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Speaker 1: Question results from the first hour, will Bill Belichick we
Speaker 1: had another super Bowl? Eighty four percent say no, okay,
Speaker 1: I have a free agency poll. Okay, when you hear
Speaker 1: your team signed a guy, is your first reaction, great,
Speaker 1: we got another player, or oh, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: This might now work out. Well. I never know if
Speaker 1: it's true money that we're talking about, because the agent's
Speaker 1: job is to give the impression that his client just
Speaker 1: signed for the max, and it's not always that we
Speaker 1: know that. And I think once you get into the
Speaker 1: weeds and you find out, okay, maybe that isn't that
Speaker 1: big of a contract, that exorbitant. But then there are
Speaker 1: other ones when you go, oh, no, they did pay
Speaker 1: a lot. The Patriots paid an awful lot to get
Speaker 1: younger yesterday, and by all accounts, they did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job. Now, there are a lot of teams that
Speaker 1: win in March. They win in free agency. You got
Speaker 1: to win in September, in October and November, because we've
Speaker 1: had teams that may made a big splash and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you go, yeah, would they end
Speaker 1: up a lot of these teams. I applaud teams to
Speaker 1: at least try that. They go out and they spend money.
Speaker 1: Remember when Belichick was talking about the Patriots had no money.
Speaker 1: That was a year ago. Where'd they get that money?
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you know, they're sending, you know,
Speaker 1: spending like drunk sailors on a weekend. I'll take one
Speaker 1: of them and one of those, and one of them
Speaker 1: and one of those, and here we go, Patriots. They're
Speaker 1: ready to go. Yeah, Polly, I can think it's a
Speaker 1: like a speaking as a local fan, Like if you're
Speaker 1: a fan of a team, I don't think it matters
Speaker 1: what the price is if I feel that my team
Speaker 1: signed a player on a position where we stink, Like
Speaker 1: if you have a bad offensive line. If I'm the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: If I'm a Chiefs fan and they lost two offensive
Speaker 1: linemen in the past two weeks, but then they signed
Speaker 1: offensive I'm like, we addressed that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we actually address that. But when you see a name
Speaker 1: that helps your team at a certain position, he feels
Speaker 1: a week this, you feel better. The Buccaneers are getting
Speaker 1: the band back together, or at least they're trying, And
Speaker 1: I'm going to give their front office a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: I mean it helps that Brady, you know, he created
Speaker 1: some salary cap space with his contract. Yesterday they resigned
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett and possibly the biggest prize in the entire
Speaker 1: free agency class. It's a four year deal, seventy two
Speaker 1: million dollars, thirty six million guaranteed. It's a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like it's a whole lot for
Speaker 1: the position that is the most coveted in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And signing Barrett takes some pressure off Tampa because later
Speaker 1: in the day they got Rob Gronkowski for another year.
Speaker 1: They already franchise tag Chris Godwin. Now they work out
Speaker 1: something within Dominican Sue, Antonio Brown, Leonard Fournette. There's talk
Speaker 1: right now that Leonard Fournette is weighing an offer, according
Speaker 1: to Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback to stay in
Speaker 1: Tampa or the other possibility as Seattle made a strong
Speaker 1: offer to him. But Brady is trying to keep Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette in Tampa. But you have Antonio Brown, do you
Speaker 1: bring him back? Leonard Fournette and Domickin sue. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you're one of these players, you're probably thinking maybe
Speaker 1: one more year with Tampa. You know, Tom's forty three,
Speaker 1: but you're not going to bet against him. The defense,
Speaker 1: you know, Lavante David, they resigned him, so you give
Speaker 1: me Barrett and David. I'm good. I like that defense
Speaker 1: a lot. It's a young defense, and you know how
Speaker 1: I feel about it. And I said, that's the reason
Speaker 1: why they won the Super Bowl. Also, when you look
Speaker 1: at the Kansas City Chiefs and they signed one of
Speaker 1: the Patriots lineman, Joe Tuning, and he's very good. But
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had to get their offensive line in gear
Speaker 1: because as we saw, keep this in mind, go back
Speaker 1: to the previous Super Bowl against San francis and you
Speaker 1: know the pressure that Bosa put on Mahomes in that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He would have been the MVP, could have
Speaker 1: been the MVP had San Francisco one. Bosa was that
Speaker 1: much of an impact. But when you have an offensive
Speaker 1: line that is average or suspect, it makes somebody as
Speaker 1: talented as Patrick Mahomes average. We never want to admit that.
Speaker 1: When you have that offensive line, it's amazing how good
Speaker 1: you can look. Mahomes is a wonderful talent. But what
Speaker 1: happened last year in the Super Bowl. This past year
Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay. They made Mahomes look average. Got to
Speaker 1: have the offensive line, Dak Prescott, rookie year offensive line,
Speaker 1: a couple of Hall of famers up there, Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: Everything was great thirteen and three. If you don't have
Speaker 1: that offensive line, you're not going anywhere. You know, the
Speaker 1: Colts now as opposed to when they had Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck left the game because they didn't have an
Speaker 1: offensive line. Now you have one of the best offensive
Speaker 1: linemen in football in a future Hall of Famer in
Speaker 1: Quinton Nilsen. And we don't talk about the Colts offensive
Speaker 1: line anymore. And if I'm Carson Wentz, those are my
Speaker 1: best friends. And that's why I think Wentz will have
Speaker 1: a comeback year. But even as good as Patrick Mahomes is,
Speaker 1: the first three quarters of the Super Bowl, he was
Speaker 1: average or below average. You put pressure on any quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is, you're gonna be average.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers NFC Title Game, put pressure on Mahomes in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, put pressure on average Brady at time
Speaker 1: when Brady doesn't have time. It's not pretty. That's why
Speaker 1: getting these offensive linemen. A lot of times we look
Speaker 1: at the skill position, and we got all that team
Speaker 1: I made a big splash. They got a wide receiver
Speaker 1: or they got a tight end. I want to know
Speaker 1: when you get the guys that you know, aren't that
Speaker 1: headline name. You know, it's like you got to read
Speaker 1: down in the body of the story and you go
Speaker 1: and by the way, they also added such and such
Speaker 1: and such and such. We never focus on those players,
Speaker 1: but those are the focus. That's the focus we should
Speaker 1: have because those are the guys that are going to
Speaker 1: decide how successful you are. And I love what Tampa
Speaker 1: did with the defense being able to keep everybody. Fournette
Speaker 1: was wonderful in the playoffs, certainly in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Do I need Antonio brownback? No? And Dominican Sue played well,
Speaker 1: But I don't know what he wants when you win
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. Now it's different. Now Leonard Fournette won
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. Now you go, I want to get
Speaker 1: paid because he was on the rookie deal when he
Speaker 1: went to Jacksonville. You know, but it has to be
Speaker 1: hard to go, God, I got another chance of winning
Speaker 1: a super Bowl with this team, or do I want
Speaker 1: more money? And when you have that super Bowl ring,
Speaker 1: it's easier to go. You know, I'm gonna take the money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But then if you're like looking at I could stay
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers and win another super Bowl, or I
Speaker 1: could go over to a thirteen and three team and
Speaker 1: get paid a bunch. Still pretty close to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I mean, Seahawks is like, it's not like you're landing
Speaker 1: in a terrible spot. You know. Granted, I know everything
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson right now, but they're still pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it feels like they already have three running backs
Speaker 1: and now you're gonna bring in Leonard Fournette. You got
Speaker 1: a team that feels like it's in a little disarray there. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: everything's good with Tom got my defense back. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't need to carry the ball all the time.
Speaker 1: I can be fresh. I could just chill like Gronk does.
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette could go. You know, I'm just gonna do
Speaker 1: what Gronk does, you know, just do my job and
Speaker 1: then wait till the postseason and then you can give
Speaker 1: me all the carries you want. It's like Gronk. There
Speaker 1: were games when the Buccaneers played I didn't even hear
Speaker 1: Gronk's name called he was semi retired I think last year,
Speaker 1: and then you know then and then he you know,
Speaker 1: catch a touchdown, passes super he's having fun. You know
Speaker 1: that atmosphere. Something to be said for that. With the
Speaker 1: opportunity players would go to New England because of Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: They knew that they had a chance if Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was there. And that's the same way with Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Do you want to leave a situation where that dude
Speaker 1: might win another Super Bowl and you know what he
Speaker 1: did with his salary, spread it out, whatever they do,
Speaker 1: however they doctor it. You kept two re the impressive
Speaker 1: defensive players. Yeah. Point this just in from Adam Schefter.
Speaker 1: The Patriots have signed another player, tight end Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: Remember him on the thirty seven million dollars including twenty
Speaker 1: five million guaranteed. Okay, John who Smith and Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: the tight ends in New England. That's great. I mean
Speaker 1: Smith is a really good tight end, really good. But
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry was really good a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and then he got injured. Well, every charger gets injured.
Speaker 1: But it's a three year deal there, twenty five million guaranteed.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. I like that if Hunter Henry can still
Speaker 1: play healthy. Yeah, but John Smith can play. He could
Speaker 1: be really good in that offense. Yeah, eleven Cam Newton's
Speaker 1: good throwing at tight end. Greg Olson and him were
Speaker 1: great together. Yeah, and now it's like the Aaron Hernandez
Speaker 1: Gronk again. Oh boy, Oh not quite. You can't say
Speaker 1: that more right, Yeah, not quite. Well he did in
Speaker 1: the field double tight ends, he did, Yes, he did.
Speaker 1: He feels a little bit like Bill Belichick's greatest hits though,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well it did work out, yeah, sort
Speaker 1: of for a little while. Yeah, they resigned her. Neda's
Speaker 1: like one hundred million dollars deal. Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 1: That's one of those where you go, did anybody like
Speaker 1: if I'm giving you one hundred million dollars, I need
Speaker 1: to find out everything about you just a little bit.
Speaker 1: How do you spend your money now that you have?
Speaker 1: But he had issues in college. Urban Meyer was his coach,
Speaker 1: and urban Meyer is friends with Bill Belichick. Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you. You're gonna co sign on this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got some trouble, but he's a really talented kid. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll take you. Now. I want to find out how
Speaker 1: you spend your money when you get your money money.
Speaker 1: Were feels a whole lot about people, and you know
Speaker 1: he's scared people in the building. Aaron Hernandez scared people.
Speaker 1: Key did not play games when he got there. He
Speaker 1: would not let you treat him like a rookie. He's
Speaker 1: scared people professional football players. Yeah. Pay Grock and Aaron
Speaker 1: Hernandez were taking the same draft. Gronck was round two,
Speaker 1: Aaron Hornande's round four to Florida. By the way, guess
Speaker 1: who's also lurking as another option for Leonard Fournette. Fritzie Washington,
Speaker 1: No McLevin, my Philadelphia Eagles, no Seaton. I have no idea, Okay,
Speaker 1: PAULI like not a one of thirty two teams the Jets, Jets,
Speaker 1: no Paully, the Chiefs, the PA Yes, which would be
Speaker 1: interesting that they would be taking him from Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He asked McLevin. They have
Speaker 1: like eight running backs. No, I know, they have Damien Harris,
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle, all these guys. That's a last thing they need.
Speaker 1: Let's see what you do with that Fournette. Tom. Do
Speaker 1: they still have Rex Birkend? Is he still there? They
Speaker 1: don't know. I have no idea. Yeah, remember the draft.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick was sitting there and he had the little
Speaker 1: dog next to a little dog Nike. Is the dog
Speaker 1: hitting the computer and deciding these guys. Is Bill at
Speaker 1: the new you know, like uh, Martha's vineyard or something?
Speaker 1: The dog is hitting sign sign SCIgen sign on the
Speaker 1: court or if you know, if Belichick gets up to
Speaker 1: go get a drink and the dog gets the key
Speaker 1: that says he yesked to somebody, Hey, what are you thinking?
Speaker 1: Yes or no? Yes? Uh? Who said yes? Did that deal?
Speaker 1: I came from your computer? Bill? Yes, Cleve give the
Speaker 1: patch credit. They set out a picture of that dog
Speaker 1: at the computer last night to say this is a
Speaker 1: guy making picks. So they're all, you know, the Pats
Speaker 1: realize this is a crazy great If they're gonna blame somebody,
Speaker 1: they're gonna blame a poor little dog. By way, the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans Nick Cassario made all these smart, low cost
Speaker 1: signings yesterday. As the reviews out there, he signed a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys for like two million dollars. That are
Speaker 1: good values. Was he the genius behind the Patriots? I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know it hasn't gone well since
Speaker 1: he's been in Houston. That wasn't his fault. He inherited
Speaker 1: all that, didn't he, I guess, But he's not fixing it.
Speaker 1: Are you? How curious are you about the Patriots next
Speaker 1: year to see where this all goes? Well, I'm always curious.
Speaker 1: But they're not even the best team in their own division.
Speaker 1: And if they're not careful, the Dolphins are going to
Speaker 1: pass him if they already haven't. You know, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are sitting there with a third pick overall. You gotta
Speaker 1: just you know, a Belichick disciple there. You know they're
Speaker 1: They're a team that's sneaky good. Yes, Ton. And if
Speaker 1: you're a Patriots fan, what would be considered a successful season,
Speaker 1: winning one playoff game, getting into a road wild card game?
Speaker 1: What is it beating Tom Brady during the regular season?
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing? Is that game in New
Speaker 1: England or in Tampa? God, it's gotta be in New England,
Speaker 1: right Setan. Yeah, Todd loves to throw out the But
Speaker 1: what would be SAI divisional round home game? Is that
Speaker 1: a success for you? The very specifically in a way
Speaker 1: or wild card way game, a wild card way game
Speaker 1: in winning a wild card game at home, it's a
Speaker 1: road could you possibly divisional round playoff? Is that a
Speaker 1: success for this team? You believe they're interested in going
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl? There a road wildcard win? Is
Speaker 1: that a couple of years ago? Do you ask Todd
Speaker 1: what he wanted for his practice this year? Goes I'd
Speaker 1: like a rest round playoff loss. Yeah, yeah, a road playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'd be satisfied with a first round road playoff LOSSHT
Speaker 1: time by the road in a while that they won
Speaker 1: thirty six twelve and the next year its five fifteen,
Speaker 1: and then you're a weird dude. Yeah, if I was
Speaker 1: gonna ranking weirdness, well, no, it's Fritzie first and foremost.
Speaker 1: He's he's emeritus, he's the winner. Ding ding ding ding
Speaker 1: ding ding ding the least weird. Mm hmm. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: have to distinguish on air and off air, right, because
Speaker 1: Todd is the weirdest. He's also the realist. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Todd is Todd. And that's why people always say, you know,
Speaker 1: it's Todd. You know, does he put on an act?
Speaker 1: And I go, no, you should see when we're not
Speaker 1: on the air, that's that's when that's when the real
Speaker 1: Todd appears, Um mcclevin on the ear and off the
Speaker 1: hear different, Um Seaton's same on and off. Um. Paully
Speaker 1: intrigues me a little bit more because I still don't
Speaker 1: know who he is and it's only been like we've
Speaker 1: been together. Yeah, I still don't know Paulli I designed
Speaker 1: maybe maybe a man of mystery. Yeah, but like I
Speaker 1: know everything about Todd everything. There are things I don't
Speaker 1: want to know about Todd, and I know I have
Speaker 1: shared a little too much of time. Yes, yes, yes, everything.
Speaker 1: But but I will say that that's who you are.
Speaker 1: Like you get to show up for work and you
Speaker 1: just get to be yourself. You don't have to be somebody.
Speaker 1: Uh McLevin is smart enough to you know, play dumbs sometimes. Well.
Speaker 1: The thing about Polly, though is we see a lot
Speaker 1: of Paul's life, Like the text thread is, he's not
Speaker 1: shy about what he's doing. He kind of shares like
Speaker 1: his meals with us on air, and yet hates when
Speaker 1: other people share those things that text thread. Paul Paul
Speaker 1: is odd. He's very interesting, felt because he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of very particular hang ups. Yeah. Um, like we
Speaker 1: just did a look in over at the over at
Speaker 1: the like big screen, right, and Paul is very focused
Speaker 1: on gotta change up the seats, guys, got to move around,
Speaker 1: gotta keep it interesting kind of thing like no sign
Speaker 1: seats here, no sign seat where nobody cares about that
Speaker 1: and nobody's watching, like, hey, look, they're in different seats
Speaker 1: this time. But Paul's like, no, no, no no, gotta keep
Speaker 1: it interesting, gotta move around the seats. Well. I don't
Speaker 1: like when people get too deep into routines. I think
Speaker 1: it makes life boring. It's kind of like when, uh,
Speaker 1: what's that the movie with the Dead Poets Society? You
Speaker 1: gotta change up your views and people get really comfortable
Speaker 1: doing the same exact thing. Everybody's sitting in the same
Speaker 1: exact yeah, but you sit in the same exact chair
Speaker 1: for the morning meeting. That's why I like to mix
Speaker 1: it up, Acacia. But you just said to mix it up,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty minutes, And isn't the act of watching
Speaker 1: a video over there the same thing? That's but it
Speaker 1: would need to change up, not like who's sitting in
Speaker 1: what seat? I'm up for that, you know what I mean, Right,
Speaker 1: isn't that? Yeah? Yeah, See, I think Paul's pretty close
Speaker 1: on air and offer I don't think he's super different.
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty similar kind of Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see him as a man of mystery. Really.
Speaker 1: I think you guys all my interests, all my hobbies. Piccadillos, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've told you all my lame sports stories. Piccadillos. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is that a barbecue joining out in Mississippi? Or some
Speaker 1: type of shoes that children wear? Yeah? Oh, you're wearing
Speaker 1: your Piccadillo's today, buddy. Like, there's certain meals you eat
Speaker 1: that you don't want to tell Polly about. Seats right, Like,
Speaker 1: you cannot tell Polly you ate pizza from like a
Speaker 1: generic store, because he will get so mad. He's like
Speaker 1: her life is too short to eat from a chain restaurant,
Speaker 1: and he gets all upset about it, and he notices
Speaker 1: what you wear. If you have a new pair of shoes,
Speaker 1: Paulli will notice that. I blame that on the scenario
Speaker 1: here that we work with five people generally for twenty years.
Speaker 1: When we're to ESPN, there's thousands of people milling about
Speaker 1: the hallways. Yeah, we're in a room where we're kind
Speaker 1: of like, uh, it's like biosphere here or whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: So we see the same people. So I notice you're
Speaker 1: like Seaton has a new pair of jeans. He tried
Speaker 1: to say they're old jeans, that they're obviously now. So
Speaker 1: this is what I love most about Paul is that
Speaker 1: he'll disagree with you about things that he couldn't possibly know.
Speaker 1: So I've had these genes for probably two years, new jeans, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, Like, why wouldn't I just
Speaker 1: admit they were new jeans? Why would I lie about that?
Speaker 1: I wish I knew why you lied about yours. I
Speaker 1: had a new pair of tennis shoes, but they weren't
Speaker 1: I hadn't worn them, but they were about six months old.
Speaker 1: I had worn them once, and then I wore him again.
Speaker 1: Paul goes on new shoes. Huh, I go, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I said, yeah, I know, I had
Speaker 1: him before. I don't know. Why am I arguing, Okay,
Speaker 1: why am I debating this with you? Yes? Time, Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's the thing, like why what are you supposed
Speaker 1: to do with that? Why? What is the next part
Speaker 1: of it? Just kind of lies? Why? It's one thing
Speaker 1: to notice it, but then when you're calling someone out
Speaker 1: on weear that shirt last Thursday, and then whether it's
Speaker 1: yes or no, that's the point. Go pull last Thursday.
Speaker 1: Get me a picture of Todd's shirt. I need to
Speaker 1: do it. Yes, it changes my whole day. I walk
Speaker 1: in here at six forty five and there's nothing going on.
Speaker 1: Then Fritzie walks in on a Monday. We're in the
Speaker 1: same outfit he warre on a Thursday. I'm like, that's fascinating.
Speaker 1: Was it laundered? Was it not laundered? Now more fascinating
Speaker 1: that Todd wore the same thing from Thursday to Monday,
Speaker 1: or that you noticed that he war that's the bizarre. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fair. That is Yeah, like the things that you
Speaker 1: zero in on were that on Thursday? What? Yes? I
Speaker 1: have an unusual awareness, not a healthy aware, it's unusual.
Speaker 1: I watching Diana receiving, watch this conversation out trying to
Speaker 1: think of ways to get out of this interview. Oh
Speaker 1: my bad, let me take a break. He's smart and
Speaker 1: she's talented. Get out of here. I know, try to
Speaker 1: have communicate with a five different gms at the same time.
Speaker 1: And Leslie tells, you know, listen, that's nonsense. At least
Speaker 1: it's Friday. Yeah, all right, let me take a break.
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Speaker 1: bow out if you wanted to after that last segment, Diana,
Speaker 1: So I do appreciate you holding on for dear life
Speaker 1: here and joining this program. I was laughing, I was listening, uh,
Speaker 1: and I was working at the same time, so you
Speaker 1: were distracting me a bit. I had a couple of
Speaker 1: typos in my text messages, so if I get any
Speaker 1: info wrong today, I would hope that this show steps
Speaker 1: up and it just takes full blame for you know,
Speaker 1: getting me off the ball here because you know it's
Speaker 1: still early here and we got a lot of action. Dan,
Speaker 1: all right, you have the special today just based off
Speaker 1: what has happened so far in free agency. What will
Speaker 1: be the lead story on ESPN's Sports Center special and
Speaker 1: Free Agency for today. Yeah, I think the wide receiver
Speaker 1: market and the core market is going to start taking off. Um.
Speaker 1: It was really quiet yesterday, which I wasn't really surprised
Speaker 1: because I knew those pass rushers were going to be
Speaker 1: flying off because every team seemed like they were in
Speaker 1: on that and wanted a piece of that. Um. Look
Speaker 1: where we can talk about all the pieces of these
Speaker 1: free agents and the fits and and who the big
Speaker 1: players are in the big names. But at the end
Speaker 1: of all this, I still think the quarterback conversation is
Speaker 1: the biggest one, which sounds predictable, but I think this offseason,
Speaker 1: especially knowing to Shaun Watson situation, not being happy. It's
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson situation in Seattle, though I could comfortably call
Speaker 1: not happy. The Chicago Bears haven't done anything at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. The Jetsmokuan to trading Sam Darnold. So if
Speaker 1: something were to happen there, obviously that's going to be
Speaker 1: our lead, and it could Dan, it could something could
Speaker 1: happen today with that. Yeah, I wonder about Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this last hour that he could really change
Speaker 1: quite a few things. If Sam Darnold's traded, where's he
Speaker 1: traded too? You know? Could it be Seattle? If you
Speaker 1: don't get a quarterback in return for the Bears, then
Speaker 1: I got Sam Darnold who's twenty three years of age.
Speaker 1: And I don't know the possibility of that because I
Speaker 1: know Seattle doesn't want to Russ won't go to the Jets.
Speaker 1: But could you get Sam Darnold and still capitalize on
Speaker 1: a desperate Chicago Bears organization? Yeah, And that seems to
Speaker 1: be the tone of the trade of it actually happening.
Speaker 1: It's all about desperation. What the Chicago Bears are willing
Speaker 1: to give up. And I look at it like this.
Speaker 1: Naggie and Pace are essentially on one year deals now, right.
Speaker 1: They need they need to win. So if you're them,
Speaker 1: what do you care about mortgaging in the future. You're
Speaker 1: just trying to keep a job, so everything is on
Speaker 1: the table there in Chicago. I know that they are
Speaker 1: looking at every single option. But here's the problem. When
Speaker 1: when these talks started to pick up, I'd say about
Speaker 1: two weeks ago in regards to Seattle actually picking up
Speaker 1: the call, actually listening to offers, I had a team
Speaker 1: that I was talking to that I know was interested,
Speaker 1: and they said, look forget the cat pit. Stop getting
Speaker 1: all caught up on that. And it's funny this one
Speaker 1: GM said, I saw you on TV today and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying you sounded dumb, but you sounded done, which
Speaker 1: is always my favorite. No, thank you. You can maneuver
Speaker 1: around cap hits, don't don't get caught up in that.
Speaker 1: And it was a good lesson to just remember that
Speaker 1: when we're talking about these things, because I do think
Speaker 1: everyone gets bogged down of you know, why would Seattle
Speaker 1: do that? Why would they Apparently they can make that work.
Speaker 1: That's not the issue. The issue is Seattle just doesn't
Speaker 1: have the answer at quarterback. They're okay with dealing, they
Speaker 1: want to play, just what's their answer And that seems
Speaker 1: to be the biggest issue right now when it comes
Speaker 1: to that actually going down. If I'm the Bears. I
Speaker 1: go after DeShawn Watson, though, Diana, because I got a
Speaker 1: guy seven years younger. And if I'm going to put
Speaker 1: everything on the table and whatever you want, Deshaun Watson's
Speaker 1: already under contract. Russ is going to go to the
Speaker 1: Bears and go, oh, by the way, I'd like to
Speaker 1: be the second highest paid quarterback in the league, which
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about. Russ isn't going there to play for
Speaker 1: his old salary. What do you think about the Bears
Speaker 1: all in on Deshaun instead? Yeah, Russ is going to
Speaker 1: get paid. Here's the problem with DeShawn. And I hate
Speaker 1: continually saying the same thing because everyone keeps hearing it,
Speaker 1: and it's frustrating. Houston is not trading Deshaun Watson. They're
Speaker 1: not doing it at this point right now. And the
Speaker 1: closer you're looking at the calendar is the league years coming,
Speaker 1: and you start thinking if they're going to make a move,
Speaker 1: if they're going to be forced to make a move
Speaker 1: leader in the year, they're gonna they need to start
Speaker 1: thinking about this now. But the problem is everyone I've
Speaker 1: spoken to who has interest in Deshaun Watson, which you
Speaker 1: could assume it's a lot of teams right now have
Speaker 1: told me that Cassaro is a pro, and he's polite,
Speaker 1: he's open to talking, but you bring up Watson and
Speaker 1: a trade offer, and the conversation ends there. They're not
Speaker 1: even willing to go there. And I spoke to a
Speaker 1: couple of players that are on the free agent market,
Speaker 1: even some players that have recently signed with Houston, and
Speaker 1: as much as I was kind of quick to congratulate
Speaker 1: them on signing in Houston, even though it kind of
Speaker 1: felt like it felt a little puny, I was curious of, well,
Speaker 1: what did they tell you about who's going to play quarterback?
Speaker 1: You know, like you're signing with the new team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want your money, but you want to I mean,
Speaker 1: if I'm a player, I want to know what the
Speaker 1: situation is. And it's it's funny. It's management is telling
Speaker 1: players DeShawn will be here, and the players who all
Speaker 1: talked to Deshaun are saying Deshaun is digging in. He
Speaker 1: is digging in and willing not to play. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Diana Raccini. You can see her part of ESPN
Speaker 1: Sports Center special that will be at three Eastern today
Speaker 1: NFL Free Agency Countdown, The same situation. We got Sean
Speaker 1: Payton on next hour, but this is somebody in front
Speaker 1: of somebody there with the quarterbacking situation with Jamis now
Speaker 1: coming back and Taysom Hill still there in camp, which
Speaker 1: I sent coached Payton a text message early this morning.
Speaker 1: I said, thank god, I'm going first here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know who books the show, but they're brilliant,
Speaker 1: because the last person I want to follow is is
Speaker 1: Sean Payton. He's dynamic and brilliant and entertaining and so
Speaker 1: so thank you guys for helping me out here. But
Speaker 1: does he have a starting quarterback? I think he does.
Speaker 1: I think he excuting, I think he thinks he does.
Speaker 1: Sean will is going to fill your air in about
Speaker 1: an hour with how much he loves Jameis Winston. And
Speaker 1: I will always say, if I could find one person
Speaker 1: in my life who loves me as much as Sean
Speaker 1: Payton loves Taysom Hill, you know, I probably would have
Speaker 1: been married years ago instead of waiting late in my
Speaker 1: life here because he truly does he and and so
Speaker 1: it's so it's so interesting speaking to the team and
Speaker 1: to coach about that dynamic the quarterback position because she
Speaker 1: really likes both of them, and I think Jamis challenges
Speaker 1: them and and and coaches one of these guys. He
Speaker 1: he loves taking a player like Jamis who really has
Speaker 1: that natural ability and coaching him up and teaching him
Speaker 1: the way, you know, to be a more decisive, more
Speaker 1: accurate type passer. And the players on the Saints have
Speaker 1: always told me always from I mean we're going back
Speaker 1: to camp, how incredible Jamis is as just you know,
Speaker 1: being part of that organization, because that's one of the
Speaker 1: strongest locker rooms of any teams in the NFL, without
Speaker 1: a doubt. Um, So it's gonna be from from what
Speaker 1: I understand, it's going to be a quarterback competition come
Speaker 1: the summer. He's gonna make them compete, that compete and
Speaker 1: have at it and see who who comes out. But
Speaker 1: I think coach is in a great position here because
Speaker 1: you know, you can play either of these guys. If
Speaker 1: Jamis becomes a starter, you have Tayso I'm playing in
Speaker 1: this sort of utility position, I mean pretty much playing
Speaker 1: everywhere for him. So, um, we'll see. But but I
Speaker 1: was told it's going to be a competition. Does your
Speaker 1: husband love you as much as Sean Payton loves Taysom Hill. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: my husband loves the Eagles. That's about it. It ends there.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's so funny, this this whole free agency thing,
Speaker 1: dan Is. It's such a weird part of your job
Speaker 1: as an NFL reporter because it's it's such a love
Speaker 1: hate thing because love it's Adam Schefter, an Ian rataporter.
Speaker 1: As much as I like to come on here and
Speaker 1: be like I'm a big news breaker, I get the
Speaker 1: little guys. Once in a while, I get the big fish,
Speaker 1: but I get paid to really cover the game during
Speaker 1: the season, and I enjoy it. But the problem is,
Speaker 1: I love to compete and I love messing with I
Speaker 1: love Adam Schefter. I'm a respect of the world, but
Speaker 1: I enjoy trying to get a couple for a moment.
Speaker 1: And he's open to it. He knows what I'm doing
Speaker 1: all the time. He's like, go for it. I go.
Speaker 1: But just your life Monday through Friday during free agency.
Speaker 1: It's it's so unhealthy, you know. Like I told my
Speaker 1: husband on Sunday, said, don't expect any food, don't expect
Speaker 1: water in the house. We're in the middle of a
Speaker 1: move our place is a dump right now, and so
Speaker 1: I guess he does love me enough to understand and
Speaker 1: support me here. But it's really a sick part of
Speaker 1: this job that I enjoy, and I may love this
Speaker 1: more than him. So we're even Why do we assume
Speaker 1: the Patriots know what they're doing in free agency? I
Speaker 1: don't know why we do. I think Bill Belichick, we
Speaker 1: give him all the credit because he's the greatest coach
Speaker 1: of all time. But I'm watching this spending spree here
Speaker 1: and he's Here's Bill Parcells taught me this years ago.
Speaker 1: He said, stop trying to figure out what teams are
Speaker 1: going to do. The answers right in front of you.
Speaker 1: Nobody changes their style. It's they go by the history
Speaker 1: of what they do. For example, we know the Colts,
Speaker 1: they've got so much money right now, they're not spending
Speaker 1: any money in free agency. They never do, so it's
Speaker 1: exactly what Bill says. So then you look at New
Speaker 1: England here and it's like, I mean, no offense parcels.
Speaker 1: You're wrong here because they are not doing what they
Speaker 1: what they normally do. They're going outside the box. But
Speaker 1: I didn't think they had any money though, Diana, remember
Speaker 1: when Brady was there. And then they've they've they've spent
Speaker 1: they got one hundred and thirty seven million dollars in
Speaker 1: guarantees right now that they've that they've spent in less
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours. Where'd that money? Where's that? Where's
Speaker 1: it coming from? Two superb tight ends too? Yeah, John
Speaker 1: new Smith, Hunter Henry like these guys, these are legit
Speaker 1: tight ends. And you originally yesterday, meaning when I started
Speaker 1: to see the signings, he picks up a guy from Miami,
Speaker 1: picks up, you know, Johnny Smith from Tennessee, and he's
Speaker 1: putting the connections. You know, these are these are players
Speaker 1: who have been in sort of that New England system
Speaker 1: with Mike Rabel in Tennessee and Brian Flores in Miami.
Speaker 1: There's there's not gonna be a culture shock, you know
Speaker 1: when when they arrived in New England. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was smart. And you know a lot of the
Speaker 1: b reporters have been doing a great job of digging
Speaker 1: up a lot of the quotes that Belichick has had
Speaker 1: on these players. And he's had this like love affair
Speaker 1: with all these free agents that nobody even knew about
Speaker 1: until now that we've discovered they're finding what they have.
Speaker 1: Money they have, they obviously have a lot of it,
Speaker 1: but forget what they're doing. This is all so interesting
Speaker 1: and fun, But who is the quarterback that that, to me,
Speaker 1: they can make. They can sign every Pro Bowl player
Speaker 1: that's on the market. But to me, I don't think
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's the answer. I think he's a placeholder until
Speaker 1: they figure out what they want to do in his story.
Speaker 1: Not that they're sticking with that script. But we know
Speaker 1: what Bill does. He drafts mid round. You know, we've
Speaker 1: seen her, Ryan Marritt, Jared Stidham, Jamie Garoppolo. You know
Speaker 1: these are mid round guys, and that's usually where they
Speaker 1: go for a quarterback. Granted, they had Tom Brady all
Speaker 1: these years, so they didn't really need to go, but
Speaker 1: but that I just think this is really interesting that
Speaker 1: they're building as if they've got a guy there. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us, Thanks for putting up with us, and
Speaker 1: have fun today on the special, The Sports Center Special
Speaker 1: with three Eastern NFL free agency countdown, Diana, thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us. Good luck with the move and hopefully
Speaker 1: that the free agency period you survive, your marriage survives,
Speaker 1: then yeah, thank you. Just give coach Payton a little
Speaker 1: shout out for me. Say hey, Racine. He says, you
Speaker 1: can't keep up with her, even if you try to
Speaker 1: be entertaining. No, I'm going to say that Sean loves
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill more than Diana's husband loves her. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: fully aware that Seohn was invited to my wedding and
Speaker 1: all that he knows. My marriage is on the rock.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Diana. That's Diana Rassini, NFL reporter for the
Speaker 1: Mother's Ship. We'll take a break. Phone calls coming up
Speaker 1: back after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
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Speaker 1: Peacock app. Coming up top of the hour, Shack Barrett
Speaker 1: resigned with the Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints head
Speaker 1: coach Sean Payton will join us. Mark and Tampa joins
Speaker 1: us on the program. Mark, good morning, what's on your money? Hey?
Speaker 1: I heard you talking about led Zeppelin being your favorite band,
Speaker 1: and since it's a tournament a week, probably about like
Speaker 1: a year or so guy me and the guys that work.
Speaker 1: We're debating, like if people are rock and roll bands
Speaker 1: and seeds at like in an anti tournament, who would
Speaker 1: your number who would your four number one seeds be?
Speaker 1: You know, we agreed that the Beetles and the Stones
Speaker 1: or ones led Zeppelin's probably one one. Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: thank you, Mark. Yeah, it's probably sticks. Leave off the
Speaker 1: probably and if not Rush or Rush rushes, yeah, Maritus
Speaker 1: Zeppelin stones sticks where people put the Who in that spot?
Speaker 1: So some people would I don't think you would. I wouldn't,
Speaker 1: but I would give them maybe the number two seed.
Speaker 1: I love Seaton's face whenever I bring up the Who
Speaker 1: and how great the Who is? Seaton's always got this
Speaker 1: look like, oh disgusted, Yeah, never gonna change. I know
Speaker 1: that it's okay, It's all right. Babo Riley's a good song. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like how you know when somebody says, you know,
Speaker 1: I love the Who. I love that song Teenage Wasteland.
Speaker 1: I go, uh, it's called Babo Ryan. No, No, the
Speaker 1: one teenage way I say this, Babo Riley, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: not that big of a WHO fan? Are you that?
Speaker 1: I didn't think so? Who would I put it's kind
Speaker 1: of like your mountain rush More, you're given four number
Speaker 1: one seeds. No one's ever done that. Yeah, no, I'd
Speaker 1: rather not a music nope, yeah, yeah, because see the
Speaker 1: Beatles deserve their own mountain, their own their own tournaments.
Speaker 1: Like the Beatles are, you know, they're they're in a
Speaker 1: in a league of their own. But if you're going
Speaker 1: to have greatest rock and roll bands of all time, stones,
Speaker 1: I certainly start with and Zeppelin, but after that, I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure. I don't know if anybody's up there
Speaker 1: with them. What if we did our individual for favorite
Speaker 1: bands of all time and see if you can guess
Speaker 1: who is this? Who is I know I'd be able
Speaker 1: to guess. It's so easy. Yes, yes, And you know what,
Speaker 1: damn it, Why doesn't anybody ever mentioned Pink Floyd in
Speaker 1: that list. Pink Floyd is somehow to be underrated. They're underappreciated.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Pepe who could name the songs
Speaker 1: by Pink Floyd. And and maybe that hurts them because
Speaker 1: if you do money from Dark Side of the Moon
Speaker 1: or Time, but after that, you know, pigs like they're there,
Speaker 1: they don't. That's an album you just listen to you
Speaker 1: don't go. What's the name of that song? Like when
Speaker 1: did this one song end and the other one began?
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Uh yeah I could. I would
Speaker 1: be able to pick out I know Todd's music, I'd
Speaker 1: be able to pick that out. Yeah, I'm in clubbing
Speaker 1: by the way, you two has got to be close
Speaker 1: to that list too. They fell out huge stadiums, just like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll make stadium rock bands now like a different kind
Speaker 1: of people fill out stadiums. What just longevity, You've got
Speaker 1: to factor that in why it's popular music so popular?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Clubbing. Yeah, mine's like the early two thousands
Speaker 1: Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade. It's going to be
Speaker 1: on there for sure. You didn't you do like Velvet Underground? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Velvet Underground great? Yeah, great? Built a spill guided by
Speaker 1: voices cli Fritzie's gonna be hall notes, Billy Joel run DMC.
Speaker 1: I did like sticks. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: be in my top four, but that bag song. I
Speaker 1: used to love that. Singing with your eyes closed love that.
Speaker 1: That's a big shower. I love you. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: sing with your eyes closed now be lonely I know
Speaker 1: I said, I didn't say you should this. In general,
Speaker 1: it's Toad, a guy who who hated early Chicago and
Speaker 1: liked later Chicago lay opposite of everyone else. Peter Sata,
Speaker 1: who sung the Search is over. I love that sucked
Speaker 1: that the lady you just proved his point. Search is over.
Speaker 1: That's a big one. It'd be better if Tod sung
Speaker 1: of his mouth closed, his eyes open and his mouth closed.
Speaker 1: Can you mind us a few songs? So you guys
Speaker 1: are just beyond the world. Aerosmith's in there, Longevity hits
Speaker 1: the three seed. Maybe a three seed, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it starts getting a little murky there you two
Speaker 1: is you? Two is? Um? Maybe gets snubbed as a
Speaker 1: one seed. But yeah, they're they're in the conversation there.
Speaker 1: David Bowie's in there, Elvis in there. But are those
Speaker 1: bands are one person? Well Bowie is you know, Ziggy
Speaker 1: start Us and the Spiders from Mars. I guess if
Speaker 1: you wanted to do that when you could do individuals
Speaker 1: and you could do band and now I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this. I'm good, I'm good. I got a
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