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Ep.75: Divisional rodeo (AFC North) · Football Junkies podcast

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  Double bag alert, double bag alert, double bag
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  alert, folks. That's right. Gino Smith and Trey
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  McBride gets paid. All right. Joe Milton heads
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  to the Lone Star State. We have to talk about
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  the takeaways from the NFL owners meetings. All
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  right. And we are on the final divisional rodeo,
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  folks. That's right. The AFC North. All right.
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  All of this and more. on the 75th episode of
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  the Football Junkies Podcast, all right? I am
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  your host with the most, all right? I am your
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  chief bag roll dominance. I am your chief head
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  of the table, anything and everything related
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  to the bag and more, okay? I am the man with
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  the plan. I am your GM who currently is not on
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  a team right now, but don't you worry about it,
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  okay? Don't you worry about it because guess
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  what? I got two mock drafts for two different
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  teams lined up already. may post them today may
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  post them tomorrow I don't know stay tuned though
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  I am all these things and more but most importantly
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  the most important thing that you must remember
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  is I'm your host, Kale. You already know how
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  these things are about to go. You already know
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  how these episodes are about to go. A bunch of
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  truth bombs, a bunch of reality checks, a bunch
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  of controversial things that may be said. But
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  guess what? It's all out of love because guess
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  what? We got to give the people what they need.
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  And what is that? Their football junkies fix
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  to end the week. So guess what? On three, one,
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  two, three, let's lock in. All right, folks,
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  let's just get into the meat and potatoes of
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  everything that is going on in the league right
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  now. Before we go any further, make sure you
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  guys like, share, subscribe, turn the notification
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  bell on, download the episodes. all those things
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  and more so we can continue to give you guys
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  the football fix that you guys love and need
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  okay so let's just get into it so gino smith
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  inks a two -year 75 million dollar extension
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  that can go up to 85 .5 million all right 66
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  .5 million guaranteed and he'll be making 37
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  .5 million a year which really isn't bad now
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  when we look at his uh his stats for for last
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  season 578 attempts for 407 completions, 4 ,320
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  passing yards, 21 touchdowns, 15 picks, 7 .5
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  yards per attempt, and a 70 .4 completion percentage.
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  Geno Smith is still a really productive quarterback,
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  all right? He is somebody that he's not going
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  to woo you with his play. He is somebody that
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  he's going to get the job done. He's not somebody
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  that's going to be in the same conversation as
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  a Mahomes, a Burrow, a Lamar, or a Josh Allen.
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  He is somebody that's sort of like in that Baker
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  Mayfield type of realm, all right? Somebody that
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  he's going to win you some games. He's going
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  to make some crazy plays, but he's not the creme
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  de la creme when it comes to quarterbacks. Not
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  to mention... We all know that he had his best
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  years under Pete Carroll. So it was only right
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  for them to make sure that they lock him up because
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  when they traded for him, he was on the last
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  year of his deal that the Seahawks gave him.
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  So all it is is just adding on two more years,
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  which really isn't bad. Really think about this
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  for a second here. You got Geno Smith for two
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  more years and he's only making $37 .5 million
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  a year. That's not really bad. It doesn't break
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  the bank. It doesn't put you in cap hell. It
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  doesn't do any of those things. Not to mention,
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  in some ways, you can push back on the priority
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  of quarterback for maybe another two years if
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  you choose to do that. Now, at the same time,
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  maybe next year you may want to still take a
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  quarterback just in case. If you see a little
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  bit of regression, you can still do that because
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  why? His contract is not something where it's
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  ironclad that you have to, you know, stick through
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  it and all those different types of things. It's
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  not like that. It's a very simple deal. It's
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  somewhat of a deal that what Baker Mayfield got
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  from the Buccaneers. So all in all, both sides
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  win. Now, when we look at Trey McBride's deal,
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  all right, four years, 76 million. 43 million
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  guaranteed, and he'll be making 19 million a
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  year. When we look at his stats, 147 targets
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  for 111 receptions, 1 ,146 receiving yards, two
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  touchdowns, 10 .3 receiving yards per attempt.
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  When you look at these stats, you're probably
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  thinking, you mean to tell me they reset the
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  market for Trey McBride based off of these stats?
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  Yes. You have to turn on the tape. You've got
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  to see his performance. Trey McBride, within
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  the last three years, has been one of the rising
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  stars when it comes to tight ends. You are talking
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  about somebody that when he gets the ball, he's
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  going to make a play. Better yet, he's going
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  to extend the play as long as he can. We have
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  seen multiple games where he'll turn a 5 -yard
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  game into a 15 -yard game or a 20 -yard game.
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  That's just how skilled he is. Not to mention,
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  he's someone that sort of flies under the radar
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  when it comes to his performance. He has definitely
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  been one of the more consistent weapons for Kyler
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  Murray. Not to mention, he's put everywhere.
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  Sometimes they'll have him lined up in the slot.
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  Sometimes they'll have him blocked. They'll have
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  him everywhere. And Trey McBride does it all.
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  It was only right for the Cardinals to make him
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  the highest paid tight end. Because now what
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  you're starting to see is, and this probably
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  dates back all the way to maybe the Gronk years,
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  is that quarterbacks love having a reliable tight
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  end. A tight end is a quarterback's best friend.
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  Because when you need them the most, they're
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  always there to get you out of the pitch. Look
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  at all the great quarterbacks in NFL history.
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  They've all had a really great tight end, from
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  Brady to Gronk to Manning and Dallas Clark, which,
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  just on a side note, Dallas Clark and Madden,
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  within the last few years, unstoppable. Don't
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  ask me how I know. Luke, if you're listening
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  to this, don't even start. Don't even pull up
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  the clips. We're not going there, all right?
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  Now, back to the situation at hand. we are starting
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  to see a resurgence in the tight end position
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  as a whole. We are starting to see teams now
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  value the position of tight end because normally
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  back in the day, the tight end was like the really
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  big bulky dude that he may get five yards or
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  he may get five to 10 catches a game, where now
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  you're starting to see them get a thousand yard
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  receiving seasons like a receiver. And so it's
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  only going to continue to go up from here at
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  this point. And Trey McBride is somebody that
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  is going to kick down the door when it comes
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  to the next generation of tight ends. When you
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  have people like him and Isaiah Likely and Pat
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  Friermuth and who else? Who else? Who else? Who
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  else? Sam Laporta. There's a lot of tight ends
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  right now that are monsters that pretty soon
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  they're going to get paid as well. I would not
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  be surprised if Sam Laporta shatters the tight
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  end market again. Just saying. Now let's get
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  into this Joe Milton trade situation. So Joe
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  Milton was traded to the Dallas Cowboys yesterday.
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  All right. So the Cowboys receive, of course,
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  Joe Milton in the seventh round pick and the
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  Patriots receive a fifth round pick. Now, according
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  to Jordan Schultz. He had interests from multiple
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  teams. Some of those teams included the Raiders,
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  the Steelers, the Eagles, Dallas. But apparently,
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  his preferred destination was Dallas. And I can
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  respect that. And I love that the team granted
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  him his preferred destination instead of just
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  sending him to a place that gave them the best
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  offer. Now, I know there's a lot of Steelers
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  fans that are very butthurt about this. Because
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  I was just arguing with one yesterday about it
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  on Twitter. At GM Kale, by the way. G -M -K -A
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  -L -E. And he was basically in his feelings and
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  basically saying, you know, well, he's overrated.
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  And why in the world would we want somebody that's
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  overrated? There's no need for getting him. He's
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  not overrated. He's a project. He was a project
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  coming out of college. He was never going to
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  be this. first rounder or second rounder or third
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  rounder. None of those things. He was very raw.
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  Sure, he has the athleticism. Sure, he has the
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  big arm. Sure, he can throw really fast and it's
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  a beautiful, you know, it's a beautiful motion.
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  All of those things. But the fact of the matter
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  is he hasn't had a lot of opportunities to play.
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  And so with the Patriots signing Josh Dobbs,
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  he was going to get buried in the quarterback
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  room. And so instead of that happening, you might
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  as well just want to put him in a better situation
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  with Dallas because we know sometimes Dak will
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  get a little bit hurt. So this in some ways is
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  an insurance policy. It's not a he's going to
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  be your replacement. No, it's just insurance
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  policy. That's all it is. Joe Milton at best
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  could probably be a career backup. And that's
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  perfectly fine. You can still make a lot of money
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  being a career backup. It's not going to hurt
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  anybody. Now, I will say this for any person
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  that feels like Joe Milton is overrated. Your
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  expectations for Joe Milton is too high. We all
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  know that Joe Milton is a work in progress, that
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  this is going to be a two, a three or maybe even
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  a four year project. And it's going to take you
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  a while and it's going to be nasty. It's going
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  to be ugly. But at best, like I said before,
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  like I just said. He's probably going to be a
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  career backup and that's perfectly fine. So let's
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  get into all the stuff that we need to talk about
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  when it comes to the NFL owners meeting. So a
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  few things were passed, a few things were tabled.
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  And when I mean table, that means that they will
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  be talked about and probably voted on in a later
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  part of the year and whatnot. So here are just
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  a few things. One of the things that was passed,
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  if I'm not mistaken, and it was actually proposed
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  by the Eagles, which is crazy, which is during
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  the regular season in overtime, both teams are
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  guaranteed a possession, which, I mean, that's
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  not really bad. Another rule that was passed,
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  which was proposed by the Steelers, is during
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  the negotiation period of free agency, teams
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  are allowed to have one video call or phone call
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  with no more than five free agents. that's not
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  bad now could this go in a few different directions
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  yes could a team probably try to you know manipulate
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  the rule or whatever yes it'll probably happen
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  but i like the idea i just want to see how it's
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  going to be used moving forward and i'll just
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  leave it there so resolution was passed to basically
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  get rid of the chain gang and replace it with
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  this Sony Hawkeye technology that will be measuring
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  first downs. Let's be real here. In the last
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  few years, we have seen the chain gang mess up
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  very badly when it comes to a lot of calls. We
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  have seen them give people first downs when we
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  know it wasn't a first down. And so... On one
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  hand, it sucks because that takes away jobs for,
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  you know, for those people and whatnot. But at
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  the same time, we've reached a point now where
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  technology is a little bit more accurate and
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  it's a little bit more better and it's a little
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  bit more consistent than what the chain game
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  was. Like we literally saw somebody use a card
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  to determine if the football passed the first
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  down threshold or not. It was time. All right.
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  Now. Here is something that was tabled but was
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  proposed by the Lions. During the seeding for
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  the playoffs, teams will be seeded based on their
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  regular season record instead of division championships.
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  On one hand, I do like this, but I don't know
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  how to really feel about this. Because on one
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  hand, I understand the thought, but I feel like
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  you still have to weigh division rivals a little
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  bit more. Because I think when you still value
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  division rivals, I think it makes the matchups
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  more intense instead of just saying, oh, with
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  a better record, then you're going to have a
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  higher seeding. No, it still needs to be determined
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  of what happens in your division. Because guess
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  what? You could lose each and every one of your
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  divisional games. But if you have the best record
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  or one of the best records, guess what? You're
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  going to have a high seed. That's not really
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  fair. So, Lions, you thought you were going to
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  be sneaky, but clearly it backfired, and here
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  we go. Now, here was something else that wasn't
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  approved. It was actually shot down, and it was
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  proposed by who? The Lions. Get rid of automatic
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  first downs for any defensive holding or illegal
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  contact. Lions are being very sneaky now. We
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  can't be doing this, all right? This isn't jail
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  ball. This is football. Come on. We all know
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  that you guys have corners that like to be a
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  little handsy and whatnot, so it wasn't proved.
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  So stop it, all right? Here is something that
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  I think it could open things up for special teams,
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  and that is touchbacks on kickoffs will be marked
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  at the 35 -yard line. Let's be real here, folks.
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  In the last few years, the NFL has definitely
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  tried to make the kickoff a little bit more safer
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  because we have seen some very horrible injuries
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  when it comes to the kickoff. And so on one hand,
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  I understand that they're trying to fix it and
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  they're trying to keep special teams and that's
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  perfectly fine. But at the same time, you don't
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  want to mess up special teams and kick off to
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  the point where it could actually hurt a team
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  that actually help the team. When we looked at
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  last year, we didn't see a whole lot of, you
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  know, kickoff returns like we have seen in the
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  past. And honestly speaking, there was a point
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  in time where I didn't like the kickoff. I just
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  felt like it was stupid. Not to mention, it also
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  is a disadvantage for rookies because you know
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  why? College football still does the old traditional
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  kickoff. But the NFL has changed. So you would
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  think with them passing the resolution that they
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  did last year or the year before last, that college
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  football would have instituted a change as well.
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  But clearly that's not the case. And clearly
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  that is very much needed. That's the only way
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  that players will be able to be adapted to the
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  changing times. Otherwise, it's going to be a
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  learning curve for any person that's coming into
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  the league. So that resolution is sort of a wait
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  and see type of situation because I already know
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  there's probably going to be a special teams
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  coach or coordinator or whomever that's going
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  to come up with something crazy. I just know
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  it. I know it. Somebody is cooking up a strategy
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  right now. Wait. Just you wait and see. Somebody's
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  going to do something crazy that's going to catch
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  everybody off guard. But moving forward, the
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  banning of the tush push was tabled, and this
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  was proposed by the Packers. Here is something
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  that I think that needs to be talked about with
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  the tush push. On one hand, yes, I understand
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  it's basically the most broken move in football
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  and that nobody can stop it. But I think we have
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  to look at the side effects when it comes to
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  the health of the players that perform the tush
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  push. You are literally burying yourself at the
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  opponent's legs and knees in order to get to
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  the first down. That's not safe at all because
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  it will take the right player who will be just
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  as ballsy and gutsy to do it that will literally
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  deliberately try to basically headbutt himself
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  to try to stop the tush push from happening at
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  this point i think we need to look at the the
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  side effects that may come with this instead
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  of just saying oh we need to continue to keep
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  this play going no i am against the tush push
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  i think it is a very dangerous move I think it
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  is a move that puts offensive linemen in harm's
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  way. I think it puts defensive players in harm's
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  way. And I think it is a move that all it takes
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  is just one situation and it can cause a serious
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  injury to somebody. And I don't want that to
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  happen. I don't want to continue to see players
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  being carted off and whatnot because they're
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  just trying to stop a... stop a play from happening.
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  I don't want to see that. So at some point, the
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  league is going to have to come in and the league
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  is going to have to figure out a way to get rid
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  of this tush push. Now, could there be a more
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  safer option? Sure. Perfectly fine. But right
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  now, the current version of the tush push is
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  not healthy and it's not safe. Now, I probably
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  sound like a parent, but who really cares at
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  this point? Because When you look at the interviews
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  from those Eagles offensive linemen, some of
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  them say they don't get feeling back in their
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  legs or their arms or their neck and whatnot
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  for a few days. I'm sorry. If I'm the owner,
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  if I'm anybody that is high up within the NFL,
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  we have to come together and we have to ban this
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  move. Because we just finished writing almost
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  a billion dollar check for CTE. You're going
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  to have to probably write another one for each
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  and every player that tried to do something similar
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  to the tush push. Do you really want that? Probably
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  not. Now let's get into the divisional rodeo,
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  folks. Man, we are just breezing by everything.
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  This is probably going to be a very short episode.
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  I'm just letting you guys know right now because
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  there's really not a lot to talk about. Everybody's
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  getting ready for the draft. It's really not
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  a lot of stuff to talk about right now. Everybody's
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  doing their 30 -day visits and finishing up on
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  their big boards and all those different types
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  of things. So it'll probably be a little bit
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  of a quiet period. Most likely, I probably will
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  not put out an episode next week, depending on
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  if Aaron Rodgers wants to take his head out of
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  his ass. you know actually decide to to make
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  a decision and whatnot maybe i'll do episode
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  but um but most likely i'll probably just be
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  working on clips from all the you know other
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  previous episodes of the divisional rodeo and
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  whatnot and you know put those out for for you
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  guys so let's just get into the divisional rodeo
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  because we have a lot we have to talk about okay
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  so afc north browns bangles ravens and steelers
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  okay so let's start with the browns okay so their
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  salary 19 .2 million with a rollover cap of 41
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  .9 million. Their free agents, Jedrick Willis,
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  Nick Harris, Nick Chubb, Elijah Moore, Naheem
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  Hines, Jordan Atkins, Maurice Hurst, Michael
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  Dunn, Ronnie McLeod, and Jermaine Effetti, just
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  to name a few, okay? Now, when we look at their
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  draft picks, okay, we all know they got their
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  first, their second, they have two third round
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  picks, they don't have a fifth, they have a fourth
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  round pick, they have four sixth round picks,
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  as well as one seventh round pick. So all in
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  all, you have a lot of picks, which you're really
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  going to need it because right now your team
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  is in bad shape. Really bad shape. All right.
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  And we look at positions of need. Quarterback,
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  running back, tackle, defensive line. Let's be
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  real here, folks. The Browns are in hell. The
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  Browns are in hell. And they put themselves in
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  this situation because they decided to double.
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  Well, no, not double. They tripled down on trading
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  for Deshaun Watson instead of trying to give
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  Baker Mayfield a legitimate chance. Because let's
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  be real here. During Baker Mayfield's time, there
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  were a slew of head coaches, a slew of offensive
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  coordinators, a slew of changes that were constantly
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  happening almost every single offseason. So he
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  never had stability. Now that he has stability,
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  guess what? the Buccaneers see the best version
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  of them and they're benefiting off of it. Meanwhile,
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  you're in a situation where you done gave this
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  Joker a fully guaranteed contract and now you're
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  trying to figure out how in the world can we
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  build this team while we're giving this fool
• 22:10
  all of this money. So now you have to figure
• 22:14
  out exactly, one, are we going to draft a quarterback?
• 22:18
  Two, what do we need to do to take us to the
• 22:22
  next level? And three, Do we have the resources
• 22:25
  right now if we don't trust any of these quarterbacks
• 22:29
  to make a trade for a veteran quarterback? Because
• 22:32
  right now, all you have is just Cam Ward and
• 22:35
  Shador Sanders. So right now, you have about
• 22:39
  three weeks to figure out if you're super high
• 22:41
  on both of those quarterbacks. And you have to
• 22:45
  figure out who are you going to get. So right
• 22:48
  now, you have a lot of tough decisions that you're
• 22:51
  going to have to make moving forward. You may
• 22:53
  not like them, but you're going to have to make
• 22:55
  them fairly soon. Even the Browns owner has come
• 22:59
  to the realization that he whiffed on Deshaun
• 23:01
  Watson. This is what he said at the owners meeting.
• 23:03
  And I quote, we took a big swing and miss with
• 23:06
  Deshaun. We thought we had the quarterback. We
• 23:09
  didn't. And we gave up a lot of draft picks to
• 23:11
  get him. So we've got to dig ourselves out of
• 23:14
  that hole. The trade was an entire organization
• 23:16
  decision. And it ends with D, his wife, and I,
• 23:20
  let's talk about himself, So hold us accountable,
• 23:23
  end quote. Yes, you must be held accountable
• 23:27
  for this move because this was the dumbest move
• 23:30
  any person could have made. But you know what?
• 23:32
  It is perfect because you know why? The Browns
• 23:36
  make some of the most dumbest moves when it comes
• 23:39
  to quarterback. I can't even tell you how many
• 23:43
  quarterbacks they have basically ran through
• 23:45
  within the past 15 years. But there is a theory
• 23:49
  that I do believe in. That I think it could happen.
• 23:53
  And Diana Rossini of The Athletic talked about
• 23:56
  it a little bit about a few days ago. And so
• 24:00
  basically, she has heard from the grapevine that
• 24:04
  there is somewhat of a connection between Kirk
• 24:07
  Cousins and the Browns. And what is that connection?
• 24:09
  Kevin Stefanski. Kevin Stefanski was the offensive
• 24:12
  coordinator for the Vikings when Kirk Cousins
• 24:15
  was there. So I think the both of them have a
• 24:18
  pretty good relationship. And I think Kevin Stefanski
• 24:21
  would be open to getting someone like a Kirk
• 24:24
  Cousins. Now, the problem is this. Kirk Cousins'
• 24:27
  contract is really bad. And so you're going to
• 24:30
  be having to figure out a way to make that contract
• 24:34
  work with the cap space and everything moving
• 24:37
  forward. But the thing that works in the Browns'
• 24:41
  favor if they were to make this move is this.
• 24:45
  Kirk Cousins has a no trade clause. So Kirk Cousins
• 24:48
  can dictate where he wants to go. He can literally
• 24:51
  force the Falcons to send him to the Browns.
• 24:55
  And not to mention, the Falcons can't ask for
• 24:59
  a first round pick. They can even ask for a second
• 25:01
  or a third round pick. At best, they could probably
• 25:04
  just ask for maybe a fourth round pick that could
• 25:07
  turn into a third round pick based off of certain
• 25:10
  criteria. At this point, if you are the Browns,
• 25:15
  you have to weigh out every single option. Now,
• 25:18
  I know today is the Colorado's pro day. It was
• 25:22
  originally supposed to be yesterday, but they
• 25:23
  had inclement weather, so they pushed it to today.
• 25:27
  So maybe they'll be super confident in Shador
• 25:30
  after his pro day. I don't know. But they have
• 25:33
  a lot of tough decisions that they're going to
• 25:35
  have to make. Now, running back, it's not that
• 25:37
  high of a priority. You can get that. Day two
• 25:40
  or day three, honestly. Tackle, I do feel like
• 25:44
  that is another priority of a need. I think outside
• 25:49
  of quarterback, that needs to be the second pick
• 25:52
  that needs to be made. Because right now, you
• 25:55
  have a question mark when it comes to left tackle.
• 25:59
  As well as right tackle as well. Wyatt Teller
• 26:02
  is getting up in age. And so right now, you may
• 26:05
  want to try to maybe get a... succession plan
• 26:08
  going for him. And so right now, you do have
• 26:13
  some options because I do believe there's going
• 26:15
  to be some pretty good tackles that will be available
• 26:17
  in the second, third, and fourth round. The question
• 26:21
  is, how high are you on them? Because you can
• 26:24
  get someone like a Charles Grant who has positional
• 26:26
  flexibility. You can get someone like a Josh
• 26:29
  Conley who he's better in pass protection than
• 26:32
  in run protection. You can go and get Donovan
• 26:34
  Jackson. You have options at tackle. but you
• 26:38
  are going to have to invest a high pick in getting
• 26:41
  one. Now, defensive line, you can double dip
• 26:43
  with that. I think if you get one maybe in the
• 26:47
  third and then maybe in the sixth or maybe fourth
• 26:50
  round, I think that that would be good because
• 26:52
  right now you need to bolster up that defense
• 26:55
  a little bit more because all you have is just
• 27:00
  Greg Newsome, Denzel Ward, and Myles Gary. You
• 27:04
  don't really have anybody else. So you need to
• 27:07
  start making significant draft changes right
• 27:11
  now. You have to start hitting on your draft
• 27:14
  picks. Now, luckily, you have a lot of draft
• 27:16
  picks this year. So you can address a lot of
• 27:19
  these needs. But at the same time, you need to
• 27:23
  choose quality over quantity. Don't get the person
• 27:28
  that went to Alabama. If there's somebody that
• 27:30
  you are really high on, just get them. Because
• 27:34
  right now, the Browns, how can I say this? The
• 27:37
  Browns are in such a bad situation that it's
• 27:40
  going to take them at least five years to really
• 27:41
  be competitive. Now, granted, Deshaun Watson's
• 27:45
  contract, if I'm not mistaken, ends in two years,
• 27:49
  which is great. But, I mean, you're still taking
• 27:54
  on a lot of money. I really don't know what to
• 27:59
  tell you, Browns fans. But when we look at candidates
• 28:02
  for restructure, extension, trades, and cuts,
• 28:04
  David Njoku is a question mark for an extension.
• 28:07
  And the only reason why I say that is because
• 28:10
  does David Njoku want to stay with the Browns?
• 28:13
  Does the Browns want to keep David Njoku? Because
• 28:17
  right now, if you trade away David Njoku, you
• 28:20
  could probably get some pretty high picks for
• 28:23
  him. Just saying. Same thing with... with Greg
• 28:27
  Newsome, trade or an extension. Because right
• 28:32
  now you have a lot of large contracts on your
• 28:35
  books. And so you're going to have to find a
• 28:38
  way to make everything fit with the cap restrictions
• 28:41
  that you have. Same thing with Wyatt Teller.
• 28:44
  Now, if you give Wyatt Teller an extension, his
• 28:47
  market value is three years, 23 .3 million, which
• 28:50
  is only 7 .8 million a year. That's not bad.
• 28:53
  That's actually pretty good. Deshaun Watson,
• 28:56
  restructure. You can continue to try to do a
• 29:00
  restructure, but at this point, I think it's
• 29:04
  just best that you just take it on. Take all
• 29:07
  of it all at once and then you'll be fine. That
• 29:12
  way you'll have a whole bunch of cap space to
• 29:15
  play with once his contract is over with and
• 29:17
  you don't have nothing to worry about compared
• 29:19
  to trying to push things down the road and kick
• 29:22
  the can down the road, all right? The main takeaway
• 29:25
  from the Browns is this. Rebuild. That's what
• 29:30
  you're going to have to do at this point. Because
• 29:33
  right now, you are in such of a fucked up situation.
• 29:38
  I mean exactly the way that I say it. That you
• 29:41
  are going to just have to let certain things
• 29:43
  just play out. You are literally going to have
• 29:46
  to let some contracts just expire. Just so you
• 29:50
  can one, clean up your books. Get rid of that
• 29:53
  toxic energy while at the same time, try to reshape
• 29:57
  this team. You've learned your lesson. You realize,
• 30:01
  hey, don't put all your eggs in the house, in
• 30:04
  the car, and everything else in one basket for
• 30:07
  one person. Don't do it because this is what
• 30:10
  happens. You don't get anything out of it. He's
• 30:13
  enjoying his life, enjoying the money that he's
• 30:16
  getting while you are trying to figure out what
• 30:19
  you're going to do moving forward with quarterback.
• 30:22
  But guess what? The Browns will be the Browns.
• 30:26
  Sorry, Browns fans. Now moving on to the Bengals,
• 30:29
  all right? So with their salary, $24 .4 million
• 30:32
  with a rollover cap of $5 .9 million. Their free
• 30:35
  agents, Mike Hilton, Joe Beshe, Von Bell, Tre
• 30:39
  'Veon Williams, Deontay Smith, Cade York, and
• 30:41
  Chris Evans, just to name a few, all right? Your
• 30:44
  draft picks. You got your first, your second,
• 30:46
  your third, your fourth, your fifth, and your
• 30:48
  sixth. You don't have a seventh round pick, all
• 30:50
  right? Positions of need, DB, both cornerback
• 30:54
  and safety, edge, D -tackle, linebacker, interior
• 30:58
  offensive line, all right? Here's the problem
• 31:01
  with the Bengals. You have put so much money
• 31:05
  into literally three people that now you're going
• 31:10
  to have to really start hitting on your draft
• 31:12
  picks. Beforehand, you really didn't have to
• 31:15
  as much, but now... You really have to start
• 31:19
  hitting on your draft picks, okay? You really
• 31:22
  have to start being consistent with great drafting.
• 31:26
  Because you done gave Jamar Chase a whole bunch
• 31:29
  of money. You done gave Tee Higgins a whole bunch
• 31:31
  of money. And you done gave Joe Burrow a whole
• 31:33
  bunch of money. Not to mention, you still have
• 31:36
  another side of the ball that is very, very deprived
• 31:40
  of talent. And so now you're in a situation where
• 31:44
  a lot of the things... That were somewhat hidden
• 31:48
  or not really talked about as much in the past
• 31:50
  are really starting to come to fruition, which
• 31:53
  is you guys are really cheap organization. You
• 31:57
  guys don't like paying your players. Why? I don't
• 32:01
  know. And so now you're at a crossroads where
• 32:04
  you're trying to figure out, hey, do we continue
• 32:08
  to be this cheap organization or do we somewhat?
• 32:13
  Step into the modern era and actually value our
• 32:16
  players and actually take care of our players.
• 32:18
  Because right now you're in a situation where
• 32:21
  Trey Hendrickson wants to play for the Bengals.
• 32:25
  He's literally said he does not want to reset
• 32:27
  the market, but he wants what's his. And for
• 32:31
  you guys to basically have the approach that
• 32:34
  you have had. shows me that you do not value
• 32:38
  your players. You do not value the hard work
• 32:41
  that they put in. You do not value the sacrifices
• 32:44
  that they put each and every single season and
• 32:48
  off season for this organization. And that to
• 32:51
  me is an atrocity. This is what a Bengals executive
• 32:56
  said about Trey Hendrickson in his trade talks.
• 33:00
  Miss Katie Blackburn. Okay, this is what she
• 33:03
  says. And I quote. I think he should be happy
• 33:06
  at certain rates that maybe he doesn't think
• 33:08
  he'd be happy at. I think some of it is on him
• 33:11
  to be happy at some point. And if he's not, you
• 33:14
  know, that's what it holds up sometimes. So,
• 33:18
  you know, it takes him to say yes to something.
• 33:20
  And also, we have all the respect in the world
• 33:23
  for him. Now, the quote that she just said definitely
• 33:26
  didn't make any sense. It sounded like she just
• 33:28
  had maybe about three or four mimosas, okay?
• 33:31
  That's why I had to stop and read it for a little
• 33:34
  bit because it really didn't make any sense.
• 33:36
  But her approach is the same approach that the
• 33:39
  owner and everybody else in the Bengals front
• 33:41
  office has when it comes to contracts and players.
• 33:45
  Literally, you could have had Jamar Chase and
• 33:48
  Tee Higgins for a discount last year. But instead,
• 33:53
  you took a risk and you say, you know what, we're
• 33:55
  not going to pay you. And in doing so. Jamar
• 33:59
  Chase wins the Triple Crown and you have to reset
• 34:01
  the market for him. And you may have to pay more
• 34:04
  for Tee Higgins. How does it feel, Bengals fans?
• 34:07
  How does it feel to root for an organization
• 34:10
  that continues to just give you the middle finger
• 34:15
  each and every offseason when it comes to paying
• 34:18
  their players? And so now you have to figure
• 34:22
  out, one, how can we somewhat be a little bit
• 34:26
  more competitive? And two, how in the world can
• 34:30
  we go back to the Super Bowl? Because right now,
• 34:33
  as long as you have Jamar Chase, Tee Higgins,
• 34:35
  and Joe Burrow, you do have somewhat of a small
• 34:38
  chance of making it back to the Super Bowl. But
• 34:41
  you have to build the rest of the team out. And
• 34:45
  you're going to have to do that through the draft.
• 34:47
  Because again, you put a lot of money behind
• 34:50
  Tee Higgins, Jamar Chase, and Joe Burrow. So...
• 34:54
  Let's get into the positions of need. So for
• 34:58
  DB, you can go about this a few different ways.
• 35:01
  You can go, you can draft a few, or you could
• 35:04
  pay Von Bell and then draft somebody else. But
• 35:08
  you're probably going to have to invest a high
• 35:10
  pick when it comes to both cornerback and safety.
• 35:14
  Now, luckily, the safety class is actually pretty
• 35:17
  good this year. So you could get a Malachi Starks.
• 35:21
  You could get a Nick Emanuara. You can get Andrew
• 35:24
  Makuba. You can get any of those type of safeties
• 35:27
  if you want to take that route. Now, if you want
• 35:29
  to take corner, right, you can get Will Johnson,
• 35:32
  Siobhan Revel, Benjamin Morrison, Azra Thomas,
• 35:35
  Trey Amos. You have options for both cornerback
• 35:39
  and safety. Now, edge, me personally, I'm not
• 35:43
  that very high on these edge rushers, personally.
• 35:46
  I just feel like for Edge, you could probably
• 35:50
  get one in maybe day two or day three, personally.
• 35:53
  I don't see a need to invest a first -round pick
• 35:56
  into any of these Edges. I feel like they are
• 35:58
  very unfinished products. I feel like just because
• 36:02
  they went to a certain school that it just gives
• 36:05
  them a bump in reputation and whatnot, and I
• 36:09
  feel like it's being... fueled by a lot of media
• 36:12
  personalities, and I'll just leave it there.
• 36:15
  Defensive tackle, you can address that at any
• 36:18
  point in this draft. You can address that in
• 36:21
  the first day, second day, third day, whenever.
• 36:24
  But you are going to have to make significant
• 36:25
  additions to this defensive line because outside
• 36:28
  of Trey Hendrickson, if he stays, all you have
• 36:31
  is B .J. Hill. That's not enough. You're going
• 36:34
  to need some more. Linebacker, you might as well
• 36:38
  just want to draft one. Because right now, Jermaine
• 36:42
  Pratt is probably not going to come back to the
• 36:44
  Bengals. And the other linebacker, who is somewhat
• 36:48
  of a dirty tackler, but that's another story
• 36:51
  for another day. That's all you have. You don't
• 36:53
  really have anything. The Bengals' defense is
• 36:55
  so bad that they're going to probably have to
• 36:59
  invest at least half of their draft picks to
• 37:02
  the defense alone. Interior offensive line, though.
• 37:07
  I feel like that could be a sneaky first round
• 37:09
  pick. And let me explain why. Gray Zabel. And
• 37:13
  I understand people are probably tired of me
• 37:15
  talking about Gray Zabel, but you have to hear
• 37:17
  me out. Gray Zabel, to me, has such a high potential
• 37:23
  that you have to get him. You have to make that
• 37:28
  move. Because he has positional flexibility like
• 37:33
  no other. He could probably be elite. at both
• 37:37
  guard and tackle. I'm talking about the best
• 37:41
  of the best. Or you can take the route and get
• 37:45
  Tyler Booker if you want to. But remember, during
• 37:48
  the combine, especially for the offensive lineman,
• 37:51
  both of these two were tried at center as well.
• 37:55
  So I think making that investment would also
• 37:58
  benefit Joe Burrow as well because you don't
• 38:01
  want Joe taking all these hits. So you're going
• 38:04
  to have to protect him. Sure, you have the weapons
• 38:07
  and you can get more weapons in the later parts
• 38:11
  of the draft, but you are going to have to protect
• 38:13
  him a little bit better. Now, when we look at
• 38:16
  candidates for restructure, extension, trades,
• 38:18
  and cuts, Trey Hendrickson, trade him. Trade
• 38:22
  him. You have shown an unwillingness to pay him.
• 38:27
  Trade him. When we look at his market value,
• 38:30
  it's two years, $62 .9 million, which is $31
• 38:33
  .5 million a year. Now, I think he could probably
• 38:35
  demand a little bit more, maybe about 34, maybe
• 38:39
  35, possibly, maybe even a little bit more. Jermaine
• 38:44
  Pratt, trade him. Trade him. You're not going
• 38:47
  to pay him. Trade him. Get rid of these guys.
• 38:50
  Cam Taylor Britt, you could give him an extension.
• 38:55
  And I only say that because his market value
• 38:58
  is fairly low, and I feel like he can't demand
• 39:00
  a whole bunch of money. Now, when we look at
• 39:03
  his market value, it's only four years, 59 .7
• 39:06
  million, which is only 14 .9 million a year.
• 39:09
  That's not bad. I think that's right around the
• 39:12
  ballpark that the Bengals will probably pay him.
• 39:15
  And so, all in all, just get rid of people that
• 39:19
  you are not willing to pay top dollar for. Even
• 39:22
  Trey Hendrickson had something to say about this
• 39:26
  on the Pat McAfee show. This is what he said,
• 39:28
  and I quote. Through this process, communication,
• 39:30
  when I say it's been poor, it's been like here
• 39:33
  and there. And respect to Jamar and T. I don't
• 39:36
  want to take anything from all the great things
• 39:38
  they've accomplished in their careers. They deserve
• 39:40
  everything that they've gotten, and no doubt
• 39:42
  in my mind they're going to excel in the National
• 39:44
  Football League. I have a tremendous respect
• 39:47
  for both of them. But when it comes to my situation,
• 39:50
  it would have been nice to know in some ways,
• 39:52
  hey, we're going to put you in the queue. No
• 39:55
  problem with me. End quote. He also said this
• 39:58
  as well, and I quote, We're on the DN, National
• 40:02
  Football League Street. The market value for
• 40:05
  that is going up like it did for wide receivers
• 40:07
  last year, which is true. Where I fit in that
• 40:11
  role is all up to the discretion. We're willing
• 40:14
  to talk about those things with the market continuing
• 40:17
  to go up. I'm not going to apologize for that
• 40:20
  because I've been basically asking for the same
• 40:22
  thing every year. to be solidified as a Cincinnati
• 40:26
  Bengal for life. End quote. That is somebody
• 40:30
  who is willing, willing to end his career with
• 40:36
  the Bengals. But the Bengals have their heads
• 40:39
  so far up their ass that they don't even realize
• 40:44
  that they have someone who is loyal to the team
• 40:47
  through and through. Trey Hendrickson. was a
• 40:51
  breath of fresh air when he signed with the Bengals.
• 40:55
  He has been killing it each and every season.
• 41:00
  And so why wouldn't you want to pay him? It'll
• 41:05
  be different if he said, hey, I'm trying to reset
• 41:07
  the market. It'll be different if he's trying
• 41:09
  to say, hey, I want something like Miles Garrett.
• 41:12
  But he's not. He's just trying to get what he's
• 41:16
  due. And the fact that you have basically put
• 41:19
  him on the back burner is so disrespectful. Because
• 41:24
  who else do you need to pay right now? Who else
• 41:26
  is a top priority? You already took care of the
• 41:29
  two most important people in Jamar Chase and
• 41:31
  T. Higgins. Who else do you need to take care
• 41:33
  of? What else do you need to do? So if you are
• 41:36
  not going to pay him, trade him. And please,
• 41:40
  for the love of God, stop having these high...
• 41:45
  expectations for a team to give you a first round
• 41:48
  pick for Trey Hendrickson. Stop. Just stop. Stop
• 41:53
  being just fools when it comes to the business
• 41:56
  side of the ball. Joe Burrow is trying his hardest
• 42:00
  to break you guys out of this mold that you guys
• 42:04
  have been in for the last 20 and 30 years. But
• 42:07
  you guys are so reluctant to do that, that guess
• 42:10
  what? That will be the reason why you will never
• 42:13
  go back to another Super Bowl because you guys
• 42:15
  are not willing to pay top dollar for the players
• 42:19
  that actually deserve it. Now, when we look at
• 42:22
  the Bengals in its entirety, let's just be real
• 42:26
  here. I think the head coach, I think his seat
• 42:30
  is getting a little bit warm because last season,
• 42:33
  it really wasn't that good. It was tough. Now,
• 42:37
  granted, They went on that run in the later part
• 42:40
  of the season, which was phenomenal, which me
• 42:43
  personally, I feel like they should have made
• 42:45
  it into the playoffs instead of the Steelers.
• 42:47
  Steeler fans, if you want to fight me, that's
• 42:49
  perfectly fine, but I said it and I'll stand
• 42:51
  on it. The Bengals should have made it to the
• 42:53
  playoffs instead of the Steelers because they
• 42:56
  won out. They won out against some very tough
• 43:00
  teams. They were able to do that. And so they
• 43:03
  should have made it to the playoffs. Unfortunately,
• 43:06
  they didn't, but right now they're at a crossroads.
• 43:10
  You can continue to stay in cheapness or you
• 43:16
  can step outside of the boat, step on land and
• 43:20
  say, hey, listen, we're going to change our ways.
• 43:24
  We're going to be a little bit more open and
• 43:27
  we're going to change things around for this
• 43:29
  organization. For the betterment of our players
• 43:32
  and for a better chance of possibly winning a
• 43:35
  championship. And I'll leave it there. Now on
• 43:38
  to the Ravens, okay? When we look at their salary,
• 43:41
  okay? $12 .2 million with a rollover cap of $2
• 43:44
  .1 million. Now when it comes to the free agents,
• 43:47
  Deontay Johnson, Marcus Williams, Tredavious
• 43:49
  White, Nelson Aguilar, Arthur Marlette, Josh
• 43:51
  Johnson, Brent Urban, Deontay Hardy, Trivion
• 43:54
  Mullen, Christian Matthews, excuse me, and Owen
• 43:58
  Wright. Let's get into these draft picks, okay?
• 44:02
  So you got your first, your second, your third.
• 44:04
  You have two fourth round picks. You have a fifth.
• 44:06
  You have four, okay? Four sixth round picks and
• 44:11
  one seventh round picks. Oh, you have a lot of
• 44:14
  picks. Okay, cool. Positions of need, guard,
• 44:17
  edge, safety, and receiver. Now receiver is a
• 44:20
  little bit controversial, but I'll explain it,
• 44:24
  okay? So all in all, You're still in your Super
• 44:28
  Bowl window. You're still in a really good spot.
• 44:30
  You don't have a lot of big needs that you need
• 44:32
  to fill, okay? I think personally, guard and
• 44:37
  edge are 1A and 1B when it comes to positions
• 44:41
  of need. And let me explain why. Guard, at this
• 44:46
  point, you need to make a significant draft pick
• 44:49
  for. Because Daniel Folele is ass. Daniel Folele
• 44:54
  is trash ass. Think of the most stinkiest trash
• 45:01
  can you could possibly find. I'm talking about
• 45:03
  a trash can that has been sitting out on a hot
• 45:08
  summer day. I'm talking about the hottest day
• 45:10
  you could possibly remember. And it just stinks.
• 45:14
  The minute you open the door, it just stinks.
• 45:18
  That's Daniel Fulele, folks. And it's no disrespect
• 45:22
  to him, but you have not been playing good, sir.
• 45:24
  So right now, you need to be put on the bench.
• 45:28
  You need to be put on ice at this point. Now,
• 45:32
  the problem with the Ravens is this. You are
• 45:35
  not in a position where you could possibly get
• 45:38
  a good interior offensive lineman in the first
• 45:41
  round if you want to take that route. Because
• 45:43
  right now, if they get Tyler Booker or if they
• 45:47
  get Gray Zabel, oh, it's over. It's curtains,
• 45:51
  especially Gray Zabel, because I think Gray Zabel
• 45:54
  to the Ravens would be such of a hit that they
• 45:59
  will have arguably one of the greatest offensive
• 46:01
  lines in NFL history. Not to mention the Ravens
• 46:04
  have a history of developing really great offensive
• 46:08
  linemen. And so I think that would be a great
• 46:10
  place for him. Now, Edge, I'm a little bit on
• 46:14
  the fence about, and I'll explain why. there's
• 46:18
  probably only one edge rusher in the first round
• 46:21
  that I probably would be head over heels for,
• 46:22
  and that's Mike Green. Outside of that, I can
• 46:25
  probably talk myself out of everybody else, and
• 46:28
  it's no disrespect to any of them, but there's
• 46:31
  not like a TJ Watt in this draft class. There's
• 46:33
  not like a, what's a good pass rusher? What's
• 46:37
  a really good pass rusher? There's not like a
• 46:39
  pass rusher that just everyone just wants. This
• 46:44
  is a draft class when it comes to pass rushers
• 46:46
  where, Sure, there may be a few that may interest
• 46:50
  you. Sure, their skill set would probably be
• 46:53
  an upgrade for your team, but it's a whole lot
• 46:57
  of what ifs, not a lot of certainties when it
• 47:02
  comes to these edge rushers. And I feel like
• 47:05
  Mike Green, from a skill set standpoint, has
• 47:09
  a lot of upside to his game. I feel like, and
• 47:13
  this is just me personally, this is the account
• 47:14
  that I have for Mike Green. I think his comp
• 47:16
  is T .J. Watt. I think Mike Green, if put in
• 47:20
  the right situation, he could be a poor man's
• 47:24
  version of T .J. Watt. I really do. I think everybody
• 47:29
  else, it's a shot in the dark, just being honest
• 47:32
  here. Now, safety could be a sleeper of a first
• 47:37
  -round pick, and let me explain why. With the
• 47:41
  uncertainty of our Darius Washington possibly...
• 47:45
  you know, re -signing with the team and Marcus
• 47:49
  Williams not coming back to the team at all,
• 47:51
  I feel like drafting a safety in the first round
• 47:54
  could be a possible hit. Now, again, the problem
• 47:58
  with that move is you are so low in the draft
• 48:02
  that guess what? You probably won't be able to
• 48:05
  get any of the top safeties. That's the only
• 48:09
  problem in every other position of need that
• 48:12
  they have right now. is that they're too low
• 48:15
  in the draft for them to get any of the top players
• 48:18
  within those positions. And so, most likely,
• 48:21
  you're going to have to trade up. Now, luckily,
• 48:24
  this is just my prediction, personally, I think
• 48:28
  a lot of teams are going to trade down or possibly
• 48:30
  trade out of the first round. Because again,
• 48:32
  as I've said before, and a lot of people have
• 48:34
  also said as well, this is not a really good
• 48:37
  draft class. This is not a draft class where...
• 48:40
  It's a bunch of oohs and ahs and oh man, I want
• 48:43
  that person or oh man, I want that person. I
• 48:45
  want that person. I want that person. It's not
• 48:47
  a lot of those type of players in this draft
• 48:49
  class. It's a lot of developmental players in
• 48:54
  this draft class. It's a lot of players that
• 48:56
  it's going to take you about two, maybe three,
• 48:58
  maybe four years to really see what you have
• 49:00
  in these players. So me personally, if I am the
• 49:06
  Ravens, you can go about safety a few different
• 49:09
  ways. You could address it in the first round,
• 49:12
  which means you're going to have to trade up,
• 49:13
  possibly maybe in the teens, or you could take
• 49:18
  a risk and maybe see who falls out the first
• 49:20
  round and then go on attack mode in the second
• 49:24
  round. Because I think someone like Xavier Watts,
• 49:27
  man, let me tell you something. Xavier Watts
• 49:34
  paired up with Kyle Hamilton, even though they
• 49:36
  were college teammates. The brothers of destruction.
• 49:42
  The brothers of destruction. OK, that's like
• 49:47
  putting prime Troy Polamalu and prime Ed Reed
• 49:52
  on one team. Mook, I promise you. We're not having
• 49:57
  those conversations. I can assure you we will
• 50:01
  not be having those conversations if this does
• 50:03
  happen. OK. For all of those who don't know who
• 50:08
  Mook is, Mook is a really good friend of mine
• 50:10
  who's a Ravens fan. So, yeah, we'll just leave
• 50:13
  it there, okay? Maybe one day he'll make a guest
• 50:16
  appearance or whatnot. But the fact of the matter
• 50:18
  is this. You could probably get Nick Emin -Warren,
• 50:22
  but the only problem is it's going to take him
• 50:26
  a while to be properly developed. You could get
• 50:28
  someone like Malachi Starks, who is probably
• 50:30
  the most balanced safety prospect out of all
• 50:33
  of them. Now, I have been able to review some
• 50:36
  of the All -22 from Malachi Starks, and I can
• 50:40
  tell you this. He's good. He's a really good
• 50:44
  safety. The only knock that I find in his game
• 50:48
  is he's not a willing tackler. He's not the best
• 50:50
  when it comes to his tackling technique. I think
• 50:54
  that is probably the only thing that would hinder
• 50:57
  him from possibly being drafted super high. Me
• 51:00
  personally, and this is just my personal opinions,
• 51:02
  and I will continue to say this and stand on
• 51:04
  this. I feel like to me, Malachi Starks is more
• 51:07
  of an NFC type of safety. And I feel like Nick
• 51:12
  Emanwari and Xavier Watts are more AFC type of
• 51:16
  safeties. And let me explain why. A lot of AFC
• 51:20
  teams, they require their DBs, both cornerbacks
• 51:24
  and safeties, to be at least of a decent tackler.
• 51:29
  NFC teams, on the other hand, not so much. And
• 51:32
  we all know that the AFC is more physical than
• 51:35
  the NFC. And so I feel like Malachi Starks' game
• 51:39
  would thrive on a team like, I don't know, the
• 51:44
  Eagles or the Seahawks or 49ers or any of those
• 51:50
  teams. Compared to if you went to the Steelers
• 51:53
  or the Chiefs or the Jaguars or the Colts or
• 51:57
  the Texans or... any of those different types
• 51:59
  of teams. But back to the situation at hand.
• 52:04
  If you are the Ravens, you don't have a lot of
• 52:07
  tough decisions that you have to make, but at
• 52:09
  the same time, do you really need to use all
• 52:12
  of your draft picks? No. I think if you trade
• 52:16
  it up in the high teens, maybe like the 12th
• 52:20
  or the 13th pick to get whoever you want, okay,
• 52:23
  that's perfectly fine. No one's really complaining
• 52:25
  about it. but you don't really need a whole lot
• 52:28
  of players anyway. Because why? Your team is
• 52:31
  mainly set right now. You just have to add and
• 52:34
  just upgrade a few different spots. Even with
• 52:37
  receiver, like I put it on here, but then I wanted
• 52:40
  to take it off. I don't feel like receiver is
• 52:43
  a high need because you have Dehop, Rashad Bateman,
• 52:47
  Zay Flowers, Tez Walker, and I think you have
• 52:50
  one more person. And even then, if you really
• 52:54
  want to get a receiver, You could get a receiver
• 52:56
  in the fourth round, fourth or fifth round, honestly.
• 52:58
  Take a swing at somebody. But you have to start
• 53:02
  giving people like Tez Walker a chance because
• 53:05
  Tez Walker has the upside to be a really good
• 53:09
  receiver. He's got the size. He got the speed.
• 53:11
  He got the build. He has it all. He just has
• 53:14
  to get more reps and more playing time. That's
• 53:17
  it. End of discussion. Now, when we look at candidates
• 53:20
  for restructure, extension, trades, and cuts,
• 53:23
  Trey White, extension. He's probably cornerback
• 53:27
  four, cornerback five at this point. One year,
• 53:30
  $1 .3 million, which is only $1 .4 million a
• 53:33
  year. Light work. Lamar Jackson, extension. You're
• 53:37
  going to have to do it soon. Derrick Henry, extension.
• 53:41
  His market value is two years, $27 .5 million,
• 53:44
  which is $13 .8 million. Now, for some Ravens
• 53:47
  fans, you're probably thinking, hey, that's a
• 53:48
  lot of money. Well, guess what? Derrick Henry
• 53:51
  was doing his thing late last season. Derrick
• 53:55
  Henry is the reason why the Steelers this year
• 53:57
  are going to have to draft at least probably
• 53:59
  two defensive linemen. End of discussion. Kyle
• 54:02
  Hamilton, extension, market value, three years,
• 54:05
  $60 .8 million, which is $20 .3 million a year.
• 54:08
  You are going to reset the market for Kyle Hamilton.
• 54:11
  You are probably going to reset the market for
• 54:14
  Tyler Linderbaum as well because those two, those
• 54:18
  are Ravens for life type of players. Those are
• 54:21
  players that will end their career with the Ravens.
• 54:24
  Those are the type of players that you will find
• 54:26
  every way to never let them hit free agency.
• 54:30
  Don't even whiff with free agency. Now we look
• 54:35
  at Tyrell Linderbaum's market value. Three years,
• 54:37
  $48 .2 million, which is $16 .1 million a year.
• 54:41
  That's not really bad, honestly. Now when we
• 54:44
  look at somewhat of a breakdown with Lamar Jackson's
• 54:47
  contract, okay? His cap hit this year is $43
• 54:50
  .6 million, and then next year it's $74 .6, and
• 54:54
  then the year after that it's $74 .6. So you
• 54:57
  probably want to bring down those cap hits just
• 54:59
  a little bit, while at the same time giving Lamar
• 55:03
  a little bit more money. Now, when we look at
• 55:05
  Roquan Smith, because I had him for restructure,
• 55:10
  but then I had to look at his contract, and looking
• 55:13
  at his contract, it's really not that bad. Sure,
• 55:16
  you could probably bring down the cap hits just
• 55:19
  a little bit, just to create a little bit more
• 55:21
  cap space. But all in all, I think the Ravens
• 55:24
  are in a pretty good spot. But time is ticking
• 55:26
  for them, okay? This is what Steve Bishotti said
• 55:31
  on the State of the Ravens right now, and I quote,
• 55:33
  I want to win now, end quote. That's one, okay?
• 55:38
  This is what else he says, and I quote, we've
• 55:42
  got a window with Lamar. I know what we can do.
• 55:45
  I know that we work to put ourselves in position
• 55:47
  to win. We all get credit for that. That's all
• 55:50
  you can do. I hate it that every year you just
• 55:53
  have to start back over again. But you know what?
• 55:55
  This is not for the meek, end quote. So Steve
• 55:59
  Busciotti, Ravens owner, is letting everybody
• 56:02
  know, like, listen, we have the team to win.
• 56:06
  As long as we have Lamar Jackson, we'll always
• 56:08
  have a chance to win. We'll always have a chance
• 56:11
  to possibly win a Super Bowl. which he's not
• 56:13
  lying. That is the truth. But time is running
• 56:17
  out. You have to win a Super Bowl to justify
• 56:22
  every single move that you have made so far,
• 56:25
  from the trade for Roquan Smith to the drafting
• 56:29
  of Tyler Linderbaum, Kyle Hamilton, and Rashad
• 56:32
  Bateman and Zay Flowers and giving Lamar the
• 56:36
  extension that they gave him and then making
• 56:38
  the move for Derrick Henry and all those different
• 56:41
  things. You have to be able to justify all those
• 56:44
  moves by winning a Super Bowl. Now, granted,
• 56:46
  I understand. It's tough to do that when you
• 56:48
  got, you know, Mahomes and Burrow and Josh Allen
• 56:51
  all in your own conference and Justin Herbert
• 56:54
  and whatnot. I get that. But every single year,
• 56:58
  you guys are super dominant in the regular season.
• 57:01
  But when it gets to the playoffs, you guys freeze.
• 57:04
  You guys are choking on Popeye's biscuits. Cold
• 57:07
  Popeye's biscuits, to be specific. And so now
• 57:11
  you have to find a way to get over that hump.
• 57:14
  You have to be able to make it to the big dance.
• 57:17
  That's the only way that you can really say,
• 57:21
  hey, it was all worth it. Every move, every cut,
• 57:25
  every signing, every trade, every draft pick,
• 57:28
  all of it was worth it by holding up Lombardi.
• 57:31
  Now, granted, respect to John Harbaugh for doing
• 57:35
  what he did to his coaching staff this offseason.
• 57:39
  It takes balls to make the move that he made.
• 57:43
  He called Chuck Pagano and got him to come out
• 57:47
  of retirement to join his coaching staff. I don't
• 57:50
  know if people understand Chuck Pagano. Chuck
• 57:54
  Pagano is probably one of the best when it comes
• 57:58
  to the secondary. So he is going to bring the
• 58:02
  best out of Kyle Hamilton. He's going to bring
• 58:05
  the best out of Nate Wiggins, out of TJ Tampa.
• 58:08
  out of all of those guys. He's going to bring
• 58:11
  the best out of them. And then not to mention,
• 58:14
  he made other additional moves when it came to
• 58:18
  his coaching staff. He brought in Chuck Smith.
• 58:20
  He brought back Dean Pease. So you see that there
• 58:25
  is a head coach that says, listen, my view is
• 58:28
  different. So maybe if I bring in somebody, maybe
• 58:31
  they can tell me something that I'm not doing,
• 58:34
  that I can fix. That can take us to the next
• 58:36
  level. That takes balls to do it. And John Harbaugh
• 58:39
  did that. And I can respect him for it. So when
• 58:44
  we look at, you know, everything in its entirety,
• 58:47
  the Ravens are in a good space. It's just right
• 58:51
  now you just have to win. That's it. You have
• 58:54
  to win. Do what you need to do to position yourself
• 58:58
  to win. If you do that, you'll be able to be
• 59:02
  a champion. That's it. Now on to the final team
• 59:07
  of the divisional rodeo, folks, and that is the
• 59:11
  Steelers. So your salary, $34 .6 million with
• 59:15
  a rollover cap of $6 .8 million. Your free agents,
• 59:18
  Preston Smith, CJ Henderson, Demonte KZ, McColl
• 59:21
  Pruitt, Tyler Maticiewicz, Cam Sutton, Max Sharping,
• 59:25
  and Calvin Anderson, just to name a few, all
• 59:28
  right? Your draft picks, you got your first,
• 59:30
  you don't have a second because you used that
• 59:31
  to get DK Metcalf. You have your third, your
• 59:34
  fourth, your fifth, you don't have a sixth, and
• 59:36
  you have two seventh round picks. Your positions
• 59:38
  of need, quarterback, corner, defensive line,
• 59:40
  and running back. You could probably put wide
• 59:45
  receiver in there too. Maybe. So here's the problem
• 59:50
  with the Steelers. You are waiting for a 42 -year
• 59:56
  -old quarterback to make a decision on if he
• 59:59
  wants to play or not. And I'm probably going
• 1:00:03
  to go on a rant, probably for the rest of this
• 1:00:07
  episode, but I think it's very much needed at
• 1:00:10
  this point. And I feel like I am in a position
• 1:00:12
  where I can say what I'm about to say. To hell
• 1:00:16
  with Aaron Rodgers. To hell with Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:00:21
  You guys are waiting for somebody to make his
• 1:00:26
  decision. He is dragging his feet on figuring
• 1:00:31
  out if he wants to play or not. To me, this shows
• 1:00:34
  to me, and I can be 100 % wrong, that he does
• 1:00:39
  not want to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 1:00:42
  He is waiting for a better opportunity to arise
• 1:00:45
  so that he could go to that specific place. I
• 1:00:50
  think he's waiting to see what the Vikings are
• 1:00:52
  going to do. I don't think the Steelers was his
• 1:00:55
  top choice. I think we were probably his last
• 1:00:58
  choice if we're being real here. And I can understand
• 1:01:00
  why because the Vikings are in a better place
• 1:01:02
  from a roster standpoint. They have the weapons.
• 1:01:05
  They have the defense. They have it all. They
• 1:01:07
  are closer to being a Super Bowl contender than
• 1:01:11
  what the Steelers are. I understand all of that.
• 1:01:13
  But why in the world would you go out your way
• 1:01:18
  to meet up with DK Metcalf, the arguably number
• 1:01:21
  one receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers? You
• 1:01:25
  met up with him. You had a professional videographer
• 1:01:30
  and photographer to come in and take pictures
• 1:01:35
  and video. Of you guys practicing. Why would
• 1:01:41
  you do that? Think about that for a second here,
• 1:01:45
  folks. Why in the world would Aaron Rodgers want
• 1:01:50
  to do that? Because you know why? It's all about
• 1:01:53
  him. It's all about him. It's all about Aaron
• 1:01:57
  Rodgers. It's always been about Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:02:00
  This is just me personally. If Aaron Rodgers
• 1:02:03
  is going to make his announcement next week when
• 1:02:06
  Pat McAfee's show has this big show in Pittsburgh,
• 1:02:09
  kiss my ass. Kiss my ass. Because you know why?
• 1:02:13
  You are showing that you are not committed enough
• 1:02:17
  to be my quarterback. You are showing to me that
• 1:02:22
  you are not willing to just sign the contract.
• 1:02:25
  Sign the damn contract. What is taking so damn
• 1:02:29
  long for you to figure out if you want to play
• 1:02:31
  football or not? If you don't want to play for
• 1:02:34
  the Steelers, just say that. Just say that. I
• 1:02:37
  would be so much better if we just said, you
• 1:02:42
  know what, we'll just roll with Mason Rudolph.
• 1:02:44
  We'll bring in possibly Joe Flacco or Carson
• 1:02:47
  Wentz or any of those other remaining veteran
• 1:02:50
  quarterbacks and then draft Riley Leonard or...
• 1:02:54
  Will Howard or Jalen Milrow or any of those guys
• 1:02:59
  compared to waiting for a 42 -year -old to figure
• 1:03:02
  out exactly what the hell does he want to do
• 1:03:05
  with himself. He's been dragging his feet this
• 1:03:08
  entire time. And I understand that the season
• 1:03:11
  is grueling and I understand that you want time
• 1:03:13
  for yourself. I understand that you want time
• 1:03:15
  to just breathe a little bit. Enjoy life. Enjoy
• 1:03:18
  the fruits of your labor. I have no problem with
• 1:03:20
  that. But we are three weeks away from the draft.
• 1:03:23
  And this fool, and I mean fool, has not come
• 1:03:28
  to a decision yet on if he wants to play for
• 1:03:31
  the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers are not
• 1:03:32
  going to give him more money. The Steelers are
• 1:03:34
  not going to up the ante to force him to come
• 1:03:37
  and sign the contract. If he does not want to
• 1:03:40
  come and sign this contract, let it go. Let it
• 1:03:43
  go. Art Rooney said it best. Art Rooney is getting
• 1:03:47
  ticked off. There are probably people within
• 1:03:50
  the organization that are getting very tired
• 1:03:53
  of just waiting for Aaron Rodgers. Roll with
• 1:03:58
  Mason Rudolph. You're not going to win a whole
• 1:04:01
  bunch of games this season. You are not going
• 1:04:03
  to go anywhere. That's not the goal. The goal
• 1:04:05
  is to position yourself for next year to make
• 1:04:08
  a big swing and to get your quarterback. That's
• 1:04:12
  what it is. So stop waiting for somebody that's
• 1:04:15
  not committed. He hasn't been committed because
• 1:04:18
  I guarantee you right now, the moment that you
• 1:04:21
  sign him, and I said this a few episodes ago,
• 1:04:24
  the moment that you sign him, everything that
• 1:04:29
  you guys do will be documented and exposed. So
• 1:04:33
  if you have a problem with Aaron Rodgers, guess
• 1:04:36
  what? Most likely he's going to talk about it
• 1:04:37
  on what? The Pat McAfee Show. Do you really want
• 1:04:42
  that? No. No. Well, you know what? I really don't
• 1:04:46
  understand. What I don't understand for the life
• 1:04:49
  of me is you have Mike Tomlin that is playing
• 1:04:53
  the favorites game when it comes to Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:04:56
  When he should have said, you know what, we do
• 1:04:58
  have a deadline for Aaron Rodgers. And if he
• 1:05:01
  does not, you know, if we don't have a decision
• 1:05:03
  by then, then we will go in a different direction
• 1:05:08
  and we'll, you know, we'll make some additions.
• 1:05:11
  Omar Khan said that he wanted to have four quarterbacks
• 1:05:13
  on the roster. Omar Khan is going to make that
• 1:05:17
  move with or without Aaron Rodgers. I'll put
• 1:05:22
  a bookmark for that because we have more stuff
• 1:05:24
  that we have to talk about. Corner. I put corner
• 1:05:26
  on here because right now you don't have a succession
• 1:05:32
  plan after Darius Slay. All you have is Joey
• 1:05:37
  Porter Jr., Beanie Bishop. and Brandon Echols,
• 1:05:41
  and Corey Trice as well. But the problem with
• 1:05:45
  Corey Trice is what? He hasn't been able to stay
• 1:05:48
  healthy. If Corey Trice stayed healthy, I feel
• 1:05:52
  like the need for corner would be diminished.
• 1:05:56
  But because he has not been able to stay healthy
• 1:06:00
  since being drafted, you have to now shoot that
• 1:06:04
  up to a top priority at this point. Because right
• 1:06:08
  now, You do not have a quarterback one on your
• 1:06:10
  team. Now, can Joey Porter Jr. turn into a quarterback
• 1:06:14
  one? Possibly. There's a chance. But at this
• 1:06:19
  point, he is not quarterback one. And I don't
• 1:06:22
  think Darius Slay is going to be playing for
• 1:06:23
  a whole lot longer. I just don't, personally.
• 1:06:26
  I think this is probably going to be his last
• 1:06:28
  year, and then he's going to retire. Defensive
• 1:06:30
  line. You are going to have to double dip at
• 1:06:32
  defensive line. Outside of Cam Hayward and Keanu
• 1:06:36
  Benton, Who else do you have that you can say
• 1:06:39
  is really productive? Montrevious Adams? He can
• 1:06:43
  be a hit or miss sometimes. Isaiah Loudermilk?
• 1:06:45
  He is just a death piece. Who else do you have
• 1:06:49
  on this defensive line that you can rely on?
• 1:06:52
  Nobody. So most likely, your first pick will
• 1:06:55
  probably be a defensive lineman. And your probably
• 1:07:00
  third or maybe fourth round pick will probably
• 1:07:02
  be a defensive lineman as well. But you are going
• 1:07:04
  to have to make a significant... investment into
• 1:07:07
  the defensive line because you have neglected
• 1:07:09
  it for so long. That is the only way that you
• 1:07:14
  can really get the best out of Cam Hayward and
• 1:07:16
  Keanu Benton and TJ Watt and Alex Highsmith and
• 1:07:19
  Nick Herbig and all those other guys. Now, running
• 1:07:23
  back, you can address that later, honestly speaking,
• 1:07:27
  but I wouldn't be surprised if they address it
• 1:07:30
  high. Because there's so many really good running
• 1:07:34
  backs that they could get that I think would
• 1:07:35
  match the system that they have currently. I
• 1:07:39
  think getting someone like Barshall Toohan or
• 1:07:44
  Damian Martinez or Caleb Johnson or Dylan Sampson
• 1:07:50
  or Omarion Hampton, any of those running backs
• 1:07:54
  would be great for the Steelers. Another position
• 1:07:58
  that needs to be talked about is safety. Because
• 1:08:01
  we have seen their level of interest in safety.
• 1:08:04
  They have talked to, I think, just about every
• 1:08:07
  single top safety. From Malachi Starks to Nicky
• 1:08:10
  Manwari to Xavier Watts, Jalen Reed. They've
• 1:08:15
  talked to a lot of safeties. I'm just saying.
• 1:08:18
  I'm going to save that for that part. But I want
• 1:08:22
  you guys to keep a close eye on that. When we
• 1:08:25
  look at candidates for restructure extension,
• 1:08:27
  trades and cuts, TJ Watt extension, we all know
• 1:08:29
  he's going to be a stealer for life at this point.
• 1:08:31
  Market value, four years, 128 .9 million, which
• 1:08:35
  is 32 .2 million a year. I think it may be a
• 1:08:37
  little bit more debatable. Deshaun Elliott extension,
• 1:08:41
  because right now this is probably the best that
• 1:08:43
  he has played out of his entire career. And so
• 1:08:47
  you have to reward him for that. Three years,
• 1:08:49
  21 .2 million, which is only 7 .1 million a year.
• 1:08:52
  That's not bad at all, personally. George Pickens,
• 1:08:55
  trade. Either trade or extension. Because right
• 1:09:01
  now, you're not about to pay DK Metcalf and George
• 1:09:05
  Pickens top receiver money. You're just not going
• 1:09:07
  to do that. And even when you look at his market
• 1:09:09
  value, it's four years, $94 .2 million, which
• 1:09:12
  is $23 .6 million a year. Here's the problem
• 1:09:14
  with George Pickens. And I'm just going to be
• 1:09:17
  completely honest here. George Pickens has the
• 1:09:20
  talent to be a top five receiver. but he has
• 1:09:24
  the attitude of an adolescent. I'm just going
• 1:09:27
  to be completely honest here. He is somebody
• 1:09:30
  who has all this potential in the world, but
• 1:09:33
  his attitude is so ass that teams, even the Steelers,
• 1:09:39
  are just fed up with him. When you have somebody
• 1:09:42
  that is not committed to the game like how he's
• 1:09:45
  supposed to be, teams are not going to want to
• 1:09:47
  invest into you. They're not going to want to
• 1:09:48
  do long -term business with you. You have somebody
• 1:09:52
  in George Pickens who showed up to the Chiefs
• 1:09:54
  game during Christmas late. You have somebody
• 1:09:58
  that will take off on plays, will crash out on
• 1:10:01
  the field, will have temper tantrums when he
• 1:10:04
  does not get the ball. This is literally somebody
• 1:10:07
  who got checked by Jalen Warren because he did
• 1:10:11
  not block for Jalen Warren. Think about that.
• 1:10:15
  Do you think any team Any of the 31 other teams
• 1:10:19
  will be willing to give George Pickens a whole
• 1:10:21
  bunch of money? No, because guess what? Sure,
• 1:10:24
  your talent may be great, but best believe there
• 1:10:28
  is somebody in the next draft, free agency, trade,
• 1:10:32
  whatever, that could probably do the same thing
• 1:10:34
  that you're doing or maybe even a little bit
• 1:10:36
  better. The world does not revolve around George
• 1:10:40
  Pickens. And I think the Steelers are starting
• 1:10:42
  to come around and starting to realize that.
• 1:10:45
  And so if I'm the Steelers, trade him. Because
• 1:10:49
  you already know there is a good chance that
• 1:10:52
  leading into training camp, this is going to
• 1:10:54
  get messy. This is going to turn into a drama
• 1:10:57
  -filled situation. Do you really want that? No.
• 1:11:02
  Trade him off. Get a second round pick for him.
• 1:11:05
  Move forward. Kyler Austin, I had him listed
• 1:11:09
  for an extension, but with a question mark. And
• 1:11:11
  let me explain why. I think giving Calvin Austin
• 1:11:14
  an extension probably wouldn't break the bank.
• 1:11:16
  I don't think it would be something where it's
• 1:11:18
  like, you know, super expensive, like 25 or 26
• 1:11:21
  or like 30 million a year, no. But I think it
• 1:11:23
  probably would be a team -friendly deal. I think
• 1:11:26
  Calvin Austin would probably do something like
• 1:11:27
  that. Mika Fitzpatrick, restructure. When we
• 1:11:30
  look at his contract right now, here's what it
• 1:11:34
  is. His base salary this year, 15 .5, and then
• 1:11:38
  next year, 17 .6. But his cap hits, okay? His
• 1:11:42
  cap hits is $22 .3 million, and then next year
• 1:11:47
  is $24 .4 million. I'm sorry, folks, but his
• 1:11:51
  play has not justified neither base salary or
• 1:11:55
  cap hits at this point. Minka Fitzpatrick has
• 1:11:58
  not been the same. Now, I understand there was
• 1:12:00
  a year where he was hurt, and there was another
• 1:12:03
  year where he really wasn't playing in his position.
• 1:12:05
  I understand all of that, but brother, you got
• 1:12:09
  to start playing. You got to start making some
• 1:12:12
  plays, bro. Because right now, the Steelers are
• 1:12:16
  showing you that they may be looking for your
• 1:12:19
  replacement. They've looked at every single top
• 1:12:23
  safety. Xavier Watts, Malachi Starks, Emmitt
• 1:12:27
  Worry, Andrew Makuba. They've looked at them
• 1:12:30
  all. So if I'm Minka Fitzpatrick, I may want
• 1:12:35
  to play with a little bit of... I may want to
• 1:12:39
  play like a chicken with his head cut off this
• 1:12:42
  season. Because right now, there is nothing that
• 1:12:46
  you have done within the last two years to say,
• 1:12:48
  hey, we should keep him. Hey, maybe if we just
• 1:12:53
  restructure his deal or maybe if we do this or
• 1:12:56
  do that, maybe everything will be fine. No. Because
• 1:13:00
  since you've gotten this deal, you have not been
• 1:13:03
  the same player. And mind you, when we traded
• 1:13:06
  for him. Those first two years, dominant. One
• 1:13:09
  of the best safeties in the league. Now, what
• 1:13:12
  has he done? You tell me. Because he hasn't done
• 1:13:16
  anything. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. But
• 1:13:21
  when we look at the Steelers in its entirety,
• 1:13:23
  I think the best thing that has happened so far
• 1:13:27
  was the cleaning of their books. I think we have
• 1:13:31
  hit a point where we have had so much... flexibility
• 1:13:36
  when it came to the cap. We don't even know what
• 1:13:39
  to do with it. Because remember, all those years
• 1:13:41
  when we had the killer bees, what was the number
• 1:13:43
  one problem that we had? You couldn't do anything
• 1:13:47
  because why? You had no cap space because he
• 1:13:50
  was paying AB and he was paying Big Ben and he
• 1:13:53
  was paying Pouncey and Castro and Foster and
• 1:13:57
  Alejandro Villanueva and this person and that
• 1:14:01
  person. You're paying all these people. But now
• 1:14:04
  you have a little bit of flexibility, which is
• 1:14:06
  great. And I love that. I love that Omar Khan
• 1:14:08
  is aggressive and wanting to make change and
• 1:14:12
  not satisfied with just enough. I love all of
• 1:14:16
  that. But here's my problem with this team. The
• 1:14:22
  lack of hitting on their draft picks, especially
• 1:14:25
  their first round draft picks. Towards the end
• 1:14:29
  of Kevin Colbert's tenure, there was a phase.
• 1:14:33
  where we were not hitting on our first -round
• 1:14:35
  picks. And it pushed the team back so much that
• 1:14:39
  now, in some ways, they're trying to get out
• 1:14:43
  of that hole. Because remember, we went through
• 1:14:45
  a phase where, guess what? You had Terrell Edmonds,
• 1:14:49
  Buss. You had Kenny Pickett. Better yet, I'll
• 1:14:53
  save the Kenny Pickett and Najee Harris thing.
• 1:14:55
  I'll save that for a moment. I'll put that on
• 1:14:57
  the back burner. Devin Bush, that was a miss.
• 1:15:01
  You traded your first round pick for Mika Fitzpatrick,
• 1:15:03
  which even looking back at it, I still feel like
• 1:15:08
  that was a bad move. And I only say that because
• 1:15:11
  he wasn't worth a first round pick because they
• 1:15:15
  had him at corner. They didn't even have him
• 1:15:18
  in his natural position. He wasn't even having
• 1:15:20
  a phenomenal season. But I understand that you
• 1:15:23
  want to give him the first round pick so you
• 1:15:25
  can seal the deal. So it is what it is. You know,
• 1:15:30
  since then, you haven't had any of your first
• 1:15:34
  round picks to stay with the team. The last first
• 1:15:36
  rounder to get to a second contract with the
• 1:15:40
  Steelers is TJ Watt. And that was 2017, 2017,
• 1:15:46
  2018, if I'm not mistaken. So from that point
• 1:15:49
  on until now, you have had a slew of first rounders
• 1:15:55
  that have not gotten to their second contract.
• 1:15:59
  I'm sorry. That's horrible. That's absolutely
• 1:16:02
  horrible. And let's be real here with the Kenny
• 1:16:05
  Pickett situation. Sure, Kenny Pickett probably
• 1:16:09
  could have played better. But the Steelers did
• 1:16:11
  not put him in a position to win. Because you
• 1:16:16
  decided to keep Matt Canada for an extra year
• 1:16:20
  instead of getting rid of him. What made you
• 1:16:23
  think keeping Matt Canada for another year would
• 1:16:26
  have changed the outcome? He was asked. Everybody
• 1:16:29
  knew that he was asked. But you decided to keep
• 1:16:34
  him. And in doing so, it messed up Kenny Pickett.
• 1:16:39
  And so now, you're in a situation where now,
• 1:16:43
  once again, you're in an offseason where you're
• 1:16:46
  trying to figure out who your quarterback is
• 1:16:47
  going to be. And even then, while we're talking
• 1:16:51
  about quarterback, okay, because I want to reopen
• 1:16:54
  this, you know. We probably could have had Justin
• 1:16:58
  Fields had we done right by him. I think the
• 1:17:02
  reason why we did not get Justin Fields was not
• 1:17:06
  because of the money. I think it was because
• 1:17:09
  of how they handled his situation. You gave a
• 1:17:13
  longer leash to Russell Wilson, but you did not
• 1:17:17
  do the same for Justin Fields. From the moment
• 1:17:21
  that Justin Fields was traded to the Steelers,
• 1:17:23
  what was the number one thing that Mike Tomlin
• 1:17:26
  continued to say? Russell Wilson has pole position.
• 1:17:29
  So the moment that that happened, Justin Fields
• 1:17:34
  was never going to be the solution. Justin Fields
• 1:17:37
  was never going to be given a fair chance. Justin
• 1:17:40
  Fields lucked up that Russell Wilson decided
• 1:17:44
  to push a sled and mess up his hamstring. That's
• 1:17:48
  what it boils down to, folks. But if Mike Tomlin
• 1:17:52
  was actually a fair coach and say, hey, listen,
• 1:17:56
  Justin Fields, you're going to have the first
• 1:17:58
  half of the season. Russell Wilson, you're going
• 1:18:01
  to have the second half of the season. And then
• 1:18:03
  we will come to a decision once the offseason
• 1:18:06
  is over with. Instead of saying, OK, we're going
• 1:18:08
  to pull Justin Fields after six games. Even with
• 1:18:11
  Najee Harris, a lot of people were upset with
• 1:18:14
  what he had to say. But you know what? It was
• 1:18:16
  the truth. This is what he said, and I quote,
• 1:18:18
  My time in Pittsburgh, it was a lot of learning
• 1:18:21
  things. It was a lot of learning experiences.
• 1:18:24
  Playing for Mike T, playing in that division,
• 1:18:26
  there were a lot of ways I didn't even realize
• 1:18:28
  what the NFL was really about until I came to
• 1:18:30
  Pittsburgh. I don't want to go into detail with
• 1:18:33
  it, but I feel there was a lot of stuff in my
• 1:18:35
  game where I could have elevated more and I could
• 1:18:38
  have did more. I feel like I just didn't get
• 1:18:40
  it done. I feel like I was obviously missing
• 1:18:43
  something. It was interesting years there. I'll
• 1:18:47
  just say that. Interesting years, end quote.
• 1:18:50
  He's right. He's 100 % right. The Steelers decided
• 1:18:54
  to draft a running back before addressing the
• 1:18:57
  offensive line. What makes you think any running
• 1:19:00
  back can run behind an offensive line that has
• 1:19:02
  Kendrick Green, old -ass Trey Turner, Kevin Dotson,
• 1:19:08
  Dan Moore, and Chuk Sikor for? What makes you
• 1:19:11
  think any running back can be productive behind
• 1:19:14
  that? Nobody can. And it took you a few years
• 1:19:19
  to finally realize, hey, we need to adjust the
• 1:19:22
  offensive line. And even then, guess what? It's
• 1:19:25
  still not enough. The offense still is not good
• 1:19:29
  enough. So why in the world would you put the
• 1:19:33
  cart before the horse? But this in some ways
• 1:19:36
  goes back to a lot of people that deserves blame.
• 1:19:41
  Art Rennie deserves some blame because you know
• 1:19:43
  why? You can't say in an offseason we want to
• 1:19:47
  run the ball and then you guys draft a running
• 1:19:50
  back in the first round instead of addressing
• 1:19:52
  offensive line in the first round. What sense
• 1:19:55
  does that make? That's the dumbest thing you
• 1:19:57
  could have ever did. A lot of this blame also
• 1:20:00
  falls on Kevin Colbert as well because Kevin
• 1:20:03
  Colbert was not hitting on his draft picks towards
• 1:20:06
  the end of his tenure. Why in the world would
• 1:20:10
  you go and draft Kenny Pickett in the first round?
• 1:20:14
  Why would you do that? Because you know why?
• 1:20:17
  Because you guys want to rewrite a wrong because
• 1:20:20
  you guys whiffed on fucking Dan Marino because
• 1:20:24
  there was an allegation coming out during his
• 1:20:27
  time at Pitt that basically said that Dan Marino
• 1:20:30
  was doing coke. If you were so in love with Dan
• 1:20:34
  Marino, then you should have went to Dan Marino
• 1:20:36
  and asked Dan Marino, hey, Dan, are you doing
• 1:20:39
  coke? Instead of just waiting 30 plus freaking
• 1:20:43
  years and just saying, oh yeah, we're going to
• 1:20:46
  get Kenny Pickett because we done seen Kenny
• 1:20:49
  Pickett for the last few years. Really? Really?
• 1:20:54
  If any of the teams in the top five who needed
• 1:20:58
  a quarterback passed on Kenny Pickett, passed
• 1:21:01
  on any of the other quarterbacks, what does that
• 1:21:04
  tell you? That should probably let you know,
• 1:21:07
  hey, Maybe we shouldn't draft a quarterback this
• 1:21:10
  high. Maybe we should wait a little bit longer.
• 1:21:13
  But you didn't. And so my main gripe is with
• 1:21:18
  Mike Tomlin. Because you know why? Mike Tomlin
• 1:21:22
  year after year after year continues to say we
• 1:21:27
  don't live in our fears and all this Jedi mind
• 1:21:30
  trick bullshit. And what does it do? Nothing.
• 1:21:36
  You guys play super hard and super rugged in
• 1:21:39
  the first half of the season when everybody is
• 1:21:42
  just trying to get their feet wet. But when the
• 1:21:45
  games really do matter, when the season starts
• 1:21:49
  to dwindle down, we start to get ready for the
• 1:21:51
  playoffs. Guess what happened? Y 'all choke on
• 1:21:53
  some Popeye's biscuits. And then guess what?
• 1:21:57
  You look like a sourpuss every single time that
• 1:22:00
  you don't make it to the damn playoffs. We done
• 1:22:03
  went almost nine years of not making it to the
• 1:22:06
  playoffs. And you have not made any significant
• 1:22:10
  changes to your coaching staff that says that
• 1:22:14
  you are serious about winning. John Harbaugh,
• 1:22:18
  your division rival, swallowed his pride and
• 1:22:23
  called Chuck Pagano. Hey, Chuck, can you join
• 1:22:27
  my coaching staff? I got some DBs that need some
• 1:22:30
  fixing. He called Chuck Smith. Hey, can you fix
• 1:22:34
  on my pass rushers? I want my pass rushers to
• 1:22:38
  be more productive. He called a whole bunch of
• 1:22:42
  other coaches to join his coaching staff because
• 1:22:46
  he is serious about winning. What have you done
• 1:22:50
  to say that you are serious about winning? The
• 1:22:53
  only two moves that you made. was get rid of
• 1:22:56
  the secondaries coach and linebackers coach.
• 1:22:58
  And you only did that as sacrificial lambs because
• 1:23:00
  of what happened towards the last game of the
• 1:23:03
  season when Derrick Henry basically cleaned the
• 1:23:07
  defensive line to a tee. The defensive line couldn't
• 1:23:12
  even stop a shred of grass in the wind. That's
• 1:23:17
  how crazy Derrick Henry was running. You have
• 1:23:20
  yet to make any adjustments to your defensive
• 1:23:22
  staff. You have yet to make any adjustments to
• 1:23:24
  your offensive staff. So what makes you think
• 1:23:27
  any person would believe in Mike Tomlin at this
• 1:23:30
  point? None. There is nothing that Mike Tomlin
• 1:23:35
  can do or say that would make me believe in Mike
• 1:23:39
  Tomlin or in the Pittsburgh Steelers. There was
• 1:23:41
  a period in time where the Steelers were feared,
• 1:23:44
  where the Steelers... Was a team that a lot of
• 1:23:47
  teams had to prepare. Because you knew it was
• 1:23:51
  going to be a physical game. Because you knew
• 1:23:54
  it was going to be a game. Where you may be feeling
• 1:23:56
  a little bit achy. Maybe for about a week or
• 1:24:00
  so. Now. Oh we're the laughing stock. We are
• 1:24:06
  pretenders. Each and every year we are pretenders.
• 1:24:10
  And granted I was one of those people that was
• 1:24:13
  drinking from that cup. that believed that the
• 1:24:15
  Steelers were actually going to do something
• 1:24:16
  this year, that the Steelers were actually going
• 1:24:18
  to win a playoff game. One playoff game. Not
• 1:24:22
  two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
• 1:24:25
  but one playoff game. And they did not do that.
• 1:24:28
  They folded when they needed to win the most.
• 1:24:31
  And granted, I understand that five -game stretch
• 1:24:34
  was hell. I understand that. But damn! You could
• 1:24:40
  have won at least two of those games, and you
• 1:24:43
  didn't even do that. You went on a five -game
• 1:24:45
  slide, and not once did you think about bringing
• 1:24:48
  in Justin Fields. Not once. You still rolled
• 1:24:51
  with frickin' Russell Wilson. Because why? He
• 1:24:55
  was the apple of your eye. You wanted to play
• 1:24:58
  favorites, and favorites has not gotten you anywhere.
• 1:25:01
  Favorites has gotten you eliminated from the
• 1:25:03
  playoffs for the past eight -plus years. The
• 1:25:06
  one thing that I can respect about Bill Belichick,
• 1:25:09
  as cutthroat as he was, guess what? He never
• 1:25:13
  had favorites. And the one time that he almost
• 1:25:16
  did have a favorite, guess what? The owner, Robert
• 1:25:19
  Kraft, forced him to trade him. He forced Bill
• 1:25:25
  Belichick to trade Jimmy Garoppolo away because
• 1:25:29
  they had Tom Brady. Meanwhile, you have somebody
• 1:25:32
  that plays favorites. Every single year. Even
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  when it comes to the free agency signings. Favorites.
• 1:25:40
  You see how high he talks about people like Tee
• 1:25:42
  Higgins. Patrick Queen. Patrick Peterson. Darius
• 1:25:46
  Slay. DK Metcalf. All those players. And guess
• 1:25:51
  what happens? At some point in their career,
• 1:25:54
  guess what? They're going to be joining the Pittsburgh
• 1:25:56
  Steelers. It happened with Patrick Peterson.
• 1:25:58
  It happened with Darius Slay. It happened with
• 1:26:01
  DK Metcalf. It's going to continue to happen.
• 1:26:04
  Happened with Patrick Queen. Favorites. When
• 1:26:09
  can we not go through an offseason where we are
• 1:26:13
  the main talked about team? When can we just
• 1:26:17
  go through an offseason where we're just putting
• 1:26:19
  our head down and we're just working instead
• 1:26:21
  of just bullshitting? You, Mike Tomlin, was the
• 1:26:27
  person who decided to go out of his way. along
• 1:26:32
  with Omar Khan, to meet with a player who had
• 1:26:37
  serious allegations and an ongoing investigation
• 1:26:41
  going on in campsite. You met with him. You met
• 1:26:46
  with him. And you decided to sign him. Why would
• 1:26:53
  you do such a damning thing? Why? And then to
• 1:26:58
  make matters worse, You benched Beanie Bishop,
• 1:27:03
  who was making plays, who had four, four interceptions.
• 1:27:09
  Meanwhile, Cam Sutton was playing like dog shit
• 1:27:13
  every single time that he was on the field. They
• 1:27:18
  turned Cam Sutton into a jiff when Isaiah likely
• 1:27:22
  basically threw him down to the center of the
• 1:27:26
  earth. And you mean to tell me that I want to
• 1:27:29
  believe in this team? Hell no. And then not to
• 1:27:32
  mention, let's just keep on going here, folks.
• 1:27:35
  You continue to say that you want Cam Hayward
• 1:27:39
  and TJ Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick to experience
• 1:27:42
  the confetti, to experience winning a Super Bowl,
• 1:27:46
  but you haven't done a damn thing to say that
• 1:27:50
  he is serious about wanting us to win a Super
• 1:27:53
  Bowl. You haven't done anything. Don't tell me
• 1:27:56
  that you want to model the construction of this
• 1:27:59
  team to the Eagles when you are not willing to
• 1:28:02
  do anything of what the Eagles have been able
• 1:28:05
  to do. I want you to think about this for a moment
• 1:28:07
  here, folks. The Eagles were able to win a Super
• 1:28:12
  Bowl, go through some rift within their locker
• 1:28:15
  room, trade away their franchise quarterback,
• 1:28:19
  go through a small rebuild, retool again, Go
• 1:28:25
  and get another head coach and win another Super
• 1:28:28
  Bowl before the Steelers won a playoff game.
• 1:28:31
  I want you to think about that for a second here,
• 1:28:33
  folks. If I am a team, if I am a Steelers fan,
• 1:28:38
  I would be livid. I would be pissed because you
• 1:28:42
  know why? We are wasting the years of a T .J.
• 1:28:45
  Watt. We are wasting the years of a Cam Hayward.
• 1:28:48
  Here you have two blue collar players who work
• 1:28:52
  as hard as they do. In season, out of season.
• 1:28:56
  Who continue to hold the Steelers banner up.
• 1:29:02
  Even though when everybody says, bro, you should
• 1:29:04
  just go somewhere else. You should just go and
• 1:29:06
  just try to see if you can hitch on another team
• 1:29:09
  and possibly win a championship. But they stay
• 1:29:11
  loyal to the team. And y 'all haven't done anything
• 1:29:13
  to say that, hey, we're going to push our chips
• 1:29:17
  in and we're going to find a way. to make sure
• 1:29:20
  that this team is the best that we can be so
• 1:29:23
  that we can try to get you guys at least a playoff
• 1:29:24
  win. T .J. Watt doesn't even have a playoff win.
• 1:29:28
  He doesn't even have a playoff win. Think about
• 1:29:31
  that for a second here, folks. That is ridiculous.
• 1:29:35
  As hard as T .J. Watt plays, doesn't even have
• 1:29:38
  a playoff win. That is a shame before God. And
• 1:29:43
  then not to mention, you have somebody in Mike
• 1:29:48
  Tomlin. Who does not want to make serious changes
• 1:29:53
  to his coaching staff. When literally we all
• 1:29:56
  saw what happened when they had Brian Flores
• 1:30:00
  for one year. You saw how the defense played
• 1:30:05
  so much better. You saw how everybody just did
• 1:30:09
  their job a little bit more better. And you never
• 1:30:13
  thought about, hey, maybe we need to continue
• 1:30:15
  to do this. Maybe we should continue to bring
• 1:30:18
  in some people. And you have opportunities to
• 1:30:21
  do it. You could have brought in Robert Sala.
• 1:30:24
  You could have brought in Antonio Pierce. You
• 1:30:26
  could have brought in Jerron Mayo. But you didn't
• 1:30:28
  want to do that. Do you know why the Eagles are
• 1:30:33
  where they are? Do you know why the Ravens are
• 1:30:36
  where they are? Do you know why the Rams are
• 1:30:38
  where they are? Because you know why? They invest
• 1:30:41
  into scouting. They invest into their coaching
• 1:30:45
  staff. That is why it's not just about the players,
• 1:30:50
  but it's also about the foundational pieces,
• 1:30:54
  actually expanding your coaching staff, actually
• 1:30:58
  expanding your scouting. Stop just going to the
• 1:31:02
  same four or five different schools every single
• 1:31:05
  offseason. Start going to these smaller schools
• 1:31:09
  because what you're starting to see now is players
• 1:31:12
  from these smaller schools. are more refined
• 1:31:16
  in their techniques, and they have more upside
• 1:31:18
  with their game. And they don't have half of
• 1:31:21
  the antics that some of these players that go
• 1:31:23
  to these Power 5 schools go to. Sure, if there's
• 1:31:28
  somebody from Alabama that you really like, go.
• 1:31:31
  But you go to the same colleges every single
• 1:31:34
  year. Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, Clemson.
• 1:31:39
  Those are the main places you go to. You haven't
• 1:31:42
  really touched the West Coast like how you're
• 1:31:44
  supposed to. The last time that they went to
• 1:31:46
  the West Coast was for who? David DeCastro. And
• 1:31:49
  that turned out pretty well. So you have to expand.
• 1:31:54
  You have to be in a season of openness. You have
• 1:31:57
  to be in a season of expansion if you really
• 1:32:00
  want to tell people that I am serious about winning.
• 1:32:04
  Stop saying that you're serious when you're actually
• 1:32:07
  saying that, you know what, I want to be shitty.
• 1:32:09
  I want to do just enough. I want to just get
• 1:32:13
  by so I can continue to extend the streak of
• 1:32:15
  saying I have never had a losing season. Bill
• 1:32:18
  Belichick has had a losing season. Andy Reid
• 1:32:21
  has had losing seasons. Other coaches have had
• 1:32:23
  losing seasons. What makes you think that you
• 1:32:27
  are bigger than any and all of them? Nothing.
• 1:32:31
  And then... To make matters worse, while we were
• 1:32:36
  going through that winning streak, you decided
• 1:32:39
  to say, and you left it with a smirk on your
• 1:32:42
  face, this is why I'm highly compensated. But
• 1:32:46
  towards the end of the season, you didn't have
• 1:32:49
  a whole lot to say. You looked like you just
• 1:32:51
  finished eating a bunch of lemons. You didn't
• 1:32:56
  know what to say because you got punched in the
• 1:32:58
  mouth. You got punched in the mouth by the Eagles.
• 1:33:01
  You got punched in the mouth by the Chiefs. You
• 1:33:03
  got punched in the mouth by the Bengals. You
• 1:33:05
  got punched in the mouth by the Ravens. And you
• 1:33:08
  couldn't do anything about it. So stop telling
• 1:33:12
  me that you guys are serious about winning. Show
• 1:33:15
  it. And this falls on Art Rooney as well. You
• 1:33:19
  need to expand your coaching staff. That is the
• 1:33:22
  only way that this team can be real contenders.
• 1:33:27
  That is the only way. If you do not do that,
• 1:33:30
  guess what? You will never win a championship.
• 1:33:34
  And you know what's going to happen? And I pray
• 1:33:36
  to God this does not happen. Cam Hayward and
• 1:33:39
  TJ Watt are going to be Hall of Famers who have
• 1:33:44
  never won a championship, who have never even
• 1:33:46
  whiffed a Super Bowl. It's going to be a whole
• 1:33:50
  bunch of what -ifs with their career. Do you
• 1:33:54
  really want that? No. I don't think nobody really
• 1:33:58
  wants them to experience that. But that's a possibility.
• 1:34:04
  So why am I so passionate? Why am I so angry
• 1:34:08
  about the Steelers? Why am I so angry about Mike
• 1:34:11
  Tomlin? Because you know why? Year after year
• 1:34:14
  after year, they continue to sell us the same
• 1:34:17
  thing. And at some point, it feels like we're
• 1:34:21
  like the Cowboys. Every single year, we build
• 1:34:24
  ourselves up. We say, hey, this is going to be
• 1:34:28
  our year. This is going to be something special
• 1:34:30
  than last year and the years before that. And
• 1:34:34
  guess what happens? It's the same outcome every
• 1:34:37
  single year. 9 -8, 10 -8, 10 -7, 10 -6, 10 -5,
• 1:34:44
  11 -4. It's not enough. Never has been, never
• 1:34:50
  will be. This team deserves to win. There are
• 1:34:56
  players on this team that have been loyal to
• 1:34:58
  this team that deserve to win. And if you are
• 1:35:03
  not willing to make the necessary changes, if
• 1:35:07
  you are not willing to make the necessary additions
• 1:35:10
  to make this team better, then go somewhere else.
• 1:35:18
  Just go. Stop wasting people's time. Stop trying
• 1:35:23
  to hype everybody up for the season. There's
• 1:35:26
  not enough promoting videos. There's not enough
• 1:35:30
  teasers. There's not enough trailers. There's
• 1:35:33
  not enough of those that can replace the drought,
• 1:35:37
  the lack of thirst, the lack of winning that
• 1:35:41
  this team has yet to experience. None of it.
• 1:35:45
  Here you have the Ravens, your division rival,
• 1:35:48
  who have made significant moves to their coaching
• 1:35:51
  staff and you haven't done anything. The most
• 1:35:55
  you did was hire a linebackers coach. A no -name
• 1:35:59
  linebackers coach. No disrespect to you, big
• 1:36:01
  dog. How in the world can you say you want to
• 1:36:04
  position yourself to draft a quarterback next
• 1:36:07
  year when you don't have somebody on this coaching
• 1:36:10
  staff that has experience developing a quarterback?
• 1:36:16
  Folks, I could go on a whole nother hour about
• 1:36:21
  how I am so disappointed in this team, but I
• 1:36:25
  don't think nobody really wants to hear that.
• 1:36:28
  But I will say this and I'll leave it and then
• 1:36:32
  we'll do the outro and whatnot. I have very low
• 1:36:38
  expectations for this team moving forward. I
• 1:36:42
  will not be super dramatic. when it comes to
• 1:36:45
  us winning and losing and until significant changes
• 1:36:49
  are made i will somewhat step back when it comes
• 1:36:54
  to the support that i have for this team i have
• 1:36:57
  said it public i've now said it publicly so now
• 1:36:59
  everybody can can backtrack and hold me accountable
• 1:37:02
  for for what i just said but i want to end this
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• 1:39:55
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