# The Insiders Podcast: 2026 International Game Schedule, NFC West Offseason To Do List, and Tyler Conklin Joins the Insiders

An episode of [NFL: The Insiders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1543090622), 14 May 2026, 43 min.

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NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport is joined by Brian Baldinger and Marc Ross to breakdown the 2026 international game schedule. Then, Lions tight end Tyler Conklin calls in to discuss Detroit's season outlook; Stacey Dales, Marc Ross, and Brian Baldinger unpack ''The Offseason To Do List” for each team in the NFC West division; and Michael F Florio gives his fantasy analysis of the Cardinals offensive playmakers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: The full International slave for twenty twenty six has been revealed.
[0:12] Speaker 1: Sixteen teams, seven different countries, a lot of TV sets,
[0:17] Speaker 1: a lot of tablets and devices, and we are going
[0:19] Speaker 1: to watch some football in twenty twenty six. The NFC
[0:22] Speaker 1: West was the toughest division in football last year, and
[0:25] Speaker 1: at the mid my point of this offseason, we highlight
[0:27] Speaker 1: the biggest priorities for each team to dethrone the champs.
[0:31] Speaker 1: That's the Seahawks in case you forgot plus Tidan and
[0:34] Speaker 1: Tyler Conklin is now Detroit and he's on our show.
[0:37] Speaker 1: He is now on our show here with the new
[0:39] Speaker 1: line has to say about playing with his new QB.
[0:43] Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Welcome inside with the Insiders, Ian Rapport here,
[0:48] Speaker 1: Judabatista there. This is presented by Verizon and generally we
[0:53] Speaker 1: do right now show you something new, and we got
[0:57] Speaker 1: a lot of new things for you today. Notably, the
[1:01] Speaker 1: nine international games have been revealed for twenty twenty six.
[1:05] Speaker 1: We got forty nine Ers Rams in Australia. That's a
[1:07] Speaker 1: new one. We got a Paris game, Steelers Saints. That
[1:10] Speaker 1: is a fun one. We talked to the Saints a
[1:12] Speaker 1: couple of months ago about that forty nine Ers, Rams
[1:14] Speaker 1: in Mexico excellent Back in Mexico, Ravens Cowboys in Reo.
[1:19] Speaker 1: A lot on the table for an awesome international slate.
[1:23] Speaker 1: More on that in a second. First, November twenty fifth
[1:27] Speaker 1: is a special day. Usually this is the day before
[1:31] Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Judy Batista, where everybody goes to a bar. They
[1:35] Speaker 1: meet all the people they used to know in high school.
[1:37] Speaker 1: They come back, they talk, and then whatever happens happens.
[1:40] Speaker 1: Our good friend Kyle Brand calls this the makeout Olympics. Okay,
[1:43] Speaker 1: it is Wednesday before Thanksgiving. This year, more importantly, it
[1:48] Speaker 1: is a Rams Packers game on Netflix. The night before Thanksgiving,
[1:53] Speaker 1: we have football. How in favor are you of this?
[1:59] Speaker 2: I am there in favor of this because it just
[2:01] Speaker 2: expands the holiday. I love Thanksgiving, by the way, So
[2:04] Speaker 2: this just expands what has already been sort of an
[2:07] Speaker 2: NFL holiday weekend. Of course, Thanksgiving has always been an
[2:11] Speaker 2: NFL holiday. A few years ago they added the Black
[2:14] Speaker 2: Friday Game, and now they're going to Thanksgiving Eve. First
[2:17] Speaker 2: of all, I would say, once we got through the
[2:19] Speaker 2: COVID season and we saw the NFL able to play
[2:21] Speaker 2: on practically any day of the week. You knew that
[2:24] Speaker 2: once they cracked the code on how to do that
[2:26] Speaker 2: with the schedule, that they would eventually be playing more
[2:28] Speaker 2: games on Wednesdays. We have two of them this year,
[2:31] Speaker 2: including the one that starts the season. But this Wednesday
[2:35] Speaker 2: game kicks off a big holiday weekend. And of course,
[2:37] Speaker 2: if you want to establish a new special game in
[2:40] Speaker 2: the NFL, you have to do it with a huge
[2:42] Speaker 2: matchup right out of the gate. Packers Rams. These are
[2:46] Speaker 2: two teams that should be contending in the NFC. I
[2:49] Speaker 2: mean the Rams are going to go into the season
[2:51] Speaker 2: as one of the Super Bowl favorites. Stars all over
[2:54] Speaker 2: the place on both teams. This is a great way
[2:56] Speaker 2: to kick off the Thanksgiving eve id.
[3:00] Speaker 1: Yeah, and like, if you think about it, what else
[3:03] Speaker 1: are we doing? I mean there's family around, but like
[3:05] Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't you rather I'm not saying me other people,
[3:08] Speaker 1: wouldn't you rather just watch football than talk to family?
[3:11] Speaker 1: Family is great, but football is also great. And I
[3:14] Speaker 1: think what the NFL has really done, Judy, and you
[3:16] Speaker 1: explained to perfectly will is show us that if there
[3:19] Speaker 1: is a standalone game in a window where our options
[3:22] Speaker 1: are sit and chill or be at a bar, with
[3:24] Speaker 1: your high school sweetheart or watch football. You were going
[3:27] Speaker 1: to choose watch football. And so really, what the NFL
[3:30] Speaker 1: has done is create an entire landscape of holiday football
[3:35] Speaker 1: games from Wednesday many three this year, Thursday on Thanksgiving obviously,
[3:39] Speaker 1: have the Black Friday game on Friday, and then all
[3:42] Speaker 1: of the Sunday games. It is everything I could ever
[3:44] Speaker 1: want out of a holiday, which, really, we're being honest,
[3:48] Speaker 1: is just football. So there you go, good job, NFL.
[3:51] Speaker 1: I'm here for all this. We also showed you right
[3:53] Speaker 1: before this the pretty sweet international slate juty nine games
[3:59] Speaker 1: this year international. What did you make of that? And
[4:03] Speaker 1: kind of give me the broader first and then what
[4:06] Speaker 1: game stands out for you?
[4:07] Speaker 2: Well, first of all, nine games internationally is a high
[4:10] Speaker 2: water mark so far for the NFL. Sixteen teams are
[4:14] Speaker 2: going to be playing an international game, so that's fully
[4:16] Speaker 2: half the league. We know that the goal of the
[4:19] Speaker 2: league is eventually to be playing a full sixteen game
[4:22] Speaker 2: slate of international games, so that every team, all thirty
[4:25] Speaker 2: two would be playing internationally every year.
[4:29] Speaker 3: We probably are.
[4:30] Speaker 2: Going to have to wait until the schedule goes to
[4:33] Speaker 2: eighteen regular season games before we get there. But you
[4:35] Speaker 2: can see incrementally. The NFL is growing the international slate
[4:40] Speaker 2: year after year. One of the new games that's been
[4:43] Speaker 2: added this year is in Paris. They have never played
[4:45] Speaker 2: in France before. It is the Saints as the host team,
[4:49] Speaker 2: not surprised with links to France, and to make it
[4:52] Speaker 2: a really huge game, they sent the Steelers to play
[4:56] Speaker 2: in Paris. With the Saints, Steelers incredible fan base, they
[5:01] Speaker 2: travel well there. Probably we think going to have a
[5:04] Speaker 2: superstar playing quarterback this year, so this is another blockbuster
[5:10] Speaker 2: game in the international slate.
[5:12] Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Mexico City game. You know,
[5:14] Speaker 1: it's been a minute since the NFL was back in
[5:16] Speaker 1: Mexico City. I believe it's been four years, either three
[5:18] Speaker 1: or four the NFL has not been there, and I think,
[5:21] Speaker 1: you know, there's some reason, stadium reasons, and there have
[5:24] Speaker 1: been some other extenuating circumstances over the year. This is
[5:27] Speaker 1: an awesome place to watch a football game, and I
[5:29] Speaker 1: know it's one of those places that when you tune
[5:32] Speaker 1: in on TV, you can really feel the atmosphere. And
[5:35] Speaker 1: you know, this year forty nine Ers vikings right in
[5:38] Speaker 1: the middle of the season, we're going to know a
[5:39] Speaker 1: lot now, I would expect the forty nine ers to
[5:41] Speaker 1: be let's say, basically like they are every year, which
[5:44] Speaker 1: is in contention with superstars all around. It's really going
[5:47] Speaker 1: to be the Vikings that are more interesting. Is this
[5:49] Speaker 1: Kyler Murray? Is this JJ McCarthy? How good is this
[5:53] Speaker 1: Vikings team? And what can they show us on a
[5:55] Speaker 1: national stage? On an international stage, I should say that
[5:59] Speaker 1: is going to be a fun one in Mexico City.
[6:02] Speaker 1: So far as the entire schedule release, well we got
[6:05] Speaker 1: some fun stuff for you tomorrow. Get ready for the
[6:06] Speaker 1: NFL season with the highly intimated twenty twenty six NFL
[6:10] Speaker 1: schedule release every rivalry, every matchup, but every rookie debut,
[6:15] Speaker 1: with matchups locked and kickoffs confirmed. Catch every can't miss moment.
[6:20] Speaker 1: NFL schedule release on NFL Network, ESPN and the ESPN
[6:24] Speaker 1: app tomorrow at eight pm Eastern Following the Insiders, Judy,
[6:30] Speaker 1: now it.
[6:30] Speaker 2: Is time for schedule release a coverage by Verizon. Let's
[6:34] Speaker 2: bring in a Baldi and Mark Ross to talk more
[6:37] Speaker 2: about the international slate. All right, Baldy, I want to
[6:40] Speaker 2: start with you because I know you have a very
[6:42] Speaker 2: specific game in mind.
[6:44] Speaker 4: You want to talk about what is it?
[6:46] Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean just start there week one.
[6:48] Speaker 6: And you know, as a citizen of the world, Judy,
[6:51] Speaker 6: I have been through many countries. I've played a football
[6:54] Speaker 6: game in Japan, I have visited Australia, New Zealand.
[6:59] Speaker 5: And when you isn't.
[7:00] Speaker 6: Those countries, you cross the international dateline, you actually skip
[7:03] Speaker 6: a day go ahead, but you also did hit by
[7:06] Speaker 6: this massive jetlag that comes over you. And I don't
[7:11] Speaker 6: get it going anywhere else in world, but when you
[7:12] Speaker 6: cross that dateline, you're going to hit jetlag. And so
[7:16] Speaker 6: I'm interested to see how the players, the coaches, the
[7:19] Speaker 6: staff adjust to playing down Under, and it is going
[7:23] Speaker 6: to affect some different than others. And there's no nothing
[7:27] Speaker 6: that you can actually take to escape it. You just
[7:29] Speaker 6: got to fight it. So I'm just giving their warning
[7:32] Speaker 6: to the forty nine ers of RAMS week one that
[7:35] Speaker 6: jetlag may hit you when you land down under.
[7:39] Speaker 3: Great point Baldy, and I'm a world traveler as well,
[7:41] Speaker 3: but also with the New York Giants, we travel to
[7:44] Speaker 3: London for the very first international regular season game in
[7:48] Speaker 3: two thousand and seven at Wembley Stadium. It was raining,
[7:51] Speaker 3: the field wasn't ready was still for soccer. Those big
[7:53] Speaker 3: guys tore that field up and we are ready to
[7:56] Speaker 3: get home. Well, I just want to talk about the
[7:57] Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars and their schedule this year where they play
[8:02] Speaker 3: back to back games in October, first against Philadelphia and
[8:06] Speaker 3: then against Houston. And this will be the third time
[8:09] Speaker 3: that Jacksonville will go play a game, stay in London
[8:12] Speaker 3: and then go play another game. There were two and
[8:14] Speaker 3: oh in twenty three and one in one in twenty four,
[8:18] Speaker 3: so it seems to not have an effect on them.
[8:20] Speaker 3: But I guarantee, Baldy, you talking about the jet lag
[8:23] Speaker 3: and whatnot, that those players definitely aren't really fond of
[8:27] Speaker 3: doing it. The staff not really fond of doing it.
[8:29] Speaker 3: Of course, it's all about the money and the ownership
[8:31] Speaker 3: wanting to do that. But overall, if the players and
[8:33] Speaker 3: staff had to vote to say let's get on back home.
[8:36] Speaker 6: Mark week three, the Baltimore Ravens are going to play
[8:40] Speaker 6: the Dallas in Rio dejan Ero.
[8:42] Speaker 2: Now.
[8:42] Speaker 6: They played a game in Brazil two years ago in
[8:45] Speaker 6: sam Paulo. Sam Paulo is a work city, It's massive.
[8:48] Speaker 6: Rio is a party city. I've been to Mona Kanas
[8:51] Speaker 6: Stadium for World Cup for regular season soccer I'm telling
[8:55] Speaker 6: you the Cowboys and the Raven fans that go to
[8:59] Speaker 6: this game, they're gonna get hit by a World Cup
[9:02] Speaker 6: fever atmosphere combined with a safe fear type of you know, fun.
[9:08] Speaker 6: This is going to be an atmosphere that nobody will
[9:10] Speaker 6: ever forget and they will remember for a lifetime.
[9:14] Speaker 5: Those flags will be flying.
[9:16] Speaker 6: They know how to throw a party in real like
[9:19] Speaker 6: no other city in the world.
[9:21] Speaker 5: It's going to be very festive.
[9:24] Speaker 3: I just want to hear more about I've been to
[9:25] Speaker 3: Rigo Baldi, the team's security. The team security gonna be
[9:28] Speaker 3: working overtime with that curfew, Judia. Sorry about that. I
[9:31] Speaker 3: just wanted to get that in there as well. Not
[9:32] Speaker 3: just the fay as that team security, that's for sure.
[9:37] Speaker 4: Guys, thank you very much.
[9:38] Speaker 3: You'll be back later. Ian.
[9:41] Speaker 1: Speaking of parties, I love parties. It would be so
[9:44] Speaker 1: fun to go to an international game, but I've never
[9:46] Speaker 1: been to one. The Seahawks party hasn't ended since wing
[9:49] Speaker 1: Super Bowl six. Ye I remember that I was there.
[9:52] Speaker 1: But now they are back at work running routes and
[9:55] Speaker 1: some slow mo some regular speed. They're the champs. They
[9:58] Speaker 1: can do whatever they want. It is now time for
[10:00] Speaker 1: the NFC West off season to do list, like to
[10:04] Speaker 1: welcome in. Well, Baldy is back. You just saw him
[10:06] Speaker 1: one second go. Stacey Dalls joins us. What's up, Stacy,
[10:09] Speaker 1: thank you for hanging out with us. I'm going to
[10:11] Speaker 1: go through the Seahawks off season priority list. Hit us
[10:15] Speaker 1: with it.
[10:15] Speaker 3: What do you got?
[10:16] Speaker 1: What is the Seahawks priority going forward?
[10:19] Speaker 7: Let's get to it.
[10:20] Speaker 8: But I am curious what a passport looks like to
[10:22] Speaker 8: be a citizen of the world, Baldy.
[10:24] Speaker 7: We'll revisit that later.
[10:25] Speaker 8: These Seahawks are going to continue to chase edges under
[10:28] Speaker 8: Mike McDonald. They're going to continue to have a dark
[10:30] Speaker 8: side defensively, but offensively, what are they going to look
[10:33] Speaker 8: like with Sam Darnold returning with the eighth rank total
[10:37] Speaker 8: offense from last season, third best scoring offense in a
[10:40] Speaker 8: brand new offensive coordinator that would be Brian Fleury. Spent
[10:43] Speaker 8: the last seven seasons with San Francisco comes by way
[10:46] Speaker 8: of being the tight ends coach and the run game coordinator. Now,
[10:49] Speaker 8: he has said multiple times on this to do list,
[10:52] Speaker 8: they want to keep things similar to what they did
[10:55] Speaker 8: with their Super Bowl run.
[10:57] Speaker 7: They want to maintain a lot of the.
[10:58] Speaker 8: Same principles, and certainly they want to.
[11:02] Speaker 7: Add those supplementary elements to.
[11:05] Speaker 8: The offense with a heavy emphasis in the run game
[11:08] Speaker 8: with Brian Fleury because he was the run game coordinator,
[11:11] Speaker 8: and most specifically Baldy. They want to get back to
[11:16] Speaker 8: using these running backs out of the backfield. Jadarian Price
[11:21] Speaker 8: will kick things off for them. Zach Charbonay probably not
[11:23] Speaker 8: going to be ready to start the season, but what
[11:26] Speaker 8: a pick they got at thirty second overall in and
[11:29] Speaker 8: out of the backfield with Price Stacey.
[11:32] Speaker 6: It's Brian Floury is a very very good coach, been
[11:34] Speaker 6: around him a long time. I think the other factor
[11:37] Speaker 6: to consider here is anytime you're the champion, you got
[11:40] Speaker 6: to target on your back. But they weren't just any champion.
[11:44] Speaker 6: They won the last ten games in a row. They
[11:46] Speaker 6: were seventeen and three as a team. Every team is
[11:50] Speaker 6: going to be going for them, and so I just
[11:52] Speaker 6: think it's they're now the champions.
[11:54] Speaker 5: They're not climbing the mountain. They're at the top of
[11:57] Speaker 5: the mountain.
[11:57] Speaker 6: Everybody will be saying, no matter who they are, they're
[12:00] Speaker 6: gonna be looking at Seattle.
[12:01] Speaker 5: We took down the champion. We take them down. We
[12:04] Speaker 5: can beat anybody. They're gonna get everybody's best effort week in,
[12:08] Speaker 5: week out.
[12:08] Speaker 6: And that's Mike McDonald's challenge right now to keep this
[12:12] Speaker 6: team hungry.
[12:13] Speaker 5: They're the way they were. They used that moniker last year,
[12:15] Speaker 5: Stacey the dark Side.
[12:17] Speaker 6: It was great. We all kind of fed into it
[12:19] Speaker 6: and the players did. Is there another moniker this year?
[12:22] Speaker 6: Is there another tarrot that they can dangle to keep
[12:25] Speaker 6: them as motivated and focused as they were a year
[12:28] Speaker 6: ago on their way to winning Super Bowl sixty.
[12:31] Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. On paper, they looked just as
[12:33] Speaker 1: good as they did last year, maybe better. Do they
[12:36] Speaker 1: have that drive to get there? Obviously? Great questions, guys,
[12:40] Speaker 1: great stuff, Thank you so much. The Seahawks get the
[12:44] Speaker 1: sort of luxurious champion treatment we're gonna get to the
[12:46] Speaker 1: other teams in the NFC West. Off Season two is
[12:50] Speaker 1: for Cardinals, Rams and forty nine Ers coming up in
[12:53] Speaker 1: just a little bit. But first, well, coming up first,
[12:57] Speaker 1: new lines tight end Tyler Konko and joins the show.
[13:01] Speaker 1: That is going to be a good one coming up
[13:03] Speaker 1: next to.
[13:03] Speaker 9: The Insiders, there's the family right there.
[13:14] Speaker 1: As Tyler Conklin signs his new deal with the Detroit Lions,
[13:17] Speaker 1: a whole family of new members of the Lions organization.
[13:22] Speaker 1: Very cool and obviously very important signing for the Lions
[13:25] Speaker 1: offense and the entire organization. And also our guest right
[13:28] Speaker 1: here right now on the Insiders, Tyler, thank you very
[13:32] Speaker 1: much for joining us on the Insiders. We've got a
[13:35] Speaker 1: lot to get a lot to get to with you,
[13:37] Speaker 1: but I want to start at June twenty seventh at
[13:40] Speaker 1: Lanscruise High School. That is the twenty twenty sixth version
[13:44] Speaker 1: of the Tyler Conklin Foundation Youth Football Day at Youth
[13:47] Speaker 1: Football Camp and community Day. Why don't you tell us
[13:51] Speaker 1: about what you have done with your camp, with your foundation,
[13:54] Speaker 1: which I believe is the first time in the Michigan
[13:57] Speaker 1: area for you.
[13:59] Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
[14:01] Speaker 10: Yeah, So the foundation I started last year, and throughout
[14:04] Speaker 10: my career, I always like, you know, when I was
[14:06] Speaker 10: in Minnesota, it was a lot of older guys. Everybody
[14:07] Speaker 10: had a foundation, Adam Field, Kyle Rudolph, and there's always
[14:10] Speaker 10: something I wanted to do, but obviously for a long
[14:14] Speaker 10: time just trying to figure out how to how to
[14:15] Speaker 10: survive in the NFL.
[14:16] Speaker 11: So last year I feel like I.
[14:18] Speaker 10: Was, you know, in a good situation to kind of
[14:19] Speaker 10: kick it off and uh, you know, our mission, our
[14:23] Speaker 10: goal is to you know, support our community and mentor
[14:26] Speaker 10: our youth through athletics and the you know, our camp
[14:30] Speaker 10: slash Community Days is one of those kind of annual
[14:32] Speaker 10: events that you know, we we host trying to bring
[14:35] Speaker 10: the community together, you know, obviously for football with two
[14:38] Speaker 10: different uh you know camps, one for younger kids, one
[14:42] Speaker 10: for older kids, but also just with a lot of
[14:43] Speaker 10: fun things, whether it's we got cornhall, basketball, face painting,
[14:46] Speaker 10: bouncy houses, food trucks, really just trying to make it
[14:49] Speaker 10: a day where we can get people in the community,
[14:52] Speaker 10: whether it's you know, you're come because your kids are
[14:53] Speaker 10: in the camp, or you're.
[14:54] Speaker 11: Just coming to hang out with you know, kids, you know.
[14:58] Speaker 10: Families, whatever it may be, and just kind of try
[15:01] Speaker 10: to create something that people look forward to in the summer.
[15:05] Speaker 2: It's especially cool since you're from Michigan, you grew up there,
[15:09] Speaker 2: you went to college there, and now you're back. How
[15:11] Speaker 2: meaningful is that to you to be back in Michigan
[15:13] Speaker 2: now at this point in your career.
[15:15] Speaker 11: Yeah, that's awesome.
[15:18] Speaker 10: And I guess I never really thought I would play here,
[15:20] Speaker 10: but it is a really cool, kind of full circle moment.
[15:22] Speaker 11: The way things have kind of played out over the
[15:24] Speaker 11: last couple.
[15:24] Speaker 10: Of years, you know, good and bad, the way you
[15:27] Speaker 10: kind of look at things and just wonder. You know,
[15:29] Speaker 10: a firm believer everything happens for a reason, and it
[15:31] Speaker 10: always kind of has throughout my career, and to be
[15:34] Speaker 10: back here, it just kind of feels like everything happened
[15:37] Speaker 10: when it was supposed to do.
[15:39] Speaker 1: You're a late round draft pick, and obviously the Detroit Lions,
[15:42] Speaker 1: like a lot of teams, have the draft picks all
[15:44] Speaker 1: coming in. You guys are going to join together and
[15:46] Speaker 1: OTAs pretty soon. There's several of them who are trying
[15:49] Speaker 1: to make it in the NFL. You are a success
[15:52] Speaker 1: story entering I believe it is your ninth season, eighth
[15:55] Speaker 1: or ninth whatever it is in the NFL. Several teams
[15:58] Speaker 1: still doing it. Still a key memory of an organization.
[16:02] Speaker 1: What advice would you have to some of their Are
[16:05] Speaker 1: are you going to have for some of these new
[16:07] Speaker 1: laid round draft picks trying to make it like you did?
[16:10] Speaker 10: Yeah, going to your nine Right when I first got
[16:13] Speaker 10: an NFL was like, how can I play a decade?
[16:15] Speaker 11: I don't know why?
[16:16] Speaker 10: You know, obviously it sounds good as always kind of
[16:17] Speaker 10: a goal of me, and I think that's kind of
[16:19] Speaker 10: a big thing throughout my career has been, you know,
[16:22] Speaker 10: setting goals and then creating systems.
[16:24] Speaker 11: To kind of reach those goals.
[16:25] Speaker 10: And you know, that would probably be my advice, right, Like,
[16:28] Speaker 10: I think systems overall, you know, the way you go
[16:30] Speaker 10: about your recovery, the way you go.
[16:31] Speaker 11: About practice, studying a playbook.
[16:34] Speaker 10: You know, all those different things I think or what
[16:36] Speaker 10: have really helped me, you know, get to year nine.
[16:39] Speaker 11: I think being a.
[16:40] Speaker 10: Walk on in college, you know, played a lot played
[16:43] Speaker 10: into that too. Just knowing how to take advantage of opportunities,
[16:47] Speaker 10: you know when they're a little more slim maybe than
[16:49] Speaker 10: some other people. But yeah, I think it's all about
[16:52] Speaker 10: your systems. And you know a lot of times, keeping
[16:54] Speaker 10: your mouth shut and doing things the right way earn
[16:57] Speaker 10: your stripes. And you know, I think that's kind of
[17:00] Speaker 10: what's having here.
[17:03] Speaker 2: You and Drew Petsing overlapped earlier in your career, right
[17:06] Speaker 2: with the Vikings.
[17:06] Speaker 3: What what is he told you?
[17:08] Speaker 2: What if the folks in the organization told you about
[17:09] Speaker 2: how they plan to use you this year?
[17:12] Speaker 10: Yes, when I first got there, coach, Pessingan's assistant receiver
[17:15] Speaker 10: coach in eighteen and nineteen. Uh, you know, I was
[17:17] Speaker 10: just swim and trying to figure out how to how
[17:19] Speaker 10: to last. You know, honestly, I haven't really sat down.
[17:24] Speaker 10: I can't stay sat down and said, Hey, how are
[17:25] Speaker 10: you going to use me? How's this going to how's
[17:27] Speaker 10: this going to work out? I think for me, it's
[17:29] Speaker 10: more so I've been looking forward to coming here and
[17:31] Speaker 10: showing you know, what I can do on a football,
[17:33] Speaker 10: But I take every time I go somewhere I can
[17:36] Speaker 10: you know, I kind of surprise you with what I
[17:37] Speaker 10: can do. And I think a lot of times, especially
[17:39] Speaker 10: the tight end position, really all positions, it's just you know,
[17:43] Speaker 10: what's the situation. Does it fit you where they're asking
[17:45] Speaker 10: you to do or they helping you be in good situations?
[17:47] Speaker 1: Uh?
[17:48] Speaker 10: For me, it's like, how can I, you know, get
[17:50] Speaker 10: out in the field and play meaningful snatch and help
[17:52] Speaker 10: his team win and get to where you know they
[17:54] Speaker 10: want to go and we want to go. And you know,
[17:57] Speaker 10: I think in a lot of ways I can do
[17:59] Speaker 10: that with things that they've seen me do on film
[18:02] Speaker 10: and also in you know ways and things I'll show
[18:04] Speaker 10: him in practice where maybe they didn't know I could
[18:06] Speaker 10: do that, but I'll be able to.
[18:08] Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. Last year with the Chargers, you got Jared got.
[18:11] Speaker 1: This year with the Detroit Lions, you played with some
[18:13] Speaker 1: other good ones. But what do you expect?
[18:16] Speaker 3: What have you seen?
[18:17] Speaker 1: If you've seen anything thus far? Up Jared Got the
[18:20] Speaker 1: trigger man of this Detroit Lions offense.
[18:23] Speaker 11: Yeah, I obviously haven't been here too long, that's you
[18:25] Speaker 11: know yet.
[18:26] Speaker 10: But routs on air and just kind of the incident
[18:29] Speaker 10: meetings and the way he goes about things.
[18:32] Speaker 11: I think is what's stuck.
[18:33] Speaker 10: O mean, doesn't really catches the ball super accurate, but
[18:36] Speaker 10: just kind of the way he talks about whether it's
[18:38] Speaker 10: a certain route or you know, how he wants something done,
[18:40] Speaker 10: or how he sees something. If you know someone plays
[18:42] Speaker 10: you this way and how you should have run it,
[18:45] Speaker 10: you know, I think that's something. You know, some quarterbacks
[18:47] Speaker 10: are just hey, like go get open and you know,
[18:50] Speaker 10: do what the play says, and some give you a
[18:51] Speaker 10: little more detail. And so far as the way he
[18:53] Speaker 10: kind of detail stands up and you know, explains how he.
[18:56] Speaker 11: Sees things, I think makes it really uh makes it excited.
[19:00] Speaker 10: As a running in a pass gescher, but it also
[19:02] Speaker 10: just you know, helps you have a cohesive unit.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Last season was kind of a disappointment for the Lions
[19:08] Speaker 2: after they had been to the playoffs two straight season,
[19:11] Speaker 2: they missed the playoffs. They still have a really high
[19:13] Speaker 2: powered offense. So what have you seen just in the
[19:16] Speaker 2: limited time you've been there about maybe their mindset about
[19:19] Speaker 2: going into the season where they feel like they fit
[19:21] Speaker 2: into what is an extremely competitive division and an extremely
[19:25] Speaker 2: competitive conference.
[19:27] Speaker 10: Yeah, I definitely you can feel the disappointment in how
[19:30] Speaker 10: things played out. I think, you know, the whole building
[19:33] Speaker 10: feels like they you know, underachieved and missing the playoffs
[19:38] Speaker 10: really hurt. And you know, I think that shows and
[19:42] Speaker 10: how everybody comes to work every day, how everybody attacks working.
[19:44] Speaker 11: Our lists are are running or on the field stuff.
[19:49] Speaker 10: It's definitely something that I've been in a mix of
[19:52] Speaker 10: different situations started my career, rather as in Minnesota New York,
[19:56] Speaker 10: and you can definitely just feel the sense of urgency
[19:58] Speaker 10: of you know, getting to where this team knows it
[20:01] Speaker 10: can be.
[20:02] Speaker 1: All right, I got an important one. So tomorrow is
[20:05] Speaker 1: schedule release day. We spent last year with the Chargers.
[20:09] Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, one of the better
[20:11] Speaker 1: social media teams in the NFL. This is their time, right,
[20:15] Speaker 1: This is the social media team's time to put out
[20:17] Speaker 1: their videos for these schedules. The line do an excellent
[20:20] Speaker 1: job on digital and social as well. How excited are
[20:24] Speaker 1: you and what have you learned from your various times
[20:26] Speaker 1: with some pretty good social teams about what in the
[20:29] Speaker 1: world is coming tomorrow night?
[20:31] Speaker 11: Yeah, I feel like it's got more.
[20:32] Speaker 10: I don't remember it being a thing when I first
[20:34] Speaker 10: got in the NFL, and I think over the last
[20:36] Speaker 10: couple of years it's kind of just like become this thing.
[20:38] Speaker 11: Who can have the best schedule retlease.
[20:40] Speaker 10: I'm also just really excited for people to stop asking, Hey,
[20:43] Speaker 10: what's your guys' schedule?
[20:44] Speaker 11: Act like I have some type.
[20:46] Speaker 10: Of too good knowledge of who we play and when
[20:49] Speaker 10: we play and when we go to Germany and all
[20:51] Speaker 10: these different things. So I'm excited for the schedule to
[20:53] Speaker 10: come out and people to stop asking me questions I
[20:56] Speaker 10: don't have the answers to. But yeah, Chargers that have
[21:00] Speaker 10: a really good social media team. Uh, but I think
[21:04] Speaker 10: I think Detroit may have a real good one the ship.
[21:07] Speaker 2: Speaking of social media, I saw that you are taking
[21:10] Speaker 2: jiu jitsu lessons.
[21:12] Speaker 1: What are you getting out of that?
[21:15] Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I've kind of gone down a little bit
[21:17] Speaker 10: of a rabbit hole, which is martial arts in general,
[21:19] Speaker 10: the jiu jitsu, more Thai boxing, and I just think
[21:22] Speaker 10: there's a lot of things that you know, it can translate,
[21:25] Speaker 10: whether it's hand fighting, the cardio, the you know jiu
[21:28] Speaker 10: jitsu really with like just like fighting leverage and you know,
[21:32] Speaker 10: winning the hand fights and hand battles. It's also just
[21:36] Speaker 10: kind of a fun way to break up training and
[21:39] Speaker 10: maybe kind of take out some of the monotony of
[21:42] Speaker 10: just doing the same thing over and over again as
[21:44] Speaker 10: my career you know, goes on. So yeah, I mean,
[21:47] Speaker 10: marshal arts in general has been something I've I've kind
[21:49] Speaker 10: of dabbled in this offseason and really enjoyed it.
[21:53] Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, man, get to your ten, hit your goal,
[21:56] Speaker 1: and keep on going. Tyler, thank you very much for
[21:59] Speaker 1: your time. Appreciate you joining us on the Insiders and
[22:02] Speaker 1: enjoy your foundation in camp. That sounds excellent. Appreciate you man.
[22:06] Speaker 11: Also, thank you guys, really appreciate it.
[22:09] Speaker 1: Will arned today that the NFL's international slate for the
[22:13] Speaker 1: twenty twenty sixth season is pretty awesome. Nine games, a
[22:17] Speaker 1: lot of teams. Uh, And they're right. There is a
[22:20] Speaker 1: visual representation of where in the actual world, like literally
[22:24] Speaker 1: the world all the games are. That's a really cool map.
[22:27] Speaker 1: What a fun, fun international schedule we got coming up?
[22:31] Speaker 1: We also gonna have some fun in this, as they
[22:33] Speaker 1: say new tradition packers at rams Thanksgiving Eve. What am
[22:38] Speaker 1: I going to be doing? I don't know, watching football,
[22:41] Speaker 1: maybe having a drink, all of the things I love
[22:43] Speaker 1: the most on this holiday.
[22:44] Speaker 10: Go.
[22:44] Speaker 1: This is gonna be great anyway, NFC wes off season
[22:47] Speaker 1: to do list coming up. I'm here. Ian Rappaport, Judy Bautista,
[22:51] Speaker 1: Stacy DALs, and Mark Ross join us as well. Stacey,
[22:55] Speaker 1: I want to get to you want to see if
[22:57] Speaker 1: you could lay out the Los Angeles rams os and
[23:00] Speaker 1: priorities if you like. You can also talk about how
[23:03] Speaker 1: much you like to have a drink and watch football
[23:06] Speaker 1: like I do.
[23:09] Speaker 7: I wouldn't mind it. That would be enjoyable.
[23:11] Speaker 8: I typically work on the weekends, So Ian, let's talk
[23:14] Speaker 8: about the rams, or I should say the holidays. Let's
[23:16] Speaker 8: talk about the rams, right? What's there to do list?
[23:19] Speaker 8: Have us suggest them do well? Better, the best offense
[23:22] Speaker 8: in football. Number one total, number one scoring, number one passing.
[23:25] Speaker 8: They were even seventh running the football. Cliff Kingsbury's there
[23:29] Speaker 8: is the assistant head coach. There's some new ideas there
[23:31] Speaker 8: for Sean McVay, but he has consistently this offseason talked
[23:34] Speaker 8: about what is the next iteration of this offense.
[23:38] Speaker 7: And when you look at their draft.
[23:40] Speaker 8: Now forget about the fact that they took Ty Simpson
[23:43] Speaker 8: thirteenth overall. He has made it very clear this is
[23:45] Speaker 8: Matthew Stafford's team until Matthew doesn't want to play football anymore.
[23:48] Speaker 8: But the next two picks, Max Clear the tight end
[23:51] Speaker 8: in the second round, and Keegan trust was another offensive
[23:55] Speaker 8: lineman they've added now to help Matthew Stafford. And then
[23:58] Speaker 8: I circle the tight ends. This is so important. Nobody
[24:02] Speaker 8: played more thirteen personnel than the Los Angeles Rams. When
[24:06] Speaker 8: you think about Parkinson, Higbee, Ferguson, and now they've added
[24:10] Speaker 8: Max Clair, who's equally as good catching the football.
[24:12] Speaker 7: As he is in the blocking game.
[24:14] Speaker 8: In light tight end, he's so good after the catch.
[24:17] Speaker 8: They had more thirteen personnel groupings twice as much than.
[24:22] Speaker 7: Anybody else in the NFL.
[24:23] Speaker 8: That is just shocking Mark and that group is really
[24:26] Speaker 8: the nucleus of how this thing branches out for Matthew Stafford.
[24:30] Speaker 7: And it just got better with Max Claire in the.
[24:32] Speaker 3: Picture for sure, and everybody's trying to copy the Rams
[24:35] Speaker 3: doing that stacy, but no one can do it quite
[24:37] Speaker 3: like them. And more of a big picture to do
[24:39] Speaker 3: list is figuring out this balancing act of win nowt
[24:43] Speaker 3: and you talked about Matthew Stafford is his team until
[24:46] Speaker 3: he doesn't want to play anymore, versus build for the future,
[24:49] Speaker 3: And you mentioned Ty Simpson, which was quite the shock
[24:52] Speaker 3: in the first round there because the Rams were so close,
[24:55] Speaker 3: probably a player two away from being in the Super
[24:57] Speaker 3: Bowl and being the champions as well, thinking, wow, they're
[25:00] Speaker 3: going to use that pick to go help out Matthew
[25:03] Speaker 3: Stafford or help out the defense. Well, low and behold,
[25:06] Speaker 3: they go take Ty Simpson for the future whenever he
[25:09] Speaker 3: gets on the field. And a lot of big decisions
[25:11] Speaker 3: still to be made with Matthew Stafford with the contract
[25:14] Speaker 3: extension and a lot of those young players at Nucleus
[25:17] Speaker 3: you talked about the Poop and Nikouas and Kobe Turners
[25:20] Speaker 3: of the world of their contracts are coming up as well,
[25:23] Speaker 3: So a lot to be done for the Rams of all, right,
[25:25] Speaker 3: are we going for it or are we still trying
[25:27] Speaker 3: to build for the future?
[25:29] Speaker 2: Stacy, A little bit of an off year for the
[25:31] Speaker 2: forty nine ers last season, Lots and lots of injuries.
[25:34] Speaker 4: What's there to do? Lists still look like this year?
[25:38] Speaker 8: Yeah, Judy, it was the War of injury attrition, but
[25:40] Speaker 8: they still made the playoffs. That division, this division we're
[25:43] Speaker 8: talking about, was incredible. They finished third, They make the playoffs,
[25:49] Speaker 8: ultimately lose there in the divisional round two. Seattle, they
[25:51] Speaker 8: had a tough time with them last season, but you
[25:54] Speaker 8: mentioned the injuries, and now Raheem Morris comes in. They
[25:57] Speaker 8: have had five different defensive coordinators in the past five seasons.
[26:01] Speaker 7: So let's hope Raheem Morris, who we all love.
[26:04] Speaker 8: Sticks because they've got to get better in a number
[26:06] Speaker 8: of areas. Fred Warner will be back from that nasty
[26:09] Speaker 8: ankle injury from last season. MIKEL Williams and Nick Bosa
[26:13] Speaker 8: both suffered acls. They will be back at some point.
[26:17] Speaker 8: But nobody had fewer sacks in the league, twenty of
[26:20] Speaker 8: them than the San Francisco forty nine ers. It has
[26:23] Speaker 8: to start up front. So what do you do?
[26:25] Speaker 7: You add Drake Greenlaw, you.
[26:26] Speaker 8: Add odegz o'diggie zoo wa os o'digie zooa. In the draft,
[26:32] Speaker 8: you add Romelo Height out of Texas Tech, my guy
[26:35] Speaker 8: out of Oklahoma, Grayson Halton to plug up the middle defensively,
[26:38] Speaker 8: a lot of new faces, Mark to help bolster that
[26:41] Speaker 8: sack number that was so low last season. We'll see
[26:44] Speaker 8: what Raheem Morris can do, because we know Kyle's going
[26:46] Speaker 8: to get things done offensively for.
[26:49] Speaker 3: Sure, and Stacey, you teed it up and Judy teed
[26:51] Speaker 3: it up first. With the injuries, the to do list
[26:54] Speaker 3: is design a better injury prevention plan for these guys
[26:58] Speaker 3: because this has not it's been a one year deal.
[27:01] Speaker 3: With the forty nine ers, it's been years where they've
[27:03] Speaker 3: been at the top of the league with these injuries.
[27:06] Speaker 3: And it's you know, it's not if injuries happen, it's win,
[27:09] Speaker 3: how bad and who it happens to. And for the
[27:12] Speaker 3: forty nine ers, it was all their big stars. Fred
[27:14] Speaker 3: Warner with the ankle, George Kittle with the achilles, Bosa
[27:18] Speaker 3: with the acl, Brock Purty with the toe, even Mikel
[27:21] Speaker 3: Williams with the ACL last year, and then the double
[27:24] Speaker 3: down in the free agency. They bringing Mike Evans who
[27:27] Speaker 3: was hurt and missed eight games last year, Christian Kirk
[27:30] Speaker 3: who missed games with the handy. So not only their
[27:32] Speaker 3: own players have to stay healthy. The guys they brought
[27:36] Speaker 3: in this free agents, they have so much talent. If
[27:38] Speaker 3: they can say on the field, you know they can
[27:40] Speaker 3: win it all.
[27:42] Speaker 1: It's still amazing what they did last year. Despite all
[27:44] Speaker 1: of that, guys, thank you so much for your insight,
[27:47] Speaker 1: great stuff. I would not say we are done yet.
[27:50] Speaker 1: Let's see, we did the Seahawks, we did the forty
[27:53] Speaker 1: nine ers, we did the Rams. One more NFC West
[27:56] Speaker 1: team in our offseason to do list, the Cardinals. Yeah,
[28:00] Speaker 1: we're talking about that. Next on the inside.
[28:10] Speaker 2: One team left in our NFC West off season to
[28:14] Speaker 2: do list.
[28:14] Speaker 1: Stacy is back.
[28:15] Speaker 7: So is Baldy Stacy.
[28:17] Speaker 2: It is the Arizona Cardinals. What is left for them
[28:20] Speaker 2: to do?
[28:22] Speaker 8: Well? They got a ton of work to do. But Judy,
[28:24] Speaker 8: before we go on, I need Baldy to break down
[28:27] Speaker 8: what it's like to be a citizen of the world.
[28:29] Speaker 8: Maybe we'll get to that in a second. As far
[28:31] Speaker 8: as the Arizona Cardinals. Go, you stayed on the lower
[28:35] Speaker 8: third there, that's the bottom of your scheme.
[28:36] Speaker 7: How rushing attack.
[28:37] Speaker 8: Michael Floor takes over as the head coach, but he's
[28:41] Speaker 8: obviously there with the new offensive coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett. This
[28:44] Speaker 8: is a team that ranked thirty first in the run
[28:46] Speaker 8: last season, a poultry ninety three rush yards per game. So, Baldy,
[28:50] Speaker 8: on their to do list is they have to make
[28:52] Speaker 8: Jeremiah Love the centerpiece of their offense. And he can
[28:57] Speaker 8: be the centerpiece of their offense.
[28:58] Speaker 3: He is that good.
[28:59] Speaker 7: But they have both of their line.
[29:00] Speaker 8: They have added obviously Wilkinson, Tyler Algier to the backfield,
[29:05] Speaker 8: Chase Basontis they drafted in the second round who's going
[29:08] Speaker 8: to plug up on the interior, and Isaac Samlo. So
[29:11] Speaker 8: they've done a few things, Baldy, but that has to
[29:14] Speaker 8: be where this offense starts. We know that Michae Laflor
[29:18] Speaker 8: is going to have a lot of pre stout motion,
[29:20] Speaker 8: so they got a lot of teaching to do as
[29:22] Speaker 8: they established this offense around who we think will be
[29:25] Speaker 8: Jacoby Brissett at quarterback with mister Carson back peeking over
[29:29] Speaker 8: his shoulder.
[29:30] Speaker 7: That they took in the first third round.
[29:31] Speaker 6: Excuse me, teaching and coaching, they're kind of simnul you know,
[29:36] Speaker 6: they're kind of simultaneous there. Michael Leflora has got to
[29:39] Speaker 6: be a miracle worker because they bring back Nick Ralis,
[29:42] Speaker 6: the defensive coordinator, and they bring back largely the same
[29:46] Speaker 6: defense from a year ago when they weren't very good
[29:49] Speaker 6: and they were one fourteen in their last fifteen games
[29:51] Speaker 6: after starting to and oh, Michael Lafleur has got his
[29:54] Speaker 6: work cut out for him.
[29:54] Speaker 5: Maybe with the additions of the.
[29:56] Speaker 6: Offense line and Jeremiah Love, maybe they can control the
[30:00] Speaker 6: game a whole lot better than the trenches with that
[30:02] Speaker 6: rushing attack and maybe not asked the quarterback to do
[30:05] Speaker 6: so much. But you know, I'm anxious to see just
[30:08] Speaker 6: what might brings and if it's enough to get this
[30:11] Speaker 6: team competitive. They were owned six, you know in the
[30:15] Speaker 6: NFC West, the competitive NFC West last year. They're going
[30:18] Speaker 6: to start, you know, winning some games in that division
[30:21] Speaker 6: if they want to climb up and be more competitive
[30:23] Speaker 6: in NFC.
[30:25] Speaker 8: What I want to know, Baldy, is does anybody have
[30:27] Speaker 8: as competitive a passport as you?
[30:29] Speaker 7: I think you're in Florida.
[30:30] Speaker 8: We know you've been all over the country, but you
[30:33] Speaker 8: did say you were a citizen of the world.
[30:35] Speaker 7: What can you show us.
[30:36] Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't need this to get to Florida, Stacey,
[30:39] Speaker 6: but I do. I do need it to get to
[30:40] Speaker 6: the seventy countries that I have visited. I am a
[30:43] Speaker 6: seven Continent Club member. You know, there's only seven continents,
[30:46] Speaker 6: so I visited all seven and Artica was a little
[30:48] Speaker 6: bit of a challenge, Stacy, but I enjoyed.
[30:51] Speaker 5: I enjoyed my time in Antarctica.
[30:54] Speaker 6: And you know, this will get me to Lebanon into
[30:56] Speaker 6: you know, Thailand this year, so we'll add to that
[30:58] Speaker 6: seventy number.
[30:59] Speaker 5: But ogo passport control, you got to have it.
[31:02] Speaker 6: You got to be able to walk right through facial identification,
[31:04] Speaker 6: like all that stuff that's going on is making the
[31:07] Speaker 6: travel a little.
[31:07] Speaker 5: Bit of user And I'll have this, Stacy, Mine. I
[31:10] Speaker 5: just checked it.
[31:10] Speaker 6: My visa for Brazil is still active. So if they
[31:13] Speaker 6: want to send me to Rio, you know, to go
[31:15] Speaker 6: cover that game. I'm like, you don't have to worry
[31:18] Speaker 6: about my passport. It's good to go. I think, yes,
[31:24] Speaker 6: say one of the seventy countries job just in case
[31:27] Speaker 6: you were.
[31:27] Speaker 5: Curious, Yes, I have played many many There we go
[31:31] Speaker 5: and yes, Canada, guys, thank you very much.
[31:36] Speaker 2: Tomorrow we're going to look at the NFC North to
[31:39] Speaker 2: do list.
[31:39] Speaker 3: Ian, I'm supposed.
[31:42] Speaker 1: To follow that. Me and Michael f Furio for Inside
[31:45] Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live, we are supposed to follow that. I've
[31:48] Speaker 1: never been to Antarctica. I me into some continents, but
[31:51] Speaker 1: not all of them, like three, but not seven. Also
[31:56] Speaker 1: great to know from Baldi that there actually are seven contents.
[31:59] Speaker 1: If you're tuning into this network and to this show
[32:02] Speaker 1: to learn about more than just football, you got some
[32:07] Speaker 1: continent news right there. All right, Michael F. We want
[32:10] Speaker 1: a little more Cardinals news here. We heard the breakdown
[32:13] Speaker 1: from Damn's in Our World Traveler, just the segment right
[32:17] Speaker 1: before this. So from a fantasy perspective, why don't you
[32:20] Speaker 1: tell me what the Cardinals offense is going to look like?
[32:23] Speaker 1: They are a really really interesting team.
[32:25] Speaker 4: Yeah, if the bosses are listening, my passport's up to date.
[32:28] Speaker 4: So if Baldy needs someone to travel with him, I
[32:31] Speaker 4: am more than willing to do so. But yeah, it's
[32:34] Speaker 4: gonna look very different with Mike Lafleur now in charge
[32:37] Speaker 4: of this offense. For Arizona and Lafleur was the OC
[32:41] Speaker 4: with the Rams the last couple of years, but he
[32:43] Speaker 4: was not the play caller there. He did previously call
[32:46] Speaker 4: plays with the Jets. Though, what I expect is a
[32:49] Speaker 4: much more balanced approach, similarly to what the Rams have
[32:52] Speaker 4: ran the last couple of years. Drew Pensig was very
[32:55] Speaker 4: run heavy his first two seasons with the Cardinals, and
[32:58] Speaker 4: then last year they threw more than anyone by necessity.
[33:01] Speaker 4: So comparing the two offenses, I think we're going to
[33:03] Speaker 4: get more deep passes, more play action, and the biggest
[33:07] Speaker 4: thing for me, more three wide receiver sets and a
[33:09] Speaker 4: lot more outside zone runs. I will explain why that
[33:12] Speaker 4: is very important to this offense in just a second.
[33:16] Speaker 1: Well that's all well and good, but what about the
[33:17] Speaker 1: quarterback situation. How's that going to shake out? Jacoby Brissette
[33:21] Speaker 1: was awesome last year. I came on this show every
[33:23] Speaker 1: week and pounding the table for him. He was the
[33:26] Speaker 1: fantasy QB six after taking over while leading the NFL
[33:30] Speaker 1: in passing yards per game and having the second most
[33:32] Speaker 1: multi touchdown games, all while being under the pressure.
[33:35] Speaker 4: At the second highest rate. So I do think, though
[33:38] Speaker 4: this could look a little different this year. I would
[33:40] Speaker 4: expect Lafleur to want Brissett to try to air the
[33:42] Speaker 4: ball out more, attack the perimeter, maybe even get the
[33:46] Speaker 4: tight end involved a little bit more. Brissette last year, though,
[33:49] Speaker 4: was very heavily dumping the ball off to the running
[33:51] Speaker 4: back that feels O line related. The rams though, did
[33:54] Speaker 4: not do that at a high rate. So I do
[33:57] Speaker 4: wonder if instead of seeing a lot of checkdowns, if
[33:59] Speaker 4: we see them trying to get Brisset more downfield. But
[34:03] Speaker 4: for fantasy purposes, I think he's going to be better
[34:05] Speaker 4: than the price you have to pay on draft day.
[34:07] Speaker 4: The only concern is Carson Beck is now breathing down
[34:10] Speaker 4: his neck.
[34:11] Speaker 1: Okay, what about Jeremiah Love? What can we expect of
[34:13] Speaker 1: their shiny new rookie.
[34:15] Speaker 4: Yeah, we all know what Jeremiah Love is as a prospect,
[34:19] Speaker 4: and I believe in the talent. And like I was
[34:22] Speaker 4: just saying, Brissett last year dumped off at a high rate.
[34:24] Speaker 4: That really helps Jeremiah Love. He's an excellent pass catcher.
[34:28] Speaker 4: And like I said, I think Lafloor helps this rushing
[34:30] Speaker 4: attack and I think he adds a lot more outside runs,
[34:33] Speaker 4: which is great because getting the ball in Jeremiah Love's
[34:36] Speaker 4: hand in space is everything you want if you are
[34:39] Speaker 4: drafting him in fantasy or you are in a Cardinals fan.
[34:42] Speaker 4: But the negatives he does have to deal with a
[34:45] Speaker 4: very crowded backfield as of today. I worry about Tyler
[34:48] Speaker 4: Alzier coming in and vulturing touchdowns like he did to
[34:51] Speaker 4: be Jean Robinson. And like Bald he was saying the
[34:54] Speaker 4: Cardinals could be trailing a lot, which is really negative
[34:57] Speaker 4: game script for the running attack one of view him,
[35:00] Speaker 4: like Asha Gentil last year, there will be some Spike Weeks.
[35:03] Speaker 4: There will be a lot of Doud Weeks in there.
[35:05] Speaker 4: But if you want him early second round price at
[35:08] Speaker 4: the latest is what you gotta pay. And that's a
[35:10] Speaker 4: little bit too rich for my blood.
[35:12] Speaker 1: Plenty of intrigue for the Cardinals receiver situation. Walk me
[35:16] Speaker 1: through that from a fantasy standpoint.
[35:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael Wilson is everyone's favorite right now, and he
[35:20] Speaker 4: was electric with Jacobe Prissett. In fact, from eleven week
[35:23] Speaker 4: eleven on he was the wide receiver two and nearly
[35:26] Speaker 4: doubled his touchdown total in his final five games for
[35:29] Speaker 4: his career. But as you see on this Twitter here,
[35:32] Speaker 4: even with perset. Most of Wilson's production came when Marvin
[35:36] Speaker 4: Harrison Junior was not playing. The numbers took a huge
[35:39] Speaker 4: hit when he was out there, which is why of
[35:42] Speaker 4: the two and they're getting drafted in similar ranges. I
[35:45] Speaker 4: still prefer Marvin Harrison Junior, even despite the fact that
[35:48] Speaker 4: he has yet to finish as a top thirty five
[35:50] Speaker 4: Fantasy wide receiver. And I know people are going to say, well,
[35:53] Speaker 4: he is the second lowest catching since he entered the NFL.
[35:56] Speaker 4: He also has the second lowest catchable target rate, so
[35:59] Speaker 4: I would argue that he has been unlucky since he's
[36:02] Speaker 4: entered the NFL. I do think better days are ahead
[36:05] Speaker 4: for him, But Wilson and Harrison are competing to be
[36:08] Speaker 4: the number two target behind Trey McBride, and because of that,
[36:12] Speaker 4: I still, even with them going out of reduced ADP
[36:15] Speaker 4: compared to last year, at least for Harrison, I don't
[36:17] Speaker 4: love paying that price to get him.
[36:19] Speaker 1: And finally, Trey McBride run the real superstars on this
[36:23] Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals team. What do you foresee for this star
[36:26] Speaker 1: tight end for you?
[36:27] Speaker 3: Yeah?
[36:27] Speaker 4: Look, he was amazing last year ten touchdowns in twelve
[36:30] Speaker 4: games with Jakobe he had five In thirty nine games
[36:34] Speaker 4: with Kyler Murray, he scored one hundred and five more
[36:36] Speaker 4: Fantasy points in the next closest tight end.
[36:38] Speaker 3: He led the.
[36:39] Speaker 4: Position in target an air yard, share of red zone targets, snaps, routs,
[36:43] Speaker 4: whatever the category is, you pick it, he led them
[36:45] Speaker 4: in it. So it may be hard for him to
[36:48] Speaker 4: duplicate that success again. But the Rams did throw the
[36:52] Speaker 4: highest percentage of passes two tight ends in the NFL.
[36:55] Speaker 4: So with laflour here, I think it's possible that McBride's
[36:59] Speaker 4: involvement in this offense could somehow even say the same
[37:02] Speaker 4: or even grow. But again, if you want him, you're
[37:06] Speaker 4: going to have to take him in round two, or
[37:08] Speaker 4: you are not going to have him on your teams
[37:09] Speaker 4: this year.
[37:11] Speaker 1: Taking notes, mental notes and otherwise for you great stuff
[37:14] Speaker 1: as always, love you, digging in hardcore to the Arizona Cardinals.
[37:19] Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins have checked off a big piece of
[37:22] Speaker 1: their to do list. Devon Hn, their star running back,
[37:25] Speaker 1: has agreed to terms on a four year, sixty four
[37:28] Speaker 1: million dollars contract extension. You can get up to sixty
[37:32] Speaker 1: eight million dollars. That is the max value thirty two
[37:35] Speaker 1: million dollars guaranteed a big piece of the Miami Dolphins offense. Now,
[37:40] Speaker 1: Judy locked in for the foreseeable future. All right, and
[37:45] Speaker 1: welcome back to Mark Ross.
[37:46] Speaker 2: We're going to talk about rookies who are in the
[37:49] Speaker 2: best position to succeed in twenty twenty six. So, Mark,
[37:52] Speaker 2: who you got is your first candidate?
[37:54] Speaker 3: First one is RBL Reese, the dynamic and versatile linebacker rusher,
[37:59] Speaker 3: do it all all from Ohio State, and that was
[38:01] Speaker 3: a big thing coming out. Well where's he going to play?
[38:04] Speaker 3: What's he gonna do? Or with the Giants he can
[38:06] Speaker 3: do all of the above. And look, the Giants already
[38:08] Speaker 3: have Brian Burns and out Dual Carter and Kevon Thibodeau
[38:11] Speaker 3: on the edges, which will allow rvil Reese to do
[38:14] Speaker 3: what he did at Ohio State, and that was just
[38:16] Speaker 3: go play all over the place and go make plays.
[38:19] Speaker 3: He'll be able to learn and grow in a multiple
[38:21] Speaker 3: positions because those guys are already there.
[38:24] Speaker 1: The love r.
[38:24] Speaker 3: L reseat number five for the Giants, so I thought
[38:27] Speaker 3: was the best defensive player in the draft.
[38:30] Speaker 1: Take me through one of the four first round wide receivers.
[38:35] Speaker 3: Let's stay in the NFC East here and Makayle Lemon
[38:37] Speaker 3: for the Eagles. You know, despite the draft night drama
[38:41] Speaker 3: there with Makayle Levion, what's overshadow is he's a heck
[38:44] Speaker 3: of a player and we'll be an outstanding fit there
[38:47] Speaker 3: with Philly. Of course, we know Philly. Everything runs through
[38:50] Speaker 3: sa Quan in the run game. They're hoping to get
[38:51] Speaker 3: that back up DeVante Smith blowing the top off with
[38:55] Speaker 3: the vertical routes. And then new offensive coordinators Sean Mannion
[38:59] Speaker 3: who comes from that, Sean McVeigh tree of the play action,
[39:02] Speaker 3: the short passing game which made Cooper Cup and pookin
[39:05] Speaker 3: Nakua feast. And that's what makay Lemon does. Play in
[39:09] Speaker 3: that slot, get opened underneath with quick routes and catches everything.
[39:13] Speaker 3: So I think in that Eagle's new Eagles offense, he
[39:16] Speaker 3: will really thrive. Mark, do you have a running back?
[39:20] Speaker 4: Why not?
[39:21] Speaker 3: Let's go Jendarium Price. I know we mentioned in the
[39:23] Speaker 3: in the show earlier, but the running back from Notre
[39:27] Speaker 3: Dame going to the Seahawks and what better way to
[39:29] Speaker 3: step in to the Super Bowl champions Oh and by
[39:32] Speaker 3: the way, the MVP Kenneth Walker is out the door.
[39:36] Speaker 3: The other income and running back Zach Charbonay may not
[39:38] Speaker 3: be back because the ACL. So that opens the door
[39:41] Speaker 3: for Jendarium Price to just step right into that offense
[39:43] Speaker 3: that still has JSN and Rashid Shaheed is back with
[39:47] Speaker 3: Sam Darnold growing into that offense another year and a
[39:50] Speaker 3: hiitten gym that people don't know about Price is he
[39:53] Speaker 3: was the most dynamic kick returner in Collins last season.
[39:56] Speaker 3: So you have him in Shaheed back there. That's scary.
[40:00] Speaker 11: All right?
[40:01] Speaker 1: One more, Mark, give me a guard, take me into
[40:04] Speaker 1: this one right here?
[40:06] Speaker 3: We going with Vega here, Vega Yo from Penn State.
[40:10] Speaker 3: He would he would have been a great fit anywhere
[40:12] Speaker 3: he went, but in Baltimore with King Henry and Lamar,
[40:15] Speaker 3: that's even the most perfect fit. That was the chatter
[40:19] Speaker 3: going up to the draft. He's going to Baltimore. They
[40:21] Speaker 3: actually got him, and I think we're no matter where
[40:23] Speaker 3: he went, he'll be and he would have been an
[40:26] Speaker 3: all pro guard.
[40:28] Speaker 2: Mark, great stuff as always, Thank you very much, and
[40:32] Speaker 2: everybody out there, you're already watching the Insiders, but just
[40:34] Speaker 2: to reinforce it, you can see us Monday through Friday,
[40:37] Speaker 2: seven pm Eastern on NFL Network wherever you get your podcasts,
[40:42] Speaker 2: we will be here to break down the schedule news
[40:44] Speaker 2: tomorrow and Friday and going forward. So Kirk Cousins is
[40:49] Speaker 2: making himself right at home in Las Vegas. He's winding
[40:52] Speaker 2: up the air fort like, don't hurt your shoulder here, Kirk.
[40:56] Speaker 2: This was the Vegas Golden Knight's OT win last night.
[41:00] Speaker 2: I believe it was Kurt doing a good job there.
[41:04] Speaker 2: But man, be careful. Okay, International Games, Let's take one
[41:09] Speaker 2: more look at this slate.
[41:10] Speaker 7: With very very tiny print.
[41:13] Speaker 2: Nine games, sixteen different teams playing internationally this year, more
[41:18] Speaker 2: to come undoubtedly in years to come. I can't wait
[41:21] Speaker 2: for these games. I love watching games at nine point
[41:24] Speaker 2: thirty in the morning on Sundays.
[41:25] Speaker 3: I got to be.
[41:26] Speaker 1: Honest, Ian, A lot of teams flying places. And if
[41:29] Speaker 1: you wonder just how much they're flying, that is a
[41:32] Speaker 1: lot of miles. We look at the forty nine ers,
[41:35] Speaker 1: more than thirty eight thousand miles. That is a that
[41:38] Speaker 1: is a lot. You can go through the whole list.
[41:40] Speaker 1: I'm not going to read the whole list for you,
[41:41] Speaker 1: but just know a lot of teams are flying a lot,
[41:44] Speaker 1: except the Patriots, who are flying a little. And by
[41:46] Speaker 1: the way, Judy, congratulations you were a million mile flyer.
[41:50] Speaker 1: This must be very nice for you.
[41:53] Speaker 7: It was very excited.
[41:54] Speaker 3: I went.
[41:55] Speaker 2: I got over a million miles on my flight to
[41:57] Speaker 2: the super Bowl, as it happens, so symmetry there, since
[42:01] Speaker 2: most of those miles were on crazy trips to like Buffalo, Foxborough,
[42:05] Speaker 2: Kansas City.
[42:06] Speaker 3: You're very close too.
[42:08] Speaker 1: I am. It's actually amazing. I'm at eight hundred and
[42:11] Speaker 1: ninety nine thousand on Delta right now. This is a look,
[42:14] Speaker 1: it's a milestone. I got to credit all the little
[42:17] Speaker 1: people who got me there. Actually there weren't a lot
[42:18] Speaker 1: of people. It's really just me plus a lot of
[42:20] Speaker 1: travel agents.
[42:21] Speaker 3: What does this mean?
[42:22] Speaker 1: Means we spend a lot of times on airplane. Not
[42:24] Speaker 1: as much time as we spend in our house on
[42:27] Speaker 1: TV talking to each other, but a lot of times. Anyway,
[42:30] Speaker 1: That is our show.
[42:31] Speaker 3: Great one.
[42:31] Speaker 1: Tomorrow, chiefs head coach Andy Reid joins the show.
[42:35] Speaker 5: We'll see you

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