Speaker 1: Jacobe Myers is headed to the Las Vegas Raiders, where
Speaker 1: he moster is headed back to the Miami Dolphins. Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: the safety returning to Dallas. Houston Texans were acquiring Shack
Speaker 1: Bason Taylor Honekeepiece expected to sign with the Atlanta fac
Speaker 1: the New York Giants acquiring star tight end Darren Waller
Speaker 1: for the Raiders. Alan lazardw and Aaron Rodgers favorite receivers.
Speaker 1: Seems to have a lot of favor receivers, but certainly
Speaker 1: this is one of them. He is working on a
Speaker 1: deal with the New York Jets. I can't say for
Speaker 1: sure that the Jets have spoken directly to Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but I know they've spoken to his camp in the
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours, so he in. The communication continues,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and driving the cars. Oh you can say
Speaker 1: that again. From the Chris Westling podcast studio, it's around
Speaker 1: the NFL. I'm Dan Kansas, day two of They don't
Speaker 1: want me to say it, but I will. Legal tampering period,
Speaker 1: free agency, and we're breaking it all down. Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal and back for a second straight show. Who
Speaker 1: we are in different types of waters here? And they're warm.
Speaker 1: Everybody in Colleen wolf Hey, where everybody take a swim?
Speaker 1: Cal Ripkin over here, cal Ripkin calkins, Johnny back on
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Speaker 1: some riches. But the wedding ring and Jay Lynch's box
Speaker 1: in the henhouse, not to the men's house. Make room here,
Speaker 1: roast this Tawny's henhouse box and a handhouse, not just
Speaker 1: the men's house. I don't know. That was a little
Speaker 1: rich gay. Whistle will take it where he where he must.
Speaker 1: He is. He reminds me of a young Marshall Mathers
Speaker 1: where he may Mike. He might make you uncomfortable, but
Speaker 1: he's spitting truth. He's pushing the envelope, pushing it. That's
Speaker 1: what he does, pushing it. Colleen and Twistle fashion, I'm
Speaker 1: great again. I showed up today in a sweatshirt and
Speaker 1: now I feel like I'm at Like Bill Belichick vibes
Speaker 1: a little bit like should I should I cut the
Speaker 1: sleeves off of this and just make it. That could
Speaker 1: be a good look. It could be a good look.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what we do at the end of the show. Yeah, ok, yes,
Speaker 1: stay two of Free agency week, and there are so
Speaker 1: many things to talk about big moves. There is the
Speaker 1: biggest domino still, I guess I don't even know if
Speaker 1: it's a domino anymore. With Aaron Rodgers. It has not
Speaker 1: officially been announced, but we're gonna take a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different angle on this around the NFL. We're
Speaker 1: we don't cowtow to Big Roger. We have decided to
Speaker 1: proceed Greg as if this is a done deal, right.
Speaker 1: They don't want you to say legal tampering. They don't
Speaker 1: want us acting as Rogers move has already happened. We
Speaker 1: don't listen today. We're not on your timeline. We're in
Speaker 1: the studio. Let's talk about it. I mean, you're bringing
Speaker 1: in every former pushing guar outside of like Jamichael Finley
Speaker 1: to the Jets. We know what's happening. Let's just talk
Speaker 1: about it. This is the resistance. Yes, well, breaking news stitude.
Speaker 1: The Jets quest for a new quarterback in our minds
Speaker 1: has concluded with Aaron Rodgers now being the new quarterback
Speaker 1: in the meadowlands. Thank god it's happened, and now we
Speaker 1: will do fifteen minutes on whether Joe Namath should give
Speaker 1: up his number twelve to the Packers legend. Let's dig in,
Speaker 1: let's start there. No, um no, the news is an
Speaker 1: official But the more reporting that comes out, this is happening.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers will be the quarterback of the Jets I have.
Speaker 1: It's a big difference between now, Connie and this time
Speaker 1: yesterday where I was so filled with anxiety that I
Speaker 1: was tweeting out Ryan Townehill trade parameters. Yeah, and rich
Speaker 1: Isisen was like, relax, dude, you gotta relax. Not wow,
Speaker 1: that's right. It was actually, man, you got to calm down. Oh,
Speaker 1: calm down, calm down. Wow. If anyone said to be
Speaker 1: a weak out, he's probably right in a way because
Speaker 1: I was spinning. But now when you hear the reports
Speaker 1: that Alan Lazard is in talks with the Jets and
Speaker 1: and not anybody else, and what was Mark? What was
Speaker 1: what was the Rodo World headline connected to Rogers in
Speaker 1: the Jets morning? Let me source that for you right now.
Speaker 1: It was Rogers Ransom note to ny J full of
Speaker 1: Packers and obj well. Because Aaron Rodgers has asked the
Speaker 1: Jets to um heat seek Randall Cobb, which is like
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna help a friend Lazard
Speaker 1: as you know. I think it's a good addition. I
Speaker 1: think he would be a Sadies Lewis. Who's I think
Speaker 1: my age um Odell Beckham. Wait, he's part of Generation Next.
Speaker 1: I believe he's the only other person in it. Wasn't
Speaker 1: he a MJD's draft class. Yeah, it's like John Coon
Speaker 1: as well, and also James Starks, who was on the
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten Super Bowl. I can't even tell
Speaker 1: when the joke begins or if that's a last two
Speaker 1: names are not connected, but it does include Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I think if you're Joe Douglass, you're thinking, like,
Speaker 1: could I be more publicly controlled by this individual? You know?
Speaker 1: The reporting is, you know, and people are saying it's
Speaker 1: not official. We keep hearing from both sides it's not official.
Speaker 1: They still are figuring out. It's like, okay, we get that.
Speaker 1: They it's an annoying negotiation for both sides in terms
Speaker 1: of the compensation, whether it's the trades or the money
Speaker 1: that like no one wants to lose. But also both
Speaker 1: teams are operating absolutely as if it's happening, because it
Speaker 1: has to happen. It's gotten too far at this point.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's exciting. It's exciting for the Patriots to
Speaker 1: be predicted dead last and they watch out. Yeah, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: if this is true, it's happy. No, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: ESPN's reporting with these players that he wants. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it also takes two to tango, so he
Speaker 1: could he could provide that list. We could see if
Speaker 1: the Jets actually, in good faith pursue all those players.
Speaker 1: I would hope they don't, and I would hope that
Speaker 1: with you know, history is instructive, as Chris Westling was
Speaker 1: known to say, what we saw with Nathaniel Hackett and
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and Hackett is now in the building with
Speaker 1: the Jets. If you if you view your your inside
Speaker 1: of your building as a true partnership between the quarterback
Speaker 1: and the coach and the staff and the organization. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I could go sideways, So you can't give him everything
Speaker 1: he wants if you don't think it's right for the team.
Speaker 1: That said, I do trust the brain trust of Douglas
Speaker 1: and Sala to provide the necessary pushback if necessary. Still,
Speaker 1: he's got to be officially in the boat on this show.
Speaker 1: He is assuming he is, the Jets are in a
Speaker 1: very good position. This is a very exciting time for
Speaker 1: Jets fans. And I just think, and you look at
Speaker 1: where they where this put would put them in the AFC.
Speaker 1: You know, it puts him in the mix. It puts
Speaker 1: him as a legitimate potential contender in the NFL, in
Speaker 1: the AFC, and I will take that, and I think
Speaker 1: it's definitely a roll of the dice, but it also
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense and way better than an alternate universe
Speaker 1: where they were saying we took Zach Wilson number two. Overall,
Speaker 1: We're going to give this one more try. This is
Speaker 1: an aggressive move for a veteran legend quarterback and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you roll a big number and win it all.
Speaker 1: Who knows. I mean, we grew up listening to wfa
Speaker 1: N and NFL Network sampled some Jets callers calling in
Speaker 1: as the Jets fan base because you know, as a
Speaker 1: Browns fan growing up, Like I think the Jets and
Speaker 1: Browns had some shared DNA, but forget the Browns. Like
Speaker 1: the Jets fan base is out there in a universe
Speaker 1: all by themselves among all sports fans. I just really
Speaker 1: feel that way because it's been such a rough, terrible
Speaker 1: trail through darkness for Jets fans for so long that
Speaker 1: all this angst and annoyance there you go. They still cheer,
Speaker 1: but like with're Aaron Rodgers, Like this has been an
Speaker 1: annoying process, we can just let's not like it's an
Speaker 1: annoyed us all in various ways. Who cares if it
Speaker 1: happens and suddenly Aaron Rodgers is your quarterback, it changes
Speaker 1: the division entirely. It changes the Jets from top to bottom,
Speaker 1: and there is an incredibly actual, tangible hope that the
Speaker 1: Jets could be entertaining for the first time in eons. Right,
Speaker 1: They've been creating cap space to get to this moment.
Speaker 1: They also traded for Chuck Clark last week. That was
Speaker 1: kind of quiet, nice little safety pick up. The reason
Speaker 1: it all makes sense is because the rest of the
Speaker 1: team is in a good position. Joe Douglas has put
Speaker 1: the rest of the team in good position. They lost
Speaker 1: more games to injury on their offensive line than any
Speaker 1: team in the league other than the Rams last year.
Speaker 1: That they had to survive all those injuries, that was
Speaker 1: a big part of the reason that I think MICHAELA.
Speaker 1: Fleur got fired. Was just bad injury luck because I
Speaker 1: think he would be a nice offensive coordinator for this
Speaker 1: team and would fit obviously well with Aaron Rodgers. But Hackett,
Speaker 1: who hasn't called plays at the NFL level in a
Speaker 1: long time and that doesn't have a great history, should
Speaker 1: be good enough. And you have Garrett Wilson, you have
Speaker 1: Elijah More. We'll see who ends up staying, because I
Speaker 1: do think there'll be more moves. I think that, I mean,
Speaker 1: of all this happening officially would make sense by the
Speaker 1: league gear starting. It's already happened. It has already happened,
Speaker 1: but like on this show, it happens happening like Wednesdays
Speaker 1: and day because I will I am curious about some
Speaker 1: of the details contractually. And then who else is on
Speaker 1: the roster with him, not just all the former Packers,
Speaker 1: but if any of these Jets are gonna get the
Speaker 1: heave ho uh to clear up cap space because a
Speaker 1: lot of the big cuts around in the league, and
Speaker 1: this isn't just Jets, haven't happened yet some of the
Speaker 1: ones I expected, and I think it might happen Wednesday
Speaker 1: when teams officially happen. Aaron Rodgers, the gm um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. It's the moves that he really wants the
Speaker 1: Jets to make to bring in a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys in their prime. Um, well, see, this is the
Speaker 1: type of stuff that people can miss me with because
Speaker 1: it is this is a moment. The prevailing narrative was
Speaker 1: that the Jets were gonna blow this and not get
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and as we've announced on the show Today show,
Speaker 1: that has not happened. And now the narrative is that
Speaker 1: it's going to work out terribly and that he's going
Speaker 1: to run the organization. Everybody have fun with it. Well,
Speaker 1: who is actually saying that? I don't think. I think
Speaker 1: here's Colleen Hello, go check out the rodal World headline.
Speaker 1: It's all fine, but everybody can enjoy it. It's good.
Speaker 1: But if it was going to another team, you would
Speaker 1: have the same concerns. Because he has a very short window.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you don't do the move. But giving
Speaker 1: him all the power in the world is the same.
Speaker 1: But did they give him all the power in the world.
Speaker 1: There's some I mean, you've got the leverage, you might
Speaker 1: as well use it. The assumption here is that this
Speaker 1: is how it's going to play out, and perhaps it will.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say there's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of critical takes around the move because the assumption that
Speaker 1: it's not going to work out, And that's what I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in personally as a football fan, as a
Speaker 1: Jets fan, I'm just right now absorbing it as a
Speaker 1: time of incredible hope and optimism as a fan that
Speaker 1: you took this roster and Joe Douglas has been a
Speaker 1: very interesting GM for the team. I've brought it up before,
Speaker 1: but I'll bring it up again. He is like in baseball,
Speaker 1: power hitter who hits two thirty five but can hit
Speaker 1: fifty home runs. And that's how you have Joe. That's
Speaker 1: how you ended up with Zach Wilson on the roster,
Speaker 1: which is a big swing, and miss McKay Beckton, which
Speaker 1: is a pretty big miss right now. But also how
Speaker 1: you ended up with Sauce Gardner home run, Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: home run, Elija Vara Tucker home run, Breece Hall home run,
Speaker 1: DJ Reid and free agency another home run last year.
Speaker 1: And they now have this roster to make a play.
Speaker 1: And I think it's fascinating that now you add Rogers,
Speaker 1: who I think a little bit of what's been talked
Speaker 1: about with Rogers and how he wasn't good last year,
Speaker 1: and he really wasn't. Some people, I think have attributed
Speaker 1: that to age and as he a quarterback and decline
Speaker 1: certainly possible, but he also played with a broken thumb
Speaker 1: on his throwing hand, and I think that has been
Speaker 1: lost in the mix, especially when you realize he won
Speaker 1: the two MVPs back to back the year before, the
Speaker 1: two years before. I think, like again, this is hope
Speaker 1: season now, very high level, and it could end poorly
Speaker 1: because in the past years since I've been a fan,
Speaker 1: ninety nine week one, Vinnie Blue is Achilles Pennington with
Speaker 1: the shoulder issues, Farves starting out great and blowing out
Speaker 1: his biceps rex of years petering out just when it
Speaker 1: looked like they're about to get over the hump. History
Speaker 1: tells you that Jets will once again fall on their face,
Speaker 1: but it just takes one year for everything to come together.
Speaker 1: And I am all in on this being an opportunity
Speaker 1: for a tap and you should be. You can live
Speaker 1: in that space and that's no one can take that
Speaker 1: away from you. And I also would say that like
Speaker 1: bad luck from the past for literally any sports team
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with what will happen from here
Speaker 1: on out, and like I like I would if I
Speaker 1: could get. One thing for Jets fans to do is
Speaker 1: to cut ties with all the angst from the yester year.
Speaker 1: Let it go, because if you want to treat this
Speaker 1: new that's fine, but you need new energy in general.
Speaker 1: I love this for the Jets. I think you actually
Speaker 1: have a good team around Rodgers, which matters, but you
Speaker 1: may only get Aaron Rodgers for one or two years.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing about it which is a little
Speaker 1: bit you still have to get, like build a team.
Speaker 1: And Joe Douglas is an argument to not get rid
Speaker 1: of the GM the minute he misses on a quarterback
Speaker 1: because he's done all the good stuff, jump the Jamal Adams, rookies,
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Years, the awards. He can do it.
Speaker 1: But this only works because I think Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: coming to a team that's pretty well set up to succeed,
Speaker 1: but in a very top heavy, crazy AFC, so nothing
Speaker 1: is guaranteed here. And even if he's only with the
Speaker 1: Jets for two years, imagine how many primetime games the
Speaker 1: Jets that would be wonderful they could play Week one
Speaker 1: they I mean they I mean they could play Thursday opener.
Speaker 1: If they don't do this, we turn really dark. And
Speaker 1: I think the other part of this with yes, it
Speaker 1: makes them a power player in the AFC, at least
Speaker 1: ahead of the season. And it goes both ways because
Speaker 1: I think, a, yes, there's a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: them and they have a very difficult schedule. They did
Speaker 1: not host the Jets, by the way, they just checked. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: they have a tough schedule. The AFC is loaded, like
Speaker 1: there will be a lot of hyper around the Jets.
Speaker 1: But I think will help them a little bit that
Speaker 1: it still will be a situation where not everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: be picking the Jets all of a suddenly go to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. They're just now, to me, one of
Speaker 1: a handful of very compelling teams and a conference that's
Speaker 1: loaded compared to the ANC. And it is fascinating to
Speaker 1: look at the landscape changing in terms of quarterbacks with
Speaker 1: the NFC. Now who is who are the best quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: It's Jalen Hurts, and then where do you go from there?
Speaker 1: Dak's probably number two, which is great, Actually that's not
Speaker 1: that crazy. But then it's like you're talking about like Stafford,
Speaker 1: you're talking maybe Offen Cousins. Yeah, yeah, it's it's not
Speaker 1: great that it's tricky because like, what is gonna mean
Speaker 1: success for the Jets? I think you you make this
Speaker 1: trade to win a super Bowl? But I find that
Speaker 1: daunting to think like that's the only definition of success.
Speaker 1: Even making a Super Bowl is a daunting definition of success.
Speaker 1: If they are a winning, exciting team in prime time
Speaker 1: and they win some playoff games along the way, to me,
Speaker 1: be enough to qualify it as success because you're not
Speaker 1: doing it right now with Lamar Jackson, as I mean
Speaker 1: with with Zach Wilson. The only thing that's crazy is
Speaker 1: that at this exact time, there's potentially another MVP available
Speaker 1: that the winners of what three of the last four
Speaker 1: MVPs are available, Rogers and Jackson, and you're making this
Speaker 1: choice to go for Rogers. There is another door where
Speaker 1: in theory you could try to go after Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and make that happen. It's not happening, And it's just
Speaker 1: a weird moment in this like league that I can't
Speaker 1: remember two players being available at this high of a
Speaker 1: level at the exact same time one's obviously very old,
Speaker 1: and he has complications that you know are involved with
Speaker 1: bringing him there, including the contract, and Lamar has his
Speaker 1: own complications too, and they're making this choice. And to me,
Speaker 1: it's box office. I only checked it. I wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to be annoying the chief's schedule because I thought when
Speaker 1: you said that, that's it. That's the open. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a road game, so they wouldn't open and met life. Uh.
Speaker 1: They they only open in Kansas City and the Jets
Speaker 1: are are the road team, because otherwise that's it right there.
Speaker 1: I would love that. Um, and yeah, I think background
Speaker 1: is important. Like we've been doing this podcast ten years.
Speaker 1: Their Jets are sixty two and one oh six with
Speaker 1: zero playoff appearances in those ten years. So to add
Speaker 1: Rogers to this very exciting young roster makes them relevant
Speaker 1: in the league and opens the door for something special
Speaker 1: to happen. I feel really good about it. I think
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be your time. I do. No,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. It is weird. When I'm nice, I get it.
Speaker 1: It feels strange, but I'm serious. I think it's I
Speaker 1: haven't seen you experience it yet. It's been it's been
Speaker 1: rough and I do want to watch a super Bowl
Speaker 1: with my dad, and the clock's ticking and it's just like,
Speaker 1: maybe this will be it. Where's your dad on all this?
Speaker 1: I hope we would talk to him later in the week,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, actually, because I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a huge r this guy. I think he's one of
Speaker 1: the guys that my dad goes. I don't like Rogers.
Speaker 1: He's arrogant. I think he might have to deal with
Speaker 1: that arrogant players list where he ranks. Speaking of rankings,
Speaker 1: I do have an assignment. My next Power Rankings is
Speaker 1: on Monday. Kandie we might have a podcast next money
Speaker 1: when heads up Um. She's so busy honestly about the
Speaker 1: schedule of this show by listening to the pot and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what the schedule changes next week? M
Speaker 1: I might have three AFCs teams at the top ten
Speaker 1: of the Power that that's part of the trick here.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to make a super Bowl, like like
Speaker 1: like the Bengals are gonna feel as good or better
Speaker 1: about their chances to make the Super Bowl as a
Speaker 1: jet the Bills I would put in that category. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins are close if they're not if they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: right there to me, they're nine and ten to me
Speaker 1: in some honor. Yeah, they're figure that out. They're close.
Speaker 1: The Ravens, if they can keep Lamar Jackson like, are
Speaker 1: still gonna believe that they are contenders. The Jaguars, I
Speaker 1: would put at them a couple of personally, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna have high hopes. We know the Chiefs are the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: The Chargers and Broncos are trying to get in the mix.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're a little below where the Jets app but
Speaker 1: they're not schlubs. And it's like, it's just like a
Speaker 1: lot of teams. It's a lot of teams, a lot
Speaker 1: of teams in the NFL. I meet a lot of
Speaker 1: teams something definitely that just means half of those teams
Speaker 1: are gonna go into next offseason with deep disciplines. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's pretty crazy, though, Aaron Rodgers on the Jets that
Speaker 1: this is a thing that's happening right and strange. We
Speaker 1: beat the mainstream news that stream by days. Who knows
Speaker 1: by the time Keith comes on later this week, hopefully
Speaker 1: stream media will have got up some problems. All right,
Speaker 1: Please refer to our show from twelve days ago, when
Speaker 1: he finally and what do we do? We do something
Speaker 1: just this is the emergency right now, we can We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep coloring in uh you know what we should
Speaker 1: color in buck here with some of the details when
Speaker 1: it happens. But this has taken care of the emergency.
Speaker 1: We should have banked the pod ahead of time, the
Speaker 1: emergency pod that Aaron Rodgers is signed. Yes, mister Graver,
Speaker 1: if he retires at the end of all this, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna like this pod, delete this section of it,
Speaker 1: and we'll just roll straight into the next and so here. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. That kind of sets me up from my
Speaker 1: last point. If something does happen, if he retires, or
Speaker 1: if he forces himself back to the packers and it
Speaker 1: makes their life more hell, I will be hyper disappointed
Speaker 1: because you just heard everything I just said in the
Speaker 1: last twenty minutes, but also be like, all right, we
Speaker 1: dodged that ball. This guy is completely off the reservation.
Speaker 1: Because this they wouldn't make any This makes too much sense.
Speaker 1: It has to happen, and that's why it did happen
Speaker 1: on this show, in this studio. Right now, what is
Speaker 1: a bit what would be a more high level. I
Speaker 1: would almost enjoy this a bigger punking of the Jets
Speaker 1: than Aaron Rodgers convincing jew would almost enjoy it. Go on,
Speaker 1: well to go, Let's say the Jets go get Randall Cobb, Beckham,
Speaker 1: and then Aaron Rodgers just retires. It's like he's just like,
Speaker 1: I just did it to you, Like Joe Douglas does
Speaker 1: his press confers and it looks like he hasn't shaved
Speaker 1: it in the week and he's drunk, and he's like,
Speaker 1: we just like the upside of all these players. It
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with quarterback. Yeah, leaders grizzled um
Speaker 1: romantic about football. Man, I'm still gonna give a little
Speaker 1: a little flower, some flowers. Oh wait, we're not giving flowers.
Speaker 1: Why you know, I think he was. He was right
Speaker 1: in terms of the timing here that that that was
Speaker 1: the moment where he the bat signal was sent out.
Speaker 1: And now it's like, you gotta fill in all the
Speaker 1: details around him, But I'm not questioning that man's reporting.
Speaker 1: So he was the one person that beat this h
Speaker 1: because it is official, right, it's happened, So he broke it.
Speaker 1: You're right, but we're like the first we are the
Speaker 1: first show to analyze the move ye with certainty that
Speaker 1: it happened. I really did. Yeah, I think Wingo would
Speaker 1: respect what we've done here. All right, let's take a break. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's one of the stranger segments we've done, I feel like,
Speaker 1: but I feel okay about it. I think part of
Speaker 1: it as a Jets fan is I feel like this
Speaker 1: might be the ultimate Jink scenario that were like daring
Speaker 1: the universe to do something stupid. But absolutely now, honestly,
Speaker 1: this was like a therapy session. I feel right where.
Speaker 1: It's like a small really good work today. Dan like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's a risk. We're not afraid
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers, but if this somehow went south, this
Speaker 1: would be a funny moment in podcast call him for
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time. I feel like myself,
Speaker 1: this was really great work by you, and the work
Speaker 1: will continue. It's never finished, but communication we made some
Speaker 1: really good progress today. Great, let's take a break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. All right, We're back, all right.
Speaker 1: So we broke down the Roger situation and hopefully this
Speaker 1: cities where it is and we will now look at
Speaker 1: the rest of the league day two of the free
Speaker 1: agency period. The league gear starts officially tomorrow Wednesday. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with another show to break all that down.
Speaker 1: But deals are happening. Let's start, let us start well,
Speaker 1: let's stay in New York. It is on a New
Speaker 1: York city right now with the with the football teams,
Speaker 1: the Giants of course coming off eight. It's sound turn
Speaker 1: that up in my headphones. Is there more to the song? No?
Speaker 1: Or is this just the whole song? This? Are there verses?
Speaker 1: Breathe just a little bit more, hang on, hear those lasers?
Speaker 1: Is you like that? Yeah? I don't think we're going
Speaker 1: to get a verse. Um, So people are excited. It's
Speaker 1: a very clear, simple message. It is on. The Jets
Speaker 1: have Aaron Rodgers and the New York Giants and now
Speaker 1: added a big piece on their offense with Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: who has moved in a trade from the Raiders Tooman
Speaker 1: for a third round pick. A third round pick, Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler for a player who not so long ago got
Speaker 1: a huge contract and was seen as a pillar, a
Speaker 1: load bearing weight. Is that what they said in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: Load bearing weight bearing wall of the Raiders leg Yeah
Speaker 1: he is now? Guess was deemed to be a yeah,
Speaker 1: fifth table leg on a square table and has been
Speaker 1: sent packing. Big pick up for the Giants. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is you needed, you need to continue to add
Speaker 1: weapons because you have Sterling Shepherd, Isaiah Hodgins, Wandale Robinson
Speaker 1: and not a lot else. Daniel Bellinger at tight end.
Speaker 1: I continue to kind of wonder what the Raiders are
Speaker 1: attempting to accomplish on our planet at this point. But
Speaker 1: I just simply anything that the Giants do on offense,
Speaker 1: I just start essentially with Brian Dable and say I
Speaker 1: trust it. I just trust it's going to work out.
Speaker 1: And you know, Waller was phenomenal with the Raiders for
Speaker 1: a stretch last year. Injuries and stuff, he vanished a bit,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a great pickup for a Giants
Speaker 1: team that cannot stop adding weapons left and right. It's
Speaker 1: so messy from the Raiders though, absolutely like they gave
Speaker 1: him a really good contract, which he earned with a
Speaker 1: couple of big seasons twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. But they
Speaker 1: gave him that contract right before last season started, and
Speaker 1: then there were reports that he was available for a
Speaker 1: possible trade just months later, like literally six weeks later,
Speaker 1: at the NFL trade deadline that Darren Waller might be available,
Speaker 1: and there was even buzz that, like Josh McDaniels, it
Speaker 1: wasn't quite a fit. He didn't love him, but then
Speaker 1: they gave him the contract. So it sure looks like
Speaker 1: from the outside that ownership wanted to give him that contract,
Speaker 1: and I can understand that, like he was great for
Speaker 1: the Raiders, but the coaching staff didn't really want him,
Speaker 1: so they gave him the contract and now their tradium
Speaker 1: for pennies on the dollar like six months later. It's
Speaker 1: just like, that's not how a good team is. Just
Speaker 1: feels like Josh McDaniels, Like Josh McDaniels to me is
Speaker 1: an agent of pars Up. Yep. Yeah. I mean when
Speaker 1: you look at Darren Waller, the problem, the concern I
Speaker 1: have with him is the injury history. But those two
Speaker 1: back to back seasons that he had with the Raiders
Speaker 1: were bonkers. He was so productive with them, and you
Speaker 1: think how far he's come from what was he like
Speaker 1: signed off the practice squad from the Ravens. Personal issues
Speaker 1: that he overcame, right, So it is a comeback story
Speaker 1: and it's an absolute need for the Giants they've been
Speaker 1: pretty quiet and free agency, and now they go out
Speaker 1: and they get a pass catcher. Yeah, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: Mark that the deble of it all, benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: You just gave Daniel Jones a lot of money working
Speaker 1: under the theory that he will become something greater than
Speaker 1: he is right now, which has taken the step up
Speaker 1: and becoming like a top ten quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: Waller is sneaky old, maybe a sneaky old Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: He's entering his age thirty one season, but still should
Speaker 1: have at least a couple of years in the tank
Speaker 1: where he could be an elite guy for them. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good trade for the Giants for the Raiders.
Speaker 1: It tells you that McDaniels obviously is running things, and also,
Speaker 1: you know, is that an organization to trust. And then
Speaker 1: the one other part of the kind of fun little
Speaker 1: nugget and all this is that this is the one
Speaker 1: hundred overall pick that's being moved. That is a draft
Speaker 1: pick that the Giants got from the Chiefs for Cadarius Tony.
Speaker 1: So the Giants essentially traded Cadarius Tony for Darren Waller,
Speaker 1: and that's interesting, and I like the way the contract
Speaker 1: is structured too, because there's no guaranteed money after twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, so they can see what they have in
Speaker 1: him this season and then not have to be on
Speaker 1: the hook for it. Right to the Raiders credit, they
Speaker 1: structured the contract they gave to Waller in such a
Speaker 1: way they're actually not taking any cap hit for this
Speaker 1: almost at all. There's very little dead money, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a good deal for the Giants because there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of risk. He's gonna make eleven million
Speaker 1: dollars this year and that's totally fair. And as Colleen mentioned,
Speaker 1: if for some reason it didn't work out, and you know,
Speaker 1: he only had under four hundred yards last year, a
Speaker 1: little over six hundred yards two seasons ago, so that
Speaker 1: that's a couple of seasons there. If it didn't work out,
Speaker 1: then they'll move on. And they barely gave up anything
Speaker 1: for one hundredth pick that's basically a fourth round pick.
Speaker 1: At some point, I feel like we need to add
Speaker 1: an eighth round. There's so many compensatory Okay, here we
Speaker 1: go or the Niners got how many a lot, So
Speaker 1: there's so many compensatory picks. That there's actually more than
Speaker 1: a round worth of compensatory picks. There's more than thirty two,
Speaker 1: So we're into the eighth round. Like this hundredth pick
Speaker 1: is is the fourth round? Yeah, and just use it.
Speaker 1: Aspens Well, I was I was to say, um, personally speaking,
Speaker 1: day three of the draft is a bit of a slog.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to take that podcast. Um that's getting another round.
Speaker 1: It makes us have to stay longer. And oh so don't.
Speaker 1: It's just the naming every thirty same amount of picks.
Speaker 1: I just mean it's confused to have a more commercial
Speaker 1: breaks potentially like a lot of nonsense, like they had
Speaker 1: the orangutang announcing a pick in Indianapolis or something like
Speaker 1: that a couple of years. They gotta be Shelman too.
Speaker 1: I thought that, No, we just need to let's get it,
Speaker 1: put it, make it two minute. You got two minutes
Speaker 1: to make a pick after round three. I love this,
Speaker 1: by the way, just the risk wise for the Giants
Speaker 1: because it's good. I thought they were maybe gonna try
Speaker 1: to sign Gaseki or Dalton Salts just because there's not
Speaker 1: good wide receivers available and there's some good tight ends. Instead,
Speaker 1: they get Waller, and maybe Waller was a two year
Speaker 1: wonder or whatever and it doesn't work out. But I
Speaker 1: never never quite set well with me. And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of Giants fans felt the same way that
Speaker 1: the Tony trade, given the upside that he had as
Speaker 1: a player, and then you watch what he did in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl kind of helping to win that game
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Now, I feel better about it. I'm
Speaker 1: a Giants fan. Now I have this potential all pro
Speaker 1: tight end that you traded essentially for Tony, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not done. I optimism they're gonna bring in another receiver.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll be a trade or a
Speaker 1: free agent, but they need one. Speaking of wide receivers,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas and the Saints are staying in business. He
Speaker 1: signed a one year, ten million dollar contract with New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You can earn another five million in incentives that from
Speaker 1: schefterm so greg that is a deal that makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's weird. I think part of it, and the Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas contract is very hard to understand because at this
Speaker 1: point it's been restructured like seventeen times, including as recently
Speaker 1: as January February, which was supposedly gonna lead to a release,
Speaker 1: but they would have eaten, I believe, if I'm understanding
Speaker 1: it right, a lot of dead cap hit if they
Speaker 1: cut him, So you might as well keep him because
Speaker 1: I'm like, how does Michael Thomas have the leverage at
Speaker 1: this point to make ten million dollars? Like, he hasn't
Speaker 1: played football in quite a long time. But I think
Speaker 1: it's because they would have eaten that cap hit if
Speaker 1: he wasn't on the team, so you might as well
Speaker 1: keep him around. There's a lot of incentives on that deal.
Speaker 1: He was excited about Derek Carr and they actually have
Speaker 1: a kind of a fun group of weapons. If Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas could ever see help. Yeah, Chris Love, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I think he helped recruit Derek Carr to some degree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's it's always it's a plus
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. Um not unlike the Raiders. The Saints
Speaker 1: continue to mystify me on on some levels as to
Speaker 1: what the end, what the actual goal is here on
Speaker 1: But Mike keep jobs, I guess. Michael Thomas, like I said,
Speaker 1: everybody banished from our lives for the past. Well, he
Speaker 1: was season ending injury, what three games into the season
Speaker 1: last year, and then the offense and the team was
Speaker 1: sort of irrelevant because of the quarterback play. And so
Speaker 1: now when you have Derek Carr in there and a
Speaker 1: jazzed up Michael Thomas after he jazzed up Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: and so character thank you for that. But yeah, she's back.
Speaker 1: I don't know what did we say your name is,
Speaker 1: But she's sixty four years old and she's got a
Speaker 1: lot of pluck for an older lady. She's been smoking
Speaker 1: packs of cigarettes for years and years. Guys, it's just
Speaker 1: my asthma. I don't swimp um. But Derek Carr, he
Speaker 1: said that he couldn't get off the phone with Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas like he Michael Thomas was such a huge, huge
Speaker 1: factor in him kind of signing there and putting everything
Speaker 1: over the edge. So it just kept you know, um, yes,
Speaker 1: so we will see how that is. And by the way,
Speaker 1: he did look I don't know if you mentioned it,
Speaker 1: Greg I was doing a little administrative work. He looked
Speaker 1: pretty good early on last season before he went down again.
Speaker 1: That's fair and I think Saints fans would have been
Speaker 1: heartbroken he it to see him in another uniform and
Speaker 1: then stay healthy. So I do kind of like this.
Speaker 1: There is like a little bit of a vibe of like, oh,
Speaker 1: those guys are still there with the Saints though, like
Speaker 1: including their head coach. Jamis Winston is coming back. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be Derek Carr's back up the coach, right yeah's
Speaker 1: comma and Jamis Winson right now. I just been like, oh, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Dennis Allen, he's still their coach. That's odd um. And
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas is still there. Oh, Jamis Winston is Derek
Speaker 1: Carr's backup in the year twenty three for the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. I don't know. That seems weird, but I
Speaker 1: think it was a good move. As for the Saints,
Speaker 1: He's only getting four million dollars. Jamis's market really uh
Speaker 1: took a hit, and for four million dollars, that's a
Speaker 1: nice backup. Like Dennis Allen and Jamis Winston seemed to
Speaker 1: have a weird year together, like relationship wise last season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean Dennis Allen is not a popular
Speaker 1: figure on the show, and I don't know, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a huge track record of success. Uh, but like,
Speaker 1: you know, what was he supposed to do last year?
Speaker 1: Was he you act? Like he was. He was coaching
Speaker 1: the seven page. It was just the way that he
Speaker 1: ran the team. I don't think um like he has
Speaker 1: shown anything as a head coach. I mean he is
Speaker 1: fifteen and thirty eight, right, he's not. It was a
Speaker 1: strange promotion at the time, and yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: tough situation with injuries quarterback. So yes, I'm not giving
Speaker 1: you a ton of rope when you're historical record, we're
Speaker 1: any rope you're saying you should have been one of
Speaker 1: the Chauncey Garner. He's one of the reasons that that
Speaker 1: player was not on the Saints, and he was sort
Speaker 1: of the heart and soul of that defense. Was he
Speaker 1: in contention to win the NFC South in like late
Speaker 1: December early January? Well, what's that saying? Nothing? I mean joke?
Speaker 1: So were we um the Yeah? And then he lost
Speaker 1: to who it was? It did beat the Eagles, remember
Speaker 1: a little hot they were the Eagles killers, I know,
Speaker 1: But then in the week eighteen they lost to that
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold performance. It wouldn't have mattered in the end anyway.
Speaker 1: I do wonder if Derek Carr is going to move
Speaker 1: up in the quarterback rankings having a good defense and
Speaker 1: then having Chris and Michael Thomas like what a fun
Speaker 1: things actually turned around of it. The next if I
Speaker 1: have to do a power rankings next week, when are
Speaker 1: the quarterback ranks? Don't don't even suggest that, right, I'm
Speaker 1: going to approach that. I just read an art this
Speaker 1: is right now. The system is kind of John Gruden
Speaker 1: like in New Orleans. I'm wishing I think it can
Speaker 1: kind of. I would say, maybe that's something to start
Speaker 1: working up. Yeah, I have an article coming out next
Speaker 1: week is various trades are you doing grades? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: I'm already I'm entrenched already, so all right? And other
Speaker 1: wide receiver newss the Raiders who just traded Darren Waller
Speaker 1: signed wide receiver Jacoby Myers formerly the Patriots. Patriots three years,
Speaker 1: thirty three million. There there is something yeah, going back
Speaker 1: to this McDaniels thing, there is um something inevitable about
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniel's team, about how certain moves are made and
Speaker 1: what's done, and then her and bringing in his former
Speaker 1: wide receiver Myers, who had a good market mark and
Speaker 1: this particular free agency. I think it was helpful to
Speaker 1: him that he came out this year. He gets twenty
Speaker 1: one million guaranteed. So I know Patriots fans wanted Meyer's back,
Speaker 1: but Josh McDaniels got the guy he has history with.
Speaker 1: You could argue for our you know, slapping the Raiders
Speaker 1: to and fro that Davante Adams, Jacoby Myers and Hunter
Speaker 1: Renfro is one of the better trios wide receiver wise
Speaker 1: in the conference. He's probably in the back end of
Speaker 1: the top ten, maybe, but that's so. I like the
Speaker 1: move a lot um I initially when doing a lot
Speaker 1: of work and a lot he's doing a lot of
Speaker 1: but he's that good he is, and he vanished for
Speaker 1: games a couple times last year. But they I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a you've got to try to
Speaker 1: treat Jimmy G the way he had so many people
Speaker 1: around him in San Francisco, and I thought he in
Speaker 1: those eight games. You have Jimmy G on the field
Speaker 1: this year, you really want to put a lot of
Speaker 1: good players already suggesting that that's all he'll he'll last for. Okay.
Speaker 1: I love Jacobe Meyers, so I do think that they're flexible.
Speaker 1: He can play inside and out. Renfro he's kind of
Speaker 1: just an inside guy. But Adams can play inside. Now,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a lot of money. The free agency market
Speaker 1: in general, I think it's been somewhat conservative outside of
Speaker 1: like the Lineman. But yeah, you didn't have to pay
Speaker 1: for much. I'm not sure why the Patriots wouldn't pay
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers eleven million dollars a year. But it does
Speaker 1: give Jakobe Myers a chance to make good on his
Speaker 1: history in Las Vegas, because the last time he was
Speaker 1: there he was throwing a ladder that get intercepted by
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones. So I like that that eventually he gets that.
Speaker 1: That's the best newsroom moment for me of the sofar era.
Speaker 1: That lateral interception. You want to hear it, I have it.
Speaker 1: You have the play itself. Look at Ogger Grave, Digger
Speaker 1: mac Jones hands it off on a drat Mondre Stevenson
Speaker 1: breaks out of a tackle at the fifty, has the
Speaker 1: forty five, breaks away from another tackle, pitches it backwards
Speaker 1: and now Jacobe Myers, spitting around, he throws it now
Speaker 1: towards the d stares, Oh my goodness that the playoff
Speaker 1: no spiritually, spiritually they actually had a good chance still
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks later, but they lost it, but
Speaker 1: if they had that win, would they have been in
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's amazing that happened to Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: I just think it's people. Here's what also has happened
Speaker 1: to Bill Belichick. How about you have like one wide
Speaker 1: receiver under contract right now and absolutely have used like
Speaker 1: somebody like what's darn Waller? I mean like the j bro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they paid. They paid Nelson Agilar eleven million dollars a
Speaker 1: year a couple of years ago, and they wouldn't do
Speaker 1: it for Myers. They will bring in some players, but
Speaker 1: the whole idea of like, hey, let's go get those
Speaker 1: former Patriots never worked in the past. But it really
Speaker 1: doesn't work U when you're doing it off of like
Speaker 1: a seven and ten Patriots team. It's like, oh, the
Speaker 1: Texans can't wait to bring in Chase Winovich. It's like
Speaker 1: stealing off of this mediocre Patriots team is does not
Speaker 1: seem like a strategy. And Jacoby Myers, he actually had
Speaker 1: a pretty good seasons last year, considering what a mess
Speaker 1: the Patriots, notwithstanding he was a quality player for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was good and bad circumstance, he was entertaining that
Speaker 1: in that Vegas game. It's highly entertaining game for everyone,
Speaker 1: but especially was immensely entertained. Uh, Austin Ekeler, Let's update
Speaker 1: this situation. We talked about it yesterday that the report
Speaker 1: was out that he was requesting permission for the Chargers
Speaker 1: to seek a trade. He has been granted that permission
Speaker 1: according to sources. So now, Uh, Eckler, I would think
Speaker 1: will be moved. I could be wrong, but it seems
Speaker 1: like this is all headed a certain direction and not
Speaker 1: a good one. If you're Charges fan, it makes you
Speaker 1: seem like you're a little bit little league in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because you have Justin Herbert, and you have this window,
Speaker 1: and you have Keenan Allen with not too many big
Speaker 1: time of years left. You get Mike Williams in let's
Speaker 1: go for it with this great core, and instead you're
Speaker 1: going to trade away a guy that's thirty eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: in two years? What makes sense as a good landing spot?
Speaker 1: Colleen for Austin Eckler, did we talk about the Bills? Yeah? Yes, that, UM,
Speaker 1: I would say the Dolphins, but didn't they just sign
Speaker 1: They just resigned Moster and Jeff Wilson. They are bringing
Speaker 1: back their backfield for pretty low running back. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the Bears. Maybe still I think the Bears and the Falcons,
Speaker 1: who both have a lot of cap space. With the Bengals,
Speaker 1: if Joe Mixon, what about Tyler? Tyler l jars But
Speaker 1: that's a commo served by it, and that's that's thunder
Speaker 1: and lightning. I mean, that's the kink's gonna be Patterson
Speaker 1: Is he not in there? Well, he's there too, But
Speaker 1: you can use them. They used like five guys. I
Speaker 1: just feel like that's a fun duo. It's a team
Speaker 1: that likes he's a great landing spot. The Chargers, how
Speaker 1: about what we do? That's yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't feel great about the Chargers, but I never
Speaker 1: feel great about the Charger backs. Cut Joe Mixon and
Speaker 1: go get Eckler. That actually kind of feels like Bengals move.
Speaker 1: I do like, well, you your draft assets have been
Speaker 1: depleted after the trade with the Bears. But the Panthers
Speaker 1: traded Christian McCaffrey. They have a need back there I
Speaker 1: think in their backfield, and you're gonna you pair him.
Speaker 1: He's he is you know what Eckler is among many
Speaker 1: things including friend of the show. He is kind of
Speaker 1: a quarterback's best friend. And if you give a young
Speaker 1: quarterback Austin Ekeler behind you somebody as a safety valve
Speaker 1: that you know you could get the ball too, and
Speaker 1: he's going to find a way to help your team
Speaker 1: win games and getting the ends. I would say, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hate the Eagles, but the Eagles have just
Speaker 1: agreed to terms with Rashad Penny. I like that Penny.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think they had to pay a
Speaker 1: lot for him, but when he was healthy, and that's
Speaker 1: been a very short time in his career, he was incredible.
Speaker 1: So it's like a total low risk, high reward move.
Speaker 1: I doubt they're paying him anymore than a couple million
Speaker 1: dollars or something. I didn't go breaking news there because
Speaker 1: they're in a fragile place with the breaking news a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, so I just wanted to just allow
Speaker 1: the news to again. Justin has earned the right to
Speaker 1: take some creative and editorial leaps, Yes, and he leapt there.
Speaker 1: He leapt I think maybe you got here's some I
Speaker 1: have some more notes pod. Maybe there's some drops that
Speaker 1: are not breaking news, but like maybe you need to
Speaker 1: do some like developing news some right, but just like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is some news. Maybe there's a third there's a
Speaker 1: new drop that we don't have that is the perfect
Speaker 1: valve for a rashad penny that little clown knows horn
Speaker 1: that West used to love. I mean that's mean we
Speaker 1: were we were at it wet, we were at a
Speaker 1: big rashade penny performance with our families, a random Tuesday
Speaker 1: afternoon football game. He won't cost much, by the way,
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler like these trades. Waller goes for nothing, Ramsey
Speaker 1: goes for nothing. Might be a good sign. Rogers, because
Speaker 1: of the contract, might not go as for as much
Speaker 1: as people think. Like Ekeler, I think they'd basically be
Speaker 1: giving him away for close to free, like it'd beck
Speaker 1: and saving the money. I don't think it would. What
Speaker 1: do we cost that much? All right, let's hit a
Speaker 1: little four pack here. Defensive lineman getting paid. Draymond Jones
Speaker 1: gets fifty one million over three years from the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Zach Allen to the Broncos thirty two and a half million,
Speaker 1: fully gallant guaranteed, Dalvin Tomlinson to the Browns twenty seven
Speaker 1: and a half million, guaranteed on four year deal. Marcus
Speaker 1: Davenport gets thirteen million from the Vikings Takeaways Takeaways shoot
Speaker 1: him out. I like what the Browns have done so
Speaker 1: far with Tomlinson and Obo agbo Ok caught it. I
Speaker 1: kind of like like Tomlinson was was very good for
Speaker 1: the Vikings. He had a two year, twenty million dollars
Speaker 1: or twenty one million dollar contract last time around in Freezenzy,
Speaker 1: he outperformed that. Like guys who can take up multiple
Speaker 1: positions no matter what type of front that you use.
Speaker 1: They could use some run stop and I feel like
Speaker 1: the Rounds have quietly had a couple of nice days.
Speaker 1: Well those were absolute defensive line. Edge were massive needs
Speaker 1: for Cleveland and they've they you know, I started to
Speaker 1: see this defensive linement going everywhere else. Cleveland found a
Speaker 1: way back in, so that's good for them. I think
Speaker 1: Zach Allen is an interesting one for the Broncos. It also,
Speaker 1: for me highlights how desperate the Cardinals are right now.
Speaker 1: They have they yours, no Zach Ellen anymore, There's no
Speaker 1: Jj Watt, you don't really have any presence at Edge,
Speaker 1: and I just think that team is spiraling into into
Speaker 1: the Abyss Broncos are spending more money than anyone. They're
Speaker 1: the offseason champs. Here, Ben Powers twenty eight million guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Mcglinchie fifty million guaranteed. Zach Allen thirty two million guaranteed,
Speaker 1: who was one of my favorite. I love that signing.
Speaker 1: I love Zach Allen. And also it's going to be
Speaker 1: nice for him to go to Denver and you know
Speaker 1: Vic Fangi or Vance Joseph's there, so you have like
Speaker 1: a nice little rapport already in place for the transition. Good.
Speaker 1: They also resigned Alex Singleton gave him too much money,
Speaker 1: probably for like an okay off ball line. Becker Jared's
Speaker 1: did him got a lot of money. They're just spending
Speaker 1: that Walmart money. I think I think there is an
Speaker 1: advantage to being a rich owner. You can spend more cash.
Speaker 1: You say one advantage, I mean because there's a salary advantage.
Speaker 1: The advantage is like capped on some level because of
Speaker 1: the salary cap. But these teams like the Saints who
Speaker 1: act like a rich team. Is this guy talking scrow?
Speaker 1: They got that Walmart escrow. They're gonna open up a
Speaker 1: new Walmart just to put their NFL s grow in
Speaker 1: that money concept. When you have a lot of networks.
Speaker 1: Greg Rosford, thank you, thank you, remember that one. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Esco. Yeah, escro you need actually a
Speaker 1: physical space, like a big warehouse to keep it, I believe. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why it's physical. Money is just piles suitcases or
Speaker 1: the big money bags, the canvas bags, dollar sign on it.
Speaker 1: What it is just like gold treasure got a treasure
Speaker 1: chest like a big pool you jump into, like Scrooge McDuck.
Speaker 1: Seahawks fans were very surprised because that Draymond's got one
Speaker 1: of the biggest contracts in alive free agency. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of money there in the first two years and
Speaker 1: they never spend big. I never know exactly what the
Speaker 1: Seahawks are doing, but he's like a high risk, high
Speaker 1: reward type of signing. I would say Davenport is too,
Speaker 1: and it kind of makes me think Zadarius Smith is gone.
Speaker 1: That was just a one year deal for Davenport, who's
Speaker 1: had a very up and down career. Also released Shelby Harris,
Speaker 1: who I like, and Quinn Jefferson, so they needed Seattle's
Speaker 1: an interesting team to try to figure out. We have
Speaker 1: to wait kind of till after the draft. They have
Speaker 1: premium pick coming up. Like where do they fit in
Speaker 1: right now? When you talk about the NFC, this would
Speaker 1: indicate that they really want their defense, like they're gonna
Speaker 1: be a little more aggressive in the past to make
Speaker 1: that defense better. Hasn't been great for a while. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break and then we'll hit the rest. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back. Let's get into some backup quarterbacks. Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: We mentioned he is going back to New Orleans to
Speaker 1: back up Derek Carr. A little bit surprising, you could say,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of also, Connie, where Winston's career seems
Speaker 1: to be at this point. He doesn't appear to be
Speaker 1: a guy scene as a bridge at this point. He
Speaker 1: kind of he went through the young franchise star number
Speaker 1: one overall pick phase, then he went through the Saints
Speaker 1: fresh start slash bridge phase, and now maybe this is
Speaker 1: his market. He finds a backup place where he's comfortable. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean watching him last season, it was a rough
Speaker 1: start for him and then he was hurt, so I
Speaker 1: kind of I felt for him a little bit in that,
Speaker 1: but he also didn't really perform great in those starts.
Speaker 1: Four touchdowns, five interceptions. It was just it's been rocky
Speaker 1: for him from the beginning and it continues to be
Speaker 1: that way. In other quarterback news, Taylor Heineke, how about
Speaker 1: this cecy he is joining the Falcons. So the idea
Speaker 1: of the Falcons getting in on Lamar Jackson, Well, now
Speaker 1: they have their quarterback quote unquote of the future in
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter. Now you have Taylor Heineke is a fairly
Speaker 1: high level backup. I guess maybe they are out on Lamar.
Speaker 1: I think they're also it tells me they're The deal
Speaker 1: for Heineke is a two year deal worth up to
Speaker 1: twenty million. We'll see the particulars, but the first year
Speaker 1: was just six point two five so it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a one year, six million dollar deal within sentences
Speaker 1: fair enough. I mean it tells me though that they
Speaker 1: I take them off my list of a team that
Speaker 1: you know they have a high draft pick that they're
Speaker 1: gonna go quarterback there. I think that there's enough belief
Speaker 1: in Desmond Ritter and that came right from Arthur Blank.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think they stop them? But they're
Speaker 1: the combination of him and Ritter. I think something like
Speaker 1: they seem to like ridder enough they love him. That
Speaker 1: seems like, yeah, approval Ritter getting heine I think they
Speaker 1: also know where they are in the draft. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna trade up, and they're at eight, then you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a great guy. I followed you necessarily. I did
Speaker 1: find an interesting Heineke had a market. Washington wanted him back,
Speaker 1: and he ended up getting more than Mike White and
Speaker 1: more than Sam Darnold and more than Jamis Winston. I
Speaker 1: mean only a couple million dollars more only. But I
Speaker 1: like Heinek. I think he does some things here and
Speaker 1: there's spicies, kind of got some verb to him. They
Speaker 1: targeted him. I mean, you know who else got some verb?
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Right, So they say that they don't want
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, but they're super in on Desmond Ritter, and
Speaker 1: it's gotta be it. It's gotta be annoying because I
Speaker 1: don't think the Lamar Jackson story's necessarily gonna get written
Speaker 1: until after the draft. Lamars Sweaton today, by the way,
Speaker 1: that oh yeah, I like that. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say, because there was a report out there that
Speaker 1: he turned down undred million guaranteed that that came from
Speaker 1: Schefter um back in September, and then Lamar replied one
Speaker 1: thirty three over three years, fully guaranteed emoji face like
Speaker 1: an annoyed emoji face. I would say, but I need
Speaker 1: an agent, laughing face face palm. I think you do, sir,
Speaker 1: But that's okay. And then he added, people throw poop
Speaker 1: emoji at the wall and hope it sticks. Crying laughing
Speaker 1: emoji looks like someone blowing smoke emoji. Also his response
Speaker 1: to the initial tweet, which was an aggregated report about Schefter,
Speaker 1: which I don't even know if I need to find
Speaker 1: out the particulars if Schefter exactly reported that, but he
Speaker 1: was saying that never happened, the two hundred guaranteed and
Speaker 1: if he was offered one thirty three over three, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of an insulting offer, not consulting,
Speaker 1: but you would It's not an offer that the Ravens
Speaker 1: would ever expect Lamar Jackson. I think Lamar should have
Speaker 1: just done this whole holdout thing. Yes, lost his leverage, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like other quarterbacks got paid by doing
Speaker 1: that earlier in their contract status. And if you're Todd Munkin,
Speaker 1: who's their new oc. You're sitting here. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know there's time, but you don't know who your quarterback is.
Speaker 1: I do like that he's annoying, like all the football cognizane.
Speaker 1: Like on some level, if the people that are most
Speaker 1: angry that you don't have an agent are agents who
Speaker 1: aren't exactly like the greatest people in the world and
Speaker 1: insiders like who are in bed with agents, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, you might be doing something right if like,
Speaker 1: if you have you have an agent, by the way,
Speaker 1: I feel like, I just mean, like for like the
Speaker 1: integrity of like sports agents exactly like a job. Sure,
Speaker 1: and it might not be savory to you again, but
Speaker 1: it's all part of how this saw siege. Absolutely, But
Speaker 1: when the people in the media essentially work with the agents,
Speaker 1: as Tanna, but Floria has been very out spoken about
Speaker 1: he really needs an agent, needs an agent. When the
Speaker 1: interests of the journalists and the agents are the same
Speaker 1: and they're kind of working on the same team together
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, that's how they do their job.
Speaker 1: To me, that's problematic, and when one person pushes against it,
Speaker 1: you do kind of I root for that one. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's I think it's made it more complicated for himself
Speaker 1: by not having an agent. There are certain little things
Speaker 1: here and there that an agent could have helped to
Speaker 1: facilitate this and probably move the timeline up a bunch
Speaker 1: from where he sits. Right now, he's not in great position.
Speaker 1: We'll see where it all ends. Will it end with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson being a Jet? No, because we have established that.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers says, I also want Lamar Jackson on the roster.
Speaker 1: Will see see if they could facilitate that. How about
Speaker 1: your boy Mike White going to be starting a big
Speaker 1: time game against the Jets next year? Four point five
Speaker 1: million gets the exact same money as Sam Darnold taking
Speaker 1: one hundred I think in sixty eight picks behind him
Speaker 1: in the twenty eighteen Mike White. That's why it's it's
Speaker 1: unfair like ball, don't lie. Now they're making the same,
Speaker 1: but he didn't make the same up until this point.
Speaker 1: Mike White's a guy that people love. If you only, like,
Speaker 1: remember a couple of games on him. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: in that system with McDaniels, like in Tyreek Hill, and
Speaker 1: who knows, I could he'll make us. He could make
Speaker 1: a string of starts and then a year later get
Speaker 1: a much better deal. Mike White on the way I've
Speaker 1: been in on Mike White when he's had he had
Speaker 1: two big games, one against the Bears, who are the
Speaker 1: worst team in the league last year, and then legitimately
Speaker 1: great kind of uh within in a dark period of
Speaker 1: their organization's history. It goes down to lore a four
Speaker 1: hundred yard three touchdown game against the Bengals in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one that ended up with his uniform going to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. He has a fun, little fun
Speaker 1: in a dark time in Jets history. So I will
Speaker 1: always be a rooting for Mike White. He was also
Speaker 1: very popular in that locker room. So he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: Play with broken shattered ribs, I mean poorly, but but
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, there's something different about him
Speaker 1: and the other quarterbacks in that room year ago. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to walk with a broken right. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's I hope, I hope the best for him. It'll
Speaker 1: be great. I'm sure he'll destroy you. Don't worry. You've
Speaker 1: got all right. Here we go. What else do we
Speaker 1: have here about Kirk Kirk. Kirk does not get a
Speaker 1: contract extension, which to me is a great Yes, is
Speaker 1: a great sign for the Vikings. They have been on
Speaker 1: this weird trajectory with Cousins, where the way his contract works,
Speaker 1: it's almost like they have to put off the pain
Speaker 1: another year and they give him an extension every year
Speaker 1: to put off that pain. And this year they're starting
Speaker 1: to like take themselves off that Kirk Cousins narcotic and
Speaker 1: they just restructured it and they're I think gonna take
Speaker 1: the pain next year. It just is setting up for
Speaker 1: this to be the last Kirk year. It's always with
Speaker 1: Cousins everything, and it took a while for to play
Speaker 1: out in his favor, and there was a lot of,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure uncomfortable times with Washington before he
Speaker 1: finally got the double franchise tag into a big payday
Speaker 1: to Minnesota, into another big paiday to Minnesota. He might
Speaker 1: finally be out of leverage after a career of incredible
Speaker 1: earnings for basically five hundred players as teams. Well now
Speaker 1: he's above that five hundred mark because they insanely won
Speaker 1: thirteen games last year as a totally middling team by
Speaker 1: the slimmest of margins. Like every single time I said it,
Speaker 1: so many times on our Power Rankings podcast that watching
Speaker 1: the Vikings was just such a white knuckling experience. They'll
Speaker 1: be all the way to the end. One of Mr
Speaker 1: Vegas will have their over under eight and a half.
Speaker 1: They feel like they're rebuilding there there, they might just there. Ross,
Speaker 1: I don't know how this offseason's gonna go. This. This
Speaker 1: means they put off a little pain though a little bit,
Speaker 1: restructuring his deal, and I mean they're just trying to
Speaker 1: get under the cap. They kept Garrett Bradbury, they got
Speaker 1: other issues. Yes, I think we'll see Scott out of
Speaker 1: the caught Eric Kent Kendricks. All right, let's let's play
Speaker 1: the game real quick. Her career earnings for kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: no looking, no cheating college. So I took a little glance.
Speaker 1: I can't see anything career career earnings for kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: since entering the league in two thousand and twelve. Greg,
Speaker 1: are you googling over there? Uh? No, Okay, I was,
Speaker 1: but I didn't. I thought you were just asking college
Speaker 1: again the whole gang. It's a big number. He just
Speaker 1: cleared a very big milestone. All right, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to eleven I'll go two thirty five. I mean I
Speaker 1: put myself. Oh, he has made two hundred and one
Speaker 1: million dollars. You guys all went over prices, right rules,
Speaker 1: that's a loss. So by technically you win, well I didn't.
Speaker 1: I'm not involved. Okay, it's a win for Kirk, win
Speaker 1: for Kurry. That is absolutely well put. Greg great transition
Speaker 1: moment class Campbell cut in Baltimore and I message from
Speaker 1: the team I believe they sent out. And then Mike
Speaker 1: Geez reported yesterday on our air that he might come
Speaker 1: back to Baltimore, but I don't know where. He didn't
Speaker 1: seem like he wanted to. He was like, I'm fired
Speaker 1: up to go try to win a title as or
Speaker 1: he might not. Supposedly, a lot of people think that
Speaker 1: they are truly saving space to match anything into actually
Speaker 1: pay Lamar Jackson. That's the crazy thing about this is
Speaker 1: he probably ends up back with the Ravens. I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Vikings, the Chargers signed linebacker Eric Kendricks,
Speaker 1: formerly of Minnesota two years, thirteen point two five million.
Speaker 1: He had been with Minnesota for eight seasons. Uh so, yes,
Speaker 1: the Bolts might be ready to cut ties with the guy.
Speaker 1: That has thirty eight touchdowns in two years. But they
Speaker 1: do get this man. Oh in a tough situation financially
Speaker 1: like that, keep spending on defense, like spend an offense.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Jimmy Ward to the Texans, who also acquire Shack
Speaker 1: Mason from the Tampa Bay Back and Ears and a
Speaker 1: swap of late round draft picks, and let's head to
Speaker 1: the Kicker Club Grave Digger. Yeah, it's open during the
Speaker 1: off season. In fact, I'll tell you something the Kicker
Speaker 1: Club gets don't be in the off season. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like check your cell phones in one of those
Speaker 1: little bags, like like when you go to a show.
Speaker 1: It's like in a warehouse under a railroad track. You
Speaker 1: don't know where to find it. What happens in Kicker
Speaker 1: Club literally cannot be said anywhere else because it's just
Speaker 1: just STI I'm picturing it as for anyone who's watched Succession. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom when he goes on his bachelor party and if
Speaker 1: you know what, Colleen Sagan, everything from that episode happens
Speaker 1: in the Kicker Club and more. Matt Gay gets paid,
Speaker 1: he gets the bag from the Colts. Uh, So the
Speaker 1: Rams lose a kicker who's been very good for them.
Speaker 1: Greg the leg zero line verline also gets a new
Speaker 1: deal from the Jets. So there you go. The Matt
Speaker 1: Gay contract is the richest free agent deal for a
Speaker 1: kicker in the history of the NFL. What has that
Speaker 1: gone wrong? Well, I would just say if you're you
Speaker 1: take that to the club, you're operating on a different
Speaker 1: level than any other two. I mean, there are a
Speaker 1: few kickers that you could really trust, and because of
Speaker 1: course Tucker is above all of them. But I'm a
Speaker 1: team building that seems weird unless you have like a
Speaker 1: goat level guy to give a big contract on your
Speaker 1: seller cap. But then again, I'm talking out of two
Speaker 1: sides of my mouth because kickers have such a huge
Speaker 1: part of these games and we pay them like they're
Speaker 1: worth nothing. It screams we haven't had a kicker for
Speaker 1: like three years. We just have to make it happen.
Speaker 1: Remember when they made fun of the Bucks Jason White
Speaker 1: for drafting Matt Gay and he kind of flamed out
Speaker 1: there quickly. And now he's had a nice little career
Speaker 1: and he's he's breaking my daughter's heart. She loved Matt
Speaker 1: Gay and she made us watch the Pro Bowl games
Speaker 1: just for the moment where they played kick tack toe,
Speaker 1: where kickers would try to kick the ball while playing
Speaker 1: tick tack to and Gay wasn't even in in the end,
Speaker 1: we thought he was gonna. I don't even know. Now
Speaker 1: she's gone having to explain this to her. I have
Speaker 1: I just didn't do it this morning. Didn't want to.
Speaker 1: Just drafted Gay and uh Robert Aguayo. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that was the same. Were you just describe sounding
Speaker 1: like Aguayo? What I mean like a guy around pick
Speaker 1: of the buck. Jason Light drafted uh Matt Gay, yeah,
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty, but did he take a guyot too?
Speaker 1: And then he didn't make like the team he quickly
Speaker 1: like flamed out twenty sixteen valuable Greg was part of
Speaker 1: the problem was he went back to kick and people
Speaker 1: were like, you're doing this again for Aguayo. They did, right.
Speaker 1: Maybe the craziest draft pick shows, yeah he quote or
Speaker 1: headline bucks GM defense taking kicker Matt Gay after drafting
Speaker 1: Robert Ohio. Yes, every berta leguire. So he went back.
Speaker 1: Then You can really make a case that no one
Speaker 1: benefited more from the Tom Brady era in Tampa than
Speaker 1: like he was. He was on the way out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, odds and ends Connie. Okay, oh wait, do
Speaker 1: we have the edition? Of course he has. He's ready
Speaker 1: for this. So I'm still singing. Huh. So you have
Speaker 1: the double tracked version already on file? That and she's
Speaker 1: had a triple track it. Say, yes, I can't cut it.
Speaker 1: It's upstairs, my dog ate my homework. Just I did
Speaker 1: cut it. I just see how excited stairs. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not upstairs. I cut it and it's upstairs. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna physically left the sound upstairs in a bag
Speaker 1: my guesstop computer upstairs where all right, Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: give him pass. You gotta move on. We can't. There's
Speaker 1: no time to go, understand for tomorrow, She's not gonna
Speaker 1: be next time calling's on, we will have I could
Speaker 1: do triple because I could take today's and layer it
Speaker 1: with yesterday, and then she'll be the fourth And we're
Speaker 1: getting closer to that goal that we have of the
Speaker 1: Connie choir, Yes, choir, But I feel free to sing
Speaker 1: in a different octave today. If you look at this,
Speaker 1: Rick Rubin back what we want? We want? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: do want a different key. If you can that was
Speaker 1: Dan said that yesterday. Well, give it a shot and
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work, we'll laugh. Okay, what is your
Speaker 1: normal key? I don't have one. I'm a terrible your
Speaker 1: regular it's pretty good. It's okay. You guys have heard it, yes,
Speaker 1: and yeah you do. It's like fifties drunk women. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go a little. Okay, try to see if you go
Speaker 1: up Mariah style maybe one. If anything, I'd have to
Speaker 1: go lower it. Okay, do whatever you need. You're in control.
Speaker 1: Okaydds and ends, odds and ends, say everybody tell your
Speaker 1: friends it's odds and ends. Now we got the low end. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna need a falsetto at some point, so
Speaker 1: you're going to have to be training ahead of this. Okay,
Speaker 1: you have some runway though, Graver, can you send me
Speaker 1: the clip yes, which I believe you asked. You made
Speaker 1: that request yesterday. What is Graver up to these days?
Speaker 1: Where yeah, you know what's going on? And uh, can
Speaker 1: we get some like like anton off back there? Can
Speaker 1: we get a auto tune or something to next? So
Speaker 1: let's really nick that in eight o'clock to light, Bears
Speaker 1: continue their spending spree to Marcus Walker could then Ellis
Speaker 1: get big money from the Falcons, Kelvin Beacham back to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, Cowboys, they will stay in business with Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and you mentioned Cut Shelby, Harrison, Penton, Jefferson,
Speaker 1: anything else. John Kaminsky just resigned minutes ago. I feel
Speaker 1: like anyone eat point five million, anyone going back to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. They're just saying, I own a you know,
Speaker 1: property here in Phoenix, and I'm not looking to move
Speaker 1: anytime soon. So exact, Kaden Ellis, it's it's good to
Speaker 1: have the team that you play for have their coach,
Speaker 1: and the GM go to your biggest rival. Because there's
Speaker 1: no reason why he got as much money other than
Speaker 1: the Falcons and Saints were bidding against each other, although
Speaker 1: he had like a month of insane play last year.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has also asked the Jets to sign Dorsey Levins,
Speaker 1: so he got that as well. He's an executive with
Speaker 1: you know the bits talent. Maybe Jordy Nelson cornerback Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Moseley to the Lions. Okay, two cornerbacks there. I like
Speaker 1: a man. I like this graver cleaning up the loose
Speaker 1: ends here. Anything else. Um, there was a couple of
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh signed an offensive guard, Nate something big. Yeah, Patriots
Speaker 1: signed the Sailors side Nate. The Patriots signed Calvin Anderson.
Speaker 1: Ever replacement level swing to ah, we're back all right,
Speaker 1: there you go. We are getting to the point where,
Speaker 1: like we have another show tomorrow, Like let's see what
Speaker 1: sort of news lineup we have at that point. Some
Speaker 1: of these names are becoming a little bit underwater from me.
Speaker 1: As each day passes, I look more and more forward
Speaker 1: to the top of show free agency rundown from all
Speaker 1: our insiders. The names are they're going to continue to
Speaker 1: kind of go in a certain downward trajectory. But that
Speaker 1: gets me excited. I want to the real nitty gritty
Speaker 1: of free agency is what I get excited for. What
Speaker 1: a time of year for you? Then, oh, we still goto.
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown is out there, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson, James Bradberry,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Smart teams Wi Salton Schultz Jujuse, it is
Speaker 1: true the smart teams do wait. The teams that typically
Speaker 1: win free agency end up bailing on many of these
Speaker 1: deals quickly down the line. Just a little buyer beware.
Speaker 1: I feel like they've never done it. Yeah, any crazy
Speaker 1: deals this year. Defensive tackles. They got like a decent
Speaker 1: amount of money a couple of the tackles. But it
Speaker 1: feels like teams are pretty conservative. Yeah, not as frenzied mum.
Speaker 1: Jenna Ortega future of Hollywood? I think so. Thoughts, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's an argument to be made there. I'm gonna big
Speaker 1: Ortega kick right now. Start watching Wednesday. Watched her on SNLU.
Speaker 1: I believe there is some superstar potential here. I've seen
Speaker 1: a number of the Wednesday episodes, so I'd have to
Speaker 1: side with you. I think she's got I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think your first to this corner, but I watched
Speaker 1: her Hot Ones episode. Okay, I mean, you know you're
Speaker 1: doing some research. What is it about her sort of
Speaker 1: thespian catalog that you enjoy her abilities? She inhabits a
Speaker 1: both smart you could tell she's intelligent and quick witted,
Speaker 1: sense of humor, very cute kind of girl next door vibe,
Speaker 1: but also don't mess with her and a good actor.
Speaker 1: All right, So what should we watch Wednesday? I would
Speaker 1: suggest you check out Wednesday on Netflix. Okay, you want
Speaker 1: anybody else? Want to throw out a recommendation right now,
Speaker 1: I'd back you on Wednesday. It's having seen it myself
Speaker 1: that it's I'm also finishing up the first Harry Potter
Speaker 1: books and it's very good you season two. She's a
Speaker 1: pretty big character. Yes, yes, okay, wait, I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure people heard this because this under the
Speaker 1: radar gem should not be lost. What's up? Harry Pottering?
Speaker 1: Kind of blown away by that. I believe that this
Speaker 1: Harry Potter serious some significant chance at legs put it
Speaker 1: that way, right, This is breaking from up roughly in
Speaker 1: nineteen years ago. Has affected is affecting our house. We
Speaker 1: are on chapter thirteen. Yeah, and uh the boys are enraptured,
Speaker 1: and you know what, so is the old man. Oh
Speaker 1: he put a spell on you. See. This is usually
Speaker 1: my move of dialing in on something that is like
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, like The Godfather or well that's more
Speaker 1: than old. But I'll crush seasons at a time to
Speaker 1: just to get up to the season finale that's coming up.
Speaker 1: The So like I did it for Breaking Bad, I
Speaker 1: did it for Game of Thrones, and I'm doing it
Speaker 1: right now for Successions. So that's great. Just started Succession
Speaker 1: like a week and a half ago and I crushed
Speaker 1: two seasons. But that's great because there's more succession coming
Speaker 1: so than time for last season. So like you're you're
Speaker 1: into like I love Lucy or so due to the
Speaker 1: timetable in like two thy forty eight, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be outraged by j K. Rowlings, but I have to
Speaker 1: get there. I'm behind you're doing it for Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: anybody else have any content new year old to share
Speaker 1: before we say goodbye. I don't know how we top Greg.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you like we top Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't sleep on the artiga next big thing
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts nineteen nine type future star of the industry.
Speaker 1: That's my tape pop culture dot com report. I love it.
Speaker 1: It's good dance pop culture corner. Nobody else hasn't. I know.
Speaker 1: I've thought you guys flat footed. Maybe you guys have
Speaker 1: a day to think about it, and maybe we'll connect
Speaker 1: later in the week. I would just say, and I
Speaker 1: think Greg would agree that if you haven't seen everything everywhere,
Speaker 1: all at once in the theater, go to the theater
Speaker 1: to see it. Don't wait to be at you know,
Speaker 1: in your den on a laptop and right, go see
Speaker 1: it in the theater. I've heard that the performances are amazing,
Speaker 1: the acting is incredible, but the actual story is kind
Speaker 1: of man I would disagree. You like a little post
Speaker 1: oscars talk about the movies involved with the Oscars. I
Speaker 1: will you really are behind? If you go to a theater,
Speaker 1: you won't be able to enjoy the movie with some
Speaker 1: everything everywhere all at buns. Someone suggests that everything everywhere
Speaker 1: all at brunch, which would have been really a different dish. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean a different setting for the whole party. But
Speaker 1: that was a good one. What a crime love heart wipe?
Speaker 1: All right, that's it until tomorrow when the new league year.
Speaker 1: It's happy New Year. I guess that would make this story.
Speaker 1: We're already we were announcing stories and it's done. We
Speaker 1: almost broke it, heed the call.