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It's Monday, you know what time it is. FRPC football.

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And I am here. With.

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Just all kinds of greatness.

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The Canadian bomber, the Canadian shaman,

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the Canadian Bill Simmons.

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And for this show, the Canadian Mike Tomlin, Nico Micello.

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Monday, how is it treating you?

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Are you OK? What's going on?

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Yeah, I'm I'm doing OK.

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I'm surviving.

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I'm I'm never going to get used to that intro for sure.

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But I am that I'm I'm doing OK.

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I'm disappointed is probably the vibe.

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The vibe of disappointment.

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And that can only mean that we have hit.

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Three agency frenzy.

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Yes, I really, I really hate the title, by the way.

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It's so TV.

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We've hit the we've hit the tampering, the legal tampering period in the NFL.

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Let's just call it what it is.

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Mm hmm. But we got some news

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on some stuff since the last time we spoke.

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We got the Carolina Panthers who now own the number one overall pick.

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They knew they trade with Chicago.

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They are trading way.

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Obviously, the night pick, they are trading away their

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twenty twenty four first rounder and a twenty twenty five second rounder

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and second round this year.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And D.J. Moore.

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Mm hmm. I want some more.

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I want some more.

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Wow. The the Browns are

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making it hard for me to be a Steelers fan this year.

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Honestly, they're just acquiring all my favorite players.

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They almost make me want to jump ship.

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Not that you don't have to worry about the Browns, though.

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You can worry about the bears.

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Oh, the bear.

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The bears is what I meant.

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The bears is what I meant.

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I absolutely love that team, not the Browns.

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Justin Fields, I've always had a lot of love for.

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D.J. Moore is one of my absolute favorite players.

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I think he's arguably the most underrated receiver in the sport.

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And with a little more consistent quarterback play,

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which I'm hoping Justin Fields can provide, I think he could be

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a really elite player.

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And today, there are additions of Nate Davis along the offensive line.

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Showing some level of commitment there to protecting the young guy,

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Justin Fields and Tremaine Edmonds.

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Signing to a contract that was cheaper than the one Roquan Smith signed.

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And they got the second round pick for Roquan Smith.

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So all all in all, this is a great

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series of moves for the Bears,

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creating a new, exciting young core full of guys that I personally love.

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And I'm interested to see how it works going forward.

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I was not in agreement with the Roquan Smith deal,

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but I understood it because they weren't going to be able to sign them.

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They were they're out of impact.

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So I understand why.

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I understand why.

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I just when you have a talent like that in the building,

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I just think you should find a way to get that done.

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But that said, what that means, said all the moves after

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and what has gone on, you cannot fault them at all.

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You know, it's safe or swim time for our guy Fields.

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This is this is the year.

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I would say that they would continue to fortify the offensive line for him.

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I would buy a through free agency or through the draft.

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Right. Hopefully that ninth pick is invested at tackle.

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I was in.

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Yeah, that's what I'd really like to see at this point.

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I I to be clear, I think that the

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I I to be clear, the Roke wants to make a deal in a vacuum.

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I'm not I don't think it was necessarily good, but they replaced

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maybe 85 plus percent of Roke on Smith with also a player

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who's got a bigger body and remain Edmonds today.

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And I think that'll help them in the run game where they have struggled.

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And this is going to be an entirely new defense

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for the most part after moving on from guys like Robert Quinn

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and Roke on himself last year.

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So I I'm intrigued to see this new look defense

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that Ryan Poles is putting together.

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Indeed, their moves so far, like I said,

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haven't had a problem with any of it.

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And I also am a big proponent.

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That you probably go ahead and like remedy

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that situation as quickly as possible, don't hide from it to say, all right,

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yeah, we made a mistake.

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And now we're going to fix it.

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There's no shame in that.

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I think the teams that know thyself more

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and do really well with the self scout are usually the better teams.

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I would believe personally.

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Yeah, yeah, I totally agree.

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I think that's absolutely necessary in the team building process.

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There's a few other teams making big moves today as well.

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I was just about to segue for you and say, know thyself.

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So how about know thyself in the Pittsburgh Steelers?

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Yeah, I didn't love what went down today.

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I mean, absolutely no doubt.

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I mean, absolutely no disrespect to Patrick Peterson.

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I love to see him on our team.

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Clearly is on the latter half of his career.

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That being said, he was still incredibly solid last year in Minnesota.

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That being said as well.

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Pat Pete is mostly his own corner at times throughout

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or at this time in his career.

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And in man coverage, he can get beat off.

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And then Steelers were experimenting with more man coverage last offseason.

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That that being said, I do love

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just adding him to the team.

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How about Peterson playing safety?

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Any thoughts on on that situation?

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Because he's he's digging up.

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He is. But I

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the Steelers have Mink of his Patrick currently playing that like roaming

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safety and they use a guy like Terrell Edmonds,

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who's currently a free agent, but was last year's safety and has been

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the team safety for the last five

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as more of like an in the box guy.

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And I'm not so sure that's a role Peterson would fit necessarily.

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The the concerns I have with

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the Steelers moves today stem primarily from

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not only their now entire lack of a single slot corner on the roster

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outside of Arthur Millett, who I don't want to see play very much,

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is the loss of Kam Sutton, who was an excellent cornerback

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for this team, who played every role, wore every hat.

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He could be an outside corner.

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He was a dime corner when he first started.

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And we did some of his best work at Nickel Corner,

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has excellent ball skills, is a sure tackler

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and was really a true leader in the locker room.

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You go through the social medias of

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Steelers on the team currently,

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and you almost can't find a single one

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where there isn't some post in appreciation of Cameron Sutton.

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And even ex players are supporting him quite widely.

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He was an excellent player for us last year,

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who really saved us from our lack of cornerback depth.

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And at this point, losing him, I think, is pretty tragic.

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I feel you, buddy, because we lost Jalen Ramsey.

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We were trading him.

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I knew it was coming.

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But he is now Miami Dolphin.

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And say what you want about.

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The swag or his temperament,

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what he was for that team, how aggressive he was,

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how aggressive he was,

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literally, he was the only guy on the Super Bowl team

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up until the playoffs, who I thought played any with any physicality whatsoever.

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I remember I remember you saying that repeatedly.

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So to see him go was harsh.

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And to see him go for the third rounder,

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I was kind of hoping for a second rounder.

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I was joking on the pod last week about first rounders and what have you.

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But I was hoping for a second rounder, hoping for a little bit better return.

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But hey, you got the best years out of him.

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And hey, if you're getting a third rounder from forum at this stage,

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it's fine, because the one thing I do know is that if the Rams are in the first round,

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the Rams are in a position where they need to go out and get somebody,

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they do identify and go out and get that guy.

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So I don't really have a problem with that.

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This is just pick acquisition at this point.

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I think what you will see more of is that that 36 overall pick

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might get traded to move back a little bit and to acquire more.

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I also believe that that second third round pick would also be a prime situation

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where they will also use that to move back and acquire more picks as well.

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They need to restock the covers at this point.

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This is it's not Baron, but they need to hit on these guys

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and they need to hit on a decent clip as well to replenish.

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So that's that's our cornerback story as well.

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So we we are not in real good moods when it comes to the squad at this point.

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No, not particularly.

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I I thought that Ramsey might get traded for more than the third round pick.

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It ended up being.

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But once it became clear that he wasn't looking to take any sort of pay cut

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and in fact received more guaranteed money to go to the dolphins,

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it was clear that the compensation was going to be smaller.

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To what I'm assuming both of us.

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Well, here's the thing.

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I honestly, if you know anything about Ramsey, he's all he's been all about his cash.

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So this is not surprised me at all.

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That he didn't take a shave.

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Yeah, he's all about his cash.

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So I didn't I didn't think that.

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So with that's actually now more with that being said,

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it actually even makes more sense that the third rounder

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was the actual compensation, because I knew Ramsey was never going to take a cut.

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I I guess I thought I was more looking at it

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as he might have needed to take a pay cut like teams

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were going to be a little hesitant to take him on at that salary

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or hypothetically, maybe take him on in a situation

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where the Rams retain some money to just give him a signing bonus right before the trade.

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I was thinking something like that could happen more so than Ramsey

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would just get rid of money.

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But I definitely see what you're saying.

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The one other thing that that I'll say about Miami now,

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with Jaylen Ramsey in the building.

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Corner that came across Grams, the that was a younger guy.

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Was Mark better by him.

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David Long is his son, his praises.

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Other guys as well has sung his praises about

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the gifts that he were that he just got dropped on now.

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So you're getting as far as a locker room guy.

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that comes along with Jaylen Ramsey.

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But as far as locker room in that, in that locker room,

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in that in that secondary

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film role, he is going to be instrumental in it

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and helping any young guys that the Miami Dolphins have.

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So they got a good one.

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Yeah, that'll likely be pretty helpful for a guy like Noah Ibnogony.

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He's first round pick brought in a few years ago,

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has been relatively disappointing to this point in his career.

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However, he's still 23 years old, so there's room for him to improve.

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And maybe under the tutelage of a guy like Ramsey

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rather than a guy like Byron Jones will help him out a little more.

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I that's kind of similar actually to the Steelers situation as well.

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That's kind of the role I see them bringing Patrick Peterson into.

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And is also why I think the Steelers very clearly telegraphed today.

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That they will be drafting a cornerback in the first round.

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The good old Steelers always making it very, very easy for a

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a team that is looking at a particular position

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to go right in front of them.

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where their draft spot.

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And that doesn't happen as often as you think it should, because like

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basically all sides have point to pointed to the last several Steelers picks.

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You look at Najee Harris, you look at Kenny Pickett.

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I was ignoring them, but the signs were there.

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Even guys like Devin Bush.

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the the draft where the Bengals jumped ahead of us

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and drafted William Jackson, who we also cut today.

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But they drafted William Jackson, who at the time we really wanted.

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And they knew it.

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So the Steelers made it clear the Bengals knew it.

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They hopped in front of us.

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They didn't have a backup plan.

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They just drafted Artie Burns.

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And the rest was history.

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Basically was a pretty big disappointment.

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Yeah, with the guys that you just named.

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So you're talking about Pickett, Najee Harris.

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Those were, if you think about it.

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Nobody was really looking at those dudes like not.

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I'm not listening.

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Najee here is a good running back.

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Not as dynamic as well.

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We'll see what the offensive line is this year.

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But. Like this is that was probably where

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the spot he was going to go.

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And if he wasn't going to go there, he was probably going to go like four slides later.

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Yeah, yeah. It was kind of like, OK, well, you want to drop the quarterback

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because nobody was enamored.

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But like I said, the last couple the last couple of times when it was telegraphed

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to this point, yeah, you're right.

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So the Willis Jackson was a big deal.

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So I just hope at this point.

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They diversify their board.

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I had to see how it all worked out after today.

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That's kind of what I was hoping with the addition of Andy Weidl to the draft room.

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And based on today's moves, it just looks like more of the same.

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It looks like another short board.

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And that that's why my tenor for today is overall disappointment.

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Well, San Francisco also made some moves.

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Sticking with your Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah.

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Hard right signs a four year deal to go to the San Francisco 49ers.

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You know how much I hate this.

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Yeah, because a more physical

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dominant defensive line got way better

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with Hargrave's in the middle of this bad boy.

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Men like.

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Between Bosa, Armstead and Hargrave,

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you have three dudes on the Niners defensive line right now

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who are almost impossible to single team and can I write

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a kid Ken law is a really solid player as well.

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But I think some of the better guards in the league can isolate him.

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Armstead, Hargrave, Bosa are the type of guys you need to chip.

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You need to do something.

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And normally teams can kind of get away with the guarding

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Armstead and Bosa with only three linemen and not double teaming

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both giving one guy kind of double duty.

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But now with Hargrave on the other side locked into a one on one

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in that situation, it's going to be devastating to defenses.

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This is a huge addition to

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what last year was one of the best defenses in the sport,

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if not arguably the best and a team that no one beat the week after

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because of how bad they beat you up.

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Now they're just going to beat you up worse.

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This is Fred Warner approved.

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This deal is Fred Warner approved. Absolutely.

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He will not have anyone on him, so he'll just be free, free to roam.

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And that's all I that's all I ever wanted in my inner sea west

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as a round fan is this Fred Warner free, just not touch whatsoever.

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Free to just accelerate and explode.

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That's exactly what I wanted.

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Yeah. Now, I don't know how big a loss it is.

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And because he was kind of on his way out.

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But McGlinchey goes to Denver.

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He signs a big deal.

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So it was five years, like 87 mil.

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But 50 of it is guaranteed.

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But McKibbett for the San Francisco 49ers

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had already kind of because of his injury situation

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and already kind of served him.

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So I'm I'm kind of like, OK, we get younger and cheaper.

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Sweet. Yeah.

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Yeah, especially like.

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Man, the situation the Niners are in,

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I got to sing John Lynch's praises for a little bit.

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We've talked about how they've collected compensatory draft

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picks through the minority hiring program, bringing in several minority

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people in high positions and giving them autonomy

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to make decisions and showing how great they are.

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And then they go and get hired in other organizations.

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That's excellent. Today.

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Despite signing Javon Hargrave,

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the Niners are going to pick up yet another third round compensatory pick

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because they lost Mike McGlinchey and they lost Jimmy Garoppolo,

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who's going to cancel out the Hargrave addition in the compensatory formula.

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So despite becoming, I think, objectively a better team today,

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they also are picking up compensatory value.

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That is some legendary

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general manager movement by John Lynch.

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Twenty twenty four

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compensatory pick in that third round.

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We'll be looking back at the Jimmy Garoppolo

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to the Las Vegas Raiders to team up with his old buddy.

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His former quarterback coach and offensive coordinator, now head coach.

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What do you think of Garoppolo to Vegas?

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And is this. Is this better?

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Is this better than what they had?

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I think I have a hot take here.

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I'm a big Derek Carr fan, but I actually do believe this is better than what they had.

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Just because primary use can start with the fit between McDaniels and Garoppolo,

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which is obviously there.

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But the contract they got Jimmy on is incredibly friendly.

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He's making like twenty two million dollars a year.

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That's almost half what Daniel Jones is making.

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It's also a contract that a lot of it is guaranteed in year one

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with a little bit guaranteed in year two.

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So hypothetically, if this goes sour, it's not difficult to pivot out.

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I think the Raiders put themselves in the position

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that they are in right now.

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The Raiders put themselves in a much more flexible situation

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to kind of figure out what they have on this roster

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and also put people in place who better understand the system

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and the group that existed last year.

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I'm not convinced that this is necessarily some home run signing

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that's going to bring the Raiders to the next level or anything.

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I think that's the right move.

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My thoughts exactly two real key critical things to this.

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You bring somebody in who's definitely going to understand the verbiage

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that McDaniels is talking.

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Secondly, it's going to make it easier for everybody else

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because even with a year under their belt,

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they're barely a young team except in a couple positions.

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So offensive line, that'll help Garoppolo get them set.

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And it's just like having another coach on the field.

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And the other thing with Garoppolo is this,

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is that I understand that Carr was a dude, not locker room.

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People like Garoppolo, like really like him in the locker room.

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Especially young guys.

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And I think with this young team, that's

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going to resonate incredibly well.

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Jimmy Garoppolo, also well known for feeding tight ends

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to have big games, be it Gronkowski or Kittle.

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So this looks really promising for Darren Waller as well.

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A guy like Hunter Renfro, I think looks very analogous to the Julian

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Edelman slot receiver types that they've had in the past.

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So having a lot of these weapons that are going to be familiar to Garoppolo,

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even though he hasn't necessarily played with them before,

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I think is going to prove itself to be successful.

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And do not forget about the really athletic tackles they have.

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Those will be monumentally important in the screen game

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and the bubble screen game that they will employ this year

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with Garoppolo in that lineup.

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So we are looking for good things from Vegas.

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They got to be better than last year out of that.

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They just have to get that defense will be the key.

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What they can do with their picks and what have you.

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We'll see what goes down from that point.

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I don't know what they did.

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Defense has to get better.

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They need some dudes on that defense.

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Let's see, is is there another free agent deal that went down?

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We got to really kind of hit on.

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I mean, I know Carl went to to New Orleans, so we touch on that a little.

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I can't remember.

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Juwan Taylor to the Chiefs, I think is significant.

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It shows that they're moving on from Orlando Brown.

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He is currently, I would say, the biggest free agent still available

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and likely commanding somewhere in the range of 100 million dollars.

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I think Juwan Taylor is a straight up better player than Mike McGlinchey,

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especially like over the last year.

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He's proven himself to be very good in this sort of role.

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So the fact that the Chiefs got him for even cheaper than the contract

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McGlinchey signed, I think looks very good on their behalf.

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Once again, the Chiefs making another great move.

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That that runoff is just has aces all over.

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Just I mean, they just do really well,

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and they know when it's time to move on from a guy.

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And to be as as far as the money is concerned, to only pay this do like 20 mil.

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I mean, this is good.

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It was a good situation.

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There's a couple of the things I want to hit you with, Nico.

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We got Daniel Jones on a.

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On a contract for 40 million dollars.

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Mm hmm. So he's he's locked in.

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He is. What are we thinking?

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About Daniel Jones getting 40 mil.

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I can't believe it on some level.

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On another level.

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I understand kind of what the Giants were trying to do.

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I think this contract is as much a message to the locker room

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that we will pay you if you perform well here.

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I think contracts like that often get tendered.

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That being said, I think this has a ton of downside.

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I last year was by far Daniel Jones best year,

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and it's not as if he was the type of player that was going out there consistently,

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winning them games by himself or anything or making the difference.

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He's a good quarterback.

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And he functions well in this stable system.

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He can do kind of like a C to C plus job

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of approximating Josh Allen.

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So that's definitely the intrigue behind him.

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I just think this deal has limited upside

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and a potentially catastrophic downside.

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Well, when you see that Garoppolo is basically making like 18 mil a year

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with incentives to get get them to 25.

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And then you see Daniel Jones making 40.

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Yeah, so now here's my question.

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Daniel Jones is making 40.

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I understand that we are still waiting on Aaron Rodgers.

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Supposedly, we are a lot closer to him, to Aaron Rodgers becoming a jet.

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But we still do not have pen to paper,

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or do you want to go out with me,

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hit the yes box or whatever the kids do nowadays

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to say they're courting somebody?

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So anyway, I got some theories on why Aaron

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might actually I think Aaron might be holding this up.

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Would you like to hear that?

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Absolutely, absolutely. OK.

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One, it is a protest to.

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Who he thinks the new Batman should be.

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In the next DC comic movie.

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Fair enough, not a Robert Pattinson fan.

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No. OK.

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And he feels like if he's going to Gotham,

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his Batman should be a lot darker.

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Yeah, a lot more. Yeah, yeah.

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Pattinson, I think, does a better Bruce Wayne than he does Batman, for sure.

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OK. So these are some of the rumors that are out there.

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Mm hmm. The other rumor that is out there is that

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he has not received a list of socialite

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in the New York City area yet

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to see who's going to be his new fiance.

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OK, so he's waiting on that as well.

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And whatever starlet that's coming off,

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pretty little liars or White Lotus or whatever other show

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that might be real popular with the little 20 year olds.

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If they're living in the area, well, so we watch out.

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That's that seems to be his type. So. All right.

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So that also might be holding it up. OK.

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There was one other rumor that really caught my eye

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is that it looks like Aaron Rodgers would like.

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His tackle Bakiari to be the new Batman.

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His tackle Bakiari to go with him because the main on that guy,

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the flow of hair just calms Rogers down

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while he's in the pocket dissecting the defense.

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Thoughts on that?

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I see this this theory seems a little too related to football

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to truly be something Aaron Rodgers would be concerned with.

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But they based on the the behavior we've seen between him

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and Bakiari in the past, I think it's definitely possible.

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He needs a beer can crusher.

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The bromance is strong with those two, definitely.

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And they do have similar situations with hair.

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They sure do.

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Rodgers seems to be enamored with his Bakiari seems to just be

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pretty much the end of thought and cuts it with a fork.

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And I think Rodgers likes it that way.

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Another thing that I just thought of.

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He was asking if he would have full autonomy to go into.

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A Brooklyn police department.

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And have access to a guard room.

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They're still working on that.

499
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,200
The mayor and all the city officials are working on that.

500
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,360
OK, he needs he needs a place to store his Ivermectam.

501
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,800
So that makes sense.

502
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,840
This is this is true.

503
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,840
All right.

504
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,200
So, man, tell me what's going on, did I?

505
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,720
What are we doing right now?

506
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:44,800
I I've got no idea.

507
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:54,240
The the box, the Bakiari thing you threw out there is not not that it's

508
00:34:54,240 --> 00:35:00,080
anywhere near reality, but that's like the only last thing that I can

509
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:05,960
possibly logically think necessarily if it's on the Roger side, that maybe

510
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,800
he wants someone to go with him, be it from Green Bay, be it someone in free agency.

511
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,480
That he's trying to find a way for the Jets to add that player as well.

512
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:24,320
Or the thing I think all Jets fans are terrified of is it Woody Johnson being

513
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:30,120
unwilling to part with some level of draft compensation.

514
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:35,920
And at this point, I'm kind of leaning in that direction.

515
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,960
But I, I really hope that's not the case.

516
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:48,960
To our New York fans who just had a heart attack that you might actually lose out on

517
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,240
Rogers because of your owner.

518
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,480
Listen, calm down, calm down.

519
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:03,880
Brian Gooden-Kuss wants Rogers out as much as you want him to.

520
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,400
As you want him, this deal will get done

521
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:15,400
because the hatred between Gooden-Kuss and Rogers is well documented within me.

522
00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:25,280
CQPP in or earlier renditions of my thoughts on the good

523
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,760
and cause Rogers relationship is pretty hilarious.

524
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:34,000
But Rogers has given us so much good content over the years.

525
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,760
But this one right here, like holding things up.

526
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:43,200
Because also I think he's a linchpin to the guy that I want to talk about next.

527
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:49,840
And I guess another conspiracy theory that I need to throw out there is Lamar Jackson.

528
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:57,800
We got two prime time quarterbacks, Nico, that are holding up the works right now on

529
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:04,880
what our season is going to look like and how we're going to have to somehow.

530
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,120
Virtually spoon each other when these two, these two quarterbacks are in different

531
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:10,720
uniforms.

532
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:18,280
Yeah, I, man, I don't know necessarily what's going on with this Lamar Jackson

533
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,080
situation.

534
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,760
I think it's relevant to talk about the deadline for teams to actually start

535
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,760
negotiating with him being in two days rather than today.

536
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:36,280
But we've seen all these reports of teams that are not in the Lamar Jackson chase

537
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,000
at this point.

538
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:44,120
And to me, it seems like gamesmanship more than anything.

539
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:50,040
It seems like teams are being unwilling to be the first to put that offer on the

540
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,120
table so another team can just come by and beat it and drive up the price.

541
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:59,080
Well, there is talk of collusion.

542
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,720
That's the word I wanted to get to, because that were right there.

543
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,920
And this podcast will be very, very careful.

544
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,600
Alleged collusion.

545
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:13,560
Because.

546
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,080
Who knows who hears this?

547
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:20,400
Who knows?

548
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,600
So I do want to talk about that a little bit.

549
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:24,960
Yeah.

550
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,520
You tell me.

551
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,960
Is it hard to get a franchise quarterback?

552
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,400
A real difference maker, Nico, in this.

553
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:38,760
How many we got?

554
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,600
I think we're sitting at five right now.

555
00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,320
People can.

556
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:50,840
And we got we got we got my homes.

557
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:52,640
Burrow.

558
00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:53,760
Yes.

559
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,920
We got are we throwing Herbert in there?

560
00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,080
I'm not throwing Herbert in.

561
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,960
OK, we got Hertz.

562
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,720
Yes, we do.

563
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,480
We got Lamar.

564
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:06,840
We do.

565
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,320
And Josh Allen is.

566
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:08,760
Oh, yeah.

567
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:09,600
Josh Allen.

568
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:15,960
OK, so those are the quarterbacks that Nico thinks, hey, if the defense stinks

569
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:21,440
today or if we turn the ball over a couple of times or our special teams

570
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:28,240
fumbles ball in our own territory and we're behind the eight ball, our QB one

571
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:29,480
is going to bring us back.

572
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:37,040
So those names again are Burrow, my homes, Allen, Hertz and Lamar Jackson.

573
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:44,240
So other franchises send your hate tweets to at Nico FRPC.

574
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,320
And I will say that again.

575
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,880
That is at Nico FRPC.

576
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:56,840
And if you would like to send tweets to me, then I will retweet and send to Nico

577
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,480
that is at front runner PC.

578
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:00,880
Yes, sir.

579
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:06,240
But just so you know, I pretty much agree with what you just said.

580
00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:11,760
The only other guy that I would throw kind of in there, but he hasn't done it yet.

581
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,640
It's probably Herbert.

582
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:20,240
I like Lawrence trajectory, but I want to see it again, you know?

583
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,640
And you know how I feel about Dak and Kurt?

584
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,240
Oh, yeah, they're nowhere near this conversation.

585
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,440
And you know how I feel about Garoppolo?

586
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,240
Oh, and he's even further.

587
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:32,800
Yeah.

588
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,000
So these are the guys.

589
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:41,400
Aaron Rodgers, I think, is another one that people might talk about on the periphery.

590
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,040
There I think he's been that guy in the past.

591
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,840
He can still win you regular season games.

592
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,920
Pray to God you don't come up against the Niners in the playoffs or anything like

593
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:58,640
that, because there there are certain situations where Aaron Rodgers has not

594
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,920
performed to his standard.

595
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,160
In the playoffs, that's why he's going to the AFC.

596
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,880
He trying to get away from the Niners.

597
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,080
He better.

598
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:07,640
Yeah.

599
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,240
Boy, you might see him in the Super Bowl.

600
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:17,360
Maybe at that point, he found the starlet in New York that will give him the

601
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,800
superpowers that he needs to defeat the mighty 49ers.

602
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,280
OK, but here's the thing.

603
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,840
So we don't have a lot of those guys.

604
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:27,520
It's very smart.

605
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:28,680
Correct.

606
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,520
Incredibly sparse.

607
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:37,040
Why do you let them buy you let one walk and also let one walk at like 25, 26 years of age?

608
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,720
I have absolutely no idea what the Ravens are doing.

609
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:49,120
I I'm shocked they didn't pay Lamar two years ago, to be honest, that we got to this

610
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,240
point in the first place.

611
00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:55,680
This guy has won M.B.P.s for your franchise and you've hamstrung him.

612
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:00,880
The entire time you've put him with the same offensive coordinator running the same

613
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:07,920
broken schemes that had been solved in his rookie year and he Colin Kaepernick.

614
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:12,400
Yeah, that's that's all Greg Roman ever did.

615
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:19,760
And they brought in the occasional wide receiver, but they haven't brought in

616
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:26,920
necessarily the greatest ones, as Eric DeCosta said.

617
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,520
However, as Rashad Bateman said, they haven't put the receivers in position to be

618
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:32,800
successful either.

619
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:38,160
So it's really difficult to know what's wrong.

620
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,080
But it seems like there might be something a little rotten at the core in this

621
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:42,880
organization.

622
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,160
Two things I just want to throw out there.

623
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:54,960
One, the man has won an MVP to that man has been to multiple AFC championship

624
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,600
games, multiple.

625
00:42:57,240 --> 00:42:57,720
All right.

626
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,840
You know, the guys who can say that, Nico, that are in the league.

627
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,280
Not that there's only a couple.

628
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,720
Yeah, Lamar or him in.

629
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,240
Sorry, him in Pat.

630
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,360
I guess Mr.

631
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:14,240
Brady's gone.

632
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:17,120
Well, no, the other guy, too, is Burrow.

633
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,520
Oh, Burrow, Burrow, those three, three, three, those three guys.

634
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:23,240
Yeah.

635
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,840
Are the only guys that have been to multiple at this point.

636
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,880
So your guy is giving you basically to the dance.

637
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:34,880
Yeah.

638
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:38,360
With very little help.

639
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:44,080
Okay. And you put the tag on him where he could walk.

640
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:53,280
I have a lot of questions that need to be answered.

641
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,040
Well, I don't know if Nico can answer those for me.

642
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,040
One.

643
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:02,960
I have this question.

644
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,040
Do they like Lamar Jackson?

645
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:13,080
Do the Baltimore Ravens organization, do they like him and want him to continue

646
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,160
to be their quarterback?

647
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:20,640
If they do, they sure have a hell of a way of showing it because I, I'm not

648
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:21,800
getting that impression.

649
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:36,760
And then my question is, what's the, what's plan A or plan B?

650
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:44,480
I, I've got absolutely no idea at this point.

651
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:51,400
I don't think they're going to be a team that goes into the draft this year

652
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,200
with the designs on finding their next quarterback.

653
00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:02,000
Their team as a whole, especially defensively is also too good to bottom

654
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,080
out next year for a Caleb Williams type draft pick.

655
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:17,320
I think their hope has to be that the Lamar team that they eventually end up

656
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,640
dealing with has a quarterback that they can then get in return.

657
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:28,640
As I've pointed out guys like Tua and Mack Jones, that they might have some

658
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:33,480
level of interest in assuming Lamar ends up going to one of those teams.

659
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:40,440
But hypothetically, if it's another situation like Tampa Bay, where there's

660
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:47,000
no quarterback in place, it's going to be rough sliding for the Ravens at this

661
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:47,400
point.

662
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:53,480
They will have the draft equity they get for Lamar.

663
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:58,920
So there can be a situation where hypothetically they could trade up, but

664
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:04,640
likely whatever team is at first overall, this can be very hesitant to give away a

665
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,320
player like Caleb Williams.

666
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:09,280
All right.

667
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,560
So this is, this is my thought.

668
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:14,840
Tell me if I'm wrong.

669
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:20,200
Tell me if I'm on the right path or just tell me that I'm absolutely out of my

670
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:20,840
freaking mind.

671
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:21,680
All right.

672
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:29,000
We have long thought that Lamar Jackson wasn't going to play for the Baltimore

673
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:29,480
Ravens.

674
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,080
We've been on this for months, basically.

675
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:39,000
Um, with that being said, their next moves are let's build the team.

676
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,520
Let's let's put all the stuff we need.

677
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,000
Like the defense is good.

678
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,480
Where can we get better at the defense?

679
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,480
Do we have a special pass rusher?

680
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:56,360
Do we have the subsequent subsequent corners to do what we need to do?

681
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:05,600
Can we upgrade the weapons for our next quarterback, build the team and then

682
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:12,760
allow the quarterback aid to either come to you or B you go get whoever is under

683
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:21,200
Shannon hand in San Francisco and you say, Hey, you come and be our offensive

684
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:30,040
coordinator consultant or whatever and build the offense and you can probably

685
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,240
get by with Brock Purdy's and the Garocolo's of the works.

686
00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:40,640
Yeah, I think I think Todd Monk and the guy they, they did bring in this off

687
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:47,160
season to be the new offensive coordinator is a interesting hire at the very least.

688
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:53,240
He's had success in the league before he's had some less successful times, but

689
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:58,720
I think it's going to result in a different offense that involves more West

690
00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:04,960
coast concepts and more of a vertical passing game than what we've seen from

691
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:10,160
them in recent years, especially you can look at the offense at Georgia.

692
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:16,080
The last two years to see the kind of idea of what we're looking at.

693
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:24,000
So I think at least on that side, they're currently moving in the right direction.

694
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,920
It just feels a little too late to me.

695
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:33,920
Well, this saga continues and will obviously stay on it.

696
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:39,880
If there is a move with Rogers and or Lamar, I am sure that

697
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:44,560
there will be an emergency podcast for that, because when you are talking about

698
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:52,440
two franchise difference makers, at least Rogers, a couple of years ago, we want

699
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:59,960
to throw last year away because of the injury concern and his lack of his

700
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,240
binky Devante Adams, not being there.

701
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,960
We want to throw that away and just kind of say, Hey, when he had his

702
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,480
black ones, he was held with healthy.

703
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,400
He was an MVP candidate actually wanted.

704
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,880
So therefore he's what a year removed from an MVP.

705
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:19,000
Yeah.

706
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:20,240
Yeah.

707
00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:20,520
Right.

708
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,120
So I can see two years removed, I think.

709
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:25,480
Yeah.

710
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:27,280
He's one year.

711
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,000
Oh, he wanted to, he wanted to go.

712
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:31,360
Yeah.

713
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:32,040
Back to back.

714
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:32,360
Yeah.

715
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:32,760
Yeah.

716
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,960
So I can see why people can talk themselves into that.

717
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:45,080
Uh, the Lamar thing is going to be fascinating because once these teams

718
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:50,440
stop, uh, BSing, uh, the Baltimore Ravens talking about their lack of interest

719
00:49:50,440 --> 00:50:03,200
in a MVP caliber, uh, ceiling and at the, at the very least, uh, playoff every

720
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:11,680
year floor guy, uh, I don't, I don't, I don't see where that would be a problem.

721
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,200
Taking two draft picks and saying, here you go.

722
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:15,800
Yeah.

723
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:25,680
So I, I think the best, most recent example you can find of my belief that

724
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:30,600
teams are kind of playing cat and mouse and rather than colluding that scary

725
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:35,400
word is the Deshaun Watson situation that just happened.

726
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:44,200
Um, the teams were just about every team said the same thing that no way we'd

727
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,680
ever consider going for Deshaun Watson.

728
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:53,200
Um, and then after the trade finally happens, all these reports start coming

729
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,680
out of these different offers that existed from all different organizations.

730
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,640
Some of the same organizations that are saying they're not going

731
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:01,920
to trade for Lamar today.

732
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:07,480
So that weirdly has me hopeful.

733
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,240
It's just weird to say Deshaun Watson and hopeful in the same sentence, but

734
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:17,880
it has me hopeful that this Lamar situation is more of antics and also

735
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:24,920
difficulty with him not having an agent rather than some nefarious collusion situation.

736
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:32,120
You know what I think should happen right now with Lamar Jackson, because

737
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,400
we are in the legal tampering period.

738
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:34,720
Right.

739
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,400
Uh, not for him, not for him to couple of days, right?

740
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,240
March 15th.

741
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:40,080
15th.

742
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:40,280
Yeah.

743
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,960
Two days from my boy.

744
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,320
Don't care about this.

745
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:46,800
So buckle up.

746
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,600
There's a gentleman who has been skirting the rules for a long period of time.

747
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,200
He has been a pirate.

748
00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:59,200
He is being a, a gangster.

749
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,680
He's going to trailblazer for a long period of time.

750
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,200
He is in post his will on the NFL.

751
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:16,760
And now he has seen himself and seen his mortality and has decided I need to go all in.

752
00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:18,640
He's talking to him right now.

753
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:27,200
Bill Belichick is talking to Lamar Jackson right now talking to the fam because this

754
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,000
is like what Bill would like to do.

755
00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:31,120
He don't want to talk to no agents.

756
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:40,360
He don't want to talk to whoever your emissary is, your publicist.

757
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:42,680
Lamar, what's up?

758
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,440
You like to wear sunglasses on sideline.

759
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:47,360
I can do that.

760
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:48,920
I can do that with you.

761
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:57,360
So if there was anybody who could get it done with the family members, give me

762
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:02,880
old school Bill Belichick to get this deal done.

763
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:05,880
Yeah.

764
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:15,360
I, when you were first talking about someone who's seeing his mortality and Ben, uh,

765
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:19,680
moving around behind the scenes a little bit, I was worried we were going to move

766
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,320
in the Jerry Jones direction.

767
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,040
Oh, no, no, no.

768
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:22,600
He's a clown.

769
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:22,920
Yeah.

770
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:23,600
Yeah.

771
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:23,880
Yeah.

772
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:24,800
I'm sorry.

773
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:25,640
Yeah, I know.

774
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,320
Shout out to my Dallas fans, the Cowboys fans.

775
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:29,960
Listen, I love you guys.

776
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:35,960
There, your, your fan base along with Buffalo, along with Pittsburgh and a

777
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,440
couple of others out there are really, really good fan bases.

778
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:44,800
I'm just really sad for you that your owner is Jerry Jones.

779
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,280
So I'll leave it at that.

780
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,400
I have more on Jerry Jones.

781
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:54,280
He's going to be my new, he's going to be my new Brian Gooden, cause, uh, Nico

782
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:59,040
this year, just so you know, so buckle up for a lot of Jerry Jones content.

783
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,960
Oh, just like my guy, Tate Frazier has a thing for coach K.

784
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:06,840
Jerry Jones is now my new guy.

785
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:08,520
Oh no.

786
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:16,160
He's my guy that I will find and I will find many away and I will not do it like

787
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:21,840
Steven and just yell and whatever it will be smart, but it's going to be funny.

788
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,160
So I'm here for it.

789
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:32,200
Um, but back to what you, you said previously about, uh, Lamar and Bill, I

790
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:39,480
I'd be hesitant to cross the tampering lines right now, specifically as Bill

791
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:48,000
Belichick with the history that happened with the Patriots organization and then

792
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,680
with the team in your division, the Miami dolphins and what they tried to go around

793
00:54:53,680 --> 00:55:00,240
and do with Tom Brady, I I'd be very cautious, but on some level, I think the

794
00:55:00,240 --> 00:55:06,640
floodgates are going to open approximately like 30 hours from now.

795
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:14,600
So when something like that happens, I think me more than most, I see the

796
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:19,560
Patriots in that conversation just so happens that Bill has a boat.

797
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:24,400
He's just floating down to Hollywood, Florida, but didn't work for Jeff Ross.

798
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:25,200
Well, hold on.

799
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:25,880
No, no, no, no, no, no.

800
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:31,040
It's different for Jeff because I'm just saying, listen, he doesn't have to

801
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:32,120
have Lamar on the boat.

802
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:38,560
He can have parents, they can go out fishing, you know, today, they can go

803
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,400
out fishing today because that's a, that's called a, uh, that's called a

804
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,760
grown person's leisure activity.

805
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,360
That is not called tampering at all.

806
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:55,120
I mean, Bill, Bill got a first round pick taken away from him for some

807
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:58,040
footballs that got deflated by the environment.

808
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,840
I do not guess to.

809
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,240
He do not care, dog.

810
00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:04,360
He just don't.

811
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,440
He's going to lose this whole draft.

812
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:07,520
You don't care, man.

813
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,120
That dude does not care, bro.

814
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,600
I'm just telling you, he doesn't care.

815
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:19,680
I'm if he, if it comes out that that's the dude that is hiding away from

816
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:27,640
for Lamar Jackson and then they end up getting him, I will be very interested

817
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:34,480
in the backstory of how that relationship all goes down because I'm going to tell

818
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,040
you right now, Lamar, you're going to be the one that's going to get the

819
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:41,200
most down because I'm going to tell you right now, Lamar and Belichick talk on

820
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,520
the field prior to every game.

821
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:44,400
Yeah.

822
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:47,120
He's like, you know, he's the only coach.

823
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:48,320
He's like, you know, I can't do that.

824
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:50,200
Oh man.

825
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,560
I don't know if Lamar is that type of dude.

826
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:58,640
He's just, he's cerebral and I think their personalities would match mesh

827
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,480
pretty well as I talked about previously.

828
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:03,040
Yeah.

829
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:08,800
It will be interesting to see how that all flows out and, uh, one quick

830
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:13,920
note on the draft as it starts to get closer and now we're starting to see

831
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:19,040
moves being made and, uh, you know, the draft board is becoming more and more

832
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:22,800
clear, I think there'll be a couple more moves that we'll see first rounders

833
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:28,520
be moved before the draft, uh, probably the next couple of days here, but

834
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:38,960
I'm starting to think that somebody is going to end up with a premium

835
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:45,200
defensive star like at six and seven.

836
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,240
Yeah, there there's potential.

837
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:53,720
It seems like a deeper class for those types of dudes.

838
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:58,040
It's just unfortunately pretty weak in the middle.

839
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:02,080
There is no safety is middle linebackers defensive tackles really.

840
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:10,680
Well, if you're getting probably the best player in the draft at six or at

841
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:17,560
least in top two, because the quarterback is pushing up, this is working out good

842
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:23,360
for your teams that are not necessarily looking for a quarterback.

843
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:28,520
And so, I mean, is Detroit not looking for quarterback?

844
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:29,520
I do.

845
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:30,840
They meant they might.

846
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,960
I don't know if they're going for it this year though.

847
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,960
I think they'll, they'll ride another season.

848
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:38,560
Okay.

849
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:39,760
I'm going to ask them here.

850
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:40,920
Yeah.

851
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,880
Can our fans and our listeners in Detroit, get us up at front runner PC at front

852
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:56,160
runner PC or at Nico FRPC and ask me, just let me know, do you not want to be part

853
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:57,520
of the Lamar Jackson?

854
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:06,640
Oh, I think they'd be very interested if that came about, if he had interest in

855
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:14,520
going to Detroit, I think they'd be incredibly interested, but I just, I more

856
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:20,800
so think the, the lines just aren't in a position to necessarily draft a

857
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:21,840
quarterback this year.

858
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:27,880
If something like Lamar comes around or another quarterback moves that they're

859
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:32,440
intrigued by, I could, I could definitely see them throwing their hat in the ring.

860
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:33,600
Oh yeah.

861
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,800
That's the only one that I will want them to go after is Lamar.

862
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,880
I wouldn't want them to touch this draft, this, this particular draft class.

863
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,240
I wouldn't want them to wait till next year.

864
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:43,760
Yeah.

865
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:51,120
Maybe our guy, Hendon Hooker in round two, but otherwise they can stay away.

866
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:52,040
I love him.

867
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:52,600
Then hooker.

868
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,480
He is honestly my favorite quarterback in this draft class.

869
00:59:58,280 --> 00:59:58,880
Is that crazy?

870
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:01,560
You think he's the best one of the group?

871
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:02,880
No, he's my favorite.

872
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:09,520
Oh, that's, I, I, that's not crazy at all.

873
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:14,560
I, mine might be Anthony Richardson because of the few splash plays here and there,

874
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,960
but Hendon Hooker is probably a, a close second.

875
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:24,640
You know, like I tell you all the time, how much I care, how much I like think

876
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:31,040
of you, I, I don't know how much I love your mind and what have you, but every

877
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:37,280
time you say something like James Harden is awesome and he's such a good citizen

878
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:43,520
or you tell me that I really love the few splash plays by Anthony Richardson.

879
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:47,600
I go like this for real Nico, for real.

880
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:48,920
It's eye candy, bro.

881
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,360
The eye candy we going with the eye candy, bro.

882
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:57,040
Well, it's just all traits with Anthony Richardson and the splash plays that

883
01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:00,280
happen are a lot of fun to watch.

884
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:05,840
I that's, that's why I kind of had trended more towards the, towards the

885
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:10,880
trend to more, more towards the favorite than I think he's necessarily the best.

886
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:17,040
That being said, if I'm near the top of the draft this year and you're asking me

887
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:21,800
to roll a dice on one of these quarterbacks, I'm probably more likely to

888
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:28,240
roll it with Will Levesse or Anthony Richardson and then Bryce Younger, CJ Stroup.

889
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:32,720
All right.

890
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:38,000
Well, I hope you have a really good plan for Richardson because he shouldn't

891
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,040
touch the field first year.

892
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:41,560
Yeah, probably.

893
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,680
Not should not touch the field at all.

894
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:52,000
I, I, I think that's probably true with more quarterbacks than we realized.

895
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:52,320
Yeah.

896
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:57,120
But with him, especially, yeah, especially.

897
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:01,400
And I would get mentors on the ground with him.

898
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:08,000
Like I would go back and I would go grab your Michael Vicks or

899
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:15,760
whatever resonates with him and say, okay, this is your guy.

900
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,720
He is now your guru.

901
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:20,120
He is in your phone.

902
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:25,040
Y'all going to FaceTime, you know, saying you're going to have like little meetings

903
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:30,960
with him, like every four weeks and all of that, I need to do everything in my

904
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:39,680
power to set this kid up for success with, uh, because I, I, I just look at

905
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:43,880
him and go, he's raw and we are going to need time.

906
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:48,120
Yeah, definitely.

907
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,120
He's, he's incredibly raw.

908
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:56,560
I just, with how unpredictable drafting quarterbacks is generally, I like to

909
01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:05,080
look at the things on the table that are factual about players and he is factually

910
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:11,560
a freak athlete, so that makes me more interested in rolling the dice.

911
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:18,040
He's definitely, I would say fourth of the four, uh,

912
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:23,240
fourth of the four guys everyone's talking about in this class in terms

913
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:32,680
of football acumen, but everything else he can do, I, that's the type of guy

914
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,400
I just like to go after.

915
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,120
Or footwork can't read the defense.

916
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:47,920
Very remedial, offensive concepts that he can grasp at this present time.

917
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,520
Those are all three things.

918
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:54,120
Oh, and he's a enamored, enamored with his arm.

919
01:03:54,120 --> 01:04:00,200
You're watching tape on your boy, by the way, cause you were like talking to me.

920
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:01,760
Well, this is your guy.

921
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:06,360
And I was sitting there thinking, let me, let me go ahead and put some tape on.

922
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:13,520
Yeah, a lot of throws where he is in love with that cannon.

923
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:14,440
Yeah.

924
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:16,200
On his right shoulder.

925
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:17,640
Yep.

926
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:19,520
That's why he needs to sit for a year.

927
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:24,800
And he won't act.

928
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:29,680
That might be the type of thing you, you learn more on the field.

929
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:35,800
I think there's a lot of bad habits that are in his game though, that

930
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,720
need to be removed.

931
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,040
And generally that's best done.

932
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,320
Off the field with a year of observation.

933
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:51,880
So I, maybe they can do kind of a similar thing to what the Niners

934
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:55,960
did in year one with Trey Lance, where they brought him in for a few plays

935
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:57,480
here and there and had packages.

936
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:03,000
But I, I'd like to see him sit on the bench to start.

937
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,720
Me as well, me as well.

938
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:11,960
My, my only thing with him is this is that for the, for the people who are

939
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:18,960
really in love with Anthony Richardson, who are following this podcast, here

940
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:31,480
is his light floor, like he could be like James Winston, early interceptions guy.

941
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:32,520
Oh man.

942
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:39,480
I think this dude could be that with athleticism, like he can be super

943
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:46,320
athletic, get you a hundred yards, get you 250 passing yards.

944
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:52,240
And on that third and six in the fourth quarter, when you need him to make a

945
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:57,320
play, he will fall in love with his arm and he will go into double, double

946
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:02,600
coverage and they will get picked off and you will go, damn, that game was

947
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:03,280
entertaining.

948
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,080
He did a lot of great things.

949
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:08,680
Oh, we were so close to victory.

950
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:09,360
It'll be cool.

951
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:16,560
The first year, you know, when it won't be cool, started the third year

952
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:18,080
when he's still doing it.

953
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:21,160
That's why you got to sit here for a year.

954
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,560
That's just the hope that you can work that kind of stuff out.

955
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:29,920
You mentioned the floor being James Winston.

956
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:33,960
I think on that case, I'm probably even lower.

957
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:39,160
I think the floor is probably straight up, not an NFL player.

958
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,680
I think the full, the floor is going to say, I didn't want to say what I actually

959
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:51,040
thought because when I actually thought I shades of Jamar Russell, man.

960
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,880
Well, yeah, it is a Jamar, but different things.

961
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:59,120
It is a Jamar, but different in one way, in one way.

962
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:01,280
Jamar didn't want to work.

963
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:02,360
Yes.

964
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:05,200
He wants to work and he likes football.

965
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:06,520
He likes football.

966
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:06,960
Yeah.

967
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:14,520
But what I'm saying is the, the mental part of the game and the

968
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,800
disfascination with his arm.

969
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:19,080
He loves that.

970
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,000
That loves it.

971
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:26,720
That Jamar Russell is actually perfect example of the final reason.

972
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:33,160
I think I'm currently leaning more towards the traits guys than anything else.

973
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:41,520
I look at a guy like Jamar Russell and drafting him obvious

974
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,280
catastrophe for the writers.

975
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:44,880
No doubt about that.

976
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:50,560
However, you knew pretty quickly with the player like Jamar Russell

977
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:52,200
that it wasn't going to work.

978
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:58,960
I would rather draft a guy like that where it burns out than a guy like

979
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:04,920
hypothetically, Daniel Jones, Joe Flacco, though he did win a Superbowl.

980
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:12,800
The guys who it's year five and you're still not sure that you're going to

981
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:19,080
win a Superbowl and you're still not sure that's a good way to end up in purgatory.

982
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:25,200
But see, that's the problem of the front office at that point, because

983
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:30,600
you should know by year three, what that guy is and you can go, okay, let's

984
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:37,280
augment, he's not franchise, different maker guy, he's high end game manager

985
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,400
guy, and we need to put the stuff around him.

986
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:40,360
Yeah.

987
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:42,000
We need to put the stuff around him.

988
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:50,760
So, but it's often hard because quarterbacks are difficult evaluation.

989
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,040
Like example of your team with Jared Goff.

990
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:59,480
Jared Goff played a lot of successful seasons, ended up getting that big

991
01:08:59,480 --> 01:09:06,480
contract that was bigger than what he deserved, but it was a situation that

992
01:09:06,480 --> 01:09:11,200
kind of made the Rams feel like they had to pay him the money.

993
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:19,840
And I just, I don't want to end up in a spot where I'm giving a hundred

994
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,640
million dollars to an Andy Dalton type.

995
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:28,440
I'd rather be in a situation where two years after I make a selection, I can

996
01:09:28,440 --> 01:09:32,160
just wash my hands and move forward and know that I'm looking for another

997
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:32,880
quarterback.

998
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:34,040
Okay.

999
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:38,280
Now you just said something really hypothetical, but I'm going to

1000
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:48,920
hit you with the NFL reality unless you are Ted Thompson or, uh, who doesn't

1001
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:56,960
fire their GMs, Guten Cusco or a Green Bay or a Piscoward for an office that

1002
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:58,000
never gets fired.

1003
01:09:58,760 --> 01:09:59,120
Yeah.

1004
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:05,520
Uh, Ballard in Indianapolis seems pretty and Roseman in Philadelphia.

1005
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:06,720
Yeah.

1006
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:13,120
Yes, and these guys do not have that type of job security where I can blow out a

1007
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:14,680
quarterback after year two.

1008
01:10:15,480 --> 01:10:16,240
Oh, guess what?

1009
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:17,520
We made a mistake on that one.

1010
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:19,720
You know what will happen this time?

1011
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,120
We won't make the same mistake this time.

1012
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:23,240
Yeah.

1013
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:25,920
That GM doesn't get that second chance.

1014
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:27,840
That's that's true.

1015
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:34,360
And as a general manager, I can definitely understand making the decision for job

1016
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:35,280
preservation.

1017
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:44,200
Um, but just as a fan, as myself, I personally gravitate more towards those

1018
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:51,360
style of players now, just because I'd rather have those guys on my team a

1019
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,120
little bit, irregardless of my front office.

1020
01:10:54,120 --> 01:11:02,440
It also might be telling to you how your front office handles the situation like

1021
01:11:02,440 --> 01:11:06,920
that might be a better way to quickly evaluate whether or not you need to make a

1022
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:08,360
change in the front office.

1023
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:14,560
So I, I'm viewing that, I think a little bit more from a fan's perspective than

1024
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,560
necessarily a team perspective.

1025
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:19,200
No, great.

1026
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:24,800
I mean, I'm glad we, that we hammered that down because obviously the things

1027
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:27,840
that we want to make sure is like, we're just trying to give a focus of like a

1028
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:33,120
front office and then also as a fan, like we want you guys to enjoy these guys,

1029
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,360
but we also want to give you clear indication.

1030
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:43,520
If you are a fan of a team and this guy ends up on your squad, the best case

1031
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:49,240
scenario, as far as what we would think his development would be that would end

1032
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:53,040
up to be the most fruitful in the end for your enjoyment.

1033
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:55,600
Am I pretty much right on that?

1034
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:56,000
Nico?

1035
01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:56,920
Yeah.

1036
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:57,080
Yeah.

1037
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:58,080
I couldn't agree more.

1038
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,960
I think that's, that's a great way of putting it for sure.

1039
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:08,200
That's, uh, what I'd like to, to try and provide people just, uh, different

1040
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:12,520
perspectives to look introspectively at their own fandom and their own team.

1041
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:19,640
And the last thing that we want to leave the folks today with is that, well, you

1042
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:25,400
got a black quarterback spotlight and the guy that I want to give spotlight to

1043
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:35,000
spotlight to today is none other than Bryce Young because I was hard on him

1044
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:35,800
last week.

1045
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:43,760
I will continue to be hard on him this week because he is small, but the one

1046
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:52,040
thing that you cannot deny that dude has got it done everywhere he's gone.

1047
01:12:52,040 --> 01:13:01,040
And the one thing that you cannot teach is his ability to compute what goes on.

1048
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:08,480
At the pace that he does his processor in his head is faster than everybody

1049
01:13:08,480 --> 01:13:09,480
else's in this draft.

1050
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:12,880
As far as the quarter, miles faster.

1051
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:13,520
Yeah.

1052
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,920
He, he's an incredibly talented young man.

1053
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:25,080
I, I often feel guilty for not having him hire on my quarterback list, because

1054
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:30,400
if you just observe the talent, it's clear he's far and away the best

1055
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:31,760
quarterback in this class.

1056
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:37,640
It's just that saying that Tomlin is that sticks in my head.

1057
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:43,680
If you start making exceptions, pretty soon you'll have a team full of exceptions.

1058
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:46,920
I, I, he's too slight for me.

1059
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:53,280
I was all on board the Russell Wilson of it all, but Russell Wilson was a stocky

1060
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:56,520
dude with mammoth hands and arms.

1061
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:02,000
Bryce Young just is a slight guy overall.

1062
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:07,720
I he's he's got all the talent in the world and arm strength.

1063
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,160
That's honestly shocking out of someone his size.

1064
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:17,080
So I, I really support him as a player and I pray he's successful when he gets

1065
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:19,480
in the league because he is so fun to watch.

1066
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:24,520
I just don't know if that's the guy I would necessarily roll my dice with.

1067
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:32,720
If you're a team looking to draft him, your offensive line has to be big physical

1068
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:37,160
and those guys have to be loyal.

1069
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:44,080
Like you have to do like a deep dive on your psychological profiles, on

1070
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:54,520
your offense alignment, do they have like a propensity to be like a savior,

1071
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,440
to be like a protector or whatever.

1072
01:14:58,480 --> 01:15:02,360
You got to have those guys protecting him because.

1073
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:06,680
Every once in a while, he's going to get hit and those guys are huge

1074
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,080
that are going to hit him.

1075
01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:14,240
So he has to have a really good offensive line.

1076
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:20,200
If he's coming into this league, it would also probably behoove you to have a good

1077
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,640
slot receiver and a good idea.

1078
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:27,040
Yeah, those things should be like there.

1079
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:33,200
Day one, he gets there, especially interior offensive line, because the way

1080
01:15:33,440 --> 01:15:40,640
he plays, he doesn't, a lot of quarterbacks nowadays tend to move the

1081
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:46,760
backwards out of the pocket and tend towards rolling out and creating space in that way.

1082
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,760
Bryce Young steps up in the pocket, like every time.

1083
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:54,120
He steps up in the pocket, like a six foot four quarterback, you would think.

1084
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:55,480
He would six foot four.

1085
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:57,280
He does.

1086
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:01,600
He plays that way and it's, it's beautiful to watch.

1087
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:07,480
So that interior offensive line needs to be specifically strong to be able

1088
01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:08,920
to highlight things like that.

1089
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:15,000
And also it can be too tall because you got to be able to be able to be

1090
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,400
able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able

1091
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:23,640
to be able to be able, because you've got to be worried about him seeing

1092
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:25,220
over them on some level.

1093
01:16:25,220 --> 01:16:32,580
So six, seven center, six, five guards might not be the right

1094
01:16:32,580 --> 01:16:34,640
guys to go after necessarily.

1095
01:16:35,020 --> 01:16:40,960
I'd I obviously that wouldn't write someone off my draft board, but it's

1096
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:45,060
something I'd be looking into if I'm drafting with Bryce Young in mind.

1097
01:16:45,060 --> 01:16:50,500
He didn't seem to have a problem at Alabama and they have a pretty watch that NFL

1098
01:16:51,540 --> 01:16:53,540
Often as far as I

1099
01:16:53,860 --> 01:17:00,340
They they definitely do but in the NFL there's a lot more of jumping arms up that whole

1100
01:17:01,300 --> 01:17:05,860
Congestion in the pocket that is just gonna be difficult for him

1101
01:17:05,860 --> 01:17:10,040
So I think a taller offensive line mate might make it

1102
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:17,140
Difficult for him to make those quick split second reads necessarily when defensive lineman are trying to swap the balls

1103
01:17:18,860 --> 01:17:20,860
The one thing I will say is that

1104
01:17:22,220 --> 01:17:24,220
He has a whip like

1105
01:17:24,540 --> 01:17:26,540
finish to his

1106
01:17:26,620 --> 01:17:34,540
Throwing delivery. Yeah, it's it looks like a pitcher almost the way he's able to flex the arm and

1107
01:17:34,540 --> 01:17:40,620
And then get the extension out, but he also has different platforms that he can throw it from

1108
01:17:42,300 --> 01:17:44,180
For what I'm

1109
01:17:44,180 --> 01:17:46,180
I've done a little digging

1110
01:17:47,380 --> 01:17:52,140
That's very true, you know, well he seems to be able to throw from different platforms

1111
01:17:53,020 --> 01:17:55,020
He's very

1112
01:17:55,300 --> 01:18:02,820
Very under control in the pocket if he gets a little pressure. It's not like oh, I'm I'm so scared. No, no, all right

1113
01:18:02,820 --> 01:18:07,540
Mm-hmm. He's not flappable in that way. Yeah, he's brave as hell

1114
01:18:11,060 --> 01:18:18,620
Yeah, yeah, I am I lost my train of thought there I wasn't sure the direction I'm going but Bryce Young is definitely

1115
01:18:19,340 --> 01:18:27,460
Someone who deserves our acknowledgement and someone who we're both looking forward to supporting as soon as he gets into the league

1116
01:18:27,460 --> 01:18:32,500
Routing for the kid. I'm rooting for the science experiment to work if

1117
01:18:32,980 --> 01:18:35,460
If I had to say of the quarterbacks

1118
01:18:36,820 --> 01:18:38,820
I'll probably

1119
01:18:40,420 --> 01:18:43,460
I'll probably have them

1120
01:18:44,580 --> 01:18:46,580
three

1121
01:18:47,300 --> 01:18:49,300
If each Stroud

1122
01:18:49,300 --> 01:18:51,860
No, I got him to why am I saying that?

1123
01:18:52,820 --> 01:18:55,700
Stroud young Levis Richard

1124
01:18:55,700 --> 01:19:00,020
No, am I am I flip-flopping on this? Yeah, I am flip-flopping

1125
01:19:00,500 --> 01:19:04,100
It'll be Stroud Levis young Dan Richardson

1126
01:19:04,820 --> 01:19:09,460
And the only reason for young is the height and the and the slender bill. That's it

1127
01:19:10,260 --> 01:19:13,620
Because everything else screams to me

1128
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:16,500
franchise quarterback

1129
01:19:17,380 --> 01:19:19,380
everything so

1130
01:19:19,380 --> 01:19:24,020
I just wish the kid well, I know he's gonna get drafted high. I can't wait to see it

1131
01:19:24,020 --> 01:19:27,620
I can't wait to experience what this is gonna look like

1132
01:19:28,580 --> 01:19:30,580
What kind of offense?

1133
01:19:30,580 --> 01:19:33,380
is going to be deployed with him in it and

1134
01:19:34,100 --> 01:19:37,060
You're right the interior offensive line

1135
01:19:38,020 --> 01:19:42,020
As long as he's in the league and whatever franchise does

1136
01:19:42,580 --> 01:19:45,620
Take the gamble. They've got to be able to do that

1137
01:19:45,620 --> 01:19:50,740
Whatever franchise does uh take the gamble. They will always have to invest

1138
01:19:51,460 --> 01:19:56,260
In the interior offensive line. It is an absolute must you cannot short

1139
01:19:56,820 --> 01:19:59,540
That situation ever not one year

1140
01:20:00,180 --> 01:20:02,820
And you also have to have good backups in that

1141
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:05,460
definitely the

1142
01:20:05,460 --> 01:20:11,700
Uh year the saints won the super bowl with drew breeze the comparable height size guy they had

1143
01:20:11,700 --> 01:20:16,360
Arguably the best offensive line in the sport especially on the interior. So

1144
01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:18,280
it's

1145
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:22,280
Something that we've seen happen before and I think it's going to be

1146
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,840
Very relevant to Bryce

1147
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:29,880
All right, is there anything else that we need to hit today?

1148
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:37,480
Nico, we know we don't have any news on rogers. We can't have any news on lamar jackson. Is there anybody?

1149
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:40,120
that you're just

1150
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:43,560
Enamored with the name and where they're going to go

1151
01:20:44,440 --> 01:20:46,440
That is still out there

1152
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:53,880
Oh no one no one's still out there necessarily who immediately comes to mind orlando brown perhaps

1153
01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:58,920
He's he's probably the big name that we're going to need to see switch locations

1154
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:03,560
I'm really interested to see what kind of teams will want to bring him in

1155
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:05,160
um

1156
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:06,360
if

1157
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:14,120
if there might be a chance that he could look into the lamar team as well because I know they get along

1158
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:15,960
well

1159
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:17,960
um, and apparently

1160
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:24,840
The chiefs haven't waved off the idea of bringing him back. So I guess we're gonna have to

1161
01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:30,200
Wait and see with that one. It seems a little weird after the joan taylor edition today

1162
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:33,160
um

1163
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:38,280
Um, however one guy we haven't touched on who did actually sign today and I think

1164
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:42,680
Is relevant, uh, is jesse bates signing in atlanta

1165
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:50,520
He that's one of the worst secondaries defensive outside of a strong number one corner in aj torrell

1166
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:57,320
One of the worst secondaries in the sport adding a guy of that caliber. I think is going to be huge

1167
01:21:57,320 --> 01:22:03,160
And the bangles today losing both safeties jesse bates and uh bond bell is

1168
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:06,600
Going to make an impact on their team for sure

1169
01:22:08,440 --> 01:22:14,600
The one thing with bates is that uh, he can get deeped a lot and you can count and pick on him

1170
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,940
Uh when he can he allow his physicality?

1171
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:22,120
to just

1172
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,120
Just be organically

1173
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:27,660
Unfurled onto the football field. It's it's amazing

1174
01:22:28,220 --> 01:22:31,420
Uh, he seems to be in the right place at the right time a lot

1175
01:22:33,100 --> 01:22:34,940
Yeah

1176
01:22:34,940 --> 01:22:38,620
You know not to the mika fitzpatrick level

1177
01:22:39,740 --> 01:22:41,740
but close

1178
01:22:41,740 --> 01:22:48,620
Close. Yeah. Yeah close to it. They're a little a little different minka does a little more roaming and

1179
01:22:49,100 --> 01:22:52,540
jesse works a little more downhill generally, but

1180
01:22:52,540 --> 01:22:54,540
I I think that

1181
01:22:54,620 --> 01:22:59,580
They're two of the best safeties in the league. So they're definitely comparable on some level

1182
01:23:00,380 --> 01:23:02,380
so atl

1183
01:23:02,700 --> 01:23:04,700
Let's shout out our guy

1184
01:23:04,780 --> 01:23:09,180
In the atl go ahead shot him out go to our guy out

1185
01:23:09,580 --> 01:23:11,580
Uh shout out to my boy kez

1186
01:23:11,580 --> 01:23:18,300
I i've been talking to him over the last couple days. He he seems to be doing okay doing

1187
01:23:18,300 --> 01:23:26,860
Pretty good lately the the atl eons podcast was the hit on qpbn. I think we can all say we love that show and

1188
01:23:27,900 --> 01:23:29,020
uh

1189
01:23:29,020 --> 01:23:31,500
I'm i'm happy for my guy kez getting

1190
01:23:32,060 --> 01:23:35,660
Jesse baits today. I know he wanted it. I'd uh,

1191
01:23:36,300 --> 01:23:39,100
I hope we can have him on the pod here one day soon

1192
01:23:40,220 --> 01:23:42,940
Oh, yeah, we gotta do something with all mr. Andrews

1193
01:23:43,660 --> 01:23:45,660
Do you have a open invitation?

1194
01:23:45,660 --> 01:23:48,220
To the pot and we will talk nothing

1195
01:23:48,860 --> 01:23:50,220
but atl

1196
01:23:50,220 --> 01:23:52,220
We could bring him off with the basketball pot

1197
01:23:52,780 --> 01:23:54,780
Yeah, we can talk about

1198
01:23:54,860 --> 01:23:59,020
He can do the state of the union of his beloved atlanta hawks

1199
01:23:59,580 --> 01:24:01,580
Mm-hmm. I'm sure jacob

1200
01:24:01,820 --> 01:24:06,140
Young jake would love to would like to be on that as well. Yeah

1201
01:24:06,620 --> 01:24:08,140
you know, so

1202
01:24:08,140 --> 01:24:10,140
Got a lot to pull from with that

1203
01:24:10,620 --> 01:24:12,620
So with that being said

1204
01:24:12,620 --> 01:24:16,620
for my guy

1205
01:24:17,340 --> 01:24:19,820
He is all of these wrapped up in the one

1206
01:24:20,460 --> 01:24:22,460
All right, so the canadian bomber

1207
01:24:23,420 --> 01:24:25,420
the canadian shaman

1208
01:24:26,140 --> 01:24:28,700
the canadian bill simons and

1209
01:24:29,660 --> 01:24:31,660
With that being said trust

1210
01:24:32,220 --> 01:24:36,140
There are deals in the works folks trust and believe

1211
01:24:36,940 --> 01:24:38,140
and

1212
01:24:38,140 --> 01:24:40,060
for this pot

1213
01:24:40,060 --> 01:24:43,440
The canadian mike holland my boy nico miotelo

1214
01:24:44,300 --> 01:24:50,700
Send us off man. Let him know what we're doing. We got stuff coming up on friday. I think I don't know let us know

1215
01:24:51,260 --> 01:24:57,260
Yeah, we got we we're gonna have a basketball pod coming up on friday. I don't think we've talked

1216
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Necessarily too much about what's going on, but we're in a spot where we can start doing some

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playoff previews

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And up some matchups that are uh seeming to emerge we can

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Do some more celebrating of the sacramento kings as it looks

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More and more guaranteed that they're securing their first playoff berth in 16 years

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And we can touch on that lakers team of yours

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And how nice they're looking lately. I think uh, they they might be primed to upset someone in the first round

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Sorry, yes, sir, and I will be focused in on one thing and one thing only

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A club fours up all day ucla in the tournament. They are number two seed in the west

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And that's where my attention will be

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thursday

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Just let you know that's where

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my attention will be

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Leading into the basketball pod

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on friday

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Definitely make sense where we're gonna have to touch on march madness as well. I put together

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A bracket today. Have you looked at that yet?

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Oh, no, i'm i'm i'm analyzing my bracket as as we speak. I am on top of it

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Right now i'm a little upset with a lit some of the things in my region

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Which is the west?

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Not excited about gonzaga being in my region whatsoever. Um, i'm really upset about this whole

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Why can't we have a actual team from the west be a number one seed?

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Just as lii, I don't know just yeah

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Yeah, whatever I guess so

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but

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So when we move to the big 10, this won't be a problem by the way, just as well. Yeah, that's true

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That's true. I love that. So what what did you end up with your final matchup will give people this to

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To go off your final the end of your bracket

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Um, i'm still working on it because i'm still

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Even though i'm a homer for ucla. I am a realist

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I gotta see if I can get my guys to the finals

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Even with the devastating news of jaylen clark shout out to my guy

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Who was all world defensive player?

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Of the year in the pack 12

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Torn achilles we wish him nothing but a speedy recovery and we don't know if he's going in the draft

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We don't know if he's gonna go so

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Well, it's good for you

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So maybe maybe we'll save that we'll tease that also for the friday pod

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Well, we can maybe reveal our lead dates or something. I will I will have it ready

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By then I got a lot of stuff to go over tonight a lot of things comb over tonight

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To figure it all out

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so

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I am uh looking forward to all of this and we got to get off because

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We got some news on uh, john moret

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That just came out. So we got to go look at that

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Yeah, okay

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All right guys, we will see you on friday on this feed and I also believe

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That somewhere in the mix here will be a life pod

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coming very soon

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about my beloved mother, so

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Keep on the lookout for these

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pods

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And go look at the website too

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To www frontrunnerpc.com we got news up there. We've got

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All the latest news we get stuff aggregated to from espn and whatever the case may be plus

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There's some stuff up there on the site from us and there'll be more stuff to come

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Up so with that being said you guys have a good week and we'll see you on this feed on friday

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