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Brandon Staley's Defense & Aaron Rodgers To New Orleans Saints? | Michael Brockers Breaks It Down · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: you might have caught former LSU tiger Michael Brockers is
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  Speaker 1: good enough to jump board with us here out from
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  Speaker 1: La Yo. Man, good to talk again. How are you man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic? How's the wake up call?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean if it wasn't for the fact that I've
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  Speaker 3: done it before, you know, so I was already you know,
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  Speaker 3: prepared to wake up at three o'clock, well two o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to get prepared for my calls. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I wasn't already prepared for it would have been miserable.
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  Speaker 3: You call him a definitely call him that definitely called
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  Speaker 3: him that I needed that.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I was it was cool to see at the
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  Speaker 1: draft that you got to call a few picks. How
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  Speaker 1: did that all come together?
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  Speaker 2: Man? Just you know, out of nowhere, just you know.
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  Speaker 3: They gave him the opportunity to reach out to my lady,
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  Speaker 3: uh Missie Orlanda and uh talked to her and the opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, let's do it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when somebody gives you opportunity to go to the draft
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  Speaker 3: and you know get you know, give out a pick,
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  Speaker 3: I think, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know you should take it. So, uh that's what I did.
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  Speaker 1: Is that? So is it the RAMS that reached out
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  Speaker 1: or is the NFL pick?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they were necessarily like the RAMS organization.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was just a you know, good look for.
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  Speaker 1: The Michael Brockers is with us. So you're you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of putting on the analyst cap this week. Let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you some things that are super relevant here in
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana with the Saints right now. Over the weekend, we
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  Speaker 1: saw a report for Jeff Duncan that the Saints will
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  Speaker 1: not pursue Aaron Rodgers as a veteran quarterback option. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think man should should the Saints pursue a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Aaron Rodgers?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in my years of experience, brother, you can't
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  Speaker 3: win without a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't win in this league.
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  Speaker 3: And you know the important games you know, in January
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  Speaker 3: and things like that, the center in January without a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So to see an organization not focus on a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: But you know we are talking about the you know,
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  Speaker 3: forty year old Aaron Rodgers as well, so you know
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  Speaker 3: there's there's play on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: So how much of the Jets? Look, Rogers played seventeen
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  Speaker 1: games last year with the Jets. The just weren't very
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  Speaker 1: good teams. So when you looked at the Jets last year,
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  Speaker 1: how much of it was aging Aaron Rodgers? How much
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  Speaker 1: of it is they shall have a good enough roster
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  Speaker 1: to compete.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I watched the game and I'm watching it
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  Speaker 3: as you know, an athlete, and I'm watching him. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's throwing a lot of things off the back foot.
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  Speaker 3: Not sure how the achilles is, you know, has healed up,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of those passes were underthrown and things
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  Speaker 3: like that. You know, he still has zip on the ball,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, really putting it, you know, putting weight
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  Speaker 3: on that back leg and really letting it go. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we will see if he can still do it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think he'll be on one of these seas.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody needs he needs a quarterback at some point in time,
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully we will see it this season.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Brockers is our guest. You know, I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: brought up the whole you can't win without a great quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know your feelings as well as
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  Speaker 1: a guy like who could relate to some of the
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  Speaker 1: veteran players on this Saints team. Brockwere like, it feels
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  Speaker 1: very much like the Saints are going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of a rebuild. But how do you go
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  Speaker 1: to work? What is the feeling like as a veteran
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  Speaker 1: player on this roster right now looking around, going, man,
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  Speaker 1: this probably isn't going to be a great season.
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  Speaker 3: Man, being on the team that you know was dealing with,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a quarterback identity. Defensively, you feel like we
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  Speaker 3: gotta get it done, you know, if offense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they feel like they can't get it done defensively. We
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  Speaker 3: gotta get turnovers, We gotta be you know, extrassive. We
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  Speaker 3: gotta you know, get touchdowns, you know, to get out
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  Speaker 3: there and help this team win a game. You don't
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  Speaker 3: practice for no reason. They don't put in game plans
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  Speaker 3: for no reason.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, looking at it, think as a helicopter. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, they don't put in game plans for no reasons.
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  Speaker 3: So you go out there practicing, uh, preparing to win
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  Speaker 3: the game. But you know, the defense, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: feel like they got most most of their veteran leaders
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  Speaker 3: on the defense.
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  Speaker 2: They feel like they got to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: When you all drafted Jared Goff with the Rams, did
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you could win immediately?
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  Speaker 3: I mean with Sean mcvaymon and that whole staff when
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  Speaker 3: they came in.
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  Speaker 2: And just see the belief they had in themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he really told us like, man, defensively, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you guys keep it up, keep.
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  Speaker 2: Doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we were, you know, in the top
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  Speaker 3: defenses in the league. You know, he was like, man, offensively,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna come in here and you know, change this
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  Speaker 3: thing up. So we just believed in the system. He
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  Speaker 3: treated us as men, he held us accountable. I think
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  Speaker 3: that was a really big thing, you know, as players,
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  Speaker 3: just you know, held us to the high standard. You know,
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  Speaker 3: didn't try to change us, you know personally, you know personally,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, just held us to a high standard.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, if everybody really wants to win games
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  Speaker 3: in this league, everybody bought in. So I think that's what,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, made him so successful and you
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  Speaker 3: know why he is we is today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's another guy in that staff who you
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  Speaker 1: got to that was the defensive coordinator with the Rams
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. That was Brandon Staley who's now in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans as well. What was it like playing for
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Staley?
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  Speaker 2: Stateley was cool man Staley Staley. It was funny.
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  Speaker 3: He always correlated because I think he's a I think
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  Speaker 3: he's a basketball guy by nature, you know, in his heart.
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  Speaker 3: So he he he attended a lot of things to
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  Speaker 3: the basketball game. And you know, he talked about you know,
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  Speaker 3: some of the greats uh that played basketball. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was here's a pleasure to play with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: his mind mentally, how he thinks about the game, how
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  Speaker 3: he wants to uh attack the game and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So it was very pleasing to play, uh you know
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  Speaker 3: under him and you know be successful.
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  Speaker 2: You know with that group of guys.
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  Speaker 1: What would you describe as his style how he plays.
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  Speaker 3: You know, very aggressive like you know, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: us D lineman, man, we want to get after the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he he he has a group of guys.
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  Speaker 3: He feels like you can get after the quarterback without
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  Speaker 3: blitzen and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: He'll let us roll.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you know, having a D and having
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  Speaker 3: all these tremendous players you know, surround him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one on ones.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we can get our one on ones and
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  Speaker 2: get out of the.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback without bitch and it makes the defensive game so
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  Speaker 3: much easier. So you know, you don't have to scheme
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  Speaker 3: up you know, other blitzes and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But he loves to get out of the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Brockers has got two more for you. You said
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  Speaker 1: talking about being a defensive lineman, push, push, ban it
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  Speaker 1: or keep it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I mean I said it this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I don't think you need to ban it because
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a it's a quarterback sneak.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been run for centuries. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: just so happened.
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  Speaker 3: They have guys and the players to get to make
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  Speaker 3: it more successful, you know. So I think defensively, we
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  Speaker 3: have to figure out how we we we can beat
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  Speaker 3: it or you know, load up on that one side.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but you know, I don't think you
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  Speaker 3: ban a play because they're having, you know, much.
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  Speaker 2: To tess with it. It's our job defensively to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Your other former team, the Lions, have proposed changing the
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  Speaker 1: playoff seeding so it would be just by record, not
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  Speaker 1: the division winners getting the top seeds. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think about that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, you know how it's been going.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the wreck you know, division seeds and the records.
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  Speaker 3: I know, because you have some of those eight and
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  Speaker 3: eight teams that you know can can squeak in.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if you win, if you.
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  Speaker 3: Win the games, man, nobody nobody can complain, you know,
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  Speaker 3: So uh, go out there and win the games.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: Rock. You want to NFL network again tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am good deal. So good morning football, what time
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  Speaker 1: you get cranked up?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: I think show starts six am Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. I don't know. I'm being honest
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  Speaker 2: with you. I know it's so early for me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it's what time it is on
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  Speaker 3: the East Coast, So this is gonna be early. So
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna be everybody that you know can eat breakfast
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  Speaker 3: and you know, cut on the TV, watch some Good
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  Speaker 3: Morning Football.
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  Speaker 1: Former Tacker great Michael Brockers. Catch them tomorrow on Good
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  Speaker 1: Morning Football and the NFL Network. Thanks Man, always great
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  Speaker 1: to chat.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you