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Raiders - Rams Week 14, Desmond Ridder to Start for The Falcons & Chuck Clark & William Gholston Join the Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: have any and everything you need to know about Week fourteen,
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Speaker 1: which starts tonight, coming up in these two hours here
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Speaker 1: on a game day edition of NFL Now on NFL Network.
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Speaker 1: We are here in the newsroom in Los Angeles. My
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Speaker 1: name is Andrew Siciliano. You cannot see it, but over
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Speaker 1: my right shoulder. Over there we have a stadium, So
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Speaker 1: five Stadium, and that is where tonight we will kick
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Speaker 1: off Week fourteen, the first game between the Rams of
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Speaker 1: the Raiders regular season game. That is since here in
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Speaker 1: southern California, Matthew Stafford is on injured reserve. Sean Wolford
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Speaker 1: got a neck injury. Rays Perkins has started as well
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Speaker 1: this year. Kleb Burton Live. It's so far. Tom Pel
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Speaker 1: Sarah are insider as well. Tom, are you telling me
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Speaker 1: there is actually a chance this is Baker Mayfield's game
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Speaker 1: tonight for the Rams. Lander Here's what I can tell you.
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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is expected to be active and in uniform
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Speaker 1: for this game with the Rams, just two days after
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Speaker 1: they claimed him off waivers. And my understanding is there
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Speaker 1: is a real chance that Mayfield could end up playing
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Speaker 1: in this game. That is going to depend in large
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Speaker 1: part on how John Wolford is feeling. He's listed as
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Speaker 1: questionable with a neck injury that has been bothering him
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Speaker 1: for quite some time, has flared up on recent occasions. Here.
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Speaker 1: He did move around Wolford did, I'm told well in
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Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday, lending some optimism that he's going to
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Speaker 1: be good to go. But they potentially could take this
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Speaker 1: all the way down until ninety minutes before kickoff, or
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Speaker 1: all the way up until kickoff, just to make sure
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Speaker 1: that Wolford is in a good spot. Mayfield got claimed
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Speaker 1: four pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, was already set on
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Speaker 1: a flight, flew to l A, got into the playbook.
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Speaker 1: I'm told he got a full installed in on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: He is up the speed on the game plan, had
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Speaker 1: really practiced, just had one walkthrough. But yes, there is
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Speaker 1: a scenario that Baker Mayfield could be on the field
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Speaker 1: for the Rams tonight. Tom as crazy as it sounds
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Speaker 1: with such a quick turnaround, I was in Thousand Oaks
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Speaker 1: when the news broke about Baker Mayfield joining the Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. I remember texting my producer Ken, who standing
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Speaker 1: right behind this camera, and I said, boy, do we
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Speaker 1: have something to talk about? Because the first time, and
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Speaker 1: I would say six games, considering the Rams ride a
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Speaker 1: six game losing streak, I started to feel the life
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Speaker 1: come out of that locker room. Now they're not necessarily
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Speaker 1: saying Baker Mayfield is the answer to break this losing streak,
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Speaker 1: but I'll say this, the coaching staff as well the
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Speaker 1: players tell me that this guy provides experience death and
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Speaker 1: that competitive nature. I spoke with one of the wide
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Speaker 1: receivers of this team, to to at Well, who has
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Speaker 1: been heavily involved in this offense. Considering no Cooper Cup,
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Speaker 1: no Allen Robinson. I asked him what was her reaction
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Speaker 1: knowing that Baker Mayfield maybe throwing to you in this game?
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Speaker 1: He says, well, first, I was shocked. I was shocked
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Speaker 1: to find out this news. But he also said that
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be working with not only Baker Mayfield,
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Speaker 1: but a couple of other quarterbacks. And I asked how
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Speaker 1: difficult that is to have to utilize and play with
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Speaker 1: different quarterbacks, with Bryce Perkins and John Wolford. He says, listen,
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Speaker 1: my job and My role is to catch the ball,
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Speaker 1: and everyone in this locker room is trying to get
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Speaker 1: back on track. Sean McVeigh, and this team is excited
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Speaker 1: to have Baker in house. All Right, it could be
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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield tonight. It could be John Wolford tonight that
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Speaker 1: you might see Bryce Perkins tonight. It should be fun tonight.
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Speaker 1: Rams and Raiders l A back in l A tonight
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Speaker 1: at SOFI Stadium. Thank you Jaylor, and thank you Tom
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Speaker 1: Peliser Moore from both. Coming up a little bit later,
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Speaker 1: Let's turn to the NFC East, where the Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: have a chance to wrap up a playoffs spot this week,
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Speaker 1: but they gotta beat the Giants. That hasn't really gone
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Speaker 1: well the last couple of times they've gone to MetLife Stadium,
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Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts knows he got a pretty good Giants
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Speaker 1: defense coming after him. They've always been the really physical
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Speaker 1: football team, and um, they're playing really well on defense,
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Speaker 1: They're playing really really well on offense. You know, the
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Speaker 1: coach really well. Um, they have really good players that
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Speaker 1: disrupt the pocket and disruptive, disruptive on the becky and too.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we just have to kind of go
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Speaker 1: in and control. We can and do our job. They
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Speaker 1: are winning in the Eagles are Hi. They're Mike Giardi
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Speaker 1: and hither James Palmer and Brian Baldinger as well, winning
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Speaker 1: and beat the Giants. But they've lost the last two
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Speaker 1: years at net Life Stadium facing a totally different team,
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Speaker 1: this time James facing Jalen Hurts playing at an m
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Speaker 1: v P level, and some of that credit for his
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Speaker 1: development oddly goes back to Brian day Ball. It does
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Speaker 1: you heard Jalen Hurts stay there andrew that their coach
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Speaker 1: really well well, obviously their head coach was his offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator at Alabama in two thousand seventeen and is also
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Speaker 1: one of Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni's biggest mentors and
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Speaker 1: the guy who introduced Sirianni back in two thousand and
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Speaker 1: twenty at the NFL Combine to Jalen Hurts for the
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Speaker 1: very first time when Sirianni was the offensive coordinator of
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Speaker 1: the Colts at that time, and day Ball told him
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Speaker 1: he is just a guy that is a coach's son.
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Speaker 1: He loved coaching him. He never leaves the building. He
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Speaker 1: is around football the time, takes it so serious. Now
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Speaker 1: Sirianni sees that on a daily basis in Philadelphia, he
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Speaker 1: pops in to the Tuesday night coaches only meeting just
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Speaker 1: to get a jump start on what the game plan
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Speaker 1: is going to be that week. And this was a
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Speaker 1: smart week to do that. As you mentioned, and you
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Speaker 1: heard Jalen Hurts stay there about this talented Giants defense,
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Speaker 1: they also blitz at such a high rate. It's something
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Speaker 1: that they want to have an answer to everything for
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Speaker 1: and that is one aspect of Jalen Hurts, and this
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Speaker 1: offensive staff has been very impressed with so far. Offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator Shane Steiken said, it's just been awesome watching his
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Speaker 1: vision accelerate as this season has gone on, picking things up,
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Speaker 1: seeing things very quickly as he continues to prepare all
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Speaker 1: those things the Giants need to find a way to
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Speaker 1: prepare for how Jalen Hurts is going to beat you.
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Speaker 1: Sirianni believes what's happened in the last two games with
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Speaker 1: them rushing for three and sixty three yards against the Packers,
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Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty seven of them coming from Jalen Hurts,
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Speaker 1: and then the next week that impacted how the Titans
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Speaker 1: prepared for Hurts. Then he goes out and throws for
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Speaker 1: over three yards and three touchdowns. It is a major
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Speaker 1: impact on how defense is prepared for Hurts, as he's
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Speaker 1: also preparing for this Giants blitzing defense. And it's also
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Speaker 1: the explosives here as well. The Giants, however, are the
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Speaker 1: only defense that has yet to allow a play of
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Speaker 1: over thirty five yards for a touchdown, So that stands out.
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Speaker 1: But what stands out to me, Gardi is the fact
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Speaker 1: that Daniel Jones doesn't have a lot to work with. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: say Kwan Barkley is doing his thank he's over a
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Speaker 1: thousand yards now, but limited weapons, and they've got to
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Speaker 1: keep up with Jalen Hurts. Yeah. And in no world
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Speaker 1: did I think Brian day Ball and the offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: Mike Kafka think that Darius Slayton was going to be
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Speaker 1: their most targeted receiver this year, but because of injuries,
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Speaker 1: because of some dissatisfaction of a first round pick from
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Speaker 1: last year, is now in Kansas City in Candarius Tony. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's what they've had to do. I mean, Slayton wasn't
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Speaker 1: even supposed to make the team and now he's their
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Speaker 1: number one received It has actually played pretty well here
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Speaker 1: over the last five or six games. But this is
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Speaker 1: a huge challenge for the Giants offense. They're facing a
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Speaker 1: team as the top past defense in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: The Giants, on the other hand, the twenty best passing offense.
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Speaker 1: But I'm here to sort of defend Daniel Jones because
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Speaker 1: I think he's done a terrific job when you consider
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Speaker 1: what he doesn't have for outside weapons. That their number
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Speaker 1: one tight end, Daniel Bellinger, hurt his eye and had
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Speaker 1: the missed chunk of games, although he just came back,
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Speaker 1: and yet he has managed the football. His completion percentage
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Speaker 1: is high, he's taken once there, and he's also had
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Speaker 1: some answers to the test. I think klfkandable the idea
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Speaker 1: of having good coaching has elevated. Daniel Jones is play.
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Speaker 1: And I'll give you one more thing. The Eagles bring pressure.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's just their front four, they're hard to block.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has been one of the best quarterbacks against
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Speaker 1: pressure this year. He's faced a thirty five point four
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Speaker 1: percent of the time, which is a gross number. They
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Speaker 1: need to fix that offensive line isn't throwing an interception
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Speaker 1: against pressure this year. Good quarterback rating completion percentage over
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Speaker 1: expected as higher than most quarterbacks. He's been pretty good.
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Speaker 1: He's convincing either the Giants to keep him and bring
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Speaker 1: him back next year or something else to be the
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Speaker 1: bridge quarterback and maybe the quarterback of the future. Well, Mike,
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Speaker 1: if they had some explosive players in the outside, we
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Speaker 1: load a lot more. I mean it's in your points
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Speaker 1: are well taken by because all you have to do
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Speaker 1: is go back to last week's tie against Washington. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they couldn't move the ball at the end of the
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Speaker 1: first half of the chance to get points. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the game, when they had possession of it
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Speaker 1: where they could have gone won the game, they couldn't
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Speaker 1: finish it. And they had the ball four times in overtime,
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Speaker 1: and they couldn't get themselves in position to kick the
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Speaker 1: field goal. Now, it doesn't help that Richie James and
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Speaker 1: sake Kwan Barklay are running into each other in the
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Speaker 1: backfield and Daniel Jones has nowhere to go with the
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Speaker 1: ball and it takes the sack and knocks him out
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Speaker 1: of field goal range. But you know, they just don't
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Speaker 1: have the explosive players outside of Darius Late and who
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Speaker 1: can't really run. They just don't have that that type
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Speaker 1: of offense, and so they got to rely on really
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Speaker 1: the two man tandem of Sa Kwan and Daniel Jones,
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Speaker 1: whether design runs or scrambles, because he's really good at
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Speaker 1: both and he showed it last week against a really
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Speaker 1: good Commander's defense. So that's what the Eagles have. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if they fall behind, they're gonna be in trouble in
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Speaker 1: this game by any amount because they just don't have
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Speaker 1: the firepower to stay up with the Eagles right now,
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Speaker 1: the way that they're moving the ball and they're probably
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Speaker 1: throwing it a lot more than they want to. To
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Speaker 1: your point, Daniel Jones the second most completions in football
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Speaker 1: the last three weeks. They don't want to throw it
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Speaker 1: and they don't want to have him with seventy three
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Speaker 1: completions in three games, usually not a good sign. Brian Baldinger,
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Speaker 1: Mike Giardi and James Palmer, thank you both. That is
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Speaker 1: the NFC East. Let's focus on the NFC South, where
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Speaker 1: we have some quarterback news. Now. I want to buy
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Speaker 1: week Tom Hella Sero back with me Ian Rappaport as well.
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Speaker 1: And you had a quarterback change in Atlanta this morning. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Falcons maybe on a buy, but they are making moves,
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Speaker 1: specifically at the quarterback position. The future is now in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: Sources say. Desmond Ritter, their third round rookie from Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: is expected to be the starter this week when they
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Speaker 1: start against the New Orleans Saints and moving forward, which
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Speaker 1: means veteran Marcus Mariotta, who started every game from the
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Speaker 1: start of the season up until now, he heads to
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Speaker 1: the bench to become the backup for Ritter, and of
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Speaker 1: course for the Atlanta Falcons. There's a lot to like
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Speaker 1: here and there's a lot to see here. Ritter's a
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Speaker 1: guy who who impressed coaches and general manager's personnel executive
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Speaker 1: is a lot during the pre draft process. Very smart,
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Speaker 1: he's very talented, really flashed in the preseason. They want
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Speaker 1: to know what they have their quarterback and they still
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Speaker 1: have an outside chance here when they winning the division
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Speaker 1: and making the playoffs, is going to be Desmond Ritter
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Speaker 1: at the helm if they get there. Yeah, they're only
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Speaker 1: one game back in the win column behind the Bucks.
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Speaker 1: Grants of Tampa beat and they play him again week eighteen.
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Speaker 1: I know, it's amazing. After the bye they go at
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Speaker 1: New Orleans and at Baltimore, so two tough road starts
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Speaker 1: here for Desmond Ritter. Meantime, Tom, the Lions have been
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Speaker 1: eye opening with the way they've been playing of late.
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Speaker 1: Jerikoff says he's playing as well as he as he
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Speaker 1: ever has, and remember he went to a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: What's in store there for Jared Goff Landard. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to argue with the way that Jared Goff has played
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Speaker 1: as the Lions have surged here. That offense, directed by
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, who is going to be a head coaching
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Speaker 1: candidate in this cycle, has been one of the most
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Speaker 1: explosive and productive in the entire NFL, which is remarkable
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Speaker 1: when you look at some of the injuries that they've
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Speaker 1: had to work their way through, and of course where
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Speaker 1: this team was for the first half of last season
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Speaker 1: when Dan Campbell was calling on Jared Goff saying I
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Speaker 1: need more from you, Well he's gotten it here. Golf
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Speaker 1: is playing at a really high level, which sets up
11:36
Speaker 1: a fascinating situation for the Lions in the off season.
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Speaker 1: They are going to have a very high pick courtesy
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Speaker 1: of the l A rams from the Jared Goff Matthew
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Speaker 1: Stafford trade and which of course they took goff On
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Speaker 1: in that deal as a salary maneuver and end up
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Speaker 1: having what could be their franchise quarterbacks. So you've got
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Speaker 1: potentially a top five pick. You could have your choice
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Speaker 1: of a number of different quarterbacks in the draft, or
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Speaker 1: do you stick with Jared goff who's due around twenty
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Speaker 1: five million dollars each of the next two seasons under contract.
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Speaker 1: That's a relative bargain if he's playing at a really
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Speaker 1: high level. Is do a five million dollar roster bonus
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Speaker 1: early in the league year in March? So a decision looms.
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Speaker 1: But if he plays like this, it's hard to imagine
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Speaker 1: that he's not a factor in the conversation as their
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Speaker 1: quarterback and perhaps beyond fascinating Lions, you would have to
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Speaker 1: thank rooting for the Raiders tonight because, as you said, Tom,
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Speaker 1: they have that RAMS pick. I know it's too early,
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Speaker 1: but let's say the Texans go quarterback at one. Daniel
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah pointed out on Sunday, the Lions are sitting there
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Speaker 1: in the top five. Who wants a quarterback? Come get
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Speaker 1: that quarterback. It's a good position for Brad Holmes to
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Speaker 1: be in there playing well here get the Vikings this week.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Tom, and thank you Ian. As we continue
12:43
Speaker 1: on a game day edition NFL Now on NFL Network. Yep,
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Speaker 1: it's the brock Purty Show and the curtain rises on
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Speaker 1: his first start with Tom Brady in the audience. We're
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Speaker 1: live in Santa Clara coming up next. Nothing can stop me.
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Speaker 1: So the forty Niners lee the NFC West. They're right
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Speaker 1: and four. They're looking good, except they no longer have
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. They're gonna roll with brock Purty, Mr Irrelevant
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Speaker 1: now quite relevant making his first career start, which is
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady out the town. That's it, Tom Brady and
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers in a short week. You know, Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: grew up. There, no big deal. Bridget content with the
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Speaker 1: forty Niners in Santa Clara. Brian Bouldinger back with us
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Speaker 1: as well, Bridget start with you there. There seems to
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Speaker 1: be a glimmer of hope that maybe Garoppolo would be back,
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Speaker 1: but Kyle Shanahan didn't seem too hopeful. Diddy, No, Kyle
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Speaker 1: Shanahan said, there is a way outside chance that Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Garoppolo will be back late in the playoffs. That seven
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Speaker 1: to eight week period that we've been hearing is more
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Speaker 1: of a healing period, not seven to eight weeks. And
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Speaker 1: then he's on the football field. So right now, all
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Speaker 1: the attention is on Mr irrelevant Brock Purdy, who was
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Speaker 1: here as the starting quarterback practicing yeahterday. I watched him.
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Speaker 1: He looked calm, confident, and poise. If you were watching
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Speaker 1: off the street, you would have thought this guy had
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Speaker 1: been the starting quarterback for the entire season for this
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Speaker 1: team the way he carried himself. And he will make
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Speaker 1: his first start on Sunday against Tom Brady. Brady is
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Speaker 1: six and oh against quarterbacks making their first career start
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Brock Purty will try and get that
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Speaker 1: first win over Tom Brady. So how does he do
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Speaker 1: it well? Kyle Shanahan said yesterday there hasn't been a
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Speaker 1: drastic change going from Jimmy Garoppolo to Brock Purty. He
14:36
Speaker 1: said it was a bigger change going from Trey Lance
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Speaker 1: to Garoppolo because of the running element that Lance presents.
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Speaker 1: So he said, Garoppolo and Purtty have a lot of
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Speaker 1: similar skill sets and they're gonna do what they always do, right,
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Speaker 1: those short passes to the skill players and let them
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Speaker 1: take off from there. That yards after catch. That is
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Speaker 1: the identity of this forty team. And now with pretty
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Speaker 1: under center, nothing changes. So how much confidence does this
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Speaker 1: team have in this guy? Mr? Irrelevant? Well, he was
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Speaker 1: talking to left tackle Trent William in the locker room
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Speaker 1: yesterday and he told me when Parties in the huddle,
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Speaker 1: you would think this guy has been in the league
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Speaker 1: fifteen years. He even compared him to Peyton Manning, saying
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Speaker 1: he's not afraid to tell guys to stop talking or
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Speaker 1: to call out players when they're not doing well. And
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Speaker 1: he also said, look, this guy is six one, two twenty,
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Speaker 1: he's a smaller quarterback. He got here somehow, and that's
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Speaker 1: because of his mindset and his mentality. Baldy, You know, Bridge,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I announced brock Parties first start UH
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Speaker 1: in college and I ames Ohio State. Matt Campbell didn't
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Speaker 1: start him week one, waiting three or four weeks before
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Speaker 1: he put him in there, and he was very calm
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Speaker 1: when he won that start. And you watched him last
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Speaker 1: week and you just go through the checklist what a
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Speaker 1: quarterback has to do, you know, can he make UH?
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Speaker 1: Can he make the third down throws. Can he avoid pressure?
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Speaker 1: Can he take a hit from Jalen Phillips on third
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Speaker 1: down and develop and you know and develope deliver it
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Speaker 1: to Kittle? Can he read the option route at Christian
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Speaker 1: McCaffrey and stick the touchdown throw? That he did did
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Speaker 1: all those things, and he did it with like a
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Speaker 1: lot of calms, some pois, And I think part of
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Speaker 1: what gives him that common poise is on the other side,
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Speaker 1: they've got the lead's best defense. And part of the
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Speaker 1: reason why this defense is as good as they are
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Speaker 1: is just the development of Drake Greenlaw. That he leads
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Speaker 1: the team and tackles, leads the team in solo tackles,
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Speaker 1: and what really shows up not just the impactful hits
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Speaker 1: and how he takes players down, but the speed. Because
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Speaker 1: when you are fast at that position and Fred Warner
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Speaker 1: is fast, to your whole defense is fast. And just
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Speaker 1: watching them flat and Tyreek Hill to the sidelines last week,
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Speaker 1: not many guys could do that. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: to finish the game with a fumble recovery for a
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Speaker 1: touchdown playmaking speed. Uh. You look at a fifth round
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Speaker 1: pick at Arkansas Fonga fifth round pick. You know Warner
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Speaker 1: third round pick. They've hit on these middle round draft picks,
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Speaker 1: and now they have molded this defense around Fred Warner
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Speaker 1: and guys like Dred Greenlaw are just free use that
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Speaker 1: speed and go and that's something that the Bucks are
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Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with on Sunday yep. And that
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Speaker 1: defen and and hopefully that run game as well for Brock,
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Speaker 1: Purttyes is what is going to carry this team. But
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Speaker 1: pretty made some plays, certainly in that win last week,
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Speaker 1: and much like Desmond Ritter, it's a it's a tall
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Speaker 1: task his first two games Bucks this week and then
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Speaker 1: at Seattle next Thursday on a short week to face
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks, thank you Bridget Condon with the forty Niners
17:26
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger as well. So this will be a sixty
17:31
Speaker 1: three yard try for Brandon mcmanuson mcmadis gonna win. Kick
17:37
Speaker 1: on the way and it is down the middle and
17:40
Speaker 1: now god Ck kicking short card is expired, the haze
17:46
Speaker 1: and the bard and a right defeat the Broncos tend
17:50
Speaker 1: nine man. It's so crazy because the end of Week
17:54
Speaker 1: thirteen with Man is hitting that field goal, or at
17:57
Speaker 1: least trying to look like the week before with justin
18:01
Speaker 1: Tucker trying to hit his one angle it looked good,
18:03
Speaker 1: the other angle it wasn't. Regardless year, the Ravens hang on,
18:06
Speaker 1: they went and they're a toup the a f C
18:08
Speaker 1: North heading into Steelers Week. They're tied to the Bengals
18:11
Speaker 1: at eight and four, but they beat the Bengals earlier
18:13
Speaker 1: this year. They're gonna hit him again week eight teen,
18:15
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get Raven safety. Chuck Clark with US
18:18
Speaker 1: live from Baltimore. How are you, Chuck, Don good? How
18:22
Speaker 1: are you? We're doing well, Thank you for being here.
18:24
Speaker 1: I wanna before we turn the page, go back to
18:26
Speaker 1: that one yards that drive at the end from Snoop Huntley,
18:31
Speaker 1: longest drive of the year. I know he played last
18:33
Speaker 1: year and he played well, but the winds weren't there.
18:37
Speaker 1: Knowing Lamar is dealing with this his injury issue, how
18:40
Speaker 1: big was that drive for this team and Snoop Huntley
18:43
Speaker 1: heading into this week? That drive was huge for us
18:48
Speaker 1: just because we kind of had a similar situation last year.
18:51
Speaker 1: You know, Lamar kind of went down and we had
18:53
Speaker 1: to bring Snoop in and you know, this season ended
18:55
Speaker 1: up how I did last year. But that was a
18:57
Speaker 1: good start for us, for him to come in and
18:59
Speaker 1: he lead the team down down and go get a
19:01
Speaker 1: score and then we ultimately win the game. So that's
19:04
Speaker 1: we're kind of the same record wise how we were
19:06
Speaker 1: last year when that kind of happened. So to be
19:08
Speaker 1: in that same spot and get the win, and that's
19:10
Speaker 1: a that's a good step for us. And knowing you
19:12
Speaker 1: might be without Lamar, you obviously want to see things
19:15
Speaker 1: go differently this year. And it is as I said
19:18
Speaker 1: Steeler week, I got a quote from you yesterday. You
19:20
Speaker 1: said it's definitely been up or been brought up, for sure,
19:25
Speaker 1: been brought up that you guys have lost four in
19:28
Speaker 1: a row to the Steelers. How has it been brought
19:30
Speaker 1: up this week? Chuck? Uh, just in a team meeting.
19:34
Speaker 1: You know, I mean that that that's the truth. And
19:37
Speaker 1: our coach I said it, like, Hey, the record against
19:40
Speaker 1: us the last four we've we've lost the last four,
19:42
Speaker 1: and uh, that's that's kind of a bad feeling for us,
19:45
Speaker 1: bad taste in our mouth, and we want to go
19:46
Speaker 1: change that and get back on the winter side of this.
19:50
Speaker 1: Did hard about just say it and let it sit
19:52
Speaker 1: there and and matter of fact that you guys have
19:54
Speaker 1: lost four in a row, or was a little more
19:56
Speaker 1: colorful than that. I think it was definitely a little
20:00
Speaker 1: bit more to it, you know, and I mean just
20:03
Speaker 1: just the spark in the fuel behind it. The obviouly
20:05
Speaker 1: just to build up, you know, in that meeting, and
20:08
Speaker 1: given that it was Tuesday, we still don't play until Sunday,
20:11
Speaker 1: So just just a little build up out the entire
20:13
Speaker 1: week we've We've just been getting different little bits and pieces.
20:16
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin said, it's a great rivalry, but it takes
20:18
Speaker 1: two to tango, in other words, to tip of the
20:20
Speaker 1: cap to you guys, put in the words what this
20:23
Speaker 1: game is like and how much different it is than
20:27
Speaker 1: other weeks when you step on the field against the Steelers. Uh,
20:32
Speaker 1: this is this is a tough football game. It's a
20:34
Speaker 1: it's a physical game. When the game is over. Playing
20:37
Speaker 1: between these two teams, you could tell that he was
20:39
Speaker 1: definitely in the ANFC North battle and both like I said,
20:42
Speaker 1: both teams got physical and tough players and that's just
20:45
Speaker 1: what it is. Hey, you get a rookie quarterback this week.
20:48
Speaker 1: Defensive acts usually love facing rookie quarterbacks. What do you
20:52
Speaker 1: see from Kenny Picking? He's a good player, he's young
20:57
Speaker 1: and he's growing, and uh, they got their right parts
20:59
Speaker 1: around him right now. So I mean, I think they
21:02
Speaker 1: can definitely get better as Tom goes as this year
21:05
Speaker 1: finishes out and moving into the future. But ultimately at
21:08
Speaker 1: the end of the day is like we we as
21:10
Speaker 1: a defense, we're out there to you know, go shut
21:12
Speaker 1: that down and go do what we gotta do and
21:14
Speaker 1: get a win. All right. So we mentioned John Harbor
21:16
Speaker 1: on the team meeting talking about the Steelers. He also
21:19
Speaker 1: had a moment recently in a team meeting, Chuck, where
21:23
Speaker 1: he talked about you play that tape, Bud, guys, you
21:27
Speaker 1: every one basic football player, Chuck Club. They're channing speech
22:02
Speaker 1: and they're giving you a big round of applause because,
22:04
Speaker 1: Chuck and gradual Nations, you are the Ravens nominee for
22:07
Speaker 1: the Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award, presented by Nationwide,
22:10
Speaker 1: the most prestigious honor. I know the m v P
22:12
Speaker 1: is nice and d P o Y is nice, but
22:14
Speaker 1: we all consider this the most prestigious honor that the
22:17
Speaker 1: NFL hands out for your work in the community. What
22:21
Speaker 1: does that nomination, Chuck mean to you? But that nomination
22:26
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me, uh, just to see the
22:29
Speaker 1: guys that have won that award in the past, the
22:31
Speaker 1: guys that have been nominated before it for it, and um,
22:35
Speaker 1: all the guys that are in in the league. They are
22:37
Speaker 1: doing great things. I mean that that means so much
22:39
Speaker 1: to me for to be nominated. I mean like in
22:42
Speaker 1: the vida that you've seen it earlier, I got Calais Campbell,
22:45
Speaker 1: guy who's one it all before, behind me, and so
22:47
Speaker 1: it's just like to be you know, noted for that
22:51
Speaker 1: and nominated for that on that level, man, and then
22:53
Speaker 1: so much for me. You do so much with youth sports.
22:56
Speaker 1: You you gave way all those bikes last year or
22:58
Speaker 1: Christmas as well. Um, I know it means a lot
23:01
Speaker 1: to you to be nominated with Chuck before we let
23:03
Speaker 1: you go. What would it mean to hear your name
23:06
Speaker 1: at NFL Honors in Glendale before the Super Bowl being
23:09
Speaker 1: named the Man of the Year. It would mean everything,
23:14
Speaker 1: Like just to be able to go home and tell
23:17
Speaker 1: my family that, you know, my wife, my daughter's uh,
23:20
Speaker 1: my mom my dad. Do you know? I think that
23:23
Speaker 1: means so much more than just me. It kind of
23:26
Speaker 1: goes into the upbringing that I you know, how I
23:28
Speaker 1: came up and my friends and my family that was
23:31
Speaker 1: that would mean so much for me to win that.
23:33
Speaker 1: And like I said, it's so many guys across the
23:35
Speaker 1: entire league that's doing great things. So if I were
23:38
Speaker 1: to win that, it would be amazing. Honestly, check out
23:40
Speaker 1: the Ravens website for everything you've done. Shock, I got
23:43
Speaker 1: a list here. It might take me the next hour
23:45
Speaker 1: to read everything you've done there in Baltimore. Congratulations on
23:48
Speaker 1: the nomination. Hope to see in Glendale, and good luck
23:51
Speaker 1: this week against the Steelers. Thank you, appreciate you having me.
23:59
Speaker 1: Here's the snap Brady dropping looking, Brady throws football. It's
24:03
Speaker 1: called a shot like shot white touchtop buck tire lookt
24:09
Speaker 1: Bucks tik shot White Fetishers. That was a fun one,
24:17
Speaker 1: huge win for the Buckets. Down thirteen, rollying back, Tom
24:20
Speaker 1: Brady gets the touchdown, passing Out's on to San Francisco.
24:23
Speaker 1: That it's on to Bucks. Cam live here defensive lineman
24:26
Speaker 1: of your Tampa Bay Buccaneers, William Ghost And how are you?
24:30
Speaker 1: William doing pretty good? How are you? I am doing well?
24:34
Speaker 1: Tell me how your building feels. I know it's a
24:35
Speaker 1: short week. You gotta turn the page quickly onto the
24:37
Speaker 1: forty Niners here. But like you're watching that game Monday night,
24:40
Speaker 1: you're thinking, what if you guys are playing so well
24:42
Speaker 1: and then you win and man, like the food taste better,
24:45
Speaker 1: the film looks better, and then it's on. It's on
24:47
Speaker 1: to the forty Niners. Definitely, it was extremely explosive game
24:53
Speaker 1: at the end, fourth quarter, down by so much, fight back,
24:56
Speaker 1: be resilient, get the win. It's it was accent on
25:00
Speaker 1: the cake. You know you come back. You're not a
25:01
Speaker 1: sore from a game like that. No, you're not a sore.
25:05
Speaker 1: And we saw Brady on the podium moments ago. He
25:07
Speaker 1: had a big smile on his face. He's going home.
25:10
Speaker 1: He's facing the team he rooted for as a kid,
25:12
Speaker 1: the team that he pointed out did not draft him.
25:15
Speaker 1: I still think that grinds his gears, so to speak.
25:18
Speaker 1: Are you guys aware of what this one means for
25:21
Speaker 1: Tom this week? I know you gotta be a huge
25:25
Speaker 1: game for him, that little extra motivation for him and
25:27
Speaker 1: help us play a little bit better as well, you know,
25:29
Speaker 1: get that win for him going back home. We saw
25:33
Speaker 1: you guys shut down the run game, shutdown Alvin Camara
25:35
Speaker 1: this past week. Now you get a rookie quarterback and
25:38
Speaker 1: a great run game. You know, they want to keep
25:41
Speaker 1: it on the ground as much as they can. Against
25:43
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey or with Christian McCaffrey. What kind of challenges
25:46
Speaker 1: that shutting him down. It's a huge talent. That's an
25:50
Speaker 1: explosive batman out the path you get the past he'd run.
25:54
Speaker 1: But you gotta give credit to the offensive line because
25:56
Speaker 1: when I watched the film myself, I'm looking and each
25:59
Speaker 1: of the offensive lineman always have a hat on the hat.
26:01
Speaker 1: You know, they've got so many weapons they can use.
26:03
Speaker 1: I know they've got a ricky uh quarterback, but you
26:06
Speaker 1: gotta be able to stop the run to get to
26:07
Speaker 1: the passing. Hey, what do you see from the rookie quarterback?
26:10
Speaker 1: Because understandably the diners are saying all the right things, right,
26:13
Speaker 1: they didn't go out and try to get Baker Mayfield
26:15
Speaker 1: or anything like that. They are riding with Brock Purty.
26:18
Speaker 1: What do you see, Well, he does make some decisions.
26:22
Speaker 1: You know, he's really good getting the ball out of
26:24
Speaker 1: his hands. He doesn't hold as long as you would
26:26
Speaker 1: expect from a rickey quarterback. Uh, And it looks like
26:28
Speaker 1: he makes the players that come to him. You haven't
26:30
Speaker 1: released This is on me his first start, so you
26:32
Speaker 1: don't really know. You know, your offense come out with
26:35
Speaker 1: their fifteen scripts. So I think it's gonna be good.
26:37
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna try to control us with the
26:38
Speaker 1: with the run game, so that's gonna be the big
26:40
Speaker 1: channel with us. What's it like playing against the Kyle
26:43
Speaker 1: Shanahan offense. I had a defender a couple of years ago.
26:46
Speaker 1: Tell me that you could look at like six seven
26:48
Speaker 1: years cut ups and then all of a sudden he
26:50
Speaker 1: pulls something out of his bag from ten years ago.
26:54
Speaker 1: It is um, you gotta be able to expect to unexpected,
26:57
Speaker 1: and when that opportunity comes, you gotta be able to
26:59
Speaker 1: do with it. But I trust our coordinators and they'll
27:02
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, do their little magic, give
27:05
Speaker 1: us a game play and give us all the tips
27:06
Speaker 1: and keys, but they I'm really focused on being able
27:10
Speaker 1: to hit. These guys have been stopped the round. Yeah,
27:13
Speaker 1: that's the best. The biggest challenges facing guys like Trent Williams,
27:16
Speaker 1: who just you know enjoys lowing dudes up on screens
27:20
Speaker 1: and getting out of front of debot um. The reason
27:22
Speaker 1: we have you on here, William Golston, not just to
27:25
Speaker 1: talk about the challenge you guys facing the forty niners
27:28
Speaker 1: this week, but to congratulate you on being the Buccaneers
27:31
Speaker 1: nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
27:33
Speaker 1: presented by Nation Why the most prestigious award we hand
27:36
Speaker 1: out here in the National Football League. You have a
27:38
Speaker 1: lot of causes off the field. You've been at all
27:40
Speaker 1: pro off the field. There are two though, that I
27:42
Speaker 1: know are very dear to your heart. Food and security.
27:44
Speaker 1: You remember being hungry a lot as a kid. That's
27:47
Speaker 1: one that you give back so much for. And also
27:50
Speaker 1: cancer research. Lost your dad, your mom's battled cancer. Tell
27:53
Speaker 1: me about your work in the community and why you
27:55
Speaker 1: think it's so important to do what you do. Uh. Well,
28:00
Speaker 1: I just said the work that I do in the
28:01
Speaker 1: community is basically stems from all of the things that
28:04
Speaker 1: happened to me or from my childhood and as an
28:07
Speaker 1: adult my father passed and knowing the struggles that my
28:10
Speaker 1: mom went through fighting. Uh But the main reason I
28:14
Speaker 1: do it is just to be able to spread hope,
28:15
Speaker 1: enjoy and hopefully touch somebody and they get inspired to
28:19
Speaker 1: touch somebody else and continue with the positivity, you know,
28:24
Speaker 1: making people smile. That's the biggest thing you ever thought about,
28:28
Speaker 1: the kind of smile you'll have if they call your
28:29
Speaker 1: name before the Super Bowl and honors man. Um, I haven't.
28:35
Speaker 1: I'm still shocked that they voted for me to be
28:38
Speaker 1: the nominee because so many great guys in our locker rooms,
28:41
Speaker 1: a lot of guys do a lot of stuff, and uh,
28:44
Speaker 1: for them to think that my character is worthy enough
28:47
Speaker 1: to represent the team, and uh, it's it's huge. It's
28:51
Speaker 1: huge to me. I'll be shocked. I'll probably see a
28:54
Speaker 1: couple of tears, barely croy, but I might cry, you know,
28:56
Speaker 1: to well, we say it every year. I mean, all
28:59
Speaker 1: thirty two nominees truly deserve to win, and the Buccaneers
29:04
Speaker 1: think they You need to be part of that conversation.
29:07
Speaker 1: Be up there as well, coming up in Phoenix before
29:09
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So William Gholston, congratulations for everything you
29:12
Speaker 1: do off the field, and congratulations and being the nominee.
29:16
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. Good luck this week William
29:18
Speaker 1: Gholston live there in tampahead of the Bucketeers game in
29:22
Speaker 1: Santa Clara. Thank you, William. We turned the page of
29:24
Speaker 1: the a f C now and to Josh Allen, the
29:28
Speaker 1: Bills end of the week as the one seed in
29:31
Speaker 1: the a f S they have to head to head
29:32
Speaker 1: over the Chiefs. They did the job last Thursday here
29:35
Speaker 1: against the paid three. It's everything is in their hands now.
29:40
Speaker 1: We felt that way, you know obviously when um we
29:44
Speaker 1: were written written off a few weeks ago. And again
29:48
Speaker 1: our focus is getting go Onet to know each week
29:50
Speaker 1: that's all we can do. We can control what we
29:52
Speaker 1: can control, um, and everything that we want to do
29:55
Speaker 1: is still out in front of us. And that's that's
29:56
Speaker 1: been our our mindset. You know, Um, next man up,
30:00
Speaker 1: and you know all the cliche sayings that you can say,
30:03
Speaker 1: but it really is We're We're focused on him the
30:05
Speaker 1: next game and that's it. And the next game majority
30:08
Speaker 1: has the Jets, a team that beat them week nine.
30:10
Speaker 1: Now they get him at home. But now they get
30:13
Speaker 1: them without von Miller. And while Josh Allen had all
30:17
Speaker 1: the positive cliches here, um, that one's a gut punch,
30:22
Speaker 1: big talent. I go back to what Jordan Player said
30:24
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when he said not one
30:26
Speaker 1: man can replace von Miller, and to hear the defensive end,
30:30
Speaker 1: the edge players that are gonna have to step up
30:32
Speaker 1: and fill that role. They said, look, it's about staying
30:34
Speaker 1: within yourself because von could do some special things. But
30:37
Speaker 1: now we've been given this opportunity and it's time for
30:40
Speaker 1: us to cash in. You know. General manager Brandon Bean
30:42
Speaker 1: spoke yesterday and he said he's liked what he's seen
30:45
Speaker 1: from the growth of those players, and there's a lot
30:47
Speaker 1: of young guys. Gregor Rousseau, who came back from a
30:49
Speaker 1: high ankle spring against the Patriots, had a quarterback hit
30:52
Speaker 1: three hurries. He's been playing at a high level. Uh.
30:55
Speaker 1: They have a Jponesso had a sack against the Patriots
30:58
Speaker 1: and a win rate on the pass rush of almost twenty,
31:00
Speaker 1: which is dog gone good, in fact, better than von Miller.
31:03
Speaker 1: I know it was one game, but just to your point,
31:05
Speaker 1: they're being able to get some of these young players
31:07
Speaker 1: to play boogie basham as well, So there's gonna be
31:10
Speaker 1: a rotation there. Those guys are gonna have to step
31:12
Speaker 1: up because Vaughan was brought in for this time of year,
31:16
Speaker 1: right for December, for January, and they hope for February.
31:19
Speaker 1: And now that you don't have that guy, one of
31:20
Speaker 1: these players is going to have to be a closer.
31:23
Speaker 1: You go back to what Pat Mahomes has been able
31:25
Speaker 1: to do against them in the postseason last couple of years,
31:27
Speaker 1: and then go back to the regular season game this
31:29
Speaker 1: year when it was von Miller who essentially ended the game.
31:32
Speaker 1: Is someone capable. It's Rousseau, who I think has been
31:35
Speaker 1: playing at a very high level. And there are guys
31:37
Speaker 1: on that Bill's team that feel like he's one of
31:38
Speaker 1: the better pass rushers, young pass rushers in the league.
31:41
Speaker 1: Kenny elevate in time for him to be a difference
31:44
Speaker 1: maker in the postseason. Von Miller was on with McAfee
31:46
Speaker 1: earlier today, said one of the things he's doing in
31:48
Speaker 1: the with this time off that was actually shadowing GM
31:52
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean with an eye on a front office career
31:56
Speaker 1: when he's done playing football. They play on with that
31:58
Speaker 1: him this week and they play the Jets, and you
32:00
Speaker 1: talk about what's changed from week nine. Uh, one thing
32:03
Speaker 1: that's changed is the role for a guy named Bam.
32:07
Speaker 1: Tell me about Zanovan Night. This is an awesome story, right.
32:11
Speaker 1: First of all, the nickname Bam comes from not because
32:14
Speaker 1: he's a power runner. As Robert Salo told us. This
32:16
Speaker 1: guy's got juice in his legs. But because when he
32:19
Speaker 1: was a little kid and he was in the playpen,
32:20
Speaker 1: he used to beat up all the toys. He banged
32:22
Speaker 1: them up against the side of the playpen. The uncle
32:24
Speaker 1: went by and said, all he does is bam bam bam,
32:27
Speaker 1: and then that became the thing. It was never connected
32:29
Speaker 1: to football. It was just a kid destroying his toys
32:32
Speaker 1: as a little kid. But now he runs the football
32:34
Speaker 1: and runs it really well. His first career started to
32:36
Speaker 1: get ninety yards. He also has five catches in that game.
32:39
Speaker 1: And I like the point that Salo made. There's juice
32:42
Speaker 1: in the legs. You get to this time of the year,
32:44
Speaker 1: especially for running back. Some of these guys they're just
32:46
Speaker 1: ground down. You're tired. This guy hasn't played a lot
32:49
Speaker 1: this year. He comes in and he's explosive. As he
32:52
Speaker 1: was joking, you know, I read a four or six
32:54
Speaker 1: of the combine, which was my fault. He said, I
32:55
Speaker 1: gassed myself out. I was two worked up board. You're
32:58
Speaker 1: in a four for raighted his pro day and he
33:01
Speaker 1: feels like that's more representative of who he is. So
33:03
Speaker 1: people thought I was slow. He's Oates and speed there
33:05
Speaker 1: and now with a combination Michael Carter coming back from
33:08
Speaker 1: the injury, James Robinson, as we've seen, has been in
33:11
Speaker 1: out of the lineup. This gives them an added dimension
33:13
Speaker 1: that maybe they didn't expect or obviously we're hoping for
33:16
Speaker 1: Bruce Hall and they got that from him before he
33:18
Speaker 1: toward the a c L. And maybe this guy is
33:21
Speaker 1: someone that can kind of kick start that offense and
33:22
Speaker 1: a run game perspective as they go forward and contend
33:25
Speaker 1: for a playoff spot. Bruce Hall, second round pick, was
33:28
Speaker 1: playing well now he is out for the year. Zonovan
33:30
Speaker 1: bam Night undrafted out of NC State, averaging five and
33:34
Speaker 1: a half yards of bam a pop the last two weeks.
33:39
Speaker 1: Thank your locker as well. Yeah, pretty good hits. Guys
33:43
Speaker 1: runs away from guys. Bills have to deal with him
33:45
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