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Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Mclovin will have a play of
Speaker 1: the day or is it a poll question? You have
Speaker 1: a poll question? Mario has the play of the day.
Speaker 1: You get now you're getting me and Mario confused. That's
Speaker 1: a low blow. Well, they are moving up the ladder, Marvin.
Speaker 1: Marvin's not just answering phones he's on TV Ario. He
Speaker 1: is now handling social media. They're growing up right before
Speaker 1: our very eyes. On this program. It's really really heartwarming
Speaker 1: for me to see Major League Baseball appears to be
Speaker 1: face to face with its worst nightmare of the season.
Speaker 1: Marlin suffered a rash of coronavirus infections while visiting the
Speaker 1: Phillies over the weekend. Canceled the Marlin's Orioles game last night.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing tonight is going to be postponed as well.
Speaker 1: Yankees Phillies was postponed. The fear is this is just
Speaker 1: the beginning. We've seen how the disease can spread, how
Speaker 1: quickly it can spread, and it's hard to pin down
Speaker 1: how many people have been exposed to this. You also
Speaker 1: had the White Sox Indians that was postponed, and the
Speaker 1: safety of all the players should come first. Hopefully major
Speaker 1: League Baseball realizes that. But this is also frustrating for
Speaker 1: the sports fan in all of us because we're getting
Speaker 1: used to baseball being back. Only started last week. We
Speaker 1: haven't even gotten through a week of baseball yet, and
Speaker 1: it's great to have teams back, but if there was
Speaker 1: a notion that this was going to be easy the
Speaker 1: Marlins certainly ended that keeping sports going as serious business
Speaker 1: big business here a teams, players, leagues are going to
Speaker 1: have to step up and be held accountable with frequent testing.
Speaker 1: And there's nowhere to hide. And hopefully the Marlins are
Speaker 1: just a warning and not the beginning of the end
Speaker 1: of the season that we were just starting to enjoy.
Speaker 1: And I know there was a lot of hand ringing
Speaker 1: yesterday and the sky is falling because what happened with
Speaker 1: the Marlins. This might be the worst part of it
Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball. If this is the big hiccup here,
Speaker 1: Baseball's okay. Now, they didn't handle it well because the
Speaker 1: Marlins themselves should not have been voting on whether they
Speaker 1: were going to play a game on Sunday. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Marlins are still in Philadelphia. Last I heard,
Speaker 1: they're still in Philadelphia. They're supposed to play the Orioles
Speaker 1: tonight in Miami and then they go to Baltimore for
Speaker 1: two more games. I was told by baseball source yesterday
Speaker 1: Baseball will not force teams to forfeit games. The commissioner
Speaker 1: knows that would be an embarrassment if you had to
Speaker 1: forfeit a game. Keep in mind, these teams with no
Speaker 1: minor league baseball, they have a roster of about sixty
Speaker 1: players that are available now. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: readily available here, but if you have thirty on the
Speaker 1: major league roster and another thirties scattered around the country,
Speaker 1: you can bring those players in. It's just a question
Speaker 1: of when they get there. Also, the players who test
Speaker 1: positive the quarantine aspect of this. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a fluid situation here. But Major League Baseball knows the
Speaker 1: amount of money that's at stake. Hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars are at stake here for the postseason, the postseason.
Speaker 1: That's the key. They want to get through the regular season.
Speaker 1: They want to make sure they have the postseason. Rob Manfred,
Speaker 1: the commissioner Major League Baseball, sat down with Tom Berducci,
Speaker 1: and he said, let's not overreact to what happened. I
Speaker 1: don't put this in the nightmare category. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: we don't want any player to get exposed. It's not
Speaker 1: a positive thing, but I don't see it as a nightmare.
Speaker 1: We built the protocols to allow us to continue to play.
Speaker 1: That's why we have the expanded rosters. That's why we
Speaker 1: have the pool of additional players. We think we can
Speaker 1: keep people safe and continue to play all right. He
Speaker 1: also said that they made the right decision to not
Speaker 1: have a bubble. The decision that we made with respect
Speaker 1: that a bubble was the right one. We're different than
Speaker 1: other sports. We would have had to have multiple locations,
Speaker 1: probably just in order to have enough facilities to make
Speaker 1: it work. The numbers of people involved in the umbers
Speaker 1: of people to support the number of players was much
Speaker 1: much larger in our sport. The duration would have been
Speaker 1: much longer, and the longer you go, the more people
Speaker 1: you have, the less likely it is that you can
Speaker 1: make the bubble work. Okay, they can still have this season.
Speaker 1: I didn't say, boy, we should just shut it down. Here.
Speaker 1: There are those in the media who said there's not
Speaker 1: going to be a World Series. You know, Buster Only,
Speaker 1: who's been covering this sport for a few decades now.
Speaker 1: A month ago said probably a five percent chance of
Speaker 1: playing the World Series. Five percent, they'd start zero percent
Speaker 1: World Series. But he was on with Golik and Wingo
Speaker 1: and he said forty percent chance of having the World Series. Now.
Speaker 1: They didn't follow up and say why all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Do you think you're going from five percent or zero
Speaker 1: percent to forty percent because we just had this outbreak
Speaker 1: with the Marlins. They just postponed at least one game,
Speaker 1: probably two games with them, and you're on a finite
Speaker 1: amount of time at least games wise and dates that
Speaker 1: you can fit it all in. And he says that
Speaker 1: he's forty percent more sure that we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: World Series? Yeah, Poem, do you think it's he has
Speaker 1: more confidence in Membi? Other people might have more confidence
Speaker 1: now that baseball finishes because a month ago, if you
Speaker 1: would have told us that three games into the season,
Speaker 1: a team would have a major coronavirus outbreak and they
Speaker 1: would not stop the season, they would continue playing baseball.
Speaker 1: In a couple of games would be postponed. Like the
Speaker 1: way baseball reacted to this yesterday was like, we're plowing through,
Speaker 1: we're getting to October and we'll deal with the hiccups.
Speaker 1: That they're committed, and so there's more confidence now, not
Speaker 1: less after yesterday. Oh, I don't know, I you know,
Speaker 1: Golik and Wingo didn't ask, you know, Buster only, why
Speaker 1: are you more confident here based off what just happened?
Speaker 1: I think the question, and maybe this is that that
Speaker 1: reminder for other teams what happened with the Marlins. But
Speaker 1: you know, you have a coronavirus outbreak in the visitors
Speaker 1: clubhouse in Philadelphia. The Marlins responded by asking their shortstop
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas. He's sort of their unofficial team captain according
Speaker 1: to Don Mattingley, their manager, and they said, you know,
Speaker 1: let's determine if we should play this game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So Miguel Rojas is the one who's deciding that they're
Speaker 1: going to play a game. I would think you would
Speaker 1: have maybe somebody with Major League Baseball, maybe an official,
Speaker 1: not a player, who's going to be deciding. Does Derek
Speaker 1: Jeter know about this? You know was Mattingly in on this.
Speaker 1: So you just can't be careless here, And maybe this
Speaker 1: is just a good reminder of this is how it
Speaker 1: can go south in a hurry. Hopefully Baseball is able
Speaker 1: to continue to plow through using Pauli's word and that
Speaker 1: all they want to do get to the postseason. It's
Speaker 1: sixty games. I'll go back to my interview with the
Speaker 1: commissioner when I was told numerous times by a source
Speaker 1: he's locked in on sixty games. They're not changing at
Speaker 1: sixty games. That way, the owners know exactly how much
Speaker 1: they're losing during the regular season, and that he was
Speaker 1: going from ten to sixteen playoff teams because more teams
Speaker 1: more money for the owners. All of that played out here.
Speaker 1: I don't have any other sources on anybody telling me
Speaker 1: anything other than what would happen yesterday, and that the
Speaker 1: commissioner is still confident. I guess what else would he
Speaker 1: be that they're going to be able to pull this off.
Speaker 1: But I don't want a shortstop for the Marlins deciding
Speaker 1: what's going to happen during a pandemic. And I'll go
Speaker 1: back to what I said yesterday. If this was the Yankees,
Speaker 1: if this was the Dodgers, this would be a huge
Speaker 1: story because people reacted this way. Typical Marlins, when't you
Speaker 1: We expected the Marlins Florida one of the hotspots there.
Speaker 1: But if it was a marquee team, this would be
Speaker 1: even bigger. So baseball got off a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: from the front lines because of them. I also saw
Speaker 1: this from Jason lackinfora and look, I take no pleasure
Speaker 1: out of telling you these things. I've always dealt with
Speaker 1: just the reality of what the situation is. I have
Speaker 1: no agenda. I don't weaponize COVID nineteen. I just want
Speaker 1: to have sports because, you know what, it makes my
Speaker 1: job a whole lot easier. When I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: Oakland A's pitching staff against the Angels yesterday, then about
Speaker 1: the Marlins. Are they in Philadelphia? Are they in Miami?
Speaker 1: Are they somewhere in between? I don't root for this.
Speaker 1: I hope we get through this. I hope we have sports.
Speaker 1: I hope we have basketball coming up on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: hope hockey gets off on a great start. Hope that
Speaker 1: the football season is able to start and be completed.
Speaker 1: Do I have doubts, Yes, but they're all based in
Speaker 1: information I get, not a personal opinion that I have.
Speaker 1: I want sports to be there. But you also have
Speaker 1: to be honest because the degree of difficulty for some
Speaker 1: of these sports, college football in the NFL, it's a
Speaker 1: higher degree. It's a higher degree than baseball. And you're
Speaker 1: watching what's happening in baseball just one outbreak? What happens
Speaker 1: if you have an outbreak in football? Can you play
Speaker 1: a full schedule this year? Jason Locke and for their
Speaker 1: information guy from CBS had some interesting quotes. If they
Speaker 1: have an eight game schedule somewhere over there on Park
Speaker 1: Avenue at the NFL League office, now might be a
Speaker 1: good time to let us know. That's one team official
Speaker 1: in the AFC. I never understood the race to get
Speaker 1: people back in our buildings with the season not starting
Speaker 1: until September. Set another high ranking team official, and we're
Speaker 1: playing sixteen games in this question mark really question mark?
Speaker 1: So Locke and Forrest says, some of the gms I've
Speaker 1: talked to believe ten to twelve games would be the max.
Speaker 1: This is why another GM recently caught himself talking about
Speaker 1: when the season starts and quickly changed it to if
Speaker 1: this isn't a member of the media rooting for anything,
Speaker 1: because that story was out there yesterday. All some members
Speaker 1: of the media are rooting for the coronavirus to shut
Speaker 1: things down. Who are those people? Because why would somebody
Speaker 1: who covers the NFL make their job tougher because the
Speaker 1: sport that they cover is going to be shut down.
Speaker 1: Your job is there and the stories are written for
Speaker 1: you when the season starts. It's an easy job and
Speaker 1: it's a fun job. This is a tough job when
Speaker 1: you're covering this, because nobody wants to hear about this.
Speaker 1: But to root for the iris to be shutting down
Speaker 1: a league, that's silly. It's embarrassing to say that, because
Speaker 1: we want the league to succeed. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: is gonna gleefully say yep, told you. I'd love to
Speaker 1: be the one who's wrong. I'd love for you to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you were wrong about it. I'll gladly hold my hand
Speaker 1: up and say guilty is charged. But I deal with
Speaker 1: a realistic approach here, no agenda, none, If anything, I
Speaker 1: want these leagues to play. I want them to succeed.
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Speaker 1: Better than we think? There's feels like some people are nervous,
Speaker 1: and what does the NFL learn from what's happened with
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins. And we'll go through the quarterback rankings
Speaker 1: that came out on Pro Football Focus. Mclovin goes, boy,
Speaker 1: they're really upset in Philadelphia. I go, when are they
Speaker 1: not upset? Not because of that list? It's another list.
Speaker 1: It has them on fire right now because he's not.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz isn't in the NFL top one hundred and
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Josh Allen are okay, So what how
Speaker 1: can Carson Wentz not be a top hundred player in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's probably a top fifteen. Wait, is this
Speaker 1: another quarterback ranking? Or is this this is that overall ranking,
Speaker 1: the one that gets you even matter than anything else.
Speaker 1: You know, the NFL one hundred where the players vote. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the NFL one hundred, Carson Wentz is not part
Speaker 1: of the top one hundred. That is what internet sleuse
Speaker 1: have figured out. Because the whole list isn't out yet,
Speaker 1: but they've figured out that Carson is not on there,
Speaker 1: and everyone's really bad. Everyone is oh finn Philly. You
Speaker 1: have to understand the main topic. It could be like
Speaker 1: the day at the presidential election. Comparing Carson Wentz and
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott will be the lead story in Philadelphia the
Speaker 1: next That's all they talk about all day, twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a day. Kyler Murray and Josh Allen appeared to
Speaker 1: have made the NFL Network's Top one hundred players list
Speaker 1: over Carson Wentz. Ye know, the best part of this
Speaker 1: is that it appears that he did, because the entire
Speaker 1: list isn't out yet, so it's entirely possible that he
Speaker 1: is still on the list. We just think he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be. How genius would that be if they leaked
Speaker 1: that he wasn't and that he was and we all
Speaker 1: tune in. That's all that I would do. Oh man,
Speaker 1: that's great. I don't really McLevin, everything that's going on.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is not on some stupid list. There are
Speaker 1: people who think Carson Wentz might be one of the
Speaker 1: three or four most talented quarterbacks in the league. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I believe that. I do believe that, but
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I believe that. Well, Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: supposed to be the most talented quarterback of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you love cars. Everybody here loves Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: They just don't think you could stay healthy. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the only reason you wouldn't put him on that list.
Speaker 1: That's not a small thing. He played really good except
Speaker 1: for when he gets injured. I know, I have no
Speaker 1: problem you want to put Carson Wentz in there among
Speaker 1: the elite quarterbacks. I have no problem whatsoever. But I
Speaker 1: don't let these stupid list ruin might where they have
Speaker 1: ruined my day. They have that's gonna say. You don't
Speaker 1: how to finish, that's it. But but but I'm not
Speaker 1: rooting for anybody. I don't have any team in this
Speaker 1: where I go, where's Carson Wentz? Why isn't he in there?
Speaker 1: What was it? The risk? The list that just ruins
Speaker 1: yours four months? Michael Jordan being the number one college
Speaker 1: basketball player up for three weeks in a row. So
Speaker 1: you're blaming Phil that's something. But years ago, that's just
Speaker 1: me who has been around a while to have watched
Speaker 1: all of this, and whoever was voting on this, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't intelligent on this. They weren't well
Speaker 1: resourced on this. That's what the people in Philadelphia are saying.
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm not. I don't have a team
Speaker 1: in this. But Dan imagine, like so cars Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: mclovan's man, imagine if like Ken Stabler was slighted, you'd
Speaker 1: be upset, right, someone from your area that you grew
Speaker 1: up on. I love, but I'm not. I wasn't a
Speaker 1: Raiders fan, but love is an Eagles fan. But you
Speaker 1: appreciate Ken Stabler. Yeah, but I don't know Ken Anderson. No,
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't. I still wouldn't. So you're that you
Speaker 1: think Kareem is underrated? It gets you mad all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that from a basketball historian, a fan. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm is a football player. To have Jimmy Garoppolo ahead
Speaker 1: of Carson Wentz is Jimmy. It's Jimmy Garoppolo in the
Speaker 1: top one hundred. I will find out, but I believe
Speaker 1: So Okay, if that's the case, then whoever voted should
Speaker 1: be fired. Now you're in. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: in with fired. I gotta fight out this, Liz Gone
Speaker 1: people fired now by lazy. Let's find out what's really
Speaker 1: going audience before one gets fired. Okay, I'll ask Ethan. Oh.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd love it if it was a mistake
Speaker 1: where the NFL network said, oh gosh, you know what
Speaker 1: we were for. We had Wentz in there at nine,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Josh Allen ahead of Carson Wentz. I
Speaker 1: won't go that far, is da Well, Dak Prescott's got
Speaker 1: to be in because you gotta get some clicks on it, right.
Speaker 1: I did see a headline that people in Dallas are
Speaker 1: mad because Jimmy Jeez I had a Dak. Now I
Speaker 1: can't I can't prove all this, but I like it.
Speaker 1: By the way, we're doing another list in this hour
Speaker 1: or two, the PFF list that makes people mad too, Okay,
Speaker 1: but based off of what would you rank Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: over Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott based off what once again,
Speaker 1: can we confirm that actually exists? You're right here, I
Speaker 1: am saying that I, you know, I well sourced, and
Speaker 1: I do my homework and then I'm all of a
Speaker 1: sudden flying off the cuff here. But at least lists,
Speaker 1: I'll get your hipset because now you're upset about this list,
Speaker 1: just because you're upset about the list. Yes, you are
Speaker 1: weirdly irrational too, which is unlike you. All right, let
Speaker 1: me take a break. You're rooting for this list to fail. Yeah, probably,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm sure I'll hear that we got a
Speaker 1: list of lists that most upset you for tomorrow. You guys,
Speaker 1: you're guys in the media rooting rooting for the virus. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. Twenty one after the hour, glad
Speaker 1: to have you on board. I hope you feel the same.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break back after this and The Dan
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Speaker 1: senior NFL reporter, and he is the lead content strategist.
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Speaker 1: jones us on the program. Albert, thank you, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us here. What did the NFL learn or is
Speaker 1: trying to learn from what happened with the Marlins yesterday?
Speaker 1: I did more than anything else, Dan, It's going to
Speaker 1: be what they learned coming out of this um. You know,
Speaker 1: the expectation for the league was there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of positive tests and there we're going to be
Speaker 1: some opt outs coming into camp. But we've already seen that,
Speaker 1: you know. I think really the challenge begins now, and
Speaker 1: so what they're looking to learn from the other leagues
Speaker 1: is when one of these sorts of things happens, what
Speaker 1: happens after that? And so really as much of a
Speaker 1: shock as it was the sports world to see the
Speaker 1: positive test with the Marlins, I think what the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to be studying more so isn't how it happened.
Speaker 1: It's going to be more how they react, how they're
Speaker 1: able to contain it in the aftermath. And I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot to be learned because baseball
Speaker 1: does have two key similarities to football. Number One, they're
Speaker 1: starting a season, they're not finishing it like basketball and hockey.
Speaker 1: And number two, they're not in a bubble. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure this out as we move forward and
Speaker 1: be optimistic. I saw Jason lucking Ford from CBN Sports
Speaker 1: who was quoting some front office executives saying, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a question of if, but when you know
Speaker 1: this gets shut down, or are we going to have
Speaker 1: an eight game schedule. We're gonna have twelve games. There's
Speaker 1: no way we're gonna have a full season here. These
Speaker 1: are people in the business who are who are having
Speaker 1: these doubts, but the NFL home office who's been a
Speaker 1: kind of quiet on what the protocol is going to be.
Speaker 1: Peter King had the you know, the Minnesota Viking story
Speaker 1: about everything they're going through. What is the league's approach
Speaker 1: here of saying, let's be quiet on all of this
Speaker 1: and just kind of plow forward. I mean, I'll give
Speaker 1: you a story from it's about three to four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: You know, is somebody pretty high up at the league office,
Speaker 1: you know, basically said, I'm not sure we've done enough
Speaker 1: to message this. And because they plowed forward, like you said,
Speaker 1: kind of been business as usual, and because it worked
Speaker 1: for free agency in the draft, maybe it gave them
Speaker 1: a little bit of a false sense of security. You know. Really,
Speaker 1: I think there was this concern within the League office
Speaker 1: that they hadn't messaged enough that there are going to
Speaker 1: be problems. And so when we do see Dante high
Speaker 1: Tower opting out, when we do see a list of
Speaker 1: twelve or eighteen rookies every day coming out with positive
Speaker 1: COVID tests, it's a little bit of a shock to
Speaker 1: the system. And I know there were some people in
Speaker 1: the League office who felt like they should have done
Speaker 1: a better job messaging that and getting it out like
Speaker 1: we're expecting this as part of the deal and playing
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and so I think that's a big
Speaker 1: part of it. As for the team at the team level,
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that they're looking for
Speaker 1: from the League office right now is some more clarity
Speaker 1: of what happens post outbreak. And one of the key
Speaker 1: questions I got, and I think is a really interesting
Speaker 1: one dan from some teams yesterday, they still haven't said
Speaker 1: a number as far as what constitutes an outbreak and
Speaker 1: what it would take to shut a team down for
Speaker 1: a week, what it would take to cause a forfeiture.
Speaker 1: That's something I think a lot of teams are still
Speaker 1: looking for the answer to. Is it fifteen, is it twenty? Like?
Speaker 1: How many cases inside of building will it take for
Speaker 1: the league to make a phone call and say, you
Speaker 1: guys got to shut it down. These are some of
Speaker 1: the things that league still hasn't really clarified to its
Speaker 1: teams when it comes to how things are going to
Speaker 1: play out over the next few weeks and of course,
Speaker 1: more importantly once we get into the season. I was
Speaker 1: wondering about this. We're talking Albert Breer of the MMQB
Speaker 1: dot Com, and we were talking about this prior to
Speaker 1: the start of the show. Baseball has done this, this
Speaker 1: regionalized scheduling. Do you think that the NFL has given
Speaker 1: thought to let's say, the Patriots, the Jets, the Giants,
Speaker 1: and who else you want to throw in there on
Speaker 1: the East coast? Buffalo Buffalo Bills are in there. Florida.
Speaker 1: You have the Florida teams, so they're they're able to
Speaker 1: play each other twice. So those are that's eight games
Speaker 1: you have in the of the season, you know, um,
Speaker 1: but I know it throws the schedule off and we
Speaker 1: love more key matchups. But I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: a have you thought about it last ditch that we
Speaker 1: keep down our travel down and you know the home
Speaker 1: and away is not very far either home or away. Well,
Speaker 1: they had discussed Dan and this isn't the spring in
Speaker 1: the in April and May the idea of bubble concept
Speaker 1: and I don't think it would work in the NFL
Speaker 1: to have one big bubble. It's just too many people.
Speaker 1: And so one of the things that I know it's
Speaker 1: sort of been tossed around was like almost like a
Speaker 1: pod format, like Olympic style group play, And that was
Speaker 1: something that was shot down pretty quickly and never advanced
Speaker 1: very far for two reasons. Number one, doctor Allen Sills,
Speaker 1: the league's chief medical officer, didn't think it was a
Speaker 1: good idea, and number two, the players were wholeheartedly against it,
Speaker 1: and so that never really got off the ground. I
Speaker 1: think logistically with football, and you know this, like the
Speaker 1: amount of players that are settled on and off rosters
Speaker 1: because the injury rate in the NFL would make containing
Speaker 1: a bubble really really really logistically different difficult. And so
Speaker 1: you go back to April and May, and this was
Speaker 1: something that was discussed, but it never really got off
Speaker 1: the ground because there are some key figures that were
Speaker 1: really really against the idea. I know, we'd love to
Speaker 1: give grades. Somebody has to win, somebody has to lose.
Speaker 1: If it's a draft pick. You have the trade with
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, you know, the Jets sending him for a
Speaker 1: couple of first round draft picks. What's your sense with
Speaker 1: people you've spoken to on I like what Seattle did.
Speaker 1: It's you know, the NFL is about now. You know,
Speaker 1: winning now, and you have this opportunity with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: The Jets aren't winning now. But if you're giving out
Speaker 1: grades or who won, who lost, where do you stand
Speaker 1: with this? I mean, like, I hate to like it
Speaker 1: sounds like a cop out saying win win, But I
Speaker 1: mean there are two teams in very two, very different situations.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Joe Douglas, when he was hired
Speaker 1: about a year ago, came to the realization they were
Speaker 1: a few drafts away from really contending, and it was
Speaker 1: a pretty massive rebuild he was going to go through.
Speaker 1: And if this player has made it clear to if
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams has made it clear to you he's not
Speaker 1: signing a long term deal, you have to ask yourself
Speaker 1: the question, when I get good, is he even going
Speaker 1: to be here anymore? And so I think that that
Speaker 1: was part of the equation for the Jets. They weren't
Speaker 1: going to give him away, you know, but you know,
Speaker 1: you do want to get the proper return for him,
Speaker 1: and I think they were comfortable going forward with them. Really,
Speaker 1: this has been discussed between the Seahawks and the Jets
Speaker 1: for about a month and a half and the parameters
Speaker 1: were in place i'd say about a week ago, and
Speaker 1: really for the Seahawks to be comfortable with it, they
Speaker 1: wanted to see the rules. So from the Jets, this
Speaker 1: is about restocking the cupboard and building going forward. For
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, look the last piece to rebuilding a secondary
Speaker 1: that once had Cam Chancellor, Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of young players they liked there.
Speaker 1: He's an alpha, he's a fit for Pete Carroll's program.
Speaker 1: And really right now they feel like they're close enough
Speaker 1: and they view these draft picks as chifs, and they
Speaker 1: didn't think they'd have a chance to get a player
Speaker 1: like a Jamal Adams in the draft because of where
Speaker 1: they're drafting every year, And so is it a calculator risk,
Speaker 1: Sure it is, But John Schneider's never had a problem
Speaker 1: taking those. Some of them have worked out. Dwayne Brown's
Speaker 1: an example of that, some of them haven't. Percy Harman's
Speaker 1: another example of that. But certainly I think this is
Speaker 1: an example of two teams in a very very different position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I said it's a win win.
Speaker 1: I don't like giving out this grade because the Jets
Speaker 1: grade is fluid. That'll be when let's see what they
Speaker 1: do in the draft. Now you have a new GM there,
Speaker 1: so maybe he doesn't screw it up like the other
Speaker 1: GMS did with all their draft picks. And nobody's there
Speaker 1: except for Sam darn And with the Jets, and you
Speaker 1: get a guy who didn't want to be with the Jets.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks get Adams, and so he's your back end.
Speaker 1: He's your Russell Wilson with the defense there with Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: So I get it. I got the feeling that they
Speaker 1: made this move and basically said to Jamal Adams, you're
Speaker 1: going to be responsible for Raheem Mostart and George Kittle,
Speaker 1: like we're bringing you in to make sure you do
Speaker 1: damage to the San Francisco forty nine ers, because if
Speaker 1: we get past them, then we think will be the
Speaker 1: team to beat or one of the teams to be
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl. And they felt like really
Speaker 1: like he was a smaller version of Cam Chancellor in
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways, Like he's more versatile than Chancellor.
Speaker 1: He's the sort of presence physically the Chancellor was. And
Speaker 1: like you said, I think if you look at the
Speaker 1: Seahawks problems the last few years, they have related to
Speaker 1: having trouble covering tight end. So it's George Kittle, it's
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee with the rams like this has been a
Speaker 1: problem for them and so it shows up a lot
Speaker 1: of issues for them and are on field standpoint, but
Speaker 1: the off field stuff I think is important too. Like
Speaker 1: I said, like I think such a big part of
Speaker 1: who they were when they were really great in the
Speaker 1: secondary was having those alphas in the secondary, and this
Speaker 1: really gives them a guy that kind of brings together
Speaker 1: that young group and may give that young group an edge.
Speaker 1: They really like Shaquille Griffin, they really like Trey Flowers,
Speaker 1: they really like Marquis Player, the kid they drafted out
Speaker 1: of Utah a year ago. They've got Kandre Digs from
Speaker 1: the lines, and they really feel like bringing in a
Speaker 1: guy like Adams is going to bring them that sort
Speaker 1: of edge and attitude that they had when they were winning.
Speaker 1: I'm at a very high level, Albert, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it and we'll continue to read great stuff
Speaker 1: with the MMQB. All right, thanks Dan, Albert Breer, senior
Speaker 1: NFL reporter there for the MMQB. Yeah. I started to
Speaker 1: think about that Seattle move, and you know, maybe it
Speaker 1: doesn't address all the problems that they have, but you
Speaker 1: got a guy who's an impact guy. I was also
Speaker 1: wondering about this with Adams, if this is an offense
Speaker 1: that still needs some weapons. And that's why Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: is openly pleading with the team once we know what's
Speaker 1: happening with Antonio Brown in his suspension, that the Seahawks
Speaker 1: go get Antonio Brown. Look at the number of games
Speaker 1: that Seattle won last possession or less than a touchdown,
Speaker 1: like their margin of error that was a good offense,
Speaker 1: but it's really because of Russell Wilson. They went through
Speaker 1: a lot of running backs there. The only constant is
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. And what he's saying is something that we've
Speaker 1: heard on the East Coast for a long time from
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. You gotta get me some weapons here because
Speaker 1: after a while, there's only so much magic, so much
Speaker 1: you know, magic dust I can sprinkle here. That's the
Speaker 1: bigger concern. I think Seattle moving forward, rams still have
Speaker 1: a good offense. The Niners have a good offense. Seattle's
Speaker 1: offense is sort of trial by error and it's usually
Speaker 1: comes down to the fourth quarter. You say to Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: can you win the game for us? And I think
Speaker 1: that's really difficult. It's really difficult to pin that on
Speaker 1: in weekend in week out. But that would have been
Speaker 1: my only knock on this. Could they have used I mean,
Speaker 1: let's say you could have gotten DeAndre Hopkins. If you
Speaker 1: consider what Arizona gave up for DeAndre Hopkins, Stephen Diggs,
Speaker 1: this is what I didn't understand with Seattle. Those are
Speaker 1: guys who are impact players too. I can look at
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, I don't have to have him. I like
Speaker 1: having him, but boy would I love having DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: or Stefan Diggs. And they got DeAndre Hopkins for nothing.
Speaker 1: Now you got to pay him, but you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay Adams as well, and that would have been
Speaker 1: a smarter move in my opinion for that Seattle team.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, we'll get phone calls. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about this NFL list that's guaranteed to upset me this morning.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't planning on that, mcloven. I was just
Speaker 1: going to go, all right, it's a stupid list. Here
Speaker 1: we go again. I love it's totally incomplete too. That'll
Speaker 1: make even more matter. They're up to forty all right.
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Speaker 1: Marlins at the top of the hour Jordan McPherson. He
Speaker 1: covers the team for the Miami Herald. We talked to
Speaker 1: him yesterday, twenty four hours ago, and he was still
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Didn't know when he was going to be
Speaker 1: able to fly out. The team's still there. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're going to stay there one more day
Speaker 1: and then do they go to Baltimore to play. They
Speaker 1: were going to play two games against Baltimore Monday and Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: Baltimore later on this week. So he'll join us. Coming up.
Speaker 1: Top of the Hour, McLevin mentioned the NFL Network's Top
Speaker 1: one hundred list and they haven't even revealed the entire list,
Speaker 1: and mclovin says that people in Philadelphia are upset that
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is not in the top one hundred. We
Speaker 1: don't know that this is the headline I have. Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray Josh Allen appeared to have made the NFL Network's
Speaker 1: Top one hundred players list over Carson Wentz in a
Speaker 1: move that can only be described as head scratching, to
Speaker 1: say the least, the Philadelphia Eagles star quarterback Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: will not be a member of the NFL networks Top
Speaker 1: one hundred players list. Okay, has anybody seen the top
Speaker 1: one hundred list? McLevin so, a reporter for NBC Sports Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: was told by the NFL that five Eagles made the list,
Speaker 1: and they've already had five Eagles going up to seventy
Speaker 1: and none of them are Carson Wentz. NBC Philadephia is
Speaker 1: reporting that that Carson Wentz is a snub, and Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson is a snub too, who is clearly there. He's
Speaker 1: like an All Pro right tackle, So he's a snug.
Speaker 1: But I don't get it at all. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: the other quarterbacks if you want them. I mean, Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz had a pretty respectable year last year for you know,
Speaker 1: a team that was banged up and him coming back
Speaker 1: from injury. He's ninth on MVP odds, Yeah, tie for eighth.
Speaker 1: Actually threw for four thousand yards. He had twenty five
Speaker 1: touchdowns or whatever, eight interceptions. So he's better than johsh Allen,
Speaker 1: and he's better than Kyler Murray at least right now
Speaker 1: he is. Yeah. Carson Wentz also hasn't missed a ton
Speaker 1: of time. He was three games one season, five games
Speaker 1: another season. Otherwise sixteen starts in sixteen starts. He's also
Speaker 1: got ninety seven touchdowns and thirty five picks in four years.
Speaker 1: His stats are really good. But that second year when
Speaker 1: he blew up, he just cooled off, and once you
Speaker 1: cool off in the NFL, people don't jump back on. Okay,
Speaker 1: if I said you could have one of these quarterbacks
Speaker 1: the next five years, same price. Carson Wentz, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Jimmy Garoppolo. I got Garoppolo at twenty eight.
Speaker 1: He's the oldest out of this group. Wentz twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Prescott twenty six. Jared Goff is twenty six. What comes
Speaker 1: down to Dak Prescott or Carson Wentz, and I would
Speaker 1: take Carson Wentz is the best quarterback out of this group. Now,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott doesn't get hurt, Jared Goff had a drop off,
Speaker 1: and Garoppolo I don't even think their coach had has
Speaker 1: confidence in him and their GM John Lynch, because they
Speaker 1: went out and at least explored bringing in Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all you need to know, because they're
Speaker 1: probably looking at this the way I would is we
Speaker 1: need one thing to get us over the top, and
Speaker 1: that's a clutch quarter back here, a quarterback we can
Speaker 1: count on. Tom Brady gives us a window of two
Speaker 1: years to win the Super Bowl with this group. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo doesn't give us anywhere near that chance, apparently, because
Speaker 1: that's why they went out and they've admitted they at
Speaker 1: least explored the option to bring it in Tom Brady. Yeah, mcclubban.
Speaker 1: Here are some other quarterbacks that people are paying attention to.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray ninety, Josh Allen eighty seven, Ryan Tannehill sixty eight,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins fifty eight, Dak Prescott forty six, and Jimmy
Speaker 1: g At forty three. Is what we know so far.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the Jimmy g I don't Kirk Kirk
Speaker 1: d Cousins over Kurson Wentz, Dak Prescott. Well, the fact
Speaker 1: that Carson Wentzon not in the top one hundred, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just wrong. Yeah, mclub, maybe the NBC Philadelphia got
Speaker 1: the report wrong. Is that I would love it if
Speaker 1: they did, just with over this over action in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I'm really surprised that Carson Wentz is not in there,
Speaker 1: But all right, go out with a chip on your shoulder.
Speaker 1: You So what it's like when these guys get upset
Speaker 1: with their Madden rating? Like, okay, so what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Who about it? I'm so upset. Okay, now
Speaker 1: what you're not gonna play? You're gonna sit out the season?
Speaker 1: What you need to do? I'm not playing anymore. Good
Speaker 1: luck with that, yeah, Paully. It's interesting, though, how the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks go up and down. I got a list from
Speaker 1: December of twenty eighteen, less than two years ago. Jared
Speaker 1: Goff is the eighth ranked quarterback in the entire league,
Speaker 1: just behind Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson. He's above Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson, Carson Wentz, Cousins, Roethlisberger, Stafford. He was hot
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago, and then the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl happened and it was a quick cooling. Well, he
Speaker 1: got hurt, and the fact that they won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl without him, I think people then looked at maybe
Speaker 1: him and that team differently. But Carson Wentz is a
Speaker 1: He's an upper echelon quarterback. I mean, who are there's
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks right now who are have separated themselves from
Speaker 1: everybody else? All right, there's two Russell Wilson Junior the
Speaker 1: third and Patrick Mahomes. Those are the two quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: then after that we can go is Aaron Rodgers in there?
Speaker 1: Whoever you want to throw in there? But to me,
Speaker 1: there's two quarterbacks that are different. Deshaun Watson is not
Speaker 1: that first tier? Is he second tier? Okay? Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: if you start doing quarterback tiers, we got about the
Speaker 1: month of Fun ahead of us. People love to do
Speaker 1: that tier ranking. I hate liszt Ya mccleman. How do
Speaker 1: you put Lamar Jackson? And isn't he he's a second tier? Okay? Yes? No,
Speaker 1: I I would put Russell Wilson and Patrick Mahomes one two,
Speaker 1: and then I put Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: you want to put them in there. We're gonna check
Speaker 1: in on my Miami Marlins. How long are they gonna
Speaker 1: stay in Philadelphia? When's their next game? Anybody else? Test positive?
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