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Speaker 2: from now. Miles Garrett staying with Cleveland. The Raiders go
Speaker 2: out and get Geno Smith, Josh Allen got a contract extension,
Speaker 2: Steelers got DK metcamp, DeVante Adams goes to the Rams.
Speaker 2: This is similar to opening Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: That's what yesterday was. This weekend was like today is Christmas.
Speaker 2: This is when the news is supposed to break. Noon
Speaker 2: Eastern is when they can kind of make this all official.
Speaker 2: We got Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm not complaining. There's some big news, big news items yesterday,
Speaker 2: the Miles Garrett staying with Cleveland, Geno Smith going to
Speaker 2: the Raiders, and I think we're looking at all these scenarios,
Speaker 2: and you go, why we knew Dk Metcalf wanted out,
Speaker 2: but you're going to go to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh doesn't even
Speaker 2: know who their quarterback is, or they might know, we
Speaker 2: don't know yet. And we brought this up a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers that possibility.
Speaker 2: It's at least in the exploratory stage. From what I'm
Speaker 2: told that, they haven't ruled it out. And then I
Speaker 2: saw where what's Russell Wilson going to do? What's Justin
Speaker 2: Field's going to do? And then I saw a report
Speaker 2: maybe Justin Fields to the Jets. Hasn't this young man
Speaker 2: suffered enough? They shouldn't do that to him? But you
Speaker 2: might be the starting quarterback. It's wild. It's like Seattle.
Speaker 2: They said, yeah, we'll trade Geno Smith. Okay, well, Seattle
Speaker 2: must know what they're doing if they just traded Geno
Speaker 2: Smith and they've gotten rid of Tyler Lockett or they're
Speaker 2: going to lose him. And then DK Metcalf as well,
Speaker 2: And this is a team that won ten games last
Speaker 2: year and you're going to trade Geno to Pete Carroll
Speaker 2: and the Raiders, And does that preclude them from maybe
Speaker 2: going after Shador Sanders. Now I was told it wouldn't
Speaker 2: that they could still see them drafting a quarterback. Now,
Speaker 2: are you going to draft a quarterback in the top ten.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit different if you're going to go
Speaker 2: out and get Geno Smith. But Tom Brady's influence has
Speaker 2: already had an impact there. Josh Allen gets an extension
Speaker 2: and if this helps them with salary cap relief, pushes
Speaker 2: the contract down the road, eventually going to have to
Speaker 2: pay him again. Do you get ahead of the market,
Speaker 2: which you know, there's some teams that do and some
Speaker 2: teams that don't. Dallas Cowboys don't, and it costs them
Speaker 2: all the time. It's going to cost them with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: And Michael Parsons probably had a I'm going to guess
Speaker 2: a celebration yesterday. I would have because all of a
Speaker 2: sudden he looks at what Miles Garrett got to stay
Speaker 2: in Cleveland and Michael Parsons is going to be asking
Speaker 2: for something that begins with a four and not a three.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase probably had a really good day yesterday as well.
Speaker 2: He didn't do anything, but the Browns have said they're
Speaker 2: going to make him the highest paid non quarterback. Why
Speaker 2: they said this, I don't know why they have not
Speaker 2: done this, I don't know, but it's going to cost you.
Speaker 2: If the guy is great, then pay him.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a band aid and it might hurt a
Speaker 2: little bit, but boy down the road, I'd rather have
Speaker 2: a band aid than need stitches. And that's what's happening
Speaker 2: with the Cincinnati Bengals and the Dallas Cowboys. Is Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase as much of a sure thing in the NFL?
Speaker 3: In the entries?
Speaker 2: Yes, this is exactly what you wanted out of a
Speaker 2: player that you drafted that high to be great. Now
Speaker 2: pay him. Pay that to me on his meney. And
Speaker 2: then with Michael Parsons, pay him. Remember when TJ. Watt
Speaker 2: getting thirty million, We're like, man, what is going on
Speaker 2: in the NFL?
Speaker 3: That seems like the old days? It wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 2: And then Miles Garrett, Okay, I know a little more
Speaker 2: about this than I'm allowed to talk about. But Miles Garrett,
Speaker 2: you know, talking about staying in Cleveland, didn't want to
Speaker 2: stay in Cleveland. He had Now let's go back to
Speaker 2: when he had his statement during the Super Bowl. As
Speaker 2: a kid dreaming of the NFL, all I focused on
Speaker 2: was the ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl, and
Speaker 2: my goal fuels me today more than ever. I've loved
Speaker 2: calling this city my home. My desire to win and
Speaker 2: compete on the biggest stages won't allow me to be complacent.
Speaker 2: The goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton.
Speaker 2: It's always been to compete and win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: With that in mind, I've requested to be traded from
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 3: O WHOA, okay.
Speaker 2: This And once again I got to be careful in
Speaker 2: what I'm going to tell you. That spent twenty minutes
Speaker 2: with somebody yesterday and because I was like, boy, that
Speaker 2: was a big turnaround. Well, Cleveland wasn't fielding trade offers
Speaker 2: or they didn't get blown away by anybody. And I
Speaker 2: think what happened is Miles Garrett's representatives probably said, hey,
Speaker 2: they're not going to trade you. I mean, you can't
Speaker 2: be the GM who signs Deshaun Watson and then trades
Speaker 2: away Miles Garrett. Like that's not good on your resume.
Speaker 2: I think Cleveland was pretty steadfast. They were not going
Speaker 2: to trade him. They said they weren't going to trade him,
Speaker 2: and we thought, well, they have to trade him. I
Speaker 2: think what happened is it was basically, Okay, what can
Speaker 2: we pay you so you want to stay here? And
Speaker 2: it got to forty million dollars. I think that's really
Speaker 2: what's happening here. Miles Garrett wanted to go someplace else.
Speaker 2: They didn't get blown away by a deal, and then
Speaker 2: therefore he had to basically say, Okay, I'm going to stay,
Speaker 2: but what are you going to pay me? Because I
Speaker 2: think he also said, hey, this isn't about being the
Speaker 2: highest paid player in the league, which I didn't buy
Speaker 2: even if he went to someplace else.
Speaker 3: But I think that's what happened in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Once again, I gotta be careful in what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: because I got information yesterday that there's more to the
Speaker 2: story that I'm not allowed to tell you about. I
Speaker 2: have to wait and let the process kind of play
Speaker 2: out here.
Speaker 6: Yes, poone, but the common reaction is what changed for
Speaker 6: Miles Garrett Because they didn't add some star players in
Speaker 6: the past two months to bolster that team and make
Speaker 6: them more competitive, They're still the Browns.
Speaker 2: So well, he couldn't do anything about it right, like
Speaker 2: he he. I don't think he wanted to stay there.
Speaker 2: I think that they gave him an offer that will
Speaker 2: satisfy him, and they were, you know, adamant, they weren't
Speaker 2: going to trade him. I don't know if he goes yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what. On second though, I think we can
Speaker 2: win at all. I think we can be competitive. I
Speaker 2: think he's just being honest that I did want to go.
Speaker 2: I can't go. I'm staying now. You know, make me
Speaker 2: the highest paid non quarterback in the league. So he
Speaker 2: can save face as well, you know, because we'll eventually
Speaker 2: move on from this.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Right now it's like, oh yeah, great, you said you
Speaker 2: were going to You wanted to be with a contender,
Speaker 2: somebody could compete for Super Bowl. Cleveland's roster hasn't really
Speaker 2: changed that much. That's what I was told. That Miles
Speaker 2: did want to leave, they were not going to trade him.
Speaker 2: They were not blown away. And then I think both parties,
Speaker 2: how do we make this work moving forward? And that's
Speaker 2: how he ended up at forty million dollars. But Gino
Speaker 2: Smith's situation, I like it for the Raiders because now
Speaker 2: you have somebody who can play quarterback and You're in
Speaker 2: a division that is the most competitive division in football. Now,
Speaker 2: you got to at least every Sunday know that your
Speaker 2: quarterback gives you a chance. And maybe Geno Smith is
Speaker 2: a B level quarterback, but that's okay. You got Rock Bowers,
Speaker 2: you got Max Crosby, you got a chance in the
Speaker 2: draft to get somebody. I'm told that they're going to
Speaker 2: get Ashton Genty told that yesterday. Now once again I
Speaker 2: can tell you things that are you know, what are
Speaker 2: we five weeks out from the draft? A month out
Speaker 2: from the draft. Things will change. But I'm trying to
Speaker 2: understand the philosophy of I don't know what Seattle's doing
Speaker 2: because that's a clearance sale. And are you going to
Speaker 2: go get Sam Darnald so you get a younger quarterback
Speaker 2: doesn't mean he's a better quarterback. In fact, I would
Speaker 2: probably still I would take Geno Smith over Sam Darnald,
Speaker 2: especially the way Seattle plays. You know, it's a ball control,
Speaker 2: grinded out makes you know, a couple of plays, and
Speaker 2: Gino has played well, But the Raiders got a quarterback
Speaker 2: that they can count on and they haven't had that
Speaker 2: for a little while. As for Seattle, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if is this a rebuild or reload. That front office
Speaker 2: has always been great. They find talent and that's a
Speaker 2: division you can win. That's what surprised me. They could
Speaker 2: have just stayed with what they had there. Now DK Metcalf,
Speaker 2: I've said before he should be a whole lot better.
Speaker 2: Every time I see him, I see Dez Bryant without
Speaker 2: the resume, and maybe this helps him. But I can't
Speaker 2: imagine George Pickens and DK Metcalf being happy with, Hey,
Speaker 2: you got four targets today, how.
Speaker 3: About our running game?
Speaker 2: Like now, if you get Aaron Rodgers, Okay, then I
Speaker 2: could see where that would be a little more interesting.
Speaker 2: I think the Rams had an unbelievable day because you're
Speaker 2: going to get Cooper Cup's salary off the books and
Speaker 2: you bring in Davonte Adams, And I always want to
Speaker 2: know how far out do you think the Rams go?
Speaker 2: You know, we're going to get rid of Cooper Cup.
Speaker 2: Who can we get Now you start going, okay, what
Speaker 2: are the Jets going to do with Davante? But that's
Speaker 2: when you make a phone call. These things don't happen
Speaker 2: in the span of you know, six hours, twelve hours.
Speaker 2: I know there's the legal tampering, which I still find
Speaker 2: amazing that it's like jumbo shrimp. Wait, doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: legal tampering. Why do we even call it legal tampering?
Speaker 2: But DeVante Adams going there, Matthew Stafford's got to be thrilled.
Speaker 2: So you've got DeVante Adams and Puku Nakua. You got
Speaker 2: a good running game, you got our young defense. You know,
Speaker 2: you get Matthew Stafford back. They the Rams are in
Speaker 2: great shape, great shape, but there's teams that didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: What are the Giants doing? What are the Giants doing?
Speaker 2: Are you going all in to get cam Wore? Because
Speaker 2: is Justin Fields going to be Plan B?
Speaker 3: I don't know? Or is Justin Fields going to the Jets?
Speaker 3: What are the Jets doing?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 3: Is Russell Wilson in him?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 3: And the Steelers?
Speaker 2: I'm guessing you get like you have two quarterbacks, but
Speaker 2: you don't feel like you have one quarterback you got
Speaker 2: you just traded for g Like if I'm dk Metcalf,
Speaker 2: the first thing I say is.
Speaker 3: Well, who's going to be quarterback?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm glad you're gonna give me one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars. But who's going to be the quarterback here?
Speaker 2: That's the big question there. And can Aaron Rodgers fit
Speaker 2: in with the Steelers if that would happen. Kind of wild,
Speaker 2: kind of wild, yes, John.
Speaker 3: And you're still hearing that buzz even up until this weekend.
Speaker 8: Giants Vikings for Aaron Rodgers, it's all over the place.
Speaker 3: Right now with him. Yeah, I thought that.
Speaker 2: The Vikings basically said it, JJ McCarthy, you'll be our
Speaker 2: starting quarterback. And then I saw a where, well, he's
Speaker 2: coming back from a devastating injury. He might not be
Speaker 2: ready to go, and that's why you reach out to
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. I'm not quite sure. But if i'm deating,
Speaker 2: you know, uh JJ McCarthy, I probably think I'm going
Speaker 2: to be the starter. But if you're Aaron Rodgers, he
Speaker 2: in his mind he's still a starter. It may not
Speaker 2: be reality, but it may be. Hey, you want to
Speaker 2: be the starting quarterback for the Giants for one year,
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars.
Speaker 3: Or take your chances elsewhere. Yeah, it's almost like.
Speaker 6: The Vikings were too competitive last year to start developing
Speaker 6: a quarterback. They were surprisingly competitive because of Donald. They
Speaker 6: may move on from Darnald, but now they have to
Speaker 6: replace him with a guy who can help them win
Speaker 6: the division. Now, it's a weird place to be if
Speaker 6: they were under five hundred last year they finished under
Speaker 6: five hundred. Move on to JJ McCarthy, calmly, but it's
Speaker 6: like they're weirdly competitive.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, time and social media has been having fun
Speaker 3: with the far of comparison.
Speaker 8: You play for the Packers or go to the Jets
Speaker 8: and at them the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you say you can't do it, but he
Speaker 2: can do it. Yeah, he didn't care. All right, we'll
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Speaker 2: the weekend. What you saw that you liked, You didn't like.
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Speaker 4: All right, Dan our one poll? Who had the best weekend?
Speaker 4: Excluding Josh Allen okay, Gina Smith, Miles Garrett, DK metcalf A,
Speaker 4: Davonte Adams okay?
Speaker 2: Well, I would say Miles Garrett because of what he's
Speaker 2: getting paid, but he still has to get paid playing
Speaker 2: for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 6: Yes, Paul DeVante Adams at this juncture, his career goes
Speaker 6: to a competitive team, big market and a drop back
Speaker 6: timing quarterback that's perfect for him.
Speaker 2: Judy Batista, senior national columnist, co host of The Insiders
Speaker 2: on NFL Network. Let me start there, Judy, who had
Speaker 2: the best weekend?
Speaker 10: I would say Devonte Adams as well. He got I
Speaker 10: think more than many people thought he was going to get.
Speaker 11: He's with a.
Speaker 10: Team very much on the rise. I mean they are
Speaker 10: way ahead of schedule. He gets to stay in California,
Speaker 10: where he's from.
Speaker 11: I think he had the best weekend because, as you
Speaker 11: put it perfectly, Miles.
Speaker 10: Garrett just for the cash alone, but he's staying with
Speaker 10: a team that we now know he didn't want to
Speaker 10: be with just a few days ago.
Speaker 2: Why didn't Cleveland get an offer that could at least
Speaker 2: have them budge off this stance of we're not going
Speaker 2: to trade Miles Scarett.
Speaker 10: I don't think they ever even entertained the idea of
Speaker 10: trading Miles Garrett. I listen, so much has gone wrong
Speaker 10: for that team. Obviously, the Deshaun Watson deal was just
Speaker 10: a catastrophe.
Speaker 11: That you can't trade your best player.
Speaker 10: I mean, he's not just their best player, this is
Speaker 10: a Hall of Fame caliber player. He's arguably the best
Speaker 10: defensive player in the league every year. You just can't
Speaker 10: trade that guy. And if you're going to give your
Speaker 10: fans anything to hang on to you, you can't trade
Speaker 10: that guy. So unless they were somebody came to them with,
Speaker 10: you know, we'll give you four number ones, which I
Speaker 10: don't think anybody was doing. Like, they just couldn't entertain anything.
Speaker 10: And if we take them at their word, and I
Speaker 10: think we can, because they were saying the same things
Speaker 10: to teams that they were saying to reporters, they were
Speaker 10: never trading him.
Speaker 2: Is it irresponsible though of them that yes, this guy
Speaker 2: is going you know, Cleveland to Canton. But maybe there's
Speaker 2: a stop in between with Detroit or Washington or whoever.
Speaker 2: Maybe somebody overpays to make you a bet. If I'm
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns fan, it's nice that I I'm going to
Speaker 2: see him in uniform, But are we any better by
Speaker 2: having him in uniform instead of trying to get something
Speaker 2: else to kind of restart this this franchise.
Speaker 10: I saw a lot of that online yesterday when the
Speaker 10: deal happened, a lot of fans saying like, shouldn't we
Speaker 10: have gotten the fall of draft picks? Draft picks are gambles, right,
Speaker 10: you don't know how they're going to pan out. You
Speaker 10: do know what this guy is going to do, right,
Speaker 10: He's going to sack the quarterback fifteen times a season.
Speaker 10: At least he is going to give you a chance
Speaker 10: to win. I think part of what kept him in Cleveland,
Speaker 10: aside from the obvious the pile of.
Speaker 11: Money, is they sold to him on the idea that
Speaker 11: they have a plan to be back right.
Speaker 10: They were in the playoffs only a couple of years ago, Like,
Speaker 10: we're not you know, the roster is not completely barren.
Speaker 11: This is what we're going to do at quarterback.
Speaker 10: And I thinks as those things come to light, maybe
Speaker 10: the decision will make a little bit more sense, you know.
Speaker 10: I think he read the tea leaves and his representatives
Speaker 10: read the tea leaves that they were never going to
Speaker 10: trade him. I mean, Jimmy Haslam wouldn't even meet with
Speaker 10: him and basically said, like, you know, go deal with
Speaker 10: Andrew Berry. Don't try to come appealing to me for
Speaker 10: a trade. Go go talk to Andrew Berry.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 10: And I think they, you know, they came to the
Speaker 10: conclusion like, you're not getting traded unless you are willing
Speaker 10: to hold out and sacrifice, you know, a year's worth
Speaker 10: of salary, because that's the only alternative.
Speaker 11: You need to come to grips with the fact that
Speaker 11: you're not getting traded, So make the best deal you
Speaker 11: can and try to figure out how you can be
Speaker 11: happy here.
Speaker 3: What are the Seahawks doing, That's a good question.
Speaker 10: It's hard to it's hard to really question John Schneider
Speaker 10: because he's very, very good, you know, but certainly this
Speaker 10: is a reset at the very least, moving Geno Smith.
Speaker 10: You know, I always got the depression that maybe John Schneider,
Speaker 10: he was always less committal about Geno Smith than maybe
Speaker 10: the coaches were. Mike McDonald was at the combine only
Speaker 10: you know what was that two weeks ago saying like,
Speaker 10: we love Geno Smith, He's definitely our quarterback. But I
Speaker 10: always thought John Schneider was a little bit more reserved,
Speaker 10: and it's I think it's a good move for Geno Smith.
Speaker 11: I think it's a fairly decent.
Speaker 10: Move for the Seahawks, presuming that they already know who
Speaker 10: their next quarterback is going to be. And it's hard
Speaker 10: for me to imagine that a GM as good as
Speaker 10: John Schneider with Trader starting quarterback without having a very
Speaker 10: very strong idea of who the next guy is. So
Speaker 10: I assume that that domino will fall as soon as
Speaker 10: the window opens today for.
Speaker 2: Negotia, Yeah, I rarely question what the front office does
Speaker 2: in Seattle. They're they're very buttoned up, they're very smart. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're getting Sam Donold, Look, Gino is
Speaker 2: an older, a little above average quarterback. It gives you
Speaker 2: a little more stability with the Raiders competing in the
Speaker 2: AFC West, but the NFC West is winnable. You won
Speaker 2: ten games, you know, you went toe to toe with
Speaker 2: the Rams. The Niners are going to come back a
Speaker 2: little bit. But That's what was surprising is you let
Speaker 2: your receivers go and it just felt like a tag sale.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, you know what that big grand
Speaker 2: plant is Sam Donald going to be the answer? They're
Speaker 2: that sure that Sam Darnoald is their guy, right.
Speaker 10: I think they also want a running game, like I
Speaker 10: think they just want to retool.
Speaker 11: Right, this is now a.
Speaker 10: Second year head coach who is now going to instead
Speaker 10: of working with what was in place, is going to
Speaker 10: start putting what he wants in place, right, the kind
Speaker 10: of system he wants. I generally agree with the idea
Speaker 10: that it's a much greater chance that you're going to
Speaker 10: get worse at quarterback. Look, you already know what Geno
Speaker 10: Smith is. Are you very very sure that Sam Darnold
Speaker 10: is going to repeat the kind of success with your
Speaker 10: program that he had in an almost perfect situation with
Speaker 10: the Vikings right where he had just all world weapons,
Speaker 10: great coaching, he was protected. Well, so you got to
Speaker 10: be really sure that that's going to translate. We'll see.
Speaker 10: But again I hesitate to question John Schneider because they
Speaker 10: usually make the right motes at Seattle.
Speaker 3: Who's going to be the quarterback of the Giants?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 10: For a while, I thought all the pieces were lining
Speaker 10: up that it was going to be Aaron Rodgers. I'm
Speaker 10: still very curious to see what Aaron Rodgers market would be.
Speaker 10: The fact that you know, nothing has been completed with
Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers makes you pause, and you know, as we
Speaker 10: know from Rogers in the past, like he's he's deliberate, right,
Speaker 10: He's going to think about his options and explore his options,
Speaker 10: and he's not going to be hasty. He certainly doesn't
Speaker 10: want to make a bed decision here. But you know,
Speaker 10: but if that falls through, what's the fallback plan for
Speaker 10: the Giants?
Speaker 11: You know, I don't know, you know, would they be
Speaker 11: in on Sam Donald?
Speaker 10: That's a that's a different kind of thing, you know,
Speaker 10: Russell Wilson, that's a different.
Speaker 11: Kind of thing.
Speaker 10: I mean, I you know, when the Aaron Rodgers thing
Speaker 10: started first bubbling up about the Giants connected to the Giants,
Speaker 10: I think a lot of Giants fans I live in
Speaker 10: New York, a lot of Giants fans walking for this is.
Speaker 11: Great, no way, come on.
Speaker 10: But when you slow down and think about it, like
Speaker 10: there are not a ton of great options, like for
Speaker 10: that kind of job right now, like the veteran guy
Speaker 10: who's just the bridge guy. We're not talking about a
Speaker 10: veteran guy like Sam Donald that you're going to have
Speaker 10: for the next ten years.
Speaker 11: We're talking about a.
Speaker 10: Bridge to the next guy that presumably they're going to
Speaker 10: try to draft this year. It's just there's not that
Speaker 10: many of them, and Aaron Rodgers is the best of
Speaker 10: the bunch late. I mean, you would rather have Aaron
Speaker 10: Rodgers than Russell Wilson at this point, or Jamis Winston
Speaker 10: or you know, Jimmy Garoppolo, like you know who else
Speaker 10: is out there.
Speaker 11: So we'll see.
Speaker 10: I am curious to see what the rest of the
Speaker 10: market would look like for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Judy Battista joining us on loan from NFL Network, co
Speaker 2: host of The Insiders.
Speaker 3: What are the Steelers doing?
Speaker 10: The Steelers are loading up. I think the way last
Speaker 10: season ended for the Steelers, where it was just clear
Speaker 10: they didn't have enough firepower, enough offensive firepower to stay
Speaker 10: with the top teams in the AFC that you know
Speaker 10: that the offense really sad at the end.
Speaker 11: I think they are going to fix that.
Speaker 10: Don't forget they spent all of last year trying to
Speaker 10: get a big time wide receiver.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 10: They were in on Brandon Ayuk, they were in on
Speaker 10: DeVante Adams, they got Mike Williams. That didn't you know,
Speaker 10: okay whatever, So this was like the long quest for
Speaker 10: a receiver finally finally coming to an end and they
Speaker 10: get DK Metcalf. To me, the thing is, are they
Speaker 10: keeping George Pickens too? Because then you have Pickens and
Speaker 10: DK Metcalf, which is pretty appealing for a quarterback, whoever
Speaker 10: the quarterback is. To me, it's amazing that they made
Speaker 10: the deal for the star wide receiver without having any
Speaker 10: quarterback under contract. I know, sort of the reverse, but
Speaker 10: it's quite a good selling point if you have to
Speaker 10: sell yourself on a quarterback.
Speaker 11: I mean, for instance, if I am a.
Speaker 10: Veteran quarterback with options and the Steelers are interested in me,
Speaker 10: that's a pretty I mean, I know the weather is
Speaker 10: tough and it's an extremely difficult.
Speaker 11: Division, but those are some pretty good weapons you'd be
Speaker 11: thrown too.
Speaker 3: We tend to talk about this.
Speaker 2: It feels like on a yearly basis, there's certain teams
Speaker 2: that are proactive. They're going to extend their star players.
Speaker 2: They get ahead of the curve, the financial curve. Here
Speaker 2: we are with Dallas and Micaeh Parsons, and here we
Speaker 2: are with Jamar Chase. The Bengals could have signed Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase a while ago, it feels like and Dallas could
Speaker 2: have done the same thing. I mean, you'd be saved.
Speaker 2: It's only going up. The longer you wait, the more
Speaker 2: it's going to cost you. So I'm just trying to
Speaker 2: understand the financial responsibility sensibility with both of these programs.
Speaker 2: These franchises of they're great, pay them, don't wait to
Speaker 2: pay them.
Speaker 10: I don't know, I don't know why they wait, but
Speaker 10: I mean this last weekend we've seen the stark like
Speaker 10: what happens when you wait? They waited, and now they
Speaker 10: are Both teams are going to have to pay many,
Speaker 10: many millions of dollars more, Which is great for the players,
Speaker 10: Michael Carson. Good for Jamar Chase. They deserve they've earned it,
Speaker 10: go get it. But if you're the team that's trying
Speaker 10: to move around the dollars, I mean, you have really
Speaker 10: put yourself in a terrible spot. The Bangals did it
Speaker 10: to them twice. First of all, they should have done
Speaker 10: Jamar Chase last year. They were close. I believe they
Speaker 10: got hung up on guaranteed money, which now you're like, ah,
Speaker 10: I mean the market jumped so significantly, right. Nax Crosby
Speaker 10: deal made him the highest paid non quarterback, you know,
Speaker 10: by a little bit. Now the Miles Garrett makes him
Speaker 10: by a lot. And the Bengals have said publicly that
Speaker 10: they're going to make Jamar Chase the highest paid non quarterbacks,
Speaker 10: So I mean they've got no wiggle room and now
Speaker 10: that's going to be much more expensive.
Speaker 11: Same thing for Trey Hendrickson if they have any thoughts
Speaker 11: of being able to keep him.
Speaker 10: Well, the market for pass rushers just took that big
Speaker 10: leap too with Miles Garrett, so that's double trouble for them.
Speaker 10: And then of course the Michael Carson's thing, which is, again,
Speaker 10: why why do these teams wait? I don't know, but
Speaker 10: they're going to pay much much more than they would
Speaker 10: have if they had just been proactive and gotten it
Speaker 10: done early. You always, if you're the team, you want
Speaker 10: to be the first, right if you're the player, you
Speaker 10: want to be the last because you want to top
Speaker 10: the market. From the team point.
Speaker 2: Of view, this was not good and I like what
Speaker 2: Buffalo did they were proactive. This kind of came out
Speaker 2: of nowhere with Josh Allen getting a new deal. But
Speaker 2: it gives them flexibility, yes.
Speaker 10: Right, And you don't have to you don't have to
Speaker 10: think about this and there's no The other thing about
Speaker 10: waiting is it creates tension with the player, right, like,
Speaker 10: which you should not want to do. If again, the
Speaker 10: Bengals know they're keeping Jamar Chase, right, he is a superstar,
Speaker 10: he's your guy, He's Joe Burrows guy. You can't let
Speaker 10: him out of the building. Why would you ever want
Speaker 10: to create tens with a player like that. So in
Speaker 10: the case of Buffalo, I mean, obviously Josh Allen is
Speaker 10: a stud, right, the MVP. Where would that franchise be
Speaker 10: without him? Yeah, they were proactive. Let's make him happy,
Speaker 10: keep him happy, like anything, anything to make him happy.
Speaker 2: And it's like the Bengals are paying their taxes late.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys pay their taxes late. They're not And once again,
Speaker 2: they have to be pretty smart to get in the
Speaker 2: position to be able to be an owner of a team.
Speaker 2: But there are times when I just with Jerry Jones,
Speaker 2: he did this with dak overpaid for DK see d
Speaker 2: Lamb now you can look at ce Dee Lamb and say,
Speaker 2: all right, they got a better deal with the you know,
Speaker 2: wide receiving market. But Michael Parsons, you know, he's great,
Speaker 2: Pay him, pay him, and because down the road these
Speaker 2: other guys are going to get paid as well.
Speaker 10: But well, and the other thing, if I could just
Speaker 10: add this, the other thing is when they when you
Speaker 10: wait and it stretches throughout the off season, as we
Speaker 10: saw happened with Dallas last year. Like the players admitted
Speaker 10: it was a distraction, right like when you go down
Speaker 10: to literally opening day for Dak Ruscott, right hours before
Speaker 10: kickoff of the season. I mean they admitted it was
Speaker 10: on their minds. And that's that's the last thing you
Speaker 10: want for a team that's you know, considers themselves.
Speaker 11: In the mix.
Speaker 2: Now they're all in, and that's what they are. The
Speaker 2: Cowboys are all in. Great to busy with you again,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Great to see you, Dan. Thanks.
Speaker 2: That's Judy Batista, senior national columnist and co host of
Speaker 2: the Insiders on NFL Network. Yeah, there are just certain teams,
Speaker 2: certain moves, things that make you go, hmm, Michah Parsons
Speaker 2: is going to cost you. We've said that this was
Speaker 2: last year. I think we talked about the Cowboys were
Speaker 2: in a a good ish but bad ish situation because
Speaker 2: they were going to have to pay Dak CD Lamb
Speaker 2: and Micah Parsons, all at the top of the pay
Speaker 2: scale for their positions. If they are great, then pay them.
Speaker 2: The same thing with the Bengals. Now you have to
Speaker 2: pay Jamar Chase over forty million dollars. You could have
Speaker 2: saved yourself four or five million dollars, but a year
Speaker 2: add that up. Now, all of a sudden, you're saving
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars that can help you in other areas
Speaker 2: of your team.
Speaker 3: Just don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Marvin, it's like the beautiful girl that is way
Speaker 1: too hot for you, and it's like, man, she's smart,
Speaker 1: she's funny, she's into you.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I want to marry you. So
Speaker 3: what's the issue? I'm worried? Like, what's the issue? I've
Speaker 3: got commitment issues?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, commit to Jamar Chase, commit to Micah Parsons,
Speaker 2: or be committed for being crazy. All right, We'll take
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Speaker 4: Yes, Dan, I have the results for you. Who had
Speaker 4: the best weekend excluding Josh Allen Adams is taking it
Speaker 4: right now with fifty three percent, fall by Miles Garrett
Speaker 4: at thirty seven and a half percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it. With Davante Adams. You know, you
Speaker 2: go from the Jets and not quite sure was he
Speaker 2: going to go back to Green Bay? Was there another
Speaker 2: opportunity for him? The Rams swoop in and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden they upgrade their roster. Rams have had a
Speaker 2: good off season so far. Matthew Stafford coming back for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. That's a young team. Aside from
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, Devonte Adams, that defense is really good. And
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett, I don't think as much as he wanted
Speaker 2: to leave, there was nothing he could do. If the
Speaker 2: owner won't talk to you. He says, you talk to
Speaker 2: the GM. He wants you to stay. The GM said
Speaker 2: we're not trading you, and from what I was told,
Speaker 2: they didn't receive anything of I think they thought they
Speaker 2: were going this is what I was told, that they
Speaker 2: were going to get a herschel Walker like hall for
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett. Didn't get anything anything near that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe they didn't even take phone calls.
Speaker 2: But that's one of those where you got to save
Speaker 2: face for Miles Garrett and it's like, hey, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna make you the highest paid defensive player because he
Speaker 2: did want to compete. I don't know what leverage he
Speaker 2: had other than he was going to hold out Buddha
Speaker 2: in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Hi, Buddha?
Speaker 5: What up? DP? Happy Monday boys? Every day it's a
Speaker 5: super Bowl, Frittie. Let's go DP real quick? Left turning here.
Speaker 12: Last Thursday, you guys were talking about the deathbed confession.
Speaker 12: So I called in on Friday to put a bow
Speaker 12: on it, and I got nobody and Uh, as a
Speaker 12: Dodger's fan, die hard Dan, I would be.
Speaker 5: Remiss if I didn't bring up the.
Speaker 12: Twenty seventeen Hugh Town Astros, especially jose Al.
Speaker 5: Tub and Is don't tear my Jersey off situation. I mean,
Speaker 5: that would just be Jersey to find find out about.
Speaker 5: But I digress. They have best of the weekend.
Speaker 12: How relevant the NFL is, I mean, even in its
Speaker 12: off season.
Speaker 5: It's it's like so impressive to see how much noise
Speaker 5: it makes.
Speaker 12: I mean truly amazing, how many storylines there are and
Speaker 12: moves there are to be made. Still, I mean, the
Speaker 12: shield is strong and worst of the weekend in Miles Garrett,
Speaker 12: I mean when he said it's not up, it's not
Speaker 12: about the money. When I heard him say that, I
Speaker 12: was like, I mean, it's all about the money, right,
Speaker 12: I mean, and he needs to remind himself next year.
Speaker 12: Dan around mid season, I'd say that he chose to
Speaker 12: stay in Cleveland, which is going to be not good.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he chose to stay. I want
Speaker 2: to be fair to the situation. And as I said
Speaker 2: a half hour ago, I have more information than I
Speaker 2: can let on in this With this story, I promised
Speaker 2: to source yesterday. But I don't think that they were
Speaker 2: either fielding calls or got anything that was going to
Speaker 2: blow them away. It doesn't mean that Miles Garrett didn't
Speaker 2: want to go and play for a contender. It was
Speaker 2: I don't think there was really the opportunity to be
Speaker 2: able to go. And yes, it's about the money he
Speaker 2: was going to get paid if he went someplace else.
Speaker 2: But when they say it's not about the money, it's
Speaker 2: about the money, Gus in La, I guess what's on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 7: Good more than mister Patrick Hopere and the boys had
Speaker 7: a good weekend. Well, you know, not too many best
Speaker 7: for me this weekend. You know, we had our eight game.
Speaker 8: Losing streak ended by that team in Boston.
Speaker 7: Lebron goes down, hopefully it's only one to two weeks,
Speaker 7: and then my lady Trojans lose close to the you know.
Speaker 8: The buzzy yesterday to that team in Westwood.
Speaker 5: Ucla.
Speaker 7: Had a good basketball weekend for me.
Speaker 3: It was fun.
Speaker 8: Though we've seen DK Metcalf comes to the Steelers. Best
Speaker 8: of the weekend. I know it really wasn't the weekend.
Speaker 8: But Thursday night I got to go to Staples Center
Speaker 8: I still call it Staples Center, I don't call it
Speaker 8: Crystal and watch the Lakers and Knicks. There's something different
Speaker 8: about this team. Dave mcmannimon kind of touched on it
Speaker 8: that there was something different, like every shot was just
Speaker 8: electric through the building. Luca.
Speaker 7: It's all one hundred percent Luca, and it's brought fun
Speaker 7: to this team. We haven't had fun with this team
Speaker 7: in years, and it's brought a level of excitement to it.
Speaker 7: I know that Charles Barkley and Kendrick Perkins are now
Speaker 7: fighting like senior citizens at the Center about why the
Speaker 7: NBA is relevant again.
Speaker 8: But hey man, it's fun being a fan in LA.
Speaker 8: No offense to Cleveland in Oklahoma City, but no one's
Speaker 8: watching you, guys, and it's because the Lakers right now.
Speaker 7: Sorry you boys, have a great week.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that we shouldn't watch the Cleveland Cavaliers,
Speaker 2: who have won fourteen in row. You may not find
Speaker 2: them exciting. You may want to watch Luca and Lebron,
Speaker 2: which I understand. Lebron injured is growing. Paulie thinks this
Speaker 2: could be a good thing for Lebron. James, we'll have
Speaker 2: that for you coming up. When Pauli goes, hey, Lebron's growing,
Speaker 2: it's a good thing that he got hurt, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, I'll and listen to that. I had Friday off,
Speaker 2: by the way, my wife got me a gift for
Speaker 2: Christmas that we were going wine tasting, and so we
Speaker 2: went outside of Santa Barbara, ran into some wonderful people.
Speaker 2: Got to go to my favorite. I can't say it's
Speaker 2: a winery because all they do is I got to
Speaker 2: go out to where they grow the grapes and it's
Speaker 2: a sea smoke. Now, what I found out was the sea.
Speaker 2: It's really fog smoke, but the locals call it sea smoke,
Speaker 2: and it's just this fog that comes in in the
Speaker 2: morning off the ocean and it just blankets the grapes
Speaker 2: and it creates a wonderful pino noir. But the people
Speaker 2: were great. Ran into a lot of fans of the show.
Speaker 2: Then I went to a fundraiser in Santa Barbara Saturday
Speaker 2: night and it turned it was for first responders and
Speaker 2: they did a wonderful job. Hooting The Blowfish was playing.
Speaker 2: Kenny Loggins was there, Michael McDonald was there. Who else
Speaker 2: did I see? Benji Madden of Good Charlotte was there,
Speaker 2: Miles Teller actor was there. Yeah, Oprah, Oprah was not there.
Speaker 2: I was told that Prince Harry was going to be there.
Speaker 2: I didn't see him. I was looking for Megan Marco.
Speaker 2: I wasn't looking for Harry, but I didn't see either
Speaker 2: one of them. But wonderful weekend in the Santa Barbara
Speaker 2: Montecito area. One hour in the books, two more to
Speaker 2: go on this Monday. More phone calls coming up after
Speaker 2: this