WEBVTT - 2016 NFL Draft Pressure Points 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.120 High in Hello Football Fanger, old pal Dave Damashek here. 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.000 Make sure you check out the Dave Damaschek Football Program. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.760 You can watch it on YouTube, NFL dot com. You 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.639 can listen to it on iTunes or Stitcher or NFL 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.880 dot com. Slash podcasts. We look at the world of 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:22.320 pro football and the game called life. Do you Around 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:29.880 the NFL Podcast Isn't flawed enough for Chris Wesley? Welcome 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.479 back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.199 My name is Dad Hanzas and I am joined by 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.760 room Feld with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.640 ros Ital. What's up? Boys? He is that tripping in? 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.400 Is that true? Wes? That we're not flawed enough for 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.160 you people? People confuse my stance on this issue quite 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.120 a bit. It's a very hardline stance. Flawed humans have 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.440 been through the ringer and have had to check themselves. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.240 Look in the mirror, changes, show rey, more, show contrition, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.479 realize there's more to life. Broken human beings are not 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.760 to be trifled with. You don't mess with him because 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.000 they just go around hurting people. They're irredeemable. Help me 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.160 well to clarify for anyone you know, listening for the 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.240 first or tenth time, you prefer a woman that has 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.440 some flaws. No one said you were looking for uh, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.640 that we weren't broken enough for you. We just weren't 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.399 flawed enough for you because we're Because I think what 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.960 it's saying is, as a podcast, were perfect, you want 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.840 something a little less perfect. I I disagree with that. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.479 I think the podcast is flawed and recognizes its flaws. Yes, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.160 I think the podcast is so weird. It's in a 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.200 good spot, weird wormhole right off the top. So if we, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.880 if we were a woman, you would go out with us? 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.640 Oh yeah, I'd wine and dine us that that's sexy 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.000 and I don't too much whining and dining. Um. West 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.800 expects the women to come straight to him. You know, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.400 I'm not going to try to impress them with fancy meals. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.360 Well it's worked at on an I'm willing to once 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.680 they show that they're worth it. But I feel like, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.960 especially in l A, in this dating pool, you have 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.200 to weed out the really shallow women and you know, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.560 first date dive bar, let's see if you're willing to 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.720 get down with the people. That was West's dating podcast, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:22.560 now available on iTunes. Uh. 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I don't believe in their product at all, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.959 but I would take their money. Okay, yeah, or Burger 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.160 King terrible product. Okay, we kind about it. Well, we're 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.320 not gonna gonna get a sponsorship. When you're saying that, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.280 I'm just saying I don't I don't believe. I believe 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.679 in the transaction, not what they're doing. Today's show, we 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.400 are going to get into a little draft talk. The 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.080 draft is coming up, guys. I believe it is a 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:37.840 week from two weeks from Thursday. That that is absolutely correct. Okay, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.560 So it's coming up, and so we should. We've been 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.320 checking in here and there in the last month or 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.760 so with the help of some experts UH in and 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.360 around the building of NFL Media. We are lucky enough 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.800 to have a lot of people under this roof that 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.760 know what they're talking about when it comes to college 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.040 and UH and in the in the podcast studio today, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.160 we'll have Michael Burger, we just call him Burger. He 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.080 is the producer um a great program Greg called Path 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.640 to the Draft that's on Monday through Friday at what 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:13.960 time it is at three o'clock Pacific, six o'clock Eastern daily. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.200 Daniel Jeremiah our our friend who wants to move the 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.880 Sticks podcast. This has really moved the Sticks season right 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.800 now draft season. But he's the star, I would say 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.520 of the Path to the Bucky Brooks in there. Yeah, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.800 no offense to Bucky, but you know DJ gets more 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.520 screen time and DJ carries himself in a different way. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.600 If you on the campus here at NFL medi, if 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.600 you notice there's a little air about him ever since 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.120 he was offered jobs to run the front office in 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.560 Tampa and uh Philadelphia. Yeah, so we're gonna talk a 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:46.960 segment We're gonna call draft trigger points with Burger. Yeah, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.200 and we won't even get into what that means. I 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.440 thought it was pressure point. Yeah, it is pressure points. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:56.320 Listen draft. It's too late now. I feel like pressure 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.320 points is pressure points. You like the alliteration, yeah, plus 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.960 trigger I had some bad connotations gun triggers and whatnot. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.920 It's like the PC pod with Greg Lately. It's not PC. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.919 I'm just saying I like the sound pressure still recovering 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.880 from you throw me under the bus of that Japanese 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.200 pop music. Yeah, that was I spoke too soon. I 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.080 actually asked my wife, Emmaica if she had heard of 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.280 I think this song was didn't know that, didn't know 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:24.919 the song. But when I gave her, you know, the 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.960 name of the artist, she had heard of her. I 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.960 don't wouldn't say she was a fan, but we found 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.440 out she has four million Twitter followers, so she has 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.159 plenty of fans. What is her equivalent in American music? 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.839 I didn't. I didn't ask that question based on the 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.159 amount of Twitter followers and just listening to it, it 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.920 seemed like a Selena Gomez type maybe signed me up followers. Well, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.119 I was just thinking of like a young sort of 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:53.040 airy pop star. So she's got like three followers more 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:58.600 than Greg. Wait that almost I'll take that as a compliment. Yeah, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.159 good buddy. All right, and we're also gonna do some news. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.599 And before we do that, let's go behind the glass. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.240 Say hie to the irishman. What's up, buddy? How you doing? 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.480 I'm doing great, I'm doing great. Brandon was on our 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:17.360 softball team. Uh season kicks off uh tomorrow Thursday, and um, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.719 you know, everybody looked good in our first practice was Yeah, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.800 I thought we looked pretty good. We got a lot 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.719 of imfield practicing. We came out to the field starting 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.680 to take batting practice. Little kids from Culver City started 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.320 to swarm the area and just took over everything. We 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.240 couldn't get much accomplished, little monsters, kids wanting to play 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.640 games on the field. Monsters, little little news. Let's do it. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:54.800 We start on the throne of sleeves. Pretty cruesome stuff. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.120 Yeah this is wait a minute, Oh there is nobody 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.800 left the New England Paige. Sure it's used. They first 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.159 round pick on Dominique easily in two thousand and fourteen, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.720 and uh easily did show some uh some ability flashed 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.840 ability over his first two seasons, missed games with injuries. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.320 You expected him to be a big part of their 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.160 rotation in two thousand sixteen, but then the news this 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.040 drop shortly before we came upstairs. A big surprise Easily 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.880 was released by the New England Patriots, is reported by 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:28.320 a rap sheet on Wednesday. Um Comcast Sports Net New 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.360 England first reported the news. Tommy Kerr and Tommy and Uh. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.200 This is the same Dominique Easily who had towards a 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.920 c on Baltany's in college and ended his season with 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.800 a knee injury towards quad in two thousand fifteen. However, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.880 this cannot just be an injury thing, right, Mark Well, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.680 I mean the timing of it. I mean, right the 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.040 minute this happened, four thousand beat writers in Unison. Oh, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.040 there must be something else going on here. Wait I 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.280 beat all those beat writers to that tape, all right, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.520 than four thousand beat writers. So basically West said it, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.760 and then everyone else copied West. That's Chamber, What about you, Greg? 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.840 I agree with that. West said, as we were talking 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.200 about it before the podcast. You don't just cut guys 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.520 in April for perform for injury related reasons. He tore 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.080 his quad, but we knew that months ago. He's a 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.480 first round pick only entering the third year of a 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.880 you know, pretty cheap contract cap issues is not. If anything, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.760 they're accelerating their cap hit in the short term by 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.800 cutting him. So it's curious, and it's especially curious because 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.680 he played so well last year. UH Pro Football Focus 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.520 noted per snap only J. J. Watt was more productive 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.360 as a pass rusher according to their metric, and obviously 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.160 no one's saying he's the second. According to the game 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.040 film I watched, he was easily the patriots most effective 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.079 interior rushan, certainly their best interior Russian, and one of 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.680 their best defensive players per snap. And that per snap 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.640 is key because he only's you know, he's missed half 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.839 the game's almost in his career. He only played two 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.120 five snaps. He tores a c L twice in college, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.880 both knees, so he's had injuries going on forever. Tom Currn, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.880 who broke the story at an update after we came 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.120 up here, that he that story by the way, when 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:13.680 you went curd or whatever, like Tommy Tommy Tommy Tom 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.360 Curran is the best best guy out there in the 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.520 country we got it. We gotta philosophical difference differences on 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.680 following injury programs, etcetera. That was he said, that's part 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.760 of it. So that was my first inclination. Whenever you 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.280 hear the Patriots surprisingly cut someone, isn't it because they 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.280 won't get with the program in some kind of way, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.280 either they want too much money, they're not about the team, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.600 or in this case, he's probably not following the regimen 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.600 laid out by the Patriots. Man also, could have you know, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.880 shown some personality, you know, been an actual human being. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.000 A lot of things can happen on Patriot way. Yeah, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.439 that I can only imagine how how the that Throne 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.720 of Ease music would would sound if the Patriots had 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.160 only one what how many playoff games in the last 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.640 fifteen years. This is this is where I know it's working. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.440 When he gets all upset, I mean, they've they trade 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.559 away Chandler Jones Suddenly. I wonder, if you're the Patriots, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.280 if it if it forces you to think about the 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.800 draft a little differently to find people that can get 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.840 to the quarterback. Well, I would say defensive tackle was 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.160 a huge need for them even before this. It's been 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.120 a huge need for them. That's why they've spent their 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.840 last two first round picks on defensive tackles. Dominic easily, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.680 Malcolm Brown, and uh, it wouldn't surprise me if they 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.199 take a defensive tackle pretty high in the draft again, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.840 because behind them, you really just have some some kind 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.640 of get veterans. When you see that they signed pot 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.319 Rose night, and doesn't that immediately trigger that thought they're 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.760 gonna be showing more three four looks instead of four three. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.440 Well that was there was a bunch of people weighing 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.160 and saying that too, that they it sounds like they're 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.960 gonna shift over. Well, they're they're always gonna play both. Yeah, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.400 whatever works that year, So yeah, maybe this year their 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.320 roster will be set up that way. They tend to 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.040 not be like most teams. They're gonna play thirty or 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.240 one way, thirty or four to the other way. They're 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.679 gonna mix it up. But the next best, really, their 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.319 best defensive tackle last year overall was probably Alan Branch. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.040 I mean, Branch had like an in in summer kind 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.880 of year, but it just shows you. I think Malcolm 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.920 Brown has potential, but it was a position they absolutely needed, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.880 so to cut him not getting with the injury philosophical 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.800 differences program. I mean that even but if he was 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.679 lazy and just didn't rehab and he has a torn quad, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.120 I don't know. I still think there's gonna be even 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.080 by the way the quad connects to the knee where 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.480 he's had major issues. In other Patriots news, we've been 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.920 wondering how they're backfield is gonna look because Legarre Blunt 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.760 was not attached to the team, but now he is. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.240 He's been reattached to the team. That's one way to 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.080 stay things. Blunt. On Tuesday, we learned has signed a 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.640 one year deal with the Patriots worth up to two 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.720 million dollars. Bert Breer of NFL Media added that the 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.600 deal UH seven sixty K and bass salary UH up 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:56.040 to him one million in incentives. Later. Pats later confirmed 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:01.160 the signing UH. Blunt miss most of or the back 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:02.920 end of last season with a chip bone and his 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.440 hip rap sheet reports or no surgery for that, and 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.760 he should be ready for O. T A. S. Gregor. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.240 Are you happy to have Lagarrett blood back in your backfield? Yeah? 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.959 Why not? Can't hurt. He's good, He's been good for them, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.679 good clubhouse guy, good for parties, Well, unless you're on 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.280 the Steelers, right, No, I'm saying that's I mean, he's 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.160 great for parties if you want to drive around before 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:27.880 a game. Rue. This signing really shakes my confidence in 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.160 Greg's Patriots analysis. Why because I asked him a month 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.280 ago when when Blunt was sitting out there and the 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.240 Patriots had no backfield, Surely the Patriots are just gonna 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.480 bring Blunt back on the chief. Greg said, no, I 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.880 think they've watched him. I am surprised that they're gonna 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.480 bother to bring him back. And it did take him 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.160 a couple of months of Clearly, if any team in 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.280 the league valued la Garrett Blunt, he would be playing. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.600 We can have another visit. I don't think he did. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.240 To me, he has a he has a fairly limited value. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.160 But he's just if you're gonna have four running backs, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.079 can he be one of them? He feels a role 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.199 that nobody else in that roster can fill right now? Yeah, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.760 I think they need to draft a running back or two. Yeah, 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.080 like they have in the past where they drafted too. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.760 So to me, it wouldn't you know, what are they 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.240 get a hundred thousand dollars signing bonus As a Patriots fan, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.599 I would not mind one million in incentives to I 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.440 would not mind one bit if La Garan but doesn't 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.880 make the team. That means they're if they were, what 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.800 if they were, Like listen, Gary Blunt and Gary Blunt 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.720 and Easily you just can't have them in the locker 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.920 room together. So we just we just got Gary Blunt back. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.559 Easily is out. But brother Nick will be happy to 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.000 know you're bringing Gary back. Did that for for your 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:42.000 brother Nick? There's not enough Garies in the world anymore. Uh, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.840 Like Gary Blunt Blunt joins a running back group that 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.920 includes Dion Lewis who's coming back from a tourn A 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.040 c L James White, Donald Brown, Brandon Bolden, and Joey 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:58.960 That's terrible. It's probably right. I say that almost with 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.120 respect to the Patriots, that the other teams would be 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.640 screwed with that lineup, but they'll be Dan Lewis if 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.680 he comes back in full health. I mean that that 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.760 if they had a better backfield, they might have won 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.760 the Super Bowl last year. I mean, I mean there 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.200 was a big factor in them not winning a super 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.240 Bowl that was out there to be one. When injuries though, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.040 I mean, if Lewis had been healthy, that would have 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.800 been a completely different When's the last time you saw 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.080 a backfield as in the playoffs as poor as the 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.400 one the Patriots rolled out Stephen Jackson walking like two 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.920 skyscrapers through the field. About the Steelers the year before 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.960 when they didn't have Bellah. I mean, if you're gonna 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.120 talk about let's take away the number one and two 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:39.880 running back, Yeah, it's gonna be a better But you're 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.040 talking about a guy Dan Lewis who was just a 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.640 shot in the dark, who started training camp fifth in 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.720 the depth chart, that had injury problems. So look, it's 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.080 better to have guys with some pedigree without all those 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.880 injury problems. Obviously. Uh. Josh Gordon missed all of last 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:00.800 season suspended after failing an alcohol test. Had not been 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.000 really reinstated yet, and you started to wonder why hadn't 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.480 that happened, And we got some light, uh shine on 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.480 that situation. On Monday or Tuesday, I should say, rap 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:16.520 sheet reported that Gordon failed another drug test last month. UM. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.120 The test showed traces of marijuana and UM dilute, which 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:25.480 could be used to mask substances. UH. As a result 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.880 of this test. Gordon his application for reinstatement has been 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.040 denied until August. One. Leak spokesman told Rap Report he 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.840 can reapply after that date. So there is good news. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.240 There's bad news obviously that it doesn't it doesn't appear 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.920 that Gordon still doesn't have his head on straight. Uh. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.320 The good news, I guess if you're a Browns fan, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.600 and certainly Josh Gordon, is that he is still has 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.360 a chance that appears to play this upcoming season, but 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.240 he's got a by the time August first comes around. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.160 He needs to have everything together and not give them 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.960 another reason. Mark Yeah, I mean from a from another angle, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.080 I think anyone still having any hopes tied to Josh 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.720 Gordon needs to check themselves at the door because even 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.760 if he were to pass this next thing by August first, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.120 he just sits out. There's and if you're trying to 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.760 build a team as an absolute hazard, because at any moment, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.440 it feels like he's gonna get banged with another suspension. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.880 Three years in a row. He did. Now when he played, 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.120 he missed two games and still led the league in receiving, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.320 So that that's tantalizing. That was also in two thousand thirteen, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:32.120 and you hold that hope for him. You know what, well, no, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.000 I am annoyed that that that his lack of accountability 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.920 is annoying to me. And the fact that the drug, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.520 these players with this trauma are attached to it, to 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.320 the Browns because really they're trying hard to move forward, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.880 and you know, just the same way that people feel. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.240 There's an entitlement complex to manziel I see it with 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.800 Gordon too, because he's tweeting out guys, come on, not 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.320 a real story, and in videos of him working out, well, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.160 you you have a deluded test and you've you've failed 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.200 multiple test, so it is a real story, and you 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.920 showed no ability to get healthy and get back into football. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.040 Whether or not marijuana should be a banned substances a 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.439 whole different subject. I think we're gonna look back in 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.959 twenty years and wonder how these careers were ruined by marijuana. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.720 On one hand, but on the other hand, you mentioned accountability. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.240 He's letting down teammates, he's letting down the front office, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.159 he's letting down the coaching staff. And frankly, you're not. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.000 No one told you you have a right to make 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.800 millions of dollars playing kids. And how crazy is it 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:33.040 that this guy under this microscope, uh seemingly could not 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.040 avoid smoking weed or whatever is going out with Johnny 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.240 Manzel and what's happening here where he in his mind thought, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.200 instead of keeping my nose clean, I'm gonna actually try 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.040 to you know, I'm gonna still have fun and try 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.280 to get away with it. It just shows, yeah, you know, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.040 he doesn't have good common sense and it's killing the guy. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.159 I mean, it's ruining his career. It's insane how long 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.160 he has not played for by now, and yet he's 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.240 on the team and the Browns don't like being attached 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:00.679 to him. While they could, they could cut him if 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.840 they wanted. That's allowed. I'm not saying they don't. They could. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:10.120 He shows, ultimately what matters in the NFL, because he's 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:15.240 been chosen by the Browns by four different regimes, two 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.960 different ownership groups, that he's more he was more valuable 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:24.120 than Homegren and then Ray Farmer, and then Michael Lombardi 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.480 and pet and in all those coaches, He's kept his 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.960 job this entire time, while all of those guys have 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.840 gotten fired. So Gordon to the Browns as an organization 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.160 has been deemed more important. They they lead the league 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.800 and ghosts. Aren't they still paying Rob Chazinsky right there? 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.520 They probably are still paying Romeo Crenic. I mean Rob 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.680 Chazinski inherited Josh Gordon even he didn't draft it. I mean, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.240 it's it's really crazy. But I mean for a team 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.880 with zero playmakers, now I get it early zero, it's like, 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.639 but they're not sitting around, they're not they have But 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.960 about that, and you're saying, don't have hope? They have 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.600 hope or else he wouldn't be on the team, and 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.679 you know what I mean, And you have hope as 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.640 a face in because you're saying that, I don't think 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.240 he's very expensive number one right, And secondly, he's his 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.840 contract tolls. There's no reason to just release him right now. Necessarily, Well, 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.920 there is a reason if if he doesn't really if 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.080 you're rebooting the machine again. But well, and you want 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.400 a fresh start, and this guy keeps on getting busted 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.480 and it's attaching your franchise to his name. Yeah, but 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.040 what's mark a guy going somewhere else and thrives, going 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:29.280 to the Steelers and leading the NFL until three days 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.720 ago the thought, probably with this new group of people, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.960 was he could be back very soon, and now it's 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:36.520 he could be back in August. First. If it was 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.239 he's going to be suspended another year, I think they 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.359 would cut him. I tend to agree they might as 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.679 well keep him in. The August first thing really surprised me. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.560 It showed some lead leniency and flexibility from the NFL 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.400 that it's not just not just banished for another year. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.959 Necessarily we shouldn't. We shouldn't assume a ruling will come 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:55.960 down in August first. It could, it could come down 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.919 in October. And we especially shouldn't assume that he passes 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.359 whatever test is in the meantime, because history would tell you, 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:08.040 if you're a betting man, that he fails tests. That's 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.399 what he does, so he will fail more tests. I 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.480 couldn't agree more. I think that he should probably that 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.560 you know, he's he's up there and with with Manzel 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.760 and anyone else. In terms of we may never see 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:19.840 him play again, the desire does not seem to be there. 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.440 Moving on, Eddie Lacy, running back for the Green Bay Packers, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.480 um out of shape for most of the last year 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.399 and got a ton of criticism both from UH, the 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.159 NFL world, the media, and even then his own head coach. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:39.240 After the season ended, UM has appeared to turn the 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:44.200 corner in terms of conditioning. Bert Breer reported UH this 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:48.480 week that uh Lacey has undergone a transformation, calling it 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:53.400 quote remarkable, a red redistribution of weight from his midsection 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.199 to his shoulders and arms. Here's a bird set on 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.440 NFL HQ on NFL Network. I know the people around 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.640 Eddie Lacey. He really feel like the Packers are going 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.800 to be happy with what they see when Lacey reports 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:10.160 of the off season program next week. Uh So, Chris Westling, 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.399 is this a narrative? This would have been good for 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.680 by by Seller? Hold Eddie Lacey has lost the weight 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.879 in his back to being Eddie Lacy. You believe it, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.720 every ounce of it. No pun intended, but yeah, of 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.760 course I believe it. I've seen Eddie Lacey play when 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.639 he's in shape, and he's one of the best running 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.280 backs in the league. And Mike McCarthy said in February, 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.639 I have complete faith that Eddie Lacy learned a lesson 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.720 that he knows he can't make defenders miss or shake 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.360