Speaker 1: The late fifteen ten Touchdown. It's a free agency edition
Speaker 1: of Chargers Weekly, as always, joined by Matt Mney Smith Money.
Speaker 1: It's raining on this Wednesday morning in southern California. There's
Speaker 1: so much to get into, and I guess the caveat
Speaker 1: with this podcast, guys, as we are taping this on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday morning, news will probably break as we're speaking.
Speaker 1: There's so much to get into, from Eric Kendricks becoming
Speaker 1: a Charger, to Austin Eckler potentially on his way out
Speaker 1: of the Chargers organization. Maybe not. Trey Pipkins is coming back. Money,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll give you the honor. So where do
Speaker 1: you want to start with all of this news that
Speaker 1: he seems to be coming in really every hour? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the most impactful for the Chargers is
Speaker 1: a guy who scored thirty eight touchdowns the last two years, right,
Speaker 1: and whether or not he's going to be on the
Speaker 1: roster next year, Yeah, I think the idea is very
Speaker 1: similar to the one and look we discussed this last week, right,
Speaker 1: Like this, the guys, in the last year of his deal,
Speaker 1: he's making sick. He's the ninth highest paid running back
Speaker 1: and he scored twelve more touchdowns than the next highest
Speaker 1: guy in the NFL, so you knew this was coming.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not privy to what they're asking for.
Speaker 1: I've heard there's some rumors that it's more in step
Speaker 1: with touchdowns and receiving than running back, which makes sense
Speaker 1: if you're Austin's agent, and it's, well, the guy's top
Speaker 1: five in receptions and he's number one in touchdowns, So
Speaker 1: why are we paying him like a running back when
Speaker 1: he catches the ball as much as he does? And
Speaker 1: you know, I think that leads to some you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say acrimony, but just tough negotiations
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out, you know, what's what's the
Speaker 1: right number, what are the right number of years most
Speaker 1: you know, as we tape this right now, there's a
Speaker 1: report that Zeke Elliott's going to be cut today, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's the largest running back contract ever handed out,
Speaker 1: ninety million dollars. It didn't work out. He's been the
Speaker 1: second best running back on that team for three years.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they I don't know what they offered.
Speaker 1: If they offered to negotiate and tack a few onto
Speaker 1: the back end of this and give them a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bump, maybe get more in step with
Speaker 1: you know, where Aaron Jones or Nick Chubb is. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do think. I do think if the
Speaker 1: right deal is given to them, that they'll take it.
Speaker 1: I just I think the league has moved in that direction.
Speaker 1: It's moved way too much in that direction for teams
Speaker 1: to continually invest in running backs on a third contract.
Speaker 1: You just don't see it. And now, the one thing
Speaker 1: I'll say is it goes back to our draft conversation, right,
Speaker 1: which is, if you feel as though you're a piece away,
Speaker 1: then dropt the running back draft b Jean Robinson if
Speaker 1: you drop him in and that's the piece. So losing
Speaker 1: that piece, you know, runs to my argument of, hey,
Speaker 1: if your clothes, make sure your offense is firing man,
Speaker 1: and that you've got every piece possible to put points
Speaker 1: on the board. And when you lose thirty eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: over two seasons, that runs a little bit countered to
Speaker 1: what I think is the right thing to do. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why the league is so popular, and
Speaker 1: the reason the league is so popular is because a
Speaker 1: it's enjoyable to watch it's a fun sport to watch,
Speaker 1: but be parody. And the reason there's parodies because of
Speaker 1: exactly what we're seeing, you know, players on the move
Speaker 1: from Super Bowl, you know, the Bengals losing their starting
Speaker 1: backfield of Von Bell and Jesse Bates in the conversation
Speaker 1: is the best safety tanem in the league gone? The
Speaker 1: Eagles losing all their linebackers, two of their defensive linemen.
Speaker 1: They're cutting Darius Slay out of today, Like, it's just
Speaker 1: the way the league operates. It has to operate that way,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's so popular. So, yes, the Chargers
Speaker 1: are going to lose some players, some players I would
Speaker 1: really like to see them keep, but you can't. You
Speaker 1: just you can't keep everyone. So Austin's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting because I think if they don't get what they're
Speaker 1: asking for Chris, and I don't know what that is,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it's probably a pretty hefty price because
Speaker 1: of how important he is, Like he's not gonna get
Speaker 1: a one. You know, you're not gonna get a one
Speaker 1: for a running back. It's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But maybe they want to, you know, maybe they want
Speaker 1: it too and change I think that's realistic for a
Speaker 1: guy that's put up thirty eight touchdowns and is on
Speaker 1: a six point two five million dollar contract this year.
Speaker 1: I think if they get it, they'll take it, and
Speaker 1: if they don't, they'll just say come back. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it is what it is. You're under contract. Come back.
Speaker 1: Austin has been durable. I look at the Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: trade last year, and maybe he's not quite on that
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey tier in terms of everything that Christian has
Speaker 1: done throughout his career. But if you want to just
Speaker 1: talk touchdowns, there's nobody better. And this is just the
Speaker 1: business of the NFL. This is where it gets tough
Speaker 1: because you gotta take care of a lot of people.
Speaker 1: If you're the Chargers, right, you got to take care
Speaker 1: of Justin Herbert coming up. He just took care of
Speaker 1: dur when games. He had to restructure Mike Williams and
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack just to
Speaker 1: kind of keep this group together. So sometimes it's hard
Speaker 1: to take care of everybody. But to Austin's point, as
Speaker 1: a running back, and as a running back who has
Speaker 1: produced better than than anybody in terms of touchdowns, you
Speaker 1: only have a certain window to get your money, right,
Speaker 1: and so he's looking throughout the league and we talked
Speaker 1: it's it's ironic that we talked about the running back
Speaker 1: position last week. Money and just you know, a guy
Speaker 1: like Bijon or whoever, whoever any team drafts this year
Speaker 1: that's a running back, they're going to have that that
Speaker 1: four year or five year window where that running back
Speaker 1: is playing for that team. Allston is a unique situation
Speaker 1: where he was an undrafted free agent. He had to
Speaker 1: work for everything he got. He earned that that contract
Speaker 1: a few years ago, he exceeded it, and now he's
Speaker 1: looking around the league and he's seeing all these other guys.
Speaker 1: There's eight of them I think that that you mentioned
Speaker 1: that are in front of him in terms of money
Speaker 1: per year. So is there a team that is willing
Speaker 1: to give up a second and pay Austin right? Because
Speaker 1: it's not just pay him too. He wants money. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna come to you on a one year, six
Speaker 1: point two five million dollar deal. He wants the extension.
Speaker 1: So here's like, I'll play both sides of it. Right.
Speaker 1: If you're Austin's agent, you have to do this, you
Speaker 1: know you that's your responsibility. And here's what my presentation is.
Speaker 1: If I'm Austin's agent, You've given all this money to
Speaker 1: Derwin James, to Joey Bosa, to Mike Williams. They have
Speaker 1: not been healthy. So I don't want to hear about
Speaker 1: My guy is a running back. It's a position with
Speaker 1: heavy attrition. My guy has played every single game nearly
Speaker 1: every single year he's been with you, and save one
Speaker 1: season when he played ten. Otherwise it's been seventeen, sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, fourteen.
Speaker 1: That's what he's played. So I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: That would, you know, be point number one? If they say,
Speaker 1: look it's running back, guys get hurt. Okay, well you've
Speaker 1: already signed guys that got hurt, so that doesn't work
Speaker 1: for me too. Production Find me thirty eight touchdowns? Where
Speaker 1: are they? Where are thirty eight touchdowns the last two
Speaker 1: seasons in the league. Find me nearly a hundred receptions
Speaker 1: from the running back position. Okay, so now I'll play
Speaker 1: the charger side of things. Okay, go show me the contract.
Speaker 1: Show me the contract. You know, what is it that
Speaker 1: you want, because that's what we do we base this
Speaker 1: on other contracts around the league. So show me the
Speaker 1: contract you're trying to model your guy after, and if
Speaker 1: it's McCaffrey, I'll point out, well, listen, he's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different runner between the tackles. You're talking
Speaker 1: about a guy that's not just the receiver but also
Speaker 1: the thumper between the tackles. Austin runs hard, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But I think you're pointing to some
Speaker 1: of those four minute drills that the Chargers have not
Speaker 1: been effective. And again that's listen, this is what this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you go to arbitration. Right, every
Speaker 1: guy presents why they're the greatest player on Earth, and
Speaker 1: every team presents why you're terrible and you're lucky to
Speaker 1: have a job. And that's where negotiations create acrimony and
Speaker 1: create problems because you don't you don't mean to devalue
Speaker 1: the player, you don't mean to insult the player. You're
Speaker 1: simply trying to work in the construct of the rules
Speaker 1: that the NFL operates. Yes, yeah, and so I think
Speaker 1: that's you know, where they're at. I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: like some of the like some of the deals they're like,
Speaker 1: think about James White. You know, all those catches, all
Speaker 1: those receiving touchdowns. Guy probably never made more than three
Speaker 1: million bucks a year, four million bucks a year. I
Speaker 1: think that's what Austin is going to run into. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately, I hope that something gets figured out
Speaker 1: between these two parties. He's an awesome guy. He's someone
Speaker 1: that busts his tail to stay in shape, to stay healthy,
Speaker 1: his nutrition, his commitment in the offseason is probably second
Speaker 1: to none on the team. I don't know if there
Speaker 1: was anybody that works harder than this guy to make
Speaker 1: sure he's ready to go. I want to reward that,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, I gotta fit. It's you know,
Speaker 1: I think I said this last week. It's not basketball.
Speaker 1: You can't get by with two huge salaries and filling
Speaker 1: around those two superstit it's fifty three guys and it's
Speaker 1: really hard to put that puzzle together in money. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if Austin is catching one hundred balls, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's good for the Chargers, right, I would. That's what
Speaker 1: they'll say, football down the field, right, and I do
Speaker 1: I in the same breath, I think Austin Ekeler is
Speaker 1: extremely integral to what they do and how they want
Speaker 1: to play. He's a change of pace. We've said it.
Speaker 1: He's an offensive weapon. He is. He is a high
Speaker 1: hybrid running back, wide receiver playmakers. So this is where
Speaker 1: it gets difficult. But if I'm Kellen Moore, heck yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to use Austin Eckler to his full capabilities.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't want it to
Speaker 1: be a check down to Austin Eckler. I want Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert to throw the ball down the wheel route field
Speaker 1: to Keenan or yeah, or a wheel route or get
Speaker 1: Austin down the field. I want this office to go vertical.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting. As I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we're taping this on a Wednesday morning. Greg kim our producer, Greg.
Speaker 1: If if anything breaks, just just come in and let
Speaker 1: us know. I just saw Aaron Rodgers says he intends
Speaker 1: to play for the Jets money. So I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: there we go breaking here, right, So Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: we play the Jets in New York? Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 1: Chargers play the Jets in New York. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, if you know if in fact that
Speaker 1: that is, if if Rogers on Pat McAfee's show, We
Speaker 1: Love Pat, give him the credit. He's at it himself.
Speaker 1: My intention is to play and to play for the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. So there you go. Now, two teams
Speaker 1: still got to come to an agreement. Um, But what
Speaker 1: I would say is, think about think about London folks.
Speaker 1: To me that that game screams London Jets Chargers Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. You know it's a because look he's in
Speaker 1: the AFC East. He's gonna get two with Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: He's gonna get two against a Bill Belichick defense. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get two against two and the Dolphins and that defense,
Speaker 1: he's got Vic Fangio defense. So he's got a lot
Speaker 1: of primetime games coming. And I could totally see the
Speaker 1: league being like, you know, let's take care of our
Speaker 1: international partners here and get a little Justin Herbert Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers action across the pond. Interesting that he surprised me
Speaker 1: at all. Money we've seen this coming for weeks now,
Speaker 1: that that that it was trending towards the Jets. But
Speaker 1: I just find it very interesting that that he would
Speaker 1: leave the NFC right to to join up with the
Speaker 1: Jets team that hasn't had a lot of success getting
Speaker 1: to the postseason with Josh Allen and that Miami team
Speaker 1: and the Patriots in that division with Justin Herbert and
Speaker 1: obviously Patrick Mahomes and all Burrow and maybe Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: all these other quarterbacks in the AFC. Um, I realized
Speaker 1: that he's going to be able to call a lot
Speaker 1: of shots here, bring some of his old guys there.
Speaker 1: But I just find it interesting that you would leave
Speaker 1: the NFC, where the quarterbacks um aren't as good, I
Speaker 1: guess to put it nicely, uh, compared to the AFC guys. Look,
Speaker 1: I would just say, look, he's been a failure the
Speaker 1: last two years. There's no other way to describe it.
Speaker 1: You know, he has lost two divisional games, um, Because
Speaker 1: I'll argue last year, you know, was a divisional game
Speaker 1: against the Lions. You know, in the divisional game against
Speaker 1: the Lions was to punch his ticket into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and he lost that in Week seventeen at Lambo. You know,
Speaker 1: so that's a failure for Week eighteen, that's a failure.
Speaker 1: Year before. He can't score two touchdowns to beat the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers in the Divisional round, even though they
Speaker 1: have the best record in the NFC. So even though
Speaker 1: the path to the Super Bowl perhaps looks a little
Speaker 1: bit easier, you know, on the path is more perilous
Speaker 1: in the AFC. You know, perhaps Aaron is trying to
Speaker 1: shed the single super Bowl the way he got there.
Speaker 1: If I remember right, I want to say that was
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game against the Bears in which Jay
Speaker 1: Cutler broke his leg in the first quarter and Caleb
Speaker 1: Haney was the quarterback. Caleb Haney get into that game.
Speaker 1: So that's that's his one super Bowl. You're at Soldier Field,
Speaker 1: the quarterback goes down in the first quarter, and you're
Speaker 1: playing against an undrafted free agent at quarterback the remainder
Speaker 1: of the game, and that's how you won your Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He's got four MVP. I'm almost wondering if he's Look,
Speaker 1: he's a weird dude. I don't I'm not breaking news there.
Speaker 1: I almost wonder if he just wanted this motivation. Like
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's saying that I'm a pain in the ass,
Speaker 1: that I don't get along with my teammates, that I'm
Speaker 1: you know, it's just an eclectic or enigmatic personality. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the biggest media market, you know, arguably
Speaker 1: on Earth, and I'm gonna put it down. And he's
Speaker 1: got a supporting cast to do it. Man, Now they
Speaker 1: need to fix the offer. They have to cross their
Speaker 1: fingers that the old line is healthy. Is what they
Speaker 1: have to do. You know, Mackay back then, Elijah vera talker.
Speaker 1: Those guys got to be healthy. So, you know, because
Speaker 1: we know he does not do well when he's not protected.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the ball too long. But he's got
Speaker 1: a legit back in Breece Hall. He's got legit receivers. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we saw Garrett Wilson did last year with guys like
Speaker 1: Mike White and Joe Flacco and Zach Wilson. He's got
Speaker 1: two legit tight ends. I love Uzama, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got the other Denzel Mims, Elijah Moore, awesome slot
Speaker 1: receivers coming. Lezard's coming. He's got that defense, Quinnin Williams
Speaker 1: in the middle of that defense. Sauce Gardener, he's got that.
Speaker 1: So is this the best team in the AFC East,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he's the second best quarterback
Speaker 1: or the best quarter depending on how you feel about
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you know who. I think a little bit
Speaker 1: of the shine came off last year with the struggles
Speaker 1: with interceptions and the struggles in the playoff game. But
Speaker 1: I'd take Josh Allen over Aaron Rodgers. That said, though,
Speaker 1: I mean it's still a debate, right he might be
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the division now if he rediscovers
Speaker 1: what makes him Aaron Rodgers and he's not just mailing
Speaker 1: it in and not showing up to any practices and
Speaker 1: not working out with his guys in the offseason and
Speaker 1: just kicking it at Jeffreys in Malibu every afternoon. Like,
Speaker 1: if he's motivated, it's gonna be a tough team. And
Speaker 1: it's a team that was, you know, was ahead of
Speaker 1: the Chargers, remember until the final three weeks of the
Speaker 1: season for that playoff spot. So it's a it's a grind, man,
Speaker 1: The AFC is a grind. And now Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: how to do a schedule with two with Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: two with Sean Payton, you know two. I think Jimmy,
Speaker 1: like Jimmy Garoppolo's maybe in net neutral net, maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit of a net game, you know, just from
Speaker 1: the winning perspective, Um, it's gonna be tough man. Yes,
Speaker 1: then they're playing to h Josh Allen and Bill Belichick. Again,
Speaker 1: we know what Bill Belichick's done to Justin Herbert every year.
Speaker 1: You know the two times he's played him. So nothing's easy.
Speaker 1: Nothing's easy. Rodgers got a little bit harder. Rodgers was
Speaker 1: in our backyard. I was at this event on Saturday
Speaker 1: at a saddleback college. It was like this uh charity
Speaker 1: flag football tournament. It was put on by Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: in his r X three UM growth Equity company. And
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was there. Ironically, Jared Goff was there at
Speaker 1: line or so Sam Darnold who's now he's now a
Speaker 1: forty nine, or alms St. Brown. So it was it
Speaker 1: was cool to see all these guys there at once
Speaker 1: and and everybody you could tell like it was just
Speaker 1: kind of hanging over the event. It's like, what is
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gonna do? So so we finally know the Chargers.
Speaker 1: We talked last week. We answered a bunch of questions,
Speaker 1: got some real good feedback on the pod, and appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys submitting questions and M submit them submitted every week. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll try to get the we'll try to get the questions.
Speaker 1: But when we can m Trey Pipkins was a was
Speaker 1: a big topic of conversation last week. Money. Uh, the
Speaker 1: Chargers get that continuity, they get Trey back, He'll play
Speaker 1: right tackle. And I said yesterday, I'm just I'm happy
Speaker 1: the Chargers were able to make this happen. They saw
Speaker 1: it through, right, They saw potential in this small school
Speaker 1: kid from some Sioux Falls, went through the growing pains,
Speaker 1: and it paid off last year and now they get
Speaker 1: to see his prime years with this offensive line led
Speaker 1: by a Slater and Corey Linsley. It's clear. I think
Speaker 1: it was priority number one, you know, And that's I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't have to look far. Look look to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you know, look to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: how they the Chiefs I think upgraded with Jiwan Taylor
Speaker 1: over Orlando Brown. They just gave him what sixty eight
Speaker 1: million bucks? You know, they prioritized offensive line two years ago,
Speaker 1: and they prioritized it again this offseason. The Eagles have
Speaker 1: arguably the best offensive line in football. Those are your
Speaker 1: two super Bowl teams. One puts up thirty eight the
Speaker 1: other thirty five you have to protect up front in
Speaker 1: this league, and if you have, if you have two tackles,
Speaker 1: you better figure out a way to pay them, because
Speaker 1: it's the hardest thing to find, I think of all
Speaker 1: the position groups. Yeah, it's hard to get two defensive ends,
Speaker 1: two pass rushers. That's hard to But I think it
Speaker 1: is incredibly hard to find two guys that you trust.
Speaker 1: You know that you don't feel like you constantly have
Speaker 1: to you know, shade protection that way or at a
Speaker 1: tight end, or make sure your running backs always on
Speaker 1: that side to chip or run your quarterback away, you know,
Speaker 1: cut the field in half from that weakness. When you
Speaker 1: have two guys that you trust, you can do a
Speaker 1: lot more on an offense. And we saw what Kellamore
Speaker 1: was able to do with that offense in Dallas with
Speaker 1: two really well really with five really really good offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, we're projecting a little bit,
Speaker 1: I think, but also not you know, Zion I thought
Speaker 1: had a very solid rookie season. Yes it was a
Speaker 1: rookie season, and there were a couple of games he struggled,
Speaker 1: but if you can keep this front five, and we
Speaker 1: talked about it, last week. I think Sawyer's a better
Speaker 1: guard than a tackle because he struggled with speed on
Speaker 1: the edge at time to time. But once he gets
Speaker 1: his hands on you, he wins. So that's gonna probably
Speaker 1: fit better as a guard. And he played some guard,
Speaker 1: you know, at Georgia, so it's not like it's a
Speaker 1: completely foreign position to him. So to me, that front
Speaker 1: Slater Sawyer, Lindsley, Johnson, Pipkins, that's a really really good
Speaker 1: offensive line. And when you're telling me, I can get
Speaker 1: Trey Pipkins for twenty three million bucks and the Broncos
Speaker 1: just gave Mike mcclinchey eighty million dollars, who was borderline benched,
Speaker 1: was almost benched in San Francisco at the back end
Speaker 1: of that year because he was so leaky over there.
Speaker 1: Hey man, way to go, I mean way to go,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, there were some other smaller moves
Speaker 1: that we can get too. But but yes, I think
Speaker 1: I think Trey was priority number one. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any question that that was the number one thing
Speaker 1: they wanted to get done. And once it happened, I
Speaker 1: think we saw the riding on the wall that Matt
Speaker 1: Filer would be released because you need the money. So basically,
Speaker 1: you took Matt Filer's money, you gave it to Trey,
Speaker 1: and now you're even you know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about, you know, coming up with more money, restructuring
Speaker 1: more contracts, cutting other people in order to get Trey
Speaker 1: on the roster. Yep. And and like you said, you
Speaker 1: saw your guard saw yours proven you could play tackle too,
Speaker 1: so if anything happens on the left or right side,
Speaker 1: you could probably play him in. You also have to
Speaker 1: find some depth so that you talk about some of
Speaker 1: these small moves. They put tenders on Foster Sourrell and
Speaker 1: Cameron Dicker, So those are those are the two small moves.
Speaker 1: Eric Kendricks I'll quickly say, though, Chris, I think the
Speaker 1: Dicker things interesting because of how good he was down
Speaker 1: the stretch. But then you have a little hiccup in
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game. You know, I don't think it's fair
Speaker 1: to pin that on him. The guy had made like
Speaker 1: twenty five or more than that, and he's like forty
Speaker 1: straight kicks extra, So that to me is going to
Speaker 1: be interesting because as we saw last year, you know,
Speaker 1: Chargers had to dip into the kicker free agent pool,
Speaker 1: you know, four times, so you know, they signed Dustin Hopkins,
Speaker 1: then they had to go get Bertolette, they had to
Speaker 1: get Dicker, and I think there was one other one
Speaker 1: in there if I remember right, but it's I'm spacing
Speaker 1: on it right now or three times whatever. But point being,
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a legitimate competition in camp,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna be They're probably gonna get
Speaker 1: a seventh or a sixth for one of their two
Speaker 1: guys that doesn't make the team, because teams need kickers,
Speaker 1: especially two that have big legs, that can kick the
Speaker 1: ball at the back of the end zone, and guys
Speaker 1: that have proven, you know, they can win games for
Speaker 1: you when the pressure's on. Yeah, well said. And then
Speaker 1: you know Falster Surrell on a on a smaller scale
Speaker 1: on that offensive line, just somebody who's been developmental, you know,
Speaker 1: exactly developmental. A guy who's not developmental, who's been the
Speaker 1: league for a long time. U C. L. A. Brew
Speaker 1: and Eric Kendricks coming back to LA your thoughts on
Speaker 1: that move, and I guess it kind of signals that
Speaker 1: the Drew Trank was gonna be playing football elsewhere. That's
Speaker 1: a sad part you know, and again just tough decisions.
Speaker 1: And I think this particular move, and I'll start with this,
Speaker 1: Kendrick's a great player, phenomenal player, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many Pro Bowls he's been too
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, but like all of him, it feels like
Speaker 1: he's a really really good in So what I looked
Speaker 1: that up money he's only been to one? Is that right?
Speaker 1: Just one? But he's been, but he's been like the
Speaker 1: models because I thought the same thing, and I look
Speaker 1: yesterday and I was like, he's only been a one
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. He's at all pro that you like it
Speaker 1: was more yeah, yeah. So I think this illustrates how
Speaker 1: hard it is to roster construct in the NFL, like
Speaker 1: Drew is probably gonna get. I think based on kind
Speaker 1: of what the numbers have been for inside linebackers. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the Tremaine Edmunds contract, the Edwards Contra track,
Speaker 1: like those are big numbers. So you know, Drew, you
Speaker 1: never know, Like Drew, I think they probably figured was
Speaker 1: in the eight to nine million range per season. He's
Speaker 1: really good and he's an as sending player and he's
Speaker 1: getting better every year. And I think they were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Drew's gonna cost us eight to nine, Kendricks is going
Speaker 1: to cost us five to seven. What do we do here?
Speaker 1: And that's how important those three million dollars are on
Speaker 1: a two hundred and twenty five million dollars salary cap.
Speaker 1: You've got to figure out how to shave two or
Speaker 1: three million bucks at a position so you can figure
Speaker 1: out the rest of your roster. And I think that's
Speaker 1: ultimately what it came down to. You know, it's one
Speaker 1: of the I can't remember who which GM it was
Speaker 1: that said it, but you know, I think Tom has
Speaker 1: probably said it as well, and if he hasn't, because
Speaker 1: he's not the kind of guy that pats himself on
Speaker 1: the back, But you know, we'll do it here. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you draft well. You know, when you
Speaker 1: draft well, you can't pay all your guys. Hunter Henry's
Speaker 1: gonna leave, Drew Trank was gonna leave, Chenna A wos
Speaker 1: who's gonna leave? Now? The one thing I would say
Speaker 1: is when the market doesn't deliver what the player hopes
Speaker 1: the market's going to deliver, that's when you got to
Speaker 1: get in there and try to figure out if you
Speaker 1: can make something happen. Like when Chenna. I thought Chenna
Speaker 1: was going to get one of those sixty seventy million
Speaker 1: dollar deals and when it didn't show up and it
Speaker 1: became ten million per year, and it was I think
Speaker 1: it's like a three year, twenty eight million figure it out, man,
Speaker 1: figure out way to get him back. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we wish you well, we wanted you to
Speaker 1: get that big money deal. Okay, how about not having
Speaker 1: to pull up stakes and take off. Let's maybe do
Speaker 1: something here and see if you can either get back
Speaker 1: into the market next year and make all that money
Speaker 1: for yourself, and you know, we'll protect you on the
Speaker 1: back end with a couple of years in case it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out for you know, Like I would love
Speaker 1: to see more of that. Like think about if they've
Speaker 1: just been able to keep Chenna last year for ten
Speaker 1: million bucks, to be able to have him in that
Speaker 1: depth at the edge. Like That's what I'm thinking with
Speaker 1: Drew is you know, Kendricks is in his prime, you
Speaker 1: know he is, he's starting to get after I don't
Speaker 1: know right now, I think he is still in his prime,
Speaker 1: but Drew was just starting to get into it. So
Speaker 1: I think That's one of the things you have to
Speaker 1: think about if you're Tom if the market does not
Speaker 1: give Drew what he's looking for. You know, we know
Speaker 1: how much he loves it here. Can you figure out
Speaker 1: a way to keep him and keep that depth on
Speaker 1: this team. Yeah. John Johnson is another name that's been
Speaker 1: swirling around Twitter and obviously nothing official, obviously, but that
Speaker 1: surprised me just because I think they like Alloie so
Speaker 1: much and he's so affordable. You know, you're talking about
Speaker 1: John Johnson is probably gonna want a few million bucks
Speaker 1: and a Looe's making like eight hundred grand, you know,
Speaker 1: as a sixth round pick or whatever he was. So
Speaker 1: that's that's the one thing for people that are getting
Speaker 1: all excited and they're trying to connect that and look,
Speaker 1: maybe it will happen, you know, maybe Johnson doesn't have
Speaker 1: him Again, I think it's all what is the market bear,
Speaker 1: It's all about the more. But yeah, if it's me,
Speaker 1: like if if I'm the one with the purse strings
Speaker 1: and I'm the one, if I'm if I'm John Spanos
Speaker 1: and I'm writing the check, get me Dalton Schultz, he
Speaker 1: wants to come here. It's clear you can see through
Speaker 1: social media, there are so many seeds being planted rumors
Speaker 1: Chargers are interested. Dalton Schultz might want to reunite with
Speaker 1: his Okay, that's his agent. He wants to be a Charger.
Speaker 1: He loves playing for Kellen Moore. The guy's been incredibly productive.
Speaker 1: Get done, like, go, get that done that way. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be a slave to your draft pick.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you you can now draft that. Look,
Speaker 1: if there's a tight end there, God knows, two tight
Speaker 1: end sets, nothing wrong with that. It's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: ruin our Dalton Kincaid content. It's gonna ruin our Mayor content.
Speaker 1: You know, if we bring what if what? It would
Speaker 1: be awesome? So what if you bring in Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: and you draft Washington and now you've got that sixth
Speaker 1: offensive lineman tight end and Dalton Schultz is kicked outside
Speaker 1: and you can't cover him with a safety and you
Speaker 1: can't cover him with a linebacker. Come on, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all right, it's all it's all numbers. It's all
Speaker 1: the numbers games. So if that, like, that's the one
Speaker 1: thing that's interesting about him is he kind of fits
Speaker 1: that Travis Kelsey mode. More than he does that full
Speaker 1: service tight end. He's a really hard cover. Now he
Speaker 1: blocks too, Don't get me wrong, he can block his
Speaker 1: ass off if you you know, if he's asked to.
Speaker 1: But and I think the thing is Chris, he's a
Speaker 1: really he's a really good player. Dalt shows a really
Speaker 1: good player. So that's if that's how you fill your
Speaker 1: tight end, that's a win. You know, that's that's a win.
Speaker 1: The more the more guys you could bring in that
Speaker 1: are familiar with what Kelly Moore likes to do too,
Speaker 1: especially for Justin Herbert, I think the better the running
Speaker 1: game under Kelly Moore's just going to be so fascinating
Speaker 1: now as we wait to see what happens with Austin Ekeler.
Speaker 1: So you know, if Austin Ekeler stays, what do they
Speaker 1: do to compliment Austin If if he goes, we're talking
Speaker 1: about a whole new running game. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a more of a power running game.
Speaker 1: Do they try to identify you know, I know is
Speaker 1: at the tail in his career, even he's only twenty seven.
Speaker 1: But you know there's gonna be some guys out there
Speaker 1: that may make sense for what Kelly Moore may want
Speaker 1: to do running the football. So those are the things
Speaker 1: I think over the next forty eight hours, Bunny, that
Speaker 1: that we're going to have a clear picture of. Is Hey,
Speaker 1: if Austin's here, what do they do? Do they do
Speaker 1: they just roll with Kelly and Spiller and maybe add
Speaker 1: a guy in the draft? Or if Austin goes, do
Speaker 1: you look to the draft exclusively to find your bell? Cow?
Speaker 1: Is Isaiah Spiller your bell? Cow? Is there another guy
Speaker 1: a veteran like uh Is? Like cream Hunt is cream Hunter?
Speaker 1: Interstick to free agent a guy Kreme Hunts and us.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at it right now. By the way,
Speaker 1: I pulled up the credit to spot racku dot com.
Speaker 1: If you want to check out all these numbers market value,
Speaker 1: they have Dalton Schultz pegged at fifteen million a year.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be tough. But that's how good of
Speaker 1: a tight Endy is. Just to kind of put it
Speaker 1: in context. Um, they're putting him up there with the
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddards, the Dawson Knoxes, you know those guys that
Speaker 1: just got those contracts in the fifty sixty million dollar range.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing, that's working against Austin, right is
Speaker 1: the Here are the deals that have been handed out.
Speaker 1: And I know Rashad Penny has not been able to
Speaker 1: stay healthy, but man, if he's healthy, look the hell
Speaker 1: out because he can run. He gets a one year,
Speaker 1: one point three million dollar deal. Matt Breta one for
Speaker 1: one point four, Raheem Moster two for five point six.
Speaker 1: So you're looking at about two and you know two
Speaker 1: and chain two point seven per year, Jeff Wilson in
Speaker 1: Miami two for six three million a year, Samaja p Ryan,
Speaker 1: you know three and a three seven five a year
Speaker 1: to stay in cincinn he goes to Denver, and David
Speaker 1: Montgomery goes from Chicago to Detroit and he's making six
Speaker 1: million a year. So now on the market, and this
Speaker 1: could be kind of what what Tom Tolesco and Ed
Speaker 1: McGuire and all those guys are thinking is if we
Speaker 1: get what we want from Austin. Here's who's out there
Speaker 1: right now. You have Kareem Hunt. You have Jamal Williams,
Speaker 1: who broke Barry Sanders record for touchdowns in a single
Speaker 1: season an Alliance uniform. You have Deonta Form who once
Speaker 1: they traded Christian McCaffrey freaking lit it up for the
Speaker 1: Panthers as a bruising back between the tackles. How about
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, who we talked about last year. He was
Speaker 1: incredible this year, thirteen hundred yards, like the quietest thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred yards and nine touchdowns or whatever you had. You know,
Speaker 1: what is his market value now that he's out? I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got his average annuals. The spot Rock has it
Speaker 1: at seven point two. They think it's a two year,
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollar deals money money. Sanders is a guy
Speaker 1: who Kellen Moore saw a close twice twice a year.
Speaker 1: And he's also a guy who was in an offense
Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurtz, Gainwell and Boston Scott and still rushed
Speaker 1: for thirteen hundred yards, right, I mean, geez. So that's
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at, Like, that's that's what makes it
Speaker 1: tough for Austin Eckler is that you heard the contracts
Speaker 1: I just ripped off. The most expensive one was six
Speaker 1: a year. Austin makes more than that. It's David Montgomery
Speaker 1: who was the Bell kiland Chicago and goes to Detroit.
Speaker 1: Outside of that, these guys are going three four million Bucks,
Speaker 1: productive guys, Jeff Wilson, productive guy, Rain Boaster, productive runner.
Speaker 1: You know, Rashad Penny's the upside flyer guy that's rushed
Speaker 1: for two hundred plus yards and a couple different games
Speaker 1: in his career because he's so freaking good, he just
Speaker 1: can't stay healthy. So there are so many different ways
Speaker 1: to build this thing out. And we know last year, Look,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm kind of just all over the place,
Speaker 1: but like, think about all the splash signings the Chargers
Speaker 1: made last year and how did it work out? They
Speaker 1: got the number one corner guy played less than a
Speaker 1: quarter of the season. You know, they got two of
Speaker 1: the most desired interior linemen for the defense that they run,
Speaker 1: Austin Johnson, Sebastian Joseph Day. Both were great, you know,
Speaker 1: and one ends up getting hurt. Yeah, exactly. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, they get a really good slot corner, you know,
Speaker 1: and he gets banked, like it happens. You know, you
Speaker 1: sign these guys and it doesn't guarantee you anything. So like,
Speaker 1: to me, the most important thing is just you gotta
Speaker 1: create depth. You absolutely have to create depth, you know,
Speaker 1: because we see it every year. Guys go down. You know,
Speaker 1: and so if you can find those value signings that
Speaker 1: help your team out, you know, I think it's so important.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why, like they're small, it's small tidbits
Speaker 1: of news, but like you know, Fohoko Parum, like, look
Speaker 1: at what a great depth piece for Hooko was last
Speaker 1: year to have that guy, Like, how valuable that was.
Speaker 1: You know, they've get time. And it's not easy, man.
Speaker 1: It's why it's hard to be a GM in this league.
Speaker 1: You're constantly being asked to just Hey, I know, Fohoco,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get we can't afford to pay him three million,
Speaker 1: two and a half million bucks. We can't so go
Speaker 1: draft another one. Sorry, figure it out, you know. And
Speaker 1: so that's that's Hey, that's why you make the big
Speaker 1: bucks man. That's why it's why you and I, you know,
Speaker 1: we live on scraps. We live on the crush that
Speaker 1: was cut off of the PB and jade that's being
Speaker 1: eaten by time Leo. You know, because we are not
Speaker 1: tasked with being held accountable for those moves. We just
Speaker 1: get to talk about it. Yeah, we just get to
Speaker 1: talk about it. You know, you've mentioned a guy like
Speaker 1: jac Jackson, who's gonna take up some cap space here
Speaker 1: over the next couple of years. You know, if it
Speaker 1: wasn't from Michael Davis, charge wouldn't be in the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: Jamari saw your six round pick. You know, a year
Speaker 1: ago we're talking about the trade of Khalil Mack and yes,
Speaker 1: Khalil had a good year, the signing of j C. Jackson,
Speaker 1: and we were expecting a lot from j C and
Speaker 1: more turnovers. Uh, it's whatever you see in March, it
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily show itself in September through February. And that's
Speaker 1: the mark of a team that. Yeah, like if you
Speaker 1: have a team with depth, um, those pieces they're gonna
Speaker 1: show up late in the year. I remember, like I
Speaker 1: remember watching in Money you called the game. It was
Speaker 1: the Sunday night game against San Francisco and seeing all
Speaker 1: these guys like like Herbert is playing without everybody right,
Speaker 1: and they're still making a work with DeAndre Carter, who
Speaker 1: who was just a free agent signing for like a
Speaker 1: million bucks. Right. Uh, you know, Tito Bonia goes down,
Speaker 1: Christian Covington goes down, so all these guys. That's kind
Speaker 1: of when Fajoko and then Gaziano goes in and then
Speaker 1: he goes out, so all these pieces that kind of
Speaker 1: showed themselves in November December, those are the pieces that
Speaker 1: helped the Chargers get to the playoffs, not the big
Speaker 1: name free agents that we see in March necessarily. Well,
Speaker 1: I think also too is you know you have to
Speaker 1: remember and this goes to I can't remember who I
Speaker 1: was talking to you, but I was. When I was
Speaker 1: at the combine last week, I was chatting with somebody.
Speaker 1: It was a front office guy, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about a couple of players and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things I use. Okay, I remember who
Speaker 1: it was. He's former GM a couple of different teams,
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, one of the things I
Speaker 1: always had to remind my staff of is what can
Speaker 1: they do? Because all we would sit there and do
Speaker 1: we fell into this rut where we just picked apart
Speaker 1: what they can't do, and it led to us just
Speaker 1: probably passing over some guys that we should have drafted
Speaker 1: because we just focused on okay, essentially worst case scenario, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into a game and look at this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be a liability and this one particular facet
Speaker 1: of his game and it's going to cost us a win,
Speaker 1: he was, instead of, Hey, this guy's gonna help us
Speaker 1: win because he can do this, this and this. So
Speaker 1: here's the parallel I'm drawing. Even if Austin goes, even
Speaker 1: if Drew goes, if let's just go like, you know,
Speaker 1: all of these guys get signed elsewhere. You've got a
Speaker 1: roster with the offensive line we talked about with Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, with a defense with Joey Bosa,
Speaker 1: Khalil mack with with Derwin James, with Asante and Michael
Speaker 1: will and Mike David. This team is still stacked. Like
Speaker 1: the team is still stacked on both sides, to have
Speaker 1: those two pass rushers, to have Derwin James, you know,
Speaker 1: to have a secondary that we saw show out last
Speaker 1: year with Asante and Mike Davis, and hopeful at some
Speaker 1: point jac Jackson will be back. Like teams still really good.
Speaker 1: Like it is a really good I would imagine if
Speaker 1: you were to go through the league and just line
Speaker 1: up all thirty two teams. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: are saying we'd rather have our roster than yours. You know,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of teams, you know, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be twenty five or more that are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll take that roster with Justin Herbert and Keenan and
Speaker 1: Mike Williams and Derwin James and Joey Bosa. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: take that roster. That's that's the one we want. So
Speaker 1: just keep that in mind. You know, Yes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: suck to lose Dustin Ekeler if he leaves. It's gonna
Speaker 1: it's stinks to lose Drew Tranquil, you know, and some
Speaker 1: of the guys. And that's one of the great things
Speaker 1: about a team and cheering for a team is watching
Speaker 1: young men realize their potential and realize their dream and
Speaker 1: go from being undrafted out of Western Colorado to the
Speaker 1: NFL's touchdown leader and back to back seasons. It's a
Speaker 1: great story. It makes us feel great because, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not Derwin James. We're not like, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: we're Austin Eckler. Hell no, we're not Austin Eckler, but
Speaker 1: he's an NFL player, But we feel we identify more
Speaker 1: with Austin Eckler with Braden Fojoko. You know, you saw
Speaker 1: Braden's story on uh, come on, what the hell's it called?
Speaker 1: HBO hard Knocks, you know, and you saw the joy
Speaker 1: and the tears you know in his family when he
Speaker 1: when he made the team, Like, we all relate to that,
Speaker 1: and we become attached emotionally to these players. And it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's something that that you know, I was
Speaker 1: taught early when I worked for the Lakers. You know,
Speaker 1: I had one of the people on the training staff
Speaker 1: that just said, nod, there there, you're a likable guy.
Speaker 1: You're great. You know, I enjoy conversing with you. The
Speaker 1: players are certainly gonna like talking to you. Don't don't
Speaker 1: be their friend, you know, be nice, be cordial, you know,
Speaker 1: be a great colleague, but do not get emotionally caught
Speaker 1: up in these guys. It's just it's not worth it.
Speaker 1: And that's something I've always so I've always kept in
Speaker 1: arm's length always, you know, enjoyed my conversations with them.
Speaker 1: You want to be cordial, you know, by no means
Speaker 1: them I ever standoffish. I say hi, I'll chat with
Speaker 1: the guys and snack and you know, meals and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. Or if we're walking around but
Speaker 1: they go, they leave. It's it's it's a short, capricious business,
Speaker 1: and they have to take care of themselves financially because
Speaker 1: their window, their earning window is from three to fifteen
Speaker 1: years if they're incredibly lucky. Yeah, it's the business. And
Speaker 1: you know, I look at the Chiefs too, money think
Speaker 1: of all the players who have come and gone with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, right, Tyreek Hills gone. Now
Speaker 1: they bring in Kadarius Tony and Jujusmith Schuster, Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Air you know is now Isaiah paiceco. You know the
Speaker 1: offensive line, they bring in Creed Humphrey and now Orlando
Speaker 1: Brown's gone, they bring in Taylor. If you have the
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback and then you have a staple with him,
Speaker 1: like a Kelsey, you can build around. Right. So the
Speaker 1: big piece here obviously is Justin Herbert, and you know,
Speaker 1: Keenan and Mike have been with Justin. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: see how much longer, but we know twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: those guys are back. Justin Herbert's back, Corey Lindsley's back,
Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater's back. So you can make things work around
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback and have sustained success in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Now they have to they have to get past the
Speaker 1: wildcard round. Now they have to now that we're justin
Speaker 1: Herbert's fourth season, they have to get past that wildcard round.
Speaker 1: They got to get to the division round. They gotta
Speaker 1: get to an AFC championship and continue to build. But
Speaker 1: when you have those two or three pieces, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in good shape for a long period
Speaker 1: of time. It's a great point. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: great point because when the Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill, what
Speaker 1: did we all say? It changes everything. That that is
Speaker 1: the that that is the queen on the chessboard, you know,
Speaker 1: outside of a quarterback position that every defense had to
Speaker 1: account for and now you don't, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be so much easier to play the Chiefs. And it was.
Speaker 1: But they still figured out how to win because they
Speaker 1: had enough. You know, it wasn't as dominant, it wasn't
Speaker 1: as explosive. They had to win tight games when before
Speaker 1: they were blown people out, you know, by ten fourteen
Speaker 1: points because of the explosive play availability of Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: But they figured it out, and yeah, look, the Chargers
Speaker 1: are up twenty eight nothing in a playoff game and
Speaker 1: lost it. Like you know, that can't happen. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: have happened. It's it's the greatest playoff collapse, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest playoff collapses in the history the NFL.
Speaker 1: So you would like to think that history isn't going
Speaker 1: to repeat itself. But I think when something like that
Speaker 1: does happen, you do have to take inventory and you
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself, Okay, why did it happen, and
Speaker 1: do we have the right people. And that's top down.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about just players, talking about coaches. That's
Speaker 1: why we got a new offensive coordinator on a quarterback coach,
Speaker 1: you know, because they couldn't get a first down, they
Speaker 1: could not convert third downs in the second half, they
Speaker 1: could not run the four minute drill, they had no
Speaker 1: ability to run the ball on designed runs. So they
Speaker 1: went out and got a guy that does it better
Speaker 1: than almost anybody else in Dallas and what he's done
Speaker 1: with Tony Pollard, you know, and Zeke Elliott and that
Speaker 1: running game in Dallas these last five years. So they
Speaker 1: went on got him. You know. Defensively, Ronaldo Hill is
Speaker 1: out you know, Derek Hansley's elevated Brandon. I'm sure coach
Speaker 1: Staley is doing some self evaluation. He says he does
Speaker 1: all the time, that you've got to be honest with
Speaker 1: yourself and they've got to fix that because they couldn't
Speaker 1: get off the field. They could not stop a team
Speaker 1: on third down that was twenty eight nothing in the
Speaker 1: hole and was essentially passing the ball over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. And they could not figure that out. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the things that you have to improve upon
Speaker 1: year to year, and so that could be a reason.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they hold Drew responsible for some of that,
Speaker 1: you know, the way you know that the calls are
Speaker 1: coming in and maybe he's not getting them guys lined
Speaker 1: up right, you know, I don't know, And that's why
Speaker 1: they felt better with a veteran like Kendricks, you know. So,
Speaker 1: but I think it's important to to keep all of it.
Speaker 1: It's not a vacuum, you know, it's important to keep
Speaker 1: everything in context from what happened last year. What do
Speaker 1: they need? What do they still have? How do we
Speaker 1: get to a super Bowl? You know? How how do
Speaker 1: we get to I think it's Tampa, right, How do
Speaker 1: you get to or wherever Vegas? How do we get
Speaker 1: to Vegas in two thousand and twenty four in February
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty four? And that's and do it under
Speaker 1: the rules presented? Not easy? So yeah, that's why anything
Speaker 1: else breaks. Since we've been talking. No, I was gonna say, Greg,
Speaker 1: what do we got we gonna have? Right? All right? Nothing?
Speaker 1: That's good? We like that. Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers told
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter to lose his number. Good try though, when
Speaker 1: he was confirming the report. That's funny, Thanks Aaron. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if you're aware of this,
Speaker 1: but the guy's got a job, you know, they believe
Speaker 1: it or not. There are other people that have jobs
Speaker 1: in this business, and it's a big job because people
Speaker 1: want to know people and they're not content. The people
Speaker 1: that watch ESPN, the people that consume Chargers dot Com
Speaker 1: that they want to know, they're interested. It's so for
Speaker 1: you know, forgive them their sins of daring to project
Speaker 1: where you're going. God forbid somebody not do things exactly
Speaker 1: like you want. I'll tell you right now what I'll
Speaker 1: be rooting for when they play the Jets unbelievable, guys.
Speaker 1: An absolute nightmare, complete nightmare. And you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: be honest Chris, like I think it's a terrible match.
Speaker 1: I'll just say it, you know, and whatever due to
Speaker 1: me what they did with Patrick Mahomes when I was
Speaker 1: talking about him coming into the league. It happens. It
Speaker 1: is not a good match as a team. The press
Speaker 1: conferences are going to be incredible, Like the Green Bay
Speaker 1: media and the New York media are a little bit different,
Speaker 1: Like like, listen, the green Bay media is awesome and
Speaker 1: they know their football, but times that by ten in
Speaker 1: New York who cannot wait to make you a headline
Speaker 1: the next day? I mean it's the headlines? Are they
Speaker 1: right themselves already? So for me, I'm just like from
Speaker 1: a football standpoint, this is a team with a dominant
Speaker 1: defense and a really good run game and a struggle
Speaker 1: to protect the past, a struggle to pass, protect offensive line.
Speaker 1: Like we know how Aaron Rodgers likes to operate small,
Speaker 1: way too long. It takes way too many sacks. He's
Speaker 1: always going for the kill shot like that is not
Speaker 1: a good match with this team, you know. I I
Speaker 1: believe that there was serious debate inside the Bill like, hey, yes,
Speaker 1: it's the shiny toy and it's the four time former MVP.
Speaker 1: But you can make a case that like Derek Carr
Speaker 1: might be the better guy, like the guy that wants
Speaker 1: to get rid of it quick, the guy that's content
Speaker 1: to take the check down and just protect the ball
Speaker 1: at all costs and just let's just chunk our way
Speaker 1: down the field and not have it like that's I
Speaker 1: just don't. I don't think it's a great fit. I
Speaker 1: think I think with the way that Robert Salo wants
Speaker 1: to play, it doesn't And just his impatience, you know,
Speaker 1: his incredulousness with young receivers and the way he treated
Speaker 1: those guys last year after not working out with them
Speaker 1: after they'd been drafted. It's like, you've got all these
Speaker 1: guys that just came in, Robo Dubbs and the Christian Watson,
Speaker 1: Like you're not gonna work out with them all summer long.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna show up in training camp and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's figure each other out. Plus what is
Speaker 1: what is Garrett Wilson thinking when he sees his wish
Speaker 1: list of Lazard and Cobb and Odell Beckham and what
Speaker 1: she says is all byes, I'm the wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore was already upset he wasn't getting the football
Speaker 1: and you you're bringing it all. Aaron Wilson's better than
Speaker 1: all those guys. He's better than all those guys. I
Speaker 1: know is Denze. Listen if I were tom it like,
Speaker 1: I'm on the phone right now. I am on the
Speaker 1: phone right What do you want for Denzel Mims? What
Speaker 1: do you want? Because clearly the coaching staff doesn't like him.
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now, Aaron Rodgers ain't gonna
Speaker 1: like him, becase he's already asking you for Lazard and
Speaker 1: Cobb and Odell Beckham I think was involved, got your Zamba,
Speaker 1: Like what are you? What are you talking about? And
Speaker 1: I love Mercedes Lewis. He's one of my favorite players ever,
Speaker 1: Freaking long beach Polly Taken on Morey's Jones, Drew and
Speaker 1: Dala sal in that epic game at Veteran Stadium, Like
Speaker 1: it's just that, like just to spin it to the
Speaker 1: Chargers and not what I think is a very popular
Speaker 1: position now on Aaron Rodgers. I've held it for a
Speaker 1: long time, but I would be calling Joe Douglas right now.
Speaker 1: You need speed. I don't know what their problem is
Speaker 1: with playing Denzel Mims. Go get them Rogers like eight.
Speaker 1: Unwant them, We'll take them. Here's a third. We will
Speaker 1: take a guy that's got almost no production in his
Speaker 1: NFL career. We will send you a third round pick
Speaker 1: for him right now. Take it and we'll take him.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, and I want to ask
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Speaker 1: we talked about the Jets. How about Darren Waller going
Speaker 1: to the Giants leaving the AFC West and Kelsey Plum
Speaker 1: coming out that McDaniels wasn't invited to the wedding, So
Speaker 1: maybe that was a reason why was shipped out? Feel terrible.
Speaker 1: Wife lives in Vegas. You know, she's a player for
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas as W NBA team. They just get
Speaker 1: married and now he gets shipped to the other side
Speaker 1: of the country and he's a New York Giant. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't get it, you know, I don't. I'm having
Speaker 1: to having to deal with them. Well that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: You have to deal with Waller at tight end, Davante
Speaker 1: Adams on the outside, Hunter renfro in the slot. No,
Speaker 1: thank you, right for the Chargers and they brought you
Speaker 1: Kobe Myerson. Yeah, great for the Chargers. Get him out
Speaker 1: of here, Get get get Darren Waller. Out of here
Speaker 1: because the idea they had to assign, you know, Derwin
Speaker 1: James to him the whole game. It's like Derwin, there
Speaker 1: you go, and now you've neutralized Derwin because he's got
Speaker 1: a neutralize Darren Waller. Now he's not flying all over
Speaker 1: the field and doing a million different things. Now we
Speaker 1: can do that. So you know that, it really was
Speaker 1: a head scratcher for me. I think he is the
Speaker 1: second best pass catching tight end in the league behind
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. And to remove that, what it tells me
Speaker 1: is that, you know, Josh McDaniels has full confidence of
Speaker 1: Mark Davis. You're gonna ship out a guy in Derek
Speaker 1: Carr that you know. I'm not a huge fan, but
Speaker 1: the fans love him. You sold a ton of number
Speaker 1: four jerseys. He's the all time leading passer. He wasn't terrible.
Speaker 1: He was league average maybe fifteen to twenty quarterback. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what Garoppolo is. He's a little bit cheaper, you know. So,
Speaker 1: but you gave Josh his guy. He's Josh's guy, you know, Waller,
Speaker 1: not his guy. Charcobi Meyers his guy. Okay, they believe
Speaker 1: they are one sold on Josh McDaniels. So they are
Speaker 1: allowing him to construct the roster in his image, and
Speaker 1: that's what he's doing, and it's either gonna work or
Speaker 1: it's not. And guess what, show me the Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: disciple that's worked. I'd love to see it, because it
Speaker 1: hadn't happened. Didn't have him for Charlie Weiss, didn't have
Speaker 1: him for Romeo Cornell, didn't have him for Bill O'Brien.
Speaker 1: Has not happened for Josh McDaniels had Like none of
Speaker 1: the Joe Judge, Matt Patricia, there is not one. The
Speaker 1: majority of them fail spectacularly. They don't just fail like
Speaker 1: they fail spectacularly. So that's not what I'm saying Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniels is gonna do. But I'm saying it that's that's
Speaker 1: a hell of a risk to take if you're Mark
Speaker 1: Davis and you're gonna him to tear apart your team
Speaker 1: and build it up in the vision in which he
Speaker 1: sees it should be built. Now, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: like the Raiders have had any success. They have not
Speaker 1: won a playoff game in twenty years, twenty one years,
Speaker 1: So you know, okay, what the hell I figure it out,
Speaker 1: They're gonna get their defense right too. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: so how about this. By the way, Denzel Mims zero
Speaker 1: career touchdowns, has barely played for the Jets. Four three
Speaker 1: eight forty four three eight forty vertical, thirty nine broad
Speaker 1: jump nearly eleven feet. This dude freaking flies. He flies,
Speaker 1: you know, he's what is he? He's at two hundred
Speaker 1: and ten pounds, he's six foot three. Go get him,
Speaker 1: Go get him? But Elijah Boys another guy? Who which
Speaker 1: which is? It's crazy to me that if these listen,
Speaker 1: these are reports that Rogers wants these, you know, these Packers,
Speaker 1: former packers to come in and play in Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: But it's it's just I think it's a complete disrespect
Speaker 1: to the on the roster. Elijah Moore is a good player,
Speaker 1: well like the thing. But Denzel Is they haven't played him,
Speaker 1: They have not played him. He's got a career forty
Speaker 1: two catches. Think about Josh Palmer, right, Denzel MIM's been
Speaker 1: in the league for three years. He's got forty two catches,
Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy six yards and no touchdowns. Palmer
Speaker 1: had more than that this year. I don't think you
Speaker 1: even need to have up a third round pick, right,
Speaker 1: maybe a problem. I think the problem is Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: loves him and he can't you know. That's that's my
Speaker 1: guess is he's like, why won't you play this guy?
Speaker 1: He's six three, two hundred and ten pounds and he
Speaker 1: runs a four three forty? Why is he not on
Speaker 1: the field? Get him out there? And for some reason
Speaker 1: they won't, you know, so go get him. He was
Speaker 1: drafted in the second round, Like you said, maybe give
Speaker 1: up before. Who knows this, This may be a time
Speaker 1: to get them because you know, Joe Douglas is busy
Speaker 1: now signing Lazard and trying to get this Aaron Rodgerston. Right,
Speaker 1: So you can't keep all these receivers because they're not
Speaker 1: all going to touch the football. He said, Mims doesn't
Speaker 1: even touch the football. Now, Ums, I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about it was Jalen Ramsey going to Miami. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's another team, Chargers. Chargers play the Dolphins again
Speaker 1: this year too. That that defense is gonna be really good. Uh,
Speaker 1: we know what what that offense is all about. If
Speaker 1: Ta can stay healthy. Just yet another contender or in
Speaker 1: the AFC, it's a look it's a it's a grind, man,
Speaker 1: it's a you want to if you're if you're a
Speaker 1: Chargers coach or in the front office, just go ahead
Speaker 1: and I'll google it for you right now too. Go
Speaker 1: into Chargers Opponents two thousand, twenty three, UM and and
Speaker 1: get a look at what that looks like. And it's
Speaker 1: obviously Sean Payton with the Broncos. Now it's you know,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and two with the Raiders, two with the Broncos.
Speaker 1: Two with the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes and defending Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champs. On top of that, you got the Bills
Speaker 1: Josh Allen second in the MVP voting last year. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins just added Vic Fangio for defense and Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1: And we already know Zavian Howard And is he still
Speaker 1: on the team or they let him go? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: they let up Jones, so Xavin's still there, Christian Watson upfront,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, all that length that end. Like that's a
Speaker 1: really good defense. And now Vick gets to coordinate that.
Speaker 1: You get the Ravens. Please get rid of Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Let him go to the NFC. You know, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: the Lions, the Bears. Okay, you know, Lions on the
Speaker 1: on the upswing away at Patriots, at Jets at the
Speaker 1: Jordan Love quarterback Packers, who I hope take a step
Speaker 1: without Aaron Rodgers except when they play the Chargers just
Speaker 1: to rub it in his stupid face, and the Vikings
Speaker 1: and Titans. It's a tough schedule, man, it's a tough schedule.
Speaker 1: Remember they were talking about Jordan Love ahead at Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert in that draft, after that season he put together
Speaker 1: at Utah State. And I've heard the Packers really like him.
Speaker 1: You know, he was being described as Mahomesy in his
Speaker 1: off platform throws, the cannon of an arm. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a conversation that he should be the third
Speaker 1: quarterback drafted ahead of Herbert because if some of those
Speaker 1: splash plays that he put together at Utah State. So
Speaker 1: don't forget he's a talent. Love and Herbert worked out
Speaker 1: together in Coastabasa leading up to the draft, prepared for
Speaker 1: the combine. And that's what's funny. He's like, imagine Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert and not really seeing him at all until twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, right, Like, imagine having him just wrapped up
Speaker 1: and not playing at all, and this is kind of
Speaker 1: what we're gonna get with Jordan Love. But it looks
Speaker 1: like Jordan Love has taking some strides, and I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I hope the Packers do take a step forward with
Speaker 1: Love and he has a good just not against the charactors.
Speaker 1: That's we get to go to Lambeau. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that. That's gonna be Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: I've called a handful of games there before I got
Speaker 1: the Chargers job. I used to call for people that
Speaker 1: don't know games nationally for syndicated Compass Media and probably
Speaker 1: did three or four Lambeau games and it's just awesome.
Speaker 1: It's it's awesome, like one of my favorite, one of
Speaker 1: the I've told the story before, but you know, they
Speaker 1: have such a great pr team, just the great people.
Speaker 1: And one of them picked me up from the airport,
Speaker 1: found out it was my first game there, you know,
Speaker 1: and kind of said, hey, where you want to go out?
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, whatever, man, take me wherever
Speaker 1: you want to take me. And there was this place
Speaker 1: kind of up the road from our hotel where we
Speaker 1: were staying. Obviously it's not a huge place, and it
Speaker 1: was they said, every Saturday night, it's place just Talma.
Speaker 1: Four thousand people in the middle of the winner packed
Speaker 1: in to this like bar that's three stories tall and
Speaker 1: just having a great time. And it was awesome and
Speaker 1: everyone was incredibly friendly and it's such a cool play.
Speaker 1: And then I remember going to the stadium that day
Speaker 1: and to get to the stadium, you know, I'm driving
Speaker 1: through a neighborhood. It's just I don't get on a
Speaker 1: freeway to go there. I'm taking neighborhood streets as all
Speaker 1: these houses along this line are, you know, using their
Speaker 1: lawns is parking for people. I looked to my right,
Speaker 1: I'm at a stoplight and it's a funeral home and
Speaker 1: people are tailgating on the lawn of this funeral home,
Speaker 1: which is hilarious. And then I go through the light
Speaker 1: as Lambo was on my I remember like it was yesterday,
Speaker 1: the first time I did at Lambo's on my left.
Speaker 1: There's like a gas station, a giant parking lot on
Speaker 1: my right, and where the media parking was. I have
Speaker 1: to go around the backside of Lambo and there's a
Speaker 1: Catholic church right behind Lambo and a neighborhood right Lambo's
Speaker 1: just dropped right in the middle of this neighborhood. So
Speaker 1: there's houses, and here's a Catholic church. And in the
Speaker 1: Catholic church is a is a stage and a band.
Speaker 1: And remember I'm getting there early, you know, because I
Speaker 1: gotta call the game. So I'm there probably two three
Speaker 1: hour probably two and a half hours before kickoff. And
Speaker 1: here's a band on stage banging out Zeppelin Rocket Role
Speaker 1: and just on the on the lawn of a Catholic church.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is great. What's better than this? It's
Speaker 1: such an awesome you know, if you're a Charger fan,
Speaker 1: and you guys do a great job speaking to you
Speaker 1: fans when we go on the road. We've seen you
Speaker 1: all over and it's fun to see when we hit
Speaker 1: the road. Um, some of some really great fans that
Speaker 1: end up getting out Obviously, this is one you circle.
Speaker 1: You get to do it every what Chris eight years,
Speaker 1: get out out there. Man, I've never been. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's one of the handful of stadiums I've never been to.
Speaker 1: So money that means you're gonna have to pay it
Speaker 1: forward and you're gonna have to take me to that
Speaker 1: three story Barn Bar where there's four thousand people on
Speaker 1: a Saturday night before Packard game. I need to be there.
Speaker 1: You know, I have no problem doing that, So yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll it's it's a really cool spot. Um, I get
Speaker 1: the check a box. This year, I only have two
Speaker 1: stadiums I have not called a game in. I've been
Speaker 1: to US Bank Stadium for the Super Bowl, but I
Speaker 1: haven't called the game there since they got the new stadium.
Speaker 1: So that's one and then all. I'll have leftist Carolina
Speaker 1: because I believe we were in the pandemic when we
Speaker 1: went there, so I did not get to travel with
Speaker 1: the team to Carolina, and that's it. Once that happens,
Speaker 1: I'll have checked every box in the Uh. Oh, actually no,
Speaker 1: because I had a COVID last year with our two
Speaker 1: years ago with Philadelphia, so I still link the link.
Speaker 1: I did the VAT, but I never did the link,
Speaker 1: so I got to uh, I gotta figure that one
Speaker 1: out somewhere down the road. I've been to Carolina. I
Speaker 1: went to Carolina when Steve Spurrier was the coach of
Speaker 1: the the reds now Command. Risks Um and Jake Delme
Speaker 1: beat them on a final drive in Carolina, me and
Speaker 1: my buddies. We took like this big like RV down
Speaker 1: to Carolina from Nice, from Virginia, from from college. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. I've been a Yeah, Charlotte's a good time.
Speaker 1: A good time for sure. Really is. People don't realize
Speaker 1: like how big of a city that is. Just banking
Speaker 1: industry obviously tobacco, you know, it is huge there. It's
Speaker 1: it's like a it's a big city. Like it's got
Speaker 1: some big city vibes to it as well. I don't
Speaker 1: think people realize that. So anyway, yeah, next year Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The stadium's beautiful. I've just never called a game there,
Speaker 1: but the stadium is incredible. In Minnesota. We're going back
Speaker 1: to Nashville, which of course I have no problem with whatsoever.
Speaker 1: That was that was so much fun. We went a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Was it a It was twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I think that was the game they lost on the
Speaker 1: fumbles Melvin Gordon's two fumbles. Yeah, back to back fumbles
Speaker 1: at the goal line when Austin Ecklers should have been
Speaker 1: given the touchdown, but they took it off the board
Speaker 1: and didn't review it, which was weird. So or maybe
Speaker 1: they did and they just came to the conclusion that
Speaker 1: call on the field stands as opposed to is confirmed. Yep.
Speaker 1: That was Ryan Tannehill's first start with the Titans, and
Speaker 1: and uh, both teams. I think we're like five and five.
Speaker 1: I think it was Jeffrey Simmons's first NFL game. He
Speaker 1: rereaked havoc and has been and uh, and we had
Speaker 1: a good time at Luke Yons. And what was that
Speaker 1: barbecue place we do It was Franklin, Franklin, Franklin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Franklin where they had the Yeah, that's another one, folks.
Speaker 1: You got a lot of spots to go to next year.
Speaker 1: A lot of great spots, really cool stadium in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: incredibly cool towns in Green Bay and our special place
Speaker 1: in the NFL and Green Bay and in a great
Speaker 1: town to party all weekend long in Nashville, and perhaps
Speaker 1: it overseas trip. Like you said, you never know. I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. Tom, call Joe Douglas, go get
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims. Time that happened out of this podcast is
Speaker 1: why Denzel Mims should be in La Charger. Figure out
Speaker 1: what the draft compensation is, go make it happen and
Speaker 1: party Dalton Schultz. Dalton Schultz too, it would be good
Speaker 1: to get him. Um. I'm going to Sacramento tomorrow for
Speaker 1: March Badness UCLA. UM. I think when we do this
Speaker 1: podcast next week, money a lot will be different. UM.
Speaker 1: Maybe you will know a lot more about what this
Speaker 1: team looks like and can maybe answer more answer to
Speaker 1: more fan questions. I think you guys remembers go ahead.
Speaker 1: I think the I think the one thing remembers the
Speaker 1: charters rarely do the strike first, you know, strike hard,
Speaker 1: no mercy. Approaching free agency, they tend to be the secondary.
Speaker 1: They want to resign their own, they want to draft, develop, resign.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what they did with Pipkins. So I
Speaker 1: think the thing to remember is they tend to be
Speaker 1: the let's find some value. There's a reason why teams
Speaker 1: are letting these guys go. But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think we'll have. I think we'll have figured some
Speaker 1: stuff out on the Austin ecler front, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: they want to figure that out because if it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be Austin, there's some really good backs on the market.
Speaker 1: Sanders is the one that comes to mind. Like you said, Kellen,
Speaker 1: Moore's as a great point. Kellen Moore's got familiarity with
Speaker 1: him two times a year, multiple years with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: So I think you're right. Well, we'll have a lot
Speaker 1: more sorted out. Yea. All right, guys, always appreciate you. Listen.
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