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Speaker 3: That's right, this is GMFB. Welcome inside March tenth. It
Speaker 3: is the start to the beginning, although feels very ut
Speaker 3: official since yesterday was ridiculous of a two day negotiating
Speaker 3: period for prospective unrestricted free agents. I'm Damiertal, Peter Schrager,
Speaker 3: Kyle Branton, New York City, and today we are happy
Speaker 3: to be joined by a former NFL safety Brock.
Speaker 2: But Reen, what a brock.
Speaker 4: You guys do not sleep much around here, but I'm
Speaker 4: having a Blastart.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, well you you are on a Sunday morning
Speaker 3: CBS Sports Network show tops that you don't sleep anyways
Speaker 3: on Sundays in the season. Peter, we got so many
Speaker 3: new fun people at the table this offseason. Again, take
Speaker 3: us into the Brock forrene experience, if you will. What
Speaker 3: you remember of him when he was coming out and whatnot?
Speaker 5: Give us the yeah out of all.
Speaker 6: I want to say Minnesota, but a California kid, which
Speaker 6: I always interesting. California kid goes to the University of Minnesota,
Speaker 6: great college career, fourth round pick. I want to say Bears,
Speaker 6: but then you went around the league a little bit.
Speaker 6: But Brock, what I also know about you? Super fast player,
Speaker 6: and you also have a brother, Shane Buren, let's go,
Speaker 6: who played at Call and of course the Patriots. So
Speaker 6: you guys, the Veren brothers, they were always very relevant
Speaker 6: in the NFL with Jee.
Speaker 7: He is everything that they say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is no sneaking anything, Miss God.
Speaker 3: That is mister Brock Green. All right, we're going to
Speaker 3: rely on him as well as our Insiders today because
Speaker 3: it's that kind of day. Ian Rappacortz, I figure in
Speaker 3: your mind you were dunking on a lot of people yesterday.
Speaker 7: It was a busy Sunday.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of wide receiver moves that we have
Speaker 3: to check in on. But first we start with the
Speaker 3: MVP from last year.
Speaker 8: The reigning MVP, Josh Allen got paid big time by
Speaker 8: the Buffalo Bills last night.
Speaker 9: It was a wild, wild last night.
Speaker 8: We were live on the Insiders for two hours just
Speaker 8: to capture all of it.
Speaker 5: But let's start right there.
Speaker 8: Josh Allen for years has been I would say on
Speaker 8: a contract. It probably didn't properly commentate the kind of
Speaker 8: play that he has put on the field.
Speaker 9: Now he has when he gets a six year, thirty three.
Speaker 8: Million dollar deal fifty five million dollars per year, making
Speaker 8: him the second highest paid quarterback in the NFL, behind
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott.
Speaker 9: Usually you see quarterbacks.
Speaker 8: Get extensions, you just tacked on a couple of years
Speaker 8: at money. This was more of a complete tear up,
Speaker 8: just a new deal for Josh Allen gets a wopping
Speaker 8: two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed locked in for
Speaker 8: years to come in Buffalo. They've taken care of a
Speaker 8: lot of their guys during this period. We also saw
Speaker 8: a wide receiver trade. DK Metcalf according to me and
Speaker 8: colleague Tom Pelisera is headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers for
Speaker 8: the price of a twenty twenty five second round pick.
Speaker 8: This has been going on for some days ever since
Speaker 8: TK metscapra questioned a trade from the Seahawks. They send
Speaker 8: him to pay Witsburg. We'll see who his quarterback ends
Speaker 8: up being. But they finally land their big time, big
Speaker 8: play receiver they have been seeking for quite some time.
Speaker 8: He gets a new contract five years, one hundred and
Speaker 8: fifty million dollars. Now becomes a thirty million per year receiver.
Speaker 8: Huge deal for these Steelers there and then another receiver deal,
Speaker 8: not a trade this time.
Speaker 9: But a free agent signing.
Speaker 8: Sources say Davonte Adams, the former Hackers, Great Greaiders, Great Jets,
Speaker 8: great now lands with the Los Angeles Rams, gets a
Speaker 8: two year, forty six million dollar contract, twenty six million
Speaker 8: dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 9: He had wanted to be on the West coast.
Speaker 8: I know everyone talked about him playing with Rogers, who
Speaker 8: really wanted to be on.
Speaker 9: The West coast and never been a free agent. Now
Speaker 9: he is, and he chooses the rest.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's hard to figure Devontae Adams never been a
Speaker 3: free agent all those stops along the way. And to
Speaker 3: your point, now with the future with Kukuanakua in the
Speaker 3: wide receiver room for the Rams, they have Davonte Adams
Speaker 3: as well. Ian Rappaford, Thank you so much, Peter. Let's
Speaker 3: start with the first on that list that he started with,
Speaker 3: at least in the wide receiver group, and DK metcalf
Speaker 3: a lot of speculation as to where he was going
Speaker 3: to go, how much he was going to be worth
Speaker 3: to his future employer, And now we know it's Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: and we know the deal terms.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thirty million dollars, which is a lot of money
Speaker 6: for DK Metcalf to be making congratulations to him. He
Speaker 6: gets traded and he goes to a place that's perennially
Speaker 6: in the playoffs. I am fascinated at two questions. One,
Speaker 6: who is the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Throwing him the ball?
Speaker 6: We should find that out hopefully later today or tomorrow.
Speaker 6: And two is George Pickens in that wide receivers room
Speaker 6: as well? Because those are two fiery personalities and right
Speaker 6: now they are at Arthur Smith and Zach Aziani. Who's
Speaker 6: the wide receivers coach might be having to massage some
Speaker 6: egos and making sure that these guys.
Speaker 5: Both get the ball? But gosh, who is the quarterback?
Speaker 6: And I go through it with Pittsburgh right now, because
Speaker 6: I said that was the most burning question in my
Speaker 6: mind last week, what we were talking about heading into
Speaker 6: the offseason, which team are you most fascinating? I said,
Speaker 6: The Steelers have been trying to get a wide receiver
Speaker 6: won for many years. They went after Brandon Ayuk, they
Speaker 6: couldn't get them. They went after others in the last
Speaker 6: couple of years, they couldn't get them. They finally get
Speaker 6: DK Metcalf and the money. Look the salary cap. It
Speaker 6: was increased by a X amount of dollars.
Speaker 10: The money is.
Speaker 11: Almost funny money at this point.
Speaker 6: I can't compare it to previous years because it's gone
Speaker 6: up so much in the last couple of years, where
Speaker 6: this might just be the going rate for a star
Speaker 6: wide receiver. And once we see what Jamar Chase gets, it'll.
Speaker 5: Blow this out of the water. And what we see
Speaker 5: at T.
Speaker 11: Higgins gets by blow this out of the water.
Speaker 6: So I am fascinated to see because right now the
Speaker 6: way I see the dominoes.
Speaker 11: You've heard it, and I said it last week or
Speaker 11: two weeks ago.
Speaker 6: From the combine. Justin Fields is who Pittsburgh wants. However,
Speaker 6: Justin Field's going to have a market. So if Justin
Speaker 6: Fields does not come back to Pittsburgh, is Pittsburgh a
Speaker 6: sneaky place for Sam Donald?
Speaker 11: And is that Sam Donald throwing.
Speaker 6: DK metcalf passes And then I'll give you a third
Speaker 6: name and the ring almost like the Royal Rumble coming
Speaker 6: in here Rogers throwing a DK metcalf next year Like
Speaker 6: that is why as much as we took care of
Speaker 6: business over the weekend, there are still so many unanswered questions,
Speaker 6: and we have Aaron Rodgers throwing the George Pickens and
Speaker 6: DK Metcalf with Mike Tomlin on the sideline, like, sign
Speaker 6: me up. That's a really interesting team. A lot of
Speaker 6: personalities to navigate there, and a lot of egos to massage.
Speaker 6: But DK Metcalf's is Steeler. I just don't know who'ston
Speaker 6: on the ball yet.
Speaker 12: But is Aaron Rodgers going to enter the real rumble
Speaker 12: like the bushwhacker Peters right out right?
Speaker 10: If? Let's let's hope not. We already did that with
Speaker 10: the Jets. We don't want to go through that.
Speaker 12: First of all, demonte Adams to the Rams. I thought
Speaker 12: I could not love the Rams more than I already did,
Speaker 12: but I already do. I might just go crazy and
Speaker 12: just say I'm gonna pick the Rams Eagles in the
Speaker 12: title game this year.
Speaker 10: I just might do it now. I don't care.
Speaker 12: I love Devonte there and love Luking Bay, but don't
Speaker 12: run the DeVante video. No no, no, no no, because I want
Speaker 12: to focus on Pickens. Peter brought it up, and I
Speaker 12: like this name, Zach Azani.
Speaker 10: This is the wide receiver.
Speaker 12: Coach prayers up Zach and coach him up and burn
Speaker 12: some sage or burn whatever the hell you have to
Speaker 12: do to stay calm. Because we have George Pickens and
Speaker 12: DK Metcalf in this room playing the same position. Let's
Speaker 12: roll some of the videotape of George Pickens, who should
Speaker 12: we say, is an emotional player? Here go all right,
Speaker 12: So there's some great highlights of him making amazing acrobatic catches,
Speaker 12: and we've shown those.
Speaker 10: For years, and other shows could show them.
Speaker 12: This player that we're seeing here now, guys, has just
Speaker 12: been told that now you are not the number one
Speaker 12: wide receiver.
Speaker 10: You're this. I mean, come on the other the wide
Speaker 10: receiver is.
Speaker 12: Getting massive money on the other side of them. All
Speaker 12: different clips, folks, not one different clips in different years.
Speaker 12: Mike Tomlin one set of George Pickens. I'd rather say
Speaker 12: whoa than sick them, which means I'd rather them have
Speaker 12: the emotion. But he said that about Pickens in twenty
Speaker 12: twenty two. So now DK comes in and it's like,
Speaker 12: not only that George Pickens, Blaze and Gentlemens in the
Speaker 12: last year was contract, which means he's going to be
Speaker 12: playing for big money and needs numbers and touchdowns and receptions,
Speaker 12: and I'll add to the quarterback point of this. You're
Speaker 12: telling me that you brought in DK was great. And Pickens,
Speaker 12: who's incredible, the person that is running this offense and
Speaker 12: feeding them and keeping them happy. As Fields, guys, we've
Speaker 12: seen a lot of Justin Fields.
Speaker 10: He has a lot of strengths.
Speaker 12: I don't think throwing the ball all over the field
Speaker 12: to a wide receiver led offense post Naji Harris is
Speaker 12: one of those strengths.
Speaker 10: I don't see it at all.
Speaker 12: And if it's Justin Fields is the quarterback, You're gonna
Speaker 12: see a lot more clips like that.
Speaker 10: And we didn't even show you the DK one.
Speaker 12: Could it be that the Steelers are going after Darnold
Speaker 12: and are trying to set up a Vikings adjacent thing
Speaker 12: like Addison and Jefferson and like Sam Donald, you can't
Speaker 12: mess this up. Look at these great wide receivers. It
Speaker 12: is very hard to imagine that you bring in DK
Speaker 12: to play with the Pickens and Friarmuth and say, Justin
Speaker 12: Fields drive this car. That is not him, that is
Speaker 12: not the Steelers. I don't see it. Coach him up, Mike,
Speaker 12: and one more time, zach Azani with two z's and
Speaker 12: two ends and two.
Speaker 10: Guys in the room that, oh my god, you better
Speaker 10: get these.
Speaker 6: Zach runs the wide receivers drills of the combine.
Speaker 5: So he's on. He's seen them all.
Speaker 10: Come, I love you, Zach.
Speaker 5: Here's with the Jets before this, HEA's with the Bears.
Speaker 6: And our great producer Aman tells me he actually coached
Speaker 6: Antonio Brown in college.
Speaker 4: You've plenty of experience, got Brock, plenty of experience for Zach.
Speaker 4: Whatever higher power he believes it, may he be shrouded
Speaker 4: in love and patience because he will need enough of it. Look,
Speaker 4: if there's an opportunity to get Dk Metcalf on your team,
Speaker 4: you get DK Metcalf on your team. It's that simple.
Speaker 4: But him and George Pickens have the same skill set.
Speaker 4: So you look at Pittsburgh's offense last year and what
Speaker 4: they were diluted to by the end of the year.
Speaker 4: Run the ball, run the ball, throw up a fade
Speaker 4: along the sideline and see what happens.
Speaker 7: This doesn't really change that both.
Speaker 4: Pickens and Metcalf are at their best straight line guys
Speaker 4: with the ball high in the air. So yeah, this
Speaker 4: offense may be better, a better version of they were
Speaker 4: last year, but they're not different. And if we saw
Speaker 4: anything from Pittsburgh last year, they ran into a brick
Speaker 4: wall because they eventually became easy to figure out, they
Speaker 4: became predictable.
Speaker 7: I want to buy in, but I can't until I see.
Speaker 4: And also to the quarterback point, you're not just finding
Speaker 4: a quarterback now, you're finding a quarterback who needs to
Speaker 4: be able to deal with personalities. Not that there's a
Speaker 4: ton of options as far as veteran quarterbacks go right now,
Speaker 4: but now you're asking them to put a lot on
Speaker 4: their plate. Hey, our offense was in the rut last year.
Speaker 4: And also you need to deal with two major personalities
Speaker 4: that are liable to get tossed out of a game
Speaker 4: or tossed out of practice at.
Speaker 7: A moment's notice.
Speaker 4: That is a big ask for whoever you bring in.
Speaker 7: This offense is not going to look different.
Speaker 4: Maybe the quarterback situation, if they throw a curveball and
Speaker 4: find someone in there that we're not thinking about. Okay,
Speaker 4: But if you're Arthur Smith, you're sitting there thinking what
Speaker 4: am I supposed to do with this? I can just
Speaker 4: do more of the same, and that was not good
Speaker 4: enough a year ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a free agent running back room that
Speaker 3: they have to address as well. But the Rogers Darnold
Speaker 3: situation and if they go to Pittsburgh, we will watch
Speaker 3: that all morning long. Peter, Let's go back to a
Speaker 3: name that was floated out there, and Kyle said, get
Speaker 3: that name off the screen. We're not ready to talk
Speaker 3: about him yet. It's DeVante Adams and the fact that
Speaker 3: in his desire to be back on the West Coast
Speaker 3: and play for a championship caliber team, it seems like
Speaker 3: he found that in the La Rams.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I tweeted this out last night and I mean
Speaker 6: it's Devanta Adams is currently in Japan. He's in Japan.
Speaker 6: He's traveling in the Far East right now. So while
Speaker 6: this was all going on, Sean McVay was facetiming and
Speaker 6: calling him while he was in Japan sight seeing and
Speaker 6: going to Japan for the first time. So, Davante a
Speaker 6: free agent because of the way the Jets let this
Speaker 6: thing go and they said, okay, you're out, and.
Speaker 11: That means he could actually sign before.
Speaker 6: The free agency wave and McVeigh was in.
Speaker 11: Full recruitment mode. If you haven't seen it, it's something
Speaker 11: to behold.
Speaker 5: He's done it before in his career and.
Speaker 6: He did it when he activates like he's like Nick
Speaker 6: Saban and Kirby Smart and you name it Urban Meyer.
Speaker 6: When the Ohio State days all welled into one, Belichick,
Speaker 6: Bill Belichick not.
Speaker 7: This is it.
Speaker 6: So you know, Adams, this is another stop on the tour.
Speaker 6: But for the Rams, you know, Cooper Cup and Pooka Nakoor,
Speaker 6: but coming to kind of be the same type of
Speaker 6: wide receiver and that they're these big bodied, strong handed
Speaker 6: like Devontage's a totally different one. They signed to to
Speaker 6: at Well for a one year, ten million dollars deal.
Speaker 6: If you roll their eyes, it's like you want to
Speaker 6: just wait to see the numbers that are thrown out
Speaker 6: the next couple of days. To to at Well at
Speaker 6: ten million dollars is not gonna seem like it's gonna
Speaker 6: blow your hair back because the salary cap went crazy
Speaker 6: this last couple of weeks.
Speaker 11: So they have money to spend.
Speaker 6: So they have almost a starting five like a basketball team,
Speaker 6: and they have different heights and different roles. And you
Speaker 6: got your point guard in to two, and then you
Speaker 6: got your long range.
Speaker 10: Guy in Davonte, and then.
Speaker 6: You got your underneath guy and Tukah's like they've got
Speaker 6: different body types, different wide receiver skills.
Speaker 5: And McVeigh was.
Speaker 6: Full on recruiting a man in Japan all week and
Speaker 6: he got his guys. So pretty cool story about Sometimes
Speaker 6: it's a little different than just talking the GM talking
Speaker 6: to the agent. Sometimes the head coach going over to
Speaker 6: the Far East.
Speaker 12: I need the tapes of those calls, hey, Devonte Kunitchua
Speaker 12: Domo Arigato received the Yeah, sorry, man, I mean we
Speaker 12: need to get mcveigh's tape talking.
Speaker 5: Did you go out one of them cool subways?
Speaker 10: They're super clean.
Speaker 5: I think it's called a fast train.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's an incredibly efficient to urban center there. We like,
Speaker 12: I knew the same thing here at so By Stadium.
Speaker 10: I would love to see that.
Speaker 12: I think DeVante is fascinating because his whole career, all right,
Speaker 12: so he plays with Rogers, loves Rogers. Then there's this
Speaker 12: whole thing where he's like, I want to go to
Speaker 12: the Raiders to play with my college buddy, Derek Carr.
Speaker 12: Derek Carr, Derek Car gets benched and Dante basically throws
Speaker 12: a fit so he can play with Rogers. And now
Speaker 12: is the first time he really hasn't handpicked an old
Speaker 12: buddy who he has history with. Stafford obviously up to
Speaker 12: the task and everything. But I want to see what
Speaker 12: this version of going on mid thirties DeVante Adams new
Speaker 12: quarterback is.
Speaker 10: I think it's all positive, you know.
Speaker 12: I'm like, I'm always super super polyann when it comes
Speaker 12: to the Rams, and they're almost always in the playoffs.
Speaker 10: I like this move. I like this one.
Speaker 12: I cried for Cooper Cup a little bit like he
Speaker 12: going and we'll see where he lands. But I don't
Speaker 12: see any reason why Devonte won't be really good there
Speaker 12: with Stafford.
Speaker 4: Well, let me establish this right now. I consider you
Speaker 4: guys friends. If I go to Japan, do not FaceTime
Speaker 4: me for any reason. Never FaceTime me if it's.
Speaker 5: Forty six million dollars.
Speaker 7: I think, come on, I'm in Japan.
Speaker 4: The Far East is about peace, It's about removing all
Speaker 4: of your possessions. Come on, get with the thinking. But
Speaker 4: I will say this excites me and Peter, you bring
Speaker 4: up how yeah, Davante and pook are kind of the
Speaker 4: same wide receiver. Juxtaposed that with Pittsburgh situation. The difference
Speaker 4: is Pooka and Devonte can run any route. They can
Speaker 4: make up routes They're creating new routes as we speak.
Speaker 7: And the Rams are hilarious.
Speaker 10: To me.
Speaker 7: They're the funniest team in the NFL.
Speaker 4: After every year, it's okay, this was fun a lot lasted.
Speaker 4: We need to rebuild, lick our wounds, and then by
Speaker 4: OTAs it's I think we want to win another Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: They are all in there, always all in. I don't
Speaker 4: know why they do this every year. Now with Davante Adams,
Speaker 4: I'm excited. I'm excited to see him in this wide
Speaker 4: receiver two role that is Pooka's wide receiver room. As
Speaker 4: far as I'm concerned that rapport with Stafford is there, however,
Speaker 4: Stafford and Davante will be right his reign immediately, and
Speaker 4: I'm excited. As a defense, you are panicking. As a safety,
Speaker 4: you are panicking. I do not know what route he
Speaker 4: is running. I do not know what route he is running.
Speaker 4: And both of them can line up anywhere. And this
Speaker 4: makes it easier for me decades from now when I'm
Speaker 4: arguing with my future kids about how Davante Adams was
Speaker 4: one of the mo influential wide receivers in the NFL
Speaker 4: and if he can get a Super Bowl ring at
Speaker 4: the La Rams. That makes my argument so much firmer.
Speaker 4: There is route running before DeVante Adams and there is
Speaker 4: route running after DeVante Adams. There is a palpable difference
Speaker 4: of his impact as a wide receiver and his legacy
Speaker 4: as a wide receiver. I'm excited to see him embrace
Speaker 4: this role. And Matt Stafford is somewhere smiling. Don't face
Speaker 4: Timmy when I'm in Japan.
Speaker 10: We will not.
Speaker 3: And also, that's a first time we know you're really,
Speaker 3: really in the love of the game when you are
Speaker 3: already crafting arguments to me, to your future children. We
Speaker 3: don't even have the kids in the rockery, and you
Speaker 3: are already saying this is what I will argue with
Speaker 3: them about.
Speaker 2: It's perfect.
Speaker 3: It's what free agency frenzy is all about. Kyle, you
Speaker 3: said we were going to take this to a ten?
Speaker 3: Are we at a ten with free agency frenzy already?
Speaker 12: Peter, I predicted the Super Bowl is going to be
Speaker 12: a terrible game. We would I also predicted the friends
Speaker 12: he is going to be at a ten. I don't
Speaker 12: care what happened over the weekend. There's mortar cool just beginning.
Speaker 5: It's a quarterbacks league, let's go.
Speaker 3: Where are guys like Chris Godwin, Sam Darnold. We'rely all
Speaker 3: going to land because they with their current teams or
Speaker 3: find new homes in twenty twenty five Free Agency Frenzy.
Speaker 3: It begins eight hours live coverage today at ten am Eastern.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's happening right now on NFL Network and
Speaker 3: you can stream it on NFL Plus. But still coming
Speaker 3: up on our show, guys, Miles Garrett, why is he
Speaker 3: all of a sudden the seventh news item that we
Speaker 3: have to talk about today. When we left the show
Speaker 3: on Friday, we were saying the Browns are going to
Speaker 3: be able to trade him for the king's ransom. Nope,
Speaker 3: he got a king's ransom, but it's from Cleveland. What
Speaker 3: does this mean for the Browns moving forward? Peter Kyle,
Speaker 3: We got takes and we got Rock Green at the.
Speaker 12: Table, all right, so we've also got answers. Gino Smith
Speaker 12: is heading to the Raiders. That's interesting. How does this
Speaker 12: affect the quarterback market? Who's the Steelers quarterback, who's the
Speaker 12: Giants quarterback?
Speaker 10: Who's the Vikings quarterback? Who is your quarterback? What is
Speaker 10: your football television show? You're watching it right.
Speaker 12: Now Good morning for old go Anywhere Frenzy time.
Speaker 2: Good Morning football.
Speaker 3: We're back on GMFB. We were wondering what direction Pete
Speaker 3: Carroll was going to go in as a new head
Speaker 3: coach to the Las Vegas Raiders. Ian Rappaport get in here,
Speaker 3: because the Raiders now know who their starting quarterback will be,
Speaker 3: and it's a guy that's familiar to Pete Carroll from
Speaker 3: a little just a little bit farther west and up north.
Speaker 8: That's right, as the Las Vegas Raiders head into free
Speaker 8: agency with a new coach and a new general manager,
Speaker 8: they at least know who their quarterback is. Before all
Speaker 8: this band has started late on Friday or whenever that was,
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: It seems like a million years ago.
Speaker 8: Geno Smith was traded from the Seahawks to the Las
Speaker 8: Vegas Raiders for the price of a third round pick.
Speaker 8: So Gino goes from Seattle where wanted a contract extension.
Speaker 8: Wasn't able to agree to terms with the team. I
Speaker 8: know they had some discussions, really just wasn't able to
Speaker 8: get on the same page.
Speaker 9: Really wasn't able to get there.
Speaker 8: He now goes to the Las Vegas Rangers to fill
Speaker 8: a huge hole there. The Raiders of course hold the
Speaker 8: number seven overall pick.
Speaker 9: We'll see if they end up taking a quarterback, but
Speaker 9: Geno Smith.
Speaker 8: The Genosmith trade would makes that less likely, maybe far
Speaker 8: less likely.
Speaker 9: It would also expect at some point they.
Speaker 8: Would try to lock up Gino Smith on a contract extension.
Speaker 8: All of that to come, but the main thing now,
Speaker 8: the Raiders finally now do have a quarterback and the
Speaker 8: Seahawks need one.
Speaker 3: All right, and thank you so much. The Seahawks certainly
Speaker 3: deserve their own conversation and free agency frenzy. They have
Speaker 3: moved on from Star wide receivers their quarterback. They are
Speaker 3: going with a young core Peter. But let's focus on
Speaker 3: the departed quarterback in Seattle and that position specifically. There
Speaker 3: must be a quarterback situation, whether it be the absence
Speaker 3: of one in Seattle or anywhere else in the league,
Speaker 3: that has your attention. Right now, Where is it, Peter.
Speaker 5: New York Giants our backyard right here.
Speaker 6: The Giants, of course, did this Sakuon Barkley move last year,
Speaker 6: not signing him back, saying hey, go quiet, we're gonna
Speaker 6: save our money, We're gonna build an offensive line.
Speaker 11: And then the quarterback.
Speaker 6: Play was atrocious last year. There is a giant void
Speaker 6: of that position in there is no sure thing. Look,
Speaker 6: I have reported this, I said at the combine, I
Speaker 6: will double down.
Speaker 11: Aaron Rodgers is deaf.
Speaker 6: Definitely a possibility, as silly as that sounds, oxymoron wise,
Speaker 6: definitely a possibility in New York. That is a guy
Speaker 6: that they have zeroed in on in a lot of ways.
Speaker 6: But Rodgers's gonna have options. Rogers's gonna have options in
Speaker 6: that he can wait his time out, see what place
Speaker 6: is filled, what carousel seat has still opened? And I
Speaker 6: do think Pittsburgh's a real possibility. If the Giants don't
Speaker 6: bring in Rogers, Well, you look at the draft and
Speaker 6: they have the third pick.
Speaker 11: So can't really just snap your fingers and say I'm
Speaker 11: gonna get cam Ward. He might be gone. And you
Speaker 11: can't snap your fingers and say we're gonna.
Speaker 6: Get schandor he might be gone. So you have the
Speaker 6: third pick, which puts the Giants kind.
Speaker 11: Of in this wait and see mode.
Speaker 5: Are they interested in Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: Are they should have Darnald?
Speaker 11: I don't think I see that, and I haven't heard that.
Speaker 6: And it's more because well we went down the road
Speaker 6: of having Daniel Jones on that two year deal and
Speaker 6: it didn't work out, and we should have known. We
Speaker 6: shouldn't have got is Donald worthy of long term contract
Speaker 6: in New York. I don't know if Joe Shane's gonna
Speaker 6: put his name to Sam Darnald.
Speaker 9: For the long term.
Speaker 6: And then you start getting down those second and third options,
Speaker 6: and it starts getting to Russell Wilson really quick, and
Speaker 6: it starts getting to mac Jones and Zak Wilson really
Speaker 6: come out on those and Carson Wentz really quick. It
Speaker 6: almost makes you say, oh, wait, Rogers, like, do we
Speaker 6: need to go all Lennon Rodgers. It's amazing how it
Speaker 6: went from this peculiar curiosity two weeks ago to now
Speaker 6: being maybe their best option Aaron Rodgers and the Giants
Speaker 6: to me. But if they don't land Aaron Rodgers, it
Speaker 6: gets really really interesting and it could get really hairy
Speaker 6: for Giants fans in the next few hours.
Speaker 10: What do you got, Brock.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the Colts and they may not be
Speaker 4: the sexy name right now, but I'm looking at the
Speaker 4: Colts because we have two options. Is Anthony Richardson going
Speaker 4: to finally emerge or will they Daniel Jones type research.
Speaker 4: They're in such a unique situational one. I never fault
Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson for any of the stuff on the field.
Speaker 4: He has no skill set that immediately transfers to a
Speaker 4: Shane Stike in offense. They got him anyway. He doesn't
Speaker 4: dictate where he goes. He's there.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: I do blame him for the anti is a strong word.
Speaker 4: But the helmet, the coming off the sideline, that stuff,
Speaker 4: what does that do?
Speaker 7: It opens the floodgates.
Speaker 4: So now the Colts are looking for a veteran to
Speaker 4: come in and say, hey, this isn't a situation where
Speaker 4: you're gonna mentor the young pup and teach them some things. No,
Speaker 4: you're here because you might be starting Week one. And
Speaker 4: what a great opportunity for a Daniel Jones to get
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 7: This team is ready to rock. They're young.
Speaker 4: With the Colts offensive line, you never have to worry.
Speaker 4: You have downs, you have Pittman, you have Peers, three
Speaker 4: guys who could be there forever. This team is ready
Speaker 4: to cook. It comes down to one position offensively, and
Speaker 4: it's the quarterback position. And everyone's back is against the wall,
Speaker 4: top to bottom in that organization. They do not have patients.
Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson has run out of tether. He is a
Speaker 4: freak of nature athletically, but there's no tether. They need
Speaker 4: performance immediately week one. I would love to see Daniel
Speaker 4: Jones there.
Speaker 7: I love a quarterback battle as.
Speaker 4: Well, when you go into training camp and you know
Speaker 4: that the most important position on the field, both of
Speaker 4: those guys, or maybe it's a three man competition, when
Speaker 4: those those guys have to show up every single day
Speaker 4: and give their best as a safety, as a cornerback,
Speaker 4: what's my excuse, right, I have to go out there
Speaker 4: and fight.
Speaker 7: So I'm looking at the Colts.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 12: I always Riches has been making the good headlines. Is
Speaker 12: training in the offseason, the best shape of his life
Speaker 12: type stuff. You're going to see that this fall. His
Speaker 12: body fat percentage is all down, and I hope he
Speaker 12: needs it. I would go back to the Giants, and
Speaker 12: Peter talked a lot about it. I have no doubt
Speaker 12: that the Giants are interested in Rogers. My question is
Speaker 12: is the other way through as well? Like is Rogers
Speaker 12: interested in the Giants? I need something better than he
Speaker 12: already has a house in New Jersey. I'm so sick
Speaker 12: of he cares. It's a person with unlimited resources. They
Speaker 12: can move, they have a binary life, they've lived their
Speaker 12: whole deal. I don't know if I also like Giants fans.
Speaker 12: That's a weird sell for Rogers. They spent the last
Speaker 12: two years making fun of Jets fans and making Rogers jokes,
Speaker 12: and now he's going to be your guy. I don't
Speaker 12: see a lot of Giants fans, many of them I
Speaker 12: know personal, who are like, hell, yes, bring Rogers.
Speaker 10: I just don't see it.
Speaker 12: They'd rather start fresh, they'd rather take a risk in
Speaker 12: the draft, they'd rather do something there that's theirs.
Speaker 10: Holy I don't think that's happening.
Speaker 12: I look at the Vikings though, was really interesting situation,
Speaker 12: just if only because they were so good last year,
Speaker 12: and it seems like whoever quarterback they get might be
Speaker 12: more significant to the league than who the Giants get
Speaker 12: or who the Raiders have already got.
Speaker 10: This is a big deal here.
Speaker 12: I don't think it's gonna be Sam Donald, just based
Speaker 12: on my gunt what I'm watching, because everything I hear
Speaker 12: is well, if you could just give him a sort
Speaker 12: of a medium deal, that doesn't exist. Guys, we've talked
Speaker 12: about this over there is no middle class. It's not
Speaker 12: gonna be this two year deal for thirty million dollars.
Speaker 12: You don't see deals like that after a season like
Speaker 12: you just had the Daniel Jones thing?
Speaker 10: Would you hate me?
Speaker 12: If I don't hate it, you think I'm gonna come
Speaker 12: out and say, oh, Daniel Jones, I don't know, big
Speaker 12: strong athlete. We just saw Sam Donald, who no one
Speaker 12: thought anything of when he showed up in Minnesota, play
Speaker 12: really well.
Speaker 10: Rogers thing.
Speaker 12: I also to put that, I don't see it at all,
Speaker 12: don't I know? It's really fun and tasty to go
Speaker 12: the same farv route and we can make a whole
Speaker 12: jokes than in fifteen years Jordan Love will be on
Speaker 12: the Vikings.
Speaker 10: After being with the Jets. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 12: The guy that I would love to see start for
Speaker 12: the Vikings next year is JJ That's the one I
Speaker 12: want to see. Their guy, the guy they drafted, a
Speaker 12: guy who got injured a long time ago, and a
Speaker 12: guy who is Frank. If you have Justin Jefferson some
Speaker 12: of those defensive players.
Speaker 10: That guy's on the clock. Tick tick tick tick tick tick.
Speaker 12: You want to win a Super Bowl. You got about
Speaker 12: three or four years at the most to do it.
Speaker 12: And then if he turns out he's the next coming
Speaker 12: of Drew Brees or Kirk Cousins. I, by the way,
Speaker 12: I don't know what that look is. I would probably
Speaker 12: get in the gym a little bit more and maybe
Speaker 12: the super cuts. I don't know if that's the look.
Speaker 12: But this was also a couple of months ago. If
Speaker 12: I could snap my fingers, and if I could speak
Speaker 12: for Vikings fans, what make them the happiest that he
Speaker 12: is starting week one? He's healthy, He's throwing to Jefferson.
Speaker 12: That is your guy. I'd start the ride now.
Speaker 11: Your parent with Daniel Jones is like that sure veteran sure.
Speaker 12: I mean fully tossing the Justin Jefferson keys to Daniel
Speaker 12: Jones does not make me feel great.
Speaker 10: But again, I can't be a hypocrite.
Speaker 12: If I would have said last year, you're tossing them
Speaker 12: to Sam Donald coming off after being a backup from
Speaker 12: the Niners, I'd like, I don't feel great, and he
Speaker 12: lit it up.
Speaker 10: So I do think they have options.
Speaker 12: I do not think Donald will be one of them,
Speaker 12: and I don't think Rogers will be one of them.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the best player on a basketball court is the
Speaker 3: sixth man, the guy that gets to watch the game
Speaker 3: start and understand how the game is unfolding. And maybe
Speaker 3: that's what's gonna happen with jj McCarthy's career. After having
Speaker 3: watched everything unfold in front of him last year and
Speaker 3: been in Josh McCown's pocket all season long, Peter quickly
Speaker 3: the way things have panned out with quarterbacks thus far,
Speaker 3: has it made the market even hotter for Sam Donald
Speaker 3: because it feels like we're hearing his name in more
Speaker 3: spots that are not Minnesota right now.
Speaker 6: The trade of Gino to the Raiders opened things up
Speaker 6: for Sam Donald considerably because now there's an open spot
Speaker 6: in Seattle that needs a quarterback at that they can
Speaker 6: actually spend the money on him. His number was always
Speaker 6: going to be, just like Kyle said, like a lot,
Speaker 6: but not enough because he has improved everything so that
Speaker 6: he was this good option for Minnesota if they could
Speaker 6: come to terms. But if there's teams bidding on him,
Speaker 6: it totally it sits too much money for Minnesota to.
Speaker 10: Have that quarterback, and a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 6: The whole reason why Kraisiodopo Menta drafted JJ McCarthy and
Speaker 6: had Sam Donald because he had the economically sound veteran
Speaker 6: in Donald. And then you have the rookie on the
Speaker 6: rookie contract, and you could spend everywhere else.
Speaker 5: Well, that one could be completely blown up.
Speaker 6: Maybe all a sudden, you're paying forty million dollars to
Speaker 6: Donald or forty five million, and then you got, you.
Speaker 11: Know, ten million to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 6: So Donald's teams I thought Tennessee made sense. I'm hearing
Speaker 6: nothing out of Tennessee on Sam Donald. So Seattle Pittsburgh's
Speaker 6: getting whispered. And then of course you could always say,
Speaker 6: all right, well you got all those teams. Then he
Speaker 6: could take a short term deal with any of these
Speaker 6: teams if he wanted to do a one year deal
Speaker 6: and go to one of these squads, whether it be
Speaker 6: the Giants or one of these other quarterback needy teams
Speaker 6: or the whole. So I think Sam Donald's market opened
Speaker 6: up when Gino was traded to the Raiders and the
Speaker 6: Vegas Raiders option became Geno's team.
Speaker 3: The Vikings made sure they were set at least everywhere else,
Speaker 3: signing Aaron Jones to a two year, twenty million dollar
Speaker 3: deal over the weekend as well, didn't let him hit
Speaker 3: the open market. Still, the come free agent frenzies.
Speaker 2: Here. We're taking a.
Speaker 3: Look at who could make some noise in the free
Speaker 3: agent market. And by noise, I mean Kyle screaming or
Speaker 3: ripping a paper or peer growing his phone or like.
Speaker 3: We're not just like ooh, that was like a sexy
Speaker 3: that no like we actually made noise.
Speaker 13: We have.
Speaker 3: We're very literal in our interpretations of bumps on GMFP goodbye.
Speaker 7: Busy morning on GMFB.
Speaker 3: But that does not mean we will not take time
Speaker 3: to welcome in mj Acosta Luiz, who is handling the
Speaker 3: news for us on this very crazy day.
Speaker 10: MJ.
Speaker 2: What up girl? Are you doing?
Speaker 10: I'm great?
Speaker 7: You know the last time I woke up this early?
Speaker 13: I can't remember the last time. Worth welcome in, but
Speaker 13: incredible stuff to get to. As we continue to celebrate
Speaker 13: Women's History months, we celebrate the accomplishments of inspirational women
Speaker 13: across the league. Minnesota Vikings director of International Marketing Keisha
Speaker 13: Wyatt shows us what it takes to get fans overseas
Speaker 13: access to school nation.
Speaker 14: My role is able to really give our core fans
Speaker 14: that are in Canada and the United Kingdom's opportunity to
Speaker 14: have access to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 10: There is a lot of purple in the stands today.
Speaker 14: My proudest moment in my career ever has been our
Speaker 14: London game with our Global Markets program. You know, we've
Speaker 14: been fortunate to play in London for four times now
Speaker 14: this past year. In twenty twenty four, I was able
Speaker 14: to lead our activation. That campaign was true and dear
Speaker 14: to my heart because it was a two year job
Speaker 14: in the making. I can honestly say I was the
Speaker 14: first black woman in this role, and so for me
Speaker 14: it was already a proud moment just to be able
Speaker 14: to say here I am breaking a barrier for someone
Speaker 14: to come behind me to also at least have an example.
Speaker 14: You know, we can do this, We can do these
Speaker 14: type of roles, and I think the time will come
Speaker 14: where we will see more women in president roles, CEO positions,
Speaker 14: and my hope is that we see more women that
Speaker 14: look like me in these type of roles as well.
Speaker 5: Incredible stuff there.
Speaker 13: I was actually at one of those games, electric all right,
Speaker 13: when we come back up the Browns, they backed up
Speaker 13: the Brins truck to keep Miles Garrett.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we would too, Jami and the guys.
Speaker 10: We'll got into white.
Speaker 13: This this deal and what it means for the rest
Speaker 13: of the league.
Speaker 2: That's a good morning football.
Speaker 3: We had a history making contract extension signed over the weekend,
Speaker 3: Ian Rappaport, But it came as the seventh version of
Speaker 3: a chapter to a story that we were enraptured by
Speaker 3: with Miles Garrett and the Cleveland Browns. How did this
Speaker 3: thing finish?
Speaker 8: It went from a trade request to a new contract,
Speaker 8: a blockbuster new contract for Miles Garrett, now the highest
Speaker 8: paid defensive player at NFL history, highest paid non quarterback
Speaker 8: in NFL history. And you're right, this one went for
Speaker 8: Miles Garrett on superw League, declaring that he was not
Speaker 8: going to play for the Browns, wanted to be traded
Speaker 8: all the way to the new contracts. My understanding was
Speaker 8: the Browns never budget all, never took calls from teams,
Speaker 8: never engaged in any trade talks, told Miles Garrett, you
Speaker 8: are going to be here, and as soon as it
Speaker 8: became clear to him that they weren't moving, concluding when
Speaker 8: he did not get the.
Speaker 9: Meeting with owner Jimmy haslum that he wanted.
Speaker 8: All the focus turned on getting a contract done and
Speaker 8: the dealer is massive.
Speaker 9: Four years, one.
Speaker 8: Hundred and sixty million dollars, one hundred and twenty three
Speaker 8: million dollars guaranteed. So he is now under contract for
Speaker 8: six years total for.
Speaker 9: The Cleveland Browns at.
Speaker 8: A two hundred and four point eight million dollars total,
Speaker 8: more than one hundred million dollars in the first three
Speaker 8: years eighty eight twenty eight million dollars fully guaranteed upon signing.
Speaker 9: This saga now ends.
Speaker 8: Miles Garrett stays with the Browns, and he does so
Speaker 8: as a very very rich man.
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, he is one of the best. So he
Speaker 3: certainly qualifies for those numbers Ian, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: And if you look at those numbers in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: of course, Miles Garrett he qualifies for being amongst the
Speaker 3: games elite and Peter, this is why he got paid.
Speaker 3: But there is an aspect to this which is just
Speaker 3: how and why did this come to be? And actually, Kyle,
Speaker 3: because we were discussing it last week for so long,
Speaker 3: I want to check in with you first.
Speaker 12: Yeah, all right, So there's a whole bunch of statistics
Speaker 12: and stuff, and that's where he's been since the last
Speaker 12: few years.
Speaker 10: And you know that he's a great player. He's going
Speaker 10: to go to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 12: More importantly than the stats, what is this, what has
Speaker 12: happened over.
Speaker 10: The past week.
Speaker 12: It's I want to just make sure we review how
Speaker 12: we got here, because there's going to be a lot
Speaker 12: of big news and big players in big numbers. This
Speaker 12: one is a little bit different, mostly because about a
Speaker 12: week ago, Miles Garrett himself penned a first person letter
Speaker 12: which was published and passionate, and I'm going to read
Speaker 12: to you now in part this is what Miles Garrett
Speaker 12: was saying.
Speaker 10: Here we go.
Speaker 12: He talks about his childhood as a kid dreaming of
Speaker 12: the NFL.
Speaker 10: All I focused on was.
Speaker 12: The ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl, and that
Speaker 12: goal fuels me today more than ever. He would go
Speaker 12: on to say, my desire to win and compete on
Speaker 12: the biggest stages won't allow me to be complacent.
Speaker 10: The goal was never to go from Cleveland and Canton.
Speaker 12: It has always been to compete for and win a
Speaker 12: Super Bowl. With that in mind, I have requested to
Speaker 12: be traded from the Cleveland Browns. Very moving, very passionate
Speaker 12: and very black and white. We go from that to
Speaker 12: this one week later, money boom bam everything. Miles Garrett
Speaker 12: somehow convinced, despite saying passionately that all he wants is
Speaker 12: a Super Bowl, that staying in Cleveland, where he will
Speaker 12: probably have week one, the seventeenth starting quarterback of his tenure,
Speaker 12: there is the best path to that.
Speaker 10: You know what, I think had the best tweet about it.
Speaker 10: Everybody laughed about it.
Speaker 12: I think the most eloquent, well spoken tweet was bring
Speaker 12: it up. This hit every single note of this exactly
Speaker 12: and you're not all right. So you have lolo WGF
Speaker 12: because first of all, we all laugh like, what is
Speaker 12: this a joke?
Speaker 10: How could this possibly be true? That's phase one.
Speaker 12: The second one one is realization of yo, wow, this
Speaker 12: really is happening, and then wtf. I thought that his
Speaker 12: whole thing was he wanted to leave. And McNeil tweeted this,
Speaker 12: and it brings up to Michael Scott. I was never
Speaker 12: in this for the money, but it turns out that
Speaker 12: the money was an absolute necessity for me.
Speaker 5: Like we have heard, it's.
Speaker 10: Not about the money.
Speaker 12: For decades in sports, it has never been more about
Speaker 12: the money, and that's fine, go and make as much
Speaker 12: as you want. But to be in less than a
Speaker 12: week of a pennying a passionate letter to the fan
Speaker 12: base about winning Super Bowls and I'm leaving and b
Speaker 12: going on a whistle stop tour through the city of
Speaker 12: New Orleans to stop at every radio show and podcast
Speaker 12: and taken.
Speaker 10: I've talked with my family. We're on the same page.
Speaker 10: We're leaving.
Speaker 12: Which is it? Is it that the money was that important?
Speaker 12: Was this a ruse? Was this a hidden ball trick?
Speaker 12: That is one of the greatest one eighties I have
Speaker 12: ever seen. And a player who wants out to a
Speaker 12: player who's gonna be here for life, and he's gonna
Speaker 12: buy himself all kinds of crap with money.
Speaker 10: So I hope he's happy.
Speaker 12: I don't see any way he's going to get that
Speaker 12: Super Bowl anytime soon. But you do have a ton
Speaker 12: of money. So he doesn't have a quarterback. But he's
Speaker 12: really close friends with Benjamin Franklin, and God blessed him.
Speaker 10: Miles.
Speaker 6: I think as a viewers, as fans, as media like
Speaker 6: we would appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yesterday Miles Garrett and I was like, guys, it was
Speaker 5: a lot of money. Figured it out and the money
Speaker 5: it said.
Speaker 6: We get this tweet from like Mary kay Cabin, who's
Speaker 6: the local. We were like that she spoke to the
Speaker 6: agent and Miles has had a change of heart, a
Speaker 6: change of heart about his like four weeks ago. And
Speaker 6: not to pile on here, but he was on Eisen
Speaker 6: Show on Roku he says, I don't care about the money.
Speaker 5: I just want to win a championship.
Speaker 6: I just want people to know that it's not about money.
Speaker 11: It's not about me being the highest on the quarterback.
Speaker 11: It's not about me having a huge contract.
Speaker 6: But like you could walk go, here's the other thing
Speaker 6: I really, in hindsight, respect the heck out of the
Speaker 6: Browns owner Jimmy Haslm not sitting down.
Speaker 5: And talking with him last year.
Speaker 6: Last week, Miles Garrett was asked for a meeting and
Speaker 6: Jimmy Haslm was like, now you don't get a meeting.
Speaker 6: You're under contract for two more years. No, and it
Speaker 6: could be four more years. We want to franchise tag.
Speaker 6: You deal with Andrew Berry, our GM deal with him.
Speaker 6: Because the same folks that cry about owners meddling with
Speaker 6: team affairs, why is the owner involved the ownership.
Speaker 5: Let the g Why is the owner getting volved?
Speaker 10: Why is Jarret Jordan vult?
Speaker 6: We're the same people like, how does the owner not
Speaker 6: meet with Miles Garrett? Well, the owner's like, no, you're
Speaker 6: under contract for two more years.
Speaker 5: Play out your contract.
Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, Miles Garrett did
Speaker 6: not have a no trade clause, so they could have
Speaker 6: traded him right there.
Speaker 5: They could have traded him to Jacksonville.
Speaker 6: Miles Garrett could be a Jacksonville Jaguar this morning. And
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that's like the pine Barons of the
Speaker 6: NFL are like, but he could.
Speaker 10: They could have traded him anywhere.
Speaker 6: You want to be traded, your giant, you're a jet,
Speaker 6: you want to be traded. You're gonna You're gonna go
Speaker 6: now be You know you're a New Orleans Saint and
Speaker 6: you don't like New Orleans, Well sorry, we traded you
Speaker 6: go let them figure out the ting.
Speaker 5: So at the end of the day, he gets paid.
Speaker 6: But like that whole song and dance in New Orleans,
Speaker 6: it doesn't rub me wrong. It's just what a bunch
Speaker 6: of wasted airwaves and wasted segments on our show when
Speaker 6: the truth of the matter was you had to change
Speaker 6: your heart in forty million dollar doll in, the highest
Speaker 6: non paid quarterback ever could do that.
Speaker 5: Congratulations.
Speaker 11: But now the salary cap.
Speaker 6: Is going all to you, and we hopefully can build
Speaker 6: a champion around you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they can't and they won't.
Speaker 4: And he knew that going in. If he just would
Speaker 4: have taken the money, it would have been fine. Everyone
Speaker 4: would have sat here and said forty million. Of course
Speaker 4: he does that. But to your guys, great point when
Speaker 4: you go around and say, no, I'm standing for something.
Speaker 7: I already have the gold jacket. I don't want the
Speaker 7: god jacket.
Speaker 10: I want the ring.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna get complacent. Yeah, you stuck your foot
Speaker 4: in your mouth a bit. But I'm sitting here wondering
Speaker 4: who does this benefit because this doesn't benefit the Browns either.
Speaker 9: You just mentioned it.
Speaker 4: This team is cashtrip. They're over the cap in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six. Nothing is going to get better. They're gonna
Speaker 4: go out there and win three games again. So what
Speaker 4: does this do for the Cleveland Browns? What does this
Speaker 4: do for Miles Garrett? There's a ceiling, a very low
Speaker 4: ceiling place on the amount of change on how different
Speaker 4: Cleveland can look not just next year, but the year after.
Speaker 4: And they're in a tough division, and quite honestly, doesn't
Speaker 4: matter what division they're in.
Speaker 7: They stink right now and it's not going to.
Speaker 4: There's no leverage here for Miles Garrett, right So if
Speaker 4: after this season, when they win three more games, or
Speaker 4: the following season, if they win fever games, he can't
Speaker 4: go say something needs to change or I'm out of here.
Speaker 10: No you're not.
Speaker 4: Jimmy Haslm gets to sit there and say I called
Speaker 4: your bluff. I will continue to call your bluff, And
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett has to be a Cleveland Brown until they
Speaker 4: decide they don't want him anymore. He has no leverage
Speaker 4: going forward. And as far as the money, anybody would
Speaker 4: have paid him that and if he got traded, any
Speaker 4: other team is in a better position than Cleveland is
Speaker 4: in for the next two years. I'm I'm not disappointed
Speaker 4: because anybody would love forty million dollars, So I'm not
Speaker 4: disappointed that he changed his mind. I'm disappointed in the
Speaker 4: way that he went about it. And I'm disappointed because
Speaker 4: this could have been a huge moment for the NFL
Speaker 4: that one of the best players among the league right
Speaker 4: now stood for something, and that's a pedestal he put
Speaker 4: himself on.
Speaker 3: Well, the Browns get their player though in the next
Speaker 3: handful of years till twenty thirty to put him on
Speaker 3: the poster boards all over Cleveland. So marketability wise, the
Speaker 3: Browns are there with Miles Garrett moving forward.
Speaker 7: The deal is done.
Speaker 3: Now can we dissect how this massive contract affects the
Speaker 3: rest of the league?
Speaker 10: Peter?
Speaker 3: Because they're setting the bar, they're setting the table, and
Speaker 3: then there's just like pulling the linen out from underneath
Speaker 3: everything and shaking everything, Peter, So how does this change things?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think I think Kyle brought up Michael Parsons's tweet
Speaker 6: and part of that was about the situation, and the
Speaker 6: part of it was about himself, Like, wait a second,
Speaker 6: what did I just get? Because that just raised the
Speaker 6: level and the number that anyone thought was imaginable for
Speaker 6: a non quarterback to make. And now guys like Michael
Speaker 6: Parsons and Jamar Chase, who have not signed extensions that
Speaker 6: have been offered by their teams or have not engaged
Speaker 6: in those talks even are now looking at their wallets
Speaker 6: and saying, did I just make ten to fifteen million
Speaker 6: dollars more a year based on what Miles Garrett just
Speaker 6: did with Cleveland.
Speaker 11: I'm telling you, I can't stress it enough.
Speaker 6: It was a blip on the radar when the new
Speaker 6: salary cap numbers were announced at the combine. It was
Speaker 6: way more than a lot of these teams even thought
Speaker 6: was going to be. They have tons of more money
Speaker 6: to spend now. And if you didn't sign a deal
Speaker 6: early with these players that you wanted to keep, they
Speaker 6: have even more leverage. So Jamar Chase, Michael Parsons, congratulations,
Speaker 6: he got a lot richer and Miles.
Speaker 5: Garrett might have set that bar for you.
Speaker 4: I see a sigh of relief around the league that
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett did end up on a team that many
Speaker 4: would see more as a contender. So they're all breathing, Okay,
Speaker 4: Miles and Carrett is not an eagle. This is great
Speaker 4: news for us, and a lot of players are gonna
Speaker 4: get maybe a little more money and they can add
Speaker 4: that to their bank account, which is great. But as
Speaker 4: far as a big picture, I see this as a
Speaker 4: heat check. Jamie, you made a basketball reference earlier. I
Speaker 4: compare this to James Harden, right, James Harden tweets out,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be here anymore. Twenty four hours later,
Speaker 4: he's playing across the street as a Clipper. Right. I
Speaker 4: feel the NFL players kind of saw, okay, maybe we're
Speaker 4: not NBA leverage just yet. As far as player empowerment goes,
Speaker 4: there's been huge leaps. Players have have more empowerment and
Speaker 4: power currently than they've ever had.
Speaker 7: But this was a heat check. This was no, no, no,
Speaker 7: no no.
Speaker 4: This is the NFL. We are not going to operate
Speaker 4: like the NBH just yet. And you are under contract
Speaker 4: and you will honor that contract. So a lot of
Speaker 4: money to go around, but maybe a little bit of
Speaker 4: humbling as well.
Speaker 10: I'm intrigued by what Peter said, and to.
Speaker 12: Your point, like the Browns handled this pretty damn well,
Speaker 12: the fact that their face of their franchise is doing
Speaker 12: a publicity tour about how much he wants out because
Speaker 12: you'll never win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 10: They shut up.
Speaker 12: They didn't do anything crazy and dumb, like you know,
Speaker 12: I'm following him on social or some cryptic emoji. Andrew Berry,
Speaker 12: Stefanski and Haslam just stood their ground and they said no, no, no.
Speaker 12: When even had me last Friday, I was screaming on
Speaker 12: this show, trade them, trade them, get everything you can
Speaker 12: for him right now, and they said, no, we're gonna
Speaker 12: sign them.
Speaker 10: And listen.
Speaker 12: I think the Browns organization takes a lot of craft
Speaker 12: for how they handle things, and some of it is
Speaker 12: well deserved, but this wasn't. I would say march this
Speaker 12: up with some at the time that they handled themselves
Speaker 12: with dignity, and I really am impressed with how they
Speaker 12: did this. And I give nothing, no snarky remark, nothing whatsoever.
Speaker 12: They have a fantastic player. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 12: what the hell they're going to do with their quarterback,
Speaker 12: but for this particular chapter, I thought it was very
Speaker 12: well done.
Speaker 3: All Right, the other team is managing free agency to
Speaker 3: try and win a Super Bowl. The Eagles have done it,
Speaker 3: and Jalen Hurts is managing his cigar collection and having
Speaker 3: dinner with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 7: That's what you get to do in the.
Speaker 13: Off season when you win a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3: And you won your first Lombardi and you bring it
Speaker 3: back to Philly and Peter, you get to have dinner
Speaker 3: with the NBA great Michael Jordan.
Speaker 9: Your thoughts awesome.
Speaker 5: You know, he's a Jordan athlete.
Speaker 11: He's on the brand.
Speaker 6: What a cool picture for Jalen and of course MJ
Speaker 6: so cool and how he looks.
Speaker 4: The more I think about it, the more find similarities
Speaker 4: between Jalen Hurts and Michael Jordan. Jalen Hurts isn't on
Speaker 4: camera as much, but there is a mystery to him,
Speaker 4: right He's always speaking in parables. He wants the winning
Speaker 4: to do the talking, so I see why him and
Speaker 4: Jordan have a ton to talk about.