to
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: break off and you can find yourself getting behind him.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: So I am going to be very interested to see
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: what dan Quinn does to sort of readjust here. We've
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: seen them do it in the past, but they've certainly
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: got a lot of tape about things not to do
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: from that Buffalo game on Sunday and.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Jane briefly, if I could come in.
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: I'm very just to see where Michael Parsons lines up
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: because the Dolphins offensive line is decimated. Right guard Robert
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: Hunt and Austin tex and the right tackle both didn't
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: practice to day. They're trending towards not playing whole new
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: right side of the line, a whole new center. If
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: I was Dan Quinn, I'd line Michaeh. Parsons up on
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: that right side of the dolphensive line and try to
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: go Hunt to a so he's gonna have to get
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: rid of the ball plenty quick on Sunday.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it, guys. I cannot waite
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to watch this game. I love that you both gave
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: us the unbelievable insight that you have because I don't
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: know if anybody. Steve knows these two teams better than
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Jane knows the Cowboys, better than Cam knows the Miami Dolphins,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: and James said, a fast start by the Cowboys, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: with all due respect, they're brilliant at what they do.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: But you know who else is brilliant. We love you, guys.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: It's Kenny Moore of the Indianapolis Colts. Maybe he can
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: let the Dolphins know what it's like guarding somebody like
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb in the slot. Because Kenny Moore is one
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of the best slock corners in all football, and his team,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts, are in the thickest things in the.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: AFC playoff picture.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Kenny Moore, wh best slockcorers in football, joins the NFL
• 20:02
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• 20:08
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• 20:11
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• 20:14
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• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Young in the pocket throws it up, feel picked off
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: by the Colts on.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: The near sideline. Kenny Moore racing for the end zone.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Ten five touchdown. I indeed, why pick six by Kenny
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Moore play action. Bryce Young throws it left side and
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: it's picked.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Off by the Colts.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: They're running the other way with it. It's Kenny Morigan.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: He's at the thirty twenty fifty to ten five touchdown,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: two of them today.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: A pick six number twenty three. Have a day.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome back to the NFL Report.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Kenny Moore joins us one of the best slock corners
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: in all of football.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: They always get love on our show, Kenny. I don't
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: know if you know this. We love the position on.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: The Corner show for it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: We love to have you.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's better the pick sixes or the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: dance after the first one. But what I'm really curious
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: about is we're going back home to Georgia for the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: first time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be Christmas Eve.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Two things, how many tickets did we have to get
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: and what would a pick six back in the home
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: state of Georgia be like on Christmas Eve in front
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: of all those people.
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: First off, great to be here, Thanks for having me
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: on the show. Yeah, I had to get about twenty
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: five tickets for the fan, friends, coaches, everybody involved. So ready,
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: I mean, it would definitely mean a lot to get
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: a pick sit So hopefully, you know, it's given season,
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: so hopefully we can get one.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Hey, Kenny, I'm sure to be great to get I'm
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: sure it'd be great to get a pick six, But
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you guys are in the thick of the wild card
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: hunt right now. I mean to get a win and
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: to further establish yourself in the playoffs. Like how big
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: would that be? Because this already has been a pretty
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: special season for you guys.
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: We've come close a couple of times in my career
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: of you know, getting the South Division of the AFC,
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: and it's no better time than now. So we have
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: the team, we have the position in the AFC to
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: go and take it. So each week it's a big
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: game because we in.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: It, Kenny.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Since week nine, there is only one team that has
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: a better record than the Colts at five and one.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: It is the forty nine ers at six and zero.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: This stretch that you guys have been on of late,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: what would you put your finger on? It just seems
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: like the hunger's there for you guys, and it feels
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: like when I talk to people in ain't Ablos, you
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: still don't think you're where you believe you can get.
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: As a team, well, we just have the humility knowing
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: that we never got it. They stay on us, as
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: the coaching staff stays on us. We got the kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: of within the team to know that we just got
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: to keep working each day to get the results that
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: we want. We just can't look at the bigger picture
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: of what could happen. The only way we win Sunday
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: is winning today and stacking the next day on top
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: of it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Can you talking about the coaching staff and the accountability,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I mean change Stiking comes in there as your head coach.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: There's clearly a flipping culture. There's clearly like a flip
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: in belief and positivity. But he also he kept your
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: defensive coordinator on staff, Gus Bradley. What about that tandem
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: has worked so well, especially for you guys on defense.
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: Probably the relationship. Prior to the Shane coming here, we
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: had already known that they had the relationship built in,
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: so we knew that we were a good foundation wise
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: to get the job done. We're all decided to play
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: each game and to play each game altogether.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I love what you guys do defensively, Kenny. I mean,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: you're not hiding anything in a sense that you're gonna
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: play zone.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: You're gonna that's what Gus does. That's the way you
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: guys play.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I'm curious in your slot spot with the way you
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: do things schematically, what what is it that makes you
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: thrive in the way that Gus schemes things up for
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: you guys as a defense that allows you to make
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: plays and make plays where you're at on the field.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Well, great question.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: You know, we went through a lot last year in
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: the first year of the system. Honestly, it was a
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: lot of humbling moments. We had to, you know, drill.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Up a couple of things.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: We had to talk and have the communication to have
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: the success that we have this year. So, honestly, just
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: a lot of things that that's in our back pocket.
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: We had a lot of built up experience. So just
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: having the guys around, not only just me, but on
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: the D line and the linebackers and obviously in the secondary,
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: we just got a lot of build up experience.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Now, so you mentioned your D line, your linebackers. A
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: We're going to ask our producer to put up something
• 24:50
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• 24:53
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• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Quity Pay seven and a half, Samson will come nine
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: and a half, dood yingbo eight. What about that group,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: because I'm below it it said they come at you
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: from all angles. What about that group makes it so special,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: especially to you guys in the back end. That allows
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: you to get the takeaways that you've got.
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: Well, Russian cover works together and we got to put
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: it on the forest. Buckaner, I think he said he
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: was going to be taking the defensive backs dinner at
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: some point during this given season. So but no, but no,
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: those guys are hunting and they have great leadership in
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: Samson and Doyo and Buck and Grover to stay stay
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: on a group and they play with high energy and
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: we're so thankful to have a group like that that's
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: gonna make history here soon.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: That's every every corner's dream is to have guys that
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: get after the quarterback. And when they get after him
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: as a group, it's always makes things a little bit
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: better for you back there, Kenny, And we can't have
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: you on and not talk about your quarterback. And Gardner
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Midge you. He comes over with Shane Stich and Shane
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: knows him so well. What I have to ask is,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I've heard so much about his football, IQ, how many
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: what are conversations about football like with Gardner, especially with
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: someone that knows the game like you.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Know, the game.
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: Build up experience sort of like, you know, the build
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: up experience that we've encountered throughout the defensive side. But
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: just knowing Garner and throughout my career, I had a
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: chance to playing him a couple of times, and he
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: has the competitiveness. He wants to go out there and
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: fight and win each game. So he plays like a
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: starter and the starter that's been playing his whole career.
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: So just just having that poison competitiveness go out there
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: and win each game is going to keep us at
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: the top of the boards.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: So Keaty you talk about how you had to face
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: him and now you know him as a teammate, before
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: knowing him as a teammate, Like, how did you have
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: to scheme him up? Knowing his strengths.
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: Was it was sort of a nat because you know
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: he can pull it down and run at some times.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: So with a guy like that that you think is.
• 27:07
  Speaker 11: Going to just stay in the pocket, sometimes he fool
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: you and sometimes you know he can make those little
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: juke moves that you didn't think that he really had
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: in his bag. So just a guy like that, you
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: got to always be poised and then honeing in to
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: the point of a tech that you got to make
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: the play. So you just got to stay disciplined with
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: a guy like that because he can for you sometimes.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the game you goat coming
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: up here, it's against Atlanta. We know the type of
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: skill guys they have. They're built a little bit differently
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: right than some of the other teams in the NFL.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: With the type of skill guys that they have. What
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: are your concerns from the slot spot that you have
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: to be aware of and you guys have to be
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: aware of as a defense to make sure you slow
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: this offense down.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: That has now made another change at quarterback.
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: It's probably the change that quarterback is probably the most
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: interesting thing. You know, Obviously playing Taylor last year whenever
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: he was with the Commanders and sort of annoying him,
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: and you want to go down field and he want
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: to score. He likes the home run ball. He scored
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: a lot of touchdowns in college and then obviously in
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: the league.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: He's a competitor.
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: So I think that's the type of rap that he
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: has around the league, is that you want to go
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: down the field and he wants to score, and he's
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: going to stay on me. So we just can't cash it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: In that these guys are going to give up. These
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: guys are out there and they want to win the
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: game just like us. So we just got to stay
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: stay on top and keep everything in front of us,
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: and then once we get our shot, we just gotta
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: go an attack anymore.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Man, we cannot thank you so much for one entertaining
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: us on the football field. We love we love how
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: you guys are playing and just surprising the whole NFL
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: doing the things that you're doing. We also want to
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: wish you and your family a very merry Christmas, So
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: thank you very much for joining us here at the
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: NFL Report. Yes, sir, Marry Christmas.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Wall here, thank you, Welcome back to the NFL Report.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: James Palmer, Steve Whitch with you. It's our favorite Thursday segment.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I got my popcorn, It's Baldy's favorite film star version
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of Baldy's Breakdowns. We just essentially stole it because we
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: love having them on and we love when he breaks
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: everything down and Baldy. A couple of weeks ago, I
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: did Broncos Texans down in Houston, and I spent probably
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the vast majority of my time postgame standing next to
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Grenard's locker and him kind of breaking things down
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: for me defensively. Two things he told me, and I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: curious what you think he said. We have been unbelievably
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: well prepared upfront in terms of the coaching we're getting.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And two, we have rushed as a unit upfront and
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: nobody really going outside in freestyling has been a big
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: part of our success. What are you seeing from him?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: He's one of the best players under the radar right now.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, I agree, Number fifty two, right end outside linebacker
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: for Houston. So I was last week Derek Henry ran
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: the ball sixteen times, he get nine yards. It's not
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: one guy, it's a group. It's a group effort, Bill Collins,
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: you look at Sheldon Rankins, you know, you look at
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Denzel Peraman. I mean, whoever's been he healthy? Will Anderson
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: didn't play last week, but he's been a big part.
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: And you know, a big part of stopping the run
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: guys is run fits. And you know, when I look
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: at Demico Ryans and how he's coaching this group, like
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: you know, run fits basically is you're in the right gap.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: You're in the right gap, You're where you're supposed to
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: be whether it's Jalen Petrie coming out of the safety
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: position and filling the gap whatever, Like this is a
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: team that understands run fits and they played defense on
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: the other side of the ball, and it's such a
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: group effort. And in fact, last week in Tennessee, like
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: I met the defensive line coach in Houston, James, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: like he appreciated some of the things that I do,
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: and I went and talked to Sheldon Rankins, Like this
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: whole group I think is flying under the radar, but
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: this is a very talented group. There's number two in
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: the league against the run. They're getting after the quarterback.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: I think this is a if they get to the postseason,
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: it's gonna be a whole lot more than just CJ.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: Stroud and winning the Offensive Rookie of the Year and Baldy.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: You know, when you talk about run fits, that's discipline
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: because a lot of times guys get greedy saying I
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: know I can jump inside and make this play. Next thing,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: you know, the running back bounces outside. So being being
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: able to uphold the integrity is something clearly that defensive
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: staff has had them due. That defensive line better be
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: good this week. Too, because they're playing Cleveland in that
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: run game that they have with that Montes Sweat. We're
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: going to talk about Jalen Johnson a second. I want
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: to break this up because with Montes Sweat has been
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: able to do in Washington then jumping over to Chicago
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: and continue to get after the quarterback and play baldy.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: How impressive of a player has he been this season?
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: Well, first of all, Steve, you know, he leaves the
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Washington Commanders in sacks and he leaves the Chicago Bears
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: in sacks.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, he's got twelve and a half.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: So I said when they traded for him, they gave
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: up a second round pick. I said, you're not going
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: to find Montes Sweat in the second round in this
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: upcoming draft. He's six six, two seventy. He still runs
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: a four four forty. A couple of things that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Jump out Steve. One is a.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: You can't block him, like he knows how to defeat
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: a block, and then his effort is contagious. And I
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: feel like Gervon Dexter and all these guys there, they're
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: all playing harder because of how Montes Sweat plays. And
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: by the way, one of the underestimated metrics when it
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: comes to defenders is literally arm length. He's got thirty
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: six inch arms, So he could be something as simple
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: as Stevens beat in the passing lane, batting a ball down,
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: throwing over his arms, making a tackle out there in
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: the perimeter. Like his length, it's more than just sixty six.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: He's six six with very long arms, and he and
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: he uses all of his talent. And the best thing
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: is like he plays really hard and that's that's always
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: impressive to me.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: So quickly ball. The benefactor of that has been the
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: quarterback Jalen Johnson. He's a good all year, but he's
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: really been special since Sweat's got there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no question.
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's got the four interceptions and all that
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: kind of stuff, but like his ability to play zone coverage,
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: bait players like he had the interception against Josh Dobbs
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: of Minnesota. I think we talked about how he baited
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: them to throw the corner out and he jumped.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: It like he's just he's he's playing the game like.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: A crafty, wiley veteran. Now he's been in the league
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: for a while, but I think a lot of people
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: just thought, well, he's he's good in man covers, but
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: maybe not zone. But you know, since Superfolis took over
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: their zone team primarily, and he just can play any
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: style and he's got that that feel in the eyes
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: you go make plays on the ball, and it shows
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: up every week right now.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: And even that, like you look at the young.
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: Players around him right now, they're all starting to kind
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: of play a little bit like Jalen and they got
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: you know, Tyreek Stevenson got a pick six last week. Like,
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: I just think the young guys around him are kind
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: of learning from Jalen right now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Where's a young guy that's thriving in James Cook, the
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: running back for the Buffalo Bills Baldy. I talked to
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen after their game against the Chiefs, and he
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: just said, in the passing game, he's been taking advantage
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: of the attention that Stevon Diggs is getting and finding
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: some spots to make plays.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: And then the run game.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Having a conversation recently with Dion Dawkins, he said, because
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: of the way he runs the football, he gives us
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: so much confidence as an offensive line because he puts
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: his foot in the ground that he goes and he
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: can run over guys and he can run by guys,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: but he gets downfield.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: What do you like about James Cook right now with
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: the way he's playing.
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to create a family feud right now,
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: James and say that James Cook is better than his brother.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: I know that's gonna that might not sit well in
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: South Florida with those guys.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: But James Cook. You know, last week you mentioned the
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: passing game.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: He gets matched up one on one with Damon Clark
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: and he beat him to the corner.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: It was one touchdown pass at Josh Throe last week.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: I remember, James.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: We were there in Philadelphia a couple weeks ago with
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Buffalo and Aaron Cromer down there. He was talking to
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: us and I was just asking him about James because
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: I said, listen, Aaron, coach Cromer. I was saying, what
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: I see on film? Is it the best footwork of
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: a running back that you've coached? And he goes, that's
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: that's his that's his calling card. Like his footworks, the ability, honestly, guys,
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: to be going, you know, one way on his own
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: stretch and then to make this cut in this ninety
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: degree cut, like right up the field and find the
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: opening like it's He's really good and they run this
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: counter trap with the tackle back and forth. They ran
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: a bunch last week Dion Dawkins and Benson Brown, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: that play can break anywhere. It's up to the back's
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: vision to see. It's not always around the corner file
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: of the tackle. It could be inside. So his decision
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: making and what he sees and where the hole is
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: is I think unique and one of the reasons why
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: he's at the top of the charts in rushing leaders
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: right now.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: That's high praise of Aaron Kromer won the best offensive
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: line coach in the NFL. I mean, he had some
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: good ones in New Orleans, had Todd Gurley with Morams,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: So that's real high praise for him to say that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Speaking of run game, that has been a non existent
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: character trait of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to pass two seasons,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: But lately Baldy under Dave Canalis Baker Mayfield and what
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: they're doing down there, they are running the rock. Well,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: what are you singing on film down there?
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: Well, it's been a month now, Steve, and he's had
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: two hundred yard games and he's catching the ball out
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: of the backfield, and for the first time, the Bucks
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: have a running game. It showed up in Green Bay
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: last week in the Battle of the Bays. I see,
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: you know, Tristan Wurfs went from right tackle to left tackle.
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: It's like you know, eating, you know, eating chopsticks with
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: your right hand and learning how to eat chop sticks
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: with your left hand.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: It's hard, but he's gotten better.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: Aaron Stinny's come in there at left guard really I
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: think solidified that position. They've had the same five guys
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: up there now all year and they're really playing well together.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: And I got to add the tight ends both Kate
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: Dott and Koke Keift. They're a part of this right now.
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: But I really like, for the first time in two
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: plus years, like they can legitimately run the ball. And
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: Rashad White, I give him his due here, Steve, like
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: he's really coming on and the dance that you got
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: to do is a running back with the offensive line
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: has come together.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: By the way, fellow, this is me us quickly on
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: this last one, Baldy, Yeah, quickly, last one on this one,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: because I got to get him in. Tarvarius Ward, he's
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: strangely targeted more than anybody any other corner in football.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: It's probably because they're winning every game and you got
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: to throw the ball at some point. But he has
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: the pick six. This past week, he spent time in
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: practice Baldi catching passes from Sam Darnold because he wants
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: to catch passes from a quarterback, not a jugs machine.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: What are you seeing from the corner and ward and
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: what he's been able to do quickly well.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: He had the two interceptions last week in the pick six,
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: but he leads the league in passes defense. Like you
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: want to go after him, okay, but like this guy,
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: whether it was against DK Metcalf the week before, like
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: he is a difference maker out there on the edge.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: And the forty nine ers can play man coverage right now.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: Used to be strictly his own team, but they can
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: line up and play man coverage and blitz and pressure
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: and do a lot of different things because Trevarios can
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: line up on your number one and he can. He
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: can play with you. I don't care who what the
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: name of the back of the jersey is. He's got
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: the confidence and the length at six ' one to
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: play any size receiver in this business right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Now, bald you are the best. At anytime you have
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: a cornerback nicknamed Mooney, you know he's gonna be good.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Baldy having Mary Christmas, Man, appreciate your brother.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: Mary Pachmas. Guy's always always great.
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Have a great holiday. I'll see you guys next week.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Sounds good?
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Coming up next our coach David Shaw. He's gonna talk
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: about Jalen Hurts. Is there an issue with Jalen? One
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: of the best coach he's ever diagnosed quarterbacks? Is gonna
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: tell us next on the NFL Report.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's James Palmer and you're listening to the NFL
• 38:57
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• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve Whitch
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: with you, joined by I'm gonna call David Shaw essentially
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: the coach of the NFL report Steve. He is our eyes,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: ears and everything in terms of when it comes to
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: evaluating football him and always gives anybody else, always give
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: us great stuff. And we love to talk quarterbacks with you, coach.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: And Monday night, we knew Jalen Hurts was under the weather.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: We knew he has been battling a couple of things,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: nagging injuries. But still the end of that game, they
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: have their timeouts. We've seen the Eagles at the end
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: of halves, at the end of games find ways to
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: put together really really successful drives in the way they've
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: done it, and this drive kind of left you scratching
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: your head a little bit in a couple instances.
• 40:11
  Speaker 12: Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me, guys, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: I'm with you there. I went back and watched the
• 40:16
  Speaker 12: game again, and when you really watch it with a
• 40:18
  Speaker 12: close eye, for a guy who's banged up, for a
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: guy who's sick, Jalen Hurts really played a good game.
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: He's playing a lot of zone defenses. He threw some
• 40:26
  Speaker 12: tight window throws, he ran the ball well swift the bowl.
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: It really started to become difficult in that the late
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: in that third quarter, early in that fourth quarter, they're
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: up seventeen to gosh, seventeen to thirteen, they should have
• 40:42
  Speaker 12: been up twenty one to thirteen.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: They had a third and one inside the ten yard line.
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: It's a guaranteed Eagles first down leading to an Eagles touchdown.
• 40:51
  Speaker 12: And their center did what we were at Stanford accused
• 40:53
  Speaker 12: of doing multiple times, which was moving the ball forward
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: in short yarded situations.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I will not admit to anything, but that happened to them.
• 41:03
  Speaker 12: So they go from an easy, makeable third and one,
• 41:05
  Speaker 12: which they're the best in the league, to a third
• 41:07
  Speaker 12: and six, they don't get the first down, the kick
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: a field goal instead of a touchdown. That's a key
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: point right there, because when you're in the red zone,
• 41:13
  Speaker 12: you have to score touchdowns if you want to be
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: a playoff team and a super Bowl team. And then
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: later in the game, the eight minutes to go, they're
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: running what I call a diagonal route, which is a
• 41:24
  Speaker 12: player from a tight split on one side to the back
• 41:27
  Speaker 12: corner of the end zone on the other side, and
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: what we would love to have is a defender on
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: the backside.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: What the hell was a defender on the front side.
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: So the defender is in the way and Jalen puts
• 41:37
  Speaker 12: it up to Quez and it's intercepted. And I went
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: back and it was bothering me because you shouldn't make
• 41:44
  Speaker 12: that throw. But you go back, and that was almost
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: the same exact throw that Jalen Hurts made in.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: The Super Bowl for the first touchdown. Right, it was
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: a very similar thing.
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: He gave us his receiver an opportunity to make a play,
• 41:56
  Speaker 12: and that's what you asked your quarterbacks. It's made the
• 42:00
  Speaker 12: game's put away. It's a two score game and they're
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: probably gonna win. The interception makes it difficult. Now you
• 42:05
  Speaker 12: go back. They got a three and out and they
• 42:07
  Speaker 12: got the ball back. So here's where it becomes difficult.
• 42:10
  Speaker 12: You expect your team to put the game away one
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: score lead against a team that everyone says you should
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: be and you think you should be on offense. You
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: want to end the game on offense. They ran four
• 42:21
  Speaker 12: and a half minutes off the clock, but they didn't
• 42:23
  Speaker 12: convert a third down, so they had to punt with
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: two minutes to go. So that to me is that
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: that playoff team and the way this team is going
• 42:32
  Speaker 12: to win Is running the ball, playing great defense, and
• 42:35
  Speaker 12: Jalen Hurts making two or three special plays. He's got
• 42:37
  Speaker 12: some special receivers outside and a special tight end. Also,
• 42:40
  Speaker 12: they can win one on one matchups, and they didn't
• 42:43
  Speaker 12: get it done when the game was on the line.
• 42:46
  Speaker 12: And then the biggest thing to me, it wasn't really
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: Jalen Hurts. It wasn't as much there. It's two minutes
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: to go against a backup quarterback against the Sea with
• 42:54
  Speaker 12: the Seattle Seahawks, your defense should put them away.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: And they didn't. Right for me, it was cascading things,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: you know that led to that loss.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad you pointed that out because you know
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: James has alluded to it before on the show. That
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: defense got worn down after a while, the way the
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Seahawks came out in the second half and just drove
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: the ball on the ground. By the time he got
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: to the end of the game, they didn't have a
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: lot of fuel in the tank. But coach, I want
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: to spin this to a situation that to me, he's
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: kind of gotten overlooked down in Atlanta where they came
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: into the season. Head coach Arthur Smith, their owner Arthur
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Blank was on board because I spoke to him about it,
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: and GM Terry Fontino said, we're gonna gamble this season
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: on Desmond Ridver. We're putting all this free agent money
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: we finally have in other positions and they have to
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: end up. Are they end up benching Desmond Ridder twice
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: this year for ineffective play? I mean like, this is
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: a potential like disaster scenario for the Falcons. So what
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: does it come down looking worse to the fact that
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: they gambled and whiffed? Or does it look worse that
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: they couldn't develop him to where he could succeed with
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: so many other pieces in place.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the hard part.
• 44:01
  Speaker 12: Without being in the building, it's hard to say exactly
• 44:03
  Speaker 12: what it is. But it's all difficult, it's all tough,
• 44:06
  Speaker 12: and I love the way you preface this though. Starting
• 44:09
  Speaker 12: quarterback is an organizational decision, right, It's not just the
• 44:13
  Speaker 12: head coach, it's not just the coordinator. The GM is evolved,
• 44:16
  Speaker 12: the owners involved, management is involved. Everybody's looking at this
• 44:19
  Speaker 12: and they made an organizational decision. Did is they bet
• 44:23
  Speaker 12: on the kid they drafted now was her first round
• 44:26
  Speaker 12: draft pick? No, he's the third round draft pick. And
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: understandably he was talented. He's also highly effective and in
• 44:32
  Speaker 12: his yards passing a two thousand yards rushing, and the
• 44:34
  Speaker 12: guy was a winner. And he sit down here to
• 44:37
  Speaker 12: talk to him, and everybody falls in love with his kids.
• 44:39
  Speaker 12: So he's that underrated guy maybe that you think has
• 44:42
  Speaker 12: a high ceiling and showed him all the great stuff
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: the year before.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Is a rookie.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: He's athletic, he's accurate, he's smart.
• 44:50
  Speaker 12: What you don't know is what is how they're going
• 44:53
  Speaker 12: to play under the fire right and throughout the year,
• 44:57
  Speaker 12: there were some really really high points, and there was
• 44:59
  Speaker 12: some really tough moments where he turned the ball over.
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: And more than anything else, quicker than anything else, what
• 45:06
  Speaker 12: loses games, what gets quarters bench, his head coaches sometimes
• 45:10
  Speaker 12: finding new locations is turnovers. And in those crunch time situations,
• 45:16
  Speaker 12: does been turned the ball over?
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Now, does that mean he's never gonna play again?
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Not at all.
• 45:20
  Speaker 12: He still has those those he still has talent, he
• 45:22
  Speaker 12: still has ability. He saw him run and get out
• 45:24
  Speaker 12: of danger and saw make some really great throws and
• 45:28
  Speaker 12: some of those wins. But in those crunch time situations
• 45:31
  Speaker 12: when you can't turn the ball over, and that's that's
• 45:35
  Speaker 12: the difficult point now, and it was an organizational decision
• 45:38
  Speaker 12: and so far it has not panned out, and you
• 45:40
  Speaker 12: have to bench him because at some point he's the
• 45:43
  Speaker 12: best option until he's not right.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I believe he was the best.
• 45:47
  Speaker 12: Option for a while and now he can't be. He's
• 45:50
  Speaker 12: played his way out of that position. So as a
• 45:52
  Speaker 12: head coach, GM owner, or the whole organization, Okay, we
• 45:56
  Speaker 12: have to now put it on someone else because and
• 45:59
  Speaker 12: that's what he's earned.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when I talk to people in Atlanta, it was.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: These are winnable games, and we have to make a
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: change because some of these games are winnable, and Desmond
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: it has been the reason we haven't won some of
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: these games. And we haven't lost entire faith, but we
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: definitely have to go out and win some of these
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: football games. Now, let's go to a team that's winning
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: football games of late, the Buffalo Bills. They make a
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: change at offensive coordinator. Joe Brady comes in. I know
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: talking to people there, coach, it was running the football,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: specifically on first and second down, was one of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest changes he wanted to make, and now we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: them run the football extremely effective.
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  Speaker 3: After that game, against Dallas an Orchard Park.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's a really unfortunate situation when you change
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  Speaker 12: the coordinator in the middle of the season. A coordinator
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  Speaker 12: that really had done a great job, had a lot
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  Speaker 12: of belief in the building, had a lot of bleef
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  Speaker 12: with the quarterback, hit a lot of bleef with the offense.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of great plays made with that previous coordinator.
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  Speaker 12: But then you get into difficult times and yeah, you
• 46:57
  Speaker 12: make a switch and you look up and I'll say
• 47:01
  Speaker 12: this in defense of anybody who calls plays with a
• 47:04
  Speaker 12: great quarterback, it's so hard not to continually put the
• 47:08
  Speaker 12: ball in this quarterback's hands. He is one of the
• 47:10
  Speaker 12: best flamethrowers in the NFL. This guy is special. Every
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: single game he makes big time throws. But when it
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: comes to November December, when you have to win games,
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: you have to win playoff games, whether it's home there
• 47:22
  Speaker 12: or on the road someplace else. You got to be
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: able to run the ball, and they stuck to it.
• 47:27
  Speaker 12: They were effective, they were physical, they were tough. And
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: I'll say something else. Now, this team's been through some difficulty,
• 47:33
  Speaker 12: firing a coordinator, losing some games. They should have won
• 47:37
  Speaker 12: the city of Buffalo, you know, kind of getting some
• 47:41
  Speaker 12: anxiety about how this team's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that makes you better.
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  Speaker 12: It makes you tougher, It makes you more resolved, It
• 47:49
  Speaker 12: gets you out of your own personal situation.
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  Speaker 1: How many balls did I catch? How many? Now it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what do we have to do to win?
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  Speaker 12: And I think they're there now and I think they
• 47:57
  Speaker 12: are maybe the most dangerous team in the in the
• 48:00
  Speaker 12: right now because they are talented, they are tough, and
• 48:03
  Speaker 12: they're angry, right They've got an edge.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: And that's what you want going into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 12: And if you see a team like that, now gonna
• 48:10
  Speaker 12: They're not gonna win every game with the Cook running
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  Speaker 12: for one hundred and seventy eight yards, but they put
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  Speaker 12: it on film against a good defense.
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  Speaker 1: So you know they can do it. And now they
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: know they can do it.
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  Speaker 12: They can beat you through the air, they can get
• 48:22
  Speaker 12: through the grand better more physical defense. It plays on
• 48:26
  Speaker 12: the ball. This team is scary if they get into
• 48:28
  Speaker 12: that playoff hunt, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, you know you nailed it. They don't have to
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: get a one hundred seventy are for James James Cook
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: every time, but if they need to get three at
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: important time of the game. They know they can run
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: the football. Walmer Stafford coach David Shaw, we want to
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: thank you again for joining the NFL Report and dropping
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: the knowledge. We appreciate your time and we'll see you
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: against it.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: It's always such good insight from coach David Shaw and
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Brian Balding.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Or back to back. Are you kidding me?
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: This does say Monday and Thursday, Steve, that's when we
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: have the NFL Report. Scratch Monday, no show on Christmas.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: We will have a show on Thursday, and we're expecting
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: a monster one for that Thursday show at seven point
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  Speaker 2: fifteen Eastern with a couple of guests.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: We're just kind of hinting towards a little bit, all right.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: And don't forget to listen to the podcast and JP
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: as you go into this holiday weekend. One was you
• 49:18
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• 49:22
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• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, and thank you very much.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it, Steve, you d all the boys,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: everyone out there, Merry Christmas. And also this is a
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: holiday season. This is also not an easy season. For
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of people out there that are going through
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: some things. So peace and joy to everybody out there
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: during this holiday season.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Steve Merry Christmas, Harry Christmas, bro