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This is Dave Canalis OC for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and this is the NFL Report welcome into the NFL report James Palmer Rhett Lewis with you we’re going to have to have Dave Canalis do another one of those because the title is incorrect Rhett Rhett is filling in for Steve W we have a boatload of faces r that we are going to get to including

Dante Hall the human joystick most entertaining players to watch Chiefs Legend we also have Omar Ruiz Stacy Dales covering us for the NFC side of things baly will be with this as well for baldi’s favorite films I’m so glad you joined us on a show where there’s so

Little to talk about yeah I mean that’s why you had to bring me in right as the content specialist as the conversationalist here this that’s why I’m here uh yeah man it’s h it’s exciting and this is such this is like my favorite time of the year because we

Get to merge you know my favorite worlds right which are you know you get the NFL postseason which is impossible to beat but it’s also the beginning of draft season right so we’re going to have Allstar games coming up next week I’m getting ready to head to Frisco Texas

For the 99th annual East West Shrine Bowl senior Senior Bowl kicks off next week and uh GNA have a little bit little bit of little bit of something for you on some names to watch from those games later in the show I like it I like it I

Like it let’s get to these head coaching changes I said it R Dave Canales is no longer the offensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers he is the new head coach of the Carolina Panthers when this hire happened just a little bit before we started this show what was the first

Thing that went through your mind R wow um I mean it it really was because it feels like a dramatic star rise and a star turn for Dave Canales JP um you one year as the offensive coordinator play caller in Tampa and now is getting his

Shot as a head coach and the one thing that I that I know is for certain I mean the Panthers have gone through this process right they brought in a ton T of different guys um we know this is a demanding ownership group right with David terer um just hired their new

GM yep yep probably a little bit um I really like Dan Morgan uh as a GM he’s been there as the assistant he he knows what good programs are like and how to build them and he knows what it means to be in lock step with a head coach he saw

It with Brandon bean and Shan McDermot up in Buffalo when he was up with that crew um and so now coming here to Carolina I like that’s what you’re going to get with Morgan with Canales and this Brain Trust moving forward trying to get Bryce young and this Carolina Panthers team

Move and that’s the ticket right there what is your plan for Bryce young you know it was asked to every single guy who interviewed there with David teer and I think what we’ve seen Dave Canales and he’s been on this show he’s talked to us at length about his offensive

Philosophies I think that’s going to be what a lot of us are watching and what he does with Bryce young he has Baker Mayfield coming in in the one year they’re together he’s up for comeback Player of the Year not only also before that Gino Smith and before that Russell

Wilson what he’s conveyed to us r that I think is so impressive is he said really everything we do is molded to our quarterback his ability to change his offense for the skill set of his quarterback I think is one of his best traits that he continues to find

Concepts that work and then builds the offense off those Concepts and things that just don’t work for that quarterback are thrown out as well as changing other aspects around the quarterback look the shuffling he did on that offensive line in Tampa I want you here you used to play here now you’re

Over here and he changed it all to fit their skill sets their body types and they ran the football better he was also able to build that entire offense off of a wide receiver like Mike Evans and then figure out how to play what defenses do

Play off of that I think it’s an impressive offensive mind that has shown us over the last couple of years that he has the ability to adapt and change like nobody’s business all right let’s move on to another another head coach Rett that is not getting his start uh he is a

Old hat at this game coming off of a national championship it is Jim Harbaugh going to the Chargers he is back in the NFL going to the place where you know he just couldn’t get a Lombardi trophy in college it was always the thing that was driving him he lands with the Chargers

What will we see differently in Los Angeles now yeah well I think you’re going to see offense and team philosophy operated operated in a much different way I think this is going to be a grittier tougher team I mean that’s that has been the Hallmark of Jim Harbaugh

Coach teams wherever he’s been I mean kind of famously when he was at Stanford got like all the parents of all the players like locked into that hey bring your lunch pail to work mentality you know we’ve got blue collars we might wear red jerseys but we’re making sure

The blue stays with the way that we play um and the interesting thing here is what’s he going to do what does this look like for for Justin Herbert obviously Jim Harbaugh has Co coached insanely talented quarterbacks before see Andrew Luck at Stafford now at Stanford now while they didn’t put up

Like ridiculous video game type numbers through the air everyone knew that Andrew Luck was an immense Talent right and and Jim Harbaugh certainly brought that out in him so how he tailor this offense and his offensive staff to accentuate Justin Herbert’s skill set is going to be really intriguing I think

There’s going to be an emphasis put on building that offensive line even more than it already has been with their two first round picks last couple of years and ran Slater and Zion Johnson I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another high draft resource spent on that front

To get that rolling and then I think that this is this at number five overall in this year’s draft where the Chargers are picking I think this squarely puts Brock Bowers the top tight end in this class in the conversation right it’s high for a tight end that’s rich I get

It but this is a tough gritty dude even though he’s from Napa California he’s a tough gritty dude he can get dirty in the Run game he’s an insane athlete he’s great after the catch phenomenal hands look at what Jim Harbaugh did JP with the tight ends at Michigan Coulson

Loveland AJ Barner is going to be playing in the Senior Bowl they were dominant Luke Schoonmaker last year drafted in the second round by the Cowboys they’re big pieces of the offense that’s why I think that that could be an opportunity to see Brock Bowers come off the board when we get to

Detroit you get your hands dirty going after grapes in the soil up there in Napa it’s fine you get gritty and listen have flourished especially rookies this past season we’ve always seen the Run game even when it was Andrew Luck by the way he’s always had an emphasis on the

Run game no matter where he has been and you’re right tight ends always a big part of what he does real quickly I’ll say I think it’s an identity right I think that has been lacking since this team mooved from San Diego to Los Angeles they haven’t even had an

Identity in their own building especially in their own City now they bring in a head coach who is essentially look at us make sure you pay attention to us and they get somebody that is going to make sure that they they win football games and to make sure that

People notice that they’re winning football games and I think honestly that’s something that’s been lacking with the Chargers let’s go to his brother real quickly before we get out of here and look at the Ravens because this is a big weekend for the Harbaugh what do you see from the Baltimore

Ravens one part going into that AFC Championship game that sticks out to you yeah one thing that really sticks out to me is the way they’ve utilized the tight ends uh this year and obviously Mark and when you got an all pro type in Mark Andrews that’s easy to do easy to say

Like yeah we want to get Mark Andrews the football well he’s been out right for a couple months now with the injury although it sounds like he is on his way back again fully participating practice this week there James but Isaiah likele has been tremendous as a target for

Lamar Jackson especially in Mark andrews’s absence and it’s stuff you talk to people around the Ravens and I saw it this summer spending some time with them like they always knew that this is who Isaiah likely was we saw it in Flash as his rookie year too he’s now

Just getting those opportun unities right with Mark Andrews gone so I imagine even if Mark comes back they’re going to find ways to accentuate what Isaiah likely can bring to this team so I’m getting into the end zone you know a week ago um and and basically you know I

Think he’s been really welldeveloped both having a a stud like Mark Andrews there his tight ends Coach George godsy is kind of underrated in NFL circles I think he does a great job getting those guys together and I’m just hoping that they can get a dance club scene going in

That locker room afterward so we can see an on from George gsy we need more of it right look at this where’s Georgie let’s find him there he is the moment build he is B head right there GSI just slow playing it just slow playing it and there he

Goes and then he works it love it from George and they don’t run two tight end sets very often Rett so it’s going to be interesting to see what they change offensively philosophy wise if they want to get both these guys on the field at the same time I’m going

To go on the defensive side of the ball and go with maybe the only player in this game that is a member of Mena that is all pro safety Kyle Hamilton with 132 IQ this is a game full of versatile players that have high football IQs he

Might be at the top of all those guys that are playing in this game he’s going to have the assignment a lot in this game they’re going to throw different things at Travis Kelce but he’s going to have the assignment quite a bit and what he does against the future Hall of Famer

Is going to be just one of the things that he does to impact this game he can Rush the quarterback like an edge rusher he can play the safety spot he can cover deep he can tackle like a linebacker he can play about five different positions for this defense one of the most

Versatile talented players in the NFL and he missed two games this year I know it’s a small sample size threat this defense arguably the best in all of football the two games he missed statistically those were two of the worst performances we saw from a defense this season and that’s just without one

Player and that’s the Mena member in Kyle Hamilton well we got another versatile guy coming up R that’s Dante Hall how about that the human joystick I wonder if that’s his favorite nickname I’m going to ask him that next on the NFL Report he’s going to be the MVP for a reason I mean he’s he goes out there he he leads his team um he he scores um he runs he throws he does whatever it takes to win and that’s what the great greats do and uh uh like I said it be a great

Challenge for our defense but also a great challenge for our offense going against their defense so uh it’s going to take a a full team effort if we want to find a way to get a win he’s a great quarterback um definitely Hall of Famer uh is not even it’s a no-brain he’s

Definitely a Hall of Famer um but it it’s just I believe it’s just two two two great um up and coming great just going Toe to Toe you know like a heavyweight fight heavyweight match up that’s that’s just what I see welcome back to the NFL report James

Palmer Rhett Lewis with you and if you’re going to have a heavyweight fight I need more Trash Talk maybe Dante Hall the chief’s great can bring some of that trash talk into this listen there too many compliments Dante I’m not going to lie too many compliments between those

Two great players as we’re heading into this AFC Championship game I appreciate you joining us and I have to get this out of the way first before we continue what is your favorite nickname for you because you have a lot of them my favorite is the human Geor and the re

Go it’s just a great name right and before I picked up the game golf I was an avid gamer so at the time that Mitch holes gave me that moniker I was like Ned playing video games nine hours a day and it also fits my playing style so it just works

Perfectly I agree I think I think that’s I mean it was it was terrific cuz it was organic too and uh you know Mitch is one of the best in the business obviously in the in the radio play-by-play World here in the NFL and so heing him call some of

Your touchdowns was a a childhood memory of mine um you know I love it and you know you had the opportunity to not only do it on some great you know regular season teams with the Chiefs but you guys got into the postseason too where we’re sitting here now you know on the

Verge of of the Super Bowl now for the Chiefs a familiar spot for him but like I I go back to that 04 game you know and I don’t I know you don’t want get into the results of that game against the Colts but you went off they call that

They call that the no punt game that’s right see and I I kind of believe that that we we could see something like that this week with Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson the way these two the def I disagree I disagree I think you got what the number one defense and the Ravens

You got the number three defense and and uh Chiefs I don’t think you’re going to see a no punt game in this particular I understand why you’re going that because of the Dynamics of each quarterback with these defenses when when we played in that 04 game I think our defense was

Ranked like 30th and the um you had to somewhere close by so no I don’t think we’re gonna see that this Sunday so but but I wanted to ask you that too because of of the you know like your performance in that game was incredible obviously you had the kick return touchdown you

Had the receiving touchdown so you know what it feels like to make those big plays in those big moments and just hearing these two quarterbacks talk about the plays that want to make and you know the respect they have for each other what what was that feeling like to

Know the impact you had on a game at that stage I’m gonna be honest with you um I was even though I had a great individual performance I truly felt that year we had a team uh that could make it all the way to the Super Bowl we just

Had to win two games at Arrowhead we started the season 10 and0 um so it was very disappointing to not only lose the game Bel the game in a fashion that we we lost it pton man comes in and scores 38 points in the arrowhead like that

Just cannot happen so even though I had a great game I did not feel any type of Happiness whatsoever after that loss D we know you’re still a Chief’s fan we we saw you throwing on a Chief’s hat you know before we got started is

There any part of you that sits here and looks at the the mind that Andy Reid has and didn’t have him as a head coach and the playmaking ability Patrick Mahomes has at the quarterback spot and if you went if I would have just played a

Little later if I could have been with these two how could they have used the talents that I bring to a football field did that ever cross your mind every single Sunday that crosses my mind and I’ll never forget the first time I went on the road to watch this

Andy Reed Chiefs uh offense was in Jacksonville’s home opener uh in Jacksonville uh I’m sorry the season opener and I remember from the stands watching a play develop like it’s different when you watch it on TV I’m at the game and I’m seeing a guy run a over

And then up I had never seen that concept before and at that moment I thought to myself wow I wish I was Tyreek Hill right now I really do yeah and Dante you know in the post Tyreek Hill era for the Chiefs I think we’ve seen some Evolution with this offense

Right and the way they want to attack defenses and the way Andy Reid has schemed things up in the um evolution of the Run game too with Isaiah Pacho like what what has impressed you most about the way that they’re trying to find ways and different ways to find success

Attacking defenses and winning games just hit it on the head I’ve been impressed by them basically suppressing their ego realizing the cards that they have in their hands and play those CS per perfectly last week you saw a lot more two three tight end sets a lot more

Emphasis on the Run game um I I just it just showed me that these guys understand how to win know how to win and it doesn’t matter if it’s Dink and dunks or if it’s Bombs Over Baghdad it does not matter like they’re going to

Find a way to win they’re going to use the pieces that they have and I think that’s a testament to a great coordinating and also great head coaching and the staff in terms of of developing players D you mentioned Dink and dunk the teams have taken away a lot

Of the deep stuff and you see these underneath Crossing routes where you see a guy like Rashi rice a rookie kind of be able to kind of work his way across the field find some of those voids and defenses and then make plays with the

Ball once it gets in his hands after he makes the what have you seen from the rookie receiver uh that kind of has just really just grown and grown himself and as a role in this offense yeah I remember early on as far as back as the

Preseason he had a case of the drops so the fact that he was able to get over the drop seed i’ I think I’ve seen maybe one or two drops uh in this latter part of the season so he’s continued to get better and grow and that’s all you can

Ask from a young guy right just don’t continue making the same mistakes he’s eliminated that drop passes and it seems like to me that he has an understanding more of the offense because they are incorporating him more in the offense I think early on he wasn’t able to get

This much playing time because he didn’t have a Gras on the Playbook he didn’t have the Trust In Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes but that all seems to have gotten better and developed nicely at the right time yeah and Dante I think you know in terms of your personal story

We obviously came to know you for your skills in the return game but I felt like you the further along you got in your career we started to see the nuances of your game as a total package wide receiver you know as well on the offensive side of the ball and looking

At that to follow up on rasid Rice like what were some of the nuances of the position that you picked up along the way that allowed you to become a more focal a bigger focal point for the offense not just in the return game whereas we’re kind of seeing some of

That same stuff within this season in terms of rasheid Rice’s Arc as a wide receiver from start to where we’re at now so like what what are some of the things that facilitate that improvement from a wide receiver so it’s like when you first come into the league right

Your brain is already moving a 100 miles per hour so your body intends to do what your brain doing once you learn Concepts um where to be when to be there landmarks things like that so one of the biggest nuances that uh coach Charlie joner a Hall of Famer I was very

Fortunate to have him he will always tell me be fast but don’t hurry and it took me two years to figure out what the hell that meant be F but don’t hurry that basically meant you know be fast but be under control you may not want to

Come out of that rout as fast as you can maybe speed out of it at a you know third gear type rate so little nuances like that how not to show and tip your hat whether you’re running a short route deep route Crossing routes right they

Would just you know teach me when you line up like this put your inside foot up versus back uh don’t look where you’re going and then one of the other nuances was obviously just learning how to run and I had one of the greatest guys on my team at that time Johnny

Morton from USC go his rout and Detroit and with them so a combination of all these guys kind of um helped me within the nuances of using my speed and my quickness I I’m looking at different players in this game Dante and I’m looking at guys that are just so hard to

Tackle Z flowers is that type of player just he’s just hard to get your hands on Lamar is that type of player but Patrick’s that type of player too where just the way he moves on a field it is hard to tackle him you were impossible

To tackle so what makes a a player hard to tackle in your mind cuz we have a couple of them that do it different ways in this game well for guys like myself um Z flowers um you know we just are given a god ability abil ability to get in and

Out of breaks that just bigger guys can’t do like we can’t do some of the things big guys can do can’t do what we can do but you take you talk about a guy like Lamar who 6263 able to move like a little guy and then you take Patrick Mahomes who’s a

Little more girthier not as fast but he’s very Savvy with his no looks all fakes little things like that right I I look at him like a Steph Curry Steph Curry is not Allen ivison quick but he’s very Savvy with his mechanics as far as head movement movement and things like

Like that so it’s more ways to skin a cat you know I mean that’s right that’s right and uh man nobody’s done it as as good as you’ve done it I mean like one of the best very best in the business uh in terms of the return game and the

Impact you can have on a game making big plays and certainly hope we see some of those in this game between the Chiefs and Ravens on Sunday Dante it’s been a blast man thanks so much for being a part of the report today man really this

Should have been the whole show R that’s it we could have just been done it’s great I love you guys too so I’ll come back on anytime appreciate it guys with us here on the NFL report still to come on this episode of the NFL report well there’s some you love what

The messaging that Dan Campbell brings to the Lions but what’s the tangible effect of it Stacy Dales is going to tell us and how do the 49ers deal with it that’s Omar ruiz’s department when we come Back just the Bay Area and the faithful in general um we want this game bad you know and they’ve obviously been hoping you know to have another championship come in this organization last couple times we’ve been in the Super Bowl we’ve fallen short so um now we get a shot at

It again so to play at home in the NFC Championship it’s going to be it’s going to be sweet yeah what a difference the year makes right Brock pie back in the NFC championship game as he gets set to have his 49ers host the Detroit Lions welcome

To you back to NFL report here Rett Lewis in for Steve whites today of course James Palmer uh with us as well and we get to say hello to our friend Stacy Dales and Omar Ruiz here Stacy’s been covering the Lions for us this week and Omar is in Santa Clara right now

Which is where we will play this championship game in the NFC on Sunday um Stacy hearing from Brock pie is a good thing because it sure does sound like that the good folks in the Detroit Lions defense slse secondary not really interested in hearing from him or

Talking about him this week is that accurate R if they’re talking anything about him it’s a whole lot of smack I mean I was in the locker room for Championship Wednesday and tried to go up and get a little juice out of CJ Gardner Johnson and um I just we

Couldn’t he didn’t want anything to do with Brock py talk or really anything to do with us media members that’s how salty this second there is I think it’s emblematic of of kind of the tone and tenor of that defense as they’ve gotten better and better better like Dan

Campbell told me on Wednesday we our confidence is going up it has improved there’s an uptick especially over these last six weeks and when I asked Kirby Joseph uh a safety for this group this secondary what’s the most improved thing about your defense he said to me fear

And I said well what does that mean and he said the fear we’re putting basically in opposing offenses given how hard we play and how physical we play and that’s what they’re going to take to see Brock pie Sunday oh you know they’re bringing that physical brand of football we all

Remember Chanty Gardner Johnson and Debo Samuel having that social media back and forth speaking of Debo Samuel Limited in practice today certainly trending in the right direction when we were out there yesterday in The Limited role uh that he had officially listed as a non-participant but while they were

Stretching he was running up and down the practice field carrying the football in his hand and it almost seemed like he was really exaggerating his arm pumps to really test the mobility of that shoulder and it didn’t look like he had any discomfort so when you go from DMP

Wednesday to limited Thursday and it looks like he can run and carry the football full speed if nothing else he looks like he could be a decoy on Sunday and be able to play obviously time will tell the rest of the week the 49ers have a more physical practice on Thursday a

Little more intensity and then of course there’s Friday to watch so you know will’ll continue to monitor the Debo situation but what an impact he has when he is in the lineup yeah Mar we know how different of a squad this is when Debo’s not there

The physicality gone I love how they use a variety of guys though right to go and fill in for him after he went down in that divisional round just kind of maybe three different players really playing different spots that Debo does uh different things on the field let’s go

With a guy that’s throwing the football to him Omar and we heard from him at the start of this segment and Brock pie what what’s the vibe right now with Brock p and kind of I don’t know if the term is get him back on track I don’t know if

There is confidence that is high where is the vibe with Brock P because he did lead him down the field uh to win that game last week well they say they’re confident in Brock pry and and I believe uh that to be the case there’s so much confidence

Heading into the postseason behind Brock and his MVP caliber type of regular season and just looking to build on that and you can give a variety of reasons why he might have been off against the Green Bay Packers on Saturday you can blame the wet balls and the Rainy

Conditions that happened you can credit the Packers defense for putting together a game plan that made him uncomfortable and he said that they were taking away a lot of the deep shots early and and maybe he was trying to force some of them we saw the Darnell Savage missed

Interception he said affect him in a way that prevented him from uh you know being maybe as aggressive and and being more tentative in that game as it folded but then they all credit Brock py for getting back on track himself and adjusting mid game and being able to

Lead that game-winning touchdown drive with six completions seven attempts uh and then I asked Shanahan today was that an encouraging sign that he was able to self-correct or do you have to continue on that coaching point to uh take the checkdowns when they’re there he says

There’s no exact science to it you just have to play the position just have to play football it’s not just okay they’re covering deep now you have to check down or or they’re covering short now you have to go deep you just have to make those decisions and he said Brock py has

Been the best quarterback that he’s been around in making those decisions and executing that part of the offense so they look to get that version of Brock pretty again on Sunday you know Omar I mentioned that the secondary doesn’t really want to talk about Brock py but there are a

Couple guys that did give me some stuff on him and I was having a conversation at the Lions facility and we were talking about this whole Mr Irrelevant term like the the only word they’re using to describe Brock pie in Detroit as they prepare for him is Mr relevant

That’s how much respect so they’re not buying into all these narratives when I talked to Alex anzalone who’s just such a superstar linebacker and I heard Baldi break down this defense and he did it as he always does so well but that guy’s everywhere and he said you know

Basically to me we’re not buying into the narrative that he this guy can’t make big throws he gets the ball in space we know what he does well he gets the ball B in space he’s extremely efficient and those receivers are so good perhaps best in the NFL with those

Yaks those yards after catch and when I had KD as we watch him here a few weeks ago against the Eagles like he said our bread and butter is is Yaks I mean that’s where we we make a we Bank we make a fortune on those and so tackling

In open space anzelone said is obviously going to be critical but they have so much respect for Brock pie and think that you know all this conversation that’s happening out there that he can’t make the big throws and look what happened against Green Bay uhuh they

Ain’t buying into it he can throw those daggers as Dan Campbell talked about this week and uh they’re going in there though hungry they want to hit him they want to break his rhythm do it early and often in this game to throw off some of the that timing with those receivers you

Know Stacy um I feel like Brock pie and the the type of player and person he is and the personality that he has would fit in in Detroit right with with their mentality but they are of course very happy with Jared gof who is uh to quote

Dan Campbell good enough for Detroit um but just talking again about the the personality of this team the grit right we talk about it a lot and you know we’ve seen you know a lot of Dan Campbell’s pitches to this team right uh about his his vision and his plan and

All this and it does feel like there’s something tangible about those words which you know by definition are very intangible like it feels like they are turning that and that Vision into something that is real and that you can see transpire out there on the field

Have you been able to put your finger on that it is real it’s genuine too uh like the conversations I have like with Al mcneel and if you guys haven’t had a conversation with Le mcneel this is a superstar interior defensive lineman he will give you sound bites to use for an

Entire Sunday football Sunday he’s that awesome um he he said you know there’s a clip circulating right now I think it’s hard knocks he said uh with Dan Campbell at training camp they just completed the padded practice and Dan Campbell is really imploring his men that they need

To trust in him and Alim told me that we were we bought in right we they bought in last year to Dan Campbell and when even when he took over with the kneecap stuff but when when he spoke to us that day after a brutal padded practice and

Said to us trust me trust the process Alim was like we were completely bought in like this this guy you he said when Dan Campbell talks to you you listen and you believe it and they all embody it I mean it’s real um but it it’s just so interesting

Like when you think about Kyle Shanahan and Dan Campbell and what they’ve done right Omar with with their teams respectively Kyle Shanahan you just believe in him and that’s when you get to this stage you have to have that in leadership and I think it it shows up you know moments like

This yeah some of their qualities mirroring each other and that they had the big breakout year in year three after laying a foundation the first couple years but you talk about that sense of physicality the aggressiveness that Dan Campbell coaches with the 49ers sense that diamor Lor one of the more

Physical Corners that the 49ers have he told me yesterday he likes to be one of those tone Setters if you remember he’s the one that pushed Jordan love a clean play a legal play so far out of bounds then the very next play he broke up a

Big pass with a physical hit uh he said he knows that because of how Campbell is a former player uh somebody who speaks as aggressively as he does the Lions will come in here with that physical mindset because he knows if people are going to compete against the 49ers they

Have to match that physicality and then Brandon auk telling me yesterday that this is the most aggressive defense that they’ll have faced all season long now there’s a lot of feast or famine attached to that they’ll give up big plays but they’ll make big plays as well

And it’s a matter of trying to get more big plays for the 49ers and than the D Detroit defense uh in that match up on Sunday Omar Stacy you guys have your hands full considering we had this entire conversation this lengthy segment about this game and we barely barely

Mentioned the name Jared G in this entire conversation that’s how many storylines we have that R you said it very abruptly and then you went on to Dan Campbell and you went on to the message throughout there but that’s how many storylines we have in this game and

That’s everything we’re looking at that com encapsulates everything Stacy and Omar have to cover for this massive game but Jared gof and the way he’s playing like one of the best quarterbacks in all of football the second half of the Year I’ll give him his credit because he is

Not on the show right now R is filling in for Steve W Steve said halfway point I believe jarro G is going to be in the MVP conversation at the end of the year and you know what he deserved to be the way he was playing down the stretch you

Guys enjoy a beautiful one together in Santa clar on Sunday we’re going to have to talk to you after it stay Omar appreciate coming up baldi’s going to break down this man in his gorgeous eyes what no it’s what Patrick Mahomes does with his eyes it’s what Lamar Jackson

Does with his feet that Baldi wants to break down next on the NFL Report welcome back to the NFL report James Palmer Rhett Lewis with you I have my popcorn that means it’s Bal favorite films Brian baldinger joins us Baldi let’s cut right to it cuz we got 10 minutes to break down the two biggest games of the season and let’s start with

The number one seed in the AFC Lamar Jackson uh we saw what Deo Ryan tried to do which was essentially almost Blitz him every single down uh to do whatever he tried to do in the second half to get after him Lamar made some nice adjustments specifically in that second

Half how do you defend Lamar what are we going to see from s spagnolo and his group well we’ll see something different for for sure but you know just to go back to Houston in that game cuz he was Flawless in the second half but you know

The big thing was they had an answer for the blitz James they know where to go with it he know where his hot reads was one time he backed up and he hit Z flowers for a first down I mean that throw right there against Christian Harris uh blitzing uh right up the

Middle at him you know he found the hot read and then look right here if you don’t account for him like this is a designed quarterback draw right there uh they just ran you know a route you you run quarterback keeper until it’s not a keeper anymore and then you flip it to

Likely for the touchdown I mean a lot of these are deceptiveness for everything that he did now bags will be a little bit different um he’ll disguise their blitzes I think better I think think they’ll Blitz more off the edge than what we saw Houston do

So it’ll be different but at the same time I got to see if they can knock the Lamar off his stride because Houston couldn’t do it especially in that second half yeah and on on the flip side if while we’re on the subject of answers finding answers against Patrick Mahomes

Has been very difficult over the course of the last five plus years Brian baldinger for opposing defenses trying to deal with number for the Kansas City Chiefs and of course that’ll be the case for Mike McDonald in this Ravens defense this week but the one thing that like they can’t really do

A whole lot about is stopping Patrick Mahomes from identifying where he wants to go with the ball as quickly as he does it’s like it doesn’t matter what you’re trying to do he knows where he wants to go and how he wants to get it there Baldi you’re

Right Rett and you know as a former quarterback I think you could appreciate this well think that just keeps showing up it was not just last week against Buffalo but when he does either go play action turns back to the defense or the the pocket collapses and he’s got a pull

A little houdin and like right here like his ability to go find Rasheed rice on his throat and see reset his eyes and then make a stick throw as soon as he finds him like that shows up all the time and so like this throw I mean they

That seven cut right there Rett they must run that play that in pregame War up 15 times I mean anybody that’s watched Kansas City warmup they run that same seven cut here it is right here they run that seven cut over and over again they all line up I mean so it’s

It’s it’s it’s just what they practice like all the time and then okay but that’s how you have to throw it you have to throw that kind of timing into a spot against the defense that basically plays matchup Zone and takes those away Baldi when we jump over to the

Other game and we look at what Ben Johnson has been doing with I mean I think any offensive coordinator would like that group of skill guys specifically when they’re lining up uh surrounding an offensive line like they have in Detroit the but the way he’s dialing it up and the concepts that he’s

Using what what has stood out to you most about the way he’s been able to utilize these pieces that we might see on Sunday in Santa Clara well mean he’s got his play chart there but the the thing that jumps out is how he utilizes certain plays and formations based on

Down distance where you’re out in the field if the if the ball is on the left hash maybe we’ll put a monra St Brown on the right hash and let him work a whole bunch of the field so wherever the ball is placed it sort of starts his play

Call and how they get matchups for Sam lorta where they might just do a simple uh short motion from the outside to get him on the corner who’s nine yards off and make it an easier throw for Jared gof what they’ve done with Brock Wright

Uh in the deceptive way of what they did to him last week in addition to how they run the ball Montgomery always starts it jir Gibbs is always going to come in second and this guy right here I call the mtown comet Jameson Williams you

Have to account for a speed you have to just account for the speed because he’s going to take the top off your defense and he’s going to make your safeties respect his speed they don’t throw to him a lot but it opens up a lot of

Things for Aman R st Brown uh underneath uh throughout the season and to you know to Josh Reynolds as well you know what’s even more scary to me is considering this Lions team and like their run is far from over and they want it to continue into Las Vegas you

Know following this week but as these head coaching gigs are starting to fill up a little bit we talked about two of them at the top Baldi Harbaugh to the Chargers and Dave Canales to the Panthers if Dan Campbell gets Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn both back next

Year my goodness like this I mean look I hope for both their sakes that they get you know all the head coaching looks that they want deserve but my goodness that would be incredible uh for Detroit speaking of Aaron Glenn you know his tenure as the DC has not been without

Turbulence right they they’ve gone through some issues and worked their way through it and I think something to be said for the patience there that Dan Campbell has showed and trying to get that thing right but I think what’s what’s most valuable about what they do

This year and maybe even in this matchup is the different ways that they can account for how offenses want to attack yeah I mean there there was plays last week R where they had four safeties on the field you know they they had CH Gard Johnson and ifat to melu out there you

Know in addition to Kirby Joseph um you know they’ll they’ll play for safeties and down and distances they will match your your formations up with uh various Personnel groupings they Blitz a great deal with eatu meanu coming off the edge he’s an excellent Blitzer Kirby Joseph with that interception right right there

Like their ability to to to mix a match with you uh in addition to Alex anzelone who plays every single play and then the way that they’ll do things with the fronts last week on Third and Longs they played a three-man front they played Four safeties they played eight

Defensive backs so they will Max mix a match with you depending on game situation down distance um uh parts of the field that you’re in and so all those things I think Aaron can kind of play chess with the best of them right now because they have such flexibility with their personnel

Groupings B I want to throw this one at you this is kind of a broader look at the four teams that are left and I look at the linebacker position with the four teams that are left you look at you know ran Smith and the group that that they

Have there you look in in Kansas City right now Steve spola is putting Drew tranquil and Nick Bolton two Mike linebackers on the field at the same time and kind of running things in a different manner there we know the guys that that line up in Santa Clara and

Then obviously the way you mentioned anzalone and the other guys that play there in Detroit what do you think about that position specifically and what way we see these four teams are utilizing that spot that are left playing well if I was some of the teams on the outside

Looking in like let’s just say the Cowboys or the Eagles where they don’t seem to put a great deal of emphasis on the linebacker position uh Derek Barnes closed the game out last week with interception for Detroit ran Smith got traded for from Chicago and the day that

He got to Baltimore is the day he took over the leadership ability at that position and the defense changed the day that ran got there I mean Fred Warner gets drafted in the third round out of BYU and literally the day he got there he he put the Green Dot on his helmet

And he started every game since like there’s something about all you you see Dre Greenlaw get two interceptions last week I mean these guys never come off the field they play every every situation goal line third and 30 they’re on the field they never come off the

Field so if I’m on the outside looking in and I’m thinking well you could find linebackers anywhere or we can just fill that position with big safeties you can’t you can’t play in the final four right now without having great players at those positions and sometimes you got

To pay those great players like roquan Smith but Ran’s made Patrick Queen better uh I talked to Fred Warner earlier this year guys and he was saying you know Baldi this is my fifth year of lining up with Dre green law like those two guys know each other yeah as well as

You could possibly know one another on the field like that’s five years of football and a lot of Championship level games between those two guys who never come off the field for San Francisco yeah I mean look at it that’s one of the common threads the other offensive linemen and the emphasis and

The valuable resources that have been spent by these four teams to for if y that group up front I think is is really important to look at both in the draft and free agency different ways to go about it um but that’s that’s great context great analysis for us as always

Baldi Villa South beautiful hope you get a little time in the ocean before Championship Sunday and we will check back with you soon here on the NFL report when I come when we come back I’m going to give you guys uh some names to know from the East West Shrine Bowl

Which kicks off on Thursday in some intriguing facts about some of those names to know get your popcorn Ready so why am I holding an East West shine Bowl 89 Steve Smith Jersey is because sir what does that say right there you are going into the East West okay Shrine Bowl Hall of Fame before the game again February 1st 8:00 p.m. on NFL Network congratulations to you my

Friend Mike arolo Steve Smith two friends of the NFL report right there and hopefully Steve Jersey says Steve Smith Senior there and look at this Thursday 8:00 p.m. East West Shinall and Rett you will be hosting no not hosting calling that game whatever on NFL

Network so what we want to do is I told you I was going to keep my popcorn from when we were just chatting with Baldi and I want you to give me the five most intriguing story lines you have the inside Goods on the east west Shrine Bo

Let’s start with the running back out of UCLA and this isn’t just interesting stuff guys on the field it’s off the field as well go yes thank you James uh transfer from Ball State where he rushed for over 1500 yards and 14 touchdowns in the 2022 season spent this last year

Almost a, yards at UCLA but you’re going to love him because of his pet which is a five fo feels pet alligator named crocky J not sure why that is the name I mean crocodile crocky well I’m going to find that out when I get a

Chance to talk to him in person but he’s had it since he was eight years old his parents thought it would be a fun Christmas gift and yes um fun gag just like oh hey there’s an alligator um but it’s still with us and crocky J is a big deal in

The Carson steel uh household back in Indiana and so um he is an absolute stud and they live in Indiana yes yes he’s live the Everglades or anything like that his nicknames are Thor and Fabio uh Fabio because of his hair Thor because he could lift the entire weight room

Like he is an absolute stud of a human being can’t wait to talk to him can’t wait to see uh him on the broadcast Thursday night love it love it how about seven QBs you’re going to have there and we got plenty of experience with these guys

To R yes and every single one of those seven quarterbacks from Devon Larry to Jordan Travis to toia tongo vioa and everywhere in between have played at more than one school okay thus the transferal era of college football and all seven of them have played in more

Than 40 games so go back to Shrine Bowl alums of recent past Brock perie Aiden oconnell last year Dorian Thompson Robinson last year all guys who started games in the NFL this year and had that opportunity because of the experience they had in college and so I can’t wait

To see which one these seven quarterbacks with that type of experience can show us the ability to step into an opportunity if it presents itself in his rookie year okay how about you guys catching the football Taj Washington and jayen Coker couple of receivers to keep an eye

On apparently yeah good ones here um so Taj Washington’s an interesting one here uh right here in Los Angeles where I live uh home of NFL Network of course uh James he is a us us well USC guy and in addition to being being one of their top

White outs each of the last couple of years um Taj has become known as Chef Taj in fact he has his own YouTube channel um where who who who that’s NFL report competition yeah I’m sorry yeah yeah maybe we maybe we don’t no huddle kitchen by the way no huddle kitchen

Don’t tell James and Steve uh go go check that out at some point but he’s also been a guest chef at a restaurant on campus and dises named after him are popping up all around Los Angeles like the dude’s a legit that’s Chef so next time you’re in town we’ll go see Chef

Taj okay uh he’s also a really good play can’t wait to see him and then you mentioned Jaylen Coker uh who you know we love the guys that come from the smaller schools and make a big name for themselves when the competition ramps up that is the case in the shrine bowl for

A guy who played at FCS Holy Cross and was a phenomenally productive wide receiver but he has known James that he wanted to play in the NFL since he was a six-year-old playing flag football and in fact he was so good at Youth Sports that parents would come up to his mom

Jenny and they were like we’re gonna see your son playing on TV one day well as it turns out you’re going to see him playing in Prime Time on National Television Mrs Coker Thursday night on NFL Network at ad Easter I love it that used to happen to

Me at Youth Sports how about uh tarib still the corner from Maryland real quick on him ton of of talent in the defensive back room in the last two years at Maryland you might remember Deontay Banks and jakorian Bennett last year who blew up the combine with 4340

Times both of them went on the first two days of the draft um tiia tongoa tare’s teammate told me that tarhe used to regularly beat them those two dudes in races so he’s got the speed as well oh something to watch I love it I love it

Rhett has his hands full I love it that’s the inside analysis you get from Rett Lewis when he Subs in here and when he host games but you also get inside from these two guys right here James Palmer Steve White that’s us Monday 7:15 Steve will be back but definitely Rhett

Will be returning I will tell you that Rhett thank you so much for joining me on this journey this is also a podcast as Rhett said let’s do it guys you can always catch Rett on move the sticks by the way on move STI

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