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Dak Prescott Remains Out, Matchups for Week 6, & Nick Shook's Underdogs · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: we got a lot going on today. Welcome to NFL Now,
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Speaker 1: NFL Network from our newsroom in Los Angeles. My name
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Speaker 1: is Andrew Siciliano. Coming up will preview the kickoff on
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Speaker 1: week number six, the Bears, the Commanders in Chicago. Also
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Speaker 1: will tell you why as of now, we do not
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Speaker 1: know when the Seahawks and the Cardinals will kick off
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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. We begin with Dallas and Dak Prescott's thong.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be Cooper rush for the Cowboys Sunday
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Speaker 1: night in Philadelphia. Mike McCarthy pretty much made that clear
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. But this is an image from James Slater's
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Speaker 1: Twitter of Dak Prescott throwing left handed. Remember he's a
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Speaker 1: writing We didn't flip the negative here. Left handed in
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Speaker 1: the portion of practice open to the idiot today a
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Speaker 1: portunate practice. Hi there, Jane the McCarthy and said earlier
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Speaker 1: that Prescott would do some light throwing, but they didn't
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Speaker 1: let you and the media see him throw and see
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Speaker 1: how the ball came out of his hand with his
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Speaker 1: busted up right thumb. No, And it took me a
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Speaker 1: second to realize that Andrew because he was off to
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Speaker 1: the left side of where we stand in the media.
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Speaker 1: And then I turned to one of the media members,
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Speaker 1: I said, wait a minute, why is he throwing with
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Speaker 1: his left hand? And I think we all concluded that
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Speaker 1: there's a little gamesmanship here, yes, but also as he
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Speaker 1: starts throwing for the first time since the injury back
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Speaker 1: on September eleven, I don't think they want us necessarily
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Speaker 1: breaking down those throws, are making assumptions about where that
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Speaker 1: thumb is at or when he's going to play. It
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Speaker 1: certainly isn't as optimistic as Jerry Jones led us to believe.
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Speaker 1: It was Mike McCarthy today who said that they are
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Speaker 1: preparing to move forward with this game for Cooper Rush
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Speaker 1: being their starter. He said, look, this is a seventeen
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Speaker 1: game season and you've got to trust the medical process.
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Speaker 1: And ultimately he knows that Dak Prescott doesn't like hearing that,
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Speaker 1: but they just want to make sure that he's good
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Speaker 1: to go when he does come back. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: you've got a quarterback right now in Cooper Rush who's
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Speaker 1: now won four straight one on the road last week
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Speaker 1: against the defending Super Bowl champs. So we'll let you
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Speaker 1: know later this week if we get to see any
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Speaker 1: more of the throwing. But the throwing with the right
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Speaker 1: hands his throwing shoulder. Uh, that's not going to happen,
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Speaker 1: at least to us today because that was during the
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Speaker 1: close portion of media. All Right, Dak Prescott can throw
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Speaker 1: with his left hand, just likely shouldn't do it in
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Speaker 1: a game. He prefers his right and the right isn't
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Speaker 1: ready this week against Philadelphia. The next two weeks it's
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Speaker 1: the Bears, I'm sorry, the Lions and the Bears at
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Speaker 1: home before the bye. Thank you, Jane Slater live there
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Speaker 1: on the deck beat in Dallas. Let's get our insiders
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Speaker 1: in here, Mike Arrifolo, Ian Rappaport and get to the
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Speaker 1: story I was referring to either guys at the top
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Speaker 1: of the show. Is that is we still don't know
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Speaker 1: what time. I'm the Cardinals and Seahawks will kick off
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and they're supposed to kick off at four Pacific.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, one Pacific for Eastern, but that could change
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Speaker 1: because of baseball. Yeah, football actually moving out of the
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Speaker 1: way of baseball. Let's see that very often, and you
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Speaker 1: know a lot of snarchy responses. I guess Seattle is
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Speaker 1: a baseball talent. It's the playoff for a little different
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Speaker 1: Plus the stadiums are literally next door to each other.
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Speaker 1: So here's what's going on. The Seahawks game, which originally
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Speaker 1: schedules as you mentioned, for four pm Eastern time, is
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Speaker 1: going to be played an hour and a half later
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Speaker 1: five thirty Eastern time if there is a game four
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Speaker 1: of the a l DS, because you can't get into
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Speaker 1: a stadium with two games going on right around similar times,
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Speaker 1: and it just logistically can happen, So they would move
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Speaker 1: it back an hour and a half, which means that
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Speaker 1: game would overlap a little bit with some of the
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Speaker 1: late games and being kind of a weird window, and
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Speaker 1: then you wouldn't get to do it on red zone.
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Speaker 1: But whatever. I think we'd all be fine with that.
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Speaker 1: If there is no game for the LDS, then literally
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Speaker 1: nothing happens. It's back at four pm Pacific, all right,
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Speaker 1: and you might not know until maybe five o'clock local
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. Right now, the Astros one Game one, but
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Speaker 1: the Astros could win Game two, and then the Mariners
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Speaker 1: could went on some walk off in fifteen innings right
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Speaker 1: on Saturday night, and then they have to scramble. So
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Speaker 1: everyone is uh is waiting for the ms here and
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Speaker 1: the Giants Mike are waiting for their punter because he
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Speaker 1: was stuck in London for a couple of days. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the Scottish hammer, Uh, the Jamie Gillen stuck in London
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Speaker 1: because the passport issues. What I mean to laugh about it,
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like it's gonna have a reasonable ending
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Speaker 1: here and definitely a quick ending here, as all strings
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Speaker 1: that the Giants could pull we're pulled. And so Gillen
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Speaker 1: is going to be I love the music. This is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Gilan is gonna be on his way back to the
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Speaker 1: United States after spending what three extra days in London
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Speaker 1: spending time with his family while he was killing time
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Speaker 1: while that passport issue was resolved. Now the Giants apparently
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Speaker 1: knew about this ahead of time. He had an old
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Speaker 1: passport and he never got an updated he came on. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I forget how Palicero explained that I was a NATO,
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Speaker 1: But the long and short of it, the NATO. I
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Speaker 1: felt like it was a NATO passport, but like off
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Speaker 1: the top of my head. That didn't sound right, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a NATO passport and so he was having issues
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Speaker 1: coming back, but they've been resolved. So the Giants will
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Speaker 1: have the Scottish hammer. That was the expectation. Now they
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Speaker 1: were supposed to work out punters anyway tomorrow, but he's
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Speaker 1: on his way back tonight, so that very well may
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Speaker 1: have been called off. But the long and short of
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Speaker 1: it is the Giants will have their punter. That is
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Speaker 1: the full expectation for Sunday's game against the Rate. We've
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Speaker 1: always heard, whether it's football, baseball, basketball, sometimes hockey passport
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Speaker 1: issues players leaving the US. I don't know that I
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Speaker 1: remember an issue where a player wasn't allowed back in
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Speaker 1: the country. So the Giants are dealing with now, but
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Speaker 1: help is on the way all right. In Baltimore, help
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Speaker 1: was on the way also, Mike, with some defensive injuries,
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Speaker 1: Guys that are getting back on the field, Guys that
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Speaker 1: are coming back from achilles tendon tears, David Ojabo and
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Speaker 1: Taias Bowser returning to practice for the Baltimore Ravens. Ojabo
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Speaker 1: remember tour his achilles unfortunately during a pro day. Now
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Speaker 1: he does have experience having played for Mike McDonald, the
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator at Michigan. So the hope is that physically,
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Speaker 1: if he can get himself up to speed quickly, mentally,
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Speaker 1: he should be fine and ready to go and contribute
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Speaker 1: here at some point in his rookie season. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: as for Bower Bowser, he tore his achilles in the
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Speaker 1: last game of last season. So you know, this is
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Speaker 1: about the timeline that you would expect guys to be
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Speaker 1: coming back from achilles tendon tears. They are back on
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Speaker 1: the field. This is a defense that could use more
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Speaker 1: help and the ability to maybe get to the passer
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Speaker 1: or do whatever you need to do from the linebacker position. Well,
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Speaker 1: here you go, two guys on the way back. There
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Speaker 1: you go. Hey, Ian sneaky good game in Atlanta this Sunday,
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Speaker 1: forty Niners Falcons. What's Kyle Pitts status there for Arthur Smith, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would say a little bit of a surprise last
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Speaker 1: week when Kyle Pitts did not practice, did not play,
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Speaker 1: dealing with a hamstring injury. It sounds like he'd been
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Speaker 1: nagging him for a little bit, not like an injury,
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Speaker 1: but just kind of bothering him. Well, he was out
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Speaker 1: at practice today working with the first team. According to
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Speaker 1: Dear Orlando led better on the scene, which is good.
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Speaker 1: My understanding is this was expected to be just a
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Speaker 1: one week injury. So for Kyle Pitts to miss a game,
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Speaker 1: you know, all this discussion about why was he not
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Speaker 1: out of routes and why was he you know, being
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Speaker 1: held in as a blocker. Maybe this is why, maybe
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Speaker 1: he needed to get right a little bit. The week off.
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Speaker 1: They believe got him right, so it wouldn't be surprised
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Speaker 1: to see him back on the field this week. All right.
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Speaker 1: The Niners have a bunch of injuries as well. Try
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Speaker 1: to update them a little bit later as they are
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Speaker 1: spending the week in West Virginia rather than flying all
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Speaker 1: the way back west before turning around and going to Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: Thank you and thank you, Mike. They meet again Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen Patrick for Holmes and they go deep at such
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Speaker 1: a high level on the middle. It's Hills City tricks
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Speaker 1: to leave with minute to go down the middle to
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Speaker 1: the end, Zune and there it is. Wow, holy Mahomes
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Speaker 1: gets you hit an easy field goal ring. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is unbelievable, forty nine yards to send it to overtime.
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Speaker 1: Yes till he tells the call tales shoe right with
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Speaker 1: all that sun looking to the end song for the
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Speaker 1: whin he caught it. This is its unfathomable. The Bills
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Speaker 1: had gone this game and grass to cohomes, it comes
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Speaker 1: out there, It shows the world I'm still here. Romo's
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Speaker 1: voice is still this high after that game which many
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Speaker 1: of us thought was the best we had ever seen
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Speaker 1: last year when the Chiefs had overtime knocked the Bills
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Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. Look at these members Mahomes offensive
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Speaker 1: numbers there for the Chiefs, Von Miller and that defense
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Speaker 1: pretty pretty good. Sean McDermott. I just think, yes, they're
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Speaker 1: a really good team. Um. And you know they're they've
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Speaker 1: been there for a long time, you know, and you
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Speaker 1: re coached football teams win and they win often and
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Speaker 1: they sustain it and uh they're really tough at home. Um,
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Speaker 1: as we know, we've been out there a number of
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Speaker 1: times now. Um. You know they've got really a really
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Speaker 1: good roster as well, very deep, um talented players, playmakers
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Speaker 1: at a lot of the positions. As you saw Monday
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Speaker 1: night and m and you got to prepare for for
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Speaker 1: four quarters of football and sometimes longer, so really good opponent.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot of respect for them, um, you know.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have a practice today and get out there
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Speaker 1: and get ourselves ready to go and the big four
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Speaker 1: Eastern Times CBS window on Sunday, the game that we
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Speaker 1: have been waiting for. James Palmer is gonna be there.
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. Good to see you, Bucky back with us
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Speaker 1: as well, James. It's the number two total defense in
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Speaker 1: the NFL here that Leslie Fraser has and that defense
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Speaker 1: is getting a little healthier, which would help against Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 1: It does, and it helps on your defensive line is healthy,
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Speaker 1: a spot that they've invested so much in Andrew and
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Speaker 1: they were dominant last week when they were all healthy
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Speaker 1: for the first time this season up front. And the Bills,
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Speaker 1: no matter who's been playing up there, don't really blitz
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Speaker 1: as a defense really at all. And we know what
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Speaker 1: happens if you do blitz Matt Patrick Mahomes, he usually
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Speaker 1: burns you. But they get pressure from the inside. They
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Speaker 1: get it from the outside from Gregor Russo or or
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Speaker 1: von Miller. And we saw on Monday night when the
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Speaker 1: Raiders didn't really blitz Patrick Mahomes early and they were
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Speaker 1: getting home with three. They were getting home with four,
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Speaker 1: and then Travis Kelsey's impact actually affected their pass rushers.
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Speaker 1: And we'll see if that does anything to the pass
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Speaker 1: rushers of the Bills on Sunday, because they started moving
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Speaker 1: Max Crosby outside of Patrick, outside of Travis Kelsey and
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Speaker 1: trying to chip him at the line of scrimmage. When
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Speaker 1: I when I talked to some of the guys Bucky
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Speaker 1: within the Chiefs, they were curious, going, why are you
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Speaker 1: moving these great pass rushers that were effective in the
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Speaker 1: first half farther away from our quarterback to try to
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Speaker 1: impact Travis Kelly. See, they just really didn't understand what
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Speaker 1: the Raiders were doing. We'll see what that defensive line
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Speaker 1: up front and the Bills decide to do to try
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Speaker 1: to slow down Travis Kelsey. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: with all of them healthy, it's a little bit easier,
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Speaker 1: easier to go after Patrick Mahomes. You know, it's interesting
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Speaker 1: about the Buffalo Bills, and we can talk about their
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Speaker 1: defense because defense has to step up, but this is
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Speaker 1: a personal game for the Buffalo Bills, and I can
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Speaker 1: equate it to when I was with the Green Bay
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Speaker 1: Packers in the mid nineties and the Dallas Cowboys were
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Speaker 1: the bully on the block. It was an obsession to
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Speaker 1: finally knock them off and to get to that point.
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Speaker 1: But the Buffalo Bills have to be careful. They can't
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Speaker 1: try and knock out the KNA City Chiefs in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter. All that anxiety, all that anxiousness and enthusiasm
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Speaker 1: ready to get after it, it can wear them down.
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Speaker 1: This has to be a game where Sean mcderhay stands
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Speaker 1: up front of the team and says, slowly but surely,
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Speaker 1: we have the methodically knock out the champion, slowly but surely,
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Speaker 1: throwing jazz before we throw the hay maker. We cannot
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Speaker 1: try to knock him out in the first quarter. If
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Speaker 1: we do that, we're gonna punch ourselves out and the
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Speaker 1: kNN City Chiefs will come back and at them in
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Speaker 1: the end. This has to be a fool sixty minute
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Speaker 1: effort foot the Buffalo Bills to be able to get
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Speaker 1: this dub. I guess you can't see the absolutely and
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Speaker 1: let's go back to the chief side of thing here.
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Speaker 1: Things James Obviously, all this attention of Chris Jones after
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Speaker 1: you know, the rough and to passer call on Monday Night.
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Speaker 1: There are other guys on that defense, um, including number
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Speaker 1: thirty two, who is a pretty special guy. And Nick
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Speaker 1: Bolton should start getting some attention League y ander what
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Speaker 1: he's doing at the middle linebacker spot. He's tied for
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Speaker 1: ninth in the NFL and tackles, but nobody's sitting above
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Speaker 1: him on that list has more sacks or tackles for loss.
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Speaker 1: And they really believe he is a tackling machine. Andy
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Speaker 1: Reid said it after Monday night's game. He said, it
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Speaker 1: was just it was unbelievable. I don't think there's a
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Speaker 1: better tackler in the NFL than Nick Bolton and what
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Speaker 1: they've seen now in his second years, he runs this
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Speaker 1: entire defense. Is The coaching staff and I've talked to them,
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Speaker 1: believe he has a photographic memory. He sees things once,
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Speaker 1: recognizes them and then he's able to do it. And
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Speaker 1: they use that and he uses that for his anticipation
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Speaker 1: pre snap, where they believe he is very effective and sucky.
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Speaker 1: The reason I bring this up is you have to
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Speaker 1: have a shure tackler in the middle of the field
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Speaker 1: when you're going against Josh Allen and he starts to
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Speaker 1: carry the football He's led the Bills in rushing four
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Speaker 1: of their five games, and he is a big bodied
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Speaker 1: player that you're gonna try to take down. It might
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Speaker 1: be Nick Bolton. It's very important about what he sees
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Speaker 1: in Josh Allen carrying the football and his ability to
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Speaker 1: make tackles to where they don't have extended plays with
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, which we've seen running. Yeah, that's a big
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Speaker 1: part of it, and I'm glad that you put a
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Speaker 1: little spotlight on Nick Bolton. He's been one of the
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Speaker 1: best players that we've seen on defense for the Kanna
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Speaker 1: City Chiefs and he probably deserved to go a little
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Speaker 1: higher in the draft when he came out. But for
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Speaker 1: the Kanna City Chiefs, their best defense might be their offense,
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Speaker 1: meaning Andy Reid has to maybe lean into the running game.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like I say this all the time,
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Speaker 1: but because they don't have the explosive element, it may
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Speaker 1: need to be a little more ball control because right now,
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Speaker 1: when you look at these teams, the Buffalo Bills are
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Speaker 1: the far more explosive offense. So that might mean a
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Speaker 1: little more running, a little more screen game, a little
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Speaker 1: more eight nine ten play drives to keep Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: and Company on the sideline, because as much as I
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Speaker 1: want to see your shootout for the Kansas City Chiefs,
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Speaker 1: they may not want to get in a shoot up
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Speaker 1: with this explosive Buffalo Bills team. This might be a
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Speaker 1: little different for Kansas City to play a little half
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Speaker 1: court basketball and instead of fast breaking like they normally
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Speaker 1: like to do against these teams. And going back to
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Speaker 1: Nick Bolton real quick for those who said, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: he wears thirty two. Now, yes, he did switch his
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Speaker 1: number after Timer and Matthew left in the offseason. Nick
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Speaker 1: Bolton want to four Chiefs defenders with at least two sacks.
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Speaker 1: Thank you James, Thank you Bucky coming up next? Do
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Speaker 1: you like underdogs? Nick Shook does, And I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: mess his name up next NFL Now, NFL that work,
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Speaker 1: getting ready for the Dolphins and the Vikings coming up
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and getting ready for Skyler Thompson likely at quarterback.
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Speaker 1: But the good news is to a tongue of Ioloa
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Speaker 1: is back on the field today, still in concussion protocol,
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Speaker 1: timeline uncertain, but he's not gonna play this week. This
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Speaker 1: video shop by R cam Wolfe vertically obviously favoring Instagram
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Speaker 1: over Twitter. Camp with us Live now from Miami Cam.
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Speaker 1: What do we know about to his status? Yeah, Andrew
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Speaker 1: today was actually two a ton of valois. First time
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Speaker 1: on the field since that scary concussion nearly two weeks
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Speaker 1: ago against the Bengals, and he ran onto the field
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Speaker 1: with a wide smile, dapping up teammates, joking around with
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Speaker 1: his quarterback coach Darryl Bevil, and he looked like normal
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Speaker 1: to as far as his personality and his vibe. And
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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel made clear today that Tool will not play
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Speaker 1: Sunday versus the Vikings. He's progressed enough in the concussion
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Speaker 1: protocol that he's able to get on the field. He
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Speaker 1: was able to throw today, He was able to go
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Speaker 1: through stretch and individual drills, and as I watched him
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Speaker 1: during practice, he put his hands up when he went
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Speaker 1: to the throwing session and said, hey, I want the ball,
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Speaker 1: and he deferred to Skylett Thompson, as you mentioned, who
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Speaker 1: will be the expected weeks starting quarterback, McDaniel said today,
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Speaker 1: but he also threw passes today. He threw him up
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Speaker 1: to thirty yards on the field and he looked good
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Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Now the team is still being cautious
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Speaker 1: with him and he'll have to clear the protocol to
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Speaker 1: be able to get to full activity. But this is
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Speaker 1: a good sign for to a good sign from the Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: I was walking around the team locker room today and
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Speaker 1: just hearing from people about the importance of too, of
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Speaker 1: being back on the field, and for the Dolphins, they
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Speaker 1: will move forward with Skyler Thompson as their starting quarterback.
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Speaker 1: McDaniel said. Teddy Bridgewater, who was actually out at practice
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Speaker 1: with trainers today, he is still progressing through that protocol.
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Speaker 1: The hope is that Thursday he will be able to
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Speaker 1: participate in a limited basis. But even if Teddy clears
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Speaker 1: protocol by Friday or Saturday, mc daniel told me today
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Speaker 1: that he would be the backup for Skylar Thompson. So
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins will start their rookie seventh round pick, Skylar
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Speaker 1: Thompson for his first career start against the Vikings, guy
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Speaker 1: who came in off the bench and played the overwhelming
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Speaker 1: majority of that game this past Sunday, when Bridgewater was
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Speaker 1: taken off the field on the first possession the game
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Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. Thank you. That's Cam Wolf Live in Miami.
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Speaker 1: Will check in on them in a little bit. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's check in on some underdogs in the game in
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Speaker 1: the a f C South is how We're gonna start
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Speaker 1: with Nick Shook, who is all shook up. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not messing up Nick's name because it is a tongue
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Speaker 1: twister with the name of this segment. Hi, Nick, Colts
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Speaker 1: and Jaguars, let's do that one. This game is in
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis and DraftKings has the Jaguars as the underdog here.
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Speaker 1: What do you like about Jacksonville in this one? Drevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence has taken a step back in the last two weeks.
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Speaker 1: Some might say he's even regressed. But if there's a
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Speaker 1: team that I like him to get back on track against,
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Speaker 1: it's the team that the Jaguars have already beaten in
17:41
Speaker 1: shutout fashion earlier this season. Now, the Colts bring a
17:44
Speaker 1: strong defense into this matchup, but I have almost no
17:47
Speaker 1: confidence in their offense. And if I have to put
17:49
Speaker 1: a matchup between these two teams, I'm gonna take the
17:51
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense, which can be punchy, and their offense that
17:54
Speaker 1: needs to get back on track but is also coordinated
17:56
Speaker 1: by Doug Peterson. I'm gonna take them over a Colts
17:58
Speaker 1: offense that's dead last and scoring in total offense. I
18:02
Speaker 1: trust Peterson to figure things out with this quarterback, to
18:05
Speaker 1: get him back to where he was in the first
18:07
Speaker 1: month or so of the season, and and kind of
18:09
Speaker 1: restart this Jaguars train moving forward and get that sweep
18:13
Speaker 1: of the Colt Another year, Nick, in which your favorite team,
18:16
Speaker 1: the Browns, plays Bill Belichick, former head coach and the Patriots.
18:19
Speaker 1: At this time, the game is in Cleveland, where Belichick
18:23
Speaker 1: and the Patriots are an underdog according to draft Kings.
18:26
Speaker 1: But you like them well because I don't like the
18:30
Speaker 1: Browns defense whatsoever I was gonna says Belichick or a
18:34
Speaker 1: they can't tackle thing. Yeah, it's that. It's that they
18:37
Speaker 1: can't tackle that. You don't know if they're gonna be
18:39
Speaker 1: good against the past, they're gonna be good against the run,
18:41
Speaker 1: or bad against both. Last week it was bad against both.
18:43
Speaker 1: Earlier the season it was the past and then it
18:45
Speaker 1: was the run. Their ninetieth in total defense and rushing defense.
18:49
Speaker 1: This is a Patriots offense that's in the top ten
18:51
Speaker 1: and rushing Ramadre Stevenson just set a career high for
18:53
Speaker 1: Carrie's and yards last week, so I don't care if
18:56
Speaker 1: it's Mac Jones or Bailey z Affy playing quarterback. It
18:58
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me because if it's a close one,
19:00
Speaker 1: which every Browns game except for the Thursday night game
19:02
Speaker 1: against the Steelers has been, well, then the pay it sure.
19:05
Speaker 1: It's a probably gonna have an opportunity to rip off
19:07
Speaker 1: a big play against this defense. And that's why I'm
19:10
Speaker 1: confident in them going to Cleveland where Bill Bill Belichick
19:13
Speaker 1: I had plenty of success in the past. Yeah, if
19:15
Speaker 1: you go back to the t NF game you're referring to,
19:17
Speaker 1: which allegedly wasn't close. It actually could have been close,
19:19
Speaker 1: but the on site kick, well almost happened, all right.
19:23
Speaker 1: NFC East Sunday Night Cowboys with Cooper Rush, Mike McCarthy says,
19:28
Speaker 1: are underdogs according to Draft Kings on the road against
19:30
Speaker 1: undefeated Philadelphia. But you you kind of like the Cowboys here, Well,
19:34
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said last week, where nobody's underdogs, and then
19:36
Speaker 1: he would out and back that up. His team riding
19:39
Speaker 1: that defense gotta win over the Rams made me look
19:41
Speaker 1: good too, So I'm gonna double down with them and
19:43
Speaker 1: stick with them again against them much better offense, than
19:46
Speaker 1: the Eagles, but it is a rivalry game, and you
19:48
Speaker 1: know how those tend to go. You throw the records
19:50
Speaker 1: out between the Eagles and the Cowboys, and and the
19:54
Speaker 1: Cowboys do have a history of getting after Jalen Hurts.
19:56
Speaker 1: He's got a three or four touchdown interception ratio against
19:58
Speaker 1: the Cowboys as a starter passer rating below eighty. Now
20:01
Speaker 1: that's not a huge sample size, but that's way below
20:04
Speaker 1: than where they right now, which is the number two offense,
20:06
Speaker 1: their top ten in every category except for sacks allowed.
20:09
Speaker 1: So if I'm gonna bang on one of these two
20:11
Speaker 1: teams getting a winning a close one, I'm gonna go
20:13
Speaker 1: with a team that's got the really good defense, even
20:15
Speaker 1: though the Eagle defense is also good. Let's go with
20:17
Speaker 1: the Cowboys again. We are gonna talk for hours, I know,
20:20
Speaker 1: on this network, hours before the Bills and the Chiefs
20:23
Speaker 1: about that colossal playoff rematch from a year ago for
20:27
Speaker 1: the first time in Patrick Mahomes history the era. If
20:31
Speaker 1: you will with him at quarterback for the Chiefs, they
20:33
Speaker 1: are home underdogs here to the Bills. According to Draft Kings,
20:37
Speaker 1: you like the home team. It speaks to the power
20:40
Speaker 1: of the Bills. But I also think there's a psychological
20:42
Speaker 1: factor that we may be ignoring because we know how
20:45
Speaker 1: the Bill season has ended the last couple of years
20:47
Speaker 1: with a loss to Kansas City in Kansas City. This
20:49
Speaker 1: time they're in Orchard Park. You know, maybe not, but
20:52
Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind. It doesn't matter based on setting
20:54
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen here because I still trust Patrick Mahomes
20:58
Speaker 1: more than I trust anybody else at quarterback not named
21:02
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to win a game like this. It's a
21:04
Speaker 1: legitimate toss up. Let's be honest. The Bill's offense is
21:06
Speaker 1: explosed to their defense has been a revelation. But again,
21:09
Speaker 1: the psychological factor matters, and I think that the Chief's
21:12
Speaker 1: ability to beat the Bills when it matters most well,
21:15
Speaker 1: it's certainly going to inspire the Bills, and it might
21:17
Speaker 1: just lead This Chief's offense, which does not lean on
21:20
Speaker 1: one or two players anymore, can spread the ball around
21:22
Speaker 1: tremendously as they did against the Raiders. I think they're
21:24
Speaker 1: gonna end up coming out on top. Nick Shook every
21:27
Speaker 1: week has his Underdogs NFL dot Com slash Underdogs Nick
21:33
Speaker 1: root for the Underdog Friday Night or Thursday Night at
21:36
Speaker 1: Yankee stadium. Thank you, Nick? Coming up? Oh yeah, we
21:39
Speaker 1: have buys this week. There are four teams on buy.
21:44
Speaker 1: So if you don't have Cooper Cup on your team,
21:47
Speaker 1: who shouldn't you be picking up? We'll tell you straight
21:50
Speaker 1: ahead and we'll see the Bears running on Thursday. Get
21:59
Speaker 1: to Chicago in a second of the meantime bunch of
22:01
Speaker 1: byes this week, So you know what time to sock
22:05
Speaker 1: the fantasy roster. You may not have these players on
22:08
Speaker 1: your team. Maybe you need a quarterback this week. If so,
22:12
Speaker 1: what do you think, Claibn. It's Wednesday in the fantasy
22:18
Speaker 1: football world, so you know what that means. Time to
22:20
Speaker 1: pay attention to the waiver wire, Cynthia, Who do people
22:22
Speaker 1: need to go get right now? If you need a quarterback,
22:25
Speaker 1: maybe you have someone on a bike, go get Geno Smith.
22:28
Speaker 1: Why he gets a very good matchup this week. I mean, look,
22:31
Speaker 1: you're watching the Saints video. He threw three touchdowns against
22:34
Speaker 1: the Saints defense. That's ridiculous. Now he gets the Arizona Cardinals,
22:38
Speaker 1: who is a much more favorable generous even to opposing quarterbacks.
22:43
Speaker 1: And he's available in seventy percent of NFL dot Com league,
22:46
Speaker 1: so you can probably get him. I think one of
22:49
Speaker 1: the biggest positions of need is at the tight end spot,
22:52
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be looking at Hayden Hurst this week.
22:54
Speaker 1: He has receiving touchdowns in back to back games. He
22:57
Speaker 1: has tied for second on the team with six red
23:00
Speaker 1: zone targets, led the team in receiving yards against Baltimore
23:04
Speaker 1: and week five, and with an injury that he Higgins,
23:07
Speaker 1: he could see his role increase this week. I think
23:10
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker as someone you should be really aggressive after
23:13
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire. He's third amongst running backs and
23:16
Speaker 1: yards per rush at over six right now, and last
23:19
Speaker 1: year in college he led all running backs in miss
23:21
Speaker 1: tackles force and was second and explosive place behind only
23:24
Speaker 1: Malik Willis. He's going to get a lot of volume
23:27
Speaker 1: on an offense and playing much better than we expected
23:29
Speaker 1: Geno Smith included. So I say go and get another Seahawk.
23:33
Speaker 1: Add Kenneth Walker this week. I'm gonna give you guys
23:35
Speaker 1: another streaming option at quarterback, and that is justin fields
23:38
Speaker 1: who've seen us scoring increase week after week out. A
23:41
Speaker 1: solid performance in the second half against the Minnesota Vikings,
23:44
Speaker 1: and now it's a commander's team that's in the bottom
23:47
Speaker 1: ten in scoring against quarterbacks. So have justin Fields this week,
23:51
Speaker 1: maybe keep an eye on playing him more in the future.
23:55
Speaker 1: All Right, So that's a look at the waiver wire.
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24:08
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24:13
Speaker 1: two and a half weeks before Halloween. They're going All
24:17
Speaker 1: Orange against the Commanders, who, by the way, we'll have
24:21
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. The shoulder is okay. I don't want to
24:27
Speaker 1: go in depth about Thursday Night Football and this then
24:30
Speaker 1: the other I will say it is physically, by far,
24:32
Speaker 1: the hardest week of the season. I mean, it is
24:34
Speaker 1: not even close in my opinion. Um, you wake up
24:37
Speaker 1: Monday morning, You're like, holy crap, I gotta play in
24:39
Speaker 1: three days, you know, And um, it's hard. It's hard
24:42
Speaker 1: on our bodies. It's hard on on those things. And
24:44
Speaker 1: anytime it's a head injury especially, that's very concerning. But um,
24:48
Speaker 1: you know, this is our job, is what we do,
24:51
Speaker 1: and we find a way to get out there. Thursday
24:53
Speaker 1: Night and hopefully deliver. We have protocols, We've got renewed
24:57
Speaker 1: protocols we have to follow and we have to be
25:00
Speaker 1: very diligent about that. And I think you know, if
25:03
Speaker 1: you want to do anything, you you you can put
25:06
Speaker 1: it on the league, you can put it on the team,
25:09
Speaker 1: you can put it on the NFL p A. But
25:11
Speaker 1: the player also has to be honest and upfront. You know,
25:14
Speaker 1: you can't hide anything. You can't try to figure out
25:16
Speaker 1: how I can cheat through my way through it. This
25:19
Speaker 1: is about health and safety and and we have to
25:21
Speaker 1: put it on our individual selves to make sure that
25:23
Speaker 1: those things are followed and done properly. And you know,
25:26
Speaker 1: and if not, in something happens, there's going to be accountability.
25:30
Speaker 1: And obviously health and safety is certainly a factor here
25:32
Speaker 1: for any team on any night, including on Thursday night,
25:36
Speaker 1: Mike grd is live in Chicago at Hollis Halls. We
25:38
Speaker 1: get ready for this one and try to look big
25:40
Speaker 1: picture on Ron Rivera's team, like, uh, there are some divisions.
25:43
Speaker 1: Let's say where one win has only a game and
25:46
Speaker 1: a half back. If you're Houston had a first place
25:48
Speaker 1: to two back whatever. In the NFC East, the one
25:52
Speaker 1: win commanders um are in trouble. Yeah, Andrew, that's a
25:57
Speaker 1: good way to put it. In the immediate aftermath of
25:59
Speaker 1: their latest loss, their fourth in a row, Ron Rivera
26:01
Speaker 1: was asked is it time to panic? And he said
26:04
Speaker 1: for you to the reporter, maybe, but not for me.
26:07
Speaker 1: And that's been his message to the players this week, saying, essentially, guys,
26:11
Speaker 1: we've had good practices. We have the pieces in place,
26:15
Speaker 1: but we need to take what we're doing on the
26:16
Speaker 1: practice field and let it translate to the game field.
26:20
Speaker 1: And it's just tightening up the details just a little bit.
26:22
Speaker 1: I talked to Jonathan Allen, their terrific defensive tackle, and
26:26
Speaker 1: he said he's been preaching to his guys you've got
26:28
Speaker 1: a control which you can control. And he said, look,
26:31
Speaker 1: I've been around teams that have gone in the wrong direction.
26:34
Speaker 1: He said, when panic sets in, your season is over.
26:37
Speaker 1: So again, a message from one of the leaders, Terry McLaurin, said, look,
26:40
Speaker 1: we understand what's in the room. We have confidence in
26:43
Speaker 1: what's in the room, but we tighten up those defaelts.
26:46
Speaker 1: This the self inflicted penalties they had seven penalties are
26:49
Speaker 1: rather nine penalties for seventy one yards in the last game.
26:52
Speaker 1: You you can't do that. They fumbled four snaps, the
26:55
Speaker 1: center quarterback exchange wasn't good. Those are the sources of
26:57
Speaker 1: things that make the difference in winning and losing close games,
27:01
Speaker 1: right and right now. That one Washington win, I'm pulling
27:04
Speaker 1: it up right now was not even in the division. No,
27:07
Speaker 1: it was in the division. They beat the Giants here,
27:08
Speaker 1: so at least they have that in hand. Um. Let's
27:11
Speaker 1: get back to Carson Wentz here, Mike Uhum. He has
27:14
Speaker 1: put up if you're playing fantasy, some some really good numbers.
27:17
Speaker 1: It's not always winning football, however, Yeah, and Carson Wentz
27:22
Speaker 1: I think has handled this week. And as we talked about,
27:24
Speaker 1: I guess you want to call it a controversy if
27:26
Speaker 1: you will, Rivera's comments about the quarterback position, which of
27:29
Speaker 1: course yesterday he walked back and said, I just didn't
27:31
Speaker 1: finish my thought. That's on me. I should know better.
27:34
Speaker 1: But Wentz is dealt with that very well, I thought,
27:37
Speaker 1: and in his press conference yesterday when just talking about
27:40
Speaker 1: the team and generally said, it's really about consistency, not
27:43
Speaker 1: just for me, but for the entire team, and it's
27:46
Speaker 1: the little things that we have to clean up and
27:48
Speaker 1: he said, look, and I have to make certain throws.
27:50
Speaker 1: And there's been a couple of games where I've had
27:52
Speaker 1: throws to make and I haven't made them, you know,
27:54
Speaker 1: tidening up on third down. They were one of eleven
27:56
Speaker 1: on third down in that game last week. But he
27:59
Speaker 1: projected a lot of confidence this week. And I know
28:01
Speaker 1: when talking to the players in that locker room through
28:03
Speaker 1: the phone this uh, this week, you know that they said, hey,
28:06
Speaker 1: we believe in Carson. We've got his back. We understand
28:10
Speaker 1: that this is a process. He's new to this team,
28:12
Speaker 1: it's just been five games, but they say they have
28:14
Speaker 1: faith in him. And I thought he carried himself very
28:17
Speaker 1: well this week. I want to clean one thing up.
28:18
Speaker 1: I was looking at last year's schedule, the one Washington
28:21
Speaker 1: win game Week one against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are
28:24
Speaker 1: still not in the NFC East. Thank you majority in Chicago,
28:30
Speaker 1: the NFC North there and at Thursday night in football
28:33
Speaker 1: keeping it in the NFC North. No practice today for
28:37
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Matt Lafleura on the podium moments ago said
28:42
Speaker 1: it's a thumb injury, but it is not any concern
28:46
Speaker 1: for Sunday. The floora said, they're just giving Rogers a
28:49
Speaker 1: day to rest. He should be good to go for
28:51
Speaker 1: the Packers and the Jets at Lambeau. Well they'll Beckham Jr.
28:55
Speaker 1: Was here in l A when the Rams unveiled their
28:58
Speaker 1: championship banner and held up the Lombardi before losing to
29:02
Speaker 1: the Bills. He is still, however, not ready to return
29:06
Speaker 1: to football, being rapp Report reported this past Sunday that
29:09
Speaker 1: he's looking at mid November. O'Dell is on Twitter this
29:13
Speaker 1: morning clapping back and some people suggesting why don't you
29:17
Speaker 1: just go back to the Rams right now? He said
29:20
Speaker 1: the offer necessary isn't necessarily there. Despite the fact that
29:24
Speaker 1: so many of us am not going to read the
29:26
Speaker 1: whole thing. You could read it, look it up at
29:27
Speaker 1: O b J. So many of us just assume he's
29:30
Speaker 1: going to go back to the Rams because the Rams,
29:32
Speaker 1: I think for months have felt comfortable that they have
29:35
Speaker 1: a good relationship Judy Batista and that it would work
29:39
Speaker 1: one of these days. Where do you think is the
29:41
Speaker 1: best fit? I still think the Rams are the best
29:45
Speaker 1: fit for O. B J. First of all, he went
29:47
Speaker 1: in there and was super productive. He was a force
29:50
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game, he seemed to have almost
29:53
Speaker 1: instant rapport with Matthew Stafford. He was a great system fit.
29:56
Speaker 1: They also could use them. They're missing Van Jefferson. He
29:59
Speaker 1: would be a great reliable weapon on the other side
30:01
Speaker 1: from Cooper Cup And I would just say this, he's
30:05
Speaker 1: coming off a major injury. If you're coming off a
30:07
Speaker 1: major injury, you know he's not going to go to
30:09
Speaker 1: a team that's not a contender or with the great quarterback.
30:12
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you want to return to a team that
30:15
Speaker 1: you already know the system, you already know the personnel,
30:18
Speaker 1: you already know the coach will put you in a
30:20
Speaker 1: position for success. I know b J says the offer
30:23
Speaker 1: wasn't there, but I still think when the time comes
30:26
Speaker 1: to Rams for the best landing spot, what do you
30:31
Speaker 1: say now? I think O, b J should go to
30:33
Speaker 1: the Rams When you think about what the Rams have.
30:36
Speaker 1: The offer is the system, is the familiarity, it's a
30:38
Speaker 1: coaching staff that found a way to elevate his game
30:41
Speaker 1: after he was languishing in Cleveland. Yeah, to me, it's
30:45
Speaker 1: the best fit. But Odell has a point. The money
30:48
Speaker 1: has to be right, the money especially has to be
30:50
Speaker 1: right down and he's seen the RAM struggle and become
30:52
Speaker 1: one dimension with Cooper Cup. In the end, I think
30:55
Speaker 1: the Rams will be where he ends up because it
30:57
Speaker 1: makes too many, too much sense on all different aspects
31:01
Speaker 1: from the RAM standpoint and offer from O b J standpoint.
31:05
Speaker 1: I remember when they signed O b J last year,
31:09
Speaker 1: it was it was so odd because Robert woulds end
31:11
Speaker 1: up getting hurt right after that, and then here's O
31:14
Speaker 1: b J. And he just fit in perfectly all the
31:16
Speaker 1: way into the super Bowl where he looked like he
31:19
Speaker 1: was gonna be the guy that was going to dominate
31:21
Speaker 1: that game until the injury. That the fit is perfect.
31:24
Speaker 1: He loves l A, it's a great system. He trusts
31:27
Speaker 1: the quarterback. He doesn't mind being number two to Cooper Cup.
31:31
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would. So he he loves the
31:33
Speaker 1: role right there. The money might come around. The Rams
31:36
Speaker 1: have always found a way to fit guys in, you know,
31:39
Speaker 1: the regardless of what the cap and all these other
31:41
Speaker 1: things are, they find a way. And so I still
31:44
Speaker 1: think that's the best fit. And you could project in
31:46
Speaker 1: all these other places and do they have the quarterback?
31:49
Speaker 1: Will he be patient with them? Will he fit in?
31:52
Speaker 1: Like you know, the fit is the right fit in
31:55
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I think the other thing too is tomorrow's
31:58
Speaker 1: eight months to the day from the injury. The guy
32:01
Speaker 1: is not yet ready to play football. And I think
32:03
Speaker 1: you also have the question, and this goes to the
32:05
Speaker 1: price tag as well. If he is ready mid November,
32:09
Speaker 1: is he effective in mid November? These things take times.
32:13
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