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Speaker 1: of the NFL. My name is Dan. Has us come
Speaker 1: to you from rupe Field with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris
Speaker 1: Westling and Greg Rosental. What is up? Boys? No longer true?
Speaker 1: I got recognized, uh what was it? Sunday yesterday at
Speaker 1: a at a bar in uh Her most of Beach, California.
Speaker 1: It happens occasionally, young young gentleman Vikings fan walked up
Speaker 1: and you know, we were listening to a jazz band
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, uh, great to see you. You
Speaker 1: you wished my Vikings good luck the other day. Good
Speaker 1: to see you, and he was very nice. It was
Speaker 1: it was a nice exchange, but it was it may
Speaker 1: have been the first time in like five years I've
Speaker 1: been recognized in this country. What I like to do
Speaker 1: is keisha with you. Yes. I set aside some of
Speaker 1: the personal budget to once a month or so went
Speaker 1: out with friends or out especially with the significant other
Speaker 1: like higher someone fortune. It only it's like a charge
Speaker 1: to have them come up to where I am and
Speaker 1: just confusively gush over the podcasting work that not only
Speaker 1: we do, but that I do specifically. Right, But then
Speaker 1: they and then there it's a little they act to
Speaker 1: act nervous and then they shuffle off and you just
Speaker 1: sort of sit there and act like this happens all
Speaker 1: the time in America. Again, alright, maybe don't interrupt me
Speaker 1: while I'm eating, Like, not not what I'm with my family?
Speaker 1: All right, man, not what I'm with my family? Right?
Speaker 1: If you see me out and I'm not with the
Speaker 1: wife and kids, Now, what advantage does this give to you?
Speaker 1: It gives an incredible advantage if you're just out with like,
Speaker 1: like your family is in from out of town and like,
Speaker 1: you know, a random it's a random nine and a
Speaker 1: half or ten walks specific I just like I don't interrupt,
Speaker 1: and they then love you. Conversation happens, and then you
Speaker 1: just sit there and act like this happens all the time,
Speaker 1: and then the family is stunned. Now you're held in
Speaker 1: high esteem. Yeah, I mean it must be manufactured, because
Speaker 1: it's not happening organically. Sometimes it's good to have self pop.
Speaker 1: It feels good. You're like, oh, these things don't matter
Speaker 1: to me. No, I'm I'm held in such high esteem
Speaker 1: by everyone I know that like it can't can't go,
Speaker 1: no doubt? What what matter? Um? I have a few
Speaker 1: corona takes, all right? Great, I have it on a card.
Speaker 1: Why you could say it right at the top. You
Speaker 1: do have some takes, but it says on the top
Speaker 1: corona takes underlined. So what's the deal with this? Is
Speaker 1: this the thing? Now? Is this? Is this a like
Speaker 1: a like a real thing? Like? Is this you know?
Speaker 1: Is this it is? Anybody worried about this? I'm worried
Speaker 1: about whatever is coming in the next three minutes much more.
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been a topic for months, right,
Speaker 1: well we should like this idea that we should dance
Speaker 1: around it. It's it's a thing, that's all. The tipping
Speaker 1: point has occurred. So my first bullet was, what's the deal?
Speaker 1: So you're saying when you say is this it, you're saying,
Speaker 1: is this like the start of everything unraveling in the
Speaker 1: human race? The first case of community travel trance, whatever
Speaker 1: the heck the doctor word is for it today in
Speaker 1: l A, which there's no connection to them traveling to
Speaker 1: Italy or all of that. So basically there's no connection
Speaker 1: which isn't that's the first case in l A today,
Speaker 1: So that's it's scary, um boll to. This seems like
Speaker 1: a wind a good opportunity just to end handshakes for good.
Speaker 1: Yeah you in history sometimes things are um, things change
Speaker 1: and to be tamboo random. One thing happens, like the
Speaker 1: first person I said bless you was tied to something,
Speaker 1: and then for the rest of the time everybody said
Speaker 1: bless you. How about just fist pounds from now on?
Speaker 1: Um about more working from home? Fist found any better
Speaker 1: than a hand? You're still touching hands. A lot less
Speaker 1: stuff is happening, A little back of the knuckles. Then
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more intimate, you know, to me
Speaker 1: than he gets credit for. Not every culture shakes hands. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we could do the bowing though I like bowing.
Speaker 1: Let's go you curtsy. The owner's meetings are coming up.
Speaker 1: How about we all get there private jets. Owners are
Speaker 1: going to private jets. How about all of us essential
Speaker 1: NFL personnel and we are essential. You're working from home thing?
Speaker 1: Hasn't that already started before Corona? Yes, but let's let's
Speaker 1: really ramp up the idea of working from home in
Speaker 1: this country and while we're here four day work week.
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm so on. And one thing everyone should
Speaker 1: know the listeners that are nervous, is going to lead
Speaker 1: to a stoppage of our podcast. No, in fact, the
Speaker 1: throwback podcast in the garage, that thing is safe. Very
Speaker 1: few people go in the garage, so we would continue
Speaker 1: to operate from somewhere even if we weren't in this building.
Speaker 1: That is That is good all these UH league officials,
Speaker 1: I think you're coming up with contingency plans. Let's say
Speaker 1: things get affected next week. People can travel during free
Speaker 1: agency frenzy. You gotta get, you know, figure out how
Speaker 1: we're doing the program. We have a plan. We're fine,
Speaker 1: we already have it and market you know, the owners meetings,
Speaker 1: it's so far away, three weeks, still that far away
Speaker 1: in the Corona time. It is. It could change, It
Speaker 1: could change for now, how the NFL says, the owners meetings,
Speaker 1: of which we are planning to attend and interview some
Speaker 1: coaches and general managers, is on and so are our flights.
Speaker 1: And Mark, you made a good play before the show
Speaker 1: final Corona, take the new hero move out there. I
Speaker 1: think share that with the audience. Well know, that, and
Speaker 1: you start to see this with um embattled politicians that
Speaker 1: maybe came in hot early with the messaging around uh
Speaker 1: the virus, that they weren't taking it too seriously. Now
Speaker 1: you're getting these guys left and right the sort of
Speaker 1: the new age or new the new term, the new
Speaker 1: White Knight moves to self quarantine. Oh hey, listen, you
Speaker 1: know I really care about the spread of this. So
Speaker 1: it's like I'm gonna swell self quarantine inside your you know,
Speaker 1: immense congressional quarters that you live in. Yeah, your compound
Speaker 1: with your frilly sheets in your bed, and you're probably
Speaker 1: a motherboard to bring you any sort of food or
Speaker 1: drink you need. Please. I'm just working from home. I'm surprised, Mark.
Speaker 1: I I can't be the only one. I'm sure some
Speaker 1: of our listeners share this with me, and maybe you
Speaker 1: know you guys in this room. As this has been unfolding,
Speaker 1: I've thought about, like, well, it's happening like that. Mark
Speaker 1: must be thrilled, like he's been waiting for a global
Speaker 1: pandemic or something like this pretty much as long as
Speaker 1: I've known him. Well, that's true, but all these things
Speaker 1: are true until it hits close to home. And I'm
Speaker 1: not allowed to give true details about this, but let's
Speaker 1: just say that it it complicated your life. It impacted
Speaker 1: something to do with my children. Inside the house. Everyone
Speaker 1: is safe, but it's like my household goes from being
Speaker 1: on Monday is a nice, calm, serene working environment to
Speaker 1: the third Iraq War and suddenly I'm flushed into the
Speaker 1: opposite eight oh six am. So you feel like a
Speaker 1: little more alive. I feel like you missed. There hasn't
Speaker 1: been great wars or anything. You haven't had enough struggle.
Speaker 1: I feel like you've been We're on this little island.
Speaker 1: How about shake things up a little. Let's see what
Speaker 1: happens when you when it, when it comes home to roost.
Speaker 1: What are the odds something like this happens. You don't
Speaker 1: even get free sandwiches out of it. Well, that's nothing new,
Speaker 1: But anybody want to supplement my corona takes with one more? No? Now,
Speaker 1: I think you hit on some anxiety of head. I mean,
Speaker 1: what if this is it that's on my radar a
Speaker 1: little bit? Well, I would only be annoyed that we
Speaker 1: went out with a slow um growing virus versus uh,
Speaker 1: you know, on the waters off Miami A tsunami that
Speaker 1: could have taken us out a little more sex appeal.
Speaker 1: That would have been the way to go in terms
Speaker 1: of the Wikipedia page that we don't have. All right,
Speaker 1: let us now get into today's show. It is Monday.
Speaker 1: The free agency legal tampering period I believe starts in
Speaker 1: what seven days from today? Is that accurate? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: on you for these things unless they push push it back,
Speaker 1: and that that has nothing to do with coronavirus. Oh
Speaker 1: that's the CBA scenario. Okay, unless Corona pushes back things
Speaker 1: like that. Why don't everyhow it would have any impact
Speaker 1: players traveling to meet with me? I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: most of that's done. How does Tom Brady do his
Speaker 1: little free agency tour on you know, shared vans and
Speaker 1: even if the private jets only one layer of travel?
Speaker 1: Remember the iconic Peyton Manning free agency tour before he
Speaker 1: was criss crossing the country. Remember when Bishop Brelan signed
Speaker 1: a contract and then hurt his heel. I mean, Corona
Speaker 1: be way worse than that anyway. Um, I'm not worried
Speaker 1: that this is going to be it though, that's not
Speaker 1: downplaying it. But yeah, that is an incredible sound drop
Speaker 1: for when the country is full. It seems like a big,
Speaker 1: pretty big step to take from where where. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of information out there that nothing has indicated. Yes,
Speaker 1: can I take this supplement. You're not saying, look, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna die in the next year. You're saying, is this
Speaker 1: the first domino to fall? And then years from now,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe when we're looking back at age eighty
Speaker 1: and there's not many of us left, I say, hey,
Speaker 1: that was the first one to fall. And now just
Speaker 1: humanity went into a ditch when this happened. We're all
Speaker 1: a little too connected. Late stage capitalism. It's a problem
Speaker 1: capitalism not really matching up with public health. Need do
Speaker 1: you know those? Do those really match? Hang tight? Football fans,
Speaker 1: We will address the sport at some juncture in the
Speaker 1: show coming up. On today's show. Yes, we have the
Speaker 1: Corona thing going on with the other big thing going
Speaker 1: on is love is Blind? It is? What a sensation
Speaker 1: it is? Yeah, that's a yeah. It's a bigger in India,
Speaker 1: bigger in China. Let a sensation it is on Netflix.
Speaker 1: It's the number one reality show in the game right now.
Speaker 1: So we figured, hey, what if we take some of
Speaker 1: the basic premise of that show and try to connect
Speaker 1: a player, a free agent, a player on the market
Speaker 1: with a team site unseen at least within the studio. Well,
Speaker 1: you'll understand when we get to it. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: what else do we have? That's it. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: some news, So why don't we do it? Let's hit
Speaker 1: the news started. Speaking of pressing issues, we need you,
Speaker 1: we need Come on, gleg we are in the future.
Speaker 1: Will you be my dad? We have bag? Can I
Speaker 1: trust to you? Hey Jack, we must listen to Dela Whale.
Speaker 1: Do it? We need to help Greg. We Delaware. We
Speaker 1: need to use need Dela Whale. It's up to you.
Speaker 1: Speaking of major pressing issues, Greg again, Delaware. The tapes?
Speaker 1: Where are they? When can we hear them? It is
Speaker 1: the crown jewel. It is the Great White Whale. It
Speaker 1: is a crown jewel of our reused bits. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't be too pressing that audio recordings from four
Speaker 1: years ago. Your kids are like totally different, roughly less
Speaker 1: than a yeah. Also it is yes, it is what
Speaker 1: the it's not recycled if we've never heard it before,
Speaker 1: We've never heard the Delaware tapes? Where are they? We
Speaker 1: are headiting into the really quiet period of the calendar
Speaker 1: in the NFL. This feels like the year this is,
Speaker 1: this is the time. Greg's like, I don't care where
Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart landed old news. It's like some you know,
Speaker 1: when when I think we have a project that Amelia,
Speaker 1: well know, the final steps, the tapes, the case, it's
Speaker 1: not you know, soft or closed because you've not delivered
Speaker 1: any product. I mean, do you guys know me fairly?
Speaker 1: Do I know? We don't strike you as someone um
Speaker 1: who has kept or has any material from like any
Speaker 1: earlier portions of my life. You always make fun of
Speaker 1: me for are there earlier portions? Yeah, well, well that's
Speaker 1: that's deleted. You're uploaded as an organism on at age
Speaker 1: thirty two, flirted. All right, let's get to it. Let's
Speaker 1: talk some cornerbacks. Um, some teams, some players can be
Speaker 1: signed ready because they are already free agents. An example
Speaker 1: of that is Josh Norman, the cornerback who signed that
Speaker 1: huge deal with the Redskins in two thousand sixteen. Well,
Speaker 1: now he is reunited with Sean McDermott of the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: It is a one year, six million dollar deal for
Speaker 1: the cornerback. He was released last month. Greg He is
Speaker 1: a guy that struggled mightily last year before being benched
Speaker 1: down the stretch, but now he's not being paid like
Speaker 1: one of the highest paid cornerbacks in the league. So
Speaker 1: maybe a situation where you're not asking as much of him,
Speaker 1: you're not paying him as much Josh Norman can help,
Speaker 1: or maybe he just can't play anymore. Well. I was
Speaker 1: surprised that he got as much as he did, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think it's a reminder. The Bills are among the
Speaker 1: teams I expect to spend the most this year, so
Speaker 1: they got they got that Capps basic. They just figure
Speaker 1: may as well spend it. I was surprised too, because
Speaker 1: that was the worst season of his career, and you
Speaker 1: never know once you're past the age dirty mark, if
Speaker 1: that's the beginning of the end, or if you can
Speaker 1: bounce back maybe at age thirty one age dirty two.
Speaker 1: But he's also a bigger corner who you don't picture
Speaker 1: moving to the slot like a lot. You know, you
Speaker 1: send a lot of guys out the pasture by putting
Speaker 1: them in the slot for a couple of years. Safety
Speaker 1: like they must have a vision of him. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine it's an every snap player. It's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it's one of those deals where you
Speaker 1: find out it's a bunch of fake money, has to
Speaker 1: get all of it. But now it is a six
Speaker 1: million dollars I mean that if you want to spend
Speaker 1: pot like what could be in terms of the positive.
Speaker 1: She's going from what was one of the more chaotic
Speaker 1: organizations in the league with the Redskins, to a coach
Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott, who knew him in Carolina very well
Speaker 1: knows him here. McDermott consistently gets the most out of
Speaker 1: his defensive backs, and you're going into a ready to meet,
Speaker 1: ready made defense. I don't know. I mean, you're not
Speaker 1: what he only played six of the snaps last three's
Speaker 1: a art time player that I agree with you, Greg.
Speaker 1: The money seemed more than I thought would have thought
Speaker 1: he would have gotten good secondary though. I mean that's
Speaker 1: probably the backbone of that team. Levi wawas Micah hi
Speaker 1: Jordan's pop player in trade Avius White, whom they're looking
Speaker 1: to resign, Like, yeah, they're redo a deal with White too.
Speaker 1: In other cornerback news, this is a little cautionary tale
Speaker 1: as teams look to spend tons of money in free
Speaker 1: agency next week, Tremaine Johnson has been informed by the
Speaker 1: Jets that they will be parting ways with the cornerback
Speaker 1: who it was just two thousand and eighteen that he
Speaker 1: signed a five year, seventy two and a half million
Speaker 1: dollar contract uh to be ostensibly the jets number one cornerback,
Speaker 1: and he never was anything close to that. He struggled
Speaker 1: on the field as a player, He struggled with injuries.
Speaker 1: From everything you heard, his attitude wasn't great. It was
Speaker 1: basically one of those worst case scenarios where nothing is clicking.
Speaker 1: And despite the fact that the Jets are tied to him, um,
Speaker 1: and it really depends how the c b A plays out,
Speaker 1: but they are going to eat a ton of dead
Speaker 1: money twelve million in fact, so they could have kept
Speaker 1: him on the roster and uh because the point of
Speaker 1: the matter was that they were gonna be stuck with
Speaker 1: them anyway. But they think so little of him as
Speaker 1: a player and as a teammate. I suppose that they
Speaker 1: said goodbye, take a walk, we are taking the l
Speaker 1: on this one. So Tremaine Johnson hits the market at
Speaker 1: a highly depressed value thirty four million he got from
Speaker 1: the Jets to play seventeen games, and Dan you know
Speaker 1: this as well as anyone. When he was benched last year,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like the Jets had great cornerbacks coming out
Speaker 1: of their ears. They were forced to play journeymen and
Speaker 1: late round rookies, and those guys played much better than
Speaker 1: Tremaine Johnson. He just landed in the doghouse and it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like the coaching staff had confidence and the
Speaker 1: and the story around heading into last year was, yes,
Speaker 1: he was a total disaster in year one with the Jets.
Speaker 1: He had the injury issues, he didn't play well. But
Speaker 1: when Greg will James came into town. It was Greg
Speaker 1: Williams with the Rams back in the day where Tremaine
Speaker 1: Johnson kind of established himself as a quality cornerback. But
Speaker 1: almost immediately he was injured in in the doghouse under
Speaker 1: Gregg Williams as well. So I imagine he will, you know,
Speaker 1: reservice with another team. He's I think any back to
Speaker 1: the Rams, he's I believe he's under thirty or right
Speaker 1: around thirty years old. But this guy is he I
Speaker 1: don't think he even gets Josh Norman money. Does he No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I want to see what Joe Douglas.
Speaker 1: I feel like we have about two percent of the
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas plan unbailed at this point. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just I love that they cut him versus the you know,
Speaker 1: over the weekend was like, I might keep them because
Speaker 1: of the cappit and stuff. Move on and just start
Speaker 1: building the team that Joe Douglas wants to build. You
Speaker 1: still save a lot of mind. He did um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a disastrous move for the gents, and
Speaker 1: they've had some pretty bad free agent signings between Bell
Speaker 1: c J. Mosley. You can't fault him for too much.
Speaker 1: It's that's injury related. Hopefully he bounces back in Tremaine Johnson.
Speaker 1: But he did, uh make someone, um a good bargain.
Speaker 1: He won me three sandwiches. I just found out well
Speaker 1: years ago it was him getting the most guaranteed money
Speaker 1: of any defensive player. Good for you, they had some little,
Speaker 1: nice little moment for you there. Uh. In other news,
Speaker 1: according to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Saints are planning
Speaker 1: to place a first round tender on Taysom Hill. They're
Speaker 1: restricted free agent quarterback, uh and that means the Saints
Speaker 1: they have a chance to match any offer sheet he
Speaker 1: signs with another team, um or they will get a
Speaker 1: first round pick back. Saints planned to resign him soon,
Speaker 1: but this gives them a little bit of coverage in
Speaker 1: the event that a team decides Taysom Hill is the guy. Well,
Speaker 1: nobody should be surprised by this. We We've got the
Speaker 1: head coach seriously comparing him to Steve Young, and if
Speaker 1: that's your comparison, I still was a little surprised. But
Speaker 1: he has proven my conspiracy theories wrong that I thought
Speaker 1: they wanted to have him sign elsewhere. Potentially he's gonna
Speaker 1: be their backup, and that's a fair price for a backup.
Speaker 1: Into me putting the first round tender versus the second
Speaker 1: is you know, mostly saying to Taysom Hill, here's a
Speaker 1: little proof of all the nice things we're saying to you.
Speaker 1: We don't need to give you this extra million dollars.
Speaker 1: Really we could keep either way, but we really do
Speaker 1: value and maybe see you as a part of our future. Ideally,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you. Breeze has missed six starts over the last
Speaker 1: two years. They've already talked about giving Taysom Hill a
Speaker 1: bigger share of snaps and and part of the offense.
Speaker 1: I if the Saints ever went south, or even if
Speaker 1: they didn't and Breeze needed a rest week or two,
Speaker 1: I would want to see a few starts from Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill if I'm the Saints to game plan for what
Speaker 1: you do next off season with this player. He's become
Speaker 1: one of those guys who's sort of a lightning rod.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got an opinion on him, and most people I
Speaker 1: don't know how they reached this point that really negative
Speaker 1: on him. I have no idea what it is about
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. They've decided he can't play football. But Nick Underhill,
Speaker 1: who's a beat writer for the Saints, says, as as
Speaker 1: much as the Saints have praised him publicly, they think
Speaker 1: more highly of him privately and speak more highly of
Speaker 1: him privately than they even do in public. I will
Speaker 1: speak to the other side of that. I don't hate
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, but I think people that when you see
Speaker 1: him get a first round tender, for instance, today, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna make a pretty good penny, it sounds like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, for a guy. That's
Speaker 1: what throwing eighteen passes. He's a quarterback that so many
Speaker 1: other positions. I understand that, but I think that is
Speaker 1: more if you want to even call criticism, that he's
Speaker 1: just extremely untested at a professional level as a quarterback. Uh.
Speaker 1: And some people think other people are getting carried away
Speaker 1: based on a very soon I think it would be
Speaker 1: this is a big step though, that he even goes
Speaker 1: into the year as a true backup in getting paid
Speaker 1: the money that he is, which I think he will
Speaker 1: be Teddy Bridgeway. But I think people have misread that
Speaker 1: all along. Sean Payton has valued him for two things,
Speaker 1: one his versatility and two so he won't be left
Speaker 1: holding the bag when Drew Brees loses it or walks away.
Speaker 1: And I think he places a high value on that.
Speaker 1: In other news, the Rams have a new logo maybe uh.
Speaker 1: The Rams, of course, are moving into their new stadium,
Speaker 1: and to go along with that, they are updating their uniforms.
Speaker 1: They've made minor adjustments over the years since they're moved
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles in the color scheme, but an image
Speaker 1: leaked yesterday. Over the weekend, Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports
Speaker 1: Sports said that it is indeed the real logo, and
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where the L A is
Speaker 1: prominent in the logo and then there's a RAMS horn,
Speaker 1: but gone is the profile of the RAM. Uh. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think about this potential very possible, perhaps
Speaker 1: definite new Los Angeles Rams logo. Well, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It took over Sunday's Twitter conversation because it's it's I
Speaker 1: was not involved with that. We stayed out of these,
Speaker 1: but I was reading it and like I I think
Speaker 1: it's probably, uh, you know, a bit of a nightmare
Speaker 1: for any team to find something floated and then you
Speaker 1: want to hope it's on the radar ar. No, no,
Speaker 1: I here's the thing. I don't think I feel as
Speaker 1: other people do. But here's the argument against it. If
Speaker 1: you look at it, and you have to go look
Speaker 1: at it while you're listening to this, it's a confusing
Speaker 1: logo in the sense that it need It looks like
Speaker 1: with the horns circling the A that it's L A C,
Speaker 1: which stands for chargers. The horn itself looks a little
Speaker 1: bit like thunderbolts. And then on top of it, to me,
Speaker 1: it's just ohthero someone else pointed out that the way
Speaker 1: that the horn goes over the L and the A,
Speaker 1: that it is reminiscent of the St. Louis arch. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of image like from an image and
Speaker 1: I don't hate that, but that their real past is
Speaker 1: l A not St. Louis. I just don't understand it.
Speaker 1: What is a goat horn? About that? Yeah? Their team president, Well,
Speaker 1: I think that people are saying it is not jumping
Speaker 1: out as anything. Just before we started taping, uh like
Speaker 1: sent out the gift. You know that the Will Farrell anchorman. Boy,
Speaker 1: that escalated quickly, So I don't know if that is
Speaker 1: confirming or denying. Um. Kevin Demo, who's their team president,
Speaker 1: put it on Twitter, but I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: saying it is or isn't the logo. We don't know
Speaker 1: for sure. But I immediately just thought of the Chargers
Speaker 1: logo experience from a year ago. I believe it was
Speaker 1: where they where supposedly their new logo leaked. It got
Speaker 1: so much negative reaction on social media. Never saw that logo,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. That's so that's that's what I
Speaker 1: thought of the about this was this is getting a
Speaker 1: lot of reaction will we see this logo or not?
Speaker 1: And that because the Ramps have underrated uniforms. It's tricky
Speaker 1: when you have a good uniform and I know this
Speaker 1: isn't the uniform under the logo. I know this is
Speaker 1: the logo not the uniform, but it's all connected. I
Speaker 1: think they have a great logo uniform combo overall, one
Speaker 1: of the better ones. So it's it's tough to when
Speaker 1: you're changing from something that's really good or you don't
Speaker 1: mess with it. But we talked about uniforms in the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks where this whole you know, if
Speaker 1: with the uniform front, if you get this five year
Speaker 1: deal where you have to keep what maybe something that
Speaker 1: the public doesn't like, change, all that sweep it away.
Speaker 1: And I think if they flow, if the logo got
Speaker 1: floated and the the public response is not positive, well
Speaker 1: you should allow the Rams to go redo the logo.
Speaker 1: I mean, give me a break on you know, having
Speaker 1: them be married to this. Yeah, test group of one.
Speaker 1: And I love it, by the way, because I have
Speaker 1: been told that I will love it, and I love
Speaker 1: It's now a legit RAMS fan and she she was
Speaker 1: not feeling it well that's the young demographic too. You
Speaker 1: want to that's where you really want to get your
Speaker 1: claws into the Are we not part of that? We
Speaker 1: are well well out. You'll be lucky if we're alive
Speaker 1: and you know a year let's face it, fair point um.
Speaker 1: And if you've sensed an urgency to Mark's monologue there,
Speaker 1: he's got that Brown's uniform unveiling on his mind and
Speaker 1: he's very nervous about it. I'm not I I have
Speaker 1: been I received a little A little birdie has spoken
Speaker 1: to me until told me that I should be encouraged
Speaker 1: by what this person would like being described as a
Speaker 1: little birdie. Well, it's just a it's like you call
Speaker 1: a private eye and I it's just like a little
Speaker 1: you know, catchphrase was speaking to an eye. The Giants,
Speaker 1: according to our report, are not close to an extension
Speaker 1: with Leonard Williams. This could be a little egg on
Speaker 1: the face food because, as you may recall, they gave
Speaker 1: up two draft picks to the jayman Um last year
Speaker 1: to acquire the defensive lineman and the idea was that
Speaker 1: they would then sign him to a deal and he
Speaker 1: could be an anchor in the middle of their defensive line.
Speaker 1: Well as things stand, rap Sheet reports that the Giants
Speaker 1: are not close, so that is a little bit of pressure,
Speaker 1: and um, if you're Dave Gentleman, you want to get
Speaker 1: this deal done because the Giants were not a competitive
Speaker 1: team last year. They weren't in a win now mode
Speaker 1: last see and when they got Leonard Williams, so they
Speaker 1: didn't really acquire them just too for nine games. Whatever
Speaker 1: last year it was. It was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: long term move unless unless they didn't like what they saw.
Speaker 1: And I've I've heard a lot of Giants fins. You know,
Speaker 1: oh well we get a you know, we get a
Speaker 1: dismissive Giants fens story if it happened there was two
Speaker 1: Super Bowl games, You've won so many others. I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of It's like, okay, you could get the
Speaker 1: compensatory pick back. First of all, that's not for another year.
Speaker 1: It's thirty picks later. Second, you might not get it back.
Speaker 1: I feel like this misinformation with compensatory picks happens every year.
Speaker 1: The Giants would only get it if they see more
Speaker 1: quality free agents leave the building than they get, and
Speaker 1: that is not going to happen for them this year.
Speaker 1: They are going to be signing free agents because they
Speaker 1: need it. They do not have quality free agents other
Speaker 1: than Leonard Williams really expectedly maybe Marcus Golden. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna end up on the positive side
Speaker 1: of the ledger and get a compensatory pick, is what
Speaker 1: my point is. There's also a conspiracy theory out there
Speaker 1: that the Giants could have a wink wink, no, it's
Speaker 1: nudge with Leonard Williams, let him hit the market and
Speaker 1: then sign him after he hit the market, so they
Speaker 1: would only have to give up a fifth round pick
Speaker 1: instead of a fourth round pick to the Jets, which
Speaker 1: seems like a lot of trouble to go through just
Speaker 1: to save yourself a late round, one round and a
Speaker 1: little bit of an unnecessary risk, because who's to say
Speaker 1: some team that has fallen in love with Leonard Williams
Speaker 1: Tate doesn't march in with a way better offer. Kimberly
Speaker 1: Jones remembered that at the combined Dave Gettleman you know,
Speaker 1: at during one of the his his high faluting press conference,
Speaker 1: told everyone he would get killed. I'll get killed. He said.
Speaker 1: If if the Giants don't resign you, why did you
Speaker 1: call it a high What is happening of all the
Speaker 1: people say high faluting about Gettleman? Seems like I feel
Speaker 1: like two years in a row like Gettleman's combined press
Speaker 1: conferences have just been a little bit extra. I was embedded.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you get Oh, that's right, you were,
Speaker 1: so I shouldn't even comment on us with the giants.
Speaker 1: It was entertaining. It was you were embedded, bearded, yes, beirded?
Speaker 1: Is there a've called it high faluting? Is there a
Speaker 1: fluting without high? Right? Is there a low falutin just
Speaker 1: the regular faluting? We don't find out about those events.
Speaker 1: That guy that was it was a faluting party. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Well you can I I watched the guy
Speaker 1: very closely for four years. You want to give him
Speaker 1: fifteen million a year, I'm with you on my go ahead.
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's what, If that's what you want
Speaker 1: to do with your money, I will not judge you.
Speaker 1: But that's supposedly what his market is already wants the
Speaker 1: market to be. That seems like a lot of scratch.
Speaker 1: So you there's a scenario where the giants announced my
Speaker 1: turn to bury the giants. There's a scenario where the
Speaker 1: Giants hypothetically give Leonard Williams fifteen million dollars a year
Speaker 1: and then give Jadavian Clowney thirty seven million a year
Speaker 1: or whatever the horrible market or the perceived market of
Speaker 1: his is, and that they're just gonna load those guys
Speaker 1: up and way down their salary cap with these guys
Speaker 1: that don't put up any numbers, like most of the
Speaker 1: gentleman experiences Carolina, you know, removing cap, like making cap ram,
Speaker 1: getting rid of veterans when you guys. Actually asked Kettleman
Speaker 1: at the Combine about Steve Smith that one year, and
Speaker 1: he acknowledged that maybe Steve Smith wouldn't be around anymore.
Speaker 1: Was like, and he goes to the Giants and all
Speaker 1: they've done is move veterans and move big price tags.
Speaker 1: So I don't feel like he's gonna go hog wild,
Speaker 1: as he would say, or hog molly wild in the
Speaker 1: in the he could be tagged, and I do think
Speaker 1: he would have that strong of a market. I think
Speaker 1: he would get plenty as an abut guys who are young,
Speaker 1: above average starters and I have a pedigree, they get
Speaker 1: paid a lot of money. I'd love to see the
Speaker 1: Clowney Leonard Williams combined for three and a half stacks
Speaker 1: next year at dollars. I mean it's all in play.
Speaker 1: Finally in the news the NFL. That's the breaking news flash.
Speaker 1: We got Ricky. This just in our A t N
Speaker 1: Instagram page hit fifteen thousand followers. So if you're not
Speaker 1: following and you want to follow, just post some fun
Speaker 1: behind the scenes content. Fifteen thousand. That's like, what of listeners?
Speaker 1: If that? Let's get this up, guys at the A
Speaker 1: t N Podcast. If you don't have an Instagram, you
Speaker 1: gotta look in the mirror. Okay, make one follow. That
Speaker 1: sounds like that was not that was a demand of
Speaker 1: your audience, But we make very few demands of our audi.
Speaker 1: The next step is sending Rick out um and conducting
Speaker 1: some vigilante justice to any any listeners who aren't following.
Speaker 1: Didn't know. You're in the pocket of Big Social A
Speaker 1: couple of some some moves. If you want to be
Speaker 1: that guy, if you want to be the one that
Speaker 1: has to be an enforcer, you get the baton with
Speaker 1: to the knee. You need damage. The other one is
Speaker 1: and I liked this one, uh, break thumbs. But then
Speaker 1: they can't follow if the thumbs, but I also got
Speaker 1: your pointer finger. That's true, that's true. But if you
Speaker 1: do those, you have to be much more careful now
Speaker 1: because video cameras are everywhere. So just because like I'm
Speaker 1: in a back alley behind else banging on someone with
Speaker 1: a baton, like they're gonna find you hoisted on your
Speaker 1: own petard, So you gotta be careful where the hit
Speaker 1: goes down. Um, this is not breaking news, but I
Speaker 1: just saw this the Raider. Oh but good job, and Ricky,
Speaker 1: good job by you because you, uh, you've done a
Speaker 1: great job with that, and make sure to bring that
Speaker 1: up in your employee review let them know. The Raiders
Speaker 1: announced the release of veteran linebacker to Hear Whitehead. The
Speaker 1: move clears six point five million of white heads seven
Speaker 1: point three million cap number from the books. He signed
Speaker 1: a three year deal in the free agent period after
Speaker 1: six year run with the Raiders. He was a starter
Speaker 1: for Oakland during that entire run, every game in fact
Speaker 1: over the last two seasons. But the Raiders are looking
Speaker 1: to improve in their linebacking group, make some cap space.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be spenders. Um and just as a warning,
Speaker 1: the whole Oakland l a Las Vegas thing. No, I
Speaker 1: wasn't even you said he was with the Oakland Raider
Speaker 1: because they was that availed it. I I have been
Speaker 1: writing Oakland in my in my copy, so that is
Speaker 1: that is Sometimes it's all going to have to get
Speaker 1: rid of, just a warning sign. They signed a new
Speaker 1: version of to here Whitehead every year. Don't worry, they'll
Speaker 1: get some journeyman linebacker and vants perfect probably not coming back.
Speaker 1: And finally, the NFL Players Union announced Monday that has
Speaker 1: extended the voting window from Thursday to Saturday at PM
Speaker 1: Eastern UH to make a vote on the new Collective
Speaker 1: Barning bargaining Agreement that was drafted by the owners and
Speaker 1: was sent along to the players, it has to be
Speaker 1: a majority vote. There are notable players out there that
Speaker 1: have made it um known that they do not like
Speaker 1: this proposal from the owner's Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Kenny Stills,
Speaker 1: what's the guy, what's the crazy guy? That we've played
Speaker 1: the the offensive linement from Miami. None of them were
Speaker 1: the old line coach, none of whom were at the meeting.
Speaker 1: That's fair, but there's also been other players on the
Speaker 1: other side. Ryan Fitzpatrick is one guy, and there's been
Speaker 1: several others that have voiced support for the new CBA, which,
Speaker 1: um it does. It sounds like one of the big
Speaker 1: one of the without us digging in because who wants
Speaker 1: to do that. But one of the big positives for
Speaker 1: the players is the minimum salary is going to go
Speaker 1: up fairly substantially, and that they're a speculation that because
Speaker 1: of that, and most players are closer to that end
Speaker 1: of the spectrum than the star spectrum, that that will
Speaker 1: be something that could give you the necessary amount of votes.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see, right, and that this was an
Speaker 1: agreement that their executive committee negotiated for three or four minds.
Speaker 1: They obviously approved it, but the whole thing is really messy.
Speaker 1: The the the voting is not due until midnight Saturday
Speaker 1: into Sunday. The franchise tag deadline as scheduled is two
Speaker 1: days before that, but it's under the old c b A,
Speaker 1: so for now teams can use two tags. But if
Speaker 1: the players approve it, and everyone not not everyone, but
Speaker 1: I think the expectation, the conventional wisdom is that it
Speaker 1: will pass. You only need over and I think people
Speaker 1: believe that it will pass, then that means two days
Speaker 1: later the rules are gonna be different, and then it's
Speaker 1: there's only one more day until free agency even starts
Speaker 1: in terms of legal tampering. Meanwhile, you got the the
Speaker 1: Union voting their new president and executive committee in the
Speaker 1: middle of this week while this is all going on,
Speaker 1: and Russell L. Kung is filing um you know, uh
Speaker 1: a legal issue, a complaint with the National Labor Board
Speaker 1: that his bosses at the Labor Union are you know,
Speaker 1: working in bad faith against him and other people. It's
Speaker 1: like the whole thing, let's clean it up here. Also
Speaker 1: push the they're gonna push, they should push free agency back.
Speaker 1: That's my point. Also Corona in the middle of all this,
Speaker 1: that too, it is that's an issue as you like,
Speaker 1: what what is the hurry? Why? Why would we this
Speaker 1: is a whatever billion dollar business. You're gonna operate under
Speaker 1: one rule on Thursday and then operate under different rules
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and then you're gonna start the whole league
Speaker 1: gear the next day. And what's the hurry? How many
Speaker 1: of the players voting have read the entire new proposal
Speaker 1: from wire to wire, hundreds of pages? Correct? I think
Speaker 1: that I think they're reading the the bullet points, which
Speaker 1: there you know. Aaron Rodgers sent one to all of
Speaker 1: his players on the Packers, which kind of was like
Speaker 1: a last build. I'll never talk to you again if
Speaker 1: you don't agree with me. It was like a one
Speaker 1: pager basically with him, Guys like I don't you don't
Speaker 1: talk to me anyway, So how does this change anything
Speaker 1: for me? For what it's worth? And you could say
Speaker 1: it's not worth much because he's he's the outgoing president
Speaker 1: of the nfl p A and worked on this deal.
Speaker 1: Eric Winston I told Peter King that he thinks it
Speaker 1: will pass, and he thinks it will pass by a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm taking a pure at all break right now? Anybody
Speaker 1: else wanted? Is it sponsored? Now? No? Not sponsored? I
Speaker 1: mean your hands are all over the bottle refreshing gel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but see Wes is getting it. What does it matter
Speaker 1: if my hands are all over the bottle? Ill is
Speaker 1: he gonna get to the pure l? My wife is pregnant.
Speaker 1: I've been told it's very important that I stay my
Speaker 1: hand steaked at Now you both touched the bottle. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'll been holding it up to the mic.
Speaker 1: Just that's called that's called classic podcasting. That's a pro.
Speaker 1: That's a bro and a bro who's a pro. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on, moving on. That's what's happening in the news.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. Love is Blind? What
Speaker 1: what a program on Netflix? We have clearance for this? Well,
Speaker 1: the funny thing is is that this this has no
Speaker 1: connect into Love is Blind? But doesn't it sound like
Speaker 1: I assume this was the theme song? That's sure it is.
Speaker 1: Why not that assumption? Alright? So for those but I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's there's a chunky uh segment of audience that
Speaker 1: has not seen this Netflix sensation. What kind of music
Speaker 1: is that? It's you know, so what the kids are
Speaker 1: listening to? Like eight years ago? What noises are those?
Speaker 1: What instrument makes that sound? It's done on a computer
Speaker 1: most likely anyway, if you haven't seen the show, the
Speaker 1: premises is fairly simple. They have a group of men
Speaker 1: and a group of women. They're they're called pods. Mark, Mark,
Speaker 1: I know you caught up. You binged all through the weekends.
Speaker 1: They yes, they begin in pods, right, so they actually
Speaker 1: get they go on quote unquote dates. Um, there's a
Speaker 1: frosted glass between them and two rooms. They never actually
Speaker 1: see each other, but they go on multiple dates where
Speaker 1: they just talk for X amount of time. They never
Speaker 1: make it clear how long these quote quote dates. Their
Speaker 1: nest sleen like large glasses of like wine and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think you go on as long as they
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of so my my, And it ends
Speaker 1: that the first portion of the show ends with a proposal.
Speaker 1: And these people, these these maniacs, and there was like
Speaker 1: six or seven of them couples. You proposed to the
Speaker 1: person without ever actually seeing them if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to, like you don't have
Speaker 1: to propose, no, but it's like some people were compelled,
Speaker 1: and it was like this highly emotional you're in a
Speaker 1: legit bubble, you can't there's no phones, there's no outside world,
Speaker 1: and you fall in love with this person because you've
Speaker 1: dug in all this deep material without seeing each other.
Speaker 1: Than these proposals were happening, which I agree was you know,
Speaker 1: to the to us watching it pretty mad. And then
Speaker 1: once they're proposed, there's paid for it though more frosted glass, Greg,
Speaker 1: that is the whole thing is not about them getting paid,
Speaker 1: of course, it is they're they're going through multiple rounds
Speaker 1: of auditions, right, and it's a job, but it's a
Speaker 1: job you're getting paid for. There's a long hallway, people,
Speaker 1: you gotta add this into just beyond like game show is,
Speaker 1: you're definitely audition in for that. Shame on you, Greg.
Speaker 1: A second part of the show, long hallway, two more
Speaker 1: frosted pains of glass. It opens up and you see
Speaker 1: the person who's now your fiance, and not everyone's as
Speaker 1: pleased as you would think. Some people are a little disappointed,
Speaker 1: but what they see is love blind West yes day,
Speaker 1: let's start there. No, of course, not what kind of Gregg.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't fall in love with Emmica if she was
Speaker 1: on the other side of glassy. You don't love her
Speaker 1: as long as he's getting paid. I'm saying no. I'm
Speaker 1: saying no because that's creating an artificial situation you never
Speaker 1: would be in. And yeah I would, I would say, no,
Speaker 1: one's been no, one's that's not happening. Well, I meansion
Speaker 1: people falling in love in the pass through writer letters
Speaker 1: without seeing each other. That's happened hundreds and hundreds and hundred.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that, certainly that's possible. But if you're like
Speaker 1: possible you're putting in a way there by nature, there's
Speaker 1: vanity involved when you're going on television. Think it would
Speaker 1: have to be UM, would have to be important, and
Speaker 1: maybe that does. At this point you're sentence pictures. So
Speaker 1: how do we turn this into a pod sake? We
Speaker 1: will take UM a team will without naming the team.
Speaker 1: We will take a player on the free agency market
Speaker 1: to be without naming the player. UM, show why it's
Speaker 1: a sensible match. Then we'll all guess what the pairing is.
Speaker 1: This could be pretty easy. I mean it's very possible.
Speaker 1: But who knows. Maybe maybe love is blind somehow that connects.
Speaker 1: So I'll get us going. Just to give it a
Speaker 1: little bit of structure. This this NFL team. Anybody watching
Speaker 1: the XFL by the way, it's a little bit here
Speaker 1: and there. I have not This team is in UH,
Speaker 1: the top percentile of teams in UH in terms of
Speaker 1: available cap space. They have a several needs, but nothing higher.
Speaker 1: Both sides are blind, both sides of h uh and UH.
Speaker 1: One of their biggest needs is on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: They need help across the defensive line, but at the
Speaker 1: edge especially. I'll tell you how bad it was. They're
Speaker 1: leading their top edge rusher in terms of pressures last
Speaker 1: season thirty three pressures. I never even heard of the guy.
Speaker 1: Now that scientists probably have mark coin flip at best,
Speaker 1: but I apparently don't watch the sport. He had nearly
Speaker 1: their leading pressure. Guy had nearly fifty less than the
Speaker 1: sack leader in the NFL. We can agree, we can't
Speaker 1: be looking up these things on our computer. Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: and Yannick and go way. Okay, No, And also I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's in the spirit of what we're
Speaker 1: doing here. How a much listened up with the spirit
Speaker 1: is I don't even know what it is. Anyway, This
Speaker 1: player this team produced just twenty three sacks last season
Speaker 1: last in football. Uh, they're two leading sackers had a
Speaker 1: combined eight and a half sacks. Okay and um. So
Speaker 1: the player that I think would be a good marriage
Speaker 1: partner is someone that knows how to get to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: We saw it. It's someone that is on the market.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I wouldn't trust this team's management
Speaker 1: structure to get it right through the draft because they've
Speaker 1: had some big swings and misses along the defensive line
Speaker 1: under this current general manager. So this particular player uh
Speaker 1: seems to like it where he where he was last season,
Speaker 1: pointed out the fact that listen, I'm down to stay here.
Speaker 1: I also like that I don't have to pay uh
Speaker 1: some taxes on them. Well, when you're ready, you have
Speaker 1: a major sack artist. I have a man that's looking
Speaker 1: to stay home but also likes uh the other federal
Speaker 1: tax structure, and h team that has a lot of
Speaker 1: money to spend and has a major need at the
Speaker 1: position mark. We know it's Shack Barrett because we hit
Speaker 1: on that A doesn't like the Florida tax scenario, doesn't
Speaker 1: like moving his family around the country. So I'm going
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett on half of the match. You gotta go
Speaker 1: to the whole thing. If you're gonna jump, I will.
Speaker 1: But then they're correct. I believe I want to go
Speaker 1: jets on the other side. But you said mix it
Speaker 1: missed the tax I think I know. I think it,
Speaker 1: Greg Steel, I mean Miami Dolphins. Miami wants to stay
Speaker 1: in that tax world. So okay, Yeah, the glass slides open.
Speaker 1: They meet it meet each other and like did it
Speaker 1: off the whole like combine the top two guys at
Speaker 1: eight and can't be many teams where no one had anything.
Speaker 1: Does anybody know who had the most pressures on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins last year? He's a linebacker, Vince Bagel, Vince Biegel.
Speaker 1: We had thirty three presses last seasons. He was one
Speaker 1: of the guys early on saying I love this Miami
Speaker 1: tanking because it's given me some playing time and look
Speaker 1: what he did with it. Shack said that he loves
Speaker 1: the bucks. He'd even take maybe a hometown discount to
Speaker 1: stay with the team that took a shot on him
Speaker 1: during his prof year. But he also like one of
Speaker 1: the reasons he wants to stay in Tampa is because
Speaker 1: there's no tax where he plays. The Dolphins twenty three sacks.
Speaker 1: Taco Charlton and Sam Eguavian Guavin. They were the top
Speaker 1: two guys, Taco Charlton, Charles Harris, Jonathan led Better, Jonathan
Speaker 1: Yellow lad Better. How many of these names did you
Speaker 1: make up? That's a rough and Avery moss in. Taco
Speaker 1: Charlton enjoyed last year halfway through and Chris Career the
Speaker 1: GM he's been there while though Chris Career also the
Speaker 1: leading sacker that threw me off the scent the whole
Speaker 1: you know their g MS has has struggled because I
Speaker 1: was thinking new new regime. Charles Harrison two thousand seventeen
Speaker 1: went in the first round two thousand thirteen. Of course,
Speaker 1: Dion Jordan's number three, and they have ninety four million
Speaker 1: dollars to spend in free agency. Gotta spend it somewhere,
Speaker 1: So why not get this Studley Edge Russia? Who's young?
Speaker 1: I think he's twenty seven. And then you know, put
Speaker 1: your draft focus on elsewhere because guess what they have
Speaker 1: three first round picks and fourteen draft picks over two
Speaker 1: in the second round as well. Love is blind. That's
Speaker 1: my take there. It's not going anywhere though, that's the
Speaker 1: only Well is he gonna be a franchise? Is that
Speaker 1: what we're saying? Well, Arian, they have been pretty aggressive
Speaker 1: saying I and to their credit, I think they really
Speaker 1: are going to choose him over Jameis Winston. They if
Speaker 1: they don't get a deal done, and I think there
Speaker 1: there would be ground here to get a deal done, um,
Speaker 1: then they'll tag him. All right. Let end, by the way,
Speaker 1: let everyone get through their set up before you jump in. Mark,
Speaker 1: you handled that with grace right there perfectly. Okay, West
Speaker 1: A little quickly draw the segment was to persist, so
Speaker 1: he didn't have watched zero seconds of Love is blind.
Speaker 1: So I don't know your format. It's not I struggle
Speaker 1: actually marked to connect love of But you know what,
Speaker 1: why not? All right, who's up next? I can do
Speaker 1: one for UM? So I'm thinking of a team first
Speaker 1: of all that when it comes to free agency, I
Speaker 1: trust them in free agency because instead of colossally over
Speaker 1: pain desperately, this is a team UH with a with
Speaker 1: a long standing front office that understands when we see
Speaker 1: a veteran out there that can make our team better,
Speaker 1: we understand how to pick a player that's going to
Speaker 1: be good in our locker room number one, fit our
Speaker 1: culture that's an unchanging culture UM for years and years,
Speaker 1: and tweak our offense in the way that we need
Speaker 1: it to be tweaked. And this team that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of is pretty perfect in a lot of ways, and
Speaker 1: they're their original thinkers and they do what they want
Speaker 1: to do. But they could use a little help through
Speaker 1: the air and what they could really use because I
Speaker 1: think it's a team that already has an ability to
Speaker 1: stretch the field a little bit here and there, but
Speaker 1: they could use a really solid veteran trusty wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and the one that I'm thinking of is one that
Speaker 1: has shown an ability to the flip of a switch,
Speaker 1: go from System A too System B and make an
Speaker 1: immediate difference. A player that once uh switch teams last
Speaker 1: season two big one hundred yard games for another team
Speaker 1: that like this team, he would be going to likes
Speaker 1: to punish you with an old school style of offense.
Speaker 1: So this veteran recip jeopardy. Just whoever can press them right?
Speaker 1: I will. If you guys feel good, I'll leave it
Speaker 1: right there. You want to add, but it's we get
Speaker 1: on the back end can do it as well. Sure,
Speaker 1: I think like I think I've kind of laid it
Speaker 1: out for here. I think I see heads nodding. I
Speaker 1: don't talk going to belabor the point I'm more confident
Speaker 1: in the player than the team. How about you say
Speaker 1: the one you're more confident in? Emmanuel Sanders? Is that correct?
Speaker 1: It is absolutely correct? Well, and the Ravens absolutely correct.
Speaker 1: I thought it was yeah. I would have been well,
Speaker 1: no so, And I understand that Emmanuel Sanders when you
Speaker 1: went when you rank these guys, it's not one or
Speaker 1: two on the list of wide receivers. But it kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me the way that people looked at mark
Speaker 1: Ingram last year, like, oh, he's a one B back
Speaker 1: you know in New Orleans, and can he really be?
Speaker 1: He goes there and he fits so well, and I
Speaker 1: just think Emmanuel Sanders is someone that would immediately be
Speaker 1: productive in that offense. I think he'll get a really
Speaker 1: good contract because I think teams like the Ravens, the
Speaker 1: Patriots are reportedly pretty interested in Sanders. They tried to
Speaker 1: trade for him last year, didn't didn't get him. Do
Speaker 1: the Niners not have the cap space now? I think
Speaker 1: the Niners perfect. Actually one of the kind of underrated
Speaker 1: killer thanks for them was his injury, which kind of
Speaker 1: took him out of the Super Bowl. I think he
Speaker 1: he's he needs to go to a win now team too.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want him to go to a rebuilding team.
Speaker 1: That's about right, just you know, get it done. That's
Speaker 1: a night that would be when the glass frosted glass
Speaker 1: slides open. I think both sides will be very happy
Speaker 1: with what they're They would start making out. They would
Speaker 1: go to first base right there. They'd both be delighted
Speaker 1: with what they saw. A little tons a hockey as
Speaker 1: they call it, Erica, alright, because like, why did you
Speaker 1: come to me with this dan? Uh? All right, I'll
Speaker 1: justin all right, and I try to keep it simple.
Speaker 1: We're vague, all right. This uh, this team, I think
Speaker 1: it could be looking for a new start at this position,
Speaker 1: for new start, open hearts, um, open to new possibilities
Speaker 1: of love. I think they want to get there the
Speaker 1: fan base excited, you know, invigorate this fan base, get
Speaker 1: get some people UM excited about the franchise, and maybe play,
Speaker 1: you know, by by signing this player, UM, you play
Speaker 1: to what's an improving other side of the ball, play
Speaker 1: to an improving defense, you know, put this player in place,
Speaker 1: play play to an improving defense. Um. And they could
Speaker 1: do it with a guy, um, that's one of the
Speaker 1: better deep ball throwers in the league a year ago.
Speaker 1: Who who has the same career winning percentage. Don't be
Speaker 1: typing out too much some same career winning percentage music.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what he as as Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: The two of them, you know, a future put your
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Eli man and Um, it's a little
Speaker 1: older than you think. He's been around, and he's been
Speaker 1: around a little a little longer, and a little older
Speaker 1: than you think. So you've seen some things. He's seen
Speaker 1: some things, is right. I love that music coming in,
Speaker 1: And I can't believe this isn't from the show they
Speaker 1: should use it could have been. They could have been
Speaker 1: taken it from the same library. They cut some corners
Speaker 1: on that show. As you know, Ricky insane. The reunion
Speaker 1: didn't even have a live audience like The Bachelor, which
Speaker 1: live tonight the finale. See that I'm out of Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean too. But but even the wedding days what
Speaker 1: a mess. Oh my god, alright, that went on forever. Wedding.
Speaker 1: I gotta guess. I mean I have I don't know
Speaker 1: the team, I have a player. Guess you want to combine? Sure,
Speaker 1: I knew want to combine Ryan Tannehill. That was my guess.
Speaker 1: That's right. And I have the Los Angeles Chargers now,
Speaker 1: So I guess I had kept it too vague. That
Speaker 1: was gonna be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Here's a matchup
Speaker 1: no one's been talking about. They need a new start.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not gonna get the fan base excited that one.
Speaker 1: That was a little bit hindsight, But play to that
Speaker 1: Bowls of Sons play to that, improving the back to
Speaker 1: just have a quarterback that's going to blow it for you, basically,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean the Balls of Sons is more
Speaker 1: a creation of this room. He was their fifth in
Speaker 1: d v A last year. Yeah, but turning those turnover
Speaker 1: I'm utterly unconvinced of Ryan Tannehill goes to another team
Speaker 1: that we're going to get last year's version of Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 1: I that is a total TBD to me. I just
Speaker 1: feel like the whole Tannehill could be he's getting overlook
Speaker 1: because of these old guys. Um he'd be an interesting
Speaker 1: guy to change teams if he did. All right West
Speaker 1: This team has arguably the slowest number one wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the league. They have no tight end with more
Speaker 1: than three hundred yards. Last season, they drafted three rookies
Speaker 1: but didn't play them much at wide receiver. They have
Speaker 1: a young quarterback with intriguing touch on downfield throws, and
Speaker 1: they play four wide receiver sets but only have two
Speaker 1: established wide receivers. This player is perhaps the best deep
Speaker 1: threat on the market. Mm hmm uh. He is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a question mark off the field, and
Speaker 1: he does not seem likely to sign with his former team.
Speaker 1: All right, I know the player the players is overt.
Speaker 1: It's it's Arizona Cardinals and Robbie Anderson. Look at that love.
Speaker 1: It's not blind m see each other. You could see
Speaker 1: that they could use they could use a deep threat.
Speaker 1: I thought about them in Amori. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are an underrated team this offseason in terms of
Speaker 1: just could go bananas and spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Kime has been there while and has put plenty of
Speaker 1: cap space, and they kind of need to do that
Speaker 1: year to get their own guys in. I could see
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson and trapped in a wide receiver at number one,
Speaker 1: and suddenly you've got all you need there and you're good.
Speaker 1: That's that makes a lot of sense, is Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: Because you know we've seen the show heat. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of wild cards in some of those couples.
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson feels in terms of a love match. If
Speaker 1: you really want to baltize Wet as a lifelong mate,
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, I'm saying that he's like, most likely do
Speaker 1: a guy that was like your your wig has been crooked,
Speaker 1: Your wig is slipping your wig slipping. It's been slipping on.
Speaker 1: I mean I wrote about you know, guys who could
Speaker 1: be overpaid. I mean, if Robbie Anderson feels near the
Speaker 1: top of the list, supposedly he's gonna make thirteen and
Speaker 1: fifteen million a year, at least that's what he's hoping
Speaker 1: will make, more than Tyrolle Williams. He's got some pretty
Speaker 1: big red flags. I think you are a little bit
Speaker 1: overly down and Robbie Anderson. I think I think he's
Speaker 1: a really good player, but he's literally been arrested twice,
Speaker 1: had trouble with two different coaching staffs, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: been that productive. He has had no issues with the
Speaker 1: gay staff, okay, but he is absolutely was a red
Speaker 1: flag guy with off the field issues. I think he
Speaker 1: gets kind of a little bit lumped in with all
Speaker 1: the dysfunction around the Jets more than his actual play.
Speaker 1: And my a little bit of fear in trepidation I
Speaker 1: have is this idea that the Jets again all this
Speaker 1: cap space and this need to completely build out the
Speaker 1: wide receiver group. He's a perfect guy to have in
Speaker 1: the building. If you don't think he's a total knucklehead.
Speaker 1: If you think he's maturing, I would pay him and
Speaker 1: then go draft a real number one wide receiver and
Speaker 1: then he got Crowder and maybe Chris Herndon comes back
Speaker 1: and he got a nice little nucleus there. I think
Speaker 1: the Jets and the reports are actually starting to bubble
Speaker 1: up a little bit in the last couple of days
Speaker 1: that they actually aren't out on Robbie. Maybe that's real,
Speaker 1: maybe that's not. It makes all the sense in the
Speaker 1: world to me to keep Anderson in that building, because
Speaker 1: I actually do think that the chemistry with him and
Speaker 1: Donald's pretty good. Once you got past all the bs
Speaker 1: um around Donald last year, between the past protection woes
Speaker 1: and the sickness um, he could he could be a
Speaker 1: yard eight to ten touchdown guy in the right scenario.
Speaker 1: I kind of I'm with you that I hate because
Speaker 1: we follow these teams that can't get any traction. Like
Speaker 1: to watch some of the talent that leaves the roster
Speaker 1: is frustrating. But they know twenty times more about Robbie
Speaker 1: Anderson and the Robbie interson experience than any of us.
Speaker 1: So if they let him walk, he's just it's informative
Speaker 1: to me to say he's just okay to forget about
Speaker 1: even the off field stuff. He's just the type of
Speaker 1: guy who often turns into a bad free agent contract,
Speaker 1: which is a good not great player getting great receiver
Speaker 1: money because there's notions on the free agency market that
Speaker 1: are deep guys. And then you have all these uh
Speaker 1: rookies coming in with this draft class that'll be coming
Speaker 1: and had a much more affordable he had just because
Speaker 1: he was in one I had down the road, but
Speaker 1: he had thirty seven catches thrown on balls throwing twenty
Speaker 1: more yards down field. Since that's eleventh best in football. Uh,
Speaker 1: so you put him with a better situation, a functional
Speaker 1: I like him in Arizona. I would I would like
Speaker 1: that fit and I were just fifteen yards of catch.
Speaker 1: You know. That just made me think, with this new
Speaker 1: cb A in the marijuana law changes, what does that
Speaker 1: do for a guy like Martavis Bryant. Wouldn't he just
Speaker 1: be right back in the league. They said that it
Speaker 1: won't like count towards old Uh, he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: go through the normal process to get back in the
Speaker 1: league under the old rules. Rising to me, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, us, I mean, what's what's good for the
Speaker 1: goose is good for the gander? Come on, it's like
Speaker 1: a reverse grandfather clause. Let's break that. I never really
Speaker 1: have known. What does that mean the goose in the gander? Well,
Speaker 1: isn't a gander a flock of geese? Okay? I could
Speaker 1: be dead wrong. What's good? That makes sense? What about
Speaker 1: one in hand is better than two in the bush? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That one missing? I've thought about that self explainatory, right,
Speaker 1: that's like, but what's in the bush? Oh, you're kind
Speaker 1: of guessing what's your what's in your hand? By the way,
Speaker 1: a bird. You've captured a bird, and that's better than
Speaker 1: having you know, you got one bird? Is that better
Speaker 1: than the possibility of having the bird in hand is
Speaker 1: better than two in the It's like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: just one in hand that their bird, bird in the
Speaker 1: hand is better than two. Don't overlook what what is
Speaker 1: this saying? You've never even heard of the saying? Now
Speaker 1: you just like hockey, it's um, but you got birds
Speaker 1: in the where a bird in hand is better than
Speaker 1: two in the bush. That's a that's a famous which
Speaker 1: means it's better to have hold something that's a short thing,
Speaker 1: even if it's not as bountiful as trying. He's trying
Speaker 1: to say this saying should be canceled. But have you
Speaker 1: ever notice but you're talking about canceling that. No, I
Speaker 1: just I just think it's doesn't hold up, Like it's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I got two in the bush, Like it
Speaker 1: just doesn't it makes sense. Are you going orson wells
Speaker 1: right now? What? Yeah? I mean it's just like I
Speaker 1: hear you for old men talking about it, Yeah you
Speaker 1: got two in the bush. Well, we're not saying that
Speaker 1: the statement is awesome. Took it the people looking back smirking,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what you were. No, that is
Speaker 1: not why so you're I looked at you seemed completely done, dumbfounded,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to hear from you, and I guess
Speaker 1: I I also because a bird is is what people
Speaker 1: call women to in London. And by the way, since
Speaker 1: you brought it up two birds in the bush, can
Speaker 1: I just say that you are two years away from
Speaker 1: thirty and I'm in my thirties, so maybe you're you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be calling everyone and all. Yeah, but you'll be
Speaker 1: forty before I'm thirty. So just saying this whole bit
Speaker 1: about you being basically bare. You're not supposed to tell
Speaker 1: the whole world my age. It's better than two in
Speaker 1: the bush, all right that I think it's a good
Speaker 1: place to stop. Can I have the music again? Just
Speaker 1: to say goodbye you? That was the other thing the
Speaker 1: music budget of that show. They never used a real
Speaker 1: song the whole time. Everything was from a rights library
Speaker 1: like this, Well, this is one it's gonna after it's
Speaker 1: been such a hit. They're gonna go all out for
Speaker 1: season two. That noise right there, what instrument is that?
Speaker 1: That's kind of like a dance house type sound that
Speaker 1: was very poplar on the radio, got five ten years ago.
Speaker 1: It's hideous, It's hideous. All right. We'll be back on
Speaker 1: Wednesday with another show. Uh and yes, three agencies right
Speaker 1: around the corner, and we have a big week. You
Speaker 1: are that just doesn't it doesn't touch and we'll just
Speaker 1: stop it. It's fine. We have a big free agency
Speaker 1: week coming up. I'll forget it. Tell him later, yeah,
Speaker 1: tell him what it till wednesday. Look, you Homy goose,
Speaker 1: tell me that you can read my mind. I get