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1:05

new NFL league year hasn't even started, and

1:07

already the entire landscape of the league has

1:09

changed. That's because we don't wait for the

1:11

league to start. We fire straight in with

1:13

our legal tampering period or our negotiation period,

1:15

and we just get all the business done

1:18

in the first couple of days of this

1:20

week. So we're going to break down free

1:22

agency. Everything that's happened so far that hasn't

1:24

technically happened until... What is it? 4pm today?

1:27

But all the moves that have been made with our

1:29

guy Trevor Sykma in the house. How's it going, Trev?

1:33

Oh, you're muted. Somebody's muted. I'm

1:36

muted. That was, you know, professionalism at

1:39

its finest. No, it's going good. No, obviously this

1:41

time of year is always very funny because we have

1:43

the new league year that opens up on a

1:45

Wednesday, and we basically know

1:47

all of the major news that is going

1:49

to happen the second that it drops. So it's just always really funny.

1:52

We learn of these moves on

1:54

a Monday, but the teams can't talk

1:56

about it. So the second 4pm rolls around, the

1:59

social chain... team just unloads the

2:01

clip. The jersey swaps, the videos, the hype

2:03

tweets, like all that kinds of stuff. So

2:05

it's a good time. So 4 PM, because

2:07

of what we've seen over the last couple

2:09

of days, is going to be pretty

2:11

fun. Yeah. And technically it does mean that none of

2:13

these deals are official yet outside

2:15

of resignings. You know, players can resign with

2:17

their team at any point. Those are actually

2:19

official and done and filed with the league.

2:22

But all the agreed upon moves are

2:24

not actually done until 4 PM today

2:27

when the paperwork can get filed, which

2:29

does mean in the rare occasion, you

2:31

do get one that is reneged on

2:33

and it collapses at the

2:35

last minute. And actually a guy ends up going

2:37

somewhere else. Like Frank Gore at one point, right,

2:40

was, wasn't he supposed to go to the Eagles?

2:42

And then that did that disappeared after the first

2:44

day of the negotiation period and he ended up

2:46

going somewhere else. It has happened

2:48

before is my only point. So we're going to treat

2:50

it as if it won't happen and all these deals

2:52

are actually done. But it

2:55

is possible that these deals could collapse. I

2:57

do think that it's funny when

3:00

the team accounts realize

3:02

like what's going on.

3:04

I think this started like four or five

3:06

years ago. So now the team accounts realize

3:09

that they don't want to miss out on

3:11

the website traffic. And so

3:13

now the actual team

3:15

will say report this

3:17

person to sign with this team. And I always

3:19

just think it's really funny because I want to

3:21

respond to all of those and just, you know,

3:23

the meme where she's like source, you know, I'm

3:26

saying that to a team account that's basically reporting

3:28

that they're going to go out and get this

3:30

guy. The Panthers were the ones that they caught

3:32

my eye the other day. Like these

3:35

are tweets from the Carolina Panthers report

3:38

Panthers ad Seahawks guard, Dami Lewis, and

3:40

it just it's Panthers to

3:42

add linebacker Josie Jewel Panthers trade

3:44

for Deontay Johnson, but it's all the word report

3:46

is before all of those things. So it just

3:48

makes me like, you can't, you can't stay quiet

3:50

for a couple of days and just let it

3:52

go. Right. Yeah, they can't miss out on this

3:55

sweet, sweet engagement. You got to drop it. Anyway,

3:57

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including trading players. Alright Trev, let's

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start with your favorite favorite

4:38

sort of haul so far winners of free

4:40

agency from a team point of view whose

4:42

work have you been a fan of so

4:44

far? As

4:47

I pull out the PFF tracker which everybody else

4:49

should also go to pff.com and make sure that

4:51

they're keeping up with the tracker. The first team

4:53

that I want to shout out is the Houston

4:55

Texans. I think the Houston Texans are big winners

4:58

this week. I love the move for

5:00

them to bring in D'Nico Autry from

5:02

the Tennessee Titans. I loved them bringing

5:05

in Aziz Al-Shayir as well for the

5:07

linebacker level reuniting him with D'Amico Ryan's.

5:09

I really liked the Jeff Acuda signing

5:11

too. I like when the Detroit Lions

5:14

signed Jeff Acuda or brought Jeff Acuda

5:16

in and obviously it didn't work out there

5:18

so I'm holding on to hope. I like the

5:20

one-year deal with Jeff Acuda but then the one

5:22

that really put it over the top was the

5:25

D'Nil Hunter signing for me because you lose

5:27

Jonathan Gernard. Jonathan Gernard actually went to Minnesota and

5:29

then D'Nil Hunter went from Minnesota to Houston so

5:31

it's kind of funny little swap there but this

5:35

dude I know that he had

5:37

the back surgery in what was it 2020? 2020 and

5:39

then he tore his pec in 2021 we're

5:43

like ah man now he's getting up there in

5:45

age is D'Nil Hunter ever gonna be the same?

5:47

Last two years he's played all 17 games started

5:49

in all 17 games each the last two seasons

5:51

and last year he played the most naps he's

5:53

ever played in had the third best pressure percentage

5:55

which was basically the same as what it was

5:57

the year before so you know that he's just playing really well. 80

6:00

total pressures like this guy's still an absolute

6:02

legit edge rusher. So now you got the

6:04

Nico Autry, you got the Nail Hunter, you

6:06

obviously have Will Anderson that you drafted last

6:09

year as well. So I love what Houston

6:11

was able to do and I love the

6:13

plan of we're going all in on free

6:16

agents on defense and that frees them

6:18

up I think for number 23 to

6:20

be used on an offensive player but

6:22

they've done so well with signing guys

6:24

on defense that I think that it

6:26

could also signal them being aggressive in

6:28

the first round. Maybe this is a

6:30

team that really wants a Brian Thomas

6:32

Jr. or an A.D. Mitchell or maybe they think

6:34

that they're going to go off the board before

6:37

23. They've given themselves the

6:39

flexibility to do what they need to do to

6:41

make a big splash on offense in the draft.

6:43

So for what free agency is supplement a lot

6:45

of your needs to then take a big chance

6:47

at a big swing when it comes to the

6:49

NFL draft. I thought Houston did it fantastic. Yeah

6:52

Texans are definitely one of the teams I had

6:54

on my winners list as well. I think they

6:56

would really like to use that first round pick

6:58

on offensive linemen. That's one of the areas where

7:00

they haven't really bolstered and I

7:02

think they want to upgrade that line. One

7:05

of the things they did that you didn't mention

7:07

was they trade for Joe Mixon so

7:09

they get their running back. We

7:12

mentioned that PFF Bobby doesn't

7:14

necessarily fall in lockstep

7:16

with all the analytics approaches

7:19

when it comes to running back and the

7:21

conventional wisdom. He wants a better run game

7:23

than they had last year and

7:25

you knew that they were going to go

7:27

and try and do that somewhere. There were

7:29

talks that they were in on Saquon Barkley

7:31

before the Eagles made that happen but getting

7:33

Joe Mixon I think is a good move

7:36

there as well. He's still a kind of

7:38

bell cow type of running back that can

7:40

do good things behind a solid offensive line

7:42

in that system. Dalton Schultz

7:44

re-signing I'll give him credit for that. Danico Autry

7:46

as well I think is one of the most

7:49

underrated defensive linemen in the game. Tim

7:51

signing alongside Danelle Hunter alongside Will

7:53

Anderson already there. That

7:56

is a nasty defensive front in the making

7:58

and as you said, upgrades it. Linebacker

8:00

and bringing any kind of, you know.

8:02

I like the Icu deciding, not necessarily

8:04

because I think there's Ah. it's likely

8:06

to work out, but because you might

8:08

as well. I always kick the tires

8:10

on that kind of town. The guy

8:12

was the third overall take of a

8:14

drafts ah hasn't worked at the Nfl

8:16

so far, but let's give it a

8:18

shot. If you get something out of

8:20

him in a good system would good

8:22

coaching, it's a steal. So.

8:24

Death me like to Texans? Who else? you got? your list?

8:28

Ah, who's next remain oh Atlanta So I

8:30

let her know that we're going to talk

8:32

about this a little bit later and show

8:35

them kind of talk about quarterbacks but Italy

8:37

and it has to be mentioned here. they

8:39

didn't make a ton of signing spotlight. The

8:41

to signings that they may I think again.

8:44

Really well. Three Signing Sorry. All due

8:47

respect to Charlie Border. Make. Sure

8:49

I get him shout out there during a movie.

8:51

Kirk Cousins for Cousins is a big once and

8:53

a doornail. Moody is the other arm. And

8:56

I think the certainly be them going as all in

8:58

a Kirk cousins they are. He takes away the mystery

9:00

of the number eight overall pick, but it also just

9:02

like used just I guess it was use. It gives

9:04

him a ton of flexibility, especially now that they brought

9:06

internal Mooney so. They got Mooney to

9:08

sort of round out there off sense of

9:10

weapons with him and Drake London and Kyle

9:13

pits be John Robinson some other guys are

9:15

they have on the team as well and

9:17

with the quarterback in place they've got a

9:19

solid often zip line now. If

9:22

a sticky a they've got an opportunity to

9:24

take the best edge rusher in the draft.

9:26

but they could also sit here and say

9:28

maybe we could still get even more aggressive

9:30

if we wanted to me but even with

9:32

are no movie made me want to go

9:34

give a lead neighbors and you want to

9:36

get Roman do and say maybe somehow someway

9:38

Marvin Harrison Junior fall so I just i

9:40

really like would lean a did because without

9:42

having a top three overall pick. Sure

9:44

you can say to yourself, well we

9:46

could move up. But. That's no guarantee,

9:49

right? And I think that the point of

9:51

free agency? Like you said so many times

9:53

before. Fill. the needs which allows you to

9:55

be as flexible as possible to go get the right

9:57

player the most talented player the you can when it

9:59

comes draft weekend. Them

10:01

going out to get Kirk Cousins was

10:03

the right move in my opinion. Over

10:06

signing Russell Wilson, over trading for

10:08

Justin Fields, Kirk

10:10

Cousins was the

10:13

right quarterback for this team at this time and now

10:15

they get to have a lot more flexibility in the

10:17

draft. So Atlanta has to be

10:19

one of my favorite halls even though they

10:21

were relatively quiet because they made

10:23

the move that mattered most. They made the move

10:25

that everybody was kind of waiting on when it

10:28

came to this free agency period of where Cousins

10:30

was going to go. They win those sweet stakes

10:32

and I think they're going to start as, I

10:35

know Tampa fans are going to be mad at

10:37

me again for this, but like I think Atlanta's

10:39

probably going to start as favorites to win the NFC

10:42

South next year even with the Bucks bringing everybody back

10:44

after they won the division because of the rest of

10:46

that team and how it's shaping up and even those

10:48

new head coach I think that they're going to be

10:51

favorites to win that division. Yeah I mean I there

10:53

was one high-level starting veteran quarterback

10:55

available this offseason, Kirk Cousins and the

10:57

Falcons got him. You

10:59

know we can debate where Russell

11:01

Wilson is in that picture but Kirk

11:04

Cousins is the closest thing to assure

11:06

high-quality starter available even factoring in his

11:08

age and coming off the Achilles. So

11:10

Atlanta going to get that guy given

11:12

where they were in the draft I

11:15

think can only be seen as a good

11:17

thing. They were willing to go to a

11:19

financial place that the Vikings weren't and

11:22

that was all it was going to take

11:24

to bring in Kirk Cousins. Now even then

11:26

it's being termed

11:29

a four-year deal it isn't really it's effectively

11:31

a two-year deal for like a hundred million

11:33

dollars so like at that price

11:35

point 50 million dollars a year for if Cousins

11:37

plays the way he has for the last like

11:39

five years or anything like it 50 million

11:42

dollars a year is fair market value for that

11:44

right it's not even top of the market value

11:47

for that it's fair market value for the level

11:49

of play Kirk Cousins has had over the last

11:51

few years. So I think from that

11:53

perspective it's a good move and as you said

11:55

that then frees up number eight and

11:58

not just that but it frees up number eight. and

12:01

more capital that it probably would have taken

12:03

to go and get a quarterback if you

12:05

wanted one in the draft. Like if they

12:07

hadn't done anything in free agency, if they

12:09

were going into the draft needing their starter,

12:12

either they were probably picking QB4 at number

12:14

eight or they were gonna have to trade

12:16

to two or three to go get their

12:19

guy at which point you're not even talking

12:21

about pick number eight, you're talking pick number

12:23

eight and everything else you're gonna have to

12:25

package to go make that trade. So all

12:27

of that is saved by having Kirk Cousins

12:30

and the instead and I agree

12:32

with you I think they would love for one

12:34

of those top three wide receivers to be available

12:36

there and now you're talking a group that is

12:39

Drake London, Kyle Pitts, Darnell

12:41

Mooney, Malik neighbors

12:43

or Adunze and

12:45

Bijan out of the backfield like and

12:48

an offensive line by the way that's better than

12:50

any that's ever been put in front of Kirk

12:52

Cousins in Minnesota that has

12:54

the recipe for this offense to be really good

12:57

even if PFF Zach doesn't even know

12:59

what he's doing and let's assume he does given

13:01

that he does show him as a disciple and

13:03

he you know we know Zach smart so all

13:06

all signs are good for Atlanta I agree it Tony

13:10

frankly if they'd done nothing else it was

13:12

just Kirk Cousins and then you know then

13:14

we declare for the offseason it still would

13:16

have been one of the best free agent

13:18

halls because that's what they needed to secure.

13:21

I agree with you I agree I like

13:23

what Atlanta did a lot and again like

13:25

you said if they come away with one

13:28

of Adunze or Malik neighbors this

13:30

offense just got terrifying I mean

13:32

that offense at that point becomes

13:34

so talented that fantasy

13:36

football people are once again going

13:38

to be furious with the Falcons

13:41

because there is only one football to go

13:43

around and you're not gonna be able to

13:45

have three 1,000 yard

13:48

receivers and Bijan Robinson who's

13:50

supposed to go for a thousand yards and

13:52

then six seven hundred receiving like that just

13:54

it's gonna be impossible but for the talent

13:57

level that's the expectation for a lot of

13:59

these guys so all of sudden if they were to do that

14:02

they become one of the best offense team in the NFL and theory.

14:05

Definitely and I just checked the odds so

14:07

now you can pass the buck to other

14:09

people it's not your fault. Atlanta

14:11

is in fact the favorite for the division

14:13

as of now. Well I'll still get yelled

14:15

at though. In multiple different spots so at

14:17

least four separate sports. I'll still get yelled

14:19

at though because the

14:21

Bucks were I think

14:24

before the season projected to get

14:26

a top 10 pick. I

14:28

think they're like over under win-loss was six

14:30

and a half or something like that and

14:33

so I predicted that the Saints were going to

14:35

win a division and that didn't

14:37

stop people from coming after me after the

14:39

Bucks ended up winning it. No but it's always important

14:41

to be able to. I appreciate you looking out for

14:43

me it won't matter. No it's always important though to

14:46

be able to you know put the

14:48

blame somewhere else. I am merely the

14:50

messenger this is somebody else's message that

14:52

I'm conveying. Now as you say that

14:54

won't stop people from blaming you but

14:56

at least morally you can feel justified

14:58

by that. Alright who else's

15:01

draft or who else's free agency

15:03

overhaul did you like? So

15:05

I have one more that really stuck out

15:07

to me. It's

15:10

the Chicago Bears. I

15:12

like what the Chicago Bears were able

15:14

to do. Now a lot of it

15:16

was again like defensive players but think

15:19

about what Chicago has in the upcoming draft.

15:22

They've got pick number one and they've got pick number nine. You

15:25

look at this team and okay

15:27

it's not like an NFL all-star team

15:29

yet. Ryan

15:32

Poles has made his additions. He's kind

15:34

of made his splashes here right because

15:36

when you look at free agency they're

15:38

able to retain Jaylen Johnson which I think was huge for

15:40

them. They also bring in Kevin

15:42

Byard who I still think is a

15:44

dang good safety I really do. So

15:46

look at their secondary. It's Jaylen Johnson,

15:48

it's Jaquan Brisker, it's Kevin Byard, it's

15:51

Tyreek Stevenson, it's Tyler Bort. All

15:53

players that I like. You've got

15:55

two linebackers that you paid a lot of money to,

15:57

but okay, fine. Cards are on the table. That

16:00

would you to linebackers Humane Edmunds Dj Edwards.

16:02

There you go. Those are the guys we brought

16:05

in that's the position that you brought in there.

16:07

He got my tests were who he made by

16:09

a big trade for given up a second round

16:11

pick in he proved absolutely be worth it for

16:13

you. You get an interior defense blind. It is

16:15

a mix of young guys eve drafted over the

16:17

last couple years the you hope continue to develop

16:19

degree really strong Sprite or as I look guys

16:21

like muzak pigs and and arm pyramid dexter who.

16:24

Are. Really stout strong players to hopefully

16:26

be able to take up some to gaps for

16:28

your free up the edge rushers free of linebackers

16:31

to division is there for the whole be that's

16:33

basically division is there may be you want to

16:35

upgrade the other edge rusher spot but a lot

16:37

of the rest of it is kind of. He

16:40

made your bed And and so that eat I

16:42

should say, made your bed is the other part

16:44

of that phrase is now yeah, lion as so,

16:46

not necessarily saying that Dead. Make your

16:48

Best is probably the better way to say Skiba

16:51

was made all the best they can make on

16:53

defense right now and I commend a fourth day.

16:56

Yoga. The authentic I. Didn't

16:58

better they haven't Jenkins they got there are no

17:00

right They got racks and John sub. perfect for

17:02

the got some guys up front. They signed the

17:04

Andre Swift. They have cool Herbert got

17:07

Roche on Johnson as well. Now they bring

17:09

in Gerald ever it to pair with call

17:11

commit as well so it's nice. Little One

17:13

two Titan system there. He got Dj more

17:15

yes you could use another receiver For going

17:17

back to how I brought this up the

17:19

played free to see perfectly because they have

17:21

picked number one and he got picked number

17:23

nine. You. Draft like quarterback at

17:25

number One with it with Caleb leans

17:27

we assume and number nine now. They're

17:30

gonna target one of those top receivers they might

17:32

have to treat up to go get one of

17:34

them, but you have allowed yourself to. Now be

17:37

aggressive again like you can. You can. Take

17:39

more draft capital and move up. If you

17:41

need to, maybe go from number died in

17:43

number five with the Los Angeles Chargers. Go

17:45

get one of those receivers because if you

17:47

look at this cuddle Bears depth chart. And

17:50

you plugin' Taleb Williams. And.

17:53

Believed neighbors/roma dunes at.

17:56

This is a playoff caliber roster.

17:58

This. is now the Hall is in your

18:00

court to the coaching staff. Ryan Poles did what

18:03

he needed to do. This team is good enough,

18:05

especially in the NFC, at its current state, to

18:07

make the playoffs. And I think that that's why

18:09

this has to be one of my favorite halls,

18:11

because Chicago continues to go in the right direction.

18:14

You pick a quarterback at one, you get

18:16

an offensive weapon at nine, you trade Justin

18:18

Fields, and boom, this team is basically right

18:21

where you would've wanted them to be to legitimately

18:24

compete for a playoff spot in 2024. Bears

18:27

were not on my list, I have to say. I

18:30

love, the move they made

18:32

that I love the most is re-signing

18:34

Jaylen Johnson to the contract they got

18:36

him for. Like, his, that deal not

18:38

resetting the cornerback market, given the circumstances

18:41

involved, elevated salary cap, the fact

18:43

that he had come off a career year, all

18:45

those kinds of things, them getting him for a

18:47

deal that I think ranks fourth or fifth or

18:50

something at APY for cornerbacks, I think is an

18:52

absolute steal for them. Gerald

18:54

Everett, Kevin Byert in particular, Jonathan

18:56

Owens, the safety coming over from Green Bay.

18:59

These are all solid moves, I think. Ryan

19:01

Bates added to the offensive line. The DeAndre

19:03

Swift deal, I didn't really understand, and particularly

19:05

given, I think that was the very first

19:07

deal announced in the NFL, right? It was

19:09

like two minutes into free agency. Which, the

19:12

Swift deal? Yeah, DeAndre Swift to Chicago. It

19:14

was like literally the first team. It was

19:16

Swift and then like two hours of nothing.

19:18

Yeah, so that, when you get,

19:20

like, they already have, you know, Roshan Johnson,

19:22

Khalil Herbert, they already got a good backfield.

19:24

For them to prioritize DeAndre Swift, of all

19:27

people, coming off the year he had in

19:29

Philadelphia, where, you know, the Eagles

19:31

pick him up and I was like, ah, the Eagles do

19:33

it again. DeAndre Swift's gonna be, you know, league leading, rusher,

19:35

et cetera. And he was fine. For

19:38

them to prioritize him at $8 million a year

19:41

felt strange to me and I don't really

19:43

understand that. But overall, I think it's solid.

19:46

Let me give you the next team I had

19:48

on my list, because it's in the same division. I

19:52

really like what the Lions have done. All

19:55

right. Again, they're not necessarily going crazy,

19:57

but they're adding nice pieces to ensure

19:59

they don't. have to chase anything in

20:01

the draft, which I think is always

20:03

a smart strategy. They bring back a

20:05

guy like Emmanuel Moseley, they trade

20:09

for Carlton Davis, who I think is

20:11

a nice fit. Again, adding capable defensive

20:13

starters in the secondary, adding

20:16

a Marcus Davenport for a one-year flyer, I'm always

20:18

a fan of that. I mean, obviously the Vikings

20:20

did it last year, didn't work out at all.

20:22

Basically didn't play all season long. I

20:25

still like it as a concept every year. Sometimes

20:27

those aren't going to work out when they do, you're

20:30

getting a player that is a

20:32

really high level compliment to an Aiden Hutchinson

20:34

on the other side, which was the single

20:36

biggest weakness of this defense last

20:39

year. They add Amik Robertson, I think who's

20:41

a solid guy in the secondary as well,

20:43

and then they bring back Graham Glasgow as

20:46

one of their starting two guards letting another

20:48

one leave. I think that's a

20:50

solid, sort of, if

20:53

unspectacular round of business

20:55

for Detroit. Yeah, no, I think

20:57

that, look, this was a team that was

20:59

very close to a Super Bowl last year,

21:02

and I think that they did a good job of retaining

21:04

a lot of that roster and making the little additions that

21:06

they were going to be afforded to make. They're

21:09

making bets with a Carlton Davis because, okay,

21:11

well, why is he available for a third?

21:13

Well, he's available for a third because he's

21:15

been injured a lot over the last couple

21:17

of years and his plays declined from when

21:20

he was one of the better shutdown corners in

21:22

the game, I would say three, four years ago.

21:24

So his play has not been going in the

21:26

right direction and neither has his health, but he'd take

21:28

a chance on it because if he's fully healthy and

21:30

maybe he bounces back because we know that corner can

21:32

be very rollercoaster up and

21:35

down anyways, I like that

21:37

bet. I like the Amik Robertson bet as well.

21:39

And then I like the fact that they also

21:41

brought back Emmanuel Moseley, who I was really excited

21:43

about for this team before he got hurt last

21:45

year. So they're addressing corner

21:48

the way that they need to. They

21:50

bring in Davenport. Again, anytime

21:52

a team does

21:54

well enough in free agency

21:56

to really supplement their biggest

21:59

roster needs. with players that you could go,

22:01

you know what? They're

22:03

right, they were a free agent for a

22:05

reason, but you can believe in this player. You

22:07

can get some contributions from them. Anytime you're able

22:10

to do that, realistically, it's a job well done

22:12

in free agency. So I didn't think about Detroit,

22:14

but you're right. This is looking at their lineup.

22:16

This is a really solid week for them. Who

22:20

else have you got on your list? I got one more team on mine.

22:23

I don't have anybody on mine. Those are my

22:25

three. Who else you got? I got the Philadelphia

22:27

Eagles. Oh, sure, sure.

22:30

It's easy though. They're the splash team. They are,

22:32

but I like what they've done. Like you look

22:35

across the board, okay, they

22:37

re-signed a couple of players. I don't want

22:39

to focus too much on that, but Edge

22:42

Bryce Huff, like they re-stocked that defensive line,

22:44

which I think is always an important thing

22:46

for the Eagles. You know, they've

22:48

re-signed Brandon Graham somehow. It's still coming back to

22:50

give it one more shot, but

22:52

they lost Fletcher Cox to retirement. You

22:55

know, the defensive line, they've drafted a

22:57

lot of young guys. They are still,

22:59

I think, something of an unknown quantity.

23:01

Guys like Nolan Smith, they

23:03

will expect to take a step forward, but we don't

23:05

know yet if he's gonna be able to do that

23:07

and have that kind of impact. So bringing in Bryce

23:09

Huff, who in the last

23:11

two years ranks second in the NFL

23:14

in pass rush win rate. That list

23:16

is Miles Garrett, number one. Bryce

23:18

Huff, number two. Micah Parsons,

23:20

number three. Nick Bosa, number

23:22

four. So it's like all of the

23:25

superstars. The Mount Rushmore of

23:27

current pass rush. Yeah, exactly. It's all

23:29

of the superstars and Bryce Huff is

23:31

in that conversation for the best pass rush

23:34

win rate over the last two years. Somebody

23:36

complained that I used the last two years.

23:38

Have you used just last year, just flip

23:40

Micah Parsons and Bryce Huff, and he's still

23:42

in the top four. It's the same list

23:44

of humans, and he's just third instead of

23:47

fourth. Point being, he's been one of the

23:49

most effective edge rushers in the NFL over

23:51

the last couple of seasons in terms of

23:53

just how often he beats his guy and

23:56

is in a position to get pressure on the quarterback whether or

23:58

not it comes. The

24:00

big question was, okay, can

24:02

that happen if he doubles his workload, right? Cause

24:04

he's never played 500 snaps in a season. Like,

24:06

is he going to get the camera and wake

24:08

treatment where we're like, wow, this guy's crushing it

24:11

on a small sample size. Let's really wrap up

24:13

his workload. And all of a sudden we've created

24:15

an all pro. Um, the Eagles

24:17

are the one team in the NFL that don't

24:19

need to find that out. They can give him

24:21

the same 400 snap workload. And if you can't

24:23

handle more than that, they don't need more than

24:25

that. Cause they want to work off a rotation.

24:27

So I love the Eagles adding him. If he

24:29

is capable of doing more than that, I'm sure

24:31

they'll find that out and scale it up accordingly.

24:33

But I love signing a guy that you know

24:35

is going to be one of the most impactful

24:37

guys on the snaps that he has. And

24:40

then you have the flexibility of being able to

24:42

increase that workload, but you don't need to. And

24:45

I wonder what this means for Nolan Smith, right?

24:47

Like I was, I was hoping to see an uptick

24:50

in, in his usage and his emphasis on

24:52

that defensive line. And we still might get

24:54

that, you know, like you said, that's a

24:56

heavy rotational team, but, um, you're

24:59

going to give a lot of that stuff to Huff, right?

25:01

I mean, like Huff and, and Reddick are now two players

25:03

who on third

25:05

and long, I mean, you're just unleashing those

25:07

two guys and chances are somebody's getting after

25:10

the passer. So I don't think

25:12

that you can, there's not going to be too many

25:14

times where you can afford to just go, Hey, yeah,

25:16

let's give Nolan Smith a shot here. When you've got

25:18

those two guys that you can deploy on third and

25:21

long. So I guess that's a, just

25:23

a development that we'll have, we'll have to watch out

25:25

for, cause Nolan Smith is somebody who I really loved

25:27

in that draft. I mean, they had two edge rushes

25:29

last season play 800 plus snaps. I

25:32

don't think they want to do that. Generally.

25:34

You know, I think if you look previously

25:37

on those teams, they are much more evenly

25:39

balanced with sort of edge to, or edge

25:41

three, four, and five getting more snaps. So

25:43

I think that's just what they're trying to

25:45

reset, you know, instead of giving all the

25:47

snaps to sweat and Reddick, they want them,

25:50

they want more for Huff. Obviously he's going

25:52

to get four or 500 snaps. I think they

25:54

would like Nolan Smith to have more than 180 or whatever he

25:56

had last season. And yeah, it

25:58

wasn't a lot. Yeah. So I

26:00

think that's what their approach is on

26:02

that. Saquon Barkley is an

26:04

interesting move. Like the Eagles of all teams

26:06

being the one to prioritize him and go

26:09

out and sign him quickly. It

26:11

is, I think, significant that, you

26:14

know, the Giants had a terrible offensive situation.

26:16

One of the worst offensive lines in the

26:18

NFL. No passing game to speak of. Like

26:21

the Eagles have the best offensive line in the

26:23

NFL, even with turnover, you

26:25

know, even losing Jason Kelsey and needing

26:27

to make some changes

26:30

there. Minimum, it's going

26:32

to go from one end of the spectrum

26:34

to the other with, you know,

26:36

other things in his favor as well. I

26:39

think Saquon Barkley should look fantastic in that

26:41

offense relative to how he looked with the

26:43

Giants. And then

26:45

Chauncey Gardner-Johnson in the secondary

26:47

is another significant addition for them. Didn't

26:49

get to see the full impact that he was gonna have

26:51

in Detroit because of injury. But

26:54

if he's able to come in and make an impact

26:56

in that secondary, suddenly you've gotten better on the defensive

26:58

line. You've gotten better in

27:00

the secondary. And you've added a running back

27:02

who is stepping into a ready-made environment for him

27:05

to be good. I

27:08

don't hate the Saquon Barkley deal. I really

27:10

don't. In fact, I'm happy for

27:12

the dude because he's been super talented and he's been

27:14

on a Giants team

27:16

that hasn't exactly helped him out over

27:19

the last couple of years. You know,

27:21

he's been chasing that production and efficiency

27:23

that we saw that

27:26

rookie year from him and then really haven't

27:28

seen since. Over the last two years, his

27:30

production has been fine overall, but I

27:32

think it's more from a volume standpoint. Two

27:34

years ago, it was more efficient. Last year,

27:36

it was tough. And so you're just going

27:39

to a much better situation. And it felt

27:41

like that's what we needed anyways, right? Barkley

27:43

has probably been in contract negotiations with the

27:45

Giants for what? Three years

27:47

now, trying to get something done. They don't

27:49

get something done. It's like, come

27:51

on, man. Anybody who works any sort

27:53

of job is not gonna perform as well as they

27:56

need to when they're not appreciated.

27:58

Yes, even when you play a game. for

28:00

a living. So I think a change

28:02

of scenery was needed for for Barkley. It's kind

28:04

of funny that it's a division rival, but I'm

28:06

excited to see what he's going to do in

28:09

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29:17

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29:19

think we have a bit of breaking

29:21

news, but I have to figure that out. Oh,

29:24

do we? I think so. Wait, wait, wait, wait,

29:26

wait one second. Is somebody a big sign? Somebody

29:28

big get released? No, no, no. Far more important

29:30

than that. But I just need

29:32

to check because the message I received is somewhat unclear

29:35

and cryptic. So I have to wait until

29:37

he replies before I can announce what I

29:40

think has been a wildly successful campaign

29:43

wage on this podcast. I'll

29:46

come back to that. Let's circle back because he's not

29:48

replying in. Okay, all right. Let's hit the next topic

29:50

and we'll get in the... So

29:54

one thing I've seen mentioned on

29:56

a lot of winning best

29:58

halls, winners of free age that I

30:00

can't put in there because of

30:03

like it's Minnesota right I

30:05

like Minnesota's business overall but

30:08

the Kirk Cousins thing is so big

30:10

looming over that and not so much

30:14

there's definitely an argument that financially the

30:16

Vikings did the right thing walking away

30:18

from Kirk Cousins given where they were

30:20

and if I say what's the big

30:22

win here for yeah I like their

30:24

moves I mean I think overall they've

30:26

added Jonathan Granard they've added Andrew Van

30:28

Ginkl they've added yeah but they lost

30:31

Hunter sure so that I

30:33

mean but the but Van Ginkl being added to

30:35

it as well they got cheaper and younger yeah

30:37

they got cheaper and younger at Edger I guess

30:39

I yeah no I okay so I guess if

30:41

your goal was to be in more of a

30:44

healthier rebuild spot I get it but

30:46

the Granard one is tough for me

30:48

because you lost Hunter so you've got

30:50

Granard great but I think Hunter's better

30:54

and obviously like you signed Sam

30:56

Donald you lose Kirk Cousins that's fine because

30:58

you're going in a different direction but like

31:01

you're also you also have pick 11 right

31:03

now so you you're basically

31:05

you're screwed until you're not is basically

31:07

how I have to look at it

31:09

for for the Minnesota Vikings so but

31:12

I didn't mean to cut you off

31:14

keep going no well I mean

31:16

I think they got younger and cheaper at Edgerussia

31:19

they bring in Granard they bring in Van Ginkl

31:21

they bring in linebacker Blake Cashman who had an

31:23

amazing season last year like I think and Aaron

31:25

Jones I think was phenomenal down the stretch last

31:27

season so overall I think they

31:29

made a lot of good moves but it

31:31

all has to be looked at through the

31:33

prism of you don't have a quarterback you

31:36

just lost her cousins you're sitting there at

31:38

pick number 11 there's no obvious path to

31:40

a quarterback and signing Sam

31:42

Darnell even as a bridge quarterback

31:44

is just kind of sad so I

31:46

can't I can't put the Vikings as

31:48

winners a free agency even if other people have I'm

31:51

actually a little bit higher on the Sam Darnell move like

31:54

I don't hate the Sam Darnell move like

31:57

knowing exactly what it is right

32:00

It's a one year, $10 million deal, no

32:03

matter who the Vikings draft, because

32:05

I think the Vikings have already

32:07

made calls to Washington

32:10

at two, New England at

32:12

three, Los

32:14

Angeles at five, Arizona at

32:16

four. Not sure why

32:18

I went out of order there. I

32:20

think they've already made the calls to these teams

32:22

for like, okay, what do we need to do

32:24

to move up at this point in time? And

32:26

so they have a rough idea. Now prices change

32:28

as time goes on, they've

32:30

got a rough idea of what it's gonna take. So I

32:33

don't think they're, I mean, I

32:36

was about to say, I don't think they're in the Drake-May

32:38

conversation, but apparently the NFL is not nearly assigned Drake-May, which

32:40

is baffling to me. But anyways, they're

32:43

in a situation where no matter who they draft, it's

32:46

not going to be Caleb Williams. And

32:48

so knowing that it's not going to be Caleb Williams,

32:51

Donald's probably going to start the season.

32:54

I won't start for a long time, but he

32:56

should. You know, like, especially if it's McCarthy, like if

32:59

it's JJ, don't throw JJ out there week one. What

33:01

are you doing? You care about him more

33:03

than that. I care about him more than that. We're trying to

33:05

help. So don't throw him

33:07

out there week one. I'd say

33:09

the same thing about like, Jayden Daniels, right? There's a

33:11

lot of things that Jayden Daniels did well last year.

33:14

Throwing over the middle is not one of them. It's what you got

33:16

to do in the NFL. You got to throw over the middle. And

33:19

so he still, I think, has a

33:21

ways to go when it comes to

33:23

anticipating those things. Because he doesn't, Jayden

33:25

Daniels, his arm is being romanticized if

33:27

you ask me. He does not have

33:30

this howitzer of an arm, like Anthony

33:32

Richardson, like Will Leves, not

33:34

even like CJ Stroud, right? So it's not

33:37

as if Jayden at the NFL

33:39

level can afford to be late between the

33:41

numbers, over the middle. He can't see something

33:43

late and then go, okay, yep, there it

33:46

is. Let me fire this bad boy in

33:48

there. He's got the arm strength where,

33:50

and I don't mean to be too harsh on it,

33:52

but he's got to anticipate it. He's got to be

33:54

able to see things. And you

33:56

got to play to be able to get that

33:58

ultimately, but you also have to have a good.

34:00

baseline before you play or else you're just going

34:02

to lose your confidence and I don't want that

34:04

from Drake. May I could add of all those

34:06

quarterbacks see starting right away but why

34:09

do that if you don't have to so no matter

34:11

what actually

34:13

I don't hate the Donald signing I think it's

34:15

pretty good signing for them given what I think

34:18

their quarterback situation is gonna be. I

34:20

just think anybody selling selling

34:22

a fan on the concept of Sam

34:24

Donald being your starter week one even

34:26

if it's only for four weeks like

34:28

he's a bridge to something in the

34:30

first month of the season it's just

34:32

miserable. Nobody's happy with that nobody's sitting

34:34

there you know your season ticket your

34:37

renewal form arrives and you're like

34:40

first four weeks of Sam Donald anyway are

34:43

you ready for the news I have it confirmed now. Sure

34:46

I have no idea what this is but sure

34:49

let's go let's go for it. Every now and

34:51

again revolution can create great

34:53

change and great things can come from

34:55

it right. What is it was it

34:57

Herb Brooks quote? What am I watching

34:59

miracle? Just sit back and relax and

35:01

be prepared to bask at what we

35:03

have achieved. We okay you and I

35:06

have achieved live on this show. Remember

35:09

the the European Football League they tried to

35:11

set up a Super League the fans revolted

35:13

they said hell no and it did not

35:16

happen it crumbled they all walked

35:18

away they backtracked they said sorry we

35:20

appreciate we made a mistake and we're

35:22

gonna we're gonna fix it. Another

35:24

mistake was made somebody came out

35:27

with PFF's athleticism score and this

35:29

was termed PFF GAR right

35:32

it was a mistake it was an error

35:34

in judgment and we campaigned to fix it

35:36

on this show it has

35:39

been fixed Michael Ayers sent me

35:41

the message PFF GAR is now

35:43

PFF GAS G-A-S game

35:46

athletic score is

35:48

now a thing we have done

35:50

it revolution has succeeded long live

35:53

GAS. You

35:55

and I were talking what were we talking

35:57

about this we're talking about this is a combine

35:59

or something where you had brought

36:01

this up and you were furious about

36:03

it. And I agree with you completely

36:06

because game athleticism, the

36:09

acronym being gas just makes more sense. He's

36:11

got the gas, he's got the juice, you

36:13

know, like whatever it is, it just flows

36:15

with exactly what it is. And so you

36:17

know what, buddy, you fought for it. I'm

36:20

proud of you, I'm proud of you, good job.

36:23

The people may not remember

36:25

you, but they

36:27

will remember. It's not about me, it's

36:29

about what we've fought for. It's about

36:31

what we've set in motion and the

36:33

legacy that we will leave after we're

36:35

long gone. That's a cold label on

36:37

the screen, by the way. So I'm

36:39

fine, I'll get the W. Anyway,

36:43

back to free agency. Okay,

36:46

where are we going? You still have to show me

36:48

where I can access this in Ultimate. Oh yeah, we'll

36:50

get you. I think Steve needs to turn it on

36:53

for you. I don't think you have it as a

36:55

default option. You have to get it. I

36:58

haven't found it, so you guys are out here talking about

37:00

it. And I'm like, hey, you know what? Would

37:02

be nice if the draft guy could get the

37:04

game athleticism score metric. He had been bringing it

37:06

up for weeks on the show and he's like,

37:08

you know, you've got that, right? No. Let

37:14

the switch, Steve. Turn it on,

37:16

hit it. All right, so

37:19

let's talk about Justin Fields for a moment. Everyone

37:23

I think expected Justin Fields to be traded

37:25

at this point. The Bears themselves, before the

37:27

combine started, were like, yeah, we want to

37:29

get this done before free agency. We want

37:31

to be proactive in trading Fields away because

37:34

we want to do right by Justin. And

37:36

here we are with free agency, I guess,

37:38

technically not quite started, but about to start.

37:40

And Justin Fields is still sitting there in

37:42

the Chicago Bears roster. So where

37:45

is this market and what's going to happen with

37:47

all this? Yeah, so the

37:49

market just gets, it feels like

37:51

it gets lower the longer this goes on. And

37:54

look, you know, I was on, I

37:57

was on some radio hits and people went Chicago.

37:59

So I was talking with them and it's like, oh,

38:02

no, they said they're going to trade it. They said

38:04

they're going to trade them before free agencies, so we're

38:06

going to have the answers soon enough. And my response

38:08

to them was the same every time. That's

38:11

really nice, okay? But

38:13

owners and general managers, they

38:15

can lie with their words. They're not going to lie with

38:17

their money and their assets. They're not.

38:21

And when it comes to getting the best

38:23

draft pick possible for Justin Fields, sure,

38:25

it sounds nice. We're going to trade them before free

38:27

agency. We're going to let them know before free agency.

38:30

If they believe they can get a better deal

38:32

for him, if they wait, guess what they're going

38:34

to do? They're going to wait. Plain

38:38

and simple. And the longer this

38:40

went on and the more that

38:42

the Chicago Bears kind of came out

38:44

publicly and said, again, like, oh, we want

38:46

to do well by Justin. Okay, guess what

38:48

the draft compensation was probably from that point

38:50

on? Crap. It

38:53

was probably as low as it

38:55

had been to that point. So, man,

38:57

we were starting off. There

39:00

were debates of, oh, is this

39:02

guy worth the back end of the first round

39:04

pick? He's worth two second round picks, you know,

39:06

a second and a third. Dude,

39:09

I bet Justin Fields gets traded for a fourth round

39:12

pick at this point. I think a

39:14

fourth round pick gets it done. And I don't know what team

39:16

is going to pay for it. It

39:19

feels as though the Saints

39:22

are now in play, right? No Jamis.

39:25

So maybe you could trade something if you

39:27

want that kind of a backup. But they

39:29

have Taysom Hill. So

39:31

like maybe they don't think they need it, you

39:33

know, not saying that Justin Fields is Taysom Hill.

39:36

But I'm saying like the Saints clearly think enough

39:38

of Taysom Hill where he could get it done

39:40

for them as a backup. Maybe

39:43

Seattle, right? Seattle's in a situation

39:46

where they just restructured Geno

39:48

Smith's contract. You peek Carol's

39:50

out as head coach. Is

39:53

this the last year that Geno's in Seattle?

39:55

If that is the case, you'd probably

39:57

take a day three pick. train

40:00

him for Justin Fields, get him in the system already,

40:02

get him in with coaching staff,

40:04

and maybe he develops into somebody

40:06

that you got enough faith in going into the

40:08

year after that. So I

40:10

look at Seattle, but those are the two teams

40:12

that really stick out to me because Falcons, no,

40:15

we thought about them as a potential destination. That's

40:17

out. Steelers, no, that's

40:20

out. Where's he going?

40:22

But you brought up the key

40:25

word, right? Like Justin Fields is now

40:27

being seen as a backup option, not

40:29

as a starter. Like we have almost

40:31

completely run out of potential starting options

40:33

for Justin Fields. And if one of

40:35

the few starters or

40:38

potential starting spots was like them, it probably

40:40

would have been done already. Now, maybe

40:43

it doesn't work out that way. You know,

40:45

there's several teams now in this like quarterback

40:48

desperate alley in the sort of middle of

40:50

the first round 10, 11, 12 or 11,

40:52

12, 13, the Vikings, Raiders and Broncos

40:58

all still need a starting quarterback of some description,

41:00

right? And are presumably going after one in the

41:03

draft, notwithstanding Gardner Minshew, Sam

41:05

Darnold bridge moves, right? They are

41:08

still looking for something that

41:10

makes sense more for more than like two months

41:12

of the season. If

41:15

one of them strikes out, you know, they can't

41:17

all come out of the draft with quarterbacks, right?

41:19

It's right. I mean, at least right very unlikely

41:21

that those three teams all secure their future

41:24

starter given where they are. So if one of

41:26

those teams misses the way the Raiders did last

41:28

season where they, you know, they were trying to

41:30

make things happen didn't and they end up settling

41:33

for Jimmy Garoppolo, like maybe fields becomes a fallback

41:35

option for one of those after the draft. And

41:37

maybe this is how long this drags out. But

41:40

we've gone from Yeah, there'll be

41:42

a team or two that's interested in fields as a

41:44

starter to he's now a backup.

41:46

And if he's now backup, that's what

41:49

turns this into like a fourth round pick,

41:51

which by the way, it was what Trey

41:53

Lance was traded for. Like this is not

41:55

unprecedented for a fourth. Mack already

41:57

went for a six. Right. I mean, Zach Wilson's

41:59

gonna to go for pennies. And

42:02

the critical thing is you have to,

42:04

it's always, the contract is always relevant

42:06

when you're talking about trade value, right?

42:09

Josh Rosen went for a second round

42:11

pick a year after he was drafted

42:13

for a couple of reasons.

42:16

Number one, it was only a year, okay? It

42:18

was a terrible year, but there's only so much

42:20

one bad year in a terrible situation can damage

42:22

your draft stock. So he went for a second.

42:24

The other thing is he was cost control for

42:26

a lot longer, right? That's part

42:29

of what you're trading for when you're trading

42:31

for a quarterback is that cost control rookie

42:33

contract. Justin Fields is now cheap

42:35

for one more year. Any

42:37

team that brings him in has got one year

42:39

of cheap Justin Fields. After

42:41

that, it's $25 million, Justin Fields,

42:44

if you want to pick up the fifth year option and

42:46

keep him around on that, which is still, you

42:48

know, if he turns into a superstar, that's value. But

42:51

if he doesn't, 25 million is a significant

42:53

amount of money. You just

42:55

got 14 million guaranteed, I think committed

42:57

to him. So there's,

43:00

yeah, there's people in the chat who

43:02

are saying Raiders, but like, why would the Raiders do

43:04

that? Why would you have a three headed quarterback competition?

43:06

And for whatever you want to say about Aidan O'Connell,

43:08

if you don't think that he is a long-term star

43:10

of the NFL, he's still on the team with a

43:13

cost controlled contract. Like, why would they move

43:15

on from him for that? I don't think

43:17

that they're going to. So Fields

43:19

is also in a tough spot

43:21

because what maybe seemed like a strength at

43:23

the beginning of all this now

43:25

turns into a major weakness. What

43:28

team out there wants their backup quarterback to have

43:30

a massive hive of their fan base calling for

43:33

them at all times if they don't have a

43:35

super solidified guy? Like even the Saints, right? Saints

43:37

fans are ready to move on from Garrett Carr.

43:39

If they trade for Justin Fields, the second that

43:42

Carr waivers at all whatsoever, you're going to have

43:44

half the fan base. I don't have the fan

43:46

base. I don't know what we'll see, but whatever.

43:48

You're going to have a big chunk of the

43:51

fan base already calling for Justin Fields. And that

43:53

might be in week two, week three of the

43:55

season. Does any coach really want that kind

43:57

of distraction? I mean, there was. I can't believe

43:59

it. It's not apples to apples. It's not the same thing. But

44:03

we heard people talk about that when it came

44:05

to Tim Tebow. You know, like Tim Tebow, I

44:07

don't want Tim Tebow as a backup on my

44:09

team. He's not a backup cornerback. He's going to

44:12

be here. You're going to have people keeping for

44:14

him to start the second the starting quarterback misses

44:16

a throw, whether it was justified or not for

44:18

Tebow. It obviously wasn't at the NFL level. But

44:20

I think that is also a factor. Not

44:22

the teams want their backup quarterback to be

44:24

bad. But if

44:27

they want a quarterback competition, that's one thing.

44:29

If they don't, then all of a sudden

44:31

bringing in Justin Fields gives them a situation

44:33

in the locker room that they do not

44:35

want. So I think that goes against

44:37

it as well. So the

44:40

field stuff, again, I think that the

44:43

rally around Justin Fields and how good he could

44:45

have been and how he improved a little bit

44:48

last year, that was a

44:50

really good strength for him

44:53

six months ago. It's

44:55

not anymore. Now that no team really

44:57

wants him as a backup, I think that it's actually

44:59

probably seen as a negative from some teams. So a

45:02

lot of people throughout the Patriots as well, I think

45:04

the Patriots are an option, depending on what

45:06

they end up doing. At the number

45:08

three overall pick, perhaps that's an option for them. It's

45:13

really hard to find a spot that

45:15

quote unquote makes sense for Justin Fields

45:17

at this point. Because wherever he

45:19

goes, it's just going to be a lot

45:21

of media, a lot of circus. And is it worth it

45:23

for these teams? And I don't know. It's

45:26

difficult because if you view him as a starter,

45:28

you get one cheap year of Justin Fields, you

45:30

get one year of him at $25 million, and

45:32

then you have to give him $50, $60 million

45:35

a year, whatever the market rate for the

45:37

top quarterback deal is. And

45:39

he's gotten better every single year of his

45:42

career. I think there is still potential that

45:44

he can be a high level NFL starter,

45:46

but it is still potential. It's

45:48

projection. We don't know if he can get there, and

45:50

you need to know in a year if he's going

45:52

to get there because that's when the money starts to

45:55

get expensive. So if you view him as a starter,

45:57

you have very limited runway to... figure

46:00

out if you're right before the money gets

46:02

prohibitive. And if you view him as a

46:04

backup, he's only a backup for

46:06

a year because after a year the money

46:08

gets prohibitive, right? So I actually think that

46:10

limits him to a few teams where you're

46:14

right, you don't, most teams do not

46:16

want a quarterback that they view as

46:18

a backup who actually the fans love

46:20

and want installed as a starter. But

46:22

there's a few teams, the teams that

46:24

might want that are the ones that

46:26

are so set and safe with their

46:28

starter that it's not a threat. Burt

46:30

Breer on Rich Eisen's show I think

46:32

throughout the Philadelphia Eagles, which I think

46:34

would be a really interesting move. I

46:36

would also throw out a team like Baltimore

46:39

for similar reasons like nobody, Lamar Jackson is

46:41

not under threat, but Baltimore could

46:43

use a guy like Justin Fields if Lamar

46:45

Jackson gets hurt, which let's be honest has

46:47

not been an unknown thing over the last

46:50

few years. If Dallas hadn't already traded for

46:52

Trey Lance and maybe they'll flip him and

46:54

do it again, Justin

46:56

Fields in Dallas would be an interesting

46:59

option. Like again, what happens if our

47:01

quarterback goes down? Justin Fields could potentially

47:03

win you some games even in the

47:05

playoffs because he's that dynamic, dangerous type

47:07

of quarterback that's difficult to prepare for.

47:10

Yeah. Cults maybe another team to throw in there.

47:12

Like, you know, if they're just like, Hey, Andy,

47:14

Ray's fourth overall pick, like this is not a

47:16

discussion. We're bringing in Justin Fields to back him

47:19

up. Maybe that's the thing. But that's that one's

47:21

again, a little bit more dangerous because you can

47:23

sit here and say, no, no, no, Anthony Richardson

47:25

said our guy, but him

47:27

coming off of injury, he's still going to

47:30

struggle next year. So do you want as a

47:32

team to have to answer those questions if Richardson

47:34

still struggles? Like he probably will. I mean, it'll

47:36

be an up and down year for Anthony Richardson

47:38

upcoming. So, um, I, I think it hope that

47:41

there's going to be a lot of good, but

47:43

do you want that? And I think that fields is

47:45

just in it. I think

47:48

he's in a tough situation right now at the end of that

47:50

rookie contract. He really is. So let's

47:52

pivot and talk about those quarter or those

47:54

teams that are in that quarterback needy alley

47:57

that we mentioned before. Pick number 11 Minnesota.

47:59

Pick number. Well, Denver and pick

48:01

number 13 last Vegas, has

48:03

a set, even though they've added Sam Darnold, Gardner

48:05

Minshew, I don't think any of those three teams

48:08

have the quarterback that they want starting in 2024

48:10

on the roster right now. So

48:13

where are they getting them from? Who

48:16

do you think, when all is said

48:19

and done, forget week one, who do you

48:21

think the week eight starter for each one

48:23

of those teams is, and where is it

48:25

coming from at this point? Jeez,

48:30

what a question. I

48:32

think for Minnesota, it's gonna be JJ. I

48:36

think somehow, some way he ends

48:38

up on the Minnesota Vikings, it feels like it just makes

48:40

too much sense. Denver,

48:44

I also think is gonna get aggressive

48:46

for a quarterback, but, for

48:53

man, for

48:56

them, it's so tough. Like I'm tempted to

48:58

say, JJ for the

49:00

Minnesota Vikings, Bo Nix

49:02

for the Denver Broncos, and

49:05

I don't

49:07

know if he's gonna be the starter by week eight, but

49:09

like Michael Penix being an option for the Las Vegas Raiders.

49:12

That is kind of where my mind goes immediately.

49:15

Like I think the Raiders could go for a guy like

49:17

Penix if he hits a sweet spot for him a little

49:20

bit later in the draft, because I don't think it's gonna

49:22

be a 13. Yeah.

49:25

Or, you know, a guy like Spencer Rattler

49:27

as well, I think you throw in Rattler's name into

49:29

this discussion. I think Denver's gonna

49:31

try to be aggressive, but if they can't be aggressive

49:33

because they only have a first round pick, they don't

49:36

have a second round pick, and then it goes to

49:38

number 76 in the third, they

49:40

might be able to package. They've got a handful of

49:42

fifth round picks, you've got three fifth round picks and

49:44

two sixth round picks. Okay, maybe you could package some

49:47

of those and move up. Maybe they go out and

49:49

get a guy like Spencer

49:51

Rattler, who I'm not sure is gonna be

49:53

available at 76. You probably gotta trade up

49:55

a little bit to get him. But, yeah,

49:59

I guess that's my point. final answer. That's my final

50:01

answer. We're talking out loud here, people. So if

50:03

we've got, we're just going through the journey. JJ

50:05

McCarthy's the Vikings. Spencer Rattler

50:08

to the Denver

50:10

Broncos. Michael

50:13

Panik's Jr. to the

50:15

Las Vegas Raiders. Okay. So interestingly, so

50:17

we got Minnesota staying at 11 and

50:19

getting JJ McCarthy from Michigan. No, no,

50:21

no, no, they're moving up. I

50:24

think Minnesota is moving up to five or four.

50:27

Wow. So you're, you're, so in your,

50:29

in your, uh, in

50:31

your future here, we've got quarterbacks

50:33

going one, two, three to Chicago,

50:35

Washington, New England. And then Minnesota

50:37

is jumping up to five or

50:39

six to get QB for JJ

50:42

McCarthy from Michigan. Yeah.

50:45

I feel like five is a sweet spot, right?

50:47

Because Joe Ortiz, the new general manager for Los

50:49

Angeles chargers talked about how building a draft strategy

50:51

and building a team comes from having a lot

50:53

of picks. So I think that's what they're going

50:55

to try to do, but they don't want to

50:57

go too far down the draft order. So I

50:59

think 11 is sort of, I don't

51:02

want to say perfect because it takes them

51:04

out of Malik neighbors to Roma doomsday range,

51:06

but I think they could be pretty satisfactory

51:08

with that getting back to 11. So like

51:10

if I was doing a mock draft right now,

51:12

I would say Chicago takes a quarterback at

51:14

one. Washington takes a quarterback at two either

51:17

New England or the New York giants take

51:19

a quarterback at three. Like I could see

51:21

the giants with the off season that they

51:23

have already had getting aggressive popping

51:25

up from number six to number three. If,

51:28

if New England is not bought in on

51:31

any of these quarterbacks, it'll be available for

51:33

them. And number three, they move up, maybe

51:35

go get themselves a J, Jaden Daniels, maybe

51:37

a JJ McCarthy could upgrade from, uh, from

51:39

Gado Jones. Cause clearly what they did during

51:42

free agency, they're very all in on making a

51:44

big change on this team. So I think New

51:46

England or the giants take a quarterback at number

51:48

three, I think Arizona probably stays at number four,

51:50

gets a really good football player. And

51:53

then at five, somebody's

51:55

trading up for whoever quarterback four is going to be.

51:57

This is just my mock draft as it would be

51:59

this. And I think that it would

52:01

be Minnesota that that's gonna get

52:03

up to five to do it trading up for

52:06

QB for Would terrify me

52:08

as a concept like if I needed

52:10

a brother the Niners did it not

52:12

even knowing who is gonna be available

52:15

Yeah, give up two first-round picks We're

52:18

a guy that they didn't even know

52:20

was gonna be there with that at

52:22

the minimum was QB three Knowing

52:25

that it's true Knowing

52:27

that the likelihood was I mean

52:29

they they knew they had an understanding

52:31

of who one was gonna be They probably had

52:33

a pretty good idea of who two was gonna

52:35

be at that point so they had three potential

52:37

options that were seen as first rounders and Convince

52:40

themselves that any of the three was worth doing that

52:42

now we can talk about how wrong

52:44

that was which kind of makes my point but

52:47

My point being if you know that at best you

52:49

are trading up for the fourth guy on the board

52:52

That's just scary as a concept like

52:55

whatever about doing it to go get

52:57

your guy who's the second quarterback available

53:00

You can talk yourself into all right. We get our

53:02

choice of the second best guy here. I Mean,

53:05

okay, if they love JJ McCarthy and they think

53:07

he's QB two or whatever in the draft That's

53:09

that's a different story But if you're just like

53:12

we need a quarterback and three of them were

53:14

already gone We need to get the fourth before

53:16

we have no options. That's just

53:18

how you end up with a disaster Two

53:22

kinds of two types of teams in this league, baby

53:25

Ones that have a quarterback ones that don't all

53:27

right so and the Vikings that's just that's how

53:29

teams you're gonna operate from now Until the end

53:32

of time. I'm not saying it's smart,

53:34

but I'm saying I feel like that's what's gonna

53:36

happen So you have the Vikings trading up to

53:38

five from eleven to get JJ McCarthy for Michigan

53:40

You have Denver coming out of this draft with

53:43

Spencer Rattler win the third 76

53:46

that's where he's coming from. Yeah, I mean yeah

53:48

for for this podcast purposes, right? And then I

53:50

don't know if he makes to 76, but he'd

53:52

be close enough Okay, and then we have the

53:54

Las Vegas Raiders coming out with Michael Pennicks jr.

53:57

Presumably from round to 44 overall Yeah,

54:00

or they catch a miracle and the medical scare

54:02

teams panics you near ends up sliding to the

54:04

fifth round and they get No, it's not gonna

54:06

happen. It's not gonna happen. All right. All right.

54:08

Well, there we go So those are our three

54:10

teams in quarterback hell right there in 11 12

54:13

and 13 All

54:15

of whom have been assigned a quarterback from

54:17

from Trev After the

54:19

first three have gone with the first three

54:21

overall picks Let's wrap this

54:23

up by asking the question that we didn't ask

54:26

at the start We gave our

54:28

favorite free agent draft or free

54:30

agent halls. Why don't keep some draft halls

54:32

free agent halls getting close We're getting who

54:34

did the worst? Oh No,

54:37

like falls or just no, I don't

54:39

just done who's had the worst free

54:41

who are the losers as a team

54:43

of free agency So far I'm

54:48

gonna get old takes you supposed for this. I know I'm going to

54:50

but I just I don't think Nothing

54:54

that they really did in free agency makes me think

54:56

that they're going to be a very good football team

54:58

Lloyd Cushion Barry was good. I'll say it Tony

55:02

Pollard does not really move me at all whatsoever I like

55:04

Taji Spears would have been cool with him and and somebody

55:06

else who would have been cheap But it said you go

55:09

spend the money that you could have given Derek Henry on

55:11

Tony Pollard to have kind of like the same Running back

55:13

there just once got a little bit more experience. I don't

55:15

know kind of redundant to me Didn't really

55:17

love how they spent that money. I don't

55:19

like Kenneth Murray either I don't really he

55:21

doesn't really do anything in linebacker for me.

55:23

So I Just

55:26

don't I did the Titans didn't really go

55:29

in a direction that I felt Moved

55:32

the team very well, and I think this team is

55:34

going to have a top five pick a year from

55:36

now Yeah I don't didn't love

55:38

the Titans free agency period not

55:41

being very good is a very kind way of

55:43

what you have How you turn

55:45

that earlier? I'm non public

55:47

facing for The

55:50

Dallas Cowboys are my

55:52

losers The

55:55

Dallas Cowboys, oh

55:57

sure they'd do anything they've resigned a

56:00

long snapper. That's it. That's all they've done.

56:02

They've lost players. Like they've seen players leave,

56:04

which is not ideal. You know, part of

56:06

this whole thing is doing

56:08

business by keeping your own players in house. Like

56:11

the Indianapolis Colts, I don't think have made an

56:13

outside signing, but they've retained like seven of their

56:15

own players or something. So they've been doing business.

56:17

Dallas has just done nothing. Like this is, this

56:20

is the sort of underrated. We think

56:22

of Jerry Jones as this reactionary, you

56:24

know, Madden franchise mode

56:26

owner that goes, he

56:28

doesn't actually do that much a lot of

56:31

the time. And so they've lost

56:33

Tyler Bialis, your starting center. They've lost

56:35

Dorn Armstrong, one of the defensive linemen.

56:37

They've lost players and they've

56:39

apparently, you know, made some phone calls

56:41

in the running back market. Haven't ended

56:43

up with one. Tony Bollard's gone. What

56:45

are we doing here? All

56:48

in comma my ass. Skip

56:53

Bayless. Somebody, somebody put, I need, I

56:55

need a call. A quote graphic that

56:57

says all in comma my

57:00

ass, Trevor, sick of a on

57:03

the Dallas Cowboys. And then he's get tweeted

57:05

out from the main account ASAP. Yeah.

57:09

Yeah. I thought that they were going to do a little

57:11

bit more, at least, you know, fight to, I think retain

57:13

some of those guys again. I wonder

57:16

if the Cowboys are still just reeling from, from how the

57:18

season ended. I mean, they have a lot of good pieces.

57:20

They had a really nice season and then just for it

57:23

to end like that, I wonder if they were just going

57:25

to shell shocked like, okay, we thought

57:27

we had the right guys in here. We thought

57:29

we had the right formula and then the postseason

57:31

came around and that didn't happen. So clearly

57:35

they're very happy with their team, but

57:39

yeah, I mean, they

57:42

have, they got to be losers. I agree. You

57:44

know, there's no time like they, they've lost. No,

57:46

there's no time. It's over. No. Okay. Cool. Fair

57:48

enough. Nevermind that. I was going to

57:50

give him a reason for optimism, but if you're Travis already

57:52

ended it, season's done Mark, we haven't even

57:54

hit the start of the new league year and you've already

57:57

ended it for them. Perfect. What'd

57:59

you think? about the Packers and

58:01

that magical 45 minutes where

58:03

Aaron Jones and Josh Jacobs were on the team

58:05

at the same time. Like

58:09

one of the Packers fans were when they traded

58:11

for him, I feel like some people were like,

58:13

we have the greatest RB duo in the league.

58:15

It truly might have. And then I saw, I

58:17

saw multiple tweets that were like, this is the

58:20

best running back duo in the NFL. And then

58:22

it's like, we cut him. It

58:25

is. It's also kind

58:27

of funny that they signed Josh Jacobs to

58:29

the exact same deal that they had Aaron

58:31

Jones on, a four year, $48 million contract.

58:33

Like it's the same deal. They just said,

58:35

you've reached the end of yours. We just

58:38

found another guy who's younger, he'll take the

58:40

same contract. So bye bye. Fascinating

58:43

how the world works in the

58:45

NFL sometimes. What's

58:48

your favorite individual move? What's your favorite synonym? I

58:53

like the Hunter one, but we talked about that already.

58:56

I actually have two underrated ones that I feel

58:58

like aren't, aren't getting enough love that should Jermaine,

59:01

Illuminore going from

59:04

the Raiders to the

59:06

Giants. I think is great for them

59:08

because with the

59:10

giant city and number six, they've

59:12

got quarterback questions. They've got

59:14

wide receiver, just overall offensive

59:17

weapon questions. And then

59:19

they also have offensive line questions. I've

59:22

been trying to figure out all off season, where

59:25

are they leaning? And it's

59:28

hard for me to give them a wide

59:31

receiver at number six in mock drafts, knowing

59:34

how poorly Evan Neil played and

59:36

knowing how good Joe Walt

59:38

could be opposite from Andrew

59:41

Thomas. And you could fix interior offensive line. Like

59:43

it feels like you can fix that almost every

59:45

other year. Like that's something that you could fix,

59:47

but offensive tackles tough. So Illuminore, I

59:49

mean, it's not like the greatest offensive tackle in the

59:51

world, but he's played really

59:54

solid over the last two years. And

59:56

now he becomes somebody who at least

59:58

gives you an option to start. at

1:00:00

right tackle if Evan Neil

1:00:02

isn't great. And then if Evan Neil

1:00:04

is great at tackle, they also signed

1:00:06

John Runyon to play as one of

1:00:08

the guard spots. So now

1:00:11

you have Luminor who could

1:00:13

be this swing offensive lineman. And

1:00:16

I just feel as though that's a really

1:00:18

underrated signing that gives them a ton of

1:00:20

flexibility to, like I said a few minutes

1:00:22

ago, get aggressive if they wanna get aggressive

1:00:24

to go up and get a quarterback in

1:00:26

the draft, or the freedom to pick one

1:00:28

of Malik Nabors to Roma Dunsey at number six.

1:00:30

So I think that that move, I really, really

1:00:32

liked for those reasons. And then the Geno

1:00:34

Stone edition for the Cincinnati Bengals, I think

1:00:37

was huge. They played one year

1:00:39

without Jesse Bates and it was bad on the

1:00:41

back end. I mean, I looked

1:00:43

it up yesterday, their coverage unit from just their

1:00:45

safeties last year was like a 42.1 overall grade.

1:00:49

Like it was bad, it was not good

1:00:51

without Bates. And they

1:00:53

then go and get a guy who

1:00:56

had an 85.3 coverage grade last season,

1:00:58

had seven interceptions. They needed a true

1:01:00

free safety type of a player like

1:01:02

Bates was for them in

1:01:04

the years prior to him leaving and going over

1:01:06

to land in free agency last year. So they

1:01:08

really desperately missed Jesse Bates. And I think that

1:01:10

they got a good player in Geno Stone to

1:01:13

fill that role better this year. Yeah, I like

1:01:15

that. I like the ones you mentioned. I

1:01:18

love the Bryce Huff deal that we talked about before. I

1:01:20

think that's a really good one. I

1:01:22

love the Panthers trading for Deontay Johnson.

1:01:24

I think that's a really nice addition that they've

1:01:26

made. Not a signing

1:01:28

obviously, but a trade. And in order to make

1:01:30

it happen, it was like a flip of seventh

1:01:32

round picks and getting rid of Deontay Jackson, who

1:01:34

they were probably gonna get rid of at some

1:01:37

point anyway. So they've parlayed a guy that was

1:01:39

probably on his way out and a change of

1:01:41

seventh round picks into a receiver who may

1:01:44

be not the true number

1:01:46

one superstar, but is a good receiver that

1:01:48

gets open. Now it comes with the risk,

1:01:50

which is the folly of bringing in former

1:01:53

Mike Tomlin wide receivers that tend

1:01:55

to immediately detonate themselves as soon

1:01:57

as they leave Pittsburgh. So. There's

1:02:00

that risk attached to it, but theoretically I like this.

1:02:03

My other favorite moves though, I'm

1:02:05

finding myself strangely becoming a running

1:02:07

back apologist of late and

1:02:10

I love Derek Henry to the Ravens. Everybody

1:02:13

I feel as a neutral should want that

1:02:15

deal just to see what it looks like.

1:02:17

Derek Henry going to the Baltimore offense with

1:02:19

Lamar Jackson, no longer running behind the worst

1:02:22

offensive line in the NFL. I

1:02:24

feel like we're going to see King Henry immediately

1:02:26

reassert himself as one of the best running backs

1:02:28

in football. Then the other running

1:02:30

back deal I loved was Austin

1:02:33

Echler to Washington. Echler

1:02:35

through not intentionally but is becoming

1:02:37

the poster child of team friendly

1:02:39

contracts throughout his NFL career. The

1:02:42

last deal that he signed with the Chargers, that

1:02:44

four year, $24 million deal, I used that as

1:02:49

my benchmark of that's as high as I

1:02:51

would go for a veteran running back. Once

1:02:54

the price went above that point, I'm out.

1:02:56

I'm just signing guys at that level and

1:02:58

below and then I'm drafting and I'm trying

1:03:01

to constantly keep that cycle going. That's

1:03:03

like the most I would invest in a running

1:03:05

back and he was that guy. He

1:03:08

absolutely justified that deal by playing

1:03:11

incredibly and to the point where he quite reasonably

1:03:13

last season was like, okay, I want more money

1:03:15

than this. I'm worth more than this. The

1:03:18

team was like, yeah, but this deal is so team friendly

1:03:20

that we don't want to give you any more money. Sorry.

1:03:23

Basically, he just told him to lump it.

1:03:26

He couldn't get a trade done and then

1:03:28

he gets hurt last season, came

1:03:30

back, didn't look quite like the same Austin

1:03:32

Echler and therefore hits free agency coming off

1:03:34

a bad year where at his age, you

1:03:36

suddenly start to look at him and go,

1:03:39

ah, he's probably on the decline. Now

1:03:41

he gets a two year 11, two year

1:03:43

$11.4 million deal from Washington with a three

1:03:49

million signing bonus and just 4.8

1:03:52

million in year one. I

1:03:54

would bet quite a large sum

1:03:57

of money that Austin Echler dramatically

1:03:59

outperforms that Contract again and

1:04:02

like the Washington are buying low on

1:04:04

Echler who is a really top-tier Receiving

1:04:07

option who can still run. Well as

1:04:10

well. It's gonna be an absolute bargain

1:04:12

for them Walt

1:04:15

said Deontay Johnson is meaningless.

1:04:18

Not so not to the Lord brother. Not

1:04:21

the Lord. He's not We

1:04:24

Sure, I had Panthers either. He's why does she want now?

1:04:27

We should really get waltz take for just every signing

1:04:29

that happens. You should add it to the tracker. I Mean

1:04:33

just a thumbs up or thumbs down from Walt.

1:04:36

Oh, yeah, we simple we can streamline it. Yeah We

1:04:39

gotta put it behind a paywall though. You can't get that

1:04:42

free. That's gotta be premium now, right? We

1:04:45

would probably need an extra tier of of

1:04:47

pay for that, you know You've

1:04:49

got you've got standard you've got PFF

1:04:51

premium and then you've got wall premium.

1:04:53

Yeah, that's where you get the extra

1:04:55

bit What

1:04:58

okay, let's let's answer it Let's answer a

1:05:00

question from the chat before we get out

1:05:02

of here John C asks Can we discuss

1:05:04

the Chargers and you mentioned this before we

1:05:06

went on air? They

1:05:08

have sort of held fire on all these

1:05:10

giant potential cap casualties that they've got Presumably

1:05:13

angling for a trade which has yet

1:05:15

to materialize So are we gonna see

1:05:17

the likes of Khalil Mack or Joey

1:05:19

Bosa? Mike Williams

1:05:22

Keenan Allen like half the roster

1:05:24

is a giant bloated cap casualty

1:05:26

potential Are they actually gonna do any

1:05:28

of this or they just get a muddle on with

1:05:30

these contacts? Yeah Like you said, I think that they're

1:05:32

trying to get they're trying to Get

1:05:35

whatever they can for these players But

1:05:39

whatever they're gonna get is I mean it's gonna

1:05:41

be low compensation anyway So when I went through

1:05:44

the exercise with Connor Rogers on

1:05:46

NFL Stock Exchange show We were trying to

1:05:48

like rebuild the Chargers once it was clear

1:05:50

that you know They're firing Staley and they

1:05:52

were gonna be bad and we

1:05:54

looked at this cap situation. We're like, this is horrendous I

1:05:56

mean, they have four of the top

1:05:59

12 cap hits in the NFL,

1:06:01

which is insane because none

1:06:03

of these players are quarterbacks.

1:06:06

Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, Joey Bosa, Khalil

1:06:09

Mack, four of the top 12 highest

1:06:12

cap hit players in the league. Not

1:06:15

even quarterbacks. Um, Joey

1:06:18

Bosa and nobody's going to trade for him at that number. So

1:06:21

you're going to have to figure something

1:06:23

out. And with him being injured and his play kind

1:06:25

of declining since he's being injured, since you've been off

1:06:27

the field a bunch, I

1:06:29

think that he's probably just going to get released. I

1:06:31

think probably the same for Mike Williams because of the injuries as well.

1:06:34

Nobody's really going to trade for him there. Um,

1:06:37

Mack is a free

1:06:39

agent, isn't he? Where did I miss that? Uh,

1:06:42

I thought it was a free agent. So I think he's still on

1:06:44

the roster. Or is he one more year

1:06:46

with the team? Think one more. Let

1:06:48

me check. Yeah. Okay. Are you still there? Well,

1:06:51

he must, he must have one more year. He must not be a free

1:06:53

agent because we wouldn't be having this conversation if he wasn't. But

1:06:56

his cap is correct. So, you know, he could do

1:06:58

something where I think that they would obviously like to

1:07:00

extend him and you'll

1:07:03

move his money around. Yeah. He's on, he's on the

1:07:05

roster for 2024 at a cap hit of 38. Right.

1:07:10

Right. So you have to do something with

1:07:12

him. You're either releasing him or you're signing

1:07:14

him to some sort of extension and trying

1:07:16

to move the money around. But Kooloo Mac

1:07:18

is 33. Yep.

1:07:22

Why would he sign an extension with this Chargers team?

1:07:25

He's, he's, he's basically saying, no, no,

1:07:27

no. Cut me and I'm

1:07:29

going to go play for somebody who can, who can, who I

1:07:32

can go win a Super Bowl with. So I think,

1:07:35

I think Keenan Allen is going to stay like Keenan Allen. You

1:07:37

can figure out his money. You could probably extend him if you

1:07:39

want to, You can move some money

1:07:41

around. I think Bosa and Mike Williams are both gone. I

1:07:43

Don't think they're going to be able to get anything for

1:07:45

him. Mac is the one that you could get something for.

1:07:47

Cause I Believe that somebody would trade some sort of day

1:07:49

three capital to get them on their team. But you're also,

1:07:52

I think you probably got to be in contact with him

1:07:54

and I totally pissed him off to go to a team

1:07:56

that I mean, he doesn't care about because he's not going

1:07:58

to sign some sort of an extension. And

1:08:01

you need to sign an extension because if

1:08:03

he doesn't like said the cafe this massive

1:08:05

so on. The other,

1:08:07

that's my overall thought. The think good leads

1:08:09

two, those guys are gone and maybe Mack

1:08:11

as well. just depends how they're negotiating these.

1:08:13

yeah I think of therefore months or capita.

1:08:15

So. Khalil. Mack Joy, Both that

1:08:17

Keenan Allen, Mike Williams all right now

1:08:20

have a cap number for the Twenty

1:08:22

Twenty Four in a fall season of

1:08:24

at least thirty Two Point Four million

1:08:26

dollars. That's insane rights. Of those four

1:08:28

guys, I think Keenan Allen is the

1:08:30

only one I would really be interested

1:08:32

in keeping an even though each one

1:08:35

of them also comes with a dead

1:08:37

cap hit of at least Eleven million

1:08:39

dollars. Who? A: It's a perfect time

1:08:41

to do that right. New regime comes

1:08:43

and newegg gold. Certain, thirty aren't exactly

1:08:45

right, exactly. So each one of them

1:08:47

also comes with a cat. Saving of

1:08:49

a lease. Fourteen million dollars, right? Even with

1:08:52

the dead cap it's you're saving fourteen

1:08:54

million plus three of the for Twenty million

1:08:56

Plus. when it when it's I turned to

1:08:58

Cap Saving South, Now's the time to do

1:09:01

it right. Harvest, come in new regime.

1:09:03

Let's just. Get the house in order

1:09:05

now like these are the moves the need to

1:09:07

happen when he the strip out the dead contracts

1:09:09

that we don't want around. Keenan Allen I think

1:09:11

has immense sort of institutional value arm and is

1:09:14

still there number one wide receiver so you need

1:09:16

them around the rest of em I think you

1:09:18

can just eat it now gone a different direction

1:09:20

and free up the salary cap space. And except

1:09:23

that you're going to have you know, fifty million

1:09:25

dollars with a dead cap space this year. So.

1:09:27

I. That's what I would do is maybe someone will give

1:09:29

you a late round pick for somebody. I wouldn't bet on

1:09:32

it though and I think eventually you're just gonna have to

1:09:34

come and get on with. It yet. You

1:09:37

come in battle. Do it for our show today.

1:09:39

We will be back tomorrow. Ah myself in Brad

1:09:41

I believe this time as the will be back

1:09:44

next Monday but I thank you for listening to

1:09:46

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