# The NFL Report: Aaron Donald Returns to the Rams and Josh Jacobs Placed on the Exempt List

An episode of [NFL: The Insiders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1543090622), 1 Sep 2026, 25 min.

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Andrew Siciliano reports on defensive tackle Aaron Donald coming out of retirement to rejoin the Los Angeles Rams, Packers running back Josh Jacobs being placed on the Commissioner’s Exempt List, and the final week of the preseason. NFL analyst Trevor Sikkema joins to share his expectations for Donald on the Rams and what the Packers might do at running back with Josh Jacobs out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:09] Speaker 1: Let's dive in to the NFL report. So that Aaron
[0:13] Speaker 1: Donald thing finally happened. Will the future Hall of Famer
[0:17] Speaker 1: be on the field in Australia? Will the results live
[0:20] Speaker 1: up to the hype? We have that story coming up
[0:22] Speaker 1: for you. Meantime, George Kittle make the trip to Australia.
[0:26] Speaker 1: We have the latest from San Francisco on his possible
[0:29] Speaker 1: return from injury for week number one. And why are
[0:33] Speaker 1: all the cool kids keeping four quarterbacks? Trevor Sycamore is here.
[0:42] Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Report, friends. Hi there. My name
[0:45] Speaker 1: is Andrew Siciliano. We are a brand new show at
[0:47] Speaker 1: 7 p.m. Eastern Time every day on the NFL Channel.
[0:50] Speaker 1: We're also a podcast. We're also on YouTube. We're also fun.
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[0:55] Speaker 1: us every day coming up. What are the Green Bay
[0:57] Speaker 1: Packers going to do at running back now? But first,
[1:01] Speaker 1: what's news to me? I don't know. Maybe you had
[1:05] Speaker 1: a life on Sunday. Maybe just maybe you lost your phone.
[1:09] Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't see that Aaron Donald decided to come
[1:13] Speaker 1: out of retirement. Yes, he is officially back. But two questions.
[1:20] Speaker 1: Number one, is he still the same guy? And number two,
[1:23] Speaker 1: is he going to be ready in time for week
[1:26] Speaker 1: number one?
[1:26] Speaker 2: Do I feel like I can play at a high level?
[1:31] Speaker 3: Yes.
[1:31] Speaker 2: Do I feel like I can still be myself? A
[1:34] Speaker 2: hundred percent. If I didn't feel like that, I wouldn't
[1:36] Speaker 2: be here. So, you know, from everything I did, you know,
[1:39] Speaker 2: from training to with just conditioning to the football transition
[1:43] Speaker 2: and doing football drills and things in that nature. I
[1:45] Speaker 2: recorded everything. I studied myself to a T, watched every movement,
[1:50] Speaker 2: every cut, every hit flip. In my opinion, I don't
[1:54] Speaker 2: see no difference. If not, it looked a little cleaner
[1:56] Speaker 2: to me, you know, two years, two years, body feel
[1:59] Speaker 2: a little different, but it's still got to go out there,
[2:01] Speaker 2: play 11 on 11, get myself going and get myself
[2:04] Speaker 2: where I need to be as far as like playing
[2:06] Speaker 2: football again.
[2:06] Speaker 3: So.
[2:07] Speaker 1: All right, that'd be scary if he's actually better than
[2:10] Speaker 1: he was last time. There's Donald on the practice field Sunday.
[2:12] Speaker 1: He was also on the field today, Monday. Officially, the
[2:15] Speaker 1: Rams do have a two-week roster exemption. That means they
[2:19] Speaker 1: can still carry 54 into week one in Australia. They
[2:23] Speaker 1: don't have to play him in Melbourne against the 49ers.
[2:29] Speaker 4: Excited to be able to just take it a day
[2:31] Speaker 4: at a time. I'm not going to talk about any
[2:33] Speaker 4: sort of plans. It's going to be a day at
[2:35] Speaker 4: a time for us. What does that mean for Australia?
[2:37] Speaker 4: The first step was, all right, if you're coming back,
[2:40] Speaker 4: let's do that. Let's get you out on the practice field.
[2:43] Speaker 4: Let's get you acclimated to your teammates, to your coaches,
[2:46] Speaker 4: and then we'll see what that ramp-up period looks like,
[2:48] Speaker 4: whether or not he's available or whether or not we
[2:50] Speaker 4: think it's best to be able to play him in Australia.
[2:53] Speaker 4: I think the best way to do it is take
[2:54] Speaker 4: it one day at a time, but we're obviously excited
[2:56] Speaker 4: to be able to have him back.
[2:58] Speaker 1: All right, Sean, keep this in mind when you look
[2:59] Speaker 1: at these numbers here. This is totally absurd. Aaron Donald
[3:03] Speaker 1: leads the league in TFL since 2014, and he hasn't
[3:08] Speaker 1: played the last two years. He's got 24, Trevor Sycamore,
[3:14] Speaker 1: more TFLs than Cam Jordan, and like 25, 26 more
[3:20] Speaker 1: than Myles Garrett. And again, Trevor, good to see you.
[3:22] Speaker 1: He has not played in the last two years. There's
[3:26] Speaker 1: a hype machine going right now. Obviously, this is the
[3:29] Speaker 1: lead story on major news networks. What if it doesn't work, though? Like,
[3:35] Speaker 1: is there any part of you that thinks it may
[3:37] Speaker 1: not go as smoothly as everyone thinks?
[3:40] Speaker 5: So I think that there is another side of the
[3:43] Speaker 5: coin where maybe it doesn't go nuclear, right? Maybe Aaron
[3:47] Speaker 5: Donald isn't finishing between 15 and 20 sacks like some
[3:51] Speaker 5: people think is possible. Now, I want to be clear,
[3:53] Speaker 5: that is possible. But I think what's more likely... for
[3:58] Speaker 5: Aaron Donald is moments for him. Maybe not the whole game.
[4:02] Speaker 5: I don't think this is going to be exactly the
[4:05] Speaker 5: Aaron Donald that we've seen in the past. Although I
[4:07] Speaker 5: do think that what he said in his soundbite is
[4:10] Speaker 5: very valuable. And that is that he's taken off of
[4:12] Speaker 5: football for the last two years. So I bet that
[4:14] Speaker 5: body's feeling real good and real rested. But I think
[4:17] Speaker 5: you want to make sure that that feeling is sustained
[4:20] Speaker 5: throughout the season. They don't need him on every rep
[4:24] Speaker 5: their defensive line. I mean, part of the Aaron Donald
[4:27] Speaker 5: conversation here is everyone's going to list.
[4:29] Speaker 1: Oh, they've got miles Garrett. They've got Byron young. They've
[4:31] Speaker 1: got Kobe Turner. They've got Braden fist. They've got Puna Ford. Okay.
[4:34] Speaker 5: Well, I think those guys are the guys that you're
[4:36] Speaker 5: going to want to out there. The majority of the
[4:38] Speaker 5: time you want Aaron Donald out there for moments. You
[4:42] Speaker 5: want Aaron Donald out there for the way that he
[4:45] Speaker 5: finished the Superbowl by getting a sack of Joe Burley, right?
[4:48] Speaker 5: You want more of that. And whatever the, You know,
[4:52] Speaker 5: I guess rotation is probably the best way to say it.
[4:58] Speaker 5: Whatever rotation gets that Aaron Donald the entire season in
[5:01] Speaker 5: the postseason. I think that's exactly what you want.
[5:04] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the old thing like who you're going to
[5:05] Speaker 1: double team. You have them both on the field. You
[5:07] Speaker 1: can't double team both of them. I guess you could
[5:09] Speaker 1: potentially go max protect every single time, but that isn't ideal.
[5:12] Speaker 1: It's like a baseball lineup. You have someone protecting your slugger. Well,
[5:15] Speaker 1: it's like, who are you going to pitch to? Who
[5:16] Speaker 1: are you going to double team here? And now you
[5:18] Speaker 1: have two Hall of Famers. They're the greatest of all time.
[5:21] Speaker 1: And Kobe Turner and Byron Young, those guys conveniently who
[5:23] Speaker 1: have not yet signed extensions. will likely eat, and they
[5:28] Speaker 1: will eat well if you have to double-team everyone. I
[5:30] Speaker 1: was trying to go through, Trevor, what is the worst-case scenario,
[5:32] Speaker 1: and I promise you I'm not trying to live in
[5:34] Speaker 1: the negative here, but I'm kind of like Kyle this
[5:36] Speaker 1: morning on GMFB, and that is, all right, I am
[5:39] Speaker 1: buying the hype, but, Trevor, what is your worst-case scenario here?
[5:44] Speaker 1: Let's live there.
[5:45] Speaker 5: The worst case scenario is exactly what you said, and
[5:47] Speaker 5: that's the fact that you simply still have to care
[5:50] Speaker 5: about Aaron Donald. The worst case scenario might be five
[5:53] Speaker 5: sacks himself, but it's the fact that, like you just mentioned,
[5:57] Speaker 5: his presence, if he's on the field, you have to
[6:00] Speaker 5: care about him. You have to notice him. You have
[6:02] Speaker 5: to pay attention to him. That's worst case scenario, and
[6:05] Speaker 5: that's a pretty good place to be in and well
[6:07] Speaker 5: worth it.
[6:08] Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Trey. joining us on the NFL Report. Good
[6:11] Speaker 1: to see you, sir. Let's do this again soon. Don't
[6:13] Speaker 1: go anywhere. Trevor coming right back. Let's get some other
[6:15] Speaker 1: news from around the NFL. How about that Odell Beckham Jr.
[6:18] Speaker 2: Guy?
[6:18] Speaker 1: What do you know? He made the Giants for the
[6:21] Speaker 1: first time since getting traded off the Giants back in 2019.
[6:24] Speaker 1: He's officially back. Since then, he has played for, can
[6:27] Speaker 1: you name them all? The Browns, the Rams, won a
[6:30] Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the Ravens, And the Dolphins, Odell turns 34
[6:35] Speaker 1: in November. Will he have Malik neighbors on the field
[6:38] Speaker 1: with him week one on a Sunday night against the Cowboys?
[6:40] Speaker 1: Don't know. Malik noncommittal for any specific game return. He
[6:44] Speaker 1: was on the podium today. This is a Pat Leonard
[6:46] Speaker 1: tweet from the New York Daily News. So he could
[6:48] Speaker 1: be back. The question I think is fair to ask
[6:51] Speaker 1: if and when he is back. And let's say it's
[6:52] Speaker 1: week one. Will he be the same? Hey, all of
[6:56] Speaker 1: you who thought J.J. McCarthy was going to get cut
[6:59] Speaker 1: or traded, that did not happen. Don't believe that hype.
[7:02] Speaker 1: The 10th overall pick from 2024 did make the Vikings.
[7:05] Speaker 1: They initially kept four quarterbacks in Minnesota, but Max Brosmer
[7:10] Speaker 1: was waived on Monday. Sunday was cut down day, 6 p.m.
[7:16] Speaker 1: Eastern time. There are a lot of notable moves out there,
[7:20] Speaker 1: including these guys put on IR or PUP, meaning they're
[7:24] Speaker 1: not going to begin the season. Most notably, Micah Parsons
[7:27] Speaker 1: and Jordan Tyson on the right of the screen. Tyson,
[7:30] Speaker 1: the rookie wide receiver, is out for a minimum of
[7:33] Speaker 1: four games. There are also three notable players put Ian
[7:36] Speaker 1: Rappaport on the commissioner exempt list.
[7:40] Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some serious legal news yesterday involving Josh Jacobs
[7:43] Speaker 3: and others. We'll start there, though, with the starting running
[7:45] Speaker 3: back for the Green Bay Packers was officially placed on
[7:49] Speaker 3: the commissioner's exempt list after being charged with two misdemeanors
[7:53] Speaker 3: earlier in the week. Now, this stems from a domestic
[7:57] Speaker 3: situation three months ago where Josh Jacobs was accused of
[8:01] Speaker 3: a lot of things, including domestic violence. The official charges, though,
[8:05] Speaker 3: were two misdemeanors, not a charge of domestic violence, which
[8:09] Speaker 3: His lawyers then made a statement and pointed out that
[8:13] Speaker 3: basically he was not charged in this domestic incident. The
[8:16] Speaker 3: NFL has still taken him off the field, and what
[8:19] Speaker 3: they could do is they could wait for the legal
[8:21] Speaker 3: process to play out, or they could just do it
[8:23] Speaker 3: now and potentially have this serve as his punishment. So
[8:26] Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs will not be on the field for the
[8:30] Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers, which is why they traded for a
[8:32] Speaker 3: running back, Caleb Johnson, yesterday. Meanwhile, the Denver Broncos also
[8:36] Speaker 3: face a similar situation with their star pass rusher, Jonathan Cooper,
[8:40] Speaker 3: he was also placed in the commissioner's exempt list. This
[8:42] Speaker 3: stems from an incident this past offseason, two incidents actually
[8:46] Speaker 3: involving a former girlfriend.
[8:49] Speaker 1: Cooper faces five charges.
[8:50] Speaker 3: Including secondary assault, which is a felony legal process ongoing,
[8:56] Speaker 3: but not on the field while it plays out.
[9:00] Speaker 1: NFL Network and GMFB, Sean Payton, for what it's worth,
[9:03] Speaker 1: today said they will follow the league when it comes
[9:05] Speaker 1: to Cooper. We're going to follow this coming up next
[9:07] Speaker 1: on the NFL Report, your quarterback report from the final
[9:11] Speaker 1: week of the preseason. So the preseason is mercifully over.
[9:19] Speaker 1: You might have missed some of these highlights. Let's just
[9:21] Speaker 1: look at some of the quarterbacks from the final week
[9:23] Speaker 1: of games, including the number one overall pick. That is
[9:25] Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza. If you want to go back to Thursday,
[9:28] Speaker 1: the Raiders and the 49ers as the Raiders had a
[9:30] Speaker 1: home game in Vegas. Little play fake. And yeah, that's
[9:33] Speaker 1: not good. He had a little bit of a window,
[9:35] Speaker 1: kind of put too much gas on that thing. Mendoza
[9:37] Speaker 1: picked off by Tatum Bakun, the second year DB as
[9:42] Speaker 1: we get the second look. The Dylan Lauby hard play
[9:45] Speaker 1: fake and a little high, but Thune comes down with it.
[9:51] Speaker 1: The final numbers for the preseason for Fernando Mendoza, 25
[9:55] Speaker 1: of 45. He did throw a touchdown. He threw a
[9:58] Speaker 1: couple of INTs. he was sacked four times this by
[10:03] Speaker 1: Keon White the former Patriots first rounder a passer rating
[10:07] Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak stare to the sky of 59.5 it's going
[10:11] Speaker 1: to be Kirk Cousins week one even if it is
[10:13] Speaker 1: an official official but consider this From Josh Dubow from
[10:17] Speaker 1: the AP, Mendoza's rating of 59.5 in the preseason ranks
[10:21] Speaker 1: 32 out of 36 when it comes to first-round quarterbacks
[10:25] Speaker 1: who played in a preseason as a rookie. This in
[10:28] Speaker 1: the last 11 years, ahead of only Goff, Jameis, Richardson,
[10:34] Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz. Should be noted, Zach Wilson and Kenny
[10:37] Speaker 1: Pickett are in the top five, so just consider that.
[10:41] Speaker 1: Also consider... What Xavion Thomas did on Saturday afternoon in Nashville.
[10:49] Speaker 1: First play from scrimmage. We didn't speed that up. That's
[10:52] Speaker 1: real speed. That's ludicrous speed. The first round, or rather
[10:56] Speaker 1: the third round pick at LSU, the 89th overall pick
[10:59] Speaker 1: of the first play from scrimmage, gets Tyson Bajan to
[11:02] Speaker 1: hit him on a 97-yard touchdown. As Xavion had a
[11:07] Speaker 1: 179-yard game. That's total yardage, including touchdowns. including yards in
[11:12] Speaker 1: special teams as well. He had a 39-yard punt return
[11:17] Speaker 1: and a 22-yard kick return. If you're wondering if Xavion Thomas,
[11:23] Speaker 1: who caught five for 140, made the team, the answer
[11:26] Speaker 1: is yes, the young man made the football team. Where
[11:31] Speaker 1: does that 97-yard touchdown from Tyson Bajent rank? Longest TD
[11:36] Speaker 1: reception of the preseason ever. in the last 20 years.
[11:39] Speaker 1: Demoyer Stringfellow, anybody remember him in 2017? Raise your hand. Okay,
[11:45] Speaker 1: put it down. You're lying. Keelan Cole stuck around for
[11:48] Speaker 1: a little bit in 2011. Chasten West in 2011. Ed Gantz.
[11:50] Speaker 1: 2011 was a big year for big bombs, evidently. In
[11:57] Speaker 1: the preseason. Let's get to Green Bay. Love me some
[12:00] Speaker 1: Kyle McCord, former Syracuse quarterback, former Ohio State quarterback. He
[12:03] Speaker 1: put on a show. 22 of 35 for 226 and
[12:08] Speaker 1: four touchdowns. The first being to J. Michael Sturdivant for
[12:11] Speaker 1: 29 yards. This was a fun back and forth game.
[12:15] Speaker 1: It was Matt and Mike LaFleur, the LaFleur Bowl. But
[12:19] Speaker 1: every time the Cardinals score, Kyle McCord would answer. Here's
[12:23] Speaker 1: a 12-yard touchdown to Will Shepard, who also had an
[12:25] Speaker 1: 81-yard punt return for his score. So he had multiple
[12:29] Speaker 1: Lambeau leaps. And then Kyle McCord would twice hit Keyshawn Johnson,
[12:35] Speaker 1: the other Keyshawn Johnson. 28 yards there. And then, late
[12:42] Speaker 1: fourth quarter, look at the clock. Packers down three. This
[12:46] Speaker 1: is a game-winning touchdown with Keyshawn Johnson breaking tackles. And
[12:50] Speaker 1: Kyle McCord looks so good, it got him a trip
[12:53] Speaker 1: to Miami. He got traded on cut-down day. Adam Schefter tweet,
[12:58] Speaker 1: Kyle McCord to the Dolphins in exchange for a sixth-round pick.
[13:02] Speaker 1: Not next year, but in 2028. So he's now going
[13:07] Speaker 1: to be the backup to Malik Willis in Miami. Speaking
[13:11] Speaker 1: of the Packers, because it's all a Green Bay brain
[13:14] Speaker 1: trust in Miami, back in Green Bay. Josh Jacobs is
[13:19] Speaker 1: on the commissioner exempt list. This also from Adam. So
[13:23] Speaker 1: the Packers have a legitimate question at running back. What
[13:27] Speaker 1: do they do? Because this is what they have. Chris Brooks,
[13:32] Speaker 1: Caleb Johnson, and Marshawn Lloyd. They got Caleb Johnson the
[13:36] Speaker 1: second round pick or third round pick, I beg your pardon,
[13:40] Speaker 1: a year ago from the Steelers. So he's the new
[13:43] Speaker 1: guy in the room. Trevor Sikama back with us from
[13:46] Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective. You know, Matt LaFleur wants to run
[13:50] Speaker 1: the football or at least attempt to run the football.
[13:53] Speaker 1: Are you taking any of these guys or banking on
[13:56] Speaker 1: any of those guys? I am. I'm taking Marshawn Lloyd.
[14:00] Speaker 5: And I remember writing his scouting report a couple of
[14:02] Speaker 5: years ago when he was coming out of college. And
[14:05] Speaker 5: I liked him at South Carolina. I liked him at USC.
[14:08] Speaker 5: He was just hurt, but he's got the athletic ability.
[14:10] Speaker 5: I think he can be a dynamic back for them.
[14:13] Speaker 1: I really do.
[14:14] Speaker 5: When you look at this Green Bay team, they're right
[14:15] Speaker 5: around the middle of the pack when it came to
[14:17] Speaker 5: trying to establish the run on first down last year,
[14:20] Speaker 5: but they were bottom 10 in the NFL and EPA
[14:22] Speaker 5: per rush. They want that number to be a lot
[14:24] Speaker 5: higher this year, certainly. And Lloyd's the one who gives
[14:27] Speaker 5: them the dynamic ability to do that. Now, I think
[14:29] Speaker 5: that Caleb Johnson's an interesting ad for this team. I
[14:32] Speaker 5: didn't think that he was really a fit with what
[14:34] Speaker 5: Pittsburgh wanted to do. And when you look at Green Bay,
[14:37] Speaker 5: their inside and outside zone run percentages are phenomenal. Always
[14:40] Speaker 5: right around top 10 in the league. I feel like
[14:42] Speaker 5: that goes into what Caleb Johnson does well and his
[14:45] Speaker 5: vision as a back. But I do think that this
[14:47] Speaker 5: is Marshawn Lloyd's backfield when it comes to those early downs.
[14:50] Speaker 5: And I think he can surprise people.
[14:52] Speaker 1: Marshawn Lloyd, the former USC running back. He could be
[14:55] Speaker 1: the guy, although I'm with you here on Caleb Johnson. Trevor,
[14:59] Speaker 1: stick around. It didn't work for Caleb Johnson in Pittsburgh.
[15:01] Speaker 1: Last year, Arthur Smith calling plays. This year, Mike McCarthy
[15:04] Speaker 1: calling plays. And these names may jump off the screen
[15:07] Speaker 1: to you. These are all Steeler picks. First, second, and
[15:10] Speaker 1: third round going back to 2021. Look how many of
[15:13] Speaker 1: them are gone. Bronrick Jones just traded. Now he's coming
[15:16] Speaker 1: off an injury. to the Cowboys. Also, George Pickens traded
[15:20] Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. They got a good return here. Najee
[15:22] Speaker 1: Harris coming off the Achilles is now on his third team.
[15:25] Speaker 1: He's with the Giants, but that is a lot of
[15:28] Speaker 1: draft premium already out the door. There was no draft
[15:32] Speaker 1: premium on Jalen Daniels. The kid out of L.A., who
[15:36] Speaker 1: played for six years at K-State, has made the Buccaneers
[15:41] Speaker 1: as the number two quarterback to Baker Mayfield. Kansas Baker, pardon,
[15:45] Speaker 1: not K-State. He signed for only $ 25, 000, Trevor, as an
[15:53] Speaker 1: undrafted free agent. If you ever turned on Jayhawk football,
[15:57] Speaker 1: he was always fun to watch. Did you think, however,
[15:59] Speaker 1: that he'd be a legit QB2 and this fast?
[16:04] Speaker 5: I didn't know if that would happen now, but certainly
[16:07] Speaker 5: if you want to turn back the clock two, three
[16:09] Speaker 5: years ago, yes. I would have told you that when
[16:12] Speaker 5: we were watching Jalen Daniels as a sophomore, junior, when
[16:16] Speaker 5: he was at Kansas, he was lighting up scoreboards. He
[16:19] Speaker 5: was all over the field. He was making incredible plays
[16:23] Speaker 5: out of broken plays. And when things would go wrong,
[16:25] Speaker 5: he was always able to fix it. Yeah, he's a
[16:27] Speaker 5: smaller quarterback, but He had the arm strength to make
[16:30] Speaker 5: up for it. The big issue with him, Andrew, is
[16:31] Speaker 5: just the back injury, the back injuries and other injuries
[16:35] Speaker 5: that he dealt with over the last couple of seasons.
[16:36] Speaker 5: And unfortunately, I wondered, certainly with him going undrafted, I
[16:40] Speaker 5: wondered if it was like, man, is this just a
[16:42] Speaker 5: story of a player who is really talented, who the
[16:45] Speaker 5: injury bug bit him too hard by the time he
[16:46] Speaker 5: got to the NFL? Clearly not the case. Love the
[16:49] Speaker 5: fact that he's still able to showcase that talent. Love
[16:52] Speaker 5: that it's still there. Love that Tampa kept him as
[16:54] Speaker 5: their QB, too.
[16:55] Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Look, plenty of undrafted free agents who signed
[16:59] Speaker 1: for premier pennies, comparatively speaking, make the team. That's the
[17:03] Speaker 1: way this league works. It's what makes this league so
[17:06] Speaker 1: much fun and so great. But for one of those
[17:08] Speaker 1: guys to be a quarterback for 25,000 and to be
[17:11] Speaker 1: the number two, not the number three, is just nuts.
[17:15] Speaker 1: And keeping four is kind of the rage. Now, the Vikings,
[17:19] Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, have already moved on from Max Brosmer,
[17:22] Speaker 1: maybe back to the practice squad. Brosmer stuck around and
[17:24] Speaker 1: played a little bit last year. But Atlanta and Minnesota
[17:27] Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh and surprisingly, Philadelphia all kept four initially.
[17:33] Speaker 6: Four quarterbacks, most important position in sports. I feel like
[17:38] Speaker 6: all those guys have value for our team. Some of them,
[17:43] Speaker 6: obviously some is short-term value, some is long-term value when
[17:46] Speaker 6: you think about Cole.
[17:48] Speaker 1: And so just as we went.
[17:49] Speaker 6: Through the process here, just thought it was the right
[17:52] Speaker 6: thing to do for our football team.
[17:55] Speaker 1: Howie Roseman keeping four quarterbacks. This is kind of the rage, Trevor.
[17:59] Speaker 6: Why?
[18:00] Speaker 5: Now, Howie's always thinking about, you know, from a capitalist perspective,
[18:04] Speaker 5: you know, I got to keep quarterbacks because who knows?
[18:07] Speaker 5: I could trade for one of them. I could get
[18:08] Speaker 5: extra draft picks, you know. So Howie keeping four. I
[18:11] Speaker 5: understand that one minute or Atlanta. OK, you understand that, right?
[18:16] Speaker 1: You don't know.
[18:16] Speaker 5: Pennix availability to hasn't played well. You get a veteran.
[18:19] Speaker 5: Jack Strand played well for him. So I guess I
[18:21] Speaker 5: get that one as well. Vikings, a little shocked to
[18:23] Speaker 5: see him keep four. But now that they cut Brosmer, OK,
[18:26] Speaker 5: that one makes sense. I'm pretty puzzled that the Steelers
[18:29] Speaker 5: kept four quarterbacks because if Aaron Rodgers goes down or
[18:33] Speaker 5: you bring him out for whatever reason, you're going to
[18:36] Speaker 5: one of your two young guys, right? You're going to
[18:38] Speaker 5: Will Howard. You're going to Drew Allen. You're going to
[18:40] Speaker 5: see what you have in them. And I'm very surprised
[18:43] Speaker 5: just because they only have four backup offensive linemen. One
[18:46] Speaker 5: of those quarterback spots, Mason Rudolph's spot specifically, could have
[18:48] Speaker 5: gone to, hey, another backup offensive line. I'm just pretty
[18:51] Speaker 5: shocked that the Steelers were the team to keep four quarterbacks.
[18:54] Speaker 1: Or if Rodgers goes down when they're actually winning and
[18:56] Speaker 1: they're in playoff position and you don't necessarily trust one
[19:00] Speaker 1: of those two kids to take over, you go with
[19:03] Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph and hope Aaron can come back soon. But
[19:06] Speaker 1: I'm with you. Browns kept four, but they put Dylan
[19:08] Speaker 1: Gabriel on IR. He woke up Friday morning evidently with
[19:11] Speaker 1: a bad back. Thank you, Trevor Sykema. Oh, by the way,
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[19:41] Speaker 1: The Rams had a lot of fun on social on Sunday.
[19:43] Speaker 1: I mean, you would, too, if you got a future
[19:44] Speaker 1: Hall of Famer back. Quarterbacks rejoice. This is when he
[19:48] Speaker 1: retired a couple of years ago. No, quarterbacks scramble. We
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[19:55] Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal and the true star of the show, of course,
[19:57] Speaker 1: Jordan Rodrigue.
[20:01] Speaker 7: You know, I've been saying for weeks that I think
[20:02] Speaker 7: this defense is going to really surprise people with how
[20:05] Speaker 7: multiple it is and how much it can rotate. even
[20:08] Speaker 7: on the field without subbing players out. There's so many
[20:11] Speaker 7: players in the front and the back that can play
[20:14] Speaker 7: multiple positions and can rotate all around each other and
[20:18] Speaker 7: really activate against a bunch of different types of personnels
[20:21] Speaker 7: without needing to come off the field. So if teams,
[20:23] Speaker 7: which we think they will, try to go quick game
[20:25] Speaker 7: on them or tempo, In order to try to mitigate
[20:27] Speaker 7: some of this pass rush that they'll see from miles Garrett,
[20:29] Speaker 7: et cetera, you are, you now have a counter punch
[20:32] Speaker 7: for that.
[20:33] Speaker 1: And that that's pretty worrisome.
[20:35] Speaker 7: I think when you factor in, you're not going to really,
[20:37] Speaker 7: really know what Aaron Donald's going to do week to week.
[20:40] Speaker 7: It's a mind game for everybody else because. we are
[20:45] Speaker 7: so we got so used to, and we never really
[20:47] Speaker 7: got used to, but we kind of got used to
[20:48] Speaker 7: all the stories of these opposing coaches talking about how,
[20:51] Speaker 7: when you play Aaron Donald, that's actually the only player
[20:54] Speaker 7: you're game planning around on defense for the Rams. That's
[20:57] Speaker 7: how much of the week that it takes up in
[20:58] Speaker 7: their meetings and how much of the, the reinstallation of
[21:01] Speaker 7: offensive line protections and blocks and slides and all these
[21:05] Speaker 7: different things that you have to focus on. And so
[21:07] Speaker 7: now the fact that he is going to be used
[21:09] Speaker 7: situationally and you don't, you won't be able to tendency
[21:11] Speaker 7: predict week over week.
[21:13] Speaker 1: That's a real problem, I think.
[21:14] Speaker 7: And I think it, it plays to the Rams benefit.
[21:17] Speaker 1: And I think they know that, which again is one
[21:19] Speaker 1: of the reasons.
[21:19] Speaker 7: Why among all of this other super team building thing,
[21:23] Speaker 7: just the way that they're doing it is also the
[21:25] Speaker 7: reason why the Rams have such a big target on
[21:27] Speaker 7: their back.
[21:28] Speaker 1: Jordan and Greg, NFL Channel has NFL Daily back next week,
[21:32] Speaker 1: 6 p.m. Eastern time. Nicky Minwari rehabbing the Seahawks' second-year
[21:36] Speaker 1: safety after the Donald signing tweeted this. No context. All
[21:41] Speaker 1: that for us? Yeah, Nick. Rams need to do all
[21:46] Speaker 1: that for you guys. I mean, they got Aaron Donald.
[21:48] Speaker 1: They also got Miles Garrett, who evidently can levitate. Did
[21:52] Speaker 1: you see this? This is from NFL Films, thing he
[21:55] Speaker 1: did with Will Anderson working out in the offseason. He levitated. Remember,
[21:59] Speaker 1: they're better at sports than you. Miles Garrett, Will Anderson. Fantastic.
[22:04] Speaker 1: Also good at sports, one George Kittle. Kyle Shanahan last week,
[22:09] Speaker 1: after the 49ers final preseason game, intimated that Kittle had
[22:14] Speaker 1: taken a step back in his rehab from a torn
[22:17] Speaker 1: Achilles in January. He kind of had to walk that
[22:20] Speaker 1: back today. We didn't think he was going to play, though,
[22:24] Speaker 1: and it was looking that way.
[22:25] Speaker 8: I think it would be much nicer to make that
[22:27] Speaker 8: decision before we left instead of having to go through
[22:29] Speaker 8: all that. It's also a long time that we're out there,
[22:31] Speaker 8: so to be away from the team for a week,
[22:33] Speaker 8: not just for camaraderie or anything, but just the training
[22:36] Speaker 8: staff and things like that and being away from meetings
[22:38] Speaker 8: is also a big deal, too. But hopefully these three
[22:41] Speaker 8: days that we have, these three practices, will go the
[22:43] Speaker 8: right way and make it an easy decision to get
[22:46] Speaker 8: him on the plane.
[22:47] Speaker 1: All right, so Kittle's going to practice a couple of
[22:49] Speaker 1: days this week, and then they'll decide whether or not
[22:50] Speaker 1: to fly with George Kittle to Melbourne. Meantime, in Buffalo,
[22:54] Speaker 1: this is cool. Josh Allen, again, is going to wear
[22:56] Speaker 1: home game day hats designed by kids at a Buffalo
[23:00] Speaker 1: Children's Hospital. It's raising money. They're called the Billistration Caps.
[23:04] Speaker 1: Last year, they brought in over $ 140, 000 for the Golisano
[23:08] Speaker 1: Children's Hospital, and it's Patricia Allen Fund. Did you notice
[23:13] Speaker 1: what Joe Fignano did this year? The seven-year college player
[23:18] Speaker 1: out of Maine and Connecticut threw for 509 yards, and
[23:24] Speaker 1: he made the Ravens as QB3. How are you?
[23:29] Speaker 4: Good.
[23:29] Speaker 1: Everything good? Everything's good. Feeling good?
[23:32] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[23:33] Speaker 1: You made it. You made it. Yeah, you made it.
[23:36] Speaker 6: Congrats.
[23:37] Speaker 1: Congrats. Are you serious? Yeah, you made it. Can you
[23:40] Speaker 1: believe it? You made it. Can I sit down?
[23:44] Speaker 6: Yes.
[23:45] Speaker 1: You made it. I thought they were going to let
[23:47] Speaker 1: me go, and then they just surprised me and said
[23:49] Speaker 1: I made it. Here you go, honey. I made the team.
[23:56] Speaker 8: Did you?
[23:57] Speaker 1: Yeah. You made the team, huh? Yeah, I made the team.
[24:02] Speaker 2: I knew you would.
[24:04] Speaker 1: I knew you would, sweetheart. All right, that's pretty cool.
[24:08] Speaker 1: Call mom and dad saying you made the team. And again,
[24:10] Speaker 1: Joe Finiano played seven years of college football at Maine
[24:14] Speaker 1: and at Connecticut. Late in the afternoon, the Cowboys have
[24:16] Speaker 1: waived Joe Milton. How about that one? Sam Howell is QB3.
[24:20] Speaker 1: I'm Andrew Siciliano. See you tomorrow, everybody. So long. Get
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