Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is getting another pulp in.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition to the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus, and I'm joined by a
Speaker 1: room filled with heroes. Mark Sassler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: What's up boys? Hey? Dan? Oh yeah, welcome back. Thanks
Speaker 1: good work on Tuesday, everybody? Thank you? What were you
Speaker 1: up to in time away? Absolutely listen to that did
Speaker 1: some scouting, I wouldn't blame. I listened, of course to
Speaker 1: Colleen's new Odds and Ends drop That was a check in.
Speaker 1: Moved to the twenty five minute mark Mark saw that
Speaker 1: and heard the beginning of the show. I mean, you
Speaker 1: couldn't you couldn't miss. That's number one on the Billboard
Speaker 1: charts right now. What a production of UM and you
Speaker 1: Mark the West Hollywood Iron Eagle story at the bar
Speaker 1: that brought back a lot of memories of the years.
Speaker 1: There's more times that I could count as Mark going
Speaker 1: around talking to people at a bar. And one thing,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've ever talked about it, but
Speaker 1: like when I'm around for these I kind of served
Speaker 1: kind of like how the Secret Services job is just
Speaker 1: to stand around and just always have your eyes out.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's what I'll do in those sitters, Like,
Speaker 1: all right, where's the bouncer? All right? Is the bartender
Speaker 1: looking at him? There's some meat head given Marcus stink?
Speaker 1: I like, are these talking? This has not been This
Speaker 1: has not been happening quite a while. I feel like
Speaker 1: the one thing I've thought about this podcast of late
Speaker 1: where Greg especially is a painting me as someone that
Speaker 1: is out on the town like seven nights a week,
Speaker 1: which couldn't be farther from I don't think it's a negative.
Speaker 1: It's not a judge from you. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: You've been a little bit of a judgment from Greg,
Speaker 1: but not from these guys. I think it makes you
Speaker 1: the most entertaining. Uh. It's also drinker I've ever been around.
Speaker 1: But I don't believe this theory that you have that
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. I mean, it hasn't happened as far
Speaker 1: as I know since I've been diagnosed with cancer, because
Speaker 1: I haven't been out with you in these city suations.
Speaker 1: But it was definitely happening around this time last year.
Speaker 1: You need someone with you to help set you off
Speaker 1: and put you into that world and when West got
Speaker 1: taken out of the mix, A big, big player in
Speaker 1: that arena was removed from the equation. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like on average it's probably one to three, maybe two
Speaker 1: to four times a year we'll get the wa that
Speaker 1: I think is very fair. Well, we have some we
Speaker 1: have to make up for lost time. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to ever be ever vigilant to make sure
Speaker 1: because you're when you're locked in and doing your round. Mark, Um,
Speaker 1: you don't know how other people are going to react
Speaker 1: to it, because it is that is fair randomness that
Speaker 1: is unmatched in the bar scene Angels. That's true, but
Speaker 1: I would you know, a lot of drunks get chesty
Speaker 1: and aggressive Marks. Marks is just I'm saying when people
Speaker 1: get drunk. But Mark's thing is just plain. That was
Speaker 1: a huge difference that where you phrase that. I will
Speaker 1: think about that for the next months. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: did not mean to phrase it that way, but I
Speaker 1: was defending you saying you're you're just after silliness in
Speaker 1: a good time that I would agree with that. I
Speaker 1: agree with that. Um, all right, good show though, guys,
Speaker 1: you did nice, nice work. I'm happy to be back
Speaker 1: because we've got a lot to talk about today, Uh,
Speaker 1: some news going on a big franchise tag landed, uh
Speaker 1: this week and um, some new GM is in place,
Speaker 1: a new old GM, Greg, And I know you have
Speaker 1: you have takes because on Twitter, the old Greg Rosenthal
Speaker 1: was all fired up as you're enough. I don't need
Speaker 1: him back and not um a double banger alert. Mark
Speaker 1: Cecili Greg Rosenthal teamed up for their fun free agency
Speaker 1: fits in the a f C, which Mark wrote, the NFC,
Speaker 1: which Greg wrote, I don't do the NFC. I don't
Speaker 1: touch that conference when I have the choice, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the some of that heat early on
Speaker 1: in the show is Greg was implying that Marked took
Speaker 1: all the good players. Let's talk about that. Let's get
Speaker 1: that out. Yeah. Well Greg had other comments about this
Speaker 1: column a few days ago that might have been a
Speaker 1: little more heat. I don't I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think Mark would totally discri I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a double banger, maybe it adds up to one banger.
Speaker 1: Probably it's probably two and a half bangers. So so
Speaker 1: get to NFL dot com. Yeah, rush over there, and
Speaker 1: if you hear from my voice, I missed the show obviously,
Speaker 1: I had family in town, my sister and her husband,
Speaker 1: and they have two children all in the house. So
Speaker 1: there was a seven year old, a five year old,
Speaker 1: a three year old and a one year old. Uh
Speaker 1: them had a cold little seas back and result. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Greg, if you want to get going on that,
Speaker 1: go fund me. So it sounds like a fun vacation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a staycation. I do think we should literally
Speaker 1: start a Dan Hansis oriented go fund me for your cold,
Speaker 1: just to see what might come in. Don't do it,
Speaker 1: Nobody do it, Nobody do it. Uh. West is back.
Speaker 1: Went on a nice little trip West. How was your weekend?
Speaker 1: It was glorious. It was a great three days in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: and and I want to go back. It's a great
Speaker 1: it's a great place to go. A long weekend is
Speaker 1: a great idea, but it's a type of place where
Speaker 1: you I was talking to the paramore about this, give
Speaker 1: me seven ten days and in the Opacific deep my
Speaker 1: energy was gone by monday. But that's a I think
Speaker 1: a cancer specific thing. So once I'm healthy, yeah, give
Speaker 1: me give me seven to ten, give me a lifetime
Speaker 1: in a while. By you know, three hours into the trip,
Speaker 1: I was scheming ways to move there. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: so there you go. That's today's show. Let's before we
Speaker 1: do anything, let's get into the news and um, maybe
Speaker 1: for the last time, our producer and will get to
Speaker 1: that at the end of the show. Maybe Lindsay fault on. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's do this thing. Sweet Norway coming to the line,
Speaker 1: making the play sweet Jesse, Jesse Digg history. They said
Speaker 1: zolac to South Korea. Well, I like it, they said
Speaker 1: to US Olympic history, and I feel I feel unfortunate
Speaker 1: that I'm guessing no one knows what that sport was.
Speaker 1: Even listening in this room, I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: would have guessed potentially hockey, but I thought the hockey,
Speaker 1: don't jes Diggins? What was it? It was women's skiing.
Speaker 1: Good for her? And then I thought I was a man.
Speaker 1: Jesse Diggins the first time they won the gold medal
Speaker 1: in the sport excellent. I love I love the enthusiasm though,
Speaker 1: very fire regular Kevin Harland for the Olympics. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: good to have that heat. All right, let's start with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. They've made a decision. Jarvis Landry, he's
Speaker 1: coming back. Well, he might not come back. But he
Speaker 1: is under the franchise tag the team and now that
Speaker 1: they are putting their tag on the receiver. Rap Sheet
Speaker 1: reported the tag will pay Landry approximately sixteen million and
Speaker 1: is non exclusive, meaning uh, he's able to negotiate with
Speaker 1: other teams, but it would cost an outside suit or
Speaker 1: two first round picks for the right sign of that
Speaker 1: ain't happening. But Greg, your thoughts on this move. I
Speaker 1: I know, I know this podcast group, and nobody seems
Speaker 1: to believe that Jarvis Landry is a superstar. H You're
Speaker 1: surprised that the Dolphins put this slap his tag on him? No,
Speaker 1: because I think allowing quality starters in the prime of
Speaker 1: their career to reach free agency at this point is
Speaker 1: just bad managing of your team. It just shouldn't happen
Speaker 1: at this point. You should be able to manage your
Speaker 1: cap to keep basically every quality player that you want
Speaker 1: to keep. I would assume you'd want to keep a
Speaker 1: player like Jarvis Landry. They might not be able to
Speaker 1: figure out a long term deal with him, and that's
Speaker 1: why now we're already starting to hear that he could
Speaker 1: be a potential trade target for other teams. That Ian
Speaker 1: Rappaport on Tuesday. Thursday's Up to the Minute floated some
Speaker 1: of those teams. I believe he put the Panthers were
Speaker 1: one of them. The Bears could be one, Titans the Titans.
Speaker 1: So so we'll see if Jarvis Landry actually ends up there,
Speaker 1: but I think they'd be okay keeping him under the
Speaker 1: one year tag if none of that works. I just
Speaker 1: find it interesting because the sense that I got from
Speaker 1: Miami was that they were pretty hot and cold on
Speaker 1: the Jarvis Landry experience, beyond even just the playing field,
Speaker 1: and they immediately turn around and tag them and it
Speaker 1: does scream trade to me and you, Greg, we were
Speaker 1: about the first day. Is weird if I just think
Speaker 1: it's a little strange, and like we we were talking
Speaker 1: offline about how the or online. I hate that coming
Speaker 1: we were online. We were not offline. We were on
Speaker 1: our chat client but so was online. But we but
Speaker 1: we were saying that the the NFL doesn't really want
Speaker 1: teams to tag and trade. It's not something they look
Speaker 1: favorably upon. In theory. It's what a rule, but it's
Speaker 1: a rule not enforced with no consequence is which seems
Speaker 1: totally inane to me. It must be February or March.
Speaker 1: If the Dolphins are over over extending themselves with no
Speaker 1: direction and no plan. I hate this move, and they
Speaker 1: showed no interest whatsoever in extending him and working at
Speaker 1: a long term deal. So you sent his value at
Speaker 1: sixteen million dollars. You send him a message that you
Speaker 1: think he's worth top five wide receiver money if you
Speaker 1: have the franchise tag and you're gonna bring him back
Speaker 1: to run your slot receivers centric bubble screen offense. Again,
Speaker 1: that goes nowhere in the NFL. I don't like this move.
Speaker 1: Unless the intention is to trade, you probably aren't bringing
Speaker 1: him back from the sound of it. Remember they're the team.
Speaker 1: They love putting tags on guys that they don't keep.
Speaker 1: Olivia Vernon got a tag, they took it away, Charles
Speaker 1: Clay got a transition tag. Both of them were transition
Speaker 1: tags he wound up in Buffalo. So I think they
Speaker 1: look at it as a tool, and if I were them,
Speaker 1: I'd be fine paying him sixteen million dollars. My guests,
Speaker 1: and from reading between the lines, is that his initial
Speaker 1: thought of what he's worth is something that they're just
Speaker 1: not gonna do because it's a three four year commitment
Speaker 1: to make him one of the highest paid receivers in
Speaker 1: the league. But that's a lot different than just paying
Speaker 1: a guy to play well for one year. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little different to find somebody who's willing
Speaker 1: to pay seven million dollars per a tight end in
Speaker 1: sixteen million for a slot receiver. I do wonder the
Speaker 1: Ravens last offseason inquired about trading for him. Yet if
Speaker 1: you look at their cap space right now, and there's
Speaker 1: probably some people they're gonna move, but they've got bottom
Speaker 1: seven cap space at the moment. I think the one
Speaker 1: problem with trading him or trading for him is that
Speaker 1: you you already set his value at sixteen million a year. Tough,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. That's for one year though, that's
Speaker 1: not I don't think he's necessarily gonna make that, or
Speaker 1: would expect to make that on a long I think
Speaker 1: he expects to make that. Moving on, here's somebody that's
Speaker 1: gonna make more than that. Wait, let's hit let's hit
Speaker 1: a little breaking news. I just figure it's Dolphins news,
Speaker 1: so let's break this out. Report is out there not
Speaker 1: a huge surprice from the Miami Herald Julius Thomas and
Speaker 1: Lawrence Timmins will be released by the Miami Doll Ofphins.
Speaker 1: This will open up some cap space in Miami to
Speaker 1: either keep Jarvis Landry or make some other moves. There's
Speaker 1: another part of that report that in Dominican Sue could
Speaker 1: be a post June first release. He is scheduled to
Speaker 1: have the third highest cap hit in the NFL, behind
Speaker 1: Garoppolo and Stafford this year, twenty six point one million.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. Well, that's the thing, all these cap space
Speaker 1: figures where so many teams have a ton of cap space.
Speaker 1: That's even before most teams make all these cuts. So
Speaker 1: in the end of Dolphins, if they wanted to keep
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landy for instance, should have plenty. By the way,
Speaker 1: the post Peyton Manning, Julius Thomas come back to us,
Speaker 1: he got Peyton Manning, got a lot of people paid
Speaker 1: Julius Thomas near the top of the list. Was that
Speaker 1: breaking newsworthy? That's the question I think when I think,
Speaker 1: when you're on the Dolphins, can say, is oh one
Speaker 1: other bit of Dolphins news? When you throw out the break,
Speaker 1: you're expecting something big. I think it was appropriate placement,
Speaker 1: whether or not it was breaking They were the types
Speaker 1: of players when they actually signed those contracts that we
Speaker 1: would have you know, had second or third in the
Speaker 1: news like that actually mattered. But now that didn't deserve
Speaker 1: a place in the show. Absolutely did it deserve the drop.
Speaker 1: You don't appreciate Greg's debate incrementally lowering the standard for
Speaker 1: breaking news. Do you want to I don't like the
Speaker 1: phrasing there is a little harsh, but just I wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of put it out there for debate. Okay,
Speaker 1: let the listeners decide. Please, way in tweeter Greg with
Speaker 1: your comments there not the rest of us anyway. Moving
Speaker 1: on Drew Brees. He is scheduled to be a free agent.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, almost everybody expects a
Speaker 1: deal with the Saints. To everybody, even Greg who's saying
Speaker 1: maybe there could be some some issues and some you know, posturing.
Speaker 1: Everyone believes Drew Brees ends up with the Saints and
Speaker 1: continues his career and then likely ends his career there well.
Speaker 1: Breezes representatives are expected to meet with the Saints at
Speaker 1: the scouting combine to quote try to hammer out what
Speaker 1: is potentially a short term deal. Rap sheet reported Wednesday,
Speaker 1: NFL Total access. Rappaport expects the sides to find common
Speaker 1: ground on a deal that will fall between twenty and
Speaker 1: million annually. Chris Westling your thoughts, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: noteworthy not only that rap sheet said so nonchalantly he
Speaker 1: is going to be the Saints quarterback, that he's not
Speaker 1: going to the market, that they will work something out.
Speaker 1: So also noteworthy that Breeze, who has been, you know,
Speaker 1: a vocal representative of the players union, is not trying
Speaker 1: to break the bank, to use rap sheets phrase, or
Speaker 1: he's not expected to break the bank. I know that's surprising.
Speaker 1: I guess I'd believe it when I see it. But
Speaker 1: if he's taken between twenty and twenty five, he's dramatically underpaid,
Speaker 1: because anyone representing a quarterback right now is wants to
Speaker 1: wait to see what Kirk Cousins make. And true to me,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is worth more, at least for one season
Speaker 1: even than Kirk Cousins. But did not look like a
Speaker 1: guy who declined at all despite his age last season
Speaker 1: to me. But he is a guy that cap did
Speaker 1: not have a problem capsizing aspects of their cap for years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so maybe at this point in his age, What are
Speaker 1: you asking for? You can has have some phony six year,
Speaker 1: five year deal that no one's gonna buy into. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's still gonna get paid almost twice as much as
Speaker 1: Brady even if he gets five million. That's a little
Speaker 1: misleading though, because Brady got so much upfront money. He's
Speaker 1: been getting right around that same money against against tom Right,
Speaker 1: Tommy's been doing fine. I think the whole narrative of
Speaker 1: guys like hurting their cap because they took a huge
Speaker 1: So I don't I think that's what about what about
Speaker 1: four years ago when he did? Though? I don't mean now,
Speaker 1: but that's all the Saints fault because they spent so
Speaker 1: much money on terrible other players. The money that they
Speaker 1: spent on Drew Brees was great money while spent, and
Speaker 1: he would have been worth a lot more if they
Speaker 1: wanted to get how many yachts DNN go get a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring Moving on, Marty Hernie is the Panthers
Speaker 1: General manager officially. The team announced Wednesday that Hernie will
Speaker 1: be their full time guy. He had been been the
Speaker 1: intern GM since Caroline canned Dave Yetelman. Last summer. Hernie
Speaker 1: was the GM and in Carolina from O two to
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve, and of course, Hernie was cleared
Speaker 1: by the NFL last week after an investigation found he
Speaker 1: did not violate the league's Personal conduct policy UH in
Speaker 1: regard to a situation harassment accusation made against him by
Speaker 1: his ex wife say you just hand on your water there.
Speaker 1: That was impressive while while talking. Yeah, yeah, well you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm ill, I'm under the weather. I'm just
Speaker 1: fighting through this show right now. That was and you
Speaker 1: abirable massive juggling potential warrior is a warrior, a warrior warrior. Anyway, Greg,
Speaker 1: you are a little you weren't expecting more Marty Hernie
Speaker 1: in your life, and yet here he is sand sandwidg
Speaker 1: ing the Dave Gettleman era as it were. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the guy who gave Jake Delone an extension
Speaker 1: after the worst playoff performance I've ever seen in a
Speaker 1: big spot, and it was clear that his arm was done,
Speaker 1: and then had another couple of years of regrettable of
Speaker 1: some regrettable moves after that. It I it would be
Speaker 1: like Sashi Brown getting hired by the Browns in five years,
Speaker 1: would be like the Browns hiring George WII getting a
Speaker 1: job like I would have never I just would have
Speaker 1: never guessed that he would be a guy that comes back.
Speaker 1: And maybe they're just doing it because they don't really
Speaker 1: have an owner right now and it's kind of just
Speaker 1: a band aid solution. Item is like a super interim GM. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean he's a permanent he's a He's the permanent
Speaker 1: guy they needed a GM. Would it be like getting
Speaker 1: back together with someone that you dated in like two
Speaker 1: thousand three, Yeah, it's like it's like it would be
Speaker 1: that odd and that's strange and that hard to explain
Speaker 1: in a relationship that ended really poorly and she's clearly
Speaker 1: not marriage material. Well, that's how relationships work a lot
Speaker 1: to Like, you go through the relationship and then you
Speaker 1: break up, and then as time passes you a lot
Speaker 1: of times tend to remember the better aspect. You forget
Speaker 1: the harsh chaos that was brought when you forget that
Speaker 1: John Beeson contract, right exactly, You forget the bad stuff.
Speaker 1: You remember the good stuff. And that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: You just don't see it in the NFL, I mean
Speaker 1: at outside of like sort of journeyman players that might
Speaker 1: circle back to the team that drafted them. A second time,
Speaker 1: Like bringing back a general manager the second time is hard.
Speaker 1: It's a hard, weird headspace on a team that is
Speaker 1: in a super awkward spot. I was almost maybe good
Speaker 1: for Ron Rivera. He's the only consistent thing they have
Speaker 1: until maybe a new owner comes in and sweeps everything
Speaker 1: else away for the eighth time. It's good news for
Speaker 1: free agents. And I'm trying to think of guys that
Speaker 1: are anybody who wants to be over because like I
Speaker 1: can see them being very active this year, trying to
Speaker 1: get a winning season. Uh, like maybe a Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: type if he gets the free agency, you know, he
Speaker 1: I think her Ne will spend some money. Does a
Speaker 1: new owner come in though, and just say bye bye
Speaker 1: her knee? Part two? Not immediately, I wouldn't think, But
Speaker 1: you figure you get kind of exciting if that did happen,
Speaker 1: do you know? By the way, Mark even you like
Speaker 1: you're remember you have the woman that ruined your life
Speaker 1: and you're living in the desert in Arizona, homeless in
Speaker 1: like a van A strong, strong way to put that.
Speaker 1: It was I played a part and she hit pause
Speaker 1: on your life. Basically, yes I played a partner. But yes, um,
Speaker 1: we've had conversations where you look back with some positives
Speaker 1: toward that situation as well. There are a few, not
Speaker 1: an exceedingly long bullet list bullet point list, but yeah,
Speaker 1: some so exactly. Moving on a shan jeff Jeffrey went
Speaker 1: under the knife, alshon Jeffreys season long heroics in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: came with a cost. Little Mark Sessler out lead right there.
Speaker 1: Well you're reading, you're reading some copy from a copy,
Speaker 1: little cessler copy. I'm looking at your head shot. Mark,
Speaker 1: I have been talking with the photo department. Um, I've
Speaker 1: been working on the peloton bike. I've been trying to
Speaker 1: watch what I eat. I'm trying to drop to twenty pounds,
Speaker 1: get my new photo taken to be used on the website.
Speaker 1: That way when the new season comes and all that
Speaker 1: progress is lost, and to go the other way. Well,
Speaker 1: the photo th stays where it is. Um, now that
Speaker 1: I think you need a new photo, Mark, But this
Speaker 1: is a very old photo head shot because I could
Speaker 1: see you're wearing your tan blazer which has been out
Speaker 1: of out of rotation, hasn't been in my possession and
Speaker 1: from like six or seven years ago. But to Mark's credit,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He might look better now than he
Speaker 1: did in that picture. I don't think you really look
Speaker 1: I think I definitely look better now. Well in that picture,
Speaker 1: you know, doubt how different. But that head shot is
Speaker 1: an odd head shot. Um. I blame myself for looking
Speaker 1: odd in it. Um it's an odd head shot. It
Speaker 1: is not complimentary. But back to the point. Everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to get updated head shots, if you
Speaker 1: want to do what I'm doing, maybe we could have
Speaker 1: a fun like head shot day here at the office,
Speaker 1: like the idea then, But byyway, al Sean Jeffrey, seasoned
Speaker 1: long rogues in Philadelphia, came with a cost. Mark, Well,
Speaker 1: let's sign you up for an afternoon news shift and
Speaker 1: see how that. How you like that? Go ahead? I
Speaker 1: said you up? It did? I mean he listened, He
Speaker 1: got hurt. He got actually kind of forgot about this
Speaker 1: that he got hurt in last training camp towards his
Speaker 1: rotator cuff, which doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: In August of this season, you're saying, yeah, like this
Speaker 1: in his first training camp with the Eagles, played through
Speaker 1: it to the point where they gave thought enough to
Speaker 1: give him a four year extension. Did an excellent job
Speaker 1: in the play in the playoffs helped to win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl thirty four yard touchdown in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I don't know that's I guess it
Speaker 1: must not have been a super serious version of a
Speaker 1: rotator cup injury. I'm not a doctor, but it's like,
Speaker 1: that's to me seems like something that would be hard
Speaker 1: to play through as a receiver where you're extending your
Speaker 1: arms painful. Good for him, I had like microscopic tears
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago in my rotator cuff and
Speaker 1: it couldn't sleep for a while. I don't know how
Speaker 1: he played a full season. One thing I enjoyed with
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week I'll remember is alshon Jeffrey's transition into
Speaker 1: this kind of I don't give a you know what attitude,
Speaker 1: and I think his his I heard from I think
Speaker 1: it was from some of his teammates that were saying
Speaker 1: they were like watching some of his interview was on
Speaker 1: the team bus and just like crap cracking up because
Speaker 1: he just it was like as he was just like
Speaker 1: I don't care anymore, I want to say what I want,
Speaker 1: And he was trash talking a lot leading up to
Speaker 1: the game. He was certainly doing it after the game.
Speaker 1: Gained a lot of respect for like throughout the playoffs
Speaker 1: in terms of being a game changing wide receiver. We
Speaker 1: knew that he had done at big seasons before, but
Speaker 1: the guy's a star, and I wonder, you know, the
Speaker 1: Bears now they have a young franchise quarterback. Maybe they
Speaker 1: should have kept aushon around. He guaranteed the Bears a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl victory and they I I blame them for
Speaker 1: letting him get out the door. Yeah, that's true. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Cults have made an official with Adam van a
Speaker 1: Thieri another sense the lead. I mean, you know what, honestly,
Speaker 1: at this point, we're six seven years at deep ended
Speaker 1: this journey. You've written this story four or five hundred times.
Speaker 1: There's only so many ways to to get into these things.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry that if Sierry's return comes as little surprised.
Speaker 1: He told reporters late last season he planned to advance
Speaker 1: to his twenty three NFL campaign. And that's where we are.
Speaker 1: Because the Colts, uh this from rap sheet rap sheet
Speaker 1: busy this week, Uh, they have reached an agreement on
Speaker 1: a one year deal, according to a source informed of
Speaker 1: the deal. The Colts later confirmed the extension and Venetaria
Speaker 1: is in line for a record breaking season. UH He
Speaker 1: is fifty seven points behind Morton Anderson for the all
Speaker 1: time UH points lead in the NFL. I think he's
Speaker 1: a guy of vinitaria has been talked about for you,
Speaker 1: Oh he's a Hall of fame or what he did
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. And but if you get get this
Speaker 1: little record on top of it, not a little one,
Speaker 1: how bad would the how bad would the cults on
Speaker 1: offense need to be for him not to get this?
Speaker 1: If he played sixteen games, it would be another type
Speaker 1: of record and we would be watching the worst NFL
Speaker 1: offense of our lifetime. I think he had over let
Speaker 1: to stay healthy, which all right, but if a problem
Speaker 1: for if he stays healthy, he's going to get this thing.
Speaker 1: I think he had like a hundred and twenties something
Speaker 1: points last year and he needs fifty seven. So barring
Speaker 1: in three or a really bad cults here, you're right,
Speaker 1: mark you, Martin Anderson. You just made the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame shine off immediately like four fifteen months, acme off
Speaker 1: the old top one on one list before it even starts.
Speaker 1: Where where I had him in like the seven years
Speaker 1: or eighties just because of lack of depth of decent players.
Speaker 1: It's like, at least we've been been terry. Hey, here's
Speaker 1: your kicker. You need a kicker Chargers for instance, Here
Speaker 1: you go something that can help your team. That's fair?
Speaker 1: Should I mention, by the way, I should mention that
Speaker 1: it's that time of year again, the scientists down to
Speaker 1: the lab old hanging out in the kitchen. What can
Speaker 1: come down if he wants? Greg doesn't like it, but
Speaker 1: I can I have access? Um, they're cooking up their
Speaker 1: top one on one list? Do we have Is it
Speaker 1: one oh one this year? Yes? You gotta brand this right, um,
Speaker 1: because it has one o one. But if we stay
Speaker 1: one on one, I think that that could really take
Speaker 1: it to the next level. It's a big highway, you know,
Speaker 1: around here in Los Angeles, big one, one of the biggest.
Speaker 1: That one oh one needs to have some sex appeal,
Speaker 1: though it's been Michael Vick, as we mentioned in the
Speaker 1: last show like four times. Yeah, probably not that well.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be Jay Cutler peaked behind the curtain
Speaker 1: right around and West. The media was like, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: sign Jake coulor different teams. I wouldn't take Jake Cutler
Speaker 1: if he agreed to pay to play for me, I
Speaker 1: don't want him on culer. If any NFL team wants
Speaker 1: a roster, color is a perfect one on but he
Speaker 1: the exercise he nailed by making it someone you can
Speaker 1: cling onto. What do you got at one oh one?
Speaker 1: Are you not? Frank? And I got? That was generous?
Speaker 1: Oh little shot of Gregg right back Greg? One thing
Speaker 1: about Actually I think I had him in the night.
Speaker 1: If the coach draft sa Kwon Barkley, they will have
Speaker 1: someone on their roster who wasn't born when then Terry
Speaker 1: started his career. That's awesome, it's pretty well. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: So the top one oh one free agence list by
Speaker 1: the Scientists should be going live either end of this
Speaker 1: week or early next week, and we will talk about
Speaker 1: it on Monday's show. Next week. We're going to Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: US for the Scouting Goes Up, Goes Up Monday. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about it on Monday show next week and then
Speaker 1: we're off to Indy. Will do two shows at the Combine.
Speaker 1: Good Times. Trevor Simeon Last Thing in the News. Next
Speaker 1: week's NFL Scouting Combine promises to deliver a whirlwind of chatter, gossip,
Speaker 1: and juicy rumors. The machine is already churning in Denver,
Speaker 1: where the future of quarterback Trevor Simeon is entirely about
Speaker 1: this die another mark piece. You're simply apparently someone worked
Speaker 1: here this week and someone did not anyway, NFL Network
Speaker 1: inside Ian Rapp report reported Wednesday. Simeon. I could type
Speaker 1: that in my sleep at this NFL Network considering report
Speaker 1: in my sleep, or I could be heavily drugged up
Speaker 1: and right and type that out in four seconds. Expected
Speaker 1: to be available through a trade as the Broncos look
Speaker 1: to make big changes in their quarterback room, some smart
Speaker 1: team will pick up Trevor Simeon for peanuts while someone
Speaker 1: else pays Mike Glennon money for a J mccaren. I
Speaker 1: was looking at the outside of the quarterbacks that are
Speaker 1: set to hit free agency, the list of ingrained backups
Speaker 1: right now, and Trevor Simeon, for all the hate on
Speaker 1: him last season, the better aspects of Trevor Simeon. I
Speaker 1: looked at potentially Jacoby Brissette if you really love him,
Speaker 1: or Nick Foles. Is the only two guys that I
Speaker 1: can think of right now as backups that I would
Speaker 1: want over Simeon. It wouldn't shock me at allf Simeon
Speaker 1: went case Keenum on the league one year bill bills.
Speaker 1: People have guests as impossible destination. Did he had some
Speaker 1: crossover with Mike McCoy, So maybe Arizona could make some sense,
Speaker 1: And you're right, I can. I could imagine at this
Speaker 1: point they would just take like a sixth round pick
Speaker 1: for Trevor Simon and yeah, he's gonna need to be
Speaker 1: surrounded with the kind of stuff that Keenum was surrounded with,
Speaker 1: especially a solid offensive line. But I think he can play.
Speaker 1: And it's it's always ego probably tied into keeping Paxton Lynch.
Speaker 1: But are they letting the better quarterback out the door?
Speaker 1: Because everything we've seen from Paxiston Lynch, I understand that
Speaker 1: maybe the potential there. It has been a wild hot
Speaker 1: mess on the field. If you're gonna draft a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the first round, but you already say, so, what
Speaker 1: do you think I think they're assuming Paxton that they
Speaker 1: may be in a future world. Let's see if Paxson
Speaker 1: Lynch ever develops. He doesn't have much value at this
Speaker 1: point anyways, and that he's going to be the backup
Speaker 1: to whoever. They hopefully in their minds sign in free agency.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. As you heard earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, Mark and Greg combined to write half
Speaker 1: a banger, two posts that equaled half a banger. That
Speaker 1: would be a banger each half a banger each. We
Speaker 1: each from half a banger. I mean, that's that's a
Speaker 1: slight to say that we wrote a quarter of a bank.
Speaker 1: I misunderstood. So you each wrote a half banger, it
Speaker 1: equaled a full banger in theory the reader will decide
Speaker 1: that where being maybe even being generous. But that's how
Speaker 1: we're touting it. The headline writers not their best day,
Speaker 1: Free Agency fund Comma a f C colon, and then
Speaker 1: write your piece free Agency fund Comma NFC Holing take
Speaker 1: we take it up with some people down involved with
Speaker 1: the headline. You just send the crack some skulls downstairs
Speaker 1: about the copy. You gotta sell it, baby, to make
Speaker 1: it sizzle. All right, Mark will start, We'll start with
Speaker 1: you in the A f C. We could jump around
Speaker 1: right whatever, because all of them, I don't think we
Speaker 1: need you know every single one. Yeah, So I'll start
Speaker 1: on the phone. Let's go through all thirty two, please
Speaker 1: do not. I'll start Andrew Nora, Well, now i'll start
Speaker 1: with you, Mark anywhere you want to go? Which one
Speaker 1: to you? As you were writing it, you, you know,
Speaker 1: got a little hot in the pants. You said, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a good one. I don't know if any
Speaker 1: of them gave me that sensation um at the time,
Speaker 1: but I will say that I thought of you when
Speaker 1: I think people would have said, oh, of course he's
Speaker 1: going to give Kirk Cousins to the Browns and write
Speaker 1: some flowery paragraph how they haven't had a quarterback since
Speaker 1: Bernie cos are f that I gave him to the Jets. Baby? Yeah.
Speaker 1: When Dan asked if any of them made you feel
Speaker 1: hot in the pants, you immediately said, well, what have
Speaker 1: them made me think of you? Dad? That was sentenced later.
Speaker 1: That was a sentence to two after that. I I
Speaker 1: think the Jets make a lot of sense. They really seem.
Speaker 1: Unless all of this is just for some reason, you're
Speaker 1: putting up a smoke screen for no reason. They've got
Speaker 1: the money, they've got the need. Mike mccagnet, I think
Speaker 1: if he doesn't make a big splash in the quarterback scenario,
Speaker 1: this year is gone. The guy is gone. You've already
Speaker 1: drafted two quarterbacks, and if you draft a third and
Speaker 1: he flames out, you're in deep trouble. So you go
Speaker 1: after Kirk Cousins. I think it's a fit, barring the
Speaker 1: fact that Kirk Cousins, as some people in this room believe,
Speaker 1: would never want to go there, speaking of Mark Copy,
Speaker 1: this move has to happen because this fan base deserves
Speaker 1: a dose of human joy before mysterious interstellar object two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen VR twelve takes out Earth. And there is
Speaker 1: a massive object. I've been been doing some research another one.
Speaker 1: It seems like every two weeks there's some objects heading
Speaker 1: towards Earth. This is the latest object that could wipe
Speaker 1: out humanity. So you didn't You didn't give the quarterback
Speaker 1: to the Browns like everyone expected, but you did end
Speaker 1: the planet. Well I know, no, no, I what my
Speaker 1: point was. I think it will pass by, is everybody.
Speaker 1: I think most of these are probably fake. It's just like, quick,
Speaker 1: get your priorities in order. A big rock is maybe
Speaker 1: coming by, but it's like never hits, never happens. We
Speaker 1: keep going on doing the same priority That's the last
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. The Jets they deserve. If you say
Speaker 1: this about the Browns, it's still to the Jets. I
Speaker 1: mean you got to go back to early childhood when
Speaker 1: the Jets actually had a quarterback of note, um you,
Speaker 1: and it would be very Jets. If they won this
Speaker 1: like big time quarterback sweepsteaks and then the world ended,
Speaker 1: it would be very Jets. But like I think it
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Was just like sevent best
Speaker 1: quarterback that maybe take it. I'll take it, I will
Speaker 1: take it. Um No. But I think this is why
Speaker 1: it makes it. Verse of all, they're definitely gonna go
Speaker 1: after him hard. I think if your management, which I
Speaker 1: guess is Christopher Johnson a very good ownership set up
Speaker 1: for the Jets, not Woody right now, who's in England
Speaker 1: or France or something. Um, definitely you believe, even Mike mccagnan,
Speaker 1: But maybe you don't believe. Maybe the Christian Hackenburg thing
Speaker 1: spooked you in terms of quarterback acquisition at this point,
Speaker 1: so you don't trust your GM a little bit to
Speaker 1: nail the quarterback pick, but hand out a ton of
Speaker 1: money and then let Big Mac do better work with
Speaker 1: non quarterback positions in the draft, which he has had
Speaker 1: some success in the draft in his and to his credit,
Speaker 1: he took a ton of abuse last offseason by releasing
Speaker 1: guys like Darrell Reeves and a bunch of other people
Speaker 1: that went on to do very little around the league
Speaker 1: to create this cap space. Yeah, if you're if you're
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Though Jeremy Bates have some history, I guess
Speaker 1: that it could make some sense. Not much of an
Speaker 1: offensive line, certainly, not a history of success or great ownership.
Speaker 1: I just feel like he's gonna be able to get paid.
Speaker 1: If you're him, Why would you make that choice unless
Speaker 1: it's unless it's just so much more money than the
Speaker 1: other teams, And right, maybe that's why you make that choice. Alright,
Speaker 1: throw out another one, Greg. Let's start with a guy
Speaker 1: that was in the news again from rap Sheet Today,
Speaker 1: Sheldon Richardson, who he believes will not get tagged by
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I threw him over to Atlanta running a
Speaker 1: similar style defense to the Seahawks, and UH team that's
Speaker 1: gonna want to replace Don Terry po and loves to
Speaker 1: make big splash, make bold moves in free agency. And
Speaker 1: to me, put Sheldon Richardson next to Grady Jarrett and
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's a defensive tackle duo that you're cooking
Speaker 1: with gas Thomas Dimitroff. Their GM has a very rigorous
Speaker 1: policy on character. You know that's a fair point. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. Yeah, I'm sure you might not look at
Speaker 1: it as a fun free agency fit, but you do,
Speaker 1: so he would be cool with, like, although he did
Speaker 1: keep bringing back, you know, guys who keep failing drug
Speaker 1: suspensions and stuff. Yeah, I was gonna say there was
Speaker 1: that one time Sheldon Richardson drove like a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: with a kid in the backseat, But like, maybe he'd
Speaker 1: overlook that. I don't know. In this case, if Richardson
Speaker 1: does get it's funny how hard it is to really
Speaker 1: ruin your free agency value. And who knows, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: be wrong, but despite everything over the last few years
Speaker 1: with him off the field and even on the field
Speaker 1: where he's been vaguely disappointing, I would expect him to
Speaker 1: make a ridiculous amount of money if he makes it
Speaker 1: to free The only thing, though, is with not many
Speaker 1: good players do with the rap sheet report. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're not going to tag him, and they that
Speaker 1: Seahawks team hasn't taged someone since two thousand and it
Speaker 1: was a kicker. So maybe that's not how they like
Speaker 1: to do business. But you must feel pretty confident with
Speaker 1: both sides saying they want to make it happen, that
Speaker 1: our negotiations already happening. A deal could be coming soon.
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna lose Shellon, Richardson, you might lose Clive,
Speaker 1: you might lose Uh, you might lose cam Chancellor. Michael
Speaker 1: Bennett could be gone potentially, Like what what is the
Speaker 1: state of this defense if you let keep letting these
Speaker 1: guys go. Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman are two guys
Speaker 1: who people think could be available in the potential trade.
Speaker 1: I mean you would Richardson would be a guy in
Speaker 1: theory because he's younger that that you would build around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the deterioration of well, the exodus of star
Speaker 1: players in Seattle's defense is one of the stories in
Speaker 1: the off season. Right. See, if it's and we don't
Speaker 1: really know how many people it's gonna be April we
Speaker 1: expect to get cut. Hasn't happened, you know, none of
Speaker 1: these moves have actually happened yet. The Earl Thomas thing
Speaker 1: has been very quiet, but I think there's a and
Speaker 1: I mentioned it a little on the last one I
Speaker 1: wrote about. I think there's an expectation from a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the NFL and insiders like e and
Speaker 1: that there's gonna be a ton of trades and the
Speaker 1: Seahawks would be a team you would look to as
Speaker 1: has been one of the teams that would be doing that.
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting one, uh Mark's list, Um Malcolm Butler,
Speaker 1: you know he's leaving UH New England, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have avoid there. And they just got embarrassed in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl their defense, so I would not be spreads
Speaker 1: at off. They try to make a big splash and
Speaker 1: add more heat to their secondary. Have Kyle Fuller, who
Speaker 1: finished his season very well with the Bears, getting a
Speaker 1: deal uh with the Patriots to help shore up their
Speaker 1: defensive backfield like like that. You'd see it at a
Speaker 1: pricey secondary there. Yeah, not that. How much money should
Speaker 1: any of them be getting after the Super Bowl we
Speaker 1: witnessed is going to get paid? Yeah, if he doesn't
Speaker 1: get the franchise tag. And I think I think there's
Speaker 1: a decent chance just because they have so much cap
Speaker 1: room and if they truly want to keep him around.
Speaker 1: It's got to be an option. At least. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get paid because there's only so many above
Speaker 1: average starting cornerbacks available. Malcolm Butler certainly would be one.
Speaker 1: I used him, I used, I reused Malcolm Butler, though,
Speaker 1: where did you put him? I gave him to Detroit Game,
Speaker 1: the old Matt Patricia, Bob Quinn, they know him, they've
Speaker 1: seen him, they've seen him be a top ten type
Speaker 1: of quarterback in two thousand fifteen, two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 1: That he might be a by low candidate. We'll see
Speaker 1: because of everything that's happened. He had kind of a
Speaker 1: down year in the way that it ended. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: not gonna get paid. Alcolm Butler and that Patricia cool Well,
Speaker 1: that was the question. We we had a network hit
Speaker 1: that got deep six due to other programming, but that
Speaker 1: was my my question at that was, like Tricia, who
Speaker 1: just had Malcolm Butler, had to deal with Malcolm Butler
Speaker 1: bean bench during the Super Bowl, So that was was
Speaker 1: that a Belichick decision and Patricia had to just sit
Speaker 1: there and have egg on this. I mean, even everyone's
Speaker 1: assuming that the Patriots. I think the way the Patriots
Speaker 1: run they'd probably take Malcolm Butler back at the right price.
Speaker 1: There there, you know. And I don't know if they
Speaker 1: believe that whatever he did, it was a decision that
Speaker 1: they made and they clearly didn't appreciate what was going on.
Speaker 1: But they're kind of a bottom line value type of team,
Speaker 1: and I believe if if the price was right, I
Speaker 1: would hope that they would still want Butler. I desperately
Speaker 1: want the Lines to become an interesting team. Yes, step one,
Speaker 1: bring Malcolm Butler. In step two, when the Dolphins cut
Speaker 1: and Dominican sue, bring him back. We're cooking a lot
Speaker 1: of cooking with gas talk, a lot of that hot
Speaker 1: new phrase. I like you to cook it with a
Speaker 1: green egg, Oh with a green egg, smoking, smoking with
Speaker 1: the green egg. We're cooking with charcoal. You know what
Speaker 1: I miss? I love the charcoal I miss. And Dominican
Speaker 1: zoo like committed misdemeanors on Thanksgiving. Bring it back, you
Speaker 1: get him back in Detroit. Let's have some fun again.
Speaker 1: Let's get filthy. Nat Shaw may not agree with you,
Speaker 1: but I've got a fit that I like here on
Speaker 1: Mark's list. It's not gonna be up in neon lights
Speaker 1: like headlining the article, But Nate Solder following that New
Speaker 1: England to Houston pipeline after the Texans traded Dwayne Brown,
Speaker 1: they have a massive whole left tackle and if they
Speaker 1: want to pave the way for a Deshaun Watson bounce
Speaker 1: back season after the a c L surgery, you're gonna
Speaker 1: need better pass protection. Nate Solder makes sense for them.
Speaker 1: He already played under Bill O'Brien. As Mark pointed out
Speaker 1: the article, it's a fit that makes sense. They also
Speaker 1: potentially need a guard, another guard, and another table, so
Speaker 1: you gotta start somewhere. Soldier could make an insane amount
Speaker 1: of money because there are literally no other starting tackles
Speaker 1: available starting Matt Khalil can get a liven there's not
Speaker 1: another one, and here's a guy with a great pedigree.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hate retiring for it that way, how the cap,
Speaker 1: but he might have to make a decision. He took
Speaker 1: a below market deal to stay in New England last
Speaker 1: time around. It was believed that was partly due, unfortunately
Speaker 1: to his um child, who has I believe a rare
Speaker 1: form of cancer. He's still battling with it. You know,
Speaker 1: he's in the Boston area. It's not something you almost
Speaker 1: want to speculate about, but you know you have to.
Speaker 1: It's a big decision to up and leave, bring your
Speaker 1: family to a whole new place again. I think there's
Speaker 1: some thought that that might be an influence on him
Speaker 1: just staying in New England. Well, that's a different situation entirely.
Speaker 1: I I think they make a lot of sense, even
Speaker 1: though he is turning thirty and you know, offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: big dudes like that may not age well. Although Andrew
Speaker 1: Witworth is in an exception right there. Who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: Soldier plays well in his thirties. Um, the Texans could
Speaker 1: be I feel like that this has come up a
Speaker 1: couple of times the last few years. I feel like
Speaker 1: they're an a f C sleeper team next year if
Speaker 1: they have a nice free agency, have a nice draft class,
Speaker 1: and things fall the right way. So go get a
Speaker 1: left tackle Thomas And remember how they just in our
Speaker 1: lobby were playing that Patriots Texans game where Houston nearly
Speaker 1: nipped New England and took that thing, And they were
Speaker 1: one of the one of the few AFC teams that
Speaker 1: I thought, despite their record at the time, that they
Speaker 1: could overtake New England if they met him in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They were that exciting with the Shawn Watson and so
Speaker 1: forgettable because of the disaster that occurred after. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: need they have a lot of work to do on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, really, but with Watson, you
Speaker 1: feel like anything's possible all throughout a quarterback. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: not quite like Deshaun Watson, but I think could get
Speaker 1: the home crowd excited potentially in Arizona. That's where I
Speaker 1: put Teddy Bridgewater. It's a total risk. No one knows
Speaker 1: if what he's gonna be like, and only the Vikings
Speaker 1: really know how he looked in practice last year, but
Speaker 1: that felt like maybe it would be a good fit
Speaker 1: for him and for them just as a one year tryout.
Speaker 1: Let's let's see what this guy looks like. They're kind
Speaker 1: of starting from scratch at quarterback, and it seems like
Speaker 1: maybe maybe get a guy like Bridgewater. You draft someone
Speaker 1: and you see what happened. What about because they talked
Speaker 1: to that they have no quarterback stalls, so you get
Speaker 1: him and maybe you make a move for someone like
Speaker 1: a Josh Allen where like you can. Josh Allen is
Speaker 1: probably not a week one starter. Although I feel like
Speaker 1: with every one of these guys are starting by week five,
Speaker 1: and I'm done with that narrative. But like you could,
Speaker 1: you could, you may have Teddy for even as a
Speaker 1: season or more and start him, and then you bring
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and down the road. Going back to the
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald thing, I really think they're gonna want to
Speaker 1: have a guy they could plug in as a veteran
Speaker 1: that could make some noise. Potentially, Bridgewater makes sense as
Speaker 1: like a boom or bus feels strong because they're not
Speaker 1: gonna give him a ton of money. But uh, Greg,
Speaker 1: you even wrote in the piece that you think he
Speaker 1: has the highest ceiling of any free agent quarterback available,
Speaker 1: which led to some scientists heat downstairs. I disagree, But
Speaker 1: why did why do you? As as did the editor,
Speaker 1: as did west Um. I I think Teddy Bridgewater showed
Speaker 1: in his first two seasons a trajectory of a really
Speaker 1: strong starting quarterback, not unlike the trajectory that we've seen
Speaker 1: from a lot of talented young quarterbacks to the last
Speaker 1: couple of years and their first two seasons. Mariota Winston. Similarly,
Speaker 1: I think he's underrated in terms of his deep ball,
Speaker 1: certainly underrated in terms of what he added with his athleticism.
Speaker 1: Now is that guy coming back? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: no one knows. I'm not saying it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think it's in the realm of visability that he
Speaker 1: gets a long term deal at some point in his career.
Speaker 1: That's great, and that he does re establish himself as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I'm not going to put a limit on
Speaker 1: him that that's not possible. And I think he's shown
Speaker 1: enough tape and intelligence and everything you know about him
Speaker 1: that he does have a chance to be a top
Speaker 1: ten What what about the idea, how do we know
Speaker 1: he doesn't have aage? How about the idea that the
Speaker 1: Vikings I guess we don't know for sure, but seemed
Speaker 1: to be okay with him leaving the building. Who got
Speaker 1: him in the past year. That will be telling. We'll see,
Speaker 1: We'll see we lost Greg. Greg. Greg's coming was he
Speaker 1: wanted to see what will happen, So we'll see what
Speaker 1: they think. By the way, how about how about Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans remember, you know, them deciding not to chase after
Speaker 1: Drew Brees because of his injury two and forty years ago.
Speaker 1: How did that turn out? Just alright about that. By
Speaker 1: the way, Well, now I'm wearing a good to your headset. Now. See,
Speaker 1: I thought I don't like what Greg saying. Just hit him.
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to just cut that part
Speaker 1: of the show out, but now it's just in. Now
Speaker 1: take take the inverse of everything Greg said about Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: and that's what I believe. You're an act opposite. You're
Speaker 1: not buying Bridgewaters arc. Well, Greg's in denial about Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater's arm strength, first of all. And I think he's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest injury risk I've seen at quarterback in
Speaker 1: the past. I don't know, ten years, fifteen years, but
Speaker 1: that's gonna be baked into his contract. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that you have to pay him twenty million dollars a
Speaker 1: year by injury risk. I mean that really limits his ceiling.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any chance he's coming back anywhere
Speaker 1: close to what he was before that. And how how
Speaker 1: do we know? This is something that there's no certainty
Speaker 1: to me at all about. I mean, there's no certainty
Speaker 1: in any predictions like this, but this one is specially
Speaker 1: one is one thing we know is that injuries of
Speaker 1: that caliber lead to more leg injuries because of overcompensation.
Speaker 1: Who would you pour money into him? Teddy Bridgewater a
Speaker 1: case Keenum Sam Bradford? Wow? So what speak on that?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like, uh, no one's talked about Bradford
Speaker 1: this offseason at all as an interesting pickup and he
Speaker 1: might be a guy that ends up in Arizona. I
Speaker 1: think Arizona is a place where I could see a
Speaker 1: former Vikings quarterback. I don't know which one it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: but it feels like one of them could be there
Speaker 1: another major knee issue. So what why? Why would you
Speaker 1: spend on Bradford after a season where his knees were
Speaker 1: so mysterious that he like could move around, but they
Speaker 1: just refused to play him. Well, First of all, he
Speaker 1: came back and was immediately inserted above Bridgewater, which tells
Speaker 1: me that his knee is fine right now or or
Speaker 1: good enough to play. Second of all, as well as
Speaker 1: Keenum played last year, the best game played by a
Speaker 1: Vikings quarterback was Sam Bradford in Week one against the Saints.
Speaker 1: And that's on top of a two thousand sixteen season
Speaker 1: in which he led the NFL and completion rate and
Speaker 1: was statistically the best downfield passer in the league or
Speaker 1: the most efficient downfield passer in the league. I think
Speaker 1: he showed true advancement as a player in those two
Speaker 1: years in Minnesota, and it might be a small sample size,
Speaker 1: but it showed me enough that I'd rather take a
Speaker 1: chance on him much rather take a chance on him
Speaker 1: than Bridgewall. It's tough because his last time you saw
Speaker 1: him on the field was so depressing and horrible, and
Speaker 1: they thought he was ready to be He thought he
Speaker 1: was ready to play again then I think that was
Speaker 1: Week five or six when they finally shut him down
Speaker 1: after that, But you're right, maybe he comes and has
Speaker 1: another healthy year and that'd be worth a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: John d Filippo, their new OC, worked with Bradford before
Speaker 1: he was traded away from Philadelphia to Minnesota. That's either
Speaker 1: gonna be good for him or not good. I think
Speaker 1: would be good. Um. One other move I wanted to
Speaker 1: throw out there is Sebastian Janikowski was a free agencys
Speaker 1: on to tap. I love that. I love kicker talk,
Speaker 1: you know. I love the Bucks hard knock season. It's
Speaker 1: that team is being blown up by the way that
Speaker 1: so many people, myself included really came to adore a
Speaker 1: lot of guys on the team. Chris Baker out of
Speaker 1: there as we know, Doug Martin Gun you have the
Speaker 1: disaster at Kicker with Robbie Iguyo and then Nick Folk. Uh,
Speaker 1: you get Seabas in there, some stability, and you get
Speaker 1: a name brand a Kicker, which doesn't happen too often. Darren,
Speaker 1: that franchise is in a weird spot right now because
Speaker 1: they're interesting for what they're kind of in a transition phase.
Speaker 1: But they were so hard to watch last year. They
Speaker 1: were one of the most difficult teams to watch. But
Speaker 1: I kind of want to see what they do to
Speaker 1: turn that team around. Check out both pieces. Two half
Speaker 1: bangers that equal to banger, which if for no other reason,
Speaker 1: if you're just yes, that's the half bangers. Oh those
Speaker 1: are the bangers. Hell yeah, uh, if for no other reason,
Speaker 1: if you've ever wondered what a half banger reads like,
Speaker 1: well read either of those bangers. There you go. What
Speaker 1: if they both wrote bangers and it makes it a
Speaker 1: double banger. That's well scouting telling say someone wrote three
Speaker 1: quarters of a banger, one wrote a quarter. Maybe I
Speaker 1: wrote the quarter. I'm just saying how do we know
Speaker 1: it splits down the middle. That's that's assuming things. I
Speaker 1: think we I think we maximized what we could do
Speaker 1: with this piece. You know, it's ultimately just kind of
Speaker 1: throwing some darts against the board. It was kind of
Speaker 1: like um, you know, and you know in figure skating
Speaker 1: and got to bring it back to the Olympics. It's
Speaker 1: like some of them, they only have a total potential
Speaker 1: score that can get them into sixth, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like even if they're perfect, they don't. This
Speaker 1: is like that article. The total potential score can only
Speaker 1: get you, you know, just off the metal stand. There
Speaker 1: you go, clicks disappearing by the minute. Uh So we'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow Friday. So short turnaround for our next show.
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Speaker 1: a damn. You could be asking a terrible question, that's
Speaker 1: up to you. Here's an example of a terrible question.
Speaker 1: If the four heroes were stuck on an island, who
Speaker 1: would like be killed first? We don't want that would
Speaker 1: be the lone survivor who keeps asking these questions. It's
Speaker 1: just strange that the human mind is wired in such
Speaker 1: a way that that question has occurred to four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty different TWI why why is that the one
Speaker 1: question every They always want to pit us against each other,
Speaker 1: that's what it's about. But it's always the island, it's
Speaker 1: always who would survive. It's just it's always some type
Speaker 1: of dystopian healthscape where we have to murder each other. Well,
Speaker 1: we're not going to answer that question ever, so just
Speaker 1: stop asking it. But anything else is fair game. You
Speaker 1: have to decide who would taste the best, and that's
Speaker 1: a disgusting proposition. Yeah, you would have to go back
Speaker 1: to meet that's disgusting. I imagine no matter who the
Speaker 1: body is. Well, Mark has tattooed, so he would taste
Speaker 1: inkytos to have, like, what are you talking about? Like
Speaker 1: one miniature, tiny tattoo on my shoulder. If I were
Speaker 1: one thing from today's shows that Mark would taste inky,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would I like that. I like
Speaker 1: that because then I would not be on the radar
Speaker 1: to be killed by you on set Island. Well, now
Speaker 1: we've answered. I'm borderline gaunt, so I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: wants to be eating me. It is for Dan and Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and no one's gonna eat Greg, so nobody's just gonna
Speaker 1: be feasting on my body. We'll layoff. I'm on the
Speaker 1: peloton eating the fat guy. That's what that's happens. Are
Speaker 1: you happy, listeners? We've got a title for this episode
Speaker 1: at least, so yeah, we'll be back Friday, mail Bag,
Speaker 1: Friday fun Times. Um, that's it. Stand hands signing up. Oh,
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