# The insiders Podcast: Vikings Starting Quarterback Announced & Josh Allen and Lance Briggs Join the Insiders

An episode of [NFL: The Insiders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1543090622), 12 Aug 2026, 43 min.

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Patrick Claybon and Steve Wyche hear from the NFL Insiders and reporters stationed at training camps around the NFL, including updates on the Vikings quarterback battle, details of the Rams and Cowboys joint training camp, and notes from the Colts and Patriots practices. Then Jeffri Chadiha shares his favorite comeback players, Kyle Brandt interview Bills quarterback Josh Allen, and former Bears linebacker Lance Briggs sits down with Patrick Claybon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: A day for joint practices like we had here in
[0:10] Speaker 1: Los Angeles as well in Foxborody training camp practices in
[0:15] Speaker 1: Glendale and in Buffalo in another hour of the Insider's
[0:18] Speaker 1: coming here right now on NFL Network. Everybody, Welcome to
[0:23] Speaker 1: the Insider's Patrick Claybomb here in the NFL LA Newsroom.
[0:26] Speaker 1: Fun day of joint practices where we got to see
[0:28] Speaker 1: some competition, friendly and not so friendly.
[0:31] Speaker 2: We'll get to that, but we start with a competition
[0:34] Speaker 2: for a quarterback, which is.
[0:35] Speaker 1: What's new today coming into the NFL LA Newsroom. The
[0:38] Speaker 1: Vikings have named the winner of the quarterback competition between
[0:41] Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and j J.
[0:41] Speaker 2: McCarthy. It is Kyler.
[0:43] Speaker 1: Head coach Kevin O'Connell says the timing allows them to
[0:46] Speaker 1: provide clarity and move forward towards the season.
[0:49] Speaker 3: For more.
[0:49] Speaker 2: Let's get to the NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport.
[0:53] Speaker 4: The Minnesota Vikings made clear earlier today when had become
[0:56] Speaker 4: evident if you've tracked their practices the last several days,
[1:00] Speaker 4: Kyler Murray is going to be their starting quarterback. Coach
[1:02] Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connell informed the team earlier today, and to be real,
[1:06] Speaker 4: this was something that has been in the work since
[1:08] Speaker 4: Kyler signed as a big ticket free agent in March.
[1:12] Speaker 5: He picked the Vikings.
[1:13] Speaker 4: They picked him for this very reason, and in explaining
[1:16] Speaker 4: the decision, what Kevin O'Connell said, it's what this could
[1:20] Speaker 4: be that jumps out the potential, the athleticism, the playmaking ability.
[1:25] Speaker 4: The reason that they wanted Kyler Murray in the first
[1:28] Speaker 4: place has played out during the preseason practices and the
[1:31] Speaker 4: reality is his superpower comes when plays breakdown in games.
[1:36] Speaker 4: That is what they're looking forward to seeing. JJ McCarthy,
[1:39] Speaker 4: former first round er. Now he heads to the bench.
[1:42] Speaker 4: He will buy his time. He will try to quietly
[1:45] Speaker 4: develop and see when he gets his opportunity in Minnesota.
[1:49] Speaker 5: His story is not fully written, but whatever the outcome.
[1:52] Speaker 4: Is going to be, it's going to start on the
[1:53] Speaker 4: bench watching Kyler Murray as the starter.
[1:57] Speaker 1: Hella will be starting that game against the Green Bay
[2:00] Speaker 1: in Minnesota. The Steelers are the ones who play host
[2:02] Speaker 1: to the Packers Thursday for their preseason opener. Going to
[2:05] Speaker 1: be the final preseason opener for Aaron Rodgers on a
[2:08] Speaker 1: roster the quarterback offering his view of preseason in general
[2:13] Speaker 1: this week.
[2:15] Speaker 6: Oh, it's preseason it's not real football. So if I
[2:18] Speaker 6: do great, if not great.
[2:21] Speaker 2: And if you don't play, what do you do during
[2:24] Speaker 2: the game, like help will and you're amazing.
[2:27] Speaker 6: I like to be on the headset and calm everybody down.
[2:29] Speaker 6: Usually the first game it's a little hectic on the headset,
[2:32] Speaker 6: so I like to be the voice of reason, occasional
[2:36] Speaker 6: dad joke or one liner, just keep everybody settled in
[2:40] Speaker 6: a little bit.
[2:41] Speaker 1: Oh you don't like the preseason games, well now joint
[2:44] Speaker 1: practice that goes on.
[2:45] Speaker 2: And we got to see a few starting today.
[2:47] Speaker 1: The Colts and the Patriots in Foxborough, the Buccaneers and
[2:50] Speaker 1: jetson Flora Park, the Titans and the forty nine ers
[2:52] Speaker 1: in Santa Clara and they're at the Woodland Hills facility.
[2:55] Speaker 1: The Cowboys and the Rams were moments ago. Steve Wish
[2:59] Speaker 1: was the that are a navigator of Los Angeles. Able
[3:01] Speaker 1: to get back to us here in studio, Thanks for
[3:03] Speaker 1: coming in. See so you got to see some of
[3:06] Speaker 1: the most talented wide receiver groups in all the football.
[3:08] Speaker 2: Oh my good. The practice was so star study.
[3:10] Speaker 7: But you know, on one time you've got Ceedee Lamb
[3:12] Speaker 7: and George Pickens the other side, Pooka Nakua and DeVante Adams.
[3:16] Speaker 7: But first off, just a couple things about this practice
[3:18] Speaker 7: that the coaches decided no one on one work. This
[3:20] Speaker 7: was all teamwork. So after just loosening up, both sides
[3:24] Speaker 7: got after it. One versus two's one versus ones. But
[3:27] Speaker 7: let's start with Dallas and Cedee Lamb and George Pickens.
[3:30] Speaker 7: It was tough sledding early on against this Rams defense,
[3:34] Speaker 7: especially a corner. But you're seeing Ceedee Lamb right there.
[3:37] Speaker 8: He was.
[3:37] Speaker 7: They were removing him all over the place pre snap
[3:40] Speaker 7: in the slot out wide. These are things that Dak
[3:43] Speaker 7: Prescott was countering or some things they had planned based
[3:46] Speaker 7: on the Rams defensive formations. Remember this is the first
[3:48] Speaker 7: time these guys have practiced against somebody other than themselves.
[3:52] Speaker 7: George Pickens, you saw the contested catches Patrick and as
[3:55] Speaker 7: the practice moved along again, Dallas's offense had some tough sledding.
[4:00] Speaker 7: You saw these guys do some work in the red zone.
[4:04] Speaker 7: The potential of this tandem is insane. Now let's move
[4:07] Speaker 7: it over to the Rams as Pooka, Nakula and DeVante Adams.
[4:11] Speaker 7: Nicoua actually left practice early with the trainer, but I
[4:15] Speaker 7: just received a text that said it is not serious.
[4:18] Speaker 7: If it was a precautionary measure and they would have
[4:21] Speaker 7: kept him on the field if this was a game.
[4:23] Speaker 7: That is good news because we did not get an
[4:25] Speaker 7: immediate update on what exactly happened, if there was an
[4:28] Speaker 7: injury or not.
[4:29] Speaker 2: But he did leave, but he did leave with the trainers.
[4:32] Speaker 7: But again, Nicoua was having a very good practice and
[4:34] Speaker 7: one thing we saw with the Rams again multiple tight
[4:37] Speaker 7: ends doing work across the middle of the field. The Rams, though,
[4:41] Speaker 7: did throw three interceptions to the same player, and that
[4:44] Speaker 7: was a middle linebacker, Justin Barron. He had himself a
[4:47] Speaker 7: day for the cob The Coboy has been looking for
[4:49] Speaker 7: helping middle linebacker for a few seasons now.
[4:52] Speaker 2: And you want to talk about defense, both of.
[4:54] Speaker 1: These teams adding especially on the defensive lot, especially the
[4:57] Speaker 1: team in Los Angeles which has had.
[4:58] Speaker 7: Some very notable Miles Garrett didn't practice today. They said
[5:02] Speaker 7: he had a little swelling on his knee. But again
[5:04] Speaker 7: some self preservation stuff going on with the Rams. But
[5:07] Speaker 7: let's not forget what they already have up front. They've
[5:10] Speaker 7: got Poona Ford, they've got Kobe Turner, they've got Braden Fisk,
[5:13] Speaker 7: they've got Byron Young and boy did they show up
[5:16] Speaker 7: early on in this practice today on the inside running
[5:19] Speaker 7: drills the Cowboys, it was tough sledding as those four
[5:22] Speaker 7: and some other players rotating in really stood firm, would
[5:25] Speaker 7: not a whole not allow themselves to get moved off
[5:28] Speaker 7: that ball. So Miles Garrett comes back, that's one thing.
[5:31] Speaker 7: And oh yeah, there's that Aaron Donald guy who still
[5:34] Speaker 7: could be coming back. Sean McVay, the head coach, said
[5:36] Speaker 7: nothing new on that front, but he would like to
[5:38] Speaker 7: hear something sooner rather than later. But it wasn't just
[5:41] Speaker 7: a Rams defront that looked good. Quintin Williams next to
[5:44] Speaker 7: Kenny Clark for those Dallas Cowboys. We know Quinn Williams
[5:48] Speaker 7: designed that three year, one hundred and five point nine
[5:50] Speaker 7: million dollar extension and he ain't rested on that money.
[5:53] Speaker 2: Patrick. He was out there doing work today. You could
[5:56] Speaker 2: see that defensive.
[5:57] Speaker 7: Front with Rashaan Gary and some players that the Cowboys
[5:59] Speaker 7: have added. That's how you protect the two smaller speedy linebackers,
[6:03] Speaker 7: the marvi and Overshowing and Dee Winters. Those guys are
[6:06] Speaker 7: making plays all over the field in the run game
[6:08] Speaker 7: because they've got some help up front. And again that's
[6:11] Speaker 7: the way you make counters from smaller linebackers by keeping people.
[6:14] Speaker 2: Off of them.
[6:15] Speaker 1: And that's the hypothetical path forward to a victory for
[6:18] Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Victories getting Christian Parker's defense just okay.
[6:24] Speaker 7: And rookie Caleb Downs too. I gotta says he's as
[6:27] Speaker 7: good as advertising. To hear a lot of good stuff
[6:29] Speaker 7: about him, also better than advertised. Steve Watch making the
[6:32] Speaker 7: trip from Woodland Hills to get back with us here.
[6:34] Speaker 2: Thank you Steve for that effort.
[6:36] Speaker 1: Again, not the only marquee joint practice of the day,
[6:40] Speaker 1: that one in the NFC. What about on the AFC side,
[6:42] Speaker 1: the Colts and the Patriots at work in Foxborough? Judy
[6:46] Speaker 1: Batista and Maurice Jones drew there to see it all.
[6:51] Speaker 2: MJD.
[6:52] Speaker 9: This was a pretty intense practice, the joint practice between
[6:55] Speaker 9: the Patriots and Colts, and the Patriots gave the.
[6:57] Speaker 2: Fans what they wanted right out of the gate.
[6:59] Speaker 9: In one on one Drake May to Aj Brown being
[7:03] Speaker 9: covered by Sauce Gardner completion, crowd went crazy and they
[7:06] Speaker 9: went from there.
[7:07] Speaker 5: A really good day I thought for the Patriots offense.
[7:09] Speaker 10: Oh no, awesome, no question. It was an action pack
[7:11] Speaker 10: day on Bose fields. I mean you were hearing the
[7:14] Speaker 10: Patriots fans cheer for the defense, cheer for the offense.
[7:16] Speaker 10: Drake May and the offense looked very efficient this early
[7:19] Speaker 10: in camp. I know they've only been in it for
[7:21] Speaker 10: a couple of weeks, but there didn't seem like it
[7:23] Speaker 10: as many kinks that he needed to be worked out.
[7:25] Speaker 10: On the other field, though, the cult were working through
[7:27] Speaker 10: some things. Offensively, Daniel Jones looked really good. There was
[7:31] Speaker 10: some times where he just couldn't get the ball out
[7:33] Speaker 10: because of the protection broke down. Jonathan Taylor ran very well,
[7:37] Speaker 10: had a big run in the red zone, ty Warn
[7:39] Speaker 10: Tyler Warner had a great catch, contested catch over the
[7:42] Speaker 10: middle of the field.
[7:43] Speaker 2: So there was a lot of energy going back and forth.
[7:45] Speaker 10: One little fist that cuss broke out, but they broke
[7:47] Speaker 10: that up very quickly, and that was a special teams deal.
[7:50] Speaker 10: Both teams got what they want out of After talking
[7:52] Speaker 10: to both coaches or coaches on both sides, this was
[7:54] Speaker 10: exactly what they wanted. A lot of really good reps.
[7:57] Speaker 10: They were going fast. Mike Rabel was on the offen
[8:00] Speaker 10: just like coaching up the offense. On the other field,
[8:03] Speaker 10: it was Shane Staking his guys. They were getting after,
[8:05] Speaker 10: they were getting some hurry up tempo in so a
[8:08] Speaker 10: lot of reps, a lot of skill on skill, and
[8:11] Speaker 10: I think both teams got a lot better day.
[8:13] Speaker 9: Mike Rabel said it before the practice started that Drake May,
[8:17] Speaker 9: for example, is not playing in the Thursday preseason game,
[8:20] Speaker 9: nor will Daniel Jones.
[8:21] Speaker 2: So this was really the chance for the ones to
[8:24] Speaker 2: go at it. Let's talk more about Daniel.
[8:25] Speaker 9: Jones, who I thought looked if you did not know
[8:28] Speaker 9: that he had had a major injury, you would not
[8:31] Speaker 9: know from how he looks. He's moving well, he was
[8:33] Speaker 9: throwing on the run, he was moving around the pocket
[8:36] Speaker 9: really well. I don't know if you would say he's
[8:38] Speaker 9: ahead of schedule, but he just looked on schedule.
[8:41] Speaker 11: He looked really good for the first week of the season.
[8:43] Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
[8:43] Speaker 10: A lot of people said, hey, he's a guy that
[8:45] Speaker 10: they're looking forward to. He he's working to get back
[8:47] Speaker 10: to one hundred percent, but he looks really good right now.
[8:50] Speaker 11: That's it here from Patriots.
[8:53] Speaker 1: Thanks to Judy and Maurice, The Buffalo Bills back at
[8:56] Speaker 1: work ahead of their preseason home opener on Saturday, a
[8:59] Speaker 1: first for new head coach Joe Brady at first for
[9:02] Speaker 1: new High Marks Stadium. Mike Gharrifolo and Kyle Brant looks
[9:05] Speaker 1: back on the day's work from Orchard Park.
[9:09] Speaker 2: What a day in Orchard Park, New York.
[9:10] Speaker 3: Got to see the new stadium, got to see the
[9:12] Speaker 3: new head coach, got to see the same quarterback.
[9:15] Speaker 12: He looks great. Though, he looks great. DJ Moore looks great,
[9:19] Speaker 12: And I think the headline is Joe Brady. Of all
[9:21] Speaker 12: the conversations we had today Mike about the new head coach,
[9:23] Speaker 12: we talked to one player who described him in a
[9:25] Speaker 12: very interesting way. He said, Joe Brady is a Florida guy,
[9:28] Speaker 12: and the Florida players show up differently, they have a
[9:31] Speaker 12: different way about them.
[9:33] Speaker 2: Joe Brady also coached at LSU.
[9:34] Speaker 12: They show up differently, So he shows up a little
[9:38] Speaker 12: bit like the players. Like, I'm from Florida. I went
[9:40] Speaker 12: to Everglades High School. That's as Florida as it comes.
[9:42] Speaker 12: I've coached at LSU and the SEC. I'm not just
[9:45] Speaker 12: your normal NFL widget coach. I have some presence to
[9:49] Speaker 12: him and you can feel that around the players.
[9:50] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different environment from John McDermott, who wanted
[9:54] Speaker 3: everything to be done in particular way, a little bit
[9:56] Speaker 3: of Tom Coughlin when I was here. In the way
[9:58] Speaker 3: that they were describing Sean McDermott, WI, I don't know
[10:00] Speaker 3: what we talked enough about.
[10:01] Speaker 2: During his tenures. Because it worked.
[10:03] Speaker 3: It did work, and there's a reason why he wants
[10:06] Speaker 3: these things done a certain way because he feels like
[10:08] Speaker 3: that that reflects itself itself in the play of the team.
[10:11] Speaker 3: So Joe Brady, the challenge is to loosen things up
[10:13] Speaker 3: a little bit. He told us he's encouraging the players
[10:15] Speaker 3: to celebrate during practice because he wants that to happen
[10:18] Speaker 3: on game day as well. Wants to make this a
[10:20] Speaker 3: little bit more fun. But you also have to have
[10:22] Speaker 3: the discipline. And it's not like he's ignoring those details.
[10:25] Speaker 3: He wants to make sure the finer details are being
[10:27] Speaker 3: worked on here in training camp. Whether it's how you're
[10:29] Speaker 3: carrying the ball, whether it's this decision you're making in
[10:31] Speaker 3: crunch time, all that kind of stuff. Now, the offensive
[10:33] Speaker 3: players already know him, it's about translating it to the
[10:36] Speaker 3: defensive side of the ball. Because he's worked with the
[10:38] Speaker 3: offense as the coordinator, so that's going to be a
[10:41] Speaker 3: little bit of a challenge for him. He's got Jim
[10:42] Speaker 3: Leonard is his defensive boarding. Hearing some early good returns there.
[10:45] Speaker 3: So overall, I mean, there's no reason why this team
[10:48] Speaker 3: shouldn't hit the ground running, right.
[10:49] Speaker 2: I think they will and they have. I mean, listen,
[10:51] Speaker 2: it's Camp seventeen.
[10:52] Speaker 12: Josh Allen's always going to be here, but there's newness
[10:54] Speaker 12: now that's exciting. We'll see him week one against a
[10:57] Speaker 12: very very good Texas team.
[11:00] Speaker 1: Mahomes and the Chiefs back at practice, but perhaps not
[11:03] Speaker 1: back onto the field in a game situation until the
[11:05] Speaker 1: season starts. Andy Reid saying he may sit out the
[11:08] Speaker 1: whole chief preseason, but the recovery continues to be ahead
[11:12] Speaker 1: of most schedules, and during a chat with Stacy DALs
[11:15] Speaker 1: and Brian Baldinger yesterday, Packers star edge defender Michael Parsons
[11:18] Speaker 1: said Week six the most optimistic return day for him
[11:21] Speaker 1: after his reconstructive knee surgery. The Packers fell from sixth
[11:25] Speaker 1: in scoring defense to twenty fifth in their time without Micah.
[11:29] Speaker 1: Parsons joined now by Jeff schadeah As, Jeff Mahomes and Parsons,
[11:34] Speaker 1: both former All pros, both candidates for Comeback Player of
[11:37] Speaker 1: the Year, where it could be a lot of guys
[11:40] Speaker 1: that fall into that category. So let's go through some
[11:42] Speaker 1: of your candidates for Comeback Player of the Year.
[11:44] Speaker 13: Well, you got to start with Patrick Mahomes here. Patrick,
[11:47] Speaker 13: just because of the narrative around him, this was one
[11:49] Speaker 13: of the biggest injuries that the league has seen. Everybody's
[11:52] Speaker 13: watching what he's doing throughout the preseason, and be honest
[11:55] Speaker 13: with you, I'll talk about is he declining? Is this
[11:58] Speaker 13: team declining? So I think the motivation for Patrick Mahomes
[12:01] Speaker 13: is there, and he talked about some good signs here.
[12:03] Speaker 13: He's forgetting that the knee has been repaired. When he's
[12:06] Speaker 13: running around in practice, he's seeing a lot of positive
[12:09] Speaker 13: footwork improvement there and so he's feeling pretty good about
[12:14] Speaker 13: where he's at. So that gives me a lot of
[12:15] Speaker 13: confidence of what he's doing. For number two here, I'll
[12:18] Speaker 13: stick with the quarterbacks and I'll go to Jay and
[12:20] Speaker 13: Daniels in Washington because you look about it, you look
[12:22] Speaker 13: at a new offensive coordinator coming in here with David Blau,
[12:26] Speaker 13: a new system fro him to work in blow is
[12:27] Speaker 13: very excited by what he's seen as far as accuracy
[12:31] Speaker 13: and the comfort level in this office, and Stefan Digg's
[12:33] Speaker 13: coming in there. The recent free agent signing is big
[12:36] Speaker 13: for third downs. I expect Jane Dams to get back
[12:38] Speaker 13: to what he looked like a couple of years ago.
[12:40] Speaker 13: And then finally, I'll go off script here with the
[12:42] Speaker 13: guy who's not signed yet, Aaron Donald, because there's too
[12:45] Speaker 13: much smoke here Patrick for what's happening. He's been working out. Yes,
[12:49] Speaker 13: Sean McVay says, there's a process here he wants to
[12:51] Speaker 13: go through to see what's going to happen. But he
[12:53] Speaker 13: can't be on this field doing this stuff and seeing
[12:55] Speaker 13: guys like Miles Garrett in the locker room and Kobe
[12:57] Speaker 13: Turner and Byron Young and I'm thinking about coming back.
[13:00] Speaker 13: This guy's got three Defensive Player of the Year honors
[13:03] Speaker 13: being gone for two years.
[13:04] Speaker 2: He comes back, there's no way he's not winning this award.
[13:07] Speaker 1: It's funny to think of both Aaron Donald and Patrick
[13:10] Speaker 1: Mahomes as candidates for Comeback Player of the Year. Just
[13:13] Speaker 1: a hull home another award for all of these guys
[13:15] Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Thank you to Jeff deda checking
[13:18] Speaker 1: out this comeback Player of the Year race. When we
[13:21] Speaker 1: come back, joint practices pro bought an opportunity to see
[13:24] Speaker 1: how your team can match up with another, maybe a
[13:26] Speaker 1: chance to take a few swings as somebody who isn't
[13:28] Speaker 1: a teammate. We got updates from joint practices all around
[13:32] Speaker 1: the league.
[13:32] Speaker 2: Coming up on the inside.
[13:43] Speaker 1: We are back on the inside or free season football
[13:45] Speaker 1: available to you this week on NFL Network. The Packers
[13:48] Speaker 1: Steelers Thursday at seven pm, The Cardinals Raiders after that
[13:53] Speaker 1: Thursday at eight Buccaneers and Jets Friday at seven o'clock.
[13:57] Speaker 1: That game available to you on NFL Network. We get
[13:59] Speaker 1: to see the card and the Raiders on ESPN on Thursday.
[14:02] Speaker 1: Let's look to where they were working today, ja Cobed
[14:05] Speaker 1: Brissett and the Arizona Cardinals in action. They had some
[14:08] Speaker 1: solid debut for their rookie quarterback Carson Beck the Hall
[14:11] Speaker 1: of Fame game last week. They got a trip to
[14:12] Speaker 1: Las Vegas coming up on that Thursday for more all
[14:15] Speaker 1: in the Cardinals. Let's get to our Hall of Fame
[14:17] Speaker 1: quarterback Kurt Warner and Ian Rappaport in Glendale.
[14:21] Speaker 4: Here after Cardinals practice here with Kurt Warner, and I
[14:24] Speaker 4: think the whole country saw the kind of performance that
[14:27] Speaker 4: Carson Beck put on the field during the Hall of
[14:29] Speaker 4: Fame game. It was pretty electric considering the stage it was.
[14:33] Speaker 4: There was a lot to like from the rookie. But
[14:35] Speaker 4: one thing is clear from talking to people here in Arizona,
[14:38] Speaker 4: it's not a quarterback competition.
[14:39] Speaker 5: It is Jacobe Brissette's job.
[14:41] Speaker 4: Just don't want to throw Carson Beck in earlier though
[14:43] Speaker 4: that he is a prospect. They really like that said
[14:46] Speaker 4: for Micheleflor's team, there's some positive signs from what we saw.
[14:51] Speaker 2: I think a lot of positive signs.
[14:52] Speaker 14: You know, when we got a chance to talk to
[14:53] Speaker 14: him today, he was talking about the operation. I wanted
[14:56] Speaker 14: to see my guys operate in the offense the way
[14:59] Speaker 14: that it is.
[14:59] Speaker 2: Supper to be operated and that's what he took from
[15:02] Speaker 2: the game.
[15:02] Speaker 14: He wasn't too high, you know, he wasn't blowing he
[15:05] Speaker 14: smoke about anybody in particular. He just said, this is
[15:08] Speaker 14: part of our process, is we want to operate the offense,
[15:11] Speaker 14: new offense for all these guys. But you're right, everybody
[15:14] Speaker 14: watching that game was like, oh, do they have their
[15:17] Speaker 14: quarterback of the future, and you know the future is win.
[15:20] Speaker 14: I think that's the real question is how good can
[15:22] Speaker 14: this team be. We're great last year, expectations aren't necessarily high,
[15:27] Speaker 14: but that to me is when Carson Beck's plays is
[15:30] Speaker 14: going to be determined by where this football team is.
[15:33] Speaker 14: Yacobe Present is shown he can be a starter, but
[15:35] Speaker 14: the team has got to come along with him. It's
[15:37] Speaker 14: going to be a fun journey to watch how this
[15:39] Speaker 14: plays out. But they are definitely excited about their young quarterback.
[15:43] Speaker 14: And there are plenty of name brand talents on this team.
[15:46] Speaker 4: You know, talk about the Marvin Harrison's and Mike Wilson,
[15:50] Speaker 4: and then you know on defense, you got got plenty
[15:52] Speaker 4: of studs in there, and plenty.
[15:54] Speaker 5: Of guys we've heard of, the Buddha Bakers of the world.
[15:57] Speaker 4: How good this team is is going to be determined
[15:59] Speaker 4: by the players who have very quietly under the Raidar
[16:02] Speaker 4: just continue to develop and continue to advance, and how
[16:05] Speaker 4: well those guys playing we will see.
[16:07] Speaker 5: Time will tell if they're able to go from a.
[16:09] Speaker 4: Pretty talented team to one that can really win some
[16:12] Speaker 4: games on the field. I will tell you this, Scurrigee,
[16:15] Speaker 4: get ready to send it back to you Patrick. Inside
[16:18] Speaker 4: this building, they believe this team is much better than
[16:21] Speaker 4: the outside world thinks.
[16:23] Speaker 5: We will see if on the field. That's how it
[16:25] Speaker 5: plays out.
[16:26] Speaker 1: Pretty well in their debut. Thank you to Kurt and Ian.
[16:29] Speaker 1: Here's a look at the joint practice schedule that we had.
[16:32] Speaker 1: This started today all around the league in LA. We
[16:35] Speaker 1: talked about the Cowboys and the Rams, the Titans of
[16:37] Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, but also the Buccaneers and the
[16:40] Speaker 1: Jets at work today in Florham Park and to see
[16:44] Speaker 1: both of their quarterbacks Gino Smith Baker Mayfield having their
[16:48] Speaker 1: discussion before the work got going. Here's the head coaches,
[16:52] Speaker 1: Todd Bowles and Aaron Glynn after their joint practice.
[16:56] Speaker 2: We've got some real good work.
[16:57] Speaker 8: I thought it started out real well. Minor dust ups
[17:01] Speaker 8: and fractions, but nobody really did anything when we got
[17:04] Speaker 8: those infractions. We came up here to play football against
[17:06] Speaker 8: the work and they did too. I thought we got
[17:08] Speaker 8: some good work done. We got to see what the
[17:10] Speaker 8: mistakes are on tape and kind of.
[17:11] Speaker 6: Move forward from there.
[17:12] Speaker 15: Good hard practice, which I knew would be against a
[17:15] Speaker 15: team that's been to the playoffs a number of years,
[17:17] Speaker 15: against the team that has a scheme from a defensive standpoint,
[17:20] Speaker 15: has a scheme that's difficult to deal with, and those
[17:23] Speaker 15: guys been that scheme for a long time with Todd Offensively,
[17:26] Speaker 15: Obviously they have a new new scheme there. I thought
[17:29] Speaker 15: that guys did a really good job there. But there's
[17:31] Speaker 15: more work to do and listen, I like everything about
[17:34] Speaker 15: how practice was today. Obviously they're gonna be some dust
[17:36] Speaker 15: stuffs that happens in every joint practice, but I thought
[17:39] Speaker 15: the guys did a really good job of man forget
[17:41] Speaker 15: anybody going to the next play and continue practically.
[17:43] Speaker 2: That's the one thing we're trying.
[17:44] Speaker 15: To do is good to two days of good work
[17:46] Speaker 15: with these guys.
[17:48] Speaker 1: Most well, dust ups, as the coaches said, they're in
[17:50] Speaker 1: Floring Park at the joint practice with the most reported
[17:52] Speaker 1: fights today the one in Santa Clair as tempers flair
[17:56] Speaker 1: early on, But there was a lot of cohesion. There's
[17:58] Speaker 1: we see Carnell t Deebo, Samuel working together, and things
[18:01] Speaker 1: a bit better between former co workers Kyle Shanahan and
[18:03] Speaker 1: Robert Sala.
[18:05] Speaker 2: Overall, just we're all feeling it.
[18:07] Speaker 16: You know that this offense we went against today is
[18:09] Speaker 16: one of the top five offenses in football. So there's
[18:11] Speaker 16: a lot of back and forth in which was encouraging.
[18:14] Speaker 2: You're not gonna win every one on one.
[18:16] Speaker 16: But at the same time, there's there's definitely things that
[18:19] Speaker 16: we can learn.
[18:19] Speaker 17: From now, as you guys know, coach of respect a ton.
[18:24] Speaker 17: I mean when it starts with his defense, you know
[18:25] Speaker 17: how sound it's going to be. And Saul is not
[18:27] Speaker 17: going to put something in that he doesn't believe is
[18:29] Speaker 17: sound versus everything, So it's going to be very disciplined.
[18:32] Speaker 17: It takes a little bit of time to get the
[18:33] Speaker 17: guys out of lead at it, so he's going to
[18:35] Speaker 17: do it over and over again. And I can see
[18:37] Speaker 17: they're already way ahead of schedule. They really competed today
[18:41] Speaker 17: and they'll definitely have a.
[18:42] Speaker 2: Really good coach.
[18:43] Speaker 17: Brock's a really good player, so I expect him to
[18:46] Speaker 17: have good plays. So I notice all the bad plays,
[18:48] Speaker 17: and I didn't know as many bad plays today, So
[18:50] Speaker 17: I think that hell of the day.
[18:52] Speaker 1: Just what's new today coming into the NFL LA news.
[18:54] Speaker 1: When we heard earlier today from Steve Watch that a
[18:57] Speaker 1: left practice, NFL networkingsider Ian Rappaport.
[18:59] Speaker 2: Said that was minors soreness and is growing.
[19:02] Speaker 1: The team was just being cautious and that's why Poukunakua
[19:05] Speaker 1: did not return to that joint practice.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Against the Dallas Cowboys.
[19:08] Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell naming their starting quarterback for Week one against
[19:10] Speaker 1: the Packers.
[19:11] Speaker 2: That will be Kyler Murray.
[19:14] Speaker 1: He says that the step was to get things done
[19:17] Speaker 1: and move on and be prepared. Step one from Kevin
[19:20] Speaker 1: O'Connell now complete.
[19:23] Speaker 18: In my opinion, he's got the skill set and the abilities,
[19:27] Speaker 18: you know, not only just from a standpoint of accuracy,
[19:29] Speaker 18: but his ability to affect the game with his athleticism.
[19:33] Speaker 18: But he's also proven to be smart, you know, very
[19:36] Speaker 18: hard working and able to take in a lot of
[19:38] Speaker 18: information and churn that out. Now, we really want to
[19:40] Speaker 18: give him the opportunity to really start building a comfort
[19:43] Speaker 18: level not only with the system but with the guys.
[19:47] Speaker 18: In no way does this diminish anything that JJ's demonstrated.
[19:52] Speaker 18: There's been real, strong, solid evidence of growth. Nothing changes
[19:57] Speaker 18: as far as JJ being incredibly important member of our
[20:01] Speaker 18: quarterback room and our team.
[20:04] Speaker 1: Back at Wark, the Buffalo Bills ahead of their preseason
[20:08] Speaker 1: matchup to open up their brand new stadium to the preseason,
[20:12] Speaker 1: joining ITC and Kyle Brent earlier today, they're now ninth year.
[20:16] Speaker 2: Quarterback Josh Allen.
[20:19] Speaker 12: Here he is your favorite fireball Eagle number seventeen, Josh Allen, Hello, go.
[20:24] Speaker 2: Eagles, Eagles, Bills. How's life? What's up? Dude? Life's Great's
[20:28] Speaker 2: see it. Have our conversations, bag.
[20:30] Speaker 12: It's been one really good and our conversations usually start
[20:33] Speaker 12: and end with our movies.
[20:34] Speaker 2: Let's get caught up. Have you seen The Odyssey? I
[20:38] Speaker 2: have not seen it. You haven't seen it, haven't I'm
[20:40] Speaker 2: waiting for my wife.
[20:41] Speaker 19: Oh, apparently you got to watch it in imax seventy
[20:43] Speaker 19: mil right. Yes, I don't know we're gonna be able
[20:46] Speaker 19: to do that here in Buffalo, but.
[20:47] Speaker 2: We'll figure out a ton of IMAX in Western New York.
[20:50] Speaker 2: I don't know, but we'll figure it out. Have you
[20:52] Speaker 2: seen Obsession? Now, I've been in camp. I've been in
[20:56] Speaker 2: camp for a while.
[20:57] Speaker 12: You got to see it though, the young people, he's
[20:59] Speaker 12: the Obsession and like the film bros.
[21:00] Speaker 2: You got to see Honesty like you love both of them.
[21:03] Speaker 12: And I'd be fascinated on Haley's opinion about Obsession because
[21:06] Speaker 12: the young female lead is like unbelievable. So you got
[21:08] Speaker 12: to catch up though, at some point by week that
[21:10] Speaker 12: type of thing done.
[21:11] Speaker 2: Football wise, you still play professional football. I've seen you
[21:14] Speaker 2: practice a lot over the years. I don't think I've
[21:16] Speaker 2: ever seen you have more fun. Why.
[21:19] Speaker 19: I think this group that we have it's it's freaking awesome.
[21:21] Speaker 19: I mean everyone's melon or meshing and jelling together. A
[21:26] Speaker 19: couple additions that we got obviously Dj Moore, He's been
[21:29] Speaker 19: awesome to throw to. You know, the conversations I've been
[21:33] Speaker 19: able to have with our head coach, and feeling really
[21:35] Speaker 19: comfortable in the offensive system of what's going in right now.
[21:38] Speaker 19: So I'm just very confident in what we're doing right
[21:41] Speaker 19: now and just going out there and having as much
[21:42] Speaker 19: fun as possible.
[21:43] Speaker 2: It shows what do you think you're so great at?
[21:45] Speaker 2: Recall throughout your career.
[21:47] Speaker 12: What do you think is the most fun moment you
[21:50] Speaker 12: have ever had in a Bill's uniform? Take your time
[21:53] Speaker 12: on moment, like, what's the one last year we did
[21:55] Speaker 12: your favorite highlight?
[21:57] Speaker 2: What do you think is your most fun moment?
[22:01] Speaker 19: I think it was my second year we clinched the
[22:03] Speaker 19: playoffs in Pittsburgh. We got home and just the ride
[22:08] Speaker 19: out from the airport with thousands of fans at two
[22:11] Speaker 19: or three in the morning it's freezing outside. That moment
[22:14] Speaker 19: was pretty special. That was like the oh this town
[22:17] Speaker 19: cares moment, you know that was That was a special moment.
[22:20] Speaker 19: I'll never forget it. I got video saved on my
[22:22] Speaker 19: phone still, So that was a good one.
[22:24] Speaker 12: Was that one of those where we get back and
[22:25] Speaker 12: there's like thirty feet of snow in your car? Because
[22:27] Speaker 12: I think've had those.
[22:28] Speaker 2: Those are the not so fun moments.
[22:31] Speaker 19: But honestly, whether there was snow, sleet, rain, sunshine, whatever,
[22:35] Speaker 19: the fans are going to be there and awesome. We've
[22:37] Speaker 19: got the best best fans over here in Western New York.
[22:40] Speaker 2: You really do. I love them in my own way.
[22:43] Speaker 12: Least fun moments, You've always been great at facing the music,
[22:46] Speaker 12: whatever happens, whatever happens in a loss or a playoff loss.
[22:49] Speaker 12: We've seen you do it really really well. You're good
[22:51] Speaker 12: at it. It's tough. Last year seemed different after the
[22:55] Speaker 12: loss of Denver. We've seen you after some tough losses.
[22:58] Speaker 12: We've never really seen you like that that emotional his
[23:01] Speaker 12: full tears was really really strong reaction.
[23:03] Speaker 2: Why was that one different? Again?
[23:07] Speaker 19: Throughout life, you kind of have these moments and I
[23:11] Speaker 19: walked up there and was expressing how I felt. I
[23:14] Speaker 19: feel like I wear my heart on my sleeve, especially
[23:16] Speaker 19: when I'm out on the football field, and that was
[23:18] Speaker 19: just one of those moments where I'm not going to
[23:20] Speaker 19: hide it like I'm hurt, I'm upset. I knew that
[23:23] Speaker 19: I didn't play very very well and to my potential.
[23:27] Speaker 19: And when you're sitting there and you're going over plays
[23:30] Speaker 19: things that you wish you could have done differently, like,
[23:33] Speaker 19: it just kind of weighs on you, and that one
[23:34] Speaker 19: weighed on me. And that's still a feeling. It's kind
[23:36] Speaker 19: of stuck in that pit of my stomach right now.
[23:40] Speaker 19: But the great thing about this game we get to
[23:41] Speaker 19: suit it up and do it again.
[23:43] Speaker 12: And now you do it with a new head coach.
[23:45] Speaker 12: So there's been a lot talked about your relationship. You
[23:47] Speaker 12: guys are really tight. You've been through lots together. You
[23:49] Speaker 12: and Joe Brady. I talked to him earlier the day
[23:51] Speaker 12: and I was like, so, let me go the other way.
[23:53] Speaker 12: Do you and Josh argue? And he was like, yeah,
[23:56] Speaker 12: all the time. Do you have the same reaction and
[23:59] Speaker 12: how does that go? Yeah, I mean argue is a
[24:03] Speaker 12: loose term. We definitely have our disagreements. You know, I
[24:09] Speaker 12: had to play in practice today, is like.
[24:11] Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
[24:11] Speaker 19: He's like, dude, you missed the missed inside. It's like,
[24:13] Speaker 19: you're right, I did miss inside.
[24:15] Speaker 10: You know.
[24:15] Speaker 2: It's like he hold him accountable. I hold him accountable.
[24:18] Speaker 19: But at the end of the day, he's he's our
[24:19] Speaker 19: head coach, you know, and as players, we we have
[24:23] Speaker 19: to do what the head coach wants. This is his team,
[24:24] Speaker 19: this is his uh identity, and this is his trajectory
[24:28] Speaker 19: of what he wants this team to be. And it's
[24:30] Speaker 19: my job to be an extension of him as well as,
[24:33] Speaker 19: you know, the leader of this team, as as well
[24:36] Speaker 19: as the offensive play caller. And when I'm out on
[24:38] Speaker 19: the field, I have to understand why he's calling certain things,
[24:40] Speaker 19: what what what to do, what not to do, but
[24:45] Speaker 19: ultimately be an extension of him.
[24:46] Speaker 12: You know, there's I think there's this mistruth about him
[24:49] Speaker 12: that he's he's happy, go lucky, fun, He's like he's
[24:51] Speaker 12: a bro.
[24:52] Speaker 2: I'm like, hold on a second.
[24:53] Speaker 12: From a fan perspective, he came up under Sean Payton,
[24:55] Speaker 12: who came up under Bill Parcells. Like that is accountability
[24:58] Speaker 12: and that is like cracking skulls when you need.
[24:59] Speaker 2: To, right. Yeah, and he is an absolute workhorse.
[25:02] Speaker 19: I mean, he spends so much time in the building,
[25:06] Speaker 19: you know, watching film, finding new plays, finding new concepts
[25:09] Speaker 19: like it.
[25:10] Speaker 2: He doesn't sleep all that much. He's laid off the caffeine.
[25:14] Speaker 19: A little bit this year, but I'm assuming once we
[25:17] Speaker 19: get into the full swing in the season and he'll
[25:19] Speaker 19: start getting those fast switches down and start talking really fast.
[25:22] Speaker 19: But yeah, he's he's been awesome so far in camp,
[25:25] Speaker 19: and you know, the guys are really buying into what
[25:27] Speaker 19: he's saying, and it's been great to see.
[25:30] Speaker 12: He's got an awesome vibe to talk to. It's just
[25:32] Speaker 12: from my perspective, sharp left turn. Where do you keep
[25:36] Speaker 12: the MVP trophy?
[25:37] Speaker 2: Where is that?
[25:39] Speaker 13: In?
[25:39] Speaker 19: Honestly, we did a little bit of renovation right now, Well,
[25:41] Speaker 19: let's go. It's it's in a box in the basement.
[25:44] Speaker 19: That's hand hand to god.
[25:45] Speaker 2: Truth. Is that going to come out of the boxer
[25:46] Speaker 2: it stays there? I don't know, We'll see. Okay, Well,
[25:49] Speaker 2: I have a question by another item.
[25:50] Speaker 12: You've told me before that you have a special bottle
[25:54] Speaker 12: of bourbon saved to drink after winning the Super Bowl?
[26:00] Speaker 12: Is the bourbon bottle still out?
[26:01] Speaker 17: No?
[26:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, yes, yeah, the bourbon, the bourbon still out.
[26:04] Speaker 2: Not in a box? No, not in a box? All right,
[26:06] Speaker 2: So you're a producer.
[26:07] Speaker 12: Now produce me it, produce me an image of this
[26:10] Speaker 12: when you're having that bourbon when that day comes, where
[26:13] Speaker 12: are you?
[26:14] Speaker 2: Who are you with? Is it with teammates? Was it family?
[26:17] Speaker 2: Is it by yourself?
[26:17] Speaker 11: Like?
[26:18] Speaker 2: How is that bourbon, the most important bourbon drink of
[26:20] Speaker 2: your life going to go?
[26:21] Speaker 11: Well?
[26:21] Speaker 19: I hope that whole bottle is gone with how many
[26:24] Speaker 19: people I'm sharing it with? I hope everyone gets a
[26:27] Speaker 19: nice little taster and there's quite a few people down
[26:30] Speaker 19: in the basement. But yeah, I mean, I hopefully I'm
[26:33] Speaker 19: not drinking a lot of it by myself.
[26:35] Speaker 2: Right, everybody over Exactly?
[26:37] Speaker 12: This is this is this part of the interview, and
[26:39] Speaker 12: you know you're so good at this, but every interview
[26:41] Speaker 12: with you inevitably leads to is this gonna be the year?
[26:45] Speaker 12: And it's challenging just to come up to new ways
[26:48] Speaker 12: to ask about it respectfully?
[26:50] Speaker 2: What is that like?
[26:51] Speaker 12: For you to have to always answer that and to
[26:53] Speaker 12: always know that it's coming.
[26:54] Speaker 2: I know you see it coming.
[26:56] Speaker 19: Listen, Like I'm we're doing everything we can here in
[26:59] Speaker 19: uh in Buffalo.
[27:01] Speaker 2: We're working really hard right now.
[27:03] Speaker 19: Those questions, I understand that they're being being asked, and
[27:06] Speaker 19: the only thing I can say is, you know, we'll
[27:07] Speaker 19: find out. You know, this is this is the great
[27:09] Speaker 19: part of the game. We're gonna put our pads on.
[27:12] Speaker 19: We're going to go play on that field that we've
[27:14] Speaker 19: been playing since we were little kids. And at the
[27:18] Speaker 19: end of the day, like I've I kind of switched
[27:20] Speaker 19: last year or two years ago, like I'm not focusing
[27:22] Speaker 19: so much on the result as far as the process
[27:24] Speaker 19: and just enjoying what I'm doing and loving the game
[27:28] Speaker 19: and playing it for the right reasons. And you know,
[27:31] Speaker 19: if I do my job to the best of my
[27:33] Speaker 19: abilities and get the surrounding team around me, they've they
[27:39] Speaker 19: feel like they're playing the same way. And we accomplished
[27:41] Speaker 19: that goal. It's going to feel fantastic, but it's going
[27:43] Speaker 19: to take everybody to do it. And I'm just I'm
[27:46] Speaker 19: looking forward to the season.
[27:48] Speaker 2: It's a huge shift.
[27:49] Speaker 12: You said a couple of years ago, you kind of
[27:51] Speaker 12: altered the way you're thinking, and I think it's really
[27:52] Speaker 12: healthy and constructive Where did that come from?
[27:55] Speaker 2: Was that was that Hayley or was that just internally?
[27:57] Speaker 2: How did you shift gears like that?
[27:59] Speaker 18: Yeah?
[27:59] Speaker 19: I think a big part of it was my wife
[28:00] Speaker 19: and just understanding, like listen, like there's gonna be ups
[28:04] Speaker 19: and downs in life, and I'm a big proponent on
[28:07] Speaker 19: it'll happen when it happens, and I'm gonna trust God's
[28:10] Speaker 19: timing when it does. So she's going to keep having
[28:14] Speaker 19: fun and playing the game the way that I know
[28:16] Speaker 19: how to play it. Obviously, I want to go out
[28:18] Speaker 19: there and play my best and every time I step
[28:20] Speaker 19: foot on the field, but when we get it done,
[28:23] Speaker 19: it'll feel pretty dang good.
[28:25] Speaker 2: Another vision, you're an exec producer.
[28:27] Speaker 12: If you don't know, Josh is going to do big
[28:29] Speaker 12: things in media, some things that are out there, some
[28:31] Speaker 12: things that are not out there. Your daughter, God bless her.
[28:35] Speaker 12: I want you to move forward to the year twenty
[28:38] Speaker 12: forty four. Okay, okay, So young Harper is eighteen years old.
[28:44] Speaker 12: She comes to you and she's looking over your career
[28:46] Speaker 12: and she's online and she's reading about some stuff that
[28:48] Speaker 12: she might have missed when she was younger. And she says, Dad,
[28:51] Speaker 12: tell me about the twenty twenty sixth team.
[28:53] Speaker 2: What was that team about?
[28:54] Speaker 19: Well, hopefully she's sitting there saying this picture of you
[28:57] Speaker 19: holding me on the field under the confetti's pretty cool.
[29:00] Speaker 19: So that's that's the vision that I have, you know,
[29:04] Speaker 19: and what I'll tell hers, we worked really hard and
[29:07] Speaker 19: this is a team that love loved each other and
[29:10] Speaker 19: accomplished something so great. And that's that's sometimes what it takes.
[29:14] Speaker 19: It takes a lot of sacrifice from those around you,
[29:16] Speaker 19: everybody in the building here outside, all of our wives
[29:18] Speaker 19: and girlfriends making sacrifices for us to come out here
[29:21] Speaker 19: and do what we do. But hopefully that she can
[29:25] Speaker 19: see that there was a lot of love on the
[29:26] Speaker 19: team and hopefully we can set what we accomplish.
[29:30] Speaker 12: That's a beautiful, beautiful answer. I would like a picture
[29:33] Speaker 12: of her on the float too. On the I mean
[29:35] Speaker 12: I imagine that just side to side. This is josh All.
[29:38] Speaker 12: He's not seen the Odyssey. He's not seen obsession. I
[29:41] Speaker 12: was shocked.
[29:42] Speaker 2: But you've got big things going on in life right now.
[29:43] Speaker 2: You can't be running off.
[29:44] Speaker 19: Yeah, the TV shows and movies have slowed down just
[29:47] Speaker 19: a bit. Fun I am on the third season of
[29:52] Speaker 19: House of the Dragon. Did you get to the finale?
[29:55] Speaker 19: I have not gotten to the finale yet. I'm not
[29:57] Speaker 19: waiting for you. Episode five, right, So I got a
[29:59] Speaker 19: couple more. I watched The Hawk with Will Ferrell and
[30:04] Speaker 19: which I thought it was great. Okay, good that it
[30:06] Speaker 19: was great.
[30:06] Speaker 2: I think that it was.
[30:09] Speaker 19: I thought, Jimmy Tatro play's a fantast I've heard of this.
[30:12] Speaker 19: I've seen that it's it's really good. It's well, it's
[30:14] Speaker 19: it's funny, it's great.
[30:15] Speaker 12: There's sometimes things out there that, oh, allegedly a lot
[30:18] Speaker 12: of people don't like, but are actually really great, you
[30:20] Speaker 12: know what I mean.
[30:22] Speaker 19: Hey, sometimes it just takes one right, it takes the
[30:24] Speaker 19: right audience. But yeah, I appreciate you.
[30:27] Speaker 2: You're the man.
[30:28] Speaker 12: That's Josh Allen. He is a Fireball Eagle, and he's
[30:30] Speaker 12: a Buffalo bill a number seventeen.
[30:33] Speaker 2: Thanks Sue Kyle and Josh. Hey, folks.
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[30:55] Speaker 11: Come man, Oh my gosh, so good to be here.
[30:57] Speaker 11: Glad I could be here with you. Yes, we still listen.
[31:00] Speaker 11: There's been a lot of things going on. We had
[31:02] Speaker 11: a game in the books Patrick and oh what a
[31:04] Speaker 11: game it was, And already people are overreacting to some performances.
[31:08] Speaker 11: There's been some injuries that have us worried. But we
[31:11] Speaker 11: start in Minnesota where the Vikings have named Kyler Murray
[31:14] Speaker 11: as their starting quarterback, a move that has a lot
[31:17] Speaker 11: of people reacting like this andious we needed a.
[31:26] Speaker 2: National moment.
[31:27] Speaker 11: Hold, hold and listen. I applaud this move. Look, we
[31:30] Speaker 11: have no shortage. We have many jokes that can be made,
[31:36] Speaker 11: but we can't overlook the work that Kevin O'Connell has
[31:39] Speaker 11: done with quarterbacks around the league, with Sam Darnold, Daniel
[31:43] Speaker 11: Jones and JJ mccaughy. Maybe not, don't don't hold JJ
[31:46] Speaker 11: McCarthy against him. Even Christopher Nolan made tenants and not
[31:49] Speaker 11: everything is gonna be what.
[31:51] Speaker 2: We can't talk movies. We're not allowed to listen.
[31:55] Speaker 11: We're not I guess not everybody can talk movies again,
[31:58] Speaker 11: Kyler the rest of the Priests season to work as
[32:01] Speaker 11: the starter, and we might have a guy who leads
[32:03] Speaker 11: you to a fantasy football championship this year, or else
[32:07] Speaker 11: he joins the Savannah Bandanas, And I'm fine with either
[32:09] Speaker 11: one of those outcomes. Staying in the NFC North. We
[32:13] Speaker 11: got some bad news this week when Luther burd And
[32:14] Speaker 11: the third suffered a groin injury, an injury that not
[32:17] Speaker 11: only caused panic with the Bears fans, but fantasy enthusiasts
[32:21] Speaker 11: in general. And it's weird, almost off putting to see
[32:24] Speaker 11: so many non Bears fans have an opinion on this.
[32:28] Speaker 11: This many people haven't weighed on Chicago business. This is crazy.
[32:32] Speaker 11: Since all of you wanted to be involved in the
[32:34] Speaker 11: catch up on a hot dog, to be all right,
[32:35] Speaker 11: hit me with it.
[32:36] Speaker 2: Let us catch him on a hot dog. If it's
[32:38] Speaker 2: your hot dog, do what you want to do. I'm
[32:40] Speaker 2: not putting it online.
[32:40] Speaker 1: But food is about freedom, So have a hot dog,
[32:44] Speaker 1: all right. I can't load other people's food. That's weird,
[32:47] Speaker 1: not right, You're right, all right, but we get it.
[32:49] Speaker 1: Many of you are expecting Luther Burdon the third to
[32:51] Speaker 1: take over for DJ Moore. This season, And if I
[32:55] Speaker 1: could aggress for a minute, I.
[32:56] Speaker 2: Love DJ Moore in Buffalo.
[32:58] Speaker 11: He is going to be the best receiver Josh Allen
[33:01] Speaker 11: has ever had.
[33:01] Speaker 20: There.
[33:01] Speaker 11: I said what I said, and he's way too low
[33:04] Speaker 11: in your fantasy rankings. But Buffalo, it's not too late
[33:08] Speaker 11: to change those jerseys. I'm going to tell you the
[33:11] Speaker 11: same thing I would have told Steve Harwell in nineteen
[33:14] Speaker 11: ninety four. It's not too late to stop this. Yes,
[33:17] Speaker 11: Shrek wouldn't have been the same, but still, this uniform
[33:20] Speaker 11: looks like if diet Pepsi replaced doctor Pepper is the
[33:23] Speaker 11: title sponsor in that football throwing contest during college championship games?
[33:27] Speaker 11: Like what is that football Ville with Brian Bosworth. That's
[33:30] Speaker 11: exactly what the jersey looks like.
[33:32] Speaker 2: Don't do this.
[33:33] Speaker 11: We're gonna have the Broncos and Seahawks. Don't sully it
[33:37] Speaker 11: with this note, please know. And then I finished though
[33:40] Speaker 11: with a quick word on our friend Carson Beck, who
[33:43] Speaker 11: looked great the other night, and I saw an alert
[33:46] Speaker 11: on our ESPN app that said he should be on
[33:48] Speaker 11: your fantasy radar.
[33:49] Speaker 2: He shouldn't.
[33:50] Speaker 11: Now you know why because home leagues play with one
[33:53] Speaker 11: quarterback and we said last week, this quarterback pool is
[33:56] Speaker 11: pretty deep.
[33:57] Speaker 2: So here's what I'm saying.
[33:58] Speaker 11: Those articles are about dynasty superflex leagues, and the rules
[34:02] Speaker 11: in those leagues impact just a small group of people.
[34:05] Speaker 2: Dare I say one percent?
[34:07] Speaker 11: There is no reason for the average fantasy player to
[34:10] Speaker 11: be worried about that league at all.
[34:12] Speaker 2: It doesn't concern you.
[34:13] Speaker 11: To simplify this further, if there is a league that
[34:17] Speaker 11: you never had intention of joining, you don't need to
[34:19] Speaker 11: be concerned about the rules in that league. This is
[34:22] Speaker 11: especially true for people who are horrible in their own
[34:25] Speaker 11: leagues and are just otherwise an afterthought. You don't need
[34:29] Speaker 11: to get yourself worked up about a league that you
[34:31] Speaker 11: have no business or talent could be in. They're doing
[34:34] Speaker 11: fine without you, So please scurry back to obscurity.
[34:39] Speaker 2: And was I talking about quarterbacks?
[34:41] Speaker 11: If you want more hotcakes on quarterbacks, be sure to
[34:45] Speaker 11: join us in the next couple of days because NFL
[34:47] Speaker 11: Fantasy Live returns August seventeenth.
[34:51] Speaker 2: You me, Cynthia, it's gonna be.
[34:53] Speaker 1: A time that's gonna be great, except for the person
[34:56] Speaker 1: that rank was just talking about, who's just an efforthoughtans leagues.
[35:00] Speaker 2: We got more coming up here.
[35:02] Speaker 1: On the Insiders as we look to the future of
[35:06] Speaker 1: the NFL and to the past, as USA gets involved
[35:10] Speaker 1: with some vets and service members. That's next a Lance
[35:12] Speaker 1: Briggs on the inside.
[35:24] Speaker 2: We're back here on the Insiders. These are the.
[35:26] Speaker 1: Most pol Pro Bowl seasons by off ball linebackers in
[35:29] Speaker 1: the last thirty years, by Hall of Fame eligible players.
[35:33] Speaker 1: You look at all, they're all in the Hall of
[35:35] Speaker 1: Fame except for one. Lance Briggs was seven, the same
[35:38] Speaker 1: as junior say Ol Patrick Willis, Luke Kickley who just
[35:40] Speaker 1: went in, Zach Thomas.
[35:43] Speaker 2: Lance Briggs now joining us on the Insiders.
[35:45] Speaker 1: Lance just wanted to sept tone because you know, we
[35:49] Speaker 1: support players who deserve to be places being in places
[35:52] Speaker 1: here on the Insiders, thanks for joining us. You've got
[35:54] Speaker 1: the USAA Salute to Service boot Camp.
[35:59] Speaker 2: Can you tell us about that?
[36:01] Speaker 20: Well, you know, it's uh, it's number one, it's it's
[36:04] Speaker 20: a it's an awesome partnership you know that that the
[36:07] Speaker 20: NFL has, you know, with the military end, and it's
[36:09] Speaker 20: a it's a it's a thank you. But it's also
[36:12] Speaker 20: in the Walter Payton Center. It's a great opportunity for
[36:15] Speaker 20: a lot of the the military members to come in
[36:18] Speaker 20: and compete in some NFL combine style drills, you know,
[36:23] Speaker 20: so you get to see what who in the military
[36:27] Speaker 20: could could could cut it in in in football or
[36:31] Speaker 20: in pro football, in the in the NFL.
[36:33] Speaker 1: And what's it like for you personally to be able
[36:35] Speaker 1: to take these men and women through this boot camp.
[36:40] Speaker 20: Well, it's near and dear to me. You know, I
[36:42] Speaker 20: wouldn't be here with without the military. And when I
[36:45] Speaker 20: say that, my mother and my father literally met serving
[36:50] Speaker 20: you know, in the army. So yes, they they absolutely
[36:55] Speaker 20: give me my comforts every day and I get up
[36:58] Speaker 20: and I eat my eggs because you know, somebody is
[37:01] Speaker 20: sacrificing overseas and protecting our walls. But my mother and
[37:07] Speaker 20: father literally met in the army and and I was
[37:10] Speaker 20: created because of it.
[37:12] Speaker 1: Let's get to your Chicago Bears, where the expectations are
[37:15] Speaker 1: pretty high because of what they were able to accomplish,
[37:17] Speaker 1: especially late in.
[37:18] Speaker 2: Games last year.
[37:19] Speaker 1: How do you feel they go about duplicating the success
[37:22] Speaker 1: that they had in twenty twenty five.
[37:24] Speaker 20: Well, you know, you gotta Last year, we had to
[37:27] Speaker 20: keep an ad machine around for the heart, you know,
[37:30] Speaker 20: because they were shocking us every week. You know, this
[37:33] Speaker 20: year you know, let's let's let's win games more decisively,
[37:38] Speaker 20: you know, so that we're not at the edge of
[37:40] Speaker 20: our seat every game was Now, it was exciting.
[37:43] Speaker 2: We love that.
[37:44] Speaker 20: But I think the expectation now with this team, with
[37:48] Speaker 20: this coach and the moves that they've made, it's got
[37:54] Speaker 20: to be greater than eleven wins.
[37:56] Speaker 1: And last you were part of a team that was
[37:58] Speaker 1: able to take the ball away Considerablemount Loud last year.
[38:00] Speaker 1: Taking the ball away to almost an historical sense, is
[38:04] Speaker 1: that something that's going to be you're in, you're out,
[38:06] Speaker 1: tough to duplicate or can they have that similar success
[38:09] Speaker 1: forcing turnovers with Dennis Allen's defense.
[38:11] Speaker 20: This year, Well, if you understand, you know where the
[38:15] Speaker 20: bread and butter is, and that's on the offense. You know,
[38:17] Speaker 20: you look around on the offense and there's you know,
[38:20] Speaker 20: every position, there's something that you can argue why they're
[38:25] Speaker 20: supposed to be successful this year. So get the ball
[38:28] Speaker 20: back to that puts a premium on taking the ball away,
[38:34] Speaker 20: you know, winning on third down, being able to stop
[38:37] Speaker 20: the run, because I think the only way that you
[38:39] Speaker 20: can slow this team down is by keeping your offense
[38:42] Speaker 20: off the ball. That means that you would have to
[38:44] Speaker 20: be to be able to run the ball successfully against
[38:47] Speaker 20: the Bears, and.
[38:49] Speaker 1: Being able to run the ball something they did to
[38:52] Speaker 1: a very extreme extent, especially down the stretch last year.
[38:56] Speaker 1: What's the biggest you think hurdle for this team to
[39:00] Speaker 1: duplicate that success in twenty twenty six.
[39:03] Speaker 2: Health health, health, I think for a lot of teams.
[39:06] Speaker 20: When you find these teams that have these great runs,
[39:11] Speaker 20: health always comes into play. You know, you can stay
[39:15] Speaker 20: healthy for the majority of the year, have your bye
[39:19] Speaker 20: week come at the right time, you know, be able
[39:21] Speaker 20: to rest those guys another an additional week or two
[39:25] Speaker 20: and have them on the field. You find a lot
[39:28] Speaker 20: of success. Now you have a year where you know, listen,
[39:31] Speaker 20: things are going great. You're leading the NFC, NFC nor
[39:34] Speaker 20: if you're leading the NFC altogether, you have playoffs locked up,
[39:38] Speaker 20: and you lose a player like Caleb Williams. You know
[39:41] Speaker 20: that's that's too big of a loss to carry over,
[39:45] Speaker 20: and that happens for a lot of these teams.
[39:48] Speaker 2: So for me, health, health is the key. You know,
[39:51] Speaker 2: the talent is there, health is the key.
[39:53] Speaker 1: And that will be the key and the goal for
[39:55] Speaker 1: most folks in that area. A lance thank you for
[39:58] Speaker 1: the work that you're doing with the USA, and thanks
[39:59] Speaker 1: for I want us here on this.
[40:00] Speaker 2: Edition of The Insiders. You got it. Thanks for having me.
[40:05] Speaker 1: The Bills looking forward to the opening of new high
[40:07] Speaker 1: Mark Stadium for its very first preseason game coming up
[40:10] Speaker 1: this weekend. But before that, Mike Garriffalo and Kyle Brandt
[40:14] Speaker 1: take us on a tour of the Buffalo Bills new stadium.
[40:19] Speaker 2: You were in the concourse. I'm here with Mike just
[40:21] Speaker 2: to get some perspective. Like, here's the field right here.
[40:24] Speaker 12: This is the brand new grass field, and here is
[40:27] Speaker 12: a wonderfully unobstructed.
[40:29] Speaker 2: View of it.
[40:29] Speaker 12: You can see everything right. It's a nice intimate little stadium.
[40:32] Speaker 12: But Mike and I want to show you, yea, the
[40:34] Speaker 12: personal details. It's not just some generic stadium, Mike, it's
[40:37] Speaker 12: the personal touch. This is ESPN cribs right here. Thank
[40:39] Speaker 12: you for joining us. Hopefully you're old enough to get there.
[40:41] Speaker 5: So the shocker.
[40:42] Speaker 2: Welcome to my house. Yeah, so we're going to the table. Yeah,
[40:46] Speaker 2: let's look at the table. Okay, where the magic happens.
[40:50] Speaker 8: Mike.
[40:50] Speaker 2: You might say this didn't pass inspection. No, no, no,
[40:53] Speaker 2: this is intentional.
[40:54] Speaker 3: Right here, this is the broken table and homage to
[40:57] Speaker 3: everything that's going to be happening outside the building. Uh,
[41:00] Speaker 3: the beer pong and if the cups were that big,
[41:03] Speaker 3: I'd be a world champion beer pong player.
[41:05] Speaker 2: Right here. So we've got the table right here.
[41:07] Speaker 3: Your thoughts on, Uh, it's still low enough to take
[41:10] Speaker 3: like people should get up there.
[41:11] Speaker 12: Yeah, so a couple of thoughts. The first thing I
[41:14] Speaker 12: tried to do was, you know, obviously climb it. So
[41:16] Speaker 12: I jumped up here, and you can, because I wonder
[41:19] Speaker 12: if at some point during the season you'll be Bills
[41:21] Speaker 12: fans who actually try to climb up on this table
[41:23] Speaker 12: for real, not coincidence. I liked it right back there,
[41:28] Speaker 12: like just feet away, there's like eight hundred labats.
[41:31] Speaker 2: Me ould go ahead, Mike, you know, well, Mike's looking
[41:34] Speaker 2: I like that.
[41:34] Speaker 12: There's also a warning here, and if if you read
[41:37] Speaker 12: the fine prints of the warning, it says, remember Bill's
[41:40] Speaker 12: Mafia's forever tailbones are not what do.
[41:44] Speaker 2: You got nothing? It's four twenty five somewhere. Come on,
[41:47] Speaker 2: let's go get me in there. Mike's gonna be halfway
[41:49] Speaker 2: in the bag. But this is again, you can make
[41:51] Speaker 2: a stadium. It's just it's cement to seats. It's a field,
[41:54] Speaker 2: we get it.
[41:55] Speaker 12: It's the personal touches, it's the giant table monuments you
[41:59] Speaker 12: could call to all those maniacs we call Bill's mafia.
[42:02] Speaker 12: And it's a really great looking stadium so far intimate
[42:04] Speaker 12: as health, I'm really into it.
[42:06] Speaker 2: Thanks to Kyle and Mike G.
[42:08] Speaker 1: You want an unobstructed view of the preseason the NFL,
[42:12] Speaker 1: check out ESPN and the NFL Network.
[42:14] Speaker 2: Here is a week one pre season schedule.
[42:17] Speaker 1: After the Panthers and the Cardinals gave us a great
[42:20] Speaker 1: preseason opener last Thursday, looking forward to that. Inside Training
[42:26] Speaker 1: Camp has its season finale coming up tomorrow on NFL Network.
[42:30] Speaker 1: Will be live at the Bucks, Jets joint practice live
[42:33] Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, Falcons and Broncos, and we will conclude
[42:36] Speaker 1: our live camp coverage the vast network of flights, interviews,
[42:40] Speaker 1: camera setups and collaboration that make it all possible. We
[42:43] Speaker 1: enjoy bringing that to you here on NFL Network, and
[42:46] Speaker 1: we will of course be here to put a bow
[42:48] Speaker 1: on all of that tomorrow on The Insiders at seven
[42:51] Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern and have all that for you for all
[42:53] Speaker 1: of us here in Inglewood. I'm Patrick Claybund, great show,
[42:56] Speaker 1: great finale to ITC coming up tomorrow. Thanks for watching it, siders,
[43:00] Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow right here,

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