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Speaker 2: Welcome in, We'll Drive with Nick Wright. Episode two twenty
Speaker 2: NFL Free Agency Edition Legal Tampering period up and running,
Speaker 2: been going on for nearly twenty four hours. A ton
Speaker 2: to do? First? What missed the cut slash bringing amazing
Speaker 2: energy to the Oscars And I gotta tell you Ryan
Speaker 2: Gosling's performance was I was. It is the type of
Speaker 2: thing that the Internet goes crazy for and they're correct.
Speaker 2: On demons. Have you watched Ryan Gosling perform I'm just ken.
Speaker 2: Have you watched it?
Speaker 3: I've not watched it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I am gonna. I am gonna make a prediction
Speaker 2: and maybe we can actually do this between the A
Speaker 2: and the B block during our break. I want you
Speaker 2: that you are going to watch it and just about
Speaker 2: midway through start smiling and be smiling the rest of
Speaker 2: the way that I don't know what it is. I
Speaker 2: guess charisma is it. But you watch Ryan Gosling perform
Speaker 2: this thing, and you're like, Oh, that's why he's a
Speaker 2: movie star. That's I understand he's good looking, and I
Speaker 2: understand he's talent. Did I get all of that? That
Speaker 2: it factor? This guy is singing I'm just Ken from
Speaker 2: the Barbie movie on set or on stage at the
Speaker 2: Oscars in a sequin tuxedo, and you just watch it
Speaker 2: and you say, that might be the most likable person
Speaker 2: that's ever existed. So you're gonna you'll give your review
Speaker 2: of that later in the show. Also, I guarantee, I'm right.
Speaker 2: I guarantee it. Also Vegas signs Gardner Minshew the same day,
Speaker 2: the Broncos are rumored to be interested in Zach Wilson.
Speaker 2: My god, I can't imagine what it'd be like to
Speaker 2: root for a poverty franchise like that. Oh my goodness, great,
Speaker 2: what do you mean? Why is it not heard him?
Speaker 2: Oh well yeah, but I've blocked out. I've suppressed those memories.
Speaker 2: That's like, you know what I mean? Those exist by Sarahbellum,
Speaker 2: But it doesn't even matter exactly. I've pushed that so
Speaker 2: far down away. Can you imagine having to trick yourself
Speaker 2: into being excited for Gardner Minshew just so, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: can kick your teeth in twice a year. Unbelievable And
Speaker 2: the Pentagon says no evidence of UFOs. If it was
Speaker 2: a slower time of the sports year, we would spend
Speaker 2: more time on that. But it is free agency demons.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about a player who did not quite
Speaker 2: make it to free agency, Chris Jones. Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Yes, crazy year it's been for Chris Jones. He went
Speaker 3: from holding out to winning another Super Bowl to becoming
Speaker 3: the highest paid defensive tackle in the league. How important
Speaker 3: does the chief signing Chris Jones? Again? How important to
Speaker 3: that is to the Chiefs dynasty?
Speaker 2: It's critical. Listen, Other than since they've drafted Mahomes, other
Speaker 2: than quarterback, there is no position they have spent less
Speaker 2: draft capital on than detackle. They have spent no resources
Speaker 2: on it because Chris Jones is so great, so durable,
Speaker 2: so reliable, sins drafting Mahomes. The only person other than
Speaker 2: Mahomes that's been It's either Kelsey or Chris Jones. Who's
Speaker 2: been the best player over the last six years other
Speaker 2: than Mahomes, and Chris Jones has a case. Chris Jones win.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs won their first Super Bowl down ten against
Speaker 2: the Niners. Chris Jones gets a pass breakup, knocks a
Speaker 2: pass down to get the ball back to Mahomes. That
Speaker 2: then allows them to you know, have the ball where
Speaker 2: they ran wasp and cut it to a three point game.
Speaker 2: The next possession, down three, Chris Jones on second down
Speaker 2: and third down back to back plays, knocks down passes
Speaker 2: where there were open receivers. That gets the ball back
Speaker 2: to Mahomes and the Chiefs take the lead and win
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. That's Super Bowl One. Super Bowl the
Speaker 2: the year the Chiefs lost to the Bengals in the
Speaker 2: AFC Title Game, Chris Jones had Joe Burrow wrapped up
Speaker 2: to win the game and didn't finish the sack. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs end up losing that game. It's the only reason
Speaker 2: they have him been to five straight Super Bowls. So
Speaker 2: how did Chris respond last season? All right, I guess
Speaker 2: two years ago. Now AFC Title game, third down, forty
Speaker 2: seconds left, twenty to twenty, Joe Burrow trying to drive
Speaker 2: the game winning score. For the game winning score, Chris
Speaker 2: Jones annihilates the Bengals right tackle, gets to Burrow sack.
Speaker 2: Chiefs kick the game winning field goal. This year, Josh
Speaker 2: Allen down three two minutes left, has Shakir open in
Speaker 2: the end zone. Why does he miss him? Chris Jones
Speaker 2: bullied Dion Dawkins into Josh Allen, so Josh couldn't step
Speaker 2: into the throw. Super Bowl overtime third down, Chris Jones
Speaker 2: gets a free run at brock Purty makes him throw
Speaker 2: it away. They have to settle for a field goal.
Speaker 2: Chiefs win the Super Bowl. In the playoff runs for
Speaker 2: all three championships, Chris Jones has made brilliant plays in
Speaker 2: addition to that. In the regular season, He's been the
Speaker 2: most productive d tackle in football not named Aaron Donald.
Speaker 2: And some people think Aaron Donald is the greatest defensive
Speaker 2: tackle of all time. So you had to lock him up.
Speaker 2: You cannot when you are And here's the thing, he's
Speaker 2: not young, but he's not as old as people have
Speaker 2: made it seam, He's twenty nine years old. And does
Speaker 2: he give one hundred percent on every snap throughout the
Speaker 2: regular season. No, But does that then allow him to
Speaker 2: show up in the fourth quarter of games and for
Speaker 2: entireties of playoff runs? Absolutely? And if you're the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: real quick, if you're the Chiefs, you have an opportunity.
Speaker 2: And this is not hyperbole, this is not nick you know, overreacting.
Speaker 2: You have an opportunity this year to become the greatest
Speaker 2: team of all time three straight Super Bowl victories. It's
Speaker 2: never been done. So do you pay a premium? Yes,
Speaker 2: you pay a bit of a premium, I know. Speaking
Speaker 2: of the payment stuff, demons, you have some You have
Speaker 2: a cap question, so go right ahead if you If.
Speaker 3: You yes, I mean with him being signed and being
Speaker 3: the highest defensive tackle, their highest paid defensive tackle, obviously,
Speaker 3: you guys put a lot of resources together to get him.
Speaker 3: Are you now worried about cap space and being able
Speaker 3: to sign other players further give more players money?
Speaker 2: Sure? So yeah, so they've signed no other free and.
Speaker 3: Could you and if you could keep the cap situation
Speaker 3: short like the explanation.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll do as best as I can, but I
Speaker 2: have to be fair here. I've made it very clear
Speaker 2: that any dollar you pay a player shows up on
Speaker 2: your cap at some point. So let's just do the
Speaker 2: real math of what the Chiefs are doing with Chris Jones. First,
Speaker 2: let me give Chris some credit here. This is a
Speaker 2: great bet on yourself. Example, last year, the reason Chris
Speaker 2: held out was the Chiefs offered him a two year extension,
Speaker 2: so that would be for next season in the year
Speaker 2: after at fifty eight million dollars fully guaranteed. He wanted,
Speaker 2: so that's twenty nine million a year. He wanted thirty
Speaker 2: two million a year because he wanted to be the
Speaker 2: highest paid detac lever Aaron Donald's at thirty one point
Speaker 2: seven right, So he wanted two for sixty four, fully guaranteed.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs offered two for fifty seven, fully guaranteed. They
Speaker 2: did not come to an agreement. He held out week one.
Speaker 2: He now, I know it's being reported as five for
Speaker 2: one sixty. It's not that. I mean it is that,
Speaker 2: but it's not that. What this is is three years,
Speaker 2: ninety six million fully guaranteed, really ninety five million. But
Speaker 2: for simplicity, the math call it ninety six. So Chris
Speaker 2: initially wanted two for sixty four fully guaranteed. When you
Speaker 2: have the type of playoff run he did, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl, all of a sudden, you get
Speaker 2: that plus another year. So Chris bet on himself and won,
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs won as well because you got a
Speaker 2: motivated ass kicking Chris Jones. So the chief the contract.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs just signed Chris Jones. So you have to
Speaker 2: look at like this. He is on the team for
Speaker 2: the next three years with every dollar fully guaranteed ninety
Speaker 2: five million, and then each of the final two years
Speaker 2: are essentially team options. They could cut him after your
Speaker 2: three or after year four. So the cap part of it.
Speaker 2: On this year's cap, he's gonna count for seven million bucks.
Speaker 2: But like I told you, he accounts for ninety five
Speaker 2: million dollars of cash money received over the next three years.
Speaker 2: So what that means is over the next two years
Speaker 2: plus a third or fourth year, if they end up
Speaker 2: cutting him after this year, you've got to account for
Speaker 2: eighty eight million dollars on your cap. That's what That's
Speaker 2: what this means. So Chris Jones is gonna be seven
Speaker 2: million on this year's cap, ninety five minus seven is
Speaker 2: eighty eight million. He will probably be twenty five million
Speaker 2: on next year's cap. That's a big number. Eighty eight
Speaker 2: minus twenty five is sixty three million. He will probably
Speaker 2: be twenty five million on the following year's cap. I say,
Speaker 2: eighty eight minus twenty five is sixty three pardon me,
Speaker 2: sixty three minus twenty five is third thirty eight million, right.
Speaker 2: He then will have if you were to move on
Speaker 2: after three years thirty eight million dollars of dead money
Speaker 2: associated with this contract, you'd probably chop that up into
Speaker 2: two years twenty million, one year, eighteen million the next year.
Speaker 2: So this is not typically how the Chiefs have done business,
Speaker 2: and that's why I brought up going for being the
Speaker 2: greatest team ever. This bill will come do at some point,
Speaker 2: and there will be a year, probably twenty four, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty seven, or twenty twenty eight, when the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: not able to sign one really good player in free
Speaker 2: agency because they are dealing with the Chris Jones dead
Speaker 2: cap charge. That is worth it for this team under
Speaker 2: this circumstance, and it's worth it because Chris the dead
Speaker 2: gap charge won't apply if Chris continues to play at
Speaker 2: this level into his thirties, so it's not the most
Speaker 2: fiscally prudent move, but he's such a great player and
Speaker 2: they're going for such a historic accomplishment. I'm glad they
Speaker 2: did it. Did I do that quickly enough for you?
Speaker 2: De Monse?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, that was relatively speedy.
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 3: The trying to be great thing though, like the players
Speaker 3: when they want to become the highest paid players, like,
Speaker 3: you know, of their respective positions. Ever, I kind of
Speaker 3: get when you're not running for like three peat, super
Speaker 3: Bowl and I get like, you know, I'm glad he
Speaker 3: got his money and all that, but like it's the
Speaker 3: type of situation like wouldn't you want to like, oh,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be he could have taken two
Speaker 3: million less or three million less whatever. I just think it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, you know, I get that.
Speaker 3: Oh, and it's the difference between thirty one and thirty
Speaker 3: three million.
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people feel that way.
Speaker 2: I get that. And Mahomes didn't max out, and Kelsey
Speaker 2: obviously has not maxed out. Defensive Chris Jones twofold one
Speaker 2: is the position Chris plays is such a brutal position. Physically, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that there is an element of uh wear and tear
Speaker 2: that obviously Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Doesn't happen to sacrificing your body.
Speaker 2: Sacrificing your body, you know, even by football player standards
Speaker 2: very high. Also, Chris is never going to make the
Speaker 2: off the field money, Certainly that Mahomes is, and certainly
Speaker 2: that Travis is. Right, neither was Tyreek, which is why
Speaker 2: Tyreek prioritized money and ended up going to Miami. Right,
Speaker 2: So there's that part of it. The other part of
Speaker 2: it is this, sometimes you are considered in the media
Speaker 2: and in the public eye and historically a greater player
Speaker 2: if you set contract records like I know that sounds weird,
Speaker 2: but forever it has been considered of this era of
Speaker 2: defensive tackles, there's Aaron Donald, then there's everybody else, and
Speaker 2: it is still that. But now Chris can say, well,
Speaker 2: Aaron's got Defensive Players of the Year. I don't, but
Speaker 2: I've got, you know, three more amazing playoff runs than
Speaker 2: Aaron does. In the marketplace, I was considered as good.
Speaker 2: I broke his contract record, you know, So that's like sneaky,
Speaker 2: kind of like part of a Hall of fame case
Speaker 2: and Chris also, I think, and this is where I'm
Speaker 2: kind of on your side, but not entirely. You gotta
Speaker 2: keep this in mind, Chris. This is agents, those two
Speaker 2: guys who were sitting next to him when he held
Speaker 2: out for the Lions game, the Cats Brothers, the entire
Speaker 2: list of their A list or B list or C
Speaker 2: list NFL clients, every client they have in the NFL
Speaker 2: that is either an all pro Hall of Famer like
Speaker 2: Chris Jones, or just a pro bowler or just a
Speaker 2: solid starter. I've got to pull it up or read
Speaker 2: you all their names. Oh, I have it right here,
Speaker 2: Chris Jones.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: So for those agents being able to say we got
Speaker 2: our guy the biggest contract ever is super important for
Speaker 2: them because they need more clients. And so I think
Speaker 2: last offseason, under different circumstances, with different agents, he probably
Speaker 2: would have accepted the Chiefs deal. But to those to
Speaker 2: those agents credit, they didn't. They played hardball and they
Speaker 2: got a better deal than they were even asking for
Speaker 2: last year. And so yeah, they listen in in two years.
Speaker 2: This this the I look at it like this, and
Speaker 2: then we can move on. Christian Wilkins. Okay, let me.
Speaker 2: Let me pull up hold on Brandon Matabukes contract and
Speaker 2: then Christian Wilkins contract. So, and I'll explain this in
Speaker 2: a second. So Mattabuque or I said, Brandon, Justin Mattabuque,
Speaker 2: pardon me. He got four years for ninety eight with
Speaker 2: seventy million guaranteed. So Chris is making thirty two million
Speaker 2: a year. This guy who was the second or third
Speaker 2: best D tackle available is making twenty four million a year. Okay,
Speaker 2: Christian Wilkins got let me get this exactly right. He
Speaker 2: got four for one ten from the Raiders with eighty
Speaker 2: five million guaranteed, So he got twin what's the math
Speaker 2: on that? Twenty six right? No, twenty seven and a
Speaker 2: half million dollars a year. So this is an anchoring
Speaker 2: thing that you got to do the math in your
Speaker 2: brain on. But if the going rate for the second
Speaker 2: and third best D tackles available was call it, twenty
Speaker 2: six million a season, then the question is, if you
Speaker 2: want to have a great player at that position, is
Speaker 2: Chris Jones worth one six million dollars a year player
Speaker 2: more than Christian Wilkins or Justin Madabuke. Is you're the
Speaker 2: what I mean you're not getting a great d tackle
Speaker 2: evidently for less than twenty five million a year thereabouts
Speaker 2: is a thirty two. So the the golf there is
Speaker 2: seven million. So what type of player goes for seven
Speaker 2: million bucks? Kendrick Bourne, he just signed like three for
Speaker 2: eighteen that's six million year. So is Chris Jones enough
Speaker 2: better than Christian Wilkins or Justin Madebuke to justify the
Speaker 2: fact that you now can't sign a player of Kendrick
Speaker 2: Bourne's caliber, You bet your ass he is. Absolutely So,
Speaker 2: unless you were just gonna go naked at d tackle,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sign a league minimum guy and draft somebody
Speaker 2: if you wanted an established difference maker. Getting in the
Speaker 2: room cost you in the mid twenties. So that delta
Speaker 2: is what you're focused on. He's worth that delta. All right?
Speaker 2: Uh So, you you had said that you were proud
Speaker 2: of me for being fast on the cap stuff. Then
Speaker 2: you asked to follow up question and I did another
Speaker 2: five minutes. Older contracts, Well, I mean those contracts got
Speaker 2: signed in the last week. All right. Let's move on
Speaker 2: to the other news.
Speaker 3: All right, So one of the bigger fish and free agency,
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, the Atlanta Falcons obviously wants to go pick
Speaker 3: him up. Yeah, he's thirty six years old and he's
Speaker 3: coming off of a torn Achilles brothers. Uh, do you
Speaker 3: think the Falcons potentially botched this trade.
Speaker 2: Or the signing? Uh? I don't listen. I understand why.
Speaker 2: I understand why they did it. I thought the upside
Speaker 2: of Justin Fields, who evidently can be got for pennies
Speaker 2: on the dollar now, would have been interesting for them.
Speaker 2: They Raheem Morris said, you know what I want, stability
Speaker 2: at the quarterback position. And for Raheem, I don't blame
Speaker 2: him for that. Keep in mind, Raheem Morris has been
Speaker 2: the head head coach UH once in his career, and
Speaker 2: it was the Tampa Bay Bucks in O nine to
Speaker 2: twenty ten to twenty eleven, and those years the Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay Bucks at quarterback had Josh Freeman. It never got
Speaker 2: off the ground for him and he lost his job
Speaker 2: and he's spent a decade trying to get back to
Speaker 2: being a head coach. So what he said is I
Speaker 2: am not going to have this my second and what
Speaker 2: will be my last chance. If it doesn't go well,
Speaker 2: go poorly because we have a non playable character at quarterback. Right,
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna pay for the stability of Cousins,
Speaker 2: hope and pray the Achilles is fine. And they have
Speaker 2: spent a top ten pick on Kyle Pitt's, a top
Speaker 2: ten pick on Drake London, a top ten pick on
Speaker 2: Bjean Robinson. They have an excellent, excellent offensive line with
Speaker 2: league average quarterbacking, they should have a top ten offense
Speaker 2: given the talent. So I understand that piece of it,
Speaker 2: and the Falcons are now interesting. Do you want to
Speaker 2: say something demonsday before I go on, because no, I
Speaker 2: was angle to this.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, Yeah, I mean anything, it's gonna it
Speaker 3: was a Desmond Ritter was their quarterback last year. Yesh, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean he think's gonna be better than that. But
Speaker 3: I go ahead with it.
Speaker 2: And no, And so they could draft a quarterback, they
Speaker 2: could have traded for fields. There's things they could do.
Speaker 2: They want the certainty of Cousins, So I get it.
Speaker 2: Do I think their Super Bowl team?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Do I think they could be interesting if Cousins is healthy. Yes,
Speaker 2: but that's not actually what my personal takeaway on this is.
Speaker 2: My takeaway is a different one, which is that Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousins is going to end his career as one of
Speaker 2: the five highest paid players in NFL history, and that
Speaker 2: is because Kirk Cousins, in a way, really only Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott also has played the franchise tag game and was
Speaker 2: not afraid of it. So Kirk Cousins got drafted by Washington.
Speaker 2: There was a whole RG three thing way back in
Speaker 2: the day. They didn't know if they wanted to sign
Speaker 2: him to an extension. They franchised him. He didn't take
Speaker 2: a below market deal. It's like, no franchise me. They
Speaker 2: then franchised him a second time, and that's really all
Speaker 2: you can do. Technically, you have a third franchise tag
Speaker 2: available to you, but no one's ever used it. It's
Speaker 2: way too expensive. So once Kirk got franchise tag twice,
Speaker 2: he knew that every single time my contract is up,
Speaker 2: I will be a free agent, able to go anywhere
Speaker 2: in a marketplace where no quarterbacks are ever free agents.
Speaker 2: And so because of that, since post rookie deal, here
Speaker 2: are the contracts. Kirk Cousins has signed. A twenty million dollar,
Speaker 2: fully guaranteed one year franchise tag, a twenty four million
Speaker 2: dollar fully guaranteed one year franchise tag, an eighty four
Speaker 2: million dollar fully guaranteed three year deal with the Vikings,
Speaker 2: a sixty six million dollar fully guaranteed two year deal
Speaker 2: with the Vikings, a thirty five million dollar fully guaranteed
Speaker 2: one year extension with the Vikings, and now a four year,
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty million dollar, one hundred million guaranteed
Speaker 2: deal with Atlanta. Kirk Cousins is good, but not great,
Speaker 2: thirty six years old, coming off in Achilles and still
Speaker 2: got the same amount per year forty five million that
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes makes. The reason I say all of that
Speaker 2: is to make this point. If you are a franchise
Speaker 2: quarterback that feels the wrong team drafted you and they
Speaker 2: don't know what they're doing, and I do not think
Speaker 2: my guy Trevor is going to do this, but it is.
Speaker 2: That is the type of situation that I am talking about.
Speaker 2: You should not be afraid to say, I am not
Speaker 2: signing your contract extension. I will play out my rookie deal,
Speaker 2: I will let you franchise tag me twice, and then
Speaker 2: I am hitting the open market and then I am
Speaker 2: just signing short, fully guaranteed deals. If your goal is
Speaker 2: not stability, not even necessarily, you know, the best career
Speaker 2: possible if your goal is purely maxing out earnings. Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousins has laid the blueprint because he's never been great,
Speaker 2: he's never had postseason success, and he still makes all
Speaker 2: time legendary money, including an off season where he popped
Speaker 2: his achilles and is going to be thirty six years old.
Speaker 2: There was still a team willing to say one hundred
Speaker 2: million guaranteed forty five million a year. So it is
Speaker 2: a path no other quarterback has ever taken. But I
Speaker 2: wonder if there might be one that says, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be great no matter what. I don't need
Speaker 2: the locked in security of this contract extension. I'll play
Speaker 2: for whoever drafts me for seven years and then I
Speaker 2: will have maximum leverage after that. It's just an interesting idea.
Speaker 3: All right, next us, Baker is gonna be staying in Tampa.
Speaker 3: So he's also had a crazy I guess a couple
Speaker 3: of years. So he went to basically being bounced out
Speaker 3: of the league and now he's a one hundred million
Speaker 3: dollar quarterback. What do you think is more impressive Baker
Speaker 3: Mayfield still being in the league or you rooting for
Speaker 3: him the whole time, still having faith. You never backed
Speaker 3: out of her Baker's.
Speaker 2: Scid I don't wanna, Yeah, I mean, I don't want
Speaker 2: to make this about me, But I did always believe
Speaker 2: in Baker. That is true, and I thought what the
Speaker 2: Browns did was ludicrous and the Browns are going to
Speaker 2: pay that bill for years and years to come. Uh So,
Speaker 2: I do think that that is a a intriguing, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of what if if the Browns just held the
Speaker 2: line and kept building up that defense and recognized that
Speaker 2: the thing went sideways on Baker for two reasons. One
Speaker 2: is he tore his labram and played through it, and
Speaker 2: the other is Odell's dad shared an Instagram video that
Speaker 2: made him look bad. Those are the two key moments
Speaker 2: of Baker's Brown's tenure. Playing through an injury and the
Speaker 2: father of one of the players on your team trashing him.
Speaker 2: That's what. And then he goes to Carolina. Carolina is
Speaker 2: a total mess. More on them in a bit and whatever.
Speaker 2: So I do think Baker going from four million bucks
Speaker 2: a year to fifty million guaranteed is spectacular and I'm
Speaker 2: happy for now. Listen, Baker is always going to be
Speaker 2: somewhat limited. And I know you hate when I say
Speaker 2: this demand but because of his height, and that is
Speaker 2: a problem. Like he has a great he has a
Speaker 2: strong arm, but he is six feet tall. So seeing
Speaker 2: over the offensive lineman, being able to see the middle
Speaker 2: of the field, some of that stuff is going to
Speaker 2: put a ceiling on it. Also, I think in his
Speaker 2: head he's a little faster than he actually is. Baker
Speaker 2: tries a lot of the stuff Mahomes does when it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: this play's breaking down. I'm just fast enough to get
Speaker 2: past that pursuing rusher and get upfield. Except he's not,
Speaker 2: and he's always caught. It's like he hasn't yet figured
Speaker 2: out that he's not quite fast enough to do that.
Speaker 2: So I'm not acting like Baker is a top five
Speaker 2: or a top eight or even a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 2: What he is is beloved in the locker room, a
Speaker 2: true leader, I think, more than serviceable, and an unbelievable
Speaker 2: stat that did I favorite this tweet? Let me see
Speaker 2: if I did. If I didn't favorite it, maybe I
Speaker 2: sent it to myself. Hold on this do I uh
Speaker 2: that's not it? Okay, let me see if I have it.
Speaker 2: There is an unbelievable playoff quarterback stat that I saw yesterday.
Speaker 2: Hear it is past five years playoff most playoff This
Speaker 2: from Ian Harritt's most playoff games with three or more
Speaker 2: passing touchdowns playoff games with three or more passing touchdowns
Speaker 2: in the past five years. Who do you think has
Speaker 2: the most demnse is not a trick question. This one
Speaker 2: should be obvious. The most three touchdown or more playoff games.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes he has seven. Yep, second most. Again not
Speaker 2: a trick question. It might be who you would guess?
Speaker 2: Do you have a guess.
Speaker 3: Three touchdown playoff He's not in the league. It's not
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, is it?
Speaker 2: No? Tom Brady has two, and Tom Brady and Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott both have two three plus touchdown games in the
Speaker 2: last five years in the playoffs. Joe Burrow had has
Speaker 2: never done it once in his career. Joe Burrow's playoff
Speaker 2: stuff is if you dive into it, it's a little overrated.
Speaker 2: Josh Josh Yep, Josh Allen has four, So my homes
Speaker 2: has seven. Josh Allen has four, Brady and Dak have two.
Speaker 2: You know who's sandwich right in between them with three?
Speaker 2: The Bake show. Baker mayfield three excellent playoff games. Baker
Speaker 2: playoff game with Cleveland against Pittsburgh and then twice this year,
Speaker 2: the one against Philly and then the one against Detroit
Speaker 2: that they ended up losing. He threw the pick at
Speaker 2: the end. So you know a guy who rises to
Speaker 2: the postseason occasion.
Speaker 3: His teammates who Mac Jones?
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that, not in the playoffs, But
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Guys. Yeah, here are so just
Speaker 2: there's only the full list of guys with three touchdown
Speaker 2: playoff games in the last five seasons. The following people
Speaker 2: have one of these games, Big Ben out of the league,
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, Stafford, your guy, Brock Berdy, my guy, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 2: your my guy, c J. Stroud, and your guy Jordan Love.
Speaker 2: That's the one that's the guys with one three touchdown
Speaker 2: playoff games. Brady and Dak have two, Baker has three,
Speaker 2: Josh Allen has four, and Mahomes has seven. So I
Speaker 2: like it for Baker. I'm happy for Baker. Uh all right,
Speaker 2: you want to follow up question here before we get
Speaker 2: to Russ. Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the NFC South has three quarterbacks making over
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollars and two number one overall picks.
Speaker 3: But when you look at these teams, it doesn't even
Speaker 3: seem like they'll ever compete for a super Bowl. I
Speaker 3: don't want to say ever, but like the next two
Speaker 3: to three year.
Speaker 2: This year, yeah, I mean, listen, everything would have to
Speaker 2: fall perfectly for Atlanta Tampa. I like Tampa. They're not
Speaker 2: a super Bowl contender. Carolina is a disaster. In New
Speaker 2: Orleans is just locked into slightly blowed in mediocrity. So
Speaker 2: Atlanta is the only one. Uh and I don't see
Speaker 2: I think for them going eleven and six and making
Speaker 2: the Divisional round would be a great year. I don't
Speaker 2: think super bowls are real possibility at all. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go on to Russ.
Speaker 3: All right, so Russell Wilson is on the Steelers. Some
Speaker 3: folks might not. Some folks seem to think this trade
Speaker 3: means nothing. Yeah, what do you think this trade means?
Speaker 3: How do you how do you feel about Russell to Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2: All right? Just one note, I just probably the I
Speaker 2: could do this off the airporte.
Speaker 3: It's not a trade. It's not a trade, it's free agency.
Speaker 3: He was picked up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, you're calling all these There have been
Speaker 2: a few trades, but most of these are free agency signings.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean. Listen here. So for a
Speaker 2: million bucks, certainly worth a flyer. Kenny Pickett and his tiny,
Speaker 2: tiny hands are never gonna be an NFL starting level quarterback,
Speaker 2: so you need an upgrade there. I get that, But
Speaker 2: the level of excitement surrounding Russ is baffling to me
Speaker 2: and I end up being this bad guy on TV
Speaker 2: when I feel like I'm just the only honest one,
Speaker 2: like Greg Jennings yesterday, and I'm not taking a shot
Speaker 2: at Greg. Greg's great. Greg was like, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't you know, I don't know about Russ or the
Speaker 2: jury's still out, and I'm like, no, you do know.
Speaker 2: The answer is he's not good anymore. He's not good anymore.
Speaker 2: Now is he better than Kenny Pickett? Probably? Is he?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: I'm not ready to write them why not? So you're
Speaker 3: saying that he's washed and it's not working anymore. I
Speaker 3: do think that the Bronco Sean Payton situation, it took
Speaker 3: a little bit to jail. I don't think it ever jailed,
Speaker 3: but they threw a new quarterback in there the year before,
Speaker 3: and then they threw in a new coach the following year.
Speaker 3: So it's like, I think if he goes and plays
Speaker 3: with Mike Tomlin, they just won I think it was
Speaker 3: it ten or eleven games last year, which just that defense,
Speaker 3: their offense sucks, is dormant. So it's like, I don't
Speaker 3: I think that. I think Russ has a shot, Like,
Speaker 3: I think he has a decent shot at winning a
Speaker 3: playoff game. I know that game he wants. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: wants to win two Super Bowls in the next I
Speaker 3: think it was like five years.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's setting the bar too high. Guys.
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll look to the situation, said, hmmm, I theoretically,
Speaker 2: of a franchise quarterback in his prime, we're fine trading him.
Speaker 2: The Broncos got him. Ntt Hackett had him for week
Speaker 2: one of game one after seeing Russ in training camp,
Speaker 2: preseason and through that game. Where did it start to
Speaker 2: go wrong for nat Hackett when he had him kick
Speaker 2: that field goal in week one of Game one against
Speaker 2: Seattle instead of letting Russ go for it on fourth
Speaker 2: and five. Now, I'm not saying nat Hackett's a genius.
Speaker 2: I don't think that. What I am saying is Nat Hackett,
Speaker 2: after being around Russ all off season, all training camp,
Speaker 2: all preseason, and through that game, was like, hmm, what
Speaker 2: do we have a better chance at our kicker making
Speaker 2: the longest kick of his life or Russ picking up
Speaker 2: five yards sending the kicker. He then got fired because
Speaker 2: he got fired because he couldn't make Russ work. So
Speaker 2: they bring in Sean Payton to fix Russ and a
Speaker 2: year less than a year in Sean Payton's like your bench,
Speaker 2: gimme siddle the idea that all of these guys have
Speaker 2: been wrong and there is something to unlocked with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll be proven wrong. I doubt it, though, because
Speaker 2: I chant asked right about Russ for three years. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: was Sean Payton wrong? They're they're talking. Did you see
Speaker 2: demons who the Broncos are talking about bringing into play quarterback?
Speaker 2: Did you see it? No?
Speaker 3: Is it Jimmy g.
Speaker 2: Oh? No, Let's go worse.
Speaker 3: Let's go worse. Who is the worst.
Speaker 2: The go to name for disaster story Wilson in the
Speaker 2: last couple, Zach Wilson. That is correct, That is correct.
Speaker 2: They might bring in Zach Wilson. They paid Ross eighty
Speaker 2: five million to go away because they were so afraid
Speaker 2: of another thirty five million vesting in his guarantees. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's Pittsburgh and Ross.
Speaker 3: All right, well, I think that's then when you have
Speaker 3: to evaluate the people that are making those moves. But hey,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: At some point, okay, listen, I know you're fine. A
Speaker 2: lot of people agree with you. This is one of
Speaker 2: those things where demands I actually agree that you don't
Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. But everyone who do know
Speaker 2: what they're talking about agrees with you and not me,
Speaker 2: And it drives me crazy that you're and I and
Speaker 2: so we'll just see what happens. But no, for a
Speaker 2: million boxes at worth a flyer. Yes, for folks that think,
Speaker 2: oh this, Steelers just got demonstrably better, disagree, I just
Speaker 2: I disagree with that. We'll see, but I disagree with it.
Speaker 2: All right. Demand is gonna watch go ahead, No.
Speaker 3: You go, Yeah, I'm gonna no, I was gonna tease
Speaker 3: the that was no you continue, I'm gonna watch the
Speaker 3: kN his.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just ken. Oh look at that. That is
Speaker 2: a great photoshop down on the fly of me as
Speaker 2: Ryan Gosling. All right, demand's gonna watch I'm just Ken,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna talk about Brian Burns trade and then
Speaker 2: we're gonna play a game. We'll do it all next.
Speaker 2: What's Right? All right, welcome back in What's Right with
Speaker 2: Nick Right, a little breaking news Jamis instant to the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. I actually like that move for Jamis. Demanse's
Speaker 2: looking at Demonse. Don't take your ear piece out and
Speaker 2: just watch I'm just kin. Please don't focus on me.
Speaker 2: I want you to watch it and see Gosling's performance
Speaker 2: at the Oscars and then chime in with it. But
Speaker 2: that is a nice move by Cleveland, a nice little
Speaker 2: insurance policy for Deshaun Watson. So Demanse's gonna join us
Speaker 2: back in a moment, but he's doing He's watching I'm
Speaker 2: just Ken from the Oscars. In the meantime, I vetoed
Speaker 2: the producers who wanted to talk something Luca related, because
Speaker 2: I want to talk about Brian Burns being added to
Speaker 2: the Giants. And the reason I did is because the
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers might need an intervention. So shout out to
Speaker 2: the Giants for getting an a you know, a fringe elite
Speaker 2: pass rusher in the middle of his prime for just
Speaker 2: a second and a fifth. That is a great job
Speaker 2: by them for Carolina to have been And I know
Speaker 2: that this has been a lot of people have pointed
Speaker 2: this out, but I just had to spend a moment
Speaker 2: on it. They were offered by the Rams a year ago,
Speaker 2: two firsts and a second for Brian Burns. To turn
Speaker 2: it down because you wanted one more year of Burns,
Speaker 2: not value him enough to re sign him and then
Speaker 2: sign him to a I'm then trade him for a
Speaker 2: second and a fifth is some of the worst asset
Speaker 2: management in recent NFL history. I don't know why Carolina
Speaker 2: wouldn't just resign him. I guess they needed one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million. They spent on two guards, which I understand,
Speaker 2: wanting to be strong up the middle when you have
Speaker 2: a tiny quarterback. I get that, But you don't have
Speaker 2: enough quality players to move away from a home grown
Speaker 2: star at a critical position. And if you're going to
Speaker 2: do that, to do that and only get back a
Speaker 2: second and a fifth round pick, it once again is
Speaker 2: a reminder that right now the Carolina Panthers are as
Speaker 2: poorly of a run and managed team in the NFL demonse,
Speaker 2: Have you finished watching I'm you know, I'm just ken right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. Did you finish watching it?
Speaker 3: I finished watching it?
Speaker 2: Your thoughts?
Speaker 3: I gotta say it was cool, but I caught myself
Speaker 3: shutting my laptop after the video was over. But I
Speaker 3: forgot we have a podcast to do.
Speaker 2: Oh it was That's the problem? Uh? Did did? So
Speaker 2: you weren't as moved by it as I and the
Speaker 2: rest of the inn I do. I liked. I liked.
Speaker 3: I like how he interacted with the fans, and like
Speaker 3: how he that guy with the guitar. Is he from
Speaker 3: Kiss the like the guy with the curly hair.
Speaker 2: Slash from Guns and Roses? You're talking about the cot
Speaker 2: start Yeah, okay, the coast star in the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't even call them fans, but yeah I did.
Speaker 3: I do think that. But I'm not a big concert guy.
Speaker 3: I gotta say like performances and stuff like I've never
Speaker 3: been either.
Speaker 2: But he's not a musician. He's an actor. And that
Speaker 2: was the Oscars. I mean that's and so have you
Speaker 2: seen Barbie the movie? Uh?
Speaker 3: I haven't seen Barbie or Roben Armer.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right homework for you, Uh, watch those before
Speaker 2: our next pod, so you have a week because because
Speaker 2: by the way, a little for the audience, no pod
Speaker 2: Thursday because I'm speaking at a conference. Instead, we're gonna
Speaker 2: do a pod Friday with some special guests from the conference.
Speaker 2: So demanday gets the the time you'd normally spend prepping
Speaker 2: for the and doing the pod. Watch Barbie and watch Oppenheimer,
Speaker 2: and in fact watch them in the same day, back
Speaker 2: to back, just like some people did in the theaters.
Speaker 2: It's about three It's worthwhile, though Openheimer is a little
Speaker 2: confusing some time jumps. Maybe brush up on the Oppenheimer
Speaker 2: or Manhattan Project Wikipedia page beforehand, just so you have
Speaker 2: a good working knowledge. The Barbie movie pretty easy to
Speaker 2: follow straight forward and revisit next weekend or next week
Speaker 2: on the show. I h I have. I watched The
Speaker 2: Holdovers the other day after being asked about it on
Speaker 2: the What Oscar Movies I'd seen. I really like The
Speaker 2: Holdovers and I've seen, as I said, last week, Killers
Speaker 2: of the Flower Moon, which was awesome. But your homework
Speaker 2: is just Barbie and Oppenheimer. H Dune two I have
Speaker 2: not yet seen. I want to, but I'm gonna that's
Speaker 2: gonna take some time for me to be able to
Speaker 2: get to theaters to see it.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 2: Right, demanse, let's go all in fold.
Speaker 3: Oh you finished the Bryan Burns before the route, before
Speaker 3: gossip was over.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah he did it quick. Yeah, let's do all.
Speaker 3: We're doing all in our fold today. So, uh, the
Speaker 3: Jaguars made a blockbuster trade for a Firmer, former first
Speaker 3: round franchise quarterback in we don't even pretend it's there's
Speaker 3: a quarterback controversy. You think that they're you think the
Speaker 3: Trevor's in line for a record extension, but it seems
Speaker 3: that they can't come to an agreement. Is this Uh?
Speaker 3: Is this Trevor? Is this Jacksonville all inner fold? Trevor
Speaker 3: once out of Jacksonville?
Speaker 2: Okay, so Trevor maybe should one out of Jacksonville, but
Speaker 2: he I'll fold this. He's definitely. That's They're the reason
Speaker 2: he hasn't signed the extension is because that's not when
Speaker 2: these extensions get signed. The guys who are done with
Speaker 2: their third year who get extensions don't get it pre
Speaker 2: free agency. They get it. The guys in No one
Speaker 2: in Trevor's draft class has signed their extension, yet they
Speaker 2: will then get They will get it sometime in the summer.
Speaker 2: And so the Mac Jones thing, we really and I
Speaker 2: hope Wilds in the first things, first offices can hear this.
Speaker 2: And in fact, Dusty and crew watching in the conference room,
Speaker 2: if you guys could temporarily just turn the TV way
Speaker 2: way up so Wilds can hear it in his office,
Speaker 2: I'll give you a moment to go ahead and do that. Okay,
Speaker 2: I assume it's done. On the TV show yesterday, we
Speaker 2: made a fool of ourselves because Wilds decided instead of
Speaker 2: just folding his all time losing hand of Mac Jones
Speaker 2: being any good at all, he decided to turn the
Speaker 2: Jags trading one hundred and ninety second pick for a
Speaker 2: backup quarterback into an alleged quarterback controversy. I tried to
Speaker 2: talk him out of it before, during, and now after
Speaker 2: the show. He refused. And so now it's just going
Speaker 2: to for some reason, prolong my dear random partner and
Speaker 2: colleague Kevin Wilde's public humiliation about Mac Jones to where
Speaker 2: when Trevor gets a quarter of a billion dollars and
Speaker 2: Mac is you know, on the final year of an
Speaker 2: expiring contract on the rookie wage scale. These takes, I mean,
Speaker 2: they exist on the internet. And listen, I'm not a
Speaker 2: big you know, send clips to awful announcing. Certainly not
Speaker 2: clips of my colleague. But I might make an exception
Speaker 2: because it was such a bad take. Trevor, Listen, I
Speaker 2: would prefer you can turn it down now, Dust, I
Speaker 2: would prefer that Trevor play somewhere. I don't want to
Speaker 2: say I don't love the Jags front office. I don't
Speaker 2: love Balky, but he's gonna get a quarter of a
Speaker 2: billion dollars. He's gonna get the same deal justin Herbert got,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna you know, they they signed Gabe Davis,
Speaker 2: They did some things. They tried to upgrade the team.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, So the twenty twenty one
Speaker 3: quarterback class is supposed to be an all timer. So
Speaker 3: we got three quarterbacks went in the top three. Then
Speaker 3: Fields and Mac also went in Round one. Only Trevor
Speaker 3: is the starter today. Obviously, will this year's draft be
Speaker 3: the same? All interfold drafting quarterbacks equals playing the lottery.
Speaker 2: I fold that because nothing is a sure thing. But
Speaker 2: you can look at the history and the data, certain
Speaker 2: things are Number one overall pick at quarterback has a
Speaker 2: hit rate well over fifty percent. First round pick at
Speaker 2: quarterback we're talking about the last twenty years, has a
Speaker 2: hit rate of over thirty percent. You know, mid round
Speaker 2: picket quarterback it plummets to a hit rate at like
Speaker 2: less than ten percent, and late round picket quarterback has
Speaker 2: a hit rate of one person Tom Brady and a
Speaker 2: second person brock Party if you want to include him
Speaker 2: in that. So I think yes, it's go ahead.
Speaker 3: Do you think the fifty percent is pretty low for
Speaker 3: the first pick of the draft or over fifty percent?
Speaker 2: Just I mean how so? I mean NFL Draft. Let's
Speaker 2: just go over the uh quarterbacks taken number one and
Speaker 2: we can we can see it. So last year it
Speaker 2: looks like Bryce was flatly the wrong pick. CJ was there,
Speaker 2: he ended up going to but throw Bryce out. Trevor
Speaker 2: went number one in twenty twenty one. Say what you
Speaker 2: want about Trevor, He's clearly was the right pick between him, Zach, Trey,
Speaker 2: Justin and Mack, and I think he's gonna be excellent.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow went number one in twenty twenty. Kyler went
Speaker 2: number one in twenty nineteen. I think the jury is
Speaker 2: still out on Kyler as far as he gonna be great,
Speaker 2: But Daniel Jones and Dwayne Haskins were the other first
Speaker 2: round picks. He was clearly the right one. Twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: Baker went number one. Baker was you know, up and
Speaker 2: down in Cleveland. Josh Allen and Lamar were later in
Speaker 2: the draft, so that obviously they got the wrong quarterback.
Speaker 2: But Baker wasn't a total nothing of a quarterback the Browns.
Speaker 2: It just went bad for him there. Twenty sixteen, it
Speaker 2: was Jared Goff got to a Super Bowl, they moved
Speaker 2: on from him. He's good now again, but he was
Speaker 2: clearly the right pick because the other quarterbacks were Carson Wentzon,
Speaker 2: Paxton Lynch. Twenty fifteen, it was Jamis Jamis. It didn't
Speaker 2: work out, but again the second pick. The only other
Speaker 2: first round pick was Marcus Mariota worked out worse for
Speaker 2: him if we keep going. Andrew Luck was the first
Speaker 2: pick overall in twenty twelve. He was excellent short career.
Speaker 2: Cam Newton was the first overall pick in twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: obviously the right pick, and he was excellent. Sam Bradford
Speaker 2: in twenty ten. He was fine. The only other first
Speaker 2: round quarterback was Tim Tebow Stafford in two thousand and nine. Excellent,
Speaker 2: Matt r No, Matt Ryan wasn't number one overall, JaMarcus
Speaker 2: in seven total disaster right and then Alex Smith in
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. Aaron Rodgers went later in the draft.
Speaker 2: You got the wrong guy, and so and Eli Manning
Speaker 2: in four. That's a big debate. Eli, Philip Rivers or
Speaker 2: Big Ben different. You know, Eli won two Super Bowls.
Speaker 2: I think the other two guys were probably better. Carson
Speaker 2: Palmer and O three was first overall pick, clearly the
Speaker 2: right guy. VIC and O one So David Carr in
Speaker 2: two thousand and two didn't work out. So here's my point.
Speaker 2: My point is, yes, they're lottery tickets, but drafting one one,
Speaker 2: you're buying a lottery ticket that had as a seventy
Speaker 2: percent chance of hitting. Drafting elsewhere in the top ten.
Speaker 2: You're using a lottery ticke that has a ticket that
Speaker 2: has like a fifty percent chance of hitting. Drafting outside
Speaker 2: of the top ten, But in the first round it's
Speaker 2: a lottery ticket that has like a twenty five percent
Speaker 2: chance of hitting. Drafting in rounds two three, four, it's
Speaker 2: a lottery ticket that has like a five to ten
Speaker 2: percent chance of hitting, and drafting rounds five, six, seven,
Speaker 2: it's a lottery ticket that has like a one percent
Speaker 2: chance of hitting. So yes, they're lottery tickets, but they
Speaker 2: have obvious different values on them. Uh, to get back
Speaker 2: to oh so I, this year's first round has five
Speaker 2: first round quarterbacks. It probably will mean there is one
Speaker 2: one or two stars, one fine player, and one or
Speaker 2: two total washouts. That's usually about the history of these
Speaker 2: draft classes. With a bunch of guys in the first
Speaker 2: round at quarterback. All right, we gotta go fast now next.
Speaker 3: All right, So Saquan is headed to Philly to help
Speaker 3: them out with the tush push all interfold. Saquon fixes
Speaker 3: Philly's offense.
Speaker 2: Philly spending this money on Saquon is such a misuse
Speaker 2: of resources. It's just so crazy. Philly fell apart last
Speaker 2: year because their defense was terrible. Who signing the most
Speaker 2: expensive running back on the market. It's just bad business.
Speaker 2: It is it is your friend who uh has a
Speaker 2: car that breaks down all the time because it needs
Speaker 2: a new transmission, And you see him and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, he has brand new rims on it. He's like,
Speaker 2: look at that. It's like, yeah, man, but that's I mean,
Speaker 2: it looks cool, but that and those are nice and
Speaker 2: Saquan's a good player, But that's not That's not what
Speaker 2: was killing you last year.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, are you after saying you wouldn't pay
Speaker 3: a running back outside of Christian McCaffrey, a thousand teams
Speaker 3: signed the running back on day one? All in her
Speaker 3: fold you were wrong on running backs.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not unfolding. Obviously, I'm not wrong on running
Speaker 2: backs aside from Saquon. Did you see how much money
Speaker 2: any of these guys got. None of I think the
Speaker 2: highest million bucks?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I'm not arguing you don't need a
Speaker 2: running back. I'm arguing you don't pay big money, big
Speaker 2: money for a running back. So Josh Jacobs on a
Speaker 2: bunch of one year deals at eight million a year,
Speaker 2: or DeAndre Swift, I get it now. Again, I don't
Speaker 2: even know if that's the best allocation of resources, but
Speaker 2: I understand it.
Speaker 3: So no, I'm not mixing to the Texans guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, that so listen, there had been a report that
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon was released. Evidently he's not been released and
Speaker 2: said he's been traded to the Texans. I assume for
Speaker 2: a late late round pick, because they were going to
Speaker 2: they were going to release him, all right, next.
Speaker 3: All right. After being hit with the franchise tag, T
Speaker 3: Higgins requested a trade from the Bengals since he is
Speaker 3: the only team without Brady that has ever beat Mahomes
Speaker 3: when it matters all in her fold, Cincinnati, Cincinnati remains
Speaker 3: the top threat to Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I mean the Burrow's health is
Speaker 2: a concern and Higgins demanding a trade. Hey, listen, I
Speaker 2: told you a year ago they should have traded T
Speaker 2: Higgins when his value was at its peak, taking their medicine,
Speaker 2: gotten a first round pick. You're not gonna pay Burrow
Speaker 2: top of the market, Chase top market, and another receiver
Speaker 2: top of the market. You're just not going to. Cincinnati
Speaker 2: should be respected. Cincinnati's good. I don't know that they're
Speaker 2: the top threat anymore because I think at this point
Speaker 2: the only threat to the Chiefs is history.
Speaker 3: Next, the Bill's got it their team and lost Gabe
Speaker 3: Davis to free agency. Seems like all they have left
Speaker 3: is Alan and a guy who doesn't want to be
Speaker 3: there and Stefan Diggs all in her fold Stefan Diggs
Speaker 3: will be the next one to leave.
Speaker 2: No, I'm folding. They're definitely bringing him back. It's cap wise,
Speaker 2: is almost impossible move on from him. Also, in Stefan's defense,
Speaker 2: he really even though they didn't use him that much,
Speaker 2: is his production went down as targets went down. He
Speaker 2: didn't cause any distractions or problem at the end of
Speaker 2: the year when they were winning. And so I give
Speaker 2: Stefan credit. I think this will probably be his last
Speaker 2: year with Buffalo, but I think he'll be in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll do listener questions next. We're not gonna
Speaker 2: get to the Lakers. We're doing an all NFL show.
Speaker 2: It just is what it is. We do some basketball
Speaker 2: later in the week or next week. What's Right? All right,
Speaker 2: welcome come back in What's Right with Nick right demonse.
Speaker 2: Let's read some listener questions. Let's start with Justin feine
Speaker 2: Gold's question if you.
Speaker 3: Would yes, he asked, no way we would get a
Speaker 3: one for Sneid Right.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to say no way. I think
Speaker 2: that I think the Lions at twenty nine are If
Speaker 2: I'm the Lions, I am having a meeting about do
Speaker 2: we want to offer the twenty ninth pick for Lagarius Snead,
Speaker 2: Do we want to offer the twenty ninth pick for
Speaker 2: T Higgins? Do we want to do neither and just
Speaker 2: a draft a player there. I think that the Lions
Speaker 2: at twenty nine could make a lot of sense as
Speaker 2: a Sneed destination. I know some people have had the
Speaker 2: Galaxy brain idea of what if the Chiefs and Bengals
Speaker 2: traded Higgins and Sneed for each other. The Bengals need
Speaker 2: secondary help. The problem is the Chiefs are not going
Speaker 2: to spend T Higgins money on the OA wide receiver,
Speaker 2: so like the they, the Chiefs would rather, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: have Sneed van Higgins. The only reason they won't have
Speaker 2: Sneed is because he's gonna be so expensive if you can't,
Speaker 2: I think the Lions at twenty nine are interesting. Buffalo
Speaker 2: at twenty eight makes a lot of sense, but the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are not gonna try to make Buffalo better and
Speaker 2: Sneid would fix a lot, you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: issues for them if you can't get the twenty ninth pick.
Speaker 2: The next team I would be talking to would be
Speaker 2: New England at thirty four, they have Christian Gonzales. Do
Speaker 2: they want to, all of a sudden have just an elite,
Speaker 2: elite secondary Arizona at thirty five? They drive Marvin Harrison
Speaker 2: at four and then use, you know, all of a
Speaker 2: sudden bolster their secondary. And I think it's in play
Speaker 2: that sneed just plays on the tag, all right. Go
Speaker 2: to Hugh's question, Demonse, is that.
Speaker 3: Paul McCartney from Van Halen.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that guy is doing what to you what
Speaker 2: people used to do to me, which is make fun
Speaker 2: of their lack of historical musical knowledge. Because you asked
Speaker 2: if Slash was from whatever group you asked he was from. Yes, guys,
Speaker 2: kiss Demonse grew up a in the twenty tens and
Speaker 2: b playing sports, not listening to old music. I grew
Speaker 2: up in the nineties listening to sports radio instead of
Speaker 2: listening to old music. I didn't instill some historical musical
Speaker 2: knowledge on him. You're not gonna bully him for it.
Speaker 2: Go to Tony Malcizon's question, No problem.
Speaker 3: I got that. Tony Magazon says, where will Dereck Henry go?
Speaker 3: Any idea? And producers asked Demons if he wants them
Speaker 3: for Baltimore. Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you want Derek Henry on Baltimore.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm not opposed to it. I mean it's I
Speaker 3: don't know what Derek Henry's asking for, but uh, I
Speaker 3: mean if we can get him for you know, something like.
Speaker 2: It's probably ten million bucks, we don't need maybe a
Speaker 2: little less that well and Baltimore, that thing is Baltimore.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. Baltimore's problem is not I can't
Speaker 2: run the ball. Now. I do think he might end
Speaker 2: up in Baltimore because the report was the other team
Speaker 2: interested in Henry, really interested was Houston. But Houston is
Speaker 2: now traded for Joe Mixon, So Derrick Henry and Baltimore
Speaker 2: might end up being.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to worry about Lamar Jackson running,
Speaker 3: and then you also have to worry about Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3: I guess they would be nice on like a pass
Speaker 3: or run pass ouption whatever you won't call it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: but the.
Speaker 2: Thing is is Baltimore just did this whole thing where
Speaker 2: they're gonna, uh use draft capital and free agency money
Speaker 2: on wide receivers. Lamar is gonna be a passer, he
Speaker 2: wins league, gonna be that way. Then the next offseason
Speaker 2: would be like, Okay, we're gonna sign Derrick Henry. I
Speaker 2: think it's probably going to happen, probably by the time
Speaker 2: the TV the show starts. I bet he signs with Baltimore.
Speaker 2: It doesn't to me make a ton of sense. All right,
Speaker 2: we gotta go. I gotta go do Colin, then do
Speaker 2: the TV show. Great job today, Demanse again, no show Thursday,
Speaker 2: bonus show instead on Friday. We'll see you guys. Then,
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