1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:07,119 Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast is over. The projected salary 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:12,239 Speaker 1: can Welcome back to another edition of the Round the 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: League Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas, and I'm joined 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: by room filled with heroes, Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. What Boys, Happy Friday? God? Yeah, fuzz in 6 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: the air today. Yeah, last like channeling in late eighties. 7 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: Wwf heel. I love it. Yeah, I haven't seen west 8 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: this fired up in a long time. Someone went on. 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: Someone slept in this morning. Well, you know, a man 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: whose nickname is close to one of the most evil 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: people in the world has called us out today. That's true. Yeah, 12 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: we have to start there, because where else could you start. 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: I came in this morning, uh to tape the podcast, 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: and there was you know, there was a little buzz 15 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: in the air between the two scientists, as you've called 16 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: the marks scientists on scientists, heat between uh Wes and Greg. 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: But then it was quickly pushed to the side by 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: some legitimate, legitimate NFL star heat towards there. He's a 19 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: two time pro bowler, isn't he? All right, we're referring 20 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: to do Dante Whittner or Dante Hittner. I don't know 21 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: what what he's gonna go by this year. But Dante 22 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: Hittner was listed by the two scientists Greg and West 23 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: as the number forty eight free agency on the top 24 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: one oh one, which can be found on NFL dot com. 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: Apparently this didn't sit well with the forty Niners safety. 26 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,279 Speaker 1: Let us go through some of these tweets, shall we please? 27 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: It's actually it started eight hours ago. Eight hours ago 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: his first tweet, I'm convinced at NFL dot com needs 29 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: better writers. I'm the forty eight best free agent available. 30 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: Huh l O L, which means mark laugh out loud. 31 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: It does mean that hashtag hit and then, uh, let's 32 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: see what else I'm ranked behind. Right after that, he's 33 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,839 Speaker 1: on fire. Now I'm ranked behind guys that didn't even 34 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: play in two thousand fourteen. You guys haven't watched the 35 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: film and definitely don't know football. Hashtag hitting her and 36 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: then and yes, I have a chip on my shoulder 37 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: hitting her. Let's pause there, and I'm gonna throw to you, gentlemen, 38 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: why don't we just get right into why is not 39 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: a hitting her in the middle of the list. Well, 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: first of all, he said, defiantly don't know football because 41 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: definitely is sneakily the hardest word to spell in the 42 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: English language. That hard. It's easy to spell if you 43 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: have a you know, a grade school education. But people 44 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: who tweet at me all the time for trash talk, 45 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: you know, how you're an idiot is like the biggest 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: your Everybody misspells your but you, you defiantly don't know 47 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: football is up there on the list. What if he 48 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: means that you are You've been hired to know football 49 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: and you're so defiant that you But why is he 50 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: number Because he's an over thirty safety. That's not what 51 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: is he at right now? I think he's entering his 52 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: age twenty nine season. He came to the league when 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: he was twenty, so this is his ninth season. He 54 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: says he's built up a lot of hits over the years. 55 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: I think if we were talking about who were gonna 56 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: line up and play the two thousand thirteen season over again, 57 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: Whitner would be our our highest guy out of all 58 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: those guys in that range on safeties. He had a 59 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: good year. But I think Greg's point is when you 60 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on a free agent, you 61 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: have to kind of project a lot going forward. Two 62 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: or three years down the road. Are you still gonna 63 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: be paying a lot of money to a guy who 64 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: might be done? Is he going to be a priority 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: for the forty niners? I don't think so. I don't. 66 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: I think they believe he can be replaced pretty easily. 67 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: Are they going to give him a big, long term 68 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,839 Speaker 1: contract offer. There's no indications that they're going to. He's 69 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: a good safety that fits better in the nine eighties 70 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: and nineties style of play where you wanted that big hitter. 71 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: He's not as good and coverage, he's solid. You had 72 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: him ranked about forty. I had him ranked a little lower, 73 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: so he ended up in our top fifty. I just 74 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: think that's the role of that he is. He's a 75 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: solid starter in the middle of his career. Okay, So 76 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: Greg says that Dante Whitner is a man of another time. 77 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: So now let's move on deeper into the timeline, getting 78 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: closer to h the mid afternoon Friday, Greg points out 79 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: this is what Whitner is upset about and links out 80 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: to the list. Then here comes hitting her again at 81 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, I'm not upset at the list. I'm upset 82 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: at the fact that NFL dot com hired you Bunsen Burner, 83 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: Blowtorch on the Scientist, him and a lot of other people. 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: Bring it. We we we asked him. We asked Dante 85 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: to come on the podcast right then. It was right 86 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: before we walked up here, and uh, he didn't want 87 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: to do it. And Greg, you, uh, to your credit, 88 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: you asked him immediately, Hey, listen, you know bring it, 89 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: bring it? You want to come on the podcast and talk. 90 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: He says, how can I talk football? Was someone that 91 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: obviously doesn't no football, Blowtorch. He not looking at this 92 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: list the way that you guys did in terms of 93 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: if you're a general manager you want to go out 94 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: and re sign someone. It's not just top one best 95 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: words players. How old are they, Where are they in career? 96 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: If we have to sign them to a four year deal, 97 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: where are they at the end of that deal. That's 98 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: why he is where he is. He's not looking at 99 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: it as a general manager was would look at it. 100 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: I guess he's talking about Henry Milton when he's talking 101 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: about guys who didn't even play last year. Henry Milton, 102 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: a few years younger than Whitner, plays a much more 103 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: valuable NFL position as far as what kind of money 104 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: gets spent in general managers, I would think would spend 105 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: more money on Henry Milton than Dante Whitner. And they've 106 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: shown that he's been trying to get this big long 107 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: term deal for most of his career. He asked out 108 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: of Buffalo basically because of it. Uh, he was franchised 109 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: a few times and the money just doesn't go out 110 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: there for these kind of safeties. I think top fifties good. 111 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: I mean, he's around guys like Ankoon, Balden, Edelman, mc madden, 112 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: Roger Saffold. These are all starters, guys that you're gonna 113 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: put in your lineup and they're gonna start. I like 114 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins a little more in this day and age 115 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think he can cover some people. 116 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: You put Whitner in the slot, it's gonna be a problem. 117 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of a lot of bills and 118 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 1: forty niners fans came to uh a t l S defense. 119 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: And to the point, though, are we to be surmised 120 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: from this that while he's very disenfranchised with the work 121 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: that West and Gregg and that's specifically Greg person But 122 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: I'm the flip side obviously content with the product that 123 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: Dan and I produced. Any any insults, he was very 124 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: you know specific, and we're gonna get you know, we're 125 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: gonna get into more of the uh the scientists top 126 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: one oh one. But I just went before we get 127 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: going with the podcast and earnest I wanted one more 128 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: issue that I got got tweeted at US yesterday and 129 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: this also goes to West and Greg. Stephanie um from 130 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: somewhere tweeted, this is so messed up about the list. 131 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: You guys didn't even list team Tim Tebow when you 132 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: know he is good enough to be on that list. 133 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: Total discrimination against quarterbacks that can't throw. Wait, what does 134 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: Stephanie from somewhere mean? What that's I think I can 135 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: say to that as guilty as charged. All Right, so 136 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: we gotta we got a big show. We just had 137 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: to get out how to get into that immediately because 138 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: it was you know, legitimate. I love it. People were 139 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: coming across the news room like, oh, watch out, witness 140 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: this is great. If every player is reading the NFL 141 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: dot com and around the league and haven't wanted to 142 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: discuss our ratings, let's do it. Absolutely big show, big 143 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: Friday show. We're gonna do. Um, everyone's not favorite game. 144 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: Everybody's favorite game is. It's pretty fairly known unless you're Greg. 145 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: It's win West's toaster. However, America's second favorite game. It 146 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: just moved past Jeopardy is what's more likely? As you know, 147 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: did you bring winked tie? Did I bring wink Hi? 148 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: Would you wink today? Yeah? But I don't. I'm not 149 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: comfortable with that name. Wink tie. Yeah, but you know 150 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: wink tie. That does fit you? All right? You want 151 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: me to go by wink tie? I could do it. No, 152 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: not really, just be wink Um the gold standard behind 153 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: the glass of working on some audio behind the glass 154 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: about for that game and get excited for that. Um. 155 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: We're also going to do some mail bad questions. We 156 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: got some some tweets from the Twitter verse towards the 157 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: A T. L Crew, But why don't we start the 158 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: gold standard? How are you buddy doing? Great? Thanks? Um 159 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: with the news all right, and we'll start with a 160 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: pretty big story. The salary cap is expected to make 161 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: a nearly ten million dollar jump in two thousand fourteen. 162 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: Albert Brier reported Thursday that the caps expected to be 163 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: said at a hundred and thirty three million according to 164 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: union and team sources, that could become official as soon 165 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: as Friday. UM. Obviously that is the biggest jump, and sometime, 166 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: what are we to make of this? It's overdue. There 167 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: hasn't There used to be a big jump every year, 168 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: and that's why people make more money every year, and 169 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: it's not that hard to fit under the salary cap. 170 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: In the last four or five years have been tougher 171 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: for the players and the teams because the salaries haven't 172 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: been rising. And it's good. Everyone can just spend some money. 173 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: We don't have to hear about salary Captain. I can 174 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: see Gettleman in his office with like his record player 175 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: turned up high, doing like pirouettes around the room. He's 176 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: got some cash. He just slid three more beads over 177 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: on his ampicus. And you know, Breer actually made note 178 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: of it on Twitter yesterday. You know, we heard a 179 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: lot when the salary cap wasn't moving in the last 180 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: couple of years that this was a sign and that 181 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: the NFL had really killed the players union in the 182 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: c b A. But as Breer noted, all the money 183 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: from these TV deals UM is going to really lead 184 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: to the cap jumping higher and higher as we get 185 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: through the rest of this decades, and now the players 186 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: are about to get into a really good position to 187 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: really start cleaning up. It's but that's after five years 188 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: of not doing anything out of nowhere, so it's overdue. Well, 189 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: in those five years, quarterbacks salaries kept getting higher and higher, 190 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 1: and all the other positions were not going up. When 191 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: did it become such a thing that we're all so 192 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: interested in cap numbers and salaries. There was like a 193 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: change in like, if you're a fan, now you have 194 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: to know about dead money on the cab. It's because 195 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: that's why some of your favorite players are getting chopped 196 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: before their careers. Or there was a change twenty years 197 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: ago people really started getting into the contracts of everything, 198 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: oh guaranteed money. I'm not saying we aren't, but we're 199 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: working in the industry. It seems bizarre to me that 200 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: fans have to care so much twenty years ago when 201 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: free agency started there. Yeah, there was a time where 202 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: I remember talking to an old boss that used to 203 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: be a sports editor told me that having an NFL 204 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: beat was the best beat to have because it was 205 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: a three to four months season with you know, training camp, 206 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: and then it was like, you know, kick back your 207 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: feet for a few months after the season ends. That 208 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: is obviously not the case at a certain point. Though, 209 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: at a certain point there's too much news of money. 210 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: There's too much here's what he's gonna make in year one, two, three, four? 211 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: Who cares? When you're seeing all these reports about people 212 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: restructuring their contract, shut up. Those are the most pointless. 213 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: It's just accounting. It's not you ever a child sifting 214 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: through the newspaper for Plan B free agency. I remember 215 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: doing that. It was such a huge deal, like who's 216 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: been put on the Plan B list? Moving on? Then? 217 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 1: Has put in the Baltimore Ravens agreed to a five 218 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: year contract worth roughly thirty two million. Ravens source told 219 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: Bert Breer, Uh, this locks up one of Joe Flacco's 220 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: favorite targets. Of course, pitt have missed most of last 221 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: year with a hip injury, but the guy can play, 222 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: and now he's staying in Baltimore. I think my fellow 223 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: scientists Greg and I had the same reaction immediately to this, 224 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: and now means that you Monroe will probably get the 225 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: franchise tag Ozzy Knewsome's plan coming together keeps his two 226 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: highest priorities as they rebuild that offense or overhaul the offense, 227 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: in which so far they haven't done much work behind 228 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: beyond keeping their own guys. But I think they want 229 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: to definitely tweaked the offense. They missed put a ton 230 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: last year, so they had to keep them, and I 231 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: think they have to give that tag. It's eleven and 232 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: a half of Monroe. Maybe eventually you get a long 233 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: term deal done, but they can't let him walk away. 234 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: He's the best tackle out there. And it's a big 235 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 1: victory for pit because I remember when he got when 236 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: he got injured late in the summer, it was if 237 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: he doesn't play all year, he's entering this contract situation 238 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: where his value could plummet. But he came back. He 239 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: obviously is. It's a bad news though if you part 240 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: of the Dallas Clark family. The lights are low in 241 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: that house. Dallas Clark being in the NFL DAAs that 242 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: was a struggle to watch the Ravens. It got overlooked 243 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: maybe how truly awful their offense was. I mean they 244 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: were at the Jaguars level. They were at the Raiders 245 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: with Matt mcgloyan type of level that's how bad they 246 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: were last year, and that's I mean, that's gonna be 247 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: one of those things you have to watch for if 248 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: they if they've run out that same offense again two 249 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: years in a row, then you start wondering about there. 250 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: And they can't just rely on pit of They need 251 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 1: a wide receiver for sure. The Eagles, of course, signed 252 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: Jason Peters to a huge extension uh their left tackle 253 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and now on Thursday became official that Jason 254 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: Kelsey and Riley Cooper were also locked up to new 255 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: Deal's deal with Jeremy Macklin is said to be not 256 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: far behind. The Eagles obviously like their core and they're 257 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: locking them up. They were what second behind the Broncos 258 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: and offense last year, and this comes on the heels 259 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: of locking up Jason Peters, so they have their core 260 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: locked up. They're still talking to Macklin. I think it 261 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: looks like the Eagles want multi years. Macklin wants only 262 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: one year so he can go back into free agency 263 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: again next year. But he wasn't a part of the 264 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: offense last year. Anyway. This this offense is locked up, 265 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: they can concentrate on rebuilding the defense or upgrading the defense. 266 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: I like these moves. The one takeaway from me is 267 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: that Kelly at this point is not gonna sign or 268 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: resign guys that don't really fit his vision of the 269 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: kind of team he's gonna build. And we talked about 270 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: Cooper is a guy that might get overpaid and not 271 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: be a good signing somewhere else. But he does fit 272 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: what Philly did last year. He he fit like a 273 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: glove and I think that it's confirmation that they believe 274 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: that will continue. And he didn't get paid that much. 275 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: It sounds good because it's Riley Cooper and you look 276 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: at the five years, but really he got paid as 277 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: a low level starter, maybe five million dollars a year. 278 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: That's for an NFL veteran. That's not much. You could 279 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: even not have him in the starting lineup at that salary. 280 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm impressed that Kelly. It shows he's a good coach 281 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: that he comes in and he improved the players that 282 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: Reid had. He didn't need to find new players. He 283 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: made them better. And they have that offensive line now 284 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: locked up through two thousand sixteen, all five of them. 285 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about continuity is the biggest factor 286 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: with an offensive line. Those five are set and it 287 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: and he and quickly found the right players for his 288 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: type of line too. It didn't take you know, bad 289 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: team takes you five years to get that done. And 290 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: two things about Riley Cooper. One, he signed, although he 291 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: won't see out the contracts, surely five years or twenty 292 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: five million. Any Jet fan knows and remembers that is 293 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: the exact total five that Neil O'Donnell signed into the 294 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: And that sticks with you. That's a number that sticks 295 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: with you. Don't hurt yourself stretching for that one. That 296 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: it had to go back to the Jets somehow, and 297 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: that was very that's very important to get it out there. Also. 298 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: And on a on a note, that's um that I 299 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: found quite humorous the quote of the day yesterday, Right, 300 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: poor Riley Cooper Um, because of his Kenny Chesney exploits, 301 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: will always be asked these types of questions. He gets 302 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: asked about the proposed N word band on on the field. 303 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: His exact quote. I think it's a good rule. That's 304 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: a good move Ryley Cooper to say that, yes, it 305 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: is moving forward. I was looking for exciting other five year, 306 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar contracts and history since that really 307 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: on top of you that you're a fan of these. 308 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: Travis Henry one signed a five year, million dollar one 309 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: for each kid, one million per kids. Wow, that's damn 310 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: che contract. I just I just thought you would be 311 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: interested in that, Like I was thinking there was some 312 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: really famous baseball one. Yeah, we just can't think of. 313 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: I think Danny Tardi will signed a five year, five 314 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: million dollar contract with the John Carlson one signed a 315 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: five year, twenty five million dollar contract with the Vikings. Yikes, 316 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: that's all it has been brought to its knees and 317 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: it's all my fault. Uh. Finally, Adam Schefter reports for 318 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: ESPN's Adam Schefter reports at the Saints we'll use their 319 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: franchise tag on tight end Jimmy Graham before Monday's deadline, 320 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: per league source. I guess that's not a huge surprise. 321 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: The real question is will the NFL, who decides these 322 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: things tag him as a wide receiver or a tight 323 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: ends a tight end decide on it. They'll tag him 324 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: as a tight end so the Graham can file a grievance, 325 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: and Ian Rappaport as indicated he will. But this there's 326 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: no doubt Saints are calling him a tight end. You 327 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: know what tight ends do. Sometimes they line up on 328 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: the line, Sometimes they line up in the slot. Sometimes 329 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: they line up at Why that's a tight end. There's 330 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: an unnamed talking head that I heard yesterday explain his 331 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: reasoning why, uh, Jimmy Graham should be a tight end. 332 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: He goes to the tight end meetings. I won't say 333 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,239 Speaker 1: who was. Um, all right, and that's it for the 334 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: news before we get onto the top one oh one 335 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: free agents and uh, everyone's second favorite game. I wanted 336 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: to get there's a A t L mail bag up 337 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: on the Around the League podcast that I wrote where 338 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: I got a bunch of questions from readers. However, not 339 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: all of the questions were geared towards the NFL, somewhere 340 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 1: geared specifically toward the A t L podcast, So I 341 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: just wanted to get a couple of them out there. Um. 342 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: Dan's often talked we don't promote his work enough on 343 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,959 Speaker 1: the podcast and the bull by the Horns, and just 344 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: creating a segment out of his post, I love it 345 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: all right. Here we go at NFL A t L. 346 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: This is from Hulks Caesar Savath or No. I think 347 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: it's Hulks Saysar Savage, like Julio Saysar Chavez. Is that 348 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: what it is? Yeah, it's pretty good way to pick 349 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: that out at Hulks Caesar Caesar, Uh, if the apocalypse 350 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: started during a podcast, who amongst you would be made 351 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: emergency leader? Hashtag a t L mail bag. That's a 352 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: good question. I like to think of it. If we 353 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: split up, it would be one of those things, uh, 354 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: you know, divided we fall. I think we would all 355 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 1: die immediately. But if we stuck together and we we 356 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: came together like an interlocking puzzle, we would survive. Yeah. 357 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that would be what is 358 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: the question really asking? I don't understand it in a 359 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: like Lord of the Flies type situations, got the conch? 360 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: Who would have the conk? I'm not sure it's a 361 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: time that we would be, uh, you know, putting together 362 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: org charts. I think we need to work as a 363 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: team and not worry about one person. I think the 364 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: bigger question is what is happening if we all just 365 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: go down in this apocalypse, but somehow the rest of 366 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: the NFL media group survives. Who's taking over? Patra has 367 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: his own podcast, What What happens. I think they'd they'd 368 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: reassess a lot. It would be taking place in bars 369 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: a lot and gold Center. The reason I think that 370 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: you would die is because we would find out that 371 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: there was a apocalypse going on, because I could see 372 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: walkers storming through the door killing you behind the glass, 373 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: and then we would immediately need to start figuring out 374 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: a plan. Sure, no point taking thank you, thank you 375 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 1: for killing me? What was that movie where they're all 376 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: on the on the mountain? You know what I'm saying. 377 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: All I know is I'm happy because I'm happy because 378 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: if if worst comes to worse and we have to 379 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: eat one of one of us to survive, I'm the 380 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: last one you guys want to eat. You know what 381 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: I'm saying that I'm just surviving. That was that was 382 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: that movie? Dan would be biting into my right soul. 383 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: I would think because of the organ chart, we would 384 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: probably go based on the org chart of the company 385 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: and Greg would be the leader. But I'm saying, like, 386 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: would Greg be able to hold onto the leadership? And 387 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: of course I think that's what the question is about, 388 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: right Well, I don't think in a rugged scenario where 389 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: we're survivalist that I'm frankly the best choice for a leader. 390 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: I'm happy to follow one of you guys. I feel 391 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: there was like a tennis tournament we would be would 392 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: be a comfortable for leading. I feel like wesser Dan 393 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: would be more of the maybe the rugged you know 394 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: outdoor here, I can't fix anybody. I'm gonna go with 395 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: the underdog Mark. Yes, he could see. He just had 396 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: to live off, you know, the land or whatever we needed. 397 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: I actually spent years as a camp council learning how 398 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: to build. He would be lots of fires in rainstorms. 399 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: The answer. I think he would be like lock and lost. 400 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 1: He was our lock. In fact, I could see Sessler 401 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: burying a dagger into Rosenthal's back. But it's good to 402 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: see that my boss picked the other two people in 403 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: the room and not me, So i'll follow that away right. 404 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: Moving on, this is from Blade's rock Richie loves k 405 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: weird Um. Do you deliberately pick contestants with the least 406 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: amount of NFL knowledge to maintain mythical status of West's toaster? 407 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: It's a fair question. We'll let the gold standard answer 408 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: this one ahead. Look, I can't account for butterflies on stage, 409 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: so to speak. We went through a rigorous casting process. 410 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: Nothing came out of it, but no, next month, we're 411 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: taking you down West sounded like a long yes to me. 412 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: HAVE been been wondering about this whole operation for a while, 413 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: and I think this question is on to something I 414 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: could vouch for Gold Standards integrity. I think he got 415 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: some really bad luck. Um. As much as we were 416 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: happy to have our two listeners call in and it 417 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: was great for them to be up part of the show, 418 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: did not bode well for people buying into the gold 419 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: Standard as the arbiter of fairness. But he's going to 420 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 1: get another shot next month. I would like to know 421 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 1: what the young man from Saska Saskatoon ingested before he 422 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: came on the shape. Moving on, Andrew, Uh, this is 423 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 1: a it's a great sinner. Handle at Chewbacca's beard at 424 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: a t L. Do you think you could go at 425 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: Chris Westling into saying he'll eat pants if the Raiders 426 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: go eight and eight? Of course they needed to get 427 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: to six last year. First things first, isn't Chewbacca's whole 428 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: body of beard? Yeah, it's supposed to be. I am 429 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: not making any softball pants statements until after the free 430 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 1: agency and draft process plays out. That's certainly fair. And finally, 431 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: Andrew uh who is at TIC TAC Underscore underscore fate 432 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: at n f L A t L. Why are the 433 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: Falcons ass? That's funny as that sounds, it reads even 434 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: better if you just look at the Twitter, the tweet 435 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: that's on Dan's mail bag. I suggest everyone go to it. 436 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: But it's a it's a fair question. So I think 437 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: this is better answered in print and we can direct 438 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: you towards the off season forecasts. Why do you guys 439 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: think the Falcons are asked why did they have a 440 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: big year Julio Jones got injured? Not why they had 441 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 1: a bad year. Why are they asked Julio Jones got injured? 442 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: Their offensive line wasn't built well, and their defense doesn't 443 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 1: have any play man. And they believe themselves to be 444 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: still a player away from being thirteen and three when 445 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: I think they're probably close, sort of sixteen players away 446 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: from that being the case right now, don'te Whitner level 447 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,239 Speaker 1: heat there. I can't believe you do that to our 448 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 1: favorite general manager. He is my favorite guy. I love 449 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: the guy. But it's let's deal in facts. They don't 450 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: have a lot other than Matt Ryan. You don't have 451 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: wide receivers, your two lines disaster? Really, what is so 452 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: great about that team? They drafted a couple of young 453 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: cornerbacks that sound good, there's nothing so great about the team. 454 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: I think it goes back to mc hammer underscore fons. 455 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: I feel like I can live with less than six 456 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons prime time games next year, so it's it's 457 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: not all bad, but you don't want Can we dial 458 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: up Geno Smith versus the Falcons again on like the 459 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:41,719 Speaker 1: Saddest mondaylay anyway? Um? The gold Standard behind the Glass? 460 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 1: I think it's time why from Culver City, California. It's 461 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: America's favorite game show. That's awesome. That makes me. That 462 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: reminds me of staying home from school sick one day 463 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: and watching like back to back to back to back 464 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: game shows. And maybe the listener is asking the same 465 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: question Mark asked before the show when we first heard that, 466 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 1: and he said, who was that? And uh, it was 467 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: none other than the gold Standard? What a job? I 468 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: thought it was, Rod Roddy? How dynamic is that guy 469 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: back thereous Dan's feeling some heat with this cheesy game 470 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: show host voice. I think I have a real challenger. 471 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: Going back to what you were saying, Mark, the the 472 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: two shows that I remember watching back to back specifically 473 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: on sick days was Family Feud, Ray Combs Era, Rest 474 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: in Peace, and then Right into the Prices right with 475 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: Bob Barb. But you knew when, like Charlie's Angels faded 476 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 1: into Mash that it was over you to go back 477 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: to school the next day. You never missed school, No, 478 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: we weren't. Let my momople yeah, and my mom quote said, 479 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: I don't care if you have blood coming out of 480 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: your eyeballs, You're not coming this trigger. Multiple times I 481 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: would stay home for the first round of the tournament 482 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: to get to be alone. So you never have that 483 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: opportunity skipping like weeks at a time in college. Do 484 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: you guys don't know? I'm a game show connoisseur, a 485 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: professional because I once worked on the show most outrageous 486 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: game show Moments four. I believe it was I'm not 487 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: even joking in my job, Nielsen's Powerhouse, no doubt well, 488 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 1: feeling very fulfilled at the moment. It was actually hosted 489 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: by Chuck Woolery taping the mall somewhere in County, and 490 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: my job was to go into work and watch game 491 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: shows all day from nine in the morning to six 492 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: at night and pick out find some outrageous moments. For 493 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: the end of the week. We'd have a big meeting 494 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: and we'd all watch it. I'd take it all back. 495 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: You would now be my choice in a Lord of 496 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: the Wait. Did you ever have any uh, like, any 497 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: interface with Chaz Woolory. Yeah, we I went to when 498 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: we taped the show and everything. I was like a 499 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: p a basically. But yeah, yeah, nice guy. Very that 500 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: sounds like an know to me. But no, no, he 501 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: looked just I mean, he couldn't have been nicer. And 502 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: I gotta say seventies era match game pretty rewatchable. You 503 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 1: got really tired of a lot of game show is 504 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: very quickly watching watching it all day for two months. 505 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: Match game you could keep your entertainment value high. Alright, good, 506 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: So check that out on YouTube and Greg endorses it. Um, 507 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: all right, let's let's start. Let's do the first one. 508 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 1: What morely? All right, gentlemen, what's more likely Michael Vick 509 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: signs with the New York Jets or the Houston Texans Jets? 510 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: Just because free agents usually come down to connections. He 511 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: has the Marty Morning White connection, and there's already a 512 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: report that they're interested. I have a hard time arguing that. 513 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: It seems like what we're reading he leaves wise, he's 514 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: going to uh Gang Green. Yeah, Vic doesn't seem like 515 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: a Bill O'Brian. I don't know what a Bill O'Brien 516 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: quarterback is, but that feels like an odd fit. So 517 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Jets. It just seems like such a 518 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: Jets move. We talked about it in the middle of 519 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: October November last year. Now here, it's coming dance like moderately, 520 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: moderately excited by the way. The uh the scientists set 521 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: Vic at number thirty five overall, and I'm just gonna 522 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: read the blur because why not that a company's vixed name. 523 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: VIC might be entering the stage of his career where 524 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: he's just good enough to get you beat that promising 525 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: and he's still an upgrade on many starters out there? 526 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: Is he the first quarterback on this list? Is nobody 527 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: even close to him? On this list? Vic is number one? 528 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: And then the argument would be over Matt Castle, Josh 529 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: McCown or Josh Freeman as number two. Disaster. Well, I'm 530 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: gonna throw out of what's more likely, what's more likely 531 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: way of doing things around here? Okay, And I'm also 532 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: breaking the roads because there's three options in this what's 533 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: more likely of these three quarterbacks mc down, Freeman or Castle, 534 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: which one is more likely to have a surprisingly good 535 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: season as a fairly cheap option that gets you nine wins? 536 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: Something like that? What are the options again, McCown, Matt 537 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: Castle or Josh Freeman sneaky good sign And then McCown 538 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: resigns in Chicago. So let's say, unless Jay Cutler goes down, 539 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: he's not in the mix. I'll go Castle in a 540 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: disaster for a team, though, Castle, who's still a fairly 541 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: young guy, once led a chief team, or to lead him, 542 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: but he was the quarterback of a Chiefs team that 543 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: won eleven and five, and he's a quarterback of a 544 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: Patriots team that also went eleven. I'll go Castle. But 545 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: it's like, would you rather eat a bowl of cottage 546 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: cheese or mayonnaise? I love? I would never eat it 547 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: in my life. I wouldn't touch either product. No, no 548 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: vegetarian likes or dislikes vegetable and dairy products more than mark. 549 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: It's insane. Usually it's like vegetarians are like, oh I 550 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: love the earth, I love the taste of these vegetables 551 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: and whatever, and and you don't like anything. What would 552 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: your your frame look like without French fries. I do 553 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: not eat French fries that often. I think there's got 554 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: to be a chance. I think there's got to be 555 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: a chance. Matt Castle on the Texans might be decent. 556 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: I could see them drafting Clowney. They still have what, 557 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: They've got some interesting parts there. I could see the 558 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: Texans having nine. I think we should listen to Dante Whitner. 559 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: Just this one. You use your eyes, watch the film. 560 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: If you just watched Matt Castle last year, he was 561 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: all right. You put him on a good team, he 562 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: would be all right. Well you're not including the Bengals game. 563 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: I hope he had some bad game. He had some 564 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: good games. What more likely? What team is more likely 565 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: to wildly overspend to middling results and otherwise, in other words, 566 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: to pull in Ireland The Jets not the country. We 567 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: don't want to be smirched f our listeners. No, not 568 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: the Republic of Ireland. We're talking about the earthtwhile gm 569 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: of the Dolphins. But who will be more likely to 570 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: overspend without a lot coming back their way, the Jets 571 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: or the Raiders or another team mystery team. I love 572 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: how Mark put this in a PC road Today, the 573 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: Raiders have sixty five million dollars to spend. What's more 574 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: likely they spend that money on quality free agents or 575 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: purchase a low level of Metropolis. Well, they've got that 576 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: kind of cash. I I go Raiders because you know 577 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: the owners come out with quotes basically that said, my 578 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: GM no longer has any excuses to hide behind, and 579 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,719 Speaker 1: this is the off season we've been waiting for. I 580 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: think that has the makings of we're gonna overpay just 581 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: to bring name is in. Were the Jets. They seem 582 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: focused on building a part of their team, essentially half 583 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: their team, the offense that needs to improve, and I 584 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: think that it isn't a fly by night character. Here's 585 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: my big concern. I think if they get Michael Vick 586 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: and it's at the right price, let's find whatever, we'll 587 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: see if that works out. I am a little nervous 588 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: that they overspend and get Eric Decker in it. The 589 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: Raiders have to spend because they don't have any starters. 590 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: Everyone they signed last year was on a one year contract, 591 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: so they basically have to fill in seven, eight nine starters. 592 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: It's their team is gonna be a bunch of free 593 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: agents again and that, but that, and the question is 594 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: who's going to be last year's Dolphins. Have the chunks 595 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: of new players coming in and doesn't work or not? 596 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: That feels like there some of the options. Mark Sessler 597 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: wrote a great piece, You guys should check it out. 598 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: Free agencies, big spenders, pretenders, and surprises. So he broke 599 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: down who's going to spend a lot who's not? He 600 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: left He listed the Raiders, Brown's, Jets, Ravens, Colts, and 601 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: red Skins as seven teams that could be spending a lot. 602 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go with for my answer the red 603 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: Skins because anytime their general manager says something like we're 604 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: gonna have some room to do some things, that means 605 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: the checkbooks open. Dan Snyder is gonna be Dan Snyder 606 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: and they're gonna throw silly money. And they have twenty 607 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: free agents of their own, and a lot of them 608 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 1: that you would not bring back if you have any 609 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: sign of mental capacity to watch football, which Greg and 610 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: I do not. According to Dante Whitner. How about maybe 611 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: they'll be they overpaid last year for some players, why 612 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: not do it again. You're not happy with the Desmond 613 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: Bryant and Sugar was vastly overpaid for what we saw, 614 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: But you have to overpay if you're Cleveland to get 615 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: players to come in there, right. I don't buy that. 616 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: I keep hearing that everywhere just money is money. People 617 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: are going anywhere. If they offer half a million more 618 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: than another team, they're going. Their players don't care. Well, 619 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: let's rings up a conversation Mark and I have with 620 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: an agent in Indianapolis. Look at that. We meant news gatherers. 621 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: We wanted to know if Darren McFadden was gonna read 622 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: Jerem mcdarn. Mcfann was going to rejoin Hugh Jackson in Cincinnati. 623 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: And the agent shot it down and said Cincinnati is 624 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: still one of those places that nobody really wants to 625 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,359 Speaker 1: go there if there are other options, because West has 626 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,760 Speaker 1: been poisoning the well for two years on a podcast. 627 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,240 Speaker 1: Came unsolicited. It did come on solicit, but that's because 628 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: they don't offer good free agent contracts to other free agents. 629 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 1: From what the agent was telling us, it goes well 630 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:37,919 Speaker 1: beyond that, what more likely, speaking of Darren McFadden, what's 631 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: more likely a one thousand yards season from McFadden or 632 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: Hakim Knicks in two thousand fourteen. I'll jump in with Nicks, 633 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I don't think McFadden could stay 634 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: healthy enough to get a thousand yards, or you have 635 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: a role where he's the guy for a thousand to 636 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 1: get a thousand, Well, I and I have to go NIX, 637 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: because I really did think that McFadden was to go 638 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: back with Hugh Jackson, who did a great job with 639 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: him a couple of years ago. But Nis put him 640 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,320 Speaker 1: in the right offense, and maybe that's a comeback player 641 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: type candidate right there. Wait, what about McFadden being put 642 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: in a place that's more But we just found out 643 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: that the one place he's not going there, I'm not 644 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: I'm not sure where he thinks. I don't see McFadden 645 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: as a guy that can play for more than nine 646 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,439 Speaker 1: games a season al vote. McFadden on the Reggie Busch 647 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: career track goes to a more wide open offense and 648 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 1: uh has to come back here it is easier for 649 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,919 Speaker 1: running back to get a thousand yards. But how about 650 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,320 Speaker 1: Keem Nicks going down to Caroline like that where he 651 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: went to college. He's the number one receiver. Steve Smith 652 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 1: number two. I could see that happening. You get a 653 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 1: thousand yards in that offense, I think, not good question. 654 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Thanks a lot. I just 655 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 1: came up with it. They run a lot. Keem Knicks 656 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,800 Speaker 1: rank number twenty five on your guys list. Darren McFadden 657 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: can be found. You had him a little higher, and 658 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,839 Speaker 1: I did him high. I hit him as my number 659 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 1: one running back above Ben. I just wanta starts to 660 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: keep attacking you guys on social media. That would be 661 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: great if it happened. That happened for like straight months. 662 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: I thought it was out of bounds. All the Bills 663 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: fans that went after him, and the people sending YouTube 664 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: highlights of him giving a touchdowns in the Super Bowl 665 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,760 Speaker 1: to and that was some forty Niners fans called him Whittner. 666 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 1: We would never do that. More likely Dante Whittner reconsiders 667 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: the free agency one on one list and it's cool 668 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 1: with being number or Dante Whitners spears Gregg Rosevelt into 669 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: a wheelchair. Oh yeah, definitely. The ladder. The ladder I mean, 670 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: that's a pretty heavy thing to do. This. Gregg is 671 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: taking the high road here, and I appreciate that. But 672 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: if the high road well, no, I think you're saying 673 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,320 Speaker 1: I can take it. I'm gonna come back at you. 674 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep to my opinion. But if you two 675 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: were in the same uh ten by ten room or something, 676 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: I don't like your chances of coming out not bloodied, 677 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 1: not beating up, at least not with his point made 678 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,280 Speaker 1: very strongly. Oh, I think he'd uh. I think he'd 679 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,960 Speaker 1: enjoy our company where a regular group of guys, and 680 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,800 Speaker 1: we'd come to everyone can Hey, Look, he wouldn't We 681 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't be in the room. He didn't say writer, he 682 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: said writers. He was throwing West under the bus, but 683 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,799 Speaker 1: very quickly focused on one in divisions faded into the 684 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: ether on you know, I don't care what players say. 685 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,720 Speaker 1: I would I would explain to him, Look, look you're great, 686 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,240 Speaker 1: Dante um. I don't know if you've watched the tape 687 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: of Anthony Collins is six starts over his entire career 688 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. But he looked pretty good, and that's why 689 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 1: he's forty seven year forty eight and Dante okay, makes 690 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,720 Speaker 1: I love that Dante Wittner, you know, brought the heat today. 691 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 1: But I will say it's a little disappointed that it 692 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,839 Speaker 1: it shielded us or kind of deflected attention away from 693 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: the legitimate heat the Bunsen burner, heat bunds and burning Blowtorchie, 694 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 1: thank you Gold centered between Greg and West and this 695 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 1: is not manufactured. It was happening during the podcast on Wednesday. 696 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: It was happening. You missed it, Mark, yesterday in the 697 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 1: office they were just sniping at each other like two 698 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,480 Speaker 1: little chihuahuas, and then according to you, Mark, they were 699 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,720 Speaker 1: going at it again today. Yeah. It's a shame because 700 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: just weeks ago I felt, I know you did, Dan 701 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,800 Speaker 1: as well, that we were a unified group. There was 702 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,719 Speaker 1: a lot that we could look towards each other and 703 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: appreciate our gifts, aw even our foibles. And now it's 704 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:34,279 Speaker 1: just become so whatever that word is so ugly. It's 705 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: really it's not. It's hard to come to work right now. 706 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 1: It used to be fun coming to the office, but 707 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 1: now there's kind of like a cringe worthy feeling when 708 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: I sit in my checks. I don't know when these 709 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: guys are gonna go off on each other, unproduced scientists, 710 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,719 Speaker 1: scientists on scientists crime. Yeah, there was a big disagreement 711 00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: about Zane Beatles. West didn't even mention him and his 712 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,359 Speaker 1: then he suddenly wanted to raise him twenty points. There 713 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 1: are no like great guards on the market this year. 714 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: Everybody's mediocre, but there are a lot of teams looking 715 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: for guards. The giants in particular, have come out him 716 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: away from Come on, and what we're talking about legitimate 717 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,839 Speaker 1: guard heat? Like who else is doing this? These two 718 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: guys getting after each other? How could Zane Beetles be 719 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,279 Speaker 1: down there far? Like what what I'm talking about here? 720 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: There was a big disagreement over whether Kenny Britt or 721 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: Ted Gain should be number one oh one on the 722 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,839 Speaker 1: and I learned a lot about West here. I learned 723 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 1: how he's changed as an NFL analyst. He basically wanted 724 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: Britt to be number one one on one on list 725 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,600 Speaker 1: because I don't know if he really bought it, but 726 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: it just had more sizzle. They was more exciting than 727 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,359 Speaker 1: this guy Britt. Well, I keep hearing from West. West 728 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: is mentioning quotes. He says that you keep throwing him 729 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,319 Speaker 1: under the bus. Well, in fact, he has every time 730 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: there's a disagreement over a player. He misrepresents where I 731 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: put them. I put them in the place that we 732 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: would agree on, and he actually he actually had them 733 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,880 Speaker 1: twenty spot later. This is what we're dealing with all 734 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 1: But Kenny frit Me explain, it comes down to what 735 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: you need. If you need a kick returner and a 736 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,279 Speaker 1: guy who can, you know, do us a trick play, 737 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: you get arrested at that's tech gain. If you want 738 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 1: a guy you're hoping can eventually step in and be 739 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: a number two receiver, has the potential to be even 740 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,399 Speaker 1: more of that a reclamation project you're going after Kenny Britt. 741 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 1: So it depends on what you're looking for there. You 742 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: would need a lot of things to break right. I 743 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,600 Speaker 1: feel for for Kenny Britt to do that, I agree, 744 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,480 Speaker 1: But there are players like that in the past. To 745 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,879 Speaker 1: have him said, you said Ted Ginn was the best 746 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,400 Speaker 1: receiver on the Panthers at one point last year is 747 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: why we're now talking about Steve Smith saying his careers 748 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 1: in Jeff, that's more about how bad I don't know 749 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: why there was so many more disagreements over the bottom 750 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 1: of the list. If it wasn't for West Brian della 751 00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 1: Puente would have been thirty Spotshire. I'm actually glad that 752 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 1: you basically buried him. If some player has to have 753 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,279 Speaker 1: a problem with West, it's it's day la Puente and 754 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: his owner because you have you have basically turned him 755 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,920 Speaker 1: into a bottom feater the last few days. Asked you 756 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: to tell me what the difference was between Brian day 757 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 1: la Plente and Evan Dietrich Smith, and you couldn't. Well, 758 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 1: he's got one extra little part of his name, day 759 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: la Puente and then Dietrich Smith. Dietrich Smith like out 760 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,320 Speaker 1: of your list. But they leve Plente in the thirties. 761 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,839 Speaker 1: I where the couple that starts just descending into an 762 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: argument that you're like, just check please, says can we 763 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: get back to this golden tape thing? This has really 764 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: been eating away at me. We still have him too, well, 765 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: we have him and we haven't below he's forty five 766 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 1: on the list. Alright, let's throw it to you, guys. 767 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,880 Speaker 1: Golden Tate's forty five on the list. Usually when the 768 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: past we can Golden Tate, guess who was number one 769 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,680 Speaker 1: in the NFL and yards after the catch per reception, 770 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:07,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't Tomarius Thomas. It wasn't Kendall, right, wasn't Antonio Brown. 771 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,719 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a guess it was Golden Tate. Guess 772 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: who was number one in the NFL and missed tackles 773 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 1: for wide receivers Golden Tape. Golden Tape. Guess it was 774 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: number one in the NFL and punt return efficient, sheet efficient, 775 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:25,840 Speaker 1: Greg Little Golden Tate. The Why what team knows Golden 776 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,120 Speaker 1: Tate the best? The Seahawks? Why are they not making 777 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: him a priority because they have a lot of es. 778 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,719 Speaker 1: He'll be back with the don't try to lure us 779 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 1: into it, dance, let's up. Every time the Seahawks talk 780 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,480 Speaker 1: about who is valuable and who they want back, Golden 781 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,080 Speaker 1: Tate is the top of that. They don't do anything 782 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 1: about it. Eight catches for sixty one yards and three 783 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,520 Speaker 1: playoff games combined. They ran the ball. I'm not saying 784 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: he's not a useful guy. That's why he's in the top. 785 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,319 Speaker 1: I think we know where Goldstenter stands on your points, Greg, 786 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,120 Speaker 1: because you didn't get the blowtorch after that playoff stat 787 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,759 Speaker 1: I think you deserved your own blowtorch there. So you're 788 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,840 Speaker 1: framing him in a very nice genteel way. It's everything 789 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,200 Speaker 1: that everybody thinks. Julian Edelman is Golden takes better in 790 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,960 Speaker 1: all those areas, and not by a little bit. He's 791 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,080 Speaker 1: a lot better in all those areas. Is he a 792 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 1: better return man? Yes? He had more yards, better average 793 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,200 Speaker 1: and a better efficiency rating last year on punt returns. 794 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,720 Speaker 1: What happened to the sound effect of the beaker's breaking? 795 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 1: I like that what and what happened is a beatles 796 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 1: Let's get back to that. Um all right, We're gonna 797 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,600 Speaker 1: have to take it offline the rest of this discussion, 798 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,920 Speaker 1: but I'm sure it will continue as we roll closer 799 00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,760 Speaker 1: and closer to free agency. We'll be back on Monday. 800 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,400 Speaker 1: We will have an in studio guest or NFL media 801 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 1: insider Ian Rappaport will make his ATL podcast debut. We're 802 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 1: gonna talk free agency with Ian and amongst other things. 803 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,920 Speaker 1: Until then, this is Dan had to signing off for 804 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,520 Speaker 1: the mailman, the Boss, the sciss all, and the gold 805 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:09,960 Speaker 1: standard behind the glass until money, I'm a hot handyman.