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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Jansas, and I am joined by
Speaker 1: the room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and
Speaker 1: Greg Girls. I thought, what's up boys? Here we are.
Speaker 1: It's freezing in here, by the way, it's very cold.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm talking like Oprah, it's cold.
Speaker 1: Got you got you got a little. The free agency
Speaker 1: frenzy because free agency started. It's it's it's started. It's
Speaker 1: been happening this past weekend. It's Monday afternoon. They were
Speaker 1: taping this right now. And uh and this past weekend, Mark,
Speaker 1: I knew you were in on Saturday Sunday. I came
Speaker 1: in daylight Savings time no less, banged there and come in.
Speaker 1: You know, it starts out okay Sunday, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the wave, it starts getting bigger and bigger,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it's crashing down, and and
Speaker 1: Greg's online and we're hammering out post on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: go home and then as it's crashing down, Dan goes home,
Speaker 1: perfect timing Greg. Greg keeps haring away Mark jumps on
Speaker 1: West somewhere by the sea during all this escaped, escaped,
Speaker 1: But that was the big storyline I guess so far
Speaker 1: free agency is that yes, it technically starts Tuesday at
Speaker 1: one pm, but this this time where you're allowed to
Speaker 1: talk to players and agents now has turned into a
Speaker 1: monster that the NFL needs to somehow control or put down.
Speaker 1: Which is uh, all these deals are getting done and
Speaker 1: getting leaked to the press. So there's several several dozens
Speaker 1: of players that we already know where they're headed. Well,
Speaker 1: just since Saturday alone, I think the number was twelve
Speaker 1: players from our one oh one have resigned with teams
Speaker 1: so that those are legal, and then another eight or nine, ten,
Speaker 1: I'm losing track of the numbers have agreed to deals
Speaker 1: or something close to an agreement, which that's a mockery
Speaker 1: of the process. The NFL sends out amount today. They're
Speaker 1: not happy with teams doing this. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they can really do. It's it's one of those problems
Speaker 1: that there's no good solution for. Like one of the
Speaker 1: reasons open it up, let people do it. We only
Speaker 1: had one or two people on because the last two years,
Speaker 1: the only other years they've had this legal tampering scenario,
Speaker 1: nothing happened. It was like a big sit around and wait,
Speaker 1: and then nothing would happen this year, like it was
Speaker 1: a cavalcade. How come they can't just make Tuesday one
Speaker 1: pm that's when these players become Elgebow thirty and one
Speaker 1: other teams. Why do we need to have this period? Well,
Speaker 1: they added it because so many deals were getting done
Speaker 1: anyways in the few days in between before it, and
Speaker 1: so they tried to create something where Okay, you guys
Speaker 1: can talk and we won't get made fun of for
Speaker 1: all this tampering. But I think it doesn't matter. No
Speaker 1: matter what what you do, you're gonna have to set
Speaker 1: a deadline and teams are going to cheat and just
Speaker 1: do it ahead of time. Isn't this all about cares anyways?
Speaker 1: The unspoken agreement between NFL insiders that they'll wait a
Speaker 1: little bit, and a couple of them broke the protocol,
Speaker 1: that's part of it too. Although you know, guys like
Speaker 1: Iron Maxwell, who again was talking to an NFL insider,
Speaker 1: you know, he announced it publicly. Tory Smith put something
Speaker 1: on his on his personal blog about where he's going,
Speaker 1: you know, said they know who cares. I care because
Speaker 1: people in our business, when you're writing up these posts,
Speaker 1: you gotta hedge them a little bit. That can't be
Speaker 1: definitive with it because nothing is official and anything could happen.
Speaker 1: I guess technically, since this is all being done kind
Speaker 1: of under the table in a way. Uh so I
Speaker 1: just got about the table, stand on the table for change.
Speaker 1: Dan standing on the shoulder, trying to take it less seriously.
Speaker 1: But in this cold room he's got you can undersize hooded.
Speaker 1: You look like Robber in the park. That's what you
Speaker 1: look like like I have. I have a much easier
Speaker 1: time taking less seriously than Mark, who looks like, uh,
Speaker 1: you have to wear his dad's sports We went downstairs
Speaker 1: and it's I'm wearing West's sports coade because if I
Speaker 1: wear my own, I have to go back into the
Speaker 1: news room and delivered to that. Kind of giving this
Speaker 1: to West, you take it back from kind of look
Speaker 1: like you're on makeout point with the varsity letterman jacket
Speaker 1: draped bo I wouldn't have guessed that they would be.
Speaker 1: The West's arms would be so much longer than yours.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure they are. I just have
Speaker 1: like more bulk. Yes, tentmaker, that sounds like you're bragging
Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't think we have got a
Speaker 1: long run down here. Look at this. That Dan's guts
Speaker 1: the most news we show. Oh my goodness, this is
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a show. Usually the structure of
Speaker 1: our shows we do some news up top, and then
Speaker 1: we get into some other stuff. We throw up in
Speaker 1: some mirth. There's still gonna be some mirth, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but this is gonna be news heavy. We
Speaker 1: have got twenty five different items I would say, I
Speaker 1: would guess to get to uh So, I don't think
Speaker 1: we should even waste any more time. And we got
Speaker 1: t V behind the glass and I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: t D number one first show without Dressler. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're dealing with that the best you can. I'm hanging
Speaker 1: in the grass doing good. It's not also not. Also,
Speaker 1: the best of my soccer team, Mens United is losing
Speaker 1: Arsenal right now in Cup and that's pretty tough to do.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter that you just said we weren't listening, uh Z.
Speaker 1: Drills are no longer with us. However, TD, you do
Speaker 1: have a great responsibility other than watching your soccer game
Speaker 1: right now is with all this news, we need your
Speaker 1: best news drop ever, and I didn't give your heads
Speaker 1: up to pull out the best one. So really it's
Speaker 1: just now fate will be confident to get to go.
Speaker 1: All right, t D, let's do some news. What the
Speaker 1: hell's going on about? Clearly did not even get a
Speaker 1: drop done and just went out down board. That is
Speaker 1: the prelude to the NFL free agency right now. It's
Speaker 1: a lot going on, a lot of craziness. So my
Speaker 1: man Lombardi is like, what the hell's going on about?
Speaker 1: That's fair? Mark not impressed up, you know, we're not.
Speaker 1: We're all looking at a sheet of paper that Dan
Speaker 1: email to everyone with this enormous list of topics. Everyone's
Speaker 1: in the two line tds in the CC, the carbon
Speaker 1: copy line. I think that's that's telling and that's accurate.
Speaker 1: Oh man, hey, hey hey hey, hey hey hey hey.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with the biggest news of the weekend. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it is involving, as you might imagine, and Dominicans
Speaker 1: sue UH, the Miami Dolphins, who when we did our
Speaker 1: sandwich propositions, Greg and West both predicted he would land
Speaker 1: with Miami. It looks like that's gonna happen. NFL media
Speaker 1: inside of Ian Rappaport reports of the Dolphins are the
Speaker 1: clear front runner for Sue and it will be a
Speaker 1: deal that will eclipse ten million, makes Sue the highest
Speaker 1: paid defensive player in the NFL. We're hearing an other
Speaker 1: other news outlets this is a done deal. There's nothing
Speaker 1: else to talk about. Uh So, barring something crazy, Sue
Speaker 1: is gonna be a Miami Dolphin. I'll open it up
Speaker 1: with the Boss, Greg. Your initial thoughts of the move, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't like the fact that a lot of people
Speaker 1: are making fun of the Dolphins for this and thinking
Speaker 1: Sue is another Hayines, Albert Haynesworth's ridiculous or Stephen Ross
Speaker 1: just spend crazy money. This is a Dominican Sue. It's different.
Speaker 1: He's been one of the most consistent players in the NFL,
Speaker 1: top five player at his position. He's in the middle
Speaker 1: of his prime. If you're gonna spend a lot of money,
Speaker 1: at least getting Dominican Sue, I'd much rather having Dominican
Speaker 1: Sue than to Byron Maxwell's or to Mike Wallace's other
Speaker 1: you know guys in free agency that get ten million dollars.
Speaker 1: The Sue Haynesworth comparisons are as lazy as comparisons get.
Speaker 1: I don't see just because they both stomped a player,
Speaker 1: they and they both played defensive tackle. Maybe that was
Speaker 1: Sue was one of the most self motivated players in
Speaker 1: the NFL and Haynesworth was motivated purely by boats. And
Speaker 1: this is a classic time of year to get to
Speaker 1: have guys pumped up and be overpaid way more money
Speaker 1: than they ever should. But with Sue, I don't mean
Speaker 1: I think that this is one total game plan record
Speaker 1: type guy that he can change what Miami can accomplish
Speaker 1: on defense for years to come. With that said, it
Speaker 1: does change the structure of salaries if you're into that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. I mean, he's making four millions more
Speaker 1: than Peyton Manning is this year. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: new bar for defensive players. And it makes sense with
Speaker 1: all the cap space and the money that's out there
Speaker 1: now with the cap going higher. It's just different to
Speaker 1: see a guy like Sue making Joe flaccover let me
Speaker 1: let me just throw a little cold water, I guess
Speaker 1: on the Sioux signing in my opinion, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's a bad move by the Dolphins. As a
Speaker 1: Jets man, I'm not thrilled that he's in my division. Now.
Speaker 1: I have to see him twice twice a year, obviously,
Speaker 1: But everybody goes nuts about age all the time. He's
Speaker 1: twenty eight. He's not a spring chicken. He's not like
Speaker 1: he's twenty five years old. He's he's a little older.
Speaker 1: He's getting paid like a quarterback for three years, and
Speaker 1: you know quarterbacks are expected to win. Now, I know
Speaker 1: he's a defensive tackle, a whole different ball game. He
Speaker 1: never won a playoff game in five years in Detroit.
Speaker 1: So as big as a game plan record as he is,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying he's not, it's not like it
Speaker 1: turned Detroit into a deep playoff run team every year.
Speaker 1: So is he worth this much money considering what we've
Speaker 1: seen from him or from his team? He's not. And
Speaker 1: I see the Dolphins going eight and eight or seven
Speaker 1: and nine like they do every other year. This doesn't change.
Speaker 1: It's terrible signing. I don't mind. I don't mind. That's
Speaker 1: what's football. I mean, you could put Tom Brady on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and they're not necessarily going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's just that's that was maybe a bad example, and
Speaker 1: I don't think they would. We talk all the time
Speaker 1: about NFL teams realized, the good teams, the good franchises
Speaker 1: realized you built through the draft. And it's always like, well,
Speaker 1: who are these stupid teams that are always just wasting
Speaker 1: in free agency? And people say the Redskins, But it's
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Every single year, the Dolphins do this. Two
Speaker 1: years ago they spent by far the most amount. Last year,
Speaker 1: Brandon Albert was the second highest paid player in free agency.
Speaker 1: This year, Sue is gonna be. But you put Sue
Speaker 1: next to Cameron Wake I just signed and a few
Speaker 1: days before you signed. So you cut Heartlin, and you
Speaker 1: cut Gibbs, and you cut Courtland Finn again Danielle Ellerb,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what they do. But you're cutting
Speaker 1: guys that made this big free agent splash a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago in Miami area. But that's not how
Speaker 1: you build teams. I I totally agree with all of that.
Speaker 1: And yet at least they're investing in a great player.
Speaker 1: And all those players that you just added up, they
Speaker 1: pretty much added up to Sue. I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: free agency works. I think you lose more by sign
Speaker 1: I mean all these guys at six seven eight million dollars.
Speaker 1: This is a guy, he's not Reggie White, but he's
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive players it's ever reached free agency.
Speaker 1: So that's why with the the cap going up year
Speaker 1: after year after year, I don't mind. The dolphinse was
Speaker 1: they always have a really good defensive line and the
Speaker 1: rest of the roster is mediocre. They're still gonna be
Speaker 1: the same way. There will be more pressure than ever
Speaker 1: on Ryan Tannehill this year. Obviously Joe phil will. You know,
Speaker 1: he's coaching for his job, but they need to be
Speaker 1: a playoff this this year, playoff team, or it's going
Speaker 1: to be viewed as a really you don't think there's
Speaker 1: any chance, not any chance. But I don't I one
Speaker 1: thing I agree with with West in general, and I
Speaker 1: know we have twenties seven more topics together, but it's
Speaker 1: like Dan, like you said before, it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. And I think any defensive coach could sit
Speaker 1: down in three hours, four or five tell you how
Speaker 1: important he is. And the Lions might have to change
Speaker 1: their entire scheme now because he's not there. They could
Speaker 1: they could go to a three four potentially, That's how
Speaker 1: much of a difference he makes. But is he gonna
Speaker 1: generate three separate additional wins for the Dolphins. Not when
Speaker 1: you don't have that quarterback or that everything else. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been right on the precipice of sneaking in the
Speaker 1: playoffs these last couple of years. So one of these years,
Speaker 1: when they're eight and six going into the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the move that gets the over the top.
Speaker 1: They get a wild card. They maybe even push the
Speaker 1: page Mike grow up to be the Cincinnati Bengals. What
Speaker 1: a tough division it's gonna be. To have an offensive line.
Speaker 1: You gotta play the Bills four times a year. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about them in a sect. Bringing Jerry Hughes back.
Speaker 1: You gotta play the Jets with Mohammed Wilkerson and a
Speaker 1: great looking defensive line. And then now you have to
Speaker 1: play Wake and Soon next to each other with little
Speaker 1: Randy Starks throwing. The Patriots are the worst one of
Speaker 1: the group, and they're not that bad. Speaking of the Patriots,
Speaker 1: big news out of New England on Monday, NFL Media
Speaker 1: Insider Ian Rappaport. Going forward, he will be known as
Speaker 1: rap Sheet on the show. UH this episode anyway, the
Speaker 1: Pats are not picking up rivers twenty million dollar option
Speaker 1: for UH. That according to a source informed of the
Speaker 1: team's thinking, that will mean that Reeves will become a
Speaker 1: free agent, which will make him uh fair game for
Speaker 1: any team. But what we keep hearing is that the
Speaker 1: Pats will still be in the mix for this. But
Speaker 1: it it seems like it's going to be another classic
Speaker 1: Jets Patriots arms race situation with those two teams and
Speaker 1: then right now no other team materializing, but something could
Speaker 1: go down in the future, but Jets Pats it's looking
Speaker 1: like well. And rap Sheet mentioned that New England right
Speaker 1: now is still trying to sign them before four pm
Speaker 1: Eastern on Tuesday. That that is that's it's not like
Speaker 1: they're rejecting the concept of that and they don't want
Speaker 1: to haven't officially not picked up the option, so legally
Speaker 1: the Jets can't be negotiating yet. But I'm sure the
Speaker 1: Pots window here where they can exclusively negotiate with him
Speaker 1: right because he's still it's basically they haven't officially done anything. Well,
Speaker 1: the Jets tampered like five times when they weren't allowed
Speaker 1: to say, how that you're an illegal tampering. Let's copy
Speaker 1: naive here. Uh throou reeves doesn't make uh any decisions
Speaker 1: without knowing exactly what he can make elsewhere. Whether it's
Speaker 1: legal to find that out or not. That's just how
Speaker 1: it works. And I thought, Dan, you you put it
Speaker 1: well downstairs. This even made it into uh the old
Speaker 1: Darrell Rivas landing spots which only has two teams and
Speaker 1: then the field. You said, this is kind of like
Speaker 1: this is the contract that Darrell Rivas has always wanted,
Speaker 1: Like this is the one that he's gonna get this year.
Speaker 1: He never got it with the Jets and his two
Speaker 1: uh dances with them, one was a band aid. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then then the second time came around and forced the
Speaker 1: trade to the Bucks, who then didn't give him a
Speaker 1: really deeply guaranteed contracts. He was coming off the knee injury.
Speaker 1: He gets cut, he ends up with the Pats on
Speaker 1: a one year deal essentially, but now he's gonna get paid.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably gonna get He's not gonna get
Speaker 1: some money, obviously, but he's gonna get probably three guaranteed
Speaker 1: years a ton of dough. This is the contract he's
Speaker 1: been trying to get all this time, and it might
Speaker 1: even come from the Jets. Was his highly ironic And
Speaker 1: Dan you mentioned downstairs the idea that maybe there's an
Speaker 1: interest in Rivers's mind and heart to go back to
Speaker 1: New York to become to put a cap on one
Speaker 1: is the greatest Jets career of any player for that
Speaker 1: team that they've ever had. But what if, if if
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and the Jets offer something very
Speaker 1: very comparable, where do you think he would want to be,
Speaker 1: all things being equal, money wise, I don't know. That's
Speaker 1: he's impossible to judge because he's motivated by money. I
Speaker 1: would think he would stay in New England if the
Speaker 1: money was the same, unless there's something that we don't know.
Speaker 1: But when I what I was saying that downstairs about uh,
Speaker 1: I was thinking more from the Jets fans, from the
Speaker 1: Jets ownership, that they they want Revas to be a Jet,
Speaker 1: even though now he has a ring with the pass. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's my point. I don't think Rivas has the same
Speaker 1: Jets thing Laura touch to him. I think he wants
Speaker 1: to be I think he'd stay in New England. If
Speaker 1: it was equal, it fails the common sense test for
Speaker 1: both Jets and the and Revs. They didn't want him
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when they were supposed to
Speaker 1: be contenders. Now they're rebuilding and they want Revas, but
Speaker 1: they they're gonna overpay for him and Vis. Why would
Speaker 1: you leave the Super Bowl champions to go to the Jets.
Speaker 1: I don't get there. I think he he would like
Speaker 1: to go back to New York. And here's why, because
Speaker 1: he's entertaining it. I mean, Ian has reported money to
Speaker 1: bring them. Maybe maybe that's how he's trying to get
Speaker 1: more money. But I think he'd be all about it.
Speaker 1: And it's not that the Jets didn't want him back.
Speaker 1: For instance, last year, Rex Ryan and Woody Johnson did
Speaker 1: and they felt like it was a missed opportunity. They
Speaker 1: didn't get him back years ago when they traded him.
Speaker 1: It was driven by the owner. But it was driven
Speaker 1: not over whether they wanted him. It was things got
Speaker 1: really ugly financially. It was beyond just him, how they
Speaker 1: viewed him as a player. Yeah, a lot went into that,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a different spot now when ownership
Speaker 1: gets involved. That's when you start seeing some crazy contracts
Speaker 1: and that's when it happens. And that's why Revas has
Speaker 1: to be thrilled, because not it's not only ownership getting
Speaker 1: involved on the Jet side. Belichick is practically ownership on
Speaker 1: the Patriots side. And you know he does not want
Speaker 1: to lose Revas to the Jets, of all teams, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that would make the Patriots spend a
Speaker 1: little extra dough. He's in a great spot. It's not Belichick. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, like the Jets aren't one high end quarterback
Speaker 1: away from being a contender. I don't. I just don't
Speaker 1: think it makes sense for them. Yeah. I mean the
Speaker 1: way I look at it with the NFL is that
Speaker 1: the Jets could, to me, like any team, if you
Speaker 1: hit on the draft and you do well in free agency,
Speaker 1: they could be tenant six next year and be playing
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And then if you're in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you're in the dance. And then you have Revs on
Speaker 1: the team, you might not be seen as a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender. But that makes sense that now we have Revis,
Speaker 1: we're in the playoffs. That's why the NFL is well, right,
Speaker 1: I've did this month ago come on, well, and you're
Speaker 1: and you and you, and it's fair you have an
Speaker 1: emotional attachment to the whole idea of Revis as well.
Speaker 1: But if we're gonna look at the Dolphins and say
Speaker 1: you've added Sue but you're no different to us, then
Speaker 1: with all the holes that the Jets have, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what adding Revs does to suddenly turn them into
Speaker 1: a playoff team either. I mean, that might might be true,
Speaker 1: but really they don't have a quarterback. The biggest hole
Speaker 1: is that one of the biggest holes that cornerback. Though
Speaker 1: it's not like he's not fitting. It doesn't feel the need.
Speaker 1: He it feels a need. He fits what Todd Bowles
Speaker 1: does with physical kind of man corners. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. If I was a Jets fan, i'd be
Speaker 1: I'd be loving this. I'm floating with it, just over
Speaker 1: the possibility. We move on. Let's stick with the a
Speaker 1: f c S and the Patriots. Uh so Revus, who
Speaker 1: knows if he ends up coming back to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: But one guy we know is staying in New England,
Speaker 1: Devin mccordy. Uh he will rap sheet reports that he is.
Speaker 1: Uh he has signed a five year forty seven and
Speaker 1: a half million dollar contract according to two sources. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. He was He had moved
Speaker 1: all the way up through guys coming or going on
Speaker 1: our one on one list. He was the number two
Speaker 1: option at the time of his signing. So Devin mccordy.
Speaker 1: We wondered if if the Patriots valued mccordy over Revas.
Speaker 1: I still don't know if this tells you necessarily, but
Speaker 1: it also tells you how much they adore Devin mccordy
Speaker 1: in that secondary It shows you they value him over
Speaker 1: Asante Samuel back in two thousand six or whatever year
Speaker 1: that was, or Richard Seymour when he was having his
Speaker 1: problem they i mean his contract issues. They stepped up
Speaker 1: to give mccordy Jari's bird type contract. I mean there
Speaker 1: was a report from ESPN Boston how mccordy got on
Speaker 1: the phone with Belichick to basically say, thanks for a
Speaker 1: great five years, I'm gonna go with this other team.
Speaker 1: And then it was at that point that Belichick and
Speaker 1: the Patriots stepped up their offer significantly, apparently not quite
Speaker 1: to the level that it was either the Eagles or
Speaker 1: the Giants had, but close enough and he got it done,
Speaker 1: and there aren't many players that they've ever done it.
Speaker 1: I kind of I kinta think now mccordy's stays and
Speaker 1: Rivas does not. But we'll see. Oh wow, Really, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I'm Brandon Browner and I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be cutting Brandon Browner either way. They've They've
Speaker 1: allowed him to go look for a trade, so I'm
Speaker 1: fine with that. It doesn't feel like a Patriot's business
Speaker 1: to be keeping them both. I don't know. It feels
Speaker 1: like in the in the past, they still trying to
Speaker 1: talk yourself and I'm not listen, I'm not saying whether
Speaker 1: that has anything to do with the Jets, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. We haven't we haven't seen the Patriots go
Speaker 1: all out to retain guys in the past. Now, well,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. New England is not a team that
Speaker 1: responds off of pure emotion. They have learned how to
Speaker 1: team build for more than a decade. The Jets in
Speaker 1: this situation do feel emotional to me? All right, we
Speaker 1: got it, Mark, we got it. You're on the other
Speaker 1: side of the fence. Listen, I know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the worst day of your life if the signs with
Speaker 1: the Jet. No, it's not. I just think that it's
Speaker 1: it seems to me. It seems to me like an
Speaker 1: owner dipped scenario that isn't really like, is this what
Speaker 1: the GM want? The GM definitely doesn't want drell rive
Speaker 1: us in the secondary. That's the point I think. I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots, what what if Bill Belichick has it?
Speaker 1: And he said this is probably ridiculous, But wouldn't you
Speaker 1: if if you were Bill Belichick, wouldn't you be thinking,
Speaker 1: I've got Tom Brady for another year or two, I'm
Speaker 1: only gonna be around for X amount of years, just
Speaker 1: like go for it, go for it finally and that
Speaker 1: and that's the final, not finally. But you know, they've
Speaker 1: always they've been a team that thinks ahead and not
Speaker 1: in the short term, not spending a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But if ever they were going to it's an out
Speaker 1: well and two years in a row the salary cap
Speaker 1: raises by ten million. If not now, I mean, when
Speaker 1: go get rev Us you're a contender, that'd be interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: not toet too off topic, we got a lot more
Speaker 1: to get to. But if you're Bill Belichick, Yeah, why
Speaker 1: would you even stick around in the NFL. Once Brady retires,
Speaker 1: just get out at that point and just go on
Speaker 1: for whatever the time has left, probably to prove you
Speaker 1: can win without him exactly. He did that with Matt Castle.
Speaker 1: That's enough. And so one year they didn't make the
Speaker 1: playoffs games. All right, here we go. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to another a f C East team. We're kind of
Speaker 1: gonna go division by division because there's so many great stories,
Speaker 1: or just keep moving on. Lashawn McCoy after his big
Speaker 1: blockbuster trade from the Eagles to the Bills, there were
Speaker 1: some whispers out there that that there's the Bills were
Speaker 1: gonna have some problems, the problems because McCoy maybe wasn't
Speaker 1: happy with about going up to Orchard Parkwell not anymore.
Speaker 1: Rap Sheet reports that he gets a five year deal
Speaker 1: worth fifty excume me forty million, with twenty six and
Speaker 1: a half million guaranteed, including sixteen million in his first year.
Speaker 1: So yes, he's probably an outlier barring Adrian Peterson or
Speaker 1: de Marco Murray getting a massive deal. But that is
Speaker 1: some straight cash homie for running back in an era
Speaker 1: where running backs don't get paid. That's some crazy scratch
Speaker 1: sixteen million for a guy who Greg stat from our
Speaker 1: stats department had the fewest yards per touch of any
Speaker 1: running back with two fifty touches last year. Doesn't look
Speaker 1: like he's about to be to hit another prime in
Speaker 1: his career. I don't know. I would. It seems like
Speaker 1: a crazy amount of money to pay a running back.
Speaker 1: What's the best case scenario that he's he's awesome for
Speaker 1: another year, maybe maybe two, he kind of goes back
Speaker 1: to the two thousand and thirteen level and then he's
Speaker 1: in the climb. But I guess maybe seven years old
Speaker 1: right now, he could have three four happen two years
Speaker 1: younger than Mariece Jones. Drew has a Frank Gore career.
Speaker 1: That would be the five years younger than you know,
Speaker 1: Frank Gore four or five things with running Actually just
Speaker 1: never know, right, it's a crazy if they paid a
Speaker 1: buffalo tax, that's what it was. That was the word
Speaker 1: buffalo and we players don't want to come here and
Speaker 1: we're gonna just give you extra money for that. It's
Speaker 1: a little crazy. I mean, that is what I've been
Speaker 1: to Western New York, by the way, lovely, lovely. I like,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, but I see what you're saying. I've actually
Speaker 1: never been to. It seemed a little it seems a
Speaker 1: little desperate. With that said, he gets twenty six million guaranteed.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if that's just basically his first
Speaker 1: three years. So he's guaranteed there the next three years,
Speaker 1: and no other team would have done that. Though it
Speaker 1: is a little crazy. They're another another deal for the Bills.
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes agreed that they spent a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes agrees to a five year deal worth at
Speaker 1: least forty five million according to rap Sheet, twenty million
Speaker 1: and guarantees. Uh, Chris Westling, your thoughts on Jerry Hughes.
Speaker 1: This is a signing that they needed to make. I
Speaker 1: don't think they needed to make it. I think that
Speaker 1: Mario Williams is one of the best pass on fire.
Speaker 1: This is a good deal. This is like I like
Speaker 1: Greg Juice the word buffalo tax. You're us isn't worth
Speaker 1: twenty million guaranteed, but he's gonna get I'd rather have
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham for fourteen million. This is a good Rex
Speaker 1: Ryan type of player to build your defense around. Though,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you say I like I like to build my
Speaker 1: defense around us. But I get well, no, but he's
Speaker 1: a good piece for we'll be able to unleash. When
Speaker 1: we're evaluating the money, we kind of gotta wait to
Speaker 1: see the deal, the details. I mean, Hughes was a
Speaker 1: great part of a defensive line that's I said all
Speaker 1: year was the best in the League's I like keeping
Speaker 1: your strength, like building strength on strength, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a scary group for a while. It's less than
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin made. It's not that great. I give the
Speaker 1: rest of the a f c's credit. This is the
Speaker 1: Patriots effect of wanting to finally have someone else win
Speaker 1: that division. These teams are throwing some dough around this offseason.
Speaker 1: But and to your point, as long as we won't
Speaker 1: be able to throw the ball, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Jets until they figure out the
Speaker 1: quarterback problems and then we figure out what what Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill is still waiting on that. Greg's boy, Well, he's
Speaker 1: coming off a very nice year. They're letting him run
Speaker 1: the personnel department there too. By the way, I tweeted
Speaker 1: yesterday and I stand by it. After this six moved
Speaker 1: Mike Tannebaum, former Jets GM. Now. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the Hicksters deal is in Miami, but it seems like
Speaker 1: potentially Mr t is pulling the strings. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't know where the ride's going when Tannebaum's running the show.
Speaker 1: But it's fun. It's an adventure when he's there. I mean,
Speaker 1: far have you got Farve? He got Tebow? Santonio Holmes
Speaker 1: pluck Plexico out of prison, now he gets sued is
Speaker 1: operating as a short order cook in the Dolphin's cafeteria.
Speaker 1: The last I heard of the I like that Tebow adventure,
Speaker 1: did you know? I don't like it, but it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's exciting in the moment, and then sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, and then it brought your whole franchise
Speaker 1: down for a couple of years. Other than that, all right,
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Jets, one more note or a former
Speaker 1: Jet Chris Johnson. This was bomber news that came out
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. UH was out in Orlando after four AM
Speaker 1: and UH involved in a drive by a shooting in
Speaker 1: which he gets shot in the shoulder. Another man at
Speaker 1: the driver gets shot to death. Another guy gets shot
Speaker 1: in the car. So he was in the hospital Johnson
Speaker 1: with the injury released, I believe Monday is it doesn't
Speaker 1: need any surgeries. The recovery is a positive outlook. It
Speaker 1: seems like he's gonna be okay. Uh so, free agent
Speaker 1: running back involved in some and I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on with Chris Johnson because last month they got
Speaker 1: arrested in Orlando for having two cars and the two
Speaker 1: guns in his car and now he's involved in a
Speaker 1: in a a shooting incident, uh form an orderly Q
Speaker 1: interested teams And I was gonna say, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: to bring him into free agency is maybe a little weird.
Speaker 1: But at the same time for a guy that's been
Speaker 1: in decline on the field and you know, going down
Speaker 1: this road off the field, I don't know, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be very hot market, I would imagine for Chris Johnson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw that. I saw this news and you know,
Speaker 1: immediately there it was reported he's okay, the driver passed away.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the other things I thought,
Speaker 1: because of what we do, is yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: is probably or possibly the end of his career too.
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of expected at the end of
Speaker 1: his here anyways, this right, I mean it seems like
Speaker 1: that could have come without this event one way or
Speaker 1: the other. Next topic, Yeah, I think it's a good
Speaker 1: point to move on. Let's move on now to the
Speaker 1: ANFC South uh and we'll start with the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: A lot cooking with them. Andre Johnson, first of all,
Speaker 1: officially released, we're all over this. I think we had
Speaker 1: three posts up in a matter of an hour on
Speaker 1: the around the NFL sparks. Should people if you're if
Speaker 1: you're listening to our podcast, and we love you as listeners,
Speaker 1: but if you really want to be plugged in, you
Speaker 1: gotta be reading the content on the on the site.
Speaker 1: Because none of us are considered great orders yet with
Speaker 1: the pen very mighty Pulzer winners, all of us don't
Speaker 1: look that up. But we all do all this shut
Speaker 1: up TD, we do all this writing on it. And
Speaker 1: we talked about the Houston Texans and Andre Johnson and West.
Speaker 1: I think you wrote the landing spots, potential landing spots.
Speaker 1: You did not who wrote that that? I write the
Speaker 1: potential landing spots. Doing a lot of writing lately. Let's
Speaker 1: and may God have mercy on your soul. You did
Speaker 1: a good job with it. I do have some feelings
Speaker 1: on this. Okay, Well, whatever I wrote, which I assume
Speaker 1: was a home run, yep, there it is. Uh you
Speaker 1: wrote it last week in fairness. Yeah, so there are
Speaker 1: there are teams that would make sense. I have Seattle,
Speaker 1: New England, Indy, San Diego, Denver, all all these places
Speaker 1: could use Andre Johnson, even in some level of decline.
Speaker 1: But West, I'll throw it to you now after you,
Speaker 1: uh you know, read my piece closely. Imagine I want
Speaker 1: to stomp all over your piece. But I see that
Speaker 1: I see him connected to Seattle the most, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a porfeit. I think what they need and
Speaker 1: if you watch their games from last year in my notes,
Speaker 1: every single game in my notes, their number one weaknesses.
Speaker 1: They need a red zone receiver, a big body guy
Speaker 1: to fight for the ball. They don't have that. Andre
Speaker 1: Johnson's strength has never been red zone guy. He's a
Speaker 1: big bodied guy, never had ten touchdowns, and he's never
Speaker 1: been like a big leaper. He doesn't get that physical
Speaker 1: in the end zone. It's to me that's not what
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. And I think he fits well with the
Speaker 1: Colts as the replacement for Reggie Wayne Pete Carroll does
Speaker 1: have some history of going after these veterans to give
Speaker 1: him a shot. He did that with t O, there
Speaker 1: were others down in the past, I mean, and they
Speaker 1: didn't play out. Yeah, it's not a red zone threat.
Speaker 1: But what if they found someone like that in the
Speaker 1: draft and put Andre Johnson into the mix. I think
Speaker 1: part of the motivation with Andre Johnson, if if it's
Speaker 1: actually true versus just he wants more money, is he
Speaker 1: wants to go to a contender, right, we hear that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're creating that on our own,
Speaker 1: but it's like Seattle is an absolute hotspot. You know
Speaker 1: what you know what his motivation should be is the
Speaker 1: fact you just compared him to Seattle era Terrell Owens.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an insult. Well, I wasn't aiming to
Speaker 1: insult him, just to say that Pete Carroll has a
Speaker 1: history of bringing those old I think. I think the
Speaker 1: assumption that's been made by a lot of people and
Speaker 1: including myself, that he wants to sign with the contender
Speaker 1: is based on some of his belly in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years with with Houston was because he felt
Speaker 1: like they weren't going in the right direction as a franchise,
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's come out and said anything.
Speaker 1: We're just assuming. What did you want to go to
Speaker 1: a good team? Why would you go to a crappy
Speaker 1: team at this stage in your career should feel too.
Speaker 1: I like your two options. That's gonna be really good
Speaker 1: this year, West mark my words, wait till you do
Speaker 1: sandwich propositions in August. You gotta got me all. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get you round up. You already got me.
Speaker 1: I like that you're so bit I mean, it didn't
Speaker 1: take you long to flush that Jet season off your mind.
Speaker 1: You're you're ready's ready to go. I admire that. I
Speaker 1: like your pick of the Broncos. By the way, I
Speaker 1: don't even remember writing. I could see that. I could
Speaker 1: see the Broncos. Well, you don't have a whole career
Speaker 1: with Gary Kubiak, right, and he was with Kubiak. I
Speaker 1: could see the Broncos still investing wide receiver. Absolutely. Also
Speaker 1: in Houston News, Thad Lewis was just released, so just
Speaker 1: you know, FAD's on the market, so everyone knows. Also,
Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett uh Is is going to be back with
Speaker 1: the Texans, as we all expected after the com bind
Speaker 1: where the Houston brain trust was just like falling over
Speaker 1: themselves over Ryan Mallett, the greatest quarterback of all time.
Speaker 1: He signed a two year deal worth seven millions to
Speaker 1: stay in Houston. And then you also Brian Hoyer. We're
Speaker 1: getting a report from Albert Brier that, uh, the great
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer will also be signing with Houston. Uh so
Speaker 1: it seems like they are moving forward. Ryan Mallett, little
Speaker 1: Cleveland Springsteen in the mix too is a backup and
Speaker 1: they're moving forward. Your thoughts, it's like a Mike Lombardi
Speaker 1: fever dream, because Lombardi spent years in Cleveland or months
Speaker 1: whatever trying to get Ryan Mallett into the mix, and
Speaker 1: he went and got Brian Hoyer. That's the only reason
Speaker 1: they ever had Brian Hoyer, and now they're both in Houston.
Speaker 1: I still don't I'm not convinced they Hoyer could still
Speaker 1: end up elsewhere. But our boy Brier is reporting that
Speaker 1: it's done well. It sounds like the Jets right down
Speaker 1: to the end. The New York has showed some interesting
Speaker 1: You can't give up on Brian Hoyer. I like the
Speaker 1: first edition of this competition when they were competing for
Speaker 1: a backup job in New England now they're competing for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is something distaste if you were a Texans fan
Speaker 1: about this, that you're getting rid of Andre Johnson on
Speaker 1: the same day that you're signing Hoyer and Mallett to
Speaker 1: compete for a starting quarterback down It's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know about renewing the season tickets, honey, you know that one? Well,
Speaker 1: what's out there? I mean, I know, But at the saying,
Speaker 1: imagine imagine if the Browns did this, if they just
Speaker 1: you know, imagine if they just cut like the best
Speaker 1: guy that they've had in the last fifteen years and
Speaker 1: the same day they're signing a Hoyer and it's well,
Speaker 1: how about do that and just go Josh McCown. Disastrous.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, there's all this oversold business
Speaker 1: about o'hoyer in Mallet, no Bill O'Brien system, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna make a tangent. It's still Hoyer and Mallet I
Speaker 1: agreed to, right, and it's still Bill Bill O'Brien system.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give him the Chip Kelly or
Speaker 1: anything else that Bill O'Brien setting the entire world on fire.
Speaker 1: Are we ready to talk about the Eagles for like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes straight, love it or love it or hated.
Speaker 1: That's what we gotta do because there's so much stuff
Speaker 1: going on with the genius Chip Kelly, who is infallible
Speaker 1: we know, and every movie he's gonna do here is
Speaker 1: gonna work out perfectly. Let's start going down the line,
Speaker 1: starting with Jeremy Macklin, who I personally, I thought and
Speaker 1: wrote several posts, uh in the last month or so,
Speaker 1: and it always seemed to me like he was gonna
Speaker 1: end up staying with the Eagles. But it's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen that way. Raps Here reports that Macklin plans to
Speaker 1: head to the Chiefs on Tuesday to sign with Kansas City,
Speaker 1: according to a source of formed of his thinking, informed
Speaker 1: of his thinking. Uh, this comes after talks between Macklin
Speaker 1: and the Eagles broke down. Uh, So we'll start there.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Macklin leaving the Eagles for the Chiefs and West.
Speaker 1: You're shaking your head. Well, I you wrote all these
Speaker 1: articles saying it made sense to stay in Philly. I
Speaker 1: wrote a bunch of articles saying he would end up
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. But when it came time for sandwiches
Speaker 1: to be involved. I didn't throw it out there, so
Speaker 1: you should have had me on the host took a
Speaker 1: shot at Dan, but then admitted you didn't take advantage
Speaker 1: of it. I wrote it a few times. I put
Speaker 1: it in our on our online content, but was not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I got West can disagree with like
Speaker 1: my football takes. He is the scientists, but he just
Speaker 1: can't laugh me for for the Eagles fan hot take,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to our old producer k Rich not
Speaker 1: in the studio with us, but I will quote her
Speaker 1: Twitter account. I period cannot period stand period Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: period hashtag I want my Eagles back. It's funny because
Speaker 1: emoticon angry alien and then that's true and on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Uh he I mean she's upset. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: Eagles fans upset with the people leaving. I think she's
Speaker 1: feeling some ambivalent hope for the team. And I think
Speaker 1: if you go to to Philadelphia, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: that's a first first ambivalent hope pop culture. I just
Speaker 1: meshed it right in there. We can stop the entire
Speaker 1: show to you know, judge it and find out if
Speaker 1: you like that or not. Let's keep going. But listen,
Speaker 1: if you're an Eagles fan, they're very I think they
Speaker 1: have a right to be angry. I mean, because yes,
Speaker 1: we have to wait and see what happens with Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly's multiple decisions here. That stripped a lot of starts
Speaker 1: and star power under the roster. But what are you
Speaker 1: filling these holes with? That's the question. I mean, Maclin
Speaker 1: for months and months it sound like he was gonna
Speaker 1: come back. Your wide receiver position isn't shambles right now.
Speaker 1: Still you still got your boy, though big country music
Speaker 1: fan likes to get to as many concerts as possible.
Speaker 1: Riley Cooper, I like him as a third option in
Speaker 1: Matthews and Josh. I think you can call Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: egotistical or whatever for some of the decisions, or even gutsy,
Speaker 1: But I don't think failing to pay Jeremy Macklin more
Speaker 1: than ten million dollars a year is in any way
Speaker 1: gutsy or like egotistical. It's a little crazy to pay
Speaker 1: Jeremy Macklin that much money. That's what we're expecting it
Speaker 1: to be, more than Randall Comy. What we've seen from
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly, he's unwilling to overpay for offensive players to
Speaker 1: Sean Jackson, Jeremy Macklin, Lashawn McCoy, but he's willing to
Speaker 1: overpay for defensive backs because that's what he thinks he
Speaker 1: can develop. Offensive players don't fit his sister well. In
Speaker 1: Macklin's case, he has proof. Jeremy Macklin had this was
Speaker 1: his sixth season in the NFL. He never had a
Speaker 1: thousand yards before Chip Kelly, right, and he's not a
Speaker 1: real number one receiver, right, So we're talking about someone
Speaker 1: who's getting paid to be It's just that you've Lashaw
Speaker 1: McCoy has gone to Sean jacks and Macklin, and it's
Speaker 1: the accumulation of all of this talent leaving not whether
Speaker 1: we can sit around and say, oh, yes, it wasn't
Speaker 1: right to pay Macklin X amount of dollars and that,
Speaker 1: and that's logical, But to the to the Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: you're number one, thousands of jerseys across the city are
Speaker 1: now rendered utterly meaningless. And it's players that are playing
Speaker 1: in other cities, which again doesn't matter to us, but
Speaker 1: for the people in that city, you're you're wondering what
Speaker 1: it is that kind of message for the Macklin Jersey
Speaker 1: owners think about Jersey do better. At no point, At
Speaker 1: no point was Maclin ever a good idea to buy
Speaker 1: that Jersey West. There was always better option. You um
Speaker 1: said that you thought on some level, Macklin's a kind
Speaker 1: of a scheme player going and reuniting with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: Will he be good in Kansas City? Will be good?
Speaker 1: But he's being paid to be great, and he's when
Speaker 1: I say a number one receivers the chains stays healthy
Speaker 1: and it's a threat in the red zone. He doesn't
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and he's not a great red zone threat.
Speaker 1: He's not that physical, he's not that fast. He doesn't
Speaker 1: box out in the end zone. He's pretty fast. He's
Speaker 1: I feel like he got something after he came back
Speaker 1: from a c L. Serge was even faster. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm actually volunteering to have my a c LS replaced
Speaker 1: later this year, just because these guys come back so well.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Bowl also we assume now history in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: If that happens, what kind of market do you think
Speaker 1: he has. It's a long way away from fifteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Similar to the same market, the same market that Michael
Speaker 1: Crabtree has formally good wide receivers who don't make plays anymore,
Speaker 1: and there's a locker room, you know, potential nightmare. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm crazy. I still think that Crabtree has a chance
Speaker 1: to have a nice long stretch of his career where
Speaker 1: he's a difference maker. I don't think. But outside of
Speaker 1: an eight game stretch to close out the two thousand
Speaker 1: twelve season, what has he ever done? Alright, We've got
Speaker 1: a lot of news to I mean, he's only had
Speaker 1: one stretch in his career that's been a yeah, great
Speaker 1: hole that with the Sanders as his agent or whatever. Alright,
Speaker 1: more Eagles news, this time a player coming to the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Looks like Frank Gore is going to be the new
Speaker 1: number one running back in Philadelphia. Frank Gore, that is
Speaker 1: Greg's boy. The inconvenient truth, uh Bert Breer reporting that
Speaker 1: uh contract which again nothing is official, because this is
Speaker 1: all supposed to be, you know, just the talking period,
Speaker 1: but a contract that will guarantee the thirty one year
Speaker 1: old running back seven and a half million over the
Speaker 1: first two years. It's a three year deal overall. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I'll start with you, Greg, because it is your boy,
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, Number one, are you surprised he didn't last
Speaker 1: his entire career in San Francisco? And number two, will
Speaker 1: you still have something in the tank for this Eagles team? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised about the forty nine because, as West
Speaker 1: wrote on the page today, Yeah, the forty niners are
Speaker 1: saying goodbye to every time that's ever made a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl or done anything for them, all their best players. Ever,
Speaker 1: they don't want them on the team anymore. What a
Speaker 1: it for Frank Gore? I mean, if you wanted Frank
Speaker 1: Gore to make the Hall of Fame someday, like I do,
Speaker 1: you could not have picked a better team than the
Speaker 1: Eagles to rack up some stats at the end of
Speaker 1: his career. I love it well and for all of
Speaker 1: the we heard when they traded McCoy, that was McCoy
Speaker 1: ran east to west and danced too much. If you
Speaker 1: want a north south runner with who's patient and hits
Speaker 1: the whole, Frank Gore's the definition of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's averaged more yards per year since he was twenty seven,
Speaker 1: then I think since he was twenty eight, since for
Speaker 1: the five years before that, so he hasn't really shown
Speaker 1: much aging. And I don't think he's gonna get the
Speaker 1: ball three under times. You know they're gonna give it
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowls. Theyll probably draft someone too, you know they'll
Speaker 1: they'll split it up. Chip Kelly has found a little
Speaker 1: portion of the market here that he can exploit. Older
Speaker 1: running backs Darren Sprowls and Frank Gore both undervalued and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a good tag team this year, both
Speaker 1: thirty two years old, so that you don't see that
Speaker 1: too often. Thunder will definitely draft someone. Yeah. Uh more
Speaker 1: Philly News. Mark Sanchez has surveyed the market and said
Speaker 1: this sucks. I'm not going to Tennessee. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: And he re ups with the Philadelphia Philly Oh, that's
Speaker 1: freaking news. Mark Sanchez now a baseball player. Uh, that
Speaker 1: was stupid. Uh. He's with the Eagles. It's a two
Speaker 1: year deal, five and a half million guaranteed, could make
Speaker 1: up to sixteen million if he hits all those incentives
Speaker 1: according to rap Sheet, So pretty good backup money for
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez. And but the only thing I'm curious about
Speaker 1: with him is that this is a to me still
Speaker 1: a position of unrest in Philadelphia because you have folds
Speaker 1: in the mix. You have Sanchez now under contract again,
Speaker 1: and you have Marcus Mariota hanging over everything. Mark Sessler. Well,
Speaker 1: NFL Media's Gil Brandt says he knows who Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: going to take in the first round, and it is
Speaker 1: not Marcus Mariotta. Well, we that was not revealed to us.
Speaker 1: So I guess when that happens, you can just say listen,
Speaker 1: I already I was gonna tell you this song. We
Speaker 1: have Gil's phone number, we let him up. T do
Speaker 1: you get on that. I'm not convinced that Nick Foles
Speaker 1: will be on this roster come week one. I we
Speaker 1: keep hearing little whispers about potential teams interested in him.
Speaker 1: He could maybe be up for trade if if the
Speaker 1: right offer came along. I just I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is I don't think Sanche is the answer, but
Speaker 1: it's insurance for what else might happen at the position.
Speaker 1: He's not the answer. But after five starts with the
Speaker 1: Eagles and Chip Kelly's offense, it was him luck Brady
Speaker 1: Rogers manning the only quarterbacks overseeing an offense averaging three
Speaker 1: fifty yards per game. So Chip Kelling knows that worst
Speaker 1: case scenario, he stays his offense can still move the
Speaker 1: chains with I think I think the Sanchez Eagles experiment
Speaker 1: started to tail off a little bit as the weeks
Speaker 1: crept on. I mean it was he was a very
Speaker 1: hot starter. Yeah. I gave rap Sheets some grief for
Speaker 1: saying on Twitter, noting on Twitter that Sanche's had a
Speaker 1: career low and interceptions well the only played rights. You
Speaker 1: know what's funny about Sanchez. I was like, yeah, eleven,
Speaker 1: that's too many picks, But the rest of the stats
Speaker 1: are pretty good through were that Chad's is completion percentages
Speaker 1: like almost, so yeah, that's pretty good for him. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think Foles now is a peace to trade to
Speaker 1: your Jets to go get Marcus Mariota doesn't make a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. And Tennessee at number two though sure.
Speaker 1: Uh More Eagles news Byron Matt This is my favorite
Speaker 1: quote of of of Sunday or the weekend, because you know,
Speaker 1: nothing's supposed to be official right now. They're just some
Speaker 1: talking exchanging ideas. Thoughts. Are you interested in me? Am
Speaker 1: I interested in you? Byron Maxwell quote to ESPN, I'm
Speaker 1: going to Philly cornerback. Uh is signing with the Eagles,
Speaker 1: leaving the legion of boom where he's obviously found success
Speaker 1: playing with some all pro type players, and now he's
Speaker 1: being asked in the type of money. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we have any money figures out there yet right
Speaker 1: now on Maxwell, but we imagine for the type of
Speaker 1: money that a star cornerback gets paid. Greg, are the
Speaker 1: Eagles uh buying at a premium for a guy that
Speaker 1: maybe doesn't deserve that type of They probably are. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like Maxwell and Seattle, but you're right. The money
Speaker 1: report so far is twenty five million guaranteed. Maxwell was
Speaker 1: my pick for the most guaranteed money other than Sue.
Speaker 1: That was one of our propositions. And I saw that
Speaker 1: twenty five million, and I thought, oh, that might wouldn't
Speaker 1: be some sandwiches. I don't know if an he's going
Speaker 1: to top that, but Devin mccordy has, and I think
Speaker 1: now none of us are getting sandwiches. Screw you. I
Speaker 1: always wonder how big of a factor is it when
Speaker 1: a player has the best game of his career against
Speaker 1: that team. Best's best game Byron Maxwell ever played was
Speaker 1: against Seattle when the Sea or against Philadelphia when the
Speaker 1: Seahawks shut down the Eagles offense late in the season,
Speaker 1: and Maxwell was all over the field. I guess Chip.
Speaker 1: I think it matters to Chip Kelly because when they
Speaker 1: talk about why they drafted zach Ertz, for instance, it
Speaker 1: was because of the impression at Stanford he left twy
Speaker 1: Fried Oregon. So certain coaches probably if you can beat me,
Speaker 1: you can take me on. Maybe that has more weight
Speaker 1: if that's the only thing that's that's one of the
Speaker 1: concerning things of having your head coach run your personnel department.
Speaker 1: And look, this is that is a lot of money
Speaker 1: for Byron Maxwell. I mean, who knows, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would rather pay Durrell Revas whatever he's gonna cost,
Speaker 1: even if it's seventeen million dollars, then whatever maxw was making.
Speaker 1: Moving on Randall Cobb, who I think was my UH
Speaker 1: pick for the most guaranteed money, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But UH, cooler heads did prevail. He's going back. Was it? Okay?
Speaker 1: So I'm still still Uh Randall comes staying with the
Speaker 1: with the Packers in a four year, forty million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: Uh in a case in Wes you you were stumping
Speaker 1: for this to be the reality? Uh? Last week on
Speaker 1: the podcast, everything makes sense. He gets paid what seems
Speaker 1: like fair money for a guy at his level, seventeen
Speaker 1: million guaranteed according to rap sheet uh West. Everything worked
Speaker 1: out here. Yeah. I had a lot of debates with
Speaker 1: the crowd on Twitter that uh there's a there's a
Speaker 1: group of people where there's a mindset that believes that
Speaker 1: money is the only thing that matters in life. And
Speaker 1: I always think that happiness should be first. Money can
Speaker 1: be a big part of happiness. Well being should be first.
Speaker 1: It always made the most sense for Randall Cobb to
Speaker 1: stay in Green Bay. You know, to get four forty
Speaker 1: million verses forty five million. Take the forty, Stay with
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks, Stay with the coaches they have to
Speaker 1: knows how to use you. Stay with the front office
Speaker 1: to value you as a human being, and go compute
Speaker 1: for Super Bowls every year. Then when you're twenty eight,
Speaker 1: hit the market again and cash in as the best
Speaker 1: slot receiver in the game. He might end up in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame as the best slot receiver in history.
Speaker 1: Well with that quarterback, if he's playing alongside Rogers, that's
Speaker 1: what helps it. I get concerned about on these free agents.
Speaker 1: They come from the Green Bay offense, or like Julius
Speaker 1: Thomas with Denver and they go to a three win
Speaker 1: team with questions at quarterback and you never hear about
Speaker 1: him again. Talking about Greg Jennings, well there's that example,
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna happen to Julius Thommys Jones.
Speaker 1: He on Branch to me is the most similar to
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb went and chase the money in Seattle. Never
Speaker 1: heard from him again. Patriots get him back when he's
Speaker 1: broken as a player, and he never does anything again.
Speaker 1: How awesome if you're a Packers fan to know that
Speaker 1: you have Randall Cobb, Jordy Nelson, and Aaron Rodgers through
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen together and they can put up numbers
Speaker 1: better than the Colts triplets. By the way, going back too,
Speaker 1: you've had at any given time one of the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks ever running your team, and you've had all the
Speaker 1: weapons around them. So but that's crime a river vane continuity.
Speaker 1: Who what other situation is even similar to that? Why
Speaker 1: so I agree with Packers fans don't seem like they
Speaker 1: complain ever to me, But you're always they have nothing
Speaker 1: to complain. What are they gonna come complain? Me about
Speaker 1: What's what are they possibly upset about? Here's what they
Speaker 1: can complain about if they don't get a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: another title for Rodgers here during this Cobb contract, with
Speaker 1: all of them staying together, that'd be a disappointment. They
Speaker 1: wonderful fan base. They don't have a lot to you know,
Speaker 1: moan about. Please before we move on to the next subject,
Speaker 1: wes anything else to say about the money and happiness
Speaker 1: dichotomy of life? I think I said it. I do
Speaker 1: think that. Well. I mean, you're playing this up a
Speaker 1: little too much, but I do believe I've turned down
Speaker 1: money a couple of times in my life for happiness,
Speaker 1: and I don't think i'd be where I am right
Speaker 1: now if I didn't do that. I think that well
Speaker 1: being is more important than money. But then again, I'm
Speaker 1: also broke as a joke, so but not broken as
Speaker 1: a man. You're a happy guy overall. Yeah, I'm pretty happy,
Speaker 1: all right. And to keep you happy, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about some mark Ingram. Your boy the Saints and and
Speaker 1: mark Ingram the running Back agree to a four year,
Speaker 1: sixteen million dollar deal. According to rap sheet uh and
Speaker 1: this again goes back to you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: it all the time, you know, leading up to free agency. Oh,
Speaker 1: this team, there's no way they can sign anybody. The
Speaker 1: Saints were six trillion dollars over the salary cap. Up here,
Speaker 1: we got sixteen million dollar deal for mark Ingram. Uh So,
Speaker 1: I guess they did have some money and they figured
Speaker 1: out a way to get under the cap. Uh West
Speaker 1: mark Ingram staying with the Saints. You think that's a
Speaker 1: wise move for his career. Yeah, I do. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good fit for both sides. I I honestly
Speaker 1: believe Ingram could have made more money on the open market.
Speaker 1: But um, I think he he had said a month
Speaker 1: ago he'd prefer to stay with the Saints. That's where
Speaker 1: he's gonna be. And I think the Saints realized last
Speaker 1: year how important he is to their offense. He's a
Speaker 1: good example of someone that a year ago when we
Speaker 1: when Greg and I went to the owners meetings, basically
Speaker 1: was we're not going to go fifth year option with
Speaker 1: this guy, and we're gonna challenge him to even prove
Speaker 1: that he deserves to be on this roster. In one season,
Speaker 1: he changed the organization's mind completely and made a lot
Speaker 1: of money for himself been a few of those. Kareem Jackson,
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, and Ingram all got second contracts, big ones
Speaker 1: from their teams. West is smiling over there. I mean
Speaker 1: they would have been called bus a couple of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I asked you. Does that mean you're gonna buy
Speaker 1: stock in Trent richardson this? That's right? That guy have
Speaker 1: no memory anymore. Yeah, well, I do agree with that mindset.
Speaker 1: In the NFL, you can't write off first round guys
Speaker 1: who don't live up the expectations right away. You know
Speaker 1: they're talented. Could be a scheme fit. The Saints switched
Speaker 1: to a Mark was talking about this. They switched to
Speaker 1: his own blocking scheme last year and at Ingram perfectly.
Speaker 1: And then they got rid of Pierre, which we have
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to mention in the show.
Speaker 1: We just gotta say poor went out for Pierre Thomas,
Speaker 1: one of the all time New Orleans Saints. We're gonna
Speaker 1: miss you, best screen pass back of his generation. I
Speaker 1: get chills thinking about him. Let's move on to the
Speaker 1: NFC West finally, Uh, Patrick willis this uh listen structure
Speaker 1: of the show. I'm responsible for it, and maybe this
Speaker 1: should have been higher. I'm gonna say it right now.
Speaker 1: How was that? How was this what we're doing it?
Speaker 1: In order divisions whatever? Whatever? And the email I was
Speaker 1: cc on his Mark pointed out, how was this this low?
Speaker 1: Do you mean the email that you could have replied
Speaker 1: to him? Maybe you get out of the carbon copy
Speaker 1: and if you can. Hey, you've ever watched a TV show,
Speaker 1: They always always they just put the best twenty minutes
Speaker 1: up first. No, you save something big for the end.
Speaker 1: So Patrick Willis, who has been one of the best
Speaker 1: middle linebackers in the NFL of his of his era.
Speaker 1: In eight years, this guy went to the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: seven times, five team, five first team All Pro. This
Speaker 1: is Hall of Fame type production. Uh, thirty years old.
Speaker 1: He's out, He's retiring. He's It's been reported first by
Speaker 1: Yeah Who's Sports and then rap sheet confirmed it. He's
Speaker 1: gonna announce his retirement. He's been He missed the end
Speaker 1: of last year with a toe injury. Apparently has some
Speaker 1: stuff outside the sport that he wants to get interested in.
Speaker 1: So Patrick Willis, and one of the more stunning news
Speaker 1: elements of the off season so far, walks away from
Speaker 1: the game at age thirty mark. But you gotta feel
Speaker 1: for Jim tom Seula because just a month ago he
Speaker 1: had Willis. He was at the combine, you know, spinning
Speaker 1: his words around in various ways to say that Justin
Speaker 1: Smith might be back sudden. He's called Frank Gore his
Speaker 1: type of player. He just loved Frank Gore. He wanted
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree back. All four of these guys probably not
Speaker 1: going to be with the team next year. And it's
Speaker 1: not what it's it's reverse recruiting. I mean, you're losing
Speaker 1: so many starts and talent right out the door. It's
Speaker 1: gonna this team potentially just sits at the bottom of
Speaker 1: this division next year. Justin Smith said he's not a dent.
Speaker 1: Sure he's going to retire, but most people expect him to.
Speaker 1: Gor Crabtree, you, Potty mob Brooks, Stevie Johnson, Chris Culiver,
Speaker 1: Parish Cox, the whole list. They could all be gone.
Speaker 1: Twenty one Pro Bowls in eight, fifty NFL starts could
Speaker 1: be walking out the door for the San Francisco forty niners.
Speaker 1: Doesn't bode well for Jim tom sola Era. And you know,
Speaker 1: Jed York decided that Trent Bulky's player acquisition skills were
Speaker 1: more valuable than Jim Harball's coaching skills. We're gonna find
Speaker 1: out Jim Harbaw to me comes off like a demented
Speaker 1: genius getting out right when the ship's going down. He goes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna hanging out with co eds and and uh
Speaker 1: selling out a hundred and fifty thousand seats stadiums. Good
Speaker 1: spot for Jim Harbor. Jim tom Sewella not so much.
Speaker 1: And Greg had a interesting point on Patrick Wilson as
Speaker 1: far as the Hall of Fame discussions, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a weird story because on one hand, it's
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna hurt them on the field
Speaker 1: that much. Necessarily you have Navarra Bowman and Chris Borland.
Speaker 1: That's a great inside linebacker duo if Bowman is healthy.
Speaker 1: But it's a massive and of beel story if it
Speaker 1: dropped at a different time of year. Because Patrick Willis
Speaker 1: is a Hall of Fame candidate. I mean, how many
Speaker 1: other five time first team All Pros are not in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I'd love research to do that.
Speaker 1: I doubt, I doubt very many. So he was on
Speaker 1: track to make it to Canton. I think there's no
Speaker 1: doubt now that his career ends at thirty, it'll be
Speaker 1: a weird case. I kind of think he won't make it.
Speaker 1: He did the Jim Brown thing. I think Brown stepped
Speaker 1: away a thirty two, right, but obviously not at that
Speaker 1: level as a player, but you know, kind of in
Speaker 1: the ballpark for his position, a dominant guy, and and
Speaker 1: was among the best in his position from the time
Speaker 1: he stepped on the field. He's gonna be right on
Speaker 1: the border line. It wasn't like a defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year type of guy though, either. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was really comparisons to Jim Brown and Gayl Sayers, both
Speaker 1: who were revolutionary talents in the NFL. Now he wasn't
Speaker 1: that trick. Willis was not a revel. He was all pro,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, as good as you can, one
Speaker 1: of the two best at his position. But he wasn't
Speaker 1: a ray Lewis. Now it'll be it'll be a tough one.
Speaker 1: And ce TD, you're lucky you were even bringing it up.
Speaker 1: This guy. Come on, he wasn't even very little us.
Speaker 1: But what do you say? It was a year or
Speaker 1: two he was the premier middle lineback and to three
Speaker 1: years ago. I mean Bowman really passed him on his
Speaker 1: own team, and that was two years ago. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: three years was almost like he was supposed to take
Speaker 1: over from Ray Lewis, and then when he was supposed
Speaker 1: to take over, he got hurt and then Bowman started
Speaker 1: coming in. And I don't know I remember back. I
Speaker 1: think it was two thousand seven. I conducted an interview
Speaker 1: with Patrick Willis while he was playing Madden against Lawrence Moroney.
Speaker 1: How about that Lawrence moronioslo on that Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: fringe conversation. Don't like a nice guy? That's good? That
Speaker 1: sounds like an impact interview. I'm sure you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of good stuff out of Moroney. High. I think,
Speaker 1: what's super Bowl Week? So you'd hope do we want
Speaker 1: to get Do we want to give any credence to
Speaker 1: this rumor that Niners Jim Trent Balky shot down that
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick was being shot by the team. That's not possible, right,
Speaker 1: unless they're just going to fold the franchise. Doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense to me. I mean for what I mean then,
Speaker 1: I mean, unless you're gonna trade him for another quarterback,
Speaker 1: maybe some team called all about him. I mean the
Speaker 1: fact that it was just one random radio guys report.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised it kind of got to the national consciousness.
Speaker 1: But we should do that. We should just drop something
Speaker 1: and see if it takes off. I had no idea
Speaker 1: this was being talked about. I did a radio interview
Speaker 1: last night and a guy asked me. He said that
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer was going to San Francisco, and well, that
Speaker 1: was a threat to Kaepernick's job. And I almost west
Speaker 1: not the right guy to asked, said, Brian Hoyer is
Speaker 1: an NFL backup. He's not a threat to callin Kaepernick's job. Finally, this, uh,
Speaker 1: this broke I think before the weekend. But let's just
Speaker 1: touch on a quickly. Marshawn Lynch signs a two year
Speaker 1: extension with the Seattle Seahawks. Contract is worth four million
Speaker 1: of new money and pays thirty one million over the
Speaker 1: next three years. That's some real scratch for beast Mode.
Speaker 1: Who if you watched him in the playoffs, you know
Speaker 1: he's worth every penny. I mean, the one thing about
Speaker 1: Seattle that they had going for them a couple of
Speaker 1: seasons ago up till through last year was that their
Speaker 1: quarterback was playing on a rookie contract. Now you're paying
Speaker 1: Lynch this kind of money, and what we've heard at
Speaker 1: the combine, know what was gonna come Russell Wilson's way,
Speaker 1: which was within a neighbor of sixteen million guaranteed a year,
Speaker 1: potentially that they've completely changed the way they deal with things.
Speaker 1: Successes forced them to pay players in an outrageous manner.
Speaker 1: They they're confident that they can that Russell Wilson's number
Speaker 1: against the cap in his first year will be about
Speaker 1: seven million, which isn't which isn't bad compared to other
Speaker 1: high high end quarterbacks. I don't see any any other
Speaker 1: team's roster is stronger than Seattle. I mean, green Bay
Speaker 1: will be right there. But even with paying all these
Speaker 1: guys are still gonna be really good. Um. The most
Speaker 1: interesting thing here I thought was I think they guaranteed
Speaker 1: a money, significant money into the second year. So as
Speaker 1: long as Marshawn Lynch wants to play, this issue is
Speaker 1: put to bed. And it reminds me of you know,
Speaker 1: and we're guilty of this too. All season long, it
Speaker 1: was just assumed he was gone. I mean it was reported, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I know, but that just shows out changed their
Speaker 1: mind too. Yeah, Mark, would I take out of this?
Speaker 1: You should threaten to retire mm. I like that. Greg
Speaker 1: would give me very little resistance, and I'd be suddenly
Speaker 1: on monster dot com for like seven Come. I don't
Speaker 1: know that the last time I was looking hey before
Speaker 1: we uh so that those are like the lead headlines
Speaker 1: that we just went through. We're gonna do some quick hits,
Speaker 1: but I did before. I'll just let's take a little break,
Speaker 1: a little breathe the first of all, give herself a
Speaker 1: round of applause. A really great job on the news guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know Mark's not giving himself a round of applause.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like it. Very humble man. Who is the
Speaker 1: one that someone got a rare laugh out of tv
Speaker 1: TV during the show too? Yeah, I don't recall what
Speaker 1: it was that doesn't happen. We had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with what we do. He usually finds her show totally
Speaker 1: not amusing at all. Must have been right when the
Speaker 1: soccer game ended, all right, so let's do it. All right?
Speaker 1: So an update on our celebration music. Uh t D
Speaker 1: we're get We're retiring the following song. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: at the top of his list fight we need a
Speaker 1: new song just to celebrate the end of this one,
Speaker 1: all right, So my my entry was this is how
Speaker 1: we do It by Montell Jordan's right. Mark, by the way,
Speaker 1: a little fun think of the time element on Mantell.
Speaker 1: You mentioned on the podcast that it was blasting in
Speaker 1: high school dances for you. The song came out in
Speaker 1: like nineties six. I believe you would have been in
Speaker 1: college or ending your unless you were going to high
Speaker 1: school dances as a twenty three year old man. I
Speaker 1: was not, but I mean it sounds like a lot
Speaker 1: of songs are my dances. Listen. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what happened back then. So now it's time West and
Speaker 1: Mark both are gonna give up their submissions for their
Speaker 1: songs again. We could have multiple songs. We'll start with
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, who you mentioned it on the show, uh
Speaker 1: previous show, that this is a song that you wanted
Speaker 1: to play. We got it set up. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you you want to play it right now, let's
Speaker 1: play it. Let's play it. That's good, Let's let's do it.
Speaker 1: Some type of raise the roof. I like this song.
Speaker 1: This is great dance songs. Yeah, you were trying to
Speaker 1: make the case downstairs that it was the greatest song
Speaker 1: of all time in the history of music. Well that
Speaker 1: seems that well. I mean, I might be a little
Speaker 1: bit a little hyperbolic, but that's great. That's another great one.
Speaker 1: Who's the artist again, Rob Based and DJ Easy Rock.
Speaker 1: They they're on the French for the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: as well. Uh and now Mark Sessler also he had
Speaker 1: been in communication with TV, shaking his head. I'm really
Speaker 1: looking forward to this. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: None of us know. This is Mark's submission for a
Speaker 1: celebration song. I can tell you is that or flow.
Speaker 1: I can tell exactly what this is because my mother,
Speaker 1: uh Deb who's Irish American woman, loves Enya and and
Speaker 1: you played often in my dining room as a child.
Speaker 1: Is listen. I don't think I need to even put
Speaker 1: a hard sell on this. You guys are giving me
Speaker 1: a bunch of mid nineties, you know, David mid levels songs.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you an anthem that probably at any age
Speaker 1: in human history, could have made people feel something if
Speaker 1: since it's your song, we can definitely use it. I
Speaker 1: would say that next time West gets philosophical. We could
Speaker 1: also drop an Enya behind. Oh, it's very versatile. You
Speaker 1: could use it in multiple ways. It's like Brandon Graham.
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense too, because Mark doesn't
Speaker 1: like food and I feel like Enya is the type
Speaker 1: of musician for people who don't really like music they
Speaker 1: listened to. I don't think that was fair summary all right,
Speaker 1: I don't agree. They had their songs on. Let's let's
Speaker 1: just play my song, Let's do it, Snake Attack, you
Speaker 1: gotta top this one stop. I like Greg doing some
Speaker 1: production work behind the scenes. I like this development. It's
Speaker 1: solid thirst. You didn't play the words you gotta get today.
Speaker 1: If you would have, if you would have loot me
Speaker 1: and I would have told you got to give titty
Speaker 1: a little more. No, I didn't. I didn't know about it.
Speaker 1: He again, according to the FCC, who are we are
Speaker 1: not governed by? Are we? Get the f up? Far Amans.
Speaker 1: You can look it up on YouTube. That's a great
Speaker 1: song too, exampled by our supervisor. I mean, that's gonna
Speaker 1: get you excited. So those are our celebration um submissions
Speaker 1: and t D if you could just work them all
Speaker 1: in potentially, just keep them on the board. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know it'll be good. There's a limited space here, you guys.
Speaker 1: You know we don't have you know, we don't have
Speaker 1: the whole world. Just I feel like I didn't even
Speaker 1: get a fair shot there. I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: bleep it out and you use the words next time.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you don't have anything to apologize for, Greg.
Speaker 1: That's good stuff. All right. Finally, let's go through some
Speaker 1: quick hits. We're gonna do this quickly. Uh. In fact, Titty,
Speaker 1: let's lay under some some zany like, you know, fast
Speaker 1: moving type music as we go through these. Uh. And
Speaker 1: let's start Farney Hill. Yes, what's is that? What Benny Hill?
Speaker 1: Let's get some Benny Hill music man, Uh, Area Britain.
Speaker 1: We'll start with Todd Harriman's who signs a deal with
Speaker 1: the Cults released by the Eagles. One comment each on
Speaker 1: the on these gentlemen, uh, added now to the cult's
Speaker 1: offensive line. Will start with you, Chris Westlan. Todd Harriman's
Speaker 1: makes a lot of Santa cold meat, colts meeat guards. Alright,
Speaker 1: great Twitter account? I wait one each. Well that's okay,
Speaker 1: Well that could use a little more heat. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Jets have re signed David Harrison the three year, twenty
Speaker 1: one and a half million dollar deal, including fifteen million guaranteed.
Speaker 1: I think it was a good move. Overpaid a little
Speaker 1: bit for a guy on the wrong side of thirty. However,
Speaker 1: Uh keeps him out of Rex Ryan's neighbor I think
Speaker 1: I think that was part of the a FC East war,
Speaker 1: that you're gonna overpay Harris because you don't want Rex Togeta.
Speaker 1: They're all about over paying for players that around three
Speaker 1: years ago, we're peaking, alright, good job, your team is
Speaker 1: horrible Forever. Mark Brandon Flowers is staying with the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Are boy Brandon Flowers who came into the studio and
Speaker 1: seemed confident of a deal getting done with the Charges.
Speaker 1: He does get a four year deal. Also, Orlando Franklin
Speaker 1: leaving the Broncos were told we're hearing to go to
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Helps them out interior alignment that they desperately need.
Speaker 1: So they're they're making some smart moves right now. Mark Uh.
Speaker 1: Mike McCoy knows Franklin very well from their time together
Speaker 1: in Denver and good Fit. I mean, it just shows
Speaker 1: you show up on the podcast, you get paid, you
Speaker 1: get millions of dollars. Dayton later, Well, unless you're us.
Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson said last month he would love to resign
Speaker 1: with the Texans. Guess what sign with the Texans? Four years,
Speaker 1: thirty four million, twenty million guarantees, the cornerbacks flying off
Speaker 1: the board, and free agency before free agent even begins.
Speaker 1: That's why revas I think it's gonna get so much money.
Speaker 1: The top three cornerbacks there all, they got a real quicker.
Speaker 1: Stephen pie A pie U p i a uh says
Speaker 1: he's going to the Redskins, Chris Westling, Stephen Baia where
Speaker 1: they dumped Barry Cofield and Stephen Bowen. They were desperately
Speaker 1: in need of an interior pocket put. The Jaguars are
Speaker 1: lighting the world on fire right now? What was that
Speaker 1: fast enough for you? Faster? Oh my god? Jared Odrick
Speaker 1: and Jeremy, which, come on, Jeremy, let's be serious. Parnell
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars. We're hearing Julius Thomas Maybe to the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: but right now, Jeremy and Jared double j Chris Lesson. Well,
Speaker 1: Greg mentioned the Buffalo tax. Jacksonville has to pay a
Speaker 1: tax as well. That's why they shell out outrageous money
Speaker 1: for Jeremy Parnell. Jeremy obviously vastly overpaid. But is that
Speaker 1: not a birth certificate spelling mistake that's just carried on.
Speaker 1: That's all that is. I was just at the d
Speaker 1: n V and for an a vow. Now the state
Speaker 1: of California refers to me as Daniel Hangus, So I'm
Speaker 1: working on that myself. I understand what it's like. First,
Speaker 1: remind me sometime to tell you the Finnish Dembo story. Alright,
Speaker 1: Chief center Rodney Hudson signed a big deal. That's all
Speaker 1: I wrote. And I know I don't know anything about
Speaker 1: him or his deal. Someone jump in on Rodney Hutson. Hey, Oakland,
Speaker 1: save up all this cap space to sign the Chiefs center.
Speaker 1: All along he was Dwight Stevenson and we never knew it.
Speaker 1: And Brett Keisel released by the Steelers. Every media day
Speaker 1: he's walking around with the head and shoulders people. It's
Speaker 1: really cute. We might not see him this year next
Speaker 1: year because he's not in the league. Potentially now he'll
Speaker 1: be on the team in mid October along with James Harrison,
Speaker 1: and they'll both be on the team for the next
Speaker 1: seven years. Somehow because the Robots. Finally, Tory Smith says
Speaker 1: by to the Ravens, looks like he's going to the Niners.
Speaker 1: Not a done deal, but it's probably gonna happen. West
Speaker 1: col Kaepernick can overthrow him on depot. That's it, stop
Speaker 1: the clock. Awesome, good work, guys. All right, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it for today's edition and Around the NFL podcast,
Speaker 1: A supersized edition because we had so much to get to.
Speaker 1: Uh too real quick? Uh, Greg, not too quick. We
Speaker 1: just went so fast. We don't want the audience to recover.
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to on Tuesday when the
Speaker 1: actual free agency starts. Shoot, I don't know. We got
Speaker 1: the whole rest of the day. I want to see
Speaker 1: where we rivas lands start there all the bill out
Speaker 1: of the big names are taken off. How about Percy Harvin.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the name out there we don't know
Speaker 1: anything about. I want to see the Patriots real Revas
Speaker 1: back in sign Percy Harvin along with six other Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl type players, Go twelve and four, another Super Bowl
Speaker 1: Jet six and ten. I want to see more of
Speaker 1: Mark hanging out his Brown's frustration on the Jets, which
Speaker 1: seems like a weird thing to do. Put it on
Speaker 1: a good team. If you're gonna be frustrated, someone leave
Speaker 1: my guys alone. West final words on life, Hell I
Speaker 1: V I am all right. We will be back on
Speaker 1: Wednesday to discuss the first full day of actual free agency.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh you know, I'm sure it will be excellent.
Speaker 1: There will be a lot of talk, a lot of mirth,
Speaker 1: and it's hopefully some celebration music. This is Dan Hansis
Speaker 1: signing off for The Sizzler, The Mailman, The Boss and
Speaker 1: t D behind the Glass till Wednesday.