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Speaker 1: You are looking reasonably live at the Arizona Cardinals on
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Speaker 1: the football field. That's right. The off season program is
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Speaker 1: beginning today for a couple of teams with new head coaches.
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon there in Arizona. In Houston, it's Demiko Ryan's
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Speaker 1: and they too are back in the building. That is
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Speaker 1: the smiling face of one Mike Boone checking up both
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Speaker 1: of those teams today. It's beginning to feel a lot
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Speaker 1: Coming up in a little bit. One of my favorite
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Speaker 1: running backs in the draft. J Spears from Tulane, the
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Speaker 1: man who dominated the Cotton Bowl, will be here live
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Speaker 1: on our show. Let's get however, to the draft sixteen
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Speaker 1: days away. It's that time of the year where the
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Speaker 1: coaches get on the podium and do the whole press
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Speaker 1: conference thing and try to not tell you who they're
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Speaker 1: going to take. Like we think the Texans are going
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Speaker 1: quarterback at second overall, Right, that leaves them with either
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Speaker 1: Bryce Young or CJ. Stroud, we think, right. Demko Ryan's
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Speaker 1: wasn't saying much today having a number two pick. Is
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Speaker 1: it's excited for us to have the number two pick,
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Speaker 1: but it's also at the same time, there's no pressure
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Speaker 1: where a young man is picked. I think it is
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Speaker 1: unfair to ask a guy just because you're picked number
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Speaker 1: two overall you have to come in and you're the
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Speaker 1: face of our franchise and you're the leader. That's unfair
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Speaker 1: to the guy, right, And I'm not gonna put that
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Speaker 1: type of weight on the shoulders of whoever that is
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Speaker 1: that we pick. We have leaders in our locker room already,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not asking the guy to come in and
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Speaker 1: be this savior for our team, asking guy to come
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Speaker 1: in and just put his head down and just work.
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Speaker 1: Damiko Ryans on the podium early today as they begin
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Speaker 1: their offseason program. They're no real football obviously on the
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Speaker 1: field in Houston. Tom Pellicero, hello, our insider today, So
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Speaker 1: DMIKO wouldn't say what they're taking shockingly, granted they don't
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Speaker 1: know who's going to be there. It could be a quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the number one would be in many
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Speaker 1: people's eyes quarterbacks Bryce Young, because he is down the
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Speaker 1: home stretch here, Tom, it seems on his in person visits.
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Speaker 1: That's all right, Andrew. Bryce Young is visiting the Carolina
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Speaker 1: Panthers today. They have of course traded up to the
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Speaker 1: number one overall pick, and there'll be a lot of
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Speaker 1: people within the NFL who at this point would be
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Speaker 1: surprised if Young does not go to Carolina at number
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Speaker 1: one overall. However, after this visit, I am told Young
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Speaker 1: is headed to Houston later this week for a visit
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Speaker 1: with the Texans as well. So in a matter of
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Speaker 1: days here, both the teams holding the number one and
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Speaker 1: number two picks are going to get an up close
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Speaker 1: and personal look at Bryce Young. Meanwhile, there are several
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Speaker 1: other top quarterback prospects in this draft. One of them
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Speaker 1: Kentucky's Will Levis, on a visit today with the Titans tonight.
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Speaker 1: I am told that he is flying to Tampa for
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Speaker 1: a visit with the Bucks. Now, unlike Bryce Young, is
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Speaker 1: a little bit more uncertainty about exactly when Will Levis goes.
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Speaker 1: Tennessee has the number eleven pick, Tampa has the number
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Speaker 1: nineteen pick. Somewhere in there could potentially be a landing
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Speaker 1: spot for Will Levis. Interesting, Rett Lewis is going to
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Speaker 1: join us a little bit later. He has his one
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Speaker 1: and only mock draft out. He has Levis going eleven
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Speaker 1: to the Tennessee Titans. All right, let's get to Cliff Kingsbury. Tom.
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Speaker 1: This one's fascinating. Cliff Kingsbury had spoken in the past
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Speaker 1: before he took the Cardinals job some years ago about
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Speaker 1: working at USC. But when you put together Cliff Kingsbury
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Speaker 1: and the possible number one pick in next year's draft,
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Speaker 1: I can see what he's thinking. Lander. This is a
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Speaker 1: fascinating move for Cliff Kingsbury, who did spend about a
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Speaker 1: month on paper as USC's offensive coordinator back in twenty
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Speaker 1: eighteen before he ended up getting the Arizona Cardinals head
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Speaker 1: coaching job. Well, Arizona fired Kingsbury, of course, back in January.
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Speaker 1: Kingsbury disappeared to Thailand for a while, did interview for
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Speaker 1: some NFL jobs, But now I am told he is
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Speaker 1: expected to land a usc along with Lincoln Riley, where
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Speaker 1: King Murray will do work with the Trojans quarterbacks. That
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Speaker 1: is significant for variety of reasons. One of them is
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Speaker 1: the fact that Kingsbury, who of course was in charge
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Speaker 1: in Arizona when they took Tyler Murray number one overall,
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Speaker 1: potentially could be working with next year's number one overall pick,
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Speaker 1: the Rainy Heisman Trophy winner, Caleb Williams. Now, certainly people
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Speaker 1: have different opinions about Cliff Kingsbury based on how things
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Speaker 1: ended in Arizona. Here's what he knows. Look at Cliff
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Speaker 1: Kingsbury's track record with quarterbacks at the college level. He
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Speaker 1: was working with Case Keenum when Keenam broke like every
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Speaker 1: NC double a passing record. He had Baker Mayfield at
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech for a while, he had Patrick Mahomes at
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech. He spent time with a variety of other
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Speaker 1: top quarterbacks through his time at the college level. Now
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Speaker 1: he takes over with a very talented passer, Caleb Williams,
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Speaker 1: who again potentially could be in that mix. For the
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Speaker 1: number one overall pick. Who knows what that means for
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Speaker 1: Kingsbury in the big picture of his career. Certainly, though,
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Speaker 1: you would think on a talented USC team with a
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Speaker 1: chance to be very good in twenty twenty three, if
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Speaker 1: they four well, and so does Caleb Williams, that can
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Speaker 1: open up all sorts of opportunities for where Kingsbury's next
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Speaker 1: big stop potentially could be. Exactly thinking ahead here going
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Speaker 1: back to the team for which he was once offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator but never actually called a play as it was
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Speaker 1: in the off season. And to your point about Case Kingdom,
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Speaker 1: He's still, twelve years after leaving college football, is still
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Speaker 1: the nc double a's all time leading passer. Strange but true.
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Speaker 1: Last year, Caleb Williams through eight touchdowns to Jordan Addison.
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Speaker 1: He could hear his name called in sixteen days. Tom,
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Speaker 1: tell me about his visits. Jordan Addison is a busy
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Speaker 1: man right now, Andrew, as our ian rapport decided to
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Speaker 1: tweet on his off day today, Addison is visiting the
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Speaker 1: Vikings right now. After that, he is going to go
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Speaker 1: on to visit the Giants and the Bills, all teams
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Speaker 1: that you would think are logical potential fits to take
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver in round one. He's currently number thirteen
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Speaker 1: prospect on Daniel Jeremiah's top fifty list. That could be
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Speaker 1: more in that area than a team like the Vikings,
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Speaker 1: who currently are drafted at number twenty three, might have
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Speaker 1: a shot to take him. Another wide receiver visit News.
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Speaker 1: Zay Flowers has been all over the country here in
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Speaker 1: recent weeks. Posted a workout video this morning. Well, the
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Speaker 1: next couple of days, Flowers is going to be working
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Speaker 1: out in hotel gyms because he's got a visit tomorrow
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Speaker 1: with the Giants. Then he's gonna fly to Buffalo tomorrow
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Speaker 1: night for dinner with the Bills, followed by a visit
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Speaker 1: on Thursday in Buffalo. Flowers as somebody we've talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about. His name has been kicked around quite a
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Speaker 1: bit here as potentially even the number one wide receiver
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Speaker 1: off the board, So that is going to be one
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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. Meanwhile, another top receiver, Jalen
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Speaker 1: Hyatt out of Tennessee, set to visit the Giants tomorrow
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Speaker 1: as well. Andrew, I thought you're gonna do the like
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hyatt, hod, I'm sorry, Zay Flowers Hotel Jim's Jalen
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Speaker 1: Hyatt transition there. I saw that building. I thought this
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Speaker 1: didn't do it though, Okay, we're sponsored by Marriott, so
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Speaker 1: I let it slid. Sure. Show today is sponsored by Ikia. However,
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Speaker 1: for the record, trying to avoid it and then stepped
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Speaker 1: right in it. Jeff Akuda has been traded, which you know,
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Speaker 1: most people say, big deal, but this is a guy
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Speaker 1: who three years ago, Tom was the third overall pick.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and much like Ikea, a bargain for the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons if they can get the most out of
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Speaker 1: Jeff Okuda as he heads to the Falcons, Detroit sending
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Speaker 1: him to Atlanta for a fifth round pick in this
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Speaker 1: year's NFL draft. What this means for the Lions they
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Speaker 1: clear about five million dollars in cash and cap space
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Speaker 1: that was fully guaranteed Onokuda's final year of his original
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Speaker 1: rookie contract. Does have a fift year option in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Hard to imagine the Falcons are going to
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Speaker 1: pick that up. We'll see exactly how they approach it,
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Speaker 1: but it's a bylow possibility here on a player who
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Speaker 1: is talented enough that he went number three over all
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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty, Okuda coming off of his most
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Speaker 1: productive year. You certainly could say with fifteen starts in Detroit,
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Speaker 1: it had some injuries the previous couple of years. Here,
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Speaker 1: we'll see what they're able to get out of him.
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Speaker 1: Certainly though, for Okuda, if that fifth year ends option
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Speaker 1: ends up getting declined, he's got a fresh start right
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Speaker 1: now in Atlanta Andre and a chance to earn himself
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Speaker 1: a lot of money with free agency looming next March,
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Speaker 1: with the Falcons adding a lot of defensive talent here
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Speaker 1: Okuda last week Klais Campbell, and that fifth year option
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Speaker 1: deadline is right after the draft, so the Falcons have
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Speaker 1: to figure it out quickly. Tom, stay right there. Let's
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Speaker 1: get to Denver because the Broncos, much like the Texans,
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Speaker 1: much like the Cardinals, are back in the building today
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Speaker 1: because they have a brand new head coach. First time.
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Speaker 1: We get Sean Payton with his new team and with
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Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy, who he made clear last
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Speaker 1: month aren't going anywhere. We're not trading those two players now.
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Speaker 1: When people call and the phone rings like it does
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Speaker 1: this time of the year, George Peyton's job is to
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Speaker 1: pick it up and say, hey, yeah, I'll tell you
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Speaker 1: what we're not. And so, yeah, we received calls. You bet,
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Speaker 1: those are two good football players. But we're in the
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Speaker 1: business of gathering talent right now. And why do people
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Speaker 1: call because they know we're void of draft picks and
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Speaker 1: that we might because there were some discussions a year ago,
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Speaker 1: I think regarding Courtland. But we like our the current
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Speaker 1: group that we're working with, all right. That Sean Payton
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Speaker 1: again a couple of weeks ago at the annual meeting.
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Speaker 1: They don't have a lot of picks because a lot
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Speaker 1: of those picks are in Seattle. They don't pick until
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Speaker 1: sixty seventh overall, but hey, they also pick sixty eight
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Speaker 1: back to back picks there and the third round. The
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Speaker 1: talent about which John Peyton was talking as symbols for
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Speaker 1: the first time today with their new head coach, we
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Speaker 1: have Tom We have James Palmer here with us as well. James,
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Speaker 1: you are in Denver, you are in building. The message
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Speaker 1: today from Sean Payton is that we're going to close
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Speaker 1: the chapter on last year Andrew. He believes that these
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Speaker 1: players obviously have taken it from every single angle, physically
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Speaker 1: and mentally and through the media. And everything that went
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Speaker 1: wrong last year. He wants to close that chapter and
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Speaker 1: he wants to move forward, telling them now is the
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Speaker 1: time that they're going to roll up their sleeves and
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Speaker 1: they're going to get to work, and he mentioned that
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Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult. It starts today with their conditioning.
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Speaker 1: I've seen them go into the weight room earlier this morning.
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Speaker 1: And obviously they're going to have these meetings with Sean
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Speaker 1: Payton and his new coaching staff. But he wants to
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Speaker 1: focus on is those first two and it's the conditioning
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Speaker 1: and it's the way training because he believes these players
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Speaker 1: just weren't pushed enough last year in the offseason and
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Speaker 1: that led to a lot of the injury issues that
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Speaker 1: this team had throughout all of last year when the
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Speaker 1: most injury playing to teams in the entire NFL. He
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Speaker 1: has put his resources in and brought his people in.
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Speaker 1: The ownership group led by Greg Penner has put a
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Speaker 1: lot of resources and a lot behind changing in this
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Speaker 1: offseason as well, and he wants this phase one to
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Speaker 1: go much longer than the three weeks that it is
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. They haven't added mini camp on April
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth to the twenty seventh. That's going to be
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Speaker 1: more to Phase one is would be more conditioning, more
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Speaker 1: weight training. That is his number one focus. That this
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Speaker 1: team was not physical enough, Tom, it was not competitive
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Speaker 1: enough during the preseason in his eyes, no nine on seven,
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Speaker 1: no one on one drills, everybody's going to play in
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Speaker 1: the preseason. We're going to see more competitiveness from this
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Speaker 1: entire group. And that kind of all started today. Of course,
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Speaker 1: James is gonna be a ton of focus on Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson exactly what direction things go for him after certainly
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Speaker 1: a subpar year for the Broncos in his first season
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Speaker 1: in Denver. I asked Sean Payton in that sit down
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Speaker 1: interview I did with him last month in Phoenix about Russ,
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Speaker 1: and basically I framed the question as the narrative out
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Speaker 1: there seems to be the Russ is done, that he's
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Speaker 1: not going to play at a high level anymore. And
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Speaker 1: Peyton said, well, respectfully, I'd say that's not the narrative.
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Speaker 1: The narrative is what happened last year. That's really the
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Speaker 1: focus here is just try to figure out all the
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Speaker 1: various factors that went into Russell Wilson not playing like
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in twenty twenty two, and as Peyton said,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of hands that are dirty in that
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Speaker 1: it's not all about one person, and it's not all
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Speaker 1: about necessarily Russell Wilson. Having said that, there were a
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Speaker 1: variety of issues last year for Russell Wilson in Denver,
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Speaker 1: his weight was one of them, especially throughout the course
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Speaker 1: of the off season. Even some of his social media
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Speaker 1: posts became an issue through the course of a very
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Speaker 1: disappointing season as a whole for the Broncos team. As Peyton,
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Speaker 1: have you given him any guidelines but what you want
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Speaker 1: him to look like and act like coming into a
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Speaker 1: new program in Denver? He said, there's no guidelines here,
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Speaker 1: but certainly this is something that there's a standard for
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Speaker 1: all players that are going to be in this operation.
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is certainly one of those. He's going to
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Speaker 1: be held to a certain standard and it is going
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Speaker 1: to be fascinating to see both on and off the field.
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Speaker 1: How Sean Payton tries to get Russell Wilson back on track, Yeah, James,
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Speaker 1: how do they help him? Because so much has been
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Speaker 1: made about it's going to be different. Let's get rid
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Speaker 1: of the office. By the way, that office that Russell
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Speaker 1: hide upstairs allegedly always had NFL network on, according to
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Speaker 1: one article. So Russell, if you're watching high, I hope
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Speaker 1: you're enjoying day one of school. How do James they
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Speaker 1: kind of get him back? Yeah, And I know Tom
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Speaker 1: asks Sean Payton this and everyone has and he hasn't
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Speaker 1: really alluded to it much about what he thinks he
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Speaker 1: can do with Sean Payton. But you saw that full
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Speaker 1: screen graphic next to Tom there about some of the
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Speaker 1: players that have been added. I think the first part
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Speaker 1: Sean Payton has accomplished because guys like Mike McGlinchey and
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Speaker 1: Somaji pre Ryan, he has convinced them about what he
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Speaker 1: envisions this offense to be. He had to do that
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Speaker 1: when he met with both of them and others that
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Speaker 1: they brought in the free agency, and he convinced them
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Speaker 1: about what he envisions to happen with this entire offense.
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Speaker 1: You look at McGlinchey, look at Ben Power. As you
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Speaker 1: look at them, Chris Manhurst comes in a fullback, and
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Speaker 1: I mentioned p Ryan at two hundred and forty pounds
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Speaker 1: as a running back. He's bringing in a physical group
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Speaker 1: around Russell Wilson, and it looks to be that they
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Speaker 1: want this to be a physical offense that has a
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Speaker 1: two back system. That's something that p Ryan was definitely
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Speaker 1: sold on because his role was bacted to increase in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to increase it because of the way he's
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Speaker 1: caught the football, the way he's run the football. There's
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Speaker 1: really never negative plays when Peter Ryan carries it. My
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Speaker 1: point of this, Andrew is it just looks like Sean
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Speaker 1: Payton has brought a lot of physicality around Russell Wilson.
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Speaker 1: That's our first indication about what we have seen from
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Speaker 1: this offense. He hasn't tom really said anything else to
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Speaker 1: anybody about what he envisions he's specifically doing with Russ. Well,
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Speaker 1: we'll find out today day number one. Although it's not
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Speaker 1: real football here, just working out day one through off
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Speaker 1: season workouts, what it's still fun. Of course, it's fun.
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Speaker 1: Of course that's fun. I'm just saying that you're only
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Speaker 1: gleam selling, Andrew. You're trying to get the party pooper.
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Speaker 1: They're back in the building, come on coming up next.
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Speaker 1: We're back in the NFC South because that guy has
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Speaker 1: left the building. We hit the roster reset button on
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Speaker 1: that division. You're watching NFL now on that one. So
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Speaker 1: as we sit here in April eleven, we are fairly
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Speaker 1: certain that Tom Brady is definitely not coming back. Right,
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Speaker 1: fairly certain and definitely any does make sense together? Right? Sure? Well,
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Speaker 1: now the Bucks move on and Todd Bowles has to
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Speaker 1: go find the next man up. When you replace a
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Speaker 1: player of that magnitude, first of all, you don't replace them.
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Speaker 1: You know, you lose aura, you lose the expectation of
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Speaker 1: being great. That doesn't mean you can't be great, you know,
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Speaker 1: you just have to do it more as a team.
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Speaker 1: You know, we did it as a team when he
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Speaker 1: was there, but you know, he was such a great
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Speaker 1: player and a great person that you focus all on that.
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Speaker 1: And now that that is gone, you know, the perception
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Speaker 1: is that everything else is gone, and really it isn't.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot of good players on our team
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. We have some pieces
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Speaker 1: to fill in, but we have a lot of good
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Speaker 1: football players on our team. But do they have a quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Let's hit the roster reset button on the NFC North
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Speaker 1: one Big Control Alt de Lead or the South that
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Speaker 1: beg your pardon the south. Andrew, let's control al de
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Speaker 1: lead on me use the second take and if Cam
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Speaker 1: Wolf and Jeff Chidia with me, gentlemen, Helodia both, let's
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Speaker 1: go through the quarterback options here as they sit picking
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Speaker 1: nineteenth overall, Cam, what do you say? Yeah, Andrew? The
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Speaker 1: big question for Tampa is how do you move on
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Speaker 1: beyond Tom Brady in twenty twenty three, And as it
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Speaker 1: currently stands, they have an open competition between Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 1: and their twenty twenty one second round pick Kyle Trash.
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Speaker 1: They believe that, you know, you put the pieces together,
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Speaker 1: you want to see more from Trask. He hasn't got
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Speaker 1: the opportunity on the field, but obviously that's not something
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Speaker 1: that excites a lot of Bucks fans, which is why
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Speaker 1: I found it interesting today when Tom Pellicero reported that
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Speaker 1: tomorrow Will Levis, the Kentucky quarterback, is coming in to
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Speaker 1: visit Tampa, and they also are scheduled to have Tennessee
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Speaker 1: quarterback Hitting hook fit It this week as well, and
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Speaker 1: so they're clearly doing their homework on this quarterback class.
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Speaker 1: They have a lot of needs here in Tampa, but
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Speaker 1: they clearly haven't rolled out taking a quarterback. I haven't
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Speaker 1: heard a lot of buzz that they're gonna trade up
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Speaker 1: high in the draft for a quarterback. But if the
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Speaker 1: right guy falls into their lap, maybe it's Levis, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's Looker. Could they take a quarterback and change that
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Speaker 1: sort of trajectory of the team. What's been interesting about
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Speaker 1: Tampa is they've been really focused on reloading and not
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Speaker 1: necessarily rebuilding. They resigned Lavante Davis, they resigned Jamal Dean.
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Speaker 1: They didn't trade Mike Evans and Chris Godwin to write
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Speaker 1: a lot of speculation, and so if they move on
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Speaker 1: beyond the quarterback area, there's a lot of potential areas
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Speaker 1: they can go in this draft. They could go running
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Speaker 1: back to fish the worst rushing team in the league
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Speaker 1: last year. They go offensive tackle to get a new
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Speaker 1: left tackle, or they can go edge rushers. They brought
18:55
Speaker 1: Iowa's Lucas van Nessen this week and done a lot
18:57
Speaker 1: of work at that position. Jeff, Yeah. Can you know
19:01
Speaker 1: people do kind of forget that there is talent on
19:03
Speaker 1: this team. As top bowler looted too, and you talk
19:05
Speaker 1: about some of those players they have coming back. This
19:07
Speaker 1: is not a team that is in dire straits, but
19:09
Speaker 1: they're in a very tricky position when it comes to
19:12
Speaker 1: finding that quarterback of the future with that nineteenth pick,
19:15
Speaker 1: you don't know who's going to be there. I would
19:17
Speaker 1: love to see them fortify that offensive line. We know
19:19
Speaker 1: about the problems that they had with injuries last year.
19:22
Speaker 1: I'll talk about moving right tackle Tristan Worth to the
19:25
Speaker 1: left side. You replaced Donovan Smith, which is a move
19:27
Speaker 1: I like because again you mentioned that rushing attack. They
19:30
Speaker 1: got to be able to run the football better thirty
19:32
Speaker 1: second in the league last year. If they get that
19:34
Speaker 1: run game going, it can make out things a lot
19:36
Speaker 1: easier for that supporting cast around Baker Mayfield and a
19:39
Speaker 1: defense that was top ten in points allowed. Baker Mayfield's
19:43
Speaker 1: best season twenty twenty in Cleveland, the play action game
19:46
Speaker 1: was working, and working well ended up with them winning
19:50
Speaker 1: a playoff game. Right, those are the Bucks. Let's do
19:53
Speaker 1: this thing here. For the Carolina Panthers as well, they
19:55
Speaker 1: had been busy. Not just a new coach and Frank
19:58
Speaker 1: Brych and an entirely new staff a new defense here,
20:00
Speaker 1: but they bring in all this talent. The left of
20:03
Speaker 1: the screen. Andy Dalton is basically going to be the
20:07
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback Bridge, if you will whole getting the next
20:11
Speaker 1: guy ready Campbell, the next guy who we assume they
20:15
Speaker 1: will take with the first overall pick. Tom reported earlier.
20:18
Speaker 1: Bryce Young is there today? Where are they overall in
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Speaker 1: their quarterback research? Yeah, Andrew, they have not made a
20:26
Speaker 1: final decision yet on who they would take at the
20:29
Speaker 1: number one pick. They won't do that, and so they
20:31
Speaker 1: finished their evaluation which will conclude next week with c. J.
20:34
Speaker 1: Stroud and Will Levis coming in for a visit. But
20:37
Speaker 1: from talking with people in that Carolina Pether's building, I
20:41
Speaker 1: would handicap Bryce Young as the favorite at this point.
20:44
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's just this point, still plenty of
20:46
Speaker 1: time going forward. But Bryce Young's very important day for
20:50
Speaker 1: him inside that building, meeting with those people inside the
20:54
Speaker 1: building and really in control of this draft decision. And
20:57
Speaker 1: what's been interesting about the Carolina Panthers process is they
21:00
Speaker 1: have been very much inclusive of everyone throughout the decision,
21:04
Speaker 1: whether it be the GM Scott Fitterer, whether it be
21:07
Speaker 1: the head coach Frank Wright, the offensive coiner Thomas Brown.
21:09
Speaker 1: They've had eight nine people who've had opinions in this decision.
21:13
Speaker 1: So they want to come to a conclusion and they
21:15
Speaker 1: also have the owner involved in there. But one thing
21:18
Speaker 1: that Carolina does feel, whether it's Bryce, whether it's CJ,
21:21
Speaker 1: whoever it is, they have a team built for a quarterback,
21:24
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback to come in and have early successing
21:27
Speaker 1: year one and potentially win a wide open NFC South.
21:31
Speaker 1: From the jump, that's exactly right. I came. I love
21:34
Speaker 1: what they've done in the offseason, bringing guys like Miles
21:37
Speaker 1: Sanders and Adam Feelin Hayden Hurst. The defense is ready made,
21:41
Speaker 1: I know general matter of Scott Fitter or things, very
21:44
Speaker 1: highly of that group. Loves the youth and the talent there.
21:46
Speaker 1: With von Bell coming in to fortify the safety position,
21:50
Speaker 1: I'd love to go see them, you know, after the
21:53
Speaker 1: quarterback situation, find another receiver in the draft to help there,
21:56
Speaker 1: because Adam Feeling is long in the tooth. DJ Chark
21:59
Speaker 1: is a speedy threat who knows Dude Staley from the
22:03
Speaker 1: days together in Detroit. But again, one more receiver there
22:06
Speaker 1: who can be a young guy who can grow with
22:08
Speaker 1: either a CJ. Strout or Bryce Shawn would be a
22:10
Speaker 1: great thing for this team to get in the second
22:13
Speaker 1: or third round. But quarterback, obviously is the whole story
22:15
Speaker 1: here with this, with this team. The whole story is
22:17
Speaker 1: we sit here sixteen days away from the Carolina Panthers
22:21
Speaker 1: officially being on the clock and handing in that card
22:24
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, Jeff Kitty camp Wolf gentleman, Wait, thank you,
22:28
Speaker 1: I'm already forgetting the dable for Jimmy na Fry taking
22:34
Speaker 1: a shot and example to kill a strike, it'll be
22:39
Speaker 1: Robinson to the second level and beyond touchdown. That's b
22:44
Speaker 1: Sean Robinson under immediate brought you off the hitch and
22:47
Speaker 1: not escaped. Will Anderson home, Oh my gosh, Strout fires man,
22:51
Speaker 1: it is grabbed and he ends up. CJ. Strout Wow
22:54
Speaker 1: with a grow. You get a mock draft, and you
22:59
Speaker 1: get a mock draft. And wait, and Ritt gets a
23:01
Speaker 1: mock draft. No, we're kidding, it says, mock draft one point.
23:05
Speaker 1: But Rhet did this last year. This is just one point,
23:08
Speaker 1: oh this year. And he has Bryce Young going one
23:11
Speaker 1: and c J. Stroud going to and then the fun
23:14
Speaker 1: begins with Anthony Richardson at number four. The fun begins
23:17
Speaker 1: actually right now, yeah, because the host of nearly every
23:21
Speaker 1: show on this network is here right now. He is
23:24
Speaker 1: NFL network. He's the host to night of mock draft. Well,
23:26
Speaker 1: I have the host of path to the draft, Rhet Lewis.
23:28
Speaker 1: It's good to have. Yet, what's Upuddy? And for the
23:30
Speaker 1: record for accuracy, think that is one dot final. This
23:35
Speaker 1: is the one and only. This is your final answer.
23:38
Speaker 1: If I were regis right now well correct And some
23:40
Speaker 1: people need more than one mock draft to get the
23:43
Speaker 1: answers correct. In this case, we just wanted to line
23:46
Speaker 1: them all up now here sixteen days before them. You
23:48
Speaker 1: don't need a second swing. Bryce Young is guaranteed to
23:50
Speaker 1: be number one overall or your money back, okay, And
23:54
Speaker 1: at number four it's going to be Anthony Richardson. And
23:57
Speaker 1: just for the record, you said no trades. Yea. So
24:00
Speaker 1: here's the ground rule. So you say the Colts stay
24:02
Speaker 1: firm and take Anthony richards Yeah, if that's where they're going,
24:06
Speaker 1: and if that's what they want to do at quarterback,
24:08
Speaker 1: and you're deciding between Will Levis and Anthony Richardson, it
24:11
Speaker 1: just seems to me that Richardson has the ceiling that
24:14
Speaker 1: is a little bit higher than Will Levis, and if
24:17
Speaker 1: they have similar floors, and why not take the player
24:20
Speaker 1: with the higher ceiling. But to me, the biggest piece
24:23
Speaker 1: of this pick is the plan that Chain Styken and
24:26
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard put into place to develop and allow Anthony
24:30
Speaker 1: Richardson to develop. I kind of like it is, let's
24:32
Speaker 1: keep three quarterbacks active. Let's make Anthony Richardson quarterback three, right,
24:37
Speaker 1: because if he's not ready to be the starter, and
24:39
Speaker 1: he's not ready to be one play away, so you
24:41
Speaker 1: keep a solid starter and Gardner Minshew, you keep a backup,
24:44
Speaker 1: and so even if Minshew goes down, you have that
24:48
Speaker 1: second quarterback, the backup that assumes that role, and you
24:50
Speaker 1: allow Anthony Richardson to remain in a place where he
24:53
Speaker 1: could still come in and give you a few plays
24:55
Speaker 1: in a package type. No. I like it. I really
24:57
Speaker 1: doing a lot of this again, contingent on no trades
24:59
Speaker 1: here and the Cardinals staying where they are at three,
25:01
Speaker 1: and you had them taking Will Anderson. You also have
25:03
Speaker 1: the Eagles stay where they are at ten. A lot
25:06
Speaker 1: of people think how he might trade down. Yeah, man,
25:09
Speaker 1: he does like to trade. But if they stay be
25:12
Speaker 1: Gen Robinson, it would be fun. It feels like the
25:15
Speaker 1: ultimate luxury pick. Like this is such a good roster
25:18
Speaker 1: right top to bottom. They bring everybody back on the
25:20
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. You've already got one of
25:22
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best, offensive line in football.
25:26
Speaker 1: You know, there's a commitment to the run game there,
25:29
Speaker 1: So let's give it to a player, you know, who's
25:31
Speaker 1: a top five overall player regardless of position in this
25:34
Speaker 1: entire draft class. And so, yeah, maybe it's a little
25:38
Speaker 1: high for a running back, but not too high for
25:39
Speaker 1: a player of that caliber, and for a team that
25:42
Speaker 1: wants to run the football the way the Eagles, and
25:44
Speaker 1: a team that saw Miles Sanders leave and go to Carolina,
25:47
Speaker 1: a team that obviously one last year in the year
25:49
Speaker 1: before that the second half of the season with running
25:51
Speaker 1: the football. I say it gets interesting at eleven only
25:54
Speaker 1: because it's not that shocking that the Titans might go quarterback.
25:58
Speaker 1: Are Ryan Tannehill's contract coming to an end. But they
26:01
Speaker 1: took Lake Willis, Yeah, last year, who medi had projected.
26:05
Speaker 1: Granted he fell to be a first round right right,
26:08
Speaker 1: And look, I think with will Levis, what you're getting
26:10
Speaker 1: is kind of what you kind of thought you were
26:12
Speaker 1: hoping that Malik Willis was going to bring you, which
26:15
Speaker 1: was some of that athleticism and the ability to eventually
26:17
Speaker 1: develop into a starter. But I feel like Levis gives
26:20
Speaker 1: it to you in a package now in which he's
26:23
Speaker 1: a bit more ready to play if called upon that
26:26
Speaker 1: maybe Malik Willis was when he came into the league.
26:28
Speaker 1: And I's not to say Malik can't become that player,
26:31
Speaker 1: but at least at this point, you're giving yourself another opportunity.
26:33
Speaker 1: And in the absence of some sort of real long
26:36
Speaker 1: term commitment to Ryan Tannehill beyond this year, I think
26:40
Speaker 1: it's time to start looking for the future. And I
26:42
Speaker 1: don't think you know, Mike vrabel is heading out to
26:44
Speaker 1: all these quarterback pro days for no reason. No, and
26:47
Speaker 1: if look, Malik Willis had done something in December that
26:50
Speaker 1: made you say, all right, this could work, maybe this
26:53
Speaker 1: would be a little bit different. Granted the guy still
26:55
Speaker 1: young football player, he still has plenty of time. You
26:58
Speaker 1: have the Seahawks going defense at five, you have the
27:00
Speaker 1: Seahawks coming back with their second pit. Yeah. I kind
27:03
Speaker 1: of like this going ahead. In Hooker, I mean, is
27:06
Speaker 1: there is there a buzz about the draft that is
27:11
Speaker 1: kind of trending more and is out there more than
27:14
Speaker 1: hindon Hooker being a first round pick. Right it seems
27:16
Speaker 1: like one of the buzziest conversations regarding this draft, in
27:19
Speaker 1: this draft class as of right now, and so I
27:21
Speaker 1: feel like the spots to watch there are those teams
27:24
Speaker 1: that have multiple picks or that have the established veteran
27:28
Speaker 1: I could see the Titans. If they don't like who
27:30
Speaker 1: they have at eleven, maybe they move down and try
27:33
Speaker 1: to find Hindon Hooker or just take them there at eleven.
27:35
Speaker 1: In this case, the Seahawks are locked into Gino Smith
27:37
Speaker 1: for another year or two and nothing gets a perfect
27:39
Speaker 1: spot for Hindon Hooker to kind of sit there and
27:42
Speaker 1: not have the pressure to go out and play right away,
27:44
Speaker 1: but eventually become the face of that franchise. Vikings make sense.
27:47
Speaker 1: Maybe the Lions, with their second go round at eighteen,
27:50
Speaker 1: could be in the hooker business as well. And that
27:52
Speaker 1: was a knee injury that happened in November. He is
27:54
Speaker 1: certainly getting back there. He should be ready by September,
27:57
Speaker 1: but why push it here? Granted he is a little
27:59
Speaker 1: bit older now. The back half of the twenties, you
28:01
Speaker 1: have a run on wide receivers and tight ends, but
28:04
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the run, you have I
28:07
Speaker 1: think a guy that fits the town perfectly at twenty
28:11
Speaker 1: seven Town Prospect Franchise fan base. Let's have Cody Mauk
28:16
Speaker 1: from North Dakota State Gold play along the offensive line
28:20
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. So here's the option that Cody Mouk gives
28:23
Speaker 1: you started a left tackle North Dakota State. Feels like
28:26
Speaker 1: he can play inside at guard. Took snaps as you
28:29
Speaker 1: know at center Senior Bowl, So you've got some opportunity
28:33
Speaker 1: there if you need a swing tackle to fill in
28:35
Speaker 1: for Dion Dawkins or Spencer Brown, and maybe you get
28:38
Speaker 1: an upgrade along the interior of the offensive line in
28:40
Speaker 1: the near term. Feel like Cody Mauk gives the Bills
28:44
Speaker 1: what they want and ability to be a powerful team
28:46
Speaker 1: in the run game if they want. And then let's
28:48
Speaker 1: go break some tables, you know, after the game. And
28:50
Speaker 1: it feels like he'd be okay with that. Do you
28:52
Speaker 1: know a lot of people say in Buffalo might not
28:54
Speaker 1: be the sexy pick, or maybe it is a Buffalo
28:55
Speaker 1: sexy pick. Cody Mauk twenty seven. I was joking about
28:59
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