September 5, 2022 • 28 mins
The NFL Total Access podcast starts with Mike Yam, Bucky Brooks and Brian Baldinger discussing if the Buccaneers should be panicking after reshuffling their offensive line and then Bucky shares why he believes Brady has a case of the "three R's". Next, Brian explains why Mitch Trubisky should start the season for Pittsburgh and Bucky shares why it should be Kenny Pickett. LaDainian Tomlinson joins Total Access and he provides reasons why the Broncos "should not let Russ cook". Later, Willie McGinest and DeAngelo Hall preview the Rams, Bills week-1 matchup and then Bills legend Jim Kelly joins and he shares what the Bills need to do offensively this season. The podcast finishes up with fantasy hot sauce where Adam Rank provides an under-the-radar player you should draft and another player from the Dallas Cowboys you should be hesitant to draft.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
NFL Total Access is a production of the NFL in
partnership with iHeartRadio. It is Monday, September fifth, It's NFL
Kickoff week and you are listening to NFL Total Access,
the podcast that was the voice of the Hall of
Famer Ladany and Tomlinson, who's about to tell us why.
(00:21):
His message for Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett is don't let
Russ cook the danger of keeping Jimmy Garoppolo. And we're
going to name a starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But first,
Tom Brady, where you've been. Man, It's all personal. You know,
everyone's got different situations are dealing with so we all
have really unique challenges to our life. And I'm forty
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five years old, man, there's life going on. TB twelve
not talking football, but he might as well have been,
because his offensive line is a major reshuffle, a last
second rebuild, and it's time for us to react. Is
it time to panic? Who is a little worried here?
Because I feel like, on yeah, we continue to talk
about offensive women play, and I know you love that
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You're a little worried about the offensive line in general.
Are you worried enough to hit the panic button as
it pertains to fantasy production from some of those dudes. Yes,
but not with Tampa, not right now, because I believe
in Jason Light. Jason Light has helped build this team
right through the draft, throughout the position. So I don't
know if Robert Hainsey can replace Ryan Jensen at center,
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or Luke Getticky can replace Ali Marpett, you know, at
left guard. I don't know that yet, but they drafted him.
Let's develop these guys and give them a chance. I can't.
I can't. I can't do this anymore. I can't. I
can't listen to you act more at about the offensive
line when you panick about everybody else. I'm nervous. I'm
really nervous because Tom Brady has a case of the
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oars regrets reborse retirement. Because in the middle of training,
Gere is that I'm worried. I'm sweating on stage. I'm
panic because I don't know if Tom Brady really wants
to be here. Nanny, He's looked around at a supporting guest.
I'm worried. I'm I'm panic. I am panic. So Ryan
Jensen gets hurt and like he should just like walk
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into the sunset. Yes, that's your yes, like okay, yes, ready,
his legacies at the line. Yeah, we can't do this.
He took at ten eleven day vacation. He's the goat,
Isn't he supposed to overcome this stuff? You would, you
would think, although, like I said, we saw that press
conference with him. When Jensen went out, it looked like
someone took his lunch right. He was very when he
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came back after his forty day retirement. The first call
he made was y no panic from Mike Tomlin. Zero
losing seasons in his career, Zero interest in making a
QB call until he is ready. You have a story, quarterback.
I might, but you guys are not gonna have it
today again like I told you guys the other week, man,
We're not gonna make knee jerk reactions and statements following
the performance. We'll go through our proper professional procedure, will
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evaluate the game. We'll meet with our front office people,
will have discussions, We'll talk internally, we'll talk external possibilities.
We'll go through our normal EA this time of year,
and will disclose it to you at our at our leisure,
to be quite honest with you proper professional procedure. Mike Yam,
Bucky Brooks and Brian Baldinger will do. Now what coach
Tomlin will not, and that's name is starter. This is
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like a real deal competition. Pick it. We wanted to.
Maybe some of the old school guys are like, Hey, no,
this is gonna be Mitch out there. You actually think
that there's a strong case to throw the rookie. Absolutely,
Kenny Pikett. I mean, I'm looking at Mike Temo, I'm
thinking old Mark else. But Kenny Pickett has the juice.
He has the juice. He should be the starting quarterback.
It comes down to the three pieces when we're looking
at young quarterbacks. He has poise, he has polished, and
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he has production. It should be his gig. When I
was there and Mike Tomla has said this before the
Jacksonville Jaguars game that free season games him, Hey, we
don't let him play against the varsity like old freshman
JV player. Let's see what he looks like. And he
looked like a varsity starting quarterback. I understand the argument
for starting mister Bisky as a veteran player. They got
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a tough slate coming out, but man if you have
a young quarterback who is own in preseason act and
that he's ready for it, go ahead and start the clock. Well,
I thought Truebisky played great though this past weekend in
his final preseason game. I give this steel. There's a
lot of credit. They really split up the one hundred
plus throws amongst Mason, Rudolph Pickett and Trubisky, so I
thought it was pretty fair. Trubisky, I thought played really well.
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I mean the back shoulder throws that he made the
other day down the field just wanted Deontay Johnson thirty
eight yards. You can't throw it any better. His movement look,
And I think part of the reason why I believe
trus Bisky will be the starter Bucky is I'm really
concerned about the play of the offensive line. They had
a ton of penalties the other night. They have not
played well in this preseason, and I don't know if
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I want to put a rookie in behind that right now. Bucky.
I realized Picky gets rid of the ball quickly. He
sees things quickly. But we know that once you start
game planning and defense to start getting after you, it
could change pretty I knew what this is This is
that Duke bias. He wants Vatario to be the pinata.
He wants Mytaria to be the piniata for the first
couple of games. Than Kenney Pickett comes in obviously and
throw the young guy out there. It's like swimming first there,
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you go swimming in ocean that you gonna have a floatings.
Don't throw them out there. Let him figured out. He'll
figured out he'd be better for it. Year two as
Pittsburgh still building this office, and I don't think they
have to rush them, and I think they'll rushing them
if they put him in right now. But I do
believe both of them can move this team. You know,
it was going through some of the numbers there, Picket.
By the way, you mentioned the speed average time to
throw in the preseason two point three eight seconds. That
was the quickest in the NFL. By the way, same
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number that we saw from Ben roethlisbergers. Well, if you
watch him just in the RPO game, I mean it
looks like, you know, somebody turning a double player. Derek
Jeter two balls hitting out of his hands fast. Okay,
So that's one vote for the pet project and one
vote for the vet project, the deciding vote goes to
the Hall of Famer LT. What do you say this question?
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It was something honestly that I ask as an immediate person.
I asked to coach a few years ago about a
quarterback competition that was going on between a rookie and
a veteran at the time, and that coach said to me,
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if it's close, we're gonna go with the rookie. And
I said, really, I said, you know which baffle me
because you would think, okay, if it's close, then you
just go with the veteran player, right, you know, you
go with the gnome, you know guy? And he said no,
because we would rather take our lumps early in the
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season by letting this young kid develop and not hold
him back for when we think he's ready. If it's
close already, what's the point in holding him back. He's
already almost have surpassed the veteran. So what are we
holding him back for. He's ready to play now. And
if that's the case, you know, if that's what we're
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seeing in Pittsburgh between Kenny Pickett and Mitchell Trubisky, I
believe Mike Tomlin is gonna lean the same way because
those coaches they think alike. Okay, we thought naming Trey
Lance as the starter would settle the debate by the Bay,
but that was before Jimmy g resigned to stay. There
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is some significant news to get to. In fact, the
ripple effects of Jimmy Garoppolo staying with the forty nine
Ers crushing the hearts of a couple of fan bases
hoping to upgrade that quarterback situation. Our NFL Network insider
Ian Rappaport he broke the story that the Niners restructure
Jimmy Jeeves deal to keep him in San Francisco. That
new contract with six point five million fully guaranteed, with
incentives that can push it close to sixteen million. Here's
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Kyle Shanahan. This wasn't an option until I think Jimmy
saw all the other situations, and once that final preseason
game ended. I'm glad that what he thought was the
best option for him was a great option for us.
We have a starting quarterback as a backup. The rest
of the league had a chance to get him, and
I'm just feel so fortunate that he's still here. In
that case, Trey and Jimmy have a great relationship Trey
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actually likes having Jimmy in the building, and Trey was
very grateful to how Jimmy was to him last year.
We feel very strong from the two people that Jimmy
will give that back to trade this year. They'll do
for a trade what Jimmy did for him in the
year before. Today, both qbs talked about what most of
us are wondering, is Scull be awkward me and Trey. Honestly,
I know a lot of stuff gets made in the
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media like that, but we have a good relationship. Man's
So I mean, everyone could say what they wanted everything,
but I mean, we went through it last year is
very similar to this situation, so it's not like we
haven't done it before. And he's been a big brother
to me since my first day in the league, since
I got drafted the day I got drafted. So man,
I know he's got my back, I got his back.
But I'm super excited just to have him in the room,
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another guy again who's done it. Got to watch him
do it last year, got to learn a ton from him,
and I'm going to continue lay as much as I
can from him. You know, take all the all the
advice and he's got for me this year. Sounds like
a little damage control you worried about affecting Trey's development. Look,
it's a great insurance policy. It looks great on paper.
Having Jimmy Garoppolo. Do you talk about a guy who's
a proven winning he took this team to her Super Bowl.
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You have a young quarterback and mentorship is always available
to him. The issue that you have is Jimmy Garoppolo.
If he doesn't necessarily feel like he lost his job,
he could be sitting in there pining for an opportunity
to get back on the field, like most competitors would do.
And so if you're a Trey Lance, how do you
handle this part of it? Jimmy Garoppolo kind of hovering
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in the background. It sounds nice. It's great to have that,
But at the end of the day, win the business
and winning games. And if he goes to a skid,
and if the fans start channing for Jimmy Garoppolo to
go in, how is the young quarterbacks confidence going to
be effective? So if Trey Lance goes to Chicago in
twelve days and takes care of business and plays great,
none of this is a story, but we don't know
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how either player is wired. Trey Lance, if the fans
start chanting Jimmy G's name, we don't know how it's
going to play out in the locker room, Bucky, because
there will be the mic will be in front of
all these star players that they have, Hey, what do
you think who's best? And then we don't know how
Jimmy's wired to be a backup to Trey Lands if
he is struggling, guess he's just gonna be able to
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sit there and just watch it play that role. He
hasn't played that role before, So we really don't know
how either player is wired. In Philadelphia, Carson Wentz was
the starter they drafted Jalen Hurts. It didn't go really
well now in Philadelphia, and so we don't We didn't
know that about Carson until it came time to we
gotta upgrade this position. And that's the same thing in
San Francisco. I mean, because Jimmy Garoppolo can be the
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best guy, but even on the side, everyone on the
roster fields like they can be a player. And remember
Jimmy Garoppolo took this team to the Super Bowl and
had him in the championship game. A season ago, so
it's going to be hard for him to say, Oh,
I'm okay, I'm I'm cool being QB two. Normally that
is an older player who's on the back nine. Jimmy
Garoppolo is still in the prime of his career. That's hard.
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The other part to this, Bucky's okay. He takes this
reduced salary to be able to fit within the salary constraints.
He would love to get on the field this year
and play himself into another contract someplace else, and he
might get that opportunity and see how things go. But
in the back of his mind saying, I'm gonna use
this really great team situation right here, yea, the springboard
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to next year. Yeah. And the beauty of it is
it's an offense that he knows, it's players that he's
familiar with him. It's a very good team around the border,
which is potentially an audition for someone else. The story
continues to get juicier in the Bay. This is NFL
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Total Access, the podcast Quarterback Revenge stories all over the
Week one schedule. Russell Wilson's first game as a Bronco
in Seattle in front of the twelves against the Hawks.
Russell's replacement will be Geno Smith, who beat out Drew
Locke for the gig. Pete Carroll made the call. Steve
Mariucci likes the call. Is he the right choice to
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lead this franchise as they match up against getting ready
to match up against Russell Wilson? Yes, And when you
say ready to lead, you're not talking about for the
next six years. You're talking about Star day one. And
in fairness, if we're going to have a quarterback competition,
let's try to make it as equal and fair as
possible and choose the guy who've played the best, all right,
And Gino played the best in the preseason and in practices,
so he deserves it. Not only that he has built
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up over the last couple of years of little chemistry
with DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, and they know him
well and he knows them better. And Drew Locke has
just has to show some more consistency. But Gino's the
right guy for now. Hey, that could change during the year.
If they're one in four boom, they might make a change. Right.
Schedule makers have a sense of drama, they've got a
sense of humor. LT has a sense of danger. Why
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is the Hall of Famer saying don't let Russ cook?
I think you got to be careful how much you
let Russ cook. I mean, there are certain things. If
I'm speaking about food, there are certain things that I
believe Russell Wilson is a really good cook at There
are certain dishes you know that he cooks really well.
But there are some dishes that he probably don't need
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to be cooking, you know, and he probably needs to,
you know, defer a little bit maybe to Sierra a
little bit in the kitchen. In this case. What I'm
speaking about is oftentimes, where you're building a football team,
you're creating this identity for a football team. And I'm
afraid Coach Hackett right now, the identity that he's creating
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is just spread it around, throw the football all over
the park. We got these these these nice receivers. One
big guy, you know, one guy Jerry Judy that can
do a little bit of everything. Cortland Sutton is our
go to guy down the field type guy. It looks great,
but be careful because once you create the identity, you
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can't take it back. You can't just change an identity
throughout the season. Or midway through the season. So if
you get down the road, coach Hackett, and you're letting
Russell cook and it's not going so well, he's starting
to burn the damn food, then you're stuck. You know,
you're stuck with the cleanup at that point. You know,
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I go back to when I've seen Russell play his
best football back in Seattle, and it was those teams
that had a really good running game and a great defense,
and the running game it wasn't just an appetizer, you know,
it was. It was the main dish. Let's be honest,
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not to say Russell Wilson the passing game was just
an appetizer at that time, but it was, you know,
it was. It was part of the main course. Maybe
not the main course, maybe not the protein of the
mill at that time. So what I'm saying is, I
think you need to be careful and still understand that
your strength, in my opinion, on this offensive side of
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the ball is still maybe in the backfield. You know,
running the football is the easiest way to win games.
Throwing the football is the easiest way a lot of
time to lose games because so much can go wrong
when you're throwing the football right. So I want to
make sure that you know, they just understand that once
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you go down this road and create this identity where
you're gonna let Russ cook, I think you run the
risk of alien eating some really good guys in the
backfield and even around the team. Because one thing that
football players know, they understand they know the strength of
a team. Like when you're in it, you understand that, man,
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we can run the football or you know we're not
very good right now throwing the football. We need to be,
So you can't fool football players. Just make sure you
got the right men. You There are times where you
might go into a game and you actually believe you
have you have the advantage and you know to throw
the football. I'm fine those games letting Russ cook. What
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I'm saying is, please don't think that Russell was going
to carry this team by throwing the ball forty to
fifty times every week. Like that's not a great recipe.
That's not a recipe for success in my opinion. This
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is NFL Total Access, the podcast to just kickoff week
in the NFL and Week one, Game one is job
one for the defending Super Bowl champion La Rams, who
start on Thursday night against the team many say is
the favorite to win it all this season, the Buffalo Bills.
How will this one go down? Willie mac d hall
have answers. Let's go all right, the numbers inside this
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matchup so that it's kind of an uphill climb for Buffalo.
Sean McBay has not lost in week one were as
the head coach. He's a perfect five and oh you guys,
scoring over thirty two points per game and allowing just
sixeen in week one matchups. So as we get closer,
starting to feel really real, real real at this across
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the street, what's going to be the number one factor
that's going to decide this game? Really Well, First of all,
you know, it's the first game of the season, so
you can't come in and make a lot of mistakes
and you can't beat yourself. But if I'm thinking what
Buffalo is trying to do to win this football game,
I'm listening to their head coach Sean McDermott, and he says,
we have to be physical in the trenches on both
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sides of the ball. Meeting on defense, we got to
stop the run. We can't let teams gashes, which we
see a little bit last year. And offensively, we got
to have an identity up front where we can run
the football to close out games. Now, the Hall, we
know they can score points. They were third in scoring
averaging twenty eight points. We know they can score on
with the best. But when it's time to close out
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teams and finish teams out and show that physicality up
front and not give teams other opportunities to get back
in games or multiple opportunities to score points, this team
got to do a better out that doing that. Yeah,
you're absolutely right. And it's funny that you talk about
those trenches and winning up front because I'm a point
to one man on the other side, and it's the
man that went just like that getting pressure, and that's
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Aaron Donald, right. He is the heartbeat of this Rams defense,
and so they're gonna go as he goes. And so
if he's able to get pressure, move Josh Allen off
that spot and not move them to go get a sack,
just move them to make him look somewhere else to
not be able to lock onto his targets down the
football field running mento. Guys like Bobby Wagon, who I
cannot wait to see in a RAMS uniform running into
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a little Florida on the edge right running mento guys
like Jayden Ramsey who's able to now cover just a
little bit shorter so they can go and jump some routes.
And so I'm excited to watch this RAMS defense get
out of it. I love me some rockheen more. As
you guys know that, we also love a good guest,
a Hall of Fame guest, the Bills legend, the world's
last keeper of a landline phone, whether he knows he
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has it or not. Jim Kelly. I'm so excited to
be on by my fellow Hall of Fame brother, legendary
quarterback Jim Kelly, Jim hardy Man. How's the weather in
Buffalo right now? As a matter of fact, I think
most of the country would love to be in this
weather right now. It's through mid upper seventies, no you
mad any? Beautiful weather? All good? Or tomatoes that started
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to get nights right? My blteas are coming to unbelievable
show All good right now? Well, I'm asking because I'm
in Sonny, Los Angeles, and as you know, your Buffalo
Bills are gonna be coming here for the first game
of the season, right across the street at so Far
Stadium to play the defendant Super Bowl champions. It's different
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weather here. As you know, Jim, you think your Bills
are ready, which I've done. I'm gonna be at the Gamers.
A matter of fact, me and my two daughters, my
son all my wife are gonna be celebrating her birthday.
We're going to Napa and I'm going right from Nappa
to LA to watch the Buffalo Bills kick from back.
So of course they're ready, all right. I like that.
Now I'm thinking about a guy like Von Miller, who
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is now with the Buffalo Bills. As you know, how
do you think he's failing right now? Knowing that he
just won a Super Bowl championship with the Los Angeles Rams.
Now he's on another potential Super Bowl champion team in
the Buffalo Bills. What do you think he's thinking about?
I mean, I look at what Von brings our defense,
even though our defense was ranked at the top last year.
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And of course we all know about the thirteen seconds,
but the ball line, that's the pass that to overwit
Von Brents. I think that now leadership to the defensive side.
We got first Josh and digit now David Shaw on
the offensive side. But I'll tell you what, I'm pumped up.
And it shouldna be a tough game with the crowd
and with what they are coming off of. But you
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know what, the Bill Chef's something to prove in their
own mind. They cannot lose games that they should win.
It's gonna be a tough one. They have a tough schedule.
But I'll tell you what I think. Ken Dorshy has
showed in the first couple of preseason games. He's ready
to rock and roll. Get Josh Allen doing what he does.
But one of the things I think we need to
do is on offense. I think get that running game
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going to take somebody pressure off of Josh so he
doesn't have to run so much. But I'm being honestly,
I'm really excited. No more Brian day Ball. You mentioned
Ken Dorsey taken over obviously his offensive play caller. What
are we going to see from from this young kid?
Have we seen his sailing or can he get better?
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M boy? It's hard to get any better, and he
did last year. I mean I love it, of course
you can, but you know, what when I watched Ken Dorsey.
I had him at my football camp for kids, and
the first thing I said to him pretty much almost
two The only thing I said to him, I said,
do not have more than four or five games where
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you have called players for Josh Allen. I do not
need this and Josh does nothing need to take chance
and getting hurt when you need him every single game.
I like this young kid now that they drafted in
James Cook. He seems like he's gonna add an explosive
element out the backfield with Josh Allen. Do you think
James Cook can be a guy to add another dimension
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in that offense? To be honest with you, you know what.
I'm a I'm a big Singlitary fan, and you have Cooks.
I think definitely brings an added addition to our offense.
I think losses a good running back. I like the
little running back out of the back room. But for
those lineback, the defense lineman, it can't see where he's
going and we're run him. I think as much as
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we could have last year, I like him, but I'll
take what Cook adds at a rule dimensional. Doing whatever
it takes you get it done. Good, good, receiver out
of the back too. I think you bring everything. Quarterback
would love to have smart to step up and block
when he has the block. But Dave got a good
running backs and I think they should utilize that more
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than they did last year. Nothing against what they did
last year, they were very good. But I think if
we take somebody pressure off to Josh making every play
all the time, I think that will help. Well. I
hear your phone keeps ringing. I'm not sure if that's
the Buffalo Bills trying to call you right now. They
need you for some reason. What's going on there? Well,
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Mark number one, I don't even have a landline. The
only thing I have a landline for is my computer
and everything. I haven't even answered that phone. And probably
four or five years, Ring's baby twice every month and
just show happened you happened? Ringing out and I'm like,
by myself, I can't go over and I don't even
think I have a phone here to be honest with you. Well,
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go figure. I gotta last question. I gotta ask you
about Michael Robinson. I very on. Michael Robinson loves the
Buffalo Bills and he always talked about the fanatic fans
in Buffalo, and he's been intrigued by jumping off, you
know and breaking this table. I'm wondering he did that. Now,
I'm wondering did you see that? And if you did,
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what what score? You? What? You great? Because I think
it was pretty horrible. Oh, it was bad. Number one.
You don't you don't do that. I just worry about that.
I mean, I remember going to a Tennessee game and
there's a young lady who was up on top of
a motor home and I just said, please do me
if I do not do this. I said, it's not smart.
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Number one. You know when people drinking. I'm sure Robinson
wasn't drinking when you did that, But I don't mind
doing it to really easy tables if you don't go
from a high level. But you know what, when you're
a whack of doodle, you do things like that. And
bid Mafia doesn't surprise me one bit. They're tragy. But
I'll tell you what. You wouldn't want anybody other than
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them cheering you on in a stadium. That's right. Well, thanks, Jim,
I really appreciate you. You're joining us for a few minutes,
and good luck to you this year. Best of luck
to your Buffalo Bills, and enjoy the game here at
so Far Stadium in Los Angeles. All this week we're
getting you ready for the Rams and Bills, including special
visits from Andre Reid and Bruce Smith and to Reholt
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totally impartial guests. Of course, Derreck Henry's going to stop
by two, so don't miss that. But first you have
a last minute fantasy draft. Adam Rink has the hot sauce.
Where's the crowd? Stop it? I come in for one segment.
I expect some excitement. It is time for the fantasy
hot Sauce. We're gonna start with mild, mild but flavorful
(25:24):
and this is my thing, like flavor. You're overdrafting Ezekiel Elliott,
and I understand that's kind of mild. It's a little mid.
You're like, oh, did somebody actually just serve me marinara sauce?
Like what is this? But here's the truth of the matter.
Ezekiel Elliott, who last year was the RB seven, the
highest Spanish of his life, but still his touches have
decreased four consecutive seasons. There are injuries on that offensive line.
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If you were sitting there in this second round drafting
Ezekiel Elliott. I have to ask you, what are you doing?
You don't need to do that. That's the pineapple salsa.
Go try something else. All right, let's get spice. No,
who wants to get spicy? You should be drafting Rashad
Penny and not Kenneth Walker the third and I get
it once. It's like, you know, Kenneth Walker is like
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that spot that just opened up around the corner. Got
a couple of nice yell previews. Now there's a line
around the block. But you're like, whoa were you not there?
In Rashad Penny last season ten games, seven hundred and
fifty rushing yards, six touchdowns. They love this guy. They
love him and he's going to be a star this
year for the Seattle Sea Hut because they're gonna run
the football. Do you think you think you know it's
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gonna be throwing the ball? No, he's not. Shad O'Hara.
A couple of rookie tackles. All right, let's go three? Alarm? Oh,
who's ready? Who's ready for three? Let me say it.
I'm fading ceedee limb. That's right, I said it. Oh,
non stop it, stop it. I'm not saying he's a
bad player. I'm saying he's a good the silence of
the limb. Oh, I'm sorry, shan Oh, you want to
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come do this? I get four minutes to this show.
Let me don't do don't get the funniest jokes out
of here, but listen. And there's a lot of options
there in the third round. I'm looking at guys like
Mike Evans, C Higgins, Tyreek Hill, Tyreek Hill somehow is
going behind Ceedee Lamb. Don't make that mistake, Ceedee Lamb.
Good player, good player. We're not drafting, We're not over
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drafting him. Ld Oo. Dalton Schultz this season has more
points than Travis Kelsey. That's right. Last year Dalton Schultz
was crushing it eight hundred and eight yards. He had
close to eighty receptions. This season, he is gonna go
for a thousand. When you look at all the departures
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for the Cowboys in regards to their pass catchers, the
guy who is going to step up this season is
going to be Dalton Schultz. And if you do not
get one of the elite tight ends early in your draft,
I'm talking to Mark Andrews and I'm talking about Kyle Pitts.
If you don't get either one of those guys, you wait.
You take Dalton Schultz and you win. And you're waiting that.
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Kickoff week and you are listening to NFL Total Access,
the podcast that was the voice of the Hall of
Famer Ladany and Tomlinson, who's about to tell us why.
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His message for Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett is don't let
Russ cook the danger of keeping Jimmy Garoppolo. And we're
going to name a starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But first,
Tom Brady, where you've been. Man, It's all personal. You know,
everyone's got different situations are dealing with so we all
have really unique challenges to our life. And I'm forty
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five years old, man, there's life going on. TB twelve
not talking football, but he might as well have been,
because his offensive line is a major reshuffle, a last
second rebuild, and it's time for us to react. Is
it time to panic? Who is a little worried here?
Because I feel like, on yeah, we continue to talk
about offensive women play, and I know you love that
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You're a little worried about the offensive line in general.
Are you worried enough to hit the panic button as
it pertains to fantasy production from some of those dudes. Yes,
but not with Tampa, not right now, because I believe
in Jason Light. Jason Light has helped build this team
right through the draft, throughout the position. So I don't
know if Robert Hainsey can replace Ryan Jensen at center,
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or Luke Getticky can replace Ali Marpett, you know, at
left guard. I don't know that yet, but they drafted him.
Let's develop these guys and give them a chance. I can't.
I can't. I can't do this anymore. I can't. I
can't listen to you act more at about the offensive
line when you panick about everybody else. I'm nervous. I'm
really nervous because Tom Brady has a case of the
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oars regrets reborse retirement. Because in the middle of training,
Gere is that I'm worried. I'm sweating on stage. I'm
panic because I don't know if Tom Brady really wants
to be here. Nanny, He's looked around at a supporting guest.
I'm worried. I'm I'm panic. I am panic. So Ryan
Jensen gets hurt and like he should just like walk
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into the sunset. Yes, that's your yes, like okay, yes, ready,
his legacies at the line. Yeah, we can't do this.
He took at ten eleven day vacation. He's the goat,
Isn't he supposed to overcome this stuff? You would, you
would think, although, like I said, we saw that press
conference with him. When Jensen went out, it looked like
someone took his lunch right. He was very when he
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came back after his forty day retirement. The first call
he made was y no panic from Mike Tomlin. Zero
losing seasons in his career, Zero interest in making a
QB call until he is ready. You have a story, quarterback.
I might, but you guys are not gonna have it
today again like I told you guys the other week, man,
We're not gonna make knee jerk reactions and statements following
the performance. We'll go through our proper professional procedure, will
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evaluate the game. We'll meet with our front office people,
will have discussions, We'll talk internally, we'll talk external possibilities.
We'll go through our normal EA this time of year,
and will disclose it to you at our at our leisure,
to be quite honest with you proper professional procedure. Mike Yam,
Bucky Brooks and Brian Baldinger will do. Now what coach
Tomlin will not, and that's name is starter. This is
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like a real deal competition. Pick it. We wanted to.
Maybe some of the old school guys are like, Hey, no,
this is gonna be Mitch out there. You actually think
that there's a strong case to throw the rookie. Absolutely,
Kenny Pikett. I mean, I'm looking at Mike Temo, I'm
thinking old Mark else. But Kenny Pickett has the juice.
He has the juice. He should be the starting quarterback.
It comes down to the three pieces when we're looking
at young quarterbacks. He has poise, he has polished, and
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he has production. It should be his gig. When I
was there and Mike Tomla has said this before the
Jacksonville Jaguars game that free season games him, Hey, we
don't let him play against the varsity like old freshman
JV player. Let's see what he looks like. And he
looked like a varsity starting quarterback. I understand the argument
for starting mister Bisky as a veteran player. They got
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a tough slate coming out, but man if you have
a young quarterback who is own in preseason act and
that he's ready for it, go ahead and start the clock. Well,
I thought Truebisky played great though this past weekend in
his final preseason game. I give this steel. There's a
lot of credit. They really split up the one hundred
plus throws amongst Mason, Rudolph Pickett and Trubisky, so I
thought it was pretty fair. Trubisky, I thought played really well.
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I mean the back shoulder throws that he made the
other day down the field just wanted Deontay Johnson thirty
eight yards. You can't throw it any better. His movement look,
And I think part of the reason why I believe
trus Bisky will be the starter Bucky is I'm really
concerned about the play of the offensive line. They had
a ton of penalties the other night. They have not
played well in this preseason, and I don't know if
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I want to put a rookie in behind that right now. Bucky.
I realized Picky gets rid of the ball quickly. He
sees things quickly. But we know that once you start
game planning and defense to start getting after you, it
could change pretty I knew what this is This is
that Duke bias. He wants Vatario to be the pinata.
He wants Mytaria to be the piniata for the first
couple of games. Than Kenney Pickett comes in obviously and
throw the young guy out there. It's like swimming first there,
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you go swimming in ocean that you gonna have a floatings.
Don't throw them out there. Let him figured out. He'll
figured out he'd be better for it. Year two as
Pittsburgh still building this office, and I don't think they
have to rush them, and I think they'll rushing them
if they put him in right now. But I do
believe both of them can move this team. You know,
it was going through some of the numbers there, Picket.
By the way, you mentioned the speed average time to
throw in the preseason two point three eight seconds. That
was the quickest in the NFL. By the way, same
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number that we saw from Ben roethlisbergers. Well, if you
watch him just in the RPO game, I mean it
looks like, you know, somebody turning a double player. Derek
Jeter two balls hitting out of his hands fast. Okay,
So that's one vote for the pet project and one
vote for the vet project, the deciding vote goes to
the Hall of Famer LT. What do you say this question?
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It was something honestly that I ask as an immediate person.
I asked to coach a few years ago about a
quarterback competition that was going on between a rookie and
a veteran at the time, and that coach said to me,
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if it's close, we're gonna go with the rookie. And
I said, really, I said, you know which baffle me
because you would think, okay, if it's close, then you
just go with the veteran player, right, you know, you
go with the gnome, you know guy? And he said no,
because we would rather take our lumps early in the
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season by letting this young kid develop and not hold
him back for when we think he's ready. If it's
close already, what's the point in holding him back. He's
already almost have surpassed the veteran. So what are we
holding him back for. He's ready to play now. And
if that's the case, you know, if that's what we're
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seeing in Pittsburgh between Kenny Pickett and Mitchell Trubisky, I
believe Mike Tomlin is gonna lean the same way because
those coaches they think alike. Okay, we thought naming Trey
Lance as the starter would settle the debate by the Bay,
but that was before Jimmy g resigned to stay. There
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is some significant news to get to. In fact, the
ripple effects of Jimmy Garoppolo staying with the forty nine
Ers crushing the hearts of a couple of fan bases
hoping to upgrade that quarterback situation. Our NFL Network insider
Ian Rappaport he broke the story that the Niners restructure
Jimmy Jeeves deal to keep him in San Francisco. That
new contract with six point five million fully guaranteed, with
incentives that can push it close to sixteen million. Here's
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Kyle Shanahan. This wasn't an option until I think Jimmy
saw all the other situations, and once that final preseason
game ended. I'm glad that what he thought was the
best option for him was a great option for us.
We have a starting quarterback as a backup. The rest
of the league had a chance to get him, and
I'm just feel so fortunate that he's still here. In
that case, Trey and Jimmy have a great relationship Trey
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actually likes having Jimmy in the building, and Trey was
very grateful to how Jimmy was to him last year.
We feel very strong from the two people that Jimmy
will give that back to trade this year. They'll do
for a trade what Jimmy did for him in the
year before. Today, both qbs talked about what most of
us are wondering, is Scull be awkward me and Trey. Honestly,
I know a lot of stuff gets made in the
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media like that, but we have a good relationship. Man's
So I mean, everyone could say what they wanted everything,
but I mean, we went through it last year is
very similar to this situation, so it's not like we
haven't done it before. And he's been a big brother
to me since my first day in the league, since
I got drafted the day I got drafted. So man,
I know he's got my back, I got his back.
But I'm super excited just to have him in the room,
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another guy again who's done it. Got to watch him
do it last year, got to learn a ton from him,
and I'm going to continue lay as much as I
can from him. You know, take all the all the
advice and he's got for me this year. Sounds like
a little damage control you worried about affecting Trey's development. Look,
it's a great insurance policy. It looks great on paper.
Having Jimmy Garoppolo. Do you talk about a guy who's
a proven winning he took this team to her Super Bowl.
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You have a young quarterback and mentorship is always available
to him. The issue that you have is Jimmy Garoppolo.
If he doesn't necessarily feel like he lost his job,
he could be sitting in there pining for an opportunity
to get back on the field, like most competitors would do.
And so if you're a Trey Lance, how do you
handle this part of it? Jimmy Garoppolo kind of hovering
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in the background. It sounds nice. It's great to have that,
But at the end of the day, win the business
and winning games. And if he goes to a skid,
and if the fans start channing for Jimmy Garoppolo to
go in, how is the young quarterbacks confidence going to
be effective? So if Trey Lance goes to Chicago in
twelve days and takes care of business and plays great,
none of this is a story, but we don't know
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how either player is wired. Trey Lance, if the fans
start chanting Jimmy G's name, we don't know how it's
going to play out in the locker room, Bucky, because
there will be the mic will be in front of
all these star players that they have, Hey, what do
you think who's best? And then we don't know how
Jimmy's wired to be a backup to Trey Lands if
he is struggling, guess he's just gonna be able to
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sit there and just watch it play that role. He
hasn't played that role before, So we really don't know
how either player is wired. In Philadelphia, Carson Wentz was
the starter they drafted Jalen Hurts. It didn't go really
well now in Philadelphia, and so we don't We didn't
know that about Carson until it came time to we
gotta upgrade this position. And that's the same thing in
San Francisco. I mean, because Jimmy Garoppolo can be the
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best guy, but even on the side, everyone on the
roster fields like they can be a player. And remember
Jimmy Garoppolo took this team to the Super Bowl and
had him in the championship game. A season ago, so
it's going to be hard for him to say, Oh,
I'm okay, I'm I'm cool being QB two. Normally that
is an older player who's on the back nine. Jimmy
Garoppolo is still in the prime of his career. That's hard.
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The other part to this, Bucky's okay. He takes this
reduced salary to be able to fit within the salary constraints.
He would love to get on the field this year
and play himself into another contract someplace else, and he
might get that opportunity and see how things go. But
in the back of his mind saying, I'm gonna use
this really great team situation right here, yea, the springboard
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to next year. Yeah. And the beauty of it is
it's an offense that he knows, it's players that he's
familiar with him. It's a very good team around the border,
which is potentially an audition for someone else. The story
continues to get juicier in the Bay. This is NFL
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Total Access, the podcast Quarterback Revenge stories all over the
Week one schedule. Russell Wilson's first game as a Bronco
in Seattle in front of the twelves against the Hawks.
Russell's replacement will be Geno Smith, who beat out Drew
Locke for the gig. Pete Carroll made the call. Steve
Mariucci likes the call. Is he the right choice to
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lead this franchise as they match up against getting ready
to match up against Russell Wilson? Yes, And when you
say ready to lead, you're not talking about for the
next six years. You're talking about Star day one. And
in fairness, if we're going to have a quarterback competition,
let's try to make it as equal and fair as
possible and choose the guy who've played the best, all right,
And Gino played the best in the preseason and in practices,
so he deserves it. Not only that he has built
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up over the last couple of years of little chemistry
with DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, and they know him
well and he knows them better. And Drew Locke has
just has to show some more consistency. But Gino's the
right guy for now. Hey, that could change during the year.
If they're one in four boom, they might make a change. Right.
Schedule makers have a sense of drama, they've got a
sense of humor. LT has a sense of danger. Why
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is the Hall of Famer saying don't let Russ cook?
I think you got to be careful how much you
let Russ cook. I mean, there are certain things. If
I'm speaking about food, there are certain things that I
believe Russell Wilson is a really good cook at There
are certain dishes you know that he cooks really well.
But there are some dishes that he probably don't need
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to be cooking, you know, and he probably needs to,
you know, defer a little bit maybe to Sierra a
little bit in the kitchen. In this case. What I'm
speaking about is oftentimes, where you're building a football team,
you're creating this identity for a football team. And I'm
afraid Coach Hackett right now, the identity that he's creating
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is just spread it around, throw the football all over
the park. We got these these these nice receivers. One
big guy, you know, one guy Jerry Judy that can
do a little bit of everything. Cortland Sutton is our
go to guy down the field type guy. It looks great,
but be careful because once you create the identity, you
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can't take it back. You can't just change an identity
throughout the season. Or midway through the season. So if
you get down the road, coach Hackett, and you're letting
Russell cook and it's not going so well, he's starting
to burn the damn food, then you're stuck. You know,
you're stuck with the cleanup at that point. You know,
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I go back to when I've seen Russell play his
best football back in Seattle, and it was those teams
that had a really good running game and a great defense,
and the running game it wasn't just an appetizer, you know,
it was. It was the main dish. Let's be honest,
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not to say Russell Wilson the passing game was just
an appetizer at that time, but it was, you know,
it was. It was part of the main course. Maybe
not the main course, maybe not the protein of the
mill at that time. So what I'm saying is, I
think you need to be careful and still understand that
your strength, in my opinion, on this offensive side of
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the ball is still maybe in the backfield. You know,
running the football is the easiest way to win games.
Throwing the football is the easiest way a lot of
time to lose games because so much can go wrong
when you're throwing the football right. So I want to
make sure that you know, they just understand that once
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you go down this road and create this identity where
you're gonna let Russ cook, I think you run the
risk of alien eating some really good guys in the
backfield and even around the team. Because one thing that
football players know, they understand they know the strength of
a team. Like when you're in it, you understand that, man,
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we can run the football or you know we're not
very good right now throwing the football. We need to be,
So you can't fool football players. Just make sure you
got the right men. You There are times where you
might go into a game and you actually believe you
have you have the advantage and you know to throw
the football. I'm fine those games letting Russ cook. What
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I'm saying is, please don't think that Russell was going
to carry this team by throwing the ball forty to
fifty times every week. Like that's not a great recipe.
That's not a recipe for success in my opinion. This
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is NFL Total Access, the podcast to just kickoff week
in the NFL and Week one, Game one is job
one for the defending Super Bowl champion La Rams, who
start on Thursday night against the team many say is
the favorite to win it all this season, the Buffalo Bills.
How will this one go down? Willie mac d hall
have answers. Let's go all right, the numbers inside this
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matchup so that it's kind of an uphill climb for Buffalo.
Sean McBay has not lost in week one were as
the head coach. He's a perfect five and oh you guys,
scoring over thirty two points per game and allowing just
sixeen in week one matchups. So as we get closer,
starting to feel really real, real real at this across
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the street, what's going to be the number one factor
that's going to decide this game? Really Well, First of all,
you know, it's the first game of the season, so
you can't come in and make a lot of mistakes
and you can't beat yourself. But if I'm thinking what
Buffalo is trying to do to win this football game,
I'm listening to their head coach Sean McDermott, and he says,
we have to be physical in the trenches on both
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sides of the ball. Meeting on defense, we got to
stop the run. We can't let teams gashes, which we
see a little bit last year. And offensively, we got
to have an identity up front where we can run
the football to close out games. Now, the Hall, we
know they can score points. They were third in scoring
averaging twenty eight points. We know they can score on
with the best. But when it's time to close out
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teams and finish teams out and show that physicality up
front and not give teams other opportunities to get back
in games or multiple opportunities to score points, this team
got to do a better out that doing that. Yeah,
you're absolutely right. And it's funny that you talk about
those trenches and winning up front because I'm a point
to one man on the other side, and it's the
man that went just like that getting pressure, and that's
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Aaron Donald, right. He is the heartbeat of this Rams defense,
and so they're gonna go as he goes. And so
if he's able to get pressure, move Josh Allen off
that spot and not move them to go get a sack,
just move them to make him look somewhere else to
not be able to lock onto his targets down the
football field running mento. Guys like Bobby Wagon, who I
cannot wait to see in a RAMS uniform running into
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a little Florida on the edge right running mento guys
like Jayden Ramsey who's able to now cover just a
little bit shorter so they can go and jump some routes.
And so I'm excited to watch this RAMS defense get
out of it. I love me some rockheen more. As
you guys know that, we also love a good guest,
a Hall of Fame guest, the Bills legend, the world's
last keeper of a landline phone, whether he knows he
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has it or not. Jim Kelly. I'm so excited to
be on by my fellow Hall of Fame brother, legendary
quarterback Jim Kelly, Jim hardy Man. How's the weather in
Buffalo right now? As a matter of fact, I think
most of the country would love to be in this
weather right now. It's through mid upper seventies, no you
mad any? Beautiful weather? All good? Or tomatoes that started
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to get nights right? My blteas are coming to unbelievable
show All good right now? Well, I'm asking because I'm
in Sonny, Los Angeles, and as you know, your Buffalo
Bills are gonna be coming here for the first game
of the season, right across the street at so Far
Stadium to play the defendant Super Bowl champions. It's different
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weather here. As you know, Jim, you think your Bills
are ready, which I've done. I'm gonna be at the Gamers.
A matter of fact, me and my two daughters, my
son all my wife are gonna be celebrating her birthday.
We're going to Napa and I'm going right from Nappa
to LA to watch the Buffalo Bills kick from back.
So of course they're ready, all right. I like that.
Now I'm thinking about a guy like Von Miller, who
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is now with the Buffalo Bills. As you know, how
do you think he's failing right now? Knowing that he
just won a Super Bowl championship with the Los Angeles Rams.
Now he's on another potential Super Bowl champion team in
the Buffalo Bills. What do you think he's thinking about?
I mean, I look at what Von brings our defense,
even though our defense was ranked at the top last year.
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And of course we all know about the thirteen seconds,
but the ball line, that's the pass that to overwit
Von Brents. I think that now leadership to the defensive side.
We got first Josh and digit now David Shaw on
the offensive side. But I'll tell you what, I'm pumped up.
And it shouldna be a tough game with the crowd
and with what they are coming off of. But you
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know what, the Bill Chef's something to prove in their
own mind. They cannot lose games that they should win.
It's gonna be a tough one. They have a tough schedule.
But I'll tell you what I think. Ken Dorshy has
showed in the first couple of preseason games. He's ready
to rock and roll. Get Josh Allen doing what he does.
But one of the things I think we need to
do is on offense. I think get that running game
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going to take somebody pressure off of Josh so he
doesn't have to run so much. But I'm being honestly,
I'm really excited. No more Brian day Ball. You mentioned
Ken Dorsey taken over obviously his offensive play caller. What
are we going to see from from this young kid?
Have we seen his sailing or can he get better?
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M boy? It's hard to get any better, and he
did last year. I mean I love it, of course
you can, but you know, what when I watched Ken Dorsey.
I had him at my football camp for kids, and
the first thing I said to him pretty much almost
two The only thing I said to him, I said,
do not have more than four or five games where
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you have called players for Josh Allen. I do not
need this and Josh does nothing need to take chance
and getting hurt when you need him every single game.
I like this young kid now that they drafted in
James Cook. He seems like he's gonna add an explosive
element out the backfield with Josh Allen. Do you think
James Cook can be a guy to add another dimension
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in that offense? To be honest with you, you know what.
I'm a I'm a big Singlitary fan, and you have Cooks.
I think definitely brings an added addition to our offense.
I think losses a good running back. I like the
little running back out of the back room. But for
those lineback, the defense lineman, it can't see where he's
going and we're run him. I think as much as
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we could have last year, I like him, but I'll
take what Cook adds at a rule dimensional. Doing whatever
it takes you get it done. Good, good, receiver out
of the back too. I think you bring everything. Quarterback
would love to have smart to step up and block
when he has the block. But Dave got a good
running backs and I think they should utilize that more
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than they did last year. Nothing against what they did
last year, they were very good. But I think if
we take somebody pressure off to Josh making every play
all the time, I think that will help. Well. I
hear your phone keeps ringing. I'm not sure if that's
the Buffalo Bills trying to call you right now. They
need you for some reason. What's going on there? Well,
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Mark number one, I don't even have a landline. The
only thing I have a landline for is my computer
and everything. I haven't even answered that phone. And probably
four or five years, Ring's baby twice every month and
just show happened you happened? Ringing out and I'm like,
by myself, I can't go over and I don't even
think I have a phone here to be honest with you. Well,
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go figure. I gotta last question. I gotta ask you
about Michael Robinson. I very on. Michael Robinson loves the
Buffalo Bills and he always talked about the fanatic fans
in Buffalo, and he's been intrigued by jumping off, you
know and breaking this table. I'm wondering he did that. Now,
I'm wondering did you see that? And if you did,
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what what score? You? What? You great? Because I think
it was pretty horrible. Oh, it was bad. Number one.
You don't you don't do that. I just worry about that.
I mean, I remember going to a Tennessee game and
there's a young lady who was up on top of
a motor home and I just said, please do me
if I do not do this. I said, it's not smart.
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Number one. You know when people drinking. I'm sure Robinson
wasn't drinking when you did that, But I don't mind
doing it to really easy tables if you don't go
from a high level. But you know what, when you're
a whack of doodle, you do things like that. And
bid Mafia doesn't surprise me one bit. They're tragy. But
I'll tell you what. You wouldn't want anybody other than
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them cheering you on in a stadium. That's right. Well, thanks, Jim,
I really appreciate you. You're joining us for a few minutes,
and good luck to you this year. Best of luck
to your Buffalo Bills, and enjoy the game here at
so Far Stadium in Los Angeles. All this week we're
getting you ready for the Rams and Bills, including special
visits from Andre Reid and Bruce Smith and to Reholt
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totally impartial guests. Of course, Derreck Henry's going to stop
by two, so don't miss that. But first you have
a last minute fantasy draft. Adam Rink has the hot sauce.
Where's the crowd? Stop it? I come in for one segment.
I expect some excitement. It is time for the fantasy
hot Sauce. We're gonna start with mild, mild but flavorful
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and this is my thing, like flavor. You're overdrafting Ezekiel Elliott,
and I understand that's kind of mild. It's a little mid.
You're like, oh, did somebody actually just serve me marinara sauce?
Like what is this? But here's the truth of the matter.
Ezekiel Elliott, who last year was the RB seven, the
highest Spanish of his life, but still his touches have
decreased four consecutive seasons. There are injuries on that offensive line.
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If you were sitting there in this second round drafting
Ezekiel Elliott. I have to ask you, what are you doing?
You don't need to do that. That's the pineapple salsa.
Go try something else. All right, let's get spice. No,
who wants to get spicy? You should be drafting Rashad
Penny and not Kenneth Walker the third and I get
it once. It's like, you know, Kenneth Walker is like
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that spot that just opened up around the corner. Got
a couple of nice yell previews. Now there's a line
around the block. But you're like, whoa were you not there?
In Rashad Penny last season ten games, seven hundred and
fifty rushing yards, six touchdowns. They love this guy. They
love him and he's going to be a star this
year for the Seattle Sea Hut because they're gonna run
the football. Do you think you think you know it's
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gonna be throwing the ball? No, he's not. Shad O'Hara.
A couple of rookie tackles. All right, let's go three? Alarm? Oh,
who's ready? Who's ready for three? Let me say it.
I'm fading ceedee limb. That's right, I said it. Oh,
non stop it, stop it. I'm not saying he's a
bad player. I'm saying he's a good the silence of
the limb. Oh, I'm sorry, shan Oh, you want to
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come do this? I get four minutes to this show.
Let me don't do don't get the funniest jokes out
of here, but listen. And there's a lot of options
there in the third round. I'm looking at guys like
Mike Evans, C Higgins, Tyreek Hill, Tyreek Hill somehow is
going behind Ceedee Lamb. Don't make that mistake, Ceedee Lamb.
Good player, good player. We're not drafting, We're not over
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drafting him. Ld Oo. Dalton Schultz this season has more
points than Travis Kelsey. That's right. Last year Dalton Schultz
was crushing it eight hundred and eight yards. He had
close to eighty receptions. This season, he is gonna go
for a thousand. When you look at all the departures
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for the Cowboys in regards to their pass catchers, the
guy who is going to step up this season is
going to be Dalton Schultz. And if you do not
get one of the elite tight ends early in your draft,
I'm talking to Mark Andrews and I'm talking about Kyle Pitts.
If you don't get either one of those guys, you wait.
You take Dalton Schultz and you win. And you're waiting that.
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Ladies and gentlemen, It's the hot Sauce tomorrow on NFL
Total Access, the podcast Why Joe Burrow and the Bengals
are set to make yet another run to the Super Bowl,
and the brutal truth about Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys.
We'll see you then. This has been NFL Total Access,
the podcast. NFL Total Access is a production of the
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