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Speaker 3: It is on March tenth. It's the start of a
Speaker 3: two day negotiating period for prospective unrestricted free agents. We
Speaker 3: have a lot to talk about, a lot of news
Speaker 3: to get to on the show today. Peter Schrager, Kyle Brant,
Speaker 3: this is Brock Breen sitting next to be former NFL
Speaker 3: safety Brock. Welcome into GMFB. How you doing feeling great,
Speaker 3: gentlemen in New York. You look great. You look like
Speaker 3: you're to fire on all cylinders. And we have to
Speaker 3: get to that because there's a lot of names, specifically
Speaker 3: quarterbacks that we want to talk to. Ian Rapaport, our
Speaker 3: NFL network insider, you've been all over He's on the
Speaker 3: phone with somebody right now. So we're just gonna pause.
Speaker 3: We are going to talk Josh Allen. First, Ian, all right,
Speaker 3: rap sheet, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Sorry about that?
Speaker 3: That's all good to happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's talk about Josh Allen. Sorry, it's a time
Speaker 5: of calls and dodging.
Speaker 6: It's you have to do.
Speaker 3: Just let me know and I'll pick you up.
Speaker 6: Now, I'll let you know.
Speaker 5: I'll let you know, all right, Josh Allen gets a
Speaker 5: huge new deal. Reigning MVP gets paid just like in.
Speaker 4: The Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5: Has been a lot of time this offseason, and really
Speaker 5: the last week or so walking in some of their
Speaker 5: key guys. Six years, three hundred and thirty million dollars
Speaker 5: on his extension, two hundred and fifty million dollars guarantee,
Speaker 5: which is a huge number, the largest number ever.
Speaker 4: Generally. What you see is, you.
Speaker 5: Know, quarterbacks do extensions. They tack on money kind of
Speaker 5: at the end and extend a company. This is really
Speaker 5: more like a new deal for Josh Allen, the kind
Speaker 5: of contract that he absolutely deserves. Meanwhile, one quarterback who
Speaker 5: wants a new contract wants a contract at all. Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 5: one of the top free agents available, is cerainly one
Speaker 5: of the biggest name free agents available. We have known
Speaker 5: for some time that the New York Giants have interest
Speaker 5: in Aaron Rodgers. Those two have had a dialogue for
Speaker 5: the last several days. It is certainly a strong option,
Speaker 5: I would say, for the Giants, and we'll see where
Speaker 5: the ends up going Now, the Pittsburgh Steelers are trying
Speaker 5: to get Justin Field's done trying to get him to
Speaker 5: remain their quarterback for next year. But if that does
Speaker 5: not work out, if he goes somewhere else, like maybe
Speaker 5: let's say the New York Jets, which would be a
Speaker 5: possibility for him, then I would expect these Steelers to
Speaker 5: have some interest in Aaron Rodgers. They've got interested in
Speaker 5: a couple quarterbacks. Rogers would be one of them. A
Speaker 5: lot of dominoes here are still to fall, a lot
Speaker 5: of balls in the air, and this is basically the
Speaker 5: quarterback road.
Speaker 4: So once one spot gets a.
Speaker 5: Little fought, another one gets a little more likely, and
Speaker 5: we'll kind of move from there. But Aaron Rodgers firmly
Speaker 5: in focus today, all.
Speaker 3: Right, and thank you so much. Two years later, it's
Speaker 3: a different colored green, but we're trying to figure out
Speaker 3: where Aaron Rodgers is going to be quarterbacking next season. Peter,
Speaker 3: what do you make of, specifically the juice between the
Speaker 3: New York Giants and potentially Aaron Rodgers going there.
Speaker 7: I think it's real. I think the Giants are very
Speaker 7: interested in Aaron Rodgers. The question is Aaron Rodgers very
Speaker 7: interested in the Giants? And if you're a Giants fan,
Speaker 7: how do we end up here where all of a
Speaker 7: sudden we're waiting on Aaron Rodgers Like this isn't what
Speaker 7: the plan was. Truth of the matter is Rodgers might
Speaker 7: have some different and suitors and he's taking his time.
Speaker 7: It seems like where it might might have an answer today,
Speaker 7: might have an answer tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But they are going to be.
Speaker 7: Teams that are calling, and they are calling at second
Speaker 7: to hits twelve o'clock Eastern. I'm looking at the Pittsburgh
Speaker 7: Steelers as a truly viable option for Aaron Rodgers. I
Speaker 7: look at whether or not if you're Rogers, you'd rather
Speaker 7: go to New York where it's Malik neighbors and a
Speaker 7: young team and some town on the defensive end, or
Speaker 7: the Pittsburgh Steelers, which goes to the playoffs every year
Speaker 7: and it has an opportunity to get over the hump
Speaker 7: if Rogers wants to be the placeholder there. Look, there's
Speaker 7: a lot of different dominoes that have to fall. Ian
Speaker 7: is going to be on it all morning, so will
Speaker 7: Tom Pellisero, and I direct you to Mike Garafo. Those
Speaker 7: three have been on it the entire last three weeks.
Speaker 7: When it comes to all this stuff the dominoes are. Thus,
Speaker 7: we're first going to have to find out I think
Speaker 7: where Sam Darnold's going, and I think Donald is the
Speaker 7: biggest domino left right now. Once we got the Stafford
Speaker 7: situation out of the way, let's say Donald goes to Seattle,
Speaker 7: let's go there, or let's say he.
Speaker 4: Goes to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7: Well, that Justin Fields is the next domino. Where is
Speaker 7: Justin Fields going to go? We know that there's interest
Speaker 7: from the Steelers, of course to bring them back, but
Speaker 7: we also know the New York Jets.
Speaker 4: Are hot on Justin Fields.
Speaker 7: Once we find out Darnald and Fields, amazingly enough, you
Speaker 7: have two potential Hall of Fame quarterbacks, if not one
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame quarterback and one Super Bowl winning quarterback,
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson that I think have to
Speaker 7: see where those two guys end.
Speaker 4: Up, and then they can weigh their decisions.
Speaker 7: I've got Rogers over Wilson on that little hierarchy there
Speaker 7: of that tree. But let's look at it this way. Donald,
Speaker 7: then Fields, then Rogers. As far as where we're going
Speaker 7: to find out where these guys go, Aaron Rodgers suddenly
Speaker 7: might have a bigger market than we thought forty eight
Speaker 7: hours ago. If it's the Steelers, if it's the Seahawks,
Speaker 7: and of course I mentioned the New York Giants.
Speaker 8: Well, Peter, right, listen, going back a little ways, I
Speaker 8: think if Matthew Stafford would have left the Rams, I
Speaker 8: think Rogers is on the jet in ten seconds.
Speaker 9: I think that it would have been a dream job.
Speaker 8: And now, of course DeVante's there, so what are perfectly
Speaker 8: didn't happen? Stafford stays. As far as the Giants, I'll
Speaker 8: just put cards on the table. So about a week
Speaker 8: and a half ago, when it was really popping everywhere
Speaker 8: on social media, It's Friday afternoon, and candidly, I was
Speaker 8: halfway through a Martin Yeah, and I'm all right, I'm
Speaker 8: just reading this and reading this, and I'm like, so,
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna text Rogers every once in a while.
Speaker 4: He and like, hey, let's go.
Speaker 6: We talked about it, and we texted about it. What
Speaker 6: do you got? Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 8: That's why I didn't bring it up the next day
Speaker 8: because there's no headline. I'm not breaking news. Mostly we
Speaker 8: texted just about silly stuff. But my takeaway from me
Speaker 8: actually straight up asking him, like, so, what's the deal?
Speaker 8: You want to know the Giants because we have an
Speaker 8: old relationship, I'll just ask you. My takeaway was that
Speaker 8: I don't think Rogers is running around shopping himself. I
Speaker 8: don't think he's eager and hungry and ready and not
Speaker 8: to join any other team if the situation is there, sure,
Speaker 8: But like, I don't think he is dispatching his people.
Speaker 8: I don't know if he has people. Honestly, I don't
Speaker 8: think he's running people down. I think if it didn't
Speaker 8: show up and there wasn't a perfect situation, he is
Speaker 8: perfectly ready to say, twenty years, Cnohio, in five years,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go take my medicine in the jungle. Just
Speaker 8: I think it is completely ready to do that. The
Speaker 8: Giants thing for me personally has nothing to do with anything.
Speaker 8: I just wri that Peter would be amused by that.
Speaker 8: I don't want to see him go to the Giants,
Speaker 8: And I've said this already. I'm ready for him to
Speaker 8: be done because there's a factor of don's don't wear
Speaker 8: shorts like the Greats, don't team chase, they don't bounce
Speaker 8: around at the end of their careers. It's unbecoming. It
Speaker 8: doesn't end well, and I know you want to land
Speaker 8: the plane on this thing. The last ten Hall of
Speaker 8: Fame quarterbacks. You look at the list, they're not on
Speaker 8: some fourth team. I would even throw Breeze and Brady
Speaker 8: in there yet. Manny no Warner, no Farv, no Aikman,
Speaker 8: no Kelly, no Young, no Warren Moon. Yes, but he
Speaker 8: played a lot of ears in Edmonton, was on a
Speaker 8: different path. Marino, no Montana, no Aaron Rodgers. My opinion,
Speaker 8: the best quarterback to ever play the game is like, Yeah,
Speaker 8: maybe I gonna work something out at the Giants because
Speaker 8: I have a house there and Dable sounds cool.
Speaker 9: Even though they haven't won anything in over decade.
Speaker 8: And maybe I can make it work with Malik Neighbors,
Speaker 8: who is a nice player, but it's not Jerry Rice.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I just as a fan, as an.
Speaker 8: Enthusiast joining the Giants after the Jets, I don't want
Speaker 8: to see it.
Speaker 6: As a fan, and as someone who.
Speaker 8: Just kind of follows the league, I still don't anticipate
Speaker 8: seeing I think the Rams thing would happen in a second.
Speaker 8: I don't think he's going to join the Giants. If
Speaker 8: he does, I'll stand up in applaud and I hope
Speaker 8: they win because they root for Dable.
Speaker 9: So don't think it's gonna.
Speaker 4: Have Steelers do anything for you.
Speaker 8: Yes, more because if he goes to the Steelers, he'll
Speaker 8: be in the playoffs. The Steelers go to the playoffs.
Speaker 8: We know that, so there's almost no doubt about it.
Speaker 8: And they just loaded up with weapons. So Peter, it's
Speaker 8: a perfect follow the Steelers.
Speaker 9: Yes, we know the relationship with Tomlin.
Speaker 8: They're always kind of winking at each other and smiling
Speaker 8: in the games. They have the rob receivers, they have
Speaker 8: the defense all at Steelers. Yes, because then you could
Speaker 8: actually make something of it. But anything beyond that, it's
Speaker 8: just it seems like you're, I don't know, shack on
Speaker 8: the Suns or shack on the Calves or shack on
Speaker 8: the Celtics.
Speaker 6: I just don't like it.
Speaker 7: And if you want to look behind the curt a
Speaker 7: little bit of the dark arts, a lot of the
Speaker 7: Steelers Rogers stuff has happened this morning, and that's coming
Speaker 7: out a lot more and more, and you're gonna hear
Speaker 7: that more. A lot of that I think could be real,
Speaker 7: A lot of that could be coming from people in
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh to Justin Fields as folks saying hey, we have
Speaker 7: other options too, like we can move on.
Speaker 4: It's all about how.
Speaker 7: The media is being manipulated, but also what the agents
Speaker 7: are saying, what the teams are saying. That's the beauty
Speaker 7: of free agent frenzy. We came into this morning and
Speaker 7: it's like, all right, let's do what happened now. Suddenly
Speaker 7: there's a discussion of Aaron Rodgers might have a choice,
Speaker 7: but also Justin Fields might have to make a decision
Speaker 7: because hey, if you don't pick Pittsburgh, we've got another option,
Speaker 7: and maybe Rogers is our guy instead.
Speaker 10: For Neighbors and Tracy, I'd be excited, right, But as
Speaker 10: far as the Giants and what their future holds, and
Speaker 10: especially for Aaron Rodgers, he holds all the cards this benefits.
Speaker 10: If you went there, it would benefit the Giants much
Speaker 10: more than it would benefit Aaron Rodgers. Milik Neighbors would
Speaker 10: have his career kick started to heights that we haven't
Speaker 10: already seen. And Tyron Tracy, who's just a flower waiting
Speaker 10: to bloom the right quarterback would be great. But other
Speaker 10: than that, what do we really get out of this situation?
Speaker 10: So Kyle, I'm right there with you. And if Aaron
Speaker 10: does want to continue to play, I am excited for
Speaker 10: him to start fresh offensively from a schematic standpoint.
Speaker 6: When he was at the Packers, that was his team.
Speaker 10: When he was in New York and the Jersey with
Speaker 10: the Jets, it was still his guys in the offensive room,
Speaker 10: so it was his offense.
Speaker 6: It's outdated and it's time to change.
Speaker 10: If he went to the Giants, I would hope he
Speaker 10: would respectable enough to say, Okay, guys are figuring.
Speaker 6: Out what I do.
Speaker 10: I can't just line up in two by two and
Speaker 10: dictate everything at the line of scrim It just time
Speaker 10: to update some things.
Speaker 6: Dable what you.
Speaker 10: Got for me, and I would be excited to see that.
Speaker 10: But I'm really happy to hear that. Maybe there's a
Speaker 10: situation where he says, I've done everything I need to do.
Speaker 10: I got the ring, i got the jacket. I'm gonna
Speaker 10: go geto my cabin in the mountains and live the
Speaker 10: most peaceful life you've ever seen.
Speaker 6: Wins all around for Aaron Rodgers. Quite honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's fun to on free agency frenzy
Speaker 3: day to watch everyone's facial expressions match up with certain players,
Speaker 3: like some of you with a face like this, like
Speaker 3: it just doesn't fit. And I get that you have
Speaker 3: the way things that should be in your brain. Let's
Speaker 3: look at the Pittsburgh Steelers really quick, because you guys
Speaker 3: have all kind of tabbed. This continues and with DK
Speaker 3: Metcalf involved to be a really good option. Now we
Speaker 3: have Ian Rappaport saying that they really want to get
Speaker 3: the Justin Fields deal done. But I would put everybody
Speaker 3: on the spot, Peter Kyle, if they were the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: Steelers and you're making decisions here, would you rather Sam
Speaker 3: Donald or Aaron Rodgers in that quarterback room?
Speaker 7: Peter, you have to love Sam Donald because I don't
Speaker 7: think Sam Donald, you're signing for a one year, two
Speaker 7: year deal. You're going to give him that big monster
Speaker 7: deal and you're gonna give him that Justin Fields deal.
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers probably is a shorter term deal, and that's
Speaker 7: a hey, we think we can win right now. If
Speaker 7: I'm a Steelers fan, I don't know what I want
Speaker 7: if it's option A Justin Fields B Sam Donald, see
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers. Look, Justin Fields was good at four and
Speaker 7: one last year and they benched him because they knew
Speaker 7: that Russell Wilson gave him a better shot. So suddenly,
Speaker 7: now if I'm a Steelers fan after you the same
Speaker 7: coaching staff benched Justin Fields a year ago, to be
Speaker 7: doing flips over the fact that, Wow, we got Justin Fields.
Speaker 4: It's really a.
Speaker 7: Good paradox to have when there's these three different names.
Speaker 7: But it's also this untenable situation because none of these
Speaker 7: guys guarantee we get any further than we did last
Speaker 7: year with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 8: Once they signed DK metcalf I was away from Justin
Speaker 8: Fields for the Steelers, it's just you're gonna have two
Speaker 8: huge personality, huge talent. Never mind the person night wide
Speaker 8: receivers Justin Fields for all he's worth, and there's worth
Speaker 8: a lot, I don't think that's the guy to spread
Speaker 8: the ball around and take all these deep shots and air.
Speaker 9: It out like they're gonna do.
Speaker 8: If anything, I would rather have Russell Wilson and Justin
Speaker 8: Fields if we're gonna do that, just because he knew
Speaker 8: he throws the deep ball.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 8: To answer your question, Jamie Donald to Rodgers, it's a
Speaker 8: really really tricky question. I think it would probably be Donald.
Speaker 8: I just I watched fantastic football with great wide receivers
Speaker 8: last year, albeit in a totally different situation with different
Speaker 8: coach in a dome.
Speaker 9: It's a coin flip, though.
Speaker 8: I just got done saying I don't want Rodgers to
Speaker 8: play on a fourth team. I think he should be done,
Speaker 8: So I'd have to say Donald.
Speaker 10: Donald's short term Rogers has made a clear even if
Speaker 10: he does continue to play one year, two year tops.
Speaker 10: I feel Pittsburgh wants to build something, so I would
Speaker 10: lean towards Sam Donald in that situation. The problem is,
Speaker 10: we have more questions about this Pittsburgh offense than maybe
Speaker 10: any other offense in the NFL. Arthur Smith, we don't
Speaker 10: know what this offense looks like. By the end of
Speaker 10: the season, it was run the ball on first down,
Speaker 10: take a sack on second down, throw the ball to
Speaker 10: hopefully George Biggins catches it on the third. I don't
Speaker 10: know what this Arthur Smith offense is gonna look like,
Speaker 10: and I don't know if either quarterback can really dictate that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I look.
Speaker 7: At these teams and we're like, all right, Sam Donald
Speaker 7: could go to Seattle, which makes sense, or now Pittsburgh
Speaker 7: maybe or the Giants perhaps, but probably not the Giants.
Speaker 7: And it's like, I can't stress us enough how damaging
Speaker 7: for his financial wellbeing those eight days were for Sam Donald.
Speaker 7: There should be a feeding frenzy for this guy based
Speaker 7: on what he did last year. But when you play
Speaker 7: the way you did against the Lions in Week eighteen
Speaker 7: and then eight days later lay another egg against the
Speaker 7: Cardinal against I'm sorry, against the Rams in air Zona.
Speaker 4: Those were two of the worst games we've seen a quarterback.
Speaker 7: Play, and it brought up ghosts no pun intended. When
Speaker 7: we're talking Sam Donald. Of Sam Donald's worst days as
Speaker 7: a New York Jet, worst days as a Carolina Panther,
Speaker 7: I think he cost himself a lot of money because, honestly, Jamie,
Speaker 7: I think the Tennessee Titans should be talking to Sam Donald.
Speaker 7: If you're talking about a seventeen week season, I think
Speaker 7: the Cleveland Browns should be banging down the door for
Speaker 7: Sam Donald. We're talking about a seventeen week season. But
Speaker 7: those eight days, it's really hard for quarterback people and
Speaker 7: offensive coaches to look at those eight days and those
Speaker 7: two performances in the clutch when it mattered most a
Speaker 7: game that was indoors and another game that was indoors
Speaker 7: and Sam Donald played horribly.
Speaker 4: And this team lost.
Speaker 7: I think it's really hard for these teams like the Titans,
Speaker 7: they could say, well, we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Go all in on that.
Speaker 7: So now Donald's left with this kind of second tier
Speaker 7: contract and this sort of maybe should we I don't
Speaker 7: know when it could have been a slam dunk had
Speaker 7: he just played even somewhat like he did in those
Speaker 7: previous seventeen weeks, Peter, is.
Speaker 3: Something really that you said in the last fourteen minutes
Speaker 3: or so, is that Sam Donald is the domino looking
Speaker 3: at those born nineteen ninety five or on dominoes is
Speaker 3: when you take little bricks and you line them up
Speaker 3: and then it's very gratifying when you sing and they
Speaker 3: all start to fall. Okay, that is what dominoes is.
Speaker 3: Just so we have a clarification. I'm pretty sure when
Speaker 3: you were you born ninety ninety two, do you know dominoes?
Speaker 6: The dominoes that my uncle's played was a little different.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, here we go. We're keeping it clean. On GMFB,
Speaker 3: Free Agent Frenzy is just beginning with Rock. All right, guys,
Speaker 3: we're going we're looking at wide receivers, talking about Domino
Speaker 3: Sam Donald, where are you going to land? But I'm
Speaker 3: also looking at the guys that are catching the ball
Speaker 3: from him. We got DK Metcalf. We know where you're going.
Speaker 3: We got Chris Godwin, Davante Adams. You're in LA now
Speaker 3: where else are we looking?
Speaker 6: At?
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Speaker 3: DK Metcalf. You are a Pittsburgh stealer for the next
Speaker 3: couple of seasons. Gino Smith no longer we own you
Speaker 3: the football?
Speaker 6: Who is it?
Speaker 3: And that's where we just talked about that. What are
Speaker 3: the Raiders look like with Gino? But we got to
Speaker 3: go wide receivers as well, Kyle, we.
Speaker 8: Do and Peter and I are trying to think about
Speaker 8: the nooid back from Dominoes back in the night. You
Speaker 8: got to avoid the nooid who was avoiding a little Caesars.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Alloyd was dominant.
Speaker 4: It was dominant. Pizza was avoiding like annoying you like nobody.
Speaker 9: Pizza's liked the hut.
Speaker 6: Anyways, are we're a little Caesar's house?
Speaker 9: Spiker McKenzie was like lying there with women and bikinis.
Speaker 9: He's a dog. What was going on there?
Speaker 6: Devonte?
Speaker 4: Where's he going?
Speaker 9: We already know the rams.
Speaker 4: Whoe are all the quarterbacks going? That's what's most important.
Speaker 9: That's what we talk to. Grunt, Good morning football, don't
Speaker 9: go anywhere.
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Speaker 2: Good mon football.
Speaker 3: Nightmare material for Brock Veraren, who's with us on GMFB today.
Speaker 3: As a safety in the league, if you're dealing with
Speaker 3: quarterbacks and wide receivers that are bopping around a different teams,
Speaker 3: you have to prepare for them so differently, especially Ian
Speaker 3: Rappaport when it's a DK Metcalf or Devonte Adams showing
Speaker 3: up in New Towns. What happened with some wide receivers
Speaker 3: over the weekend?
Speaker 5: Crazy situation for several big time, big name rob receivers.
Speaker 5: We'll start right there with dk Metcalf, the star for Seattle.
Speaker 5: We have known for several days that he has requested
Speaker 5: a trade, wanted to be out, wanted to explore his options, wanted.
Speaker 4: A new contract.
Speaker 5: It all happened for him last Night's just told me
Speaker 5: and colleigue Tom Pellisero that the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers
Speaker 5: agreed to a trade requiring acquiring Dk Metcalf in exchange
Speaker 5: for a second round pick, also giving him a five year,
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty million dollar contract. It has been
Speaker 5: quite an odyssey for the Steelers. They've been searching for
Speaker 5: a big time receiver for.
Speaker 4: More than a year.
Speaker 5: It started with Brandon Ayuke and went to Devonte Adams,
Speaker 5: and went to Mike Williams, and now they get Dk Metcalf.
Speaker 4: Huge deal for them.
Speaker 3: You'll see who their.
Speaker 4: Quarterback ends up being as well.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, Devonte Adams also landed last night. He agreed to
Speaker 5: terms with the Los Angeles Rams. He gets a two year,
Speaker 5: forty six million dollar contract, twenty six million dollars guaranteed. Now,
Speaker 5: he wanted to be on the West coast, and there
Speaker 5: was a ton of talk about whether or not he
Speaker 5: would join Aaron Rodgers. That was obviously a consideration. We
Speaker 5: don't know where Rogers is going to go. He wanted
Speaker 5: to be as a freative for the first time on
Speaker 5: the West coast lands with the Rams as they continue
Speaker 5: to load up for quarterback Matthew staff.
Speaker 3: All right, there were a handful of others two of course,
Speaker 3: te Higgins got the franchise tag from Cincinnati. Hollywood Brown
Speaker 3: resigns in Kansas City. There's a good list of guys available,
Speaker 3: and thank you so much. But Peter, when you inspect
Speaker 3: the recent wide receiver moves, what caught your eye or
Speaker 3: do you want to add to any of those developments
Speaker 3: as we know that you know some of those teams
Speaker 3: pretty well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm interested in now who's left. Chris Godwin's an
Speaker 7: interesting one. Chris Godwin could have been re upped or
Speaker 7: could have been extended by the Buccaneers. He's going to
Speaker 7: be a free agent. But you go back real quick
Speaker 7: on the Metcalf piece, and I think when you're looking
Speaker 7: at DK Metcalf as a Pittsburgh Steeler, the question is
Speaker 7: is that chicken in the egg? Do you now have
Speaker 7: to pair him with a big armed quarterback and you
Speaker 7: need him now find the right quarterback? Or can you
Speaker 7: go with Justin Field still who is not gonna be
Speaker 7: that guy that's gonna hit Pickens and DK Metcalf on
Speaker 7: these d things. Kyle's hit this all morning like Justin Fields,
Speaker 7: Arthur Smith, friar Mouth. You know you add in another
Speaker 7: tight end probably on this team and these are all
Speaker 7: big body guys, Like this has always been a run
Speaker 7: first offense, and Justin Fields to me still is a
Speaker 7: run first quarterback.
Speaker 4: Now he's smart, he's.
Speaker 7: Well liked, he's appreciating, Like, is Justin Fields really the
Speaker 7: number one option for Pittsburgh or do they now say
Speaker 7: we need to consider a guy, Maybe go in big,
Speaker 7: big arm, Maybe go with a different quarterback than that.
Speaker 7: So I'm fascinating to see what the DK Metcalf's on
Speaker 7: against because it's thirty million dollars for a number one
Speaker 7: wide receiver who's entering his thirties. Who's the quarterback they're
Speaker 7: gonna pair with them either way?
Speaker 4: After failing to land Brandon.
Speaker 7: Aiyuk last offseason, after failing to land Christian Kirk last offseason,
Speaker 7: the Steelers five finally get their first wide receiver one
Speaker 7: maybe since Antonio Brown, and they get DK Metcalf.
Speaker 4: This has been a long road. Who's throwing on the ball.
Speaker 10: My only hesitance is their new wide receiver one has
Speaker 10: the same skill set as their new wide receiver two
Speaker 10: in George Pickens.
Speaker 6: Big guys, straight line.
Speaker 10: Guys, guys who excel when the ball is high up
Speaker 10: in the air and I can jump higher and extend
Speaker 10: my long arms more than you. We mentioned a couple
Speaker 10: of minutes ago. We just don't know what this Pittsburgh
Speaker 10: offense is going to look like.
Speaker 6: They were so limited.
Speaker 10: But for a positive and optimistic outlook, here's what it
Speaker 10: does look like.
Speaker 6: You're a defense.
Speaker 10: You cannot play single high, and that opens up a
Speaker 10: whole lot of things, especially for the run game. If
Speaker 10: they figure out Jalen Warren whoever that running back room entails,
Speaker 10: they should be able to feast in there. Because if
Speaker 10: George Pickens is way over there and DK Metcalf is
Speaker 10: way over there, you cannot ask a free safety to
Speaker 10: play after play consistently be over top both of them.
Speaker 6: And that's exciting.
Speaker 10: Maybe this is the most downhill offense we've ever seen.
Speaker 6: We are going to run the.
Speaker 10: Ball right at you, or we are going to chuck
Speaker 10: it up a along the sideline. And while they ran
Speaker 10: into a brick wall last year, once team started figuring
Speaker 10: that out, maybe they can get a quarterback who can
Speaker 10: expose a little more versatility than Russell Wilson did. So,
Speaker 10: if you want to be optimistic, that's what the offense is.
Speaker 6: You cannot play single high.
Speaker 10: Our running backs feast, Jalen Warren feasts if he is
Speaker 10: their running back, Calvin Austin feast, pat firemoothfeast.
Speaker 6: But again, I need to see it.
Speaker 10: I'm withholding my excitement until I can see a full
Speaker 10: route tree from either DK Metcalf or George Pickens.
Speaker 8: I like route tree talk because it's pure football, and
Speaker 8: so much of the reaction to this move is not football.
Speaker 8: It's personality, it's psychology. And it's hard to talk about
Speaker 8: DK in the same wide receiver room as George Pickens
Speaker 8: without talking about the personalities. Kind of feels like it's
Speaker 8: a big deal here. We have two players, certainly Pickens,
Speaker 8: who I'm going to put this in a positivement, are
Speaker 8: very emotional. Earlier in the show, we ran this reel
Speaker 8: of George Pickens' losing composure. Listen, there's a real DK too.
Speaker 8: And if you're George Pickens, who is maybe been a
Speaker 8: little bit insecure, is going to the last year of
Speaker 8: your contract, who wants one of these huge deals, you're
Speaker 8: telling me you're bringing in someone who is actually more
Speaker 8: talented than I am, who's bigger than I am, more
Speaker 8: experienced than I am, and more well paid.
Speaker 6: Than I am.
Speaker 8: That's a shot right to the core. You just went
Speaker 8: to the number two receiver and now the quarterback might
Speaker 8: be a run first quarter?
Speaker 4: How am I gonna get my numbers?
Speaker 6: How am I going to get paid? Like?
Speaker 8: I don't even blame him for this, Like you got
Speaker 8: to look out for yourself. He's in a pretty important
Speaker 8: juncture of his career.
Speaker 4: These two players want the ball.
Speaker 8: George Pickens will throw his helmet on the sidelines scream
Speaker 8: I want the ball. And that's before DK Metcalf got there.
Speaker 8: So the chemistry of it and the Mike Tomlin knows
Speaker 8: all factor of it is volatile to me. And it's
Speaker 8: a little bit of a buckle up. We did this earlier,
Speaker 8: We're gonna do it again. Peter brought it to the table,
Speaker 8: as he so often does. Zach Azani a z Z
Speaker 8: A n N I is the wide receiver coach for
Speaker 8: your Pittsburgh Steelers. Thoughts and prayers go get them. This
Speaker 8: is a guy incredibly experienced years old. He's one of
Speaker 8: these coach was like fourteen stops. He started at Valpo.
Speaker 8: We talked about he was at Central Michigan and coach
Speaker 8: Antonio Brown. He's with the Jets, A couple of years ago.
Speaker 8: He has seen it all. I don't know if he's
Speaker 8: seen this. So just the idea of keeping those guys happy,
Speaker 8: you know, can use like attention cutter. I would love
Speaker 8: a tweet from Pickens right now that is some sort
Speaker 8: of take the air out of the situation a little
Speaker 8: bit and say let's go ball at DK whatever it is.
Speaker 8: Because you watch football, you watch red zone, you know
Speaker 8: these two guys are prone to doing crazy stuff after
Speaker 8: the play, sometimes during the play. Now they're on the
Speaker 8: same team, in the same huddle for a team that
Speaker 8: is always in the playoffs.
Speaker 9: It's fast as Kyle.
Speaker 7: What if DK wants that number fourteen that Peter I
Speaker 7: need to mention the fourteen?
Speaker 4: What happens? What's that conversation there?
Speaker 6: I mean, DK can't get it.
Speaker 8: There's already a receiver that has it, so Peter, it's
Speaker 8: so true, so personal to the numbers not even met
Speaker 8: yet and like already number let's talk.
Speaker 6: They could have been fifteen to fourteen.
Speaker 4: Now they got the same fourteen.
Speaker 3: Point and I'm like, I need a picture of them,
Speaker 3: like Sharon vagasaapach Kinds or something, just to break the ice.
Speaker 3: They're hanging out they're talking about their numbers and they
Speaker 3: have candy in common. At least something we have the
Speaker 3: new Over the weekend, the news came out that Miles
Speaker 3: Garrett became the highest paid non quarterback. Many thought that
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase was going to take ownership of that contract
Speaker 3: deal this offseason. Peter, what does the wide receiver moves?
Speaker 3: What does the Miles Garrett number now? Due to Jamar
Speaker 3: Chase and his conversations with the Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: Bengals, Yeah, look, it just took it to another level
Speaker 11: because Duke Tobin, who's the lead executive on these negotiations
Speaker 11: for the Bengals at the combine, came out and he
Speaker 11: said that Jamar Chase is going to make the most
Speaker 11: money as any non quarterback.
Speaker 4: We're going to get that number there, We're going to
Speaker 4: get that to him. And he said, well, that non
Speaker 4: number just.
Speaker 7: Took a giant leap because no one.
Speaker 4: Saw Miles Garrett making forty million dollars.
Speaker 7: It really all started with Max Crosby getting a new
Speaker 7: deal on Friday, and suddenly it was like Max Crosby's
Speaker 7: making thirty five million a year.
Speaker 4: Now Garrett's making forty million.
Speaker 7: What do you value Jamar Chase at who's waited his
Speaker 7: time and it is now his opportunity to cash in. Look,
Speaker 7: I still think the Bengals have great intentions to bring
Speaker 7: back Chase and Higgins, both of them.
Speaker 4: I think if t Higgins was to be on.
Speaker 7: The open market, he could make more than thirty million dollars.
Speaker 7: I think he's viewed as a better wide receiver than
Speaker 7: DK Metcalf. So all of this tells me that the
Speaker 7: Bengals might be paying three guys Burrow, Chase, and Higgins,
Speaker 7: and they might have to say, pull him the rest
Speaker 7: of the team with forty nine guys that might not
Speaker 7: necessarily be the best at their positions, or they have
Speaker 7: to draft Hella Good because I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 7: have much money to spend anywhere else.
Speaker 4: Trey Hendrickson great player, he wasn't going to be able
Speaker 4: to be a part of his budget. Of all these
Speaker 4: teams that seem.
Speaker 7: To just avoid the salary cap and figure out ways
Speaker 7: to make it work, the Bengals waiting to pay Jamar
Speaker 7: Chase this late may have burned themselves a bit because
Speaker 7: now you've got Chase and Higgins and the salary cap
Speaker 7: has expanded to this amount of money.
Speaker 4: They've got to find a way to pay both those guys.
Speaker 7: If they had done it one year ago, two years ago,
Speaker 7: they might have been in a better position right now.
Speaker 7: But it looks like Chase and Higgins are their top priorities,
Speaker 7: and their numbers might have jumped leaves and bounds even
Speaker 7: the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 9: That's crazy to me.
Speaker 8: I just don't think that's how you build a Super
Speaker 8: Bowl team. The Super Bowl team where your best and
Speaker 8: your highest paid three players are quarterback, wide out, wide
Speaker 8: out like that's very, very rare. Maybe one of the
Speaker 8: peyton eras with Reggie and Marvin Sherb like that.
Speaker 6: That is really a tough ask.
Speaker 8: Especially it's not like we can't find any defensive players
Speaker 8: we keep missing. You have the sack leader in your
Speaker 8: building who is wanting to stay there. And it's not
Speaker 8: a disrespect to t Higgins. Go somewhere else and make
Speaker 8: all the money in the world. You're really good player.
Speaker 9: But it's almost just like, like, no, we want them both.
Speaker 8: And I think Burrows speaking up for Higgins maybe plays
Speaker 8: a role in this thing.
Speaker 6: You can't pay everybody.
Speaker 9: To to both wideouts.
Speaker 8: I think it's crazy pick one of them and then
Speaker 8: pick your pass rusher and go win some games. It
Speaker 8: feels like, what do we just see them do light
Speaker 8: up the world and not do anything? Are they gonna
Speaker 8: have to get to forty every single week? Are they
Speaker 8: gonna have to get to fifty? It's not that easy
Speaker 8: to nail your draft picks. Most drafts at the Bengals
Speaker 8: just most draft picks for teams are terrible. It's like
Speaker 8: most of them with there's very few hits. You got
Speaker 8: one with Chase, you got one with bur I completely Higgins,
Speaker 8: you got one with Higgins two But like, okay, So
Speaker 8: I don't know what's up with Hendrickson.
Speaker 6: Why do they don't want him? The Saints didn't want
Speaker 6: him either.
Speaker 4: Thirty one years old.
Speaker 8: He let the NFL in sacks see Higgins, that Cavin Johnson,
Speaker 8: pier and know what we're talking about. I also, while
Speaker 8: we're sitting here and Peter's just ex stolen all these
Speaker 8: things about the Bengals, I'm really, my brain isn't a
Speaker 8: pretzel about the DK and George Pickens jersey number, and
Speaker 8: so the quick research says DK also had fourteen college right,
Speaker 8: so he's very tied to it.
Speaker 4: That's his all on the Dickens wear Georgia. I'm glad
Speaker 4: you brought that up.
Speaker 9: Pickens wore number one at Georgia, which is a sick number.
Speaker 8: So if DK were to show up and offer Pickens
Speaker 8: money to change, if the fields is too one, so
Speaker 8: fields one should be available for this deal, tell.
Speaker 9: Me if it's not.
Speaker 4: It's also a really cool, passive aggressive way to.
Speaker 8: Say I'm one. I'm number one one, George. I'm sure
Speaker 8: you're watching. It's been a hell of the twenty four
Speaker 8: hours for you. Go to the one, take money from DK,
Speaker 8: give up the fourteen, start.
Speaker 7: A new you envision you envision George Pickens to be
Speaker 7: on this roster week one.
Speaker 8: The question for me is we'll be on the roster
Speaker 8: week seventeen, Like that's the question.
Speaker 9: I do week one, Yes, okay, but if we're getting
Speaker 9: into week.
Speaker 8: Five, six, seven, eight, and let's just say, like it's not.
Speaker 4: A great marriage, we'll see, okay.
Speaker 3: Quick pass at the Steelers roster they don't have a
Speaker 3: number one.
Speaker 12: I'll go.
Speaker 6: I just solved it.
Speaker 3: I have a future advice for any candidates applying for
Speaker 3: a GM job. To quote Peter Scheger March of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five draft Hella good.
Speaker 9: I think it's a good strategy phrase.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good strategy.
Speaker 9: Receivers.
Speaker 3: Okay, after things ended up with Miles Garrett over the weekend,
Speaker 3: I feel like we firmly placed this into a saga
Speaker 3: with the Cleveland Browns. We know the end mj Acosta Luiz,
Speaker 3: but how we got there is a very fascinating story
Speaker 3: to tell.
Speaker 13: Yeah, even with the spoilers and the tweets and everything
Speaker 13: we know online, there's still a lot to process and digest. Yes,
Speaker 13: Browns all pro defensive n Miles Garrett has had a
Speaker 13: change of heart when it comes to his trade request,
Speaker 13: and yeah, I mean a fat new contract. We'll probably
Speaker 13: have that effect on you. Garrett agreed to a four
Speaker 13: year extension with the Browns that averages forty million dollars
Speaker 13: a year that also includes one hundred and twenty three
Speaker 13: million dollars guaranteed. The deal makes Garrett the highest paid
Speaker 13: non quarterback in the NFL, surpassing that deal signed by
Speaker 13: Raiders defensive end Max Crosby just last week. The new
Speaker 13: deal puts Garrett under contract for the next six seasons.
Speaker 13: Running back Aaron Jones returning to the Vikings after agreeing
Speaker 13: to a two year, twenty million dollar deal. In his
Speaker 13: first season with the Vikings, Jones racked up a career
Speaker 13: high one one hundred and thirty eight rushing yards to
Speaker 13: go along with five touchdowns, his most since twenty twenty.
Speaker 13: His oney five hundred and forty six yards from scrimmage
Speaker 13: was the second most of his career. Over in Baltimore,
Speaker 13: Lamar Jackson happy that his blindside protector is coming back.
Speaker 13: Left tach call Ronnie Stanley avoiding free agency as he
Speaker 13: agreed to terms on a three year deal worth sixty
Speaker 13: mil to remain with the Ravens. Stanley was the number
Speaker 13: two overall rated player on Greg Rosenhal's top one hundred
Speaker 13: and one free agent's list, and the Chiefs keeping a
Speaker 13: key piece of their defense. As NFL Network insider Ian
Speaker 13: Rappaport is reporting, Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton has agreed to
Speaker 13: terms on a three year, forty five million dollar extension.
Speaker 13: Bolton led Kansas City and tackles and tackles for.
Speaker 9: Loss this past season.
Speaker 13: So the lesson big numbers.
Speaker 2: Add to big bucks, all right.
Speaker 13: When we come back, There were some major moves that
Speaker 13: went down over the weekend. Jamie and the guys will
Speaker 13: look at the ones that shock the most, and they're
Speaker 13: not easy to shock.
Speaker 12: That's right, good mon, football.
Speaker 3: I think I'm ready to solve free agency. There were
Speaker 3: so many moves made yesterday on a Sunday, guys, Let's
Speaker 3: walk through the clock the guy and what happens here
Speaker 3: we already know. Miles Garrett has now for the time being,
Speaker 3: become the highest paid non quarterback in the NFL. Also
Speaker 3: a change of heart. It was very strange and shocking.
Speaker 3: Nick Fulton with home grown Kansas City. This guy is
Speaker 3: a gmfbe home grown show guy. Peter Trigger loves him.
Speaker 3: He resigns with Kansas City. Aaron Jones two years running
Speaker 3: it back with the Minnesota Vikings, Ernest Jones drafted by
Speaker 3: the Rams after a year with Seattle, he signs an
Speaker 3: extension re racket After your cup of coffee. Devonte Adams
Speaker 3: now playing in a Rams offense with Matt Stafford as
Speaker 3: his quarterback. Harold Landry the Third reunited with Mike Rabel
Speaker 3: in New England, played for him in Tennessee. And of
Speaker 3: course Josh Allen gets a huge bag of money. And
Speaker 3: dk Metcalf now playing for the Steelers. Is he wearing
Speaker 3: number fourteen, who is his quarterback? Guys? Like I said,
Speaker 3: it was the times, it was the guys, and it
Speaker 3: was what happened to them, what team they are playing on.
Speaker 3: What shocked you the most yesterday's Peter, besides the fact
Speaker 3: that I can walk back and forth and do all
Speaker 3: that talking at the same time without the.
Speaker 9: Job, Jamie, it's really good.
Speaker 7: I still go with the Miles Garrett deal because we
Speaker 7: wasted so much time and energy talking about Miles Garrett
Speaker 7: and how all he wanted was to win a Super
Speaker 7: Bowl and how it wasn't going to happen in Cleveland,
Speaker 7: and then yesterday, right before noon on a Sunday, it's
Speaker 7: like forty million dollars a year. You'll rearrange your thoughts
Speaker 7: on that. He said he had a change of heart.
Speaker 7: I would have a change of heart for forty million
Speaker 7: dollars as well. I honestly think it was just the
Speaker 7: radio tour that he did during Super Bowl and then
Speaker 7: the entire week us talking about it for to end
Speaker 7: with him remaining as the Browns, and there was always
Speaker 7: a number. It reminds me of like pawnd Stars or
Speaker 7: one of these shows where it's like, hey, we do
Speaker 7: it for this amount.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got a deal. And that's where it was.
Speaker 4: We had a deal. So Miles Garrett to me, there
Speaker 4: was an opportunity.
Speaker 7: Here where he really showed that he stood for Super
Speaker 7: Bowl over everything else.
Speaker 4: And trade me to a contender.
Speaker 7: And at the end of the day he goes back
Speaker 7: to the Browns and now there are an even more
Speaker 7: salary cap.
Speaker 4: Hell because of that deal.
Speaker 6: What are they? Sam Pond?
Speaker 9: Stars are always like best I can do. The best I
Speaker 9: can do is trade of the Jaguars.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I can't do it, but all of a sudden
Speaker 8: want they stay home in Cleveland. Yeah, listen, I still
Speaker 8: think the last one you showed. I still think DK
Speaker 8: Metcalf going to the stealers of the Steelers.
Speaker 9: We kept using the word at home grown.
Speaker 6: That's a seahawk.
Speaker 8: That's a guy they drafted when a lot of people
Speaker 8: didn't like him. He's came in, he's produced, he's a celebrity,
Speaker 8: he's famous. He ran down Buddha Baker Ones and now
Speaker 8: he's just he's gone to Pittsburgh and we've talked about
Speaker 8: it all morning. You know, the match that he has
Speaker 8: with George Pickens, is that going to be? Is that
Speaker 8: going to be the next Marves and Harrison, Reggie Wayne.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 8: It's a lot of different personalities going on there, but
Speaker 8: we've talked about it over and over, and it's I
Speaker 8: just think also, like the cogs of the NFL machine
Speaker 8: were just firing all weekend. It's amazing that you wait,
Speaker 8: you think you were told it's gonna start happening on Monday.
Speaker 8: That's the frenzy. No, it was the weekend long start
Speaker 8: to finish.
Speaker 6: Big name began.
Speaker 9: One moment, I'm listening.
Speaker 6: To Miles Garrett.
Speaker 8: Next minute, I turn an NFL Network and Adam Rank
Speaker 8: is breaking down the fantasy ramifications for Jackson Smith and
Speaker 8: Jig But and it's.
Speaker 6: Just everywhere firing.
Speaker 4: But it is a good point.
Speaker 8: Like as much as we talk about Pittsburgh with d Okay,
Speaker 8: what is Seattle now?
Speaker 6: Like who is their quarterback?
Speaker 9: Their wide receiver room is very strange.
Speaker 8: They have like the young head coach, Lockett's gone, DK's gone,
Speaker 8: it's Jsen and Jake Bobo. I think I saw the thing.
Speaker 8: So they got a lot of work to do and
Speaker 8: they're not afraid of it. But it's just it seems
Speaker 8: like the cupboard is empty right now.
Speaker 9: They got to fill it.
Speaker 10: Hopefully plenty of patience for Mike McDonald over there in Seattle.
Speaker 10: It may be a little while, but I trusted taking
Speaker 10: it back on track. I'm sticking in the NFC West.
Speaker 10: The most shocking for me was Devanta Adams, and I'm
Speaker 10: shocked by how much I love it, how obvious it
Speaker 10: seems now in hindsight. And the Rams are hilarious. They
Speaker 10: finish every year saying, all right, it's time to rebuild.
Speaker 10: We put all of our chips in. Now we have
Speaker 10: to lick our wounds and then this actually, we're gonna
Speaker 10: try and win another Super Bowl. So hey Stafford, you're
Speaker 10: coming back in DeVante Adams and you're coming back to
Speaker 10: that's the Cooper Cups locker. You can go over there
Speaker 10: and put all your stuff there. I'm pumped for this.
Speaker 10: There's no routes that Davante Adams cannot run.
Speaker 6: Personally. I only have two route runners.
Speaker 10: In the history of the NFL that can run routes
Speaker 10: better than Davonte Adams and Matthew Stafford is gonna find
Speaker 10: his guy wherever he is, soapub form and that old
Speaker 10: wide receiver, and DeVante is going to have a whole
Speaker 10: lot of youthful energy with Poka Nakua line up on
Speaker 10: the opposite side of the field.
Speaker 3: Okay, I do the reverse when it comes to shocked,
Speaker 3: I took the bait and I was really into the
Speaker 3: selectively aggressive nature that the Dallas Cowboys were supposed to
Speaker 3: be in fre agency. Why am I shocked that we
Speaker 3: have not seen their name on any list or any reports? Peter,
Speaker 3: what is going on? What direction do the Cowboys want
Speaker 3: to do here? Because in their division, they have the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl winning team in their division, they have an
Speaker 3: up and coming, very fancy and sexy franchise and the Commanders,
Speaker 3: and yet we still haven't he even heard whispers of
Speaker 3: the Cowboys and what they are supposed to be doing.
Speaker 7: And you have to think that the Commanders are going
Speaker 7: to be a team that everyone wants to go to.
Speaker 7: You're going to have to think that the Eagles, though
Speaker 7: they might lose some free agent talent, are going to
Speaker 7: be right back where they were. And you have to
Speaker 7: think the Giants are going to be better than a three
Speaker 7: win team next year when they get some semblance of
Speaker 7: a quarterback. So what are the Cowboys doing? I don't know,
Speaker 7: selectively aggressive to now nothing yet, but twelve o'clock will start.
Speaker 7: Remember they brought back Osa. That was a big move.
Speaker 4: I think they got him at a really good deal.
Speaker 7: Too, because if he had hit free agency as one
Speaker 7: of the top pass rushers, I think he would have
Speaker 7: made a lot of money.
Speaker 4: But all together, we're.
Speaker 7: Looking there and it's like Mike couldn't get his new
Speaker 7: deal yet there's still questions all over that offense. And
Speaker 7: they have a new coach and Brian Schottenheimer who's from
Speaker 7: the same offense as last year's head coach Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 7: So I don't have a ton of optimism that the
Speaker 7: Cowboys are tarking. They take the league up by storm,
Speaker 7: then again you get a healthy Dack. Although I saw
Speaker 7: the video online there are a bunch of Eagles fans
Speaker 7: on a bachelorette party and Bahamas just yelling go Eagles, Go,
Speaker 7: Eagles in his face.
Speaker 8: So Dak's walking down a hotel, he's on his personal time,
Speaker 8: having a wonderful vacation and do you have confirmation as
Speaker 8: a bachelorette party, it does look.
Speaker 6: Like they might.
Speaker 7: They might be from South Jersey and they started the gee,
Speaker 7: come on, like you won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 9: Let the man have a vacation.
Speaker 3: Can I have a very fond memory from the show
Speaker 3: A couple of years back, we physically played musical Chairs,
Speaker 3: and Peter said, this seems like a really good excuse
Speaker 3: for Jamie just be able to elbow everybody. That's how
Speaker 3: it goes when you play musical chairs. Guys, so Ian
Speaker 3: Rappaborg back in here. Quarterbacks are still on the board
Speaker 3: available for teams. Who are they elbowing to get out
Speaker 3: of position? Who do we still watch playing musical chairs today?
Speaker 5: It's going to be an eventful day, a fascinating day.
Speaker 5: In the fact that Twitter is currently down means people
Speaker 5: should really watch the network to see where everybody goes.
Speaker 4: Let's start with some of the quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: We'll start with Daniel Jones, who is still a quarterback
Speaker 5: for the Minnesota Vikings, a pending free agent. Came on
Speaker 5: mid season, was on the practice club. I think it
Speaker 5: really impressed them with the kind.
Speaker 4: Of work he did.
Speaker 5: He seems to have a decision to make, and from
Speaker 5: what I understand, his decision is essentially stay with the
Speaker 5: Minnesota Vikings for a really nice deal that would be
Speaker 5: sort of bridge starter, slash, backup, slash whenever JJ McCarthy
Speaker 5: is ready or go to a team like the Indianapolis
Speaker 5: Cult or perhaps the Cleveland Browns to go in and
Speaker 5: try to become the starter.
Speaker 4: He's got really good options.
Speaker 5: I would expect the decision on Daniel Jones today certainly
Speaker 5: one of the biggest things we're watching. The Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 5: situation bears watching as well. He's been in conversations with
Speaker 5: the New York Giants. I'm potentially becoming their Quarterback's been good,
Speaker 5: productive conver sations. But whether or not Justin Fields ends
Speaker 5: up going back to Pittsburgh or whether he lands with
Speaker 5: the Jets will obviously go a long way and deciding
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers as well.
Speaker 4: If these Steelers do.
Speaker 5: Not end up with Justin Fields, I would expect them
Speaker 5: to have interest in Rogers.
Speaker 4: We'll see which way that goes.
Speaker 5: And of course Sam Donald probably the biggest quarterback available.
Speaker 5: It has been after seconds after they traded Gino Smith
Speaker 5: to the Las Vegas Raiders that have seemed clear that
Speaker 5: Sam Donald has been a favorite. So Lanta and Seattle,
Speaker 5: I will keep that right there. So those are the
Speaker 5: quarterbacks we were watching today.
Speaker 3: Okay, what about other guys? Just general, I have a
Speaker 3: whole list stabled. I've crumpled it up seventeen times. I
Speaker 3: got guys that are in the red and the black.
Speaker 3: What are we doing here? Who else is available that
Speaker 3: we want to keep an eye on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know where your colors are going. I
Speaker 5: think red is good. Black beings assigned would be my
Speaker 5: guess if I was doing that. I'm just saying maybe
Speaker 5: red means hot free agents. We'll go through some of
Speaker 5: the hot free agents. Milton Williams, the defensive tackle for
Speaker 5: the Philadelphia Eagles, one of the hottest and biggest name
Speaker 5: free agents out there, going to land a huge deal.
Speaker 4: I would expect him.
Speaker 5: To get off the board early, likely in excess of
Speaker 5: twenty million dollars. One of, if not the best and
Speaker 5: most best available defensive players. Dio od Ingbo from the
Speaker 5: Indianapolis Colts, not a household name, not at all, going
Speaker 5: to be extremely rich, one of the top edges on
Speaker 5: the market. There are several others. I put Josh Webb
Speaker 5: with the Philadelphia Eagles among them as well, But Dio
Speaker 5: is a name who is going to get absolutely paid,
Speaker 5: and I think people probably should learn it also, probably
Speaker 5: learn how to pronounce it. And then Chris Godwin, the
Speaker 5: Tampa Bay Bucceteers receiver, one of the biggest names out there.
Speaker 5: The Bucks have been trying to retain him. I know
Speaker 5: he's going to have a huge market elsewhere. Several teams
Speaker 5: in need of a receiver. It's not a great receiver market.
Speaker 5: We saw two go off the board yesterday with DK
Speaker 5: and Devout the Adams. So Chris Godwin another one who
Speaker 5: situation should be handled early this morning.
Speaker 3: Okay, X or Twitter might be down, rap Sheet, but
Speaker 3: we know no one can unplug you on a day
Speaker 3: like today. It is well, that's.
Speaker 2: Why he just keep it right here.
Speaker 3: Keep it right here, rap sheet. Thank you very much,
Speaker 3: Go get some cap. We'll check back in with you, Peter.
Speaker 3: He just said a lot of names, a lot of
Speaker 3: guys available. Are you watching anyone in particular? Did anything
Speaker 3: there tickle your fancy with the coming hours and free agents?
Speaker 7: See off, Jamie, great job today hosting this show. Ian
Speaker 7: Rapport is doing a fantastic job navigating all this. I
Speaker 7: would say, if you ever wondered about the NFL strength
Speaker 7: and power, the fact that we could shut down X
Speaker 7: so that you can be watching Good Morning Football instead
Speaker 7: of just going to Twitter. Yeah, it just shows you
Speaker 7: how big the NFL is, and we'll talk big business.
Speaker 6: It's stay down forever. This is it. Stay down, Stay
Speaker 6: down and go get install next.
Speaker 7: My guy Ian Rapport mentioned it, and Mike Garaffollo mentioned
Speaker 7: it last week to me.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna double back.
Speaker 6: On a name.
Speaker 2: Dio. Oh damn Ingo.
Speaker 4: I said it wrong.
Speaker 7: Dio o Dingmo out of the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 4: He was at a Vanderbilt.
Speaker 7: This is a guy who I remember exactly where I
Speaker 7: was when Olivier Vernon signed his monster deal with the
Speaker 7: Giants on the first day at rains you and I
Speaker 7: was like, Olivier Vernon got that. I remember where I
Speaker 7: was when Christian Kirk signed a deal with the Jaguars
Speaker 7: that gonna pay him like eighteen million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: We're like, Christian Current got it. This is gonna be
Speaker 4: the guy.
Speaker 7: I'm already shut out Garafolo for this because he was
Speaker 7: big on it.
Speaker 6: Last week.
Speaker 4: I had him on my podcast and he was like,
Speaker 4: just wait till you see the number that Dio pulls in.
Speaker 2: This is full name.
Speaker 7: Timmy Dio Jordan o'dangbo, a defensive end Indianapolis Cults You've
Speaker 7: probably not been following his career since out of Vanderbilt.
Speaker 4: But this guy might.
Speaker 7: Make wild money today, and you're gonna be like, what
Speaker 7: that's gonna happen Because of the priority on edge rushers
Speaker 7: and the dearth of talent that's going to be free agents.
Speaker 4: He is one of them. Twenty five years old.
Speaker 6: Dio.
Speaker 7: Congratulations, you're gonna get some do today.
Speaker 12: Nice.
Speaker 9: I'm some calories on that same do.
Speaker 6: You do a lot of things very well.
Speaker 9: It's not your strong.
Speaker 4: I hate pronouncing name.
Speaker 9: We all have our wearable at it.
Speaker 8: We all have our weaknesses. Listen, some of these names
Speaker 8: are when we hit a lot. Next couple of days,
Speaker 8: I'm thinking of free agencies passed. We are still sitting
Speaker 8: there as a show talking about Kenny Galladay. A few
Speaker 8: years we broke the record, Kenny Galladay, this wide receiver.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, we spent hours talking to me. I'm
Speaker 8: not sure where he is now. I just wanted to
Speaker 8: close the loop on something we've been talking a lot about.
Speaker 8: DK metcalf joining the Steelers with George Pickens, the chemistry
Speaker 8: there or lack thereof, And then we stumbled upon this
Speaker 8: idea that also the number fourteen so right off the bat,
Speaker 8: you were in a like a lover's quarrel because you
Speaker 8: have the same jersey number. I thought I solved it
Speaker 8: because while Pickens was number one in college, DK was fourteen.
Speaker 8: So all right, fine, easy, George Pickens changed to number one.
Speaker 6: It's done.
Speaker 8: Many Steelers fans came out of the woodorck and said, no, no, no,
Speaker 8: the Steelers don't give out jersey number one.
Speaker 9: And I'm going to say something you're not supposed to
Speaker 9: say on TV.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that. I didn't know.
Speaker 8: There's a policy that they have different attributions to. But
Speaker 8: it's the same reason justin Fields went to number two.
Speaker 8: But number one is kind of unofficially, unwritten, retired in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 8: and in fact, no one has worn it regularly for years.
Speaker 4: So that solution is out the door.
Speaker 9: You just have to go with good old fashioned chemistry,
Speaker 9: and we'll say his name one more time.
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver coach Zach Azani is now my favorite.
Speaker 8: When Peter does just wants to watch new head coaches
Speaker 8: Zach Kazani. If you go through this season and the
Speaker 8: wide receiver room is not physically inflamed by the end,
Speaker 8: of the year.
Speaker 9: You should be the next head coach.
Speaker 6: I love you, my man.
Speaker 10: I got your back and get to work. Let's go,
Speaker 10: Robert Splane. The linebacker market is drying up quickly. A
Speaker 10: lot of guys expected to hit free agency are not
Speaker 10: hitting free agency. If you need an off ball linebacker,
Speaker 10: Robert Splane, I'm looking at Talanoa whu Funga because yes,
Speaker 10: twenty twenty two, that All Pro season has only played
Speaker 10: seventeen games since that guy can ball, Troy Paulamalu reincarnated,
Speaker 10: and lastly Jason Pinnock. If you need a big nickel,
Speaker 10: the guy who can do everything from the line of
Speaker 10: scrimmage back to the free safety, that is your guy.
Speaker 3: It's very simple. It's just Odengbo. It's it's just very
Speaker 3: it's clean, like you don't have to. I don't think
Speaker 3: you dip in and out of it the way. So
Speaker 3: goes Talanoa Hufunga, Dio Odengbo. All right, we got this
Speaker 3: on GMFB. Right, I got Dio. We love you, go
Speaker 3: get your dough GMFB free agency. What we enjoy