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The Insiders Podcast: AFC North Camp Countdown and Jaguars Head Coach Doug Pederson · NFL Game Previews

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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, everybody, and welcome to the Insiders. I am
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Speaker 1: Steve White's here at our Inglewood, California newsroom, and in
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Speaker 1: just a few minutes A're gonna be joined by NFL
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Speaker 1: Media's Bucky Brooks and Nick Shook. But later in the show,
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Speaker 1: Colorado head football coach Dion Sanders and his son, his quarterback,
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Speaker 1: Shador Sanders, they're gonna sit down for a little chat
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Speaker 1: as well Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson. Plus we're gonna
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Speaker 1: be talking AFC North storylines a little bit later. But first,
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Speaker 1: Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson, who signed a four year,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty million dollar contract this offseason, said
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Speaker 1: on The Rich Eisen Show that he understands why quarterback
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins left Minnesota for Atlanta, but thinks the Vikings
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Speaker 1: will remain competitive with Sam Darnold or JJ McCarthy at
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Speaker 1: the helm.
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Speaker 2: I feel like he just wanted a new start, the
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Speaker 2: new opt trinity to you know, start with Atlanta and
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Speaker 2: uh a clean slate. And I'm not mad at him
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Speaker 2: at all of that. I'm grateful for what he has
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Speaker 2: brought to me. And you know the things that we
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Speaker 2: have accomplished together. But you know, at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, it's a business, and you know, you gotta
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Speaker 2: do what you gotta do for yourself and for your family.
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Speaker 2: And uh, I clearly understand that. Uh, but you know,
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's on to the next. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: if it wis Kirk or if it's Sam, or if
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Speaker 2: it's JJ. You know I'm going to make them, you know,
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Speaker 2: make him make it as easy as possible for right.
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Speaker 1: Now, joined my former NFL player, NFL scout and current
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Speaker 1: NFL media analyst Bucky Brooks and Buck, you heard JJ
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Speaker 1: right there, you know, talk about they're gonna make the
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Speaker 1: new whoever's the quarterback better? But how can JJ and
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Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, Addison and some of those other players help
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Speaker 1: whether it's JJ McCarthy or Sham Darnold succeed.
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Speaker 3: So, Steve, if you've listened to the Move the Six podcast,
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Speaker 3: you've heard his break quarterbacks down into trucks or trailers,
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Speaker 3: meaning a truck is one that carries the rest of
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Speaker 3: the team. A trailer is one that the rest of
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Speaker 3: the team carries the quarterback. Well, in Minnesota, they may
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Speaker 3: have the best supporting.
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Speaker 4: Cast in football.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to being able to elevate the.
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Speaker 4: Play of a quarterback.
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Speaker 3: So a trailer and Sam Donald or JJ McCarthy should
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Speaker 3: be fine because Justin Jefferson, George Addison, Aaron Jones, they're
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Speaker 3: all going to be able to make plays regardless of
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Speaker 3: who is distributing the ball. The thing that Kevin O'Connell does,
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Speaker 3: because he also plays a part in that, is he's
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Speaker 3: a great play designer. He's going to make sure that
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Speaker 3: the game is easy for the quarterback quarterback for Riendley's
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Speaker 3: system that puts the ball in the hands of the
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Speaker 3: playmakers and optimal situations. To me, it really doesn't matter
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Speaker 3: who is the quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. This offense
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Speaker 3: is going to score points. We saw it last year
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Speaker 3: with Nick Mullins and Josh Dobbs. They're going to be
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Speaker 3: an effective offense because the weapons on the perimeter and
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Speaker 3: the play caller that is making sure the life is
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Speaker 3: easy for the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, some people say that's going on with the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers, with how that supporting cast helps along Rock Purty.
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Speaker 1: So really good stuff right there. But Bucky, let's take
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Speaker 1: a look at the Vikings schedule. When it comes to
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Speaker 1: maybe deciding on when to make a quarterback change. If
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Speaker 1: they do. To JJ McCarthy, that, my friend, is a
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Speaker 1: brutal first half of the schedule. When you're looking at
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers Texans Packers, just look at weeks
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Speaker 1: two through nine. That Week five game in London versus
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Speaker 1: the Jets. So bucky when it comes to deciding who
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Speaker 1: their quarterback is going to be. And everything we've heard
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Speaker 1: on in Minnesota, Sam Darnold, the veteran, is the leader
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Speaker 1: of the pack, but they drafted JJ McCarthy to one
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Speaker 1: day be their guy. How should Kevin O'Connell the Vikings
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Speaker 1: go about making that type of decision.
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Speaker 3: So what the Minnesota Vikings did was really smart. They
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Speaker 3: backstopped the quarterback position, meaning they had a veteran quarterback
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Speaker 3: in place who has enough experience to be the starter.
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Speaker 4: You have a young, inexperienced quarterback.
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Speaker 3: Remember J McCarthy only hit twenty eight career starts at Michigan.
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Speaker 3: In a perfect world, you will let Sam Donald do
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Speaker 3: a lot of the heavy lifting early in the season,
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Speaker 3: and then when JJ McCarthy shows you're on the practice
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Speaker 3: field that he's ready to take over, you give him
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Speaker 3: that opportunity. But really, I believe this is Sam Donald's
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Speaker 3: job to lose. I believe there are a lot of
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Speaker 3: people in Minnesota that believe he is a guy who
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Speaker 3: hasn't really been around a talented supporting cast. This would
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Speaker 3: give him an opportunity to really show the talents that
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Speaker 3: made him a top pick years ago.
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Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connor's going.
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Speaker 3: To do everything in his power to really elevate Sam Donald.
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Speaker 3: This is Sam Donald's final chance to really carve out
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Speaker 3: a nice career.
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Speaker 4: Look for him to take advantage of that.
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Speaker 5: And then maybe after a year, maybe like Baker Mayfield did,
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Speaker 5: maybe he has a great year, goals that Parlay's it
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Speaker 5: somewhere else, and then JJ McCarthy becomes a quarterback in
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Speaker 5: the middle of the season or maybe at the end
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Speaker 5: of the season, going into next year, he's a QB
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Speaker 5: one for the Minnesota Viking.
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Speaker 1: Well, see, this is what training campus for Bucky, because
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Speaker 1: who knows, Maybe JJ McCarthy gets the guys around him
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Speaker 1: to play better. Maybe he's that truck instead of the
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Speaker 1: trailer that you were talking about earlier. Well, speaking of
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Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, Bucky, he was in la last night for
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Speaker 1: the premiere of the New series Receiver, which documents his
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three season along with Deebo Samuel, Devonte Adams,
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Speaker 1: George Kittle, and aman Ros Saint Brown. You see all
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Speaker 1: of them there, besides besides Deebo Samuel, you can now
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Speaker 1: stream that show on Netflix. It is out there for
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Speaker 1: the full season and new today. The Scottsdale Police Department
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Speaker 1: released a following statement regarding former Panthers VP of Player
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Speaker 1: Personnel and former Arizona Cardinals defensive back Adrian Wilson. On
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Speaker 1: June first, just after oh six hundred hours, Wilson was
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Speaker 1: arrested at his home for domestic violence related charges of assault,
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Speaker 1: criminal damage, and disorderly conduct. All charges were misdemeanors. So
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Speaker 1: that statement adds context to a previous statement released over
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Speaker 1: the weekend by the Panthers Ownership Group and Entertainment, which
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Speaker 1: says Adrian Wilson will not continue in its position as
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Speaker 1: Vice President of Player of Personnel for the Carolina Panthers.
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Speaker 1: Consistent with our organizational policy on employee matters, we will
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Speaker 1: have no further comment.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: Today in Kansas City, you're looking at the Chiefs Equipment
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Speaker 1: staff loading up a truck with equipment bound for training
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Speaker 1: camp at Missouri Western State and Saint Joseph, Missouri. The
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Speaker 1: Chiefs open their back to back title defense with rookies
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Speaker 1: reporting in just six days. Veterans report on July twentieth.
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Speaker 1: So Bucky, let's bring back, let's bring you back in here,
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Speaker 1: and let's talk a little bit about the Chiefs and
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Speaker 1: their title defense and give us three storylines you think
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Speaker 1: are going to be at least two or three storylines
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Speaker 1: I should say that you think are going to be
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Speaker 1: hugely important to them getting back to another championship.
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Speaker 3: Well, all the attention is going to be on the
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Speaker 3: offense and Pat Mahomes because everyone wants to know who
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Speaker 3: is going to be the number.
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Speaker 4: One receiver in this fasting game.
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Speaker 3: And when I mean receiver, I'm talking about who's gonna
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Speaker 3: be the number one pass catcher. Yes, Travis Kelce comes back,
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Speaker 3: but Travis Kelsey is in the twilight of his career.
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Speaker 3: And then there's a lot of uncertainty on the other
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Speaker 3: weapons on the perimeter. You don't know what's gonna happen
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Speaker 3: with Rashid Rice once the league determines the suspension or not.
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Speaker 4: Then you have Hollywood Brown coming over.
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Speaker 3: But he has always dealt with a lot of injuries,
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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to
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Speaker 3: that receiver corps. Who is going to emerge as a
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Speaker 3: guy that Pat Mahomes can depend on. The last two years,
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Speaker 3: they've been able to do it with the hodspots of
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Speaker 3: playmakers getting it done.
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Speaker 4: Can they do it again? That's to be another question
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Speaker 4: in Kenni City.
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Speaker 1: Well, Bucky, we also just have some highlights there of
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Speaker 1: Xavior Worthy, the rookie out of Texas, the four to
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Speaker 1: two speed burner watching him right here. But let's also
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Speaker 1: flip it to the other side of the ball. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they just they traded away to Lugerius Sneed on the
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Speaker 1: defensive side. We know he was the lockdown corner. Remember
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Speaker 1: all the images of him shoving Tyreek Hill down into
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Speaker 1: the ground. What about that being something that could be
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Speaker 1: a potential concern.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is going to be a potential concern. The
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Speaker 4: Jerry Snead.
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Speaker 3: You're talking about a Pro Bowl caliber, high end cornerback,
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Speaker 3: one of the lockdown specialists in this league, who did
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Speaker 3: it in a very physical fashion. The thing about the
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Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs is they've been forward thinking when it
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Speaker 3: comes to building up their defense. The last couple of
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Speaker 3: years they have drafted defensive backs and put them on
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Speaker 3: the field. So even though the Jerry Sneid is a
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Speaker 3: huge loss, they have young guys ready to replace him.
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Speaker 3: You're talking about our Joshua Williams who has come in,
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Speaker 3: who has played a key role. You had Trent McDuffie,
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Speaker 3: who was an All Pro caliber player who plays on
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Speaker 3: the inside, but maybe he bounced on the outside. I'm
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Speaker 3: not as worried about their defense because what we do know,
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Speaker 3: Chris Jones and the guys up front are going to
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Speaker 3: rush the passer. They're going to get after Hi because
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Speaker 3: Steve Spagnulo is going to bring the heat that is
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Speaker 3: going to make life easy for the cornerbacks. I'm more
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Speaker 3: worried about their offense than defense. But even in saying that,
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Speaker 3: as long as you have number fifteen, you have a chance,
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Speaker 3: the Cancaity Chiefs are well positioned to maybe make a
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Speaker 3: three feet in this National Football League in a postseason.
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Speaker 1: Run quickly, Bucky, just from your experience as a scout,
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Speaker 1: as a player, and just evaluating film. Now, Trent McDuffie
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Speaker 1: again one of the better slot corners in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: moving outside for him with his skill set, would it
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Speaker 1: be an easy transition?
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Speaker 4: Well, look, man, he's really talented.
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Speaker 3: He's a high IQ player, great technique, tremendous fundamentals when
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Speaker 3: it comes to playing the position, and even though he's
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Speaker 3: been a start on the inside, he certainly can go outside.
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Speaker 3: The thing that you have to weigh if you're Steve
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Speaker 3: Spegnudo in the staff, do we weaken the defense by
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Speaker 3: moving him outside and taking away a key piece to
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Speaker 3: the defensive.
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Speaker 4: Puzzle over the middle of the field.
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Speaker 3: McDuffie's been so good, I would rather try another young
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Speaker 3: player on the outside see if they can hold up,
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Speaker 3: so we don't kind of ruin the chemistry and continuity
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Speaker 3: of the defense by moving Trent McDuffie from inside to outside.
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Speaker 1: So Buck, you know, since we're talking about cornerbacks, who's
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Speaker 1: one of the best cornerbacks of all time? Pro Football
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Speaker 1: Hall of.
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Speaker 7: Famer Prime time baby Don Sanders, Bucky, Oh yeah, the
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Speaker 7: new head coach were not the new head coach, but
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Speaker 7: the current head coach of the Colorado Buffalo's.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be joining you in me with his son,
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Speaker 1: shadur in just a minute. Come back for this on
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Speaker 1: the Insiders after the break, Welcome back to the insiders,
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Speaker 1: and you're looking at it as only Las Vegas can.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Twelve Media Days, the sixteen team
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Speaker 1: Big twelve at Allegian Stadium, that's come from the Big
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Speaker 1: twelve conference social posting page, and the Big Marquis team
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Speaker 1: and the big Marquee names joining media days. You're looking
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Speaker 1: at Colorado head coach Dion Sanders arriving in style leading
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Speaker 1: his group of elite players to the media days. And
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Speaker 1: if those players getting ready to step off that plane
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Speaker 1: right there, you're saying, is quarterback shadere Sanders and Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: Guess what? We're joined by coach Prime and should do
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Speaker 1: it right here, gentlemen, what's going on?
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Speaker 8: Good team?
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Speaker 1: He appreciates you joining us, Hey, Coach Prime. I want
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Speaker 1: to start off with this new beginnings once again with
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Speaker 1: Colorado now joining a new conference. Like I said, the
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Speaker 1: sixteen team Big twelve, what about the new fresh start
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Speaker 1: in the new conference.
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Speaker 6: Were excited.
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Speaker 9: We have the best commissioner I believe in the game,
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Speaker 9: and Brett I mean he's doing a phenomenal job. The
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Speaker 9: coaches have opened their arms and their hearts to me
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Speaker 9: to welcome me and they've been so they've been so wonderful, man.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel the love. I still feel the support.
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Speaker 9: They text me and call me if you need anything,
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Speaker 9: any advice on this and that. I mean so I
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Speaker 9: love that aspect of it. But I can't wait to play.
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Speaker 9: I can't wait to start getting it on. We've been
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Speaker 9: working out, but of all summer, man, I think we
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Speaker 9: have another week and a half of workouts in It's time.
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Speaker 9: They're gonna have a break, then they come back at
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Speaker 9: the end of the month to start gearing it up
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Speaker 9: for real.
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Speaker 3: You know, coaches, I'm gonna ask you something that you've
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Speaker 3: never had to do, but I'm gonna give you an
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Speaker 3: opportunity with your coaching had if your door centers was
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Speaker 3: on another team and you had to look at the tape,
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Speaker 3: what would scare you the most about facing your son
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Speaker 3: at quarterback.
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Speaker 9: Giving him time. I can't give him, sad. If I
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Speaker 9: give him time, I know what the result is gonna be.
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Speaker 9: If I give him time in the pocket, he's gonna
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Speaker 9: he gonna rip me up a little bit. And I
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Speaker 9: can't show my hand because you know, like I tell
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Speaker 9: him my corner. Sometimes guys quit showing him parallel feet,
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Speaker 9: parallel feet. He knows cover too, like, don't do that,
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Speaker 9: He'll check off on her practice. He's he's gonna do that.
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Speaker 9: And he sees the field really well. But one of
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Speaker 9: the main things that he does really well, and I
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Speaker 9: can say they're sitting right behind. He's a relational man.
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Speaker 9: I mean he's a relational person where he forged relationships.
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Speaker 9: Not only would his lineman because they love him the life.
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Speaker 9: He don't go anywhere with that them, but the running backs,
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Speaker 9: the receivers, I mean, the specialists, everyone on there. They
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Speaker 9: want to play for him, they want to go fight
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Speaker 9: for him, they want to ride with him.
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Speaker 1: So hearing something like that from your father, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure a lot of other coaches look at the film
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Speaker 1: the same way. But also living up to the expectation
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Speaker 1: that a lot of people have placed on you entering
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Speaker 1: the season. How do you feel about that?
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Speaker 8: Well, he ain't lying about anything he said. He ain't lying.
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Speaker 10: No, I mean the expectation and that it always been
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Speaker 10: there since day one. Uh, even in high school, even
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Speaker 10: in the league, we're always everybody's super Bowl. So uh,
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Speaker 10: really just inheriting the mindset from him, and when when
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Speaker 10: when he was playing in his days and him building
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Speaker 10: us up all the way from six years or old
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Speaker 10: running snakes all the way at the Prosper House, which
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Speaker 10: some time he probably forgot.
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Speaker 8: But I'm just thinking now, if I running his snake does.
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Speaker 6: An across the field up five yard, that's what he means,
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Speaker 6: not not with real snakes running.
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Speaker 10: I see that that right there, That that that makes
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Speaker 10: a grown man at you at a young age.
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Speaker 8: So now I.
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Speaker 10: Feel like he I kind of let him be kind
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Speaker 10: of cruise control now and I got to let me.
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Speaker 8: Ah, he gotta you build me up to this point
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Speaker 8: to be able to take over. So that's what it
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Speaker 8: is true that.
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Speaker 4: Coach.
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Speaker 3: One of the things that you do is you certainly
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Speaker 3: breathe a lot of confidence in all your players. But
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Speaker 3: another player that you've really been talking about has been
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Speaker 3: Travis Hunter.
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Speaker 4: You're one of the.
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Speaker 3: Last two way players, maybe the last two way player
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Speaker 3: in the NFL, and so Travis is doing it at
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Speaker 3: the collegiate level.
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Speaker 4: When you watch him. What makes Travis Hunts so.
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Speaker 6: Special Travis loves the game of football. Number one.
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Speaker 9: Secondly, travis athleticism is off the charts, and he's a
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Speaker 9: ball getter. Like when the ball's in the air. Offensively, defensively,
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Speaker 9: he's going to make the play. There's no fifty fifty
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Speaker 9: ball with Travis. When the ball was up there seventy thirty,
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Speaker 9: eighty twenty, he's going to go get the ball. Knows
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Speaker 9: that if he's one on one, just throw it up there.
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Speaker 9: He's gonna make a player get the pi at one
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Speaker 9: or the other. And the kid loves the game. Now
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Speaker 9: we challenge him to study his butt off so he's
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Speaker 9: prepared not only physically but mentally for the challenges week
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Speaker 9: to week.
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Speaker 6: But the worst thing to do is to take him
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Speaker 6: off the field. You want to keep him on the field.
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Speaker 9: And I get a kick out of all these uh
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Speaker 9: you know, I'm your quarterbacks and players telling me how
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Speaker 9: I should play him, how he shouldn't play at, how
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Speaker 9: many reps he should get during the game. They don't
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Speaker 9: understand he's gonna be more of a problem to you
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Speaker 9: on the sideline than on the field.
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Speaker 11: So let me put Let.
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Speaker 1: Me put it through this way, because earlier your dad
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Speaker 1: said at media days today he's the best, that Travis
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Speaker 1: Hunter is the best wide receiver and the best quarterback
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Speaker 1: in college football. So let me ask you this shouter,
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Speaker 1: would you prefer throwing the ball to him or challenging
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Speaker 1: him in practice when he's guarding some of those other
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Speaker 1: standout wide receivers you guys have.
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Speaker 8: I mean, well, of course throwing it to him.
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Speaker 10: But you get the best of both worlds though you
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Speaker 10: get Monday, Tuesday, he get to be on your team.
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Speaker 10: Then Wednesday Thursday he's on the opposite side of the ball.
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Speaker 8: So it's definitely competitive.
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Speaker 10: You know you're gonna be on your game a little
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Speaker 10: bit more when he's out there. So it gives a
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Speaker 10: receiver as a chance to challenge him and him challenge
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Speaker 10: the receivers. But you're not gonna go against a better
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Speaker 10: corner than Travis.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So on that note, we saw today the the
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Speaker 1: EA Sports College Football game rankings came out. Travis Hunters
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Speaker 1: rated at ninety five one the highest rated players in
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Speaker 1: college football in the game, and you're tied for at
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Speaker 1: ninety three for the highest rated quarterback in the game.
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Speaker 8: We know you guys love the game.
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Speaker 1: We knowever you like guys love to play.
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Speaker 8: What about that?
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Speaker 4: How's their tag? Like?
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Speaker 6: How's their tae?
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Speaker 8: I don't do it to them that?
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Speaker 9: Like do you do? You hate so bad that you
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Speaker 9: gotta give him a tax. Ain't no TAZ in football, like,
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Speaker 9: ain't no TA. You don't want no tae. No we
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Speaker 9: ain't we ain't accepting no tag, no tag. Just say
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Speaker 9: what it is, buy said, fucky you, but you know
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Speaker 9: you want of the best analysts.
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Speaker 6: I know now you know what I need information? Who
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Speaker 6: I call? I call you?
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Speaker 12: That's what I can't call.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know ta, Yeah, give him off this team
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Speaker 9: to take a little bit TVC.
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Speaker 6: What the record is?
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Speaker 4: I love it a prime.
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Speaker 3: I got to ask you this because you made some
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Speaker 3: changes on your coaching staff, and your coaching staff is
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Speaker 3: real heavy with NFL expertise and experience. What made you
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Speaker 3: go the pro route as opposed to adding more college
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Speaker 3: coaches around your project.
17:13
Speaker 9: That's a great question, man, brother, and I appreciate you
17:15
Speaker 9: asking me that I'm a pro. Man Like through thinking
17:20
Speaker 9: the thing, I'm a pro, and I think at another level,
17:24
Speaker 9: we have some tremendous college coaches on our staff, but
17:27
Speaker 9: when it comes to the coordinating and it comes to
17:31
Speaker 9: the majority of the staff, I want to be around
17:34
Speaker 9: guys that have been there, guys that have done that,
17:37
Speaker 9: because our lights are bright, man, and.
17:38
Speaker 6: I can't have you.
17:40
Speaker 9: You know, you guys getting big, You're getting a little sensitive,
17:43
Speaker 9: you're getting a little salty, getting a little fraid when.
17:46
Speaker 6: Things light up over there on that sideline.
17:48
Speaker 9: So I like pros because we've been there, we've done that,
17:51
Speaker 9: and we understand one another. But that's not taking nothing
17:54
Speaker 9: against our collegiate coaches that we have on staff. But
17:57
Speaker 9: I think right now, especially with the daily simmers, we
18:00
Speaker 9: have over one hundred and forty some years of pro
18:02
Speaker 9: experience on the sidelines, and that's relatable to where these
18:06
Speaker 9: young men want to go.
18:07
Speaker 6: It's hard to take somebody but you've never been well.
18:10
Speaker 1: Again, you our guy Warren sappis on your staff too.
18:13
Speaker 1: We know he's doing a good job of shoot out.
18:15
Speaker 1: You know one thing that you know I want to
18:16
Speaker 1: ask you because we know one of the great metrics
18:18
Speaker 1: when we talk about the best quarterbacks in the country
18:21
Speaker 1: at any level is touchdown the interception ratio last year
18:24
Speaker 1: twenty seven tds just to three interceptions. In your three
18:28
Speaker 1: year collegiate career, ninety seven touchdown passes.
18:30
Speaker 10: And don't forget you missed a game and a half
18:32
Speaker 10: last year too, well, you missed the game.
18:35
Speaker 1: That part too, Okay, you're reminded us. But in your
18:39
Speaker 1: college career, I mean, ninety seven touchdowns are seventeen nine
18:41
Speaker 1: and tis why do you see the field so well?
18:44
Speaker 1: And why do you think your decision making is so
18:47
Speaker 1: precise that you avoid the mistakes that hurt your team?
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Speaker 10: I would say, I would say from a young age,
18:56
Speaker 10: an understanding dad put me on offense and defense to understand,
19:00
Speaker 10: you know, coverages and things like that. So I feel
19:04
Speaker 10: like those are small stepping stones from each year. Each
19:06
Speaker 10: year you get improvement in different areas and you're able
19:09
Speaker 10: to get a lot of different pictures. I played a
19:11
Speaker 10: lot of football, starting from freshman year of high school
19:16
Speaker 10: all the way to now, So it's just a lot
19:18
Speaker 10: of games, a lot of experience, a lot of different situations.
19:21
Speaker 10: Knows the pros, knows the cons and learned from certain
19:24
Speaker 10: situations that you have so you don't make the same mistakes.
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Speaker 6: And I like that. Let me add to that.
19:30
Speaker 9: You got to really understand what he just said, He's
19:32
Speaker 9: played a lot of football. How many quarterbacks you know
19:36
Speaker 9: have started every game in their high school career, every
19:40
Speaker 9: game in youth, every game in college except for game
19:45
Speaker 9: and a half where he was injured. Last season. He
19:48
Speaker 9: started every game. So that's a lot of playing. That's
19:53
Speaker 9: a lot of leverages, that's a lot of understanding situational football.
19:58
Speaker 6: That's a lot of understanding talent.
20:00
Speaker 9: I got to put the ball on his back shoulder,
20:02
Speaker 9: or I could lead him down in the field because
20:04
Speaker 9: he could make that grab fifty fifty ball. Like, that's
20:06
Speaker 9: a lot of understanding of football. And the first thing
20:09
Speaker 9: I told him, like he said, I taught him defenses.
20:12
Speaker 9: I taught him defense. You don't teach a quarterback routes.
20:14
Speaker 9: You're teaching defenses, you know.
20:18
Speaker 4: Prime.
20:19
Speaker 3: I want to ask you this because I know it
20:20
Speaker 3: your hard to far as you're an old school coach.
20:22
Speaker 3: But everyone talks about today's generation of player having played
20:26
Speaker 3: yesteryear for dealing with a new kind of player. What
20:29
Speaker 3: are the challenges of coaching today's athlete compared to when
20:32
Speaker 3: you were playing?
20:35
Speaker 9: Nil collected. I want guys that want to play in
20:38
Speaker 9: the NFL. I don't want guys who are all about
20:40
Speaker 9: the nil. I want you to get paid. I may
20:42
Speaker 9: help you get paid. I'm gonna trust that I may
20:44
Speaker 9: help you get that bag.
20:45
Speaker 1: And he knows that.
20:46
Speaker 9: But your focus gotta be being great because when you're great.
20:49
Speaker 9: That bag is gonna chase you, and you don't have
20:51
Speaker 9: to chase it. So he knows that I'm out shoot
20:54
Speaker 9: the old team knows. If you want to make me mad,
20:57
Speaker 9: start talking about some money as I talking about getting
20:59
Speaker 9: paid to getting broken off, Start talking like that, Yeah,
21:02
Speaker 9: you dumb and it.
21:02
Speaker 6: I'm gonna help you get it. I'm gonna make sure.
21:05
Speaker 6: I'm gonna make sure you get it.
21:07
Speaker 4: Look, if you.
21:08
Speaker 1: Want to keep it one hundred and get it one hundred,
21:10
Speaker 1: these are the two dudes to talk to, Bucky coach Prime.
21:13
Speaker 1: Should do it. Thank you so much for joining us.
21:15
Speaker 1: Best of luck this season, and we're getting ready to
21:18
Speaker 1: call EA sports and break that tie for you too.
21:20
Speaker 12: Should do her?
21:24
Speaker 6: I have to hide scrapers. Should be ninety nine. Shouldn't
21:29
Speaker 6: he like? Who else?
21:32
Speaker 9: What is the best receiver and the best corner in
21:35
Speaker 9: cottage football?
21:37
Speaker 6: How can he that? Don't even it don't even make sense,
21:39
Speaker 6: but it's up.
21:41
Speaker 4: It sounds like it sounds like a segment for twenty
21:44
Speaker 4: first in Prime. Sounds like a segment for twenty first
21:46
Speaker 4: in Prime. Maybe we can bring.
21:48
Speaker 1: That Backry, go bring that bag, all right, Jess, we
21:52
Speaker 1: got to get out of here man, Bucky, Hey, we
21:55
Speaker 1: can do this all day, but be honest to do it.
21:56
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, man, Really do appreciate you.
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Speaker 9: I appreciate y'all. Man, God bless you. I love y'all brothers,
22:02
Speaker 9: y'all know that man. Y'all some good dudes.
22:04
Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 1: Oh, let me get continued talking for another fifteen minutes
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Speaker 1: of prime as your doer. But we got to get
22:11
Speaker 1: to the a FC North, top to bottom.
22:14
Speaker 4: It's the best.
22:15
Speaker 1: Division in football. All these new quarterbacks, we're gonna be
22:18
Speaker 1: hitting the field again.
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Speaker 11: We're gonna see.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that next.
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Speaker 11: On the inside.
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Speaker 1: This is a gary competi division.
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Speaker 3: Yeah wa, this froke gid.
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Speaker 9: Jack Conning for the NA scramble off from end of
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Speaker 9: the field and slapsas hell about what cap from the.
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Speaker 1: Files Garrity single handedly take you over the game.
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Speaker 4: Throw that AFC North.
22:55
Speaker 1: If there's some turmoil, it's delightful turmoil.
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Speaker 13: Am I gonna.
23:01
Speaker 1: There is AFC North IM Steve Whites and on Engwood,
23:04
Speaker 1: California newsroom, and that is Nick Schuchar around the NFL
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Speaker 1: writer and we're going to talk about some camp storylines
23:11
Speaker 1: and for all of our training camp storylines. Go to
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Speaker 1: NFL dot com Slash Countdown and Nick we talked about
23:18
Speaker 1: the AFC North right here. Let's start with the with
23:21
Speaker 1: the division chap the Baltimore Ravens.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, Steve, the story about the Ravens this year,
23:27
Speaker 14: coming off of an AFC North title, coming in with
23:30
Speaker 14: Todd Monk and up and up the offense last year.
23:33
Speaker 14: Year two, it's all about elevating it, bringing it to
23:35
Speaker 14: the next level, because look, Lamar Jackson won his second
23:38
Speaker 14: MVP last season under Monkin's direction, but he also let
23:42
Speaker 14: the team in rushing with over eight hundred yards.
23:43
Speaker 1: He threw for thirty six hundred yards.
23:45
Speaker 14: Everything's great there, but then when it came to the playoffs,
23:48
Speaker 14: the NFC title game, suddenly the play calling became a
23:50
Speaker 14: little questionable. The league's top rushing offense only ran the
23:53
Speaker 14: ball eight times with running backs in that game.
23:55
Speaker 11: Lamar had eight himself.
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Speaker 14: So now you go into twenty twenty four and you
23:58
Speaker 14: got to take the next step with the off year two.
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Speaker 14: If last year was Monk in one oh one, this
24:02
Speaker 14: year is Monk in two oh one. John Harbaugh has
24:05
Speaker 14: talked about giving Lamar Jackson more agency at the line
24:07
Speaker 14: in pre snap getting more creative, and Monkin can't wait
24:10
Speaker 14: to see more out of Rashad Bateman. So I'm expecting
24:12
Speaker 14: them to take the next step because that might be
24:15
Speaker 14: what gets them over the hump.
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Speaker 1: Well, Derek Henry might be what gets them over the
24:17
Speaker 1: hump as well, getting the big running back from Tennessee.
24:20
Speaker 11: All right, Joe Burrow.
24:21
Speaker 1: Comes back at quarterback off of injury for the Bengals.
24:25
Speaker 1: What should we be looking for out of them?
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Speaker 14: Well, hopefully Burrow is completely healthy. Everything points to him
24:30
Speaker 14: being healthy, and we know what happened to them last
24:32
Speaker 14: year when he wasn't healthy. He was statuesque in the
24:34
Speaker 14: pocket for the first month, and when he was suddenly better,
24:37
Speaker 14: they were taking off, and then it all fell apart
24:39
Speaker 14: when he again was knocked out for the rest of
24:41
Speaker 14: the season with at wrist injuries.
24:42
Speaker 8: So now he should be good.
24:43
Speaker 14: But they don't have Joe Mixon on that roster anymore,
24:46
Speaker 14: and folks might look at that and think, well, they'll
24:47
Speaker 14: be fine.
24:48
Speaker 1: They got Joe Burrow.
24:49
Speaker 14: Joe Mixon accounted for fourteen hundred scrimmag yards last year,
24:51
Speaker 14: and yet before they were about to release them, all
24:53
Speaker 14: they did was traded to Houston for a seventh round pick.
24:56
Speaker 14: So I'm curious to see, can Chris Evans, can Zach
24:58
Speaker 14: Moss the new acquisition, can Chain Brown and Travon Williams
25:01
Speaker 14: effectively replaced that production that Joe Mixon provided. Or are
25:05
Speaker 14: we looking at a hidden weakness for the Cincinnati Bengals
25:08
Speaker 14: that maybe we're not paying attention to you right now
25:10
Speaker 14: because we can't stop looking at Joe Burrow's immaculate hair
25:13
Speaker 14: and fantastic fashion. That's what I'm really curious to see,
25:15
Speaker 14: because otherwise that roster is still very strong.
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Speaker 1: You know, you have a spot code with an open
25:19
Speaker 1: heart in the back like Joey b wore over in
25:22
Speaker 1: con France. All right, Now, the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin,
25:24
Speaker 1: he gets the extension after having another winning season, but
25:28
Speaker 1: they've got something going on at quarterback there. They don't
25:30
Speaker 1: really have one because they've got two.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, And some people say, if you don't have one
25:36
Speaker 14: and you have too, you have nobody. But I think
25:38
Speaker 14: that's not necessarily the case with the Steelers, because, oh,
25:40
Speaker 14: Mark Han did a fantastic job this offseason.
25:43
Speaker 11: He remade that room. So almost overnight he signs Russell Wilson.
25:47
Speaker 14: He trades away Kenny Pickett, he acquires Justin Fields, and
25:50
Speaker 14: suddenly the Steelers are no longer relying on a youngster
25:52
Speaker 14: who hasn't quite proven it yet, even if he was
25:54
Speaker 14: a local product. But we're not going to talk about
25:56
Speaker 14: quarterback that much. That'll sort itself out. I would look
25:59
Speaker 14: at the rest of the roster. Omar Khan drafted phenomenally.
26:02
Speaker 14: Troy Fatanu gives you a tackle, Zach Fraser gives you
26:04
Speaker 14: a starting center, and Roman Wilson is my sneaky favorite
26:07
Speaker 14: pick from this class. I think he's going to fit
26:09
Speaker 14: perfectly in that receiving court. Defensively, Peyton Wilson, watch out
26:12
Speaker 14: for him as a blitzing missile, especially on third down.
26:15
Speaker 14: That three year extension came at the perfect time because
26:17
Speaker 14: Mike Tomlin has the best roster he's had to win
26:20
Speaker 14: since they finished twelve and four in twenty twenty. So
26:22
Speaker 14: while we might pay attention to the Ravens and the
26:24
Speaker 14: Bengals with Burrow back and Deshaun Watson and the Browns,
26:27
Speaker 14: watch out for the Pittsburgh Steelers in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 12: Folks.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very interesting when you mentioned DeShawn Watson
26:35
Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns. This is a playoff team and
26:38
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is back from that shoulder injury or is.
26:42
Speaker 14: He Yeah, we're not so certain about that because it
26:45
Speaker 14: was a bit of a strange injury. But the Browns
26:47
Speaker 14: have kind of prepared accordingly by making a change at
26:49
Speaker 14: offensive coordinator. Kevin Stefanski has called the place since twenty twenty.
26:52
Speaker 14: I don't expect that to change. But incomes Ken Dorsey,
26:55
Speaker 14: who's going to bring with him new ideas to potentially
26:57
Speaker 14: elevate this offense. He did so with Josh Allen. The
27:00
Speaker 14: Bill succeeded, but I felt like they relied on Josh
27:02
Speaker 14: Allen a little bit too much of the run game,
27:04
Speaker 14: and that concerns me about Nick Chubb's place in this offense.
27:07
Speaker 14: We also need to know if Nick Chubb's gonna win,
27:08
Speaker 14: he's gonna come back, because he's still returning from that
27:10
Speaker 14: significant knee injury. So overall, the first goal is to
27:14
Speaker 14: figure out what you have in Deshaun Watson, and Dorsey
27:16
Speaker 14: seems to be the guy to bring ideas in and
27:19
Speaker 14: open up the mind of Kevin Stefanski Moore to maybe
27:21
Speaker 14: take advantage of what Deshaun Watson brings, but I think
27:24
Speaker 14: his impact is going to stretch beyond that.
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Speaker 1: That'd be very interesting because all of those teams, any
27:29
Speaker 1: one of them, can win the super tough AFC North.
27:33
Speaker 1: Once again, Nick schul can read nfl dot com slash
27:36
Speaker 1: Camp Countdown for all type of camp stories. Thanks so much, Nick. Well,
27:41
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars, they got off to the hot start
27:43
Speaker 1: last season, but then they faded down the stretch. We're
27:46
Speaker 1: gonna be joined by their head coach Doug Peterson after
27:50
Speaker 1: the break. He's gonna tell us what they're doing to
27:53
Speaker 1: make sure s that's a tail spin doesn't happen again.
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Speaker 11: That's on the inside, I'm telling you. I'm telling you
28:08
Speaker 11: that's the straight You strengthen numbers.
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Speaker 1: Man strengthen numbers. Right when someone is not.
28:12
Speaker 11: Feeling their best, somebody else rallies and the team rallies
28:15
Speaker 11: around them. That's what you did today, and that's what
28:18
Speaker 11: you did all right.
28:19
Speaker 4: My hat is off to you guys.
28:20
Speaker 1: I'm so proud.
28:21
Speaker 4: Congratulations.
28:23
Speaker 11: This ride's gonna be sweet going.
28:32
Speaker 1: There we go one, two, three, Oh yeah, we know
28:37
Speaker 1: that chance and Bucky Brooks. We know this guy that
28:40
Speaker 1: is Jaguars coach Doug Peterson. He's in beautiful Lake Tahoe,
28:44
Speaker 1: Nevada at the American Century Golf Championship. Coach, thanks so
28:47
Speaker 1: much for joining us. I know you're loving the views
28:50
Speaker 1: and playing that very tough, hit them straight golf course
28:52
Speaker 1: up there.
28:54
Speaker 15: I tell you what, Thanks for having me on. And
28:56
Speaker 15: you're absolutely right. This is a tough golf course, tough greens.
29:00
Speaker 15: The scene bey here is beautiful. It's a great place
29:02
Speaker 15: to bring the family. Right before training camp.
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Speaker 1: Hey, coach, I want to get you started by asking
29:06
Speaker 1: you this. I mean, just you guys locked up your
29:08
Speaker 1: quarterback Trevor Lawrence long term. I mean, what was the
29:11
Speaker 1: decision behind that? And what do you see him doing
29:14
Speaker 1: this year to continue in ascension to being that franchise
29:17
Speaker 1: changing quarterback.
29:19
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, the decision was easy.
29:21
Speaker 15: You know, we all feel in the building that he's
29:23
Speaker 15: our guy, and he's obviously the face of the franchise,
29:25
Speaker 15: and he was drafted a few years ago, you know,
29:28
Speaker 15: the first round pick to be that guy, and we
29:30
Speaker 15: have all the confidence in the world and we're just
29:32
Speaker 15: excited and thrilled for he and his family to get
29:35
Speaker 15: this contract behind him. As we head into this season
29:38
Speaker 15: into twenty four and just continue to build on the
29:42
Speaker 15: last two years. It wasn't a perfect finish, but you
29:45
Speaker 15: know to the last season there were we had some injuries.
29:48
Speaker 15: Trevor's one of those guys that we got to continue
29:50
Speaker 15: to keep healthy. But he's on the right path and
29:53
Speaker 15: we continue to work. We build the pieces around him,
29:57
Speaker 15: get our run game going a little bit, play good defense,
29:59
Speaker 15: and see what happens.
30:02
Speaker 3: You know, Coach, look, you talked about back to back
30:04
Speaker 3: winning seasons, but didn't have the finish that you wanted
30:06
Speaker 3: to last season. How do you take those lessons and
30:09
Speaker 3: help the team become a much better version of itself
30:12
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 15: I think, Bucky, you and I have had conversations after
30:17
Speaker 15: games last year about it, and I think for myself,
30:20
Speaker 15: it's gonna burn.
30:21
Speaker 12: It's gonna burn for.
30:22
Speaker 15: A long time until you know, we get to meaningful
30:24
Speaker 15: games again and start playing in September. But I think
30:27
Speaker 15: that's the same fuel, you know, the motivating factor for
30:30
Speaker 15: our for our players that the way we ended.
30:35
Speaker 6: Is not us.
30:35
Speaker 15: And no matter what you go through as a football team,
30:37
Speaker 15: you know, everybody goes through adversity. There's always going to
30:40
Speaker 15: be injuries, but you can't make excuses and you got
30:43
Speaker 15: to go play football, and so so for us, we
30:45
Speaker 15: got to learn from that, roll up our sleeves in
30:48
Speaker 15: a training camp, work hard, and just play it one
30:51
Speaker 15: game at a time.
30:52
Speaker 1: Doug, when you talked about doing some things to make
30:54
Speaker 1: things better, to grow from that, you've really adjusted your
30:57
Speaker 1: wide receiver room, adding guys that gave Davis, Devin Duvarney,
31:01
Speaker 1: drafting Brian Thomas out of LSU in the first round.
31:04
Speaker 1: How do you think those new faces, those different skill
31:07
Speaker 1: sets can help increase or improve that passing game.
31:11
Speaker 15: Well, I think that's what you know, what we saw
31:12
Speaker 15: in Gabe Davis, you know in Buffalo, what he did,
31:14
Speaker 15: how he could kind of stretch the field.
31:16
Speaker 12: He was a big, big, tall receiver that could go
31:18
Speaker 12: over the middle.
31:18
Speaker 15: He's physical, can block and and I would say that
31:21
Speaker 15: that's a piece that we missed a little bit last year.
31:24
Speaker 15: You know, Zay was beat up a little bit. We
31:25
Speaker 15: missed Christian. At the end of the season, we get
31:28
Speaker 15: we get Christian back healthy.
31:29
Speaker 12: We lost Calvin.
31:30
Speaker 15: Ridley, but but now we get we get Gabe and Brian,
31:32
Speaker 15: and Brian's got the speed element that that you know
31:35
Speaker 15: we probably lost with Calvin and and so we've.
31:38
Speaker 12: Got to integrate all that.
31:39
Speaker 15: We got to get on the same page early as
31:41
Speaker 15: we head into training camp. But but I'm excited for
31:44
Speaker 15: these guys and how they how they fit.
31:46
Speaker 12: And then Devin.
31:46
Speaker 15: Devin brings another element to and in our return game
31:50
Speaker 15: with with agnew not back.
31:52
Speaker 12: So we feel in it like we're in a good spot.
31:54
Speaker 15: And you know, the big thing is just a matter
31:57
Speaker 15: of of I think just working and working together and
32:01
Speaker 15: and building the camaraderie and then the and the team
32:05
Speaker 15: around our quarterback that can that can help us all
32:07
Speaker 15: be successful.
32:09
Speaker 2: You know.
32:10
Speaker 3: Coach, one of the things that has come up, you
32:12
Speaker 3: made some defensive changes. Josh Allen recently talked about just
32:15
Speaker 3: make sure that the team builds the trust player the player,
32:18
Speaker 3: player of the coach. How important is trust and that
32:21
Speaker 3: camaraderie to build a successful team, a championship caliber team.
32:26
Speaker 15: Now, I think trust is everything with a football team.
32:28
Speaker 15: You know, I think you got to lean on your brother,
32:30
Speaker 15: you got to lean on your coaches. Coaches got to
32:32
Speaker 15: lean on each other, you know, not only in the
32:34
Speaker 15: good times but the bad and and obviously there were
32:36
Speaker 15: some changes made, you know, on staff last year and
32:39
Speaker 15: and you know, bringing Ryan Nielsen and and and his
32:42
Speaker 15: his staff on defense and and and the sort of
32:46
Speaker 15: the new approach that he has with our defense, and
32:49
Speaker 15: you know, guys like Josh and you know with with
32:52
Speaker 15: Trey Von and you know, the addition of of Eric
32:55
Speaker 15: Armstead and guys like that that can really really help
32:59
Speaker 15: us in the past row and even be better than
33:01
Speaker 15: we were before. And and so you'll see some differences
33:05
Speaker 15: with the defense, but I think I think it's all positive.
33:09
Speaker 15: But at the same time, we got to get it
33:11
Speaker 15: all all jailed on the you know, on the same
33:13
Speaker 15: page as we move forward.
33:14
Speaker 1: Doug Bucket just referred to him as Josh Allen, but
33:16
Speaker 1: we know this week officially added a name and a
33:20
Speaker 1: hyphen to his last name, Josh hind Alanines. How are
33:23
Speaker 1: you and the coaching staff going to refer to him with?
33:26
Speaker 1: I mean, how are you going to make this happen?
33:27
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't know. I got to process this one
33:29
Speaker 12: a little bit.
33:30
Speaker 15: It's relatively new, But I'm just excited for him, and
33:33
Speaker 15: I know that some of the history there and for
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Speaker 15: him and to make the name change.
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Speaker 12: So I'm excited. And if it helps him get to
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Speaker 12: that quarterback man, I'm all.
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Speaker 3: For it, Uh, you know, coach last thing, like, we've
33:47
Speaker 3: seen a lot of these teams that have kind of
33:48
Speaker 3: changed where they're kind of balancing out the wide receiver corps.
33:51
Speaker 3: You talked about what btj as and what gave Davis as.
33:55
Speaker 3: How difficult is it to defend an offense they may
33:58
Speaker 3: not have a true or extap there's number one receiver.
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Speaker 4: Why does that work for some reason? Why could it
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Speaker 4: work in Jacksonville?
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Speaker 15: Well, I think the passing game in general is different,
34:08
Speaker 15: has changed a little bit around the league, and the
34:11
Speaker 15: ball does get spread out to multiple players. I think
34:14
Speaker 15: we kind of have the best of all of them.
34:17
Speaker 15: You know, we've got a really talented slot receiver that
34:19
Speaker 15: can get open. You throw Evan Ingram in there. You know,
34:22
Speaker 15: even as a tight end, he can create some matchups.
34:26
Speaker 15: And then we create, you know, some picks and obviously
34:29
Speaker 15: you get into bunches and stacks and then use some
34:31
Speaker 15: of these things to get these guys open. And then
34:34
Speaker 15: your quarterback can just spread the ball around and you
34:36
Speaker 15: take shots when you have the opportunity, and you know,
34:40
Speaker 15: it's it's.
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Speaker 12: About getting everybody involved.
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Speaker 15: And then you get your running game with Travis etn
34:44
Speaker 15: you get him going a little bit. So I think
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Speaker 15: it's it's exciting for us, you know, excited for our
34:50
Speaker 15: quarterback as we head into training camp here in a
34:52
Speaker 15: couple of weeks and see just how successful we can be. Doug,
34:58
Speaker 15: it's a couple weeks.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, before you start train any camp, you
35:00
Speaker 1: are at that beautiful golf course up there in North
35:03
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe. So Sauce Gardner, the Jets cornerback, he tweeted out,
35:07
Speaker 1: and we've seen his golf exploits this summer. I never
35:10
Speaker 1: thought I would say this, but golf is harder than football. Okay,
35:15
Speaker 1: you played in the NFL, you've coached in the NFL,
35:17
Speaker 1: and now you're on the links. Any thoughts on Sauce's tweet.
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Speaker 12: I kind of have to agree with him just a
35:24
Speaker 12: little bit. This is not a sport that we play.
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Speaker 15: We feel comfortable coaching and playing football, so I understand
35:31
Speaker 15: exactly what he's talking about. I know the ball is
35:33
Speaker 15: not moving, it's sitting right there on that beautiful green grass,
35:36
Speaker 15: but oh my goodness, it's hard to advance that ball
35:39
Speaker 15: down the fairway.
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Speaker 1: All right, coach, we'll hit him straight when the tournament
35:43
Speaker 1: starts and have a great time up there in Lake Tahoe.
35:46
Speaker 1: Thanks again for joining us.
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Speaker 12: Thank you guys, appreciate you.
35:50
Speaker 14: All Right.
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Speaker 1: Coming up, it's Hard Knocks Season two and a lot
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35:57
Speaker 1: running back Saquon Barkley. Oh, we're gonna have more on this.
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Speaker 13: Tell me to work hard and always chase your goal.
37:39
Speaker 13: You can't give up just because somebody tells you you can't.
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Speaker 1: up next, Oh yeah, We're talking more hard knocks the
38:18
Speaker 1: off season with the Giants, and there's Brian Daveall if
38:21
Speaker 1: you run that seven flat forty.
38:23
Speaker 11: Yard dash, who cares?
38:25
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about more Giants on the Insiders after
38:28
Speaker 1: the break, all right? Bringing back in Bucky Brooks and Bucky.
38:38
Speaker 1: When you see that scene and you've been on conversations
38:40
Speaker 1: like this, you mean you're a former scout, you're a
38:42
Speaker 1: former player. You know how this works. Did the Giants
38:46
Speaker 1: misread Saquon Barkley's value and free agency?
38:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, it appears so it appears like when you want
38:55
Speaker 3: someone to test and kind of see where their market is,
38:58
Speaker 3: you're probably more of the belief that they're going to
39:00
Speaker 3: go and find that is less than what they think,
39:03
Speaker 3: and so then you can come back and then you
39:04
Speaker 3: begin to negotiate a deal that is probably more team
39:07
Speaker 3: friendly than player friendly. But what happened, Saquon Barkley got
39:11
Speaker 3: in those streets, he had a lot of interest to
39:13
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles, jumped on them, and they paid him what
39:15
Speaker 3: he was looking for.
39:17
Speaker 4: For the Giants, it's a huge loss.
39:19
Speaker 3: And the reason why it's a loss is because Saquon
39:21
Speaker 3: Barkley was so valuable to that team. And I know
39:24
Speaker 3: you had a quarterback making forty million dollars in Daniel Jones.
39:27
Speaker 3: But I think if you look at it from a
39:28
Speaker 3: defensive standpoint, who was the most valuable weapon or who
39:31
Speaker 3: was the guy that you had to take away, Saquon
39:33
Speaker 3: Barkley was the guy that.
39:34
Speaker 4: You worried about more than Daniel Jones.
39:37
Speaker 3: And so now they have to make sure that Devin
39:39
Speaker 3: Singletary and the rest of the running backs can give
39:41
Speaker 3: them what Saquon Barkley gave them the last few years. Look,
39:45
Speaker 3: it's a difficult replacement, but the fact that he's down
39:48
Speaker 3: the road in Philadelphia, playing with a top offensive line
39:51
Speaker 3: and motivated to kind of shove it to the Giants, Oh,
39:55
Speaker 3: those two games a year are gonna be epic. When
39:57
Speaker 3: it comes to Saquon Barkley having to deal with his
39:59
Speaker 3: former team.
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Speaker 1: He's in their division with the division favor coming in,
40:02
Speaker 1: that has to be a stinging blow. So let me
40:05
Speaker 1: ask you this, because of your experience doing what you've
40:07
Speaker 1: done again as a player, as somebody in the front office,
40:10
Speaker 1: do you actually try to play games or win games
40:13
Speaker 1: and say, hey, we have to make it look at
40:14
Speaker 1: least ideologically, make it look like we made the right
40:17
Speaker 1: decision in letting him walk.
40:21
Speaker 3: I mean, look, you always want to be right when
40:23
Speaker 3: you're a decision maker. And look, time will tell if
40:26
Speaker 3: the Giants were right in terms of moving on from
40:27
Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley.
40:29
Speaker 4: But certainly you don't want him to come back in
40:31
Speaker 4: kind of be a thorn in your side.
40:33
Speaker 3: The fact that he's within the division, Yeah, it puts
40:36
Speaker 3: it together a different challenge.
40:38
Speaker 4: I felt like they negotiated in good faith. They wanted
40:40
Speaker 4: to get this done.
40:41
Speaker 3: Running Back markets are tricky, but this year was different
40:44
Speaker 3: than any other year. We saw running backs get paid.
40:47
Speaker 16: This year.
40:48
Speaker 4: We saw Josh Jacobs go.
40:50
Speaker 3: We saw like a run on running backs right away
40:52
Speaker 3: when free agencies started, and so all the conversation that
40:55
Speaker 3: we had about the devaluation of running backs that didn't
40:58
Speaker 3: appear so when it came to the veterans.
41:01
Speaker 4: And so maybe there was just a sea change when
41:03
Speaker 4: it came to the way the.
41:05
Speaker 3: League viewed running backs in Saint Qward, Barkley was a beneficiary.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially the veteran running backs this year, and you
41:09
Speaker 1: saw the guys get paid. Maybe that said something about
41:11
Speaker 1: the running backs in this year's draft class. But to
41:14
Speaker 1: get back to the Giants. It's just interesting, how I say,
41:16
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. We have to find out what he is.
41:19
Speaker 1: He was better with Saquan when he was in there. Hey, Bucky,
41:22
Speaker 1: great job today. Tomorrow on the inside is Bears cornerback
41:25
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson, the pro bowler, the bad man. On the outside,
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Speaker 1: he'll be joining us. Thanks again, have a great night everybody.