Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. He's on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of thirty. Welcome to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, presented by Into It Quick Books, the official
Speaker 1: sponsor of the NFL. My name is Dan Kansas, and
Speaker 1: I'm coming to you from a city filled with heroes. Yes,
Speaker 1: still in funkers, and I don't think it's changing anytime soon.
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Wesley, and Greg Rostal. What is up, boys? Hey? Dan,
Speaker 1: how's everybody doing. It's getting real, right Mark, some dark
Speaker 1: forces now that are coming over us, solid, solid sea.
Speaker 1: I feel like yesterday was you know, hovering towards b
Speaker 1: plus still had some novelty attached to it. Um, we've
Speaker 1: dipped today. You've also you were in the Bates Motel
Speaker 1: through Wednesday, and now I could tell just by the
Speaker 1: background you're back at what appears to be your home.
Speaker 1: So I imagine that has been a bit of a
Speaker 1: rude awakening as well. Um. Actually, as a fact check this,
Speaker 1: I still have this place for one more one more episode,
Speaker 1: so that's see it is that there's a picture in
Speaker 1: the background that you questioned before. But I did spend
Speaker 1: um a solid chunk of the day, as I'm sure
Speaker 1: some of you are on your own, um, homeschooling a child,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's a career that I'm
Speaker 1: totally equipped to double up on while also uh finding
Speaker 1: out where Joe Joe Natsen signed with. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: those two things happening at once here. You look great
Speaker 1: in that Titans hat and uh bright red or I
Speaker 1: don't even know a color that is Nike gear from
Speaker 1: the owner's meeting, ma mark red. Wait, throw your hands
Speaker 1: up again? Do you really have We've talked about that
Speaker 1: lost just for the women theory. Okay, he's out. Um,
Speaker 1: just so we're on the same page, Mark in terms
Speaker 1: of like total honesty here in the bunker on the
Speaker 1: bunker cast Originally I believe you had said that the
Speaker 1: residents that you were in was through Wednesday. But now
Speaker 1: we're Thursday and you're still there. So something changed. So
Speaker 1: what no, So what was going to happen was that
Speaker 1: today was the day that I was going to relinquish
Speaker 1: this space so that um, my significant other could work here.
Speaker 1: But her schedule has been jacked up and in fact,
Speaker 1: because nobody on the planet wants to stay at um
Speaker 1: airbnbs in Los Angeles, right now. We have re upped
Speaker 1: for it on a very affordable deal into the recent Well,
Speaker 1: because if I tried to do this show from what
Speaker 1: is happening at my home right now, you would have
Speaker 1: a fifth and six member of the of the pod
Speaker 1: making plenty of noise about non football items. Be honest,
Speaker 1: are you squatting you mean, just simply not leaving the
Speaker 1: it's within it's within your legal right. Once you're in
Speaker 1: the residents, you don't have to leave. Well, that's I'll
Speaker 1: say this a week from now that maybe the strategy.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure that was still a rule, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure either. Contact your lawyer first. Nothing nothing feels
Speaker 1: relevant anymore. Uh. And you know what it is, it's
Speaker 1: such a you know, tense, uneasy time. And I did.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bothered by Sean Payton now has tested
Speaker 1: positive for the coronavirus. And I know Peyton is going
Speaker 1: to have the best medical care possible and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's gonna be fine, But it is just again, it's intruding.
Speaker 1: You know, we're using this football right now is a
Speaker 1: distraction and then and then that happens, and you just,
Speaker 1: from from my standpoint, just keeping it totally real. I
Speaker 1: just I get a sense of anxiety that if as
Speaker 1: these um celebrities and well known sports figures, as the
Speaker 1: number starts them mount, I get nervous about what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen when the testings are become more widely available. I'm
Speaker 1: starting to get a feeling this is the cast is
Speaker 1: going to become a regular way of life, and um,
Speaker 1: things are not going back anytime soon. Is anybody else
Speaker 1: feeling that sense of I don't know anxiety? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's safe to assume we are
Speaker 1: doing this for a while, even in the best case
Speaker 1: scenario of the next month, how that plays out. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be doing this for a long time
Speaker 1: that I think we're all on the same page there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Keisha and I have only been outside of the house
Speaker 1: to take walks since the weekend, and when I last
Speaker 1: went to the grocery store, I wore black gloves and
Speaker 1: brought a mask with me. I think I'll be putting
Speaker 1: the mask on next time. My anxiety is I can
Speaker 1: say my immune system is strong, but I don't trust
Speaker 1: it because I'm out here wearing gloves in a mask
Speaker 1: and it's a child on the way. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got a hot situation in your recent past and in
Speaker 1: the near future to attend to. So I guess what
Speaker 1: we're trying to say is this sucks. Did someone tweet
Speaker 1: a tweet, a photo or like post on Instagram? Was
Speaker 1: that you Mark? Yeah, because I think it posted the
Speaker 1: stream so down below, like fans keep trying to jump
Speaker 1: into their broadcast and I'm constantly like banning them, like
Speaker 1: people are trying to get it down there down it
Speaker 1: gives you it's gonna keep Ricky busy for the show today. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I'm like just getting rid of people trying to log
Speaker 1: into our stream. Oh. I can see why, because it's
Speaker 1: got the hideous job editing, cropping, I should say cropping
Speaker 1: the photo there. It has the very easy to type
Speaker 1: address to the stream of people in Ireland trying to
Speaker 1: get into. Literally, I just saw one guy and he
Speaker 1: started smirking because he could see it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to ban people. Mark. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: would be the effect. You're gonna need to update your
Speaker 1: ninja o uh security online training courses at NFL Media.
Speaker 1: That's very I am the only one I assumed that
Speaker 1: did the Ninjio. Course that came out two days ago
Speaker 1: and it was it was pertinent. Yeah, that's heading into
Speaker 1: NFL network tomorrow, and I am very curious of what
Speaker 1: is the scene is going to be like there. I
Speaker 1: feel like like anything could Like Paul tag Leabou might
Speaker 1: just be in in like a corner office. Tags. Respect
Speaker 1: the hell out of Tags. I couldn't remember his name
Speaker 1: last week, but I respect the guy. I'll tell you that. Um.
Speaker 1: All right, So this is our were we I think
Speaker 1: we're reaching a record we've tied in all time around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast record. This is our fifth podcast in
Speaker 1: as many days, and we are going to close out
Speaker 1: the week strong and uh tomorrow, so we are going
Speaker 1: to set an a t N record six straight shows.
Speaker 1: And we're doing it because it is the new league year,
Speaker 1: and even though things aren't popping off, and they really
Speaker 1: haven't been since the Tom Brady News, news continues to
Speaker 1: kind of trickle in, and we're gonna keep you up
Speaker 1: to date on everything that's going on in the NFL,
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of a analysis, a touch
Speaker 1: of mirth. Uh, figure out what's going on behind the
Speaker 1: scenes with Cessler because I still think we don't have
Speaker 1: the whole story there with his living situation. I mean,
Speaker 1: why isn't simone at that house? Now? How come she
Speaker 1: has been granted status? We really haven't had that much
Speaker 1: to do in the last like three or four days,
Speaker 1: have we? I mean it's I think this is more
Speaker 1: about where the show occurs. And um, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to be here all day today, which is why I
Speaker 1: was home. And uh, if she were here, where would
Speaker 1: my nine and seven year old? So I I there
Speaker 1: are there is a logical reason why she's not here
Speaker 1: with me at the moment. Is the residence larger than
Speaker 1: your home? No? The residents reminds me of the first
Speaker 1: apartment I lived in when I moved to Hollywood the
Speaker 1: first time and was here for seventy five days and
Speaker 1: worked at Hamburger Hamlet on Hollywood, And what I rented
Speaker 1: was a eight foot by eight foot room that didn't
Speaker 1: have a big enough space or a bed. That's essentially this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I looked for a space that probably isn't
Speaker 1: even applicable to be on Airbnb, and bang found it.
Speaker 1: And uh, not to make light of it at all, obviously,
Speaker 1: because people are dying, of course, not well, No, I'm
Speaker 1: moving on from your situation. Um, people are dying, of
Speaker 1: course from this um coronavirus. But I guess you know
Speaker 1: Sean Payton testing positive. Mark. We just recently came in
Speaker 1: direct contact with the man at the scouting combine. Do
Speaker 1: you have any concerns there? You touched him. I saw
Speaker 1: you touch him. Yeah. We talked about this on a
Speaker 1: on one of those combine shows where um, I believe
Speaker 1: the move was and I had clothing on and he
Speaker 1: did too. Obviously we were in a in a cramit bar,
Speaker 1: but you know he was. There was a bunch of
Speaker 1: brows everywhere, and I like had to create like an
Speaker 1: alleyway for him to get through, and I basically put
Speaker 1: my hand on his shoulder and kind of tried to
Speaker 1: sweep out. Um. You know, the flotsam around us, so
Speaker 1: you could have a walking path, but you're right in
Speaker 1: the process. Um, there was contact and close proximity. And
Speaker 1: if I ever were to catch the coronavirus from Sean Payton,
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like the coolest way, not
Speaker 1: the coolest way, but it would be a notable way
Speaker 1: to catch it. I could think of some better ways,
Speaker 1: but that would be that would be top five. I
Speaker 1: did just look it up in my phone because I
Speaker 1: did transcribe it as it happened in real time. Uh,
Speaker 1: you said, let's make some way from my man, and
Speaker 1: then according to my notes, you clasped his shoulder, and
Speaker 1: then Peyton looked up, stunned and made eye contact with me,
Speaker 1: thinking that I knew him and that you knew him.
Speaker 1: But nobody knew anybody and Dan, that was twelve seconds
Speaker 1: before I walked up to a random girl sitting at
Speaker 1: a table and took a giant swig of wine out
Speaker 1: of her glass. So, if anything, I paid it forward,
Speaker 1: if if I, if I, if I've caught anything? So
Speaker 1: has someone else say that's fair? All right? So let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Yes, Sean Payton test positive probably won't
Speaker 1: be the last nf fell figure that we hear about.
Speaker 1: That it's popping up at all the major sports um,
Speaker 1: but let's hope it doesn't. It isn't a news item
Speaker 1: that comes up too often. Let's get into the big
Speaker 1: news of Thursday, which is the Los Angeles Rams are
Speaker 1: maybe not a complete rebuild, but a complete reorganization organization
Speaker 1: of what they are doing and what their operation is about.
Speaker 1: And a huge domino fell, uh this afternoon when the
Speaker 1: Rams released Todd Gurley with the post June first designation.
Speaker 1: You will remember that he signed a four year, sixty
Speaker 1: million dollar extension is how it was described back in
Speaker 1: July of two thousand eighteen, not even two two years ago.
Speaker 1: But later that season, Uh, he was a dominant player
Speaker 1: and then his knee started aching. It was an issue
Speaker 1: through the playoffs and to the Super Bowl where he
Speaker 1: barely played. And then last year, despite scoring fourteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: for the Rams, was on a workload, did not carry
Speaker 1: the ball near as much at career loads and touches
Speaker 1: and yards, and didn't have the same explosion. And the
Speaker 1: Rams West a team in salary cap hell, decide they
Speaker 1: got to move on from Gurley, even if it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a you know, a bad look organizationally, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna cost him financially. Yeah. I think we saw some
Speaker 1: improvement towards the end of the year and his agility,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't enough, and especially from a guy where
Speaker 1: like you said, they reduced his workload and he still
Speaker 1: couldn't have that same explosiveness or regain that same explosiveness
Speaker 1: he did in his all pro years. I immediately thought, well, ironically,
Speaker 1: this may open up a spot for Melvin Gordon to
Speaker 1: go across town and find a starting job in free
Speaker 1: agency at a much less um amount than he wanted
Speaker 1: in the first place. But this is an opening now
Speaker 1: for him, and I saw that. Adam Schefter reported that
Speaker 1: before Gurley was released, the Dolphins and Foulins were two
Speaker 1: teams interested in him. I don't know why you would
Speaker 1: invest a lot in Todd Gurley at this point. I
Speaker 1: guess interest is one thing. Why not take maybe take
Speaker 1: a shot at him. The fact that the Rams who
Speaker 1: love what Todd Gurley meant to the organization so much
Speaker 1: that they gave him this contract two years before they
Speaker 1: needed to. I mean, he would have just been finishing
Speaker 1: his rookie contract this year. Um says what they felt
Speaker 1: about him. And they're not cutting him because of finances.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're saving a little bit of money once
Speaker 1: you get past June for to sign their rookie class
Speaker 1: in terms of the cap, but they're eating tons of
Speaker 1: dead money. Uh, They're just saying Todd Gurley can't help
Speaker 1: us win. That like he is a net negative, that
Speaker 1: is like not worth having around as someone we would
Speaker 1: give the ball to like he's not He's just not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I think they're scouting report on him should
Speaker 1: be taken into account by all these people that want
Speaker 1: to match Todd Gurley with the Bucks and uh team
Speaker 1: be or see, you're right, the Falcons were mentioned and
Speaker 1: they have a need, but I wouldn't. I'd want to
Speaker 1: get a really good close look at Todd Gurley before
Speaker 1: I paid him a cent, and I don't. You can't
Speaker 1: do that right now. So you know, his marketability is
Speaker 1: probably hurt by teams wanting to take a pretty thorough
Speaker 1: medical check on him. And I'm just you know, the
Speaker 1: Rams who also let Clay Matthews go, which is not
Speaker 1: as big of a surprise, but you hear that Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks is out there um as trade bait and that
Speaker 1: teams with him similar situation medical wise, very concerned about
Speaker 1: the concussion situation with Brandon Cooks and you know it
Speaker 1: was noted on the on NFL network. Well, the Rams
Speaker 1: are fine because they love him so much. Well, it's like, actually,
Speaker 1: he sounds kind of untradeable at the moment also, and
Speaker 1: so just to me, it's kind of crazy and we
Speaker 1: say this all the time about teams that get into
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl window and then two years later there's
Speaker 1: they're in a totally different continent. But the Rams of
Speaker 1: today UM are in a shocking place. If you looked
Speaker 1: at where they were two years ago, it's it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty wild because they were the epicenter and
Speaker 1: talk of the NFL and they are far from it
Speaker 1: right now. And you see how it works in the league.
Speaker 1: They were a team UH entering last year and certainly
Speaker 1: the year before that, their Super Bowl season, where they
Speaker 1: were so aggressive in their free agents spending, and you
Speaker 1: just wondered, like, none of us are capologists, but it
Speaker 1: just felt like the bill was gonna come to eventually
Speaker 1: and they were gonna end up being in a tough spot.
Speaker 1: And that turned out to be UH, and they have
Speaker 1: a ton of work to do to kind of fix
Speaker 1: their cap and at the same time, it is a
Speaker 1: complete world of UM mystery for them going forward. Here's
Speaker 1: just the brief rundown of who they've lost now in
Speaker 1: this offseason. Girly, Dante Fowler, Michael Brocker's, Corey Littleton, Clay Matthews,
Speaker 1: Nicol Robie Coleman, Eric Weddle, Wade Phillips has gone. Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 1: They're trying to offload. That's a guy. He's a really
Speaker 1: talented playing acre uh in his twenties, but he cannot
Speaker 1: stay on the field anymore unfortunately because of these head injuries.
Speaker 1: And you imagine his market is very low as well
Speaker 1: at this point. So the Rams are in a very
Speaker 1: tricky spot. The window again closes so quickly, and they
Speaker 1: are just the latest example of that. It's it's early
Speaker 1: yet in the off season, but I can definitely envision
Speaker 1: a scenario where we're picking them to finish last in
Speaker 1: that division. With the improvement to Cardinals are making and
Speaker 1: the forty Niners and Seahawks were playoff teams last year,
Speaker 1: So it would not surprise me if we end up
Speaker 1: picking them to come in last. Great test for Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh if he if he's anywhere as good as we
Speaker 1: were making him out to be two years ago, they
Speaker 1: should be competitive. I mean, they were a nine and
Speaker 1: seven team. They have lost a lot, but they still
Speaker 1: have you know, Golf, Ramsey, Woods, Havenstein, Whitworth, Cooper, cop
Speaker 1: John Johnson, Jared Goff. I know it's it's not nearly
Speaker 1: the same team. But if you're a really good coaching
Speaker 1: staff and a good front office, which we've given them
Speaker 1: credit for, they should be able to fill in those
Speaker 1: role players and at least be competitive and what might
Speaker 1: be the toughest division in the league. I'm with I'm
Speaker 1: not even arguing with us. We might be picking them last.
Speaker 1: I might be picking them last. But if McVeigh is
Speaker 1: that going to coach and and Snead can fill find
Speaker 1: some role players here, they shouldn't be like a five
Speaker 1: and eleven team. I guess I don't. I don't quite
Speaker 1: see them being that bad in a way. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it comes much earlier in Sean mcveigh's head coaching career,
Speaker 1: but it's not the quarterback loss at the core of it,
Speaker 1: but a Matt Castle type test for Sean McVeigh, because
Speaker 1: it's like he just has about of the talent he
Speaker 1: had a year ago, if not less. The Girly contract
Speaker 1: was stupid. I think they really wanted him to kind
Speaker 1: of be the face and like he was their guy,
Speaker 1: and like all these other moves letting some of the
Speaker 1: defensive players go to me that those haven't been that
Speaker 1: big of a killer. Swinging and missing on Girly. That
Speaker 1: big sets them back, and as l A residents, it
Speaker 1: is a bummer because Girly is I think he's an
Speaker 1: interesting personnel and a guy that was a perfect kind
Speaker 1: of face of that team. It just didn't work out
Speaker 1: physically with the knee. It looks like it's a chronic issue.
Speaker 1: He's just twenty five years old. He was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the guy that was on you know, he was
Speaker 1: on all the billboards about this new stadium opening. He
Speaker 1: doesn't even make it to the new stadium. So the
Speaker 1: Rams are in transition. It will be very interesting to
Speaker 1: see where Girl ends up. I hope he ends up
Speaker 1: by the way. I hope he gets a shot first
Speaker 1: of all, which I imagine he'll get another contract, but
Speaker 1: he ends up in a spot where we can see, uh,
Speaker 1: if he has anything left. Because the one thing that
Speaker 1: is kind of been lost a little bit in the
Speaker 1: shuffle is that the Rams really were not set up
Speaker 1: very well on offense last year, including on their offensive line.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that makes up for everything, but that
Speaker 1: kind of got lost in the shuffle and everything was
Speaker 1: just attributed to be Girly being shot. That's fair dog,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's move on, one little, one little, one
Speaker 1: little note there, because because I think this would get
Speaker 1: on your radar, Dan that um Jalen Ramsey who obviously
Speaker 1: they give up two first round picks for thinking this
Speaker 1: would um, you know, be the the guy that puts
Speaker 1: him over the top and shoots them into Super Bowl
Speaker 1: two in a row. Uh, tweeted just simply wow after
Speaker 1: reading the girly news and so now I think on
Speaker 1: top of it, you might be dealing with certain players
Speaker 1: who are like do I want to spend my career
Speaker 1: and Jalen Ramsey's you know, extension candidate um hanging around
Speaker 1: a team that maybe is heading in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: I've I've let go of my frustration and disappointment and
Speaker 1: young Jalen Ramsey UM after the way he ended his
Speaker 1: Jacksonville career. But yes, I there maybe there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of karma coming after him now because he's in
Speaker 1: the middle of another rebuild on the other side of
Speaker 1: the country. Uh. Moving on, gentlemen. By the way, Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley's tweet, Damn I got fired on my day off
Speaker 1: hashtag quarantine and chill. I mean see that's that's what
Speaker 1: when they say get your money, like when he got
Speaker 1: thirty million guaranteed for those two years instead of like
Speaker 1: two millions. Like then you can make jokes. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like girl. He's got a good personality. I hope things
Speaker 1: work out for him. Moving on the goals make a
Speaker 1: good move, a big move for them, reaching agreement on
Speaker 1: a three year uh fifty million dollar extension with Darius Slay,
Speaker 1: who they acquired in a trade from the Lions earlier
Speaker 1: in the day in exchange for a third and fifth
Speaker 1: round picks in so it's cost them in this draft,
Speaker 1: but not a top of the line premium draft pick,
Speaker 1: and they get one of the best cornerbacks in the
Speaker 1: league and seven years of the Lions. Uh. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that always did the job in Detroit. Uh, and
Speaker 1: now he joins an Eagle secondary that frankly, Greg needed
Speaker 1: somebody like him to study the ship. Yeah they did.
Speaker 1: They brought back Jalen Mills, they lost Malcolm Jenkins, but
Speaker 1: they needed a real cornerback and he's someone that players
Speaker 1: seemed to respect his skill level in a way that
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus doesn't like. Players seem to think he's
Speaker 1: one of the best guys in late because he's one
Speaker 1: of the few guys that follows around number one receivers.
Speaker 1: I like, uh, what the Eagles have done. We didn't
Speaker 1: really get into the Javon Hargrave signing the other day,
Speaker 1: but I thought that was one of the best value
Speaker 1: and impact signings. They added him to the defensive line,
Speaker 1: and Slay Slays an impact player too. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: if you're gonna overpay in free agency, I much preferred
Speaker 1: doing it with these nucleus type of players, like you said, impact,
Speaker 1: Javon Hargrave and Darius Slay and I think Slays the
Speaker 1: top five cornerback in the league. I like that as
Speaker 1: opposed to what's a team like the Lions is doing,
Speaker 1: which is over paying for mediocrity. Give me the Eagles offseason.
Speaker 1: I like it. Why Why didn't the Lions keep Slay?
Speaker 1: Why was I don't think he would have I think
Speaker 1: they knew he would not have stayed there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just seemed like the relationship is broken to me.
Speaker 1: But but on paper, you move it, well, you move
Speaker 1: him for a third and a fifth and I you know, again,
Speaker 1: we just talked about what Jalen Ramsey went for to
Speaker 1: first so and I get that that was too much
Speaker 1: for Jalen Ramsey, but a third and a fifth feels underwhelming.
Speaker 1: And to West's point, like they dropped fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: on Hollo Viti who has twenty career starts um in
Speaker 1: five years, and that you went and got Desmond Truffont
Speaker 1: to replace Darius Slay and they're probably gonna have to
Speaker 1: go Every mock draft has them, you know, unless they
Speaker 1: trade out of the spot, taking um Jeff Okuda at
Speaker 1: the cornerback in at number three, and so then you're
Speaker 1: just you're you're losing guys because it's like you lose
Speaker 1: Um Snacks Harris and you move on from him and
Speaker 1: you go get Danny Sheldon. It's like you're moving away
Speaker 1: from veterans that you that you traded for just to
Speaker 1: go get new guys. And it's like, I don't see
Speaker 1: team that's Yeah, they don't. They're not a team that's
Speaker 1: stacks strength on strength. Ever, there's nothing about the team
Speaker 1: that's ever overwhelming for a for an opponent. Does anybody
Speaker 1: want to put a sandwich against me? I am certain
Speaker 1: the Lions are trading out of that pick and they're
Speaker 1: gonna pick up a bounty and somebody's gonna go get
Speaker 1: a quarterback at three. Anybody want to take me on
Speaker 1: on that. I'm with you because I think the suitors
Speaker 1: they'll there will be suitors for that. Because even even
Speaker 1: if the Redskins did trade out of two for some reason,
Speaker 1: and you have to go to two to get a quarterback,
Speaker 1: there might be another person training to three to get
Speaker 1: the next quarterback. Don't the Chargers have to basically, I mean,
Speaker 1: depending on what happened or the Dolphins, well yeah, or
Speaker 1: the Panthers or the Panthers right, Patriots and then you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: come get him Patriots. Patriots go get to uh somehow
Speaker 1: Belichick gets to Patricia for a seventh round pick. I
Speaker 1: guarantee it. Ma Patricia just lets New England in there
Speaker 1: for like a conditional seventh mark. The Patriots aren't special anymore.
Speaker 1: It won't happen. Just another team though they're not special
Speaker 1: for about four weeks. Then they're gonna they'll find Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's twenty one year old d NA successor. Um oh.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the Lions, they do did you guys
Speaker 1: mentioned Desmon trufont We did it, and I thought that
Speaker 1: was a gamble worth taking. He played really well for
Speaker 1: the five or six games that he played last year
Speaker 1: at least made it a lot of good plays on
Speaker 1: the ball. He was hurt for one of the first
Speaker 1: times of his career, and he was getting paid a ton,
Speaker 1: but it he's not getting paid as much anymore. And
Speaker 1: like he's always been a good starter. If they were
Speaker 1: gonna at least they picked up someone. He's been beaten
Speaker 1: more often the last couple of years by average wide receivers.
Speaker 1: That would raise a few alarm bills to me. He's
Speaker 1: making eleven million a year. I mean, that's not that's cheap.
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point that's it's not cheap, but
Speaker 1: that's kind of like lower tier starter money. At this point,
Speaker 1: I will always defer to you and as as West
Speaker 1: noted yesterday when it comes to contracts stuff, because you're
Speaker 1: right and it's not my wheelhouse up uh. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Greg's Patriots, Joe Tune, he signed his franchise tag tender.
Speaker 1: Didn't waste any time doing that. It's about for sixteen
Speaker 1: million dollars and I guess nobody really put it together,
Speaker 1: but it was the biggest amongst maybe the biggest surprise
Speaker 1: of franchise tag deadline that to and he ended up
Speaker 1: getting tagged by the Pats, and that was a hint
Speaker 1: in retrospect that they all of a sudden had more
Speaker 1: money with than they were maybe other people expected, because
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was going out the door. And one thing
Speaker 1: that does annoy me. I mentioned that Greg that I've
Speaker 1: now read in multiple places that it was basically a
Speaker 1: lock that Jets. The Jets were gonna add tuny uh
Speaker 1: and the Patriots. Uh, you know a little double dip.
Speaker 1: Not only they get to keep this guy, they get
Speaker 1: to stick it to my Jets. Well enjoy it while
Speaker 1: at last, because you're not gonna be able to do
Speaker 1: that too much longer. I I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: if they only franchise tagged them just despite the Jets.
Speaker 1: I mean like it's like if you're if you're Tunis agent,
Speaker 1: you let that out there and then you although you
Speaker 1: probably want that Jets money because right now he's just
Speaker 1: on a one year contract, I was. I was taken
Speaker 1: them with Bill Belichick's statement on the franchise tag, which
Speaker 1: made it pretty clear they really want to sign him
Speaker 1: long term, and he's one of the you know, key players,
Speaker 1: and unless it's all just bs, I think they are
Speaker 1: really gonna keep him. Um, all right, Joe Flacco West
Speaker 1: we had many spirited conversations about Mr Flacco. Uh last offseason. Uh,
Speaker 1: it did not work out for the former Super Bowl
Speaker 1: m v P in Denver. He flamed out, came down
Speaker 1: with another neck injury. UM, and the Broncos officially UH
Speaker 1: cut ties with him, waved him with a failed physical
Speaker 1: design NATION. He didn't require next surgery, but he expects
Speaker 1: to get clearance and wants to play in thirty five
Speaker 1: years old. Uh. He looks like he's heading towards the
Speaker 1: clipboard stage of his career, whether he likes it or not.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there are several teams that could could
Speaker 1: get better in that quarterback room with Flacco as the
Speaker 1: number two guy. Yeah. I think if if Matt Shob's
Speaker 1: career is instructive in any way, it tells us that
Speaker 1: Flacco has another five or six years of holding the
Speaker 1: clipboard and collecting millions and millions of dollars in that
Speaker 1: number two role, as long as he keeps his mouth
Speaker 1: shut and it's supportive of the starter. Like what a
Speaker 1: different tone from Westlan. I don't mean he's done keep
Speaker 1: your mouth shut one, cash your check and shut your mouth.
Speaker 1: He's Flacco does not seem like a guy who wants
Speaker 1: to play until he's forty. Just the way he's talked,
Speaker 1: it would not shock me if he retired, Like if
Speaker 1: he doesn't get anything but like a four million dollar offer.
Speaker 1: I could just see him saying, so long, I can
Speaker 1: go work on my acting. Get get back on the
Speaker 1: Johnny United movie. I gotta get that United Bio pick
Speaker 1: off the ground. You just gotta do it. Uh. We
Speaker 1: mentioned the Patriots and Tom Brady, who's no longer there.
Speaker 1: It has not been announced officially, but everybody knows Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is the next starting quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Also something we talked about on yesterday's show that for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, at least according to Whisper Slash reports, tom
Speaker 1: Brady is like obsessed with playing with Antonio Brown and uh,
Speaker 1: he was interested in Brown joining that great wide receiver
Speaker 1: room in Tampa. But rap Sheet said that the Bucks
Speaker 1: are highly unlikely to sign the former All Pro wide receiver. So,
Speaker 1: for whatever that's worth, that's what's going on there. I
Speaker 1: think part of that, I wonder because the other report
Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter and you you're hearing it all over
Speaker 1: the place. Now is that all these free agents that
Speaker 1: aren't signed and they realized at this point it's a
Speaker 1: lower cast of characters are all calling up the Bucks saying,
Speaker 1: we want to come to Tampa Bay and play with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. So it's like, what if someone like in
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders or someone else's out there, I mean, Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown is a nuclear bomb ready to go off. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that you have to go down the
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown route. If all the others players want to
Speaker 1: to join up, they already don't need a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: To be honest, it makes sense right because Brady in
Speaker 1: the new surroundings, it's the buzziest move of the off
Speaker 1: season in many off seasons. Uh, you don't have to
Speaker 1: play with if you're gonna get a chance to play
Speaker 1: with them, you don't have to do it on the
Speaker 1: stuffy Patriot Way under Belichick, which is such you know,
Speaker 1: business oriented operations. Some guys don't like it. You get
Speaker 1: to go down and play in Tampa with the tax breaks,
Speaker 1: and Bruce arian two is the players coach. I get
Speaker 1: why because you could I mean, guys could have always
Speaker 1: said I want to go play with Tom Brady. But
Speaker 1: this seems like something where players would want to go
Speaker 1: there in this new exciting environment. What's going on at
Speaker 1: the big Pirate Ship. Yeah, I could see them signing
Speaker 1: a safety, maybe a third wide receiver, a passing down
Speaker 1: running back. But I don't know where all of these
Speaker 1: like high impact free agents are going to come from,
Speaker 1: most of them already off the board. I wonder with them.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are in the ultimate win There is
Speaker 1: not a more win now team than the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers that I can remember. Because Bruce said they had
Speaker 1: their quarterback and their coach probably want to retire after
Speaker 1: one or two more years at most. I mean, arians
Speaker 1: would love to get out of there. I mean, they
Speaker 1: need to win now. They should just go crazy. These
Speaker 1: things do not work out, though, so I I want to.
Speaker 1: I am excited to watch this as much for the
Speaker 1: potential um implosion factor. One of the best books I
Speaker 1: read when I was was young was The Worst Team
Speaker 1: Money Could Buy about that Mets team from I believe
Speaker 1: what nine one or ninety two were. They try they
Speaker 1: try to simply buy a team and it did not
Speaker 1: work at all, and they're still paying Bobby Benia and
Speaker 1: it's like you know, you never know what the ripple
Speaker 1: effect will be UM from something like this. Football typically
Speaker 1: does not reward these type of efforts. You've already put
Speaker 1: it on record mark that the five to six prime
Speaker 1: time games to the Bucks is on your radar. It
Speaker 1: always is. I mean, they deserve it more than most
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys teams that get under my skin for
Speaker 1: that um that reward from the networks. But I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be fascinating to watch, Like I can't
Speaker 1: I've never really imagined a time where the Bucks were
Speaker 1: the team I couldn't wait to see, and everyone must
Speaker 1: feel that way. It's like, we've got to see how
Speaker 1: this works. But the implosion factor is UM is real.
Speaker 1: I just it's definitely something we've seen a billion times before.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see just how Tom Brady looks in
Speaker 1: a totally different Maybe the offense will have similar traits
Speaker 1: because I'm sure he's gonna bring elements of what makes
Speaker 1: him comfortable. But because the Brady the Brady Patriots last year,
Speaker 1: we're the opposite of exciting and a fun offense to watch.
Speaker 1: So I really he's got totally different personnel around him,
Speaker 1: different coaching. Will it change the style of play or
Speaker 1: is Brady at forty three years old Brady and it's
Speaker 1: just it's gonna look a lot like what was going
Speaker 1: on in New England. Maybe maybe not, Maybe he starts
Speaker 1: speaking his mind right, That is exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: More than like, more than anything. I'm really curious if
Speaker 1: because we keep hearing from the Jeff Darlington's of the
Speaker 1: world and and some others that he was really looking
Speaker 1: for a coach that would like let him just you know,
Speaker 1: treat him like an adult and he could he could
Speaker 1: do whatever he wants. If that, I'm curious if that'll
Speaker 1: extend into his press conferences. I kind of doubt it.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many crazy interressing things is Tom Brady
Speaker 1: really gonna say, Yeah, I'm not gonna hold my breath
Speaker 1: on that uh kicker corner. Dan Bailey signs of three
Speaker 1: your contract with the Vikings. That guy hangs around huh
Speaker 1: like Dan bail He's been doing the damn thing for
Speaker 1: a while now. He seemed like he was on the ropes.
Speaker 1: But now he's got a three year deal and finally
Speaker 1: mark in the in a world, in a world where
Speaker 1: everything is upside down and everyone's scared and worried about
Speaker 1: what's coming next. It is good to know that Colt McCoy,
Speaker 1: the namesake of your h youngest son, is still in
Speaker 1: the league and cash at paychecks. He just signed a
Speaker 1: deal with the New York Giants to back up Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: And this feels like it was something that always was
Speaker 1: going to happen, that Colt McCoy would be a backup
Speaker 1: on the Giants. And now here we are. Yeah, Cult Sessler,
Speaker 1: Colton Sessler, who was, as you mentioned, named after Colt
Speaker 1: McCoy the day that day, hours after Culton came out
Speaker 1: of um into the earth, out of another area. Wait, well, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, you know, that's how child growth works,
Speaker 1: and can you do the hand motions of how it worked? Again?
Speaker 1: It was like I cannot like he. But hours after
Speaker 1: he was born, the Browns drafted Um Brandon Weeden. So
Speaker 1: it was an ill day to be introduced to the
Speaker 1: call McCoy experience. But Mike Calton is now an Eagles
Speaker 1: fan and his favorite coat is an Eagles jacket. He
Speaker 1: loves the Eagles, and uh so call McCoy is doing
Speaker 1: the dodge game. He's played with the Redskins he's played
Speaker 1: for the he's going for the Giants. Let's come on,
Speaker 1: let's make this thing happen in Philadelphia. I would say this,
Speaker 1: if you've got Daniel Jones, Cole McCoy the person, call
Speaker 1: McCoy the person is one of the best, I knew you.
Speaker 1: I I honestly I read this when, way back when,
Speaker 1: when like every Brown's player fascinated me to no end.
Speaker 1: I read this book that call McCoy and his father
Speaker 1: like wrote together, and I was just like, this guy
Speaker 1: is the real deal as a person. And that was
Speaker 1: partly why the naming happened the way he did not,
Speaker 1: because I thought he was gonna go twelve and four
Speaker 1: or four years in a row. And I truly still
Speaker 1: still believe that about him. I think everywhere he's been,
Speaker 1: he's been one of these guys that would be awesome
Speaker 1: to have in a quarterback room, and if you can
Speaker 1: stay healthy, I think he's a pretty good backup too.
Speaker 1: Does I seem to remember Spice Rack telling me about
Speaker 1: ten years ago that Colt McCoy was going to be
Speaker 1: a better version of Jeff Garcia. James Harrison ended him. Yeah, James,
Speaker 1: that James Harrison incident on a I believe Thursday Night
Speaker 1: Football or what it was the concussion where you know
Speaker 1: the call. McCoy never really was the same person after that,
Speaker 1: even to this moment. Wow, I don't. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him ever returned. He's like walking around in you know,
Speaker 1: with his family this week, and he's just shaken. Yes
Speaker 1: to the specifics. Let's let's say he was, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Montana before that hit. Well he he You know what,
Speaker 1: I remember a game they wont ten over the Patriots. Alright, well,
Speaker 1: you know less Less is Less has put up a
Speaker 1: great article about the best uh you know games should
Speaker 1: go find on game pass. Go to week eight or nine,
Speaker 1: I believe of the two thousand ten season and watch
Speaker 1: that and and Tom Brady looked like he had been
Speaker 1: slipped like three pills of acid in that game, like
Speaker 1: he was not. That was fantastic television. That was a
Speaker 1: beat down. We've been doing this podcast too long. That
Speaker 1: is the time I've heard about that game. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about game pass. Though. As many of
Speaker 1: our listeners know, the NFL has made it freely available
Speaker 1: for US residents until the end of May, and for
Speaker 1: international residents till the end of July um and you
Speaker 1: can find hard knocks, you can find a football life
Speaker 1: miked up. But if you are looking to start looking
Speaker 1: at all these games available going back to two thousand nine,
Speaker 1: let's see Ricky put up a sign that says, West,
Speaker 1: my firstborn child, be named games article on my twenty
Speaker 1: of my favorite game pass games going back to two
Speaker 1: thousand nine. It's not up yet. Our editors are going
Speaker 1: through it to fix everything I did wrong. Uh, and
Speaker 1: it should be up tonight or tomorrow. NFL dot com
Speaker 1: slash west Ling or go to my Twitter page and
Speaker 1: I'll tweet it out at some point. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a banger, West, I was up all night with it
Speaker 1: had better be good. Twenty of them, That's that's. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of these articles, you know they don't
Speaker 1: go past ten when it comes to a list, and
Speaker 1: you know, outside of mocked drafts, twenty named games is next. Len.
Speaker 1: When I when I hear that, you know what I hear, West,
Speaker 1: When I hear that Daddy gets to take the rest
Speaker 1: of the month off, I like that kind of party. Well,
Speaker 1: I only wrote, like in detail about five or six
Speaker 1: of them, and then I just did like the one
Speaker 1: sentence approach to the rest of them that that was
Speaker 1: a deal I made with myself. Okay, that's always smart. Yeah, Uh,
Speaker 1: anything else, that's what's happening in the news. Anybody else
Speaker 1: want to throw on anything else that I may have missed.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, the Bonds parking lot right now is
Speaker 1: as empty as it's been, um all weeks. So maybe
Speaker 1: the grocery store mania is calming down in the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles area. Go get that toilet paper for your butt.
Speaker 1: Gotta get there in the morning for that. That's gone
Speaker 1: by nine am. Um, Dan, are you gonna tell people
Speaker 1: like what you're doing right now? Well, now that we
Speaker 1: are stuck here in our respective homes, I'm picking up
Speaker 1: the guitar again, and uh, I'm gonna start practicing it,
Speaker 1: and maybe if I make some progress, I will, you know,
Speaker 1: serenade the audience. At some point the guys heard a
Speaker 1: demo version of doing it right now. Ye're well, you
Speaker 1: guys could hear that the months or a couple of years. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course we're gonna hear that. I'm gonna be I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a major league axe man by the time
Speaker 1: this quarantine's over. I mean, during our before the show
Speaker 1: got kicking here and Erica was trying to test mix.
Speaker 1: Dan was belting out old Man River and she had
Speaker 1: the mute him. No, it was it was actually the
Speaker 1: Nirvana deep cut something in the way under any the bridge. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaking as her Old Man River. You were
Speaker 1: actually also singing Old River at and most up trapped,
Speaker 1: come up pads. All right, in that case, I'll stop.
Speaker 1: I feel like that song was played at more, um
Speaker 1: like middle school talent shows than it should have been.
Speaker 1: For some reason, people love that that one. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's asking a lot of you musically or in
Speaker 1: terms of like vocal range. Maybe that was it? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: um anyway, So if you, guys, anybody wants to hear
Speaker 1: Nirvana covers, hit me up at Dan Jansas on Twitter
Speaker 1: and I'll fasilitated for you. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: play guitar yet, but I do know how to read
Speaker 1: lyrics and and sing anything else. Guys, going on definitely
Speaker 1: not safe, Greg, Why is your house so quiet? Did
Speaker 1: you finally, you know, just get rid of the kids? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: we set up not not TV TV time in my bedroom.
Speaker 1: As the podcast starts, you know that that's there that's
Speaker 1: the reward for for a good day. So I just
Speaker 1: um ordered a one hundred foot cord to plug into
Speaker 1: my modem and reach to the garage. We'll see how
Speaker 1: that works out because we again, we are not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: You know what though that I at least for now,
Speaker 1: they're not making us stay indoors, you know, indoors in
Speaker 1: l A, I mean, like in your house. And we
Speaker 1: went to the beach this morning as a family, not
Speaker 1: to like hang out, but just just to walk. It
Speaker 1: was empty, it was it was beautiful. Did you keep
Speaker 1: a six six ft distance from any strangers? There were
Speaker 1: no There were no people within I would say thirty
Speaker 1: or forty feet at at any point. We were just
Speaker 1: taking a walk. But yeah, it's easy to stay away.
Speaker 1: Just random bodies floating out in the water, though probably
Speaker 1: a few of them at this point. Wes, how's Lakisha
Speaker 1: doing with this? I owe her a phone call. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give her a call after this podcast. But I, um,
Speaker 1: is she okay? Because I can't imagine I've I've been
Speaker 1: around a pregnant woman when she's having her firstborn. It's
Speaker 1: a very stressful time filled with anxiety. Under the best
Speaker 1: of circumstances. Well, you guys know Lakisha, she's a rock.
Speaker 1: She's a very strong person. And I think she has
Speaker 1: some some anxiety about perhaps missing out on her baby
Speaker 1: shower with her friends and family in St. Louis. She's
Speaker 1: worried a little bit about her mom not being able
Speaker 1: to travel for the delivery. Um, so those things are
Speaker 1: weighing heavily on her mind. But on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis, she has stayed really positive as she always is,
Speaker 1: and um, we're getting along great, just the two of
Speaker 1: us here at the hacienda. Girl. I texted that I
Speaker 1: had a sneaking suspicion the Westleyans are loving this time,
Speaker 1: um to be quiet together. And they're love birds. You
Speaker 1: know that you can't tell them not to enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1: If they're going to be told to just hang out
Speaker 1: together all day. They that they're a great couple, still
Speaker 1: in the newlywood stage inside a year. But uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. There are some other factors growing within her
Speaker 1: womb that you know. I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: she's okay. But it sounds like she's a well we
Speaker 1: know she's a strong woman. Thank you all for your
Speaker 1: concern and she's got a good man, our friend Matt Casey,
Speaker 1: who had his first beautiful boy born right in the
Speaker 1: middle of a coronavirus this week, Michael Connor Casey. So
Speaker 1: it just seems like a wild time good name. I
Speaker 1: had to have a baby, but a bit of a
Speaker 1: missed opportunity could have could have been Michael Covid Casey.
Speaker 1: That would have been that, that would have been fitting.
Speaker 1: Lock it in a place in time. I bet there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people creating babies during this period that
Speaker 1: I believe that there's going to be a hospital explosion.
Speaker 1: Nine and a half months from now. They say it's
Speaker 1: ten months. They say the baby actually is not nine months.
Speaker 1: It takes ten months. Is that accurate? In sixty year
Speaker 1: have a whole new generation saying okay, Boomer, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of basically, I think a lot of divorces too.
Speaker 1: I mean probably a few a little both, little both.
Speaker 1: That's kind of that's good at evens things out, you know,
Speaker 1: just to keep things fresh. Mark you and simone with
Speaker 1: using this residence can maybe do some fun different things
Speaker 1: to keep things you know, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean again, it's like where would the children be
Speaker 1: during that exercise. Pop up, pop out number three like
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell or whoever you want. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think number three is um We're we're going
Speaker 1: to just enjoy the baby produced by West and Lakisha.
Speaker 1: That will be the baby that we enjoy from a distance.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I like that. Alright, very good. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Friday tomorrow with their last show
Speaker 1: of the week. We'll go back to a more standard
Speaker 1: recording style next week. We're not sure if it will
Speaker 1: be two or three shows, but we'll figure it out
Speaker 1: as we go along. Obviously, everything is in flux and fluid,
Speaker 1: as the corporate overlords would say. But thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: And again, where we've gotten all the feedback on Twitter
Speaker 1: and on the subreddit, uh that you guys are happy
Speaker 1: to hear from us every day and we've really enjoyed
Speaker 1: doing it, and our numbers reflect that where a lot
Speaker 1: of people are listening to the show. So you guys
Speaker 1: like us are looking for some type of distraction and
Speaker 1: I'm glad that we are in this together. As they say,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to the Around the NFL Podcast presented
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Speaker 1: My name is Dan hads A signing off for Quiet Storm,
Speaker 1: The Mailman, the Old Boston, Ricky, Hollywood behind the Glass
Speaker 1: until Friday. Something's in the way. Yeah, something's in the way.
Speaker 1: I feel like Delaware played this one.