Josh and with him, a great
friend, BC sports,
Peter King.
I suppose.
Thanks so much. The Sarah. I think it abou, she
Well done the extensive Peter King training camps to tour and
great. Vital moment with the
you were so focused on your job.
I got no problem with that, you were focused on ending
the interview, throwing it to break and you didn't notice that Josh
Allen had the handout. I've always perfect.
Yeah, and you know what? I got to hand it to Joshua Allen from
being a great sport because,
you know, when you look at it like this, you say, oh my God.
Peter is just dissing Josh Allen. When in reality I just
never saw it.
And but the funniest thing was
when I went to Kansas City, I could tell
that Mahomes really wanted to do something about that because
he thought it was the funniest thing he had seen, you know?
And so at the end of It
he goes in for the second handshake and he won't let it go.
So anyway, I think that he probably texted that to Joshua
Allen and they had a
pretty good time. I think
that love those two guys have a great relationship
but it's also a relationship that is
that they like to sing each other quite a bit.
Oh and and those guys
have never changed
all the success. They've enjoyed
there. Still. The guys, they were coming out of college.
They're friendly are very generous with their time, they
have great personalities, they don't big-time anybody.
They are regular human beings and that is refreshing at. The
other end of the spectrum is Tom Brady.
I didn't see a photograph of or video Tom Brady, shaking your
hand. You were in Tampa that I
never found him. Hate money
here. Here's the, here's the interesting thing about Tampa,
this was the first year in a long time
where I was told at Brady's not doing any one-on-ones this year.
So I never saw a man, in fact, the day I was there.
He had a Veterans Day along with Julio Jones and
four or five other guys
who he he wasn't even on the practice field.
So I went to Tampa for
24 hours and I never saw Tom Brady.
Well, there were 11 days where nobody saw Tom. Brady, that's
one of the great Unsolved. Mysteries of the NFL's training
camp and everything about this guy's unprecedented. Now,
everything that happens is New Territory. He's 45.
He still plays at a high level.
Do you think it continues this year for the Bucs based upon
what you saw there? They got a pretty damn good team and do
you think this is it for Brady that he won't play for anyone?
Whether the Bucks are another team in 2023?
Mike, if I had to guess right now, this going to be it, but
I don't know. I don't think anybody knows. I think
the biggest thing right now
is when you watch
this team, this year, they went from having a solid rock
offensive line in front of him to now, you know, look, they're
going to probably have
a rookie started left guard. Luke go to key.
We're going to have a guy who
Bill Belichick was fighting getting rid of
Shaq Mason starting at Right Guard, and they're going to
have a guy who never has started a game at Center in his
life. Robert Haynes e, who by the way? Is that a very good
camp but he's banged up a little. Now,
starting at Center
and you've got a guy at right tackle Tristan worms, but maybe
the best right? Tackle in football. Who's nursing
an oblique injury? So you've gone from him.
Having basically a really, really good interior
of Ryan Jensen,
Alex Kappa and a lemur pet
that they're all gone.
And now it's rookie guy who's never started before guy. You
got in trade
and a guy over here, who may not be 100%? That is what
I worry about with Tom Brady.
And I agree with you. The defense is very good that
offensive line is going to be potentially leaky. It all comes
down to Brady making those decisions before he even has
the ball as to who's going to be open and getting rid of
the football before
he finds himself in a delicate position. The arm is still
there. Someone told me this five years ago, the arm will be
there for years to come. The legs are the issue and when he
can no longer get away from pressure,
if he starts getting hit, he's going to get hurt. And he's
eventually going to say I'm getting too old for this crap
and he's going to be done. And I think that this will be his
last year at
Point. But I agree with you nobody knows I think, including him.
Nobody knows what's going to happen.
Come 2023. We know the Davante Adams has gone from the Green
Bay Packers, who do you think emerges as the favorite Target
for Aaron Rodgers? Post Devante,
I think it could take awhile but
the day I was there Mike.
Aaron Rodgers was drilling holes
through Aaron dubs.
The fourth round receiver from Nevada who
along along with the other young receivers there was
getting
some barbs thrown at them
by Rogers for not being ready, not knowing what they're doing.
Here's the one thing that sticks
to things that stick with me and why
I'm hugely bullish
on Erin Dobbs.
He made two or three catches that in the course of this
practice
had the defensive players veterans
come up to him. Tap them on the helmet. Give them a little fist
bump. They're trying to be him and now they're saying, hey
dude you're good. You know you're you're going to help us
win
and there's one other thing about dogs
there he is. There's one of the thing about jobs when I was
talking
to Matt Le Flore he said something very interesting to
me he goes, here's more. What is compelling to me about dogs?
He's here every morning at whatever time almost when I get there
5:30 5:45 he studies
as much as any young player I've ever seen.
So it's clear that are in Dobbs knows that this is his chance.
This is his time
and I think he's going to get a lot of targets from Aaron
Rodgers
Peter. One of my favorite
experiences of all time was when I The great Shakespeare
play, Aaron and Juliet, I don't know. If you're familiar with
it's Romeo dollars,
it's Romeo Dobbs. I'm
all right, that's right, Romeo doff,
what if are out there Aaron?
So
I think I was always got a chance to be really good this
year
contract year,
one of the only Young holdovers from last year, a guy who can
still I think, get it done and maybe step right in, but
It's going to be a challenge, just like with the Chiefs. You
take away a guy who commands double coverage everywhere he
goes and now
the defense can fully deploy to stop. Whoever is there
and I think it's going to be a challenge for the Packers
offense and for Aaron Rodgers, but you know, they've tolerated
the drops
that Romeo Dobbs had in the preseason. Because he's so damn
good and because he has the skills, you can't coach, you
can coach a guy and you can wrap a
guy into holding on to the football, the
He can do by way of going up. The touchdown pass, just saw
him catch against the Saints. That's just stuff that it
allows him to help fill the void created by the departure
Davante Adams.
How much better do you believe the Vikings offense will be
this year
with Kevin O'Connell
as the head coach
and not Mike Zimmer
I think,
honestly Mike, I I felt what I went to Vikings Camp
as much an air of,
you know, the, that the pressure had been lifted off
their shoulders
that,
you know, as one person there said it's been so negative
here. And so
whether that's true or not with Mike Zimmer,
he had run his course there.
Our experiment, after seeing six of his
draft choices from last year's draft, get cut this week.
You know he had run his course there too.
So I think you're going to see Kevin O'Connell come in this
year and Mike
I think the one thing about a new
set of eyes looking at Players.
Like the guy in there cam who was being featured hugely
with KJ is Born. That's why I thought it was a little odd.
What I saw him trade for Jaylyn rhaegar this week
because I left there thinking
kha Osborne could get 100 targets this year
and it would not surprise me at all. And
you know, I don't know what's going to happen. None of us
know what's going to happen, but I think the Weaponry that
they have
and now maybe who knows what they get out of jail and rhaegar.
But I think this is going to be a team
where this offense in particularly this
Her back feels like it's a breath of fresh air with a more
of a teacher
in Kevin O'Connell
running the show.
I wonder whether they would have traded for rigor if BC
Johnson hadn't torn ACL last Saturday night in Denver,
because he was kind of number four behind Osborne and that
may be where rigor settles in, but we'll see. And I agree with
you. They needed a change,
they still have a lot of continuity in the
roster and Rick, Spielman did a great job of building it, but
It was a hell of an indictment to have that many of the draft
picks from last year just flat-out gone after
an offseason and a training camp in a preseason. With the new
regime, the Rams
Super Bowl champions, obviously, hanging the banner
and six nights for the first game of the season.
We haven't had a repeat Super Bowl champ since 03 04, New
England Patriots.
I just assumed the Rams aren't going to win the Super Bowl
again, there's going to be some degree of Hangover, there's
going to be some element of the rest of the league catching up
to them. The only good news is so many great players have left
the NFC for the AFC.
It's actually going to be
not all that difficult for the Rams
to emerge as one of the best teams in the conference again.
You know, I think
they benefit by some of the Mayhem in the NFC West,
you know, because obviously, you don't know what you're
going to get out of the quarterback position with
the Niners. There's all sorts of uncertainty in Arizona, and
Seattle is in a rebuilding mode. So, this is a different
year,
in that division than it has been in the past,
the most significant thing for my day, in Thousand Oaks
California,
you know, I was really fortunate. Didn't
they had left training camp, okay? And they were back at
their home facility.
And on the day that I was there,
Sean McVeigh had
a scrimmage
and in his scrimmage, my biggest question there is, what
am I going to see how to Matthew Stafford? Mikey through
I bet 70 balls that day
and his arm was fantastic.
Youth say my God, I
thought this guy was supposed to be having
In an elbow issue. And I talked to me, I mean, he's throwing
great really emphasizing connecting with Alan Robinson,
you know who they got from the Bears in free agency. But
the one thing afterwards, when I talk to Stafford, he goes look,
I manage
this all last year. I had an issue last year, but
I practiced every day I got it done. And so he said, believe
me, I am not worried about it at all and and look, I don't
What's going to happen? We'll see.
But I think the reports of the demise of his arm have been
greatly exaggerated.
Well, we'll see how that goes for the Rams. Again, it starts
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