1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Today starts the moment of healing for so many NFL 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: fans as you start to believe that your team is 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: going to get drastically better with free agency. But what 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: are we going to do for some of the biggest 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: brands in the sport that don't have a clear path 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: to a quarterback? It's Bucking fits. He's Buck Rising on 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,760 Speaker 1: Jason Fitz hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio 8 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: in for two pros and a cup of Joe. 9 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: And I'm thinking about the Steelers. 10 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: Here for a second, all right, because Aaron Rodgers may 11 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: or may not come back to the Steelers. I'm trying 12 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: to figure out what makes the most sense because Buck, 13 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 1: as we well know this year, teams like Pittsburgh they 14 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: need a quarterback. And what I can't figure out is 15 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: the whole Ty Simpson versus the quarterback market that's out there. 16 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: Do you overdraft in the eyes of some Let's just 17 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: admit that Ty Simpson is going to rise on draft 18 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: boards already has as he went from being well, he 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: could be a second rounder to being a he's a 20 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: top half of the first rounder, all in one workout. Suddenly, 21 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: that's how much everybody changed, all of their opinions on 22 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: ty Simpson. But I'm looking at a team like the 23 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: Steelers that are picking twenty first. I don't know that 24 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: you can trust that ty Simpson is going to make 25 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: it all the way to twenty one at this point. 26 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: So if you're Pittsburgh, you might have to be aggressive. 27 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: Is ty Simpson worth being aggressive over? 28 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: I don't really think so. 29 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: Is ty Simpson even worth it at twenty one? I'm 30 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure. But if your answer is 31 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: ty Simpson or Tua, like, who's going to be the 32 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: quarterback in Pittsburgh this year? 33 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: If it's not Aaron. 34 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 3: Rodgers, well that is a question that we are going 35 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 3: to continue to ask ourselves until August. So a lot 36 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 3: of quarterbacks are going to have made their decision. A 37 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: lot of these guys will be drafted already obviously into 38 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: their respective roles as we get closer to the. 39 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 4: Draft, and uh, what is it like a month and 40 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 4: a half at this point in time. 41 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: If you're Pittsburgh specifically, you have to have your contingency 42 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 3: plan right. You can't just say, well, Aaron's our guy 43 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 3: untill he's not. Because I think he said on McAfee 44 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 3: the other day that he hasn't been offered a deal yet, 45 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 3: so you know there is some sense to Okay, well, 46 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: what is Pittsburgh. What is Pittsburgh's plan here? And how 47 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 3: is Omar Kahn and Mike McCarthy the general manager and 48 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, how are they 49 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: going to how do they foresee their vision for this 50 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: organization in year one versus year three, and how they 51 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 3: can kind of plan for that. They're going to have 52 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 3: to plan for Aaron Rodgers post Aaron Rodgers at some 53 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 3: point that starts immediately if it didn't already start last year, 54 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 3: So they will have some idea of what they can do, 55 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 3: both with Rogers and without Rogers, depending on how much 56 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: he wants to drag his feet on this. What's more 57 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 3: likely I know that we have would you rather in 58 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 3: what about forty five minutes from now? But what's more 59 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: likely ty Simpson gets drafted in the top ten or 60 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 3: Ty Simson falls to the early to mid twenties, because 61 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 3: I think it's more likely he gets drafted in the 62 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: top ten. 63 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 2: Man, that's tough. 64 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 3: Well, but okay, so let's work through this thought exercise. 65 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 3: Fitzy was Daniel Jones overdrafted when he was sixth overall 66 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen. 67 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 4: Yes, no, that's not correct. 68 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: It was not an overdraft situation because New York identified 69 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: the best available quarterback option to them in the draft. 70 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 3: They took him because that was both their need and 71 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 3: how they saw the draft playing out. And then they 72 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 3: were still able to take Dexter Lawrence. That I believe 73 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 3: picks seventeen because you could have said, well, take take 74 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 3: Dexter Lawrence at six and then wait until seventeen to 75 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 3: take Daniel Jones. But if Daniel Jones isn't there at seventeen, 76 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 3: anymore than you've missed on your opportunity to draft your quarterback. 77 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: I'm not saying that Daniel Jones was worthy of the 78 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 3: sixth overall pick. I'm saying, was it an over in 79 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 3: that particular situation, given what New York identified Daniel Jones 80 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 3: to be. If Arizona right sitting there at three, having 81 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 3: just released Kyler Murray says no, we think that's our guy, 82 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: and then we have to figure the other stuff out. 83 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you just take Ty Simpson at three? 84 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: I guess to me, if you reach and you're wrong 85 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: at the quarterback, it sets you back five years. Like, 86 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,679 Speaker 1: that's just the general It sets you back at least 87 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: three right, So if you reach and you're wrong at 88 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: the quarterback, like use a more recent example, I think 89 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy was a reach at the quarterback position where 90 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: he was drafted for the Vikings. 91 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: I said that when he was drafted at the trail 92 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: Lance Trailin's right. 93 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: So most of the time if you reach, well, now 94 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: you've got to give it three years to see how 95 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: it plays out, and then you're figuring out, all right, 96 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: are we going to draft somebody, which then. 97 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: Restarts the clock. 98 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: So that's why I say if you reach in the 99 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: first round at the quarterback, if you draft somebody too 100 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: early and you are wrong, you end up setting your 101 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: organization back five years. Part of the reason the steel 102 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: are where they are today, for example, is the Steelers 103 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: reached on Kenny Pickett. 104 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 2: They needed a quarterback. 105 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: He was the best one available, so they took the 106 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 1: quarterback in the first round. 107 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: That clearly to the in the eyes of most. 108 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: People that covered the sport, he was not going to 109 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: be an answer as a starting quarterback. Now, Ty Simpson 110 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: is not as clear cut. There there are differing opinions 111 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: on Ty Simpson. But I have a hard time like, 112 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: if you believe Ty Simpson is an epic, oh my god, quarterback, 113 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: then sure take him in the top ten. 114 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 2: If you believe not. I don't really care about where 115 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 2: people think. 116 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: Somebody like to me, it's not an angle of like, well, 117 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: I think we can get him in the twenties, so 118 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: let's trade back. 119 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: I don't think you get cute in the draft. Go 120 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 2: get your guy. 121 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: I think where it gets into reach category is like, look, 122 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: if you're the Browns and you really believe Ty Simpson 123 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: is the guy that he's gonna lead your future, your 124 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: franchise for the next twenty years, then who cares if 125 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: you take him at six one hundred percent? Like, go 126 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: take him at six. I just I feel like that 127 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: would be there. That's different than turning around in Cleveland 128 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: saying in this example, Cleveland saying. 129 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 2: Well, man, we just really need a quarterback. 130 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: We're not going to have a better shot at one, 131 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: so let's take Tie and see if we can make 132 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: him work. 133 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 2: That's where it gets a little hairy for me, like, and. 134 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 3: We don't know, right, we don't know specifically. I'm sorry 135 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 3: to interrupt you, but we don't know how these teams, 136 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 3: Like somebody is going to be a surprise to us externally, 137 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 3: that is not a surprise to that team. Right, it's Bonix, 138 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 3: It's Michael Pennix. These kind of situations where Sean Payton 139 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 3: deliberately identified Bonis as being worthy to the Broncos of 140 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 3: the twelfth overall pick because that's a guy that will 141 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: work well within my system. I know that I can 142 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: use that player to accomplish what it is that I 143 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 3: need to accomplish based on who he is, what his 144 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: competitive makeup is, how what we learned about him through 145 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 3: years and years of college film. Right he at one 146 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 3: one hundred thousand starts in college, did bon Nicks. There 147 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 3: was a huge sample sized. Ty Simpson is an interesting 148 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 3: an interesting piece of this, right because I think it's 149 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 3: fifteen total starts that he has in one collegiate season 150 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 3: being a starter, despite being in college as long as 151 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 3: he was. It's the rare guy who stuck through it 152 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 3: with the program that we I'm not going to say 153 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 3: that we know very little about, but that we know 154 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 3: less about than your average starting quarterback, starting college quarterback 155 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 3: who spent as much time for one program as he did, 156 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 3: but wasn't able to break through until his final season 157 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: with that program. And I mean, in theory, could have 158 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 3: gone back and made more money from another program in 159 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 3: NIL if he wanted to. And sounds like he was 160 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 3: pretty intrenched in the idea of only playing in his 161 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 3: career for Alabama because you know, it means something more 162 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 3: to him than it does your average person who's bouncing 163 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 3: around college football at this point in time. But he's 164 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: he's a fascinating he's a fascinating case study because of 165 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: what a huge domino effect that will happen. Now the 166 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 3: free agent quarterback situation will be decided long before we 167 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: get to the NFL Draft, and that that takes a 168 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 3: little bit of the drama out of it. But he 169 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 3: he has the ability to affect basically everything else in 170 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,119 Speaker 3: this draft depending on where he goes. 171 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you asked where he could go at top 172 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: ten or in the twenties. And this is where it 173 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: gets really interesting to me. The teams that are picking 174 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: in the top ten, the Jets and the Cardinals and 175 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: maybe the Browns. I think all three of those might 176 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: be in the quarterback market. 177 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 4: Might be. 178 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: They're all in the quarterback market. I'm not sure they're 179 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: in the quarterback market for ty Simpson this year. 180 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 4: Yeah. 181 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,679 Speaker 1: Where it gets really interesting though, is Miami's picking at eleven. 182 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: Like Miami doesn't have a clear cut. Also, for even 183 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: though we mentioned earlier the Rams traded a first round pick, 184 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: they didn't trade both of their first round picks. The 185 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: Rams still sit with the thirteenth pick in. 186 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 2: This year's draft. 187 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: I know we have this concept that they're all in, 188 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: but if they like ty Simpson, they could draft their 189 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: future replacement right there. The Jets may not like ty 190 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: Simpson at two overall. I wouldn't like Ty Simpson at 191 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: two overall, but they might love. 192 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: Him at sixteen. 193 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: So even if you're the Steelers, like this has to 194 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: factor into the way you approach today, doesn't it. Because like, 195 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: if you're the Steelers picking at twenty one, even if 196 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: you like ty Simpson, you have to acknowledge that there 197 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: are at least three teams in Minnesota also picking at eighteen. 198 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: Don't know what they're gonna do. There could be four 199 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: teams ahead of you, all between ten and twenty that 200 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: could be in the quarterback market. So if I think 201 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: we'll get a sense of how people feel about Tie 202 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: and how people feel about the draft board and the 203 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: way it's gonna fall over the course of the next 204 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: seventy two hours. Because if you were, if you're the 205 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: Steelers and you believe you've got a really good shot 206 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: at Ty Simpson, and you believe Ty Simpson could be 207 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: the future, you don't need to be aggressive over the 208 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: course of the next seventy two hours. If you don't 209 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: think you have a shot at Tie, or you don't 210 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: think Tay is the future, you. 211 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 2: Gotta have something. You gotta have some plan. A quarterback 212 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 2: you didn't, you didn't. 213 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: Part ways, however, we want it with Tomlin, with the 214 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: concept of you know what, what's to figure out the 215 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: most difficult position in all the sports. Wow, we figure 216 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: out this McCarthy thing who's not exactly a spring chicken, 217 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: and we're gonna make it all work quickly and efficiently 218 00:09:59,080 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: with no idea. 219 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: What our plan is A quarterback. 220 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph, Come. 221 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 3: On, no, no, don't do that to my guy. Don't do 222 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 3: that to my guy. Mason Rudolph, all he does is 223 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 3: fill in a in a in an admirable way when 224 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 3: called upon. You know, dunk and Dunk's way down the field. 225 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,839 Speaker 3: But like that's the thing though about this Aaron that 226 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 3: the the variable here is Aaron Rodgers. 227 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 4: Are they actually interested in maintaining Aaron Rodgers. 228 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 3: I think we'll find out this week whether or not 229 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 3: they consider Aaron Rodgers to be viable because the ty 230 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 3: Simpson element of this, it really it does not impact 231 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 3: it doesn't have to impact them. If they want, if 232 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 3: they if they don't want it to if they are playing, 233 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 3: if they want Aaron Rodgers back, then they will make 234 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 3: him an offer and Aaron Rodgers will do whatever he 235 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 3: needs to do, and however long it needs to take 236 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 3: to decide, they will find a backup quarterback situation that's 237 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 3: viable so that they at least have somebody on the 238 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 3: roster that can play the position. If this thing goes sideways, 239 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 3: and then if Aaron Rodgers takes too long or they 240 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 3: don't have at least some indication by the draft, then 241 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 3: you do what you need to do in the quarterback 242 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 3: element of the draft. And if that requires you to 243 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: be aggressive and try and get up ahead of some 244 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 3: of these teams, that's just the nature of the business. 245 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 3: There is the draft, and there is the quarterback draft. 246 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 3: As our dear friend coach Dave McGinnis likes to say, 247 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 3: and that is something that you will have an indication 248 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 3: on if you're Pittsburgh and the Steelers' front office by 249 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 3: weeks and no later, because you are going to have 250 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 3: to make a decision on whether you even want to 251 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 3: offer Aaron Rodgers this week. 252 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: There is some element to me where I will continually say, 253 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers, even if you believe Aaron Rodgers is 254 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: worth making your starting quarterback, Aaron Rodgers isn't worth at 255 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: this point pressing pause on your plan. 256 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing to me is like. 257 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers isn't worth waiting on right, Like Aaron Rodgers 258 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: isn't worth suddenly Hey, we're gonna give him all the time. 259 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: We need to go into the darkness and figure it out. 260 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: Whenever it comes out, we're gonna. 261 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: Be good with it either way. 262 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: Like all of those things, even if you believe Aaron 263 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: Rodgers is worth making your starting quarterback, you cannot, to 264 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: me believe that Aaron Rodgers is worth suddenly destroying your 265 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: entire timeline just to get it going. So you know, 266 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: at some point, I think that's a big part of 267 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: what this all means we have to have our eyes 268 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: on the timing of Aaron Rodgers, because even if Aaron 269 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: Rodgers is their plan, he can't be their plan. 270 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: Without a backup plan to. 271 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: What you're gonna do, you can't just sit around, wait 272 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: and think about it. So I think maybe the Steelers, 273 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: like I want to believe the Steelers come into this 274 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: with some version of a plan. 275 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 2: At least I want to believe. 276 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: That the Steelers have some idea of what they're going 277 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: to do. We'll find out in mere hours. I think 278 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: what it all means, and. 279 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: What does it mean for specifically the value of one 280 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. 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But it's a Bucking 307 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: Fits takeover Buck Rising Jason fitz and in a move 308 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: that surprises no one, the Dolphins are releasing quarterback to 309 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: a tongue of a lowo with the post June first designation. So, 310 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: according to Chefty By cutting to Miami takes on an 311 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: NFL record ninety nine million dollars in dead money split 312 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: over two years. Ninety nine million bucks over two years. 313 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: So it took all of what three seasons for the 314 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: massive cap hit of Russ to just be squashed ninety 315 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: nine million dollars in dead cap money. But this is 316 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: what had to happen. In my mind, Buck, this was 317 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: very simple. The Miami Dolphins knew that Tua wasn't going 318 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: to be part of their future. Everybody in the league 319 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: knew it, which meant it was going to be difficult 320 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: to try and pull off any trade. Given you trade 321 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: for the player, you trade for the contract. They tried 322 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: to find some creative ways to do it, but at 323 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: the end of the day, the writing was on the wall. 324 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: New organization at this point, new GM, new head coach, 325 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: knew everything. 326 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 2: This starts an absolute rip up rebuild. 327 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: I believe that the Dolphins are telling us right now 328 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: that they understand that this is step one of a 329 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: massive reset for the entire organization and they'd rather go 330 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: into this season and just suck and figure it out, 331 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: then go into this season with Tua as their quarterback. 332 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 3: This is the statement that the team put out on 333 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 3: behalf of John Eric Sullivan, the new GM, I recently 334 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 3: informed Tua and his representation that we are going to 335 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 3: move in a new direction at the quarterback position and 336 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 3: will be releasing him after the start of the new 337 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: league year. As I shared with Tua, I have great 338 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 3: respect for the person and player he is on behalf 339 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 3: of the Miami Dolphins. I express our gratitude for his 340 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 3: many contributions both on the field and in the community 341 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 3: during his six seasons in Miami. 342 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 4: As we move. 343 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 3: Forward, we will be focused on infusing competition across the 344 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 3: roster and establishing a strong foundation for this team as 345 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 3: we work towards building a sustained winner. So it sounds 346 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 3: like they tried a million different ways to move him 347 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: because they didn't want to have to eat the capit. 348 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 3: They're on the hook for fifty four million dollars in 349 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, minus whatever another team ends up paying him, 350 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 3: which he can play for the league minimum, so it's 351 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 3: not like that. It's not like anybody's going to be 352 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 3: doing the Dolphins any favor by giving to a significant deal, 353 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 3: So he will likely play for the minimum somewhere this year, 354 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 3: and Miami takes the rest on and of course you know, 355 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 3: we'll still be on the hook for a chunk of 356 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 3: that money in twenty twenty seven. How are we going 357 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 3: to remember the to tenure with the Dolphins, is my question, 358 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 3: because that for a moment where he spans two different 359 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 3: coaching staffs. Right when he gets drafted in the first 360 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 3: round a couple of years ago, Brian Flores is the 361 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 3: coach there, Brian Floora. The Brian Flores situation never felt 362 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 3: like a match. Flores didn't seem interested in drafting Tua. 363 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 3: They kept trying to start Ryan Fitzpatrick that first season 364 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 3: at every turn. Then they had a decent string of success. 365 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 3: They weren't a disaster under Brian Flores, if I remember correctly. 366 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: They had like a seven or eight game win streak 367 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 3: a couple of years ago with Tua and Flores that 368 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 3: ended actually here in Tennessee. They ended up losing a 369 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 3: game by a substantial margin to the Titans. That ended 370 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 3: that win streak, And that was about the height of 371 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 3: the Miami Tua experience with Flores. Then Mike McDaniel comes in, 372 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 3: He says, two was my guy. I know exactly how 373 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 3: to make this guy work. They put together one of 374 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 3: the best offenses we've seen in the NFL recent memory, 375 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: and they trade for Tyreek Hill, who I mean was 376 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 3: an MVP candidate or should have been thought of as 377 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 3: an MVP candidate. How many votes he actually got those 378 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 3: two years where he was operating an incredibly high level. 379 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 3: You could say, there's not a better offensive there was 380 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 3: not a better offensive weapon in the league then Tyreek 381 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 3: in that Mike McDaniel system and two of putting up 382 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 3: MVP type of numbers. But he's just he's such a 383 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: he's such a complicated one. And this is the thing 384 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 3: that Dolphins fans have to be sick of. How many 385 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 3: times are they going to go through this with a 386 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 3: quarterback who you know, you can't ever really figure out, 387 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 3: like Tua was probably shot at the end at the 388 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 3: end of this situation in Miami way more so than 389 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 3: another you know reference for me here locally, Ryan Tannehill, 390 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 3: who was good enough in Spurts got them to the postseason, 391 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,719 Speaker 3: got injured before that playoff game. Matt Moore ends up 392 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: starting a playoff game against the Steelers. So Ryan Tannehill 393 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 3: actually never made or plays in the postseason for Miami 394 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 3: gets shipped off to Tennessee. In twenty nineteen for pieces 395 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 3: and parts. They have to end up paying some of 396 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 3: his salary for him to come here and be the 397 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 3: backup to Marcus Mariota at the time, and then when 398 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 3: Mariota fails, they put Tannehill in the Titans maker run 399 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 3: to the AFC Championship Game. Tannehill resurges and ends up 400 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 3: signing a fat contract in twenty twenty to become the 401 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 3: Titans franchise quarterback. There for a period of time. I 402 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 3: don't think that two has got that same trajectory. 403 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 4: Now. 404 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 3: Maybe I don't remember the dialogue around Tannehill back in nineteen, 405 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 3: but maybe people were also calling it a career on 406 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 3: Ryan Tannehill at the time and he ended up having 407 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 3: a really nice resurgence. How are we going to remember 408 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 3: to his time in Miami, because I have to imagine 409 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,959 Speaker 3: Dolphins fans thought they really really had something and then 410 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 3: of those first couple of opportunities for them to go 411 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 3: to the postseason where they spun out as badly as 412 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 3: they did, and we all know the record in Cold 413 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 3: Weather for two a tongue of aloa. 414 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 4: I don't know that the they view it. 415 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 3: Much different than the Tannehills experience, even though there was 416 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 3: a little bit more postseason opportunity than there was with Tannehill. 417 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 2: There's a trajectory with every young quarterback. 418 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: Right when you watch your young quarterback play really well, 419 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: everybody falls in love. This is just like immediately, no, 420 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: we got our guy. We got a guy for the 421 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 1: next fifteen years, and then all of a sudden a 422 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: few years in, unless your guy really elevates and becomes 423 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: that clearly that same tier as Joe Burrow, as Josh Allen, 424 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: as Patrick Mahomes, for everybody else that's on that next tier, 425 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: even all of a sudden, that same level of praise 426 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: that you were being given, that hyped you up, is 427 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: now being thrown on your shoulders as weight. 428 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: So to your. 429 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: Point, early on into his career, there was this moment 430 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: where when he comes off of the twenty twenty two 431 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: season where he throws for thirty five hundred yards twenty 432 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: five and eight, right like the year after that forty 433 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: six hundred yards twenty nine and fourteen on the touchdown 434 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: interception ratio. You're talking about an offense that was becoming explosive, 435 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: and just this moment where you saw it, Dolphins fans 436 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: everywhere believed they had their guy. I think we're going 437 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: to remember a lot of the Tua era, right or wrong. 438 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: For the concussions, because if you look at the games played, 439 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three is the only season in his career 440 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: where he played more than fourteen games. Every other season 441 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: in his entire career, he's missed at least three games, right, 442 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: So you just start to factor all this together. I 443 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: think what we think about is sort of the size 444 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: of Tua, and we think about the hits the Tua 445 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: has taken. And I've long said repeatedly he talked to 446 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 1: his own doctors, team doctors. Everybody around Tua believes and 447 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: believed that it was safe for him to get back 448 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: on the field. But collectively, I think most of us. 449 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 2: Hold our breath every time he takes a hard sack. 450 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: Every single time he hits the ground hard, everybody takes pause. 451 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: And so if you're the Dolphins and a new organization 452 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: coming in, you're coming in with the guy that at 453 00:21:58,760 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: the quarterback position is made. 454 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 2: He's and I love you, man. 455 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: He needs to be supported. He needs to have coaches 456 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: around him that make him feel value. That's the environment 457 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: he thrives in. You got to figure out if that 458 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: guy is your guy, he costs you. 459 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 2: A ton of money. 460 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: He's got injury issues, He's missed a lot of time 461 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: in his career, and he may or may. 462 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 2: Not have recurring concussion issues. 463 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: Like if I was the head coach of the Dolphins today, 464 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: I look at it and say, you know what, I'd 465 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: rather just cut ties and go through this period to suck. Unfortunately, 466 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: I think if we're grading this chapter of Tua, the 467 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: fair grade is really kind of an incomplete We never 468 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: really saw the best of what I think he could be. 469 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 2: I don't think that we ever saw the. 470 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: Worst in a way that made it easy to just 471 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: say this guy sucks. And if certainly, if he goes 472 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: somewhere else buck and he's healthy, If he goes somewhere 473 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: else and that portion of it takes care of itself, 474 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: you never know, right system, right place, maybe two has 475 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: got something left in the tank. I just certainly would 476 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: not be banking my franchise on Tuatunguavlowa as my future 477 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: starting quarterback. 478 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 3: No, and now a franchise doesn't have to, right because 479 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 3: he can play for the league minimum. It will give 480 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 3: you a low end flyer opportunity for them to try 481 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 3: and Russell Wilson Pittsburgh Steelers their way through a season. 482 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 3: He's probably, I don't know, a starter somewhere in the caliber. 483 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 3: If you were if you were saying one to thirty two, 484 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 3: where would you slot to, You'd probably say low twenties 485 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 3: to early thirties As far as where he falls amongst 486 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 3: starting caliber quarterbacks, high end backup situation for sure. Right, 487 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 3: he's got a lot of experience. He's played a lot 488 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 3: of football, despite how much time he's missed, he has 489 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 3: at least a level of understanding of NFL defenses that 490 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 3: will give him an advantage to an extent. But that's 491 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 3: who is going to be in the market to make 492 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 3: to of their starter like that. That reeks of a 493 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 3: desperation type situation. How many teams really understanding that there 494 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: are eight open for big business? And one of them 495 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 3: was Miami? Right, So let's just theoretically say seven, Who 496 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 3: is gonna who is gonna do that with two of those? 497 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 4: Like Russ? I got right, Russ, and Russ was. 498 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 2: Right, I'd rather have two of them Russ. 499 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 4: Russ was washed. 500 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, now no, I said that. I was clear 501 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 2: on that at the time. Russ was clearly washed. 502 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: When he went like that, there was no when if 503 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: you're Sean Payton and you look around and say I'd 504 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: rather pay eighty million bucks to not have this guy around, 505 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: that to me, it was a clear indication that he 506 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: was absolutely washed. 507 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 2: Like, I hear you. 508 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: But I'm also looking at right now, according to multiple sites, 509 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: but if you look at the best top ten free 510 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: agent quarterbacks available, I'll just pull this one ranking up. 511 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,360 Speaker 1: These are the names that are available. You mentioned there's 512 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: eight openings. Number one, Kyler Murray, number two, Malik Willis, 513 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: number three, Kirk Cousins number four, Aaron Rodgers, number five, 514 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. Like that's what? So so to your question, 515 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: I might I mean, we get to Flacco and Mariota 516 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: before we've even had the chance to blink, right, Like, so, 517 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: I think that there's gonna be a market for Tua 518 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: simply because there aren't enough quarterbacks out here. Look, you 519 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: got to have somebody, You have somebody as you're starting quarterback. 520 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: No, but what are the Jets actually gonna do at 521 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 2: quarterback this year? 522 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 3: Don't see the reporting from Connor Hughes at s n 523 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 3: Y that Carson Wentz is Frank Reich's preferred option. 524 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: My God, and the Cardinals saw the reporting. The Cardinals 525 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: are all in on Jimmy G. The Cardinals want to 526 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: acquire Jimmy G. Like, we're gonna Carson Wentz and Jimmy 527 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: G are gonna be viable starting quarterbacks this year? 528 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 2: What are we doing? 529 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 4: Okay, well, let's they can be starting quarterbacks without. 530 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 2: Being viable, right, Look, that is a fair pus. 531 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 3: And and I don't you know, I don't mean to 532 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 3: make light of of of Carson Wentz or Garoppolo or 533 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 3: Flacco or any of these guys. 534 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 4: You're just out here trying to make I don't know. 535 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 3: I felt bad for Carson Wentz last year man in 536 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 3: that Minnesota game where he's just clearly not right and 537 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 3: they leave him out there and he's battling through injuries. 538 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 3: All of a sudden, you know, two days later he's 539 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 3: done for the season. And like, I can't remember what 540 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 3: the shoulder injury was exactly, but it sounded awful what 541 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 3: he was playing through. 542 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 4: And the Carson Wentz is credit he battled. 543 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 3: I I think that the Tua thing, well, because it's 544 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 3: not just the caliber of the player, right, how much 545 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 3: do we factor in the personality stuff with Tua, because 546 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 3: he's had some weird I know, just weird press conference 547 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 3: moments these last couple of years. He's had weird dynamics, 548 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 3: it seems, with his coaching staff and his teammates as 549 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 3: far as how much do these guys actually respect him 550 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 3: and view him as a leader. Some of the erraticisms, again, 551 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 3: you don't know what to attribute to some of the 552 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 3: some of the head injuries that he's had versus you know, 553 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 3: maybe he's just a bit of an eccentric guy and 554 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 3: handles things differently and says too much at press conferences 555 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 3: like whatever. I don't want to read too much into that, 556 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 3: but I don't know he he feels like a bit 557 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 3: of a sideshow situation. I don't know that he's more 558 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 3: viable than Garoppolo or. 559 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 4: Like I mean, Winz. I don't know. 560 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 3: Winz was just in the league last year and he 561 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 3: wasn't that much worse than Tua. I just kind of 562 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 3: I kind of view them the same way. At this point. 563 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,239 Speaker 3: They can start, because a lot of quarterbacks end up 564 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 3: starting in the NFL. I think in the last couple 565 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 3: of years we've had anywhere between sixty and sixty five 566 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 3: players start a game at the quarterback position. So yeah, 567 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 3: Tua and Wentz and Jimmy g they can all start games. 568 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 3: Flacco is still starting games. Hell, we just saw Philip 569 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 3: Rivers start games at forty four years old, how many 570 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 3: years removed from being in the NFL. So it's not 571 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 3: a question of can he do it, it's a question 572 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 3: of is it worth it to you to give him 573 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 3: that opportunity to be the front facing member of your organization, 574 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 3: because I just don't think he handled it well in Miami, 575 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 3: and maybe he can learn and grow from that. Right, 576 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 3: This is a humbling experience for anybody, if especially if 577 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 3: a team is willing to eat, you know, in principal 578 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 3: ninety nine million dollars to make you go away at 579 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 3: the end of the day, maybe that makes you reevaluate, 580 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: all right, this is this is what I did right, 581 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 3: this is what I did wrong, This is what I'll 582 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 3: do differently the next time around. And I hope he 583 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 3: gets that opportunity. But I don't ever remember having as 584 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 3: much conversation about should a player actually continue to play 585 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 3: this sport as I do too, given the concussion stuff. 586 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: But I think that's the dangerous part about it is 587 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: that like we so many of us that cover it. 588 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: Have spent our time with Tua arguing about whether or 589 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 2: not he should continue to play. 590 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: And you know, I had the opportunity several years ago 591 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: to talk to Talia, his brother, who at the time 592 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: was the starting quarterback in Maryland, and I asked him 593 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: when I was interview, I'm like, what's it, what's it 594 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: like with Tua in the head injuries? And he made 595 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: it clear He's like, look, he Tua has sat down 596 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: with his own doctor, We've sat down with family doctors. 597 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: Everybody involved has said it's fine for him to continue playing. Now, 598 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: I know that's hard for all of us to believe, 599 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: but I'm sitting here saying I'm not going to pretend 600 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: to know more about the man's brain than the doctors 601 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: that he's hiring, not. 602 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 2: Even talking about Dolphins. 603 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: Doctors like his own family and personal doctors all looked 604 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: at it and said, yes, I get it. I think 605 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: what's weird is that we've all decided that it's just 606 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: so uncomfortable for us to watch too a play that 607 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: that's an indictment on why he shouldn't play. When conversely, again, 608 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going back to this, Malik Willis, who 609 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: everybody has decided is the number one quarterback in this 610 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: year's free agency class. Malik Willis through thirty five passes 611 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: all year last year. I mean Malik Willis in his 612 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: career is one hundred and five out of one hundred 613 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: and fifty five passing in his career. We're talking about 614 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: Atua that just came off his last game. He played 615 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: against the Steelers. They lost, but he was twenty two 616 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: twenty eight for two fifty three with two touchdowns. Like 617 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: I've actually seen Tua play well. I haven't seen Diddley 618 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: Pooh from Malik Willis other than a few games as 619 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: a backup where he's running around throwing the football, and 620 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna sign that as a reason why Malik Willis 621 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: should turn around and make thirty million dollars a year. 622 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 2: I'm not sure that Malik Willis is any better than Tua. 623 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: Like if I was ranking the quarterbacks right now, of 624 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks that are available, we've seen more good 625 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: football from Tua than we have from Malik from Kyler, 626 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: like we've seen good moments from Tua. I don't know 627 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: why am I only taking you believe in Kyler more than. 628 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 4: Toa no, no, no. 629 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 3: I'm saying that that I've probably seen as much good 630 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 3: football from Kyler as I have from Tua. And I'm not, 631 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 3: you know, saying that is as an argument to support Kyler. 632 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 3: I'm just saying that they both have had significant highs 633 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 3: and significant lows in their respective NFL careers. I think 634 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 3: Tua has been the more consistent player, but I don't 635 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 3: think it's it's that kind of a golf And to 636 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 3: your point about Malik, I think I brought this up 637 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 3: either the last time we filled in for the guys 638 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 3: in the morning or at some point on our Saturday 639 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 3: show fits Here on Fox that and I still don't 640 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 3: remember the outlet that went through and looked at Malik 641 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 3: Willis's passes and narrowed it down to it's twenty eight 642 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 3: true dropbacks like not screens. Twenty eight to twenty eight true 643 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 3: dropbacks in the last two seasons. 644 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 4: Two seasons. 645 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 3: Okay, that's but that's you know, that's what the sample 646 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 3: size for Malik was, and that's what Green Bay needed 647 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 3: to do to win. The question is not about is 648 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 3: has Malik Willis been better than Tua? Of course, not 649 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 3: Malik has not been a starting caliber quarterback for the 650 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,479 Speaker 3: bulk of his NFL career. The question is, can you 651 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 3: put Malik Willis in a similar situation of what he 652 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,719 Speaker 3: was in Green Bay and get similar results to whin 653 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,479 Speaker 3: Green Bay had to play Malik Willis versus what we 654 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 3: know Toua to be right now, which is he's already 655 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,719 Speaker 3: hit a ceiling. It's never gonna get better for Tua 656 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 3: at this point in his career. Right the opportunity, the 657 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 3: idea of Malik has more legs than the idea of 658 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 3: Tua right now, because what you understand is with Tua, 659 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 3: you're getting what you're getting. 660 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: You're not wrong, You're not wrong, And I don't love 661 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: like Look if it was the usual year where there 662 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: were three or four options in the draft that people liked, 663 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: and there were two or three guys that you know 664 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: had bounced around a minute, like you know, at least 665 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: again Daniel Jones, we'd seen some good football, and how 666 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: much of their just how much of the grossness from 667 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: Daniel Jones were we putting on the Giants coaching versus 668 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. 669 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 2: I wasn't sure. 670 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: So I liked Daniel Jones, Sam Donald, We saw enough 671 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: could from that, you knew that Sam Donald could walk 672 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: in and really. 673 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 2: Play at a high level. Of question is could they 674 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 2: get the right things around him? 675 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: I think if it weren't for and it's a big 676 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: if it weren't, But if it weren't for the head 677 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: issues around Tua, I wonder how we would perceive that 678 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: quarterbacking the open market. And that being said, in this 679 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: open market, I don't know that I wouldn't feel just 680 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: as comfortable, if not more comfortable with Tua, who I 681 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: can probably get on a one year VET minimum, you 682 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: know if that's the case, because I'm not having to 683 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: pay him anything and he can come in. I like 684 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: the idea of Tua pushing my my quarterback and just 685 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: coming in to see what we have. If I was 686 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: just going to roll the dice and take a chance, 687 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: I heck of a lot more than I like the 688 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: idea of three years of money invested in Malik or 689 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: three years of money invested in Kyler. 690 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 3: How about this from Jason over the cap, Tua earned 691 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 3: just under one hundred and twenty five million dollars of 692 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 3: his contract FITZI, how many years have that new contracted 693 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 3: to a play? 694 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 2: Oh my god? 695 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 4: What two one. 696 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 2: Oh my god, man, that is that is wild. 697 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: Like this is where all of us sit there and say, 698 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,959 Speaker 1: like to it, just just time off, dude, Just go 699 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: hang out with your family. 700 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 2: Oh good, you're dirty rich dude. Just go just like 701 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 2: go hit some motivational speaking. 702 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 4: Love of the game, baby, love of the game? 703 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 2: Buck? 704 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 4: Is there? 705 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 2: Anything? Is there? How much? How much did you say 706 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 2: he made on that new contract? 707 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 3: Just under one hundred and twenty five million dollars. 708 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: If you had one hundred and twenty five million dollars 709 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,919 Speaker 1: that you earned, would you actually show up to work 710 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: with me today? 711 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,479 Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, first would you? Oh? Yeah? 712 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 5: No? 713 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 3: I I could be, you know, just disgustingly rich, and 714 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 3: I would still do this on a regular basis. 715 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 4: I like to work. That's just me. You know. 716 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 2: I love ball with me. 717 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 4: That's what it is. 718 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,799 Speaker 1: No specifically, you just like working with me. That's that's 719 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: when it comes up to thank you so much, buddy. 720 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 1: I I feel the same about you. 721 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 4: No, I will buy a new co host with one 722 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five million dollars. 723 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: He'd pay me half of that just to go away. 724 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: It'd be the lottery split. He's like, how much? 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It's two Pros and a Cup of Joe. 736 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 3: Jason fitz and Buck Rising filling in for the guys. 737 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 3: We appreciate you all letting us hang out here in 738 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 3: their stead. They'll be back with you for your regularly 739 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,800 Speaker 3: scheduled programming the rest of the week. I sent Fitzie away. 740 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,759 Speaker 3: I bought them out. I said, you know, it's not 741 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 3: going to cost quite what toa costs fifty five million 742 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 3: dollars to. 743 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 4: Get out of here. 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So Fitzy and I hang out 752 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio on Saturday evenings from five to 753 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 3: seven pm Central. 754 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 4: Time where I am here in Nashville. He's in Connecticut, 755 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 4: of course. 756 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,320 Speaker 3: And if you know our show on Fox Sports Radio, 757 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,959 Speaker 3: then you know it's time for Would you rather? 758 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 2: It's easy? Guys, don't think too hard more. Would you 759 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 2: rather buckets? 760 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 4: Or face it? What do we got? Team? 761 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna start off with one. 762 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 7: And I think this is a good one. Since Fifty's 763 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 7: always commenting on your wardrobe during your little FaceTime sessions here. 764 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,320 Speaker 3: He does treat me a bit like a piece of meats. 765 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,800 Speaker 3: I do not appreci shape being objected final like that? 766 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,839 Speaker 2: All right? 767 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 7: Would you rather have to wear every shirt inside out 768 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 7: or every pair of pants backward for the rest of 769 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 7: your life? 770 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 4: Oh? I feel like a shirt inside out? 771 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 3: And you know, maybe this is I'm sure it's different 772 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,960 Speaker 3: for women, but for me, I feel like a shirt 773 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 3: inside out. Would be a lot easier than wearing pants backwards. Right, 774 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 3: You can at least adjust a shirt to make it 775 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 3: feel like normal if you're wearing it inside out. If 776 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 3: you're you know, you've got your pants turned around, You're 777 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 3: dealing with a whole bunch of different stuff in the 778 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 3: wrong place. You know, it's it's not convenient by any 779 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 3: stretch of the imagination. What's that, la Rita? 780 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,960 Speaker 2: Using your like the restroom with your pants on backwards? 781 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:48,760 Speaker 2: It's really awkward. 782 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, at that point, I mean you're like, you're like 783 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 3: a woman in a jumpsuit. You got to just take 784 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 3: the whole thing off and then go to the bathroom. 785 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,759 Speaker 7: That one, all right, We've got a sports one here. 786 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 7: Would you rather have season tickets where the seat moves 787 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 7: randomly to a worst spot every quarter or period or 788 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 7: inning or front row seats, but you have to stay 789 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 7: perfectly silent the entire game, No cheering, no reactions, nothing, oh. 790 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 3: Front road seats. But that's just because I'm a cloud 791 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 3: monster and I want to be seen. I'm a peacock. 792 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 3: I want to preen, so I can do that quietly. 793 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 3: I can be you know, seen in all the background 794 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 3: of all the best moments in that particular sport or 795 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 3: for that particular team. 796 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 4: But I can do that quietly. 797 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,160 Speaker 3: Hell, I sent in a press box to do my 798 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 3: job on a regular basis, and there's no cheering in 799 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:36,799 Speaker 3: a press box. 800 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,799 Speaker 2: Baby, all right? 801 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,200 Speaker 7: Would you rather, and you have to this would have 802 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 7: to be forever, you can't change it. Would you rather 803 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 7: have a mullet or a ponytail? 804 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 4: Ugh? Hmm, I'm probably gonna go ponytail. I don't know this. 805 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,440 Speaker 3: Maybe maybe now that I'm in my thirties, I'm thirty 806 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,760 Speaker 3: two at this point, and I don't understand. I'm starting 807 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,960 Speaker 3: to become my parents. I feel like where I just 808 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 3: look at some of the trends that people are doing 809 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,800 Speaker 3: in fashion or clothing or with what they. 810 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 4: Do with their hair, and I'm like, well, what are 811 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,680 Speaker 4: you doing that? For the mullet thing I've never understood. 812 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 3: And again, it's like a Morgan Wallen influenced type of situation, 813 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,720 Speaker 3: and there's different variants, kind of like COVID, there's different 814 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,560 Speaker 3: variants of the mullet the ponytail. I feel like I 815 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 3: don't think I could make either of them work necessarily, 816 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,239 Speaker 3: but I feel like I got a better chance with 817 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 3: a ponytail, the mullet. 818 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,880 Speaker 4: I just think, you know, go get a real haircut. 819 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 2: Yes, I agree. 820 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 7: Would you rather have Hussin Bolt's top end speed but 821 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 7: only for ten second bursts once a day, or tom 822 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,720 Speaker 7: Brady's football IQ but in a body that's always slightly 823 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 7: out of shape? 824 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 4: Oh? 825 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,760 Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean tom Brady's football IQ in an 826 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,520 Speaker 3: out of shaped body, right, because at that point you 827 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 3: could do x's and o's analysis. You all got to 828 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 3: be in shape to talk about football. What am I 829 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:04,279 Speaker 3: gonna do? 830 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 4: What purpose does usein bolt speed have for me in 831 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 4: any given in any given moment. I don't think they 832 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 4: think that's terribly practical. 833 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:14,960 Speaker 7: All right, Well, that squiot one. Would you rather be 834 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,520 Speaker 7: able to fly but only as fast as you can walk? 835 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,240 Speaker 7: Or be invisible but only when no one's looking? 836 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,440 Speaker 4: I guess give me the flight, you know. 837 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,200 Speaker 3: That might that might make uh, it might make something 838 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,720 Speaker 3: a little more convenient. Outside of that, I'm not sure. Again, 839 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 3: the practicality of these things not quite there anyway. I 840 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,600 Speaker 3: don't know that this has been practical, But stick around. 841 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,320 Speaker 3: It's Fox Sports Radio.