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Team Fits For Best Remaining NFL Free Agents · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL takes.
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Welcome to Three guys 6 Balls NFL podcast.
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Welcome to Three Guys 6 Balls episode 10.
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Today we have a special emergency guest on the show.
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It is Corey from show Victoria Sports.
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Thanks for filling in for us. Avery wasn't able to make it
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because of Wi-Fi problems and there was a fire in his house.
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Will you want to give some details on that?
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He logs in here to start recording and he's got some
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serious Internet problems and you'd say, oh, there's big
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thunderstorms down where he's at and the southern part of
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America, not South America, but you know, the South.
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And then he runs upstairs, check his router, comes back
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downstairs and he says and they quote, it's like somebody's hot
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boxing my house. And the next thing he knows, the
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next thing we know he was, oh, that's a fire.
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And he picks his laptop up, turns the camera and this guy is
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walking by with a pan on fire. So somebody can't cook is
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basically the last bit of and then he takes the pan outside
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and I guess drops it again, bad Wi-Fi, so everything's real
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choppy. So drops the pan outside and
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then the flames just go way up. I would assume he dropped a
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grease fire into a pool of water, which is a terrible idea.
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That's just awful. And then his Internet cut out so
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we assume he's still alive. Shout out to Avery.
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Hope your house doesn't burn down.
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But good news, it's a rental so not your problem.
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That's a true story, by the way. That's not made-up.
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That's 100% true. When the fire when the guy, I I
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don't know who he was roommate when he walked by with the paint
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on fire, the the first thing I said is I wish we were
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recording. Right now so I I send a message
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in our Instagram chats for sports podcasters and Corey
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responded and said he could hop on real quick and help us out
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with today's episode so we appreciate you coming on just to
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get us started here. Why don't you let everybody know
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where they can find you on social media and just tell us a
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little bit about about your podcast because we've been on
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yours, but you haven't been on ours yet.
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Yeah, no, again, yeah, thanks for having me emergency
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situation. So I hope everything's all right
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on his end. I know about the Wi-Fi problems
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and I haven't luckily no house on fire.
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So hopefully it stays that way. But yeah.
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You can find us on Instagram X TikTok at Shogg sports.
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I'm just one half. My brother is also a Co host of
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Shogg sports. We're kind of unique in a sense
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of I'm a Broncos fan and he's a Chiefs fan.
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So the rivalry kind of helps with, you know, our show
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essentially. And luckily we heard that the
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Chiefs Broncos are playing on Christmas Day this year.
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So that's going to be fun. So we talked mostly football,
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but we will talk anything really sports related.
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So you guys are on our show and we did some draft stuff.
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So excited to hear what you guys are are about tonight.
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Cool. Just a quick question.
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How did that happen? How did one of you become a
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Broncos fan and one of you become a Chiefs fan?
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Yeah, so there's a myth out there that says I was a Chiefs
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man when I was younger. I don't know about this.
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Maybe there maybe you know what happened.
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But on our dad's side, my grandparents are actually from
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Colorado. They kind of, you know, maybe
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they got me at a young enough age where they talked me into
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being a Broncos fan. And then obviously my mom's side
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and everyone else, my friends, they're they're the Chiefs fan.
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So it was a way of like, I'll be different.
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I've had good times and I've had bad times the last decade now,
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so here we are, yeah. I bet you were feeling pretty
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good when the Broncos won that Super Bowl, huh?
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Oh man. Well, with as bad as Peyton
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Manning was that year, you know. The people forget that.
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That's yeah. And I, I try to remind people
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that, you know, they they talk about, you know, Peyton Manning
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and what he was. But if you look back, his career
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didn't really end very well statistically.
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You know, he was benched at one point that season for Brock
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Osweiler. And then and then, you know, we
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were kind of like, uh oh, there's no way we're going to go
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to a Super Bowl. But then you're like, OK, this
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defense, Von Miller, the no fly zone, Chris Harris, Keithley,
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you know, TJ Ward, a defense. Absolutely.
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And I'm to this day say that the Broncos defense in the Super
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Bowl ruined Cam Newton's career, essentially.
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He wasn't the same after that. Pretty much, yeah.
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Yeah, so I I'm fairly confident in saying that the Broncos were
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able to kind of derail what Cam Newton had going for him.
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I agree. That's 100% true actually.
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For his statement, honestly I thought about it that way, but.
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Yeah, you're right. Wasn't it like he didn't like,
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dive for a fumble or something? Yeah.
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And then everybody started hating on him.
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And then after that he just like was never the same.
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Yeah. I mean, he was literally right
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there for him just to fall on. But he takes a step back.
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Like the guy was going to do like, and right there and then,
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like literally the whole defense is out there just diving on the
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ball. And he was just like, Nah.
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And then obviously, I think it was like a couple months ago
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over here recently, he said that he would not give up his MVP to
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win that Super Bowl. Like he was OK with just winning
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an MVP that season. And I'm like.
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Watching that game, I can definitely, I can see that.
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So that just goes to show what Cam Newton was about.
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Well. Thanks for coming on with us
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today again, Corey, We appreciate it.
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Thanks for telling us a little bit about your podcast.
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If you guys aren't following Shovic Sports already on social
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media, go give them a follow. They have some great content.
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And today we are going to be talking about some of the NFL
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remaining free agents, the best remaining NFL free agents and
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some teams that they may fit with.
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The draft just happened a couple weeks ago and all 32 teams made
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multiple selections trying to make their team better both on
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offense and defense. ESPN and as we talked about in
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one of our previous episodes, gave every team in the draft
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their top five draft needs, and only five of those teams filled
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every single one of those needs in the draft.
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So there are multiple teams, including the ones who did fill
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all of their needs, according to ESPN, who still have some holes
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to fill on their roster. And so there's a lot of good
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free agents still out there who may fit with some of these
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teams. So we're going to talk about
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them and why they may fit. And we're going to go ahead and
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get started with one of the biggest free agent names
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available, which is Aaron Ross Rogers.
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Now, we all know that he's been linked to the Pittsburgh
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Steelers. However, there is recent news
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that Derek Carr is retiring from the NFL.
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So the Saints have lost their, I guess you could say, starting
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quarterback. So that opens a spot potentially
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for Aaron Rodgers. But what do you guys think?
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Tyler Shuck, pal. It's what?
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It's what, the Shuck season? Yeah, I kind of have thoughts in
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that, you know, I go back to the draft when the Saints took
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Chuck. I kind of felt like right then
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and there that the Saints had no intentions of winning this
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season. And it's no.
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Disrespect to him and what he's about, but at the same time, I
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think they kind of knew Derek Carr was probably leaning
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towards this. You don't go into a draft and
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make and like, you know, not know what your franchise or your
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at least your starting quarterbacks going to do.
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So yeah, once I saw that that pick happened, I was kind of
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like, well, maybe they're on Arch Manning or even that guy
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from South Carolina Sellers, who's possibly the number one
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overall pick next year. I think that's kind of where
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they're leaning towards. I don't know how you guys feel
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about Shuck and whatnot, but the proper quarterbacks that the
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Saints have to choose from right now is very, very thin.
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I think What the Shuck sums up how we feel about Tyler Shuck.
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Yeah. That's there's not really much
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else to say. Yeah, I mean, we've said it
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multiple weeks now. I don't mind saying the end.
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Tyler Shuck couldn't even started Oregon.
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Now granted he had significant competition.
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He went to Texas Tech. He didn't make it there either.
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Anyone under Louisville had one good season and then apparently
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became a first round pick or excuse me, second round pick.
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So good for him, I guess. Good for his finances, I'm sure.
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But I don't like it and I don't I don't think that Derek Carr
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retiring moves the needle, the Aaron Rodgers needle at all
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towards New Orleans. I mean, look at their coaching
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staff. There's just no possible way
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that Aaron Rodgers, in his one billionth season, in his 100th
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year of life, is going to sign up for a first year head coach
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for Kellen Moore and that coaching staff, Doug Nussmeyer.
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That just doesn't do it. There's no way he's had notable
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coaching problems already. Maybe that's not fair.
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Maybe it's just been what's reported.
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I know if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I'm not going to a new team.
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I'm not going to try to establish myself now, trying to
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make a name for myself. The name is made.
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He wants to go to a win now team, not a hey, let's build it
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up. I also don't think and like
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Corey said, which just to note, we had your third person to keep
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the continuity of the name. So again, thanks for showing up.
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Anyway, I think I think Aaron Rodgers moving forward, he's
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looking to possibly just retire, right.
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I don't know who's in this retirement class this year, but
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the Hall of Fame class from the retirement is looking pretty
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thin. Aaron Rodgers, regardless how
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you feel about him, he's a shooing for the Hall of Fame.
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And so if he's if he's in a class that's going to be not by
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himself, but where he's the biggest name, again, not that
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we're comparing Derek Carr, say, MVP to Hall of Famer Aaron
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Rodgers, but I don't think it's a bad option for him.
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I think he's definitely going to consider it.
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And the longer he waits, the worst it's going to get.
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I just think people are going to be less willing to put up with a
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guy who's cemented not just set in stone in his ways, but
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cemented in his ways over his long history.
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Career teams, we should have a hard time feeding them into
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their system because he's a my System County guy.
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I agree with you, Will. I'm glad you said that he
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doesn't fit with the Saints because I don't think he fits
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with the Saints. I don't think he would even want
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to go to the Saints. If there's any team that he
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would want to go to, I think it would be the Pittsburgh
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Steelers, where he's been linked to this whole time.
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And the reason for that is because, I mean, their offense
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may not be the best, right? You just traded George Pickens
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and now you just basically have DK Metcalf, that receiver with a
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bunch of guys that. Robert Woods, he was good at one
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point in his career. OK, yeah, regardless, the
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offense isn't isn't great, right?
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The offense hasn't been great for a few years now since they
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had been Roethlisberger, but the the reason that Aaron Rodgers
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would want to go there, what makes it attractive, is because
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that defense has proven that they can get you double digit
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wins and make the playoffs regardless of how the offense
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performs. If I was Aaron Rodgers and I had
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a choice, I would pick the Pittsburgh Steelers because that
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defense, regardless of how poorly you play on offense, will
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still carry you to the playoffs. Yeah, and I look at it as Kellen
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Moore is a first time head coach.
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You're trying to build your culture there.
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You really wanting, is it really worth the problem that may come
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with that? You know, you're going to see a
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quarterback who's going to want to say and everything.
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You're not really establishing anything as a culture from a
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head coaching perspective for a guy who may only play with one,
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maybe two more years. I don't think Kellen Moore would
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want to do that. I mean, yes, your chances go up
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of winning, but you're not really setting yourself up long
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term or success. If you bring in Aaron Rodgers.
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If it was three to five years, yeah, you absolutely could
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because you can still establish what you're wanting to do.
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But I think you may lose the locker room a little bit if
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something goes wrong or, you know, things aren't going how he
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planned. And we saw what what happened in
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New York with that, right? You know, they they brought him
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in, obviously the terrible injury right off the start, but
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it was hauled downhill from there.
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It's a coach fired, Hackett gets emoted, etcetera.
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So yeah, that's that's one way that I look at it as well.
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So if you're in Rogers and let's just say you have, well, yeah,
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let's just say you have your pick of teams because they're, I
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think we all can agree there are not 32 better active starting
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quarterbacks than Aaron Rodgers currently.
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Is that a fair statement? I'd say that's fair.
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Yeah, that's fair. So there are 10 teams, maybe
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maybe 10 is not enough, but ten teams that would seriously not
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look at him. Or do you think that's not
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enough? We don't need to name the teams.
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But if you had the opportunity to get Aaron Rodgers, like, like
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for instance, the Rakers, not that they're even looking at
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him, but I think you take Aaron Rodgers over Geno Smith, right?
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Or disagree. I think I disagree because we
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talked about it last week on our show.
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Geno Smith is the perfect quarterback for Pete Carroll.
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Aaron Rodgers lived in a play action system his entire career
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in in Green Bay though. I just look at it like
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relationship with coaches as well, Like he carols an old
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school guy, Aaron Rodgers is Aaron Rodgers.
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So it's like, you know. Aaron Rodgers has the one button
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chin strap still, he's an old school guy.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true.
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So, so let's just say we'll cut it in half, right.
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Let's say half the teams have quarterbacks that they are
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established with and they are willing to just, we don't even
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want to look at this 41 year old who could give us one, maybe 2
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Peyton many years in Denver, which as we mentioned, we're not
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always good. You can bench for Brock
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Hausreiler, but still you have Super Lab.
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You got 2 Super Bowl appearances and a Super Bowl win out of it.
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So I mean, that's not that's not bad.
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If you were Aaron Rodgers and you could pick any of those
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teams and any team available, where would you want to go?
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I would still probably go Pittsburgh.
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I just think there the culture that they have there, Mike
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Tomlin being him, you know, yes, they did just trade George
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Pickens, but you still have BK Mack, half half Fryer move,
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Jalen Warren, Caleb Johnson would be just fine.
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You know, that defense is still Pittsburgh's defense, right?
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They're still going to be able to, you know, win them games if
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he's having an off day. While I think him and Mike
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Tomlin may clash at first, I still think in the end they both
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kind of get what they they want. Yeah, I would agree.
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I think it would either, I would still say either the Steelers or
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the Saints. I already made my case for the
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Steelers with the defense, but the case for the Saints.
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I know that roster is not great, but you play in the NFC South
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and if you want a chance at the playoffs, the NFC South is a
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pretty good place to do that. Yeah, but that seems not really
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built to win right now, I think, and not just for the the meme.
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I actually really like him going to the two and his team has not
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talked about I like him going to the Vikings.
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Right. Is JJ McCarthy really your guy?
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Yeah, you drafted him in the first round right now or last
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year, but even his time at Michigan, he was not a great
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ball thrower. And you've got Sam Howell as
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your backup and Brett Rippon after him.
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Are you really putting your full stock into those guys or what
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are we doing? Right?
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So if you had the option one, maybe 2 years around Rodgers for
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a team that we saw last year was ready to win.
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Now they just had some issues. You get a guy in there who you
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don't need to. I mean, you need him to
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associate with your receivers, right and your offense and he's
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got to have good rapport with like 15 guys on that team.
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But that's not the most difficult.
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Everybody has me. They can learn from Aaron
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Rodgers football wise. I'm sure I don't, not just for
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the Brett Favre going right, Eckers, Jets, Vikings.
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It's not just for that, but like I just think that team is built
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to win right now, but which what they have at quarterback,
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they're just not going to. Yeah, you make a good point.
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I honestly, I can see if JJ McCarthy gets hurt again, the
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Vikings will sign Aaron Rodgers, in my opinion.
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I don't think they're going to ride it out with somehow.
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I think they'd sign Aaron Rodgers and can have them
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complete the cycle. Yeah, honestly, it does make
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sense, though. It does make sense.
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I think JJ McCarthy probably needs a little bit more time and
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we could be wrong. The Vikings feel confident JJ
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McCarthy, they're going to roll with him.
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So we could be wrong, but I guess we'll see.
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I like the Vikings pick, but I also there for a little bit, I
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thought maybe San Francisco could maybe be a sleeper in
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that, but I think that kind of died down a little bit.
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But I think the longer that goes without them signing Rock Purdy
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to an extension, and I think, you know, I'll still hold out
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that he may he could end up going back to California.
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Yeah, he's from the Bay Area and went to School of Cow.
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He's talked about before wanting to go back to California.
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I don't think the draw is there as much for the team.
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I don't think the Niners this year are.
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He's winning the Niners the last couple years, but I don't hate
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it. All right, well, let's get into
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some of these other guys, these other remaining free agents
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will, why don't you go ahead and start us off with one of your
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top free agents available and give us a couple teams where
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they may fit? Sure, you offense or defense
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first, you pick. Let's go offense.
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Offense. First, let's talk about Nicholas
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Chubb. Nicholas Jamal Chubb, if you
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will, went to school at Georgia, drafted by the Browns in the
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second round, 35 overall, so right early in the second round
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back in 2018. Went on to have nearly five
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straight years of 1000 rushing yards each.
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And I say nearly because in his his rookie season, he had 996
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yards and then he followed up the following seasons with 1000
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yards each hit and torn ACL fractured his foot and has not
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been the same. I mean, this guy, if you don't
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know, Nick Chubb is a big dude, right?
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He not in the height, but in physical stature rivals Derrick
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Henry, which has been a foreshadowing there.
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But he's he's a big dude. He's a a hard downhill runner,
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arguably the best running back still available.
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The injury concerns have have it, I mean, pretty much
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everybody hesitating, but there's lots of teams out there
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that need a running back. Even if you have running backs,
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you always need a running back. Look at the 49ers the past 3-2
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three seasons, right? They have one go down and then
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like four more go down. And so they're always picking
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people up. It's crazy.
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It's going to be tough for him coming back, right?
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He's not. Nobody can expect an Adrian
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Peterson type here after he tours ACL, came back, ran for
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over 2000 yards. But I like him going to Dallas,
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not just because I'm a Dallas fan, but I think Dallas needs a
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Nick Chubb type running back on their roster at all times.
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I think Nick Chubb averages like 3.7 yards per carry and if
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that's not Dallas Cowboys football, I don't know what is.
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3 yards in the cloud. It does.
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It was it was 3.3 last year, but that was his only season
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averaging 3.3 and it was because of the injury.
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He just wasn't the same. Before that, he had never
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averaged below 5 yards a carry. Oh, that's too good for Dallas.
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They can't have running back. That's true.
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That's very true. That's very true.
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No, I think Dallas is. They brought in some free
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agents. They've tried to address their
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running back issue, but they also lost some.
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And after Jerry Jones going on record saying that Derek Henry
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wouldn't fit in Dallas system and he wouldn't have had his
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goodness season there. I think he needs to do what he
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can, especially after saying you better watch out because before
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or after the draft we're going to make some pretty big moves,
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which means literally anytime we'll probably do something.
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So considering that he puts his foot in his mouth at 900 years
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old like he does, I think Brandon Chubb would bring some
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veteran help in your offense. He is 29 years old so he's
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getting up there and running backs running back age, I don't
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know the last time running back over 30 got paid any there.
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I say decent NFL money. I mean it's unreasonable money
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for all of us, but decent NFL money.
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And so you're not looking for a long term deal here.
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You're just trying to see if it's just a one year sign him
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and hope for the best kind of deal.
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I actually like him in Pittsburgh.
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They like, they didn't leave nausea here, let no nausea here.
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So he went off in free agency to the Chargers.
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They just sort of drafted Caleb Johnson in the third round.
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They they resigned Jalen Warren and gained Kenneth Gainwell from
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the Eagles last season. So they have a decent running
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back core already. But with Mason Rudolph as your
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current, let's say, starting a quarterback, even though I am
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probably the biggest Will Howard fan out there right now, even
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with Will Howard, you're going to need to run the folks.
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You're going to need all the rain backs you can.
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I just think that they they're going to bring somebody in just
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like Dallas is. I also like as kind of a dark
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horse here. I like the Baltimore Ravens
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signing hit Chubb. They already have Derek Henry.
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Obviously everyone knows that they've got Justice Hill.
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So you've got your two major backs right there.
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But Derek Henry is getting up there.
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He's winning the league for a long time.
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He will be 31 when the season starts.
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He's just different though. He is built different, there is
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no question, but he's still hanging up their age and and
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he's there's just no way that he's going to be able to
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continue at the same rate every single year.
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And so other guy who runs a lot like Derrick Henry is Nick
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Chubb. And so without having to change
19:58
your offense, being able to sub your guys in, they have the
20:01
potential to bring him in as a scheme fit guy.
20:05
To just plug and play whenever they need to.
20:07
And so you need a guy who can come in and just be that same
20:10
guy just a little bit shorter. And he'll be a huge benefit for
20:12
the Ravens as well. I really like the Baltimore fit
20:15
that that I actually didn't think about that.
20:17
For Nick Chubb, that would be interesting because you have two
20:21
big guys and he can just Nick Chubb could just come in and
20:24
just take a little bit of pressure off Derrick Henry.
20:27
He doesn't have to do as much. It'd be terrible for fantasy
20:30
because, you know, I was, I had Derrick Henry on my fantasy team
20:33
last year and I was hissed every time they took him off the field
20:36
on 3rd down when he's actually a really good receiving back.
20:39
He showed it at the end of the season when their backup running
20:42
back got hurt. He was a really good receiver
20:45
and they just, they took him off the field every time.
20:47
So I was pissed off every time they took him off the field to
20:49
put this other dude on the field.
20:50
And I was like, what are you doing?
20:52
Like, I need him to win. But yeah, I, I think he could be
20:56
good in Dallas too. I mean Corey, you're familiar
20:59
with with having like 3 running backs.
21:02
The Broncos did it last year, right?
21:03
Yeah, they and Denver needs running backs.
21:06
I actually had Dallas as #2 for Nick Chubb kind of going in
21:09
there, but I like Denver. They had Bestimae, they
21:12
obviously drafted RJ Harvey, and then they had Julia McLaughlin.
21:15
Estimae had some issues holding onto the ball in key situations
21:19
last year, but I still like Estimae and I like potential and
21:22
obviously RJ Harvey. But if it wasn't Nick Chubb, I
21:24
wanted Alvin Kamara. So for the sake Nick Chubb, I
21:27
think would be a great kind of mentor per SE to like an object
21:31
guesstimate and RJ Harvey built kind of similar running styles,
21:35
similar, you know. But again, Dallas looking it'll
21:39
go to what you guys are saying with Dallas.
21:42
Yeah, Dallas is definitely in need.
21:44
Javonte Williams, obviously they picked him up.
21:46
I don't think he fits in the mold of what Dallas wants to do
21:49
with the running game. So again, if you were to bring
21:52
in like a Nick Chubb, I mean, you still got to help back in
21:54
some way, right? Like you got the receivers, you
21:56
got that kind of skill positions there.
21:59
Now you really just need that run game and what they had last
22:03
year, Rico Dowdle and some of those guys.
22:06
Like you got to get someone who's proven, you know, a little
22:09
more in there. And I think Nick Chubb also
22:11
brings that, you know, he's a very similar to Zeke when Zeke
22:14
was at his best, right? Like similar Smash Mouth, good
22:17
goal line running back. So I think it would be a perfect
22:20
fit as far as you know, Nick Chubb with Dallas as well.
22:23
Like you just said, I like him in Dallas a lot.
22:25
They drafted 2 rookie running backs which tend to do pretty
22:29
well coming to the NFL. Running backs that get the
22:31
opportunity early to show what they can do.
22:34
Just like corners. For some reason rookie corners
22:37
have set in reception records the last two or three times.
22:39
Not like years in a row. But when the record gets broken
22:41
it's by your first or second year corner.
22:43
And same thing with the NFL rookies and running backs is
22:46
that if they were decent in college, they end up being able
22:49
to be pretty good in the NFL because it's the best, the best.
22:52
And they were, they were good in college.
22:54
And so the the blocking is better, the offense is better,
22:57
the scheme is better, the coaching is better.
22:59
And so they did draft 2 rookies, but having a veteran in there to
23:02
show them their ropes, to take some pressure off to do what
23:05
they can. And you've got Veronte Williams
23:07
coming off the the injury. Yeah, he absolutely was not the
23:10
same once he came back from that injury.
23:13
You can tell. I mean, he started showing signs
23:15
of it. But then I don't know if it was
23:16
just maybe Sean Payton decided that he wanted to bring in
23:19
other, you know, rotational pieces because he wasn't getting
23:22
the yardage, you know, that he thought he he really struggled
23:25
in the preseason and that didn't set it very good.
23:27
President's heading into the regular season.
23:29
So again, Sean Payton being Sean Payton, you know, you're not.
23:32
You know he can only do so much before he's, you know, he wants
23:36
now, now, now, right? So he just wasn't the same once
23:39
he came back from that major injury.
23:41
And I also think that, as mentioned, you said that needs
23:44
help. That is at his best when he has
23:46
a good running game and there's a lot of quarterbacks you can
23:48
say that with. But because I'm a Dallas fan, I
23:50
seen a Dak first. He needs to hand the ball off
23:53
quite a few times a game just to set that Gary creeping forward
23:56
so we can throw it over the top, get George Pickens, the CD open.
23:59
I don't know. I like Nick Chapman Dallas a
24:01
lot. Even when Dak has a running
24:02
game, somehow he always finds a way to throw an interception in
24:05
the key. He just works.
24:06
He just always. Yeah, he just always finds a way
24:10
no matter what. Just always finds a way.
24:12
But anyways, let's move on to our next free agent.
24:15
Corey, give us your offensive best free agent available.
24:18
Yeah, So it's Mari Cooper. There's a handful of teams that
24:22
I was kind of narrowing it down with.
24:24
With Amari Cooper. I was going back and forth
24:26
between the Packers and the Ravens.
24:28
But I like him in Green Bay and here's why.
24:30
They got a young group, but they also have guys that are injury
24:33
prone. And I think, you know, he's not
24:35
going to be, you know, in every down type play player.
24:38
But I think he's also a good mold of, you know what you want
24:42
your receivers to be, right? You know, there was a time where
24:45
Amari Cooper was top notch. Like everything is so reliable.
24:49
Cleveland kind of ruined them a little bit.
24:52
Just like everybody else. Just like everybody else.
24:55
But you go back when he was with the Raiders, him and Michael
24:57
Crabtree and what they were able to do there and even him with
24:59
Dallas. I think he had a good run with
25:01
Dallas before moving on. I thought, I thought a little he
25:05
would do a little more with Buffalo and Justin there, what
25:07
they were doing. But I do like him with Green
25:09
Bay. You know, I think if you need
25:11
that big catch, he could be that guy.
25:12
You're not going to ask him to go out and catch, you know, 8 to
25:15
10 or you know, Buck 20, five, $1.50.
25:18
But if you need, you know, like, you know, big chunk play, you
25:21
know, it's a big third and 15 third and 20 or whatever it is,
25:25
you know, he would be a guy that you could rely on and he can
25:27
just kind of show the ropes to the younger guys.
25:30
Cuz I do. I like Matthew Golden there and
25:32
and Christian Watson when he can stay healthy and, and even Jalen
25:35
Reed. So that's that's where I'm going
25:37
with for Amari Cooper. Yeah, Mark Cooper is only a year
25:40
removed from having 1000 yard season with the Browns too.
25:42
So I mean, he still has a little something.
25:44
Obviously he's not the same player he was, as you mentioned,
25:47
in Dallas. There was a video that I
25:49
remember watching of Amari Cooper in Dallas when he was
25:54
with CD Lamb. They were down and then they
25:56
were about to run a play to win the game.
26:00
Like they needed to score a touchdown and the route was
26:02
supposed to go to Amari Cooper. And there's a video of CD Lamb
26:06
on the sideline saying to Amari Cooper, hey, like, let me get
26:09
this route. Let me get this route.
26:10
And Amari Cooper's like, Nah, man.
26:11
Like, this is mine. And then he goes and scores a
26:15
touchdown. Like, Amari Cooper was legit.
26:17
Oh, yeah. So I think he has a little
26:19
something. I think he can teach these young
26:21
wide receivers a little something.
26:22
So I know Green Bay's wide receiver room is kind of a
26:25
little crowded, But even if it's just for depth and and just to
26:28
teach young guys like, I think Amari Cooper would be a good
26:31
fit. Yeah, and, you know, I even
26:33
thought about in my head like what a reunion with like the
26:35
Raiders would be like for him, you know, but I think they like
26:39
their young tight end group, obviously.
26:40
And then they have to Kobe Myers.
26:41
So then, you know, then you really look big picture of
26:44
Jordan Love needs help. You know, I know there was for
26:47
the longest time, everyone would give the package crap about
26:49
you're not getting receivers, you're not getting receivers,
26:51
not getting receivers. Well, now they're starting to
26:53
build up a nice little core of them.
26:55
A better way to do that than put in a a vet who's proven to be,
26:59
you know, when he's at his best, he's one of the best receivers
27:03
in the NFL. I've actually never even
27:05
considered Amari Cooper to Green Bay.
27:07
I actually really like that now as a Dallas fan, as sorry to
27:11
keep mentioning that, but I hate the Packers specifically when it
27:14
comes to playoff time because it's just every single year.
27:17
Doesn't matter. Well, isn't that just every
27:18
team? Isn't that just every team?
27:20
Yeah, but he always ends up being the Packers.
27:22
Or the 49ers. Niners.
27:24
Well, yeah. Yeah, it's fair.
27:25
Yeah, it's one of those two. It's nobody else.
27:27
It's nobody else, but I think you're right.
27:29
I mean, they've got they've got a core group that Christian
27:31
wants and they just draft. Did they push watch this too?
27:34
Yeah, push. Watch this too.
27:35
And then they drafted Golden. Golden, yeah, and then some.
27:39
Brandon's a season event and food, like you said, is not
27:42
going to be expected to bring the world.
27:44
That's a good move for them. All right, well, I'm going to
27:47
stick with a wide receiver for for my best available free agent
27:51
and I'm going to go with Keenan Allen.
27:52
I really like Keenan Allen. I actually think that he still
27:56
has the potential to be a low end wide receiver, one I do.
27:59
He did have a down year last year with the Bears, but they
28:02
were also the second worst passing offense in the league.
28:05
Well, yeah, your cornerback's taking sacks 68 times, you're
28:08
gonna have a hard time throwing up a ball.
28:10
Exactly. Fun fact, Will, because I know
28:12
we've made fun of the Bears for giving up 68 sacks in 2023.
28:17
The Giants gave up 85 sacks. Good.
28:20
Golly. Oh yeah.
28:22
It's all Daniel Jones's fault. It's all his fault. 80.
28:27
Five. That's terrible.
28:28
Is that a record? I looked back like 10 seasons
28:31
and nobody was even close to that.
28:33
That's gonna be the. Record I don't even know how I
28:34
got on that, but I just like came across that stat and I was
28:38
like holy cow like we make fun of the bears for giving up 68,
28:41
but 85 Dang. That's terrible.
28:45
That's terrible, this area. But yeah, I think Keene Allen
28:48
would be a great fit for both the Bills and the Cardinals, and
28:52
kind of for similar reasons, honestly.
28:54
So they both had pretty good offenses last year, and both of
28:58
their defenses ranked out of the outside of the top ten as well.
29:01
The Bills were 11th and the Cardinals were 15th in defense.
29:04
So both of these teams this offseason, they went out and
29:06
said, hey, we need to get better at defense.
29:09
If we want to take that next step, take our team to the next
29:12
level, we need to get better at defense.
29:14
So both of the both the Bills and the Cardinals in the draft,
29:17
they went very defensive heavy. The Bills drafted 6 defensive
29:21
players with six out of their nine picks.
29:24
Their first offensive player wasn't picked until their 6th
29:26
pick in the draft. Then the Cardinals had 7 picks
29:30
and out of those seven players they picked 6 defensive players.
29:33
So both of these teams went defensive heavy.
29:35
But now it's time for both of these teams to focus on their
29:38
offense. They need a wide receiver.
29:41
Both these teams need a wide receiver.
29:42
So I'm going to start with the Bills.
29:44
The Bills ranked 9th and passing yards per game last season with
29:46
227.9 and Josh Allen actually had the second best passer
29:51
rating of his career with 101.4. So you might ask, well why do
29:56
the Bills need a wide receiver If they were already that good
29:58
at passing and Josh Allen had his second best passer rating of
30:01
his career, why do they need a wide receiver?
30:04
We talked about it last week on our show with our guest Lincoln.
30:07
He mentioned when he was talking about the Broncos actually, and
30:10
I don't know if you agree with this or not, Corey, but he was
30:12
saying that, you know, when it comes down to it, when the game
30:15
is on the line, who is Bo Nicks going to throw to?
30:18
Is he going to go to Cortland Sutton or who else does he have?
30:21
He was he was making that point like when the game's on the
30:24
line. What like legit receiver do you
30:26
have that you can count on in crunch time?
30:29
It's kind of the same case for Josh Allen, right?
30:32
The Bills leading receiver in the regular season was Kalil
30:34
Shakur and I like him a lot, but he he did miss a couple games,
30:38
but he had 76 sketches for 821 yards and four touchdowns.
30:42
And then after him their leading receiver was rookie wide
30:45
receiver Keon Coleman, who also missed a few games, but he had
30:49
29 catches for 556 yards and four touchdowns.
30:53
Then they got Amari Cooper to help with the passing game.
30:56
And again, you can see Josh Allen.
30:59
It didn't matter that he didn't have like that that legit wide
31:02
receiver one because he's Josh Allen and he's he's great.
31:07
But when it mattered in the AFC championship game, it mattered
31:11
because they hear some of the stats from his receivers in that
31:14
game. Kalu Shakur, 46 receiving yards.
31:17
Amari Cooper, 33 receiving yards.
31:20
Keyon Coleman, one catch for 12 yards.
31:22
His tight end Dalton Kincaid, 2 catches for 13 yards.
31:26
Their leading receiver in that game was Mack Hollins.
31:29
In the regular season, Mack Hollins had 378 receiving yards.
31:33
When it mattered, the receivers for the Bills were a problem.
31:38
It didn't matter in the regular season because you can see they
31:41
won 13 games. But when it mattered the most,
31:43
who did Josh Allen have to go to?
31:45
Nobody. He had Matt Collins.
31:47
The Bills, they need to sign Keenan Allen because again, in
31:50
my opinion, Keenan Allen still has the potential to be a low
31:53
end wide receiver one. And that is something that Josh
31:56
Allen has not had this last season and it's something that,
32:00
again, he doesn't need. But I think to take their
32:02
offense to the next level and have that playmaker when it
32:06
matters, they need to sign Keeny Allen.
32:08
Buffalo Bills ran 53% of the time running 11 formation, which
32:12
is 1 running back, one tight end, which means 3 receivers.
32:15
And so if you're running 3 receivers out there over half of
32:19
the time, which is an insane amount to run the same formation
32:23
53% of the time, you need someone to be able to rely on
32:26
heavily. I think you make a great point
32:28
of who do you have, right? It comes down to end of that 13
32:30
seconds, right? That's what everybody complaints
32:32
about to bills. But until the bills fans
32:34
complained about and now granted that was they never got to touch
32:37
the ball. But if you take the 60 minutes
32:39
prior to that, who did you have? And you you you had somebody.
32:42
You had Stefan days at that point.
32:44
You don't have anybody. Now you have no go to guy.
32:46
I I don't like it because I don't want the Bills to win, but
32:50
I do like it. Yeah, I do actually like him
32:53
there and here's why. They have Keon Coleman, right?
32:56
He is almost identical, Bill, to what Keenan Allen is.
33:00
So Keenan Allen has better separation as far as what that
33:02
goes. But if you're going to beat the
33:04
Chiefs, you got to have something other than one
33:06
receiver, right? And you need to use the run game
33:08
and all that. I think Keenan Allen, then you
33:10
can put guys where they actually need to be instead of trying to
33:13
like get the mismatch. I think Keenan Allen would still
33:15
be a mismatch against the Chiefs and I think that would still
33:18
open up their offense a lot more with what he's able to do.
33:21
Yeah, And you know, Keenan Allen is a guy who in his career he's
33:25
had six 1000 yard receiving seasons and he said five 100
33:29
catch seasons. And most recently he did it in
33:31
2023 with the Chargers. So he's only been a year removed
33:35
from having a 100 catch, 1000 yard receiving season.
33:39
And the only reason that he didn't last year is because he
33:43
won. He wasn't the number one for the
33:45
Bears, but again, the Bears were the second worst passing offense
33:48
in the NFL last year. If you go to the Bills, they
33:51
gave up the least amount of sacks.
33:54
Last year, they only gave up 14 sacks.
33:56
So if you go to the Bills, but only is it, do you have a better
34:00
quarterback in Josh Allen, you also are going to have more time
34:04
to get open because you're not on a Caleb Williams team where
34:08
he's getting sacked 68 times. He literally had no time to
34:11
throw. So if you go to the Bills, who
34:13
have a great offensive line, you also have Josh Allen who doesn't
34:17
get sacked as often because of his rushing ability.
34:20
That gives you more time to get open.
34:23
And so I think that Keenan Allen still has that ability to be a
34:26
low end wide receiver one. I think he can still have 1000
34:29
yards and I think if he goes to the Bills, he will have 1000
34:32
yards. So I think the Bills need to
34:34
sign them now to go to the Cardinals.
34:38
It's a pretty similar reason as the Bills, honestly.
34:40
The Cardinals do have better wide receivers.
34:42
They have their wide receiver won already in Marvin Harrison
34:45
Junior. They have one of the best tight
34:47
ends in the NFL and trade McBride.
34:48
Was Marvin Harrison Junior a little bit inconsistent last
34:50
year? Sure.
34:51
But when you have a quarterback, you can't see you.
34:53
You're going to be inconsistent. He had a pretty solid rookie
34:58
season. It wasn't what everybody was
34:59
expecting it to be, but he still had 62 catches for 885 yards and
35:04
eight touchdowns. He's only going to get better.
35:06
So he is projected to be your wide receiver one.
35:09
Then you have Trey McBride again, who's one of the best
35:12
tight ends in the league. What do you have after that,
35:14
though? You don't have a lot after that.
35:16
You need a legit threat, a legit third threat in that passing
35:20
offense, because the Cardinals ranked 18th in passing offense
35:24
last year. They ranked 7th in rushing
35:26
yards, which is very good, but then your passing offense was
35:30
not great and so they need to improve in that area.
35:33
So you if you put Keenan Allen there again, he's had six 1000
35:37
yard seasons and five 100 catch seasons.
35:39
And look at what he did last year.
35:41
He had 744 receiving yards and seven touchdowns.
35:44
That's pretty good, especially if you're not going to be the
35:46
number one guy. So in this offense, he would be
35:48
the number 3, but he could, he would be a very good #3 he would
35:53
give Kyler Murray with his and I'm well, I'm going to use your
35:57
word with his scramble ability, he is going to, he's going to be
36:02
able to make a lot of plays because Kyler Murray can get out
36:06
of the pocket and buy extra time with his legs, which would give
36:09
Keenan Allen more time to get open.
36:11
Now, kind of similar to what you were saying, Corey, with Keenan
36:14
Allen, if he was to go to the Bills and they have Kian
36:17
Coleman, he can mentor Kian Coleman and help him get better
36:20
because this is a guy who has had a very successful career and
36:24
he can help Marvin Harrison Junior do the same thing.
36:26
So I think the Bills and the Cardinals are very similar in
36:30
the situation where Keenan Island would be a great fit for
36:32
both of them because they're passing offense needs to get
36:36
better. Yeah.
36:37
And and to go to that as well, like you said, what else do they
36:40
have, right? I think that also opens things
36:42
up for Trey McBride and it also may open up a little bit better
36:45
for Marvin Harrison and I think he and Allen on the out routes
36:48
in the in the back shoulder throws.
36:50
If they were to get Kyler in his little legs to the outside a
36:53
little quicker to be the be able to pepper the out routes, I
36:56
think he and Allen would fit in great there with that.
36:59
But if you don't have those guys, they're just going to be
37:02
able to bracket Tray McBride, bracket Marvin Harrison.
37:06
So now that's leads Kyler in a tough situation where you guess
37:09
he can scramble, but what if he doesn't?
37:11
Right? Like now you're just opening up
37:13
the field more for him and now you're being able to open the
37:17
field up for other guys. I mean, you see it with all the
37:19
other teams that have multiple receivers and the Bengals with
37:22
Chase and T Higgins, they're able to know now you can't just
37:25
focus on one. You have to game plan for the
37:27
whole thing. So, yeah, I mean, that would be
37:29
a pretty good fit for for Arizona.
37:31
Right. Well, let's move on to our next
37:32
guy. We're kind of running out of
37:34
time here a little bit since we kind of got a late start due to
37:36
the emergency fire we had going on with with Avery.
37:39
Not we. Yeah, that Avery, that Avery
37:43
had, the emergency fire Avery had.
37:44
But with these next guys, let's just go through them real quick.
37:48
Let's just give one team that you think they fit best with as
37:51
we go through these guys. So let's go back to Will give us
37:55
your next guy. Sante Samuel Junior's my next
37:57
guy top corner, and for the Chargers, I almost had the
38:00
Clippers we're on Lac for. You had to get our basketball.
38:05
Reference had you the basketball reference also Mark Davidson.
38:08
Sarah still sucks. Had to slip that in there sound
38:12
to Samuel top corner for the Chargers almost as he can.
38:16
He had a shoulder injury and then had neck surgery which kept
38:19
him out some last year. He has been on record of saying,
38:22
oh, it's not going to have any effects going long term.
38:25
Of course he said that right. I actually really like him to
38:28
most of the teams already said the Bills, the Ravens and
38:32
actually the Bengals. The Bengals couldn't stop a wet
38:35
paper bag last season. I mean, they couldn't do
38:38
anything. There's one goal in the AFC
38:40
right now and stop the Chiefs. And what did the Chiefs do?
38:43
The Chiefs throw the ball, so pick your contender in the AFC.
38:47
That's where the top corner should go.
38:49
They honestly should open the bag for him, give him a one year
38:52
deal, give him a whole lot of money for one year as a perfect
38:55
deal to make sure the next year is not going to be lasting.
38:57
But again, AFC is where he needs to go.
39:00
I want to see him in Washington because Dan Quinn, but he really
39:03
should go to anywhere in AFC that's going to be a contender.
39:06
Yeah, I like the Bengals. I actually had Stephane Gilmore,
39:10
who I'm going to talk about in a little bit, and the Bengals were
39:12
one of my teams. But I'm going to talk about
39:14
somebody else now because I think is a better fit for
39:15
somebody else. But the Bengals were one team I
39:17
picked, and one of the reasons for that is because they're one
39:21
of their starting corners. Dax Hill is coming off an ACL
39:24
injury, and when your past defense was already that bad, is
39:27
it really going to be better when you put in a corner who's
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coming off an ACL injury? I don't.
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Definitely think so. So, so the Bengals and they
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didn't draft a corner either. I, I really thought they were
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going to draft a corner. I really would have liked to see
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them draft a corner because their past defense was just bad.
39:45
Like you can improve your past defense with a defensive lineman
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and linebackers somewhat, but you also need guys in the
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secondary to cover the wide receivers.
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So the Bengals didn't really do anything to address that, and so
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I think that if they signed Asante Samuel Junior that it
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would be beneficial for them. They haven't even signed any
40:05
corner free agents, not even like his backups currently they
40:08
have they've done they've done nothing for their secondary.
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They brought in a couple linebackers, but that's where
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that's where their help stops off the line.
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So they they need something about their.
40:20
Cheese fans are happy because they're true.
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The Bengals are wasting Joe Burrows best years.
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They yes, the Bengals defense are they're doing a lot for the
40:28
offense. They're they're making sure he's
40:29
got weapons for the offense. That's true.
40:30
But that defense is saying, yeah, your offense is great, but
40:34
defense wins championships. Clearly, we're not going to.
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You got any thoughts on the Sante Samuel Junior Corey?
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Yeah, that's actually one of my brother's favorite corners and
40:42
he was kind of curious on your to hear what you guys think on
40:45
that as well. So I like the Bengals because I
40:47
was actually going to put the next who I was going to talk
40:50
about there as well, just because they've done the
40:52
absolute bare minimum to help their defense.
40:55
I guess when you're wanting to put up 40 some points a game,
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you're gonna hope your defense can give up like 38.
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I guess I'm not, I'm not too sure.
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But they need as much help as they can get.
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And that's still a good veteran order, right?
41:09
If he comes back healthy from all the injuries and stuff and
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whatnot. Actually was curious as to why
41:15
the Chargers kind of even let him go to begin with themselves.
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I think they're already weak in the secondary themselves, so
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that's why I was extremely surprised to see that they
41:23
hadn't even considered it. I'd say it's going to be the
41:26
same reason that the cold cycle paid Manning.
41:28
You had neck surgery. Everything's uncertain.
41:32
We're just going to find somebody else.
41:34
Yeah. Since we're on the topic of the
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Bengals and you're going to pick your next guy for the Bengals,
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tell us who that is Corey and why.
41:40
Again, why you think he fits with the Bengals.
41:42
Yeah, it's it's Von Miller and deep down it should be the
41:45
Denver Broncos, honestly finish his career out there.
41:48
I know I was going to pick the Chiefs, but I don't want to put
41:50
that in the atmosphere. So the Bengals, they they need
41:54
rush, they need rushing help, right?
41:56
Or rushing gets the quarterback essentially.
41:59
I know they have Trey Hendrickson, but who knows
42:00
what's going to happen there with I.
42:02
I read that it's not getting any better as far as the contract
42:04
talks have gone there. Yeah, so worse.
42:07
Yeah, it's getting worse that they've kind of cut off
42:10
communications as a whole, right?
42:13
I don't think Von Miller's going to ask for a ton of money and I
42:16
don't know, I guess I can't speak on that.
42:18
He could still ask for a ton of money and the Bengals still may
42:21
not be able to get it. It'd be curious to see if they
42:23
do give him maybe like 15,000,000 and then Trey Henders
42:27
spec. What the hell?
42:28
So that would be an interesting kind of situation.
42:31
But again, they're wasting Joe Burrows best years.
42:35
And it's it's frustrating because Joe Burrow's a really
42:37
good quarterback and, and what he's been able to do.
42:41
And they obviously got over the hump once against Kansas City.
42:43
They thought they were, you know, they were all world and
42:46
then they haven't done anything since.
42:47
So you if you're going to win the AFC, you're going to have to
42:51
do it with defense because you have Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
42:55
Patrick Mahomes, hopefully Bo Nicks and some of those other
42:58
guys. You know you're not going to be
43:01
able to do it by putting up that many points because there's
43:03
defenses in the AFC that can't shut that down.
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That Bengals just need everything on defense.
43:08
Yes. And with their you said they
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need quarterback Russian help with their first pick.
43:13
They went to Mark Stewart, who we talked about on his show
43:17
before. Three like 3 sacks in three
43:21
years. 4 1/2 Four. And a half sacks in three. 1 1/2
43:24
every year. 1 1/2 every year. I mean, that's, that's not it.
43:28
You use your first drive pick on a guy who can barely get to the
43:31
quarterback, but he had. Good pressures.
43:33
They went defense, though. Yeah, pressures in the AFC mean
43:37
nothing because you've got like was just mentioned, if you're on
43:40
the Bengals, you've got Lamar Jackson, you're chasing down,
43:43
you've got Josh Allen, you're chasing down and you've got
43:46
Patrick Mahomes who somehow runs.
43:48
I don't know he it's. And you got to chase down Will
43:50
Howard. And you're going to have to
43:52
chase you. Won't you want to chase him
43:54
down? Excuse me?
43:55
Standing there slinging it. No question he'll be slinging
43:58
it. You won't have to chase out
44:00
Aaron Rodgers, that's for sure. But you're right, they need,
44:03
they need some serious help. Von Miller is not.
44:06
I don't think he's fully washed up yet.
44:08
I don't think he didn't sell for any real favors in Buffalo, but
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I I think he's still got some left in the tank.
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Super Bowl MVP amount of money, we all would have taken that.
44:17
No one thought the Bills were actually going to give him that
44:19
contract. None of us would have turned
44:20
that down at our rate for that. No, yeah, there's there's no
44:24
way. I'm like, yeah, I'll sign it
44:25
yesterday. Hey, he had six sacks last
44:30
season. I.
44:30
Mean, outside of Hendrickson. I mean, that's that's still more
44:33
than what the Bengals will probably get the shit out of
44:34
anybody else. True, that's true.
44:38
All right, well, I'm going to get into my last guy here and
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then we're going to wrap up the show because we are out of time.
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So my last guy is Stephane Gilmore, as I mentioned, you
44:46
know, he's a he's a veteran corner.
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He's not the same as he once was.
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And we've been saying that for years now.
44:51
Even when he signed with Dallas and everybody was saying, you
44:53
know, he's not what he once was, but Stephon Gilmore is a guy who
44:57
has done just about everything there is to do from the corner
45:00
position in the NFL. He's won Defensive Player of the
45:02
Year, he's won a Super Bowl, he's made the Pro Bowl five
45:06
times and he's been All Pro twice.
45:08
Why not put him on the Jaguars? Your first two draft picks were
45:13
corners. You drafted Travis Hunter and
45:17
you drafted Caleb Ransaw, I believe from Tulane with your
45:21
first two picks because your secondary was the absolute
45:25
worst. They ranked dead last in passing
45:28
yards given up last season. Yeah, they were the worst.
45:31
They made some moves to address that.
45:33
They did sign Jordan Lewis from Dallas as a nickel corner, who I
45:37
think is going to do well there because he's, I mean, he's
45:39
better than than. He's going to make it their
45:42
defense better. He's not great, but he's going
45:44
to make their defense better. You signed Travis Hunter and
45:47
Caleb Branson, so if you made these moves, especially with
45:51
your two young corners, you're expecting him to come in and
45:55
play right away and contribute right away.
45:57
So who is better than Stephane Gilmore, who again has one
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defensive player of the year from the corner position?
46:03
He's won a Super Bowl, he's made Pro Bowls and he's been an All
46:06
Pro. Who is better to mentor those
46:09
guys and teach them the NFL game then Stephane Gilmore?
46:13
And he can also be a contributor for the Jaguars because who
46:16
knows how much Travis Hunter is actually going to play corner?
46:19
Who knows what position he's going to play?
46:21
He could be playing quarterback out there 50% of the time.
46:23
Who knows? But I just think that Stephane
46:27
Gilmore would be good for the Jaguars just specifically
46:30
because of his ability to teach these young corners who they
46:33
drafted how to play the NFL game.
46:36
He's seen a few things in his time, right?
46:38
Like you said, he's won awards, won a Super Bowl.
46:41
He he knows how to play the game the right way.
46:44
And that's what you want with the young defense, especially
46:46
with Travis Hunter. Like, you don't know what you're
46:48
going to get Travis Hunter, but what better way to do that than
46:51
put in a vet to kind of show him the ropes?
46:54
I think getting away from Colorado and that circus there,
46:56
I think that's going to help Travis Hunter a lot to see an
46:59
NFL locker room. But then you sit him next to
47:02
Stephon Gilmore for a season. Yeah, I would.
47:04
I would think more highly of Travis Hunter going forward if
47:07
he had someone to learn from like that.
47:09
Yeah. Yeah, and in college, I mean,
47:11
you see, and I know these are just highlights because
47:15
everybody loves to point them out, but it's just one play here
47:18
and there. But like, you've seen plays of
47:20
Travis Hunter just getting torched.
47:22
Yeah. At the corner position, like I
47:24
think he's going to be a better receiver than he is going to be
47:27
a corner. But if they really are going to
47:29
play him on both sides of the ball, one, when he's at wide
47:33
receiver, he can have Stefan Gilmore covering him in
47:36
practice, teaching him like, hey, you should have done this
47:38
or you should have done this, like to get away from me or
47:40
whatever, you know? And when he's on defense, he can
47:42
teach him like, hey, this is what you should do to.
47:45
So he's kind of teaching him the same thing like both times.
47:48
So I think it would be a really good fit.
47:49
Again, the Jaguars had the worst pass defense in the NFL and you
47:53
can never have too much depth at a position.
47:55
Where you were the worst. Absolutely true.
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That's all we have time for today on our show.
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Want to give another thank you and shout out to Corey from show
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Victoria Sports. Filling in for Avery today
48:09
because of the emergency fire that blew up Avery's house
48:13
potentially, we don't actually know yet.
48:16
So thank you again for filling in.
48:17
We appreciate it and we will see you guys next time.
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We'll be back next week with more NFL content for you.
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And as always, don't forget to keep your balls played with.
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We'll see you next time.