# The Insiders Podcast: Cowboys 2026 Expectations + Raiders LB Nakobe Dean and Browns WR KC Concepcion Join the Insiders

An episode of [NFL: The Insiders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1543090622), 27 Jun 2026, 43 min.

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Patrick Claybon, Steve Wyche, and NFL Network Insider Judy Battista are joined by Jane Slater to discuss the comments Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer made about winning the Super Bowl in 2026. Then Judy Battista and Steve Wyche evaluate the pressure on Joe Burrow and the Bengals after their offseason moves. Raiders linebacker Nakobe Dean and Browns rookie wide receiver KC Concepcion join the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:08] Speaker 1: So far, so fun.
[0:09] Speaker 2: Joe Burrows had great things to say about his Bengals seam,
[0:12] Speaker 2: his coach returning the favor for the quarterback. We'll hear
[0:15] Speaker 2: what Zach Taylor had to say ahead of twenty twenty six.
[0:17] Speaker 2: Nikobe Dean and the new arrivals in Las Vegas hope
[0:20] Speaker 2: to surpass everyone's expectations for the Raiders. He tells us
[0:24] Speaker 2: how they might do that and why someone might be
[0:27] Speaker 2: doing more than raising the bar and case concepts. Young
[0:30] Speaker 2: gets a first hands view of one of the more
[0:33] Speaker 2: hotly contested quarterback competitions this offseason. We'll get insight from
[0:37] Speaker 2: him and info from the rests as The Insiders starts
[0:40] Speaker 2: right now, everybody, Welcome.
[0:42] Speaker 1: To The Insiders.
[0:43] Speaker 2: Patrick claiboun here with Judy Batista as Judy. We're about
[0:45] Speaker 2: a month and a couple of days away from veterans
[0:48] Speaker 2: starting to report to a lot of training camps. But
[0:50] Speaker 2: despite having to wait, we still got news coming into
[0:53] Speaker 2: the nfl LA newsroom today. You see here in this
[0:57] Speaker 2: suite from ESPN's Adam Schefter yarding the CFL and former
[1:02] Speaker 2: Indiana and Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sooresby, it appears the options
[1:05] Speaker 2: for him to play football this calendar year appear to
[1:08] Speaker 2: have been exhausted. The CFL set in a statement today,
[1:11] Speaker 2: quote upholding the integrity of the league and ensuring fair
[1:14] Speaker 2: competition are paramount to the CFL. The allegations involving Brendan
[1:19] Speaker 2: Sorosby are serious and concerning. To get to the players
[1:24] Speaker 2: who have made it to the national football lead. The
[1:26] Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys twenty twenty six training camp starts July twenty eighth,
[1:30] Speaker 2: and the familiar and friendly confines of Oxnard, California. Looking
[1:34] Speaker 2: forward to Cowboys training camp. Let's discuss Dallas as we
[1:36] Speaker 2: say hello to our Jane Slater and Steve Wish joining
[1:39] Speaker 2: us here in the nfl LA newsroom. Dallas working to
[1:42] Speaker 2: get back to the playoffs. It appears that that is
[1:44] Speaker 2: the bare minimum goal for the Cowboys.
[1:46] Speaker 1: Jaye.
[1:49] Speaker 3: Yeah, if you talk to a lot of folks around here,
[1:51] Speaker 3: lifetime fans, that is the bare minimum. But you know,
[1:54] Speaker 3: they're taking a step further and they want to make
[1:56] Speaker 3: it to the Super Bowl, and in order to do that,
[1:59] Speaker 3: they really had to improve the defense. Patrick, I mean,
[2:01] Speaker 3: this was a bottom of the league defense in several metrics,
[2:04] Speaker 3: and when you look at this team in spite of that,
[2:07] Speaker 3: they still went forward to in the division. So if
[2:11] Speaker 3: they can just get a middle of the pack defense
[2:13] Speaker 3: and they continue on what they were building on offense,
[2:16] Speaker 3: this team could be very dangerous. And I think that's
[2:18] Speaker 3: why when you hear a lot of people talk about
[2:20] Speaker 3: this team, they have such high hopes for them. Obviously,
[2:24] Speaker 3: the biggest thing is going to be injuries. They dealt
[2:26] Speaker 3: with a lot of injuries last year that had a
[2:28] Speaker 3: lot to do with some of the defensive problems.
[2:31] Speaker 1: But I think more importantly the.
[2:32] Speaker 3: Fact it seems like fingers crossed this team might be
[2:36] Speaker 3: heading into a training camp without any holdouts, hold ends,
[2:39] Speaker 3: or any off the field issues. George Pickens showing up
[2:43] Speaker 3: to mini camp really sent a strong message about this team,
[2:46] Speaker 3: and they had pretty much the entire team this offseason
[2:50] Speaker 3: buying into the OTAs You've got Javonte Williams signed Hero
[2:54] Speaker 3: as a running back. So on paper, this team looks
[2:57] Speaker 3: poised to make a run. But I always love when
[2:59] Speaker 3: we try to make these predictions early. There's so much
[3:02] Speaker 3: that goes into these things. But at least they've been
[3:04] Speaker 3: intentional in trying to get to that spot.
[3:07] Speaker 2: Trying to get there and he goes Brian Schotenhammer, Judy
[3:09] Speaker 2: not running away from the ultimate goal that he and
[3:12] Speaker 2: every coach in the NFL have this offseason.
[3:17] Speaker 4: I love that Shoddy looks like the most mild mannered
[3:20] Speaker 4: man and then he is the one.
[3:21] Speaker 1: Who comes out.
[3:22] Speaker 4: He beats Jerry Jones to the punch and says like
[3:24] Speaker 4: we should be in the Super Bowl right. So I
[3:27] Speaker 4: love the optimism. As Jane pointed out, this is all
[3:30] Speaker 4: about how fast the defense can come along. There hasn't
[3:33] Speaker 4: been a question about this offense being Super Bowl ready
[3:36] Speaker 4: for a number of years. It is the defense that
[3:39] Speaker 4: has held them back. Now they've done an awful lot.
[3:41] Speaker 4: Of course, they have Quentnin Williams now for an entire offseason.
[3:44] Speaker 4: They got Rashaan Gary, they drafted Caleb Downs. Christian Parker
[3:49] Speaker 4: is the new defensive coordinator. If all of the pieces
[3:52] Speaker 4: can come together and they can get an improved defense,
[3:56] Speaker 4: certainly they should be certainly in the playoff mix. The
[3:59] Speaker 4: question about can they get to the Super Bowl, I mean,
[4:01] Speaker 4: can they just win a few playoff games? First, I
[4:05] Speaker 4: go back to twenty twenty three, when they had the
[4:07] Speaker 4: number one offense in the league and the number five
[4:09] Speaker 4: defense in the league. They had a home playoff game
[4:12] Speaker 4: and they lost in the wildcard round to the Packers.
[4:14] Speaker 4: So just slow down, win a playoff game, win another
[4:18] Speaker 4: playoff game. They certainly have the wherewithal to do it,
[4:21] Speaker 4: as long as that defense comes together quickly this season.
[4:24] Speaker 5: So now don't he want the Cowboys to be talking
[4:28] Speaker 5: all of this up. I mean, this is who they are,
[4:30] Speaker 5: and you know, look, we know that the defense is
[4:33] Speaker 5: the issue, but a lot of things do have to
[4:36] Speaker 5: work together. Is George Pickens going to continue to do
[4:39] Speaker 5: his thing? He could ceedee lamb this offense again. We
[4:42] Speaker 5: do love it. I want to go back to Christian Parker,
[4:44] Speaker 5: the defensive coordinator of vic Fangio Protege. He's somebody in
[4:48] Speaker 5: coaching circles for years, people saying this is the next one.
[4:51] Speaker 5: If he can get this defense going again, it's going
[4:55] Speaker 5: to be good. I love the defensive front with Kenny
[4:57] Speaker 5: Clark and Rashan Gary and.
[4:59] Speaker 1: You know, Winning Williams.
[5:01] Speaker 5: But they're gonna have to hold up the whole season
[5:03] Speaker 5: long because you know the linebackers behind him.
[5:05] Speaker 1: You know, you've got Damarian over showing his back.
[5:07] Speaker 5: He's got de Winters who just came over from San Francisco.
[5:10] Speaker 5: But these guys are light man. These are like two
[5:12] Speaker 5: hundred and twenty five pounds inside linebackers. If that defensive
[5:15] Speaker 5: front has some type of injury, a team start to
[5:17] Speaker 5: load up in the run game, especially attack those very
[5:21] Speaker 5: quick and very good, but smallest inside linebackers. That's where
[5:24] Speaker 5: there could be some cheeks in the armor. But again, Judy,
[5:26] Speaker 5: as you said, on paper, they do look more poised
[5:30] Speaker 5: to make a run into the playoffs, and we've seen
[5:32] Speaker 5: the last couple of.
[5:33] Speaker 1: Years, and the thing is that's alarming.
[5:36] Speaker 2: As Jane and the Cowboys were set to come out
[5:37] Speaker 2: here in Oxnard in a month and change, it seems
[5:40] Speaker 2: like an aggressively regular offseason for the Dallas Cowboys. We
[5:43] Speaker 2: still got some time for the Big Boss, Thank.
[5:56] Speaker 1: You, James.
[5:57] Speaker 2: Joe Burrow and the Bengals look forward to training camp
[5:59] Speaker 2: on the twenty eighth as well. Joe has had some
[6:01] Speaker 2: high praise for this edition of the Bengals, comparing them
[6:04] Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago to his undefeated twenty nineteen
[6:07] Speaker 2: LSU Tigers head coach Zach Taylor.
[6:09] Speaker 1: Fine with that or anything else the leader wants to
[6:12] Speaker 1: do for the Bengals.
[6:15] Speaker 6: He's just calling for a whole team, all the extra
[6:17] Speaker 6: work he gets in the expectation when he walks on
[6:19] Speaker 6: the field and he says to huddle, everybody knows what
[6:22] Speaker 6: time it is. When he walks out there and is
[6:24] Speaker 6: ready to role, and he demands the best from everybody, coaches, employers,
[6:27] Speaker 6: that's what you got to win. That's what you got
[6:29] Speaker 6: to have to be able to win in this league.
[6:30] Speaker 6: And we've got it and I'm grateful he's our quarterback.
[6:33] Speaker 6: It's been great seeing his growths that way. I would
[6:35] Speaker 6: think he changed too much as a person and a player,
[6:38] Speaker 6: but just the things that he's been able to store
[6:40] Speaker 6: away that's going to help him be a great player
[6:42] Speaker 6: is what's been really fun to watch over his seven years, all.
[6:46] Speaker 2: Of those seven years with Zach Taylor as the head coach, Shotie.
[6:49] Speaker 1: The big question though, for the.
[6:50] Speaker 2: Two time Comeback Player of the Year is will he
[6:53] Speaker 2: have to come back again as they've had to deal
[6:56] Speaker 2: with these injuries for their quarterback for several years now.
[7:01] Speaker 4: Certainly, this is a more well balanced Cincinnati Bengals team
[7:05] Speaker 4: than we've seen in a number of years. With Joe Burrow,
[7:07] Speaker 4: they really invested in their defense, They broke character, and
[7:10] Speaker 4: when I got Dexter Lawrence from the New York Giants,
[7:13] Speaker 4: so they finally acknowledged I had to do something about
[7:16] Speaker 4: the defense. But everything hinches on if Joe Burrow can
[7:19] Speaker 4: stay on the field. When he's on the field, he
[7:22] Speaker 4: is one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
[7:24] Speaker 1: That is not an argument.
[7:26] Speaker 4: But look at this injury history, including injuries that he
[7:29] Speaker 4: had in training camp that sort of kept him out
[7:31] Speaker 4: of training camp. This though, has been to their benefit,
[7:35] Speaker 4: a very quiet offseason.
[7:37] Speaker 1: Everybody's been there.
[7:38] Speaker 4: There's been no contract situations, there's been no significant injuries.
[7:42] Speaker 4: So they are going into the season into the training
[7:45] Speaker 4: camp in about as good a state as they have
[7:47] Speaker 4: been in the Joe Burrow era. They've got to keep
[7:51] Speaker 4: him on the field. He has to stay on the
[7:53] Speaker 4: field for them to be contenders. We saw when they
[7:55] Speaker 4: made that run to the Super Bowl. If he's on
[7:59] Speaker 4: the field, they are super Bowl caliber team. They certainly
[8:02] Speaker 4: haven't improved defense. They can do it this year as
[8:05] Speaker 4: long as Joe Burrow is there.
[8:07] Speaker 5: One thousand percent, Judy, but that's most teams are the
[8:09] Speaker 5: starting quarterback.
[8:10] Speaker 1: We know Joe Burrow is arguably like he's the Kobe Bryant.
[8:14] Speaker 5: To me, when it comes to quarterbacks, you got the
[8:16] Speaker 5: killer instinct and things like this, But look at how
[8:18] Speaker 5: many games where they scored forty points or in the
[8:20] Speaker 5: mid to high thirties and they still lost. This is
[8:23] Speaker 5: where again you talk about the Bengals breaking character. It's
[8:27] Speaker 5: what they finally realized that they had to do. They
[8:29] Speaker 5: go out and they get Dexter Lawrence. They go out
[8:32] Speaker 5: and they signed boy A Mafe, They get Jonathan Allen,
[8:36] Speaker 5: then they add the secondary Brian Cook and Kyle Duggar.
[8:40] Speaker 5: They drafted defensive players high and they have not landed
[8:43] Speaker 5: those types of players. So now they get aggressive. They
[8:46] Speaker 5: trade a first round pick to get Dexter Lawrence. They
[8:48] Speaker 5: understand now is their time. They look at the rest
[8:51] Speaker 5: of the upheaval in their division. They're in the AFC nors,
[8:53] Speaker 5: some of the changes that are going on. It is
[8:56] Speaker 5: ripe for this team to make a move and if
[8:58] Speaker 5: they win that division to get an the playoffs. With
[9:00] Speaker 5: that quarterback, I'm calling Kobe Joe. That's going to be
[9:04] Speaker 5: his new name. He's got the mamba mentality. This is
[9:07] Speaker 5: a team that can make a lot of noise going
[9:09] Speaker 5: through the AFC.
[9:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bengals three highest scoring games for their offense
[9:13] Speaker 2: last season, they able to lose two of them.
[9:16] Speaker 1: Of course, Joe Flacco involved in one of those starts.
[9:18] Speaker 2: So regardless of who the defense has to improve, We'll
[9:22] Speaker 2: be back with Judy Batista and Steve Why should we
[9:24] Speaker 2: continue here on The Insiders are coming up year thirty.
[9:29] Speaker 1: Of the Manning Passing Academy.
[9:31] Speaker 2: We'll get a chance to hear from Eli on a
[9:33] Speaker 2: one on one with our ratt Lewis when we come back,
[9:39] Speaker 2: as well as looking at the new look Las Vegas
[9:42] Speaker 2: Raiders defense.
[9:43] Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Nakobe Dean joins the show.
[9:47] Speaker 2: To tell us just how they will improve that side
[9:50] Speaker 2: of the football that's coming up on the NFL Network.
[9:59] Speaker 2: Plenty of turnover in the desert as you look at
[10:02] Speaker 2: the additions for the Las Vegas Raiders. They changed the
[10:04] Speaker 2: head coach, they draft the number one overall pick at quarterback,
[10:08] Speaker 2: and then there's the acquisition of the national champion in college,
[10:11] Speaker 2: the Super Bowl champion in the pros, the Kobe Dean
[10:14] Speaker 2: and the Kobe Dean joining us now on this edition
[10:17] Speaker 2: of The Insiders. Welcome to the show. N Kobe having
[10:21] Speaker 2: all that success everywhere you've been. What's been the biggest
[10:24] Speaker 2: change is the process of acclimating to a new team
[10:27] Speaker 2: and a new franchise and a new coach.
[10:29] Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean this is my it's my second team
[10:32] Speaker 7: in the NFL now, so all I've known is the
[10:36] Speaker 7: Philadelphia Eagles. So it's been it's definitely been process of
[10:41] Speaker 7: trying to get to know new people, trying to get
[10:43] Speaker 7: to know the defense, trying to get to know the
[10:46] Speaker 7: care to, trying to you know, try to get to
[10:49] Speaker 7: know names. That's the big think me is trying to
[10:50] Speaker 7: get to know everybody's name initially. So it definitely been
[10:54] Speaker 7: in process, but I've been enjoining every step of it.
[10:56] Speaker 8: Don't blizz the.
[10:57] Speaker 1: Kobe real quick.
[10:58] Speaker 5: I can't help but notice some writings are something behind
[11:02] Speaker 5: you on the wall?
[11:03] Speaker 1: What exactly is that?
[11:05] Speaker 7: Yes, my girlfriend is studying for the bar out here
[11:09] Speaker 7: in Nevada, so she's been working hall. She got steaking
[11:11] Speaker 7: those all over my offices right now. Yes, yeah, she
[11:17] Speaker 7: got out the home thing going.
[11:18] Speaker 1: Well, I like that way to be there and way
[11:20] Speaker 1: to be supportive.
[11:21] Speaker 5: Hey, one thing we came into the second we showed
[11:24] Speaker 5: some of the notable additions to this team. But when
[11:26] Speaker 5: I look at the veteran free agency that the Raiders
[11:28] Speaker 5: added to yourself, Quay Walker, tarn Johnson, Tyler Linderbaum, Quitt
[11:32] Speaker 5: he pay Connor Heyward, Spencer Bufort. You all have come
[11:36] Speaker 5: from teams that have had consistently sustained success. What about
[11:41] Speaker 5: adding guys who've won in the NFL all to one
[11:45] Speaker 5: team to try to change the culture there in Las Vegas.
[11:48] Speaker 8: Yeah, we know what it takes.
[11:50] Speaker 7: You know, you come, you bring guys and coaches from
[11:53] Speaker 7: teams that have one and know how to win.
[11:56] Speaker 8: You kind of.
[11:58] Speaker 7: You build a culture that you're trying to the culture
[12:00] Speaker 7: of winning, and that's really the biggest thing. We kind
[12:04] Speaker 7: of know that at the end of the day, the
[12:06] Speaker 7: home thing that matters in the NFL is winning games,
[12:09] Speaker 7: and that's what we're trying to do.
[12:12] Speaker 5: So I mentioned Kaid Walker who comes over from Green Bay.
[12:14] Speaker 5: You guys played side by side together at the University
[12:18] Speaker 5: of Georgia one and national championship with Quay. What about
[12:21] Speaker 5: you guys reuniting lining up next to each other and
[12:24] Speaker 5: how good of a tandem can you be?
[12:27] Speaker 7: I feel like this is Scott not even the limit
[12:29] Speaker 7: for how good we can be. I feel like, for
[12:32] Speaker 7: a lot of us on the team, our base ball
[12:36] Speaker 7: have not even been played yet, so all we're all
[12:38] Speaker 7: taking it day at a time, like him, him, me
[12:42] Speaker 7: and quit coming in and combining as a right now connection.
[12:48] Speaker 7: But we can be real with each other right now,
[12:49] Speaker 7: and we also push each other to be our best.
[12:51] Speaker 7: So it's also the healthy level of competition between me
[12:56] Speaker 7: and him going back and forth. But like I said,
[12:59] Speaker 7: we just got a team to take it the day
[13:01] Speaker 7: at a time and continue to push each other and
[13:03] Speaker 7: push the whole team to try to be the absolute
[13:06] Speaker 7: biz versus ourself.
[13:07] Speaker 2: As you try to reach those versions, I want to
[13:10] Speaker 2: try to get you to compare and contrast because you
[13:12] Speaker 2: go from Vic Fangio, who's had that defensive coordinator job
[13:15] Speaker 2: in the league for a long time, to Rob Leonard,
[13:17] Speaker 2: who's been a coach since twenty thirteen, but this is
[13:20] Speaker 2: his first time getting that chance to call defensive plays.
[13:23] Speaker 2: What's the difference the biggest difference between those two.
[13:27] Speaker 7: It's a lot of I say, give and go. We
[13:31] Speaker 7: just kind of learning each other. He leaning on us,
[13:35] Speaker 7: we lean on him.
[13:36] Speaker 8: Were just kind of trying.
[13:37] Speaker 7: To figure each other out, and we just he asked
[13:40] Speaker 7: us a lot of questions me Quai Quit.
[13:43] Speaker 8: Everybody you know, and the.
[13:45] Speaker 7: Staff kind of everybody works with him to try.
[13:48] Speaker 1: To make this thing work.
[13:51] Speaker 7: But it's something that we call our own and we
[13:54] Speaker 7: just putting it together. Were putting it together, and we
[13:57] Speaker 7: just trying to make some great out of.
[14:00] Speaker 1: Interesting so putting it together.
[14:01] Speaker 5: One of the key players on this defense is you
[14:03] Speaker 5: have to really take the field with you guys.
[14:04] Speaker 1: Is Max Crosby Is he kind of comes back from
[14:07] Speaker 1: that injury. What has it been?
[14:09] Speaker 9: You know?
[14:09] Speaker 5: I know Max is around the building, like being around
[14:11] Speaker 5: him and the energy he brings because right now he's
[14:14] Speaker 5: still been the face of that franchise.
[14:16] Speaker 7: Right yeah, I mean his presidences failed. Max presidents failed
[14:21] Speaker 7: every day. Even though he hasn't been out there on
[14:23] Speaker 7: the field of this, he's out there out there working.
[14:26] Speaker 7: We see him working and rehabbing every day. His positive
[14:32] Speaker 7: attitude is infectious. He says what's up to everybody. You
[14:35] Speaker 7: can kind of see how he know everybody. So it's
[14:38] Speaker 7: kind of like when I me coming in and not
[14:40] Speaker 7: knowing nobody. I'm trying to learn everybody's name and trying
[14:43] Speaker 7: to be able to tap up everybody the way he does.
[14:46] Speaker 7: But like like I said, his positive energy is infectious
[14:50] Speaker 7: even not being on the field, so you can tell
[14:53] Speaker 7: he really wants to win. He ready to get to it.
[14:56] Speaker 7: So I'm excited. I can't wait to have him on
[14:59] Speaker 7: the field.
[15:00] Speaker 2: This the positive energy that you mentioned about Max Crosby.
[15:03] Speaker 2: That's the thing a lot of people have said about
[15:05] Speaker 2: the number one overall pick coming off from fresh off
[15:07] Speaker 2: of Hitters National Championship. Have you been able to pick
[15:10] Speaker 2: up on any of that. What were your first impressions
[15:12] Speaker 2: when you got to meet Fernando?
[15:14] Speaker 1: I mean somebody.
[15:18] Speaker 7: They used a new word or you know, he got
[15:20] Speaker 7: a lot of oil, a lot of or around him,
[15:24] Speaker 7: you know, just being He like a guy with a
[15:27] Speaker 7: lot of like positive and fixing activity, positive and fixious
[15:33] Speaker 7: energy around him. You know, you always always smiling. He
[15:35] Speaker 7: always got a smile. Every time I've seen he got
[15:38] Speaker 7: a smile on his face. Uh, he always got some
[15:41] Speaker 7: some nice to say. You always seeing what's up to
[15:42] Speaker 7: you no matter what. And I've just seen it around
[15:45] Speaker 7: and you know, my first crisis of him has been
[15:47] Speaker 7: a great And I think, Uh, you got a coaches dad,
[15:51] Speaker 7: you got an offense, got a team that's ready to
[15:53] Speaker 7: you know, ride it behind him, and you know, get
[15:56] Speaker 7: the best out of it.
[15:57] Speaker 1: Speak of smile, smiles on faces.
[15:59] Speaker 2: We're gonna have the opportunity for the back to school
[16:01] Speaker 2: event coming up July eleventh and horn Lake telling people
[16:04] Speaker 2: what they can expect.
[16:06] Speaker 7: Yes, it's like a bad school giveaway, and I think
[16:10] Speaker 7: this will probably be my biggest one I've done, and
[16:13] Speaker 7: I'm doing it through my cond Hearts for Life Foundation
[16:17] Speaker 7: in Honlean, Mississippi. That's why I went to school. I
[16:20] Speaker 7: graduated from Hornleay High School. So they can expect us
[16:24] Speaker 7: to giveaway school supplies, book bags, we got venites coming out.
[16:28] Speaker 7: We got bouncy house, bounce house, the snow cones. It's
[16:31] Speaker 7: kind of like a community event, try to have a
[16:33] Speaker 7: little fun. We also give back to the community and
[16:37] Speaker 7: get the keys ready for school.
[16:38] Speaker 2: Well, getting ready for school something that I'm sure it
[16:41] Speaker 2: feels like you're doing with all of Gabrielle's preparation behind you.
[16:44] Speaker 1: Good luck for her in the bar examp.
[16:47] Speaker 2: Look, you're getting your office back, and good luck for
[16:49] Speaker 2: you and the raiders here in twenty twenty sixth to cope.
[16:51] Speaker 8: Yeah, I appreciate y'all having.
[16:54] Speaker 2: The CFL released the statement regarding the potential application of
[16:58] Speaker 2: Brendan's sours be to the league in the fourth week
[17:01] Speaker 2: of its season. They said no thanks, Britain Sowersby would
[17:06] Speaker 2: still have to wait for the twenty twenty seven NFL
[17:09] Speaker 2: Draft for his next professional football opportunity. Let's look at
[17:12] Speaker 2: some previous head coaches, in fact, head coaches in twenty
[17:15] Speaker 2: twenty five, like Brian day Ball, Mike McDaniel, Jonathan Gann,
[17:18] Speaker 2: and Raheem Morris, all back in the coordinator spots that year,
[17:21] Speaker 2: joined back again by Judy Batista and Steve Weis. Where
[17:25] Speaker 2: these guys have an opportunity. What kind of impact can
[17:27] Speaker 2: they have as former head coaches?
[17:28] Speaker 5: Yeah, and I want to start with Brian Dayball right here,
[17:30] Speaker 5: because going to Tennessee.
[17:31] Speaker 1: First off, their offense is so bad.
[17:33] Speaker 5: Dave Ball's got an opportunity to get cam Ward and
[17:36] Speaker 5: get this offense going. They've got some good skilled position players,
[17:40] Speaker 5: you know they go out. They've got some wide receivers.
[17:43] Speaker 5: They brought Wandelle Robinson over the draft of carnellal Tape
[17:46] Speaker 5: with the first round draft pick.
[17:47] Speaker 1: But the first thing that Brian day Ball has.
[17:49] Speaker 5: Got to do is in still some type of discipline.
[17:51] Speaker 5: The Tennessee Titans were next to last in penalties. So
[17:55] Speaker 5: many positive plays turned into negative yards and negative yards.
[17:58] Speaker 5: They've got to get that tightened up, Judy. But one
[18:00] Speaker 5: thing about day Ball. His Giants were just two slots
[18:03] Speaker 5: behind the Titans when it comes to penalties, fourth worst
[18:06] Speaker 5: in the NFL.
[18:07] Speaker 1: So overall discipline has got to be tightened up.
[18:11] Speaker 4: I actually have high hopes for this marriage because Brian
[18:14] Speaker 4: Daball really liked cam Ward. When cam Ward was coming
[18:17] Speaker 4: out of college, he had looked at him because of
[18:20] Speaker 4: course the Giants were in the market for a quarterback
[18:23] Speaker 4: as well, and so he'd done a lot of research.
[18:25] Speaker 4: He really liked his football intelligence, his accuracy obviously, the athleticism,
[18:29] Speaker 4: the ability to sort of make something out of broken place.
[18:33] Speaker 4: So Brian Daball went in certainly with an idea of
[18:37] Speaker 4: what he would have in cam Ward and what he
[18:40] Speaker 4: could do with him. I think you're going to see
[18:43] Speaker 4: a more confident cam Ward because that is something that
[18:45] Speaker 4: Brian Dable is really good at. He really likes quarterbacks
[18:50] Speaker 4: who understand what they're looking at, who understand why things
[18:53] Speaker 4: are going bad, why understands why things are good. And
[18:56] Speaker 4: he has already said so far this offseason that cam
[18:58] Speaker 4: Ward is doing that. Think this is going to be
[19:00] Speaker 4: a pretty good marriage and he'll get a lot out
[19:02] Speaker 4: of cam work.
[19:03] Speaker 5: Yeah, you would think that that the era's only pointed
[19:05] Speaker 5: up for cam Ward. I think what now, let's go
[19:07] Speaker 5: to Mike McDaniel going to a situation with the Chargers
[19:10] Speaker 5: where he's got his quarterback. He's got Justin Herbert, there's
[19:13] Speaker 5: no questions about that. He walks into a very rich
[19:16] Speaker 5: situation offensively, Judy Omarion Hampton the running back.
[19:20] Speaker 1: They added, David Njoku the tight end.
[19:22] Speaker 5: He's already got Lad McConkie and a nice group of
[19:25] Speaker 5: wide receivers right there.
[19:27] Speaker 1: And an offensive line is going to get for Shaun
[19:29] Speaker 1: Slater and Joe alt Back.
[19:30] Speaker 5: Now he is changing to that outside run, that zone
[19:34] Speaker 5: run scheme system, which is something everyone's gonna have to
[19:37] Speaker 5: adjust to. So don't be surprised if they get off
[19:39] Speaker 5: to somewhat of a slow start while they get adjusted
[19:41] Speaker 5: to that scheme. But once it gets clicked and there's
[19:43] Speaker 5: an opportunity for big things. The main thing for the
[19:47] Speaker 5: Chargers is just to finish so they can win some
[19:50] Speaker 5: playoff games.
[19:51] Speaker 1: That's the hump. We'll see if Mike McDaniels can get
[19:53] Speaker 1: this offense over.
[19:56] Speaker 4: And stay healthy. Mike McDaniel can't control that. But one
[19:59] Speaker 4: thing I like that he said, I'm trying to find
[20:02] Speaker 4: the margins. Mike McDaniel knows he does not have to
[20:05] Speaker 4: blow up this offense. He has an elite quarterback in
[20:07] Speaker 4: Justin Herbert, and so one of the things he's been
[20:09] Speaker 4: doing this offseason is working on Justin Herbert's footwork, and
[20:13] Speaker 4: the idea there is to get the footwork better so
[20:16] Speaker 4: that he can get rid of the ball quicker, and
[20:19] Speaker 4: that would lead to getting the ball to receivers in
[20:22] Speaker 4: stride so they can get more yards after the catch.
[20:24] Speaker 4: That's something they've been working on. But I do like
[20:27] Speaker 4: the humility that Mike McDaniel's showing and acknowledging. I don't
[20:31] Speaker 4: have to blow up this offense. I got Justin Herbert.
[20:33] Speaker 4: I've got plenty of weapons here. I just have to
[20:35] Speaker 4: tinker with it a little bit.
[20:38] Speaker 1: Humility.
[20:38] Speaker 5: No fashion game right there, because Jim Harmond's got the
[20:41] Speaker 5: fashion statements there with the head coach doesn't have to
[20:44] Speaker 5: be Mike McDaniel.
[20:45] Speaker 1: Let's go to rich Gannon now of course in Arizona.
[20:48] Speaker 5: Just a really tough situation there, didn't win ball games,
[20:50] Speaker 5: didn't establish an identity. So now he takes over a Packers'
[20:54] Speaker 5: defense that was just above the middle of the pack,
[20:56] Speaker 5: but won't have Micah Parsons back from probably.
[20:59] Speaker 1: The star of the season.
[21:00] Speaker 5: He's expected to start on pup as he recovered from
[21:03] Speaker 5: that ACL and moniscus knee surgery. Now Gannon has They've
[21:07] Speaker 5: changed some pieces on that offense. They know we talk
[21:10] Speaker 5: about they lost kway Walker. They replace him with the
[21:12] Speaker 5: tackling machine zire or Franklin. But Gannon is somebody in
[21:15] Speaker 5: Philadelphia did some very good things defensively, got him to
[21:18] Speaker 5: the Super Bowl. He's got to move some pieces around.
[21:21] Speaker 5: Luke van Ness is going to have to be his
[21:23] Speaker 5: leading edge rusher. Gannon's got to get something out of
[21:25] Speaker 5: him in a division where we know offense couple points
[21:28] Speaker 5: on the board. So again we'll see if Gannon can
[21:31] Speaker 5: find his mojo that seemed to get lost in Arizona
[21:34] Speaker 5: over the past three seasons.
[21:37] Speaker 4: You know, one of the things Jonathan Gannon is known
[21:39] Speaker 4: for is like there's no Jonathan Gannon defense. He's very adaptable.
[21:44] Speaker 4: He adapts to whatever he's got. What his players can
[21:47] Speaker 4: do best. He doesn't go in and try to force
[21:49] Speaker 4: them into his scheme. That's all well and good, but
[21:52] Speaker 4: I feel like we're probably at the end of the
[21:54] Speaker 4: season going to have to give Jonathan Gennon an incomplete
[21:57] Speaker 4: grade because we're not going to know what this defense
[22:01] Speaker 4: is going to be. We're certainly not going to know
[22:03] Speaker 4: how it's going to be able to perform at its
[22:05] Speaker 4: peak without Michael Parsons on the field regularly, and we
[22:09] Speaker 4: don't know yet how long he is going to be back.
[22:11] Speaker 4: We know it's probably going to be at least the
[22:13] Speaker 4: first month and maybe the first half.
[22:15] Speaker 1: Of the season.
[22:16] Speaker 4: Again, it's going to be hard to tell what they
[22:18] Speaker 4: can do. He's going to have to mix and match.
[22:19] Speaker 4: He's really good at doing that until MICHAELH. Parson's get
[22:23] Speaker 4: on the field. But we know how important Micah is.
[22:25] Speaker 4: It is a different coordinator, a different season, but after
[22:29] Speaker 4: he got hurt last year, the Packers.
[22:31] Speaker 1: Did not win another game.
[22:32] Speaker 4: So Jonathan Gannon is going to have to just sit
[22:35] Speaker 4: tight and wait for his man to get back out there.
[22:37] Speaker 2: And the through line for a lot of these coaches
[22:39] Speaker 2: will be talent deficits at key positions. When they ultimately
[22:42] Speaker 2: got fired they all find jobs, especially Jonathan Gannon as
[22:46] Speaker 2: Michael Parsons you talked about, Mike McDaniel and Justin Herbert.
[22:49] Speaker 2: Those things get better. You find yourself back in a
[22:52] Speaker 2: head coaching position sooner rather than later. Thanks to Gigi
[22:55] Speaker 2: Vatisa and Steve why should, we've got an opportunity.
[22:57] Speaker 1: For season six. We'll tight end in Nashville this week.
[23:01] Speaker 1: We're the top tight ends of the league gathered to
[23:03] Speaker 1: exchange the tools and tips of the trade. One of them,
[23:06] Speaker 1: Trey McBride, coming off.
[23:07] Speaker 2: A huge touchdown season, had sixty percent over sixty percent
[23:11] Speaker 2: of his career touchdowns last year, goes one on one
[23:14] Speaker 2: with the ESPN's Lindsey Theory.
[23:18] Speaker 10: Trey, your return student at tight End University. What keeps
[23:22] Speaker 10: bringing you back here?
[23:23] Speaker 11: I think just the camaraderie being around all the guys
[23:26] Speaker 11: to come out here and see the fans, to learn
[23:29] Speaker 11: a little bit. It's just such a fun week and
[23:31] Speaker 11: I always have a blast out here.
[23:33] Speaker 10: A two hour film session. What kind of tricks are
[23:35] Speaker 10: you guys trading in there?
[23:36] Speaker 11: Yeah, they're showing you know, clips of each other, you know,
[23:39] Speaker 11: route running, what they're looking at, different run blocking techniques,
[23:43] Speaker 11: how they do their job, and you're get to listen
[23:45] Speaker 11: to some of the top guys in the NFL or
[23:48] Speaker 11: guys that played.
[23:48] Speaker 8: At a really high level.
[23:49] Speaker 11: So it's really cool to to pick their brains and
[23:52] Speaker 11: figure out what they're doing with.
[23:53] Speaker 1: Everything you learn.
[23:54] Speaker 10: How much do you actually take back and how are
[23:57] Speaker 10: you able to implement it?
[23:58] Speaker 11: Yeah, as much as I can. Try to take one
[24:00] Speaker 11: or two things a year and apply it to my
[24:02] Speaker 11: own game. It's really cool to listen to these really
[24:05] Speaker 11: good tight ends and what they do and just try
[24:08] Speaker 11: to take a little bit from them and add it
[24:09] Speaker 11: to my own game.
[24:10] Speaker 10: The Cardinals a big off season for you guys, an
[24:12] Speaker 10: abbreviated off season program there. But for you coming off
[24:15] Speaker 10: such an outstanding season, how do you carry that in
[24:18] Speaker 10: to this upcoming season?
[24:19] Speaker 11: Yeah, just try to, you know, maximize this year and
[24:22] Speaker 11: have another great season. Consistency is key, and just try
[24:25] Speaker 11: to put another really good year, you know, under my
[24:28] Speaker 11: belt and excited for the for the big year to come.
[24:31] Speaker 10: Mike Lafleur, your new head coach. Tell me what he
[24:34] Speaker 10: has brought to the organization.
[24:35] Speaker 11: Yeah, he's wonderful. He's brought a lot of energy, a
[24:37] Speaker 11: lot of excitement. He's an offensive minded coach is which
[24:40] Speaker 11: you love, and I'm just so excited to have him
[24:42] Speaker 11: as our head coach, to keep learning from him, and
[24:45] Speaker 11: I'm excited for the.
[24:45] Speaker 10: Great year we're going to have with his offense. How
[24:47] Speaker 10: would you describe what's changed?
[24:49] Speaker 8: They love the tight End man. They they twelve thirteen personnel.
[24:52] Speaker 11: They's just a little bit different. The terminology, everything's a
[24:55] Speaker 11: little bit different. But I'm excited to grow and learn
[24:58] Speaker 11: under his offense and have a remarkable year.
[25:01] Speaker 10: And then there's another quarterback competition for you guys, or
[25:03] Speaker 10: i should say the first quarterback competition in a while
[25:06] Speaker 10: after Kyler Murray's departure. How have you viewed that competition?
[25:09] Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been great.
[25:10] Speaker 11: You know, we have a lot of really good players
[25:12] Speaker 11: in that room, and you know, Jacoby's working through a
[25:15] Speaker 11: contract deal, so we'll be excited when he gets back.
[25:18] Speaker 11: But you know, whoever's out there, we're gonna have a
[25:21] Speaker 11: great season and I'm excited for it.
[25:22] Speaker 10: Thanks for the time today, have fun and tight End
[25:24] Speaker 10: you thank.
[25:25] Speaker 8: You so much.
[25:26] Speaker 2: We managed to slow down Brown's rookie speeds, their casey
[25:29] Speaker 2: concepts you on long enough for an interview.
[25:32] Speaker 1: What does he think.
[25:33] Speaker 2: About the Browns quarterback battle that's coming up next on
[25:35] Speaker 2: the inside.
[25:44] Speaker 5: With the twenty fourth pick, the Cleveland brown so like
[25:48] Speaker 5: Casey Conceptio wide receiver Texas.
[25:52] Speaker 12: A and M, the twenty twenty five nations most versatile
[25:55] Speaker 12: college football player, has officially inked his rookie contract, becoming
[25:59] Speaker 12: the final member of the Browns twenty twenty six class.
[26:02] Speaker 8: To secure a four year deal.
[26:04] Speaker 12: The wide receiver out of Texas A and M is
[26:06] Speaker 12: coming off a monster twenty twenty five season with the Aggies,
[26:09] Speaker 12: being named first team AP All American after leading the
[26:12] Speaker 12: team with sixty one receptions, over nine hundred receiving yards,
[26:16] Speaker 12: and hauling in nine touchdowns. While conception owns on field
[26:19] Speaker 12: moments speak for themselves, the twenty one year old game
[26:22] Speaker 12: massive support after speaking out against critics who they are
[26:25] Speaker 12: bully people like himself with speech impediments. The young wide
[26:28] Speaker 12: receiver's competitive spirit and adaptability ultimately gave the Browns a
[26:32] Speaker 12: dynamic edition who confidently knows exactly who he is.
[26:36] Speaker 8: I'm very un versatile.
[26:38] Speaker 13: I've played pretty much any position on the field, and
[26:40] Speaker 13: you know, after the catch, it's a legend. You know,
[26:44] Speaker 13: I get the boss of my hands. You know you
[26:47] Speaker 13: know I'm trying to go score zone. The more you
[26:50] Speaker 13: can do, you know what value you have. So you
[26:52] Speaker 13: know I'm ready. I'm ready to you know I am.
[26:56] Speaker 13: I am ready to do whatever to.
[26:59] Speaker 8: Hell out.
[27:04] Speaker 4: From the NFL Draft to the Cleveland Browns and now
[27:06] Speaker 4: to the insiders, Casey concepts. You welcome to the show
[27:10] Speaker 4: that is Steve Weish. I am Judy Batista. Casey, Let's
[27:14] Speaker 4: just start with it has been a whirlwind few months
[27:17] Speaker 4: for you. Your first round draft pick, you just got
[27:19] Speaker 4: engaged to congratulations by the way, you just rapped up
[27:23] Speaker 4: to your first mini camp. You're welcome, and you just
[27:25] Speaker 4: wrapped up your first mini camp for the Browns. What
[27:28] Speaker 4: has your adjustment to the NFL been like these last
[27:31] Speaker 4: few months.
[27:32] Speaker 9: I would say my adjustment to the NFL it has
[27:36] Speaker 9: been good, just you know, learning a playbook, learning you know,
[27:43] Speaker 9: every position.
[27:44] Speaker 8: I want to feel it, honestly.
[27:46] Speaker 5: Casey, you talked about learning every position on the field,
[27:49] Speaker 5: especially with that wide receiver group. We know that the
[27:52] Speaker 5: Browns have remade that wide receiver room, adding you drafting
[27:55] Speaker 5: Denzel Boston to go with Jerry Judy on that front
[27:58] Speaker 5: line group. What do you think about this wide receiver
[28:01] Speaker 5: group and how quickly you guys can adapt to improve
[28:04] Speaker 5: things in that receiver room.
[28:06] Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think that. I think that this
[28:09] Speaker 9: new wide receiver room, you know, that could be dangerous.
[28:12] Speaker 8: Uh.
[28:13] Speaker 9: Everybody, everybody compliments to each other, you know, everybody, everybody,
[28:21] Speaker 9: everybody is a different you know, the receiver.
[28:27] Speaker 4: It was clear from the first few practices that the
[28:29] Speaker 4: media were allowed to watch that they plan to use
[28:32] Speaker 4: you all over the field. That's obviously a big lift
[28:36] Speaker 4: for a rookie. How comfortable are you with the playbook
[28:39] Speaker 4: and where are you in your own comfort level with
[28:42] Speaker 4: this offense.
[28:44] Speaker 9: I'm very very comfortable, you know. You know, I'm confident.
[28:49] Speaker 9: I know what I can do play.
[28:51] Speaker 8: With the wise.
[28:52] Speaker 1: You know.
[28:53] Speaker 9: The first like the first like two weeks, you know,
[28:57] Speaker 9: I had, you know, learn it. I had to, you know,
[29:01] Speaker 9: I you know, I had to get used to the
[29:03] Speaker 9: speed of the game. But I mean, honestly, now, you know,
[29:06] Speaker 9: I'm already I know the playbook, you know. Uh, I'm
[29:09] Speaker 9: just ready to.
[29:10] Speaker 5: Play casey, you know what we're talking about the wide
[29:12] Speaker 5: receiver group. But of course, one of the big conversations
[29:15] Speaker 5: around the Browns is going to be who's the starting
[29:17] Speaker 5: quarterback going to be it's going to be Shadur, It's
[29:19] Speaker 5: going to be Deshaun from a guy who caught balls
[29:22] Speaker 5: from both of them all off season.
[29:24] Speaker 1: How do you think that competition has gone?
[29:27] Speaker 8: It's looking amazing.
[29:29] Speaker 9: One of those guys you know are amazing people, amazing teammates,
[29:33] Speaker 9: you know, amazing quarterbation. You know, everybody, everybody is fighting,
[29:39] Speaker 9: you know, for us final on the roster saying you
[29:41] Speaker 9: know it's going to be you know, intriguing.
[29:44] Speaker 8: You know who comes away with it?
[29:50] Speaker 4: You know, I think when you were coming out of college,
[29:52] Speaker 4: we all knew you were an exceptional wide receiver and
[29:55] Speaker 4: All American, but I think probably most people until the
[29:59] Speaker 4: Combine did not realize that you grew up with a stutter.
[30:03] Speaker 3: Uh.
[30:03] Speaker 4: Why did you want to speak publicly then? And what
[30:07] Speaker 4: has the experience been like since you spoke publicly at
[30:10] Speaker 4: the combine?
[30:11] Speaker 9: You know, I had I had wanted to speak up
[30:15] Speaker 9: publicly about it because you know, I was just you know,
[30:18] Speaker 9: seeing like you know, little like the videos and you know,
[30:23] Speaker 9: you know, stuff like that. You know, I'm not really
[30:26] Speaker 9: I'm not really I'm not really afraid, So you know,
[30:31] Speaker 9: I am not really afraid to you know, be myself,
[30:35] Speaker 9: I wanted to speak up to you know, I wanted
[30:39] Speaker 9: to speak up to you know, inspire the youth, inspire
[30:44] Speaker 9: people who might not be as confident, you know, with
[30:48] Speaker 9: their with their speech impediment.
[30:51] Speaker 5: Well, so let to you about that, because you clearly
[30:53] Speaker 5: are a role model and you've just partnered with Expressible,
[30:55] Speaker 5: which is an online company that helps people with speech impediment.
[31:00] Speaker 5: It's what specifically made you want to partner with Expressible?
[31:04] Speaker 9: Yes, So, growing up, you know, I didn't really have
[31:09] Speaker 9: all of the resources, I didn't really.
[31:10] Speaker 8: Have all of the outlets you know, to you know,
[31:13] Speaker 8: to you know, get the help that I that I
[31:17] Speaker 8: had needed, you know, when I was younger.
[31:20] Speaker 9: And then you know, whenever I found out about the
[31:23] Speaker 9: about the Expressible thing, you know, I just I just
[31:28] Speaker 9: I just found that it was you know, very I
[31:31] Speaker 9: just found that it was very amazing, you know that.
[31:34] Speaker 8: I just found that it was very amazing that.
[31:37] Speaker 9: These great that these great group of people were just
[31:41] Speaker 9: able to help out kids all over the world.
[31:47] Speaker 4: What are you hoping with your partnership and just being
[31:50] Speaker 4: so public about having a stutter and dealing with a starter,
[31:53] Speaker 4: What are you hoping people will learn from you?
[31:57] Speaker 9: Just he's you know, always be confident, Always be yourself.
[32:01] Speaker 9: They know, never back down. Everybody has their own struggles.
[32:08] Speaker 9: Everybody has their own adversities. You know what is what
[32:13] Speaker 9: it is how you fight through those adversities. You know,
[32:15] Speaker 9: it's it's it's a it's like how it's it's how
[32:23] Speaker 9: you can go out here and help out other people
[32:25] Speaker 9: that might be going through.
[32:26] Speaker 8: The same things as you.
[32:30] Speaker 1: Casey.
[32:30] Speaker 4: You're also you're already doing really good work off the field.
[32:33] Speaker 4: We can't wait to watch you on the field. Enjoy
[32:35] Speaker 4: the rest of your off season. We'll see it in
[32:37] Speaker 4: training camp. Thanks for joining us.
[32:39] Speaker 8: Thank you guys very much. Have it as day.
[32:43] Speaker 2: It is top one hundred time of year you get
[32:45] Speaker 2: a look at the top one hundred players of twenty
[32:47] Speaker 2: twenty six, one hundred through ninety one, Montes Sweat and
[32:52] Speaker 2: Cam Jordan bookending that.
[32:54] Speaker 1: But the number one here is Adam Rick. Because it's
[32:57] Speaker 1: time for the weekend or what's up man.
[32:58] Speaker 14: Oh my gosh, thank you so much. Thanks for having
[33:00] Speaker 14: a big weekend for us here. We're gonna get a
[33:02] Speaker 14: couple of days off. It's going to be a lot
[33:03] Speaker 14: of fun. And as we look forward to the weekend,
[33:06] Speaker 14: I would like to open this with a hearty congratulations
[33:09] Speaker 14: to all the recent graduates of tight end University. Although
[33:13] Speaker 14: with tight end premium leagues becoming a thing in fantasy football,
[33:17] Speaker 14: there will be those who feel that drafting tight ends
[33:19] Speaker 14: are nothing.
[33:20] Speaker 1: More than a t one higher.
[33:22] Speaker 14: But I think I speak for all of those in
[33:24] Speaker 14: the fantasy community when I welcome inclusion to make sure
[33:28] Speaker 14: everybody who scores a touchdown is involved and accounted for it.
[33:32] Speaker 14: Just because a tight end scores a touchdown, that doesn't
[33:34] Speaker 14: mean running backs are slided in any other ball. You know,
[33:37] Speaker 14: We're here for everybody's That's why. Oh that's why I.
[33:42] Speaker 2: Have my tight End Day shirt now and I wrote,
[33:45] Speaker 2: coaches on you out of here.
[33:46] Speaker 14: This is full the tight We can celebrate it, we
[33:49] Speaker 14: can celebrate we can celebrate everybody. Oh but tight ends,
[33:53] Speaker 14: it's their thing. And by the way, it looked like
[33:55] Speaker 14: it was quite a celebration down there in Nashville when
[33:59] Speaker 14: Taylor Swift crashed the party and even performed a song
[34:03] Speaker 14: with George Kittle.
[34:04] Speaker 1: And It's it was a momentous occasion.
[34:06] Speaker 14: Look at Taylor Swift down there performing for everybody. It
[34:10] Speaker 14: was a great It's great to see her down there
[34:12] Speaker 14: doing everything. Speaking of the spectacles that I missed out on.
[34:15] Speaker 1: The NBA draft was.
[34:16] Speaker 14: Held this weekend and what of the name of Sean
[34:18] Speaker 14: mcday and west sneed was going on with the Golden
[34:21] Speaker 14: State Warriors as it looked like there was a heated
[34:23] Speaker 14: exchange after the selection of Axel Landenborg and wait.
[34:27] Speaker 1: Chef, what do we do? We not have footage? We're
[34:29] Speaker 1: espn do we do not have footage? What do you have? Footage? Job?
[34:31] Speaker 8: What can we roll here?
[34:32] Speaker 1: Ship's done a phenomenal job. He really has. No, he's not. No.
[34:36] Speaker 1: I asked for one thing, one thing shop. That's it. Listen,
[34:39] Speaker 1: some of the jokes are just for ourselves. Gus.
[34:42] Speaker 14: Speaking of the draft, shout out to the Chicago Bulls
[34:45] Speaker 14: for making the making it easy on the Second City
[34:48] Speaker 14: sports fans by drafting Caleb Wilson from North Carolina. Yeah,
[34:52] Speaker 14: passing on a few players to let the Bulls take
[34:54] Speaker 14: the guy from North Carolina has worked out very well before.
[34:57] Speaker 14: But no, I would like to applaud the ball for
[35:00] Speaker 14: keeping it in the Caleb family. If we could just
[35:03] Speaker 14: somehow convince sho Heyo Tani to change his name to Caleb,
[35:07] Speaker 14: then Chicago would have it all situated, though, you would
[35:11] Speaker 14: have to be a pretty horrible organization to let Caleb
[35:14] Speaker 14: or to let show Heyo Tani walk.
[35:16] Speaker 1: That's just me.
[35:17] Speaker 14: Anyways, Speaking of Caleb Williams, he had his Iceman trademark
[35:21] Speaker 14: denied by the US Patent in Trademark Office.
[35:24] Speaker 1: Well, you know, George Gerbin was a great basketball player.
[35:27] Speaker 1: He deserves the name. That's what it Wasn't it wasn't
[35:29] Speaker 1: George Kervin. No, that would make sense.
[35:31] Speaker 14: No, it was denied because there might be confusion with
[35:35] Speaker 14: a lacrosse.
[35:36] Speaker 1: Product, like the game Lacrosse. Yes, yes, exactly, Yeah, that's right.
[35:41] Speaker 14: Look, I like American Pie as much as the next guy.
[35:44] Speaker 14: Nobody is confusing Caleb Williams with Chris Astriker.
[35:49] Speaker 1: Nobody's making nobody ever knows, we know who they are.
[35:51] Speaker 1: Do you believe in magic?
[35:53] Speaker 14: Hey, sorry, Disney, somebody's gonna have to pay for that one.
[35:56] Speaker 14: But that leads to our main story. Tonight the Chicago
[36:00] Speaker 14: We'll play host of the Packers. I've settled down on
[36:03] Speaker 14: Christmas this year, and NFL Films has jumped headfirst into
[36:07] Speaker 14: the holiday season when they announced a partnership.
[36:09] Speaker 1: With somebody Hallmark.
[36:10] Speaker 14: I don't know they're gonna team up for holiday touchdown,
[36:14] Speaker 14: a Bears love story. You know who doesn't love this?
[36:18] Speaker 14: Me and scores of other Bears fans around around the world.
[36:22] Speaker 14: And look, there is nobody more Bear centric than me.
[36:26] Speaker 1: This is too far.
[36:27] Speaker 14: I can't imagine there's a thirst to see Zachary Levi
[36:30] Speaker 14: and Lacy Sharbear team up here for a holiday classic.
[36:34] Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
[36:35] Speaker 14: This is a trope that you see in every sports sequel,
[36:38] Speaker 14: from Major League the Bad News Bears to the Mighty Ducks.
[36:42] Speaker 14: There's always a story about some underdog that gets a
[36:45] Speaker 14: small amount of success, they let it go to their
[36:47] Speaker 14: heads and then.
[36:48] Speaker 1: This is it.
[36:48] Speaker 14: They lose their edge and you know who seems to
[36:51] Speaker 14: disagree with me, Ben Johnson, take a look at this.
[36:54] Speaker 1: What's going on, Bears fans? Is Coach Johnson Coachton love here.
[36:57] Speaker 1: We've got some huge news for you, and it's coming Christmas.
[37:00] Speaker 8: The Chicago Bears are teaming up with the Hallmark Channel.
[37:03] Speaker 15: The NFL, and Scott and Sports for a holiday touchdown,
[37:06] Speaker 15: A Bears love story coming this Christmas.
[37:08] Speaker 1: The ones for fans and everybody who rides with us
[37:10] Speaker 1: in Bear Nation.
[37:11] Speaker 15: My wife Jessica and I will definitely be tuning in
[37:13] Speaker 15: for this one more to say soon. Until then, bear down,
[37:16] Speaker 15: bear down?
[37:18] Speaker 14: Oh you know it would be good better best canceling
[37:21] Speaker 14: this movie.
[37:22] Speaker 1: Oh and I feel bad for the coach.
[37:23] Speaker 14: There that that didn't that didn't seem scripted at all.
[37:27] Speaker 1: Seemed very natural, coach.
[37:28] Speaker 14: But listen, if you're being forced to read this against
[37:31] Speaker 14: your will, blink or take off your shirt.
[37:34] Speaker 8: You know all right?
[37:35] Speaker 2: Speaking of shirts, hearing you being upset about the Bears
[37:39] Speaker 2: has me feeling a certain familiar way.
[37:41] Speaker 1: I can't quite what in my finger it? How can
[37:44] Speaker 1: you describe it in another way? Dang it? There it is?
[37:47] Speaker 1: We hat trick shirt? Memed you? How dare you?
[37:52] Speaker 2: Sader's This the thirtieth Manning Passing Academy in Thibodeaux, Louisiana
[37:57] Speaker 2: this week There for twenty eight of them are our
[38:00] Speaker 2: very own Rett Lewis, who gets a chance to go
[38:02] Speaker 2: one on one with Super Bowl champion Eli Manning.
[38:07] Speaker 16: As a two time Emmy Award winner. I feel like
[38:10] Speaker 16: we should take a page out of your playbook a
[38:12] Speaker 16: little bit. We'll go Eli at the movies. Yeah, you
[38:14] Speaker 16: and I sitting down if we're watching a movie about
[38:17] Speaker 16: the thirty year history of the Manning Passing Academy. What
[38:20] Speaker 16: are some of the highlights that we're pulling out and
[38:21] Speaker 16: we're talking about.
[38:22] Speaker 17: I'd say, just the uh, you know, the microphones and
[38:26] Speaker 17: how they've just the time and you used to have
[38:27] Speaker 17: a big microphone. You went to the selfie state for
[38:30] Speaker 17: a while, and now we're into this little No, that's impressive,
[38:35] Speaker 17: But I think it's just it's funny thirty years coming
[38:38] Speaker 17: down here, but still so many of the same characters.
[38:42] Speaker 17: And we had our staff meeting yesterday and coaches standing up, Hey,
[38:44] Speaker 17: this is my twenty eighth year, this is my twenty
[38:46] Speaker 17: second year, and so I mean, you're doing something right.
[38:49] Speaker 17: These coaches from all over the country want to come here,
[38:52] Speaker 17: spend their summer, you know, break and come coach football
[38:56] Speaker 17: in South Louisiana. It means zeh having fun, they're learning,
[39:00] Speaker 17: and we have a great group of college kids that
[39:02] Speaker 17: continue to come in here coaching them up. And so
[39:05] Speaker 17: it is a little bit about family. It is a
[39:06] Speaker 17: little bit of a reunion coming down here every year
[39:09] Speaker 17: and having.
[39:09] Speaker 16: Lots of laughs, but also on the field working hard.
[39:12] Speaker 16: I always tell everybody the college quarterbacks that come here.
[39:14] Speaker 16: You know, this is a big name group as it
[39:16] Speaker 16: usually is, but their first priority is to coach their
[39:19] Speaker 16: group kids, right their high schoolers. But there are some
[39:21] Speaker 16: real benefits for them to be around each other, to
[39:23] Speaker 16: be around you and Peyton and the group. Like, how
[39:25] Speaker 16: do you see their role in what they get out
[39:27] Speaker 16: of us?
[39:27] Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean I think you know we we yesterday we
[39:29] Speaker 17: were on the field with the college guys. We did
[39:31] Speaker 17: you know, kind of an hour hour session last night,
[39:33] Speaker 17: going through drills, doing you know, routes first are you
[39:37] Speaker 17: know they'll do it.
[39:37] Speaker 1: They'll do that again today.
[39:39] Speaker 17: Peyton and I will meet with them tomorrow for an
[39:40] Speaker 17: hour kind of closed room, closed door. Let them ask
[39:43] Speaker 17: questions about anything.
[39:45] Speaker 1: Well, the best way to prepare to get week, you know,
[39:47] Speaker 1: get ready for a week.
[39:48] Speaker 17: I mean, if it's about the combine, it's about the draft,
[39:50] Speaker 17: it's about you know, NFL, whatever it might be. How
[39:53] Speaker 17: to be a great leader, how to you know, get
[39:55] Speaker 17: help the receiver out if he's not playing well? All
[39:57] Speaker 17: these things that they're going through to have Peydon I
[40:00] Speaker 17: two guys that have been through it at every level,
[40:02] Speaker 17: have been in the same uh and their same shoes.
[40:05] Speaker 17: I think it's helpful for them. So it's on the
[40:06] Speaker 17: field stuff, it's off the field, it's sitting having dinner
[40:09] Speaker 17: with them and just kind of you know, just talking.
[40:12] Speaker 17: So paint and I tell hey, anytime you see us,
[40:14] Speaker 17: you have any questions and you know, ask us, take
[40:17] Speaker 17: our number down.
[40:17] Speaker 1: We want to be a resource and help you out.
[40:19] Speaker 17: On your path.
[40:20] Speaker 16: And then you know, maybe you see him on you know,
[40:21] Speaker 16: the Maning Cast on Monday nights. You know, we've seen
[40:23] Speaker 16: plenty of that too, which is cool. Jackson Dart was
[40:27] Speaker 16: was here as a as a can as a counselor.
[40:29] Speaker 16: Now of course, you know with your New York Giants,
[40:32] Speaker 16: like you didn't start every game his rookie year, but
[40:35] Speaker 16: looking to take a jump like you did going into
[40:37] Speaker 16: year two. You guys, what won eleven games in year two?
[40:39] Speaker 16: What do you remember about that time between year one
[40:43] Speaker 16: and year two that allowed that kind of jump.
[40:45] Speaker 17: Well, I think you know, when when you're you know,
[40:47] Speaker 17: coming into the NFL, you're a rookie, you're not the starter.
[40:49] Speaker 17: It's hard to kind of know what your role is.
[40:51] Speaker 17: How do you how do you lead guys? Do you
[40:53] Speaker 17: know your offense completely? I think now going to his
[40:56] Speaker 17: second year, you know, he's gonna have a greater command
[40:59] Speaker 17: of the offense, a greater command of what he needs
[41:02] Speaker 17: to do. How does he need to prepare, How does
[41:04] Speaker 17: he watch film? How is he going to watch the
[41:07] Speaker 17: Blitz pick up and figure out how.
[41:09] Speaker 1: To change protection.
[41:10] Speaker 17: So kind of knowing how teams played him in the
[41:12] Speaker 17: games that he played so they can prepare for that
[41:14] Speaker 17: to have answers for that next year. So I think
[41:16] Speaker 17: it just helps you from the leadership side and just
[41:19] Speaker 17: from the preparation side.
[41:20] Speaker 8: Of knowing what to expect.
[41:22] Speaker 1: Thanks Buddy, all right, rach I appreciate.
[41:25] Speaker 2: Good to have those two reunited. We're back with Judy
[41:27] Speaker 2: Batista on the Insiders as the Giants until the twenty eighth.
[41:31] Speaker 2: They will get ready for training camp, and Jackson Dart's
[41:34] Speaker 2: gonna have to do all those things Eli just talked about.
[41:39] Speaker 4: I hope what Eli maybe talk to Jackson part about
[41:42] Speaker 4: is staying on the field as much as Eli was
[41:45] Speaker 4: able to stay on the field during his career. You
[41:46] Speaker 4: remember Eli didn't miss a start until they benched him
[41:50] Speaker 4: late in his career at the New York Giants. Jackson
[41:53] Speaker 4: Dart has had trouble with injuries already. He takes a beating,
[41:57] Speaker 4: he puts himself in harm's way. I know John Harbaugh
[42:00] Speaker 4: want him to stay on the field and to learn
[42:02] Speaker 4: to protect himself more so, hopefully he can take a
[42:04] Speaker 4: page from Eli Manning in that department too.
[42:07] Speaker 2: Yeah, Eli wasn't necessarily running a lot of QB power
[42:10] Speaker 2: like Jackson. Dart was some of it on his own
[42:12] Speaker 2: volition last year in Brian Dables' offense. We will take
[42:16] Speaker 2: a break. The Insiders will return on July sixth, coming
[42:21] Speaker 2: back here on NFL Network. We hope you enjoy your
[42:24] Speaker 2: break away from us, but we'll be right back here
[42:26] Speaker 2: with all of the football news and information as we
[42:28] Speaker 2: get set for training. Care for Judy Batissa, Steve Weish,
[42:31] Speaker 2: Jane Slater, and Adam Rink. I'm Patrick Claybount. Thanks for
[42:34] Speaker 2: watching The Insiders. We'll see you after the fourth bye.
[42:38] Speaker 6: Brodie, come a good weekd

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