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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, let's s got out to the ramos Law hotline.
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Ramoslaw dot com. We're joined by once again Adam Schefter
- 0:08Speaker 1: of ESPN.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Adam, how you doing?
- 0:10Speaker 3: What's going on? Gentlemen? A long time? No speak?
- 0:13Speaker 1: Yeah, especially for how crazy the offseason just got over
- 0:16Speaker 1: the past week or so. Now, the Miles Garrett trade obviously,
- 0:20Speaker 1: you know huge. When do you think Cleveland decided after
- 0:26Speaker 1: repeatedly saying he's not available?
- 0:29Speaker 2: When do you think that changed?
- 0:30Speaker 4: How did it change? Well, I'll send this to you
- 0:32Speaker 4: that when he restructured his contract in late March, there
- 0:38Speaker 4: was a team that called me an executive from another team.
- 0:41Speaker 4: I remember exactly where I was. I was on a
- 0:43Speaker 4: street in my house. Phone rang was this gentleman and
- 0:46Speaker 4: he said, are you aware that Miles Garrett read his
- 0:50Speaker 4: contract and the Browns.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Are going to trade him? I go trade him?
- 0:54Speaker 4: He said, that's the only reason you redo the contract
- 0:57Speaker 4: like this. I'm like really, He's like yeah. I called
- 1:00Speaker 4: the Browns spoke to two people there. They could not
- 1:03Speaker 4: have been more adamant. We are not trading him. That's
- 1:05Speaker 4: not why we did it. I had another team call
- 1:08Speaker 4: me they're trading them. That's why they did the contract.
- 1:11Speaker 4: So now we've got two teams telling me they're trading them,
- 1:13Speaker 4: Brown's saying they're not.
- 1:15Speaker 3: I think the truth is probably closer to the two teams.
- 1:20Speaker 3: I think the.
- 1:20Speaker 4: Browns did it knowing that it would be easier to
- 1:23Speaker 4: trade them, but with the idea that they were not
- 1:25Speaker 4: interested at that time in trading him, that if it
- 1:28Speaker 4: ever it came to be that they would have the
- 1:30Speaker 4: flexibility to trade him. And I think that again they
- 1:36Speaker 4: didn't plan to, they didn't intend to, but they.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Didn't completely dismiss the idea.
- 1:41Speaker 4: And I can tell you this that the Rams noticed
- 1:44Speaker 4: that they reworked that contract and right after that that's
- 1:47Speaker 4: when they got on the phone with the Browns to
- 1:49Speaker 4: start having conversations that ultimately led with them eventually including
- 1:56Speaker 4: Jared Verse in the deal, which in the end got
- 1:58Speaker 4: the deal done.
- 2:01Speaker 5: Jared Verse didn't seem too happy about it. But whatever,
- 2:04Speaker 5: How difficult is it for teams to keep the disinformation
- 2:08Speaker 5: so tight lipped even though they knew about.
- 2:11Speaker 2: It for a couple months.
- 2:12Speaker 5: I mean, does everybody know about it on the outside
- 2:14Speaker 5: and nobody just speaks of it or did you have
- 2:17Speaker 5: any knowledge?
- 2:19Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this, did I think he was going
- 2:22Speaker 3: to be traded?
- 2:22Speaker 2: No?
- 2:23Speaker 4: I did not, because I'm taking them at their word, Okay,
- 2:27Speaker 4: but I also was aware of what was going on.
- 2:30Speaker 4: And if you go back to my podcast a week before,
- 2:34Speaker 4: I had a section on there talking about Miles Garrett,
- 2:36Speaker 4: I'm like, something is weird here because Todd Monkin is
- 2:40Speaker 4: saying that he has not met Miles Garrett face to
- 2:43Speaker 4: face since becoming the Brown Said coach.
- 2:45Speaker 3: So now I've got those teams telling me they're.
- 2:48Speaker 4: Trading them, and I've got a head coach who hasn't
- 2:51Speaker 4: met his star player face to face and a team
- 2:53Speaker 4: that keeps telling me they're not trading them. Like again,
- 2:56Speaker 4: I'm giving the team the benefit of doubt. I'm believing them,
- 3:00Speaker 4: and I'm also saying this is odd. Something doesn't add
- 3:04Speaker 4: up here. Okay, That's exactly where I was coming from.
- 3:09Speaker 3: And then.
- 3:11Speaker 4: I found out about it, and I was like, and
- 3:14Speaker 4: in fact, when I got the first text about it,
- 3:17Speaker 4: I knew right away what it was. I knew right away,
- 3:19Speaker 4: Like someone's like, I gotta talk to you, I'm like, Mike, Miles.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Garrett, it's a huge deal and the Rams are going
- 3:26Speaker 2: forward again, and Adam, I respect that. An awful lot
- 3:29Speaker 2: teams that just want to get you know, want to
- 3:31Speaker 2: get there. And they were so close. Obviously, I believe
- 3:33Speaker 2: they would have won if they had beaten Seatle, I
- 3:35Speaker 2: think they would have won the whole thing. But the
- 3:37Speaker 2: other team, also, the other team in the Super Bowl,
- 3:39Speaker 2: also did a deal, and this a J Brown thing.
- 3:43Speaker 2: You know, we've banned this about because you get an
- 3:45Speaker 2: outstanding player, but you get everything that comes with it,
- 3:50Speaker 2: you get all that kind of drama. Break us, you know,
- 3:53Speaker 2: take us through and break down that particular deal and
- 3:56Speaker 2: the worth for the New England Patriots.
- 3:59Speaker 4: I don't think you a drama with AJ Brown. I
- 4:02Speaker 4: really don't. Like I know people are thinking of him
- 4:04Speaker 4: that way, but having met him on a few occasions
- 4:09Speaker 4: and having spent a little bit of time with him,
- 4:13Speaker 4: he was.
- 4:13Speaker 3: A very impressive individual.
- 4:15Speaker 4: And I just think that obviously what happened happened in Philadelphia.
- 4:20Speaker 4: You can't deny that, But think about it like this.
- 4:25Speaker 4: He's not Tara Loans. When Tera Lowans was playing, and
- 4:27Speaker 4: I mean, just do the drama. But when Tera Owans
- 4:30Speaker 4: got traded to a new team, he was usually on
- 4:33Speaker 4: his best behavior and you got a great year or
- 4:36Speaker 4: two before things went the other way. Sure, And I
- 4:40Speaker 4: just think with aj Brown, I don't think he has
- 4:44Speaker 4: that much deba in him. I really don't, despite what happened.
- 4:47Speaker 4: I think he's a very smart guy. I think he's
- 4:50Speaker 4: very in touch. I think he learned last year, even
- 4:55Speaker 4: he himself said this week sometimes it's better to tell
- 4:59Speaker 4: a lie than the truth when you're a player. I
- 5:02Speaker 4: think he's I think he's learned from it, groom from it,
- 5:06Speaker 4: and I think he'll be better off from it moving forward.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Adam Schefter ESPN with us you know, the Pets or
- 5:13Speaker 1: Tan Rays. I think is interesting for a number of
- 5:16Speaker 1: different reasons. But it's very rare that a player just
- 5:19Speaker 1: gets a raise with no sort of strings attached, no
- 5:22Speaker 1: extra years on a contract out of nowhere, just the
- 5:26Speaker 1: way my brain works. Was this ownership of the Broncos
- 5:30Speaker 1: trying to get out of the head of a potential
- 5:33Speaker 1: holdout or something like that, or was this truly like, hey,
- 5:35Speaker 1: you're a good player, we want to reward you for it.
- 5:40Speaker 3: What was he scheduled to make this year?
- 5:42Speaker 2: Twenty four?
- 5:45Speaker 4: The top cornerbacks in the league are all making above thirty.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the leader's thirty one. And I think
- 5:53Speaker 1: is it Stingley or somebody else?
- 5:54Speaker 2: It's one of those.
- 5:55Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it's stingly I think what they're doing
- 6:01Speaker 4: here is, at some point this summer, I would expect
- 6:08Speaker 4: that we're going to get deals for Devin Witherspoon in
- 6:12Speaker 4: Seattle and Christian Zales in New England. And when those
- 6:16Speaker 4: deals come in, I would expect those deals to make
- 6:19Speaker 4: those cornerbacks the or very close to the highest paid
- 6:24Speaker 4: cornerbacks in the game. I think those deals will be
- 6:27Speaker 4: thirty two, thirty three, thirty four million dollars a year.
- 6:31Speaker 4: I'm gonna guess thirty three. We'll use that number. Sure,
- 6:34Speaker 4: I bit thirty two and thirty three, how about that.
- 6:36Speaker 4: Let's settle in right there, thirty two to thirty three. Hey, hey,
- 6:40Speaker 4: and when these deals get done, you can go play this.
- 6:43Speaker 4: So if you're the Denver Broncos and you're waiting for
- 6:47Speaker 4: deals to get done with Devin Witherspoon and Christian Zalees,
- 6:50Speaker 4: and I think there'll be deals with both the summer,
- 6:54Speaker 4: and those salaries go to a minimum of thirty two
- 6:57Speaker 4: million dollars a year and Patrick Chutane at twenty four
- 7:01Speaker 4: and you're going to be getting these new cornerback deals.
- 7:04Speaker 4: Why not give him a raise now. Prevent any animosity
- 7:08Speaker 4: or bitterness, prevent any issues or drama. Give him the raise,
- 7:12Speaker 4: put him within range. He's not going to be the
- 7:15Speaker 4: highest paid corner when these deals get done, but he
- 7:18Speaker 4: can complain about nothing at that point, Todd, because they
- 7:21Speaker 4: just gave him a raise when he is one of
- 7:23Speaker 4: the best defensive players in the game.
- 7:26Speaker 5: Adam, I just spent the last segment praising the punting
- 7:30Speaker 5: of Jeremy Crosshaw for the Broncos, and my co host
- 7:34Speaker 5: Mark Moser laughed at me, mocked me. He said it
- 7:36Speaker 5: was unimportant, this and that trivial.
- 7:39Speaker 2: That is not what I said.
- 7:41Speaker 5: He didn't like what I had to say. And my
- 7:43Speaker 5: question I've never seen. You know, I've been watching football
- 7:46Speaker 5: practices at the professional level for nearly forty years and
- 7:48Speaker 5: I've never seen a display of punting like I saw
- 7:50Speaker 5: last yesterday. And the question I have for you is,
- 7:53Speaker 5: how is Australia producing these ridiculous legs that have now
- 7:58Speaker 5: invaded an occupied the National Football League.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Well, I think that we have rugby and soccer.
- 8:10Speaker 4: That's very popular there, and I think that they're trained
- 8:13Speaker 4: a different way and probably they've seen some Australian punters
- 8:18Speaker 4: have some success. I'm trying to think of the first
- 8:20Speaker 4: one that infiltrated. That was that Darren Bennett from Australia.
- 8:23Speaker 5: I believe you might have been Yeah, remember it was
- 8:25Speaker 5: the Chargers guy.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Was punter so Vick.
- 8:29Speaker 4: If you look it up, that was probably twenty years ago,
- 8:32Speaker 4: right guessing.
- 8:34Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 8:34Speaker 4: I like, literally, off the top of my head, I
- 8:36Speaker 4: was not explained to talk about former charger.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It's a big you and me both. Man. Listen, I'm
- 8:44Speaker 2: not saying it's not important, I said to Vic. I'm not.
- 8:47Speaker 2: I'm not wasting ten to fifteen minutes of valuable time
- 8:51Speaker 2: on Friday, June fifth talking about a guy's leg right now.
- 8:54Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. I got more important things to plow.
- 8:57Speaker 2: That's me, plow.
- 8:58Speaker 3: Go ahead.
- 8:59Speaker 2: What's your question, Adam Away? Oh, cultivate that farmland.
- 9:03Speaker 4: So I just think that there were probably some people
- 9:05Speaker 4: back in time. I get a look, now, where was
- 9:08Speaker 4: Darren Bennett, the Charges partner? Can you google that for me?
- 9:10Speaker 3: Please?
- 9:11Speaker 2: I got you?
- 9:12Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna guess if there were some young
- 9:14Speaker 4: kids that probably saw this guy in the NFL. This
- 9:16Speaker 4: is my guest, we'll see the timeline here that probably
- 9:19Speaker 4: saw that and probably just like there are people that
- 9:22Speaker 4: see certain athletes in certain sports and they grew up
- 9:25Speaker 4: wanting to be liked it.
- 9:26Speaker 1: That guy ninety four, two thousand and five.
- 9:29Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 9:30Speaker 2: That's thirty two. Yes, thirty two years ago is when
- 9:32Speaker 2: he came in.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Wow, but he.
- 9:33Speaker 4: Finished in two thousand and five, so he finished twenty
- 9:36Speaker 4: one years ago. So if there's a twenty one year
- 9:39Speaker 4: old kid who is seven eight years old and starting
- 9:42Speaker 4: to play sports at that time in Australia, he's showing
- 9:44Speaker 4: you about Darren.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Bennett, no doubt. Hey. So the more important thing is,
- 9:49Speaker 2: I mean, we're still very bullish on the Broncos. Yeah,
- 9:52Speaker 2: the Jalen Waddle thing. Vic went to practice yesterday, Ota
- 9:55Speaker 2: started and this guy is a special player. Now, how
- 9:59Speaker 2: much of a difference can he make? I'm not really sure.
- 10:01Speaker 2: But what's been the we haven't talked to you since then,
- 10:04Speaker 2: what's been the scuttlebut around the league about the Broncos
- 10:06Speaker 2: making that move to an offense that could use a
- 10:08Speaker 2: kick in the pants a little bit to go along
- 10:10Speaker 2: with an outstanding defense.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Well, I think I wasn't on shortly after the track.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Think I may be worried, but right right right away, yeah, right.
- 10:16Speaker 4: And I said that, and I would say now that
- 10:18Speaker 4: the Broncos looked at it and said that Jalen Model
- 10:21Speaker 4: is better than the player that they were going to
- 10:23Speaker 4: pick at whatever number they were going to be twenty eight,
- 10:25Speaker 4: twenty nine to thirty yep. And if you look at it,
- 10:28Speaker 4: I still maintain that that is true. And I know
- 10:32Speaker 4: that Sean Payton spoke to Nick Saban about it, and
- 10:36Speaker 4: I would know he spoke to there's another player. Hold on,
- 10:43Speaker 4: let me think there was a player that he coached
- 10:47Speaker 4: that played with Jalen Model in Miami and raved about him,
- 10:52Speaker 4: and they started the tape. They called around and what
- 10:56Speaker 4: they heard convinced them that this guy was going to
- 10:59Speaker 4: make a huge imp.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Look.
- 11:01Speaker 4: Last year, Denver and Buffalo were hot after him. They
- 11:04Speaker 4: made offers of multiple draft picks that included a first
- 11:09Speaker 4: round pick. So Denver's just getting him a year later.
- 11:11Speaker 4: And oftentimes when new regimes come in, they make changes,
- 11:14Speaker 4: and this was one of those changes that they made.
- 11:18Speaker 4: And you know, Jena and Wall is a great football player,
- 11:22Speaker 4: and he should fit in pretty well on Denver.
- 11:25Speaker 1: I would think Adam Schefter ESPN with us. I got
- 11:28Speaker 1: to ask, what do your people know? Because the schedule
- 11:31Speaker 1: release comes out, the first Monday night game on ESPN
- 11:34Speaker 1: is going to be the Broncos and the Chiefs. But
- 11:36Speaker 1: Mahomes tours knee up last year. I know he's already
- 11:39Speaker 1: participating in OTAs. I can't imagine that your company would
- 11:44Speaker 1: want to put that game on if Justin Fields is playing?
- 11:47Speaker 1: Is Mahomes playing?
- 11:50Speaker 4: We've thought all along he would play, and I don't
- 11:52Speaker 4: think that's the question. I think how effective will he
- 11:56Speaker 4: be is the question. I think he's playing, But is
- 12:00Speaker 4: he going to be seventy ninety percent of Patrick mahonmes
- 12:03Speaker 4: He's not going to be one hundred percent in that
- 12:05Speaker 4: opening game. It takes a while to recover from an
- 12:08Speaker 4: ACL and an LCL. That guy's a warrior and one
- 12:12Speaker 4: of his superpowers is scrambling and elusiveness.
- 12:17Speaker 3: I don't know how well that's going to be that night.
- 12:19Speaker 3: I just don't know. Nobody does. Right now. Do I
- 12:22Speaker 3: think he's gonna be out there? I do? Do I
- 12:24Speaker 3: think he's gonna be one hundred percent?
- 12:25Speaker 2: No? I don't.
- 12:26Speaker 3: So you're gonna get a.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Slightly slightly lesser version of Patrick Mahomes, which is still
- 12:33Speaker 4: better than most every quarterback in the league, and we'll
- 12:37Speaker 4: see how that works out.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Yeah, we're saying the same thing about bon Nicks too.
- 12:40Speaker 2: I mean the dual surgery and then I'm sure he'll
- 12:42Speaker 2: be fine, but what percentage will he be at? Hey?
- 12:45Speaker 2: Before we let you go, it's great to have you back,
- 12:47Speaker 2: number one, number two. I like this. I like this
- 12:50Speaker 2: version of schefter. I like this T shirt. Hanging out
- 12:54Speaker 2: in the office. You know, nice, nice hair, doing your thing,
- 12:58Speaker 2: kind of summertime hair going on. How's how's your spring
- 13:02Speaker 2: and summer been so far? Okay, are you still busting
- 13:04Speaker 2: your head every day or what are you doing?
- 13:06Speaker 4: I've had a great, great May June so far, so good.
- 13:14Speaker 4: Look In in my world, there aren't two more slower, easier,
- 13:26Speaker 4: peaceful months than May and June. Now there are the
- 13:29Speaker 4: occasional flare ups like there were Monday, and we got
- 13:32Speaker 4: Miles Miles Garrett and A. J. Brown and Odell Beckham
- 13:36Speaker 4: Junior and Russell Wilson. I mean, it's just Monday was crazy.
- 13:42Speaker 4: But if you can't enjoy this time of the year.
- 13:44Speaker 4: Then then you're just not getting enjoyed.
- 13:46Speaker 2: See. So like Vic and I, we we went to
- 13:48Speaker 2: it last year together, and so we're hanging out at
- 13:51Speaker 2: the Vatican. Can we give our Broncos training camp report together? Well,
- 13:56Speaker 2: I mean we didn't go together, but we met up. Yeah,
- 13:59Speaker 2: it's a long story, but we do our Broncos Training
- 14:02Speaker 2: Camp update from from Vatican City right up there outside
- 14:05Speaker 2: the Vatican hanging out doing our thing. Blah blah blah.
- 14:08Speaker 2: So what do you I mean, so when you're are
- 14:10Speaker 2: you traveling and you got to do stuff from the role?
- 14:13Speaker 2: I mean, what how does that work for you? Man?
- 14:14Speaker 2: Because it feels like you have to be on call
- 14:16Speaker 2: all the time.
- 14:22Speaker 4: That's the job. Yeah, it's funny you bring that up Italy.
- 14:26Speaker 4: When I was turning fifty, like my birthdays in December,
- 14:29Speaker 4: could never go away at that time of the year
- 14:31Speaker 4: to celebrate my birthday. So the summer before I turned fifty,
- 14:38Speaker 4: I took my family to Colorado. They had never been.
- 14:41Speaker 4: That was where I want to do. I want to
- 14:42Speaker 4: take them to Colorado. And this December I'll turn sixty. Wow,
- 14:49Speaker 4: so this summer, at some point in time, gonna take
- 14:51Speaker 4: my can take my family. We've never done this international trip.
- 14:55Speaker 4: We're gonna go to Italy for a week to celebrate
- 14:57Speaker 4: my sixtieth birthday.
- 14:58Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, so that'd be nice.
- 15:02Speaker 5: Hey, if a member of the shift or family wants
- 15:05Speaker 5: to go to the Game three of the NBA Finals,
- 15:07Speaker 5: where entry level tickets are seven thousand dollars, are you
- 15:11Speaker 5: going to attend?
- 15:13Speaker 3: You know, I was invited.
- 15:14Speaker 4: Somebody invited me, and I think they only have one ticket,
- 15:16Speaker 4: and I honestly don't want to go without my kids,
- 15:19Speaker 4: and I don't feel right doing that. And uh so
- 15:22Speaker 4: I just literally just emailed them back before here. I
- 15:24Speaker 4: just I mean, somebody I do some work with, and
- 15:27Speaker 4: I said, thank you very much for the offer. I
- 15:29Speaker 4: think I'll just pass for now, truly grateful that you asked.
- 15:32Speaker 3: You just passed.
- 15:33Speaker 5: The seven g's probably more than that considering where that
- 15:35Speaker 5: seed is.
- 15:37Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know where it was, but you know,
- 15:39Speaker 4: they were kind of up there. But like, if I
- 15:41Speaker 4: was going to be able to bring mysel on my
- 15:42Speaker 4: I would have gone, but I don't want to go
- 15:45Speaker 4: with myself.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Like I don't know.
- 15:46Speaker 2: What if what if you said no? But if I
- 15:49Speaker 2: send my son.
- 15:50Speaker 4: Enjoy yeah, yeah, well I could have done that. I
- 15:56Speaker 4: actually thought about texting them back, like, hey, if you
- 15:58Speaker 4: want to, if you have an extra one and I
- 16:00Speaker 4: can bring one of my kids, that'd be great. But
- 16:02Speaker 4: I don't know whatever, Like, I'm happy watching it at
- 16:05Speaker 4: home on TV. No crowds, no traffic, no nothing. Refrigerator, bathroom.
- 16:11Speaker 4: You know what comes when you when you when you
- 16:13Speaker 4: get older, vic is you know I'm gonna go to
- 16:15Speaker 4: the bathroom very.
- 16:16Speaker 3: Often, So I don't need to find at Madison Square Garden.
- 16:19Speaker 1: You know what, though, Adam, very important question. If you
- 16:22Speaker 1: did go to that game, my guess is you wouldn't
- 16:24Speaker 1: run on the court and try and get a selfie
- 16:25Speaker 1: with victim woman Yama, What is the proper punishment to you?
- 16:30Speaker 1: Because Moser's he wants to sink like doberman pinchers on people.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, guys, I gotta get going here, okay, all right.
- 16:40Speaker 1: All right, well look for breaking news momentarily, yep, Adam
- 16:43Speaker 1: schefter of ESPN. There you go as he is, uh
- 16:48Speaker 1: maybe breaking news here at the moment, I don't know.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Turn his camera off, there, Nelly, turn his cameraf turn
- 16:52Speaker 1: his camera off. We don't need any secrets here, but
- 16:55Speaker 1: I'm expecting a tweet here anytime soon from Adam Schefter.
- 16:59Speaker 1: I think that he actually had a stiffer punishment than
- 17:02Speaker 1: you for the people who run out in the court
- 17:05Speaker 1: didn't feel like giving the answer publicly.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Well, I think it's Dobermans all the way, so highly
- 17:12Speaker 2: trained and highly sensitized.
- 17:14Speaker 1: We'll see. Keep our eyes glued to the phone here
- 17:16Speaker 1: for Adam Schefter.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Absolutely