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Ep.73: Divisional rodeo (NFC South) · Football Junkies podcast

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  Bag alert bag alert bag alert no no no no no
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  no no double bag alert double no no no no no
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  no no triple bag alert no no no no no no no no
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  no no no no this one is a little bit different
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  from all the other ones okay this is the first
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  week of free agency so we have to really bring
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  things out the right way okay and what better
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  way to do it than to introduce a new bag alert
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  big bank alert That's right big bank alert big
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  bank alert big bank alert folks That's right
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  week one of free agency is in the books folks
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  and man. Oh, man Do we have a lot to discuss?
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  Okay, let's just get into everything so Devontae
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  Adams goes back to Cali Myles Garrett stays in
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  Cleveland Josh Allen hits the lottery when it
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  comes to quarterback contracts Gino Smith heads
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  to Sin City DK hits the Pittsburgh Sam Darno
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  goes to see Crazy, right? Cooper Cup comes back
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  home, the Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson debacle
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  continues, the free agency recap, and the divisional
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  rodeo continues, folks, and we're in the South.
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  That's right, collard greens, biscuits, all that
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  good stuff and more, okay? I am so excited. Listen,
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  you guys understand, I have been waiting. to
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  do this episode because there is so much that
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  we have to do. This might go down as the longest
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  episode by far because we have so much we have
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  to unpack and whatnot. But you already know I
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  have to get into my spell, okay? All of this
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  and more on the 73rd episode of the Football
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  Junkies podcast, okay? I am your host with the
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  most, okay? I am your chief bag roll dominance,
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  okay? Anything and everything related to the
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  bag and more, okay? I am your chief head of the
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  table. Everything related to the draft everything
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  related to mock draft trades rumors you name
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  it I cover it all of that and more okay, but
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  guess what I am all These things and more okay,
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  but guess what I am your GM who currently is
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  not on a team right now But don't you worry about
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  it, okay? Don't you worry about okay? Because
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  guess what the most important tile that you must
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  remember my fellow junkies is I am your host
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  kale You already know how these things are about
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  to go this might be a three hour episode Let's
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  see if we can get to that point. Maybe we might
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  have some breaking news about Jamar chasing T
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  Higgins signing a deal Maybe we might have some
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  news about Russell Wilson joining the Giants.
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  I was about to say just but the Giants Okay,
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  so you already know how my spills about to get
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  into so guess what on three one, two, three.
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  Let's lock in Alright folks, let's just get into
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  the meat and potatoes of everything that is going
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  on in the league right now So we got so much
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  we got to talk about you don't even realize how
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  much we got to talk about Okay, some hot takes
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  some truth bombs all that and more. Okay, so
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  let's just get into it Devante Adams heads back
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  to the West Coast Okay, I did not expect for
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  him to stay in the East Coast as much as you
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  know, he was saying Oh, I love you know, I love
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  my time. I would love to play for Mike Tomlin
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  That was not going to happen. OK, he was going
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  to go back to the West Coast and so he went to
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  a contender in the Rams. So he signed a two year
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  $44 million deal with the $12 million signing
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  bonus. 26 million guaranteed. OK, now when we
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  look at his stats, 85 exceptions for 1063 receiving
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  yards, eight touchdowns and 12 .5 receiving yards
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  per reception. Now when we look at this, this
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  is a great replacement for Cooper Cup. OK, you're
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  having to get somebody. who is a little bit more
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  productive at this point than what Cooper Cup
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  has been in the last few years. But Devontae
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  Adams has been able to do that with grace, regarded
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  as a top five, top 10 receiver by a lot of defenders.
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  You pair him with Pukka Nakua. That's a deadly
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  combination here, folks. That's a deadly combination.
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  Now, granted, do I still believe that the Rams
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  will probably get another receiver? No. because
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  they brought back, who was it, Tutu Atwell. They
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  have Puka, and now you got Devontae Adams. You
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  also have Tyler Higbee. You have the running
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  back as well. All is really good. All they really
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  have to do now is really just focus on the defense,
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  primarily the secondary. And I think this team
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  could go right back into the NFC Championship.
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  Now, am I saying they can go, you know, to another
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  Super Bowl? Only time will tell. But at this
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  point, they're gonna make some noise. They're
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  gonna do their thing. Now let's talk about this
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  this miles Garrett guy, you know, this is this
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  guy in Cleveland, right? So, you know Everybody
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  was under the impression of miles Garrett was
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  gonna get traded this offseason, you know and
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  for the longest time he was saying he didn't
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  want to be part of Cleveland and he put out this
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  Statement and all that other stuff come to find
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  out the dude just wanted more money That's all
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  the money. So he inks a four -year 160 million
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  dollars point five million guaranteed He had
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  47 tackles, 14 sacks, and 84 quarterback pressures.
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  My take is this. If you wanted more money, just
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  say that. If you were really 10 toes down on
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  your stance of not wanting to play a single down
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  for the Cleveland Browns, you should have stood
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  on it. You never should have backed down when
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  they was offering you more money, but you did.
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  And so now... You're going to be stuck in a crappy
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  situation. You're going to be stuck on a team
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  that is not going to be winning anytime soon.
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  Granted, the money was still clear. The check
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  was still clear. You'll still be able to live
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  the lifestyle that you want, but at what cost?
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  You'll never be able to experience a championship.
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  And no one in their right mind would be willing
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  to make a trade for you at this point because
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  you have this crazy dumb contract. You didn't
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  reset at the market again. The passion for Mario
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  just just got reset it twice You were all happy
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  and smiles and you know, I'm ready to be back
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  and all man. I love these guys Yeah, and nobody
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  cares about that. You was just you was just writing
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  out these fools Come on, man And here I am thinking
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  that miles gear was gonna go to the Eagles. Well
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  Guess I was wrong. Guess we all were wrong at
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  this point. But um at this point This is basically
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  just a move to continue to put butts in seats
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  for Cleveland. I Don't I don't see them, you
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  know making it any farther than what they did
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  in the last two years I'm just gonna be completely
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  honest with you Deshaun Watson was a fail, but
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  the degree of the failure Has to be measured
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  at this point because right now it is starting
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  to be a giant snowball of a disaster And the
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  reason why I say that is because the more years
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  that they push this contract back, the bigger
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  the cap hit that they're gonna have to take at
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  once. If I'm not mistaken, and somebody can fact
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  check me, I have no problem being wrong and whatnot,
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  if they don't do something with his contract
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  next year, you are looking at a potential 90
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  plus million dollar cap hit. I'm sorry, folks.
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  There is not one person that is worth all that
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  money. Not even Tom Brady. And it's no disrespect
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  to him at all. You guys put three mortgages on
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  one player thinking that you were going to get
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  half or maybe just a little bit of what the Texans
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  got out of them. No. You didn't. You didn't get
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  anything close to it. so you were thinking that
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  maybe this upcoming season he was going to play
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  well guess what that's not going to be the case
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  because why he injured his other Achilles so
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  you won't be able to see where he is until next
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  year so while those checks are continuing to
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  go to the Sean Watson's account you are having
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  to figure out what you're going to do moving
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  forward now granted you will be but Tony will
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  say that he's coming back and I think Wyatt Taylor
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  has also said that he's coming back as well.
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  But those are just two people. You still have
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  to figure out what you're going to do with the
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  rest of the team. So I say all that to say this.
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  Yes, they are going to draft a quarterback. Yes,
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  it'll probably be between Cam Ward or Shidora
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  Sanders. But the fact of the matter is, this
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  team, it needs so much that you would essentially
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  need Every single draft pick to hit and I'm not
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  talking about you know, they're doing okay They're
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  doing well like no these guys have to be playing
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  at a pro bowl borderline all pro level all pro
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  level From the gate from the jump That's how
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  bad of a situation they are So if you want to
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  continue to be in pig slop for the rest of your
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  career by all means do it but If it was me, I
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  would have not even touched the very ground that
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  is the Cleveland Browns facility until I was
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  trading. But I'm not Miles Garrett. But we have
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  to talk about a curve ball of a quarterback contract.
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  And that was Josh Allen getting his deal. So
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  Josh Allen inked. six -year 330 million dollar
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  contract 250 million guarantee you'll be making
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  55 million a year a year It's crazy, right? We
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  already know the stats, but I'll just go over
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  them Three thousand seven hundred thirty one
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  passing ours 28 touchdown six picks seven point
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  seven yards per attempt in a sixty three point
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  six completion percentage We all know that he
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  won the MVP. No Marsha's wanted. That's a different
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  story for a different day But the fact of the
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  matter is they realized that they were gonna
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  have to pay him more money. Okay Josh Allen right
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  now is Playing at a level that the bills have
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  never seen before. Okay, when everything is said
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  and done And this is no disrespect to Jim Kelly
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  at all. When everything is said and done, I would
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  not be surprised if Josh Allen is first in every
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  single major quarterback category within the
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  Bills. OK? Granted, this does create some catch
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  space, and this does allow them to create some
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  leverage and whatnot, which is great. But at
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  the same time, The time is still ticking for
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  you all to win a championship Because right now.
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  Yes, you still do have Josh Allen for a while
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  Yes, you grew so and you locked up a few other
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  players great But the fact of the matter is you
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  guys still have yet to get over the hump You
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  guys have yet to been able to beat Patrick my
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  homes. So at some point you gotta win You have
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  to win All right, you want to you want to MVP.
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  Cool. Great. Congratulations So class class class,
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  whatever don't care. But what matters at this
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  point is a championship that is the cherry on
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  top if you win a championship you have Automatically
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  eliminated yourself and put yourself in a category
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  that only bills fans would only dream and want
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  so at this point Yes, celebrate the contract,
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  but at the same time still look at the watch
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  Because time is still ticking and so the longer
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  that this goes The more questions are going to
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  be you know asked For Josh Allen because you
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  have to win a championship at this point It's
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  the same thing with Lamar is the same thing with
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  Joe burrow It's the same thing with any of those
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  other quarterbacks that have that have not won
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  a championship outside of Jalen Hurts and Patrick
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  Holmes Everybody is on the clock because you
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  guys have to win a championship because you guys
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  are playing at levels Though that we have never
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  seen before right granted. We all know in the
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  early 2000s We had you know Tom Brady Big Ben
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  Philip Rivers Drew Brees Payne Manny if I if
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  I've already said it already and a few other
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  quarterbacks But we have never had a group of
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  quarterbacks that have been able To light it
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  up almost every single game. It's almost like
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  a movie Every single Sunday when you watch these
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  quarterbacks from Joe burrow to Patrick Mahomes
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  to Lamar Jackson to even Josh Allen. It's a movie
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  and You want the movie to end on a good foot
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  with them, you know walk into the sunset being
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  a champion But will that happen? I don't know
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  Knew I was forgetting somebody I knew there was
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  somebody else they got paid lately and that was
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  Gregory Russo Gregory Russo got paid He got a
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  back alert as well. So he ain't a four -year
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  80 million dollar deal. Okay His average salary
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  is 20 million his signing bones of 17 .5 million
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  and he's guaranteed 38 .7 million man. I knew
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  I was forgetting somebody but when we look at
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  this Gregory Russo, like I say when we covered
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  the the bills he was going to get paid it was
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  either going to be early or it's going to be
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  late and so the bills actually did the right
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  thing and they paid him early because we all
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  know just like just like what the bangles are
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  going through right now when y 'all take that
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  risk sometimes it benefits you and sometimes
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  it burns you and the bills realize hey listen
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  we cannot take that risk and so when we look
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  at this you know when we look at his stats specifically
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  53 tackles, 8 sacks, 59 quarterback pressures,
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  like this has been a very productive player,
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  okay? This is somebody who is continuing to climb,
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  who is continuing to get better and better each
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  and every year. And so it was only right for
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  the Bills to just give him the deal now. Like
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  this has been a really productive and consistent
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  pass rusher. Now, am I saying he could, you know...
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  get more than eight sacks oh i believe it i believe
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  reverie russo has the potential to get double
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  digit sack seasons it's only up from here folks
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  okay the bills are prioritizing taking care of
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  their players which i love oh so much so now
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  again like i said before with josh allen time's
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  a ticking tick tock take time josh allen tick
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  tock uh Forgot what's supposed to GM Brandon
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  being I think it is Brandon me yet Brandon me
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  time is ticking man Time is ticking. I want y
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  'all to win I want Lamar to win and Josh Allen
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  everybody else to win But we all know there's
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  only one winner out of this entire thing. It's
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  not both teams are winners only one but Let's
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  get into this jeno smith thing. So jeno smith
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  goes to sin city folks All right, so we got to
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  talk about this because it was a trade Okay,
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  so seattle receives a third round pick and of
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  course las vegas receives jeno smith as well.
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  Okay, but then he inks a deal with The raiders,
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  okay a three -year 75 million dollar deal 40
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  million guaranteed 25 million a year not bad
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  Really good, actually. So, when we look at his
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  stats, you know, 4 ,320 passing yards, 21 touchdowns,
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  15 picks, and 7 .5 yards per 10, and a 70 .4
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  completion percentage. Now, as we talked about
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  the whole debacle with the Seahawks maybe about
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  a week or two, I had already believed that this
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  was going to be the last time that we saw Geno
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  Smith in a Seahawks jersey, simply because they
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  were pressed for cash. You had three players,
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  that were taking up a large chunk of the cap
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  space. DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, and Geno Smith.
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  And so what happened? They released Tyler Lockett,
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  they traded away DK Metcalf, and then they traded
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  away Geno Smith. And it was only right for them
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  to send him to Las Vegas because why? He was
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  able to get his second chance under Pete Carroll.
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  So it was only right for Pete Carroll to continue
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  to get his guy again. Let's be real here. This
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  is not a hard topic to wrap your mind around.
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  This isn't a topic where you're like, well, why
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  do they do this or why do they do that? No. Let's
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  be real here, folks. Gino Smith is still a really
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  productive quarterback. Am I saying he's a top
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  10 quarterback? No. Am I saying he's possibly
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  maybe a top 15, maybe top 20 quarterback? Yes.
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  Yes. He is still a very productive quarterback.
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  Now, is he somebody that can go toe to toe with
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  a burrow? Lamar or my homes or any like that.
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  Mmm. I don't know. That's I Don't know. I mean
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  a few weeks about that. Okay, let me let's get
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  through the draft for us Then we can figure out
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  exactly how things are gonna go. But at the same
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  time This makes that division more and more Competitive
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  because remember for all those years it was just
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  my homes to steamrolling the entire division
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  But now you got bone next you got Justin Herbert.
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  You got Gino Smith and you got my homes All in
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  one division. Man, oh man, will that be a very
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  competitive division this season, okay? Each
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  and every one of those teams have positioned
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  themselves to get better than last year. And
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  it's only up from here. The Broncos are getting
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  their act together. The Raiders have the potential
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  to get their act together. The Chargers are starting
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  to be a little bit more consistent. I'm telling
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  you folks, Those other three teams are going
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  to make the process for the Chiefs to win the...
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  What is it? What is it? The first seed. It's
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  going to be difficult for them to win the first
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  seed this year. I'm telling you. One of those
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  teams is going to prevent Mahomes from getting
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  that first seed. And man oh man, is it going
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  to be hilarious. But let's get into another situation.
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  That is Sam Darnold going to Seattle. I know,
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  right? It's like a swap. you go to sin city i
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  go to you know seattle or whatever who cares
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  okay so sam donnell inks a three -year 100 .5
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  million dollar contract 55 million guarantee
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  he'll be making 33 .5 million a year when we
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  look at his stats we all know his stats 4 319
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  passing yards 35 touchdowns 12 picks 7 .9 yards
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  per attempt in a 66 .2 completion percentage
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  First of all, we have to thank Kevin O 'Connell
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  for this, okay? First of all, half of that money
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  needs to go to Kevin O 'Connell's account because
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  if it wasn't for Kevin O 'Connell, he would not
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  be getting this bag. I'm just being completely
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  honest with you, okay? But when we look at this,
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  you know, from the outside looking in, Seattle
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  was going to get Sam Darnold. Nobody else was
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  going to be willing to give Sam Darnold a $100
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  -plus million contract. Nobody was it. But who
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  would do that? The Seahawks. Once they got off
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  of the Gino Smith contract and Tyler Lockett
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  and DK Metcalf, they made the decision. Okay,
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  let's go and get our quarterback. And that's
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  exactly what they did. Now, this is a little
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  bit of a different contract because it's a three
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  year instead of a four year. So my guess is this,
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  and I haven't been able to look at the structure
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  of the contract, which believe it or not, a lot
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  of the contracts, you really haven't been able
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  to really look at the structure of them. But
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  my guess is, They structured this contract to
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  where they put a lot of his money up front in
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  the first two years so that maybe that third
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  year can be sort of like a ghost year or There
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  will probably be like, you know, less guarantees
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  and less of a base salary. It could be one of
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  those two different things But all I know okay.
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  Yes, you guys got your quarterback cool. You
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  still have JSN You now have Cooper Cup like okay
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  this team could could do a few things now am
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  i saying this team is going to be ultra competitive
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  no do i think this this team still needs a lot
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  of work to do yes but i mean they address the
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  most important position which is quarterback
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  so all in all congratulations to them now We
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  got to talk about DK mech have going to the Pittsburgh
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  Steelers. Yes, you thought I was gonna do the
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  six times six time No, we're not doing that.
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  Okay, because I I got a little bit of a beef
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  right now with with with the con artists Okay,
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  but but i'll leave it i'll leave it there. We're
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  not gonna talk about it, but we will talk about
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  it We will address it. Okay when we get to the
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  afc north Okay, so DK Metcalfe was traded to
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  the Pittsburgh Steelers. So Seattle receives
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  the 2025 second round pick and the 2025 seventh
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  round pick. Pittsburgh, of course, receives DK
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  Metcalfe in the 2025 sixth round pick. Okay.
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  And in doing so, DK Metcalfe agrees to a five
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  year, $132 million deal. He'll be making 33 million
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  a year. Okay. Now when we look at his stats,
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  66 receptions for 992 receiving yards, five touchdowns,
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  15 receiving yards per reception. Now, when we
• 21:54
  look at this, this is the quote unquote splashy
• 21:57
  move. I don't know why, but I just hate, I hate
• 21:59
  using that word, but this is the big move that
• 22:02
  everybody has been wanting the Steelers to do.
• 22:05
  Because remember, we all know what happened last
• 22:08
  year when they were basically the only team trying
• 22:10
  to get brand new again, and basically they didn't
• 22:12
  get anything. And so that's. Man, that year was
• 22:17
  just horrible, okay? And so they wanted to make
• 22:19
  things right, and they got DK Metcalf. Great.
• 22:23
  I already knew that the Seattle Seahawks were
• 22:26
  not going to get a first round pick for DK Metcalf.
• 22:31
  I'm sorry, he's not worth a first round pick.
• 22:33
  Because why? You're gonna have to pay him 30
• 22:35
  plus million a year. Why am I giving you a first
• 22:39
  round pick, an additional pick, just for you
• 22:41
  to do that? No. All in all, great deal for the
• 22:45
  Steelers. They get their number one receiver.
• 22:48
  I just want to see how things are going to go
• 22:50
  moving forward. Because you have DK Metcalf,
• 22:54
  you have George Pickens, you have Pat Fryermuth,
• 22:57
  you have Jaylen Warren. You have a pretty competent
• 23:01
  offense. But the question is, how are things
• 23:06
  going to go moving forward? Because they don't
• 23:09
  have a quarterback. I know I'm not really supposed
• 23:11
  to be talking about the Steelers, but You just
• 23:14
  have to at this point, but DK Metcalf is somebody
• 23:18
  Who was going to put in 100 % not you know what
• 23:23
  screw 100? He's gonna put a hundred and ten percent
• 23:26
  effort in everything that he does Every route
• 23:29
  every block being a menace to society to every
• 23:32
  DB. He is going to do that Okay, this is the
• 23:36
  Brothers of Destruction wide receivers. You're
• 23:40
  talking about two legitimate crash outs of a
• 23:43
  receiver who do not care, who always look for
• 23:47
  the fade. Every single time you are going to
• 23:52
  see DK Metcalf and George Pickens gang up on
• 23:56
  some of these DBs. DK Metcalf got him in the
• 24:00
  headlock and George Pickens is just beating them
• 24:03
  up. Okay that's how crazy of a situation this
• 24:06
  is. But At the same time, you're getting somebody
• 24:10
  who is literally in the middle of their prime.
• 24:13
  So you're going to get probably the remainder
• 24:15
  of his prime and more. D .K. Metcalfe's game
• 24:18
  is going to age well because even when he loses
• 24:22
  his speed, he'll still have his strength. So
• 24:25
  he'll still be able to win those contested catches
• 24:27
  and everything. So all in all, great move. But
• 24:30
  we have to talk about free agency, folks. The
• 24:32
  first week of free agency, and best believe,
• 24:35
  within maybe the next two or three episodes will
• 24:37
  do great for every single team with you know
• 24:39
  the free agency moves because there are some
• 24:42
  teams that did more than others and i'll just
• 24:44
  leave it there before i get really upset so let's
• 24:47
  just get into it so let's start harold landry
• 24:50
  okay ain't a three -year 43 .5 million dollar
• 24:53
  deal with the patriots 26 million guarantee and
• 24:56
  he will be making 14 .5 million a year his stats
• 24:59
  of course 71 tackles 9 sacks 41 quarterback pressures
• 25:04
  now when we look at this you know when we talked
• 25:06
  about that whole scenario when it happened when
• 25:09
  he was you know given permission to secret trade
• 25:12
  in the back of my mind i had a feeling that he
• 25:16
  probably would go to the Patriots but i didn't
• 25:20
  believe that he was actually going to do it and
• 25:22
  the only reason why i say that is because i thought
• 25:25
  he was going to try to at least go after a championship
• 25:29
  at least that's what I would have thought but
• 25:31
  clearly I was wrong and so he goes back to my
• 25:35
  variable which this actually benefits my variable
• 25:38
  a lot because he brings in a defensive player
• 25:42
  who can sort of show everybody else like hey
• 25:46
  this is how my variable does this and does that
• 25:49
  and this is how you're supposed to move in this
• 25:51
  situation that situation all those different
• 25:53
  things Compared to, you know, him having to emphasize,
• 25:58
  okay, you gotta do this, you gotta do that. Like,
• 26:00
  he doesn't have to do that no more because you
• 26:01
  bring in someone like a Harold Landry. On top
• 26:04
  of that, you just made this defense a whole lot
• 26:05
  better, okay? You got Chris Gonzalez, unfortunately.
• 26:08
  You have Carlton Davis. You have Harold Landry.
• 26:11
  You have Christian Barmore. You got Milton Williams.
• 26:14
  This is a really good defense. Now, am I saying
• 26:16
  this team could possibly win seven or eight games?
• 26:19
  I don't know, but only time will tell. Okay,
• 26:22
  let's keep on going JC horn. Okay corner for
• 26:25
  the Panthers. It's a four -year 100 million dollar
• 26:29
  deal Okay, 28 .4 signing bonus. All right 17
• 26:33
  million 72 not 17 72 million guaranteed. He'll
• 26:37
  be making 25 million a year folks when we look
• 26:41
  at his stats 68 tackles two sacks One pick, he
• 26:45
  was targeted 75 times and allowed 38 receptions
• 26:49
  for 419 receiving yards and seven touchdowns.
• 26:52
  J .C. Horne, when he was coming out of, I think,
• 26:54
  what was it, South Carolina? I think it was South
• 26:56
  Carolina. If it wasn't, then I'm wrong. Sorry.
• 26:59
  When he was coming out of college, I was very
• 27:01
  high on J .C. Horne. I wanted the Steelers to
• 27:03
  go after J .C. Horne, but clearly they did not
• 27:06
  get him. Me personally, I would have thought
• 27:08
  the Panthers would have traded him, but I think
• 27:11
  they valued him so much. They just have to you
• 27:14
  know go ahead and just pay him which oh no. It's
• 27:17
  a really good deal He's still a really productive
• 27:19
  corner. He's definitely on that top tier of young
• 27:23
  corners So I don't see why you know anybody would
• 27:27
  have tried to you know possibly trade for him
• 27:29
  Steelers or maybe you know Ravens or you know
• 27:33
  any other team just saying just saying just saying
• 27:35
  just saying But um you know all all jokes aside
• 27:39
  J .C. Horne plays a very pivotal role in this
• 27:42
  defense. He has done a phenomenal job within
• 27:45
  the last three years and so it's only right to
• 27:47
  reward him. That's it. Now, on to Khalil Mack.
• 27:51
  Khalil Mack inks a one -year, $18 million deal
• 27:54
  with the Chargers. Okay, he stays back in LA.
• 27:58
  $10 million signing bonus, $18 million guaranteed,
• 28:00
  $18 million a year. Now, when we look at his
• 28:03
  stats, 39 tackles, six sacks, and 54 quarterback
• 28:07
  pressures. Now, when we look at this, I believed
• 28:10
  that Khalil Mack was not gonna go anywhere else.
• 28:13
  Simply because, and this is just a truth bomb,
• 28:17
  I'm just being honest with you guys, Khalil Mack
• 28:20
  has been more productive in the last four years
• 28:24
  with the Chargers than what Joey Bosa has. Joey
• 28:28
  Bosa has not been able to stay healthy to save
• 28:31
  a lick, okay? You're looking at a Khalil Mack
• 28:35
  who... I think he's only two years removed from
• 28:39
  being a finalist for defensive player of the
• 28:42
  year. He has been able to be very productive
• 28:45
  in these last few years. So it was only right
• 28:48
  to bring him back. Now granted, of course they
• 28:51
  had to release him because they probably wanted
• 28:54
  to do so just to free up some cap space so they
• 28:56
  can address other positions. But all in all,
• 28:58
  you bring somebody back. I definitely believed
• 29:02
  that the Chargers were not going to bring back
• 29:04
  Joey Bosa at any time simply because why? He
• 29:08
  hasn't been super productive, he's more expensive,
• 29:11
  and there's just no need to keep him. I'm sorry.
• 29:14
  If he was doing what he did in the first three
• 29:16
  years, okay, fine. No problem whatsoever. But
• 29:21
  anytime you have Khalil Mack, old Khalil Mack,
• 29:25
  doing a better job, more productive, more consistent
• 29:30
  than what you have been, that's a problem. And
• 29:34
  that's why the Chargers chose Khalil Mack over
• 29:37
  Joey Bolson, right? Now Chris Gollin, he inks
• 29:40
  a three year, $66 million deal, 44 million guaranteed,
• 29:45
  22 million a year, okay? And when we look at
• 29:48
  his stats, 50 receptions for 500. 76 receiving
• 29:52
  yards, five touchdowns, 11 .5 receiving yards
• 29:54
  per reception. Now when we look at this, you
• 29:57
  know, Chris Godwin could have tested free agency
• 29:59
  if he really wanted to. He could have went, you
• 30:02
  know, anywhere. If he could have, he could have
• 30:04
  went to the Patriots, for instance, right? The
• 30:06
  Patriots would have been willing to give him
• 30:08
  30 plus million. Chris Godwin had a market. I
• 30:10
  don't care what anyone says. He had a legitimate
• 30:13
  market because Why? He is still a very productive
• 30:17
  receiver. Despite the injury that he had last
• 30:20
  season, he was still very productive. And so
• 30:24
  Chris Galwin decided to choose loyalty with a
• 30:27
  stable franchise over a testing free agency,
• 30:30
  which I don't blame him for. And we'll get more
• 30:33
  into once we get into the divisional rodeo. But
• 30:37
  the fact of the matter is the Buccaneers have
• 30:39
  been very consistent. I don't know, five, 10,
• 30:43
  maybe. even longer than that but in recent times
• 30:47
  they have been very productive since the whole
• 30:50
  Tom Brady situation okay and so I think Chris
• 30:53
  Godwin values that a lot and so in doing so I
• 30:56
  think he was just like forget about I'll just
• 30:58
  stay here why leave I'm in the best situation
• 31:01
  I'm I'm not too far away from Disney World not
• 31:04
  too far from Universal Studios like come on who
• 31:06
  where else would I want to go I don't want to
• 31:08
  go nowhere where it's cold want to be somewhere
• 31:10
  it's warm come on But when we look at it, you
• 31:14
  know, we got some other people that we have to
• 31:16
  talk about. Okay, Drew Dahlman Yes, you're probably
• 31:18
  thinking who's drew Dahlman drew Dahlman was
• 31:21
  the center for the Falcons And now he is the
• 31:23
  center for the Bears go Bears three years 42
• 31:26
  million a six million dollar signing bonus 28
• 31:29
  million guaranteed. He'll be making 14 million
• 31:32
  a year I think we got to have an honest conversation.
• 31:34
  You know, it's just crazy to me how A lot of
• 31:37
  these offensive coaches, you know, when their
• 31:39
  offensive lines aren't that good, guess what?
• 31:42
  They address it so quickly and they rebuild their
• 31:45
  offensive line so quickly that it's just like,
• 31:47
  whoa, what just happened? Ben Johnson made a
• 31:51
  trade, made a few trades. Okay, they got Joe
• 31:54
  Thune, they got the guard from the Rams, and
• 31:58
  now they just got a center. Their offensive line
• 32:00
  is good now. Their offensive line is good. They
• 32:03
  no longer have to prioritize offensive line in
• 32:05
  the draft if they really don't want to. That
• 32:07
  is how quickly they address their problems Compared
• 32:11
  to defensive coaches where they'll just neglect
• 32:13
  an offensive line and just say hey put a band
• 32:16
  -aid over it will be perfectly fine But when
• 32:17
  we look at this, you know, I would have thought
• 32:20
  the Falcons would have tried to at least put
• 32:22
  out an offer for poor Drew Dahlman simply because
• 32:26
  That offensive line for the Falcons has been
• 32:29
  really good lately. And so you would have thought
• 32:32
  hey Keep the center. The center is really important
• 32:35
  outside of quarterback. Clearly. That's not the
• 32:37
  case but You know what? Well, we'll save that
• 32:41
  for the Falcons. I want to save that for the
• 32:43
  Falcons I have so much I have to say okay You
• 32:45
  guys don't realize how excited I am to do about
• 32:49
  this not to mention if I'm not mistaken I think
• 32:52
  our first year anniversary For this podcast.
• 32:56
  I think is next week if I'm not mistaken, but
• 32:58
  who cares about that. All right back Back to
• 33:01
  the free agency stuff. But when we look at this,
• 33:04
  offensive linemen have become more and more a
• 33:08
  priority in recent free agencies than what we've
• 33:11
  seen in past years. Why? Because we're seeing
• 33:15
  a lot of interior defensive linemen who are wrecking
• 33:17
  shops. So what's the best way to prevent that
• 33:20
  from happening? You get some really productive
• 33:22
  interior offensive linemen. And that's exactly
• 33:24
  what the Bears did. The Bears prioritized the
• 33:27
  health and wealth of Caleb Williams. Your quarterback's
• 33:31
  years are determined by their offensive line.
• 33:34
  If they have an offensive line, oh, hey, they'll
• 33:36
  be fine. They'll be perfectly fine. If they don't
• 33:39
  have an offensive line, good is gone in less
• 33:43
  than 10 years. If you don't believe me, ask Andrew
• 33:46
  Luck. No disrespect. Now let's go to DJ Reed,
• 33:49
  OK? DJ Reed inks a three -year $48 million deal,
• 33:53
  $32 million guaranteed, and he'll be making $16
• 33:56
  million a year, OK? When we look at his stats,
• 34:00
  64 tackles, one sack. He was targeted 59 times
• 34:04
  and allowed 33 receptions for 369 yards and one
• 34:08
  touchdown. DJ Reed goes to the Lions. I was a
• 34:12
  little bit shocked about this one, only because
• 34:16
  I would have thought he would have stayed in
• 34:18
  the AFC personally. But clearly that's not the
• 34:21
  case. I knew that he wasn't gonna go to the Jets
• 34:24
  Okay, I knew he wasn't gonna will not go because
• 34:26
  he was already with the Jets I knew that he wasn't
• 34:28
  gonna stay with the Jets, excuse me, but to go
• 34:31
  to the Lions I mean the Lions do value their
• 34:34
  secondary a lot and so getting someone like a
• 34:37
  DJ Reid would definitely do wonders because again
• 34:39
  They lost Carlton Davis, but they still have
• 34:42
  Tyrion Arnold So you have Tyrion Arnold and you
• 34:45
  have DJ Reid. So I mean, that's a good tandem
• 34:48
  right there Milton Williams gets the Brinks truck.
• 34:51
  Okay at first we're thinking Oh, he's going to
• 34:55
  the Panthers and then in report says not Guess
• 34:58
  what he guess where he's going to the Patriots
• 35:01
  folks. So he inks a four -year 104 million dollar
• 35:05
  deal 24 million dollar signing bonus 63 million
• 35:10
  guaranteed and he'll be making 26 million a year
• 35:13
  Let me tell you something before I before I get
• 35:15
  into the into the stats or right now Cuz I'm
• 35:18
  feeling a little bit funny, okay, I Need to hire
• 35:22
  one of these agents to be my representation will
• 35:25
  begin to the big contracts and whatnot because
• 35:28
  you guys are legal Robbers, okay, and I mean
• 35:33
  this in a funny way you guys are legal Robbers
• 35:38
  you guys I don't know how you do it But when
• 35:42
  it comes to free agency you guys are doing the
• 35:45
  birdman hand rub when it comes to a free agent
• 35:49
  Especially a top free agent who's your client
• 35:52
  because you know why they get the bag Better
• 35:56
  yet forget about a bad. They get the Brinks truck.
• 35:58
  Okay, the Brinks truck is just is just pulled
• 36:01
  into the driveway Give them the keys and just
• 36:04
  say hey all that's yours in the back my G That's
• 36:08
  how crazy it is. When we look at this, you know,
• 36:10
  Milton Williams, from a stat perspective, okay,
• 36:14
  his stats were 24 tackles, five sacks, and 35
• 36:18
  quarterback pressures. Folks, we're talking about
• 36:20
  somebody who was playing very well when it came
• 36:23
  to the Super Bowl. You're talking about somebody
• 36:26
  who was wrecking the shop along with Jalen Carter.
• 36:29
  So it was only right for them to pay him. And
• 36:32
  not to mention, you're talking about somebody
• 36:34
  who... didn't play as many snaps as everybody
• 36:37
  else did. So you have to factor in that and you
• 36:40
  also have to factor in that he was one of those
• 36:43
  defensive linemen that was waiting. This is exactly
• 36:47
  why the Eagles recipe has been able to withstood
• 36:50
  the test of time. Because you know why? They
• 36:54
  continue to draft offensive and defensive linemen
• 36:56
  every single year and you don't even know who
• 36:58
  you're getting. You could be getting a dog and
• 37:01
  you don't even realize it. That's how crazy it
• 37:04
  is. And guess what? He got paid for it. Man,
• 37:08
  you don't want a Super Bowl. You ain't got a
• 37:11
  hundred million dollar contract. Man, life is
• 37:13
  good. Life is good in the hood. Man, we also
• 37:18
  got to talk about another trade and that is Loremi
• 37:21
  Tunsell getting traded to the commanders. It's
• 37:24
  just crazy how, you know, now that I'm a Steelers
• 37:26
  fan, the commanders want to get their act together.
• 37:29
  you know every single day i'm just wondering
• 37:32
  if i should be a commanders fan at this point
• 37:35
  because you know the commanders are basically
• 37:37
  on the cusp of potentially winning the super
• 37:39
  bowl at this point i mean this it's just horrible
• 37:42
  horrible but when we look at this okay washington
• 37:45
  receives a 2025 fourth round pick in lorenzo
• 37:48
  tunsel houston receives a 2025 third and seventh
• 37:52
  round pick as well as a 2026 fourth round pick
• 37:56
  Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
• 37:59
  They're GM Cooking he's been cooking with hot
• 38:02
  grease from the minute that they traded for Debo
• 38:04
  Okay, they are serious about Jayden Daniels and
• 38:07
  it shows now when we look at this for the Texans
• 38:11
  I'm still trying to figure out why would you
• 38:13
  make this trade like Remy Tunsel has been? Your
• 38:17
  best offensive lineman. Why would you trade him
• 38:19
  away? Not to mention you didn't even get a first
• 38:23
  -round pick for That's crazy. That is robbery
• 38:27
  Highway robbery and they did it they did it um
• 38:33
  When this news broke I almost lost it folks.
• 38:37
  That's how crazy it was but from a financial
• 38:40
  standpoint You know he still has two years left
• 38:43
  on his deal counting this year a base salary
• 38:45
  of twenty point nine million Okay with a cap
• 38:48
  hit of twenty one point three million, which
• 38:51
  you know really isn't that bad Now the thing
• 38:53
  is this, this benefits Washington more because
• 38:56
  why? You've solidified your left tackle spot
• 38:59
  with a really good left tackle. Outside of Trent
• 39:03
  Williams, Loremi Tunsil is probably either in
• 39:06
  the same conversation with Trent Williams or
• 39:08
  probably right under him, but he's not too far
• 39:10
  away from Trent Williams. Not to mention, this
• 39:14
  reduces the priority of getting a left tackle
• 39:16
  to maybe a sixth or seventh round if they really
• 39:19
  wanted to. because you brought in someone that's
• 39:21
  been highly productive basically his entire career.
• 39:25
  So you protect Jaden Daniels' blind side while
• 39:28
  at the same time you're making a large investment
• 39:30
  into Jaden Daniels because again you build your
• 39:33
  team when the quarterback is on a rookie deal
• 39:36
  because once that rookie deal is over with things
• 39:38
  get a little bit crazy. But for Houston I'm trying
• 39:42
  to understand why would you trade away the Remy
• 39:44
  Tunsel unless if you're going to address offensive
• 39:47
  line high because right now you have to address
• 39:51
  your left tackle, you got to address guard, I
• 39:54
  think you also have to address maybe center if
• 39:57
  I'm not mistaken but like they've let go a few
• 40:00
  of their offensive linemen and they really haven't
• 40:03
  made a whole lot of additions to the offensive
• 40:06
  line so I'm just trying to understand why I do
• 40:09
  that now especially when CJ Stroud had the season
• 40:11
  that he just had where basically he was taking
• 40:14
  a beating Because of this offensive line. So
• 40:17
  I don't know what what their plan is, but they
• 40:20
  must feel real confident in their plan Okay.
• 40:23
  Now let's get into will fries. Okay will fries
• 40:27
  Joins the Vikings so he ain't a five -year 88
• 40:30
  million dollar deal 17 .6 million a year the
• 40:35
  Vikings prioritize their offensive and defensive
• 40:38
  line and it's going to pay off substantially
• 40:41
  whoever their quarterback is Whether it be Aaron
• 40:45
  Rodgers, whether it be J .J. McCarthy, whether
• 40:47
  it be anybody else. They're going to be fine.
• 40:50
  Christian Darisal is coming back. You pair him
• 40:52
  with Will Fries and everybody else on this offensive
• 40:55
  line. On top of that, you have Justin Jefferson,
• 40:59
  T .J. Hockeson, and Jordan Addison, and Aaron
• 41:02
  Jo— Man, listen, let me tell you something. This
• 41:05
  Vikings team— This Viking seems going to be a
• 41:07
  problem. This Viking seems going to be a menace
• 41:10
  to society, folks, because why? They realize
• 41:13
  that, listen, we must prioritize our offense
• 41:16
  and defensive line. That is the only way that
• 41:19
  we're going to be able to go further in the playoffs.
• 41:23
  Otherwise, we're going to be right where we just
• 41:25
  were last year, which is trying to compete for
• 41:28
  a high seed, but we basically flop. And it shows
• 41:32
  with the next two contracts, which are related
• 41:34
  to the Vikings, which is Jonathan Allen and Javon
• 41:37
  Hargrave. Both great signings, not a lot of money,
• 41:41
  and that bolsters up your defensive line even
• 41:43
  more, because now you have Javon Hargrave, Jonathan
• 41:47
  Allen, Dallas Turner, I forget who the other
• 41:49
  patch rusher is. Along with Byron Murphy and
• 41:53
  Harrison Smith like it's a really good deep We
• 41:56
  look at Jonathan Allen's deal three years 51
• 41:58
  million or 14 million dollar signing bonus 31
• 42:01
  .2 million guaranteed only 17 million a year
• 42:04
  That's not bad. And even when you look at his
• 42:07
  stats last year, which are a little bit low only
• 42:10
  because You know, he suffered a pec injury sort
• 42:14
  of like middle to late part of the season and
• 42:17
  originally he was declared out within once they
• 42:20
  made it to the playoffs and whatnot, it opened
• 42:23
  up a window for him to be able to come back and,
• 42:26
  you know, the rest is history. So when we look
• 42:28
  at his stats, 19 tackles, three sacks, 14 quarterback
• 42:31
  pressures. Now, I knew Jonathan Allen wasn't
• 42:34
  going to be able to demand 20 plus million, but
• 42:37
  around that, you know, 17 to 18 million, I think
• 42:40
  that's the sweet spot for him. And then with
• 42:42
  Javon Hargrave, same situation. You're coming
• 42:45
  off of an injury year when we look at his deal.
• 42:49
  Two years, 30 million, 19 million guaranteed,
• 42:51
  15 million a year. Perfect. And then we look
• 42:54
  at his stats, seven tackles, one sack, and eight
• 42:56
  quarterback pressures. These are two very productive
• 42:59
  defensive linemen that injuries have basically
• 43:03
  derailed them this past season. So now this is
• 43:05
  a bounce back year for the both of them. And
• 43:08
  I think this is the best situation for them to
• 43:09
  go to. Now, me personally would have wanted them
• 43:11
  to go to the Steelers just because, you know,
• 43:13
  Gravedigger coming back to the Steelers. But
• 43:15
  clearly that was not the case. But when we look
• 43:17
  at Joey Bosa's situation, okay, this one was
• 43:19
  a little bit of a head scratcher only because
• 43:22
  the Bills got rid of Von Miller. Okay, cool.
• 43:25
  I understand that 100 % of the way. You wanted
• 43:28
  to get rid of that, you know, horrendous contract
• 43:30
  that you gave him, which... It was a horrendous
• 43:33
  contract and they only paid him that type of
• 43:35
  money because of what he did during the Super
• 43:37
  Bowl and that entire playoff run with the Rams.
• 43:41
  Okay, but when we look at Joey Bosa's contract,
• 43:43
  one year, 12 .6 million, 12 million guaranteed,
• 43:46
  12 .6 million a year. Okay, when we look at his
• 43:49
  stats, 22 tackles, five sacks, 33 quarterback
• 43:52
  pressures. This is somewhat of a let's see if
• 43:57
  you still got it, if you don't got it. It's a
• 43:59
  low risk, high reward deal. because outside of
• 44:03
  Gregory Russo, who else do you have that's been
• 44:06
  very consistent? Nobody. So bringing in someone
• 44:11
  like a Joey Bosa, you get to see where he is.
• 44:14
  Because again, like I said before in previous
• 44:17
  episodes, Joey Bosa is not the same person. Injuries
• 44:21
  have completely derailed him for the last three
• 44:24
  and four years. That's exactly why the charges
• 44:27
  did not decide to keep him because why you were
• 44:30
  way too expensive and your Production wasn't
• 44:33
  meeting the contract that you were currently
• 44:35
  under So they had to get rid of you on top of
• 44:38
  that your partner Khalil Mack was doing way more
• 44:42
  than you It was being more consistent and more
• 44:44
  productive than you. Well, I mean come on now
• 44:47
  me personally I would have thought he would have
• 44:49
  went to his brother or I would have thought he
• 44:51
  would have went to the Dolphins because Those
• 44:53
  were the only two teams that everybody was saying
• 44:55
  that was really interested in Joey Bosa. But
• 44:58
  clearly the Bills came out the blue and gave
• 45:00
  him the deal that they gave him. Now, Grady Jarrett's
• 45:03
  situation is a little bit weird. Because the
• 45:06
  Falcons wanted him to take a pay cut, he said
• 45:08
  no, and so they just released him. Which sort
• 45:13
  of goes into what's going on with the Falcons,
• 45:15
  but I don't understand why you would let him
• 45:18
  go. just because he refused not to take a pay
• 45:21
  cut. I'm not going to take a pay cut when, for
• 45:23
  one, I'm one of the leaders of the defense. I've
• 45:27
  been consistent. Sure, I'm getting a family year,
• 45:30
  but it doesn't even matter because why? I'm still
• 45:32
  that guy. So why in the world should I have to
• 45:34
  take a pay cut? And guess what? He bounced back
• 45:38
  and went to another team in a better situation.
• 45:41
  Now he's with the Bears. Three years, 43 .5 million.
• 45:44
  28 .5 million guaranteed. 14 .5 million a year.
• 45:48
  That's not bad, even with his stats. 53 tackles,
• 45:51
  2 .5 sacks, 32 quarterback pressures. I don't
• 45:54
  care what anyone says, Grady Jared is still that
• 45:56
  guy. And he will always be that guy. Why? Because
• 46:01
  he's always been very productive. Now, when you
• 46:04
  look at his stats, you're probably thinking,
• 46:05
  oh, well, that's not really productive. No, not
• 46:08
  really. It's not the stats. You gotta look at
• 46:10
  the tape. You're talking about somebody that
• 46:12
  is getting through and, you know, a guard in
• 46:16
  the center is basically double -teaming and he's
• 46:17
  still finding a way to get through. This is somebody
• 46:21
  that you're pairing him with Montez Sweat and
• 46:25
  Tremaine Edmonds and Jalen Johnson and Jaquan
• 46:28
  Brisker and, you know, all those other guys.
• 46:32
  That's a really productive defense. The Bears
• 46:36
  right now have really positioned themselves to
• 46:38
  be in a really good place. That division as a
• 46:41
  whole has really positioned themselves to be
• 46:44
  very competitive. I think the only question mark
• 46:47
  that we have is just the Lions. And that's only
• 46:50
  because they lost both Ben Johnson and Aaron
• 46:52
  Glenn this offseason. Outside of that, I think
• 46:56
  it's gonna be a very competitive division. Now
• 46:59
  we look at Evan Ingram, which was somewhat of
• 47:01
  a shocker. He goes to the Broncos. Two years,
• 47:05
  $23 million, $8 million signing bonus, $16 .5
• 47:09
  million guarantee, $11 .5 million a year. I did
• 47:13
  not expect for him to be released by the Jaguars,
• 47:15
  but he goes into a way better situation. This
• 47:18
  is another weapon for Bo Nix to throw to, okay?
• 47:21
  You have Courtland Sutton, as long as he doesn't,
• 47:24
  you know, hold out or anything. Evan Ingram,
• 47:27
  Bo Nix. This is a pretty good team. This is a
• 47:32
  really good team. people are tired of losing
• 47:36
  and some people just say you know what to hell
• 47:38
  with it we'll just go somewhere else and that's
• 47:40
  exactly what Evan Ingram did and he found himself
• 47:42
  another bag okay. Tylenol hefunga goes to the
• 47:47
  Broncos really good deal three years 45 million
• 47:49
  20 million guaranteed 15 million a year that's
• 47:52
  not bad at all When we look at his stats, 38
• 47:55
  tackles, he was targeted 8 times for 7 receptions
• 47:58
  for 112 yards. He's been one of those rising
• 48:02
  stars when it comes to safeties. And he probably
• 48:05
  could have demanded more money, but for him to
• 48:08
  take this deal is really good. He's still a really
• 48:11
  good competitive safety, and I think he's going
• 48:14
  to get better as his career progresses. Now,
• 48:18
  when we go to the Justin Field situation... I
• 48:21
  know it's a sensitive subject for some Steelers
• 48:23
  fans, but I'm gonna break things down in a way
• 48:25
  that you guys are gonna be able to understand
• 48:27
  it. So, before I get to that point, let's just
• 48:29
  get into the contract, okay? Two years, $40 million,
• 48:32
  a $15 million signing bonus, $30 million guarantee,
• 48:34
  and he'll be making $20 million a year, okay?
• 48:37
  His stats, 1 ,106 passing yards, five touchdowns,
• 48:42
  one pick, and 6 .9 yards per attempt. Now, when
• 48:45
  we look at this situation, okay? In some ways,
• 48:48
  this was a blessing in disguise for Justin Fields.
• 48:50
  And I'm going to explain why. Because had he
• 48:53
  played the entire season, I don't think he would
• 48:56
  have been able to get the money that he got.
• 48:59
  But because he played only six games, I think
• 49:03
  it left a lot of question marks for a lot of
• 49:06
  teams to say, you know what? I like that. I want
• 49:09
  to invest into that. Now, when we look at it
• 49:11
  from the Steelers perspective, in his mind, he
• 49:17
  got screwed over. In his mind, he was never given
• 49:22
  the keys to the kingdom. Because once he was
• 49:26
  traded, what was the first thing that Mike Thomas
• 49:28
  said? Russell Wilson has pole position of his
• 49:31
  team. Every single time. Every single time he
• 49:36
  was brought on for an interview or anytime anybody
• 49:38
  asked him anything related to quarterback. It
• 49:40
  was always what? Russell Wilson has the pole
• 49:44
  position. So automatically, you've already doubted
• 49:47
  me. You've already eliminated me from competition.
• 49:49
  You've already set the standard and you've already
• 49:52
  put the line in the sand and say, guess what?
• 49:54
  No matter what you do, no matter what stat you
• 49:58
  put up, Russell Wilson is going to be the guy.
• 50:02
  We're going to go back to Russell Wilson. And
• 50:05
  so for him, that probably, you know, made him
• 50:08
  feel some type of way. And then not to mention
• 50:10
  six games into the season, you pulled the plug
• 50:12
  for me. And then basically for the rest of the
• 50:15
  season, I'm on the bench. That's not good Especially
• 50:19
  during that five game stretch. You would have
• 50:22
  thought hey make a switch Maybe put Justin Fields
• 50:25
  in see you know see what happens No Not at all
• 50:31
  and so for him. He probably was like you know
• 50:34
  what the hell with them The Jets are offer me
• 50:37
  a better bag. I get to play with my former teammate
• 50:39
  and Garrett Wilson Let's see what happens. Now,
• 50:42
  the only problem that I have with this situation
• 50:44
  is the offensive coordinator. I don't think that
• 50:46
  offensive coordinator and Justin Fields are really
• 50:48
  going to match together because that offensive
• 50:52
  coordinator, his system is basically Ben Johnson's
• 50:55
  2 .0 with a few little tweaks and whatnot. And
• 50:59
  Justin Fields isn't really that fast of a processor,
• 51:02
  so I don't know how that's really going to work,
• 51:04
  but only time will tell, right? And so... when
• 51:09
  we look at this, I don't even think the Steelers
• 51:13
  were willing to really offer him the type of
• 51:15
  contract that he just signed with the Jets. I
• 51:18
  think they were gonna try to lowball him and
• 51:20
  basically try to say, hey listen, we'll bring
• 51:23
  you some good weapons and then see what happens
• 51:25
  and maybe something can work in your favor and
• 51:31
  we'll give you sort of like a trial just to...
• 51:34
  You know see what happens and then we'll go from
• 51:36
  there like it could have been that or they probably
• 51:39
  didn't promise him You know the the starting
• 51:42
  job And so if I'm Justin Fields, that's what
• 51:45
  I want I feel like I am a starting caliber quarterback
• 51:48
  and I will not argue with anybody that says otherwise
• 51:53
  But the fact of the matter is the Steelers screwed
• 51:55
  him the Steelers did not give him The adequate
• 52:00
  chance to actually really showcase his skill
• 52:03
  set if the Steelers would have said hey listen
• 52:05
  We're gonna give you the first half of the season
• 52:08
  and then Russ you get the second half of the
• 52:10
  season And then you guys come to a decision Okay,
• 52:14
  fine But you just deciding hey six games. We're
• 52:18
  gonna pull the plug for me when you only had
• 52:20
  two bad games Unacceptable, that's my time now.
• 52:24
  Let's get into the divisional Rodeo folks and
• 52:27
  we are in the NFC style so you already know how
• 52:31
  my spill goes okay salary free agents draft picks
• 52:35
  possessions of need and candidates for either
• 52:37
  restructure extension trades or cuts so we're
• 52:40
  going to start with the saints all right so you
• 52:42
  have a salary of 17 .1 million with a rollover
• 52:44
  cap of 2 .9 million okay Your free agents, Paul
• 52:48
  Snelledivo, Chase Young, Juwan Johnson, Will
• 52:51
  Harris, Marquez Valdez Gantling, Peyton Turner,
• 52:53
  and Dante Pettis, just to name a few. Your draft
• 52:56
  picks, of course you got your first, your second,
• 52:58
  you have two third round picks, you have two
• 53:00
  fourth round picks, you have a sixth, and you
• 53:02
  have a seventh. You don't have a fifth round
• 53:04
  pick. Positions of need, wide receiver, edge,
• 53:07
  corner, tight end, interior offensive line, and
• 53:09
  running back. This is what I'll say to start
• 53:12
  things off, specifically with the cap. I think...
• 53:16
  The number one red flag for this job was when
• 53:20
  a lot of those coaches decided not to take the
• 53:23
  interviews for the Saints. Once you saw Mike
• 53:27
  McCarthy and Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn and
• 53:30
  all those other coaches basically take their
• 53:33
  name out of the hat for this position. That lets
• 53:36
  you know that for one they didn't like how things
• 53:40
  were probably structured and two They don't like
• 53:42
  it how you're about to inherit a team where for
• 53:46
  one you have little to no cap space Sure, you
• 53:49
  have a high draft pick, but you don't have a
• 53:52
  lot of concrete pieces that you can build off
• 53:55
  of okay because For the last few years what have
• 54:00
  we seen? with the with the Saints You find a
• 54:06
  way to do a whole bunch of restructures you move
• 54:09
  a whole bunch of money and you do this indeed
• 54:12
  and you do that and you find a way just to create
• 54:15
  just a little bit of cash space where you can
• 54:17
  make one or two free agent signings and then
• 54:20
  you can sign your rookies at some point you're
• 54:23
  gonna have to clean your books and I think they
• 54:25
  should have went through the process of cleaning
• 54:28
  their books this year because Since the whole
• 54:32
  Drew Brees thing and whatnot. You've been doing
• 54:35
  the same method Restructure after restructure
• 54:38
  after restructure after restructure after restructure
• 54:40
  pushing money down the road further and further
• 54:43
  and further Well, guess what at some point the
• 54:46
  bus has to stop and it should have stopped here
• 54:49
  now Granted you have a high you have a high first
• 54:52
  -round pick, you know, you have the ninth pick
• 54:53
  in the draft great That's cool. But if you're
• 54:56
  a coach most of the times you inherit either
• 55:00
  one or two different situations a team that has
• 55:02
  a whole bunch of cap space like the Patriots
• 55:05
  or A team that has a high draft pick or the rarity
• 55:09
  where you inherit both Where you have a high
• 55:12
  draft pick and you have a lot of cap space the
• 55:14
  Patriots, but I don't know what it is I don't
• 55:17
  know if it has to do something with the GM and
• 55:19
  whatnot, but whatever the case may be It is something
• 55:23
  that I think needs to be talked about more and
• 55:26
  more because the Saints as a whole just have
• 55:29
  to go through a rebuild. Just do it. It's not
• 55:33
  going to hurt you. What do you have to lose?
• 55:37
  Drew Brees is gone. Sean Payton is gone. That
• 55:42
  whole crew is gone. All you have left is Chris
• 55:45
  Alave and Alvin Kamara. Taysom Hill might be,
• 55:49
  you know, out the window. Just saying. Sure,
• 55:52
  you have Cam Jordan and you have DeMario Davis,
• 55:54
  but they're up in age. They probably want to
• 55:58
  go somewhere and probably win. Why in the world
• 56:00
  would you not want to give them that chance?
• 56:03
  But when we go to positions of need, okay? Wide
• 56:06
  receiver, edge, cornerback, tight end, interior,
• 56:08
  offensive line, and running back. Okay, for a
• 56:11
  wide receiver, you can go about this a few different
• 56:16
  ways. Outside of Chris Elave, who else do you
• 56:18
  really have? Exactly, nobody. So you can either
• 56:23
  address it high in the first round, get someone
• 56:25
  like a Matthew Golden, a Mecca Bucca for instance,
• 56:28
  or you can take a swing at maybe the round two
• 56:33
  or round three range and probably get one of
• 56:36
  those type of receivers, which I probably would
• 56:38
  do personally. But you do have to bring in somebody
• 56:41
  else than just having Chris Alave. And Chris
• 56:44
  Alave has been having a lot of concussions lately.
• 56:47
  So that's something that you have to factor in
• 56:49
  as well. So, I think they need to be going after
• 56:52
  someone like a Matthew Golden or a Savion Williams
• 56:55
  or a Strap Row from Miami or Jayden Higgins or
• 57:01
  Jack Besh or any of those different guys. But
• 57:04
  you need to bring in somebody else instead of
• 57:07
  just throwing the ball 20 and 30 and 40 times
• 57:09
  to Chris O 'Loughlin, okay? Edge. You have to
• 57:13
  bring in a younger pass rusher. Sure, you have
• 57:17
  Ken Jordan and you have You know, Chase Young,
• 57:20
  great. But you need somebody else. All right.
• 57:24
  You need a little bit more production out of
• 57:27
  this defensive line because you invested a lot
• 57:29
  into it. Sure, you have Brian Breecy. You have
• 57:33
  you now got David Gottschall. You got Chase Young.
• 57:36
  You still have Kim Jordan. But you need one more
• 57:39
  really productive young. And I'm going to emphasize
• 57:42
  young, patch rusher, because if you don't, it's
• 57:46
  basically pointless. We are seeing now that teams
• 57:50
  want to invest more into pass rushers because
• 57:53
  why? They are the ones that are the game closers.
• 57:56
  They are the ones that are the game changers.
• 57:58
  They are the ones that can change the tide of
• 58:01
  an entire game with just one play. Exactly why
• 58:04
  the Eagles won, because of their pass rush, of
• 58:06
  their defensive line specifically. Now when we
• 58:09
  look at corner, I think you do have to prioritize
• 58:13
  corner high. Simply because okay you have a Kool
• 58:16
  -Aid McKinstry, but who else do you have and
• 58:19
  you just lost Paulson? Paulson the Debo to free
• 58:21
  agency so you need to you need to bring somebody
• 58:24
  in now For outside corner you may have to dress
• 58:28
  that in the first round You may have a chance
• 58:31
  to address in the second round, but do you really
• 58:33
  want to take that chance? I don't know because
• 58:36
  in the second round you have Darian Porter you'll
• 58:38
  have Who else? Who else? Who else? Who else?
• 58:42
  Quincy Riley. You may have Maxwell Harrison.
• 58:45
  You'll have a few people. Now in the first round,
• 58:48
  of course, you may have Will Johnson. You may
• 58:50
  have Siobhan Revel, Trey Amos, Benjamin Morrison.
• 58:53
  You'll have options. But you're going to have
• 58:56
  to make a significant investment into corner.
• 58:59
  At some point, whether it be this year or next
• 59:02
  year, you're going to have to do it. Tight end.
• 59:05
  I feel like this could be your first pick. simply
• 59:07
  because this is a really good tight end class.
• 59:09
  You have Tyler Warren, you have Colston Loveland,
• 59:12
  you have Harold Fanon Jr., you have the tight
• 59:16
  end from Miami, you have a few other tight ends
• 59:19
  that are really productive. You have Mason Taylor
• 59:21
  as well. So you have options at tight end and
• 59:24
  I think you need to do that now because Taysom
• 59:27
  Hill is coming from a serious injury and I think
• 59:30
  it's time that you move off of Taysom Hill. Because
• 59:35
  right now he's getting up in age and he's coming
• 59:38
  back from a very serious serious injury And so
• 59:41
  I think it's you go a little bit younger interior
• 59:44
  offensive line you have options But your options
• 59:49
  are possibly first rounders unfortunately Grey's
• 59:54
  able that's a first rounder Tyler Booker. That's
• 59:57
  a first rounder. Okay Sure, there's there's a
• 1:00:01
  few other you know really good interior all sense
• 1:00:03
  of alignment in the later parts of the draft
• 1:00:05
  But it's like those are the two that you probably
• 1:00:08
  want to go after now Do I think one of them will
• 1:00:11
  be drafted in the first round? Yes for sure.
• 1:00:13
  Do I think one of them may slip? Yes, there's
• 1:00:16
  a possibility, but if they do it's not by a lot
• 1:00:19
  Okay, they may be the first pick in the in the
• 1:00:21
  second round for all we know But I do feel like
• 1:00:24
  you do have to make that investment at some point.
• 1:00:27
  I think this is the year to do it Running back,
• 1:00:30
  yes. I think you do need to bring in a running
• 1:00:32
  back, not to take Ivan Kamara's job, but to basically
• 1:00:36
  help him. With this running back class being
• 1:00:38
  as good as it is, you need to go and get one.
• 1:00:42
  You can get Caleb Johnson, Devin Neal, Taj Brooks,
• 1:00:46
  Damian Martinez, who else, who else, who else,
• 1:00:49
  RJ Harvey. You have a plethora of... Options
• 1:00:53
  when it comes to running back honestly when it
• 1:00:55
  comes to any of these positions But the question
• 1:00:58
  is which position do you want to address first
• 1:01:00
  in the draft me personally? I would say tight
• 1:01:03
  end. I think if you get Tyler Warren With their
• 1:01:07
  car. I think that would help out a lot Instead
• 1:01:10
  of you know putting Chris Alave in harm's way
• 1:01:13
  and throwing basically, you know hospital balls
• 1:01:16
  at him like No bringing a tight end or really
• 1:01:19
  productive, you know tight end. I think that
• 1:01:21
  would actually help out a lot Wide receiver,
• 1:01:24
  you can address that. Maybe the second or third
• 1:01:26
  round. Same thing with corner if you want to.
• 1:01:29
  Edge, you could probably do the same thing as
• 1:01:30
  well. You have Landon Jackson. You have Mike
• 1:01:33
  Green, which he may be a first round pick. You
• 1:01:36
  have James Pierce. You have the pass rusher from...
• 1:01:40
  Was it Alabama if I'm not mistaken I forgot what
• 1:01:43
  his first name is I know his last name is like
• 1:01:45
  Robinson like you have options You have a low
• 1:01:48
  you have a whole lot of options now when we look
• 1:01:50
  at candidates for restructure extension trays
• 1:01:53
  and cuts taste them hill I'm sorry. I have to
• 1:01:55
  cut you like I just said a few minutes ago. You're
• 1:01:58
  coming back from a serious leg injury and You're
• 1:02:02
  getting up in age and we need to get and this
• 1:02:04
  is a really good tight end class So your replacement
• 1:02:06
  will be drafted fairly high onto Chris Alave.
• 1:02:10
  So his market value was a little bit of a shocker,
• 1:02:13
  okay? His market value is three years, 53 .4
• 1:02:16
  million, which is 17 .8 million a year. I would
• 1:02:20
  have thought it would have been like 20, maybe
• 1:02:21
  25 million, but spot red may see something that
• 1:02:25
  I don't see, but I think if you do this now,
• 1:02:29
  you save yourself some money. Because if he has
• 1:02:31
  a baller of a season, We all know you're gonna
• 1:02:34
  have to pay more. You may have to pay twice,
• 1:02:37
  maybe even three times more, okay? Chase Young,
• 1:02:40
  extension. His market value, four years, 70 .1
• 1:02:44
  million, which is 17 .5 million a year. His actual
• 1:02:47
  extension was three years, 51 million, which
• 1:02:50
  is 17 million a year. So, all in all, it was
• 1:02:53
  around the same ballpark, which is not really
• 1:02:56
  bad. He's definitely trying to find a home. and
• 1:03:00
  I think New Orleans has definitely brought the
• 1:03:03
  best out of him since being with Washington,
• 1:03:05
  so let's just see what happens with this, okay?
• 1:03:09
  Now, all in all, from a team perspective, I think
• 1:03:14
  the number one thing that the Saints need to
• 1:03:15
  do is clean up your books. You have gone way
• 1:03:19
  too long of trying to just kick the can and trying
• 1:03:24
  to figure out, okay, how many restructures do
• 1:03:26
  we need to do just to be under CAP compliance?
• 1:03:29
  No. It's time for you to chip away some of some
• 1:03:32
  of that fat and get rid of any of those large
• 1:03:36
  Contracts that are plaguing you and clean up
• 1:03:39
  your books so that you can have a dense of cat
• 1:03:42
  space that way you can really Make some moves
• 1:03:44
  and really position yourself to be a really good
• 1:03:47
  team like you have been in the in the past But
• 1:03:50
  you can't do that if you continue to do restructure
• 1:03:52
  restructure restructure at some point That snowball
• 1:03:56
  is going to go from a little baby snowball to
• 1:03:59
  just this behemoth of a monster. And you don't
• 1:04:02
  want that. You don't want to be like the Browns
• 1:04:04
  who are basically in cap hell every single year
• 1:04:06
  and then find a way to get out of it just so
• 1:04:08
  they can go right back into it. You don't want
• 1:04:10
  that. Now, you did bring in a good coach. Let's
• 1:04:15
  see what happens with that. A little bit optimistic
• 1:04:18
  with it, but... Little bit worried, but we'll
• 1:04:20
  see what happens now the Panthers salary thirty
• 1:04:23
  six point one million rollover cap of four hundred
• 1:04:25
  and eighty four excuse me four hundred and ninety
• 1:04:28
  thousand three hundred and sixty eight dollars
• 1:04:30
  Okay, your free agents Andy Dalton Austin Corbett
• 1:04:34
  Brady Christensen Tommy Trimble Ian Thomas Philippe
• 1:04:38
  Franks David Moore Mike Boone Deshaun Williams
• 1:04:40
  Can Gill Shaq Thompson Mike Jackson Caleb Farrie
• 1:04:43
  Farley excuse me and Xavier was just to name
• 1:04:46
  a few okay Your draft picks you got your first
• 1:04:49
  your second your third you have two fourth round
• 1:04:51
  picks you have three fifth round picks You don't
• 1:04:54
  have a six, but you do have a seventh round pick.
• 1:04:56
  Okay positions of need I was a little bit stuck
• 1:04:58
  with this one. Okay wide receiver edge running
• 1:05:02
  back I was going to put tight end, but I was
• 1:05:05
  like, yeah They resigned Tommy Trimble. Yeah,
• 1:05:09
  I mean they had Jatavion Sanders as well to two
• 1:05:12
  really good productive tight ends and no need
• 1:05:15
  so when we look at this Me personally, and this
• 1:05:20
  is just my opinion, I could be wrong, I think
• 1:05:24
  they've done a good job this offseason so far.
• 1:05:27
  You've addressed the defense hard. You re -signed
• 1:05:31
  your number one corner. You've got some defensive
• 1:05:34
  linemen. You've brought in Trevon Moray. You've
• 1:05:37
  done some things, okay? But at this point, it's
• 1:05:41
  time for you to shift your focus to offense.
• 1:05:44
  Because that has been your problem for the last
• 1:05:46
  few years now. is the offense and so if we really
• 1:05:50
  want this Bryce Young experiment to work you
• 1:05:53
  have to give him adequate weapons especially
• 1:05:56
  with him being a smaller quarterback you have
• 1:05:59
  to give him better protection and you have to
• 1:06:01
  give him better weapons that is the only way
• 1:06:03
  that he is going to be able to survive he showed
• 1:06:05
  a lot of grit after being benched because during
• 1:06:10
  that first half of the season I was definitely
• 1:06:12
  under the impression that he was going to get
• 1:06:14
  traded because he was not playing well He looked
• 1:06:17
  like a deer in headlights at some games and he
• 1:06:19
  was getting just destroyed left and right. But
• 1:06:23
  the Panthers believed in him. They gave him time
• 1:06:25
  to work on his game and try to figure out, okay,
• 1:06:28
  what can we do to make you better? And ultimately
• 1:06:32
  it paid off. That second half of the season for
• 1:06:34
  the Panthers was amazing. They looked like a
• 1:06:37
  team that was together that they could defeat
• 1:06:40
  any team that they was going up against. That
• 1:06:42
  game against the Giants, and then what was it,
• 1:06:44
  either London or Germany? It was a really good
• 1:06:46
  game. That was a down to the wire type of game.
• 1:06:50
  That showed you, okay, Bryce Young has it. You
• 1:06:53
  just have to build off of that momentum. And
• 1:06:56
  so right now, you're at a crossroads where you
• 1:06:59
  have to figure out, okay, do we want to emphasize
• 1:07:01
  edge in the first round, or do we want to emphasize
• 1:07:03
  wide receiver in the first round? Excuse me.
• 1:07:06
  But the problem with this, as I've said before
• 1:07:09
  in previous episodes, and I will continue to
• 1:07:11
  say this until the birds come home, the receiver
• 1:07:14
  class in the first round specifically is not
• 1:07:17
  as strong as it has been in the last few years.
• 1:07:20
  But with the edge class, there's a lot of question
• 1:07:23
  marks with a lot of these prospects. Because
• 1:07:26
  some of these prospects were both outside linebackers
• 1:07:29
  and inside linebackers. Some of them were just
• 1:07:32
  lined up on the edge. It's a whole lot of uncertainty
• 1:07:35
  with certain people. Not to mention you have
• 1:07:39
  certain red flags that are starting to emerge
• 1:07:41
  with certain players. For instance, like James
• 1:07:44
  Pierce. Apparently he has a quote unquote attitude
• 1:07:46
  problem. I don't know why it's just coming out
• 1:07:49
  of all of a sudden now, but it's just a little
• 1:07:51
  bit weird. Okay. You have one of the Georgia
• 1:07:54
  edge rushers who they didn't even participate
• 1:07:57
  at their pro day. So you already know their draft
• 1:07:59
  stock is going to fall a little bit. So you're
• 1:08:01
  in a position where right now, yes, you have
• 1:08:03
  a high pick. You have, you have the eighth pick
• 1:08:06
  in the draft and you want to maximize that pick.
• 1:08:10
  So again, Panthers, what are you going to emphasize
• 1:08:14
  first receiver or edge? Because the problem with
• 1:08:20
  this is you can go about this a few different
• 1:08:22
  ways honestly You could go you can get someone
• 1:08:25
  like a Mike Green and James Pierce Jalen Walker
• 1:08:28
  Michael Williams Jihad Campbell if you want to
• 1:08:31
  you could do that or you could take a swing and
• 1:08:34
  maybe get somebody pretty high, you know, Matthew
• 1:08:36
  Golden or Luther Burden or a Tetsuro McMillan
• 1:08:39
  or a Mecca Bucca You could do that. So I say
• 1:08:44
  all that to say this Whoever they choose in the
• 1:08:48
  first round they're probably going to double
• 1:08:50
  dip in the second round for the other position
• 1:08:53
  so me personally my My thinking is they'll probably
• 1:08:58
  emphasize edge first and then they'll double
• 1:09:01
  dip at receiver because right now all they have
• 1:09:03
  is just Xavier LeGette and Adam Thielen both
• 1:09:05
  of whom are coming off of surgery so If you get
• 1:09:10
  someone like a Jayden Higgins and then you get
• 1:09:12
  someone else like a Jack Besh or Tess Johnson,
• 1:09:15
  Isaiah Bond or who else, who else, who else,
• 1:09:18
  who else? I know there's a few others, but Ty
• 1:09:21
  Filton for instance, if you get any of those
• 1:09:23
  guys and then you add to what you already have,
• 1:09:26
  that makes things a little bit better compared
• 1:09:29
  to not doing anything and just saying, okay,
• 1:09:32
  we did enough and let's just see what happens.
• 1:09:34
  No. Bryce Young is somebody that needs adequate
• 1:09:38
  weapons. Granted yes, Adam Thielen is coming
• 1:09:40
  back and he has shown a little bit of resurgence
• 1:09:43
  in his career But at the same time you have to
• 1:09:46
  continue to build and you have to give more weapons
• 1:09:49
  to your quarterback now running back Running
• 1:09:52
  back is a position that you can go about this
• 1:09:54
  a few different ways as well You can address
• 1:09:57
  it high in the second round or you can wait to
• 1:09:59
  maybe the fourth or fifth round if you want to
• 1:10:01
  Okay, because again, this is a really big Diverse
• 1:10:06
  running back class. Okay. It's not just a bunch
• 1:10:08
  of speedy running backs or a bunch of power backs
• 1:10:11
  like no you have Options. Okay, if you want a
• 1:10:14
  receiving back, there's one in there if you want
• 1:10:16
  a bruiser There's one in there if you want someone
• 1:10:19
  that can do everything. There's one in there
• 1:10:22
  Okay, so do you want to go after someone like
• 1:10:24
  a Mario or Hampton? Do you want to go after someone
• 1:10:26
  like a Devon Neil? Do you want to go after someone
• 1:10:28
  like a Taj Brooks a? RJ Harvey, who do you want
• 1:10:32
  to go with? Because as of right now, I think
• 1:10:35
  if you build off of what you have already with
• 1:10:39
  Chubba Hubbard, I think that would be great.
• 1:10:42
  Because if you pair Chubba Hubbard with, for
• 1:10:44
  instance, I don't know, Caleb Johnson or Omarion
• 1:10:47
  Hampton or Dylan Sampson, for instance, that's
• 1:10:51
  a pretty good run game. So I saw that to say
• 1:10:54
  this. Panthers continue to build. while at the
• 1:10:57
  same time emphasizing and giving Bryce Young
• 1:11:00
  more weapons. The more weapons that you give
• 1:11:02
  Bryce Young, the better results that you will
• 1:11:05
  get from him. And please, please, please, please,
• 1:11:08
  rely on the run game a little bit more too. Because
• 1:11:11
  again, you had Trevor Hubbard. Trevor Hubbard
• 1:11:13
  was playing really well. Rely on that run game.
• 1:11:16
  You want to be able to take the ball. out of
• 1:11:19
  Bryce Young's hands as much as possible. You
• 1:11:22
  don't want him to hold onto the ball as long
• 1:11:25
  as he did in the first half of the season. No,
• 1:11:27
  just do whatever. If it means you gotta give
• 1:11:29
  him another tight end, if it means you gotta
• 1:11:31
  give him another running back, whatever it is,
• 1:11:34
  just. do it okay but we have a little bit of
• 1:11:36
  some breaking news okay and that is derrick stingley
• 1:11:40
  has reset the cornerback market folks so he just
• 1:11:43
  inked a three -year 90 million dollar deal 89
• 1:11:48
  million guaranteed he'll be making 30 million
• 1:11:51
  a year okay when we look at his stats he was
• 1:11:53
  targeted 90 times and allowed 42 receptions for
• 1:11:57
  444 receiving yards for and five touchdowns okay
• 1:12:01
  he also had five picks Folks the price of the
• 1:12:06
  brick just went up. Okay, if You're sauce if
• 1:12:09
  you're a Tyree coolin if you're Isaiah McDuffie,
• 1:12:13
  and you're looking at this. Oh, this is a good
• 1:12:15
  day for you. Oh Yes, this is this is a Immaculate
• 1:12:19
  day for you because you know why the price just
• 1:12:22
  went up just a few more dollars and JC horn just
• 1:12:26
  reset the market this past week and Now Derek
• 1:12:30
  Stanley is doing it. So now The bar is set high
• 1:12:33
  where basically either Sausage is going to reset
• 1:12:36
  the market again, Isaiah McDuffie or Tyree Cullen.
• 1:12:39
  One of those three is going to reset the market.
• 1:12:42
  Now the question is who's going to do it? Now
• 1:12:45
  I can tell you this right now, the Chiefs are
• 1:12:47
  not going to pay McDuffie. I can assure you they
• 1:12:51
  will not be able to afford him. So most likely
• 1:12:54
  I wouldn't be surprised if he gets traded soon.
• 1:12:56
  Simply because they can't afford them because
• 1:12:58
  you're paying top dollar to patch my homes Travis
• 1:13:01
  Kelsey and Chris Jones so You got lots of you
• 1:13:07
  Man, you got a lot of tough decisions that you
• 1:13:09
  have to make you've already traded away one corner
• 1:13:12
  Because you guys couldn't afford him. So what
• 1:13:15
  are you gonna do now now for the Jets? You're
• 1:13:19
  staring at a bullet as well because why? You
• 1:13:22
  could have You could have taken care of this
• 1:13:25
  prior to this happening now that this has happened
• 1:13:28
  and if sauce has a crazy year we are talking
• 1:13:33
  about someone that is going to probably get 32
• 1:13:35
  maybe 33 million a year same thing with tari
• 1:13:37
  cool so if i'm a gm i'm a little bit frustrated
• 1:13:42
  this morning i'm a little bit angry this morning
• 1:13:44
  because why the prices went up so that means
• 1:13:47
  that the agents now they can go and say hey listen
• 1:13:51
  My client wants to do X Y Z my client wants this
• 1:13:54
  number this number just just went up Just it's
• 1:13:59
  just saying man just just saying but we also
• 1:14:01
  have some other breaking news that we have to
• 1:14:03
  talk about well It broke last night, but it's
• 1:14:05
  somewhat breaking this morning now that everybody
• 1:14:08
  is up in and whatnot T Higgins and Jamar Chase
• 1:14:11
  will be staying in Cincinnati Now when we look
• 1:14:15
  at these deals, okay, let's just start with T
• 1:14:17
  Higgins. So T Higgins inked a four -year $115
• 1:14:20
  million deal, which is $28 .7 million a year,
• 1:14:24
  okay? When we look at his stats, 73 receptions
• 1:14:27
  for 911 receiving yards, 10 touchdowns, and 12
• 1:14:31
  .5 receiving yards per reception. I was right.
• 1:14:36
  I was right. I knew for a fact that they were
• 1:14:39
  not going to crest over 30 million for T Higgins.
• 1:14:42
  He couldn't demand it. So all in all this is
• 1:14:46
  a really good deal for T Higgins. Now the thing
• 1:14:48
  is this according to Jordan Schultz The only
• 1:14:52
  years that are guaranteed are the first two years
• 1:14:55
  so What does that mean moving forward? I don't
• 1:14:59
  know, but that's just a little bit weird for
• 1:15:01
  me. Keep your eye on that Okay, put a bookmark
• 1:15:03
  on that. All right now Jamar chase, you know
• 1:15:05
  reset in the market. Okay four years 161 million
• 1:15:09
  he was making forty point two million a year.
• 1:15:12
  Okay his uh receptions his stats before we get
• 1:15:16
  to receptions 127 receptions for 1708 receiving
• 1:15:21
  yards 17 touchdowns and 13 .4 receiving yards
• 1:15:25
  per reception folks this is somebody that deserved
• 1:15:28
  the bag they didn't want to pay him last year
• 1:15:31
  he was like okay cool it's perfectly fine i'm
• 1:15:33
  gonna take a risk on myself and in doing so he
• 1:15:35
  won the triple crown and now he had a reset of
• 1:15:38
  the market folks jamar chase is that guy Hate
• 1:15:42
  to say it but Jamar chase is that guy? He is
• 1:15:47
  a dog and He is doing this in a very tough division
• 1:15:53
  and he is holding his own Great for them, but
• 1:15:58
  it's bad for the Bengals. Okay, and the reason
• 1:16:01
  why I say that is because You now have allocated
• 1:16:05
  at least 50 % or maybe even more of your cap
• 1:16:09
  space to three players Not to mention, you also
• 1:16:13
  have to find a way to pay who? Trey Hendrickson
• 1:16:16
  as well. Not to mention, because there's a little
• 1:16:19
  bit more with this, you haven't been really hitting
• 1:16:22
  on your draft picks lately, defensively. So right
• 1:16:25
  now, this means that for the rest of your team,
• 1:16:29
  everybody's probably going to be through the
• 1:16:31
  draft. So right now, if I'm the Bengals moving
• 1:16:35
  forward, if I'm the front office, scouts, whomever,
• 1:16:38
  We have to emphasize on better scouting and better
• 1:16:43
  drafting. Because that is the only way that they
• 1:16:47
  can mitigate the effects of these three deals.
• 1:16:50
  Because Joe Burrow is getting paid top dollar.
• 1:16:53
  Jamar Chase is getting paid top dollar. T Higgins
• 1:16:55
  is getting paid top dollar. All three of these
• 1:16:58
  guys are getting paid top dollar. And we're not
• 1:17:00
  even, we don't even know what's gonna happen
• 1:17:01
  with Trey Hendrickson. So you have to be able
• 1:17:04
  to start hitting on your draft picks. Because
• 1:17:07
  right now your defense is atrocious. Okay, Mike
• 1:17:11
  Hilton gone I couldn't even uh, who's who's there?
• 1:17:15
  Who's there? Who's there? Cam Taylor Brett is
• 1:17:17
  still there. Okay, that's fine out of him Who
• 1:17:20
  else do you have during your draft and miles
• 1:17:22
  Murphy maybe about two or three years ago? Okay,
• 1:17:25
  that that's fine. You resigned BJ Hill from free
• 1:17:28
  agency great But outside of that who else do
• 1:17:31
  you have nobody Jermaine Pratt still wants to
• 1:17:34
  get traded The other linebacker I forgot his
• 1:17:38
  name. I don't I couldn't even tell you I know
• 1:17:41
  his last name is Wilson I don't even know what's
• 1:17:44
  going on with him What exactly do the Bengals
• 1:17:48
  have defensively that makes people say that's
• 1:17:50
  gonna be a problem It's mainly the offense if
• 1:17:53
  this team does not score a 30 plus points a game.
• 1:17:56
  They're going to lose They're going to lose more
• 1:17:59
  games than win. So It's great for T Higgins and
• 1:18:03
  Jamar Chase. It's a great day for them But it's
• 1:18:05
  a horrible day for the Bengals coaching staff
• 1:18:07
  because now they have to figure out what can
• 1:18:09
  they do to? Maximize what they have on on defense.
• 1:18:14
  I would not be surprised if this entire draft
• 1:18:17
  is Just strictly just defensive players. That's
• 1:18:20
  how bad their defense is gonna be this year,
• 1:18:22
  but let's get back into the divisional rodeo
• 1:18:27
  Folks and we have to go over The candidates for
• 1:18:31
  either restructure, extension, trades, and cuts
• 1:18:33
  for the Panthers. You thought I was done with
• 1:18:35
  the Panthers? No, we are not. I just had to break
• 1:18:37
  that news, okay? So when we look at it, Taylor
• 1:18:39
  Morton, you could probably give him an extension.
• 1:18:42
  When we look at his market value, according to
• 1:18:44
  the spot rack, it's only three years, 50 .7 million,
• 1:18:46
  which is only 16 .9 million a year. He's been
• 1:18:50
  a pretty good right tackle. I mean, you might
• 1:18:53
  as well just want to keep him and make him a
• 1:18:55
  Panther for life. Might as well. Jadevion Clowney,
• 1:18:58
  extension. Question mark. And the only reason
• 1:19:01
  why I say that is because Do you want to continue
• 1:19:05
  to have Jadavia Clowney on the team or do you
• 1:19:08
  want to get younger and a little bit cheaper?
• 1:19:10
  That's the question because right now his market
• 1:19:13
  value is estimated at two years 22 .8 million,
• 1:19:17
  which is 11 .4 million a year. That's not bad
• 1:19:20
  That's actually pretty good. Okay to me that
• 1:19:22
  seems team friendly ish, but the question is
• 1:19:27
  How does the Panthers feel about Jadevion Clowney
• 1:19:29
  right now? Do they want him to play out the rest
• 1:19:32
  of his deal or do they want to try to, you know,
• 1:19:35
  lock things up and just have him retire as a
• 1:19:38
  Panther? That's the question moving forward.
• 1:19:40
  Equine Equanu, either an extension or pick up
• 1:19:44
  his fifth year option. One of the two. But if
• 1:19:47
  you pick up his fifth year option that buys you
• 1:19:50
  another year, but at the same time you run the
• 1:19:52
  risk of possibly paying more than what you probably
• 1:19:55
  could have paid right now. So all in all, you
• 1:20:01
  do have, you know, two tackles that are probably
• 1:20:03
  going to be looking to get paid. You do have
• 1:20:04
  an edge rusher that you could probably pay right
• 1:20:06
  now. It's not that bad. OK, they've made a lot
• 1:20:10
  of investment into the defense this offseason.
• 1:20:13
  So will that trend continue? I don't know, but
• 1:20:16
  hopefully they make some more investments into
• 1:20:19
  the offense, please. Bryce Young's ankle now
• 1:20:22
  on to the Buccaneers Okay, so their salary cap
• 1:20:25
  negative nine point four million with a rollover
• 1:20:27
  cap of six point six million free agents Chase
• 1:20:31
  Edmonds William Goldston Shag Barrett Troy Hill
• 1:20:34
  Sterling Shepard will actually he just ain't
• 1:20:35
  an extension I think late last week Bryce Hall
• 1:20:38
  Mike Edwards Eric Bates Ryan Neil and Jordan
• 1:20:41
  Whitehead just to name a few okay draft picks
• 1:20:44
  They got their first their second their third
• 1:20:46
  their fourth their fifth. They don't have a sixth
• 1:20:49
  and they do have a seventh round pick, okay?
• 1:20:51
  Positions of knee, edge, interior offensive line,
• 1:20:54
  tight end, corner, safety. Now this is probably
• 1:20:56
  a little bit controversial, but I really don't
• 1:20:58
  care because why? We like controversy over here
• 1:21:00
  at the Football Junkies podcast, okay? So with
• 1:21:03
  edge, yes, you could do it in the first round.
• 1:21:09
  The question is, who do you really like out of
• 1:21:12
  all these edge rushers, okay? Because you have
• 1:21:15
  options, you have... Mike Green, you have James
• 1:21:17
  Pierce, you have Michael Williams, you have Jalen
• 1:21:19
  Walker, you have Shamar Stewart, you have Lyndon
• 1:21:22
  Jackson, you have the patch rusher from Boston
• 1:21:26
  College as well, you have the patch rusher from
• 1:21:28
  Alabama, you have options, okay? The question
• 1:21:32
  is this, do you want to invest a first round
• 1:21:35
  pick in Edge? Me personally, maybe not. There
• 1:21:40
  is a position that I did leave out. I want to
• 1:21:43
  run with you guys. I just need you to walk with
• 1:21:45
  me for a second. Okay, just hear me out linebacker
• 1:21:49
  inside linebacker and the only reason why I say
• 1:21:52
  that is because The Buccaneers have had a rich
• 1:21:55
  history when it comes to their linebackers from
• 1:21:58
  Derek Brooks to Levante David To even Derek White
• 1:22:02
  when when he was actually playing pretty good
• 1:22:04
  they have emphasized middle linebacker and so
• 1:22:10
  You have someone like Jiha Campbell who you probably
• 1:22:13
  could get I'm just saying the Vonte David is
• 1:22:18
  Year -to -year at this point in his career. Okay,
• 1:22:21
  if you bring in someone like a Jiha Campbell
• 1:22:23
  I think that would be great because Levante David
• 1:22:26
  can show him the Buccaneers way it can show him.
• 1:22:29
  Hey, this is how I You know run the defense is
• 1:22:32
  how I you know do the play calling and you know
• 1:22:35
  this I work with you know this side and that
• 1:22:37
  side all those different things because Outside
• 1:22:41
  of jihad Campbell and outside Levante David who
• 1:22:44
  else do you really have on the Buccaneers as
• 1:22:47
  far as the interior? Linebacker core that you
• 1:22:50
  can really rely on sure you can bring back Devon
• 1:22:53
  White, but does Devon White really want to come
• 1:22:54
  back I don't know now back to the position of
• 1:22:58
  me that I listed okay? Interior offensive line,
• 1:23:02
  two names, Gray Zabel, Tyler Booker. Those two
• 1:23:06
  right there, to me, are first rounders. So the
• 1:23:09
  question is this, do you want to put a first
• 1:23:13
  round pick on an interior offensive lineman?
• 1:23:15
  Personally, I would, because Tyler Booker...
• 1:23:18
  I love his mentality. His mentality is, I'm going
• 1:23:22
  to impose my will upon you. I am going to crush
• 1:23:26
  you. I am going to dominate you. From the minute
• 1:23:29
  the ball is hiked, I am putting you in the ground.
• 1:23:33
  That is his mindset. Gray Zabel, I love his positional
• 1:23:38
  flexibility. Gray Zabel originally is considered
• 1:23:42
  a tackle, but during the combine, they had him
• 1:23:44
  practicing a lot of them. Interior stuff as well
• 1:23:47
  as doing center snaps and then in the senior
• 1:23:50
  bowl as well. They had him inside at guard So
• 1:23:53
  I think getting someone like a gray sable could
• 1:23:55
  possibly work as well but the question is How
• 1:24:00
  high do you want to emphasize interior offensive
• 1:24:02
  line now me personally? This is my personal opinion.
• 1:24:04
  I always emphasize offensive line very high because
• 1:24:09
  The offensive line is the nucleus of the offense.
• 1:24:14
  Okay, really think about this for a second And
• 1:24:16
  somebody else explained that I forgot what video
• 1:24:20
  it was, but they basically broke it down like
• 1:24:22
  this. Without the offensive line, the quarterback
• 1:24:26
  can't do his job. The receiver can't get the
• 1:24:28
  ball. The running back can do his job. The tight
• 1:24:31
  end can't do his job. Nobody else can do their
• 1:24:33
  job without what? The offensive line. So you
• 1:24:36
  have to make sure that the offensive line is
• 1:24:38
  good enough for everybody else to do their role.
• 1:24:42
  And so we have seen with the Eagles. in recent
• 1:24:45
  years how they emphasize both the offensive and
• 1:24:48
  defensive line so much and it's paid off phenomenally
• 1:24:51
  because why? quarterback play is really good
• 1:24:54
  so i think you have to make that investment at
• 1:24:56
  some point now you could wait into the second
• 1:25:02
  or third round if you want to because i don't
• 1:25:04
  think both of them will be drafted in the first
• 1:25:06
  round But do you really want to take that risk
• 1:25:09
  because there are some really good interior offensive
• 1:25:12
  linemen in the second and third round I'm not
• 1:25:14
  just discounting them as well, but it's just
• 1:25:16
  something about Tyler Booker and Graves Able
• 1:25:18
  that just Separate themselves from everybody
• 1:25:21
  else. Okay. Now when we look at tight end tight
• 1:25:24
  end is something that you can address in the
• 1:25:26
  first three rounds Okay. Now with the first round
• 1:25:29
  you have options with both Tyler Warren and Colston
• 1:25:31
  Loveland In the second round, you have Harold
• 1:25:33
  Fanon Jr., Mason Taylor, and the tight end from
• 1:25:37
  Miami. So you have options there, okay? Me personally,
• 1:25:41
  I think if you bring in someone like a Tyler
• 1:25:44
  Warren, or Harold Fanon Jr., or Colston Loveland,
• 1:25:48
  I think it would make Baker Mayfield's job a
• 1:25:50
  lot easier because remember, when Baker was in
• 1:25:52
  Cleveland, who did he have that tied in? David
• 1:25:54
  Njoku. And so I think if you bring in someone
• 1:25:57
  like a David Njoku in, not saying... the real
• 1:26:01
  David and Joku, but bringing someone like a Tyler
• 1:26:03
  Warren or Colston Loveland, I think that will
• 1:26:05
  work out as well. Because this offense is really
• 1:26:08
  good, you just have to continue to build off
• 1:26:10
  of it, okay? Corner, yes, corner. Here's the
• 1:26:17
  problem with corner, okay? There's not as many
• 1:26:21
  first round degraded corners in this draft. And
• 1:26:24
  the people that are graded as first rounders,
• 1:26:26
  to me, will probably fall. And the reason why
• 1:26:29
  I say that is because, for one, injury red flags,
• 1:26:35
  okay? Will Johnson, injury red flags, Benjamin
• 1:26:38
  Morrison, injury red flags, Siobhan Revel coming
• 1:26:40
  off an ACL injury. Trey Amos is the only one
• 1:26:43
  that's not really being talked about this much
• 1:26:45
  that I love that I think he could probably be
• 1:26:47
  a first rounder for sure. So... Outside of those
• 1:26:50
  guys, and oh, I forgot Ezra Thomas as well, but
• 1:26:53
  some people say Ezra Thomas is a second -rounder.
• 1:26:56
  I don't see how. Jade Baron and Maxwell Harrison,
• 1:27:00
  to me, are probably first -round and graded corners.
• 1:27:04
  Everybody else, you can make an argument for,
• 1:27:07
  but I feel like those two, those are for sure
• 1:27:11
  first -rounders in my book. I think you do need
• 1:27:15
  to make a high investment into corner at this
• 1:27:18
  point. But at the same time, if you don't want
• 1:27:21
  to address in the first round, that's perfectly
• 1:27:22
  fine. You can address in the second round, because
• 1:27:24
  you have Darian Porter, you have Kobe Bryant,
• 1:27:27
  you have Quincy Riley, you have Ezra Thomas,
• 1:27:30
  because I think Ezra Thomas may fall. I think
• 1:27:32
  Siobhan Revel may fall. I think Benjamin Morrison
• 1:27:34
  may fall out of the first round as well. So you
• 1:27:37
  have options there as well, but I feel like you
• 1:27:39
  do need to make an emphasis into, okay. Now safety,
• 1:27:44
  safety's a little bit tricky. Because sure you
• 1:27:47
  have Antoine landfill junior, but you still need
• 1:27:51
  to bring in somebody else. Okay, Jordan Whitehead
• 1:27:54
  I Don't think they're probably gonna bring them
• 1:27:57
  back if they do it'll probably be somewhat of
• 1:27:59
  like a mid camp signing Honestly, but if that
• 1:28:03
  doesn't happen, I feel like you do need a draft
• 1:28:05
  one And so you do have options, you know, you
• 1:28:07
  have you have a man from South Carolina You know
• 1:28:10
  I'm saying you can get him That could be your
• 1:28:12
  first rounder, okay? You have Malachi Starks.
• 1:28:16
  You also have the safety from Penn State. You
• 1:28:19
  have the safety from Saxis. Makuba, I think,
• 1:28:23
  is his last name. You have Malachi Moore from
• 1:28:25
  Alabama. You have options at safety. And so,
• 1:28:29
  if you don't want to dress in the first round,
• 1:28:31
  that's perfectly fine. I feel like all those
• 1:28:33
  other safeties will be available in the second
• 1:28:35
  and third round as well. But all in all, Think
• 1:28:39
  the point that I'm trying to get with the Buccaneers
• 1:28:41
  is you have Flexibility with with what positions
• 1:28:45
  that you want to address first, okay? I think
• 1:28:48
  that's the the main takeaway of this Because
• 1:28:51
  they're in a position where sure they don't have
• 1:28:53
  to address this position in that position high
• 1:28:55
  in the first round They can wait if they if they
• 1:28:58
  really want to but at the same time I feel like
• 1:29:01
  whatever the position that you're trying to address
• 1:29:04
  first in the first round Think you need to be
• 1:29:06
  a little bit aggressive with it Okay, because
• 1:29:09
  you have the 19th pick which is sort of like
• 1:29:12
  middle of the pack sort of low But at the same
• 1:29:16
  time you're still in a good spot where if you
• 1:29:18
  wanted to You can move up two or three spots
• 1:29:20
  and you can go and get your guy That's just me
• 1:29:23
  personally. Okay now when we look at candidates
• 1:29:26
  for restructure extension trades and cuts me
• 1:29:29
  personally I feel like the Buccaneers have to
• 1:29:32
  find a way to create some cash base because again,
• 1:29:35
  free agency is not over with, okay? That's just
• 1:29:37
  the first wave. We all know the first wave is
• 1:29:39
  somewhat of the biggest wave, okay? That's when
• 1:29:41
  our phones are blowing up and everything. But
• 1:29:44
  you still have free agency. So with that in mind,
• 1:29:47
  you want to have a little bit of money to play
• 1:29:49
  with, okay? So Cade Odden, you can give him an
• 1:29:52
  extension, okay? His market value is not that
• 1:29:54
  high. Three years, $36 .5 million, which is only
• 1:29:57
  $12 .2 million a year. That's not bad. That's
• 1:29:59
  actually really good, okay? Baker Mayfield, I
• 1:30:02
  feel like you can restructure his deal, create
• 1:30:04
  a little bit of cap space. Vita Vea, you can
• 1:30:07
  either do an extension or you can do a restructure
• 1:30:09
  with his deal. Sterling Shepard, we already know
• 1:30:12
  he signed an extension with the Buccaneers to
• 1:30:16
  stay with him. But all in all, I trust the Buccaneers,
• 1:30:20
  okay? The Buccaneers in recent years have definitely
• 1:30:24
  made a great shift. Ever since the Tom Brady
• 1:30:28
  years we have seen more consistency with the
• 1:30:32
  Buccaneers. We have seen better play from the
• 1:30:36
  Buccaneers. I think overall we've just seen a
• 1:30:38
  better version of the Buccaneers because there
• 1:30:40
  was a point in time where they were somewhat
• 1:30:42
  of the the stepping stool for their division
• 1:30:45
  for the entire league because they can never
• 1:30:47
  get their act together. And so now that they've,
• 1:30:51
  you know, they won a Super Bowl in recent years
• 1:30:53
  and they then went through, you know, what they
• 1:30:56
  went through, I think they're in a really good
• 1:30:58
  space. And I think if they continue to build
• 1:31:01
  off of what they have right now, I think they
• 1:31:03
  could be legitimate contenders because let's
• 1:31:06
  not forget, they've been having the Eagles number
• 1:31:08
  in recent years. They've been beating up on a
• 1:31:11
  lot of these top NFC teams. So they are still
• 1:31:15
  a dark horse in my mind until you know until
• 1:31:19
  something crazy happens okay but do not sleep
• 1:31:22
  on the buccaneers the buccaneers have been giving
• 1:31:24
  people trouble in the last few years okay now
• 1:31:27
  on to the falcons okay the falcons the fail kids
• 1:31:32
  okay These guys, what can we say that has already
• 1:31:37
  never been said about the Falcons? Choke artists
• 1:31:40
  maybe? 28 .3? Sorry Falcons, I just had to do
• 1:31:45
  that. You guys choked in the Super Bowl. Ah man,
• 1:31:52
  you guys, you guys, you guys. Okay, so your salary,
• 1:31:56
  negative 1 .5 million with a rollover cap of
• 1:31:58
  6 million. Your free agents Matthew Jude on Justin
• 1:32:01
  Simmons Lorenzo Carter Makaya Abernathy Robert
• 1:32:05
  Burns Damone Harris Antonio Hamilton Harrison
• 1:32:09
  hand just to name a few okay your draft picks
• 1:32:12
  you got your first your second You don't have
• 1:32:14
  a third you have your fourth you have a fifth
• 1:32:17
  you don't have a sixth, but you have two seventh
• 1:32:19
  -round picks Okay, positions of need everything.
• 1:32:22
  I'm just joking. I'm just joking Let me be serious.
• 1:32:26
  I'm trying to be serious, okay? Positions of
• 1:32:27
  need, defensive line, wide receiver, tight end,
• 1:32:30
  center, and safety, okay? Here is the problem
• 1:32:33
  with the Falcons, okay? You allocated money to
• 1:32:37
  the wrong person. You should have never given
• 1:32:40
  that money to Kirk Cousins because now you guys
• 1:32:43
  are stuck in a nasty situation where right now,
• 1:32:47
  he wants to go. But the problem is one of his
• 1:32:51
  bonuses just kicked in this past weekend. So
• 1:32:53
  that's ten million dollars That's just been wired
• 1:32:55
  to his account So right now you guys are trying
• 1:32:58
  to figure out exactly how can you make this marriage
• 1:33:01
  work? Because at first it was all sunshine and
• 1:33:04
  rainbows and everybody was loving each other
• 1:33:07
  and posting everything and whatnot now It's just
• 1:33:09
  a nasty situation where both of you guys are
• 1:33:13
  just sleeping in separate beds and trying to
• 1:33:15
  figure out how can we just mingle with one another
• 1:33:18
  so Here is the situation Sure, you are in a good
• 1:33:23
  space somewhat But the problem is you got to
• 1:33:27
  emphasize a lot on your defense because your
• 1:33:29
  defense was atrocious And it also doesn't help
• 1:33:32
  that you just let Grady Jarrett just walk You
• 1:33:35
  didn't even try to figure something out with
• 1:33:37
  his contractual situation. You just let him walk
• 1:33:40
  so now you basically have to figure out what
• 1:33:43
  you're going to do with your defensive line as
• 1:33:45
  well as linebacker corner and a few other spots.
• 1:33:49
  Sure, you brought in Mike Hughes, which was a
• 1:33:51
  pretty good signing and whatnot, but the fact
• 1:33:53
  of the matter is, the defense was not able to
• 1:33:56
  create a lot of pressure on the quarterback,
• 1:33:58
  and it showed. Now when they made the trade for
• 1:34:00
  Matthew Judon, I was under the impression, oh,
• 1:34:04
  Judon's gonna have this great year, he's gonna
• 1:34:06
  show why he's still one of those guys, all those
• 1:34:08
  things and more. He didn't do that, he did not
• 1:34:11
  do that. So now you have to figure out. How can
• 1:34:14
  we make this defense better than what it was
• 1:34:17
  the last two years? The question is this. How
• 1:34:22
  high do you want to emphasize your defensive
• 1:34:24
  needs? Because safety, you could address that
• 1:34:28
  high. Defensive line, you could address that
• 1:34:31
  at any point in the draft. Just being honest
• 1:34:35
  here, okay? but you have to do something you
• 1:34:38
  have to be able to emphasize on creating more
• 1:34:42
  pressure and getting after the quarterback because
• 1:34:45
  you weren't able to do it and That is the only
• 1:34:48
  way that you are able to really win games at
• 1:34:51
  this point If you don't have a legitimate pass
• 1:34:53
  rush, guess what you're finito. You're done.
• 1:34:55
  You're not gonna be playing in February You're
• 1:34:57
  definitely not gonna be playing in January. All
• 1:34:59
  right, we've seen it multiple times so right
• 1:35:03
  now If I am the Falcons, I probably want to emphasize
• 1:35:06
  defensive line high. And I'm probably going to
• 1:35:10
  double, maybe even triple dip at defensive line.
• 1:35:13
  And the only reason why I say that is because
• 1:35:15
  this is a really good defensive line class. You
• 1:35:18
  have options, okay, both first, second, third,
• 1:35:21
  fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth round if
• 1:35:23
  you really want to. So you have to make that
• 1:35:26
  emphasis on defensive line. Now you have Kenneth
• 1:35:30
  Grant, you have Derek Harman, you have Mason
• 1:35:32
  Graham, which I don't think they'll be able to
• 1:35:33
  get Mason Graham, but I've seen crazier things.
• 1:35:36
  You have Ineas Pebbles, you have Derrick Alexander,
• 1:35:39
  you have Jordan Phillips, you have Alfer Collins,
• 1:35:42
  you have a plethora of defensive linemen that
• 1:35:45
  you need to pluck at least two of them. Same
• 1:35:48
  thing with pass rush. I feel like you probably
• 1:35:50
  need to get an edge rusher as well, because I
• 1:35:54
  don't think you guys are bringing back Matthew
• 1:35:55
  Judon, so you need to bring in somebody else.
• 1:35:59
  And you really need to just really just figure
• 1:36:01
  out what you're going to do with this defense
• 1:36:03
  like I Knew they were serious about the defense
• 1:36:07
  when reports were coming out during the combine
• 1:36:10
  that They have basically shifted all of their
• 1:36:13
  coaching focus to the defensive prospects Not
• 1:36:16
  the offensive prospects that let me know. Oh
• 1:36:19
  this whole defense is about to go through a 360
• 1:36:22
  makeover. Okay, it's about to be like that one
• 1:36:24
  show back in the day I think what was it extreme
• 1:36:27
  home makeover were like they send them away for
• 1:36:29
  like a week like a weekend or something and you
• 1:36:32
  know They're doing all this hard work and rebuilding
• 1:36:34
  their house and once everything is over They
• 1:36:36
  say move this bus move this bus the bus moves.
• 1:36:40
  It's a whole bunch of emotions I know I know
• 1:36:42
  I'm going off on a tangent, but that's basically
• 1:36:44
  what needs to happen with the Falcons at this
• 1:36:46
  point because right now you guys are in a situation
• 1:36:51
  where for one you're trying to figure out exactly
• 1:36:54
  if Kirk causes wants to stay on or not while
• 1:36:57
  at the same time trying to just make things a
• 1:37:01
  little bit more comfortable with this whole transition
• 1:37:03
  process between Arthur Smith and their new head
• 1:37:06
  coach like it's a lot of transitions a lot of
• 1:37:08
  change going on in a very small amount of time
• 1:37:11
  Okay, some people have left some people have
• 1:37:13
  been traded some people are still on the team
• 1:37:15
  But you're everyone is still trying to find their
• 1:37:18
  way. So the question is What do you guys want
• 1:37:22
  to emphasize first in the draft? Okay, because
• 1:37:25
  right now there's only maybe Three well, no,
• 1:37:30
  there's maybe like two or three positions of
• 1:37:32
  need right now that you probably could legitimately
• 1:37:34
  address in the first round Why receiver to me?
• 1:37:37
  Feel like you have to do it in the first round
• 1:37:39
  and the only reason why I say that is because
• 1:37:42
  the amount of money that you gave Kirk Cousins
• 1:37:44
  You could have gotten a number one receiver for
• 1:37:46
  that because right now You still don't know what
• 1:37:50
  you have with Kyle Pitts sure you have Drake
• 1:37:52
  London sure you have What's his name? I knew
• 1:37:56
  I'm forgetting his name. I know I'm forgetting
• 1:37:57
  his name I can't remember his name. It'll probably
• 1:38:00
  come back to me. Maybe about 30 seconds or whatever,
• 1:38:02
  but You have Bijan Robinson, you have Kyle Pitts,
• 1:38:06
  and you have Drake London. More. You need more.
• 1:38:11
  That is the only way this team can go higher.
• 1:38:15
  So me personally, I feel like if they get someone
• 1:38:17
  like a Matthew Golden, I think that would be
• 1:38:20
  lethal. I think if they get someone like a Swiss
• 1:38:22
  Army Knife and a Mecca Bucca, that would be lethal
• 1:38:25
  as well. But you do need to bring in at least
• 1:38:27
  maybe two receivers, at least, possibly. Defensive
• 1:38:31
  line. We've already went over that tight end.
• 1:38:34
  I will be controversial. You should address in
• 1:38:36
  the first round I think you should I think at
• 1:38:38
  this point You have question marks with Kyle
• 1:38:41
  Pitts You would have thought by now Kyle Pitts
• 1:38:43
  would have had at least one dominant season,
• 1:38:46
  but he hasn't So right now you have to either
• 1:38:50
  a figure out if he can be you know At least workable
• 1:38:54
  at receiver or something you have to figure out
• 1:38:57
  exactly what you want to do and so me personally
• 1:39:00
  I'm drafting a tight end in the first round.
• 1:39:03
  I'm getting either Tyler Warren or Colston Levin,
• 1:39:05
  one of those guys. And we're going to have competition.
• 1:39:07
  We're going to figure out exactly, are you tight
• 1:39:10
  end one or not? Because right now, you have all
• 1:39:13
  the intangibles to be a top 10 tight end. But
• 1:39:17
  you have not shown it. I don't know if it's because
• 1:39:20
  of a new system. I don't know if he's still trying
• 1:39:22
  to get his feet wet. I don't know what's going
• 1:39:24
  on. But at this point, There's still a lot of
• 1:39:27
  question marks with Kyle Pitts So I think it's
• 1:39:30
  just time for the team just going a different
• 1:39:31
  direction me personally I would have thought
• 1:39:33
  Kyle Pitts would have been traded last season
• 1:39:35
  but clearly I think the I'm gonna say the Panthers
• 1:39:39
  clearly the Falcons still believe in him and
• 1:39:41
  clearly they still see something in him that
• 1:39:43
  they like so Let's just see what happens with
• 1:39:45
  that now center Center is tricky and I only I
• 1:39:50
  only say that because I haven't really looked
• 1:39:52
  at a lot of center prospects I do know during
• 1:39:55
  the combine there was maybe about five to ten
• 1:39:58
  guards that were practicing at center. I do know
• 1:40:01
  Graves Able and Tyler Booker were one of the
• 1:40:04
  two that was pulled to the side to be tried out
• 1:40:06
  as guard. My only problem with this, I would
• 1:40:10
  have tried to lock up Drew Dalman. I would have
• 1:40:13
  not allowed him to hit free agency only because
• 1:40:15
  now he's in a better situation. Now he's the
• 1:40:18
  center for the Bears, and that Bears offensive
• 1:40:20
  line looks a whole lot better. Granted, I understand
• 1:40:22
  you put a lot of money behind Jake Matthews and
• 1:40:24
  Chris Lindstrom. I understand that. But at the
• 1:40:27
  same time, it is very rare for centers to hit
• 1:40:30
  free agency. And if they do, it's one of two
• 1:40:33
  things. Either they're too expensive, injury
• 1:40:36
  prone, or they're just not that good. But Drew
• 1:40:39
  Dorman has been a really good center. Center
• 1:40:42
  is something that you could probably address
• 1:40:44
  maybe in the third maybe fourth round if you
• 1:40:47
  really wanted to But I'll probably have to look
• 1:40:51
  at center prospects probably this weekend probably
• 1:40:54
  give you my honest opinion about a few but safety
• 1:40:58
  as I've said before Safety is something that
• 1:41:02
  you can address, you know in the first three
• 1:41:04
  rounds if you really wanted to the question is
• 1:41:07
  Do you value Malachi, Starks and Eman over all
• 1:41:11
  of your other positional needs or not? Because
• 1:41:13
  me personally, I feel like defensive line, wide
• 1:41:16
  receiver and tight end, maybe even center, maybe
• 1:41:18
  a little bit higher on my draft board than maybe
• 1:41:21
  safety. I feel like you could probably get someone
• 1:41:23
  like a Malachi more and I think you can make
• 1:41:26
  it work because you do have Jesse Bates. So I
• 1:41:28
  mean, that is a pillar back there in the safety
• 1:41:31
  room. You just need to get somebody else. Now,
• 1:41:34
  when we look at candidates for restructure, extension,
• 1:41:37
  trades, or cuts, I would have said her cousins
• 1:41:40
  for trade, but at this point, no one wants to
• 1:41:43
  pick up that contract. It's a bad contract. His
• 1:41:46
  cap hit this year 40 million, and then next year,
• 1:41:50
  57 .5 for both 2026 and 2027. His base salary
• 1:41:56
  this year is only 27 .5, and then next year,
• 1:41:59
  it's 35 million. It's a bad contract, and it's
• 1:42:02
  been a bad contract. And I don't think nobody
• 1:42:05
  is going to be willing to give up compensation
• 1:42:07
  to get Kirk Cousins at this point. It was a flop
• 1:42:10
  of a free agency signing. Now, I understand a
• 1:42:15
  lot of people want to try and, you know, bolster
• 1:42:18
  up their team as quickly as possible. And I understand
• 1:42:20
  that. And I get that. But why in the world would
• 1:42:23
  you pay the amount of money that you paid for
• 1:42:26
  Kirk Cousins and then in that same year for the
• 1:42:30
  draft, you draft Michael Pinnix high? What sense
• 1:42:33
  does that make? And you didn't even deliberate
• 1:42:35
  it with Kirk Cousins. So in his mind, he's thinking,
• 1:42:39
  oh, I'm going to be the starting quarterback
• 1:42:41
  moving forward. No. Your replacement is right
• 1:42:45
  behind you, buddy. So at this point, I think
• 1:42:50
  you may have to cut your losses, take on that
• 1:42:52
  dead cap hit, and just let him go. Because he
• 1:42:54
  continues to emphasize that he feels like he
• 1:42:56
  is a starting caliber quarterback. Now we all
• 1:42:59
  know Kirk Cousins went through a dry spell last
• 1:43:02
  year where he didn't throw not one touchdown.
• 1:43:05
  So as much as I would love for him to stay and
• 1:43:09
  he can be a mentor to Michael Pinnix and he could
• 1:43:11
  be a good backup option, at this point you have
• 1:43:14
  to figure out what you can do with this contract
• 1:43:16
  before we move forward with anything. Because
• 1:43:19
  right now this contract is a major roadblock
• 1:43:23
  for any team to be interested in trying to make
• 1:43:26
  a move for Kirk Cousins. Now when we look at
• 1:43:28
  Drake London, I would say an extension. Get it
• 1:43:32
  over with now, especially with Jamar Chase and
• 1:43:34
  T Higgins getting their deal. Get it over with
• 1:43:36
  now. His market value, four years, 95 .3 million,
• 1:43:40
  which is only 23 .8 million a year. That's not
• 1:43:42
  bad. That's actually really good. Drake London
• 1:43:45
  isn't a one. Drake London is probably a two or
• 1:43:47
  three on anybody else's team. Just saying. Just
• 1:43:52
  listen. Don't fight me, please. Please. Caden
• 1:43:55
  Ellis extension Ray Ray McLeod extension Caleb
• 1:43:59
  McGarry extension his market value three years
• 1:44:04
  51 .8 million which is 17 .3 million a year These
• 1:44:09
  are fairly good contracts. These are not you
• 1:44:11
  know exuberant contracts. Okay, Chris Lindstrom
• 1:44:15
  I feel like you can give him a restructure Because
• 1:44:18
  man, oh man his contract is crazy. Okay His base
• 1:44:23
  salary this year 14 .5 and then the next year
• 1:44:25
  16 and then 2027 15 .7 and then 2028 17 .2. His
• 1:44:31
  cap hits this year 22 .2 million and then next
• 1:44:34
  year is 23 .7 and then the year after that is
• 1:44:37
  25 .5 and then the year after that is 21 .5.
• 1:44:41
  I feel like you could probably do something with
• 1:44:43
  that contract. I feel like it's a little bit
• 1:44:45
  more easier to work with. That way you could
• 1:44:47
  probably maybe convert a lot of his money into
• 1:44:50
  a signing bonus or do something with it, but
• 1:44:53
  The Falcons have to figure out a way to one create
• 1:44:56
  cap space Be more consistent when it comes to
• 1:45:00
  their drafting and free agency signings while
• 1:45:03
  at the same time Just be a better football team
• 1:45:06
  because right now you guys have just been flopping
• 1:45:09
  at quarterback Since Matt Ryan left you didn't
• 1:45:12
  want to get Lamar which was by far the dumbest
• 1:45:16
  decision that you could have ever ever did and
• 1:45:19
  instead you decide to be in the sweepstakes for
• 1:45:21
  Deshaun Watson you get burned with that okay
• 1:45:25
  cool so now you get Arthur Smith and now Arthur
• 1:45:28
  Smith doesn't want to draft a quarterback even
• 1:45:29
  though he could have drafted Justin Fields and
• 1:45:32
  instead he gets Desmond Redder and then he gets
• 1:45:34
  Marcus Mariota and then he gets Taylor Heinecke
• 1:45:36
  did that work? No it didn't And so now you're
• 1:45:40
  in a situation where guess what? You paid X amount
• 1:45:44
  of dollars to Kirk Cousins while at the same
• 1:45:46
  time you drafted Michael Penick's high. And now
• 1:45:48
  you're trying to figure out exactly what are
• 1:45:50
  you going to do moving forward at quarterback.
• 1:45:53
  You have been whiffing on quarterback hard. It
• 1:45:56
  is time for you guys to figure out exactly what
• 1:45:59
  direction you want this team to go to. Because
• 1:46:02
  right now you guys have been very mediocre for
• 1:46:05
  the last maybe four or five years. It's time
• 1:46:08
  to get your act together. The problem with the
• 1:46:10
  Falcons is, sure you have a lot of good pieces,
• 1:46:14
  but you've been going through a lot of transition
• 1:46:17
  within the past maybe four to five years. You
• 1:46:19
  know, the Arthur Smith and just how horrible
• 1:46:23
  that time was and now you got the new head coach.
• 1:46:26
  Like, it's a lot of turnover. I don't see being
• 1:46:29
  this super dominant team that they used to be
• 1:46:31
  in the early 2000s and somewhat in the 2010s.
• 1:46:34
  I don't see it no more. they're going to have
• 1:46:37
  to show me that they're really serious. Now,
• 1:46:39
  depending on what they do in the draft, will
• 1:46:41
  definitely let me know how serious they are about
• 1:46:43
  winning. Because I think if they address a lot
• 1:46:46
  of their needs fairly high in the draft, I think
• 1:46:49
  they can position themselves really good. I do
• 1:46:51
  feel like they can be the third best team in
• 1:46:54
  their division. I really do. But you've got to
• 1:46:58
  get your act together, man. You've got to figure
• 1:47:00
  out what you want to do with quarterback. You've
• 1:47:02
  got to bring in more weapons from Michael Pennings.
• 1:47:04
  You have to figure out what you're doing with
• 1:47:05
  Kyle Pitts. If you don't believe in him, send
• 1:47:07
  him somewhere else. And for the love of God,
• 1:47:10
  please get adequate pass rushers for this defense.
• 1:47:14
  We all know and we all see that guess what? Pass
• 1:47:17
  rushers are getting the big bucks because why?
• 1:47:19
  They are the game changers, game closers, and
• 1:47:22
  they are game wreckers. OK? And you don't have
• 1:47:25
  one on your team right now. I know I was forgetting
• 1:47:27
  a few other things that we had to talk about
• 1:47:29
  because I know I was probably skipping around
• 1:47:31
  but we have to talk about the love triangle that
• 1:47:34
  is with Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson and
• 1:47:37
  the Vikings and Giants and Steelers okay so at
• 1:47:41
  this point there's a lot of uncertainty with
• 1:47:43
  that entire situation you have reports that are
• 1:47:46
  detailing and saying that you know, the Vikings
• 1:47:51
  are like lurking around for Aaron Rodgers. Aaron
• 1:47:54
  Rodgers is waiting to see if the Vikings, you
• 1:47:56
  know, want to try to do business with him. If
• 1:47:58
  not, he may try to go into retirement. You got
• 1:48:01
  a picture of him on a beach with some old school
• 1:48:04
  Apple headphones staring into the sunset. You
• 1:48:07
  just have a whole lot of drama. So I'm gonna
• 1:48:09
  try to break it down as best as possible. I'm
• 1:48:10
  just gonna give my opinions on this, okay? So
• 1:48:13
  here's the thing. So what's the Russell Wilson
• 1:48:15
  situation specifically? I feel like, and I want
• 1:48:19
  to emphasize this, I don't have any sources,
• 1:48:21
  I feel like the one thing that really killed
• 1:48:24
  his chances of going back to the Steelers was
• 1:48:27
  when his camp leaked out the report that him
• 1:48:31
  and Arthur Smith was not getting along. I think
• 1:48:33
  that was the worst thing that he could have ever
• 1:48:35
  did because why? It basically blacklisted you
• 1:48:38
  from the Steelers because you have people with...
• 1:48:41
  in the front office and within the locker room
• 1:48:43
  that were feeling some type of way about it because
• 1:48:45
  it's like, bro, why would you put out something
• 1:48:47
  like that? And so I feel like had he not put
• 1:48:50
  that out, I think he would have already been
• 1:48:52
  the stealer by now. But because he did that,
• 1:48:55
  I think they sort of like put him on the back
• 1:48:58
  burner. He went to Cleveland, didn't get a deal.
• 1:49:01
  He went to New York, didn't get a deal. And New
• 1:49:03
  York is still bringing in people. New York brought
• 1:49:06
  in Jameis Winston and they brought in Joe Flacco
• 1:49:08
  for a visit. So I say all that to say this, Russ,
• 1:49:12
  you sort of burned yourself, bro, because you
• 1:49:15
  thought by you putting out that story that the
• 1:49:18
  Steelers would probably run to you and say, hey,
• 1:49:20
  we can still try to make this thing work. No.
• 1:49:23
  But if I'm the Steelers at this point, I feel
• 1:49:26
  like you have to make a decision at this point
• 1:49:27
  because you have continued to go through a phase
• 1:49:31
  of waiting and it has burned you. Last year,
• 1:49:34
  you waited all the way to the last minute for
• 1:49:37
  Brandon Iuek. And just when that trade was gonna
• 1:49:41
  go down, guess what happened? He backed off and
• 1:49:44
  he stayed with the 49ers. And it burned you.
• 1:49:47
  And for that entire season, you were trying to
• 1:49:50
  basically do patchwork with the receiving room.
• 1:49:52
  Now you're doing it with the most important position
• 1:49:54
  on the entire team at quarterback. Do you really
• 1:49:57
  wanna deal with a 42 -year -old quarterback?
• 1:50:00
  I don't think you really want to because... Granted
• 1:50:03
  you do have DK Metcalfe and you have George Pickens
• 1:50:05
  you have Pat Freimuth You have Jalen Warren and
• 1:50:08
  you have all these other pieces and you have
• 1:50:09
  really good defense and whatnot But the problem
• 1:50:11
  is this there's still a lot of uncertainty with
• 1:50:14
  your tackles this is probably going to be the
• 1:50:17
  first full season and we're going to see Broderick
• 1:50:18
  Jones at left tackle and Troy Fatanu is still
• 1:50:22
  recovering from his ACL injury so you still have
• 1:50:27
  a lot of uncertainty at the tackle position and
• 1:50:30
  then not to mention We all know that Aaron Rodgers
• 1:50:32
  likes to do his things his way. I don't know
• 1:50:36
  if that's really going to work in Pittsburgh
• 1:50:38
  personally. I don't even know if that's really
• 1:50:40
  going to work in New York as well. So it's it's
• 1:50:45
  just a lot of just foolishness with this entire
• 1:50:48
  situation. And then when we look at Aaron Rodgers,
• 1:50:52
  OK, we don't know what's going on. He's basically
• 1:50:56
  gone quiet. Nobody really knows. And so The running
• 1:51:01
  feeling around a lot of people is make a decision
• 1:51:04
  Adam Schefter said it the best way possible make
• 1:51:07
  a decision It doesn't take you this long to come
• 1:51:09
  to a decision either you want to play or you
• 1:51:12
  don't and I feel like that is the running notion
• 1:51:14
  with a lot of these people they're in these front
• 1:51:16
  offices either you want to play or you don't
• 1:51:19
  because right now we are getting closer and closer
• 1:51:22
  to the draft and We have two teams right now
• 1:51:26
  who they definitely need a quarterback But one
• 1:51:29
  of them is in the position to get their quarterback.
• 1:51:31
  The other one isn't. So now, if you're the Steelers,
• 1:51:36
  sure, you're playing the waiting game, but you're
• 1:51:37
  getting a little bit desperate. You're getting
• 1:51:39
  a little bit anxious because why? All you have
• 1:51:42
  on your team right now is Mason Rudolph and Skyler
• 1:51:44
  Thompson. That's not enough. And we all know
• 1:51:48
  that this quarterback draft class is not that
• 1:51:50
  good. And please, for the love of God, for any
• 1:51:54
  person that continues to say that Jackson Dart
• 1:51:56
  is a first round pick, please. Please, please
• 1:51:59
  stop it. You are lying to yourself. You are getting
• 1:52:02
  paid by his agents. You are getting paid by the
• 1:52:06
  people that work for him to promote these type
• 1:52:08
  of fake news. Please stop it, okay? But back
• 1:52:13
  to reality, all right? Now for the Vikings, I
• 1:52:17
  don't feel a reason for you to try to go and
• 1:52:19
  get Aaron Rodgers. You have J .J. McCarthy. Run
• 1:52:22
  with J .J. McCarthy. Give him a legitimate chance.
• 1:52:25
  Because right now all Aaron Rodgers is doing
• 1:52:28
  is just following the co -tailor Brett Farth
• 1:52:30
  Okay, you were great with the Packers you went
• 1:52:33
  to the Jets You really wasn't that good and then
• 1:52:36
  you possibly could go back to the Vikings and
• 1:52:38
  then everything is all you know rainbows and
• 1:52:41
  unicorns No, either you want to play or you don't
• 1:52:45
  Because right now time is ticking and teams are
• 1:52:49
  waiting to do business with you But are you ready
• 1:52:52
  to do business with them? That's all I have to
• 1:52:54
  say about that. It would be crazy if by the time
• 1:52:57
  we're done with this episode, you know news drops
• 1:52:59
  about the whole Kirk Cousins and Aaron Rodder
• 1:53:01
  situation that would be crazy, but You never
• 1:53:04
  know with the football junkies podcast, but we
• 1:53:06
  do have to talk about one more thing and that
• 1:53:09
  is Cooper Cup coming back home, folks. That's
• 1:53:12
  right. He is going to the Seattle Seahawks. He
• 1:53:16
  ain't a three year, $45 million deal, which is
• 1:53:19
  15 million a year. His stats, 67 receptions for
• 1:53:24
  710 receiving yards, six touchdowns and 10 .6
• 1:53:28
  yards per reception. This is what I will say.
• 1:53:30
  It's going to be completely honest with you.
• 1:53:33
  The Seahawks are out of their damn mind for paying
• 1:53:35
  Cooper Cup 15 plus million. I'm sorry. If this
• 1:53:39
  was Cooper Cup after he won the Triple Crown,
• 1:53:42
  oh, yeah, for sure. Perfectly fine. But in recent
• 1:53:45
  years, he has not been able to stay healthy.
• 1:53:48
  He really hasn't been as consistent. And you're
• 1:53:51
  seeing one of a decline in his play. I'm sorry.
• 1:53:55
  The Seahawks pay 15 million for him just because
• 1:53:58
  of his name. It wasn't because of his play. It
• 1:54:01
  wasn't because of what he's done lately. It's
• 1:54:03
  because of his name, Cooper Cup. There was a
• 1:54:05
  market for him. I do know there were teams like
• 1:54:08
  You know the Cowboys that were like semi -interesting
• 1:54:10
  him. I know the Broncos had some interest in
• 1:54:13
  him the Patriots There were a few teams that
• 1:54:15
  had some level of interest in Cooper Cup Everyone
• 1:54:18
  was waiting to see what was gonna be his number
• 1:54:21
  now me personally I would have thought he would
• 1:54:24
  have taken less to join a contender for instance
• 1:54:26
  You know the Chiefs or the Eagles or the Ravens
• 1:54:29
  or the Bills or any of those different types
• 1:54:31
  of teams? But for you to take 15 million with
• 1:54:33
  the Seahawks really do I just don't know how
• 1:54:37
  to really feel about this. Sure, the Seahawks
• 1:54:40
  will have JSN and Cooper Cub, but it's like,
• 1:54:43
  bro, you just had DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett,
• 1:54:46
  and you let those two go, and then you bring
• 1:54:48
  in Cooper Cub? I don't know about this. But I
• 1:54:51
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