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Cooper Kupp Injury, Aubrey Pleasant Fired, & Bengals - Browns Preview · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: with some injury news and our insiders and Rappaport and
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Speaker 1: Tom Bellisero with us now or Arth Vader. I should say,
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Speaker 1: you guys said we you guys said we were doing
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Speaker 1: costumes this hour now Now, I just feel silly. Tom Belather,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that. Um no, no, okay?
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Speaker 1: Uh Cooper cup Sean McVeigh talks in a couple of hours,
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Speaker 1: and once he gets you know, Andrews what one might
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Speaker 1: consider a television professional, at least he considers himself that
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Speaker 1: I would say, you throw him up a little bit. Tom.
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Speaker 1: I did not know he was coming out as Anakin Skywalker,
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Speaker 1: Vader Andrew. One thing that happens in TV is something
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Speaker 1: just gave it away you're not ready for and you
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Speaker 1: actually need to adapt. You were unable to do that.
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Speaker 1: I'll take over from here. It's like you awkwardly this
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Speaker 1: morning trying to be funny, saying like, why are like
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Speaker 1: I should be in a costume? I was funny. We
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Speaker 1: call that actually funny. Anyway, let's talk about Cooper Cup.
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Speaker 1: My understandings, he suffered a regular low ankle sprain yesterday,
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Speaker 1: real real, late in the game. Sean McVeigh saying, basically
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Speaker 1: it was his fault for having Cooper Cup out there,
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Speaker 1: given the score, given the time. Regardless from what I understand,
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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup believes that he has dodged a bullet, that
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Speaker 1: he is going to eventually be okay, and I would
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Speaker 1: put his ankle injury in the category of day to
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Speaker 1: day or questionable or something where he's got a chance
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Speaker 1: to play. But you need to see how it responds,
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Speaker 1: how swollen it gets, how it takes to rehab. It
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Speaker 1: seems like overall the Rams star receiver is going to
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Speaker 1: be fine, but we need to see how the week
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Speaker 1: goes before we determine his availability. Meanwhile, Ian the Lions
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Speaker 1: have made a change on their coaching staff, Dan Campbell
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Speaker 1: firing their defensive bass coach and passing and coordinator Aubrey
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Speaker 1: Pleasant following Sunday's loss to the Dolphins. Now, certainly Pleasant
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Speaker 1: is somebody who's been well regarded within the league for
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Speaker 1: a long time, dating back to his days on the
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Speaker 1: staff with Sean mcveigh's rams, but certainly understandable the Lions
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Speaker 1: felt like they had to do something after the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: came back yesterday to a tongue follow a Tyreek Hill
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Speaker 1: have made a lot of people look bad, but thrown
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Speaker 1: for three d sixty nine yards in that game, another
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Speaker 1: high scoring loss where the offense for the Lions did
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Speaker 1: it part, not the defense. Campbell has expressed public confidence
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Speaker 1: in Aaron Glenn consistently throughout the season, So it is
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Speaker 1: Aubrey Pleasant who ends up being the one. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to the man tough one. Aubrey Pleasant fired today, the
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Speaker 1: DBS coach for the Lions. The defense that yesterday forced
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Speaker 1: to punt in the second half for the first time
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Speaker 1: at home since Week two. True story twenty two straight
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Speaker 1: possessions that defense had not forced a punt at home. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: I and four pm Eastern is the trade deadline. Who
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Speaker 1: might be buying at the deadline. I'll give you a
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Speaker 1: couple of teams to watch. We'll see how many of
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Speaker 1: these trades actually having a lot of conversation, A lot
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Speaker 1: of conversation going on now. It just didn't sense like
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Speaker 1: there's any you know, deals that are imminent. But we'll see.
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Speaker 1: This could change on it. Don a couple of teams
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Speaker 1: to watch. The Baltimore Ravens are always aggressive. General manager
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Speaker 1: Erica Costa has never met a trade he wouldn't at
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Speaker 1: least consider UM. So I would believe they are making
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Speaker 1: calls specifically when it comes to potentially adding to their defense.
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Speaker 1: That would not be a surprise the Los Angeles Rams.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know this, but the
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Speaker 1: way the Rams feel about their picks is a way
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Speaker 1: that we simply cannot stayed on television with children watching UM.
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Speaker 1: That is continuing to be the way they feel. We
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Speaker 1: know they have some potential pass rushing needs, some potential
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Speaker 1: running back need because they were in so heavy on
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Speaker 1: the Christian McCaffrey deal. Uh, that would be another team
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Speaker 1: to watch. The Green Bay Packers have a big time
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Speaker 1: needed receiver, a little bit of Anita tight end. That
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Speaker 1: would be another spot to watch. Although if they you know,
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Speaker 1: mortgage the future and add a receiver, is that really
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Speaker 1: worth it considering being three and five? And then the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles lost Jordan Davis yesterday. Do they choose to
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Speaker 1: fill that whole on defense via trade? That also to
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Speaker 1: be determined. Okay, so those are the buyers the sellers, Tom,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know a lot kind of was hanging
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Speaker 1: to the air. Some people thought as to some of
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Speaker 1: the outcomes yesterday. Brown's play tonight, Broncos one yesterday, Who's
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Speaker 1: selling later? There really aren't true sellers in terms of
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Speaker 1: fire sales right now within the NFL. Obviously, we've seen
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Speaker 1: the Panthers make some moves over the past couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks since dismissing head coach Matt Rule. But certainly any
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Speaker 1: team that is really at this point largely out of
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Speaker 1: the playoff picture is going to be getting calls. So
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars certainly would continue to get calls as they
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Speaker 1: have been on Josh Allen. As we've talked about previously
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Speaker 1: their stand up pass rusher, not the Bills quarterback, somebody
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Speaker 1: who was a high draft pick the Jaguars envisioned signing
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Speaker 1: for the long haul. But does somebody step forward at
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Speaker 1: a time that everybody needs more pass rushers with the
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Speaker 1: type of offer that Trent Bulky and company can't confuse.
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Speaker 1: And then for the Texans, they're obviously buried in the
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Speaker 1: standings right now as well. We've talked about Brandon Cook's
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Speaker 1: being a potential target. Nikis Sarrio never afraid to make
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Speaker 1: those down the line type of deals to a mass
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Speaker 1: picks for future years. Those are two of the teams that,
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Speaker 1: again not necessarily sellers, but certainly would anticipate getting calls
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Speaker 1: here right the Texans right now, if the season were
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Speaker 1: to end today, it won't okay, I would have two
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Speaker 1: top five picks because they have the Brown's first round
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Speaker 1: pick from the Deshaun Watson trade. Again, Brown's play tonight
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Speaker 1: against the Bengals. Thank you, Ian, and thank you to
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Speaker 1: the Eagles will not be picking at the top five,
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Speaker 1: at least not with there because they are still undefeated.
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Speaker 1: This is Jalen Hurts, who has when nine consecutives starts
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Speaker 1: dating back to last year. Regular season starts, just throwing
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Speaker 1: amazing like touch passes, showing off the arm. A J.
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Speaker 1: Brown had a day. A J. Brown had three touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: He could have had four touchdowns. I got you, I
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Speaker 1: got you. I got another win. The Eagles are seven
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Speaker 1: and oh for the first time since two thousand and four.
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Speaker 1: They're dressed up like a great team. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: just it's just uphill climb. That's what we always talk about.
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Speaker 1: It's an uphill climb. So that's that's what it is,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And honestly feel like there
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Speaker 1: is no arrival. There is no arrival. You will never
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Speaker 1: get to a point where you say I've arrived. There
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Speaker 1: is no arrival. There's only the journey. And I've embraced
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Speaker 1: that journey and I'll continue to do that and take
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Speaker 1: it day by day and just trying to Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: is kind of that one unifying force here. Ten consecutive starts,
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Speaker 1: the Eagles have one with Jalen Hurts at quarterback. Huge
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Speaker 1: part of that as well. His best buddy A. J.
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Speaker 1: Brown has mentioned three touchdowns, could have had four. Mark
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Speaker 1: rossty White, James Palmer, who talked to A. J. Brown
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Speaker 1: after the game was at that game, another great Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: win joins us here on the Eagles, Cam James. No
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Speaker 1: matter who it is, whether it's A J. Brown from
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Speaker 1: day one this year or Robert Quinn getting into it
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Speaker 1: yesterday as well. Um, they bring guys into this building,
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Speaker 1: it works. Yeah. And I think all of the pieces
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Speaker 1: that they've brought in Andrew to a team that was
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Speaker 1: already very good heading into the off season shows us
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Speaker 1: exactly what's so important and winning football games. And that's
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Speaker 1: the chemistry of your locker room. You mentioned a J.
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Speaker 1: Brown coming in, you know they bringing Hassan Reddick as well.
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Speaker 1: They also right before the start of the season bringing
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Speaker 1: Chauncey Gardner Johnson and then they bring in Robert Quinn
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Speaker 1: just this week. And what's happened with each and every
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Speaker 1: one of those guys is when I talk to people
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Speaker 1: in the building, two things happen. One, they're told that
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Speaker 1: they can be themselves. Immediately. We know that C. J.
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Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson has a big personality. He has been allowed
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Speaker 1: to be himself right from the moment he arrived in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: And two, they are told what the standard is in
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia and that happens immediately. Fletcher Cox told me he
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Speaker 1: walked up to Robert Quinn the first day he was
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Speaker 1: in the building and said, we practice hard here, and
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Speaker 1: Robert Quinn said, good, that's what I wanted to hear.
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Speaker 1: And that's the standard that this entire group of leaders sets,
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Speaker 1: and they're able to go mark talk to other position groups.
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Speaker 1: That's the part that sticks out to me about this team,
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Speaker 1: to where guys on the offensive line can talk the
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Speaker 1: defensive backs and hold them accountable, Guys in the wide
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Speaker 1: receiver room can hold guys on the defensive line accountable,
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Speaker 1: and that communication is extremely important in building a team. Now,
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Speaker 1: they haven't had any adversity yet that there eight no
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Speaker 1: but at the same time that's important when you're trying
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Speaker 1: to piece things together, especially when adversity will eventually come
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Speaker 1: at some point. No doubt that James and culture is
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Speaker 1: is I think thrown around way too much in sports
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Speaker 1: and in football with culture. But what the what the
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Speaker 1: Eagles had right there now is belief. And that's belief
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Speaker 1: from the top, the tone set by the ownership and
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Speaker 1: your general manager and your head coach, and then it
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Speaker 1: goes to the players. The best teams that I've been
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Speaker 1: around with the Giants winning super Bowls. Everybody was in
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Speaker 1: it for the New York Giants, not for themselves, not
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Speaker 1: for their stats, not for their money. But how can
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Speaker 1: the New York Giants win football games? And that's what
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Speaker 1: it seems the Eagles have going on right now with
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Speaker 1: all the different players that they've brought in there. You
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Speaker 1: always think it's a concern about new draft picks and
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Speaker 1: you trade for guys and all that, but everyone's buying in.
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Speaker 1: But the most important part of all that and bringing
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Speaker 1: that culture together is Jalen Hurts. And every time this
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Speaker 1: young man talks and opens his mouth, I mean he
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Speaker 1: says the perfect thing. You can tell that the team
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Speaker 1: rallies around him. And when your best player is the
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Speaker 1: leader and can carry himself like he does, man, that
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Speaker 1: that can take this team to the super Bowl. And
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Speaker 1: I love the nod to Chuck d there. With the
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Speaker 1: pe outfit that Jalen Hurt has had on, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: take a nation of millions a whole this Eagles team
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Speaker 1: back shut them down, right, But I'm gonna believe the
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Speaker 1: hype and you you got you guys hit the right points.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we saw like last year when the Rams
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Speaker 1: made some trades, you know, to bring guys in. Teams,
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Speaker 1: to bring guys in like the Buccaneers, You've got to
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Speaker 1: have that point man. And Jalen Hurts being that point man,
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Speaker 1: being unselfish, sharing the love of the way he does
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Speaker 1: with the rest of his team. That's important to everybody.
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Speaker 1: But I also want to look at one specific position group,
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Speaker 1: and that's the offensive line. I mean, what do we
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Speaker 1: talk about the Packer's gonna have an offensive line, Rams
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Speaker 1: offensive line injuries, all these offensive all these injuries and
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Speaker 1: stuff with the offensive line. Having that ability to dominate
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Speaker 1: up front on that side of the ball has made
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Speaker 1: things a lot easier for the Philadelphia Eagles. They also
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Speaker 1: have a good defensive front. They have decided to build
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Speaker 1: this team along its lines. Draft well at some of
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Speaker 1: the pieces through free a T and trades like you said,
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Speaker 1: James Chauncey Gardner Johnson at those pieces at the skilled position.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that they are so loaded up on
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Speaker 1: front and they've made commitment to do so, has allowed
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Speaker 1: the building of this team and the chemistry of it
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Speaker 1: to really flourish. The what it is right now, Can
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Speaker 1: I bring the public enemy thing full we're Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: fifties seven being Glendale, Andrew, by the time they get
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Speaker 1: to Arizona, the Eagles will likely the all. See what
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Speaker 1: he did there, I mean they're undefeated for the last
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Speaker 1: remaining and defeated team. Okay, James, thank you. Let's get
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Speaker 1: to the Steelers here because they're the other side of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: They are now two and six, and that win over
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Speaker 1: the Bengals Week one feels like a hundred years ago.
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin has never had a losing record in a
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Speaker 1: single season. This year it might happen. Listen to his
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Speaker 1: quarterback after the game. Yeah, not not deesail. You know,
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Speaker 1: not detail guys, and you know what they're doing. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know we need to study more. I don't. I
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Speaker 1: don't think we study enough as a group. There's way
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Speaker 1: too many you know, penalties and stuff like that, which
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Speaker 1: you know we can control. It's all mental. Um, So
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Speaker 1: for that to happen, there's really no excuse for that.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we have to figure that out and
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Speaker 1: get it right. Mark, what if I told you that?
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Speaker 1: Naji Harris also question the team's discipline and accountability. That's
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Speaker 1: not good. I don't think Andrew, when you got your
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Speaker 1: your rookie QB who's supposed to just be learning the
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Speaker 1: system and learning from the vets and learning from everyone
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Speaker 1: his coaching staff, and he's the one that's coming out.
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Speaker 1: You love the toughness, you love the ownership, but he
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be the one that has to be in that
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Speaker 1: position at this point while he's still just trying to
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Speaker 1: learn the game himself. But that speaks to deeper issues
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Speaker 1: going on with this Pittsburgh team. And uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: much like some other teams. With Tampa, the quotes that
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Speaker 1: were coming out of Tampa for weeks from the head
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Speaker 1: coach and the quarterback about not being on the same
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Speaker 1: page and not being prepared. Well, now you've got these
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Speaker 1: same sort of quotes coming out of Pittsburgh and that's
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Speaker 1: just not a good sign. And this is where it
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Speaker 1: seems a non Mike Tomlins situation, where usually he has
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Speaker 1: everything together. It seems like the Steelers are on the
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Speaker 1: same page. So now this is a major concern. Well,
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Speaker 1: he needs to jump in here now say let me
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Speaker 1: take control of his team. Steve Oh, he will take
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Speaker 1: control of it. I mean know that that's one of
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Speaker 1: the great things that Tomlin has done. But the fact
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Speaker 1: that's gotten to this point and have a rookie do that.
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Speaker 1: And I I don't think Kenny Pickett is that they're trying
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Speaker 1: to grandstand by by any means. I think this is
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Speaker 1: something where he's he and Najie Harris, two young players
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Speaker 1: see something that's that's just not right. And and the Steelers,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just think about those teams of Ryan
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Speaker 1: Clark and Troy Polamalu and I Hilliard. They would not
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Speaker 1: have had any of this stuff right. So the fact
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Speaker 1: that it is the young players doing this something in
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Speaker 1: the way this team is structured is just not great.
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Speaker 1: This needs to be the veterans saying we have got
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Speaker 1: to we've got to blanket all this, we've got to
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Speaker 1: keep this stuff in house, and we've got to get
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Speaker 1: it right. You know, salute to Kenny Pickott for stepping up,
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Speaker 1: But I don't think he's the guy, Mark, like you said,
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Speaker 1: to be in position to have to answer these types
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Speaker 1: of questions about a team that entered the season with
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Speaker 1: a lot of flaws and has simply just not gotten better.
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Speaker 1: So here's the quote from Naji Harris, who's in his
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Speaker 1: second season, quote, we lack a lot of stuff. We
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Speaker 1: lack a lot of experience, lack a lot of discipline, accountability,
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Speaker 1: We lack a lot. This is stuff we talk about
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Speaker 1: every week, the NFL trade deadline. The Niners made their
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Speaker 1: big move two weeks ago. That big move paid off
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Speaker 1: in big ways. Sunday at SO five, we'll tell you
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Speaker 1: how and what it means for both teams. Straight ahead,
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Speaker 1: all right, you're watching NFL now, NFL Network. Christian McCaffrey
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Speaker 1: at SO five for the second time in three weeks.
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Speaker 1: He was here a couple of weeks ago with the Panther.
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Speaker 1: Steve White, you were here, you were there. You saw
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Speaker 1: McCaffrey do this. And the Niners have done this to
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Speaker 1: the Rams before, and Kyle Shanahan's it after the game.
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Speaker 1: We knew they were vultable to it, so we asked
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Speaker 1: if you could throw it, and he did. McCaffrey to
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Speaker 1: Brandon Iuke and then Jimmy Garoppolo ad minute after the
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Speaker 1: game that this was intended for George Kittle, but McCaffrey
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Speaker 1: caught it. So he threw one. He caught one, he
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Speaker 1: run for one, he ran for one. The Rams played
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Speaker 1: a great first half, played an awful second half. Niners
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Speaker 1: beat him. Again eight in a row in the regular season.
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Speaker 1: I think the thing I'm most happy about is just
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Speaker 1: this whole team welcoming me in with open arms and um,
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Speaker 1: especially in the running back room, guys like Jeff Wilson
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Speaker 1: and Juice. You know, they just helped me all week
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Speaker 1: learn everything. And UM, I don't know, I think that
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Speaker 1: just means a lot to me. So obviously those things
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Speaker 1: are cool. But I'm just proud to be a forty niner.
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Speaker 1: And UM, it's felt good to get a win today.
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Speaker 1: I've played this game long enough than together to do
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Speaker 1: it every single drive. Um, just because you have a
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Speaker 1: good drive here there, UM, doesn't mean that the game's
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Speaker 1: gonna go that way. It's a it's a four quarter
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Speaker 1: football game for a reason. Um. You know, we definitely
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Speaker 1: had some good momentum offense playing well on the first half.
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Speaker 1: We just weren't able to sustain some of those drives
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Speaker 1: in the second half on on third downs that you know,
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Speaker 1: I wish I could have been better, you know, better
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Speaker 1: on Matthew Stafford and the Rams again played an amazing
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Speaker 1: first half, coming off the by maybe the best first
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Speaker 1: half of the year, second half maybe their worst second
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Speaker 1: half of the year. And that is saying a lot.
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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, though, truly was the difference maker here. The
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Speaker 1: Rams had tried to get him, reportedly obviously the trade deadline.
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Speaker 1: It was the Niners who got him instead. And to
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Speaker 1: show you the mediocrity Steve or or parody, let's call
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Speaker 1: it mark in the NFC, the Niners would be in
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Speaker 1: right now. It's set at four and four is the
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Speaker 1: seventh seat. I think about that. Well, look, the Falcon
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Speaker 1: debated for and for is the Divisioncaffrey was the difference
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Speaker 1: to you. But but but he was a difference. And
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Speaker 1: you know I was at that news conference we did
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Speaker 1: you show the video of and he said one of
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Speaker 1: the key things that helped him. He's been there for
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Speaker 1: nine days. Remember he's been spending so much time with
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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, but also Jimmy Garoppolo. He talked about the
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Speaker 1: guys in a running back room. But he said, just
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Speaker 1: getting to know Jimmy Garoppolo allowed them to do this.
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Speaker 1: This was a busting play. He was the fifth option here. Again,
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Speaker 1: even though Jimmy said that was intended for Kittle, he
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Speaker 1: said the fact that he could connect to McCaffrey and
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Speaker 1: he saw him was just some of the chemistry that
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Speaker 1: they're building. It was interesting before the game because the
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Speaker 1: Niners had so many injuries. Remember Deebo Samuel was out,
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Speaker 1: Why receiver Jowan Jenny was out. They said, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: see a whole lot of Christian McCaffrey. We saw a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of Christian McCaffrey, and the Ranch could not
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Speaker 1: stop him. Mark when they've got a threat, lie that,
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Speaker 1: knowing that they're gonna be getting healthier after their by
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is one reason why we gotta look
17:10
Speaker 1: at the Niners like they're just getting started here. Yeah
17:15
Speaker 1: you think so? That was the worry last this last
17:17
Speaker 1: game when they didn't have Debo and I was like, okay,
17:19
Speaker 1: well we won't see the full complement of this forty
17:22
Speaker 1: Niner offense like they envisioned when they got McCaffrey. Well,
17:25
Speaker 1: it didn't matter because he was a one man offense.
17:28
Speaker 1: And that's the difference that playmakers can make. You know,
17:31
Speaker 1: that gets thrown around too often. But those sort of guys,
17:34
Speaker 1: the McCaffrey's and Debos, on one play, they can change
17:37
Speaker 1: the entire game. And you saw that yesterday. Of course,
17:41
Speaker 1: the forty Niners on the Rams. So we'll see how
17:43
Speaker 1: this plays out with the rest of the season. But yes,
17:45
Speaker 1: in the NFC, anybody's in it. I mean the Eagles
17:48
Speaker 1: to be are clearly the favorite, and then the Cowboys
17:50
Speaker 1: right there, but then after that it's just wide open.
17:53
Speaker 1: So with the forty niners, they have to be encouraged
17:55
Speaker 1: with everyone that they're getting back if they can stay healthy.
17:59
Speaker 1: And on the flip side, talking about one man teams
18:02
Speaker 1: with with the Rams, with the concerns with them is
18:04
Speaker 1: that we've saying it all year. It's just kind of
18:06
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup and then no one else after that. You know,
18:09
Speaker 1: they're struggling. They couldn't run the ball yesterday. Allen Robinson's
18:13
Speaker 1: still been a disappointment. Matthew Stafford still hasn't stepped up.
18:16
Speaker 1: The O line struggled and in the second half to
18:19
Speaker 1: just get shut out, just completely shut down. That's a
18:22
Speaker 1: major concern with with the Rams and how they've been
18:25
Speaker 1: playing this year because it's we've been saying it consistently
18:28
Speaker 1: game after game that these are the issues and if
18:30
Speaker 1: you just don't have the talent to straighten it out,
18:32
Speaker 1: that's the major concern. But again, it's still wide opening.
18:35
Speaker 1: The nfacy and they're never no one's ever out of
18:37
Speaker 1: there you Nope, Rams always a team to watch before
18:39
Speaker 1: the deadline again, that is four pm Eastern tomorrow. The
18:43
Speaker 1: Rams started Ronnie Rivers, son of the NFL running back
18:47
Speaker 1: with the same name, yesterday, undrafted rookiett of Fresno State,
18:50
Speaker 1: third team that he has been with this year. The
18:53
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the Seahawks, the others and the Niners now
18:55
Speaker 1: have a week off and then a couple of primetime games.
18:58
Speaker 1: They get the Chargers up there on Sunday night, Week ten,
19:02
Speaker 1: and then the Cardinals at home on Monday nights. Two
19:05
Speaker 1: primetime home games coming up next for McCaffrey and the
19:09
Speaker 1: forty Niners coming up next. Zack back to reality. No,
19:13
Speaker 1: that's a eminem lyric. Guys coming up to the Jets
19:17
Speaker 1: have a quarterback problem. We'll answer it straight ahead. Hip
19:21
Speaker 1: hop games on point line. Brother, So it was Mac Jones.
19:30
Speaker 1: We told you it was gonna be Mac Jones, not
19:32
Speaker 1: Bailey's Happy starting yesterday Patriots and beating the Gent's twelve
19:35
Speaker 1: consecutive This kind of sort of change the game. This
19:39
Speaker 1: is a pick six. Michael Carter, not the running back,
19:42
Speaker 1: the other one runs it back eighties six yards except
19:47
Speaker 1: JFM Jonathan Franklin Myers was called for rough and pass
19:52
Speaker 1: or either way, Patriots get a field goal out of it.
19:56
Speaker 1: It's tend to six at the half, still tend to
19:58
Speaker 1: six and the third on a fourth down here or
20:00
Speaker 1: Mac Jones it's Jacobe Myers. Patriots take the lead of
20:04
Speaker 1: the Patriots go on to win this because this kind
20:06
Speaker 1: of summed up Zack Wilson's day or running around in
20:09
Speaker 1: circles in the backfield and just like flailing and throwing picks.
20:13
Speaker 1: Devin mccordy, brother of the host of Good Morning Football
20:16
Speaker 1: got two of them Patriots when Devid also got an
20:19
Speaker 1: interview with Mike Tiardi. How much did the defense put
20:24
Speaker 1: on themselves just based on how last week went our
20:26
Speaker 1: Monday even well, I would say we knew that Jets
20:28
Speaker 1: had a good defense as well, so we knew it
20:30
Speaker 1: was gonna be tough. Points We're gonna be hard to
20:32
Speaker 1: come by. They made some plays. We may some plays
20:35
Speaker 1: all offense, mad enough plays. At the end of the day,
20:37
Speaker 1: we did defensively, and I think so special teams obviously, Nick,
20:40
Speaker 1: our kickoff team played great today. We got faith in
20:44
Speaker 1: n Z Um, he's played good football. He's been he's
20:48
Speaker 1: taking care of the football since he's gotten back, and
20:50
Speaker 1: he's shown uh flashes of good football. So um, everyone
20:55
Speaker 1: locked room size. But you know, like as you see,
20:57
Speaker 1: like we're still moving the ball. I just had some
20:59
Speaker 1: bone headed plays. The second interception, I really meant to
21:03
Speaker 1: throw that ball away to close on me faster, kind
21:05
Speaker 1: of having me leave the ball inside. Um, can't mess
21:08
Speaker 1: with that. I gotta sell it. And then the last
21:10
Speaker 1: one was just really really just want to make place
21:12
Speaker 1: sick of coming off the field and I can't do that,
21:14
Speaker 1: you know, put my defense in a bad situation there. Um,
21:18
Speaker 1: But no, all day I didn't feel like I let
21:19
Speaker 1: that stuff bother me. I think our Judy Batista, who's
21:23
Speaker 1: not here with us, but Mike Jardy and Mark ross Is.
21:25
Speaker 1: Judy Batista had a great lead here, Mike. The Patriots
21:29
Speaker 1: came into Sunday's game with the quarterback problem. The Jets
21:32
Speaker 1: exited with one. Yeah, there has to be a lot
21:36
Speaker 1: of concerning You heard Robert Salick kind of back his
21:39
Speaker 1: guy Zack Wilson. But a situation where Wilson talked about
21:43
Speaker 1: the idea that you know there are plays that I
21:44
Speaker 1: make during the course of the game and say why
21:46
Speaker 1: did I do that? And there were three massive plays
21:49
Speaker 1: yesterday where he came away with his hands to his
21:52
Speaker 1: helmet saying why did I do that? And he turned
21:54
Speaker 1: the ball over on all three occasions. I just can't
21:57
Speaker 1: happen in a situation like that where look in the
22:00
Speaker 1: last four games that they had one prior to he
22:02
Speaker 1: was not the reason why they were winning, but he
22:04
Speaker 1: was so not the reason why they were in jeopardy
22:07
Speaker 1: of losing. He played smart football. He did carry them
22:09
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter against the Steelers, but the last
22:12
Speaker 1: three games no interceptions, also no touchdown passes. They were
22:15
Speaker 1: content to run the ball and win with good defense, which,
22:18
Speaker 1: by the way, they have a very good defense, the
22:20
Speaker 1: defense that's ready to win now. But Wilson is scattershot
22:24
Speaker 1: sometimes in the pocket. And here's the thing that really
22:26
Speaker 1: would concern me. Under pressure this year this per Pro
22:29
Speaker 1: Football Focus, he is nine for seven for a hundred
22:34
Speaker 1: and fifty one yards, one touchdown, five interceptions. The Patriots
22:38
Speaker 1: pressured him seventeen times yesterday and it just market just
22:42
Speaker 1: got ugly and he never was able to pull himself
22:44
Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, it got seriously ugly, and that's
22:48
Speaker 1: a huge concern. I think four of the Jets, and
22:50
Speaker 1: when they were winning, it massed him not playing very well.
22:53
Speaker 1: They were winning despite Zack Wilson, so you can kind
22:56
Speaker 1: of blow it. Obviously, he's leading the team, he's winning games.
22:58
Speaker 1: But yesterday on full display, you saw the best and
23:01
Speaker 1: the worst of Zach Wilson. Look, you love his improvisation
23:05
Speaker 1: skills when he goes out there and he runs around,
23:07
Speaker 1: he throws balls, but then yesterday it came back to
23:10
Speaker 1: just bite him where it's like, give up on the play,
23:12
Speaker 1: Zac Wilson, you gotta let it go. And those are
23:15
Speaker 1: three of the worst interceptions you'll see. So that's a
23:17
Speaker 1: major concern. Where a player of quarterback can think about
23:21
Speaker 1: things and know what they're doing, but in the heat
23:22
Speaker 1: of the moment, that's where people fall apart, and that's
23:24
Speaker 1: what separates the greats from the average to the bad.
23:27
Speaker 1: When the pressure does come, how did they react And
23:29
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson unfortunately showing that he's not reacting very well,
23:33
Speaker 1: reacting very poorly. So that's a major concern. He looked
23:36
Speaker 1: like the first year Zach Wilson. The first couple of
23:38
Speaker 1: games reverted back to that as opposed to building and
23:41
Speaker 1: getting better. So I don't know if there's something that
23:43
Speaker 1: he can work himself out of. Andrew, I hate to
23:45
Speaker 1: say this, at times he looked like the little kid
23:47
Speaker 1: playing with the big kids in the neighborhood here. And
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting he's about to get benched, but you
23:52
Speaker 1: know there's some intrigue before the game. Why is Mike
23:54
Speaker 1: White the number two and Joe Flacco and active and
23:56
Speaker 1: or they could do to him with Chris Traveler. Don't
23:58
Speaker 1: know if that's foreshadowing something here, but Zack Wilson clearly
24:02
Speaker 1: has to play better. So does Mac Jones though, and
24:06
Speaker 1: we're not sure Mike. I know you've reported on Unhin
24:08
Speaker 1: still fighting through some of the effects of that ankle injury.
24:11
Speaker 1: Don't know if he's a hundred percent. But they really
24:13
Speaker 1: didn't stretch the field. They got bailed out by a
24:15
Speaker 1: roughing the pass. Recall, he got sacked six times. Wasn't
24:18
Speaker 1: a virtuos performance for the offense. Yeah, the words you
24:21
Speaker 1: heard after the game from the page were gritty, tough
24:24
Speaker 1: and resilient. But I think when they're talking about the offense,
24:26
Speaker 1: they would have liked smart and occasionally explosive, and other
24:30
Speaker 1: than the Ramadre Stevenson run for thirty five yards, there
24:33
Speaker 1: wasn't much of that. A couple of their scoring drive
24:35
Speaker 1: were three plays, one yard kick a field goal. Like
24:38
Speaker 1: there there has to be more coming from the offense.
24:41
Speaker 1: But as you look at the game, and obviously the
24:43
Speaker 1: big play JPM hitting mac Jones on a pick six
24:47
Speaker 1: that not only turned the favor of the game, I think,
24:49
Speaker 1: but also maybe the fortunes of the Patriot season, because
24:51
Speaker 1: I think at three and five they're in big trouble
24:53
Speaker 1: when you look at their schedule. Instead there four and
24:55
Speaker 1: four feeling better about themselves, and built Belichick not only
24:58
Speaker 1: back mac Jones after the game, but then twice today
25:02
Speaker 1: in an interview with the radio station and then on
25:04
Speaker 1: a zoom call with the me Idea from Boston and
25:07
Speaker 1: just said, like, I thought he made smart decisions. I
25:09
Speaker 1: thought he made good decisions. I thought he used his
25:10
Speaker 1: legs when he had to, and you know he did
25:13
Speaker 1: point out and I think this is important to know
25:15
Speaker 1: when you're talking about all these quarterbacks. Protection was terrible,
25:18
Speaker 1: and you mentioned six sacks uh pressure of his dropbacks yesterday.
25:23
Speaker 1: That's not very sustainable. Even for the guys that are
25:25
Speaker 1: really mobile and Mac Jones maybe more mobile than people think,
25:28
Speaker 1: but not you know, he's not that guy. And you
25:31
Speaker 1: kind of called it on game day morning when you
25:33
Speaker 1: pointed out, don't forget David Andrews is out. That is
25:36
Speaker 1: not ideal against this Jets front seven. They survived though.
25:40
Speaker 1: Coming up tonight, however, Joe Burrow has never beaten the Browns.
25:46
Speaker 1: I'll say that again. He's never beaten the Browns. We're
25:50
Speaker 1: live in Cleveland, straight ahead. I love it. It's the
25:59
Speaker 1: two teams with the orange helmets, like the pumpkins, like
26:03
Speaker 1: the Jack at Lanard playing on Monday night football and
26:06
Speaker 1: Halloween trick or treat. If you knock on my door,
26:11
Speaker 1: please do it before pick off, which here in l
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Speaker 1: A is like at five something in Cleveland there where
26:17
Speaker 1: Bridget Condon is, it's after eight o'clock live at First
26:20
Speaker 1: Energy Stadium where the Bengals will trying to get a
26:21
Speaker 1: Vision win and have to do so Bridget without Jamar Chase. Yeah, Andrew,
26:26
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is gonna have to try and get his
26:28
Speaker 1: first win against the Browns. He's oh and three and
26:30
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to do it without his security blanket,
26:33
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase. We know the connection, the chemistry that these
26:36
Speaker 1: two have dating back to L s U and Jamar
26:38
Speaker 1: Chase is Joe Burrow's favorite target. He's been targeted seventy
26:42
Speaker 1: four times this season. The guy behind him has thirty
26:45
Speaker 1: less targets. That's t Higgins. And I was talking to
26:47
Speaker 1: center Ted Carris this week and he said, you cannot
26:50
Speaker 1: overstate the importance of Jamaar Chase. He said, he's our
26:53
Speaker 1: biggest playmaker and we're gonna be We're gonna need to
26:56
Speaker 1: be ready to make adjustments tonight. But he did say
26:58
Speaker 1: the one positive thing Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd, there
27:01
Speaker 1: are other receivers. They are both very dominant for this
27:04
Speaker 1: off fense, and they're both ranking in the top twenty
27:07
Speaker 1: five in most receiving yards in the entire NFL right now.
27:09
Speaker 1: So he has a lot of confidence in those guys.
27:11
Speaker 1: But again, they're gonna need to make adjustments. And one
27:13
Speaker 1: thing he says that's positive is Joe Burrow is one
27:16
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. And I asked
27:18
Speaker 1: him what do you mean by that, and he said
27:20
Speaker 1: he has the ability to just drop the ball right
27:22
Speaker 1: into the receiver's hands, which will be very beneficial for
27:25
Speaker 1: this offense tonight, exactly playing against Brown's team that does
27:28
Speaker 1: not have Denzel Ward among other pieces defensively in the
27:31
Speaker 1: Brown's team. Here bridget that has lost four games in
27:34
Speaker 1: a row overall at times finding new and creative ways
27:36
Speaker 1: to lose. What are they saying about breaking that streak? Andrew?
27:40
Speaker 1: What they're gonna need to do tonight is get Nick
27:43
Speaker 1: Chubb going to put in perspective how important he is
27:46
Speaker 1: to this Brown's offense. The Browns are two and oh
27:49
Speaker 1: when he has twenty or more carries there oh in
27:51
Speaker 1: five when he has less than that, he is going
27:54
Speaker 1: to need to find holes and get this offense going.
27:57
Speaker 1: I was talking to Bengals cornerback Tito A. Woozier, and
28:00
Speaker 1: he told me that Nick Chubb is like a juggernaut
28:02
Speaker 1: running through a brick wall. He said, he's so hard
28:05
Speaker 1: to tackle. He has so much momentum. This guy has
28:08
Speaker 1: more than six hundred yards after contact. That's the second
28:11
Speaker 1: most in the entire NFL. So, you know, told me
28:13
Speaker 1: that they're gonna need to buckle up their chin straps,
28:16
Speaker 1: mold their mouthpieces, and get ready to hit somebody. This
28:19
Speaker 1: is going to be a very physical game. And Andrew,
28:22
Speaker 1: one other quick note for you. The Bengals have not
28:25
Speaker 1: allowed a second half touchdown this entire season. Guess who
28:29
Speaker 1: is tied for the most second half touchdowns in the
28:32
Speaker 1: NFL this season, Nick Chubb and the Browns second half
28:36
Speaker 1: defense has not been good, but the Browns have beaten
28:38
Speaker 1: the Bengals four straight, their longest streak since the early nineties.
28:42
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28:44
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