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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast trust sources with knowledge of

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Speaker 1: this situation. Welcome back to another additionally Around the League podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hanzas and I'm joined by Room

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Speaker 1: Filled the heroes, Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and Gregg Rosa Dolt.

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Speaker 1: What boys? How are you? How are you? Mark? You've

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Speaker 1: been here since you walked here at four thirty in

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Speaker 1: the morning, and now it's getting towards supper time almost

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Speaker 1: and you're still here. How about that it's free agency week.

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Speaker 1: Mark doesn't need normal sleep for nutrients because he cree

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Speaker 1: agent frenzy trademark restricted dinner time if you live in

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Speaker 1: Del Boca Vista um. Mark. Also the the weariness I

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Speaker 1: see in your face. Your remote control is stolen off

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Speaker 1: your desk today, I might anybody that follows us on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: You might have seen that I had tweeted out that

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Speaker 1: someone had taken Mark's remote while Mark and I were

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Speaker 1: at lunch before you had gotten in. West Greg was

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Speaker 1: working didn't see the culprit. Mark very angry, actually using

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Speaker 1: some foul language which he usually doesn't do, was legitimately

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Speaker 1: upset that a blonde colleague woman rolls over about three

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Speaker 1: hours later, hands back the controller. Yeah, for me, that

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Speaker 1: because she was honest. In the end, she brought it back.

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Speaker 1: I like that one billion dollars was spent in the

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Speaker 1: NFL yesterday. Hall of Fame players have changed teams, but

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Speaker 1: Dan wants to open with the big remote controls. By

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Speaker 1: the way, part of our job is shifting from station

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Speaker 1: quickest news. I can't turn the station without the remote control.

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Speaker 1: And Greg, you tell me that's not important. Being on

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Speaker 1: top of what's happening around. The urgency around the matter

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Speaker 1: a very go with the flow kind of guy. Even Stephen,

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Speaker 1: he was clearly flustered by this caper. Yeah, well, all,

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Speaker 1: all's well. That ends well as they say. And yes, Greg,

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Speaker 1: you make a great point. A trenjent one even one

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Speaker 1: billion dollars? Wait, what was that a word? What do

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Speaker 1: you call it? Trenchant? It's what did I say? I

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Speaker 1: the podcast? I'm just trying to Yeah, see, your priorities

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Speaker 1: are all mixed up. First you're getting on me for

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Speaker 1: the remote and then pronunciation. Do we have a lot

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Speaker 1: to get to here? Trenchant stuff happening in the NFL?

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Speaker 1: Um the gold Standard behind the glass? How are you, buddy?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead? Feeling the frenzy, YEP, went to check in

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Speaker 1: trade secrets. It's all getting out there today. All right,

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Speaker 1: how about we do some news, buddy. All right, we

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Speaker 1: start with the news of the day, really the news

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Speaker 1: of the week. Darrell Rivas, one of the great players

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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers after they were unable to find a trade suitor.

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Speaker 1: He now becomes an unrestricted free agent for the first

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Speaker 1: He immediately goes to number one on our free agent tracker,

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Speaker 1: the best free agent available, still in his prime, still

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Speaker 1: played at a high level this year, last year, I mean,

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Speaker 1: has been incredible. All top ten of our unrestricted free agents,

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Speaker 1: I think he's still got some good Pro Bowl, maybe

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Speaker 1: potentially the best cornerback in the league. He wasn't last year,

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Speaker 1: Greg always falls on the line of players want more

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Speaker 1: he'd fit the Patriot system. Well, they want someone like

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Speaker 1: Steve Smith, it is it is the end in Carolina

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Speaker 1: the gold Standard made his first ever football prediction or

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Speaker 1: even football sentence, when he predicted Golden Tate would be

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Speaker 1: joining the Titans. I think, for one, this was trying

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Speaker 1: to stick it in your either a little bit, A

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Speaker 1: little bit when you miss the exactly I agree with

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Speaker 1: this is a great signing. You guys know that I

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Speaker 1: love Golden Tate. The listeners know that. UM, And I

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Speaker 1: think early last season we saw how hard it was

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Speaker 1: for defense to defend Reggie Bush and Calvin Johnson on

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Speaker 1: the field at the same time throwing Golden Tate, three

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Speaker 1: guys that can do a lot of damage with the

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Speaker 1: ball in their hands. UM, all right now, I like,

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Speaker 1: I get a little bit negative sometimes, So let's do

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Speaker 1: the worst signing and Mark again, we start with you.

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Speaker 1: It's something that West touched on, and it's it's actually

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Speaker 1: a signing or a resigning or a recontract structuring that

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Speaker 1: did not have And it is the Cowboys, and it

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Speaker 1: is where because it's the culmination of years of horrible

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Speaker 1: management by Jerry Jones of his roster in his cap

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Speaker 1: and as Gregg mentioned, his inability to keep players around

447
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Speaker 1: that he should or keeping players around too long. And

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Speaker 1: I think the where we all love him He's set

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Speaker 1: up on a team that's much more talented and goes

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Speaker 1: after the right players in which Dallas does not in

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Speaker 1: Denver to succeed and probably wind up deep into the

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Speaker 1: playoffs or another super Bowl, something Dallas can achieve because

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Speaker 1: of the way they're ill equipped general manager handles. This

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Speaker 1: team is not fire right now. But we've said this

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Speaker 1: over and over about Jones. It's for us a broken record.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't change his ways. This is years old, this argument.

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Speaker 1: We saw this defense without where last year st set

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Speaker 1: records against him, but he did change his ways then

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Speaker 1: it This is an example of stead of holding like

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Speaker 1: Greg was alluding to earlier, instead of holding on a

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Speaker 1: different absolute total crisis scenario. They are, like you said,

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Speaker 1: one team where the cap thing is real. It's not

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Speaker 1: suddenly they signed someone to this mega deal and we

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Speaker 1: can't figure out how Denver suddenly has millions and more

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Speaker 1: than anyone else. With Dallas, they could have no room

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Speaker 1: to operate. The Eagles stranglehold on the NFC East gets tighter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: west Worth signing, I've got a twin worth signing by

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Speaker 1: the Raiders throwing what uh seventy two point five million

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Speaker 1: at left and right tackle. Roger Staffold and Austin Howard

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Speaker 1: a combined thirty seven million guaranteed, which is seven million

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Speaker 1: more than Jake Long, Andre Smith and Sebastian Valmer, three

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Speaker 1: tackles that are better than those two may combine last year.

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Speaker 1: It's just absurd how much money they're throwing at two

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Speaker 1: average players. That that sentence he's aid Saffold and Austin

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Speaker 1: Howard getting that much money would have been It was

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Speaker 1: shocking now. It would have been shocking a week ago.

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Speaker 1: It would have been incomprehensible. A year ago at this time,

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Speaker 1: when Saffold was considered close to a bust and Howard

479
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Speaker 1: is a nobody would have thought they would have left

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Speaker 1: football and become dual bank robbers. It's the only narrative

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Speaker 1: that's about teams who are hesitant to invest in players

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Speaker 1: of the injury history. Saffold has missed games with tornpeck tooral,

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Speaker 1: dislocated shoulder, multiple knee injuries, in a neck injury over

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Speaker 1: the last three years. When Raiders fans have been all

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Speaker 1: over us in the last couple of days and weeks.

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Speaker 1: But we just named our too, two of our favorite signings,

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Speaker 1: which are two players the Mackenzie let go, and two

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Speaker 1: of the worst signings are the two guys he added.

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Speaker 1: So you have to at some point ask the question,

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Speaker 1: what in God's name is happening here? Greg worse signing.

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Speaker 1: I hate to do this, but uh, I have to

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Speaker 1: go with my heart. And what struck me the most

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and that was I could not understand what

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Speaker 1: the Browns we're doing, especially with Carlos Dansby. I think

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Speaker 1: you lose in free agency by signing old players who

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Speaker 1: are coming off a magical, great value year. Carlos Dansby

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Speaker 1: signed a one year, two point to five million dollar

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Speaker 1: contract at this time a year ago because the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: didn't want to pay him big money because he's an

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Speaker 1: aging inside linebacker and you don't pay aging inside linebackers

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Speaker 1: big money. The Browns, who just cut the Quell Jackson,

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Speaker 1: get a guy a couple of years older. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: pay him ten million dollars this year. The money is

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Speaker 1: gonna be spread out a little bit, and so it'll

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Speaker 1: be fourteen over two. But if he's not good, you

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Speaker 1: just got a year of Carlos Dansby for ten million dollars.

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Speaker 1: And I'll throw in Dante Wittna getting overpaid more money

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Speaker 1: than t J. Ward in theory, I guess because they

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Speaker 1: didn't like Ward and coverage. But winners not that gooden

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Speaker 1: coverage either. So that's two players getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: money to get older. Let me jump in Mark center.

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Speaker 1: You'll have thoughts on this that while they spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, perhaps too much money, you Gregor the

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Speaker 1: first one that says, uh, salary cap and all that

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Speaker 1: stuff is not a big deal, getting under it, you

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Speaker 1: could it could be done. They got better, right, Witner

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Speaker 1: is an upgrade. Dansby is certainly an upgrade over to

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Speaker 1: Quell Jackson. Well what I we wouldn't have said that

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Speaker 1: a year ago. We would have definitely said the opposite

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Speaker 1: here right now, living in the moment, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I don't really know, but I would not feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: with Dan's be outside of the system that helped make

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Speaker 1: him so good. I think Arizona would have made sense.

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Speaker 1: They gave him some decent money. We knew that was

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Speaker 1: working for him. Another team just cut Carlos Dansby in

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Speaker 1: a similar system two years ago, making less money than

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Speaker 1: Let's come at this from a different you love Mike

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Speaker 1: Petton if they're reading collision low crossers. You don't trust

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Speaker 1: him to know what he's doing here, to think that

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Speaker 1: he's called Carlos dansby his Kiko Alonso and he wanted

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Speaker 1: too smart veterans to teach his defense to his other players.

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Speaker 1: That's the argument for it. But I'm not trusting him

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Speaker 1: as a general manager yet. That's fair. I don't disagree

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Speaker 1: with Greg's take on the age and the money. I

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Speaker 1: think that real quick. I think that West nailed at Petton,

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Speaker 1: wanted Dan's bey a year ago very badly in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and couldn't get him, and they might have overpaid. I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't know a problem with that. But also,

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Speaker 1: if you're Cleveland and you have to sell potential free

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Speaker 1: agents to come to town where you don't have a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, it's twelve degrees here and the

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Speaker 1: weather's awful all year long, and Miami wants you to

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Speaker 1: you've got to pay more. That's just the way it

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Speaker 1: is until they become an established team. That's life for

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Speaker 1: a losing squad. Speaking of losing squads in life and

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Speaker 1: life not being great, the Buffalo bills worse for me.

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Speaker 1: Guard Chris Williams. Um if you don't know a lot

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Speaker 1: about him, you're not alone. He has not been a

549
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Speaker 1: huge impact player in this league. He signs a four year,

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Speaker 1: thirteen point five million dollar contract with the Bills, five

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Speaker 1: point five million guaranteed UH Pro Football Focus if you

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Speaker 1: if you were into their grades, they had him ranked

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Speaker 1: number seventy four among eighty one qualified guards. And yet

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Speaker 1: he comes off the market on the second day on

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Speaker 1: a big contract that seems maybe not great, thinking well,

556
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Speaker 1: one of the bigger busts of the last five years

557
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Speaker 1: with the Bears. Bears fans must be stunned at this news.

558
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Speaker 1: Huge bust, major back problems early in his career, and

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Speaker 1: he's kind of bounced around like a cork on the

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Speaker 1: ocean the last few years, just released by a few teams,

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Speaker 1: and what that is? Good? Greg, you want to share

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Speaker 1: the photo that you came across on the internet. Not

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Speaker 1: only was the Williams signing shaky, the whole free agent

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Speaker 1: strategy by the Bills I'm not so sure about. They

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Speaker 1: sent out an Instagram picture of Doug Morone and Chris

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Speaker 1: Williams standing in the middle of a blizzard in the

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Speaker 1: middle of March, like hey, come sign with us. Guys

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Speaker 1: come to the Siberia of the NFL. Here's here's a

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Speaker 1: no name, first round bust. We overpaid. This is the

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Speaker 1: guy we're gonna sell. Oh. By the way, it's March

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Speaker 1: eleventh and there's ten inches on the ground of snow um. Alright,

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Speaker 1: finally the Vladivostock of the NFL finally got me. Uh finally,

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Speaker 1: biggest surprise and uh Wes, we'll start with you. What

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Speaker 1: what John Elway pulled off? I didn't know what this

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Speaker 1: defense was gonna have. I thought, maybe they bring back

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Speaker 1: Rogers Cromarty signed another guy who might not impress me.

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Speaker 1: They bring in DeMarcus Ware, as Greg said, a first

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Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer. From what I saw on the field,

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Speaker 1: this guy was putting a clown suit on Brandon Albert

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Speaker 1: early last season before we got injured. Explosive step can

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Speaker 1: still play. I keep to leave the best cover corner

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Speaker 1: in free agency. There are some ricks there, and they

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Speaker 1: overpaid for him, but they have I don't mind the

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Speaker 1: over pain because there are a lot of different ways

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Speaker 1: to skin a cat and free agency, and Peyton Manning

586
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Speaker 1: is a different cat. He's only got two years left.

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Speaker 1: Maybe so with that window closing. You have to go

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Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl. You have to swing for the

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Speaker 1: fences right now, and he's doing it. They al should

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Speaker 1: pick up T J. Ward, who I thought was a

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl caliber safety last year. Yeah, I think this

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Speaker 1: is the lay give him, Give him credit for just

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Speaker 1: being logical. You have this all world, all time quarterback

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Speaker 1: and Manning. There's not a lot of time left. They're

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Speaker 1: going all in for the next year or two. And

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Speaker 1: you know if they if the bill comes due in

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Speaker 1: a couple of years and they stink, at least they

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Speaker 1: know they gave it a shot when they had a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame corner. That news for you. The bill

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Speaker 1: comes due anyway. When you go from Peyton Manning to

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Speaker 1: brock oswild that's when the bill comes due anyway. So

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna be a You're no longer going to

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Speaker 1: be a contender with Oswilder under center. I love it

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Speaker 1: because it's good for the NFL to have these colossus

605
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: teams that are just superpowers in their good year after year.

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Speaker 1: And we're just gonna be watching this Broncost team and

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Speaker 1: they're either gonna cream the a f C and they'll

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Speaker 1: that'll be interesting to watch or they'll be a big

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Speaker 1: disappointment or whatever. It'll be fun. I like having that.

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Speaker 1: I like the shadow of all your arm movements against

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Speaker 1: the wall. It's almost like art. I think lays it

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00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: is the most underrated general manager in football right now

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Speaker 1: because people I feel he gets a ton of praise. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that you have to understand how hard that

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Speaker 1: job is to assimilate to to come from where he

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Speaker 1: he did. He didn't have He didn't rise up as

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Speaker 1: a scout and see this done yet. I mean he's

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Speaker 1: a master recruiter and and he and he's used what

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Speaker 1: you know leverage he has as a form as a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback to bring the best players to

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Speaker 1: a team. He's a master recruiter and he's bold. I

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Speaker 1: think Twitter, we get lost in the shuffle on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: People think the goal is to have a tidy salary

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Speaker 1: cap situation. The goal is to hoist Lombardi trophies. To

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Speaker 1: leave could go down as a terrible signing. I think

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Speaker 1: it was a big risk, but I'm with you. He

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Speaker 1: has First of all, Elway has a great history. Based

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Speaker 1: on last year's free agent class, which was awesome. How

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Speaker 1: about the one year before where he got paid and

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Speaker 1: manning to come from, and I don't think he cares

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Speaker 1: if it all blows up in his face. That's the

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00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: one thing he doesn't care. He wants to just do it.

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Speaker 1: He knows this window, he knows there's no point in

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Speaker 1: second place, that it's all for the title or that,

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00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: and it blows up whatever onions shock Well, I was

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Speaker 1: surprised by this. I don't know if it's the Hubrists

637
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: or if I just totally admire it of the Niners

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Speaker 1: to pull off a trade for Blame Gabber, because we're

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00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: gonna do what no other team can do. Because I

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00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: love their ability to teach quarterbacks. They already have done

641
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: some things that I don't think anyone else could have

642
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: done with Alex Smith at the point in his career

643
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: that they did. But if they can turn Gabbered into

644
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 1: a productive back up or someone that they can trade

645
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: to another team based on what he shows in preseason

646
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: or spot duty, I'm a Jim Harball guy for the

647
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: rest of my life. Because Black Gabbert, to me, looks

648
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: like a player that lacks every tool that you look

649
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: for at the position. And the Jaguars, for all the

650
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: times that they wanted to defend Gabbert and talk about

651
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 1: he's still part of the team. They spoke very loudly,

652
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: they shopped him for a bag of spoons. And now,

653
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: you know, listen, at the same time, I look at

654
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: the Niners and everyone talks about hardball and Trent Balky

655
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: and not talking and not communicating, and the first day

656
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: of free agency you got blaming Gabbert and Jonathan Martin. Well,

657
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: so I don't know what they're doing, but I kind

658
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: of think maybe it works. I don't know. This isn't

659
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: the first time they've shown Hubris at the quarterback position. No,

660
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: it is not. How many teams would have been willing

661
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: to bench the NFL's leading passer on a first place

662
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: team playoff contender for a unproven but more talented quarterback

663
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: behind it. I thought you were gonna say they signed

664
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy was aig. That's just we're done with you know.

665
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: That was uncalled for. It had to have been a

666
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: weird day though for forty Niners fans. We're sitting in

667
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: the newsroom Chris and I late last night and it's like, oh,

668
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: they got Martin to protect him, to protect Gavert, lock

669
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 1: up the nfcust it is over, um, Greg, what was

670
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: your big surprise? I was surprised by how cheap T. J.

671
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: Ward was, how cheap altern Verner was. Those are two

672
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 1: guys we thought were going to be at the top

673
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: of the market, and they really came in a lot

674
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: lower than people expected. But then a bigger surprise even

675
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: happened today on a day that the Buccaneers are interested

676
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: introducing four different free agent signings, including Verner, including Michael Johnson,

677
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: one of the highest paid players in all of free agency.

678
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: The first question the big news was about Josh McCown

679
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: that he's the new starting quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

680
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: Mike Glennon is the backup. McCown is the guy. I

681
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: did not see that coming, him walking into a job

682
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: where he's number one. I love how love Ee Smith.

683
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: Within months of getting to Tampa, UH start shedding offensive

684
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: lineman left and right, because if your Loveie Smith, you

685
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: cannot have an adequate offensive line. So you've got to

686
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: just dump those guys as quick as again. And then

687
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: it's let's replace our young quarterback that showed some promise

688
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: last season with a thirty four year old journeyman because

689
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: you can't have a compelling quarterback. Soon they're gonna start

690
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: inheriting Pip Squeak receivers too, because that was his staple

691
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Wow, I kind of see this the other way.

692
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: Love Smith knows that nobody repeats in the NFC South.

693
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: He's got a defensive nucleus. That's it's up there with

694
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: the NFC contenders. LaMonte David and Jerald McCoy were or

695
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: should have been in the defensive Player of the Year

696
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: discussion last year. Now he's got Werner, he's got Michael Johnson,

697
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: brings in Clint McDonald, the rumored to be after Charles Tillman,

698
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: Julius Peppers could end up there. This is a team.

699
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: And then what if they draft Sammy Watkins in the draft.

700
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 1: They might get Anthony Collins to play left tackle. This

701
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: is a team that's making moves to say the NFC

702
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: South is wide open and we're going for it. Yeah,

703
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: And I don't actually think the Bucks we They are

704
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: very talented and defense at every level. There's no real

705
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: weakness even without reevs. But do you really think McCown

706
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: wins this camp battle so called with is Mike Glennan

707
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: on the Bucks? Come Week one? Yeah, probably. I think

708
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: I think they win it. I think they're trying to

709
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: win and they like they see this defense you mentioned man,

710
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned all that talent. You'd even mentioned Mark Barron.

711
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: This is a loaded defense. By the way, that part

712
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: of part of mccowns week to week success was trustman.

713
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: They better have someone to step in and keep that going.

714
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: Jeff Temford is a pretty good reputation as a quarter

715
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: we'll find out. My biggest surprise is uh and we've

716
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: touched down a little bit earlier. The Oakland Raiders. I'm

717
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: not sure what's going on here. They entered this free

718
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: agency with more cap space than anyone. They let Lamar

719
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,720
Speaker 1: Houston and Jared Vldier leave the building, which was strange.

720
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: We all agreed without a fight. Then they bring in

721
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: Saffold and Austin Howard as the tackles, as you said,

722
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: and those are questionable moves. And I even didn't had

723
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: an issue with the backfield where they let Rashad Jettings go.

724
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: They keep Darren McFadden And at what point does the

725
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 1: promise outweigh or the production has to outweigh the promise

726
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: with that guy, they keep him in the building. I

727
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: don't think the Raiders are any better a team and West,

728
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: you gotta start thinking about softball pants because I think

729
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 1: this team could stink again. Softball pants has to be organic.

730
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: That has to come from a natural place where they

731
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: have to organic softball that has that has to come

732
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: from a natural outcry against something that's you know, absolutely

733
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: it's absurd in the NFL. So are you saying? And

734
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow the follow all the signs I'm

735
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: seeing the stars the Panthers could be in play as

736
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: a softball pad situation. They that's that's organic. Let's wait

737
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: a little plants is more of a mayor June type

738
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: of discussion. Where does it say that? Dan being right

739
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: here on the air, it fairness the Raiders. We are

740
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: speaking twenty four hours a little more after free agency started.

741
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: Let's let's see. I'm with you. The early move not

742
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: so good. I agree, it doesn't make bash Reggie Mackenzie.

743
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: He came from a great organization in Green Bay. He

744
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: obviously knows what he's doing. I just don't know what

745
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 1: it is. And I don't think I'm smarter than Reggie mackenzie.

746
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: So let's see how this plays out. Maybe he gains

747
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: Lamar Woodney and Justin Tuck. But I don't know that

748
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: you're gonna be challenging the Broncos anyway, So maybe there's

749
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: a better use for all that money you have. All right,

750
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: before we go, let's get some predictions in. And by

751
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: the way, before I forget, we made our go get

752
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: my sandwich bets on last week, last Thursday. That's it,

753
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: never again last Friday. We're going to re visit those

754
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: on Friday's podcast. Uh so get ready for that. I've

755
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: got to increase my sit ups, That's all I'm saying.

756
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: And but before we go, why don't we just throw

757
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: out of prediction and uh, just for fun, Mark will

758
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: start with you one prediction and you don't have to

759
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: get too cute with this. There's no sandwiches online, just

760
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: something you really think is gonna happen. I'm getting cute

761
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: with the mine that in whatever last couple of months,

762
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: we have seen Cleveland try to sell the house for

763
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh, then they tried to sell their other house

764
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: for Darrell Reeves. In my prediction, I'm not sure they're

765
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: gonna need to sell for the house for this is

766
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: that come September on the heels of just cutting Brandon

767
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: Weeden and Jason Campbell, they have Brian hoy or a

768
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: former Patriots quarterback on the roster, they will have to

769
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett. I'm not saying which one. I'm just saying

770
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: a former Paytriots quarterback. Not saying which one, just saying

771
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: it will be a former Patriots quarterback now or currently

772
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: have someone either you know, someone either currently on the

773
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: New England or another player who's come from New England's past.

774
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: Do you have a specific player in mind I might

775
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: be talking about. I think they're going to try to

776
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: trade for Tom Brady. I have That is a sessler

777
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: for the Ages right there, tom Brady traded to I'm

778
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: not I'm not suggesting that's a definite. I just have scars.

779
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: I will I will eat Chris's softball pants if that happens.

780
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: If that happens, Okay, I like it. That was gutsys.

781
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm cute too. Cute? Is that that was adorable? That

782
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: was cute? That was straight jacket looney. I am gonna

783
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: say my prediction is the Indian plus Colts sign Brown

784
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: center Alex mac to an offer sheet under the transition tab.

785
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 1: I can see that happen. According to NFL media insider

786
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, the Cults are one team that's already contacted them.

787
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: They've released center Sampson's having a dead centered I could

788
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: just I could just hear Dad now, Oh my gods,

789
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: talking to it about another offensive one day. We're gonna

790
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: to break off into different podcasts which just all lineman

791
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: related guards and centers. But yes, this is interesting, go ahead. Well,

792
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: as I said, they released their center. The Colts have

793
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: already contacted Alex mac. I feel like they've been trying

794
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: to upgrade that interior of the offensive line for a while.

795
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: Alex Matt can play the Jeff Saturday's rule to Andrew

796
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: looks Peyton manning for the next half decade it or more.

797
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: And I do trust one thing Petton said. And this

798
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: is why I think this could happen more easily than

799
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: we might think. He didn't. They're not going to try

800
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 1: to make Max stick around forever if he truly doesn't

801
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: want to be there, and I don't think he wants

802
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: to be there at all. They already got uh jobbed

803
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: with the offer sheet with our boy baby Hawk Andrew Hawkins.

804
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: The Browns tried to side right. I like that attempt.

805
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: I mean that Cincinnati has the right to match, and

806
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: they four Cincinnati a few million a year to sit

807
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: him on the bench. Again, Dan Alex Mack is the

808
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: highest ranked player that could be number five on our list.

809
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: Not only that, but if this prediction comes true, he'll

810
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: become the highest paid center in NFL history. Well, and

811
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: you had Manning and Jeff Saturday forever and and you

812
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: put Mac in Luck together. That is that's an amazing

813
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: match super Bowl. It really is crazy that our top

814
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: twelve was all signed in eight hours. Thirty two players

815
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: out of our top nine or signed in eight hours. Uh,

816
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: I was gonna go lineman again with predictions. It was

817
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: gonna be that the Falcon sign every defensive lineman and

818
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: offensive lineman left in the league. That's it. Because Thomas

819
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: de Mittrof went into free agency with a plan, and

820
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: he signs Paul Soliai for big money, and he resigns Peters,

821
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: and he resigns Babineau and he just goes brings in

822
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: Tyson Jackson, Tyson Jackson, and then he brings in awesome Moa.

823
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: That's his crazy. Okay, I'll have another predictions. Dan doesn't

824
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: like this, Let's go with the big one. Darrell Rivas

825
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: is going to the Patriots, and you want to why

826
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: because it's the one thing that's gonna drive Jets fan

827
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: the most crazy, and it's the one thing that the

828
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: Patriots can do to fire back in this battle with

829
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: the Broncos of off season moves, and it's the move

830
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: that's gonna help take the Super Bowl home. When Revas

831
00:45:54,719 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 1: picks off Mann and then picks off Russell Wilson next years,

832
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: I need more sleep for tired. It is going to

833
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: another level. It makes so much sense in terms of

834
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: straight up an arms race between New England and Denver,

835
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: both teams. Everyone says, you know, Manning, that clock's running out.

836
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: Same thing with Brady, who's turning thirty s Greg, I'm sorry,

837
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: he's turning thirty seven. Totally summer and they need to

838
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: They need to finish strong with him and give him

839
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: the best chance to win unless he's not on the

840
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Comes full circle. Unless he is no

841
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: longer on the Patriots, it would be a weird move.

842
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: I have to say. If they acquired Darrell Reevus via

843
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: free agency and then traded their quarters, they do you

844
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: remember an NFL team ever trading an m VP candidate

845
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Remember a team cutting two first round picks

846
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: in the first two season operate and you know they do.

847
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: We get weeded into the show. They are ethereal uh

848
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: are I do I think Eric Decker is going to

849
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: the Jets. I think Jets are starting I know, I

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Speaker 1: know when West. I'd love to hear your input on this.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are starting to get a little desperate. I

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Speaker 1: think you're getting a little kg. They have all this money,

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Speaker 1: they haven't really signed anyone up until this point at

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Speaker 1: the time of this podcast, and I'm starting to think

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Speaker 1: they still have that need at wide receiver. They still

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Speaker 1: have the need at corner and a couple other places.

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Speaker 1: Deck are sitting on the market. They go, we gotta

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Speaker 1: get somebody. They get the number one wide receiver on

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Speaker 1: the market, over pay for him, and then we see

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Speaker 1: what happens. I can't think of a worse fit in

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Speaker 1: the NFL for Decker than the Jets. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: throw the ball, they don't have a proven quarterback, they

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Speaker 1: don't have anybody opposite him to take the attention away.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to carry the passing game, and did

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Speaker 1: you hear that Comby resigned him? What about Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot a lot of plays in New York. Well,

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Speaker 1: if that would be cool talking about a guy with

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Speaker 1: his own reality show, Verner is not there, so that

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Speaker 1: there's a lot more available tell about Decker and Michael Vick.

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Speaker 1: I still don't like it. I don't like Decker with

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Speaker 1: the Jets. They don't He needs to go to a

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Speaker 1: place that's a pass heavy offense with a number one

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Speaker 1: receiver there. I don't want this to get away. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned the plays and Altron Verner. Ian Rappaport, are insider

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Speaker 1: that was on the show Monday, said that would be

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Speaker 1: potentially a reason why he might choose between the Jets

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Speaker 1: and Giants. Um A Twitter user five A m I

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Speaker 1: underscore interesting tweeted out as good news for alleged alleged

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Speaker 1: culture vulture altern burner Avita opening at Tampa Theater next week. Sosten,

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Speaker 1: he knew it was Ringling Brothers Theater in Sarasota. You

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Speaker 1: do say West, you say it's a bad move, but

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Speaker 1: who knows. Yeah, maybe Vic takes off, Maybe they finally

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Speaker 1: find a quarterback. The guy's young. They give a multi

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Speaker 1: year deal. Maybe it's not a great fit this year,

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Speaker 1: two years, I'm not gonna be great. Decker will vanish off.

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Speaker 1: Revised my opinion in two thousand six. It's fun to

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Speaker 1: hear Dan try to talk himself into a move that

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Speaker 1: hasn't even happened. Well, because it is gonna happen. That's

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Speaker 1: that's my prediction. But he's very handsome, though I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I've been on record about that. I'm more

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Speaker 1: or less handsome than less. Uh, don't don't ask me

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Speaker 1: to pick that different ages. Yeah, um, all right, we

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Speaker 1: gotta go. Uh. I think we gotta got a lot

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Speaker 1: of information out there today, a lot of discussions we disseminated,

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Speaker 1: as is our job. We'll be back on Friday, talk

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Speaker 1: more free agency. Like I said, we're gonna go over

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Speaker 1: our sandwich bets um in addition to all other types

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Speaker 1: of murthy conversations until then, Mrs Dan hand De signing

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Speaker 1: up for the Mailman, the Sizzler, the boss, and the

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Speaker 1: gold standard behind the glass. How about that