Foreign welcome to the NFL report I’m Steve White here with my guy James Palmer JP we’ve got our debut show launching on the same day that the NFL season kicks off my brother yeah maiden voyage here we go and here’s the funny part for everybody at home we
Actually are friends and talk on a personal basis how about that yeah we’re actually good you know there’s some shows where people have to worry about that but me and JP were good I mean you know JP’s even so much of a superstar he got to speak of his son’s career day
Recently yeah and I’m sure it was a Smash Hit JP they squeeze me in between a lawyer and a um and a ear doctor uh and but everybody was pretty awesome I’m not gonna lie Steve the best question I had was uh what’s my favorite chicken
Nugget so I’m kind of curious what yours is I said Wendy’s spicy chicken nuggets um and the second one was what’s your favorite route the kid was dressed in full football gear shoulder pads helmet everything he goes Mr Palmer what’s your favorite route I’m a wide receiver
Oh yeah and I’m sure you hit him with a 15-yard dig with the bang 80 going up that way but anyway enough of this yeah NFL season is underway James and what’s crazy normally we’re talking about sleepers we’re talking about Super Bowl favorites or talking about quarterbacks
But this NFL season actually kicks off and we’re talking about Edge rushers they are all the news my man and look we got to start right here with Nick Bosa of the San Francisco 49ers he holds out all offseason up until this week and signs a five-year
170 million dollar deal A Buck 22 guaranteed and 50 million at signing highest paid defensive player now and he’s earned it man we consider laughs he’s that guy he is him he is he is that guy and it’s funny I was in Denver I’m in Denver right now but I was at the
Broncos practice yesterday they’re on the field when this deal goes down they come into the locker room it’s media portion you know we’re in there for 45 minutes with these guys and all you can hear across the Broncos lock room is just like how much 170. how much guarantee 120 like just
Screaming this at each other across the log of just going like holy I can’t believe that Nick Bosa just got this it’s funny I went over to my fellow uh dude from the area in the Philadelphia area and Mike mcglinchey and also a former San Francisco 49er I said Mike
Have you seen have you seen the deal yet have you seen Nick stelius what do you get 170 one was it 22 guaranteed 22 guaranteed he goes oh my God he deserved every penny of that I was like you want to get some in practice he goes I know
He’s the best in the game man he deserves every penny of that it was kind of cool to get his perspective yeah look I was at a charges practice I call all over Derwin James he’s signed a big deal last year and I was like Dee you know
Here’s the numbers on the deal he’s like this just happened I was like it just happened he was like yes yes another guy gets paid and this is what you’re doing for players right right and this is this is really cool about what we do this
We’re going to bring you on the show I mean James and I we know people we know this Brotherhood we’re telling you about this this fraternity that NFL players have I mean yeah there’s probably gonna be some people are going to hate on him making the money but most people
Celebrate it because the next guy up is gonna get the next biggest deal and we’re gonna have Brian baldinger and DeMarcus Ware on later in the show to talk about who that next guy up is but James you know let’s talk a little bit about Nick bosha and and why he is that
Guy and and why he is so good and I’ll tell you this you know in that locker room people see the videotapes of Nick like I just want to sack him I’m kind of that Surfer Dude his teammates love him I mean I remember talking to Debo Samuel guys on the
Offensive side like this guy’s different right his diet everything he does so meticulously to take care of himself is so different and he’s so good you hear former teammates Richard Sherman these guys like we love Nick Bosa we love Nick BOCES so they had to get him back the
Niners knew they had to get him back not just because he is a great player but because he’s a great guy in that locker room and and James you know when we talk about this guy being in shape he’s probably gonna play Sunday he’s probably gonna play against the Steelers a little bit
Oh he’s gonna play he’s gonna play we’ll get to Kyle Shanahan’s comments on whether he’s going to play or not in just a second but you’re right to speak on it really quickly what he is as an athlete what he is as an Irreplaceable member of this team they don’t get to
The NFC championship game without nicosa obviously wins defensive player of the year he was in a position Steve to have all the leverage this past offseason and we saw his brother do it before and they’ve been very good at football and they’ve been very good at the negotiating table those are two places
That the Bosa family has thrived at and I’m curious when you mentioned the diet you mentioned how in shape he is if that made this drag on a little bit further listen to me like it’s the the 49ers knew and John Lynch and Kyle Shannon everyone involved that he was going to
Come ready to play John Lynch believes it takes the player roughly two three weeks to be ready for an NFL game they didn’t think that with Nick Bose I was curious if that allowed this to get even further in terms of both teams standing their ground and butting up right
Against the start of the regular season because they knew he would arrive on time if it took extra time to get this deal done there was no fear of maybe really losing him on the first game now obviously missing all this time who we’ll see how many snaps he plays but
Listen to Kyle Shanahan because he’s playing and he knows the type of shape that Nick Bose is arriving in I’ll tell you any question in this at this point whether he’s going to be in uniform on Sunday um I mean there is a question because we haven’t seen him but
I think you guys know how I’m talking like I have to be you have to have a beer belly and be out of shape or something that’s which that’s not in in bosa’s DNA yeah he’s playing first stop playing right off the Jump Steve yeah the image
The image of Nick Bosa having a beer belly is like something I don’t think any of us could even like we couldn’t even draw a cartoon of it because this guy is absolute Superman I will say this I mean we’ve seen it before where guys come in late they’re in great physical
Shape their specimens maybe not like Nick Bosa but you know they may get nicked up a little because they’re hyped up they want to come out and play how about this Factor he’s they’re going up to Pittsburgh it’s supposed to be a rainy field on Sunday and the University of
Pittsburgh has a game on that same field on Saturday so I wonder if these field conditions and just maybe some of this you know the you know the designers might have to say we let’s let’s kind of figure out how this is going but it’s not just Nick Bosa you know they’re
Gonna have to say you know the field conditions whatever about because James the star power the star power on the defensive lines on the defensive side of the ball for these two teams let’s just let’s just go through this Nick Bosa last year’s Defensive Player of the Year Defensive
Player of the Year TJ watt the previous years defensive player of the year you’ve got cam Hayward You’ve Got High Smith for the Steelers and then you’ve got Jayvon Hargrave for the foreign I mean anyone who thinks there’s going to be more than like a combined 30-point
Score in this game might be out of their head because you look at the defensive fronts for these teams and where both of these teams have sunk their money that is absolutely kind of dictates what this opener for both the Steelers and the 49ers two potential Super Bowl teams
That’s where they that’s where they rest their value I love you said something their money there because we’re going to transition this into Chris Jones in a sense because I do think there’s a real connection between these two early in the negotiations a couple months ago I was
Kept hearing you know Nick bosa’s deals separate from Chris Jones’s deal these are these do not connect with one another right one an interior pass rush or one an edge rusher but now that this deal is done I’m starting to hear oh our our Premier defensive player Market
The group that you would say Steve is probably what Irreplaceable for however many games that you would play without them you don’t really replace a Chris Jones with anybody else in your roster you don’t replace right or an Aaron Donald or a TJ watt or any of these guys
In that top group now that the ceiling of that group has gone up how does that impact Chris Jones because what we’re seeing is what the 49ers have done they have come out with this contract and said what to us Steve we are putting all
The chips on the table we want to go to a Super Bowl this is our Super Bowl spot we paid George Kittle we paid Trent Williams we paid demo Samuel even though that even got contentious at times we find a way to get deals done because we
Have players like Nick Bosa that are irreplaceable it’s a different school of thought with the Kansas City Chiefs right now with what’s going on with Chris Jones’s contract I thought Chris just wanted to raise you know I just he said he just wanted to raise now I
Wonder as you mentioned the Bosa deal might say I want a bigger raise than I initially told you but this standoff JP to me also shows the discrepancies on where these teams lie we have seen the Chiefs let Tyree kill go they let Orlando Brown go I don’t think they’re
Gonna let Chris Jones go but if they’re not trying to pay him right now that’s them saying we are going to keep our salaries under a certain way because we’ve got a very high priced quarterback so we can have sustained success the 49ers are saying we’re going to go on
And give Nick Bosa all this money right after we pay defensive tackle Jayvon Hargrave a four-year 84 million dollar contract and we’re going to put all of our money in look the Niners have nine guys making more than 15 million dollars because they know right now is their
Windows it seems like the Chiefs are playing the fairways whereas the Niners are playing the greens and look it works for both teams right the Niners been knocking on the door while the Chiefs have been winning Super Bowls so different philosophies but it kind of shows where each team
Stands and where maybe how different each owner kind of approaches this as well it is and and I yeah you don’t want to question the chief’s thinking Steve but you could think is there a bit of hubris here that we’re going to keep flying closer and closer to the Sun uh because we’ve
Gotten through it as you mentioned they’ve gotten through moving on from Tyreek Hill which by the way was a move that they were making to make sure they had enough money to pay Chris Jones which apparently hasn’t alleviated that situation and they move on to two new
Tackles after winning a Super Bowl I think the thought there honestly is well we have Patrick Mahomes we have a Hall of Fame coach and Andy Reid we have the greatest tight end of all time I think they have a very good offensive line well I I think we we can keep drafting
They’ve been drafting well so there’s almost maybe a thought that’s going on they’re like well maybe we can lose the next one and still be fine I think Chris Jones is one of those Irreplaceable type of players uh that is I don’t want to say in the realm of Nick Bosa but he’s
In the area he finished third in defensive player of the year he’s done stuff at the spot that we’ve never seen before it’s going to be interesting when he’s sitting there at Arrowhead in a suite why watching the Chiefs uh go out there and play against the Lions
Um I find that very interesting I’ll leave you with this part it is my understanding that he is very comfortable missing four games this deal could get done tomorrow this deal could get done anytime between now in those four games but my understanding is he has no problem missing at least
Four games uh to prove his value and right now it’s a matter of who values who more JP he must be comfortable if he’s got the type of bread to miss four games in those million dollars worth of paychecks all right lastly before we get out of here we started this conversation
On Nick Bosa but have we forgotten about his brother Joey who just a couple of years ago here’s his Joey’s deal he signed a couple years ago five years a hundred and thirty million dollars 135 million dollars with 102 million guaranteed he reset the market then he only played in five games last
Year JP I was out of charges practice and you talk about somebody who’s in like a different category you know we talked earlier about how the Niners players say how Nick Bosa is just all alone how he takes care of himself and stuff like that he’s not all alone
Because Joey is the same way this is somebody who is so determined to come out and redeem himself after an injury plague 2022 who alongside Khalil Mack they could end up being the best pass rushing tandem in the NFL we’re not talking about these two why why wouldn’t
They when they when they when the charges acquired Khalil Mack last year that’s we expected both players got nicked up they only played three games together last year if they can stay healthy we will be talking about them at the end of the season and the Chargers potentially challenging the Chiefs for
AFC dominance wow I like it I’m not I did one of their games early which is a game that they actually both played in uh I think it was against the Kansas City Chiefs week two and that was all the talk when I talked to Derwin James
At length it was just now we’re going to have Khalil somebody who can close games in very favorable matchups because Joey gets just as much attention as Nick does in terms of a pass rush in terms of what an offensive line needs to slide over and help out on and they thought this
Was going to put Khalil Mack in a lot of favorable situations they didn’t get a chance to see that at all now they’re going to get a chance to have those moments that even though cleomex in the second half of his career they believe with Joey Bose on the other side Steve
He’s going to have opportunities in in fourth quarters to end drives and to end games because he’s gonna have a favorite matchup because of Bosa on the other side yeah look and they and they open up against Miami Dolphins their defense put some hands on the
Dolphins last year and now with Mack and Bosa they’ll have some opportunities JP why don’t you get us to our next guest because our next block we got a whole lot of things to make people think listen Judy Batista wrote an article I think it has 700 000 things about the
NFL season in 2023 no it’s only 58 for Super Bowl 58 but three could alter the entire landscape of the NFL hear what she has to say next welcome back to the NFL report and as the season kicks off here’s the path to Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas you’re seeing
32 story lines as to how the season could play out of the elite players but our Judy Batista has written a column that has shown up at nfl.com this week on 58 story lines we should pay attention to in case we’re drawing the lines to Super Bowl 58 Judy welcome to
The NFL report and JP real quick you know Judy and I have known each other since what Judy about 1991. oh that suggests we’re old which one well you should have asked Judy about that in before we started this segment to put out there wait a minute
No but I mean like we were Judy and I we used to work at the Miami Herald in the Fort Lauderdale Bureau in the neighbors section JP covering Community Sports together and now look at how big Judy Judy’s all grown up and she’s granted enough time to share with us but Judy I
Just talked about your column on the 58 things to look out for and you’ve got one in there it’s number three on the list and this is about the running game which really kind of blew my hair back the little gray hair that I have when I
Read this why don’t you tell us about the Russian game so last year sort of incongruously the the running game took off in the NFL I I’ve got the stats um and I think what makes it so in Congress is of course we just came out
Of an off season which was just terrible if you were a veteran running back looking for a new contract right the market just cratered on them but last season teams averaged 121.6 rushing yards per game that’s the most since 1987 which we all sort of think of as
Like the Heyday of the running game before quarterbacks just completely took over the league and teams averaged 27.3 rushing attempts per game that was the most since 2011. so again you’re thinking like how can that be well this is how it can be it’s because quarterbacks rushing
Accounted for 15.5 of all rushing yards which was by far the highest in NFL history so it was not really a demonstration of the power of the running back it was rather a demonstration of the different ways that teams generate the running game which really doesn’t do anything to help
Running back seeking contracts so Judy at first this is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing right you were going to tell us that running backs were now contracts are on the rise here we go we’re running the ball more than ever no now the it’s funny when when I looked at
It and I looked and I started researching everything that you put out there I was like let me take a look at this and when you go and look down like biggest rushes in terms of success rate right what you gain on first second or third down a lot of those rushes are
From quarterbacks in key situations quarterbacks are being used Eve in in the Run game and obviously the evolution of our game has played a factor in this in the RPO and all those other sides when there’s a key third down and it’s third and short some of these quarterbacks are getting those instead
Of the running back I feel bad for the running backs right like you know I I mean I think we all wish running backs were paid as much as they could possibly get but this I I think this statistic is sort of just a demonstration of how you
Can still you can still have a really proficient running attack and it can be a big part of your game but it doesn’t necessarily have to come from a running back and that is why teams when they’re Doling out the contracts just don’t value the running back position they may
Value the running game but they can generate those running yards from other positions most spectacularly right now in the NFL from you know the quarterbacks that are just so Dynamic um and but they have as a result caused a minimization of the role of the running back yeah Judy here’s what I’m
Interested to watch when it comes to that though we’ve got three rookie quarterbacks starting right now we’ve got Josh Dobbs starting a quarterback in Arizona there are teams where the quarterback play is a little and all we’re hearing about is they need the support of a run game and not all of
These quarterbacks and only Anthony Richardson’s the running quarterback of these rookie quarterbacks so I’m just kind of seeing if maybe the the playing of the younger quarterback and maybe some of these other quarterbacks who aren’t as mobile increase the role of the running back knowing that the running game is important here’s another
Element where the running game could be important and this gets to another element of your column Duty scoring is down please explain make it make sense yeah well you can bet that this is not something that the NFL wants and it’s certainly not something that the NFL
Wants for two years in a row but scoring went down last year um averaged 43.8 points per game in 2022 that was a five-year low um related to that is that it was also a drop in defensive pass interference and roughing the password and those are obviously the two calls that affect
Offense the most dramatically because they are such big penalties um so not surprisingly points of emphasis they want officials to call those things consistently across all officiating Crews that was their concern last year with roughing the passer remember there were some early calls in roughing the passer that generated a lot of
Controversy well what the league was really concerned about is it doesn’t get called uniformly across all officiating Crews they want uniformity um and they also want those calls the way they want them called the you know the way they think they should be called because the last thing this league wants
Is a drop in scoring Rookwood JP real quick and I want to go back to our previous point then about the rushing quarterbacks how can you call it uniformly when you don’t know if DeSean Watson is running or passing or if Josh Allen is running or passing and you
Might say the quarterback’s a runner I can’t call roughing the passer on that that that’s what I’m curious about Steve honestly Judy I I think that we’re seeing a rise in the quarterback carrying the football I had to get this out I love that Steve went back listen
To this 2020 first time we’ve ever had 8 000 total rushing yards from quarterbacks 2021 first time we’ve ever had 9 000 yards from rushing from quarterbacks in 2022 first time we ever broken 10 000 yards from quarterbacks so they’re carrying the football Judy do you think the increase yards the
Increase carries is because of the protection they’re getting within the rules I almost look at a dual threat quarterback now as possibly having a greater chance of a longer NFL career than say a dual threat quarterback 20 years ago because of the rules yeah there’s is no question that if you
Are a coach you would not send your franchise quarterback out running this much if they were not getting protection from the officials right I mean if Lamar Jackson was getting clocked every time he ran the ball right John Harbaugh would say all right that’s enough with
Lamar just let him stay in the pocket and throw the ball which he can also do really well um but yes the rules are designed to protect quarterbacks it is trying to find the balance right the tension between you got to let Defenders if he’s
Taking off he’s a runner you got to let the Defenders take him out and Tackle him versus you’ve got to protect the most important assets that the league has the starting quarterback so um that is a fundamental issue and again the concern of the NFL is that it it
Gets called the way it’s supposed to get called and that it gets cold the way they they want it called across the board so they don’t want one crew offering more protection to Patrick Mahomes when on the same day Joe burrow is not getting the same level of
Action right it’s got to be the same yeah um and that’s the problem but again we’ve been around the league long enough to know scoring is is the most important thing that is the stat that they look at most closely because they know fans love scoring they do not want scoring down so
You better believe we’re going to see more calls go in favor of the offense um because the last thing they want is a consecutive year of scoring going down and Judy we’re going to see fans continue to complain that Patrick Mahomes is getting protected more than say their quarterback in terms of how
The officiating crew is going about it and the third one we want to hit is coach is upset about something what I’ve never heard that before the new kickoff rule right they are not happy with this kickoff rule for this season and you’re hinting there could be more changes
Coming after this season to what happens on kickoffs please elaborate on that second part they’re not just hinting that there are going to be more changes I mean they have basically said this is just a stop Gap measure more to come um so the kickoff is the most dangerous
Play in football right like there’s a disproportionate number of concussions suffered on the kickoff and that is because of the speed of the collisions um with the coverage team and the returner right and they just blast into each other you’ve heard players describe it as like running into a garage door
Obviously the NFL um is in an era where it is very concerned about head injuries and they need to do everything they can to address concussions so what they came up with this year in the competition committee is uh if you fare catch uh on a on a kickoff the ball automatically
Comes to the 25 yard line that’s where your drive starts the 25 year old line doesn’t matter where you fair catch it from the 25-yard line in so if you were standing and you fair catch it okay you’re at the 25. um needless to say coaches uh especially
The traditionalists in the group say are you trying to take the foot out of the game I have been in meetings with the competition committee and special teams coaches for years where they’ve had this argument going back and forth how do you keep the foot in the game while making
It safer so this is what they came up with this year they have been very clear they are not done changing the kickoff they don’t want to eliminate the kickoff but they uh once it’s positioned as a player safety situation there are going to be more changes until they drive the
Number of concussions down and one thing that they are looking at is the way they do it in the XFL which is only five yards I I have no problem if that’s what keeps the kicker kick yeah in the game sure let’s do it um it’s only five yards
So you can’t get the high speed collisions sure whatever and let me just quickly explain the XFL rule because I love watching it right okay the kicker lines up at his 30-yard line the other 10 members of the kickoff team line up at the opponents 35 while the return team
Lines up at the 30. so again five yards for the Collision but we’ve also seen a significant amount of kickoff returns for touchdowns or big plays in the XFL so it can work Judy you got us thinking we got to bring you back we’ll just need
To flush some of these things out and some more stuff because we’ve got 55 other things you wrote about that we eventually have to cover and for more on Judy’s column go to nfl.com Batista and coming up next class of 2023 Hall of Famer Demarcus Warehouse tell us who is him
Back on the NFL report All right JP we are officially blessed right now we are in the presence of class of 2023 Pro Football Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware deeware what’s up what is going on fellas how y’all been we’re good we’re good we’re wonderful man it’s great to see that smile I miss
It I used to see it in Denver all the time back in the day and now I get to see it again it’s wonderful I gotta ask you do you wear like you went into pretty much every Hall of Fame this this summer I think it was high school
College Sun Belt the NFL you’re going to be in the ring of like like do you have a favorite do you have a favorite what man you know what I I don’t have a favorite and the thing is I have favor and uh I think that’s like the coolest
Thing to see all your hard work has really paid off and you’re seeing that finally um so it’s one of the coolest things that you know you know just to experience it from a high school level college level all the way to the ultimate Hall of Fame level in the NFL
And why she was there to witness that and it was man that was a cool opportunity yeah from from the door knock to the incredible Hall of Fame speech I want to Circle back to the speech in just a second dewear but as we kick off the season
This week we know we got the Chiefs and lions and and everything kicks off I kind of want to get your take on the two teams that you played for the Dallas Cowboys you’re going to be defensive-led team and the Broncos with Sean Payton the coach that you tormented a few times
When you were playing for the Cowboys let’s start with the Cowboys you know what um the Cowboys From what I see and have seen in a locker room and meeting rooms I’ve seen character for the first time I’ve seen you know guys really wanting it and I can actually
Pinpoint the captains and when you can pinpoint the captains you can pinpoint the tenacity of the team and I think that’s what’s going to take them to where they they need to be and it’s all about just staying healthy for the postseason if they can you know stay
Healthy they can go a long way and then the transition over to the Denver Broncos I knew Sean Payton was going to be a great move and you can see how they’re scoring points now they’re not turning the football over they’re playing fundamentally sound football it’s preseason beware it’s preseason dewares
Listen but the thing is if you play Bad in the preseason it can carry over to the regular statue but if you see Glenn says in the preseason somebody that can happen in a regular season and I got to see some of that so I’m like all right all right I see chain
I saw a change so change on both teams and uh I can’t wait to see what they’re going to do this year well I’m curious do you think Micah Parsons breaks your Cowboys sack record does he have a chance to do that he has a chance to do that if he stays
Healthy I stay healthy for eight or nine years and really really consistent if Michael can play like he’s been playing I mean he’s been averaging with over you know 13 sacks a year it’s hard to get double digits at so if he can do that yeah
The the record will be shattered and I know if he can get that pressure like that they’ll end up winning the Super Bowl you know I’m just throwing it out them just throwing that nugget out there for Michael okay we got record chatter and super okay okay okay just throwing
It up hey Demarcus real quick since we’re short on time I I really would love to talk more about that but I want to get to something that really stood out from that great Pro Football Hall of Fame weekend in Canton and that was this moment from your Hall
Of Fame speech let’s take a listen This might sound crazy but the NFL taught me how to forgive first I forgave myself and then I forgave my dad all the times I didn’t understand why you weren’t there it doesn’t matter you’re here now I’ve learned that guilt rots in a person and forgiveness heals
How can I expect God to forgive me if I don’t forgive you you once said it’s two simple words to me I’m sorry I’m not sure if I responded but I’m telling you now on the biggest platform of my life I forgive you [Applause] Demarcus I was blown away then I’m Blown
Away now what is your relationship now with your dad and we’ve always had a close relationship but we never talked and it’s one of those things where that was the moment for me to where I had to release something like I really had to
Release a lot of the anger that I had as a child um towards my dad and and that that experience that story and what I was trying to do and let the world know that you know what you have to let go sometimes to live and
Um that was one of those moments for me I mean it still gives me chills because that was my first time ever saying dad and you you probably noticed how like quivered in my voice a little bit um but that was a moment for me um and I know everybody felt that and
There was a moment I know everyone’s gonna remember right it was incredible I I it’s amazing to where to see you move forward and move on I I I want to move forward also to this season I mean what is your take on edge rushers now in today’s NFL
Is it is it with the ball coming out so quickly what is it like would you have to change your game what is it like rushing from the edge with the ball out under two seconds now uh you know I would probably have to change my game a lot because you there
There’s not a lot of five step drops anymore it’s you know RPO there’s three step draw there’s a lot of screens that keep you on your feet and so I would actually just really be in the cornerback room telling those guys listen I need one more secure yeah
I need for you all to bump and run okay can y’all just bump and run get back give me an extra second that’s what I’ll be telling the defensive coordinators hey can we draft a corner some free safeties because I need more time it doesn’t matter if the quarterback has
Three seconds he said she’s gonna throw the ball off and it doesn’t matter what kind of pressure you get that’s right you got to disrupt the timing of those receivers well Demarcus we know you’re also here on behalf of DirecTV what do you got going on with them
Get along with DirecTV for business and uh ever passed media and we’re talking about football right football on the Sunday Ticket in businesses and when you start trying to affect the masses when you start thinking about football you go into that restaurant you go into that
Bar and if they don’t have a Sunday Ticket I’m walking out and so I’m just letting everybody know that it’s here right they got over 300 000 locations and we’re trying to do it big just like the Hall of Fame so I’m here right now to tell everybody that the NFL ticket is
Back this isn’t it’s in the businesses everywhere and go watch some football because it’s about to get started there we go dware we appreciate your time and everybody remember in the words of DeMarcus Ware save this tape the Micah Parsons could shatter his record and the Cowboys could go to the Super
Bowl Purp right there he’s got Micah Parsons right there breaking his sack record with the Cowboys what Cowboys going to the Super Bowl what about Edge rushers in today’s game what about tackles in today’s game we have Brian balding or Baldi coming up to break the trenches down there’s
Nobody better in the business stay tuned thank you Welcome back to the NFL report James Palmer Steve weich and the next guy Steve our next guest needs no introduction but I’ll do it anyway because this is also a podcast it is a podcast joins us Brian baldinger I almost feel like I gotta go one more button down Baldi uh
To join you in the salad parade right there uh what was your thoughts because you know d-wear you played with him like what what did you take out of what what he had to say well I thought the most eye-opening thing outside he thinks that you know
The Micah Parson is going to break and shatter his sack record but I I thought I thought he said for the first time in a long time the Cowboys have the right character in the locker room and that’s something that reporters like yourself analysts like myself we can’t always
Gauge we could kind of see it it gets revealed sometimes but we can’t really feel the locker room the way players and guys that are used to it see it I thought that was a good sign for any Cowboy fan out there what do you wear had to say about that
Yeah hey Paul you know we heard him talking to him about Edge rushers too and I want to pick your brand because you work with so many you know you see so many we know the great ones right we know Max Crosby we know Cam Jordan TJ
Watt Nick Bosa Joey Bosa miles Garrett uh players like that but who are maybe some of the players you’ve seen that are kind of on the cusp of kind of joining that club well I mean Brian Burns right off the bat you know I don’t know what his
Contract status is in Carolina right now I mean he’s he’s an electric player and you have to game plan for him um Rashawn Gary before he got hurt was arriving in Green Bay um you know he’s he’s a big Edge rusher he’s 280 285 pounds he has a little size
To him and I know I watched uh about 10 or 12 snaps in the final preseason game of Tyree Wilson with the Raiders and you just go wow like he he opened like he kept coming off of foot surgery all this kind of stuff like you see his size his
Length we saw it at Texas Tech but now you saw it even in a preseason game you go there was something there and then I I think I think people recognize that Jalen Phillips could easily break out in Miami this year he looks like he could be a really special player hey real
Quick baldy no chase Young I need to see Chase on the field Steve well we haven’t seen him on the field you know he’s got to get on the field to get my eyes and to get my breakdowns I I love breaking them down his rookie year
I mean he’s had seven half sacks but he his speed and his athletic ability and change direction was there he’s got he’s got a sack and a half in the last two years like you know and he’s missed a lot of games so I need to see Chase on
The field I know Warren Sapp was working with them during training camp he said get your butt in a four-point stance in a three-point stance get be like a jet taken off he rushed from a two-point stance all the time you’re standing straight up like I don’t think people
Felt his power so I want to see Chase on the field um and then I want to see I want to see a better pass rush array of moves from Chase right now boy I am stuck on this because we talked about it with dewear you heard it and
Kind of how today’s game has evolved I remember being in Philly during camp and talking to Brandon Graham who’s been around forever right and just talking to him about the frustration that you have as an edge rusher when the ball’s just out and it’s and it keeps coming out you
Mentioned a bunch of different guys with different sizes skill sets is there a a premier size and skill set that fits today’s game better than maybe it did in in the past that you see a certain maybe body type or it is is that not matter in
Terms of what guys can be successful with no I don’t think it matters you know I mean okay uh Dwight Freeney was different than Reggie White was different than Michael Strahan um you know uh but but they put up huge numbers uh Jason Taylor put up big
Numbers and he was long and lean and I don’t know that Jason Taylor weighed 240. and I remember playing with Reggie and we had an electronic scale in Philadelphia back then and sometimes in December Reggie would get on the scale and he would jump off as it was Rising
Past 3 35. you know like I don’t know what it tipped it off at um so I I think we’re always you know and really just not Edge rushers either but you know great football players will always come in different shapes and sizes you know their greatness is how they play the
Game whatever they’ve been gifted with so Paul let me let me ask you this can you wear said he’d have to change his game a little bit I was talking to Khalil Mack at charges practice yesterday about this quick passing game and he said it’s so frustrating
You know because you know you just can’t get to the quarterback he said but that’s where you have to be patient because hopefully the defense keeps the opponent out of the end zone the offense scores points so at some point the opposing teams you got to try to drive the ball
Downfield I mean what about the patience these past rushers have to play with now and I asked the same question to Miles Garrett about a month ago Steve when the Browns were discouraging against the Eagles and he said you can’t pick and choose when to pass rush like you just
Have to go and then you know if it’s a if it’s a bubble screen turn and run and go make the play I mean the screen game should be the defensive lineman’s game like flip your hips turn and run like that’s what you’re expected to do that’s
What the great ones do go make the play don’t let it get started tackled before it does get started but you you know when you get to Third and seven third and ten third and twelve third and fifteen Steve I mean it’s like pin your ears back all right you know you might
Have fewer rushes because of the way the game is played now but you have to maximize the rushes that you get but if it’s First and Ten a bubble screen comes out and they’re throwing it to the sideline just run and chase but if you’re there trying to go okay I’m gonna
Go hard in it this time because I think it’s going to be a deep set and then the you know like you just you can’t do that you have to play hard every play and just React to what the play is buddy we had Judy Batista on a little
Earlier talking about honestly teams are running the football more than ever but the quarterbacks running the football are a big part of that because they’re running it themselves more than ever what does that do for offensive lineman in terms of now more than any previous season we’re
Seeing guys take off and run or it’s designed run or it’s an RPO or it’s just the mindset you have to have I guess as an offensive lineman now that that part of the game is just continues to grow that the quarterback is going to carry the football well okay a couple things
Here James because it’s a loaded it’s a valid question and it’s topical one yeah you’re a reporter James you know the NFL can only take what the college game gives us so it gives us Justin Fields it gives us Jalen hurts it gives us Lamar Jackson that’s what it’s given us okay
So now okay now we’ve now figured out how to incorporate right before I came on I broke down the Patriots last year against Justin field and Lamar Jackson they were awful like they hadn’t seen read option they they tried to spy them it didn’t work and here comes Jalen
Hurts coming into town so you have to defend all six basically skilled players on any given play and your eyes have to be right you can say okay well it’s just numbers somebody’s got to pitch somebody’s got the quarterback somebody’s got to dive all right until you’re in that position and you’re Matt
Judon this weekend and Jalen hurts is coming down the line with DeAndre Swift and you don’t know who’s got the ball where it’s going and you just have to freeze for a second against these guys the right value um I think we all remember that play of Justin Fields against Green Bay last
Year yeah the entire packer defense was chasing him into the End Zone it was too late by the time they figured it out um I think it’s it’s it’s a problem and there isn’t one answer for it and you can drop all the defense you want you
Can Rush three drop eight you can do all this stuff like these guys are skilled running backs their Vision tells them where to go it’s not like they’re just running blind in a meat house like they they know how to set guys up they know where the pursuit’s coming from they
Know where the the daylight is is like these are skilled running backs with the ball in their hands and I would say just the three guys I mentioned amongst others but you know Lamar and Justin and Jalen this weekend be something to watch and just track how they perform this
Weekend yeah Bali is a uh scrub outside linebacker to play assignment football back in the big eight days it is so tempting to take the dive back when you come and unblock but the next thing you know the quarterback pops out hey baldy we gotta let you go we got to talk about
Your interesting life because James Palmer spoke with his son’s career day we want to see what it’d be like for you to speak at a career day since you do 15 million awesome things we gotta catch you next time because coming up next on the NFL report is it prime time in
Colorado and could USC quarterback Caleb Williams actually return when he might be the number one pick hmm foreign we’re back on the NFL report but right now we’re going to talk some college football that’s because the biggest Story coming out of last weekend is NFL or Pro Football Hall of Famer Dion
Sanders coaching the Colorado Buffaloes to an upset victory 45-42 over TCU and oh boy James you know this because you live in Colorado the Sports World lost its mind this guy coaching at Jackson State just went up there and took his team with an 80 roster turnover and
Knocked off the team that played the national championship I want to get your Colorado eye view of exactly what the reaction was semi locally up there and just kind of how Deion Sanders has been elevated into a credible head coach even though he shouldn’t have to be elevated
He already was but elevated to that degree nationally where he’s created all this conversation let’s start with locally Steve it has been the dominant Sports landscape conversation in the state of Colorado this entire summer it really has and we have Sean Payton coming to Denver can he fix Russell Wilson major Bronco story
Lines in anything that I’m told locally in terms of a discussion about Dion Sanders this entire summer ratings are through the roof and he’s just up the road in Boulder and everybody was curious how this opening week was going to go because we have to remember what
Dion did Steve he went and did exactly what everybody in the college landscape didn’t want him to do which is flip his entire roster which also be clear he wasn’t the only one that did that correct this past season but he got most of the scrutiny if not all of it for
What he did and maybe the way he went about it but he goes out in that first game against TCU and being here in Colorado with the state absolutely exploding when they go out and they knock off the Horned Frogs who were even if they’re not the same team they were
In the national championship last year and Colorado won one game a season ago I think what happened most Steve is we had a chance to see Dion do things his way and what did he get in this first game he got validated everything that he
Wanted to go out and do in terms of empowering his players letting a player like Travis Hunter come and play both ways who wanted to come and play both sides of the football that came out as a success his son comes out and throws the football over all over the r and throws
Her 510 yards and breaks the CU record all of that happening in a successful manner I don’t know if that just jettisons this into another Stratosphere and what Dion’s putting together at CU because everyone was watching everyone in the NFL game was watching everyone in college football was watching and maybe most importantly
Every High School recruit was watching yes sir and I think that’s the biggest aspect of this that’s a great Point okay and it’s funny because I remember back when I was a scrub at University of Missouri uh Colorado I was no good I was no good I mean I
Ended up transferring and stopped playing football but anyway Colorado comes down to Colombia and their old uniforms they look like UCLA right they were blue and gold we mopped the floor with them Bill McCartney comes in the next year it’s about 1985 because the black uniform starts turning over the
Roster next thing you know Colorado is a Powerhouse that’s what Dion is doing but here’s before we move on this is to me with Dion’s biggest accomplishment is about to be you mentioned shooter Sanders you mentioned Travis Hunter they had a couple other players soon for we’re going to be talking about his
Players and things other than Dion in the Colorado program once people stop talking about Dion and they start talking about the players in the program that’s where Prime is really going to establish himself as a legitimate guy because right now he’s a personality leading a program which is unfortunate
How he’s viewed that way once the program starts doing being the personality that’s when he gets it up speaking of personalities in a GQ article this week Caleb Williams the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback from USC had his father come out and say that if he doesn’t like the situation he
Could potentially be drafted into in 2024 he may return to USC all right GP this is kind of crazy not feeling it whatsoever but I want to get your take a couple of things jump out of me Steve the first one being I think the cart’s
Ahead of the horse a little bit here is this a preemptive strike to put this out prior to really this season up and going and three I you’re really making a lot of assumptions about what you’re expecting to happen and that was a lot of what this article was about Kayla Williams
Himself was saying I’ve really never had uh the choice out of my hands before I I’ve always had a choice in everything that’s going on in my football life this is an opportunity where I wouldn’t I’m I’m just fascinated by the idea of them just already knowing what’s going to
Happen at the top of the draft you made a couple of points throw them out real quick at the top of the draft things can get a lot different each and every year and things can change quickly in the NFL very very quickly right this year Chicago had the worst record but
Carolina came up and traded to get the top pick to take the top quarterback you maybe have a team all of a sudden have a new head coach you don’t know the situation of what you can be in but I’m not saying it but I’m saying it because
In the article his dad listed look a player like Baker Mayfield went to a certain situation and then it didn’t work a quarterback like Kyla Murray went to a certain situation where organizationally it was a disaster Kyler Murray played for the Arizona Cardinals Arizona Cardinals could have
The first overall pick who is Caleb Williams quarterback coach Cliff Kingsbury who uh no longer is the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals I didn’t say it but I’m saying it you did say it’s Steve and on the debut episode right here of the NFL report remember 7
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