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Speaker 1: in such a waterfall of information, that he's never really

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Speaker 1: at the source reporting, not never never is and like

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Speaker 1: it's like he's not a bot, He's simply a bro

432
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Speaker 1: in Israel. So we've solved that mystery. And good aggregators

433
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Speaker 1: are great. But you could tell he takes one report

434
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Speaker 1: and he makes it sound even a little more certain

435
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Speaker 1: than it actually was reported, and then he doesn't like

436
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Speaker 1: always credit it and and this is all problematic. Yeah,

437
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: and yeah, let's let's point out too that around the NFL,

438
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Speaker 1: the heart of it started as an aggregating blog for

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com, So that's fair. Look at you. By

440
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 1: the way, I love that Gilmore move. I love it.

441
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Speaker 1: He played great. He is only due a little under

442
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Speaker 1: ten million dollars in twenty twenty three, so basically a

443
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Speaker 1: salary dump the Cowboys. He fits there. They are trying

444
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Speaker 1: to be the number one defense in the league, and

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Speaker 1: on paper, I think they have a pretty good case

446
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Speaker 1: for it, you know, I know, the forty nine Ers,

447
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: the Jets. There's gonna be other teams, but man, the

448
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Speaker 1: Cowboys are loaded on defense. Um all right? In other news,

449
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: the Eagles the team at the Cowboys are chasing. They're

450
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Speaker 1: doing some biz. Naz Fletcher Cox sticks around one year,

451
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Speaker 1: ten million dollar contract for Fletcher Cox, who received, according

452
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Speaker 1: to Schefter, more lucrative offers on the open market. The

453
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Speaker 1: Jets were one team were in on him, but he

454
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Speaker 1: decided to stay with the Eagles. So that's a good

455
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Speaker 1: thing for them, and they're front he's a big time

456
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Speaker 1: player for them. They also hold on to James Bradberry,

457
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: their cornerbacks, so these are important players. And they cut

458
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Speaker 1: ties with Darius Slay, who had a big role with

459
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Speaker 1: this team, was a steal of a trade from the

460
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 1: Lions once upon a time. But they move on Why Greg,

461
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Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure. Partly because the contract he signed

462
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: almost necessitated a restructuring this year because he had such

463
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Speaker 1: a big cap figure. Darius Slay and I don't think

464
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Speaker 1: he wanted to play that game because I think he

465
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Speaker 1: had a feel that he was going to get a

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Speaker 1: big deal elsewhere. We'll see where that is. There's some

467
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Speaker 1: buzz about Atlanta that he could get guaranteed money. Baldy

468
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Speaker 1: was talking in the newsroom today that he just feels

469
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Speaker 1: very strongly Slay was a better player than Bradberry and

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Speaker 1: that Bradbury wouldn't have necessarily gotten that big money on

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Speaker 1: the open market. I had Bradberry, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: top ten of my available free agents. He got twenty

473
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Speaker 1: million guaranteed to stay with the Eagles, so they love him,

474
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Speaker 1: but he thinks Slays a better player. Slay is thirty

475
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Speaker 1: two years old. But that was one of the more

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Speaker 1: surprising transactions. I would say of the last week, who

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Speaker 1: are you chopping it up with? In the newsroom today?

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Speaker 1: I'm just out of curiosity. Who's Greggy chopping it up

479
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Speaker 1: with it? You know? At the water cooler, Baldy was there,

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Speaker 1: Scott Pioli's in the mix. Trotter rolled in later. Get

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Speaker 1: Trotter to smile a little. Mark Ross, Yeah, we had

482
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Speaker 1: some good talks. We had some good football talks right there,

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Speaker 1: Mark Ross, Yeah, how do you feel about that? Mark?

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Speaker 1: The second mark of the c in the media group. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I tracked these things and there was a

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Speaker 1: period where I was like set it well, no, no, no,

487
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Speaker 1: because because I'd say this is a positive report, like um.

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Speaker 1: At one point it was like there's two Browns fans

489
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Speaker 1: in the newsroom. Then something was like NFL network has

490
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Speaker 1: like eighty two Browns fans suddenly working there, and it's

491
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Speaker 1: just like, well, this isn't special, but there are only

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Speaker 1: two Mark with the cs that inhabit any sort of

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Speaker 1: you know, on air business. He's doing more than I

494
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Speaker 1: am for NFL now, but we've got our show and

495
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Speaker 1: it's like, so there's two Mark with the c's um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I I'm fine with that. I've also met him.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a gentleman. By the way, that before

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Speaker 1: we take a break, this is just a temperature check

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Speaker 1: in this digital room we're in right now. How many

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Speaker 1: Browns fans do we have? Mmmm? I don't like I'm

501
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: getting crushed by a lamb of Browns fans. Like on

502
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Speaker 1: Twitter all the time, my name got connected to this

503
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Speaker 1: absurd thing about Nick Chubb being traled. I did not

504
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Speaker 1: we didn't even we didn't even get a direct answer here.

505
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Speaker 1: I Aaron Rodgers says he likes direct communication. It took

506
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Speaker 1: him twenty minutes to say that and passive aggressively barry

507
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Speaker 1: the packers doing that. But let's get an answer. Well, no,

508
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Speaker 1: like I am not foul roughingesler, this is no, I

509
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Speaker 1: don't there's my heart strings are not pulled at the moment.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'd say. I do think I could could

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Speaker 1: return at some point, but like like, here's here's a

512
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Speaker 1: bad strategy trying to like clump me in there or

513
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Speaker 1: just tell me that I am like, that's not we know,

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Speaker 1: we know in general I don't respond to that kind

515
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Speaker 1: of element, not saying from you necessarily, but just in general,

516
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Speaker 1: like the idea we're just gonna shape shift me back

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Speaker 1: into that role. Like that's a tough sell. It's just

518
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Speaker 1: a it's just a attempt check. I do. I think

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Speaker 1: what happened to you with the Nick Chubb situation, and

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Speaker 1: maybe you could elaborate on this program, Mark, I believe

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Speaker 1: the tweet you sent out a couple of weeks ago

522
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Speaker 1: was a little Birdie told me or something on those

523
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: lines that Nick Chubb could be a trade block candidate

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Speaker 1: for the Browns, and then you added some critical thoughts

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Speaker 1: if the Browns were to even entertain that, which I

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Speaker 1: agree with. M So it sounded like you were kind

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Speaker 1: of reporting it. I thought, I see where, I see

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Speaker 1: where people came from. Like I would like, like with

529
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Speaker 1: essentially ninety nine point nine nine percent of my tweets,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather just have never sent it to begin with.

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Speaker 1: But I did, like hear it from somewhere spicy and

532
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: like it was just a little It wasn't a report,

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Speaker 1: but like you know what you I understand what happened there.

534
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Speaker 1: But it's just like why am I? And every time

535
00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: I log on now it's like we want to dry

536
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: up your two factor authentication because so that's like what

537
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: am I doing here? Like this site? Is anyone heard

538
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: from group on this yet? Now substantial subplot? March nineteenth

539
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: is right around the corner. Now, yeah, I haven't. I

540
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Speaker 1: have to check my email today. I'm hoping to get

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Speaker 1: some type of clarity on how to handle that. We

542
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: should explain what it is, well, quip, But it's like you,

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Speaker 1: we we have a thing where like trying to break

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Speaker 1: into my account, Well you've got to get through multiple

545
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Speaker 1: layers of my you know, personal information link with all

546
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Speaker 1: of us. We're probably putting up a flare right now,

547
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: but like, um, they're like take this away because you

548
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: aren't one of the new blue check mark Elon Musk people.

549
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: And it's like, or what, we don't know, you don't

550
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: have access to your account. It's like, we'll smell you

551
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: later unless someone else wants me to do this. Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is not sounding a hole little carnival ride.

553
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: That's our new slogan. We are not Elon Musk people.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we'll hit the rest of

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Speaker 1: the news. All right, we're back. Uh, let's dig into

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Speaker 1: Greggy's Patriots, right, how many Patriots fans do we haven't No,

557
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 1: I don't care. Juju Smith Schuster is going to the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: They signed him to a healthy contract, I would say,

559
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: not astronomical, but healthy. Oh we should mention, speaking of healthy,

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00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: maybe two healthy contracts that Alan Lazard to the Jets deal,

561
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: which was significant. But Juju Smith Schuster, formerly of the Chiefs,

562
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Speaker 1: three years, twenty five and a half million. It's up

563
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: to thirty three million. I'm not sure what the guarantees

564
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Speaker 1: on that are. But this comes just a couple of

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Speaker 1: days Greggy, after Jacoby Myers ends up leaving to join

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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels in Las Vegas, do you think this makes

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Speaker 1: the pets better at that position. No, I think it's

568
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: a wash. I struggled between those two players when doing

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Speaker 1: the one oh one. I went back and forth. I

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00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,239
Speaker 1: was asking people around. I had Juju ahead of him

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Speaker 1: at one point, I had Myers had him at another,

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Speaker 1: and they ended up at Myers. They got what I

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Speaker 1: thought was about the same contract. But actually once the

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Speaker 1: details came out from the pell Raiser, Juju did come

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Speaker 1: in substantially lower, about five million dollars less than guaranteed money.

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Speaker 1: The base salaries like two for twenty. I think like

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Speaker 1: something like that two for sixteen rather for for Juju,

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Speaker 1: which it's fine. It's a different type of player. He's

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Speaker 1: he's hurt a little bit more, but he's more dynamic.

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Speaker 1: After the catch, they badly needed a receiver. I'd rather

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Speaker 1: have just stayed with the guy, you know, Jacoby Myers.

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Speaker 1: But they need they needed one of those two. They

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Speaker 1: need they need another one. Give it get a receiver.

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Speaker 1: Well there is like there there are speaking of little

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Speaker 1: reports and whispers that I mean the DeAndre Hopkins could

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Speaker 1: be on their radar, Jerry Judy could be on their radar.

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Speaker 1: I mean they need a number one. I think Juju

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00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: fits as your number two. Um, I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: is it is Bill Belichick telling us I like Juju

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Speaker 1: Smith Schuster over Jacoby Myers, Like there were similar contracts

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Speaker 1: for the same Absolutely. I asked some of our reporters

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Speaker 1: and they seemed to the Jacoby Myers never got an

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Speaker 1: offer close to that. M Juju Smith shoes. They're similar

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Speaker 1: receivers um in that they could they play the slot,

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Speaker 1: but you could you could kick them outsides. Juju is

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Speaker 1: a little better, a little better run after the catch,

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Speaker 1: which uh maybe that's the area of the Patriots want

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Speaker 1: to get better at um. But yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: think we might later this week share some moves like

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Speaker 1: predictions or what makes a lot of sense. I would

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Speaker 1: be very surprised now based on the way this sets up,

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00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: because Juju is a classic number two, and you know

603
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots want to be aggressive in rebuilding this offense.

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Speaker 1: That the Patriots don't come out of this now without

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Speaker 1: one of these bigger names, whether it's Odell or Nuke.

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Speaker 1: Nuke feels very much like a Belichick player. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I kind of believe there might have been an NFL films. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sideline miked up moment where Belichick was just falling over

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Speaker 1: himself praising Nuca this season, this past season. That would

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Speaker 1: be my prediction that Nuke ends up with the Pats.

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Speaker 1: And then you look at their skill group and it's like, okay, Hunter,

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Speaker 1: Henry Juju, Nuke, Mac Jones, with a real offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: they got a running game, okay, I mean receiver wise,

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Speaker 1: Like it's it's guys who have produced their best three

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Speaker 1: years ago, which is a little concerning. Juju's at least younger.

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Speaker 1: And I always liked Juju as a player, but he's

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Speaker 1: he's a role player. But that's what the Patriots like,

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Speaker 1: is a bunch of role players. You left out one name,

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Speaker 1: Bailey ZAPPI, oh right, well you yeah, another name Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Can we offer you a slightly used McCorkell Jones, Baltimore

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Speaker 1: McCorkell Jones. Is that true? That's amazing. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I like them more now after hearing that, uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: this was It should be noted that this was the

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Speaker 1: first official day where Lamar Jackson could be in discussions

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Speaker 1: with teams, but we haven't really heard anything. It's such

626
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: a it's such a weird story. It's such a weird

627
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: vibe around it. All you're waiting for a team in

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Speaker 1: the cult we mentioned earlier. It makes so much sense,

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Speaker 1: especially now that we see where they are in the

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Speaker 1: draft and how things are going to shake out there

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Speaker 1: most likely where they would get it be getting you know,

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Speaker 1: at best, they're like third best option, maybe even fourth.

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Speaker 1: Make it happen, happen. I'd almost say, like if it were,

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Speaker 1: if it weren't for that little spat of tweets by

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson a couple days ago, it would be the

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Speaker 1: reverse Aaron Rodgers, because you never hear from him and

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00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: you never hear from the Ravens. Truth. Truth. Jake Briskett

638
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: is on the move. The Commanders signed Jacoby Brissette, formerly

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Speaker 1: of the Browns, one year, ten million dollars eight million guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: As you know, Brisket was the bridge to Deshaun Watson,

641
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: played very well for the Browns, your classic like, I

642
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: view him as like a top shelf bridge guy, low

643
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: level starter, and maybe maybe if things lined up, he

644
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: could be more than that. But that's nice for them Anders.

645
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: So you add him to the room with Sam Howell

646
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: and like this one a lot, Greg because it Sam

647
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: how they believe in him, and depending on who you

648
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: talk to, it's a little exhausting to me speaking of

649
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: things that are exhausting. He was a fifth round pick

650
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: in a bad QB draft class. But it's like, oh,

651
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: but he could have been a first rounder. Well, he wasn't,

652
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: and there must be reasons why some people don't think

653
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: he has it in him. So you'd be in You'd

654
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: be very wise to get another quarterback in there to

655
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: give yourself options, and Brisket is a very good one, right.

656
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: I think the contract was telling sliced me off a

657
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: piece of that. Jacobriskey. I mean, we root for Jacoby Risett.

658
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't speak for you guys. I root for

659
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett, good guy. I mean I never thought he'd

660
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: have a season like he did for Cleveland last year,

661
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: where he just was that efficient, played that well, and

662
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: his money was a tier, just a little tier, but

663
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: a tier above all these other backup contracts that have

664
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: been out there, where like the Bakers and Matt and

665
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: Mike White and Sam Darnold I have been getting around

666
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: four million. Heiniki was like six that's what it usually is,

667
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: and now he gets eight to ten. So it does

668
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: indicate to me maybe he's a peg above in terms

669
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: of having a chance to play. And Ron Rivera did

670
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: tell Matt Barry of Rhoda World that if a veteran

671
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 1: beats out Sam Howell, so be it. That's why he

672
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: said that in an interview at the Combat Matt Matt

673
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: Barry with a scoobage. Yeah, there's interview Commanders. He might.

674
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: He's one of the only Commanders fans that I think of.

675
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: That's right. It would be very un brand though, because

676
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: I Brissette was one of last seasons better surprises and

677
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: greater enjoyments, and I really enjoyed watching him lead the Browns,

678
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: like there was something about the whole thing, and the

679
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: coaches players they just love Jacoby Brissette. So there's something

680
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: wrong with adding them. But it would be very Ron

681
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: Rivera ish to go into the season with a Sam Howell,

682
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: who played one his spicy game against the Cowboys. Credit

683
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: to that and Jacoby Brissette and nothing else. While every

684
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: other team in the league is like shooting for the sky,

685
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,720
Speaker 1: You've got really essentially of a low floor, low ceiling

686
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: option at quarterback. It's like, for the eighth year in

687
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: a row under Ron Rivera. And now here's the exact

688
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: same scenario, but with a different team. Another former Brown's quarterback,

689
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, also formerly of the Rams, has signed with

690
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers a one year, eight and a half million

691
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: dollar contract. Four of that is guaranteed for Baker. So

692
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: he joins a team as a former starter for Cleveland

693
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles that has another young quarterback on their

694
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: roster that they drafted and they are internally we're told

695
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: high on. But Baker gives the Bucks another option here

696
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: and Mark this could be a situation where perhaps he

697
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: can win the job out of camp. We'll see how

698
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: they kind of structure. This feels like one of those

699
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: I feel like every year every summer there's maybe one

700
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: legit camp competition. This one smells like it could be

701
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: one of them. Well, they were talking up Kyle Trask,

702
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: but they had no one else, so that that was

703
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: your move. Bruce Arians almost went to Cleveland because of

704
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield when they went with Freddie Kitchens instead Bruce Area.

705
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: And this happens. We see this frond like Bruce Arians

706
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: has Baker Mayfield charms like he likes them, and I mean,

707
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: if you Baker Mayfield. I would rather have last year's

708
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette over anything we've seen from Baker Mayfield over

709
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: the last year and a half. Right, that's fine, but

710
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is one of these players and this is

711
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: not going to be any easier this year where you

712
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: were under Hugh Jackson, Freddie Kitchens, Kevin Stefanski, Ben McAdoo,

713
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: Sean McVay, and now Dave Conally. Like in the course

714
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: of four or five years, you've had to learn six

715
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: or seven different offenses. That never helps. But I think

716
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is also He is what he is at

717
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: this point, and it's a low level option for Tampa

718
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: Bay unless we get a version of that player that

719
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 1: we have not seen since that twenty twenty season under

720
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski or twenty eighteen. I think the money is

721
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: instructive here too, that that level of money means to

722
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: me they might go get another quarterback. Maybe not another veteran,

723
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 1: but they might draft another guy because they haven't really

724
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: been in love with Trash. They've never even let him

725
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: be active on game days. He couldn't pass Plane Gabbard

726
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: on the freaking depth joint. You're gonna start him in

727
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: week one. No way it's gonna be Baker and he's

728
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: not going to be set up to succeed. So I

729
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: think they might they might go get another one. And

730
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about it last week when all

731
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: the Lamar franchise tag stuff went down and all these

732
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: teams leaked that they weren't interested, and we were like, well,

733
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: let's see how it actually plays out starting next week.

734
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: And then I'm just like looking at you know, Atlanta

735
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: made a move yesterday for a quarterback. The Saints, the Commanders,

736
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: the Bucks, the Jets are all like fortifying their QB

737
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: rooms and moving forward with a plan. I probably even

738
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: missed one or two teams there, and it does you

739
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: start to think, like, so the Colts obviously make a

740
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: lot of sense, and like, what are the teams that

741
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: aggressive have not made an aggressive move or any type

742
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: of move that would make sense as a Lamar suitor? Interesting.

743
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: I think it had to be got total wildcard team

744
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: like the Pats or the forty nine Ers or the

745
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: Titans or the Bucks. Actually still like that contract. I

746
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: was saying they could go after another quarterback. Payne Baker Mayfield.

747
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: Four million dollars does not stop you from doing it

748
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to manifest Lamar Jackson to the Patriots.

749
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 1: That's like the second time you brought it up in

750
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: the last fifteen minutes. I at that crazy, absolutely trying

751
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: to If you want me back in, I told you

752
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: that would do it, all right. The Bucks also resigned

753
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: Lavante David to a one year, seven million dollars contract.

754
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: He's been with the Bucks since the very beginning of

755
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: his career, so in his twelfth season, he stays with

756
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, which, you know, that's interesting. I like it.

757
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if Lavande David gets a

758
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: statue when his career is over, but you know, here's

759
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: two guys playing their whole career with one team, and

760
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: that potentially could happen with Lavante David. That's cool. It's

761
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: like one of the only way get a bargain in

762
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: free agency is like these old guys, he's still playing

763
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: at like a pro Bowl level. Greg has already shifted

764
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: from the Bowls of Sons to the dan quinnoissance, So

765
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: I think that's sort of what's going on here. So

766
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: we got to give Todd Bowls a chance to not

767
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: just sort of, you know, stand at the you know,

768
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: the front of a sinking ship as it goes into

769
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: the icy Atlantic helped him out here? Um does this

770
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: mean by the way mac Lamore Jones are you so?

771
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: Are you out on him? Or I still have reasonably

772
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: high hopes for McCorkle. Not. Uh. Here's a move that

773
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: I was It was bittersweet. Uh. Jamal Williams, he gets

774
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: paid by the Saints. He makes his move, gets a

775
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: new deal. Of course, he's coming off an absurd seventeen

776
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: touchdown season with the Lions, setting the franchise record, coming

777
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: on our show during Super Bowl Week. Uh, being a

778
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: hero on a hard knocks Let's get some like classic

779
00:39:53,320 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams. Here grave digger Um, three years, twelve million

780
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: he gets from the Saints. So the Lions now make

781
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 1: a move as well. They bring in David Montgomery, formerly

782
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,879
Speaker 1: of the Bears. He had a nice season last year,

783
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: so a little bit of a sprise that kind of

784
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: thought him would stick around, but he didn't. Greg, I

785
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just a money thing. It didn't

786
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: seem like it because they paid David Montgomery more than

787
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams. Guy, I'd rather have Jamal Williams. David Montgomery's

788
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: a guy who makes you missed, but he makes you

789
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: missed to gain like four yards instead of three. Not

790
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays, just like a solid player,

791
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: whereas Jamal Williams is bringing the vibes, he's bringing the energy,

792
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: he's bringing the speeches. He just felt like a perfect

793
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: Detroit Lion. I think he's a blue guy. I thought

794
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: he was a glue guy for that team in addition

795
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: to being remarkably efficient near the goal line. Yeah, you

796
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: already knew he works. I don't. It was one of

797
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: the better like stories of the Lions and one of

798
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: the better players stories of the entire year, starting in

799
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: hard knocks and Dave Montgomery's skilled, but like, I don't

800
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: get the move because you're taking away kind of a

801
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: heart and soul player from this young Lions team that

802
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: needs those guys. Well. It's interesting because he was one

803
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: of the first moves Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell made

804
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: together was bringing in Jamal Williams two at the time

805
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: somewhat surprisingly good contract for a backup running back. And

806
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: they were like, he's a foundation builder and he really,

807
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: he really did that, and I think he can do

808
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: that for the Saints too. I know they're in a

809
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: different spot, but they need a backup for Alvin kamericause

810
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: he's probably going to be suspended. And I've always thought

811
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: that that was a position of need for them. Anyways,

812
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: mark Ingram was getting older, and I do like that fit.

813
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: Some one of our followers sent us like, can't you

814
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: just imagine a Saints Hard Knocks with Jamis Winston and

815
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams at a crab boil. I mean that sounds

816
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: like fun. Sure I would watch that. Let me hear

817
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: some more, Jamal Williams, graber, do not give up? Do

818
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: not like you tired? Were you tired? Think a last year?

819
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: They're thinking a fucking record. Everybody's great when they're not tired.

820
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: The champions is when they tired. That's when the real

821
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: champions come out. That's when a real dog come out,

822
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: because if you go piss like a puppy, stay on

823
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: the parts and let the black dog seat. I love

824
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: that he's taking out a leadership role there. The players

825
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: were responding to him, and then when he was on

826
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: our show, he talked about he plays like video games

827
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: and watch his anime twenty hours a day. You know,

828
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: we we contain multitudes. In other news, Matt Ryan is

829
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: indeed history in the Indianapolis. After a disastrous one year

830
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: run with the Colts in which he was benched twice

831
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: during a fiasco of a season in Indianapolis, he is

832
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: showing the door. Retirement seems to beckon for Matt Ryan.

833
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: I hope it does. I mean, guys can quit when

834
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: they want, but this has not been a pretty end

835
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: for a really good player. And the Colts also signed

836
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: edge rusher Sampson com formally of the forty nine ers,

837
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: to a three year contract with worth maximum value of

838
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: twenty seven million, nine and a half sacks as a

839
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: rotational rusher over the past two years in San Franz.

840
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: And I will say this about Chris Ballard. He really

841
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: loves to play chicken with this quarterback situation year after

842
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: year because they are, like you said, the one team

843
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: that has really done nothing at the position other than

844
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: removed last year's answer before you know when last year

845
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: they removed the previous year's answer. And you go back

846
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: and back and back into the retiring of Andrew Luck

847
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: and it's like, if there isn't something big coming behind

848
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 1: door number two, I mean, Chris Ballard's running out of

849
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: octane to argue for his opposition here, and our guy

850
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Speaker 1: raptually pointed out, Matt Ryan's making twelve million dollars from

851
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: the cults this year regardless. And it's not like, oh,

852
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: he's twelve million dollars on the cap dead money, but

853
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: that's not real money. It's like, no, Jim Ursey is

854
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: sending those checks to Matt Ryan. So good job, I

855
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: guess by his agent. But I gotta go check the

856
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: tape and see if Matt Ryan was as good on

857
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: CBS as people say, because apparently he's he's into it

858
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: and he wants I missed it. I don't know. I

859
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: think he was like one of the playoff days we

860
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: probably weren't watching. He was on the pregame show or

861
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: in the halftime shows and uh apparently did a good

862
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: nice job. Yeah, I mean, has anyone ever looked more

863
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: destined to work twenty four years in a booth? He's

864
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: the next rich Gannon. Yeah. He feels like upgrade on

865
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: like the number three CBS crew. So I like that.

866
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: I like that idea. Here's a little uh three pack

867
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: for you, Jordan Poyer, He's back with the Bills. The

868
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: Viking sign Byron Murphy to a two year, twenty two

869
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: million dollars packed and the Panthers bringing Hayden Hurst tight

870
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: end um formerly of the Ravens, then the Bengals. I

871
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: thought he's pretty good match there in Cincinnati, but now

872
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: he's in the Carolina. Andy Dalton also lands with Carolina,

873
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: which is there you go these guys, a lot of

874
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. He's veteran QBS. You watch the trajectory of

875
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: the career mark and Andy Dalton went from second round

876
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: pick of Cincinnati to franchise pillar to bouncing around as

877
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: a bridge guy, slash backup, and now he's going to

878
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: sign a hardcore backup deal behind the number one overall pick. Well,

879
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: I think if you you know, I've talked about CJ.

880
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: Stroud a little bit for the Panthers, but if there

881
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: was a world where it were Anthony Richardson, it was

882
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 1: someone that they thought we want to let him marinate

883
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: for a bit. Andy Dalton is literally the perfect quarterback

884
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: in that situation. Say he's literally fulfilling the Dalton line

885
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: credo that like, you are our starter, but we need

886
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: a better starter. But in that case they would have

887
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: gone and gotten a better starter and he could just

888
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: play that role until he's no longer the option. See,

889
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: I thought you were going the other way there, if

890
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: they were gonna go Richardson, And I think it's pretty

891
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: clear they're not. Dalton's just so different from him that

892
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: they almost wouldn't make any sense, you know what I mean?

893
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: Like what you would want a guy that somehow was

894
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: similar to Richardson in some ways? And if you were picking,

895
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: I'd say this, Greg Who's the who's similar to Richardson

896
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: that's on the market right now? That's Tyler Huntley. I

897
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: mean where people people would like setting their clothes on

898
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: fire because he made a fall like a flag football

899
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl game. Yeah, Ty Huntley played well in that

900
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: gamelay well, but I was outraged. Over All the digital

901
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: ink was spilled about how well ty Huntley played in

902
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, like a participation trophy his friends, it

903
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: was flag football. He did great Snoop is what his

904
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: friends call him. And uh, he's a restricted free agent

905
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: that they didn't put a tender on. They put the

906
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: original round tender, meaning someone can sign him. He's basically

907
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: a free agent and not in The Ravens could match it,

908
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't have to give up anything. And so

909
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: how about this, guys, You could actually sign Lamar Jackson

910
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: and Snoopunley Huntley two contracts at the exact same time.

911
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: You could bring the whole Ravens quarterback room over. Do

912
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: you ever have never been done? Never? I'm just thinking

913
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: about this Greg this morning, as so much has been

914
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: made of, like Lamar Jackson not having an agent, he does,

915
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 1: it's you. What does that have to do with anything?

916
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: I just thought it'd be fun. I mean, what if

917
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: you signed two quarterbacks at once. I don't know. I'm

918
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: just saying you are using your platform and and good.

919
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: I have no issue with it. You have used your

920
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: platform to pump up Lamar Jackson's market, to even connect

921
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: him to teams that he's already working hand in hand

922
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: with his mom and the union. Lamar, if you're out there,

923
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: Greggy deserves a cut of whatever contract comes. That's all

924
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm trying to get your paid Greg Adam

925
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: to the entourage. I want that. I want that sort

926
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: of influence. If I had any influence, Andy Dalton would

927
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: have done better than one year four million. I thought

928
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: he played quite well last year. Two points. Let's take

929
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: a break, and then I want to bring something up.

930
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back Greg Off our earlier conversation before

931
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: the break, Well, when we first hit Andy Dalton, I

932
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: think this might be the end of Andy Dalton being

933
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: being eligible for the Dalton Scale. I think this is

934
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: in terms of ATN history, this is a major transition

935
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: moment where he's not even someone that we could discuss anymore. Right,

936
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: That's what I thought for two or three years. Yes,

937
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: but that's what I thought for two or three years.

938
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: And then he went out last year and like, if

939
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: you're just based in it on twenty twenty two game film,

940
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: he was better than Derek Carr. Yeah, yeah, I don't

941
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: think it'll continue. But he's a backup now he's wavered

942
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: back and forth. But I don't they signed him to

943
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: be a patch early season starter at IF that. Yeah,

944
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: I think it'll be CJ. Stroud's backup. I really think

945
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: Stroud kind of fits what Frank wants. And I'm just saying, like,

946
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: let's say, see J Strout is the guy. You know,

947
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: he's starting week one. Let's be let's be honest here. Um. Then,

948
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: so when it gets to June or the dog days

949
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: for this podcast and we're doing our annual Dalton line podcasts, Like,

950
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: I don't think we include him in the convo. I

951
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: don't know if that's ever happened before, But did we

952
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: include him like I think last year we had already

953
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: moved on to like the Ryan Tannehills and other guys.

954
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: All right, forget it then never mind? Well no, but

955
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: you're right. I think I think you're right. I think

956
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: you're right, Dan, I think you're right, And uh, we

957
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 1: should mention Miles Sanders signed with Carolina. If you're looking

958
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: for a guy who got a little a little bright

959
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: with your facts, Mark, I mean, I'm just literally I'll

960
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: go back and listen to that episode. But I don't

961
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 1: think Andy Dalton was like a lynchpin. Probably we're saying

962
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: we moved where we got to change the name of it.

963
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: We've been saying that I was trying. I was. I

964
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: was painting in the margins of like symbolism and this

965
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: podcast history. I shouldn't have done that. It was very

966
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: dauv of me. Um. The other point I wanted to

967
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 1: Greg was hypothetical, you're ready, I'm ready this Lamar stuff,

968
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: and I know you're rooting for Lamar and a lot

969
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: of people aren't just to make this this land for

970
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: him and he gets paid and he's happy with it,

971
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 1: and he's on a team that truly appreciates him. Um,

972
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: what if Lamar was like Aaron Rodgers, like super online

973
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: at a level that no one even realized, and he

974
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: does reach out to you and he says, Hey, I

975
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: just want you to know, like you're the only guy

976
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 1: in the whole godnessente like he pauses, and he shows

977
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: him as a listener to that has understood like what

978
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: I have been about and what I've been striving for

979
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: and what i believe has been unfair, and how I've

980
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: been coverage covered and you're you're right. Screw every agent

981
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: in the world into the dirt. They all suck, and

982
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: all the insiders they're terrible. You get me. I want

983
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: you to come on and be my consultant slash assistant,

984
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: and I will pay you double what you make right

985
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: now at NFL. Yes, yes, please, yeah, yes, I would

986
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: try to like see with you guys and be like, hey,

987
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: so this thing came up. It's probably not gonna last forever,

988
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: but I got a family, and you know, I would

989
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: hope you guys would consider it. In your hearts if

990
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: this ever goes south to welcome me back. But I

991
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: can't count on that. I'm going to have to do this. Yeah,

992
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: I think Mark. I don't want to speak for you,

993
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: but we would understand. I just I'm just asking you seriously, like,

994
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 1: would you move, let's say, hypothetically, to Indianapolis. And part

995
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,760
Speaker 1: of the job is, like you know, just being his buddy.

996
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things too. This seems weird.

997
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: I don't want that. I would also point to about,

998
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen other media members who've probably been just

999
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: as a vocal and aggressively you're the one on this podcast,

1000
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: including Patrick Claybodu. Yeah, I Indianapolis. That could be a

1001
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: tough self for Amica. And that's sort of where I

1002
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: mean starts here about moving to LA. All right, good time,

1003
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: Sorry to you know Indianapolis people. She just you know,

1004
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: she wasn't expecting anywhere button New York. That's all all right,

1005
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: let's uh oh you want a good ten years of

1006
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: disappointing her then, Greg, that's um, that's a good good

1007
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 1: track record. Yeah, I mean it's quite a legacy. I'm

1008
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: leaving all right before we hit odds and ends let's

1009
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: let's head over to Tytoons Corner with Justin Graver. I

1010
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,720
Speaker 1: can't when we're doing when we're doing these remote shows,

1011
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: I can't look into those beautiful puppy dog brown eyes

1012
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: of Justin to bring him in. So I just have

1013
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: to wait for his digital visage to appear. And now

1014
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: there it is. Oh, there's the rotating Titans helmet. Just

1015
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: move it a little bit faster than you'd think. But

1016
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: a very nice gift, very thoughtful. How's been laying? Dan?

1017
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: I set up a ring light just for you. It

1018
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: looks better. I think it looks good. It looks good.

1019
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 1: Good job, buddy. We want to check in on your

1020
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: thoughts on some moves that the Titans have made. Now,

1021
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: I know you are of the opinion that the move

1022
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: for Tennessee should be to completely retreat and regroup and

1023
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: even dare I say tank. Here are some moves that

1024
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: the Titans made today. Titans tendered restricted free agent defensive

1025
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: tackle Tierre Tart at a second round level. They also

1026
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: placed a second round tender unrestricted free agent Aaron Brewer.

1027
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: They also they also signed a ziz Al Shayar and

1028
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 1: Arden Key. What are your thoughts on these signings by

1029
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Yes, they also signed Daniel Brunskill, who

1030
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: will be the starting right guard off the forty nine

1031
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: ers team. They signed three guys who were in San

1032
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: Francis go when Ran Carthon, the new general manager, was

1033
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: also in San Francisco. So those feel like you get

1034
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: an idea of what kind of player you're getting, not

1035
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: just based on like film and stuff. But I think

1036
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: overall pretty good value signings. No massive guarantees handed out

1037
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: by the Titans. I think this is like a soft reload,

1038
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: you know, get a little bit of talent on the

1039
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: rosters so that you're not just like fielding undrafted free

1040
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,320
Speaker 1: agents because you have to field a team in twenty

1041
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: twenty three. But this is all setting up for twenty

1042
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: twenty four. I mean you can't. You can't like go

1043
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty three with all like nobody's at every

1044
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: position and then twenty twenty four rolls around. You gotta

1045
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: fill like starters across the board. So fill some starters

1046
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: this year, save a few holes to fill next year

1047
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: when you go get Caleb Williams or Drake May, and

1048
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: then reset to be ready to compete in twenty twenty four.

1049
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: I think back, man, I think that Titans are back.

1050
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm so waiting for so waiting for that Derrick Henry

1051
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: trade to drop. That'll that would be fun. Yeah, come on,

1052
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: get him to Buffalo. Who is who is the big

1053
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: quarterback you want next year? I want Caleb Williams right now,

1054
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: I mean Caleb william Change over this all right? So

1055
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: you have you since you seem to be ahead of

1056
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 1: the game here in terms of how the Titans show

1057
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: should proceed or might be proceeding, this is your chance,

1058
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: especially with your um really well received Titans podcast that

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00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: is called The Music City Audible. The Music City Audible

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00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: is that new? Did you rename it? No? But you

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00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: do ask me that every time it comes up, you

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00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: could come up with like the uh the rhyme you

1063
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like the scam for Sam or

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00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: the you know, collapse for Caleb windows for Williams. Those

1065
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:35,959
Speaker 1: are both prey. You got time. You have a little

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00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: runway there. Yeah, I think you're in trouble. You you

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00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 1: you signed two of my favorite free agents Alsa here

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00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: in Art and Key those were like two of the guys,

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00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: was like, oh sleeper free agents. Yeah, and look at

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00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 1: the Titans. Tannehill still there, Derek Henry's still there? Um,

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00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: who's the safety that was rumored? Bird? Still there? I mean,

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00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: maybe this is going to change in a couple of days,

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00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: but maybe the Titans are back about We'll see, how

1074
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: about gee hod for Caleb? Is that rhyme? Not? Really?

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00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: I don't think that. Um, I don't think that works

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00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: on a variety of levels. I find entertaining. Dam But

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Speaker 1: I just I don't think you're gonna get too far

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00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: with it. Thank you, Mark. Let's do some odds and

1079
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: ends odds. It ends odds and ends. Everybody, tell your friends.

1080
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: It's starting to remind me of that segment of Fantasia

1081
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: of the Disney Classic where all the brooms start to

1082
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: take over. Yeah, it's a little ominous, um that we

1083
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: need a wizard to come and clean up all these colleens.

1084
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: All right, hit it? All right? The Texans give Sheldon

1085
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: Rankins a ten million dollars contract. He leaves the Jets

1086
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: after two productive seasons in New York. Caleb McGarry gets

1087
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: thirty four million from the big spending Falcons. The Broncos

1088
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,320
Speaker 1: signed running back some J p Ryan, Larry Oldwin, Joebi

1089
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 1: gets big money from the Steelers. The Chargers release Matt Feiler,

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00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,760
Speaker 1: they bring back Trey Pimpkins, uh Seahawks bring back Jaron Reid.

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00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: Chief signed Charles O Mena who and you know what

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00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: I think we're missing U the speaking of the Brownies.

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00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: I think that then they bring in Um Thornhill, the

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00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: lineback Thornhill Wan Thornhill, linebacker of the Chief, Super Bowl champion.

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00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: A bunch of transactions just to get us caught up.

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00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: Any thoughts, a gentleman, what one thing that? Um? But

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00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: with Somagi p Rhyan, first of all, last year with

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00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: the Bengals, I thought that, you know, when Nixon was

1099
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: in and out of the lineup, he worked really well

1100
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: for them, and he played He just reminds me of

1101
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: a Sean Payton back. You can throw the vaal who

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00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: left and right kind of just fits. But also it's

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00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: like I was with you, Greg, the under the assumption

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00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: that Joe Mixon has probably done in Cincinnati. But now

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00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: you don't have Somagi p Rhyan and either keep Joe Mixon,

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00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: which would be a surprise, or you move on and

1107
00:57:56,120 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: you've got nothing there at that position. Greg, get Austin Eckler, right,

1108
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: We've learned over the years you can't like give these

1109
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: offseason grades after the first day. But the Bengals have

1110
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: had a tough couple of days. They lose Hearst I

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00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: think they wanted to keep him. They lose von Bell,

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00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: I think they wanted to keep him. They lose Jesse Bates,

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00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: who they knew was gonna leave, but he's a really

1114
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: good player. And yeah, p Ryan I think would have

1115
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: been a nice pickup if you're getting rid of mixing.

1116
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: Some of these bonuses come in of like the third

1117
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: day of the league year, which is Friday, and so

1118
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: there's still gonna be a lot more cuts, a lot

1119
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: more trades. I'm really looking to see who the Broncos trade.

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00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: It really does seem like Courtland Sutton and or probably

1121
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: or Jerry Judy gets dealt and we'll see who it is.

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00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right about Cincinnati, and but imagine

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Speaker 1: if they did make that move and bring in Eckler.

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00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: Imagine that team entering the red zone when you have

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00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow at the controls with Jamar Chase t Higgs

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00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: an Eckler in the green zone. Make it happen. WHOA

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00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: All right, how about Derrick Henry on the Bengals. That

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00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like something we could I could picture, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I think Derrick Henry is a

1130
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: Titan for life. He should be at least why why

1131
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: should he be a Titan for life? Just feels that way.

1132
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, if you're get if you're given

1133
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: Echoler to the Bengals, I want to see Henry in

1134
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo that I just like we've talked about that before.

1135
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: That would be such a pile driver from like October on.

1136
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I could remember who wrote this,

1137
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: but I read it and uh, speaking of running back market,

1138
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: Zeke now obviously gonna be a free agent. Does he

1139
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: have any job? Um someone throughout the Chiefs where it's

1140
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: Isaiah but Chenko is like the guy in space and

1141
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: the more electric guy. But he's if you need a

1142
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: really good blocking running back, which that is Zeke, and

1143
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: somebody it can find the end zone as your goal

1144
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: line back, maybe Chief Zeke is a match. The Bucks

1145
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: were reportedly interested. I don't know why. All right. So

1146
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Speaker 1: that is the Wednesday edition of the Free Agent. This

1147
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: is free agency week for around the NFL. I would

1148
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: like to get to a point boys also where we

1149
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: have some type of marquee guest that people need to

1150
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: tune in for, Like we need to do that. I

1151
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: think maybe we had a little bit of a setback

1152
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: with Cavon last summer. But if Cavon has like a

1153
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: twenty sack season and we mend that fence, maybe you know,

1154
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: he could be that guy. Maybe we get in with

1155
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: one of these young quarterbacks early and earn their trust

1156
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: at the draft. That's another reason to try to get

1157
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: to the draft. We do, Dan, and this isn't exactly

1158
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Yes, we do have Bill Barnwell

1159
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: from ESPN on Monday, so that's going to bring in

1160
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: the people. Well, that's a fellow Northeastern University graduate, so

1161
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: I know that that is something I'm excited for. All right,

1162
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll have another show tomorrow, just sharing some

1163
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: you know, the other big news from the week. As

1164
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: it comes along. It does start to slow down, but

1165
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: there's still enough irons in the fire here and you

1166
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: never know. Again, it's very strange with this Lamar Jackson situation,

1167
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: but he is now officially open for business, so maybe

1168
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: we'll get some movement on that tomorrow and if it

1169
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: happens on Friday. Gotta say it, Mark, there will not

1170
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: be an Aaron Rodgers emergency podcast, but now there is

1171
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: a Lamar Jackson emergency podcast potentially in the offing. Just

1172
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: a heads up, put it on your calendar, and I

1173
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't say red block out your day, but it's got

1174
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: to be maybe an Orange. Well. Look, I was prepared

1175
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: to do whatever it took to cover the Aaron Rodgers

1176
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: news holistically, and so if we have to do that

1177
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: for Lamar Jackson, a more enjoyable individual this offseason, of

1178
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: course I'll do it. I'll be there absolutely well said

1179
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to get that assistant job for Lamar? No,

1180
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 1: but I mean I wouldn't. I would. I would just say, like,

1181
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: if I were able to speak with him, can you

1182
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: wait till maybe, you know, Monday morning would feel like

1183
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: a really fresh time to do it. Why are the

1184
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: smack dab in the middle of anyone's Friday just throwing

1185
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: that out there too? I think he is someone that

1186
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 1: seems to want to work with us, right. The trade

1187
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: of the number one an overall pick Friday at like

1188
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: five pm Eastern was legitimately a disgrace by everyone involved.

1189
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: We're trying to have lives here. Can someone think about

1190
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: the cognizandy. Is that how you become a cognizanny by

1191
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: having a balanced work life. I don't know. I don't

1192
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 1: think so. All Right, we'll be back tomorrow. Thank you

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01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: everybody for listening, and remember, as always, he'd the call