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Speaker 4: Let's do some breaking news right off the top.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a fun surprise.
Speaker 1: Who is it?
Speaker 2: Greg?
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans have signed him Boyle at quarterback.
Speaker 2: It's about time they invested the position.
Speaker 1: The vibes are strong today, they're enter checks.
Speaker 2: So I'll get my Tim Boyle news. Greg.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: On the show we put up Wednesday morning, I had
Speaker 1: to go to the top of it and do the
Speaker 1: breaking news of Russ and Stefan Diggs. And later in
Speaker 1: that show we did some play acting and the Titans
Speaker 1: talked about how the only other veteran quarterback other than
Speaker 1: Will Levis on the roster was Brandon Allen. So clearly
Speaker 1: they're taking cam Ward, but now they've added Tim Boyle.
Speaker 3: And so a lot of you might look at Tim
Speaker 3: Boyle's career accomplishments and say, what does this actually mean.
Speaker 2: Clearly, Tim Boyle is a good dude.
Speaker 4: Yes, Tim Boyle.
Speaker 3: Matters in a locker room in a capacity that I
Speaker 3: don't necessarily have access to. But I think we have
Speaker 3: enough evidence to show that there is something that is
Speaker 3: being brought, and whatever that is is being brought to
Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, Hartford's finest made his first start,
Speaker 1: I believe, on Thanksgiving, or at least his first prolonged
Speaker 1: appearance for the line back in the day. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still kicking around the second most prominent Yukon quarterback
Speaker 1: behind dan Orlowsky.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of.
Speaker 1: News today, but we'll roll through what we got and
Speaker 1: then we're going to do screaming needs of every NFC team.
Speaker 1: Both Nick Schuk and I did the AFC earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, and we will do the NFC here. That's
Speaker 1: why I got coffee today to scream to scream. Okay,
Speaker 1: we talked rules committee and all the proposals that the
Speaker 1: teams had a week ago. We've talked about some of
Speaker 1: the ones that the NFL was going to put forward
Speaker 1: over the month, but officially the Rules Committee put out
Speaker 1: the proposals, and if you're not familiar with this time
Speaker 1: of year, generally the proposals that they put out go through,
Speaker 1: not all of them, but I would say it's like
Speaker 1: two thirds three quarters. So if it comes from the league,
Speaker 1: they'll officially vote on it next week. And the couple
Speaker 1: things that we didn't know yet that I wanted to
Speaker 1: mention that we're new and interesting to me were number One,
Speaker 1: if you kick the ball into the end zone on
Speaker 1: the dynamic kickoff the ball when you get a touchback,
Speaker 1: we'll go out to the thirty five yard line. Also,
Speaker 1: as part of that, they want to make the dynamic
Speaker 1: kickoff permanent, that that thing is just going to stick around.
Speaker 1: Before it was year by year, but it's going to
Speaker 1: go out to the thirty five.
Speaker 2: What do you think I like it.
Speaker 3: I am still of the belief that we can change
Speaker 3: the landing zone and make that a free ball and
Speaker 3: bring on side kicks back just a little bit, okay
Speaker 3: to where a team has an opportunity. That's the last
Speaker 3: chance of the dynamic kickoff. Where that I would like
Speaker 3: to see is ball hits.
Speaker 1: Ground where like inside the twenty and then it's a
Speaker 1: free ball or what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's something that it would be It will
Speaker 3: be very easy, right for the other team, but there
Speaker 3: will be a chance, right, you get a wiggly kick
Speaker 3: and there's some sort of chance.
Speaker 2: That's what I would like to say.
Speaker 4: They did update the on side kick rules.
Speaker 1: Now you can go for an on side kick anytime
Speaker 1: of the game if you're trailing. The rule before under
Speaker 1: this for one year, was that you could only do
Speaker 1: it in the fourth quarter. On side kick is a
Speaker 1: play that that's kind of died because there's no element
Speaker 1: of surprise anymore because of the dynamic kickoff. That'll be
Speaker 1: the same whether you do it in the second quarter
Speaker 1: or the fourth. But you could do it earlier in
Speaker 1: the game if you want. But yeah, that touchback going
Speaker 1: to the thirty five. I think we will see a
Speaker 1: lot more kickoffs next year. Thirty five is like such
Speaker 1: good field position. That's a twenty yard gain from from
Speaker 1: field goal range.
Speaker 3: And it adds a layer of specialization because you got
Speaker 3: your guys that were brought up to boom it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you have your guys that I mean, it's
Speaker 3: all the horizontal and vertical aspects of kicking field goals.
Speaker 3: Now there's a depth aspect to it, where you want
Speaker 3: you want the ball to land at a certain angle,
Speaker 3: at a certain distance.
Speaker 2: And I think it may change kicking a little.
Speaker 4: You gotta pop that, you gotta pop that thing up.
Speaker 1: But not you know, like Adam vinet Terry back in
Speaker 1: the day, he wasn't great on kickoffs regardless, Desmond Howard
Speaker 1: made a lot of money off that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, he couldn't hit that pop up no way.
Speaker 4: He didn't have the he didn't have the leg for it.
Speaker 3: Well, and guys don't want when you're when you're paid
Speaker 3: to make those kicks, you don't want to change your
Speaker 3: stroke right to go out there. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: you're trying to hit a pitching wedge at Augusta and
Speaker 3: it's like Hey, you got a long drive every other hole.
Speaker 2: Goys will be scared.
Speaker 4: More punters doing it.
Speaker 1: And then the thing I did like expanded replay assist
Speaker 1: now for picking up flags on bad calls and the
Speaker 1: specific ones they're calling them subjective not objective, like two
Speaker 1: words where I always have to think about wait, which
Speaker 1: means which For.
Speaker 4: Some reason, I have a learning disability on that one.
Speaker 1: But you can pick up the flag potentially from above
Speaker 1: on the replay assist for hits on defensive list players.
Speaker 1: So that includes roughing the passer, so it's basically bad
Speaker 1: roughing the passer calls could get overturned, but also face masks,
Speaker 1: horse callers, tripping, roughing the kicker.
Speaker 4: I like that. I want to expand it even more.
Speaker 1: I would say, let's do let's do a little more,
Speaker 1: but that's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just some clarity because when replay assist, it
Speaker 3: does happen, and it happens quickly. It's so seamless, and
Speaker 3: it's so good that people are always left of weight. Hey,
Speaker 3: that's great, let's do that more. And I think we
Speaker 3: could get more of that if they'd be more open
Speaker 3: with Hey, what happened when I believe there was a
Speaker 3: playoff game, was a bad spot and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden the ball was back in the right spar right, and.
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, yeah, let's just do that all the time, right.
Speaker 4: It's been happening a lot.
Speaker 1: I think it's actually been a subtle yet dramatic change
Speaker 1: in the game over the last two years, especially last year.
Speaker 1: So I like that a lot because so those are
Speaker 1: some of the worst calls that happened. And then finally
Speaker 1: we have some media news. Andrew Marchand of the Athletic
Speaker 1: reports that there's a new number two team at CBS.
Speaker 1: I'm always into this reporting. It's very important because these
Speaker 1: these men and women, but let's be real, it's mostly men.
Speaker 1: They affect my Sundays in a great way, the equality
Speaker 1: of the broadcast team. And we're losing one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: Charles Davis, off the number two team at CBS, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be Iron, Eagle and JJ as the
Speaker 1: number two team. But the good news for Charles Davis,
Speaker 1: he's going to be the number one college football guy
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six because Gary Danielson is retiring. That's
Speaker 1: his name, right, Yeah, it's gonna be Okay, sorry, and
Speaker 1: you just looked at me funny. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what Charles Davis is gonna do in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: They haven't announced that yet, but it's got to be
Speaker 1: jj Watt, who I thought was pretty good on the
Speaker 1: Netflix game.
Speaker 4: We'll see. It's hard to make that determination, but he
Speaker 4: was pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a few years removed from the ideal situation
Speaker 3: where Charles would have been able to call those SEC
Speaker 3: on CBS games with his beloved Tennessee volunteer. But yeah,
Speaker 3: congratulations to Gary on a great career. And you know
Speaker 3: the college football folks are gonna love Charles Davis because
Speaker 3: everybody loves Charles Davis.
Speaker 4: Let's look at at tweet.
Speaker 1: I just thought this tickled my fancy on Wednesday, I
Speaker 1: hope jj Watt asked for permission from Iron Eagle to
Speaker 1: send their tweets back and forth. And Iron's very funny
Speaker 1: on the Twitter exchange. And I don't want to go
Speaker 1: through all of it. My main takeaway here was though,
Speaker 1: learning that Iron Eagle signs all of his texts with
Speaker 1: an emoji for an Eagle.
Speaker 4: That's it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, shout out, shout out to big bird on
Speaker 3: that And is that is that a reference to that
Speaker 3: that that influencer?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm doing a poor job narrating this. But
Speaker 1: Ian's making fun of JJ for how he's preparing for games,
Speaker 1: and JJ asks, you know, how do you normally prepare
Speaker 1: any and he whips out the banana and the Saratoga
Speaker 1: water so iron not only like an old guy move
Speaker 1: to sign every text with your name, but instead it's
Speaker 1: an emoji, which is incredible. But also he he knows
Speaker 1: the hip.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's aware of the current memes. And that's
Speaker 3: a sy out. By the way, everything is rage bait
Speaker 3: now and this dude has captivated everybody's attention by being hokey.
Speaker 2: Yes, and and it's it's working for him. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: going to keep doing it. So it's just some guy who.
Speaker 1: Does the time stamps and he jumps in the pool
Speaker 1: out thirty thirty six, then he hits the water.
Speaker 4: Yeah three forty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like that that meme of the guys like
Speaker 3: you know I have I have forty eight hours in
Speaker 3: one day. It's like that, except taking to the next level.
Speaker 3: And this dude's black, so like I guess shout out
Speaker 3: to him. But it's it's a siout. It's all fit.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Patrick is always here to just bring us back down earth.
Speaker 1: But yes, when he sent out another one where it
Speaker 1: was the same thing where he's messing with the timestamps,
Speaker 1: I was with you. And if you don't know what
Speaker 1: we're talking about, God bills you congratulations. It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: We don't want to be in here with us.
Speaker 1: We'll see if any other major news happens. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Tim Boyle, they're taking they're taking cam Ward. I mean
Speaker 1: they really are telegraphing it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: The NFL can do what they want.
Speaker 1: There's been reporting in the past where they've told the
Speaker 1: team with the number one pick, hey, try not to
Speaker 1: try to say it publicly, try not to give it
Speaker 1: away publicly.
Speaker 4: They've given it away to me.
Speaker 1: I guess you never know, like maybe the Saint With
Speaker 1: the Saints, there's been some buzz give up three first
Speaker 1: round picks, including this year's. They give up number nine
Speaker 1: and then their next two first round picks to move
Speaker 1: from nine to one. With Tennessee think about taking that,
Speaker 1: they might think about it. Would the Saints do it?
Speaker 1: I think they'd be desperate enough to do it.
Speaker 4: Who knows.
Speaker 1: So this is I'm not going to totally close the door,
Speaker 1: but it sure seems.
Speaker 4: Like they could give him Derek Carr too.
Speaker 2: Hey, I didn't even think of that, Mickey, are you listening?
Speaker 1: Maybe not well with the Titan, Callahan was with Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: That's actually not that crazy with the Titan. With the Titans,
Speaker 1: take three ones in Derek Carr for the number one overall, pick.
Speaker 2: Nine excuse me use ten before?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is Mickey Loomis back in February.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, Mickey would offer two ones.
Speaker 3: And then it's like, I don't know, and then Derek
Speaker 3: gets thrown in, and then there's a conversation and there's
Speaker 3: a little back and forth, and all Draft night it happens.
Speaker 2: As first reported by NFL Network's Greig.
Speaker 4: Ros I love it.
Speaker 1: I think I think the Saints are just desperate enough
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 4: That would be fun.
Speaker 1: All right, We're going to go through all sixteen NFC
Speaker 1: teams here, including the Saints, and we're going to start
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. We're going to put two minutes
Speaker 1: on the clock. We don't need all two minutes. We
Speaker 1: enough to use all two minutes, but two minutes for
Speaker 1: every team. These are screaming needs heading into NFL draft season,
Speaker 1: and I will kick us off with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Put it on the clock. I think the biggest need
Speaker 4: is wide receiver.
Speaker 1: It's it's not a team looking at it, especially on
Speaker 1: the defensive side that I think actually has a ton
Speaker 1: of screaming needs, which is which is a good thing.
Speaker 1: You could argue running back. Certainly, you hate to go
Speaker 1: into a draft like needing and running back. I think
Speaker 1: they'll take one in the first three rounds. Offensive line
Speaker 1: they need to build for now and the future. And
Speaker 1: yet the gulf between Ceedee Lamb and the second best
Speaker 1: weapon on this team is so massive, whether it's running
Speaker 1: back or Jake Ferguson or Jalen Tolbert that I think
Speaker 1: that is their their biggest team. That's why smart people
Speaker 1: like Daniel Jeremiah are mocking a wide.
Speaker 4: Receiver to them with that number twelve overall pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's to the point where the backup running back
Speaker 3: slash special teams pro arguably the best special teams player
Speaker 3: in the game is like their second best.
Speaker 1: Skill position guy Cavante Turpins, And the thing is Jalen Turbert.
Speaker 1: Tolbert showed last year, he's fine as a rotation guy.
Speaker 1: I think he got six hundred yards just out of
Speaker 1: volume alone.
Speaker 4: Oh I like that, But he's in a contract here.
Speaker 1: That was the reason why I gave the edge to
Speaker 1: wide receiver because they might not sign him long term,
Speaker 1: so they really don't have any one long term Turpens
Speaker 1: on a one year deal. I believe other option here
Speaker 1: would be right tackle, Terrence Steele, right guard. Like, they
Speaker 1: still need to fix that offensive line and so sure,
Speaker 1: like most teams, they could use another cornerback. But I
Speaker 1: actually think the defense, they're not screaming needs. They're just
Speaker 1: kind of building what's already a pretty strong group.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And if we're going to evoke the COPYCAC League mantra
Speaker 3: that you saw DeVante Smith and AJ Brown, like you
Speaker 3: need another guy opposite the guy, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think it's going to be Jonathan Mingo, who they
Speaker 1: gave up a draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 1: In this class four that's not going to age. Well,
Speaker 1: they've taken some mid to late round shots FLORINOI last year.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to our second team, the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were able to upgrade a left talk'll get
Speaker 3: Marshawn Lottimore last season, but they were absolutely torched by
Speaker 3: a Birds team that really torched everybody.
Speaker 2: So there is a streaming keed at edge rusher.
Speaker 3: Drrence Armstrong is a nice piece unless the thing is
Speaker 3: Jalen Holmes is going to have this kind of growth.
Speaker 2: Even if he does, depth would be nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, picking at twenty nine makes it tough, but there's
Speaker 3: guys like Donovan ezekiel Aru who might drop down there,
Speaker 3: Michael Williams. But it's a need and it's thankfully the
Speaker 3: only one that's screaming to me because the team did
Speaker 3: get better.
Speaker 2: In free that.
Speaker 1: Your scream got a big reaction in the back there
Speaker 1: from Babona.
Speaker 4: Are you ready to commit to this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, we're doing it for the next weak. That's
Speaker 2: what the caffeine's for.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see if you scream the words screaming every time,
Speaker 1: or whether you scream their names or their first position
Speaker 1: or what it is.
Speaker 4: Edge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I Toorreance Armstrong good player. You look at who
Speaker 1: they sign in freeency. I kind of forgot they signed
Speaker 1: Dietrich Wise and Jacob bartin and Cleveland Farrell. Those are
Speaker 1: just a bunch of guys. This is a team that
Speaker 1: needs to get better up front, and they spent a
Speaker 1: lot of money on Javon Kinlaw which surprised me. That
Speaker 1: they're pretty good on the interior. Other than that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that is their screaming eath.
Speaker 1: I only wrote down one thing.
Speaker 3: Well, and like so he was almost any play you
Speaker 3: could pick, any play for the fourth quarter of the Falcons
Speaker 3: would have won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That was with Brooks Reid as the best edge. Right.
Speaker 3: Then he goes to be the defensive coordinator of the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys and he inherits this otherworldly talent as well
Speaker 3: as another good piece in DeMarcus Yeah, dan Quinn gets
Speaker 3: another good piece into Marcus Lawrence, and now the Commanders
Speaker 3: were kind of in this middle place where he's figuring
Speaker 3: it out with mixed talent. He still wants that edge,
Speaker 3: and I think that's where that goes the right move.
Speaker 1: You can't fit fix everything in one offseason, or now
Speaker 1: it's even two for this regime, but they've done a
Speaker 1: great job. I like their off season a little better
Speaker 1: the more more I looked at it. All Right, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go with the Philadelphia Eagles, speaking of speaking
Speaker 1: a great defenses, and I was wrong about the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles by the way. I thought they're we're going to
Speaker 1: take some big swings this offseason, and they.
Speaker 4: Didn't at all.
Speaker 2: How we're doing it again.
Speaker 1: It was the total opposite. They were actually playing the
Speaker 1: compensatory pick game. You can tell some teams really load
Speaker 1: up on it certain seasons and they might get some
Speaker 1: threes and fours back because because good people have left
Speaker 1: the building. So they're a team that has most everything.
Speaker 1: I would say edge is probably their biggest need as well,
Speaker 1: which sounds weird, but you think about who's still there.
Speaker 1: Nolan Smith is a returning starter and an emerging player.
Speaker 1: After that, they have depth. They signed josh u Ja,
Speaker 1: they sign a Zizo Jalari. They have Bryce hoff still
Speaker 1: on the roster. Maybe they can scrape some value out
Speaker 1: of him. So they have players there. But do they
Speaker 1: have anyone other than Nolan Smith who they're kind of like, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a dude for us.
Speaker 4: For more than a year or two. I don't think
Speaker 4: they do.
Speaker 1: And the way they think, I think they'll think that's
Speaker 1: their biggest need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've always had the ability to rotate guys and
Speaker 3: have guys get a lot of like rush snaps and
Speaker 3: bring them in. But you still need to have those
Speaker 3: folks that you can count on if the drives last
Speaker 3: a little bit longer. Right, if there's not a situation
Speaker 3: where you're getting off the field consistently all the time
Speaker 3: and it feels like there's a bunch of parts, but
Speaker 3: never that that guy other than Nolan Smith, who has
Speaker 3: really been a part guy up up until this point.
Speaker 1: Right until the middle of last season, he really came on.
Speaker 1: Man what for his side, one of the strongest players
Speaker 1: like per pound in the NFL. They have a lot
Speaker 1: of guys like going up a level in terms of
Speaker 1: their secondary So I think they could add some more
Speaker 1: pieces there to kind of fill in for the future,
Speaker 1: like Sidney Brown, kiey Ringo. Those guys are now probably starters,
Speaker 1: so maybe you draft a safety. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they will look at edge And yeah, they didn't take
Speaker 1: those swings like I expected. This Offsene kind kind of retrenched.
Speaker 1: All right, you got the Giants.
Speaker 2: The New York Giants. Okay, a full disclosure out there.
Speaker 3: I'm basing team needs off of what I think they
Speaker 3: need to do to win with the roster, not necessarily
Speaker 3: on somebody ticket keeping their job.
Speaker 1: You're also working off your phone now because the blue
Speaker 1: screen of death with the frownie faces on your computer.
Speaker 2: The needs of the secondary have been addressed.
Speaker 3: I think there's also a need for Shader Sanders specifically,
Speaker 3: but if they think that it's not going to happen,
Speaker 3: there is a screaming need for talent on the interior
Speaker 3: of either.
Speaker 2: One of the lines desk.
Speaker 3: Lawrence is one thing in the Joe Shane era, he's
Speaker 3: not drafted on the interior of the lines inside of
Speaker 3: the fourth round for his entire tenure. That's going back
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty two. They acquired John Runyon last year.
Speaker 3: But it's a screaming need to me because it's an
Speaker 3: area of deficiency that has continued to not really be addressed.
Speaker 3: And it'd be one thing if the guys they took
Speaker 3: at these other spots were working out. They're not, and
Speaker 3: so it's really leaping out to me that that's a place. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's other parts, but this is the one that they
Speaker 3: need to fixate.
Speaker 1: Tyrone Tracy is part of a very good twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four class just want to you know, yeah, no, set
Speaker 1: defend Joe Shane Besjos with neighbors and Tyler Neuban looks
Speaker 1: like he can play a little bit.
Speaker 2: You and I would have drafted name Drew Phillips.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely right, I totally agree interior defensive line.
Speaker 1: When Dexter Lawrence got hurt, it was one of those
Speaker 1: cases which is always stupid, but it's true where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: his defensive Player of the Year candidacy actually went up
Speaker 1: after he got hurt. Because when you took Dexter Lawrence
Speaker 1: off their team, they were one of the worst run
Speaker 1: defenses you've ever seen. If it wasn't for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four Panthers, those were the two of the worst
Speaker 1: run defenses and.
Speaker 3: The only reason the Panthers were legendarily bad. Right, so
Speaker 3: the Giants were off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 1: Although quarterback is still a massive need because Jamison Russell
Speaker 1: are short term solution, so it's still a massive need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's get the quarterback. I think that they make
Speaker 3: a move to get your door. That's what I would do.
Speaker 3: Who knows if it saves our other jobs. They're like,
Speaker 3: who cares, that's what you.
Speaker 1: Know, the more we sit with this, the less I
Speaker 1: think maybe he'll even be there, whether the Browns take
Speaker 1: them or the Saints. Like I was talking trade up
Speaker 1: to two, they need something to save their job, so
Speaker 1: I'm really in on this Saints. They're gonna maybe do
Speaker 1: something crazy. Let's go with the Green Bay Packers. I
Speaker 1: will start off the NFC North, and I think the
Speaker 1: needs are on defense, and I think they start at cornerback. Now,
Speaker 1: this Gire Alexander situation is just kind of hanging out there.
Speaker 1: The longer it goes on, the more you have to
Speaker 1: wonder maybe they will just bring him back, because if
Speaker 1: he's healthy, he is the best cornerback on the roster.
Speaker 1: That said, even if he is on the roster, their
Speaker 1: next best cornerback is Keyshawn Nixon.
Speaker 4: I don't know who Nate Hobbs.
Speaker 1: I guess they signed in free agency and is a
Speaker 1: good player, more of a nickelback. But like in terms
Speaker 1: of an outside cornerback, they don't really have the guys.
Speaker 1: And it's a blind spot for Goody because I look
Speaker 1: at the offense and yeah, you could draft for the future.
Speaker 1: In terms of their offensive line, they've been fantastic doing that,
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of guys coming up for
Speaker 1: free agency next year and so they'll probably plan ahead.
Speaker 4: But actually they're they're pretty set on offense.
Speaker 1: They could add and they're not going to ignore it,
Speaker 1: but really it's defense. It's cornerback one and then like
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams, edge would be number two
Speaker 1: for me, but to me, it's in the secondary. And
Speaker 1: Guda Kunst he's put a lot of resources in the
Speaker 1: draft on the defense with pretty mixed results. At this point,
Speaker 1: it's now a long list of players that they've drafted
Speaker 1: that haven't exactly lived up to their draft billing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, including finding a corner opposite of Jaire for these years.
Speaker 3: And I understand if the ding for you is JayR
Speaker 3: hasn't played very much well. The guys that were either
Speaker 3: replaced JayR or played on the other side of them,
Speaker 3: they haven't been able to get consistent play there at all.
Speaker 3: And so if you remove Jaire from the situation and
Speaker 3: he becomes a value add for somebody else, and you've
Speaker 3: had difficulty acquiring this position in the first place, how
Speaker 3: does that ultimately make you better in the long run,
Speaker 3: other than not paying somebody which like Okay, it's not
Speaker 3: our money.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know something that flipped my mind
Speaker 1: and maybe explains why JayR is still on the team
Speaker 1: and maybe he'll stay. I believe he was Brian Goodcun's
Speaker 1: first ever draft pick. I can't believe Goody's been there
Speaker 1: that long's He has now been there since twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and that's when Dyer entered the team.
Speaker 4: So maybe he wants to keep the band together.
Speaker 2: He should.
Speaker 1: It was like his last great cornerback pick, so he
Speaker 1: lets keep it.
Speaker 2: I'll think you shit, all right?
Speaker 1: You are up with the Chicago Bears. What is their
Speaker 1: screaming need?
Speaker 3: Okay, so we just talked about Jacob Martin being a commander.
Speaker 3: He got two hundred and thirteen snaps at edge last year.
Speaker 3: DeMarcus Walker got released back in February. That's another five
Speaker 3: hundred plus snaps on the edge on the other side
Speaker 3: of the d line. They're in a division with Gibbs, Montgomery, Jacobs.
Speaker 3: How long do you want Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson
Speaker 3: running around back?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: There is a screaming need for a talented edge opposite
Speaker 3: Montes sweat to set edges and bother quarterbacks. I love
Speaker 3: that they've addressed the offensive line, but they're going to
Speaker 3: need some more pass rush. I know they improved on
Speaker 3: the interior in the pass rush capacity and free agency, yes,
Speaker 3: get an edge.
Speaker 1: Yeah they get They got Dio, but not a guy.
Speaker 4: Who's going to help you stop the run.
Speaker 1: In one of the riskier signings him and Jarrett really
Speaker 1: in general, Grady Jarrett. I think everyone's giving flowers to
Speaker 1: Ryan Poles. It's Ryan Pole season. If they go one
Speaker 1: for two there, that'll be great. I just think they're
Speaker 1: both risky moves. And I'm with you because Sweat is
Speaker 1: a long term guy. But you want to think about
Speaker 1: who are there guys on the defensive line, and really,
Speaker 1: in terms of draft picks right now, it's Girvon Dexter
Speaker 1: and that's about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's and again, like I hate to to hinge
Speaker 3: on that the point about the running games and the
Speaker 3: rest of the division, but there was a point in
Speaker 3: this offseason where I'm like, well, what would if Khalil
Speaker 3: Mack got back to Chicago.
Speaker 2: Like that that would be what they needed.
Speaker 3: And of course Khalila elected to stay here in sunny Soethern, California.
Speaker 3: Good for him, but they of course, you would love
Speaker 3: to have that sort of talent, but a player who
Speaker 3: can fulfill that role, and they elected. You know, that's
Speaker 3: where DeMarcus Walker was last year. That's why he was
Speaker 3: playing so much. And I'm wondering what they're going to
Speaker 3: do to replace him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't think they're done fixing the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They could certainly take a tackle, a left tackle. They
Speaker 1: could certainly take another guard. People that are just assuming
Speaker 1: Jonah Jackson is like gonna be Detroit Lions healthy Jonah
Speaker 1: Jackson coming off a bust of a year that I
Speaker 1: don't think the Bears are assuming that long term either,
Speaker 1: So they could look to bulk up their running game
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm gonna go with the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: to it. We haven't gone over time, I don't think
Speaker 1: at all. I had a pretty clear, screaming need for
Speaker 1: the Vikings because it's a really good roster. But they
Speaker 1: need a cornerback and they could use two cornerbacks. And
Speaker 1: they did a good job this offseason getting some placeholders,
Speaker 1: and by that I mean like free agents who come
Speaker 1: in and they just upgrade the overall talent level. It's
Speaker 1: a tough defense to figure out in terms of Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: and so you bring in Isaiah Rodgers. He's a guy
Speaker 1: who's been around, he's been with the Eagles. You give
Speaker 1: him some money. Jeff Acuda's on this team now, Tavier Thomas,
Speaker 1: like these guys have taken snaps in the NFL.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 1: You're not the worst cornerback room in the league or
Speaker 1: anything anymore. But other than bringing back Byron Murphy, you
Speaker 1: have Makai Blackman who's coming off a serious injury, and
Speaker 1: so you don't again have kind of draft pick guys
Speaker 1: that are going to be their long term And it's
Speaker 1: amazing because you look at that all those names I
Speaker 1: just said, and it doesn't sound like a screaming need.
Speaker 1: And that's really a credit to this Kevin O'Connell Quesi
Speaker 1: build because they are ahead of scheduled. They were good
Speaker 1: so much faster than you would have expected. This is
Speaker 1: the year where you would have expected. Okay, it's all
Speaker 1: coming together now like year three with Flores, for instance,
Speaker 1: as the defensive guy, and it's a good roster, like
Speaker 1: they're one of the better rosters in the league.
Speaker 3: And even the things that didn't immediately play off, like
Speaker 3: the trade up for Dallas Turner right that there's a chance.
Speaker 3: Did you get growth in that position which will be
Speaker 3: a huge value add in twenty twenty five where I'm
Speaker 3: peeking over at your list of teams and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm wondering what Greg is going to say? Is the
Speaker 3: screaming need for the minnesot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't really have one enter, you know, entering
Speaker 1: the offseason. Even after the last game against the Rams,
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, who doesn't usually do this at the podium,
Speaker 1: said we need to fix our interior offensive line, which
Speaker 1: was just like a shot across the bow on I
Speaker 1: think a couple players, Garrett Bradbury, Dalton Riisner, like those
Speaker 1: guys are ex vikings, and they have addressed that. They
Speaker 1: signed Ryan Kelly, they signed Will Fryes, both of the
Speaker 1: Colts last year. I actually think they could add more
Speaker 1: to that position because Kelly's not a long term guy,
Speaker 1: and they have Blake Brenda I believe it left guard.
Speaker 4: So that could be the other one.
Speaker 1: If we're looking all right, you got the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: another very good roster in the best division in football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Lions brought in a big free agent corner.
Speaker 3: I know they drafted a first round cornerback a year ago,
Speaker 3: and I know Amik Robertson had the game of his
Speaker 3: life in the Game of the Century.
Speaker 2: They still have a screaming need in the secondary.
Speaker 3: To me, the Eagles showed how important valuable depth is
Speaker 3: in that position, and I was dangerously close to saying
Speaker 3: yet another team had to need it Edge here and
Speaker 3: it will be nice to have, but I feel like
Speaker 3: they need that depth in the secondary.
Speaker 2: Okay, another corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's tricky for the teams that don't really
Speaker 1: have screaming needs it almost it almost makes fun of us.
Speaker 1: But this is the best place to be as an organization.
Speaker 1: I probably would lean EDGE. So right now they have
Speaker 1: Aiden Hutchinson obviously coming off the injury, and then you
Speaker 1: have Josh Pascal and Marcus Davenport and some guys like
Speaker 1: Mohammed Akad Muhammad who's contributed.
Speaker 3: But like I'm pretty sure statistically he was one of
Speaker 3: their better at Edge.
Speaker 2: Al Mohammad, yeah.
Speaker 1: And so, and then they have a bunch of interior
Speaker 1: guys that can kind of go a little bit of
Speaker 1: inside and out, but no one you really trust there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think they need to refresh that offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think they think like the Eagles too, where it
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me at all for them to take a
Speaker 1: first round offensive lineman because if you look at it,
Speaker 1: they don't really like it's getting older. Like Panae. Sewell's
Speaker 1: not a guy that you worry about at all. But
Speaker 1: other than that, Rag now Glasgow, Taylor Decker, those guys
Speaker 1: have all been on.
Speaker 4: The team since twenty eighteen or twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: They're they're the identity I know something. It's like one
Speaker 2: of the most.
Speaker 4: You're not saying goodbye.
Speaker 1: You just you just start drafting their eventual replacements, and
Speaker 1: if they stick around, like Cam Jurgen's had to wait
Speaker 1: for Jason Kelcey.
Speaker 4: You know, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It's nice, it's a nice to have. But watching the
Speaker 3: defense get hurt and fall apart, it's hard to not
Speaker 3: say they just need bodies over there.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely true.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just deep bodies.
Speaker 1: Could maybe still use another receiver, Jamison Williams. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's fifty Your options gonna come up next year. Just
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Speaker 1: I need to do some three p forty jumping into
Speaker 1: the pool to get to there. Let's do the screaming
Speaker 1: needs in the NFC South. Why don't we have Patrick
Speaker 1: lead us off here. We started the show talking to
Speaker 1: Little Saints, So why don't we start the NFC South
Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the Saints have needs all over the roster,
Speaker 3: which may be a blessing in disguise is Mickey Loomis
Speaker 3: has kind of had a tendency to overdraft on need
Speaker 3: after that legendary twenty seventeen draft where everything turned out great,
Speaker 3: But once again, there's.
Speaker 2: A screen need at the edge to get.
Speaker 3: Some talent to rush the passer in this division where
Speaker 3: Atlanta's gotten better, the Panthers have gotten better. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 3: and the Saints, I mean, and the Buccaneers score a
Speaker 3: billion points a game.
Speaker 2: It was honestly hard to pick.
Speaker 3: But it's just such a big part of defense in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five that I have to go edge once again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were a bad team rushing the passer. I
Speaker 1: think they overpaid for Chase Young. They did take a
Speaker 1: second round pick. Off the top of your head, can
Speaker 1: you remember who the second round pass rusher the Saints
Speaker 1: took in twenty twenty three. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: been mentioned on this show since the draft. One minute
Speaker 1: Saints fans know who I'm talking about. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: might being bresy. No, Breese's been solid as I don't
Speaker 1: even know if solids the word. He's been okay as
Speaker 1: a first round pick. Isaiah Foski, oh yeah, who just
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to get to the field for them.
Speaker 4: So that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And yet no one's ever been on the last year
Speaker 1: of his deal more than Derek carr is on the
Speaker 1: last year of his deal. There, so quarterback to me
Speaker 1: is a massive, massive need. And so it's cornerback. Quietly
Speaker 1: like even you know, you think they've always had a
Speaker 1: bunch of cornerbacks, but suddenly Latimore is not there or
Speaker 1: Deva's not there. They could certainly he's a cornerback. And
Speaker 1: then like Trevor Penning's still there at right tackle. I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's not really a long term thing like guards.
Speaker 1: You're right, there really isn't a position on the roster
Speaker 1: they could not stand to improve.
Speaker 3: And so and it's a great spot to be and
Speaker 3: to just stick and pick because whoever they take is
Speaker 3: probably going to be a huge value add to this team.
Speaker 4: And yet I kind of don't think they are, because you.
Speaker 3: Think they move up and take Shador if he gets
Speaker 3: past what.
Speaker 1: Team, maybe even just get him at too. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm just making stuff up, but it just makes sense
Speaker 1: to me. The Browns trading down would make sense. Let's
Speaker 1: do the Atlanta Falcons next, the big time rivals of
Speaker 1: the Saints. And we're repeating ourself a lot on this show.
Speaker 1: And it's a good class Fridge. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the top shelf guys are there, but if you're a
Speaker 1: team like the Falcons. I think this is a good
Speaker 1: class to have a huge edge need because they're in
Speaker 1: the middle of the first round. I think at that
Speaker 1: point it's just just take what you need and you'll
Speaker 1: have your pick of a handful of different guys who
Speaker 1: are all first round worthy. And we're just back in
Speaker 1: that phase of Atlanta Falcons season, which is we need
Speaker 1: an edge season, which is every season.
Speaker 4: It's really crazy.
Speaker 1: And I thought they would be more active in free
Speaker 1: agency and they're big move Who's signing Leonard Floyd for
Speaker 1: more money than he made for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: They've had a weird one. They're kind of playing the
Speaker 1: compensatory pick game. I think, I don't know who's gotten out.
Speaker 2: Of the hell.
Speaker 3: They're playing this waiting game with cousins and kind of
Speaker 3: just sitting free agency out essentially.
Speaker 4: More or less.
Speaker 1: And they just restructured a couple of contracts. We're taping
Speaker 1: this on Wednesday, and they restructured a few more to
Speaker 1: open up a bunch of cap space. People are like, oh,
Speaker 1: now they're going to sign I was like, well, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: all the guys are gone.
Speaker 4: Wait what I mean?
Speaker 1: They could be like a second level team, but really,
Speaker 1: all their needs are on defense. Defensive backs certainly would
Speaker 1: be an option, and like second, you know, either position
Speaker 1: in the secondary. They do need a center now, I
Speaker 1: think after after they let Drew Donovan go, so that
Speaker 1: could be an option.
Speaker 3: Yeahs as rosters elsewhere are getting better with your players,
Speaker 3: right right, it's it should be time and perhaps not
Speaker 3: that it's a you know, scrape in the bottom of
Speaker 3: the barrel. Some guys have been a little more patient
Speaker 3: waiting out and trying to find the right spot. There's
Speaker 3: talent out there. I mentioned DeMarcus Walker earlier. Yeah, who
Speaker 3: got some good run last year in Chicago. Maybe that's
Speaker 3: an option. There is some talent left available on the
Speaker 3: street than maybe the Falcons.
Speaker 4: I believe we have sixteen or seventeen players from my
Speaker 4: top one oh one.
Speaker 2: That's seventeen percent.
Speaker 4: I think we're down to only four in the top fifty.
Speaker 1: By the way, Amari Cooper or Santi Sami Junior, you
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers who is a late ad in Kalais Campbell
Speaker 1: the only four in the top sixty. In fact, you
Speaker 1: have the Panthers wrapping up the NFC South. No, I
Speaker 1: have the division champion Bucks after that, take that back
Speaker 1: you have the Panthers.
Speaker 3: I will take the Panthers. The Panthers head coach former team,
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They need defensive help at multiple positions,
Speaker 3: but I believe the screaming need is actually at the
Speaker 3: linebacker position. For a franchise that had legends at off ball,
Speaker 3: a couple of them playing at the same time, and
Speaker 3: Luke Kinkley and Thomas Davis, you can make the case
Speaker 3: the offense needs some more speed or some help at edge.
Speaker 3: The whole plane is kind of built on Genevian clowning
Speaker 3: at this point in his career, right, there's a Shawn
Speaker 3: Robinson on the interior.
Speaker 2: They're getting old there.
Speaker 3: But if you want to add talent on defense and
Speaker 3: a playmaker that the fan base can identify with, I
Speaker 3: think there's off ball options inside of that top ten
Speaker 3: that can help the Carolina Panthers and also make an
Speaker 3: tribute to the edge as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, John Campbell's Camps or Jalen Walker.
Speaker 2: Either one like.
Speaker 3: Honestly, that's the type of player, a guy that can
Speaker 3: run and make plays, and the defense can come on
Speaker 3: the field and there can be somebody that the fans
Speaker 3: can identify with and celebrate, you know, and yeah, it
Speaker 3: off ball.
Speaker 2: The growth period is a little bit longer.
Speaker 3: It may take longer to see those results, but you'll
Speaker 3: eventually get them.
Speaker 1: And they both get pass rushers, and I can really
Speaker 1: see them fitting a Giro Evro defense where he's moving
Speaker 1: the guy back and forth a little bit better of
Speaker 1: a Michael Hoyt type of guy who Everro is with
Speaker 1: back with the Rams.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of similarities in terms of the
Speaker 1: roster construction between the Panthers and the Falcons, which is
Speaker 1: just they need help everywhere on defense, you know.
Speaker 4: Like I get even focus on the offense.
Speaker 1: We could even argue is more important, maybe a little
Speaker 1: more important in terms of team building, but it's two
Speaker 1: one sided. And both Raheem as the head coach and
Speaker 1: the Falcons, and then Everro as the coordinator with the Panthers,
Speaker 1: I think they could use some help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you wonder how much fit played into just
Speaker 3: how categorically awful things were last year, and you know,
Speaker 3: this is this is it, I feel like for forever,
Speaker 3: if it's if it's not this season and there's similar results,
Speaker 3: then they would.
Speaker 1: Have to I mean, they didn't even let him leave.
Speaker 1: He was trying to leave A couple of times. It
Speaker 1: sounded like, I'll see why I got the bucks. And
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be a recurring theme this offseason.
Speaker 4: I really love this team.
Speaker 1: I thought they would be very good last year, and
Speaker 1: then they were so anyone that that proves me right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like even more. I think it is one
Speaker 1: of the best rosters in the entire NFL.
Speaker 4: If if I hate to say it, if they.
Speaker 1: Had a slightly better quarterback in all that we've been through,
Speaker 1: I think they'd be in the inner circle. You're going
Speaker 1: to make him try contenders. When I said that at
Speaker 1: the back room just started cheering. They love the Baker hate.
Speaker 1: It's not hate. He's great.
Speaker 2: Rewind fifteen to talk to their GM and.
Speaker 1: Talked about how like you saw scenario is where they
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl two ago exactly, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Well, he's saying, Baker Mayfield is kind of like this.
Speaker 3: It's like a quantum superposition where yeah, things could be great,
Speaker 3: but Gregg also sees them going categorically awful.
Speaker 2: No both at the same time.
Speaker 1: No, No, I think they would be in the inner
Speaker 1: circle of Super Bowl favorites. If like Justin Herbert was
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Let's say if it was like a slightly
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: If you replace Baker Mayfield with Lamar Jackson heard job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I was trying to come up with a
Speaker 1: guy who was like six or ten. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that that would be true. We've spent half our time
Speaker 1: not getting to the need because, look, they could add
Speaker 1: depth everywhere. They're in a great position off ball linebacker.
Speaker 1: You just mentioned it for the Panthers. This actually is
Speaker 1: the one real need here. Levonte David is coming off
Speaker 1: his worst season I believe as a pro. But they
Speaker 1: brought him back. That's great. They brought an Anthony Walker
Speaker 1: as a free agent. They have a cervocia Dennis w
Speaker 1: don't know much about at the other off ball, So
Speaker 1: that's the spot they actually I think they will want
Speaker 1: to develop someone at that position, whether it's in Round
Speaker 1: one or round three, that's a position I think they
Speaker 1: will be drafting. Other than that, I think they're in
Speaker 1: a great spot where they're just picking the best player
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you started to get worried about the defense. I know, Winfield,
Speaker 3: it felt like he was playing through something. Didn't miss
Speaker 3: those games last season as well. On top of that,
Speaker 3: where you'd like to see them get back to that
Speaker 3: Bowles defensive goal and I think that would do that.
Speaker 4: Another team that could use an edge.
Speaker 1: But they did get Hassan Reddick back and I like, yeah, diabe.
Speaker 1: They did draft the guy Chris Braswell in the second
Speaker 1: round last year.
Speaker 4: We haven't seen much out of him yet.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the last division and I'll kick us
Speaker 1: off this time. I'm going to start with the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and their needs are not as screaming as they were
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when this regime came over.
Speaker 1: For the most part, I think they've done a good job.
Speaker 1: I think they still need to fix their offensive line,
Speaker 1: and they have Joonah Williams coming off a major injury.
Speaker 1: But they really only have two guys that I look
Speaker 1: at when you look got the entire offensive line that
Speaker 1: you think are going to be part of the team
Speaker 1: long term that they feel confident about. That's their left tackle,
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell, and that's their center fro Ho, who they
Speaker 1: really like a lot. I believe they re signed him
Speaker 1: and has turned into a nice gem for them. They've
Speaker 1: taken some guys in the middle rounds and maybe they
Speaker 1: develop them, maybe they don't. But this is a team
Speaker 1: that wants to pound the rock. That kept their entire
Speaker 1: offense intact. They really didn't add anyone that's going to start.
Speaker 1: They have a new backup quarterback, but I think they
Speaker 1: could use a new starter, maybe even two on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And if I had to guess, like they
Speaker 1: have needs on their defense as well, but if I
Speaker 1: had to guess, they would view that internally maybe as
Speaker 1: their biggest need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I look to last season right where James Connor
Speaker 3: and Trey Benson got a little dinged up. The offensive
Speaker 3: line had its issues, and you kind of wondered, like,
Speaker 3: what was all the big part of that. I think
Speaker 3: it was a little bit of everything right that made
Speaker 3: the season kind of fall apart. But I think protection
Speaker 3: breakdowns and we tend to watch Kyler running around and
Speaker 3: think like, oh, that's him. Well, sometimes it was literally
Speaker 3: early pressure, yes, getting to Kyler where he wasn't able
Speaker 3: to fix it.
Speaker 1: And I think the run blocking maybe wasn't even bigger
Speaker 1: problem from a team that we expected to be really good.
Speaker 1: I expected to go into this exercise say an edge
Speaker 1: would be but it's not screaming because they have guys
Speaker 1: there after adding Josh Sweat, they brought back Baron Browning,
Speaker 1: Zavin Collins has been good, boj Ojalari had a good
Speaker 1: rookie year actually, and so and it's coming off a
Speaker 1: major injury. It's more of the off ball guys. I
Speaker 1: kind of expect Kaizier White, we'll be back there at
Speaker 1: some point. He's still a free agent. He's one of
Speaker 1: the guys in my one to one that has not
Speaker 1: been signed. And famously, the defensive coordinator named his kid
Speaker 1: after Kaizier White, So maybe that's making him a little
Speaker 1: tougher at the negotiating team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have to hold on a little bit longer
Speaker 3: to try to make it look like this wasn't going
Speaker 3: to happen the whole time the Rams.
Speaker 4: Nice offseason for the Rams, getting a lot of love,
Speaker 4: and I agree with it all. Yeah, I'm curious about
Speaker 4: this one.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they deserve the love.
Speaker 3: It starts by getting your generational talented quarterback back, mending
Speaker 3: that particular relationship, building off the drafts that they have had,
Speaker 3: where I initially was thinking that there was a glaring
Speaker 3: need in the secondary, but no, it's in front of them.
Speaker 4: It is a glaring, screaming.
Speaker 3: Need at off ball linebacker, ok, where guys continue to
Speaker 3: leave and go other places and be valued there, including
Speaker 3: across the division where Ernest Jones came to a team
Speaker 3: in mid season that has been successful there where you
Speaker 3: can't keep doing this, invest at the position in some
Speaker 3: capacity and then be loyal to the guy.
Speaker 4: To me, I mean they can because they have and
Speaker 4: they will. I mean, you're right.
Speaker 1: It's driving Rams fans crazy because it's not like this
Speaker 1: strategy has worked. It's always the weakness of their defense
Speaker 1: and opponents in this division are always picking on it.
Speaker 1: And they lose their best guy from last year Christian Roseboom.
Speaker 1: By the way, who where is he? He's in Carolina.
Speaker 1: I think he's in So you know they they're not
Speaker 1: in a good spot there. I agree with you, And
Speaker 1: yet I actually think cornerback maybe not for this exercise,
Speaker 1: isn't as screaming because they have guys that can play
Speaker 1: Darius Williams of Kella Weatherspoon, Quentin Lake like veterans for
Speaker 1: the most part. But man, it'd be good to develop
Speaker 1: some premier talent at that position that you think are
Speaker 1: like plus starters.
Speaker 4: They haven't really done that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think they want to wait, and I honestly
Speaker 3: don't think that they Well, clearly they don't value the position.
Speaker 2: But when you've.
Speaker 4: What positioned cornerback, no, you're back.
Speaker 2: I'm back on linebacker.
Speaker 3: But I mean, yeah, they they've determined right that the
Speaker 3: pay structure doesn't necessarily work out to do these things.
Speaker 2: But I think they can.
Speaker 3: I think they could take some swings and get a
Speaker 3: get a veteran in at both positions.
Speaker 4: Also, Rob Havenstein Uh.
Speaker 1: Drafted by the Saint Louis Rams still at right tackle.
Speaker 1: Got I need to replace him at some point. That
Speaker 1: point is coming soon. San Francisco. The forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: would you believe right now in Vegas? Not just the
Speaker 1: division favorites, but I think tied for second in the
Speaker 1: first over under win totals. I saw put out there
Speaker 1: pretty weird, surprising a little too early to go over
Speaker 1: the overender win totals. They were the easiest team for
Speaker 1: me that we did because I thought they're screaming need.
Speaker 1: It was on the defensive line. I'd start at defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: That's my number one screaming need. It's just it's one
Speaker 1: of the most lacking defensive tackle rooms in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: might be the most. Jordan Elliott, Kevin Gibbins, and then
Speaker 1: a couple undrafted guys Evan Anderson.
Speaker 2: You made those names up.
Speaker 1: No, Jordan Elliott's he's bounced around a little bit, lest
Speaker 1: at least I'm familiar with his work. Kevin Gibbons has
Speaker 1: played a little bit for them, and then a late
Speaker 1: round pick from four years ago, Coliade Davis. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they really don't have any And it's crazy because you
Speaker 1: think forty nine ers, you think defensive line, you think
Speaker 1: they've always developed that position well, and yet the second
Speaker 1: biggest need to me by far is defensive end.
Speaker 4: It's Bosa, one of the best players in league.
Speaker 1: But after that it's Drake Jackson, who hasn't worked out
Speaker 1: because of an injury, and maybe he gets better, but
Speaker 1: it's gross Matos so they brought it as a free agent,
Speaker 1: didn't have a great year. So I think both those positions,
Speaker 1: but especially defensive tackle, they are one of the teams
Speaker 1: that like they're going to make that pick in the
Speaker 1: first two rounds. They are taking the defensive tackle. Will
Speaker 1: I will oh put my name on it.
Speaker 3: Greg Rosenthal Special forty nine Ers, regardless of Kyle Shanahan's
Speaker 3: proclivities or John Lynch.
Speaker 4: I just think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: There's no one there.
Speaker 3: I wondered how serious the double Bosa opportunity was considering
Speaker 3: the financials there.
Speaker 1: They reportedly made an offer, but it got blown out.
Speaker 1: They weren't even close to the MIAMII, So I think
Speaker 1: they were doing it for a certain number, which makes
Speaker 1: me think they could be like a Kalais Campbell team.
Speaker 1: He would makes sense for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and the versatility of Kalaias Campbell because you
Speaker 3: could kind of slot them inside at times where they
Speaker 3: have to bargain hunt.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: Klays Campbell is in a good spot at the end
Speaker 1: of the off season every year. He just like kind
Speaker 1: of picks what contender. Now, he could have picked better
Speaker 1: than the Dolphins last year. But yeah, you could join
Speaker 1: the Eagles, joined the forty nine ers. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: wrap up this whole shebang with the Seattle Seahawks, my
Speaker 1: former team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the person who made that decision one of them, well,
Speaker 3: I'll just say the person who made that decision John
Speaker 3: Schneider at a news or this off season, said you
Speaker 3: can't just throw money at marginal play with regards to
Speaker 3: their screaming need at interior offensive line that has been
Speaker 3: screaming at them for years. And the idea is that
Speaker 3: you're throwing money at marginal play. Well, all the other
Speaker 3: teams are throwing money at the guys who are coming
Speaker 3: in and visiting you and having conversations with you. So
Speaker 3: at what point is this addressed? Or you just send
Speaker 3: out Sam Donald who has been had the pressure of
Speaker 3: the planet put on him and the idea is being
Speaker 3: pushed out there everybody. Well, this is Geno Smith. So
Speaker 3: you're gonna get Geno Smith production out of Sam Donald.
Speaker 3: You're going to send him on an absolute mission if
Speaker 3: you don't address this sneed.
Speaker 4: Greg You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: I think Schneider feels more pressure to improve their offensive
Speaker 1: line in this draft than just about any GM has
Speaker 1: to improve any position, and yet he's not showing it
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 4: Outside too much.
Speaker 2: Got a secret plan.
Speaker 1: He did mention multiple times that the new coaches like
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys I drafted and they want
Speaker 1: to try to develop those guys. So Christian Haynes is
Speaker 1: a third round pick from last year. Anthony Bradford is
Speaker 1: another guard who is a fourth round pick a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. Olawa Timmy played for them at center
Speaker 1: last year was a fifth round pick. And so some
Speaker 1: of these guys, Schneider's going to try to have Clint
Speaker 1: Kobiak in their new offensive line coach, make him look smart.
Speaker 4: We'll see if that works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great if it works out, but then you
Speaker 3: wonder how bad the coaching situation was prior that these
Speaker 3: guys weren't having that success.
Speaker 4: Well, the Ryan Graberra will not be looked back fondly.
Speaker 1: I feel I don't feel bad, but it just because
Speaker 1: I was excited he was. He seemed like he wanted
Speaker 1: to try some stuff. But it didn't. It didn't work
Speaker 1: out for anyone.
Speaker 4: I don't think they maximized it.
Speaker 2: It was all Michael Pinnocks like that.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what I have learned in hindsight about
Speaker 3: last year that Michael PENNOCKX junior was that dude at Washington.
Speaker 4: M Like, I think there's no question that was it.
Speaker 2: Got some people hired, got his.
Speaker 1: Guye Rome drafted top ten that that helped. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was good players around. Jayln McMillan looks like a
Speaker 1: good uh he does NFL player, And I think.
Speaker 2: That's because his quarterback was an MVP candidate.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield brought it back around Russell Wilson, by the
Speaker 1: way already doing pressers, saying that he expects to be
Speaker 1: the giants starting quarterback, that this team's looking for someone
Speaker 1: to lead them in every way in the off season,
Speaker 1: in the season, in their habits, and establish a winning culture.
Speaker 2: He better win. A dude behind him is going to
Speaker 2: be ripping darts.
Speaker 4: I know I be asking for it.
Speaker 1: That very much is a I'm marking my territory. You
Speaker 1: better you better know jamis what's going on.
Speaker 4: I do like that.
Speaker 1: The first Russell tweet that he sent out was a
Speaker 1: picture he clearly took from his iPhone that day of
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium while he was like at the facility or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you think or maybe he just
Speaker 1: took it off of Google Images.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because Rush used to have that extensive
Speaker 3: social team. Like I'm wondering, is that still something that
Speaker 3: he's that he's doing or you think he's.
Speaker 1: You think he's cut back that he has a screaming
Speaker 1: need for no just more social coordinator work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just running in himself.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, we got we got some hot social
Speaker 1: coming out.
Speaker 4: Chris.
Speaker 1: Chris Pavona, who works on our Social says that his
Speaker 1: cut of Colleen Wolfe's performance on our previous episode is
Speaker 1: his master work, his magnum opus. So check that out
Speaker 1: wherever you can get Colleen Wilf's socials, which I would
Speaker 1: guess would be Twitter and Instagram and blue Sky. All right,
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Speaker 4: It's actually not making me feel like football is back.