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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Drive. I'm Dale Lally here with

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and just got back from the owners meetings

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Speaker 1: mets here in Pittsburgh. But there was an interesting weekend

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Speaker 1: in this regardment um. There was some different talk down

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Speaker 1: so he will now be there at their head coach

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Speaker 1: know that's part of it because we're getting old. But

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Speaker 1: the The Athletics podcast is Nate Nate Tys, whose father

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Speaker 1: But it is a good point, you know that back

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Speaker 1: as we could ever see, and then they just gave

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Speaker 1: him a big contract, you know, like something really off

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Speaker 1: for us to happen, for you not to be just

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Speaker 1: it's still valuable after one year of getting franchised. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a quarterback position. And I've I've long been

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Speaker 1: a proponent of this, and I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: go about doing it. They should have their own cap.

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Speaker 1: I kind of think so too, But I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you do it right because the team quarter quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: quarterback A is not worth what quarter you know, like

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Speaker 1: they all have their own value, whether you just don't

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Speaker 1: count you don't count your quarterback in your salary cap

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Speaker 1: at all, or the league like it's like an arbitration situation,

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Speaker 1: you know, next if you get to these parameters or

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Speaker 1: we w worthy, you move up from a tier three

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Speaker 1: guy to a tier two guy and then you get

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Speaker 1: a raise or I don't know, but it is so skewed.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's one player, one position dominates your cap

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Speaker 1: so much. And it certainly wasn't the right answer for

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Speaker 1: Sam Bradford or JaMarcus Russell to get picked first overall

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Speaker 1: and you're like the fifth highest fake quarterback in the

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Speaker 1: league before you ever threw a pass. But it's certainly

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Speaker 1: a massive advantage to have, you know, Joe Burrow right

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Speaker 1: like I don't I don't know how you go get

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Speaker 1: around it because it's just and they're all in the

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Speaker 1: same union as the long snapper. Uh, you know, those

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Speaker 1: guys don't make any money, you know, that's it's it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just a different dynamic. There's be something different

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is, and I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what the Larry Bird rule is, but I

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Speaker 1: knew there was something along the line in the NBA

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Speaker 1: where their version of a franchise tag you could pay

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Speaker 1: a guy a hundred and twenty but it only costs

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Speaker 1: a hundred percent against your cap or something like that

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Speaker 1: if you keep your own. Yeah, that's where people far

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Speaker 1: smarter than us to figure out. But I do believe

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Speaker 1: something something has to change on that. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take another break. He is Williams and I am Dale Lelly.

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