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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast is as consistent as a

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Speaker 1: bread far retire. Welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Round the League Podcast. My name is Dan Hansa's name,

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Speaker 1: joined by room filled with heroes, Chris Wesley, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: and Greg Rosental. What up boys, Hey Dan? Happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: We've reached the end of week one of free agency.

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Speaker 1: How's everybody feeling about that? Almost? You know, Monday to Friday,

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Speaker 1: free agency. Everyone's excited. It's wildly busy. It's more Thursday

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Speaker 1: at five o'clock and you've been pounding out posts for

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Speaker 1: eight seventy two hours. You don't know what's happened. And

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Speaker 1: now you've got to make something up about Wesley Wood.

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Speaker 1: You're to the Titans and it's got to be sharp.

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Speaker 1: So that's when we make our money. I thought that

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Speaker 1: you meant that GM's actually start to it cares about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well they have fun this week. I feel like I

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Speaker 1: should be paying the NFL to be doing this, alright.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I agree. This is Mark actually had

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Speaker 1: fun because we're not trying to make news out of nothing.

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Speaker 1: We're analyzed, we're busy all day. This is it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be boring the next couple of months. And also with

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Speaker 1: the it's kind of like a fantasy draft. For Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are the big names that come off the market

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Speaker 1: West you're talking about the guys that get you get

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Speaker 1: A lot of those guys are still out there way

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Speaker 1: should keep in mind what Dave Gettlman did last year.

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Speaker 1: He got five at least five quality snaps out of

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Speaker 1: in free agency. By this time last year, none of

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Speaker 1: Westling wrote it up on Thursday and it's just getting

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Speaker 1: go check it out. I view that to mean that

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Speaker 1: the league's decision makers don't agree with roughly half of

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Speaker 1: your list. We're still out there. Actually they agreed with

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Speaker 1: a lot more this year. I think Westling being involved helped.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying the top Dan and I contributing to

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Speaker 1: I was trying to give west some credit. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so a lot to get to. First, West, I could

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Speaker 1: We need more UM intros at the beginning of the show.

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Speaker 1: your opportunities for what we've gotten this from March through

428
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Speaker 1: the end of September, all thrown office, all football people

429
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,479
Speaker 1: value young players and potential and draft picks more than

430
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: established veterans. Once the games actually start to count, they

431
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,479
Speaker 1: realized the value of established guys and who they can trust.

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00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: Sprawls has a lot more value in October than he

433
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: does in March, and they have to pay him the

434
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: money to He had a good, big contract number, so

435
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Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of teams were in position

436
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Speaker 1: to pay a reserve five million dollars. I bet the

437
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: extension is going to actually lower that number, uh in

438
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Speaker 1: terms of cap figure. But just imagine Sprawls in one

439
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 1: spot McCoy and the other the Shawn somewhere else and

440
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly. Brian Baldener was in our office yesterday sitting

441
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: ears and he talks about Kelly just wants guys that

442
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: can win one on one matchups and to set up

443
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: as many different one on one matchups. Solow were the field.

444
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: I guess my pose, what coach doesn't want that, and

445
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: why are another team? I mean, I just feel feel

446
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: some frustration. But well, one thing, the Eagles are the

447
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: team in that division getting better while the rest of

448
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: that division is not. And I think, what what coaches

449
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 1: don't want that? The coaches will winning the NFL are

450
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: the ones who are bold and who think originally they

451
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: got Sprawls with a fifth round pick that they traded,

452
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Speaker 1: that they got in a trade with the Patriots for

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Speaker 1: Isaac Soa. That's how you win, baby, And give Howie

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Speaker 1: Rosmen some credit to Greg Um. I would ask Mark,

455
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: but Mark would say broken fibula. A week two of

456
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: the preseason, I ask you, Darren Sprawls sixteen games, statistics

457
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Speaker 1: with the Eagles, fifty five catches for five yards, receiving

458
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 1: sixty rushes for whatever, two fifty yards. I feel like

459
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: you're under selling a little bit. Yet, seventy catch with

460
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: the Saints last year. I feel like they're going to

461
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: use him a lot in the past. Forty rushes and

462
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: about forty five receptions for four yards. That's even lower

463
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: than He's clearly on the decline. Do you want to

464
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: give it a shot? I project numbers similar to West,

465
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: but he will have a period of depression in October

466
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: and you'll just feel depressed and low and we're gonna

467
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: see an ugly October from Sprawls. You're weird, dude. I'm

468
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: just telling you what I feel. I respect that. Moving forward,

469
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Speaker 1: Eric Decker signs a five year deal with the New

470
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Speaker 1: York Jets on Wednesday. I predicted I believe this would

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Speaker 1: happen because the Jets needed to make him move, especially

472
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Speaker 1: after Rivera's signed with the Patriots. They get the deal done, West,

473
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Speaker 1: I knew you were unhappy with the prospect of this happening. Um,

474
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 1: very unhappy in fact, But ultimately it makes sense for

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00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: the Jets. Uh. The money wasn't too outrageous, of course

476
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: it does. I mean he is a all right, some

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Speaker 1: people might not say he is a legit number one,

478
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: but maybe he's a one A or hold on, we

479
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: have a new scale. What thanks to Twitter follower Brad Tucker,

480
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: we have the Eric Decker scale. Okay, I'm listening. Is

481
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: the mark above which you're a number one receiver in

482
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Speaker 1: the NFL? Well that I like that, But the only

483
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: thing is that Jets didn't have anybody near that mark,

484
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: so now they have a guy in that mark. So

485
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: it's a perfect sign for this. It's just a selfish

486
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: sentiment for me. I don't want to see him on

487
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: the Jets wasted. He's gonna be wasted on the Jet.

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00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: You're going back to your fantasy football days. You accuse

489
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Speaker 1: me of that the other day. It has nothing to

490
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: do with that. It has to do with real football,

491
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to see him wasted. Hold on,

492
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: it's a bad spot for him. But the Jets also

493
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: are committed to adding more than a Here's why. I'm

494
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Speaker 1: not ready to kill it entirely yet. If they stand

495
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: pat and just keep him as their number one receiver, disaster.

496
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: But if they go out and add someone like James

497
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: Jones and they get a couple, it's a it's a

498
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: receiver rich draft. You gotta start somewhere. You can't kill

499
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: the move. You could kill your love of Eric Decker

500
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: and how it might affect his stats, but the Jets

501
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: about watching football. It's boring on the Jets, okay. But

502
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: for the Jets, who needed to add a wide receiver,

503
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: they added arguably the top. I think it's an incredible bargain.

504
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: He's a better player than Mike Williams, who got more money,

505
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: and he's not a knucklehead like Boring though, if they

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00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: go out and add three more targets over the course

507
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: of now in September and potentially bring Michael Vickens, it's

508
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a boring offense. As long as Rex Ryan's there,

509
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: they got him at a good number. There could also

510
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: be the Brian heartline line. That's a different line we

511
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: always talk about. To be a white guy. He Decker

512
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: agreed to this deal, right, wasn't yanked it? Oh, here's sorry,

513
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: here you are playing for that? He went out to

514
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: dinner with Rex Ryan. Was he agreed to it? Well.

515
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: The Brian hartline line is that Wesleyan every time a

516
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: receiver contract happens, when he's like, well, he's better than Brian.

517
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: Harlan's not making as much as Harley makes about six

518
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: million a year, and I consider that basically the baseline.

519
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: If you're a average starter that got the free agency

520
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: and he's just above that, he's basically being paid to

521
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: be a number two receiver. It's not really big big money.

522
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: It's almost the exact same contract is Stevie Johnson, which

523
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: is appropriate because they're both at the Eric Decker level now.

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Speaker 1: We would have loved to see him with the Colts.

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00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: That would have been an interesting That's why I'm a

526
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: little bitter. They don't get them and it's over, So

527
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: why i'm a little bit. I'm allowed to have biased

528
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: although Decker is yes, it's almost like he's trying to

529
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: convince himself into this move. He spoke with the media

530
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: on Friday and he said, you know, look, New Jersey,

531
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: Newark really underrated, beautiful places. Those are actual quote significant

532
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: other two and it's easier to say it's New York's

533
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: an easy sell on a rising spouse. I thought I

534
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: thought you were going with. Decker was trying to sell

535
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: himself on Geno Smith, which was kind of it's a

536
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: tough sell. But what else is he gonna say? Somebody asked,

537
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: what do you think about playing for Gene Smith after

538
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: playing for Peyton Man, He's like, oh, it's gonna suck.

539
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: He's not gonna say that. He's gonna like spin it,

540
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: but it will suck. But I just don't think um that. Ultimately,

541
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: Geno Smith is the Jets quarterback. So you know what

542
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: else is gonna suck is when he gets held to

543
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: two catches for twenty one yards in two different meetings

544
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: against Darrell Vis twice a year. You know what else

545
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: is gonna I thought you're gonna say, like when I

546
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: kidnap him and keep it in my basement. Damn final

547
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: though not a bad move by the Jets, A good

548
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: move by the Jets. I got him at a bargain rate.

549
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: I just as a fan of football and watching good football. Yes,

550
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: I hate it. Well. I think Wesselyn sees the future

551
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: and he knows he can see the October eighth podcast

552
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: where I'm killing him and getting on his boy Eric

553
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: Decker because he's only had eight catches this year. And

554
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: I'll be fine. I'll be fine with saying give him

555
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: a quarterback and he'll be about this. And nobody asked

556
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: me in my prediction. Eric Decker two catches, eighteen hundred yards,

557
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns. I like it. I like it on tech

558
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: Mobile about they don't make tech Mobile anymore. Be a

559
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: lot cooler if they did, uh, Jeremichael Finley looks like

560
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: he's heading to the Seahawks. He visited with them this

561
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: week and then canceled all his other visits. The Seahawks

562
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: are waiting for him to be fully medically cleared. But

563
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: once that happens, and I guess we should assume that

564
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: will happen, Finley joins their offense. That to me seems

565
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: like a nice fit. It's interesting because they've never used

566
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: the tight end as a big pass catching element in

567
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: their offense. But with Golden Tate leaving, Percy Harvin's there

568
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: that he needs a second fiddle, so they make Jermarchael

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00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: Finley that guy. That's interesting to me. I feel like

570
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: this is one of the most under reported stories of

571
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: the week. Jeremichael Finley. It hasn't happened yet, and that's

572
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: maybe why, but it really sounds like it's a matter

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00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: of time. He fits that mold of Michael Bennett or

574
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: Cliff April, guys who are you know, knocked down a

575
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: little bit in terms of their price and going to

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I think he could be a huge factor

577
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: next January. Alright, the Redskins have signed defensive tackle Jason

578
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: Hatcher away from the Cowboys a four year, twenty seven

579
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: point five million dollar contractors went down on Thursday. Uh,

580
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: this nice move there by the Redskins. Well, and you're

581
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: robbing from a Cowboys team that no matter what they

582
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: do will still be presented on national television twenty two

583
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: times next year, but I have to acknowledge there in

584
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: full on rebuilding mode on defense at this point. If

585
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: they weren't already where Hatcher gone, probably Spencer as well.

586
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: I don't trust the Redskins defense at all at this point,

587
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: no matter who they add. But this is like Decker

588
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: loved the player, hate the fit. Jason Hatcher became a

589
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: superstar last year when he moved to a four three defense.

590
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: He was a three technique defensive tackle, which plays right

591
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: next to the big fact guy that takes all the blockers.

592
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: He in the three four defense, He's gonna pla defensive end.

593
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: He's played defensive end in the three or four defense

594
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: before and was an average starter. I'm torn because he's

595
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: one of my favorite guys in free agency, but everything

596
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: the Redskins touch and free agency turns to garbage. And

597
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: then when I saw the contract numbers, and then when

598
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: I heard Jason Hatcher's quote, the Redskins blew every other

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00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: offer out of the water. No one was willing to

600
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: pay him like that. So I haven't seen the details

601
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: in terms of how much money early, but there is

602
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of risk that this is a contract

603
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: that looks very bad in about a year or two. West,

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00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: I'd like your feedback on this. Marvin Lewis signs a

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00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: one year extension with the Bengals, keeping them keeping him

606
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: in town through two most successful regular season coach in

607
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: Bengals history by quite a bit, that's all. I mean.

608
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: He is who he is. Bengals can't do any better

609
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: than him. What a weird tenure eleven years, only three

610
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: losing seasons but no playoff win. A Twitter follower suggested

611
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: he is kind of like the after Dalton scale for

612
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: coaches too. I like that. I don't know. I mean,

613
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be weird for him without Zimmer there, but

614
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: he is sort of right at that spot where you

615
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: don't know whether you should keep him. You know what

616
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: he is. He is completely average because he is not

617
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: well he is. He's ninety and eighty five and one

618
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: in the regular season, and if you factor in the postseason,

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00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: he has ninety nine and one. Yeah, but that's what

620
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: the big Mike Brown ownership and if and if he

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00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: were in a city with an owner that wanted to

622
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: get tough and bringing the right guy, I don't I

623
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: don't think that Marvin Lewis is a bad coach, but

624
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: he would have been out of there a long time

625
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: ago in another city. Don't give him a little bit credit. Mark,

626
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Speaker 1: Marvin lew Is a great defensive mind of his own.

627
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Mike Zimmer. They've averaged ten wins a

628
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: year the last three years. So it's very hard to

629
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: They've got their act together because their drafting changed a

630
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: little bit. I think because Marvin Lewis got more involved

631
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: in it than any previous coach with the Bengal Do

632
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: you think, though, after no playoff wins in twelve years,

633
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: that that would lad We're can most NFL cities. No,

634
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: but this is the most unique NFL city. He's right now.

635
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: Year to year, he's winning ten games a year over

636
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 1: the last thirty years, Over the last twenty five years,

637
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: the Bengals ownership is the most unique in the NFL. Well,

638
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: unique sounds positive, and I'm not sure that it's a

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Speaker 1: positive positive unique. Well, we're talking about always as we

640
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: board Dan to death here in the mid nineties. People

641
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: are gonna believe this. The Bengals had like one scout

642
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: that was their department, wasn't it their television. Well they

643
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: would send, Yeah, they would send their television announcer Dave Lapham.

644
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: While he was announcing Big Eight football games, they asked

645
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: him to double as a scout. All right, So that

646
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: is it for news. Before we go, we need to

647
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: take care of some business. Last I guess it was

648
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: Friday show. Right, it was a week ago. We played

649
00:34:54,320 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: the revolutionary new game Go Get My Sandwich. Last parts

650
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: supposed to be implied. Oh right, I keep forgetting that.

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Speaker 1: I will be better. Um So gold Center touch based

652
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: with gold Center earlier this week. I said, why don't

653
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: we go through the backlog because I failed as a host.

654
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't tracking any of this as we were going

655
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: through all the sandwich bets. Let's listen to it, pull

656
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: out what the actual steaks were, and now we'll revisit

657
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: it and see who owes what to who or whom?

658
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: So who are whom? Whom? Whom to whom? All right,

659
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: so why don't we start a Gold Center? Are you

660
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: prepared for this segment? Alright? Let's start Arthur Jones Ravens

661
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: Defensive End, the older brother of Patriots sack masters Chandler

662
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Speaker 1: Jones and m M A Fighter John Bones Jones, Jim

663
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: Horrible or John Horrible said the other day, if you

664
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: put the game tape on, you know teams are going

665
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: to bid high on this guy. I'm taking the Colts.

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00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: You guys get the rest of the field victory for

667
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: what yes, sweet victory, and that you should have gotten

668
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: odds on that because that was I mean, you took

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00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: one team, we got thirty one. Well, that was the

670
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: object of the game. You gotta go bold, make it interesting.

671
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: And just so everyone knows, Greg, you were the only

672
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: person who took that sandwich bet. It's true you and

673
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: Greg both took it. Mark backed out. I did not

674
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: take it, and you can study the tape. You could

675
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: study the tape is what you can do out is

676
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: in the term. I found your logic stunningly convincing to

677
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 1: the tape, and you and Greg both accepted the challenge.

678
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not going to do another controversy with

679
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: check the tape. I promise you. I didn't take it,

680
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: but you can look at and if you listen and

681
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: hear it, then I will Greg your quote on just

682
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: a businessman when you took this bet. Sometimes it doesn't Yeah,

683
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: I liked my odds. You gotta just play out emotionally.

684
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: I am not trying to see the proof is on

685
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: the tape. If I that would be pretty dirty for

686
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: me to try to get I without you guys checking.

687
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: I never took it. I said, I'm not gonna do this.

688
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do I think those are exactly I'll

689
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: have to listen to. That's not the way I recall it. Alright,

690
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: next one gold Standard on March fourteen, Mark Sanchez will

691
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Speaker 1: be an Oakland Raider. Alright, we're recording the show on Friday,

692
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: March fourteenth. Not only is Mark Sanche is not an

693
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Speaker 1: Oakland raid he is still a member of the New

694
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: York Jets. I guess, technically, Mark, you're not dead yet,

695
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: but plenty of time, would you like. Let's let's assume

696
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: I guess when is the official league day over. It's

697
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: a couple hours away. Now, let's assume nothing happens. Well,

698
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: if it's March fourteen anywhere, then this thing's on. It's

699
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: by Saturday. By the time we wake up Saturday morning,

700
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: I am in trouble. I'm going to be have to

701
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: be on the transaction wire. In the next I've already

702
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: teed up three elaborate high octane sandwiches for the each

703
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: of you. But I get to choose with you. I

704
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: know you're a veget Terran, but that sandwich I'd go

705
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: like cow's tongue, spiders and herbs. It's something different. West,

706
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to get the most meaty

707
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: thing with juice falling off, the particles of meat just

708
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: running down your face. It's in the mail, baby. That

709
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: would be good sandwiches. That'll be weird too. Um. Just

710
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: so you know, Yeah, you're right, Dan, Greg and West

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00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: all get sandwiches. You guys might want to track this

712
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: um as we go along. So right now Greg goes

713
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: to sandwiches. Yeah, Greg's even, but not really money wise

714
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: or even, but sandwich wise. There's two your involved with

715
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: two transactions, and uh, here we go Greg's It's now

716
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: Greg's pick. Julian Edelman will get more guaranteed money than

717
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: your boy Golden Tate. Golden Tate signed with the Detroit

718
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: Lions this week. He got thirteen point to five million

719
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: and guaranteed. Julian Edelman still on the market again. This

720
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: technically he could beat Tap, but technically about it. This

721
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: bet is open. I would not make this bet it's open.

722
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:17,919
Speaker 1: Edman doesn't factually don't know that it's not over, but

723
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: it's not looking too good. How about we doubled down

724
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: and say Edelman doesn't get thirteen point to five total.

725
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: I'd stick to the original faith in the prognostication, wouldn't

726
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: make Did did we give up when the Germans bombed

727
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: Pearl Harvard? I'm not backing down. No, I don't know. Hey,

728
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 1: I wanna make it again. But we got a chance. Julian,

729
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: come on, spent some money, two years, fourteen million, totally guaranteed.

730
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: I don't even know if Julian Edelman is better than

731
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: Quentin Patton. What Quentin Patton? I still got a chance here,

732
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: all right? If this holds, Greg, I was with you

733
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: on this one. So but Mark and West, Mark and

734
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: West likely will because because I was on his side, Mice,

735
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: I missed an opportunity. So good news. I'm down to sandwiches. No,

736
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,919
Speaker 1: you would get a sandwich in this situation. Total, Okay,

737
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: I'm looking holistically al right. Next up my turn, jaris

738
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: Bird will, against all odds, shocking the world re sign

739
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills, taking by far the worst one. Um,

740
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: But because I was a man of strategy. I only

741
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: took gregg sandwich bet so I owe greggor sandwich. That

742
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: was unmanly of you. It was listen, tell NFL gum

743
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: shooted Wells to come in here and investigate the situation.

744
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm not going to just throw out sandwiches. Willy nilly,

745
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 1: m hm. I'm collecting smart of you. In hindsight, I

746
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: mocked you, but it was small of you, and that

747
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. I don't care. It's all about

748
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: ending up on top. Relatively speaking, West the first free

749
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: agent signed, We'll be Brandon Albert to the Cardinals. Oh.

750
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: I thought West was a Svengali that predicted everything. And

751
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: this was part of a larger uh situation where we

752
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: all went out and predicted who would be the first

753
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: free agents separate two separate. Oh no, this was involved

754
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: in that. This organically grew out of it. Well, it

755
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: was later in the discussion we said, why don't we

756
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: then do this? We took sandwich bets on your specific yes,

757
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: and then went on see you got listen. I don't

758
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: know if that's true. I need to listen to this table. Well,

759
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: I do trust that Dan seems like he went methodically

760
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: went back, and so I spent about seven hours of

761
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: a shift at some point this week through this tape. Um.

762
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: And just so we know, Mark, strangely you agreed with

763
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: West even all the all the odds were on the

764
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 1: side of everyone else. You said, I agree that Brandon

765
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: Ollert will go to the Cardinals side with the Dolphins.

766
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: And it wasn't first. West is able to like a

767
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: tractor beam pulling in with some sort of allure, and

768
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: I fell for that glimp that he has a Southern smile. Um.

769
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: And so Dan and Greg gets sandwiches in that case. Uh,

770
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: And then just going through a couple more first person

771
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: to sign, No one's getting a sandwich here, but I

772
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: will go through the list Wes. You had Albert to cards, Um, Greg,

773
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: Michael Johnson, two Vikings, Mark Gyros, Bird, Jara's Bird to Brown's. Sorry, buddy,

774
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: I had Golden Tate to Lions, but not first gold Standards.

775
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: Gold Standard had Golden Tatewo Titans. Sorry, that was, in

776
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: hindsight an impossible bet to win. Every single person signed

777
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: at four oh one, right, how closely did you follow

778
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: that gold Standard knowing that you were involved with a sandwich?

779
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty closely Uh. Yeah, you know, I really thought

780
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: I saw a narrative being spun there. But do you

781
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: know how to reach the NFL dot com home page? Well,

782
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: I have to go through Google first, but usually I do.

783
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm feeling lucky and you know, it works out. And

784
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 1: then let's see what else we had? Um Texans pass

785
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: on Clowney take a quarterback number one who threw that up?

786
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: I shouldn't even allowed that that had nothing? But that's see,

787
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: that's hard to track term. That's a long term sandwich.

788
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: Bet Dan and Mark both said that that uh wouldn't happen,

789
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: So that will down the line and the highest paid

790
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: player in free agency. Obviously this one isn't technically over

791
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: yet in terms of guaranteed money. There's another weird one.

792
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: Greg West and myself all said Eugene Monroe. I don't

793
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: know why we all agreed there. Why are you just

794
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: like soldiers of group think speak for yourself? We all

795
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: did this at some point. This is almost like one

796
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 1: of those times said why did you come up with

797
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 1: the same answer, all three of you, the pot calling

798
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: the kettle uh? And then Mark you had Michael Johnson.

799
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: So Eugene Monroe got nineteen million guaranteed. Michael Johnson got

800
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: twenty four million guaranteed. Gyros Jara's Bird got twenty eight

801
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: million guaranteed. A Keep to Leave Out of Nowhere got

802
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: twenty six million guaranteed. That ends up being twelve million.

803
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: It ends up being a little funny money with Deli.

804
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: But Bird's gonna win and number one on our list.

805
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:41,240
Speaker 1: So you ever thought it? Overthought? It classic over managing.

806
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: So Bird wasn't in Monroe, by the way, wasn't even

807
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: the top tackle. Wait, there are two more sandwiches out there,

808
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: Gregg and I have side sandwiches. Well, this is before

809
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: this ever happened. Mike Mitchell versus Kendrick Lewis on who

810
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: gets more guaranteed money. Mike Mitchell had a five year

811
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: five Yeah, Kendrick Lewis, nobody wants him. He's not even

812
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: gonna be signed. The Housewives of America have been put

813
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: to sleep on this bet. Canadian dollars count on this bet.

814
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: Once again, it doesn't It doesn't look good, but you

815
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: have not won the bet, and an injury is gonna

816
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: happen in August. I'm gonna go a little cessler out here.

817
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: Mike Mitchell gets injured then then they bring in Lewis

818
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: for five years, thirty millions predicting injuries and eighteen million guaranteed. Whatever.

819
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: I was right about that. How would you guys like it?

820
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: If an NFL player predicted one of us get carpal

821
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: tunnel syndrome. I worked in the post office. That's a

822
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: big danger there. And we had Dan and I had

823
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: a sandwich one well before we ever even thought about

824
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: this game, months ago, will the genesis of the game.

825
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,919
Speaker 1: Will Richie Incognito ever play in the NFL? Again? And

826
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: this was at a point when it was looking a

827
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: little better for Incognito, But right now I said he

828
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: would not. And I'm feeling pretty strong. You know. As

829
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: soon as Richie Incognito destroyed his Ferrari with a baseball bat,

830
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, this could be a problem for me,

831
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: for you, You're the one with the problem. Okay, listen,

832
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,439
Speaker 1: we all have problems. That's his thing. I got my thing,

833
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: which is probably a tasty sandwich going to Greg. But

834
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: that one we have to wait several years to find out.

835
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: Potentially too, we never capt it. He could come back

836
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: three years from now. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure a

837
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: lot of teams are gonna be Hey, Incognito hasn't been

838
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: around block you just let's see what he's up to.

839
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,919
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Hooters down in Boca ratonas Chris

840
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: would say, and see what he's up to. Um, all right,

841
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: so that's that. Of course we will let you guys

842
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: know when those um the ones that are kind of

843
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: hanging out there official that could be well Marx obviously

844
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: it is about twenty minutes. He'll lose. And um what

845
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: was the other one? Oh, the Julian Edelman Golden Tate

846
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: that's still hanging in the air. We'll get that taken

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Speaker 1: care of. Um. That's it for Friday's Nytail Podcast. Another

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Speaker 1: award winner. What are are there any other awards that

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Speaker 1: we can win? We got the Stitcher, We got the

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Speaker 1: Best of two thousand. It's like a Stitcher Gold Center.

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Speaker 1: Are you aware of any of these things? Can you not?

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Speaker 1: Didn't even know the awards existed, So maybe there's more

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Speaker 1: out there. I feel like it's sort of like once

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Speaker 1: you get an Oscar, like an Emmy, like trying to

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Speaker 1: get an independent Spirit War or something. Yes, Radio Foreign

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Speaker 1: Press Podcast American That. Yeah, just keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: a gold center. Um, all right, so we will be

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Speaker 1: back on Monday. We'll be talking more free agency and

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Speaker 1: everything else that's going on in the NFL. Silbern, This

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansens signing up for the Mailman, the Sizzler, the boss,

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Speaker 1: and the gold standard behind the glass until the blah

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