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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lally here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And well we didn't do a show yesterday. And if

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Speaker 1: you're wondering why we didn't do a drive yesterday, well, Matt,

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Speaker 1: today is the first day for franchise tags to come out. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the league schedule is pretty interesting right now, so I

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Speaker 1: thought we'd talked about that here for a bit to

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Speaker 1: kick off the show. So for those who don't know,

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Speaker 1: you can start. You can begin franchise or again, not

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Speaker 1: just franchise taging, but placing tags on potential free or

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Speaker 1: pending free agents starting today and then you have until

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Speaker 1: basically March right up right up until the start of

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Speaker 1: the new league year in March fifteenth to get that done.

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Speaker 1: So you get the different tags. You can do the

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Speaker 1: non exclusive franchise tag. If you put the non exclusive

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Speaker 1: tag on a guy, that means you can't negotiate with

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Speaker 1: anybody else. Or wait, no, I'm sorry, it means you can't.

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Speaker 1: It's just you. Nobody else can get it. Well, know,

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Speaker 1: when a players offered a non exclusive tag, he's still

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Speaker 1: able to negotiate with other teams if an offer sheet

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Speaker 1: is submitted and signed by the tag player. The previous

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Speaker 1: team can match the offer. Otherwise he can sign with

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Speaker 1: the new team and they get two first round draft picks. Right,

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Speaker 1: we're exclusive. It's just me and you team and play. Right,

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Speaker 1: the exclusive tag is is just that that team and

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Speaker 1: you get the average of the top five salaries at

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Speaker 1: the at the position. Now, you can still trade a guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who signs an exclusive tag and they don't

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Speaker 1: have to sign but he has to sign it first,

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Speaker 1: right situation right right, sign it. So he's not a

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Speaker 1: football player. He's not you know, anyone's property at that point.

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Speaker 1: So I can't trade you if you're not a football player,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, you have until March seventh to do this,

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Speaker 1: by the way. Or you can put a transition tag

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Speaker 1: on a guy, which you don't see too much anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's just that gives that guy the guarantee of a

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Speaker 1: salary based on the top ten salaries at his position,

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Speaker 1: the average of that. But they can negotiate with other teams.

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Speaker 1: And that's where you saw the poison pills being put

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Speaker 1: in and things of that nature. That kind of pushed

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Speaker 1: that one aside. Yeah, they don't seem common anymore, No,

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Speaker 1: not all that that doesn't happen all that often. Now,

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Speaker 1: if a player has been tagged in a previous season,

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Speaker 1: for example, Orlando Brown, yes, it was tagged last year,

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Speaker 1: he gets The value of the tag is either one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty percent of last year's salary to his

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Speaker 1: or his tagged value, or the new figure the new

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Speaker 1: average for his position, whichever is greater people behind wide

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Speaker 1: receiver contracts in the off season, right, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to go back, right right? If if that players then

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Speaker 1: tag for a third year, the new tag value is

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty of the pre vas year's figure,

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Speaker 1: So it goes up exponentially, you know, it goes keeps

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Speaker 1: going up. Yeah, So looking at the tags here for

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Speaker 1: these guys before you do real quick, just some people know.

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Speaker 1: Franchise tags are also guaranteed, you know, souly guaranteed the

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Speaker 1: moment they're signed. But you again, you have to sign

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Speaker 1: them if you get to. If a team puts a

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Speaker 1: franchise tag on you and you choose not to sign

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Speaker 1: the franchise offer, you're not under contract. That's the Levy

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Speaker 1: on Bell situation. Yeah you're not a football player, Yeah

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Speaker 1: you're you're That team still owns your rights, but you're not.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to go to camp, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to do any of that stuff until you sign your deal.

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Speaker 1: So players don't like being franchised generally because you'd love

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Speaker 1: to hit the open market. You'd have four teams begging

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Speaker 1: play football, where you move your family. All those things

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Speaker 1: are great, and you also get a signing bonus if

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Speaker 1: these franchise that's big thing is these franchise tag players

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get a check for one seventeenth or whatever

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Speaker 1: of this month of this dollars during the season. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: isn't so bad. So a quarterback to number for the

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Speaker 1: non exclusive is thirty two point four million, The trans

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Speaker 1: transition tag is twenty nine five. So why wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: then use the franchise tag instead of the transition and

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Speaker 1: guarantee yours? Yeah right, guarantee yourself a couple of drafts.

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Speaker 1: Thumb too, is like, because that's that's the thing with

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Speaker 1: the transition tag is you don't there's no you don't

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Speaker 1: a chance to match running back is ten just a

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Speaker 1: eight point four wide receivers nineteen seven. That's really skyrocketed. LA. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: want to sign Jakobe Myers, who's the best one on

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Speaker 1: that makes it Dejante Johnson contract look unbelievably good. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: that comes into play then is a couple of years

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Speaker 1: it's twenty nine five right now, and of course they'll

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Speaker 1: go up by then. It's gonna go up. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: not goe down right right right exactly. The tight end

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Speaker 1: position is eleven three for the franchise tag. The transition

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Speaker 1: tag is nine to seven. It's real quick on like Graham,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham made a big fuss out of this, and

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Speaker 1: this was like five year years ago at the Saint Well,

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Speaker 1: he should tag him as a tight end. And today,

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Speaker 1: let's say Gasecki's as good as is Graham, which he's not.

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Speaker 1: But if he gets tagged as a tight end, which

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Speaker 1: he did last year, eleven three is a lot different

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Speaker 1: gise Graham can say I don't block anyone, I don't

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Speaker 1: eleven three. And that was that was Bud Dupreez argue. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: second offensive line. And I wonder if they're looking at this,

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Speaker 1: it's insane to me that it's not tackles in interior,

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Speaker 1: like tight end and wide receiver. Defensive tackle is eighteen

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Speaker 1: nine for the franchise tag, sixteen million, sixteen point one

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Speaker 1: which makes no sense to me unless that flip flopped backer,

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Speaker 1: when Bud Dupree was making his argument, defensive ends made

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Speaker 1: more more money by far than linebackers. But TJ. Wants

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Speaker 1: great example. He signed recently and off the ball linebackers

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Speaker 1: tag for a reason. You franchise players that your your

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Speaker 1: actually put in place for. It was really a quarterback rule.

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Speaker 1: franchised exactly. And the Bud the pre example is a

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Speaker 1: So looking at this map, when people say you don't

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Speaker 1: in a second. But I just look at that in

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Speaker 1: the effect on the positions of you know, do you

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Speaker 1: Like so if you're looking at this in terms of

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Speaker 1: breakdown on how much each position gets paid, obviously quarterback

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Speaker 1: receivers three, defensive end is four. When it comes to

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Speaker 1: you're all in the same neighborhood. Yeah, so this applies

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Speaker 1: running backs in tight ends. Just franchise them, Like, why

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Speaker 1: would you not franchise Josh Jacobs? You know, the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: franchise Dalton Schultz last year and a lot of us

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Speaker 1: went Dalton Schultz because it's only ten or eleven million.

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Speaker 1: all up. I'm franchising all of them. I don't want

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Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. No one's giving me two first

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Speaker 1: round picks for Gino. If they do, that would be wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Here's a thirty two million deal of Gino, But let's

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Speaker 1: tear up the franchise tag and give you a two

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Speaker 1: year deal worth sixty million, and we'll both be happy. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: that thirty two million is more than he's made his

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Speaker 1: entire career, right, that's the thing about the franchise. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then Duran Payne is the last guy that they

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Speaker 1: I think that's possible. Yeah, a lot of money invested

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Speaker 1: in your D line, But that's what happens when you

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Speaker 1: first round pick forever. Absolutely can't just let them walk,

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Speaker 1: I mean right, right, right, But then you have until

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Speaker 1: mid July basically to negotiate a new deal with these guys,

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Speaker 1: and then everything shuts down. You can't talk to him

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Speaker 1: after that. Good point, good point. So next week, the

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Speaker 1: next couple of days will be interesting. Who gets it?

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Speaker 1: Who doesn't. Absolutely, we're gonna take a break. He is

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