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00:00It's week two of the NFL preseason and joining me with some observations from this week around
00:06the AFC are our Fan Nation publishers Todd Karpovich, Chad Jensen, Mike Fisher, and David
00:12Beauclair.
00:13I'm Claudette Montana-Pattison with SI Right Now and Todd, let's go to you first.
00:17The Ravens are gearing up for their preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals.
00:21What's the latest with the team?
00:22Well, the Ravens got some good news this week when Marcus Peters came off the PUP list and
00:26joined Darius Washington and J.K.
00:28Dolphins.
00:29So they have three to six players off the PUP list.
00:31The Ravens went out to Arizona on Thursday to play a Sunday night game, but they're not
00:36practicing with the Cardinals.
00:37They don't want to risk any injuries, so we're hardly going to see any stars for the Ravens
00:41in that game.
00:42The key for the Ravens is to stay healthy because they had 19 guys in the IR last year
00:45and they don't want to have, they don't want to repeat performance, so John Harbaugh's
00:48altered practice, there's very little hitting, so the Ravens' goal is to stay healthy and
00:52so far, so good.
00:53They look like they're going to be okay for that opener.
00:56Chad, Russell Wilson will not play in the Broncos' preseason game against the Bills,
01:00but what can Broncos fans look forward to?
01:03Josh Johnson, baby, after a very impressive first game as a Bronco last weekend against
01:08the Cowboys.
01:09He's going to start, run the second team offense, and then we'll get to see a little bit of
01:13Brett Rippin, of course, as well, and then after the first preseason game, Broncos got
01:18some good news in the form of offensive tackle Billy Turner and edge rusher Randy Gregory
01:24coming off the PUP list.
01:25So feels like things are moving in the right direction for the Broncos' ultimate goal of
01:29having both those guys ready to roll week one.
01:32Mike, you cover the Bills and the Patriots, so how are things looking in the AFC East?
01:37Well, for the Patriots, first of all, the idea that we don't really have a coordinator,
01:42we don't have titles, we don't make assignments, we have a process, we're going to work it
01:45out.
01:46There is no head coach in the NFL who could pull that off outside of the New England Patriots
01:53head coach.
01:54If that were happening in any other of these cities, there would be outraged pitchforks
01:58and panic in the streets, but Bill Belichick says it's going to be okay, so I guess it's
02:02going to be okay.
02:04With the Buffalo Bills, what's very okay is they already had a loaded roster, I'm sure
02:08we'll all agree with that.
02:10They think at least five rookies are now going to be rotational guys, and maybe the most
02:14fascinating of those is the running back James Cook.
02:17If you recall back to the draft, James Cook was not particularly excited about going to
02:22Buffalo, and maybe that's because he doesn't like cold weather, or maybe it's because he
02:27realized they already had two quality running backs, but by the time we get to real games,
02:32the rookie James Cook is going to be very much in play along with Singletary and Moss.
02:37All right, David, the Titans have had joint practices with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers all
02:42week.
02:43Any updates you can share?
02:46The big story continues to be the education of Malik Willis.
02:49It's become clear the Titans want him to be the number two quarterback coming out of
02:54training camp so that they don't have to keep three on the active roster, but he got pulled
03:00in the preseason opener because he was relying too much on his feet.
03:04Wasn't running the offense, wasn't cutting it loose in the passing game, so they're getting
03:09him practice reps, they're going to get him a lot more in the preseason.
03:13It's possible, probably even likely, he'll play at least one of these last two regular
03:18or preseason games, start to finish, and then the battle at right tackle is heating
03:24up at this point.
03:25Dylan Reagan's a second-year guy, had the opportunity to win the job in the offseason.
03:30He has not done it more and more through camp.
03:33They're rotating him and rookie Nicholas Petit-Fraire out of Ohio State at that spot, and that looks
03:39like that's going to be a decision that's probably going to go down to the wire based
03:43on kind of what happened this week in practice with the Buccaneers and what happens next
03:48week in joint practices with the Cardinals.