Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Rams are finalizing a trade to send
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey to the Miami Dolphins. It's Timmy Garoffalo headed tit.
Speaker 1: They Las Vegas Raiders. The Carolina Panthers are moving all
Speaker 1: the way from number nine to the number one overall selection.
Speaker 1: Chris Lindstrom was not slated to be a free agent,
Speaker 1: but the Falcon said, now is the time for us
Speaker 1: to do a big extension. Janno Smith is traded to
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcon. David On Yamada winds up with the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcon. Jesse Bates is going to the Falcon. The
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens just announcement they have released Clouds. Javon Hargrave
Speaker 1: he is going to the San Francisco forty nine and
Speaker 1: Broncos are signing Fenn Powers. Mike Bunglinchi is signing a
Speaker 1: deal with the Denver Bronco. Juwan Taylor now heads to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Jason Kelsey has announced on Twitter that he
Speaker 1: plans to return the Chicago Bears. They are signing Tremaine Edmunds,
Speaker 1: as of course, is on his own time schedule. He
Speaker 1: is in his own time frame and we are just
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and wait until he decides to do
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do. From the Chris Westling podcast studio,
Speaker 1: it's around the NFL Free Agency Frenzy edition. Dan hands
Speaker 1: us here with Mark Sessler, Greg Rostal and the great
Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf. They have stripped the need for us to
Speaker 1: literally do the show. They just just about the free thing.
Speaker 1: I figured, we just talked for five minutes and then
Speaker 1: we're out here a little bit of a life back there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be tough to top. John new
Speaker 1: Smith getting into the rundown right there at the top
Speaker 1: of the show is the biggest upset of the season.
Speaker 1: Sizzle for seventh round. Pick into the top of the show,
Speaker 1: he goes, don't have to talk about it now, former Titan,
Speaker 1: Now I get it. Welcome there, it is, welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome to a big week on the NFL calendar. The
Speaker 1: the tampering period has begun started at one pm Eastern today.
Speaker 1: Was it was it a one? They caught the negotiating
Speaker 1: period they're trying to get rid of legal tampering nomenclature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now you said it wrong too, one Eastern. Actually it
Speaker 1: was after Pacific and we have been tracking it for
Speaker 1: hours and hours, and obviously you heard that at the
Speaker 1: end the the Aaron Rodgers of it all. Despite its
Speaker 1: seeming like it's a thing that's gonna happen between the
Speaker 1: Jets and Aaron Rodgers and the Packers moving forward as
Speaker 1: we're taping right now. That's not official, but it feels
Speaker 1: like it's gonna happen. I'm not even I don't even care.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, Dan, why are you even saying that
Speaker 1: you're gonna jinx it? If it's not gonna happen, that's
Speaker 1: fine too. Honestly, We're gonna pivot and figure something out
Speaker 1: as Jets fans, because if if this turns out to
Speaker 1: be Aaron Rodgers hasn't made a decision yet and he
Speaker 1: sent both of these teams into free agency without knowing
Speaker 1: the plan for Rogers. If he ends up chicking it
Speaker 1: out and retiring or whatever, or forcing his way back
Speaker 1: to the Packers, have fun. I'll deal with that. But
Speaker 1: it's just amazing that we couldn't just get the news
Speaker 1: and have a part of the show. But this is
Speaker 1: part of the Rogers experience. It's he specializes in this
Speaker 1: type of march drama. And I mean just to be real.
Speaker 1: We were you know, we care about the news and itself,
Speaker 1: and there's there's a Jets angle to it with you
Speaker 1: Dan for our show. So it's like all weekend long.
Speaker 1: It was like, if this thing happens wherever you are
Speaker 1: in your weekend plans, if you're with children, or wherever
Speaker 1: you were going to be dropping what you're doing to
Speaker 1: talk about Aaron Rodgers and so I just like it
Speaker 1: kind of created this weekend long tension where it's like,
Speaker 1: when does Mark pursue his own activities? When do I
Speaker 1: pursue my own passions and you actually not do anything
Speaker 1: you intended to do? Would absolutely say that that is
Speaker 1: that is the case. He gave some examples. Well, I
Speaker 1: would just say, it's a Saturday afternoon, like what if
Speaker 1: I want to go do things around the city that
Speaker 1: would be you know, Mark esque or something that someone
Speaker 1: my age would want to go do. It's like you
Speaker 1: you have to sit around and wait to find out
Speaker 1: if this guy is gonna join the Jets. He was
Speaker 1: trying to stay as you know, clean and sober as Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you know, so Aaron Rodgers in a way
Speaker 1: promoting healthy living, I guess, but I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You know, there are a couple of times when Graver
Speaker 1: sort of stepped in and said, well, I need to
Speaker 1: be at a like an Oscars party and four pm
Speaker 1: on Sunday, providing a clear cutoff and then you know
Speaker 1: we don't have to do that was the only thing
Speaker 1: that was made clear by anyone over the weekend. Graver
Speaker 1: was like, I'm hosting an Oscars party, so FYI Sunday
Speaker 1: from about three pm Pacific onward is not going to
Speaker 1: work right, And we had no choice. We were hamstrung.
Speaker 1: Oh we would have made We would have made him
Speaker 1: do it or found someone that could. I could have
Speaker 1: dropped everything for that. How about Greg? Greg on Saturday
Speaker 1: was just like I'm out Saturday. Sorry. I was our appreciated.
Speaker 1: I had a hotel room going to Indian Wells to
Speaker 1: watch the tennis, which was that every year I wasn't
Speaker 1: staying okay to have a life. I had Keith Hansas
Speaker 1: on retainer. If the Rogers thing happened over the weekend,
Speaker 1: we would have knocked out some type of reaction show
Speaker 1: and then hit it harder today. But going back to
Speaker 1: the main point, we're still waiting, so that maybe it
Speaker 1: was going to happen. Once I saw all of the
Speaker 1: Jets players tweeting Garrett Wilson, I can finally enjoy my
Speaker 1: vay k now he said, y'all should see the smile
Speaker 1: right now that I have on my face. I think
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner tweeted something else like a tipping point and
Speaker 1: then no speeding here, creating like it's happening. I've thought
Speaker 1: all along, it's happening. Uh. That's why when Dan was
Speaker 1: sending out these fake trades for Ryan Tannehill and this
Speaker 1: morning was a little tough Matthew Stafford, which were suspiciously
Speaker 1: favorable to the Jets in terms of the terms. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you a John who Smith's corpse and
Speaker 1: like a seventh round of pick for for your quarter.
Speaker 1: I think a third for Ryan Tannehill is out of
Speaker 1: bounds and maybe not, but story Davis back to Nashville,
Speaker 1: the Stafford one seemed a little outrageous. But when Trey
Speaker 1: Wingo sent the tweet out, and uh, we should move
Speaker 1: on to everything that has happened, because we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a full Rogers pot at some point, are we? Yes,
Speaker 1: we know anything. Everybody keeps on making a very good
Speaker 1: point on Twitter. It's like, what is the most Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers way for this to end? Probably to just hear
Speaker 1: draw this thing out until like August, here's a thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I think those Jets players, Scott Pioli
Speaker 1: will explode on the set somewhere. They were not happy
Speaker 1: about this today. They were reacting night. I believe off
Speaker 1: of Trey wingos report. And I don't know if they
Speaker 1: know Trey Wingo's history with reporting Rogers news, but we do,
Speaker 1: and I think he's proven he has he has the beat.
Speaker 1: He has, he is the Rogers beat. He had the
Speaker 1: news he was returning last year. He had the news
Speaker 1: last week that he was going to be able to
Speaker 1: talk to the Jets. So that's two massive stories that
Speaker 1: this guy who never breaks anything, because that's not really breaks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust that it is happening. It's two hours
Speaker 1: ago or was it two hours ago? Wingo had hearing
Speaker 1: Rodgers to the Jets is done. History about to repeat
Speaker 1: itself between New York and Green Bay. Time is indeed
Speaker 1: a flat circle. And yes, I him plugged in enough
Speaker 1: on this that um Scott Pioli, who was They did
Speaker 1: a great job all through the morning on NFL Network
Speaker 1: with Andrew and Move the Sticks and Steve and Cynthia
Speaker 1: and Scott and they had a whole segment based off
Speaker 1: my hypothetical trade tweets, which was pretty surreal to be
Speaker 1: watching that on the couch happening. And then I was
Speaker 1: talking to Paoli in the newsroom and he was like,
Speaker 1: he's like so many other people that are just like,
Speaker 1: I'm sick of talking about this guy. It's like a
Speaker 1: hypothetical this or that, like make a decision to move on.
Speaker 1: We get that. Yeah, I get that. I'm frustrated about
Speaker 1: it as well as everyone can imagine. And and I
Speaker 1: think everybody is now because everybody wants to kind of
Speaker 1: move forward. So we'll see if it. Greg No, I
Speaker 1: think this is this is happening. It's like they're figuring
Speaker 1: this out. That'd be my guest. I have to say,
Speaker 1: Scott Pioli a real gentleman. Um. I sneezed twice over
Speaker 1: the once and then an hour and a half later,
Speaker 1: in both times from a you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: cubicles away. Uh, God, bless you, he said to me twice,
Speaker 1: Like no one else from a couple cubes away. I
Speaker 1: heard him ask Cynthia, what is that howling noise? Which
Speaker 1: was Dan howling and making all sorts of different noises. Justly,
Speaker 1: we had to we had to get them out of
Speaker 1: the newsroom to get them in here. Routine that I
Speaker 1: sometimes go through. It's not totally something I can control,
Speaker 1: and I wish that can we get a little people
Speaker 1: would have sampling of it. I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: don't even know you're getting that, you're getting the energy
Speaker 1: energy chords that where we were having I just felt
Speaker 1: like an old school news day because you know, I
Speaker 1: was telling our newsroom now. It's very nice. It's very
Speaker 1: technologically sound, but it has a little bit of a
Speaker 1: third rate death star feel to it where there's little
Speaker 1: weird energy. It's a first rate death star. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's very expensive rights blowing up other planets, and
Speaker 1: this is like basically just like in terms of their
Speaker 1: intentions against enemies, it feels just sort of like empty
Speaker 1: sometimes and then you bring in a soundboard that's called
Speaker 1: Dan Hanss the full slate of talent in there. Today
Speaker 1: it felt like a real news day for what you like.
Speaker 1: You finally got back at Scott Helie for drafting Todd
Speaker 1: Brady and all the pain that he brought you did he? Oh,
Speaker 1: he was there. Good for him. I like Scott good dude.
Speaker 1: Um Eisen, by the way, Rich Eisen, who's also a
Speaker 1: well known Jets fan, pulled into the parking lot. I
Speaker 1: think he was going to his car to get something,
Speaker 1: and he sees me to pull in. I said, I
Speaker 1: rolled down my window. He's like, well, I wonder, what's
Speaker 1: this gonna happen? Rich, Maybe he's waiting for you to
Speaker 1: get on air. And he goes, Man, you gotta relax,
Speaker 1: no sap. He's like, Dan's gotta stop tweeting all this stuff.
Speaker 1: He's spiraling out of control. Basically, it's a radar. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard, all right. So that's the Roger situation. But
Speaker 1: let's dig into everything else that's going on in this
Speaker 1: first day of the legal tampering window. The league year
Speaker 1: begins officially on Wednesday. You're not gonna hear anything, or
Speaker 1: you shouldn't hear anything about Lamar Jackson before Wednesday because
Speaker 1: the other huge name, uh Lamar Jackson, of course, is
Speaker 1: without an agent. So and this seems weird, but I
Speaker 1: don't even care. I don't want to talk about this
Speaker 1: stuff anymore. With the agent stuff, he can't negotiate with
Speaker 1: other teams because he doesn't have a representative formally, So
Speaker 1: all that stuff is going to really pick up, I
Speaker 1: guess on Wednesday hypothetically. So let's get into it now.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the things that we do know. Let's
Speaker 1: not about a quarterback for instance, that we have a
Speaker 1: clear idea. What's going to happen. Jimmy Garoppolo, He's going
Speaker 1: to be a member of the Las Vegas Raiders. He
Speaker 1: gets thirty four guarantee, thirty four million guaranteed on a
Speaker 1: three year deal from Vegas to play for Josh McDaniels. Again,
Speaker 1: none of the stuff can become official until Wednesday, but
Speaker 1: this is going to happen. We having a good authority
Speaker 1: Greg starting right here, you can clearly make an argument
Speaker 1: that Derek Carr is as good or better than Jimmy G.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy G is also a guy that's had a
Speaker 1: good winning pedigree, and he's, let's face it, much cheaper. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's forty seven in the first two years
Speaker 1: of this contract, and they owed car close to set
Speaker 1: D and so two for forty seven is a little
Speaker 1: less than Geno Smith money. It's threading that needle. Thirty
Speaker 1: four guaranteed, and like all these I want to see
Speaker 1: what that guaranteed really means. It might just be a
Speaker 1: one year contract, kind of like Derek Carrs was a
Speaker 1: year ago with the Raiders, where it's one for twenty four.
Speaker 1: It's like right in between that. To me, they're very
Speaker 1: much in the mix to draft a quarterback. They're reporting
Speaker 1: out of Vegas is that they will draft a quarterback. Now.
Speaker 1: If the right one doesn't fall to them at seven,
Speaker 1: maybe they won't be as anxious to trade up for
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Maybe they'll be taking a guy in rounds
Speaker 1: two or three. We've seen McDaniels do that over the
Speaker 1: years too. But they have a guy in Jimmy G
Speaker 1: who I always thought and it's really stupid because it's
Speaker 1: based on like one start, practically the second start of
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, when Tom Brady was suspended and West and
Speaker 1: I went nuts for this game he had against Miami.
Speaker 1: That was like Jimmy G throwing a perfect game, and
Speaker 1: he looked so good in that system that maybe he's
Speaker 1: going to be better in the Josh McDaniels system. He
Speaker 1: just probably won't stay healthy because he never stays healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was you know, the Raiders and Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Thing went quiet pretty quickly, and I think that if
Speaker 1: you want to, i'd want to know what exactly Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniels and company thought where they thought they'd wind up
Speaker 1: when they let Derek Carr fade away. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is too far from what this is it? This
Speaker 1: is it. I don't I think Tom Brady. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: would have been an option. I think there was there
Speaker 1: was whispering and reporting around that it being there's interest,
Speaker 1: but this was one B. And I don't think it
Speaker 1: stops you from drafting anyone, because I think the whole
Speaker 1: reason you don't go chase Aaron Rodgers I think, I
Speaker 1: do you want to develop someone and this gives you
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a stop gap to some degree.
Speaker 1: But I think it's easy to hate on Jimmy g
Speaker 1: where I thought he looked good with the Niners last year.
Speaker 1: I do wonder though, because yes, he fits with Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 1: But any quarterback under Kyle Shanahan, what do you what
Speaker 1: version of that quarterback do you get when you go
Speaker 1: to the next system. This is probably the next best
Speaker 1: fit for Jimmy G. Yeah, Jimmy G. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the Raiders they also lost their backup quarterback, Jared Stidham,
Speaker 1: so they need to put more into this position and
Speaker 1: almost every other position on the roster because they have
Speaker 1: so many needs. But the familiarity I think really helps.
Speaker 1: And if Jimmy G did not have the season that
Speaker 1: he did with the Niners last year, if Trey Lance
Speaker 1: did not go down and get hurt, we I don't
Speaker 1: know would be having this conversation because Jimmy G got
Speaker 1: the opportunity to show that he still can be valuable
Speaker 1: to an organization. Now how much that has to do
Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan and what he does to this offense
Speaker 1: to manufacture points, that's a totally different story. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it makes all the sense in the world, Greg,
Speaker 1: what you were saying, like, to get a quarterback in
Speaker 1: this draft, be aggressive, perhaps add a high level backup.
Speaker 1: I just think with Garoppolo, it's like, yeah, the best
Speaker 1: case scenario is how he played in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't just Shanahan, it was incredible weapons and to
Speaker 1: his credit, when he was on the field. Most of
Speaker 1: the time he was good and sometimes even looked great.
Speaker 1: So I don't think you're going to get that level
Speaker 1: of production. And he can't stay on the field, he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss time because we've seen enough evidence over the
Speaker 1: years that this guy is not a starting quarterback that
Speaker 1: you can count in. When Tom Brady was suspended, he
Speaker 1: didn't make it through those four games. They have to
Speaker 1: bring in old Jake brisk and I just wonder if
Speaker 1: and I understand the not to reletigate the Derek Carr
Speaker 1: of it all. I understand at a certain point the
Speaker 1: organization decided it was time to kind of transition and
Speaker 1: go in a different direction. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: this is going to work out the way they hope
Speaker 1: it will, because I just don't think he's somebody you
Speaker 1: could trust as your QB one. And also, look at
Speaker 1: the defense that Jimmy G was playing with in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: This is vastly different in Las Vegas. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you think that Jimmy G is an upgrade over Derek Carr?
Speaker 1: I actually do in this system, and I actually think
Speaker 1: he could be an upgrade over Jimmy G. In San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Not pure numbers wise, but I think with McDaniels, what
Speaker 1: he does well, he could play a little better. But again,
Speaker 1: the ceiling on that is like thirteenth best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league, and you still might want to be I
Speaker 1: worry less of injury prone, his ability to produce, and
Speaker 1: more about his ability to play. I mean, I worry
Speaker 1: more about where the waters are right now. Just in general,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna you can. He could play at
Speaker 1: the same level, but you're in your environment compared to
Speaker 1: San Francisco's is a minus. They need to be very
Speaker 1: active and they will be. They haven't yet. They're not
Speaker 1: jumping into free agency, but they have a ton of
Speaker 1: money available, a ton of needs. And I think this
Speaker 1: was a perfect kind of thread the needle. Keep it cheap, Hey,
Speaker 1: Grave Digger. I was just thinking the breaking news drop
Speaker 1: has been in a bit of a slump on the show.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be the ultimate slumpbuster for the Rogers news
Speaker 1: or something else huge to come across the wire over
Speaker 1: the next hour or so. That's something to be excited about.
Speaker 1: That would be you guys should check our messaging client
Speaker 1: frequently in case something happens. Thank you. That's what I'll
Speaker 1: send it in. Well, Graver has provided something which we
Speaker 1: can get to down his Titans asks. Yeah, but thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh um, here we go here so we know the ah,
Speaker 1: there you go. I thought you're gonna use the colleen
Speaker 1: related drop in that realm. That would have worked too. Um.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about? That sounds kind
Speaker 1: of like a porn There you go. So we know
Speaker 1: the Raiders. The Raiders good may or may not be
Speaker 1: in the business for a quarterback still in the draft,
Speaker 1: but we know the Panthers are in business. I mean
Speaker 1: we didn't know already, but now we know. NFL Networks
Speaker 1: Ian Rapport had it and it is official. The Panthers
Speaker 1: acquired the number one overall pick from the Bears on
Speaker 1: Friday Night, one of the great Friday News dumps of
Speaker 1: all time, in exchange for DJ Moore. I don't think
Speaker 1: that was the intense anything. They probably are annoyed they
Speaker 1: didn't get much pop from it. Um an exchange for
Speaker 1: wide receiver Dj Moore, a very good player, number nine
Speaker 1: overall pick in this draft, the two thousand twenty three
Speaker 1: second round pick, a two thousand, twenty four first round pick,
Speaker 1: and to two thousand and twenty five second round pick.
Speaker 1: So Mark, that gives Frank Reich the chant he's the
Speaker 1: new head coach of the Panthers, the chance to hand
Speaker 1: pick anyone from this college class. And I know, Mark,
Speaker 1: a lot of people were saying, oh, what a trade
Speaker 1: by the Bears, and it was. It was a great
Speaker 1: trade for the Bears. They get all those draft assets
Speaker 1: we talked about, and you get a potential Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: level wide receiver and more to play with justin fields.
Speaker 1: But if you've been tracking our league the last few years,
Speaker 1: you know the Panthers been dying. Every time they try
Speaker 1: to get a quarterback they want, people say no and
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out. They made this trade so they
Speaker 1: could get who they want and nobody could tell them no. Yep.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if you are like David Tepper,
Speaker 1: you swung and missed on Matthew Stafford and watched him
Speaker 1: go win a Super Bowl somewhere else. They were in
Speaker 1: on to Shaun Watson and that didn't work out for them.
Speaker 1: They have been on it. Well. I think you could
Speaker 1: argue at this point, yes, but they but they put
Speaker 1: themselves out there and they kept being like not they
Speaker 1: were not able to seal the deal. So it does
Speaker 1: the trade to me look a little bit um desperate
Speaker 1: and bears rich. Yes, but I think if you're again,
Speaker 1: if you're David Tepper like you are, you have Frank Reich.
Speaker 1: You cannot settle Frank Reich with like the third or
Speaker 1: fourth best choice. And now it's like you can. You
Speaker 1: can scout these quarterbacks all you want and have total
Speaker 1: buying on who you pick. And so from that angle
Speaker 1: in terms of being aggressive, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: a sense around the league and quotes for multiple reports
Speaker 1: that it's c J. Stroud, but that they can change
Speaker 1: their mind. If that's not the case, they can pick
Speaker 1: their guy. It seems crazy they don't know who it
Speaker 1: would be. Well, I think you'd have to, but I
Speaker 1: think it's c J. Stroud is who they're point out to.
Speaker 1: I'm not conspiracy theorist. That's Mark's um corner on this spot,
Speaker 1: is it. I'm not maybe not this conspiratorial. Just what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say is here here is one conspiracy. I
Speaker 1: do buy that the NFL doesn't want the number one
Speaker 1: overall pick out there. Oh of course, and uh, well
Speaker 1: this info get out in the in these streets, right
Speaker 1: because he'd be insane not to know who you want
Speaker 1: to take with the number one over I'll pick. Was
Speaker 1: that a rock with a message tied around it with
Speaker 1: rubber band thrown through Frank Reig window? Find out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't blame the Panthers. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like the league, you know, like, hey, let's let's not
Speaker 1: let this get out there. I'm cool a little mystery, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I don't like And the purple
Speaker 1: effects of this, too are so interesting. With the Texans
Speaker 1: sitting at number two, they thought that they would have
Speaker 1: their pick of any quarterback that they want, and now
Speaker 1: they don't have to make that decision because the Colts
Speaker 1: are going to take that with the first pick. The Panthers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Also, that's what I think this is about,
Speaker 1: because the Panthers are kind of putting it out there
Speaker 1: too that like we could even trade down right, and
Speaker 1: we're still evaluating. And I think that's where they're gonna
Speaker 1: see what information they can get between now and then,
Speaker 1: and there's like an outside chance they could feel confident
Speaker 1: enough if they're not taking Bryce Young that that okay,
Speaker 1: let's make the bear let's make the Texans trade up
Speaker 1: for Bryce Young and we end up picking up an
Speaker 1: extra pick, and we still get our guy at number
Speaker 1: that being an option all the way up to the
Speaker 1: final hour. I think it will be now. I kind
Speaker 1: of think it will be. Um and Mark you said
Speaker 1: that you know, could look or perhaps is a little
Speaker 1: bit desperate by Carolina. I agree because they did give
Speaker 1: up so much, including a star player and more. But
Speaker 1: if the guy that they get turns out to be
Speaker 1: a decade plus answer or whatever. Wait, I looked at
Speaker 1: the other trade run that were similar Ish Wentz, you know,
Speaker 1: near the top of the draft trade lands near the
Speaker 1: top of the draft RG three. This is they're all
Speaker 1: like the same. They all just they just copy each other.
Speaker 1: It wasn't anymore. If anything, I would say they paid
Speaker 1: maybe less like the forty nine ers paid essentially the
Speaker 1: same just to get up to the number three pick.
Speaker 1: I think for the Bears is the number one pick
Speaker 1: all the way from nine in terms of the timing
Speaker 1: for the Bears, because absolutely you needed more wide out power,
Speaker 1: more star power around fields, and to have DJ Moore,
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool, Darnell Mooney and Cole Commet. That is a
Speaker 1: nice four pack of targets, and it came during a
Speaker 1: free agency period that is not wide out rich in
Speaker 1: a draft class that is not necessarily strong at wide out.
Speaker 1: So it was for Ryan Poles. I think it was
Speaker 1: a home run to have DJ Moore be part of
Speaker 1: the deal. That's a great haul for them to get.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dj Moore, he has more career receiving yards
Speaker 1: than any player in Bears history. Like they're getting al Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's more career receiving yards than any player in the
Speaker 1: Bears one hundred plus year history. He's played like five
Speaker 1: years and he's not even one of the top fifty
Speaker 1: wide receiver. It's still still it's still crazy. I would
Speaker 1: rather have Dj Moore at his salary and he's under
Speaker 1: contract for three years fifty two million dollars than a
Speaker 1: first round pick. And that's how they looked at it.
Speaker 1: By the reporting afterwards, it was like they looked at
Speaker 1: it like he is as good as a first round pick,
Speaker 1: if not better. And so then you look at it,
Speaker 1: you're basically just trading back eight picks. You still get
Speaker 1: the number nine pick, you get a first, you get
Speaker 1: two seconds, and you get DJ Moore. And I think
Speaker 1: Claypool might end up being a little bit of a
Speaker 1: bust for them, but if he's like their number four
Speaker 1: sever year in a great trade and for more, this
Speaker 1: is probably one of the best quarterbacks he's played with. Wow,
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, So we don't even know we're gonna see
Speaker 1: and then you're seeing more about the Panthers quarterbacks. Sure
Speaker 1: I would like to, like, you know, anybody wants to
Speaker 1: join me, like declare war on the who won the
Speaker 1: blank of the offseason? Like who won the press conference?
Speaker 1: Who won the trade? It's like we need not weeks
Speaker 1: or months, but years to know how it worked out
Speaker 1: with the quarterback for Carolina. What's gonna happen with Justin Fields?
Speaker 1: What's the DJ more Er look like? How do these
Speaker 1: draft kicks picks pay out? For? Right now, both sides
Speaker 1: I think are happy with the outcome, and right I'll
Speaker 1: get it to be enough for now. I'll give it
Speaker 1: a final grade right now, that's how I look. What
Speaker 1: is it? What is it? I give an aid to
Speaker 1: the bears and a B plus to the bad like that.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this is a grade it right now?
Speaker 1: Same people people I'm with Dan though, just that like
Speaker 1: they're so quick to be like, oh the Bears, what
Speaker 1: a haul they gain? It's like, yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 1: same haul everyone gets. Well they're a nice yeah people us.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the quarterback they got? I
Speaker 1: don't know who it is. I just think that they
Speaker 1: got good Catherine receiver in a market where you don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of options. I think yet, well, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, you don't have to take a chance,
Speaker 1: right if you don't have to give out a grade
Speaker 1: on a trade where we don't even know who's involved
Speaker 1: with it fully and how these guys play. Well, we've
Speaker 1: just done that. So I'm like Scott Pioli right now
Speaker 1: on the days during the NFL now, just like amateurs.
Speaker 1: If the Bear, if the Bears are wrong about Justin Fields, though,
Speaker 1: then it's a bad trade and they'll look at it.
Speaker 1: And I've heard this too that like, well, if we're
Speaker 1: wrong about Justin Fields, and I don't think they will be,
Speaker 1: then we have the resources to go have a backstop
Speaker 1: before they fire everyone with all these picks, I would say,
Speaker 1: a weird way to view it, Like the Panthers are
Speaker 1: here because they didn't pick Justin Fields too. I mean
Speaker 1: there's a whole alternate universe where it's someone like Chicago
Speaker 1: having to trade up to do all this business, but
Speaker 1: it's the Panthers having to do it because they didn't
Speaker 1: pick the quarterback the chance. You know who leads this
Speaker 1: alternate universe? Who created everything in the end, the Daniels,
Speaker 1: Rodney Thomas, fourth and twenty at the Colts twenty in
Speaker 1: Mills all alone in the backfield. Here's the snap. Davis
Speaker 1: looking who scrambles out to the life, gotta get rid
Speaker 1: of it, throws it to the ends on end, caught
Speaker 1: it toward nakeds. My goodness, fourth and twenty, Hey, kids,
Speaker 1: with the catch. Rodney Thomas misjudged it. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: sitting next to Greg that day, and Greg was loving
Speaker 1: that whole situation. Crazy. Yeah, but if you're a Texans fan, like,
Speaker 1: there's no way you found any real joy in that
Speaker 1: watching your team slipped to number two overall. Some of
Speaker 1: those throws by Davis Mills and that came, including that
Speaker 1: last one. I know it should have been picked, but
Speaker 1: he was like rolling right and got it there. It
Speaker 1: was a tough throw. He's an NFL court He got
Speaker 1: it made after right through the hands of a defender. No,
Speaker 1: I get it, but he was rolling right and the
Speaker 1: pressure was coming. Just to even give it chance on
Speaker 1: that play was a good job by him. Davis smells
Speaker 1: want to start. Can we stay actually on the Bears,
Speaker 1: even though I know there's we'll get to the j
Speaker 1: Just take a break. We're going to take a break.
Speaker 1: Everybody relaxed. We're just getting warmed up here. Um, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back after this. All right, we are back.
Speaker 1: We're just digging into the first day if you're just
Speaker 1: tuning in, which again, very strange if you were to
Speaker 1: do that with a podcast. But we're going through the
Speaker 1: first day of free agency. Unofficially, Greg, we're sticking with
Speaker 1: the Bears before we move on. We Yeah, they spent
Speaker 1: so much money on Monday, they announced their intent to
Speaker 1: kind of be that team this offseason. They have the
Speaker 1: most salary cap space and they have to spend some
Speaker 1: of it. And they were the first team to agree
Speaker 1: to a contract this morning on the West Coast. TJ. Edwards,
Speaker 1: I mean sixteen minutes. They somehow worked out like a
Speaker 1: very complicated three year contract with t J. Edwards in
Speaker 1: like sixteen minutes, and TJ. Edwards was the first player
Speaker 1: off the board, and then later in the day they
Speaker 1: gave a huge deal to Tremaine Edmonds, who I think
Speaker 1: is getting what forty eight or something over the first
Speaker 1: two years of his contract. It's a four year deal overall,
Speaker 1: he got paid. And they also paid a former Titan,
Speaker 1: Nate Davis at guard pretty good money. So the Bears
Speaker 1: are that team this year. And it's just a little
Speaker 1: weird because off ball linebacker not a premium position. You
Speaker 1: didn't pay Roquan Smith. I saw someone kind of make
Speaker 1: the point. Roquan Smith and Jack Sandborn your guy maybe
Speaker 1: greater than Tremaine Edmonds and t J. Edwards. I think
Speaker 1: you could agree or disagree with that, but it is
Speaker 1: a curious couple of players I think to start your
Speaker 1: free agency. But it's like the Chicago Bears have been
Speaker 1: like prioritizing off ball linebacker since the Mesozoa clear. I
Speaker 1: think this is the eighth incarnation of like them having
Speaker 1: two of these guys and their defense, and it's like
Speaker 1: a little bit of with the Matt Eberflus experience, like
Speaker 1: he is, you hired him because of his defensive acumen,
Speaker 1: but then money is allocated towards that where maybe in
Speaker 1: a different situation somewhere else here too, and it ended
Speaker 1: up being the worst defense in the league. Edmonds will
Speaker 1: receive fifty million and guaranteed money on the deal. I mean,
Speaker 1: how much did the Bears having Caspace here? It's like
Speaker 1: we got after the Jaguars are spending willy nilly with
Speaker 1: their excess cat money last year and send it up
Speaker 1: well for them with their second year quarterback. But I
Speaker 1: like spending on offense. I mean, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: And I think tremade Edmonds specifically, you're buying high. He
Speaker 1: was in a perfect situation in Buffalo for five years.
Speaker 1: Great each of those acquisitions in real time. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. Edwards is a B. It's fine B minus
Speaker 1: when you really looked at the money. He was like
Speaker 1: the first deal that already looks phony in terms of
Speaker 1: what the agents told the reporters. It really is like
Speaker 1: a one for eight type of deal. It's not even
Speaker 1: twelve million guaranteed. Uh. And so that's that's fine. TJ.
Speaker 1: Edwards tremade Edmonds. I'm gonna give like a C minus
Speaker 1: because you're investing in him out of high He's coming
Speaker 1: off the best season end of his career by far.
Speaker 1: He was the first round pick of the Sean McDermott era,
Speaker 1: and he was up and down, like he had one
Speaker 1: really good year and that was last year, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna go into a much tougher situations. He's twenty four
Speaker 1: years old. R Yeah, he's six four, two fifty and
Speaker 1: runs a four point five. So like I think that
Speaker 1: if you're ebra Flus, you're thinking, like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: as good a version of Men's the Bills? Did you hope?
Speaker 1: You hope? But you're not surrounded by as much talent.
Speaker 1: And it's just like they lost out on Mike McGlinchey
Speaker 1: and what we'll get to that later earlier, like a pivot,
Speaker 1: we're gonna spend on someone a lot of money regardless
Speaker 1: we didn't get one. That's spending too much money at
Speaker 1: those positions specifically, I think League would say, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: those are that's like one of the cheapest positions. Like
Speaker 1: for instance, the Eagles had Kaizer White last year playing
Speaker 1: their whole season for a you know, two point five
Speaker 1: million on one year. But especially though after you said
Speaker 1: we don't want real U, We're not doing this with
Speaker 1: real quand Smith, so we gone and spend almost as
Speaker 1: much over with this with the position. I'll just let
Speaker 1: you guys keep going on the Bears hate. I'm enjoying this.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a hate. How far can we
Speaker 1: take it? Keep going trebad Edmonds was like a top
Speaker 1: minus top fifteen free in this crap. He just got
Speaker 1: that huge bump that happens every couple, every part. I
Speaker 1: don't mind just going for it from another angle. I
Speaker 1: do agree that building up the offense with pieces of sexier,
Speaker 1: but their defense heads think I think it's smarter. I
Speaker 1: mean in terms of like it's safer and it's it
Speaker 1: goes up and down less. I think Edmonds and Edwards
Speaker 1: are kind of good examples, like if they were free
Speaker 1: agents a year ago at this time, would if they've
Speaker 1: gotten paid much at all, they were also Edmonds agent.
Speaker 1: Please and make sure it gets to the player. Well,
Speaker 1: he did a good job. Oh yeah, he'll get it
Speaker 1: to the player and then we'll have him on the
Speaker 1: show in the middle of June in the studio. Sounds good.
Speaker 1: The another big move that happened while we are away,
Speaker 1: The Dolphins make another big blockbuster move. Jalen Ramsey is
Speaker 1: coming to Miami for a twenty twenty third third round
Speaker 1: pick and tight end Hunter Long. I'm pretty sure not
Speaker 1: to Barry harrowitz this, but I'm pretty sure I said
Speaker 1: Ramsey makes I could see him as a Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1: That felt like something that made sense. And it does
Speaker 1: specially make sense when you know where the Dolphins see
Speaker 1: themselves right now as a team that's all in. So
Speaker 1: after they went and got Bradley Chubb in a mega
Speaker 1: trade a few months back, now they add Ramsey to
Speaker 1: the backfield, Colleen and you factor, and they pick up
Speaker 1: the fifth year option for Tua. They go and get
Speaker 1: Mike White in free agency to be the kind of
Speaker 1: backup safety net. The Dolphins are looking to get to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl with this roster right now. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: They're making moves and they should. At this point, I'm
Speaker 1: already wondering if they're going to go after a running
Speaker 1: back like Miles Sanders considering the way that the run
Speaker 1: game ended last year and Daniel former run game coordinator
Speaker 1: with San Francisco, like, I think that they're really putting
Speaker 1: all of these pieces together. But for Jalen Ramsey, I
Speaker 1: just felt like he was going to be back in Florida,
Speaker 1: in my head, I kind of liked the idea of
Speaker 1: him going back to Jacksonville with a totally different scenario,
Speaker 1: but right, but going to Miami, I like it even
Speaker 1: more because of the past heat between himself and Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: If you guys remember back in twenty eighteen when he
Speaker 1: was saying that Jalen Ramsey was saying that Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: was more of a punt return specialist, a return specialist
Speaker 1: than a wide receiver. So those two, that'll be fun
Speaker 1: to see them play together. But the Miami secondary was
Speaker 1: the biggest area of weakness. It was something they needed
Speaker 1: to address. And so now that Byron Jones won't be returning,
Speaker 1: it looks like when you have Jalen Ramsey across from
Speaker 1: Xavien Howard, you have two pieces that you can really
Speaker 1: build with. I mean, we've seen we've seen the Dolphins
Speaker 1: in asked free agency incarnations go nuts and like it
Speaker 1: always had this feel of like it's not going to
Speaker 1: go right, and it often just didn't. This feels different
Speaker 1: to me because of the coach, because of how quickly
Speaker 1: the offense responded to his coaching. The play the parts fit,
Speaker 1: and I think you got a different type of aura
Speaker 1: here in Miami. I like this, Um, if I'm the
Speaker 1: Rams from a flip side and you still hanging to Matthews,
Speaker 1: what are you telling Matthew Stafford in general about how
Speaker 1: this season and maybe next season? I just I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced Matthew Staffords even on this team. Who
Speaker 1: is on this team at this point? They cut Bobby Wagner, right,
Speaker 1: they cut um Leonard Floyd, Leonard Floyd. Now I'm wondering
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with Aaron Donald because he almost
Speaker 1: didn't return last year after they won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and now all of when you have Jalen Ramsey out
Speaker 1: of there too. I mean, this team, the three guys
Speaker 1: they're building around cup Donald. No, you can say that,
Speaker 1: but you're you're you're removing a lot of the team
Speaker 1: that made this a special team a couple of seas
Speaker 1: and ago last year was a disaster. But like this
Speaker 1: feels like a projecting a couple feels like this season
Speaker 1: they're taking a step back to set up for next season.
Speaker 1: You can't take too far a step back. I mean
Speaker 1: the step back would be, let's try to have a
Speaker 1: winning record and compete uh in the next year. We
Speaker 1: go try to win a Super Bowl. Was anyone else
Speaker 1: stunned how little Dalen Ramsey got around the league? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on what's going to have left
Speaker 1: in the tank and internally what people are talking about,
Speaker 1: what whether they think he'll age well. Like I think
Speaker 1: he fits in the Fangio system perfectly. Brandon Stanley learned
Speaker 1: under Fangio. He used him dynamically, like even if he
Speaker 1: plays a little more safety or you know, near the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage in the slot, like, that's still worth
Speaker 1: a lot. He didn't like that's the case for the
Speaker 1: GM APP that's that's for damn sure. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: they asked around. No one wanted him. Yeah, surprising. I
Speaker 1: thought they could have gotten more than than they did,
Speaker 1: but they they're importing. Yeah, I don't think they could
Speaker 1: have because I mean, maybe maybe you had set it
Speaker 1: up if they traded him last year. Certainly, Yeah, Jordan
Speaker 1: Rdrieg mentioned at The Athletic that there were five teams
Speaker 1: in the mix that they were trying to trade him
Speaker 1: out of the NFC. I do get Sean McVay is
Speaker 1: a little Mike Shanahany vibes that like Sean McVay is
Speaker 1: the one running this team. You know, Less Sneed is
Speaker 1: involved and executes the vision. But I think Sean McVay
Speaker 1: is making the vision. I mean we heard reporting that,
Speaker 1: like when they couldn't get Bond Miller, Sean mcvay's on
Speaker 1: the phone to other guys on the team being like,
Speaker 1: what do you think of Alan Robinson? All right, let's
Speaker 1: go get Alan Robints. Like, I think it's McVeigh And
Speaker 1: I was just surprised they couldn't get more for Ramsey,
Speaker 1: Like Ramsey didn't get that much more money. The whole
Speaker 1: idea was like, well, Ramsey wants more money, he wants
Speaker 1: more guaranteed money. We're not going to give it to him.
Speaker 1: He didn't really get it from Miami. He got twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four guaranteed, so that that's a big deal. Think
Speaker 1: that's so two years guaranteed instead of one. But you
Speaker 1: obviously have this year guaranteed because sure you don't trade
Speaker 1: for him, by the way, so you got your year guaranteed.
Speaker 1: But he didn't get like a raise, He just kind
Speaker 1: of got what was in there. I think it's thirty
Speaker 1: seven over two years, pretty reasonable for a top shelf cornerback. No,
Speaker 1: I want to know who those other teams were. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if every team in the league signs
Speaker 1: up for the Jail and Ramsey experience, it's gotta be
Speaker 1: you gotta set the table well for to Adam to
Speaker 1: that like narrative though, just kind of got blown out
Speaker 1: of proportion when he was in Jacksonville, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that how much of it is. These trade terms
Speaker 1: make me think it's a little true. I was surprised
Speaker 1: that a team wouldn't give him more money and that
Speaker 1: a team wouldn't give up more draft picks. It just
Speaker 1: didn't happen for him. Like I think Jalen Ramsey's thrilled
Speaker 1: to be back in Miami, but I think going into
Speaker 1: this the Rams have to be really disappointed with what
Speaker 1: they got for him, and I suspect Ramsey and his
Speaker 1: agent are disappointed with the money that they got. And
Speaker 1: as far as the Rams go, where they stand now,
Speaker 1: I just would like to see, and I know they
Speaker 1: did the whole, the whole showcase press conference saying these
Speaker 1: three guys are our pillars and all that show case.
Speaker 1: When the chips are down and one of these teams,
Speaker 1: hopefully not mine, doesn't have the quarterback that they thought
Speaker 1: they were going to get in this game of musical chairs,
Speaker 1: Let's see how much of a pillar Matthew Stafford is
Speaker 1: if the phone call, if the phone rings totally with you,
Speaker 1: and for a team like the Rams that is still
Speaker 1: trying to build up, because I hear and I think
Speaker 1: there is value, sneaky value to be like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not viewed as a superpower, but you know, we could
Speaker 1: win nine or ten games and that will put people
Speaker 1: on the seats and we might get a playoff game
Speaker 1: out of it, like and we'll still have star power.
Speaker 1: I think from from like Stan Cronky's view, like making
Speaker 1: that kind of a goal for next year, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: But what also makes sense is if you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to truly do a rebuild where you get a
Speaker 1: bunch of premium picks, maybe that's kind of like the
Speaker 1: smarter long term play if you want to win super
Speaker 1: But these rebuilds, typically, if it's now the new fashional
Speaker 1: rebuild is like a year for the well run teams, right,
Speaker 1: but you come out of it quick. You come out
Speaker 1: of it typically with a young quarterback to build around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I see or it can envision
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford being the guy on the other side of
Speaker 1: this rebuild two years, three years from now. He was
Speaker 1: brought here for something else that he accomplished. I don't
Speaker 1: see the vision ahead from Matthew Stafford. I think if
Speaker 1: you said about we just oh, we just learned, we
Speaker 1: didn't trade Jalen Ramsey at the height of his powers,
Speaker 1: and you're after giving so much for him, you gave
Speaker 1: up so much for Matthew Stafford and sent him away
Speaker 1: for a year from now for a third round pick
Speaker 1: or something like. I feel like the Jets losing Rogers
Speaker 1: would have been the only team desperate enough to give
Speaker 1: up a haul that would be worth it, especially considering
Speaker 1: the contracts that Donald and cup and Stafford signed a
Speaker 1: year ago kind of locked them in and locked the
Speaker 1: team into having to pay them for a few years
Speaker 1: ago because they got paid after the Super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: that's why they are quote weight bearing walls, so what
Speaker 1: they were, they're weight very walls. It's kind of like,
Speaker 1: what do you want to be called? Similar to pillars,
Speaker 1: but not the same thing different. Well, like they said,
Speaker 1: a table with three legs problematic? Typically all right, Colleen,
Speaker 1: this is it's really good. That's a good sound draft,
Speaker 1: though could be very sturdy in the right a triangle
Speaker 1: type table. But absolutely sure. I mean I own one
Speaker 1: of those feels. In fact, that's in that case he's
Speaker 1: stark about a square table. I'm talking about square table.
Speaker 1: Spot tough spot it is. How about this AFC ST
Speaker 1: though they're loading up there. Let's let's hold on that
Speaker 1: combo until we get the news on the other thing. Uh, Connie,
Speaker 1: I I do want to check in with you. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Jason Hargrave, Javon Hargrave. Let's talk about Jason, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you talk about him. Um, it's going to the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers arrival. I don't like it. Thirty years old.
Speaker 1: What a study was on the inside of that incredible
Speaker 1: record setting defensive line for the Eagles eleven sacks? Eleven
Speaker 1: sacks from the interior? Are you kidding me? And now
Speaker 1: it was beautiful. He will be pushing that pocket for
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers, getting forty mill to
Speaker 1: do so. For some reason, it feels extra personal that
Speaker 1: he's going to the Niners because they faced them in
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship. Top dogs on the conference. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be like, you're a trader. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: great for him. Dallas, San Francisco back in the day
Speaker 1: vibe a little bit a little bit. It's the thing is,
Speaker 1: the Eagles just have so many good free agents available,
Speaker 1: especially on the defense, but he was undoubtedly the best.
Speaker 1: So you lose him. And the fact was this Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: especially the defensive line, was so I had so much depth,
Speaker 1: so they were able to just like rotate and they
Speaker 1: were able to stay fresh. And that was such a
Speaker 1: big part of their success was this pass rush that
Speaker 1: they were able to generate a pass rush from the
Speaker 1: interior with him, and they're just they're going to miss him.
Speaker 1: They're going to miss him a lot, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how you replace his production, but they're gonna have to.
Speaker 1: I think it was sept Under the Raider that the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers last year were like Bosa Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, arm Eric Armstead great when he's out there,
Speaker 1: but missed a lot of last year and the rest
Speaker 1: of the group was like, Okay, you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: as deep as good a group as they have had
Speaker 1: in the past. They cycle through these one year guys
Speaker 1: like Epacom played well for them, but he's a free
Speaker 1: agent again. And it made me think because I looked
Speaker 1: at the list of the top five highest paid defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: it made me think they should have just never made
Speaker 1: that DeForrest Buckner trade everyone loved at the time. They
Speaker 1: drafted Javon Kinla to replace him. He hasn't really worked out.
Speaker 1: And on that list it's Hargrave, Armstead, Aaron Donald, dron Payne,
Speaker 1: and Buckner. And so you know two of those guys
Speaker 1: that are now play for the forty nine ers. You
Speaker 1: see what they value one of them used to in Buckner,
Speaker 1: who's in Indiana. I love it for Steve Wilkes because
Speaker 1: you're going through a lot of like you're losing coaches
Speaker 1: in San Francisco on both sides the ball year after year. Wilkes,
Speaker 1: though we know can do it, and like he's sitting there,
Speaker 1: is the big winner. If you're Shaun to say in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia their new defensive coordinator, like it needs to be
Speaker 1: understood inside the building that there's a real uphill climb
Speaker 1: for him to come in and repeat the dynamic like
Speaker 1: quarterback nightmare situation they created a year ago with their
Speaker 1: front not all bad news for the Eagles. They get
Speaker 1: Kelsey returns. Yep, that's nice. I definitely thought he was
Speaker 1: going to retire just because the podcast is doing so well.
Speaker 1: But maybe it does even better if you're playing, because
Speaker 1: Travis is still playing. Sirianni said he's just been plying
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey with like kegs of beer and will continue
Speaker 1: to do so as long as he stays. Like McAfee
Speaker 1: retired and he that thing was a rocketship his podcast,
Speaker 1: And it just felt like this Kelsey Brothers pod is
Speaker 1: doing so well that it's like it's a good time
Speaker 1: to go away. I like the video of Howie Roseman
Speaker 1: and Jason Kelsey and like Kelsey tells him that he's
Speaker 1: not retiring, He's going to return, and Howie has like
Speaker 1: some moscato out and these poor and shots and I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, and by the way, how about this Kelsey.
Speaker 1: Here's the tweet. I'm going to read the whole one.
Speaker 1: I put much thought into whether it makes sense to
Speaker 1: play another season. After talking it over with my wife,
Speaker 1: wife and many other friends and family, I've decided to
Speaker 1: return for another year. Thank you to all my supporters
Speaker 1: and attractors for fueling me. I ain't done yet. And
Speaker 1: guess what, and guess what, Aaron Rodgers, it could be
Speaker 1: that easy, Right, here's the model. It doesn't make. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make Jason Kelsey less swaggy or less mysterious or mystical.
Speaker 1: It makes it just makes life easier for everyone. And
Speaker 1: it's just like, bro, it's football like it's You're not
Speaker 1: that important, You're not that special. It's very unattractive. I
Speaker 1: like someone who is decisive, and to me, the Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers situation, even the fact that it's taken him this
Speaker 1: long to make a decision tells me that is his
Speaker 1: decision that he should retire, but he doesn't. It's someone
Speaker 1: who like, make a decision, rip off the band aid.
Speaker 1: Let's go be confident in it, and if it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out, it doesn't work out. But like, let's stop
Speaker 1: dragging our talking about it. Yeah he tormented my weekend,
Speaker 1: and yeah, make a decision last week and you know,
Speaker 1: get us out of this. Miss. I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: learned a life lesson Okay, struggling to make a decision.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't It didn't have as much interest
Speaker 1: at the time of Aaron Rodgers, but when I was
Speaker 1: coming to the NFL trying to decide if I was
Speaker 1: going to leave Pro Football Talk. I'd worked at NBC
Speaker 1: for like eight or nine years, and I loved it there.
Speaker 1: The only thing I regretted in the whole process was
Speaker 1: at the very end, Ultimately, I just I couldn't make
Speaker 1: a decision. And I generally in life, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm pretty decisive. And I knew afterwards right away almost
Speaker 1: that that was my regret and I would never do
Speaker 1: that again. But in that situation for the first time,
Speaker 1: I sort of made like a mistake. What was your
Speaker 1: big hesitation? Well, just like I was very comfortable and
Speaker 1: liked a lot of things there, and the money was
Speaker 1: basically the same, and do you take this chance on
Speaker 1: doing this? It was just it was just going back
Speaker 1: and forth, going back and forth. Couldn't decide what I mean,
Speaker 1: I met you at the combine before and it was
Speaker 1: sort of a recruitment dinner. Did I did I help?
Speaker 1: Do you feel maybe? Uh, the final brick in the
Speaker 1: wall that just said the NFL dot com feels like, well,
Speaker 1: it really was. The couple of weeks I would go
Speaker 1: back and forth, but then I thought, yeah, that's justin Halfaway.
Speaker 1: He's a closer. I like this guy. Do love half Away. Uh.
Speaker 1: Eagles got Brandon Graham back too. Uh. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to the Broncos, who are making moves. Uh. Let me
Speaker 1: go through it, let me tell you all about it.
Speaker 1: So they got Mike McGlinchey, nice big contract, big right
Speaker 1: tackle UM fifty million guaranteed, five years, eighty seven and
Speaker 1: a half million fifty guaranteed, So they make a big
Speaker 1: offensive line move. They also add left guard Ben Powers,
Speaker 1: formerly of the Ravens, four years, fifty two million. Uh.
Speaker 1: They also, as we mentioned, signed Jard Stidham to be
Speaker 1: Russ Wilson's backup, and that's interesting to me and makes
Speaker 1: ends to me. Stidham as a guy who's flashed a
Speaker 1: little bit. He was originally with the Patriots and then
Speaker 1: went to the Raiders and played a little bit at
Speaker 1: the end of the last season, and kind of a guy.
Speaker 1: I think that works mark for the Broncos and Sean
Speaker 1: Payton here because you can first of all, building up
Speaker 1: the offensive line very smart, because I do think they
Speaker 1: are invested. I think they are serious about giving Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson a chance here to write the ship and it's
Speaker 1: not fair necessarily to Wilson everybody else if you don't
Speaker 1: have a blocking front that works. So you do that,
Speaker 1: and now you have a backup that you could put
Speaker 1: in where you're not spending a ton of money on
Speaker 1: your backup. You're not hedging your bets necessarily. And I
Speaker 1: would think they could very easily start over next year
Speaker 1: if either of these guys cannot play the guitar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of view everything that Denver is doing as
Speaker 1: not Russell Wilson centric, just because I think Sean Payton
Speaker 1: is secure enough to know that if that doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: you're just going to build a team around him and
Speaker 1: get that other quarterback. And I mean they needed to
Speaker 1: fortify the offensive line McGlinchey. There's a lot of zone
Speaker 1: blocking elements to Sean Payton's offense. I think they want
Speaker 1: to want to have more of a power run element.
Speaker 1: I think back to the days of mark Ingram when
Speaker 1: he really started to shine under Sean Payton in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and Alvin Kamar after that. But like, you just
Speaker 1: want to be able to have that as a huge
Speaker 1: part of an offense that might not have a quarterback
Speaker 1: that can play right now and I liked how it
Speaker 1: was put out there a little bit, like with each
Speaker 1: of these pieces, you're removing excuses away from Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: if he does not turn into the player he once was.
Speaker 1: It's like you have to build an argument to move
Speaker 1: on from him if that's the case a year from now.
Speaker 1: Sun Payton's always coached good offensive lines, like knowing how
Speaker 1: to coach them up and hire the right offensive line coaches,
Speaker 1: but generally like spending this much money on slightly above
Speaker 1: average starting offensive lineman or like the worst thing you
Speaker 1: can do in free agency. He was also the top
Speaker 1: right tackle though on the market right now. They needed
Speaker 1: it absolutely, but like the forty nine ers didn't show
Speaker 1: a lot of interest in keeping him. Ben Powers kind
Speaker 1: of had a career year for the Ravens a guard.
Speaker 1: I think you'll make like twenty five twenty six million
Speaker 1: in his first two years. Like they're spending a lot
Speaker 1: of money trying to get to average in the end right.
Speaker 1: But you're a specific issue if you're Denver, because you've
Speaker 1: given away a bunch of draft picks you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get necessarily and all pro tackle in freed andcy because
Speaker 1: they don't typically exist and then you don't have the
Speaker 1: way to go get them through the draft. So you're
Speaker 1: you kind of were backed up into a corner here.
Speaker 1: And McGlinchey, he's up and down, but it's like I
Speaker 1: think he fits, yeah, and they they like aren't going
Speaker 1: to be afraid of spending. I still get like Sean
Speaker 1: Payton a little bit like Bill Parcels in Miami vibes
Speaker 1: just I think there's like a chance, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like it's kind of at the end, let's
Speaker 1: just like go a little crazy and maybe it's not
Speaker 1: going to be as good as it was in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: but we'll see in other news, Hey, the Chargers, let's
Speaker 1: go on with the Chargers. Feel good about the Chargers.
Speaker 1: The vibe around the Chargers, they share your suspicions. Brandon Staley,
Speaker 1: uh still there as the head coach or replace both coordinators.
Speaker 1: They blew a twenty seven nothing lead in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and now Austin Eckler is requesting permission to seek a
Speaker 1: trade after he was met with a cold shoulder um
Speaker 1: after contract extension talks with the Chargers. With the Chargers,
Speaker 1: so it's like, and we had him on the show
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. To his credit, he didn't hint
Speaker 1: at any type of discord or concerns, but well maybe
Speaker 1: to his credit, had he we would have broken news
Speaker 1: on the show. So it's all kind of powerful to
Speaker 1: maybe not be turning over a couple of stones there
Speaker 1: when he had back to back twenty touchdown seasons and
Speaker 1: he's probably paid in the back half of starters body
Speaker 1: questions in a row. It's like, what is the purpose
Speaker 1: of let's use this as a teaching moment for the
Speaker 1: for the podcast. But anyway, uh yeah, so he's he's
Speaker 1: requesting permission for a trade, so we'll see if that happens.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was also instructive Greg on this.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah, like I said, moved the sticks was on
Speaker 1: NFL Network all morning and he kind of said in
Speaker 1: a way like and you know, the Chargers are not
Speaker 1: going to top the market or not going to meet
Speaker 1: his demands for his position. He calls the games of
Speaker 1: course as the analyst. So it's kind of like if
Speaker 1: the if the Chargers are serious about not paying him
Speaker 1: and he's requesting a trade, this feels like something that
Speaker 1: could happen and perhaps soon. Yeah, he wanted a raise.
Speaker 1: I think he had one year left on his deal
Speaker 1: making six million, Like, get it now while you can,
Speaker 1: you're still healthier numbers are I get it, But I
Speaker 1: also get the Chargers being like, actually, we're getting the
Speaker 1: best Austin Ekeler right now. We don't want to pay
Speaker 1: for the next Austin Ekeler. We like this contract, and
Speaker 1: if you can go, you know, get a deal, we'll
Speaker 1: let you go. We like you enough, we think we
Speaker 1: have other priorities. Good draft for running backs too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Austin Ekeler just try trying to ensure his future.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he gets hurt the season in his
Speaker 1: the final year of this four year contract that he's on,
Speaker 1: then he's kind of screwed. So he needs to If
Speaker 1: the Chargers are not willing to give him a long
Speaker 1: term deal, which they aren't, which is prudent on their part,
Speaker 1: he should be able to explore other options if they're
Speaker 1: out there. He really stinks getting was he undrafted? Like
Speaker 1: you really get banged over and over just by being undrafted.
Speaker 1: Like his career has been better than Saquon Barkley's. Not
Speaker 1: like he would have gotten Saquon Barkley's contract necessarily, but
Speaker 1: because he was undrafted. He had to take a deal
Speaker 1: that was really good for him at the time three
Speaker 1: years into his like his you know, undrafted rookie deal,
Speaker 1: but now looks very below the market and you're always
Speaker 1: like trying to catch up to the money that you
Speaker 1: didn't make in the first place, and so you don't
Speaker 1: you don't blame him, But I think he'll be elsewhere.
Speaker 1: There's a I think they were gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of trades. Laramie Tunsel's another player that requested permission to
Speaker 1: seek a trade. The left tackle of the Texans one
Speaker 1: of the very best in the league, and the Texans,
Speaker 1: despite speculation last year, held on to him. He delivered
Speaker 1: another high quality season mark and if he goes on
Speaker 1: the market, he could fetch quite a pretty penny given
Speaker 1: the premium position. It's kind of the opposite of running backs.
Speaker 1: A left tackle right immense value, both in a trade
Speaker 1: value and in salary. He's been linked, you know, here
Speaker 1: and there to the Chiefs who have moved on from
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown. But they went and got John Taylor, who
Speaker 1: has been a right tackle career wise with Jacksonville, but
Speaker 1: they're going to move him over to left tackles according
Speaker 1: to James Palmer or a friend. So that's a lot
Speaker 1: of money if you then go try to sort all
Speaker 1: this out. But I think they lost Andrew Wiley the
Speaker 1: Chiefs the right tackle, so they still have to find
Speaker 1: someone to protect Patrick Mahomes. So Taylor, you know, you
Speaker 1: could put him on the on the right side if
Speaker 1: you got Lamrie Tonsil. He got. Yeah, huge money from
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but not as huge as what Orlando Brown
Speaker 1: was gonna make. They would be scary as hell with
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsil, that's their left tackle. And but do you
Speaker 1: think they paid him as a left Juwan Taylor as though?
Speaker 1: I mean when I see that contract as but it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it's totally shut down. I tend to
Speaker 1: think that getting floated out there might be like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't necessarily need you Laramie Tunsil, um. But it
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten shot and down that this could happen. I
Speaker 1: did go to Tunsil's Twitter page like checking it out.
Speaker 1: It's always an interesting the likes and whatnot. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: had a funny like today of like Razul Douglas saying
Speaker 1: Rogers's phone um, and so the last tweet from Laramie
Speaker 1: Tunsil is lmao, man, and that was yesterday. That uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for the kids laughing my ass on. So
Speaker 1: I just feel like, Okay, something happened. That's I feel
Speaker 1: like that's been in the lexicon for a while. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for the kids, for the children out there
Speaker 1: for that. H. That was a joke human. That feels like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm reading that. It's like I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be a Texan anymore. They won't pay
Speaker 1: me what I want to make h And then immediately
Speaker 1: retweets Patrick Mahomes saying NFL is gonna be wild this
Speaker 1: next week. And that's back to back and it does.
Speaker 1: These guys are all talking to each other. Come on.
Speaker 1: Cycling back to Eckler, by the way, he has thirty
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns in the past two seasons. Um, he's coming
Speaker 1: off a career high and targets. He has made twenty
Speaker 1: one million total in his career. What I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: and that is not to say that twenty one million
Speaker 1: is anything to sneeze it. I would love twenty one million.
Speaker 1: I'd love a million, but twenty one million for you
Speaker 1: guy who had thirty eight touchdowns in the last two years.
Speaker 1: You see where it gets a little jankie, like when
Speaker 1: we talked about some of these other players getting the
Speaker 1: money they're getting. Eckler is a machine. What about him
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills? They're there. That's spicy, right. Joan
Speaker 1: Taylor plays a premium position. I get that Taylor hadn't
Speaker 1: been lighting it up for most of his career an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. Dude developed late. But he gets sixty million
Speaker 1: and guaranteed money in echoleracy and just can I have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a raise. That's a spicy meat ball.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are doing some work. They signed Jesse Bates safety,
Speaker 1: they said, David on Yon mada uh twenty four and
Speaker 1: a half over two. They're not done yet. They give
Speaker 1: Chris Lynch from their star guard, one hundred and five
Speaker 1: million to stay put uh Connie. That is a lot
Speaker 1: of lifting on the first day of free agency for
Speaker 1: a team that is looking to make a move. They're
Speaker 1: just out here flexing, flexing their muscles, um giving out
Speaker 1: the bag. Jesse Jesse Bates. I like this one because
Speaker 1: I mean, we knew that he was going to be gone,
Speaker 1: from which she would just would have stopped after that.
Speaker 1: That was the analysis for the kids. When she says, bag,
Speaker 1: it's talking about money, money he's bringing I think the
Speaker 1: kids know this. It's the the geriatrics, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: theoriatric millennials. I know. I think I'm one of those.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't know what the when someone one of
Speaker 1: you was talking and when it's a drop, um, it
Speaker 1: feels like this, um, But Jesse Bates last year, I
Speaker 1: remember again, you're you're firmly a millennial, by the way, Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, I'll take it. I feel like my soul
Speaker 1: is honestly, I'm on the border line. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost like this generational stuff is nonsense
Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe, yeah, um, should we talk about Jesse.
Speaker 1: I don't describe to any of that, by the way,
Speaker 1: but yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry. When I was at
Speaker 1: the Bengals training camp this summer, Jesse Bates still was
Speaker 1: kind of like we didn't know what he was going
Speaker 1: to do, sort of like hadn't hadn't signed the tag yet,
Speaker 1: hadn't reported to camp. Um. So we knew that, you know,
Speaker 1: he was out of there and he's going to really
Speaker 1: help out this Falcon's past defense, they allow the eighth
Speaker 1: most passing yards last season. They desperately needed some help
Speaker 1: in that department, and Bates second team All Pro in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty fourteen interceptions. I mean, he's a really good
Speaker 1: player and I think that he'll add a lot of
Speaker 1: value to this team. Lindstrom getting one hundred and five
Speaker 1: is wild, Like, yeah, he's another example of offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and he's always been good, but he went to another level.
Speaker 1: He was second team All Pro this year. They do
Speaker 1: develop slower than other positions that I'd truly buy. I
Speaker 1: think other some positions are up and down, like cornerback,
Speaker 1: maybe off ball, linebackers, stuff like that. Running backs you'd
Speaker 1: rather have early. Offensive lineman you'd rather have in the middle.
Speaker 1: Too late, they get better and better, and he got better,
Speaker 1: and that Bates contract was awesome for him. You like
Speaker 1: seeing a guy who bet on himself, like with the
Speaker 1: one year deals, never took the long term contract from
Speaker 1: the Bengals, be rewarded. Usually it's phony where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the four year sixty four. I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: too much for him. It's actually almost phony. The other way,
Speaker 1: he gets thirty six million in the first two years.
Speaker 1: It's it's frontloaded. He should get all that money, like
Speaker 1: he is going to get paid it is. You know,
Speaker 1: Dean P's has gone retired, so Ryan Nielsen is a
Speaker 1: stepping into that role for the first time in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I don't fully I've trusted Atlanta's defense in like half
Speaker 1: a decade plus at this point. And if you're the Bengals,
Speaker 1: you also lost von Beld to the Panthers, so you
Speaker 1: have a you have an issue at safety on your
Speaker 1: might have got way too much money. Twenty four million
Speaker 1: dollars over two is is wild for a guy who's
Speaker 1: thirty one, who looks incredible for three or four straight
Speaker 1: games and then kind of disappears. He's had a very
Speaker 1: like an up and down career. But like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: they have a new defensive coordinator who was in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Their GM used to be in New Orleans, and you
Speaker 1: always like, go get the guys you used to love, right.
Speaker 1: They they targeted aggressively to make a move like this
Speaker 1: this quickly, and they believe he's a perfect scheme fit
Speaker 1: for what they do. And you got to spend that
Speaker 1: cap space I do. I'm talking out of both sides
Speaker 1: of my mouth on some level, because it's a waste
Speaker 1: to just be rolling over all that cap space. You're
Speaker 1: gonna take one more break and then we are going
Speaker 1: to hit the rest of the news is all right,
Speaker 1: we're back. Um. During the break, um Mark pulled me
Speaker 1: aside into a private room and he said, it was
Speaker 1: a long break. Dan, I'll this talk about like where
Speaker 1: you want to put me? How do you categorize who
Speaker 1: I am? I'm Generation Next? That is a direct quote
Speaker 1: of our conversation during that that um, you know, leisurely
Speaker 1: lengthy break. We just and I looked you right in
Speaker 1: the eyes that I said, okay, I respect that. Thank
Speaker 1: you for honoring my uh my needs. Who else is
Speaker 1: in Generation next? Mark? Literally just one person. It's just Mark,
Speaker 1: all PEPSI drinkers. I think we need Well, No, it's
Speaker 1: a different, it's different than that. I'm with myself. Also,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get to the rest. Everyone. Check out
Speaker 1: colleague's instagram for some great sponsors about this. Oh you
Speaker 1: didn't hear them talking about it for fifteen minutes in
Speaker 1: the news room. At least finally stopped Dan from honking.
Speaker 1: I have noticed result. So one of you, like on
Speaker 1: a beach drinking. The product that you know, I pulled
Speaker 1: over to the side of the road. It's organic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Disney story real quick. Yes, I have another upcoming
Speaker 1: Pepsi post for you guys. And I was like, guys,
Speaker 1: are my fans out there next to the rest of
Speaker 1: them for generation next? Uh? So I went to Disney
Speaker 1: for the first time ever a couple days ago, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that could be perfect. There's so
Speaker 1: many things going on at Disney. I could figure out
Speaker 1: some way to like integrate a pepsi or market there.
Speaker 1: So I am going in through security at Disneyland, and
Speaker 1: I get through security with the Pepsi. I didn't even
Speaker 1: think it would be a problem because whatever, You're a
Speaker 1: pitch woman, so of course it shouldn't bet And I'm
Speaker 1: gathering all of my things and it's very chaotic and
Speaker 1: hectic because our friend that took us to Disney really
Speaker 1: loves Disney, she's a Disney person, and we needed to
Speaker 1: be there for rope drop, which I didn't even know
Speaker 1: what that's a thing. So we are rushing to get
Speaker 1: through and I don't like to be rushed, and so
Speaker 1: I'm already like kind of like in a in a
Speaker 1: space that is not great for me. And I gather
Speaker 1: all of my things as I'm walking away from security
Speaker 1: and I hear something crash onto the ground and it's
Speaker 1: the Pepsi can and it explodes everywhere. It's like dollar
Speaker 1: signs coming out of it, starts spraying the security guard. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then I had pepsi all over me the rest
Speaker 1: of the day and we were there for like fourteen hours.
Speaker 1: That's a great symbolism. You're post captured. We'll capture all this. No,
Speaker 1: because we were going to miss the tram, so I
Speaker 1: have fun and then you would have missed rope drop. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that this story. Yeah, huge platform. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that was a crutch for me, which I'm just realizing,
Speaker 1: my honor. Just we've got some developing news. I'm not
Speaker 1: going I linebacker David Long ranked in the top twenty
Speaker 1: five of my top one on one free and is
Speaker 1: signing with the Miami Dolphins two years, eleven million dollars.
Speaker 1: Love that deal compared to the tremade endmonds. Yet that's
Speaker 1: all I was saying. That's all I was saying, Like
Speaker 1: he's a I know he doesn't have the forty time.
Speaker 1: Maybe not quite as much. But he's a football player.
Speaker 1: He has great instincts. This is a great value you guys.
Speaker 1: Hear something not something I haven't heard anything. I pleaded
Speaker 1: like multiple episode right, Um, I just always your entryway
Speaker 1: that David Long is a great linebacker and um he's
Speaker 1: like he's a little limited in coverage, but he's pretty
Speaker 1: dang good. And the Dolphins got a great deal here.
Speaker 1: I mean looking at the other linebacker signings, like what
Speaker 1: the Bears did today, that's a pretty nice deal forever
Speaker 1: THEFC really is uh looking pretty go hold on that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I come to I get it. Great Covo coming up.
Speaker 1: Maybe cut to like Titans headquarters and like it just
Speaker 1: ran Carthon like taking a massive nap in like an
Speaker 1: office somewhere. The Titans signed. Titans are not like there
Speaker 1: are no pillars. They signed. They signed somebody. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we'll get to it on this episode. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's just like it's like a circus tent when they
Speaker 1: have they they're beginning to take it down. They take
Speaker 1: out the big pole in the middle. It's just like
Speaker 1: a big flat like giant big top on the on
Speaker 1: the turt on like the hard dirt ground depressing. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Titans right now now, I support that, though I
Speaker 1: think the Titans should try to win zero games. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel that there are no weight strategies, there are
Speaker 1: no weight verying walls. It's like a FEMA trailer that
Speaker 1: they gave out. It's like that never worked. Way to go, Brownie.
Speaker 1: Remember then it's just like Ryan Downhill and Derek Henry
Speaker 1: like gasping for air under this gigantic big top, like
Speaker 1: let us out, let us escape. Meanwhile, he's trying to
Speaker 1: do some cop coping mechanism here, being like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna get but I did like this
Speaker 1: deal that they signed later in the day. Yes, they
Speaker 1: got the former first round of Philadelphia Eagles tackle Andre Dillard,
Speaker 1: literally the only player who's ever played on the offensive
Speaker 1: line for the Eagles that didn't work out and end
Speaker 1: up being one of the great trying to get hurt.
Speaker 1: Jordan is really good played. He was like five you know, okay,
Speaker 1: it was it was. I looked up his PFF grades
Speaker 1: and that's not the end shot. I'm just saying like
Speaker 1: they've had a lot of people go through there and
Speaker 1: they all end up doing great. Except for this one guy.
Speaker 1: That's the guy nine and a half million a year.
Speaker 1: It's like, not a huge deal for us. What's going
Speaker 1: to be their starting left tackle? Right? That was your
Speaker 1: Oscars party. Let's talk about something plus the pressing. It
Speaker 1: was super fun good. Yeah it was at your place.
Speaker 1: Uh not exactly, no, but I thought it was correct
Speaker 1: because yeah, you you I thought you were hosting an
Speaker 1: Oscars right, pize someone else's hospital. It's different. I know
Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers happened, we would have done a pot.
Speaker 1: It would have been where is your commitment to the show,
Speaker 1: It would have happened. What did you bring it to
Speaker 1: the party, like like Jica, Well, Jessica was there. We
Speaker 1: brought a bottle of wine, two folding chairs, and a
Speaker 1: lot of themed foods, so we made chair well we
Speaker 1: need extra chairs, apartment doesn't have billion chairs. And uh,
Speaker 1: all the foods were named after puns. So we brought
Speaker 1: the everything everywhere, all at buns, which were cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 1: They were great. I'm so upset that Dan ask you
Speaker 1: what you brought. I adore it. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love it. I've never changed which one of you came
Speaker 1: up with that with the pun or did you just
Speaker 1: seamlessly come up with the ta. No, they said it
Speaker 1: like they're like, what should we say? And then they
Speaker 1: said it at the same time, and then they just
Speaker 1: like cat passionately kissed in the kitchen as like a
Speaker 1: heart went around them as like a what do they
Speaker 1: call those things? The wipe the next love their great
Speaker 1: life there. That is exactly how it went out. It's
Speaker 1: like I do on three cinnamons. What's it called? What
Speaker 1: was it called? Everything everywhere, all at buns? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: can you remember that? Yeah? What should we call it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everything everywhere, all at buns? Big swoop,
Speaker 1: fade out to the next perfect scene of you guys
Speaker 1: in your life again? Yeah? Folding chairs? What do we
Speaker 1: need on three folding chairs? No? All right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: That is weird though, because no one has furniture, so
Speaker 1: they needed someone to bring folding chairs. But people that
Speaker 1: don't have why do you have folded I was wondering
Speaker 1: about that water too, and any other like survival blankets,
Speaker 1: no batteries. Did you consider everything everywhere all at prunes?
Speaker 1: That's light. That's what Greg came up with with his
Speaker 1: significant Is this where we tell Greg. We were all
Speaker 1: off the party. Yeah, there was meat balls quiet on
Speaker 1: their western front. That was a pretty good one. You
Speaker 1: guys should have been at the man Cheese of Innish
Speaker 1: year and was a cheese. Yeah. I can't remember someone
Speaker 1: tar and it's literally just like a wet bull. There
Speaker 1: was a tar pun, but I don't remember chips with tar.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good tartara chips like someone's dead on the floor.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, he actually holds the prop. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Uh, where we finished things up?
Speaker 1: Kale Blair, kale a healthy dish. I like that? All right, Sorry,
Speaker 1: go we're back to the what we're doing. Former Steeler
Speaker 1: Cam Sutton heads to the Lions. He gets twenty two
Speaker 1: and a half million guaranteed. The Steelers then turn around
Speaker 1: and signed Pat Peterson, the veteran cover man. Uh you
Speaker 1: think Pittsburgh comes out? Okay, there is Peterson? Have anything
Speaker 1: left to the tank? Where we at there? Peterson feels
Speaker 1: like one of these Steelers signings that I just trust
Speaker 1: will work out. But they really needed cornerback help. So
Speaker 1: after losing Sun young man, No, it's a young man's position.
Speaker 1: He played pretty well last year. These are the type
Speaker 1: of guys that weirdly get undervalued in free agency. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: just let's pay Pat Pete seven million dollars. He'll be
Speaker 1: a fine starting quarterback. You don't have to go crazy.
Speaker 1: But I think they were disappointed. It sounded like they
Speaker 1: were trying to keep Cam Sutton, who they developed into
Speaker 1: a nice player. He got twenty two and a half
Speaker 1: million guaranteed from the Lions, who definitely needed another quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think that makes them a little less likely to
Speaker 1: take a cornerback at six. A lot of people had
Speaker 1: that mocked as them taking the top cornerback off the board.
Speaker 1: Maybe Witherspoon maybe Now it's like a little more Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 1: possibly if you ever slipped there. But either way, like
Speaker 1: they needed a cornerback. I like that Steelers can still
Speaker 1: take a cornerback, though sure. Ian's tweet when it happened
Speaker 1: was ba ba Patrick Peterson a surprise, A perennial star
Speaker 1: headed to a historic franchise to beef up. They're back end.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed this thing? It's starting to gain more
Speaker 1: momentum with the insiders, Ian and Mike and the pell
Speaker 1: raiser um the guys on live television with the phones,
Speaker 1: and we're now we're treating these men of the media,
Speaker 1: these insiders, as if they're carrying bayonets during the Revolutionary War,
Speaker 1: and they're just these like fearless heroes that will do
Speaker 1: anything to defend them defend their country and get the
Speaker 1: story like they're fighting each other too. They're fighting each other.
Speaker 1: In fact, I like this, I had justin cut this.
Speaker 1: It's real. I mean, the battle is real, and the
Speaker 1: battle is sometimes within your own platoon. Listen right and
Speaker 1: listen to uh, Mike g getting a phone call when
Speaker 1: they just threw it to him to deliver something from
Speaker 1: Denver to the Seahawks. And if you remember, James Palmer
Speaker 1: did a tremendous I'm on the air, I'll call you
Speaker 1: right back. Don't give it to anybody else. Bye. Um.
Speaker 1: The Shelby Harris was part of that trade. He did
Speaker 1: a phenomenal interview with our James give it to you.
Speaker 1: And then Ian got a phone call and what happened
Speaker 1: justin he ripped, he ripped off his headset and he
Speaker 1: was out of there. Yeah, he was Tom Pellicero like
Speaker 1: faked like he was getting a phone call just to
Speaker 1: mess with Mike. And then he got a real phone
Speaker 1: call and had to bolt off the side. I was
Speaker 1: watching this live, and I can confirm to you, having
Speaker 1: worked with Mike Garafolo closely for so many years, if
Speaker 1: you don't know Mike and just heard that sound drop like,
Speaker 1: you'd be like m I feel like he was just
Speaker 1: putting on for like the camera, because it's free agency.
Speaker 1: That's literally almost every single production meeting I've had with
Speaker 1: Garafolo that has happened. Also a man of high integrity,
Speaker 1: so I don't think he would fake things. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I also liked that the person he was speaking to
Speaker 1: totally disregarded what Mike said as he should have be like,
Speaker 1: no loyalty for you. I'm not waiting, I'm calling rap
Speaker 1: sheet of you beats it by fifteen seconds of the other.
Speaker 1: There was also about a fifteen minute period where Jane
Speaker 1: Slater's dog in the background um sounded as if it
Speaker 1: had taken six times. What's listening to that too? They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to put that one in the garage has
Speaker 1: two dogs? Yeah, that was one of the two. Whoever
Speaker 1: the culprit and I thought it was in our newsroom
Speaker 1: for a minute that a dog had escaped into us.
Speaker 1: It sounded like Birdie. It did sound like Birdie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the first thing, and knowing Ian, the first
Speaker 1: thing Ian saying when he picks up the phone is
Speaker 1: why did you call him first? Oh? Of course? Question like,
Speaker 1: all right, now, what is it? Interesting? World? I think
Speaker 1: they're just getting called because the agents are seeing them
Speaker 1: on TV and they want to say, what a sandbox
Speaker 1: to live in and play in? And we've given, you know,
Speaker 1: pel Raiser a great nickname. And he seems to not
Speaker 1: have any concept this has occurred in his life. Have
Speaker 1: you told him yet? I don't really have a chance.
Speaker 1: I don't speak with him ever regular but we weren't
Speaker 1: once yesterday. I think it's something we should personally talk
Speaker 1: um unless you want to be our ambassador on it.
Speaker 1: Do you want to? That would be weird, That would
Speaker 1: be weird. But I don't think I have another show
Speaker 1: with him for a while, So it's on you guys.
Speaker 1: It's a great nickname. Maybe they'll send us to the draft.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that happens. Simply to provide the message, well,
Speaker 1: then we can. That would give us the opening to
Speaker 1: have the conversation. Would in the hotel lobby, Hey, fhy
Speaker 1: um got you a bit of an elite nickname brand
Speaker 1: and maybe get rich off. It's a it's a masculine nickname.
Speaker 1: I think it's one that suggests that he's great at
Speaker 1: what he does. Yeah like that. There's he's got a
Speaker 1: better nickname than it's a better nickname than rap sheet. Right,
Speaker 1: and also makes people think of the cinematic classic hell
Speaker 1: raisor starring Pinhead and hell Rais two, three, four, and
Speaker 1: I think four. It does make them think of all
Speaker 1: five of those, but like the whole the kind of like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'll call you back. Don't give it to anyone else,
Speaker 1: like pell Raiser is like, right, you don't give it
Speaker 1: to somebody else, You give it to pell Raiser, right
Speaker 1: or else? And and for the kids out there who
Speaker 1: weren't familiar with the movie, his name was Pinhead because
Speaker 1: he literally had pins in his head. I like that.
Speaker 1: You're just describing everything for the for the kids kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of explanations from Greg on today's episode.
Speaker 1: I like it. It's informational and that's what today's episode
Speaker 1: is about. Uh dron Payne. Hey, guys, the play commanders
Speaker 1: have them in their building. They don't let him get
Speaker 1: out the defensive lineman gets a four year, ninety million
Speaker 1: dollar contract, reportedly via rap sheet sixty million and guarantees
Speaker 1: he had gotten the franchise tag, so they wasn't going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Good news for my guy, Quinnin Williams. If Dron Payne's
Speaker 1: getting that, that's at least Quinn Williams gets. Well, oh sorry,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons. If the Titans decide to feel the defense
Speaker 1: this season, like he that's another framework there for that
Speaker 1: con That's a lot of money. They got a dragon.
Speaker 1: It is really good to time your very best season
Speaker 1: of your career in your contract here, which was what
Speaker 1: DNS do. Good weekend for quinnin Williams too, because his
Speaker 1: brother got paid yes see by the Jets. I like
Speaker 1: that move, but let's make sure we get the better
Speaker 1: Williams speaking of jets to, Speaking of Jets's, I really
Speaker 1: like Naice Sam Darnald Sam Donald. Yeah, he is not
Speaker 1: on the Greg Rosenthal top one oh one, but he
Speaker 1: is now the property of Kyle Shannon, who knows an
Speaker 1: unpolished gem when he sees one. With Brock Party recovering
Speaker 1: from elbow surgery with Trey lance A big old question mark.
Speaker 1: The Niners signed Sam Darnel or agree with Sam Darnold
Speaker 1: on a one year contract, giving them a little bit
Speaker 1: more stability in that QB room and potentially and here
Speaker 1: this is my sincere hope, because this is somebody who
Speaker 1: thought that Donald was wronged earlier in his career, and
Speaker 1: I thought he got some sense of self respect in
Speaker 1: the league back during his Carolina tenure. It would be
Speaker 1: full circle for him to now be on a loaded
Speaker 1: offense with a gifted play caller, just to see what
Speaker 1: would happen. I hope he gets meaningful snaps and that
Speaker 1: would be fun. Maybe he becomes who imagine how rich
Speaker 1: would it be, Greggy if Sam Donald was the geno
Speaker 1: Smith of two years. It takes as an opportunity and
Speaker 1: a little bit of a high level play. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Darnold heads out there are there, you DJ, the
Speaker 1: people who said Darnold was like one of the great
Speaker 1: prospects ever, including DJ, and there were plenty of them
Speaker 1: out there. I think I've believed in him throughout if
Speaker 1: you could just get into the right situation. And last
Speaker 1: year it was like, look how it's going, and then
Speaker 1: he had like the worst game any quarterback had all
Speaker 1: season and weekend seen and to kind of wipe them
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm just saying, I mean, how many
Speaker 1: times you're gonna bring that up? Too many? They didn't
Speaker 1: say the money on this deal, but it is a
Speaker 1: I mean, if you could ever get on the field
Speaker 1: for them, it would be an incredible opportunity. When they
Speaker 1: don't say the money, it means it's not much money.
Speaker 1: But that's not a surprise. He's gonna be the third quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think if everyone's healthy. But if Perdie's not ready,
Speaker 1: and then Lance is even taken as the thing. It's
Speaker 1: a contract that probably has some incentives, but he can
Speaker 1: be the third quarterback. If he doesn't en. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna be Obviously, he wasn't gonna be in the Panther's plans.
Speaker 1: He wants to play, but I would think he would
Speaker 1: might he might be open to waiting things out a
Speaker 1: little bit unless the Niners were like, hey, the way
Speaker 1: things are set up right now, you're gonna have an opportunity.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be third string in week one. I
Speaker 1: think this might tell you more about Purdie's timetable that
Speaker 1: or like there is this world where if you're going
Speaker 1: to ride into the season and even might before Darnald
Speaker 1: with Purdie and Trey Lance, Like, are you really keeping
Speaker 1: both of these guys? I mean, there's a reason you
Speaker 1: would maybe, but you could potentially trade someone like Trey
Speaker 1: Lan Lance get traded. I'm just saying wild anymore. Nothing's
Speaker 1: wild him. But I think with Purdie is the future
Speaker 1: there that they bought in on him. Darnald is the
Speaker 1: backup they're comfortable with. And let's I think they're just
Speaker 1: scared because Josh Johnson entered an NFC Championship grant for them,
Speaker 1: and I get that it's a great landing spot for
Speaker 1: Darnold and it goes back to California. It's like, I
Speaker 1: kind of like it for him a lot. If you
Speaker 1: got to get a couple of spots starts early, you
Speaker 1: get a different version of him in an offense that's competent.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for Sam all Right and Bucks News. They
Speaker 1: resign Jamel Dean the cornerback four years, fifty two million,
Speaker 1: twenty six guaranteed via rap sheet. They also have an
Speaker 1: eye out Baker Mayfield. Speaking of interests. Lass of twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen quarterbacks, Mayfield was potentially on the radar of the Niners. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they went in a different direction with Darnold number one
Speaker 1: oh one on the top one oh one. There's been
Speaker 1: some talk that they could eye him as potentially a
Speaker 1: guy who could start for them week one if he
Speaker 1: could beat out Kyle Trask in a camp battle. It
Speaker 1: doesn't sound promising like this is. I understand that this
Speaker 1: is the situation that the Bucks are in right now
Speaker 1: now that Tom Brady has retired, but bringing in Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield to compete with Kyle Trask is not something that
Speaker 1: is really selling me on the team right I am
Speaker 1: curious what else they'll do. Baby, They'll draft a quarterback.
Speaker 1: They are this team that's just floating out there. Their
Speaker 1: new coordinator was the Seahawks quarterbacks coach last year, Dave Canalis.
Speaker 1: But they still have players there. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think Godwin's going anywhere. They had a good offensive line,
Speaker 1: they got players. I wonder if if I would I'd
Speaker 1: rather be in Sam Darnold's shoes though, and just have
Speaker 1: a chance to play in San Francisco, then just try
Speaker 1: out Baker Mayfield. If Baker's destiny is becoming more Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: in where he ends up hanging around longer than anyone expected,
Speaker 1: and he pops once or twice almost every year when
Speaker 1: he gets opportunities, and sometimes that ends in like a
Speaker 1: starting job that may last or may not last. What
Speaker 1: if that's kind of Baker's arc And would he signed
Speaker 1: off on that. I'm sure he might if he as
Speaker 1: much upside as well. So Ryan Fitzpatrick. I know Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick had. Ryan Fitzpatrick had went through a lot of valleys.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we got the full like version
Speaker 1: where he just was so comfortable in his own skin
Speaker 1: and so having so much fun at the end of
Speaker 1: his career. Like too, I could too, because I think
Speaker 1: Baker's had sort of a shadow of him for a while.
Speaker 1: And I'm not pitching him as a starter, but like
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of interest reportedly in Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: in Tampa, but I think, like I'm glad they're not
Speaker 1: a week ago it was like Kyle Trask or nothing.
Speaker 1: It's like, don't even try that on us right now.
Speaker 1: So like Baker, I think is someone you could bring
Speaker 1: in as like a patch and he's not going to
Speaker 1: cost you a ton of money. I think I don't
Speaker 1: know if he has the people skills that Fitzpatrick has.
Speaker 1: I think to have that type of career, you need
Speaker 1: to be that dude that can fit in any situation
Speaker 1: and that everyone loves in any situation, whether he's the backup,
Speaker 1: whether he's the starter. I mean, he threw for thirty
Speaker 1: five thousand. There's not a lot of yards in his
Speaker 1: grider and a lot of Ryan Fitzpatrick's. There's still a
Speaker 1: bunch of front offices that have their scouting report on
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. And when you're a first overall pick, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get just many more chance than if you were
Speaker 1: third or fourth round. Yes, Robert Woods signed with the
Speaker 1: Texans formerly of the Titans for more money than I
Speaker 1: personally expected. What was the money on that twelve and
Speaker 1: a half or two? I just I don't know. It
Speaker 1: seemed rich considering he gave the Tennessee nothing coming off
Speaker 1: an ACL injury and he's north of thirty right, great digger,
Speaker 1: my little are Were you a little surprised to see?
Speaker 1: I was? Yeah, And so I mean before free agency
Speaker 1: even started. Is like the Texans prioritize getting That's what
Speaker 1: the timing was interesting too. He finished with the fewest
Speaker 1: yards of his career. I think the ideas you're maybe
Speaker 1: better the one more year away from that surgery. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was getting a little better at the end of
Speaker 1: the season to get that money suggest that there was
Speaker 1: some sort of bidding. And I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: the Rams were the team that we're trying to bring
Speaker 1: him back, wouldn't extending like shopped around. It is interesting
Speaker 1: that Robert Woods and Cooks are back on the same
Speaker 1: team again like they were in All Rights. Beat writer
Speaker 1: Paul Kuharsky tweeted, he will be a quarterback's best friend
Speaker 1: if your quarterback loves slow receivers. Wow, he was on
Speaker 1: the show, right. He wasn't angry about Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: really annoyed with a lot was salty about that name. Ye,
Speaker 1: you and him went at it. We really we really
Speaker 1: want toe to toe hands his v Kuharsky uh The
Speaker 1: Patriots sign bit cornerback Jonathan Jones. The Falcons acquired John
Speaker 1: WHO Smith from the Patriots. It turns out that the
Speaker 1: Johnah Smith Hunter Henry like spending spree was weird when
Speaker 1: it happened, and J J. JOHNA. Smith did nothing with
Speaker 1: the Pats and they get a seventh round pick uh,
Speaker 1: and then you start task, Well, Falcons just got Johnny Smith?
Speaker 1: What Arthur Smith reunion there? What about Kyle Pitts? Is
Speaker 1: he still is? He's somebody that's floating out there. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean he had one touchdown for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: not that touchdowns or everything, but that was how style
Speaker 1: Pits have in two years with the Falcons three. You know,
Speaker 1: it's toughest tight ends coming into the league that position
Speaker 1: when you are who is this Elizabeth right before she
Speaker 1: tests positive for COVID like John Smith. I don't understand
Speaker 1: what happened. I don't understand what happened to Johnah Smith.
Speaker 1: I used to love him with the Titans. So he'll
Speaker 1: be a perfect second tight end, not asked to do
Speaker 1: too much. What is he was so bad for the Patriots?
Speaker 1: So bad? I'm still trying to figure out what Colleen
Speaker 1: was doing there. Who's the actress in a show where
Speaker 1: she plays like an amateur detective. It's very hot right
Speaker 1: now in Peacock Grave Digger Man. That's tough that, you
Speaker 1: know what, Digger It's also tough for Dan Natasha Leone, Yes,
Speaker 1: Natasha Leone. What's the name of the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys don't know this with you? Excellent show. Every
Speaker 1: I didn't have to face I can't. I can't like
Speaker 1: lock in that name. That was very leone. Yes, I
Speaker 1: love right. I was like, what is going on? Who
Speaker 1: is talking to me? I didn't position, I didn't hate it.
Speaker 1: It was just a little jar all right, odds and
Speaker 1: ends hit it Connie, okay um the singing part like
Speaker 1: the music, yeahs ends odds and ends, say everybody tell
Speaker 1: your friends it's odds and ends? Who did you? Just
Speaker 1: did you double track her vocals? And she was harmonizing
Speaker 1: with herself because the last time she did it, she
Speaker 1: nailed it so perfectly that I clipped it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was just like sometimes you need to do next
Speaker 1: time yourself. You gotta sing in a different key next
Speaker 1: time so you can harmonize himself, so I can practically
Speaker 1: graver next time. Play the one of her harmonizing with
Speaker 1: herself until we can have three colleagues. Just gonna keep
Speaker 1: building colleens, like I'm not even joking everyone, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get it untill it's basically a full choir, a
Speaker 1: noble quest all right, Delight The Texans signed case Keenum
Speaker 1: formerly of the Bills, so he is going to be
Speaker 1: a back up there when they get their new quarterback.
Speaker 1: The Bucks will trade or cut Shack Mason keep an
Speaker 1: eye on his market. The Brown signed agbo Ocacaraquo twelve
Speaker 1: and a half million guaranteed. There you go, Marquis. The
Speaker 1: Bengals bring back Jermaine Pratt on a two year deal.
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern leaves the Jets for the Bills ads their line.
Speaker 1: Uh Matt Milano gets a new deal from the Bills.
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd back to the Giants and a one year deal.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that ever becomes anything. O'Dell works out
Speaker 1: for a bunch of teams. He's reportedly looking for twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars. The Jets, as we said, resigned Quincy Williams,
Speaker 1: and the Lions bring back Isaiah. I will tell you
Speaker 1: one little thing I was talking to Greg that like,
Speaker 1: if you go back to the early days of our
Speaker 1: show when Case Keenum was a Texan and had a
Speaker 1: couple of spicy spots starts here and there, and that
Speaker 1: was Chris Westling favorite for just how aggressive he was.
Speaker 1: You know, didn't think he was a perfect quarterback, but
Speaker 1: he would talk about letting your case Keenum flag fly
Speaker 1: and now he's back in Houston, and that made me
Speaker 1: think of fo your keen Chase a little accent though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel a little bit, just in terms of like backups.
Speaker 1: And Chase Daniel was in the green room here at
Speaker 1: work yesterday after we finished the show and I walked
Speaker 1: in and I was like, Oh, who's this new producer
Speaker 1: in my head? And I introduced myself and I didn't
Speaker 1: catch his name. And so there's a bunch of people
Speaker 1: in the green room, I mean Scott Pioli, Steve White,
Speaker 1: Maurice Jones, Drew and I was like, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what did you say your name is again? And he
Speaker 1: was like, um, Chase Daniel the corner. Oh, I just
Speaker 1: have never seen you with your helmet off. Then just
Speaker 1: like run to your car and drive them. Yea, but
Speaker 1: I have the wrong Connor McGovern. Yeah, not the Jets,
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern, the Cowboys, connorc got it. It's confusing. They're
Speaker 1: both in the AFC East now half of it. Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern's that were available still available, half of them are
Speaker 1: now there. Clarity, good clarity. It is one of the
Speaker 1: great things about Twitter. You know, on some level Twitter
Speaker 1: has changed our minds, maybe in a negative way. But
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you can bring up this case
Speaker 1: Keenum flag fly, put it in with an at Chris Westling,
Speaker 1: and you can find about seventy different tweets of people
Speaker 1: tweeting at west about it, or west tweety about it,
Speaker 1: and it going on and on for years and years.
Speaker 1: All of us are spotting in different things. And so
Speaker 1: I love that good was that little left from you?
Speaker 1: Just I was just thinking about Chris. It was freak flag.
Speaker 1: It made me giggle, maybe giggle like a schoolgirl thinking
Speaker 1: about how much you loved Case Keen. Well, that's sweet.
Speaker 1: We won't make fun of you. Then, covered thank you,
Speaker 1: safe wherever you are. I always think about that whenever,
Speaker 1: whenever Case Keenum gets into a game and he just
Speaker 1: gets back there and then there's that one moment where
Speaker 1: he's about to get crushed and he thinks like, Hm,
Speaker 1: should I throw it out of bounds? Should I take
Speaker 1: the sack? No, Let's just throw it as hard as
Speaker 1: I can, as far as I can and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Like that's letting your case Keenum flag fly. It is
Speaker 1: And now the opposite side of Twitter, which is now
Speaker 1: owned by an oligarch M. You must remove text message
Speaker 1: two factor authentication by March nineteenth or your account is
Speaker 1: shut down. Oh I got that too. About that, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't like that. I guess they're gonna
Speaker 1: shut my account down. Shut it down? Then do you
Speaker 1: lose like everything you like? I hope that all we
Speaker 1: were told is you need the two factor the case
Speaker 1: trying to get you to pay for that. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so I gotta is upstairs? Well or what is our
Speaker 1: company doing about it? I would say my questions to
Speaker 1: someone who is high up in that department, and they
Speaker 1: said they'll get back to me. Well, March nineteen, six
Speaker 1: days from now. So it looks like all accounts are
Speaker 1: going to be wiped out a race from the internet
Speaker 1: in six days. All right, that's it is that it
Speaker 1: We did ninety minutes and no Aaron Rodgers news. No,
Speaker 1: but the Giants signed a linebacker. Do we care? I
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a you put it in our
Speaker 1: messaging clienting. Yes, I think it's important, breaking news, not developing.
Speaker 1: Go for a graver. This is your time to shine
Speaker 1: the Giants. According to Ian Rappaport have signed former Cults
Speaker 1: linebacker Bobby Okaka, giving them a new face in the
Speaker 1: middle of their defense. Four years, forty million with twenty
Speaker 1: two million guaranteed. Again, I want to see the details.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's funny. Money might be a one year deal.
Speaker 1: But also Mike greg he plays defense. Yuck. That's not
Speaker 1: what I mean. But a lot of these offball linebackers
Speaker 1: are getting a lot of money on day one because
Speaker 1: there's not many other positions out there. They've needed that
Speaker 1: position for a long time. They were completed. After there,
Speaker 1: giant seem to get better. They're really gonna make that leap,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I like, he played really well, you
Speaker 1: can do something there anything else before we uh and
Speaker 1: today's program and just as you I imagine could imagine,
Speaker 1: we're going to be all over um your podcast outlets
Speaker 1: of choice this week. We'll have a show Monday through Thursday,
Speaker 1: and if we need to drop a Friday pod, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do it. No more oscar parties to worry about
Speaker 1: whatever about we need to drop a like Monday late night.
Speaker 1: Because Rogers just wants to give a big middle finger
Speaker 1: to the media establishment. What do you what do you
Speaker 1: think I'm here, I'm ready. Let's do it. To be
Speaker 1: determined TBD. What about you, Connie, You've said it all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's there more to say. Perhaps, No, not If I
Speaker 1: said it all, that's it. It's it's time to get
Speaker 1: out of here. All right, let's do it, shall we?
Speaker 1: The Edibles just hit, so I gotta go. Mark's like
Speaker 1: I've been waiting all weekend. Now it's finally my time. No,
Speaker 1: apparently not, because we're gonna do an Aaron Rodgers show
Speaker 1: in four hours. L