Speaker 1: Be Around with the NFL podcast, Espaniol. Welcome to another
Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is
Speaker 1: Dan Hansas in a virtual room filled with some heroes,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, you know boys. At St. Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1: It is after seven pm on the West coast, after
Speaker 1: ten pm back east, and Happy St Patrick's Day to
Speaker 1: our many Irish listeners and all the Irish American listeners
Speaker 1: on this side of the pond, including my mom. But St.
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day also lines up with the first day of
Speaker 1: March Madness, and uh, that's fun. And usually, uh, this
Speaker 1: is a situation where I go out to a local
Speaker 1: tavern and I have a couple of drinks. I'll have
Speaker 1: a couple of beers, maybe Daddy has a Tito's. I
Speaker 1: watch college hoops in the sunshine day drinking can't beat it.
Speaker 1: And yet Deshaun Watson, as his his way, ruined everything.
Speaker 1: As if we need another reason, um to be annoyed
Speaker 1: Uh by this man. Yes, um, And he stopped Dan
Speaker 1: from going to third person and calling himself Daddy in
Speaker 1: the sun all day. He didn't stop me. He didn't
Speaker 1: stop good. Okay, that's no. But we waited out the
Speaker 1: big announcement. It never came, uh, and the latest reporting
Speaker 1: is that it might not come until the weekend or
Speaker 1: perhaps after that. But I have a theory about that,
Speaker 1: by the way, the old you know, the famous Friday
Speaker 1: bad news dump, that there's a team out there that
Speaker 1: understands they're gonna get savaged for this, so they're gonna, like,
Speaker 1: let's say, about five o'clock Eastern tomorrow is when it drops.
Speaker 1: That's a theory that I'm working under right now. I
Speaker 1: know they're saying through the weekend, but how about the
Speaker 1: most epic Friday bad news drop of all time. Don't
Speaker 1: think that will save them from being savaged. But but
Speaker 1: I think that your theory, um is it is on
Speaker 1: point um if anything, they like, a team is going
Speaker 1: to have to try to minimize this to some degree.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's there is so much annoyance
Speaker 1: or maybe I'm just projecting that he had this whole
Speaker 1: situation hijacked my day too. By the way, I also,
Speaker 1: um don't mind going out on St. Patrick's Day and
Speaker 1: watching basketball and having to beer. It's it's it extends
Speaker 1: beyond just famously loves the n s to one groaned
Speaker 1: more from everyone else in the news room enjoying the
Speaker 1: basketball games than mark that part of it, that that
Speaker 1: part of it does not exist. But I mean the
Speaker 1: idea that this entire day was hijacked by this situation,
Speaker 1: um is appalling to me. Yeah, here's the good news.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to spin it forward. Here, maybe a
Speaker 1: little luck of the Irish that by waiting it out,
Speaker 1: we ended up getting another massive trade that we get
Speaker 1: to talk about. So we told you four shows were
Speaker 1: coming if we had a reason to do a fourth show,
Speaker 1: so you might be if you're in a different part
Speaker 1: of the world, you wake up to this show and
Speaker 1: that's nice. Or if you're a night owl like Cessler
Speaker 1: who doesn't sleep. Uh, he's a borderline vampire. Hot vampire,
Speaker 1: I'll say, but a vampire. You get to enjoy this
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. But we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about big news, a massive trade of a superstar wide receiver,
Speaker 1: the latest with the Cleveland Browns mark, a future Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer going from Los Angeles to Western New York.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it. Let's start with the Davante Adams trade.
Speaker 1: How about that hot vampire mark A little nicet compliment
Speaker 1: to throw you. Really, that's one of the nicest things
Speaker 1: that anyone has ever said to me. So I need it.
Speaker 1: You need it today, buddy, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be nice. You know, I want a photoshop either from
Speaker 1: you know, our excellent or or a listener. You know.
Speaker 1: It is late. I don't know if Randy's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to knock this photo shop out in time. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, like maybe Mark is the next Twilight guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pattinson's had his run. Mark, Well, I would say the
Speaker 1: only if you are very skilled at photoshop. I don't
Speaker 1: want like a C minus version of this if you
Speaker 1: are well your following for mid forties guys. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: Shabez has been knocking out of the park with his
Speaker 1: photoshop skills. But no, like Pattinson of course is the
Speaker 1: new Batman and that movie is apparently very good. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna check that one out. So he's moved out of
Speaker 1: that phase of stardom. So we do need a new
Speaker 1: mattinee Idol for the team set. So maybe it is
Speaker 1: you Mark. Yeah, definitely get a tired forty eight year
Speaker 1: old who couldn't be more you know, worn out by
Speaker 1: the by terror firmative. So we're gonna do We're gonna
Speaker 1: give you the fangs and then we're gonna do the
Speaker 1: you know, the irishman speaking st. Patrick's day, the Scorsese
Speaker 1: movie where they d aged Peshi and De Niro. We're
Speaker 1: gonna d age the out of you and we're gonna
Speaker 1: get you down to about seventeen years old. Even need
Speaker 1: to look at this smooth No, he looks great as
Speaker 1: he's a hot vampire right now. But I'm saying, if
Speaker 1: we want him to, you know, accurately, take the mattinee idol.
Speaker 1: We got it. We got a d agent about thirty
Speaker 1: to thirty years A little bit of work, yes, something
Speaker 1: you know to the Packers have a little bit of
Speaker 1: work to do to rebuild their wide receiver room. After
Speaker 1: the stunning I'll go stunning, and I think you guys
Speaker 1: will agree. Announcement um or news that Davante Adams is
Speaker 1: being sent to the Raiders in exchange for a first
Speaker 1: round pick and a second round pick in the NFL draft. Okay,
Speaker 1: so right after that deal goes through, Adams, who was
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag, made it clear to Green Bay
Speaker 1: he was not interested in playing other franchise tag. He
Speaker 1: signed a new five year, one forty one point to
Speaker 1: five million dollar contract with the Raiders. That makes him
Speaker 1: the highest paid wide out in the league. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's not even the craziest contract I've heard in the
Speaker 1: last forty eight hours. We'll get to that in a
Speaker 1: little bit anyway. A massive deal for Adams, who statistically
Speaker 1: you could say who you love with more from a
Speaker 1: skill set. Uh standpoint, but Adams has been better than
Speaker 1: anybody in football for close to a decade now, and now,
Speaker 1: at age nine, he leaves Aaron Rodgers and Greg he
Speaker 1: leaves my choice, it was the Packers were willing to
Speaker 1: pony up the money, but reportedly he wanted to play
Speaker 1: with Derek Carr instead. Bombshells galore here. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm like always looking for the story behind the story,
Speaker 1: and wow, he's wanting to leave Aaron Rodgers and wants
Speaker 1: to leave like a very successful situation. But he did
Speaker 1: play with Derek Carr. He's boys with Derek Carr, and
Speaker 1: he how has a house in Las Vegas, Mark pointed
Speaker 1: out to me before the show, So that does make sense.
Speaker 1: He's a young man um and which place sounds a
Speaker 1: little more fun to to live in. I would go
Speaker 1: with Last Vegas probably, and he would probably agree with it.
Speaker 1: His ties there, But it is you want to go
Speaker 1: to the gambling. It's just crazy because he's at his peak.
Speaker 1: And I mean they got fair enough value for him.
Speaker 1: A one and two. That's for a wide receiver that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Uh that that's that's fair, and they clear
Speaker 1: up some cap space. But it's incredible to me that
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is returning to a team right now that
Speaker 1: has Alan Lazard as their number one. I think I
Speaker 1: think he's restricted, but he'll he'll be back. Valdes Scantling
Speaker 1: is a free agent. Now you've freed up some money
Speaker 1: if you do want to bring him back. They did
Speaker 1: bring back Randall Cobb. Amari Rodgers is is sticking around,
Speaker 1: and this team that we kind of assumed was gonna
Speaker 1: be the one b to the rams favorite in the
Speaker 1: NFC just took a big hit. This is not just
Speaker 1: any other receiver. It's not Greg Jennings leaving. It's not
Speaker 1: Donald Driver at you know at some point uh leaving
Speaker 1: Like this is Davante dam is the best receiver in
Speaker 1: the league, and the the effects around it. I find
Speaker 1: are as stunning as the move itself. That while Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was negotiating his contract that he knew, according to
Speaker 1: our reporting from Ian Rapp Report, that Davante Adams would
Speaker 1: never play again for the team, and despite what he
Speaker 1: talked about and said about Davante Adams on the Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee show just a couple of weeks ago, that he
Speaker 1: knew that, and that Davante Adams was offered an equal
Speaker 1: contract by Green Bay and decided, nope, I'd rather go
Speaker 1: play with Derek Carr, who I think everyone on Earth
Speaker 1: can agree is a good quarterback, but obviously a lesser
Speaker 1: offering than Aaron Rodgers. And the Packers. Suddenly this whole
Speaker 1: off season plan that seemed to have after so much drama,
Speaker 1: crescendo into a scenario where they are, as Greg said,
Speaker 1: the one B to the NFC Darlings. Now they look
Speaker 1: lost to me, I mean they lost because even with
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams they couldn't win playoff games. I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to count out the Packers. And this is why, because
Speaker 1: you could there's a lot of things you could say
Speaker 1: about what Brian Goodacuns has done in recent years to
Speaker 1: build that team into a contender. But the one position
Speaker 1: group where he always kind of skated by on, it seems,
Speaker 1: was wide receiver. And it was Davante Adams, this all
Speaker 1: world producer who had this great bond with Rogers, and
Speaker 1: they just put up enough production to count for two receivers,
Speaker 1: and then that made up for a back end of
Speaker 1: the wide receiver group that was always hit or miss.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether it was MBS or Alan Lazard, you
Speaker 1: name the guy in there, and there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of forgettable players. Maybe the Packers and Goodakuns see this
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to pivot and change how they're setting
Speaker 1: up this offense, and maybe you bring in some guys
Speaker 1: that are There's we were talking about before the show,
Speaker 1: that Jarvis Landry is out there, You have O'Dell out there.
Speaker 1: Especially with Allen Robinson now finding a home in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: you have now an extra first round pick. Maybe you
Speaker 1: bring in a wide receiver you're in love with, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden have a nice balanced unit. It's
Speaker 1: still though, even playing it positive, there a massive roll
Speaker 1: of the dice for a team that's in win now mode.
Speaker 1: It is, but I I love this draft class. You know,
Speaker 1: according to Dania Jeremiah, everyone else, and at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position, you know, they're still Packers fans that think, look,
Speaker 1: if we had drafted te Higgins instead of Jordan's Love,
Speaker 1: we might have won some of those playoff games. But
Speaker 1: you can, you can make up for Adams has lost
Speaker 1: somewhat with with a draft picker two and in free
Speaker 1: agency and quarterbacks make receivers. Davante Adams is special, but
Speaker 1: the numbers are crazy. He's making twenty eight million dollars
Speaker 1: a year, which doesn't just reset the wide receiver market,
Speaker 1: it's just like it's it's on another planet. Now. None
Speaker 1: of the guaranteed money as of our taping has been reporting,
Speaker 1: which is usually very telling, and that it's gonna be
Speaker 1: heavily backloaded. It'll probably be a more like a three
Speaker 1: year deal, and we'll have to see where the guarantees are.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's like a three for sixty six and he's
Speaker 1: making twenty two per Either way, that's like a ton
Speaker 1: for a wide receiver, and they want to put it elsewhere.
Speaker 1: But it's really county on Aaron Rodgers to make the
Speaker 1: players around him better. And for Derek Carr It's just like,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I just yeah, now we know Derek Carr
Speaker 1: is not going anywhere, right. I guess if there was
Speaker 1: any doubt um in anyone's mind, it would seem in
Speaker 1: saying that Derek Carr could be available now. And that's
Speaker 1: just like incredibly fun offseason that the Raiders have had
Speaker 1: under Josh McDaniel. Surprisingly that you bring in Chandler Jones, uh,
Speaker 1: and you bring in Davante Adams, very Unbill Belichick like,
Speaker 1: and this a f C West just seems insanely loaded
Speaker 1: right now. I love it. I love what the Raiders
Speaker 1: did here because you could you could have looked at
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Chargers and of course the
Speaker 1: Broncos now with Russell Wilson and of course the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: who are an absolute superpower, and and they could have said, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we sit this out for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: This is this division is too hot, and we might
Speaker 1: be better off reloading and then you know, trying to
Speaker 1: rise up in a few years. But instead they've gone
Speaker 1: the other direction and saying we could do it too,
Speaker 1: we can rise up, we could become a superpower. And
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, I can't remember a year where you
Speaker 1: go into the season and you're like, man, this division,
Speaker 1: when you look at the whole division top to bottom,
Speaker 1: is gonna be so fun to watch all those division matchups.
Speaker 1: Division so so not like crazy. The NFC West maybe
Speaker 1: isn't quite as loaded as it was a year ago,
Speaker 1: but those matchups are gonna be all over prime time too.
Speaker 1: Those are awesome. All right, let's move on the Raiders.
Speaker 1: We're a super Bowl contender. That's what they're saying. Whether
Speaker 1: you believe it or not. There's about twelve of them
Speaker 1: in the last Yet going into the season, the Browns
Speaker 1: fashion themselves a super Bowl contender. It didn't work out, obviously,
Speaker 1: and now here we are in a very sticky situation
Speaker 1: at quarterback because we talked about it on yesterday's show
Speaker 1: with Baker his goodbye Instagram. Then it becomes public the
Speaker 1: Browns are after Deshaun Watson. There in the sweep steaks,
Speaker 1: Deshaun says thanks, I'm cool. And then today's events, uh,
Speaker 1: we learned that Baker Mayfield has requested a trade after
Speaker 1: NFL Networks Mike Garafolo reported the Browns still view Baker
Speaker 1: is their starter, and Baker refused and offered to meet
Speaker 1: with Brown's Bet Brass after the Deshaun Watson situation. So
Speaker 1: now the Browns are saying we don't want to trade you.
Speaker 1: We're refusing the request. Baker saying, get me out of here.
Speaker 1: Josina Anderson reports the Seahawks have discussed exploring a trade
Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield. That makes a lot of sense and
Speaker 1: Mark at the end of the day, this feels very
Speaker 1: sloppy and unhinge, just like we kind of predicted yesterday. Right,
Speaker 1: if you're the Cleveland Browns, you're right back in the mess.
Speaker 1: You're right back where you were for so long. And
Speaker 1: I and I and I am hearing from so many
Speaker 1: different Browns fans that you know, we all get that
Speaker 1: Andrew Berry is a skilled general manager. I that I
Speaker 1: don't doubt, but that no, don't worry. He's got a
Speaker 1: plan a plan B, a plan C, and a plan D.
Speaker 1: But there aren't a B, C and D options here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess at some point, um, you know
Speaker 1: you've done this with Baker Mayfield. You've handled this in
Speaker 1: a sloppy fashion. And here's the thing. Everyone's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that you know that, why isn't he acting like Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: and you know, calmly and placidly just accepting that they
Speaker 1: were recording a different quarterback and maybe he'll start or not. Well,
Speaker 1: we all know who Baker Mayfield is like. He operates
Speaker 1: off of grudges, off of slights. I mean, I operate
Speaker 1: that way, don't Some of us operate that way at times,
Speaker 1: like you're fueled by certain things. We know that about him.
Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna towards right now over the I am
Speaker 1: spiteful towards roughly fifty six or fifty seven people, slash operations,
Speaker 1: slash movements. I'm very annoyed at the moment. This whole
Speaker 1: thing to me is huge mess and there's no great
Speaker 1: way out of this. There's no great way out. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think if you're a Browns fan you're that
Speaker 1: excited about the fact that you're going to maybe have
Speaker 1: to slide in Jimmy g who can't throw until July
Speaker 1: UM or Matt Ryan, who's got another year or two left.
Speaker 1: It's a mess, and in this team that did have
Speaker 1: it in theory. In theory, by the way, a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl window um not in reality, it is shutting. It
Speaker 1: is shutting by the minute. They have positional needs all
Speaker 1: over the place. They've botched a quest for the most
Speaker 1: important position in sports, They've disenfranchised half their fan base,
Speaker 1: and they're coming out of it acting like they're smarter
Speaker 1: than everyone. No, you're not. Well. I think going after
Speaker 1: Watson is is the cardinal sin here and failing to
Speaker 1: failing quickly. You know, they ultimately were the first team
Speaker 1: knocked out of it. Well, we'll talk Watson, but it's
Speaker 1: down to two there. It sounds like the Panthers are
Speaker 1: out of it too. But I was so surprised by
Speaker 1: the report that they were willing and wanted to send
Speaker 1: the team down. Weirdly, in all this, that was the
Speaker 1: most surprising thing that I couldn't quite like fit my
Speaker 1: narrative into. Because my narrative is that they do that
Speaker 1: meeting with DeShawn Watson, eyes wide open, understanding what Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield could feel and how he could react, understanding the
Speaker 1: landscaped of quarterbacks that are out there, and you might
Speaker 1: not get Deshaun Watson and walking into that notion thinking
Speaker 1: we're fine if we don't have Baker Mayfield. In fact,
Speaker 1: we don't really expect to keep Baker Mayfield and then
Speaker 1: even when Mike Garafolo immediately reported that they said, no,
Speaker 1: that's cool, we don't want to We're not gonna trade you.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna honor your request. Even that I could
Speaker 1: kind of explain like, well, that makes sense because you
Speaker 1: want to be the one that's in control here. Um.
Speaker 1: Scott Pioli was on NFL Network talking about it, saying
Speaker 1: like they want to hold the leverage. They you know,
Speaker 1: they want to calm the situation down as much as possible,
Speaker 1: And even in a scenari areo where they're fully anticipating
Speaker 1: that he gets traded, that's sort of the move in
Speaker 1: the moment because they're just trying to calm this down.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't help anything to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now he's he's up for grabs, let's do that for
Speaker 1: let's do that behind closed doors. But the idea that
Speaker 1: they were going to send the plane with Jimmy haslm
Speaker 1: on it over to like kiss the ring of Baker.
Speaker 1: That that confuses me, and that makes me think they
Speaker 1: have played this poorly and that they do kind of
Speaker 1: want to have keep Baker instead of what's behind door
Speaker 1: number two. I'm confused, But that aspect of it really
Speaker 1: makes you wonder, like how they are handling the personal
Speaker 1: side of it, because if they just kind of had
Speaker 1: the door closed Baker and their treatium a little poorly,
Speaker 1: like that makes more sense to me than what's going
Speaker 1: on right now. I agree, because I think it's, like, Mark,
Speaker 1: what you said, part of this knowing who your people
Speaker 1: are and knowing what you're the personality type of your quarterback.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why he's found its success is
Speaker 1: that chip on his shoulder and how he takes lights personally.
Speaker 1: And to think that you could kind of get the
Speaker 1: toothpaste back in the tube here, I just think it's naive.
Speaker 1: And you know, at this point it's too far gone.
Speaker 1: And I think we wondered yesterday what happens if Watson
Speaker 1: says no. And I don't think anybody can be surprised
Speaker 1: that Watson isn't choosing the Cleveland Browns. There's been so
Speaker 1: much um connecting him to wanting to be in the
Speaker 1: South or closer to where he grew up, like Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Ohio never felt like a Deshaun Watson destination, And now
Speaker 1: they're left scrambling back to Baker potentially and that's that's
Speaker 1: just probably not gonna take. So they have put themselves
Speaker 1: in a very awkward position and now we have to
Speaker 1: see how they can try to to fix this, because
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy to fix. Mart I don't
Speaker 1: think it's it's fixed this year, no matter what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's look, you're going, you're whatever happens the scenario that
Speaker 1: unfolds and what we're witnessing come, you know, Week one
Speaker 1: will be the the far drastically lesser option of what
Speaker 1: theyreampt up. Whoever is, whoever they is, because I think
Speaker 1: number one, this is my theory that the adult in
Speaker 1: the room comment came from the highest possible source in
Speaker 1: the Browns building. I think it came from ownership, and
Speaker 1: it probably put the front office and the rest of
Speaker 1: this crew into a scenario they didn't love, because that's
Speaker 1: not been their m O. There hasn't been a lot
Speaker 1: of whispers and chatter and negative talk coming out of
Speaker 1: the Andrew Barry front office. It's been the opposite, and
Speaker 1: I think we all understood that this relationship was fractured,
Speaker 1: but there weren't a lot of whisper campaigns and negative
Speaker 1: reports until that happened, and that pivoted everything. And I
Speaker 1: think if no matter what they came to an agreement
Speaker 1: with with Baker Mayfield saying we're gonna look for maybe
Speaker 1: one guy or two guys out there and Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: figure Russell Wilson and if Baker, I still don't think
Speaker 1: that would have sat well with him. But then to
Speaker 1: hear these reports come out about he's not an adult,
Speaker 1: he's not this, or that the relationship was too far gone.
Speaker 1: So whatever their plan B was does not exist now.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we're looking around the league. The
Speaker 1: cults know this, other team to know this. There is
Speaker 1: no great plan B. So now you're the team in
Speaker 1: the a f C North going into the season with
Speaker 1: the plan you didn't plan to have, and you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get fractured for it even further than we see today.
Speaker 1: You know. I like their roster though, I like their
Speaker 1: offensive line, that like the running backs. I like their defense.
Speaker 1: For the most part, I don't think they're too far gone.
Speaker 1: I think if you just pick a quarterback that's out there,
Speaker 1: Jimmy g Jamis whatever, I don't think it's that different
Speaker 1: than Baker Mayfield in terms of their outlook. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: probably a borderline playoff team, like you're not You're probably
Speaker 1: not winning the super Bowl. But I don't think it's
Speaker 1: that different than Baker, And I actually do think Baker
Speaker 1: still has value if Carson Wentz can get two third
Speaker 1: round picks. I just I just don't buy that Baker
Speaker 1: doesn't have value here from a team like Seattle, and
Speaker 1: that maybe maybe some of this putting the toothpaste back
Speaker 1: on the tube is just trying to set this up
Speaker 1: because it might not happen until the draft. We might
Speaker 1: be talking about this for a while. Who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: someone does act quickly. Uh. You know, the teams that
Speaker 1: make the most sense are Seattle, uh, Carolina and Indianapolis
Speaker 1: in theory. For some reason, I don't see Indianapolis as much.
Speaker 1: But I think Seattle and Carolina could be motivated to
Speaker 1: do that, and they need quarterbacks badly. They're they're desperate,
Speaker 1: And if Wentz is worth two thirds, I guess you
Speaker 1: can't just build off of that like bicker may Fields,
Speaker 1: where the second round pick isn't he And unless the
Speaker 1: Browns are trying to like extract blood from a stone here,
Speaker 1: they're not getting to first. They're not getting one first
Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield. But if they're just ready to like
Speaker 1: say goodbye and see what's behind door number two, I
Speaker 1: think they can get a pick for him. And I
Speaker 1: kind of think that's what will happen eventually, maybe the
Speaker 1: Jets Darnald deal, something like that. And if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be I'm gonna be seeing this through a more negative
Speaker 1: lens or a more frustrated lens than than the next person.
Speaker 1: But um, even if they have a good roster, there's
Speaker 1: no question that they're gonna go into the season with
Speaker 1: a fair roster and a half baked quarterback in in
Speaker 1: in the a f C and this a f C,
Speaker 1: the NFC, you're fine. You probably grab a playoff spot
Speaker 1: with that in this a f C. Check you later.
Speaker 1: And by the way, like an uninspiring entrance into the season,
Speaker 1: there's nothing. The energy that was good around this team
Speaker 1: is gone, and for in my heart, it's gone. I
Speaker 1: don't have Mari Cooper, you got that. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I think Baker is a little bit of a half
Speaker 1: baked quarterback. That's just my like a value of Baker
Speaker 1: nailed it, you know, just he is. I think he's
Speaker 1: limited browns or whoever it might be trying to smear
Speaker 1: Baker out the door for being petulant and a brat.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, bro, I'm telling you, this is who
Speaker 1: he was. He always was this guy. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a little unfair to say because he's not doing
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Garoppolo thing makes him a bad guy here.
Speaker 1: I think that there could be some pr assassination attempts
Speaker 1: going on with Baker. Mark. I do always I've known
Speaker 1: you for years, well over a decade now, and I
Speaker 1: do always use your Twitter as a way to get
Speaker 1: behind those blue eyes. And um, I just want to
Speaker 1: share a tweet that you sent. I guess it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: My day won't be shaped by you know what. I'm
Speaker 1: not capable. I'm not worthy of reading this tweet, but
Speaker 1: I do know somebody who is. My day won't be
Speaker 1: shaped by Brown's news ever. Again, total x GF material.
Speaker 1: Go figure it out for yourself. Keep scorching the earth.
Speaker 1: My life is new. I am Zumwalt. Yeah, Jason Zumwalt. Wow. Um,
Speaker 1: that was today. That was mere hours ago. This has
Speaker 1: been the longest football filled day of my entire life.
Speaker 1: I am done with the Cleveland Browns and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be a drama queen. I'm not like. I
Speaker 1: simply come to this comfortable conclusion and some of my
Speaker 1: tweets are just my way to indicate that that I
Speaker 1: am out on this. It's like another tweet from today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I fell for the Browns when I was young. I
Speaker 1: am not young anymore. Is that a real tweet? That's amazing, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a real tweet. It's been a long it's been.
Speaker 1: I've been following this team for you know, three and
Speaker 1: a half decades, and I honestly think that I have
Speaker 1: just come to a comfortable place where I am watching
Speaker 1: them sail off into the distance and I feel totally
Speaker 1: at peace with it. It's just not I know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I keep it, Oh, you'll be back in week two
Speaker 1: when they're one and one, like I'll be here covering football,
Speaker 1: but I won't be I won't be the same person.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's changed and I can't explain it. I
Speaker 1: just don't need to anymore. I I know you well enough, Mark,
Speaker 1: and I know obviously the history of the Browns and
Speaker 1: especially the last five years of the Browns, and at
Speaker 1: a much lesser level with Sam Donald, I connect with
Speaker 1: you that you he was identified, he's the guy like
Speaker 1: he was the one that's going to take you out
Speaker 1: of the darkness, and now that it's ending like the
Speaker 1: same old, same old, it's just like that. I understand
Speaker 1: that makes it hurt even more. But and I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this antagonize you. UM, I don't believe you.
Speaker 1: You will be back because they are you and you
Speaker 1: are them. I think Nick Wesling tweeted at you and
Speaker 1: reply like it's too late that you can't get out,
Speaker 1: and that's I think that's right. Unfortunately, the same reason
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a jet shirt and they they're about fifty
Speaker 1: games under five hundred over the last five years. There's
Speaker 1: no way out. Once you're in, You're in. Time will tell.
Speaker 1: Let's say I do believe you? Wait, can we? Um?
Speaker 1: There's no more tweets right, um to be because I
Speaker 1: think one tweet to me personally described it described the
Speaker 1: day more better than any So I'm just going to
Speaker 1: read that one hashtag female assassin. Look, I hit my
Speaker 1: I hit my wall. When I tweeted that, I just
Speaker 1: I hit my wall because it's like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what I'm watching or seeing at this point anymore.
Speaker 1: Put it this way, Greg, if I had not been
Speaker 1: in contact with Jason, if I was in contact with
Speaker 1: Jason after that tweet was sent, I would have that.
Speaker 1: But but I do have this, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break item kind of over it. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back, all right. We are back a lot to
Speaker 1: get to. Still no news on Deshaun Watson, at least
Speaker 1: where he's playing. For sure, I still predict a nice
Speaker 1: Friday four pm Eastern news dump. But for the for
Speaker 1: the here and now on seven thirty on the West coast,
Speaker 1: we know this. The Browns, as we said, are out.
Speaker 1: The Panthers officially informed that they are out of the
Speaker 1: trade mix for Deshaun Watson. Seattle previously was ruled out,
Speaker 1: so that leaves it down to two bitter petty NFC
Speaker 1: South rivals, the Falcons and the Panthers. The Panthers obviously
Speaker 1: have been quarterback purgatory UH for years now. UM Sam
Speaker 1: Donald has not worked out, Teddy Bridgewater didn't work out.
Speaker 1: We know the coaching staff there desperately needs an upgraded
Speaker 1: quarterback to stay alive beyond UH, so they need Watson
Speaker 1: the Saints, a team perpetually in salary cap hell. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees gone, Taysom Hill, Jamis Winston mixed results last year,
Speaker 1: and now they have an opportunity to start over. They've
Speaker 1: been clearing cap space like mad uh and they are
Speaker 1: both waiting for the decision. It's all kind of gross, obviously,
Speaker 1: but this is where we are in a football place,
Speaker 1: both teams begging for the phone to ring and DeShawn
Speaker 1: Watson or his agent to say your mind, Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the newsroom today and it was
Speaker 1: like different reporters were hearing different things. Like some people
Speaker 1: thought Atlanta is the one he grew up. Outside of Atlanta,
Speaker 1: he has this connection to work done who was probably
Speaker 1: in the meeting when he when he met the the Falcons,
Speaker 1: his agent. There's ties there with his players and the
Speaker 1: agent and and there's that. And then there's the Saints,
Speaker 1: who reportedly had a second meeting in which the owner
Speaker 1: Gayle Benson, was involved. A second meeting would would seem
Speaker 1: to indicate that that would be a step ahead for
Speaker 1: for them, and they're doing it's just crazy that they're
Speaker 1: doing all this begging. Supposedly the trade terms have roughly
Speaker 1: been agreed to, but they might have to work out
Speaker 1: the particulars and that could take some time. But it
Speaker 1: is confusing that our our network said it was coming today.
Speaker 1: At one point they said it's it's expected today, it's
Speaker 1: expected imminently, and then they change it to today, and
Speaker 1: now we're looking at the weekend, which UH could support
Speaker 1: your theory Dan about that it that it would would
Speaker 1: drop UH. And it's just crazy because I think there's
Speaker 1: huge segments of both fan bases we know, the same
Speaker 1: sence that don't want them. So it's almost like they're
Speaker 1: hoping to lose. Some of the fans are hoping not
Speaker 1: to get them. The fan the team is hoping to win,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be I think, very difficult for the
Speaker 1: team to thread the needle of like you know, celebrating
Speaker 1: in theory, bringing in this guy who still has an
Speaker 1: answer for all of his civil accusation and still will
Speaker 1: be facing that and from everyone that we know who's
Speaker 1: connected in the league is still expecting a suspension, I
Speaker 1: mean lengthy suspension is expected. I mean contrasted to the
Speaker 1: fact that we you know, humorously and UH with a
Speaker 1: sense of enjoyment watched the Russell Wilson opening press conference,
Speaker 1: which was, um, if nothing nothing less than a massive
Speaker 1: celebration for Broncos and Broncos fans. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: I know some Broncos fans that talked about it being
Speaker 1: one of the best days they've had in years supporting
Speaker 1: that team. How do you even have an opening press
Speaker 1: conference with the Shawn Watson when he finally lands something
Speaker 1: well gotten surprised across every step of the process, how
Speaker 1: the NFL has handled this, how these teams are handling this.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they have a huge blowout
Speaker 1: press conference either. Whoever this goes with just because just
Speaker 1: like like, honestly, I this talk that these teams want
Speaker 1: to meet Deshaun Watson face to face and the the
Speaker 1: idea that they're gonna be hard, questions asked, Hell no,
Speaker 1: it's the teams are basically genuflecting at the man and saying,
Speaker 1: please come join me. Um. Not basing this on any
Speaker 1: inside reporting. Reported that, and he said he's felt the
Speaker 1: love and it's he said to him from his from
Speaker 1: Watson's perspective, that it felt good after this last year
Speaker 1: that all these people are showing him the love. They
Speaker 1: Athletic also reported that they didn't ask uh, they haven't
Speaker 1: spoken to the lawyer of the civil suits at all.
Speaker 1: They haven't doing any investigating on their own on in
Speaker 1: that way. Well and Greg greg on NFL Network today,
Speaker 1: I thought you you stated it perfectly about the whole situation,
Speaker 1: where it's there's this sense that it's let's go and
Speaker 1: press Deshaun Watson and and the Falcons. You know, there
Speaker 1: was a there was a reporting that the Falcons especially
Speaker 1: have embraced Deshaun Watson, have had people come out of
Speaker 1: the organizational woodwork to show him support. So it's exactly
Speaker 1: the opposite of how do we turn around, pivot explain
Speaker 1: this to the large portion of fans that are going
Speaker 1: to not want this result. Um, they're gonna feel, you know,
Speaker 1: not listen to disenfranchised. It is as messy a massive,
Speaker 1: giant trade as the NFL has ever had. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they're going to handle it, but I would
Speaker 1: assume they're going to handle it poorly because this has
Speaker 1: been handled poorly, like a poison over everything from stepe A.
Speaker 1: They're giving up three first round picks. Reportedly that every
Speaker 1: everything that's gone on apparently hasn't changed the trade terms
Speaker 1: at all. So if you're you're an Atlanta Falcons team,
Speaker 1: take a look at that roster and then you give
Speaker 1: away three first round picks and you have Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: To me, that is a recipe for disaster, uh and disappointment,
Speaker 1: and certainly in the short term. He was a ball
Speaker 1: boy for the Falcons once upon a time, he was
Speaker 1: a high school star UM at Georgia UM. So there
Speaker 1: is some obviously real ties there. Arthur Blank, according to
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter of ESPN, is quite fond of the show Watson,
Speaker 1: so there might be that pull. But you're right, I
Speaker 1: feel like that is like if he wants to be
Speaker 1: back where he was with the Texans, trying to do
Speaker 1: it all and and running for his life and taking
Speaker 1: a beating and hanging in the pocket and putting up
Speaker 1: good numbers for a nine and eight team, go ahead
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. The Santis make a lot of more, a
Speaker 1: lot more sense. And if I had a guest, I
Speaker 1: think that's where he ends up. But nobody knows. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to other news. Western New York
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Von Miller now plays for the Bills. All right, now, Greg,
Speaker 1: you are a this is Greg season. It's Greggy season.
Speaker 1: We all know that, so you're gonna help make sense
Speaker 1: of this to me that von Miller, formerly of the Rams,
Speaker 1: now signed a six year, one and twenty million dollar
Speaker 1: contract with the Bills. This is a soon to be
Speaker 1: thirty three year old defender who appeared to be in
Speaker 1: declined before the trade to Los Angeles, and then he
Speaker 1: went off and was a stud in the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: I know Greg that there are dumby years and the
Speaker 1: guaranteed money is only uh so much. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, when you look at all these other deals
Speaker 1: that we're seeing around the league of the last few days,
Speaker 1: we're not seeing six for one twenty. So how did
Speaker 1: Jon Miller get it? Well, they by wanting it to
Speaker 1: be this big number and helping the Bills spread out
Speaker 1: the money because first of all, it's max value one twenty.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the base is, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of incentives in there. It's really two for thirty two,
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy. It took me a while to get
Speaker 1: to see the details, but it's thirty two guaranteed. If
Speaker 1: this year didn't go well for instance, it would be
Speaker 1: two for thirty two. They'd be on the hook for
Speaker 1: thirty two over two years. It's probably three for fifty three,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, almost eighteen million dollars a year
Speaker 1: for von Miller at that age. But also it's basically
Speaker 1: what Chandler Jones made, right, and uh, it's not too
Speaker 1: different from what Harold Landry made. The difference with him
Speaker 1: and Jones, I think is he's probably getting that third
Speaker 1: year unless this season goes really poorly. But it's basically
Speaker 1: three for fifty three, and that is a huge risk,
Speaker 1: maybe even a bigger risk than the Rams took when
Speaker 1: they get of up two picks for him. The Rams
Speaker 1: certainly don't regret that trade that, but I do think
Speaker 1: they regret losing von Miller. I think they extended pretty
Speaker 1: far to try to keep him well. I think they're
Speaker 1: the rams whole offseason plan was obviously no bring everyone back,
Speaker 1: and there oh for one at this point and it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like they're bringing Odell Beckham back either,
Speaker 1: But we're fine. We'll get into why that, why that
Speaker 1: probably won't happen. If you're the Bills, you're hoping that,
Speaker 1: you know, Denver and uh moving on from from von Miller,
Speaker 1: who has essentially become like a hired gun and a
Speaker 1: bounty hunter. At this point, Um is going to be
Speaker 1: coming to the third team that is in a super
Speaker 1: Bowl window and do what he did for the Rams.
Speaker 1: He was They would not have won a super Bowl
Speaker 1: without him. I mean, what was it four sacks in
Speaker 1: the postseason? I think five over his final eight games
Speaker 1: in the regular season with Los Angeles. He was a
Speaker 1: perfect fit. They needed pass rushing help in the in
Speaker 1: the biggest way. Um, I think he fits in this.
Speaker 1: I trust Sean McDermott as the head coach to get
Speaker 1: the most out of him. I just liked the idea
Speaker 1: and the whole vibe of it. We'll see if he
Speaker 1: how long this lasts for him, because I don't trust
Speaker 1: that he's got five or six years left, but does
Speaker 1: he have one? Like all they need to do is
Speaker 1: go win a Super Bowl and they are legit in
Speaker 1: that window. They're not deceiving themselves on that front, and
Speaker 1: so that's when you go add someone like von Miller.
Speaker 1: We'll see if it works out. You could you could
Speaker 1: feel it the desperation of Buffalo and what I mean
Speaker 1: desperation is a bad thing necessarily, but just we know
Speaker 1: how close we are. It's insane that we lost that
Speaker 1: game in Kansas City. We are an unbelievably strong team.
Speaker 1: There is no reason why we can't get over the hump.
Speaker 1: If the Rams and Bengals are playing in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: we gotta do this. So we're gonna give out this
Speaker 1: crazy contract because it's all about the next year or two.
Speaker 1: So I get it. Uh, and I don't, And I
Speaker 1: don't Sagrin von Miller. It seems like a fun football
Speaker 1: journey he's on. He he made a career in a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career in Denver, want to Ring, had
Speaker 1: a highly memorable Super Bowl MVP performance and Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 1: The Rams trade could not have gone better for both sides.
Speaker 1: And now he's going to be in one of the
Speaker 1: great uh and terms of fan bases and vibes for
Speaker 1: a loaded team. Again, he's doing the thing. He's on
Speaker 1: the football journey. It's cool. I mean, he could be
Speaker 1: the first. I don't think anyone's ever won three Super
Speaker 1: Bowls with three different teams. Someone could check that for him.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's wrong, but I don't think that's happen.
Speaker 1: I also love like they they're giving up a lot
Speaker 1: and it's it's risky. It is like kind of an
Speaker 1: all in move. But I think if you look at
Speaker 1: it in the context of the other things they've done
Speaker 1: this offseason. Okay, they signed Tim Settle, who's this kind
Speaker 1: of underrated guy from Washington day Kwon Jones, another underrated
Speaker 1: guy from uh Tennessee for low money. Jerry Hughes and
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, who both have been making a lot of money,
Speaker 1: are off the books there. They're free agents, and they
Speaker 1: got a lot of production out of those guys. And
Speaker 1: those guys are older than Von Miller. I mean they
Speaker 1: got production out of them, thirty four, thirty five years old.
Speaker 1: I like what they did. They got Roger Saffold, another
Speaker 1: Titans guy, they bright, and they brought back Isaiah mackenzie
Speaker 1: and they cut Cole Beasley today. I like that. So
Speaker 1: it's all these like cheap, smart Billsy type moves, and
Speaker 1: they make so many smart, cheap Billsy types move that
Speaker 1: I think you can let yourself splurge a little bit
Speaker 1: with a guy like like von Miller. They'll make it work.
Speaker 1: Justin before you jump in, I want to make a rule, um,
Speaker 1: because I know you feel a little self conscious about
Speaker 1: hitting your grave digger drop, but especially in this stream
Speaker 1: yard set up, I want you to announce your presence
Speaker 1: with grave digger drop and then the listener knows and
Speaker 1: we know you're about to come in with some heat.
Speaker 1: So why don't you want to try it right now?
Speaker 1: What's up, buddy? So one player has won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl with three different teams, Matt Millen, a former linebacker
Speaker 1: with the Raiders, one with the Niners, and one with Washington.
Speaker 1: Certainly not as as a front office figure, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: but what what but an incredible announcer and what an
Speaker 1: incredible football life that he hadd to you. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: man's he's he's lucky to be alive, the miracle of
Speaker 1: modern science. At think he had a heart replacement surgery.
Speaker 1: He was on the ropes there for a while, and
Speaker 1: now he's back in the game. Good for Matt mill
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm now like kind of rooting for the Bills.
Speaker 1: It's taken me this long, but now I feel like
Speaker 1: it's almost like they deserve it. That's not how football
Speaker 1: usually works. But now after last year, for some it
Speaker 1: took me this long for them to win me over.
Speaker 1: I feel like they deserve a Super Bowl. Buff you've
Speaker 1: given up the ghost on Belichick ever scaling the heights
Speaker 1: of his former greatness. I think it's where I'm just
Speaker 1: like accepting that the Bills are are the Patriots daddy.
Speaker 1: I mean they did literally didn't get a stop in
Speaker 1: two straight games. You didn't get a stop at two
Speaker 1: straight games. When I asked, that was bad? When I
Speaker 1: when I was connecting with Zumwalt on those Sessler drops,
Speaker 1: I told him, what what the voice we're going for
Speaker 1: here is orson Welles in decline. So but you're saying
Speaker 1: you're getting out on the Bill bell check in decline,
Speaker 1: just getting behind I'm not. I'm not getting behind the
Speaker 1: well I wouldn't call you all in, Greg. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not all in on the Bills either. I just sort
Speaker 1: of like appreciate what they've done. It's pretty impressive. I
Speaker 1: think everything Josh Allen is impressive, and it's almost like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's your they should be rewarded, their fans should be red.
Speaker 1: You're already calling them that New England's daddy, though. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like they're the child that beat the dad
Speaker 1: in basketball, and now they got to go do it
Speaker 1: over and over. I think it's almost underrated. How completely
Speaker 1: ridiculous and embarrassing those two performances for the Patriots and
Speaker 1: impressive for the Bills. It's there, it's wild. Well, you
Speaker 1: two love to ignore the the primetime game that I
Speaker 1: was obsessed with. I guess that just that game didn't count.
Speaker 1: It happen first. You were very passionate about that game,
Speaker 1: and we kind of let you off the hook a
Speaker 1: little bit. We didn't want to dwell on that. Let
Speaker 1: me off the hook that the Bills were over after
Speaker 1: that game. As I recall, I had concerns. I was
Speaker 1: there good, I've been wrong about four things. SAME's e's
Speaker 1: SAME's e's all right, So the Rams lose Von Miller,
Speaker 1: but they gain Allen Robinson. Los Angeles signed the wide
Speaker 1: receiver formerly of the Bears to wait three year, forty
Speaker 1: six and a half million dollar contract. Robinson was one
Speaker 1: of the more productive wide receivers in the league over
Speaker 1: the past five or six years, despite playing with a
Speaker 1: bunch of stiffs at quarterback in Chicago. Uh. He kind
Speaker 1: of cratered last year with the rest of the Chicago offense,
Speaker 1: but obviously the Rams see him is a great bounceback candidate.
Speaker 1: It might spell the end of Odell Beckham's time in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles after only half the season. But you pair
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson with Cooper Cup and healthy Robert Woods and
Speaker 1: Greggy that is a nice way to beget a title
Speaker 1: defense on office. Yeah, you're cooking with gas. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that because he's very different or Greece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: grease and gas of the apple here. I would like
Speaker 1: I would like to cook with some grease and gas.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll learn how to cook in my older years.
Speaker 1: That would be. That would be he gives them something
Speaker 1: they don't have, which is a red zone vertical threat guy.
Speaker 1: And I guess so to Beckham could have been that guy.
Speaker 1: Robinson's a little more natural of a fit I think
Speaker 1: for that as like a pure vertical receiver. It sounds
Speaker 1: like he dogged it a little bit last year. That
Speaker 1: was the buzz. He kind of just wanted to get
Speaker 1: to the offseason. He didn't come back from his hamstring
Speaker 1: and I don't care about that. He's now he's gonna
Speaker 1: be with the Rams. He got fifteen million dollars a
Speaker 1: year guaranteed the first two years. And the thing I
Speaker 1: love is they lost von Miller and then they're just like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, who's the next best premier player, because
Speaker 1: you know, let's need Famous famously is like, uh f
Speaker 1: the draft picks. He's also like, f that cap cap space.
Speaker 1: I got no use for cap space. Cap space is
Speaker 1: the most overrated thing. Ever. Look at the Saints. They've
Speaker 1: somehow opened up a hundred and ten million dollars in
Speaker 1: cap space to possibly fit in Watson and Tehronto Armstead
Speaker 1: and you know, get their books in order, Like cap
Speaker 1: space is stupid. Let's just get the next premier player
Speaker 1: that's available at a at a position that could help us.
Speaker 1: And they go get them and they're gonna go be
Speaker 1: contenders again. It reminds me a little bit of the
Speaker 1: wide receiver version of Matthew Stafford. To Dan's point, we
Speaker 1: all know this about Allen Robinson. A bunch of ham
Speaker 1: and eggers have been thrown and passes since he came
Speaker 1: into the league with Jacksonville and then Chicago. It's been
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, Mitch Robinsky, Nick Foles, Andy Dalton and you
Speaker 1: had justin fields last year. But it's like last year
Speaker 1: was a lost year for Robinson. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll finish the news. All right,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's wrap this thing up because, um, listen,
Speaker 1: the wifey. You know St. Patrick's day ruined by Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson on some level. However, the wife he made some
Speaker 1: Shepherds pie. Okay, I'm it's sitting on the stove for
Speaker 1: the old user. She's a good cook. I mean, given
Speaker 1: like a party in the bathroom right over there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you hear him. I think he's in
Speaker 1: the bath He went to the bar to watch Indiana.
Speaker 1: It's a big University of Indiana hoops fan. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's finish things out. In the NFL network scene and
Speaker 1: Rapp Report reports Za Darius Smith will not sign with
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Uh So, that's now happened twice. Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: um jumped away from Dallas to go to Denver, and
Speaker 1: now Isa Darius Smith jumps away from the Ravens to
Speaker 1: hop back into the free agency pool. That was a
Speaker 1: four year deal where thirty five million and greggy. There
Speaker 1: seems to be some weirdness around this. Yeah, Mike Garafolo
Speaker 1: indicated like he doesn't have another team necessarily, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have another offer. The way he was talking about it,
Speaker 1: he had some skepticism whether it's a Darius Smith could
Speaker 1: replace this contract. I don't know. It's just a mystery.
Speaker 1: But Mark should enjoy it because he was just saying
Speaker 1: how well run and great things are for the Ravens,
Speaker 1: and these two moves him and Smith and Marcus Williams
Speaker 1: is gonna work out so well. This is a little
Speaker 1: egg on the Ravens face. They're not too happy about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but see, I don't I have no distaste for the
Speaker 1: Ravens anymore. I've unhooked from Okay, now you likes Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's part of this. Do your quote unquote quitting
Speaker 1: the Browns and you no longer disliked the Ravens. Why
Speaker 1: do I need Why do I need to dislike them?
Speaker 1: At this point, I like I've removed hatred from my
Speaker 1: body in persona. I think it's a very healthy thing myself. Also, now,
Speaker 1: you did say earlier in the show you have fifty
Speaker 1: seven different different people that you're feeling spiteful for, right,
Speaker 1: but it was sixty five at the start of the day,
Speaker 1: so six, all right, I'll leave it there. Um. In
Speaker 1: other news, Miles Jack speaking of the Steelers, he heads
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh two years sixteen million. Uh, he gets a
Speaker 1: new gig pretty quickly, twenty six years old. He had
Speaker 1: some really nice um years with Jacksonville. Of course, remember
Speaker 1: speaking of the Patriots, when Miles Jack wasn't down on
Speaker 1: that fumble recovery that would have put jackson on the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, but instead they got robbed by the officials
Speaker 1: and by the NFL, giving Greggy yet another super Bowl
Speaker 1: title in the process. Um, but that's in the INCI past.
Speaker 1: Miles Jack now is no longer a Jaguar, He's a Steeler,
Speaker 1: and Marcus feels like another move for one of your
Speaker 1: the teams you used to have an issue with that
Speaker 1: will end up working beautifully, right, wonderful organization. I think
Speaker 1: quality signing. It's it's Miles. Miles Jack is one of
Speaker 1: those guys where like when I find out his age
Speaker 1: these only twenty six, I'm like, what, I feel like
Speaker 1: we've been covering him for like eight years. But that's
Speaker 1: not the case. But I think Pittsburgh in a sneaky
Speaker 1: way because they still had an effective defense Um, they
Speaker 1: were junk against the run last year I d v
Speaker 1: o A wise they were like twenty seven against the run.
Speaker 1: So Miles Jack helps there. I mean they went and
Speaker 1: released Joe schobert Um in a directly correlating move. Um.
Speaker 1: I like it for Pittsburgh. Again, I'm not just saying this,
Speaker 1: but like the Ravens, when they bring these guys in,
Speaker 1: they typically seem to work out for the most part.
Speaker 1: I know that's not always been the case, but um,
Speaker 1: they're there. It's a good It's a good landing spot
Speaker 1: from Mels Jack. There was like a two year period
Speaker 1: where he looked like one of the best young off
Speaker 1: ball linebackers in the league. I'm not sure what happened,
Speaker 1: but he's still young. You would think that's a coaching issue.
Speaker 1: I kind of love the Steeler's offseason so far. It's
Speaker 1: been really quiet, but James Daniels like tape heads love him.
Speaker 1: The guard from the Bears. Didn't have to pay him
Speaker 1: too much. They got a starting center and Mason Cole.
Speaker 1: I think they had another backup offensive lineman that they added,
Speaker 1: and then this and Mile Jack. Like quietly some they
Speaker 1: added players that will be starting and helping them it's
Speaker 1: a little on Steelers like, but they haven't had to
Speaker 1: go wild spending a ton of money. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: move on some notable cuts that went down, Uh in
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. Fletcher Cox and the Eagles
Speaker 1: have a breakup, but it sounds like they're gonna make up.
Speaker 1: It's just a salary situation, UH, and they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a deal that works better for team and player. Lyell
Speaker 1: Collins and the Cowboys are no more. They tried to
Speaker 1: move him in a trade. They try to move with
Speaker 1: Mari Cooper found a taker in the Browns try to
Speaker 1: move Collins did not find a taker, which is interesting
Speaker 1: because I was just watching a cut up on Twitter
Speaker 1: about how he totally bawled out against Nick Bosa in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He's, you know, less than thirty years old.
Speaker 1: I would take him on the Jets and I trade
Speaker 1: I'd trade McKay Beckton out of town. But that's just
Speaker 1: him in my top twenty. Yeah, let's get healthy, above
Speaker 1: average starting right tackle. Those guys aren't usually well. The
Speaker 1: Bengals sound interested too, so, Greg you mentioned Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: cut after a disappointing year. Isaiah McKenzie is gonna get
Speaker 1: his shot. That all makes sense. Don't don't sign him Bill,
Speaker 1: We don't need Cole Beasley. It's just like, come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fair, alright, eight o'clock the light, all right, Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: he was on the franchise tag, but not for too long.
Speaker 1: Gets paid three for sixty? Is that? Where is that
Speaker 1: in the Davante Adams world? It's below it. Certainly it's
Speaker 1: the exact same that Mike Williams got. And it's good
Speaker 1: for the Bucks, uh to reward a guy even though
Speaker 1: he tores a c L there. They're still bold. Dobbin's
Speaker 1: making a lot of small moves where he mosted the
Speaker 1: running back heads to the Dolphins. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Dolphins signed forty seven running backs every year. This is
Speaker 1: exactly what Kyle Shanahan did when he went to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: He imported players that he knew from Atlanta in previous stops.
Speaker 1: And Mike McDaniels doing the same thing as we predicted.
Speaker 1: On the NFL Broadcast. Around the NFL Broadcast Show, which
Speaker 1: you could check out tomorrow Friday on NFL Network, Gronk says,
Speaker 1: there is a quote very good chance I'm back with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Should we be surprised? Greg? No, one is
Speaker 1: um like a worse negotiator than Gronk. Seriously, he could
Speaker 1: have made like a hundred million dollars more than he
Speaker 1: has in his career. I feel bad almost He's making
Speaker 1: plenty of money on the side with other various things. Uh,
Speaker 1: this one it says resigned Apple signed hearst. Greg helped
Speaker 1: me out with that one. It might have been a
Speaker 1: copy and paste error there, but that was the Bengals day.
Speaker 1: They brought back Eli Apples. I think a nice replacement
Speaker 1: for Zama. And yeah, they're going after Lyle Collins. I
Speaker 1: have a feeling and they'll close that deal. How could
Speaker 1: I forget Eli Apple? Had a nice little Super Bowl
Speaker 1: until the end when it wasn't so nice Anyway. The
Speaker 1: Jets UH signed another tight end. We're we're in business.
Speaker 1: The Jets signed from the Minnesota Vikings Tyler Conklin, who
Speaker 1: has had a had a nice year with the Vikings
Speaker 1: last year a breakout season. Jacob Johnson leaves New England's
Speaker 1: sad face from Greggy Yeah, Yakob Johnson, one of Henry
Speaker 1: Hodgson's International Pathway Program heroes. UH gets a job with
Speaker 1: Josh mccane's so but I'm gonna miss him. I liked
Speaker 1: seeing this guy didn't even know how to play football
Speaker 1: when he came in and turned to do a great fullback.
Speaker 1: And finally Mr Cessler Balhard Nation rejoice. The lines resigned
Speaker 1: the quarterback, so he stays in the building. I mean,
Speaker 1: I had a deal with the Lions where they were
Speaker 1: gonna essentially let him go then bring him back just
Speaker 1: so that we could have fresh content for our newsletter,
Speaker 1: and they were they were very compliant on that front.
Speaker 1: That's nice, and that is eight o'clock Delight. You're you're
Speaker 1: tight end. Tyler Conchland followed me on Twitter last week,
Speaker 1: so that's that was exciting. That was exciting for me.
Speaker 1: It's always fun when a random uh NFL player follows you.
Speaker 1: I get a little nervous when it happens. Someone did
Speaker 1: that to me recently. And UM followed followed a bunch
Speaker 1: of us. I think that was the name that usually
Speaker 1: tells me that they're getting close to entering the media
Speaker 1: for a although I don't know why Sean Payton follows me,
Speaker 1: although he I do think he gave me the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: UM two combines. So maybe that's where we link up.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Maybe he's been trying to get in
Speaker 1: touch with you to apologize. He was patient zero. He
Speaker 1: seems like someone that would go out of his way
Speaker 1: to find someone to apologize for a wrong doing in
Speaker 1: the past. Yes he does. Maybe maybe that's Kevin James. Actually,
Speaker 1: never mind, that is not all right. We'll be back
Speaker 1: on television Friday if you catch this in time at
Speaker 1: three pm Eastern noon Pacific around the NFL broadcast, and
Speaker 1: will give you a nice rundown of the week that was.
Speaker 1: According to my theory, will we will still not have
Speaker 1: the Deshaun Watson news for that television show. But maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, and in which case you will get it
Speaker 1: on TV on Friday, and it will probably happen in
Speaker 1: the one hour between when we tape and when they
Speaker 1: air it. Do we have to do a fifth podcast
Speaker 1: this week? If Watson signs tomorrow morning, maybe a mini
Speaker 1: So if we're if we're there, we love you really.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of content pushing it big time and
Speaker 1: in in um instead of doing our typically our typical
Speaker 1: end of show close, I will tell you to heed
Speaker 1: the call. But I do have one last Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: tweet to share, and again I am not worthy to
Speaker 1: read this Sessler tweet, but the great Jason Zumwalt noted
Speaker 1: Cardinals fan is just think late period in deep in decline,
Speaker 1: even after he's doing the commercials Era orson Welles reading
Speaker 1: Mark Sesler tweets, thank you to everybody for listening. We'll
Speaker 1: see you when we see you. Played tennis with the
Speaker 1: family this evening and totally destroyed them on the court.
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