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The Insiders Podcast: McVay and the Rams Feel Rejuvenated and Jaguars DE Travon Walker Joins the Show · NFL Game Previews

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Speaker 1: Oneko to the insiders on NFL Network.
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Speaker 2: Judy Batista, Ian Rappaford joining me, Mike Garrofalo, Brian Baldinger is.
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Speaker 1: Along for the riot.
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Speaker 2: He'll be with us shortly, as is our Jeffrey Jedia.
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Speaker 1: We've got two guests tonight.
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Speaker 2: Gerald McCoy, also one of our coworkers here at NFL Network.
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Speaker 2: He will be joining us later in the program, as
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Speaker 2: well as Jaguars linebacker Trayvon Walker, the former number one
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Speaker 2: overall pick, stops by to talk expectations for this upcoming season,
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Speaker 2: talk about some of the big deals his teammates have
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Speaker 2: gotten and maybe one coming for him in the future.
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Speaker 2: He'll be with us later in the show, but for now,
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Speaker 2: let's talk rams. Let's talk Sean McVay, the coach of
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Speaker 2: that team right there that won the Super Bowl just
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, went through a reset. He
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Speaker 2: recently told the team's official website. You know what's cool,
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Speaker 2: this is a quote. Being around this group and especially
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Speaker 2: even last year, feels like year one again.
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Speaker 1: And I really mean that.
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Speaker 2: See it's nice, nice to know that he really does
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Speaker 2: mean what he is saying. But this is a rejuvenated
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Speaker 2: Sean McVay. This is a guy that clearly feels better
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Speaker 2: about his position, his situation that he did coming off
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Speaker 2: of that Super Bowl and toyed with the idea of
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Speaker 2: heading into broadcasting. Now rejuvenated as the head coach of
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Speaker 2: the Rams, he is I want to throw it to
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Speaker 2: you here to start, because this is a Rams team
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Speaker 2: that's got a bunch of things going on.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of confidence there.
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Speaker 2: They had some money that they spent in free agency
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Speaker 2: to help fortify that offensive line, did so in the
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Speaker 2: draft as well. But they've got that quarterback situation that
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Speaker 2: needs to be resolved, with Matthew Stafford wanting a little
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Speaker 2: tweak to his deal.
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Speaker 3: You got to think that one of the reasons Sean
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Speaker 3: McVay feels rejuvenated is because they had such a good year,
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Speaker 3: such a promising year last year, with such a young team,
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Speaker 3: except for their thirty six year old quarterback Matthew Stafford,
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Speaker 3: who really was playing like he was twenty six. I mean,
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Speaker 3: his arm, the wade, bounced back, the Plazus Megan last
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Speaker 3: year looked like a quarterback in his prime, which Stafford
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Speaker 3: he does sound like he wants to believe he is,
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Speaker 3: even though he is thirty six years old. So the
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Speaker 3: breakdown essentially here is that Stafford, my understanding is wants
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Speaker 3: more guaranteed money. Then sound like you would mind the
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Speaker 3: raise either wants. His contract adjusted makes thirty one million dollars,
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Speaker 3: thirty two million dollars and thirty one in the final
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Speaker 3: three years there was deal. Nothing guaranteed after this year,
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Speaker 3: we have seen the quarterback market. Of course, most recent
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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence took a major, major leap. Stafford did his
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Speaker 3: deal several years ago. Probably feels like he needs a
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Speaker 3: little bit of a catchup, a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: band aid. He is going to show up to trading
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Speaker 3: camp by Sean McVay said he was a mini camp,
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Speaker 3: so no hold out expected, but certainly someone who does
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Speaker 3: feel like he wants the kind of guaranteed money. Maybe
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Speaker 3: when he's thirty seven to thirty eight. They're seeing other
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Speaker 3: quarterbacks who want to play into their forties get well.
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Speaker 4: You can understand why Sean McVay would feel rejuvenated and
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Speaker 4: energized because the most arduous part of their rebuild or transition,
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Speaker 4: if you want to call it that, it is over right.
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Speaker 1: They came through it.
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Speaker 4: The year started a little bit rough, last year, but
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Speaker 4: then they really went on a long upswing and made
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Speaker 4: the playoffs. And so now he gets to look forward
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Speaker 4: to not just having Matthew Stafford and a whole lot
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Speaker 4: of young talent, but he can also be energized by
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Speaker 4: the challenge of the transition on defense. Right Raheem Morris
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Speaker 4: has gone off to be the head coach of the
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Speaker 4: Atlanta Falcons, incomes Chrishula as the defensive coordinator. There are
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Speaker 4: a lot of new faces there. Obviously Aaron Donald is
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Speaker 4: now retired. They brought in three new guys veterans for
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Speaker 4: the defensive secondary. They drafted two guys for the defensive
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Speaker 4: line with their top picks. So there's also the challenge. Yes,
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Speaker 4: they've gone through what was probably the worst part of
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Speaker 4: the rebuild, but now there is the challenge of putting
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Speaker 4: that defense together with all those new faces. I think
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Speaker 4: that re energizes most coaches to have a new challenge
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Speaker 4: in front of them when they're also in a very
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Speaker 4: good spot going forward.
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Speaker 1: And when you hear from Rams players as staffers.
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Speaker 2: They talked about McVeigh and his energy on the field
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Speaker 2: in OTA's this spring. They said you could notice that
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Speaker 2: he's got that passion back for what he is doing.
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Speaker 2: He's running around there, he's throwing the football, He's doing everything.
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Speaker 2: He wants to be a part of what's happening. More so,
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Speaker 2: it seems like than he ever has. So we will
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Speaker 2: look for the rams once we get the training camp
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Speaker 2: to see if that passion, that energy translates to then
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Speaker 2: and then into the regular season. Kalais Campbell, speaking of
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Speaker 2: regular seasons, this is going to be his seventeen in
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Speaker 2: the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Seventeenth. This one's official.
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Speaker 2: Campbell's signing with the Dolphins, the former University of Miami.
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Speaker 2: A defensive lineman returning to Miami, and he is looking
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Speaker 2: forward to potentially getting his first Super Bowl trophy. Here's
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Speaker 2: Kalais on joining Miami.
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Speaker 5: Is like, I can't control with the end of the year
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Speaker 5: if I will be a champion or not. But I
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Speaker 5: can prepare like a champion. You know, I can work
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Speaker 5: like a champion. I can you know, lead like a champion.
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Speaker 5: I can definitely be a guy his championship worthy. So
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Speaker 5: my mom said, has come to work every day, prepare
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Speaker 5: every day as a guy that's worthy enough to be
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Speaker 5: a champion. So if I do that and I can
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Speaker 5: live with myself you know, whatever happens happens, but you know,
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Speaker 5: I definitely think that the opportunity is here.
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Speaker 1: Play like a champion today. Now that wasn't Miami.
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Speaker 2: That was actually one of Miami's rivals that had that sign.
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Speaker 2: Who was that again, Brian Baldinger, you are with us,
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Speaker 2: Let's talk some football, Baldie, as you're down there speaking
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Speaker 2: and speaking of Florida, you're down there enjoying the warm
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Speaker 2: weather there. I want to talk about the Bosa brothers,
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Speaker 2: Nick and Joey. You've spent some time with them, and
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Speaker 2: you could tell that they are juiced for the start
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Speaker 2: of the season here.
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Speaker 6: I think.
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Speaker 7: So, you know, the family business, the Bosa family business
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Speaker 7: is pretty good hunting quarterbacks, starting with the father and then.
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Speaker 6: Joey and Nick.
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Speaker 7: And you know he the big bear and the little
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Speaker 7: bear worked out together, you know, every morning down here,
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Speaker 7: and they, I mean, they really get after Now.
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Speaker 6: Look they're not alone.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of players out there, got their trainers there,
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Speaker 7: you know, in some other kind of kill his conditions
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Speaker 7: of humidity, doing similar things. But one thing I'll say
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Speaker 7: about both, I mean, Joey obviously he's had some injuries
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Speaker 7: the last two years, went healthy.
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Speaker 6: He's a difference maker.
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Speaker 7: Ian Khulio Mack both have taken you know, pay cuts,
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Speaker 7: but he's really more. He's healthy right now, really healthy,
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Speaker 7: really well conditioned, and really looking forward to a good start.
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Speaker 6: He's like a lot.
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Speaker 7: Of guys that have been in organizations Mike that just
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Speaker 7: haven't had a lot of winning. You know, he's interested
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Speaker 7: in winning. I mean, it's not about the money and
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Speaker 7: all that. It's about staying healthy and helping his team
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Speaker 7: win games. And for Nick, he's just you know, re
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Speaker 7: emphasized Mike how important the off season and training camp
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Speaker 7: is because last year he didn't have me the one
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Speaker 7: last year he was signed two days before the opener
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Speaker 7: against the Steelers, made the trip to Pittsburgh and played
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Speaker 7: in that first game. Now, I think he had three
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Speaker 7: sacks in that first game. He didn't look like he
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Speaker 7: lost anything, but he said it's really important the off
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Speaker 7: season to work with his new teammates like Leonard Floyd
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Speaker 7: and getting some timing down with guys, getting some pass
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Speaker 7: rush with them, you know, new defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 6: He's been able to do that this whole offseason.
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Speaker 7: Through eight OTA's mini camps and now training really really hard.
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Speaker 7: I think both of them are looking forward to having
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Speaker 7: great seasons, respectively, and I think it starts with this
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Speaker 7: six week period here down here and working out every day.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of scary to hear Nick Bosa tell you
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Speaker 2: that the best is yet to come. Scary if you're
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Speaker 2: an opposing quarterback, that's for sure. And look, it's about
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Speaker 2: more than just sacks. But you see the sack number
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Speaker 2: last year, it was eighteen and a half. The year
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Speaker 2: before it comes down to ten and a half. So
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Speaker 2: you know, in his mind, he's thinking, I got to
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Speaker 2: get into those mid teens, perhaps the upper teens, potentially
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Speaker 2: chase the sack record. You know that that's something that's
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Speaker 2: a point of pride for these guys and always on
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Speaker 2: their mind. So yeah, kind of scary to think that
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Speaker 2: Nick Bosa is motivated for this upcoming season. We shall
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Speaker 2: see what kind of havoc he reeks on quarterbacks and
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Speaker 2: opposing offensive lines in the twenty twenty four season. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: Brian Baldie here very much. Gerald McCoy, he used to
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Speaker 2: hunt quarterbacks. Now he's one of us, and you know what,
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Speaker 2: we're happy about that because he gets to share his
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Speaker 2: knowledge about the NFL, what it takes to play defensive line,
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Speaker 2: and he'll even talk to you about the importance of
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Speaker 2: his youth football Campy, that's all coming up after this
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Speaker 2: with Gerald McCoy.
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Speaker 1: You a little too small over there.
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Speaker 8: I do a lot of working out in the off season,
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Speaker 8: but nothing makes me look like this.
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Speaker 1: I thought he threw the ball. That's why I let
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Speaker 1: him go. I knew he had the ball to mighty flaming.
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Speaker 2: He's so entertaining during his playing career. We said, you
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Speaker 2: know what, We're gonna give him a second career in television.
8:52
Speaker 2: It is a former NFL defensive lineman, Gerald McCoy, one
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Speaker 2: of our colleagues here at NFL Network, taking some time
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Speaker 2: to right us here on the inside of Gerald. What's up, man,
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Speaker 2: I know you had your youth football camp. Are you
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Speaker 2: having coming up this weekend? Excuse me tell us more
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Speaker 2: about what's happening there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: First off, guys, thanks for having me, Thanks for giving
9:12
Speaker 8: me a break.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 8: I'm currently in Houston, which is why you see me
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Speaker 8: with Shay's on. I was just outside. I am in Houston.
9:18
Speaker 8: My daughter is going to U of H and she
9:21
Speaker 8: had her college her new student orientation. So as you
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Speaker 8: can see hold on, see if you can see my shirt.
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Speaker 8: You see my shirt?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's amazing, Mike. That will be you one day,
9:35
Speaker 3: one day.
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Speaker 1: I need a couple of those.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: So this is where, this is what I'm doing right now.
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Speaker 6: I'm actually in the hotel. I had to take a second.
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Speaker 6: So if you guys hear a little background nose, for
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Speaker 6: give me.
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Speaker 8: But yes, man, my camp is coming up June twenty second,
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Speaker 8: which is this Saturday. I'm from the South side of
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Speaker 8: Oklahoma City, and anybody who knows me knows I will say.
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Speaker 6: That over and over and over again.
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Speaker 8: Anytime I get in our because I'm extremely proud of
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Speaker 8: my city. It's not one of those cities where you
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Speaker 8: could name ten fifteen athletes that come from that city,
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Speaker 8: especially the South side of Oklahoma City, the inner city,
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Speaker 8: and there's a lot of kids that don't have the
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Speaker 8: opportunities to be seen or the opportunities to make it out. Well,
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Speaker 8: I'm just a living example of that you can make
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Speaker 8: it out. So when I have any opportunity to go
10:26
Speaker 8: back to let.
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Speaker 6: Them see it. In the flesh.
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Speaker 8: We didn't have a protein growing up. Our protein was
10:31
Speaker 8: the University of Oklahoma. So people like the Cowboys. So
10:35
Speaker 8: people hated the Cowboys, but there wasn't pro athletes coming
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Speaker 8: back talking to us letting us know, hey, you.
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Speaker 6: Can make it out. I did.
10:41
Speaker 8: So I'm taking it for myself to be that guy
10:44
Speaker 8: for this generation and moving forward.
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Speaker 6: This is my second annual of this version.
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Speaker 8: I've done it before, but this style of doing it,
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Speaker 8: this is my second one, and I want this to
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Speaker 8: be something that continues long after Gerald. I just want
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Speaker 8: it to just be an annual thing to get these guys,
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Speaker 8: these kids, boys and girls. Look, you don't think you
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Speaker 8: can make it out, here's the example I did, so
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Speaker 8: you can do it too.
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Speaker 3: I love to hear that. And you know there are
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Speaker 3: a ton of Bucks fans in that group. And if
11:13
Speaker 3: there's one thing that Bucks fans love it to root
11:17
Speaker 3: against the Atlanta Falcons. I want to go through kind
11:20
Speaker 3: of get your views on this. You I think you
11:22
Speaker 3: probably know where I'm going with this. So your old
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Speaker 3: buddy Matt Ryan, it was announced today is going to
11:27
Speaker 3: be inducted into the Atlanta Falcons Ring of Honor. Doesn't
11:31
Speaker 3: that just make you so happy for your good friend,
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Speaker 3: Matt Ryan.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I love Maddy Ice.
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Speaker 1: Man.
11:37
Speaker 8: I'm one of the only competitors who calls him Matty Ice.
11:42
Speaker 8: You know, Atlanta Falcons fans, Atlanta Falcons faithful, the former players,
11:46
Speaker 8: they call him Matty Ice. I'm one of the only
11:49
Speaker 8: opponents that call him Matty Ice because I truly believe that.
11:53
Speaker 8: I always said when I played against him that Matt
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Speaker 8: Ryan was flammable. He's one of the quarterbacks that once
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Speaker 8: he gets started, you give him any type of spark,
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Speaker 8: there's no stopping man.
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Speaker 6: He shows that it is envy pre season.
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Speaker 8: Obviously a lot of people are gonna remember what happened
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Speaker 8: in the Super Bowl, but his legacy is so much.
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Speaker 6: Bigger than that.
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Speaker 8: If you go look at his numbers, is where he
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Speaker 8: got drafted, what he's done for this city, and all
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Speaker 8: the numbers and records that he put up, Man Matt
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Speaker 8: Ryan is one of the best of all time. Definitely
12:21
Speaker 8: in my eyes, him and Julio.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the team that you're looking at that
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Speaker 2: you're most excited to see. You'll be part of our
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Speaker 2: training camp coverage. Maybe you're excited to see him in training.
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Speaker 8: Camp, So Chicago Bears. The reason I'm excited to see
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Speaker 8: Chicago Bears because coaching and situation matters when you have
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Speaker 8: a young quarterback and Kayler Williams, who everybody thinks is
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Speaker 8: a generational talent, is walking into the perfect situation. You know,
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Speaker 8: he has Dj Moore, pro bo Wi receiver, Keenan all On,
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Speaker 8: a Pro Bow wide receiver, Swills the.
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Speaker 6: Pro Bowl running back.
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Speaker 8: He's walking into the perfect situation, an opportunity to thrive
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Speaker 8: early in his career. So I'm excited to see what
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Speaker 8: they can do. They have a really good defense, and
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Speaker 8: you know a lot of people are saying they have
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Speaker 8: an opportunity to win that division.
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Speaker 6: I know. I know you have the.
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Speaker 8: Detroit Lions, you have the Green Bay Packers, who are
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Speaker 8: both coming off stellar seasons. Whereas the Lions were a
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Speaker 8: couple of players away from being in the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 8: but the Bears were also a quarterback and a couple
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Speaker 8: pieces away, which I think they got those pieces. So
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Speaker 8: I'm extremely excited to see what the Bears can do,
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Speaker 8: good or bad. I'm a big Kayler Williams guy because
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Speaker 8: he's an old you guy. Even when he went to
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Speaker 8: U to see he always showed love to the University
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Speaker 8: of Oklahoma, so I'm.
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Speaker 3: Always I'm going to talk about your former team. He
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Speaker 3: had a couple of former teams, but Sidney former.
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Speaker 6: G former team.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Tampa Bay Buckets. This offseason has actually been
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Speaker 3: kind of fascinating. Basically, what they've done is just reboot.
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Speaker 3: I mean they signed all their stars from Vonte David Winfield,
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Speaker 3: Baker came back, Mike Evans came back on the un
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Speaker 3: basically the same White had another one that was a
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Speaker 3: good signing sign Yes, what do you think of what
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Speaker 3: the bunksh of that Have they done enough to be
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Speaker 3: where they should be this year?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? I think they have.
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Speaker 8: You know, when you got momentum, you just build on that.
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Speaker 8: Bringing Baker back, you know, I said before last season,
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Speaker 8: Baker told us that he was injured. He was dealing
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Speaker 8: with a lot, but a big portion of it was injuries.
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Speaker 8: And he said, I'm fully healthy. I've had an off
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Speaker 8: season to train and not rehab. People they don't understand
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Speaker 8: the difference in rehabing and training and when you train,
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Speaker 8: it's a different mindset. You don't have to worry about Okay,
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Speaker 8: let me take it easy here, let me work on
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Speaker 8: take some time to work on this, get my motion
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Speaker 8: and my mobility back and all that. He had an
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Speaker 8: off season to train. Now you're come into a season
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Speaker 8: of unknown, and we got what we got. Now, these
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Speaker 8: guys are more comfortable with each other. Mike Evans is Mike.
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Speaker 8: Chris Godwin is Chris Godwin. Baker is feeling great. I
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Speaker 8: was down there when I film the schedule release and
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Speaker 8: I talked to Baker Mayfield. I'm telling you guys right now,
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Speaker 8: Baker Mayfield is the wrong guy to get the confidence
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Speaker 8: that he's down there with. He is so relaxed and
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Speaker 8: comfortable with where he's at, but he still got that
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Speaker 8: chip on his shoulder because people are thinking maybe it
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Speaker 8: was a fluke, maybe it was this, Maybe it was
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Speaker 8: that he's out to prove everybody wrong or right. And
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Speaker 8: I believe that the Buccaneers will go on year four
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Speaker 8: of winning the NFC South. Sorry NFC South. I said
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Speaker 8: it and I'm standing on it. Oh, this is just
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Speaker 8: the beginning on Wait till these big cameras come on.
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna talk crazy to all y'all. Y'all gave the
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Speaker 8: wrong one the camera, y'alla gave the wrong one to Mike. Buccaneers.
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Speaker 6: Hey, all right, here we come, baby.
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Speaker 2: Say this was this was just like me cap like
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Speaker 2: get your rep and get in that get out early
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Speaker 2: when we come back for training camp.
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Speaker 1: Helmet on pads on.
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Speaker 2: Joe Joy inside training camp into the season for NFL Network.
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Speaker 2: We're so glad to have you as a part of
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Speaker 2: our coverage of the NFL three sixty five out.
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: When we get the training camp, we're gonna see if
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Speaker 2: we can answer some of those questions that we still
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Speaker 2: have about a few teams matter.
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Speaker 3: Bac.
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey tod is gonna be.
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Speaker 2: With us next to talk about some questions he has
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Speaker 2: still about the Ravens and some other teams.
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Speaker 1: Here's the snap blitz coming.
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Speaker 9: Allen steps up with the pocket, gonna take off and
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Speaker 9: run as the first down and more to the party
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Speaker 9: to the thirty five thirty breaks away twenty ten five touchdown.
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Speaker 9: Josh Allen, Yeah, give him a flex, Josh.
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Speaker 1: You just scrolled them with their.
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Speaker 9: Bat turn for a huge touchdown run of fifty three yards.
16:53
Speaker 9: He was on his own side of the field faster.
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Speaker 1: Than a speeding bullet. Holy oh, it's like ninety something.
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Speaker 2: De grease Jeffrey Chidia on the East coast, he said,
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Speaker 2: snow on the ground and you're just hinting for the
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Speaker 2: days of playoff football would be back there eventually, but
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Speaker 2: in the meantime, we're getting ready for training camp. We're
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Speaker 2: coming out of mini camp. I don't know what hein said,
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Speaker 2: don't care. Uh So we're coming out of miny camp.
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Speaker 2: But we still have questions coming out of mini camps
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Speaker 2: that you put up on your first read it sel
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Speaker 2: dot Com backslash first read for Jeffrey Gidia is eight
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Speaker 2: burning questions coming out of mini camp. This one's burning
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Speaker 2: right here. Ken Josh Allen, who we just saw on
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Speaker 2: that run do it all by himself? Can he thrived
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Speaker 2: with his revamped receiving corps.
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Speaker 1: You gonna need some help.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you can, because if you look at
17:45
Speaker 10: Kansas City, and I know Patrick Mahomes is a different animal.
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Speaker 10: You saw the way here responding when he lost Tyreek
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Speaker 10: Hill and was dealing.
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Speaker 1: With new weapons.
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Speaker 10: Josh Allen has a similar skill set, a similar potential.
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Speaker 6: To his game.
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Speaker 10: You look at the way he played at the end
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Speaker 10: of last season when Joe Bray, he really had a
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Speaker 10: hole of that offense where he really unleashed James Cook
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Speaker 10: and Dalton Kincaid.
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Speaker 1: The weapons are there.
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Speaker 10: I like Kean Coleman as well, and so I see
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Speaker 10: a lot of versatility. I like the way Josh Allen
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Speaker 10: played controlled that offense with Joe Brady. Now he has
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Speaker 10: a whole offseason to work with him. And keep in mind,
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Speaker 10: Joe Brady said earlier this offseason that everybody's going to
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Speaker 10: eat this offense.
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Speaker 1: I really believe that.
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Speaker 2: Mike Yeah, Well, there's a lot of guys there that
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Speaker 2: maybe didn't have as much success elsewhere at the receiver
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Speaker 2: position now joining Josh Allen in Buffalo and needing to
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Speaker 2: be maybe more integral pieces than they have been in
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Speaker 2: the past. Curtis Samuel being one of them, Matt Collins,
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Speaker 2: Chase Claypool, kJ Hamler with the Broncos, there's more of
18:42
Speaker 2: a medical thing that he had a falling out there,
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Speaker 2: so somebody's going to have to step up. I know
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Speaker 2: that they're really pleased with what they saw from a
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Speaker 2: lot of these guys in the spring, particularly Matt Collins.
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Speaker 2: They feel like he could be a solid role player
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Speaker 2: plus for them. So let's see what's going to happen
18:56
Speaker 2: with the Buffalo Bills as we get into camp and
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Speaker 2: into the season with this supporting cast. We're talking about
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Speaker 2: number two on your burning questions that we're going to
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Speaker 2: get into here, a question that.
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Speaker 1: We've been asking for quite some time.
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Speaker 2: There it is, will DeShawn Watson live up to that
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Speaker 2: contract that you're seeing right on the screen. And the
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Speaker 2: last two words are the most important part yet fully guaranteed.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and more expensive. You know, the first years of
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Speaker 10: his contract was the bargain part of it. Right now he's.
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Speaker 1: Becoming a lot more expensive.
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Speaker 10: He's going to be a sixty three million dollar cap
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Speaker 10: hit this year and moving forward the next two years.
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Speaker 10: So he's got to start playing at a higher level,
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Speaker 10: and I'm not certain he's going to be able to
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Speaker 10: do that. You know, he's played in twelve games the
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Speaker 10: last two years, obviously missed the suspension was a big
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Speaker 10: part of the first one. But that shoulder injury last
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Speaker 10: year knocked him out. He's got to be healthy. I
19:44
Speaker 10: know they're taking their time with the rehab and he
19:46
Speaker 10: didn't throw until March and didn't only through in seven
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Speaker 10: on seven in mini camps.
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Speaker 6: But he's got to bring it on.
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Speaker 1: He's got to definitely deliver this time.
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Speaker 3: Ian, Well, let me bring up a couple of caveats here. Yes,
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Speaker 3: it is an expensive contract, obviously, anytime you have a
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Speaker 3: fully guaranteed deal, it is notworthy.
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Speaker 1: It is important.
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Speaker 3: That was a great contract for Deshaun Watson, but as
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Speaker 3: time has kind of moved on, he's gone down, down
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Speaker 3: down the quarterback ranking for highest paid now the eighth
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Speaker 3: highest paid quarterback. So not a bargain by any means,
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Speaker 3: certainly not as crazy expensive as it was. As far
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Speaker 3: as he fully guaranteed deal. Quarterbacks almost never get cut,
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Speaker 3: they actually get traded. It's just like that if something
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Speaker 3: terrible happened, the contract was standing the way. But here's
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Speaker 3: the other caveat. Before he got hurt last year, before
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Speaker 3: he had that very strange shoulder injury that actually played through,
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Speaker 3: let it come back during and then had surgery ending
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Speaker 3: his season. Afterward, he was playing really well. He was
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Speaker 3: showing signs of being that quarterback that they traded for
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Speaker 3: being that franchise superstar guy. Desligus. Rehab has gone well.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like, if anything, they've had to pull him back.
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Speaker 3: I expect him to be like his old self in
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Speaker 3: training camp and finally finally pay off that big time
20:53
Speaker 3: contract at the Browns game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that game against the Ravens that he had, that
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Speaker 2: was something that was the oldest Shaun Watson that we
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Speaker 2: saw in that game. See Ian, I listened to all that.
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Speaker 2: I do care what you have to say. It's just
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Speaker 2: when we were coming in, I couldn't hear you and
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Speaker 2: we had to move on, kind of like we have
21:08
Speaker 2: to move on right now. Speaking of the Ravens, their
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Speaker 2: offensive line, Jeffrey jedia another burning question, will it be
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Speaker 2: reliable for Baltimore?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, so much excitement about Derek Henry showing up and
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Speaker 10: Lamar Jackson coming off as second MVP, but they lost
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Speaker 10: three linemen, only Tyler Linderbaum and Ronnie Stanley the only
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Speaker 10: two guys left in that line, And so a lot
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Speaker 10: of positional battle is going on here. And I know
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Speaker 10: their head coach John Harbat talked about he'd like to
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Speaker 10: have this thing settled by the second week of training camp,
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Speaker 10: but it might take a little bit longer than that
21:39
Speaker 10: because you're talking about players moving positions and being juggled
21:43
Speaker 10: around trying to see who fits where the good thing
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Speaker 10: is here. The Ravens has done a great job in
21:47
Speaker 10: the past trying to add new players. They developed, draft picks,
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Speaker 10: they found veteran so I imagine, Judy, they will work
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Speaker 10: this out again.
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Speaker 4: The other good news is that Tyler Linderbaum is a
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Speaker 4: premiere center, and that's good news because the guards on
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Speaker 4: either side of him are going to be new.
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Speaker 1: They lost both of them.
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Speaker 4: The other thing, as you pointed out, is they have
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Speaker 4: a track record of doing this, of developing young offensive linemen,
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Speaker 4: putting them in there.
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Speaker 6: It works out.
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Speaker 4: Joe Dallas Andris their offensive line coach, longtime offensive line coach.
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Speaker 4: He's done a really good job at sort of cycling
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Speaker 4: guys in and developing and they come together and it works. Certainly,
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Speaker 4: the onus is going to be on them getting the
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Speaker 4: five set as early as they can in training camp,
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Speaker 4: because certainly you do not want this offensive line to
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Speaker 4: be a problem. It's been one of the consistently best
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Speaker 4: offensive lines in the NFL for the last few years,
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Speaker 4: and that is what has powered a running attack that
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Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson has been leading. And now, of course you
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Speaker 4: have Derrick Henry to come in to lower the boom.
22:50
Speaker 4: So certainly you want to get this offensive line set
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Speaker 4: as early as they can this summer.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you see a team that's had as much sustained
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Speaker 2: success as the Ravens have had in the ability to
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Speaker 2: compile talent you got to do with jeff Dida does say, Hey,
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Speaker 2: I don't know on paper, it doesn't look like it
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Speaker 2: to me, but you just have the trust that in
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Speaker 2: the end they're going to be able to figure it out.
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Speaker 2: What are the other five burning questions from Jeffer j
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Speaker 2: d You're gonna have to visit NFL dot com backslash.
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Speaker 1: First read to find out what those are.
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Speaker 2: He's even got some answers for you, Jeffrey Jada, Thank
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Speaker 2: you very much, my man. We're gonna stick with the
23:26
Speaker 2: Ravens here. There's Baldy Baldi everywhere. I mean, he's in Florida.
23:31
Speaker 2: He's a Jets Mini camp, He's a giantsman in the camp.
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Speaker 2: He's at Ravens Mini Camp shooting Zave flowers, telling us
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Speaker 2: how excited he is.
23:38
Speaker 1: Giving us breakdowns right there.
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Speaker 2: He's going to join us right now to give us
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Speaker 2: his breakdown of everything he saw there at Ravens Camp. Particularly,
23:46
Speaker 2: let's talk Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry. You know a
23:50
Speaker 2: little lightning and thunder. I mean we've heard that reference before.
23:54
Speaker 2: When you got the speed and the power and that
23:56
Speaker 2: these two provide, I mean, how effective and dangerous can
23:59
Speaker 2: this ob Well.
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Speaker 6: I mean it could be unbelievably effective.
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Speaker 7: And I also share Jeff Toda's you know, burning questions.
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Speaker 7: That's why I went down there last Thursday to look
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Speaker 7: at the offensive line of what Joe Dallas Andrews is doing.
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Speaker 7: But Lamar has certainly slimmed down anybody that has watched
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Speaker 7: Lamarrow over the years, this is the leanest he has
24:18
Speaker 7: ever been. That's his number one target, Zave Flowers from
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Speaker 7: a year ago. And let's face it, I mean, Derek
24:23
Speaker 7: Henry looks like a superhero right now.
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Speaker 6: I mean he is just there's nobody else like him.
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Speaker 7: And then if you look at the rebuilt offensive line
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Speaker 7: that included Daniel Flelay at right guard, who just happens
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Speaker 7: to be a human eclipse at three hundred and eighty
24:37
Speaker 7: two pounds playing right guard, you might not even see
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Speaker 7: Dereck Henry back there. He might actually acclude you know what,
24:42
Speaker 7: he is number twenty two back there. So I think
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Speaker 7: there's a lot of optimism there. I say this, Mike
24:48
Speaker 7: and I have been saying this. The Ravens Restock offensive
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Speaker 7: line in the way Walmart restock shelves, that's what they do.
24:55
Speaker 7: They drafted Andrew Bore Ben Cleveland has been there for
24:59
Speaker 7: a number of year. They brought in Josh Jones from Houston.
25:02
Speaker 7: He's started twenty four games in this league. They've got
25:06
Speaker 7: actually a lot of depth on this offensive line, and
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Speaker 7: so I think they will have a chance to get
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Speaker 7: the five best up there, including the Pro Bowl Tyler
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Speaker 7: Linderbaum at center. And one guy I would say looked
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Speaker 7: out for in this team is Rashad Bateman. He was
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Speaker 7: hurt and injured much of his first two years, got
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Speaker 7: much healthier last year and just watching him practice, like
25:29
Speaker 7: this guy is a tremendous route runner. He's got size,
25:32
Speaker 7: he hasn't lost any speed whatsoever. I expect him to
25:36
Speaker 7: be a big focal point of his passing games.
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Speaker 6: Lamar this season got.
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Speaker 2: Himself a contract extension this offseason that has him in
25:44
Speaker 2: Baltimore or under contract in Baltimore through the twenty twenty
25:47
Speaker 2: six season. So again, this is a Ravens front office
25:51
Speaker 2: that makes a lot of smart decisions. So when they
25:54
Speaker 2: do that, that tells you what they think is coming
25:56
Speaker 2: for Rashad Bateman. So that matches your assessment of him. Bald,
26:00
Speaker 2: you look like you're ready to go out and hit
26:02
Speaker 2: the town, or you know, grab yourself a nice dinner
26:04
Speaker 2: or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I got bad news. You're coming back. So we just
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Speaker 1: a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, that's that's what happens when you're this
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Speaker 2: good and you break it down the way you do.
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Speaker 2: We got to have more and more and more the Ravens.
26:16
Speaker 2: They've got sweet uniforms. I mean they've got a bunch
26:19
Speaker 2: of different varieties and all this suf Well now they
26:21
Speaker 2: got the alternate helmet that they revealed for the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four season.
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Speaker 1: It's purple. Eventually we're gonna get a clean shot of it.
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Speaker 1: You know, they do these uniform.
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Speaker 2: Reveals and it's like, can I just see the uniform?
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Speaker 1: You give me these little flashes.
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Speaker 2: Uh, it's got the bird looking directly at you from
26:35
Speaker 2: the side of the helmet as opposed to the one
26:37
Speaker 2: that's usually looking forward. So Raven there it is. Ravage
26:40
Speaker 2: is adding more sweet Litz, sweet Litz. Trayvon Walker, Jaguars linebacker.
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Speaker 2: He is about to join us live and oh the
26:47
Speaker 2: effects is that on his end?
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Speaker 1: That is amazing. I love that Trayvon Walker coming up
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Speaker 1: after this.
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Speaker 2: There you see Trayvon Walker as well as a few
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Speaker 2: other Georgia football players at his youth football camp for
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Speaker 2: the meet and greet chance to sign autographs for these kids,
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Speaker 2: giving them memories that they will remember for their entire life.
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Speaker 2: Trayvon Walker now the Jaguars linebacker, the former number one
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Speaker 2: overall pick back in twenty twenty two. This is from
27:24
Speaker 2: the Trayvon Walker Foundation free youth football camp that happened
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Speaker 2: this past weekend.
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Speaker 1: Tell us all about it.
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Speaker 2: I heard that there were hundreds of kids in attendance
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Speaker 2: in Thomas and Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Man, so we had a blast. It was a little
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Speaker 11: bit over four hundred kids that came out from a
27:39
Speaker 11: lot of the surrounding counties, and I feel like a
27:43
Speaker 11: lot of the kids had a lot of fun, a
27:44
Speaker 11: lot of smiles on the kids' faces, and that's what
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Speaker 11: I do it for.
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Speaker 1: Well, great work by you there.
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Speaker 4: You actually did a lot of great work on the
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Speaker 4: fields last year too.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that.
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Speaker 4: You had ten sacks last season. Your new teammate Eric
27:57
Speaker 4: Armstead said you could be the best edge in the league.
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Speaker 4: What do you feel clicked for you last year with
28:03
Speaker 4: your game?
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Speaker 11: I feel like I was definitely a lot more comfortable
28:05
Speaker 11: in the scheme.
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Speaker 1: Within the scheme, it was just.
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Speaker 11: It was time for me to just go play freely
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Speaker 11: and not be thinking as much. So I feel like
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Speaker 11: that helped me take a major step into my second
28:18
Speaker 11: year and now it's more of a mental game for
28:20
Speaker 11: me than physical.
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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson, your head coach, said recently at your mini camp.
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Speaker 1: This is a quote from Peterson quote.
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Speaker 2: He's still He's a young player that will be counted
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Speaker 2: on even in a leadership role on defense and amongst
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Speaker 2: the team. Great kid, humble, hardworking, wants to improve, once
28:38
Speaker 2: to learn, and he's still growing. When you hear that
28:40
Speaker 2: from your head coach, what kind of feelings is that
28:43
Speaker 2: engender inside of you?
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Speaker 11: It's just one of those feelings that I have guys
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Speaker 11: counting on me, and I've throughout my time of playing football,
28:51
Speaker 11: from collegiate level to now, I've had a lot of
28:53
Speaker 11: guys looking up to me to go out there and
28:56
Speaker 11: handle my business, and they looked at me in the
28:58
Speaker 11: leadership role. They know the type person I am and
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Speaker 11: the type player that I am, so obviously I'm just
29:04
Speaker 11: in this off season, I've been trying to get better
29:07
Speaker 11: and hopefully it continues continuously elevate to be one of
29:10
Speaker 11: the best players in the league.
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Speaker 6: One day.
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Speaker 4: I know during the spring you talked about the big
29:15
Speaker 4: extensions that Josh Allen and Trevor Lawrence God have fueled
29:19
Speaker 4: you in what ways if they fueled you, like, what
29:22
Speaker 4: have you gotten from watching those two guys?
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Speaker 11: Just from watching those two guys alone, they show you
29:28
Speaker 11: a lot of the things that they do inside the building,
29:31
Speaker 11: on the field, and off the field, just from them
29:33
Speaker 11: being one of the first people in the building to
29:35
Speaker 11: one of the last peoples leaving out of the building,
29:37
Speaker 11: and just a lot of the extra things that they
29:39
Speaker 11: put into the game that that you're you probably won't
29:42
Speaker 11: get from the game unless you put in that extra
29:44
Speaker 11: So that's definitely fuel to the fire for me. And
29:47
Speaker 11: just seeing those guys doing it the right way, I mean,
29:50
Speaker 11: who wouldn't want to follow in those footsteps to obviously
29:53
Speaker 11: be in that position one day as well.
29:55
Speaker 2: Now, usually a guy signs a big deal, you make
29:57
Speaker 2: them pick up a dinner tab or something like that,
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Speaker 2: make him take everybody out.
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen was courteous.
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Speaker 2: Enough to do it in April when you guys were around,
30:05
Speaker 2: you had plenty of time left in the spring. Trevor
30:08
Speaker 2: does it as soon as many camp's over and thinks
30:11
Speaker 2: you're not going to remember by the.
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Speaker 1: Time you get back to training camp. You can't let
30:14
Speaker 1: that happen.
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Speaker 2: There's got to be something he's got to pick up
30:16
Speaker 2: the tab.
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Speaker 11: On, right, Yeah, we definitely gonna make sure that happens.
30:20
Speaker 11: It's a lot to go around for everybody. I hope
30:21
Speaker 11: he thinks the same as well.
30:23
Speaker 2: So you are now contract eligible after this upcoming season.
30:27
Speaker 2: You play three years, then you're eligible for an extension.
30:30
Speaker 2: So when Judy's asking you about that that being a
30:33
Speaker 2: motivating factor for you, you're saying, well, if I have
30:35
Speaker 2: myself a monster year, I'm going to be the guys
30:38
Speaker 2: able to pick up the tab the next offseason.
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Speaker 11: Right, Yes, sir, I'm always always been one of those guys,
30:44
Speaker 11: even if without the contract or with the contract, I'll
30:47
Speaker 11: still probably be one of those guys, just often willing
30:49
Speaker 11: to do it on my own.
30:50
Speaker 4: You got a new defensive coordinator down there. The defense
30:54
Speaker 4: is going to look a little bit different. How do
30:56
Speaker 4: you expect your role to change? Or maybe at balls
31:00
Speaker 4: and also with Eric Armstead, they're like, how is everybody
31:03
Speaker 4: working together on that defense?
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Speaker 1: Right now?
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Speaker 11: And right now the defense, I definitely can say the
31:09
Speaker 11: defense is headed in a great direction for the type
31:12
Speaker 11: of players that we have on the defense, and I
31:15
Speaker 11: just feel like a less a lot of the guys
31:17
Speaker 11: up front and then the box. This play a lot
31:19
Speaker 11: more free, not a lot of thinking. So I really
31:22
Speaker 11: feel like with the new defensive coordinatorro on this and
31:24
Speaker 11: he's done a great job so far, coming in being
31:27
Speaker 11: one of those guys that one of those coaches that's
31:29
Speaker 11: just out he's actually out there coaching.
31:32
Speaker 5: Man.
31:33
Speaker 1: He wants this players to get better.
31:34
Speaker 11: So I feel like the defense this year we should
31:37
Speaker 11: take a major step from when we were last year.
31:40
Speaker 2: You know, you look at the recent history of the
31:42
Speaker 2: NFL draft and you go back to twenty eighteen quarterback,
31:45
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, linebacker.
31:49
Speaker 1: That's you, my man, pass.
31:50
Speaker 2: Rusher Travon Walker, than twenty three and twenty four quarterback quarterback.
31:53
Speaker 2: So of the last what is that eight drafts, only
31:56
Speaker 2: one non quarterback, only one defensive player pick?
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Speaker 6: There?
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Speaker 1: It is you?
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Speaker 2: Is that a point of pride for you and something
32:03
Speaker 2: that you're carrying with you.
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Speaker 11: Most definitely that's a point of pride and some that
32:08
Speaker 11: I always cared with me for the simple fact of
32:10
Speaker 11: just how the game is evolving. It shows how much
32:14
Speaker 11: past rushers are looked upon with in today's game. Would
32:18
Speaker 11: it be in a more passing league. So that's definitely
32:20
Speaker 11: something that I'll carry on with me forever.
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Speaker 1: All Right, you just got through the spring.
32:24
Speaker 4: You obviously see the offense every day. Trevor is coming
32:27
Speaker 4: back off what was an injury riddled season for him,
32:31
Speaker 4: got some new faces there.
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Speaker 1: How did the offense look to you?
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Speaker 6: Man?
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Speaker 11: The offense looked like they haven't haven't missed a beat.
32:38
Speaker 11: A lot of the guys that are still trying to
32:40
Speaker 11: get some of that chemistry with some of the newer guys,
32:43
Speaker 11: the younger Roe receivers and things. But so far, I
32:45
Speaker 11: feel like the offense has been doing a pretty good
32:47
Speaker 11: job on offense. A lot of the guys are a
32:50
Speaker 11: lot more comfortable as well within the scheme of the
32:52
Speaker 11: offense that they're running, and I feel like it's going
32:54
Speaker 11: to be a pretty good year for.
32:56
Speaker 2: Before we let you go, what was the best thing
32:58
Speaker 2: you heard from a kid or a story or something
33:00
Speaker 2: that maybe he said during your football camp this past
33:03
Speaker 2: weekend there in Thomas and Jordan.
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Speaker 11: So one thing that actually just hit me right away
33:08
Speaker 11: soon as you said that was a young kid's probably
33:11
Speaker 11: all of nine years old, just hit him talk about
33:14
Speaker 11: his faith, telling me to have faith in God and
33:17
Speaker 11: continue continuously blessing the community.
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Speaker 1: He was just telling me to keep.
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Speaker 6: Doing what I'm doing.
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Speaker 11: This is a nine year old that I'm talking about too,
33:25
Speaker 11: So that's obviously some motivational factor. I'm big on God,
33:29
Speaker 11: and obviously that's something that he brought up and that
33:31
Speaker 11: stuck with me. But there was definitely a lot of
33:34
Speaker 11: practition outside of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, four hundred kids getting the experience of being with
33:39
Speaker 2: an NFL player, but that NFL player also getting something
33:43
Speaker 2: back from the kids.
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Speaker 1: So that is a great story. We appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: If you give us a thumbs up on the way,
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Speaker 2: I want to see the fireworks come back up.
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Speaker 1: If you give us a thumbs up, yes there is.
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Speaker 1: He is going out with a literal bang. Trayvon Walker
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Speaker 1: enjoying the downtime.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait to see training camping into the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: four season with the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Sarah, Thank you all, thank you, appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: This week at the NFL Media Studios in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 2: the league hosted a fourth annual Ozzie Knew some general
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Speaker 2: Manager Forum and the seventh Annual Quarterback Coaching Summit. NFL coaches, gms,
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Speaker 2: and front office executives addressed a diverse crowd of college
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Speaker 2: and NFL personnel looking to advance their careers through professional
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Speaker 2: development and networking opportunities. Here's Falcons General manager Terry Fontno
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Speaker 2: on why connecting with peers outside of your own organization
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Speaker 2: can be beneficial.
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Speaker 12: It's tough initially when you think about it, because all
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Speaker 12: you want to do is be the very best you
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Speaker 12: can be for your particular team. That's all you want
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Speaker 12: to worry about. But then you have to kind of
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Speaker 12: think about it, like if I have self improvement and
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Speaker 12: it's going to ultimately help our team, and all the
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Speaker 12: having those conversations about the different areas and talking about
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Speaker 12: whether you're talking to other coaches or coordinators or whether
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Speaker 12: you're talking to personnel guys, you're going to learn a lot,
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Speaker 12: going to share with them as well, and that's going
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Speaker 12: to ultimately help yourself and that's going to help the organization.
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Speaker 12: So I got aggressive in twenty twenty. In twenty twenty,
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Speaker 12: before the year before, I went on interviews and every
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Speaker 12: Friday on the way home, I would have conversations with
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Speaker 12: different coaches, different people.
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Speaker 6: Around the league.
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Speaker 12: And it's not just to prepare yourself, but it's also
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Speaker 12: once you're in the seat, it's valuable. Look, I talked
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Speaker 12: to Andrew Berry over the last several weeks. I've talked
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Speaker 12: to him about a few different things that we're working,
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Speaker 12: some restructuring that we're doing, some personal things. I've talked
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Speaker 12: to him about some and he's helping me a lot.
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Speaker 12: This is one of the smartest guys I've ever been around.
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Speaker 12: So now I'm leaning on him in those areas and
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Speaker 12: he's been very open, sharing the job descriptions, sharing some
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Speaker 12: different people that can He's been very helpful in those areas,
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Speaker 12: and we do all want to help each other.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Berry joined the during this program on Monday in
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Speaker 2: between sets of curls. Apparently we saw Jackie Davidson with
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Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. She will be joining the program
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Speaker 2: later this week. As we discussed the importance of this
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Speaker 2: summit and the importance of helping to promote these diverse candidates, Judy,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to turn to you here. What's a name
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Speaker 2: that you're looking at as a potential candidate to land
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Speaker 2: a general manager job a head coaching job moving forward.
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Speaker 4: This is on the GM side. Brandon Brown, who is
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Speaker 4: now the assistant GM for the New York Giants, but
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Speaker 4: has long been talked about in the League as a
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Speaker 4: rising star of the executive ranks. He interviewed with the
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Speaker 4: Chargers this year, obviously didn't get a job still with
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Speaker 4: the Giants, but really well regarded. Going back to his
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Speaker 4: days with the Eagles, he's been part of accelerator programs
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Speaker 4: that the league does for potential GM candidates, So certainly
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Speaker 4: a name a figure to watch as we go into
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Speaker 4: the next hiring cycle.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Chargers.
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Speaker 3: The guy who did get the Charger's job was Joe
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Speaker 3: hoort Ties, and the first thing he did was bringing
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Speaker 3: a top lieutenant, Chad Alexander, formerly of the Jets, formerly
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Speaker 3: of the Baltimore aven You figure out you look at
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Speaker 3: who Chad ali Janner has learned from.
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Speaker 1: Joe Douglas ert Acosta.
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Speaker 3: Hard to be that Curly, an up and coming name,
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Speaker 3: might feel a little early for him to get a
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Speaker 3: general manager job, and this is certainly a name to watch,
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Speaker 3: especially as the Chargers appeared to be on the rise
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Speaker 3: with Bortiz and then of course with Jim Harvel.
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Speaker 6: Good choice.
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Speaker 7: I I'm want to go into the head coaching side
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Speaker 7: because the Raiders defense coordinator is Patrick Brand and anybody
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Speaker 7: who's been around Patrick brahanm knows that he's a brilliant
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Speaker 7: football mind.
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Speaker 6: The Raiders finished ninth in defense a year ago.
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Speaker 7: But he's been in the league for fifteen years and
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Speaker 7: a riot of positions, defense, line, linebackers, run game coordinator, assistant,
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Speaker 7: head coach.
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Speaker 6: He's had all the titles.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, by the way, he is a Yale educated
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Speaker 7: man plays football there. But I think this is a
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Speaker 7: guy that knows how to build a staff, knows how
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Speaker 7: to have a vision that every team is looking for.
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Speaker 7: I think he's paying his duds. He's only forty five
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Speaker 7: years old. He's still very young, and I think he's
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Speaker 7: a guy that's deserving of a great deal of attention
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Speaker 7: in next year's hiring site.
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Speaker 2: Antonio Piers a big believer in Patrick Graham and vice versa,
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Speaker 2: those guys out there in Las Vegas. So perhaps Graham
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Speaker 2: will get his crack at being a head coach sometime
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Speaker 2: in the near future.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Baldy.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at back on the GM side. Ian Cunningham,
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Speaker 2: the assistant general manager with the Chicago Bears. Now the
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Speaker 2: Bears potentially going to be a hot team. We talked
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Speaker 2: about how much they've built around Caleb Williams before he
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Speaker 2: even arrived there. So you've got the potential for folks
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Speaker 2: around the league to look at the Bears and say, hey, how.
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Speaker 1: Did they do that, how did they build that?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I want to hire one of
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Speaker 2: those guys away, Ian Cunningham.
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Speaker 1: He has been in the mix.
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Speaker 2: He's been down to the final few for a few jobs,
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Speaker 2: including the Cardinals and the Titans in recent years. At
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Speaker 2: some point will be the guy that is tabbed to
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Speaker 2: be a general manager.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Baldy, Judy and Ian.
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Speaker 2: A reminder, tomorrow is Juneteenth, The data can commemorate the
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Speaker 2: end of slavery in this country and the announcement of
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Speaker 2: the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas in.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen sixty five.
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Speaker 2: We are very proud of our colleague Stacy Dale. She
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Speaker 2: told us this was coming a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: She is officially an American citizen. She is now a
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Speaker 2: dual citizen of both Canada and.
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Speaker 1: The United States.
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Speaker 2: After a ceremony today at Win Trust Arena, Congratulations to
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Speaker 2: our buddy Stacy Dale's Dale's what you're doing fourth of July.
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Speaker 1: You gotta have yourself some dogs and some burgers. Now
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Speaker 1: that's how that's how it works. Your thoughts on Stacy's
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Speaker 1: dual citizenship.
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Speaker 4: Folks, Congratulations to Stacy and certainly still the best hooper
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Speaker 4: in the group by a lot.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's actually amazing what she's accomplished, right,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's you know, Olympic basketball, pro basketball, college star,
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Speaker 1: What we done? What's what's up with Ian Rappaport?
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Speaker 2: All right, we are off tomorrow, fort your teeth and celebration.
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Speaker 10: In pain,