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to get to today. It's been

1:00

a great week heading into the weekend.

1:03

It's draft week. A lot of dreams

1:05

have come true. But before

1:07

we get into talking about the draft

1:09

and everything.

1:11

Man, I just ask man, you know how

1:13

my guys doing. Man, how y'all doing man, how's

1:15

how's everything going? TJ plus? What's what's

1:18

the good word?

1:20

Man?

1:20

I'm good, you know, I'm just

1:22

landed, sprinted

1:24

home on the freeway, sprinted

1:28

yeah, yeah yeah rented yeah yeah,

1:30

really really really fast, not breaking any

1:33

laws, just going, you know, as fast as possible

1:36

so I.

1:36

Can hop on this show with my brothers. He

1:39

has the fun.

1:41

There's a couple of things in that sentence that

1:43

really don't go well together. Was driving

1:45

really fast, speeding, but you won't breaking any laws?

1:47

But I wasn't. I

1:50

wasn't driving. See, oh

1:52

you won't drive? Yeah, I wasn't.

1:55

No big time, big time

1:57

panteam man got it? Driver?

2:00

What'd you like? Was panting and literally

2:02

plying? Or what.

2:09

Wasn't available to the DJ? Nah?

2:11

No, it wasn't available.

2:12

Hey, but wey, I come

2:14

home and it's clear skies a

2:17

here we go from where

2:19

you come from. I was in Detroit

2:21

at the draft, oh the dirty d Yeah,

2:24

I was in Detroit the last few days.

2:27

Hey, we saw some I saw some some

2:29

juice boring and some stuff like that, like is

2:31

there congratulations and and uh

2:34

in order?

2:35

Plex Cobert,

2:36

Yeah, I'm

2:39

sorry, plex y'all. Plex

2:41

sent us a picture I

2:43

promise you if that picture could

2:45

have been eaten off and

2:47

he'll explain it. But Man, I wanted

2:50

that so bad. Oh, Man, go ahead

2:52

pay.

2:52

Yeah. It was the first SYU

2:54

Bowl maide in house.

2:55

Man.

2:56

For people that don't know, I'm the owner of

2:58

the Nectar Juice Bar. And Wayne New

3:00

Jersey.

3:01

All right, all right, right alone. It's

3:04

been a long you know.

3:05

We started this journey in pre COVID, and then COVID

3:07

happened, and it's a lot of things we're

3:10

kind of just put on hold. But Man, just

3:12

seeing it through. Man staying persistent.

3:15

Man, and my grandmother's

3:17

gonna be Wednesday, May

3:20

first. We're gonna have my vpece off opening

3:23

on Tuesday. So yeah, Man

3:25

really excited about it. Man. Got a good team,

3:27

a great employees, great general manager.

3:30

Man's looking forward to, you

3:32

know, giving the community what they need.

3:34

Man.

3:34

You know, just trying to be more health trying

3:36

to be more health conscious.

3:38

And Wayne New Jersey, do you have

3:40

an address? Throw the address out there.

3:42

Yeah, we'll address to next

3:44

to Juice Bar is twelve

3:46

ninety one Hamburg

3:49

Turnpike, Wayne, New Jersey, come on

3:51

out May first. Man, We're gonna smooth the juice

3:53

up, ask II bowl dragon fruit. Whatever

3:55

you want, We're gonna make it happen for you.

3:58

Sound so we're gonna push it out there, man.

4:00

And speaking of owning ownership

4:03

and having something of your own, it's

4:06

amazing that someone

4:08

with our humble beginnings is

4:11

put in a position where we can do those

4:13

things. And it all started

4:16

with the NFL Draft, all right.

4:18

Now, whether you get drafted or whether

4:21

you don't, the idea of it

4:23

is is you're still on the day

4:25

of understanding that now it's real.

4:28

You go from being an employee

4:30

that's unpaid and

4:32

maybe in a lot of ways undervalued at

4:34

the college level, and then well not

4:36

anymore. But then now you go into

4:39

a situation where you're fully a

4:41

professional and you get paid. The NFL

4:43

Draft took place, TJ.

4:45

You said you were there. Two hundred

4:48

and seventy five thousand

4:51

fans showed up in Detroit for

4:54

the first round. I mean, what

4:56

was it like being there, TJ? And let's

5:00

build from there.

5:01

First off, it was a great environment.

5:05

The people were great. I

5:07

was shocked when I

5:09

walked out. I was like, WHOA, is

5:13

it really this many people? And it just kept

5:15

going further back,

5:18

Like you just looking and you're like, damn, I mean they're

5:20

still back there. Like it was so

5:23

many people and the

5:25

hospitality was

5:27

great, and so I

5:30

can foresee them going back to Detroit.

5:32

It was that good of

5:34

a time to set up everything

5:38

that the city of Detroit. They

5:40

did to make sure the people were saved,

5:42

to make sure the people had a good time.

5:45

Hell of a job.

5:46

Whoever organized that, you need to patch

5:48

yourselves on the back, because there's a lot of people behind

5:51

the scenes that make

5:53

things like that go. But me

5:55

personally, I was thoroughly impressed with the

5:57

setup in the way everything was

6:00

ducted in Detroit for sure.

6:02

Man.

6:02

Man, it's definitely a good look for Detroit, Man,

6:04

especially everything you know, a lot of you know,

6:07

things that they have been through, Man and Mark Wahlberg

6:09

and Daniel Gibson and a lot of people

6:12

going into the downtown of

6:14

Detroit, Man and really building this place back

6:17

up. Man, it's good to see.

6:19

And you're you're I mean, you're not from there,

6:21

obviously, being from the top, but you

6:23

represented East Lansing,

6:26

which is, you know, kind of an extension

6:28

of Detroit. You represented

6:31

the great state of Michigan. Just

6:34

talk about like for you and saying

6:36

that the revitalization that's going on there

6:39

and the draft being there, how

6:41

big of a part do you like, How big an impact

6:43

do you think that is for the city

6:45

that got the draft there?

6:47

Plex.

6:47

Man, it's crazy because you know, you know,

6:50

we've been talking about the Detroit Lines

6:52

and how bad this franchise has been for the last

6:54

quarter century, and now you look

6:56

at what the direction that Dan

6:59

Campbell has its team going, and

7:01

they make it to the playoffs for the first time in

7:03

what seventy some years or whatever the case

7:05

may be. And then on the top

7:08

of it all, for that season they

7:10

they have, they are hosting the NFL's draft

7:13

after their best season in.

7:15

A very, very, very long time. Man. So it's

7:17

a good look for the city.

7:18

And one thing I say about the people from Detroit, Man, I went

7:20

to school in Michigan State, Man. Deal, everybody

7:22

from Detroit, they let you know where they're from. Man, I'm

7:25

from the d I'm from Detroit, man.

7:28

So it's definitely a good look.

7:29

Man.

7:29

Jalen Rose he has

7:31

his you know, a charter charter school,

7:33

his academy out in Detroit. So there

7:35

are a lot of good things, man, going on Detroit

7:38

I've just seen Chris Webber and

7:40

Jayden Rose and all of those guys man getting

7:42

back, going back to Detroit,

7:45

man and representing where they come from. And

7:47

this is a great revitalation for that city.

7:50

So let me ask you guys this, TJ. You

7:52

take this the idea

7:54

of the.

7:55

Draft moving around.

7:56

I heard rave reviews about

7:59

how it went and Noshville. They said it

8:01

was unbelievable

8:04

spectacle. Obviously Vegas.

8:06

I was at the one in Vegas. I think

8:09

we were all together. Weren't we together at the one in Vegas?

8:11

Me?

8:11

Yeah, weren't. I don't know.

8:12

I thought we were.

8:13

I'm pretty sure we might have been.

8:15

Anyway, the idea of it

8:17

moving around, it

8:20

seems as though the NFL has tapped

8:23

in on another way to

8:25

generate excitement and revenue

8:28

and extend the season by

8:31

creating something that is there's

8:33

no game being played, but yet it has

8:35

a big game feeling

8:38

to it. Are you guys, like, do

8:40

you feel like this is a good move by

8:43

the NFL. Can't be a bad one, how

8:45

you guys seeing it?

8:47

It's really what the NFL is doing. Hey

8:50

put your best foot forward to all these cities,

8:53

and I look as a

8:56

trial of will we be

8:58

going back to this city, will be going

9:00

back to that city, And so to

9:03

me, next year they'll be in

9:05

Green Bay, I believe, the following year in DC.

9:08

The following year after that will be Pittsburgh.

9:11

And so to me, it's put your best foot forward

9:13

and when we get done with this, we

9:16

will double back on the cities

9:19

that showed us a great time

9:22

and everything and all protocols

9:24

were met.

9:25

That's how I see it.

9:26

But for me, the

9:29

NFL is turning into a global sport.

9:32

In order to do that, you

9:35

take it from city to city. I mean, I

9:37

met some dudes last night, Man from an international

9:39

player Pathway Bro, the

9:43

rugby dude that signed.

9:44

With the Chiefs.

9:46

It was a tight end signed with the Jags,

9:49

and it was two offensive linemen.

9:50

Bro.

9:51

One was from England, the other one was from the Dominican

9:53

Republic. Bro.

9:54

These dudes were like the lineman

9:57

six seven, three hundred pounds off

10:00

them dudes ran four seven, both

10:03

of them dudes. And so they're

10:05

trying to expand the game with football

10:08

because it's so much talent. But

10:10

it's an American sport and so if

10:12

we can turn take this thing global, look

10:15

out.

10:16

Man, I think it really highlights the city

10:18

because we always talk about,

10:21

you know, Dallas being an America's team, and

10:23

you know, everybody know that. You know, Pittsburgh

10:26

is a you know, blue collar football

10:29

crazy you know, with Town,

10:31

Buffalo, DC.

10:34

You look at all these cities and it just

10:36

highlights that, you know, off

10:40

brand organizations like the

10:42

like the like the Lions in Detroit, what

10:45

they're fan basing like in what the city is like.

10:47

And those people are football crazy also, so

10:50

I can't imagine what

10:52

it would be like. It's going to be crazy in Pittsburgh

10:55

and especially you know Washington

10:57

and DC. Man, people don't understand how

11:00

big that fan base really is in

11:02

DC. I know because I grew up in Virginia

11:05

and I can't wait to see

11:07

this draft when it is Washington, DC.

11:10

Love it, love it.

11:11

There's a lot to get to, different

11:13

storylines connected to the whole

11:15

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11:17

up, we're going to talk a little quarterback

11:20

action from the draft. Unexpected

11:23

surprise, unexpected pick at

11:26

the position within the top ten,

11:28

and it may have ruffled the feathers of

11:31

one of the quarterbacks that just

11:34

newly was acquired to that team. We'll

11:36

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11:39

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the Atlanta Falcons, they did

13:27

some pretty interesting here. They

13:29

took Michael Pennix. They shook things up.

13:31

They took Michael Pennix and they

13:34

had just newly acquired one.

13:37

Kirk Cousins paid him a lot of money.

13:39

It's a guaranteed contract. What

13:42

do you guys feel? What are you guys thinking about

13:45

what took place? There seems

13:47

to have been a little bit

13:49

of maybe miscommunication. I

13:52

believe kirk cousins agent said

13:55

they were unaware. And now

13:58

you take your quarterback of

14:00

the future, But what

14:02

have you done to the

14:04

motions or the feeling or stability

14:06

of your quarterback of now?

14:09

Who cares about what we've

14:11

done to the court? Like? Who cares?

14:13

Like if they don't that probably

14:16

bothers me more than anything.

14:18

And it's not directed at Kirk Cousins.

14:21

It's the nature of

14:23

the way these quarterbacks think they're

14:26

just better than everybody else. Why

14:29

can't you have competition? Like,

14:31

who says that a quarterback? Oh,

14:34

we gotta call Kirk Cousins. Do

14:36

you think they call other

14:39

positions when they draft a got your position?

14:41

Nah, they don't do that. Why they got to call a

14:43

quarterback?

14:44

We drafted Michael Pennix And

14:46

if you don't like it, oh well, I

14:49

mean that's what it should be. They

14:52

say quarterback is the most important position

14:54

in the game. So

14:56

they wanted to make sure that if Kirk Cousins,

14:58

at his advanced age,

15:00

isn't ready to go, that they got somebody as

15:03

a backup that can

15:05

play, because Michael

15:07

Pennix is not going to play for the first two

15:10

years and the Falcons believe

15:14

we're going to be pretty good, so we won't be in

15:16

a position to draft our franchise quarterback

15:18

for a while.

15:20

So now that we are in.

15:21

That position, let's do it

15:23

now, and let's hope if

15:25

Pennix can sit for two years, dad,

15:27

he's ready to rock and roll. After

15:30

those two years, that's what I foresee happening.

15:33

And if Kirk Cousins goes down, we

15:35

have a backup quarterback that we feel good

15:38

about. To me, that's all it

15:40

is, like, Oh, he they

15:42

called when we were on when they were on the clock.

15:44

You lucky they called you. They don't

15:46

owe it to you to call you. The

15:48

fact that they called you, the fact that people are

15:50

making a big deal about this is crazy. It

15:52

shows you how the

15:55

ultimate team game. They

15:57

really always want to put the focus on

16:00

one position, in one player, and that's not

16:02

how the game is played because

16:05

when the dem o lineman don't block them,

16:08

quarterbacks came through the whole line, don't

16:10

block the running backs can't run, Receivers

16:12

don't get open who you're throwing the ball to.

16:14

So it's the ultimate team game.

16:17

I have no problem with what

16:19

the Falcons did because they are planning

16:21

for the future, Kirk Cousins. They believe you're going

16:23

to have some great seasons with them.

16:26

They won't be in this position.

16:27

Again.

16:28

I said it time and time again.

16:31

I thought Michael Pennix was being

16:33

so underrated. He wasn't being underrated.

16:35

They were just trying to bring him down. Because I'd

16:38

have been on the field with him a ton and that boy

16:40

can sling the rock.

16:43

Yeah, you know what, you

16:46

know, people got to realize Kirk Cousins

16:49

is coming off and the Killers engine, which just happened

16:51

in October, and it hasn't

16:54

it hasn't been a whole calendar year. Michael

16:56

Pennock Junior. He is an older guy.

16:58

I believe he's twenty three years old. But you know,

17:01

in my third and when I was twenty three,

17:03

I was going into my third season already, So

17:05

I think he played with six years in college over years,

17:08

you know, older kid or more

17:10

mature. But when I sit when

17:12

I sit back and listen to Kirk

17:14

Cousins and his agent, and I think he highlighted one

17:17

thing for me. Uh, you know, with

17:19

these with all the contracts, this

17:22

all this guaranteed money that

17:25

Kirk that Kirk Cousin has a mass

17:28

since he was in that fully

17:30

guaranteed it was eighty four million with the Minnesota

17:32

Vikings, He's

17:35

always.

17:36

Been in comfort mode.

17:38

He hasn't had anybody

17:42

to really kind of to push him because

17:45

the money that he has received allowed

17:47

him to be in a position where

17:50

he doesn't have to look over Surely he

17:51

he doesn't have to be uncomfortable.

17:55

And I think that when they

17:57

drafted Michael Pennis junior, the agent that, well,

17:59

why didn't y'all tell well, we don't have to tell you that, man. This

18:01

is our team, this is our organization, and Tej,

18:03

you are exactly right. I think that

18:06

what the Atlanta Falcons plan to do is

18:09

to learn under Kirk Cousins moving

18:11

forward. And it may be his third

18:14

or fourth year of whatever, you know, the case

18:16

may be with Kirk Cousins, because he did just signed a four year,

18:18

one hundred and eighty million dollar deal.

18:20

He's already got.

18:21

One hundred million dollars of the deal at

18:23

signing, so he's going to play

18:25

for the next two years. Kirk Cousins, you

18:29

know, he's been injury prone. But

18:31

I think that the Atlanta Falcons

18:33

was just really giving themselves some insurance

18:36

moving forward, just in case

18:39

anything happens. Because Atlanta Falcons,

18:41

I think they're have a really good team. I think they're building

18:43

a good enough roster to be able to

18:45

compete in the NFC South. But if

18:48

you're an agent of your Michael and your and

18:50

your Kirk Cousins, if

18:53

you're confident in what you're able to

18:55

do.

18:56

Right moving forward. Worry

18:58

about Michael Pennix. You and your fat tell you this.

19:00

I know, I know, I notice City of Atlanta.

19:03

If Kirk Cousins doesn't go out there and

19:05

perform well, the

19:08

fans of the Atlanta Falcons, they

19:10

will be pushing for Michael Pennick Junior. So

19:12

with that being said, I think he understands

19:15

that also, what kind of city

19:17

that he is in with a

19:19

backup quarterback?

19:22

Would they be doing that if they didn't draft

19:24

Michael Pennick Jr. It

19:26

is purely based upon well

19:29

do they.

19:29

Put if the Atlanta Falcons,

19:31

If the Atlanta Falcons, if Atlanta Falcons

19:34

did not have Kirk Cousins on

19:36

the roster, I would have still taken

19:38

Michael Pennick Junior with that pick.

19:43

He's gonna surprise some people of art like that

19:45

boy can play man.

19:46

He's such a bro about

19:50

foreign arm and he's so accurate. I

19:53

knew about him before y'all knew about

19:55

him. I mean, maybe you might have seen him do y'all

19:58

dirty.

19:59

You know when he played with Indiana and

20:01

he had a man hold

20:03

on. I'm gonna give you he had ty

20:06

Fried focal looking like he was gonna be an

20:08

NFL draft pick, bro a receiver.

20:10

Tell me I'm wrong. Yeah, no, that

20:13

that name. I never would Yeah.

20:15

He was.

20:16

He was wrecking people at Indiana,

20:18

and in that COVID year he gave

20:21

us the business bit, the

20:23

bid, the business right, I mean it was

20:25

bad. And then I was like, then I didn't see him

20:27

anymore. I was like, oh, oh man, he went to Washington.

20:30

Don't think for two seconds,

20:32

not for one or two seconds,

20:35

that Washington didn't go to that

20:37

national title game because

20:39

of the director. No doubt of Michael

20:42

Pennix. Yeah, no doubt.

20:43

I mean, let

20:46

me.

20:46

Throw this one out at you. Let me throw this out. His

20:49

name is Mike. He's

20:51

left handed. He went

20:53

to Atlanta. Yeah,

20:56

y'all talk to me. You talked to me. I mean, I

20:58

ain't gonna say he's not as athletic,

21:01

obviously, but there.

21:04

I think that when Kirk Cousins get too many

21:07

camp or the training camp or whatever the case

21:09

may be, and he gets that first glimpse of

21:11

what of what Michael Pennix is

21:13

able to do throwing the football, he's

21:16

gonna be. He's gonna be, He's gonna be in shock. He's

21:18

like man, what damn, I gotta really go out of him,

21:20

be on, be on my p's and q's, because this

21:23

young man that's sitting behind me like he

21:25

ain't no joke, and there's

21:27

gonna be some days.

21:28

Trust me, I know how this.

21:30

Thing goes where you know the teammate

21:32

that the players on the team gonna be looking at us in the Wait

21:34

a minute, now, we know they all just

21:36

gave this boy one hundred eighty million dollars,

21:38

but the backup quarterback may be better than he is,

21:41

and that's the position that they do not want to

21:43

be in.

21:43

Trust me. And you know what I do like

21:46

is Penix. He he's

21:48

come out and said, you know, Kirk

21:50

Cousins called me. We had a great conversation.

21:53

It's not personal. We're teammates.

21:55

I'm gonna be a professional. I'm gonna help

21:57

you along the way because I know, moving

22:00

forward, the only

22:02

way that I keep my job is to play great.

22:04

You can't play good. You can't play

22:07

good. You got to play great. You

22:09

got to play great.

22:10

Absolutely, if you don't play

22:12

great, Michael Pennix

22:15

will be the quarterback in two years. But

22:17

this happens to everybody

22:19

at some point in some time, every

22:23

young current player

22:25

will be an old retired player at some

22:28

point it's going to come, and

22:30

you try to prolong that and

22:33

put that off as long as you can. And

22:35

for Kirk Cousins, it's

22:38

he's a great thrower the football, he reads

22:40

and understands coverage, but he is yet

22:42

to get his team to

22:45

the promised Land. He's yet to

22:47

produce and take his team

22:50

to where they've tried to go. If he can do it with

22:52

the Falcons, that is a great

22:55

problem to have. And if you don't.

22:58

Michael Pinnix, well,

23:00

now, like LeVar said, be

23:02

another left handed Mike in

23:04

Atlanta, and I believe things

23:07

will be a lot different this second

23:09

time around.

23:11

Chiefs trade up with the Bills

23:13

of all teams, the Chiefs. Yeah, I'm

23:15

gonna repeat it. Trade up

23:18

with the Bills for speedy

23:20

receiver.

23:21

Zave.

23:21

You're worthy.

23:21

You may remember, Zave, You're worthy of

23:24

the combine texts receiver

23:27

fastest forty times

23:30

ever.

23:31

And he's going to the Chiefs.

23:33

We're going to talk about that, but first let's get an update

23:35

from the legend himself, mister Isaac

23:38

Loewencron.

23:40

While LeVar suspicious

23:42

timing as you toss it over right.

23:45

As a Penn State player gets

23:47

drafted, that's it

23:51

is the Johnson Ye

23:54

Penn State tight end Theo Johnson just

23:56

drafted by the New York Giants

23:59

AD one seven overall. So

24:01

let's recap. Yeah, let's recap

24:03

the fourth round. It started with the Carolina

24:06

Panthers drafting Texas

24:08

tight end Jatavian Sanders.

24:10

That was followed by the Denver Broncos

24:13

selecting Oregon receiver Troy

24:15

Franklin, reuniting him with

24:18

Bone Nicks in Denver. Then

24:20

the New England Patriots drafted

24:22

Texas A and M offensive guard Leyden

24:25

Robinson, the Arizona Cardinals

24:27

selecting Texas Tech safety

24:30

Dadrian Taylor Demerson. Then

24:32

it was the Los Angeles Chargers drafting

24:34

Alabama defensive tackle Justin

24:37

E. Boygby, the Tennessee

24:39

Titans drafted North Carolina linebacker

24:42

Cedric Gray, and again, moments

24:44

ago, Penn State tight end

24:46

Theo Johnson was drafted by

24:48

the New York Giants. Those the first

24:50

seven picks in in the fourth

24:52

round of the NFL Draft. Today's

24:55

NBA Playoff action gonna tip off

24:57

at the top of the hour with Game four from

24:59

Orlando. You know, with the Cleveland Cavaliers,

25:02

leading the Magic two games to one,

25:04

and Friday Nights game threes. The

25:06

Minnesota Timberwolves one a Phoenix one

25:08

twenty six to one oh nine for a three games

25:10

to none lead. The Indiana Pacers

25:13

defeated the Milwaukee Bucks in overtime

25:15

one twenty one to one eighteen for

25:17

a two games to one series lead, and

25:19

the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Los Angeles

25:21

Clippers one o one to ninety.

25:23

The Mavericks lead.

25:24

That series two games to one.

25:26

Fellas, all yours appreciate

25:29

Alo.

25:30

If you're listening to up on Game Teacher,

25:33

hisman zis Plexico Burds. Fellas the

25:37

Chiefs now the chiefs

25:39

of all team. All teams

25:41

are the team that everyone is

25:44

is chasing after, including

25:46

the Buffalo Bills.

25:48

You guys got to answer me this.

25:51

How do you allow a

25:53

trade to take place with your

25:56

conference rival, your divisional

25:59

rival, well not division

26:01

but conference yep, conference

26:03

rival, and you

26:05

allow them to add a piece

26:07

that may make them, with

26:09

the addition of Hollywood

26:12

Brown, the

26:14

most dangerous offense in

26:16

the NFL.

26:18

Yet again, were

26:20

you guys okay with them making this move?

26:22

What like?

26:23

Please give me some context as to why

26:25

you make this move if you're the Buffalo Bills.

26:29

Ah Man, Brandon Bean said, we

26:31

didn't care who they were going to draft.

26:35

I don't like that. I don't like that. Man.

26:38

The Chiefs had a hard time last

26:41

year offensively just getting

26:44

the ball down the field. It was more of

26:46

a dink and dunk two yards

26:48

and a cloud of dust. Offense defense

26:50

really carried them, carried them, and

26:53

offense just made plays when needed,

26:56

and they still won a super Bowl. And they still

26:58

won a super Bowl? Right, and so now,

27:02

well what's going on with was she Rice?

27:04

You don't know what's gonna happen. They acquire Hollywood

27:07

Brown as a free agent, and

27:09

then you

27:12

let them come

27:14

up and get Xavier Worthy and

27:16

see people are looking at Worthy

27:18

and oh he's just fast, so he can No,

27:21

he's a receiver. He's a receiver, bro

27:24

Like, he can run routes. And

27:28

it's almost as if, like you said, it your

27:30

conference rival, because it

27:33

goes through the Chiefs. I

27:35

would the Chiefs would have to have

27:38

given me so much that

27:41

what you're gonna get me? Oh no, no, no, no,

27:43

that I ain't enough. You got to ask something else in there, like,

27:46

no, I'm not doing that. But

27:49

again, when the Buffalo Bills

27:51

believe in what they're doing, they

27:53

believe in whatever

27:56

formula they had laid out. I wouldn't

27:58

have done that. There's no way possible.

28:01

I'm letting the Chiefs get

28:04

Xavier Worthy and you think you're gonna trade

28:06

up with me and do that. Absolutely

28:09

not. For the Buffalo

28:12

Bills. I hope it works out.

28:14

I hope they don't cross paths at the

28:16

playoffs, and which they will.

28:19

Would it not be crazy if, of

28:21

course, if Xavier Worthy is the

28:23

one that makes the play.

28:25

I mean, there are just so many things

28:27

that go into that.

28:28

But you know, when Patrick Mahomes has a guy that

28:30

can really get down the field, it

28:33

opens everything up

28:36

because of his ability to really stretch

28:38

the field with his arm strength. And so

28:40

now he got two guys that can

28:42

really get down the field in Hollywood

28:45

and Xavier Worthy. I'm the Buffalo

28:47

Bills. I'm not doing that. But let's see

28:49

how this works out.

28:51

Yeah, I just don't understand what

28:53

this was from an organization

28:56

standpoint. For the Buffalo Bills. You're talking about

28:58

just like you said, afct mes, you probably

29:00

gonna have to face in the playoffs, and now

29:03

you allowed them to acquire

29:06

the fastest person in the draft in

29:09

NFL history, making

29:11

this offense more explosive than it already

29:13

is. You already can't cover Travis Kelsey

29:16

and everybody knows that what They throwing

29:18

the ball to him and he's still manages to get the football.

29:20

Now you're talking about a guy who can absolutely

29:24

take the top off of a defense in a Tyreek

29:27

Ill type manner. And now you're

29:29

talking about the older Patrick Mahomes, a more mature

29:31

Patrick Mahomes, and you

29:33

had Hollywood.

29:34

Brown to the mix.

29:35

We're not sure what's gonna happen with what she

29:38

writes, but you're talking about this offense

29:41

being explosive and being

29:43

you know, last year, you know rinked at the bottom

29:45

the bottom of the pile as far

29:47

as you know, twenty twenty yard passing plays

29:49

and being explosive, and it

29:51

just really doesn't make sense if you're a Buffalo bill

29:54

saying, you know, I don't care whoever

29:56

we're gonna who, we're gonna take me. You

29:58

just lost Stefan Diggs, so

30:01

he would have been a great addition to

30:03

your offense to help Josh

30:06

Allen hopefully one day get over the

30:08

hump of getting to the AFC Championship

30:11

and maybe a Super Bowl.

30:13

But to allow Andy

30:16

Reid, who I think, who

30:18

I say is the best play call in all the football,

30:20

quiet this guy and be paying

30:22

with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelshy on his

30:25

offense. I just don't see

30:28

how you are going to stop him in, contain

30:30

him and slow him down. With this young

30:32

man that they just added to this team.

30:35

You got to assume that Rice will

30:37

be available even if he does have to

30:39

deal with some disciplinary actions.

30:42

It won't be the entire season you're going to get

30:44

him back. You're going to have all of those

30:46

players on the field at

30:48

the same time. Not to mention Pacheco

30:50

out of the backfield. The amount of

30:52

balance that this team is going to have on offense

30:55

is almost scary.

30:57

It's borderline area

31:00

as it gets to add a guy that can

31:02

take the top of the defense off the way that

31:04

they're going to do with adding Worthy

31:07

to their their roster. So it's gonna

31:09

be interesting to see how that all plays out. Man,

31:11

I'll tell you what another receiver

31:14

that well came up, aj

31:16

Brown. He did a deal. We'll tell

31:19

you how big that deal is. On

31:21

the other side of this break you are

31:23

listening to up on Game. That is mister

31:26

Stretch Armstrong himself, plex

31:28

Coburst and pante Man. As you

31:30

heard, he flew in you know via

31:32

a panteam Man Skott Friendly Sky

31:35

from Detroit back to the crib

31:37

to do this this show today.

31:39

So we got them and we got me. LeVar

31:41

Arrington. I'm just you know, I'm just tear at

31:43

the School of Mutants

31:45

as a professor.

31:46

That's all.

31:47

That's just me, no superpowers. Anyway,

31:49

you're listening to us, This is up on Games.

31:51

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32:29

fellas quick segment here.

32:31

But I'll tell you what interest.

32:35

We had two receivers get

32:38

paid raw

32:41

Saint Brown, your guy

32:43

TJ. You know out here from

32:45

from the west coast, the left coast. He

32:49

gets his payday from the Detroit

32:51

Lions. And then boom, AJ

32:54

Brown gets his payday from

32:56

the Eagles, gets extended

32:59

and becomes the high is paid receiver

33:01

and NFL history. What

33:04

say you guys to these these payments

33:07

that have taken place for the receiver's

33:09

positions.

33:11

First off, congratulations to both of those

33:13

dudes. They've earned it. Second,

33:16

Levarn need to be somebody's general manager.

33:18

Man.

33:18

Uh Like,

33:21

When you look at what

33:24

these guys have you just received,

33:27

it makes you wonder, what

33:29

are the Niners offering it a U that

33:32

is now going up? What are the

33:34

Bengals offering Jamar Chase

33:37

that has now gone up? What

33:39

are the Vikings offering justin Jefferson

33:42

that has now gone up

33:44

way up? And so the

33:47

nature of the businesses, for

33:50

sure would Jefferson

33:53

and Chase their eclipsing AJ

33:57

Brown? Ayuk is going

33:59

to want to be near

34:02

or more than Saint Brown.

34:04

And so.

34:07

It is one of those things where when

34:09

you really looked at the contracts at the

34:11

highest played receivers, highest

34:14

paid receivers, it was never

34:16

over thirty million. Because Tyreek Kill

34:18

was making just under forty four million

34:21

in the last year of his deal.

34:22

That's fluff. They gonna renegotiate that.

34:24

And so for Aminra

34:27

to get thirty a year and AJ Brown to get

34:29

thirty two a year, it really

34:31

jumped a ton. And

34:34

now all these receivers are like

34:37

smile and rebbing your hands together because

34:39

you know what is about to

34:41

come down the line. And I

34:44

thought what the Eagles did with AJ

34:46

Brown was great because now if

34:49

you led Justin Jefferson and jamar

34:51

Cha Son, AJ Brown is

34:53

gonna want more than them. So they are

34:55

being proactive getting ahead of this and

34:57

I like it. But AJ Brown

34:59

were well deserved. I'm in Ross

35:01

Saint Brown well deserved. Man.

35:06

I never thought that I

35:08

would see the wide receivers will be making quarterback

35:10

money. I mean, you talking about

35:12

guys making thirty plus million

35:14

dollars a season, thirty

35:17

two million dollars a season. It's

35:20

more than my four year deal entirely

35:24

when I signed here with the New York Giants. So that's

35:27

how much the wide receiver salaries

35:29

has jumped in the last

35:31

fifteen years.

35:33

And these guys are very deserving.

35:35

And I just I'm

35:38

thinking about Jamar Chase and

35:40

Justin Jefferson and these guys coming forward.

35:43

They are sitting there for

35:47

a crowball.

35:49

They are sitting there waiting, like man,

35:52

thank you AJ Brown and the Philadelphia

35:55

Eagles for just up

35:57

in the value at the wide receiver position.

35:59

And these two guys, well, I just mentioned

36:01

a probably the top two

36:04

wide receivers in all of football. But

36:07

AJ Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles just

36:09

set the wide receiver markt for these young men

36:11

moving forward. And this just is

36:14

just, you know, baffles

36:17

me that these guys are now making thirty

36:19

million dollars a year.

36:23

Okay, talk to me about Detroit

36:26

because to me, it seems as though

36:28

when you look at a team like the

36:31

Dallas Cowboys and Ceedee

36:34

lam because y'all didn't mention Ceedee Lamb, Ceedee

36:37

Lamb is staring at at

36:39

what he wants and how

36:41

they could have easily

36:44

just done his extension and

36:47

made him whole, but yet they

36:49

haven't. And then you see a

36:52

Detroit do what they did, and I look at

36:54

that, and I say that's cultural. I look

36:56

at at Philadelphia, I say they

36:58

had some issues at the end of their season

37:01

drama wise playing out and it was with AJ

37:03

Brown. And now they

37:06

get Aj Brown solid, emotionally

37:09

ready to go for this upcoming season.

37:12

Why wouldn't Dallas do the same

37:14

thing.

37:16

I mean, Dallas has shown us they

37:19

don't do this.

37:21

This is not what they do.

37:23

They waited and waited and waited with

37:25

Dak Prescott and look

37:27

where they are now. And

37:30

so I don't understand.

37:33

It's not just the Cowboys. I don't

37:35

understand a lot of these teams. When you

37:38

have a young player and you know

37:41

you're gonna want to resign him, and you know he's

37:43

a part of your future. The

37:45

longer you wigh, the more

37:48

it costs. What do they

37:50

not understand about that? Like that's

37:53

crazy. I'm not giving you a deal.

37:56

You have more money than me. Why would I give

37:58

you a deal when you have more money

38:00

than me?

38:01

Like what? And so.

38:05

It just baffles me that these

38:07

teams we're gonna put it

38:09

off. We're gonna put it off like

38:12

it's gonna go away.

38:14

It ain't gonna go away.

38:15

It's just gonna cost you a little more, and

38:17

so the longer you wait,

38:20

the more you'll pay them. And if that's what

38:22

you want to do, clap your hands. Kudos

38:24

for the players, because the players, when

38:26

you're that young, you're just gonna continue to get better

38:29

and better and better, and the price

38:31

is gonna continue.

38:32

To go up, Go up, Go up. M

38:39

Dallas, you're looking at

38:41

CD Lamb.

38:42

I just don't really understand what they're

38:44

really waiting on to see the Lamb.

38:46

Michael Parsons, Dak Prescott, man

38:48

what they They have some.

38:50

Decisions to make financially moving

38:52

forward, and I think, uh, you

38:54

know, the elephant in the room is going to be Michael

38:56

poster.

38:58

Fifty year option though, right, yeah,

39:00

yeah.

39:01

That that gives them one more year.

39:03

It's disrespectful, man, that that that type

39:05

of stuff makes a player mad. That

39:07

makes a player mad, he's earned a new deal. Give

39:10

it to him. That pisses players off.

39:12

And they know that pisses players off.

39:15

Yeah, all that does is give them,

39:17

you know, uh, you know, another year.

39:20

But then when you pick

39:22

up his fifty options, now you're talking

39:24

about Michael Parson's and

39:26

CD Lamb going to the

39:29

table as free agents.

39:31

So now you have to make a decision.

39:33

One of these guys are going to get franchise because you're not gonna

39:35

be You're not gonna be able to pay these guys

39:37

max max dollars or whatever the

39:39

case may be. Uh, the

39:42

choice that the Cowboys make.

39:43

With that, who knows.

39:45

But I would address the CD Lamb issue

39:48

now because if you wait

39:50

another year, all all he's gonna do

39:52

is create problems for you in

39:55

the salary cap when it comes to Michael

39:57

Parson's and CD Lamb.

40:01

All right, you're listening up on Game. Hour

40:03

two is coming up. Listen Hour

40:05

two start off. We're gonna jump out there

40:08

and I want to hear what TJ and plexicost

40:11

takes are on who they felt had

40:13

the best draft, had the best pick. That's

40:17

gonna be interesting to hear. There's a lot going

40:19

on with that. We're also gonna talk to some basketball

40:21

cups. The Legend will be joining the show.

40:24

So listen up. Just make sure you

40:27

take a quick break. We'll be right

40:29

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40:32

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