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Speaker 2: And normally this is part of the drive where I say,
Speaker 2: good evening, Pittsburgh, Good evening, Steeler Nation.
Speaker 3: How we do it.
Speaker 2: But it's only four o'clock here, so it's not quite
Speaker 2: evening yet, So good afternoon once again.
Speaker 3: As the sun is shining here at Chucknoll, fast day,
Speaker 3: it really is.
Speaker 2: It's like one of those it's a good summer day
Speaker 2: to be outside. You know, it's it's it's sunny, but
Speaker 2: it's in the it's in the load of mid seventies,
Speaker 2: it's not too hot, and there is you know, still
Speaker 2: some stuff going on with some of the equipment staff
Speaker 2: and some of the field people here, but other than that,
Speaker 2: it is mostly.
Speaker 3: Quiet, as it will be.
Speaker 2: I think pretty much every time you and I are
Speaker 2: doing a show this year, man, it'll certainly be a
Speaker 2: little different in that regard, and we kind of spent
Speaker 2: spend a good amount of time there in the first
Speaker 2: hour of the show talking about some of those differences
Speaker 2: already here at training camp, one of them being, you know,
Speaker 2: my co host Matt Williamson just raving about the looks
Speaker 2: of Michael Pittman Junior and how he's a strong, good
Speaker 2: looking dude. It's his first training camp here with the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, of course, as we all know, heading into
Speaker 2: what is his seventh year in the National Football League
Speaker 2: for the six' four wide receiver out OF. Usc here's
Speaker 2: What Michael Pittman junior said today after his first practice
Speaker 2: as A Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Steeler first.
Speaker 4: Day, oh it's. GOOD i, mean like it's good that
Speaker 4: we're all like settled and we're all moved out. Here
Speaker 4: so it's great your first. CAMP i know it's new
Speaker 4: for a lot of people, here but also new for
Speaker 4: you being out. Here how was that if they want
Speaker 4: ABSOLUTELY i, mean obviously the offense get out here like
Speaker 4: for the first, time so just just working through some.
Speaker 4: Stuff AND i thought the defense practiced well today and
Speaker 4: we're looking forward to get back at them.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow WELL i know.
Speaker 5: It so how much can you kate play off these Older?
Speaker 4: ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i feel like it's just energy on
Speaker 4: top of energy and execution fuels execution AND i feel
Speaker 4: like both are both ARE i feel like both of
Speaker 4: us and some of our other guys can make. Plays
Speaker 4: so just being able to just build off.
Speaker 5: That how'd you find working more fans and pulling? Backs
Speaker 5: and IF i don't know how many at you look
Speaker 5: at you young, guys but WHO i saw how many
Speaker 5: in These?
Speaker 4: ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i think that all of them are
Speaker 4: doing great and they all bring different things like to the,
Speaker 4: table And marion is going to be our lead, guy
Speaker 4: and and those other GUYS i get to learn from,
Speaker 4: Them SO i think it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: GREAT i don't think guys is going to take the
Speaker 1: hopes thin phasis.
Speaker 4: On the, team especially at the and mixing out of
Speaker 4: the DOWN Indus states and how.
Speaker 2: Much time is?
Speaker 4: Last, ABSOLUTELY i mean there's so many games that come
Speaker 4: down to that last drive and just the fact that
Speaker 4: we're practicing it every single day AND i think will
Speaker 4: be the most conditioned team by the end. Accoump so
Speaker 4: how long.
Speaker 5: Will it take?
Speaker 6: Her will it take long for everyone to kind of
Speaker 6: there's so much newness, HERE i, mean not only do
Speaker 6: the coaching staff and mixing.
Speaker 3: With a lot of.
Speaker 5: Veterans how long does that take maybe for the team
Speaker 5: to get on the same.
Speaker 4: Thing, YEAH i mean it definitely takes. TIME i, mean
Speaker 4: no team like is a finished product until the very last.
Speaker 4: Game so as long as we keep on building like
Speaker 4: each day and keep getting, better then by the end
Speaker 4: of the, SEASON i think will be uh a happy.
Speaker 3: Team so how much do.
Speaker 2: Those trips out last kind of go toward help and
Speaker 2: build back chemistry before you guys.
Speaker 3: Even get the training.
Speaker 4: Camp, ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i feel Like aaron said it.
Speaker 4: BEST i, mean before that, trip LIKE i didn't really
Speaker 4: know those, guys and NOW i feel LIKE i know
Speaker 4: them pretty darn. Well so it's always good to just
Speaker 4: go do those things and take that. Time for.
Speaker 2: Sure do you have to teach them how to fishure
Speaker 2: their professionals out?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 4: No, NO i MEAN i Mean aaron is a very
Speaker 4: avid fishermen and a couple other, guys LIKE i felt
Speaker 4: like they were catching, fish so they knew what they were.
Speaker 5: Doing the biggest, CATCH.
Speaker 4: I don't, know because we're all kind of fishing in different,
Speaker 4: areas SO i didn't really keep truck to. Apples, yeah
Speaker 4: BUT i MEAN i THINK i caught the.
Speaker 3: Most but you, know you're anywhere around here for you,
Speaker 3: go do you?
Speaker 5: Ask?
Speaker 4: Oh, YEAH i MEAN i went out a couple of
Speaker 4: times and caught some, Musky like there's a picture out there.
Speaker 4: Somewhere caught a forty eight and a half inch. Musky
Speaker 4: so that's a pretty big. One it's a trip like
Speaker 4: that translate to what you guys want to do on the,
Speaker 4: field that you want to have their. Systems, YEAH i,
Speaker 4: mean it's just like, chemistry AND i think that it's
Speaker 4: important to like the guys that you're going to war
Speaker 4: with for the next seven. Months SO i think it
Speaker 4: helps a. Lot like you kind of.
Speaker 3: Talked about your route from when you sign that you
Speaker 3: might be able to kind of diverse them by a.
Speaker 3: LEATHER i were just seeing that kind of start.
Speaker 5: To pop up.
Speaker 3: Earlier.
Speaker 4: ABSOLUTELY i mean just just bouncing around inside, outside just
Speaker 4: running different, routes you, know stretching deep and running those
Speaker 4: under routes. INTERMEDIATE i, mean all of that's gonna come
Speaker 4: to like fruition like throughout the, season and we're all
Speaker 4: gonna have different roles because we all bring something, different you, Know, ME, Dk, Rome,
Speaker 4: jeremy all of those. Guys so we'll see how it shakes.
Speaker 2: Out Michael Pittman, junior one of the New Pittsburgh, steelers
Speaker 2: and of course a Man matt tasked with solving a
Speaker 2: problem that it seems like we've been talking about for
Speaker 2: a couple of, years and that is, uh you, know
Speaker 2: it was honestly same, church different pews when we used
Speaker 2: to talk about when it Was George pickens here BEFORE
Speaker 2: Dk metcalf kind of the the one two punch at
Speaker 2: wide receiver that The steelers have been looking for what
Speaker 2: probably since The Antonio brown juju days last.
Speaker 5: Time, Davis, yeah, real.
Speaker 2: Real you, know, deep, Stable, yes and and guys that
Speaker 2: all commanded.
Speaker 3: Attention.
Speaker 5: YEAH a couple of things he said there, though THAT
Speaker 5: i wanted to just go back. On was the.
Speaker 3: Fishing, well the fishing the musky stuff, too for.
Speaker 2: Sure all those guys love the fishing and we talk
Speaker 2: about this every. Year but, yeah the parks and the
Speaker 2: nature and the outdoor recreation in this region is.
Speaker 6: Awesome, yeah a lot of these, dudes you, know when
Speaker 6: they get, drafted like, oh BECAUSE i need to fish
Speaker 6: the rivers or the lakes around.
Speaker 5: Here blah blah.
Speaker 6: Blah good good work on the forty eight inch. Musk
Speaker 6: he's a big fan of.
Speaker 3: THAT i heard they're frying it up in the cafeteria
Speaker 3: for dinner.
Speaker 5: TONIGHT i was gonna, say, oh something mentioned just about
Speaker 5: sorry for. Cutting, no, no, NO i wouldn't talk about that.
Speaker 6: Anyways the, uh the practice we, mentioned it's probably not
Speaker 6: gonna be as physical as, banging but that doesn't mean
Speaker 6: to be slow. Tempo you, know they're gonna if they're
Speaker 6: gonna do a lot of two minute. Stuff and as he,
Speaker 6: mentioned he thinks we might be the most well conditioned
Speaker 6: team in the league when When campa, ends because we
Speaker 6: we're gonna be no standing. Around you, know there's gonna
Speaker 6: be a lot of high tempo. STUFF i think that's.
Speaker 6: Valuable you, know it's just a different way of you, know.
Speaker 6: Toughness you, know toughness doesn't necessarily mean that we ran
Speaker 6: into each other a thousand. Times it's we're still mentally
Speaker 6: strong and sharp late in the game when we've played
Speaker 6: sixty five snaps or.
Speaker 5: Whatever SO i think that's.
Speaker 6: Interesting and, again it's not the olden days where guys
Speaker 6: come to camp to get in, shape but you still
Speaker 6: can't replicate the football, stuff you, know and so maybe
Speaker 6: they won't play a lot of preseason, stuff but it
Speaker 6: is going to be high tempo and you, know cardio
Speaker 6: stuff in a football, manner in, cleats in pads against you,
Speaker 6: know other. Players really, interesting and you're, right of all the.
Speaker 6: Positions i'm still a little worried about wide receiver depth
Speaker 6: As july, enters but the top two is way better
Speaker 6: than it's been for quite a while. While and unfortunately
Speaker 6: we've seen how important it is that When pickens went
Speaker 6: out two years ago late in the, year When metcalf
Speaker 6: was suspended this past, season those other guys just aren't cutting,
Speaker 6: it you. KNOW i, mean, SO i don't know IF
Speaker 6: i told you This metcalf stat really interesting to me.
Speaker 6: Too by no means AM i saying he's the best
Speaker 6: or most dangerous wide receiver in the. League but there's
Speaker 6: a newer stat THAT nfl puts out of what's the
Speaker 6: distance between the wide receiver at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 6: and the closest Corner metcalf was first or second.
Speaker 5: Closest why would they do? That he's scary over the
Speaker 5: top six' five.
Speaker 6: Beast because there's always a safety on the other side
Speaker 6: over top of themyep, so right because they didn't fear
Speaker 6: the guy on the, OTHER side i WOULD under, I
Speaker 6: mean i'm not saying these Good As jamar chase, or
Speaker 6: whatever but It's Not jamar chase because He's, got higgins
Speaker 6: you KNOW what, I mean like it was real obvious what.
Speaker 6: Teams did they're Gonna double metcalf as much as basically
Speaker 6: any wide receiver in the league in, some way shape,
Speaker 6: or form and no Offense To calvin Austin or roman.
Speaker 5: Or whoever the other. Guys were if they, whip us so.
Speaker 5: Be it.
Speaker 3: YOU know, I mean i might make a, player too
Speaker 3: but we're gonna win that. Battle, more, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm not they're not letting the leading scorer gets sixty.
Speaker 6: On me if he gets, his, twenty fine and their
Speaker 6: fourth leading scorer has a big day and hits a bunch,
Speaker 6: of threes, we lose. You know BUT now i would
Speaker 6: think the doubles ease up on Metcalf with pittman, out
Speaker 6: there and he's just a professional move the. Change receiver
Speaker 6: he's not gonna have a huge high depth. Of target
Speaker 6: he's not gonna have a, huge average, you know yards.
Speaker 6: Per catch but that's also what this. Offense is He's
Speaker 6: very Rogers And west, coast friendly especially the, big body and.
Speaker 3: He blocks he's he's. Gonna block he's going to be
Speaker 3: in the right place at the.
Speaker 2: Right time he's going to run his, routes crisply and
Speaker 2: he's we talked about versatility with the. Offensive line he's
Speaker 2: a versatile wide receiver or. CERTAINLY so i think a
Speaker 2: lot to be excited. By there saw a little bit
Speaker 2: of Him and, rogers today you know a little BIT.
Speaker 3: Of dk it felt, like.
Speaker 2: Though, And listen MATT, and, i uh we had a
Speaker 2: lot of different stuff, going on, you know we Had
Speaker 2: some the first day is always a bit of. A
Speaker 2: whirlwind you're trying to make sure everything's set up and
Speaker 2: good in the. Broadcast booth we had to do picture
Speaker 2: day and Media day MATT and i, this year.
Speaker 3: So we had a lot going on.
Speaker 2: This morning but it also looked like early on they
Speaker 2: were trying To Get roman wilson and Uh And jeremy, Bernard,
Speaker 2: involved uh because you got to see what you have
Speaker 2: in those guys obviously behind the top two, big dogs
Speaker 2: and it's a big year for that wide. Receiver group
Speaker 2: man that that group has, you know again for the
Speaker 2: for the last couple of years they've had they've had a,
Speaker 2: you know a top dog and not not a lot underneath.
Speaker 2: Of them it's it's been something that we have discussed
Speaker 2: every year here at, training camp all the way back to,
Speaker 2: you know a couple of. Years ago were they gonna
Speaker 2: Add A brandon ayuk or A Debo, Samuel.
Speaker 5: Day yeah he's a, show tomorrow, you, know right free, beer,
Speaker 5: Tomorrow right, probably good it. Didn't happen looking back, at, that.
Speaker 2: Yes might have ended up being a blessing in disguise
Speaker 2: in the. Long run but hopefully this will finally be
Speaker 2: the year where we start talking about that position group
Speaker 2: is a bit of a strength instead of a real
Speaker 2: weakness for.
Speaker 6: The, OFFENSE now i don't want to bring the, mood
Speaker 6: DOWN but i did mention it's still The position i'm
Speaker 6: most worried About depth and the, reasoning is, First off.
Speaker 5: Pittman and metcalf are both twenty nine.
Speaker 6: Years old, they're expensive and they're getting up, in age
Speaker 6: and history shows that they're entering the, back nine. YOU know,
Speaker 6: I mean i don't know that either one is going
Speaker 6: to fade Away Like larry fitzgerald into his deep into,
Speaker 6: his Thirties Or new kopkins or any of those type.
Speaker 5: OF guys i still think they're both really. Good players but.
Speaker 6: A lot of bad stuff happens between now and the
Speaker 6: end of, the season and there's gonna be twenty nine
Speaker 6: year old receivers that start to decline across.
Speaker 5: The league it's just the way the.
Speaker 6: WORLD works i really Like the, bernard pick but he's
Speaker 6: A rookie i son.
Speaker 5: KNOWING about, i mean.
Speaker 6: STUFF'S great i think he's very well worth trading up
Speaker 6: in the. Second round, four great so he can help
Speaker 6: you Beat the Ravens of week six.
Speaker 5: Or, WHATEVER though i mean it's a.
Speaker 6: Different world we haven't, seen it, YOU know I think
Speaker 6: roman and then everybody else to ME is.
Speaker 5: I, don't know.
Speaker 6: You know and this gets magnified Because the steelers were
Speaker 6: at the absolute bottom of the league in three receiver sets.
Speaker 6: LAST year i know that number is gonna go, up
Speaker 6: drastically probably not as MUCH as i thought it was
Speaker 6: gonna go up the day they. HIRED McCarthy i thought
Speaker 6: they'd be exclusively eleven personnel now After paying washington And,
Speaker 6: friar muth that those guys will be out there quite.
Speaker 5: A bit but.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna be thirteen personnel With just metcalf. Out
Speaker 6: there you know you're gonna need more snaps from, wide
Speaker 6: Receivers and Bernard and pittman are. Very capable, but again
Speaker 6: if you lose one, of Them or bernard doesn't, work
Speaker 6: Out or wilson doesn't make, the team, you know like
Speaker 6: you could be a little lacking there would.
Speaker 5: League's, rough yeah that's.
Speaker 6: My point rookies and twenty nine year olds, are good
Speaker 6: but they aren't.
Speaker 5: Sure bets, you know it's.
Speaker 2: A young, man's, game right but that doesn't necessarily mean a.
Speaker 2: Rookies game there's a middle ground there that you're kind of.
Speaker 3: Looking, for certainly certainly.
Speaker 2: Could, be, hopefully though this will be a year that
Speaker 2: we start seeing that wide receiver room move in the
Speaker 2: direction that we've been waiting for for the last.
Speaker 3: Few, years HONESTLY.
Speaker 5: And i think. IT has, i mean clearly the room
Speaker 5: is there was a priority and needed.
Speaker 2: To be like it much more now than you did a, year,
Speaker 2: ago though that is. For sure let's go around the
Speaker 2: league a, little bit discuss some of the other moving
Speaker 2: and shaking across some other THIRTY one nfl training camps.
Speaker 2: Getting underway there's been some, contract extensions there's been some some. Injury, scares,
Speaker 2: Yeah already we'll get to all that when we return
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Speaker 2: The booth we are about halfway home on this three
Speaker 2: hour Edition Of, the drive first of many beefy shows
Speaker 2: coming at, you here, of course from the Campus Of
Speaker 2: Saint vincent College At. Chucknoll field as we are just
Speaker 2: kind of dipping our toes into the water of this
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Training camp, With, that matt there's some
Speaker 2: around the league stuff that needs.
Speaker 6: A ton that happened since we got the other mone
Speaker 6: right it did is like, extension season and of course
Speaker 6: there's some, injuries already which makes you forget how unforgiving this.
Speaker 6: League is that's why it's kind OF why i brought
Speaker 6: up the rookies in twenty nine, year olds like most
Speaker 6: stuff's gonna happen bad from. Now, ON yeah i know,
Speaker 6: everyone's optimistic but, it's.
Speaker 5: Rough.
Speaker 2: Man there there certainly have been SOME injuries i think
Speaker 2: that we should touch. On now matt gave it this Disclaimer,
Speaker 2: on Monday and i'm glad, he did and it will
Speaker 2: probably repeat it a couple times throughout the course of.
Speaker 2: Training camp but because someone is, carreded off pretty much
Speaker 2: everyone is carded off with injuries because they're out on
Speaker 2: the field and they don't want them walking hundreds of
Speaker 2: yards back to the locker room if they might. Be
Speaker 2: injured and a lot, of times especially Here At Saint,
Speaker 2: vincent college you're going, up hills.
Speaker 5: That hill with a, bad ankle, right yeah oh you think.
Speaker 3: You might have got a high. Ankle sprain why don't
Speaker 3: you go walk three hundre? Yards uphill?
Speaker 2: Not Smart but Matt The Cincinnati Bengals shimer stewart was
Speaker 2: carted off with a left leg. Injury today he of
Speaker 2: course there last year's so twenty twenty five first overall
Speaker 2: pick with a left, leg injury and the video didn't.
Speaker 2: Look Great his it's one of those where the knee
Speaker 2: bends the way that it's not supposed, to bend, You
Speaker 2: know and for that, to happen, you know on the
Speaker 2: first day of camp when it's obviously We know cincinnati,
Speaker 2: that defense they need all hands on deck and they
Speaker 2: need something out.
Speaker 3: Of him it's not a great start For.
Speaker 5: The Bengals so i'll just talk about the player.
Speaker 6: Real Quick, is again he was a rookie, last year
Speaker 6: so his combine his testing.
Speaker 5: Over a year ago was out of.
Speaker 6: THIS world, i mean he is a big body defensive
Speaker 6: End that cincinnati has coveted up until.
Speaker 5: This year.
Speaker 6: They drafted howe IS another A and m guy this
Speaker 6: year in the second round who's a very undersized, speed
Speaker 6: ball much better production than what he looks like walking in.
Speaker 6: The room stuart is, body beautiful, testing beautiful and to,
Speaker 6: be kind was a project coming out.
Speaker 3: Of school it was still the twelfth.
Speaker 6: Overall, pick YES and, I thought i'm just. BEING honest
Speaker 6: i thought he was horrendous as. A rookie i mean
Speaker 6: really really bad run, recognition stuff really. Really bad just
Speaker 6: people wuld run right, by him didn't, se it, you
Speaker 6: know didn't know what gap, to fill didn't steel polars.
Speaker 5: Coming, at him things of.
Speaker 6: That nature watching him rush the pass or It was
Speaker 6: i'm gonna go a thousand miles an hour off, the
Speaker 6: snap AND if i don't beat, HIM immediately i got
Speaker 6: nothing ELSE and i don't know what. To do and
Speaker 6: he's Not von miller off the, Snap Either he's he's
Speaker 6: two hundred and seventy, five pounds so.
Speaker 5: They he really needed to take a step forward to.
Speaker 6: Make that even to, Be honest i'm not saying this
Speaker 6: Because the bengals of the thirty two first round picks,
Speaker 6: last year he was the worst one for where he
Speaker 6: got picked, for sure and maybe the worst.
Speaker 5: One overall like, You, said mad you could you could
Speaker 5: add any of these Eyes, Of steelers i'd, BE like i don't.
Speaker 5: Want to he's my.
Speaker 6: Last choice and they don't have a good history of
Speaker 6: developing those. Players either so he was already very disappointing
Speaker 6: a year into, this thing as we've talked about With
Speaker 6: like kent to start, the show who was a seventh.
Speaker 6: Round pick guys that start, their seasons, you know, like
Speaker 6: disappointing slash injured over your first.
Speaker 5: Two years year three doesn't usually go.
Speaker 6: So great AND as, i mentioned they drafted how and
Speaker 6: he can't wait around for, these guys, you know he.
Speaker 3: Just can't it's a, moving, Train, right yeah that we always.
Speaker 6: HEAR about, i mean he had to play noticeably better
Speaker 6: to even be a starter.
Speaker 5: This, year yeah, you know let alone be a first,
Speaker 5: round pick a.
Speaker 2: Guy who was just a first round pick what fourteen?
Speaker 2: Months ago fifteen. Months ago it's. It's worrisome happens quick in.
Speaker 2: This league it does according to unfairly to some. No
Speaker 2: DOUBT and i know this is something that YOU and i,
Speaker 2: you know kind of have spent time talking about in,
Speaker 2: the past and particularly during the off season when we're
Speaker 2: kind of stretching, some content but especially in this league
Speaker 2: where there's no minor.
Speaker 5: League, system no you don't just call it. The goalie, You.
Speaker 2: Know baseball has a massive minor. League system hockey has
Speaker 2: a minor. League SYSTEM the nba HAS The g league
Speaker 2: OR The d league or whatever they.
Speaker 6: Call it now you've been grow him in a goalie
Speaker 6: or a shortstop, or whatever and it's, his time so
Speaker 6: let's call.
Speaker 5: Him up.
Speaker 3: Yeah right that not the case In The National.
Speaker 2: Football League matt bumber news out of Out, of, carolina
Speaker 2: where ACCORDING, To espn panthers rookie Wide Receiver chris brazzle
Speaker 2: the second, of course out. OF ten i haven't SUFFERED
Speaker 2: an lcl, tear today lateral lateral collateral ligament tear in his.
Speaker 2: Left knee i've heard the A c l IN the
Speaker 2: i did not know ABOUT, the PCL and i did
Speaker 2: not know about the L. C l but it came
Speaker 2: on a non, contact play according to a, league source
Speaker 2: and he's expected to be sidelined for about, eight weeks about.
Speaker 6: Two months, They again i'm not on top of all
Speaker 6: the latest, injury news and this time of year you
Speaker 6: can overreact to some.
Speaker 5: Of, it ABSOLUTELY but.
Speaker 6: I mean that one's confirmed whatever. Cl there you, KNOW
Speaker 6: what I think carolina has been like the most unlucky
Speaker 6: team in the league. So far scorting got hurt the
Speaker 6: very first practice after a really promising rookie year at,
Speaker 6: defensive END and i thought he was a. Breakout Candidate,
Speaker 6: the moten their foundational, left tackle has blood, cloth issues
Speaker 6: and that could signlied you for an, entire.
Speaker 5: Year didn't wemby missed the entire season.
Speaker 3: FOR blood i don't know about a, whole season but.
Speaker 2: He had it could be a long time because you
Speaker 2: got to go on blood thinners and then there's all
Speaker 2: kinds of, additions RISKS and i know you can't get.
Speaker 3: Cut or, any.
Speaker 6: Yeah exactly and they had tackle, issues Anyways because ikwanu
Speaker 6: was an early pick who has been up and down
Speaker 6: and then suffered a very serious injury late. Last year
Speaker 6: so they drive what's his face Out of georgia in
Speaker 6: the first round At Tackle, monroe Freeling, thinking moten we
Speaker 6: can Count, on freeling will, you know hold down the
Speaker 6: Ford for icky and then you know you're to tackle
Speaker 6: need and you'll lose your best tackle after the draft
Speaker 6: because of the blood. Cloth thing and Now, THIS now
Speaker 6: i Don't Think chris brasel is a, super prospect but he's,
Speaker 6: really tall, really fast and that's all they want him
Speaker 6: to Do because coker is Gonna be coker's a really good.
Speaker 6: Number two no one Talks, about coker but he's a
Speaker 6: really good, number two a diamond in the rough they
Speaker 6: found out. Of nowhere tet is clearly gonna be the.
Speaker 6: Number one and both those guys have really good, Size
Speaker 6: too so they're building a basketball. Team there but they
Speaker 6: really needed to take the, top OFF sacrificial x pull
Speaker 6: guys out of the box type, of dude and that's
Speaker 6: Exactly what brasel could do. This minute tet's a guy
Speaker 6: that lined up a lot outside the numbers way. Too
Speaker 6: much they've already said he's gonna play way more in.
Speaker 6: The slot we're gonna move, him around he's gonna be
Speaker 6: the focal point of the Offense because braswell can do
Speaker 6: some of. Those, things now all of, a sudden again
Speaker 6: the best laid Plans of omar and these gms. And stuff,
Speaker 6: IT'S like i understand exactly what their thought process was
Speaker 6: By drafting Freely and mage if, they hadn't and Then
Speaker 6: drafting brasle because that's a type of receiver. They need
Speaker 6: but then you have to pivot when there's no draft
Speaker 6: or free agency left because all, my PLANS all i
Speaker 6: need to do is run fast on.
Speaker 5: The sidelines why can't do that for, eight? Weeks coach
Speaker 5: why don't know any we else could do?
Speaker 2: It right and then maybe after, eight weeks maybe it
Speaker 2: still is a couple more weeks before you really get
Speaker 2: all your.
Speaker 6: Wheels back And, as tomlino as, you said getting on a,
Speaker 6: moving train especially.
Speaker 2: As, a rookie escially as, a rookie, so brutal especially a,
Speaker 2: wide receiver because your quarterback doesn't trust you to run
Speaker 2: the right routes. And things yet then It's almost halloween
Speaker 2: and you still haven't really, established yourself and it feels
Speaker 2: like it's starting to.
Speaker 3: Slip away exactly more Unfortunate.
Speaker 2: News matt According To ian Rappaport And mike garofolo OF
Speaker 2: the espn AND The, Nfl Network Saints brian bresa feared
Speaker 2: who have TORN his Acl rich man a guy Who was.
Speaker 5: They don't usually say. Those things if it's up in,
Speaker 5: the air.
Speaker 2: Exactly right he will undergo, further testing but it's believed
Speaker 2: he has TORN his acl and would miss the entire
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Six season he was a first round pick
Speaker 2: in twenty, twenty three and it's only twenty four years
Speaker 2: old and had really started to carve out, a nice
Speaker 2: nice career for himself on the interior Of That new orleans.
Speaker 3: Defensive line is twenty three the Year the Steelers.
Speaker 6: Took, RODERICK no i think it's a YEAR app i should.
Speaker 6: Know that but Who's a steelers first round pick in twenty?
Speaker 6: TWENTY three i think It. Was, broderick okay probably wouldn't. Have,
Speaker 6: Been yeah so our listeners from back then probably remember.
Speaker 3: We talked a Lot of Brian yes DALE.
Speaker 6: And i did so many mock drafts back then and
Speaker 6: often ended Up with breze For. The steelers it's kind
Speaker 6: of a big three to four type end Learn. From
Speaker 6: cam it was liked them. A lot That wasn't roderick
Speaker 6: like we wouldn't have traded up, for bresee but we
Speaker 6: like them a lot as a later first round pick type.
Speaker 5: Of guy.
Speaker 6: They They've taken benton in, that draft so there was
Speaker 6: a need for that position. To groom he hasn't quite
Speaker 6: lived up. To it he's been okay For, the saints
Speaker 6: plays kind. Of high not as powerful as you as
Speaker 6: your thought coming out, of school but an. Okay player
Speaker 6: but they don't have a lot there at that. POSITION either, i,
Speaker 6: mean again you lose a first round pick that you're pretty.
Speaker 6: Invested in there's not ways to there's not great ways
Speaker 6: to pivot at this time of the season to make up.
Speaker 3: For, it no there's there's certainly.
Speaker 2: Certainly not AND then i guess kind of finally here
Speaker 2: across the timeline on the on the, injury front Is
Speaker 2: uh tua is Out in atlanta with a flare up
Speaker 2: of an. Undisclosed injury According To, kevin Stefanski the falcons
Speaker 2: did not reveal the nature of toa, his injury but
Speaker 2: Sources Told adam schefter that he's dealing with a. Tight back,
Speaker 2: with That the falcons Are Signing cooper rush to uh
Speaker 2: because Because Remember Michael pennox junior is is still out.
Speaker 6: As well THAT'S why i wasn't Sure is, Pennix practiced so.
Speaker 2: All of, a sudden that kind of, you know, two projects,
Speaker 2: two dogs, one bone And the falcons, quarterback room you're
Speaker 2: hoping one of those guys can, you know can step
Speaker 2: up and win. The job both of those guys now
Speaker 2: are gonna be sidelined for a, little bit and Here Comes.
Speaker 6: Cooper rush tua has an extensive injury history and doesn't
Speaker 6: protect themselves. Particularly well isn't, Particularly big it's had hips
Speaker 6: and things going Back. To, alabama pennix as, you mentioned
Speaker 6: is coming off a. Major INJURY but i kind of like.
Speaker 6: THEIR strategy, i mean they're they're eating. Their vegetables this
Speaker 6: here as. A franchise, you know they did not, spend
Speaker 6: Much but tua. Wasn't expensive maybe you can catch lightning
Speaker 6: the bottle with one of. These TWO but i, assume
Speaker 6: right maybe there's another name in, the mix But his
Speaker 6: rush running with the ones the second he. Got hot
Speaker 6: there must be somebody else. IN camp i don't know who,
Speaker 6: it is but it's not ANYBODY that i brand named
Speaker 6: the GUY that. I, know again that makes things, Tough too.
Speaker 3: Like how do you evaluate? Anybody else that's.
Speaker 5: The thing HOW do I Evaluate.
Speaker 3: Jack strand is the? Other?
Speaker 6: Quarterback wow so They Have jack Strand And, cooper Rush
Speaker 6: who i'm shocked is still.
Speaker 5: OUT there i think he's a legit on.
Speaker 6: A roster, YEAH yeah i mean he's a blow, average
Speaker 6: backup but he's. Got, there TODAY and, I say i
Speaker 6: don't you Know Who jack?
Speaker 5: Strand? Is right so that's what. YOU have i, mean.
Speaker 6: Again it just really slows the evaluation process of everybody,
Speaker 6: on offense and all of a sudden you start thinking
Speaker 6: your defense is better than it Is Because jack strand
Speaker 6: is throwing picks left.
Speaker 2: And right he's an undrafted free agent Quarterback From. Minnesota, morehead, whoa,
Speaker 2: OKAY yeah i.
Speaker 3: Watched a lot of.
Speaker 4: Air.
Speaker 5: GAMES yeah i kind of have.
Speaker 6: A detailed breakdown On The minnesota morehead. Signal, caller oh by,
Speaker 6: the way remember Who the feelers opponent Is in, week
Speaker 6: One The.
Speaker 3: Atlanta, Falcons yep i'm glad you said that because THAT'S
Speaker 3: where i.
Speaker 5: Was going hitting behind the.
Speaker 2: Eight ball one man gathers what another. Man, spills yeah
Speaker 2: the grateful who said that last piece of NEWS that
Speaker 2: i wanted to run past, You here matt and kind
Speaker 2: of we'll do this every day like a news stuff
Speaker 2: AROUND the. Nfl segment we're going to before people start
Speaker 2: tweeting us. ABOUT it i promise you we're gonna start
Speaker 2: doing fantasy football segments, here again a. Real suit we
Speaker 2: have to get those. Tweets in we'll actually do that
Speaker 2: to start the. BONUS hour i think here most days
Speaker 2: we'll hit. The Tweets, but matt it sounds like two
Speaker 2: star running backs that YOU and i have discussed are
Speaker 2: up for. Contract extensions, Of Course bjon robinson Of Those
Speaker 2: atlanta falcons we were just, talking About and, Sonic Himself
Speaker 2: jamiir Gibbs, the lions both holding in as they seek.
Speaker 2: New contracts they were at practice but not participating in
Speaker 2: team portion.
Speaker 6: Stuff, today okay this could be sort of similar to
Speaker 6: Like The portre. GONZALEZ stuff, i mean both these guys
Speaker 6: were first round picks the exact same season the fantasy
Speaker 6: world are going one and two or two, and one,
Speaker 6: you know and every pretty much. Every draft both, of
Speaker 6: course they're fifty year options were, picked up but they're
Speaker 6: in prime striking distance for getting a contract because they're really.
Speaker 6: Really important they're at the height of. Their POWERS and i,
Speaker 6: Mentioned before i'm such. A nerd i've Already started matt's Stats. In,
Speaker 6: atlanta Man the bijon accomplishments through three seasons are really
Speaker 6: as good as like any running back that's ever lived
Speaker 6: in the first three years of.
Speaker 5: The league.
Speaker 6: He's Unbelievable and gibbs playing all those games, on turf
Speaker 6: and with what's around them, super important they're gonna get their,
Speaker 6: money absolutely and maybe the ones just waiting for the
Speaker 6: Other SIGN and i went ten, percent more, you.
Speaker 5: Know buckmore you know who?
Speaker 2: Blinks, first, Right right let's talk some. More contracts let's
Speaker 2: talk A Little Joey, porter junior a couple other.
Speaker 3: Of those, you know.
Speaker 5: Another, corner, fell yeah another another.
Speaker 3: Corner came off.
Speaker 2: The board let's let's take a look at some some
Speaker 2: contractual stuff both here and around. The league as we
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Speaker 2: A lot of moving and shaking this time of year with.
Speaker 2: Contract situations obviously we've got one.
Speaker 3: Of, THEM well i, Should, say matt a few of,
Speaker 3: our OWN because, i, THINK yeah i think that.
Speaker 2: Everyone rightfully So The joey porter junior situation is at.
Speaker 2: The Forefront But keanu benton also deserves to be mentioned
Speaker 2: in that conversation. As well it is, kind of, you
Speaker 2: know not we are not at the eleventh hour yet by,
Speaker 2: any means but we're getting closer to the eleventh hour
Speaker 2: for a lot of. These, TEAMS now i should, say
Speaker 2: too there are obviously teams IN the nfl that will
Speaker 2: negotiate with players throughout the season and things. Like that
Speaker 2: as we know that that is not the way That
Speaker 2: the steelers like to. Do Business the steelers aren't the
Speaker 2: only ones in, that regard there are plenty of teams
Speaker 2: that won't, you know once they Get to september and
Speaker 2: the games start playing or done with.
Speaker 3: Contract stuff some.
Speaker 2: Will do that throughout the course of, the year but
Speaker 2: obviously some big ones, to discuss and also some recent
Speaker 2: you know deals that have been, handed out namely By The.
Speaker 3: Cleveland, browns yeah IN, the afc they've.
Speaker 2: Been busy As, yesterday Tuesday Cornerback denzel ward signed a,
Speaker 2: two year sixty two point two million, dollar extension making
Speaker 2: him the highest paid defensive BACK in.
Speaker 3: Nfl history.
Speaker 6: PRETTY crazy, i mean so we've talked a lot, about
Speaker 6: numbers and there was two guys over thirty, per year McDuffie,
Speaker 6: and sauce just a, you know av y. Or whatever
Speaker 6: and it's Rumored that gonzalez is gonna Beat those ward
Speaker 6: is everybody as good as, those players give.
Speaker 5: Or take but he's up.
Speaker 6: IN age, i mean he was drafted the same Year As,
Speaker 6: baker mayfield, you know as an, early pick and he's,
Speaker 6: been really. Really good i'm shocked that he got quite
Speaker 6: that much, BECAUSE frankly I think porter might be worth More.
Speaker 5: Than ward he's.
Speaker 6: Considering age it's only a two. Year, deal, YEAH obviously
Speaker 6: i mean, his age that adds up to at.
Speaker 3: His age that. Makes sense but that is a heck
Speaker 3: of a Payday For.
Speaker 2: Denzel ward and he's, been good he's he is a,
Speaker 2: very good very good player. For them, but yeah that's
Speaker 2: probably his last chance to get a to get a
Speaker 2: big payday with, his age and he certainly. Got one
Speaker 2: they'll average a little over thirty one million dollars per
Speaker 2: year on.
Speaker 3: That deal and the real.
Speaker 6: Quick on ward is when They Traded, MILES garrett i
Speaker 6: thought he might, be next, you know because he's about.
Speaker 6: That age he would draw a lot, in return maybe
Speaker 6: even a first. ROUND pick i don't think he'd Got
Speaker 6: what sauce died as on the, corner market or certainly
Speaker 6: Not What miles, garrett got but if, it, was hey
Speaker 6: we're living to fight, ANOTHER day i thought he could
Speaker 6: be the other piece that they would move to really
Speaker 6: load up.
Speaker 5: On picks apparently not apparently, not, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, AS hey i know they obviously want to keep
Speaker 2: some semblance of that, defense together.
Speaker 5: But sure and it's could be. QUITE good i mean
Speaker 5: if you Swap out Ward.
Speaker 3: For, verse, yes yes, of course.
Speaker 5: Or Right not Ward for.
Speaker 2: Garrett for, first yes and Then Today Matt the browns
Speaker 2: giving a three year extent To safety grant delpit worth forty,
Speaker 2: eight million thirty five million of a guaranteed that's sixteen
Speaker 2: million per keeps him under contract through the twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: Nine season i'm super dialed in with, safety contracts but
Speaker 6: he's got to be top ten ish or so with.
Speaker 5: That deal really. Good player he's.
Speaker 6: Somebody that we don't bring, up enough Even like brown's
Speaker 6: week whenever we're. Previewing them he is, absolutely instrumental at
Speaker 6: least in the old Scheme. UNDER schwartz i don't think
Speaker 6: they're changing their scheme all, that much but he's more
Speaker 6: of a near the line of. Scrimmage player he can
Speaker 6: do some of the big. Slot stuff he plays the,
Speaker 6: run well he can play man against, tight ends he can.
Speaker 6: Play deep it was easy to forget about him when
Speaker 6: you look about their over the great defenses during, this
Speaker 6: era but he's their third or fourth most important guy
Speaker 6: Even when Garrett and ward were, you Know when.
Speaker 5: Garrett was, Out there so that adds.
Speaker 6: Up again he's A little i assume he's twenty eight something.
Speaker 5: LIKE that, I mean i'm in. That neighborhood he was on.
Speaker 3: THAT same lsu Team With.
Speaker 2: Joe, burrow yeah it's JUST so i would think writing
Speaker 2: about that neighborhood.
Speaker 5: And not showing any signs of. Slowing down Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Not matt by my quick, research here it looks like.
Speaker 2: HE'S now i think about the seventh highest paid safety IN,
Speaker 2: The Nfl derwin James And kyle hamilton the clear cut one.
Speaker 2: And Two Then kirby joseph From, The Lions antoine widenfield junior,
Speaker 2: Right There buddha baker. Right there but then you start
Speaker 2: getting down into the seventeen sixteen range there with Like
Speaker 2: the Trayvon mow riggs And the xavier McKennis and those type.
Speaker 5: Of, guys, yeah yeah that's, Not, crazy no it's.
Speaker 2: Definitely not And then Matt Obviously, joey porter The Big Joey,
Speaker 2: porter junior the big. One here but there's, also some,
Speaker 2: you know several high profile players that are currently eligible.
Speaker 2: For extensions one, of THEM and i know we've discussed
Speaker 2: him a, little BIT BUT. C, J stroud i'm still
Speaker 2: interested to see how that all. Plays out we know
Speaker 2: they picked up his fifth, year option so that does
Speaker 2: buy them. Some TIME but i think it's the classic
Speaker 2: do we want to make them sing for. His, supper
Speaker 2: yeah and it might end up costing us a little,
Speaker 2: bit more but we want him to prove it that
Speaker 2: he can get back to being that guy we saw his,
Speaker 2: rookie season or do we have faith in him that
Speaker 2: he is still, that guy and maybe we could get
Speaker 2: him at a little bit of a discount.
Speaker 5: Right, now yeah that's a little bit of a. Tough
Speaker 5: one at least they have the fifth.
Speaker 6: Year option Same With, bryce young who's from the same,
Speaker 6: draft class both of which were picked up the fifth.
Speaker 6: YEAR options i Greatly prefer Stroud. TO young i Think
Speaker 6: what stroud did in the playoffs was a kind of
Speaker 6: a blip on, the radar and his season was a
Speaker 6: lot better than people tend to. REMEMBER too i mean
Speaker 6: also to pay attention to the defenses. He, played again
Speaker 6: he was terrible in, the playoffs don't get, me wrong
Speaker 6: Including the, steeler game but the defenses he played were.
Speaker 6: Pretty ruthless he. And Them nico collins didn't.
Speaker 5: Have a, running game and he's flat out try to do.
Speaker 5: TOO much.
Speaker 6: I don't Know what houston's policy is of negotiating during.
Speaker 6: THE season i don't know all thirty. TWO policies i Know.
Speaker 6: The STEELERS but i was in, there thinking is what
Speaker 6: if he Was a steeler, HE'S won i would consider
Speaker 6: that with, you know like if you get to week
Speaker 6: eight and you're six and two and he's doing all
Speaker 6: the things, you want let's not, you know let's just show,
Speaker 6: a thing a.
Speaker 5: GOOD thing, I mean.
Speaker 6: I wish dale was sitting here because he didn't for
Speaker 6: a lot. Of reasons but he's.
Speaker 3: Much better THAN.
Speaker 6: THIS wesa i Think the steelers did something Similar with
Speaker 6: ben where they Might have there might be a policy
Speaker 6: With the steelers that we do. Not negotiate this went
Speaker 6: back to the eighties and there's a whole story of
Speaker 6: why they don't and it all. Adds up but they
Speaker 6: might do it. With quarterbacks they may have done it with.
Speaker 6: STAR quarterbacks i mean Not, with duck.
Speaker 5: YOU know i, mean LIKE but i think something missing. Poor,
Speaker 5: guy yeah he's always the.
Speaker 6: Easy ONE but i think they may have done Something
Speaker 6: with ben in his heyday, mid season and, to me
Speaker 6: that might be the Move with stroud if that's part of.
Speaker 6: Their policy I'M not i might be making that Up.
Speaker 6: ABOUT ben i vaguely, remember it BUT maybe i was
Speaker 6: like pursued it and ye, or somebody but, OH no
Speaker 6: I doubt stroud. GOES anywhere i don't know what his
Speaker 6: contract will. Look like it'd be a tough negotiation, right
Speaker 6: Now but i'm.
Speaker 2: A believer i would uh lean on the side of
Speaker 2: he swims and.
Speaker 3: Doesn't sink Yeah Where? BRYCE young i, Don't Know.
Speaker 5: BRYCE young i think they.
Speaker 6: Could be they could be one of the teams With
Speaker 6: the steelers in that do They want sellers or arch or,
Speaker 6: you know one of those type, of DEALS because i
Speaker 6: have a hard time extending him for what he's going
Speaker 6: to ask. For too he's not going to get.
Speaker 2: Backup, Money, No matt we've we've talked a little bit
Speaker 2: obviously About The christian gonzales Situation In.
Speaker 3: New England on, monday's show.
Speaker 2: We talked About How robert kraft made some comments that
Speaker 2: they have offered him a contract that would make him
Speaker 2: the highest paid cornerback in the history of. THE league
Speaker 2: i wonder if that's still the case with The The
Speaker 2: denz award that we just. SAW yesterday i feel like
Speaker 2: Maybe The devon witherspoon conversations of flying a little under,
Speaker 2: the radar maybe not across, the league but just here
Speaker 2: with us because we're Focused On Joey, porter junior and
Speaker 2: there's been more News Around, christian Gonzales but wetherspoon's going
Speaker 2: to be right, there too looking for.
Speaker 6: Top, DOLLARS yeah, i mean so a Big reason seattle
Speaker 6: had to Let Like kenneth walker and some of their other,
Speaker 6: you know guys From The super bowl, walk is which
Speaker 6: is a good problem, to have is They drafted witherspoon
Speaker 6: And Then jackson Smith and jigba in the first round
Speaker 6: and now it's, their turn and you can't let the,
Speaker 6: one walk, You know and you had to Start with.
Speaker 6: Jasn exactly you had to START with jsn After Being
Speaker 6: offensive player Of. THE year, i mean he's in really
Speaker 6: being the only show in town in their pass. Catcher
Speaker 6: Room but witherspoon's not far behind in terms of value
Speaker 6: To The super. Bowl champs and a couple of, years
Speaker 6: ago a true slot tough guy would.
Speaker 5: Not be valued like it, is now.
Speaker 6: YOU know, I mean i can't harp on it enough
Speaker 6: that these guys Like the Jeanne and Petrie and branch
Speaker 6: and on on on are becoming stars and are all
Speaker 6: gonna get really, well compensated and he's in. That mix
Speaker 6: he's a really really good player.
Speaker 5: And he's gonna be.
Speaker 6: Really expensive what Him and joey do are. VERY different
Speaker 6: i mean they're both. Defensive backs they both walk in the,
Speaker 6: corner Room and witherspoon absolutely can, play outside but he
Speaker 6: you Don't want porter do in the. SLOT stuff, I
Speaker 6: mean porter's an, old school outside, the numbers long press,
Speaker 6: man guy which is what they really gonna, go for
Speaker 6: Along with Dean, and everett the guys they. Brought IN
Speaker 6: but i don't know that one Will influence, who KNOWS
Speaker 6: but i don't know that that one Will influence joey's
Speaker 6: contract nearly as Much.
Speaker 5: As ward And.
Speaker 6: Especially gonzales, You know gonzalez is pretty similar in style
Speaker 6: and usage age and, you know.
Speaker 2: Right square peg and, round, peg, right, Yeah yeah matt
Speaker 2: one of the more difficult ones to discuss here in.
Speaker 2: CONTRACTUAL circles i Think It's, puka Nakua the rams, wide
Speaker 2: receiver because.
Speaker 5: Are they waiting just to make sure he's a.
Speaker 2: Good, boy maybe but, you know he obviously he was
Speaker 2: a fifth, round pick so he doesn't have a fifth.
Speaker 2: Year option he's heading into the. Last year he's heading
Speaker 2: into the last year of. His contract he has over
Speaker 2: four thy one hundred receiving yards in HIS three. Nfl
Speaker 2: seasons every one of his stats. Is Insane Only jamar chase. Has,
Speaker 2: more yeah and those are his first three years in.
Speaker 3: The League For, puka nakua.
Speaker 5: Things like yards per route run. Or bonkers for, this guy.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable but as, you've mentioned there's been some off the,
Speaker 2: field stuff both the incident where he's, being sued you
Speaker 2: know about biting a couple, of women Then A new
Speaker 2: YEAR'S party i think, it was and then he, you
Speaker 2: know checked himself into rehab for some.
Speaker 3: Alcohol issues so that's just a that's.
Speaker 2: An interesting ONE because i think it is it is
Speaker 2: so easy, to, say yeah you can't let that guy go,
Speaker 2: pay him but if there are some concerns there and
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to PAY him jsn type forty two
Speaker 2: million dollars.
Speaker 6: A year that's what you come to at at. The
Speaker 6: table that's the, starting point. Right right and so that's
Speaker 6: just that one's a. Little sticky that one's a little
Speaker 6: sticky Because the rams are the face to Win The
Speaker 6: super bowl, this year but they really don't have a
Speaker 6: lot at the wide, receiver position especially if this is
Speaker 6: guaranteed To Be DeVante adams, last year which it's. AWFULLY
Speaker 6: close i think he's thirty five years old and was
Speaker 6: kind of a part, time player especially when they went
Speaker 6: to all the thirteen personnel that they. Were Using but
Speaker 6: pooka has to be a foundational dude for the next.
Speaker 5: FIVE years, i.
Speaker 6: Mean who would be more friendly other Than Maybe jamar
Speaker 6: Chase And justin jefferson for the next quarterback who we
Speaker 6: already know who?
Speaker 5: That is.
Speaker 6: Let Alone does stafford want to come back If the
Speaker 6: Coup and adams are? Both gone, you know like if
Speaker 6: you do want to try to run.
Speaker 5: IT back, i mean so he's got a lot of,
Speaker 5: power here but he did a lot.
Speaker 6: Of dumb, stuff too, you know like if you had
Speaker 6: just been cleaning, THIS offseason i bet He's got smith
Speaker 6: And the jigma's contract.
Speaker 3: Right right, right right a million, dollar contract.
Speaker 6: Huge guarantee and. It's done But if, I'm them i'm
Speaker 6: waiting a. LITTLE bit i he can't let him at.
Speaker 6: The market you know what he make in the, Open
Speaker 6: market you.
Speaker 2: Can't let him hit. The MARKET but i also would
Speaker 2: on franchise and. You, could yeah that's that's a. Good
Speaker 2: call that's a. Good call that's just that one's interesting
Speaker 2: because just the, player alone, you're, like yeah we're not
Speaker 2: letting that guy, go anywhere but.
Speaker 5: No chance it's not quite. That, simple however what's a.
Speaker 6: Little different between HIM and jsn is the fifth year
Speaker 6: options you mentioned and a first. Rounders contract we talked
Speaker 6: about this, a Lot Like jalen warrens the guy always
Speaker 6: bring up like THAT'S why.
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 6: Expend money they gave no MONEY by, nfl standards There's
Speaker 6: not puka doesn't have a ton in, the BANK although
Speaker 6: i guess he has ads and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Now, too enough it's still AT least jsn was a first.
Speaker 3: Round pick that's a.
Speaker 5: Fifth, round contractually he made a lot More. Than, puka, yes,
Speaker 5: Yeah yes.
Speaker 2: And speaking of, Big, CONTRACTS matt i forgot to bring this,
Speaker 2: up EARLIER but i wanted to just get your thoughts
Speaker 2: on it here before we get to our. Bonus hour
Speaker 2: and that is another name that we had talked about
Speaker 2: throughout this offseason as a potential, contract extension Defensive Tackle
Speaker 2: jalen carter Of The, philadelphia eagles and he got locked
Speaker 2: up a few days ago, four years one hundred and fifty,
Speaker 2: two million with a potential incentives to get up to
Speaker 2: one hundred and, sixty million including one hundred and six,
Speaker 2: million guaranteed highest paid defensive TACKLE in. Nfl history the
Speaker 2: tackles will making a lot of.
Speaker 6: Money now they sure are Started with simmons and now
Speaker 6: they're all getting big.
Speaker 3: Time money that contract may be.
Speaker 2: A risk i think it is a risk when you
Speaker 2: consider some of his off the field stuff and some
Speaker 2: of the health stuff with. His SHOULDERS but i feel
Speaker 2: like it's a risk That the eagles had to take.
Speaker 5: As, well yeah and they know him better.
Speaker 6: Than anyone it makes me think that they like him
Speaker 6: as a human being and some of the immaturity things are.
Speaker 6: Past them the, shoulder stuff they would obviously be totally on.
Speaker 6: Top of they must think he's gonna be fine because
Speaker 6: he played really compromised last year and you could just
Speaker 6: tell he was not the. Same player but he could
Speaker 6: be A, defensive mvp like he's.
Speaker 2: THAT good i don't know if he Can Be aaron
Speaker 2: donald because there's very, few people but he Can Be
Speaker 2: aaron donald.
Speaker 6: LIKE yeah i mean like he can lead the league
Speaker 6: in sacks at, defense tackle which, is rare and, you
Speaker 6: know be a. Major force what's kind of interesting this
Speaker 6: h of dawned. On me With the eagles is a
Speaker 6: lot of People Like jordan davis's Buddy, from georgia who's
Speaker 6: also a first round pick the, year before they extended
Speaker 6: him this offseason in, the summer so a lot of,
Speaker 6: people thought, you.
Speaker 5: Know they're Gonna.
Speaker 6: Trade carter you can't play you can't pay two guys
Speaker 6: at the, same position top of the. Market money this team.
Speaker 5: Doesn't.
Speaker 6: Care though they did it With aj Brown And. Devonte
Speaker 6: smith they did It With lane Johnson And. JORDAN mylotta
Speaker 6: i bet they do It with Mitchell and dejen, you
Speaker 6: know like sometimes they just attack positions and they're also,
Speaker 6: premium positions. You Know but eagles know what they're doing
Speaker 6: and they'll make. Anything happen oh they.
Speaker 3: Sure, will yeah they.
Speaker 2: Are aggressive, they are and they've had a lot of success.
Speaker 2: Doing so and if they're going to continue to, have
Speaker 2: success you would Think That jalen carter is going to
Speaker 2: be a huge part.
Speaker 5: Of.
Speaker 2: That certainly there is the show two hours in. The,
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