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Speaker 1: go back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis. I'm joined by a room

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Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: What is up, boys? Hey Dan? Uh, it's raining cats

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald's pro day at usc You would have thought Sam,

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Speaker 1: Greg that you would have thought Sam conquered the Nazis

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Speaker 1: in the way he was being, Uh, the hero worship

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Speaker 1: I was. I was a little taken aback by the

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Speaker 1: also were like Donald. This is how Donald wanted it

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Speaker 1: This guy's a warrior. Meanwhile, our our buddy, you know,

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Speaker 1: You remember when p did he had the guy that

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Speaker 1: notice in the picture Mayock was there and had a

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Speaker 1: better umbrella. It is possible to hold these events without

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Speaker 1: blowing them out of proportion. For years, Twitter, well, things

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Speaker 1: the personal grievances against the pro day structure podcast? No?

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do this. You have to do it.

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Speaker 1: that irrelevant. Thankfully that that did not happen. All right,

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Speaker 1: here's something that really is important West. When you talk

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Speaker 1: thing that matters is the owners meetings in Orlando next week.

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Speaker 1: And guess what the heroes of the Around the NFL podcast,

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Speaker 1: as we said, we'll be there with multiple podcasts and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little different because, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we got some big fish. Sis want some big fish

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Speaker 1: that one. Hey fanatical this offseason? Two? Who on what

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Speaker 1: topic you are you? I am always leary of people

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Speaker 1: driving agendas, and Rodo World is now driving an agenda.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's like, first we get st hood

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Speaker 1: for Shaucy Brown. That's the first thing they want st

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Speaker 1: hood for something who's never done anything wrong ever, Ladies

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Speaker 1: and jem for one night and has foreseen everything that

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Speaker 1: could possibly be seen in football. Sashy Brown foresaw it.

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Speaker 1: He knew that the Houston Texans were gonna lose their quarterback,

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Speaker 1: have a horrible season, and have a top four draft pick.

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Speaker 1: All credit to Sashy Brown for that and everything analytics

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Speaker 1: is gold. And nobody who's made a career out of

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Speaker 1: football knows anything throw the world knows so much more

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Speaker 1: than anybody who's ever made a career in football. WHOA

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Speaker 1: this was unforeseen? I like this. I love the rant.

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Speaker 1: I guess we're not gonna have Evan on well I

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Speaker 1: love Evan Silva. He's great. He's now has an agenda

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Speaker 1: though Evan, Evan will be the first guide who will

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Speaker 1: come on to share his opinion. Evan just like threw

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Speaker 1: his his smartphone off the top of the series tower.

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Speaker 1: He likes. He likes going back and forth. I've been

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Speaker 1: back and forth. The one thing I would say on

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Speaker 1: the Fox blurb though, is I think it's very hard

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Speaker 1: to predict who's gonna be good and who's gonna be

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Speaker 1: bad on TV. There were a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: friends of of Foxy on Twitter yesterday were like, trust me,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be great on TV. He's so great off

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Speaker 1: off Mike and we'll see. I don't know, but it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if he was really great on TV.

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Speaker 1: For instance, like Rex Ryan not really as exciting on

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Speaker 1: TV as you would expect. And sometimes guys like Eric

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Speaker 1: Man Jeanne was pretty great and it's pretty good, and

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Speaker 1: it's not as a smooth thing. It's an in studio thing.

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Speaker 1: And I will say for John Fox, as boring as

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Speaker 1: the Bears were and as boring as some of his

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Speaker 1: teams can be, he is not boring at at past

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Speaker 1: owners meetings, for instance, when everyone is just in a

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Speaker 1: room together tying, and he is fun. He came to

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Speaker 1: an Oscar party that we that NFL never had a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and he was the life of

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Speaker 1: the party. Well, I mean I was. I was lucky

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Speaker 1: to get to the door it was back then, but

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Speaker 1: it was like he was in there holding court for hours.

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Speaker 1: So I was like you and who's the woman who

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Speaker 1: runs Vanity Fairway? Wow? I really fallen story here, just

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Speaker 1: like Mark hanging out at Oscar parties, not at he's

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Speaker 1: a photographer. But John Fox, I agree. You don't want

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Speaker 1: him in the bet down that road. There's that potential

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Speaker 1: for the phil sims like you got the ball at

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Speaker 1: the fourth and one at the forty yard line, you

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Speaker 1: gotta punt here, you gotta punt. You're gonna get that

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Speaker 1: with John Fox. But in the studio I feel like

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Speaker 1: he's I've seen him out during super Bowl week. The

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Speaker 1: guy has fun time. He's got a good personalities gregarious

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Speaker 1: hold hold tight roto before were in a wind tour. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and finally in the news, you know that I am

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Speaker 1: the kicker insider um for all things NFL media related.

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Speaker 1: Uh So I figured it'd be a good time. Now

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Speaker 1: that free agency is a weekend to go through little

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Speaker 1: kicker news like this, It's good. Ryan suck Up resigned

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Speaker 1: five years million of Titans. Cody Parker so four years

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Speaker 1: fifteen million with the Bears. Dustin Hopkins resigned three years

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Speaker 1: six point eight seven five with the Redskins. Graham Gano

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Speaker 1: four year seventeen Carolina, Adam Finitieri one year three six

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Speaker 1: with the Cults, Matt Bryant three years ten five Falcons,

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Speaker 1: Chandler Cannon Zarrow three years nine point seven five Tampa Bay,

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Speaker 1: Cairo Santos one year two million, New York Football Jets,

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Speaker 1: Caleb Sturgis two years four point four five Chargers Finally,

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Speaker 1: last but not least, resigning an undisclosed deal with the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Kons. Kai Ky kickers are getting paid some money.

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Speaker 1: When you are on the rundown that you send out

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Speaker 1: before the show, you said there was gonna be a

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Speaker 1: roundup of kicker news. I went and spent about forty

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Speaker 1: five to fifty minutes finding out nuggets and factoids for

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Speaker 1: each one of those kickers not needed um some somehow

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Speaker 1: now in the mood for like a little cinemax, some

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Speaker 1: a few a few notable unemployed kickers see bass still

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Speaker 1: on the market. The Chargers blew that what you what

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Speaker 1: you think Caleb Sturgis is packing the house? You bring Sebastis?

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Speaker 1: I think you brings Janikowski. It's a little warning shot

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Speaker 1: up to your friends in Oakland. We're taking over l A.

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Speaker 1: Now let's have some fun with Chargers have bigger concerns

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Speaker 1: in packing the house, Like how about hit a kick

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Speaker 1: Kaski would be good. How do we know Nick Folk

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Speaker 1: the folk hero after a disastrous office Has anyone ever

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Speaker 1: called him the folks? Oh? Yeah, the New York tabloids

512
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Speaker 1: did it like seven times over course of his career

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Speaker 1: with the Jets. Blair Walsh doesn't have a job. Nick

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Speaker 1: Novak doesn't have a job. And Mike Nugent, your old

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Speaker 1: favorite West the news cost is Incinnati playoff game against

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Speaker 1: the Jets once upon a time, still unemployed. That's what's

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Speaker 1: happening in the news. All right, So I just brought

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Speaker 1: up some free agents, uh, still looking for work? Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some with respect to the Kickers, more

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Speaker 1: prominent NFL players on the market still and we should

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Speaker 1: start Greg Rosenthal with in Dominan sue the defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: released by the Dolphins last week. And the more as

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Speaker 1: the days and hours go by, the more it looks possible, Greg,

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Speaker 1: that a super defensive line of epic proportions is being

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Speaker 1: set up right in our backyard. I hope, so, I

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Speaker 1: hope that Indomican Sue is going to join the Rams.

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Speaker 1: As we came up to the studio today, Ian Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: our NFL Network insider, reported that his SU's trip to

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Speaker 1: the Raiders is off the court. Sources told him and

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Speaker 1: Mike Silver, he's back home. He's not gonna make a decision.

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Speaker 1: Rams made a strong impression, but also considering the Saints

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Speaker 1: and the Titans, and I think you could if you

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Speaker 1: wanted to read between the lines on this tweet, Rams

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Speaker 1: made a nice impression. That's what they pay for. Rams

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Speaker 1: made a nice impression. Up. You know, Sue wants them

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Speaker 1: to pony up, pony up a little more. Maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: they're not offering as much money as a Saints and Titans.

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Speaker 1: Maybe hasn't gotten to that point, but I just you

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Speaker 1: get the feeling that Rams or maybe in the pole

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Speaker 1: position here between the lines, visionary Greg Rosen, that's what

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Speaker 1: he's known as. It will be odd to see Sue.

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Speaker 1: I realized he had one or two Lions teams that

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Speaker 1: were semi successful, but he's consistently attached to lose or

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Speaker 1: franchises that ultimately go nowhere. It would be nice to

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Speaker 1: see him on the Rams. Saints Thoughts or Rams kind

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Speaker 1: of fell that, Hey, I've got a titance to make

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Speaker 1: a contender better. I'd like to see him on the Titan.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like he goes into totally

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Speaker 1: anonymous land the way it seems like it's trending. Titans

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Speaker 1: need more name players they can get a modicum of

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Speaker 1: attention from network. Really surprised if he did not go

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Speaker 1: to a team that was in the playoffs last year

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Speaker 1: and his viewed as a contender. Actually, the Titans know

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Speaker 1: they were in the divisional round, they won a game.

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Speaker 1: He ain't taking a penny less to the top offer.

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Speaker 1: We already know that. Well, maybe he's changed was people

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Speaker 1: can change. I don't think he has. He has come

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Speaker 1: out and said this is his m O. I like

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Speaker 1: no player I've ever seen before. He's come out and

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Speaker 1: it is an adjustment. Though he's gonna get a lot

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Speaker 1: less money than he was getting, and I think even

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Speaker 1: my my guests, when we see these offers, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot less than people are expecting. All right,

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Speaker 1: there are three notable quarterbacks still on the market, and uh, Mark,

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Speaker 1: you tell me which one's most likely to sign and

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Speaker 1: which one is the least likely to sign a deal.

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick you may have heard of him, who, by

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Speaker 1: the way, just held a workout in Houston during his

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Speaker 1: a position. Uh in a case of collusion, NFL collusion

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Speaker 1: against him. I feel like that could hurt his case

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Speaker 1: to get a job. But we'll see Jay Cutler and

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Speaker 1: Gina Smith most likely at least likely, most likely Geno Smith,

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Speaker 1: um to the discredit of the team that chooses to

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Speaker 1: do so, and uh, least likely I mean savage, bro,

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Speaker 1: That's how I operated right pretty well on his one

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Speaker 1: start last year. I give me a break. That's not true,

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Speaker 1: Um it is. That's fine. I would say this. I

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick wants to keep playing. Jay Cutler I think

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Speaker 1: does not so Jake Cutler. How do you pick a

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Speaker 1: least likely? I almost think like Jay Cutler at least

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Speaker 1: likely because he will retire if he were not choosing

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Speaker 1: to retire. Colin Kaepernick least like his Cutler is not

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Speaker 1: getting a starting job the Bills or somebody. Let's hope

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Speaker 1: not and I think Cutler is done. That would be

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Speaker 1: my strong Kaepernick, though, I think the team's teams proved

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Speaker 1: last year, for it wasn't every one of them. It's

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Speaker 1: not that it's just that he could not find work

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Speaker 1: lass He's not about to find it again. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I think we're all on the same page at

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Speaker 1: Kaepernick deserves a job somewhere, but this collusion case it

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Speaker 1: cannot help his cause. And he's in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: And it's just hard to imagine a team and an owner,

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Speaker 1: uh jumping into the frame and be like, hey, come

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Speaker 1: onto my team because there's a lot of politics at play.

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Speaker 1: It always has been the case with the situation, and

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Speaker 1: be then be better, be bigger than this situation. In

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Speaker 1: the NFL, it's it almost felt like Kaepernick didn't get

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Speaker 1: a job in part because they were worried about bad publicity. Well,

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Speaker 1: signing Colin Kaepernick would be great publicity in my mind,

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Speaker 1: it would It would help end or at least start

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Speaker 1: to end a chapter that has not reflected well ultimately

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Speaker 1: on the NFL. And he he absolutely deserves to be

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Speaker 1: in the league as as a backup in Miami, Baltimore, Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: I don't know which which team could give him a shot.

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Speaker 1: I I still think we should mention it because I

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Speaker 1: don't think we should give up hope that his career

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Speaker 1: is over at thirty. Maybe this case has to end,

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Speaker 1: but to me, he should still have a back into

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Speaker 1: the other way, and I think it will should have

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Speaker 1: last year, I mean the Ravens, and the Ravens backed

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Speaker 1: off deciding to do it, and there and and when

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Speaker 1: you and the more you learn about that, it was

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Speaker 1: super clear that it had to do with people outside

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Speaker 1: the organization saying we won't support you with sponsors, everything,

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Speaker 1: and it is it's a very bad look. And that's

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Speaker 1: why what you're saying, Greg makes sense. Yes, that it

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Speaker 1: would be good pr for a large portion of the

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Speaker 1: country and and and media outlets, but behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: that team is going to have to deal with some things.

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Speaker 1: And that's just the sad reality of the situation. Uh.

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Speaker 1: There will gonna be other owners that would be upset,

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Speaker 1: advertiser sponsors, You run into issues and then it goes

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Speaker 1: back to what you were saying west all last year. Uh,

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Speaker 1: does his playing ability at this point? Is it enough

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Speaker 1: to outweigh all the negatives that would come with signing him?

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Speaker 1: And stresses why playing ability? What is his asking price?

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Speaker 1: How is he going to be in the locker room?

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Speaker 1: Does he know the offense? Is he a fit for

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Speaker 1: the offense. There's a lot of question that go into it.

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Speaker 1: It's not just about being blackballed. H Okay wide receivers

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Speaker 1: West Eric Decker, Terrell Prior, and Jordan Matthews, three uh

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Speaker 1: quality guys. Which guy would you most want on your team?

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Speaker 1: By far? Terrell Prior? Wow? By far? To me, he's

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Speaker 1: in two tiers higher than those guys. Gave some of

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Speaker 1: the top cornerbacks in the league fits in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and sixteen toward ligaments in his foot in week two

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Speaker 1: of two thousand seventeen, and of course it was not

638
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: the same player while while trying to play through torn

639
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: ligaments in his foot. So to me, I throw out

640
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen. I feel not enough was made of that,

641
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: and I don't think I don't think it was like

642
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: public knowledge. Charley Castley noted they were trying to use

643
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: him all over the place, use him inside where he

644
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: just didn't look that comfortable and he might not be that. Yeah,

645
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: he's a former quarterback, not that versatile a wide receiver.

646
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: He had a coach in Cleveland and Hugh Jackson that

647
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: seemed to know how to maximize well. I mean, it's

648
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: surprising to find out that Hugh Jackson could do something

649
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: that Jake Ruden can't after what happened last year with

650
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:03,959
Speaker 1: a lot of other players in the Browns. But Terrell

651
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: Pryor was dominant in games for in a series of

652
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: games two seasons ago, going up against number one corners

653
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,879
Speaker 1: and his body type is just impossible to guard. One

654
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: of the best athletes in the league. Visited the Seahawks

655
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: and the Jets. Initially, it was reported that the Browns

656
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: and the Rams might have been interested from Mike Silver,

657
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: but clearly he I think his best bet would be

658
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: going to the Browns, even though he might be their

659
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: fourth receiver and just hoping. You know, you got Josh

660
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: Gordon and Corey Coleman in front of you, and you

661
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: might have to take two million dollars on a one

662
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,959
Speaker 1: year contract, but wouldn't there be another team out there

663
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: that would pay him that money? Then you can go

664
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Speaker 1: to a team with an established not getting the offers

665
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: he wants. I don't know what he wants, but the

666
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Jets aren't offering it, or else he

667
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: would have signed it. I think Jordan Matthews is being

668
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: under valued in this market just because you you know

669
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: what you're getting with him. He hadn't know you had

670
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: an injury plague season on a terrible lingering issue. You

671
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: had an injury plaque season. And if it's all about

672
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: the injury, then that's that's don't getting with a guy

673
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: who's got a lingering knee issue. He had yards in

674
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: his first three years and two hundred fifties something catches.

675
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: That's more than basically every wide receiver free agent that

676
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: signed for huge money. And he's a slot receiver. We

677
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of money. But he should be

678
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: able to help a team out there, maybe like the Colts.

679
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: Colts really need some wide receivers. And I know that

680
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: Decker was a disappointment last year, but he's still just

681
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: thirty one and he was coming off two major surgeries.

682
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if he signed with the

683
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: team that had a good offense that he was better

684
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: this year. Uh A full year healthier, uh from last season.

685
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: But I know he wasn't good. But if be a

686
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: shocked if he wasn't playing at all this season. No,

687
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: I mean it's possible he had major, major surgeries. It's

688
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: possible he left that that ability on the operating table.

689
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: What's happened to other players? Had a huge touchdown catch

690
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: in that playoff win against the Chief. He visited the Raiders,

691
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: so that would fit in with their kind of graybeards philosophy.

692
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: Vaders are taking a lot of your potential signings of

693
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: as GM of the l A graybeards. I will be

694
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: rolling out my two thousand eighteen Graybeards roster in a

695
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. So these guys, a lot of these

696
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: guys could end up are several of them could end

697
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: up on my team. Uh. And what a great a

698
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: bunch of grinders they are. It's a little grizzle. It's

699
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: a little grizzle the features Bruden wants to make them

700
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: his grinders running back. Here's a nice guy, would build

701
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: my whole team around. In terms of the media campaign,

702
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: he'd be on the Media Guide. I'd have him doing

703
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: the late night talk shows. I'd have him on Craig

704
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: Kilborn's Killboards Love a show like four late show hosts Ago.

705
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson does not have a job. He was initially

706
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: on your top one on one. Where was it? He's

707
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: still he still is sitting there somewhere. He's in the seventies.

708
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: I believe he is seventy six. Adrian Peterson looking for

709
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: Wark Greg is you gotta get it. I don't know

710
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 1: if he's the guy to build your marketing campaign around,

711
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, considering some some my people tell me that

712
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: forgives It's true. At this point, I think people have

713
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: forgiven him. That's totally fair. He's a first ballot Hall

714
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: of Famer. He's not a versatile guy, not gonna help

715
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: you on third A supportive guy like that, just joking.

716
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: It's a fair class by the people on Twitter. I

717
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: think you should at Dan Hans and Uh with your questions.

718
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: Something you joke about. It was like, well that's a

719
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: good point. I know West disagrees, but I'd rather sign

720
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: Frank Gore right now. He went. He had a visit

721
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: with the Lions. But I think he's a that's pure

722
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: and sandy. He's a leader. He's a leader, and he's

723
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: a better Gary Blunt backfield with a mere abdulla nursing. Now,

724
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: I think Blunt knocked him out of contention. I watched

725
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: the Bucks game last year, Cardinals Bucks game or Cardinals

726
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: forty Niners, and tell me Adrian Peterson can't play, and

727
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: I'll say you have no eye for football. He looked

728
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: great in that in that game, the first game when

729
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: the Arizona, no doubt. My question would be more about

730
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: if you're trying to add him and you have to

731
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: tell him you're not our lead back, you're one of us.

732
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: The problem number of running backs. How is he gonna

733
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: handle that? He did not handle it well in New Orleans. Well,

734
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 1: he's a bit like Colin Kaepernick and that his skill

735
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: set at this point only fits a limited number of teams.

736
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: And to your theory West that you've brought up before,

737
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: these guys that are one dimensional. When Adrian Peterson's on

738
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: the field, you know what's coming. Didn't work with the Saints, right,

739
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: It's it's a bit problematic strategy wise if you have

740
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: him just as your early down back. I agree, that's

741
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: a bit of a tell about what's coming. So he's

742
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: got to play a lot of snaps in order to

743
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: be effective, which is how the Cardinals used him last year.

744
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: He kind of out of desperate desperateness is when you

745
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: use him. He he's a guy. Wouldn't be shocked if

746
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't wind up getting a job. I wouldn't be

747
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: shocked either way, but it wouldn't be surprised. Maybe if

748
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: you're into retirement. If he's going into Canton with Joe

749
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: Thomas in that same class, well, I think you would

750
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: see him again in October and November when injury strike

751
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: and it's like, we need a guy to just tote

752
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: the ball twenty times a game. We're taking Peterson to

753
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: Marco Murray. We'll see not great tape last year, but

754
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: was very good in two thousand. I need him to

755
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: wind up and made East was the NFC. It was

756
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: the NFC East because that's not where it looks like.

757
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like to the Dolphins, and I was like, oh,

758
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: Mark might get those sandwiches. I'll be giving them and

759
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: mixed it up. Darren Sprawls also out there. Uh, speedy

760
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: but old. He feels like he'll be on the graveyards

761
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks coming off a major injury. Yes, Uh,

762
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: Marty Bennett tight end. The most prominent tight end out

763
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: there right now. Him and Jason Morrow, those are the

764
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: two most prominent free agent tight ends in my mind.

765
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: He told Rich Eyes and Wednesday Martin Martell has Bennett

766
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: that he's unsure if he's going to play, and when

767
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: Eisen brought up the possibility of skipping the early parts

768
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: of training camp, martell Has Bennett was all about that.

769
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: He said, I could play, but about seven different coordinators.

770
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: I don't need to learn offense. Wasn't Marty Bennett last

771
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: like July going viral because he was sleeping in the

772
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: Packers locker room before training camp started. I feel like

773
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: maybe he's maybe the fire is not there anymore. It's

774
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: it's possible he's an animator now. Uh smells like a

775
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: guy that might sign with the Patriots late. For that

776
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: would be highly tedious and I could see a turn

777
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: to the pager. I need to find out what this

778
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: title that he called himself as animator. This is a

779
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: great title. Isn't he the Black Unicorn? He is the

780
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: creative director of awesomeness, That's what he has self dubbed him.

781
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, Navarro Bowman is

782
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: out there. Uh, not really a cover linebacker at this stage.

783
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: He's in his thirties, never quite the same guy after

784
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: that terrible knee injury. Oakland moved on, will someone else

785
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: get into the Navarro Bowman business? Someone throughout his name

786
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: in Dallas where he would where he would make some stump.

787
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: It makes some sense. Anthony Hitchins left. Uh, they weren't

788
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: really sure what they got out of Jalen Smith last year.

789
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: Shan Lee's an injury play guy, but Bowman is not

790
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: kind of an every down snap linebacker at this stage.

791
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: When some team gets desperate and signs Adrian Peterson for

792
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: early downs, another team can sign Navarro Bowman is the

793
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: bizarro Adrian Peterson on defense? Like that plays early downs?

794
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: All you do is tackle Peterson Like that? M Like,

795
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: that's why's the season? That seems like a really narrowing

796
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: down specialist rollsign. What if you make Bowman you're running

797
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: back in Peterson, You're early down linebacker, really mixing it up?

798
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: You want to throw teams off their game? Do we

799
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: target this guy? Do we stay away from I think

800
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: Evan Silva would like that kind of forward out of

801
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: the box thinking. Sashi already had that idea, uh A

802
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: little safety talk. Kenny Vekaro, Eric Reid, Trey Boston, Taylon

803
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: Branch all out of work. Eric Reid, who also kneel

804
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: during the national anthem next to his old teammate Colin Kaepernick.

805
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: There has been speculation that his fight for social justice

806
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,959
Speaker 1: or his displays have not helped him find work. So

807
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: that's something to keep in mind. There your thoughts, gentlemen,

808
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: not a lot of them. If he doesn't well. Morgan

809
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: Burnett signed with the Steelers on Tuesday. He was ranked

810
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: in our top thirty, pretty much right next to Kenny

811
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: Vacaro and Eric Read. So if if Vaccaro and Read,

812
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: especially if Reid doesn't get signed in the next week

813
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: or two, then I think, again the NFL is something

814
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: on their hands that doesn't look great. But at this

815
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: point I wouldn't rise any alarms. For instance, Vacaro hasn't

816
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: gotten signed. I would think that Reid played really well

817
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: at the end of last season and they started using

818
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: him like multiple concussions to Read's injury history is about

819
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: as big a red flag as you could possibly have.

820
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: He's had tons of concussions, played very well at the

821
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: end of last year, and usually that I'll get you

822
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: signed going into the next year. All right, So there

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Speaker 1: you go. Those are the big names out there, and

824
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: we'll see who from that list um ends up on

825
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: the grave yards? Whom? Who? Which players? Whom? Or who whom? From? Now?

826
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: Who from that list? I believe that's a who who

827
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: still uses whom in copy? Nobody I use whom when

828
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