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Khalil Mack's Massive Debut, Buccaneers Injury Report, & an Interview with Dante Hall · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the Bucceteers look to go to tu
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Speaker 1: how patient do we need to be with Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: and the Packers as they get the bear Sunday? That's next.
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Speaker 1: Also coming up on this show, the latest on the
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Speaker 1: breaking news from Seattle on Jamal Adams. The Seahawks are
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Speaker 1: shutting him down for the year. He is done. Ian
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Speaker 1: Rappaport has those details. We welcome you to a game
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Speaker 1: day edition of the NFL Now on NFL Network from
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Speaker 1: our newsroom here in Los Angeles. My name is Andrew Siciliana.
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Speaker 1: We begin this hour on a game day by getting
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Speaker 1: right to that game. It's at Arrowhead. It's where Patrick
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Speaker 1: Mahomes in the Chiefs look to go to two and
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Speaker 1: oh with a great quarterback battle tonight against Justin Herbert
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Speaker 1: and the Kansas City Chiefs. Live on the field, everybody,
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Speaker 1: it's James Palmer at Arrowhead. How are you James with
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Speaker 1: the Chargers defense? Come in to town here? That did
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Speaker 1: the job last week two quarterback pressures. Khalil Mack did
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Speaker 1: his thing. They spent the money. It was money well spent.
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Speaker 1: It really was Andrew. Actually neither one of these quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: were sacked in week one, and we're gonna take a
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Speaker 1: look at what Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa can do
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Speaker 1: when they're going after Patrick Mahomes because they believe teams
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Speaker 1: can't double both of them. But what Khalil Mac brings
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Speaker 1: is a presence, I'm told, the presence in the locker him,
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Speaker 1: a presence on the field that you just can't ignore.
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Speaker 1: And you mentioned those twenty two quarterback pressures, Well, how
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Speaker 1: about three sacks for Khalil Mack four quarterback hits. But
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that stands out to his teammates is
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Speaker 1: how he was able to help close out the game
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Speaker 1: with that stripped sack of Derek Carr, where he was
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Speaker 1: able to do something that the Chargers have struggled with
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Speaker 1: the last couple of seasons, which is finding ways to
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Speaker 1: win games at the end of a game. Now, it
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Speaker 1: is a very big task for this Chief's offensive line
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Speaker 1: that we know was Andrew one of the best in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And Andy Reid said Orlando Brown, he wants
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Speaker 1: a Merit badge. This is the type of game that
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Speaker 1: you get one of those. When you're going against Khalil
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Speaker 1: Mack and Joey Bosa. The biggest thing to keep your
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Speaker 1: eye on is both those edge rushers want to keep
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes inside the pocket. The Chargers believe, like a
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Speaker 1: lot of us, that Patrick Mahomes is more dangerous outside
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Speaker 1: of the pocket. So if they can contain him and
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Speaker 1: not blitz him like the Cardinals did a game ago,
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Speaker 1: they believe they can get after Patrick Mahomes. That offensive
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Speaker 1: line against those pass rushers should be a fun one
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Speaker 1: to watch. Percent of the time. The Cardinals last week,
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Speaker 1: it did not work. I love that a merit badge
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Speaker 1: tonight potentially for Zeus Jr. Thank you, James Palmer Live
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Speaker 1: and Arrowhead. Uh. Let's compare these quarterbacks career head to head.
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Speaker 1: I said, they've won their The Chargers have won there
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Speaker 1: each of the last two years. To be fair, before
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Speaker 1: Chiefs Twitter blows up here in was in December, the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs had already wrapped up their playoffs stuff here, so
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Speaker 1: that was a Chad Henny game. Regardless, Justin Herbert played
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Speaker 1: well in that game in Arrowhead, and they're trying to
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Speaker 1: make it three in a row in Kansas City coming
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Speaker 1: up this evening. It's Mark Ross Is Brian Baldinger back
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Speaker 1: with me on game Day on NFL. Now, after you
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Speaker 1: saw what Herbert did last week, what does he have
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Speaker 1: to do tonight, Mark to win again? Because some of
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Speaker 1: those throws were just like they're honestly, they were Dan
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Speaker 1: Marino throws. I mean, just sick Andrew. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to just see this guy progressed to get better.
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Speaker 1: And these guys go against each other. But forget all that,
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Speaker 1: forget all the talent, the big time plays. He's gotta win.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have dominated this division. Patrick
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Speaker 1: Mahomes has been the standard of not just the division
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Speaker 1: but the NFL as a whole, the best quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the league. And Justin Herbert has the talent, he has
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Speaker 1: to develop the maturity and the playmate gig to to
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Speaker 1: stay with Mahomes, But the bigger picture is he has
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Speaker 1: to lead his teams to victories. And just as Mahomes
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Speaker 1: all offseason, we're talking about what happens if he loses
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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill with how's the offense gonna look? He goes
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Speaker 1: out there and explodes on Thursday night with Justin Herbert,
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Speaker 1: He's not probably not gonna have Keenan Allen. So okay, now,
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Speaker 1: how do I raise the level of my entire offense
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Speaker 1: and make plays and win this game despite not having
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Speaker 1: my best? So the standard for Justin Herbert is, I've
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Speaker 1: seen what Patrick Mahomes has done. Let me go out
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Speaker 1: here and make plays no matter what's around me. And
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Speaker 1: with this and Drew, you know what really stood out
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Speaker 1: to me, Baldy, about what Mahomes did without Tyreek Hills.
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Speaker 1: We always talk about the great, the truly elite quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: that they raised the level of play of everyone around them.
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Speaker 1: So you take away his truly elite playmaker and Baldi,
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Speaker 1: look what he did. Well. You know many people have
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Speaker 1: talked about, you know, throwing the nine different receivers, four
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Speaker 1: different receivers called touchdown passes, but really it's what the
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Speaker 1: defense does to tell you where to go with the ball.
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Speaker 1: And I've got a couple of examples here just from
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Speaker 1: last week. Like they love to isolate Travis Kelsey, and
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Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, when they isolate him, they had Isaiah
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Speaker 1: Simmons on him three by one, set cleared out. Let
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Speaker 1: Kelsey go to work, and you can see just the
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Speaker 1: release right there. I mean, he already gets separation and
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Speaker 1: now all my homes have to do is just floating,
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Speaker 1: you know, And it's just an elite receiver right spot.
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Speaker 1: You get yourself the first touchdown the season. But now
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Speaker 1: if you watch Juju Smith Schuster here, I mean it's
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Speaker 1: a crossing route in the middle of the field and
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Speaker 1: they're really gonna layer it, so you're gonna have some
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Speaker 1: underneath receivers right here. But as soon as Bahomes sees
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Speaker 1: these two underneath defenders lamp on those two underneath receivers,
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Speaker 1: the ball goes to Juju Smith Houston, you know, one
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Speaker 1: of six catches on the day. So the defense determines
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Speaker 1: where the ball goes. Another example, bunch formation, Marquez Valdes
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Speaker 1: scantly here in the bunch, and you're gonna see the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals are gonna blitz the middle of the field right here,
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna read the zone and he's just gonna
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Speaker 1: choke it down right there in the zone. Bahomes gets
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Speaker 1: it to him, great timing and that he can explode
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Speaker 1: after the catch. And then finally Mahomes is just so good.
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Speaker 1: And we'll see this tonight when the pocket does break down,
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Speaker 1: when Xavien Collins is coming free right at him. His
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Speaker 1: ability to navigate the pocket is second to none in
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Speaker 1: the league. And then like Brooks Robinson from third base
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Speaker 1: right here, like any throw from any angle, he hit
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Speaker 1: sky Bore on the run, perfect throw. I know Mark
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Speaker 1: loves sky Boar. Mark. He almost broke it right there.
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Speaker 1: They almost got through that that gauntlet into the end zone.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's gonna be something to watch as
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Speaker 1: these weeks start to go by here and his role
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Speaker 1: gets bigger and bigger, pulling Brooks Robinson had there for
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Speaker 1: the old school. That's good Baldi For those who don't
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Speaker 1: know Brooks Robinson legendary third Basement the Baltimore Orioles Hall
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Speaker 1: of Famer, one of the best clubs you'll ever see.
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Speaker 1: Nolan Erroonado now or Gee or Shella probably that's where
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Speaker 1: you would go for the kids for great third base. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: well done. I'm a different generation now, I get it.
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Speaker 1: I got you. I grew up there. Thank you, Baldi,
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Speaker 1: thank you Mark. Let's get to the bucketeers. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: old Tom Brady forty five years old. Didn't look his age,
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Speaker 1: did he on Sunday night in Dallas? Now? Now he's
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Speaker 1: trying to keep it rolling with that rebuilt offensive line
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Speaker 1: and who knows who's playing wide receiver against the Saints.
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Speaker 1: We're far from a finished product. Um. You know, we're
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Speaker 1: not where we're gonna be at where we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: in a couple of months. There's still a lot of
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Speaker 1: new players. You know, even looking at that field the
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Speaker 1: other night, you know, Julio's new shots, new cage, new
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Speaker 1: Co's new, Coyle's new Robert Haines is Luke's new shacks. Knew.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's different teams. So it takes a while.
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Speaker 1: It takes a lot of a lot of meetings, a
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Speaker 1: lot of communication of practices, a lot of situations. So, um,
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Speaker 1: we're far from finished product. We're gonna try to keep
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Speaker 1: working at every day to see what we can do
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Speaker 1: to improve, all right, And a lot of those new pieces, Hi,
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Speaker 1: Sarah Walsh, not new. You've been around this team for
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Um are hurt. There's a long list
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Speaker 1: of injuries after only one week, Sarah. I was told
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Speaker 1: when I arrived at Bucks practice today that if you
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Speaker 1: looked at their injury report from Wednesday, that injury report
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Speaker 1: could beat any team in the league. And that wasn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily a good thing. It speaks to the star power
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Speaker 1: that was on there on Wednesday if you take a
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Speaker 1: look at it. Now, let's whiddle this down. Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: is not injured. He was listed on there. That was
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Speaker 1: just a veteran day off for him yesterday. But then
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Speaker 1: when you look at his receiving court, there were five
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Speaker 1: receivers listed on that injury report. The biggest one that
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Speaker 1: everyone is keeping an eye on those obviously Chris god
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Speaker 1: when he made his return from that knee surgery in
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Speaker 1: Week one and then had to act at the game
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Speaker 1: at the hamstring injury. We have not seen him since.
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Speaker 1: He was not seen out there today and we really
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Speaker 1: don't know the extent or how long he might be out.
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Speaker 1: The other injury that's really notable that everyone's watching his
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Speaker 1: left tackle, Donovan Smith. He left that game with a
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Speaker 1: hyper extended elbow. The good news is it's not particularly serious.
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Speaker 1: It is, however, very painful, So it's a pain tolerance
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Speaker 1: thing that they're going to have to manage. And you
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Speaker 1: just heard Tom talking about, Look, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: new guys you have to practice, you have to meet.
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Speaker 1: So I asked him, when a lot of these guys
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Speaker 1: are out, how do you fill in the gaps there?
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Speaker 1: And he said, we have to make adjustments. Football is
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Speaker 1: a demolition derby. You'd love to have everybody healthy. That
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Speaker 1: is not the reality. So they have to make the
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Speaker 1: most of it and adjust when they have to andrew
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Speaker 1: against a team that has had Tom Brady's number four
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Speaker 1: in a row regular season. Sarah, did you catch how
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Speaker 1: Brady pointed out regular season? He didn't want anyone to
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Speaker 1: forget that. Yes, they beat them on the way to
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Speaker 1: the super Bowl in New Orleans a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: In the playoffs, they have lost seven straight regular season
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Speaker 1: games against the New Orleans Saints, which is just so
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Speaker 1: hard really to wrap your mind around when you think
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Speaker 1: about what this team has done. The one caveat is
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Speaker 1: the game that you pointed out the playoff game when
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Speaker 1: it mattered the most. But you know everyone wants to
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Speaker 1: say this is a rivalry game and the NFC South
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Speaker 1: and Tristan Worst told us that. By Todd Bowles was
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Speaker 1: very quick to point out that in arrival you have
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Speaker 1: to have a given take and there hasn't been a
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Speaker 1: lot of that on the Buck side of things. They
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Speaker 1: need to change it. And the biggest reason why is turnovers.
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Speaker 1: This is an astounding number, but over the course of
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Speaker 1: that streak where they have lost seven straight regular games,
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Speaker 1: fifteen takeaways for the Saints defense to just three on
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Speaker 1: the Buck side of things. That has to change. Byron
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Speaker 1: Leftwich told us today, you are not going to win
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Speaker 1: games by turning it over. In the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: It is an emphasis for Tom Brady this week, something
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Speaker 1: that they want to clean up against the Saints in particular,
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Speaker 1: and he said, we just have to play better football
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Speaker 1: if we think we're gonna win. By the way, the
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Speaker 1: Bucks the division champs last year in their team history,
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Speaker 1: they have never repeated as division champs. The Saints have
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Speaker 1: been a big reason why in that equation, Andrew, when
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Speaker 1: the Books won the Super Bowl, they did so as
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Speaker 1: a wild card. Big game here for the Saints as well,
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Speaker 1: want to prove their legitimacy and go to two and
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Speaker 1: oh in the division Big one Sunday in New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Sarah Walsh there live at One Book Place.
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Speaker 1: Let's get our insiders in here now, Tom placeo Theater
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Speaker 1: Rappaport pack with me. I and you had the news
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Speaker 1: about thirty minutes ago from Seattle. Pete Carroll said it
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Speaker 1: was a serious injury Monday night, but then he kind
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Speaker 1: of tap danced around everything during the week. Now we know, yeah,
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Speaker 1: rough vote for Seattle and their standout safety. Jamal Adams
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Speaker 1: sources say he has expected to have season ending surgery
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Speaker 1: to repair his torn quad tendon. That means his two
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Speaker 1: is expected to be over. He is going to be
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Speaker 1: placed on injured reserve and Teased Tabor from the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons a corner is going to take his roster spot. Now.
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Speaker 1: As far as when the surgery is going to be,
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Speaker 1: my understanding is Adams has been talking to several different
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Speaker 1: doctors and within a week make the decision on who
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Speaker 1: does the procedure and when. But the results are expected
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Speaker 1: to be the same. His eyes now set on the
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Speaker 1: three season. Meanwhile, much much better news for j K. Dobbins,
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Speaker 1: who had serious surgery himself last season, now certainly seems
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Speaker 1: to be headed in the proper direction. He had a
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Speaker 1: full practice yesterday for the Baltimore Ravens as he attempts
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Speaker 1: to make his return from an A c L surgery
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Speaker 1: and a lot more. And obviously this has been much
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Speaker 1: debated his status, but the fact that it did full
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Speaker 1: practice on a Wednesday certainly seems like he is maybe
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Speaker 1: going to play this coming song all right. J K.
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Speaker 1: Dobbin speaking this week about how badly he wants to
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Speaker 1: play in front of those Baltimore fans remember as a
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Speaker 1: rookie was COVID. He wants to feel that energy and
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Speaker 1: get back on the field. Tom in Detroit, what is
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Speaker 1: the story about They're running back DeAndre Swift? Under DeAndre
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Speaker 1: Swift not practicing for a second consecutive day. He was
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Speaker 1: listed on the injury report on Wednesday with an ankle injury.
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Speaker 1: Swift told the Detroit Repressed that that injury actually happened
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Speaker 1: in the second quarter of this past Sunday's game against
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. He still finished the game, had eighteen touches,
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Speaker 1: was hugely impactful as the Lions tried and nearly pulled
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Speaker 1: off the comeback against the Eagles. That is gonna be
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Speaker 1: one to monitor to Swift get some work on Friday,
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Speaker 1: if not. Dan Campbell in the past driven situations where
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Speaker 1: players been able to play without practicing, but obviously an
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Speaker 1: uphill battle for Swift than keeps him off the field
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Speaker 1: for the entire week. One player we know is not
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Speaker 1: going to play this week is going to be Broncos
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Speaker 1: standout safety Justin Simmons, who landed on injured reserve because
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Speaker 1: of the thigh injury that he suffered in their game
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Speaker 1: on Monday night against the Seahawks. Another player who finished
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Speaker 1: out the game but obviously came into the building afterwards
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Speaker 1: was not feeling good. Nathaniel Hackett said he does believe
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Speaker 1: Simmons will be back after the mandatory four games he
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Speaker 1: has to miss, but it will be Cage Stearns taking
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Speaker 1: Simmons place for the Broncos this week against the Texas Alright,
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Speaker 1: injury duced here in two of the better safeties in
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Speaker 1: the league, Jabal Adams out for the year, where Austin Simmons.
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Speaker 1: It's a month, Thank you Tom, thank you Ian Week
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Speaker 1: number two, folks, what a week number one? It was
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Speaker 1: for Sae Kwon bark Leak and they go two and oh,
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Speaker 1: you know they haven't done that in a while. We'll
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Speaker 1: tell you the last time they did it. Coming up next,
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Speaker 1: Giants in the spotlight. NFL Now in a game day,
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Speaker 1: everybody on NFL network. One game, win or lose, does
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Speaker 1: not break a season. Okay, but you got what it
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Speaker 1: takes every day. You keep grinding every day, we keep
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Speaker 1: getting better. Okay, it was one game. It's pretty darn
14:43
Speaker 1: good football team. Get up credit, Hey game bo Joe Dave.
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Speaker 1: Wait a Week one for the Giants. We we didn't
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Speaker 1: show you Brian Dable dancing in the locker room after
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Speaker 1: the game. Go to the Twitter find that video. Most
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Speaker 1: scrimmage yards per game in a career. Sa Kuon Barkley
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Speaker 1: is still top five, despite the fact the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years he really hasn't done much. He looked like
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Speaker 1: the old say Kuan Week number one in Nashville. G
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Speaker 1: D Batista and Mark Ross with me now from the
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Speaker 1: East coast of the Giants try to go to an
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Speaker 1: over the first time since and Judy, I'm sure they
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Speaker 1: noticed that Carolina gave up two hundred yards to the
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Speaker 1: Browns on the ground last week. I am sure that
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Speaker 1: has not escaped their attention. Andrew. This is a real
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Speaker 1: chance for Sa Kuan and the New York Giants to
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Speaker 1: lean on the running game again. Let's go back. He
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Speaker 1: had a hundred sixty four yards rushing in this season opener,
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Speaker 1: certainly the best he has looked, really since his rookie season.
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Speaker 1: I was at the Browns Panthers game, and the Panthers
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Speaker 1: had a will of a time trying to handle the
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Speaker 1: Browns rushing attack. Not surprisingly, the Browns have one of
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Speaker 1: the best running games in the league. But the Panthers
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Speaker 1: something they have been harping on all this week. They
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Speaker 1: had a lot of miss tackles eighteen by their account,
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Speaker 1: and what they have been talking about is they need
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Speaker 1: to get more guys around the ball and they need
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Speaker 1: to wrap up. And we know that is especially the
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Speaker 1: case when you're playing somebody like se Plon Barkley, because
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Speaker 1: what we saw last Sunday is not only is he
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Speaker 1: hitting the whole really quickly, but once he gets open,
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Speaker 1: he has that breakaway speed like we haven't seen in
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Speaker 1: a few years. So there's going to be a real
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Speaker 1: emphasis from the Panthers on trying to cut down on
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Speaker 1: the miss tackles and a real opportunity for the New
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Speaker 1: York Giants to keep writing that running game. Yeah, Judy,
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Speaker 1: of course, there was a big hope and dreams that
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Speaker 1: se Kwon would be the old s Quan coming into
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Speaker 1: this Giant season. All Giants fans, the whole organization, and
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Speaker 1: we're waiting for that. And you saw that, and what
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Speaker 1: you saw was kind of a vintage s Kwon Barkley
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Speaker 1: game where he may grind out a couple yards here
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Speaker 1: and there, but it's just those explosive plays. I mean,
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Speaker 1: really two huge plays in that game the other day
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Speaker 1: that kind of signified what kind of game it was
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Speaker 1: for him. And that's what didn't see over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years, you know, hitting the whole and just
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Speaker 1: getting away from everybody quickly. That that's what you saw
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Speaker 1: with him and what and looking at the Panthers, they're
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Speaker 1: definitely looking at it and saying, Sae Kwon Barkley is
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Speaker 1: not going to beat us. We have to make Daniel
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Speaker 1: Jones beat us. And that's got to be the game
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Speaker 1: plan for them. But but going back to Sa Kuan
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Speaker 1: and what he has given and Brian Dable as well
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Speaker 1: with this Giants team. Is this the relevancy and the
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Speaker 1: confidence that we haven't seen in years. So the dynamic
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Speaker 1: dual right now of of Barkley and Dable has the
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Speaker 1: Giants fans excited right now, not only for two and
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Speaker 1: oh but you look at the schedule. They got Carolina,
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Speaker 1: Dallas and Chicago coming up fourdo there for the Giants?
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Speaker 1: Possibly Andrew and Judy? What do you think? Oh boy,
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Speaker 1: come on now, one game at a time. Mark again,
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Speaker 1: the last time the Giants made the playoffs was sixteen.
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Speaker 1: They also began that season to it. Oh, and you'd
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Speaker 1: have to think that the Giants, to use the same logic,
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Speaker 1: are going not gonna let Christian McCaffrey beat us Judy.
18:04
Speaker 1: The Brown's bottle him up pretty well in the first half.
18:07
Speaker 1: And yes, Baker Mayfield deserved second half credit. He made
18:09
Speaker 1: a couple of nice throws, but really it was the
18:13
Speaker 1: Brown's inability to tackle Christian McCaffrey in the second half
18:17
Speaker 1: that led to their comeback. What are the Panthers saying
18:20
Speaker 1: about him this week? Well, the Browns didn't have to
18:23
Speaker 1: do a whole lot of bottling up of Christian McCaffrey
18:25
Speaker 1: in the first half because his number wasn't called all
18:28
Speaker 1: that often by the Panthers in the first half. I
18:30
Speaker 1: was at that game, and I can tell you at
18:31
Speaker 1: a halftime, we were sitting there in the press box
18:33
Speaker 1: saying they never mentioned Christian McCaffrey. Considered these deaths. He
18:37
Speaker 1: head only three rushes in the first half, only ten
18:41
Speaker 1: rushes overall for thirty three yards. Ben McAdoo, the offensive
18:44
Speaker 1: coordinator familiar face to New York Giants fans, was asked
18:48
Speaker 1: about getting more opportunities for McCaffrey this week, and he said, well,
18:51
Speaker 1: we only had fifty three total snaps last week, so
18:54
Speaker 1: they've got to get more attempts at the plate. That's
18:56
Speaker 1: how maculd put it. And they need to get him
18:59
Speaker 1: going because, look, he is a critical figure. Brian day
19:03
Speaker 1: Ball talked about it. He is dangerous, not just running,
19:06
Speaker 1: but he's dangerous out on the perimeter. They bottled up
19:10
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry pretty well last week for the New York Giants,
19:13
Speaker 1: maybe better than most of us expected they could. This
19:15
Speaker 1: is a different kind of task trying to bottle up
19:18
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. But again it is on the Panthers to
19:21
Speaker 1: call his number and get him going early. Definitely on
19:25
Speaker 1: the Panthers, and as you mentioned on the return of
19:28
Speaker 1: Ben McAdoo to call this up, and I know Ben's
19:31
Speaker 1: going to be fired up and excited to show what
19:34
Speaker 1: he's got going there with Christian McCaffrey. And you mentioned
19:36
Speaker 1: the Giants bottled up Derrick Henry, but a completely different
19:39
Speaker 1: runner with Christian McCaffrey. Actually the backup back there for
19:41
Speaker 1: Tennessee was hurting the Giants coming out the backfield with
19:44
Speaker 1: the big catches there, so you'll see a lot of that,
19:47
Speaker 1: I'm sure with McCaffrey. With Martindale, blitz is coming. Okay,
19:52
Speaker 1: somebody's got to get open, get free, and I would
19:54
Speaker 1: expect to see Ben Ben mcadood dial up a lot
19:57
Speaker 1: of getting Christian McCaffrey in those blitz situations, one on
20:01
Speaker 1: one matchups with linebackers, with safeties whoever the Giants decided
20:04
Speaker 1: to put on him. So I would think for sure
20:07
Speaker 1: you would have to see Christian McCaffrey a lot more.
20:09
Speaker 1: You know, last week they got down, so I'm sure
20:12
Speaker 1: that was part of the game plan. Well, we can't
20:13
Speaker 1: run the ball, we can't feed McCaffrey. But now with
20:16
Speaker 1: this game, Ben mcindoo's gotta learn that this is my guy.
20:19
Speaker 1: This is how this offense has to run through Christian McCaffrey.
20:22
Speaker 1: So I would expect to see a lot more of
20:24
Speaker 1: that this week, Andrew, and knowing that he didn't practice
20:27
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Matt Rule says they're going to keep McCaffrey
20:30
Speaker 1: with a lighter workload during the week and likely won't
20:33
Speaker 1: practice him any Wednesday this year because they know he's
20:38
Speaker 1: got to carry a lot on his shoulders come game day.
20:40
Speaker 1: Thank you Mark, thank you Judy. It's the Panthers and
20:43
Speaker 1: the Giants coming up Sunday in New York. Coming up
20:47
Speaker 1: Sunday in Dallas. No Dak Prescott. It's Cooper Rush starting
20:51
Speaker 1: at quarterback for Mike McCarthy against the Cincinnati Bengals. As
20:57
Speaker 1: far as Cooper Rush, you know, we don't feel like
20:59
Speaker 1: there's really any limitations on what we want to do.
21:03
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's just rehearsing this saw fences anybody,
21:05
Speaker 1: you know, McCullen, um, and they go back, you know,
21:08
Speaker 1: to prior when I got here, so um, And that's
21:12
Speaker 1: really the way we go about it. And it's so
21:13
Speaker 1: different with the left guard, the left tackle. You know
21:16
Speaker 1: that that's all part of the game playing process. So,
21:18
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger, only one team in the NFL didn't score
21:21
Speaker 1: a touchdown last week. It was drum Roll the Dallas Compoys.
21:26
Speaker 1: That was with Dak Transcott at the majority of the games,
21:28
Speaker 1: and that with Cooper Rush. What's this looking like? Well,
21:32
Speaker 1: I think they have to figure out exactly what Ceedee
21:35
Speaker 1: Lamb is Andrew. I mean the last two games at
21:37
Speaker 1: home a T and T stating the playoff game against
21:40
Speaker 1: San Francisco and then against Tampa, he's been targeting sixteen times.
21:44
Speaker 1: He's got three catches for fifty yards. I mean, that's
21:47
Speaker 1: not what the number one receiver does. They called his number,
21:50
Speaker 1: they ran him in motion, they called plays for him. Um,
21:53
Speaker 1: but he just has not been effective. And the timing
21:57
Speaker 1: with DAC and him was not pretty. Was not good either. Uh,
22:00
Speaker 1: there were hitches, there was he was late. Uh. It's
22:04
Speaker 1: just not the way it has to be the precision
22:06
Speaker 1: that you have to have with the number one receiver.
22:09
Speaker 1: And if Trooper Rush is going to move this team
22:11
Speaker 1: and start to score some points, you got to get
22:13
Speaker 1: the ball to your wide receivers, and it starts with
22:16
Speaker 1: getting the ball to Ceedee Lamb. Alright, So ceedee, lamb
22:19
Speaker 1: has got to do a better job, and they have
22:21
Speaker 1: all said it on the podium. He has got to
22:23
Speaker 1: do a better job. Let's move on to the Eagles here, Baldi,
22:28
Speaker 1: if we could. Nick Serriani is at home. It's a
22:31
Speaker 1: Monday night game coming up here. After looking back on
22:34
Speaker 1: week one, what do you think of Jalen Hurts his performance? Well,
22:39
Speaker 1: I thought he would awesome, be honest with you, because
22:41
Speaker 1: he had to be. I mean, there were so many
22:42
Speaker 1: breakdowns up front, Andrew show you just a few where
22:46
Speaker 1: he had to rescue the play. I mean, it's his
22:48
Speaker 1: early first quarter here, here's eight Nutchinson. You would think
22:51
Speaker 1: that the Eagles would block him, but there's a protection
22:53
Speaker 1: breakdown up front. He comes free. So Jalen hasn't even
22:56
Speaker 1: taken his second step into his drop and he's already
22:59
Speaker 1: getting on his horsing outside the pocket. I mean, he
23:02
Speaker 1: rescued one play after another tough out the game slid,
23:06
Speaker 1: protect himself, got down. But it wasn't just that it
23:09
Speaker 1: happens right here. You know, defensive tackle comes on a
23:12
Speaker 1: loop right here, right up the middle, right down Broadway
23:15
Speaker 1: or broad Street, Philadelphia, right at Jalen Hurts and he's
23:19
Speaker 1: got to do what he can do just to rescue
23:21
Speaker 1: the play. He did again ran for another first down,
23:24
Speaker 1: you know, And so it wasn't just the breakdowns. They
23:27
Speaker 1: had some protection issue. Ad Hutchinson here on a bull
23:30
Speaker 1: rush against the right guard Eyes and Saya Malo, and
23:33
Speaker 1: it just pushes the pocket too quickly and Jars just
23:36
Speaker 1: got comfortable yet just staying there and being able to
23:39
Speaker 1: navigate that. So, you know, he runs for sixteen yards
23:42
Speaker 1: in the first down. Here he ran seventeen times for
23:45
Speaker 1: ninety yards, including a touchdown run. But that's too many.
23:48
Speaker 1: It's too many times, and a lot of those runs
23:51
Speaker 1: he had to rescue the play. So I think Monday
23:54
Speaker 1: night against the Vikings, it's gonna start upfront with the
23:57
Speaker 1: Eagles protection against the Darius Smith and Daniel Hunter and
24:00
Speaker 1: those guys to be able to hold up so that
24:03
Speaker 1: Jailee could trust to protect and to make the throws
24:06
Speaker 1: down the field with more players in the passing game there.
24:09
Speaker 1: We'll say this though about that ground game. Four different
24:11
Speaker 1: Eagles scored rushing touchdowns last week, four different guys. They
24:15
Speaker 1: hadn't had four different guys score rushing touchdowns in one
24:18
Speaker 1: game in sixties six zero years. Bryan Baldinger, they're more
24:24
Speaker 1: in the Eagle says they look to go to two
24:25
Speaker 1: another get the Vikings as part of a Monday doubleheader.
24:28
Speaker 1: We have a Thursday night one game affair to innight.
24:31
Speaker 1: But what a game it will be? Do you buy
24:33
Speaker 1: the whole they're better without Tyreek kill deal? I don't.
24:37
Speaker 1: We'll ask a chief who might have some inside of that.
24:40
Speaker 1: Had a great chief at that Dante Hall set to
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Speaker 1: join us next. Didn't feel like Week one ended like
24:51
Speaker 1: five minutes ago, but week two is here. It's a
24:55
Speaker 1: big week starting with a very very very big game
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Speaker 1: Chargers Chiefs eight fifteen this evening Prime Video. Everybody interview
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Speaker 1: f off our coverage off with James Palmer live, Happy
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Speaker 1: game did to you? James at Arrowhead with all this talk.
25:50
Speaker 1: After Patrick Mahomes throws three hundred and sixty yards and
25:54
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, it looks amazing about well, maybe the Chiefs
25:58
Speaker 1: are gonna be just fine without Tyreek Kill. What are
26:00
Speaker 1: they saying there ahead of Week two? Yeah, that was
26:03
Speaker 1: our big question, right Andrew? How is Patrick Mahomes gonna
26:06
Speaker 1: handle life without Tyreek Hill? You mentioned the five touchdowns,
26:09
Speaker 1: you mentioned the three hundred and sixty yards, how about
26:11
Speaker 1: thirty for thirty nine for a hundred and forty four
26:13
Speaker 1: quarterback grading and the a f C Offensive Player of
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Speaker 1: the Week. I think he's getting by just fine now.
26:19
Speaker 1: When I spoke to the Chargers, they believe that this
26:21
Speaker 1: is a much more physical wide receiver group than it
26:24
Speaker 1: was a year ago with Tyree Hill. And they also
26:26
Speaker 1: believe there is no receiver on the planet like Tyree
26:29
Speaker 1: Hill with his speed and quickness. But they all believe
26:32
Speaker 1: it all stems back to Patrick Mahomes and the formula
26:35
Speaker 1: hasn't changed. When Brandon Staley, the Charger's head coach, was
26:38
Speaker 1: asked specifically about this offense without Tyree Killing, what he saw,
26:41
Speaker 1: he went directly to the offensive line and said, that's
26:44
Speaker 1: what stands out to me that this offensive line is
26:46
Speaker 1: so good. It gives Patrick Mahomes time in the ability
26:49
Speaker 1: to be the best version of himself. He targeted ten
26:53
Speaker 1: different players, Andrew and that allows Andy Reid to operate
26:56
Speaker 1: this offense the way we know he loves to. So
26:58
Speaker 1: much motion, so many different formations, getting defensive players looking
27:02
Speaker 1: one way and the ball going the other and you
27:04
Speaker 1: don't know where it's going to go. Now, the Chargers
27:07
Speaker 1: believe with Derwin James can play linebacker in the slot,
27:10
Speaker 1: deep safety, blitz player, tight end, do whatever you'd like
27:14
Speaker 1: him to do. The Chargers believe they have the ability
27:16
Speaker 1: to be versatile as well. So the chess match between
27:19
Speaker 1: the Chargers defense and Brandon's Daley verse, Patrick Mahomes and
27:23
Speaker 1: the versatility of both sides of the ball is gonna
27:25
Speaker 1: be something we're gonna keep our eye on and quite
27:27
Speaker 1: a challenge tonight as well. Different from last week for
27:31
Speaker 1: the Chiefs tackles or Orlando Brown and Andrew Wiley against
27:35
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack and Joey Boza. Much different. Great one tonight,
27:38
Speaker 1: Thank James Palmer. Live at Arrowhead. It's an eight fifteen
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Speaker 1: Eastern time kickoff seven fifteen if you're local there in
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, and it is streaming on Prime Video tonight.
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Speaker 1: It is the start of a new era TAF on
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Speaker 1: Prime Video. Go find it. It's gonna be amazing. Eight
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Speaker 1: fifteen coming up tonight. A little more perspective on that one.
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Speaker 1: He is a chief's legend. He was kind enough to
28:03
Speaker 1: pull off the road here and joins as he has
28:06
Speaker 1: on game days past. We used to call him the
28:09
Speaker 1: human joystick. Kids don't play necessarily the same kind of
28:13
Speaker 1: video games these days, but it's great to see it regardless.
28:17
Speaker 1: Dante Hall, what's going on. Good to see you too, Andrew.
28:21
Speaker 1: Sorry for the backdrop, but I didn't want to disappoint
28:24
Speaker 1: you and be late. So yeah, no, I'm in my
28:26
Speaker 1: rental car. I think as long as you are pulled
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Speaker 1: off and you're not doing this while driving and everyone
28:32
Speaker 1: is safe, we appreciate you. Dante Um jump in on
28:35
Speaker 1: that conversation we're just having here about about Patrick Mahomes
28:39
Speaker 1: and the way this offense looks. There was legitimate concern.
28:42
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was just offseason noise or not.
28:45
Speaker 1: We have a lot of time to fill about how
28:47
Speaker 1: this offense would survive without Tyreek kill. What did you
28:50
Speaker 1: see last week Um, I saw exactly what I saw
28:55
Speaker 1: in preseason and then also saw you know something, I've
28:59
Speaker 1: seen this before. You remember the New England Patriots when
29:02
Speaker 1: they had Randy Moss and they had that dot now
29:05
Speaker 1: and make offense in two thousand seven when they almost
29:08
Speaker 1: went undefeated, and then after that they went to a
29:11
Speaker 1: two tight end set with Aaron and Nandez Gronkowski and
29:15
Speaker 1: West Walker in the middle. So I figured that would
29:19
Speaker 1: be exactly what the Chiefs will look like. And they
29:21
Speaker 1: looked that way in the preseason, and they looked exactly
29:23
Speaker 1: that way. And Week one, I think with the departure
29:27
Speaker 1: of Tarik Patrick, Mahomes was going to be forced to
29:30
Speaker 1: mature as a quarterback UM, and we saw that come
29:33
Speaker 1: to forests. And then in Week one, why haven't people
29:37
Speaker 1: learned that you don't win by blitzing Mahomes? Dante Fan
29:42
Speaker 1: Joseph brought it fifty four percent of the time last
29:46
Speaker 1: week and you saw what happened. Well, that's what Van
29:49
Speaker 1: Joseph does. And these coordinators where there's offensively defensively, they
29:52
Speaker 1: do what they do and h Van Joseph likes to
29:55
Speaker 1: bring pressure and they're gonna stick to the script. But
29:57
Speaker 1: I really don't think if you sit back in his zone,
30:00
Speaker 1: he'll pick your part in zone. Also, So, um, is
30:04
Speaker 1: this a tough, tough off matched up? Anytime you play
30:06
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and Patrick come home, you got Travis Kelsey
30:09
Speaker 1: And I don't think Andy Reid and the enemy get
30:11
Speaker 1: enough credit. Andy Reid has been doing this for years, decades.
30:15
Speaker 1: His officers are always top not So. Yes, Patrick Mahome
30:19
Speaker 1: is great. He's my friend quarterback. I think he's the
30:22
Speaker 1: best in the league. But I think we should start
30:24
Speaker 1: giving props to and Reid and his office structure and
30:27
Speaker 1: the way he designs plays and gets guys why. He
30:30
Speaker 1: certainly deserves credit. But let's go back. What do you
30:33
Speaker 1: do if you're not gonna blitz, you say he's gonna
30:35
Speaker 1: pick you apart. That's what Brandon Staley's defense generally is, right,
30:39
Speaker 1: it's you gotta dink conduct. We need you to prove
30:42
Speaker 1: to us that you can be patient to beat us
30:46
Speaker 1: exactly by going six, seven, eight yards at a time
30:49
Speaker 1: down the field, not twenty five yards down the field exactly.
30:53
Speaker 1: And then so the key is with that type of
30:55
Speaker 1: defense is you must in the red zone hold the
30:58
Speaker 1: Chiefs to field goal. Yes, give him the five tenure completions,
31:02
Speaker 1: let him methodically worked down the field. But then you
31:05
Speaker 1: have to, you know, be extern in the zone. And
31:07
Speaker 1: I think that's the way, that's the formula and the
31:09
Speaker 1: only way to beat the Chiefs and stop his offense. Dante,
31:13
Speaker 1: what's up with the shirt here? What does Baron met? Arrowhead?
31:19
Speaker 1: And I will cheer from the grave. I'm not hard baby, Hey,
31:27
Speaker 1: I mean, let's hope that's still a few years away. Okay,
31:32
Speaker 1: Sir Duyanne Bow is going to be their bang of
31:35
Speaker 1: the drum tonight at Arrowhead. Dante Hall is here with us,
31:37
Speaker 1: another former Chief wide receiver, two time Pro Bowl remember
31:40
Speaker 1: the old decade team as an amazing like don't step
31:44
Speaker 1: away from the TV return man, Dante is great to
31:47
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