Arrowhead Report's Tucker Franklin and RaiderMaven's Hondo Carpenter discuss Las Vegas Raiders tight end Darren Waller and how he poses a problem for the Kansas City Chiefs' defense.
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00:00 I want to talk about Darren Waller.
00:01 You talked about him already earlier in the podcast, but how has he been able
00:05 to be so dynamic in this offense?
00:07 I wrote about this all all training camp.
00:10 He is a superstar with all respect to Kelsey, who I think is a stud.
00:15 He's the best tight end in all of the National Football League.
00:18 He does everything well.
00:21 And I'm going to tell you what I love about that guy.
00:23 During training camp, I watched him jumping in and stealing reps
00:27 from guys that weren't going to make the roster.
00:29 You know this most superstars during training camp.
00:31 I mean, it's one hundred and ten, one hundred and twelve degrees.
00:35 They're not inside in the air conditioner.
00:37 They're out in the desert practicing.
00:39 And he's in there taking extra rep.
00:41 I watched him once for 20 minutes work on one step, just one step.
00:47 He is a tactician to his job.
00:50 What makes him so good is if he can get literally an inch
00:54 and a half of space, he'll catch the ball.
00:57 There's an old adage in football that says if it touches the skin,
01:00 you got to bring it in.
01:01 That's Darren Waller.
01:03 That's like last week.
01:04 He had an on a Darren Waller like fumble.
01:08 Well, he's human.
01:09 You know what he did.
01:10 And that's why they ended up losing a game that they very well
01:13 could have won against Buffalo.
01:14 And so you watch this team and you watch how they come together.
01:19 What makes Darren Waller special?
01:21 A true professional.
01:22 And I'm going to say this to you.
01:23 I'm a dad. I love being a dad.
01:25 I have friends on almost every NFL team or work for every NFL team.
01:29 So I'm not really a fan of one team.
01:32 I root for people.
01:34 One of the things that I love about Darren Waller is he is an absolutely
01:38 class act human being.
01:39 And I don't care if you're wearing arrowhead colors
01:42 and you're a Kansas City chief fan, go ahead.
01:45 It's a great franchise.
01:46 You got a lot to have pride in.
01:47 But I'm going to tell you, that's one guy that deserves a lot of cheering
01:50 because he picked his life up by the bootstraps.
01:52 Yeah. And he's never blamed anybody.
01:55 He's taken responsibility for it.
01:57 And that guy, every chance he get is out in the community,
02:00 reaching people with substance abuse addictions.
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