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Speaker 3: That's right, this is GMFB. Welcome in everybody. We're live
Speaker 3: in LA and New York today. We are a show
Speaker 3: across the country though, because it's free agency.
Speaker 4: It's Tuesday, March eleventh.
Speaker 3: I'm Jamie Ertl rock Freen at the table here in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, Peter Schrager and Kyle Brandt on their A game.
Speaker 4: Hey what's up, Kyle?
Speaker 3: Anything that jump out to you from yesterday that we
Speaker 3: just have not covered yet, whether it be from under
Speaker 3: the radar to a quarterback to.
Speaker 4: Just even something going out of your life. You're good, buddy.
Speaker 2: Oh my life is fantastic. Never worry about that.
Speaker 1: It's always just clicking on all cylinders. I just think
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this right now. The thirty
Speaker 1: two franchises, and there's some very special ones that are
Speaker 1: really the bedrock of the league. And two of those
Speaker 1: we have no earthly idea who is going to be
Speaker 1: their quarterback in twenty twenty five. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's not one
Speaker 1: of these younger teams or teams, they're always fledgling. It's
Speaker 1: two of like the real real Blue Chippers, the Ogs.
Speaker 5: It's the family. It's Rooney and Mara and if you know,
Speaker 5: it's Runey Mara.
Speaker 2: So there you go. We have it. It's the two
Speaker 2: families of the end. I'm a cat Mara guy. I
Speaker 2: like care Sniper, I like their insiti Rooney. Anyways, Yes, we'll.
Speaker 3: Figure it out right, they're like the original six of
Speaker 3: the NFL. We're just gonna find four other teams that qualify.
Speaker 3: All right, Ian Rappaport, I'm gonna go to you first.
Speaker 4: You started our show.
Speaker 3: Can we just have one break the fourth wall for
Speaker 3: a second, but how are you?
Speaker 4: Are you good?
Speaker 3: How's how's life? And then also, please get to the news.
Speaker 3: Please answer this question.
Speaker 2: I'm great, good, I'm making it.
Speaker 6: We're grinding. I was on the peloton today at like
Speaker 6: five thirty. It's the only way to get through when
Speaker 6: you way don't have any sleep in your phone's buzzing
Speaker 6: at two in the morning. So physically I feel fine,
Speaker 6: and I you know, I really appreciate you asking great. Anyway,
Speaker 6: let's get to the big news for the New York
Speaker 6: splashed again in Free agency in the secondary again, this
Speaker 6: time Javon Holland, the standout safety for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 6: There was some question whether or not the Dolphins would
Speaker 6: franchise tag him.
Speaker 2: They did not.
Speaker 6: It made him free and he capitalized, getting a three year,
Speaker 6: forty five point three million dollar deal with more than
Speaker 6: thirty million dollars guarantee Giants of adage to their secondary
Speaker 6: Tom already in free agency Paul, so the Deebo gets
Speaker 6: a three year, forty eight million dollar deal. They also
Speaker 6: added Roy Robertson Harris on the defensive line. So the
Speaker 6: Giants have spent plenty of money over the course of
Speaker 6: the last couple of days shoring up their defense. Yes,
Speaker 6: I know they need a quarterback. It's in the works.
Speaker 6: They are efforting. It's Aaron Rodgers potentially choosing to do
Speaker 6: the Giants.
Speaker 7: In this yeries.
Speaker 6: They'll get to that, but they are shoring up the
Speaker 6: defense Tom while they wait.
Speaker 8: The Vikings also making a splash very early this morning,
Speaker 8: like three am, I think, when a cryptic tweet hit
Speaker 8: the internet. Here they have agreed to terms with a
Speaker 8: two time Pro Bowl defensive tax called Jonathan Allen on
Speaker 8: a three year deal that is worth up to sixty
Speaker 8: million dollars, and my understanding is.
Speaker 2: That's the max value.
Speaker 8: The base is closer to the seventeen million dollars per
Speaker 8: year for Allan. There's a bunch of different bonuses that
Speaker 8: he also can earn here. But this is a significant
Speaker 8: investment in the guy who's played a whole lot of
Speaker 8: football games and obviously had a ton of productivity with
Speaker 8: Washington missed most last season because of a torn pectoral muscle,
Speaker 8: somehow made it back down the stretch of the season.
Speaker 8: Here the Vikings continuing to invest in that defense. They
Speaker 8: did a big deal yesterday late in the day with
Speaker 8: Byron Murphy, their Pro Bowl cornerback for three years and
Speaker 8: sixty six million dollars.
Speaker 2: On that deal. They've also added.
Speaker 8: On the offense with Ryan Kelly coming in and playing center.
Speaker 8: This is what happens, Jamie, when you let Sam Darnold
Speaker 8: walk out the door. You got a little dexter walking
Speaker 8: around money in cash, and you invested in some core
Speaker 8: positions for the Vikings.
Speaker 3: It all begins up front, Tom Pi, are you referencing
Speaker 3: the skull tiede tweet that was put out a couple
Speaker 3: hours before the deal broke?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Thanks, to everyone I know in my life sending me
Speaker 8: that and saying like, let's meet Jonah And I.
Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, it probably probably does. Probably.
Speaker 3: I'm awaywet, Mike tom Ian, you guys are awesome.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you in a little of bit.
Speaker 3: Let's let's focus on free agency frenzy. The first wave, Okay,
Speaker 3: because this is just the first of the two day
Speaker 3: or the second of the two day period. Excuse me, Peter,
Speaker 3: the first wave happened free agency.
Speaker 4: We're swimming in it.
Speaker 3: What was your big time takeaway maybe not just from signings,
Speaker 3: but maybe a couple that didn't happen around the league.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My first thing was go play well in the super
Speaker 5: Bowl and you can get a Milton Williams pay day.
Speaker 5: Milton Williams was not a household name, has this amazing
Speaker 5: super Bowl and now has one hundred and four million
Speaker 5: dollars in the bank. That's not taken away from anything
Speaker 5: Milton Williams did as a Eagle, but when you have
Speaker 5: your biggest day on the biggest stage, it sure helps
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 1: Like Larry Brown on the Cowboys, no doubt that big
Speaker 1: second ago.
Speaker 5: But I look at the teams that have maybe been
Speaker 5: a little cute negotiating over the last several months, and
Speaker 5: I wonder, what have you been waiting for? We all
Speaker 5: knew the salary cap was going to go up yet again.
Speaker 5: The salary cap has been inflated every single year and
Speaker 5: it's gone leaps and bounds.
Speaker 2: The NFL had a very good year.
Speaker 5: The NFL has a lot of money coming in and
Speaker 5: the players split that money, and that's how we make
Speaker 5: the salary cap. Well, when you saw those new media
Speaker 5: deals coming in, and you saw Netflix coming in, and
Speaker 5: you see Amazon coming in, you knew there was going
Speaker 5: to be a bigger pie. So the NFL has.
Speaker 2: More money to spend and has had more money coming in.
Speaker 5: What were the Cowboys and Bengals looking at and what
Speaker 5: were they expecting?
Speaker 2: Not finding ways to get these deals.
Speaker 5: Done before the new salary caps came in, and now
Speaker 5: the numbers are.
Speaker 2: Going to be even inflated.
Speaker 5: Micah Parsons got rich over the last few days because
Speaker 5: we're watching guys like Max Crosby, We're watching guys like
Speaker 5: Miles Garrett set the market. Meanwhile, the Cowboys could have
Speaker 5: come to terms with Michaeh Parsons for months. Michaeh Parsons's
Speaker 5: contract has been no secret. Now Michael Parsons is going
Speaker 5: to get more money than he would have less than
Speaker 5: a month ago. You look at the Bengals, T Higgins,
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase, they are both still looking for their contract now.
Speaker 5: T Higgins is on a franchise tag, but the Bengals
Speaker 5: have let it be known they want to sign him
Speaker 5: long term, so much so they're willing to trade Trey
Speaker 5: Hendrickson to save the money to get that done.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase the same thing.
Speaker 5: My big takeaway from the first wave of free agency is, hey, teams,
Speaker 5: take care of your guys while you can, and take
Speaker 5: care of your guys before the new salary cap numbers
Speaker 5: come out at the combine every year, you knew the money.
Speaker 2: Was gonna go up, you knew the spending was gonna
Speaker 2: go up.
Speaker 5: Take care of these guys while you can. A lot
Speaker 5: of teams did that, and a lot of teams did
Speaker 5: it at the eve of free agency just to make
Speaker 5: sure their guys don't leave for even more money. But
Speaker 5: my big takeaway was I think the Cowboys and the
Speaker 5: Bengals might.
Speaker 2: Have overplayed their hands on both these guys. They're gonna
Speaker 2: end up.
Speaker 5: Paying even more money than they might have had they
Speaker 5: gotten these deals done prior to any Let me.
Speaker 1: Just rock, I'm sorry, get inside the Bengals heads. What
Speaker 1: is the case for not having paid Jamar Chase. I
Speaker 1: don't have one. I already said, drafted, homegrown, first team
Speaker 1: All Pro, one of the best players in the league.
Speaker 1: That's a guy you pay. We nailed it, we got
Speaker 1: our guy. What if you were to sit them down,
Speaker 1: like why haven't you done this? What would they possibly say?
Speaker 5: Well, I think they've offered a ton of money to
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase. I'm sure it's the numbers themselves and just
Speaker 5: how high it can go, and I think it gets
Speaker 5: hire every single.
Speaker 2: Day they wait.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the Bengals have this stigma, this stench for
Speaker 5: years and years of being cheap. They're not being cheap.
Speaker 5: They have to spend the money. It's a salary cap.
Speaker 5: They have to hit a certain they have to hear
Speaker 5: a certain basement, they have to can't go over a
Speaker 5: certain ceiling. So they have the money, they want to
Speaker 5: spend the money. They want to spend it on Jamar Chase,
Speaker 5: and they want to spend it on t Higgins. It
Speaker 5: just sounds like they haven't come to the right number yet,
Speaker 5: but maybe they could have handled that last training camp
Speaker 5: before we got to this point where now we're entering
Speaker 5: the fifth year of his contract and he has all
Speaker 5: the leverage, and.
Speaker 9: I'm right there with you, guys head scratching for Cincinnati.
Speaker 7: It's almost as if, well, it's been so long since.
Speaker 9: We had a Joe Burrow type guy at Jamar Chase
Speaker 9: type guys See Higgins type guy. We're paying these guys
Speaker 9: early because we have a bunch of generational dudes in here.
Speaker 9: We don't know what to do with them, and it
Speaker 9: seems like it's going to bite them in the butt
Speaker 9: here at the end of the day. My biggest takeaway
Speaker 9: so far, a little top heavy at some key positions.
Speaker 9: And if you're looking for a guy at one of
Speaker 9: those key positions like cornerback, linebacker, edge, or quarterback, and
Speaker 9: you're sitting here without a dance partner, it's gonna be
Speaker 9: some slim pickings going forward. A bunch of cornerback ones
Speaker 9: flew off the board earlier, your Carlton Davis, Tavarius war
Speaker 9: DJ Reed, Byron Murphy, and there's some guys left, but
Speaker 9: not some CB ones.
Speaker 7: Maybe some CB twos or some slot guys. It's Sante
Speaker 7: Samuel Junior.
Speaker 9: You could do a Christian Fulton, Stefan Gilmour, who notoriously
Speaker 9: is comfortable waiting until the end when teams get desperate
Speaker 9: and up their offers a little bit. But if you're
Speaker 9: out here looking for a CB one, I really don't
Speaker 9: know what to tell you.
Speaker 7: If you're out here looking for an off ball linebacker,
Speaker 7: you got guys you're white.
Speaker 9: I can't tell you how many other names I'm excited
Speaker 9: about and can confidently say they're going to walk in
Speaker 9: and start and make an impact day one. If you
Speaker 9: need an edge, I'm excited about Charles Omnihew. After that,
Speaker 9: it gets a little dice. Yeah, you have de Marcus Lawrence,
Speaker 9: Joey Bosa's, Darius Smith, Dante Fowler, all guys well into
Speaker 9: their thirties.
Speaker 7: If you are without it, Dan's partner has some key positions.
Speaker 9: It is going to be tough, and of course it's
Speaker 9: the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: Kyle, no doubt. And we have a lot to talk
Speaker 2: about in some big names.
Speaker 1: First, I need to apologize to the New York Giants
Speaker 1: for the disrespect. Earlier in the segment, I said that
Speaker 1: Kate Merra was in the movie Sniper, which of course
Speaker 1: she is not.
Speaker 2: She's in the movie Shooter.
Speaker 1: Dramatically different and you might not think that's important.
Speaker 2: It is for me.
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here to butcher old Billy Zay movies.
Speaker 1: Kate Mara wonderful actress and fantastic and Shooter.
Speaker 2: Stole to Statham is in the mechanics. Mechanics all right.
Speaker 1: So this is the headline for me in not just
Speaker 1: in this segment, not just in this tea, up in
Speaker 1: the entire league right now, is who the hell is
Speaker 1: going to be the Steelers starting quarterback Week one? They're
Speaker 1: sitting there a massive mystery and a play on words,
Speaker 1: a little bit of an enigma.
Speaker 2: I see it this way. I've said this before.
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers starting quarterback is more important than
Speaker 1: most other quarterbacks in the league because the Steelers make
Speaker 1: the playoffs nearly every single year.
Speaker 2: So whoever this gentleman is.
Speaker 1: He likely will be starting a playoff game in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. It's really important, not just to Steelers, with everybody.
Speaker 1: It's an important position. So the way I see it
Speaker 1: right now, as they just paid huge money for a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, here's your options. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Russell Wilson. I feel like the ship is sailed.
Speaker 1: If you're starting to read the tea leaves. When they
Speaker 1: said we maybe rather keep fields or that was the intimation,
Speaker 1: I think Russell Wilson was gone.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's him.
Speaker 1: Then you have this species of let's sign this guy
Speaker 1: and maybe we find something like a Daniel Jones or
Speaker 1: even Jamis Winston.
Speaker 2: That's one option. I don't like it either.
Speaker 1: Then there's the truebridge quarterback, where it's like Jacoby Brissette,
Speaker 1: Marcus Mario.
Speaker 2: I don't see that.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, Yeah, Carson Wentz like the true We don't
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be the future, but we'll just
Speaker 1: get somebody in here. And there's the draft as usual.
Speaker 1: The Steelers are paying the price for being good. They
Speaker 1: have the twenty one pick. So I see all these
Speaker 1: people saying, well, first of all, we'll get Jackson Dart.
Speaker 1: You don't know if he's going to be there, and
Speaker 1: to move up you don't have a second round pick.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like the Steelers. They tried this a
Speaker 1: few years ago with Kenny Pickett, with their kind of
Speaker 1: crappy draft pick. They took one, it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: Those are your options save for one. There is a
Speaker 1: final option where you have a guy going into his
Speaker 1: twenty first season who has four MVPs and his own
Speaker 1: Netflix special and a good relationship with Mike Tomlin. Steelers fans,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling about Aaron Rodgers being the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers as a forty one year
Speaker 1: old about to turn forty two.
Speaker 2: I think it's their best option.
Speaker 1: I think there is no one out there with the experience,
Speaker 1: the talent, the ability to manage those perhaps mercurial wide
Speaker 1: receivers to get along with Tomlin. But that's my opinion.
Speaker 1: I put it out there yesterday. I said, Steelers fans,
Speaker 1: let's have a talk. Rogers might be your best option.
Speaker 1: Response is very interesting. Some of them, I must say,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm in.
Speaker 2: I'm sold.
Speaker 1: Let's bring him in here and draft a rookie and
Speaker 1: then we can move on. But some of them were
Speaker 1: let's say, I say not sold. Marine Mounty Rogers has
Speaker 1: watched more than Big Ben was in his final game
Speaker 1: as a Steeler. I don't have the answer, but I
Speaker 1: know Rodgers isn't it. It'll be Wilson or Jackson Dart
Speaker 1: if I had to guess again, don't count on Jackson.
Speaker 1: Dark quarterbacks get attracted to the front of the draft. Next,
Speaker 1: this is pure Steelers fans. You can tell from their
Speaker 1: bios and their avatar. I'd rather they tank this season
Speaker 1: than see that.
Speaker 2: Person in black and goal. But don't like Rogers.
Speaker 1: Rogers very polarizing, not for everybody. I would just say,
Speaker 1: if you don't like Rogers, who do you like? You
Speaker 1: have to have somebody Next tweet thank you Cheryl Hutton
Speaker 1: goalie mom.
Speaker 2: I can't breathe. There are literally no good free agent
Speaker 2: quarterbacks left. What are we going to do? Ah? Donald
Speaker 2: so badly like what they think.
Speaker 1: I thought Donald was a fit. He's gone. They're not
Speaker 1: getting justin fields. He's gone. I just don't know who
Speaker 1: is left looking for the dance partner, and it's not
Speaker 1: someone to dance around with some fledgling team. This is
Speaker 1: a very important position. This is the Yankee shortstop. This
Speaker 1: is the Steelers quarterback. And when I look around and
Speaker 1: free agency, draft or everything the entire I don't see
Speaker 1: a better option than Aaron Rodgers and all that comes
Speaker 1: with him, a guy who played very well at the
Speaker 1: end of the second half of last season. If you
Speaker 1: don't want him because you don't like his personality and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, I get it. Find someone who is
Speaker 1: going to play better football for you Week one, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and I don't think they're available right now.
Speaker 3: It's a good take, Kyle. It's Yankee shortstop. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: like Red Wings goalie Lakers center.
Speaker 4: Is the Steelers quarterback like the in the NFL?
Speaker 3: Having played having played against these teams? Is that like
Speaker 3: the qualifier position wise? Is he holding the standard the
Speaker 3: right way?
Speaker 9: It's a special role because one thing you always know
Speaker 9: about the Pittsburgh Steelers is your defense will always put
Speaker 9: you in position to win the game. I would argue
Speaker 9: it's one of the best jobs in the world as
Speaker 9: being the Steelers quarterback. I know I'm going to be
Speaker 9: put in place.
Speaker 7: I just can't lose the game.
Speaker 9: And yes, the Aaron Rodgers we saw last year maybe
Speaker 9: didn't excite us as much as the Green Bay days,
Speaker 9: but he's not going to lose.
Speaker 7: You the game.
Speaker 9: He's surrounded with talents. We're gonna see what Arthur Smith
Speaker 9: offense really looks like. Last year, Arthur Smith didn't really
Speaker 9: get into the knity riddy of his offense because they
Speaker 9: succumbed to just throwing the ball up on third and one.
Speaker 9: But the fact is, Aaron Rodgers can win you games.
Speaker 9: Aaron Rodgers can make sure you don't lose games. Aaron
Speaker 9: Rodgers is not going to make mistakes, and that's enough.
Speaker 7: That's Pittsburgh Stuet football.
Speaker 9: We're gonna win eight nine games, we're gonna sneak our
Speaker 9: way into the playoffs, we're gonna finish the year strong
Speaker 9: most years, and we're gonna probably get bounced, but that's okay.
Speaker 9: That's Pittsburgh Steeler football. Aaron Rodgers absolutely the best option.
Speaker 5: I just find it interesting because you're right. We have
Speaker 5: these two i'd say gold standard franchises, one of them
Speaker 5: with six rings in their building, the other one with
Speaker 5: four rings in the building, the Steelers and the Giants.
Speaker 5: Then you got this motivated version of Rogers forty one
Speaker 5: years old.
Speaker 2: You start doing the pros and cons.
Speaker 5: Of it, You're like Dable is an offensive head coach
Speaker 5: who obviously is going to be motivated in a contract
Speaker 5: year for him where it's as contract year.
Speaker 2: If that Giants are terrible again, Dabel. I can't imagine
Speaker 2: being back next year.
Speaker 5: So it's like they're gonna be motivate Tomlin. Of course,
Speaker 5: great respect for Rodgers. They play each other in a
Speaker 5: super Bowl, like they've got a long history together. And
Speaker 5: yet Pittsburgh, you look at those offensive skill position players,
Speaker 5: you might like that even more than what.
Speaker 2: The Giants have right now.
Speaker 5: When you're looking at a guy like DK Metcalf and Pickens,
Speaker 5: but it's Arthur Smith's offense, you might not be as
Speaker 5: familiar with it as as Dables.
Speaker 2: And then there's option C and D.
Speaker 5: Option C is retire and step away, and option D
Speaker 5: just take your sweet time. You're Aaron Rodgers and you
Speaker 5: make a decision whenever you want, and you want to
Speaker 5: see fit and these teams then eventually have to make
Speaker 5: a move because they can't enter OTA's without.
Speaker 2: What about other options for the Steelers? I listed all
Speaker 2: the ones that I see. Am I'm missing something? Read
Speaker 2: the tea leaves. I don't get it. No, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 5: It's like, you know, Jamis is a guy you mentioned,
Speaker 5: Wentz is a guy you mentioned, and then you start
Speaker 5: going down that Mac Jones list and it's.
Speaker 6: Like gosh, we're.
Speaker 5: Not gonna beat the Ravens and the Bengals with with
Speaker 5: Mac Jones this year.
Speaker 2: It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 5: So Steelers, I also don't know if they wanted to
Speaker 5: commit all that money to Darnald or Fields as we see, like,
Speaker 5: I don't think they saw themselves doing it with those
Speaker 5: guys either, So kind of a rock in a hard place.
Speaker 5: And yet as we see in the NFL every year,
Speaker 5: the Broncos made the playoffs last season with Bo Nix
Speaker 5: as their quarterback.
Speaker 2: Like things happen, Brock, We're just.
Speaker 3: Going to know you at the table here and you
Speaker 3: two in New York. I say this with love, like
Speaker 3: when someone sits in this chair and tease you guys
Speaker 3: up and is in meetings with you guys, and like,
Speaker 3: I know what I'm getting into when it comes to
Speaker 3: your segments or your ideas.
Speaker 4: You need a certain quarterback.
Speaker 3: Let's just say in that wide receiver room with DK
Speaker 3: Metcalf and George Pickens, and I don't think it's a
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback that's gonna be like, yeah, I could totally
Speaker 3: hang with this intensity in these personalities. I actually think
Speaker 3: Rogers is a good fit for looking at those guys
Speaker 3: staring them down and being like, can you just knock
Speaker 3: it off and play the position for like.
Speaker 4: One second, for one snap? And I feel like Rogers
Speaker 4: is a good fit for that.
Speaker 3: I'm not paralleling you guys to DK Metcalf and George Pickens.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying jobs are a little bit more intense.
Speaker 2: With which I'll be. Here's Metcalf, He's bigger than me.
Speaker 5: Pickens, I'm the one with my helmet.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: At the draft, there is a certain puffing of the
Speaker 3: chess that divisions get to do if a team that
Speaker 3: is in that division wins a super Bowl. And that's
Speaker 3: how the NFC East feels right now is the Philadelphia
Speaker 3: Eagles are celebrating their Lombardi and they were very busy
Speaker 3: to sign some long term guys of their defense. On
Speaker 3: the back end of that, however, they also lost some
Speaker 3: main characters to this team. Ian Rappaport and Tom Peliser
Speaker 3: are insiders today, very busy.
Speaker 4: These guys.
Speaker 3: I'll start with you rap sheet the Eagles, what moves that.
Speaker 4: They make and what else does their division look like.
Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about Josh Sweat, the star pass rusher
Speaker 6: for the Philadelphia Eagles. But I think a lot of
Speaker 6: people thought maybe these Super Bowl MVP, just because of
Speaker 6: how disruptive he is, he is signing not back with
Speaker 6: the pladelph philadelphih egles think they knew that this was
Speaker 6: not going to happen. He agrees to terms any four year,
Speaker 6: seventy six point four million dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Jonathan Gannon, of course, is very familiar with Joshua from
Speaker 6: his time in Philly. This one makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 6: Forty one million dollars guaranteed. They also lost Milton Williams,
Speaker 6: one of the studs of their defense right in the middle,
Speaker 6: big time player Tom He went to the New England
Speaker 6: Patriots for more than one hundred million dollar contract. When
Speaker 6: you're Philadelphia, of contraction priorities everywhere, you have so many
Speaker 6: of your really, really good players under huge contracts. This
Speaker 6: is just the reality. Now it's on Howie Roseman and
Speaker 6: the rest of personnel staff to draft and replace some
Speaker 6: of the guys they lost.
Speaker 8: Meanwhile, I and everybody else in the NFC, in particularly
Speaker 8: the NFC East, playing catchup right now with the Eagles.
Speaker 8: The Commanders continued to be extremely aggressive. They pulled off
Speaker 8: the blockbuster trade on the first day of free agency,
Speaker 8: acquiring left tackle Laramie Tunsel from the Houston Texans along
Speaker 8: with a fourth round pick in exchange.
Speaker 10: For I'm going to count this up for you, twenty
Speaker 10: twenty five and twenty twenty five third and seventh rounders,
Speaker 10: a twenty twenty six second rounder, and a twenty twenty
Speaker 10: six to fourth rounder. I was looking back at this
Speaker 10: because remember they'll trade a fifth for Deebo Samuel. Back
Speaker 10: during the season, they traded third, fourth, and future sixth
Speaker 10: round picks for Marshawn Latimore somehow, and I literally have
Speaker 10: just been like pulling this together and asking to make
Speaker 10: sure I'm right. They still have five picks in this
Speaker 10: year's craft. They have their first and second rounders among
Speaker 10: others here. I remember they had the Johan Dotson trade,
Speaker 10: they had the John Ridgeway trade.
Speaker 8: So they've been able to get some back here. But
Speaker 8: this is very much an aggressive Commander's front office. You've
Speaker 8: got Josh Harris and Bob Myers who come from the
Speaker 8: basketball world, as well as Adam Peters, who came from
Speaker 8: a forty nine Ers team that has never been shy
Speaker 8: about trading draft capital for veteran players. The fact that
Speaker 8: they're kind of pushing their chips in and saying, hey,
Speaker 8: we got a young quarterback right now is on a
Speaker 8: rookie deal, cost controlled. We're going to max out what
Speaker 8: we've got and try to put veteran plays around them
Speaker 8: and win right now. That's the type of mentality they're
Speaker 8: taking here, in frankly, with how good the egos look
Speaker 8: down the stretch here, Jamie, that's probably a plan you're
Speaker 8: going to need. Be bold or go home.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's a really good point. You too, appreciate it
Speaker 3: so much. And then a five time NBA champion likes
Speaker 3: to chime in, Magic Johnson and.
Speaker 4: His involvement in this. He loves the move.
Speaker 3: The Commander's minority owner said yesterday on x I'm so
Speaker 3: happy to hear that we have traded for Laramie Tunsel
Speaker 3: as TP just reference one of the best left tackles
Speaker 3: in the NFL. We're going to help protect our young
Speaker 3: superstar quarterback, jam Daniels.
Speaker 4: Super job.
Speaker 3: That's an ultimate compliment from one of your owners to
Speaker 3: Adam Peters.
Speaker 4: Let's open this up to the table and talk about
Speaker 4: the Commanders closing.
Speaker 3: The gap, and Peter, you referenced it at the end
Speaker 3: of last segment, focusing laser focus on the Eagles and
Speaker 3: making sure they catch them because they have a very
Speaker 3: specific time clock. Here Peter with a young talented quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, he's on a rookie contract. We're already in
Speaker 5: a year two. You have money to spend, go spend
Speaker 5: it now and get some veteran guys.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: From the offensive side of the ball. This is an
Speaker 5: unbelievable upgrade. Laramie Tunzel is one of the best players
Speaker 5: in football, and they get them.
Speaker 2: And they do so.
Speaker 5: Because the Texans are like, we're looking at our books
Speaker 5: and we're gonna have to pay st out soon and
Speaker 5: he's entering in the latter part of his career. But
Speaker 5: for the for the Commanders, it's we have the guy
Speaker 5: in a second year of his contract and we'll take
Speaker 5: the Laramie tons of that left tackle and.
Speaker 2: Then Deebo Samuel. A lot has been made about what
Speaker 2: Deebo was last year. Is he overweight?
Speaker 7: Is he not?
Speaker 2: Overyway, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 5: Contract year and Cliff Kingsbury's offense, which was the number
Speaker 5: one offense and throwing wide receiver screens last year. You
Speaker 5: better believe you're getting a motivated Deebo samuelf he doesn't
Speaker 5: come to camp in shape, it might be all you
Speaker 5: got and we might be all she wrote for Debo
Speaker 5: say to get that podcast equipment.
Speaker 2: Let's took the podcasts away and then let's get it going.
Speaker 2: And I think there was a little bit too much
Speaker 2: pots podcast.
Speaker 5: I will say this, Commanders have a ton of holes
Speaker 5: on defense. The last time I watched them, they give
Speaker 5: up fifty five points and seven rushing touchdowns. Love Bobby
Speaker 5: Wagner and it's great to have him back, but like
Speaker 5: these are offensive moves, the offensive set, Cliff Kingsbury is
Speaker 5: going to be a kid in a candy store. I
Speaker 5: don't know if they closed the gap on defense. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure losing Jonathan Allen helps them in any single
Speaker 5: way doing they have to do when you're gonna go
Speaker 5: up against an Eagles team that had seven rushing touchdowns
Speaker 5: and just shove the ball down your throat all last year.
Speaker 2: So we're the NFL. We like points. We're here, La
Speaker 2: la la. It's all great.
Speaker 5: The Commanders are awesome, but they also have to stop
Speaker 5: the Eagles too, and I'm not sure if they did
Speaker 5: anything to really help that.
Speaker 9: And Peter, I'm right there with you, because yes, it's
Speaker 9: free agent frenzy. We love this time of year, bunch
Speaker 9: of exciting signings that we tend to forget the earlier extensions.
Speaker 9: And as long as number twenty six is wearing a
Speaker 9: Philadelphia Eagles uniform, that gap will remain.
Speaker 7: You keep mentioning seven touchdowns in that.
Speaker 9: Final matchup, how about just Saquon Barkley in his three
Speaker 9: matchups against the Commanders four hundred and fourteen rushing yards,
Speaker 9: seven touchdowns in three matchups. Yes, I love the Javon
Speaker 9: kinloss signing. I love retaining future Hall of Famer Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 7: That's not enough.
Speaker 2: It's not enough.
Speaker 9: It's going to take a whole lot more to stop
Speaker 9: that man right there. So while I sit here drooling
Speaker 9: over the idea of Jaden Daniels back there with Deebo,
Speaker 9: Samuel to is right, b Rob two was left. A
Speaker 9: line nightmare, a safety's nightmare. You don't know where the
Speaker 9: ball's going, play actions go lower, VI, your option, all
Speaker 9: kind of stuff. Clif Kingsbury is gonna go crazy as
Speaker 9: long as Saquon Barkley is wearing that Philly uniform, there
Speaker 9: will be a gap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I'm I'm sitting there trying to do the
Speaker 1: same thing you're doing.
Speaker 2: This happens to the Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: We sit there and we do this segment about the
Speaker 1: gaps closed, and they come back down to Earth and
Speaker 1: they lost some very good players, they lost their offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and so now you just pick them apart like buzzards,
Speaker 1: I come back to the same bedrock that you guys did.
Speaker 1: It's like I like Washington too. There's so much to like.
Speaker 1: Nobody likes DQ more than this show. Jane Daniels, on
Speaker 1: and on and on, like you have to tackle. It's
Speaker 1: still tackle football. Like here's here's my impression of Saquon
Speaker 1: Barkley against the Commanders. Ready, yeah, and then back again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just anything he wanted to do. And then I'll do
Speaker 1: a backflip across the screen. Anything he wanted to do,
Speaker 1: over and over and over. And he did the same
Speaker 1: thing to the Rams. It's just like, until we address that,
Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's up for grabs. Commanders are fun, They're ascending. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sit here. Twenty seconds after the Eagles
Speaker 1: bleue out the Chiefs in the Super Bowl and say
Speaker 1: that they're giving up the East.
Speaker 2: Now, I won't do.
Speaker 3: It in a pity bump for television. At least the
Speaker 3: Commanders are that second team. We're talking about the division
Speaker 3: that have made the most moves in with the Eagles
Speaker 3: because we're not looking at the Dallas Cowboys right now,
Speaker 3: and we're still trying to figure out what's going on
Speaker 3: with the Giants. So NFC East, You're fascinating and we
Speaker 3: love you just like we love free agency frenzy. It's
Speaker 3: like eating tacos on a Monday or posting a throwback
Speaker 3: photo of yourself on any other day except for Thursday. Yes,
Speaker 3: our whiteboards are out. No, it is not Wednesday. It
Speaker 3: is Tuesday, and we're going to play a little game
Speaker 3: called one word Whiteboard.
Speaker 4: I have a team.
Speaker 3: Written on the other side of my whiteboard. Gentlemen, when
Speaker 3: I show you this team name, you will write one
Speaker 3: word on your board to describe how you feel about them.
Speaker 3: After day one of free agency, are you already, brock first.
Speaker 4: Time whiteboard user going out board?
Speaker 7: Ready?
Speaker 9: All right? Oh?
Speaker 4: This is your first team, The New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: After seeing everything they did under their new head coach
Speaker 3: Mike Rabel. Peter, what is your one word that you
Speaker 3: will use to describe the Patriots?
Speaker 2: Same kind of word I would describe Vrabel. They're tough.
Speaker 2: There's a tough team.
Speaker 5: Now you add in big bodies like Milton Williams underneath,
Speaker 5: and then you add in Mac Collins, who's a tough
Speaker 5: wide receiver. And I love the fact that you've got
Speaker 5: Milton next to Barmore, but.
Speaker 2: Even Carlton Davis.
Speaker 5: These they are tough, big physical players. I see a
Speaker 5: lot of words tough. This is every one of these players.
Speaker 5: You would describe them as tough. Morgan Moses is a
Speaker 5: thirty four year old veteran who still had a high
Speaker 5: market here.
Speaker 2: Roberts Bulane tough.
Speaker 5: Taki Taki, no tough, no longer on the Browns.
Speaker 2: He's tough, tough. You know what I'm saying. They're tough.
Speaker 2: I think this is tough.
Speaker 9: I like the word tough, So I'm gonna have a
Speaker 9: synonym for tough, Vrabel, because you just nailed it.
Speaker 7: These are Vrabels guys.
Speaker 9: Jamie nailed it earlier when she said he's building this
Speaker 9: team the way that he wants to build it, the
Speaker 9: way he built it in Tennessee. Of Rabel to me
Speaker 9: as a guy who maybe a casual football watcher. They
Speaker 9: know of Harold Landry, they know of Carlton Davis. But
Speaker 9: someone who watches ball. Nos, no, no, no, that's a dog
Speaker 9: right there, and that is a Rabel guy to me.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily glitz, not glamour, but day one you will
Speaker 9: feel their presence.
Speaker 1: Listen, this is sometimes you go third and sometimes you
Speaker 1: get your clean slate and say anything you want, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you have the same exact answer.
Speaker 2: I repurposed it though I wrote the word chew because
Speaker 2: when you have.
Speaker 1: These type of players, you're Mike Babel, you know, and
Speaker 1: start cooking ass. Listen, I stay away from smoke withs
Speaker 1: Tobacco kids. However, Robert Splane, Bobby's Blaine, he should wear
Speaker 1: number fifty.
Speaker 2: He should wear the same number as Rabel. It's the
Speaker 2: same dude. And you know what, we'll.
Speaker 1: Start working him in on the goal line package too,
Speaker 1: and all he catches his touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I thought the same thing you at home thought.
Speaker 1: The same thing is that Rabel is building this in
Speaker 1: his image, not his own physically, but of what he's done.
Speaker 2: In his entire career. Pack one in or don't and
Speaker 2: go to work. Kick mask. That's my words.
Speaker 3: Okay, paper cup guys or dirty water bottle guys.
Speaker 4: Is like, that's the qualify ass all right.
Speaker 2: Kyle Paul guys we call them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyle, you've said this before. How when you look
Speaker 3: at the future of this team that you don't want
Speaker 3: to look back at the eighties and how great they were.
Speaker 3: So instead of saying do Bears, I'm going the Bears.
Speaker 3: The Chicago Bears, not doll Bears. So not only were
Speaker 3: they active and free agency with Ryan Poles, but they
Speaker 3: got some trades done along the way. Peter, you're one
Speaker 3: word for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: Better. They're a better team.
Speaker 5: You can't deny that they have an offensive head coach
Speaker 5: to go with their quarterback.
Speaker 2: They now have guys in the trenches.
Speaker 5: I love Jonah Jackson coming from the Rams, and of
Speaker 5: course before that the Lions, and I love the fact
Speaker 5: they got Grady Jarrett and Joe Toney.
Speaker 2: They are a better team objectively. Now are they contending
Speaker 2: for a Super Bowl? I don't know.
Speaker 5: They might be a sexy pick for some, but they
Speaker 5: are a better team today than they were yesterday at
Speaker 5: this time.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say better security.
Speaker 9: Caleb Boys was running for his life all season long.
Speaker 9: The fact that he's still healthy and upright is a miracle.
Speaker 9: Ben Jonson said, as if I want to have fun,
Speaker 9: I need security for my quarterback.
Speaker 7: He needs to be comfortable. He needs to be confident.
Speaker 9: We're gonna run the football, and that starts with security.
Speaker 9: Kata Williams has five bouncers around him wherever he wants
Speaker 9: to go.
Speaker 7: He's feeling safe.
Speaker 1: I like it, and Jamie, I like the point that
Speaker 1: you started the presentation with. As a native Chicago Land guy,
Speaker 1: I don't like the Bears.
Speaker 2: I'm done with it. I loved it in the nineties.
Speaker 1: And due respect to Robert Smigal and George Went and
Speaker 1: Mike Myers and Chris Farley and the SNL sketch that
Speaker 1: coined it, doub Bears is something who like, people aren't
Speaker 1: from Chicago say about the Bears. And I know it's
Speaker 1: a fun nickname, I don't use it myself. And the
Speaker 1: fact that it goes back to the past and this
Speaker 1: whole team is going to the future. How are they
Speaker 1: going to the future. I have never seen this word
Speaker 1: on social media or television.
Speaker 2: More than I saw it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches.
Speaker 2: So many trenches.
Speaker 1: The Bears are filling all of the trenches. You could
Speaker 1: not describe them yesterday without using the word trenches. Big,
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, we want shock at all. We want our
Speaker 1: Jamiir Gibbs. I'm on wrestling Brown. They already have a
Speaker 1: couple of those guys. They want guards, defensive tackles. The
Speaker 1: Bears have better guard play than the Bulls have had
Speaker 1: in thirty years.
Speaker 2: Believe me, based on yesterday.
Speaker 1: Why because the trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, trenches, that's the
Speaker 1: word a thousand times.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Kyle, you really just right?
Speaker 7: I like.
Speaker 2: It's been a minute. Zach Lavine, Ben Gordon, geez you too.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm trying to do art here because I
Speaker 3: know the brand. I'm going with the brand. Okay, ready, guy,
Speaker 3: for your ex assignment. Here's your brand. What are you
Speaker 3: doing here, Big the Steeler?
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Oh cool? All right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that matches all right here.
Speaker 3: The Steelers made one of the biggest splashes with their
Speaker 3: additional DK Metcalf, but in general, not knowing who's throwing
Speaker 3: him the ball, Peter, how are we feeling about the Steelers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna say wild, and it's I just they
Speaker 5: have DK Metcalf and George Pickens and no quarterback at
Speaker 5: the moment, So just after day one, it's just my
Speaker 5: head is spinning. Now, if Aaron Rodgers gets added to
Speaker 5: the mix, I want not only hard knocks, but I
Speaker 5: want Amazon to do in all access. I want Netflix
Speaker 5: to bring in their cameras. I want NFL films to
Speaker 5: just be dedicated to that wide receivers room when it's
Speaker 5: Pickins and Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers coming in there to
Speaker 5: chat with them about how we're both going to get
Speaker 5: the ball and everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 2: Wild, wild times to be a Steelers fan.
Speaker 5: The fact that they're hanging around and waiting to see
Speaker 5: who is going to throw these two explosive and combustible
Speaker 5: wide receivers the.
Speaker 6: Ball and it's already mid March.
Speaker 2: This is fascinating.
Speaker 5: Let's see if Rodgers be signed there today or it's
Speaker 5: option BCD.
Speaker 2: I don't know, wild.
Speaker 9: Keystone, because that's what they're missing. And you could build
Speaker 9: the lavish mansion that looks beautiful and gorgeous if I told.
Speaker 7: You there's no keystone there.
Speaker 9: You're not walking in there, and until they find that quarterback,
Speaker 9: like Peter was just talking about, without that keystone, it's
Speaker 9: hard to buy in. Everything looks wonderful for any quarterback
Speaker 9: to walk in there and immediately succeed, but until it happens,
Speaker 9: it's a mansion without a.
Speaker 3: Keyso they don't have a driveway, they don't have a door.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things, Kyle, they got a lot,
Speaker 1: they just don't have the centerpiece. Which is why I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go throw back in this one. You see what
Speaker 1: this says right here, It says Voltron Vultron back in
Speaker 1: the day with the sword as the tee because the
Speaker 1: Vultron head, if you know what it's all about, was
Speaker 1: the black Lion. Vultron is not Vultron until the head
Speaker 1: completes it. You got legs, arms, torso everything you need
Speaker 1: to have the head. This is the most important story
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. Due respect, I think it's
Speaker 1: more important than who the Giants quarterback is, who the
Speaker 1: Vikings quarterback is.
Speaker 2: The number one question in what we.
Speaker 1: Do for a living is who is the Steelers quarterback
Speaker 1: going to be? Because you know next year you have
Speaker 1: two choices. They're gonna win nine games or they're gonna
Speaker 1: win ten. Take your pick. It will not be any
Speaker 1: other number. Who's to a quarterback for doing I think
Speaker 1: it's the head of voltront and I don't know who
Speaker 1: it is yet.
Speaker 2: One word to describe the forty.
Speaker 5: Nine ers fiscally responsible and VOLTI time where the markets
Speaker 5: are not.
Speaker 2: Stable, Go Niners when everyone else is spending money. And
Speaker 2: I just saw what Milton Williams is.
Speaker 5: Guaranteed money is with the Patriots, gonna blow your socks off.
Speaker 5: I'm sure the insiders will have it in a couple
Speaker 5: of minutes, but I got the numbers on the contract.
Speaker 2: It's in. It's wild. Milton william is going to be the.
Speaker 5: Richest defensive tackle in the history of the sport. Fiscally
Speaker 5: responsible in a volatile time where.
Speaker 2: The markets are not sailing.
Speaker 5: We've been talking about the actual Wall Street markets right now.
Speaker 2: Hello, in the Wall Street segment we bit yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: maybe not. I don't know. Let's see this.
Speaker 5: I do adhere to the football world, and I will
Speaker 5: say this, the Niners are going against the grain where
Speaker 5: everyone else is just spending like crazy. They're like, let's
Speaker 5: tighten our belts a little bit. Let's be smart because
Speaker 5: we do have to pay a quarterback and oh yeah,
Speaker 5: by the way, maybe we don't want to just give
Speaker 5: money away every single year and kick the can down
Speaker 5: the road.
Speaker 2: It's a reset and it's.
Speaker 5: Fysically responsible and a volatile time where the markets.
Speaker 2: Are not.
Speaker 9: I'm going with punt because they're punting this free agency.
Speaker 7: They have seven draft picks. That's exciting.
Speaker 9: You're not gonna expect seven rookies to come in here
Speaker 9: and win you a super Bowl. But they've been spending
Speaker 9: a lot of money every single year and that hasn't
Speaker 9: gotten in the Super Bowl either, So credit to them.
Speaker 7: What's the definition of.
Speaker 9: Crazy doing the same thing over and over expecting a
Speaker 9: different result. They're learning and they're gonna say, we're not going.
Speaker 7: To do what we used to do. They're punting for now.
Speaker 7: But punting can lead to winning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I certainly can.
Speaker 1: I've been pleased to see recently Mike Myers has been around,
Speaker 1: showed up on SNL, He's doing podcasts and stuff. When
Speaker 1: I was probably ten or eleven years old, I learned
Speaker 1: a word from Mike Myers, and it was not shwing.
Speaker 2: It was this. It was for Klempt, for Clem's and
Speaker 2: Mike Myers.
Speaker 1: As Leonna Richmond would say, he's getting for clemped, and
Speaker 1: he was getting emotional about things. I'm for clemped about
Speaker 1: the Niners right now because I'm feeling like this is
Speaker 1: the Sarah McLoughlin. I I'm seeing these names Art, Travarius Ward,
Speaker 1: telling All, Hufunga, Drake green Law, Javon Hargrave.
Speaker 2: And then the big one for me is this juice.
Speaker 1: The Kyle ust Check is no longer a forty nine er,
Speaker 1: nine years served. It's not a Pro Bowl or newly
Speaker 1: imagined Pro Bowl games presented by Verizon without Kyle Yuscheck.
Speaker 1: He wanted to stay a Niner. They apparently couldn't afford him.
Speaker 1: It was just time to move on. And you Check,
Speaker 1: I love that man. You get attached to people. If
Speaker 1: you're a normal human being, you need to do this job.
Speaker 2: I love you Check. I love his game.
Speaker 1: And Louce Check is also like I'm not done, Like
Speaker 1: you can look at the tape and show me if
Speaker 1: I'm a declining player, because I am the same player
Speaker 1: I always have been. I still love the guy. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for him for somebody to pick him up.
Speaker 1: But I am a little bit sad that this Niners
Speaker 1: team that we have had so many great moments and
Speaker 1: so much heartbreak with as football fans, the two Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: up and down it, so many quarterbacks championship, we've all
Speaker 1: been through it. I mean, we better there a lot
Speaker 1: with these Niners team, and the fact that it is
Speaker 1: kind of like going up into ashes, like you know,
Speaker 1: the Avengers. They're gonna land on their feet. They got
Speaker 1: a great coach and they're going to have a very expensive, I.
Speaker 2: Think, pretty good quarterback. But in the meantime, you check
Speaker 2: for Climp for you, buddy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Peter, to the point of your board, they got
Speaker 3: to figure out what to do with Rock Party's contract,
Speaker 3: and in terms of that, does that what you apply
Speaker 3: that to as well, Peter Purdy's deal and trying to
Speaker 3: stay are stable in the marketplace,