Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast forked themselves. Welcome to another
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Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansis. I'm coming to you from a
Speaker 1: city filled with heroes in bunkers. Mark Sessler, Chris Westling,
Speaker 1: and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Hey Dan, Hey buddays,
Speaker 1: how are you doing. Dan. It's reports that you've filed
Speaker 1: to us throughout the day sound like things are on
Speaker 1: the edge to some degree. I have, for reasons not
Speaker 1: necessary to dig into much of taken on all parent
Speaker 1: bearing child rearing responsibilities here in the home as of
Speaker 1: about seven pm last night. And um, it's interesting, I
Speaker 1: have a I have a monitor set up right now
Speaker 1: to keep my eye on my children while my wife sleeps.
Speaker 1: She has come down with an illness, not the illness,
Speaker 1: but a different one. So things are pretty terrible here
Speaker 1: at the old Zeus or manor as as it's known
Speaker 1: by nobody. This is where the real challenge is coming in.
Speaker 1: Now Here we are global pandemic, nowhere to run, nowhere
Speaker 1: to hide. And if Dad gets put in a spot
Speaker 1: where he's got to do it all and then Dad
Speaker 1: doesn't even have things like you know, run to the
Speaker 1: grocery store to get a like a quick dinner or
Speaker 1: even really feel comfortable with a delivery situation for the kids,
Speaker 1: uh and foods running out in the house, and the
Speaker 1: grocery store has a line out the out the door
Speaker 1: going down the sidewalk, and the children just never never
Speaker 1: anybody with young children, especially young boys, they never stop
Speaker 1: eating their sharks. They just keep moving and they keep eating,
Speaker 1: and they always want to be entertained. So when you
Speaker 1: throw in um hosting a popular NFL podcast in the
Speaker 1: middle of that day, it's been it's been quite a
Speaker 1: run for the old Zuser here at Zuser Manor. Well,
Speaker 1: we can take this offline later. But I got a
Speaker 1: freezer full of like pasta's and chilies. I can make
Speaker 1: it like a Santa Claus drop down your chimney. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is a very nice uh thought and offer West.
Speaker 1: And if if it comes to the situation where the uh,
Speaker 1: the cupboard is bare and the children are in danger,
Speaker 1: I might hit you up on that. We are not
Speaker 1: that far off. Things are unstable at Zuser Manor. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to break into West's house to steal any
Speaker 1: sort of paper, toiletry items that he has without him knowing.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at at this point. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hear you. There is there Like yesterday felt like an
Speaker 1: upbeat day, Um, I felt I think that our show
Speaker 1: kind of portrayed some of that. I woke up this
Speaker 1: morning just feeling like I don't know why, but things
Speaker 1: feel weird and pressing today. Then you get out of it,
Speaker 1: but that our houses hit various elements of breaking point tension,
Speaker 1: and then you've gotta somehow grasp on a reality and
Speaker 1: get out of that. But it has been a weird,
Speaker 1: um couple of weeks. It's a great call. There is
Speaker 1: a sense I've been on a bit of an emotional
Speaker 1: roller coaster with this as well, where you kind of
Speaker 1: look at the bright side of it one day and
Speaker 1: then the next day it just seems like there's no
Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: one of those days for me. But then tomorrow, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Emily's feeling better, maybe the kids are
Speaker 1: a little calmed down, and I have a little extra time,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, like well, I like being
Speaker 1: at home and I like spending time with my children
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. It it is kind of like
Speaker 1: this this push and pull to be in the middle
Speaker 1: of this scenario. Yeah, this feels like a universal thing
Speaker 1: where some days you feel bright and sunny and other
Speaker 1: days it's like anything can set you off. You know,
Speaker 1: when I hear somebody's not taking this seriously, it really
Speaker 1: depresses me. When I hear things coming from our leaders
Speaker 1: that they're not taking it seriously, it really depresses me.
Speaker 1: And then you wake up another day and the neighbors
Speaker 1: are great. You walk out and get around the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Everybody's treating each other exceptionally friendly, and everybody's getting along well.
Speaker 1: So I think we're all just on that same ride
Speaker 1: where every day is a little bit different. My strategy
Speaker 1: with with my son has been to just do anything
Speaker 1: possible to tire him out because that will just leave him,
Speaker 1: um easier to handle. But then that just tires you out.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not necessarily a full proof strategy. But
Speaker 1: we have, um we have been those people that I
Speaker 1: think other uh Angelino's have been annoyed at. I have
Speaker 1: been to the beach. I think five out of the
Speaker 1: last Here's the thing, though, here's the thing we're not.
Speaker 1: We're never anywhere near anyone. I mean, we go to
Speaker 1: a go to a remote part. We're walking by ourselves.
Speaker 1: So it's it's like we walk around our neighborhood a lot,
Speaker 1: like quite a bit in our neighborhood is more crowded
Speaker 1: with people walking around than than the beach area ever is.
Speaker 1: We're very what about what about Greg? Germs in the
Speaker 1: you know, the sea breeze air? What am I? What
Speaker 1: am I touching? Were don't we don't know what you're touching,
Speaker 1: we're taking we don't know. We're talking a hermit crab.
Speaker 1: We brought a hermit crab home for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: then brought it back to the ocean today and Walker
Speaker 1: sadly cried when he I said, you gotta let him,
Speaker 1: you gotta let him be home. Well, if you heard
Speaker 1: that the the COVID nineteen can be transmitted through canines
Speaker 1: as well, how do you know that hermit crabs are
Speaker 1: not also um prone to it? And then you dump
Speaker 1: that into the sea. Feel like Greg didn't research that.
Speaker 1: I'm just our turtle. It is pretty lethargic these days,
Speaker 1: and we're a little worried. I think that This is
Speaker 1: a good lesson for you men to just be appreciative
Speaker 1: of how much your wives do. Dan, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think right now, you help out a lot, of course,
Speaker 1: but when you know, the maternal role is normally in
Speaker 1: most families the main role, and I think it's good
Speaker 1: that you acknowledge that. And I hope you treat Emily
Speaker 1: with a bunch of hugs and kisses when she's feeling better.
Speaker 1: It is a very nice thought, and I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I sometimes cringe when eight year old single people tell
Speaker 1: me how I should be dealing with my family situation,
Speaker 1: which is a fairly complex, uh scenario, But I do,
Speaker 1: at the same time absolutely agree with you. Emily runs
Speaker 1: the home very well, and it doesn't really it doesn't
Speaker 1: hum too efficiently without her, So it's just kind of
Speaker 1: like a stay alive scenario for the children and myself,
Speaker 1: right you. Meanwhile, Eric was like virtual Rave kicks off
Speaker 1: at three pm. It's kind of my specific time. Well, no,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that I don't know what it's like now.
Speaker 1: You don't mean Thor only has his heartwarm medication. He's
Speaker 1: down to seven pills. He might run out by the
Speaker 1: end of August. My favorite thing is when Dago Earths
Speaker 1: talk about what it's like having a kid, it's nothing
Speaker 1: like having a kid. Well, you have good perspective. There
Speaker 1: are people out there, uh, Colleen Wolf who do think
Speaker 1: it's like having a kid. Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: But you also, I mean, I went to school to
Speaker 1: be a teacher for the longest time. So I was
Speaker 1: in a preschool all day, five days a week, taking
Speaker 1: care of three and four year old like fifteen of them.
Speaker 1: And I had my own third grade class my senior
Speaker 1: year of high school that I was a student teacher.
Speaker 1: So I don't live with them. I get to drop
Speaker 1: them off, but I do feel like I'm very versed
Speaker 1: in the world of children. Yeah, I can see that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a great mother one day, Erica, I hope. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that. All right. Today's show, UH is
Speaker 1: a good one because we're gonna hit a lot of news.
Speaker 1: There is a solid amount of news that has come
Speaker 1: in over the last twenty four hours, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit all of that, including the official end of the
Speaker 1: cam Newton era in Charlotte UH and some movements on
Speaker 1: the before Tuesday's staggnedant wide receiver market, So let's get
Speaker 1: into all that also a little bit later. UM, I
Speaker 1: have a new power rankings up. I was asked by
Speaker 1: our editor Phil Specter to put together a post first
Speaker 1: wave of free agency power rankings, which I have a
Speaker 1: bit of a fundamental issue with, but listen, it's my job,
Speaker 1: so I do it. And UM, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go through the numbers because I don't think, um the
Speaker 1: numbers mean anything at all on March, but some things
Speaker 1: and doing research on thirty two teams that jumped out
Speaker 1: to me that I just wanted to share with you.
Speaker 1: So we'll hit that at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: But first, let's do some news. It's funny to hear
Speaker 1: female talk about routes like alright, Like I said, Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is officially unattached, the number one overall pick of
Speaker 1: the two thousand NFL Draft, the most uh successful quarterback
Speaker 1: in the history of the Carolina Panthers, is no longer
Speaker 1: part of the team. They make it official, releasing the
Speaker 1: former MVP. After trying to get a trade done with
Speaker 1: multiple teams, it just was not happening, so the Panthers
Speaker 1: felt their hands were tied. They had to move on.
Speaker 1: They didn't want it to get UH any messier than
Speaker 1: it already was. And UH as we know, has has
Speaker 1: been made very clear by what we've seen in the
Speaker 1: actions of the new management and head coach. They're looking
Speaker 1: for a fresh start that does not include Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: So he is now um a free agent. According to ESPN,
Speaker 1: Newton took and passed a physical on Monday, which is
Speaker 1: good news, Greg Rosenthal, um as he now hits the
Speaker 1: open market, and now the question begins, how long does
Speaker 1: he stay on the open market? Yeah, the fact there
Speaker 1: was no trade market for him makes me think he
Speaker 1: could be out there in free agency for a while
Speaker 1: until players and life at in general starts going back
Speaker 1: to normal and they can, like a team can visit
Speaker 1: with him. Because the fact that Kyle Allen had more
Speaker 1: trade value than Cam Newton among Panthers quarterbacks is one
Speaker 1: of the most surprising things, Like I think that's happened
Speaker 1: since we've started doing this show. And maybe I'm an optimist,
Speaker 1: but I do believe there's a real chance for Cam
Speaker 1: Newton to have a good second act of his career.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the things that are happening
Speaker 1: in the NFL in terms of scheme and the way
Speaker 1: offense is played fits Cam Newton's strength. He's only thirty
Speaker 1: years old. The shoulder injury is is the bigger concern.
Speaker 1: It's two years ago now though, and like I can
Speaker 1: imagine him having a totally resurgent act on a different
Speaker 1: team in I found the semantics of this whole exercise
Speaker 1: a little baffling. He was given permission to seek a
Speaker 1: trade he did not want. He didn't want a trade,
Speaker 1: but you know, and then he had no interest there.
Speaker 1: He was unable to drive interest because of the uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to pay nineteen twenty million for him at
Speaker 1: a time when he hasn't played well since his armage,
Speaker 1: since his shoulder injury, shoulder surgery, then he had the
Speaker 1: foot surgery. So there's so much uncertainty there um And
Speaker 1: to me, the Chargers make so much sense. But they
Speaker 1: seem to be fine with Tyrod Taylor. So I think
Speaker 1: unless the Chargers go get him, he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy who's fighting for a job in training camp. Yes
Speaker 1: to your to your point, and you said the mechanics
Speaker 1: of the trade were a little or the mechanics of
Speaker 1: the situation we're a little odd. I agree when Cam
Speaker 1: Newton gets permission to seek a trade. Is that how
Speaker 1: this works? I thought the teams work with other teams
Speaker 1: for a trade. Cam Newton was what gonna be his
Speaker 1: management was gonna be reaching out to other teams saying, hey,
Speaker 1: trade for me. I don't I don't understand that that's
Speaker 1: an all a brinch. They would allow Cam Newton to
Speaker 1: go somewhere that he wanted to go. I mean that
Speaker 1: does happen pretty frequently, versus them shipping Cam Newton to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, another world like situation that he'd hate. I
Speaker 1: guess my point. Maybe it's just a matter of just
Speaker 1: parsing of words. But why didn't you work with your
Speaker 1: current team and then that team would reach out to
Speaker 1: a team you were interested in. I just the whole
Speaker 1: thing like a start, And Cam was obviously angry about
Speaker 1: it because he had no interest in doing any of that. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, an agent does drive the entire trade process,
Speaker 1: and then they they bring it to the team that
Speaker 1: they have and here's you know, and they work together.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the other way. I heard before the scouting
Speaker 1: combine that the that the Panthers were trying to trade
Speaker 1: Cam Newton way before they ever put this statement out
Speaker 1: there and that they had no bites. And when they
Speaker 1: put this statement out there, to me, it was an
Speaker 1: admission that we're probably gonna cut him. We know no
Speaker 1: one really wants him. This is our last hail Mary
Speaker 1: as free agency starts to see if we can scare
Speaker 1: up any interest when the market might be changing a
Speaker 1: little bit, and that we can get something for it.
Speaker 1: They didn't play it well, but ultimately no other teams
Speaker 1: want I believe them that no other teams wanted him,
Speaker 1: or else we would have seen seen a trade, like
Speaker 1: every team out there just wanted him to be a
Speaker 1: free agent and deal with him. Then, I mean again,
Speaker 1: I feel like the Bears have selected a lesser uh
Speaker 1: starter with way more injury uh mystery like scenarios in
Speaker 1: Nick Foles than Cam Newton. And you at this point
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton, because there's too many quarterbacks, has to
Speaker 1: look as a for a backup job. I think he's
Speaker 1: just a tough guy to have as a backup because
Speaker 1: your average NFL fan is gonna want to see the
Speaker 1: minute trouble strikes Cam Newton on the field. And if
Speaker 1: if that weren't the case, if there weren't a lot
Speaker 1: of that kind of potential tug drama, tug on Cam
Speaker 1: Newton to put them out there. I could look at
Speaker 1: a team like the Bills, where you have Sean McDermott,
Speaker 1: who knows Cam Newton right, They've got Matt Barkley behind
Speaker 1: a guy and Josh Allen, who is still a bit
Speaker 1: of a wild card. Cam Newton is is not Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: but they have some similar traits and do some similar
Speaker 1: things on offense. I mean, there are landing spots, but
Speaker 1: I just think it's a lot for a coaching staff
Speaker 1: to handle if he's your number two, because he's still,
Speaker 1: to Greg's point, I think has a whole second part
Speaker 1: of his career and as an alluring athlete, how do
Speaker 1: you hold him down? If you're in trouble in week six?
Speaker 1: Do it, John Elway, do it. You're you're the team.
Speaker 1: This is it. I'm totally with you guys. In fact,
Speaker 1: in the latest Power Ranks, I'm getting killed. Uh. In
Speaker 1: my mentions by Broncos fans, I had them a little
Speaker 1: low in the mid twenties, and it's because I just
Speaker 1: quite simply don't like their QB set up right now,
Speaker 1: and I think it could lead to run potentially for
Speaker 1: that team. They need a little more insurance at the
Speaker 1: game's most important position. In other news, Trent Williams, Oh,
Speaker 1: you know they set Camfrey in Charlotte. Now do the
Speaker 1: same for Trent Williams. Williams and landover uh. ESPN's Adam
Speaker 1: Schefter reports that Williams agent Vincent Taylor told the Redskins it's,
Speaker 1: in quote the best interest to trade or relate or
Speaker 1: release him. Here's more of the quote. The relationship between
Speaker 1: the Redskins and Trent Williams has reached a point where
Speaker 1: it's been the best interest at the Redskins trade to
Speaker 1: release him. Uh, and it is time to move on.
Speaker 1: So is it gonna happen? Is this gonna do any
Speaker 1: thing to push the Redskins and nudge them forward? So
Speaker 1: far it's been a total stalemate. I feel like this
Speaker 1: happens every Tuesday, right the weekly Trent Williams trader release
Speaker 1: request happens every Tuesday. Hasn't happened yet, We'll see. I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that now it's with this new regime,
Speaker 1: where like there was this initial sense that Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: is gonna come in and do what the totally ridiculous
Speaker 1: Redskins front office could not do for years, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, keep veteran players from wanting to exodus. I
Speaker 1: mean Quentin Dunbar is another guy that basically said, get
Speaker 1: me out of here, and so you know, it's Trent
Speaker 1: Williams to me. The one thing I find interesting is
Speaker 1: that some of these teams that have been just not penciled,
Speaker 1: but like permanent markred in to take a tackle in
Speaker 1: the first round, if you gave up a second rounder
Speaker 1: and got Trent Williams, you maybe can go find someone
Speaker 1: else in the draft. That's some of these teams that
Speaker 1: are slotted. I think of Cleveland, the Jets, others that
Speaker 1: are like we're we just say you're gonna take a
Speaker 1: tackle no matter what. What if you give a second
Speaker 1: for Trent Williams who's there for two or three years
Speaker 1: probably and you go get a different type of player.
Speaker 1: But no one's biting on that. And to the to
Speaker 1: that point which you're making mark that there are teams
Speaker 1: in the first round, in the first ten, twelve, fifteen
Speaker 1: picks that are all thought to be heavily in the
Speaker 1: market for alignment. There's there, according to Draft Knicks, out
Speaker 1: there there are three and perhaps four real blue chip
Speaker 1: tackle prospects, and there's a chance that they're all off
Speaker 1: the board before let's say the Jets pick at eleven.
Speaker 1: The Browns are picking a ten, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people have circled them in permanent marker mark mark like
Speaker 1: you're saying, and it makes me think that the Redskins
Speaker 1: might be better off. And this isn't probably great news
Speaker 1: to Trent Williams or his agent uh to kind of
Speaker 1: wait this out. And if one of those teams that
Speaker 1: are in desperate need of line help end up getting
Speaker 1: banged by the draft process where they don't have the
Speaker 1: guy they were hoping was sitting there, maybe Trent Williams
Speaker 1: becomes the plan B that they make somewhat of a
Speaker 1: panic transaction for and you do end up getting the
Speaker 1: higher end draft pick that the Redskins obviously want out
Speaker 1: of this. This is the longest stand still I can remember,
Speaker 1: and in terms of a player team like fighting each other.
Speaker 1: Vincent Jackson, I feel like I went fourteen fifteen years
Speaker 1: that was going on, took forever back with the San
Speaker 1: Diego Chargers, But man, this this thing needs to end,
Speaker 1: if if only for our rundown we don't need another Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Trent Williams just put him on another team. In other
Speaker 1: NFC East offensive line news, the Cowboys lose Travis Frederick,
Speaker 1: who announced his retirement from the NFL after seven seasons
Speaker 1: just twenty nine years old, turned twenty nine last week.
Speaker 1: He missed all the season with gillian bar syndrome. Uh.
Speaker 1: He started last last season, he came back, started sixteen games,
Speaker 1: went to the Pro Bowl. But this is a type
Speaker 1: of affliction that uh lingers from what I understand west
Speaker 1: I I read an old timey Chris Westling piece when
Speaker 1: this first went down. Uh that, you know Frederick is
Speaker 1: something he perhaps was dealing with for the rest of
Speaker 1: his life. And maybe that's what's behind this. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: something else, But Frederick is done with the NFL, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a hole in the middle of their
Speaker 1: offensive line. Yeah, that had to be part of the
Speaker 1: factoring in. And he joins a list of Luke Keickley,
Speaker 1: Andrew luck Gronk, Calvin Johnson, Patrick Willis, Chris Borland, guys
Speaker 1: who all retired at thirty or or underage thirty UM
Speaker 1: in the last half decade or so. Uh. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: did draft Connor govern And what are the odds, um
Speaker 1: that there are two Connor McGovern's in the NFL at
Speaker 1: the same time playing the same position. Uh, he's um.
Speaker 1: He sat out all of last year with a torn
Speaker 1: pectoral muscle muscle, but they drafted him in third round.
Speaker 1: He was a pretty good prospect, um, so they've got
Speaker 1: a plan there. They played Joe Joe Looney at center
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, and Zeke Elli actually had a
Speaker 1: better year with Joe Looney at center in two thousand
Speaker 1: eighteen than he did with Travis Frederick last year. So
Speaker 1: I don't think this is some dire situation for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's massive, though, just because you never got in Frederick
Speaker 1: thought he played at a diminished level last year, and
Speaker 1: he said he did say, battling the illness, it was
Speaker 1: really hard to you know, get to his full strength
Speaker 1: and he didn't want to play at this level, Like
Speaker 1: you're never getting that Travis Frederick back, which, like Patrick
Speaker 1: Willis and Gronk and some of the people you mentioned list,
Speaker 1: was on a Hall of Fame trajectory. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was the best center in the league for much of
Speaker 1: his time in the league. So that whole the whole
Speaker 1: reputation of the Cowboys is this great offensive line, and
Speaker 1: they still probably were last year at a top five
Speaker 1: or six offensive line. They're gonna have some work to
Speaker 1: do now to to keep up that reputation. I think
Speaker 1: it's interesting that, like, you know, I would imagine that
Speaker 1: percent of people covering the NFL have no concept of
Speaker 1: what Gillian Barr syndrome does to your body. And Frederick
Speaker 1: has gone out of his way multiple times to try
Speaker 1: to explain what what that is, and I how can
Speaker 1: anyone No one's critiquing them, but like he just simply
Speaker 1: talked about facing a struggle every single day, a struggle
Speaker 1: that no one else from the outside really saw. And
Speaker 1: so it's too bad because he was an incredible, you know,
Speaker 1: part of a line that was the best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But this is happening to more and more players, and
Speaker 1: we're seeing more and more saying that there's any health issues.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to continue to toil like it's and
Speaker 1: in the off season I work at a meat packing plan.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, they've built their wealth and you have
Speaker 1: to consider your future. Who else is in the same name,
Speaker 1: different dude club. There's famously Adrian Peterson, the Bears defensive back,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Cam Newton Newton, he wasn't Adrian Peterson a
Speaker 1: running back? Yeah? The oh wow, I thought it a
Speaker 1: dB down back. So he's on, He's on. Matt Rushmore
Speaker 1: are those guys. But there's Cam Newton the quarterback and
Speaker 1: Cam Newton I think what was like a pudgy right
Speaker 1: regard or something. Yeah. The problem with Tom Brady that
Speaker 1: our former NFL colleague. That's problematic the NFL media executive
Speaker 1: in the quarterback exactly. The problem with the same name,
Speaker 1: different dude, Mount Rushmore is you can only put two
Speaker 1: sets on and then we've got our two. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Vernon Tom Brady the NFL media. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite guys that worked with at
Speaker 1: this company. So I'm gonna like push hard to have
Speaker 1: him on there. Some people are gonna be confused, but
Speaker 1: you put TV twelve the goat Tom Brady, NFL network,
Speaker 1: and then what do we want to throw on the
Speaker 1: Newton Peterson or McGovern not mcgovernen Peterson McGovern is you know, well,
Speaker 1: Peterson and Newton have similar strengths, both very you know,
Speaker 1: attractive young men. I think Adrian Peterson, the fact that
Speaker 1: they were both running backs for a while. When you
Speaker 1: were in fantasy drafts, like you did not want to
Speaker 1: be the person that drafted the wrong Adrian. That happened,
Speaker 1: I mistake, but you definitely happened. That happened. Um, alright,
Speaker 1: moving on. The wide receiver market is finally moving, so
Speaker 1: let's go through it. We mentioned the Panthers moving on
Speaker 1: from Cam Newton. Well, they welcome former Jet Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: on a two year, twenty million contract. Um schefter had
Speaker 1: it his twelve million in two thousand twenty. Uh. He
Speaker 1: reunites with Matt Rule, which a little bit of connected
Speaker 1: dots that nobody else really had done, at least I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen it. Uh. Anderson was undrafted at a Temple,
Speaker 1: but his coach at Temple was Matt Rule. So uh,
Speaker 1: this is a I think, a quality signing for any team,
Speaker 1: especially at that price. Uh. The word throughout December and
Speaker 1: into January and then leading up to free agency was
Speaker 1: that Robby Anderson thought he could get anywhere from thirteen
Speaker 1: to fifteen million. He doesn't really come close to that.
Speaker 1: But the Teddy Bridgewater led Panthers now have a deep
Speaker 1: thread who can do some damage. I think Panthers fans
Speaker 1: are confused about, like what's going on here, because like
Speaker 1: a lot of fans out there there for some reason
Speaker 1: obsessed with the idea of tanking, as if that really
Speaker 1: works in the NFL, Like they want their team to
Speaker 1: be bad, and they're like, why are we even bothering
Speaker 1: to sign like Teddy Bridgewater right now, Robbie Anderson. That's
Speaker 1: just not how the NFL works. And I'm intrigued to
Speaker 1: see what Matt Rule does with his offense in his
Speaker 1: first year. I'm not expecting them to go to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl or anything, but you should be trying to
Speaker 1: win some games and see who you're gonna have long
Speaker 1: term and for that money and the familiarity that he adds.
Speaker 1: And I think that receiving group needed one more player
Speaker 1: to really make it dynamic that I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: want to have four receivers on the field a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps. I think it's a great pickup. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you one person who did connect the dots between uh,
Speaker 1: Matt Rule and Robby Anderson. That was Peter Schrager, who
Speaker 1: put very very effective information late in tweet the minute
Speaker 1: this move went down, And a part B to that
Speaker 1: is that when we were at the Combine, Dan, you
Speaker 1: and I had that UMA did but wait, did the
Speaker 1: nugget come out after the move went down or in
Speaker 1: the weeks leading up to the movie. That's fair, But
Speaker 1: I'm going to give Peter Schreeger points here because he
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he was sitting on that. It was
Speaker 1: too explosive. You're trying to get back in goods. I
Speaker 1: just think that, No, I'm not. I I am an
Speaker 1: open mind, so I can see the incredible skills that
Speaker 1: that Peter Schreeger brings. The table part be to this, Dan,
Speaker 1: you and I had a very I would label an
Speaker 1: excessive night um at the Combine. Erica was part of
Speaker 1: that early on in the evening and we actually, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you were in the room when we
Speaker 1: were around U a a square shaped bar when none
Speaker 1: other than Matt Rule, well I was by myself, walked
Speaker 1: up to me and just said, you know, I've seen
Speaker 1: your show. I just think you guys do good stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm Att Rule, I'm the coach of the Panthers. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I am familiar with who you are.
Speaker 1: Why are you walking I'm thinking like this is the
Speaker 1: coolest thing any coach has ever done. So he could
Speaker 1: go and burn down the city of Carolina. And I
Speaker 1: would say, would move Matt rules City of Carolina? Well
Speaker 1: fair enough that the region? All right? The region? He
Speaker 1: could he burnt the whole region down, see you, Charlotte
Speaker 1: by by Carolina, I'd say this coach has a plan. Well,
Speaker 1: look at through skill position town. There aren't many teams
Speaker 1: who have more interesting skill position talent than Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: DJ Moore, Curtis, Samuel Robby, Anderson, Ian Thomas. I think,
Speaker 1: look at that whole division. Who's let's play a game
Speaker 1: of would you rather Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, Hayden Hurst,
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, Emmanuel Sanders, Michael Thomas, the Panthers group, and
Speaker 1: who's the other team? Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, O J. Howard, Cameron,
Speaker 1: Brad mm Saucy division goes back to the dirty South
Speaker 1: always Uh yeah, Greg's NFC South fascination is suddenly looking
Speaker 1: right on point it is. And and for the Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridge Riter fans out there, man, he could not have
Speaker 1: fallen into a better situation. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he it was all by like his excellent play.
Speaker 1: But this is his chance. I mean, if he's ever
Speaker 1: going to have a chance, this is it. With all
Speaker 1: these weapons around him in an offense, I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little different than some others. With a
Speaker 1: guy with a limited rout tree but ability to make
Speaker 1: downfield plays, you definitely want to pair him with a
Speaker 1: quarterback who averages six yards per ten. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna go. I think it's gonna go. Six air yards
Speaker 1: per used to throw great, air yards, used to throw great.
Speaker 1: We all love Eddy, we all want him to do well.
Speaker 1: And I and um, I've been on record on this
Speaker 1: podcast that I wanted Anderson back with the Jets, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of Jets fans are disappointed about it.
Speaker 1: But I do take a little bit of solace in
Speaker 1: that Joe Douglas, the general managers, he's exercising some prudence
Speaker 1: and he's doing it a little differently than past g
Speaker 1: ms of the Jets have done, where they just bombed
Speaker 1: the draft and then try to make big splashes and
Speaker 1: free agency are overpaid to keep a guy or get
Speaker 1: a guy they used to have like a Durell reevas
Speaker 1: or in this case Robbie Anderson. They set a price
Speaker 1: tag on Robbie. It turned out that that was just
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. And that's it. So I'm putting my
Speaker 1: face eight and Big Joe d and I think Jet
Speaker 1: Sven should do the same. It's time for it to
Speaker 1: be done differently. UH in Floren Park, the state of
Speaker 1: Floren Park. UM other wide receiver note news Philip Dorsey
Speaker 1: he leaves the Patriots for the Seattle Seahawks. UH last
Speaker 1: year UM he had nearly four yards receiving. The Patriots
Speaker 1: couldn't move the ball through the air for much of
Speaker 1: the season, especially as it UM went down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Doorset never really emerged. Greg. Will he emerge with Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and Brian Schottenheimer. Probably not, But he's a nice
Speaker 1: like fourth receiver role player. I'll always have a lot
Speaker 1: of UM appreciation for the catch Philip Dorset made in
Speaker 1: the a f C Championship against the Chiefs. That is
Speaker 1: one of the great UH Patriots catches of this of
Speaker 1: their run that they had. Snort. Come on, it's like
Speaker 1: I have a lot of time. I see a lot
Speaker 1: of people like honking about that. Tom Bray he didn't
Speaker 1: have to do anything in the Super Bowl to beat
Speaker 1: the Rams. It's like they dragged him to that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It's like, go watch the game where he put up
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in a row to get them to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with Philip dor Set stepping up. Big good
Speaker 1: job by you taking the attention off of that game
Speaker 1: and putting it on another one. There you go another.
Speaker 1: But the game before that where they put up forty points,
Speaker 1: I mean they were they were doing all right. It's
Speaker 1: all over now you ate special. No ball rose at all.
Speaker 1: It's like curtains, I'll be it does it does change
Speaker 1: the bar, Like it will be a lot more exciting
Speaker 1: when they go ten and six and the Jets roster
Speaker 1: that is like among the least talented in the league
Speaker 1: goes five and eleven, Like it'll be way more satisfying
Speaker 1: than a normal tenant three starting players on the rosters. Exactly,
Speaker 1: I can't say anything until things change. So but just no,
Speaker 1: you knowin't special. Another middling wide receiver news Travis Benjamin,
Speaker 1: formerly of the Charges. He's now a member of the
Speaker 1: forty niners. Uh now thirty years old. Funny how it
Speaker 1: sneaks up on you. Um so he enters that wide
Speaker 1: receiver room. Uh, the day after Emmanuel Sanders exits. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's easy to draw the connection between him
Speaker 1: and Taylor Gabriel and the old Falcon's offense. That speak guy.
Speaker 1: Just have him run those go routes and beat people deep,
Speaker 1: especially on play action passes. That's what I would see
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan doing with him. I think Shanahan worked with
Speaker 1: Benjamin in Cleveland. I'd have to. I think he was
Speaker 1: still there at that point, so that I believe he
Speaker 1: knows him. And you're right, he plays that similar role. Oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta dispatch from the players Tribune. Oh that newsroom
Speaker 1: is going wild right now? Are they even allowed to
Speaker 1: be together? Play Jeter? Jeeter just swung the door open
Speaker 1: with a big cigar in his mouth, and he said,
Speaker 1: Devin mccordy, you're on deadline. Give me something about Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and the fallout I wanted ten minutes ago. And then, Uh,
Speaker 1: mccorty wrote a post on the Player's Tribune and part
Speaker 1: of it read like this. People are going to say
Speaker 1: that because Tom's gone, the dynasty is over. They're already
Speaker 1: burying us as far as I can tell. And that's fine,
Speaker 1: this is how he talks. We've never listened to the noise,
Speaker 1: and we're not about to start now. But the task
Speaker 1: is definitely taller this coming year than it has been
Speaker 1: in years past. There's more work to do and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be so easy this time around. That's
Speaker 1: where the new challenge comes in. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: Devin mccordy might command a room a little bit more
Speaker 1: than you port. That was actually Ricky played the SoundBite
Speaker 1: that was I want Ricky to send that just those
Speaker 1: twenty seconds out as a social video. That's it. We
Speaker 1: don't need any context, nothing else that has read the quote.
Speaker 1: I just read the quote anyway. So, and it's mid March.
Speaker 1: Devin mccorty thinks the Patriots are still special. I disagree.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the flip side though? That like their their
Speaker 1: motivation is we can even if they they all love
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to show that they can still go twelve
Speaker 1: and four. The biggest thing about the about Devin mccordy
Speaker 1: is these are he has a twin. We all get that,
Speaker 1: Uh they are twins where a shared Twitter account. I
Speaker 1: there's more to attack in this situation, but that to
Speaker 1: me feels Um, like, it's not a bit, but it's
Speaker 1: certainly it's I'm not I'm not a huge fan of it,
Speaker 1: but you guys can hit the like their charity foundation,
Speaker 1: it was the mccority Foundations. Well, I'm sure that's then
Speaker 1: not then I can't say anything about it because it
Speaker 1: was for a nice cause. But I just you know,
Speaker 1: it's from the Twitter angle. It kind of bugs me
Speaker 1: if they're sharing a social media account. What's happened with
Speaker 1: the d m s by the way, Yeah, what else
Speaker 1: is being shared? Rick they do? Maybe they share a room, roommates.
Speaker 1: They both have a big families, and they're getting to
Speaker 1: now grow up next to each other in uh cold
Speaker 1: state of Massachusetts. Twins have that special connections, So I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna try to tear Other news, Quentin Dunbar traded
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks from the Redskins in exchange for a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick. Veteran defensive back Jimmy Smith signs a
Speaker 1: new one year deal to stay with the Ravens, and
Speaker 1: running back Peyton Barber, formerly of the Buccaneers, signs of
Speaker 1: the Redskins two years, three million dollar contract. Uh, anyone
Speaker 1: else have anything to add on those players? Well, I
Speaker 1: think Seahawks fans are excited about Dunbar. P f F
Speaker 1: graded him number two among cornerbacks last year UH in
Speaker 1: coverage and he I think he allowed under a six
Speaker 1: passer rating. He's a big corner six to Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: loves him. Um. But the Redskins are Ron River and
Speaker 1: Jack del Rio or his own coaches, so they're not
Speaker 1: gonna have as much use for Dunbar. There makes a
Speaker 1: little sense for everyone involved. Someone explained to me how
Speaker 1: the Redskins have gotten any better under Ron Rivere at
Speaker 1: this point, I did. I I see players wanting out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's gonna take time. But this
Speaker 1: is once the what maybe the most low wattage team
Speaker 1: in all of sports a year ago. Uh. Other than
Speaker 1: the fact that I love the fact that they finished
Speaker 1: games in about one hour and fifty eight minutes. That
Speaker 1: was pleasant, But I mean, what's what's the sea change
Speaker 1: so far? They've added Peyton Barber. Ah, it was that
Speaker 1: they have a Kendall Fuller. I do love me some
Speaker 1: Kendall Fuller. They added him. That was a good bargain
Speaker 1: uh in free agency, but yeah, they losing outut of
Speaker 1: MARII Cooper. I think that's going to be the defining
Speaker 1: moment of their off season, that that Amari Cooper took
Speaker 1: less money from the Cowboys to stick it to the
Speaker 1: old red Smarts. It's smarts. Uh. And finally in the news,
Speaker 1: an interesting wrinkle to the Marcus Mariotta signing by the Raiders. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a two year, seventeen point six million dollar contract
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. However, Uh, there's kind of more heat
Speaker 1: to it than what um we originally thought because he'll
Speaker 1: get seven and a half million guaranteed in which is Greg,
Speaker 1: you're the source of these things. But that's pretty good
Speaker 1: backup quarterback money. Correct. Yeah, that's that's good. It's pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good, better and with better and with incentives. And
Speaker 1: this is what really jumps out to me anyway, Mariotta
Speaker 1: connet over million. So a good job by his agent
Speaker 1: that gave him not some bum I got. I lost
Speaker 1: my job and I have to reset my whole career
Speaker 1: deal where I'm signing for two years and seven million
Speaker 1: or something. He has a deal that really does give
Speaker 1: him an opportunity to get some guap if he does
Speaker 1: overtake the quarterback And I would imagine if this worked
Speaker 1: out for him, other guys like him would try to
Speaker 1: get the same deal in the future. It's a deal
Speaker 1: that got some criticism though I know. Um, I think
Speaker 1: agents and reporters were surprised he did anything more than
Speaker 1: a year. Basically that if that they they thought the
Speaker 1: Raiders really got him under control in a way that
Speaker 1: like the Titans didn't with Tannehill, because if Riota does
Speaker 1: come in and is a standout for half a season,
Speaker 1: he's still not getting many incentives, and then they have
Speaker 1: him for very cheap next year, when if it's a
Speaker 1: one year deal, you can go back in the market,
Speaker 1: you get the franchise tag um. So it got some criticism.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fine. I didn't have a big
Speaker 1: take on it either way. I think Mariota had a
Speaker 1: pretty good market, Like that's why he got some money, haven't.
Speaker 1: We also learned though that if if he has a
Speaker 1: great year this year, players have leverage and it's he's
Speaker 1: not locked in forever to that second year or whatever
Speaker 1: it would end up being. That's not backup quarterback contract.
Speaker 1: That's saying we expect you to play at some point
Speaker 1: contract and you'll see bridge quarterbacks get something like them,
Speaker 1: But there are no backups making seven point five million
Speaker 1: guaranteed on their bass salary in their first year. Just
Speaker 1: doesn't You might see that once in a blue moon
Speaker 1: if we last year was pretty similar. But you're right,
Speaker 1: it's pretty rare. If we traveled through next season and
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota is starting ten eleven games for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and Cam Newton is sitting on the on the bench,
Speaker 1: I I don't know what's happened here. And if i'm
Speaker 1: I'm car I'm a little bit annoyed by the specifics
Speaker 1: of the contract because again it fuels that feeling that
Speaker 1: my team secretly doubts me or not so secretly doubts me. However,
Speaker 1: I still I'm very happy or with how it turned out.
Speaker 1: I have a middling in house competition in my building.
Speaker 1: If I play well, I should be okay. There's not
Speaker 1: even he himself is middling. So it's I I don't
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know. I find it to see. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a I have a moderate disagreement that I think
Speaker 1: he is a step above middling, not that high up,
Speaker 1: but I think he's better than Mariota and his numbers
Speaker 1: over his career. I just think the Gruden. It's the
Speaker 1: X factor there, because you know you're going to at
Speaker 1: some point Gruden is going to be frustrated with car
Speaker 1: and it may not be an injury, it maybe just
Speaker 1: flat out I'm done with this situation if he throws
Speaker 1: some killer pick at the end of a game, and
Speaker 1: let's see what we have with Mario. I mean, Gruden
Speaker 1: just seems like again the endless wandering I with the
Speaker 1: quarterback hand, I don't like enjoy that. Yeah, turned to Mariota,
Speaker 1: enjoy those lawn dark It's well, I mean, none of
Speaker 1: us are huge Mariora guys, so I you know, fair,
Speaker 1: but that's what's happening in the news. Hey, Ricky for
Speaker 1: um for this seg where I'm just gonna kind of
Speaker 1: go through some things that I, uh, colonels that I
Speaker 1: came across. I could go with comeback colonels with Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: but let's actually go with essentially, like I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: this up to your ability to find like a walk,
Speaker 1: a springtime walk. It's early spring now, so I'm taking
Speaker 1: a walk through, uh the thirty two teams of the NFL.
Speaker 1: While he was putting together the power rankings. Uh so
Speaker 1: here are some tidbits that I came across. Let's begin
Speaker 1: our walk, Ricky. I will start right at number one
Speaker 1: on the list. With the Kansas City Chiefs, Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: still in the building. Um, and he's scheduled almost fourteen
Speaker 1: million in salary this year. Brett Veach, the GM is
Speaker 1: already on on the record that they're probably gonna have to,
Speaker 1: you know, correct that for him to remain a part
Speaker 1: of the team. And you wonder when that's happening. And
Speaker 1: you would think perhaps Watkins, although typically a player and
Speaker 1: when he's asked to take a haircut industry jargo, uh
Speaker 1: is gonna say, F you cut me, I'll go get
Speaker 1: money elsewhere. But given the market, a veteran wide receivers
Speaker 1: in that second tier, which, let's be honest, despite how
Speaker 1: he's been paid in his career, he's in a second
Speaker 1: tier place. Uh, he might be better off getting the
Speaker 1: haircut and and sticking around. Maybe that's why nothing's happened here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit of the Cowboys with
Speaker 1: a Mari Cooper, where both sides want each other. You
Speaker 1: just have to find that middle ground. You have to
Speaker 1: find that money that works. I don't see him making
Speaker 1: fourteen million. Greg might have a better read on that,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe the Chiefs thought that what to
Speaker 1: your point, Dan, the timing of it, keep that they
Speaker 1: didn't need to cut him. They want to keep them,
Speaker 1: and they're kind of making it to a point where
Speaker 1: at some point there's no way he's gonna want to
Speaker 1: be a free agent in August. You you wouldn't think so,
Speaker 1: and that they'll just work it out, which makes sense
Speaker 1: for a guy that it put up almost five yards
Speaker 1: in the last almost six hundred yards in the last
Speaker 1: two playoffs like that that should count for something. I mean,
Speaker 1: that guy, if he never signs another half decent deal,
Speaker 1: did very well in this league. When you correlate his
Speaker 1: overall production, he's kind of like the Jadeveon Clowney of
Speaker 1: wide receivers, is right, But if, like, if another position
Speaker 1: stepped up as much as he's stepped up in the
Speaker 1: playoffs in two straight years, like we would give that
Speaker 1: guy a lot of credit for being clutch, whatever that means.
Speaker 1: Like he was their best receivers in multiple big games,
Speaker 1: two a f C Championship, he played well the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He ripped a huge fart on Richard Sherman in a
Speaker 1: big spot in the Super Bowl? Is that more industry?
Speaker 1: Why is ESPN not talking to you about this Monday
Speaker 1: night football spot? I don't know. I don't know. Let's
Speaker 1: keep let's keep going on the stroll. Uh. Smell that
Speaker 1: fresh air. That's that COVID nineteen air quality here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I love it. Uh, let's check in with
Speaker 1: the goals who, by the way, what's going on with
Speaker 1: the offense. Everyone agrees they need to do better. I
Speaker 1: had I had written my notes earlier this morning. Robbie Anderson,
Speaker 1: question Mark went to temple. You know, sometimes you try
Speaker 1: to connect dots. Uh, that's not happening obviously. But here
Speaker 1: we are. Carson Wentz still has al Shon, Jeffrey and
Speaker 1: de Sean Jackson as guys that he needs to count on.
Speaker 1: I guess it's most most likely, given the state of
Speaker 1: the market at this point after today, going to be
Speaker 1: something Howie Roseman addresses in the draft, hopefully addresses in
Speaker 1: the draft. Meanead was, well, no, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm being told that they've signed B M. Javon Hargraves,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna go fifteen and one. That that's the
Speaker 1: word on the streets. So not number nine feels a
Speaker 1: little high. Hardgrave has gotten on your radar that we like.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just you know, I think, I think
Speaker 1: you know there is a he's out there as a
Speaker 1: talking point. But I don't see the Eagles as the
Speaker 1: ninth best team in the league. I know your numbers
Speaker 1: are not meant to be exact right now, but I
Speaker 1: see a few teams should be should that should be
Speaker 1: on their radar. I think a little bit. It's so
Speaker 1: low on my priority list right now. I can't even
Speaker 1: begin to tell you. I mean, it is the assignment.
Speaker 1: The assignment is ranking these teams, so it's it can't
Speaker 1: be They're fine, They're fine. It is. It's a little surprising.
Speaker 1: Jeffreys still there. Yeah, he's hanging out. He wanted out,
Speaker 1: He's hanging around, all right, Let's keep strolling. Oh look,
Speaker 1: I'm passing Mark's Airbnb. There's a swat team outside and
Speaker 1: everyone has their guns drawn on the sidewalk. I guess
Speaker 1: they want you to come out, buddy, I mean, not
Speaker 1: there at the moment, so that I don't feel guilty
Speaker 1: of anything. Uh, let's check in with the rams. This
Speaker 1: is something we've kind of touched on, but uh kind
Speaker 1: of hits hits home. When I was going through the
Speaker 1: additions and departures, five of their five members of their
Speaker 1: starting eleven defense gone just gone. Half the defense basically
Speaker 1: is out the door, and it's just a minder of
Speaker 1: that windows closed, and now it's on snead and McVeigh
Speaker 1: to find a way to reopen it and retool this
Speaker 1: whole roster and Wade Phillips. Look, they'll they'll tell you
Speaker 1: that they have Aaron Donald, one of the greatest defensive
Speaker 1: players of all time, Jalen Ramsey, and some other players
Speaker 1: and a coach that now in Brandon Staley that is
Speaker 1: kind of one of the big X factors of the
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty season. Like if he's bringing something to
Speaker 1: the table, like could they be average defense? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1: You think the Rams would ever um ever ever again?
Speaker 1: If they could dial back in a time machine, do
Speaker 1: that Jalen Ramsey deal again? I just I mean, I
Speaker 1: like Jale. You think they would give two first round
Speaker 1: picks for Jalen Ramsey again? I do? I simply do not.
Speaker 1: I do because as a long term move, and I
Speaker 1: don't see why their evaluation would have changed between now
Speaker 1: and then. I think they were happy with what he
Speaker 1: gave them. I don't think it was a move to
Speaker 1: save last season. I think it was a move to
Speaker 1: have Jalen Ramsey a ram for a long time. I
Speaker 1: just feel a little top heavy to me, where it's
Speaker 1: like they're too Dan's point, there's a lot of supporting
Speaker 1: cast not around. Uh. Let's dip into the cul de
Speaker 1: sac here of believe land Mark and UH do not
Speaker 1: think I am trolling you Mark in anyway. It's just
Speaker 1: something again that caught my eye. I don't buy into
Speaker 1: anything anybody that's trying to do talking head things about
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield's job security. But case Keenum got more money
Speaker 1: than I realized three years, eighteen million, including ten million guaranteed,
Speaker 1: and in the building Kevin Stefanski, it was the same
Speaker 1: guy was in the building in Minnesota when Keendom had
Speaker 1: his best year for the Vikings. Just jumped out, I'll
Speaker 1: give you this. I think that it is um coming
Speaker 1: off of last year's altered disaster. Baker Mayfield is is
Speaker 1: not someone with a lot of excuses around him right now,
Speaker 1: and I think it starts with Baker Mayfield. How much
Speaker 1: do you want to be Cleveland's franchise quarterback in a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback in the NFL? If not more, that's
Speaker 1: what people thought he'd be a year ago. I think
Speaker 1: he has all the talent to do it. But it
Speaker 1: is a huge year for him. And I think that
Speaker 1: what was going on in that quarterback room a year ago, um,
Speaker 1: the coaching, the coaching on that offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball was not strong in case Keenum. I would imagine
Speaker 1: another team or two, Uh, we're interested in bringing someone
Speaker 1: like case Keenum into the building. So I don't have
Speaker 1: a big problem with the contract. But no way does
Speaker 1: any front office worth their salt think that case Keenum
Speaker 1: is a better option than Baker Mayfield long term. But
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is under as much pressure, uh as any
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league because you also wrote, and I
Speaker 1: think you're right, they've shored up some of their issues
Speaker 1: roster wise, and you know he really does have. He
Speaker 1: has no excuses with the pieces around him not to
Speaker 1: have a major comeback season. The guy they draft at tackle,
Speaker 1: if that's indeed what ends up happening at number ten,
Speaker 1: if he can play, they did a good job. In fact,
Speaker 1: they could turn the offensive line into a position of
Speaker 1: strength quickly because they had to take three years to
Speaker 1: do that. They got who's the guy on the interwo
Speaker 1: are Year that's a really good player. Uh, they have
Speaker 1: the platonio, they got Conklins now Trader and now if
Speaker 1: you can get a left tackle, you can play there.
Speaker 1: There's no excuses anymore because all the playmaker talent obviously
Speaker 1: on the it could be a great offense at the
Speaker 1: quarterback can play. Um, we'll see. Finally, West, your former
Speaker 1: teams the West side of Cincinnati. Look, everyone waving so
Speaker 1: friendly with their little barbecue grills and uh playing their
Speaker 1: transistor radios five nights a week, listening to Don McLean
Speaker 1: and wondering why West keeps burying them on a very
Speaker 1: popular global podcast. Well this is interesting West, so we
Speaker 1: want to use people, by the way, on the West
Speaker 1: side of Cincinnati are actually Bengals fans. Okay, defensive tackle
Speaker 1: DJ Reader, cornerback Trey Wayne's big money deals with the Bengals.
Speaker 1: We all know they never do big money deals. Uh
Speaker 1: million committed uh to the two veterans. Now, well they
Speaker 1: actually get nine five million, but just stick with me.
Speaker 1: According to ESPN Stats and Information Research, Cincinnati had not
Speaker 1: committed more than twenty six million to a single free
Speaker 1: agent since two thousand fifteen. So yes, the numbers back
Speaker 1: it up. They have not spent uh like this in
Speaker 1: half a decade. Uh so, Joe Burrow, Yes, pay attention,
Speaker 1: they're trying maybe just a little. Yeah, I go west.
Speaker 1: Sorry they had to. Um. This is a team that
Speaker 1: since the creation of NFL free agency in they are
Speaker 1: the team that drives up the price for another team
Speaker 1: to sign a free agent. They don't actually sign the
Speaker 1: free agents, they signed their own. But this is a deviation,
Speaker 1: as you said. All right, I'm back in front of
Speaker 1: my home. A children are staring at me, wanting me
Speaker 1: to play with them for nine straight hours and feed
Speaker 1: them and bade them to breaking to sleep. So I'll
Speaker 1: end my walk here. I do have one, uh someone
Speaker 1: that wants to say something about the Saints being number
Speaker 1: four here? Oh yes, Luke, this is our house. Is
Speaker 1: I am your real father? How do you feel about
Speaker 1: Dan hands this uncle Dan putting the Saints at as
Speaker 1: the fourth best team in the NFL? You like that?
Speaker 1: What do you want them to be number one? I'll
Speaker 1: see if they're number one. But that's pretty good actually
Speaker 1: to be here at number four. But you're a huge
Speaker 1: Saints fan and you love Drew Brees. Right, all right, well,
Speaker 1: good luck to you than your dad. Who's better at
Speaker 1: the power rankings, Dan hands Us or Elliott Harrison. All right,
Speaker 1: that's my boy. You did a good job. Thank you
Speaker 1: A plus. Yeah, you're good, thank you. Bye? All right,
Speaker 1: that was nice. I feel like a tradition is coming on.
Speaker 1: I gotta get the boys in here. So yeah, where
Speaker 1: are they? I don't know. That's why we gotta in
Speaker 1: the show. They could be anywhere. Was not expecting any
Speaker 1: Luke Sessler, Elliott Harrison heat, but no, he doesn't know
Speaker 1: what time say. Didn't always see eye to eye. I
Speaker 1: know that, and that's why I talked during the Bengals
Speaker 1: question that you threw a west because Luke was about
Speaker 1: to come charging into the scene and I was trying
Speaker 1: to slow him down there. But there we go. All right,
Speaker 1: Well good effort there. We will be back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: another show, so make sure you check that out. Everybody,
Speaker 1: Stay healthy, stay clean, stay distant for now. Anyway, listen
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