Speaker 1: They Around the NFL podcast has.
Speaker 2: On leimaged faith in Russell Wilson's come back from.
Speaker 3: The Chris Wesley podcast studio.
Speaker 4: It's around the NFL.
Speaker 3: Dan Hands is here, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, Colleen Wolf Wednesday,
Speaker 3: and I just have to say it, like right off
Speaker 3: the bat, I must, we must declare vengeance upon the
Speaker 3: NFL establishment if they dare to do that again. Where
Speaker 3: we finish a show taping and then major news breaks.
Speaker 3: I feel like we have been mark very open with
Speaker 3: the football agna zen there about drop this stuff when
Speaker 3: we're in our taping window or before, but do not
Speaker 3: drop it immediately after. And then we're just all annoyed
Speaker 3: texting each other minutes after we leave the studio. So
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson no longer connected to the Denver Broncos who
Speaker 3: eat unprecedented dead cap money. And we could talk about
Speaker 3: it now, but I just want to say vengeance declared.
Speaker 5: If it happens again. I couldn't agree more. I would
Speaker 5: imagine Greg agrees, we've been crystal clear about our boundaries
Speaker 5: and they were broken on that day I had I
Speaker 5: was I had just reached a Mexican restaurant for my
Speaker 5: post show meal and had just sat down and made
Speaker 5: my order, and then it's like we're talking about do
Speaker 5: we want to get together and do an emergency and
Speaker 5: bose topper, which is like I would get why we
Speaker 5: would do that, We've done it in the past, but
Speaker 5: it's like how disruptive, how disorienting. It's really the fault
Speaker 5: of pole order.
Speaker 1: For Mark, I didn't know you eat I do.
Speaker 5: I ordered a like a vegetarian, even this brina with
Speaker 5: chips and SALTSA. Then it's likely you.
Speaker 4: Got caught in a lie there and now you're making
Speaker 4: up a food.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's not not. But like I almost had.
Speaker 5: I had considered to tell it the the server, like
Speaker 5: I might have to put the kibush on this.
Speaker 6: The one time you're going to enjoy food, it gets
Speaker 6: blown up in your face.
Speaker 1: It seems of fate.
Speaker 7: Well, Russ has never forgiven me for predicting in his downfall.
Speaker 7: Roughly halfway through the twenty twenty one season in Seattle,
Speaker 7: Mistakenly's Limited saying I would take mac Jones long term
Speaker 7: over him right Church wrong pew there with that take
Speaker 7: like almost a little.
Speaker 5: Too specific, yeah, otherwise dead.
Speaker 3: On that, And there's a little bit of a Nick
Speaker 3: Fole's Super Bowl similarities there that you kind of hammered
Speaker 3: it but then added a little extra Yeah, and a
Speaker 3: cost you that could cost you.
Speaker 4: Mark that her sandwiches and Sean Payton.
Speaker 7: You know, we've we've called out his his manipulation of
Speaker 7: the media on this show over the years. How often
Speaker 7: he's very critical of the media when he is the
Speaker 7: one giving all the sources.
Speaker 4: So I think he waited for a show to end.
Speaker 7: He's like, Eric's not going to get upstairs throughout twenty minutes.
Speaker 7: The guys are gonna they'll be in their cars. Mark,
Speaker 7: we'll hit the Mexican restaurant around this time.
Speaker 3: Let's drop it, Colleen, Yes, eighty five million, let's just
Speaker 3: talk about this now. Okay, eighty five million hit dead
Speaker 3: money over the next two seasons for the Broncos because
Speaker 3: of the release. So in a lot of ways, Connie,
Speaker 3: it's almost like a five year mistake, I feel like
Speaker 3: for the Broncos because unless they something magical happens with
Speaker 3: at the quarterback position or the roster, you know, all
Speaker 3: of a sudden turns into a juggernaut and they have
Speaker 3: massive dress.
Speaker 4: Even then, it's almost did you just eat.
Speaker 3: The poop this year, absorb as much as that as possible,
Speaker 3: kind of tank and then try to start fresh and too,
Speaker 3: it's kind of around a two year plan from here.
Speaker 6: Well, this may go down is one of the worst
Speaker 6: trades we've ever seen. It's I mean, but Deshaun Watson like,
Speaker 6: I don't know that one's pretty bad too.
Speaker 3: They kind of sure, but well you said one one
Speaker 3: of its five the trophy stand or the metal stand,
Speaker 3: and you could debate the order herschel Walker this trade,
Speaker 3: uh huh. And the Shawn's there. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: Jamal Adams a little bit later, yep, but go ahead.
Speaker 6: No, this is the two year anniversary just passed of
Speaker 6: when this happened. And you think about all of the
Speaker 6: quarterbacks that Denver has tried to bring in, none of
Speaker 6: them worked. And then they give away so much two
Speaker 6: first round picks, two second round picks, a fifth, a
Speaker 6: bunch of players too, I mean, and then what did
Speaker 6: they get in return? Russell Wilson and then the fourth
Speaker 6: rounder that became defensive end Uzuari Azurique is that how
Speaker 6: you say his name? Who's suspended right now for violating
Speaker 6: the gambling policy. So he's not even available, and the
Speaker 6: fact that the Denver Broncos paid Russell Wilson before they
Speaker 6: even had to do so, they went ahead and gave
Speaker 6: him that extension with all of the guarantees, doubling down
Speaker 6: on Russell Wilson, just for it to blow up in
Speaker 6: such a spectacular way in their I just can't believe
Speaker 6: that this is the way that the story ended.
Speaker 4: Do you know when that extension starts? Not even yet
Speaker 4: this year? Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It is wild.
Speaker 7: And there's a thought there's some revisionist history. It's like, well,
Speaker 7: but he wanted the contract and that was part of
Speaker 7: the reason. And I don't believe it. Because the trade
Speaker 7: happened in March. There's an ownership change happening. It was
Speaker 7: new owner Syndrome. The new owners showed up who actually
Speaker 7: had nothing to do with the Russell Wilson trade, and
Speaker 7: one of the first things they did to just be like, hey,
Speaker 7: we're Walmart, we got lots of money, we're classy, We're
Speaker 7: gonna give him our star player what he wants. So
Speaker 7: I don't even buy that you needed to give him
Speaker 7: that money. And yeah, it would have been worth it
Speaker 7: for the Seahawks just for that moment where Drew Locke
Speaker 7: like sent the hearts to Gino or whatever that was
Speaker 7: on the sideline, because don't forget Drew Locke was in
Speaker 7: this trade for Seattle. Not only did they get rid
Speaker 7: of Russ, they got their starting tackle, Charles Cross, they
Speaker 7: got a defensive Rookie of the Year candidate Devin Witherspoon.
Speaker 7: They got Boye Mafe who's a nice edge, a couple
Speaker 7: other young play players that are playing for them, And
Speaker 7: in that moment.
Speaker 5: I would spin positive and one in one way at
Speaker 5: fall Well because it's the kind of reminded me. And
Speaker 5: this is a bit of a an odd parallel, but
Speaker 5: like when George Bush like decided we're going to go
Speaker 5: into Iraq and like it became a cluster, right w
Speaker 5: W Yeah, the younger of the two, and like.
Speaker 1: Where are you going with this?
Speaker 5: Well no, just because it was very clear to like
Speaker 5: most thinking people that we were creating an unnecessary problem.
Speaker 5: And it was like, at some point you can spin
Speaker 5: out of this and just look at I'm the president.
Speaker 5: I made a mistake on some level. Let's just get
Speaker 5: out of here and move forwards a country. And instead
Speaker 5: it was like I'm going to get in further and
Speaker 5: further and further.
Speaker 3: Oh see, I thought you were going down the road
Speaker 3: of putting up the mission accomplished side.
Speaker 4: Of that battleshit.
Speaker 5: That was the That was sort of the Nathaniel Hackett's
Speaker 5: press conference, right us.
Speaker 3: Will Walmart came in big box. Very corporation can make
Speaker 3: a huge mistake and just eat the money and move on.
Speaker 3: And the big banks they can get bailed out and
Speaker 3: they just move forward. It's not the same with an
Speaker 3: NFL team and the way the salary cap is structured.
Speaker 4: So that's why this is so devis.
Speaker 3: I have a buddy in the town I live, and
Speaker 3: that's a massive Broncos fan named his son Denver drives
Speaker 3: around a aren't golf cart.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're talking big time. And he told me
Speaker 4: that he.
Speaker 6: Maybe he doesn't have a Ford Bronco like that feels
Speaker 6: like a.
Speaker 3: Missed opportunity, missed opportunity. He he, he said he had
Speaker 3: to go on a bender after the announcement because.
Speaker 1: Oh no, miss announcement.
Speaker 3: Yes, because he do, because he knows this team that
Speaker 3: he loves is going to have to pay for this
Speaker 3: for years to come.
Speaker 4: It's like a it's a tough one.
Speaker 8: It's check on your friend. Should we check on?
Speaker 4: I saw him yesterday he said he was okay. Now
Speaker 4: the way you know, it just goes orange. Let's ride hold.
Speaker 5: On, let me just finish one thing. I actually think
Speaker 5: that what I do like about this very quickly is
Speaker 5: that Denver, it is not sticking around for more Russell Wilson,
Speaker 5: it's gonna hurt this year. I kind of like your
Speaker 5: idea of just doing it all this year.
Speaker 7: If you could can't all right, well, as much as possible,
Speaker 7: you've got spread it over two or three years.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you.
Speaker 7: Don't do you don't need to do a post June
Speaker 7: first cut. Take as much as you can this year.
Speaker 7: They'll be more but much less less polks here.
Speaker 3: Mark, I want you to finish your point, but can
Speaker 3: you take more pain this year as opposed to the
Speaker 3: next year. I'm saying, what if it's split fifty to fifty?
Speaker 3: It is what it is, but just absorb it all.
Speaker 3: It's another year in the middle of Patrick Mahomes's prime.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would just say that, like, I know, that's
Speaker 5: huge arrow down on Russell Wilson where he is right now,
Speaker 5: and it's like it's kind of incomprehensible that the Steelers
Speaker 5: of someone else are going to sign up for this journey.
Speaker 5: But Russell Wilson historically has been one of the better
Speaker 5: quarterbacks we've ever covered on this show and won a
Speaker 5: Super Bowl. Sean Payton, whether you like him or not
Speaker 5: or how he deals with the media, is a winning
Speaker 5: coach with a track record in a Super Bowl win.
Speaker 5: George Peyton is the guy still hanging around inside this
Speaker 5: organization who conceived of this trade. Largely did he? Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: largely because it was before they, I mean then they
Speaker 5: then he went and thought of all the candidates I
Speaker 5: could hire as head coach, Nathaniel Hackett sticks out and
Speaker 5: it's like gms don't survive this type of apocalypse, and
Speaker 5: he's still hanging around.
Speaker 4: They don't keep their power. I don't think he has
Speaker 4: power there anymore.
Speaker 1: But he's there. Yeah, Yeah, you're the one guy that
Speaker 1: stands out here.
Speaker 8: I forgot that before the trade was made.
Speaker 6: When Russell Wilson was still in Seattle, it was like
Speaker 6: people were talking about him as a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 8: He had won super Bowls. He they went greg a
Speaker 8: perennial contender.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 8: You were first on the scene, Greg not.
Speaker 7: First, And I think, well that I think he has
Speaker 7: a chance to make the Hall of Fame. People are
Speaker 7: a little too dismissive of what he accomplished that like
Speaker 7: what he is now doesn't discount what he accomplished his
Speaker 7: first eight or nine years.
Speaker 1: But that's a separate point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I mean, I.
Speaker 7: Like there's I saw this tweet out there saying, like,
Speaker 7: of these four who would make the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 7: who would you put in if you could only choose one?
Speaker 7: Russell Wilson, Phil Rivers, Eli and Matt Ryan. Who are
Speaker 7: all going to be interesting cases?
Speaker 1: And that's not an.
Speaker 3: Interesting case, right Giants all time passing leader with two
Speaker 3: Super Bowl wins over Bell, checking Brady, including beating the
Speaker 3: other team.
Speaker 4: Everyone looks at it. Everyone looks at the differently.
Speaker 7: I look at the regular season, says like, how many
Speaker 7: times were you a top five quarterback?
Speaker 1: How many times you were you?
Speaker 7: That's good too, top ten quarterback Eli Manning. We don't
Speaker 7: need to get into him, but he probably had one
Speaker 7: season where maybe he could be a top five, maybe
Speaker 7: two or three seasons where he'd be top ten. Russell
Speaker 7: Wilson was a top five to ten quarterback for seven
Speaker 7: or eight straight years, which to me, with the Super
Speaker 7: Bowl title, he might actually have the best case of
Speaker 7: all those. I'd probably go, but I would put Phil
Speaker 7: Rivers first on that and Russ would probably be second.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: Also And I'm looking at it right up right now
Speaker 3: where the second season said two disastrous seasons in Denver.
Speaker 3: The first season was a true disaster with Hackett. Last
Speaker 3: year was a middling season, wrong side of the Dalton scale,
Speaker 3: but not the worst quarterback in the league.
Speaker 4: And they at that point with.
Speaker 3: Peyton now fully not Patton Peyton, although he has pronounced Peyton.
Speaker 4: That's the other reason we gave him a new name,
Speaker 4: is Kevin.
Speaker 5: Kevin Sutherland was so I believe it was close to that. Eric,
Speaker 5: not early did you remember or Donald.
Speaker 3: To see that for this exact reason, we don't need
Speaker 3: to lose momentum in a show because it's the patent
Speaker 3: Peyton Peyton thing.
Speaker 8: Yep, yep, it gets me every time Kevin's disaster.
Speaker 3: Let's go with Kevin Sutherland, and I'm sure the listeners
Speaker 3: will correct me. So Kevin Saunders, guys, Kevin Saunders is
Speaker 3: still there, and you know whatever, And the latest News.
Speaker 3: By the way, the update to this schefter reported the
Speaker 3: Broncos have granted Russell Wilson permission to speak with other teams,
Speaker 3: so he doesn't have to wait until, you.
Speaker 4: Know, the beginning of the new league year. He can
Speaker 4: do it right now.
Speaker 3: So thirty five year old quarterback coming off a high
Speaker 3: profile failure, I think he should have some market, but
Speaker 3: not a big one.
Speaker 1: He's a tricky case as a starter.
Speaker 7: I put him number eighty something on the top one
Speaker 7: oh one. That was I was debating whether like him
Speaker 7: or Tannehill, for instance, and I had to take into
Speaker 7: account the Russell Wilson of it all, Like who do
Speaker 7: I see as just being like an easy backup? Because
Speaker 7: at this point I think he's a backup And to me,
Speaker 7: Tannehill just make they're both thirty six. It's similar, Like
Speaker 7: to me, he just makes more sense of just like
Speaker 7: a guy you insert there with like a one bee
Speaker 7: with a.
Speaker 1: Rookie quarter totally agree with you.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't even it seems a little. It seems a
Speaker 7: little like a lot like he might expect more.
Speaker 8: I find he wants to win two more Super Bowls.
Speaker 8: That's what he said, So maybe as a backup.
Speaker 4: But he I feel like a straight backup.
Speaker 3: I put him more in that category, just above where
Speaker 3: it's like the Minshew Baker. Sure, those types where he
Speaker 3: can be a starter in the right situation, but signed
Speaker 3: somewhere as a backup. That's not crazy either, Like he's
Speaker 3: not an entrenched backup. He's not like Sam Darnold, for instance.
Speaker 3: At this stage. I think he's one step above that.
Speaker 3: But considering where he was a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: it's pretty crazy. And the Broncos obviously didn't see it coming.
Speaker 7: They can still win, though. Look, the Bucks just maybe
Speaker 7: what I don't think the goal here. I think they
Speaker 7: can have a winning record, win the division. I mean
Speaker 7: because they're with the Chiefs and because of the roster
Speaker 7: right now, it's very unlikely. But the Bucks just ate
Speaker 7: a very similar dead cap hit for Tom Brady and
Speaker 7: made the divisional round the breeze contract.
Speaker 4: The first year he was gone. They were eating that.
Speaker 4: It didn't go well.
Speaker 3: They're in the I agree like that. That compounds the
Speaker 3: problem here, Like you can't they have one hand tied
Speaker 3: behind their back for two years, especially in arguably the
Speaker 3: toughest division. Uh, it's it's bad. It was a big swing.
Speaker 3: You want your team, you want your favorite team to
Speaker 3: take big swings. But sometimes you.
Speaker 5: Know, one little quick thought that came to mind is
Speaker 5: like doesn't work. We never learned from this stuff. And
Speaker 5: like people were hyping up the Russell Wilson thing. It's like,
Speaker 5: right now we're talking about like the best quarterback that
Speaker 5: will be available as a late thirties veteran with an
Speaker 5: achilles tear and he's about to sign for major money somewhere.
Speaker 5: It's like two years from now, we might be saying
Speaker 5: forgetting how that will be lauded.
Speaker 4: Mmmmmmm.
Speaker 3: Way to really put it in there, you go kind
Speaker 3: of put a like an exclament, You put a slammer
Speaker 3: that suggests you don't like my point.
Speaker 5: When I love these comments coming together and shows it's
Speaker 5: like iways feel like Kirk Cousins, you got to go
Speaker 5: get me? Is the first chip to fall? It's like
Speaker 5: fall where and let's see how that lands.
Speaker 4: Great way to punctuate the conversation.
Speaker 5: I'm happy to help.
Speaker 7: And what it did was it like took this topic
Speaker 7: we're talking about now and it gave it broader context.
Speaker 5: Yes, I will, I will suggest uh. This morning when
Speaker 5: I and I appreciate me. You do this correct. You
Speaker 5: open up our our chat client and Greg will give
Speaker 5: an initial lineup of no, like, Dan, I think you
Speaker 5: were trying to read this insanely long book Infinite Jest
Speaker 5: and like like by David Foster Walls that has a
Speaker 5: note in a rota section at the end. It's like
Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty pages long. Like, that's what this
Speaker 5: news lineup looked like. And Weird threw one item.
Speaker 6: Sessler and I immediately when we saw each other, we
Speaker 6: were like, how about the news?
Speaker 8: A lot of news?
Speaker 7: You know what the the rest thing is? After that,
Speaker 7: it's like a bunch of tags and some quick I.
Speaker 1: Don't like you guys just share a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 8: Anxiety twins, everybody relacs.
Speaker 3: We're going to get through the news. Everything is gonna
Speaker 3: be fine. Coming up a little later, and this is
Speaker 3: going to set everyone of these a truth serum will
Speaker 3: be administered to key NFL figures that allows them to
Speaker 3: speak their mind in a really sincere way, in a
Speaker 3: way that you want to hear from athletes and people
Speaker 3: connected to the sports. So that's coming up first. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's get through the rest of this news before two
Speaker 3: of the people in the studio have a panic attack.
Speaker 4: No, I don't believe it's sad.
Speaker 3: Fog likes talking about we're related, thing like like.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: There's a video from Brent Soboleski on Twitter of Texas
Speaker 3: Tech Safety Tyler Owens, who said, if you could hear
Speaker 3: that he does not believe planets planets actually exist. I
Speaker 3: don't believe in space. I don't think there's other planets
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. I have an idea to weed
Speaker 3: out certain prospects a test, a cognitive test, if you will,
Speaker 3: Oh that, make sure that that element is in my
Speaker 3: locker room.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 3: What do you think about the idea of a test?
Speaker 3: I feel like that would go over well with the public.
Speaker 5: Not in his defense, because I don't agree with what
Speaker 5: he's saying, but he seems to be coming from the
Speaker 5: world of like if everything's sort of just a sim
Speaker 5: that the concept of other universes and planets and UFOs
Speaker 5: and everything else is just sort of a simulation that.
Speaker 4: But he's not talking about even UFOs.
Speaker 5: Well, no, but planets that you'd be looking up at,
Speaker 5: essentially like something that just exists in our imagination.
Speaker 7: He's basically I listened to more of this guy I
Speaker 7: was in. He went in, he admitted he was in
Speaker 7: a YouTube you know, rabbit hole and essentially says, where's
Speaker 7: the proof? You know, I do my own He was
Speaker 7: essentially giving the I do my own research. I haven't
Speaker 7: seen the proof of the other planets.
Speaker 8: No mood believe it.
Speaker 5: I want to a lot of people would go down
Speaker 5: that road as a starting point.
Speaker 1: I don't need to listen there.
Speaker 3: What I do need to listen to is his agent
Speaker 3: talking to him after the combines.
Speaker 5: Well, you fool.
Speaker 7: I think that would be too harsh to eliminate people
Speaker 7: with these beliefs because it's not hurting anyone else. And uh,
Speaker 7: the NFL is often two lacks in other areas of
Speaker 7: of some behaviors and the way this seems harmless, Like.
Speaker 5: Gino Smith noted, cognitive test, Gino Smith noted flat.
Speaker 4: Back at it back in the day, a flat earther.
Speaker 4: I like to think that that that he's miso. You'd
Speaker 4: like to think it, but we don't know.
Speaker 6: He had a real nice broad jump at the combine,
Speaker 6: So maybe look past the planet stuff space where we
Speaker 6: are in this case.
Speaker 3: As if I were a roster builder, I would have
Speaker 3: to take out the red marker.
Speaker 8: There a lot of red flag.
Speaker 1: That's fair.
Speaker 4: That's your team, that's fair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, congrats are you welcoming him in? Maybe I could
Speaker 3: educate him, I could save him.
Speaker 5: I'd also say, is deliver He was, you know, not
Speaker 5: tongue intrigued, but he was. He was playful about it,
Speaker 5: and like, doesn't think that everyone agrees with me. He's
Speaker 5: not trying to pound the table saying everyone must agree
Speaker 5: that there are no planets.
Speaker 6: Hey, everyone can have their own opinion as long as
Speaker 6: it's not hurting anyone else.
Speaker 8: So it's fine in my.
Speaker 4: Book, right, but not when there are facts involved.
Speaker 1: Sure, there should be limits, not overwhelming evidence.
Speaker 7: You have to be wrong. You could be wrong about things.
Speaker 7: That's fine, all right.
Speaker 3: The franchise tag deadline is coming gone, so and tomorrow
Speaker 3: is going to be good because we're going to after
Speaker 3: all the tags and all the cuts, we're going to
Speaker 3: take another look at Greg's free agency one on one
Speaker 3: and by the way, the free agency.
Speaker 4: Three what do we say fourteen? Was it three?
Speaker 5: Three twenty one?
Speaker 1: Maybe it was two thirteen.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't even remember.
Speaker 5: If we're still working on that, So how do you
Speaker 5: know it could have evolved since then changed that and
Speaker 5: we're continuing to that will be landing.
Speaker 4: When did we decide on Tuesday night?
Speaker 5: I think around that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know that seems appropriate to the time.
Speaker 3: So anyway, Greg, we're gonna visit his list with a
Speaker 3: very special guest, Demina Kimes tomorrow talking over now what
Speaker 3: is the list?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Well, guy, because we the legal tampering period is set
Speaker 3: to begin on Monday. So here are the players that
Speaker 3: got tagged, and a lot of these are we knew
Speaker 3: what was coming and now it's official. Josh Allen by
Speaker 3: the Jaguars, They're a great pass rusher. Brian Burns by
Speaker 3: the Panthers, they're great. They're gonna never gonna let him go. Never,
Speaker 3: They're never gonna let him go.
Speaker 8: Can't.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be stuck there forever.
Speaker 3: Lagarius Snead now officially tagged, and he's been getting permission
Speaker 3: to seek a trade. So we'll see if Sneed's on
Speaker 3: the move next week. Justin Mattabuque of the ravens Antoine
Speaker 3: Winfield of the Bucks, so Baker officially headed toward free agency.
Speaker 3: If they don't get a deal done, be the Bears
Speaker 3: tag Jaalen Johnson, the Colts tag wide receiver Michael Pittman.
Speaker 3: So that's another name out of the mix in terms
Speaker 3: of veteran wideouts. The Patriots used that there's always somebody
Speaker 3: I'm gonna use the transition tag.
Speaker 7: Look at me, there's really not always somebody like the
Speaker 7: hipster option.
Speaker 3: Yeah, five times you use the franchise tag, I'll use
Speaker 3: the transition to the league.
Speaker 5: Just in awe of that process.
Speaker 3: Kyle Duggar gets that. What is the transition tag again?
Speaker 3: Greg Quick refresher.
Speaker 7: It this year for the Safeties will be thirteen point
Speaker 7: something million and the franchise would have been seventeen. And
Speaker 7: the difference in that money allows Kyle dugger to shop
Speaker 7: his wars around the league. And if you can get
Speaker 7: a contract, it's an offer sheet in the time last
Speaker 7: five days to match it. No, Lamar got the non
Speaker 7: exclusive franchise tag, which is what most of these players got.
Speaker 7: So in theory, if you wanted to give up two
Speaker 7: first round picks for any of these players, I believe
Speaker 7: they all got the non exclusive.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no one got the exclusive you.
Speaker 7: Could and Lugarious Sneed is the only one that's out
Speaker 7: there shopping. I think the rest you kind of assume
Speaker 7: no one's even gonna think.
Speaker 6: But with Dougger, he plays multiple positions, and I felt
Speaker 6: like it was weird that they gave him the transition
Speaker 6: tag and obvious league gave him the safety one. So
Speaker 6: it's just like the cheapest option. We've seen that before everything.
Speaker 3: Players sometimes will fight that through the Union, like a
Speaker 3: lot of tight ends in the past, I feel like
Speaker 3: not a lot, but it's happened.
Speaker 4: I want to be labeled as a wide receiver based on.
Speaker 1: Parsons.
Speaker 7: Just got called a defensive end, I believe for his
Speaker 7: fifth year option, and I do think he might file
Speaker 7: an appeal because it's less money now.
Speaker 1: The Dougg defensive end is less than linebacker.
Speaker 7: Right now, which is crazy well because they need to
Speaker 7: make an edge one to linebackers now include outside linebacker
Speaker 7: be so.
Speaker 1: Much better far into this.
Speaker 4: Is it a substantial difference?
Speaker 7: It must be if he's filing I am just guessing
Speaker 7: that he may file one.
Speaker 1: It's like three million, but.
Speaker 6: A lot of teams will like sweeten the deal if
Speaker 6: you do play multiple positions, and like obviously Dugger lined
Speaker 6: up more at safety than he did at corner.
Speaker 7: But still yeah, he's he's a safety. I mean you
Speaker 7: have to put him at some positions. Yeah, that would
Speaker 7: be the position. You do that when you think, hey,
Speaker 7: we're we want to keep this guy. We think we're
Speaker 7: offering him a good deal. He's not happy with it.
Speaker 7: We have a feeling maybe if you go out there,
Speaker 7: our deal is actually still going to be the best
Speaker 7: one out there, or that we would match it. There's
Speaker 7: been reports that you know, he's in the thirteen fourteen
Speaker 7: million dollars, but then you don't want to give him
Speaker 7: the franchise tag because that's seventeen and that starts the
Speaker 7: bidding at like a higher number than you want. So
Speaker 7: that's an interesting one. The rest of the franchise tags, though,
Speaker 7: were eminently predictable, Like everyone locally nationally kind of thought
Speaker 7: these were all the guys that were going to get it,
Speaker 7: and they all got it, and it made my list,
Speaker 7: you know, way less exciting.
Speaker 3: Prominent players not tagged who remain on Greg's list Dolphins
Speaker 3: defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, Giants running back Saquon Barkley, both
Speaker 3: set to hit the markets.
Speaker 1: Wilkins was a surprise to me.
Speaker 4: Was it okay? So too?
Speaker 5: And like there's some whispers that Cleveland, of all teams,
Speaker 5: would maybe pursue him.
Speaker 7: They he's going to make He should be thrilled, you know,
Speaker 7: because franchise tags, oh don't help these players at all.
Speaker 7: He's going to make way more guaranteed money in the end.
Speaker 7: And I'm trying to think where he is now on
Speaker 7: my top one one. He's got to be like top
Speaker 7: three now after all.
Speaker 6: These but the Dolphins are just bleeding defenders at this
Speaker 6: point with Xavier Howard, Jerome Baker, Emmanuel Agba, now Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 6: Obviously there's still time to sign him to a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 6: although it's exactly unlikely, but all of this puts so
Speaker 6: much pressure on to us since they're clearing all of
Speaker 6: this cash to give him the monster deal, and now, like,
Speaker 6: I don't know how that defense is going to look next.
Speaker 7: Right, They have Ramsey, they have Tyreek, they gave Chubb
Speaker 7: a ton of men. They do have like a lot
Speaker 7: of big time. They want to pay Jalen Philip, so
Speaker 7: they had to make decisions, but they sneaky are in
Speaker 7: among the worst situations with the Kappa. He's twenty eight
Speaker 7: years old. Christian Wilkins a good player number three on
Speaker 7: the list now, so you should thank them.
Speaker 3: All right, let's pause right here for a minute and
Speaker 3: take a break and then get back to the news.
Speaker 4: All right, we're back.
Speaker 3: Prominent cuts three from the Seattle Seahawks, and we'll start
Speaker 3: with Jamal Adams, the safety who during the pandemic, was
Speaker 3: traded from the Jets for two first round picks and
Speaker 3: then given a massive deal and one of the stranger
Speaker 3: career arcs or Adams. He had nine and a half
Speaker 3: sacks in his first season with Seattle from the safety position,
Speaker 3: which was a record. I kind of remember because he
Speaker 3: got hurt that year too. He's been injured constantly ever since,
Speaker 3: but I kind of feel like he had nine and
Speaker 3: a half almost going into December and then didn't have
Speaker 3: any of the rest of the season or something close
Speaker 3: to that, and then never had another sack the rest
Speaker 3: of his time with Seattle, which is absolutely bizarre, and
Speaker 3: dealt with a lot of serious injuries and some dumb
Speaker 3: off the field stuff and kind of a mess for Seattle.
Speaker 4: So they were ready to move on.
Speaker 3: Caandre Diggs also leaving a team that's a quality defensive
Speaker 3: back that I'm sure we'll have a nice market and
Speaker 3: as will tight end Will Disley another salary cap casualties.
Speaker 3: So the Seahawks, who obviously had a lot of work
Speaker 3: to do here, say goodbye.
Speaker 4: To three veterans with Adams as the headliner.
Speaker 5: I mean, this had a lot to do with It
Speaker 5: opens up twenty new twenty eight million in cap space,
Speaker 5: and Adams and Diggs were two of the three most
Speaker 5: expensive safeties in the league. Adams was failed experience of experiment.
Speaker 5: It was like a our final piece of the puzzles,
Speaker 5: super super Bowl type situation.
Speaker 1: With Russell Wilson in his prime, but it just never
Speaker 1: ever worked.
Speaker 5: They like Julian Love at safety, and they're gonna have probably,
Speaker 5: you know, with their new coach, that defense could look
Speaker 5: very different and I kind of trust what they're doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Devin Witherspoon, who they got in that Russell Wilson trade,
Speaker 7: is a cornerback, but he does a lot of the
Speaker 7: things that Jamal Adams does, which play from the slot
Speaker 7: and blitz from there, and it is better at it.
Speaker 7: I mean, for a second, I was like, does Josh
Speaker 7: Jamal Adams make the top one on one And I guess no,
Speaker 7: of course not. A guy can't see still in the league.
Speaker 7: Guy can't stay healthy and can't cover. Really Kuandrey Diggs
Speaker 7: is still like a nice, nice player at Seahawks fans
Speaker 7: swear that he had a much better season than his
Speaker 7: disastrous PFF ranking would indicate. But he's a guy, you know,
Speaker 7: is asked to kind of cover for a lot of
Speaker 7: his teammates. I think he's in the league, Dan, because
Speaker 7: I think he'll want to keep playing, and absolutely a
Speaker 7: team is going to give him like a incentive based
Speaker 7: two or three million dollar contracts something like that.
Speaker 6: But what a disaster for Adams in Seattle. Thirty three games,
Speaker 6: he missed out of a possible sixty seven regular season games,
Speaker 6: and like the fact that all of his sacks were
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty. I mean, it's just like such an anomaly,
Speaker 6: but just so such bad luck on his part with
Speaker 6: the injuries and for Seattle to make that move.
Speaker 7: I'll always remember him at that Miami super Bowl at
Speaker 7: our hotel, right Dan, third pool party parties lost three
Speaker 7: thirty in the afternoon on like a Wednesday or whatever.
Speaker 3: We were staying at this kind of living, very Miami
Speaker 3: like hotel. It was like Jamal Adams and like nineteen
Speaker 3: women and I felt like we were kind of.
Speaker 4: Separated, definitely stacked the deck.
Speaker 7: He was in a good spot. Yeah, no dudes allowed.
Speaker 4: I think it had.
Speaker 8: We were having to get invited.
Speaker 7: We were having literally a meeting with our like laptops
Speaker 7: that were like hi, hello here over, I'm just we
Speaker 7: we did ever laptop we were.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: It was we were about fifty yards away from this outrage.
Speaker 3: It's like remember the Lashawn McCoy invite that went.
Speaker 8: Out, like exactly what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4: We'll pick you up on.
Speaker 3: A desolate street corner in a van and take you
Speaker 3: to the party. I got a feeling Jamal maybe not
Speaker 3: as on the radar as Lashan did. Shady made him
Speaker 3: stake there had a similar like rounding up of all
Speaker 3: the hot women in South Beach, and we were sitting there,
Speaker 3: four laptops open, fifty yards away, just like pretending to
Speaker 3: be or trying to organize our thoughts for upcoming episodes.
Speaker 4: I thought it and it's.
Speaker 3: Like every hot girl that's ever existed surrounding Jamal Adams.
Speaker 7: So the crazy thing was it was like Wednesday at
Speaker 7: like one pm.
Speaker 4: It was part of it seemed odd to me.
Speaker 5: It put you in a bit of a tough spot
Speaker 5: because I think you're you're obviously in a completely different world.
Speaker 5: But Jamal Adams now, but now he was sort of
Speaker 5: the centerpiece of the Jets, and you could kind of
Speaker 5: tell it was cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you could tell.
Speaker 5: From like twenty five yards the way it was he
Speaker 5: was a little bit of a knucklehead. Yeah, and he
Speaker 5: was pre organized this entire absurd party.
Speaker 8: So you guys were show planning with your laptops at
Speaker 8: the pool in Miami.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, it was like it was a hotel
Speaker 7: emptiest pool at like noon on a Wednesday.
Speaker 5: No, that's nice.
Speaker 4: We actually got outside. Yes, that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 4: It was. It was nice.
Speaker 3: I remember there wasn't many league figures at the hotel
Speaker 3: it so it's like they just put us one put
Speaker 3: us in a hotel.
Speaker 5: It started to turn wild though in many in many
Speaker 5: ways shapes he was.
Speaker 3: This is like a real deep cut if you know,
Speaker 3: like nineties hip hop, but if you remember when mc
Speaker 3: hammer became Hammer and uh and then you know, gangster
Speaker 3: rap took over and he tried to employ like a
Speaker 3: West Coast sound. He put out a single in like
Speaker 3: ninety five ninety six called pumps in the bump and
Speaker 3: pull up that on YouTube, the original version, the one
Speaker 3: that got banned by MTV, and then you'll know what
Speaker 3: Jamal Adams.
Speaker 4: Party looked like.
Speaker 3: Pretty what good reference mark you, especially when you have
Speaker 3: some private time me look it up.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's very yeah, Rex and report back Drumshaker would
Speaker 7: be another you know, totem poll of the era.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I think Adams, you know, he had a
Speaker 3: really unfortunate like took a pot shot at a former
Speaker 3: Jets beat reporter's wife recently over you know, a tweet
Speaker 3: that called out his suspect coverage and general has made
Speaker 3: bad decisions. I'm just wondering, as you have the right
Speaker 3: mindset to catch on somewhere and we shall see. In
Speaker 3: other news that some tight end news. The Texans signed
Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz to a three year contract, so they keep
Speaker 3: one of their weapons around.
Speaker 4: Young quarterback C J. Stroud.
Speaker 3: Also out there reported that veteran tight end zach Ertz
Speaker 3: has agreed to a one year contract with the Commanders.
Speaker 4: According to ESPN, so two veteran tight ends and.
Speaker 7: Your guy Kaymi fairband back with the Texans, easily the
Speaker 7: best kicker on the market. Three years over fifteen million,
Speaker 7: which average salary you know, might pass Mac Gay. I'm
Speaker 7: not sure as the highest paid kicker. We'll see the guarantee,
Speaker 7: but he got paid there with every dollars. There's no
Speaker 7: tight ends available, well whatsoever, Dalton Saltz was the best one.
Speaker 7: I think it's kind of an indication. Last year at
Speaker 7: this time he got like a one year, prove it
Speaker 7: type of deal. But now the league is flushed with
Speaker 7: all this cap space, now he gets.
Speaker 1: A nice one.
Speaker 6: I was serious that they didn't tag Jonathan Grenard, like
Speaker 6: after getting that deal done with Dalton Schultz. I thought
Speaker 6: for sure that would be the next step for them,
Speaker 6: the next logical step. He's coming off a career best season,
Speaker 6: but they didn't do it.
Speaker 7: He and Daniel Hunter, who knew he wasn't going to
Speaker 7: get tagged, had a good day Tuesday because all those
Speaker 7: pass rushers got paid and Grenard's the only like really
Speaker 7: young guy left.
Speaker 5: Texans have the fourth most cap room and they are
Speaker 5: being linked here and there to Calvin Ridley because you
Speaker 5: know a lot of the tags went to these wide receivers.
Speaker 5: There's not that many veteran guys. That's a great draft
Speaker 5: for it too, but also Saquon Barkley and to the
Speaker 5: Texans would make some sense to me.
Speaker 8: Oh, I love that.
Speaker 4: In other news.
Speaker 3: Still to me anyway, inexplicable that Bill Belichick could not
Speaker 3: get one of the seven head coaching jobs this off season,
Speaker 3: couldn't find a match. So now he's essentially just hanging
Speaker 3: out there, and now the various networks are poking around Bill.
Speaker 4: Did you watch the game.
Speaker 3: On see that's just a freeze frame there an audio
Speaker 3: freeze frame of the type of insight that you're gonna
Speaker 3: get from a Bill Belichick in the studio. But our
Speaker 3: buddy Andrew Marshan, who by the way, it sounds like
Speaker 3: he got the bag and went from the post to
Speaker 3: the athletic home of the New York Times, you'd assume
Speaker 3: it the athletic is home at the New York Times.
Speaker 3: At this point, I would think Marshaan got a nice raise.
Speaker 3: He should write an article on himself.
Speaker 1: He really should, he is savvy. I would assume he
Speaker 1: got a raise.
Speaker 3: And we tried to have him on the show at
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl because I love talking media with Andrew,
Speaker 3: but he was at the timing didn't work out, But
Speaker 3: we're gonna have to get Andrew back on the show
Speaker 3: soon if we can.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So here's a.
Speaker 8: Scoop Bland me to talk about.
Speaker 4: Lots to talk about. Have you been in a Andrew
Speaker 4: Marshaan article before?
Speaker 8: I have not.
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 8: I would kind of like it to stay that way.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be, Andrew.
Speaker 8: I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 6: Congratulations on the career move anyway.
Speaker 3: According to Marshawn, Belichick has met with CBS and NBC.
Speaker 3: Also in the mix, Peyton Manning. You know, he's got
Speaker 3: that old Omaha productions that seems to be doing well.
Speaker 3: They're trying to land him as well. So obviously it's
Speaker 3: kind of got to shan Peyton vibe to it. Connie,
Speaker 3: because uh, Connie, who's our entrenched media force, one of
Speaker 3: the faces of NFL Network and our Thursday night football
Speaker 3: coverage and hot damn at the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I mean, you did the in stadium anchor of the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was fun.
Speaker 3: Is it a weird how successful sometimes she is because
Speaker 3: we know Colleen so well, and you're a fully formed
Speaker 3: human and and and well he might be.
Speaker 8: Like I came in here as a child, like a baby,
Speaker 8: and now I've been brown up and I'm going off
Speaker 8: to college.
Speaker 4: But what I'm trying to get Cemetery to do.
Speaker 3: What I'm trying to say, is that so polished on
Speaker 3: that Super Bowl coverage, Like not even I was I
Speaker 3: don't know why I was tracking.
Speaker 4: This, just because I was kind of in awe of
Speaker 4: you coming all.
Speaker 3: Not a single flub because it's not like one word,
Speaker 3: no ever in like five hours of pre and in
Speaker 3: game coverage.
Speaker 6: Oh you should hear the conversation in my own head
Speaker 6: that's going on as I'm hosting those segments in those shows.
Speaker 1: Like I said, though, I think you you know us different.
Speaker 5: We all you bring guests to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 5: like they get to hang out as a group, and
Speaker 5: like they were dazzled by the fact that this was
Speaker 5: happening out on the field during the entire I.
Speaker 1: Was really.
Speaker 6: I was really nervous about the Lombardi Trophy hit when
Speaker 6: I was out there with Larry's and it was Larry'sanka
Speaker 6: and John Elway like the two minute war that one, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: And I didn't have anything prepared for that yet, and
Speaker 6: I kept being like, Okay, it's tough. It's now the
Speaker 6: third quarter fourth quarters, coming up?
Speaker 8: What am I going to do for this?
Speaker 6: And then I just like kind of went out and
Speaker 6: winged it and thank god I landed the plane.
Speaker 7: Well, the craziest not to get two sidetracked, But the
Speaker 7: craziest one was the two minute warning one in the
Speaker 7: fourth quarter. Yeah, that one, right, And it reminded me
Speaker 7: a little when we were in London and we did
Speaker 7: our hits and I threw out there like, hey, John Harbaugh,
Speaker 7: let's start, you know, being a little more aggressive in
Speaker 7: the red zone, which you're not supposed to do.
Speaker 4: Apparently over the loudspeaker.
Speaker 7: Amazing, but you guys were over the over the stadium
Speaker 7: at the two minute warning right before the play that
Speaker 7: would have won the Super Bowl for the forty nine ers,
Speaker 7: and you guys were talking about it play. You're like, hey,
Speaker 7: coming up, it's like a pretty big time play. And
Speaker 7: I'm just thinking of all the forty nine ers. I'm
Speaker 7: sure the coaches aren't exactly locked in, but there's got
Speaker 7: to be some players on the bench that are like,
Speaker 7: listen to this thing, about to play the biggest play
Speaker 7: of their entire life. And there's Connie and Steve Smith
Speaker 7: being like, oh, I think they should run it or
Speaker 7: whatever you guys were saying, Oh was that a crazy.
Speaker 8: Oh in my head about those various hits.
Speaker 3: I would if I also, if you stuck me next
Speaker 3: to Larry Zanka with eighty thousand people watching, like, ask
Speaker 3: him a question back. I remember you from Family Matters.
Speaker 3: You were on that once. Yet it that's the weird cameo.
Speaker 4: That was cool. We go full like Chris Barley Show
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 3: Remember when you were with urcle It's awesome anyway, so
Speaker 3: Belichick will see it's gonna be a one year deal.
Speaker 7: I would think, Oh, thing's weird though, how many different
Speaker 7: casts can they have? The idea would maybe be pairing
Speaker 7: him and saving but that's what they mentioned. You can't
Speaker 7: just do it on Monday night. They already have the
Speaker 7: Manning cat there and the regular.
Speaker 4: He becomes a regular on the Manning cast.
Speaker 5: There is one incredible sentence in this Athletic article. Belichick
Speaker 5: has made it clear he only wishes to talk about
Speaker 5: aspects of football that interest him. But this, of course
Speaker 5: is a two way street with the whatever you know,
Speaker 5: he just wants to talk about the little things that
Speaker 5: he's into, Like, wouldn't we all be so lucky? Just
Speaker 5: to like just open.
Speaker 3: Maybe there'll be more like hit pieces now on Bill
Speaker 3: for wanting to do it his way, because God forbid,
Speaker 3: God forbid, the greatest coach of all time might want
Speaker 3: to do it his way.
Speaker 4: Well, they, yeah, well he doesn't want it the studio shows.
Speaker 7: So if they were gonna use him, like it would
Speaker 7: be some pre tape thing or it would be some
Speaker 7: you know, he's gonna get deep on the x's and
Speaker 7: he doesn't want to be sitting up there saying like
Speaker 7: who's under more pressure today?
Speaker 5: Or like what's your pick in the Sunday?
Speaker 1: Like he's not gonna make game picks and do a
Speaker 1: bunch of dope.
Speaker 8: You don't think he's gonna do X factors.
Speaker 3: God forbid that Bill doesn't have power over Terry Fotto.
Speaker 4: I mean, like just remember this moment in time people.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4: Nothing personal to Terry.
Speaker 3: But let's check out the old CVS all right afternoon,
Speaker 3: Delight hit it, Jack's cut, Darius Williams, Rashawn Jenkins and
Speaker 3: fully fought a Houston. He's former Jets. I shouldn't know
Speaker 3: this bat too. Cassi, Yes, defensive tackle. Speaking of the Jets,
Speaker 3: they cut free agents. Signing Bust Lake and Tomlinson never
Speaker 3: worked for him, and c j Uzama another price.
Speaker 4: He signing a tight end a couple years ago didn't work.
Speaker 4: I see a lot of things don't work out. The
Speaker 4: heads up a lot of the signings next week will fail.
Speaker 3: Anthers cut Dante Jackson and Hayden Hurst, and the Dolphins
Speaker 3: also say goodbye to Jerome Baker or anything on that anyone.
Speaker 5: The one thing I looked up because Tomlinson I think
Speaker 5: I liked him going in and it didn't happen Like PFF,
Speaker 5: like the Jets current offensive line. We know it's a
Speaker 5: draft kneed, but in general, it's like, you know how
Speaker 5: PFF scores like they get into reds and orange and
Speaker 5: it just looks like a forest fire. You want deep
Speaker 5: greens and blues, and it's like they've got some work
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 7: They don't have many guys that they know are playing
Speaker 7: a certain spot.
Speaker 4: You got like Vera Tucker and that's about it.
Speaker 3: Barat Tucker, who I think is gonna kick and tackle
Speaker 3: there right, Joe Tipman who had a really nice rookie year.
Speaker 3: They need two guards and a left tackle, and that
Speaker 3: is the only thing they should be focused on.
Speaker 4: With a forty year old quarterback coming up, keep an
Speaker 4: eye on the Jaguars.
Speaker 7: Darius Williams played really well for them last year and
Speaker 7: they cut him just to open cap space. They just
Speaker 7: feel like a team that's either all or nothing, and
Speaker 7: they feel like they might be pretty noisy in the
Speaker 7: next week.
Speaker 5: Well done, nailed.
Speaker 4: Uh. After the break truth serum for NFL figures read
Speaker 4: welcome back.
Speaker 1: So this is this is crazy.
Speaker 3: You guys might may have noticed that I have this
Speaker 3: weird propensity to be randomly connected to well known figures
Speaker 3: across very Yeah, I do, fine, guys, popped up a
Speaker 3: connection to like you two, to a soccer team, to
Speaker 3: you know, here and there. It just pops up. Not
Speaker 3: not anything that through ambition. It just happens. Sometimes it's cool, uh,
Speaker 3: The latest example of course being Sheilin Patel, new owner
Speaker 3: of West brom Bling bling Let's go.
Speaker 1: Boing Boying, isn't it bling bling?
Speaker 4: With We're new? We're new in our fandom cash money Records.
Speaker 6: John was like, is boy boying something on the pod
Speaker 6: that they do?
Speaker 8: And it's like, not that I know of, not yet, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not bling blaining Boing Boying is Uh, it's a
Speaker 3: it's a West brom.
Speaker 7: Thing, right, so maybe maybe we can bring bling bling back?
Speaker 4: Though did it leave?
Speaker 1: It's a jam?
Speaker 3: Okay, So what's the song? Oh, the song itself. We
Speaker 3: can't play songs on this show. But anyway, uh So, anyway,
Speaker 3: I got another and this one's really weird, and I'm
Speaker 3: surprised I never brought him up before.
Speaker 4: His name is vill Helm von Tuffelhammer. He's a prominent
Speaker 4: it's not.
Speaker 8: A Sessler character that's made up.
Speaker 5: What is happening.
Speaker 3: He is a prominent doctor and scientist of the unknown origins,
Speaker 3: and he has I've been made aware.
Speaker 4: Because we caught up recently. He's developed a serum.
Speaker 1: It should be.
Speaker 3: In very early clinical trials because we really don't know.
Speaker 4: What the effects are long term or even midterm or.
Speaker 1: Even sounds dangerous.
Speaker 3: However, Willhelm isn't thought to be doing very well, and
Speaker 3: I and I think he's basically fast tracking it because
Speaker 3: he's trying to you know, beat the you know, the
Speaker 3: big deadline in the sky.
Speaker 4: Put it that way.
Speaker 8: Well, this serum cure himself, cure whatever is ailing him.
Speaker 3: I don't think truth is gonna help him physiologically. I
Speaker 3: think he's I'm just saying he's getting older. I don't
Speaker 3: know him well, but it's just like one of those
Speaker 3: weird connections. So anyway, he get this patented, let's get
Speaker 3: the swinging rolling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he wants to see his life saving.
Speaker 5: Done that with other serums in the past.
Speaker 4: Let's get this thing rolling, is right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so with that said, he's going to come in
Speaker 3: here a little bit later.
Speaker 4: Let's be aware. Okay, will hem is ball line Rosenthal.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it. We're gonna have some key figures
Speaker 3: in the NFL, all right, free agencies coming up, a
Speaker 3: new season's coming up, crazy offseason. Uh, and kind of
Speaker 3: a press conference here, and hopefully we'll get some real answers.
Speaker 4: Got it? Yes? Is that? Are we good? Great? I
Speaker 4: think that makes sense. All right, let's do. Let's start.
Speaker 3: Let's welcome in someone that everyone knows well, Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3: So Baker Mayfield obviously has a big has a big week.
Speaker 4: Coming up for him.
Speaker 3: So if you want to open up the floor, two questions,
Speaker 3: go for it.
Speaker 4: Uh Yeah, sorry, how about this Baker?
Speaker 7: You you said you know, through maybe your intermediates, there
Speaker 7: was some reporting that you you wanted to have a
Speaker 7: chance to win a championship. Would you be willing to,
Speaker 7: you know, maybe take less money to stay in Tampa
Speaker 7: after they helped resurrect your career here.
Speaker 4: You know, it's been incredible run in Tampa. Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, they welcomed me in last year and gave
Speaker 3: me an opportunity to start, and so that means a
Speaker 3: lot to me.
Speaker 4: And I love it there. My family loves it there.
Speaker 3: So hometown discounts I think they call him. I don't
Speaker 3: know about that, but I just I'm very excited to
Speaker 3: be part of the.
Speaker 4: Free agency process. But also I love Tampa.
Speaker 2: Thanks Baker inside this fire, He's a miracle truth serum.
Speaker 4: They say it does not.
Speaker 2: Exist, but I assure you my lab has proven them
Speaker 2: a wrong.
Speaker 4: I've got to stop smoking.
Speaker 5: Mmm that could be a fact.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, listen, man, I'm terrified. M Baker Me, I'm terrified.
Speaker 3: I know I stumbled into the perfect place to spend
Speaker 3: the rest of my NFL year as a place where
Speaker 3: I could be myself, place where I could be a
Speaker 3: slightly less productive, but more likable version of Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: The people of Tampa they're okay with me being me,
Speaker 3: So just let me chill here for another five or
Speaker 3: six years. I'll throw for like thirty five hundred yards
Speaker 3: and twenty six touchdowns, will go eight to nine or
Speaker 3: nine and eight every year, ups and downs.
Speaker 4: But like it the NFC South, and this is my speed.
Speaker 3: And even the idea of going to Atlanta, which obviously
Speaker 3: is also in the NFC South, where there are actual
Speaker 3: real expectations to improve after some failure there at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position, I'm not into that. I'm just not into
Speaker 3: the pressure anymore. I was the number one overall pick,
Speaker 3: you might remember, of the Cleveland Browns. I had some
Speaker 3: success there. Do you remember after I won a playoff
Speaker 3: game there? The next year, a lot of people were
Speaker 3: picking the Browns with me as the quarterback to go
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl. Do you have any idea the
Speaker 3: amount of pressure to be in that spot. I've been there,
Speaker 3: I've done that.
Speaker 4: I'm out.
Speaker 5: I'm done. And don't even get me started on.
Speaker 3: This report out there, this forcacta report about me going
Speaker 3: to the Patriots. I'd rather you throw a harpoon clear
Speaker 3: through my chest then go and freeze up in New
Speaker 3: England and get my ass kicked for four months. No man,
Speaker 3: NFC south the bucks. That's my speed. Let's get it done.
Speaker 5: That classic Baker confidence that we've come to know is
Speaker 5: in full force apparently within well.
Speaker 7: I have a question you at this press conference, Baker, like,
Speaker 7: do you see a future as a big time endorser
Speaker 7: moving forward? You say you want the less pressure, but
Speaker 7: it isn't a big contract going to be a lot
Speaker 7: of pressure no matter where it is. And do you
Speaker 7: want those progressive ads back? Because you're hell of an actor.
Speaker 3: Thank you for bringing up the progressive ads because that's
Speaker 3: what this is ultimately about. I need to be just
Speaker 3: good enough to hang around for about a half dozen
Speaker 3: year to re establish my brand fully with the progressive
Speaker 3: ads being my main goal. To get back into that game,
Speaker 3: same ad campaign, but this time and that dopey stadium
Speaker 3: with the pirate ship.
Speaker 4: That's what's it.
Speaker 5: Let's let's imagine a world bigger where that ship has
Speaker 5: sailed into the distance.
Speaker 1: You're about to become a dad. Congratulations all that.
Speaker 5: Are you doing the kind of parent thing where like
Speaker 5: you're kind of downshifting the focus on career and you're
Speaker 5: trying to do the safest possible thing, Like this doesn't
Speaker 5: feel like the Baker that I've known in the past
Speaker 5: where it's like you got the chip on the shoulder,
Speaker 5: you're shooting for the stars.
Speaker 1: Instead you're just Tampa works, Tampa No.
Speaker 4: And I understand. And Mark, good to see you.
Speaker 3: I know you have an affinity for me, even though
Speaker 3: I'm not seen as like a major financial man with
Speaker 3: major financial cloud.
Speaker 4: I'm incredibly rich.
Speaker 3: The kid is cool and uh and I got a
Speaker 3: wife and an O pair and all sorts of help.
Speaker 3: I'm all about football and making money right now. So
Speaker 3: that's that's the answer. I'm but it's just hanging around
Speaker 3: and I and I think that's that's enough for me.
Speaker 3: But thank you for having me on. I don't really
Speaker 3: want to be here, but it was part of.
Speaker 4: My media engagement.
Speaker 6: Just one more, one more quickly, Yes, where are you
Speaker 6: on the creamsicle jerseys and the actual canons that are
Speaker 6: fired from that ship?
Speaker 4: Where am I?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Just in your headspace right now?
Speaker 3: They're fine. Yeah, it's like the six out of ten
Speaker 3: in my mind, they're fine. Okay, all right, thank you Baker,
Speaker 3: all right, there he goes.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 3: I feel it's so refreshment to hear much truth, to
Speaker 3: hear how people feel.
Speaker 7: I'm beginning to think. What's his name again? The doctor?
Speaker 3: Uh, doctor will Wilhelm von Tufflhammer.
Speaker 7: His the efficacy of his injection was incredible and immediate
Speaker 7: when he came, when he came in that room.
Speaker 5: After effects, we do the side effects, you know, we
Speaker 5: don't We won't know for a long time.
Speaker 4: All right, Colin, who's the next person coming in?
Speaker 8: Okay? Next person is drawed Mayo.
Speaker 3: Rod Mayo, Wow, new head coach of the New England Patriots. Yes,
Speaker 3: mister Mayo, is I guess we'll start here? You feel
Speaker 3: like you have big shoes to fill? Is there an
Speaker 3: intimidation level in terms of replacing a giant like Belichick?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 6: If I was someone who got intimidated, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 6: My confidence has brought me to this spot in New England,
Speaker 6: and I feel really good about where we're at.
Speaker 8: The future ahead, the transition that we're going to go
Speaker 8: through as well.
Speaker 2: Ah, I see you ah afraid.
Speaker 4: Of me, my dear, that is not to be afraid?
Speaker 8: Are you sure? Are you okay? Am I going to
Speaker 8: get whatever.
Speaker 4: You have to be afraid of? Just a little peach?
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's right. Let's this them, dude, it's bidding.
Speaker 3: As you were saying, mister Mayl.
Speaker 6: Man, listen, I don't know what was in that injection,
Speaker 6: but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8: I've been having some night terrors.
Speaker 6: I've been having night terirs every night, and it's Belichick
Speaker 6: and I mean, I thought that we were all on
Speaker 6: the same page when I said that we're ready to
Speaker 6: burn some cash. Apparently that was just me that was
Speaker 6: ready to burn some cash. But I think the entire
Speaker 6: organization should be ready to burn some cash and free agency.
Speaker 6: We need to make a lot of moves around here,
Speaker 6: and if this is my first season with New England,
Speaker 6: it better be successful. We need some wide receivers, We
Speaker 6: probably need a tight end.
Speaker 5: We need so.
Speaker 6: Many things that I can't I don't even have enough
Speaker 6: time to talk about it right now. The legacy that
Speaker 6: has been left behind those shoes are so hard to fill.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure how it's gonna get done, but I'm
Speaker 6: just crossing my fingers at this point and hoping that
Speaker 6: it all goes well.
Speaker 5: Well. Do you feel like there's extra pressure on you
Speaker 5: to even be anything close to Bill Belichick or are
Speaker 5: you kind of writing and willing to be your own guy.
Speaker 5: You've talked about a culture change. It sounds like your
Speaker 5: head's you know, a miss right now.
Speaker 8: You know, I would be lying if I didn't say that.
Speaker 6: I felt very stressed out and a lot of anxiety,
Speaker 6: and every conversation seems like the world is maybe like
Speaker 6: crumbling down. But I do see a lot of hope
Speaker 6: ahead too, and I'm really positive about where this team
Speaker 6: is heading. And Elliott Wolf, I'm hoping that he wants
Speaker 6: to burn some cash because that's really the main priority here.
Speaker 8: We have eighty eight million dollars in cap Spain.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm I'm real stressed out about what the
Speaker 6: future holds in the AFC East and in Foxborough in general.
Speaker 4: Guys, you're kind of set up to fail.
Speaker 6: It almost sounds like I hope not I hope that
Speaker 6: I wasn't brought in here to fail, Dan Hansis, because
Speaker 6: that would be real bad about.
Speaker 4: It, real bad.
Speaker 7: You really gave you know, you know, a recovering Patriots
Speaker 7: fan like me some contentvidence with the way you carried
Speaker 7: yourself in your opening press conferences. And this change has
Speaker 7: me worried. Even the phrase burning cash has me worried.
Speaker 7: Any concern about for instance, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 7: the Patriots went into free agency, they spent a lot
Speaker 7: of money, everyone was all excited and then they got
Speaker 7: like three solid years of Hunter Henry and not much else.
Speaker 7: Like can you really fix a team in free agency?
Speaker 6: You know, Greg, That's something that we're gonna find out
Speaker 6: very soon, and we sure hope. So it seems like
Speaker 6: at times that it can't get any worse, that it
Speaker 6: can only go up from here after what's happened with
Speaker 6: Mac and how Bill sort of left the state of
Speaker 6: things here in New England. But we're gonna have to
Speaker 6: just hope and pray and if you have a blessed mother,
Speaker 6: put her in the window.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you very much, mister Mayo.
Speaker 8: No problem. What was in this?
Speaker 4: Give me a drink?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get them hydrated immediately that was concidered.
Speaker 4: Let's get them off their feet and hydrated.
Speaker 8: I could feel his stress.
Speaker 4: The anxiety was pouring off Girard as well.
Speaker 8: Totally, totally all from Gerard.
Speaker 7: Up next, Greg is who uh, Brian Dables is going
Speaker 7: to be?
Speaker 3: Yes the Giants entering his third year as head coach.
Speaker 3: First year, Well, let me ask you, Brian, first year
Speaker 3: could not have gone better? I mean not only did
Speaker 3: the Giants make the playoffs. That was a surprise, you wan,
Speaker 3: I was the man. Yeah, you want to host in
Speaker 3: New York. You were supposed to be, you were supposed
Speaker 3: to win, You're supposed to have a good second season
Speaker 3: as well. It didn't go out. It didn't go that way.
Speaker 3: So where where's your headspace at? Do you believe in
Speaker 3: this team getting back on the winning track in twenty four?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know, we always looked at this as a three
Speaker 7: year building plan. That's what you do when you come in.
Speaker 7: Me and Joe Shane from from Buffalo, we've been slowly
Speaker 7: adding pieces in point towards year three is when it's
Speaker 7: really art.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 4: Yes, my next patient, hold out your arm please? Is
Speaker 4: this front hurt very much? Wait?
Speaker 1: Is this stracula?
Speaker 7: Excuse me?
Speaker 4: You may feel a bit strange forever.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure this.
Speaker 4: Guy but trusted. Yeah, he's no fighting the effects. As
Speaker 4: you were saying, Brian, get handkerchief. Oh god.
Speaker 7: And I haven't felt like this since the NFL Honors
Speaker 7: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: Remember that was great.
Speaker 7: I was a good old days, top of the world.
Speaker 7: Now I'm just uh, collecting a paycheck. What what are
Speaker 7: we doing here.
Speaker 8: Brian, Do you have any regrets about signing Daniel Jones
Speaker 8: last season over Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 7: I mean regrets. I never wanted to do it in
Speaker 7: the first place. This was all from upstairs.
Speaker 4: We got our headline.
Speaker 7: Good job coming, oh the Tiffany franchise of New York,
Speaker 7: the New York Giants. We treat our quarterbacks well as
Speaker 7: long as they vaguely resemble Eli Manning. Why did we
Speaker 7: give him this contract? We're locked into it. It's forty
Speaker 7: million dollars. I got Joe Shane here, I thought he was.
Speaker 7: He said, we're gonna be like Buffalo. You know what
Speaker 7: Buffalo did their first few years. They signed a bunch
Speaker 7: of great free agents and made a bunch of great
Speaker 7: draft picks. Who we got, We got Darren Waller. Are
Speaker 7: you playing for me this year? Who's on our defense?
Speaker 7: It took me half the season just to get over
Speaker 7: Wink Martindale trying to bury me to reporters, I'm a
Speaker 7: I'm a mess right now.
Speaker 4: Give me some players. Who's our defensive court here?
Speaker 1: Literally?
Speaker 4: Does anyone know who are defensive coordinator? Is Shane Bowen?
Speaker 1: Does he have a wiki page?
Speaker 5: While we have you in the state. I have to
Speaker 5: ask you, would you consider yourself the bigger small spoon?
Speaker 4: Ah? Very good? Have you seen me? Of course I'm
Speaker 4: the big spoon.
Speaker 1: I'm able.
Speaker 3: Come on, I mean you would have thought you're What
Speaker 3: do you think we got Keevon Thibodeau. I mean he
Speaker 3: seems like a very outspoken player and productive, no doubt.
Speaker 4: But you know, what do you think about him?
Speaker 7: Ultimately got good guy. He was a good pick, nice
Speaker 7: pass rusher. We need more people like him. I also
Speaker 7: like his entire just media strategy. He seems to have
Speaker 7: like a great feel of like who do.
Speaker 1: I talk to?
Speaker 7: Who do I you know, kind of make my media friend?
Speaker 7: And who do I consider an enemy?
Speaker 4: Like that guy? Anything else you'd like to add, Brian, I.
Speaker 1: Just need players.
Speaker 7: Tuon was like one of our only great players, right, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 7: we got Andrew Thomas, we got Saquon.
Speaker 4: And so we've got two players.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 7: Oh, so let's not keep one of those two. Oh
Speaker 7: we got Dexter Lawrence. Okay, but that was a Dave
Speaker 7: Gettleman pick. Give me some picks, Give me some players.
Speaker 7: Joe Shane, I want to see it because I'm just
Speaker 7: out there coaching my ass off, turning Darius Slayton into
Speaker 7: a wide receiver one and one Del Robinson.
Speaker 4: I need some more players, Butcher record this year. You gotta go.
Speaker 1: Not feeling good right now.
Speaker 7: If we can nail the next few weeks, maybe we
Speaker 7: can scratch out eight or nine wins. But we got
Speaker 7: to nail the next couple of weeks. If Joe helps me,
Speaker 7: I'm doing a great job coaching Brian.
Speaker 3: We want to apologize in advance, both for the potential
Speaker 3: devastating after effects of that injection and also what the
Speaker 3: New York media is about to do to you.
Speaker 1: Wait, this is public.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.
Speaker 8: There he goes, sounds like he needs vacation.
Speaker 4: Vacation, all right, Mark, who else is joining us? All right?
Speaker 5: I am a part of the Fox number one broadcasting team.
Speaker 5: Greg Olsen?
Speaker 4: Oh very all right? I mean this is a and
Speaker 4: he's doing.
Speaker 3: Greg, You've really proven yourself to be one of the
Speaker 3: very best in the game.
Speaker 4: Or excuse me, yeah, Greg, you looked at him.
Speaker 5: I know, well is Greg?
Speaker 4: He threw me off.
Speaker 3: Greg Olsen, you have proven yourself to be at the
Speaker 3: top of your game. Of course, how does it feel
Speaker 3: this Tom Brady situation? Hanging over everything as we enter
Speaker 3: a new year.
Speaker 5: You know, you know I've been doing this for a
Speaker 5: certain amount of time. I've grown to love the job.
Speaker 5: I would say that number one, I've always been a
Speaker 5: team player where it was on the field at Fox
Speaker 5: like I have a philosophical approach to just go out
Speaker 5: there and call the best, the very best game that
Speaker 5: you possibly He's.
Speaker 3: Just van.
Speaker 2: It is still still true locked inside your brain, be
Speaker 2: campbulling out.
Speaker 3: I go on Tom Brady lotenge. You need more than
Speaker 3: a lotenge, my friend? Can people not see the parallel
Speaker 3: that I. I came in as an unknown uh into
Speaker 3: the broadcasting booth, and I have been a crystal clear
Speaker 3: technical lighthouse from the word go and you got Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you start? Did you say a crystal clear
Speaker 1: absolute light?
Speaker 5: Can I speak about football? Got some I teach people
Speaker 5: about football in a way that you know what you
Speaker 5: Just because you played quarterback doesn't mean it works. Tom
Speaker 5: Brady spent his whole career telling us and whining about
Speaker 5: where he was drafted and who he became agree greatest
Speaker 5: quarterback of all time? But I just would like to
Speaker 5: reform you that go back to someone like Johnny unitis
Speaker 5: that had that his time, and the greatest quarterback career
Speaker 5: came in and failed in the booth famously. How about
Speaker 5: Bill Walsh, you ever one thought was the smartest coach
Speaker 5: of all time? Super Ultra bor Fest newsfest on air.
Speaker 5: You tell me one time that Tom Brady is ever
Speaker 5: truly made you laugh because of a genuine attachment to wit.
Speaker 5: And we're just gonna come in here and throw me
Speaker 5: down to the Joe Davis, Darryl Johnston spot number two.
Speaker 5: You're gonna apparently with someone else, and Tom Brady is
Speaker 5: gonna just get handed this massive multimillion dollar deal And
Speaker 5: people everywhere are going to be saying, what happened to
Speaker 5: the great Burkhart Olsen pairing that would have been here
Speaker 5: and should have been here for twenty five years. This
Speaker 5: will go down as the biggest mistake in network television history.
Speaker 6: Wow, Craig Olson, Uh, when you think about Tom Brady,
Speaker 6: and obviously you've really just outlined how you feel about him,
Speaker 6: But how quickly do you think he will be able
Speaker 6: to catch on to this craft?
Speaker 8: Having gone through this yourself?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. Did I take to need an
Speaker 5: entire year to sit in my den crafting concept, how
Speaker 5: I might announce No, I just went and did it
Speaker 5: right away, So how long will it take him to
Speaker 5: catch on? So far the track record is not promising.
Speaker 7: You literally were still in the NFL the first time
Speaker 7: that you did it. Of course, as you know, I
Speaker 7: think it was like a bye week for.
Speaker 1: I've always been.
Speaker 7: Impressed with you, Greg Fellow, Greg not Greg Olsen. You
Speaker 7: are Greg Olson. We saw you in Las Vegas. You
Speaker 7: just look like a man who's a good time one
Speaker 7: at life and is always winning. How does it sit
Speaker 7: with you to lose this power struggle? And will you
Speaker 7: respond by trying to get a number one job maybe at.
Speaker 4: Another network like Amazon?
Speaker 5: I Greg, I appreciate the question, Greg, Greg Rosenthal, anything
Speaker 5: is on the table. I do recall seeing the couple
Speaker 5: of you in Vegas, and I think that you noticed
Speaker 5: that I was beautiful and powerful in that casino, that
Speaker 5: I stood out as a human bee. I will not
Speaker 5: I will not stop being that, whether it's at Fox
Speaker 5: or elsewhere. Parts unknown, white cis male hetero. I was
Speaker 5: taken aback by You're almost a statue of a man
Speaker 5: just standing in that casino, and it was an honor
Speaker 5: to run into you. And say hello to you. And
Speaker 5: the Mark Sessler character who's not here also like stood
Speaker 5: out as someone that really understands broadcasting, like the two
Speaker 5: of you, and I think you can see that. My
Speaker 5: argument is, uh, Christine, it is powerful. It is based
Speaker 5: in reality.
Speaker 8: A technical lighthouse, technical lighthouse.
Speaker 4: Absolutely well, good luck to you.
Speaker 5: I don't need luck.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love that guy, I absolutely love
Speaker 4: that all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see how the body and mind reacts.
Speaker 6: How long does it stay with you?
Speaker 7: This could be a whole new like seven to four
Speaker 7: crew wraps coming in Greg Olson.
Speaker 3: After this, Greg stated efficacy off the charts, obviously, But.
Speaker 5: We were I thought we were assured that we'll be
Speaker 5: safe forever.
Speaker 3: There's no questions, no sorry, you could leave Greg and
Speaker 3: and good luck you and just realize this was for
Speaker 3: science ultimately, and we'll see how plays out. All right,
Speaker 3: let's take a break and we'll be right back. All right,
Speaker 3: welcome back. A little bit of news that just came
Speaker 3: across here. The bills are working to get under the cap.
Speaker 3: This from rap sheet and they make the move to release. Oh,
Speaker 3: I thought we were done with the good doctor.
Speaker 8: He's still here.
Speaker 3: He thought he'd be at the hospital by now he's
Speaker 3: interrupting the breaking news.
Speaker 8: How much serum does he have?
Speaker 2: I understand you ought to be a very special case.
Speaker 4: Zess Dog.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, mister sysed dog, you are so mysterious until
Speaker 2: my true serum is injected in your veins.
Speaker 4: That is the good doctor.
Speaker 8: Every time.
Speaker 3: He's gotta stop laughing.
Speaker 4: Ah, come on, man, it's cough ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Wow we got we got the serum and Sessler. Wow,
Speaker 3: what an opportunity this is? Is not feel workplace fair?
Speaker 4: Does anybody want to do you have a question?
Speaker 1: I mean, I would love you to start.
Speaker 7: Mark has turned to Ash and Mark, Yeah, I guess
Speaker 7: I'll just start with a little bit of a softball.
Speaker 7: How are you feeling right now after the serum? What
Speaker 7: are you afraid of?
Speaker 1: What are you free?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I don't know what's just been injected into my body,
Speaker 5: but I am starting to feel concerned about just the
Speaker 5: one mental processing over you.
Speaker 4: I got one. Do you want to be here right now.
Speaker 5: For another ten minutes? Tops?
Speaker 1: Like, in what sense here on the earth? Longer on
Speaker 1: the earth?
Speaker 3: Do you have any plans to leave the country in
Speaker 3: the next six weeks?
Speaker 5: Well, when I make plans like they just come out
Speaker 5: of thin air. So it's a total possibility. Not currently
Speaker 5: on the map. There's a work trip to Mexico with
Speaker 5: a bunch of people that we were not invited to
Speaker 5: because we're too well, that's true, not even approach.
Speaker 8: Okay, well then you can you can plan your own one.
Speaker 6: Where would you go if you could go anywhere right
Speaker 6: this minute after the show. Work doesn't even matter, it
Speaker 6: doesn't even exist anymore. Money doesn't matter, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 6: Where would you go in Mexico or worldwide anywhere? But
Speaker 6: you have to decide in the next couple seconds, and
Speaker 6: you have to stay.
Speaker 1: There, go to Belgium.
Speaker 8: You have to go to Belgium and never return nice
Speaker 8: and never return like this.
Speaker 4: Is an opportunity for you right here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, times jointing out the serum only has a half
Speaker 3: life of minutes.
Speaker 4: Okay, your Brown's fandom, are you just gonna.
Speaker 1: Keep they?
Speaker 4: I wish you would. Let's let's be real.
Speaker 5: I need certain things to change, but I felt it
Speaker 5: during the Flacco run. I really did. And the change
Speaker 5: I needed happened during the Flacco run, and it's I
Speaker 5: can return to anything. You're I'm about forgiving them, about
Speaker 5: rethinking certain things, but certain things they've done made it
Speaker 5: tough for me to sign up on it. When you
Speaker 5: have to talk about it all the time on a show.
Speaker 4: You're back, No, notarily No.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm like outside the door, kind of looking
Speaker 5: through a door with a little.
Speaker 3: You were back though, like ye drafting them week after
Speaker 3: week before Fla is meeting.
Speaker 4: It's toughest match.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Blaco, if Flacco, if there's there is an interest
Speaker 5: between flat doctor.
Speaker 1: Bill help, you have met your match.
Speaker 7: Okay, before that serum runs out, let's go like me,
Speaker 7: Greg ROSENTHALP, Yeah, pros.
Speaker 1: Cons, give me some give me.
Speaker 5: You have been a genuine friend to me.
Speaker 1: You have.
Speaker 5: You're someone that I've looked up to from a career angle,
Speaker 5: and you're I think when we go out on the
Speaker 5: town sometimes we go to like our places where we
Speaker 5: used to go with Wes, like we have a great time.
Speaker 7: For some reason, I'm more interested in the cons. Frankly,
Speaker 7: only the cons. That's just says something about me.
Speaker 3: The doctor has met as mat truly all right, I
Speaker 3: think it wore off now I'm sorry doing that again that.
Speaker 5: I would say from what I recall of it, Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, they weren't all softballs, but you could have
Speaker 5: gone you could have asked tougher questions that would have
Speaker 5: put me in a road.
Speaker 3: It already felt kind of like a frankly a dick
Speaker 3: move to pump this potential poison into you.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I didn't want to like double down. No,
Speaker 5: I think you were all very gentle to me.
Speaker 7: Actually, the look on your face and everyone should check
Speaker 7: out our YouTube. I don't know if I guess they
Speaker 7: can't really like zoom in on their phone, but the
Speaker 7: look on your face when in the real estate figured
Speaker 7: Aaron was coming it was gonna haunt me, you could, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't know was.
Speaker 8: Perfect.
Speaker 3: I mean a good doctor that we've created such a
Speaker 3: real feel world that it did sense for just a
Speaker 3: flash that you thought it was actually happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I yes, I did.
Speaker 6: I also terrified that Dan called for a doctor for
Speaker 6: the Doctor at one point during the show too, the.
Speaker 4: Little Doctor on Doctor.
Speaker 3: It's like when Dave Damashek is fascinated by tow trucks
Speaker 3: being towed by tow trucks.
Speaker 4: What it's a thing, all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, back to the breaking news, and we needed to
Speaker 3: get this one in the show because you know, Eric
Speaker 3: Roberts demanded it, but it's important. The Bills are working
Speaker 3: to get under the cap, so they say goodbye to
Speaker 3: safety Jordan Poyer. His cap number was seven and a
Speaker 3: half million. This is from rap sheet. So Poyer is
Speaker 3: he's a piece of that defense and a pretty big
Speaker 3: one Gregy and now they let's see if maybe he
Speaker 3: rejoins a team on a different deal.
Speaker 7: But he's headed to free agency. Where's he on the
Speaker 7: one on one good question. He's an older safety that's
Speaker 7: not helping him. There's a lot of safeties out there.
Speaker 7: I think though this is more significant, you know, and
Speaker 7: Bill's fans will get this, But for the average fan,
Speaker 7: like to me, this Bill's run starts with Jordan Poyer
Speaker 7: and Micah Hyde, which is interesting. And I we were
Speaker 7: just listening to the press conference of Dable of what
Speaker 7: a great job the Bills did when McDermott got there,
Speaker 7: and part of it was they got these culture setters,
Speaker 7: like right off the bat in this tandem. And they
Speaker 7: did a press conference after the last playoff game for
Speaker 7: the Bills, and I thought that might have been a
Speaker 7: sign that like they were on their way out. Micah
Speaker 7: Hyde is reportedly considering retiring he is on the one
Speaker 7: O one, But to me, it might be a little
Speaker 7: bit of an end of an era for the Bills,
Speaker 7: and they're sneaking in a lot of cap cap struggles,
Speaker 7: so there might be more big moves to.
Speaker 3: Open an opportunity for Damar hammil In. There is he contract?
Speaker 3: I mean he obviously he's.
Speaker 9: Pissed off Bills fans because he went on he put
Speaker 9: out a quote saying that it would be the highlight
Speaker 9: of his life to retire with the Steelers.
Speaker 1: He's a pit guy, you guys.
Speaker 4: So he's under contract currently? Is he said to be
Speaker 4: a free agent or are.
Speaker 5: We allowed We're now to be allowed to be upset
Speaker 5: with him at this?
Speaker 9: Oh dude, Well, Bills fans are pissed. They're like, all good,
Speaker 9: good Rid and see you later. Because he said, like, yeah,
Speaker 9: it would be like a free agent to be I'm
Speaker 9: not entirely sure.
Speaker 4: That's a very strange thing to say.
Speaker 1: I don't think contract.
Speaker 4: In his probably best case scenario, he'd be like a
Speaker 4: third season.
Speaker 1: But he's a pit guy. He went to pay. He's
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, so that makes sense.
Speaker 3: But yeah, did doctor will Helm Vah tough old Hammer
Speaker 3: get to we don't need to.
Speaker 4: Let's just let's leave.
Speaker 3: I won't see, Like, we don't need to be testing
Speaker 3: DeMar Hamlin's body for this.
Speaker 5: It's fine for this team that like still considers themselves
Speaker 5: like a super Bowl contender. They're forty two like before
Speaker 5: this move, they're forty two million in the red. No
Speaker 5: team as a bigger cap hell situation. I think they
Speaker 5: have tougher decisions ahead.
Speaker 7: That Von Miller deal really hurt them, And I don't
Speaker 7: think they're gonna get rid of von Miller necessarily because
Speaker 7: he has so much guaranteed money. You might as well
Speaker 7: just see what he looks like in August. If you're
Speaker 7: not saving any money by getting rid of him.
Speaker 6: I don't know what they're going to do with the
Speaker 6: safety position. Like those two have been there for seven years.
Speaker 1: It's a DeMar Hamlin is not under contract.
Speaker 4: There you go circling back to.
Speaker 7: Oh, after this year, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, So this
Speaker 7: year one more year tuffle Hammer got him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the I guess the Broncos, knowing the devastation
Speaker 3: of the cap hit, could have done the same thing
Speaker 3: with Russ right, because like in the way that von Miller,
Speaker 3: if they had the power. They would say bye, but
Speaker 3: they're like, we're gonna get killed these because he doesn't
Speaker 3: like Russell.
Speaker 7: Well, no, because they would have owed him even more
Speaker 7: guaranteed money in a.
Speaker 1: Couple of weeks. So that's why.
Speaker 7: So they can not the case with von that contract
Speaker 7: which I had one hundred and forty or one hundred
Speaker 7: and twenty million.
Speaker 4: Guaranteed for us.
Speaker 7: No, Vonn's getting that money either way, and it doesn't
Speaker 7: really help them cap space excess. So they might as
Speaker 7: they still might cut him, I think, just because it's
Speaker 7: not working.
Speaker 1: But the off the field stuff has.
Speaker 3: Also tarnished him more. So there's just some layers to
Speaker 3: the Vaughan thing. All right, big year coming up for
Speaker 3: those Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 4: Diggs is kind of a question Marion lot going on? Yo?
Speaker 4: What ark big year coming up?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, about a truth serum to a father to be
Speaker 3: because there is I found, for all the incredible amount
Speaker 3: of excitement and anticipation when you're becoming a parent, there
Speaker 3: is that other stuff like, oh my life is never
Speaker 3: going to be the same. I'm gonna miss hanging out
Speaker 3: with my boys and you know, being free. You steer
Speaker 3: clear of the good doctor. Yeah, we don't need your
Speaker 3: wife doesn't want to hear that. Eric seems relatively sunny
Speaker 3: about the whole.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm older, I'm actually I dude, I can't wait
Speaker 9: to have the Sorry the babies at home, excuse to
Speaker 9: like not have to go out with people?
Speaker 4: A perfect man.
Speaker 1: Wait, you know ladies and gentlemen, the perfect man.
Speaker 3: Out of applause, All right, funk. Have you done any
Speaker 3: behind the glass? Have you done any child search on?
Speaker 3: Have you done any research yet on the I am
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Speaker 5: Okay, some liquid guys, my bad, Now we're good. I
Speaker 5: have not actually, but I figured, okay, it won't be
Speaker 5: too hard.
Speaker 4: It's a circle on the line. How about what do
Speaker 4: we think is? Are we going to cover this? We'll
Speaker 4: cover this well. Greg City had a lead.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, do you want to hook him up with
Speaker 3: that tattoo artist area tattoo artists?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't sound too expensive. I don't think it
Speaker 1: would be too We'll cover it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna cover it. Colleen's gonna che.
Speaker 8: You're gonna do it on the show.
Speaker 4: Can we get the artist in here?
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm not looking at I think the
Speaker 5: answer is definitely no.
Speaker 1: You can't get We're.
Speaker 6: Gonna have people call in, We're gonna be giving away tattoos.
Speaker 4: You can't be doing tattoos here.
Speaker 1: That's not how it works.
Speaker 3: Hey, this is Anthony from Rego Park. I don't think
Speaker 3: you should touch a tattoo. It's part of his legacy
Speaker 3: as a man.
Speaker 7: There's health regulation and listen and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 4: We'll have a person a journey.
Speaker 1: Emilyler. Check her out.
Speaker 4: She's great, nice plug. All right? Anything else?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 8: Who did yours?
Speaker 1: It's done a few?
Speaker 3: Yeah, look that one up, Emily Effler.
Speaker 4: I like it. I like all right. We are back
Speaker 4: on Thursday. Colleen, you've said it all.
Speaker 6: I truly have today. I think so today compared to
Speaker 6: any other show.
Speaker 4: Is there a reason why?
Speaker 3: And I don't like to do the Greg thing and
Speaker 3: look at other people's laptops. But you have what looks
Speaker 3: to be an aerial overhead, almost like a YouTube spy plane.
Speaker 3: Look at an airport or an air force base. What
Speaker 3: are you doing? Get the serum back in here? What
Speaker 3: is happening?
Speaker 8: This is just a screen saver, Oh my god. And
Speaker 8: it's actually in Belgium.
Speaker 3: They're all listening to us now.
Speaker 6: It's a Belgian airport. Is my screen saver right now?
Speaker 6: For some reason, I like planes.
Speaker 4: You guys know that I don't have to get see
Speaker 4: IA on this one. FBI. All right, we'll be back Thursday.
Speaker 3: Like you said, we're gonna really last look at the
Speaker 3: free agency landscape before next week with Mina Kaimes. Until then,
Speaker 3: thank you, Vilhelm and you know what you need to do,
Speaker 3: see you doctor Heed the call.
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Speaker 2: Oh, let's tell the truth man.
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