Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast Mrs West's references to Welcome
Speaker 1: back Cotton. Welcome to another edition to the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan hands As. I come
Speaker 1: to you from a virtual room built with some heroes,
Speaker 1: Mark Sasler, Greg Rosenthal. I feel like where we are
Speaker 1: now and happy, happy league, New Year and all that
Speaker 1: it's officially season in the NFL as of Wednesday. It
Speaker 1: feels like now and there's still a lot of free
Speaker 1: agents out there. We're gonna get to everything that's happened
Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours and guys that are
Speaker 1: still out there and things that could happen while we're recording,
Speaker 1: just like we did the last two days. But I'm
Speaker 1: starting to think like this, the Shawn Watson thing, this um,
Speaker 1: this is going to really soon become the dominant story
Speaker 1: if it's not already there, Like, it feels like it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen soon now, and we're gonna get to some
Speaker 1: sports that are out there too. Do you disagree? Right?
Speaker 1: You gave me a HM, which I think means I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. I know, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: so in the dark about this that I have no
Speaker 1: feel if I had to guess it feels more like
Speaker 1: the draft. Like the draft, You're right, it will become
Speaker 1: the dominant story and we're gonna be talking about it.
Speaker 1: But it just feels like nobody, no one knows. But
Speaker 1: it makes more sense to me to happen near the draft.
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it could happen before that, though, too,
Speaker 1: because you're in a public relations disaster and if and
Speaker 1: if the right offer comes, it's probably gonna they have
Speaker 1: to start to listen. It sounds like they're not really
Speaker 1: even listening or picking up the phone. But when you
Speaker 1: go and I am not connecting the Tyrod Taylor dot
Speaker 1: to suggest that they believe that they're done with Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: But that's the first like sign and it's just such
Speaker 1: a predictable textans thing to do. And I something about this.
Speaker 1: I just start thinking, I know the Panthers are all
Speaker 1: over it, that he's gonna wind up in New England
Speaker 1: and our heads are gonna Why is that so impossible?
Speaker 1: Here's why. Because they filed the tampering charge against the
Speaker 1: Texans just a year ago that was related to them
Speaker 1: hiring the general manager that's there. Now that the owner
Speaker 1: of the Patriots. Is was reportedly furious with Easterby for
Speaker 1: some breadcrumbs that Easterby dropped on the way out. That
Speaker 1: the Texans have really been as almost as much as
Speaker 1: any franchise really, obviously the Jets would be in that mix,
Speaker 1: but almost as much as any franchise has sort of
Speaker 1: been the Patriots little brother um since they've come back,
Speaker 1: because they've just kept coming up against them in key spots,
Speaker 1: and I just I just can't see any reason that
Speaker 1: they're ever gonna serve Watson to them on a platter
Speaker 1: for any amount of picks, because that's ownership. Ownership, wouldn't
Speaker 1: the last Hey, Ricky, Hollywood, what if you in one
Speaker 1: fell swoop got Cam Newton out of your way as
Speaker 1: QB one and imported a future Hall of Fame quarterback
Speaker 1: in his mid twenties to the Patriots in one move.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought, I thought, speaking of the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and he moves in the last twenty four hours for
Speaker 1: everyone to uh over No, but I think more could
Speaker 1: be coming. They still have a lot of cap space
Speaker 1: left after all this, somehow, and they usually get active.
Speaker 1: You said, by the way, Greg that you know there's
Speaker 1: certain soldiers out there in the Belichick universe. Let's let's
Speaker 1: hear from one of them, Lewis Riddick, and he's executing
Speaker 1: it to a tea right now. Now it's all it's
Speaker 1: all on the quarterback. It's all in Cam Newton and
Speaker 1: whether or not they wind up drafting somebody for the future.
Speaker 1: But right now, as far as team building is concerned,
Speaker 1: this is a clinic of how to run free agency.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute clinic. This is exactly what's on my
Speaker 1: nerves about this. Greg Riddick, who, obviously I guess is
Speaker 1: I know he has history with Belichick and and all that.
Speaker 1: This idea that now and he has a big platform.
Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick, people listen to him, and he's on ESPN's
Speaker 1: morning show and he's saying, Bill Belichick has fixed the team. Now,
Speaker 1: whether they do well or fail, it's on Cam Newton
Speaker 1: because Bill's fine. Bill did what Bill had to do.
Speaker 1: He made every move and he's built this team now brilliantly.
Speaker 1: And if they don't do well in two thousand twenty one,
Speaker 1: it's not Bill Belichick's fault. It's Cam Newton's fault. And
Speaker 1: that's that's a kind of unsavory way the sausage can
Speaker 1: be made when you have people in your corner in
Speaker 1: the media, because I just hate that sentiment as if
Speaker 1: just because they spent all this money, he just he
Speaker 1: won free agency again and now you have to put
Speaker 1: it all on Cam, as if now it's Cam's job
Speaker 1: to get them back to the super Bowl. It's not
Speaker 1: just Cam that got on my nerves. Well, Plus, Belichick
Speaker 1: is the one that is putting Cam in there, so
Speaker 1: he is responsible for for Cam Newton's play. His faith
Speaker 1: in Cam Newton is is on Belichick. And you know,
Speaker 1: the minute that preceded that was more of an XS
Speaker 1: and O saying like how these players specifically fit the
Speaker 1: way Belichick wants to attack inside out? He thought he
Speaker 1: thought Aghilar and Henry and Johnny Smith. I kind of
Speaker 1: it was like the perfect fit for the Patriots offense.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see. But that that was kind
Speaker 1: to you want to talk about I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Mission accomplished, banner on the aircraft carrier. Al Right,
Speaker 1: here's here's the thing. Watch watch NFL media across almost
Speaker 1: any platform, and the ex players and scouts and gms
Speaker 1: and everyone that's been inside the league, every single one
Speaker 1: of them has got some big time agendas that are
Speaker 1: very obvious if you know him ahead of time, Like
Speaker 1: it's just a fact, and we do too. We do
Speaker 1: too as fans. I'm not saying we don't, but we did.
Speaker 1: You gotta read into that. I'm with you. Riddick has
Speaker 1: been studying Belichick for twenty plus years. I mean he
Speaker 1: was with him on the Browns. He so, I do.
Speaker 1: We've ascended past study at this point. That's what the
Speaker 1: word is. But study feels a little bit. But I
Speaker 1: would say this, if you're gonna tell me a team
Speaker 1: that is going to go out and make a big
Speaker 1: deal out of having like a two tight end offense
Speaker 1: and who I would trust with almost anyone they bring
Speaker 1: it on defense to maximize. Yes, it's the Patriots. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's just I think like the mission
Speaker 1: accomplished event in our history was a little more egregious
Speaker 1: than suggesting the Patriots have added talent on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. Work out, job, it's done, it's done.
Speaker 1: The Patriots are is supposed to be the Jets time
Speaker 1: of year, it's like false hope time of year. He
Speaker 1: doesn't like that the Patriots are the team with the
Speaker 1: false hope this time. You know, he doesn't like that
Speaker 1: that the Patriots are peaking in March like the Jets
Speaker 1: did the last few years. And I do, you have
Speaker 1: plenty of history with that, and peaking in March doesn't
Speaker 1: always tend to work out in September. But congratulations to
Speaker 1: the Patriots. You starting the show saying, um, the you know,
Speaker 1: it's the new league year and like now we're selling
Speaker 1: does that mean today is actually the first um time
Speaker 1: we can say football is back. It's like the it's
Speaker 1: the first of fifteen different times from now until September
Speaker 1: football is back there. There may be no more absurd
Speaker 1: thing happening in any sport. I mean, and there are
Speaker 1: some challengers out there. Then this treating the new League
Speaker 1: year like New Year's Eve business, I don't I just
Speaker 1: who we're all having to kind of close our eyes
Speaker 1: and pretend it's of intrigue. It's a vestige of of
Speaker 1: five years ago. This the game has changed out from
Speaker 1: under our feet. Why why why wast we not evolved?
Speaker 1: So why why are we still treating that like it's
Speaker 1: this Christmas morning business? My son is in the background
Speaker 1: yelling poop poo bananas. Well, that's the true. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's more interesting to me than right, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to discover something more interesting when
Speaker 1: you exit the show, no doubt about it. You know,
Speaker 1: he's talking about the Seahawks off season, am I right?
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: It is just after five o'clock on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: Let's start with some quarterback talk. Let's talk about the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Why not because an interesting report the Bears, as we
Speaker 1: discussed yesterday, UH signed Andy Dalton to a one year
Speaker 1: contract worth ten million, with room to go higher than that.
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, low grade starting quarterback money for
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Seems like the direction Chicago's going in now.
Speaker 1: A report this actually from Dan Patrick, who said on
Speaker 1: his radio show, I presume that Chicago, UH, the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears offered three first round picks, a third round pick,
Speaker 1: and two unnamed starters for Russell Wilson, so they went
Speaker 1: for it. The reports out there. If this is true
Speaker 1: what Patrick is saying, I have no reason to think
Speaker 1: that he's misinformed here. Um the Bears, indeed, we're all
Speaker 1: in on trying to solve their offense and franchise issues
Speaker 1: with one big swing. But you know what killed them
Speaker 1: is they have the overall pick. You wonder if they
Speaker 1: were in the top five, if this is a whole
Speaker 1: different situation, and the Seahawks are actually tempted to pull
Speaker 1: the trigger, but they might not have had an off
Speaker 1: ammunition here. They couldn't deliver the quarterback. I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're the Seahawks. And I like the
Speaker 1: way some people put it, like if this deal went down,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks become the Bears, and the Bears become the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: And and why would the Seahawks want to do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder though, And this all happened at
Speaker 1: a North Dakota State pro day and Fargo, North Dakota,
Speaker 1: which which which adds to a little bit of intrigue
Speaker 1: in the whole thing. But I got it right. Mysterious
Speaker 1: a nice place. Um, Okay, we can play that too,
Speaker 1: Like Ryan Pace, you tried, but you didn't deliver the
Speaker 1: quarterback the first Kay, we can play that too, he said.
Speaker 1: You seem, yeah, annoyed by the thing. I like the
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I don't understand what is happening to
Speaker 1: sound drop in there every once in a while without
Speaker 1: getting agitated by it. It's just it's typically when I'm speaking,
Speaker 1: then suddenly a bunch of bells and whistles got to
Speaker 1: get on the furled. I mean, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But it is a nice anthem. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't at this point, I don't going to say instead
Speaker 1: of judging this is the theme song of the great
Speaker 1: film Fargo. Well a moment many times, Yes, this is
Speaker 1: the theme song from Fargo. I love that there was
Speaker 1: a clandestine meeting Amy Fargo. Um, having really loved that,
Speaker 1: was it? Brother? Did that film? Yes? Excellent? Alright, Mark,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I'm sorry to upset you with no I think.
Speaker 1: I think what's happened is I stepped over a bit
Speaker 1: that you had prepared before the show. But I meant
Speaker 1: you're starting to have any issues when there's something in
Speaker 1: the background. I apologize. Go ahead. Well I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know where this is going. But like I would
Speaker 1: just say this, you wind up with Andy Dalton because
Speaker 1: you couldn't deliver the quarterback, not when you had a
Speaker 1: chance to draft one, or when it came down to
Speaker 1: this super expensive trade proposal. You're on the outside looking
Speaker 1: in the Chicago Bears and it's not any dalts fault.
Speaker 1: And then we all get it. Everyone's been tweeting about
Speaker 1: it for twenty four hours. But he's in another terrible
Speaker 1: situation where he's gonna be compared to like Mr Rabinsky,
Speaker 1: who they could have had. So I've had enough of it,
Speaker 1: and I feel for Bears fans. The music swelling really
Speaker 1: does that kind of gravity toss to what otherwise be
Speaker 1: like a good Danny Dalton take, but now it's like
Speaker 1: it almost feels like your Oscar clip. It's great, and
Speaker 1: we just send the show right here. Let's just call
Speaker 1: it a day. I need tomorrow. I do see what
Speaker 1: Ryan Pace is doing though here. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: every reporter has this these details. Where does it come from? Alright?
Speaker 1: Like he is giving me um Ryan Pace. That is
Speaker 1: some Danny Ainge in the NBA vibes where it's like
Speaker 1: every time a huge superstar gets traded, like it gets
Speaker 1: leaked a day later, that Danny Ainge really tried hard
Speaker 1: for him. And I'm not doubting that's true, but you
Speaker 1: kind of it's a self serving report that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: Bears fans, we tried, Uh, well, if you really, I
Speaker 1: didn't like when people said they did everything possible they empty, Well, no,
Speaker 1: you could have just offered more. You could have made
Speaker 1: trades leading up to this to get even more first
Speaker 1: round picks, Like if you wanted to sell out, you
Speaker 1: know everything you possibly could do, you could do more
Speaker 1: part of the well three first round picks, didn't we
Speaker 1: learn at some point in this offseason that that's the
Speaker 1: most you can actually, But if you got someone in theory,
Speaker 1: in theory, you could try to acquire another Raid Khalil
Speaker 1: mac for another first or something like that. You're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: sure something like that, or like the Jets have done,
Speaker 1: like the Jets have set the table to be a
Speaker 1: true contender the Bears, you need like a year, You
Speaker 1: need a little bit more time to build up a
Speaker 1: cachet like that. I guess the if the Bears had
Speaker 1: another year leading up to one, and maybe they will
Speaker 1: because Russell Wilson could be traded next year, maybe then
Speaker 1: you could see something happen, or even or even next month.
Speaker 1: Because if ra up sheets are our insider, Ian Rappaport's
Speaker 1: timeline is um accurate and no reason to think it
Speaker 1: wasn't the Seahawks slept on this, so I thought that
Speaker 1: was an interesting part of the story. Schneider and Pace
Speaker 1: meet up the clandestine meeting Fargo, and they sleep on it.
Speaker 1: He goes back and talks to Pete Carroll. I found
Speaker 1: an interesting rap sheet points out specifically that Carol is
Speaker 1: the one that makes the decision here, which is uh
Speaker 1: supporting my Pete Carroll is the most powerful head coach
Speaker 1: in the NFL argument because he hired Schneider and because
Speaker 1: they don't seem to have any real ownership situation going
Speaker 1: on there and not really sure what's going on there.
Speaker 1: Um that Carol said no, I don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. If they had a meeting, they
Speaker 1: talked about it, they thought about it. It kind of
Speaker 1: indicates they're thinking about it, that this that it's possible.
Speaker 1: But whether it's possible right now or next offseason, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But it doesn't seem nearly as like crazy.
Speaker 1: And if I am Seahawks ownership, it's it's Paul Allen's sister,
Speaker 1: by the way, after Paul Allen died. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'd be a little concerned. I might want to nip
Speaker 1: this in the button. I might want to get old
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll out the door if I have to make
Speaker 1: a choice right now, I don't know, before before they
Speaker 1: train Russell Wilson. Yeah, if it comes down to that,
Speaker 1: I like what Pete Carroll's doing. Keeping Russell wasn't. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but seventy part and part of it is
Speaker 1: he's seventy. Does he want to go into a rebuild
Speaker 1: with a hazy quarterback scenario? It sounds like an absolute
Speaker 1: nightmare to Ben Not at age seventy you could turn
Speaker 1: into the Bears and not have a quarterback for thirty years. Also,
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll is not your average seventy year old. And
Speaker 1: I also think based on what we know about him, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think he sees anything. As you know, I
Speaker 1: can't pull this off, not at this age. I think
Speaker 1: he he still believes himself to be thirty five, and
Speaker 1: he might actually be uh uh, He's he's not quite
Speaker 1: your average seventy year old. But this will be very
Speaker 1: interesting to continue to track. And another you know, big
Speaker 1: quarterback news, and we mentioned Watson and the idea of
Speaker 1: trading a franchise superstar Um the Athletics. Joseph Person reports
Speaker 1: that the Panthers are quote locked on acquiring the Texans
Speaker 1: star and uh. Person quoted an executive with an NFL
Speaker 1: team who said, uh Watson looks to be planned a
Speaker 1: B and C for the Panthers and the team's owner,
Speaker 1: David Tepper. Three first round picks the likely starting point
Speaker 1: in trade talks. So there's that three again, there's the
Speaker 1: max now, well max years, you could always have more
Speaker 1: first roundspect that's beside the point. Um, here's my thought
Speaker 1: on this and why I think, yes, the draft really
Speaker 1: it feels like it's far away, but it's really not.
Speaker 1: But if the Texans have David Tepper around the hook
Speaker 1: here and this guy wants what he wants, and we've
Speaker 1: heard this over and over the David Tepper, he won't
Speaker 1: let a guy out of the room when he wants
Speaker 1: his man, and he wants to make his big splash,
Speaker 1: and he wants to run an NFL team the way
Speaker 1: he built himself as a businessman into a billionaire, and
Speaker 1: that's being aggressive and getting what he wants. All right,
Speaker 1: this feels like they've got to do business with and
Speaker 1: we've talked about it in the past, on this show.
Speaker 1: If you've got a trade Deshaun Watson, which you never
Speaker 1: want to do, but if you have to do it
Speaker 1: and you don't have another choice, might as all trade
Speaker 1: him out of the conference and put him out of sight,
Speaker 1: out of mind on some level, and don't let this
Speaker 1: opportunity slip away. It just feels like the Panthers and
Speaker 1: and where they're at as an organization and their need
Speaker 1: and who their owner is. Uh, this is the partnership
Speaker 1: to get max value in a deal. Don't get too
Speaker 1: cute with this and blow the best potential suitor you have.
Speaker 1: You have the number eight pick, that would be a
Speaker 1: doorway to get a quarterback obviously, um, which is the
Speaker 1: huge key component here. I do think David Tepper is
Speaker 1: going to be looked at four or five years now.
Speaker 1: Is one of the most powerful owners in the NFL,
Speaker 1: if not in sports. Um, he's a modern day owner
Speaker 1: and the marriage between him and Matt Rule is super solid.
Speaker 1: And can you imagine that offense last year was frisky
Speaker 1: with Teddy Bridgewater. I mean, they've got parts. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine Deshaun Watson with Christian McCaffrey and Robby Anderson and
Speaker 1: maybe you even think about retaining Curtis Samuel, resigning him
Speaker 1: as an attractive um add on for Deshaun Watson. They
Speaker 1: will have now that it's the new year league about
Speaker 1: thirty two million in cap space, So they have been
Speaker 1: making moves and setting the table again, like to your point, Greg,
Speaker 1: getting in the right position to make this gigantic trade
Speaker 1: and I think would be an awesome landing spot for
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Well, and they're high enough in the draft
Speaker 1: that they could potentially move higher, so that that's the
Speaker 1: key to me. I think if you're the Seahawks, you
Speaker 1: can't ever trade Russell Wilson without getting a franchise quarter
Speaker 1: back back. That's insane. And it's the same with the Texans,
Speaker 1: So you know, the Dolphins and the Jets, to me,
Speaker 1: I've always made the most sense because they have the
Speaker 1: second and third pick and we heard that Watson would
Speaker 1: like to go there. Although now that's you know, there's
Speaker 1: a million of these reports out there. There's one from Lombardi,
Speaker 1: who is a former Patriots employee, So again, think about it.
Speaker 1: Think about agendas that says he doesn't want to go
Speaker 1: to those teams that he likes, the forty Niners, or
Speaker 1: the Broncos, which also our teams. I think that could
Speaker 1: be laying in the weeds here because they don't need
Speaker 1: a quarterback now in free agency, but they could pounce
Speaker 1: around the draft. But what what UM Carolina in Denver
Speaker 1: to some degree has is a pretty high draft pick
Speaker 1: where it's okay, maybe if you can get even higher
Speaker 1: and then you throw in the first without giving up
Speaker 1: your first round picks, you know, then then maybe you're cooking.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't you get you probably would get the best
Speaker 1: price near the draft, kind of like the Goff trade
Speaker 1: or the Wentz trade or or the Eli Manning trade,
Speaker 1: all these other trades. I could see Jimmy g as
Speaker 1: someone that, you know, please Nikissario and Mr easterby um
Speaker 1: claiming friendship with or whatever. It would be insane. This
Speaker 1: is this fits well with what the Texans want to be.
Speaker 1: Jimmy g as our starter with you know, Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: as our backup, and you'll probably see both of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Easter be you know, he's a
Speaker 1: god fearing man. If remember when Garoppolo went on that
Speaker 1: blind date with the adult film star. Sure, but one
Speaker 1: of the tenants would be forgiveness. I would think you'd
Speaker 1: have to forgive that he's a young man. You could
Speaker 1: see why that might happen. That's still I have to say,
Speaker 1: in all the years that we've done this podcast, one
Speaker 1: of the strangest stories that Jimmy G who's by all
Speaker 1: accounts a mild mannered man and a really nice guy
Speaker 1: and everybody seems to like him. Uh. And I'm not
Speaker 1: throwing any shame on the adult film industry, but to
Speaker 1: think that you could just go out on the town
Speaker 1: with a well known porn star that is that was
Speaker 1: quite a roll of the dice. Now, the payoff, I
Speaker 1: imagine was huge. Let's let's be honest here, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: entering in that type of relationship. However long it lasted.
Speaker 1: But when we look back, Greg, that's stunning, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I Mean, I think it lasted until the next day
Speaker 1: when she coast that stuff on Instagram about it. But
Speaker 1: it's a really funny story to look back on. It
Speaker 1: made me like Jimmy G. Moore because of how he
Speaker 1: handled it. He didn't try, he didn't give you the
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback um vanilla answer. He just started like chugged
Speaker 1: his shoulders it was like, come on, guys, like, you
Speaker 1: know what happened? Why are you asking about this? Like
Speaker 1: he owned it, and with a smile he owned it.
Speaker 1: Was if a franchise quarterback can't do it, who can,
Speaker 1: I guess in terms of your you know, power brokering
Speaker 1: your way into that kind of a date. But he's like,
Speaker 1: what you gotta get on me for this? Guys, look
Speaker 1: at me. He's like, swing remember West and I um
Speaker 1: rode a plane with Jimmy g from Indianapolis to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and actually spoke to him a number of times
Speaker 1: when no one knew, you know, who he was and
Speaker 1: where he'd go and what he'd become. Um. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of other things happened on that plane flight too,
Speaker 1: but that was one of the highlights. I think I
Speaker 1: know the one you're referring to. Uh and other Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson news. Uh. This is just something to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on here. UM, there are allegations of a so
Speaker 1: true assault involving Watson. Here a law student. UM includes
Speaker 1: allegations from a female masseus that Watson quote went too
Speaker 1: far during a massage, and Watson came out in social
Speaker 1: media and vigorously denied everything uh involved in terms of
Speaker 1: the charges and called it a shakedown. So that is
Speaker 1: kind of now uh something just percolating as part of
Speaker 1: the story around Watson. We'll see how that ball plays out.
Speaker 1: In other free agency news, let's get the free agency
Speaker 1: things have calmed down a little bit, but still a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. Will start with Trent Williams,
Speaker 1: the left tackle signs a monster extension with the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, six years, a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: eight million, fifty five of it guaranteed thirty million and
Speaker 1: assigning bonus. The thirty two year old is locked and
Speaker 1: loaded as the blindside protector of perhaps Jimmy Garoppolo or
Speaker 1: whomever else in the future. So after I think he
Speaker 1: was number one on your free agency top one on one,
Speaker 1: he is off the board in a big way. I
Speaker 1: like the I wouldn't call it pettiness, but just um
Speaker 1: like a book keeping detail that they added ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to the end of this hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 1: million dollar contracts, so he could be the highest paid
Speaker 1: left tackle in history. Like who's doing that? The agent
Speaker 1: or the player, I don't even know, but he just
Speaker 1: he wanted to be the guy and he proved. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know a nice predict prediction I put in there
Speaker 1: that I thought I thought he would in this free
Speaker 1: agency where I do feel team players are getting a
Speaker 1: little less than they would normally, Trent Williams got paid
Speaker 1: full price and he's kind of the photo negative of
Speaker 1: Levian Bells uh sitting out a year, so we said, well,
Speaker 1: that didn't work out for Levan, but worked out well
Speaker 1: for Trent Williams. His was for a different reason. It
Speaker 1: was mostly his displeasure with the Washington franchise and a
Speaker 1: little bit of injury situation. But he sat out a year.
Speaker 1: Bet out of hmself said you can't tag me. I'll
Speaker 1: play for you one year, a little below market, and
Speaker 1: now he's he's awesome and he's rich. It's interesting that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, who obviously need tackle help, uh, pushed really
Speaker 1: hard to sign him and that and then he turned
Speaker 1: down the chance to go and play with Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and probably walk right into a Super Bowl. Um. I
Speaker 1: guess it shows true belief in the Niners too. It
Speaker 1: can't just be about money. I mean, although that's what
Speaker 1: everyone tells me, it's all about Well, he was drafted
Speaker 1: by Kyle Shanahan and Matt and my Mike Shanahan back
Speaker 1: in Washington, so he had he has a nice history
Speaker 1: there and clearly likes playing for him. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're an organization that's being run the right way and
Speaker 1: you have a guy in the building, you have a
Speaker 1: chance to make him comfortable and make him like where
Speaker 1: he is. And I think that's certainly helped the Niners
Speaker 1: in this case. Um as well, you mentioned Levy on Bell.
Speaker 1: Is he even going to get a job? Is his
Speaker 1: career over? I mean, what a stunning downfall. Uh. If
Speaker 1: that's the case. He was on a Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: trajectory before he got into his squabbles with Pitts, I
Speaker 1: think it could be over unless he's going to take
Speaker 1: like a minimum deal and compete for a spot in camp.
Speaker 1: That's that's kind of where no major injury, sat out
Speaker 1: the year over contract issues, came back with the Jets,
Speaker 1: got a nice deal. M wasn't nearly the same player.
Speaker 1: They thought maybe getting him out of the Adam Gates
Speaker 1: offense send him to the Chiefs would spark him. Did not.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's one of those really, it's a
Speaker 1: head scratcher because I think he's whate now and it's
Speaker 1: it's almost like the the the elite football and his
Speaker 1: body just disappeared. He also disappeared from the Steelers and
Speaker 1: that attack. But interesting story. There no questioning his desire
Speaker 1: um to probably I would someone who i'd call a lifer.
Speaker 1: I expect him to come back and play another eight
Speaker 1: or nine years, if not eight or nine months. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are making moves, will start at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: They signed A J. Green to a one year, eight
Speaker 1: million dollar contract. He's gonna be thirty three year is
Speaker 1: old this summer. Uh didn't look I mean, he looked
Speaker 1: like this is this is kind of like Levian Bell.
Speaker 1: He's a few years older. So you think father time's
Speaker 1: playing a role here, But it almost seemed like he
Speaker 1: went from an elite player to a below average player overnight.
Speaker 1: Last last season was not good statistically for him, even
Speaker 1: with and to send it young quarterback and Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Good Cardinals. Now we're going to take a chance, and
Speaker 1: it makes you wonder if Larry Fitzgerald is gonna hang
Speaker 1: up the cleets here. It's been very quiet on that
Speaker 1: front about whether he's coming back. Or not. Not a
Speaker 1: J Green now is in the equation. I was very
Speaker 1: surprised he got six million guaranteed. Very there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of money over there, making some aggressively. He didn't
Speaker 1: he didn't look good last year. You know, I really
Speaker 1: thought you looked at him and I think that was
Speaker 1: a nice receiver group, uh in general, three good young receivers.
Speaker 1: You see him next to you know, te Higgins and
Speaker 1: even Odd and Tate was like therefore and they like
Speaker 1: you could just see them both on the field the
Speaker 1: same time, and they all just they looked like young
Speaker 1: and explosive, and a J. Green that did not, So
Speaker 1: he became like a point of the catch guy. It's
Speaker 1: like he and everyone I saw NFL number going crazy
Speaker 1: about this and it's like talking about how strong his
Speaker 1: hands are and all the stuff. That's fine, I mean,
Speaker 1: but he's not the same player. And it's to me,
Speaker 1: the money is weird and it's the classic um free
Speaker 1: agent signing where everyone's going gaga over it. But he
Speaker 1: hasn't been a J Green in two plus seasons. And if,
Speaker 1: as West would say, value the game, not the name,
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald is going to retire. According to Mike Florio or
Speaker 1: have to sign elsewhere. He put something out there. He
Speaker 1: didn't say sources, but he made it clear he wasn't
Speaker 1: based in it on nothing that the Cardinals were kind
Speaker 1: of done with him. He put it out there in
Speaker 1: a nice way, which makes sense. He averaged seven yards
Speaker 1: per catch last three He played a lot and did
Speaker 1: not produce Larry Fitzgerald and he's starting thirty nine, so
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the end of the road for him.
Speaker 1: First round pick, way back, and I believe two thousand
Speaker 1: four an amazing Hall of Fame career for Lara fitztreald.
Speaker 1: If this is the end, we'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: And another Cardinals news Rodney Hudson. You know, we're just
Speaker 1: talking about him, and the news that came out yesterday
Speaker 1: indicated that the Raiders had released their veteran center, which
Speaker 1: was surprising and head scratching. Well, didn't turn out to
Speaker 1: be a release. It turns into a trade, so he's
Speaker 1: out the door. But it's the next closest thing. Uh Uh.
Speaker 1: They trade Hudson to the Cardinals. Uh in exchange for
Speaker 1: a third round pick, and they swapped seventh rounders. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: Cardinals acquire Hudson and a seventh round pick from the
Speaker 1: Raiders in exchange for a third round pick. So that
Speaker 1: is a nice pickup for Arizona. Um Hudson, as we
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday, he has really had a nice career.
Speaker 1: I like thinking about the sausage. See how this sausage
Speaker 1: gets made on one like this. I'm a little I'm
Speaker 1: curious how this all went down. Do you think the
Speaker 1: media played a role in the Raiders changing there? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like did the Raiders not realize he could
Speaker 1: acquire a third round pick? Was ian Um just putting
Speaker 1: it out there and they knew that then? Like because
Speaker 1: the g m app is not around Dan, maybe they're
Speaker 1: maybe they're kind of using ian as a way to
Speaker 1: put it out there. Or was it just like some
Speaker 1: imprecise language going on, like we were going to put
Speaker 1: him on the top one on one and he never
Speaker 1: even was a free agent. It was, you know, a
Speaker 1: little strange. The whole thing is strange, and that this
Speaker 1: is how the g m app works. It's very simple,
Speaker 1: and I just needed HTML guy um to help build
Speaker 1: it with me. If you're out there, please hit me up.
Speaker 1: My d ms are open. No, they're not all you
Speaker 1: have to do is in the subject line center Rodney Hudson,
Speaker 1: you click into it. Okay, then you have his contract details,
Speaker 1: how many guaranteed years he's left, what what's owed? All
Speaker 1: that type of uh nitty gritty information, and then what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for and put mid round, mid round, pick
Speaker 1: hit me up in my d M S and then
Speaker 1: you'll have that out there to thirty one other teams.
Speaker 1: And it just takes one button, one nibble to have it.
Speaker 1: And if you get to then you can start leveraging
Speaker 1: them against each other, maybe open a three way chat
Speaker 1: and you get the three of them together and we
Speaker 1: just really figure it out. But that's how it works.
Speaker 1: It would absolutely be effective. It sounds like an incredible platform.
Speaker 1: And it's like when you come up with ideas like this,
Speaker 1: usually like other people around the globe are coming up
Speaker 1: with similar ideas and I'm surprised, Um, well, it says
Speaker 1: a lot down that you're the only one who's come
Speaker 1: up with this. It's not been done. Uh And I
Speaker 1: would ask you that could it could like someone sneaky
Speaker 1: like a Jackie Easterby get into the forum or is
Speaker 1: it is it simply the person with the GM title,
Speaker 1: like can you can you? You know there are other
Speaker 1: like pesky people in every organization. You know, there has
Speaker 1: to be a gatekeeper. That's what i'd hire Greg. I'd
Speaker 1: give Greg about what can I pay Greg that he
Speaker 1: would say yes to do it. I would pay Greg dollars.
Speaker 1: You gotta get to five figures and then you could
Speaker 1: have involved me at I would have done it for time.
Speaker 1: Uh So if I give Greg fift k and he
Speaker 1: becomes the gate keeper. Uh and people actually have to submit,
Speaker 1: like I just went through this with the whole home process. Um.
Speaker 1: The final part of submitting an offer is writing a
Speaker 1: letter to the buyers explaining why you want the house.
Speaker 1: And it's a way to kind of add a little
Speaker 1: personal touch. If you're in competition, they have to submit
Speaker 1: a letter of intent to Greg and then Hill decide
Speaker 1: weather to let people. Yeah, fifteen grand feels low in
Speaker 1: a in a trade where there's like maybe transactions a year.
Speaker 1: I mean Greg is going to be the time for
Speaker 1: Greg's based job anymore. Well, the yeah, the between me
Speaker 1: and the HDML guy, I mean he's going to have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to get the three way chat going.
Speaker 1: I mean it's one thing when it was I think
Speaker 1: that's a little deeper than HDML. But yes, no, it's
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing I want. That's got to be expensive.
Speaker 1: It's got to be expensive. Well, I think, I think
Speaker 1: to your point, I think your wife work in that
Speaker 1: realm mark. Sure, but I'm gonna need more than fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. You know the responsibility. I've been an undercutter.
Speaker 1: I'll do it for ten. I need that. We'll do
Speaker 1: it for nine. There must have been another team in
Speaker 1: that app by the way, for it to go all
Speaker 1: the way up the third. That was the whole thing.
Speaker 1: They gotta cut him. And it's like they must have
Speaker 1: had other teams bidden to get it the third. Alright, uh,
Speaker 1: where are we? Where are we? Where are we? Moving on? Oh?
Speaker 1: Jacob Bursett has a job. He joined the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: um as their new backup quarterback behind to a Tongua vloa.
Speaker 1: And that's a that's a nice landing spot for Jake Brisket.
Speaker 1: And it does you know, it jumps out to me
Speaker 1: when I saw this news, and and I had written
Speaker 1: about this on the website and maybe a month ago,
Speaker 1: that one of the reasons why I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick made sense is the future of the Dolphins
Speaker 1: was like he was too good at the job, and
Speaker 1: he was too he was too popular with the fan base.
Speaker 1: And to Ah is just a kid and he's try
Speaker 1: to figure this thing out. And you have this guy
Speaker 1: that is essentially the most popular player in the league
Speaker 1: on some level in terms of everyone loves Ryan Fitzpatrick, right,
Speaker 1: like not in in terms he's not like as big
Speaker 1: as like the true superstars, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: He's just such a fan favorite. It became almost a
Speaker 1: distraction in this goal of building out to as your
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. You get Jake Brisket in there, and you're, okay,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about the fans clamoring for
Speaker 1: Jake Brisket. So we've seen a lot of Jake Briskett,
Speaker 1: and Jake Brisket is Jake Brisket? Yeah what and so
Speaker 1: what did the cults always say about Jake Brisket Like
Speaker 1: great teammate, um, you know, willing to do anything, stepped
Speaker 1: in a tough situation. Ryan Fitzpatrick is just simply too
Speaker 1: charismatic um and it gets too freaky and too good
Speaker 1: at times. That you that's a load for your coaching
Speaker 1: staff to handle as your backup quarterbacks. So I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think to me though it you know,
Speaker 1: anything could happen, but it shuts down for me the
Speaker 1: idea that the Dolphins would package to away for Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: I just don't. That team to me feels like a
Speaker 1: no go on that what does that have to do
Speaker 1: with Jake Briskett though, I just think that they to
Speaker 1: your to the point of getting a backup that is
Speaker 1: clearly below to us like intrigue level that they're just
Speaker 1: going forward to. Also, everything they just said about to
Speaker 1: I just think that there that's the quarterback room, and
Speaker 1: I don't think you're adding to Shawn Watson to that
Speaker 1: is happening. Who knows, but would you would you do
Speaker 1: you think they're a candidate? I don't. It was that
Speaker 1: the Jake Brisket sign. It, by the way, enough for
Speaker 1: this slander on Jake Brisket, nice quarterback last time he
Speaker 1: was truly a second. Tell me, tell me where I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: Jake Brisket, slice me off a piece of that Jake Brisket.
Speaker 1: I would have been happy to see him. And you know,
Speaker 1: do you know exactly what I'm saying? Though? When I
Speaker 1: say Jake Brisket is Jake Brisket, do you understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm not saying he's a bad guy or
Speaker 1: a bad player, No, I know that, But the the
Speaker 1: the Brisket Homer's out there would point to that first
Speaker 1: half of his season with Indianapolis before he heard his shoulder,
Speaker 1: and things were looking pretty good and then he he
Speaker 1: stinks with the bomb shoulder and then he gets replaces.
Speaker 1: But you're not intrigued to yank to uh or doesn't
Speaker 1: I agree with your point. I agree with your point.
Speaker 1: I do think if they had any chance to get
Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson, they would sell to a down the river.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. I think you're right about that. Um.
Speaker 1: In other news, the Bills parted ways with John Brown
Speaker 1: last week. They replace him with Emmanuel Sanders. This guy's
Speaker 1: starting to pile up some freaking frequent uh freaking frequent
Speaker 1: flyer miles. Uh here Manny Sanders. Um, it is a
Speaker 1: one year, six billion dollar contract. Nice value. Sanders a
Speaker 1: little up there now, a little long in the tooth
Speaker 1: at thirty four years old, but he has always been
Speaker 1: a nice consistent number two, number three type guy, and um,
Speaker 1: maybe he gives them somebody is a little bit more
Speaker 1: durable and can you know, make some plays with Josh
Speaker 1: Ellen good spot for him, like if you're if you're
Speaker 1: into him as a fantasy guy or whatever. Because you
Speaker 1: didn't do great in New Orleans, you are mentioning frequent
Speaker 1: flyer meyer miles gets me thinking, like I've been racking
Speaker 1: up these frequent flyer miles on my credit card this
Speaker 1: last year. Like what it just feels worthless. I guess
Speaker 1: someday in theory, I'll I'll use them, but it's just
Speaker 1: like a currency that doesn't matter anymore. You will get
Speaker 1: on an airpange and again at some point I would
Speaker 1: imagine that here's that wide receiver room. As Greg ponders
Speaker 1: air flight in the future, Emmanuel Sanders joined Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 1: He's the true number one Colt Beasley who had that
Speaker 1: big breakout season last year. Uh and you had you
Speaker 1: have second year man Gabriel Davis as well. Uh So
Speaker 1: Sanders slides in there. He should Yeah, he should play
Speaker 1: plenty there. It's a nice group. Uh. Speaking of John Brown,
Speaker 1: he lands on his feet with the Las Vegas Raiders,
Speaker 1: and he replaces Nelson Agre who went to the pay atriots.
Speaker 1: Um and Greg helped me out with this. I don't
Speaker 1: remember exactly, Um, what are signed for, so maybe it's
Speaker 1: just but they never they never said what the guarantees.
Speaker 1: It might be a one year deal, but they never.
Speaker 1: They haven't said that one yet. And and John, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see what the figures are for John Brown here, um,
Speaker 1: but it's one of your classic up to five point
Speaker 1: five millions from what I just thought, you know was
Speaker 1: a guy they probably should have tried harder to keep around,
Speaker 1: considering he had such a good rapport with Derek Carr
Speaker 1: and and and had really busted out last year. John Brown,
Speaker 1: we talked about him last week, A long time West favorite,
Speaker 1: a guy who can make plenty of plays, but maybe
Speaker 1: a bit of a durability concern there. I thought Algalar
Speaker 1: was a good fit in Las Vegas, good value though.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but I like this movie just
Speaker 1: because I like John Brown. And and I'd rather have
Speaker 1: John Brown and Marvin Jones who got a lot more money,
Speaker 1: or a J. Green who got a lot more money.
Speaker 1: I think he he'll matter like we do the winners,
Speaker 1: and I do the winners and losers on the website,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yesterday, Derek Carr is a loser because
Speaker 1: they lost Rodney Hudson and they're losing, agil losing. And
Speaker 1: then it's like today, well, actually, Incognitos coming back and
Speaker 1: you've got John Brown, which I'm fine with, the John
Speaker 1: Brown Fragilar trade. That seems close enough. It's like, okay
Speaker 1: that maybe today Derek Carr is a winner. This is
Speaker 1: John Brown deal is the kind of deal that I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots would have made. They weren't like cracking
Speaker 1: open piggy banks this this offseason, I agree. Which nobody
Speaker 1: has those anymore. And that's a stupid reference. My kid does. Okay,
Speaker 1: you might be surprised to learn Mark that, Bob, my
Speaker 1: kids have a Godzilla piggy bank. No, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: that's not a piggy bank by nature. It's not that
Speaker 1: it needs to be shaped like a okay, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that if adults used to have them for
Speaker 1: some reason, they don't anymore. I guess it has to
Speaker 1: be the shaped as a pig that qualifies the piggy bank.
Speaker 1: I always thought that was more just like any type
Speaker 1: of little kids like bank holder things just called a
Speaker 1: piggy bank. Is that how deep your vegetarianism goes? You
Speaker 1: would not even support a piggy bank inside your house, Mark, No,
Speaker 1: I would. I mean, my children have little cups with
Speaker 1: a hole in the top to put coins in. But
Speaker 1: I don't call I don't walk around calling that a
Speaker 1: piggy bank. All right, you know, Mark, I this has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the banks. Yes, Greg, I ate
Speaker 1: something I ordered something to pick up the other week
Speaker 1: called that was yak chili. And whenever I eat some
Speaker 1: a little left of center, like eating some yak, I
Speaker 1: think of you because you always make fun of that.
Speaker 1: I eat like that that like us mediators eat terrible things.
Speaker 1: And you know that this yak was damn delicious. Well,
Speaker 1: I think of you when I think about things like that.
Speaker 1: But I actually it reminds me. I had a dream
Speaker 1: last night that I ate um, like multiple strips of
Speaker 1: like crispy bacon. How was it? Is it a nightmare?
Speaker 1: You liked it? No? I think it was because I
Speaker 1: used to It was fine, but I don't remember how
Speaker 1: it tasted in the dream. It wasn't that that sensory
Speaker 1: part of it didn't click in remember that realizing I
Speaker 1: did it. There was a night years ago Mark, you
Speaker 1: and I were out, Um, I'm guessing we were at
Speaker 1: the cozy near the office, and then we were gonna
Speaker 1: grab some food before going back to our respective homes
Speaker 1: and and and you know, letting our wives know we
Speaker 1: were still alive. And uh so I got a like
Speaker 1: a meat burrito of some kind, and then you got
Speaker 1: like a vegetarian one. And then do you remember this?
Speaker 1: Do you remember this? Yeah? I was like, yeah, like
Speaker 1: the meat somehow that was depositive. Some of them ended
Speaker 1: up in Mark's burrito and Mark Mark took a bite,
Speaker 1: and then flash forward like twenty seconds later, Mark is
Speaker 1: in a bush yakking it out, speaking to Yeah. They
Speaker 1: snug some sort of like like weird piece of pork
Speaker 1: or something in there, and it was yeah, it was
Speaker 1: not good, a weird piece of pork, all right. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Washington football team signed quarterback William Jackson, formerly of
Speaker 1: the Bengals, three years, forty two million. Good to be
Speaker 1: a cornerback. Uh he gets twenty six million guaranteed. The
Speaker 1: former first round pick in two thousand and sixteen, Bengals
Speaker 1: choose to let him head out the door and Washington
Speaker 1: Shore it's up their secondary. So you can kind of
Speaker 1: you can tell how what positions are hard to find
Speaker 1: because there are there are no good cornerbacks left on
Speaker 1: the market. There weren't that many. There weren't any to
Speaker 1: begin with. Practically, Shack Griffin went to Jacksonville, William Jackson
Speaker 1: there and there's no there's not really any offensive lineman left,
Speaker 1: like the top twenty five is pretty decimated. Other than
Speaker 1: the receivers. Well, you do have a bunch of big
Speaker 1: name receivers still out there that we're waiting on. I
Speaker 1: was gonna, I was gonna hit um who's left in
Speaker 1: a second. Let's do eight o'clock to light sure? Is
Speaker 1: this drop okay with you? More? Yeah? This is pleasant.
Speaker 1: The Colts bring back Marlon Mack. Of course he blew
Speaker 1: as Achilles last September, but he's coming back to India.
Speaker 1: I love Marlon Mack. Nice backfield there, Taylor Phines mac
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is the number one overall pick or he's
Speaker 1: about to be for the Jacksonville's Jaguars. And now there's
Speaker 1: a report out there that they're taking calls on Gardner.
Speaker 1: Means you what kind of market should meets you? How
Speaker 1: about meets you? To Denver Sizzler. I love Gardner Minshew,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you. I don't understand why
Speaker 1: people would be calling as a starter. That surprises me.
Speaker 1: The line straight for Michael Brocker's and son Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: little salary dump. The RAM said it was confusing how
Speaker 1: they got under the salary cap. This was this was
Speaker 1: kind of part of it. This was a just total
Speaker 1: salary dumb They basically gave up nothing to get him
Speaker 1: good good player. Right. But this is incredibly juicy because
Speaker 1: Brocker's um went on record after the Rams acquired Stafford
Speaker 1: and called him a level up from golf, and he's
Speaker 1: been shifted in Detroit where he's back with level down.
Speaker 1: God good, good, hang off outers the Browns. They take
Speaker 1: a shot on Tack McKinley, who was a disaster for
Speaker 1: the Falcons. How you feel about this one, Mark, I
Speaker 1: mean I kind of see like who knows, like they
Speaker 1: didn't pay him much. He seems like a replacement for
Speaker 1: Adrian Clade worn, not like their guy across from miles
Speaker 1: Here they play like up four to five as a
Speaker 1: base so maybe seed be time to keep finding edge dudes.
Speaker 1: Al Right, the Chiefs say goodbye to Super Bowl hero
Speaker 1: Damian Williams, who opted out least year. You know, this
Speaker 1: gets me thinking, like because the c J. Mosley trade
Speaker 1: rumors around the Jets, everybody was so it was so
Speaker 1: big and everyone to say and report it as is
Speaker 1: his right. He is opting out of the season because
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen. And I'm not making light of COVID
Speaker 1: night teen or what anyone's personal situations were. But yes,
Speaker 1: perhaps this is right, but it is maybe not in
Speaker 1: your best football interests to disappear for a year, and
Speaker 1: that might be the case for Damian world opt out revenge.
Speaker 1: The last time we talked Damian Williams, I remember is
Speaker 1: that the Super Bowl, A hearty debate with with our
Speaker 1: friend west Um where he thought Damian Williams maybe deserve
Speaker 1: that m v p M. I kind of enjoyed that
Speaker 1: because I got sandwiches on that one. West was all
Speaker 1: fired up. I remember that. Also, Oh my old friend
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller fourteen time making the leap uh nominee on
Speaker 1: the older round the NFL blog days. Uh. He is
Speaker 1: back in the league. According to Greg's notes, Washington. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I saw Lamar Miller. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: first day signing Lamar Miller, let's get danz Old buddy
Speaker 1: into the show. No, that's good. I just just throw
Speaker 1: throw a W A S in there next time. Not
Speaker 1: really headline news on any website. People have no idea
Speaker 1: what happening. But Greg very nicely, you know, we'll take turning.
Speaker 1: But Greg has been great this week about sending out
Speaker 1: here's like the eighteen or nineteen headspinning things that happened.
Speaker 1: But sometimes Gregg's sentences are very complete and you know
Speaker 1: exactly what happens. But there are times when it's hard
Speaker 1: to decipher, and I think Dan you ran into some
Speaker 1: of that. Typically I have more in the way of
Speaker 1: preparation time. This week obviously has been very busy for me.
Speaker 1: Um so I was kind of flying blind there off
Speaker 1: Greg's notes and it got it got me there. I
Speaker 1: didn't know where Lamar Miller ended up. I didn't have
Speaker 1: a chance to look that up, but but I did
Speaker 1: give you the information you really needed, which was marks
Speaker 1: Greg's notes or Dan's buddy Lamar Miller back in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was what was key. I mean I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna make a big here. Uh. Speaking
Speaker 1: of big splash, there are big splashes uh still to come. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull up your old boll Well it's not
Speaker 1: it's from your old boss's website, Mike Florio. Uh. Sharene
Speaker 1: Williams wrote the top twenty five remaining free agents, Greg,
Speaker 1: is that on your radar a little bit? You right?
Speaker 1: The top one oh one? Now you have someone that's
Speaker 1: coming in off the top turn buckle with an updated
Speaker 1: top list and maybe makes yours a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't know yesterday's news Jack, you know saying what it is. No,
Speaker 1: it's not concern, especially because I just checked and I
Speaker 1: was wondering if the editors were going to do that.
Speaker 1: At some point they start chopping off the players who
Speaker 1: have been signed, and if you go to NFL dot
Speaker 1: com slash one on one, you see the best available.
Speaker 1: Now that's that's what the list is there right there,
Speaker 1: all right? So according to Sharene, and maybe I should
Speaker 1: go over to Greg's list after that, I passioned reply
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay, here's some here's ten big names still out there.
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay, Anthony Harris, the Vikings safety Jujuice Smith, Schuster,
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick, the edge rusher with the Cardinals last year,
Speaker 1: Troy Hill Rams cornerback, Mitchell Schwartz cut by the Chiefs
Speaker 1: last week. The tackle Will Fuller still out there. Uh,
Speaker 1: Carlos Dunlop, A J. Boyer, and Mitch Trabinsky amongst the Hey,
Speaker 1: some some veterans that are named brands, but buy or
Speaker 1: beware at this point, Patrick Peterson to Davean Clowney, t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, Melvin Ingram, all big names still looking for work.
Speaker 1: I mean, was that like an order her order because
Speaker 1: some of the here because eight or nine was, yeah,
Speaker 1: agree with her order? Well, some of those names towards
Speaker 1: the top, like boy A, Um, Trabinsky. There was a
Speaker 1: couple of others that seemed curious. Um, but I also
Speaker 1: have Clowney right now is the second highest, which maybe
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't like Curtis Samuel. I did I hear
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel in there? Uh, he's on the list. I
Speaker 1: didn't mention that's a spicy one. Um. There it is best.
Speaker 1: All right, here's Greg's best radiance available, since he's clearly
Speaker 1: angling to get this listed. No, I mean you basically
Speaker 1: just set him off, throwing at Dorry Jackson, Malcolm Butler, like,
Speaker 1: there's some other names, and you said, you said my
Speaker 1: top one, so you have, but you have. We were
Speaker 1: talking about this yesterday. Clowney is your your second best
Speaker 1: available option left now I just can't get on board
Speaker 1: with that. At what point does this guy not get
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt you have Golladay, Clowney, will Fuller,
Speaker 1: Samuel Juju, Mitchell Schwartz, justin Houston. Interesting there, Hassan Reddick,
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, Carlos Dune up at Dorry Jackson, David Andrews,
Speaker 1: Anthony Harris, and then well, who would you put above
Speaker 1: Clowney or how many? I wouldn't put too many of those?
Speaker 1: Maybe some of those. Here's the thing. I like him.
Speaker 1: Maybe I overrate him this year because I was sort
Speaker 1: of anticipating, like I like the idea of buying low
Speaker 1: on him, and whatever he's played, he's still productive. Not
Speaker 1: last year, but that's he's still twenty eight. Uh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get I'm gonna get him, get him at a discount. Man,
Speaker 1: Doin's got to do something here. The Dolphins will sign
Speaker 1: one of these receivers. But That's been one of my
Speaker 1: surprises early is in terms of quiet teams that the
Speaker 1: Dolphins haven't really done much. But I wouldn't surprise me
Speaker 1: if they signed David Andrews the Patriots Center. They've been
Speaker 1: rumored too, and I think they will sign one of
Speaker 1: these receivers, whether it's Gola Day or maybe Fuller. Buller
Speaker 1: was really good last year, and I know he had
Speaker 1: a ton of injury issues before last year, and of
Speaker 1: course the season ended on a p D suspension that
Speaker 1: actually carries over one game into Those are all obviously
Speaker 1: red flags, but he's a good bye logo on sign
Speaker 1: him on a short term deal. He'd fit in Miami,
Speaker 1: He's fit almost anywhere, but put him in New England.
Speaker 1: They they should sign one more receiver. I think. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, that's it for today's show. We have one
Speaker 1: more show this week on the podcast side of things,
Speaker 1: and then we have the television show Around the NFL
Speaker 1: broadcast on NFL Network on Friday afternoons, and make sure
Speaker 1: to set your DVRs for that in those overseas. I
Speaker 1: believe you can access it via the game Pass app.
Speaker 1: I believe. I don't know. I hope so I seem
Speaker 1: we We do get a lot of tweets from people
Speaker 1: overseas with a with a nice frosty beverage watching our program,
Speaker 1: so I guess there is access to it on some level.
Speaker 1: There must be all right, good And speaking of overseas listeners,
Speaker 1: happy St Patrick's day, irish out there. And speaking of
Speaker 1: other you know another overseas listener that has some power
Speaker 1: out there? How about our old bosses at Sky Sports.
Speaker 1: I know they have a Sky Sports NFL channel, So
Speaker 1: if you are listening, you know, Mace, whoever it is, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's get the around the NFL broadcast on that channel.
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? That's way over our heads.
Speaker 1: But it's award winning content that they can just take
Speaker 1: and PLoP right on their on their own at work
Speaker 1: and delight many. So what are what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: I mean what awards did you win? Oh, the two
Speaker 1: thousand and thirteen Best New Podcast Award exactly Apple. And
Speaker 1: also we did win a Stitcher that a former producer
Speaker 1: had shipped directly to apartment, So that happened, Erica that
Speaker 1: by the way, And Kate, I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: picking up what Greg's putting down there, but that would
Speaker 1: be something that would probably fall under the producers tasks. Oh,
Speaker 1: the guys just had a good idea. Wait, this guy
Speaker 1: sports thing. It would be unfortunately, I think that's good.
Speaker 1: Ricky is the producer. Can you connects with the producer
Speaker 1: over there? Mace, Hey, the guys had kind of a
Speaker 1: fun idea. I don't know if you caught it on
Speaker 1: the show. I bet the listeners overseas would love to
Speaker 1: see the guys. Is that something that could happen? And
Speaker 1: that's just that's how a producer gets starts the ball rolling.
Speaker 1: But this feels like it's these are some shadowy league
Speaker 1: figures at the highest levels, the type that who are
Speaker 1: making these decisions that we're that we don't even are
Speaker 1: in contact with. I mean, we we largely circumvented then
Speaker 1: to even beyond sky. So why don't we just go
Speaker 1: a step further and give them our television show without
Speaker 1: a learning them. That will go over fine. I would say,
Speaker 1: if you send it sent a pirated version of our
Speaker 1: program uh to United Kingdom and other territories, it will
Speaker 1: be a good test about on a lot of levels,
Speaker 1: like where we stand with the company. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't have too many questions about where we stand. But alright, good, alright,
Speaker 1: good stuff. Keep tuning in, we'll keep turning out the content.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. This is Dan hans Is signing
Speaker 1: up for The Quiet Storm, The All Boss Ricky Hollywood
Speaker 1: till Thursday. Do you get the call