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Ep.86: Take care of your players! · Football Junkies podcast

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  Double bag alert, double bag alert, double bag
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  alert, folks. That's right. We got another loaded
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  episode. All right. George Kaloftis and Zach
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  Tom get paid. Jerry Jones takes a jab at both
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  Dak and Micah Parsons. My thoughts on Omar Khan's
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  press conference. Lloyd Howe and J .C. try to
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  resign. The president threatens the commanders.
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  Will second round picks become guaranteed moving
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  forward? And gut check time. That's right, folks.
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  Gut check time. But this time we are going to
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  the south, the dirty south. NFC and AFC North,
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  okay? All of this and more. on the 86th episode
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  of Football Junkies Podcast, okay? I am your
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  host with the most, all right? I'm your chief,
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  Bagroll Domics. That's right, chief, head of
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  the table. Anything and everything related to
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  the bag, rumors to the bag, and more, okay? I
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  am your GM who currently is not on a team right
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  now, but don't you worry about it, all right?
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  Don't you worry about it because guess what?
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  I am all these things and more, but most importantly,
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  the most important thing that you must remember
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  is... I am your host, Kale. You already know
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  how these things are about to go. This is going
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  to be another loaded episode because guess what?
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  You are listening to the greatest football podcast
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  that you can listen to on a week -to -week, day
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  -to -day basis. So guess what? On three. One,
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  two, three. Let's lock in. All right, folks,
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  let's just get into the meat and potatoes of
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  everything that is going on in the league right
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  now. So we have a lot that's going on in the
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  league, all right? But let's get into these bag
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  alerts, all right? So George Kaloftis, defensive
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  end for the Chiefs in, say, four -year, $88 million
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  deal, $62 million guaranteed, and he'll be making
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  $22 million a year. When we look at his stats
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  from this past season, 35 tackles and eight sacks.
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  Great deal for the Chiefs, great deal for George
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  Kaloftis, okay? This doesn't break the bank.
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  That doesn't put them in any financial problems
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  moving forward. It also rewards a very impactful
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  player that has played a very pivotal role within
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  the last few Super Bowl runs that the Chiefs
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  have had. You're talking about somebody that
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  when Chris Jones is occupied with two and three
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  tackles and tight ends and receivers and whatnot,
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  guess what? George Kaloftis just comes right
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  on in. He gets his pressures, he gets his sacks,
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  maybe makes a forced fumble, maybe recovers a
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  fumble. That's just who George Kaloftis is, all
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  right? He's not going to be somebody that's going
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  to be talked about like a Myles Garrett or TJ
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  Watt or any of the other top -end pass rushers,
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  but he is on that second to maybe third tier
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  of pass rushers, okay? Now let's talk about Zach
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  Tom, all right? Right tackle for the Packers
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  inks a four -year $88 million deal with a max
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  value, which is important, of $92 million, okay?
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  He gets a $30 .2 million signing bonus, which
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  is the largest signing bonus for any offensive
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  lineman in NFL history, and he has $30 .2 million
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  in guarantees, and he'll be making $22 million
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  a year. Again, great business once again. The
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  Packers value their own players and they're making
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  sure that they take care of their players. Now,
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  I do know that a lot of insiders have said that
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  the Packers aren't done giving out extensions
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  because currently right now they're talking with
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  Quay Walker and I think one or two other players
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  that are up for extension. So I wouldn't be surprised
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  by the end of this episode, we probably get more
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  breaking news of somebody else getting paid as
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  well. So all in all, really good deal. For Zach
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  time. All right. Now let's get into the real
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  things everybody wants to talk about. Okay. And
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  that is Jerry Jones. That's right. Mr. Jerry
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  Jones taking a jab at both Dak Prescott and Micah
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  Parsons. So training camp started with the Cowboys
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  not too long ago. And of course, Jerry being
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  Jerry has his, you know, little press conference
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  and whatnot. And, you know, people are talking
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  about the whole Micah Parsons situation and everything.
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  So this is what Jerry Jones had to say. And I
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  quote. I remember signing a player for the highest
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  paid position in the league and he got knocked
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  out two thirds of the year. So there's a lot
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  of things you can think about just as the player
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  does when you're thinking about committing and
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  guaranteeing money, end quote. That's at that
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  Prescott. This is what he said about Michael
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  Parsons though, end that quote. Just because
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  we signed him doesn't mean we're going to have
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  him. He was hurt six games last year. Contracts
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  are four, five years, okay? There's a lot of
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  water under the bridge if you step out there
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  and do something in the first two or three. You
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  can get hit by a car, seriously. So there's a
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  lot to look at over all of the years that could
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  make a big difference. Have you ever heard of
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  any clubs committing to players and then they
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  didn't pan out after they committed to them?
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  We have, end quote. But here's the kicker of
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  all of this. J .J. Watt puts his two cents into
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  this situation as well. And this is what he says,
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  and I quote. Anytime you can publicly take a
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  dig at your star quarterback and your star pass
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  rusher simultaneously right before the season
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  begins, you just got to take it. Nothing makes
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  guys want to fight for you more than hearing
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  how upset you are that they got hurt while fighting
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  for you, end quote. But Micah Parsons retweeted
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  this tweet. See, these are the quotes from a
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  reactive instead of proactive owner. Jerry Jones
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  has always been reactive when it comes to paying
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  his star players. From Dak Prescott to CeeDee
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  Lamb and now even Michael Parsons. Jerry Jones
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  continues to get in his own way when it comes
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  to negotiations. I understand that you may be
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  frustrated with how much money you're giving
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  out to these players. But guess what? They play
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  one of the most physical sports in the entire
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  world. So at some point, somebody's going to
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  get hurt. someone's going to miss a few games.
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  That's the business. So I don't understand why
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  you're taking jabs at your star quarterback,
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  at your star pass rusher, and at your star players
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  as a whole. See, if the Cowboys were actually
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  smart, they would have been proactive in the
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  contract negotiations with Micah Parsons. I would
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  have tried to get Micah Parsons to sign a deal
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  right after Max Crosby signed his, because that
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  was the sweet spot. But then after Miles Garrett
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  and TJ White got their deals, it's over. You're
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  going to have to reset the market for Micah Parsons.
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  And if you don't, Micah Parsons is going to hit
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  free agency next year, and he will single -handedly
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  be the biggest defensive free agent since Reggie
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  White. And we know that if he hits free agency,
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  he may even take less just to be in a better
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  situation. Would he stay in the division? Would
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  he go out of the division? Because I can assure
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  you right now, there's at least 10 to 15 teams
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  that would be willing to sign a blank check for
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  Micah Parsons. So Jerry, either you got to suck
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  it up and sign Micah Parsons, or stop complaining,
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  stop throwing jabs at your players, and actually
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  try to win a playoff game for once. Now let's
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  keep this thing going, okay? So Omar Khan finally
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  speaks with the media. after all the moves that
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  he's made in this offseason so far. So here's
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  just a few bullet points that I took away from
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  yesterday's press conference, okay? So when asked
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  about the departure of Minka Fitzpatrick, this
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  is what Omar Khan had to say, and I quote, I
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  don't know if it was necessarily moving on from
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  Minka. We had an opportunity to acquire two Pro
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  Bowl players. We felt that where we are as a
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  team made sense for us. We have a lot of respect
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  for Minka. That's a great football player, end
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  quote. When asked about Johnnie Smith and Jalen
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  Ramsey and their roles and how they're going
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  to be utilized on the team, this is what Omar
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  Khan had to say, and I quote, Johnnie Smith and
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  Jalen Ramsey both can line up in different places
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  than their usual positions, and they'll see how
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  it all shakes out on the field before they determine
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  their exact roles, end quote. Omar Khan also
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  said that he feels really good about the team
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  as a whole, but wouldn't rule out making another
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  move if the right opportunity came along. But
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  this is what he had to say about the wide receiver
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  room, and I quote, I feel really good. Obviously,
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  we traded for DK. DK is going to be an impactful
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  player for us. But I saw how the growth in Calvin
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  Austin last year, and that was really cool to
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  see. Watching Roman Wilson this offseason, it's
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  been really great to see his progression and
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  where he's at, and I think we would have seen
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  more of it last year towards the end of last
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  year. He said it, not me. If he would have had
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  the opportunity to play. We acquired Robert Woods,
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  a veteran leader in that room, so I feel really
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  good about the position, end quote. Omar Khan
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  also said that he doesn't rule out looking at
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  the safety market as well. While I understand
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  this trade was a really big trade, it was addition
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  by subtraction because you trade away a really
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  great player in Miga Fitzpatrick to bring in
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  two really good players as well. I understand
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  that Minkah Fitzpatrick has been playing his
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  best ball and he has been making splash plays
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  because everybody measures everything by splash
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  and whatnot. But the fact of the matter is Minkah
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  Fitzpatrick played a very important role on this
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  team. And we cannot solely blame him for the
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  mistakes of the defense, specifically the secondary
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  over the past two years because of Minkah Fitzpatrick.
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  Instead, we have to factor in coaching. We have
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  to factor in that when you have someone in Cam
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  Sutton who clearly was doing his own thing. Every
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  single time he was on the field, it had a direct
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  effect on everyone else. Not to mention, Minka
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  Fitzpatrick at one point had to play a lot more
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  in the box down at the line of scrimmage, where
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  you know that's not where he likes to be. He
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  likes to be in the backfield. He likes to roam.
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  That's his role. So the fact that you were able
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  to just trade away Minka Fitzpatrick like he
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  was nothing, and the fact that this organization
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  didn't do anything to say, you know what, Minka,
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  we thank you for your efforts. We thank you for
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  being the leader of that secondary. We thank
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  you for being an upstanding person your entire
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  tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I have gone
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  through their social media pages, and I have
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  not seen not one post, not one thank you Minka
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  post. That's disrespectful to someone who has
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  given his all to this team. Mind you, there was
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  a period in time where Mingus Fitzpatrick was
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  playing with essentially one arm and you just
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  traded him away like it was nothing. Let me just
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  read to you the stats from the past, I'll say
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  three years. So in 2022, he had six picks. 2023,
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  he had zero. 2024, he only had one pick. So he's
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  only had a two -year slump. Okay, fine, whatever.
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  But you should have tried to at least let things
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  play out. If you would have made this move without
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  giving up Minka Fitzpatrick and by, I don't know,
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  maybe the trade deadline, Minka Fitzpatrick isn't
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  back to his old self or he's not making quote
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  -unquote splash plays, then move off of Minka.
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  But you had to just try to give this a chance
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  at least. Because this secondary would have been
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  more formidable with Minka Fitzpatrick, Deshaun
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  Elliott, Darius Slade, Jalen Ramsey, Jordan Porter
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  Jr., Brandon Echols, Beanie Bishop, and Corey
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  Trice. That's way more formidable than what we
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  have right now. But again, Omar Khan emphasized
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  in this press conference that he loves positional
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  flexibility. Minka Fitzpatrick showed positional
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  flexibility because he went from playing all
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  the way in the backfield to now playing in the
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  line of scrimmage to now playing in the box to
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  now lining up that corner sometimes. He was flexible
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  everywhere on this defense. This is the problem
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  that I have with a lot of commentators, with
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  a lot of journalists, with a lot of people who
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  cover teams. Everybody talks about splash. If
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  you're not making splash plays, then you're not
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  effective. When that's not the whole kit and
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  caboodle. You have to look at the player and
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  the tape and everything that they put out in
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  its entirety. It's not always the big hit, the
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  interception, the forced fumble, the punch out,
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  the touchdown, the catch, the grab, the truck.
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  It's not always that. Sometimes it's just doing
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  just the routine things. But we are so involved
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  with... 5 and 10 and 20 second clips of splash
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  plays that now it has blinded us as fans and
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  as people who actually watch football and saying,
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  you know what? Man, that player really ain't
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  that good no more. He's not making any more splash
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  plays. What happened to the splash, man? Players
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  can go through things. People can go through
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  a slump. Minka Fitzpatrick, okay, wasn't playing
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  his best ball in two years. Okay, fine. But if
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  he rebounds this year and he goes back to his
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  quote unquote old self, who's complaining? Nobody.
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  Because guess what? Everybody's going to be riding
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  the make it this Patrick ways once again. You
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  can't do that. You have to give people grace,
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  especially people who have been nothing but a
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  first class player for this team. From answering
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  questions when they lose and win to just showing
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  up. Minka Fitzpatrick was a first -class citizen
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  for the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I can only imagine
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  how he feels with all the blood, sweat, and tears
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  that he gave to the Steelers and just to be shipped
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  away like it was nothing. You can even tell just
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  by his posture and the way that he looks in Miami
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  that he's still shaking up about this. That's
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  why he still hasn't spoken to the media yet.
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  Because I think he's still trying to deal with
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  this entire process. But that's another story
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  for another day. I want to go on my soapbox once
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  again because nobody really cares about it. Because
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  every time I say the things that need to be said
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  about this team, I get flack for it. But let's
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  get into this whole Lloyd Howell and J .C. Tretter
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  situation. a couple days ago lloyd howell the
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  former executive director for the nflpa resigned
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  okay so uh it's a lot of twists and turns and
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  uh booty cheeks and stripper poles with this
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  okay so uh let's get into it so this is the statement
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  from lloyd howell about his resignation And I
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  quote, two years ago, I accepted the role of
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  executive director of the NFLPA because I believe
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  deeply in the mission of this union in the power
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  of collective action to drive positive change
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  for the players of America's most popular sport.
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  Our members deserve a union that will fight relentlessly
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  for their health, safety, financial futures,
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  and long -term well -being. My priority has always
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  been to lead that fight by serving this union
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  with focus and dedication. It's clear that my
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  leadership has become a distraction to the important
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  work the NFLPA advances every day. For this reason,
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  I have informed the NFLPA Executive Committee
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  that I am stepping down as Executive Director
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  of the NFLPA and Chairman of the Board of the
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  NFL Players effective immediately. I hope this
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  will allow the NFLPA to maintain its focus on
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  its players' members ahead of the upcoming season.
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  I am proud of what we've been able to accomplish
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  at the NFLPA over the past two years. I will
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  be rooting for the players from the sidelines
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  as loud as ever, and I know the NFLPA will continue
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  to ensure that players remain firmly at the center
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  of football's future, end quote. But this is
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  what J .C. Tretter had to say, and I quote, I'm
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  not resigning because what I've been accused
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  of is true. I'm not resigning in disgrace. I'm
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  resigning because this has gone too far for me
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  and my family, and I've sucked it up for six
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  weeks. And I feel like I've been kind of left
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  in the wind taking shots for the best of the
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  organization. I got to the point this morning
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  where I woke up and I realized like I'm going
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  too deep dying on this fucking sword forever.
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  I'll never ever be able to do what's best for
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  me. And I will always pick what's best for the
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  organization. And in the end, what's the organization
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  done for me? Like nothing. I've been a bullet
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  shield for six weeks for them where everything
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  that's been controversial, it all just dumps
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  down on me. And I've had nothing to fucking do
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  with it. And that's when I was like, I'm done
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  taking bullets for the organization on stuff
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  I wasn't a part of and did not do, end quote.
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  What a fiery response by J .C. Treader. Oh, it's
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  just so ground shaking, just so pivotal with
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  the word choice that he used. Amazing. Hand clap
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  for J .C. Treader. No, let's just stop, okay?
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  J .C. Treader, your hand was caught in the cookie
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  jar. You orchestrated a lot of this conundrum
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  that the NFLPA is now going to have to clean
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  up because you decided to go around the entire
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  process of hiring the next executive director
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  for the NFLPA. And by doing so, you covered your
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  own tracks by making sure that you bring in somebody
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  that's going to put you in position of power
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  as well by creating a position that was never
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  created. prior to this point. And so now when
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  the kitchen gets really hot and now everything
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  is coming out about this whole collusion case
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  and how you felt about it and your personal input
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  and everything that you've said within the past
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  few years, oh, you can't take it. Oh, I'm just
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  tired of being the shield. Oh, I don't know what's
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  going on anymore. I didn't do anything wrong.
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  Yes, you did. Yes, you did. You hired somebody
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  that for one, is a part -time consultant for
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  a firm that is trying to acquire minority stakes
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  in NFL teams, who was also a part of one of the
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  largest scandals in U .S. history with Booz Allen,
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  who also was making it rain at Magic City and
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  at the world's biggest strip club in Florida.
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  That's your guy. That's the person that you were
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  tied to. So you have to fall on the sword just
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  as much as he does. So you got to take them bullets
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  and you're going to continue to take them bullets
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  because you know why? This needed to come out.
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  This needed to be done because this collusion
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  case showed that the current structure of the
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  NFLPA is not for the players, but instead for
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  the owners and the league who continue. to find
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  a way to limit guarantees for players. Players
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  who, by the way, risk their bodies for this sport.
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  So before we go any further, shout out to Pablo
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  Torre. Shout out. to Pro Football Talk for coming
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  together and putting out this collusion case
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  story. Because you know what? It opened up the
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  floodgates to what's going on with the NFLPA.
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  And also shout out to Dan Venetta Jr. and Kaylin
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  Cather from ESPN as well. Because you know why?
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  If it wasn't for you guys working together to
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  figure out exactly what's going on with the NFLPA,
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  we would have never known anything about this.
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  And I'm so glad. that Pablo Torre was the first
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  person to kick down the door with this case.
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  Now let's get to Lloyd. Not Lloyd Howell, but
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  Lloyd, okay? Lloyd Howell, according to an article
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  by Dan Mineta Jr. and Kalen Cather of ESPN, he
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  liked to go to the strip club. He liked to see
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  Scripless. So Lloyd Howell charged the union
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  for two visits to a strip club, including a $738
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  .82 car service. Howe was picked up at Fort Lauderdale
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  International Airport on November 2nd of 2023
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  at 1026. Now, before we go any further, let me
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  just stop right here. They timestamped when you
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  got picked up from the airport. Yo, this is sick.
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  Lloyd, you are a sick man, okay? Sick man. Well,
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  but let's keep on going, okay? A union finance
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  worker discovered that Hal went to Tootsie's
• 20:47
  Cabaret, the world's largest strip club in Florida.
• 20:53
  Imagine you're somebody, you're one of the financial
• 20:58
  workers for the NFLPA. You're checking all the,
• 21:00
  you know, finance and whatnot. You're checking
• 21:02
  out. Wait, Tootsie's? Tootsie's Cabaret? Wait
• 21:06
  a minute. Let's go on here. Let's see what's
• 21:10
  going on. Tootsie's Cabaret. Tootsie's Cabaret.
• 21:13
  World's largest strip club? What? Yo, I would
• 21:19
  be... This is hilarious. Listen, I don't care
• 21:22
  what anyone says. This story is hilarious. But
• 21:26
  it gets even worse, okay? During this year's
• 21:29
  NFLPA Summit meeting on February 21st... Howell
• 21:33
  tagged along with Apple with employees to Magic
• 21:37
  City and accumulated $2 ,426 in charters, including
• 21:43
  cash withdrawal that ranged from $200 to $525
• 21:48
  from the club ATM and used two, not one, but
• 21:54
  two VIP rooms. Yo. Howell was giving it up. He
• 22:03
  was telling his life story. Yeah. Where's Shanisha?
• 22:09
  Where's Shanisha? I thought somebody told me
• 22:12
  she was performing tonight. Meet me in the VIP
• 22:16
  room. 2 ,426. Brother, that is somebody's rent.
• 22:26
  That is somebody's card note that you just spent
• 22:29
  at Magic City. Ain't no way. Ain't no way. See,
• 22:34
  if it was maybe about $200, maybe $300, okay,
• 22:36
  fine. No problem with that. But for you to accumulate
• 22:39
  that much money in charges, yo, you like them
• 22:44
  scribbles, okay? But here's the reason for this
• 22:48
  expense. And I quote, player engagement event
• 22:53
  to support and grow our union. End quote. Now
• 22:59
  you know damn well this ain't for no player engagement
• 23:02
  event. Because any player can go to a strip club
• 23:05
  by themself. What does it look like when you
• 23:08
  go into the club? All right, ladies, we got Lloyd
• 23:11
  Howell and the NFLPA in the building. That's
• 23:13
  right. Show them a good time, not a long time.
• 23:16
  Give it up for Lloyd Howell and the NFLPA. We
• 23:19
  want to thank them for coming tonight to Tootsie's
• 23:22
  Cabaret. No, man, you can't do that. You just
• 23:26
  cannot do that. Listen, imagine you go to Tootsie's
• 23:30
  one night and you see half the league in there.
• 23:33
  On top of the NFL Players Association as well
• 23:36
  in there. Yo, it's going to be sick. Oh, my God.
• 23:42
  But it gets even worse. How instructed one of
• 23:46
  the employees that he tagged along with to file
• 23:48
  the expense reports. He was like, nah, bro, that
• 23:53
  can't show up on my financial reports. That got
• 23:56
  to show up on your financial reports. I only
• 23:58
  tagged along with you. I wasn't the one leading
• 24:01
  the charge. But then he also goes on to say this.
• 24:04
  An employee noted that on March 23rd, that report,
• 24:08
  $736 was the final amount that he was charged
• 24:14
  to close the tab for both secluded sections for
• 24:20
  our player members. This included food, alcohol
• 24:24
  and drinks, fees, taxes, and gratuity. So you
• 24:28
  was probably getting some wings, had a nice little
• 24:30
  drink with you. You know, your favorite stripper
• 24:33
  is dancing to your favorite song in the VIP room.
• 24:35
  Probably telling them your life story, what's
• 24:37
  going on at home with your wife and kids and
• 24:39
  whatnot. Probably telling them what's going on
• 24:41
  at work and everything. Oh my God, this is hilarious.
• 24:46
  Give it up for Lloyd. Lloyd Howes in the building.
• 24:49
  Lloyd Howes in the building. Lloyd Howes in the
• 24:51
  building, ladies. That's right. Show him a good
• 24:53
  time and not a long time. I just have one question.
• 24:57
  Did Loyal Howell get the Lou Williams special?
• 25:02
  Imagine you and your boys on a Friday night.
• 25:04
  Y 'all say, you know what? Let's go to Magic
• 25:05
  City, man. You guys go to Magic City, you know.
• 25:09
  It's some beautiful women around you and everything.
• 25:12
  It's a good time. Good vibes. Good energy and
• 25:14
  whatnot. Next thing you know, you see about five
• 25:18
  or six people in suits. And you see one dude,
• 25:21
  a bald -headed dude with some glasses. And one
• 25:25
  of your friends is like, wait a minute. Ain't
• 25:27
  that Lloyd Howell? Yeah, that is Lloyd Howell.
• 25:31
  That's Lloyd Howell from the NFL Players Association.
• 25:34
  Oh, wait, he's going to the VIP room. Yo, your
• 25:37
  mind's going to be blown. What is this? This
• 25:40
  is like a soap opera, but on steroids. Like,
• 25:46
  imagine this. This is the Days of Our Lives NFL
• 25:49
  PA Edition starring Lloyd Howell Jr. of the NFL
• 25:53
  Players Association featuring... J .C. Treader.
• 25:57
  Like, what are we? This is hilarious. Listen,
• 26:00
  if y 'all don't think it's funny, that's perfectly
• 26:02
  fine. I don't care, but this is hilarious, okay?
• 26:04
  Now, let's get into something a little bit more
• 26:07
  serious. I know we're going to have to talk about
• 26:09
  politics for just a little bit. Once we talk
• 26:11
  about politics, then we can move forward and
• 26:13
  talk about everything else, okay? I know. Everybody
• 26:15
  doesn't want to talk about it. You could skip
• 26:17
  this part. It's perfectly fine. I'm not going
• 26:18
  to blame you for it. So let's just get into it.
• 26:20
  Let's get it over with. So the president released
• 26:22
  this statement on his platform, and I quote,
• 26:25
  The Washington whatever's should immediately
• 26:27
  change their name back to the Washington Redskins
• 26:29
  football team. There is a big clamoring for this.
• 26:32
  Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six
• 26:34
  original baseball teams with a storied past,
• 26:36
  our great Indian people in massive numbers want
• 26:39
  this to happen. This is what he said. It's not
• 26:41
  what I said. Their heritage and prestige is systematically
• 26:44
  being taken away from them. Times are different
• 26:47
  now than they were three or four years ago. We
• 26:49
  are a country of passion and common sense. Owners,
• 26:52
  get it done. But then he backtracks what he said,
• 26:55
  and then he says this. My statement on the Washington
• 26:57
  Redskins has totally blown up, but only in a
• 27:00
  very positive way. I may put a restriction on
• 27:02
  them that if they don't change the name back
• 27:04
  to the original Washington Redskins and get rid
• 27:06
  of this ridiculous moniker, Washington Commanders,
• 27:09
  I won't make a deal for them to build a stadium
• 27:11
  in Washington. The team would be so much more
• 27:14
  valuable, and the deal would be more exciting
• 27:16
  for everyone. Cleveland should do the same with
• 27:18
  the Cleveland Indians. The owner of the Cleveland
• 27:21
  baseball team, Matt Dolan, who is very political,
• 27:23
  has lost three elections in a row because of
• 27:25
  that ridiculous name change. What he doesn't
• 27:28
  understand is that if he changed the name back
• 27:30
  to the Cleveland Indians, he might actually win
• 27:33
  an election. Indians are being treated very unfairly.
• 27:36
  Make Indians great again. Before we get into
• 27:39
  how I feel about this, let's get into everything
• 27:42
  else that comes with this, alright? So this is
• 27:44
  what Jacqueline D. Leon, senior staff attorney
• 27:47
  for the Native American Rights Fund, had to say
• 27:49
  about this, and I quote, No Native American child
• 27:52
  should have to sit through a pep rally or in
• 27:54
  a stadium where the culture is being mocked,
• 27:56
  end quote. Now, Savannah Romero, a member of
• 27:59
  the Eastern Shusho Nation and co -founder and
• 28:02
  deputy director of the Black Liberation Indigenous
• 28:04
  Sovereignty Collective, had this to say, and
• 28:08
  I quote, we are language keepers land protectors
• 28:10
  survivors of attempted genocide and a part of
• 28:13
  sovereign nations to equate native people with
• 28:16
  their cartoonish mascots alongside animals is
• 28:19
  a gross and ongoing tactic of dehumanization
• 28:22
  end quote now this is what somebody else had
• 28:24
  to say this comes from beth wright a member of
• 28:28
  the pobello of lagana my apologies once if i'm
• 28:32
  butchering the name And I quote, Native people
• 28:35
  are still working to revitalize what the United
• 28:37
  States tried to erase. Native mascots work directly
• 28:41
  against these efforts by perpetuating false historical
• 28:45
  narratives about Native people and false depictions
• 28:48
  of who Native people are today, end quote. In
• 28:51
  2013, the Leadership Conference on Civil and
• 28:54
  Human Rights approved a resolution calling for
• 28:56
  the owners of the Washington Redskins at that
• 28:58
  time, Dan Schneider and company, to change its
• 29:01
  name. This resolution also called for the elimination
• 29:04
  of names and mascots that, and I quote, promote
• 29:08
  negative stereotypes and connotations or that
• 29:10
  trivialize Native American cultures, end quote.
• 29:13
  As a DMV native and somebody that experienced
• 29:16
  all of this, it was a lot of tension. You're
• 29:20
  talking about a lot of opinions and, you know,
• 29:23
  you had this side that said this and that side
• 29:25
  that said that. And it was a lot to take in at
• 29:28
  that time. It was a very sensitive topic. to
• 29:31
  talk about especially in public and um this is
• 29:34
  just my personal opinion you don't have to agree
• 29:37
  with it you don't have to like it you can skip
• 29:39
  this part if you want i have no problem with
• 29:41
  that keep the name where it is do not try to
• 29:46
  change it back to the redskins the redskins is
• 29:51
  a derogatory name to me i believe that it's a
• 29:55
  slur and it just has no need to be on a team
• 30:00
  this team within the last three years has undergone
• 30:04
  a lot of change and um changing it back to the
• 30:08
  redskins would erase all the progress that they've
• 30:10
  made so far they are trying to erase dan schneider
• 30:15
  and the the cloud that was over this team for
• 30:18
  all of those years they're trying to remove that
• 30:21
  and by going backwards and changing it back to
• 30:24
  their original name it's not worth it From a
• 30:28
  public standpoint, it's not worth from a financial
• 30:30
  standpoint. It's not worth it in any way that
• 30:33
  you look at this. There were even times where
• 30:36
  commentators who were covering any game that
• 30:40
  the Washington football team was, you know, was
• 30:43
  playing. They would not say Redskin. They would
• 30:46
  just say the Washington team or they would just
• 30:48
  say Washington because of just because of how
• 30:52
  it sounded. And just everything that was tied
• 30:55
  to it. If you don't know what a red skin is,
• 30:58
  you go look it up and you do the research yourself.
• 31:01
  Because this is just something that you just
• 31:04
  can't do no more. And I understand, you know,
• 31:07
  a lot of people say, well, society now is too
• 31:10
  woke and everybody's too sensitive and it's always
• 31:13
  this and it's always that. It's changed this
• 31:15
  and changed that. Okay, fine. That's your opinion.
• 31:18
  I have no problem with that, okay? But when it
• 31:20
  comes to depiction of people, black and brown
• 31:22
  people, That's where we draw a line. For the
• 31:25
  longest time, we have seen a lot of teams, either
• 31:29
  intentionally or unintentionally, use Native
• 31:32
  Americans, Black people, and other indigenous
• 31:35
  people in a cartoonish and degrateful type of
• 31:39
  way. And by doing so, you now are in a place
• 31:44
  in society where people can now project how they
• 31:47
  feel about this. It's no longer just a small
• 31:51
  little rally in front of the stadium and then,
• 31:53
  you know, it just dissipates and whatnot. No,
• 31:55
  you have social media. You have the Internet.
• 31:58
  Now you have various organizations that now have
• 32:00
  influence and now have connections with people
• 32:03
  who have influence that can project how they
• 32:06
  feel about these things. But now that we've talked
• 32:08
  about this, let's get into the opinion of what
• 32:11
  said person said on what should happen. Respectfully,
• 32:15
  Mr. President, stay out of this. You have far
• 32:18
  more pressing things to worry about and far more
• 32:21
  pressing things that you need to address than
• 32:25
  the name of a football team and the name of a
• 32:29
  baseball team. Even though we don't talk about
• 32:30
  baseball, we still have to add them in as well.
• 32:33
  People are fine with where both teams' names
• 32:36
  are and their logos and merch and everything
• 32:40
  else. So why would you want them to go backwards?
• 32:45
  and to erode all the progress that they've made
• 32:48
  so far and then for you to say hey if you guys
• 32:52
  don't appease me i'm going to personally intervene
• 32:57
  with this deal and make sure that it doesn't
• 33:00
  happen and we have seen the same tactic time
• 33:04
  again during this administration this bullying
• 33:08
  tactic to say hey we are going to strong -arm
• 33:11
  you to appease us And it's time out for it. Josh
• 33:16
  Harris, if I were you, I would not appease to
• 33:20
  this. I would not think about this. I would even
• 33:22
  get an inkling of possibly changing the name.
• 33:26
  You have made so much progress in such a small
• 33:30
  amount of time. Do not erode that to appease
• 33:33
  a person who is only focused on what benefits
• 33:38
  him in his pockets. but instead continuing to
• 33:42
  grow this team and to regain the trust and the
• 33:46
  love that this fan base has been looking to give
• 33:49
  back to this team for the past 20 -something
• 33:51
  years. Now, I will say this, and I've been thinking
• 33:56
  about this and I thought about this prior to
• 33:58
  me recording. If you are the Native American
• 34:01
  community as a whole, not just one specific tribe,
• 34:05
  but as a whole, I think you could possibly be
• 34:08
  open to the idea of possibly reopening that door
• 34:14
  only, and I mean only, if they follow your parameters.
• 34:20
  And I feel like personally, I think the main
• 34:23
  parameters that could possibly work is that one,
• 34:27
  the Native American people as a whole come together
• 34:31
  and they create their own logo that the team
• 34:35
  will use to represent them. No longer would you
• 34:39
  use the chief. And if they do choose the old
• 34:42
  logo, let them make that decision. Not people
• 34:46
  who are not from the Native American community.
• 34:50
  As well as a percentage of revenue that comes
• 34:55
  from the team should go directly to the Native
• 34:58
  Americans. Every single tribe should get a piece
• 35:02
  of that revenue. Every t -shirt, every hat, every
• 35:07
  hoodie, every coffee mug, every ticket, every
• 35:10
  TV deal, a portion of that should go back to
• 35:13
  the Native American community as a way of saying,
• 35:16
  you know what, we appreciate you for allowing
• 35:19
  us to represent you guys. That is the only way
• 35:23
  that this could work. And another thing, for
• 35:26
  you to say that you would personally intervene
• 35:28
  with this, It's just childish. It's just a bullying
• 35:33
  tactic. But I will say this. If your delivery
• 35:36
  was better, instead of saying, if you don't do
• 35:39
  this, then I'm going to do this. Instead of saying,
• 35:42
  hey, let me be the neutral party. Let's come
• 35:47
  together. Let's put our heads together. Let's
• 35:49
  find some common ground and let's get some resolution
• 35:52
  with this matter. Because I do believe that the
• 35:55
  commanders will go back to Washington. The problem
• 35:58
  is there's a lot of red tape when it comes to
• 36:01
  the stadium and the process of building the stadium
• 36:03
  and everything that comes with it. And I can
• 36:05
  only say this because I live in the area and
• 36:08
  I've been tracking this story this entire time.
• 36:11
  It's been a very red tape type of issue because
• 36:15
  there was a period in time where there was just
• 36:18
  going to be negotiations between the DC government
• 36:20
  and the commanders. But now that time is up.
• 36:24
  Now, Maryland and Virginia, as well as D .C.,
• 36:27
  can all be involved in negotiations with the
• 36:30
  commanders. And all three of the regions are
• 36:33
  trying to find a way to bring the commanders
• 36:36
  to their respective areas. And so here's the
• 36:40
  part where things get a little bit weird. OK.
• 36:44
  The D .C. government, it's a little bit confusing
• 36:48
  because you have some people that say, oh, yes,
• 36:51
  I've talked to this person with the commanders.
• 36:53
  I've talked to that person with that commanders.
• 36:55
  Then you have, you know, the mayor that says
• 36:57
  I have you know, I've had communications with
• 36:59
  this person, that person. It's a lot of. miscommunication
• 37:03
  and a lot of backbiting and a lot of, you know,
• 37:06
  he said, she said, I'm going to go behind you
• 37:09
  and talk to this person. I'm going to go behind
• 37:11
  you and have this secret lunch meeting or whatever.
• 37:14
  It's a lot of that. Just get this thing done
• 37:17
  so we can just move forward. Because right now,
• 37:21
  the longer that this draws out, the better the
• 37:24
  chance that Maryland or Virginia could possibly
• 37:28
  have a chance. to bring the commanders to their
• 37:31
  respective areas. And I just don't think that's
• 37:34
  possible. Even now, where the commanders are,
• 37:37
  you can't say the Washington commanders, because
• 37:40
  why? Technically speaking, the stadium is not
• 37:43
  located in D .C. It's not even near D .C. It
• 37:47
  technically is in Maryland. So I don't know what
• 37:50
  they have to do to get this done, but please,
• 37:54
  for the love of God, please get this done. And
• 37:57
  please do not change the name under any circumstance.
• 38:00
  I don't care what type of tactics he used, what
• 38:04
  type of threats that he throws at the ownership
• 38:07
  of the commanders. Do not give in. Stay true.
• 38:10
  Stay firm. They will forever be the Washington
• 38:13
  Commanders. Granted, I understand that the legacy
• 38:15
  of this team is tied to the Redskins and whatnot,
• 38:18
  but sometimes you just need a breath of fresh
• 38:21
  air. And that's what the commanders bring. Now
• 38:24
  that we're done with the politics. Let's go back
• 38:27
  to football, please, because I am so uncomfortable
• 38:29
  with this. OK, you guys don't realize how much
• 38:32
  I don't like talking about politics, especially
• 38:34
  on a public platform. I do not like talking about
• 38:37
  politics. I try to stay away from politics as
• 38:40
  best as I possibly can. But any time that it
• 38:43
  ties into football, I try to be. as lenient as
• 38:46
  I possibly can. And I try not to, you know, be
• 38:50
  radical or too conservative or be offensive to
• 38:54
  any sides. No, I just want to try to be as neutral
• 38:56
  as I possibly can when it comes to any of these
• 38:59
  types of topics, especially for something like
• 39:02
  this. Let's get into something more important,
• 39:05
  and that is second round picks getting fully
• 39:07
  guaranteed contracts. Pardon the interruption,
• 39:09
  but this is your GM, your bag road dominance
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• 40:32
  Now back to the good stuff. So for the past few
• 40:35
  days, prior to a majority of teams reporting
• 40:37
  to training camp, we saw an influx of second
• 40:40
  round picks getting signed. So some of them got
• 40:43
  fully guaranteed, some of them didn't get fully
• 40:45
  guaranteed, some of them got... a little bit
• 40:47
  more guarantees towards their third and fourth
• 40:49
  year of the contract. It all depends, but we're
• 40:52
  going to go over all of them. All right, so let's
• 40:55
  just start. So Alfred Collins with the 49ers,
• 40:57
  he inked a four -year $10 .3 million deal with
• 41:00
  over $9 million in guarantees. Donovan Izaraku
• 41:03
  for the Cowboys, he got $8 .1 million guarantee.
• 41:07
  JT Tumalau for the Colts, it was only just reported
• 41:11
  as a four -year deal. They really didn't get
• 41:13
  into the... to the numbers and whatnot. Terrence
• 41:16
  Ferguson, 8 .5 million guarantees. Will Johnson,
• 41:19
  there's nothing to report with that. Only thing
• 41:22
  that they said was this four -year deal, of course.
• 41:25
  Ariante Ursery for the Texans, four years, $9
• 41:28
  .2 million deal. Karshing Springer, of course,
• 41:31
  we already know, fully guaranteed. Jaden Higgins,
• 41:34
  we already know, fully guaranteed. Nick Imanwari
• 41:36
  for the Seahawks, fully guaranteed. Quinshawn
• 41:39
  Junkins right now, he's unsigned because he was
• 41:42
  arrested on a domestic violence charge on July
• 41:44
  12th. Jonah Savania for the Dolphins. My bad
• 41:52
  if I butchered your last name, bro. 100 % guaranteed.
• 41:58
  Travion Henderson, I don't see it, but I think
• 42:01
  it is guaranteed as well. Luther Burden, just
• 42:04
  a generic rookie deal. Tyler Shuck, fully guaranteed.
• 42:09
  TJ Sanders. He inked a four -year $10 .6 million
• 42:12
  deal with $10 million guaranteed. Mason Taylor,
• 42:16
  91 .3 % guaranteed. Demetrius Knight, 80 % guaranteed.
• 42:22
  Let's see, Elijah Arroyo, $6 .8 million guaranteed.
• 42:27
  Nick Scorton, just a four -year deal. That's
• 42:29
  the only thing that they report. Uluwafami, Oladijo
• 42:34
  for the Titans. Just the first three years guaranteed.
• 42:38
  Benjamin Morrison, 96 % guaranteed in the third
• 42:41
  year. Anthony Belton, all this is is sign a rookie
• 42:44
  contract. Trey Harris, he just agreed to the
• 42:48
  deal. I know this is weird. Ozzy, triple O for
• 42:52
  the Bears. The first two years are fully guaranteed,
• 42:55
  with the third year only guaranteed at 72%. Tate
• 42:59
  Rattles, he's just agreed to the deal. Jack Besch,
• 43:02
  the details are pending. Same thing with Mike
• 43:04
  Green. R .J. Harvey for the Broncos. The first
• 43:07
  two years are fully guaranteed, and the third
• 43:08
  year is only guaranteed 47 .7%. Trey Amos, he
• 43:13
  only agreed to the deal. Same thing with Samar
• 43:15
  Turner. Omar Norman Lott, same thing, just signed
• 43:20
  his rookie deal. Andrew Makuba. 7 .1 million
• 43:23
  guaranteed. So you saw more teams actually just
• 43:27
  guaranteeing a percentage of that third or fourth
• 43:30
  year. And of course, you saw a few teams that
• 43:32
  just said, you know what, screw it, we'll just
• 43:34
  give you a fully guaranteed deal. But I think
• 43:36
  with all this being said and done, I think the
• 43:39
  number one question that needs to be asked is,
• 43:41
  will second round picks moving forward ask for
• 43:44
  fully guaranteed contracts? Because we all know
• 43:47
  that first rounders, their contract is guaranteed.
• 43:51
  So I wonder with Jaden Higgins and Carson Swearinger
• 43:55
  and Nicky Manwari and a few others getting fully
• 43:57
  guaranteed contracts, will that now have a ripple
• 44:00
  effect on next year's draft and moving forward?
• 44:03
  Will that also affect possibly, you know, third
• 44:06
  round picks, maybe fourth round picks moving
• 44:08
  forward? I would not be surprised if next year
• 44:12
  during the NFL players meeting, they probably
• 44:15
  say, you know what, we're going to find a way
• 44:17
  to make sure that second round picks don't get
• 44:19
  fully guaranteed deals and whatnot. But this
• 44:22
  was expected. We know specifically with this
• 44:25
  draft, more teams were interested in the second
• 44:28
  and third round. than actually the first round.
• 44:32
  And a lot of the people who were slated to be
• 44:34
  first round picks actually fell into the second.
• 44:37
  And that's why you saw such an influx of people
• 44:39
  just flying off the board so quickly. But this
• 44:42
  is something I'm definitely keeping an eye on
• 44:44
  moving forward because I know this is gonna have
• 44:46
  future ramifications. But let's get into gut
• 44:48
  check time, all right, folks? I know this is
• 44:50
  the part that everybody has been waiting for.
• 44:52
  So let's do it, all right? AFC South, you already
• 44:55
  know Colts, Jaguars. Texans and Titans, all right?
• 44:59
  So let's start with the Colts. The positional
• 45:01
  battles that I'm watching out right now, quarterback,
• 45:04
  right tackle, wide receiver, defensive end, and
• 45:06
  back up running back, all right? Players that
• 45:09
  I'm keeping an eye on, Anthony Richardson, Alec
• 45:11
  Pierce, Adani Mitchell, DJ Giddens, Latu Latu,
• 45:14
  Khalil Herbert, and Bernard Raymond, all right?
• 45:17
  So the storyline for the Colts is, who will be
• 45:20
  the starting quarterback for the Colts this year?
• 45:22
  Because right now, Anthony Richardson and Daniel
• 45:24
  Jones have a clean slate. Nobody has an advantage
• 45:27
  over the other. And right now, Anthony Richardson
• 45:30
  has to prove that he is the franchise quarterback
• 45:33
  for the Colts. Because right now, I wouldn't
• 45:36
  be surprised if they're already having meetings
• 45:38
  on possibly scouting for next year's quarterback.
• 45:41
  Because right now, Anthony Richardson has not
• 45:43
  shown anything. He hasn't even shown that he
• 45:46
  can play an entire season so far. Now for Daniel
• 45:50
  Jones, it's a little bit more complicated with
• 45:52
  his. We know the Giants let go of him because
• 45:55
  he wasn't living up to the expectations of that
• 45:57
  contract. And then he jumps on the way with the
• 45:59
  Vikings. He's the backup for the Vikings and
• 46:01
  he doesn't play for them. And then, you know,
• 46:03
  he's looking for another team. And so here we
• 46:05
  are. But right now, both quarterbacks have to
• 46:09
  have spectacular training camps. Because if neither
• 46:13
  one of them show anything, oh, they're gone.
• 46:16
  And it doesn't help that next year's draft class
• 46:19
  is supposed to be really good at quarterback.
• 46:21
  I mean, come on. And I know I haven't talked
• 46:23
  about it. I know I have to talk about it. But,
• 46:25
  I mean, you're going to have Drew Adler, Carson
• 46:27
  Beck, Lenore Sellers, Fernando Mendoza. Who else?
• 46:31
  I could probably name about maybe three or four
• 46:33
  other quarterbacks except for Archie Manning
• 46:35
  because Archie Manning is not going to be in
• 46:36
  next year's draft class. You heard it here first
• 46:38
  in the Football Junkies podcast. I believe it
• 46:40
  and I know it, okay? But let's get back to the
• 46:42
  Colts. The Colts should be one of the few teams
• 46:45
  that we should be talking about well into the
• 46:47
  playoffs. But what is the number one thing that
• 46:50
  has kept them from taking things to the next
• 46:52
  level? Bad and inconsistent quarterback play.
• 46:56
  And so right now, if you're Anthony Richardson,
• 46:58
  you have something to prove. If you're Daniel
• 47:01
  Jones, you have something to prove. So both of
• 47:05
  you guys are going to have to hash this thing
• 47:07
  out from the start of training camp all the way
• 47:09
  to the last preseason game. You guys are on a
• 47:14
  thin, and I mean the thinnest string that you
• 47:17
  could possibly think of right now. So with A
• 47:19
  .D. Mitchell, I want to see more from him. I
• 47:22
  want to see, can he be a more effective wide
• 47:24
  receiver? Because he has all the talent to be
• 47:27
  a really good receiver. The question is, can
• 47:30
  he put it together? And granted, I understand,
• 47:33
  you know, when you don't have a really good quarterback,
• 47:35
  sometimes that can, you know, diminish your stats
• 47:38
  and how effective you are on the field. I get
• 47:40
  all of that. But still, you want to see more
• 47:43
  from A .D. Mitchell. Same thing with Alec Pierce.
• 47:47
  Is there another level to his game? And if so,
• 47:50
  can it be achieved? Because right now, if Anthony
• 47:54
  Bridgeson and Daniel Jones play at an average
• 47:56
  to above average quarterback play, who's really
• 47:59
  complaining? Because everything else is already
• 48:02
  in place. You made an investment in getting Tyler
• 48:04
  Warren. You have Mo Alleycox. You have Jonathan
• 48:07
  Taylor. You have A .D. Mitchell. You have Michael
• 48:09
  Pittman Jr. You have a really good offense. Everything
• 48:12
  has to come together. And people's game has to
• 48:15
  be elevated even more. Same thing with the backup
• 48:19
  running back position. Will it be D .J. Giddens
• 48:22
  or will it be Khalil Herbert? Because me personally,
• 48:25
  I think that is another sleeper of a position
• 48:28
  that needs to be talked about just because we
• 48:30
  all know that Jonathan Taylor is probably going
• 48:32
  to miss, you know, two to maybe three games during
• 48:34
  the season. And that's perfectly fine. But you
• 48:36
  want to make sure that you have a backup running
• 48:38
  back that is just as effective and consistent
• 48:40
  as your primary back. And when we look at right
• 48:43
  tackle, Bernard Raymond, I wouldn't say he's
• 48:46
  on the hot seat. But I want to see, can his game
• 48:49
  be elevated? It's the same thing that I'm saying
• 48:52
  with all the other offensive players. Can your
• 48:54
  game be elevated, all right? I understand that
• 48:56
  they lost Braden Smith via free agency, but I
• 48:59
  still believe that this is still a really good
• 49:02
  offensive line. And let's shift over things to
• 49:04
  the defense, all right? Latu, Latu, you got to
• 49:07
  show something, bro. Because they made an investment
• 49:10
  in the second round, I think it was. Yeah, in
• 49:13
  the second round with getting JT to him a lot.
• 49:15
  So, I mean, come on. You got to show something.
• 49:18
  Now, I'm not saying you got to put up, you know,
• 49:20
  12 or 13 sacks, but I think between 8 to 10 sacks,
• 49:24
  I think that would actually be really good. Now,
• 49:26
  when we look at possible free agency additions,
• 49:27
  if they want to take that route, especially for
• 49:30
  running back, I mean, you have Jamal Williams,
• 49:31
  Gus Edwards, Jeff Wilson, Amir Abdullah, Chase
• 49:34
  Edmonds, Ernest Johnson, Jermichael Hastie. If
• 49:37
  you want to go with the defensive end free agency
• 49:39
  route, you can go with Jadavion Clowney, Demarcus
• 49:42
  Walker, Montrevis Adams, Jerry Hughes. If you
• 49:46
  want to do tackle, all right, you have George
• 49:48
  Fant, Andreas Peet, Isaiah Wynn, Chris Hubbard,
• 49:51
  even though the tackle free agency crop right
• 49:53
  now really isn't the best. But if you want to
• 49:56
  take those routes, they are readily available.
• 49:58
  Let's go to the Jaguars, right? Positional battles
• 50:00
  to watch out for. Running back, right tackle,
• 50:03
  safety. So the players I'm keeping an eye out
• 50:05
  for are Eric Mary, Andrew Wingard, Anton Harrison,
• 50:09
  and Travis Etienne. Now the storyline for the
• 50:11
  Jaguars is, can Liam Cohen improve this offense?
• 50:15
  And the reason why I say that is because we all
• 50:17
  saw how that Buccaneers offense was last season.
• 50:19
  It was effective, it was consistent, and it was
• 50:21
  putting points on the board. So if you're the
• 50:24
  Jaguars, you want at least half of that. Now
• 50:27
  am I saying, are you going to get all of it?
• 50:29
  No, because you don't have the same type of players
• 50:32
  that the Buccaneers have. But if you can at least
• 50:35
  get a fraction of that, I think that would be
• 50:38
  great. I think that would let people know like,
• 50:40
  hey, we are heading in the right direction and
• 50:43
  all the investments that we have made so far,
• 50:45
  they're working. But if this offense can't take
• 50:49
  another step in the right direction, there's
• 50:51
  gonna be some serious questions that are gonna
• 50:53
  have to be asked once this season is over with.
• 50:55
  The reason why I listed both safeties for players
• 50:58
  to watch out for is because one of them is not
• 51:01
  gonna be on this team because remember, the Jaguars
• 51:03
  drafted the safety. fairly high in this past
• 51:06
  draft. So either Andrew Wingard is going to get
• 51:10
  cut or Eric Mary. Now with Anton Harrison, I
• 51:13
  want to see if he can continue to grow because
• 51:16
  right now he hasn't played his best ball and
• 51:19
  I want to see if he can at least show like, hey,
• 51:22
  I am that guy. I am your franchise right tackle
• 51:25
  because right now Liam Cohen has already put
• 51:28
  him on notice. Like, hey, listen, if you're not
• 51:32
  showing anything, we're going to move off of
• 51:33
  you. So, if I'm Anton Harrison, I got to ball
• 51:37
  out. Now, for Travis Etienne, that's a little
• 51:39
  bit of a weird situation, and I'll explain why.
• 51:43
  Because we all saw that they declined his fifth
• 51:45
  -year option, so everyone's thinking, oh, okay,
• 51:47
  they're going to trade Travis Etienne. So far,
• 51:49
  they haven't. And so far, he's now taking a back
• 51:53
  step when it comes to the roster and getting
• 51:56
  the snaps and just being on the field. Because
• 51:58
  now Tank Bixby is now the starting running back
• 52:01
  for this team. And so right now, if you're Travis
• 52:04
  Etienne, do you want to force a trade? Do you
• 52:07
  want to go in a different direction? Do you want
• 52:09
  to stay with the Jaguars? Me personally, I wouldn't.
• 52:13
  Because you guys clearly have shown that you
• 52:15
  guys don't value me as a player. So I might as
• 52:18
  well just want to go somewhere else. Now, when
• 52:21
  we look at possible free agency additions, if
• 52:23
  they want to take that route, of course, with
• 52:24
  the running back, as I've already said, Jamal
• 52:26
  Williams, Gus Edwards, Jeff Wilson, Naheem Hines,
• 52:29
  Amir Abdullah, Chase Edmonds, Dernish Johnson.
• 52:31
  Actually, no, scratch that. Naheem Hines actually
• 52:34
  signed with the Chargers. I remember that. When
• 52:36
  we look at safety, however, if they want to take
• 52:38
  a veteran approach, you have Marcus Williams,
• 52:41
  Justin Simmons, Jordan Whitehead, Quandre Diggs,
• 52:44
  and Chuck Clark. Tackle. If you want to bring
• 52:47
  in competition for Anton Harrison, you know,
• 52:49
  you can bring in George Phan, Andreas Peet, Isaiah
• 52:51
  Wynn, Chris Hubbard, you know, somebody that
• 52:54
  they're not necessarily going to take his job,
• 52:56
  but they're definitely going to push him. But
• 52:59
  let's keep things going, all right? Let's talk
• 53:01
  about the Texans. So their positional battles,
• 53:03
  tackle and wide receiver, all right? Players
• 53:05
  to keep an eye out for, Cam Robinson, Ariante
• 53:08
  Ursi, John Meche, and Xavier Hutchinson. Everyone's
• 53:12
  probably going to be wondering, why would you
• 53:13
  put the rookie that they just drafted on player
• 53:15
  to look out for? Because I want to see how he
• 53:18
  holds up against matchups between Daniil Hunter
• 53:21
  and Will Anderson. Now, I'm not saying they're
• 53:23
  going to get rid of him. No, of course not. But
• 53:25
  I just want to see where he is at this point,
• 53:28
  all right? Cam Robinson, yes, they did make a
• 53:30
  trade for him last season. Me, personally, I
• 53:34
  would have tried to get off of him, but... I
• 53:36
  guess I see the reason why you want to keep him,
• 53:39
  but I just want to see where he is at this point.
• 53:42
  Because right now, if you're the Texans, do you
• 53:46
  want to see how things go with Cam Robinson?
• 53:49
  Do you want to try to make another crazy move
• 53:51
  for a left tackle if someone becomes available?
• 53:54
  What exactly are you going to do moving forward
• 53:56
  to? address left tackle long -term. Because right
• 54:00
  now, I don't think Cam Robinson is the long -term
• 54:03
  option. I just think he's just a Band -Aid over
• 54:06
  a bullet wound. Yes, I know it's a weird monocle,
• 54:09
  but that's just how I view things. I know, it's
• 54:11
  weird. Don't worry about it. But when it comes
• 54:13
  to wide receiver, they have a lot of wide receivers,
• 54:16
  okay? You got Jaden Higgins, Tank Dell, John
• 54:18
  Mechie, Xavier Hutchison. I know I'm missing
• 54:21
  a few others. Who else? Evan Ingram. You have
• 54:25
  a lot of receivers. So somebody isn't going to
• 54:28
  make the team. Me personally, I think it's between
• 54:31
  John Mechie and Xavier Hutchinson. Now, John
• 54:34
  Mechie, you can give him a little bit of leeway
• 54:36
  because he was battling some type of disease
• 54:38
  and he wasn't able to play for a while. But since
• 54:41
  then, he really hasn't had a chance to really
• 54:43
  be on the field. So do you want to send him into
• 54:46
  a better opportunity where he could actually
• 54:49
  be effective on the field? Possibly. It's the
• 54:52
  same thing with Xavier Hutchinson. So right now,
• 54:54
  that entire wide receiver room is on notice.
• 54:57
  When we look at possible free agency additions,
• 55:00
  I mean, for tackle, you have George Fant, Andreas
• 55:01
  Peet, Isaiah Wynn, Chris Hubbard, if you want
• 55:03
  to bring in competition for both Cam Robinson
• 55:05
  and Ariante Ursery. For wide receiver, if you
• 55:09
  want to take that route, Keenan Allen, Amara
• 55:12
  Cooper, Gabe Davis, Nelson Aguilar, DJ Char,
• 55:14
  Tyler Boyd, Chris Conley, and Jamison Crowder.
• 55:17
  But the storyline for the Texans is, can this
• 55:20
  offense improve? And here's why. We all saw that
• 55:24
  this offense was just atrocious last year. From
• 55:27
  the offensive line being unable to protect C
• 55:29
  .J. Stroud to the run game being inconsistent,
• 55:32
  the offense just wasn't good at all. I want to
• 55:35
  see, can they rebound and actually improve? Because
• 55:38
  mind you, they made additions at wide receiver,
• 55:42
  but they also added Nick Chubb as well. So now
• 55:44
  you have a tandem of both Joe Mixon and Nick
• 55:47
  Chubb as well. And they made some investments
• 55:49
  into the offensive line. So I want to see can
• 55:52
  this offense become a little bit better than
• 55:55
  what it has been the last two years. Because
• 55:58
  we all know that if the run game was just a little
• 56:01
  bit better against the Chiefs in the playoffs,
• 56:03
  they could have won that game. The defense was
• 56:05
  keeping them in the game. It was just the offense
• 56:08
  was just so stagnant and it was so inconsistent
• 56:11
  that C .J. Stroud couldn't do anything. But only
• 56:15
  time will tell. Now, let's get to the Titans,
• 56:17
  all right? So, their positional battles. Guard,
• 56:20
  wide receiver, tight end, and left tackle. Players
• 56:23
  to keep an eye out for. Xavier Restrepo, Traylon
• 56:25
  Burks, Van Jefferson, Dan Moore, Peter Skowronski,
• 56:28
  and Chig Okonkwo. I think I butchered your last
• 56:32
  name. I didn't mean to do it, bro. Now, their
• 56:34
  storyline. Can this team improve? I understand
• 56:38
  that they just drafted Cam Ward. I understand
• 56:40
  that they still have a lot of rookies, especially
• 56:43
  on the offense. But can this offense improve?
• 56:46
  Peter Skowronski, you got to see more from him.
• 56:50
  Because right now, things are looking a little
• 56:53
  bit shaky, okay? Sure, they moved J .C. Latham
• 56:56
  back over to right tackle, if I'm not mistaken.
• 56:58
  Yes, they're moving back over to right tackle.
• 57:00
  Dan Moore's left tackle. I want to see, is Dan
• 57:04
  Moore going to live up to that contract? Because
• 57:06
  the Titans gave him a big payday. They paid him
• 57:09
  a lot of money. They paid him like he is an above
• 57:13
  average to possibly borderline elite left tackle.
• 57:17
  So let's see if he lives up to that deal. Wide
• 57:20
  receiver, Xavier Estrepo. Right now, you're on
• 57:24
  the outside looking in. But you have a chance
• 57:27
  to make this roster. Because the wide receiver
• 57:30
  room outside of Calvin Ridley isn't completely
• 57:33
  solidified. So you could do it. And mind you,
• 57:36
  you sort of have an advantage because you have
• 57:38
  chemistry with Cam Ward. Now, when we look at
• 57:42
  the tight end, however, I really don't know what
• 57:44
  to tell you at tight end. Now, me personally,
• 57:47
  I would try to make a move to get Noah Pham because
• 57:50
  right now that is probably the only viable option
• 57:53
  at tight end. I mean, sure, you could probably
• 57:56
  get Noah Phan, Gerald Everett, Mercedes Lewis,
• 57:59
  Jordan Aikens, or CJ Uzma, but I think Noah Phan
• 58:02
  has a little bit more upside with his game. Van
• 58:04
  Jefferson, I don't want to say he's on the outside
• 58:08
  looking in because I do think he'll make this
• 58:11
  roster, but I mean, it all depends on how well
• 58:15
  he plays. Traylon Burks, you're on the outside
• 58:17
  looking in. But I will say this, I wouldn't be
• 58:20
  surprised if the Titans make multiple moves to
• 58:23
  bring in wide receivers. I think they probably
• 58:25
  would make a move for someone like a John Mechie
• 58:28
  or Xavier Hutchinson or Don Sabian Wiggs or Romeo
• 58:33
  Dobbs if they become readily available. Because
• 58:36
  right now, outside of Calvin Ridley and Tony
• 58:40
  Pollard, What else do you really have? And this
• 58:43
  is no disrespect to any of the other offensive
• 58:45
  players on this team and whatnot, but for a rookie
• 58:50
  quarterback, you want to try to surround them
• 58:52
  with as much talent as you possibly can. Me,
• 58:56
  personally, I feel like they can make more of
• 58:58
  an investment into the offense because right
• 59:00
  now, this offense leading into week one of the
• 59:02
  regular season is not good enough. You need to
• 59:05
  at least make at least two, maybe three moves.
• 59:09
  just to upgrade it, just so it can be, I don't
• 59:11
  know, average to possibly above average. Just
• 59:14
  saying. Now, when we look at possible free agency
• 59:16
  additions, like I said before, with tight end,
• 59:19
  you have Noah Fant, Gerald Everett, Mercedes
• 59:21
  Lewis, Jordan Aiken, CJ Usma. You also have Noah
• 59:24
  Fant as well. Guard, you have Brandon Scherf
• 59:27
  if you want to bring in competition for Peter
• 59:29
  Skowronski, Shaq Mason, Will Hernandez, Joe Feliciano,
• 59:32
  Cody Whitehair, Dalton Reisner, Mark Glanowski.
• 59:36
  Wide receiver. I mean, sure, you have Tyler Lockett
• 59:40
  and you have Calvin Ridley and company. But if
• 59:42
  you want to take, you know, a free agency route,
• 59:45
  you can, you know, get Keenan Allen, Amar Cooper,
• 59:47
  Gabe Davis, Nelson Aguilar, DJ Chark, Tyler Boyd.
• 59:51
  If you want to bring him back, Chris Conley,
• 59:52
  Jamison Crowder. Tackle, you could bring in George
• 59:56
  Fant, Andreas Peet, Isaiah Wynn, Michael Dunlap,
• 59:59
  Raven Clark, Chris Hubbard, and Jermaine Effetti
• 1:00:01
  if you want to take that route. Just so you can
• 1:00:03
  have competition for both JC Latham and... Dan
• 1:00:07
  Moore as well, but also having a safety blanket
• 1:00:11
  just in case they get hurt or anything crazy
• 1:00:13
  happens. But I want to see, can this team improve?
• 1:00:17
  Because the defense have pieces. The offense
• 1:00:21
  has pieces. But the question is, can you put
• 1:00:25
  them together and can this be an effective team?
• 1:00:28
  Now, I'm not saying this team is going to win
• 1:00:29
  eight games or this team is going to win 10 games
• 1:00:32
  or go to the playoffs or whatnot. But I will
• 1:00:34
  say this. If this team wins at least five games
• 1:00:39
  and Cam Ward looks pretty good, I think you're
• 1:00:43
  in the right direction. But if this team struggles,
• 1:00:47
  we might have to have a conversation. Just saying.
• 1:00:50
  Now let's go to the NFC North. I mean, not North.
• 1:00:53
  South. I don't know why I'm thinking about the
• 1:00:55
  North. Saints, Falcons, Buccaneers, Panthers.
• 1:01:00
  This one is going to be a little bit controversial,
• 1:01:02
  but I really don't care. So let's start. So for
• 1:01:04
  the Saints, positional battles to watch out for,
• 1:01:06
  quarterback, left guard, safety, quarterback,
• 1:01:08
  and defensive line. Players to keep an eye out
• 1:01:10
  for, Tyler Shuggs, Spencer Rattler, Trevor Penning,
• 1:01:13
  Jordan Howden, Jonas Sanker, Alante Taylor, excuse
• 1:01:17
  me, Ugo Amadi, Brian Brees, David Gottschall,
• 1:01:21
  Nathan Shepard, and Vernon Broughton, all right?
• 1:01:24
  So the storyline for the Saints is, what's the
• 1:01:27
  identity of this team? granted I understand they've
• 1:01:30
  had a lot of change in this offseason you now
• 1:01:33
  have a new head coach a new regime so what is
• 1:01:35
  the identity of this team how is this team going
• 1:01:39
  to be better than it has been the last two years
• 1:01:41
  are they going to be more effective in the run
• 1:01:43
  game in the pass game a little bit of both what
• 1:01:46
  exactly is the identity of this team moving forward
• 1:01:49
  because right now if I'm Kellen Moore I would
• 1:01:52
  use this upcoming season as a measuring stick
• 1:01:54
  to see where the team is I want to see, hey,
• 1:01:58
  do we need to make significant upgrades in the
• 1:02:00
  draft next year and free agency? Are we good
• 1:02:03
  with what we have? What exactly do we need to
• 1:02:06
  do to make this team better within the next two
• 1:02:09
  to five years? Because right now, I mean, you
• 1:02:12
  have Chris Alave, you have Alvin Kamara, you
• 1:02:14
  have Ty Luis Figueroa. You have pieces on the
• 1:02:17
  offense. Same thing with the defense. But you
• 1:02:20
  want to make sure that this team is headed in
• 1:02:23
  the right direction under Kellen Moore. So let's
• 1:02:26
  get into quarterbacks, all right? So Tyler Shuck
• 1:02:28
  and Spencer Radler, both of them have a clean
• 1:02:30
  slate and neither one of them has an advantage
• 1:02:32
  over the other. So right now, I think my number
• 1:02:36
  one question for Kellen Moore would be, how long
• 1:02:39
  is it going to take for you to come to a decision
• 1:02:40
  on who's going to be the starting quarterback
• 1:02:42
  for this team? Are you going to wait all the
• 1:02:45
  way until the end of training camp? Or are you
• 1:02:47
  going to make a decision by the second or maybe
• 1:02:50
  last game of the preseason? Because right now,
• 1:02:54
  I think... I probably would want to roll with
• 1:02:56
  Spencer Rattler just because he showed a little
• 1:02:59
  bit last year. But again, I don't make those
• 1:03:02
  decisions. I'm not a part of the Saints, so I
• 1:03:04
  don't know anything. Trevor Penning, you got
• 1:03:07
  to show something because right now you have
• 1:03:09
  not lived up to that first round pick. They moved
• 1:03:11
  you at tackle. Now they're moving you at guard.
• 1:03:13
  You have to show something. I think if Trevor
• 1:03:16
  Penning shows that he is an average to possibly
• 1:03:19
  above average guard, I think he has a chance.
• 1:03:23
  But... If he doesn't show anything, if he doesn't
• 1:03:26
  show any growth, they're going to move off of
• 1:03:28
  him. Because again, you can get a guard anywhere.
• 1:03:31
  And not to mention, there are still some really
• 1:03:33
  good veteran guard options that are still available.
• 1:03:36
  Brandon Scherf, Shaq Mason, Will Hernandez, Cody
• 1:03:39
  Whitehair, Dalton Reisner, Mark Lanowski. If
• 1:03:41
  you want to take that route, you know. Jonas
• 1:03:43
  Sanker, Elante Taylor, excuse me. Ugo Amadi,
• 1:03:47
  Brian Brees, Davin Gottschall. I want to see
• 1:03:51
  more from you guys. I want to see exactly. Can
• 1:03:54
  you guys solidify your role within this team?
• 1:03:57
  Because if not, I think the Saints will have
• 1:04:00
  no problem making upgrades, especially for Brian
• 1:04:02
  Brees. I think I'm pronouncing your last name
• 1:04:08
  correct. Hopefully I am. But I want to see more
• 1:04:11
  from him. I want to see more from this defensive
• 1:04:14
  line. Can this defensive line... Be effective
• 1:04:17
  moving forward. Because last year, the defensive
• 1:04:19
  line wasn't the best. And granted, I understand
• 1:04:22
  you still have Cam Jordan and you have Chase
• 1:04:24
  Young as well. But outside of them, who else
• 1:04:26
  do you have? Everybody is under a microscope
• 1:04:30
  moving forward. Now, yes, I did put safety on
• 1:04:34
  here. And this was prior to the Julian Blackman
• 1:04:37
  signing. But I think now that Julian Blackman
• 1:04:39
  is a part of the Saints, we could actually just
• 1:04:41
  cut that out moving forward. Yeah, let's just
• 1:04:45
  get into the free agency additions, all right?
• 1:04:47
  So for guard, like I just said, you have Brandon
• 1:04:49
  Scherff, Shaq Mason, Will Hernandez, Cody White
• 1:04:52
  here. For cornerback, if you want to take that
• 1:04:54
  route, James Bradbury, Kendall Fuller, Stephon
• 1:04:57
  Gilmore, Rasul Douglas, Mike Hilton, CJ Henderson,
• 1:05:00
  Michael Davis, Asante Samuel Jr., which I think
• 1:05:02
  would actually be a really good move, and Emmanuel
• 1:05:05
  Mosley. Defensive line, if you want to take that
• 1:05:08
  route, you have Raekwon Davis, Demarcus Walker,
• 1:05:10
  Montrevious Adams, Jerry Hughes, Linval Joseph,
• 1:05:13
  Maurice Hurst. Quarterback, if you want to take
• 1:05:15
  that route, if you want to bring in a veteran
• 1:05:17
  quarterback, you have Carson Wentz, C .J. Beathard,
• 1:05:19
  and Teddy Bridgewater. So all in all, actually,
• 1:05:23
  you know what? I know there was a position that
• 1:05:25
  I was missing out on, cornerback. I want to see
• 1:05:27
  how these corners are going to look because outside
• 1:05:29
  Kool -Aid McKinsey, if I'm killing more, I possibly
• 1:05:32
  would want to make an upgrade at cornerback.
• 1:05:35
  Just saying. I mean, you have James Bradbury,
• 1:05:38
  Kendall Fuller, Stephon Gilmore, Rasul Douglas,
• 1:05:41
  Mike Hilton, CJ Henderson, Asante Samuel Jr.
• 1:05:43
  I think getting Asante Samuel Jr. and pairing
• 1:05:46
  him with Kool -Aid McKinstry, I think that would
• 1:05:49
  actually be really good. On top of that, you
• 1:05:51
  have Jordan Reed and you have Julian Blackman.
• 1:05:53
  I think that would be a really effective secondary.
• 1:05:57
  But again... I don't make these decisions, okay?
• 1:06:00
  And let's keep on going to the Falcons, all right?
• 1:06:03
  So outside linebacker, quarterback, safety, kicker,
• 1:06:06
  right tackle, nickel corner, end tight end are
• 1:06:09
  all the positions that I'm looking out for. So
• 1:06:11
  players I'm looking out for, Jordan Fuller, Kirk
• 1:06:14
  Cousins, Michael Penix, Young Ho Koo, Dee Alford,
• 1:06:17
  Clark Phillips III, Caleb McGarry, Kyle Pitts,
• 1:06:21
  and Leonard Floyd, all right? So their storyline.
• 1:06:24
  Can Michael Penix improve going into year two?
• 1:06:28
  Granted, we didn't see a whole lot from Michael
• 1:06:30
  Penix, but I want to know, can Michael Penix
• 1:06:33
  take that next step moving forward? Yes, I know
• 1:06:35
  I say it so much, but I hear it so much on different
• 1:06:38
  podcasts and whatnot. So I guess it's so ingrained
• 1:06:41
  with me. But yes, can Michael Penix take that
• 1:06:44
  next step moving forward? When we look at this
• 1:06:46
  Falcons team right now, this team just has to
• 1:06:50
  improve. And I'm not just saying a specific position.
• 1:06:54
  I'm not saying a specific side. But this team
• 1:06:57
  as a whole has to improve. This team has weapons.
• 1:07:02
  This team could be fairly competitive. Am I saying
• 1:07:06
  this team can win the division? No. Am I saying
• 1:07:09
  this team can make the playoffs? No. But what
• 1:07:11
  I am saying is this. You want to see some level
• 1:07:14
  of improvement from this team that makes you
• 1:07:16
  say, hey, we're heading in the right direction.
• 1:07:19
  We're doing everything that needs to be done.
• 1:07:22
  Now, when we look at players to look out for,
• 1:07:24
  Jordan Fuller, Kirk Cousins, me personally, I
• 1:07:29
  just want to see where Kirk Cousins is. Because
• 1:07:31
  right now, hey, there might be a team that say,
• 1:07:34
  hey, we'll trade you X amount of picks or player
• 1:07:38
  for Kirk Cousins. Because again, Kirk Cousins
• 1:07:41
  continues to show and say that he does not want
• 1:07:44
  to be a part of the Falcons because the Falcons
• 1:07:46
  did him wrong and all that stuff, yada, yada.
• 1:07:48
  No one cares about that, okay? If you want to
• 1:07:49
  hear about it, go on Netflix and watch the new
• 1:07:52
  quarterback series, okay? It's not a promotion
• 1:07:54
  for Netflix, but hey, Netflix, if you're hearing,
• 1:07:57
  if you want to sponsor me, I have no problem
• 1:07:59
  doing that, okay? We'll even put the Netflix
• 1:08:01
  intro, the little doo -doo, in the front of the
• 1:08:05
  Football Junkies podcast if you want to. It's
• 1:08:07
  no problem. But Jordan Fuller, I definitely want
• 1:08:10
  to see an improvement from you. Michael Penix,
• 1:08:12
  we already talked about. Young Hoku, you had
• 1:08:15
  a down year last year, but I believe that you
• 1:08:18
  can definitely rebound. We all know things happen
• 1:08:21
  in life. You could be going through something
• 1:08:23
  at home. You could be seriously injured and you're
• 1:08:26
  just trying to play through it. Different things
• 1:08:28
  can happen, so I have no problem giving Young
• 1:08:30
  Hoku a chance because he's been a really effective
• 1:08:34
  kicker for the past few years. Am I saying he's
• 1:08:36
  top five? No, but I think he's possibly maybe
• 1:08:38
  like top 10, maybe top 15 at best. Now, as far
• 1:08:42
  as nickel corner, I feel like that's open. I
• 1:08:45
  feel like that's anybody's job at this point.
• 1:08:47
  Do I think Clark Phillips could definitely take
• 1:08:49
  it? Yes. Do I think Jordan Fuller could take
• 1:08:51
  it? Yes, but only time will tell. Caleb McGarry.
• 1:08:55
  I want to see where he is, especially with the
• 1:08:58
  extension of the right tackle from the Packers,
• 1:09:03
  Zach Tom. I want to see exactly if he's on that
• 1:09:06
  level because if he is, Falcons, you're going
• 1:09:10
  to have to pay him that money. You're going to
• 1:09:12
  have to pay him some money. I'm not saying you
• 1:09:13
  have to reset the market for Caleb McGarry, but
• 1:09:16
  I do want to see where he is at this point and
• 1:09:19
  would it be best for the team to bring in competition
• 1:09:23
  just so they can see, hey. Is he the guy moving
• 1:09:26
  forward? Do we want to, you know, back him with
• 1:09:28
  money? Or do we want to move in a different direction,
• 1:09:32
  you know, after this upcoming season? But again,
• 1:09:35
  only time will tell. Kyle Pitts, you just got
• 1:09:38
  to show something just for other teams. Because
• 1:09:40
  all signs point that the Falcons are not going
• 1:09:42
  to give Kyle Pitts an extension. So if I'm Kyle
• 1:09:45
  Pitts, I'm bowling out in both training camp
• 1:09:48
  and in the preseason. But that's just me. Now,
• 1:09:51
  Leonard Floyd, I only put Leonard Floyd down
• 1:09:53
  just because they made significant investments
• 1:09:56
  in pass rush with drafting James Pierce and Mikel
• 1:10:01
  Williams. If they only drafted just one, I wouldn't
• 1:10:05
  put him on this list. But because they drafted
• 1:10:06
  two, it puts a little bit of pressure for Leonard
• 1:10:10
  Floyd. Now, am I saying that Leonard Floyd is
• 1:10:12
  going to get cut? No, I think his spot is safe.
• 1:10:17
  There is a chance that they may take some snaps
• 1:10:19
  from Leonard Floyd or they may have a different
• 1:10:22
  or they may move in a different direction concerning
• 1:10:25
  him moving forward. But when we look at possible
• 1:10:28
  free agency additions. For safety, I mean, you
• 1:10:31
  have Marcus Williams, Justin Simmons, if you
• 1:10:33
  want to take that route, which I don't think
• 1:10:34
  they want to take that route. Jordan Whitehead,
• 1:10:37
  Quandre Diggs, Chuck Clark. Tackle, if you want
• 1:10:40
  to bring in competition, you have George Fant,
• 1:10:42
  Andreas Peet, Isaiah Wynn, Michael Dunn, Raven
• 1:10:45
  Clark, Chris Hubbard, Jermaine Nefedi. Corner,
• 1:10:48
  if you want to take that route, you have... Mike
• 1:10:50
  Hilton, you have Asante Samuel Jr., you know,
• 1:10:53
  two really good nickel corners. I mean, you have
• 1:10:57
  Emmanuel Mosley as well. If you want to take
• 1:10:59
  that route, James Bradbury, Kendall Fuller, Stephon
• 1:11:01
  Gilmore, Rasul Douglas. If you want somebody
• 1:11:03
  that has a little bit more flexibility, if that
• 1:11:06
  makes sense. Kicker, you could bring in Nick
• 1:11:08
  Folk, Matt Prater, Eddie Panero, Michael Badley,
• 1:11:11
  Zane Gonzalez, Cade York, Austin Seibert. I think
• 1:11:17
  is your last name. Hopefully I didn't butcher
• 1:11:19
  your last name. My bad if I did. Tight end, you
• 1:11:22
  have Noah Phan, Gerald Everett, Mercedes Lewis,
• 1:11:24
  Jordan Akins, and C .J. Uzma or George Phan because
• 1:11:27
  he just became a free agent not too long ago.
• 1:11:30
  Outside linebacker, you have Matthew Judon, Preston
• 1:11:33
  Anzidarius Smith, Kaiser White, Duke Riley, Jalen
• 1:11:36
  Reeves, Maven, and Kamul Grazier -Hill. So you
• 1:11:41
  have options if you want to take that route.
• 1:11:43
  I'm not saying that you have to. But if you want
• 1:11:46
  to, those are your options. And let's keep things
• 1:11:50
  going. Let's go to the Panthers, all right? So
• 1:11:52
  their positional battles to watch out for, outside
• 1:11:54
  linebacker, wide receiver two, left tackle, center,
• 1:11:57
  and safety. So players to look out for. So you
• 1:12:00
  have Hunter Renfro. Yes, I know it's controversial,
• 1:12:02
  but I don't care. Jimmy Horn Jr., David Moore,
• 1:12:06
  Austin Corbett. You have Akeem Akwanu, just to
• 1:12:10
  name a few. With the names that I just listed,
• 1:12:14
  so especially for Hunter Renfro, right? You're
• 1:12:18
  just now coming back into the league. I want
• 1:12:21
  to see exactly where you are at this point in
• 1:12:23
  your career. Are you still the effective slot
• 1:12:27
  receiver that you were when you were with the
• 1:12:29
  Raiders? Or have you aged a little bit? Where
• 1:12:32
  is your game at right now? When we come to Jimmy
• 1:12:36
  Horn Jr., like he was bowling out in OTAs and
• 1:12:40
  in minicamp. So I want to see, is that going
• 1:12:43
  to continue moving into a training camp? You
• 1:12:46
  know, once you put on the pads and everything.
• 1:12:48
  Akeem Aquanu, I want to see exactly where you
• 1:12:50
  are. Because if I'm not mistaken, he's getting
• 1:12:53
  ready to come up for a contract, if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:12:57
  So I want to see where you are. Their center,
• 1:13:00
  Austin Corbett, I want to see where you are.
• 1:13:02
  There's a lot of players on this team that I
• 1:13:04
  want to see where they are at this point. Outside
• 1:13:07
  linebacker. Sure, they've made, you know, some
• 1:13:11
  investments. You know, they got Pat Jones and,
• 1:13:13
  you know, they drafted Prince Lee. Uman Milan,
• 1:13:18
  I think. No, I know. I just butchered your last
• 1:13:21
  name. Dog, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry if I butchered
• 1:13:24
  your last name. But, you know, the outside linebacker
• 1:13:27
  core, I want to see exactly where they are because
• 1:13:30
  I know they've made a lot of investments at that
• 1:13:33
  position specifically. So I just want to see,
• 1:13:36
  you know. where everybody is at this point, who's
• 1:13:39
  going to stand out, who's going to fall, all
• 1:13:41
  of that and more. But when we look at their storyline
• 1:13:45
  for this team, can Bryce Young take the next
• 1:13:49
  step? Last year was a rocky year for Bryce Young.
• 1:13:53
  There was a point where he got benched and then
• 1:13:55
  Andy Dalton came in. Then, you know, Andy Dalton
• 1:13:58
  wasn't playing his best ball. Then he got hurt,
• 1:14:00
  I think, in a car accident or something. Then
• 1:14:01
  so Bryce Young came in and then Bryce Young sort
• 1:14:04
  of like went on this, you know, really good run.
• 1:14:07
  He was playing really good. So I want to see
• 1:14:09
  is that momentum going to carry on into this
• 1:14:12
  season? Because right now, Bryce Young has to
• 1:14:15
  live up to that number one overall pick. Now,
• 1:14:18
  am I saying that he has to be an elite quarterback?
• 1:14:21
  No. But I think if he's a top 10, possibly top
• 1:14:24
  15 quarterback, I don't think nobody's really
• 1:14:26
  complaining. Now, me personally, I think the
• 1:14:30
  number one knock for the Panthers this offseason
• 1:14:32
  was, I feel like, personally, they didn't make
• 1:14:35
  as many investments into the offense as they
• 1:14:37
  did into the defense. They made a lot of moves
• 1:14:40
  defensively. But offensively, I'm just like,
• 1:14:43
  yo, where's the moves at? Granted, they drafted
• 1:14:45
  Tetrell McMillan, but I wanted them to try to
• 1:14:48
  make more upgrades from an offensive standpoint.
• 1:14:52
  I know I was forgetting something when it came
• 1:14:53
  to safety. Nick Scott and Damani Richardson and
• 1:14:58
  Latham Ransom. I want to see where, you know,
• 1:15:01
  where were they at as well? Because Trevon Morig,
• 1:15:03
  his spot is solidified, okay? He's a free agent
• 1:15:06
  signing, so he's good. But everybody else, I'm
• 1:15:10
  not saying that you're on the hot seat, but you
• 1:15:13
  sort of got to do a little bit more extra just
• 1:15:15
  so you can, you know, solidify your spot on this
• 1:15:18
  roster. Going back to the storyline and everything,
• 1:15:22
  I want to see where Bryce Young is. If he's the
• 1:15:27
  second or possibly third best quarterback in
• 1:15:29
  that division, that's a start. But if he's actually
• 1:15:33
  regressed instead of progressed, now we have
• 1:15:36
  a problem. But when we look at possible free
• 1:15:40
  agency additions, if they want to take that route,
• 1:15:43
  especially for outside linebacker, you have Matthew
• 1:15:45
  Judon, you have Preston Anzadarius -Smith, you
• 1:15:48
  have Kaiser White, Duke Riley, Jalen Reeves -Maben,
• 1:15:51
  you have Kamu Greger -Hill. Wide receiver, if
• 1:15:54
  you want to take that route, you have Keenan
• 1:15:56
  Allen, Amar Cooper, Gabe Davis, Nelson Aguilar,
• 1:15:59
  DJ Chark, Tyler Boyd, Chris Conley, Jameson Crowder.
• 1:16:02
  Safety, if you want to take that route, you have
• 1:16:04
  Marcus Williams, Justin Simmons, Jordan Whitehead.
• 1:16:07
  Quandre Diggs, and Chuck Clark. Now for tackle,
• 1:16:10
  if you want to bring in competition for Akeem
• 1:16:13
  Akwanu, you have George Fant, Andreas Peet, Isaiah
• 1:16:16
  Wynn, Michael Dunn, LaRaven Clark, Chris Hubbard,
• 1:16:19
  and Jermaine Effetti. For center, if you want
• 1:16:21
  to bring in competition for him, you have Nick
• 1:16:24
  Harris, you have Dan Feeney, Nick Gates, Sam
• 1:16:26
  Mustapher, Shane Lemieux, Wesley French, and
• 1:16:30
  De 'Ader Eisland. So sure, it's probably not
• 1:16:34
  the best options, but you want to try to at least
• 1:16:37
  bring in some competition that can at least nudge
• 1:16:39
  them that can at least push them into either
• 1:16:42
  playing better or at least show them or at least
• 1:16:44
  show you as the team like hey this is where they
• 1:16:47
  are we're not satisfied with this so we're possibly
• 1:16:50
  going to make an upgrade via you know free agency
• 1:16:54
  signing or a trade or just hold it off and possibly
• 1:16:58
  address it in next year's draft. But let's go
• 1:17:01
  to the Buccaneers. Let's just end it off with
• 1:17:02
  a great team, you know, positional battles to
• 1:17:05
  watch out for, wide receiver, defensive line,
• 1:17:07
  tackle, and cornerback. So players to keep an
• 1:17:10
  eye out for, Kalijah Canty, Yaya Diaby, Hassan
• 1:17:13
  Reddick, Jamal Dean, Benjamin Morrison, Tykee
• 1:17:16
  Smith, Jacob Parrish, Trey Palmer, Jalen McMillan,
• 1:17:20
  Sterling Shepard, Charlie Heck, and Ben... I
• 1:17:24
  think I butchered your last name. If I did, I
• 1:17:26
  did not mean to do that. But the storyline for
• 1:17:29
  the Buccaneers is, can this team take the next
• 1:17:31
  step to becoming true contenders? Because I believe
• 1:17:35
  they are contenders, but I want them to solidify
• 1:17:38
  themselves as true contenders. Because me personally,
• 1:17:42
  and I'll probably talk about this in the next
• 1:17:45
  episode, I do believe that the Buccaneers are
• 1:17:48
  a dark horse Super Bowl candidate. I think right
• 1:17:51
  now on both sides of the ball, they are a really
• 1:17:54
  good team. And I feel like they could go toe
• 1:17:56
  -to -toe against the Eagles, Lions, or any of
• 1:17:59
  the other big -name NFC teams that we all consider
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  as Super Bowl teams. Don't hate the message.
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  Just hate the game. Just saying. But let's start
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  things off with Kalijah Canty. So he's coming
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  off of a really good season. You know, he had
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  four and a half sacks. Really good. So you see
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  the growth. But I want to see more. I want to
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  see, are you going to continue to grow moving
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  forward? Because I believe Kalaja Kansi could
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  possibly be a 8 -12 sack type of defensive lineman.
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  He has that skill set, and I think he could definitely
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  do it. The only question is, is he going to do
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  it this year? Yaya Diaby, I want to see exactly
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  where you are. Because right now, I mean, sure,
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  you have Hasan Reddick. Sure, you have, you know,
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  other pass rushers. But I just want to see, you
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  know, can you continue to grow? Is there another
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  level to your game? Same thing with Hasan Reddick.
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  We all know what happened with the Jets situation.
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  I want to see, are you the Hasan Reddick of the
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  Eagles or are you the Hasan Reddick of the Jets?
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  Which version is the Buccaneers getting? Jamel
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  Dean, you're not on the hot seat, but I want
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  to see where you are. especially with the Buccaneers
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  drafting Benjamin Morrison, I want to see where
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  you guys are at this point. Because right now,
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  Jamel Dean, although you're probably cornerback
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  two, possibly cornerback three, I think you're
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  still really productive. So let's see it in training
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  camp. Iron sharpens iron, all right? So Benjamin
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  Morrison, I want to see where you are. I want
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  to see, have you fully healed from that hip injury?
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  Because remember, Benjamin Morrison was supposed
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  to be a first round pick. He only fell because
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  of an injury red flag. Outside of that, his name
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  was going to be called in the first round. No
• 1:19:43
  questions asked. Tykee Smith, want to see where
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  you are. Jacob Parrish, they drafted you a few
• 1:19:50
  years ago in the third round. I want to see where
• 1:19:53
  you are. Trey Palmer, Jalen McMillan, Sterling
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  Shepard. I want to see exactly. Who's going to
• 1:20:01
  take that next step? Who's going to solidify
• 1:20:03
  themselves on this team? Especially with Chris
• 1:20:05
  Godwin still rehabbing that ankle injury, this
• 1:20:08
  now opens things up between Trey Palmer, Jalen
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  McMillan, and Sterling Shepard. Now, granted,
• 1:20:14
  Sterling Shepard has a relationship with Baker
• 1:20:17
  Mayfield, so they already have chemistry. But
• 1:20:20
  I want to see if Trey Palmer is going to take
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  that next step, especially Jalen McMillan, because
• 1:20:24
  they are two really good wide receivers that
• 1:20:27
  I believe... Prior to the regular season starting,
• 1:20:31
  I do believe that they're going to get traded.
• 1:20:33
  Where? I don't know. Now with Charlie Heck and
• 1:20:36
  Ben Chukwuma, I feel like personally this is
• 1:20:40
  an opportunity for the both of you guys to showcase
• 1:20:43
  like, hey, we may not be starting caliber tackles,
• 1:20:46
  but we are good backup tackles for any other
• 1:20:49
  team. Because right now with Tristan Works being
• 1:20:52
  on the pup, I think this opens up an opportunity
• 1:20:54
  for you guys to showcase yourself. For all 31
• 1:20:57
  other teams. Because, again, this team is very,
• 1:21:01
  very, very, and I mean very good. All right?
• 1:21:04
  Had the Buccaneers made a move to get Jalen Ramsey,
• 1:21:08
  oh, they're a Super Bowl team. 1 ,000%. I don't
• 1:21:11
  care what anyone says. They would have been a
• 1:21:13
  Super Bowl team in my eyes. Because Baker Mayfield
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  has been balling out. You already know what you're
• 1:21:19
  getting with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. I mean,
• 1:21:22
  come on. What else do they need? for this team.
• 1:21:26
  Now, I will say this, the defensive line as a
• 1:21:29
  whole, outside of Vitavia, I want to see, can
• 1:21:32
  everybody step up to the plate? I want to see
• 1:21:34
  if everybody can become better. All right, sure,
• 1:21:37
  they made investments in getting Desmond Watson.
• 1:21:40
  I want to see what they're going to do with that
• 1:21:42
  project. I just want to see this defensive line
• 1:21:44
  become more formidable and how it was a few years
• 1:21:49
  ago when they won the championship with Brady.
• 1:21:51
  But we'll look at possible free agency additions
• 1:21:54
  if you want to take that route. Cornerback, as
• 1:21:56
  I've said before, you have James Bradbury, Kendall
• 1:21:58
  Fuller, Stephon Gilmore, Rasul Douglas, Mike
• 1:22:01
  Hilton, CJ Henderson. Tackle, you have George
• 1:22:04
  Fant, Andreas Peet, Isaiah Wynn, Michael Dunn,
• 1:22:06
  Raven Clark, Chris Hubbard, Jermaine Nefedi.
• 1:22:09
  Wide receiver, if you want to take that route,
• 1:22:11
  Keenan Allen, Amari Cooper, Gabe Davis, Nelson
• 1:22:13
  Aguilar, DJ Char, Tiger Boyd, Chris Conley, Jameson
• 1:22:16
  Crowder. In defensive line, if you want to take
• 1:22:18
  that route, as I've said before, you have Jadeveon
• 1:22:21
  Clowney, Raekwon Davis, Demarcus Walker, Montrevious
• 1:22:23
  Adams, Jerry Hughes, Linval Joseph, and Maurice
• 1:22:26
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