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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hanss and I am joined it
Speaker 1: in room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and
Speaker 1: Craig Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Whenever the Booger mobiles
Speaker 1: getting brought up? Uh and almost late February, it might
Speaker 1: be time for some new fans submissions for money drops
Speaker 1: the Burgermobile. Kind of already. We've covered that real estate
Speaker 1: football pop culture artifact if you will, so if you're
Speaker 1: for new listeners, were too lazy to come up with
Speaker 1: that little intro to each show, which we call the
Speaker 1: money drop after the immortal of Matt money Smith. And
Speaker 1: you can who are work for us by tweeting at
Speaker 1: who Erica. I guess what where did they give you
Speaker 1: the answers? Where did they give hashtag money tags? Send
Speaker 1: it to tam posey uh um? All right, that was
Speaker 1: good to get that want that responsible? Now It's true
Speaker 1: we do need some but more importantly, forgot all that
Speaker 1: I forgot about the Boogermobile and whether Matt Smith will
Speaker 1: live or die? Um or where to send the money tags?
Speaker 1: The biggest thing here is that we got two birthday
Speaker 1: boys in the studio. WHOA, my goodness. Chris Westling turned
Speaker 1: on Tuesday and Greg Rosatal on the very same day
Speaker 1: hits the big four oh motto. That's right. Well we're
Speaker 1: past the birthday now. It feels like it was a
Speaker 1: long process and I'm I'm over your celebrating myself. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is it was delightful. Yeah, which is a depressing
Speaker 1: mookie about what I hope is not a depressing decade.
Speaker 1: But if this last week was in an indication, it'll
Speaker 1: be delightful. You know, a lot of good food. Uh,
Speaker 1: any indication whatsoever? Big trouble soon come? Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of good food, a lot of good times. It was great.
Speaker 1: What did you do? What did you guys do for
Speaker 1: the big day? I actually was under the impression until
Speaker 1: about ninety minutes ago that today was your birthdays, So
Speaker 1: there was some confusion. I did have interactions via text
Speaker 1: with both of you gentlemen separately, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: it was your birthdays. So if if if you guys
Speaker 1: were thinking, well that was weird that I didn't say
Speaker 1: happy birthday, it's because I thought it was today. Well,
Speaker 1: so happy birthday. Belatedly thank you. Friday night we all
Speaker 1: meet Greg Um are significant others. Henry, I know I'm
Speaker 1: missing somebody showing I was there, went got crack check
Speaker 1: fried Chicken. Can we make it clear that it wasn't
Speaker 1: that I either wasn't invited or chose not to attend.
Speaker 1: I was out of town. Otherwise I would have been
Speaker 1: there obviously. And then I went out of town. I
Speaker 1: went up into the mountains to Panga Canyon and built fires,
Speaker 1: read some books, enjoyed being close to nature and some solitude.
Speaker 1: Was this This sounds like a perfect weekend, not just
Speaker 1: for you, but for Mark. It was a little bit
Speaker 1: sticking into Mark a little bit. I'm doing this and
Speaker 1: we're not well, I no doubt about it. Like just
Speaker 1: your like am stories. It's like breezy trees. Look at
Speaker 1: my book like I'm looking at a cabin. There's not
Speaker 1: a huge fire. More about Mark. Before you did this, West,
Speaker 1: I think Mark would have been thrilled to do something
Speaker 1: like this, especially considering that he's a market a kid's
Speaker 1: birthday party, just his head exploding looking at Instagram. Essentially,
Speaker 1: he's a man who has proven that he enjoy is
Speaker 1: going to let's say sites where murders happened, and Topanga
Speaker 1: Canyon is where the Manson family lived for quite some time.
Speaker 1: They hug and they hung out in those loss So
Speaker 1: MARKT really sorry. Mark, I mean my advice to you.
Speaker 1: It's a set because you see you and Lakisha on
Speaker 1: quite a festival circuits circuit. The two of you just
Speaker 1: hansten fires and bottles of wine and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: money being poured out left and right. Do not have children.
Speaker 1: It will put a a decisive end to your playboy lifestyle. Well, wow,
Speaker 1: the thing about the playboy lifestyle, which I've been leading
Speaker 1: in a much lesser extent for twice manus facts joke,
Speaker 1: it runs out and then you're left alone lonely, and
Speaker 1: you want to get it out, Well, you're not alone.
Speaker 1: It works until a certain age and still working. It's
Speaker 1: still working for you. I Uh, I worked around the
Speaker 1: kids because he got a babysitter and uh sort of
Speaker 1: set up I for four dinners five nights, covering all
Speaker 1: the major food groups, uh, fried chicken, Korean sushi, and
Speaker 1: Mexican and uh, you're doing it, and uh you know I.
Speaker 1: I have a friend of mine that lives in l
Speaker 1: A that I've been friends with since he was I
Speaker 1: was eight years old. Uh, like one of my best
Speaker 1: friends in the world I used to live in New
Speaker 1: York with. It was his forty birthday a few days before,
Speaker 1: so we celebrated his and then the last couple of
Speaker 1: nights did it, did a few more with you know,
Speaker 1: Anthony Jesse Nick I do the other podcast with. And
Speaker 1: then last night a friend of mine, another one from
Speaker 1: high schools in from out of town to celebrate with us.
Speaker 1: And it's a whole thing. It's like a party girl,
Speaker 1: it's fun. You lived it up a little bit more
Speaker 1: than I would have predicted Greg Rosenthal would live it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I felt it. I think I felt the
Speaker 1: big number and was just like, well, what what would
Speaker 1: I want to do? I would want to eat some
Speaker 1: good food, uh, you know, days on end and I
Speaker 1: and I accomplished. There is a trend, especially you see
Speaker 1: it on Instagram where there are these um and you
Speaker 1: don't fall into this category at all, Greg, but like
Speaker 1: these women that are single in their their late thirties
Speaker 1: and forties where it's not just a week, but it's
Speaker 1: an entire month celebrating their birthday and it's and it's
Speaker 1: to the point where to dance. You have no idea
Speaker 1: when the actual birthday is because it's been an ongoing
Speaker 1: festival of self celebration. You came close to that in
Speaker 1: a very well too. It felt too much five dinners
Speaker 1: or four dinners, dinners. It's a little ridiculous. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You have different friend groups once you're our age,
Speaker 1: and it's like, do you want to like have to
Speaker 1: like figure eight, do you want to organize anything? No?
Speaker 1: And then be do you want to have to try
Speaker 1: to combine it all. No, Like my friend happened to
Speaker 1: be coming in from out of town Tuesday, so that's
Speaker 1: when that's when we'll go out my other friend's birthdays
Speaker 1: to it all just kind of worked out that you
Speaker 1: you do it separately, and that's that's the way to go.
Speaker 1: We'll circle back to this topic at the end of
Speaker 1: the show, but before we do that, we have a
Speaker 1: lot of football to talk about. All these forty somethings
Speaker 1: surrounding me. Um Erica. You're just the two young kids.
Speaker 1: Just there's a couple of millennials trying to figure out
Speaker 1: Now I'm on kissing this corner. Like a decades long
Speaker 1: gap between you and Erica, but continue to live in
Speaker 1: your midland. Um, all right, that's what we got coming
Speaker 1: up today, free agency. It's not as far as way
Speaker 1: as you think. We're talking inside a month now, everybody.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take a look at who's on the market.
Speaker 1: And it always gets paired down, of course when you
Speaker 1: factor in the franchise tag guys. But who's who's going
Speaker 1: to hit the market and what would be kind of
Speaker 1: fun logical fits. Uh. So we'll go around the horn
Speaker 1: a couple of times talk that uh. And also big
Speaker 1: news uh, involving Colin cap Bernick. So why don't we
Speaker 1: get going with the news hit it, Ricky, Happy birthday too,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to Craig and West.
Speaker 1: Howpy birthday too? What a gift. Harmony laid harmonizing with herself.
Speaker 1: She she put you second. Any thoughts on that, that's fine,
Speaker 1: Just happy to be alive. Okay, that was a very
Speaker 1: nice gesture, Bison, our old producers that I set up.
Speaker 1: So let's let's forget where do we want to doll out?
Speaker 1: Where credit belongs and who's grateful for who? Well done?
Speaker 1: You're like, um, you're like Bobby the brain heenan and
Speaker 1: she's your wrestler, Tim Posty, who has now played like
Speaker 1: birthday songs for me on multiple podcast because I did,
Speaker 1: uh you know the jessel Nick and Rosenthal Dandy project
Speaker 1: yesterday on my birthday. Uh, then immediately slacks after you
Speaker 1: said that, Dan, that didn't post you on I g
Speaker 1: h ouch well Erica taking shots out Sydney. I was,
Speaker 1: I was connecting with Erica earlier today and I had
Speaker 1: Sydney send that file directly to Eric and I felt
Speaker 1: like asking my ex girlfriend to connect with the current girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Very strange. Yeah, it was. It's no hard feelings. It's
Speaker 1: just when you know you're bringing up the X, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just something that. It's just a thing, Sydney. My
Speaker 1: heart still beats for you again. I can't but I
Speaker 1: can't kill that. I can't make that go away. Hey,
Speaker 1: someday you're gonna be replaced and we're gonna speak glowingly
Speaker 1: about you. I love the one You're what. That's why
Speaker 1: we brought you here, Erica. We have to let you go. No,
Speaker 1: we love you to Erica. It's a complicated situation, all right,
Speaker 1: let's start speaking of complicated situations. Colin Kaepernick Eric read Um.
Speaker 1: Read currently with the Carolina Panthers, just got a new contract.
Speaker 1: In fact, Kaepernick, who's been out of football since the
Speaker 1: end of two thousand sixteen. Uh, they have reached a settlement.
Speaker 1: They reached a settlement with the NFL UH concerning their
Speaker 1: collusion grievances against the league. UH. This was announced Friday.
Speaker 1: So we're a little behind the curve on this because
Speaker 1: we weren't with you on Monday show. But the terms
Speaker 1: not disclosed. It's all confidential. We don't know what Kaepernick
Speaker 1: and read got out of this, Greg, but what we
Speaker 1: do know, or what it seems at least just kind
Speaker 1: of reading the tea, leaves that while we don't know,
Speaker 1: if Kaepernick and Reid had an actual case that could
Speaker 1: have went all the way and led to a victory.
Speaker 1: And that was where it initially started out on there,
Speaker 1: and the NFL made the decision they didn't want to
Speaker 1: maybe get let it get that far, and in the end,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they said, let's just
Speaker 1: settle this and try to move forward. Yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 1: And I've been annoyed to hear the hot takes on this.
Speaker 1: To know the total motivations on both sides, but the NFL.
Speaker 1: The clearest thing is that the NFL believed it, you know,
Speaker 1: it was worth it was worth settling this case because
Speaker 1: they didn't want to lose or they you know, they're
Speaker 1: admitting some fault here essentially, And it doesn't really wrap
Speaker 1: up Colin kaepernick story, but it does potentially, and the
Speaker 1: story that started in two thousand sixteen that he's had
Speaker 1: with the NFL, you know, assuming he's not going to
Speaker 1: be back in the league feels like a pretty safe assumption.
Speaker 1: I mean, it has been a long process, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's you know, there's got to be part of
Speaker 1: him and an Eric Reed that's relieved to be done
Speaker 1: with the process on their side too. And I think
Speaker 1: Bamonty Jones wrote a really good piece on on The
Speaker 1: Undefeated about it. Just for all the people that kind
Speaker 1: of want wanted more from Kaepernick, it's almost like, you know, what,
Speaker 1: what more? What more does he have to give up?
Speaker 1: Like why why is it his responsibility to hold this mantle?
Speaker 1: I think when he started all of this, he could
Speaker 1: have never seen the direction that it went. And I
Speaker 1: think there are times he was maybe uncomfortable with like
Speaker 1: being the face of him. He's barely spoken the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, and I think he's handled it all
Speaker 1: well and and and that this is sort of the
Speaker 1: end point between him in the NFL. I would be
Speaker 1: stunned if he gets a job at the stage. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess it's certainly possible. I believe someone in his camp,
Speaker 1: whether it was a lawyer, went out and mentioned the
Speaker 1: Patriots as a possible candidate, or said that he was
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of interest on the market. I
Speaker 1: just I find it very hard to believe. So at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, yeah, be a good, good
Speaker 1: and not ending, but that would it would be a
Speaker 1: good code at the end of this story, if you'd
Speaker 1: all get back in the league. I just almost given
Speaker 1: up believing it's possible. If it hasn't happened at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it does. And it is, yeah,
Speaker 1: you wonder, um how much money, And well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if we'll ever know. I guess that's just how
Speaker 1: this works. What was the final settlement, because what this
Speaker 1: ended up being when the NFL settles, Kaepernick was essentially
Speaker 1: saying he was being blackballed from the league. If they
Speaker 1: settle the NFL and the ball sides have to come
Speaker 1: up with an agreement how much money that cost Colin Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: and it essentially this whole adventure, this whole saga, ended
Speaker 1: his career well. And I mean, I think Greg, you
Speaker 1: put it all very well. It's like the one thing
Speaker 1: the NFL probably is very happy about is that the
Speaker 1: whole thing is wrapped up inside a confidentiality agreement, where
Speaker 1: to your question, Dan will never know, and I think
Speaker 1: that the NFL will be happy that will never know
Speaker 1: what was done behind closed doors. And and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's just like a money figure, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what that would really mean anyways, unless there's other things.
Speaker 1: They also went through much to me to find out,
Speaker 1: whether it's X amount of money or more or what.
Speaker 1: I think it's more than just a settlement. There was
Speaker 1: the investigation included like going through people's phones, going through emails,
Speaker 1: and we'll never know what any of that entailed or
Speaker 1: what was said in The NFL didn't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with that being public or having owners sitting giving depositions.
Speaker 1: All that stuff was. I think they sought to avoid
Speaker 1: that and that's how this ended up. Um Let's move
Speaker 1: on Antonio Brown another saga, endless saga. He met with
Speaker 1: Steelers president Art Rooney the second and after it Round
Speaker 1: tweeted that both agreed that it is time to move on.
Speaker 1: What's next? That's the question, wes Antonio Brown. Uh. He
Speaker 1: he can't stop talking. He won't stop talking. UH. Peter King,
Speaker 1: in his UH Football Morning in America column UH reported
Speaker 1: that at least one team UH looks at all these
Speaker 1: comments Antonio Brown is making on a near daily basis
Speaker 1: as something that makes you want to stay away from him.
Speaker 1: You wonder how many teams are like that. Brown wants
Speaker 1: guaranteed money, he wants a new deal. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: get what he wants and the Steeler is gonna be
Speaker 1: able to unload this player? Or is all this gonna
Speaker 1: be meaning nothing and he's gonna be in the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Week one that's still possible. It's been interesting to watch
Speaker 1: how the story has shifted and maybe how his motivations
Speaker 1: have shifted. Started out as him being in hot water,
Speaker 1: him being in trouble for throwing a tantrum, going a wall,
Speaker 1: and not showing up to one of the most important
Speaker 1: games of his career, and now it appears to be
Speaker 1: a chance for him to earn more money than he
Speaker 1: was gonna get with the Steelers. He wants more guaranteed money.
Speaker 1: He wants to be in a prime situation, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna get everything he wants that
Speaker 1: the suitor would have to be perfect in order to
Speaker 1: do all that. And I think one of the things
Speaker 1: Greg's turning forty. One of the things about getting orders,
Speaker 1: you realize you don't have to surround yourself with people
Speaker 1: you don't like. You can win a super Bowl without
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. Teams have been doing it for years, winning
Speaker 1: super Bowls within out Antonio Brown. And if I'm running
Speaker 1: a team, I'm just thinking, this guy is just not
Speaker 1: worth what he's bringing to the table. He's just not
Speaker 1: worth it. I don't want to surround myself with this
Speaker 1: quality of person. I mean, there's also the other side
Speaker 1: to Antonio Brown. You always hear this. I would be
Speaker 1: if I were running the front office, that would be
Speaker 1: I'd I'd agree with you. God Ever, I think twice
Speaker 1: about adding his whole makeup to the locker room. But
Speaker 1: he always has talked about also is one of the
Speaker 1: hardest workers, deeply committed to football, and he is an
Speaker 1: incredible football player. This is not the same thing as
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt or someone else who offers an entirely different,
Speaker 1: you know, world of issues. This is like hen the
Speaker 1: right locker room handle Antonio Brown. And if he gets
Speaker 1: what he wants, will he go quiet for a while
Speaker 1: and be a good soldier? I don't know. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: contract thing makes it trickier. How important that is? What
Speaker 1: you know that a team that's interested needs to find
Speaker 1: out because to me, his contract is one of the
Speaker 1: really attractive things about him. I mean, he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: end up making you know, on that contract less over
Speaker 1: the next two years. Then let's say Golden Tate or
Speaker 1: some you know, some free agents gonna get so of
Speaker 1: course like that that's a pretty good value. And the
Speaker 1: Steelers are trying to like salvage their leverage, and in
Speaker 1: their GM talked about it on Wednesday, you know, Kevin
Speaker 1: Colbert saying they're not going to give him away, but
Speaker 1: that the two sides did agree that they're gonna make
Speaker 1: a good faith effort to try to trade him, but
Speaker 1: that if they don't get a good offer, that they'll
Speaker 1: revisit the circumstance then And no, one seems to believe
Speaker 1: the Steelers that they would ever keep them. I I
Speaker 1: tend to think the Steelers are the rare team that
Speaker 1: they'll take this all the way up into the draft,
Speaker 1: and I think that's when the best deal is gonna come.
Speaker 1: And I think they'll get a good enough deal and
Speaker 1: that's probably one they'll trade him. But if for some
Speaker 1: reason people really were totally out on Antonio Brown and
Speaker 1: no one's offering better than like a third or a
Speaker 1: second round pick, I don't know. I think they might
Speaker 1: just try to like figure it out then in May
Speaker 1: and they think they're hoping that doesn't happen. They don't often,
Speaker 1: you know, Look, they're not often the embarrassed party in public.
Speaker 1: They're the opposite. And so I think you're absolutely right
Speaker 1: there on the team, Like it only takes one team,
Speaker 1: something like the forty Niners. Once you get into the draft,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, they can trade down, they'll pick up
Speaker 1: more picks they give him like a mid late first
Speaker 1: round pick. And this this again points out the need
Speaker 1: from my idea for having all the NFL g ms
Speaker 1: in a subreddit where we could just know what people
Speaker 1: are thinking, uh internally about Antonio Brown. There's certainly in
Speaker 1: my mind if I were do you don't think there's
Speaker 1: texting going on. There's texting, But I want the subreddit.
Speaker 1: I want a real community feel and the idea that
Speaker 1: what percentage of gms think that Antonio Brown is like
Speaker 1: a nut, like he's crazy, and I don't want him
Speaker 1: near my team. I know how amazing he is as
Speaker 1: a player, and just so everybody knows, um, he's no
Speaker 1: longer a B. That is not the accepted nomenclature at
Speaker 1: this point for Antonio Brown. While doing a Instagram live
Speaker 1: video on an elliptical running at full speed, uh sweat
Speaker 1: pouring down his face, he announced, call me Mr big Chest,
Speaker 1: big chest from now on, big Chest Brown from now on.
Speaker 1: Don't even call me a B. Just call me big chest.
Speaker 1: So I don't now he said, He said it was
Speaker 1: and asking he was like, don't even call me a
Speaker 1: by call me big. People giving themselves nicknames number one
Speaker 1: is you know remember when Dan tried to call himself
Speaker 1: Danny Rich. I mean that worked better than this. That
Speaker 1: was your idea you pitched that old zeuser was something
Speaker 1: that maybe came from me. I've had enough. Maybe I've
Speaker 1: had a number of nicknames, but I did name myself,
Speaker 1: you know, sixt g as my rap name, and that's
Speaker 1: stuck pretty well. So I mean, I'm into it, big Chest.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's just a bad name. I will
Speaker 1: call him Big Chest now for now, forevermore. Moving on,
Speaker 1: another big name wide receiver in the market, potentially O'Dell
Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. Just signed that whopper of a deal last
Speaker 1: year with the Giants. But you know, this all got
Speaker 1: kicked around the Hornets nest got kicked when uh, in
Speaker 1: a mail bag of some kind, Jay Glazer of Athletic
Speaker 1: mentioned some you know he threw out, Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: if you know, if I had to make a crazy guess,
Speaker 1: Odell gets traded and uh, now the reports start coming out.
Speaker 1: For we hear that the Patriots went hard after Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham last year before he signed that big deal with
Speaker 1: the Giants, and also in the past year the Niners
Speaker 1: they tried very hard to pursue the wide receiver. Which
Speaker 1: none of this should come as a surprise. If Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. Is on the market, Uh, teams are going
Speaker 1: to be interested. But let's see what happens next. This
Speaker 1: This continues to be an interesting subplot as the draft approaches.
Speaker 1: Gazer backed it up to this week in his new
Speaker 1: mail bag Dan, which I read, and so he kind
Speaker 1: of dove deeper into his reasoning and he basically said,
Speaker 1: no one should be surprised that the Giants pretty publicly
Speaker 1: were a little tired of Odell. That Pat Shermer is
Speaker 1: the key to why he ended up getting that contract,
Speaker 1: that he convinced ownership he could work with him, and
Speaker 1: he did a pretty good job. And then they had
Speaker 1: they had that sit down interview, and I think that
Speaker 1: they would, you know, listen to off first. I still
Speaker 1: don't see how it would make sense financially for them,
Speaker 1: But when you hear the forty Niners were in on him,
Speaker 1: it just makes me even more hyper aware to what
Speaker 1: the forty Niners do this offseason. I just think they're
Speaker 1: kind of one of the teams to watch that maybe O.
Speaker 1: D B or Antonio Brownie. It's almost like one of
Speaker 1: those guys gonna WHA what Mr Big Chester. It's not
Speaker 1: can't just be Big Chest that's Mr Big either Big
Speaker 1: Chester O d B. I think they'll end up in
Speaker 1: San Francisco or San Francis is gonna just be making splashes, Donald,
Speaker 1: I think that. I think they. I mean they tried
Speaker 1: to in a way make splashes during their first off
Speaker 1: season and that just a lot of that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: But they're a team that I would put as a
Speaker 1: target team to trade out of that number two spot,
Speaker 1: pick up more leverage, and then you're almost you almost
Speaker 1: have the necessary load to get Beckham or to trade
Speaker 1: for Antonio. You could do trade out of the two spot,
Speaker 1: right get you know, trade back to what ten twelve?
Speaker 1: Use that spin that for Odell. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to do. We trust Dave Gettleman to get this done,
Speaker 1: a guy that we've praised on this podcast before but
Speaker 1: hasn't had a great return, you know, to New York,
Speaker 1: just in terms of the moves that they made. And
Speaker 1: they just have an incredible amount of holes on their rosters.
Speaker 1: They're a weird team. This is a lousy team. They
Speaker 1: have holes at quarterback, at offensive line, at linebacker Landon Collins.
Speaker 1: According to Josina, Anderson cleaned out his locker today and
Speaker 1: said goodbye because he thinks he's not going to be around.
Speaker 1: There are no discussions between player and team there right.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that because he seems like he
Speaker 1: might get franchise tag. But there's there's a bad team.
Speaker 1: Why should I believe the Giants are motivated to trade
Speaker 1: O'Dell Beckham. This seems like, Hey, one of the most
Speaker 1: talented players in the league. He there's some issues there
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, so other teams are trying to prey
Speaker 1: on that. But I don't know that anything I've read
Speaker 1: says that Giants want to get rid of About the
Speaker 1: only thing we know from Gettleman is that in January,
Speaker 1: like first or second, he basically said absolutely not, We're
Speaker 1: not trading him. He was there to give him the deal.
Speaker 1: But I think I think so many weirder things will
Speaker 1: play out during any given off season. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked if something happened if they were hit with the
Speaker 1: deal that allowed the Giants to They're not. They're like
Speaker 1: two star players away from being in a massive rebuild, right,
Speaker 1: There's got to be there's some dock connecting essentially what
Speaker 1: Greg's saying. They have so many holes to fill, and
Speaker 1: here's Odell Beckham, a guy that would bring back I
Speaker 1: am Men's value in a trade. Would if they decide
Speaker 1: that they want to take that one player and try
Speaker 1: to turn it into three. Maybe they do it. By
Speaker 1: the way, you have three options, Mr Big Chest just
Speaker 1: big chest or big chest brown BCP. You know he
Speaker 1: doesn't say BC. It's not an option. Well, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't have to listen to his request. It's not a request,
Speaker 1: it's a It looks like I don't have to listen
Speaker 1: to his demand. I mean, if not the story, I
Speaker 1: just announced a new nickname for myself or any of
Speaker 1: you going to follow suit and call me by that
Speaker 1: if you're not, No, you won't. Yes, that's a rule.
Speaker 1: If I'll come up with something, this is the nickname,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. Okay, moving on. Did you
Speaker 1: call Kobe Bryant mambo? I'm a black mamba every time
Speaker 1: I saw him. The black mom is going nuts again
Speaker 1: following rigid set of rules when it comes to Nick
Speaker 1: Dan walks around this office with the mom of mentality.
Speaker 1: You can see it on his face. Absolutely so he
Speaker 1: can destroy right, Ricky Hollywood, she came up with that,
Speaker 1: that's what she goes by. I mean I didn't come
Speaker 1: up not complicated. You didn't know I didn't nickname myself.
Speaker 1: I mean you made your Twitter profile, pushed it hard,
Speaker 1: you've been pushing that. Who came up with it? It's
Speaker 1: a long story. You know. We called it kay to
Speaker 1: makeup and I didn't get it's worked. It works for you.
Speaker 1: You know. It's another good nickname America. Yeah, let's say it.
Speaker 1: Say it. I knew you were going to say it.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to brother nickname. Your other
Speaker 1: nickname tramp thirsty. It's a good one. Are you just
Speaker 1: now referencing inside jokes on other podcast? I'm that's just
Speaker 1: another How does that help? That's another nickname that's on
Speaker 1: the table that people call him. This show is about
Speaker 1: three months from being canceled. Rob Gronkowski, Is he playing again?
Speaker 1: My goodness? We all want to know. He has an agent,
Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhouse. He's successful. He said a decision on the
Speaker 1: tight Ends future will come quote in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I said that on ESPN's NFL Live program,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I suppose, uh, he's thinking it through.
Speaker 1: He's giving a lot of thought. I imagine a decision
Speaker 1: will probably happen in the next couple of weeks. Um Mark,
Speaker 1: we talked about this on Super Bowl Sunday. I always
Speaker 1: felt this was gonna be leveraged from maximum juice by
Speaker 1: team gronk Uh and whatever the decision will be, it
Speaker 1: will come with a huge pr rollout. And we're still
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away from that. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back for a year. I just have
Speaker 1: a hunch thought. I don't know why, I think the opposite,
Speaker 1: just because if you're if you know in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, to me, that would say you know
Speaker 1: you're not coming back because you have months to decide
Speaker 1: that if you wanted to and see where your body was.
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots want any I thought about that too,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to get hopeful like Dan. And then
Speaker 1: I thought about the Patriots probably want an answer, you know,
Speaker 1: because they need to make their plans before free agency.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I think now, But why how
Speaker 1: about everything he said and everything we knew about this,
Speaker 1: Like he was so strong in the camp of I'm
Speaker 1: not coming back. Then your career wraps with a glorious
Speaker 1: final drive and you win the Super Bowl. Why what
Speaker 1: suddenly the mind shifts and all that has gone away,
Speaker 1: and now you're Big Ben part two deciding you're just
Speaker 1: gonna come back after treating us two months of drama.
Speaker 1: On the network today, Garafolo Mike Garatfolo said he still
Speaker 1: believes Gronk will retire and that that his people around him. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, his teammates do do believe that. But he
Speaker 1: also said he wasn't sure. Maybe that super Bowl juice
Speaker 1: that he played really well in the playoffs, Uh, in
Speaker 1: their last two games. It's just like kind of puts
Speaker 1: you on a high and and makes you on a plague.
Speaker 1: And I hope so. I know I've said on this podcast,
Speaker 1: I was hoping Brady would retire, but uh, well you've
Speaker 1: also said you don't want the Patriots to go to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl next year. Well they've had enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I want I want Gronk. I want Gronk to
Speaker 1: be keep playing. So I hope he comes back. I
Speaker 1: get that he's a fun player to watch. He's been
Speaker 1: a great uh Patriot. But I will say this one thing.
Speaker 1: I if I'm the Patriots, yes I want an answer
Speaker 1: just for internal purposes, planning purposes, but they should be
Speaker 1: looking at the tight end position either way. At this point,
Speaker 1: he's a beat up your tight end who can't stay
Speaker 1: healthy anymore. Uh, we'll see what happens there. Uh. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl, c J. Anderson was out talking
Speaker 1: to people. Who was he talking to? Let me credit
Speaker 1: the right person, FS one. He was on that network
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, Uh, and he made comments about his teammate
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, who apparently who was injured during the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Here's what c J. Anderson said. He was more hurt
Speaker 1: than we thought. The injury was a little bit more
Speaker 1: than what everybody the building thought, including himself. Always I'm
Speaker 1: reluctant to say, well, I say that from three thousand
Speaker 1: miles away, it's hard for us to know what was
Speaker 1: going on. To me, this was easy to know what
Speaker 1: was going on. He was always more hurt than they
Speaker 1: led on, and he could tell from watching and play.
Speaker 1: He's a he's an offensive Player of the Year type
Speaker 1: of guy who was splitting time with a guy they
Speaker 1: just picked up off of the waiver wire. That's all
Speaker 1: you need to really know. I mean, so we have
Speaker 1: to go with the idea that Gurley essentially told nobody
Speaker 1: how hurt he really was, because wise the team is
Speaker 1: mismanaging injury information. I watched the interview and it was
Speaker 1: clear C. J. Anderson didn't really have any extra information.
Speaker 1: He just said he was battling through soreness, which like
Speaker 1: every running back is in in January, that he had
Speaker 1: no idea. That's not true. He said, man, maybe it
Speaker 1: was a sprain. I don't really know he was that
Speaker 1: he has the knee sprain, and C. J. Anderson, who
Speaker 1: had knee surgery, said, once you have a knee, you
Speaker 1: always have a knee. But he hasn't had surgery on
Speaker 1: the knee. This was not the Todd Gurley that we
Speaker 1: know no exactly. That's why it was so annoying during
Speaker 1: the playoffs that here everybody's saying, oh, he's fine, he's
Speaker 1: been healthy for weeks. We're just working them back slowly.
Speaker 1: And it was always so clear that he was hurt.
Speaker 1: Don't give me this act next time. A lot of
Speaker 1: players play through injuries and if they're out on the
Speaker 1: field playing fifty snaps the game, which he was forty
Speaker 1: to fifty, that it's like you, you generally don't talk
Speaker 1: about it that much and and make that many excuses.
Speaker 1: Why are you taking this tack like Todd Gurley is
Speaker 1: some normal running back who just has a little bit
Speaker 1: of soreness because it's January. He had a knee injury.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty significant knee in durny, and he
Speaker 1: was not the same player afterwards. I guess because he
Speaker 1: had I guess because he was explosive on number of
Speaker 1: on a number of runs where he looked good, but
Speaker 1: not as explosive as he was before, and clearly not
Speaker 1: his confidence. That's like you saying Cam Newton can still
Speaker 1: throw it shorty yards down the field between the hashes,
Speaker 1: when clearly he struggles at other parts. I think the
Speaker 1: snap count also was to some degree a decoy for
Speaker 1: whatever would happen each game after because you can't broadcast
Speaker 1: that this guy is not the same guy and is
Speaker 1: only out there one snap. They've tried to I mean,
Speaker 1: Steve Weis. Steven was on our air today backing up
Speaker 1: again saying that essentially was like, you know, he was
Speaker 1: not limited in any way. He took every single practice
Speaker 1: snap enough X Y, X, Y and Z. Actually, you
Speaker 1: could have a couple of bad games games except that
Speaker 1: he just doesn't do that, except for except for Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: But we're but what we're talking about. Here's three games.
Speaker 1: In one of them he had a hundred yards in
Speaker 1: the in the because run and in the third one
Speaker 1: he did what the rest of the team did, which
Speaker 1: was stinking. But you're putting him in a group of
Speaker 1: running back like he's a normal dude, like the Hammad Egger.
Speaker 1: This is one of the greatest players in the league
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, well I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1: You're right, it's just, you know what, I'm just mad
Speaker 1: that the Saints weren't playing the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Instead,
Speaker 1: we got the Rams and a gagging over himself Jared
Speaker 1: Goff and they hurt Todd Gurley and a genius in
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh that had no idea what to do. I mean, yeah, CJ.
Speaker 1: And said had no idea what to do in that
Speaker 1: game either, which is you know, worth worth noting he
Speaker 1: had been playing great before that. C J. Anderson, Well,
Speaker 1: he wasn't good in the title game either. C J.
Speaker 1: Anderson ain't a patch on Todd Gurley's But give me
Speaker 1: a break, Gross, I think had a great way to
Speaker 1: end the conversation. But leave it. Let's leave it there.
Speaker 1: Patch on the butt. Well, I'd use a different word,
Speaker 1: but hey, last year we we made multiple visits to
Speaker 1: the Ravens nest. That's done what we're doing in nineteen
Speaker 1: Hey boys, let's jump into the fish tank. Yes, ready
Speaker 1: smells a little ranking here, get hit on a couple
Speaker 1: of nuggets. First off report Danny Amondola if he to
Speaker 1: remain in Miami, Ricky Hollywood, your thoughts come on back, baby?
Speaker 1: You want him back in New England. You can see that.
Speaker 1: I can see that he's coming back. Really hard to
Speaker 1: predict that this would happen. Danny Avendola wanted done in Miami,
Speaker 1: overpaid him that via the Miami Herald. Also Parker all
Speaker 1: but gone. He's out of town. Former first round pick
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. Man, They got a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do with in Miami, rebuilding that entire offense.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to try to report it
Speaker 1: all this offseason. You don't know. I I think this
Speaker 1: whole like organic tanking thing that brought brought, that came
Speaker 1: up a couple of weeks ago, is exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 1: It's just taking So it's gonna do that. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like a normal Dolphins offseason, except we're not gonna
Speaker 1: go busy buying a bunch of old players. They're just
Speaker 1: going to roll out what they hit well, I think
Speaker 1: that's quite different. They've they've not every year, but they've
Speaker 1: been the team that tries to make big splashing free
Speaker 1: agency and you know, all April talk will probably be
Speaker 1: better for it. There's no organic tanking that the coaches
Speaker 1: are gonna fish tanking. Well, if you don't there is
Speaker 1: the organic tanking. If you let a bunch of people
Speaker 1: go and you bring no one of better quality to
Speaker 1: fill their spots, it's like what where there's no pesticides
Speaker 1: or like artificial ingredients and they're taking well or forget organic,
Speaker 1: but I mean I think they're not. It's it's great
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. It's another team in the ANFC s.
Speaker 1: It's essentially I think, given up on. But guess what,
Speaker 1: there is one good thing happening in the fish tank
Speaker 1: right now. The sugar bad just jumped in. Whoo. Miami
Speaker 1: has hired former Raiders GM Reggie mackenzie as a senior
Speaker 1: personnel executive. Rap Sheet reported Saturday. Oh yeah, fifteen years
Speaker 1: of personnel experience, fifty six years old, former NFL linebacker,
Speaker 1: eight years in Green Bay as director and player personnel
Speaker 1: GM of the Oakland Raiders two thousand twelve seven years there.
Speaker 1: Now he's in the tank. I think if you're a
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan, I like the staff that Brian Flores has
Speaker 1: brought together, and I like the simplicity of the way
Speaker 1: they change their front office. Relatively, this plan feels a
Speaker 1: little like less fraud for you know, us set up
Speaker 1: for clashing than some of their previous ones. Just gonna
Speaker 1: take a long time to bear fruit my um or
Speaker 1: like those little fish that they feed the dolphins, like
Speaker 1: the tiny ones, Yeah, take them out of the pail.
Speaker 1: I feel like my initial feeling is that people aren't
Speaker 1: excited about the fish tank, like you guys love the
Speaker 1: Ravens Nest and now you're you're a little, uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, on the fence or not thrilled. Kind of
Speaker 1: like lassid Erica scenario that you're dealing with that we
Speaker 1: were very attached to Ravens Nest. Um, I would Ravens
Speaker 1: Nest were nuked, you know, potentially, But what if the
Speaker 1: dolphins just did, like one thing ever to be interesting, right? Well,
Speaker 1: I think fish Tank is a were at a starting
Speaker 1: point to try to drum up interest in the franchise.
Speaker 1: You were saying, you were saying that we didn't cover
Speaker 1: like the Ravens nest was because we didn't cover them enough.
Speaker 1: People were complaining. I feel the same way about Miami.
Speaker 1: I don't think they get a lot of love. I
Speaker 1: feel like guys they're in the a f C East
Speaker 1: that they just get kind of into the just ever
Speaker 1: do anything right, so they don't get good public bad news.
Speaker 1: Guys already built a drop, so it's the fish, all right,
Speaker 1: Well good, we should every team should have their own
Speaker 1: drop that wouldn't get annoying at all. Um. And finally,
Speaker 1: in the news, the Bengals still don't have a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. What day we at?
Speaker 1: What day in the off season are we now? Should
Speaker 1: there be a counter? I mean, the Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: win February second, so we're eighteen days and their season
Speaker 1: ended win January December thirty one. They they you know
Speaker 1: what we gotta do. They have to wait for Zach Taylor.
Speaker 1: Let's figure out when, um, Zach Teller was hired, and
Speaker 1: then we'll start the day count from that moment. Hey,
Speaker 1: look the cool tired Matt Eberflus before they hired Frank Reich.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's possible to hire defensive It's possible that
Speaker 1: Lou and a Rumo who there reportedly zero in in on.
Speaker 1: Now that's a real name, zero in on Lou. He's
Speaker 1: a Giants defensive back coach and uh Tom Pellacea Billy
Speaker 1: as he may be the guy. Just wait till he
Speaker 1: flies to Cincinnati FORI interview. Things go sour. What's that
Speaker 1: step inside the facility? It seems something's going on in
Speaker 1: that interview process. All right, let's move on. Are you
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Speaker 1: less than a month away. Hopefully when it happens, since
Speaker 1: and I will have a defensive coordinator. We don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. But right now we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: some fun logical fits. And you guess what Mark wrote
Speaker 1: A banger check it out NFL dot com slash cessler.
Speaker 1: One of those two part jobs. Or it's like if
Speaker 1: I knock out um a big piece, they cut it
Speaker 1: in two and once I finished the work, I could
Speaker 1: take four to five days off. Essentially, That's how I
Speaker 1: view it, right, I mean, they normally use this piece
Speaker 1: as like a two writer combo, or at least in
Speaker 1: the past, and this time they just said you do it,
Speaker 1: but waiting for the five days off? Was this on
Speaker 1: Greg's list of columns. I don't think No, I don't
Speaker 1: think I adhim it. I don't think I told you that.
Speaker 1: That's not how I offered, not trying to swipe content
Speaker 1: away from others. Of the most part, all right, get
Speaker 1: us gone. Since you wrote the banger NFL dot Com
Speaker 1: slash Sessler too Parter, give us one the one that I,
Speaker 1: um that I can just see happening visually. Maybe you
Speaker 1: guys will disagree. Is Golden Tate to the Patriots? They
Speaker 1: have nothing at wide receiver right now. Josh Gordon's in
Speaker 1: the wilderness. You have Julian Edelman. You have guys like
Speaker 1: Braxton Barrios and Cody Hollister and Darren Andrews on the
Speaker 1: roster right now. Aaron Andrews maybe a relation, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't believe. So now it's Darren so I for me,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate. Um. You know the Patriots, they seem to
Speaker 1: really favor highly intelligent, versatile wide receivers. Tate still to me,
Speaker 1: right in their Super Bowl window would be an interesting addition.
Speaker 1: And I think the Tate that Golden Tate is someone
Speaker 1: that I could just like a visualize leading them to
Speaker 1: like a massive game winning drive in the a f
Speaker 1: C Title game. And then you get two weeks of
Speaker 1: like you were with them with the Seahawks, but now
Speaker 1: you're here in New England and like he's gonna win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl And is the wint with you that
Speaker 1: I could see it. I could picture him with the
Speaker 1: uniform and winning games. Is he a little duplicative with
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, That's what I would say, Like I think
Speaker 1: of anyone in the league, he is the most like
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman and skill set. I think that's true. But
Speaker 1: he's he's three years younger and having multiple slot receivers
Speaker 1: has not stopped them before. In fact, it's, you know,
Speaker 1: been I think a strength of their offense. So I
Speaker 1: think he does. He does fit with with Edelman. Put
Speaker 1: him put them both out there. He didn't. It should
Speaker 1: be stated that he did not do a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot and Phil you did have the game winning
Speaker 1: catch in the playoffs, but it wasn't like he gave
Speaker 1: that offensive shot of the arm. Now eight yards and
Speaker 1: eight games there. I wonder how much is of that
Speaker 1: is on him, because it's not like he's slowed down
Speaker 1: in Detroit to become a nonentity. But it's a very
Speaker 1: thin wide receiver group, so he's gonna get paid it.
Speaker 1: Usually that's like the one position where it's very easy
Speaker 1: to find guys and maybe there'll be some cuts and antony.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some possible trades, but there's not. He's
Speaker 1: the best free agent receiver I think by a decent amount.
Speaker 1: Is Josh Gordon still on the Patriots. He's on the Patriots,
Speaker 1: but he's suspended in definitely Okay West, give us one.
Speaker 1: Texans need speed running back and a passing down back.
Speaker 1: I would like to see Tevin Coleman from the Falcons
Speaker 1: end up in Houston to give that offense somebody who
Speaker 1: compliments to Shaun Watson and when Will Fuller comes back,
Speaker 1: compliments his speed as well. But get somebody who can
Speaker 1: get on the edges and stress defenses from the perimeter.
Speaker 1: I think Tevin Coleman will be perfect for that in Houston.
Speaker 1: I like it. I think they need They know that
Speaker 1: they need people to take attention away from Watson and Hopkins.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy how then, how top heavy that offense is.
Speaker 1: I think that would make a lot of sense, just
Speaker 1: be like a Burner team. I guess you guys missed
Speaker 1: h Lamar Miller on Thursday Night Football. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna cut Lamar Miller finally, going back to that fishing hole.
Speaker 1: Is he a free agent? I don't think so, No,
Speaker 1: I think, but he's been mentioned as a cut candidate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at some point Yeah, I don't know if they don't
Speaker 1: have any running backs though, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: still okay. I read UM. I believe it was on
Speaker 1: uh S I one of their writer's position Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: as a better Fridgent option than Levy on Bell. I
Speaker 1: think Andy Bennoit wrote that article. Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman had some chances to be the guy this year.
Speaker 1: He was fine. I think he's a good player. He's
Speaker 1: not your your only back. He's a guy that you
Speaker 1: want to have another guy with. You have to be
Speaker 1: insane to say he's better than Bell. But maybe from
Speaker 1: a like a money side of it, if you get
Speaker 1: a seventy or sixty of Levy on Bell and you're
Speaker 1: not blowing your cap for him saying to be insane,
Speaker 1: I think some coaches who run his own blocking scheme
Speaker 1: would look at Tevin Coleman and say, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I need on UM, I'll bring up Levy on Bell.
Speaker 1: You know I'm a Jets man. You guys aware of that.
Speaker 1: You gotta start somewhere with with that offense. And for
Speaker 1: the first time and forever, there's somebody behind center that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people feel good about, including myself.
Speaker 1: But they need to rebuild the offensive line and they
Speaker 1: need a running back. Um, so the old line, good
Speaker 1: luck with that. You've got a ton of money of
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars in cap space and you got
Speaker 1: the draft. Uh, let's see if you can prove that.
Speaker 1: But absolutely, Sam Donald could use somebody he could trust
Speaker 1: in the backfield. Last year was kind of a mess.
Speaker 1: Isaiah crow l outside that one yard game disappeared. Bill
Speaker 1: a Pal suffered a neck injury that I believe could
Speaker 1: be a career threatening. Uh. And he's a free agent anyway.
Speaker 1: So levy On Bell wants a lot of money. It's
Speaker 1: why he held out from the Steelers. The Jets can
Speaker 1: give him that money, and the Jets add a piece.
Speaker 1: They can't do this all at once, but it's gotta
Speaker 1: be one of the time. Their wide receiver group is okay,
Speaker 1: they could use some help there. The offensive line is bad.
Speaker 1: They need to rebuild that. The backfield not good. Fill
Speaker 1: in one spot at a time. Levy On Bell twenty
Speaker 1: six years old. He could be part of the future
Speaker 1: of the j I know this is a ridiculous dream scenario,
Speaker 1: but what if they went total like Violent Coudeta and
Speaker 1: signed Bell and then traded for Antonio Brown, And it
Speaker 1: was essentially like we used to have those um highly
Speaker 1: tedious like Jets West workout sessions about like Pittsburgh a
Speaker 1: little bit more East. I mean, they have a roster
Speaker 1: need and they have the money. But as I've said
Speaker 1: on the show, I do not want Antonio Brown anywhere
Speaker 1: near Sam Darnald, My beautiful precious Sam cannot deal with
Speaker 1: a man like Antonio Brown. No, no quarterback. I could
Speaker 1: see you warming up to that if they If they
Speaker 1: acquired him, though, that would be a great signing. They
Speaker 1: have so much cap room, is so overrated, He's he's
Speaker 1: going to be a fine value compared to other top
Speaker 1: tier free agents, certainly ones. It's one of those moves
Speaker 1: that's almost too easy, but it actually think it makes
Speaker 1: them much better and it totally makes sense for who
Speaker 1: they are. I just you know, if your Bell, you're
Speaker 1: a little worried about how totally up in the air
Speaker 1: that entire offensive line is, but you're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to trust that I'm gaze to figure it out and
Speaker 1: you and you hope it's like the Colts, how quickly
Speaker 1: things can turn around at the line. Maybe they can
Speaker 1: catch lightning a bottle as well, But yeah, do I
Speaker 1: want to You can get crazy about Bell and be like, listen,
Speaker 1: he's a Hall of famer, he has a chance to
Speaker 1: be a Hall of Fame. He's a whole year and
Speaker 1: he had knee issues in the past, and that's all fair.
Speaker 1: But what if in this funny money or the NFL,
Speaker 1: I'd much rather throw money at a guy like Bell
Speaker 1: than give Greg Robinson the third biggest contract for a
Speaker 1: left tackle in football, which is the type of stuff
Speaker 1: that happens when teams need to spend money if they
Speaker 1: don't have Kelvin Beacham is making ten million dollars for
Speaker 1: the Jets. It's like what you can't pay ten for
Speaker 1: for Bell, who, by the way, just turned twenty seven
Speaker 1: a day before our birthday. There you go Chris Westleying,
Speaker 1: so it's like he's twenty seven years old and he
Speaker 1: had like a Hall of fame. I do need those
Speaker 1: Jets uniforms. I need them to be on point because
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a lot of prime time jets with
Speaker 1: Donald and if they land Bell, I just I need
Speaker 1: I needed a new fresh look. And you're not going
Speaker 1: to get a lot of prime time Jets even if
Speaker 1: they get since when have they have been on of
Speaker 1: time a lot? Since? Will get a few. Calvin Beachum
Speaker 1: is one of the nicest guys in the NFL. Greg,
Speaker 1: come on, they'll take shots at Kelvin Beach's. Look, how
Speaker 1: is it? Do you think he's been a great addition
Speaker 1: to their teams? I think he's perennially underrated. He's all
Speaker 1: you don't worry about the position when he's there. I
Speaker 1: this is what fun free agency fits, right. I just
Speaker 1: enjoyed West standing for Kelvin Beach in there. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: He's an incredibly nice man to a big man that
Speaker 1: can move. This is why you don't want to get
Speaker 1: too close to the people you know you're ranking on
Speaker 1: that top hundred list. Gets emotional contact of civil war
Speaker 1: between West and Greg over Kelvin. Well, no, he's still
Speaker 1: on the Jets. So unless they cut him, which they might,
Speaker 1: fun free agency fits. What would be more fun to
Speaker 1: me than Nick Foles with the Giants? And I think,
Speaker 1: I think, and I think this is the move that
Speaker 1: the Eagles are worried about, and the way that the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the foals. Thing is happening to me is
Speaker 1: a little under the radar, and it stinks just a
Speaker 1: little bit. You're not supposed to trade guys with the
Speaker 1: franchise tag. They were hoping that maybe when they put
Speaker 1: the option on his contract, uh, that they would have
Speaker 1: a little bit of wiggle room to trade him under
Speaker 1: that old contract. You know what he did, He responded
Speaker 1: within an hour and and did the thing and and
Speaker 1: bought his free freedom. I mean, he won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl m v P for you being vastly underpaid and
Speaker 1: you made the guy pay two million dollars to become
Speaker 1: a free agent. Okay, it's just business. Well what's also business?
Speaker 1: How about Nick Foles makes it very clear he's not
Speaker 1: signing any contract with any team they trade him to,
Speaker 1: and that he's not helping them in any trade, and
Speaker 1: that they can do they can try to do whatever
Speaker 1: they want, but he's gonna bring up a challenge with
Speaker 1: the c b A because it's potentially against CBA rules,
Speaker 1: and then he's not helping them at all because that's
Speaker 1: gonna hurt his value, you know it, Whether if it's
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Giants maybe bidding on him, or
Speaker 1: if it's just one team, he can make more money.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be his time to be a free agent.
Speaker 1: And if you're so afraid that Nick Foles is gonna
Speaker 1: beat you, then pay him the money he's worth and
Speaker 1: make him your quarterback. He's on your team, but you're
Speaker 1: choosing that you don't want him, so deal with it.
Speaker 1: And I think the Giants in Pat Shermer nick Foles
Speaker 1: would be a nice little combo and managed spice up
Speaker 1: that NFC East. One question for you, if you're Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: where do you think you can succeed faster with the
Speaker 1: with a weird Giants ross or with with the Jaguars
Speaker 1: in the a f C cell really good point in question,
Speaker 1: I would say the Jaguars. Well, I think your point
Speaker 1: is taken that if Nick Foles reaches the open market,
Speaker 1: he can have multiple teams involved. But if the Eagles
Speaker 1: control of services, they can say I'm not trading you
Speaker 1: to the NFC East, which takes out Giants and Redskins
Speaker 1: and leaves Nick Foles, basically saying it's either Jaguars or bust.
Speaker 1: So it's you're right, it's not fair. Well, yeah, why
Speaker 1: why is he in the position to have to help them.
Speaker 1: I mean, a two million dollars back that even seems
Speaker 1: it's like if ever there was a time where it's
Speaker 1: just like, you know, go on your right, and you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm sensing there's a little bit of movement
Speaker 1: here that they realize this might be hard, and they
Speaker 1: might and I think there's if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: I think they will let him be a free agent
Speaker 1: and go on his way, at least I hope. So
Speaker 1: I love, I love Nick Foles and what he did,
Speaker 1: but should the Eagles live in constant fear the Nick
Speaker 1: Foles It's gonna be the scoring back of all time
Speaker 1: and go to the Giants and turn into Tom Brady. So, like,
Speaker 1: I get it. Everyone everyone's worried about their jobs, and
Speaker 1: it's like that is the worst case scenario as Nick
Speaker 1: Foles suddenly like starts beating you up. And come on,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had an amazing playoff run and he
Speaker 1: was pretty good this year too, But to act like
Speaker 1: the Eagles would never recover if you signed in the
Speaker 1: NFC East, I mean, let's bring it down a little
Speaker 1: bit and if there's a guy to give a little
Speaker 1: consideration too, I mean, Nick Foles, let a Beach in
Speaker 1: a couple of division games over the over five years
Speaker 1: or something. Who cares got to the Bowl. Nobody calls
Speaker 1: it that Lombardi. People say he won you a super Bowl. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's do one more quick round because we got it.
Speaker 1: We got some birthday stuff to handle. That's more wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be quick. I I think the Cults who have
Speaker 1: the most capitom in the league. Uh. And I know
Speaker 1: that under Chris Baller they have not um really been
Speaker 1: big spenders. And there's a lot of like reason to
Speaker 1: like the way that he's built the team to the draft,
Speaker 1: but maybe you've got to spend a little bit of
Speaker 1: money this time around, work on that defense, which you
Speaker 1: know has largely been a non name defense but overachieved.
Speaker 1: How about you bring the Dominican Sue in and have
Speaker 1: him playing like eight feet away from Darius Leonard and
Speaker 1: just blow people up week after week. Try running on
Speaker 1: that team. Well, my response to that would be, is
Speaker 1: in Dominican Sue better than Margus Hunt at this stage
Speaker 1: of their careers. I think so Marguts Hunt had a
Speaker 1: much better year than in Dominican Sue did this year,
Speaker 1: and we know he's a fit for Mattterberfluss defense. We don't,
Speaker 1: but they're basically playing the same position these days. I
Speaker 1: think Hunt played a lot of nose tackle at the
Speaker 1: end of the year to his playoff rund definitely helps
Speaker 1: his value because I think in those two games you
Speaker 1: sat in the in the NFC playoffs, you saw a
Speaker 1: real difference maker than Marcus Hunt. More made more place
Speaker 1: in September than Soon made all year. Wes, let's stick
Speaker 1: with the Colts. I was gonna say Landing Collins, you know,
Speaker 1: with the report that he's cleaning in his locker room
Speaker 1: and that's now being disputed, are disputed by multiple New
Speaker 1: York papers. But the cold speat writers just cleaning, that's all.
Speaker 1: Could speat writers are all in unison that have Landing
Speaker 1: Collins makes it to the market. The cults are going
Speaker 1: after him. But here's another guy. I really like Adam Humphries,
Speaker 1: the Bucks slot receivers, the agent. I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: I think talked about Golden Tape being similar to Edelman,
Speaker 1: but Adam Humphries toughness and run after catchability is like
Speaker 1: Edelman light and I think he'd be a great fit
Speaker 1: for the Colts. He's a chain mover in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. They really needed a slot receiver last
Speaker 1: year and didn't have a good one. Jameis Winston loves
Speaker 1: that guy. It's like Deshan Jackson has always pissed because
Speaker 1: whenever he comes, you know, whenever Jamis is playing, it's
Speaker 1: like he doesn't get any targets that Adam Humphries gets
Speaker 1: them all. Hum Freeze is incredibly tough and he's good
Speaker 1: after the catch. He's like a punt returner after the catch.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a big pick up for somebody.
Speaker 1: Um Teddy Bridgewater, I feel like we talked about this
Speaker 1: last week, is a little less buzz around him. And
Speaker 1: is it because of one game in in a week
Speaker 1: seventeen that didn't matter. Maybe I don't know, but I'm
Speaker 1: still excited about the possibility of him having a team again.
Speaker 1: And so why not send him to Hell, I don't know, Washington,
Speaker 1: a place where he won't have to r he won't
Speaker 1: have to battle for a job, and let him get
Speaker 1: a chance to actually now after waiting it out on
Speaker 1: the sideline for essentially three years, UH to start sixteen
Speaker 1: games if you can stay healthy and UH, give Washington
Speaker 1: another option at quarterback a franchise that is obviously in
Speaker 1: a very tough way right now. It's interesting that he
Speaker 1: came into the league with comparisons to Andy Dalton, who
Speaker 1: j Gruden hand picked with the Bengals. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that'd be I mean it's tough Teddy Bridgewater. At this point,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be able to just like join some
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. I mean, maybe the Jaguars would be
Speaker 1: a nice a nice fit for him. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: an uphill bat, but I think Jay Gruden does a
Speaker 1: good job with quarterbacks. That'd be nice. I think they're
Speaker 1: going to draft a quarterback to one more. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw justin Houston, even though he's not released
Speaker 1: yet by the cheating just prochect Jeeter acting that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a free agent in the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: pick them up. I think they're gonna be making big
Speaker 1: moves in general. I don't people, you know, they they've
Speaker 1: spent a lot of money. Their window is closing that
Speaker 1: whatever they are gonna be making big swings. And I
Speaker 1: think he would make a lot of sense on that
Speaker 1: defensive line where they're about to lose. I totally. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you nailed it. I think they got a lot of
Speaker 1: love in the off season about unless Need and company
Speaker 1: for being active and going for it, and it almost
Speaker 1: got them, got them to the super Bowl. At least.
Speaker 1: They're thirsty. They love the headlines. They're gonna be active again,
Speaker 1: and they need an end. I mean they need a
Speaker 1: guy at his position because because I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to deep Dante Fowler. Um, alright, good
Speaker 1: talk to guys. Then read that Mark Seessler double banger banger,
Speaker 1: But but but but but bang. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: prioritized correctly, if you've other things to do, you don't
Speaker 1: need to all right, So let's circle back to the
Speaker 1: birthday conversation. Greg turned forty on Tuesday, West forty five, Um,
Speaker 1: before we sign off, I think Greg forty is the
Speaker 1: big one. Forty is a huge one, and West West,
Speaker 1: it's his birthday. That's a nice ground's celebrating. Like a
Speaker 1: year ago at this time, he was still you know,
Speaker 1: getting over the after effects and he enjoyed this. Oh,
Speaker 1: let's take nothing away from West's birthday, but no one
Speaker 1: talks about forty is a big one. So we're going
Speaker 1: to um use our combined powers in the room here, Um,
Speaker 1: people that are below forty, people that are over forty.
Speaker 1: Let's start with over forty crowd. Letting Greg know what
Speaker 1: he can expect now that he's reached his forties. Well,
Speaker 1: I would say, you and your body have been going
Speaker 1: through life like Don Yxote and Sancho Panza, like you're
Speaker 1: a night errand and your body as your squire, and
Speaker 1: you're you're fighting all these battles together. You're on the
Speaker 1: same side. He turned party and your body is an
Speaker 1: open rebellion against your Pancho Sanja. You wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning and you gotta steer sticking out sticking out
Speaker 1: of your shoulder looks like, um, a bunch of trolls
Speaker 1: have taken a club to the back of your knees.
Speaker 1: You just wake up one more. It don't work anymore,
Speaker 1: like your shoulder. It's like that's just how it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the rest of your life. You're throwing shoulders gone. Um,
Speaker 1: the open rebellion just keeps going until one day you're
Speaker 1: poisoned and like Sancho Panza and you hate each other.
Speaker 1: And it was a glorious ride through forty years. But
Speaker 1: now the rebellion is going to be there for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Your body is no longer your
Speaker 1: friend because your enemy, and he's living amongst you. And
Speaker 1: was it even that greater ride? I mean, my body
Speaker 1: couldn't I wanted more? But I do see it's on
Speaker 1: the deep decline. H mark. All right. Now that you're
Speaker 1: in your forties, Greg, you will in the coming months
Speaker 1: feeling on toward attraction for show tunes. Your heart and
Speaker 1: mind will tractor beam towards the music of big stage shows,
Speaker 1: vaudeville and Broadway. Your house will be filled with the
Speaker 1: sounds of theater based Americana songs like Suddenly Seymour. Our
Speaker 1: state Fair is a great state Fair, deep cuts from
Speaker 1: My Fair Lady and Annie's. We'd like to thank you,
Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover. Just give in, Greg and fall in love
Speaker 1: with Broadway all over again. It's over, Well, I would
Speaker 1: all over again? When did I ever? Uh? Not really
Speaker 1: a show tune guy, but well that that would come
Speaker 1: in handy, because one thing that happens in your forties
Speaker 1: is that nobody gives a crap at all what you
Speaker 1: think about music or pop culture or movies or anything.
Speaker 1: You're just your opinion no longer matters any That's always
Speaker 1: on West's right. It just doesn't matter. People do not.
Speaker 1: They just they pat you on the head, assume you're
Speaker 1: old and that you have nothing contribute to society, because
Speaker 1: society never looks past ten years in the past. Well
Speaker 1: it's a yeah. It's always a confusing take by West
Speaker 1: because you also say that you essentially don't listen to
Speaker 1: the music, or I do listen to music. I'm just
Speaker 1: not a slave to pop culture. I listened to the
Speaker 1: music I want to find, not the music that the
Speaker 1: industry imposes on me. All right, West, you're up, He
Speaker 1: went already again. Well I could you know? No, No,
Speaker 1: that's fine, I just we we didn't talk about it.
Speaker 1: Get get ready for square dancing? What are you talking about? Look,
Speaker 1: you know I said before that one of the great
Speaker 1: things is you get to cut people out of your
Speaker 1: life if you if they're not contributing anything. Saved. But
Speaker 1: here I started that early. But here's the flip side
Speaker 1: to that. Once you know your circle is smaller, once
Speaker 1: you get into your forties, you have to find hobbies
Speaker 1: and things to do. And this is how people get
Speaker 1: into things like square dancing. They're like, oh, Chuck, you
Speaker 1: want to go to the square dance? We got nothing else? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have that's never happening, Mark you another one?
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, So the forties bring about change in
Speaker 1: one social life. Um, I can tell you that. No
Speaker 1: more waking up at four two am on the floor
Speaker 1: of an Elmont cocaine den twenty four miles out from
Speaker 1: Culver City. The room is littered with dozing, crashed out
Speaker 1: millennials and one older man you remember from the night before,
Speaker 1: a man who called himself Mr Elephant. Mr Elephant was
Speaker 1: the one who gave you that pill. It was still
Speaker 1: light out and you were on the phone with Emmica
Speaker 1: promising you'd pick up a carton of two percent milk
Speaker 1: on the way home. Then there's the memory of skipping
Speaker 1: through a nighttime field with the young woman named Gianna,
Speaker 1: dressed up like a hot bumblebee. I belonged to Mr Elephant.
Speaker 1: Gianna tells you, with tears in her eyes. But you
Speaker 1: could steal me away if you wanted to, Greg steal
Speaker 1: me away from Mr Elephant. No more of those nights.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Like what when I throw out like
Speaker 1: an idea to the guys, like let's do this. It
Speaker 1: always ends up with the same exact thing from Mark,
Speaker 1: some story that maybe tangently like tangentially and connected to
Speaker 1: what we're doing. I just look at the forty year
Speaker 1: old me and the forty year Greg. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: where the connection parts are. Fantasy. I would love to
Speaker 1: be with the Bumblebee Gianna too in the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's sounds like fun. I think I can do that
Speaker 1: any I'll give you one more um and that's all
Speaker 1: I have for you. In your forties, you start to
Speaker 1: care less about what people think. I think West pointed
Speaker 1: to that somehow, even less than you already do. It
Speaker 1: becomes easier to unplug from group drama, and you become
Speaker 1: less inclined to send late night text to friends, kind
Speaker 1: of like what you've sent me eight nights ago at
Speaker 1: two am, writing in all caps, Greg, Hey, what up,
Speaker 1: brose If I'm just sitting in my kitchen staring out
Speaker 1: the window at the raucous highway, I've just grilled myself
Speaker 1: a steak slice from the belly of a grass fed cow.
Speaker 1: I've been trying on Mascara's in front of the bathroom
Speaker 1: mirror and kind of just letting myself go a bit.
Speaker 1: I feel free. What up with you? I can't do
Speaker 1: that anymore. Sound enough with that? That sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I'm gonna miss it. And now that
Speaker 1: I'm the only person in the thirties in this room,
Speaker 1: I have to let you know. You turn what thirty
Speaker 1: nine this year? Uh? Yeah, I turned thirty one in April,
Speaker 1: so I got a lot of time ahead of me. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: things that you have to, you know, say goodbye to.
Speaker 1: It's time to let go of certain things now that
Speaker 1: you're in your forties. Uh, reading in bed without your peepers,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need those. That's construe pressed by opa. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm doing fine on that front. I got glasses, but yeah,
Speaker 1: not the bun gotta get those peepers. Trans fats, you
Speaker 1: gotta think about him. I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they are either. Uh. Any compulsive behavior slash addictions, gambling, smoking, uh,
Speaker 1: select internet habits. I just gotta cut them out. I
Speaker 1: canna show you that that's not particularly true my advice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a fine line between addictions and hobbies. That's true.
Speaker 1: You gotta say goodbye to the making the Leap series
Speaker 1: it's time time tell Alie that he's trying to sell it.
Speaker 1: Peter pan Uh, this is the last two are gonna hurt. Uh,
Speaker 1: So I saved them. Uh. You love live music, So
Speaker 1: you have to say goodbye to concerts on school nights.
Speaker 1: You're just too old. Your body will not um react
Speaker 1: well the next day will hurt your performance on the
Speaker 1: podcast or as a columnist on the NFL media Um site.
Speaker 1: So goodbye to concerts on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 1: That's disappointing. I've just sort of gotten over mentally being
Speaker 1: the old guy at the concert that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. But I guess that's why you're
Speaker 1: the only guy left. Because once you hit forty those
Speaker 1: people Friday or Saturday. If if your favorite artist doesn't
Speaker 1: come to town on Friday or Saturday, you don't see him. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan, we were planning to go to a
Speaker 1: ray of last off season and I thought again, this
Speaker 1: so right, Well, sometimes it doesn't bother you to be
Speaker 1: the oldest person in a venue. West you have a
Speaker 1: good mindset on things, and but sometimes it really sometimes
Speaker 1: it finally, and this is the one that's gonna really
Speaker 1: hurt Greg. Now that you're forty, it's starting to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to rap. So music like this, you know longer
Speaker 1: can enjoy because the old wife. This is wrap. This
Speaker 1: sounds like the soundtrack to like a late eighties. This
Speaker 1: is a ridiculous statement. First of all, I like a
Speaker 1: lot more than just rap. Listen to that music, but
Speaker 1: you think about it to run. But as as our generation,
Speaker 1: we're gen X right where the gen X kind of
Speaker 1: as we ate yourself, I'm younger, I mean, hip hop
Speaker 1: is the dominant musical form everyone everyone caught up to.
Speaker 1: So as as as the people like myself age like
Speaker 1: that's there's old these stations with rap. You don't have
Speaker 1: to give it up. It's not an age thing. You
Speaker 1: gotta give up the rate? What are you don't still
Speaker 1: listen to the radio they did a lot of time.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was in the uber in Atlanta, in
Speaker 1: an uber in Atlanta and a classic hip hop station
Speaker 1: was on, And it is funny how we've gotten to
Speaker 1: the age now where there was classic rock stations when
Speaker 1: we're young. Now there's classic hip hop, especially out here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but all right of me, all right, narrow that done?
Speaker 1: You could listen to the classic hip hop radio stations.
Speaker 1: No more of the kid music for you though, but
Speaker 1: that's not exciting, you know, like that's all you what's fresh?
Speaker 1: You know, you want to hear what's on the cutting edge,
Speaker 1: Little Baby, because you don't want to be like the
Speaker 1: forty four year old guy talking about the new Little
Speaker 1: Baby album, you know. But you will be soon for
Speaker 1: your note. Yeah, not really, it's a little baby. But
Speaker 1: all right, well, boys, happy birthday. It's so nice that
Speaker 1: we're all together. Still. I appreciate the advice. Thank you,
Speaker 1: all right, and Ricky, I just want to make it clear,
Speaker 1: even though Sydney showed up again knocked it out of
Speaker 1: the park with that beautiful happy Birthday tune, uh, that
Speaker 1: we are so lucky to have you. You are an
Speaker 1: angel that came to us, and um, I just appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that I can't knock out
Speaker 1: the other feelings that I have inside, like sometimes an
Speaker 1: X will stick with you and they'll always have a
Speaker 1: part of your heart. But I just want you to
Speaker 1: know that you're special to me and are the one
Speaker 1: for me. Okay, And I think you do have the
Speaker 1: best nickname in the history of this podcast. Thank you,
Speaker 1: gold Sanders is pretty good. What would now we have
Speaker 1: to get compliments to I agree with what they said, Um,
Speaker 1: I very much agree original. I just can't think of
Speaker 1: anything else right now. I mean, I I love you
Speaker 1: so much that you know, I try to spend as
Speaker 1: much time as possible with you, multiple jobs. What more
Speaker 1: can I do? And I go to concerts? Go? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we went and we did happening again. All right. We
Speaker 1: will be back on Friday with another episode of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast. Thank you to everyone for listening
Speaker 1: and what you know what, let's check in Greg. You
Speaker 1: put out a challenge last week for people to leave
Speaker 1: five star ratings and comments on iTunes. Uh and you
Speaker 1: I think did you've set a number of what we
Speaker 1: were looking for? How many? Um? We did. We're almost there,
Speaker 1: but we needed a little work to do. So maybe
Speaker 1: we'll check in with those common and so make sure
Speaker 1: people are doing their part to support the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's free at least, I'm comments not a one way
Speaker 1: street here people, all right. Stan Hands is signing off
Speaker 1: four Quiet Storm and The Part Day Boys, The Mailman
Speaker 1: and the Old Boss forty and forty Perspective Battle and
Speaker 1: the great Ricky Hollywood behind the glass util Friday