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Ep.72: Divisional rodeo (NFC North) · Football Junkies podcast

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  Mega Bag Alert, Mega Bag Alert, Mega Bag Alert, Mega Bag Alert folks, that's right.
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  We got our first Mega Bag Alert of this offseason.
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  We got a multitude of people that got paid.
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  Originally, it was supposed to be a quad bag alert, but then it just grew even more.
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  So let's just go down the list of the people that got paid.
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  Sequan Barkley gets paid again.
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  Max Crosby gets paid again.
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  Zach Bond stays in Philly.
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  Theo Jackson stays in Minnesota.
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  Tutu Atwell stays in LA.
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  DK Metcalf requests to trade.
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  Tyler Lockett is out.
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  Joey Bosa is out.
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  Kristen Kirk is out.
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  Garner Minchu is out.
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  Joe Thuny gets traded.
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  And the divisional rodeo goes to the east.
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  We are going to a very historic division.
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  That is the division that has the bearer, the Vikings, the Packers, and the Lions.
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  All of this and more on the 72nd episode of the Football Junkies podcast.
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  I am your host with the most.
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  I'm your chief bag rodamus.
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  Anything and everything related to the bag and more.
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  I am your chief head of the table.
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  Anything and everything related to the draft, combine, you name it, we're covering it.
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  But guess what?
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  I'm all these things and more.
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  But the most important thing is I am your GM who currently is not on a team right now,
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  but don't you worry about it.
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  Because guess what?
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  We got some interviews lined up because you know why?
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  Some people want to know about my knowledge.
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  So guess what?
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  We're going to give them to them.
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  So guess what?
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  On three, you already know how these things go.
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  Actually, you know what?
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  I know I'm forgetting something because guess what?
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  The most important title that you must remember is I am your host, Kale.
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  Now we're back on track.
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  On three.
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  One, two, three.
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  Let's lock in.
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  All right, folks, let's just get into the meat and potatoes of everything that is going
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  on in the league right now.
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  And man, oh man, do we have a lot going on in the league?
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  Things are starting to cook.
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  Okay.
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  And we're not talking about with just no olive oil or just with a little bit of butter.
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  No, we're talking about hot grease.
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  Okay.
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  Hot fish grease.
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  Okay.
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  So let's just get into these baguettes before we get into the divisional rodeo.
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  Okay.
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  So first one, say, come on, bark.
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  We okay.
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  The quad God himself gets a surprise extension.
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  Okay.
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  So we got here is 41.2 million, 36 million guaranteed at signing that is 20.6 million
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  a year.
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  He is the first running back.
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  If I'm not mistaken fact check me out to get 20 million a year.
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  He reset to the market.
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  Do we really even need to go over the stats?
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  You know what?
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  I think we just do just cause so 345 attempts for 2005 rushing yards, 5.8 rushing yards per
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  10, 13 touchdowns and 46 rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
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  Folks, this will probably go down in history as one of the greatest off seasons for running
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  back.
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  I will argue with any person that says otherwise because this guy did it all in one off season.
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  He could have easily broken Eric Dickerson's record, but he decided not to out of respect
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  for him and, you know, he wanted to preserve himself.
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  You become a Super Bowl champion and you get another extension, only one season.
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  Come on, man.
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  And then not to mention, you know, you leave a toxic situation with, you know, Joe Shane
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  and the giants and you finally get a taste of winning and, you know, the Eagles want
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  to reward you for all the hard work that you put in.
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  And so this is what happens.
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  Best believe, Saquon Barkley is not going anywhere.
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  Saquon Barkley is probably going to end his career as an Eagle.
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  Okay.
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  If he continues with this, we're going to have to have a different conversation about
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  Saquon Barkley.
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  Now, let's get into Max Crosby.
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  This was a little bit of a shocker.
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  I'm not going to lie to you.
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  So let's get into it.
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  Three years, 106.5 million, 91.5 million guaranteed.
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  That's 35.5 million a year.
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  He reset at the pass rusher market.
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  When we look at his stats, 45 tackles, seven and a half sacks and 53 quarterback pressures.
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  This is what I will say about this.
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  Honestly speaking, for one, I did not expect this.
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  Two, I would have thought he would have wanted to trade.
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  Here you have this person that's talking about how he's not happy with winning and,
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  you know, he's disgruntled about where the direction of the team is going and all these
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  things and rightfully so.
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  And so you have all these reports coming out of how, you know, he's disgruntled and now
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  he's angry and frustrated and then you signed this deal.
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  So then that lets me know that it was fake.
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  You're not going to stay in a crappy situation and then just continue to reset the market.
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  I'm sorry.
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  At some point, I want to be able to experience the confetti coming down.
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  I want to be able to experience holding up the Lombardi trophy.
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  I want to experience all the things that lead up to the Super Bowl.
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  I don't want to be just somebody that just ends the regular season when everybody else
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  does and then, you know, you're one, two, three, cancun in and cancun.
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  I don't want that.
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  I want to be able to experience more.
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  I'm one of the best pass structures in the league.
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  And so to me, this moves signals that you value the money more than winning a championship
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  and that's perfectly fine.
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  If you do, I'm not going to, you know, be mad at you for it, but it makes it seem like
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  you're sort of a hypocrite because here you are someone who literally, there were teams
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  waiting to see what was going to happen this off season.
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  If you was going to declare for a trade or not, and instead of you doing that and possibly
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  going into a better situation, you decided just to, you know, take the money.
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  You know, this team is far away from being, you know, a really competitive team.
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  So if that's what you want to do, hey, more power to you, brother.
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  Now when we look at Zach bond, okay, three years, 51 million, 34 million guaranteed at
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  a 17 million a year.
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  He is one of the highest paid linebackers in the league right now.
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  And when we look at his stats, 150 tackles, three and a half sacks, 14 quarterback pressures.
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  This is the perfect example of what happens when you take a risk on yourself.
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  He doubled down on himself.
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  He signed a one year deal with the Eagles.
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  Didn't know how they were going to use them.
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  And then Van Gio say, you know what, we're going to put you in this role.
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  We're going to have you play off ball linebacker and it worked.
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  And he became a Super Bowl champion in that same season.
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  And now he got rewarded for it.
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  How we let it be known.
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  I forgot where it was, but I know it was like at a, at a, like a event or something with
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  Jason K. Ford's podcast.
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  How we let it be known that they were going to lock up Zach bond.
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  So this isn't a surprise, honestly.
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  And like I said, when we were doing the divisional rodeo and we started with, with the Eagles,
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  I said, Zach bond is going to be worth more than what spot racks of market value had for
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  him.
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  Just because of how much of a role he played on this team and how much of a role he played
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  in the Super Bowl alone, like he did a lot.
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  So all in all, the Eagles make sure that they prioritize taking care of their players while
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  at the same time creating a lot of cash space, while at the same time potentially positioning
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  themselves to go after someone like a mouse Gary.
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  That's what all of this boils down to.
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  Are they going to pull the trigger and get someone like a mouse Gary?
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  How he has, has already let us know that listen, this team is going to be different than what
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  it was last year.
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  There's going to be a lot of changes.
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  So I need you to follow me and he's starting already.
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  Now when we look at Theo Jackson safety for the Minnesota Vikings, he inks a two year,
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  $12.6 million deal, $6 million a year, which it's a fairly, you know, team friendly deal.
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  It's nothing, you know, super crazy or whatnot.
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  And even when we look at his stats, 11 tackles for one pick and three past deflection.
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  This isn't a deal where like I've said before, with other smaller deals, it's earth shadowing
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  or it's one of those deals that's, you know, that's going to make you scratch your head
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  like they're just taking care of a person who plays a very pivotal role on their side
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  of the ball.
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  That's all what it is.
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  You know, you're too out.
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  Well, one year, 10 million fully guaranteed to be specific.
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  Okay.
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  And we look at his receptions.
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  Well, not his receptions, but his stats, 42 receptions for 562 receiving yards, 13.4 receiving
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  yards per reception.
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  This is somebody who contributes a lot when they give him the ball.
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  This isn't somebody that's going to wow you with, you know, 10 touchdowns and three touchdown
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  game or something like that.
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  This is somebody that plays a very pivotal role on this offense.
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  And with the potential departure of Cooper cup, you want to make sure that you bring
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  back at least one or two receivers that are familiar with the system and familiar with
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  Matthew Stafford.
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  So most likely this receiver core is probably going to be a Puka to to out well, and then
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  they'll probably draft maybe one or two receivers.
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  Okay.
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  Now let's get into the juicy stuff.
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  Okay.
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  Let's get into the, the fire.
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  Okay.
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  So, Anthony Medcalf has requested a trade folks.
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  And this was shortly after Tyler Lockett was being informed that he was going to get cut.
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  Yeah.
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  A lot of, a lot of toxicity is happening in Seattle right now.
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  So when we look at it, this is the crazy thing with this entire situation.
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  Okay.
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  So this year, he only has one year left on his deal, but it's not guaranteed.
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  So his market value is three years, 78.2 million, which is 26.1 million a year.
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  When we look at his stats this year alone, this, well, this past season specifically
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  66 receptions for 992 receiving yards, five touchdowns and 15 receiving yards per reception,
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  which is a little bit of a down year compared to, you know, previous years, but all in all,
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  DK Medcalf is a top 10 receiver.
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  I don't understand why people are so hesitant about making a move or someone like a DK Medcalf.
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  DK Medcalf is a game changer.
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  Okay.
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  This is somebody that can change the trajectory of a game with just one play.
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  He's done it multiple times.
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  You got a big body dude that can win those 50, 50 balls.
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  There's not a lot of people that can do that on a consistent basis.
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  DK Medcalf has been able to do that.
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  And so when we look at this, according to Diana Rossini, the report came out this morning
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  basically detailing that the Seahawks won a first and a third round pick for DK Medcalf
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  and rightfully so because he's a top 10 receiver, like I just said, but he is somebody that
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  he's a number one receiver on a lot of teams.
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  He's not a two.
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  He's a one not to mention they're sort of positioning themselves to go through someone
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  of a soft rebuild because you still have to figure out what you're going to do with Geno
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  Smith.
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  You still have to figure out what you're going to do with other players on this team.
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  So there's going to be a lot of turnover between this year and maybe the next two years.
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  So they want to be able to position themselves for the next two years and rightfully so.
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  DK Medcalf has already let it be known that he wants 30 plus million a year, which again,
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  rightfully so.
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  Because when he signed the deal that he's on now, it was only a three year deal.
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  It was actually a really cheap deal to be honest, but now that the receiver market has
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  you know, grew so quickly so fast that you're going to have to you know, catch up.
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  So if I was a team, I probably will want to trade for DK Medcalf now and I would pay
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  him now before Jamar Chase because if you don't, you run the risk of someone like a
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  DK Medcalf wanting to get close to what Jamar Chase is making.
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  Now when we look at teams that could possibly you know, be in the running for someone like
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  a DK Medcalf, I would say maybe the Chargers.
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  I would say maybe the Texans.
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  I would say maybe even the bills.
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  I would even say the Steelers.
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  I think those teams would love to have someone like a DK Medcalf on their team.
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  Now the question is this, who is going to be the team that is going to meet their demands?
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  Now me personally, I think it's going to be the Chargers because for one, a lot of the
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  needs that the Chargers have, they can be addressed in day two and day three.
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  Now when it comes to receiver with the receiver class being not as strong as it is, I think
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  if you get someone like a DK Medcalf that automatically erases a lot of the needs that
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  they have.
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  So you give them that first round pick, you pair him with Labrconky and Quentin Johnston
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  whatnot.
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  It's great.
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  Not to mention you can give them a pretty good deal because why?
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  You have, I mean, a decent enough amount of catchphrase too.
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  Texans, it may be a little bit shaky for them because they need to address offensive line
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  and they need to address it with their first pick.
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  Okay.
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  And this is sort of like a teaser into the AFC South and whatnot, but they have to be
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  able to address the offensive line.
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  CJ Straub was getting beat up this past season.
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  So I don't think they can try to make that type of move.
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  Now the Steelers, they could try, but do I think they're going to do it?
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  No, only because they value their draft picks and drafting so much that I don't think they
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  will pull the trigger on something like a DK Medcalf.
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  Just saying.
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  Now, when we look at the Tyler Lockett situation, okay, he got cut.
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  Okay.
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  And this is something that I sort of predicted when we went over that division because for
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  one, you have three people that have very large cap hits and very large base salaries.
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  And you're in a situation where you're trying to position yourself for free agency and potentially
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  signing your rookies.
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  So you're going to have to make some major moves.
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  And so the most important thing that they had to do was he read it out of lock and I
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  don't blame them.
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  Okay.
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  Get there.
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  The financials of this situation, the Seahawks take on 13.8 million in debt cap while freeing
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  17 million.
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  So all in all, they put themselves in a really good spot.
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  Okay.
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  And when we look at his stats this past season, really wasn't the best 49 receptions for 600
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  receiving yards, two touchdowns, 12.2 receiving yards per reception.
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  He is still a very productive receiver, but I think it's come to a point where the Seahawks
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  realized that listen, it's time for us to go into a different direction.
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  It's time for us to possibly cut bait, cut weight.
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  Excuse me, of some of these players that have these big contracts because not to mention,
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  you're going to have to pay Tyreek Woolin fairly soon.
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  And there's other players on this team that you're going to have to take care of as well.
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  So the only way that you can curve all of that is you have to cut some of this dead
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  weight.
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  You have to trim the fat as, as I say, when it comes to these large contracts.
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  Now granted, I would have liked for title lock it to be a Seahawk for life, but clearly
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  that wasn't in the books.
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  And so when we look at this, do I think he's going to probably play?
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  I don't think so.
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  I think he has nothing else to play for your Super Bowl champion.
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  You definitely played a very pivotal role in the Seahawks in recent years.
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  Like you have nothing else to prove and that's perfectly fine.
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  But if he wants to continue to play, there will be a market for him because again, the
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  receiver draft class this year for day one is not that strong.
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  And I think someone like a title lock it will garner interest somewhere just because of
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  his veteran leadership and what he brings to the table.
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  Now am I saying he can be a one on any other team?
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  No, but what I am saying is this, he can be a solid contributor on a lot of teams.
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  A lot of teams will love to have someone like a title lock it just saying when we go to
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  the Joey Bosa situation, this was something that I expected as well.
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  And the reason why I say that is because for one, you have somebody that has a large contract
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  to you have somebody that really hasn't been that impactful like he was in those first
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  what three years of his career, three or four years of his career, excuse me, like it was
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  needed.
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  Like when we look at this really analyze this right.
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  Khalil Mack, old Khalil Mack show more at his age than what Joey Bosa has.
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  Khalil Mack has been able to stay healthy than what Joey Bosa has.
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  When we look at Joey Bosa stats, I'm just going to read it off to you just for sacks.
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  Okay.
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  In 2019 11 and a half 2020 seven and a half 2021 10 and a half 2022 two and a half 2023
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  six and a half this past season five and a half.
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  It's just continue to go down and down and down and down and he hasn't been able to stay
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  healthy.
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  Like I don't like to use the, you know, healthy thing I really don't because I feel like it's
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  an easy way out, but he has not been able to stay healthy.
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  And I'm sorry.
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  The best ability is availability.
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  And if you are not available and you're making a boohoo amount of money, there's no point
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  in me keeping you on the team.
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  I'm sorry.
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  I'm just not going to do that.
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  Now will Joey Bosa have a market?
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  Yes, for sure.
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  There are a lot of teams that would love to have someone like a Joey Bosa on their team.
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  Now do I think he'll probably go and play with his brother?
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  Yeah, probably wouldn't be surprised.
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  Now do I think he could probably go somewhere else?
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  There's possibility.
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  All options are on the table for someone like a Joey Bosa.
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  When we look at the financials for the chargers, this frees up 25.3 million in cash base, which
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  is very much needed because they're in the position right now where they could be a legitimate
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  playoff caliber team.
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  So you have to cut dead weight, which you did.
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  You got rid of Joey Bosa.
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  Now you need to make some moves, sure up the receiver room, fix up the running back room
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  as well, make a few adjustments for the defense and then boom, you're going to be better this
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  year than what you was last year.
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  Now when we look at Christian Kirk, this one was a little bit confusing because the GM
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  originally said that he liked Christian Kirk and whatnot.
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  But then all of a sudden you go to, oh yeah, we're just going to cut you.
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  You should have just traded him.
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  If you would have traded him, you would have gotten some interest.
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  No one's not going to give you a first round pick for Christian Kirk, but somebody would
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  have gave you at least maybe a fourth or fifth, maybe even a sixth round pick.
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  You could use that pick to get somebody that plays a very pivotal role in your team or you
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  could use it to move up in the draft or you could use it to trade for somebody.
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  You could have used it in different ways, but you didn't.
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  So now the Jaguars take on 13.5 million in dead cap while creating 10.5 million in cap
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  shakes.
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  Now we all know his stats last season wasn't really the best because he broke his collar
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  bone.
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  We all know that.
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  But before that season, he had three touchdowns and then 2022 he had eight touchdowns and
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  so on and so forth.
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  Me personally, the first team that I think of when it comes to Christian Kirk is the
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  commanders because when he was under Cliff Kingsbury, that was when he was really contributing.
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  I don't see him going to the Steelers.
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  Just saying.
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  I don't see him going to, I don't know, the bills or any of these other teams.
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  Christian Kirk will have a market, but he won't have a solid market like what people
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  are saying he will.
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  Like I think somebody will be willing to take more of a risk on, I don't know, a Mecca,
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  a Bucca or somebody in the second or third round before they give a chance to Christian
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  Kirk.
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  Just saying, don't hurt me.
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  Okay.
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  Now when we look at Gardner, Menchu, he gets cut as well.
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  Originally I thought they were going to do a restructure.
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  Okay.
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  But for them to cut him, not surprised honestly because his contract was a little bit way to
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  expensive me personally.
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  Like you're a backup quarterback and you're making that much money.
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  No cut.
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  Now when we look at the financials for this, okay, the Raiders take on 10.8 million in
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  Deccat while Gardner Menchu is guaranteed 3.1 million of his 2025 salary.
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  Now when we look at his stats this past season, sure you threw for 2000 passing yards, you
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  had nine touchdowns, but you had 10 picks.
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  You averaged 6.6 yards per attempt.
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  I mean, it was okay, but again, the Raiders are trying to clean house.
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  They're trying to position themselves to win.
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  And so the best way to do it is to cut bait, get rid of Gardner Menchu.
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  They'll probably draft a quarterback or pay for a quarterback.
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  Okay.
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  Then they'll bring in, you know, a lower tier backup quarterback or they'll just bring back
• 21:39
  Gardner Menchu.
• 21:40
  Okay.
• 21:41
  At a lower price and then just go one from there.
• 21:44
  Because again, taking way too much money, he had a base salary that was too high and
• 21:48
  a cap it that was too high.
• 21:50
  No need to do that.
• 21:51
  They're trying to position themselves to take a few big swings to really catapult themselves
• 21:56
  in a different stratosphere.
• 21:59
  Okay.
• 22:00
  Who?
• 22:01
  Well, too well, too well, too well, too well.
• 22:02
  Joe Thune, okay.
• 22:04
  Joe Thune gets traded.
• 22:06
  He goes to the Bears.
• 22:08
  All right.
• 22:09
  So the Chiefs receive a 2025 fourth round pick and the Bears of course received Joe Thune.
• 22:14
  With this, and this is sort of going into the divisional rodeo a little bit, he's on
• 22:19
  the last year of his deal.
• 22:21
  Okay.
• 22:22
  His base salary, this, this upcoming season is 15.5 million and his cap hit is only 16 million.
• 22:29
  All in all, he is still a very productive guard.
• 22:33
  Now for all the people that say, well, the Chiefs should have been trying to find a way
• 22:37
  to keep them.
• 22:38
  No, you can't because they're about to reset the market for Trace Smith.
• 22:41
  May I remind you folks that the Chiefs cap situation is a lot more complex than what
• 22:47
  you think because you have three people that are taking up over 50% of their cap space.
• 22:56
  So instead of them doing what the Eagles do, which is they sort of spread out the money
• 23:00
  a little bit.
• 23:01
  No, they put it into Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey and Chris Jones.
• 23:07
  Everybody else.
• 23:08
  You're either on the boat or you're not.
• 23:11
  And so Joe Thune wasn't on the boat.
• 23:14
  But for the Bears, this is a major upgrade because you have someone that is a seasoned
• 23:19
  veteran, a Super Bowl champion, someone who has pedigree with his game and was still playing
• 23:25
  at a fairly pretty good level.
• 23:27
  I'm not saying he was the elite version of himself.
• 23:30
  No, but he was still, he was still a very good productive guard and not to mention the
• 23:37
  Bears have been trying to rebuild their offensive line this offseason because they have to prioritize
• 23:43
  protecting Kayla Williams.
• 23:45
  Kayla Williams, this past season was taking way too many hits.
• 23:49
  And so if you want to be able to preserve your quarterback, you have to make sure that
• 23:55
  you that you build a good offensive line around that is the only way that you can prolong
• 23:59
  his career.
• 24:00
  Otherwise, he'll be like Andrew Luck.
• 24:02
  No disrespect to him.
• 24:03
  Now let's get into the divisional rodeo folks.
• 24:07
  And so you already know how these things go.
• 24:10
  Okay, we're going to go through an entire division.
• 24:13
  We're going to talk about their salary free agents, draft picks, positions of need, candidates
• 24:17
  for restructure, extension, trades and cuts.
• 24:20
  Okay, so let's start with the NFC North of Bears, Packard Vikings and Lions.
• 24:27
  So we're going to start with the Bears 45.3 million in salary cap, the rollover cap
• 24:32
  of 5 million.
• 24:33
  Not too bad.
• 24:34
  Okay, free agents, Kenan Allen, DeMarcus Walker, Gerald Everett, Tevin Jenkins, Matt Pryor,
• 24:40
  Daryl Taylor, just to name a few.
• 24:42
  Their draft picks, they got their first two second round picks, a third, they don't have
• 24:48
  a fourth, they do have a fifth, they have a sixth, and they have two seventh round picks,
• 24:53
  position some need defensive line running back edge receiver interior offensive line.
• 24:58
  This one is going to be fairly quickly and fairly simple only because for one, this team
• 25:03
  is still fairly young.
• 25:05
  A lot of the main players on this team are still under contract and the people that aren't
• 25:10
  under contract are either older players or players that don't really contribute a whole
• 25:16
  lot to this team.
• 25:18
  So there's going to be a lot of turnover with the lower half of the roster, as I expect.
• 25:23
  Now when we look at positions of need, okay, you can go about this a few different ways.
• 25:29
  You can address defensive line slash edge in the first round, or you can address wide
• 25:35
  receiver and running back in the first round.
• 25:38
  Either way you look at it, I think you have to be able to like really bring in somebody
• 25:45
  that can be a contributor with the run game.
• 25:48
  Granted, the Andre Swift is good, but I think you're not going to make the type of moves
• 25:54
  that the Bears have made, especially to the offensive line.
• 25:57
  If you're not eyeing someone like an Ashton Gentie, or at least a Caleb Johnson or Devon
• 26:03
  Neal or Taj Brooks or RJ Harvey or O'Marion Hampson or who else, who else, I can't even
• 26:10
  think of anybody else, but the list goes on and on.
• 26:13
  Now if they get Ashton Gentie and you pair him with the Andre Swift, and then you pair
• 26:18
  him with DJ Moore and Cole Comet and then Roma Dunze and Caleb Williams, that's a really
• 26:25
  good offense.
• 26:26
  That's a really good run game.
• 26:28
  Okay.
• 26:29
  Now do I think they're going to do that?
• 26:31
  There's a possibility.
• 26:32
  The Bears are a team that you really can pinpoint and say, oh, they're going to do this or oh,
• 26:37
  they're going to do that.
• 26:38
  No.
• 26:39
  With them having been Johnson, I feel like they are definitely going to prioritize the
• 26:44
  offense high.
• 26:46
  Because again, with the defensive line class being as big as it is, they can bring in a
• 26:53
  quality defensive lineman in the second and third day of the draft and it won't really
• 26:59
  hurt them.
• 27:01
  You could go and get someone like Adarius Alexander or a Jordan Phillips or what's his
• 27:07
  name?
• 27:08
  You could be a non-walker for instance.
• 27:10
  You could go, you could get one of the edge guys if you wanted to.
• 27:14
  Because you already have Montez Svett.
• 27:16
  You just have to find him a partner.
• 27:18
  If you find him a partner and then you bolster up the interior defensive line, the defense
• 27:23
  is really good because you already have Jaylen Johnson.
• 27:25
  You still have Tremaine Edmonds.
• 27:27
  You have pieces.
• 27:29
  The Bears are in a really good place right now.
• 27:31
  Then with you bringing an offense of mine that has been Johnson, I think it takes things
• 27:36
  even further because I think what was missing last season was a good productive offense.
• 27:44
  The defense was doing his thing at first.
• 27:47
  Then it fell off and then it was trying to pick itself back up and it fell off again.
• 27:51
  Then by then everybody was just mentally checked out.
• 27:55
  Matt Eberfluss was basically a phone call away from losing his job.
• 28:00
  A lot of the coaches were basically done.
• 28:03
  A lot of the players were mentally checked out.
• 28:05
  It was just a bad situation.
• 28:06
  But bringing in someone like a Ben Johnson, an offense of mine, it's somebody that we
• 28:10
  all know and saw what he did with the Lions.
• 28:14
  If he does just half of that with the Bears, I think we're having a different conversation
• 28:20
  about Caleb Williams and the Bears moving forward.
• 28:24
  Now when we look at candidates, well actually no, I'm awake.
• 28:27
  I'm awake because I want to go a little bit more in depth with the positions I need.
• 28:31
  So when we look at receiver, you can go about this a few different ways.
• 28:36
  You can get Jaden Higgins.
• 28:38
  You can get Jack Best.
• 28:39
  You can get Ty Filton or any of those different types of receivers.
• 28:47
  Because again, I will continue to say this, the day two and day three slots for receiver
• 28:52
  have a lot of upside than the day one slots.
• 28:56
  The only reason why I say that is because each and every one of them have their own set
• 29:02
  of skills.
• 29:03
  Okay.
• 29:04
  Ty Filton, Speedster, Jaden Higgins, big body receiver, good when it comes to the blocking.
• 29:13
  Same thing with, I forgot what was his name, but he goes to Stanford.
• 29:18
  I forgot.
• 29:19
  It's no disrespect to your dog, but you have him as well.
• 29:24
  If you want a more faster slot guy, you have Xavier Restrepo from Miami.
• 29:29
  You have options.
• 29:32
  Do you want to spend your first pick on a receiver?
• 29:35
  Probably not.
• 29:36
  Are you going to spend on TMac?
• 29:40
  Maybe.
• 29:41
  Do you want to spend on Luther Burden?
• 29:42
  More of a Yacht guy.
• 29:43
  Do you want to spend on a Mecca Bucca?
• 29:45
  Do you want to spend it on Matthew Golden?
• 29:47
  Now Matthew Golden, I think that could be an interesting investment, but you've already
• 29:52
  made an investment at receiver with DJ Moore and Roma Dunzi.
• 29:57
  You could go about this so many different ways.
• 29:59
  It's ridiculous.
• 30:00
  Okay.
• 30:01
  Now when we look at interior offensive line, I think the number one person that they should
• 30:06
  really go after is the center from Atlanta because he's supposed to be a free agent.
• 30:11
  If you get him on that offensive line, you have him and then the guard that they got
• 30:18
  from the Rams and then Joe Thuny and then Darnell Wright.
• 30:24
  This might be really good offensive line.
• 30:25
  I'm just saying, I'm just saying the Bears have let it be known that we are prioritizing,
• 30:31
  protecting Caleb Williams while at the same time trying to open up the offense and making
• 30:37
  the offense so diverse in so many different ways that it's going to confuse defenses,
• 30:43
  which I don't blame them personally.
• 30:46
  Now when we look at candidates for restructure extensions, trades and cuts, the only person
• 30:51
  I listed was Joe Thuny.
• 30:52
  There's nobody else that I could think of that is up for an extension, a trade or a
• 30:57
  cut because everybody is fairly under contract.
• 31:00
  DJ Moore is under contract.
• 31:02
  Dylan Johnson is under contract.
• 31:03
  Remain Edmunds is still under contract.
• 31:06
  All their top high paying players are still under contract and are still contributing.
• 31:11
  Now if they fall off a little bit or if they become disgruntled with the situation, then
• 31:15
  we have a whole different conversation.
• 31:18
  But for the time being, I don't see that happening.
• 31:21
  And when we look at Joe Thuny's market value according to Spotrack, two years 40.6 million,
• 31:26
  which is only 20.3 million a year, which I think is pretty decent.
• 31:31
  He's a two time Super Bowl champion, still one of the best guards that you play now.
• 31:39
  I think that's not bad of a bargain.
• 31:40
  Now me personally, I would try to bring that down just a little bit.
• 31:45
  And we can maybe make the 20.3 just a little bit more on the incentives.
• 31:50
  Maybe we can work that thing out.
• 31:52
  But for the time being, I think this is probably the best situation that you can do with Joe
• 31:57
  Thuny.
• 31:58
  It's a two year deal.
• 31:59
  It's not a traditional four because he is getting up in age and you don't want to tie
• 32:03
  him with this long contract and then a lot of dead capping whatnot.
• 32:07
  So let's see what happens with that situation.
• 32:10
  Now on to the Packers.
• 32:12
  So with their situation, man, is it a deep dive?
• 32:17
  Okay, so let's just get into it.
• 32:18
  So salary 46.6 million with a roll over cap of 15.1 million.
• 32:24
  Really good.
• 32:25
  Free agents, Eric Stoltz, AJ Dillon, Corey Ballantyne, Josh Myers, Eric Wilson, Andre
• 32:31
  Dillard, Tyler Davis, Robert Rochelle, and Tedaro Slaton, just to name a few.
• 32:38
  Okay.
• 32:39
  So they're first, they're second, they're third, they're fourth, they're fifth, they're
• 32:43
  sixth and two seventh round picks.
• 32:46
  Cool.
• 32:47
  Positions of need, corner, receiver, interior, offensive line, and edge.
• 32:51
  Okay.
• 32:52
  So when we look at this, yes, corner, very much a top priority, especially with Jair Alexander
• 32:59
  possibly getting traded, definitely has to be a top priority.
• 33:02
  Now is this a good, you know, outside cornerback class?
• 33:08
  When you compare it to the last two years, not really.
• 33:11
  Okay.
• 33:12
  Sure, you have your Jaday Barons and your Ezra Thomases and Chavon Rebels and Benjamin
• 33:16
  Morrison and Will Johnson's of the world, but the problem is the only person, well, the
• 33:22
  only two people actually that you can say, Hey, those are true first round picks is who?
• 33:29
  Jaday Baron and Ezra Thomas.
• 33:32
  Everybody else is a little bit of a, you know, iffy situation because why they have injury
• 33:38
  red flags, especially Benjamin Morrison, he's coming off of a hip surgery.
• 33:43
  So there's a lot of questions saying, Hey, can you, how flexible are your hips and, you
• 33:49
  know, will that be a problem moving forward?
• 33:52
  Like all those things, same thing with Chavon Rebels, he's coming off of ACL surgery.
• 33:57
  Will Johnson, he's coming off of injuries as well.
• 33:59
  So there's a lot of question marks there.
• 34:02
  Now most likely you can go about this a few different ways.
• 34:05
  You can go, you can get somebody in free agency and then draft one, or you can just draft
• 34:11
  all of your corners.
• 34:12
  But I feel like the slot corner room is a little bit better because you have Jacob Parrish,
• 34:18
  you have Quincy Riley, you have Maxwell Hereston in company.
• 34:22
  So I say all that to say this, Jaya Alexander, you have to prepare like, like he's not going
• 34:29
  to be on the team.
• 34:30
  Okay.
• 34:31
  So you really need to make sure that you address corner because corner for the last few years
• 34:36
  really haven't been the best.
• 34:38
  Now granted, Eric Stokes, and do you really want to keep them me personally?
• 34:43
  No, you could probably bring in somebody that's a little bit more, actually, not well, I don't
• 34:51
  know.
• 34:52
  I really don't know.
• 34:53
  Cause my only problem with this is you don't want to have a complete makeover of the corner
• 34:59
  back room, you want to at least bring somebody back.
• 35:02
  So if you bring someone like Eric Stokes, that could be good and not to mention he can't
• 35:06
  demand a whole bunch of money anyway.
• 35:08
  So you could do that.
• 35:11
  What else?
• 35:12
  What else?
• 35:13
  What else?
• 35:14
  Corner, see the problem with corner is there's not like, there's not like a lot of options
• 35:18
  like it has been for the last two years.
• 35:20
  Like the last two years we've had Nate Wiggins, Christian Gonzalez, Quinneal Mitchell, Cooper
• 35:24
  Dejean, Julius Branson in company.
• 35:29
  This year, not so much.
• 35:30
  Now there are some, some corners that not, that's not getting talked about as much that
• 35:36
  should be getting talked about a whole lot.
• 35:37
  Darian Porter from Iowa dog.
• 35:41
  Absolute dog.
• 35:42
  Almost six, four, six, four.
• 35:46
  That man is an avatar.
• 35:48
  That man is one of one.
• 35:51
  Okay.
• 35:52
  You could go and you could probably double up that corner if you really wanted to.
• 35:56
  Now receiver is the same thing with Romeo dogs, probably getting traded.
• 36:02
  You're probably going to want to bring in somebody.
• 36:04
  So you have a few different options.
• 36:05
  You can get a speech or like a tie felt it, or you can get someone like a Matthew Golden,
• 36:10
  or you can get someone like, you can get the receiver from, from Stanford, or you can get
• 36:14
  Jaden Higgins, or you can get Jack Bess, or you can get, who is that receiver?
• 36:19
  I was just looking at, I was just looking at his footage.
• 36:21
  I was just looking at his footage this morning.
• 36:23
  I forgot who it was, but it'll probably come, you know, probably at the end of the episode.
• 36:27
  But you have a lot of options day two and day three.
• 36:31
  Okay.
• 36:32
  Interior, offensive line, you can go about a few different ways.
• 36:36
  You can go and draft someone like a Gray's apple or Tyler Booker, or you can pay for
• 36:40
  one.
• 36:41
  Now see with interior, offensive line, the guard market is starting to rise.
• 36:46
  So do you want to invest into a young guard that has a lot of upside with their game?
• 36:51
  Or do you want to go and get someone like a veteran who's already established, who may
• 36:56
  not ask for a whole lot of money?
• 36:59
  Because you could get someone like a Kevin Zeigler, you can get someone like a James
• 37:02
  Daniels, you have options there with interior, offensive line.
• 37:06
  Okay.
• 37:07
  Now edge, you can, you can draft the edge.
• 37:11
  Like I forgot who it was, but there's an edge from Alabama that, that I have my eye on.
• 37:17
  There's an edge from Boston colors that I have my eye on.
• 37:20
  I cannot remember their names right now, but you have options that edge in this draft that
• 37:26
  are legitimate options.
• 37:29
  So you can take that route as well.
• 37:31
  The Packers are in a situation right now where all fensively they're in a really good spot.
• 37:37
  It's the defense that just has to pick up a little bit more.
• 37:41
  And it's mainly the secondary and maybe a little bit of the pass rush.
• 37:46
  Okay.
• 37:47
  Because for Sean Gary, we all know Sean Gary, he's doing his thing.
• 37:49
  You all know that you have Kenny Clark.
• 37:51
  Okay, cool.
• 37:52
  But outside of them, you got to have, you know, more production out of what you already
• 37:57
  have right now, plus what you're getting ready to bring in.
• 38:01
  Because the Packers are not a bad team.
• 38:03
  The Packers are a really good team that could be a playoff caliber team.
• 38:07
  All they have to do is just stop falling on their own sword.
• 38:11
  We have seen multiple times where they just flopped like they flopped in the second half
• 38:18
  of the season.
• 38:19
  Why I don't know, but you have to be able to maximize the potential that you have on
• 38:26
  this team.
• 38:27
  You have a Christian Watson, you have Josh Jacobs, you have a really good offensive line,
• 38:31
  you have some good tight ends, you have pieces on this team.
• 38:36
  So you have to maximize it.
• 38:38
  Now granted, you do have a very competitive division.
• 38:41
  I'm not going to hold you.
• 38:42
  It's a very competitive division.
• 38:44
  But still, you have Jordan Love, who's a really good quarterback.
• 38:48
  So you have to figure this thing out and they can do it in this offseason.
• 38:52
  Now when we look at candidates for restructure, extension, trades and cuts, Jair Alexander,
• 38:57
  like I just said, trade them.
• 39:00
  Especially with the large contract that he has.
• 39:03
  16 million for his base salary this year and then next year it's 18 million.
• 39:08
  And then the cap hits.
• 39:10
  The cap hit this year is 25.4 and then next year is 27.8.
• 39:14
  You might as well just want to offload that contract.
• 39:17
  Because what it sounds like to me is it's a relationship that's going back.
• 39:21
  So just cut your ties with it.
• 39:23
  Romeo Dobbs, trade them.
• 39:27
  But with him though, he does have a market.
• 39:30
  It's not a strong market, but it's a decent market.
• 39:33
  His market value, if he was to get traded and then extended, would be four years 47.4
• 39:39
  million, which is 11.9 million a year.
• 39:43
  That's not bad.
• 39:45
  That's actually really good, honestly.
• 39:46
  That's a pretty good team friendly deal.
• 39:48
  Just saying.
• 39:49
  Christian Watson, I probably would start talking about an extension now.
• 39:54
  I wouldn't put it off until I would start doing it now just so you're ahead of the gun.
• 40:00
  Because if you don't, you're going to be like the bangles where you take a risk.
• 40:05
  And then if that risk doesn't go in your favor, then guess what?
• 40:09
  You're going to have to shell out twice or three times as much more money than what you
• 40:14
  didn't have to do, had you just pay them right then and there.
• 40:19
  So when we look at it, they don't have a lot of people that they have to pay.
• 40:24
  There's not a lot of people that are demanding big contracts.
• 40:28
  They made sure that they take care of their people fairly well.
• 40:31
  And they made sure they take care of the big players on their team.
• 40:34
  So all in all, you're in a good spot.
• 40:38
  I looked at the salary cap situation for every single one of these teams.
• 40:43
  All of them are in a really good salary cap space.
• 40:46
  All of them are, you know, they have cap space where they can, where they can make moves,
• 40:53
  but they don't have the type of cap space where they can bring in two or three big fishes.
• 40:58
  Okay.
• 40:59
  Malik Willis, give him an extension.
• 41:01
  Good backup quarterback option.
• 41:04
  He actually did pretty well when joining love was out this season.
• 41:07
  I'm just saying, I'm just saying you have to keep him just saying.
• 41:12
  Now when we look at the Vikings, okay, 63.8 million in cap space, roll over capital 5.9
• 41:18
  million, you have free agents that include Cam Robinson, Sam Darno, Byron Murphy, Staff
• 41:23
  on Gilmore, Aaron Jones, Shaquille Griffin, Jerry Tellery, Jonathan Bullard, David Quessenberry,
• 41:30
  Jiha Ward and Patrick Jones, just to name a few.
• 41:33
  Okay.
• 41:34
  Draft picks.
• 41:35
  You don't have a whole lot of draft picks because you have to use them to, you know,
• 41:38
  to get some people.
• 41:39
  So of course you got your first.
• 41:40
  You don't have a second.
• 41:41
  You have a third.
• 41:42
  You don't have a fourth and you have two fifth round picks.
• 41:45
  You don't have a six and you don't have a seven.
• 41:47
  Okay.
• 41:48
  Positions of need.
• 41:49
  This may be a little bit controversial, but who cares?
• 41:53
  Cornerback.
• 41:54
  Inside linebacker, excuse me, safety, running back, defensive line, interior offensive line
• 41:59
  in tight end.
• 42:00
  Okay.
• 42:01
  Now with corner, the reason why I say that is because it depends on what happens with
• 42:06
  the Byron Murphy situation.
• 42:08
  If they don't pay Byron Murphy, I feel like corner should be the top priority.
• 42:16
  But if they do keep Byron Murphy, then that can be a day two or day three option inside
• 42:22
  linebacker outside of Jiha Campbell.
• 42:26
  Who else do you really want to invest into?
• 42:28
  Now, granny, you have Barrick Carter, you have Carson, a Swaringer and company.
• 42:33
  You do.
• 42:34
  You have pretty good, you know, inside linebacker options, or you can bring in somebody from
• 42:41
  free agency if you want to, because again, the linebacker market isn't as strong.
• 42:45
  You don't have to pay 20, 25 or 30 million for a good productive inside linebacker.
• 42:51
  Now safety, safety is a little bit of a question mark.
• 42:56
  And I only say that because granny, you have some really good safety options.
• 43:02
  You have Malachi Starks.
• 43:03
  You have E-Man, you have Xavier Watts, you have Jaylen Reed, like you have some really
• 43:09
  good options at safety.
• 43:12
  Do I think any of them are going to fall that far?
• 43:15
  No.
• 43:17
  I don't think Malachi Starks are going to fall that low.
• 43:19
  I don't think E-Man is going to fall that low, especially with E-Man having the data
• 43:25
  he had at the combine.
• 43:26
  I just don't see it.
• 43:28
  Now I could be wrong, but sometimes you just need a little bit of luck.
• 43:32
  But I think for safety, I think you probably have to start bringing in Harrison Smith's
• 43:39
  replacement because I think this might be Harrison Smith's last year.
• 43:44
  I'm just being honest here.
• 43:45
  I think you have to bring in his successor so that they can sit and that they can learn
• 43:51
  on Harrison Smith.
• 43:53
  So that way when Harrison Smith gets ready to pass on the torch, there's no problem.
• 43:58
  Now running back, for some people you'll probably say, well just bring back Aaron Jones.
• 44:03
  No.
• 44:04
  The only reason why I say that is because with the running back class as big as it is
• 44:09
  and as diverse as it is, you have to pluck at least two of them.
• 44:14
  If you bring in someone like a Dylan Samson and a Caleb Johnson or a Trayvon Henderson
• 44:20
  and a Taj Brooks, that's good.
• 44:23
  That's really good productive running backs.
• 44:26
  Why in the world would you want to pay eight or 10 or 12 million a year for a running back
• 44:31
  where you can go and pluck two from the draft and it won't even hurt you?
• 44:37
  Not to mention, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these running backs do not get drafted
• 44:42
  and then become undrafted free agents.
• 44:44
  And in that case, you can get them for more of a steal, unfortunately, but that is the
• 44:49
  business side of football, unfortunately.
• 44:52
  Now defensive line.
• 44:54
  Have the position where they are right now, sure, you can prioritize that in the first
• 44:58
  round if you wanted to.
• 44:59
  You can get someone like a Derek Harmon.
• 45:01
  You can get someone like Darius Alexander, Jordan Phillips, Deon Walker.
• 45:06
  Did I say Walter Nolan?
• 45:08
  I probably didn't.
• 45:09
  I don't know.
• 45:10
  But you have options there.
• 45:13
  You could, and I'm just saying hypothetically speaking, you can make a trade for someone
• 45:16
  like a Jonathan Allen if you wanted to.
• 45:18
  You can bring in someone like Javon Hargrave because Javon Hargrave is said to be released
• 45:23
  so he will be a free agent next week.
• 45:26
  You have options at defensive line.
• 45:28
  You can bring in someone like a BJ Hill.
• 45:31
  I will continue to say this for any team that has a defensive line problem.
• 45:37
  This is the year that you need to address it because you have a really good defensive
• 45:43
  line draft class this year that you could bring in two or three really good quality
• 45:49
  defensive linemen.
• 45:51
  You can bring in someone like a Shamara Stewart.
• 45:53
  You can bring someone in like a Shamara Turner.
• 45:55
  You can bring in someone like, who else haven't said, there's so many, like so many defensive
• 46:03
  linemen that I still haven't even been able to look at, but you have options of line.
• 46:08
  So you might as well want to make that type of investment now, especially with you making
• 46:12
  the investment of getting Dallas Turner.
• 46:14
  You might as well.
• 46:16
  So when we look at interior offensive line, you can bring in someone again like a Grey
• 46:21
  Zable Tyler Booker or you can get the veteran approach.
• 46:25
  Me personally, I sort of like the veteran approach a little bit only because sometimes
• 46:31
  it can be a little bit cheaper depending on who it is.
• 46:34
  And you already know what you're getting out of them compared to drafting somebody and
• 46:39
  you're having to show them the way.
• 46:41
  Now granted, there are some people that you draft, they can, you know, they can hatch
• 46:45
  latch on pretty quickly and it's no problem.
• 46:47
  And then there's others that may take a little bit time to, you know, groom and really see
• 46:52
  the potential out of them.
• 46:54
  So you have options there.
• 46:56
  Me personally, I feel like Tyler Booker and Grey Zable are interior linemen one and two
• 47:00
  for me because both of them were pulled to the side to practice at center.
• 47:06
  So I think if you bring in someone like a Grey Zable, I think that would be perfect.
• 47:11
  I think that would be a match made in heaven.
• 47:14
  Personally, just saying.
• 47:16
  Now when we look at tight end, for some people it's a little bit controversial because they
• 47:21
  had TJ Hawkinson, but the fact of the matter is he is getting up in age.
• 47:26
  He has been having a lot of injuries lately.
• 47:30
  And I think you need to bring in somebody that can take some of the snaps off of him.
• 47:34
  I think if you bring in someone like a Harold Fannon Jr. or you bring in the tight end from
• 47:41
  Miami or you bring in Colston Lovelin or a Tyler Warren, if you bring in one of those
• 47:47
  tight ends and you pair them with TJ Hawkinson, that expands the offense even more because
• 47:54
  now you're going to have Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hawkinson, another tight
• 48:01
  end and then two really productive running backs.
• 48:03
  On top of this offensive line, we haven't even gone to the quarterback position yet.
• 48:08
  So I say all that to say this, Vikings, if you want to go back to where you just were
• 48:15
  or if you want to go further, you have to make more of an investment into the offense
• 48:22
  at certain positions.
• 48:24
  Now you can go at this a few different ways.
• 48:27
  You can go and bring in some young talent or you can bring in proven talent.
• 48:31
  The choice is yours.
• 48:32
  But remember, you are staring at the barrel of a gun when it comes to the quarterback
• 48:36
  position, which we're getting into right now.
• 48:39
  When we look at candidates for restructure, extension, trades and cuts, okay, Sam Darno,
• 48:46
  this is going to be the most talked about situation because on one hand you have somebody
• 48:51
  that played really well.
• 48:54
  You have somebody that at one point in time in the season, people were saying he could
• 49:00
  have been an MVP.
• 49:02
  I'm dead serious.
• 49:04
  That is how crazy they were doing in the first half of the season.
• 49:08
  But then they fell off a little bit and then they just flopped when it came to the playoffs.
• 49:14
  So you can run it back with Sam Darno or you can go and you can just stick with JJ McCarthy.
• 49:22
  Now the thing is this, the Vikings in some ways can finesse Sam Darno just a little bit.
• 49:30
  The reason why I say that is because he can't demand 45 or 50 million a year just because
• 49:37
  of how bad things went when they needed him the most.
• 49:43
  You could probably get him from maybe 35 to maybe 42 million a year at best.
• 49:48
  I don't think anything after that you can do it.
• 49:52
  Now when we look at his market value, it's a four year $160.4 million deal, which is
• 49:58
  40.1 million a year.
• 50:00
  Me personally, I feel like that's the sweet spot.
• 50:03
  I think anything over that you're reaching hard.
• 50:08
  So you have this decision where do you want to run it back with Sam Darno or do you want
• 50:15
  to go with the rookie because he's still a rookie at this point.
• 50:19
  This is going to be the first official season that he's going to be able to play.
• 50:22
  So you have a decision that you have to make.
• 50:24
  Now, when you make this decision, I think you have to weigh the outcomes with what you
• 50:31
  already have on the team.
• 50:32
  I think you have to weigh in with Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and TJ Hawkinson because
• 50:39
  this team was on a whole nother level when Sam Darno was in.
• 50:44
  If you put JJ McCarthy in, they're going to have to relearn a new quarterback.
• 50:49
  And I don't think someone like a Justin Jefferson wants to do that again.
• 50:52
  So I say all that to say this, even you pay Sam Darno now and you have JJ McCarthy weight,
• 51:01
  which it wouldn't hurt him.
• 51:03
  Honestly, it'll give him time to develop and really be the best version that he can be.
• 51:09
  Or you can take the risk.
• 51:10
  You can let him walk and then you can run it with JJ McCarthy.
• 51:14
  But I think it all depends on if JJ McCarthy is fully healed.
• 51:19
  If his knee is fully repaired and it's good to go, give it a shot.
• 51:25
  But if not, and in the contract negotiations with Sam Darno continue to draw out and the
• 51:30
  number continues to be a crazy number that you guys aren't willing to pay, well then
• 51:35
  by all means, let him walk.
• 51:37
  But don't look back.
• 51:40
  Don't be the person saying, come on, come on back.
• 51:42
  Come on, we need you.
• 51:43
  We need you.
• 51:44
  No, no, no, no.
• 51:45
  Please come back.
• 51:46
  No, just let him walk.
• 51:48
  Okay.
• 51:49
  So, you know, I'm going to ask you a question.
• 51:51
  You have a tough decision that you have to make.
• 51:53
  Do you want to pay him the amount of money that he's probably going to be asking for?
• 51:57
  Because he's going to be asking for a lot of money.
• 51:58
  He had a really good season.
• 52:00
  Like his market value is four years, 88.3 million, which is 22.1 billion a year.
• 52:06
  That's a lot of money.
• 52:07
  Do you want to do that?
• 52:10
  I think you have to.
• 52:12
  I think right now the Vikings are in a spot if they hit on their draft picks and free
• 52:19
  agency signings.
• 52:22
  Let me just say this.
• 52:23
  Let me also say this as well.
• 52:25
  When we think of free agency, a lot of times we think of the big flashy move.
• 52:30
  We think of the first person that signs the big deal that resets their position on market
• 52:36
  or whatever.
• 52:37
  But a lot of times it's the free agent signings that not a lot of people talk about that are
• 52:43
  the most effective ones.
• 52:45
  And we see it every single year.
• 52:49
  Think about it.
• 52:50
  Zach Bond signed a one year deal with the Eagles.
• 52:54
  There was a lot of uncertainty with him.
• 52:57
  Vic Vangio saw the potential in him.
• 53:00
  They worked and then guess what?
• 53:02
  Super Bowl champions and he got paid for it.
• 53:05
  The same.
• 53:07
  So with Byron Murphy, you could pay him, which I do expect for them to pay him simply because
• 53:14
  they pushed the contract deadline.
• 53:22
  So they're pushing it back for a lot of people.
• 53:25
  So if they're pushing it back for a lot of people, that lets me know that they are trying
• 53:29
  to hash out a deal fairly quickly.
• 53:32
  Dalton Reisner extension.
• 53:35
  And I only say that because it's not a lot of money to pay him.
• 53:38
  Two years, 6.7 million, which is only 3.4 million a year.
• 53:43
  That's not a whole lot of money.
• 53:45
  You still have to be able to have deaf pieces and people that aren't making a whole lot
• 53:50
  of money.
• 53:51
  Understand this here, fellow junkies.
• 53:55
  A roster isn't just composed of people that are making double digit amount of money.
• 54:01
  It's not about a team that has a whole bunch of players that are making 12, 11, 22, 28,
• 54:08
  45, 52 million a year.
• 54:11
  It's not about that.
• 54:12
  It's about prioritizing certain positions.
• 54:15
  And then the other positions outside of those prioritized positions, you make sure that
• 54:20
  you pay them, but you don't overpay them.
• 54:23
  Now when we look at someone like a Patrick Jones, I think you can give him an extension
• 54:27
  as well because he's coming off of a seven sack season.
• 54:31
  He played a really pivotal role with his defense in the patch rush.
• 54:34
  I think you have to reward him.
• 54:36
  Same thing with Andrew Van Ginkel extension.
• 54:40
  Three years, 45.8 million, which is only 15.3 million a year.
• 54:44
  Now do you want to give him that type of money?
• 54:49
  That's for you to decide, but me personally, I would try to knock it down just a little
• 54:54
  bit because again, you still have to pay other people.
• 54:57
  You still have to prioritize other positions.
• 55:00
  So you want to be able to maximize what you have while at the same time, position yourself
• 55:07
  to where if anything crazy happens and training camp or somebody wants to come to the Vikings,
• 55:13
  guess what?
• 55:14
  You can make that move and you don't have to do a bunch of restructures and cuts and
• 55:19
  all of this financial stuff that a lot of teams have to do.
• 55:25
  So all in all, this is what I have to say about the Vikings.
• 55:28
  You're in a great spot, continue to build, continue to prioritize certain positions and
• 55:34
  you will be fine.
• 55:36
  You will be right back where you just were.
• 55:39
  Now onto the Lions, okay?
• 55:41
  Your salary, 51.3 million with a rollover cap of 23.7 million.
• 55:46
  Not bad.
• 55:47
  Your free agents, Carlton Davis, Marcus Davenport, Kevin Zyler, John Kaminski, Levi, Anwan Zinkari,
• 55:55
  I know I just butchered your last name.
• 55:57
  I am so sorry.
• 55:58
  Alan Robison, a few too, Metal Fano, Dan Skipper, Michael Bagley and Juan de Donne Alexander
• 56:05
  as I call him.
• 56:07
  Now when we look at this, all right, your draft picks, you got your first, your second, your
• 56:11
  third, your fourth, you don't have a fifth, you have your sixth and you have three seventh
• 56:16
  round picks.
• 56:18
  Positions of need, DB, Edge, Interior, Offensive Line and D-Line.
• 56:24
  The only reason why I say Interior, Offensive Line is because of Kevin Zyler.
• 56:29
  If he leaves, then that's position that you have to prioritize and take care of.
• 56:34
  Now when we look at this, all right, the Lions have had a lot of turnover this off season.
• 56:41
  You lost both your offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator and you've lost a majority
• 56:46
  of your positional coaches.
• 56:47
  So you've had to elevate a lot of your assistance into replacing the positional coaches positions.
• 56:54
  I know, confusing, right?
• 56:56
  Say that three times.
• 56:57
  So here you are in a situation where you're trying to get over the hump, you're trying
• 57:04
  to get to the Super Bowl and then this happens.
• 57:08
  So now you have a lot of questions that you have to answer moving forward.
• 57:13
  Is Jerichoff going to be the same Jerichoff that we've seen in the last three years?
• 57:17
  Is this offense going to be the same offense that we've seen in the last four years?
• 57:21
  Is this defense going to be the same that we've seen in the last few years?
• 57:26
  There's a lot of questions right now with the Lions.
• 57:30
  And I think right now, if you are a Lions fan, you have to have a lot of questions because
• 57:37
  right now it'll be different if you lost one of your coordinators, right?
• 57:42
  If you lost Ben Johnson, but you kept Aaron Glenn for another year, okay, all is well,
• 57:48
  right?
• 57:49
  But you lost both of them.
• 57:50
  And then on top of that, you lost their assistants as well.
• 57:54
  So like everyone's having to learn a new system, everyone's having to learn, you know, everything
• 57:59
  all over again, because it might be different philosophies with everybody.
• 58:04
  So I say all that to say this.
• 58:07
  Sure, you're in a really good tap space, but you have to figure out exactly what are you
• 58:13
  going to prioritize first?
• 58:15
  Are you going to prioritize making sure that you take care of your own players or trying
• 58:19
  to figure out who else could we bring in that could be an instant upgrade that can take
• 58:23
  us to the next level?
• 58:25
  Because right now, your division is about to get a whole lot more competitive.
• 58:31
  And the reason why I say that is because a majority of the teams in your division all
• 58:37
  have really good offenses, as well as really good defenses as well.
• 58:42
  This division last year outside of the Bears, no disrespect to y'all, was really competitive
• 58:47
  all the way to the end.
• 58:49
  Lions and Vikings fought tooth and nail all the way to the end.
• 58:54
  Okay.
• 58:55
  Packers, they were putting up a fight at first, but they just lost their grip.
• 59:00
  Okay.
• 59:01
  But when we look at everything for DB, the problem is where you guys are positioned.
• 59:07
  So you have the 28th pick in the draft.
• 59:10
  So most likely you're not going to have a really good choice when it comes to who you
• 59:14
  really want at DB.
• 59:16
  So sure, you can take a risk on someone like, you know, Siobhan Reville or Will Johnson,
• 59:24
  if he's there or Benjamin Morrison or all the corners that we all know and love, or you
• 59:29
  can take a swing at somebody in day two and day three if you want to.
• 59:34
  But I think if you want to be aggressive, you may have to trade up to get somebody that
• 59:38
  you really like.
• 59:40
  Now granted, Carlton Davis is a free agent and then a few too, Malifano is a free agent
• 59:45
  as well.
• 59:47
  And then not to mention Kirby Joseph, I think he's about to be a free agent after this season
• 59:52
  begins and ends and whatnot.
• 59:54
  So you have to figure out exactly what do you want to prioritize first?
• 59:59
  Do you want to prioritize corner?
• 1:00:01
  Do you want to prioritize safety?
• 1:00:04
  Now with safety, again, as I've said before, the two main safeties that I think everyone
• 1:00:08
  is going to want to go after is Malachi Starks and E-man.
• 1:00:12
  You are in no position to get neither one of them.
• 1:00:16
  So the second best thing you can do, we sign them, we sign some of your players and then
• 1:00:21
  try to see if you can take a swing at someone like an Ezra Thomas or Jade Barron.
• 1:00:26
  Because if they fall to at least 22 or 23, I think you can make that move and you can
• 1:00:33
  trade up and you can get them.
• 1:00:35
  And that would be great because let's be real here.
• 1:00:40
  Inside of Tarion Arnold, who else can you really rely on?
• 1:00:44
  Because you've had a lot of turnover with this secondary in the last few years.
• 1:00:49
  You thought getting camps was going to be the answer.
• 1:00:52
  We all know how that ended.
• 1:00:53
  I'm not going to get into it.
• 1:00:55
  You bring in Carlton Davis.
• 1:00:57
  Carlton Davis does his thing, but now he's a free agent and now he's going to be more
• 1:01:00
  expensive than, you know, than when he was before.
• 1:01:03
  Kirby Joseph, he's going to want his money as well.
• 1:01:06
  So you have to figure out exactly what are you going to do moving forward?
• 1:01:12
  Because even with edge, you can attack that in the first run if you want to.
• 1:01:16
  I feel like someone like a James Pierce, he's going to fall out of the first round because
• 1:01:20
  apparently he has attitude issues.
• 1:01:23
  There's a red flag with him that not a lot of people are talking about.
• 1:01:26
  And I really want to find out exactly what it is.
• 1:01:30
  Defensive line, as I've said before, and I will continue to say, you can address it
• 1:01:34
  at any point in the draft.
• 1:01:36
  You can address it in the first round, second round, third round, so on and so forth.
• 1:01:42
  Okay.
• 1:01:43
  Interior, offensive line.
• 1:01:45
  I feel like you can address that in free agency because right now you can't really be in the
• 1:01:51
  position to go after another, you know, really good edge rusher.
• 1:01:56
  I mean, sure, you could probably get someone like a Khalil Mac or Joey Bolsa if you really
• 1:01:59
  want to take that route.
• 1:02:00
  But do you really want to do that?
• 1:02:01
  I don't think you really want to.
• 1:02:03
  You want to mention you have to get ready to pay hutch as well.
• 1:02:06
  And with Max probably resetting the market hutch price probably just went up just a little
• 1:02:12
  bit more.
• 1:02:13
  So you have a lot of decisions that you have to make this off season.
• 1:02:16
  My fellow Lions fans.
• 1:02:18
  So when we look at, you know, positions of need, well, no, not not not position need.
• 1:02:23
  What am I talking about?
• 1:02:24
  Candidates, excuse me, for restructure, extension, trades and cuts.
• 1:02:29
  As I just said, Aiden Hutchison extension.
• 1:02:32
  Okay.
• 1:02:33
  Market value for years, 122.1 million, which is 30.5 million a year.
• 1:02:41
  That price may have just went up maybe five or $6 million even more.
• 1:02:46
  Just saying Kirby Joseph, like I just finished talking about extension market value for years,
• 1:02:52
  92.8 million, which is 23.2 million a year.
• 1:02:56
  I'm sorry, you're going to have to take care of these guys.
• 1:02:59
  You could not let Kirby Joseph play out the rest of the rest of this year.
• 1:03:03
  I think you have to make sure that you lock him up because who's to say that he's going
• 1:03:08
  to hold out and train camp?
• 1:03:10
  Do you really want that?
• 1:03:11
  I don't think you do.
• 1:03:12
  Who else?
• 1:03:13
  Who else?
• 1:03:14
  Who else?
• 1:03:15
  Jameson Williams.
• 1:03:16
  I feel like you could give him an extension as well because he can't really demand a whole
• 1:03:20
  lot of money because you're paying a lot of money to Amon Ross and Brown.
• 1:03:23
  So with his market value, it's only three years, 59 million, which is only 19.7 million a year.
• 1:03:29
  That's not bad.
• 1:03:30
  That's actually pretty good.
• 1:03:31
  Honestly.
• 1:03:32
  I feel fine.
• 1:03:33
  Extension.
• 1:03:34
  Levi, I forgot how to pronounce your last name.
• 1:03:39
  I'm very sorry.
• 1:03:40
  Extension.
• 1:03:41
  Even when I looked at his market value, I was actually surprised.
• 1:03:44
  I would have thought it would have been in the double digits, but for it to be only two
• 1:03:48
  years, nine million, which is 4.5 million a year, I feel like that's a bargain, honestly
• 1:03:55
  speaking.
• 1:03:56
  Marcus Davenport, you could give him an extension or you could try to get somebody that could
• 1:04:01
  be a little bit of a better upgrade. Like the choice is yours. Honestly, you don't have to bring back markets that important. I feel
• 1:04:09
  like that's a decision that you can make, you know, later into the summer. I don't feel like that's something that's like a pressing
• 1:04:14
  need. Honestly, Carlton Davis, that is a little bit more of a pressing need because when we look at his market value is three
• 1:04:22
  years, 41.3 million, which is 13.8 million a year. I think you have to bring him back. You may not like it, but you might have
• 1:04:35
  to bring him back. That is not really that big of a deal. I think 13 million, I think that's pretty good compared to what, you
• 1:04:43
  know, Tyreek Willen or sauce gardener or a lot of these other bigger name corners may try to gardener in free agency. Kevin
• 1:04:51
  Zyler, that's a question mark because you have to figure out if you want to play or not. If he wants to play, you can give him an
• 1:04:57
  extension because the extension is not going to cost you a whole lot. One year, 9.2 million, which is again 9.2 million a
• 1:05:04
  year. That's not bad at all. So I say all that to say this, I think you have to do a little bit of dabbling and dabbling. You
• 1:05:12
  have to prioritize taking care of your players, especially the players are going to be a lot of money while at the same time,
• 1:05:21
  trying to repatch any positions that you have on this team. Because let's be real here. The only reason why the Lions didn't make it as
• 1:05:29
  far as they did was because of injuries. That defense got riddled with injuries and they were just trying to find somebody to be able
• 1:05:38
  to play on Sundays. It was so bad that they were getting people from other people's practice squads and just trying to do some
• 1:05:45
  patchwork. They had Jamal Adams, Mr. I'm the best in the nation. Playing for them. They had Juan Alexander playing for them.
• 1:05:54
  They were riddled. This person was out for the season. This person was out for the season. This person was out for the season like
• 1:06:01
  injuries did their thing with the Lions defense. For one, you have to get healthy to prioritize who you want to prioritize.
• 1:06:11
  And three, if you're going to be aggressive in the draft, be aggressive. If not, play it cool. See how the board falls and then just go
• 1:06:21
  from there. But I'm going to end this episode here. If you guys like what you're listening, please, please, please, please, please,
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  Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news, breaking news, folks, Trey Hendrickson has been given permission to seek a trade.
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  Yes, that Trey Hendrickson. Now, when we look at the financials of this, all right, he has one year left on his deal, which is
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  non guarantee. All right, the bangles save 16 million in cap space while only taking on 2.6 million in dead cap. Now,
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  automatically, I can tell you two teams right now that would love to have someone like a Trey Hendrickson, Washington and the
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  Eagles. I think if either one of those two teams get Trey Hendrickson, that automatically up upgrades them and puts them in a
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  different stratosphere. Okay, especially the Eagles, because they're about to lose Josh sweat and Brandon Graham. So if you
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  bring in someone like a Trey Hendrickson, I think that patches things up. I think that addresses that need. Now for
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  Washington, this is an automatic upgrade over what you already have. Now granted, not a Fowler and Frankie Lover were very
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  productive, but Trey Hendrickson is on a whole other level. And I think you can talk him down his price. This is an ongoing
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  Later. Now this was definitely expected only because the Bengals were not going to be able to pay T Higgins, Trey Hendrickson and
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  Jamar Chase and one offseason. You're resetting the market for Jamar Chase. You're probably playing 28 to maybe 30 million for
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  T Higgins. And Trey Hendrickson, I don't even know what his place is, especially with Max Krobs beginning his deal yesterday. So
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  Bengals, what are you guys doing? Sam Hubbard just retired yesterday. You essentially have nobody on your defense. You are
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  literally back to being the Bengals of old. Bengals will be the Bengals, I guess. Double breaking news, double breaking news,
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  double breaking news. Just when you think this episode was over. No, it is not. Christian Kirk has been traded to the
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  Texans, folks. So the Texans are inheriting Christian Kirk in the one year that is left on his deal, which is non
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  guaranteed at 16.5 million. The Jaguars are getting a 2026 seventh round pick for any person for any Steelers fan that wants to
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  argue with me moving forward and say that, oh, we don't need to go after DK Metcalf. You are wrong. All of you are all
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  wrong because you know why we literally went from a point to where you had Debo Samuel available. Brandon I you would possibly
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  available again, Metcalf and Christian Kirk. And now it is basically gone all the way down to pop and I you in DK Metcalf.
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  That quickly. What are we doing here, folks? What are we doing? He can no longer sit in our hands and just play the waiting
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  game until next week. Teams are making moves now prior to the start of free agency. So what are we doing? What are we doing,
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  Omar? You have to get DK now. That's the only way that you could consider this offseason to start off.
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  On the right foot. I know I'm probably saying that wrong, but I'm just so frustrated because it doesn't make sense that we
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  continue to go through another offseason where we play the waiting game instead of being aggressive. If you want to win, you
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  have to be aggressive. Washington has been aggressive. Houston has been aggressive. The 49ers have been aggressive. I wouldn't
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  be surprised right now. By the time I am done recording this little bit for this episode, that Washington would have made a trade
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  to get trade Hendrickson. People want to win. If you are not willing to win, if you are not that pissed off of not making
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  a goal and not holding up a Lombardi, then what are you doing with yourself? You no longer need to be a GM. If you don't want to
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  take this thing serious, whatever the asking priority for a DK Metcalf, give it to him. Give it to him. What's it going to hurt
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  you? It's not going to hurt you at all. The going price for a top 10 receiver is probably 30 plus million a year. That's just
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  the price. It's no longer 06 where you can get an all pro pro bowler future Hall of Fame player for 6 and a half million. You
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  can no longer do that. The price is the price. You have to go and you have to be aggressive. Even if it needs a give up a player just so
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  you don't have to give up a first round pick to get someone like a DK Metcalf, do it then. Do you really need everybody in your team? No, you
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  don't. Ship away Mario. Ship away Cole Holcomb. Ship away Roman Wilson. Ship away people that you know are not going to make it to the
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  field. You need productive playmakers. Y'all said it yourselves. Y'all wanted playmakers. You wanted to win a playoff game. But if you want to
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  play off game, you have to start now. This is where teams are built. This is where championships are created when when GMs want to make
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  aggressive moves and position themselves over everybody, not only their division, but everybody in the league. I'm off my
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  self box. I don't even want to say what else I wanted to say later.