Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is not a row. Welcome
Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan hansis coming to you from room filled
Speaker 1: with heroes. Mark Sessler to my left, Greg Rosettal to
Speaker 1: my right. What is up? Boys? Well West is not here,
Speaker 1: so we have no one to fill the boy and
Speaker 1: I'm by the way, waited another hour? Nobody? No, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it would have been fun to
Speaker 1: really after we had a second or two of it,
Speaker 1: I thought this might just go for it, make this
Speaker 1: the show, see how long it goes. But you know, Mark,
Speaker 1: look at me, Well, no, that is not I'm the
Speaker 1: one that you know. I moved out of my normal
Speaker 1: seat for the first time in what terrible sitting here.
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable at all. You really don't have to.
Speaker 1: This is an audio program today, We're not. No, it's
Speaker 1: not that. Because I always discover that, you know, and
Speaker 1: because we have a very creative producer in Erica that
Speaker 1: you know an hour later, if someone does anything uh unsettling,
Speaker 1: it's going to be there will be on which as
Speaker 1: it should be. Our last episode, Thursday episode, I had
Speaker 1: no idea it was on camera and then I see
Speaker 1: a link. In an hour and seven minute podcast was
Speaker 1: uploaded onto the internet. I didn't know that. You never know.
Speaker 1: You always have to be well, you're wearing a you
Speaker 1: have a very fashionable jacket on Greg, so you do.
Speaker 1: You had some inklings like Greg cut back, the Greg's
Speaker 1: like get me into this war. I I got it.
Speaker 1: Greg's clothing budget is probably worth a seg of its own.
Speaker 1: This offseason, it was constantly like I'm loving like a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollar sneakers appearing left and right that
Speaker 1: no one's worn before. I've been told jacket was a
Speaker 1: twenty seven dollar on clearance at Zara, who were told
Speaker 1: by by Amica who bought it for me. You know
Speaker 1: see that's the missing link. I'm not is anyone buying
Speaker 1: you clothing? Do you have a significantly buying My wife
Speaker 1: would like to do it for me, but I just
Speaker 1: feels personal to me. It's not happening to my house.
Speaker 1: I'd not that. I would like to actually see what
Speaker 1: would be purchased. The money drop said that we are
Speaker 1: not injury prone. I went to a big Bear Mountain,
Speaker 1: which is a great getaway if you're a southern California person.
Speaker 1: Great Uh, great, you know, scenic, family type vibe. We
Speaker 1: went there for West's bachelor party once up time time.
Speaker 1: Um was the bachelor party? No, what was it? It
Speaker 1: was just a getaway. It was a getaway. I don't
Speaker 1: recall a family vibe. And I drove past the very
Speaker 1: log cabin resort that we stayed across from a micro brewery,
Speaker 1: and I just remembered, Um. It gave me fond memories
Speaker 1: of Mr Cesler and I carrying West back to the lodge,
Speaker 1: putting him in bed, giving him a glass of water,
Speaker 1: and then going into this little mini kitchen and listening
Speaker 1: to the County crows at like three am. And then
Speaker 1: since West isn't here, I'll play his party. That's not
Speaker 1: how it happened at all. Yeah, you guys are exaggerate.
Speaker 1: It's a forgiving retelling. And then after probably like midway
Speaker 1: through recovering the satellites, maybe this desert life the crows offering,
Speaker 1: we went to check on West as he breathing, as
Speaker 1: he sleeping on the side, and he had at some
Speaker 1: point picked up the water glass of water that we
Speaker 1: had given him and then spilled it over his entire body,
Speaker 1: and were like, did West, did he urinate on himself.
Speaker 1: That was the first concern. Well, first you know, what
Speaker 1: is the stampness, Oh, it's it's is a urine. No, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the water. And then he just he remained passed
Speaker 1: out for the rest of the night and he lived.
Speaker 1: And now he's married and he's got a kid on
Speaker 1: the way. A different times. He's in Hawaii right now
Speaker 1: on a baby moon that seems to be going very
Speaker 1: well according to the Graham. Ever, everyone's got a friend
Speaker 1: that pisses themselves, well in this case, in this case up, No,
Speaker 1: he just saying that's why he had to check, right,
Speaker 1: because everyone it was an immense amount of water, So
Speaker 1: you had that come out of his body. I would
Speaker 1: have been impressed from a whole different that's true. But
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that I went snow tubing with
Speaker 1: my my boys and um some friends, and the shoulders
Speaker 1: barking at the old juicer right now. And it's not
Speaker 1: because I took up spill or anything. It's just it
Speaker 1: was rotated in a way that for a man that's
Speaker 1: nearing forty years old, it's it's the shoulders saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm barking at you because I'm gonna need a few days.
Speaker 1: You're trying to hold onto two tubes on a snow
Speaker 1: hill at once. The hold I'm hooking. Maybe Jack's arms
Speaker 1: were going down on and it's barking. We're checking all
Speaker 1: the dad boxes here, counting crows barking shoulders. Today's show,
Speaker 1: Greg wrote a banger. Didn't get a chance to read it,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a real time situation. I think
Speaker 1: it went up fifteen minutes before the show started. So right,
Speaker 1: it's depresion email, right and have been good. I'm covered.
Speaker 1: So it's essentially a franchise tag primer. That's perfect because uh,
Speaker 1: I have found and I've been told for the algorithm
Speaker 1: on the dot com side. As writers from this website,
Speaker 1: the more teams that you could write about in a piece,
Speaker 1: the more eyeballs and clicks and and mark. You know,
Speaker 1: Greg is plugged in on this stuff. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: you were excited to write this piece knowing that your
Speaker 1: numbers would spike. That's some I'm all about the number.
Speaker 1: There was a time there was a time when I
Speaker 1: was when it was part of my job. Now I'm
Speaker 1: I'm blissfully unaware. Well, there was a time when the
Speaker 1: shadowy leaguers were observing it too, and I was why
Speaker 1: was one of those shadowy league figures. On some level,
Speaker 1: it always made me slightly uneasy getting like the eighth
Speaker 1: most attractive writing assignment in the room that probably you're
Speaker 1: not going to dominate metrics. It's you know, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a look at that. And UH. Also, as
Speaker 1: I teased last week the Connie Fox Sweepstakes, it's a
Speaker 1: theme song. We're looking to get it out there. Get
Speaker 1: one that that really defines the essence of Colleen Wolf
Speaker 1: and it will become essentially tied to her for the
Speaker 1: rest of her time on this earth. And I am
Speaker 1: excited to tell you guys that when I checked in
Speaker 1: at the submission UH site, which is the A t
Speaker 1: M podcast at gmail dot com, over thirty submissions in
Speaker 1: less than a week, some great, some not so great.
Speaker 1: Some okay, you listen to them all. I listened to
Speaker 1: every single one this morning, and Erica did as well.
Speaker 1: And um, and we'll get to that later, playing just
Speaker 1: a few of the ones that stood out to us.
Speaker 1: Erica had the power here to choose the ones that
Speaker 1: maybe advanced to the next time. We're gonna do this
Speaker 1: for the rest of the rest of the week is
Speaker 1: your this in terms to get your submission in thirty
Speaker 1: seconds or less Colleen Wolf theme song, and then we'll
Speaker 1: close it on Friday after Friday, and then who decides
Speaker 1: the people, right, I don't know if we try, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think we should put them on our
Speaker 1: Instagram page. We'll we'll let people vote or maybe Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I think there there will be vote. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like bow sceno, they will be taken into consider erration.
Speaker 1: But if if we all feel strongly in another way,
Speaker 1: but it it does seem clear that Colleen has no
Speaker 1: choice and should probably should not have a choice. She
Speaker 1: doesn't get a choice, but she does get to hear it,
Speaker 1: I think unless Yeah, And in fact, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: her on the phone a little bit later for that.
Speaker 1: But before any of that, let's do some news. What
Speaker 1: does this team need to do on offense to get
Speaker 1: something going here? We need to change the whole entire
Speaker 1: game plan at halftime. Okay, what do you need to
Speaker 1: change about the game plan? What are your changing about?
Speaker 1: There's just a lot going on right now. It's embarrassing
Speaker 1: for us, hero us and offense. So a lot of
Speaker 1: things we want to fix and press. Thanks wow. I
Speaker 1: mean this will be the full of our XFL coverage
Speaker 1: for today's show. If I just want to, I want
Speaker 1: to know where was this Matt mcgloyn in the NFL,
Speaker 1: because I love this guy. He is he's leaning into
Speaker 1: it and this caused quite a stir and I think
Speaker 1: it is one of the XFL's advantages because I watched
Speaker 1: a little bit this past weekend and they're just grabbing
Speaker 1: guys like two seconds after they throw like an awful
Speaker 1: interception and getting like the raw motion of their commentary.
Speaker 1: And that one he just you know, took the offensive
Speaker 1: cordiner and just like flung him under a moving bust
Speaker 1: and then he got you know, bench, I believe he
Speaker 1: paid the price and the and the head coach of
Speaker 1: the team that Matt mcgloyne plays where I believe this
Speaker 1: is the New York Guardians. Uh, my hometown team, uh
Speaker 1: is Kevin Gilbride. So for the second time in twenty
Speaker 1: five years, Kevin Kevin Gilbride was sucker punched on television.
Speaker 1: Good one. He brought it all back together, super Bowl champion.
Speaker 1: Uh Kevin Gilbride. A lot of spags love, but wasn't
Speaker 1: he nice? You know, here a lot of Kevin Gilbride love.
Speaker 1: He was the O C of the Giants beats the
Speaker 1: oh twelve, of the two thousand and eleven Giants team
Speaker 1: that will beat the Patriots and the Super Bowl. Didn't
Speaker 1: we interview him? And wasn't he a super nice guy? Gilbride?
Speaker 1: Or was he not nice? He? No, he's very nice guy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to make it up. It's all haze.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. And he sat down at a table,
Speaker 1: interviewed him, and you kind of wanted him to be
Speaker 1: a jerk because Buddy Ryan fought him, and and everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to decide with Buddy Ryan. But Gilbride seemed like
Speaker 1: a great dude, So Buddy like the ornery more ornery
Speaker 1: aspect of that fight. I'd go, Buddy Ryan, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure was ever in a good mood? All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Drew Brees is coming back. The
Speaker 1: Saints quarterback, the NFL's career passing leader. He will return
Speaker 1: for a twentieth season. After an Instagram post today Tuesday,
Speaker 1: uh class accessler move just to post it a photo
Speaker 1: of a horizon and a beautiful um some type of
Speaker 1: beautiful location, hike at the top of a mountain, and
Speaker 1: he said it's gonna make another run at it. He
Speaker 1: turned forty one last month, scheduled to become an unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agent on March eighth, but he wants to stay
Speaker 1: with the Saints or stay nowhere. So now, uh, it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of getting the money side of it done.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's quite as simple as probably
Speaker 1: everyone just reading the coverage of this is just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees back with the Saints. Yes, he will be
Speaker 1: back with the Saints. I'm not doubting that, But it's
Speaker 1: just complicated his his previous contract negotiatings have been very
Speaker 1: protracted and complicated, and this one is especially complicated because
Speaker 1: of all this money that he signed on his last deal.
Speaker 1: It was these it was these voids that push kind
Speaker 1: of your salary cap pain into the future. And now
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna have to do it again. But whatever
Speaker 1: he plays for, add fifteen million dollars to that and
Speaker 1: that's what the cap it's gonna be. So there's no like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna help the Saints out this year and take
Speaker 1: a little less mind. I mean, maybe he'll figure out
Speaker 1: as best he can, but there's he's probably gonna have
Speaker 1: one of the highest cap figures, if not the highest,
Speaker 1: of any player in the entire NFL. Saints have nine
Speaker 1: million in kap room right now. Only five teams have less.
Speaker 1: I know that that will change drastically, and you can
Speaker 1: make some moves, but they don't. They're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to change it that drastically. Yeah, they don't have
Speaker 1: as much flexibility as some other teams out there, and
Speaker 1: there are some moves that can make Genoros Jenkins. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll probably figure out there's some guys that they can cut.
Speaker 1: But they have a lot of pretty good free agents,
Speaker 1: von Bell being one of them, and they're a team
Speaker 1: you would think would want to be loading up this offseason.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. You basically got to
Speaker 1: bring back what you have, and especially on defense, there's
Speaker 1: some holes there. But why ring, I mean, you bring
Speaker 1: Breeze back because he's true Breeze. But it feels like
Speaker 1: if you're not going to make the biggest push possible, right,
Speaker 1: they do this whole thing where they push all this
Speaker 1: pain into the future. It's kind of the old Cowboys
Speaker 1: move and the cap keeps going up, so it's not
Speaker 1: even that bad, but they're gonna have to do it
Speaker 1: even more this year. The whole uncap situation is confusing,
Speaker 1: and it also spells the end of Teddy Bridgewater. Not
Speaker 1: that we thought he was going to be back, but
Speaker 1: I think the the odds are you have Breeze, and
Speaker 1: you have Taysom Hill, who will be back on a
Speaker 1: one year restricted free agent contract most likely, and away
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, and Tom Pelisero, who you know Rotor
Speaker 1: World described as NFL dot COM's Tom pelliser I feel
Speaker 1: like he does work there, but I constantly see him
Speaker 1: an NFL network, so it feels more of a network guy,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a slight on their I think
Speaker 1: it was just an error. We'll clean that up, please.
Speaker 1: You can clean back into the content management system in Rhoto.
Speaker 1: Pass that dirty. If you're out there, let's go Rhoto.
Speaker 1: Are you are the man now? Is he? Well? We
Speaker 1: don't know that officially, HB. I mean he's been there
Speaker 1: the longest. He's one of the greatest fantasy writers in
Speaker 1: the game, great at Twitter, and he writes the rankings.
Speaker 1: So that to me, who who does the rankings. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how you know, Yes, I's not come here,
Speaker 1: So that's that's where it starts, the change going on down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a similar thing in the word world. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that floated away. Let's move on. Uh. I'm not at
Speaker 1: all surprised we got to that point, but we got
Speaker 1: there quickly. And I just want my final thought on
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is good job by everybody involved, assuming the
Speaker 1: deal gets done. It's smart from a business perspective in
Speaker 1: the NFL or any sport to get out a year
Speaker 1: too soon rather than a year too late. But Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady, these are special cases, I think. And
Speaker 1: if they showed anything in the most recent season and
Speaker 1: you still think you can get one more year out
Speaker 1: of this amazing player, just do it and and push
Speaker 1: all your chips into the center and then make figure
Speaker 1: things out later. I kind of that's where I saw
Speaker 1: of this. I'm much I would be very disappointed. I
Speaker 1: was a Saints fan and they kind of got cute
Speaker 1: and said, all right, Taysom, you're our man, or who
Speaker 1: am whoever else? It would have been totally agree. I
Speaker 1: argue that two of the best three or two of
Speaker 1: the best four Saints teams of the entire breeze there are.
Speaker 1: The last two years they've had some bad playoffs, but
Speaker 1: those teams have been great. And one thing Pelicero noted though,
Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill first or second round tender, seems to
Speaker 1: be what they're gonna do with him, So you're not
Speaker 1: I just don't see another team coming in again them,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna get them both and they both both
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have talked about using on game days that that
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill would be used a lot more than last year.
Speaker 1: That's one of the only things I care about in
Speaker 1: free agency is what happens to Taysom Hill. The rest
Speaker 1: of it is just a big flood of non essential information. Well,
Speaker 1: it depends what to fired at me. It's a lot
Speaker 1: like programming over the next these players will Ta Hills.
Speaker 1: Agency is the only thing that matters to you in
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's the there's it's like you have to
Speaker 1: come with things I'm excited about, but it's like that's
Speaker 1: number one, and then it's a nothing about the Browns,
Speaker 1: your favorite team. It's just only whether anything I have
Speaker 1: extra armor up after last offseason to not even look
Speaker 1: at what they do, and I hope they do nothing.
Speaker 1: I would like to see them do literally nothing. I
Speaker 1: saw Steve saw Steve Weiss day and he was he
Speaker 1: was kind of grumby. It's like, well, just talking about
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. It's like, we can't talk about Taysom Hill enough.
Speaker 1: But it's because of people like you out there. I
Speaker 1: am hardly behind generating more hoopla that is, that is
Speaker 1: the new Steve Young, Taysom Hill um Teddy Bridgewater, by
Speaker 1: the way, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported, Bridgewater expected I have
Speaker 1: a quote strong market in free agency, which I guess
Speaker 1: makes sense. But even then, I'm just like, is it
Speaker 1: is it gonna be that strong for Teddy? And he
Speaker 1: could land a multi year deal paying him this where
Speaker 1: it gets crazy, paying him around thirty million per year. Now,
Speaker 1: just to put that in perspective, Drew Brees the last
Speaker 1: contract he's signed with the Saints and maybe slightly below value,
Speaker 1: but two years, fifty million, that's doing the math nailed it. So,
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, what have I What have I seen? What
Speaker 1: have you seen? Was anybody seen that this guy should
Speaker 1: be paid like a star quarterback? Because thirty million star
Speaker 1: money tough situation for Fowler and the reporter and Bridgewater
Speaker 1: because the secondness came out immediately. Everyone's response was just like,
Speaker 1: don't believe it. Stop it. I don't believe. I mean,
Speaker 1: Fowler's nailed like one thing after the now he's been
Speaker 1: right about so and he's getting this in the nail
Speaker 1: on his foot on this one. He's he's getting the
Speaker 1: information from somewhere. So maybe he does. Maybe there is
Speaker 1: one team out there and the price seems awfully high,
Speaker 1: but maybe there's one team out there that is truly
Speaker 1: very interested in Teddy, some some mystery team out there, right.
Speaker 1: I think it's gotta be like the strong market does
Speaker 1: not mean eight teams because there's a supply and demand issue.
Speaker 1: And I think you the best case thing for him
Speaker 1: is if the Breeze and Brady stay home with their
Speaker 1: current teams, and then Rivers goes somewhere that had no
Speaker 1: interest in Teddy Bridgewater, and then there's there's still three
Speaker 1: or four teams out really though, but what about the
Speaker 1: Charles unless someone wanted to replace the guy that's there.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's you know, maybe it's a like if Tampa
Speaker 1: just for you know, for some reason, they loved Teddy
Speaker 1: bridge Water and no one knows it. Maybe maybe that's
Speaker 1: possible the Patriots. I thought he would be the perfect guy.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, Foxborough fans would be tough on him,
Speaker 1: but I thought he would make sense of if Brady
Speaker 1: actually left. But this number is so high. He was
Speaker 1: a free agent last year and no one really wanted him.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, whoa, he got one of the highest backup Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was for seven million dollars. It's like no one
Speaker 1: really wanted him last year and now they're gonna want him.
Speaker 1: Just like a job with the Saints. But what they
Speaker 1: asked him to do in that offense doesn't suddenly tell
Speaker 1: me he's worth five more than he was. He's possibly
Speaker 1: the new Alex Smith, and Alex Smith eventually did get
Speaker 1: some big contracts, but I feel like Teddy's not there
Speaker 1: where he would What if the Panthers moved on from
Speaker 1: cam Newton had nothing under center? Go ahead? I mean
Speaker 1: last week, it's like, so you're gonna you're so you're
Speaker 1: so anxious to get rid of cam Newton and Charlotte
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna now give Teddy Bridgewater two years for fifty.
Speaker 1: I think it hit us all the same way, just
Speaker 1: like Teddy is a very good NFL quarterback in the
Speaker 1: sense that it's hard to find guys who hit guys
Speaker 1: that are open and don't make mistakes. You could squint
Speaker 1: and you could see at worst he's Andy Dalton, and
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's getting paid. But it's thirty millions. Seems outrageous,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, speaking of thirty million dollar contracts. Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald Sr. We know Larry Senior in him. A few
Speaker 1: times the Super Bowls. I've seen him just sitting on
Speaker 1: a chair folding chair in the middle of the winning
Speaker 1: team locker room, waiting for the story to come to him.
Speaker 1: Because Larry maybe that's he's been in the game for
Speaker 1: a long time. He pops up. It's like every nine
Speaker 1: months there's like a you know, they have the woas
Speaker 1: bombs you gotta fit Senior bomb. I mean it's more
Speaker 1: like because would bombs alway Land and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, apparently in the background of lar fit.
Speaker 1: We've been covering this sport for a long time, all
Speaker 1: of us, and I feel like there's about one Larry
Speaker 1: fitz bomb a year. Doesn't the trajectory. There's definitely definitely
Speaker 1: a mouthpiece somewhere coming to him, because if I sat
Speaker 1: or you set in the middle of the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winning locker room on a folding chair, no one's coming
Speaker 1: to me with a game breaking story. It seems to
Speaker 1: happen to him. I feel like we all have to
Speaker 1: do a little more more research. Greg. You need to
Speaker 1: find out if these bombs hit. I need to go
Speaker 1: read some of these gamers from these super bowls where
Speaker 1: he was just sitting in the middle of the locker room.
Speaker 1: Maybe he ended up with an amazing piece out of it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't doubt that at all. Anyway, Lara fitz sr
Speaker 1: Um he has been quote told the Raiders are prepared
Speaker 1: to offer Tom Brady a two year, sixty million dollar
Speaker 1: contracts so Teddy Bridgewater money uh for Tom Brady potentially
Speaker 1: from the Raiders um. But again Larry Fits not known
Speaker 1: as senior, not known as a newsbreaker. But like Mark said,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody's you know, getting something out there through the
Speaker 1: old man. I don't know, am I buying this off?
Speaker 1: Buying this at all? ESPN? Who you know? They try?
Speaker 1: You try to save your best stuff for like super
Speaker 1: Bowl morning. If you've got any good uh, you know,
Speaker 1: colonel's out there. What was that old come back colonel
Speaker 1: when we did come back colonels and wish we had
Speaker 1: that on the board. We have that on the board
Speaker 1: by any chance. All right, let's add that in post
Speaker 1: come back colonels with Barccesslers, come bas Colonels Barcessler come
Speaker 1: Baskertinals with bark Cessler. Come back colonels with bar Sisler,
Speaker 1: come back colonels with bar Sessler, come back Colonel with
Speaker 1: barcess thirty. You know, Adam Schefter reported Super Bowl morning
Speaker 1: that the Raiders would be the team that would go
Speaker 1: in on on Tom Brady. So it's not totally out
Speaker 1: of left field. But the Patriots, I think one thing
Speaker 1: that's been lost in Tom Kurran wrote a good piece
Speaker 1: this week and about it. They're not worried about other
Speaker 1: teams kind of dipping in on Tom Brady because if
Speaker 1: he reaches free agency, I think it's already over. And
Speaker 1: I don't I think they're not going to get in
Speaker 1: some crazy bit bidding war with any team out there,
Speaker 1: no matter what these floating reports are. I buy the
Speaker 1: Raiders thing whenever, you know, seems to trickle up into
Speaker 1: the news because it makes if you're at any team
Speaker 1: shifting to new locations and and Derek Carr is perfectly
Speaker 1: serviceable and works, but it's hard to market around a
Speaker 1: bunch of the NFL quarterbacks out there. Derek Carry would say,
Speaker 1: it's just tough to market around to a new Las
Speaker 1: Vegas fan base. Brady, if you're an owner Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Gruden seems like he digged Tom Brady in the experience
Speaker 1: of coaching of number one, and it just automatically guarantees
Speaker 1: NonStop sellouts and endless attention in a new market, which
Speaker 1: the Raiders probably get anyways, because that fan base will
Speaker 1: go anywhere. I always anytime these pop up, I just
Speaker 1: think of Derek Carr's reaction to them, because he did it.
Speaker 1: He didn't event um. I think one week after the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, there's a couple of days of it was
Speaker 1: sort of under the radar, but I'm gonna remember this
Speaker 1: where he spoke with a bunch of other Raiders players
Speaker 1: and Mark Davis at the opening of the stadium, and
Speaker 1: he was very open about how annoyed he was and
Speaker 1: was blaming the media, being like, you know what, what
Speaker 1: more do you gotta do basically to to have this
Speaker 1: stuff stopped coming out, and like every time this comes out,
Speaker 1: he's getting more and more annoying. Sounds like a great
Speaker 1: opportunity for a the Player's Tribune column, just blasting the media.
Speaker 1: This is me speaking to you, the fans, the real story,
Speaker 1: the real story from me. You know, athlete, you could
Speaker 1: have signed that associate editor Derek Jeter. You think he's
Speaker 1: doling out stories to be like on this. He's been
Speaker 1: there at the nine o'clock media all right, what what's
Speaker 1: our planning today for the car story nine o'clock? Now
Speaker 1: he's in at six am, the big cup of coffee? Um, alright?
Speaker 1: Uh speaking all right? So those are some quarterbacks, uh
Speaker 1: in the end of their careers, Brady and Brees, Uh,
Speaker 1: Teddy not so much. But one guy just starting as
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, the l s U star, the coming off
Speaker 1: the undefeated season, the national championship, the Heisman Trophy. Well,
Speaker 1: he was receiving another award, the Davey O'Brien Davey O'Brien
Speaker 1: Award in Texas and was asked about what's happening with
Speaker 1: the draft. He's widely expected to be the number one
Speaker 1: overall picks Cincinnati Bengals pick number one. Burrow said this,
Speaker 1: I do have leverage, uh per the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
Speaker 1: They have their process and I have my process. We
Speaker 1: haven't even gotten to the Combine yet. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that happened leading up to the draft and
Speaker 1: a lot of information gathered. Right now, I'm focused on
Speaker 1: being the best football player I can be. I'm in
Speaker 1: this unique spot. You can go watch my film. I
Speaker 1: don't have to prove myself a Pro Day and at
Speaker 1: the Combine, so I'm in a unique spot where i
Speaker 1: can focus on getting ready for the year. Um, we
Speaker 1: have not this has not happened a player that was
Speaker 1: expected to go number one, forcing him his way out
Speaker 1: of that destination since Eli Manning and the Chargers uh,
Speaker 1: seventeen years ago. It feels like we're a little overdue
Speaker 1: for something like this. And if I'm a Bengals fan,
Speaker 1: and that's unfortunate West is in Hawaii right now, because
Speaker 1: I'd be interested what he would say, but I kind
Speaker 1: of do. UM. I feel like I know what he
Speaker 1: would say is uh if I'm a Bengals and I
Speaker 1: am terrified right now because just the fact that Burrow
Speaker 1: would put this out there that starts the medium machine
Speaker 1: going nuts. Now, then you got a guy like Carson
Speaker 1: Palmer even predates us at the Super Bowl. He did
Speaker 1: the media tour just basically warning Joe Burrow to to
Speaker 1: watch out about going to Cincinnati. Sally Wilcox coming comes
Speaker 1: in another former Bengals great doubles down says the same
Speaker 1: thing that part Carson Palmer has done dirty. Uh, and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow needs to be careful with this. I'm nervous
Speaker 1: of I'm a Cincinnati fan right now. Well, I think
Speaker 1: the the minute that Joe Burrow was attached to Jordan
Speaker 1: Palmer as his you know, pre draft quarterback guru, and
Speaker 1: obviously Jordan Palmer has feelings and Carson Palmer's probably been
Speaker 1: in conversations with them, and Carson Palmer's Palmer, right, and
Speaker 1: can Carson Palmer's end with the Bengals was about as
Speaker 1: negative and uh, you know, antagonistic as retire right. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to put my career into you know, the
Speaker 1: dead box, whatever that means, like to not play for
Speaker 1: the Bengals anymore. Well, it's like you're throwing away millions
Speaker 1: of dollars and you're likely not be part of an
Speaker 1: organization when you spend words like mark, you gotta just
Speaker 1: throw some crazy ones out there so they don't know end.
Speaker 1: Haven't you ever, I've had a job or two where
Speaker 1: I thought I'm making okay money at this um hideous corporation.
Speaker 1: But not making money and having to start all over
Speaker 1: again is preferable because it's so dreary and so awful
Speaker 1: here and there's no future that you can feel that way.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like you're in a dead box. You are,
Speaker 1: you are, You're getting closer, you feel it, and I
Speaker 1: think if you're if you're borrow though, Like it is
Speaker 1: weird to me that we haven't seen another player UM
Speaker 1: do as much as they can with draftable number one
Speaker 1: talent and power, like more Eli manning situations because it
Speaker 1: just seems like players have more leverage and power than
Speaker 1: they have before. He could just simply say I'm not
Speaker 1: going to play for you and so one of the
Speaker 1: things do Yeah, And even Eli, you went into draft,
Speaker 1: they still not knowing how it was gonna work out. Uh,
Speaker 1: and the Chargers did a good job I think of
Speaker 1: of handling that. But you aren't even sure if Eli
Speaker 1: had the leverage when that draft started, you still thought
Speaker 1: they might take them. They end up getting you know,
Speaker 1: a fair, fair compensation for that number one pick. But
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare. And uh it's different because, yeah, Burrow,
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that Jordan Palmer's in there in
Speaker 1: his ears and has all this in exitutional knowledge is
Speaker 1: is kind of a worst case scenario. And these these
Speaker 1: comments were we're eye opening. I it doesn't seem like, um,
Speaker 1: it's so far fetched that this could be something we're
Speaker 1: talking about for months now, and while he's from Ohio
Speaker 1: and stuff, and people want to link him to the
Speaker 1: Bengal says a he grew up a Saints fan, Joe
Speaker 1: bro He. I don't think there's any there is no
Speaker 1: share DNA with the Bengals. It's it's anti d NA
Speaker 1: um just so we have this cover. This is what
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer said during one of his media stops. UM
Speaker 1: during Super Bowl week, That's why I wanted out. I
Speaker 1: never felt like the Bengals organization was really trying to
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl and and really chasing the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: he told CBS Sports Radio. And a lot has changed,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have come and gone in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: since Palmer was there. But Mike Brown is still the owner,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of bad blood there obviously. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's do a little eight o'clock the light. The Detroit
Speaker 1: lines are reportedly trying to slip a Darius Slay at
Speaker 1: the cornerback. This is not the first time it's popped up,
Speaker 1: but he's entering the final year of his deal. Pretty
Speaker 1: tasty trademark, and I think we're gonna have in the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, and Slay Slay is a good one.
Speaker 1: The Redskins have formerly released quarterback Josh Norman after four seasons.
Speaker 1: He was once the highest paid cornerback in football, but
Speaker 1: didn't play like an especially last year Mark who I
Speaker 1: don't I hate when bad teams signed like one star
Speaker 1: player in the secondary and you're expecting a lot to
Speaker 1: pivot around that. No, didn't work out. You didn't say
Speaker 1: that to him to his face when you did sky Sports.
Speaker 1: I liked the man personally, seems delightful, but you know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play last year, Paul Rich I'm up in
Speaker 1: a high paid wide receiver signed a five year, forty
Speaker 1: million dollar contract in two thousand eighteen Egon as well.
Speaker 1: So some of these Redskins signings I think it could
Speaker 1: be the next one to go. Your old buddy George
Speaker 1: still in concussion protocol. Tyrod Taylor, Uh could be the starter,
Speaker 1: the Charger, says Anthony Lynn. That's that's b s right, Greg.
Speaker 1: Nobody believes us. I think he could be if things
Speaker 1: don't work out. Oh, that will fill up the stadium.
Speaker 1: All right? You draft a guy number six and the
Speaker 1: week one starter and he's not. It's exactly what happened
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Talk about Tyrod Taylor all off season. He'll
Speaker 1: be a nice one and a half game play sold
Speaker 1: until the rookie begins his career, which to me, and
Speaker 1: he reports, at Leed Bell got fat last season and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals give big money to No, we can't start
Speaker 1: the music over. There's only two left. Just ran out
Speaker 1: of time. But I want we're gonna move out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: leave Bell got fat and lost explosiveness. Is the season?
Speaker 1: War on? Rich to me, and he said, according to
Speaker 1: the Jets and rich me and he is plugged into
Speaker 1: the Jets, so good contract. They're speaking of good contracts,
Speaker 1: and um make him tougher to trade. He was already
Speaker 1: he's already tough to trade. And I just wanna throw
Speaker 1: this out there about let Bell remember when he sat
Speaker 1: out a whole year of his prime and said, I'm
Speaker 1: doing this for all the running backs. Then he got
Speaker 1: an okay contract with the Jets, not a great contract,
Speaker 1: but actually playing well after you signed the contract. That's
Speaker 1: how you would have helped out the other running backs.
Speaker 1: You killed the other running backs of this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Not exactly a visionary approach. And the Cardinals yes, agreed
Speaker 1: to a three year deal with offensive tackle DJ Humphries
Speaker 1: three years, forty five million Mike Garafolo reported uh million
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed. This is just something to know if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a tackle. It is impossible to get tackles
Speaker 1: on the free agent market. When DJ Humphreys is making
Speaker 1: fifteen a year, it's just like the hardest position to fill.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. Franchise tag, that's what's
Speaker 1: happening in the news, UH franchise. The headline is two thousand,
Speaker 1: twenty NFL franchise slash transition tag. Primer cole in no
Speaker 1: brainer candidates. I don't do the headlines. I don't even work.
Speaker 1: What the hell is that? There's a lot happening. Hey,
Speaker 1: take it to UH I'm gonna go straight to to
Speaker 1: slack O. I'm not supposed to say that we can
Speaker 1: beat er. Um. I'll go straight to our editor, who
Speaker 1: you have a good relationship with, and say you took
Speaker 1: some shots, Well could you? Could you also ask why
Speaker 1: they make the headline in that fashion. I think that
Speaker 1: it's a fair question. It's very fair, all right, Franchise
Speaker 1: tag Greg. You know, this is just Greg flex in
Speaker 1: here because he knows he's gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: eyeballs in this one, because there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of players. This is. This is one of your season
Speaker 1: narratives that I'm like fishing for for hits in the
Speaker 1: off season. I don't know if this one is technically
Speaker 1: a banger in terms of like people like the cuts,
Speaker 1: people like the trades. I'm not sure people are super
Speaker 1: into the tags. Yeah, but this is the one that
Speaker 1: gets you, Like when like Peter Schrieger's like, I respect
Speaker 1: Gregg the most, Like on the summertime, It's like this
Speaker 1: is the article that he's like, yeah, Dan, Mark and
Speaker 1: well West, Yeah, well he probably respects West. Second, he's
Speaker 1: like Dan and Mark probably aren't writing franchise tag. Going
Speaker 1: deeper into Mark's mind. As the sentence continues, Um the
Speaker 1: respect Greg, the most yahn um, way to go, Pete,
Speaker 1: way to be honest, team saying the bait. You know,
Speaker 1: teams can first designate franchise or transition players on February
Speaker 1: that's next week, and must do so by March tenth.
Speaker 1: March tenth, so that's the window. And as I was
Speaker 1: saying in the intro, which Greg knew that Traeger is
Speaker 1: going to read this, so he's like, oh, I must
Speaker 1: be professional and make it clear what these things are.
Speaker 1: Franchise tag a one year guaranteed contract that prevents a
Speaker 1: player from hitting unrestricted free agency. The salaries based on
Speaker 1: the five year average cap percentage for the TAG at
Speaker 1: each position, stemming from the top five salaries position at
Speaker 1: each position. Now switch up that language each year because
Speaker 1: you've done this, like this is interesting. Of the transition tag.
Speaker 1: It's also a one year guaranteed contract based on the
Speaker 1: five year average cap percentage for the TAG at each position,
Speaker 1: but the transition tag stems from the top ten, not
Speaker 1: the top five salaries at each Like it's like slightly
Speaker 1: the only thing a bit cheaper. Well, the thing that's
Speaker 1: really interesting this year and I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people know it because it's never happened before. His
Speaker 1: teams can use a franchise tag and a transition tag.
Speaker 1: They made up these strange rules for this final year
Speaker 1: of the collective bargaining Agreement, which is right now, and
Speaker 1: these rules could even change if the NFL and the
Speaker 1: players agree in the next couple of weeks. I'm not
Speaker 1: holding my breath for that. So right now, there's there's
Speaker 1: three teams in particular to me, that's like the headline
Speaker 1: with this whole season. But can I just before you
Speaker 1: go on, because Schreeger might be listening right now and
Speaker 1: he's like, WHOA. Greg has that whole interest intro set up,
Speaker 1: but he didn't clearly lay out what the biggest differences
Speaker 1: with the transition tag. That's the tag allows players to
Speaker 1: sign offer sheets with other teams, but the original club
Speaker 1: has five days to match. So if Pete hadn't read
Speaker 1: this yet but was listening now, like, how did Greg
Speaker 1: leave that out? I'm losing respect. Here's here's Mark coming
Speaker 1: up the power ranking. I think Schreegor understands the rules
Speaker 1: on his own, but if Greg didn't submit, that would
Speaker 1: have been Yeah, well, why is Mark moving well, just
Speaker 1: because you're leaving a void like and we were just
Speaker 1: you know, it's like Greg suddenly has lost his edge,
Speaker 1: so Marcus, right, let's go through. Let's let's just go
Speaker 1: through it. Then the Peter Schrager Power rankings, Gregg he's
Speaker 1: stated number one West West of football Head, so he's
Speaker 1: probably number two. I would think through my weekly good
Speaker 1: Morning football Um interactions with him and some direct messaging,
Speaker 1: me and him have gotten to know each other better.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put myself in and the bronze medal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I don't Erica because he's worked with it. He's
Speaker 1: stated constantly how she does such great work on the
Speaker 1: video side of things, and he's a champion of women Pete.
Speaker 1: So I would say Eric is for and the like
Speaker 1: the lone thing that I created front offl network Operation
Speaker 1: dirt Nap confused him on an airplane trip and probably
Speaker 1: lowered me below fit. There's probably some other hands behind
Speaker 1: the glass that he well, he has interacted with some
Speaker 1: of our shadowy League figures like Mark Mark Brady five Brady.
Speaker 1: I you know sometimes because I everything I think about him,
Speaker 1: I seem seems like a wonderful guy. But sometimes like
Speaker 1: when you have I don't know if i'd call it
Speaker 1: a French up someone that you work with that you
Speaker 1: just can't get it right every time you interact like
Speaker 1: you kind of do something wrong. That's sort of how
Speaker 1: the position that I'm in, it's gonna take a long
Speaker 1: way to dig out from this. I'm on the bottom
Speaker 1: of an ant hill at this point. Right, Maybe we
Speaker 1: can get him on at the content if we can
Speaker 1: work this out, get Peter, But it's not worked out
Speaker 1: until he respects me the most about third place because
Speaker 1: you appeared on a morning show to get on the podium. Dude, Well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna touch I'm saying, there's a lot of work
Speaker 1: that needs to be done here, but probably my entire
Speaker 1: think whatever one is too much of an ask. I
Speaker 1: think I don't think he's ever gonna like you the best. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's the goal, though, I'm just saying I don't
Speaker 1: care about you. Try to get my spot. If you
Speaker 1: can get third, that's not a challenge. We should have
Speaker 1: every guest come on Power rank us. That'll be great content.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. The no brainers. Greg, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna throw out one idea here, kind
Speaker 1: of an overarching thing that I wish I I talked
Speaker 1: about you know when we when we talked about it elsewhere.
Speaker 1: It's like, there's three teams and they've got some of
Speaker 1: the biggest names out there that I think this hole
Speaker 1: using the double tag scenario comes up with. And it's
Speaker 1: pretty fascinating if you just think about how they're gonna
Speaker 1: use it. And that's the Titans with Ryan Tannehill and
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. That's the Bucks with Shack Barrett and Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: and then that's the Cowboys with Dak Prescott and Marie
Speaker 1: Cooper and all these fans out there, especially the Cowboys fans,
Speaker 1: probably the Titans too, thinking oh, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep these guys. It's not gonna be that simple. At
Speaker 1: this point, it's almost impossible to get these signed guys
Speaker 1: signed to a long term deal. It happens, but it's
Speaker 1: really hard, and so then you gotta start making choices.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys choices obvious, you're gonna franchise DAC, but that
Speaker 1: might mean that a Marie Cooper's bye bye. You can't
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't count on the fact that that
Speaker 1: some team out there is not gonna just frontload a
Speaker 1: crazy Hues huge contract from Marie Cooper, and then I
Speaker 1: think Jerry Jones should be facing some heat from not
Speaker 1: getting this Dack thing done earlier. I think that's a
Speaker 1: good point. And I think Mari Coop, if he was
Speaker 1: given the transition tag and left that that door was open,
Speaker 1: there will be a team because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: money to be spent and the cap keeps getting higher,
Speaker 1: and if you look at the teams that are willing
Speaker 1: to spend, in the teams that need playmakers, he would
Speaker 1: almost certainly fetch a huge offer. Not almost certainly, he
Speaker 1: certainly would fetch a huge offer. And then that would
Speaker 1: put the Cowboys in a spot where we might not
Speaker 1: even have the option, And you basically then will have
Speaker 1: chosen Dac over a Marii when these guys should have
Speaker 1: been tied together. So I'm totally with you that that
Speaker 1: Dallas potentially has put themselves in a position they could
Speaker 1: can Ezekiel Elliott over all of them when they when
Speaker 1: they got that done, you basically have until March tenth
Speaker 1: to try to get a deal done with one of
Speaker 1: those And I I kind of subscribed to the theory
Speaker 1: you should almost have if you're a free agent at
Speaker 1: this point, why you know, and you're actually interested in
Speaker 1: leaving town? Yeah, why not let all these teams been
Speaker 1: on you, Like with the Titans. You know, Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: deserves critique if that unfolds, and that and so I
Speaker 1: put Doc as a no brainer. And then I put
Speaker 1: a Maori below just to be clear and saying they
Speaker 1: probably used the transition tag and that I think the Titans,
Speaker 1: though you know all of this happened to them in
Speaker 1: the last couple of months, they didn't know they were
Speaker 1: going to be in the situation with Ryan Tannehill or
Speaker 1: even just to some degree, Derrick Henry and Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: I think is a tough one to figure out contract wise,
Speaker 1: as much as any free agent out there, because do
Speaker 1: you pay him for what he's been or what you
Speaker 1: think he'll be three years from now? Like I I
Speaker 1: agree with you that they just have to probably use
Speaker 1: both of these options on Tannehill and Henry, and you
Speaker 1: also have Jack Conklin if you're them, I probably I
Speaker 1: put Tanna as a no brainer because what you just
Speaker 1: can't let him leave? I mean, it's just he finished
Speaker 1: you know his top you know, number one in yards
Speaker 1: per TEP, number one in completion percentage, number one in
Speaker 1: completion percentage over expected, like pretty high and QB. You
Speaker 1: just can't let him leave. So at this point, I
Speaker 1: think a one year franchise tag makes sense for them.
Speaker 1: And then it makes it really interesting. A one year,
Speaker 1: ten million dollar contract for Henry. That's what it would be.
Speaker 1: With a transition tag. That sounds about right if you're
Speaker 1: the Titans. But it would be a great test of, Okay,
Speaker 1: how much are running backs? You know this this conversation
Speaker 1: we have too much about running back value. This would
Speaker 1: kind of be the ultimate test of it. Is Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry just out there after the run that he had,
Speaker 1: Will any team sign him to a Todd Gurley like
Speaker 1: try to deal? I kind of doubt it, but it
Speaker 1: really scared like, no matter what Derrick Henry is, but
Speaker 1: get some sort of good deal, you would think. And
Speaker 1: then the Titans, you know, will they give him a
Speaker 1: monster contract? Now? Are they just kind of happy to
Speaker 1: go on the one year I would like to see
Speaker 1: like the next wave of forget this Levy on Bell
Speaker 1: you know campaign anti campaign that went totally south, like
Speaker 1: the way that paid them, but give running backs like
Speaker 1: Monster two year deals because they all go bad. Like,
Speaker 1: none of these things seem to work out. And on
Speaker 1: the Ryan Tannehill topic, I would think I think it
Speaker 1: would be equally crazy to give him a long term
Speaker 1: deal making him one of the highest paid quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league or in the top five even um he
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense to hold that. Give him the juicy
Speaker 1: one year franchise tag deal. And if you do it
Speaker 1: again and you now have nearly two seasons or season
Speaker 1: and a half of evidence that he finally turned the corner,
Speaker 1: then you pay him. Yeah, I agree, and that that
Speaker 1: sort of leaves the Bucks as the as the toughest
Speaker 1: team to predict. I think Ian, based on his reporting
Speaker 1: on air, would disagree with me that I put Shack
Speaker 1: Barrett in as the no no brainer because Bruce arians
Speaker 1: is just saying he's not going anywhere. Here's the guy
Speaker 1: who got a voter to for Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: I just I just don't see any scenario where they
Speaker 1: let him leave. Maybe they can figure out a contract.
Speaker 1: This is the guy who's been in the legal while
Speaker 1: and hasn't made a ton of money. Maybe they can
Speaker 1: actually figure out a long term deal and then you
Speaker 1: use the franchise tag on Jamis and and that just
Speaker 1: works out. But if it came down to one or
Speaker 1: the other, I kind of think they may go the
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett route. And then you put the transition tag
Speaker 1: on Jamis and you say, okay, is another team out there.
Speaker 1: And this is just think of the timing of it all,
Speaker 1: because if you put the transition tag, he still has
Speaker 1: to wait till he gets into free agency, has to
Speaker 1: wait till March. Is our team's gonna wait around that
Speaker 1: long and give Jamis Winston a big offer. He it
Speaker 1: seems to think that could happen, but I don't know who.
Speaker 1: But again, what team, because we can say there's a
Speaker 1: huge market for Teddy Bridgewater. What team and what team
Speaker 1: is going to go down this Jamis Winston trap door.
Speaker 1: I mean the other thing about Shack Barrett. He basically
Speaker 1: said he would be open to giving the Bucks a discount.
Speaker 1: Now I don't really believe any of that until it happens,
Speaker 1: but this stuck with me. He hates moving, He does
Speaker 1: not want to move. He Jack Barrett. I read this
Speaker 1: whole article. He went off out. He hates relocating. He
Speaker 1: has a family, all this stuff. He wants to stay
Speaker 1: in Florida. He wants to the tax at Florida situation
Speaker 1: and not be you know, not taking down a notch.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to get in a caravan, have to
Speaker 1: move the whole family across the country. So a lot
Speaker 1: of this is sort of the stars aligning. They believe
Speaker 1: Shack Bartt, who I believed in from the beginning, by
Speaker 1: the way, and they believed in him. I don't fit
Speaker 1: well with Todd Bowles the Todd bowls. Todd kept his job.
Speaker 1: That was good because we're pup them up pretty good.
Speaker 1: They finished them very strong. They finished very strong on defense.
Speaker 1: The Bucks for the record, according to over the cap
Speaker 1: dot com of the fourth highest level of cap space
Speaker 1: entering thinking the fourty agency, another Florida team mark. Since
Speaker 1: you're plugged in on this moving thing, the Dolphins at
Speaker 1: number one, It would make sense to me, given they
Speaker 1: have a ton of money, a ton of dough and
Speaker 1: given what Arian said that Shack is going ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 1: Just back up the brinks truck, pay the dude for
Speaker 1: the next you know, few years, and then and then
Speaker 1: you franchise tag on Jamis. Yeah, that would I think
Speaker 1: be the ideal scenario. It would be interesting if Jamis
Speaker 1: had the transition, though that's one year, four million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's a good way to save some money because I
Speaker 1: don't I think I agree with Mark that I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's going to have a robust market a
Speaker 1: team that would be willing to get kind of like
Speaker 1: a stair down where it's like you think you can
Speaker 1: really do better than me now, and like can the
Speaker 1: Bucks really do better than Jamie's Probably not. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, they asked us to do these these hits
Speaker 1: on NFL now, and you know we've been wanting a
Speaker 1: bigger role, you know, move maybe move up in the hour,
Speaker 1: and it's like now it just seems like it's a
Speaker 1: good situation for both. We're the best that they can do.
Speaker 1: We're available, They're the best we can do. You know.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just fine. What a setup it is?
Speaker 1: UH rounding up your no brainers list, So you said
Speaker 1: Dac Tannehill, Chris Jones, UH the defensive tackle the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: Justin Simmons Broncos safety. You mentioned Barrett and then A. J. Green.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see. I feel like this is the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Our team are tough to figure out. Now. Green said
Speaker 1: he would be okay with staying with Cincinnati on the
Speaker 1: franchise tag. The Bengals probably don't want to give him
Speaker 1: a multi year deal given his age and injury history.
Speaker 1: Uh So this kind of makes sense that it would
Speaker 1: just be a situation where you know, you do it,
Speaker 1: pull the trigger. Maybe I'm just like a Patriots fan
Speaker 1: that was hopeful he would be available, and I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fans out there, Ravens fans, Eagles fans,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that need a big wide receiver thing.
Speaker 1: Oh a j I've read these like free agent articles
Speaker 1: where other beat writers are always projecting there. They always
Speaker 1: are like, well then you can just sign a J.
Speaker 1: Green and Chris Jones. It's like, well, it doesn't really
Speaker 1: usually work work that way. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be available. Ian Ian really feel strongly. He basically says
Speaker 1: it's not happening, so that I'm just trust that he's
Speaker 1: that he's gonna get the tag, that he's going to
Speaker 1: be tagged, he's not going to be available, that the
Speaker 1: Bengals keep their guys and they're happy to just and
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe that that acts as a preemptive
Speaker 1: alive branch to Mr Joe Burrow or you're one of
Speaker 1: the best wide receivers in the last twenty years. How
Speaker 1: about coach who didn't have a j Green all last
Speaker 1: year on and that total you know, Dog and Pony
Speaker 1: show that you kept thinking he might come back. He's
Speaker 1: not coming back. It's like, if Jack Taylor has any power,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to suggest that you don't
Speaker 1: like the Bengals who are allergic to signing anyone in
Speaker 1: free agency, can you at least keep your own players right?
Speaker 1: They keep their own players better than any team in
Speaker 1: the league. They are They are the most homegrown talent
Speaker 1: team year after year. It's a pretty nice group of
Speaker 1: players around Joe Burrow if if he gets there, Tyler Boyd,
Speaker 1: a j Green, Joe Mixing, John Right, I would I
Speaker 1: would like to see any of their draft picks work
Speaker 1: out on the offensive line. Their line is just simply
Speaker 1: not developed. Anything else want to hit on this grid
Speaker 1: before we move No, I think that's good. Justin Simmons
Speaker 1: is is a tricky one. He fit with what Vic
Speaker 1: Fangio did and their defense is was got a little
Speaker 1: worse under Fongio. Well that went to a place that
Speaker 1: and they're possibly losing Chris Harris, Derek Wolfe, Shelby Harris.
Speaker 1: It's like, you gotta build around some people, so you
Speaker 1: should keep you know, one of the one difference you know,
Speaker 1: a few difference makers you got all right, And I
Speaker 1: just I like this one because this usually means the
Speaker 1: guys are moving on. Unlikely to be Devin mccordy and
Speaker 1: Joe Tuney from the Pats. Uh, you have Von Bell,
Speaker 1: the Saints, Austin Hooper, Falcons tight end, Jack Conklin, we
Speaker 1: talked about Byron Jones, Dallas cornerback. Those are all really
Speaker 1: good players and usually, uh, it means that there's something
Speaker 1: going on with the team and all of those teams
Speaker 1: that the Falcons don't have a lot of cap room relatively,
Speaker 1: so I think Hooper could actually be available, and the
Speaker 1: Saints don't have a lot of cap room, especially after
Speaker 1: the breeze. Thinks I think Bell could be and the
Speaker 1: Patriots they just they don't like using the tag. And
Speaker 1: Joe Tuney, their guard is very good. I mean it
Speaker 1: would cost like sixteen million dollars. He's gotten better and
Speaker 1: better every year. Why aren't they paying him? I know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be overpaid, but that's just the nature of
Speaker 1: the market. If you, especially if you're bringing back Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take away one of his best offensive linement
Speaker 1: that that might not be a good match. I don't know. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so tricky in New England right now, there's a
Speaker 1: lot they have a lot of free yet Conklin's kind
Speaker 1: of it and boxed out for the tags. Possibly, I
Speaker 1: think they could work out a long term deal with
Speaker 1: Tuny though on the with Conklin rather with Tuny. They
Speaker 1: already paid Shack Mason, who's their guard, a lot of money, said,
Speaker 1: do you want to be paying too guards? Big time?
Speaker 1: But how do you get to Tom Brady? How do
Speaker 1: you get him out of whack? How do you cause
Speaker 1: him to struggle? Especially this upcoming Prussia up the middle?
Speaker 1: Every time Senna, God, God, Bang, you gotta be worried
Speaker 1: in the in the post Dante Scarneckia world at the
Speaker 1: offensive line, there's New England. I mean, he's gonna make
Speaker 1: He's gonna make a lot of money. He's gonna make
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Can you imagine Tom Brady trying
Speaker 1: to move another nine months from now. He's just gonna
Speaker 1: get keep getting slower. You're not wrong, you're loving this.
Speaker 1: There it is Greg You you did it. NFL franchise
Speaker 1: Slash Transition, tag Primer and no brain Er candidates. Check
Speaker 1: it out. NFL dot com Slash Rosenthal. All right, we
Speaker 1: promised her, We promised you the listener, that she would
Speaker 1: be here, and sure enough, Erica is on the phone
Speaker 1: right now, connecting with Colleen. And now Eric is moving over.
Speaker 1: She seems to be connecting doing something. A lot of buttons.
Speaker 1: They're talking. I mean, I don't think. Hey, we just
Speaker 1: heard you're nervous. What are you nervous? For? The listeners?
Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf? What's up? Hello? What are you guys doing? Podcast?
Speaker 1: Barn storming another day off of your Yeah, I've just
Speaker 1: been like puzzling for the last five hours. I gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here. Yeah, the Life of Connie in
Speaker 1: the off season is away. Explain that please have this
Speaker 1: puzzle and I gotta finish it. I can't leave before
Speaker 1: it finished. So what is the pick? Your's the puzzle?
Speaker 1: Image of Uh, it's a it's a bunch of weird
Speaker 1: like animals smiling else is going on there. But uh,
Speaker 1: all right, let's just let's just move forward. The Connie
Speaker 1: Fox Theme Song Sweepstakes. Uh I, I laid it out
Speaker 1: last week. Send in a thirty second or less submission
Speaker 1: a theme song that will introduce Colleen whenever she's on
Speaker 1: the show. The contest will run through this week, so
Speaker 1: send in your submissions the A T N Podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com and Erica. When I opened up, uh
Speaker 1: the Gmail account this morning, I was so happy to
Speaker 1: see incredible amount of entries. People are excited about this.
Speaker 1: We had a ton it was. It was actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: A lot of them are really good. Um, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna play a few favorites right now. And Connie just
Speaker 1: understand that you I just thought you would like to
Speaker 1: be on the phone while we were playing these. Don't
Speaker 1: think you would need to pass judgment, but you can
Speaker 1: if you want, or decide which one you would want
Speaker 1: to to be or though you can. Uh, I just
Speaker 1: want you to be part of the process, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna figure out a part. The listeners will have a voice,
Speaker 1: and and this room will have a voice. Erica will
Speaker 1: have a voice, and perhaps you as well. But for now,
Speaker 1: it's more just like absorbing some of the ones that
Speaker 1: stood out amongst the initial batch. And if your song
Speaker 1: is not played today, don't think you're out of the running.
Speaker 1: This is more. I starred some that I liked, and
Speaker 1: then I said, Erica, wantn't you pick a few that
Speaker 1: you like? So it's a good sign if you're played today,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean you're out. Just understanding. I feel
Speaker 1: like they're all from Erica. Yeah, exactly now, but Erica
Speaker 1: will be posting for our our listeners. Uh, the puzzle
Speaker 1: you are putting together on the around the NFL podcast
Speaker 1: Instagram handle, where these these maniacal looking Um, what is
Speaker 1: going on? Animals? Um? It's frightening, frankly, and so we'll
Speaker 1: put that up on it. There is also maybe maybe
Speaker 1: twenty more pieces until you finished. I feel almost gon
Speaker 1: it's many. It's many years and decades away, Colleen, But
Speaker 1: you're going to be a fascinating old person, like an
Speaker 1: old lady. You're not the first person who told me that, Like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have like wacky glasses and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Well I can't wait. All right,
Speaker 1: let's all right, let's here's the first one that that
Speaker 1: Erica selected for today's show. Let's listen in. Who is
Speaker 1: it from? UM? I did not disclose that information? You don't, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: that's a that's good. I think America. Yeah, essentially an
Speaker 1: Erica creation. Yeah, ok, here we go. Her hearts is big, silly,
Speaker 1: she likes to act so silly. To cover signy, what
Speaker 1: do make your reach excellent? Start? Wow? Got in under
Speaker 1: a thirty too, really breaks down nice and it fades
Speaker 1: out on a guitar, so it's like it's Bohemian rhapsody.
Speaker 1: Uh involved. I love that one, bouncy melodic U that
Speaker 1: that one is very strong? What else? Let's hear another one.
Speaker 1: I'm lazy. I would hear that and just be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it. Here we go. Sh wow. Mark your thoughts.
Speaker 1: The mood is different than I was expecting for for
Speaker 1: most of these entries, but it feels like a lot
Speaker 1: of UM drug induced inspiration. There slow motion, more slow
Speaker 1: motion entry. I enjoyed it. I like the end when
Speaker 1: it went uh yeah, another one. Good production. Lyricism not
Speaker 1: as strong, maybe not not as strong, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: but I did. It did take me somewhere as Marcus.
Speaker 1: It has like some st Lucia vibe. Yes, it did.
Speaker 1: That's good. I appreciate it. Er, what do you like
Speaker 1: that one? Yeah? That one was good? So all right,
Speaker 1: well let's hear another one. History you I got that
Speaker 1: one ended sitcom theme. I love the show rich or
Speaker 1: famous soon in that lyrics? Right, that could get out
Speaker 1: of date, That could get out of date quick. I
Speaker 1: would say it already has um but you know in
Speaker 1: three or four years that will that hold up? You
Speaker 1: know when she is One thing I did notice Gregg
Speaker 1: makes a good point there that so Colleen famously on
Speaker 1: last week's shows she would rather be famous than rich.
Speaker 1: And I did happen to notice a lot of the
Speaker 1: entries worked that into the lyrics, and that is a risk.
Speaker 1: And I think the people that win this contest, or
Speaker 1: the person that wins the contest, it might be someone
Speaker 1: that takes a look at it from a broader viewpoint
Speaker 1: of her seven years on the show, not just on
Speaker 1: the past. Have the newest information available, but have it
Speaker 1: be timeless or that becomes timeless that that that's what
Speaker 1: Colleen cares about, is just fame. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: we don't know. It's too soon to say. All right,
Speaker 1: we got two. Here we go. I like this, said
Speaker 1: you wanted the theme song, so I made you a rap.
Speaker 1: At least I know that Greg will like this even
Speaker 1: if it is crap. Let's get serious now because we're talking. Colleen,
Speaker 1: host of Thursday Night Football Philadelphia Queen said, the history
Speaker 1: is rich, but you'd rather be famous ever since t
Speaker 1: n F. Do you think this podcast is heinous? But
Speaker 1: don't worry, Colleen, because I still wish you well. But
Speaker 1: you ain't a hero no more. Just upon a goodell.
Speaker 1: That one turned into a distrap and a handle. Well,
Speaker 1: that's definitely a plan again at some point. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that went full heel so that we could, you know,
Speaker 1: summarily summarily dismissed that terrible rapping and we're not gonna
Speaker 1: listen to We're not gonna listen to that ever, so
Speaker 1: disappointed that. Yeah, I don't like that he's coming after Colleen.
Speaker 1: So now we can just speak the truth that this
Speaker 1: does not speak well for our listeners that someone would
Speaker 1: have that core of a of a flow. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did not feel that strongly against That's not mean he's coming,
Speaker 1: he was. I think it was all in fun. First
Speaker 1: of all, I kind of feel like this person really
Speaker 1: knows me because they know that I'm an apicus and
Speaker 1: they know that I would actually like that in a
Speaker 1: weird way. And I mean, there's no way he finished
Speaker 1: taping that and was like, nailed it. You know that
Speaker 1: really can rap. I think I wouldn't say he's I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he's gifted in terms of the flow as
Speaker 1: a rapper, but I will say that in the in
Speaker 1: the history and the and the rich, the history is
Speaker 1: rich of hip hop culture, the dis track is sometimes
Speaker 1: a sign of respect, and that's and that's why I
Speaker 1: think that was a nod to came out of left
Speaker 1: field in a good way. That's how I'm respect Alright.
Speaker 1: How that to Cannabis and l L Cool J. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of respect between those two, all right, last one.
Speaker 1: I think Cannabis said that L cool cannot wait to
Speaker 1: get of his fans wore high heels, and then L
Speaker 1: cool J comes back and says, of your fans don't exist, ladies,
Speaker 1: Love Cool Jay should never take it. The crammy's away
Speaker 1: from him. All right, here we go, all right? Last
Speaker 1: m hmm, Like yeah, because it's a wolf, there's a wolf.
Speaker 1: There's a wolf. There's a wolf. That's a wolf. Don't
Speaker 1: don't do it, don't do stupid, don't don't do it,
Speaker 1: don't don't stupid. That's pretty good. That's pretty good, And
Speaker 1: I would love it if that was taking a totally
Speaker 1: different angle. I love it. The title of that is
Speaker 1: there's a wolf parentheses stupid. I kind of liked, although
Speaker 1: it's not in this gentleman's version. I like just hearing
Speaker 1: Colleen cackling over the year. Yeah we should, Yeah, can
Speaker 1: work that in. I don't know if you're allowed to
Speaker 1: use the mother Goose lyrics as freely as he did,
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that's past copyright at this point, you know.
Speaker 1: And that does remind me. We did get a bunch
Speaker 1: of submissions that were either taking the melody of a
Speaker 1: different song or just using the beat out right. No, no,
Speaker 1: this is all They all have to be original compositions.
Speaker 1: That's the way he did it, though, was good. You
Speaker 1: can do that for Yeah. I feel like there could
Speaker 1: be different, different Colleen songs that like one in the
Speaker 1: morning She's like roaming down the street like that's plain
Speaker 1: not one of the first More, that's the nighttime, sugar
Speaker 1: and Sweet, what's the puzzle is built, and now Connie's
Speaker 1: got you know, she's built that puzzle. And I know
Speaker 1: we're not choosing today, but I think we had to
Speaker 1: particularly strong the first and the last entries we heard today.
Speaker 1: We're both fantastic. Yeah, the book ends were my favorite,
Speaker 1: Like I might add those to my airport playlist, so
Speaker 1: then when I'm walking through to essay, they know it's up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm on board with you on the first and last
Speaker 1: as maybe the early favorites. No debate and uh, Erica,
Speaker 1: we'll figure this out how we want to work it out.
Speaker 1: But we can u with whittle the list down essentially
Speaker 1: to maybe five choices, but let's move. Let's move the
Speaker 1: first song of the fifth song into THESS and maybe
Speaker 1: we're not sure yet, maybe one of those other songs
Speaker 1: will make the finals as well for a voting process.
Speaker 1: But that's good to know. Colle you think the distract
Speaker 1: should advantage I am too. I'm with Colleen, but we
Speaker 1: have to listen. We have to listen to it. It
Speaker 1: just was a greg you have a particular issue with
Speaker 1: it that I don't think the rest of the group necessarily.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but uh, you want the person killed I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that strong. I just it doesn't speak well
Speaker 1: for our listenership if that's what we choose. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll speak privately about this well being so on musical.
Speaker 1: It was set up with like a gonna have it
Speaker 1: be good music. I think Greg likes Rapp and he's
Speaker 1: hitting out a little bit about against that as well,
Speaker 1: that you're if it's going to be a song, that's
Speaker 1: got to be better than that. You Immediately I thought,
Speaker 1: oh well, let's just quietly bury this. But then he
Speaker 1: buried Colleen and it was open season for me to
Speaker 1: just I just posted the photo of your puzzle calling
Speaker 1: on Instagram and I made the caption only die hard
Speaker 1: fans will get it. But the podcast hasn't gone out yet,
Speaker 1: so I'm interested to see people's comments being like, like,
Speaker 1: it should be done. I've almost finished it during this call,
Speaker 1: I hope. So you had like twelve pieces left, but
Speaker 1: a life the Life of Connie again, if you had
Speaker 1: a submission. If you have a submission you want to
Speaker 1: send in, you have to do it by close of
Speaker 1: business Friday, has to be thirty seconds or less. It
Speaker 1: has to be an original composition, and as we said,
Speaker 1: having the history is rich with Colleen if you on
Speaker 1: lyrically work in some different elements from her past, don't
Speaker 1: just focus it all on what's happened in the past week.
Speaker 1: But that's really up to you. I mentioned of Gonzo
Speaker 1: in any of those but but then again, you're right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. But it also doesn't have to be like
Speaker 1: a history of her. The last one went on a
Speaker 1: totally esoteric level and it worked beautifully. That's true. That's
Speaker 1: very true. All right, really strong first round the A
Speaker 1: t N Podcast at gmail dot com. If you want,
Speaker 1: are you getting other letters in that? I mean other people?
Speaker 1: Are there people that are using this to connect with
Speaker 1: us in other ways? And with all due respect, that's
Speaker 1: not what this is about. So maybe we'll keep We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep that Gmail open in perpetuity, and if you
Speaker 1: want to connect with us, Erica will comb through that
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. I'm gonna add that to her workflow,
Speaker 1: but for now we're only focusing on songs. All right, Cally,
Speaker 1: thank you for your time. I know you're very busy.
Speaker 1: So the fact that you can carve out these ten
Speaker 1: minutes is it really once again tells us a lot
Speaker 1: about you as a woman. I mean, thank the fact
Speaker 1: that you're rich and famous enough now to call into
Speaker 1: our show. Is this is a big step? Will we
Speaker 1: get her back in the studio? Get her? Well, that's
Speaker 1: see again, Greg, you're connecting on that the this track. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that she's no longer a hero, she's a what is?
Speaker 1: I think you can't handle the truth of that? Are
Speaker 1: we sure? Greg didn't make that one? Yeah? The man
Speaker 1: doth protest too much? All right, let's let's let's get
Speaker 1: out of here. Thank you, Connie, all right, by guy bye?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back on Thursday. I think West
Speaker 1: will be back with us too, right, that's right, excellent.
Speaker 1: And then starting next week, um, well we're heading to
Speaker 1: the combine next right, unbelievable, It just happens. The wheel
Speaker 1: keeps turning. There is an extra week this year between
Speaker 1: the end of the super Bowl and the start of
Speaker 1: free agency, and good I wish there were an extra
Speaker 1: twelve to last year, so it's a little more stretched out.
Speaker 1: That's that's what they're going for. Before our time of
Speaker 1: this company is through that dead period in June into
Speaker 1: July that won't exist. They'll figure something out that could
Speaker 1: be a deal breaker in my world, all right, this
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansis signing off four Quiet Storm, the old Boss,
Speaker 1: the tiny Box calling in, and the great Rick Hollywood
Speaker 1: behind the glass Wreck stil Thursday to talk to