Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcasts hanging out. It's shingle. We
Speaker 1: go back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis. I'm joined by a room
Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: What is up, boys? Hey Dan? Uh, it's raining cats
Speaker 1: and dogs, non lit cats and dogs outside. It was
Speaker 1: Sam Donald's pro day at usc You would have thought Sam,
Speaker 1: Greg that you would have thought Sam conquered the Nazis
Speaker 1: in the way he was being, Uh, the hero worship
Speaker 1: thrown his way because he threw some spirals in the rain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I was a little taken aback by the
Speaker 1: what was going on in reaction to his like that
Speaker 1: he had battled through war and mud and everything to
Speaker 1: throw a football. I saw somebody Cleveland Browns could not
Speaker 1: have asked for a better scenario than this. Yeah yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: also were like Donald. This is how Donald wanted it
Speaker 1: to be able to spin in the elements. It's like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't predict the weather on Sundays in
Speaker 1: the Northeast. Sign us up, he can do it. I'm sold.
Speaker 1: This guy's a warrior. Meanwhile, our our buddy, you know,
Speaker 1: move the sticks is over on the sideline and rouncing
Speaker 1: it with NFL network. But unlike Sam Donald, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not out in the elements. He's got an umbrella,
Speaker 1: he's got helping him, you know, with everything to stay
Speaker 1: dry are being kept utterly perfect. JEREMYA has reached the
Speaker 1: stage now basically where he's just he has a handler.
Speaker 1: You remember when p did he had the guy that
Speaker 1: walked around with the umbrella, and basically you had a
Speaker 1: caretaker that's removed the sticks is now, although I did
Speaker 1: notice in the picture Mayock was there and had a
Speaker 1: better umbrella. It is possible to hold these events without
Speaker 1: blowing them out of proportion. For years, Twitter, well, things
Speaker 1: are different, Nows, things are very different. I mean it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to never mind, we're not going to go
Speaker 1: down this road. Do you want to save it for
Speaker 1: the personal grievances against the pro day structure podcast? No?
Speaker 1: I mean it's just you get into this job long
Speaker 1: enough and you become convinced that things are important that
Speaker 1: really aren't important, and that's something that has really no importance.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget sitting next to West during the Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater glove no glove pro day that that had western
Speaker 1: a jumble. It's like quite wasting your time. And just
Speaker 1: watch his game film. I mean, I just love that
Speaker 1: he was out there doing it because you know he
Speaker 1: loves the game. He's a ball player. You play ball.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do this. You have to do it.
Speaker 1: And here he is spitting it in the rain. You
Speaker 1: don't care. He loves it. This guy's a dog, all right.
Speaker 1: Uh steps wrong, destroys his knee and renders all of
Speaker 1: that irrelevant. Thankfully that that did not happen. All right,
Speaker 1: here's something that really is important West. When you talk
Speaker 1: about the league calendar F the Super Bowl, F, the Draft,
Speaker 1: F free agency, uh F F the week one ope
Speaker 1: F kickoff night. What that's a great night. The only
Speaker 1: thing that matters is the owners meetings in Orlando next week.
Speaker 1: And guess what the heroes of the Around the NFL podcast,
Speaker 1: as we said, we'll be there with multiple podcasts and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little different because, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we got some big fish. Sis want some big fish
Speaker 1: scheduled finger than Evan Silma brought well, no, never to
Speaker 1: bring him into the boat. How about a little Dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: How about a little Matt Naggy? Does that? Anybody want
Speaker 1: a little bit of Johnny Harbaugh? Fight is in the music?
Speaker 1: Stay on? Hey, now, how about a little bit Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Orchard Park hero turned head coach Frank Right, We're not
Speaker 1: done yet. How about a little Oh yeah, he's got
Speaker 1: his own booth at the steakhouse, Andy read that is
Speaker 1: the music I associate with Andy Reid. And last, but
Speaker 1: not least, oh yeah, this guy's got a brain for football.
Speaker 1: He's Adam Gaze. All scheduled guests next week on the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast. And that's when you read gotta
Speaker 1: do to you know, be either the first one mentioned
Speaker 1: or the last. You just gotta buried there in the middle,
Speaker 1: poor guy. Uh. In fairness, I just read it off
Speaker 1: an email that was sent to us yesterday. We should
Speaker 1: play that clip of music for each of these guys
Speaker 1: during the interview, just to get the response. Of course,
Speaker 1: I agree that, Yeah, how do you feel about your
Speaker 1: int music? They all got, They all got their own songs.
Speaker 1: To Greg, you asked, why not just leave him playing?
Speaker 1: Did you not tell you're not a big fan of
Speaker 1: E D M music? I did not notice the difference
Speaker 1: between some deep cuts electronic dance music. As I just said,
Speaker 1: electronic dance music music. I would say, Dan, we are
Speaker 1: maybe you and I are sneaky d M fans. We
Speaker 1: were talking actually last year of going to a downtown
Speaker 1: l A rave, which we never probably for the best
Speaker 1: for everyone, I still want to go, Um, yeah, who
Speaker 1: do we say? We saw? Steve Ioki was at the
Speaker 1: should have the entire including waiting in line for like
Speaker 1: an hour to get in speaking to twenty three year
Speaker 1: olds about you know whatever, is going to stop projecting.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I got dragged to one of
Speaker 1: these events when I first moved to l A because
Speaker 1: I didn't have any friends out here. And if you're
Speaker 1: the most miserable, like a hour and a half, I
Speaker 1: I strongly disagree because the one that that we attended,
Speaker 1: they were shooting like water balloons and shaving cream into
Speaker 1: the sky and like it was raining various other kind
Speaker 1: of things. We're reigning up on us. I've been to
Speaker 1: some raves Montreal, New Orleans. I mean now I'm a
Speaker 1: little old for it. Anyway. So those coaches are going
Speaker 1: to be on the podcast next week, so we're very excited. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be uh staying at the hotel where all
Speaker 1: the coaches are, so you know, maybe oh we're not. No,
Speaker 1: didn't you hear all of the uh the league officials
Speaker 1: that are going to be there, all the gms and coaches,
Speaker 1: they all invited all of their families. So not only
Speaker 1: did we all get bumped out of the hotel, but
Speaker 1: we also had a lot of people that were told
Speaker 1: they can no longer make the trip. I'm surprised because
Speaker 1: they bring their families every year to this in the hotel,
Speaker 1: as Greg and I know from being the last time.
Speaker 1: It's a massive, sprawling, gigantic estate. It's where we ran
Speaker 1: past Anderson Cooper. I guess we're staying at they we
Speaker 1: found something to be upset about. So that's good. Big
Speaker 1: show coming up today. We're excited to go to Orlando.
Speaker 1: Who couldn't be excited to go to Orlando? Uh and
Speaker 1: go down in your hand west. Uh. So a lot
Speaker 1: to get to today. UM. Free agency now officially a
Speaker 1: week old. UM, as you listen to this, so we
Speaker 1: are gonna go through the what's left, the old best
Speaker 1: of what's left pile, which these are human beings, so
Speaker 1: you want to be um, respectful, respectful, But this old
Speaker 1: pile of discarded human bodies, we're gonna pick some out
Speaker 1: of the pile and say you deserve to live, you
Speaker 1: deserve to stay in the pile, that type of thing.
Speaker 1: So that's a little weird, um. And we got some
Speaker 1: news to get to in fact, let's get to it,
Speaker 1: starting with a big change coming up in the rules
Speaker 1: that might, maybe we hope, make football a little more enjoyable.
Speaker 1: And beyond, let's do some news to the ends. After
Speaker 1: reviewing the play, the receiver Indians one did not survive
Speaker 1: the ground. It's an incomplete path, all right. You heard
Speaker 1: that Jesse James had a touchdown over ruled against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: costing Pittsburgh that game or helping the cost in that game. UH.
Speaker 1: And that led to more fury about the arcane catch
Speaker 1: rule and how there needed to be a change, and
Speaker 1: we are heading in that direction now the NFL. Uh
Speaker 1: it took a step forward on that front al river iron.
Speaker 1: The uh Senior Veep of Officiating announced Wednesday that the
Speaker 1: Competition Committee will recommend simplifying the language of the catch rule.
Speaker 1: The proposed changes will be presented next week at the
Speaker 1: annual League meeting. Uh. They the proposed rules defining a
Speaker 1: catch are control of the ball number one, okay, makes sense, two,
Speaker 1: two ft down or another body part like your buttocks
Speaker 1: mark could be your butt uh number three And this
Speaker 1: is where people are gonna start getting upset again. But
Speaker 1: I still feel like this is positive, positive momentum. A
Speaker 1: football move such as colon a third step, semi colon, reaching, slash,
Speaker 1: extending for the line to gain semi colon, or the
Speaker 1: ability to perform such an act. West your thoughts. So,
Speaker 1: my biggest problem with the catch roll, or I think
Speaker 1: society's biggest problem with the catch roll was twofold number one.
Speaker 1: It lacked any semblance of common sense. How can a
Speaker 1: player reach the ball for the end zone without first
Speaker 1: possessing it. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. We learn
Speaker 1: what it catches in the backyard by the time we
Speaker 1: reached Toddler hood. We see an NFL receiver catch the ball,
Speaker 1: possess it, run three steps in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: and have it ruled no catch. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: We know what a catches and that's a catch, So
Speaker 1: that's insanity. I think this problem might not go away.
Speaker 1: The kip problem was that the NFL should be encouraging
Speaker 1: transcendent moments that inspire fans, stretch physical limitations, and make
Speaker 1: an athletic achievements sublime, like des Bryant catch, which was
Speaker 1: ruled in no catch. The NFL should be encouraging that play,
Speaker 1: not legislating out of the game. And River Run on
Speaker 1: Twitter went out of his way after this announcement to
Speaker 1: say that Desert catch and the James catch would both
Speaker 1: become receptions under the news, and that's what you want
Speaker 1: if you're the NFL. Those are things that not the
Speaker 1: entire three hours of a game is not all that exciting.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of downtimes, but the most exciting
Speaker 1: players are the ones you want to keep and encourage.
Speaker 1: The main changes here the mag changes. You don't no
Speaker 1: longer have to completely possess it going to the ground.
Speaker 1: To me, that's that's kind of the headline, and that's
Speaker 1: basically it. The other the other thing they'll allow is,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little bit of you know, they
Speaker 1: can allow a little bit of juggling, you know, on
Speaker 1: the ground as you're catching it, if if you show
Speaker 1: that you have caught the ball. And then the third
Speaker 1: part of it, which really blew my mind and just
Speaker 1: showed how poorly they were doing things last year. Is
Speaker 1: they're basically just saying, we're emphasizing again it has to
Speaker 1: be indisputable to overturn it. But that was always the rule.
Speaker 1: They're just they're admitting that Al river On and the
Speaker 1: NFL as a whole, we're making a lot of mistakes
Speaker 1: last year by not listening to their own rules. I
Speaker 1: don't think this is going to eliminate people yelling about
Speaker 1: the catchule, because ultimately it's an it's an impossible solution.
Speaker 1: I think himself talked about burning the rule down to
Speaker 1: the core and rebuilding it. That's not happened. But if
Speaker 1: they can to the point, to your point, where's the
Speaker 1: sublime plays that have been reversed? And it's a massive
Speaker 1: pr headache for football and for the NFL to have
Speaker 1: to explain these from the weeks after and what it
Speaker 1: does to teams, what it did to the Steelers. If
Speaker 1: they can remove five to ten of those a season,
Speaker 1: everything is better in my opinion, my opinion, but they're
Speaker 1: always just react into what happened the previous season. There
Speaker 1: didn't it get better after down the stretch? In the
Speaker 1: playoffs too. Remember we talked about they quietly changed before
Speaker 1: this this ever happened. But yeah, you bringing up the
Speaker 1: Jesse James catch and the Dez Bryant catch was which
Speaker 1: was in the two thousand fourteen postseason. Those are both
Speaker 1: incredible games that to me and a lot of the
Speaker 1: other fans felt were spoiled by uh that rule, And
Speaker 1: hopefully if you could just eliminate that type of shenanigans,
Speaker 1: it's a success to me. I don't think anybody's ever
Speaker 1: gonna be happy. I don't think anyone's ever truly happy
Speaker 1: about anything anymore. There's always something someone's gonna complain well,
Speaker 1: and people saying, oh I really missed the catch rule
Speaker 1: and all the crazy stuff, so that would be fixed.
Speaker 1: In the reviews, reviews just aren't a fun part of
Speaker 1: the game, like I would. I would ask Roger Goodell
Speaker 1: that next week, maybe maybe I can. It's like, does
Speaker 1: does that hurt your enjoyment of the game watching these reviews?
Speaker 1: And it's not. He's he's not going to speak to you.
Speaker 1: This isn't exclusive to football. We see in March Madness
Speaker 1: there are like ten to twelve minute delays for review reviews.
Speaker 1: And coaches want to keep that stuff in the game
Speaker 1: because it affects their jobs. Fans don't want it, so
Speaker 1: I think there should be more of a fan voice
Speaker 1: in this where you need to have the entertainment maximized
Speaker 1: and some of the you know, over scrutinizing of plays minimized. Uh.
Speaker 1: Moving on to uh NFL transaction news, Alan Hearns joins
Speaker 1: the uh free agency field. The Jacksonville Jaguars released the
Speaker 1: wide receiver this coming two years after her inside a
Speaker 1: four year, forty million dollar contract. UH. So the Jags decide,
Speaker 1: we don't want to pay this guy anymore, so they
Speaker 1: save seven million on their cap, no dead money. Herns
Speaker 1: as a rookie h had a thousand yards and ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns second year second New York excuse me, but has
Speaker 1: not been close to the same player since the Jags
Speaker 1: go in a different direction to wide receiver. The biggest
Speaker 1: mistake teams make, I think the most costly is when
Speaker 1: they self scout poorly. This contract had a lot of
Speaker 1: repercussions here Allan Robinson and his price tag looking for
Speaker 1: a long term extension was higher over the last two
Speaker 1: years because they gave Alan Hearns so much money. I
Speaker 1: read something from Tom Current in New England that the
Speaker 1: second Alan Herns signed this contract, that was the moment
Speaker 1: that Malcolm Butler essentially was on his way to be
Speaker 1: coming an next Patriot. They were close to doing a deal,
Speaker 1: and when an undrafted player like Alan Herns in his
Speaker 1: same draft class suddenly got ten million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: Butler was like, that's what I want. They went out
Speaker 1: of their way to pay Allen Hearns really early and
Speaker 1: it just didn't work. But think about that, coming out
Speaker 1: of two thousand fifteen season, Blake Bordle stories for thirty
Speaker 1: five touchdowns Allen Robinson and Alan Herns, the two Alan's.
Speaker 1: They're gonna build this offense. They've got Julius Thomas, and
Speaker 1: none of those receivers are left anymore. They end up
Speaker 1: paying Dante Moncrief nine million, but they can't pay the
Speaker 1: franchise tag for Allen Robinson. Doesn't make sense. The Moncreeft
Speaker 1: signing is mysterious. I do like I like D D.
Speaker 1: Westbrook a lot. Uh In other wide receiver news, Ryan
Speaker 1: Grant thought he had a nine million dollar deal with
Speaker 1: the Ravens, but then he flunked a physical mark yeah,
Speaker 1: and obvious that Yeah, I think the new the new
Speaker 1: aspect is that sounds like utter bunk to me out
Speaker 1: of Baltimore, which we can ask John harborow about this
Speaker 1: weekend hard hitting. So you better now you're on the
Speaker 1: spot if I have if I asked I want to
Speaker 1: bring some Ravens heat, that would not be at the
Speaker 1: top of my list, but I will make it. If
Speaker 1: you're going to do this, you gotta do it right.
Speaker 1: You have to frame the question, and that would be
Speaker 1: that would even make the top of your list. We
Speaker 1: should just let the Harbaugh interview be just Mark with
Speaker 1: a list of grievances be there will be there be
Speaker 1: Like Jim Gray interviewing Pete Rose, we would have Ravens
Speaker 1: pr on us in literally five seconds saying we will
Speaker 1: never cooperate with your podcast ever again. So Grants goes
Speaker 1: from signing a twenty nine million dollar deal with the
Speaker 1: Ravens to a prove It one year deal worth five
Speaker 1: million with the Cults. Uh and Grant says he's healthy.
Speaker 1: He said, if there was an issue with my ankle,
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't have passed the physical with the Colts
Speaker 1: and the Raiders, which listen speaks to Mark's point, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the He's gonna get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of this with Harbaugh face to face just a few days. Uh,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I don't know who knows what their cults.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe a good signing if their quarterbacks blank,
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of depth at all. He
Speaker 1: had a remarkably positive attitude, saying, you know that that
Speaker 1: didn't happen, wasn't meant to be. Not a big deal
Speaker 1: for a guy who lost, Yeah, tens of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars in that transaction. But that's that's the type of
Speaker 1: attitude and the type of perseverance you get from an
Speaker 1: education at Tulane University. Well done. Uh. Chris Ballard very
Speaker 1: busy man. Uh. In addition to inking Ryan Grant, he
Speaker 1: also signed Eric Ebron, the former Lion's first round pick,
Speaker 1: to a two year deal can earn up to fifteen million,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good money for a guy that just
Speaker 1: did not get it done in Detroit but has some upside. Also,
Speaker 1: they signed guard Jack Court to one year at one
Speaker 1: point five billion dollar deal, bringing him back UH former
Speaker 1: second round pick in uh, and also Matt Slawson, another guard. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was on the Chargers last year. One year, three
Speaker 1: million dollars. So the Colts making moves now. They just
Speaker 1: need their quarterback to be able to play football. It
Speaker 1: seems like Frank break is gonna use two tight end
Speaker 1: sets because they paid Jack Doyle last year too, and
Speaker 1: they like him. I think we'll see an increase in that.
Speaker 1: And I like that they're signing interior alignment, so it's
Speaker 1: not something they need to address in the first or
Speaker 1: second round of the draft. You can still go in
Speaker 1: the mid rounds and and try to pick up some guards.
Speaker 1: They need these guys to be healthy. Move Hort Dan's
Speaker 1: guy and Slawson a twenty four combined games missed over
Speaker 1: the last two seasons. I like what Chris Ballard has
Speaker 1: done the last week, though he sat out the first
Speaker 1: over project. What's your favorite type of frog? The stupid money? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he got guys that good value that can play.
Speaker 1: Denko Autrey was another guy last week for the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Solid player at that's what you're doing. He's building it.
Speaker 1: But it is his quarterback play. Well, that's all that
Speaker 1: really matters. From everything we heard out of him, they
Speaker 1: expected to play, didn't we hear that last year. A
Speaker 1: disturbing story actually out of Los Angeles, UH, Buffalo Bill's
Speaker 1: wide receivers. A Jones, their second round pick last year,
Speaker 1: was arrested on felony vandalism charge. But that doesn't quite
Speaker 1: paint the picture of what happened there was. The incident
Speaker 1: involved Jones and his brother who's also an NFL player,
Speaker 1: UH and and Jones A. Jones was completely nude in
Speaker 1: the surveillance video, also kicked through a glass window, pretty
Speaker 1: thick plank glance and leaving behind I think some of
Speaker 1: his leg because there was a lot of blood. He
Speaker 1: tried to crawl through the hole that he kicked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so very disturbing story in the sense obviously something was
Speaker 1: not right with Jones, and hopefully it's not something uh
Speaker 1: too serious. But if you're the Bills, and if you're
Speaker 1: in Za Jones a friend or family member, you got
Speaker 1: to be very concerned earned about what's going on with
Speaker 1: the young man. I don't want to speculate, but I mean,
Speaker 1: if they were I don't know, if they were out
Speaker 1: on the town or something, I would suggest that maybe
Speaker 1: more than one or two beers involved here, maybe something else.
Speaker 1: That's what you hope. It's almost like you had the hope.
Speaker 1: It was just there's a lot of similarity to the
Speaker 1: synthetic marijuana cases we've seen. Mm I like that little
Speaker 1: speculation of synthetic marijuana use. I'm just drawing the similarities
Speaker 1: to what who is the cyrus quanjo who ended up
Speaker 1: in a cornfield naked? Yeah? Should we do a p
Speaker 1: s A for our listeners to kind of steer clear
Speaker 1: of the synthetic. Yeah, there's a great legal stuff everywhere.
Speaker 1: If you feel like you must ingest marijuana products, you know,
Speaker 1: go for the real thing. As with most things in life,
Speaker 1: try the organic variety and obviously if it's legal in
Speaker 1: your state. Yes, played by the rule. We got to
Speaker 1: cover every base here at around the NFL podcast. Don't
Speaker 1: do illegal things. There will be repercussions unless it's fun
Speaker 1: and you can get away with it. It was it
Speaker 1: was uns There are no people. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: concerning the element for z Jones, who had one of
Speaker 1: the most concerning I guess seasons for a highly drafted
Speaker 1: rookie just on the field, and it was drafted by
Speaker 1: Doug Whaler, So he might even though he's a second
Speaker 1: round pick because he was drafted by the old regime.
Speaker 1: You know he might not you know, he might be
Speaker 1: on thin ice there and no longer go on scholarship.
Speaker 1: Good news for the throne of ease. Matthew Slater, who
Speaker 1: shopped his wares around town, including with the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: agreed to resign with the Pats a two year contract.
Speaker 1: Mike Garifolo reported, Uh, Slater thirty two years old. Uh,
Speaker 1: the son of Hall of Fame tackle Jackie Slater, which
Speaker 1: I'm just learning this from Chris Wesling's copy. Uh spoken
Speaker 1: about it on this podcast that you didn't realize he
Speaker 1: was Jackie Slater. So really I've been doing this. Someone
Speaker 1: said he didn't realize that he was Jackie Slater. So
Speaker 1: whatever the point. This is the guy, and I think
Speaker 1: in my Super Bowl glossary right up before the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl this year under Matt Slater, the guy that Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick will say is his favorite play or ever during
Speaker 1: his Hall of Fame speech because he's a Belichick guy,
Speaker 1: and he's an excellent tool for the Patriots. Whenever they
Speaker 1: say we've got media availability and we don't want to
Speaker 1: put some sort of hot button issue personnelity, it's always
Speaker 1: Matthew Slater, commanding his own booth during media day and
Speaker 1: during every isted he redefines polish. I mean this guy.
Speaker 1: I was watching a little bit of his media night
Speaker 1: and Opening Night, Mark, let's get I mean every day
Speaker 1: that they have media available. I'm talking about Opening night,
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I was really taken back by how incredibly
Speaker 1: well spoken it was, how he was able to basically
Speaker 1: sound like a coach, a guy that's on the field
Speaker 1: as a coach, essentially the guy you want to keep around.
Speaker 1: He's got to be in the top five for most
Speaker 1: words ever spoken at NFL Media Night. Well, he's been
Speaker 1: to five, right I would. I think he's been to
Speaker 1: the ones this decade. So he's been to five, and
Speaker 1: he's saying more things than Tom Brady is saying. Just yeah.
Speaker 1: People are aren't usually crowded around him, But those are
Speaker 1: the guys mark your dog a journal and those are
Speaker 1: the guys that you want to zoom in on. I do.
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with him during those events,
Speaker 1: if I can. There there are two Patriots airs. There's
Speaker 1: only been There's only been I think four players and
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm gonna be wrong now here that have
Speaker 1: been in the Gronk era. It's mccordy, Gronk, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Matthew Slater. Gronk is one of those people. Gronk
Speaker 1: has survived the Gronk era like the two thousand tens.
Speaker 1: Is there any other patriot that's been on the team
Speaker 1: that long? Perhaps, Kastowski said, that's right. Got moving on.
Speaker 1: ESPN has hired X Bears head coach John Fox's studio
Speaker 1: analysts and uh this reported by The Athletic. And Fox
Speaker 1: is a guy that's been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm bringing this up and I'm interested to
Speaker 1: hear what you guys said say about it. But on
Speaker 1: Rhoda World, the blurb is just fire and brimstone, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it to you. And I hope the
Speaker 1: big Fish, the biggest of all fish, Evans Silva road it.
Speaker 1: We gotta get Evan back on the show. What are
Speaker 1: these networks going to learn that hiring these past their
Speaker 1: prime former head coaches and players who have seen the
Speaker 1: sport completely pass them by isn't good for their viewership.
Speaker 1: Fox is another atrocious higher in a laundry list of
Speaker 1: them made by ESPN Network over the years. It's time
Speaker 1: for forward thinkers rather than stone age football guys who
Speaker 1: still live in a world shot at that feels right
Speaker 1: Silva's tree. He could have co wrote it with Rhodopath.
Speaker 1: I think I might put my money on Rhodopad for
Speaker 1: that one. Hey fanatical this offseason? Two? Who on what
Speaker 1: topic you are you? I am always leary of people
Speaker 1: driving agendas, and Rodo World is now driving an agenda.
Speaker 1: And I think it's like, first we get st hood
Speaker 1: for Shaucy Brown. That's the first thing they want st
Speaker 1: hood for something who's never done anything wrong ever, Ladies
Speaker 1: and jem for one night and has foreseen everything that
Speaker 1: could possibly be seen in football. Sashy Brown foresaw it.
Speaker 1: He knew that the Houston Texans were gonna lose their quarterback,
Speaker 1: have a horrible season, and have a top four draft pick.
Speaker 1: All credit to Sashy Brown for that and everything analytics
Speaker 1: is gold. And nobody who's made a career out of
Speaker 1: football knows anything throw the world knows so much more
Speaker 1: than anybody who's ever made a career in football. WHOA
Speaker 1: this was unforeseen? I like this. I love the rant.
Speaker 1: I guess we're not gonna have Evan on well I
Speaker 1: love Evan Silva. He's great. He's now has an agenda
Speaker 1: though Evan, Evan will be the first guide who will
Speaker 1: come on to share his opinion. Evan just like threw
Speaker 1: his his smartphone off the top of the series tower.
Speaker 1: He likes. He likes going back and forth. I've been
Speaker 1: back and forth. The one thing I would say on
Speaker 1: the Fox blurb though, is I think it's very hard
Speaker 1: to predict who's gonna be good and who's gonna be
Speaker 1: bad on TV. There were a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: friends of of Foxy on Twitter yesterday were like, trust me,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be great on TV. He's so great off
Speaker 1: off Mike and we'll see. I don't know, but it
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if he was really great on TV.
Speaker 1: For instance, like Rex Ryan not really as exciting on
Speaker 1: TV as you would expect. And sometimes guys like Eric
Speaker 1: Man Jeanne was pretty great and it's pretty good, and
Speaker 1: it's not as a smooth thing. It's an in studio thing.
Speaker 1: And I will say for John Fox, as boring as
Speaker 1: the Bears were and as boring as some of his
Speaker 1: teams can be, he is not boring at at past
Speaker 1: owners meetings, for instance, when everyone is just in a
Speaker 1: room together tying, and he is fun. He came to
Speaker 1: an Oscar party that we that NFL never had a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and he was the life of
Speaker 1: the party. Well, I mean I was. I was lucky
Speaker 1: to get to the door it was back then, but
Speaker 1: it was like he was in there holding court for hours.
Speaker 1: So I was like you and who's the woman who
Speaker 1: runs Vanity Fairway? Wow? I really fallen story here, just
Speaker 1: like Mark hanging out at Oscar parties, not at he's
Speaker 1: a photographer. But John Fox, I agree. You don't want
Speaker 1: him in the bet down that road. There's that potential
Speaker 1: for the phil sims like you got the ball at
Speaker 1: the fourth and one at the forty yard line, you
Speaker 1: gotta punt here, you gotta punt. You're gonna get that
Speaker 1: with John Fox. But in the studio I feel like
Speaker 1: he's I've seen him out during super Bowl week. The
Speaker 1: guy has fun time. He's got a good personalities gregarious
Speaker 1: hold hold tight roto before were in a wind tour. Okay,
Speaker 1: and finally in the news, you know that I am
Speaker 1: the kicker insider um for all things NFL media related.
Speaker 1: Uh So I figured it'd be a good time. Now
Speaker 1: that free agency is a weekend to go through little
Speaker 1: kicker news like this, It's good. Ryan suck Up resigned
Speaker 1: five years million of Titans. Cody Parker so four years
Speaker 1: fifteen million with the Bears. Dustin Hopkins resigned three years
Speaker 1: six point eight seven five with the Redskins. Graham Gano
Speaker 1: four year seventeen Carolina, Adam Finitieri one year three six
Speaker 1: with the Cults, Matt Bryant three years ten five Falcons,
Speaker 1: Chandler Cannon Zarrow three years nine point seven five Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: Cairo Santos one year two million, New York Football Jets,
Speaker 1: Caleb Sturgis two years four point four five Chargers Finally,
Speaker 1: last but not least, resigning an undisclosed deal with the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Kons. Kai Ky kickers are getting paid some money.
Speaker 1: When you are on the rundown that you send out
Speaker 1: before the show, you said there was gonna be a
Speaker 1: roundup of kicker news. I went and spent about forty
Speaker 1: five to fifty minutes finding out nuggets and factoids for
Speaker 1: each one of those kickers not needed um some somehow
Speaker 1: now in the mood for like a little cinemax, some
Speaker 1: a few a few notable unemployed kickers see bass still
Speaker 1: on the market. The Chargers blew that what you what
Speaker 1: you think Caleb Sturgis is packing the house? You bring Sebastis?
Speaker 1: I think you brings Janikowski. It's a little warning shot
Speaker 1: up to your friends in Oakland. We're taking over l A.
Speaker 1: Now let's have some fun with Chargers have bigger concerns
Speaker 1: in packing the house, Like how about hit a kick
Speaker 1: Kaski would be good. How do we know Nick Folk
Speaker 1: the folk hero after a disastrous office Has anyone ever
Speaker 1: called him the folks? Oh? Yeah, the New York tabloids
Speaker 1: did it like seven times over course of his career
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Blair Walsh doesn't have a job. Nick
Speaker 1: Novak doesn't have a job. And Mike Nugent, your old
Speaker 1: favorite West the news cost is Incinnati playoff game against
Speaker 1: the Jets once upon a time, still unemployed. That's what's
Speaker 1: happening in the news. All right, So I just brought
Speaker 1: up some free agents, uh, still looking for work? Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some with respect to the Kickers, more
Speaker 1: prominent NFL players on the market still and we should
Speaker 1: start Greg Rosenthal with in Dominan sue the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: released by the Dolphins last week. And the more as
Speaker 1: the days and hours go by, the more it looks possible, Greg,
Speaker 1: that a super defensive line of epic proportions is being
Speaker 1: set up right in our backyard. I hope, so, I
Speaker 1: hope that Indomican Sue is going to join the Rams.
Speaker 1: As we came up to the studio today, Ian Rappaport,
Speaker 1: our NFL Network insider, reported that his SU's trip to
Speaker 1: the Raiders is off the court. Sources told him and
Speaker 1: Mike Silver, he's back home. He's not gonna make a decision.
Speaker 1: Rams made a strong impression, but also considering the Saints
Speaker 1: and the Titans, and I think you could if you
Speaker 1: wanted to read between the lines on this tweet, Rams
Speaker 1: made a nice impression. That's what they pay for. Rams
Speaker 1: made a nice impression. Up. You know, Sue wants them
Speaker 1: to pony up, pony up a little more. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they're not offering as much money as a Saints and Titans.
Speaker 1: Maybe hasn't gotten to that point, but I just you
Speaker 1: get the feeling that Rams or maybe in the pole
Speaker 1: position here between the lines, visionary Greg Rosen, that's what
Speaker 1: he's known as. It will be odd to see Sue.
Speaker 1: I realized he had one or two Lions teams that
Speaker 1: were semi successful, but he's consistently attached to lose or
Speaker 1: franchises that ultimately go nowhere. It would be nice to
Speaker 1: see him on the Rams. Saints Thoughts or Rams kind
Speaker 1: of fell that, Hey, I've got a titance to make
Speaker 1: a contender better. I'd like to see him on the Titan.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like he goes into totally
Speaker 1: anonymous land the way it seems like it's trending. Titans
Speaker 1: need more name players they can get a modicum of
Speaker 1: attention from network. Really surprised if he did not go
Speaker 1: to a team that was in the playoffs last year
Speaker 1: and his viewed as a contender. Actually, the Titans know
Speaker 1: they were in the divisional round, they won a game.
Speaker 1: He ain't taking a penny less to the top offer.
Speaker 1: We already know that. Well, maybe he's changed was people
Speaker 1: can change. I don't think he has. He has come
Speaker 1: out and said this is his m O. I like
Speaker 1: no player I've ever seen before. He's come out and
Speaker 1: it is an adjustment. Though he's gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: less money than he was getting, and I think even
Speaker 1: my my guests, when we see these offers, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot less than people are expecting. All right,
Speaker 1: there are three notable quarterbacks still on the market, and uh, Mark,
Speaker 1: you tell me which one's most likely to sign and
Speaker 1: which one is the least likely to sign a deal.
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick you may have heard of him, who, by
Speaker 1: the way, just held a workout in Houston during his
Speaker 1: a position. Uh in a case of collusion, NFL collusion
Speaker 1: against him. I feel like that could hurt his case
Speaker 1: to get a job. But we'll see Jay Cutler and
Speaker 1: Gina Smith most likely at least likely, most likely Geno Smith,
Speaker 1: um to the discredit of the team that chooses to
Speaker 1: do so, and uh, least likely I mean savage, bro,
Speaker 1: That's how I operated right pretty well on his one
Speaker 1: start last year. I give me a break. That's not true,
Speaker 1: Um it is. That's fine. I would say this. I
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick wants to keep playing. Jay Cutler I think
Speaker 1: does not so Jake Cutler. How do you pick a
Speaker 1: least likely? I almost think like Jay Cutler at least
Speaker 1: likely because he will retire if he were not choosing
Speaker 1: to retire. Colin Kaepernick least like his Cutler is not
Speaker 1: getting a starting job the Bills or somebody. Let's hope
Speaker 1: not and I think Cutler is done. That would be
Speaker 1: my strong Kaepernick, though, I think the team's teams proved
Speaker 1: last year, for it wasn't every one of them. It's
Speaker 1: not that it's just that he could not find work
Speaker 1: lass He's not about to find it again. I don't
Speaker 1: think I think we're all on the same page at
Speaker 1: Kaepernick deserves a job somewhere, but this collusion case it
Speaker 1: cannot help his cause. And he's in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: And it's just hard to imagine a team and an owner,
Speaker 1: uh jumping into the frame and be like, hey, come
Speaker 1: onto my team because there's a lot of politics at play.
Speaker 1: It always has been the case with the situation, and
Speaker 1: be then be better, be bigger than this situation. In
Speaker 1: the NFL, it's it almost felt like Kaepernick didn't get
Speaker 1: a job in part because they were worried about bad publicity. Well,
Speaker 1: signing Colin Kaepernick would be great publicity in my mind,
Speaker 1: it would It would help end or at least start
Speaker 1: to end a chapter that has not reflected well ultimately
Speaker 1: on the NFL. And he he absolutely deserves to be
Speaker 1: in the league as as a backup in Miami, Baltimore, Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I don't know which which team could give him a shot.
Speaker 1: I I still think we should mention it because I
Speaker 1: don't think we should give up hope that his career
Speaker 1: is over at thirty. Maybe this case has to end,
Speaker 1: but to me, he should still have a back into
Speaker 1: the other way, and I think it will should have
Speaker 1: last year, I mean the Ravens, and the Ravens backed
Speaker 1: off deciding to do it, and there and and when
Speaker 1: you and the more you learn about that, it was
Speaker 1: super clear that it had to do with people outside
Speaker 1: the organization saying we won't support you with sponsors, everything,
Speaker 1: and it is it's a very bad look. And that's
Speaker 1: why what you're saying, Greg makes sense. Yes, that it
Speaker 1: would be good pr for a large portion of the
Speaker 1: country and and and media outlets, but behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: that team is going to have to deal with some things.
Speaker 1: And that's just the sad reality of the situation. Uh.
Speaker 1: There will gonna be other owners that would be upset,
Speaker 1: advertiser sponsors, You run into issues and then it goes
Speaker 1: back to what you were saying west all last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: does his playing ability at this point? Is it enough
Speaker 1: to outweigh all the negatives that would come with signing him?
Speaker 1: And stresses why playing ability? What is his asking price?
Speaker 1: How is he going to be in the locker room?
Speaker 1: Does he know the offense? Is he a fit for
Speaker 1: the offense. There's a lot of question that go into it.
Speaker 1: It's not just about being blackballed. H Okay wide receivers
Speaker 1: West Eric Decker, Terrell Prior, and Jordan Matthews, three uh
Speaker 1: quality guys. Which guy would you most want on your team?
Speaker 1: By far? Terrell Prior? Wow? By far? To me, he's
Speaker 1: in two tiers higher than those guys. Gave some of
Speaker 1: the top cornerbacks in the league fits in two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixteen toward ligaments in his foot in week two
Speaker 1: of two thousand seventeen, and of course it was not
Speaker 1: the same player while while trying to play through torn
Speaker 1: ligaments in his foot. So to me, I throw out
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen. I feel not enough was made of that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I don't think it was like
Speaker 1: public knowledge. Charley Castley noted they were trying to use
Speaker 1: him all over the place, use him inside where he
Speaker 1: just didn't look that comfortable and he might not be that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a former quarterback, not that versatile a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He had a coach in Cleveland and Hugh Jackson that
Speaker 1: seemed to know how to maximize well. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: surprising to find out that Hugh Jackson could do something
Speaker 1: that Jake Ruden can't after what happened last year with
Speaker 1: a lot of other players in the Browns. But Terrell
Speaker 1: Pryor was dominant in games for in a series of
Speaker 1: games two seasons ago, going up against number one corners
Speaker 1: and his body type is just impossible to guard. One
Speaker 1: of the best athletes in the league. Visited the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and the Jets. Initially, it was reported that the Browns
Speaker 1: and the Rams might have been interested from Mike Silver,
Speaker 1: but clearly he I think his best bet would be
Speaker 1: going to the Browns, even though he might be their
Speaker 1: fourth receiver and just hoping. You know, you got Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon and Corey Coleman in front of you, and you
Speaker 1: might have to take two million dollars on a one
Speaker 1: year contract, but wouldn't there be another team out there
Speaker 1: that would pay him that money? Then you can go
Speaker 1: to a team with an established not getting the offers
Speaker 1: he wants. I don't know what he wants, but the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Jets aren't offering it, or else he
Speaker 1: would have signed it. I think Jordan Matthews is being
Speaker 1: under valued in this market just because you you know
Speaker 1: what you're getting with him. He hadn't know you had
Speaker 1: an injury plague season on a terrible lingering issue. You
Speaker 1: had an injury plaque season. And if it's all about
Speaker 1: the injury, then that's that's don't getting with a guy
Speaker 1: who's got a lingering knee issue. He had yards in
Speaker 1: his first three years and two hundred fifties something catches.
Speaker 1: That's more than basically every wide receiver free agent that
Speaker 1: signed for huge money. And he's a slot receiver. We
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of money. But he should be
Speaker 1: able to help a team out there, maybe like the Colts.
Speaker 1: Colts really need some wide receivers. And I know that
Speaker 1: Decker was a disappointment last year, but he's still just
Speaker 1: thirty one and he was coming off two major surgeries.
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if he signed with the
Speaker 1: team that had a good offense that he was better
Speaker 1: this year. Uh A full year healthier, uh from last season.
Speaker 1: But I know he wasn't good. But if be a
Speaker 1: shocked if he wasn't playing at all this season. No,
Speaker 1: I mean it's possible he had major, major surgeries. It's
Speaker 1: possible he left that that ability on the operating table.
Speaker 1: What's happened to other players? Had a huge touchdown catch
Speaker 1: in that playoff win against the Chief. He visited the Raiders,
Speaker 1: so that would fit in with their kind of graybeards philosophy.
Speaker 1: Vaders are taking a lot of your potential signings of
Speaker 1: as GM of the l A graybeards. I will be
Speaker 1: rolling out my two thousand eighteen Graybeards roster in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. So these guys, a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys could end up are several of them could end
Speaker 1: up on my team. Uh. And what a great a
Speaker 1: bunch of grinders they are. It's a little grizzle. It's
Speaker 1: a little grizzle the features Bruden wants to make them
Speaker 1: his grinders running back. Here's a nice guy, would build
Speaker 1: my whole team around. In terms of the media campaign,
Speaker 1: he'd be on the Media Guide. I'd have him doing
Speaker 1: the late night talk shows. I'd have him on Craig
Speaker 1: Kilborn's Killboards Love a show like four late show hosts Ago.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson does not have a job. He was initially
Speaker 1: on your top one on one. Where was it? He's
Speaker 1: still he still is sitting there somewhere. He's in the seventies.
Speaker 1: I believe he is seventy six. Adrian Peterson looking for
Speaker 1: Wark Greg is you gotta get it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's the guy to build your marketing campaign around,
Speaker 1: you know, considering some some my people tell me that
Speaker 1: forgives It's true. At this point, I think people have
Speaker 1: forgiven him. That's totally fair. He's a first ballot Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. He's not a versatile guy, not gonna help
Speaker 1: you on third A supportive guy like that, just joking.
Speaker 1: It's a fair class by the people on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: think you should at Dan Hans and Uh with your questions.
Speaker 1: Something you joke about. It was like, well that's a
Speaker 1: good point. I know West disagrees, but I'd rather sign
Speaker 1: Frank Gore right now. He went. He had a visit
Speaker 1: with the Lions. But I think he's a that's pure
Speaker 1: and sandy. He's a leader. He's a leader, and he's
Speaker 1: a better Gary Blunt backfield with a mere abdulla nursing. Now,
Speaker 1: I think Blunt knocked him out of contention. I watched
Speaker 1: the Bucks game last year, Cardinals Bucks game or Cardinals
Speaker 1: forty Niners, and tell me Adrian Peterson can't play, and
Speaker 1: I'll say you have no eye for football. He looked
Speaker 1: great in that in that game, the first game when
Speaker 1: the Arizona, no doubt. My question would be more about
Speaker 1: if you're trying to add him and you have to
Speaker 1: tell him you're not our lead back, you're one of us.
Speaker 1: The problem number of running backs. How is he gonna
Speaker 1: handle that? He did not handle it well in New Orleans. Well,
Speaker 1: he's a bit like Colin Kaepernick and that his skill
Speaker 1: set at this point only fits a limited number of teams.
Speaker 1: And to your theory West that you've brought up before,
Speaker 1: these guys that are one dimensional. When Adrian Peterson's on
Speaker 1: the field, you know what's coming. Didn't work with the Saints, right,
Speaker 1: It's it's a bit problematic strategy wise if you have
Speaker 1: him just as your early down back. I agree, that's
Speaker 1: a bit of a tell about what's coming. So he's
Speaker 1: got to play a lot of snaps in order to
Speaker 1: be effective, which is how the Cardinals used him last year.
Speaker 1: He kind of out of desperate desperateness is when you
Speaker 1: use him. He he's a guy. Wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 1: he doesn't wind up getting a job. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked either way, but it wouldn't be surprised. Maybe if
Speaker 1: you're into retirement. If he's going into Canton with Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas in that same class, well, I think you would
Speaker 1: see him again in October and November when injury strike
Speaker 1: and it's like, we need a guy to just tote
Speaker 1: the ball twenty times a game. We're taking Peterson to
Speaker 1: Marco Murray. We'll see not great tape last year, but
Speaker 1: was very good in two thousand. I need him to
Speaker 1: wind up and made East was the NFC. It was
Speaker 1: the NFC East because that's not where it looks like.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like to the Dolphins, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: Mark might get those sandwiches. I'll be giving them and
Speaker 1: mixed it up. Darren Sprawls also out there. Uh, speedy
Speaker 1: but old. He feels like he'll be on the graveyards
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks coming off a major injury. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: Marty Bennett tight end. The most prominent tight end out
Speaker 1: there right now. Him and Jason Morrow, those are the
Speaker 1: two most prominent free agent tight ends in my mind.
Speaker 1: He told Rich Eyes and Wednesday Martin Martell has Bennett
Speaker 1: that he's unsure if he's going to play, and when
Speaker 1: Eisen brought up the possibility of skipping the early parts
Speaker 1: of training camp, martell Has Bennett was all about that.
Speaker 1: He said, I could play, but about seven different coordinators.
Speaker 1: I don't need to learn offense. Wasn't Marty Bennett last
Speaker 1: like July going viral because he was sleeping in the
Speaker 1: Packers locker room before training camp started. I feel like
Speaker 1: maybe he's maybe the fire is not there anymore. It's
Speaker 1: it's possible he's an animator now. Uh smells like a
Speaker 1: guy that might sign with the Patriots late. For that
Speaker 1: would be highly tedious and I could see a turn
Speaker 1: to the pager. I need to find out what this
Speaker 1: title that he called himself as animator. This is a
Speaker 1: great title. Isn't he the Black Unicorn? He is the
Speaker 1: creative director of awesomeness, That's what he has self dubbed him.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, Navarro Bowman is
Speaker 1: out there. Uh, not really a cover linebacker at this stage.
Speaker 1: He's in his thirties, never quite the same guy after
Speaker 1: that terrible knee injury. Oakland moved on, will someone else
Speaker 1: get into the Navarro Bowman business? Someone throughout his name
Speaker 1: in Dallas where he would where he would make some stump.
Speaker 1: It makes some sense. Anthony Hitchins left. Uh, they weren't
Speaker 1: really sure what they got out of Jalen Smith last year.
Speaker 1: Shan Lee's an injury play guy, but Bowman is not
Speaker 1: kind of an every down snap linebacker at this stage.
Speaker 1: When some team gets desperate and signs Adrian Peterson for
Speaker 1: early downs, another team can sign Navarro Bowman is the
Speaker 1: bizarro Adrian Peterson on defense? Like that plays early downs?
Speaker 1: All you do is tackle Peterson Like that? M Like,
Speaker 1: that's why's the season? That seems like a really narrowing
Speaker 1: down specialist rollsign. What if you make Bowman you're running
Speaker 1: back in Peterson, You're early down linebacker, really mixing it up?
Speaker 1: You want to throw teams off their game? Do we
Speaker 1: target this guy? Do we stay away from I think
Speaker 1: Evan Silva would like that kind of forward out of
Speaker 1: the box thinking. Sashi already had that idea, uh A
Speaker 1: little safety talk. Kenny Vekaro, Eric Reid, Trey Boston, Taylon
Speaker 1: Branch all out of work. Eric Reid, who also kneel
Speaker 1: during the national anthem next to his old teammate Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 1: There has been speculation that his fight for social justice
Speaker 1: or his displays have not helped him find work. So
Speaker 1: that's something to keep in mind. There your thoughts, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: not a lot of them. If he doesn't well. Morgan
Speaker 1: Burnett signed with the Steelers on Tuesday. He was ranked
Speaker 1: in our top thirty, pretty much right next to Kenny
Speaker 1: Vacaro and Eric Read. So if if Vaccaro and Read,
Speaker 1: especially if Reid doesn't get signed in the next week
Speaker 1: or two, then I think, again the NFL is something
Speaker 1: on their hands that doesn't look great. But at this
Speaker 1: point I wouldn't rise any alarms. For instance, Vacaro hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten signed. I would think that Reid played really well
Speaker 1: at the end of last season and they started using
Speaker 1: him like multiple concussions to Read's injury history is about
Speaker 1: as big a red flag as you could possibly have.
Speaker 1: He's had tons of concussions, played very well at the
Speaker 1: end of last year, and usually that I'll get you
Speaker 1: signed going into the next year. All right, So there
Speaker 1: you go. Those are the big names out there, and
Speaker 1: we'll see who from that list um ends up on
Speaker 1: the grave yards? Whom? Who? Which players? Whom? Or who whom? From? Now?
Speaker 1: Who from that list? I believe that's a who who
Speaker 1: still uses whom in copy? Nobody I use whom when
Speaker 1: it's called for, West does occasionally use it? All right.
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