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- 0:50Kenny's basement apartment where I played the wrong intro song and Kenny is financing his
- 0:58child's tooth, the rebuilding with the gambling. Come on, everyone, thank
- 1:04you for joining us for this episode of sports allegedly on this sixteenth day of
- 1:12twenty twenty four, and that'd be March, one day before Saint Patty's Day.
- 1:15So happy early Saint Patty's to everyone listening out there. Uh, and
- 1:19happy birthday to you. Not to that not my birthday, I know that
- 1:25was that, Zach, I'm next. Ivy birthday to the kid that wanted
- 1:29to be here but decided he was gonna have to work. He's always late.
- 1:33But anyway, thanks for joining us. We've got a lot to talk
- 1:36about. We're gonna break down. We're talking a little bit about OU football
- 1:38signings, the OU softball team, Patty Gasso getting a statue. We'll break
- 1:45down. Yeah, we'll there enough time. We'll break down the AFC East.
- 1:49There is there enough time from the free agency frenzy. But that's what
- 1:53we're gonna start with. Oh, we're starting with that, Yest's start with
- 1:57the other stuff on the game now. But we can do that's the meeting.
- 2:00What do you want to start with Patty. Okay, he's back on
- 2:04the on the winning side. Texas made it one week number one. Yeah,
- 2:09as number one. They immediately lost their first game to Houston, So
- 2:14congratulations Texas Softball. Good jump, good jumb bum Burners beat uh first two
- 2:23games? Uh? This series this weekend was Texas Tech started out twelve and
- 2:29nothing right off the bat. I mean, but didn't we didn't we?
- 2:35This was today? Did we beat aewa state to state start and then we're
- 2:39two up on Texas Tech the illustrious Petty Gassa getting a statue as Kenny said,
- 2:47so or the regents approved that we won fifteen to two today and then
- 2:53yesterday I think it was nothing. I was fourteen and nothing. Yes,
- 3:00there you go. But you know the girls today they made their whole batting
- 3:04circle before they got their first out. They went all the way around.
- 3:07It was a twelve inting first. It was a twelve run first fielding first.
- 3:13Backed that up, you know what I mean? You know what I
- 3:16mean from the California Penal League. So still one loss. Obviously, after
- 3:21Texas lost, they moved ou which they should back up to number one,
- 3:24and well they should have ever been out of number one, even that loss,
- 3:28the shouldn't have been out a number one. And you know, we
- 3:30talked about it. We talked about it that we aren't it was. It's
- 3:36kind of, you know, resembles last year they lost the non conference game.
- 3:39Died they lost earlier. It was a little bit earlier, but not
- 3:45so much or not. But they lost before they got in the conference play.
- 3:47Correct? Correct? Well so did oh you we didn't lose to a
- 3:52conference team. Well, that's saying yeah, I was talking about it.
- 3:53You know, Texas. You both know I'm saying, oh you both lost
- 3:58before conference play last year. Mmmm, we just happened. That was a
- 4:01non conference game that we played there, all right, anything else baseball's done,
- 4:06softball's done, baseball nothing, you know, Oh you baseball had a
- 4:11really good win last night though. They beat TCU good, yes, ranked
- 4:16and I think it was seven to three. Oh, it just doesn't good.
- 4:19And they're playing them again right now. We're looking at the I think
- 4:24it's second inning right now. They were actually I'm sorry, they were ranking
- 4:27umber twelve, so my apology. Yes, t was ranked over twelve,
- 4:30so it was a good win and skip Johnson, O you Skipper got his
- 4:34two hundred win last night. Also, so you got to remember that we
- 4:38lost. We lost guys after we went to that title. Oh yeah,
- 4:42and that was sad. I was like, why don't you go to stay
- 4:44and and you know complete your Yeah, that was way behind, so go
- 4:49back over. That's a lot. But yeah, so uh, like I
- 4:55said before, I think that team they've got enough pitching. I think there
- 4:59even though they lost quite a few guys, I think I think they're set
- 5:01up to be pretty good. Yeah, I didn't see what we missed the
- 5:04season. As the season goes along, because it's hard to find news and
- 5:08all that for it is it's like, come on, people, we've got
- 5:11to and maybe I'm missing it is we've got to get better at You have
- 5:15to go to the website. You have to you literally have to go to
- 5:16their website to find out any of the anything that's going on because no no
- 5:23sports cares, no sports, major sports thing cares. Update on the Carolina
- 5:29game. They are losing twenty to eleven. All right, So moving on
- 5:35grinning the basketball basketball all the Number ones have lost so far. We are
- 5:41waiting on this game and the Big ten for the Number Ones. I think
- 5:46you know interesting to see. Well, let's let's break it down, John,
- 5:50pull up the pull up the scores from today, because we'll still have
- 5:56we still have hold on with the ones. It's tomorrow. Who is tomorrow?
- 6:00Who's the tournament to selection tomorrow? Yeah, but usually there's one tournament.
- 6:05Everybody's done. Did everybody finish this? Everybody's gonna finish today? They
- 6:09should? No. See right, there's the semi finals for the Big Ten.
- 6:12I know, the Big Ten plays tomorrow. And oh well the Ivy
- 6:17League Brown versus Yale and SEC is the other one. Yes, so we
- 6:20got Florida and Auburn du quinness. Yes, yeah, Florida, Florida,
- 6:29Auburn. There's no Kentucky, there's no Tennessee. Brown. Actually in the
- 6:31Ivy League, Brown beat Princeton today, which was a huge upset. They
- 6:35actually have a losing record coming into that. Then you have the Big Ten
- 6:40tomorrow too. So all those teams they're playing now generally to the AC too.
- 6:44Temple versus u AB what a run by Temple, I mean, Tulsa
- 6:47beat Temple. I mean, look at Temple's record. They're sixteen to nineteen,
- 6:51only won five, lost early to e c U. Both men's and
- 6:59women's went out early. Oh you oh you men and O you women both
- 7:03went out? Yes, yeah, oh you won. Women won one and
- 7:08then yeah, never had a chance. We'll talk about we'll talk about as
- 7:13we finish up these scores, about my ou getting Mike getting fired. All
- 7:17right, let's talk a little bit about bracketology. Like Sean said, we've
- 7:21wont that guy go. We got championships tonight in C State and n C
- 7:28one more year. Thank you, So the scores, John, if you'll
- 7:32pull up, go back to that game. I think uh in C State,
- 7:36Uh coming in as a ten seed for that tournament. Hanging on,
- 7:41they've won four I think they've won four in a row. Virginia. Yeah,
- 7:45they won four in a row and beat Virginia. Watched that game last
- 7:47night. Hell of a last second shot. Virginia has the ball. It
- 7:53was a foul. They fouled him, so it was a one and one.
- 7:55Kid hits the front. They got five seconds, laft runds it down.
- 7:59Guy I can't remember his name, shoots a three over the guy's head,
- 8:01kind of banks it in, kind of rousing a little bit, and
- 8:05chaos and and they took care of Virginia in overtime, puts him up to
- 8:07the game against North Carolina today. North Carolina be in the number one s
- 8:13number four and yes number four, number four, but they're the number one
- 8:18seed in the ACC. And then Purdue losing to Wisconsin earlier today was conso
- 8:24overtime Purdue through Opahall Mary for no reason at all. Yeah, they time
- 8:30left. You know, it's every year we picked Purdue and everybody talks about
- 8:33Purdue. Purdue is always when it comes to crunch time, that team falls.
- 8:39Now you know, I have them every year. It seems like Elite
- 8:43eight, Final four, sometimes winning the national championship. It seems I cannot
- 8:46do it this year. It's it's every year that that team, for some
- 8:50reason, uh just continues to do just continues to screw that up. Yes,
- 8:56to screw that up. But anyway, when talking about slight Sunday is
- 9:00tomorrow we're talking about. I've pulled up Joe Lonardi. I generally like him
- 9:05over Jerry Palm. I wanted to talk about last four in Oklahomas on his
- 9:11last four enlist. Now I can see that. Yeah, finished one,
- 9:15they lost one game in non conference, but then just petered o onon seven
- 9:18games in the Big Twelve and has petered at the end. I mean,
- 9:22really won that overtime game against Cincinnati and then the other three that they lost
- 9:28and have looked bad doing it. Obviously, injuries have hurt have hurt us.
- 9:33Now hopefully ou doesn't get into some sort of play in game to be
- 9:39in there. That concerns me a little bit. Excuse me. I more
- 9:43think they're probably going to be about a ten seed. Well, the last
- 9:45time I saw they were projected at a ten. That's correct. Now if
- 9:48they get in eleven, then you're looking at a play in game. Joe
- 9:52Lovardi's got them playing Virginia. He's also got Saint John's New Mexico, which
- 9:58would be interesting because that would be Fall and Son Beatinos playing each other in
- 10:03a planing game. Yes, I'm gonna win now. Saint John's had a
- 10:05fairly good run into the tournament, you know, into and they lost today
- 10:11who they lose too short, Connecticut. They lost to Connecticut and the Big
- 10:15East Tournament, which Connecticut is probably I know they're one seed, they're probably
- 10:20second or third seed. I would think. Overall, I'm trying to remember
- 10:24I saw this Nebraska made it to the title game first time. Yeah,
- 10:28that was women, and Nebraska women is going to be really good this year.
- 10:31But I thought Nebraska men making the semi final tonight. Obviously they lost
- 10:37Illinois, but I thought that's a good run for former Iowa State coach.
- 10:41You can't think of his name, I Drew Blank, Bruce Springsteen. No,
- 10:45that's not it, but anyway, that's probably what good win for them.
- 10:48Let's talk about the Big twelve then. While while we're talking about oh
- 10:50you being a last end out, we'll move to Big twelve real quickly.
- 10:54The first twelve is projected it four first out would be set in all Indiana
- 11:00State, Pittsburgh, and Providence. I think Pittsburgh should probably get in.
- 11:03Also former OU coach coaching there that would be Jeff Caple. And then the
- 11:09next four out is Kansas State, Wake Forest, Oregon, and NC State.
- 11:11Kannas State shouldn't be in there because of their non conference wasn't near as
- 11:16good as OU's even though their Big twelve record was somewhat similar. So and
- 11:20then the last four buys, which was not a play in game, would
- 11:24be Colorado State A and m TCU in Michigan. State. Of course,
- 11:28Michigan State's gonna get that. Love, just do that. Yes, the
- 11:31Big twelve is projected to have nine in that would include the play in game.
- 11:35SEC would be eight, Big Ten, Mountain West six, Big East,
- 11:39acc Fact twelve. Then you got the American, the West Coast Conference,
- 11:45which I assume they're gonna be talking about Saint Mary's and Gonzaga, and
- 11:48then the Atlantic Ten also getting two in. So anyway, can't wait for
- 11:52Mark. It's gonna be a big day. It's gonna be some bit of
- 11:56pins and needles for OU fans tomorrow. As far as the basketball, per
- 12:00gram both program, well, no, the women are in are women are
- 12:03probably going to get about a three to four seed. Do you see the
- 12:05SEC women's title game, the brawl, Yeah, it's pretty good. Well,
- 12:11I mean well the one girl's brother coming out, he's arrested, as
- 12:16he should be. I mean why, I don't know why. It wasn't
- 12:18like that right, everything was finished and he just jumps the table there and
- 12:24just runs out. But uh uh, unless you's coach was just I'm not
- 12:30a fan of her. I'm not a fan of her style. She dresses
- 12:33like she's on the Golden girl. Now if she coached your team, because
- 12:39no, I can hate my other than that than coach she didn't like.
- 12:46I didn't like whend we hired Cable was either okay, so I didn't like
- 12:52him when they hired him. So don't tell me that, you know,
- 12:54if she's your your team's coach. He'd always been recruiting wars and then yeah,
- 12:58never well and it was funny. It was funny was that assistant coach
- 13:03was the better coach for VCU because he ended up taking the team back to
- 13:09the repeatedly back to the to the dance. And but yeah, when she
- 13:15said you know you're lucky, Angel Reese was wasn't out there, I'm like,
- 13:18I don't can we can we stopped like insinuating fights and say, hey,
- 13:24it was wrong on both sides. There shouldn't be any fighting. It's
- 13:30it's I mean, she has to make sure she's got Angel Reese mentioned it
- 13:35was was was even you know out there, So it was it was something
- 13:39that just confused me. And I'm just every day I just don't like her
- 13:45face faces getting there. But for the women, I was going to come
- 13:52in as the heavy favorite to repeat, and I know Katelyn Clark. Kaitlyn
- 13:56Clark's got I know how Carolina is too, but but you know, I
- 14:01was looking to avenge their loss from last season, so they're gonna be playing
- 14:09hard. They lost the championship. Yeah, yeah, they lost l SUH.
- 14:13That's where we got by U Barbie from. So that's my ladies basketball,
- 14:22men's basketball. We're done. We're good. You have any more?
- 14:24Yeah, I just I worry about I worry about OU in their seating.
- 14:30I'd like them not to be a play in team obviously, because that's just
- 14:33an extra game. They're gonna have to play seventy. Pretty well, you
- 14:35know, I say, they probably fall and are they healthy? And are
- 14:39they healthy? I don't know what's going on with the team. Yeah,
- 14:41I honestly don't, but yeah, I can see them. They might fall
- 14:46to the twelve, but they're right now they're projected as a ten because of
- 14:52their non conference wins and in the conference they played in. Well, Jerry
- 14:56Palm's got him at ten, narn He's got him eleven being a play ten
- 15:00to eleven. But yeah, that's that's about what it was, so so
- 15:03essentially before we get into football, because as far as NFL, because that's
- 15:07what we're going to close on. And we've got how long are we in?
- 15:09We're in fourteen minutes in. We could talk for an hour and a
- 15:11half. The Yeah, well that's what That's what I said. But I
- 15:15want to bring up one more thing. Baseball season starting swim. I want
- 15:18to bring up one more thing. If you didn't pay attention that OU football
- 15:22lost but we lost Nicks. Yeah, he was, but he wanted to
- 15:28be a two sport guy. Still might come back, but I don't know.
- 15:31He wanted to play basketball, so I think I wouldn't. I think
- 15:35there were some issues with Porter mos. Remember there's a lot of rumors of
- 15:37him going to to Paul. Chris Holtman got that job, which I thought
- 15:39for de Paul was a great hire because I thought Ohio State Chris Holtan's a
- 15:43really good coach. Right and then on Beach State fires there head coach after
- 15:46seventeen seasons, right before they're going to the championship game. What about he's
- 15:52not coaching it. I know I got off the subject. You football finished
- 15:56up, but hold on, No, I want to think about the biggest
- 15:58job openings Michigan. I'm for basketball, Yes, they finally they got rid
- 16:03of they good. Yes, yes, and that man was a menace.
- 16:08Well, I mean, how many times have we seen former coaches or i'm
- 16:12sorry, former players come in and they just can't coach. Some of them
- 16:15just can't do it. Magic Johnson, I mean I'm missing he was a
- 16:22really good one. He really was good one. You know. The good
- 16:23thing about Larry though, is they I hold on, They give him a
- 16:27lot of availability as far as getting to pick the players too. So do
- 16:33you know whenever, whenever that television series came out about Magic Johnson and all
- 16:38them and you know, the Rise of the Rise of the Lakers. Okay,
- 16:45so a lot of stories started coming out at that time about about Larry
- 16:51Bird and how he was. I didn't realize this man was that vicious.
- 16:56I didn't realize that he. I always saw Larry Bird is just is just
- 17:00a guy that loved to play basketball, guy like yeah, no, no,
- 17:03that man was an animal drinker. He could know he was the pictures
- 17:11he's got the old Milwaukee like kids. Yeah. He uh, he was
- 17:17a partier. And I didn't realize that he was a beast, that big
- 17:19of a beast on the basketball court too. Just just angry. People didn't
- 17:26like going against him, and he would make people pay for, you know,
- 17:29fouling him. So that's that's it. Michigan possible candidates this according to
- 17:36CBS Sports, Uh, Mitch Henderson. Uh, he's an a modern guy.
- 17:41So that could be why Jamie Dixon from TCU, that's in odd picture.
- 17:48I think he's gonna stay. I love Anthony Grant from Dayton. I've
- 17:49always thought that guy, you know, was assistant with Billy Donovan at Florida.
- 17:55I think he was the Alabama coach for a while. They got rid
- 17:57of him pretty quick into that he was one hundred and seven. He was
- 18:00one hundred and seventeen and eighty five at Alabama, so it's not like that
- 18:03was a bad record and speaking Alabama and they signed a big contract extension for
- 18:08Alabama. Oh, I'm surprised they wouldn't deriseed from Drake. Obviously, mid
- 18:15major program has done really well. Brian Detcher from San Diego State not done
- 18:18as well. I mean, I can't believe he's been there that long and
- 18:25he's telling hell he was the one that had the final four last dress shit
- 18:27and struggled a little bit this year. But overall record on hundred and seventy
- 18:30four and fifty six. He's also a well, college basketball is crazy.
- 18:34He was with Steve Fisher when Steve Fisher. College basketball is crazy anyway,
- 18:38because you don't keep those guys for more than he may if you can get
- 18:41them to come Dusty Mason. But see, wouldn't Juwan Howard And let me
- 18:45segue into that OSU coach. So we talked about you know the hot name
- 18:51right now and before we get to you salaries, since I got we were
- 18:55on football. But but no, I'm gonna go back and then finish up
- 18:56with football because I forgot about os U. Locally, Oklahoma State fired their
- 19:00coach. Yea nobody, but I just don't ever think about So it's the
- 19:06the name that's being mentioned right now obviously is is uh. I know they
- 19:10have the first five time wrestling champion, what they're the first five time Big
- 19:15twelve wrestling champion, Doug Gottlieb. Obviously do is the one being mentioned right
- 19:22now. So let me ask you that so fight that guy in college.
- 19:26No, so we're going to chance, So what do you think about him
- 19:30being the coach? I don't care, I really don't care. I don't
- 19:33like Doug Gottlieb. I never like Doug Gottlieb as a player. I didn't
- 19:37like Doug Gottlieb as as a commentator. So I just want to like good
- 19:41gotlig It's fine, okay, So what would you think about him being the
- 19:47coach? I wouldn't care. So to be honest, I don't care.
- 19:52Let him come in. I think they should let him come in and do
- 19:55what he's gonna do. And he's gonna try to run it like Eddie money
- 19:59and and uh okay, so here's it. It's not gonna work out in
- 20:02the way that he thinks. Okay, So that I kind of I think
- 20:03basketball has changed from the time that he played to now Toty gree but he's
- 20:08never been a coach, so I can That's what I'm saying. But all
- 20:11that's change. They don't need to go I mean, do they need coaches?
- 20:14I mean, can't you just have your assistance? I mean, I
- 20:15mean coach, I mean kind of. I like the Doug Gottlieb deal simply
- 20:18for one thing, O s U is a hard place to coach at obviously,
- 20:23yeah, because of Edie Well, because that's and and everybody's had to
- 20:29live up to the legacy of Eddie Sutton and I but Eddie before so what
- 20:33so Eddie was a kind of you know, he had some issues before he
- 20:36took over, you know, obviously at Kentucky. So they brought him in
- 20:40and they took a chance on him. But generally the people that have done
- 20:42well at O shu iba Eddie have been O s U guys, So it
- 20:47kind of makes sense that that he that he would bring him in even though
- 20:51he doesn't have any coaching experience, but he's building a program, he's gonna
- 20:53bring people in. Interesting stat though, O s U Oklahoma State player of
- 20:59the Basketball Player of the Year is the mont Naughty Kid from O s U,
- 21:03which used to play Brian Brian no I said the Oklahoma State I meant
- 21:08not Oklahoma state Oklahoma, as in the state player of the Year the state
- 21:14of Oklahoma was the mont Naughty Kid. Remember if you remember Brian Montinnaughty,
- 21:21I think Brian's his first name. Was it Brian that played with Doug at
- 21:25os U back in the day, So that connection is there not. O
- 21:30Isshue Owasso won their first male basketball state championship this year with that kid leading
- 21:37them, So anyway, there's some connection there could get him. He's uncommitted
- 21:44as of right now, but I mean, you see how that plays.
- 21:47But the firing of Jwan Howard hurts of Doug Gottlieb's chances. I think because
- 21:56Juan Howard never really coached much got the job because of his name. You're
- 22:00talking about player coach, come in, who think built a program? Bring
- 22:03him in? But who's Memphis coach? Now? He did Hardaway did some
- 22:08coaching in with the AAU, Yes he did. He did before he came
- 22:11over. Agreed, agreed. But I think it hurts Doug not really having
- 22:18that coaching experience because you look at Juan Howard. I mean, they took
- 22:22a picture of the senior night at Michigan and I bet there was less than
- 22:30a thousand people. It was bad, and I meant a lot of them
- 22:33people were up, you know, up in the stands, so electrrible it
- 22:37turned. They turned on him pretty quickly. Anyway, Dusty May seems to
- 22:41be the favorite Florida Atlantic coach. Took their team to the Final four last
- 22:45year. He probably is gonna get the Michigan job. Maybe. I don't
- 22:48think somebody like that's gonna get the o s U job of that caliber.
- 22:52Uh. Ironically, Travis Ford, who left who got fired from os U,
- 22:56got fired this year from Saint Louis. He's been there the whole time
- 23:00since then. The Boyton has been there. So anyway, all right,
- 23:03let's move on real quick. I want to talk about, oh you football
- 23:06salaries that got announced this year that I'm sorry announced this last month. Yeah,
- 23:11salary increases seth theatreil one point one million. Joe John Finley got bumped
- 23:18obviously, he's co offensive coordinator nine hundred thousand. New defensive coordinator Zach Ally's
- 23:22going to start out at eight hundred and fifty thousand. Jayvili seven, we
- 23:26do we did well in the LCC. He's gonna get bumped, correct.
- 23:29Now here's where you see the two big ones that I noticed that moved was
- 23:33obviously Bates moved to eight hundred thousand dollars, which he should. And Bill
- 23:37beid Boat cracked that one boat. He cracked the one million dollar mark when
- 23:42it comes to that, So congratulations, Oh you coaches got raises seven point
- 23:47eight three million dollars? Is the assistant pool for Oklahoma? Where do you
- 23:52think that ranks in the Big twelve. I'm sorry, sec my bad.
- 23:55Probably number five, little high, little lower. They were ranked number seven,
- 23:59but not bad. I mean that wasn't bad. I thought that wasn't
- 24:02bad. I mean, come out. But you've also got rumors of Texas
- 24:04A and M wanting to leave for the Big ten, and those rumors keep
- 24:07growing. They're scared because they Texas. Yeah, they just don't want to
- 24:12be with Texas. And I've seen people come out everywhere. I've seen people
- 24:17come out with I don't think there's no legitimate hold on. I've seen people
- 24:21come out with just making the n cuble A look like the NFL and breaking
- 24:26it into quadrants. And they keep taking Texas A and M and stacking them
- 24:30with Texas no matter what. Of course, well yeah they're going to they
- 24:33want that rivalry to happen again, and A and M. I don't understand
- 24:37what's up with the regions. They got alcoves so they've got a better chance
- 24:41of winning now. Uh. They they have the money, they just can't
- 24:47get over the home. And then they keep running from Texas. Why why
- 24:52I keep running from Texas? I don't I don't understand it. But also
- 24:57yet oh, you is in the running for two four star wide receivers.
- 25:03Yeah, I mean they are looking good for twenty five right now. Well,
- 25:07I mean we lost the next kid, but like you know, he
- 25:10had not lost per se. I really think that there's Vincent murmur that the
- 25:15Porter Mosher drama had kind of worried him. But I don't think. I
- 25:19don't think. I don't know he's not and I don't I don't think.
- 25:22I don't think anybody's worried about this kid because he's a wide receiver and a
- 25:27loaded wide receiver class. So I'm not concerned about that, but love to
- 25:33have him because he's got quite the skills. And I actually be honest,
- 25:37I think he'd be the football player yeah they need, and with him coming
- 25:41in playing football and basketball, he would actually stay on that team longer,
- 25:45correct. I mean, even if he left after the third year to go
- 25:49play basketball, we'd still have him for three years because he'd be deciding what
- 25:55he wants to do. Look at Kyler Murray, Kyler stayed. Kyler could
- 25:57have gone to the Oakland A's and he ended up coming back and making more
- 26:03money in the NFL because what he was making more he had made more money
- 26:08coming back than uh snaky Riley. So what else we got? That's it.
- 26:19Let's move to the big going, big talk. All right, are
- 26:22we gonna do the free agency first, and we're gonna just go ahead and
- 26:25work talk there agency, because we're gonna have a little bit of repeats,
- 26:27you know when we talk about it. I didn't take you said, I
- 26:30didn't take any notes because of how crazy the first day of free agency was.
- 26:37Oh my, oh my, oh my, it's been the best,
- 26:41and it's been fast. You know, generally they stretched this ship out for
- 26:44so you watched you watched literally the running back market go crazy for a minute.
- 26:52At one point, Josh Jacobs and Aaron Jones were on the same team
- 26:55and they were trying to reconstruct Aaron Jones's contract and he was really to do
- 27:00it, and they're like, oh, you're done. Do you really think
- 27:03that was the truth? Though? I thought this bullshit. No, I
- 27:04really think he was trying to restructure. I don't. I just don't.
- 27:08I just don't. And then you got what eck, I mean he's talking
- 27:11about the bag. I mean, you talk about you talking about running backs?
- 27:14Right, So that's what we started. So Austin Eckler ends up,
- 27:17he goes from the Chargers to the Commanders. That's correct. The Bears pick
- 27:22up Swift, love that Swift loved it, because that's only that was Like
- 27:27Jacobs leaves the Raiders and goes to the Yeah for four years forty eight million,
- 27:33which I thought's a little high for Jacobs myself, but he's still he
- 27:37still goes to the Packers. Yes, uh, Devin Singletary leaves and ends
- 27:41up, and I didn't even have him on my list. Well, he
- 27:44leaves and he goes to the Giants, and then of course Sequon Barkley leaves
- 27:52and goes to I was just talking about the Big Time did well, well,
- 27:56this is what happened. This, This was what happened at all.
- 28:00But Eckler was two years eleven million. Baron goes to listen to that.
- 28:06Listen that two years eleven million. Okay, okay, Now let's now go
- 28:10back to what the Giants gave left and they let Barkley go to the Eagles.
- 28:17That's correct, and that was a three year thirty seven million, two
- 28:22years eleven, three year thirty seven I'm not I'm not so sold that that
- 28:26the Commanders didn't get the better deal. I know Eckler's been hurt, but
- 28:29so is Barkley. Barkley didn't play well. All these running backs have had
- 28:32have have Barkley's had the swift. I think Swift is the only one that
- 28:36really has not had three years twenty have not really had the I don't even
- 28:41I don't even put single Aaron j Now, I don't even put and I
- 28:45thought that was agreed, great pickup too well, but you know who really
- 28:48got left out of that Dallas Cowboys. Well, speaking of Dallas Cowboys,
- 28:55Tony Pollard went to the Giants, Well, they just cut well and they
- 28:59cut you. Tony Derrick Henry goes to the Ravens and they just cut Gallop
- 29:06and uh and vander Esh going to be a retiring You're looking at teams.
- 29:11You're looking at teams that are just dismantling. I know that, and I
- 29:18know that the Chargers restructure Bosa and uh and and Matt are we are we
- 29:23moving into that yet, because you're moving in out of position. Now we're
- 29:26done talking about running backs. Well, I'm just saying I'm just saying the
- 29:30whole dismantling of the team. But but there was no running. Zach Moss
- 29:36left to go to the Bengals because they sent Mixing to the Texans. Yeah,
- 29:41Joe mix I thought, well, I thought they cut him, and
- 29:42then they were gonna cut they were gonna cut him, and then they ended
- 29:45up trading him. And I thought, man, you know, we'll talk
- 29:49about it as we go, probably next week or two, about who won
- 29:52off on pavement out of what Mixing is, what's seven years? He's had
- 29:59four thousand yards and he had a thousand year season last season. But I
- 30:03think it, like I've told you before, I think it's you're you're starting
- 30:06to look at the Bengals window disappearing. Oh, there's a lot of teams.
- 30:11Well, there's a hard window. We'll talk about that a little bit,
- 30:14not just because the Dolphins. Well, the Dolphins one of the teams
- 30:15we're talking about. They just mentled their whole defense. Yeah, and then
- 30:18they brought some they're trying to get. They're trying to get a wide receiver
- 30:25right now, Tony Derrick Henry two years, sixteen million dollars. You talk
- 30:29about the eight million dollars running backs, probably the best deal. Even though
- 30:33I like Swift long term, I like the I like the short term for
- 30:37the raid. Henry hasn't had much injury. He hasn't, No, he
- 30:41really hasn't, and so and and they've ranked him and and the problem is
- 30:45is he's kind of ranked low. I mean, they've got Josh j which,
- 30:48hey, don't get me wrong, Oklahoma's own Josh Jacobs is a hell
- 30:51hell of a running back. But I kind of wonder, you know.
- 30:53And and they're looking like they're getting Dylan back. The Packers also pending a
- 30:59physical the backup. No is that his first name? I can't. Yeah.
- 31:04And but as far as the running as far as the running backs,
- 31:11far as the running backs sake, one has the top. And and not
- 31:15that I'm saying that's bad. I mean the Eagles have have signed. I
- 31:18mean they've got the Eagles have got some players. But now you've got the
- 31:21Eagles looking at Let's just talk about the Eagles real quick, because you know,
- 31:25and we'll and we can migrate to you talking about quarterbacks. Let go
- 31:30a bird Baird ended up on the Bears. Well, no, just I
- 31:33mean, just the Eagles. You think about them. The problem last year
- 31:37was was some defensive problems so too, but now you've got Barkley coming in.
- 31:41Everyone's like, great, but you've got Jason Kelcey. He's off the
- 31:42line. The line's still getting and getting older, and and so you look
- 31:51at that. Did they get any better? Yeah, Barkley obviously, if
- 31:53he stays healthy, is going to be better. I mean, they're obviously
- 31:56improving from what Dallas has done. Well, they just moved sideways on the
- 32:00run game. They didn't they I think is better than Swift. There's no
- 32:07doubt about that that he is healthy though. That's the one that they that
- 32:12concerns me. But but then you turn around and I know that, but
- 32:15look at their quarterbacks. So they brought Kenny Pickett in and traded Kenny Pickett.
- 32:21So they got for Kenny Pickett, they got a third round and two
- 32:23seventh round picks. Uh for Kenny Pickett, the Steelers did. They got
- 32:29the twenty twenty fourth third round and then uh in two seventh round pricks and
- 32:34then and then I think Seattle moving in Kenny Pickett. I was very confused
- 32:37by that. I was like, well, are you gonna because they had
- 32:39already got Russell? I mean, but are you gonna let Russ? Because
- 32:43they lost Mason Rudolf Mason. Rudolph left to go Titans Tennessee. Yes,
- 32:46correct, So is okay? So you bring Russ in? You want Russ?
- 32:51Uh, you want Russ to teach Picket, which would have been what
- 32:54you would have wanted, you would think, you would think, but apparently
- 32:58that was not in the in the car. But then agains sideways that now
- 33:01breaking news. Just while before we started justin Fields has now gone to the
- 33:05Steelers for nothing. Okay, so the Steelers get get they get more for
- 33:12Picket than they did for Fields. All they give up for Fields is a
- 33:15fifth round pick and a fourth round if he plays fifty one percent? Well,
- 33:20why the fuck would Ryan Poles think that that's gonna happen when Russell only
- 33:23because of injury that Russell Wilson has already is already brought in. No,
- 33:29but that Ryan sign I haven't okay? Uh? That that right? That
- 33:35that Russell's not going to play more than fields. Obviously, that's how that's
- 33:38gonna be set up. Now his fields a long term. He's gonna have
- 33:42to re sign after his rookie con Well, they've only okay, so they've
- 33:45only gone four point five million. Hold on now, Russ great because you
- 33:47got him on the cheap. No, no, it's so so we're still
- 33:51paying the thirty eight. You're only paying him like one point five point two
- 33:53million. Four point five million for both quarterbacks is all that the Steelers have.
- 34:00I'm not downing the Steelers moving this at all. I think the Steelers
- 34:02have had one of the best free I think getting Queen from the the Ravens
- 34:07was one of the best pickups that linebacker. For one, you get him,
- 34:09he's an absolute stud a linebacker. In two, you get him out
- 34:13of your number one you know rivalry the Baltimore Ravens, and your in your
- 34:19own division. So but fourth round, if he plays fifty one percent,
- 34:22he's not going to unless it's an injury. And then what's the plan later
- 34:25or are they just going to try to get somebody else? Or is even
- 34:30Pittsburgh gonna try to draft. I don't know what they're gonna do. I
- 34:32mean, they're you went from Kenny Pickett to and you met Mitchell Trubisky,
- 34:37Kenny Pickett and uh Rudolph. Now you've got Russell Wilson and you've got fields
- 34:45And like I said, they only spent four point five million dollars and only
- 34:47give up a fifth round pick to get him, and obviously one point two
- 34:52million dollars to get Russell after as a free agent after christ Denver never should
- 34:57have loved Buffalo. I don't know what to do. He's back, Yeah,
- 35:00I know, he never should have left. Yeah, and you've got
- 35:05teams that are dismantling. Dallas is pretty much dismantling. Well, Dallas is
- 35:08not really dis I mean, hey, what do you have Now? You
- 35:10have a wide receiver one, and you have a quarterback, and you've got
- 35:15and you've got one of the top saved Parsons. You got Parsons, You
- 35:20still got partials however you want to play him, but it's safety. You've
- 35:24still got Bowden Mouden now you're thinking of and he yeah the giggsis there no,
- 35:30the kid that had an interception, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 35:36there's Grade D. The Jets, I don't know what the hell is
- 35:39going on with them. Well, they speaking of Dallas, they signed Tyrone
- 35:44Smith uh, a very incentive latent contract for him. But you know they
- 35:47also got Moses us As if you want to talk to me, that's one
- 35:51of our you know. They they got Solomon Thomas and they got Morgan Moses,
- 35:59so Thomas they kept defense and then Morgan Monas Moses they signed for another
- 36:01offensive line. So that was the weakness that they had last year, besides
- 36:06quarterback. That was the weakness last year. But then you know, you
- 36:08turn around and talking about chrgo goes on a Ranger. Chargers also the one
- 36:15dismantling right now. Yeah, Chargers are dismanned. Well, Dolphins are dismantling
- 36:19their entire d we'll talk about them on the East yet. But but so
- 36:22the Bears get Keenan Allen to go along with DJ Moore fourth round pick for
- 36:27a fourth round pick, and then you get you get o line. Guys.
- 36:31I know that ebra Fluvis got got a couple of the old Colts guys.
- 36:37Uh, there was another cat. Hey, I'm not I'm not disagribed.
- 36:44I think the Bears had won the best offense. They did, Yes,
- 36:45they did. They bunter their dy, they bolted their d getting bird,
- 36:50they got, they got mister Simon ba. They re signed Jalen Johnson
- 36:53obviously, they they signed Swift, got a backup Mark do you want to
- 36:57commit Mark Ripping? They end Everett and then Shelton that that was the that
- 37:05was the center from I believe the Rams correct they signed this, I think
- 37:08so. Yes, Yeah, Shelton was the Rams. But I think they
- 37:14just blew it on the Fields deal. They waited either too long, well
- 37:20that's because Kirk Cousins, or they did or they didn't wait longer. Kirk
- 37:22Cousins is the new JA Cutler, that's all I know. He's better than
- 37:25j Cutler. No, he's not. He is how many how many postseason
- 37:30windsesday they both have. I don't want one. But you know the thing,
- 37:34I thought the Vikings he can throw, I mean Jakeller could throw.
- 37:37I thought I thought the Vikings won that. Obviously. Daxton, my son
- 37:40is a huge Vikings fan. He was pretty depressed that he left. But
- 37:43I told him, I said, I said, spin it in a different
- 37:45realm. Now, you don't have to spend all that money on Kirk.
- 37:49You can get other pieces, uh to that team. Now here's my concern.
- 37:53Minnesota's already started to get that one trade they traded with Houston to get
- 38:00they give up a second for last year, but they moved another one into
- 38:02the first round. Traded they did, but they moved into the first round
- 38:07twice. Now my concern is is they're gonna get greedy and try to go
- 38:10move up and get a quarterback. If they're smart, they'll wait right there,
- 38:15because I think they're going to get a quarterback, whether it be Nicks
- 38:19or Phoenix the fall. I think one of those two quarterbacks are going to
- 38:25fall. Enough j He's gonna go high. Everyone's in love with him.
- 38:30I'm thinking, I'm thinking he's a late third rounder. But hey, let's
- 38:32go back to the Chargers for a little bit. Looking at they've made a
- 38:36lot of moves. Obviously, they restructured. We started talking about mac Bosa.
- 38:38Remember we talked about last week or two weeks ago, how the top
- 38:42five of those those to those team teammates had like the top seven of drafts,
- 38:47drugs, cats, suckers, william cut. Yeah, so they've cut
- 38:52Williams, they got rid of and then they restructured mac and Bosa. So
- 38:57they've got so let me let me ask you this, is it possible.
- 39:00Could you see a possible trade to Herbert? I? Yeah, I mean
- 39:07they're picking at what right now, they're picking at five. What if you
- 39:13traded what if you traded Washington or the Patriots and give them Herbert and then
- 39:20take that. So now you're at that hold on. Now let's say you're
- 39:25two three, and then you're at five season quarterback and and and the other
- 39:30trade is they don't get that first round pick that stays with you, they
- 39:34don't get any pigs, and you want next year's first round pick from them.
- 39:37Would you do it for Herbert? Yeah? Yeah, Now would you
- 39:43do it for if you're San Francis or San Diego? Just say, Harball's
- 39:47coming in. It's going to be a run heavy offense, gonna focus on
- 39:52the D. So what couldn't that be. I'm I'm I'm confused by what's
- 39:57going on with what Harbaugh is going to bring in and who Harball is going
- 40:00to bring in. You know, we all know that, yes, he's
- 40:04going to be stout on D. He's going to try to get younger,
- 40:07younger linebackers. So i'm their first pick is probably going to be defense,
- 40:12yeah, or you're gonna look at running back or no, they won't do
- 40:15running back. Bowers has been listed, but then he starts to move down,
- 40:19so you're looking at maybe Curse from Florida State defensive tackle, somebody like
- 40:23that that might but JJ McCartney's love as you can see that for Harbor,
- 40:30Well, how much further do you have to drop? Because now you're looking
- 40:34at what's the Bears do at number nine? Couldn't they get a trade up
- 40:38or something to that nature, you know what I mean. Then you're looking
- 40:42at them being able to stay out of the basement. It's probably Zach,
- 40:49So then you can look at them being being that person that at number nine.
- 40:54Could the Bears maybe they could trade down if you're looking at somebody want
- 41:00to move up for a quarterback? Yeah, because I don't know, because
- 41:02we had them projected at, you know, at least a wide receiver and
- 41:07an offensive guy. But now the Bears don't need the wide receiver. They
- 41:09don't need well I would still kind of take one maybe later, but they're
- 41:14not. Now they're taking Williams obviously, and then what do they do at
- 41:16nine? Now they're going to take defense or or they're gonna take the offensive
- 41:22line. That's that's what they were project but here that was my point.
- 41:25Trade down you get offensive line. A little bit later, maybe you start
- 41:30to see some of those teams. I don't know, can you get that
- 41:32mulleted white boy? Hey? But but Herbert being traded is not out of
- 41:37the realm, to be honest, at this point, nothing's out of the
- 41:39realm for any team. Well, I think one thing is no one thing
- 41:45we need. He's now the guy in at the Raiders in Oakland. Yeah,
- 41:51Las Veggas, Yes, he's the man there. Now seeing where do
- 41:53they pick Sean? They're probably fifteen to seventeen thirteen, Okay, little hired.
- 41:59I thought, so, see they're going to be in play. Maybe
- 42:01a Poenix comes in there. I mean, the draft is gonna be nuts
- 42:05this year. One of the guys said. The movements that happened were just
- 42:08so chaotic in the first day, and then I kept seeing stuff yesterday and
- 42:14I was there this morning and I was like, why are all these highlights
- 42:15of Aaron Donald's coming up retirement? And he ended up retiring. So,
- 42:20like we said, for the Rams, they need D. Well, when
- 42:22I really need d I think that. I think another team that did well
- 42:28as far as quarterback play is no one is really talking about Joe Flacco going
- 42:30to the Colt was with the Colts and why why why well you got you
- 42:37got a backup plan to Richardson who looks like look like I mean the ship.
- 42:43To be honest, he probably better look better than we believed. Potentially
- 42:47in his as he was going, he could have potentially challenged Stroud for the
- 42:52Rookie of the Year on the offensive side. Not saying you would have,
- 42:54because Stroud's been a hell of a hell of a guy or a hell of
- 42:59a season, but I thought that was a good pick up by then.
- 43:02So left over now you got free agents still left available. Trent Brown.
- 43:07Trent Brown being out there is still probably will re sign with New England more
- 43:13than likely, is what it sounds like. Mike Williams obviously has a big
- 43:16salary, Uh cap, what's he gonna do? I thought Dallas might look
- 43:22at him. Honestly, Williams and uh Chase forty nine ers just seem to
- 43:30be replacing pieces. They're like, Okay, let this guy, We'll get
- 43:32this guy. Like they're moving, they're moving parallel, they're moving sideways.
- 43:37They should as they should because they're just they're just yeah, this guy out
- 43:42like speaking about it better. Was the Chiefs getting Hollywood Brown, I thought
- 43:45was a great pick Mark Brown going to you got the Chiefs, you got
- 43:49his speeds. All of a sudden, You've got a really good wide receiver
- 43:52there that scateling go yes, yes, and and guess what they could pick
- 43:59up Mike Williams good. I don't know what he's gonna do. And I
- 44:00didn't really, I mean, I hasn't. I have been so impressed.
- 44:04He's well, he's been injured too much reason. Yeah, his retirement,
- 44:07but oh o bj still guess who's back on the market. Odell Beckham Junior,
- 44:14the godsend of receivers. Oh wow, he's gonna signed late season,
- 44:21too much money, get kind again, and he's gonna he's gonna wait till
- 44:24the find a contender. Yeah, he's gonna hit Eagles probably I can.
- 44:30Oh, yeah, he's gonna He's gonna do no, Okay, possible.
- 44:37He's been giants, Brown's, uh Rams and uh Ravens this year on a
- 44:44local front and a personal front for me. Uh Tampa has knocked it out
- 44:47of the park. And our free agency also signed a lot of happier I
- 44:52was happy Baker resigned three years. I want to talk about this. Three
- 44:55years, hundred million dollars and everyone thinks that and goes, holy shit,
- 44:58look at that contract. You know, Carr and Jones will make forty million
- 45:01next year. That's what they're scheduled to make. Now. Baker's obviously contract
- 45:07is a little bit front loaded, so after three years, after that second
- 45:09year, the third years a lot of dead money, they can cut him.
- 45:12So he's got two years to prove himself, uh, to do something
- 45:15else. And then you got Mike Evans signing first ballot Hall of Fame Mike
- 45:19Evans wide receiver, got his guaranteed money. I think he think he got
- 45:24two years fifty two million and he got thirty million guaranteed. We got.
- 45:30Yeah, he got a front endloaded, so that one hit early. Now
- 45:34what they need to do for Tampa and then they brought Whitehead back and then
- 45:37they've signed most of their they need to still work on their offensive line,
- 45:39and then they've got some depth in Sander. I thought Tampa has been what
- 45:44Tampa. I thought Tampa Pittsburgh, those two teams stood and the Bears.
- 45:50Those three teams stood out to me. Washington and Washington. Washington Eagles got
- 45:53better, though I don't think they did something so great, but they got
- 45:58better within their conference to make them like Washington did what I right now,
- 46:01Washington's above Dallas. What do you think. So the quarterback right now and
- 46:05the only and the only thing that I mean, what's or who's your quarterback?
- 46:07They drafted a quarterback, you know, Daniel Hell got sys to Yeah,
- 46:12so they're gonna have to draft a quarterback there. Yeah. So obviously
- 46:15the number one and number two picks are setting up for obvious quarters. The
- 46:19top the top three is really setting up for and then Mac Jones. We
- 46:22didn't talk about getting getting jonesus Nolla backup to the Jags. His his uh
- 46:30what did he get? Fourteen behind him? Is that what he got draft?
- 46:32I think he's from there that they said he's from the jack Yeah,
- 46:35he's but he got drafted fourteen uh places behind thirteen fourteen places? Yeah,
- 46:40he was fourteen to seventeen Lawrence. Yeah, yeah, So but you know
- 46:45I'm not sold on Trevor Lawrence. Oh god. And you also know and
- 46:49you also know that I joked about the Eagles, although I say they did
- 46:52well, they now have two crappy quarterbacks two that I said that the Pickett
- 46:57Pickett has was never any good. That was your guy. And Hurts did
- 47:01not perform well. Hearts did not perform well last year. And we'll see
- 47:05what he does this year because the team wasn't nearest Hans, I think hands
- 47:08are bigger on his baby. All right, let's get to the NFC East
- 47:13and the needs that are there for so uh so far uh in New England
- 47:19they need everything. Well wide receiver they got, they got. They re
- 47:22signed Born. Yes, Bourne was a good resign. I think he's pretty
- 47:27good actually, But other than that, they to me they and they kept
- 47:30Henry too tighty the time. I liked him too. He's not bad.
- 47:34And the contract was on the cheap. It was three for twenty seven I
- 47:37think is what it was, three for twenty six or twenty seven. I
- 47:40don't think that was that was a bad deal and Bourne was good. But
- 47:44yeah, they're definitely gonna have to draft a quarterback. I think their defense
- 47:46was pretty good obviously last year. And I don't know, Sean. Who
- 47:52did they lose, but I'm thinking that there was there was and they did.
- 47:57They did resign for set To just to fill him in for one year
- 48:00eight million dollars as a backup. I forgot who. Well they've lost.
- 48:05I saw there was a big well, I mean they let Mac Jones go.
- 48:07Ezekiel Elity is still not re signed. I even watching the team last
- 48:15season, I know they did they did better in defense at times, but
- 48:21that defense is still not there. That's it's not the super Bowl winning defenses
- 48:24that they had correct. I mean they did caught a lot of guys too,
- 48:30And but for me, that whole team you need the whole team.
- 48:34Yeah, you don't have a run game, you don't you you have wide
- 48:38receivers. To be honest, I mean everything about it was right, even
- 48:44the coaching was. I mean that was a problem. I mean they just
- 48:45didn't care. I mean Belichick Jones coming into the season, I thought he'd
- 48:51have a pretty good year just simply because I thought that they'd be underlooked,
- 48:57undervalued. I thought he could sneak up and beat some teams. And I
- 49:00think they actually Sewan were one of the more teams that lost by more games.
- 49:04By it. I was surprised that they didn't try to, you know,
- 49:07get one of the available quarterbacks out there. They didn't, they didn't
- 49:12try to move on any of those guys. No. I think they've just
- 49:15I think they've set up and they're they're they're it. I mean they're drafting
- 49:19no matter what. I think they're gonna be draft on the whole team.
- 49:22Like I said that, there's so many holes in that in that offense.
- 49:24Now, what could be interesting is they could be trade material for the Herbert
- 49:29possibility. I thought Fields might be in play there, but maybe not obviously
- 49:34not now. But could you back down and get another draft pick and then
- 49:38still get a Knicks. Could you see Nicks going there? It seems like
- 49:42it fit that bottle. Arizona's got to in the first round, Chicago's got
- 49:45to in the first round. Yeah, Arizona's is low because I think they
- 49:49got was that the Houston one? I think so, I don't remember.
- 49:53Yes, they traded up. Remember Houston traded up with them to get Will
- 49:59Anderson. I believe Will Anderson junior. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
- 50:01think that's how that Yeah, it's I That's all I can say is New
- 50:08England Patriots need everything. Well I don't. I don't just talk about them
- 50:15Bills then Buffalo Bills. Well, Buffalo, Buffalo's dismantling their defense, and
- 50:22but do you think that was their defense? Were cap hits? They were?
- 50:24They really were, they really were. But I you know, then
- 50:30you look, you got Mitch Whisky, which I joke Yeah, that's just
- 50:32funny. He did well. He did well. They did re sign Poyer.
- 50:37You know you like Poyer. Oh they got they got him back.
- 50:39Yes, they did re sign him. Daikwon Jones they re signed and and
- 50:45they signed Curtis Samuel from Washington, which I mean, you want to look
- 50:49at their cap pit right now, you want to talk about money. Allen's
- 50:52a thirty Mili Digs is a twenty seven. Yeah, but that's their that's
- 50:57their two best players that they have. So I mean I didn't I don't
- 51:00find them that to be, you know. So they're just they're just gonna
- 51:04have to fill the holes on defense that they and they need a receiver they're
- 51:08gonna need. They got Curtis Samuel, not saying he's bona fide number two,
- 51:13but he's not bad but not bad. But still they're gonna need receiver.
- 51:19Run game. God, who do they have on run game? That
- 51:23was one thing I've said, Diggs wouldn't it. No, No, he's
- 51:28a receivers. Yeah, they did. They let him go. I'm not
- 51:36seeing Cooks on here at all. I was gonna see who they picked up.
- 51:43They won't let me show who they It's funny because some of these things
- 51:46won't show. Obviously Samuel did. Yeah, it's Curtis Samuel. He's at
- 51:55twenty four. Now. They got Gabriel Davis, that's the Oh. Yeah,
- 52:00did they resign Gabe? No, he went he went to Jacksonville.
- 52:02That's right, that's right. Yes, Leonard Floyd went to San Francisco,
- 52:07Yes, which I wish he was still Little Bears. Uh. They re
- 52:09signed Da Kwon Jones. Mitch Morris was interesting because I think that was more
- 52:15of just a money thing. I think because there's there's a lot of free
- 52:19agent lineman out there right now. Even Tampa's gonna need to get it as
- 52:22some lineman just to to have death. But I don't. I don't think
- 52:25they lost. I mean for what they lost, and I think you'll watch
- 52:29them. They'll draft a lot of defense. Well right, but they're gonna
- 52:31need a running back. Like I said, I'm not saying they're running.
- 52:37Their run game was it's always been their weakness. It was, it was.
- 52:40It was amazing. I can't see it go down. No, I
- 52:44don't think Cook was a free agent yet, like Ty Johnson, he was
- 52:47already there. No, I think it was Damian Harris and Otavius Murray.
- 52:55Well, right, but James Cook, James, Yes, that's correct.
- 53:05But he was he was hit and he was he was he was utilized very
- 53:09heavily, and then they would get away from him when they would lose the
- 53:13game for some reason, or it was just Josh Allen calling his own number
- 53:15eleven hundred yards rushing, so it wasn't I mean, I picked him up
- 53:21still, he had great games, and then they would just stop using him,
- 53:27and their offense looked horrible. I do wish You're right. They'd need
- 53:30some some better depth there, and the market was there, so I don't
- 53:35know. It's it was tough to I mean, I mean just looking at
- 53:37all of them, but I don't think that they got any worse because they've
- 53:39got their key pieces, kind of like we moved to the Jets. The
- 53:44Tyron Smith they signed from the Dallas Cowboys got they look good. I mean,
- 53:50they they were missing very few pieces. They've got core on each position.
- 53:55They seem to quarterbacks and bring in and replay well. They run in
- 54:01Tyron Taylor as a backup. They got. They got kin Law from the
- 54:07Niners that they got flow from from Arizona, which was good like I said,
- 54:15they've moved. They moved laterally as well. I don't they just need
- 54:21like another wide receiver because Tampa took two of their guys, Haul and Whitehead.
- 54:24Whitehead been But that was some debt there and and then. But I
- 54:30don't know. I mean you that front line that they've gone about, the
- 54:38offensive line, they do need secondary help and linebacker help they got. I'm
- 54:45thinking, I'm thinking of the Bills. I was going back to the Bills.
- 54:50They owe lines all they need, I promise you, And they need
- 54:52another wide receiver. They did they get anybody to help? What's his name?
- 54:59Why can't I think of his name? No wide receiver? What is
- 55:05the wide receiver from? I can't remember? God? You got you have
- 55:13to hold on brain freeze, hold on lizard. No, Oh, Gary
- 55:20Wilson, that's it. And seeing the Jets looked at Keenan Allen to oh,
- 55:27I know, yeah, I saw the Jets and uh Texans were in
- 55:30on that, and and I do I do think that. Yeah, it
- 55:36does look like Mike Williams is meeting with the Jets too. They didn't.
- 55:39I told you he's gonna He's gonna end up in the Tyler Boyd O'Dell and
- 55:43Scantling all met with them. They probably need two of those guys to be
- 55:46honest, Odell, you know, all right? Is it it? Yeah?
- 55:52That's it? What are the teams in Miami Dolphins? Oh boy,
- 55:57oh boy? Would they need defense? And they did, they did,
- 56:01They did. Shine signed Shack Barritt from Tampa. That was kind of a
- 56:05fill in as linebacker. But Christian Wilkins losing him was huge. Who lost?
- 56:12They've lost? Wilkins went to Vegas, which Vegas, Vegas quietly has
- 56:16built. I thought they overspent a little bit for Wilkins. But Vegas is
- 56:20problem. You know, we're not talking about Vegas per se. But their
- 56:22problem has been quarterback and interior line. You know, their edges have been
- 56:28great, and but the interior line and linebacker. But you know, I
- 56:31think that that that that Wilkins Wilkins is going to be a big loss.
- 56:36I just I just think they didn't want I don't think they wanted to spend
- 56:40the money on it was the problem. Now and Tyreek needs to calm down
- 56:44because he heard a big grill and now he's in something else. Yeah,
- 56:49what was what happened? Some sort of party your center? Yeah, he's
- 56:52getting out of him and he's starting to cause trouble. All right, what
- 56:57else we got? And the Smith pick up the tide in I thought was
- 57:00good, you know, because I mean, let's be honest, the tight
- 57:02ends for Brandon Jones with the Denver the tight ends or Miami was not that
- 57:07good. So are you are you leaving me? So you're gonna gonna pull
- 57:14up? I thought you could leave the mic on and you can pull a
- 57:15Pat McFee stand up and give me your just don't show your chevy arms.
- 57:21But anyway, oh I can't not arms. No. I thought Miami got
- 57:24worse. And the problem is is because they're so heavy built on offense,
- 57:29that they're going to have that money committed uh to them. So otherwise,
- 57:34we've talked about the Dolphins, We've talked about the Bills, we talked about
- 57:37the Patriots, and we've talked about the Jets. You know, last year
- 57:39we talked about how we picked uh those teams, and we and most of
- 57:44us picked Bills, Jets, Dolphins, Pats, and then some pick Bills
- 57:46and Dolphins. We kind of swapped that. Honestly, I don't I don't
- 57:50see any changes right now as far as that goes. As far as the
- 57:53total total division, when you break it down, I still think the Bills
- 57:59is no. Number one, Dolphins will be right there Number two. Jets.
- 58:02You haven't healthy Aaron Rodgers. He's going to They're going to be number
- 58:06two, and they could overtake Miami. There's no doubt about that because I
- 58:08think they've gotten better, especially on the offensive line. And I still think
- 58:12the Pats are gonna wind up in that fourth place. But it depends on
- 58:16the quarterback. I mean, me and Sean have talked about the wide or
- 58:22the quarterback play and what are they gonna do. Is Drake may the guy
- 58:24at the third pick in the NFL draft coming up next month? Is that
- 58:29a given or are they looking at trading or like we've talked about quarterbacks available.
- 58:34Is San Diego's Justin Herbert? Is he available? He seems to be
- 58:37the last one that's really not on the market, But it could be a
- 58:40potential because you see what Harball is doing, new coach Harbaugh and new GM
- 58:50for the the Chargers. What they're doing is they're essentially they've dumped a lot
- 58:54of cap space from the offensive side and they've restructured Mac and Bosa because that's
- 58:59the bread butter. And if you know Harball long enough and you've seen him
- 59:02what he done. I mean they went to the Super Bowl when Harball was
- 59:07there, play obviously played his brother and lost. And but you turn around,
- 59:12you see it was a run game and a defense and that's what he
- 59:15did in college. It's what he's going to put into that NFL landscape,
- 59:19so to get rid of the high dollar agents. And you know, Keenan
- 59:22Allen, they did ask him to take a pay cut, but you know,
- 59:24Keenan Allen's response was, hey, it was my best year I've had
- 59:28in the NFL. No, I'm not going to do that right now,
- 59:30selfish or not. When you're in the NFL, especially so key positions,
- 59:34you've got to take the money when you can get it. And obviously they
- 59:37traded him to the Bears, which is going to be a great pickup if
- 59:43Caleb Williams has enough time to throw the ball, because we've seen that be
- 59:46an issue. Why do we even need Caleb Williams? Well you do,
- 59:51now I'm standing up. No, you got it. No, I was
- 59:54just talking about you know what I was talking about the UH conference. I
- 1:00:00think it still says the same. Even with the changes, unless something dramatically
- 1:00:05gets different, I still think it's gonna be Bill's Dolphins Jets. Jets could
- 1:00:07overtake the Dolphins simply if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy. Defense was good last year.
- 1:00:15They got a running games obviously, and the Patriots still unless Herbert comes
- 1:00:19there, I can see them maybe moving. But you know, if Herbert
- 1:00:22or somebody like him to that stature, I don't think of Drake May right
- 1:00:25off, the bat is going to be able to bring that up. And
- 1:00:29you know, my I have my reservations about Drake May period. So he
- 1:00:37is the beast North Carolina quarterback. I don't know. We assume, Yeah,
- 1:00:38we've seen what happens North Carolina quarterbacks to come out Daniel Daniel Jones was
- 1:00:46Is he Carolina Daniel Jones, Duke same same state? Yeah, well it's
- 1:00:54you know, that's what it is. What do you think about the Kirk
- 1:00:58Cousins though we didn't really talk about Kirk, I mean he was the biggest.
- 1:01:00That man knows how to make money and he knows how to get paid.
- 1:01:05He's only got one playoff win and he knows how to get paid.
- 1:01:07If you look at his contract, was looking at the things he doesn't short,
- 1:01:10and they're smart, Yeah, because he's not getting bent on that back
- 1:01:14end where you don't get no money. But he's got on the coals cash.
- 1:01:16So the Vikings turn around and signed Sam Darnold for one, one year,
- 1:01:22ten million. That appears to be their starter, except I talked about
- 1:01:24earlier. They don't get desperate, is what I say to the Vikings.
- 1:01:30So just like I said about the Bears, and they didn't listen to Minnesota's
- 1:01:32got eleven and then I think they're at twenty go back down. I think
- 1:01:36they're twenty three, twenty four because yeah, they have the multiple. Yeah,
- 1:01:42and don't trade up and get Drake Maye. Don't trade up and even
- 1:01:45get Daniels, trade up and get Kaylor Williams. No, that's not gonna
- 1:01:49happen either. The Bears are stuck and now they have called their hand right
- 1:01:53off the bat, which either they should have done Fields first early or waited
- 1:01:58Field's drafting, you know, drafted everybody was thinking. But Caleb Williams doesn't
- 1:02:07bring anything. He he literally does not. Here's what Caleb. No,
- 1:02:12he does bring a few things. I'm gonna give you three things. Kayleb.
- 1:02:15Williams brings the Bears. He can, he can run backwards. He
- 1:02:19brings talent. He brings talent. He is a general running it's a generational.
- 1:02:27He throws better in fields. I'll give him credit for that accuracy.
- 1:02:29Now, however he runs backwards. However, you've seen him do some of
- 1:02:34those great throws in that running types kind of like fields, college, NFL
- 1:02:39not so different. I think he is more accurate, though. I think
- 1:02:43he brings some excitement. It's what the Bears need for some reason. I
- 1:02:46don't know why. But third, you know what it brings him. It
- 1:02:49brings Poles another year as his job at the general manager. No, nob
- 1:02:53it does well. I think, well, he's got two more years after
- 1:02:58this now because because he can say as well as a rookie. Not my
- 1:03:04problem. And I don't think he drafted fields. He didn't. He didn't.
- 1:03:07So, but Taylor Williams doesn't bring anything but red flags. Shawn's negative
- 1:03:13about Keylor Williams. I'm more positive. I don't think he's the best quarterback
- 1:03:16in the draft. I I don't know why I like Daniels so much because
- 1:03:22you watch him and he runs around a lot too, But I like the
- 1:03:23accuracy and he doesn't make a lot of mistakes. Forty touchdowns, four interceptions,
- 1:03:28and he played against SEC defenses. Well, you saw Milton. I
- 1:03:31just don't think that I saw Milton through them. I don't think. I
- 1:03:35don't think the PAC twelve defenses even compare to the SEC defense that they said.
- 1:03:38And I think that's what And even the Big twelve, even the one
- 1:03:40year. Don't bring up one year because you don't don't act like the pack
- 1:03:45the Big twelve. You gotta remember college defense and NFL defense are light years
- 1:03:52apart. Agreed, Totally greed. That's what I'm saying. A lot of
- 1:03:54those guys are faster. You're gonna try to get away from an edge who's
- 1:04:00three hundred and forty pounds, but guess what, that guy is quick.
- 1:04:03And we've seen that numerous times. The quarterback try to get away from an
- 1:04:06edge who's just right there on him, He's not going to be able to
- 1:04:10scramble, he's not gonna be able to run backwards. Take Phoenix, Just
- 1:04:14take Poenix, And I don't know if i'd take Daniels. I like his
- 1:04:18height, sixty four, got six to one. I mean I'm just saying
- 1:04:21everyone loves no I mean, and I just like, I like, and
- 1:04:26he played well in Arizona State too. I know he was more mobile,
- 1:04:29but I mean, you look at the touchdowns interception. I say, to
- 1:04:31think about it being to college's good college quarterback, but will that translate something
- 1:04:36about him? I just like, I just think that he's the guy.
- 1:04:41I just know he could he could be Franklin because we didn't think Franklin was
- 1:04:46going to translate, eh from Florida, Indianapolis's quarterback Richardson. Richards Franklin coach
- 1:04:56at Penn State. So I was like, that guy's Franklin. And he's
- 1:05:00only had a half a year. I mean, and he used his little
- 1:05:04hurt. But yes, but one of the best things for for young cornerbacks
- 1:05:10is going to the Colts right now because Stitchen, well just here here's from
- 1:05:17NFL. He says, possesses This is Daniels possessed the football intelligence, get
- 1:05:24himself predicted, and take care of the football accurate pastor over the first two
- 1:05:28levels. His weakness, though, is is the deep throws on the fast
- 1:05:30receivers. Now that's going to take a little time. Though he lacks ideal
- 1:05:34arm size. He lacks ideal size and arm talent, but he's more capable
- 1:05:39of as a runner and a pastor than most quarterbacks. And I'm not saying
- 1:05:42I want him to run saying about our favorite cornerback band on the on the
- 1:05:45market. He'll he'll be announced somewhere else and it better not be Tampa.
- 1:05:49But but so when I when I look at him, then then I like
- 1:05:57that about him because I simply the turnover. Now let's talk about uh,
- 1:06:02let's see hold one. He's gonna try to find Williams with. I mean
- 1:06:08that guy is accurate. That's what he's gonna be mobile. He tends to
- 1:06:11avoid being contact, and we're gonna have to switch it up a little bit.
- 1:06:14He's mobile in college to run around and try to run. Now it's
- 1:06:17not gonna have that, no I know. But now it's gonna be And
- 1:06:19Fields did the same thing. So it's gonna be interesting. But you know,
- 1:06:21the bad thing about it is is Caleb Williams is going to a better
- 1:06:25team than Fields is ever gonna have. That's the problem that I see.
- 1:06:30Yeah, I mean, he's he's gonna have nause. I don't know if
- 1:06:33they're really gonna have a receiver because you remember Steel's getting rid of Dante Johnson.
- 1:06:40No, no, no, no, I'm saying. I'm saying Cayleb
- 1:06:42Williams is coming into a better team than Justin Fields did. Right, But
- 1:06:45also at this point Field, I don't like the wide receiver corps at Field.
- 1:06:49You know Pittsburgh and you've got George, You've got George Pickens. Johnson
- 1:06:56was traded. Deonte Johnson was traded for The was so funny it was for
- 1:07:00another Deontay Johnson Johnson. It was like it was weird. I was like,
- 1:07:08ah, do you try it for the same guy? They had to
- 1:07:09reread the name. Are you looking at your Son's not coming? Yeah,
- 1:07:13it's fine, which is fine. I'm I'm I'm ready. Like I said,
- 1:07:17well, we'll finish up some polling of this, but right now,
- 1:07:23right now, I like, like I said, I like Dallas, not
- 1:07:27Dallas. I can't say Dallas was horrible. I like the Bears. I
- 1:07:30liked I like the Vikings because they didn't overpay. I'm liking the Bears to
- 1:07:38move possibly into the number two position. I think Minnesota is going to move
- 1:07:42to the bottom. I don't think they Yeah, I think Minnesota is probably
- 1:07:46gonna be in a rebuild year. Yeah, I don't think that they did
- 1:07:49the proper moves. You know, you're two years of moved from the Do
- 1:07:53you think the Bears could overtake? See? I still I would take love
- 1:07:56over Caleb Williams. And that's why I'm still gonna leave the Packers into But
- 1:07:59that's it's gonna be a crapshoot between between the Packers and the Bears this year,
- 1:08:03the Jets and Dolphins, right, especially if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy.
- 1:08:08Yes, yes, well, and Aaron Rodgers is lobbying to get a lot
- 1:08:12of those old I surprised Aaron Jones didn't go to the Jets because Rogers pickups
- 1:08:18for the Vikings. It makes me wonder him going there. I don't think
- 1:08:24that was the most money he could get. Maybe he knows something. I
- 1:08:27don't know. I just thought Sam Dogers, of course you have Sam Darnold.
- 1:08:30I mean, you're gonna get a lot of the carries one year.
- 1:08:34I'm trying to pick up a lot of the old Packers that are getting released.
- 1:08:41Well, yeah, he's trying to bring him over to that team.
- 1:08:44Gonna do that. I mean is what it is. All right, Well,
- 1:08:45thank you all for joining us. Oh, I did want to include
- 1:08:49one thing, uh real quick as we talk about uh, I want to
- 1:08:53talk about OU players. Winchester did resign with the Chiefs. Hollywood Brown now
- 1:08:57with the Chiefs. Uh mixing we talked about for you. Yeah, he
- 1:09:00still is. Yes. And then you have who did I Who is who
- 1:09:08signed with the Titans for two years? Sean? I can't even read my
- 1:09:11running. It looks like Kenny Mossy, but anyway, Nevill Gallimore. Also
- 1:09:16he signed with Miami for one year, left Dallas. That's another defensive Uh
- 1:09:21not that he started every game? Who? Who is that? What team
- 1:09:28did it? Titans? Signed with the Titans. Look, let me get
- 1:09:35my dad, get him. My penmanship is horrible. No, I was
- 1:09:42trying to put. I was trying to put all you guys that I saw
- 1:09:45that got signed. Yes, Kenneth Murray. That's it, Kenny Murray.
- 1:09:50It makes perfect sense now. It was Kenny Murray. Yes, And I
- 1:09:55thought that was another loss for he was a starter for San Diego. I
- 1:09:59mean that team they they are they taking? Is that is this the first?
- 1:10:03I mean? Because wouldn't they trade their defensive players. Maybe that's gonna
- 1:10:06be a mid season thing. Or what are they gonna do at quarterback?
- 1:10:10I mean, obviously the rumor is is McCartney, but I don't know how
- 1:10:12they're gonna work that out. And they're sure not gonna draft him at five.
- 1:10:15That was my whole point. You trade back down, try to get
- 1:10:17another one so because I think that's the only one they have, or trade
- 1:10:21you next year to get in two in the first round this year. Quiet,
- 1:10:26good teams forty nine ers, Lions. Right, you haven't seen anything
- 1:10:30but just nothing major. Let's see trying to New Orleans hasn't done anything.
- 1:10:38They well, they released Michael Thompson or Thomas and yeah, who's their backup
- 1:10:43quarterback now? Who went there? No, no, no, Jameis Winston
- 1:10:47went to the Browns to back them up, I believe. But yes,
- 1:10:50and the Browns haven't really done No, they've been fairly fairly. They've been
- 1:10:56Joe Flacco deal with the Giants are just losing everything they trade. They did
- 1:11:00get to Carolina, Yes, yeah, but Carolina's I like that Carolina is
- 1:11:04getting rid of that. I like that Pake, But he was he was
- 1:11:06money. That is money was the banks is that his name, Yeah Burns,
- 1:11:11Yeah, Burns Burns. Uh who else is god? You just think
- 1:11:15of teams that been real quiet, but Tampa, I would give Kansas City
- 1:11:19hasn't been. I mean Chris Jones and Chris Joseph is huge too. Now
- 1:11:25Snead is the last one left. Well they gonna do that. That's their
- 1:11:29own guy, That's what I'm saying. That's true. But they didn't sign
- 1:11:30him yet, and talking about possible trades. But I think what that is
- 1:11:33is they were like, hey, I don't think we need to pay safety
- 1:11:35twenty million a year, so go find you some money somewhere else. Green
- 1:11:40Green baysed Green Bays did a lot of moves. They got younger with Jacobs,
- 1:11:44I'd say, and and and they you know, they gotten rid of
- 1:11:47all of their twenty twenty one draft picks and got cap space. Who's your
- 1:11:53quarterback, isn't it? That's who is it? Drew Locke? Now he
- 1:12:01went to Seattle, Sherman coming you live next week? Who is who is
- 1:12:08the Broncos? No? I was. I was just thinking about it because
- 1:12:11I thought Fields would have been a good fit for the Raiders too. You
- 1:12:13see, they don't have a quarterback. Either they've got Gardner Minshew, but
- 1:12:16I mean it's Jimmy Garoppolo went to Rams back up. But do you think
- 1:12:23that, I mean, is Gardner Minshew really the guy you're going with as
- 1:12:26the Raiders. After you've you've brought some people in. Who are we looking
- 1:12:30at? Oh? We wanted to know where who the Denver Broncos quarter starting
- 1:12:34quarterback was. It's not that guy Jude that is him. It is in
- 1:12:42Stidham. Remember the college he played for Stidham. Come on, come on,
- 1:12:49No, people are talking right now. They're like, we know this
- 1:12:53guy Baylor. He was a Baylor guy who cares Baylor's Yeah, well he
- 1:12:58was actually pretty good quarterback NFL quarterback quarterback because they lost their current quarterback to
- 1:13:06everybody's I don't even want to talk about that college. That's that free agency
- 1:13:10is nuttier than this one. So all right, well, think we're not
- 1:13:13gonna know anything on that until the season begins. That's exactly right. Well,
- 1:13:15thank you all for joining us. I appreciate everyone listening being sean.
- 1:13:19Thank you. We'll see you next week. We'll talk about anybody any more
- 1:13:25of the free agent signings we're gonna bring it. We're gonna talk about the
- 1:13:29NFC East next week. That'll be the local Dallas Cowboy flavor and what they
- 1:13:32didn't do for that, So including Pollard Smith, anybody else? Yeah,
- 1:13:40well retirement, yeah yeah, Gallup too. They've lost Oline guys. Yeah,
- 1:13:45well that was Tyrone Smith lost one of the best one. All right,
- 1:13:49We thank you all for joining us. Appreciate it, love y'all.
- 1:13:51We'll see and then selection Sunday is tomorrow, so enjoy that. We'll talk
- 1:13:55about we'll talk about the matchups. Hell, we'll already be into round two
- 1:13:59by the time we join you next week. When was one of the draws,
- 1:14:02it'll be uh, they'll well know tomorrow and then and then it starts,
- 1:14:08No, it starts Tuesday and Wednesday. We just hill Up, thank
- 1:14:14you, Hilltop bar responsoring this. Sorry, we talk to you helire.
- 1:14:15Thank y'all. It's yours. Sorry. M h m hm h