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The Ringer NFL Show

'GM Street'—Andrew Luck's Surgery, Rebuilding Bortles, TD Celebrations, and the Cowboys (Ep. 98)

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4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Ringer's Mike Lombardi and Tate Frazier discuss Andrew Luck's surgery (01:00), Blake Bortles and the Jacksonville Jaguars (8:30), NFL refs and touchdown celebrations (17:30), Kawann Short's contract with the Carolina Panthers (20:30), Dak Prescott filling Tony Romo's shoes (24:00), and Malcolm Butler's future (27:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The NBA playoffs are here and we have you covered with the Ringer NBA Show hosted by my guy Chris Vernon.

0:06.4

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, all through the postseason you can hear the Ringer's NBA experts,

0:11.5

media members, coaches and players breaking down all of the action.

0:15.6

Make sure you subscribe to the Ringer NBA Show on Apple Podcasts SoundCloud Stitcher or wherever you

0:21.8

get podcasts.

0:24.6

Welcome to GM Street. I'm tape Frazier and I'm joined by a man in the world of Bill Belichet.

0:35.1

He's smart, he's tough, he's dependable, he's Mike Lombardi. Lombardi, how are you?

0:39.4

I'm good, I come to work every day. I just got to do my job. That's the most important thing,

0:43.7

Tade. I got to do my job. Bill Belichet came out and said that's all he cares about. He said,

0:47.4

everyone has superstars but I'm just looking for guys that are smart, you know, in the trenches,

0:51.6

working hard and I'm sitting across from one today. We have quite a few talk at the topics

0:56.4

that we're going to hit. First up, the quarterback of the team that started to flakeate your favorite

1:02.5

team. The Indianapolis Colts, Andrew Luck comes out, he has surgery in January. He says that he had

1:09.0

an injury suffered in 2015 against the Titans. He's been dealing with that since. He said,

1:14.1

you know, a rough couple of years, maybe, you know, 31 touchdowns, 1300 exceptions last year.

1:18.7

He's done all right. But Andrew Luck now says he's going to be 100% healthy. He's going to come

1:23.4

back. He's going to be the guy that we all thought he would be when he was number one pick in 2012.

1:27.6

What do you say to Andrew Luck in this surgery and what's the future for him?

1:31.6

I say thank you to Jim Merse. Because Jim Merse, I finally realized that the time was now that

1:39.5

the Ryan Griggs and administration, that whatever Ryan Griggs and was doing there at the Indianapolis

1:44.6

Colts wasn't working. I mean, the idea to draft receivers, the idea to sign over 30 guys for

1:49.6

defense, the idea that the way they built this football team was so bad that Jim Merse being the

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