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Speaker 1: Andrew Ceciliano. Coming up is Jared Allen get into the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. We will ask him he's getting honored
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Speaker 1: by the Vikings this week. Also coming up, we'll hear
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Speaker 1: from Tom Brady and we'll tell you about the autograph
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Speaker 1: that wasn't an autograph. Gee, Andrew, I wonder what it
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Speaker 1: actually was. That's a heck of a tease, Know yours
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Speaker 1: was a heck of a tease. It's little sarcasm coming
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Speaker 1: from me, my friend. Okay, Well, tell you what Mike
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Speaker 1: Evans was actually doing, trying to figure out what the
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Speaker 1: Patriots were doing last night. Here they started Mac Jones.
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Speaker 1: He he went three for six, see kicked a guy
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Speaker 1: and the groin that guy later intercepted him and then
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Speaker 1: he got benched for Bailey's appy who came out firing,
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Speaker 1: and hey, look that's a great throw right there, a
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Speaker 1: fantastic catch. I mean, it's little behind him gets in
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Speaker 1: the end. Owe, it's appy mania. Jacoby Myers had the touchdown,
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Speaker 1: Bailey's happy leads into two touchdowns and then Justin Fields
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Speaker 1: takes over the Bears win. Big, Bill Belichick, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Was Mac Jones healthy enough to play the entire game
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Speaker 1: last night? Yeah? Well that that didn't happen. So that's
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Speaker 1: another hypothetical question, Bill, How did you feel Mac moved around? Um?
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Speaker 1: Look all right? And and if if as you move forward,
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Speaker 1: if if he's healthy, Bill, is he is it fair
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Speaker 1: to say, if he's healthy, he's the starter? Again, that's
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Speaker 1: a hypothetical question. So let's let's see you know where
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Speaker 1: that is and what that is. Do you feel like
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Speaker 1: you need to us the quarterback situation with the team,
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Speaker 1: in your opinion, can impact other players if there is
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Speaker 1: some uncertainty yet that spot because it is a unique position. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: As I said after the game flow, I think we
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Speaker 1: need to all do a better job coaching, playing, offensive defense,
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Speaker 1: special teams. We need to do a better job in
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Speaker 1: every area, period. So everything, everything needs to improve. Based
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Speaker 1: on last night, looks like that backdrop. Hey there, Judy,
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Speaker 1: Hey there, Mike Gi already said no Bill or no bowl.
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Speaker 1: I can't figure it out, but it's interesting they're trying
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Speaker 1: to decipher what Bill Bello are you hypothesizing? Was saying
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Speaker 1: that this this felt a little different. Mike and you
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Speaker 1: were there because some of the players offensive players, notably
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Speaker 1: after the game, We're kind of like, I, we don't
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Speaker 1: know what was going on here. Even though Belichick and
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks kind of all had their story straight. They
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Speaker 1: knew they said what was going on. I think it
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Speaker 1: would have been different if Belichick had just said, listen,
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Speaker 1: Mac looked good enough during the week after a couple
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Speaker 1: of series, he didn't look right, So we went with
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Speaker 1: Bailey zappy. But that's not what he said. I have
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Speaker 1: spent twenty plus years trying to get into the mind
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Speaker 1: of Bill Belichick. UM, I'm a little baffled by this
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Speaker 1: one and his responses to it. I'll say this, look
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Speaker 1: to your point about the communication, and Belichick reiterated this
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Speaker 1: morning that he talked to the quarterbacks and the key
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Speaker 1: leaders on the team, but as you mentioned, most of
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Speaker 1: the offensive guys didn't understand that this was the plan
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Speaker 1: that both quarterbacks were going to play. Belichick could tell
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Speaker 1: the broadcast team last night, but he couldn't tell his
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Speaker 1: own team that last night. And then to hear some
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Speaker 1: of the players afterwards, Jacobe Myers in particular, talking about
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Speaker 1: having the chance for zappy zappy while mac Jones is
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Speaker 1: out on the field get louder and louder, and he
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Speaker 1: said that really stunk. You know, as a man, you know,
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Speaker 1: forget about being a football player, knowing how much work
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Speaker 1: he'd put in, how tough he is, to have to
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Speaker 1: have him listen to that was hard for us. And
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Speaker 1: I talked to another there today via text, and it
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Speaker 1: was just like the same thing, like, Look, we don't
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Speaker 1: care how they arrived at the decision, that's not up
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Speaker 1: to us, but we feel like Mac deserves a little
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Speaker 1: bit more credit for the people around here based on
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Speaker 1: what he did last year and based on the ownership
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Speaker 1: he's taken this year. Look, it hasn't gone great, clearly,
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Speaker 1: there's been some regression, but I think in the locker
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Speaker 1: room still they believe mac Jones gives them the best
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Speaker 1: chance to be the kind of team that they want
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Speaker 1: to be. Uh Now, it's a question of whether or
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Speaker 1: not the coaching staff feels the same way after last night.
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Speaker 1: This whole situation has been mystifying really since before the
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Speaker 1: season even began, with the decision to not hire an
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Speaker 1: experienced offensive coordinator and play caller and go with Joe
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Speaker 1: Judge and Matt Patricia some combination of them running the offense. UM,
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Speaker 1: and and now here we are and by the way,
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Speaker 1: neither quarterback is performing well. Um mac Jones. Maybe it
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Speaker 1: is the injury, but he's had a bunch of interceptions
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Speaker 1: this year, so Zathi he's had three, UM And I
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Speaker 1: wondered watching this lie to night, Um, as you pointed out,
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Speaker 1: like do you now have to rebuild the team's confidence
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Speaker 1: in mac Jones if he's going to be the starter?
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Speaker 1: And on on the hand with ZAPPI, uh, with the
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Speaker 1: second half sort of nothingness? Did did he lose his
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Speaker 1: chance to seize the job? It? It left them I
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Speaker 1: think in an even worse position to make a decision, Um,
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Speaker 1: than they were entering the game. I have no idea
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Speaker 1: which way they will go. And I was watching it
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Speaker 1: last night and wondering what are they trying to accomplish here?
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Speaker 1: And I agree with you Andrew, if they had just said, look, um,
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Speaker 1: he didn't look right out there. Mac Jones just didn't
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Speaker 1: look right out there. He didn't look healthy out there,
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Speaker 1: so we had to get him off the field. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's understandable, but that's not the direction they have gone in.
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Speaker 1: One thing to keep in mind, they played the Jets
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Speaker 1: this week and the Jets have been ball hawks. They
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Speaker 1: have eight interceptions already this season, so they are going
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Speaker 1: to be hunting no matter which quarterback is the starter. Yeah, June, Know,
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Speaker 1: as I watched that game, I kept on saying, by
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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick had it pretty good for seventeen years in name,
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Speaker 1: you know what, Tom Brady was there, he didn't have
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Speaker 1: to come to these types of decision to talk about
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Speaker 1: hypothetical questions and and things like that, but now he does.
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Speaker 1: And what I when I kept keep coming back to
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Speaker 1: is even though Bailey's happy, he wasn't necessarily winning. But
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Speaker 1: for you know, almost four games he played pretty well.
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Speaker 1: He had a little buzz going to him, but they
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Speaker 1: still went back to mac Jones. They either telling me
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Speaker 1: they've got confidence in him because he's played a full
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Speaker 1: season as a starter last year. Um, that play right,
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Speaker 1: they were their playoffs that He's gonna be there guy. Um,
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Speaker 1: the fact that they went back to him, but just
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Speaker 1: it just spoke to me like he still seems like
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Speaker 1: when he's healthy, he's gonna be it. But is he?
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Speaker 1: Is he healthy? You know? Is the momentum of Bailey's
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Speaker 1: happy I don't know the second half after the Bears
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Speaker 1: got that lead and they needed to put it on,
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Speaker 1: Bailey's happy to make plays to win. He didn't make them.
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Speaker 1: He was doing the interceptions. You know, is he just
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Speaker 1: not ready yet? They've got a lot of things to answer,
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Speaker 1: But I think Judy was said that the big point
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Speaker 1: it's all mystifying, going back to them not deciding what
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Speaker 1: they were gonna do with their offensive coaching staff. Are
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Speaker 1: either of these quarterbacks being coached up to where they
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Speaker 1: can excel to the fullest? That's something I think the
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Speaker 1: Patriots need to be asking themselves as well. I see
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Speaker 1: Mike Jority raising his hand right there. Yes, Mr Giardi,
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Speaker 1: I bring up the word again, regression. I think where
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Speaker 1: mac Jones was last year to where he is now,
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Speaker 1: it's an entirely different place. And look, I think you've
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Speaker 1: seen it in the course of time. When you change
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinators for a young quarterback and they're on their
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Speaker 1: second o C in their second year. Generally, generally it
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Speaker 1: does not go well. There are numbers that back this up, Um,
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Speaker 1: and now the Patriots are caught in this position where
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Speaker 1: they've committed to it. You've got to figure out a
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Speaker 1: way to get the best out of these guys, whichever
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Speaker 1: one it is. Pick one though, and go with it. Listen, Um,
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Speaker 1: this wasn't like some one o'clock game on Sunday to
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Speaker 1: twelve percent of the nation. This factors in it as well.
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Speaker 1: And you had all of Americas sitting there Football America
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Speaker 1: on Twitter going what was Mac Jones gonna get traded
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Speaker 1: next week? Now, it's just it kind of took on
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Speaker 1: a life of its own as a play at in
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Speaker 1: real time. The other side of the story is the
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Speaker 1: Bears in justin fields really well and they deserve credit.
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Speaker 1: We will give them a second absolutely a little bit later.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Judy, thank you Mike. Let's roll into our
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Speaker 1: insiders here and as mentioned, the trade deadline right around
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Speaker 1: the corner. It is eight days from today. Tom Pilasero,
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Speaker 1: Mike Garifolo with me, Mike, we had a trade right
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Speaker 1: before kickoff last night. The Jets, with their injuries, went
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Speaker 1: and got a running back, James Robinson from the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Robinson was active and did play in that game against
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Speaker 1: the Giants, but zero carries. He had twelve snaps, which
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Speaker 1: was by far his lowest of the season. Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: saying that Robinson was going through a knee soreness issue.
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Speaker 1: The Jets said, let's check in on that now. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like something he could potentially play through and he'll
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Speaker 1: be fine. So we're gonna send a sixth round pick
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Speaker 1: that could become a fifth to acquire James Robinson to
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Speaker 1: help fill in for Breece Hall, the rookie running back
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Speaker 1: who was sensational but then was lost with a torn
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Speaker 1: a c l many a Jet fan texting me after
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Speaker 1: that news hits, saying, why can't we have anything nice? Well,
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Speaker 1: the season is still going well, and you got yourself
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Speaker 1: a nice replacement in James Robinson. You don't have yourself.
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Speaker 1: Elijah Vira Tucker, however, one of the offensive lineman who
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Speaker 1: would have been blocking for Robinson, but he will now
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Speaker 1: be lost for the season with a triceps injury. So
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Speaker 1: haul a second round pick this year. Vera Tucker, a
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Speaker 1: first round pick from the year ago. Both lost by
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Speaker 1: the Jets, but Joe Douglas saying, hey, we're feeling good
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Speaker 1: about where we are. We are right in the mix,
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna make a move for Robinson, and he did.
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Speaker 1: Let's see what he can do, uh, and how quickly
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Speaker 1: he can do it for the Jets. Four pm Eastern time,
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Speaker 1: one week from today, the NFL's trade deadline. We obviously
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Speaker 1: will have full coverage for you next Tuesday. We today,
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Speaker 1: Tom Pella Sero, have full coverage of Mike Evans and
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Speaker 1: officials and golf and autographs, and tell me what's going
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Speaker 1: on here. Well, Mike Evans spoke to reporters a short
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Speaker 1: time ago and confirmed what I said in the first
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Speaker 1: hour of the show, which was no, he was not signing,
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Speaker 1: nor was he asked for an autographed by those officials
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Speaker 1: you see there. They were actually having a conversation about golf.
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Speaker 1: So what I am told is that Mike Evans and
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Speaker 1: the side judge Jeff Lambert, who you can see Evans
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Speaker 1: left there, both went to Texas a and m Lambert
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Speaker 1: was actually getting evans phone number to pass it along
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Speaker 1: to a golf pro to give Evans golfing lessons in
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Speaker 1: the off season. Lambert did not have paper, so he
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Speaker 1: borrowed it from the other official line, judge Trips Sutter.
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Speaker 1: The NFL released a statement today saying that the review
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Speaker 1: is complete. They were able to confirm after speaking with
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Speaker 1: the parties involved, that no, no one was signing an autograph,
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Speaker 1: but also said those two officials have been reminded that
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Speaker 1: it is important to not give off the impression of
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Speaker 1: favoritism or impropriety in terms of your interactions with players, coaches,
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Speaker 1: staff members of teams before, during, or after the game.
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Speaker 1: Here's another quote here, um from Mike Evans. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: signing an autograph. I'll tell you that where all human beings.
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Speaker 1: I talked to a lot of officials. He's a nice guy.
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Speaker 1: We were just talking about golf. Okay, we're talking about
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Speaker 1: a trade. Actually, Tom, back to the trade stuff. We
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Speaker 1: have a trade here between the Raiders and the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: It's right, Andrew. It's the veteran defensive tackle Jonathan Hankins,
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Speaker 1: who was being traded from the Raiders to the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: along with a twenty four seventh round pick in exchange
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Speaker 1: of a three sixth round pick. That will go to
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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Now, this is one of probably a handful
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Speaker 1: of these types of trades that you'll see between now
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Speaker 1: and next Tuesday. Veteran players who were in the last
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Speaker 1: year of their contracts getting flipped for late round draft
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Speaker 1: pick compensation their teams with various needs. There are teams
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Speaker 1: that have injuries pop up, which was of course the
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Speaker 1: case with the Jets before they acquired James Robinson. And
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Speaker 1: after next Tuesday at four pm Eastern, you cannot trade anymore,
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Speaker 1: that is it. So again, expect a lot of activity.
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Speaker 1: There will be a lot of calls. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of names followed around right now. Will we get anything
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Speaker 1: as big as Christian McCaffrey, That remains to be seen.
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Speaker 1: But when we get some more of these types of trades,
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Speaker 1: you would certainly think so. So stay tuned to NFL
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Speaker 1: Network for all that fun over the next great job, Tom,
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Speaker 1: Maybe we can get a promo going here for the
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Speaker 1: trade deadline coming up next Tuesday. Tom loves promo, just
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Speaker 1: loves him. Thinking the future is now? Okay, Sorry, let's
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Speaker 1: go ahead. Inside jokes boy, pull the curtain back, Why
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Speaker 1: don't you? Tom Pella Sero, Mike Daryl Follo, Thank you both.
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, will promo this guy. Actually, let's promo
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Speaker 1: him down the great Jared Allen coming up next, getting
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Speaker 1: honored by the Vikings. This coming Sunday. There he is.
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Speaker 1: He's like your television straight ahead back to past Patty
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Speaker 1: sacked right out of the gate, Jared Allen gets him
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Speaker 1: at the fifteen yard line. What a terrific rush and
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Speaker 1: a big time hit applied by Jared Allen and Rogers.
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Speaker 1: Now he's under pressure and he is sicked by Jared
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Speaker 1: Allen at the twenty and Cam takes a low. Ryan
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Speaker 1: Khalil's now pomps balls enough clues up for Crabs picked
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Speaker 1: up by Jared Allen. Here he's sacked by Jared Allen.
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Speaker 1: That's the fourth time Jared Allen's brought down Philip Rivers
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Speaker 1: in his career. And for Jared Allen, that's a sack
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Speaker 1: in eight consecutive games, tying Jim Marshall and Carl Eller.
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Speaker 1: Another sack by Jared Allen, who leaves the National Football
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Speaker 1: League in Saxon. What a career this guy had. He
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Speaker 1: once had twenty two sacks in a season. What a
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Speaker 1: five NFL players with at least twenty two sacks in
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Speaker 1: a season, and how about this seven consecutive seasons with
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Speaker 1: ten or more sacks right up there with guys who
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Speaker 1: already have gold jackets. Get to the Golden jacket coming
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Speaker 1: up in a second. Let's get to the Vikings on
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Speaker 1: her first. Jared Allen with us Live on NFL. Now, Jared,
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Speaker 1: good to see. How are you always good to be seeing?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. You're being honored by the Vikings on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: the twenty seven member in the Vikings Ring of Honor.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? Oh? Man, it's humbling,
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Speaker 1: I tell you what. It Just to be a part
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Speaker 1: of that storage franchise and especially what they have produced
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Speaker 1: over the you know, generations of the Lineman. So I
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Speaker 1: think out of that twenty seven, I think seven of
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Speaker 1: them already Lineman. Uh So, just to be a part
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Speaker 1: of that, that that club, that elite family. Um, it's
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Speaker 1: it's hard to put into words because it's just it's
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Speaker 1: such an honor, and you know, it's reminiscent you're talking
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Speaker 1: about it with some of the other day that you know,
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Speaker 1: every stadium I always went into, I always went up
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Speaker 1: and looked up at the Ring of Honor because you
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Speaker 1: want to you. I love the tradition. I love the
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Speaker 1: feel of that, right, and and that you're representing the
14:51
Speaker 1: guys that played this game before you and so now
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Speaker 1: to be a part of that, to be a part
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Speaker 1: of that history. Uh, for young guys to come up
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Speaker 1: and look and see you know, your name and the
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Speaker 1: Ring of Honor and hopfully that inspires them for greatness.
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Speaker 1: And it's it's really a cool deal. That's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone's ever said that that part
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Speaker 1: of their pregame routine as you travel around the league,
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Speaker 1: he's looking at these individual Ring of honors. And there's
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Speaker 1: so many other great d line but like you mentioned
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Speaker 1: Chris Doleman and John Randall, Uh that that that's that's
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Speaker 1: an elite group of pass rushers in D Lineman they've
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Speaker 1: had in Minnesota. Yeah, And like I said, it's it's
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Speaker 1: weird of certain franchises tend to put out great players
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Speaker 1: in the same position and it becomes almost tradition. It
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Speaker 1: always becomes, no matter who's in charge of the franchise,
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Speaker 1: is like, we can't lose this, right, Uh, Minnesota happens
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Speaker 1: to be putting out you know, D Linemen for days
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Speaker 1: it seems like um and so to be be a
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Speaker 1: part of that and and now especially because I look
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Speaker 1: back on the conversations I had with Jim, you know,
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Speaker 1: with Marshall and stuff like that, and Alan Page and
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Speaker 1: Carl Eller over the years and I played there and
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Speaker 1: just being able to spend time with them, UM. And
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Speaker 1: then even when I first got you know, notified that
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Speaker 1: I was getting the ring of Atto and they surprised me.
15:57
Speaker 1: When I was talking to the team. One of the
15:59
Speaker 1: first guys I got to see was Carl Eller and
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Speaker 1: and talk to him about just the meaning of being
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Speaker 1: in that that the group, UM, and then being so
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Speaker 1: welcome me to that club. It's it's really been, as
16:10
Speaker 1: you really been a fun process. And again it's it's
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Speaker 1: something that you know, it's hard to put into words
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Speaker 1: at times. It's because you look back like I'm getting
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Speaker 1: rewarded for something I did so many years ago. But
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Speaker 1: hopefully it's it's inspiring to others. And it's just a
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Speaker 1: really cool, cool feeling to join that club of guys
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Speaker 1: that you know, I looked up to. Pretty cool how
16:30
Speaker 1: they told you they surprised you too when you were
16:32
Speaker 1: there over the summer, and such a great history, as
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Speaker 1: you mentioned, long before they ever kept sacks as an
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Speaker 1: official stat for the d lineman there in Minnesota. You're
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Speaker 1: also up Jared for Canton. I believe third year now
16:46
Speaker 1: you're up a lot of people think the third time
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Speaker 1: is a charm. Do you allow yourself to go there
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Speaker 1: mentally about what that troll or that not will be, like,
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Speaker 1: I try not to. Uh So, my first right, when
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Speaker 1: I've made in the finals as a first year eligible player, um,
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Speaker 1: that was it was. That was amazing, right, And so
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Speaker 1: I didn't really have a whole lot of expectation. I
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Speaker 1: knew with Peyton and what's in all those guys is
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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough class. I'll be honest. Last year
17:14
Speaker 1: I had some expectation. I'm like, well, if I was
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Speaker 1: a first year finalist, you know, if my chance of
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Speaker 1: gotta be pretty good to get in my second year,
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Speaker 1: UM didn't go my way. So you know, nothing you
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Speaker 1: can say, And it's one of those deals. It's hard.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to be an upset about it because you're
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Speaker 1: you're you're celebrating so many great players and you're not
17:31
Speaker 1: sitting there and saying, well, I've more deserved this guy this,
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Speaker 1: So I do try to remove myself from it. I
17:35
Speaker 1: try to leave it up to the voters that let
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Speaker 1: other people's opinions, you know how the you know be
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Speaker 1: what they are. Um, wouldn't be one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: honors of my life, absolutely, Um. Is it going to
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Speaker 1: change my life in any aspect? You know? Probably not?
17:50
Speaker 1: So I try to keep it in that perspective, right,
17:52
Speaker 1: knowing that you know, I played this game for the
17:55
Speaker 1: respect of my peers, the respect of those who you
17:57
Speaker 1: know played before me. UM into that again, it just
18:00
Speaker 1: outright loved in the respect of the fans and so UM,
18:03
Speaker 1: if they deemed that worthy of the Hall of Fame,
18:06
Speaker 1: I'll wear that badge with honor. Um. If not, my
18:09
Speaker 1: kids still love me, and my wife still loves me,
18:11
Speaker 1: and it is what it is. It's a great way
18:13
Speaker 1: to look at it and also wear that hair with honor.
18:15
Speaker 1: I think we talked about a couple of years ago.
18:17
Speaker 1: You would be correct me if I'm wrong, the first
18:21
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame bust with a mullet, wouldn't you. I
18:25
Speaker 1: don't know that that. I would hope not. I mean,
18:27
Speaker 1: come on, thinking about all the greats from back in
18:29
Speaker 1: the day, But maybe I don't know that's something we
18:33
Speaker 1: need to look into, and it would definitely be with one.
18:35
Speaker 1: I get the flow is nice right now. And now
18:37
Speaker 1: with the you know, the World Championships and mullets taken on,
18:41
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the mollet is back. It is
18:44
Speaker 1: back in full effect, whatever you want to call it, mullet,
18:46
Speaker 1: hockey cut, it is just it is back and people
18:50
Speaker 1: are loving it. And I think people just finally realize
18:52
Speaker 1: it's it's a lifestyle. You to embrace it and nothing
18:56
Speaker 1: but good comes from it. I love it. It's great attitude.
18:59
Speaker 1: One last thing before I let you go. Now you
19:00
Speaker 1: watch football? Now, you don't spend your entire life watching football. However, Um,
19:05
Speaker 1: how do you sack a quarterback these days? Like, I mean,
19:09
Speaker 1: you have like the lasso thing to celebrate. Would you
19:11
Speaker 1: need like a lasso to safely sack the quarterback? You
19:16
Speaker 1: need a pillow? And I feel like, you know you
19:18
Speaker 1: need to You need to get to them, stop asking
19:21
Speaker 1: politely to lay down so you can touch them. Um
19:25
Speaker 1: it's I actually told my wife was the other day.
19:27
Speaker 1: I go, I think half my sacks would probably be
19:28
Speaker 1: taken away from rough of the pastors, uh total these
19:31
Speaker 1: these days. So I don't know. They gotta find a
19:35
Speaker 1: balance of it. Listen, I'm I'm all for keeping guys healthy,
19:39
Speaker 1: but I'm also on the uh on the way of
19:42
Speaker 1: you know thinking that. Listen, the quarterbacks signed those contracts
19:45
Speaker 1: just like the rest of us. You know that you
19:47
Speaker 1: play a violent sport. You know it's a contact sport,
19:49
Speaker 1: and they're actually getting paid a lot more money than
19:51
Speaker 1: most people, so they should be putting their bodies on
19:53
Speaker 1: the line more often than not. So you know, I
19:57
Speaker 1: feel like it's part of the game. They need to
19:58
Speaker 1: they need to chill out, because you actually start diminishing
20:01
Speaker 1: the game, you start taking away from the strategy that
20:03
Speaker 1: defensive has, you know, to get to like looking in
20:06
Speaker 1: the Chief's game and you know they got a p
20:09
Speaker 1: I or I mean roughly the pastor call dude hit
20:12
Speaker 1: my homes. I think it was in the in the chest.
20:14
Speaker 1: You know, his head was up and he took him.
20:16
Speaker 1: But they said he just you know within the one
20:18
Speaker 1: step or two late or something. We used to have
20:20
Speaker 1: one two steps. And you look at the you look
20:23
Speaker 1: at the the game, the the the Green Bay Washington game,
20:28
Speaker 1: and you see that on the last throw the d
20:30
Speaker 1: Lineman crimes just kind of tries to chicken wing him.
20:33
Speaker 1: Imagine if you barries you know, ininky on that play,
20:36
Speaker 1: maybe that throw doesn't get you know, all the way
20:38
Speaker 1: to where it needs to be. So you know, you
20:39
Speaker 1: start taking you know, ways where we used to be
20:41
Speaker 1: able to hit the quarterback and get them gunshot. I
20:43
Speaker 1: get the movement out of the pocket, you know, strategically
20:45
Speaker 1: flashing in front of them. Uh. You know, guys aren't
20:48
Speaker 1: trying to get their hands and quarterbacks faces if you're
20:50
Speaker 1: not getting the ball anymore, so afraid to hit the
20:51
Speaker 1: quarterback and the and the face masks. So I think
20:54
Speaker 1: at some point they gotta find a balance. Um, listen,
20:57
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all for flagging a guy if he takes
20:59
Speaker 1: ten steps and wax and you know, dude in the head,
21:01
Speaker 1: you know, for no reason. But I mean, at some point,
21:04
Speaker 1: you know, Chris Jones playing, he takes the ball out fumble,
21:07
Speaker 1: We're covering such a great play and that's null and void. Uh,
21:11
Speaker 1: you know, from a few weeks ago. So I just
21:12
Speaker 1: feel like it's diminishing the game, and it's and it's
21:14
Speaker 1: so strongly tilted to the offense that they got to
21:17
Speaker 1: find a balance. And the league says not making it softer,
21:19
Speaker 1: making it safer here, but certainly, um your point well taken. Safety.
21:24
Speaker 1: Safety always seems to fill, you know, fall with the
21:27
Speaker 1: high profile quarterbacks. First, if they took away half he
21:30
Speaker 1: had a hundred and thirty six, you'd still have a
21:32
Speaker 1: lot of sacks, and we'd still be having this conversation
21:34
Speaker 1: and you still be honored by the Vikings. Coming up
21:36
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Jared Al, congratulations on that. Hope to talk
21:39
Speaker 1: to you again soon. Maybe maybe next summer in Ohio. Oh,
21:43
Speaker 1: that would not be awesome. Thanks Jared for having me
21:46
Speaker 1: coming up next. Where are the Packers and where are
21:50
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the nude power rankings? They don't have
21:55
Speaker 1: the power. We'll tell you that. Dan hand Zeus is
21:57
Speaker 1: wearing a tie for some reason. He's coming up. Just
22:00
Speaker 1: takes gonna futun fun and fun and some funch bars
22:12
Speaker 1: to just take a fall to be wow. Power rankings
22:40
Speaker 1: get like a club remix there. Dan han Zus does
22:43
Speaker 1: him there on NFL dot Com every Tuesday. We have
22:46
Speaker 1: no change at the top. The Bills, the Eagles, and
22:50
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. All right, Bills, Eagle, Chiefs. Even though Kansas
22:54
Speaker 1: City had a huge, resounding win, on the road in
22:56
Speaker 1: San Francisco. But look at those Dallas Cowboys. They beat
23:01
Speaker 1: the Lions. Dan and Zeus, who's here with us every
23:04
Speaker 1: Tuesday to explain said power rankings, not the power standings.
23:07
Speaker 1: The power rankings. You beat the Lions. You barely beat
23:10
Speaker 1: the Lions. Scored not indicative of how close that game is.
23:14
Speaker 1: And they're the fourth team in football. Yes, and thank
23:16
Speaker 1: you for using my first dance wedding song, the intro music.
23:19
Speaker 1: I believe you got that tied. That's a hold over
23:21
Speaker 1: from very nice. Yeah, the Cowboys. I'm very thankful to
23:25
Speaker 1: Dallas because last week broke the power rankings. It was
23:29
Speaker 1: just so so the power things were broken. Week seven
23:32
Speaker 1: was putting things back together, restoring some logic to our league,
23:36
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys winning. I don't care how they won.
23:39
Speaker 1: The Cowboys winning with another great showing by their defense
23:43
Speaker 1: getting twenty one points off turnovers, seeing Dak back on
23:47
Speaker 1: the field and making throws even though he was rusty.
23:50
Speaker 1: I feel good now about the top four. I feel
23:53
Speaker 1: very comfortable with saying Dallas and the balance that they
23:56
Speaker 1: have that that is a top four team. I didn't
23:59
Speaker 1: have a number four team last week. I did, but
24:01
Speaker 1: I didn't and now I do. Okay, so that makes sense.
24:05
Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense? They are number four, and I think
24:07
Speaker 1: some people think you could take the other twenty eight
24:08
Speaker 1: and just throw them up in the air. That that
24:10
Speaker 1: isn't the case because that do power rankings maybe, but
24:14
Speaker 1: not of course you you have a scientific method. The
24:17
Speaker 1: Giants have only one loss. The Vikings, who were off,
24:20
Speaker 1: fell down three spots. Despite being off, they have only
24:24
Speaker 1: one loss, yet the Bengals with three losses are ahead
24:27
Speaker 1: of them both. Yeah, Cincinnati has been kind of a
24:30
Speaker 1: pet team for me this season that even during their struggles,
24:34
Speaker 1: I just felt in a very unsettled landscape where the
24:37
Speaker 1: middle class of the NFL is so vast right now,
24:39
Speaker 1: that they were a team to keep hanging around the
24:42
Speaker 1: top ten, the top twelve, the top thirteen, And here
24:45
Speaker 1: they are now. They're figuring things out on offense, and
24:48
Speaker 1: it took time. Zach Taylor said it after the game,
24:50
Speaker 1: you know, be patient with us. We showed you we'd
24:52
Speaker 1: figure it out. And with that passing attack led by
24:55
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow being unconscious and Jamaar Chase back to all
24:58
Speaker 1: world mode, there's very few teams that could stop them.
25:01
Speaker 1: When they're at their top gear. You really don't like
25:03
Speaker 1: the Vikings to you. I the Vikings enough their number seven.
25:08
Speaker 1: They were off, and I feel like this is a
25:10
Speaker 1: football conversation. Yes, they were off, and yet they were
25:13
Speaker 1: hurting the polls they dropped. They were, but only if
25:16
Speaker 1: you don't factor in what we were talking about earlier
25:18
Speaker 1: that they were number four last week. But the power
25:21
Speaker 1: ranks were broken. There was no number four team that
25:23
Speaker 1: just I had to put one in there for Ali
25:26
Speaker 1: been Purry and the and the editorial teams. There would
25:28
Speaker 1: be something on NFL dot com. But we needed a
25:31
Speaker 1: team to step up and fill the void. The Cowboys
25:33
Speaker 1: did it. The Vikings are a good team. Are they
25:36
Speaker 1: a top four team in the in the NFL? Tell me,
25:38
Speaker 1: do you do you think that? Is that a possible cell? No,
25:41
Speaker 1: they're more like a seven eight nine. I put them
25:45
Speaker 1: at seven. Feel good about it. Nice start for them,
25:47
Speaker 1: but not dominant. When they beat the Cardinals this week, Well,
25:50
Speaker 1: we'll see where the Vikings are next week. Let's see
25:53
Speaker 1: where the Bucks and the Packers are this week. Because
25:56
Speaker 1: they have old quarterbacks, obviously, they have offenses that are flailing.
26:01
Speaker 1: The Bucks are down nine to eighteen. They could still
26:05
Speaker 1: and probably will still win the division. The Packers are
26:07
Speaker 1: down four tonine. You have them both below the imaginary
26:12
Speaker 1: cut line and out basically the postseason. That's how you
26:15
Speaker 1: view Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, and I think
26:18
Speaker 1: that's there's an unsettling nature. They're destabilizing force, both in
26:22
Speaker 1: the power rankings and in the league. Because you're so
26:25
Speaker 1: they should be one of those teams should be number four,
26:27
Speaker 1: well like the teams should be number five. And it's
26:29
Speaker 1: just if the Bucks blow out the Ravens on Thursday, right,
26:31
Speaker 1: potentially they're moving up. Welcome back to the top ten.
26:34
Speaker 1: That's a big win. But how long, Andrew, have we
26:37
Speaker 1: been waiting for one of these teams to step up
26:39
Speaker 1: in the In this month? It's been a week game
26:42
Speaker 1: after week game, especially on the offensive side of the ball.
26:45
Speaker 1: With the Bucks, it's not just Brady anymore. The defense
26:47
Speaker 1: has come down to earth as well, so they don't
26:49
Speaker 1: really have much of an identity. And the Packers, I
26:52
Speaker 1: don't know if listen, Matt Lafloor is a very good
26:56
Speaker 1: head coach. He's had incredible success, but I can't make
26:59
Speaker 1: sense of their game plan where they can't get the
27:01
Speaker 1: passing game going, and yet they won't turn to a
27:03
Speaker 1: very good running game with two elite running backs. When
27:06
Speaker 1: does that happen? When does the offense shift? Until I
27:09
Speaker 1: see these offenses pick it up, They're just gonna be
27:12
Speaker 1: middling teams, which is what they are in the Power
27:14
Speaker 1: and both of them are in primetime. This week. You
27:16
Speaker 1: have the Bucks has mentioned t n F opening up
27:18
Speaker 1: week number eight against the Ravens. That game is in Tampa.
27:22
Speaker 1: And then you have Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay
27:24
Speaker 1: Packers as double digit dogs. And the first thing you
27:28
Speaker 1: need to know, Buffalo about the number four spot and
27:30
Speaker 1: the power ranks. Last week there is no number four,
27:34
Speaker 1: but that was last week. Now we have some order restored.
27:37
Speaker 1: You just gotta follow me on this, like fight Club.
27:40
Speaker 1: I think it was the matrix. No, the first rule
27:43
Speaker 1: about you're saying, the first rule about number four is
27:45
Speaker 1: there is no number four. That's fine, and I created confusion,
27:48
Speaker 1: but I stand by what I said. Am I missing
27:49
Speaker 1: a matrix traffics? Okay? I don't know. Latest, Gentleman's time
27:53
Speaker 1: for one more thing before we go with Jeff Shindy
27:56
Speaker 1: are going first? Yeah, Andrew A lot of buzz about
27:59
Speaker 1: Denver wide receiver Jerry Judy getting traded before the deadline.
28:02
Speaker 1: I personally hope it happens. He's had a rough start
28:05
Speaker 1: to his career. Three years in the NFL, three bad offenses.
28:08
Speaker 1: He's a great talent. I love him to see him
28:10
Speaker 1: go someplace else and make some noise. Fright deadline one
28:13
Speaker 1: week from today, Gara Folo, what's so funny? Well, did
28:17
Speaker 1: you do the Bailey's Appy Stacy's mom thing. That's something
28:20
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. Yeah, I'm gonna do that in
28:22
Speaker 1: a minute. All right, go see Brears tweet. In the meantime,
28:24
Speaker 1: I'll talk about Chris Connley, the veteran wide receiver who
28:28
Speaker 1: was signed with the Titans off of the Chiefs practice squad.
28:31
Speaker 1: He was with the Texans to start the season, so
28:33
Speaker 1: we're not even halfway through the season. He's been with
28:35
Speaker 1: three a FC teams. Let's see if he sticks in Tennessee.
28:38
Speaker 1: Good work if you can get it, White, all right?
28:40
Speaker 1: Thought joinning back for Darrell Patterson. Went on I R
28:43
Speaker 1: with a minor ne procedure October three. He's getting close
28:46
Speaker 1: to coming back here. He is pulling the weight his sled.
28:49
Speaker 1: But watch it again, he's doing it barefooted. It looks
28:53
Speaker 1: like se flash Pe ready to come back with a vengeance.
28:57
Speaker 1: Careful there, watch the toes. Kids don't lift weights without shoes.
29:01
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, it is a bad thing. As for the
29:04
Speaker 1: Bailey's Appy, did you guys catch this? He's sitting on
29:06
Speaker 1: the bench after throwing a touchdown pass last night. And
29:09
Speaker 1: and in Foxbor they're playing the Fountains of Wayne song
29:13
Speaker 1: Stacy's Mom. He's mouthing the lyrics or Stacy's mom got
29:19
Speaker 1: it going on? Come on, No, I don't know no
29:22
Speaker 1: copy writer, no copy writer, prisban on this show. So
29:25
Speaker 1: that song when when it came out Bailey's Appley was
29:28
Speaker 1: like four. He just confirmed on the radio what Mike
29:31
Speaker 1: was referring to that Yes, that's what he was singing.
29:35
Speaker 1: And quote, I don't even know how I know that
29:38
Speaker 1: song if I played over and over subs. Here's my question.
29:44
Speaker 1: Has he ever seen the video? It's gonna We're really
29:50
Speaker 1: now here? Who's your daughter in the room, Mike? Get
29:54
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