Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. These is red bottles, these
Speaker 1: is bloody shoes. Welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. Is Dan Hansis and I'm joined
Speaker 1: by a room filled with some heroes. To my left,
Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf, to my right, Greg Rosenthal. What's up? People? Hey?
Speaker 1: What was that? Was that? Some of that juicy? Cardi
Speaker 1: B is hosting with Fallon on Monday? I saw that
Speaker 1: she's doing Coachella and I saw the cover of her
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Speaker 1: I'm not as like I might caught up on the
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Speaker 1: Cardi B. I feel like Cardi B. It's sort of
Speaker 1: a mix between Little Kim and Foxy Brown, and I
Speaker 1: loved Foxy Brown. Look, Kim's a better rapper, but definitely
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Speaker 1: talk guys. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. A big show, a big trade, another
Speaker 1: tsunami lands uh, just wiping out an entire village. Um, well,
Speaker 1: let's not makes but big trade involving the throne of
Speaker 1: ease uh and the rams who are really going for it.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about that, get into and into
Speaker 1: depth on that. And also there is a a name
Speaker 1: from the past that I didn't think would resurface and
Speaker 1: yet he has, so we'll get to that. And then
Speaker 1: speaking of names that we're waiting to surface, Uh, for
Speaker 1: the fourth year here on NFL dot com, I have
Speaker 1: unveiled the Graybeards, who have, of course, are centered in
Speaker 1: San Diego, so the two thousand eighteen San Diego Graybeards,
Speaker 1: and I will throw out both to Connie and Greg
Speaker 1: the roster. Greg, just like Evan Silva, the big old
Speaker 1: fish at roto World, who helped me out with this piece,
Speaker 1: and you could check it out at NFL dot com
Speaker 1: slash Kansas. Uh, give me your unvarnished takes on the roster.
Speaker 1: I think eight and eight is a possibility. Usually I'm
Speaker 1: like four and twelve, five and eleven, maybe six and ten.
Speaker 1: I think we might get eight dubs in a big spot. Well,
Speaker 1: the Graybeards, you're putting together a team full of players
Speaker 1: that don't have a job, right, I should have made
Speaker 1: that more clear. I thought everyone in the world knew
Speaker 1: by now. But yes, the Gray Beards completely comprised the
Speaker 1: players that are still unemployed. Eight. I'm not buying any
Speaker 1: fourth week. I don't even need to. I have the
Speaker 1: general gist. Really well, it's way too high. Okay, but
Speaker 1: you haven't made it to the defense yet. We'll get
Speaker 1: to it. You sent me for feedback yesterday I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Ernie Adams. I'm not getting any credit
Speaker 1: for it, but that's true. That's personnel, and you did
Speaker 1: help me. You definitely an Adams ask figure. But and
Speaker 1: then we'll get some male bad questions from you. The
Speaker 1: listeners always fun. But before we do that, let's get
Speaker 1: to the news. Uh. And to do that, I throw
Speaker 1: it to Lindsay Fulton. How are you welcome back? Lens? Thanks,
Speaker 1: happy to be back. Even though my voice is gone,
Speaker 1: I sound like man. I always like a little scratchy
Speaker 1: noess in choice. I don't. I've never had a problem
Speaker 1: with it. Way beyond scratchiness. I was trying to read
Speaker 1: in church, to do a reading, and I was like,
Speaker 1: it was it was much worse. But it's getting all betterright,
Speaker 1: all right, we're going in the right direction. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: do some news. What's up y'all? We here in Venice.
Speaker 1: We just touched down. It's the first day we got
Speaker 1: the whole squad out here. Ta ta my dog, Mark
Speaker 1: Wood is cre here, man is beautiful, US tour trip underway.
Speaker 1: We love you. This is the best at Saints running
Speaker 1: back Mark Ingram, who did an introduction video once Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler the hero one of the heroes not with us. Uh.
Speaker 1: They touched down in Venice, Italy, and and Ingram sent
Speaker 1: out that that social media posting Mark with a C
Speaker 1: Yeah Mark, which is pretty funny, and then did his
Speaker 1: Mark thing where he just sticks out his hands as
Speaker 1: far as possible. That's his movie, is gonna use it.
Speaker 1: So and I have been in periodic contact with Mark
Speaker 1: via text. We're trying to get him on the show
Speaker 1: or maybe some type of special that would be a
Speaker 1: big fish to land that would be so far unsuccessed.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm sure by now he's represented by someone. But
Speaker 1: by the end of the week we'd loved it and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll hear from Mark or one of his new friends.
Speaker 1: That's great. We always joke when Mark's away um that
Speaker 1: maybe he's not going to come back this one. If
Speaker 1: if he tried to dot you know, if he tried
Speaker 1: to not come back, it would create an international incident,
Speaker 1: like the arms, like the government, that's true forces would
Speaker 1: be looking for him. So I saw Mark Ingram Good
Speaker 1: attacked by a doll. That was an amazing video that
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler escalating. I think the things that they're doing,
Speaker 1: that's a good scoop nice video scoop. But it's like
Speaker 1: Mark is almost a like one of those TMZ guys
Speaker 1: that hangs out outside and stuff and had at the
Speaker 1: video was zingram. Okay, is that an injury? Yeah? He
Speaker 1: talked about it afterwards. He seemed he seemed okay. He posted, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he he was talking about I guess that was the
Speaker 1: third time he did it. He did the first two
Speaker 1: times he just got bit and then the third time
Speaker 1: he tried to juke the dog and the dog horse
Speaker 1: collared him. Wow, what a what a scenario. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Mark is of course Italy. He's going to Germany. Check
Speaker 1: out his Instagram. Check out his Instagram and many other
Speaker 1: social media platforms. Apparently we learned on Monday. Right, this
Speaker 1: is the best thing that could have ever happened to
Speaker 1: us and Mark. I'm so excited to like just live
Speaker 1: vicariously through him right now. Um, okay, let's get into
Speaker 1: the news and we will start with the big trade. Yes,
Speaker 1: the tsunami hit and the New England Patriots send wide
Speaker 1: receiver Brandon Cooks, who was their leading receiver last year,
Speaker 1: their number one target receiver last year, acquired a year
Speaker 1: earlier in a trade with the Saints that cost the
Speaker 1: first round pick. They send Cooks to the Rams uh
Speaker 1: in exchange for are a first round pick. There's some
Speaker 1: mid round picks involved as well on each side. Uh
Speaker 1: So the Patriots one and done with Brandon Cooks, the
Speaker 1: Rams collect another weapon for an extremely impressive roster, and
Speaker 1: on top of that Greg uh it kind of puts
Speaker 1: the bed the speculation, the very real speculation, according to
Speaker 1: Steve Wish on Monday, that Odell Beckham could potentially end
Speaker 1: up in Los Angeles. They have their new number one
Speaker 1: or number one Ish receiver. It's Brandon Cooks. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the Rams. Yeah. The Rams are to me the
Speaker 1: biggest part of the story because what they're doing we
Speaker 1: just we just haven't seen it. I mean they it
Speaker 1: was like a couple of trades ago, we were like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is crazy how much the Rams are trading. Now
Speaker 1: it's like with this one, people are like, all right,
Speaker 1: that's enough, let's be a little more respectful. Guys like
Speaker 1: too many like amazing the big trades. It's interesting to
Speaker 1: me that Adam Schefter reported they were going after Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks before the Beckham news even came up, that they've
Speaker 1: been pursuing him for weeks. They really saw that number
Speaker 1: one receiver space is something that needed to be filled,
Speaker 1: and they were willing to pay a lot for it,
Speaker 1: because giving up a first round pick for Cooks uh
Speaker 1: is a lot when he only has one year left
Speaker 1: on his contract. And I think the Patriots probably have
Speaker 1: to be convinced into it. And it sounds like they
Speaker 1: tried to get a deal done, perhaps with Cooks, and
Speaker 1: they realized they were not going to be in the
Speaker 1: ballpark to pay Cooks whatever he's gonna get, which I
Speaker 1: would imagine it'll be sixteen seventeen, eighteen million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: And in the end they decided, man, we we could
Speaker 1: use some more picks. We have had one top fifty
Speaker 1: pick in the last three years combined, and they took
Speaker 1: the deal. I think it's a good deal for both sides.
Speaker 1: That it's okay to be a good deal for both sides.
Speaker 1: He reported that everything always seems it seems like everything
Speaker 1: always seems a good deal this time, but this is
Speaker 1: a good this is a good player, and it's a
Speaker 1: first round pick. They could blow the pick, of course,
Speaker 1: but it's a good It's nice for them to have
Speaker 1: a Free Voice also reported that the Rams and and
Speaker 1: Cooks are in very serious negotiations to get along to
Speaker 1: the deal done Colleen, which seems to be necessary. If
Speaker 1: you give it a first round pick, you're not doing
Speaker 1: it for a rental, right, And it's funny. I was
Speaker 1: I was texting with friend of the show Kara Henderson
Speaker 1: Snead right before this happened, and I was like, what's
Speaker 1: going on with Odell? Like what, what's what's actually happening
Speaker 1: right now? And she was like, that's a loaded question.
Speaker 1: And so it's like, what's the deal with O'Dell? Um?
Speaker 1: And so I mean, like honestly, minutes later then the
Speaker 1: Cooks thing came down. And it's funny because I think
Speaker 1: it speaks a lot that she's not going to give
Speaker 1: you any information that she didn't She's not anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she she gives me some things, but you know, uh,
Speaker 1: don't discount the nugs that Snead might be given old.
Speaker 1: But um, I think it speaks a lot about the
Speaker 1: wide receiver prospects in this draft class that are coming
Speaker 1: out to that the Rams would give up that pick
Speaker 1: because they probably wanted a wide receiver and why not
Speaker 1: get a guy who's proven already. Right, Well, they gave
Speaker 1: up their second round pick for Sammy Watkins last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's in this draft. So their first
Speaker 1: two picks have already been used. They used their fourth
Speaker 1: and fifth round picks in there in these other trades,
Speaker 1: including the key to Leave trade in the Marcus Peter Street.
Speaker 1: So that is their draft classes, all these veterans, and
Speaker 1: it didn't work with Watkins, so it almost takes more
Speaker 1: hut spot. It shows the Rams are feeling this even
Speaker 1: more to do the same event essentially the same thing again.
Speaker 1: Should we move them ahead in the rankings? Er one
Speaker 1: thin one with a bullet and you know Watkins and
Speaker 1: maybe time will prove this incorrect, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's ever really proved himself to be a true number
Speaker 1: one receiver. And they moved on from Watkins after much
Speaker 1: thought and consideration about giving him the tag. Now they're
Speaker 1: saying Brandon cooksby are number one receiver and they're good
Speaker 1: at greg you wrote a really good winners and losers piece. Uh,
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks agents in a great spot because they kind
Speaker 1: of have the Rams over the barrel. Uh, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get number one wide receiver money. But is Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver? It's fair, not exactly, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: He's he's had about yards per season the last three years.
Speaker 1: He can go deep, he can do the shallow crosses.
Speaker 1: He's very versatile. They'll know how to use him. He's
Speaker 1: not a top ten player at receiver in the NFL. No,
Speaker 1: but he's a really good player. I mean, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay him a lot of money, but it's
Speaker 1: a it's a sure thing. It's just weird that they
Speaker 1: thought that was such a priority that Robert Woods, cup Higbee,
Speaker 1: whatever they had as receiving option was somehow barren. Whereas
Speaker 1: the Patriots I think, look at it like we're not
Speaker 1: gonna give this guy this money. And we've got people
Speaker 1: saying like, oh, they got to replace Edelman and Cooks
Speaker 1: in the draft. It's like they they went to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl and won it with Brandon LaFell starting every
Speaker 1: week They've they've been to a lot of Super Bowls
Speaker 1: with inferior receiver groups to Edelman, Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell. Maybe
Speaker 1: Kenny Britt does a little something. Cordurell Patterson. Philip Door said,
Speaker 1: I don't look at the Patriots and thing received for
Speaker 1: is their problem. They've got some problems, that's not their
Speaker 1: number one problem. Think about Sean McVeigh this time last
Speaker 1: year when he was looking at the roster and he
Speaker 1: was saying, there's no web, there are no explosive weapons
Speaker 1: on on this roster right now, and he's just continuing
Speaker 1: what he did last year. I mean, can you imagine
Speaker 1: being Jared Golf right now? Like what what is he?
Speaker 1: He is feeling himself right now? He should have been
Speaker 1: in the rank he has. I mean, he's part of
Speaker 1: the Rams. Obviously, the Rams are gonna have a ton
Speaker 1: of expectations this year, but and I think they have
Speaker 1: the goods back it up. But back to the Patriots, Greg,
Speaker 1: and I know I've enjoyed your piece. I've already said
Speaker 1: it once in the I'm reading it as we do. However, Uh,
Speaker 1: sometimes I sense that your default with the Patriots is
Speaker 1: to tell everybody just calm down, nothing is really that
Speaker 1: big a deal. You do that two days ago. But
Speaker 1: I think that this is potentially a really big deal.
Speaker 1: I'll start real quick with the water. That's a big
Speaker 1: deal and more In Bill we trust, and Bill we
Speaker 1: trust and he's earned. This is a really there have
Speaker 1: been seismic changes to this team in the offseason, and
Speaker 1: Cooks is just the latest guy now and you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna hold onto Grock now, which always made sense. But
Speaker 1: there are a lot of changes. And then you have
Speaker 1: the two number one picks, which is massive intrigue. And
Speaker 1: I immediately, just trying to get Greg fired up, said
Speaker 1: this was all prelude to Tom Brady retired into and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, and we've heard whispers and it's out
Speaker 1: in print out there if you read around that Tom
Speaker 1: Brady has not actually come out and said I'm definitely
Speaker 1: playing this year. Now the Pats have two first round picks.
Speaker 1: And to me, this is how I've read this whole thing,
Speaker 1: And and it goes all the way back to the
Speaker 1: Seth Workersham piece, which I think has proven to be
Speaker 1: a good look at the real situation. I think he
Speaker 1: got it right that Belichick is planning post Brady to
Speaker 1: show that it wasn't just Tom Brady that made him
Speaker 1: arguably the greatest coach ever. And I think this is
Speaker 1: about life after Tommy Boy. For the first time, I
Speaker 1: really think Belichick's plan that way is it for life
Speaker 1: after Bill Belichick too. Is he setting all of the
Speaker 1: stuff think so, I think he wants to have one
Speaker 1: big run without Brady the show that it wasn't Tom
Speaker 1: and that's what this, uh, these two first round picks
Speaker 1: to me, could set up. I totally disagree, because he's
Speaker 1: just making the types of moves that he's made throughout.
Speaker 1: He doesn't That's why he's feeling himself is because he
Speaker 1: doesn't change for anyone. He's traded guys at the end
Speaker 1: of their contracts four picks before they got to that
Speaker 1: final year over and over again. Happened with Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: it happened with Jamie Collins, Like this is sort of
Speaker 1: what they he does. If anything, it does show he's
Speaker 1: thinking long term. But I think he's always like thinking
Speaker 1: long term. I expected them to draft a quarterback in
Speaker 1: this draft because they drafted one in two thousand eleven
Speaker 1: in the third round. People were upset they took Ryan Mallett.
Speaker 1: People were upset they took Jimmy Garoppolo. That was you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was five years younger. Then of course they're
Speaker 1: going to take a quarterback. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be with one of those first two picks. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of big time needs at tackle in
Speaker 1: the front seven. I don't know if they have an
Speaker 1: idea to trade up. I don't think they know that
Speaker 1: because there's no way that you can. But I'd be
Speaker 1: stunned if they don't use one of those first four picks,
Speaker 1: let's say, because why wouldn't they because quarterbacks are well,
Speaker 1: what if they take those two first round picks and
Speaker 1: get one of the big four. It's possible. It's in play,
Speaker 1: I think right now, and that becomes very interesting. It
Speaker 1: would cost a lot. I think it would cost more
Speaker 1: than just those first two picks to get up to take.
Speaker 1: But maybe they really like another a couple of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that they think might slip past. And yeah, that
Speaker 1: that just gives them more flexibility. They had two first
Speaker 1: round picks back in two thousand twelve. They ended up
Speaker 1: trading up, I believe to take down too high Tower
Speaker 1: when when they drafted him and Jones like they might.
Speaker 1: It might be the boring answer, just that they take
Speaker 1: defensive like they might take defensive players, and they move
Speaker 1: all around and they use all these picks. But they
Speaker 1: needed some young talent. They have not had top shelf
Speaker 1: draft picks on that team, in which how great is
Speaker 1: this draft gonna be? Oh my god, I'm so excited
Speaker 1: when the Patriots added to it. We feel this is
Speaker 1: a long way away from Eric Fisher or Luke Jokel
Speaker 1: who goes everyone. This is like the opposite of that.
Speaker 1: This is the most exciting draft since the Man's l Draft.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it yesterday and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe we have to wait so long for the draft.
Speaker 1: It feels like Christmas a little bit, like you're making list,
Speaker 1: you're doing mock drafts. You're trying to figure things out
Speaker 1: what you want, what you need, what teams need. And
Speaker 1: then it's like you're counting down the dates. What's especially
Speaker 1: acute for you because you're just watching, you know, marathons
Speaker 1: have snapped on your like, when does when's the next show?
Speaker 1: I do next? My in laws are in time. I
Speaker 1: watched an episode of Snaps. Snaps snapped over, let's do that,
Speaker 1: Let's pitch that up. The show Snaps it's about wives
Speaker 1: of football players. They get super pissed at their husbands
Speaker 1: not being around. Um stupid. It was okay though, it
Speaker 1: was an okay show, But I found it to be
Speaker 1: a watered down version of eight line episode. It's not
Speaker 1: necessarily a good show. It's just it hooks you, and
Speaker 1: for me, I couldn't stop watching it once I got
Speaker 1: like halfway in. Gonzo should absolutely be worried that you
Speaker 1: watched eight in a Row in a darkened living room alone.
Speaker 1: It was during the day he pulled the bloods, all right,
Speaker 1: so much more to dig into about that trade with
Speaker 1: the intrigue that will come along. Let's Need's got a
Speaker 1: lot to do. He's got a lot to handle right now.
Speaker 1: It's putting, he's putting pressure on himself. That guy's got
Speaker 1: it together. I feel like he'll be fine. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying he's just busy. Aaron Donald Brandon Cooks. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to figure out Peters. You're gonna have to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, whether Sue is there long term. There's just
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Girl, He's gonna have his controence.
Speaker 1: Good problem to have. I would love to be less
Speaker 1: need Over under eleven and a half wins for the
Speaker 1: Rams of the Patriots both uh, I think that's a
Speaker 1: good number to give me over. You gotta bang me
Speaker 1: over on the page. It let's be honest, just out
Speaker 1: of respect, I'll go over for both. Okay, Uh, because
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for it for the Rams, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I believe it, but I'm rooting for it, and you're
Speaker 1: but you're not rooting a word for the Patriots. I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for of course, I'm rooting for it for both.
Speaker 1: I haven't picked against the Patriots once on this podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on a a surprise signing, I would call it.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say Robert Griffin the third
Speaker 1: has been off the radar. Uh in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: my speaking of my in laws, my father in law,
Speaker 1: Bob Bates, great man. Shout out to Bob, a big
Speaker 1: bailor guy, goes to all the events. So he tracked
Speaker 1: he's been tracking Griffin since his college days. And he
Speaker 1: came up Griffin this weekend. Uh, what's what's up with him?
Speaker 1: And like, I think he's just done because you would
Speaker 1: you would have he was out of football last year.
Speaker 1: You would have thought maybe he goes to the CFL,
Speaker 1: or he's maybe showing up and workouts, and he just
Speaker 1: seemed to be off the radar and then out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: it's announced on Wednesday by the Ravens that they agreed
Speaker 1: to a one year contract with r G three. Ozzie
Speaker 1: Newsom had this to say, Kylie, and he came in
Speaker 1: last week, worked out, had a real good workout, and
Speaker 1: we were able to come in come to an agreement
Speaker 1: late yesterday. He will probably be here early next week
Speaker 1: to sign the deal. Your thoughts years old, alright, So,
Speaker 1: I mean they obviously need a backup for Joe Flacco,
Speaker 1: especially with everything the way it went last year. Um,
Speaker 1: and now that Ryan Mallett isn't there anymore that this
Speaker 1: makes sense. But the thing that I think is interesting
Speaker 1: to me, it's not even so much r G three
Speaker 1: and what his future with the team is. It's the
Speaker 1: transition of power between Ozzie Newsome and Eric da Costa
Speaker 1: and how this is actually happening right now if it's
Speaker 1: a mixture of the two, because I would imagine that
Speaker 1: this is it's it's got to be an odd situation
Speaker 1: in there when you've had a guy in power for
Speaker 1: so long handing it off. I mean, is it it
Speaker 1: was this one Azzi is in a mix of both.
Speaker 1: Is Eric sort of doing things under the tutelage of him?
Speaker 1: Like I would just like he's been there too for
Speaker 1: this for ten years, sure, but he hasn't been calling
Speaker 1: the shots. Has always been Ozzie's game, So I would
Speaker 1: be interested to find out, like who actually made the
Speaker 1: call there. It's weird. It's a weird signing. Number One,
Speaker 1: are that who could be more more unlike Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: than the offense is totally different. Two, it's hard not
Speaker 1: to think about the fact that they seriously considered signing
Speaker 1: Kaepernick last August. It really seemed like John Harbo the coach,
Speaker 1: wanted to sign Kaepernick last August or late July, and
Speaker 1: then it got held up, whether that was through ownership
Speaker 1: or fans being mad about and now you signed r
Speaker 1: G three. I don't know it just it just seems strange.
Speaker 1: It seems strange to me. And then and you think
Speaker 1: about how how much has changed since two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring you back, do it. I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: you back to uh February four, two thousand twelves. Take
Speaker 1: us back the first ever NFL honors happened. The worst
Speaker 1: you guys were there, the worst Dan was there. I
Speaker 1: was there. Give us the weekend off. So Dan disagrees
Speaker 1: apparently with Jeff Darlington's headline on our site, which says
Speaker 1: first ever NFL honors ceremony a smashing success. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, and you know, I love this company, But Saturday,
Speaker 1: when you go to the Super Bowls, the one day
Speaker 1: you get to get together with your family and get
Speaker 1: and then you know, you have like a fourteen fifteen
Speaker 1: hour day. Ahea do you on Sunday? And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the oscars of the NFL was dropped
Speaker 1: into seven. Well, but it was the first. It was
Speaker 1: the first ever, and it was a smashing success. Alec
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin with the monologue on that night, continue Robert Griffin,
Speaker 1: the third wins Offensive Rookie of the Year over Andrew Luck,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and some other good players that year. The
Speaker 1: next day, Joe Flacco wins Super Bowl m v P
Speaker 1: and basically gets a promise from his owner on the
Speaker 1: NFL network set that he's to become the highest paid
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. And I could have been played better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of these guys are in a much different place
Speaker 1: than they were. I think we all were. Ye we
Speaker 1: all are right now. Speaking of Allen Joe Flac was
Speaker 1: hosting a golf show that that was like that show
Speaker 1: now I've never played. Now you've got like four different
Speaker 1: shows you host. Everybody Google Colleen. That's all they gotta do.
Speaker 1: It's already too late. Uh. My favorite headline from yesterday
Speaker 1: this is a paraphrase, but Ravens to Flacco, start a camp. Bro,
Speaker 1: Oh my god what. I don't know this. They wanted
Speaker 1: to start like a wide receiver camp with his boys
Speaker 1: to get a customed with each other and get comfortable.
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens are not that r G three
Speaker 1: is the guy that's going to become the answer quarterback.
Speaker 1: But the Ravens are like, go, Bro, start camp. I
Speaker 1: just feel like John Harball, she's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: hot butt seats soon. I think he was last year.
Speaker 1: I think Rebels getting hotter and hotter though. And I
Speaker 1: feel like, especially with the transition of things, that it
Speaker 1: feels like it's transition. Yeah Flacco. Flacco needs to be
Speaker 1: a lot better. I mean, they don't have anyone out.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I any three makes the team,
Speaker 1: I would assume they're going to draft someone too. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of teams in the sneaky quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: market like the Patriots, like the race. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the draft and notorious picks, Johnny Manziel was
Speaker 1: on the Dan Patrick Show UM today Wednesday, and he's
Speaker 1: on as we all know, he's kind of on the
Speaker 1: apology tour. He's on the comeback tour. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get it. He's trying to get in a position that
Speaker 1: r G three got into today and he was asked
Speaker 1: about what it regrets he had about you know what
Speaker 1: happened after he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in
Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen. If Cleveland did any of their homework,
Speaker 1: they would have known that I was a guy that
Speaker 1: didn't come in every day and watch film. I was
Speaker 1: a guy that, um didn't really know the xs and
Speaker 1: os of of football. So when I get to Cleveland,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a quarterback in the room with
Speaker 1: me that's that's not helping me. And it's not really
Speaker 1: his John too, But nobody was there like helping me
Speaker 1: go over to xces and os and and it was
Speaker 1: it was hard I bring this up Greg enough to
Speaker 1: delve back into the Browns failing with Johnny Manziel, but
Speaker 1: uh more just looking ahead with Cleveland and that Robert
Speaker 1: Clemco of s i UM commented on Twitter. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a good point to bring up that a
Speaker 1: lot of people in Cleveland's building wanted nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Johnny Manziel. That they saw the red flags and
Speaker 1: then from up above, I mean the very top floor,
Speaker 1: bang the red button and said I want Johnny Manziel.
Speaker 1: Just something to keep in mind now, is Cleveland makes
Speaker 1: the next huge quarterback choice. Uh it is the same
Speaker 1: man in charge that was in charge four years ago.
Speaker 1: The first thing I thought about with this were the
Speaker 1: comments that Jim Moore made about Josh Rosen going to
Speaker 1: a situation that's going to help him succeed and how
Speaker 1: he talked about I think he said that Sam Donald
Speaker 1: should go to the Browns. And it kind of comes
Speaker 1: full circle when you hear Johnny Manzel talking about how
Speaker 1: nobody was there to help me with things like, I mean,
Speaker 1: these guys are super immature, a lot of them when
Speaker 1: they come in and it's their first time with a
Speaker 1: lot of money and fame, and like you need to
Speaker 1: have a good coaching staff there to help with these
Speaker 1: A lot of them are, but a lot of them,
Speaker 1: especially first round quarterbacks and picks in general, are very mature,
Speaker 1: you know, coming in. That's why you spend the first
Speaker 1: round pick on them. I mean, if you look at
Speaker 1: like that, that two thousand twelve draft class that we
Speaker 1: just talked about, Russell Wilson was pretty mature, Andrew luck
Speaker 1: was pretty already three. Maturity I don't think was his problem.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I my takeaway from that quote was the
Speaker 1: the shade being thrown at Brian Hoyer there. I was
Speaker 1: as that. I don't think that's the first time that, um,
Speaker 1: we've heard Brian Hoyer. Maybe you know, you don't always
Speaker 1: have to be buddies with with the other guys in
Speaker 1: your quarterback I don't think that was a total shock.
Speaker 1: By the way, Kyle Shanahan was their offensive coordinator. I mean,
Speaker 1: who would would have been a better person to teach
Speaker 1: the XS and os? That's on that's on Johnny Manzel.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh, And to Manzel's credit, he's taken the blame
Speaker 1: during this media tours. I messed up my life. I
Speaker 1: had I had mental issues at the time that got
Speaker 1: worse and worse. But anyway, interesting will the Browns make
Speaker 1: the right decision. They gotta get it right. Other quarterback news,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is suing a I like this. This is
Speaker 1: so interesting because I mean it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a la ravil magnifico for our friend Drew Brees, because
Speaker 1: you know Drew, I don't, Well, that's true, we don't
Speaker 1: know Drew. You could say it's a la ravio magnifico.
Speaker 1: How much you liked this story. We join another's downfall, Yeah,
Speaker 1: his downfall. Let's calm down about that. But I found
Speaker 1: it very interesting that Drew Brees, who who is very um,
Speaker 1: very focused on presenting a certain type of image of
Speaker 1: himself that uh, you know, maybe maybe not as exactly
Speaker 1: who Drew Brees is. Drew Brees has a massive jewelry jewelry. Uh,
Speaker 1: I would say jewelry. It's jewelry, jewelry. Very important that
Speaker 1: you say it correct. I don't know, I don't say
Speaker 1: any words right anyway, he has a huge jewelry collection.
Speaker 1: It's very hard to say he has a huge collection
Speaker 1: of jewels and uh he is right now and this
Speaker 1: was on TMC dot com. He has filed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against some bro named Vahidmati, who runs a jewel shop
Speaker 1: in San Diego, over a eight million dollar diamond ring
Speaker 1: that purchased uh and he had it recently appraised and
Speaker 1: it was found that it was only worth three point
Speaker 1: seven five million. And uh Breese claims he's been buying
Speaker 1: jewelry from Marati for years, dropping roughly fifteen million on
Speaker 1: a collection of pieces, watches, earrings, and rings. Uh. So
Speaker 1: he's up that that's it. You got God? What's he
Speaker 1: doing buying the heart of the ocean over there? Like what?
Speaker 1: I don't understand that this is an investment. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that people bought jewels. Are we surprised? What what's
Speaker 1: he doing with all that jewelry? Who's dropping eight million
Speaker 1: on a ring? He's buying it for his wife? I
Speaker 1: think too, don't you have to get that stuff a
Speaker 1: praise to like outside? I would think if you were
Speaker 1: going to sink that much money into something, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: be like, hey, let me have somebody else check this
Speaker 1: out to my most interesting part of the story that
Speaker 1: I read in The Times, Pig Union's version came from
Speaker 1: a statement for the jeweler uh. And this is the
Speaker 1: end of the statement. He should restrict his game plane
Speaker 1: to the football field and refrain from bullying honest, hard
Speaker 1: working businessman like my client wore that I want I
Speaker 1: wanna before mr behavior and belief that he was wrong
Speaker 1: because the jewelry did not appreciate in value as quickly
Speaker 1: as he hoped. Both demonstrate the lack of integrity and
Speaker 1: contradict basic principles of both economics and Law's your fault, probably,
Speaker 1: by the way, shouts to Eric M. George, because he
Speaker 1: was dropping nugs. I got one more. Drew Brees aggressively
Speaker 1: purchased multimillion dollar pieces of jewelry. Years later, claiming to
Speaker 1: suffer quote cash flow problems, he tried to bully my
Speaker 1: client into undoing the transactions. Very interesting story is that
Speaker 1: woman at the bar with all of the jewelry on.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm not judging. I'm not even judging Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you would expect, you know, Peakee, Dion Sanders,
Speaker 1: maybe Chloe Kardashian to be buying this amount of jewels.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm a little I was a little surprised,
Speaker 1: that's all. You just never know. To make this public
Speaker 1: is tough because you're kind of it's kind of a
Speaker 1: self phone. You're not coming out on top putting this
Speaker 1: story in the public, even if you're even if you
Speaker 1: get some of this money back, just putting it out
Speaker 1: there does not put him in the best light. And
Speaker 1: it reminds me a lot of a great Mina Kimes story.
Speaker 1: She's great, she once said, she listened to the podcast,
Speaker 1: so that's exciting. A fantastic writer. And and tweeter and
Speaker 1: she wrote about breezes involvement in Advocate, which was this
Speaker 1: you know, questionable company that was maybe a pyramid scheme,
Speaker 1: maybe not, and Breeze was at the top of it.
Speaker 1: It's a really article a few years ago. And and yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know it was freezing. It's weird that two
Speaker 1: big financial breeze stories have come out in the last
Speaker 1: three years. That's a I and this jeweler were close friends,
Speaker 1: I guess in the past, so ain't no mo uh
Speaker 1: And finally in the news all right, I was fascinated
Speaker 1: by that story, Connie a little as a little bit
Speaker 1: of a fascination for a von Miller uh in the
Speaker 1: headline story another TMZ story that broke initially a photo
Speaker 1: of him with a big hammer head shark in a
Speaker 1: fishing boat and I think off the coast of Miami.
Speaker 1: And now Pete is all fired up nine and a
Speaker 1: half foot shark. Um, and I guess that's uh, that's endangered.
Speaker 1: You can't mess with the sharks, man, they're in trouble
Speaker 1: one of the gas and you're not allowed to. It's
Speaker 1: a giant shark. If you guys have seen the picture,
Speaker 1: it's it's brutal looking like I mean, I say, it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful. What does this have to do with von Miller,
Speaker 1: He's a fine fisherman. No, that pet apparently, Uh they
Speaker 1: said that they caught the shark and then released it.
Speaker 1: And the thing that didn't drive with me on that
Speaker 1: was the photos shows the shark like bleeding profusely. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that thing was making it back in
Speaker 1: the water. So hammerheads are classified as Group three sharks. Um.
Speaker 1: And so it's a second degree misdemeanor. Um. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that would mean it's punishable. Uh there you could do
Speaker 1: al time for it, up to five dollar fine and
Speaker 1: sixty days in jail. Suddenly, Colleen goes to the shark
Speaker 1: tank at the Mall of American. She thinks she's a shark.
Speaker 1: It says harvesting them in state waters is a second
Speaker 1: degree misdemeanor. I know nothing about fishing or golf. You
Speaker 1: guys are learning a lot about me here. Yeah, Colleen
Speaker 1: wanted to throwout a big Tiger Wood segment because she's
Speaker 1: so excited about comeback season. That's right, Tiger Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll canna make the final cut appear. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get to that SEGA on Friday. Unfortunately, won't have Connie.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be doing Path to the Draft Network. When
Speaker 1: when is that air? Connie? That is on three to four,
Speaker 1: But we have to start pre taping and rehearsing stuff
Speaker 1: at two. I don't care about that. I was just
Speaker 1: asking you to plug your program. Oh I thought you
Speaker 1: were asking why. I thought you were like interrogating me
Speaker 1: why I couldn't be the plot and I got a
Speaker 1: right stuff. Yeah, I can't. Just being professional Eastern six
Speaker 1: pm Easter, Yeah, Monday for Friday, but definitely watch Friday
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen San Diego Graybeards have landed. I
Speaker 1: have taken I. You know, I put a lot of
Speaker 1: work into this grinding Eden's grinders, no more so, this
Speaker 1: is a handsas grind night up well past uh one
Speaker 1: am Greg finishing this copy? This is this is like
Speaker 1: Greg's like, oh, I do that, but you know, the
Speaker 1: old Jews done because it's very important that the graybeards
Speaker 1: is not something you just knock out in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: You need to go through the whole open free agent field. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's so important that you had Evan Silva uptil three
Speaker 1: in the morning. He's putting other, you know, guys to
Speaker 1: work at Evan Company. Evan if you read the piece
Speaker 1: on NFL dot com slash handsas or nfl dot com
Speaker 1: slash end around Evan. I asked him if he could,
Speaker 1: because I always feel like the team is good, So
Speaker 1: let me get the big fish in here to really
Speaker 1: look at each positional group and give an honest take,
Speaker 1: as I said before, an unvarnished take on the rosters
Speaker 1: and uh and yesterday morning he agreed to do it immediately,
Speaker 1: because that's what the big fish does. And then he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, when do you need this by I
Speaker 1: think he was probably expecting week, ten days a month.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you know, closed business. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: not exactly that either, but uh, check out at Evan
Speaker 1: Silva wrote a World senior editor and he will be
Speaker 1: on the pod uh soon to talk about the draft,
Speaker 1: probably right after the draft. Takes on your gray beards,
Speaker 1: basically Rhoda World like Yes, and that's what I was
Speaker 1: looking for and he nailed it. So anyway, I went
Speaker 1: through all the available free agents and put together most
Speaker 1: of a roster with backups, and uh really tried to
Speaker 1: to build out a real team that I thought could compete.
Speaker 1: You know, since this is a San Diego based team.
Speaker 1: We moved the Grave years from St. Louis last year
Speaker 1: to represent the UM the football fans. I got banged
Speaker 1: in San Diego. Uh, if this team was in the
Speaker 1: a f C West, how would they do? And you know, Greg,
Speaker 1: can I see this flirting with five? Absolutely can. So
Speaker 1: let's get into it and you tell me what you think, Colleen,
Speaker 1: you tell me what you think. We'll start at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. And this just shows the type of owner
Speaker 1: I am. Colin Kaepernick, you can come on my team. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be an open competition with Jay Cutler.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell everybody it's an open competition. But Cutler
Speaker 1: will get a lot of the first team reps. Uh,
Speaker 1: in UH throughout the summer conditioning programs and UH into
Speaker 1: training camp. But we got Cutler and Kaepernick in a
Speaker 1: in a quarterback competition, and then I just brought the
Speaker 1: sanchiz Mark Sanchez on board, just you know, because you
Speaker 1: know why why's got just the Super Bowl? Okay that
Speaker 1: just because he can be like the ambassador too that
Speaker 1: goes around and talk to people you get you could
Speaker 1: bring maybe eventually into the front office. Just I just
Speaker 1: personally like Mark Sanchez. I always thought he seemed like
Speaker 1: a nice guy. So come onto the graveyards on all
Speaker 1: the billboards. Well you say, you say um during your
Speaker 1: fake O t s, you'll say things like j and
Speaker 1: Colin are first and foremost competitive football players. I think
Speaker 1: one of the questions with Jay is is that competitive
Speaker 1: fire burning and um, so I like, I like Kaepernick's
Speaker 1: chances if you truly give him a chance to UH
Speaker 1: to wind up being your opening day starting Silva's take
Speaker 1: was at Kaepernick has the highest ceiling, and then he
Speaker 1: buried Cutler UH and pointed out rightly that he had
Speaker 1: a career low in yards per attempt six point two
Speaker 1: last year in Miami, and Evan said Connie that he
Speaker 1: would take Johnny Manziel over all of my Johnny Manel
Speaker 1: So how do you feel about that? As a GM?
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: all in on the Manzell comeback slash recovery slash. I've
Speaker 1: seen the white or I think he's saying all the
Speaker 1: right things. But I need Johnny to go to the
Speaker 1: CFL for a year, so I think he would be
Speaker 1: a good backup or third stringer. You want to start
Speaker 1: selling tickets, you want to put me in the seats,
Speaker 1: you want to get your headlines into the San Diego papers.
Speaker 1: Who you know, they feel scorned from professional football right now,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to do some work to get
Speaker 1: them back. I just hope you have the coaching staff
Speaker 1: that can handle these guys. Well the good it's a
Speaker 1: good point. I mean they need working on that. We're
Speaker 1: working on the staff. Probably a bunch of Ryan brothers
Speaker 1: is perfect. I can work that out for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Mark and Rex guaranteed best friends. By the
Speaker 1: end of the question, I am looking forward to their
Speaker 1: friendship resulting in Rex joining our podcast in a full
Speaker 1: time capacity. No, well, that would be great too. And
Speaker 1: then on that podcast and Mark will never listen to this,
Speaker 1: but if he, if he does, then he'll know on
Speaker 1: that podcast we're gonna play for Rex all of the
Speaker 1: things Mark said about him during the two thousand thirteen
Speaker 1: Moving on, So the quarterback group, you guys okay with it?
Speaker 1: I know it's not great, but again, this is the
Speaker 1: best of what's left. I think. I think you have
Speaker 1: guys that would I would take Kaepernick and Cutler over
Speaker 1: what the Bills have right now and some other teams. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I'll take that running back. I have three, a
Speaker 1: trio of thirty something backs. Uh, speaking of putting meat
Speaker 1: in the seats. Adrian Peterson, welcome to the Graybeards for
Speaker 1: the first time. He'll be my sled dog. I also
Speaker 1: have DeMarco Murray coming off a down year, thirty years old,
Speaker 1: but was very good in and then my scat back
Speaker 1: is Darren Sprawles coming off in a c L. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty five. No, that's I don't like that.
Speaker 1: Darren Sprawls is gonna be thirty five there, so he's
Speaker 1: my change it up guy. I don't know, Colleen, what
Speaker 1: do you think? Is this a little bit? Uh? It's Dicey.
Speaker 1: It's Marco Murray is the youngest running back you have
Speaker 1: um on the roster. But Darren Sprawls I feel like
Speaker 1: was always underrated. So when he comes back from this
Speaker 1: a c L tear, he's going to show everybody what
Speaker 1: they have been missing. Like that. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: versatility here. It's like if Peterson or Murray in the game,
Speaker 1: it's like they're running. If Sprawls in the game, they're passing.
Speaker 1: I think West would be happy, is because he's still
Speaker 1: is very excited about Peterson's potential to have maybe another year.
Speaker 1: Evan Silva down on Peterson his his take on this.
Speaker 1: Peterson remains a capable to down banger, but his age,
Speaker 1: lack of passing game usefulness, and declining durability slash explosiveness
Speaker 1: leave him jobless. Uh. And then he takes a shot
Speaker 1: at my team, Evan. Uh and neverthe the less, the
Speaker 1: short term offensive foundation of the Graybeards, whose aerial attack
Speaker 1: is certain to be abysmal. Alright, calm down there, you
Speaker 1: know what, though, he's being fair. He's being fair. That's
Speaker 1: what I asked for, unvarnished at fullback, no brainer. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been on the team three or four years now.
Speaker 1: John Cohen's there. As long as John CON's alive and
Speaker 1: not under contract, he will be a grave here. You
Speaker 1: mentioned this team might be in the f C West.
Speaker 1: This actually resembles a team I think John Gruden would
Speaker 1: like to put together. It's very fair. This is a
Speaker 1: very n I guess two thousand TENNISH team at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and I will publicly announced, um, I have some misgivings
Speaker 1: and concerns about this unit just because of some scheme issues.
Speaker 1: I have Michael Floyd, um my youngest wide receiver of
Speaker 1: the group. Not the youngest, excuse me, but he's twenty
Speaker 1: eight years old. He's gonna be on the outside. And
Speaker 1: then I have a trio of slot guys, really Decker,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm gonna push to the outside Eric Decker coming
Speaker 1: off down here in Tennessee. And then I have Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews and Jeremy Macklin. Uh, Colleen, I know you like
Speaker 1: Jeremy Macklin right hey, and Jordan Matthews, two former eagals there.
Speaker 1: This was my favorite Silva take out of You can
Speaker 1: read this one because it hurt me a little bit.
Speaker 1: He said, you have a contested catcher, a contested catch
Speaker 1: receiver who doesn't win contested catches and Floyd to declining
Speaker 1: slot receivers in Decker and Macklin and a third guy
Speaker 1: Matthew with bad knees whose inconsistency frustrates coaches. This is
Speaker 1: a quote unquote limited didn't feel necessary, but again I
Speaker 1: asked for honesty. Yeah, I think it's I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a great pairing because the running backs you don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of verse Matthews. I like, Matthew should
Speaker 1: be on a team. That's a good that's a smart signing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if combining you know, these receivers with
Speaker 1: Cutler and Kaepernick, like, I feel like those quarterbacks kind
Speaker 1: of need their receivers to get obviously open, not a
Speaker 1: lot of anticipation. And yeah, I don't know. And Greg
Speaker 1: did offer a hand to me when I was putting
Speaker 1: us together yesterday, and and at first he he blanched
Speaker 1: when he saw my wide receiver and said, well Floyd especially,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, let's let's check it out. Let's
Speaker 1: give up the ghost on floor. I get it. But
Speaker 1: then I was like, let's go check out who you
Speaker 1: can play on the outside. That's left, and it's like,
Speaker 1: unless you're in love with Marcus Wheaton, uh, there really
Speaker 1: is nothing out there quick. Yeah. Yeah, So it's a
Speaker 1: tough position group to fill. Yeah, tight end, Uh we
Speaker 1: got you said you're you're like an eight wins and
Speaker 1: this is one of the worst gray beards far. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, we're gonna finish strong at tight end. Antonio
Speaker 1: Gates and Julius Thomas. Gates were kind of sneaking in there.
Speaker 1: He'll probably end up on the Chargers for one more year,
Speaker 1: but he gives me a guy in the red zone
Speaker 1: that knows how to play the game. Antonio Gates just
Speaker 1: gets open. Greg Julius Thomas used to get open. Gates
Speaker 1: is my favorite player on your team. And he's the
Speaker 1: oldest and he's probably the only one that's actually going
Speaker 1: to be on a team, and he's going to fill
Speaker 1: the seats in San Diego. That's who you want love.
Speaker 1: Antonio might be you might be the first guy to
Speaker 1: go into the Hall of Fame with a gray beard's
Speaker 1: helmet because he's loyal. I did not even think of that.
Speaker 1: He's going. He's going on the media guide right on
Speaker 1: the cover. I was I was there for the last,
Speaker 1: the last game and professional football game in San Diego,
Speaker 1: and they were going crazy for Antonio Gates anticipating him
Speaker 1: breaking the all time touchdown. He brings the people out.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of problems on the offensive, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. I mean, and you have to understand this
Speaker 1: is why this exercise is extremely difficult, because I would
Speaker 1: say seventy percent of the teams in the NFL have
Speaker 1: crummy offensive lines lines, so you can only imagine what's
Speaker 1: going on on the free agent pile. So I have
Speaker 1: a former number two overall pick Greg Robinson on the
Speaker 1: blind side, Luke jokel the former number two overall pick
Speaker 1: uh with the Jaguars at guard? What value to get
Speaker 1: those ticket put those tires together, Luke Bowanko? Is it
Speaker 1: the pivot point? Uh? Bowenko definitely. I first mentioned in
Speaker 1: this Jire Evans thirty four years old at guard? Uh
Speaker 1: and Uh Austin Howard Yeah, okay, right tackle? Uh? He
Speaker 1: would handle that side. Uh. Silva called it a mishmash
Speaker 1: of a historic draft bus a former sixth rounder and
Speaker 1: too late career veterans. You know what, They'll all have
Speaker 1: chips on their shoulder, A lot of chips whole bag
Speaker 1: of chips, tons of chips. Yeah, you're gonna struggle to
Speaker 1: score double digit points. I'm not seeing the late winds.
Speaker 1: I don't care how good the defense. All right, so
Speaker 1: let's move on to the defense. And this is where
Speaker 1: we're gonna make our money. Uh edge. We got Junior Gallet,
Speaker 1: Connor Barwin, Cony Eally and Robbie Robert Air's. These are
Speaker 1: guys that UM still can play, maybe not at their
Speaker 1: peak anymore. Galets a bit of a reclamation project, but
Speaker 1: even Evan Silva said, there's nothing dominant here. But these
Speaker 1: are four capable, capable guys to work in rotation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as you have a rotation, you're good. Get
Speaker 1: some fresh legs going, especially for the groin known as
Speaker 1: a glue guy, one of the good guys in the
Speaker 1: NFL leader, great locker room guy, really good for the community. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great community guy. Almost makes up for Gallette, who is
Speaker 1: still having an NFL career despite one of um the
Speaker 1: worst off the field records in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: And I wrote that I did when I was building
Speaker 1: this roster. When I began building a roster, I wanted
Speaker 1: at least one guy who was tazed on spring break
Speaker 1: and I got him in Glett, So I felt good
Speaker 1: with that signing. The defensive line, we've got some guys
Speaker 1: are gonna do some dirty work, some grunts. They're gonna
Speaker 1: push the pocket and they're gonna stuff that run. Benny Logan,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins, Nick Fairley, and we hope Nick is gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. His hard condition ended his Saints career, but
Speaker 1: he still wants to play and come on down to
Speaker 1: San Diego and live the good life. Nick. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: what is your medical staff? I mean they're just they
Speaker 1: okayed it that we can compete with this front seven. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. The defensive line is definitely the strength
Speaker 1: of the team so far. That that's a good that's
Speaker 1: a good three group. Inside linebacker, we got some name
Speaker 1: brands here, Navarro Bowman still on the right side of thirty,
Speaker 1: just barely. Brian Cushing, Uh, you know, we got to
Speaker 1: keep him out of Ivan Drago's medicine cabinet. But uh,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be okay there. And then Derek Johnson.
Speaker 1: Total glue guys. They're glue guys holding this defense together. Uh,
Speaker 1: there you go. Maybe Cushing we'll we'll have an amazing
Speaker 1: year for you. Maybe maybe we'll give him access to
Speaker 1: that cabinet. Maybe I was gonna say this thing could
Speaker 1: use some some help cornerback. A nice group here, but
Speaker 1: Shot Brelan, who were very lucky, is still out there.
Speaker 1: D R C who's got speaking of chips on their shoulder,
Speaker 1: very bad last season with New York. He wants to
Speaker 1: re establish that he is a true UH cornerback in
Speaker 1: this league. Pac Man. We got the right coaching staff
Speaker 1: in place to make sure he stays under control. And
Speaker 1: he's been doing it for years. Terence Newman thirty nine
Speaker 1: years young. We're gonna throw him a big forty birthday party.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a blowout. Remember when Jarra threw himself
Speaker 1: was it himself seventy fifth birthday party or something? It
Speaker 1: was like a ten million dollar is when he got
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame and we heard it fifteen
Speaker 1: million dollars, huge party, lots of crazy stuff. Playing as
Speaker 1: a defensive back in the NFL at age forty, We're
Speaker 1: gonna blow that party away. No budget. And I brought
Speaker 1: Rebus on mostly to humble him, just to keep him
Speaker 1: at the bottom of our draft chart. Money is no
Speaker 1: option for you guys. Can I come work? Can I
Speaker 1: be on the staff here? Well, think about it. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be doling out massive contracts, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of cash. Unlike Drew Brees, who's has
Speaker 1: cash flow issues right now, I have no nothing like that.
Speaker 1: This is all fake. Uh, safety listen, Greg, We're a
Speaker 1: progressive group. We got Eric Read join ay Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: on the same team. Oh my god. And whatever comes
Speaker 1: to that. We stand with our players. They're greedy better well,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, it could be controversial. I could lose
Speaker 1: some sponsors. But Kenny Vaccaro better get a real job.
Speaker 1: Give me a break, he will. It's a good safety group,
Speaker 1: and Silva suggested Trey Boston, Kenny Vacaro, Eric Read and
Speaker 1: Trey Boston. That is that would be better than a
Speaker 1: large swath I think of safety groups in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's a nice Yeah. Gray Beards benefited from the soft
Speaker 1: market at safety for whatever reason. Uh. Brad Wing, welcome
Speaker 1: to the Gray Beards. You're a punter, And yes, I
Speaker 1: was very happy that this worked out. Sea Bass still
Speaker 1: on the market. It's a blessing. What about Marquete King. Uh.
Speaker 1: I did not add King for the specific reason that, uh,
Speaker 1: he's not really a fit. First of all, he's a
Speaker 1: poor culture fit for us to punter picking up personal fouls. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I know we have Junior go At and
Speaker 1: Pactman and all that. But I'm with the John Gruden
Speaker 1: camp on this, you know, Mark, No, the real reason
Speaker 1: is he doesn't fit the model. He's young, he's productive,
Speaker 1: he exited, he exited an unusual circumstances. He'll get gobbled up.
Speaker 1: He's not a true gray beard. So I didn't want
Speaker 1: to cheat the system. But I mean, is Kenny macaro
Speaker 1: and Eric read those guys are in their mid twenties, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I think that just the King's
Speaker 1: situation didn't sit right with me as a cut. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a matter of timing. I like some of
Speaker 1: the logos. Some of the listeners suggested. One guy appears
Speaker 1: to be an Ernest Hemingway picture with like a baseball
Speaker 1: head on. Yeah. We did a great job, are the
Speaker 1: listeners and the readers offering some graybeards logos? So we're
Speaker 1: the grim Reaper one that George Clawsenten was really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really good work by everybody. So there you go. The
Speaker 1: Graybeards offense, problematic defense, the rock with glue guys and
Speaker 1: and players with a lot to prove, and then a
Speaker 1: really nice special teams unit led by a resurgent Sea
Speaker 1: Bass is gonna win some games, and I think we're
Speaker 1: cruising right into an easy seven and nine maybe eight.
Speaker 1: Are you going to do one give away at night? Yeah? Really,
Speaker 1: I mean better than the Yeah that they're about the
Speaker 1: same as the Dick McPherson. Well, the offense is so bad,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to score any points. So
Speaker 1: we're winning week one. Your defense is solid, but you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to win like six to nothing in
Speaker 1: some of these games. Do you guys have cheerleaders? Uh,
Speaker 1: we haven't figured out some of those elements, but those
Speaker 1: would be all out of work cheerleaders as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm very interested in, like, do you want to handle
Speaker 1: that promotions department? You want to come on board? I
Speaker 1: can give you a fake salary, sure, two million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's great, all right, Colleen is going to handle cheerleader
Speaker 1: hiring at all an unlimited vacation vacation right now. There
Speaker 1: you go, the gray Beards. Check it out. We'll be
Speaker 1: back on Friday with another episode. Greg will be you
Speaker 1: and I and maybe a guest to be named later. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like we work on that yet. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: come in, Maybe I'll maybe I'll swing by for a minute.
Speaker 1: Will you have a tape? Yeah, don't you. We'll figure
Speaker 1: out the logistic, okay, and we'll hopefully have some type
Speaker 1: of contribution from Mark Sessler, whether it be hearing from
Speaker 1: Mark or hearing from right there. So thank you everybody
Speaker 1: for listening, and sorry when you get to the mail bag,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll get to the mail bag on Friday, So
Speaker 1: everybody that's sent in questions, hang tight. This is Dan
Speaker 1: Hansons signing off for County Fots, the old Boss and
Speaker 1: Lindsey bought on behind the Glass. Come on, Greg, here
Speaker 1: give me that five record. No Friday, just after we
Speaker 1: went off the air, we are breaking into coverage to
Speaker 1: tell you that the Patriots are going to sign center
Speaker 1: at Luke Bowanko, dealing a severe blow to the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen Graybeards, my pivot point. Devastating loss, but
Speaker 1: Hardley knew you, Luke. Congratulations, m