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Speaker 3: That's right, this is Good Morning Football. Welcome inside, everybody.
Speaker 3: We're love in LA and Indianapolis today because it is
Speaker 3: the first official day of on field drills in the
Speaker 3: NFL Scouting Combine. It's Thursday of every twenty seventh. I'm
Speaker 3: Jamie at Allmantiiteo, Peter Schrager, Cody Kessler at the table.
Speaker 3: But actually, Peter, in hindsight, that was a bit of
Speaker 3: a mistake. I didn't know this kicking Specialty Exposition was
Speaker 3: happening yesterday.
Speaker 2: That was a cool deal, really cool. Kickers usually get
Speaker 2: no love here at the combine, punters usually coming to
Speaker 2: just get the run forties. They actually got to do
Speaker 2: the actual drills. Pat McAfee hosted a very cool way
Speaker 2: to start off the combine and there was a great
Speaker 2: turnout that will be a fixture for years to come.
Speaker 2: So kickers and punters getting the love too, Jamie, we
Speaker 2: like to show all the love here at the network.
Speaker 4: M h.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we do and all love meaning that we don't
Speaker 3: just focus on guys working out this weekend. We have
Speaker 3: to pay attention to news around the NFL and of
Speaker 3: course current players. Rams head coach Sean McVay hung out
Speaker 3: with two of his friends, Fits and Wits on their
Speaker 3: podcast as the Rams and the coach lay out the
Speaker 3: situation that they face right now with their quarterback, Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 5: There's no dispute and let's not get it twisted in
Speaker 5: regards to anybody wanting him to be our quarterback. Ultimately,
Speaker 5: you're saying, hey, there's a ton of interest because this
Speaker 5: guy's an incredible player, and we've had conversations where he
Speaker 5: could probably play over much longer once, but it's been on.
Speaker 4: A year to year in terms of our dialogue. Is
Speaker 4: that one? Is that too?
Speaker 5: Only he can answer that, But there does have to
Speaker 5: be an element of understanding, well, what does that future
Speaker 5: look like without this freaking g that's been our quarterback
Speaker 5: for the last four years.
Speaker 2: And there's no right or wrong way to go about it.
Speaker 5: But I do think for us to be able to
Speaker 5: make the most educated decision in terms of all, right,
Speaker 5: you know, the cash budget that we operate on, the
Speaker 5: draft comp that you would get in return, you know,
Speaker 5: you just need to be able to have all the
Speaker 5: parameters to at least explore it. He and I have
Speaker 5: had great dialogue throughout this process. I know where we
Speaker 5: want it to be able to end up. But these
Speaker 5: decisions aren't made in a vacuum, and that's kind of
Speaker 5: the challenging part about it.
Speaker 3: McVeigh just calls it like he sees it. Peter and
Speaker 3: Tom pellasero. The guy's been a g a quarterback for
Speaker 3: the Rams, and of course there's no dispute. He wants
Speaker 3: him to stay at that position. But Peter, sometimes the
Speaker 3: books don't lay out that way. What do you two
Speaker 3: make of mcveigh's comments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look, Shawn has always been very transparent in
Speaker 2: his love for Matthew Stafford, but he was also very
Speaker 2: transparent in that the numbers might not make sense long term.
Speaker 2: Well for the short term. Do we find a way
Speaker 2: to fix it year to year or is this the
Speaker 2: year you rip the band aid off and you mix
Speaker 2: things up. As we know, Stafford's agent, Jimmy's, was given
Speaker 2: full ability by the Rams to go just seek out
Speaker 2: and see what the market would be as far as
Speaker 2: numbers go for Matthew Stafford on the open market, as
Speaker 2: if he was a free agent. But then things have
Speaker 2: accelerated this week. Tom Pellet, Sara's with me here today.
Speaker 2: Lots of reports yesterday, lots of conflicting reports yesterday. There
Speaker 2: also have been some teams mentioned. Why don't we give
Speaker 2: a thirty thousand foot view of where things stand? And
Speaker 2: also the different individuals and teams involved right up to
Speaker 2: the minute, including all interactions at local coffee shops here
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis.
Speaker 6: Well, let's start here with what you said, which was
Speaker 6: the RAMS gave Jimmy Sexton a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 6: commission to go and talk to other teams. So there
Speaker 6: have been ongoing dialogue with Matthew Savage agent Jimmy Sexton,
Speaker 6: multiple other teams, and the RAMS.
Speaker 4: Everybody's trying to figure this out.
Speaker 6: Part of this was the RAMS wanted to know if
Speaker 6: Stafford comes back into if Shefford is going to come
Speaker 6: back to the RAMS, what is that contract going to
Speaker 6: look like?
Speaker 4: In other words, what number would make sense? Find that out?
Speaker 6: Is if you talk to the our teams and know
Speaker 6: what's behind door number two, and you heard me Fay
Speaker 6: talk about it, it's like, hey, we can get a second
Speaker 6: round draft pickback and clear forty fifty million dollars from
Speaker 6: our cash budget, maybe spend that elsewhere. Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 6: maybe gonna pop free and be at the minimum. We
Speaker 6: can bring back Jimmy Garopolo. There's a lot of different
Speaker 6: options here, but the Giants are certainly a team to watch.
Speaker 6: In all this, they have a clear quarterback need. It
Speaker 6: would make a ton of sense from the Giants perspective.
Speaker 6: Matthew Stafford had to figure out it makes sense for
Speaker 6: him to go there because he's got effective veto power.
Speaker 6: He doesn't have a no trade card, not that anybody
Speaker 6: who is gonna make it us money so effectively has
Speaker 6: no trade cluse. The Raiders are another team, and you
Speaker 6: mentioned some conflicting reports yesterday.
Speaker 4: Here's one thing that did happen.
Speaker 6: Matthew Stafford and Tom Brady, the Raiders minority owner as
Speaker 6: we now call him, also the greatest quarterback of all time.
Speaker 4: It's trying to be reducing the Raiders owner.
Speaker 6: Now they both have property in an exclusive ski resort
Speaker 6: in Montana. There's a bunch of people there, like Bill
Speaker 6: Gates has a place there, Mark Zuckerberg and obviously certain
Speaker 6: NFL people who also have made two hundred plus million
Speaker 6: dollars in their careers. Those guys ran into each other recently.
Speaker 6: They did talk, they did spend some time together. Didn't
Speaker 6: playing for the Raiders?
Speaker 4: Come up? Who's this set? He didn't, But it wasn't.
Speaker 6: Tom Brady flying in Matthew Stafford hosting him on the.
Speaker 4: Visited see them at his house.
Speaker 6: I mean, maybe there's maybe there's some people in this
Speaker 6: world who trade out trips for favors.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe sometimes you get a little gift basket.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 6: But this was something that was not quite to the
Speaker 6: extent that certain people wanted to be.
Speaker 4: You could end up with the Raiders.
Speaker 6: It's certainly a possibility. Tom Brady's very persuasive, but there's
Speaker 6: a lot of moving parts here. And ultimately, let's remember
Speaker 6: the Rams still hold the card. If they just say,
Speaker 6: you know what, We're not going to trade you. We
Speaker 6: looked at all the options. You're not going anywhere. That
Speaker 6: Matthew Safford has to figure out, Okay, do I take
Speaker 6: the best offer they get or do I say I'm
Speaker 6: gonna sit out.
Speaker 4: That scenario is hard to envision, but we'll see.
Speaker 2: There's so many layerses. But the ugly letter is the
Speaker 2: t letter, and it's tampering, So where does that come
Speaker 2: into this thing? He was given permission to speak with agents,
Speaker 2: So like, where do we stand?
Speaker 4: Well, remember four years here.
Speaker 2: You also have to have the team pushed charges for tampaing.
Speaker 2: It has to come from the Rams.
Speaker 6: Four years ago, Stafford was traded after being in Cabo
Speaker 6: with Sean McVay, and the Lions.
Speaker 2: Were happy with that trade, so they didn't push for that, right.
Speaker 6: So the Rams then coming back after they've given Jimmy
Speaker 6: Sexton permission, would seem like this would probably be a
Speaker 6: you know a little bit much to pursue tampering charges.
Speaker 6: But let's be clear, you can't talk directly to the
Speaker 6: player unless you're given permission to do that. It doesn't
Speaker 6: salent the Rams have given that permission. Tom Brady, Matthews,
Speaker 6: saverndor an Indo train. This is honestly the gray area
Speaker 6: with Tom Brady, which is is he broadcaster Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: Plays the ex player Tom Brady?
Speaker 6: Is he Raiders by nor I'll say this, tom Brady
Speaker 6: has a lot of authority in that Raiders building. Anything
Speaker 6: that he is doing is at the be hesse. I
Speaker 6: would think of trying to make the Raiders better. So again,
Speaker 6: did it come up in conversation. I can't say I
Speaker 6: don't own a place there. I'm several hundred million dollars short.
Speaker 6: I think one day maybe I'll run into him on the.
Speaker 2: SI you'll get there. Listen a couple more layers to this, though.
Speaker 2: The whole thing was Stafford. Obviously, you know what's his value.
Speaker 2: What's the team would have to trade a pick, maybe
Speaker 2: some other veterans and pay him that new number. So
Speaker 2: it's not like he's a pure free agent that it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: we could give you fifty five million, come aboard. The
Speaker 2: Rams don't want to do that. They would still to
Speaker 2: give a pick and maybe even a player or two.
Speaker 2: The Giants are a team. We're hearing the Raiders are
Speaker 2: a team. We're hearing the Steelers early on. We're a team.
Speaker 2: I'm hearing not as much about the Steelers right now.
Speaker 2: And to your point, Stafford, Kelly, his wife, they're four kids.
Speaker 2: They would have to be open to going to that location.
Speaker 2: Stafford's brother in law, Chad Hall, is now the assistant
Speaker 2: wide receivers coach of the New York Giants, And of
Speaker 2: course Vegas is so close to Los Angeles. That's a
Speaker 2: forty minute flight. Kelly and the girls could technically still
Speaker 2: live and have their Los Angeles life, and Stafford could
Speaker 2: go back and forth if he were to go to
Speaker 2: the Raiders. So interesting layers to this. The end result,
Speaker 2: He's still a ram. As we are on TV now,
Speaker 2: and as the drills go on today, this will be
Speaker 2: a topic that we'll all be talking about, and is
Speaker 2: what happens in all these hallways and all these hotel,
Speaker 2: local bakeries and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Else exactly all right, here's what I've learned. Here's what
Speaker 3: I've gleaned from this conversation.
Speaker 4: That it seems like.
Speaker 3: Trade conversations can occur in things like a chalet and
Speaker 3: a cabana, and you can't get in trouble for it.
Speaker 3: None of us have enough money to participate in any
Speaker 3: of these recreational activities in the off season.
Speaker 4: Did I get it right?
Speaker 2: Don't say that we're getting there. We're working hard the show.
Speaker 2: We just got syndication rights. We're doing all right, Jamie,
Speaker 2: We're hanging in.
Speaker 4: Let's go. You're right, Peter.
Speaker 3: We check your local listings for GMFB overtime. Here we go,
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford, buzz, Let's keep this conversation rolling Cody Kessler.
Speaker 3: Being a California kid, you have worked out adjacent to Stafford.
Speaker 3: You also know the impact that he's had on his
Speaker 3: teams that he has played for, both in Detroit and LA.
Speaker 3: What do you make of these conversations. Maybe from both
Speaker 3: sides of it, there's a business and there's a effect
Speaker 3: that this could have on both the team.
Speaker 5: And the player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. And earlier in this week, even
Speaker 4: with the talks of Stafford speaking to other teams to
Speaker 4: getting the permission to do so, I was still fully
Speaker 4: convinced he was going to be in Los Angeles this
Speaker 4: next season. I'm not quite there anymore. I'm getting a
Speaker 4: little worried. But I will say this, from the football
Speaker 4: side of things, Matt Stafford, in my opinion, is one
Speaker 4: of still, at thirty seven years old, one of the
Speaker 4: most talented players in the NFL right now, especially when
Speaker 4: it comes to arm talent. When you pair that up
Speaker 4: with his experience, his toughness, his leadership ability. For this
Speaker 4: young roster that the Rams have right now, it makes
Speaker 4: so much sense to just keep him there. I know
Speaker 4: the numbers also have to make sense, that's the big thing.
Speaker 4: But he took this young roster to Philadelphia, was one
Speaker 4: play away and bad weather to going to the NFC
Speaker 4: Championship game. And this was a team early on in
Speaker 4: the season that a lot of people rode off.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: I think if you go out and find a new quarterback,
Speaker 4: whether you go get a young quarterback, whether you go
Speaker 4: get a veteran someone that's proven, you're doing a disservice
Speaker 4: to your football team. Because when you have a young roster,
Speaker 4: it is it's so important to have stability at key positions.
Speaker 4: That number one spot is the quarterback. You have Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 4: like I said, one of the most talented in the NFL.
Speaker 4: You also had a great combination between Nick Bay and
Speaker 4: Stafford outside of Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, probably the
Speaker 4: best play color quarterback combination combination in the entire NFL. Right,
Speaker 4: And if you just break that up after they won
Speaker 4: a Super Bowl together, I just think you'd take a
Speaker 4: massive step backward backwards if you were the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what that number looks like for
Speaker 4: Matt Savad, I don't know what he wants. I just
Speaker 4: think they need to find a way to get some
Speaker 4: common ground and get a chance to revamp and go
Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty five and make another run at
Speaker 4: the title.
Speaker 8: Yeah, talk about numbers and values, and I'm so glad
Speaker 8: you made that that reference, Cody.
Speaker 4: A few days have gone by, I looked at all.
Speaker 8: The narratives kind of surrounding this whole Rams transaction in
Speaker 8: Matt Stafford, and it kind of reminds me of the
Speaker 8: stalk market.
Speaker 4: They're kind of treating it like the stock market.
Speaker 8: They understand that they have an asset, which is Matt Stafford,
Speaker 8: and he's at his max value right now. It's at
Speaker 8: a value where he can win you a lot of games,
Speaker 8: and he can take you to a super Bowl. Matter
Speaker 8: of fact, he won you a super Bowl, and we
Speaker 8: talked earlier in the week that he was one play
Speaker 8: away from getting it into the NFC Championship and possibly
Speaker 8: this go again.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 8: The Rams also understand that that value can only go
Speaker 8: down with age. He's not going to get any younger,
Speaker 8: and there's a market right now that is in desperate
Speaker 8: need of a quarterback. So I think there are teams
Speaker 8: out there that may be so desperate that talk about
Speaker 8: prices and numbers that they might present the Rams with
Speaker 8: the price that could set them up for short and
Speaker 8: long term success. And I think right now where the
Speaker 8: Rams are sitting is they're just trying to figure.
Speaker 4: Out what that price for other teams will look like.
Speaker 4: How desperate are these teams going to be?
Speaker 8: Now, do the Rams want to get rid of Matt Stafford? Definitely,
Speaker 8: they don't want to get rid of Matt Stafford.
Speaker 4: But if there is a desperate team that will give.
Speaker 8: Them the proper pieces and the compensation that can set
Speaker 8: them up for short term and long term success, I mean,
Speaker 8: it might be something for them to entertain right because.
Speaker 3: They're the rare situation right now where they're young and
Speaker 3: they're good. Their defensive draft last year was off the charts.
Speaker 3: You still have Poka Nukua coming into his own and
Speaker 3: they decided to move on from Cooper Cup this offseason. Peter,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ping it back out to you. For as
Speaker 3: much as there is the conspiracy theory talk about conversations
Speaker 3: that are going on in Chalais in Montana, there's also
Speaker 3: some conspiracy theory that's happening with the fact that Malibu
Speaker 3: is a town that sits very close to Woodland Hills,
Speaker 3: where the Rams practice who would be the contingency plan
Speaker 3: for the Rams? And why does it rhyme with shmarn Rogers.
Speaker 4: I mean it it would.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this on Tuesday on the show, and they
Speaker 2: like set off this like crazy windfall, but it's an
Speaker 2: obvious connection. Malibu is home to Rogers. He's currently looking
Speaker 2: for a suitor. We hear that he's actually been outright,
Speaker 2: you know, saying that he still wants to play, and
Speaker 2: Los Angeles would make a lot of sense if they
Speaker 2: were to move on from Stafford. The issue is, of course,
Speaker 2: what does he want? What is his money? If you
Speaker 2: think about it this way, and if you're trying to wait,
Speaker 2: if you're the Rams, you've got Stafford who's gonna want
Speaker 2: a little bump and pay. And I you know, the
Speaker 2: number I throughout earlier was fifty million. Outs think it
Speaker 2: would get to fifty million with the Rams necessarily, but
Speaker 2: if he's going to a new team, it would be
Speaker 2: around fifty million. That's what I've been hearing just from
Speaker 2: other teams and what the numbers have been. So you're
Speaker 2: gonna pay Stafford that and then we just kind of
Speaker 2: kick the can along and we see if we can
Speaker 2: get to a Super Bowl. And then he's thirty eight
Speaker 2: next year. Or do you tear it down now to
Speaker 2: what Mantai is saying, trade Stafford, get draft picks in return,
Speaker 2: and then spend a lot less on a guy like
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers who is four years older and hasn't had
Speaker 2: the last couple of seasons that Stafford has, and then
Speaker 2: you have room to maybe bring in another free agent
Speaker 2: wide receiver to including potentially Devonte Adams. You start weighing
Speaker 2: what this is and it's like, well, we know what
Speaker 2: we got in this hand with Stafford. We love Stafford
Speaker 2: and he's a fricking g as.
Speaker 4: What you know.
Speaker 2: McVeigh calls him. We know what we got. Are we
Speaker 2: gonna be able to compete and get to a Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: We can?
Speaker 2: Or do we look to hey, what can we get
Speaker 2: in exchange? But to me, if you're going to Rogers,
Speaker 2: you're not resetting the clock. You're going to Rogers at
Speaker 2: forty one. And is it not the same boat that
Speaker 2: you are in with Stafford? I don't know. So you
Speaker 2: look at it that way. And then there's this third
Speaker 2: option of you go to Jimmy Garoppolo for about ten
Speaker 2: to twelve million dollars and you say, we could spend
Speaker 2: all the money in the world and get a draft pick,
Speaker 2: and if Sean thinks he can win with Jimmy, well
Speaker 2: then you're kind of really playing with fire and you
Speaker 2: say let's go to war with that. I think right now,
Speaker 2: as we sit here, I think Stafford still wants to
Speaker 2: be a RAM. I think the Rams still wants Stafford.
Speaker 2: I think money is the issue. At at some point,
Speaker 2: figure it out. Let's roll it back one more year.
Speaker 3: Peter, one more question. When they decided to move on
Speaker 3: from Cooper Cup, that has to be a conversation that
Speaker 3: includes Matthew Stafford, right, because it seems like everyone's on
Speaker 3: good terms. But that is a guy that he worked
Speaker 3: with four years. So is Stafford in the understanding that
Speaker 3: that was a financial decision and he hass to accept
Speaker 3: the future of this team is without Cooper Cup? Like,
Speaker 3: how did that conversation go down?
Speaker 4: And he must have been included.
Speaker 2: I don't think he was included with the decision. I
Speaker 2: think he was informed of the decision. But Stafford and
Speaker 2: Cupp are as tight as it comes, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he was necessarily punching the air upset. He understands
Speaker 2: it's a business. But I don't think less Snead Kevin
Speaker 2: Demoff and Sean McVay or sitting Matthew Stafford down and
Speaker 2: saying should we bring Cup back? I think at this
Speaker 2: point it's business and those guys get paid to do that. Stafford,
Speaker 2: I don't think was in on that decision, and I
Speaker 2: think that's almost better off. You don't want him to
Speaker 2: be put in that position and say, hey, we're thinking
Speaker 2: about bringing back your guy. Are you okay if we
Speaker 2: trade him? That puts him in a really tough spot.
Speaker 3: All right, Cody, let's focus on those words contingency plan
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the screen. You have watched poetically
Speaker 3: about Sean McVay. Great play caller, great young coach. Can
Speaker 3: he get Jimmy Garoppolo to a place where this team
Speaker 3: can play to the level that they expect to within
Speaker 3: their division and their conference.
Speaker 4: That's the biggest question mark, you know, really, But when
Speaker 4: you have a mind like Sean McVay, like Kyle Shannan,
Speaker 4: guys like that, and Shanahan went to the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: with Garoppolo, it's a little bit of a different offense,
Speaker 4: and some of the pieces are a little bit different.
Speaker 4: I understand that, but where you need to build no
Speaker 4: matter who your quarterback is on the defensive side of
Speaker 4: the ball, and they're starting to do that. I can
Speaker 4: tell you personally at from you know being a former quarterback.
Speaker 4: When your run game is working and you have a
Speaker 4: great defense, it makes your life a lot easier. So
Speaker 4: if they can build around they do let Stafford go
Speaker 4: right right. They trade them to let them walk, and
Speaker 4: they do go with Garoppolo as long as they build
Speaker 4: a great run game and a great defense around him,
Speaker 4: and that's where they use their money in free agency.
Speaker 4: I don't see why not. It's just a big if
Speaker 4: and I'm on board with shregs. Like I said earlier,
Speaker 4: I think they find a way to get the deal done.
Speaker 4: I think Stafford, even being thirty seven, I don't want
Speaker 4: to say prime, but he's still one of the better
Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the NFL. I would love to see him
Speaker 4: back in Los Angeles next year.
Speaker 8: There are only a few teams that I think in
Speaker 8: this NFL that have a system that really caters through
Speaker 8: a quarterback. The Vikings are one of them, the forty
Speaker 8: Niners are another, and the La Rams are the third.
Speaker 8: I think whenever you're a quarterback like Jimmy Garoppolo, and
Speaker 8: you're paired up with somebody like Sean McVay. Sean McVay
Speaker 8: only does right by his quarterbacks. It doesn't matter who
Speaker 8: you are. So regardless of Garoppolo's past and his performances
Speaker 8: and all of that stuff, when I think of Sean McVay,
Speaker 8: I always am going to be optimistic about it because
Speaker 8: of the things that he's done in the past.
Speaker 2: I would chime in that, you know, when Stafford was injured,
Speaker 2: Brett Rip didn't played a game up in up in
Speaker 2: Green Bay, did not go well. We saw of course
Speaker 2: that you know, Baker Mayfield had a big Thursday night
Speaker 2: game and a big Christmas get, like Sean's had it
Speaker 2: pretty good at quarterback, Jared Goff and of course Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: Over the last year. There are a lot of teams
Speaker 2: that have been in the Abyss and have been in
Speaker 2: the Pine Barons when it comes to quarterbacks, and you
Speaker 2: could talk about the Browns and the Jets and the
Speaker 2: Giants and like it's one of those things where you
Speaker 2: might not know how good you have it until you don't.
Speaker 2: And with Stafford still slinging it and they're five and
Speaker 2: two in the playoffs, which is a pretty good record.
Speaker 2: I really think that weighs heavy on that entire organization.
Speaker 2: Are we willing to say goodbye to a guy who
Speaker 2: got us one pass away from the NFC Championship game
Speaker 2: last year?
Speaker 4: Peter real quick?
Speaker 8: I just wanted to add a little bit thing about
Speaker 8: Sean McVay and just his brilliance. I remember when we
Speaker 8: played the Rams in twenty seventeen, Jared Goff was still
Speaker 8: their quarterback, and Sean McVay had installed a system where
Speaker 8: they would get to the they'll get to the line
Speaker 8: of scrimmage fast, remember that, like there are thirty seconds,
Speaker 8: twenty five seconds left on the clock. And what he
Speaker 8: would do, because he knew the limitations of his quarterback,
Speaker 8: he would tell Jared Goff what to run. The reason
Speaker 8: why they had to run up to the line of
Speaker 8: scrimmage so fast was because the microphone in Jared Goff's
Speaker 8: helmet goes off at fifteen seconds left on the play call,
Speaker 8: so he could get them up there quick, reveal the
Speaker 8: defense to them, and Sean McVay would tell him, hey,
Speaker 8: run this play, and then you heard all the cold
Speaker 8: words that Jared Goff would say what halle Berry, whatever
Speaker 8: it was, that was Sean McVay telling him. Now, he
Speaker 8: doesn't do that with Matt Stafford. But to the point
Speaker 8: I made earlier, he knows the quarterback, he knows the
Speaker 8: quarterback strengths, the quarterback's weaknesses, and he designs the system
Speaker 8: around that quarterback to really help that quarterback to flourish.
Speaker 8: So I think with Sean McVay, if you're a quarterback,
Speaker 8: you're in good hands.
Speaker 3: How hard and annoying was that to go up against?
Speaker 4: This is unfair?
Speaker 8: Like I'm already behind the eight ball, and now Sean
Speaker 8: McVay is telling you what's run, Like, let's lose lose
Speaker 8: for us?
Speaker 4: All Right?
Speaker 3: That was an awesome conversation about the Ray as we
Speaker 3: look forward to one of the most intriguing teams this
Speaker 3: off season.
Speaker 4: If you're watching earlier, I struggled heavily with the game,
Speaker 4: saving face, and I take that very personally. But now
Speaker 4: we're playing a game that I am in control of,
Speaker 4: shreg so I'm ready to go. This is called two
Speaker 4: Lies and a Truth. What you're going to see is
Speaker 4: three statements on the screen. Two of them are lies,
Speaker 4: one of them is the truth about now We've got
Speaker 4: to know each other for the last couple of days.
Speaker 4: They don't know everything about me, so I tried to
Speaker 4: dig deep. Me and Chris, our producer. I've been working
Speaker 4: on this for the last twenty four hours, so I
Speaker 4: take a lot of pride in this. So are you
Speaker 4: guys ready to go? That's a matter.
Speaker 3: It is about one more intense tregs and out for
Speaker 3: revenge more than Cody Kessel right now in two lies
Speaker 3: in the truth.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm worried that Peter is going to crush this too,
Speaker 4: So okay, all right, first round we are going with.
Speaker 4: I have hit two hold in ones. I first dunked
Speaker 4: a basketball in eighth grade, okay, and then lastly, I
Speaker 4: was the first player to throw seven touchdowns in a
Speaker 4: game against the Notre Dame fighting Irish Manti is laughing
Speaker 4: because I feel like he thinks he knows it. Whenever
Speaker 4: you guys are ready, Peter you can go first. Let
Speaker 4: me know which one you think is the.
Speaker 2: Trothy I be.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So to Cody, I have such a huge fan hears
Speaker 2: I think I revealed this on the first interaction we had.
Speaker 2: I did a Fox game maybe in twenty sixteen. You
Speaker 2: were one of the quarterbacks. You were a third round quarterback,
Speaker 2: and I did a deep dive on you, and I
Speaker 2: learned that you scored about eighteen thousand points in Bakersfield
Speaker 2: as a high school basketball star. You averaged thirty points
Speaker 2: per game your junior year of high school. If you
Speaker 2: do that, you're probably dunking in eighth grade. I've got
Speaker 2: you more of like a Rex Chapman type than a
Speaker 2: mac McClung. I go Brett Barry from the foul line
Speaker 2: with the warm upside. I'm going the truth. The truth
Speaker 2: is that you dunked a basketball in the eighth grade,
Speaker 2: and you probably were dunking in fifth grade. You're an
Speaker 2: awesome athlete.
Speaker 3: Okay, Peter, I see that answer, and I understand you.
Speaker 3: But this is also the man who in the last
Speaker 3: three days have asked us, so can.
Speaker 4: I wear like a golf polo on the show?
Speaker 3: So I think I'm going to go with a I
Speaker 3: think he has hit two hole in ones. He has
Speaker 3: kind of that secret swagger to him, like he said,
Speaker 3: too Hormon.
Speaker 8: Okay, this is where I'm getting stuck, though, Jamie is
Speaker 8: because knowing Cody in this few days is Cody likes
Speaker 8: to compliment himself like very s screet, little slight flexes
Speaker 8: when he talks to you, and him knowing I went
Speaker 8: to Notre Dame, he did say, broke. Did you know
Speaker 8: that I threw X amount of touchdowns against you guys?
Speaker 8: So I'm going to go the truth is c that
Speaker 8: he threw seven. Because I knew it was some absurd number.
Speaker 8: I'll go, I'll go see all right, I.
Speaker 4: Love it stumped. Yeah, so we'll start with this. A
Speaker 4: is incorrect. I have not see and I love that
Speaker 4: you t me up on this because I planted the
Speaker 4: seed actually threw six touchdowns? Happen? You are correct? Being
Speaker 4: my first dunk was there, great Norris middle hair. It
Speaker 4: was a so I had to see that year, Peter.
Speaker 4: The first one was a one handed dunk, and then
Speaker 4: I had one of that wasn't That was the same
Speaker 4: game that wasn't the dunk. And then a little bit
Speaker 4: later in AAU, I had a two handed dunk in
Speaker 4: eighth grade. So yes, unfortunately, yes, I'm an avid golfer.
Speaker 4: I have never had a home one. But I was
Speaker 4: the first player to throw six touchdowns against Notre Dame,
Speaker 4: not seven.
Speaker 2: Planning the seat on Kirstfield California. Yep, question Lakers Clipper,
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings, like, what was your team basketball wise?
Speaker 4: As a kid Lakers fan? Rest in peace, Kobe. I
Speaker 4: was a Kobe fan Diehard growing up. I'll always have been,
Speaker 4: always will be there. You go, all right, number two?
Speaker 4: Checkon round? Here we go. Peter is winning right now.
Speaker 4: First one, Here we go. I dressed up as the
Speaker 4: Blue Power Ranger for five straight halloweens. My parents named
Speaker 4: me after a dog they once had before I was born,
Speaker 4: and then I once nailed a sixty yard field goal
Speaker 4: in practice at USC that is the University of Southern California,
Speaker 4: the real US. Sure you all right, Peter, you are
Speaker 4: on the clock. You are first.
Speaker 2: Okay. The second one's kind of morbid. I don't want
Speaker 2: to talk about your family's old dogs when I get
Speaker 2: rid of that one Power Ranger five straight halloweens, very specific,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's right. I'm gonna go see you're
Speaker 2: one of these uber athletes that can dunk basketball's, hit
Speaker 2: home in ones and then nail sixty yarc field though.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go see, and especially it's that practice,
Speaker 2: not in the game, Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 4: Love dogs.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think the impact that they have
Speaker 3: on people, especially if they have the dog before they
Speaker 3: have kids, is profound. And if I were to have
Speaker 3: a fourth child, would I name and it was a boy,
Speaker 3: would I name him Toby.
Speaker 4: After my current dog?
Speaker 3: Perhaps, So I'm gonna go be I think Cody was
Speaker 3: named after a dog, which is also a hilarious story.
Speaker 8: I dressed up as sub Zero when I was a
Speaker 8: little Halloween.
Speaker 4: Now I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Five straight halloweens.
Speaker 8: Yes, I didn't do it five straight halloweens, but I.
Speaker 4: Did dress up at sub zero.
Speaker 8: And to Code's credit is again, how well do you
Speaker 8: know Cody? Cody has shown up here four days in
Speaker 8: a row at three am. So I'm gonna go with A.
Speaker 4: Is the proof that's the truth? Is A? All right?
Speaker 4: I love that everyone's picking a different one. Okay, so
Speaker 4: we'll start with see, I have never even been close
Speaker 4: to a sixty yard field going practice, so that one
Speaker 4: is wrong. B No, never had a dog named Cody.
Speaker 4: The correct answer, man Tie is A. I dressed up
Speaker 4: as a Blue Power Ranger for five straight halloweens. And
Speaker 4: the backstory on that is they begged me to change
Speaker 4: to where Okay, we've done it enough. That's me on
Speaker 4: the left. That is that is my best friend Drew
Speaker 4: on the right. That's me on the left. That is
Speaker 4: what ninety six, So that's probably like the third or
Speaker 4: fourth year. I had two more to go, and it
Speaker 4: got to the point when we got the Halloween to
Speaker 4: our don't even ask him, just pull the Blue Power ringer.
Speaker 4: Did you wear the same costume? Ye think I wore
Speaker 4: three years in a row, and then it started getting
Speaker 4: too small, and then we had to go by a
Speaker 4: new one. Yet, so it was five straight years. I
Speaker 4: was the Blue Power Ranger. So very good man. That
Speaker 4: was correct on that. He's good though. I like it.
Speaker 4: I like it. They're not a obvious. That's what tie
Speaker 4: Breaker or Jamie can time up. Here we go. I
Speaker 4: have finished in the top fifty at the Los Angeles Marathon.
Speaker 4: While I was at USC, I was an extra in
Speaker 4: the movie Furius seven. Or I once saved Bryan from
Speaker 4: a crowd of people. These are awesome, Peter, we will
Speaker 4: start with you again. You were on the clock.
Speaker 2: I just think of you USC quarterbacks. You're such Hollywood
Speaker 2: like you got I mean, I think of Matt Lionard
Speaker 2: in a hot tub, hanging out with like you know
Speaker 2: everyone from Paris Hill and who every else? Like you're
Speaker 2: obviously an extra in a movie. You probably could have
Speaker 2: been the leading role with Vin Diesel. I'm gonna say definitely.
Speaker 2: You were in Furious seven and you had some lines,
Speaker 2: but that it just cut off on the cutting room floor.
Speaker 2: And you've got this amazing Hollywood career. You have a
Speaker 2: sad card, the whole thing. You're an actor.
Speaker 4: Let's go. I love it. Yay.
Speaker 3: I am gonna agree with Peter because of what Matt
Speaker 3: I said before. Cody does have a very specific gift
Speaker 3: of just dropping pretty epic stories into conversations. I feel like,
Speaker 3: by this point, nearly fifteen hours of television, and he
Speaker 3: would have told us if he saved Luke Bryan from
Speaker 3: a crowd of people.
Speaker 4: So I will also go with THEE.
Speaker 8: I will go with THEE. Okay, guys, are we all
Speaker 8: jumping in the same pool.
Speaker 4: Let's just try that. Let's do it for this one.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go be because I played some music earlier
Speaker 8: and Cody could reference all the rap and all the
Speaker 8: hip hop songs Luke Brian omassee.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure he listened to Luke Brian.
Speaker 8: However, he was bumping too some raps, so I don't
Speaker 8: think it's see. I'm gonna go be with my brother
Speaker 8: Shregs and my.
Speaker 4: Sister Jamie b All right, we're gonna start with a
Speaker 4: I have never and never will never do a marathon,
Speaker 4: so that one is incorrect. I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 4: right answer. So we're gonna go straight into The correct
Speaker 4: answer is c no, and I will tell the shortened
Speaker 4: version of the story. I want saved Luke Brian from
Speaker 4: a crowd of people. He was performing in Stage Coach
Speaker 4: from Lukington, California, HU and he's ready to be that
Speaker 4: the main stage performer that night. He was heading the show.
Speaker 4: We go to a convenience store to get some food
Speaker 4: to throw on the grill. We're getting ready to go
Speaker 4: back and wait, huge crowd, right, So we walked by
Speaker 4: and me and my buddy one of my best friends
Speaker 4: next hurt Rest in Peace, a former teammate of mine,
Speaker 4: were walking by and we're like, there's a huge crowd
Speaker 4: of people. I'm like, okay, we don't really see it.
Speaker 4: We go inside, we come back out, it's gotten even bigger,
Speaker 4: so we peek over and I'm like, next, that is
Speaker 4: Luke Bryant in the middle of that pile. And he's like,
Speaker 4: there's no way he's sitting here by himself at a
Speaker 4: convenience store. Shirt enough long story shorty, it is him.
Speaker 4: We walk up, We wait our turn. I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: we're gonna look weird. We don't want to get a photo.
Speaker 4: Everyone else is doing it. I walk up and go Luke,
Speaker 4: can we And as soon as he sees us, immediately
Speaker 4: rolled with it. He said, oh hey, guys, my boys
Speaker 4: are here. We got to get going. We're leaving. We're rolling.
Speaker 4: So he used us and we had no idea. We're like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, yeah, okay, we're here. Walk away, walk around
Speaker 4: the corner. His manager, Jay Williams, comes out and he
Speaker 4: kind of stops the crowd. We get around. He goes, hey, guys,
Speaker 4: thank you so much. I had to get out of there.
Speaker 4: I just use you guys. Let's get a photo, take
Speaker 4: a photo. Start talking a little bit. Sold when we
Speaker 4: play at USC he said, he's a diehard Georgia Bulldog fan,
Speaker 4: said he watched our game on College Game DAGA and
Speaker 4: Stanford earlier that year. Said oh yeah, I cat so
Speaker 4: the quarterback invited us back to his house to hang out.
Speaker 4: We thought he was joking. Sure enough, we'll get in
Speaker 4: the car. We leave. His manager text me five minutes later, Hey,
Speaker 4: here's the addresser's a gate code. Go to his house, hangout.
Speaker 4: It's him Florida or the line. His manager had an
Speaker 4: absolute blast, went to the concert, He invited us back
Speaker 4: over afterwards, went back, hung out and stead of the
Speaker 4: day good friends with Luke his entire team, and that
Speaker 4: was the gateway to getting the no Kinny Chesney and
Speaker 4: Lee Brice and all of them got really close to them.
Speaker 4: It was a cool story. It was out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: I mean we went there on a whim to grab
Speaker 4: some stakes to throw on the grill, huge pile. Luke
Speaker 4: Bryan asked for a photo, and I mean instantaneously said,
Speaker 4: oh my boys, you're here. We got to go and
Speaker 4: Cody exactly. So yes, with that being said, we have
Speaker 4: a tie with Mantai and Peter. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The f here was the subtle flex in that story.
Speaker 3: He said he get the manager texted me the gate code.
Speaker 3: Like the fact that you have not only Luke Brian gatecode, Tody.
Speaker 4: Staying at a place that had a gatecoade. They were
Speaker 4: staying at a place that had a gatecode. You got
Speaker 4: to use one to get in. They were ritt in
Speaker 4: the house code. Unbelievable people his team, Luke, Brian, everybody, Cody.
Speaker 2: I saw that Kenny Chesney's playing the Sphere in Vegas
Speaker 2: in a couple of months. If you can hook me
Speaker 2: up with just a ticket, I don't need to day code.
Speaker 2: I would love to go.
Speaker 4: Happened my story Kenny Chesney went and saw him at
Speaker 4: the Rose Bowl. He invited us on stage on Boys
Speaker 4: the Fall, took us backstage. His manager, texting the next day,
Speaker 4: said Kenny was wondering if he could have your number
Speaker 4: to text you. I said, slight, yes, please, can you like?
Speaker 4: What are we talking about? Can I have the honor
Speaker 4: of him text me? But anyways, yes, I was. I
Speaker 4: was in with the country crowd when I was at
Speaker 4: USC But yeah, that is two lies and a truth.
Speaker 4: We have a tie. So maybe whatever you win, okay,
Speaker 4: with those stories, that's it. That's all we care about.
Speaker 4: And you said, he said, Mantai the planting the seed
Speaker 4: on the humble brags, you weren't paying attention close enough.
Speaker 4: I got him the Nerdame touchdown.
Speaker 3: Question code look get the power er go go power bag.
Speaker 4: Here we go forty nine or GM.
Speaker 3: John Lynch spoke to the media yesterday at the Combine
Speaker 3: and was asked about the ongoing negotiations with the nine
Speaker 3: Ers quarterback Brock Party. Here's the answer.
Speaker 9: We have started negotiations.
Speaker 4: We're talking.
Speaker 9: I won't go into negotiations, like always is our stance.
Speaker 9: Want brought to be our quarterback as long as we're
Speaker 9: here and beyond, and we'll leave it at that. I
Speaker 9: think the final thing, there's no guarantees that we get
Speaker 9: something done, but my experience has been when both sides
Speaker 9: are motivated, there's ample opportunity to do so, and we've
Speaker 9: been able to do that.
Speaker 3: So John Lynch hoping that brock Party just as motivated,
Speaker 3: to say, the forty nine ers quarterback for a long time. Peter,
Speaker 3: your thoughts on John Lynch's take there the fact that
Speaker 3: they're going to keep a private but at least that's
Speaker 3: a pretty positive sentiment for a quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think the Party conversation is taking a back seat
Speaker 2: to the Stafford conversation, and a lot of people are
Speaker 2: looking at those top ten quarterbacks and how much they
Speaker 2: get paid. You know, Twoa's making more than fifty million dollars,
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence is making more than fifty million dollars. Should
Speaker 2: Brock perty make more than fifty dollars? I think he will.
Speaker 2: And if that's the case, that's where the Stafford camp
Speaker 2: is like, well, what are we talking about here? If
Speaker 2: you're gonna pay Purty Tua and Trevor Lawrence that money,
Speaker 2: why can't Why can't Stafford make that money? So it's
Speaker 2: an interesting offseason for the Niners. There's been some changes
Speaker 2: along the coaching staff. Of course, on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: I leave Brian Grease. He's no longer on the offensive
Speaker 2: side from what we're hearing, And now it's like do
Speaker 2: we give Purdy all the money? And then what do
Speaker 2: we do with Deebo and some of these other guys.
Speaker 2: So weird offsea for the Niners. Usually they're coming fresh
Speaker 2: off a big playoff appearance or a Super Bowl appearance.
Speaker 2: They missed the playoffs last year, and now it's your
Speaker 2: reward party. I think he will get paid. I just
Speaker 2: don't know the timetable exactly when that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree that this is Brock perty served five
Speaker 4: million dollars next year, and that's what he's doing. Absolutely
Speaker 4: not he deserves more than that, right, But just what
Speaker 4: that number is going to be, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: If you look at twenty twenty two, he comes in,
Speaker 4: plays well, goes to the NFC Championship game. Here's his UCL, right,
Speaker 4: and then he recovers, comes back twenty twenty three, plays tremendous,
Speaker 4: comes out and has thirty one touchdowns, forty two hundred yards,
Speaker 4: only eleven interceptions, goes to the Super Bowls one stop
Speaker 4: away from winning the Super Bowl against the Chiefs. And
Speaker 4: then last year, right, regresses a little bit. They struggle,
Speaker 4: they go six and eleven, they don't make the playoffs. Right,
Speaker 4: they finished fourth in their division. He had twenty touchdowns
Speaker 4: and twelve interceptions. And now we're talking contract. I think
Speaker 4: that's the problem for brock Purty right now. And like
Speaker 4: Peter said, they have a lot of unrestricted free agents.
Speaker 4: And something that set out to me with John Lenz
Speaker 4: was the end of that quote he mentioned, look, there's
Speaker 4: no guarantee, but will endeavor to get it done. That
Speaker 4: just tells me I think this deal is going to
Speaker 4: be a little bit more difficult than people anticipated. Now Again,
Speaker 4: like I said, brock Purtty absolutely deserves to be paid.
Speaker 4: I just don't know what that number is going to be.
Speaker 8: Well, I agree with your Cody that the forty nine
Speaker 8: ers as a whole regressed this past year. As far
Speaker 8: as brock Purty's concerned, I think he progressed. I think
Speaker 8: he played his best ball in twenty twenty four. I
Speaker 8: remember watching him right over here across the street at
Speaker 8: Sofi Stadium in this very game against the La Rams
Speaker 8: go without a Christian McCaffrey, without a Deebo Samuel have
Speaker 8: Joan Jennings. That isn't Jeorgane Jennings, that's just number one
Speaker 8: receiver and going for like three or.
Speaker 2: Four touchdowns in Juwan there was George Kittle was in.
Speaker 8: And out, Brandon New York got heart. So I think
Speaker 8: that brock Purty is more than deserving. He fits their scheme.
Speaker 8: He plays with a chip on his shoulder, and for
Speaker 8: some reason, he just seems like somebody that plays beyond.
Speaker 8: He plays the game for more than just the money,
Speaker 8: and no matter how much you pay him, he's still
Speaker 8: going to show up as brock Purty number thirteen, the
Speaker 8: captain of your team and he's still going to compete.
Speaker 8: So I think he's more than more than deserving of
Speaker 8: a payday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I agree with you, And that was an
Speaker 3: awesome game for him, and the fact that it is
Speaker 3: third in Juwan and he had to go first and
Speaker 3: second down to Juwan in that game, Cody, I'll ask you,
Speaker 3: Peter is right, Brian Griese is stepping away from the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers as the Brock Purty's quarterback coach or
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks coach of the team. We don't know the
Speaker 3: necessary organization is different, how that role applies to this quarterback.
Speaker 3: But you can't not look at how these two were
Speaker 3: tethered and brock Purty's drafting, because there is a great
Speaker 3: takeout there that Greasy ranked Purty above a ton of
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in this draft that everybody.
Speaker 4: Passed on him.
Speaker 3: So what's that relationship like and how could not having
Speaker 3: Brian Greasie their effect?
Speaker 4: Rock Berdie Absolutely, I mean, you spend more time with
Speaker 4: these coaches than you do your own family. Right, you
Speaker 4: go the offseason, you go OTAs, you go fall camp,
Speaker 4: you do all these different things. When you're home and
Speaker 4: you're sending videos to your coaches. I had multiple coaches
Speaker 4: when I was in the NFL, I had multiple coaches
Speaker 4: in college. I had five different coaches my three years
Speaker 4: at USC. It's so tough when you don't have continuity,
Speaker 4: when you don't have consistency. But at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, he still has Kyle Shanahan, right, That's who
Speaker 4: calls the plays. But for me, the biggest thing for
Speaker 4: them to take the next step is being able to
Speaker 4: have enough money to spend on their defense. They're losing
Speaker 4: some key unrestricted free agents Tallahoah Hafunga, Tarvarius Ward, Javon Hargrave,
Speaker 4: Drake green Law, these guys are all due to be
Speaker 4: gone next year if they don't spend their money in
Speaker 4: the right place and build this defense that was twenty
Speaker 4: seventh in scoring defense last year, which we're used to
Speaker 4: seeing a very good San Francisco forty nine or defense
Speaker 4: carry them a little bit along the way, have a
Speaker 4: good run game. They've got to take control of a
Speaker 4: lot of other things instead of just playing or paying
Speaker 4: rock party. So it's going to be difficult to see
Speaker 4: how they.
Speaker 3: Navigate this all right, So in terms of bolstring and defense, Cody,
Speaker 3: I'll take your queue in going for two, Let's go
Speaker 3: on to our next topic. Brown's All Pro defensive end.
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett requested a trade out of Cleveland earlier this month,
Speaker 3: and he put out a statement as follows. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of sentiment in there, but really his goal was
Speaker 3: to go from Cleveland to Canton, and it's always to
Speaker 3: compete for a Super Bowl and win. But he feels
Speaker 3: that what's happening right now won't allow him to be complacent,
Speaker 3: and it's hindering him from that pathway that being said.
Speaker 3: Head coach Kevin Sefanski then spoke about Miles Garrett yesterday
Speaker 3: at the combine. Let's take a listen to those thoughs.
Speaker 4: I think the world of Miles.
Speaker 7: You know, I understand the business of football, and I
Speaker 7: understand these things happen from time to time. But I
Speaker 7: expect Miles on our team this year, next year, the
Speaker 7: year after that, and so on. He's a part of
Speaker 7: the president, He's a part of the future.
Speaker 4: Peter, this feels a little awkward.
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett is asking to leave and the head coach
Speaker 3: saying he saying he is a part of the future.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts not so awkward. I mean, Miles Garrett spent
Speaker 2: Super Bowl week doing radio row and talking about his
Speaker 2: trade requests and where he'd like to go and dictating
Speaker 2: his future. And then now the microphones are on the
Speaker 2: Browns brass and both to fans, ke Andrew Berry like, well,
Speaker 2: we're not going anywhere. It could get contentious. But also
Speaker 2: you're under contract. We pay you a lot of money.
Speaker 2: And this is where they're gonna put their their feet
Speaker 2: on the ground. They view themselves as a real organization
Speaker 2: and Miles Garrett as a cornerstone to that organization. Why
Speaker 2: should they ship him off because he subjectively feels they're
Speaker 2: not going to Watcher Bowl. He didn't not take the
Speaker 2: money when they offered him a giant contract extension. He
Speaker 2: signed that deal, So I believe they're gonna not be
Speaker 2: looking to move him. They had the number two overall pick.
Speaker 2: You got to assume they're gonna be at least considering
Speaker 2: quarterback that they're going to turn a page. He's twenty
Speaker 2: nine years old. I'm sorry, I'm usually player first in
Speaker 2: a lot of ways. Listening to the Browns organization, they're
Speaker 2: not even entertaining this thought. So he could do all
Speaker 2: the talk and he wants they're gonna expect him at camp,
Speaker 2: and they're not looking at them, they're not even having discussions.
Speaker 8: Well, Peter, we have somebody here at this table named
Speaker 8: Cody Kessler who was at Cleveland when Miles Garrett was there,
Speaker 8: a young Miles Garrett. He knows Cleveland, he knows that
Speaker 8: front office. So Cody, I got to toss it to you, like,
Speaker 8: how do you fill about this situation knowing Cleveland, knowing
Speaker 8: Miles Garrett in that whole situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was in Cleveland for Miles Garrett's first year
Speaker 4: when we first drafted him. He is an unbelievable specimen.
Speaker 4: Watching him on the football field, He's one of the
Speaker 4: best players I've ever been around I've ever seen. The
Speaker 4: thing that concerns me the most, and like Peter was
Speaker 4: talking about, is is Miles didn't come out and say
Speaker 4: I want a new contract, I want to be paid
Speaker 4: X amount of dollars. He came out and said, I
Speaker 4: want to play for a team that's going to compete
Speaker 4: and win a Super Bowl. That's what he wants. That
Speaker 4: puts all the pressure on Andrew Berry in this Brown's
Speaker 4: front office. They have to be perfect this offseason. This
Speaker 4: is one of the most important offseasons that you can
Speaker 4: remember in recent Brown's history. They cannot miss with that
Speaker 4: number two pick. If you find a quarterback that you love,
Speaker 4: pull the trigger, don't hesitate, blunt all the outside noise away,
Speaker 4: put it all away, and focus on what you can
Speaker 4: can and that's what draft picks you take, and then
Speaker 4: also what decisions you make in free agency. Now there's
Speaker 4: going to be some hurdles with their cap space, but
Speaker 4: overall they have to make the right decisions this offseason.
Speaker 4: And I'm with you. I think they can really turn
Speaker 4: it around and go out there and find a quarterback
Speaker 4: and I fully expect Miles Garrett to be a part
Speaker 4: of that team.