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Emergency Pod: Free Agency Day 1! · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, This is
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  Speaker 1: Peter Schreger. This is the Season with Peter Schreger. And
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  Speaker 1: as you know, our best shows are in the off
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  Speaker 1: season when we are reacting to free agency and draft news.
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  Speaker 1: Last week we had Mike Garatfolo on to set the table.
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  Speaker 1: And now as I am recording this, it is three
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  Speaker 1: hours into free agency.
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  Speaker 2: So we started at twelve.
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  Speaker 1: We're recording this at three pm Eastern, and we'll call
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  Speaker 1: this an emergency pod, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is something that Bill Simmons I think coined.
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  Speaker 1: But it's our instant reaction to the first wave of
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  Speaker 1: free agent moves.
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  Speaker 2: And I will tell.
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  Speaker 1: You the big one to me is what went down
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  Speaker 1: just now with the Seattle Seahawks and the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: And we have dominant that are still about to follow.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be on Twitter throughout this show, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do good thirty forty minutes right now, and if we
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  Speaker 1: get more quarterback news, we will report it. But I
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  Speaker 1: said it throughout Good Morning Football this morning, and I
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  Speaker 1: said it throughout the week. The first domino to fall
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  Speaker 1: will be Stafford. The second domino to fall will be
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald. The third will be Justin Fields. And then
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  Speaker 1: there is this see of names, and it includes Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 1: it includes Aaron Rodgers, it includes Russell Wilson, It quickly
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  Speaker 1: includes a Carson Wentz, It quickly includes a mac Jones.
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  Speaker 1: And there are seats to be filled. So my instant
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  Speaker 1: reactions Sam Donald. All along the thought was he would
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  Speaker 1: come back on a short term deal, two years, maybe
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  Speaker 1: forty million, to go back to the Minnesota Vikings. But
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  Speaker 1: when the Seattle Seahawks traded Gino Smith to Vegas, there
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  Speaker 1: was a giant void at quarterback for them. They go
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  Speaker 1: and they get Sam Donald. I like this deal. I
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  Speaker 1: think the money's right. Three years, one hundred million, so
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  Speaker 1: you're saying about thirty three million dollars a year, which
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  Speaker 1: puts him in that middle tier of quarterbacks. He also
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  Speaker 1: gets fifty five million dollars guaranteed. Finally, at this stage
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  Speaker 1: in his career, Sam Donald gets the love and appreciation.
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  Speaker 1: He's still wanted. He's the official quarterback one. There is
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  Speaker 1: no debate there in Seattle. I don't know if Sam
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  Speaker 1: Donald's great. I still don't seventeen weeks of amazing football.
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  Speaker 1: But I will tell you this his best game. And
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  Speaker 1: it could be debatable whether it was some of the
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  Speaker 1: big yards he put up, or the comeback he had
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  Speaker 1: against the Bears, or the overtime he had in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: where he came all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Back last year.
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  Speaker 1: But I think his best game, his clutches game, his
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  Speaker 1: gutsy his performance was Week sixteen in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: They're down twenty four to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Late, he leads them back, throws the touchdown to Justin
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson in the end zone. Donald that day completed twenty
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  Speaker 1: six passes for you know, I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: twenty six to thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: Did it in seat in the elements, with all.
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  Speaker 1: Of the pressure in the world on him, and did
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  Speaker 1: that while throwing three touchdowns no interceptions, having a fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter comeback on Mike McDonald's defense. Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if McDonald and John Schneider, we'll get the full story
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  Speaker 1: in the coming day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they saw this three steps ahead.
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  Speaker 1: But when their negotiations with Gino went off the rails
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and Gino was talking million forty five
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  Speaker 1: million at thirty five years old, it quickly made them
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  Speaker 1: pivot and said, well, what other options are there? Donald
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  Speaker 1: now goes up to Seattle, where he'll play at an
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  Speaker 1: outdoor stadium in the weather, in the elements.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how that goes. Remember he's a West Coast kid.
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  Speaker 1: His career in New York was not not anything to
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  Speaker 1: write home about. He then bounced around from Carolina to
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco to this dream season in Minnesota, which was mostly.
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  Speaker 2: Done in that dome inside.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how he reacts and how he responds.
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  Speaker 1: So what are the trickle down effects of that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Jets quickly, quickly, right after we got our news
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  Speaker 1: out of Seattle, the Jets finally, you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: smoke coming from the Vatican because we haven't heard a
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  Speaker 1: word from them since Darren Mugi and Aaron Glen took over.
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  Speaker 1: As far as you know, what they wanted to do,
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  Speaker 1: their intentions, there have been no leaks in that building.
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  Speaker 1: They go and they signed Justin Fields for two years
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  Speaker 1: forty million. So that's twenty million a year for Justin Fields,
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  Speaker 1: it's thirty three million dollars a year for Sam Darnald.
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  Speaker 2: Who would you rather have that situation?
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd say Donald based on the track record
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  Speaker 1: and the numbers that he put up last year, but
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  Speaker 1: Fields provides a running element. Fields, of Course was college
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to Garrett Wilson. Fields of Course has this upside
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  Speaker 1: where you feel like the scratch of the surface just
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  Speaker 1: has begun. So those are the first two dominoes to
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  Speaker 1: drop at quarterback. I am going to bring on a
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  Speaker 1: guest in a little bit, and we had him on
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  Speaker 1: when the Jets were doing their their coach and GM search.
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  Speaker 2: His name is Danny, and I call him Danny from
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  Speaker 2: lot E.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's where he tailgates with the kebab guy for
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  Speaker 1: those Jets games. He gave up his Jets season tickets
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  Speaker 1: after last year, in a fit of rage, gave him up,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not paying money to go see this team anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They have since hired a new head coach, a new GM,
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  Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator, a new defensive coordinator, have an
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  Speaker 1: entirely new front office, and I'm curious to check in
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  Speaker 1: with Danny on Howie feels about his new quarterback one
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  Speaker 1: being justin Fields. But before we get there, what other
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  Speaker 1: spots are still vacant? As we record this, the Giants
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  Speaker 1: still do not have a quarterback. My insight tells me
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  Speaker 1: that the plan was to go big on Rogers, all right,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully that's.
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  Speaker 2: Still the plan, and my information wasn't wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Go big on Rogers, whatever that means, but show Rogers
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  Speaker 1: their intention on bringing him in, and if Rogers doesn't,
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  Speaker 1: then we pivot. But even if there's Rogers, the thought
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  Speaker 1: is you sign Rogers to a deal, or if it's
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz or Russell Wilson, and then you also address
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  Speaker 1: it in the draft, and that might mean third overall.
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  Speaker 1: I would say it could mean thirty fourth overall, which
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  Speaker 1: they have that pick quarterbacks who could be targets. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see cam Ward unless you trade up for one
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  Speaker 1: being there at number three. So you start going down
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  Speaker 1: the list and it's maybe Shador Sanders. But I really
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  Speaker 1: like the sound of Jackson Dart to the Giants, So
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  Speaker 1: in a ideal world for Giants fans, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: Rogers for a year with Jackson Dart in the room.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to Zach Wilson, if you listen to
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  Speaker 1: Jordan love Rogers as much as a monster. The media
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  Speaker 1: made him out to be not a bad guy to
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  Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, and definitely was not. Brett Farv to him
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  Speaker 1: is a giving guy, is a mentor in many ways
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  Speaker 1: and has always been good to those younger quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 1: the room, whether it be a Tim Boyle or a
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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn or in this case in recent years, Zach Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Travis, who is it whoever? I would think the
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  Speaker 1: Giants would be very happy with a Jackson Dart long term.
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  Speaker 2: And Aaron Rodgers short term.
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  Speaker 1: But as you're listening to this, that plan might go
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  Speaker 1: awry because there's talked that the Steelers, with fields now
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  Speaker 1: out the door to the Jets, could be all in
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  Speaker 1: on Rogers. Darnold was a talking point for the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going there. Russell Wilson was there last year.
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  Speaker 1: We hear that they're moving on from him. So right now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're Aaron Rodgers and were again, our three oh
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  Speaker 1: seven pm Easterns is an emergency podcast. Is three hours
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  Speaker 1: into free agency? Are you going to the Steelers or
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  Speaker 1: the Giants? If the money is the same with the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: the Pros are probably a better roster, probably a more
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  Speaker 1: established franchise as far as recent years goes. And then
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  Speaker 1: probably a coach that you've long admired for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: The Pros are Brian Dables, an offensive head coach, the
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  Speaker 1: Giants have Molik neighbors, and the Giants, well, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to uproot your life now.
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  Speaker 2: Look, does he live in Malibu full time?
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  Speaker 1: Does he spend time in all these other countries, traveling
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  Speaker 1: and finding himself?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Do I think Aaron Rodgers owning a home in Montclear,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey is going to be what breaks the tie here?
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  Speaker 2: No, Aaron Rodgers can buy and.
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  Speaker 1: Sell homes three hundred and sixty five days of the
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  Speaker 1: year's plenty of money left over. He's made more money
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  Speaker 1: as an NFL quarterback than any person in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the game.
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  Speaker 2: That said, if he likes his.
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  Speaker 1: Community, if he likes being in the spotlight of New York,
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  Speaker 1: if he likes having the comforts of being able to
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  Speaker 1: stay where he lives and not having to uproot his
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  Speaker 1: life again, there is something too staying with the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: So Aaron Rodgers goes from being this discarded quarterback of
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  Speaker 1: the Jets to now potentially being able to choose his
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  Speaker 1: next home between those two franchises. Some quick other thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I like what the Patriots did and
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  Speaker 1: I know I've already gotten crushed in my timeline for
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  Speaker 1: positively talking about the Patriots just because they're.
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  Speaker 2: Shlling out money.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Milton Williams was the top free agent
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  Speaker 1: in this in this entire free agent class that was
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  Speaker 1: left over as far as you know, guys who were
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  Speaker 1: ascending at that age.
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  Speaker 2: They signed him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, yes, twenty six million dollars a year is a ton,
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  Speaker 1: but the money at this point, guys, it's it's fungible
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  Speaker 1: in a way that next year the salard CAP's going
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  Speaker 1: to go up even more than the new year after
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  Speaker 1: that's going to go even more.
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  Speaker 2: Like, don't get caught up.
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  Speaker 1: On the money when it comes to these guys, because
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  Speaker 1: the money's a lot, and the salary cap was completely changed.
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  Speaker 1: So the Patriots had money going in, and then they
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  Speaker 1: had even more money after that. So did they offer
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  Speaker 1: him the most I don't know, but I know there
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  Speaker 1: were other teams involved. I know that the Cardinals were interested.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Panthers were as interested. I know
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  Speaker 1: there were some tweets saying there that he had signed
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  Speaker 1: with the Panthers. That's not anything that was worth you know,
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  Speaker 1: retweeting or commenting on because that wasn't the case, and
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  Speaker 1: it ends up going to the Patriots. Splaine Long has
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  Speaker 1: been a good player, they get him, Morgan Moses, they
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  Speaker 1: bring him in, and you go through the names and
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  Speaker 1: yesterday Harold Landry, these are guys.
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  Speaker 2: These are guys.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I would still look at the Patriots and say
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  Speaker 1: they need more on the offensive tackle position, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess they'll go offensive line in the draft with that
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  Speaker 1: fourth pick. Gosh will Campbell. Are we sure he's a
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  Speaker 1: left tackle? Are we sure he's even a tackle at all?
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  Speaker 1: Or is he a guard? That's really rich at fourth overall,
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  Speaker 1: But that's the top offensive lineman in this draft if
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  Speaker 1: they go that way. As of this recording, Patrick McCarry
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  Speaker 1: is still not signed anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great Ravens player.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he's the guy that they go with and they
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  Speaker 1: fill these holes with.
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  Speaker 2: Some other stuff. As we're going through this the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: You hate seeing them lose Joe Toney, they had to
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  Speaker 1: do it. But I love what they've done the last
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  Speaker 1: few days. They've continued to add players, bring back guys.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Bolton a huge addition for Kansas City. Not gonna
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  Speaker 1: steal any headlines. That was a big one. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going through these real quick here.
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  Speaker 2: I like what the Bears did bringing in my guy Deo.
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  Speaker 1: If you listened to last week's pod with Mike Garatfolo,
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  Speaker 1: we discover mister Doo And if you're wondering who mister
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  Speaker 1: Doo is, it's Indianapolis Colts for a few years there
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  Speaker 1: and his name is Deo odeya Ingbo. And I've butchered
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  Speaker 1: that on national television. I've putchered that on podcasts. But
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  Speaker 1: Bear signed him the big money and he is a
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  Speaker 1: twenty five year old pass rusher that is ascending.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, pick up Joe Toney. The Bears have done
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  Speaker 1: good work the last few days and they continue to
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  Speaker 1: add and I think deyo is was right up there
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  Speaker 1: with Milton Williams as one of the top young ascending
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  Speaker 1: defensive front seven players. All right, those are my initial takes.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys fans, I have nothing for you. I know they
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  Speaker 1: brought back big Osa and they did. They let Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Lewis walk out the door and they've been silent otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Bengals fans, you bring back everybody but Higgins, Hendrickson and Chase.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how Higgins and Chase go and if they
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  Speaker 1: can figure out a deal, and oh yeah, one rant
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. I have no animosity towards Miles Garrett, but
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  Speaker 1: I do want a lot of time and energy back
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  Speaker 1: if you can give it to me. I spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time on Good Morning Football talking about you
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  Speaker 1: the last two weeks. I said it all along. There
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  Speaker 1: was no way the Browns were trading them. They have
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  Speaker 1: made that clear, and in hindsight, as we go through
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  Speaker 1: all this, everyone who freaked out about Jimmy HASLM not
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  Speaker 1: wanting to sit with Miles Garrett. Shame on you. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be You can't have it both ways. You can't
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  Speaker 1: complain about Jerry Jones meddling or Woody Johnson meddling and
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  Speaker 1: then also want the owner of the Browns to suddenly
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  Speaker 1: drop everything and negotiate with a player. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who the player is. We can't have it both ways.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want your owners heavily involved or do you
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  Speaker 1: not want your owners heavily involved? Is the first thing
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  Speaker 1: we hear, that these owners get too much involved and
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  Speaker 1: let the GM do his job. Jimmy Haslam the Browns
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  Speaker 1: distanced themselves that I'm not meeting with Miles Garrett. We
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  Speaker 1: have two years left on the contract and two years
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  Speaker 1: after that. Let the GM do it well. The GM
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  Speaker 1: found to make Miles Garrett happy. It wasn't with a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring. It wasn't with more players. It was
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  Speaker 1: with more money. Miles Garrett wrote a passionate letter about
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  Speaker 1: how all he cares about is winning a Lombardi. Miles
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  Speaker 1: Garrett went on the Rich Eisend Show and spoke about
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  Speaker 1: how there's no dollar amount, there's there's no there's no
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  Speaker 1: money that it could be spent. There is nothing having
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  Speaker 1: to do with being the highest non paid player that
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  Speaker 1: will even change his mind. He needs to be traded.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to be traded. Well, here's the issue. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a no trade clause. So they could have sent
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  Speaker 1: them anywhere. This could have sende the NFL oblivion wherever
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  Speaker 1: that is besides Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: They could have sent them there.
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  Speaker 1: And forty million dollars should us speak and Miles Garrett,
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  Speaker 1: his agent, Nicole lind did a fine job getting him
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  Speaker 1: this money, and whatever the conversations were, he seems to
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  Speaker 1: have had a change of heart quote unquote, So Miles Garrett,
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing how that works, and I don't spite you.
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  Speaker 1: I just wish we didn't spend so much energy super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Week, not talking about the Chiefs and Eagles, and
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  Speaker 1: so much energy at the combine, not talking about Shador
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  Speaker 1: and Kim War and all those guys, and instead talking
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  Speaker 1: about Miles Garrett and his steadfast desire to be a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion. He will go back to the Browns
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  Speaker 1: where he'll make forty million dollars and the team is
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  Speaker 1: even more financially strapped to give him more assistance and
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  Speaker 1: help as they were before this whole entire experience. All right,
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  Speaker 1: quick instant reaction from our guy Danny from Lottie right
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  Speaker 1: after this.
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  Speaker 2: All right, no further ado. This is our guy.
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  Speaker 1: We talked to him earlier this season when they were
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  Speaker 1: about to start their coaching in GM higher process. He
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest Jets fan I know, and they have
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  Speaker 1: a new quarterback and Justin Fields. They also signed Justin
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  Speaker 1: Fields with absolutely no leaks out of the building and
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  Speaker 1: not a single negative story of the past few weeks
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  Speaker 1: as far as dysfunction in the building. He is no
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  Speaker 1: longer a season ticket holder, but he is my dear
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  Speaker 1: friend who I like to play a little paddle with
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  Speaker 1: and now we're talking a little paddling of the Jets
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  Speaker 1: topic here, Danny from Lattie, how are you feeling Justin Fields?
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  Speaker 1: Two years, forty million, New York Jets, new quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Are you buying the jersey?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? Shrakes?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on this crazy opening day, a
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  Speaker 4: free agency.
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  Speaker 2: Historic day where Twitter went down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, back to my college days.
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  Speaker 4: A refreshing pro football talk to see you know who
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be disappointed about next. But look, I
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  Speaker 4: think Justin Fields is a low risk, high upside signing.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't banging the table for Justin like our other
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  Speaker 4: paddle buddy, Eric. You know, half his dream offseason is
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  Speaker 4: complete now with Fields. You know, in his perfect world,
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  Speaker 4: Fields will be throwing to Tyler Warren. But look, with
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  Speaker 4: what was available, I think this is the best outcome.
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  Speaker 4: We couldn't go into the season riding Tyrod Taylor. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Tyrod's a good guy, good spots starter. But with Dustin Fields,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I look at it as you know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to say a lot of ticket, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: maybe you hit here. The money's not so big, it's
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  Speaker 4: not a big commitment and Look, he's explosive and he
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  Speaker 4: makes exciting plays. Maybe he can bring some life back
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  Speaker 4: into MetLife. I don't I'm not upset at the signing.
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  Speaker 4: And if you can't get if you look at fields.
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  Speaker 4: He ended twenty twenty three on a high note. The
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  Speaker 4: last seven games he was four and three, threw for
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  Speaker 4: five touchdowns, rush for another three.
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  Speaker 1: They had a chance to do something in the last
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  Speaker 1: week of the season and stop.
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  Speaker 2: The Lions from from you know whatever. It went in
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  Speaker 2: the line, and he's stunk when it mattered. I'll just
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  Speaker 2: say that. Everyone points to twenty twenty three.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I remember his final weeks of the season with the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Lot with the Bears, the go on, sorry sorry.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Sorry, okay, and then look started out four and two
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: with Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't fine, dude, benched in that game.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: He wasn't.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: He wasn't, you know, throwing it all over the lot
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: like it up. But he protected the ball.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: He only had one interception in the six games.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: He did, you know what it took to win, you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: in four out of the six, and it looked like
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: he was you know, it looked like he you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: he was progressing. So it would have been nice to
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: see him play a few more games with Pittsburgh and
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: see if he developed a little more.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: But maybe we have something here.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, what's it tell you that A I think he
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: did choose the Jets over Pittsburgh and b the fact
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: that Mike Tomlin two different questions. One he picked the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Jets over Pittsburg, which is rare to say, oh, I
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: want that situation. And then the second one, Mike Tomlin
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: went to Russell Wilson over him, and as Russell Wilson
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: began to go, you know, slide downwards and play poorly
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: down the rest of the season, did not go back
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: to Justin Fields.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Well, first off, why did he pick New York? You know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: The money was a lot bigger with the Jets and Steelers,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: and probably the Jets were giving him more of a
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: commitment level, saying you're the guy.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: You know, you're the starter, here's the ball, let's go.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And obviously I'm sure Fields, you know, isn't too thrilled
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: with Tomlin after getting yanked, you know, starting out four
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: and two.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: But you know what's not being talked enough about here is.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe he wanted to, you know, get back with Garrett Wilson,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: who he had that connection with at Ohio State. And look,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: if you remember when we talked on the pod during
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: the coaching search and we were talking about Rogers and
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: you know, just the landscape of the team. What I said,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: one of the most important things was is Garrett Wilson
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: gonna be happy if we bring back Rogers?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: And I think we realized now the answer would have
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: been no.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: So if you were going to bring anybody in to
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: make Garrett happy, Field was the guy. And maybe Fields,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: you know, wanted to come back and play with Garrett
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: and on the Jets. I don't think there's any question
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: that he's going to be the guy and they're going
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: to ride it out and see what he can do,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: and if it works out, you know, there's a good
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: chance he could be the long term solution here in
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: New York.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: So I think that's why he picked the Jets. Why
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: did Tomlin stick with Ross?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Ross is a Super Bowl winning in that you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: was protecting the ball. They were winning games, and yeah,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: they hit that rough patch and where they were playing
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: playoff teams and they you know, they didn't win. But
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I think Tomlin, you know, in typical Tomlin fashion, was
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: concerned about, you know, just getting into the playoffs and
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: having that another you know, playoff season on his resume,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: probably knowing that whether it was Fields or Wilson, he
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: wasn't going to go very far anyway.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, here, I'm gonna give you some updates in the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: last five minutes, some news and if you're listening again,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we're recording this at three fifteen pm during there'll be
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: plenty more by the time this goes up and it's posted.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Josh Sweat leaves the Eagles for the Arizona Cardinals on
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a monster deal.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's one Tellanoah Hufonga, who had a great
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and has been missing on the field
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: from twenty three to twenty four, signs with the Denver Broncos.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And there is still no word on Aaron Rodgers to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the Giants or Aaron Rodgers to the Pittsburgh Steelers. As
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: we record this, I believe that is going to be
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the next domino to drop. And then you'll see Daniel
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Jones sign somewhere, and then you will probably see Russell
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Wilson sign somewhere. Could you believe it as a Jets
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: fan that Aaron Rodgers is being heavily quartered by the Giants,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and the Giants are more or less waiting on Aaron Rodgers' decision.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: It feels like a couple of years ago with the Jets,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: where you had a coach and a gm who are
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: fighting for their lives here and need to, you know.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Need to make the playoffs to keep their jobs.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: And as tempting as it may be for Shane and
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: day Ball to get Rogers in there so they can,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: you know, convince themselves that they're going to be competitive,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I just I don't think it's the right move.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's the right move for the Giants.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's the right move for Rodgers.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: If I'm Rogers, I'm doing whatever I can to get
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh. Look, Pittsburgh seems like regardless of who plays quarterback,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: they're in the hunt they make the playoffs.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: And now with DK.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: That defense and Tomlin, that's an attractive situation for any quarterback.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And Rogers didn't play terrible last year. I think a
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: lot of games. I think they lost a lot of
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: games because of the defense, not because of him.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And you fired a coach five weeks into the season,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and you fired the like it's complete this function. You
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: have to admit, as much as it's fun to have
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: stories and gossip like it is kind of a refreshing
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: first couple of weeks with Darren Mougey and Aaron Glenn
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and Rick Spielman that there.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Hasn't been a peep out of that building.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I think people just aren't so interested in the team,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: and everyone is just down and really has no expectations.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: So we're all just paying attention to other things. And
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I think I think the media is as well. There's
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: no shortage of action elsewhere around the league that they
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: can focus on instead of, you know, beating the dead
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: horse of you know, this downtrodden franch.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I Metugi at the combine. I was impressed. I never
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: met him before. I was impressed.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, if Sean Payton likes him, I like him.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: He knows football, so we'll see. I mean, I think
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: it's Aaron Glenn's show. And I think the thing that
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I'm probably do have some hope about is that it
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: seems like the GM and the cultural aligned and they're
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: on the same page, and you know they're going to
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: work together to you know, instill their vision here, not
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: what we've had.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: In the past. But I have no expectations for Mugie.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, we'll see.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I mean one thing, if I'm Mugie, I'm letting this
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: justin fields acquisition get in the way of drafting a quarterback,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: you know, whether that's somebody at seven. If you believe
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: there's a guy there that you know could be a
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: franchise quarterback, then why not take them. If you want
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: to wait and maybe trade back into the twenties to
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: get somebody like Baltimore did with Lamar, and let's do that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: But I wouldn't just be going all in on fields
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: here and saying, Okay, we got our guy.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: In closing two questions, One, you have given up your
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: season tickets. Does any of this encourage you to want to,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you know, re up and go call the Jets ticket
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: line and invest your money again into Jets season ticket holding?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I need to see I need to see a I
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: need to see a product on the field that gets
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: me excited, that gets me to buy back in, that
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: just shows that we're a respectable team that is prepared,
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: that actually looks like they practice.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And you know, can compete against the better teams in
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: the league. Until then, I'm you don't.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Get my money now, and you don't get my love.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And then more importantly, we're recording this Monday three thirty tonight.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: We have a sport called paddle that we play every
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Monday night in Brooklyn at the Spot Paddle House. Now,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Andrew Schultz, the star comedian, has a big special on Netflix.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: He went on Joe Rogan and started talking about our sport,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and Rogan had never heard of it. It's this good
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: for our small sport of paddle, which is two on
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: two tennis with glass walls, that we have.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Been playing for years.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Or is this now here come the unwashed masses into
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: our lovely little sport like an indie band that has
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: been discovered by pop radio, and now it's just going
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to be overrun with new people that we that we
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: aren't familiar with playing our sport.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I think it's great.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: I think more and more people are realizing that this
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: is something real.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: This isn't you know, some you know, fly by night,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: some version of pickleball.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: That you know people talk badly about. You know, to
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: play paddle, you have to be a real athlete. You
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: need short area quickness.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Maybe we can have a little paddle combine yep, you know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: one of these days. But if anything, you know, I
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: think it will bring more athletes to the space, more
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: fun people for us to play with, and you know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: hopefully more paddle facilities for us to test.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I will say this.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I've gotten so many text from people knowing that I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: love this sport that Schultz even mentioned it on Joe
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Rogan that I've got to say. The antennas are up,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the radars are up, but you are a day one
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: ambassador of the game. And if you haven't played paddle,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: it's very New York, it's very la It's coming. I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: know they opened one in Nashville, and it's big in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Florida as well, and huge in Europe.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: It's how would you explain it?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It's two on two tennis with these glass walls on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the side, and it is the only sport that I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: think is like truly social and you meet new people
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and we have had such a blast. We have before
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: some that we play with, but I am by far
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the worst player in our foursome and you have not
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: knocked me out of this group yet.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So I appreciate you being we.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Keep you in for the mahomes. No, look, you know
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I have as and and the pizza reservations afterwards, so
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we'll see.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: That's it, all.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Right, get back to work. You've got actual deals to do.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here waiting on others to make deals.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I'll see you tonight and by then
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: we'll probably know where Aaron Rodgers is playing next year.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Sounds good, thanks, Rakes.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Danny from lot E or Danny formerly
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: from lot E, diehard Jets fan.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Who it's Danny from the couch.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Now, Danny from the couch, Danny from the couch with
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Adam Archaltta on the call.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: That's how that's going to go this year. So enjoy it,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: all right, buddy. So that's the Jets fan perspective.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: It would be a whole lot different if I had
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a Giants fan perspective on right now, they are freaking out.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I think Ryan Russillo had a funny, funny post. He
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was like, let me find it said, Field's approval rating
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: on X is the only thing close to Chalame right now.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It's true, like Jets fans are treating justin Fields like
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: he's Joe Montana. At least Die Danny was a little
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: more moderate in his appraise for him. But we'll see
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: how it goes. This is just the first three hours
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of free agency. Wanted to get some content out there.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: If you're listening, chime in, tweet the show, tweet us.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Although Twitter was down for the first two hours offraise,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: which actually made it kind of fun. I actually enjoyed
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that I was checking NFL dot com refreshing. I will
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: say this, the NFL Instagram never did I ever check it,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and I finally I'm like, all right, I'm gonna go
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to them. And the first thing at noon they posted
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, an announcement of Olivia Colpo and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey having a baby, and like, not today, guys,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: not today, not the audience. But congratulations to the McCaffrey
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Colpo clan on that one.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Plenty of more pods to come.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do another one tomorrow or this week and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: we'll give our reactions.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: But there it is, first three hours of free agency.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Here in the books. Thanks for listening.
• 28:41
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