Speaker 1: Good morn football.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, Free agency Friendzy, Welcome inside GMF ME.
Speaker 2: Kyle'spired up. We're live in LA in New York. It's Friday,
Speaker 2: March seventh. I'm jamieerd All. Here is Cody Kessler, DeMarco Farr,
Speaker 2: you're getting used to everybody, and Kyle Brandt wearing the
Speaker 2: Angry Runs James Cook shirt. Kyle, I gotta tell you
Speaker 2: a story. DeMarco Farr, who is on his fifth of
Speaker 2: five days with us this week. I was wearing my
Speaker 2: Angry Run sweatshirt yesterday. That just the generic one, just
Speaker 2: with the robot, no player, no nothing, And DeMarco owes,
Speaker 2: what is that? And like, you know, DeMarco now he's
Speaker 2: into that you guys have the same music taste. He
Speaker 2: has never really experienced the Angry Runs Aura and the
Speaker 2: fact that you're wearing the shirt here today and it's
Speaker 2: a James Cookewe Kyle, it's perfect.
Speaker 3: Throw it out there, let me see.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, and DeMarco, I'm happy to talk
Speaker 4: you through it. We can walk through you can do
Speaker 4: like a three D visualization. We got all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4: Now I'm wearing this because I'm excited for the frenzy
Speaker 4: because I hope that this guy is part of some
Speaker 4: sort of major contract announcement, and because we have our
Speaker 4: old friend Dion Dawkins, the Snowman from the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 4: joining us in the second hour for an hour. And
Speaker 4: if that wasn't enough, we have some exclusive, really big
Speaker 4: contract news coming up later in the show, not too
Speaker 4: much later, about an excellent, excellent young player. And I'm
Speaker 4: not making any of this up. This is not stick.
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Speaker 2: It's you said Dean Dawkins for the entire hour in
Speaker 2: an hour, Kyle, that was not a lie.
Speaker 5: No, that's the truth.
Speaker 6: Jesse Facts.
Speaker 7: Jamie Snowman in studio in La. It's really coming true.
Speaker 2: Mike Carafolo, good morning to you, our NFL network insider.
Speaker 2: What are you starting us with today on GMFBE We're.
Speaker 8: Going to talk about some quarterbacks, Jamie, Sam Darnold and
Speaker 8: your Minnesota vikings. When he was not tagged the other day,
Speaker 8: the thought was, well, there could still be an agreement
Speaker 8: between the sides to bring Donald back to Minnesota, but
Speaker 8: it would probably take some day before that could potentially happen.
Speaker 8: And up against the start of the League year when
Speaker 8: both sides started to feel the pressure of well, now
Speaker 8: he can talk to other teams. We're getting closer and
Speaker 8: closer to that. So look, at some point, Sam Darnald
Speaker 8: may have to decide, do I want a one year
Speaker 8: deal in Minnesota because we know what the situation is
Speaker 8: with them and JJ McCarthy and the fact that he
Speaker 8: is still in their plans, their long term plan to
Speaker 8: be their franchise quarterback, or does Darnald want to go
Speaker 8: look and see if he can get a multi year
Speaker 8: deal elsewhere. Again, we're getting closer to that point, but
Speaker 8: in the meantime, the Vikings and Darnald continue to have
Speaker 8: conversations about potentially bringing him back to be their starter
Speaker 8: next year at least compete with McCarthy elsewhere. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 8: and the Giants have been in communication. Yes, Rogers is
Speaker 8: mulling the possibility of remaining in the New York market
Speaker 8: to be the Giants quarterback, and the Giants certainly have
Speaker 8: some other options that they are potentially going to explore
Speaker 8: as well. It's not like they're just locked in on Rogers,
Speaker 8: but nothing has happened to this point. Rogers technically still
Speaker 8: a jet but can have conversations because the Jets did
Speaker 8: announce that release, and there are other teams potentially that
Speaker 8: Rogers might be interested in that he is exploring as well.
Speaker 8: Doesn't seem like he's in any great rush. So we'll
Speaker 8: continue to monitor that one to see if perhaps the
Speaker 8: sides can come to an agreement to keep Rogers in
Speaker 8: the New York market. But for now, nothing done, Jamie,
Speaker 8: as both sides continue to explore all their up.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just too easy, Mike Rofalo to start our
Speaker 2: show with the quarterbacks and the notable free agent ball
Speaker 2: throwers that are available two teams starting next week. There's
Speaker 2: your list, Mike, he just hit on a couple of them.
Speaker 2: Two of those guys on the same team right now.
Speaker 2: And what the Steelers do at quarterback, maybe it involves
Speaker 2: somebody else on the screen. Maybe it involves somebody already
Speaker 2: on the roster. We'll see does Jamis Winson get a
Speaker 2: starting spot back? All of these are questions that we have,
Speaker 2: Cody Kessler, I turned to you, our former Browns quarterback,
Speaker 2: our former college quarterback, third round draft pick. You know
Speaker 2: how this goes. What free agent quarterback intrigues you the most?
Speaker 2: On this list?
Speaker 7: Or maybe not.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going with Russell Wilson. I mean up and
Speaker 6: down year. Last season with the Pittsburgh Steelers started out
Speaker 6: six and one through the first seven games after taking
Speaker 6: over for Justin Fields, played well twelve passing touchdowns, three interceptions,
Speaker 6: and then the wheels started to fall off a little bit.
Speaker 6: They lose the last five games in a row, and
Speaker 6: that was a tough five game stretch. Right they play
Speaker 6: at home against Philadelphia, or they go on the road,
Speaker 6: actually against Philadelphia, then they play at Baltimore, They come
Speaker 6: home against Kansas City, they play a red hot Bengals
Speaker 6: team at home, and then they go on the road
Speaker 6: in the playoffs and they lose to Baltimore. Russell Wilson
Speaker 6: did not play good during those five games, but if
Speaker 6: you put the tape on, there's enough good things and
Speaker 6: enough flashes of how good he still can be. And
Speaker 6: in my opinion, I think he can go somewhere and
Speaker 6: be a starter or at least compete with someone to
Speaker 6: have that starting job. Now the question is where does
Speaker 6: he go? And the more I look at it, can
Speaker 6: look at the teams that you need a quarterback right now.
Speaker 6: And I know it might sound cliche, I like him
Speaker 6: going to Las Vegas, you know, and it's not because
Speaker 6: of him reuniting with Pete Carroll. That is a factor,
Speaker 6: but it's because of someone else on that coaching staff,
Speaker 6: and that's Chip Kelly. And let me explain, I love
Speaker 6: Chip Kelly. When you think about Chip Kelly, it's because
Speaker 6: or what you think about. Chip Kelly is a offensive genius.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: You think about that spread offense, so shiny Oregan helmets
Speaker 6: running up and down the field, throwing it fifty times
Speaker 6: a game, that spread offense, where all the pressures on
Speaker 6: the quarterback. That's not the case anymore. Last year at
Speaker 6: Ohio State, they were a run heavy offense. Right, they
Speaker 6: took pressure off of Will Howard. It was a true
Speaker 6: West Coast Pro style, balanced type of offense. They had
Speaker 6: two one thousand yard rushers. I love that for Russell Wilson,
Speaker 6: if you bring him over, it takes that pressure off
Speaker 6: of his shoulders. Now, the thing for the Raiders is
Speaker 6: they do have to go out and get the pieces
Speaker 6: around them to run chip Kelly's offense at a high level.
Speaker 6: But they have money to spend, and I would start
Speaker 6: the offensive line, go get some guys that can run, block,
Speaker 6: they can pass block, they can get Chip Kelly's offense
Speaker 6: going the right direction, and then you got to go
Speaker 6: look at the running back spot, and I think they
Speaker 6: go take a look at a guy like Naje Harris
Speaker 6: in free agency. Another guy that I think they look
Speaker 6: at is Aaron Jones, who is both of them are
Speaker 6: a thousand yard rushers a year ago. And then they
Speaker 6: got to go find a top wide receiver. In my opinion,
Speaker 6: and again going back to the cliche thing, I think
Speaker 6: it's DK Metcalf right, and it's just a big reunion
Speaker 6: in Las Vegas between Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson a DK
Speaker 6: metcalf Now DK may not want to go to Las Vegas.
Speaker 6: It might not be his first option, but he's not
Speaker 6: a free agent. He requested a trade, so if the
Speaker 6: Raiders really want him, they can go after him, give
Speaker 6: some stuff to the Seahawks, and if they like it,
Speaker 6: they can make that happen. Now, I'm not saying Russell
Speaker 6: Wilson will be the long term answer in Las Vegas.
Speaker 6: I understand that, but for the time being, they could
Speaker 6: go out and maybe draft someone with that six spot
Speaker 6: if they do love a quarterback or early in the draft,
Speaker 6: or they go find someone in the middle of the
Speaker 6: draft of developmental guy. But right now, if you go
Speaker 6: get Russell Wilson, I think he can get you back
Speaker 6: on track in twenty twenty five and then you allow
Speaker 6: your next franchise quarterback to develop a little bit and
Speaker 6: take over when it's his time.
Speaker 4: Listen, I think it's fascinating to see Russ go back
Speaker 4: and reunite with Pete Carroll. I'd love to get Pete
Speaker 4: Carroll in a moment of private honesty and ask him
Speaker 4: if he would want that. I think that the separation
Speaker 4: of the two of them was complicated, as so many
Speaker 4: things seem to be with Russ, but everything is on
Speaker 4: the board right now.
Speaker 5: I think the.
Speaker 4: Most interesting free agent quarterback right now is Russell Wilson's
Speaker 4: teammate last I think it's justin fields because that was
Speaker 4: a really really interesting thing that happened to him last
Speaker 4: year cruizing. He was winning, and then he was sitting
Speaker 4: on the bench for the rest of the season. And
Speaker 4: now the fascinating part is, depending on what you read
Speaker 4: and what you believe, the Steelers are looking to bring
Speaker 4: him back and that the ship is sailed with Russ,
Speaker 4: and that Justin Fields may be the guy. So if
Speaker 4: they want Justin Fields, my question is just Justin Fields
Speaker 4: want them? Because with this draft and this free agency market,
Speaker 4: Justin Field, somehow, who was on the bench for most
Speaker 4: of last season, has what appears to be something approaching leverage.
Speaker 4: And if I'm Justin Fields and the Steelers are like, yeah, you're.
Speaker 5: Going to be the guy, want we want to sign
Speaker 5: you to something, I just want to.
Speaker 4: Make it clear if I'm Justin Field, I am your
Speaker 4: guy for twenty twenty five ride or bleeping die, and
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear something where we agree to
Speaker 4: it and I'm your guy, and then what do I
Speaker 4: and I turned into the draft and you draft somebody
Speaker 4: in the second round. No, I am your guy. I
Speaker 4: want you to shape your offense around me. I want
Speaker 4: to run for a thousand yards this year for you.
Speaker 4: I did it for a crappy Bears team. I can
Speaker 4: definitely do it for you. And if Justin Fields feels
Speaker 4: like he's not there or you could have a sequel
Speaker 4: to them being like, yeah, take a seat, Justin even
Speaker 4: though you're winning games. I don't know if Steelers want guys.
Speaker 4: I got Tom Brady on the phone can I get
Speaker 4: back to you really quickly? Or maybe I'll go play
Speaker 4: for Brian Dable and I'll do my Josh Allen impression.
Speaker 4: Or maybe the Titans take Travis Hunter number one overall
Speaker 4: and I'll go play in the AFC South.
Speaker 5: I can keep going.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are teams that are looking for Justin
Speaker 4: Fields right now. I'll go back to Cleveland. I'll go
Speaker 4: back to ohioa I played college bad. I'll be the
Speaker 4: Browns quarterback. I think it's interesting that in the middle
Speaker 4: of the season last year the Steelers decided we don't
Speaker 4: want you right now, Justin. But here we go in
Speaker 4: another first run, playoff exit later that was not on
Speaker 4: Justin Field's hand. They say we want Justin. Does Justin
Speaker 4: want him? That's how strange this period of the season is.
Speaker 4: Right now, Justin Fields has something that feels like leverage,
Speaker 4: and if I'm him, I'm waiting and I'm answering every
Speaker 4: phone call. And then we'll see if I want to
Speaker 4: go to the Steelers again. And can I trust them
Speaker 4: to not abandon me in the middle of the season
Speaker 4: like they did last year.
Speaker 3: I like both.
Speaker 9: It's great we went from with Russell Wilson to let
Speaker 9: Russ cook. Remember that era, Let Russ cook too. Is
Speaker 9: Russ cooked now? And if he writes a great conclusion,
Speaker 9: We've all written papers, we've all went to school. If
Speaker 9: he writes a great conclusion to this, he could ace
Speaker 9: the paper. He really could, and I hope he does.
Speaker 9: I root for guys like like Russell Will.
Speaker 2: You got the intro, you got the three body paragraphs,
Speaker 2: you got the conclusion.
Speaker 7: You may want to tell your point.
Speaker 3: You could sell it again.
Speaker 5: In biography.
Speaker 9: Justin Field's same thing. If you get it right with him.
Speaker 9: He is just too athletic. He is too tantalyzing. If
Speaker 9: you get it right with him, I see a Cam
Speaker 9: Newton like run. Like just the biggest, strongest guy, the
Speaker 9: best athlete on the field, happens to be your quarterback,
Speaker 9: and you figure out an offense for him. So that's intriguing.
Speaker 9: Now my guy is a little bit different. It's Jamis
Speaker 9: Jamis Winston. I don't know how to take him anymore.
Speaker 9: Do I take him as a serious football player, a
Speaker 9: starting quarterback, or is he more of a personality. I
Speaker 9: love Jameis Winston the personality. I love Jameis Winston in totality.
Speaker 9: I thought he was the best quarterback Cleveland had. They
Speaker 9: were better with him. The problem is they just weren't
Speaker 9: very good. So finding a home for him, I don't know.
Speaker 9: It depends on if he wants to keep playing football
Speaker 9: or if he wants to gain followers.
Speaker 3: On social media.
Speaker 9: But when Jamis locks in, he's as good as anybody.
Speaker 9: I love good Jamis on the football field. The problem
Speaker 9: is it's bad Jamis. Your feet are tied up, You're
Speaker 9: falling backwards. It's a sack. You throw the ball straight
Speaker 9: in the air and it gets picked. I don't get it.
Speaker 9: Why do you do these sort of things? But if
Speaker 9: you can keep him engaged and focused in an offense
Speaker 9: in a place that he likes, I think Jamis Winston's
Speaker 9: can still get it done. It's just I don't know
Speaker 9: how to take him anymore. Is he the guy I
Speaker 9: see you running around having fun with people, or is
Speaker 9: he a guy that wants a job in the NFL?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: So you're not saying that you're bothered by what Jamis
Speaker 2: goes around and does, whether it be like social stuff
Speaker 2: or in the Super Bowl, or just his general personality
Speaker 2: when he's really out there.
Speaker 7: Love him.
Speaker 2: It's just his play on the fields disconcerting at times,
Speaker 2: and it just doesn't track with like a sixty minute
Speaker 2: starting car.
Speaker 9: The mistakes on the field you can live with. That's
Speaker 9: the bad jam of stuff. It's just like you've seen
Speaker 9: this this business. When you are about to retire and
Speaker 9: you're moving into the next part of your career, you
Speaker 9: get started before you get there. So do I take
Speaker 9: you as a starter or as a guy that's.
Speaker 3: Getting ready to move on to the next level.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well in your vein of writing paragraphs and papers and
Speaker 2: Natasha bettingfields, the rest is still unwritten.
Speaker 7: I'm going Sam Donald for mine because I can't.
Speaker 2: Stop thinking about what is happening with this quarterback and
Speaker 2: not just wearing a Vikings uniform, whatever uniform he does.
Speaker 2: Where Sam Donald to me has a very specific opportunity
Speaker 2: that in the last twenty years of quarterbacks we have
Speaker 2: not seen accomplished before.
Speaker 7: And Kyle hits on this a lot.
Speaker 2: It's the third plus stop on a quarterback train, and
Speaker 2: can you keep this thing going?
Speaker 7: Sam Donald?
Speaker 2: I cannot stress you enough that somebody who was covering
Speaker 2: the NFL at the time and then out covering college football,
Speaker 2: how he was in the lowest of the lows when
Speaker 2: this guy was with the New York Jet, then to
Speaker 2: go to Carolina, then to go to San Francisco. The
Speaker 2: rebuild that this quarterback did for what people see him
Speaker 2: as with his play. If he can finish this thing,
Speaker 2: and frankly, I think it would be even more defining,
Speaker 2: career defining if he was able to play the way
Speaker 2: he did with Minnesota somewhere else, because then it's about him,
Speaker 2: It's not about the coaches.
Speaker 7: It's not about the players that he's with.
Speaker 2: If Sam Donald can go somewhere else and be the
Speaker 2: top five drafted quarterback that he was always meant to
Speaker 2: be and fulfilled at Destiny, to me, that redefined Sam
Speaker 2: Donald and it closes the loop on all the hate
Speaker 2: this guy ever got. If he does not, then it's
Speaker 2: constantly the question of was it just Josh McCown, Was
Speaker 2: it just Kevin O'Connell, justin Jefferson? What is this version
Speaker 2: of Sam Donald will getting just as much as Jamis Winston.
Speaker 2: That question is out there. I feel that way about
Speaker 2: Sam Donald, and I really want him to redefine himself
Speaker 2: in a way that he is meant to because there
Speaker 2: is becoming not a better guy in the NFL from
Speaker 2: a personality trade. People are really rooting for Sam Darnald Cody,
Speaker 2: what do you think about the Sam Donalds.
Speaker 7: You know him really well.
Speaker 2: He's been on a show that you work on, and
Speaker 2: just him trying to reroute what people thought about him
Speaker 2: when he was wearing aest jersey.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I talked about him yesterday and if I
Speaker 6: didn't talk about himyesday, probably would have picked him again today.
Speaker 6: And that was very well said Jamie. I just that's
Speaker 6: the biggest question right now with Sam darnov Is he
Speaker 6: going to be able to have the same success when
Speaker 6: he doesn't have Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison And it's
Speaker 6: not Kevin O'Connell's system. And you're not there on a
Speaker 6: one year, ten million dollar deal, right and you have
Speaker 6: a quarterback waiting behind you. If it doesn't go well,
Speaker 6: you're going somewhere to be the savior, right. And I
Speaker 6: said yesterday he did that with New York and it
Speaker 6: didn't work out. But now he's better equipped, he knows
Speaker 6: how to handle he's more mature. And we had him
Speaker 6: on our show we do a podcast and he came
Speaker 6: over on the podcast, and he's just the most laid back,
Speaker 6: down to earth, you know, level headed, humble guy in
Speaker 6: the world that you want to root for him. And
Speaker 6: I think he's going to be successful no matter where
Speaker 6: he goes. But it's just how well the organization can
Speaker 6: invest in him and get the guys around him to
Speaker 6: help him.
Speaker 2: All Right, these are all questions we have going into
Speaker 2: Free Agency Frenzy. Kyle likes to predict things, and man,
Speaker 2: it's annoying when he's right. He said the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: is going to be a blowout, and he said free
Speaker 2: agency is going to.
Speaker 7: Be the most frenzy ever.
Speaker 2: It's ever been frenzied, and it's already fulfilling its stephany
Speaker 2: Kyle brand h Are these guys gonna stay with their
Speaker 2: current teams?
Speaker 7: Are they gonna find new homes? In twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: Free Agency Frenzy eight Hours of Live cover starts Monday,
Speaker 2: March ten, ten am Eastern on NFL Network and streaming
Speaker 2: on NFL Plus.
Speaker 7: But still to come on our show.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's Trey Hendrickson, Man, you put that out on social media,
Speaker 2: Everyone's got a Trey Henderson take. In a campaign he
Speaker 2: led the NFL in sacks this season. Now he's available
Speaker 2: to the highest bidder. Mike g We're gonna have to
Speaker 2: run it back with our insider to have more on
Speaker 2: this story as it develops.
Speaker 7: Kyle, I hate when you're right.
Speaker 4: Well, Listen, We've seen some years where the biggest stars
Speaker 4: of free agency are the crickets chirping. We're sitting around
Speaker 4: being like, let's go insiders, give us something. They don't
Speaker 4: give a squat. This will not be one of those years.
Speaker 4: It is not Wednesday. However, We're gonna do a whiteboard Friday.
Speaker 4: Who are the top free agents right now? The top
Speaker 4: guys independent of position, not quarterback, not wide receiver. Pick
Speaker 4: the top five best player in all the free agent
Speaker 4: market and rank them.
Speaker 5: That's what we do. It's Good Morning Football on a Friday.
Speaker 5: Let's cook.
Speaker 1: Good morn football.
Speaker 2: Get your whiteboard's ready, everybody, Kyle, it's your favorite segment.
Speaker 2: When a couple people have never done the show before,
Speaker 2: we ask them to rank things, and we hope they
Speaker 2: understand the assignment. And I've done the show for two
Speaker 2: and a half years and sometimes I don't even understand
Speaker 2: the assignment. Free agent market is plentiful. There are names available,
Speaker 2: they need to be paid, and they might be going
Speaker 2: to new homes. Here's the question, you're gonna rank top five?
Speaker 2: There are some lists, There are some names of players
Speaker 2: that are available in free agency this season. Those are
Speaker 2: not just quarterbacks, because we started this conversation in this
Speaker 2: show with quarterbacks. But now we're looking at the whole list,
Speaker 2: the entire Canatuna, Kyle, rank your top five free agents
Speaker 2: right now? Five four, three two one. These gentlemen have
Speaker 2: been working feverishly in there to have theirs ready. My
Speaker 2: board is still blank, Kyle, which I know you are loved. So, Kyle,
Speaker 2: you start us off and show us how it's done.
Speaker 4: So feversly is a good way to describe the offseason.
Speaker 4: And it's about to get cooking. So I have my
Speaker 4: list right here. I've completed the entire thing. This is
Speaker 4: independent of position. It's not the quarterbacks, it's not the
Speaker 4: most famous players. It's just pound from pound, the top
Speaker 4: five best players available in free agent, and we are
Speaker 4: not including anyone that's been tagged. You will not see
Speaker 4: T Higgins, et cetera, et cetera. But let's get started.
Speaker 4: I usually use a blank piece of paper to obscure
Speaker 4: my four through one.
Speaker 5: I'm going to use that Today's New York posts.
Speaker 4: So thank you to Saint John's and Rick Patino for
Speaker 4: being part of this.
Speaker 5: It's a little flavor New York for me.
Speaker 4: Number five, guys, I have Sam Donald at five. Sam Donald.
Speaker 4: We just talked about him last second. We talk about
Speaker 4: him all the time. Fantastic season. I really do think
Speaker 4: that there was irreparable damage done in the eyes of fans,
Speaker 4: in particular at the end of that season. It is
Speaker 4: really it was really tough to watch over the final
Speaker 4: eight days. This player looked nothing like he looked in
Speaker 4: the prior four months. However, he did put up an
Speaker 4: excellent season. That's why I have my at number fi
Speaker 4: and I think he'll be starting somewhere next year. Number four,
Speaker 4: here's another very familiar name. Thank you, Rick DeVante Adams Older. Yes,
Speaker 4: a little bit dramatic now with all the headlines. Yes,
Speaker 4: still absolutely fantastic. He's got a weird thing in his
Speaker 4: career where he's only played for Rogers and then hand
Speaker 4: picked college buddy Derek Carr, then he wanted out and
Speaker 4: then Rogers again. Does he have to play for Rogers?
Speaker 4: Would he go to the Saints and play for Derek Carr.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it seems pretty particular. Also, we're
Speaker 4: at appointments Devonte Adams where he might be your number two.
Speaker 4: If you have a stud at one, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Number three Josh Sweat last scene having two and a
Speaker 4: half sacks in the Super Bowl from the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 4: I know we showed Milton Williams names and he's a
Speaker 4: huge free agent as well. I am particular specific like
Speaker 4: Josh Swet's game more. This is a guy who is
Speaker 4: in his prime and twenty seven years old, and I
Speaker 4: think you bring him in to finally breakout of the
Speaker 4: team effort and be a star pass rusher for you.
Speaker 5: Number two. I love Nick Bolton from the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4: It's strange to even have his name on here because
Speaker 4: I feel like he's such a fixture for the Andy
Speaker 4: Reid Chiefs. Voting is twenty five years old. You would
Speaker 4: bring him in, take him away from the AFC champs,
Speaker 4: and he is your stud linebacker for the next three
Speaker 4: to four years, And that just leads one. You know me,
Speaker 4: I don't go for the headlines. I go for the
Speaker 4: old lines. Ronnie Stanley is the number one for me.
Speaker 4: This is a one time, first time first team All Pro.
Speaker 4: This is a guy who has been to the Pro
Speaker 4: Bowl this year. This is a left tackle in a
Speaker 4: league that is starving for them. He has Lamar's blindside.
Speaker 4: He is ready to have your quarterbacks blind side. He
Speaker 4: has intelligence, he has experienced, he is huge. I'm surprised
Speaker 4: that he is even available out there for the right bidder. Quarterback,
Speaker 4: wide receiver, pass rusher, linebacker, and offensive tackle. Guys, have
Speaker 4: at it and give me your list, because we love
Speaker 4: to compare and contrast. There's a night clean, nice pleasing
Speaker 4: screen grab for the social media. Go ahead and just
Speaker 4: take it and see.
Speaker 7: Very good, very good. Go on, Cody, All.
Speaker 6: Right, here we go.
Speaker 5: I'm nervous.
Speaker 6: I'm nervous that I'm going to reveal before I reveal.
Speaker 6: So working the year is my first time. So I'm
Speaker 6: going number five. I'm going with Chris Godwin. I like
Speaker 6: Chris Godwin. He's coming off from an injury, so I
Speaker 6: know that he's not quite one hundred percent, but we
Speaker 6: don't really know where he's at. But I do love him.
Speaker 6: I think he can be a true wide receiver one
Speaker 6: if given an opportunity, He's been paired up with Mike
Speaker 6: Evans for a long time, So I like Chris Godwin
Speaker 6: at number five. Number four, I'm going Ronnie Stanley offensive tackle.
Speaker 6: I'm sticking with the offensive side of the ball, coming
Speaker 6: off of his best season. Was a Pro Bowler a
Speaker 6: year ago. As a quarterback, you love a great left
Speaker 6: tackle protecting your blind side. That is Ronnie Stanley to me.
Speaker 6: Now at number three, Josh Sweat, I'm going defense. I
Speaker 6: think he is a phenomenal pass rusher, very good all
Speaker 6: season long, did a great job in the Super Bowl
Speaker 6: two and a half sacks and he had seven pressures
Speaker 6: on the quarterback. Was a big part of their Super
Speaker 6: Bowl run. Another guy I'm sticking with the Eagles is
Speaker 6: Milton Williams, who I think is the best defensive player
Speaker 6: in free agency right now. He is a absolute beast
Speaker 6: in the middle of the defensive line, does a great
Speaker 6: job of stopping the run, but he can also get
Speaker 6: after the quarterback and that's very rare for a defensive tackle.
Speaker 6: So I think he is going to be a great
Speaker 6: player in free agency. And then the last guy I
Speaker 6: have at number one, and maybe I'm biased because I'm
Speaker 6: a quarterback. I got Sam Darnold right at number one.
Speaker 6: I respectfully to agree with Kyle. I think the last
Speaker 6: two games we saw San Donald is a reason for concern.
Speaker 6: But I think he's going to play the way he
Speaker 6: did for the majority of the season with every team
Speaker 6: he goes to, and I think he's gonna have a
Speaker 6: great year and he's gonna be, in my opinion, you know,
Speaker 6: very highly paid after this free agency run, and I
Speaker 6: think he's the number one guy.
Speaker 2: All right, I watch your list. Grab the screen. There's
Speaker 2: Cody's list. I like the ownership of a buddy.
Speaker 6: Good job.
Speaker 9: I'm with you, Cody. I am so nervous about this
Speaker 9: list right now. We've talked about a lot of these guys.
Speaker 9: So I'll start with My number five guy is Josh
Speaker 9: schwat same thing they said, it's instant pass rush right
Speaker 9: off the bus. He's a thread off the edge. Depending
Speaker 9: on who you have at offensive tackle, he could be
Speaker 9: one of those what I call ambient players, like you're
Speaker 9: gonna need something to go to sleep because you're gonna
Speaker 9: worry about trying to keep him off your quarterback.
Speaker 3: Easier said than done.
Speaker 9: My number four guy, for the same reasons you guys mentioned,
Speaker 9: is Ronnie Stanley, super intelligent, had some injury history, but
Speaker 9: hell when he's well, and he's the guy that will
Speaker 9: protect your quarterback through thick and thin, and he's a.
Speaker 3: Really good run blocker.
Speaker 9: So definitely, and just to qualify, these are guys that
Speaker 9: I think can impact the team immediately and you'll see
Speaker 9: why as I go on. My third is actually he's
Speaker 9: a one name guy. I just put Davante because he's
Speaker 9: out there and I know there's a lot of bad
Speaker 9: about him, and he's been on TV a lot, there's
Speaker 9: a lot of opinions about him. But anywhere he goes,
Speaker 9: that receiving corps is going to get instantly better. So
Speaker 9: keep your eye out for Davonte Adams as well. Sam
Speaker 9: Darnald is my number two guy. We talked about this
Speaker 9: Cody before the show. He's a quarterback. You got to
Speaker 9: respect the game. Quarterbacks are important. He is going to
Speaker 9: be the I guess, the top guy in free agency.
Speaker 9: So Sam Darnald is my number two guy. Now this
Speaker 9: is kind of a me pick because I love defense
Speaker 9: outside of pass rush. If you can lock up some
Speaker 9: of these top flight receivers, then you have a shot.
Speaker 3: So I liked DJ Reid in New York.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 9: He is a lockdown dude. He is all over the place.
Speaker 9: I know he's five to nine. I just have a
Speaker 9: affinity for guys they call undersized guys. He plays bigger
Speaker 9: than what he is. When you sign him, your defense
Speaker 9: is instantly better that day. So DJ Reed is my
Speaker 9: number one guy in free agency?
Speaker 7: Like it excellent? How does everybody feel good about their lists?
Speaker 7: Feel great about it? They're getting put out in the universe.
Speaker 7: We're back on GMFB.
Speaker 2: The Miles Garrett's situation continues with the Cleveland Browns as
Speaker 2: we welcome back our NFL Network insider Mike Garofolo. It
Speaker 2: was not long ago, Miles Garrett, Mike g was requesting
Speaker 2: a trade out of Cleveland. The management and coaches are saying, no,
Speaker 2: you're staying here. You're Miles Garrett. And now we have
Speaker 2: a development today. What's going on.
Speaker 8: Let's bring up Tom Pellisaro's post on X here and
Speaker 8: run through the news here and provide the context for
Speaker 8: what is happening Miles Garrett.
Speaker 5: We know he wants to trade. He's made that clear.
Speaker 8: Not about money, It's about playing for a competitive team.
Speaker 8: Does not feel right now? The Browns are in that situation.
Speaker 8: The Browns have made it clear publicly privately, we are
Speaker 8: not trading this guy. He is not going anywhere. Andrew
Speaker 8: Berry telling me at the combine, a future in which
Speaker 8: Miles Garrett is not playing for the Browns, that's not
Speaker 8: a future that we want to be in.
Speaker 5: So here's what happened.
Speaker 8: Garrett reached out to Jimmy has requested a meeting with
Speaker 8: the owner, according to Tom Pallisero's sources, and Haslam said no. Now,
Speaker 8: my understanding is the reason that Haslam said no here
Speaker 8: is we know what the issues are. We know about
Speaker 8: the communication between your agent and Andrew Berry, our general manager,
Speaker 8: and our organization, the communication both sides. You need to
Speaker 8: go to Andrew Berry on this, and he has Haslam
Speaker 8: does full trust in Berry to handle this situation and
Speaker 8: basically redirected Garrett and his agent to Barry in this situation, saying,
Speaker 8: you're not going to go around the general manager and
Speaker 8: come to me to get this thing done. So this
Speaker 8: one is going to be a standoff that's going to
Speaker 8: be take a while.
Speaker 5: We've been saying that from the beginning.
Speaker 8: This is something that could last through the spring into
Speaker 8: the summer, perhaps.
Speaker 5: Into the regular season. We'll see where it goes.
Speaker 8: But the Browns have made it clear they're not interested
Speaker 8: in trading Miles Garrett. They're not interested in having conversations
Speaker 8: about trading Miles Garrett with other teams, and Jimmy Haslm's
Speaker 8: not interested in having a conversation with Garrett about the
Speaker 8: situation that doesn't include the general manager Andrew Berry. That's
Speaker 8: where we stand and used to unfold Jamie.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: A couple key phrases in that post from Tom Pelisaro
Speaker 2: both sides dug in Kyle I.
Speaker 7: The one that.
Speaker 2: Piqued my interest was Garrett is preparing to miss games.
Speaker 2: What do you make of this now?
Speaker 4: With Tom Pelsero, Yeah, it feels like he wants to
Speaker 4: go to the CEO of the company, and the CEO says,
Speaker 4: speak with your district manager.
Speaker 5: It's like speak to your VP, or.
Speaker 4: Depending maybe the Browns brass says, it feels like Miles
Speaker 4: is going around mom and asking Dad's It's either way,
Speaker 4: depending on where you look at it. It's not a
Speaker 4: great headline because if you are the face of the company,
Speaker 4: as Miles Garrett is, and you want to speak to
Speaker 4: the man who runs the company at this crossroads, you'd
Speaker 4: like to see that that happens, especially since maybe that
Speaker 4: conversation begins if you're Miles Garrett by saying, mister Haslam,
Speaker 4: I have loved being a Brown. I have given you
Speaker 4: eight fantastic years, during which time you have given me
Speaker 4: six teams starting quarterbacks that have started for the team
Speaker 4: that I'm carrying.
Speaker 5: You guys pursue quarterbacks more than I.
Speaker 4: Do, so maybe you can understand why after eight years
Speaker 4: I might want to go somewhere else. And the part
Speaker 4: about you know he's gonna miss games and all that
Speaker 4: he's dug in, he's got conviction. Do the Browns really
Speaker 4: want to go through that after what they went through
Speaker 4: last year? If they've gone through with Watson, do you
Speaker 4: want to start training camp where the face of your
Speaker 4: company is holding out? Or do you want to start
Speaker 4: training camp?
Speaker 5: Maybe? And look at all.
Speaker 4: These fresh new players that we brought an a through
Speaker 4: free agency, but also with draft picks or future draft
Speaker 4: picks that we're gonna get next year.
Speaker 5: It's fresh, it's new. It's a little bit like.
Speaker 4: What the Commanders had going on, save the ownership change.
Speaker 3: It's a fresh start.
Speaker 4: I still think why would the Browns not even consider
Speaker 4: trading him?
Speaker 5: Eight years in starting season nine.
Speaker 4: The fact is Miles Garrett is probably on the back
Speaker 4: side of his prime. How many top end I'm the
Speaker 4: best defensive player in the league's seasons he have left
Speaker 4: two one. It's not like this is a guy in
Speaker 4: his fourth year. It's been a great run. It hasn't worked.
Speaker 4: Why not get a king's bounty instead of just holding
Speaker 4: on out of stubborn and saying no, no, no, Now
Speaker 4: the owner won't even talk to him.
Speaker 5: It's not a great headline in a series of them.
Speaker 6: Kyle, I thought we were friends, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could hear the whole room shifted photo said that
Speaker 2: the Browns pursue more quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: I shut up there and poured my heart out in
Speaker 6: front of you about a very vulnerable time in my
Speaker 6: first start, and then you just lucked me in with
Speaker 6: sixteen starting quarterbacks, not even to mention, not by you
Speaker 6: were playing for.
Speaker 4: A head coach that was kept on board after going
Speaker 4: one in thirty one. Let's all let everybody of the
Speaker 4: audience know that one of the most absurd things in
Speaker 4: this twenty first century of football. But that's a whole
Speaker 4: different Browns conversation. We're trying to focus on the now
Speaker 4: and ignore the past. But Cody, I want your thoughts.
Speaker 6: I like it, I like it. Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 6: I just it's surprising to me the way that that happened.
Speaker 6: You would think that Jimmy has Them would at least
Speaker 6: be like, all right, let's sit down and talk. I
Speaker 6: want to keep my superstar happy. Or let's have a
Speaker 6: conversation with Andrew Barry. Bring him in here and we
Speaker 6: can all sit down and talk. Bring everybody in the
Speaker 6: front office and whatever you need, head coach, GM, everybody
Speaker 6: into this office. But the fact that he just doesn't
Speaker 6: even want to sit down and talk to him is
Speaker 6: very surprising. Now, I haven't been there since twenty seventeen,
Speaker 6: but I do remember Jimmy has Them was very involved
Speaker 6: at practice. He was always walking around, always talking to
Speaker 6: the guys. You have the face of your franchise, one
Speaker 6: of the best players on defense that wants to talk
Speaker 6: to you. And like I said, I remember Jimmy has
Speaker 6: Them being very involved. It just surprises me that he's
Speaker 6: not willing to do that. And I'm with Kyle if
Speaker 6: he's telling you right now, Miles Garrett is saying, I'm
Speaker 6: not going to play. If you don't trade me, then
Speaker 6: trade him. Then go start that rebuild, get a jump start,
Speaker 6: get whatever you can for him, and then look ahead
Speaker 6: to twenty twenty five, focus on the draft, do all
Speaker 6: the right things there. But just sitting here and not
Speaker 6: talking to each other and going back and forth and
Speaker 6: playing telephone and trying to figure out what's going on
Speaker 6: is getting neither Miles Garrett or the Cleveland Browns anywhere.
Speaker 9: First of all, Kyle, that was the line of the decade.
Speaker 9: That was so funny. Oh my god, you pursue more
Speaker 9: quarterbacks than I do. I mean I could see him
Speaker 9: saying that, and that is hilarious. I was looking up
Speaker 9: these numbers. One hundred and fourteen starts, one hundred and
Speaker 9: two and a half sacks, one hundred and sixteen tackles
Speaker 9: for loss. He is clearly getting it done. Miles Garrett
Speaker 9: is the best in the business. Walked into that suite
Speaker 9: at the Laker game and, like I said, his shoulders
Speaker 9: barely fit through the door with a thirty two inch waist.
Speaker 9: I'm like, god, I get it, I see it, I
Speaker 9: understand it. Talking to him just about ball and I
Speaker 9: said man, I love watching you play. It's just a
Speaker 9: shame that you don't really get a shot to win.
Speaker 9: And he just looked at me and kind of smiled.
Speaker 9: So going back to Cleveland and I'm when this was
Speaker 9: the Luca's first game versus the Mavericks.
Speaker 7: Oh so recently, just smiled at you.
Speaker 3: I could not believe it.
Speaker 9: I tried to get him to eat some carrot cake.
Speaker 3: He just wouldn't do it.
Speaker 7: Like, just wouldn't hard to get star players.
Speaker 9: Special player you could tell, I mean just everything, asking
Speaker 9: him about football, high football, IQ. I mean, the guy
Speaker 9: wants to win. It's a shame that talent like this
Speaker 9: and you saw it with Joe Thomas. Special guys get
Speaker 9: buried on teams that are going nowhere. And I think
Speaker 9: this is very indicative of the Browns. Don't know them
Speaker 9: very well. But why wouldn't you go and listen to
Speaker 9: your best player. He's trying to tell you, I don't
Speaker 9: want this to be a mess. I'm not coming back.
Speaker 9: I don't want to be here anymore. Make the trade.
Speaker 9: This is only going to get worse from here. So
Speaker 9: I don't know why you would dig in on that
Speaker 9: and think about what you could You could get in
Speaker 9: return for Miles Garrett. Oh my god, I give you
Speaker 9: everything you wanted for this guy right now. I don't
Speaker 9: care who you have. He's better. So the fact that
Speaker 9: we're here talking about Miles Garrett wanting to be traded
Speaker 9: out of.
Speaker 3: Cleveland, it's not a hymn thing. This is a you thing.
Speaker 9: So don't compound it by making the guy go talk
Speaker 9: to the district manager or go talk go around mom
Speaker 9: to talk to dad. That makes no sense. He's done
Speaker 9: everything he possibly could to help that team win. Now
Speaker 9: he wants to move on. I think you should give him.
Speaker 3: What he wants.
Speaker 2: He's a cornerstone player in Cleveland. It was very well
Speaker 2: said by everybody, Mike or follow He's missed two games
Speaker 2: in the last four seasons.
Speaker 7: Where do you see this thing going? What's going on?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: Where I see it going.
Speaker 6: I see a long standoff is.
Speaker 8: Where somebody's going to come off of their stands, right,
Speaker 8: Either the Browns are going to trade him eventually, or
Speaker 8: Miles Garrett's going to come back.
Speaker 3: And play for the Browns.
Speaker 8: The only other option is that Miles Garrett ever plays
Speaker 8: football again, and nobody's ever saying that.
Speaker 3: So these are the the other two options there.
Speaker 8: I just know that Jimmy Haslam and Cody alluded to this,
Speaker 8: has had a reputation that he meddles a little bit
Speaker 8: too much owner for an owner. That has been something
Speaker 8: that has been a criticism of him. This is the
Speaker 8: opposite of that, obviously, as he is saying, go to
Speaker 8: Andrew Berry. He has the faith and Andrew Berry also
Speaker 8: has the faith in Kevin Stefanski. You think about this,
Speaker 8: to think that he's going to come back now to
Speaker 8: a locker room after where it already is now and
Speaker 8: certainly where it is going to have that head coach,
Speaker 8: have him buy back in as well as have that
Speaker 8: locker room buy back in. That certainly shows the faith
Speaker 8: in him. And I would say this for Miles Garrett,
Speaker 8: he is looking for a team that's going to be
Speaker 8: more competitive here. We know Deshaun Watson is recovering from
Speaker 8: that second Achille surgery, not looking like he's going to
Speaker 8: be ready at least for the start of the season.
Speaker 8: When I talked to some of the agents for the
Speaker 8: quarterback free agents coming up here and those that might
Speaker 8: be available via trade, this is one of the.
Speaker 5: More attractive situations for them.
Speaker 8: We talk about whether it's the Steelers, the Browns, the Raiders,
Speaker 8: the Jets, the Giants, all these things, and people go,
Speaker 8: you know, there's a lot to work with in Cleveland,
Speaker 8: And despite the fact that they only won three games,
Speaker 8: this is a roster that can be competitive, certainly when
Speaker 8: you add potentially another player at with the number two
Speaker 8: overall pick as well, if it's not a quarterback. So
Speaker 8: I don't know if that does anything for Miles Garrett.
Speaker 8: Certainly has not had him come off of his trade request.
Speaker 8: But I know a lot of folks around the league
Speaker 8: looking at this like this is still a competitive team
Speaker 8: in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: I just think at Miles Garrett, the way he's operating this.
Speaker 4: He's not doing the mike. He unfollows the team on
Speaker 4: social He's tweeting them no, no, no. He posted a full
Speaker 4: letter saying eloquently exactly how he felt and what he wanted.
Speaker 4: He is going to leadership to have a conversation. This
Speaker 4: is how you want to deal with these things. You
Speaker 4: got to at least give him ten minutes on zoom.
Speaker 4: Just give me a quick meeting. I understand you don't
Speaker 4: want to handicap the GM, but talk to the guy
Speaker 4: and hear.
Speaker 5: What he has to say.
Speaker 4: And my question for you, Mike, are you picking up
Speaker 4: the sense at all of a third option.
Speaker 5: It's not the Miles Garrett wants to go or they
Speaker 5: don't want to trade him.
Speaker 4: Is there any sense at all that all the Browns
Speaker 4: leadership is in lockstep to put up this sort of
Speaker 4: sense that no, no, no, we're never trading him unless
Speaker 4: you give us a crazy deal. We're going to put
Speaker 4: it up that we don't want to trade him. Is
Speaker 4: that in any way you think maybe for appearances.
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 8: I think this is truly what they believe is going
Speaker 8: to be something that eventually Miles Garrett is going to
Speaker 8: cave and say, well, I want to play football. I'm
Speaker 8: going to go back to the Browns, and that they
Speaker 8: can have conversations not with Jimmy Haslam, but with Andrew
Speaker 8: Berry and Kevin Stefanski to get him back into an
Speaker 8: understanding of this is the right place for him. We're
Speaker 8: already seeing it. It's not a financial thing, but they
Speaker 8: understand that if he's coming back, there is going to
Speaker 8: be a financial aspect to this. We see Max Crosby
Speaker 8: now up at thirty five million dollars per year with
Speaker 8: Micah Parsons and TJ. Watt and all these guys coming up,
Speaker 8: it's going to be up to forty million dollars per year.
Speaker 8: They are prepared to have those conversations. I know that,
Speaker 8: But Miles Garrett has made it clear that it's not
Speaker 8: a money thing to this point. It's all about being
Speaker 8: a competitive team. I asked Andrew Berry about how do
Speaker 8: you convince him of that? And he goes, you don't
Speaker 8: convince him. You just go about your business. You build
Speaker 8: a competitive team. And they feel like they do have
Speaker 8: a competitive team again, despite what that record said last year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like Mike was saying, like it would be a
Speaker 6: lot easier if he said that, right. I want a
Speaker 6: new contract. I want to be paid. I want to
Speaker 6: be the highest paid non quarterback in the NFL. That's
Speaker 6: not what happened. That's not what's happening. But the thing
Speaker 6: that I think is the most confusing. The last thing
Speaker 6: I'll say about this is that it's not you know,
Speaker 6: Jimmy has them reaching out to Miles Garrett, Miles Garrett
Speaker 6: saying no thanks, I'm good. It's the other way around.
Speaker 6: And that's what makes this headline so interesting. If Jimmy
Speaker 6: has them and Andrew Barry were like, hey, Miles Garrett,
Speaker 6: come in, let's talk. I want to figure this out.
Speaker 6: He said, I'm not good right now unless you're going
Speaker 6: to talk trade. I'm not coming to the facilities to talk.
Speaker 6: It's the other way around. Miles Garrett reached out to
Speaker 6: the owner personally and said, I want to speak to you.
Speaker 6: Just hear me out for a little bit, and he said, no, thanks,
Speaker 6: go to someone else. That's just that's the part that
Speaker 6: is bizarre.
Speaker 3: To at ball.
Speaker 9: You guys saw how Ad ended his career Aaron Donald
Speaker 9: when he pointed, I need this, So I put him
Speaker 9: in the same category as Aaron Donald. They're special, they're
Speaker 9: great players. They want to go out with a win.
Speaker 9: And it's just look, he's there, he's in the building.
Speaker 9: He can tell like this might be might not be
Speaker 9: going anywhere. I don't know how much longer I have
Speaker 9: left in this league, so I want to go someplace
Speaker 9: where I can go out and win. So I get that.
Speaker 9: And I told you guys early in the week there
Speaker 9: is nothing worse on a football team than a pass
Speaker 9: rusher that's not motivated, that's going out there just to
Speaker 9: play out the string. I'm just trying not to get hurt.
Speaker 9: You can't win that way. I don't want to see
Speaker 9: Miles Garrett do that in a Cleveland Browns uniform are anywhere.
Speaker 9: I like to see him playing the way he plays
Speaker 9: and playing motivated. So if he doesn't want to be there,
Speaker 9: he doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 3: Just makes sense.
Speaker 2: Kyle, I got a question for you, as somebody who
Speaker 2: watches games fit you're fan of All thirty two, do
Speaker 2: you feel like you are buying into what Mike Garafalo
Speaker 2: is selling, which is are telling us, which is this
Speaker 2: is a very attractive team. This could be a good
Speaker 2: free agent landing spot. They are not far away with
Speaker 2: the number two pick in becoming a competitive organization moving forward.
Speaker 2: That is what the Browns want people to believe your
Speaker 2: eyeball test of watching football.
Speaker 7: Are the Browns that close?
Speaker 2: Is this a scenario that Miles Garrett could all of
Speaker 2: a sudden be like, well, wait, did you really draft ab.
Speaker 7: Dul Karter at number two?
Speaker 2: I do want to go back there and play with
Speaker 2: these guys.
Speaker 7: Are they close?
Speaker 4: I think it's easy to scoff at the Browns because
Speaker 4: of how much trouble that they've had on the field
Speaker 4: for years and they're a punch line. Fine, they were
Speaker 4: in the playoffs a couple of years ago. Okay, this
Speaker 4: is not some nothing team. Last year everything fell apart
Speaker 4: in the Deshaun Watson then continue to explode.
Speaker 5: I think that's over.
Speaker 4: I don't think Deshaun Watson is ever going to start
Speaker 4: a game for the Browns again. So yeah, I do
Speaker 4: actually think this is a very talented team that is
Speaker 4: a couple of players away. But the worst case scenario,
Speaker 4: worst case is you're sitting there all the way through
Speaker 4: training camp and Miles Garrett, who is a different kind
Speaker 4: of guy, who I think is a little bit eccentric
Speaker 4: but is also extremely intelligent, I think is just fully convicted.
Speaker 3: This is not a.
Speaker 4: Flimsy deal where he's like, I don't know if I
Speaker 4: want to play unfollow the team on social he is in.
Speaker 4: I do not think Miles Garrett is going to be like,
Speaker 4: you know what, You're right, I'll come back. He feels
Speaker 4: passionate by all indications that he's not playing for the
Speaker 4: Browns anymore.
Speaker 5: That is a terrible, terrible situation to be in.
Speaker 4: And again it's possible Miles Garrett has played his very
Speaker 4: best football already. Why not when his stock is this high,
Speaker 4: get the treasure chest.
Speaker 5: And go to work. We'll see. I don't think this
Speaker 5: one's going away.
Speaker 2: What's gonna be great here on GMP is all of
Speaker 2: next hour we have Dean Dawkins with us, who knows
Speaker 2: a thing or two maybe about going up against Miles Garrett.
Speaker 7: Guys like Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: We're going to get his take on this scenario and
Speaker 2: also working with teams and owners and management and what
Speaker 2: a scenario like.
Speaker 7: This feels like. So we got Dean Dawkins coming on from.
Speaker 2: The Bills all of next hour. This is an ongoing
Speaker 2: situation with Miles Garrett. It's our favorite kind on the
Speaker 2: show because we get to keep talking about it.
Speaker 7: There it is Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: The Brown's just holding out for a king's ransom or
Speaker 2: are they convinced that he will be back with the
Speaker 2: Browns next year?
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2: I saw celebrity walk in the halls at NFL Network
Speaker 2: yesterday and it was Daniel Jeremiah. We hugged each other,
Speaker 2: we said you're great to see you, and then he
Speaker 2: dropped like seventeen nuggets on me about the NFL, about
Speaker 2: the draft, of Regency.
Speaker 7: I was like, DJ, how do you know all this stuff?
Speaker 7: It blew my mind?
Speaker 2: And then he was going off and posting his top
Speaker 2: fifty prospects three point zero guys. DJ is hooked up.
Speaker 2: He knows everyone and everything. So look at this list
Speaker 2: and take it honestly. Top fifty prospects, DeMarco, what do
Speaker 2: you think.
Speaker 7: About that list?
Speaker 9: I love Daniel Jeremiah, I love Abdul Carter. Are we
Speaker 9: sure that's not von Miller or microh Parson's moonlighting? Because
Speaker 9: that's what he looks like. He plays like his mom
Speaker 9: needs a new house. I love that type of guy.
Speaker 4: Yes, all right, Kyle, See I like that line. He
Speaker 4: plays like his mom needs a new house. That's the
Speaker 4: kind of thing I want in a player hungry. I've
Speaker 4: been looking at Ashton gen Z all the way up there,
Speaker 4: and I've been following DJ two, and he was on
Speaker 4: with Rich and DJ was spinning this sort of tail
Speaker 4: where Ashton jen Z, the prolific Boys of State running back,
Speaker 4: kind of goes through the Ben Johnson mold and becomes
Speaker 4: the equivalent of the Jamiir Gibbs pick.
Speaker 5: Remember the offense changed for Detroit when they took.
Speaker 4: Jamiir Gibbs way up high, and everybody laughed and pointed
Speaker 4: because you're not supposed to draft running backs that high.
Speaker 4: It changed the entire offense in Detroit's I said it yesterday.
Speaker 4: They're going to be about steak before sugar in the
Speaker 4: Bears offense, they are going to run the ball. If
Speaker 4: they went all this high on the stud running back,
Speaker 4: it is history repeating itself. He is not the same
Speaker 4: player that asked that. Jamier Gibbs is a little different.
Speaker 4: But I still think Ben Johnson might say, now we
Speaker 4: are set on the running game, what else do we
Speaker 4: have to do?
Speaker 5: I watch it, watch it closely.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love this.
Speaker 6: This is great by DJ. One and two for me
Speaker 6: are interchangeable. I think you can put at dual Carter
Speaker 6: at one, his hundred at two, and you can make
Speaker 6: that argument. Then you can put Travis hundret one and
Speaker 6: a dual Carter at two, and I'd listen as well. Right,
Speaker 6: And it's just going to depend on what team's like.
Speaker 6: As that number one overall pick where I would make
Speaker 6: a change, and maybe because I'm an offensive guy, I
Speaker 6: would put Tyler Warren ahead of Mason Graham at that
Speaker 6: four spot. Mainly because I sat back and watched Tyler
Speaker 6: Warren come to the call, see him and go for
Speaker 6: seventeen catches two hundred and twenty four yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 6: The man lined up at tight end, at wide receiver,
Speaker 6: lined up at quarterback, he threw a pass, then he
Speaker 6: lined up at running back and had a couple carries.
Speaker 6: And then you lined up at center, snap the ball
Speaker 6: and Drew Aller ran in the middle of the field
Speaker 6: and caught a touchdown pass. He is a Swiss Army knife.
Speaker 6: He is a very good football player. So for me,
Speaker 6: like I said, Tyler Warren, I think can be a
Speaker 6: little bit higher. Yet whoever gets Tyler Warren is getting
Speaker 6: a really good player.
Speaker 7: All right, It's not a mock draft.
Speaker 2: DJ's not saying that this team is traded for this
Speaker 2: pick and the way he blew up the NFL universe
Speaker 2: and he predicted the textans taken two and three a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. This is just top fifty prospects.
Speaker 2: Go check out Daniel Jeremiah's list and everything else on
Speaker 2: NFL dot com.
Speaker 7: When it comes to the draft.
Speaker 2: Which I think is forty eight or forty nine days
Speaker 2: away by now, look at that list, unpack it, pick
Speaker 2: your team and pick one of those guys, and you
Speaker 2: have a player changing, organizational guy that's coming into your city.
Speaker 7: Top ten DJ will be back on GMFB.
Speaker 2: All right, So sometimes you have a plan and then
Speaker 2: we say the hell with the plan. Kyle, we have
Speaker 2: a Miles Garrett tweet that we have to talk about
Speaker 2: on GMFB. That was a really fun hour or Kyle,
Speaker 2: do you have any percolating thoughts that you just want
Speaker 2: to get out about Myles Garrett before we close out
Speaker 2: our hour on GMFB.
Speaker 5: We've talked about Miles Garrett a lot.
Speaker 4: What's percolating for me right now is we're going to
Speaker 4: talk about something that is an exclusive contract news about
Speaker 4: a very very young, talented player in the AFC that
Speaker 4: indicates a lot of where this team is going in
Speaker 4: the future. We're going to do it right here. We're
Speaker 4: going to do it in the very next segment. Stay
Speaker 4: in your seats, my friends.
Speaker 5: That's what I got.
Speaker 2: That's a television teas right there for Witness one live
Speaker 2: in an action like that.
Speaker 6: I don't want to give it away, but I feel
Speaker 6: like it might have something to do with this T shirt.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I guess we'll see We'll.
Speaker 7: Be right back. GMSB.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday, everybody,