WEBVTT - 2017 Draft Predictions 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:06.800 M The Around the NFL Podcast has it's swagger back. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.320 Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.280 My name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:18.240 a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.400 Gregg Roshal. What's up boys? Hey Dan? Getting the band 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:29.800 back together? Ah much thanks to Connie Fox and Petrick Claiban. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:35.879 We're sitting in well. Mark and I were at our 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.320 private retreat in the mountains. It's nice to see one 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:45.280 of the world's great romances, you know, living life again. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.240 We are well. We actually didn't stay in a cabin together. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.040 We did you even see each other? Yeah? I didn't 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.960 see Dan for more than one second all weekend. So 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.880 but I met you and Simone you know who are 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:02.279 Who's having a birthday? The romances back on track? Did 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.080 you say what you're suggesting that? It was not only track? 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:13.399 Greg very awkward in social settings at times. This is 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:14.640 what we're talking When you said you don't know what 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.440 we're talking about, that's kind of I would say, I'm comfortable. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.080 I just make other people feel awkward. I think you 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.560 do a fine job in the post softball setting. That's good. Yeah, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.800 we're two and our softball team, by the way, another 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:34.040 thumping of UM, a middling unit. So I I'm very happy. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.240 It's about the start of the season for the Shield, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.440 UM and that's something to be excited about. Mark. We'd 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.920 love to get you at a game. I definitely when 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.480 is the next game we are playing? I believe a 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.480 week from Thursday. We're on the rare double by, which 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.280 could hurt our momentum a little bit, but you know, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.640 nothing to get too upset about. Recharge the batteries. I 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.560 will be there. Good exc This is the around the 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:04.960 NFL podcuest driven by Honi and today's show UH is 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:11.519 an important one because we are less than damn it. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.680 I wanted to say less than twenty four hours away 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.880 from the draft. That is not accurate, so I have 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.160 to say something less sexy, like we are less than 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.320 thirty one hours away from the two thousand and seventeen 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:29.120 NFL Draft in Philadelphia, an event that will be held 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:40.800 west outside. I take my duties as host very um seriously, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.240 and I did want to try to get a Philadelphia 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.720 area meteorologist on the show, UH, So I reached out 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.840 to Connie Fox, who, strangely didn't get back to me. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.200 A little bit odd. She's in Philadelphia right now. Reached 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.680 out to John Gonzalez, who also, uh, he did get 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.560 back to me. John Roll Gonzoles born March seven is 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.639 American sportswriter who was married to NFL media broadcaster Colleen Wolf. John, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.680 who's The Pisces, resides in Los Angeles with his wife 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.080 and two dogs. Uh. John did not know, and it 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.679 had one friend but took a job recently in d C. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.720 Uh So no, no weather person uh to come on 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.880 the show. So we have no idea. And in a 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.399 way it's more exciting. Yeah, that's the way to go. Yeah, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.760 the weather man is never wrong, So why do we 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.120 want to know that information? We want to be flying 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.200 blind blind, flying blind on this one. Very exciting. But anyway, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.119 the draft is tomorrow, so you know we're gonna do 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.320 you know what it is? Don't get my lunch the 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.320 NFL draft addition, and don't you me so phone ears, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.360 don't you dare come at me? Or what's coming? Said? 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.440 The orange? You don't want the orange. You don't want it. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.520 The sound of someone eating an orange is especially bad. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:03.000 It is not pleasant. Don't want it because the banana 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.400 was bad. Oh, the banana was real bad. But the 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.400 orange can make ears bleed. That's all I'm saying. Send me, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.360 Why dare you send me one tweet? One? Are you? 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:21.400 Son of send me one tweet before Thursday show? And 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.279 you're getting the orange when I mean I'm in their court. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.479 I cannot stand this. Uh sounds of people chewing various 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.080 foods and you take particular that right there, You take 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.560 particular joy in it. And it is a torture to sign. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:40.919 I feel like eating a banana should be soundless, is it, though, Sydney? 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.240 Is it? There's some sucking and some lip smacking, and 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:50.040 he's terrible anyway, So we will do our are props 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:56.520 are sandwich props, whereby we each make predictions for the draft. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.280 We go around the room a few times, and then 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.960 we tracked the those predictions with the help, of course, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.800 of the great Nick Fourtier for Tier for tier? Does 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.720 that ever? Do we know for sure? He confirmed to 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.320 me that it's Nick Fourtier. Oh, Nick Fourtier, kind of 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.479 like Phil Plantier, remember him? Great? Oh yeah, great batting 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.800 stance on that left handed slugger of the Red Sex 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.679 and all time batting stands. Bill plant here. But anyway, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.040 Nick four tier a go get my lunch dot org 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.279 tracks all all the standings for our predictions. So we 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.599 will make some for the draft. Very exciting. But before 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.119 we do that, we're gonna hit the news. Uh so, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.200 I don't know, let's do it. Said, before the battle 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.080 can be one on the field, the war must be 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.440 one on Draft days. Got about ten hours. I'm gonna 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:51.480 do what's best for the team. That of course, the 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.080 one of Mark Sessa's favorite films of all time, Draft Day, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.200 starring Costner. And they just put up some clips if 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.480 you're if you're curious about the movie, they just put 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:06.320 up some clips on YouTube. Um, various clips from that 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.160 that film. They just put them up. Yeah, it's you 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.360 know that movie clips dot com or something and they 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.240 they they actually that's part of their job. They take 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.440 different parts from movies and then just throw it up 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.840 on YouTube. If you if you're a Draft Day fan 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.640 and Mark I know you are, go there and relive 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.839 one of the great uh conquests of the Cleveland Browns history. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.240 They're fake two thousand fourteen Draft with Kevin Costner's GM. Well, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.760 this is a tired bit. I don't think about this 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.960 movie at all, and it's brought me nothing but um 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.760 agitation from the three of you and others. Well, if 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.440 you want to relive how excited you were at the time, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.560 you can just google, like I just did right now, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.920 Draft Day Movie Mark Sessler review and you actually find 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.720 the official Draft Day Movie account which includes the review 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.800 from Mark Sessler. Delivers on the Draft Day movie, delivers 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.520 on the great tension of the NFL Draft while showing 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.520 how human the entire prod This is full of heart 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.320 from as I told you, as I told you, full 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:11.160 of hot from stock to finish of the NFL Draft 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.160 while showing how human the entire process is. Let me 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:21.400 tell you what, As I mentioned, I had multiple classes 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.400 of wine in me when I texted that that review, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:26.960 and I'm not going to take it back. I did 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.080 write it. I should not have ever done that, obviously, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.120 But Greg and Dan have now put themselves into a 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.120 special little bucket, and it's called the revenge bucket. And 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.040 it's going to be an incredible practical joke that I 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.160 will that I will and act on the two of you. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.840 But you will never know that it came from me, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.400 and it will not happen in the next fifteen to 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.360 twenty hours. Where Oh, that's a call back to the 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.960 podcast when I took Mark to town on a movie 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.680 review did three and a half years ago. No, it 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.080 may come eight months from now, eight teen years from now, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.040 but it will be severe, really West, how long as 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.720 West doesn't slip up, only West survives. I already he 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.480 was quoting you as well. I don't know how West 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.320 got away. West came out of the theater calling it 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.200 a solid bee if I don't, I do not distance 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.600 myself from that movie at all. I think it's underrated. No, 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.040 and I like because Dan and Mark actually wrote a 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.960 little known fact a review of the movie on the website, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.240 and that came right. I forgot about that fact. Yeah, 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.120 that came up when I just googled it too. And 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.360 it is funny how toned down it is in that 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.520 it's solid football, fair for fans in need of a fix. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.000 So that's a little more tempered. Because I was a 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.920 by line, I was bringing it down a little bit, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.960 Mark was pumping up. That's because there had already been occurrences, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.600 I believe on our website as like a background splash 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.960 page where Dan HELLI also got pulled into this he 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.600 and I had our quotes on the back of every 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.640 NFL dot Com article, and I thought, I will never 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.120 allow this to happen in my life ever again. Remember 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.120 Mark's last revenge bucket? No, what was it? We were 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.880 all turned into cat lovers on Instagram? Oh yeah, that 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.440 was good though. That still that will not have the 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.480 feel good or of that right that that's still my 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:12.320 profile picture on Twitter. All right, let's let's do some 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.080 news and we will start with, Oh my god, Adrian 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:20.240 Peterson got a job. Ladies and gentlemen, congratulations buddy. The 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.760 New Orleans Saints and Uh, the veteran running back finalized 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.720 a two year deal that will pay Peterson seven million. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.800 The deal included three and a half million guaranteed in TV, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.480 and it's worth up to eight point to five million 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:40.520 with incentives and escalators. Uh. This puts uh Peterson in 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:45.360 a backfield with Mark Ingram, which on paper, Uh, Greg 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.440 looks like you do some damage. Do you like the move? 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.160 I do. I think it makes sense for the Saints 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.040 to add another offensive weapon. They're a team that likes 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.000 to have multiple running backs. Their backfield, despite Ingram being there, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.240 was very thin until this move, so that I think 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.440 they were gonna add someone in the draft or in 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.960 free agency, And to me, you're gonna get a motivated 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.840 Adrian Peterson. And I'm not too worried about who gets 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.640 the snaps, who gets the you know, who gets the carries. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.960 I think there's plenty to go around with for Ingram 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.680 and Peterson, and that this is a team where he 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.000 fits pretty well. They don't use the shotgun very much 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.840 among the bottom teams in the entire NFL in terms 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.400 of using the shotgun, and I trust John Payton in 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.760 terms of how he's gonna use different offensive weapons, including Peterson. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.959 I think everybody's reading this situation wrong, and I think 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.040 the NFL is reading Adrian Peterson wrong. He should be 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.079 the favorite for comeback Player of the Year honors. He's 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.200 a freakish athlete. He can't be compared to any other 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.280 thirty two year old running back we've seen this century. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.480 He's better than them. He's more physically gifted than them. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.720 He's an exceptional talent. And and I don't this idea 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.959 that he's Tim high Tower. Give me a break. Tim 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.560 high Tower coming off a half a decade out of 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.920 the game and had to bust his but just to 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.280 make the team. Peterson got a two point five million 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.199 dollar signing bonus. He's not going to be the backup 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.720 to Mark Ingram. It's not well, that's just not true. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.280 Those I mean, I think it doesn't matter who's backup 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.120 who started. They're gonna split it, so they're gonna both 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.280 be factors. Peterson will likely not be on the field 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.199 as much on passing down but Ingram's never played more 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.360 than five fifty snaps in his life anyways. The pain 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.080 the Saints were at their best when they had four 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.120 guys in their backfield Pierre Thomas, Chris Ivory. Uh, you 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.480 know who am I thinking about back then? Darren Sprawls 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.880 he here. You know, they would go three or four deep, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.439 and I think that's what they'll do. I think it's 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.520 one of the more interesting landing spots. And it's they 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.560 play the Vikings, which is which is fantastic for me. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.400 It's like, I want to just make sure that Adrian Peterson, 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.520 who seems totally motivated as a as a football player 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.640 from wire to wire, that at this situation they all 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.200 talk about there's a clear role, there's gonna be. It's 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.440 great for the Saints, but weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks in. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.160 If Adrian Peterson isn't happy with his role, if there's 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.439 issues with mark Ingram not being happy with the role, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.960 what happens there, Maybe it works out fine for me. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.280 It's a why not if you can get Adrian Peterson, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.720 he came out of at a at a pretty low cost. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.280 You're the Saints, You've you've basically been a nonentity in 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.600 the playoff picture for too many years at this point, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.319 go for it. Why not? It is amazing again how 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.400 tough it is to be running back around thirty years 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.640 of age and Peterson's thirty two. Um, this is a 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.760 guy who's a legendary player, and he is earning three 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.679 and a half million average salary this season, putting him 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.959 behind the likes of Frank Gore no disrespect, Greg Theo, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:39.240 Ritic blal Pal, Ryan Matthews, they'll make less than mark Ingram. So, basically, 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.160 at the end of the day, despite the fact that 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.640 he has this legendary resume, despite the fact that he's 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.600 already shown once that he can defy the odds when 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.360 he came back from that knee injury and ran for 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.360 two thousand yards, he had to settle for journeyman type money. Uh, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.800 and that could be an incentive for him as well. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.960 I would think in his statement, I think it was 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.400 telling that he was explained that he was going to 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.480 have a role. He's not expecting to dominate carries. I'm 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.720 sure he wants to beat out mark Ingram because he's 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.280 a competitor. But Ian Rappaport NFL Network Insider, you have 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.000 pointed out it was very purposeful that he's making two 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.800 fifty thousand dollars less than Ingram. They didn't want to 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.520 upset Ingram. They said, if you're coming in, you're gonna 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.440 come in below Ingram, who's been there for six years 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.920 and has been our guy essentially in terms of between 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.520 the tackles. Runner and Peterson accepted that he signed the contract, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.040 but he did now I want to see how where 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.280 we are in November with that. That's all. He also said, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.680 I could tell Sean Payton did his due diligence on 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.120 how I could contribute, and there's no way you will 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.800 never convince me that Adrian Peterson signed on with Sean 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.520 Payton and telling him you're going to be mark Ingram's 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:50.160 back up. I totally agree with that. I just told him, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.439 look the best, because this is how all backfields in 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.000 the NFL work week to week. If you're running well, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.720 you're gonna play. And Adrian Peterson is confident enough they 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.559 have Corse. He looks at mark Ingram and says, I'm 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.200 more talented than him. I'm going to play, but Traveris 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.480 Cadet will wind up getting a hundred snaps. There's only 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.320 eleven hundred snaps all year. They're gonna play mark Ingram, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.360 and I think it's a great addition for a team 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.760 that has a lot of weapons. They have a chance. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.720 I know we make fun of the Saints defense and 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.120 they're seven and nine every single year. But if they 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.000 can just be somewhat close to the middle of the 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.800 pack on defense. They have a great young group of 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.440 receivers as as good as they've had really, uh since 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.920 they were in the Super Bowl, maybe even better than then, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.040 and they still have an effective quarterback. They got a chance. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.680 And it also opens up the fact that you they 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.880 were better last year, you have your backfield wrapped up. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.200 They want to go defense heavy in the draft that 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.440 they have to be better. They were better last year. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.240 They just have to be even better than what they're doing. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.520 What the Cowboys do, run the ball, hydro defense. Adrian 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.640 Peterson signed and now Marshall and Lynch looks like this 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.160 is squared away as well. He should become an official 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:01.880 member of the Oakland Raiders. On Wednesday, Lynch's representatives and 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.520 the Raiders have agreed two terms on a contract and 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.400 the team has hashed out the details of a trade 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.560 for Lynch's rights with the Seahawks. Multiple sources and firm 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:16.360 the negotiations. According to Mike Garfolo and Ian Rappaport, the 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.160 draft compensation will be a swap of late round picks 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.880 and Seattle gets Oakland's fifth round pick in exchange for 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:27.480 Seattle's sixth round pick. According to a source, uh and 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.360 now uh. The only thing left is for the five 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.840 time Pro Bowl back to take a physical with the 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.120 Raiders and if that checks out this saga mark is 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.440 in the books and Marshawn Lynch joins the Raiders and 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.560 an offense that has a chance to be the a 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.120 f c's best. Yes, it does. I think I think 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.200 it boils down to this elongated saga when this gets going. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.040 What kind of player is Marshawn Lynch. I'm of the 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.600 mindset that you know, we know who he is. The break, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.040 the year long break probably got his body back in shape. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.560 He has a chance, you like in the last situation 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.040 with Adrian Peterson, they have other good running backs. I 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.360 like Jyleen Rochard, But if he's going to be the 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.240 Marshawn Lynch of old, he's going to have a carved 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.360 out big role in that offense. It just as a 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.640 matter of how Durably is where he is physically. He 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.880 he didn't look quite the same as last full season. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.960 He wasn't healthy. He's gonna be running behind a much 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:24.120 better offensive line. But if I had to choose which 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.200 of these two running backs, I feel more confident it 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:32.200 would be Adrian Peterson. But yeah, I don't know if 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.040 we have to choose one or the other. I feel 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.880 like they'll both exceed expectations because expectations for thirty ye 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.160 old running backs are so low, and both guys have 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.920 fresh legs. Both guys should be on top five NFL offenses. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.200 Which is kind of interesting that everybody poo poo's the 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.840 idea of power backs in two thousand seventeen, especially aging 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.120 power backs, and two of the best offenses want them. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.000 I think that Lynch, to me, is the bigger risk 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.960 in terms of bringing him on board to an offense 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.480 and hoping that he becomes an important part of it, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.920 just because he was out of football for a year 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.000 the last time he saw him, he wasn't at his best. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.320 He is. Let's be honest here, I mean, this is 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.800 a guy he's gonna be playing in Oakland. There could 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.119 be some distractions for him, a guy that that is 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.399 tied in so tightly with that community. You don't know, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.840 uh if Marshall and Lynch is gonna be the same 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.080 focus type of professional athlete he was when we last 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.120 saw him. So I think there is some risk there, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.919 Whereas Peterson to me seems like a guy that has 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.760 uh you have less to worry about him. But Peterson 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.159 was essentially out of football last year too with another 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.639 major injury. I mean, it's it's fair there are risks 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.320 with both. But I think we were a lot we 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.680 would we see these as reliable players who aren't coming 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.040 back to make money, and it's they're coming back to 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.800 make a statement and we get to watch him. I mean, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.880 it's gonna they're gonna make them more entertaining when they're 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.119 on uh TV. By the time people listen to this, 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.760 Lynch will probably have passed his physical and this news 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.679 will be official. And he did send out a tweet 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:02.000 while we were up here, UH basically confirmed it, saying, yes, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.320 Lord man, I'm thankful, but I just got real. I 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.280 had hell of fun in Seattle. But I'm really really 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.600 I'm really from Oakland ough like really really really from 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:18.120 Oakland O town business. Breath on me. Can someone decipher 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.879 that and translate it to me in English? Oh? I 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.600 think he's excited. I think I'm It says I'm excited 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.080 to play for my hometown Raiders. We like these Raiders 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.480 this year. Is that right? Well, he's thanking God and 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.960 also the twelfth Man, which is the Seattle something called 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.520 a Lord a w D. That's Jesus. And then he says, uh, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.200 this all this speculation, will it or won't? Won't it happen? Oh? No, 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.640 there's something about happy email deer in here twice and 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.359 West I'm trying to I'm trying to give you the 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.680 information you asked for. But despite my love of playing 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.480 for the Seahawks, I am an Oakland guy. That's where 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.440 I'm from. Those are my people, and I'm really excited 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.680 to represent my city. This is about Oakland and about 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.720 me and joining back up with the Oakland people. What 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.719 about the last line, which is a purposeful misspelling of 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:12.080 business breath. I don't that want town business breath on me? 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.600 That one. I'm not with you. I don't know. It's 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.640 not cool to spell correctly. That's what I can add 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.000 to this next one. For white guys, we discussed the 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.560 social implication of the new Kendrick Lamar album. I don't 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.760 know why, like wanting grammar to be correct or wanting 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.040 communication to be correct has to be a white guy. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.359 This is on West's right. And is it like you 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.920 need street cred just to say things in a certain way. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.520 Just you use the communication correctly, please, so we can 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.560 tell what you're saying. Mark, Well, the language is always shifting. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.960 The people that were thirty years older than us laughed 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:48.919 at the way that we communicated and how we did it. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.000 And even in our newsroom the language is shifted in 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.479 the last five six years we've been there drastically. So 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.920 I just see it as more of that Look, say 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.080 what you want, but there's a way to run. Language 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.360 is shifting. One way for speaking in an other way. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.720 For writing, you have to be able to communicate I'm 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.359 with you, I just see you, and I is like 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.080 standing there is this tidal wave of iss like basically 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.159 swallowing us up, and we're you know that missive is 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.879 quiet and going away. Let's just move on. Martavis Brian 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:19.560 is conditionally reinstated by the NFL the team. That team 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.320 being the Pittsburgh Steelers, announced Tuesday Bryant missed the entirety 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:27.080 of the season for multiple violations of the league's Policy 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:33.080 against the Substances of abuse. UM, Bryan is going to obviously, 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.639 you have to walk the straight and narrow uh path 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.720 here to to stay off of the league's the league's radar. 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.640 Uh and uh. But if he if, if he does that, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.520 and if he gets back the trust of Ben Roethlisberger, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.600 who seemed very miffed about the way things played out 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.400 last year. UM, West, the Steelers and we're just talking 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.200 about the Raiders could have the best offense. The Steelers, 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:00.800 My goodness, this offense could be close, unstoppable. Well, spoil alert. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.399 I'm gonna have a post draft banger on the best 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.320 offenses in the NFL. The three teams we've talked about 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.600 so far, we'll all be in the top five, the Saints, 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.840 the Raiders, and the Steelers. If you compare the Raiders 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.760 everyone's talking about them to the Steelers. I take the 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:18.360 Steelers at every position, every position. I bet the Patriots 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.239 are in that top five too, Yes, they will be. 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:24.320 I think this is a potentially every every position, even 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.440 the offensive line, even the offensive line. I would take 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.280 the Steelers at every position. And we saw in two 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.600 thousand fifteen at the second half of the season, especially 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.800 when the Steelers were doing amazing things, Antonio Brown and 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.520 Martevis Bryant were the best by far receiving duo in 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.680 the NFL. I think this is potentially a bigger deal 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.040 than the last two players we just talked about. He's 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.159 not a bigger name. More people don't know about Martevis Bryant, 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.199 but him plugging him back into Pittsburgh's offense could do 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.639