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Speaker 1: Welcome to Forties and free Agents, presented by Toyota. It's

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Speaker 1: my time of the year. It's Free agency week and

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Speaker 1: I'm here with my friend Daniel Jeremiah. We got a

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Speaker 1: sponsor DJ, and we got a lot of signings to

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Speaker 1: talk about. Freegency already almost feels over.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a wild week, man, fun and I

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Speaker 2: think in a year where we thought okay, and you

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Speaker 2: had talked about it as well, like it's a solid group,

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Speaker 2: but maybe not quite as much sizzle as we've had

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Speaker 2: in some other years, and then next thing, you know,

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Speaker 2: it got a little funky and a little wild later

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Speaker 2: on in the week.

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Speaker 1: I think there could yeah, with the Max Crosby and

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, and I also think there could be traits

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Speaker 1: to come. So I say free agency feels over, and

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Speaker 1: I just mean more of the top of my list.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we're doing winners and losers for the week,

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Speaker 1: I think the winners is the top one to one

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Speaker 1: list by yours truly. On NFL dot Com, forty of

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Speaker 1: the top forty two players are off the board, and

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Speaker 1: that was true literally before the Technical League year started.

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Speaker 1: The only two out of the top forty two that

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Speaker 1: are even still available, Kyler Murray, who is visiting the

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Speaker 1: Vikings on Thursday. We're taping Thursday morning. And Rashid Walker,

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Speaker 1: the tackle of the Packers, who frankly, I wish I

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Speaker 1: had ranked a little bit lower because I think the

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Speaker 1: league maybe agreed with me. I thought he was going

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Speaker 1: to get too much money. And he's still sitting out there.

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Speaker 1: So he's a little bit of a surprise at a

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Speaker 1: position where there weren't many players available. Basically all the

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Speaker 1: top players got taken off the board almost right away.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, well done, well done, buddy. I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: glad to see that. Have you had a year? How

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Speaker 2: many years have you been doing this?

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Speaker 1: Since twenty fifteen fourteen?

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Speaker 2: So what who was it? Who was it? Like Brandon Cooks?

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Speaker 2: Who was it? Or no, no, no, no, no no,

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Speaker 2: non't tell me, don't tell me, don't tell me, don't

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Speaker 2: tell me, don't tell me. It was Cooper right last year?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just sat out there all was one guy off

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Speaker 1: season and they were still putting my top one on

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Speaker 1: one during the preseason football games. That Cooper is the

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Speaker 1: city out there, the number ten player that killed me.

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Speaker 1: We avoided that. Let's start thinking about you know, this

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Speaker 1: is the show about free agency and the draft, so

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about both, but maybe how free agency decisions

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Speaker 1: So I'll just go through a few different trends that

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Speaker 1: happened early in free agency. I'm gonna start with the

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Speaker 1: edge rushers, just because that's where the most money went.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Trey Hendrickson saga was fascinating. He ends

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Speaker 1: up getting, you know, close to thirty million dollars from

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. But Jalen Phillips gets one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: million dollars from the Panthers four years for him, almost

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Speaker 1: half of that's guaranteed. A Dafeoa gets sixty eight million

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Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed on one hundred million dollar contract from the Commanders.

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Speaker 1: Boy Mafi gets twenty million dollars a year. Quity Pay

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Speaker 1: in order of how good they are. And you you

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Speaker 1: tell me where you think maybe this could impact some

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you know the goal and freegency, most

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Speaker 2: teams always say the same thing, which is, we don't

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Speaker 2: want to have a gun to our head. At the

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Speaker 2: draft where we have an absolutely one hundred percent need

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Speaker 2: at a premier position and boxes us in where we

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Speaker 2: feel like we've got to reach for guys, we've got

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Speaker 2: take care of that. But I also think that the

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Speaker 2: recent trend which we've been talking about, which is having

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Speaker 2: we have the money, where's the best place we can

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Speaker 2: spend it. We'll get an ed rusher that doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 2: take us out of the edge rusher market. In the draft.

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Speaker 2: You know, we want there's more. We want to continue

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of things that happen in free

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how about the Commanders at seven? Uh, you know

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Speaker 1: that that's an interesting spot for an eddresher. Are the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they got a mena Who too, right, So

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Speaker 2: it was that's right always.

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Speaker 1: It was so sad last year for this. You know,

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Speaker 1: no offense to Mena Who. If he's listening, I know

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Speaker 2: They brought back Tim settle it so they signed four

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Speaker 1: Back trick Wise to Chase On got twelve million dollars.

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Speaker 1: then you have the Ravens now have the fourteenth overall pick.

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Speaker 2: Already that's going down. I already know how that's going down.

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Speaker 2: Let me just give you the want to give you

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Speaker 2: Ravens one. Yeah, Ravens one oh one is miraculously what

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Speaker 2: you need. And the player that has no business being there,

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Speaker 2: I've already just wrote it in. Just Ruben Bain is

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Speaker 2: the Ravens if you think about it like and we

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Speaker 2: can get into a longer discussion on the Ravens if

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Speaker 2: you like. But the you know that defense, having seen

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Speaker 2: Jesse Menners defense up up close and personal. They require

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Speaker 2: firm edge setter. So you had Mac and Tooley last year,

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Speaker 2: you've got to earn the opportunity to rush the pass

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Speaker 2: or second one doesn't help anybody. And Hendrick Sen is

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Speaker 2: flimsy against the run. He's not a firm edge setter

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Speaker 2: And who's that guy in this draft who would be

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Speaker 2: the one guy who would fill that void that they

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Speaker 1: But they were willing to give up that fourteenth pick.

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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna go before us. But you're just saying

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Speaker 1: the magic Ravens pixie.

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Speaker 2: Dust just it just fall. It just happens. They just

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Speaker 2: did this happen? It looked Eagles are the same. The

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Speaker 1: Now do you ever think that the Ravens magic pixie

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Speaker 1: dust sprinkled on you? Now, on one hand, you could say,

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Speaker 1: you know, you went to Cleveland after that, not as

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Speaker 1: much pixie dust there. But after that, here you are

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Speaker 1: getting to host the podcast with me, you're a big

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Speaker 1: time star on NFL Network. Maybe that pixie dust just

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Speaker 2: You know, I would just say this, I left the

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Speaker 2: a handful of years. Can't remember the exact number, they

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Speaker 2: bail on this podcast and think that this thing's going nowhere,

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Speaker 2: you you might win whatever a podcast award is. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what they call those things, but you you

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Speaker 1: We did. We did go to an iHeart Awards that

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Speaker 1: we were nominated for around the NFL ones uh. And

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Speaker 1: They're like, no, that's that's Shannon Sharp's that's his booth.

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Speaker 1: He he won the award.

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Speaker 2: WHOA. Well, now it's just a Golden Globe, right, you

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Speaker 2: can get podcasts for a gold Globe. Sure, it would

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Speaker 2: be forties and free Agents with with Greg Rosenthal lanzerline.

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Speaker 2: When's the Golden Globe in twenty twenty eight? That's what

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Speaker 1: I like the I like the Mafe move for Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: They need more all these teams. It's funny because they

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Speaker 1: I was talking to you know, Baldy about the Jalen Phillips.

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Speaker 1: But that's what happens in free agency. If you're well

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Speaker 2: A result of last year. You remember, I mean that

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Speaker 2: of the same place they love him. There, we're bidden

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Speaker 2: against the Eagles, We're not going to lose. If we

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Speaker 1: And they did so. On the interior offensive line. You

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Speaker 1: could argue the Raiders overpaid for Tyler lind argue, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean that that's been the number one thing I've gotten.

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Speaker 2: It's hilarious to me. I've and I've been warding off.

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Speaker 2: I've been defending the Raiders on this, but I've got

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Speaker 2: how in the world do you reset the market by

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Speaker 2: nine million or whatever? It was like insane jump above everything,

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Speaker 2: Like why did they pay that much? And then one

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Speaker 2: that much. And I said, no, that's the luxury not

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Speaker 2: Colton Miller's the only one, Like, that's the only one

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Speaker 2: Like this is you know, this is not right. This

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Speaker 2: is a center and blah blah blah. But like they

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Speaker 2: and they were like, who helps us the most? This guy? Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: I also think centers were just crazily underpaid. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the big picture things I've liked out of this

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Speaker 1: Well that's because you know, teams get mad about that

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Speaker 2: You know, got it right now? Not worried about injury

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't like the way that you're setting

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Speaker 2: Time value of money. You're playing that game. We're just

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Speaker 1: It's a very human thing. I think the fact that

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Speaker 2: He just so if you look at it, like Penning,

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Speaker 2: I think they have to do something to help their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: and they trade away McDuffie. But they're a team that's,

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Speaker 1: you know, always drafted in the middle rounds of the

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Speaker 1: secondary and it's worked for them. So does that kind

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Speaker 1: of change what you think about where they might be

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Speaker 1: looking at number seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, they're a trade down candidate. I mean

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Speaker 2: that's where I've been kind of throwing this this theory

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Speaker 2: that I have out on that one, which is if

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Speaker 2: you are and it might be it's far to travel

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Speaker 2: for Minnesota, but man, Jeremiah Love with Minnesota would be

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun, especially with Kyler Murray. You know,

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Speaker 2: as we're recording this, I don't think that's done yet,

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Speaker 2: but it sounds like that's where we're headed. That would

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Speaker 2: be fun. But then also, if you were the and

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Speaker 2: you you think about the Rams last year's team and

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Speaker 2: how close they came drop punt. We all know the story.

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Speaker 2: If you take that Rams team and I told you

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Speaker 2: that same team, all of a sudden you get Trent

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Speaker 2: McDuffie and Jeremiah Love on that team. You think they

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Speaker 2: win that game in Seattle. I mean, that would be.

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Speaker 1: Fun, William, But that's get a little respect Caro Williams

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Speaker 1: a good player, but that's I mean, I think two

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Speaker 1: years ago, I remember looking at it it was yards

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Speaker 1: over expected.

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Speaker 2: I think he was zero. It was literally zero. And

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Speaker 2: this is a dynamic player. As much movement as they

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Speaker 2: get with their offensive line, like that would be Home

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Speaker 2: Run City with Jeremiah Love and would it would be

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Speaker 2: a callback to Todd Gurley and when they first got

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Speaker 2: going there with McVeigh.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are part of an AFC trend which the

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Speaker 1: superpowers with the best quarterbacks and Ravens Bill's Chiefs over

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Speaker 1: the last few years, they got a lot of roster holes.

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Speaker 1: They get a lot to fill. I feel like in

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Speaker 1: free agency.

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Speaker 2: That's why, to me, doesn't trade back make sense with them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I agree. The Jets are a team that went

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Speaker 1: crazy on day one a free agency. After forty eight

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Speaker 1: hours of getting used to it, I maybe don't hate

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Speaker 1: it as much as before. I know they needed players,

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Speaker 1: but to get older and slower with Onyamata and to

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Speaker 1: Mario Davis. Even Annigbari, who's not old, is not a

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Speaker 1: dynamic fast player. Minka Fitzpatrick just it seems like, what

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Speaker 1: are we doing here?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 1: If you're the Jets, but especially at least they filled

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Speaker 1: in their defense. They needed players, they need offense. Don't

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Speaker 1: you think at the top of this draft they have

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Speaker 1: four picks in the top forty four overall. They got

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Speaker 1: Geno Smith. So quarterback's good for the next five years

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Speaker 1: or so. You get a top ten quarterback. But after that,

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Speaker 1: I think you need some help around GENA.

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Speaker 2: You want a dated analogy, just make myself look old,

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Speaker 2: sound old? Yeah, this is free agency. Is like you

485
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Speaker 2: could go to Barnes and Noble and buy a book

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Speaker 2: and have it for a lifetime. And the Jets drove

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Speaker 2: right by Barnes and Noble and went and got their

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Speaker 2: library card. And we're like, you know, we'll just check

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Speaker 2: this book out. We'll return it in a couple weeks,

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Speaker 2: but we want to will read it and then we'll

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Speaker 2: just bring it right back. That was free agency for them.

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Speaker 2: It was it was a library.

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Speaker 1: Card, right. Why is that? Why is that data?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. If Ama goes to the library more, Greg.

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Speaker 1: Come come to the Rosenthal family. We got LA County

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Speaker 1: Library cards, we got Santa Monica library cards, we got

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Speaker 1: LA Public Library cards. This is how you help your

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Speaker 1: your children develop a love for reading, which which their

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Speaker 1: parents show be the example for them. And we're hitting

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Speaker 1: up Barnes and Noble plenty too. Reading. It's a good time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it makes you a better lister too.

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Speaker 2: You know what. They also have this thing called Amazon

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Speaker 2: and you can actually order the book and it shows

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Speaker 2: up on your doorstep.

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Speaker 1: Sure, but it's fun if you actually like books to

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Speaker 1: kind of look at all the different books. It's a

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Speaker 1: good it's a good experience. I know you weren't listening

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Speaker 1: to me closely because you just let it slide by

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Speaker 1: that I said at quarterback, they got a top ten

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Speaker 1: guy for the next five years.

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Speaker 2: Now, Oh g Now, I assumed you were talking about

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Speaker 2: the quarterback they were going to take in the draft

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty seven. So that's what I was assuming.

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Speaker 2: Because they're already positioned for that.

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Speaker 1: They really do need a lot of help around them.

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Speaker 1: Although I kind of forgot eighty Mitch was there. I

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Speaker 1: don't hate aighty Mitchell as a three behind Garrett Wilson

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Speaker 1: and a two to be named later. And then you

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Speaker 1: got Mason, Taylor and breestlt. Not a terrible group. It's

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Speaker 1: not a terrible group.

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Speaker 2: Interesting with them is like if you look at it

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Speaker 2: for being a bad team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Most times you look at a bad team and you'll

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Speaker 2: see a horrible offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I actually kind of like their offensive line. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They they were in on Tucker though, and I think

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Speaker 1: that one hurt for them. I have a feeling they

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Speaker 1: expected to get him back and it's the reason his

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Speaker 1: price went up so much. I think there were multiple

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Speaker 1: teams from what I heard that kind of looked at

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Speaker 1: Vera Tucker and thought, well, we know it's an injury risk.

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Speaker 1: He's missed three of the last four years, basically, but

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Speaker 1: he's possibly the best player. So he quickly got out

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Speaker 1: of that I have to sign a prove it deal

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Speaker 1: and ended up having three or four teams really bit

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Speaker 1: him up. I know the Jets are one of.

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Speaker 2: Them, and I know the Giants and the Browns were

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Speaker 2: also in on the Wow.

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Speaker 1: See so and it sounded like he was he just thought,

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Speaker 1: it's been bad juju with the Jets. I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: out of here. All right. Let's take a and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk on the other side about some of the best

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Speaker 1: players still available, and then what teams help themselves the

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Speaker 1: most in free agency. Back on the forties and free

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Speaker 1: agents where half the podcast is literate, you know supports.

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Speaker 1: The library is great. It's amazing that libraries even exist.

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Speaker 1: All this free stuff they're giving you.

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Speaker 2: Let me just tell you, let me just tell you

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Speaker 2: that something that'll that'll, it'll put you this whole thing

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Speaker 2: to rest about me and the library. So as a kid,

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Speaker 2: we used to go with my mom, and I remember

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Speaker 2: it was a thing where she would she would reward us,

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Speaker 2: Like my mom was very much into incentive clauses in

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Speaker 2: our contracts, so it was like, if you could read

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Speaker 2: X number of books over the summer, you could maybe

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Speaker 2: go whatever, get ice cream or whatever you could do.

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Speaker 2: As a little kid, I distinctly remember being about I

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Speaker 2: don't know, eleven, twelve years old and the book that

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Speaker 2: I checked out, I want the sports section, as I

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Speaker 2: always did. I wonder it is a sports book. I

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Speaker 2: read a book by Jerry Mark Bright, NFL official. The

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Speaker 2: Life of an NFL Official is like a twelve year old.

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Speaker 2: I literally, I don't know if that thing has ever

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Speaker 2: been checked out before or after. But I did check

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Speaker 2: out a Jerry Mark Bright NFL official book and I

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Speaker 2: read it from cover to cover greg as like a

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Speaker 2: twelve year old.

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Speaker 1: I will look for it Walker. My son is very

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Speaker 1: into the football books, has checked out a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: I bet he would dig a little Mark Bright. So

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Speaker 1: maybe we can be the second second person. Let's let's

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Speaker 1: make it time for all in, presented by Toyota. Talk

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Speaker 1: about some of the teams that went all in during freegency.

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Speaker 1: We already talked about the Titans. They spent two hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety three million dollars in total contracts during the

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Speaker 1: first three days. The Raiders are next at two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty one, and that does not count the Max

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Speaker 1: Crosby money. I mean they someone had a great line

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Speaker 1: of just like you know, I know it feels weird

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Speaker 1: for a rebuilding team, but trading two first for Max

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Speaker 1: Crosby by the Raiders, I actually like this roster next year,

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Speaker 1: what you know, what do you think that this defense

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Speaker 1: is gonna look like?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the ones that they did.

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Speaker 2: I liked a lot of the moves that they did.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I like the two linebackers that they

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Speaker 2: brought in former teams.

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Speaker 1: I brought both of them. When that came back to back,

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Speaker 1: I was a little confused. I was like, do we

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Speaker 1: really need both those guys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? But I think they've played next to each other,

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Speaker 2: they know each other well, so you start with that relationship.

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Speaker 2: NA Kobe Dean can be the nerve center. He's going

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Speaker 2: to be an awesome blitzers. You know, that's kind of

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Speaker 2: his his calling card there. Kway Walker's I thought was

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Speaker 2: a little bit more of a developmental player coming into

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Speaker 2: the league. So I think there's still you know, I

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Speaker 2: think there's still time for him to continue to grow

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Speaker 2: and improve. But you throw those guys in the mix.

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Speaker 2: They got their college teammate Eric Stokes, so they got

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Speaker 2: three three guys from that Georgia defense that are all

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Speaker 2: there together. Quitd he pay will be an interesting one.

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Speaker 2: I have to look this up, but I think he

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Speaker 2: played on the same side as Max Crosby, and Max

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Speaker 2: Crosby never comes off the field, so it'll be obviously

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Speaker 2: Quitdi will have to kick over to the other side.

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Speaker 2: I know the you know, I know the metrics in

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Speaker 2: the you know, they aren't friendly to him in terms

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Speaker 2: of win rate, pass rush, uh, you know, win rate

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Speaker 2: as well as pressure rate. But he's again, he's got

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Speaker 2: first round pedigree and he's he's explosive, and I think

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Speaker 2: that that defense overall it's a lot of pieces that

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Speaker 2: they added in. If you keep Max Crosby uh there

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Speaker 2: as well, that helps, and then I can see the

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Speaker 2: vision for what they're doing offensively, and I don't you

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Speaker 2: know it's I think they're gonna go get a veteran

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Speaker 2: quarterback that's been out there, so they're not going to

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Speaker 2: have the start Mendos at the beginning of the year

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Speaker 2: at least take some of those hits off of him.

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Speaker 2: But now you look up and you get a healthy

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Speaker 2: Colton Miller. You've got Linderbaum at center. They even though

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Speaker 2: you that trade doesn't go through, they still have some

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Speaker 2: some draft capital to address. If they need to another

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Speaker 2: interior alignment. You know, they can add another receiver in

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Speaker 2: a loaded draft. I think it's got a chance to

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Speaker 2: be a much improved team off of what we saw

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Speaker 2: last year. I mean, they won three games last year, Greg,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's gonna be much improved.

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Speaker 1: The reporting is that Kirk Cousins could be going to Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I like, I don't really buy that Kirk Cousins is

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Speaker 1: starting week one over for Nana Mendoz.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the chat by the way that Drew

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Speaker 2: put in there?

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Speaker 1: I do. I was waiting for like the natural kind

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Speaker 1: of segue.

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Speaker 2: But if any of the.

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Speaker 1: Listeners just want to get there first. The book Born

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Speaker 1: to Referee My Life on the grid Iron is available

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Speaker 1: at the San Diego Public Library right now by Jerry

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Speaker 1: Martin Bright.

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Speaker 2: Look at what Look at what it costs on Amazon.

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Speaker 1: Amazon. You can get it for two dollars and seventeen cents.

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Speaker 1: That's two dollars you don't need to spend trive down.

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Speaker 2: What about the gas? Look at gas prices, Greg gas

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Speaker 2: prices to and from the library. He's going to cost

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Speaker 2: you more two dollars than seventeen cents.

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Speaker 1: That's fair. But it's about the experience. It's about the

651
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: it's about the level of them.

652
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 2: Is there anybody in there when you go in there, Yes,

653
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 2: outside of Jason Bourne on a computer trying to like

654
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: sear crime.

655
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: It's crowded. People are people all using it. There's all

656
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: sorts a different fund. I mean the La Public Lie

657
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: we're going way to it is one of the most

658
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: beautiful buildings you know in the entire West Coast. It's

659
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: an amazing it's an amazing building. We're down there all

660
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: the time. They got the big manga room for my

661
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: for my daughter. She likes it. Let's talk about the commanders.

662
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: I really like what the commanders did, especially on Wednesday.

663
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: They kind of went for the second level free agents.

664
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: There was actually like three straight guys that were in

665
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: my thirties in my top one oh one. They were

666
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: like three of the top five players available, and they

667
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: picked them off one by one. I started wondering, are

668
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: they just reading off the list? It was calebon Chase

669
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: on Leo'shanell Leoshanelle kind of the edge rush I mean

670
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: the edge rather linebacker, off ball linebacker that can also.

671
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: Rush, who lives in the a gap like the mug

672
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 2: up the center.

673
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: And then Nick Cross who's a great run stopping safety

674
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: and just kind of flies around. And so some guys

675
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: who can win one on one matchups. And then you

676
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: add a dafe O way in there, as you call

677
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: them the fastball. I added a lot of young athleticism

678
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: chigocon Quo on the offensive side, and an interesting transition

679
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: here to Derante Jones, who is kind of a Brian

680
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: Flores disciple helping to run the defense. I'm I'm just

681
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: much more intrigued to watch what the commanders are going

682
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: to look like this year compared to where I was

683
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: at the end of last year.

684
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious to see. You know, they've still got

685
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: Chris Paul left guard who's a free agent. So there's

686
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 2: a hole there that they need to plug. What do

687
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: they do at that spot? And you know, look, Deebo's

688
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: gonna he's he's out there, he's probably not back. You're

689
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: looking at Luke McCaffrey, McLaurin, Traylon Burks they brought back, right,

690
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 2: so maybe just a little more, a little more firepower offensively.

691
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 2: They're another team, that's the word.

692
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: The word is it's Brandon Ayuk will be at least.

693
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: Part of Jade Daniels buddy, So yeah, that would be nice.

694
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 2: Just hopefully his heads his head's in a good space

695
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: and coming there with his with his friend and and

696
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 2: he plays well. But they're they're another team. When you

697
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: just kind of look at him and we're looking looking

698
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: at where are the Jeremiah Love spots, you know, where

699
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: the fun places that you can see him go. You know,

700
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 2: that's that's an interesting one.

701
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: That would make a lot of sense to me. And

702
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: I could absolutely see them doing that. You know, GM

703
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: and Adam Peters who saw the value and having a

704
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey back there in San Francisco helped helped the

705
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: trade for him. And there's a big hole there. Oh.

706
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: I like that the last the team I'll mention and

707
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: you could throw out anyone if you have one that

708
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: I thought under the radar was good. I like, what

709
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: the Saints did you know? David Edwards was a good

710
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: pickup from Buffalo. There's a really solid guard. The Caesar

711
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: Ruiz spot is still a problem to me, but otherwise

712
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: they got a pretty promising looking offensive line with those

713
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: two young tackles. If you can keep Eric McCoy healthy

714
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: and David Edwards, like, that's a nice foundation. Then Travis

715
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: Etn I thought the money was was solid for him.

716
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: I have a feeling Alvin Kamara is not going to

717
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: be on this team anymore. And then Kayden Ellis coming

718
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: back to New Orleans kind of filling out that linebacker position.

719
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: Just three rock solid I think guys that are gonna

720
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: be B plus as safe pickups. I think in free agency,

721
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: and they traded for one of the best punters in

722
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: the league, which is under the radar, but they're punting

723
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: stunk and it's just kind of an easy way to

724
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: upgrade your special team. So I like what the Saints

725
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: have done.

726
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're out of cap jail. How about that

727
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: for those guys.

728
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: Right, they're not even putting the weird void years and

729
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: like doing all the cap gymnastics, so that that has

730
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: to feel good. All right, let's go to my best available.

731
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Speaker 2: You can't even give me a chance. I mean, I

732
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Speaker 2: thought that was it.

733
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Speaker 1: I thought that was I thought that was your sign

734
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Speaker 1: that you were let's.

735
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: Talk about I'm looking at the different depth charts to

736
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 2: see what other moves that I liked. You know, let's

737
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 2: let's talk about our favorite moves and let me just

738
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 2: tell you my favorite moves and then let's get to

739
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 2: the next segment. That's fun.

740
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Speaker 1: Well, when you have one answer answer, I thought, it's

741
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: just like, hey, we're over thirty minutes. I'm on the clock.

742
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm DJ you know ESPN.

743
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: That's the one time is right after this, I got

744
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: move the sticks coming up right after this. I can't

745
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 2: order to be the Yeah, I'll tell you what. Like,

746
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: I was just looking at individual moves. So I always

747
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 2: try and look at the young quarterbacks and who, you know,

748
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 2: what are they doing to help them? We talked about Tennessee,

749
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 2: and I thought I'd like to see a little bit

750
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: more offensively there to help them. I think one Dale

751
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: does give them some easy completion. So the Giants have

752
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: a young quarterback, they lose one Dale, go out and

753
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 2: get Isaiah Likely. I think that provides some easy completions

754
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: for Dart. So I like that move, and you start

755
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 2: looking at them, you know, they're another weapon you could

756
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 2: see next year. If you looked at how Dark played

757
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 2: last year, and then you say, okay, if we have

758
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: Neighbors back and he's hopefully back to one hundred percent health,

759
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 2: you had Isaiah Likely, and then you add another weapon

760
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 2: piece you know what could be with where they're picking

761
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: high in the first round, it's that Carneal Tait on

762
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 2: the outside. Are they a Jeremiah Love team? A lot

763
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: of Jeremiah Love teams. There's man that would be exciting

764
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: to watch what Dart can do new offense with all

765
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: those new pieces to play with.

766
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Speaker 1: I agree, but I also think they've had a weird offseason.

767
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: I think they've just missed on a lot of guys,

768
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: some of some of their ex giants. I think they

769
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: wanted to keep go to Tennessee, because of the table,

770
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: and they were just in the mix for a lot

771
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: of the bigger name, you know, offensive players, and you

772
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: just heard them as like they were in the mix

773
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: for a lot of guys and kind of kind of

774
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: did the Cowboys thing where they were just coming up

775
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: a little short. So I feel like they have a

776
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: big move or two to make. Still, Yeah, they just

777
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: seemed like they were ready.

778
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: There's still guys out there. There's still some stuff out there.

779
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: Yes, there are. You have any other favorites. I don't

780
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: want to move on too fast for you.

781
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 2: No, No, that's that's pretty much it. There's other teams

782
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 2: that did some good things. I liked, you know, Carolina

783
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: getting those two pieces on defense. You know, that was

784
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 2: definitely a need for them looking at some of these

785
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 2: other teams here, anybody else. You know, look, not an

786
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 2: easy task for Cleveland to rebuild an entire offensive line,

787
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 2: but I like, I liked some of the pieces that

788
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 2: they brought in there, and they are they are one

789
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: if you think about, you know, teams that have done

790
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 2: things in freegency that inform what they're going to do

791
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: in the draft. With the tightest Howard trade and the

792
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: announcement that he's going to be the right tackle. They

793
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 2: need a left tackle, and in this draft, the way

794
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 2: that it goes in terms of how I stack the players,

795
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 2: you got a couple of right tackles and a guard

796
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: as the top three lineman for me. Now, it's not

797
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: that they're all these top five six guys are clumped

798
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 2: relatively close together. So they're in the market for a

799
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 2: left tackle. So Monroe Freeling, while I might have him

800
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: as the fourth or fifth best lineman, he's the true

801
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 2: left tackle of the bunch, and he's he hasn't played

802
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: a lot, but he's got it all in his body.

803
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 2: He's super, super talented. If you think about the Andrew

804
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: Thomas arc where it was not a good start and

805
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: then he continued to get better, it was it was,

806
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 2: you know, some development that needed to take place. I

807
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: think you could see the exact same thing with this one.

808
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: With Cleveland taking Monroe Freeling. You know, on draft day

809
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: it's like whoa that I did not, you know, have

810
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 2: him rated as the sixth best player in the draft.

811
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 2: But he's the left tackle and they're in a position

812
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 2: now where they desperately need one, and I don't think

813
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 2: they can wait till their second first round pick. I

814
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 2: don't think they'd have one they'd like.

815
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: They brought an Elton Jenkins to the former Packers lineman.

816
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite moves in free agency.

817
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: I know he's coming off some injuries, but in terms

818
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: of the level of player, you could argue he was

819
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: right there with Vera Tucker as one of the best,

820
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: if not the best offensive lineman available if he's healthy,

821
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: versatility for the money that they got him. But between

822
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: him and the injury risk and Zion Johnson, you're taking

823
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: on a lot of risks. You brought back Tevin Jenkins,

824
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's sorry to fill an entire offense.

825
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough task. But I like Titus Howard.

826
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 2: I like Titus Howard. Zion's going to be a solid,

827
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 2: functional starter Elton Jenkins. Jenkins gives you the flexibility where

828
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 2: you can, you know, see how the draft shakes out

829
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: in terms of center guard, you can play the other spot.

830
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 2: So I think they did a good job.

831
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: So that kind of leads us to who's still available.

832
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, only two of the top forty on

833
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 1: my list are out there. It's Kyler and it's Rashid

834
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: Walker of the Packers, who had at nineteen after that,

835
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: some interesting names in terms of wide receivers, Juan Jennings,

836
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is out there, Deebo Samuel like some big names.

837
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: That sort of second level older receiver market hasn't really

838
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: shook out. There are some offensive linemen out there. Wyatt

839
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: Teller is still out there. Some of the guns for

840
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 1: hire in the defensive line, like Joey Bosa, Kalaeis Campbell

841
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: are still us.

842
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: They're still out there.

843
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: Yep.

844
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,720
Speaker 2: Like he's like a solid three, He's like a solid

845
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 2: third guy.

846
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: There are a decent amount of like guys who can

847
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: come and still help your team out there. But just

848
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: doing the numbers, there's only about twenty five of the

849
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: original one oh one are still there, and a lot

850
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: of them are are the players, like eighty five to

851
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: one oh one. So in general, you're just looking for

852
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: guys to help you. Is there anyone that kind of

853
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: surprise you that's that's still out there?

854
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 2: No, I mean I think you. I mean just waiting

855
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 2: on Kyler, I mean that's the big one.

856
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 1: But Gottar for the Eagles had avoid in his contract

857
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: extended through the end of the week, which indicates to

858
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: me they're probably working on something with him that maybe

859
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 1: he went out saw his market. He's still a free agent.

860
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: It probably wasn't, you know, massive money, and now he

861
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: might be returning to Philadelphia, So that that surprises me

862
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: because I thought that was going to change. I thought

863
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: Rashad White was going to get snapped up. It was

864
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: really interesting. My top five running backs were gone within

865
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: like three hours of free agency started like it was.

866
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: It was actually the position, and they all didn't get

867
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: massive money, but everyone's like, I need one. I'm going

868
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: to get one, and then up seven of my top

869
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: eight the draft.

870
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: I think that running back draft is not is not

871
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: is not great. It's a it's a very limited running

872
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: back class, so I think teams saw that supply. We've

873
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 2: seen that every year there's a position like that and

874
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 2: they go, we better go get that taken care of.

875
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: And it's nice to see it happening at run back,

876
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: which is rare. But I think Rashad White's a really

877
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: good player and he's kind of gotten left out in

878
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: the cold. I don't know if he if he just

879
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: wanted too much money, but he could be someone that

880
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 1: someone goes for in the next couple of days. And

881
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: so we'll see Rashid Walker. I think probably just had

882
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: unrealistic expectations. He's probably saw that Dan Moore contract from

883
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: a year ago and that was the starting point, and

884
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: ultimately no one saw him as like a twenty million

885
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: dollar a year player. Here are the teams that have

886
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: spent the least amount in free agency. By the way,

887
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 1: the Vikings have only spent fifteen million dollars. We knew

888
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: that they didn't have much. The Eagles they brought in

889
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: Rieq Willen, but that's basically it. The Lions and the

890
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: Falcons have been relatively quiet. And then the Broncos, Seahawks,

891
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: and Jaguars are teams that have essentially just resigned a

892
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: couple of their own players. The Jaguars, Monteric Brown was

893
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: the player they resigned. The Seahawks brought back Josh Job,

894
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: which obviously they're happy with. Rashid Shaheed was a nice

895
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: keep for them. The Broncos almost haven't done anything. Broncos,

896
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: I'm getting little by that, yes, but I think they

897
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: could be coming. It wouldn't surprise me if they are

898
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: the team that spends in a trade for one of

899
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: these receivers out there. A j Brown Brian Times.

900
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 2: I was actually I was going to ask you that

901
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 2: to me. If you think about his style of receiver,

902
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: Sean Payton talks about all the time he likes bigger,

903
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 2: he likes more physical guys, and that's who he's always

904
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 2: hadn't always played with, And I'm like A J. Brown.

905
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 2: Nobody's really talked about Denver with AJ Brown, at least

906
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: I have. I haven't seen that out there, but that

907
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: one would make a lot of sense. And I do

908
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: think there is something too Philly needing to get the

909
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 2: Goddard thing done and order. I don't know all the

910
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 2: specifics of it, but there's some money component there that

911
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 2: if if they were going to move A J. Brown,

912
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: I have to get the Goddard thing done first. So

913
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: I know there's some connection there and talking to smarter

914
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: people than I am on the salary cap front, so

915
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: maybe that's maybe that's what leads to something like that happening.

916
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: We'll be transitioning on forties and free agents, you know,

917
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: more of a focus on the draft, and certainly this

918
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: was like how it impacts the draft, but I'll tell

919
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: you a lot of games will be won by the

920
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: veteran moves that happen from now on after this first wave.

921
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: Because I just mentioned the Bills and the Chiefs and

922
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: the Ravens, I'll throw the Lions in there. There's a

923
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: lot of like Falcon But I'm trying to even mention

924
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: like teams that you expect to be in the mix

925
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: to try to compete for a Super Bowl with a

926
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: few more holes at this point in the offseason than

927
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: they usually do. So I don't like what the Bills

928
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: have done. By the way, we'll probably get into some

929
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: winners and losers on NFL Daily so far, but they're

930
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: gonna have to find starters. And then there's teams like

931
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins out there where I look at their twenty

932
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: two and I'm like, they need six starters still. They

933
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: might need nine starters still.

934
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 2: So there, that's what surprised me the most. If you

935
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 2: have said the move that surprised you the most were

936
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 2: the price made sense and the familiarity made sense. But

937
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: I thought it was I'm not going to use a

938
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 2: T word, but I thought they were all eyes on

939
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 2: twenty seven in Miami and they were going to run

940
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 2: out a bunch of young and experienced players and see

941
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 2: what's you know, what's stuck and then be positioned for

942
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 2: the draft. In twenty seven, they still didn't do that.

943
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 2: They did well, they went on and got it. You

944
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 2: paid that, you went on and got a quarterback. Though

945
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna roll. Hey, we'll try Quinn.

946
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 2: You weers see what that looks like. And then okay,

947
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: I hear it.

948
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: I'm glad we brought that up and we'll wrap with that.

949
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,439
Speaker 1: I think they're having their cake and idiot too. They're

950
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: not spending anywhere else on free agency. It does look

951
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: like a rebuilding slat. You know, you don't want to

952
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: use the T word like you said, but they still

953
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: look like one of the worst rosters in the league.

954
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: But for the money that they're paying Malik Willis like

955
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: it's it's less than a dafe Oways making, you know

956
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like way less. Uh, you're paying him

957
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: twenty three million dollars a year. That's probably like twentieth

958
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: to twenty fifth that quarterback. Like even the Daniel Jones

959
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: contract only slash him about fifteen to sixteen, So you're

960
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: not really paying him real money. And I think you

961
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: get to evaluate him and it's just exactly what I

962
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: say team should do. I think it's great process. You're

963
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: you're buying a lottery ticket, and it seems like it's

964
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: an expensive lottery ticket, but there's no long term damage.

965
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: They'll if it doesn't work out with maliqu Wills, they'll

966
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: just move on quickly. And if he plays really well,

967
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he's playing so well that they're going

968
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: to suddenly like win ten games no matter how well.

969
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: And if that happens, like that's a it's a great

970
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: problem to have. So I think it's good process.

971
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was getting the texts. I was getting texts

972
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:37,479
Speaker 2: on pro day numbers, so I didn't listen to anything

973
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 2: that you just said, Greg, But I'm sure it was

974
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 2: really really smart.

975
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: Well it was. I saw you looking at your phone,

976
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: so I just kept kept going because that's it.

977
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 2: I just got him trying to double check this real quick.

978
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 2: So USC pro Day today.

979
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: It is USC. Yes, I bridgings out there for yet.

980
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 2: I just got text makay lemon Ran from a scout

981
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 2: that's there. Uh four five seven four five three no jumps, okay,

982
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of four five threes about. I mean,

983
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 2: I think amen raw with maybe low four fives a

984
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: lot of good receivers are running that four or five range,

985
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 2: so not not. I'm sure he would love to have

986
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 2: ripped the four mid four four, but he's more quicker

987
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: than fast. So I'm still I mean, I'm dating free agency.

988
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: I'm still married to the draft. Greg, you know what

989
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 2: I mean, Like I just I get draft clearly.

990
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: Clearly you found the hand times that could have waited

991
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: one minute longer, way more fascinating than my big Malik

992
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: Willis was a good process I need to take.

993
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I feel like I heard the first

994
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: forty seconds of your take and then I thought there

995
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: wasn't really going to get any better from that point on,

996
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 2: So I didn't know I needed to tune in for

997
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 2: the remaining two minutes of the thought. So that's when

998
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 2: I ejected and got some some pro day times.

999
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: That was it, forties and free Agents. We will be

1000
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: back on our normally scheduled Tuesday show next week, and

1001
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: in the meantime, I do want everyone to go to

1002
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: their local libraries to pay them.

1003
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: Don't be late return of those books though, tell you

1004
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 2: that much.

1005
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: They're pretty lenient these days. They let you, they let

1006
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: you renew, especially for old books like Born to Referee,

1007
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: My Life on the Gridiron by Jerry Mark Bright. If

1008
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: any listener out there show us that they can get

1009
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: a copy, will buy you a free ice cream. We'll

1010
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: take you out, but especially if you can get it

1011
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: from the library. We'll see you next week.