WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: I Have Questions 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.240 Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:12.280 the Bengals Booth podcast. I have Questions for you edition 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 as my broadcast partner Dave Lapham joins me to answer 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.400 my questions and yours about the draft, about free Agency, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:25.480 about Joe Burrow, about Carson Palmer, and about a whole 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.720 lot more. The bulk of the questions come from you 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:33.560 via Twitter with a new hashtag ask lap. We spent 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.480 about forty minutes together and as is always the case 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.440 with lap it's great stuff that's straight ahead. 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For a college paper. Now let's get 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.679 to football, where it's time to ask lap lap. At 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.520 this point, all of our podcasts are obligated to begin 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.600 with a discussion of Joe Burrow. So here's my first 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.560 question for you this week. Give me a percentage what 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.280 is the likelihood that the Bengals are going to wind 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.160 up selecting Joe Burrow number one overall? I think it's 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.120 going to be in the nineties. I really do. I 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.880 think that I don't see a box that he doesn't check. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.560 You know, the fact that is his dad coach. I mean, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.720 he's he's football. He's a football lifer already at such 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.800 a young age, he's been around the game so long. Um. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.480 You know. The other thing is when all his relationship 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.800 with his offensive lineman, he talks about a pregame meal, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.600 always eating with the offensive lineman. First thing he did 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:23.240 at the Heisman presentation was thank his offensive lineman. He 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.520 just he just gets it. I think. Uh. And it's 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.520 you know when the big difference with him and Herbert 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.760 that I've I've heard is, and I asked people about it, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.120 is when you say, okay, who are Herbert's friends on 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.080 the team, they list two or three guys and they 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.320 struggle to come up with that list. When you ask 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.120 how about Joe, There isn't anybody that doesn't like Joe. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.200 Joe's friend to everybody. He just seems to have that 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.200 and that boomer to him a little bit, you know. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.839 I mean, he's got he's got the takes over the room. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.560 He's the personality guy that everybody gravitates toward. And I 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.720 think that's a leadership quality. That is something that it's 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.280 a huge X factor for quarterback. And then you know 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.760 that that that huge and tangible I think is something 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.320 that separates him. Plus he's pretty damn good. I mean physically, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.959 I mean, you know, when you're when you complete over 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.480 you know, over seventy five percent of your passes, including 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.400 the National Championship game that brought it down from like 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:26.359 seventy eight to about seventy. Um, you're you're you're getting 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.960 it down at a very high level. So and you know, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.880 when I watch a little tape of him, the thing 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.760 that impresses me about him is his um feeling that pressure. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.240 You know that some guys have that innate ability to 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.600 sense it and feel it almost without you know, eyes 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.200 in the back of the head, kind of thing, and 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.760 they'll slidestep or step up at just the right time. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.800 And with him, you'll see guys sometimes start to look 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.880 and peripherby try to catch He never does. I'm watching 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.400 him and he's just it's almost like almost like he 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.760 has a sense of touch. That's when they're close to him, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.760 he can almost sense him being you know, a foot 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.440 away from him or something, because all he has his 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.960 eyes down field all the time. I mean, they are 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.720 trained down the football field, and that that's a that's 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:14.280 a good quality because you know, if you can't take 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.279 your eyes off the off the target down the football field, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.080 he never does, never does. I mean, that was another 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.080 trait that I'm like, wow, that's that's pretty impressive because 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.760 he was feeling a pretty extemif an eat a lot 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.400 of times and never diverted his eyes. And I'm like, man, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.159 that's as a lineman, you gotta love that. And there's 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.679 no question, you know. And then he just he throws 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.159 the ball accurately to such tight spots. I mean he 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.839 throws he's straight a quarterback anticipation and accuracy. You know, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.120 he throws it before they're you know, come out of 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.560 their break and puts it to a spot where that's 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.560 the best spot to throw it from them to catch it. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.479 He has so many, so many boxes check like I said, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.400 and you know you can. You can drive yourself nuts 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.520 trying to find the negative thing about him. Why do that? 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.359 You know? Just accept it. I mean, he's he's frint, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.040 he's a very rare had a very rare season. Accept it. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.599 Make a decision that he's the guy. Don't worry, be happy, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.960 make the pick, move on, move on. As I told 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.440 somebody the other day, I'm just happy that Andy Reid 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.400 got a Super Bowl ring before Burrow begins his run 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.359 of six in a row. It was nice that he 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.719 was able to get one before the Burrow era begins, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.160 you know. And that's that's the interesting thing because as 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.680 soon as you know, Mahomes wins the Super Bowl with 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.320 Andy Reid, and now they're talking about the forty million 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.760 dollars contract and what's not going to do the roster 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.400 because they built a nice roster around him with that 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.120 rookie contract. And that's what you know, you can get 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.440 done potentially with Joe. You could have him a fixed 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.000 price of thirty five thirty six million dollars over a 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:50.400 five year time frame potentially, and Mahomes is going to 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.480 be making more than that on an annual basis, saying 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.920 forty forty four million dollars a year. It's crazy. So 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.039 you know, we've seen it with Flacco wins it and 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.160 they have to just sumble the team when he gets 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.200 his one hundred million dollars plus payday, And I wonder 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.600 what's going to happen with Mahomes. We've seen cases of it, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.240 and we've seen cases of you know, get the young 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.039 quarterback that you can build around, put a good roster 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.080 around him, and make your run. Maybe the Bengals kipt 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.320 out done with Joe Burrow. So Joe Burrow got along 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.200 with everybody, as you mentioned at LSU and before that 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.760 at Ohio State, but one of his closest friends with 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.960 Sam Hubbard. They were hanging out together in Miami for 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.560 the Super Bowl and during the course of that, Joe 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.080 Burrow went on the Dan Patrick Show and was asked 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.360 about being potentially the number one pick in the draft, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.840 and he said, yes, I'd like to be the number 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.680 one pick, and I want to go to a team 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.040 that is committed to winning the Super Bowl. And naturally 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.320 that set off the alarm bells because it sounds so 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.960 much like the criticism that Carson Palmer repeats to anybody 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.520 that will listen. Should we be concerned about those comments 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.720 by Joe Burrow? No, I don't think so. I mean, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.360 I think I think those are those are comments that 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.240 a competitor makes. And Joe Borrow the one thing I 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.279 talked to a couple of his offensive lamar at the 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.680 Senior Bowl from lsu Castle Berry and Lewis, and you 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.640 know they both said, in his polite a way or 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.000 as nice away as you can be, he'll cut your throat. Man, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.800 He's a cutthroat competitor. That's Joe Burrow. He'll do whatever 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.240 it takes. I'm like, man, I love that. I love 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.080 the sounds of that. So I think, you know, his 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.400 competitive spirit is I had this great year, won the Heisman, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.720 we won the National Championship. I want to be the 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.800 first pick in the draft. I want to win a 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.760 super Bowl. So I mean those are just comments that 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.600 you know, I want to I want to go where 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.320 I have a chance to win a super Bowl. I 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.720 don't think I don't think he's necessarily taken a shot 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.400 at the Bengals He just wanted it to be known 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.000 that wherever I'm going, let's get ready because I want 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.840 to win the whole thing, and I hope you do 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.920 too as much as I do, because I do. I 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.760 want to win it. Man, I'm a winner and I 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.760 want to keep winning state the obvious. Really, can I 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.400 go off on a little bit of a Carson Palmer 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.120 rant here, because I know you like respect Carson Palmer. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.600 But I'm disappointed, Dan, I'm disappointed. I am you know. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.200 The thing, the thing that disappoints me is and this is, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:10.840 this is the problem that Wit and some of the 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.160 guys had with Carson Palmer. Is you know, all right, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.720 it didn't some things may have not gone perfectly the 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.080 way you wanted it when you were here. But Mike 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.360 Brown made you the highest paid quarterback in the National 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.040 Football League. Why was he doing that because he thought 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.320 you were the guy that we're going to win him 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.680 a Super Bowl and win you a Super Bowl? What? What? 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.320 What problem do you have with that? I just don't 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.720 get it. And I mean I just you know, I 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.880 wish it. I wish at this point he would back 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.199 off just uh, you know, keep showing with the with 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.200 the deep sea blows, you know, I mean, just just 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.920 he's let it go a little bit. So Carson Palmer 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.720 played for seven years after he left Cincinnati between Oakland 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:56.400 and Arizona. In those seven years, his team's won sixty 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.400 one games. I believe in those same seven years the 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.320 Bengals won sixty five. With Andy Dalton AJ Green, Carson 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.320 Palmer's teams went to two playoffs, the Bengals went to five. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.920 Immediately after he left, they went to five straight playoffs. Furthermore, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.880 the Arizona Cardinals, which apparently, according to Carson, are the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.120 organization that is, you know, committed to doing whatever it 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.120 takes to win the Super Bowl. I mean, I guess 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.040 that's what he thinks. They had the number one pick 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.199 in the draft last year, just as the Bengals have 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.280 the number one pick in the draft this year. So 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.560 I get frustrated by any national media member or even 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.560 Bengals fans. I guess that take what he says as 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.000 gospel when there's really no reason too. Yeah, no, I agree. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:46.080 I mean, the numbers are the numbers, and um, you know, unfortunately, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:51.880 I do think the team that he led to a 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.080 great season and then he got his knee torn up 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.560 but in the Pittsburgh Steeler game in the pluff, I 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.480 do think that team could have made a run. Well, hell, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.240 it wasn't Mike Brown had caused your problem? Was Chemo 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.079 von All often? You know it was Steinbach not blocking 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.080 Chemo von All often. Well enough, if you have to 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.280 pick a beef on somebody, But I mean, you know 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.640 that injury was tragic, There's no question. I mean, I 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.160 think that team was a hell of a football team. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.920 And what's your beef then? I mean, you know, if 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.160 you if if you get through that football game healthy 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.480 and beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, which I think what could 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.720 have should have happened? Who won the Super Bowl? That 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:33.280 you're Pittsburgh Steelers. Come on, man, one more thing. In 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.520 two thousand and nine, he leads the team to the 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.199 AFC North title and they sweep the division, beat Pittsburgh twice, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.240 beat Baltimore twice, beat Cleveland twice. The next off season, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.720 they signed Tarall Owens, largely because Carson wanted him. Sure, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.760 and that creates the circus that leads to a four 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.240 and twelve season and then he quits. I'm telling you, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.360 it's a it is a I'd say it's a very 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:04.400 one side did memory He's got Carson has selective amnesia 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.560 on all sides of it. There are there are multiple 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.959 sides to every story, no question about him. You can 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.120 you can pick and choose whichever one's fit your memory 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.640 the best, and he's picking and choosing whichever one's fit 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.880 his memory the best. He did throw a pretty ball, though, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.600 best I've seen. I mean the ball came out of 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.640 his hand. I'm not kidding. When I saw him throw, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.800 I'm like, oh my gosh. And Mike Brown, you know, 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.400 obviously was infatuated. He's always Mike Brown played quarterback at Dark. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.000 He's always loved quarterbacks can throw it, and nobody could 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:40.520 spin the pig like Carson. Palmer was unbelievably beautiful. Let's 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.760 talk about this year's Super Bowl teams, Kansas City and 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.400 San Francisco. What can the Bengals learn from those two 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.679 rosters as they try to rebuild and reach that height. Well, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.720 in Kansas City's case, they got the quarterback that can, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.480 you know, make miraculous plays. Um, you know, could Joe 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.480 Burrow be Patrick Mahomes. Now, Joe Burrow doesn't have the 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.520 arm talent to Patrick Mahomes hasn't there's very few guys 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.960 you know that that do have that kind of arm 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:13.000 talent is Joe Burrow, Jimmy Garoppolo? Hell yeah, I think 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.679 he's cut above Jimmy Garoppolo. Well, what led to San 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.720 Francisco forty nine ers to the Super Bowl? Offensive and 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.839 defensive line, particularly defensive line five former number one draft picks, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.160 and that group for three and a half quarters had 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.560 Patrick Mahomes on the run and had him playing Mahomes 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.960 like but man for an eight minute period. How do 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.560 you score twenty one points in eight minutes? Here kidding me? 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.400 He scored twenty eight points in the second quarter against 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.200 the Titans, never been done in the Plazz before, and 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.240 followed up with twenty one points and a half a 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.760 quarter basically in the Super Bowls. He's really he's really 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.640 a remarkable talent. Mahomes is. But the San Francisco forty 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.320 nine is almost won the Super Bowl because of their defense, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.880 their ability to run the football and you know, not 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.440 put too much on the quarterback. Kansas City won the 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.240 Super Bowl because they have a freakazoid at the quarterback position, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.680 and you know they pick up honey Badger and free agency. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.280 I mean they made some moves, they got some pieces. 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.400 You know, they improved their defense in free agency the 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.920 drafts as well. They signed Steve Spagnolo to coach it. Um. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.400 You know, he did a great job. So it can 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.040 it can be done. If the forty nine ers went 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.760 from four and twelve to the Super Bowl, it's happened. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.599 Coach the Senior Bowl then coached the Super Bowl same year. Absolutely, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:42.000 And you know that's why this this Senior Bowl thing, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.040 you know, Mike Mayock is when he got me all 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.679 juiced up down there because you know, he said, man, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.400 the Senior Bowl. We just down here last year and 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.280 six players four week coached, two week coached. Hegens every 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.640 one of them. We had him called every one of them. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.360 They all made our team. They all made contributions. That's 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.600 the motherload. You know. They hit the mother there's no 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.560 doubt about it. But we'll see if the Bengals experience 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.840 down there at the Senior Bowl can help them, you know, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.320 put some pieces together. As great as Mahomes was in 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.480 the playoffs and in the final six and a half 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.800 minutes to the Super Bowl this year, to me, what's 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.480 even more impressive still is last year's AFC Championship game, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.920 thirty one points in the second half against the Bill 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.840 Belichick defense. He just never got the ball in overtime. Unbelievable. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.600 And I think everybody thinks that if they have won 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.320 the toss, he probably would have taken them for a 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.880 touchdown and have made the Super Bowl. And you know, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.360 if d Ford lines up on side, they're in the 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.000 Super Bowl two years in a row. And ironically d 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.800 Ford playing against them with the San Francisco forty nine ers. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.400 It was a little twist of twist of faith there. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.440 But yeah, I mean, the Kansas City Chiefs have a 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.640 generational talent as the quarterback position. You're not a Twitter guy, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.120 but I have started a new hashtag on Twitter, ask lap. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.720 I have invited people to ask questions when we get 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.600 together there for podcasts. So I've got a bunch of 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.560 them today. Are you ready ready to roll? All right? 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.640 This comes from t Justin What Bengals free agent is 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:16.120 essential to resign? Boy? I mean, you know, I think 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.280 I think the whole thing hinges on AJ Green. I 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.440 think I think he is the king Domino. If they 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.840 can get something done with Aj Green, I think everything 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:30.680 else falls into place. If they can't Um, you know 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.920 then then then now you're talking about do we tag 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.880 them other we cause the ill will of their problems there. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.120 I think I think a J. Green is the is 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.800 the centerpiece, and um, if that could happen. I mean, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.560 I think Joe Mixon is an astanding player. You got 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.200 to sign Joe, but he's not a free agent, but 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.760 extend him. I wouldn't let him get to that last 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.760 year of his contract. But I think the uh, the 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.240 biggest component right now is the AJ Green factor. If 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.760 you have to tag him, tag him and trade him, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.200 or play it out and hope that you can get 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.440 a good deal done down the road. Yeah, I think 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.680 I think that. I'm not sure I tag him and 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.440 trade him. I tag him and see what I I 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.560 think that he is gonna come back and play like 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:21.480 AJ Green can play. And I mean, if you've if 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.480 you've got a guy that and I know he's starting 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:26.800 to get a little bit long on the tooth, but 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.920 he's a freak athlete. Now honestly, I mean you look 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.360 at his body other than okay, he's had some injuries 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.760 down the stretch here in this this ankle injury, it 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.600 is a joint, you know, but he has not had 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.280 any knee reconstructions or anything like that, so he's still 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.840 pretty intact, and he's an elite athlete. He's a world 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.640 class athlete. When you have a guy like that, there's 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.120 a proven commodity and you trade him for a fifty 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.960 fifty proposition as a draft pick, um not every wide 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.880 receiver there was drafted in the first round was panned 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.360 out seem more bu than guys that can play. This 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.720 guy not only has proven he can play, he's proven 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.720 he can play at the highest level in the National 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.320 Football League. I mean, he's one of your greatest players 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.760 of all time. Until I know that he's not that 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.320 guy anymore, I don't throw him away. I just don't 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.399 do it. I don't know. I'd make sure that I 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.560 would have exhausted every potential because man, I just know 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.720 every player you talked to in that locker room, even 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.520 the last year's you know, catastrophe and debacle, they all 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.960 still love what he does. The leader is in a 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.399 quiet way, you know, just by his actions. His actions 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.880 speak so much louder than his words. And every teammate, 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.480 every coach, everybody in the organization doesn't just like aj Green. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.080 They loved aj Green, So, I mean it could it 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.800 could have gotten ugly and nasty, didn't even come close. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.080 That tells me something about him too. I don't give 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.400 up by the aj Green that fast. Next question comes 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.840 from John. I like this one. If Miami offered all 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.520 three of its first round picks this year, plus a 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.720 third rounder this year and a number one next year, 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.640 would you trade the number one overall pick? Well, I would. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.080 I would think that Miami is targeting Joe Burrow, and 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.200 at that point, I would say, what am I missing? 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.479 If they want to give me all of that for 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.240 Joe Burrow, that should solidify my feelings about Joe Burrow. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.480 So I'd be careful, you know, I'd certainly be tempted, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.480 but I'd be careful. And Okay, So that fifth pick 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.800 who's there, Well, Herbert who I saw in like, but 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.040 I think, you know, some of the mock drafts that 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.679 are coming out now that I'm seeing have him as 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.840 a mid first round pick. And that's what I heard 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.560 a lot of people talking about down there. And you know, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.720 Todd McShay is down there all week getting information, and 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.920 so he's probably hearing talking to a lot of the 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:54.879 same people I was talking to and a lot of 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.520 people had Herbert as a as a mid first rounder, 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.679 and it looks like at me Indianapolis is the latest 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.760 destination for him, which makes a lot of sense. So, okay, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.360 do you take Herbert at five? If you take two, 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.800 you get crucified if you take another injured guy with 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.320 your first round pick. After the run you'd been on 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.119 with guys selecting guys and you know, hurt before they 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.200 were drafted, but not hurt that badly with the pack 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.240 with Billy Price and then Jonah and not you know, 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.760 you picked Jonah. He's played billion Jonah. Both have this 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:34.360 remarkable stretch of availability, accountability, durability, every ability and man, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.560 they can't get through their rookie years, you know. And 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.399 John Ross and I mean the list of the Littney 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.439 goes on and on. And if you draft twa and 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.040 it's like you may have to red shirt him for 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.800 a year, I guess at that point you're made a decision. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.160 You're keeping Andy Dalton for the last year of his contract. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.680 If you make that trade and you're gonna take two 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.960 at number five, you've made a decision there, and you 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:56.920 cross your fingers the two is going to be and 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.120 Let's face it, when he was healthy was a star, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.760 There's no question about it. And the guy, the guy 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.200 is accurate. I mean, he's the left handed Drew Brees 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.600 in my opinion, with his accuracy pinpoint accuracy. So you 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.280 know that's it might be tempting, but oh my gosh, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.560 if if Miami's willing to give to all that up 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.360 to get Joe Burrow, you may have to say to yourself, 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.360 why are you letting this dude go? If they think 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.919 that highly of them, throwing another first round of the 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.680 next year, and maybe we'll all right. Next question comes 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.199 from Tyler, what player or players will be cut or 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.719 traded before free agency? Well, you got to think that. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.680 You know, they're gonna try to move Andy Dalton, and 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.280 if they if they move Andy Dalton, if they're making 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.080 a concerted effort to move Andy Dalton, they're drafting Joe 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:48.359 Burrow because I think that they expect Joe Burrow to 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.720 be able to play right away. And I can understand why. Um, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.080 in this era of young quarterbacks. Look at the young 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.080 quarters quarterbacks that were drafted last year, they play I 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.560 mean they draft him when they play him. You know, 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.359 here in the recent past, obviously. Now you'll have cases 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.080 of Mahmes. For example, you know Smith played for a 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.040 year for the Homes, Carson Palmer, you know, sad for 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.520 John Kittner. I mean, we do have some history of 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.960 those kind of things taken place. But I think I 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.560 think if they make the determination to take Joe Burrow, 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.639 who had the best year of any college quarterback in 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.040 the history or college football, they're anticipating he is going 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.480 to play. He's the guy. And I think out of 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.359 respect to Andy Dalton, who they value as a person 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.720 and what he's done for the organization, they don't want 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:38.000 him to have to sit the pine, you know, ride it, 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.000