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Episode two twenty 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.600 NFL Free Agency Edition Legal Tampering period up and running, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.680 been going on for nearly twenty four hours. A ton 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:59.520 to do? First? What missed the cut slash bringing amazing 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.800 energy to the Oscars And I gotta tell you Ryan 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:10.280 Gosling's performance was I was. It is the type of 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.240 thing that the Internet goes crazy for and they're correct. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:19.559 On demons. Have you watched Ryan Gosling perform I'm just ken. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:20.840 Have you watched it? 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.320 I've not watched it. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.360 Okay, I am gonna. I am gonna make a prediction 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.800 and maybe we can actually do this between the A 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.560 and the B block during our break. I want you 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.040 that you are going to watch it and just about 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.680 midway through start smiling and be smiling the rest of 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.720 the way that I don't know what it is. I 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.240 guess charisma is it. But you watch Ryan Gosling perform 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.040 this thing, and you're like, Oh, that's why he's a 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.080 movie star. That's I understand he's good looking, and I 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.560 understand he's talent. Did I get all of that? That 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.720 it factor? This guy is singing I'm just Ken from 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.840 the Barbie movie on set or on stage at the 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.799 Oscars in a sequin tuxedo, and you just watch it 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.920 and you say, that might be the most likable person 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.600 that's ever existed. So you're gonna you'll give your review 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.320 of that later in the show. Also, I guarantee, I'm right. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:28.880 I guarantee it. Also Vegas signs Gardner Minshew the same day, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.440 the Broncos are rumored to be interested in Zach Wilson. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.919 My god, I can't imagine what it'd be like to 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.000 root for a poverty franchise like that. Oh my goodness, great, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:42.920 what do you mean? Why is it not heard him? 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.360 Oh well yeah, but I've blocked out. I've suppressed those memories. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:56.880 That's like, you know what I mean? Those exist by Sarahbellum, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.840 But it doesn't even matter exactly. I've pushed that so 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.919 far down away. Can you imagine having to trick yourself 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.600 into being excited for Gardner Minshew just so, Patrick Mahomes 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.800 can kick your teeth in twice a year. Unbelievable And 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.200 the Pentagon says no evidence of UFOs. If it was 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.160 a slower time of the sports year, we would spend 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.680 more time on that. But it is free agency demons. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.080 So let's talk about a player who did not quite 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.480 make it to free agency, Chris Jones. Go right ahead. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.320 Yes, crazy year it's been for Chris Jones. He went 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.560 from holding out to winning another Super Bowl to becoming 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.600 the highest paid defensive tackle in the league. How important 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.360 does the chief signing Chris Jones? Again? How important to 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:42.680 that is to the Chiefs dynasty? 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:49.000 It's critical. Listen, Other than since they've drafted Mahomes, other 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.760 than quarterback, there is no position they have spent less 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:58.520 draft capital on than detackle. They have spent no resources 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.000 on it because Chris Jones is so great, so durable, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:09.160 so reliable, sins drafting Mahomes. The only person other than 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.880 Mahomes that's been It's either Kelsey or Chris Jones. Who's 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.000 been the best player over the last six years other 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.599 than Mahomes, and Chris Jones has a case. Chris Jones win. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:27.239 The Chiefs won their first Super Bowl down ten against 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.200 the Niners. Chris Jones gets a pass breakup, knocks a 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.280 pass down to get the ball back to Mahomes. That 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.159 then allows them to you know, have the ball where 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.040 they ran wasp and cut it to a three point game. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:45.279 The next possession, down three, Chris Jones on second down 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.200 and third down back to back plays, knocks down passes 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.920 where there were open receivers. That gets the ball back 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.360 to Mahomes and the Chiefs take the lead and win 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:00.640 the Super Bowl. That's Super Bowl One. Super Bowl the 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.640 the year the Chiefs lost to the Bengals in the 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:09.520 AFC Title Game, Chris Jones had Joe Burrow wrapped up 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:14.359 to win the game and didn't finish the sack. The 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.000 Chiefs end up losing that game. It's the only reason 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.200 they have him been to five straight Super Bowls. So 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.880 how did Chris respond last season? All right, I guess 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.479 two years ago. Now AFC Title game, third down, forty 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.280 seconds left, twenty to twenty, Joe Burrow trying to drive 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.080 the game winning score. For the game winning score, Chris 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:40.719 Jones annihilates the Bengals right tackle, gets to Burrow sack. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.120 Chiefs kick the game winning field goal. This year, Josh 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:50.159 Allen down three two minutes left, has Shakir open in 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.800 the end zone. Why does he miss him? Chris Jones 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:57.080 bullied Dion Dawkins into Josh Allen, so Josh couldn't step 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:02.520 into the throw. Super Bowl overtime third down, Chris Jones 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.960 gets a free run at brock Purty makes him throw 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.040 it away. They have to settle for a field goal. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.440 Chiefs win the Super Bowl. In the playoff runs for 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:17.320 all three championships, Chris Jones has made brilliant plays in 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.000 addition to that. In the regular season, He's been the 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.719 most productive d tackle in football not named Aaron Donald. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.680 And some people think Aaron Donald is the greatest defensive 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:31.600 tackle of all time. So you had to lock him up. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.080 You cannot when you are And here's the thing, he's 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:37.919 not young, but he's not as old as people have 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.760 made it seam, He's twenty nine years old. And does 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.719 he give one hundred percent on every snap throughout the 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.240 regular season. No, But does that then allow him to 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.039 show up in the fourth quarter of games and for 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:59.840 entireties of playoff runs? Absolutely? And if you're the Chiefs, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.920 real quick, if you're the Chiefs, you have an opportunity. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:10.720 And this is not hyperbole, this is not nick you know, overreacting. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.560 You have an opportunity this year to become the greatest 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.120 team of all time three straight Super Bowl victories. It's 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.160 never been done. So do you pay a premium? Yes, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.240 you pay a bit of a premium, I know. Speaking 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.000 of the payment stuff, demons, you have some You have 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.000 a cap question, so go right ahead if you If. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.600 You yes, I mean with him being signed and being 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:40.280 the highest defensive tackle, their highest paid defensive tackle, obviously, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.440 you guys put a lot of resources together to get him. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.600 Are you now worried about cap space and being able 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.160 to sign other players further give more players money? 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.520 Sure? So yeah, so they've signed no other free and. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.800 Could you and if you could keep the cap situation 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.680 short like the explanation. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.960 Well, I'll do as best as I can, but I 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.360 have to be fair here. I've made it very clear 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.840 that any dollar you pay a player shows up on 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.640 your cap at some point. So let's just do the 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:15.360 real math of what the Chiefs are doing with Chris Jones. First, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.120 let me give Chris some credit here. This is a 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:23.000 great bet on yourself. Example, last year, the reason Chris 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.520 held out was the Chiefs offered him a two year extension, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.960 so that would be for next season in the year 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:36.160 after at fifty eight million dollars fully guaranteed. He wanted, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:41.200 so that's twenty nine million a year. He wanted thirty 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.760 two million a year because he wanted to be the 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.000 highest paid detac lever Aaron Donald's at thirty one point 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:54.960 seven right, So he wanted two for sixty four, fully guaranteed. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.199 The Chiefs offered two for fifty seven, fully guaranteed. They 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.000 did not come to an agreement. He held out week one. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.840 He now, I know it's being reported as five for 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.280 one sixty. It's not that. I mean it is that, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.600 but it's not that. What this is is three years, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:19.080 ninety six million fully guaranteed, really ninety five million. But 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.839 for simplicity, the math call it ninety six. So Chris 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.640 initially wanted two for sixty four fully guaranteed. When you 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.560 have the type of playoff run he did, the Chiefs 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.480 win the Super Bowl, all of a sudden, you get 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:34.199 that plus another year. So Chris bet on himself and won, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.400 and the Chiefs won as well because you got a 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.959 motivated ass kicking Chris Jones. So the chief the contract. 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.720 The Chiefs just signed Chris Jones. So you have to 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.360 look at like this. He is on the team for 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.520 the next three years with every dollar fully guaranteed ninety 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.600 five million, and then each of the final two years 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.480 are essentially team options. They could cut him after your 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.839 three or after year four. So the cap part of it. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.640 On this year's cap, he's gonna count for seven million bucks. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.600 But like I told you, he accounts for ninety five 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.240 million dollars of cash money received over the next three years. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:18.080 So what that means is over the next two years 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.040 plus a third or fourth year, if they end up 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.440 cutting him after this year, you've got to account for 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.120 eighty eight million dollars on your cap. That's what That's 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.720 what this means. So Chris Jones is gonna be seven 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.839 million on this year's cap, ninety five minus seven is 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.240 eighty eight million. He will probably be twenty five million 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.280 on next year's cap. That's a big number. Eighty eight 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.640 minus twenty five is sixty three million. He will probably 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:54.080 be twenty five million on the following year's cap. I say, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.480 eighty eight minus twenty five is sixty three pardon me, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:02.000 sixty three minus twenty five is third thirty eight million, right. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.840 He then will have if you were to move on 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:10.839 after three years thirty eight million dollars of dead money 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.720 associated with this contract, you'd probably chop that up into 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.520 two years twenty million, one year, eighteen million the next year. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:22.439 So this is not typically how the Chiefs have done business, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.040 and that's why I brought up going for being the 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:31.040 greatest team ever. This bill will come do at some point, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.960 and there will be a year, probably twenty four, twenty 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.719 twenty seven, or twenty twenty eight, when the Chiefs are 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:46.640 not able to sign one really good player in free 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.640 agency because they are dealing with the Chris Jones dead 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:56.680 cap charge. That is worth it for this team under 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.360 this circumstance, and it's worth it because Chris the dead 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.880 gap charge won't apply if Chris continues to play at 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:09.199 this level into his thirties, so it's not the most 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.040 fiscally prudent move, but he's such a great player and 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.600 they're going for such a historic accomplishment. I'm glad they 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.680 did it. Did I do that quickly enough for you? 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:19.120 De Monse? 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.040 Uh? Yeah, that was relatively speedy. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.319 But yeah. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.280 The trying to be great thing though, like the players 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.920 when they want to become the highest paid players, like, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.960 you know, of their respective positions. Ever, I kind of 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.240 get when you're not running for like three peat, super 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.680 Bowl and I get like, you know, I'm glad he 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.000 got his money and all that, but like it's the 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.440 type of situation like wouldn't you want to like, oh, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.320 I don't want to be he could have taken two 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.200 million less or three million less whatever. I just think it's. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.720 Kind of like, you know, I get that. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.680 Oh, and it's the difference between thirty one and thirty 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.440 three million. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:01.960 So I think a lot of people feel that way. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.640 I get that. And Mahomes didn't max out, and Kelsey 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:11.320 obviously has not maxed out. Defensive Chris Jones twofold one 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:20.440 is the position Chris plays is such a brutal position. Physically, Yeah, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:27.240 that there is an element of uh wear and tear 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.080 that obviously Mahomes. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.200 Doesn't happen to sacrificing your body. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.120 Sacrificing your body, you know, even by football player standards 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:40.480 very high. Also, Chris is never going to make the 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.040 off the field money, Certainly that Mahomes is, and certainly 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:49.040 that Travis is. Right, neither was Tyreek, which is why 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:54.199 Tyreek prioritized money and ended up going to Miami. Right, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.360 So there's that part of it. The other part of 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:02.880 it is this, sometimes you are considered in the media 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:08.120 and in the public eye and historically a greater player 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:14.720 if you set contract records like I know that sounds weird, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:20.080 but forever it has been considered of this era of 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:26.200 defensive tackles, there's Aaron Donald, then there's everybody else, and 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.880 it is still that. But now Chris can say, well, 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.920 Aaron's got Defensive Players of the Year. I don't, but 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:39.400 I've got, you know, three more amazing playoff runs than 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.480 Aaron does. In the marketplace, I was considered as good. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.560 I broke his contract record, you know, So that's like sneaky, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.760 kind of like part of a Hall of fame case 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:55.240 and Chris also, I think, and this is where I'm 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.680 kind of on your side, but not entirely. You gotta 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.840 keep this in mind, Chris. This is agents, those two 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.560 guys who were sitting next to him when he held 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:09.520 out for the Lions game, the Cats Brothers, the entire 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:14.680 list of their A list or B list or C 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.960 list NFL clients, every client they have in the NFL 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.520 that is either an all pro Hall of Famer like 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.080 Chris Jones, or just a pro bowler or just a 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.760 solid starter. I've got to pull it up or read 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.440 you all their names. Oh, I have it right here, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:30.080 Chris Jones. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:32.080 That's it. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:39.280 So for those agents being able to say we got 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.680 our guy the biggest contract ever is super important for 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.840 them because they need more clients. And so I think 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:55.080 last offseason, under different circumstances, with different agents, he probably 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.680 would have accepted the Chiefs deal. But to those to 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.760 those agents credit, they didn't. They played hardball and they 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.640 got a better deal than they were even asking for 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:12.120 last year. And so yeah, they listen in in two years. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.000 This this the I look at it like this, and 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:20.160 then we can move on. Christian Wilkins. Okay, let me. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:25.360 Let me pull up hold on Brandon Matabukes contract and 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:31.200 then Christian Wilkins contract. So, and I'll explain this in 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:36.320 a second. So Mattabuque or I said, Brandon, Justin Mattabuque, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:41.920 pardon me. He got four years for ninety eight with 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:47.000 seventy million guaranteed. So Chris is making thirty two million 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.800 a year. This guy who was the second or third 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:56.320 best D tackle available is making twenty four million a year. Okay, 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:02.440 Christian Wilkins got let me get this exactly right. He 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:08.840 got four for one ten from the Raiders with eighty 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.360 five million guaranteed, So he got twin what's the math 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.680 on that? Twenty six right? No, twenty seven and a 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:22.520 half million dollars a year. So this is an anchoring 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.360 thing that you got to do the math in your 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:30.240 brain on. But if the going rate for the second 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.880 and third best D tackles available was call it, twenty 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.399 six million a season, then the question is, if you 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.560 want to have a great player at that position, is 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:48.920 Chris Jones worth one six million dollars a year player 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.200 more than Christian Wilkins or Justin Madabuke. Is you're the 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.960 what I mean you're not getting a great d tackle 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.879 evidently for less than twenty five million a year thereabouts 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.359 is a thirty two. So the the golf there is 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.879 seven million. So what type of player goes for seven 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.600 million bucks? Kendrick Bourne, he just signed like three for 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.960 eighteen that's six million year. So is Chris Jones enough 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:19.720 better than Christian Wilkins or Justin Madebuke to justify the 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.800 fact that you now can't sign a player of Kendrick 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.760 Bourne's caliber, You bet your ass he is. Absolutely So, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.040 unless you were just gonna go naked at d tackle, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.760 I'm gonna sign a league minimum guy and draft somebody 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.440 if you wanted an established difference maker. Getting in the 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.320 room cost you in the mid twenties. So that delta 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.600 is what you're focused on. He's worth that delta. All right? 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.840 Uh So, you you had said that you were proud 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.639 of me for being fast on the cap stuff. Then 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.879 you asked to follow up question and I did another 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:59.240 five minutes. Older contracts, Well, I mean those contracts got 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.199 signed in the last week. All right. Let's move on 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.360 to the other news. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.080 All right, So one of the bigger fish and free agency, 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.520 Kirk Cousins, the Atlanta Falcons obviously wants to go pick 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.920 him up. Yeah, he's thirty six years old and he's 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.119 coming off of a torn Achilles brothers. Uh, do you 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.120 think the Falcons potentially botched this trade. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.800 Or the signing? Uh? I don't listen. I understand why. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.840 I understand why they did it. I thought the upside 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.600 of Justin Fields, who evidently can be got for pennies 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.440 on the dollar now, would have been interesting for them. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:38.200 They Raheem Morris said, you know what I want, stability 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.960 at the quarterback position. And for Raheem, I don't blame 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.960 him for that. Keep in mind, Raheem Morris has been 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:52.760 the head head coach UH once in his career, and 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.440 it was the Tampa Bay Bucks in O nine to 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.720 twenty ten to twenty eleven, and those years the Tampa 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.920 Bay Bucks at quarterback had Josh Freeman. It never got 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.000 off the ground for him and he lost his job 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.960 and he's spent a decade trying to get back to 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.240 being a head coach. So what he said is I 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.679 am not going to have this my second and what 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.920 will be my last chance. If it doesn't go well, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:26.000 go poorly because we have a non playable character at quarterback. Right, 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.200 So I'm just gonna pay for the stability of Cousins, 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:33.080 hope and pray the Achilles is fine. And they have 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.359 spent a top ten pick on Kyle Pitt's, a top 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.359 ten pick on Drake London, a top ten pick on 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.080 Bjean Robinson. They have an excellent, excellent offensive line with 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.919 league average quarterbacking, they should have a top ten offense 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.760 given the talent. So I understand that piece of it, 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.440 and the Falcons are now interesting. Do you want to 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.600 say something demonsday before I go on, because no, I 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:53.600 was angle to this. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.800 But go ahead, Yeah, I mean anything, it's gonna it 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.600 was a Desmond Ritter was their quarterback last year. Yesh, Yeah, 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.639 I mean he think's gonna be better than that. But 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:02.960 I go ahead with it. 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.159 And no, And so they could draft a quarterback, they 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.360 could have traded for fields. There's things they could do. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.760 They want the certainty of Cousins, So I get it. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.240 Do I think their Super Bowl team? 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:13.399 No? 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.040 Do I think they could be interesting if Cousins is healthy. Yes, 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:22.800 but that's not actually what my personal takeaway on this is. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.800 My takeaway is a different one, which is that Kirk 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:32.119 Cousins is going to end his career as one of 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:36.320 the five highest paid players in NFL history, and that 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.320 is because Kirk Cousins, in a way, really only Dak 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:45.080 Prescott also has played the franchise tag game and was 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.400 not afraid of it. So Kirk Cousins got drafted by Washington. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.399 There was a whole RG three thing way back in 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.120 the day. They didn't know if they wanted to sign 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.000 him to an extension. They franchised him. He didn't take 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.320 a below market deal. It's like, no franchise me. They 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.280 then franchised him a second time, and that's really all 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.600 you can do. Technically, you have a third franchise tag 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.399 available to you, but no one's ever used it. It's 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:11.359 way too expensive. So once Kirk got franchise tag twice, 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:17.160 he knew that every single time my contract is up, 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.119 I will be a free agent, able to go anywhere 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.840 in a marketplace where no quarterbacks are ever free agents. 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:31.520 And so because of that, since post rookie deal, here 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:36.240 are the contracts. Kirk Cousins has signed. A twenty million dollar, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.639 fully guaranteed one year franchise tag, a twenty four million 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:45.560 dollar fully guaranteed one year franchise tag, an eighty four 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:50.480 million dollar fully guaranteed three year deal with the Vikings, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:56.800 a sixty six million dollar fully guaranteed two year deal 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:03.120 with the Vikings, a thirty five million dollar fully guaranteed 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.920 one year extension with the Vikings, and now a four year, 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:11.600 one hundred and eighty million dollar, one hundred million guaranteed 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:16.480 deal with Atlanta. Kirk Cousins is good, but not great, 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:21.040 thirty six years old, coming off in Achilles and still 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.800 got the same amount per year forty five million that 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:29.000 Patrick Mahomes makes. The reason I say all of that 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:34.400 is to make this point. If you are a franchise 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:39.640 quarterback that feels the wrong team drafted you and they 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.879 don't know what they're doing, and I do not think 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:47.119 my guy Trevor is going to do this, but it is. 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:51.200 That is the type of situation that I am talking about. 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.000 You should not be afraid to say, I am not 0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:58.639 signing your contract extension. I will play out my rookie deal, 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:02.200 I will let you franchise tag me twice, and then 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.320 I am hitting the open market and then I am 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:11.800 just signing short, fully guaranteed deals. If your goal is 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:15.600 not stability, not even necessarily, you know, the best career 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:20.800 possible if your goal is purely maxing out earnings. Kirk 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:24.480 Cousins has laid the blueprint because he's never been great, 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:30.480 he's never had postseason success, and he still makes all 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:37.840 time legendary money, including an off season where he popped 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:41.280 his achilles and is going to be thirty six years old. 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.159 There was still a team willing to say one hundred 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:51.280 million guaranteed forty five million a year. So it is 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:56.720 a path no other quarterback has ever taken. But I 0:24:56.920 --> 0:24:59.159 wonder if there might be one that says, you know what, 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:03.679 I'm gonna be great no matter what. I don't need 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:10.040 the locked in security of this contract extension. I'll play 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:12.800 for whoever drafts me for seven years and then I 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:16.960 will have maximum leverage after that. It's just an interesting idea. 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:21.200 All right, next us, Baker is gonna be staying in Tampa. 0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:24.040 So he's also had a crazy I guess a couple 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:26.880 of years. So he went to basically being bounced out 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:28.600 of the league and now he's a one hundred million 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:32.359 dollar quarterback. What do you think is more impressive Baker 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:35.119 Mayfield still being in the league or you rooting for 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:38.000 him the whole time, still having faith. You never backed 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:39.080 out of her Baker's. 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:42.440 Scid I don't wanna, Yeah, I mean, I don't want 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:45.959 to make this about me, But I did always believe 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:51.359 in Baker. That is true, and I thought what the 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.280 Browns did was ludicrous and the Browns are going to 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:58.159 pay that bill for years and years to come. Uh So, 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:04.239 I do think that that is a a intriguing, you know, 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:06.800 kind of what if if the Browns just held the 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:10.600 line and kept building up that defense and recognized that 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.360 the thing went sideways on Baker for two reasons. One 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:15.960