WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Petros Papadakis (07-10-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.760 Sports Radio grading salutations. Come morning to you Dan Patrick Show, 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.280 Fox Sports Tradio. I heart radio app the talented diverse 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:16.680 Rob Parker, who's a provocateur, co host of an outstanding 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.439 radio show, The Odd Couple, and an adjunct professor at 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.079 the University of Southern California. I'm Doug Gottlieb All I 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.520 do is I spit opinions for? Is that what it is? 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.600 You play basketball too, don't you not anymore? I mean, yeah, 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.280 but that doesn't not when I want to do professionally. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:33.760 Professionally you do a lot of You got to do 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.240 a lot of stuff. I gotta be busy, man. I'm 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.559 a busy kind of guy. No, I'm a busy kind 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.199 of guy, but not to your level. So you right 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.519 for dead Spin, which is which has been revamped, and 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.360 you have an article that dropped today. It hasn't dropped yet, 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.080 it's in the process of dropping. And uh, it's about 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:58.040 Patrick Mahomes contract Dog. And I know when people see 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.800 the head lode you talked about at five hundred three million, Wow, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.720 he got this great contract, Doug. How much of that 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:10.920 money's guaranteed fully? Guaranteed. Do you know? Yes, one hundred 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:17.840 and forty one point four eight one million by injury 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:23.400 March third of two twenty two is fully guaranteed regardless 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.240 of what he does from this point forward. I believe 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:33.240 that he blew a golden opportunity to get a fully 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:38.839 guaranteed contract. Given the resume and AMMO that he had, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:45.560 he could have changed the thinking of NFL players. All 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:50.200 the other sports have guaranteed contracts. The NFL still, somehow, 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.120 some way, basically gets away with we want you to 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.640 commit to us, but we're not going to fully commit 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.880 to you. And Kirk Cousins a couple of years ago 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.640 twenty eighteen signed that three year, eighty four million dollars 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.960 guaranteed the first fully guaranteed contract in the NFL. That's true. Actually, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.040 I'm just going by no, but it's it's not. It's 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.399 not actually true. That's the first fully guaranteed contracts. First 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.720 round draft pick contracts are fully guaranteed for four years. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.440 They're all fully guaranteed. Okay, So so the idea that 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.240 they don't have and the idea that they don't have 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.080 the the rest of the contracts may not be fully guaranteed. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.560 But they have absolutely guarantees in him. But but but the 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.400 fully guaranteed NFL rookie first round draft pick contracts are 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.720 fully guaranteed for four years. Okay, here, here, here's that. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.520 That's not the way it's that's not what the way 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.720 it's presented when you talk about Kirk Cousins and when 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.080 he got his deal. But anyway, as as a free agents, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.280 just go out. He got a three year, fully guaranteed deal, yes, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.120 which which just didn't happen in the NFL. There was 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.600 always some out or all the money's not guaranteed, you 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.400 got to make the roster and all of this. He 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.440 got three years fully guaranteed. But my point is that 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.880 of all people who could have changed the way that 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.760 they do business in the NFL is Patrick Mahone. Because 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.600 of his resume, an MVP, a super Bowl in his 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.760 first two years as a starter. The potential people are 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.480 already talking about Chris Bussard already he's Jordan esque, He's 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.320 gonna be the greatest quarterback or has the potential to 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.560 be the greatest quarterback of all time, all that stuff, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.000 and I think that that would would have been worth 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.760 fighting for it now, whether or not the Chiefs wanted 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.320 to go Dug ten years extension on the two years 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.000 that were already there, or if it was a five 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.920 or six or seven or eight year, whatever the deal was, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.680 it should have been totally guaranteed, because that's what other sports. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.520 I would much rather have Mike Trout's contract with the Angels. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.720 He's got a four hundred and twenty six million dollar 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:52.480 contract that's fully guaranteed. He will get every nickel of 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.640 his money no matter what happens. And that's where the 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.400 NFL should be moving to. And then people say, oh, well, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.960 you could get hurt on any play, Sure you can. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.160 Tom Brady's about to start his twenty first season. Drew Brees, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.880 they didn't sign in Miami because he had an injury. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.160 People thought he was done. Guy went on to have 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.480 a Hall of Fame career. There's so many examples. Why 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.159 not If a team is asking you to make a 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.840 commitment to them, why shouldn't they have to make a 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.200 real commitment. And I would rather see in the NFL 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.599 real contracts I'm talking about. Give a guy a three year, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.239 fully guaranteed contract. At the end of that time, Doug, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.680 if he's terrible, you move on. He moves on right, 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.640 and he has to go fend for itself. If he's great, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.080 then he has to get another contract or get more money. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.360 Not one where I control the narrative. Not one where 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.680 it's I can let you go at any point or decide, yeah, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.039 you could stay on the team, but you have to 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.280 take a pay cut in order to stay even though 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.719 you have a contract. And then all the other talk 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.719 that comes out when people talk about taking a team 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.120 friendly contract is hey, yeah, this is good for the team, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.479 This will allow them to give you other players around. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.360 You can I can I hop in here real quick? 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.240 Sure you can? Okay, Um, everything you said actually currently exists, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:22.839 and I you're you're you're either misrepresenting what currently exists 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:28.640 in uh in baseball and in football, so to speak, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.719 or or or or we're speaking we're like ships passing 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.920 a night where we're not kind of properly communicating with 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.360 each other. So okay. So so the first thing is, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.560 first thing is those contracts actually do exist. Like there's 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.640 no you're not going to get a one sided contract. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.240 He just the idea and the idea that football is 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.280 just like baseball is frankly bull you know what, it 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.720 just hold on, hold on, I get I gave you five, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.000 I gave you you went five minutes. I'm I'm not 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.120 gonna go five minutes. And we will have a discussion 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.480 on this one, okay. But Alex Smith is the perfect 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.479 example of the other side to it. Right, Like Alex 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.039 Smith right now, based upon the salary cap, he still 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.400 costs okay, he still costs thirty two point two million 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:16.480 dollars against the Washington Redskins or whatever their nickname becomes. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.719 Against the Washington Redskins cap number thirty two point two 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.040 million dollars in deadcap money. He's not playing football ever. Again, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.719 there's a difference in football in baseball. He's lucky to 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.960 have a leg. Okay, So please, Ryan Shazier will never 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:36.360 play football again. Like the deadcap money, it's a different sport. Okay. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.719 So these contracts actually do exist, and here's how players 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.799 protect themselves. There's always been you're taking what agents say 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.840 and what the players associations say as law, and that's 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.880 not it's not factual. You can fight for short or 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.320 shorter term like if you want just a small, short 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.680 term guaranteed deal, you know what that's called. That's called 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.919 a franchise. Tag. That's what Dak Prescott has, that's what 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.640 he's fighting against. He's gonna get thirty one million dollars 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.560 and then next year he can either sign a free 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.200 agent deal with somebody else or sign a franchise tag, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.480 which would likely become thirty two thirty three, thirty four 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.880 million dollars again guaranteed, and play the whole thing again. Right. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.040 That's what what Kirk Cousins did was he risked this 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.320 by doing the franchise tag two consecutive years, much like 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.760 Dak Prescott's doing, which players like I don't want the 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.000 franchise tag. Okay, wait, you don't want a short term 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.440 guaranteed deal, but you're saying that somehow a long term 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.040 guaranteed deal where you're get paid a bunch of the 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.120 money upfront and then there's a point in the middle 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.800 of the contract where there's this lump sum payment. And 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.320 that's what Pat mahomes. Look at the deal. Two hundred 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.160 and seventy four point seven eight one million dollars in 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.400 the first six years. They can't cut him that that 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.920 money he will get. He will be on the roster 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.120 and then either they renegotiate a deal or it spikes 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.440 to like fifty million dollars a year, okay, and if 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.800 they cut him then he's he's a free agent on 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.280 the market. That's the way it works. That's actual guaranteed money. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.400 And the reason that NFL teams have to protect themselves 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.080 is one because of injury and two you give a dude, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.760 you know, like just things change over a ten year period. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.040 Guys complain that they're now underpaid because they sign these 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.720 deals like that's actually the actual criticism of the Pat 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.000 Mahomes deal is that it doesn't take into account what's 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.000 likely to be a spike in the salary cap in 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.720 years to come and actually protects him and gives him 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.840 a bunch of money up front when most people believe 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.400 the salary cap will go down over the next two 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.640 years because we don't know if there's gonna be any 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.720 fans in the stands this year, which is gonna change 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:47.680 the revenue. So rob respectfully, you're completely either misrepresenting what 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.480 the actual facts are or you're not paying attention to 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.040 how it all works. Rookie contract rookie contracts, the first 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.360 round takes are fully guaranteed to have been since the 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:04.520 dog he has sixty three million right now, guarantee fully guaranteed. No, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.800 he has one hundred and forty one point four he 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.000 is going to be paid. That's one hundred and forty 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:14.319 one point four million dollars to injury guarantee sixty. No, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.959 you're not reading the kind I haven't. I have it 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.640 in front of me. It's six. Look at it. Look 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.880 at Albert Beard. That's what he got paiding morning quarterbacks. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.240 That's what he got paid already Thursday. Okay, he gets 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.400 paid one hundred and three point three million dollars on 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.679 March of March third, third day of the NFL year. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.360 Next year, then he gets paid one hundred and forty 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.280 one total, okay total by March third of twenty twenty two. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.280 He is getting that money. Whether he plays another snack. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.040 He's signed for five hundred and three. Doug. My point 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.520 is simply that if you if you're the Kansas City Chiefs, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.920 and you're coming to me and you want me to 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.720 make a ten year commitment to you, I'm saying to you, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.960 as in other sports, I don't care about you could 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.280 have insurance for injuries. You can, Patrick Mahomes. I'm not 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.240 talking about every guy. Patrick Mahomes is a is a 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.720 special play. Patrick Mahomes is a guy who if you 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.040 want him to be a part of your organization for 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.800 the next decade, you can go out of your way 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.280 and sign a guy and give him guaranteed money. And 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.959 I'm talking about five hundred and three millions. It's not possible, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.000 but it is. No, it's not. No, it's not you're 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.880 you're you're stating things that are not possible. Okay, you're 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.760 stating things that are actually not possible. It's people do 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.480 this all the time. They do this about baseball. Man, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:40.079 the baseball contracts are great. That's not true. Two hundred 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.360 twenty six million dollars guaranteed doug not great because because listen, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.520 tell me how it's not great. Because up until last year, 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.560 did you know that Mike Trout was making less a 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.360 million dollars or less throughout his career? Did you know that, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.520 like there becomes a rich and a poor, there is 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.600 not there is not unlimited sums of money. That's not 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.800 actually the way it works. Okay, that you don't have 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.440 me how four twenty six is bad, dog, This is 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.880 what you just say. It's explained to me, how it's 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.640 not a good deal. It's fully guaranteed, or Manny Machado's 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.200 three hundred million or Bryce Harper's three hundred millions? Bryce? 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.440 How many? Howd's a bad deal? How much is Bryce 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.560 Harper making per year? I don't know what the breakdown. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.880 I don't have it in front of me. I can't 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.760 know what the total deal. Okay, how much is the 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.640 total deal? It's over three hundred million? Was a three 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.600 twenty five for how many years? Thirteen years? Okay? So 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:38.080 thirteen into into thirty two is what twenty seven point five? Patrick? Patrick? 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.480 Patrick Mahomes is guaranteed? There is there is no way 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.560 that they can cut him based upon the dead cat 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.240 money before at the end of the sixth year of 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.760 the contract, which was ever chat money players cut? Have 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.600 there ever been players cut? Yes? All right then, so 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.360 you can't cut? Yes? And what happens with if they 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.240 cut Pat Mahomes? What happens? So he gets it? He 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:04.800 doesn't get five three dog answer the answer the question, Rob, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.679 what happens if he now, look, he'll get one hundred 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.320 and forty one point four million dollars in the next 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.080 in the next uh two years guaranteed? Okay? So he 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.320 has one hundred and forty one. And let's say they 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.520 decided move on, we'll cut him. What happens. What happens, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.559 he gets another roster bonus for another forty million dollars. Okay, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.079 So now he's got one hundred and eighty at any 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.480 point in time that they cut him in those first 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.200 three years. Okay. And then he's a free agent and 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.080 he can sign another deal where it's guaranteed money. It 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.520 doesn't mean that if he gets cut he can't go 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.840 and get another contract. Again, you're misrepresenting it. Yes, you're 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.920 talking about with the Chiefs. Does signed a bogus Just 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.280 hear me out. He signed up five hundred and three 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.600 is what they get. Chances of him getting five hundred 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.760 and three million from the Chiefs, Doug are almost zero 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.520 to none. Really, he'll never get all that money. He'll 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.720 never get that. Am I right or wrong? You're wrong? 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.240 He'll actually get more. He won't give five three from 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.719 the Kansas City Chiefs. He will guarantee you he'll get more. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.640 Earl Thomas was ticked. He got every penny from his 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.520 four year deal sign with the Seattle Seahawks. That four years, 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.480 not twelve years. Dogs I understandelve years, I understand, I understand. Look, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.600 if if you're the Chiefs, you have to again, there's 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.079 no such thing you're not doing to do that. The 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.240 Chiefs aren't gonna go like, oh hey, you want six 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.959 years then to be a free agent. Sure, remember this, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.000 you're speaking French, I'm speaking English. You're right. No, I'm 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.680 speaking English. You're speaking grett. No, I'm not free Look, look, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.000 look they cannot okay, based upon dead cat money and 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.040 the size of this contract, Rob, The reality is they 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.400 can't cut him and then find a replacement at quarterback. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.920 They can't for the first six years of the deal, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.360 and that's two hundred and seventy four million dollars. And 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.600 if they cut him, which would be the stupidest decision ever, Okay, 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.000 if they cut him, then he will go and get 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.160 all of that money elsewhere. Now, the reason that five 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.880 hundred and three million dollars cutting him because he got 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.520 hurt or he's not good anymore. It ain't automatic that 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.040 he would go to another team and recoup that money. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.080 That is not fat if you're talking about the only 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.560 reason they taught him is that he would hurt or 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.760 he was no good. It ain't because he was great. Okay, 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.640 so what makes just told me that it was a 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.720 guaranteed cinch that he's going to be great for the 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.000 next ten years no matter what. Yes, you know what 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.840 I said, we can roll back to team asking you. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.760 I said that we can roll back to take you. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.520 He didn't say that. I said that he they want 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.920 him to make a ten year commitment in a contract extension, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.160 that they should commit to him the same way that 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.840 other leads that they didn't have to hold on to listen. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.320 He didn't have to, but they also did not have 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.440 to tell he has two years remaining on his contract. Like, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.200 the reality is he's under contract for two years and 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.360 then they could franchise tag him three three different times. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.160 So the chief you're acting as if he's a free agent, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.760 and he could have said, you know what, I can 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.280 sign with whoever I want. You are dealing with a 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.600 dream scenario that doesn't actually exist. The reality is that 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.520 the Kansaity Chiefs had him under contract for essentially five 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.480 more years and chose to give him a contract extension 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.320 bigger than we've ever seen. The only thing that they 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.040 asked of him in return is, hey, we're going to 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.400 backload the contract with a ton of money, which makes 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.960 you essentially uncuttable at the end of at the end 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.680 of year six, we'll have to rework the deal where 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.840 you'll probably make more money. It ends up being a 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.000 win for Lee Steinberg, a win for the kan City 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.800 Chiefs because you will always be a chief and we 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.320 have so much money that you're never that. It's going 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.920 to be the biggest contract ever. And while it may 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.600 not keep up with inflation, it also doesn't it also 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.760 doesn't hurt you with deflation, which is likely to happen 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.360 in the short term. You're acting as if you can 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.000 walk in and say he wasn't a free agent rob 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.400 and you can't cut him because if you do cut him, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.040 you can't put any sort of replacement of any sort 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.840 of reasonable number behind him. That's what's happened to the 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.320 New England Patriots. Right pay attention. The Patriots are paying 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.680 thirteen point five in deadcap money to Tom Brady. Why 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.280 couldn't they go out and get pay a legit sum 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.920 for a quarterback. They don't have any money. That's what 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.000 deadcap money does. And the deadcap money on this contract 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.280 makes you uncuttable. And he does have guarantees for two 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.760 hundred and seventy four million dollars. Please don't tell me otherwise. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.240 It's a great discussion. I just think that for a 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:29.080 long time, the NFL's NFLPA has misrepresented the actual value 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.600 in the contracts that they have. Check out that article 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.320 dead Spin. When does it drop, Rob in the next 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.160 hour or so? In the next hour or so, all right, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.960 coming up next, I want to do this. It do 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.640 it is in regards to NFL players. Raheem Mostert, who 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.760 was an absolute star in the NFC Championship Game, appears 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.040 to be fighting a losing fight. We'll discuss it next 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.520 in The Dan Patrick Show. 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He's also a former running back, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.520 and I think this is interesting. Rob like Raheem Moster, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.080 it has been cut six times last year, he signed 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.720 an extension with the San Francisco forty nine Ers three years, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:50.359 nine million dollars, and he wants to be traded so 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.359 that he can get a bigger role and obviously make 0:17:54.440 --> 0:18:01.240 more money. And I'm just like, like, listen, I understand, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.280 you finally got a chance to show what you can 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.920 do in the league. And he's an explosive running back. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.200 He led the NFC champions in rushing yards and had 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.919 that incredibly explosive NFC Championship game. But dude, you've been 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.040 cut six times, you just signed a three year extension 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.800 last year, and you're at a position of declining value. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.440 What am I missing? Why would the San Francisco forty 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.120 nine Ers trade him? No, they wouldn't want to trade 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.479 him because they got a deal and they know it. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.439 But my point is, I get the system does not 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.720 work fairly for running backs in the NFL, and it's 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.800 not right where basically guys are being used up their 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.600 first four or five years before they are able to 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.600 cash in, and it's it's the only position. Running is 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.720 an important part of the game. I know everybody throws 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.560 the ball now it's it's it's more of a throwing league. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:52.520 But to set up the pass and a lot of 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.560 times and to be able to extend run out the clock, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.359 you need to be able to get first downs on 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.399 the ground. You can't throw every down, So backs are 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.359 very important. We saw him in the postseason. He was 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.560 tremendous for them. He was a reason that they got 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.440 to the super Bowl. And I don't blame a guy 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.960 who wants to get paid before the NFL decides, Okay, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.840 we used you up enough and as you get a 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.040 little older, you won't have the same value. Where is 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.399 paying that guy during the time when he's been great 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.200 for you? So I get why a running back would 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.720 want to do whatever he could to get more money 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.879 at the time when he's strike, when the iron's hot. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.560 Strike when you're rushing for five and a half yards 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.720 a carry, not when you're rushing for three point two 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.040 yards to carry, and then nobody wants to pay you. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.879 So I get why he needs to force the issue 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.680 to get more money now because his career, unlike most 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:54.760 football players, is very brief and his earning potential might 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.119 only be five, six or seven years Doug compared to 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.639 other guys. Well, there's a direct contradiction in what you 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.239 just said. Right, You're like, well, the NFL uses up 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.440 these guys, but these guys should get paid more money 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.159 after they get used up, right, Like David Johnson's the 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.560 perfect that should get paid. They should. I'm just saying 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.680 it's got to be something to compensate them because they're 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.480 not making the money when they're actually at their most productive. 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.560 It's a system that is delayed delayed money so that 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.679 you have to wait or you can't. You don't have 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.840 free agency if you have a bad year. No, no, 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.040 I I get I get what you're saying. Okay, but listen, 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.000 but but I understand what you're saying. You're saying they're 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.040 most productive in their first four years, and most of 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.200 these guys are now being drafted in the late for 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.000 like second round. Some are drapt in first round. And look, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.800 there there is there is the Christian McCaffrey contract, and 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.280 he's probably the best all around back in the league. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.479 Because of what he can do catching the football as 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.840 well as a hybrid back. But there's there's a couple 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.360 different layers to it in terms of raheem mostert. If 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.240 you if you really if he's under contract, like that's 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.240 the problem is Like, hey, dude, sorry, you signed a 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.000 three year deal list year, there's still two more years 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.560 left on it. This is the way that contracts work. Wait, 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.120 wait a minute. Do do teams to tear up contracts 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.879 and reward people do good work for them? Has that 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:16.440 ever happened occasionally? Sure? Okay, so it does happen, so 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.200 you can do it. You can reward somebody when they've 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.760 outperformed their contract and they've done something good for you. 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:27.200 So to act like you're stuck doing so when you 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.840 if you underperformed, do you give the money back they 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.280 cut you? They ask you for pay cuts. Dog, it happened. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.480 And if they cut taking pay cuts, I'm asking you, yes, 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.520 stay on a team, yes, and but but but if 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.840 they had value on the open market, they would say 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:45.640 go ahead and cut me, and I'll get it. I'll 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:47.400 go get another deal on my on my own. Look, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.399 there are there are a litany of other running backs 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.720