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Speaker 1: coming up this week in the NFL. Now there is
Speaker 1: some NFL news to tell you about. And Peter King
Speaker 1: had this first. The seventeen game schedule is highly likely
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. No surprise there. I was told
Speaker 1: by a source this morning the TV deal will probably
Speaker 1: be finalized next week and when it is more than
Speaker 1: likely there will be a seventeen game schedule. Now goes
Speaker 1: on to say, and he has some other items in
Speaker 1: his Good Morning Football column that he has every Monday.
Speaker 1: The league calendar gets pushed back one week with a
Speaker 1: likely February thirteenth Super Bowl in Los Angeles, So no
Speaker 1: extra buy seventeen games, eighteen weekends and the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: originally scheduled for February sixth of twenty twenty two that'll
Speaker 1: be on NBC, has not officially been moved yet, but
Speaker 1: likely to be pushed back the day before Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: February thirteenth in Los Angeles. I was also talking to
Speaker 1: a source this morning about get ready for owners to
Speaker 1: somehow find a way to combat what's going on with
Speaker 1: the player empowerment with these quarterbacks in what contracts are
Speaker 1: going to look like in the near future. They want
Speaker 1: to take away the power that these quarterbacks are somehow
Speaker 1: showcasing right under their nose. And I just told they
Speaker 1: haven't figured it out, but you can bet if the
Speaker 1: owners can find a way, they're going to shut this down.
Speaker 1: But just some of the items that I was told
Speaker 1: about the seventeen game schedule, highly likely that the TV
Speaker 1: deals will probably be finalized coming up next week. As
Speaker 1: I said, no important deadlines coming up. The teams have
Speaker 1: until March ninth to decide on franchise tags and free agency.
Speaker 1: The official league will start on March seventeenth. The draft
Speaker 1: is and until April twenty ninth. So for all the
Speaker 1: talk about the quarterback movements, teams should theoretically have time
Speaker 1: to figure things out. There's still time get ready for
Speaker 1: the draft and also the franchise tags. Players and teams
Speaker 1: are engaged in an unprecedented public relations exercise because we
Speaker 1: always hear bits and pieces of what players want or
Speaker 1: what teams are thinking. This offseason's been crazy, like there's
Speaker 1: been a constant stream of reports, rumors, but both sides,
Speaker 1: like Houston and Seattle, are being forced to address uncomfortable
Speaker 1: situations here and even if the teams don't have to
Speaker 1: make a decision, you can't just sit in silence, and
Speaker 1: if you're wondering. We did reach out to Seattle. We
Speaker 1: reached out to Pete Carroll to see if he would
Speaker 1: like to talk about Russell Wilson. Not that he wants to,
Speaker 1: but Fritzie made the call. We didn't get a hard
Speaker 1: no from the Seahawks, but if Pete Carroll decides that
Speaker 1: he'd like to join us or their general manager John Schneider,
Speaker 1: we would welcome them with open arms. We don't play
Speaker 1: sides here. We'll hear the Seahawks side and Russell's side
Speaker 1: down the road as well. But you know, we love
Speaker 1: this information, the possibility. We always love the possibility of
Speaker 1: something happened. It's called wishful reporting. I talk about it
Speaker 1: all the time. You want something to happen, you know,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times we'll talk about it and
Speaker 1: you'll go, yeah, nothing came to fruition. It's like trade deadlines. Oh,
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. This guy's available, Well, that guy could
Speaker 1: be available, and then the trade line, trade deadline comes about,
Speaker 1: and then nobody's moved. But with what's going on with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott, Deshaun Watson, it feels like something's
Speaker 1: going to happen, and if one thing happens, that could
Speaker 1: lead to a domino effect. But you start to figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on with the Saints with Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: We were told Jay Glazer this was a month ago,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees retiring. Ian Rappaport joined us last week, Drew
Speaker 1: Brees retiring. There's a zero chance Drew Breese going to
Speaker 1: come back and play. And now the more I thought
Speaker 1: about it, I went, Okay, if I'm Drew Brees, he
Speaker 1: probably says, gosh, I got so banged up. I got
Speaker 1: all these broken ribs. I was hurt, and we almost
Speaker 1: beat the Buccaneers. We're not that far off. We still
Speaker 1: have a good team. And if I'm the Saints, I go, well,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees isn't gonna cost me that much if he
Speaker 1: comes back. Do I want Drew Brees? And then Drew Brees'
Speaker 1: trainer posted a video of Drew Brees working out. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. It could be just fun.
Speaker 1: They could be tweaking us a little bit. Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is technically not retired, and I wonder because I've been
Speaker 1: around a lot of athletes in forty years. Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is on the short list of the most competitive people
Speaker 1: I have ever met, not just football. I've played golf
Speaker 1: with him so much so. When I played in a
Speaker 1: celebrity golf event in Tahoe, I had had back to
Speaker 1: back birdies and I'm lined up for a third. Drew
Speaker 1: Brees walks by me as I'm ready to put going.
Speaker 1: I can't bleep and believe you could have three birdies
Speaker 1: in a row. And then I missed the putt. He
Speaker 1: missed a put on the eighteenth green, and I was
Speaker 1: with Ben Roethlisberger. Drew walked off the green after he
Speaker 1: made his pot for a Park, did not shake our hands,
Speaker 1: went to the scorers tent and went in there, and
Speaker 1: then Roethlisberger says, well, I guess I'll shake your hand
Speaker 1: twice for the quarterbacks in the group. So Drew Brees
Speaker 1: isn't gonna go quietly into the night just because he
Speaker 1: has a TV deal. This is a guy who played
Speaker 1: with broken ribs eleven? Who knew you had eleven? McLevin
Speaker 1: and Fritzie did back Row went to class. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I've had ribs before, Texas Ribs. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: know what's happening with Drew Brees. But I will say
Speaker 1: with what happened with Russell Wilson. All for the cities
Speaker 1: that he mentioned, Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, it was like
Speaker 1: a coverage bomb was detonated. Nobody's talking about what's going
Speaker 1: on with the current quarterbacking situation. Everybody wants to talk
Speaker 1: about the possibility of Russell Wilson in New Orleans. The
Speaker 1: New Orleans mayor trying to reach out and welcome Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson to town. Drew Brees hasn't retired yet Dallas, Well,
Speaker 1: does Dallas want him? Hey? What would it take to
Speaker 1: get him? Hey? Would we take him instead of Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: The Raiders, it always feels like they're half in and
Speaker 1: half out with Derek Carr and then the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: Sure come on down. But that's what's interesting that's going
Speaker 1: on right now, the player empowerment here with these quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who are sort of dictating a game of musical chairs.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Us is going to get traded.
Speaker 1: I thought after the following season would be his last year. Seattle.
Speaker 1: I have no information on that other than a gut feeling.
Speaker 1: And look at the numbers. Dak Prescott, do you want him?
Speaker 1: I get the feeling that Seattle views Russell Wilson almost
Speaker 1: the way Dallas views Dak. We're not quite sure, because
Speaker 1: if they were sure in Dallas, they would have signed
Speaker 1: Dak up almost two years ago and got a bargain.
Speaker 1: Seattle sort of lets Russ cook, but they don't want
Speaker 1: to do they take him for granted, we want to
Speaker 1: run the ball, Well, you don't have Marshawn Lynchin anymore. Oh,
Speaker 1: we want to play great defense. You don't have the
Speaker 1: Legion of Boom anymore. Russ. It's thirteen to nine, we're trailing.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter. Can he help us win another game, all right.
Speaker 1: I never felt like Seattle was all in on Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson on letting him cook, and Dallas with Dak Prescott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he won the first round pick. I don't know
Speaker 1: they had a good offensive line, hey, Zeke. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got some weapons in there. We're not quite sure.
Speaker 1: Now you look at the mess that they're in. Now,
Speaker 1: you got to pay him thirty seven million, and if
Speaker 1: you bring him back with a franchise tag after that,
Speaker 1: it's fifty two million. You could have had him almost
Speaker 1: two years ago for a bargain. But something's happening. And
Speaker 1: here's another thing. Houston Chronicles. John McLean wrote a strong
Speaker 1: column saying it's time for the Texans to listen to
Speaker 1: trade offers for Deshaun Watson. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: columnists who might say something like this in a situation
Speaker 1: like this. When John McClean says something like this, listen,
Speaker 1: I think John McClean is as dialed in as any
Speaker 1: columnist in America with their team. He was there before
Speaker 1: the Texans were there. And if John McClean says now's
Speaker 1: the time him to start listening for offers, I think
Speaker 1: the Texans are going to start listening for offers, all right,
Speaker 1: mclove and you got a pull question for me? Oh man,
Speaker 1: there's so many QB questions here. The one I was
Speaker 1: excited about before the show is who would you rather
Speaker 1: have Dak Prescott or Russell Wilson With the possibility that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys tag Dak Prescott and then they're allowed to
Speaker 1: trade him to Seattle, do we know if that's possible? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just looking up. Schefter had said that if
Speaker 1: they tag him and he accepts the tag, they can
Speaker 1: trade him. But Dak, because of the status of the tag,
Speaker 1: has an in effect of no trade clause according to Schefter,
Speaker 1: so basically has to agree to it. But they can
Speaker 1: do sort of a sign and trade thing as long
Speaker 1: as he signs a FRANTI so wishful trade rumors are
Speaker 1: the best, and if you involve the Cowboys that it's
Speaker 1: just like give me the clicks. Yeah. Well, here's what
Speaker 1: I was told this morning. Just because we look at
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's contract now with three years, doesn't mean Russ
Speaker 1: is not going to say to his new employer, I
Speaker 1: want to renegotiate new team, new deal. You might look
Speaker 1: at Russ and go, we're getting a Super Bowl, We're
Speaker 1: getting a Hall of Fame quarterback, and we're gonna get
Speaker 1: him in a bargain. And Matthew Stafford said he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to renegotiate his contract with the Rams. I don't
Speaker 1: know from what I'm told, new team, new deal, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson Junior the third. If I'm Dallas, I just don't
Speaker 1: know how they feel about Dak. I have a sense
Speaker 1: of how they feel about Dak. Jerry Jones tells you
Speaker 1: everything you want to hear. We love Dak, he's a leader,
Speaker 1: he's okay, but you didn't sign him, and then you
Speaker 1: didn't sign him, and now where are we going franchise Tagville.
Speaker 1: If I'm Dallas and I get Russell Wilson at his
Speaker 1: current deal, then yes, I would strongly consider that. It's
Speaker 1: seventy five million over three years. It's a bargain Dak.
Speaker 1: Dak's going to cost me more than that the next
Speaker 1: two years, thirty seven and fifty two. But then I'm
Speaker 1: giving up draft picks to get Russell Wilson. Game on
Speaker 1: the line, who do you want? It's not that hot.
Speaker 1: It's Russell Wilson. He's proven that, But Dak Prescott at
Speaker 1: twenty seven, Russ is thirty two, going to be thirty
Speaker 1: three during the season, I think Russ stays in Seattle,
Speaker 1: Dak stays in Dallas, and I think DeShawn Watson is
Speaker 1: eventually going to get traded because I think the Texans
Speaker 1: are going to go what makes the most sense for
Speaker 1: us right now and in the future. Do we hold
Speaker 1: on to him for dear life and then you know
Speaker 1: he sits out if he comes back begrudgingly, you just
Speaker 1: don't want to James Harden situation where James Harden got
Speaker 1: out there on the floor and mailed it in. We
Speaker 1: quit on the Rockets because he wanted out. Not that
Speaker 1: Deshaun would do that, but James Harden got out because
Speaker 1: of that. But if I'm the Texans and you're at
Speaker 1: the point of no return, put it out there open market,
Speaker 1: have a for sales sign, because now is when you
Speaker 1: need to get the Jets and the Dolphins competing with
Speaker 1: each other. Those are the two teams I'm told. If
Speaker 1: I can get them to compete with each other, now
Speaker 1: I can get you know, a windfall of picks and players.
Speaker 1: Maybe I get to h or maybe I get Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the band aid quarterback that I have right now.
Speaker 1: But if I am, I would absolutely trade with the
Speaker 1: Jets because the Jets aren't going to be good for
Speaker 1: a little while. Dolphins, even if they lose two and
Speaker 1: the number three overall pick, I still feel like Miami
Speaker 1: is a playoff caliber two. You want to trade with
Speaker 1: somebody who is not going to be good so you
Speaker 1: can get their draft pick. I mean, the Dolphins got
Speaker 1: the Texans draft pick at number three overall. But if
Speaker 1: you said, right now, what do I think is happening?
Speaker 1: Dak stays in Dallas, Russell Wilson is going to stay
Speaker 1: in Seattle. But I do think that Deshaun Watson and
Speaker 1: the Texans will eventually have a divorce. Yeah, pull, I
Speaker 1: was reading the New Orleans coverage this weekend. It's fascinating
Speaker 1: because they have the possibility Russell Wilson, the possibility of
Speaker 1: Breeze coming back. Jamis Winston kind of sitting there in
Speaker 1: no man's land because they didn't pay him last year,
Speaker 1: but he's kind of on their roster and they have
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill completely under contract and they used him at
Speaker 1: quarterback this year, so it's a fascinating situation. They got
Speaker 1: four options for one spot, and I was given information.
Speaker 1: I guess it was last week. Maybe it was the
Speaker 1: week before I lost track about these specific teams that
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson pointed out four teams. Like what agent says
Speaker 1: to Adam Schefter publicly, this isn't a sources close to
Speaker 1: me is this is who I got it from. I mean,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. Not off the record, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: And I was told that these were teams that had
Speaker 1: already been preidentified by Russell Wilson and his agent, But
Speaker 1: Fritzie checked him with Mike Florio, and Florio said that
Speaker 1: he had not heard about a specific list of four teams,
Speaker 1: but that the Cowboys were on his radar screen. But
Speaker 1: an agent specifically identifying four teams on the record, It's
Speaker 1: not a question of if, but when with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: And if I'm Seattle, does Russ is he too big
Speaker 1: for this team? I guess he's he a celebrity, Is
Speaker 1: he a star? Is he more than just a quarterback?
Speaker 1: Like you start to wonder what Seattle's side of the
Speaker 1: equation is here, and I that would concern me because
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll wants and has total autonomy, and you don't
Speaker 1: want Russell Wilson coming and saying this is what I
Speaker 1: think we should be doing. Although I would listen to
Speaker 1: Russ because Russ is the guy that you, with your
Speaker 1: game plan force him to win games for you late
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Yeah, mcluve, I noticed one thing
Speaker 1: in that Athletic article that there's still tension that Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll wants to run the ball all the times. Is
Speaker 1: that kind of underlying this whole situation still? Yes? And
Speaker 1: Pete that's who he is. Pete wants to run the football,
Speaker 1: play defense. Well, they don't run it the way they
Speaker 1: used too with Marshawn Lynch, and they don't play defense
Speaker 1: the way they did with the Legion of Boom. The
Speaker 1: one constant is you still have Russell Wilson there. But
Speaker 1: I just I've never gotten the feeling that they're totally
Speaker 1: confident with Russell Wilson running the offense. And there are
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks with less stature who are given more freedom
Speaker 1: it feels like, to run their offense. And that's what's dangerous.
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Speaker 1: NFL network reporter ship some interesting information on why a
Speaker 1: Dallas deal for Russell Wilson would have a major obstacle.
Speaker 1: By the way, a friend of the show had a
Speaker 1: hole in one yesterday. You guys want to play who
Speaker 1: had the hole in one? Friendzie, don't start with you,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Darius Rucker. Darius Rucker of Hoodie and
Speaker 1: the Blowfish mclovin. I think Jim Nance, who lost to
Speaker 1: me in the backyard golf tournament, last time we were
Speaker 1: Hello friends, Set O'Connor, I'm gonna say the great Al Michael,
Speaker 1: the great Al Michaels not a great golfer though, uh Paul.
Speaker 1: He mentioned he was getting back into golf last week.
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler ding Ding, Ding ding Ding. Adam Sandler had
Speaker 1: a hole in one yesterday and he seemed a little
Speaker 1: embarrassed because I said, somebody is ready for Shooter McGavin here,
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, starting to get a little bit better,
Speaker 1: a little more, a little more into golf here. But
Speaker 1: Sam Man had a hole in one yesterday. Whole question
Speaker 1: that I got to get to James Slater. She's very
Speaker 1: busy today. Okay, you didn't say I couldn't do it,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put it up. Who would you rather have,
Speaker 1: Dak Prett, Scott or Russell Wilson? Well, what team? The
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the sea. You're the Cowboys and you could,
Speaker 1: let's say, hypothetically, you could do this trade. This is it?
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is close to be reality. No. No.
Speaker 1: Mark Rogers called Adam Schefter and said to the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: why what I'm yelling at me? Because this is not clicks?
Speaker 1: All right, let me bring in James Slater. She doesn't
Speaker 1: deal with clicks. She is Clicks NFL Network reporter. You
Speaker 1: can follow her on Twitter at Slater NFL. I Jane,
Speaker 1: separate fact from fiction here, can you? I'm with you, Dan,
Speaker 1: and you know how this works. You've been doing covering
Speaker 1: the league long enough, You've been keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys long enough. Anytime you put the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: in a headline, people are going to talk about it.
Speaker 1: And so we're talking about this because a report came
Speaker 1: out from atom schefter that he would entertain a trade
Speaker 1: if it was Dallas in the Cowboys. So of course,
Speaker 1: now it's the off season, we haven't heard a lot
Speaker 1: about this debt contract, so now everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 1: But when I reached out to one of my team sources,
Speaker 1: they found it laughable. And that's because they are still
Speaker 1: trying to truly get this long term deal done and
Speaker 1: we're looking at the tag being somewhere around thirty seven
Speaker 1: point seven million dollars. We are going to probably hear
Speaker 1: something about that closer to that tag deadline of March ninth,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna have to clear some cap space
Speaker 1: by March seventeenth to start really effectively having those long
Speaker 1: term discussions, and then they of course shut this thing
Speaker 1: down in June. I don't think he's heading for a
Speaker 1: third tag. They can still do that. That third tag
Speaker 1: is going to be somewhere in the market of fifty
Speaker 1: four million dollars, which is absurd. They could, of course
Speaker 1: give him the non exclusive tag that gives them five
Speaker 1: days to match an offer from another team, then possibly
Speaker 1: pick up two first round compensatory picks. But the goal
Speaker 1: here is still to get him signed to a long
Speaker 1: term deal. And why would they continue using these costly
Speaker 1: tags on him if they didn't feel like he was
Speaker 1: their franchise guy. And oh, by the way, last year's
Speaker 1: money was in the ballpark of Russell Wilson slash Jared
Speaker 1: Golf type money. Now he's looking to be paid right
Speaker 1: behind Patrick Mahomes, a guy who's gone to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl two years in a row. Dak hasn't done that yet.
Speaker 1: So they feel like it's been a respectable offer. His
Speaker 1: camp believes that he needs to bear what the market
Speaker 1: value is and they feel like this deal should have
Speaker 1: gotten done two years ago. So your problems with money
Speaker 1: aren't our problems. It's about respect. So there still is
Speaker 1: no change from last year in years past, and there
Speaker 1: has to be some give by both sides in order
Speaker 1: to get this done. But I truly feel like they
Speaker 1: want to get it done, and as I was told
Speaker 1: by a team source, it feels and their tone kind
Speaker 1: of went up a bit, a little bit more productive,
Speaker 1: but there still haven't been a lot of meaningful conversations.
Speaker 1: Why do you think Russell Wilson's agent named teams, Well,
Speaker 1: for the reasons we just outlined there earlier. I think
Speaker 1: you named teams the Saints for instance. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a great destination for a guy like Russell Wilson. But
Speaker 1: when those teams consider it, or they pick up the phone,
Speaker 1: their next question is, well, how much is this going
Speaker 1: to cost us? And I keep bringing up Seattle versus
Speaker 1: Dallas because Seattle's front office has made a lot of
Speaker 1: potential trades very costly for Dallas. And I mentioned Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas last week. I mentioned Jamal Adams. Now he was,
Speaker 1: of course with the Jets. Cowboys and good Faith tried
Speaker 1: to go after him Seattle Jump and said we'll pay
Speaker 1: you what you want. Then I was told that the
Speaker 1: Seahawks wanted Alden Smith last year, the Cowboys in that
Speaker 1: experiment wasn't exactly working at times. Last year there was
Speaker 1: a disruption in the pH balance with some of the
Speaker 1: free agents could have gotten rid of him. Then their
Speaker 1: answer was no. In other words, they're either resign him
Speaker 1: or they'll find a way to move him off the
Speaker 1: books and they get a compensatory pick. But because it
Speaker 1: was Seattle, the deal didn't get done. Well. You also
Speaker 1: have Russell Wilson, the thirty nine million dollar cap hit.
Speaker 1: I don't think Russ is it's weird. It feels like
Speaker 1: Russ and his agent won it both ways. Hey, we
Speaker 1: want to stay in Seattle, but if you want to
Speaker 1: trade us, here are the four teams that we're going
Speaker 1: to go to. But I do think the cap hit
Speaker 1: is really important. Jane, I love that you bring that
Speaker 1: up because a lot of people love to come up
Speaker 1: with these borrow phrase from Mike McCarthy last year. You know,
Speaker 1: some of you guys are playing fantasy football. You know,
Speaker 1: as it related to what he would do with his
Speaker 1: offensive line, do that as it relates to Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and whatever team, whether it be Dallas or another trading
Speaker 1: for him, Seattle also is on the hook. For his
Speaker 1: guaranteed money. So Seattle is going to be okay giving
Speaker 1: him the guaranteed money and especially go and win in
Speaker 1: another NFC with another NFC team that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to play a couple of years down the line. Now, look,
Speaker 1: could the Cowboys sweeten the dal and say, all right,
Speaker 1: we're going to convince Dak to sign the franchise tag,
Speaker 1: which again is just crazy to me. We'll convince him
Speaker 1: to sign the franchise tag, and then we're going to
Speaker 1: get his approval to trade up, but we're also probably
Speaker 1: gonna have to give up some other things that comes
Speaker 1: with DAK. So it's asset heavy to move Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: off the books. I think this is a missive I
Speaker 1: think this is a way of saying, Pete Carroll get
Speaker 1: on the same page with Russ Either. Let Russ Cook
Speaker 1: find a way that you guys can make this offense work.
Speaker 1: But when you bring up Dallas, could it happen with
Speaker 1: another team? Absolutely shut. We've seen these sort of trades happen.
Speaker 1: We've certainly seen Jared Goff go to Detroit and Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford come to La. These things happen, just specifically with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. At people I've spoken to you, and the
Speaker 1: way the money bears out, it just absolutely makes no sense.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people I love coming at me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and wanting to tell me ways that they've
Speaker 1: figured out it can happen. I'm telling you it can't happen.
Speaker 1: We're talking to James Slater, NFL network reporter, help me
Speaker 1: understand Drew Brees a situation with New Orleans of what
Speaker 1: is he waiting for to make his announcement one way
Speaker 1: or another? Great question, because if you'll recall last year
Speaker 1: we were sitting here having this. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: sort of groundhog Day for me as it relates to
Speaker 1: the two teams that I cover in the quarterbacks. Last year,
Speaker 1: we kept waiting when is the Drew Brees announcement? And
Speaker 1: of course he ended up coming back even though NBC
Speaker 1: was waiting in the wings. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: this is one thousand percent accurate. Tom Brady was on
Speaker 1: his way to New Orleans. So of course all of
Speaker 1: us can talk about the hypotheticals that would have applied
Speaker 1: to the Saints if Tom Brady had come over and
Speaker 1: him and Sean Payton had gotten in the lab together,
Speaker 1: what they could have been capable of. I reached out
Speaker 1: to the Saints last week and I said, any chance
Speaker 1: we saw Drew Brees kind of give that final look
Speaker 1: as he's leaving the dome. I covered that game. It
Speaker 1: was deflating. It was heartbreaking to watch him throwing a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to Breeze's son and Brittany Breeze and the
Speaker 1: kids that are on the field with Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: the tears coming down his face on the bench and
Speaker 1: not even getting a hero send off. It felt more
Speaker 1: like a funeral. And so you think to yourself, does
Speaker 1: he pull have Ben Roethlisberger and come back next year
Speaker 1: and get the hero send off that he deserves for
Speaker 1: what he and Sean have done for that city collectively.
Speaker 1: I was told, no, he is retiring. He's just taking
Speaker 1: his time, you know, making this decision. And keep in
Speaker 1: mind interesting sidebar. Last week, of course, Tiger Woods was
Speaker 1: on his way to see Drew Brees, and Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: was my understanding. Tiger was doing some sort of work
Speaker 1: for Golf Tour TV, and so he's supposed to enter
Speaker 1: interview Drew. So maybe Drew read the room and felt
Speaker 1: like this wasn't the time either. But in talking to
Speaker 1: people with that organization, how we handle it moving forward
Speaker 1: in terms of media. My senses that it's coming pretty
Speaker 1: soon here. Do you think Brady would have preferred the
Speaker 1: Saints over the Buccaneers. It's a good question. I mean,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton is a different coach than Bruce Arians. It
Speaker 1: kind of feels like Jimmy Johnson versus Barry Switzer again
Speaker 1: to kind of compare the two coaches, and then you've
Speaker 1: got Troittman, of course being Tom Brady in the scenario.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say. I know that Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: Sean Payton's work ethic probably would have matched. I think
Speaker 1: their intensity would have matched, but Bruce's approach it's sort
Speaker 1: of this hands off I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: dealt with this in your career. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: the person who sort of hands off makes you feel
Speaker 1: like they're not as invested or as hands on, and
Speaker 1: it sort of motivates you a little bit more. We
Speaker 1: sort of sol the subtlety of that with Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: calling out Tom publicly elier in the year, and so
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I also think just for you know,
Speaker 1: just happiness in terms of living close to the beach
Speaker 1: there in Florida and the life that he and Gizella
Speaker 1: the kids have, which is why they sort of left
Speaker 1: New England. You know, they wanted a change a pace.
Speaker 1: I think from a personal standpoint, probably the work life
Speaker 1: balance is a little bit better for him and Florida.
Speaker 1: But again that's just me thinking out loud. I brought
Speaker 1: this up about fifteen minutes ago the Houston Chronicles, John
Speaker 1: McClain wrote a strong column saying it's time for the
Speaker 1: Texans to listen to trade offers for Deshaun Watson. That
Speaker 1: got my attention because we know John is as dialed
Speaker 1: in with the team as much as any reporter columnist
Speaker 1: is with any team in America. In my opinion, if
Speaker 1: you had a better week's pay, is Deshaun Watson with
Speaker 1: the Texans starting this season? Doesn't feel like it. You know,
Speaker 1: I've talked to some people that have been involved with
Speaker 1: that coaching search and how that went down. There is
Speaker 1: a real funny dynamic as it relates to easterby McNair.
Speaker 1: Nick Kossari, I think kind of got thrown into this
Speaker 1: unlikely partnership, and I feel like he's trying to write
Speaker 1: the ship he's trying to give it a little bit
Speaker 1: of stability. But of course, when JJ Watt leaves, you know,
Speaker 1: then you had the VP of Communications, Amy Palsick. She's
Speaker 1: out the door to Bill O'Brien. Of course, you could
Speaker 1: say what she wanted about Bill, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people liked Bill in that building. I think he just
Speaker 1: probably took on too many titles. He should have just
Speaker 1: focused on the coaching as opposed to GM. But with
Speaker 1: your star quarterback being this disgruntled, that then I think
Speaker 1: becomes a cancer in the locker room. It starts to spread,
Speaker 1: it starts to permeate. I think he's playing hardball, and
Speaker 1: I think ultimately he's gonna end up. I mean, I
Speaker 1: look back to the Jamal Adam situation. Remember he did
Speaker 1: not want to be with the Jets. And I don't
Speaker 1: think the NFL is a lot like the NBA that
Speaker 1: a star can necessarily demand a trade. But we are
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of people become a little bit more
Speaker 1: successful with this in years past. But I just feel
Speaker 1: like that's a situation that is broken and in order
Speaker 1: for Houston to story turned the page and had the
Speaker 1: success that they're looking for, meaningful success, they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: have to do that with somebody else is going to
Speaker 1: come in there and buy into what that system is
Speaker 1: down there. But it doesn't feel like de Shaun's going
Speaker 1: to be the guy to do it. And I always
Speaker 1: find the situation fascinating when somebody wants out of a
Speaker 1: place and then they go to another place and they
Speaker 1: look around, they go, wait a minute, we don't have
Speaker 1: anybody here. We gave up our draft picks, we gave
Speaker 1: up our best defensive player. If Deshaun wants and goes
Speaker 1: to the Jets, you're going to be giving up your
Speaker 1: draft picks. You're going to give up some talent. If
Speaker 1: you go to Miami, it's going to be the same thing.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have any talent in Houston, and it feels
Speaker 1: like it's a lateral move. Now. You know, maybe he'll
Speaker 1: like that owner more than he likes the owner or
Speaker 1: the front office a little bit more. But to me,
Speaker 1: it seems kind of crazy that the more valuable you are,
Speaker 1: the more capital you bring in return, and you're going
Speaker 1: to be it's going to be a lateral move. It's
Speaker 1: two steps forward, two steps back. That's a great point.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't think about the things that
Speaker 1: you have to put around a quarterback in order to
Speaker 1: be successful. That's why a lot of the quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: are successful or on that first contract because you're able
Speaker 1: to put the pieces around them, which is again going
Speaker 1: back to the cowboy application. When Dak Prescott was making
Speaker 1: in the four hundred thousand dollars range, sure it was
Speaker 1: easy to pay your running back and your wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and your offensive linemen and defensive players. But when you
Speaker 1: start talking about you're eating up twenty thirty percent of
Speaker 1: the cap, it's really really hard to put those pieces
Speaker 1: around you in order to be meaningful. The reason why
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was so successful for so long in New
Speaker 1: England as he always joked that Gazelle made a lot
Speaker 1: of the money, so he was able to give him
Speaker 1: a hometown discount. Now, to be fair, a lot of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks can't do that. But to your point, I think
Speaker 1: when these guys want to go to other teams and
Speaker 1: it costs them picks in order for them to restock
Speaker 1: the kitchen cabinet, it is very very hard for you
Speaker 1: to find meaningful success. Before I let you go, do
Speaker 1: you want to play the JJ want game of where
Speaker 1: you think he'll end up. Oh good question. I love
Speaker 1: seeing how a lot of these teams have been lobbying
Speaker 1: for them. I will tell you will absolutely not be Dallas,
Speaker 1: So that's easy. Are some of the other ones that
Speaker 1: you want to throw at me? Well, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take Green Bay off because I don't think that takes
Speaker 1: any real risk or any great insight to go. Boy,
Speaker 1: you could go back to Wisconsin where he played his
Speaker 1: college ball. I'm going to give you a Buffalo, Cleveland, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Tennessee the most intriguing to me. I really
Speaker 1: think Buffalo would be. I just I became such a
Speaker 1: fan of the Bills last year and what they're building there,
Speaker 1: and it was a slow and patient process, but it
Speaker 1: feels like it's got a really healthy, vibrant locker room.
Speaker 1: But I also think if you've ever seen Mike Rabel
Speaker 1: at a pro day, I saw him. It was caught
Speaker 1: at Oliver down at Houston and needed a bull in
Speaker 1: the ring with the guy as a defensive player. You've
Speaker 1: got to love a guy like Mike Rabel. Wait, he
Speaker 1: was They were hitting each other. Yes, Mike Vrabel was
Speaker 1: one thousand percent participating in a bull ring exercise. It
Speaker 1: was amazing and he's a true player players coach. The
Speaker 1: guys love Mike Vrabel. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've ever seen bus in the Boys and Taylor The
Speaker 1: One and Wilcompton's podcast. He'll get in the bus with
Speaker 1: the guys, and I could see Tennessee if I had
Speaker 1: to pick right now. If Tennessee can figure out a
Speaker 1: way to get it done, that would be an outstanding
Speaker 1: destination form And kind of what an interesting send off
Speaker 1: that you go to a team that used to be
Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers in essence, so there's sort of a
Speaker 1: pettiness there, so I think that would be intriguing. Jane,
Speaker 1: great work. Always great to talk to you. We appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. Thank you you as well. Tell the Dana's Hie.
Speaker 1: Jane Slater, NFL Network reporter. Jane says, hi to you guys.
Speaker 1: That's nice, Okay, Jane, I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that I pass on the message because I normally don't
Speaker 1: case you guys were listening, Jane said, alone, just Todd
Speaker 1: doesn't listen when Jane comes on. You just watch it, okay,
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Speaker 1: in the Bucks yesterday and you know, just sort of
Speaker 1: taking inventory of both of these teams because I don't
Speaker 1: know where they are now as opposed to where they're
Speaker 1: going to be and I don't know three months. But
Speaker 1: I did watch Paul George, and Paul George is having
Speaker 1: a great year, and rightfully so. He's an all starr,
Speaker 1: you know, getting twenty three points a game, shooting fifty
Speaker 1: one from the field, forty evan from three eighty nine
Speaker 1: from the line. But he was asked about the disparity
Speaker 1: between the Bucks and the Clippers yesterday shooting free throws,
Speaker 1: and Paul George said, that's more of a league question. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, part of the problem is they don't get
Speaker 1: to the rim. They don't they shoot jumpers. The Lakers
Speaker 1: are ninth in free throw attempts because they are ninth
Speaker 1: in attempts within five feet of the rim. This might
Speaker 1: be lost on a new generation. If you get to
Speaker 1: the hoop, there's a chance you might get fouled, or
Speaker 1: there's a better chance that you might get fouled. Like
Speaker 1: the Clippers are one of the lowest shooting free throw
Speaker 1: shooting teams as far as volume, because they don't get
Speaker 1: to the hoop. The Lakers get to the hoop. You know,
Speaker 1: we talk about the Greek free He gets to the
Speaker 1: hoop the nets, but James Harden gets to the basket.
Speaker 1: That's where you get free throws. It's not a league
Speaker 1: issue here for Paul George. If I'm Paul George, I
Speaker 1: don't have any more excuses the rest of the regular season, none.
Speaker 1: Just playing. Because you're having a good regular season. People
Speaker 1: want to know if you're truly playoff pe Is that
Speaker 1: a positive or a negative? Moniker? Yeah, Paul, here's the
Speaker 1: staff for you. The Clippers, who attempt not a lot
Speaker 1: of free throws. They're the best free throw shooting team
Speaker 1: in the entire league. They're shooting eighty four percent as
Speaker 1: a team. The worst shooting team in the league free throws.
Speaker 1: You're a Sacramento Kings dance seventy one. Well, you make
Speaker 1: the free throws, but you need to make more free
Speaker 1: throws you. By the way, here's the noise. The Molaukee
Speaker 1: Bucks are fourth from the bottom in free throw shooting
Speaker 1: percentage of the team. That's terrible. Yeah, well, I think, guys,
Speaker 1: if you take out Chris Middleton, I think Chris Middleton's
Speaker 1: like a ninety percent free throw shooter. A Lonzo Ball
Speaker 1: or LaMelo Ball in another great game, He's the real deal.
Speaker 1: Bandwagons full, folks closed, the doors were set to depart.
Speaker 1: I'm taking my balls and I'm going home. Well, I'll
Speaker 1: take LaMelo. You can have all the other balls, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want them. LaMelo Ball's real deal. As Draymond
Speaker 1: Green said while watching that game, he wasn't even playing
Speaker 1: against LaMelo Ball. He said, he's he's a problem, and
Speaker 1: he is. He gets to the hoop and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't give if I gave the Warriors
Speaker 1: ad over because I thought, if I have him there,
Speaker 1: I got a guy who will pass the ball. And
Speaker 1: I thought with Clay Thompson, they were going to be
Speaker 1: competing for a championship this year. I thought Steph Curry
Speaker 1: be the MVP, they would compete for a championship. Clay
Speaker 1: goes down. James Wiseman has been a nice rookie. But
Speaker 1: LaMelo Balls, he's different. LaMelo is more for today's NBA,
Speaker 1: and maybe Wiseman becomes that, you know, stretch four, shoot threes,
Speaker 1: you know, block shots, get to the rim. He might
Speaker 1: be a great player, or he might just be DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's who ceiling, which is still good. But if
Speaker 1: you your golden state, you don't have the second pick
Speaker 1: overall very often, certainly not in Steph Curry's lifetime. And
Speaker 1: I think LaMelo ball and maybe people were scared away
Speaker 1: by his dad, and I certainly understand that. But the
Speaker 1: first time I watched him was when he was a
Speaker 1: freshman in high school. And that frame, you knew he
Speaker 1: was going to get bigger. And I thought that he
Speaker 1: was exceptional as a freshman, had great court awareness, and
Speaker 1: then he no game awareness. He would shoot crazy shots.
Speaker 1: And that's what really concerned me. I didn't know how
Speaker 1: well he knew the game. I knew he could pass,
Speaker 1: I knew he could be a matchup problem, and he
Speaker 1: could get to the hoop. His shot is a little low,
Speaker 1: but he's making it. He's shooting over forty percent from
Speaker 1: three point range. He's been he's been a pleasant surprise. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Point Lamello is leading all rookies in points rebounds and assists. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when's the last time that happened? Magic, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he got rebounds though at the check well, Luca
Speaker 1: probably let all rookies in points, rebounds and assist. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing all right. Coming up next hour, we'll check in
Speaker 1: with the New Orleans things, aren't we sure? Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is retiring? And then Shaquille O'Neill will join us. Coming up,
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