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We're going to be breaking down all of the biggest news in

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a lot to discuss. us. Number one, some

2:01

big rule changes coming from the NFL,

2:03

but not everything we would like to see

2:06

addressed was taken care of, unfortunately.

2:08

So what changes would we make if we

2:11

had the option? Let me know what rules you would

2:13

change down in the comments. Also,

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Odo

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Beckham Jr. at NFL league

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meetings, trying to meet with teams and find

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his next

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destination, what would be the best

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fit. And then we will open Alex's mystery

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crate at the end of the show for a little game

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of who says no.

2:31

Can't wait to dive into all of that.

2:33

But first, we do got to talk about these

2:35

NFL rule changes and

2:38

a lot was changed by the NFL

2:40

but

2:41

nothing too crazy. In my opinion, the

2:43

first thing that I want to point out is

2:45

now you can wear number

2:48

zero in the NFL, the

2:50

Philadelphia Eagles, actually put that

2:53

out into the proposal list

2:55

and it was approved. So, number zero

2:58

will be available We

3:00

got some other changes like to the

3:02

play clock following an instant

3:05

replay. Got some

3:07

changes on reviews. Now,

3:10

an automatic review will

3:12

happen on any

3:14

failed fourth down attempt.

3:17

They made it a major penalty, a

3:19

personal foul for tripping. So

3:21

it won't just be tripping. It's literally a personal

3:23

foul for doing that. There

3:26

were some things that weren't changed like the on-side

3:28

kick situation, and I thought

3:30

that was a shame because the NFL

3:33

says that they're looking for 13% to 14% recovery rate.

3:34

Last

3:37

year was an all-time low at 4%, so

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that's clearly not going the

3:44

way that they were hoping for it to go, and I was

3:46

hoping we would see some drastic change there,

3:48

but we'll talk about what rules we want to

3:50

see change now. Alex, we

3:52

know the rules that did get changed, some of the big

3:54

ones at least. What

3:56

is one thing that you would

3:58

change

3:59

with the rulebook if you

4:01

were running the league for the day. So

4:04

there are two. One is

4:07

has nothing to do with the field. Tyler, I've talked

4:09

about this a lot on my podcast

4:11

locked on Cardinals and this one. Hyphenate

4:15

the season year. If

4:17

the playoffs are going to be the next year, if

4:20

you ask me who won the

4:22

Super Bowl in 2022, I have no idea what

4:24

you're talking about. Are you talking about the 2022

4:26

season? Are you talking about

4:28

the team that actually won a Super Bowl in 2022, which

4:31

would be the LA Rams?

4:33

Right. So, just hyphenated

4:36

every other franchise, every

4:38

other major sport, basketball and

4:41

hockey hyphenated because their

4:43

year is split on two different

4:45

calendar years. Mother of everything.

4:48

Why? Why not? That's one. Number

4:51

two, and this is something that I think everybody,

4:53

you included, I do impress

4:56

you sometimes Tyler Roland of locked on Titans Not

4:59

all penalties that happen

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on offense and defense in the same play

5:04

should offset

5:05

there is no reason why a

5:07

Personal foul and a

5:09

holding call should offset there

5:12

is no reason why off sides and

5:15

a personal foul should offset

5:17

a Personal foul should trump

5:19

anything else because that is an egregious

5:22

play in some form or fashion So that

5:24

should not just be offset by

5:26

another penalty by the opposing team on the same plane.

5:29

Yeah. No, that makes a ton of sense.

5:32

I mean, why would, like you

5:34

said, an offsides outweigh

5:36

a holding when the yardage

5:39

that's assigned to those is different. It

5:41

doesn't really make 5 equals 10, 5 equals 15, all

5:43

that, the way they do it, it

5:46

doesn't really make sense. So I get that too.

5:48

One big thing for me, And

5:51

I thought it was something, you know, that you were

5:53

going to bring up, honestly,

5:54

is these roughing the passer calls

5:57

are affecting games. And I think

5:59

out of all. All the things that upset

6:02

the

6:02

fans when they're watching the game, there is nothing

6:04

worse than

6:06

having a roughing the passer call

6:08

on a clean sack.

6:09

I mean, and defense, it's just

6:11

so hard to play defense. There

6:14

are so many rules already if

6:16

called to the tee

6:17

could hurt the defense and help the offense. You

6:20

can't

6:21

mess up this consistently on

6:24

calling the roughing the passer penalty. It

6:26

needs to be reviewable. I

6:28

know that we don't want to do too many reviews because

6:30

it is a television product, but at

6:33

the end of the day, I've just seen so many

6:35

bad roughing the pass or calls

6:37

made that were nowhere even close.

6:40

They have to do something to slow that

6:42

down, whether it's reviewable by,

6:44

you know, the officials,

6:47

New York, or if

6:49

the coaches can add it to the challenge, no

6:52

matter what, I think you need to do it. And

6:54

since you threw in a bonus, I'll throw in a bonus

6:56

as well. you should never run out of challenges.

7:00

If you have to, we've seen too

7:03

many examples of coaches having

7:05

to challenge things that should have never been called

7:07

wrong. And you can get your

7:10

two challenges right and get a third challenge,

7:12

but after that,

7:13

you're still screwed. So I think as long

7:16

as you win your challenges,

7:18

you should never be out of challenges. That should

7:20

never go away. Yeah, or at least

7:22

bump it to five. Like the game's so slow

7:24

anyways. Remember folks,

7:26

football is slower

7:29

than the game of baseball per play. It

7:31

doesn't seem like it, but it is,

7:34

especially with that long play clock. It's

7:37

like, it's 40 seconds of play. So

7:40

and then Tyler, one more thing that's

7:42

never going to happen, but it should. One

7:45

way to balance out the referees

7:47

taking over all professional sports,

7:50

it seems is take whatever percentage

7:52

that you find players for.

7:54

and transition that to bad calls

7:57

made by refs. because if that's

7:59

the case.

8:00

If it's so egregious and it's not

8:02

reviewable, if you find a ref a thousand bucks

8:04

for a bad call,

8:05

maybe things will go a little bit more,

8:08

not like for player safety things, but like roughing

8:11

the passer, there's something that's so egregious that's not

8:13

reviewable. There's gotta be some accountability

8:16

held and not just a two minute drill where it's like,

8:18

oh yeah, that was a bad call. That

8:20

does legitimately nothing except for piss

8:22

the team off that the call was against. That's

8:25

it.

8:26

I will say this, I think that there should

8:28

be, there

8:31

needs to be a little more transparency

8:33

in the officiating. And I think the big

8:35

change that I would make with officiating is

8:38

I would make referees full-time employees

8:40

of the league. They can afford it and

8:42

then they can focus more on training. They

8:44

can focus more on film study, looking

8:47

at the right call, the wrong call, how it should

8:49

be called, all of that. The problem is being

8:52

an official is hard enough already. You're

8:55

the worst man in the building. You're everybody's

8:57

worst enemy no matter what team it is. You're

8:59

getting screamed at the whole game by both sides.

9:01

If they start finding guys and taking their money

9:03

away, they'll just quit. You just

9:06

can't do that. You just can't find

9:08

these. They're not making the money that the players

9:10

are. So there's the only way to fix it

9:12

for me is to make them full time. Because if you start

9:15

finding guys for bad calls, there's gonna

9:17

quit and then you're gonna have worse official

9:19

quality anyway. I get what you're saying. We're

9:21

just trying to find a solution here how

9:23

egregious the officiating can be sometimes.

9:25

And I think the first step that you take is

9:28

making them full-time employees and paying

9:30

them a really good salary. Then

9:32

maybe you might be able to get into,

9:35

you know, an adequate fine

9:37

if a mistake is made, things like that. But

9:39

moving right along, we got to talk about O.

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Owner's meetings in full swing

12:07

out here in Arizona. Odell

12:09

Beckham Jr., before we jump into teams,

12:11

isn't it fascinating? He

12:14

doesn't get enough credit for completely changing his image

12:18

at all. Like going to Cleveland is usually

12:20

a place where things get exposed. And

12:22

we saw a little bit of it, but it wasn't

12:24

so much me, me, me. It was more that

12:27

Baker Vayner, He wasn't getting targets

12:29

as a wide receiver one. Like they ran the ball so

12:31

much with Baker Mayfield. I don't, like

12:34

I root for Odell Beckham now.

12:36

He could have won Super Bowl MVP

12:38

if he didn't get hurt in the middle of the game. Like-

12:41

He was about to win it. He is must, he

12:43

is must watch TV and not just

12:46

for the off field antics like it used to be

12:49

on top of the play. Like I'm rooting for him

12:51

and I hope that he finds a place where he can flourish

12:53

cause he's still pretty young. Coming off ACL

12:55

surgery isn't

12:56

nearly what it used to be obviously.

12:59

So there are a couple of names, a couple of

13:01

team names that have been drifted out there. Cleveland

13:04

was a big one for like 10 minutes.

13:06

Dallas was a big one for 15 minutes. Baltimore

13:10

is another one, which I don't know why anybody would want to go

13:12

play there, especially with Lamar Jackson and

13:14

Flux, whether he was going to come back or not.

13:16

For you, let's do

13:18

one, let's

13:22

do one like actual

13:24

rational one and your dream

13:26

spot. for Odell Beckham Jr. to

13:28

land. Well, I think

13:30

the rational one is

13:35

the Jets. Right? I mean,

13:37

that's the rational one. Go play

13:39

with Aaron Rodgers. They're trying to load up

13:41

for a one-year push to see if they can win.

13:44

You get to go back to New York City where as

13:46

time has passed, like

13:48

you said, Odell Beckham, that, I

13:50

think that performance in the

13:52

Super Bowl what

13:55

was just monstrous for his career and

13:57

his image. And I agree with you. He

13:59

was cuddly.

14:00

win Super Bowl MVP at that rate. He was cooking

14:03

in that game. He looked fantastic. And

14:05

let's not forget he's got a lot of drama.

14:08

He's a diva, all this, but

14:10

he might be the most talented receiver

14:12

I've ever watched in terms of just pure

14:14

role talent. I mean, I'd still

14:17

go with Randy Moss or Calvin Johnson. Antonio

14:19

Brown's up there. He's an Antonio Brownish.

14:22

Right. Odell Beckham is in that conversation

14:25

of the most talented receivers I've ever seen.

14:27

And For me, you add him to

14:30

New York, New York feels differently about

14:32

Odell now than they did right when he left

14:34

the Giants. There's a different feeling,

14:36

a different appreciation for him. So I know he'd

14:38

be going to the Jets and not the Giants, but the New

14:40

York media. He'd spend

14:42

a lot of time in New York City, not New Jersey.

14:45

You know what I mean if he was with the team. So I

14:47

think he can handle the media spotlight to go back

14:49

to New York City and

14:52

kind of put a cap on things there with a good season,

14:55

maybe a playoff run with the Jets, playing with

14:57

Aaron Rodgers. I think realistically,

14:59

that makes a ton of sense. For me, fantasy

15:02

wise, not fantasy football, but

15:04

just

15:04

pure enjoyment of watching football,

15:07

it's the Chiefs. It's the Chiefs, right?

15:10

I mean,

15:11

Patrick Mahomes was able to win a Super Bowl without

15:13

Tyreek Hill because he's an absolute freak of nature.

15:16

But you add in an elite

15:19

receiver when they're healthy, and it

15:21

just makes the Chiefs even that much more fun to

15:23

watch. Right now, with no

15:26

juju, I think that Odell

15:28

makes a ton of sense to go to Kansas City,

15:30

and he could be really fun in that offense and fun to

15:32

watch, which is most important at the end of the day.

15:35

Yeah. And you don't need to be tall in that offense.

15:37

They haven't had a tall receiver of actual consequence.

15:40

Like, you can't really count MVS as

15:43

even though we had monster game. I think it was in the playoffs.

15:45

He had a monster game. Or the Super Bowl, even.

15:47

But, you know, it just wasn't, you know, you

15:49

don't have to be tall to be in that offense. Yeah, and that's fine.

15:51

Like,

15:52

The unfortunate part for him was

15:54

that he missed this year because this

15:57

year was the year where he wasn't

15:59

gonna garner $20 million and he could sign

16:01

a Juju's Mishuster deal and go there

16:03

or go to Buffalo. Now he needs one

16:05

more payday.

16:07

Like he needs a three year 60 mil with

16:09

you know 40 million guaranteed or something like

16:11

that and I think he's gonna get it where

16:13

I think he should go which makes the most

16:15

sense because they overpay everybody is Dallas.

16:18

I just think that it it just makes sense. I had that written

16:20

down as well. You know he doesn't have to deal with the elements.

16:23

He could like if you're

16:24

You're gonna tell me CD Layman 100% be wide

16:26

receiver one. I'd say who

16:29

he fish. I think he would walk in there

16:31

and be wide receiver one if he's healthy. Because as you

16:33

mentioned, he's one of the more

16:37

upsetting career arcs.

16:40

After what started with no real great quarterback

16:42

playing New York, going to Cleveland, no real

16:44

great quarterback play there.

16:46

And then going to the Rams

16:48

finally as a second option.

16:51

And this old world guy

16:53

for like eight games or ten games, whatever he was there,

16:55

he had one Miller a year over there

16:57

on the offensive side.

16:59

For me though, if money

17:01

wasn't the issue,

17:03

if he didn't want $20 million, I'd want him

17:05

to go to either Cincinnati or Buffalo. Cuz

17:07

Cincinnati and Buffalo need

17:10

to throw, make you wanna throw

17:12

up with how many offensive weapons they have, both of them.

17:15

I think Buffalo needs them more. He can play in the

17:17

cold, he can run all the routes. He's

17:19

a Stefan

17:21

Diggs kind of receiver. He's

17:23

not big. He was Stefan Diggs before Stefan

17:25

Diggs, okay? Yeah, but Stefan

17:27

Diggs is so much more

17:30

regimented. Like he runs

17:32

routes. Odo Beckham just does, like Odo

17:34

Beckham just finds open space. He's

17:36

so much, it's so much sexier

17:38

to see Odo Beckham run routes, cause normally

17:40

he's not doing it

17:42

like by the book. Stefan Diggs is

17:44

a robot. What

17:46

he runs, he's the best, he's the best

17:49

It's a compliment. Yeah, of course, absolutely.

17:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you put both of them

17:54

with Gabe Davis and have Gabe Davis

17:56

be a wide receiver three, Like he is, he's

17:58

not a wide receiver too. I

18:00

think it'd be fantastic, but I think Dallas, it's a no brainer.

18:02

It's a no brainer that offense needs to flow with Zik.

18:05

They're going to run the ball more, but it's going to be Tony Jordan,

18:08

probably Bijon Robinson and there it's

18:10

different offense this year and it's going to be more deck

18:12

centric. Even though I think Mike McCarthy wants to run the ball

18:15

more.

18:15

So I mean, I think that's a great option

18:18

now, Kyler and I,

18:20

Kyler and I like to have some fun here. And

18:22

because we're the same height, me and Kyler, you

18:25

are. And you, one of you is going to be the

18:27

next quarterback the Miami Dolphins seemingly

18:29

in the next couple of years, according to... Happening.

18:32

According to Tyler

18:34

Roland Stradamus, it doesn't really work. But,

18:37

you know, we can talk about what everybody else

18:39

talks about. Well, you know, where

18:41

should this player sign that he's a low level guy? Where should

18:44

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18:48

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I love these. I love these

21:20

segments. I just do. You

21:22

know, it's been such a weird offseason.

21:25

Like, this is the bona

21:27

fide definition of,

21:29

even if things aren't going absolutely

21:32

insane, the

21:33

NFL offseason still wins.

21:35

Sure, there's more player movement in the NBA, even though

21:37

the NFL is definitely, you know, shortening

21:39

that gap.

21:41

With free agency not having that many

21:43

huge names, like I know Deron Payne and others

21:45

made a lot of money, but it wasn't

21:47

star studded like it will be in 2024. Now,

21:51

we

21:51

could talk about some boring moves that could be made, you know,

21:53

secondary or tertiary moves to bolster

21:56

teams rosters, or we could talk about

21:58

why Lamar Jackson and Aaron Ross.

22:00

haven't been talked about in a trade swap. Why

22:03

isn't that hap- like, I brought this

22:05

up a month ago,

22:06

when the Aaron Rodgers news first came out and I'm like,

22:08

okay, Lamar Jackson's unhappy, Aaron

22:11

Rodgers is unhappy. Why

22:13

not just swap them? Their contracts would

22:16

swap. Imagine Lamar Jackson and Lambo,

22:18

he already plays in cold weather. They want to run

22:20

the ball anyways. He's got a couple of weapons.

22:22

He's got a tight, like,

22:24

it would be pretty much a swapping franchises

22:27

for Lamar Jackson, pretty much be the same

22:29

thing.

22:30

Just with more of an offensive-minded head coach, probably

22:33

a stronger running game, a little bit better

22:35

offensive line, and they've got an up-and-coming

22:37

defense. And Aaron Rodgers would

22:39

go to a place that is in Green Bay. Or

22:41

the Jets at this point, because it seems like the Jets have all the

22:43

leverage.

22:45

If that was brought

22:47

to the table, Tyler Roland of Locked-On Titans,

22:50

who says no? Green Bay or

22:52

Baltimore? Or either for

22:55

an Aaron Rogers, Lamar Jackson, Swann. OK,

23:00

so I

23:01

think Green Bay says no.

23:03

I just for whatever

23:06

reason, I really think they want to roll with Jordan

23:08

Love.

23:09

And you get the benefit of having a quarterback

23:11

on his rookie contract for one more year. All

23:14

of the issues that people have with Lamar

23:16

are still real. I think that

23:19

Green Bay wants to get rid of Aaron Rogers,

23:21

go with a young quarterback,

23:22

and see what they got. So I think Green

23:24

Bay. I think Green Bay says

23:27

no,

23:27

I do, I do. Rather than,

23:29

I think they would rather roll with Jordan Love

23:31

for a year, than meet Lamar Jackson's

23:33

contract demands and

23:36

not get picks back for Aaron Rodgers.

23:38

If they did a swap like that, they're not gonna

23:40

get picks back for Rodgers anymore. If anything,

23:43

they'd be sending a pick with Rodgers

23:45

to get ahold of Lamar Jackson. So I

23:47

think with that in mind, I think

23:50

the Packers say no. I've

23:53

said this before and I'll continue to say it. It's

23:55

not positive Jordan

23:58

love. negative. Aaron Rodgers. That's

24:01

why they want, that's why they're being positive about Jordan

24:03

Love because he's not Aaron Rodgers. If you can all know the

24:05

money. I agree. Well, and

24:08

the thing is,

24:09

you know, they ain't getting a first

24:11

round pick now. Green

24:13

Bay. So do you want to trade

24:16

Aaron Rodgers for maybe two

24:18

seconds and a fourth or something like that?

24:21

And maybe a player to come back?

24:23

Or do you want to swap, be

24:25

like, okay, listen. It's Lamar Jackson.

24:28

Jackson. He's plug and play in this offense.

24:30

Imagine Aaron Jones, AJ

24:32

Dillon, and Lamar Jackson in the backfield.

24:35

Like

24:35

I it's it's not ideal.

24:39

But I think neither say no. I

24:41

think that is a perfect swap. Young

24:45

franchise guy wants to win can play

24:48

in the cold cuz he's done in Baltimore for last

24:50

handful of seasons. Doesn't need a whole lot

24:52

of offensive firepower to to win

24:55

from the wide receiver group. He does it.

24:57

And that's an upgrade over there.

25:00

Aaron Rodgers goes to Baltimore. They draft

25:02

a wide receiver if they trade him before

25:04

the draft.

25:05

And you go off

25:07

into the sunset for two years where you automatically

25:10

are in contention in the AFC.

25:12

A lot further along than you would be

25:15

without Lamar Jackson or without Aaron

25:18

Rodgers. OK, pivot.

25:19

This is one that I was going to talk about. I

25:22

do have to give credit to Jody Ehler, former associate

25:24

of mine, Fox Sports 910 Phoenix. I was, you

25:26

know, I was there producing and

25:28

hosting shows for five years.

25:30

I was going to make this the

25:34

title segment of my podcast,

25:36

Two Days Go Unlocked on Cardinals. He posted the Twitter

25:39

poll about it. I got to give him credit because he did it first.

25:42

Kyler Murray for Lamar Jackson, who says no?

25:47

The

25:49

Ravens. The Ravens

25:51

say no. Because

25:53

Kyler's got a torn ACL.

25:55

I tri... And at the end of

25:57

the day, it's what you believe. I believe that

25:59

there is. with Kyler Murray in a study

26:01

habits. I don't think that came out of nowhere. I

26:03

don't think that's a complete lie, complete falsification.

26:06

Somebody just made it up and it became a big story.

26:09

Like I don't believe that. I think that there are

26:11

some leadership issues, some study issues

26:13

with Kyler Murray, not to mention the huge

26:16

contract that he's on that I don't know if he's

26:18

worth plus the ACL injury. I

26:20

think the Ravens would say no

26:23

and they'd rather just hold on to Lamar Jackson and look for

26:25

a different trade partner.

26:26

Yeah, I mean, people forget that Lamar Jackson's

26:29

missed 60% of the last two seasons.

26:32

All he does is miss time now.

26:34

That's all that Mark Jackson does is miss time. Well, now it's coming

26:36

out that people are worried about his diet and

26:38

his sleep habits. Like, is he taking

26:41

care of his body when he's not at work and stuff?

26:43

I think those are similar to the Kyler

26:45

Murray concerns about, you know, is

26:48

he doing what he's supposed to be doing when he's

26:50

not in the facility, when he's off the field, when

26:52

he's not at practice? All those things matter

26:54

a ton. So clearly those are two

26:57

guys that have some issues like that,

26:59

that people are worried about. Yeah. And listen,

27:01

I, the end of that question, I'm just making up my own

27:03

rules here. I'd say both say no. Like,

27:06

I don't think that that's an obvious swap.

27:09

Like Kyler Murray, even though

27:11

he had, he's

27:12

had, he has, he's still learning,

27:14

still getting better. I still think that if you listen to lockdown

27:17

Cardinals, even for a second, you'll know that I

27:19

believe truly. And I think this is true

27:21

that Cliff Kingsbury has held him back during his four, four seasons.

27:24

He hasn't been given the

27:26

coaching and teaching and

27:28

leadership that quarterbacks like

27:30

Lamar Jackson have been given. That Joe Burroughs

27:33

been given. That Patrick Mahomes obviously

27:35

has been given. That Josh Allen especially

27:38

has been given.

27:40

And Kyler Murray can still throw a team back in the game

27:42

way way way

27:44

more effectively and efficiently than Lamar Jackson can.

27:46

And I don't think it's even close. Like if you don't,

27:48

if you're the Ravens, you go down 17 points,

27:51

you lose. Like

27:52

that's not Lamar Jackson cannot throw the ball 45

27:55

times for 380 yards and four

27:57

touchdowns unless it's against Miami in

28:00

week one, you know, four or five years

28:02

ago when everybody was already wanting

28:04

out of Miami

28:05

with Brian Flores there. Like Lamar

28:08

Jackson can't do it when you're down 17. He just

28:10

can't do it. Kyler Murray can. And I trust Kyler

28:12

Murray and his throwing ability and his

28:14

illusivity

28:16

more so than I trust the Mark Jackson and

28:18

his skillset.

28:20

Well, that's interesting. I think both those guys are gonna

28:22

be interesting guys to watch. They're both

28:24

dudes right now who were considered

28:26

like potentially elite quarterbacks at one

28:28

point in time had some, some rough

28:30

couple of seasons here. And it's

28:33

kind of interesting to see where they fall in the

28:35

hierarchy of quarterbacks in the NFL,

28:37

but that's going to do it for us today on a

28:39

Thursday edition of the locked on NFL podcast.

28:41

Make sure that you get subscribed, stay subscribed, check

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28:46

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28:48

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Alex Clancy. You guys stay safe and

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enjoy your weekend.

28:59

a historic night from Caitlin Clark.

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Iowa's women's basketball is headed to the Final

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Four for the first time in 30 years. When

29:07

you talk about this team, you have to talk about Caitlin

29:10

Clark. 41 points, 12 assists, 10

29:12

rebounds. That was a performance for

29:15

the ages. And the Miami Hurricanes punched

29:17

the final ticket to the men's Final Four, upsetting

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the Texas Longhorns 88 to 81 on Sunday night. They

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