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Speaker 2: Good Morning Football. It was not pretty.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about the Bears and why there
Speaker 3: might be some optimism brewing. So yesterday in the middle
Speaker 3: of our show, we had to bring Ian Rappaport in
Speaker 3: our NFL network insire because news broke Ian and it
Speaker 3: probably made Caleb Williams pretty happy when this news hit
Speaker 3: his phone.
Speaker 4: There's actually been a couple big news items for the
Speaker 4: Chicago Bears. The biggest, though, you're right, during the show yesterday,
Speaker 4: Joe Tooney, the multi year All Pro Pro bowler, one
Speaker 4: of the best cards in the NFL, thirty two years old,
Speaker 4: due for a new contract, was traded from the Kentas
Speaker 4: City Chiefs to the Chicago Bears. Ryan Poe's The Gentleman
Speaker 4: add it again very active thus far. First trading for
Speaker 4: Jonah Jackson, who of course his coach Ben Johnson had
Speaker 4: in Detroit, and now trading for Joe Toney, who polls
Speaker 4: himself was within Kansas City and for the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 4: this one makes a lot of sense for them, I
Speaker 4: would say, similar to what they did with Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: Move on from a player about to get his third contract,
Speaker 4: collect the money or the cap space, I should say,
Speaker 4: get a draft pick, and simply move on to the
Speaker 4: Chicago Bears. Nothing is more important than protecting Caleb Williams. Nothing,
Speaker 4: and so if you have an all pro guard to
Speaker 4: slid in there, potentially do a new deal with him
Speaker 4: at some point. But even if you don't, this is
Speaker 4: one of the best in football. Protect Caleb Williams. Talking
Speaker 4: about the optimism for the Bears, this helps.
Speaker 3: Give it absolutely all right, let's take that and run
Speaker 3: with it, because that twenty twenty four video, it really
Speaker 3: took a dark turn. And now we know that Joe
Speaker 3: Tooney is going to be in Chicago after agreeing to
Speaker 3: terms with the Chiefs, and then of course Joondah Jackson
Speaker 3: now arrives from the La Rams. Kyle, what optimism about
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears going into last season? Are you prepared
Speaker 3: to reframe that excitement with this team once again in
Speaker 3: the Windy City?
Speaker 2: Down right? Damn right?
Speaker 5: Listen, If you're not excited in March and April, when
Speaker 5: are you excited? Let me tell you about the Bears.
Speaker 5: The Bears are going to push people around next year. Now,
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're gonna win yet, we'll figure
Speaker 5: that out. They are going to push people around, all right.
Speaker 5: The Joe Toney signing, of course, it's good for Caleb,
Speaker 5: of course. I don't see it that way though. I
Speaker 5: see it as representative of where this team is going
Speaker 5: about where Ben Johnson wants to go. Do you remember
Speaker 5: never mind golf in the defense, Dan Campbell and Equanimius.
Speaker 5: Do you remember the way the Detroit Lions ran the
Speaker 5: ball last year? It was really really badass. This is
Speaker 5: what Ben Johnson wants to do with the Joe Toney signing,
Speaker 5: and it's not done.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 5: I saw this report from Jeremy Fother that they're looking
Speaker 5: at Durham Smite, that tied end from the Dolphins, who
Speaker 5: Ben Johnson has a deep relationship with. I don't know
Speaker 5: if you win a Super Bowl with Durham Smite, I
Speaker 5: don't care you run the ball with them. They are
Speaker 5: putting together assets and it's not just gonna be DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 5: mark my words. They will add a running back through
Speaker 5: free agency or the draft. I just like this because
Speaker 5: last year at this time for the Bears, through the draft,
Speaker 5: it was quarterbacks and receivers and tight ends and all
Speaker 5: this wonderful stuff. It was all sugar. It was sugar
Speaker 5: and sweetness. Ben Jonson says, it's time for steak. Let's
Speaker 5: put some steak on this plate. We're gonna go to
Speaker 5: Gibson's and do the Viagra Triangle Special and do about
Speaker 5: a fifty ounce.
Speaker 2: Ribbi right on the play.
Speaker 5: We're gonna run because, mark my words, the Vikings, Lions
Speaker 5: packers all really, really good against the run. And nobody
Speaker 5: knows that better than Ben Johnson. He has a PhD.
Speaker 5: In the NFC North. Those teams are great against the run.
Speaker 5: You gotta fight that, and you don't fight that with
Speaker 5: wide receivers and DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 2: You gotta add to that. You want to know what.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty two, Mattie Rafluse gets hired. All right, let's
Speaker 5: see how he made his foray into his first free
Speaker 5: agency as Ben Johnson. Before we even get there is
Speaker 5: adding someone like Joe Tuning.
Speaker 2: Other pieces you look up to.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty two Transaction report the Bears add Byron Pringle,
Speaker 5: Tayvon Young, Trevor Simeon. Due respect to those guys, this
Speaker 5: is a different type of thing going on. If you
Speaker 5: want change if you want a new era, they're already
Speaker 5: making it. We haven't even hit free agency yet. We'll
Speaker 5: see if they win. Well, you figure that out in
Speaker 5: the fall. They will push people around and they will
Speaker 5: be physical. The Toney signing, it's great for Caleb. It's
Speaker 5: better for the run game. That's what Ben Johnson wants
Speaker 5: to establish.
Speaker 2: Guests me fired up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not even a Bears fan, and Kyle, you
Speaker 6: got me fired up over here, but I'm damn let's go.
Speaker 6: I was ready to be all in on the Bears
Speaker 6: as soon as they hired Ben Johnson. I think that
Speaker 6: is the best hire of the offseason. It's a home
Speaker 6: run for them hiring within the division as well. But
Speaker 6: Ben Johnson is one of the best offensive lines in football.
Speaker 2: He's also a young coach, and.
Speaker 6: That means he's a player's coach, and I think that's
Speaker 6: great for Caleb.
Speaker 2: He's only thirty eight years old.
Speaker 6: We saw what he did in Detroit, what Jamier gives
Speaker 6: and David Montgomery in the different ways he used Jamison
Speaker 6: Williams right. He was them the ball through the airs.
Speaker 6: And they also give him some run game things and
Speaker 6: give him some endo rounds. And he had some big
Speaker 6: plays on the ground, whether they use Sam Laporta.
Speaker 2: It was so much from the watch, and.
Speaker 6: Then Amin Ross Saint Brown would get his touches. What
Speaker 6: that tells me is he's going to go to Chicago
Speaker 6: and do the same thing. They have a lot of
Speaker 6: great pieces on offense. He can get everybody their touches
Speaker 6: because he did the same thing in Detroit. I love that,
Speaker 6: and like Kyle said, the most important thing, he knows
Speaker 6: what it takes to win in the NFC North. He
Speaker 6: knows what it takes late in November, late in December
Speaker 6: and those cold weather games. How to run the football
Speaker 6: while you go get Joe Tooney and Jonah Jackson. How
Speaker 6: to go out there and dominate the game and then
Speaker 6: play great defense. I really like like he mentioned Tooney
Speaker 6: and Jackson for the run game, but they also are
Speaker 6: two of the highest guards when it came to win
Speaker 6: rate in pass protection last season.
Speaker 2: That is very important.
Speaker 6: If you invest the number one overall pick in your quarterback,
Speaker 6: you can't just invest in him. You have to invest
Speaker 6: in your offensive line. You have to invest in the
Speaker 6: guys around him. Said the same thing with Drake May.
Speaker 6: If you want to set these guys up for success,
Speaker 6: you have to do exactly what the Bears.
Speaker 2: Are doing right now. And they also have a lot
Speaker 2: of money.
Speaker 6: To spend this offseason, so I think they're going to
Speaker 6: continue to get better. I don't know, Kyle if I'm
Speaker 6: ready to go all in on the Bears, but they
Speaker 6: are definitely going to make it as a contender in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7: I guess, like the Raiders, this is one of the
Speaker 7: smartest moves the Bears have made in the long time,
Speaker 7: hiring Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2: I like the Joe Toney signing.
Speaker 7: You plan him at left guard and say do what
Speaker 7: you do best. I do worry about our wonder about
Speaker 7: Jonah Jackson and where they play him, because it was
Speaker 7: an adventure trying to move him to center and it
Speaker 7: didn't work out. There wasn't a place for him, and
Speaker 7: now he's in Chicago, so where you play him along
Speaker 7: that line of scrimmage is going to be very very interesting.
Speaker 7: But I think it's all It's all up to what
Speaker 7: Caleb Williams does and supporting him, and I thought he
Speaker 7: had a great supporting cast. It just seems like the
Speaker 7: plan was a little hit or miss there. DeAndre Swift
Speaker 7: is a close to one thousand yard back and he's
Speaker 7: a guy you can't sleep on. So I agree with Kyle.
Speaker 7: Get him some help, make it a two headed monster.
Speaker 7: You might get more explosive runs out of swift or
Speaker 7: out of the backfield, like you see there. A tremendous player,
Speaker 7: but it is tough, absolutely tough. We talked about this
Speaker 7: when Kyle was in studio. Name one great Chicago quarterback.
Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard. You go all the way back,
Speaker 2: never had one.
Speaker 7: It is tough to play quarterback in Chicago. It gets
Speaker 7: cold in December, tough to throw the football. But we'll
Speaker 7: see what Ben Johnson has. We'll see if you can
Speaker 7: get Caleb Williams going. But I like the direction in
Speaker 7: Chicago's headed.
Speaker 8: I'm a big Kayleb Williams guy because obviously he's a
Speaker 8: Sooner despite following the Sith Lord to your school.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, own him, Josh, Kayleb Williams is a Sooner.
Speaker 8: But when the Bears drafted him, I like Roma Dunsa
Speaker 8: Why they didn't take that Fuaga guy instead. If you
Speaker 8: draft a quarterback number one overall, your next pick has
Speaker 8: to be an alignment.
Speaker 6: Especially when you have DJ Moore and Kenan Allen on
Speaker 6: the less.
Speaker 3: Well to your point, though, Joshua, the Bears at the
Speaker 3: number ten pick right now, if you're looking at Charles Davis,
Speaker 3: if you're looking at DJ who we all love and follow,
Speaker 3: Daniel Jeremiah, they both have them taking Calvin Benjamin, Kelvin Banks,
Speaker 3: excuse me, the tackle out of Texas right this year
Speaker 3: at least so Kyle. It kind of bolsters your point
Speaker 3: that they're building for the run game and for offensive production.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, Jamie, and I think if you're tuning
Speaker 5: in right now, we should address the lower third.
Speaker 2: On the bottom of the screen.
Speaker 5: Is it okay to be excited about the Bear? What
Speaker 5: does that mean? Well, the context is there was a
Speaker 5: lot of excitement about the Bears in the last offseason.
Speaker 5: I was the drum major out in front of it.
Speaker 5: And the season was cataclysmic.
Speaker 2: It was awful.
Speaker 5: The team was not just bad, they were completely broken.
Speaker 5: They fired the head coach. I think a lot of
Speaker 5: the excitement is not just about what's going on. It's
Speaker 5: not about joke tooing, it's not about getting a guard.
Speaker 5: It's still about the head coach. And last year when
Speaker 5: they were drafting all these players and it's going to
Speaker 5: be Joe Leverett and Roma Doomsay and Keenan Allen. When
Speaker 5: the Bears fans were screaming about that and tweeting about that,
Speaker 5: if someone would say, okay.
Speaker 2: Great, do you like your head coach?
Speaker 5: How about Matt Everrafluss, and the response to that would
Speaker 5: be like, well we got Roma Doomsay, though, never mind that,
Speaker 5: who cares? No, no, no, no, I'm asking you about the coach.
Speaker 5: Do you like the coach? Did you see what Keenan
Speaker 5: Allen did? It was complete ignoring it, and there was
Speaker 5: an awareness of the Bears fans that I'm not sure
Speaker 5: we have a guy on the sideline who is going
Speaker 5: to lead us to the playoffs. And they found out
Speaker 5: that they didn't. Now, listen, we don't know if Ben
Speaker 5: Johnson is, but damn if he isn't, and he's not
Speaker 5: the guy, who the hell.
Speaker 2: Is that's the excitement.
Speaker 5: It's okay to get hurt again, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: It's okay to go out and date again. Get up,
Speaker 5: open the blinds, take a shower, go out, have some breakfast,
Speaker 5: get outside.
Speaker 2: It's okay. That's what we do in the Springs. Sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the most important thing too.
Speaker 6: And the last thing I'll say about this is when
Speaker 6: you invest in your quarterback right, you got him, get
Speaker 6: offensive linemen around him, and he cannot take sixty eight
Speaker 6: sacks every year. Now, I know some of those are
Speaker 6: on Caleb. I'm not going to just say that it's
Speaker 6: the offensive line's fault. He holds the ball sometimes too long.
Speaker 6: He can help himself by throwing away and trying to
Speaker 6: picking up some of those extra yards. The superman Clark
Speaker 6: can't in comparison, right, No one to eat it.
Speaker 2: No when to go down.
Speaker 6: The defense is going to win some that's okay, don't
Speaker 6: compound the problem. But he is not going to last long,
Speaker 6: whether you like him, whether you don't, whether you think
Speaker 6: he's the answer, if he continues to take hits like
Speaker 6: he is. So I love that they're addressing offensive line
Speaker 6: because it shows that they really love their investment in Calebly,
Speaker 6: I want to look at.
Speaker 3: You two guys at the front of the table here. DeMarco,
Speaker 3: you are the side line analysts for the La Rams.
Speaker 3: We played for the Rams. You are a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 3: You guys live within the NFC. You watch the NFC
Speaker 3: North unfold. Last year, the Vikings were on one. The
Speaker 3: Lions looked great, the Packers held their own. Is there
Speaker 3: something that the NFC North is quite powerful? There's something
Speaker 3: to fight with here? Or is it right for the
Speaker 3: Bears to bubble up to the surface a little bit?
Speaker 3: Just give me a state of living in the NFC.
Speaker 3: Just look directly at the North from me.
Speaker 7: Okay, So I'm not sure if the Lions could overcome
Speaker 7: the loss of two of their coordinators. I know Jared
Speaker 7: Goff's not going anywhere, and Detroit is not going to
Speaker 7: lose what they've gained over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 7: They are Super Bowl contenders, but we'll see. This is
Speaker 7: new for them. Green Bay, I had to adjust how
Speaker 7: I felt about Jordan Love. I have to put him
Speaker 7: in with one of the great quarterbacks in the league
Speaker 7: because Green Bay has been pretty good since he's been
Speaker 7: quarterback there.
Speaker 2: But the Bears, the Bears to.
Speaker 7: Me, have always been their brand has been physical and defense,
Speaker 7: and they've been anything but over the last couple of years.
Speaker 7: So it's weird. I know, you have to support the quarterback.
Speaker 7: Like I said, it's tough to play there. But if
Speaker 7: the Chicago Bears want to get back into the race
Speaker 7: in the North, they're going to have to get physical.
Speaker 7: I like what Kyle said, They're going to push people around.
Speaker 7: That's a good start, that's how you developed that brand.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean to get to where Chicago needs
Speaker 7: to be in the North, it's going to be a
Speaker 7: tough road to hope. Maybe the rest of the division
Speaker 7: comes back to them and they ascend. But it all
Speaker 7: starts and ends with what Caleb Williams brings you at quarterback.
Speaker 8: I think Minnesota takes a step back just because if
Speaker 8: McCarthy is ready. I think Starnold had an incredible year.
Speaker 8: I don't know if McCarthy's going to be quite as efficient.
Speaker 8: And I think the Vikings were just had an incredible
Speaker 8: run flash. I think the Lions will their pieces are
Speaker 8: in place. They're going to be solid in stay. So
Speaker 8: Chicago could ascend to that number two spot. I think
Speaker 8: they could. Yeah, because I just love Kayleb Williams, because yeah.
Speaker 3: Sooner, Kyle, anything else you want to get off your chain,
Speaker 3: since you wanted to appropriately therapize and correct why the
Speaker 3: lower third is existing right there? Anything else you got
Speaker 3: on the Bears that you want to well.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Other than I correct myself.
Speaker 5: I mentioned that the Dolphins head and Durham Smite that
Speaker 5: they may get him. They've got him, like he's going
Speaker 5: to the Bears. Rap sheet has reported it, and listen,
Speaker 5: you may sit at home. Durham Smythe Durham Smite is
Speaker 5: a blocking tight end. He is really good at it.
Speaker 5: Going back to college. He is a tough, physical guy.
Speaker 5: Ben Johnson, they're showing their hand right now, guys, they're
Speaker 5: showing their hand. We're going to protect and we're going
Speaker 5: to punch. It's going to be a physical team for
Speaker 5: all the trick plays and the flea flickers that's coming.
Speaker 5: But they are starting with the steak and then they
Speaker 5: will get to the sugar, not the other way around
Speaker 5: that they had the last couple of years, and I
Speaker 5: like it.
Speaker 3: Kyle, can you give us just a quick geographical reference
Speaker 3: for the Viager Triangle in Chicago just for those who
Speaker 3: heard that correctly, if.
Speaker 2: Anyone doesn't know what that term means.
Speaker 5: Okay, So right in downtown Chicago, there is this cool
Speaker 5: little era and it is cool where there's very expensive
Speaker 5: steakhouses and very expensive restaurants and it's very touristy.
Speaker 2: But as it was explained to me.
Speaker 5: They call it the Viagra triangle because let's say that
Speaker 5: there are a lot of like, kind of slick fat
Speaker 5: cats who are maybe with like in their fifties, maybe sixties,
Speaker 5: maybe even seventies, who are looking for friends at the restaurants.
Speaker 5: And if you want that kind of person and you
Speaker 5: want to date that kind of person, there they are
Speaker 5: waiting for you. There is your real free agency frenzy
Speaker 5: or adult a great restaurant do in Great Steaks.
Speaker 3: Number ninety eight wearing the silver and black is an
Speaker 3: absolute menace for the Las Vegas Raiders defense. And now
Speaker 3: Max Crosby is going to stay there a little bit longer.
Speaker 3: Ian Rappaport, welcome back. Inside. We get a lot of
Speaker 3: news that we got to cover as we inch closer
Speaker 3: to free agent frenzy coming this Monday. Let's start with
Speaker 3: one of the big paydays or extensions if you will,
Speaker 3: that happened in Vegas yesterday.
Speaker 4: That's right, a massive three year extension for Max Crosby.
Speaker 2: Not a free agent acquisition, but really just as good.
Speaker 4: As one, because had this deal not gone through, had
Speaker 4: Max not really bought into the new Raiders regime, that
Speaker 4: was very real chance that he was going to be
Speaker 4: on the move. He wanted to see a clear plan,
Speaker 4: wanted to be locked in long term, and the Raiders
Speaker 4: got it done in.
Speaker 2: A way that I would say, rarely do you see
Speaker 2: what the Raiders.
Speaker 4: It was clean, it was decisive, it was fast, and
Speaker 4: it made Max Crosby highly paid. It's a three year,
Speaker 4: one hundred and six point five million dollar deal, ninety
Speaker 4: one point five million dollars guaranteed key number here, thirty
Speaker 4: five point five million dollars average per year new money.
Speaker 4: That makes him the highest paid edge in the NFL
Speaker 4: and sets the market for guys like Michael Parsons, Miles Garrett,
Speaker 4: and potentially Trey Hendrickson. We also had some news in
Speaker 4: the edge market late last night. Joey Bosa, one of
Speaker 4: the faces of the Chargers franchise, five time pro bowler
Speaker 4: one of the most highly paid defensive ends in the NFL,
Speaker 4: was informed of his release.
Speaker 2: There was some questions.
Speaker 4: About whether or not the Chargers would want to back.
Speaker 4: In fact, they did want to back, just had a
Speaker 4: smaller number saves about twenty five million against the Cat.
Speaker 4: Theoretically there's a chance he could end up returning there,
Speaker 4: but don't be surprised if at least the San Francisco
Speaker 4: forty nine ers consider consider bringing in Joey Bosha alongside
Speaker 4: Nick Bosa on the edges for San Francisco.
Speaker 5: It's really cool. It'd be like if TJ and JJ
Speaker 5: had ever played together.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens in the meantime. Ian.
Speaker 5: I don't know if the Bears need another wide receiver,
Speaker 5: but the Hariboo company that makes gummy bears and gummy
Speaker 5: worms is located in Chicago, Illinois, so it might be
Speaker 5: a desirable landing spot for Dk Metcalf, who lives on
Speaker 5: those things. He wants out of Seattle. Tell us everything
Speaker 5: and where this is going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that company exists mainly because of my kids,
Speaker 4: Max and Jude, who eat those things.
Speaker 2: All the time.
Speaker 4: Every snack is about some sort of harriboo you got,
Speaker 4: like the cherries, you got the snakes anyway, Yep, yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot there. Yes, let's talk about DK Metcalf and
Speaker 4: his trade request from Seattle.
Speaker 2: Yes. Ay.
Speaker 4: Sources told me and Collie Tompos that these conversations, which
Speaker 4: have been going on for the course of the last
Speaker 4: I would take two months really ever since the season ended,
Speaker 4: came to it yesterday he met with Seattle Brass and
Speaker 4: Gordon Love his request to seek a trade. They've agreed
Speaker 4: to at least explore. Now the price is going to
Speaker 4: be high. He's going to want a new contract, but
Speaker 4: there are in fact several teams interested. He would be,
Speaker 4: no doubt the top receiver available. Those other good receivers
Speaker 4: available at the free agent market, but a lot of
Speaker 4: them are older. This is a twenty seven year old
Speaker 4: in his prime, does want a new deal, but yes.
Speaker 2: Teams are going to be inquiring.
Speaker 4: And then Seattle also said goodbye to one of their legends,
Speaker 4: Tyler Lockett, the veteran receiver made some of the biggest
Speaker 4: plays for Seattle over the last decade, was deformed.
Speaker 2: Of his release, and it's sad.
Speaker 4: Releases are always sad, but this one was sort of
Speaker 4: like a mutual hug. Seahawk said thank you, Lockett said
Speaker 4: thank you, just agreed to kind of move apart, go
Speaker 4: their separate ways with appreciation of what one has done
Speaker 4: for the other. I would imagine he will be a
Speaker 4: highly honored member of that franchise moving forward as of
Speaker 4: now sixty and eighteen.
Speaker 3: All right, well, at least the candy shelves will be
Speaker 3: safe in Seattle moving forward, maybe if the Seahawks are
Speaker 3: able to execute this. It's the rap sheet kids and
Speaker 3: it's DK Metcalf that are into the gummy bears. We've
Speaker 3: got that all straight. Let's get into DK Metcalf, because
Speaker 3: this was massive news yesterday. Once you move on from
Speaker 3: one wide receiver to have the room look at themselves,
Speaker 3: Kyle and say no, I don't want to be here
Speaker 3: anymore either.
Speaker 2: What was your initial.
Speaker 3: Reaction to this massive star within the NFL and a
Speaker 3: big time wide receiver that oftentimes in last coal beers
Speaker 3: had been just used as a decoy within this offense.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of that going around.
Speaker 5: Is that you got big name guys and big contract
Speaker 5: guys looking around and saying, what am I doing here?
Speaker 2: What's the future? What are we up to? DK?
Speaker 5: Six seasons in, he's twenty seven years old and he
Speaker 5: wants a fresh start. It's same deal with Miles Garrett
Speaker 5: a little bit older. But it's like, I think I
Speaker 5: might have spent enough time here. I think if you're
Speaker 5: looking at DK Metcalf to go and get him, and
Speaker 5: if you're a fan base who wants k Metcalf, I
Speaker 5: just look at it as a very expensive luxury item.
Speaker 5: This is a Ferrari. Not in the physical sense I'm
Speaker 5: talking this. I'm just talking about in terms of the expense,
Speaker 5: the splash.
Speaker 2: It is going to be very expensive.
Speaker 5: Like Ian said, like the big time draft picks and
Speaker 5: then big time money.
Speaker 2: If you are a team.
Speaker 5: That has your quarterback situation set, who has your defensive end,
Speaker 5: who has your left tackle, you got all the pieces,
Speaker 5: and you got a coach and you think like, I
Speaker 5: don't know, I want to kind of do for our
Speaker 5: team what aj Brown did for the Eagles, and one
Speaker 5: of those things where you add the big time and
Speaker 5: you're going to spend This is going to be very,
Speaker 5: very expensive.
Speaker 2: But if you're a team.
Speaker 5: That you have a home and you have your kids
Speaker 5: taking care of and you just are like, damn it,
Speaker 5: I'm buying a Ferrari, Well, then there's one right there
Speaker 5: who wants out of his current home right now, go
Speaker 5: get it.
Speaker 2: Other than that, and if you.
Speaker 5: Don't have all your stuff taken care of, I would
Speaker 5: move on to the next asset because you're going to
Speaker 5: pay through the teeth for this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we talked about it earlier. The team that
Speaker 6: comes to mind is the New England Patriots. If I'm
Speaker 6: Drake May, I am on the phone right now. I'm
Speaker 6: at the front doorstep Mike Rabel's office saying we need
Speaker 6: to get this man in New England. But first I'll
Speaker 6: say this, I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 6: Tyler Locket. Unbelievable wide receiver, so much fun to watch,
Speaker 6: someone that I watched when I was in the league.
Speaker 2: He's just such a great player, the king of not taking.
Speaker 6: Hits, right, that's even so good catching the ball, getting down,
Speaker 6: not taking unnecessary hits. And that's why you laugh so
Speaker 6: long in the NFL. So he's going to be missing Seattle.
Speaker 2: The other thing too, I'll say about DK, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like they're a team that's struggling.
Speaker 2: They won ten games last year.
Speaker 6: I know he only had five touchdowns, didn't get to
Speaker 6: a thousand yards, but I was surprised when DK said that.
Speaker 6: But the guy that comes to mind for me is
Speaker 6: Jackson Smith and Jigbum And I know we can't put
Speaker 6: the tweet up, but he said on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Basically, what the heck is going on?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Everyone's leaving now?
Speaker 6: Tyler Lockett's released DK Metcalf wants out, what does that
Speaker 6: mean for me? Well, he's on a rookie contract, so
Speaker 6: he can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2: But it's just for me.
Speaker 6: It's really interesting what is going on in Seattle right
Speaker 6: now because the first question you asked us are they
Speaker 6: going to a rebuild? Is you know, what's the future
Speaker 6: like for Gino Smith? What's the future like for that offense?
Speaker 6: So I don't know, but if i'm Drake May, I'm
Speaker 6: telling you right now, I'm on the phone saying let's
Speaker 6: get DK Metcalf to New England.
Speaker 8: I think the other great fit for him would be
Speaker 8: Green Bay. That if you carried him opposite Jayden Reid.
Speaker 8: I think one of the problems with Green Bay is
Speaker 8: they've got a bunch of, you know, second tier guys.
Speaker 8: If you added DK Metcalf to Christian Watson and Jayden Reid,
Speaker 8: I think Jordan Love takes a huge leap.
Speaker 6: I agree, and that would probably Incord Metcalf.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I go up and get it.
Speaker 7: I do wonder what Metcalf would do and would he
Speaker 7: like going to play with Drake May. I mean Russell
Speaker 7: Wilson was his quarterback. Geno Smith was his quarterback. I
Speaker 7: don't know where you have them ranked, but to go
Speaker 7: to a Drake May, I wondered what.
Speaker 2: That interest him.
Speaker 7: If I'm him, I want to go to some ghost
Speaker 7: some place where they have an elite quarterback where I
Speaker 7: can show all my skills.
Speaker 2: And I agree with you.
Speaker 7: Lockett to me was by far the scarier receiver of
Speaker 7: the two. Dk Metcalf was a lot of sizzle, not
Speaker 7: a ton of steak.
Speaker 2: He looks the part. He is. Scary is all get
Speaker 2: out when.
Speaker 7: You see the guy warm up, but when the game happens,
Speaker 7: I don't know. Sometimes he just checks out. He makes
Speaker 7: a lot of mistakes and they seem to be not
Speaker 7: in sync a lot. So if I'm him and you
Speaker 7: think you're better than what you are, I think I'm
Speaker 7: headed to a place to where I know that guy
Speaker 7: is elite, maybe headed for Canton someday that can deliver
Speaker 7: me the football when I needed most.
Speaker 2: Regardless of how much I.
Speaker 5: Think Josh is all over it, I think Josh I
Speaker 5: like the Packers pick a lot and let's just pull
Speaker 5: from the headlines. Back during Super Bowl Week, their star
Speaker 5: running back Josh Jacobs is going around radio row saying
Speaker 5: we need a number one receiver. He wasn't mixing words
Speaker 5: at all. So we got guys, we need a guy
Speaker 5: who is a proven number one. And watching the Packers
Speaker 5: last year, they're one of these teams has a nice
Speaker 5: collection of wide receivers. There's some talented guys. There is
Speaker 5: obviously not that guy. There is not a AJ Brown,
Speaker 5: there is not a Jamar Chase. There is not you know,
Speaker 5: the Bills version of steff On Diggs. And when Diggs
Speaker 5: got added to the Bills, Josh Allen skyrocket and let's
Speaker 5: do something for Jordan Love that that season last year,
Speaker 5: that certainly the end of it was not up to
Speaker 5: the Packers standard. It's not up to the Matt Lafleur standards.
Speaker 5: And when you have the star running back just saying
Speaker 5: what everyone else is thinking that we got some good receivers,
Speaker 5: we need a real number one receiver. I don't know
Speaker 5: those kind of moved for green Bay. Maybe a little
Speaker 5: out of character to spend the draft picks and the
Speaker 5: capitol they're going to have to do to get DK Metcalf.
Speaker 5: But man, if he jumps into green Bay, that shock
Speaker 5: and all stuff right there, I would like him absolutely.
Speaker 3: So it was twenty nineteen DK Metcalf comes out when
Speaker 3: he was on the scene, Kyle, you guys were a
Speaker 3: couple of years into GMFB. He used this massive, dude,
Speaker 3: big personality and he goes to Seattle. Can you just say,
Speaker 3: refresh us on what the expectation was for dk Metcalf
Speaker 3: coming into the NFL. And when a guy asks to
Speaker 3: leave a team and resets his own identity, maybe he's
Speaker 3: in an offense, Like what is the outlook for him
Speaker 3: within a new team, whether it may be the.
Speaker 2: Packers or not.
Speaker 5: Well, Mattcalf's entry into the league is always hilarious for me.
Speaker 5: It always sticks out because it is a perfect example
Speaker 5: of NFL draft bs schlock analysis. People didn't like him
Speaker 5: in the draft, and you could look it up. It's like, well,
Speaker 5: you know, his hips are a little high coming out
Speaker 5: of his routes.
Speaker 2: Look at him. Just take a picture of him and
Speaker 2: look at his body. Watch the tape of him.
Speaker 5: I understand you have a job to do and talk
Speaker 5: about his catch radius. And then people passed on him.
Speaker 5: You could look it up. The people who were drafted
Speaker 5: in front of him, I'm not gonna mention their names,
Speaker 5: infamous infamous names. Then Wiley Pete Carroll comes in and
Speaker 5: two seconds later, Pete's ripping his shirt off to show
Speaker 5: DK that he still got it. And he was awesome
Speaker 5: from the get go. So he's also a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2: Look at it.
Speaker 5: Look at this guy's hips are two inches too Hi
Speaker 5: come out of his route, So.
Speaker 2: We're gonna pass on him? What are we doing? Just
Speaker 2: drap them?
Speaker 5: I will always think of this of like I understand,
Speaker 5: the analysis gets really deep, and that's some of the
Speaker 5: stuff we celebrate. You know what I like more than
Speaker 5: the analysis. I just like the anatomy. I like it better.
Speaker 5: And this guy's second to none. If there's a dude
Speaker 5: who's a super freak physically, maybe you don't let yourself
Speaker 5: be hissh hooked by deep, deep, deep minutia about his
Speaker 5: route running.
Speaker 2: Go get him. I just remember.
Speaker 3: A couple of years later, the Seahawks as a show
Speaker 3: go to Munich, Germany, and the Seahawks are playing the
Speaker 3: first ever regular season game in the NFL in Germany,
Speaker 3: and it's the Seahawks and it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: And this guy gets off the plane and has to
Speaker 3: find a cheeseburger immediately in the land of Meat and
Speaker 3: potatoes DK back off of just walking around the streets
Speaker 3: of Germany like I landed. I wanted to stay awake,
Speaker 3: and he went out and find of Germany a cheese
Speaker 3: steak and cheeseburger in Germany.
Speaker 5: Excuse me and.
Speaker 3: The fact that he still looks like that needs all
Speaker 3: the kiddie we can't wait. This is a new found
Speaker 3: excitement that we might see in free agency. Frenzy not
Speaker 3: a free agent, I get that, but it's gonna take
Speaker 3: something for a teams again. I'm basically exactly.
Speaker 2: I love playing.
Speaker 9: I still feel like I could play it at a
Speaker 9: high level, and possibly at a higher level than I
Speaker 9: did last year. I don't think it was my best outing,
Speaker 9: you know. I think I let my guys down in
Speaker 9: a lot more moments than I than I helped them,
Speaker 9: especially if you look at my track record and how
Speaker 9: I've been in years past. I just, you know, I
Speaker 9: I want to give it a good run. I got
Speaker 9: a bad taste in my mouth on how I ended
Speaker 9: the year and and uh, how well I was playing,
Speaker 9: and you know how accountable I was for the people
Speaker 9: around me. And I love so many people in Kansas City,
Speaker 9: both in that facility, uh, in the community and it's
Speaker 9: home for me now. And you know, I don't uh,
Speaker 9: I don't want to leave that life.
Speaker 2: Yet.
Speaker 9: I put in a lot of a lot of hard
Speaker 9: work and I put in a lot of you know,
Speaker 9: focus into into being the best that I can for
Speaker 9: case and last year it just, uh, it didn't end
Speaker 9: well for us, and I just I feel like there's
Speaker 9: a responsibility in me to to play out the contract
Speaker 9: that I initially signed to give Kansas City and the
Speaker 9: Chiefs organization everything that I got, and uh, and that's
Speaker 9: what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Jason and Travis Kelsey kicked the tires on a lot
Speaker 3: of topics on the New Heights podcast. Kyle, but this
Speaker 3: is one that everybody was interested in beyond his dating life,
Speaker 3: which anytime he goes down that avenue, people want to
Speaker 3: know the answer. But Kyle, Chiefs fans, the NFL, they
Speaker 3: wanted to know if Travis Kelsey was coming back. And
Speaker 3: there's your answer. What's your reaction to that? And why
Speaker 3: he did it?
Speaker 5: No respects because I think the proper context, especially is
Speaker 5: that Travis could make a ton of money without playing
Speaker 5: another down of football. Guys stay on because they want
Speaker 5: to hit the check again, and I get it. Keep
Speaker 5: making the money and then you have to decide what
Speaker 5: you're going to do after football.
Speaker 2: He already has all that set up.
Speaker 5: He could probably make much more money not playing football
Speaker 5: than he could play in football and risking injury, that
Speaker 5: can everything that comes with it. He wants to play,
Speaker 5: and that's a guy where you're like normally when someone
Speaker 5: says it's not about the money, like, of course it's
Speaker 5: about the money.
Speaker 2: For him, it's not.
Speaker 5: He actually wants to play, and I think NFL players
Speaker 5: have this infatuation with ending things right and he wants
Speaker 5: to do it. He said it himself. I wasn't that
Speaker 5: great last year. He has nothing to prove, first ballot,
Speaker 5: Hall of Famer, multiple times super Bowl champion, maybe the
Speaker 5: greatest tight end who ever lived, all these lists. He's like,
Speaker 5: I got money, I got future, I got everything. I
Speaker 5: just want to play football again for those people and
Speaker 5: those fans and for myself and my teammates. That's as
Speaker 5: peer as it gets, and I'm not a skeptic of it.
Speaker 2: I respect it, nothing but respect for Kelsey.
Speaker 7: He's tremendous and I'm in some circles he is the
Speaker 7: greatest head end to ever live or ever play the game.
Speaker 7: I hope he's not making a big mistake in coming back,
Speaker 7: because I mean, you ended in the Super Bowl, no
Speaker 7: shame in that, and you lost to Philadelphia. This could
Speaker 7: end worse for you next season if you try to
Speaker 7: come back. And I've heard this before from older coaches,
Speaker 7: if you're thinking about retirement, you already are so coming
Speaker 7: back forward trying to finish it out. I get that,
Speaker 7: and Kyle, I think you hit it right on the head.
Speaker 7: You always want to try to finish it right in football,
Speaker 7: but that rarely ever happens in the National Football League.
Speaker 8: I think he's making the right choice because the Chiefs
Speaker 8: still have a good window here. And I also like
Speaker 8: having players in the league that I like rooting for,
Speaker 8: and he's easy to root for, so'm I speak for
Speaker 8: all fans, mister Kelsey, thank you for coming back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the first thing that stands out to me as
Speaker 6: a former player is the accountability. I love that he
Speaker 6: came out and didn't blame anybody else. He said I
Speaker 6: wasn't at my best. I still think I can play
Speaker 6: better than I did a year ago, but it was
Speaker 6: my fault. I made a mistake here. I did things wrong.
Speaker 2: Right. I'm with josh on that, you know, I think he.
Speaker 6: Is going to come back because he wants to end
Speaker 6: on the right note and fans like watching that, right,
Speaker 6: you want that superhero effect.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, you have two greats.
Speaker 6: And Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey, and now they have
Speaker 6: extra motivation. So I don't know exactly what that means,
Speaker 6: and they didn't need it, but now they have a
Speaker 6: chance to make another run. And Travis Kelsey's going to
Speaker 6: get right this offseason and have another go at it.
Speaker 3: At the end of the clip, he says, plays out
Speaker 3: the contract that I signed. He's entering the final year
Speaker 3: of that. So clearly he had a commitment in his
Speaker 3: mind to Kansas City that he wanted to fulfill. The
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelsey experience is one of the most
Speaker 3: electric teammate battery combinations that you can see in terms
Speaker 3: of pitcher and catcher. They are amazing and their friendship
Speaker 3: is one that is covered internationally and I think it's
Speaker 3: an amazing story that will continue to unfold.