WEBVTT - NFL REPORT: Quick learner Lamar Jackson, Bengals in trouble?, Sean Payton’s dilemma 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.160 Week two of the NFL Report is here. I'm see 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:13.240 White and my guy James Palmer rocking the terra cotta 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.079 right there as he is back in Denver after a 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:17.439 long flight back from. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:18.800 Cincinnati this week. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.040 Jpe, we got a lot going on because you're usually 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.599 Week two is a. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.360 Much more truth teller than week one. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.560 Right, we can kind of read the tea leaves, and 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.680 I think we can see what some teams like Cincinnati 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.520 and Miami might be. He's like, Dallas, do we really 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:33.120 know they're too? 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.640 Well know how good they are? Wet? Still a ton 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.080 of unanswered questions? 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.760 Yeah, see, how about this if we're telling the truth. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.400 What's your take on Skyline Chili in Cincinnati? 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:43.960 Skyline Chili is good. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.960 I'm also but I'm probably a bigger gold Star fan myself. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.159 But I don't want to insult anybody in our audience. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.479 You know that there's there's a lot of touchy feelings 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.639 about that. Do you like chili on spaghetti? 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:53.880 JP? 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.680 No, I skip halftime meal in the press box when 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.640 I'm there at Peay Course Stadium. I'm not gonna lie. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.000 A double up pregame pre game was good. I double 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.560 up pre game, get a little something extra. There was 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.679 sticky buns up there this time, even though I told 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.800 that's a Philly thing when you say sticky buns too often, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.759 cinnamon roll, whatever you want to call it. I call 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.399 them all sticky buttons. But I had an extra one 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.679 of those, so I wouldn't do the skyline stuff at halftime, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:14.120 I'll be honest. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.280 And and everybody watching and listening, they're like, oh, these 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.160 sports writers, they get fed. They don't I don't want 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.080 to hear them complain about anything. Well, you know that's 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.680 part of the issue. I'm sure you want to complain 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.400 about the fact that we also get to watch football 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:26.000 for a living. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:27.040 Shame me. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.360 We saw a fantastic display of what this Ravens offense 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.960 could look like when they went and they beat Cincinnati. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.040 I mean, this was a huge game. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.240 You heard John Harbaugh talk about it's a big game, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.840 players talking about how how sweet it. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.120 Was to send the Bengals to an zero and two start. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.440 You were there, and you were texting me during the game, like, man, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.320 Lamar looks really good. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.680 This offense is serious stuff. Tell us a little bit 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:54.120 about what you. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.840 Saw, man, Yeah, pregame, Steve and I think I was 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.520 on with you pregame. Also, when I was talking to 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.840 that commend members of the coaching staff and they're like, listen, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.480 Lamar is not comfortable in this offense. Shed We're not 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.320 sure how long it's gonna take. We're gonna see how 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.440 the process goes. But obviously this is very different. He 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.919 didn't play in the preseason, so Week one was really 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.560 our first opportunity to see him go out there and 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.480 operate in it. We didn't see him run at all. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.320 I thought it was really interesting. When I talked to 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.960 Zay Flowers, the rookie wide receiver, he was like, no, no, no, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.080 that was the plan for Lamar not to run. The 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.560 plan was for him to sit back there, get comfortable, Steve, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.120 get a feel for this offense, sitting in the pocket, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.920 because why, he knows he can run right, he knows 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.040 you can find ways to go out there and create 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.720 and make plays. He wanted to sit back there and 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.360 feel it. And what did we see in week two? 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.760 We saw him go out there and have an extremely 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.320 balanced attack. I think that's the difference. When I talked 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.840 to Mark Andrews after the game, he was like, now 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.080 that we have these receivers on the outside, life's easier 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.440 for him in the middle. You have explosive players on 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.120 the outside. You saw after the interception bang right to 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.080 a fifty two yard reception by Jay Flowers to go deep. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:59.440 Lamar Jackson was accurate. He was comfortable. If they're wondering 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.520 how long it's going to take him to get comfortable offense, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.120 I don't know. Week three. Now, they're so balanced because 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.160 at the back end of this game, what did they do? 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.799 They just kept the Bengals off the field. Lamar ran 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.359 the football. They ran the football even when Cincinnati knew 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.399 they were going to run the football. I think this 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.600 is a really fun, interesting offense to watch now because 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:18.600 of the balance it has. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.200 And what's interesting about that is they were down two 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.519 starting offensive linemen right the center, Tyler Linderbaum. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:25.840 Center. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.320 Yeah, I mean this was this was we were wondering 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.239 before the game, you want a pregame show with me. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.080 JP were like, well, Lamar. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.560 Is gonna be on his horse all day because these 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.560 these Bengals rushers are going to be all over him. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.560 He was on his horse on scalded runs and because 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.840 that's what may have opened up because this offensive line 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.080 held up well, that is a positive sign because we 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.520 know left tackle Ronnie Stanley has had injury issues to 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.880 his legs for years. So if they can have somebody 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.080 come in and feel incapably, that's fantastic. But the balance, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.880 that's when the Ravens work right. When they have to 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.320 rely you know, one dimensional running too much or throwing 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.400 too much, that's not them. But also, and I want 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.160 to get this back to you, Zay Flowers. You saw 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.200 Odell Beckham go out with an ankle injury. We don't 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.880 know how significant that is, but the rookie wide receiver 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.080 out of Boston College seems to open up this offense, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:13.040 open up the. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.000 Field for Mark Andrews across the middle. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.880 What impact could he make because they have not had 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.560 not only a deep threat like him, but a route 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.880 runner like him, maybe a Lamar's tenure. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.120 That's the thing, And there's already such a it looks 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.280 like chemistry and connection between him Lamar Jackson's nine catches 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.960 in the first week like from a rookie wide receiver. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.520 The interesting part about Zay real Quick is that he 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.440 already can line up in every single receiver spot they have. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.120 He can play the X, he can play the Y. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.240 He can be a different member of a trips group, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:43.960 you know, the number two of the three. He can 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.320 line up in the backfield. His versatility in that sense 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.360 and understanding of the offense and being able to do 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.200 that is extremely important and really impressive this early. But 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.760 what they're impressed with Steve is how strong he is 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.159 for his size for a little Yeah, guys on the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.400 coaching staff, they were like, you know what he can do. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.120 He can't get tackled, and that's pretty important. Is he's 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.160 hard to tackle and I look like he's gonna be 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.520 that explosive player to add into making this a layered 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.040 offense with Mark Andrews as well. As we talk about offenses, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.719 talk about explosive plays. That's usually what we talk about 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.120 with the Cincinnati Bengals, but we have not seen that 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.000 very much. We saw them get better offensively in the 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.119 second half, but what we also saw in the second 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.480 half was Joe Burrow reaggravating that calf injury. I was 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.080 in the press room to hear him say this postgame. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.640 Well, when when your quarterback missus camp, it's it's tough 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.919 to it's tough to start fast, it's it's not an 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:47.640 ideal situation. Yeah, I'm still confident. I feel really confident 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.640 in all the guys we have in that room. Now, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.159 Like I said, we're gonna have to see how that 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.440 feels the next couple of days. It's pretty sore right now, 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.600 but no telling how it's gonna feel sorrow. I think 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:03.720 we're gonna take it day by day. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.080 Steve. This is a team that we were not very 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.039 concerned with starting oh to one. Now they're zero in two, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.720 which is what they did, I believe last year. So 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.919 what's your take watching this game? Watching a Super Bowl 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.760 contender start not just oh and two, oh and two 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:22.520 in the division? 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:24.799 Yeah, I mean JP. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.640 Normally i'd be like, you know, they're gonna be fine. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.080 This seems a little different. There's a feel to it. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.160 And you were there, not me, but in pregame again, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.400 you were on the pregame. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.400 Show with us on our game day preview show with 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.320 Andrew Ciliano and me, and you said, I have been 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.640 watching him warm up and he doesn't look right. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.599 That calf did not look right. You saw that pregame. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.640 Then he aggravates it during the game, and then we're 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.920 seeing him and for those of you listening on the podcast, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.640 he's got the thera gun kind of gunning and trying 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.520 to get it loose, you know, after he's staying this, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.280 you know, the injury, the aggravation. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.200 This seems like it might be something that could linger. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.320 And so you say to yourself, well, will they shut 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:07.760 him down? 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.080 You know, because Burrell said, we have to figure wait 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:11.520 a couple days to see what's going on. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:12.760 That's not Joe Burrow. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.480 Joe Burrow is usually not that open about how he 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:16.600 physically feels. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:17.200 And when you hear a. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.680 Lot of athletes like that talk about that they know something, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.360 they know something, and so maybe they have to shut 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.240 him down or maybe this is gonna be an issue 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.360 for several weeks, if not for longer, that he has 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.160 to work through. And we know, if Joe Burrow is 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.000 not at full strength with some of the pressure that 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.760 they allow on him, this could be something where the 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.800 folks in Cincinnati, and the words of the great animated 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.120 legend Scooby Doo say rut Row. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:51.280 Yeah, yeah, say it again, Steve Row. There we go. Listen. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.600 This was a dejected locker room. There was definitely a 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.800 lot of confidence after the first loss. This one was 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.960 a little bit different, and I don't think it's because 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.560 they're Row and two. When I had side conversations with players, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.040 it was Steve, I have a fear that this is 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.920 going to linger, like that's my concern, that this calf 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.120 thing is going to linger with Joe Burrow and that's 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.360 going to impact our ability to get out of this 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.520 own two start. I don't think anybody in that locker 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.400 room doubts Joe Burrow as a player, doubts that he's 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.520 one of the best quarterbacks and players in football, that 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.600 this offense can still be one of the best offenses 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.240 in football. We've just seen too much success out of 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.200 this group, right, That's not their concern. Their concern in 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.000 these conversations I was having in the locker room were man, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.160 I hope this doesn't linger like I feel like that 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.280 might be the case. And that is the major concern 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.280 because you saw them in the second half. Steve, after 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.320 a slow start, I talked to Orlando Brown Junior, is like, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.000 we wanted to get out to a quick start. They 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.760 barely had the ball. They had the ball for eighteen 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.040 plays and that first half the Ravens had forty seven 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.640 plays in the first half. The second half, they started 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.800 stringing together some drives. They really did, and then this happened. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.000 So that's where really, to me, the major concern is 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.120 everybody says Joe Burrow is the next peg down, and 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.319 I believe they say Steve from Patrick Mahones, who on 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.760 his birthday goes out and gets his sixty fifth career 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.719 win over the Jags, a game that I thought was 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.920 going to be a shootout and it was just the opposite. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.320 Well, and that's in part JP because this Kansas City 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:24.280 Chiefs defense, which typically slow plays it's development into being 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.000 very good, is off to a great start. I mean, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.920 they get Chris Jones back and he plays thirty four 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.839 plays and none of us really thought he was going to, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.280 you know, completely dominate. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.600 Well he did. He did. And once again, to go. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.800 Back to our pregame conversation, that's where I said. One 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.120 thing about Chris Jones when we talk about his dominance 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.560 is he does it at the right times. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.960 He does it in key moments. He does it on 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:48.400 third line. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 This is a three man rush we're watching right here, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.079 and he bats it down, just. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.280 Absolutely works the left tackle. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.160 Here's one where we three man rush again gets to 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:02.400 Trevor Lawrence. This is one on one This is impact football. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.000 This is getting Trevor Lawrence to think, oh my god, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.160 there's ninety five coming off the edge from a five technique, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.480 not even a seven technique, and I can't get away 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:11.839 from him. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:11.960 Now. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.040 Part of that's the coverage downfield and James. This speaks 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.520 to the bigger issue of Chris Jones' impact. It effects 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.560 all three levels of what the Chiefs are doing. They 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.880 could cloud the deep past and from behind drop their 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.600 linebackers to cover the intermediate stuff because they know Chris 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.720 Jones can be that disruptive. That's what we saw over 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.760 and over again in this game. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.480 And you saw him rush from different spots. He was 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.520 out there on the edge. Remember when they toyed without 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.199 a couple of years ago, he dropped some weight and 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.080 they were like, may maybe he's an edge rusher. Now 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.880 he's doing it at his current dominance and his current 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.679 strength that he has in the middle of the defensive 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.360 line seat, but also can rush from the outside. They 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.280 always love moving him around finding advantages. But you mentioned it. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.679 He's a drive ender, a game ender. You saw him 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.360 do that on fourth down. You see how he's able 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.440 to get their defense off the field to put the 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.640 best player football back on the field and what's happening 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.880 with this defense? And when I spend some time Darren 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.040 Camp there, I was talking to safety Justin Reid and 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:12.280 he was like, everybody now understands our system in the secondary. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.319 He's like, I was teaching everybody my role and their 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.559 role throughout all of the season last year. So many 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.800 new faces. Now they're to year two into the system, 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.160 and this group as a defense, which usually starts slow, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.839 is playing really well early on and helping out this 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.600 offense that struggle a little bit. I have to put 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.360 this out there. As we talked about Patrick Mahomes. This 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.160 was a nice birthday present from the Chiefs. This is 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.120 this is from rap sheet right now while we're recording. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.640 This a new deal for Patrick Mahomes. In the restructured deal, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.720 he now receives two hundred and ten point six million 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.839 between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty six, the most 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.360 in NFL history over a four year span. We knew 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.120 this was coming, Steve, it is now here and who 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.520 the offense is sputtered a little bit, but. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.320 I might hold on, hold on, okay, okay, Now everybody 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.400 who's watching and listening, this is how like TV and 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.400 all this works. Thirty seconds before we are coming on 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.480 to tape this show, James and I are talking about 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.520 this Mahomes deal is gonna get done pretty soon. Don't 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.520 believe all this hype where Patrick says he doesn't need 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.679 all this money. There's been conversations going on for months 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.920 about getting this restructure done, and now you are saying 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.720 he's getting two one hundred How does Marshawn Lynch put 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.160 it two hundred grips two hundred thousand. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.600 Ten million, two hundred ten million, two d two hundred 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.600 and ten millions. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.359 This this is cash dollars. I'm assuming this is guaranteed 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.040 bread that is get per in. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.120 Listen to this. Steve Mahomes has now received over two 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.680 hundred and seventy three million in guarantees since the deal 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:58.839 was originally signed in twenty twenty, an NFL record that's unbelievable. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.439 But I mean this, and this is this is how 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.000 this team is operating, Steve. And it's interesting when we 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.000 talked about this whole Chris Jones situation and everything that 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.080 was going on and Chris Jones wanting this new deal, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.160 We've talked about how this team has looked to build 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.880 moving forward, they move on from Tyreek Hill to make 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.839 other money. They look how they're moving everything forward with 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.000 Patrick Mahomes in line. How does that change everything else 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:23.880 We're going to find out this offseason. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.800 Well, and let's let's also not let people forget Wow, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.760 Patrick Mahomes is getting all this money, this and that 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.560 in hard cash dollars. The amount of money he took 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.960 in the first three years of that ten year, four 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:37.440 hundred and. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.800 Fifty million dollars deal was minimal. Isn't a lot. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.040 I want to say it was around sixty million. Now 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.679 minimal to NFL players, It's a lot for you and I. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.080 But the fact that he was willing to sinimal for 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:52.480 Steve Wych, yeah right, damn right if you took that 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.640 little money, when you see some of this other upfront 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.280 cash these players got, this is this is a just 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.600 reward for him to get to two Super Bowls. Plus 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.960 it's going to allow, as crazy as the sounds, the 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.480 Chiefs to create cap space along the way, so maybe 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.280 they can get Chris Jones done depending on how the 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.760 structure of it is. We're not going to get into 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.800 all of that good stuff right there, all right, JP 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.000 you're gonna get the final word before we move on 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:17.720 to the B block. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.600 Yeah, I'll say this, they were just waiting for Joe 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.480 Burrow's deal to get done before they really pushed this 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.560 things forward. Once they had those numbers, they were able 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.280 to readjust everything they wanted to do moving forward. Now, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:28.840 as we move forward with this show, Steve Wera have 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.600 Jeff Schadea on to talk about a couple of these comebacks. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.240 Who is gift rapped of victory and who had to 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.320 go out there and actually earn it More coming up 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:48.920 on the NFL Report. Welcome back to the NFL Report. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.520 James Palmer, Steve White, John by Jeff Chadea. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:51.840 Who. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.280 I'm not sure how close, Jeff, you lived to Patrick Mahomes, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.560 but you might want to swing by and see what's 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.720 happening over there at Mahomes Manor. It's been redone and 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.440 now they have some more money for future upgrades, even 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:05.720 though it's all Brent spanking nouah. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.040 Yeah, we're not in the same neighborhood. I can promise 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:09.360 you that. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.080 Come on, yeah up to see where he's You're adjacent. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:14.640 You're adjacent, right. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.680 Not the right right word to use. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.080 I'm more like he's up here and I'm way down 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.040 here with the other peons. But yeah, you know, look, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.000 I think one thing that we knew when he signed 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.800 his first big extension was that that was not going 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.280 to last for ten years. The numbers sounded great, half 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.960 a billion dollars, but at the end of the day, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.080 he took a team friendly deal with a discount, and 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.720 they weren't going to allow Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.960 and Deshaun Watson and everybody else, you know, justin Herbert, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.480 all these their quarterbacks to be paid more than the 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.640 best quarterback, the best player in the league. So this 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.160 was definitely not a surprise. The numbers aren't surprising. I 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.040 think James in the break we talked about just the 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.400 possibility and then looking at this again in four years 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.360 and redoing it. But they're always going to make sure 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.880 that he's at the top of the pay list, and 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.560 they're also going to try to make sure he has 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.440 his money. But they have the flexibility to keep making 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:09.640 moves to keep this team going. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.040 And yeah, real quick, explain that because people who may 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.520 not necessarily know how to finesse the cap say, wow, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.400 he's getting you know, two hundred ten million dollars over 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:19.040 the next three years. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.479 We're going to be hamstrung. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.320 But that money, when it's amortized over the length of 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.240 the deal, it actually creates cap space. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.960 But it does, it does, and really, and they've been 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.360 doing this for the last couple of years where they 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.640 don't want to get into this world and I don't 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.840 want to go too deep into the weeds and how 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.840 NFL contract works, but they don't want to go into 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.760 this world where they're always trying to borrow money, get 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.160 players restructured, and try to get create salary cap space. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.440 They feel like having him at a number that's manageable 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.160 for them, they're able to go to him and create 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.320 cast spaces when they want to. But they also know 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.160 he's getting paid as well, so this number will be 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.520 spread out over the course of the deal. I don't 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.960 know exactly all the details involved, but even though it's 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.040 a big number, it's really more about the years and 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.640 the way that the escalators are set up, the way 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.199 that they can actually spread it out, uh, you know, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.879 pay to pay it to him over the course of 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.879 that deal. So a lot of ways to work and 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:14.879 make it flexible, which. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:19.159 Is big for a general manager Breadfeach. And with that said, Jeff, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.520 look at what they have to do this offseason. You 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.120 have to pay the two guys that are right there 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.000 in front of Patrick Mahomes and centered Creed Humphrey and 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:32.119 their left guard, right right right guard. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.040 The guard guard, his guard. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.840 You know, those those are two of the best guys 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.040 that their positions right now in football, and they want 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.520 to hang on to the interior portion of that offensive line. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.360 And both of those guys, Steve are up uh and 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.600 looking for for some cash of their own. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:48.200 Uh. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:49.679 And you've got to pay some of those guys if 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.679 if you're gonna build all this around Patrick Mahomes, protecting 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.680 Patrick Mahomes is a big part of it as well. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.280 So as you guys know, that's that's when you have 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.760 guys in the roster like, hmm, I'll be thirty two 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.120 the time of this next deal. I've got two years 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.080 left on my contract. Honey, let's go ahead and put 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.879