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NFL Now from The Combine, Andy Ried Joins the Show, & a Giants Report · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: Strout fires man. It is grabbed in the ends up CJ. Strout. Wow,
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Speaker 1: what a crow. But is one of the biggest stops
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Speaker 1: along the path to the draft. The NFL Scouting Combine
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Speaker 1: Here in Indianapolis, Indiana, the twenty twenty three version out
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Speaker 1: off and running. All talk right now but in two days,
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Speaker 1: three hundred nineteen of the very best college football players
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Speaker 1: with an on field interview as they go through off
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Speaker 1: field interviews as well. Here there is the site of
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Speaker 1: the Combine drills, Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Colts
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Speaker 1: this week, home to the NFL Scouting Combine. Welcome everybody,
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Speaker 1: another live hour of NFL Now at the Combine here
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Speaker 1: with you in Indianapolis. I'm Red Lewis, I'm here with
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Speaker 1: NFL Network insider Ian rappaport Ian. I know this is
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Speaker 1: one of your favorite weeks of the year mine as well.
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Speaker 1: So much going on, but as I mentioned, it is
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Speaker 1: all talk right now. Right it's all coaches and gms
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Speaker 1: up at the podiums like the ones here just behind us,
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Speaker 1: and we also had a few join us here. Andy
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Speaker 1: Reid is still to come in this edition of NFL
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Speaker 1: now you see him around. Yeah, But in the meantime,
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Speaker 1: let's get to what is new right now, and that is,
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Speaker 1: of course, with some of the gms and coaches already
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Speaker 1: at the podium, we've got some news to get to.
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, big part of the Denver Broncos. You cycle.
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Speaker 1: Not a great year obviously in Denver, which is now
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Speaker 1: between you. Head coach Sean Payton was at the podium today,
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Speaker 1: the new head coach of the Broncos, talking about Russell Wilson,
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Speaker 1: talking about his coaching staff and much more here now
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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Broncos. We've spoken text, but
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Speaker 1: this is this is the time of the year where
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Speaker 1: these guys who are away for you know, and I've
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Speaker 1: talked periodically with Drew as well. Those guys I think
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Speaker 1: lived near each other in San Diego, and right towards
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Speaker 1: the end, Drew was finally texting me like, Hey, if
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Speaker 1: you're going to take this job, please do it because
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Speaker 1: he's wearing me out. Yeah, we're looking forward to the
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Speaker 1: start of the season. Obviously, certainly for Russell's standards and
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Speaker 1: the Broncos standards, it wasn't the type of year that
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Speaker 1: they wanted, and typically that's why new head coaches arrived.
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Speaker 1: Now we go to the number one overall pick in
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Speaker 1: this year's draft, which currently belongs to these Chicago Bears,
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Speaker 1: but for how much longer? Certainly Justin Fields, who wears
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Speaker 1: number one for the Bears, factors into that discussion. Are
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Speaker 1: they shopping the number one pick because they're satisfied with
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields? Or could Justin Fields be on the move?
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Speaker 1: Is that a possibility something that Ryan Poles was asked
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Speaker 1: today here at the combine. That's the plan right now,
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Speaker 1: and like I said, we're going to do our homework
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Speaker 1: on this class and if something changes, and again I'll
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Speaker 1: just use the same statement. We got to be blown
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Speaker 1: away to say, you know what, I think this is
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Speaker 1: best for organization. Nothing's changed there. I saw you know,
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Speaker 1: the the deal from yesterday. In terms of leaning one
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Speaker 1: way or the other, you know, I think that's always
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Speaker 1: been the case. We've always leaned that way because justinto
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Speaker 1: some really good things. I'm excited about where his game's
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Speaker 1: gonna go. But at the same time, when you sit
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Speaker 1: in our situation at one overall, you have to do
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Speaker 1: your due diligence. You have to in skate everything. You
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Speaker 1: got to spend time with those guys just to make
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Speaker 1: sure we're making the right decision. Ryan Poles, they're talking
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Speaker 1: about the many options that they have with the number
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Speaker 1: one pick. Ian Rappaport again here with me. What's your
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Speaker 1: understanding of the Bear's plan at number one right now? Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, it's Ryan Poles is saying. Is true.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to do, and this really has been the
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Speaker 1: plan since the season ended, was evaluate all the quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: get a landscape, how good are they, who do they like,
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Speaker 1: where do they stack up, get through the combine, and
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Speaker 1: then make a firm decision on justin Field. So what
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Speaker 1: he is saying is consistent with what has been the plan.
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Speaker 1: And you know, the question would then be like, well,
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Speaker 1: what do they need to know is in Justin Fields,
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Speaker 1: you're starting quarterback. Well, this is his job, This is
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Speaker 1: Ryan Poles's job is to figure out are they absolutely
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Speaker 1: sure is Fields graded higher than any of these quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: coming out. My guess is the answer is yes, said
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Speaker 1: Field stays, but they can't know that for sure until
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Speaker 1: they get through the process. If they assume justin Fields guy,
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Speaker 1: then it seems that trading the pick makes the most
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Speaker 1: sense because they're going to get the most for it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is how you build. You have the
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Speaker 1: number one pick and you don't need a quarterback, you
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Speaker 1: trade it for someone else, to someone else for a lot,
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Speaker 1: and use those picks to build the foundation. That seems
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Speaker 1: like the plan going forward for the Bears. Well. In
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Speaker 1: evaluating these quarterbacks though, also helps them understand the value
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Speaker 1: that they might get for number one. Like if they
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Speaker 1: feel like, all right, look, c J. Strout might be
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Speaker 1: a can't miss prospect, Bryce Young might be the best
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Speaker 1: we've seen in the last five years, and then they
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Speaker 1: can assess that value with other teams as they try
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Speaker 1: to help them move off. That's a great point, and
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Speaker 1: I think that's part of it, because you know, I
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Speaker 1: think we all think about, Okay, well, the Bears are
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Speaker 1: obviously going to trade. So going from nine to one
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Speaker 1: is worth X. Well, it's different every year based on
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Speaker 1: the talent you're trading for. You're not trading for abstract picks.
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Speaker 1: You're trading for talented players. So what is that? What
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Speaker 1: is it? Yeah, you know, two ones and two twos like, okay,
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Speaker 1: well that's a really good player. But can offer us
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Speaker 1: some help there too, All right, Daniel Jeremiah are a
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Speaker 1: Fill Network draft lead. You might have heard him the
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Speaker 1: LEA draft analyst Snifiler. Yeah, he did his you know,
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Speaker 1: hours long conference call on Friday and actually went into
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Speaker 1: all that the Bears could get for that number one
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Speaker 1: pick with all the different options. Certainly, so I think
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Speaker 1: that's a big part of it too, is the value
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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. But again, the number one pick is
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Speaker 1: worth what a team will give to you essentially at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. Right now, we are going
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Speaker 1: to head back to Andrew Ciliano just about twenty yards away,
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Speaker 1: who's got a Super Bowl champion with him, who does
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Speaker 1: not have to worry about picking first overall. Thank you guys,
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, you are picking thirty first overall. As the
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Speaker 1: draft comes to Kansas City, which is a great problem
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Speaker 1: to have because you want to think again, congratulations House
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Speaker 1: life as a two time Super Bowl champion. It's great. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it's great. I'm so happy for our city to have
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to have the draft there for our organization.
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Speaker 1: Rat Veach, he's got a little pressure on now it's
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Speaker 1: back in you know, it's right here in Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: So but we look forward to it. Patrick said, I
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Speaker 1: believe on stage at the parade that he had made
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Speaker 1: a promise that when the draft was here, you guys
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Speaker 1: would be picking glass. So there. Yeah, well he's good
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Speaker 1: at those predictions. Have you had any time to breathe whatsoever?
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Speaker 1: Coaches that win and you've been down this road before
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Speaker 1: generally say that they're behind, like there's no vacation time,
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Speaker 1: there's no time to have any family time or any
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Speaker 1: chance to reflect. Yeah, well I did. I went to California,
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Speaker 1: but I where I've got a property out there and
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Speaker 1: my wife. My wife and I were able to get away. However,
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Speaker 1: my staff, I've got to put that back together, and
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Speaker 1: I lost a big component of that with Eric b Enemy.
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Speaker 1: So Eric went to Washington, as we know, as the
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. So I had to do my go through
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Speaker 1: the interview process. But it's a lot better doing that
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Speaker 1: when you're looking at the ocean than not. So I
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Speaker 1: was able to go out there and get busy. Since
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Eric, let's let's talk about him. You have
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Speaker 1: said multiple times how happy you are for him. We
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Speaker 1: had him on last week. I think everyone agrees it's
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Speaker 1: great that he gets his chance to run his own ship.
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Speaker 1: Is there any part of you though, that's angry that
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Speaker 1: he had to make that move, that his next step
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be sitting in a chair like yours, Well, listen,
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Speaker 1: I mean I was hoping that that he honestly would
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Speaker 1: be able to get a head coaching job from the
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Speaker 1: seat that he was sitting in. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: tell you that so that I feel any different than that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if angry is the right term. I
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Speaker 1: know how things work, but I am so happy for
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Speaker 1: him and he has a chance to work with a
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Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Ron Rivera. Ron's a tremendous human being,
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Speaker 1: a great football coach. He's a defensive coach, although he
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Speaker 1: knows both sides, but he's he mainly focuses on the defense,
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Speaker 1: and so this gives U. E. Be An opportunity to
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Speaker 1: sit there and have his own, his own show. This
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Speaker 1: is his name on it, and only his name, and
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Speaker 1: that's I think it's for all the time and effort
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Speaker 1: that he's put in. I think it's a great reward
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Speaker 1: there and I think it will be end us for Washington.
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Speaker 1: He will he brings great energy. I think the players
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Speaker 1: will feel that and if they just listened to him, man,
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Speaker 1: he'll get them, get them where they want to go
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Speaker 1: on the offensive side. And we definitely felt that energy
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Speaker 1: last week after his press conference when when he joined
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Speaker 1: us slide. Let's go back to Patrick Mahomes. Was there
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Speaker 1: ever a point now that everything is done, Was there
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Speaker 1: ever a point, whether it'd be against Jacksonville or in
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Speaker 1: the super Bowl, where you thought this is it, He's done,
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Speaker 1: He's not coming back. Listen, I never think that with
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Speaker 1: him because because of the way he's wired. Um and
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Speaker 1: so I know great athletes have a way of overcoming things.
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Speaker 1: My job is to make sure that they're not putting
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Speaker 1: themselves in more jeopardy than what they should be putting
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Speaker 1: themselves in a football field. So you know thus that
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Speaker 1: we did the X ray and make sure we took
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Speaker 1: care of that even though he fought me to all
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Speaker 1: the way the machine with it. But that part's important
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Speaker 1: for young coaches to make sure they do that art.
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Speaker 1: And he didn't want to get the x ray because
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to hear potentially badness. Well whatever, yeah whatever,
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Speaker 1: or go all the way up there to get it,
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Speaker 1: you know, so, and he didn't want to miss any place.
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Speaker 1: So but anyways, he um nothing amazing at me about
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Speaker 1: the kid. He loves playing the game. He's tough, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and he's very smart. I know a lot of the
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Speaker 1: Netflix show that we're going to see was him at home,
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Speaker 1: him with Brittany, him with the family, but some of
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Speaker 1: it was actually in your building during practice. What are
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Speaker 1: we going to learn anything about Patrick Mahomes that we
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Speaker 1: didn't already know? I think I think you'll learn, well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that would be it, but uh,
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Speaker 1: I think he'll learn that he's a great father, cares
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Speaker 1: about his wife and his children. Um. I think you'll
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Speaker 1: also see he's a great teammate on the field. And
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Speaker 1: this is during the grunt time, the practice time, when
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Speaker 1: which you know can be a challenge when you get
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Speaker 1: to week sixteen seventeen, you know so, But he's upbeat.
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Speaker 1: He wants to dominate every play, and he wants to
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Speaker 1: be great every play, and he tells the huddle that
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Speaker 1: all the time. So I think you'll see I think
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Speaker 1: you'll see his relationship with the coaches and and how
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Speaker 1: he interacts with them, and how proactive he is with
11:21
Speaker 1: things and willing to try just about anything there on
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Speaker 1: the football field. Let's talk about your offseason roster possibilities here.
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Speaker 1: I know you and Brett Feach were just on the
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Speaker 1: podium arrassed not only about Orlando Brown but about Frank Clark.
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Speaker 1: Can you realistically see them both back with workable numbers? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a possibility. I mean, we're so young into this
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Speaker 1: thing that I'm not sure we've declared anything, you know.
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Speaker 1: And Brett deals with all this. He relieves that off
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Speaker 1: of my table so or off of my play. I
11:53
Speaker 1: don't have to worry too much about it. He takes
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Speaker 1: care of that for me. So but I tell you, nothing,
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Speaker 1: nothing surprises me. Nothing's impossible. And and if they both
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Speaker 1: ended up back with us, I could see that if
12:08
Speaker 1: they ended up having to go, we had to end
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Speaker 1: up going a different direction, or they had to go
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Speaker 1: a different direction, we understand that, but most of all,
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Speaker 1: we appreciate the two guys, two great guys, two good teammates.
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Speaker 1: All right, last thing, the competition committee. Yesterday, the Rams
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Speaker 1: had a proposal where they would make roughing the passer reviewable.
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Speaker 1: You obviously remember Week five, the Chris Jones play Derek Carr,
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Speaker 1: remember that vividly you after the game said maybe there's
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Speaker 1: some kind of middle ground, some way to fix plays
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Speaker 1: like that. Would you be in support of making roughing
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Speaker 1: the passer reviewable? Well? Yeah, I mean I was just
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Speaker 1: in that the meeting, so I would, But I know
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Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes into that. So there's a
12:51
Speaker 1: lot of different angles that go into it. So I
12:53
Speaker 1: understand if you don't. I understand if you did. The
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Speaker 1: thing that won't be talked about. I don't think is
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Speaker 1: that the number of roughing the passer call in particular,
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Speaker 1: ones that as coaches, we thought were missed were depleted
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Speaker 1: the second right out after that play in the Atlanta play,
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Speaker 1: they they dissipated so that you weren't getting a lot
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Speaker 1: of those, and when you did get him, they were
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Speaker 1: very accurate what they were they were doing. So you
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Speaker 1: don't necessarily think it's it's something that's going to pass. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I mean, I'm not here to
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Speaker 1: judge on that. There are a lot of voices that
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Speaker 1: go into that that are a lot bigger than what
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Speaker 1: I well, not physically bigger, bigger, bigger than I am.
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Speaker 1: So on that note, Andy Reid, congrats, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for every you do a great job too,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Likewise, Andy Reid, two time
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning head coach, all right knew right now.
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Speaker 1: On NFL dot Com, Bucky Brooks, if you log onto
13:51
Speaker 1: dot com, has his new mock draft, and he has
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Speaker 1: Jaylen Carter going one overall to the Bears again. The Bears,
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Speaker 1: as it stands still do hold the first overall tick.
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Speaker 1: And then Bucky has Bryce younga two, Will Anderson at three,
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Speaker 1: and then the hometown team here at Indy the Colts
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Speaker 1: taken c J. Strout at four. The drills begin on
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Speaker 1: Thursday on NFL Network hand on NFL Plus the d
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Speaker 1: linement of the linebackers coming up first, working towards the
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Speaker 1: old line of the running backs. On Sunday, if you're
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Speaker 1: watching NFL net work, a six hour extravagamza here out
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Speaker 1: of Tuesday, getting ready for the drills on Thursday at
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Speaker 1: the combine. What if the Atlanta Falcons do at quarterback?
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Speaker 1: They're picking eighth overall. Last year they had a rookie,
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Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter play the second part of the season, went
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Speaker 1: two and two as a starter. Terry font know your thoughts.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna add to the position. And we've been really
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Speaker 1: clear with how we feel about Desmond Ritter and what
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Speaker 1: he's done to this point in his career. He's his
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Speaker 1: makeup and just the way he's handled every role that
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Speaker 1: he's been in and what he did over the last
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Speaker 1: four games of the season. He dealt with adversity, he
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Speaker 1: got off the mat, he kept fighting. So Desmond's done
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Speaker 1: some good things and we know he's going to continue
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Speaker 1: to improve this offseason. And yet we're gonna add to
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Speaker 1: the position, whether it's free agency, the draft, or both.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about the quarterback position and how we want
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Speaker 1: to make sure we continue to add to that position
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Speaker 1: and we want to keep bringing players in. So really
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Speaker 1: excited about Desmond, and yet we're gonna add to the position.
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Speaker 1: All right, There is Terry Fontono, GM of the Falcon
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Speaker 1: Steve White, he kind of said the same thing when
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Speaker 1: he was sitting right here. The Falcons have a top
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Speaker 1: ten pick, is an interesting position to be in if
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks fall or if somebody wants to get up
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Speaker 1: to your eighth position. You do Falcons preseason games in
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Speaker 1: the building overall where they mildly content with what Desmond
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Speaker 1: Ritter did. They knew it was going to be a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I think they're more than mildly content.
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Speaker 1: I mean, remember, Marcus Mariot just started most of the season,
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Speaker 1: but Ritter came in, played well in the preseason, and
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Speaker 1: then he came in and did well at the back
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Speaker 1: end of the season. Until they're speaking in encouraging terms.
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Speaker 1: But to quote Fontino, they said, there's no way they're
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Speaker 1: going to anoint him as their QB one right now.
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Speaker 1: We've turned him. Said they're going to add to the
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Speaker 1: quarterback room, it would probably be a veteran type of quarterback.
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Speaker 1: They don't have a veteran quarterback on the roster right now. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's not forget there's a lot of speculation that the
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Speaker 1: Falcons may be in play to maybe get into little
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson trading sweepstakes. But seeing a Terry Fontano and
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Speaker 1: head coach Arthur Smith have put this team together, to
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Speaker 1: give up that type of capital to make a trade
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Speaker 1: for one player seems something way out of their playbook.
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Speaker 1: So again and listening to Fontano and talking to people
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Speaker 1: in the organization, it seems like if they add to
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Speaker 1: the quarterback room, it would be a veteran. Desmond Ritter
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Speaker 1: would have to earn that number one job. Right now,
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Speaker 1: it looks like they're very happy with his progress, and
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Speaker 1: if they do go for a veteran, they do have
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Speaker 1: some financial flexibility. After cutting Marcus Mariota this morning, they
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Speaker 1: now have north of sixty five million within m sixty
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Speaker 1: five million in available camp space. We have some breaking news.
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Speaker 1: The Browns and gem were just announced for the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame game. So Joe Thomas is going in derrel
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Speaker 1: Rievas Joe Cleco are going in August third. We have
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Speaker 1: a game one hundred and fifty six days from now
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Speaker 1: will be your next NFL game, and we might see
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Speaker 1: to Shawn Watson if Kevin Stefanski wants to play starters
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Speaker 1: that day. Andrew Barry their GM talked a little bit
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Speaker 1: about his contract in this offseason. Yeah, I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: a couple of things that he said that we're very interesting.
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Speaker 1: Without being specific, Andrew Berry rarely gets into specifics and
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Speaker 1: public's public announcement type of situations, but he did say
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Speaker 1: when asked about restructuring veteran players contracts because they have
17:42
Speaker 1: to get under the salary cap. The quarterback to Shaun
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Speaker 1: Watson's fully guaranteed deal, it's a possible. It's a possibility
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Speaker 1: to be restructured, and that's one way that they can
17:53
Speaker 1: get under the cap and add players if they redo
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Speaker 1: his deal in some way, shape or form. He wouldn't
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Speaker 1: commit to say he's there doing that this year, but
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Speaker 1: that is a possibility now. Privately, I asked Barry, is
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Speaker 1: it going to be simpler this season without a first
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Speaker 1: round draft pick to build your roster knowing that Watson
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Speaker 1: is going to be able to play Week one? He
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Speaker 1: said absolutely, because last year, because of the looming suspension,
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Speaker 1: they did not know what it was going to be
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Speaker 1: like to build a roster, not knowing how long Deshaun
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Speaker 1: Watson was going to be out who was going to
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Speaker 1: be the full time backup at the time. So this year,
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Speaker 1: because they have stability at that position, he said, it
18:35
Speaker 1: will be easier to shape a roster around watson skills
18:39
Speaker 1: than it was this time last year when they made
18:41
Speaker 1: the big move for him. And that big move included
18:43
Speaker 1: the twelfth overall pick, which would have been the Browns
18:46
Speaker 1: but now is in Houston. Nisario has two and twelve.
18:49
Speaker 1: The Browns first selection is the twelfth pick in the
18:52
Speaker 1: second round, which this year, at least this year is
18:54
Speaker 1: forty two overall. Thank you, Steve White. Meantime, rhet, we
18:58
Speaker 1: have some other quarterback news at a Tennessee today, Yeah,
19:01
Speaker 1: we do, in fact, and I think there was a
19:04
Speaker 1: lot of question as to whether twenty twenty three in
19:06
Speaker 1: Tennessee would bring about the Malik Willis era right third
19:11
Speaker 1: round pick last year out of Liberty for the Titans
19:13
Speaker 1: Sudan as Ryan Tannehill missed the final five games of
19:17
Speaker 1: the season in twenty twenty two with the ankle injury.
19:20
Speaker 1: But it doesn't sound like that is the case, or
19:22
Speaker 1: at least, as Ran Carthon, the new GM of the Titans,
19:25
Speaker 1: said today at the combine, Ryan is under contract. You know,
19:29
Speaker 1: I know you guys, I just want to speak freely
19:31
Speaker 1: for a moment, you know, I know everybody wants to
19:34
Speaker 1: make a big deal, you know, out of the quarterback
19:36
Speaker 1: position and whether he will or won't be here. But
19:39
Speaker 1: you guys just have to accept the fact that Ryan
19:41
Speaker 1: is under contract, you know, for us, and right now
19:44
Speaker 1: he's a Titan and he will be a Titan. It
19:48
Speaker 1: seems like a like as much of it as an
19:50
Speaker 1: endorsement as you would get at this point in the
19:53
Speaker 1: off season from any general managers. Mike Giardi is back
19:56
Speaker 1: here with us listening to what Ran Carthon had to
19:58
Speaker 1: say about the quarterback spot. Ryan Tannehill is a Titan
20:01
Speaker 1: and will be a Titan, and I guess until he's
20:03
Speaker 1: not and has been working out in the area, has
20:05
Speaker 1: been getting together with the guys. I think it's interesting
20:08
Speaker 1: that when you look at his number, his cap number,
20:11
Speaker 1: and everybody's obsessed with the cap it's fairly low for
20:14
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks now that aren't on rookie contracts. So it's
20:17
Speaker 1: all right when you talk about the idea of moving
20:19
Speaker 1: on from Ryan Tanhill, where you mentioned Malik willis just
20:23
Speaker 1: not ready yet, right and there's gonna have to be
20:24
Speaker 1: a big step from him from your one to year two.
20:27
Speaker 1: To be that guy. They had to turn to Joshua
20:29
Speaker 1: Dobbs a journeyman to sort of pilot them through the
20:32
Speaker 1: back part of the season and almost get him into
20:34
Speaker 1: the postseason. So I think you're looking at Willis as
20:37
Speaker 1: a project that is far away. Well, in the short term,
20:40
Speaker 1: Ryan's a leader when he's healthy, He's been a good
20:43
Speaker 1: player for them, His teammates respect him. It just makes
20:46
Speaker 1: a lot of sense to just continue with that relationship
20:49
Speaker 1: rather than move on and then I'll have to find
20:51
Speaker 1: yourself another veteran quarterback who is going to cost some
20:53
Speaker 1: money because the price is only going off for those guys. Yeah,
20:56
Speaker 1: I mean it's a good point. And when Ryan's healthy
20:58
Speaker 1: and when you know they run the offensive way, they
21:00
Speaker 1: want to pretty difficult to deal with. Oh, when Derrick
21:02
Speaker 1: Henry is out there, you healthy as well. So we'll
21:04
Speaker 1: see if that continues into twenty twenty three. We know
21:07
Speaker 1: someone who will not continue into twenty three in their
21:10
Speaker 1: previous role now is Leslie Fraser's defensive coordinator for the
21:13
Speaker 1: Bills stepping away from coaching as they announced today. Does
21:19
Speaker 1: it sound like Sean mcdermot's going to have a bigger
21:21
Speaker 1: impact than maybe he even did before Leslie was there.
21:25
Speaker 1: So they're noncommittal as he said this, the conversations with
21:28
Speaker 1: Leslie just happened last week, so they're the beginning stages
21:30
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out how they want to operate
21:32
Speaker 1: going forward. But obviously Sean McDermott made his bones as
21:36
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinated in this league before becoming the head
21:38
Speaker 1: coach for the Buffalo Bills, and it is something that
21:41
Speaker 1: he said, if I feel comfortable, I feel like that's
21:43
Speaker 1: the best thing for the team to do going forward,
21:45
Speaker 1: then then I'll do that. Leslie only taking a year off,
21:49
Speaker 1: unclear about whether or not he returns and has his
21:51
Speaker 1: old job back. They haven't really gotten that far either.
21:54
Speaker 1: But it was interesting to hear Ron Rivera, who coached
21:57
Speaker 1: with McDermott and Caroline, and he said, very aggressive play caller.
22:00
Speaker 1: And I think if you talk to some people in Buffalo,
22:02
Speaker 1: they'd like a little bit more aggression from the defense.
22:05
Speaker 1: And that's Sean's pedigree, at least it was in Carolina.
22:08
Speaker 1: That's how he sort of made his reputation. So curious
22:11
Speaker 1: to see how that works. But again, beginning processes for them,
22:14
Speaker 1: and McDermot said, I do want to still have the
22:16
Speaker 1: big picture in mind, because as we know that difficult
22:18
Speaker 1: job that they have as a head coach managing all fats.
22:21
Speaker 1: It's of every part of the game. Yeah, And as
22:23
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was sitting right there when he joined us
22:25
Speaker 1: here live on NFL Now just a couple of hours ago,
22:27
Speaker 1: he said, continuity is what they want on defense. This
22:29
Speaker 1: is a good defense and it has been for the
22:31
Speaker 1: last few years. They want to keep that as much
22:33
Speaker 1: as they can. So, yeah, certainly wouldn't shock me to
22:35
Speaker 1: see maybe an elevation from the staff. Al Holcomb comes
22:38
Speaker 1: in as you mentioned, and then Sean takes on a
22:40
Speaker 1: bigger role as the head coach and perhaps to facto
22:42
Speaker 1: defensive and coordinator. So we'll see there in Buffalo. All right,
22:50
Speaker 1: back here with you NFL Now at the Combine live
22:53
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis here as the Giants with some really big
22:56
Speaker 1: decisions to make as Daniel Jones and Saquon bar Fleet
22:59
Speaker 1: both set to become free agents March fifteenth. Sa Quan
23:02
Speaker 1: just played out his fifth year option. Daniel Jones head
23:05
Speaker 1: is declined. So how do the Giants bring back not
23:09
Speaker 1: just one but both, something General manager Joe Shane talked
23:12
Speaker 1: a bit about today. If then scenarios we're going through though, so, um,
23:18
Speaker 1: if it gets out of hand and it's it's it's
23:20
Speaker 1: out of our comfort zone. UM. You know we have
23:23
Speaker 1: the tag we have we probably tag one player. UM,
23:26
Speaker 1: we'll use that and if somebody's got to walk then
23:29
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's unfortunate, but that's a part of
23:32
Speaker 1: the business. And we're still build building a team, and
23:34
Speaker 1: you know that's important to keep in mind. I would
23:35
Speaker 1: love to have them both back. Yeah, I think, Uh,
23:38
Speaker 1: they were They work well with each other. Uh, you know,
23:40
Speaker 1: their entire careers in the NFL, they've been together. Um.
23:43
Speaker 1: I do think they again they compliment it, Joe well
23:45
Speaker 1: and where we're trying to We've had again productive conversations
23:48
Speaker 1: with both the representatives and you know again that the
23:51
Speaker 1: goal is to hopefully get something done. So Jones and
23:56
Speaker 1: Barkley just two, I mean and important too, but two
24:00
Speaker 1: of a long list of notable free agents. Here's the
24:03
Speaker 1: Giants have here, as we sent out on our the
24:05
Speaker 1: NFL Game Day Twitter account. There includes Darius Slayton, Sterling Shepherd,
24:10
Speaker 1: who've been key pieces of the wide receiver corps these
24:13
Speaker 1: last few years, and some more on the defensive side
24:16
Speaker 1: of the ball as well, including safety Julian Love, who's
24:19
Speaker 1: played well these last couple of years, right, Lewis and
24:21
Speaker 1: Judy Batista back here with you inside the Indianapolis Convention
24:24
Speaker 1: Center here, and you know Judy as as we look
24:28
Speaker 1: at what Joe Shane just said, like, yeah, I'd love
24:30
Speaker 1: to have both those guys back. But how I think
24:32
Speaker 1: is obviously the biggest question. So the answer is very
24:36
Speaker 1: carefully yes. First of all, the first priority is certainly
24:40
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and what happens there will affect what happens
24:43
Speaker 1: with sa Quon Barkley. They are working with Daniel Jones.
24:47
Speaker 1: They have another meeting schedules for today. They said they've
24:49
Speaker 1: been in constant communication. I talked to a member of
24:52
Speaker 1: the organization last night who said they are cautiously optimistic
24:56
Speaker 1: that they're going to get this done, a deal with
24:58
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. They said, we went through this with Eli
25:00
Speaker 1: Manning too, and ultimately, of course Eli spent his entire
25:03
Speaker 1: career in New York. Yeah, so there is optimism that
25:06
Speaker 1: they will get a deal done with Daniel Jones, but
25:08
Speaker 1: make no mistake, he will be franchise tag. If they
25:10
Speaker 1: cannot get a deal done, Obviously, they would prefer to
25:13
Speaker 1: get the deal done, because they'd like to have that
25:15
Speaker 1: franchise tech in their back pocket if they need it
25:17
Speaker 1: for Saquon Barkley, they would like him back to But
25:20
Speaker 1: you've sort of heard Joe Shane say, well, if we
25:22
Speaker 1: need to use the franchise tech on Daniel Jones, then
25:24
Speaker 1: somebody has to walk. Well, that somebody would be sa
25:27
Speaker 1: Quon if they can't get a deal done with him
25:29
Speaker 1: and they have to use the tech on Daniel Jones.
25:31
Speaker 1: So certainly the hope, and again there's cautious optimism in
25:35
Speaker 1: the Jets organization, is that they can get both of
25:37
Speaker 1: them done. And then of course, you know across the street,
25:41
Speaker 1: if you ever road with the New York Jets down
25:43
Speaker 1: the road, there are quarterback questions there, but a bit differently,
25:47
Speaker 1: right the Giants trying to figure out how to bring
25:49
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones back. The Jets trying to figure out what
25:51
Speaker 1: really to do and whom they will turn to at
25:55
Speaker 1: quarterback this year, with Zach Wilson obviously struggling last year,
25:59
Speaker 1: and Joe Douglas, their general manager, talking a bit about
26:02
Speaker 1: that today. Obviously, you guys have seen reports about us
26:08
Speaker 1: bringing Derek Carr in about a week and a half ago.
26:12
Speaker 1: I can tell you that was a fantastic visit. We
26:14
Speaker 1: really enjoyed spending time with him. Obviously, he's the only
26:18
Speaker 1: quarterback I can really shed any light on for you guys,
26:21
Speaker 1: since he's the only quarterback that's that's a free agent.
26:25
Speaker 1: But I can say that he left, he left a
26:28
Speaker 1: strong impression with everybody, and so and so the Jets
26:34
Speaker 1: who met with Derek Carr in New York a little
26:37
Speaker 1: while ago, and now we'll meet with him in Indianapolis
26:40
Speaker 1: for his second time, as well as Saints. As you
26:42
Speaker 1: saw there, Judy, what do you make of this potential
26:46
Speaker 1: connection at quarterback with Derek Carr in the Jets. Well,
26:49
Speaker 1: first of all, Joe Douglas could not have raved any
26:52
Speaker 1: more about Derek Carr, not just as a player and competitor,
26:54
Speaker 1: but as a person. He went on at length about
26:57
Speaker 1: how how strong an impression Derek Carr had made during
27:01
Speaker 1: their meeting. They loved him. But let's be on as they,
27:05
Speaker 1: like pretty much everybody else in the NFL, is waiting
27:08
Speaker 1: for the decision coming out of Green Bay from Aaron
27:11
Speaker 1: Rodgers about what he wants to do and what the
27:13
Speaker 1: Packers want to do about him, and all the dominoes
27:16
Speaker 1: are going to fall from there. Joe Douglas obviously could
27:19
Speaker 1: not discuss that. He was asked a number of different
27:22
Speaker 1: times if you talked to the Green Bay Packers just
27:25
Speaker 1: in generalities, and he said, well, I talked to a
27:26
Speaker 1: lot of gms at this time of the area. Wouldn't
27:28
Speaker 1: say yes or no. But certainly the assumption is he has.
27:31
Speaker 1: But they're waiting, right, I mean, Aaron Rodgers decision is
27:34
Speaker 1: the thing that is going to set the entire right.
27:38
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole quarterback market is waiting for it.
27:41
Speaker 1: So but they love Derek Carr, and certainly the sense
27:45
Speaker 1: you get from them is that if Aaron Rodgers is
27:47
Speaker 1: out of the picture, that Derek Carr would be their target.
27:51
Speaker 1: Be an interesting marriage certainly there with that group and
27:54
Speaker 1: with Derek Carr in the work that he has already
27:56
Speaker 1: put out there on his resume in his productive NFL career.
28:01
Speaker 1: Judi Batista there with the latest for New York's teams.
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