Bag alert bag alert bag alert bag alert bag alert folks. That's right Kenny Clark gets paid
He gets paid he gets paid he gets paid all right
Is it safe to say that the bag alerts are gonna be coming back with a vengeance? I don't know
We'll keep a close eye on that but anyway, let's get into these topics. All right. How does Kenny Clark steel?
affect ongoing negotiations for
Defensive tackles are looking for a deal as well as future free agent defensive tackles and why the defensive
Liman market is continuing to rise
The all of this and more out won't wait. I forgot breaking news breaking news
Jordan love is holding out a training camp. Okay. Is this a major thing? Is this a small thing?
What's the reason we're gonna talk about all of this and more on the 16th episode?
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All right folks so as I have previously said defensive tackle for the Packers Kenny Clark has
Ain't alright a three-year 64 million dollar extension
He gets a 17.5 million dollar signing bonus and he averages around 21 million a year in his base salary
It's 15.5 million according to spot rack shadow to who spot rack, okay?
Now when we look at Kenny Clark, okay? Kenny Clark is someone who you know
He's not gonna be this flashy defensive tackle like an Aaron Donald or Chris Jones
That's just you know, gonna put up these crazy numbers and whatnot
But he does his job
phenomenally when it comes to holding that defensive line for the Packers, okay
He has been an anchor for them for a long time in his stat show
This past season right so when you look at the 2023 season, right?
So Kenny Clark had three past deflections two four fumbles seven and a half sacks 16 quarterback hits nine
Tackles for losses. Okay. Now when you look at that, you're probably thinking those aren't really good stats before defensive tackle
That's actually really good. That's really productive. Um, you're talking about somebody who has been very consistent
You know since entering into the league, okay, you're talking about somebody who?
He's he's gonna get the job done when you need him to get the job done Kenny Clark is gonna get the job done
That that's just what it is
Now when now when you look at, you know, the highest paid defensive tackles, he just got there
Okay, he just crushed into the top 10. Okay, so when you look at, you know, the highest paid defensive tackles
You have Chris Jones, of course 31.7 million Christian Wilkins
27.5 Justin Mendebuque 24.5 Derek Brown and Quinn Williams 24 million
Jeffrey Simmons 23.5 to force Buckner 23 million DeRon Payne 22.5
Dexter Lawrence 21.8 and Kenny Clark at 21.3 now
When we look at all of this, right? You're probably thinking, oh man
Well, you know the markets continue to rise a little bit
I wonder why it's rising the reason why is because
You know since I could probably go as far back as JJ Y
You know the defensive defensive linemen have become more and more impactful in the game, right?
Now you're probably thinking well, there's only a few people
No, when you really look at it from JJ Y to Aaron Donald who just you know
Who just retired not too long ago and now you have Chris Jones, you know
You have very impactful defense linemen
And so what happens is when you have those type of players to come into the league guess what's gonna happen
The value for the entire position is just gonna go up
Regardless if it's just regardless if those guys are you know, the the creme de la creme at their position
Just know there's gonna be other people behind them
So when you have a Derek Brown the Dexter Lawrence of the romp pain of the forest Buckner a Javan Hargrave
People like that guess what they're gonna get paid as well because why they're consistent
They're productive and when you need them to make a play, they're gonna make a play not to mention not to mention
offensive linemen
aren't as
They're not as scouted and as valued as much as a defensive linemen, right case and point
You will see a defensive linemen get drafted in the first round top five or even top three, right?
But when you look at you know centers or you look at guards or even tackles
Not a lot of times they are drafted, you know that high up and if they are then they are a rare breed
Within their position right when you have someone like a Trent Williams for instance
um who like a Ronnie Stanley or a loremi Tunsel or
You know, whatever the case may be when you have those type of players
Guess what of course they're gonna be taken pretty high
But when you have someone like a Chris Jones, oh, that's an automatic. That's an automatic for first-round pick
Automatically, he's gonna get drafted in the first round when you have someone like a JJ why he's gonna get drafted in the first round
those type of players and you know as well as when when when you look at
How can I say this?
Within the past few drafts we have started to see a shift with defensive linemen, right?
Instead of them being, you know, the old school big guys. It's like 320 some pounds and it's just you know
They just use their power and their strength to just you know
Bulldozer people to try to get to the quarterback. You are dealing with somewhat of a revolution
Well, not a revolution but somewhat of a transformation where defensive linemen are these smaller statute defensive linemen
But who are quick? I'm talking about super quick. They can you know, they can finesse you they can use their power
You know, they they come from a wrestling background. They may not come from a wrestling background. You're dealing with people who
They're their repertoire is a little bit different than what it was, you know
And my generation one and it shows when you have someone like Aaron Don who you know
When you look at Aaron Don, you're probably thinking man, they do can't do nothing
But when you turn on that tape, guess what? You're talking about somebody who is steamrolling
centers guards
Both guards center and guard guard guard or whatever you want
He has steamrolling them with with little to no problem
So I say all that to say this the defensive line market is going to continue to rise
Whether we want to admit it or not, okay, and it shows when you look at you know the ongoing
Contract negotiations for someone like a Cameron Hayward with Kenny Clark getting his deal
What's gonna happen now is?
Cam is probably going to say hey, I can do better than what he's done
My stats show this this this this this right, but at the same time the Steelers may try to use
Kenny Clark's his deal and then probably say
We'll probably give you this we can give you this we're not gonna give you
You know top five highest paid and rightfully so but but at the same time if you're someone, you know
Like a Cameron Hayward or a defensive lineman who's about to be a free agent
You do have to look at you know the the market continuing to rise
And you do want to try to see if you can get at least a piece a piece of the pie, right?
Because when you look at next year's defensive line will defensive tackle
Free agency class just strictly then you have Cam Hayward, of course you have Malik Collins you have
Dave and Godchild you have DJ Jones you have BJ Hill you have Harrison
Harrison Phillips you have Javon Kinlaw just to name a few right now when you break down their market value
Unfortunately, there's probably only two people that actually had other market value actually shown everybody else is
Wasn't shown so I just you know I just left that alone
But when you look at Cameron Hayward's market value, right? It's a three-year fifty eight point
Eight million dollar deal. So he'll be making nineteen point six million a year, right?
We look at Javon Kinlaw's market value. It's only a one-year six point eight million dollar deal now
You're probably wondering, you know, why their value so low now
They could be attributed to different things whether it be age production, you know lack of
You know playing time whatever the case may be right
I don't I don't know because I don't come up with with the with the stuff for for the market values for spot right
But what I can say is someone like a Cam Hayward, he probably will get one more big payday
Okay, now for someone like a Javon Kinlaw
I don't know because Javon Kinlaw at this point in his career has been has been more of a journeyman and
Who who's more like a plug-and-play?
More than you know a franchise type of defensive lineman who can get you six or seven or eight or nine or even ten sacks
You know a season right and you know it definitely shows now
It's not to say that he can't get it. He can he can just have you know
He could have a crazy season like this like this upcoming season and the next thing, you know, so I'm gonna be like, oh, okay
Here's the money right here
So it I say all that to say this
defensive linemen are starting to be valued more and
If you are if you're a team, you know drafts one in the first round there, they're not
There's no need for you to really be upset because defensive linemen now are starting to become bigger are starting to become
More nimble. They're starting to be more athletic. They're starting to
Be, you know, somewhat undersized a little bit
But you don't allow that undersized to you know to sort of like steer you away if that makes sense
Right when you look at for instance collage, you can see right perv exam, but collage. You can't see when he was coming out
I was head over heels for collage. You can see because I was like, yo, this dude is super fast
He had you know one of the fastest 40 times for defensive tackle and whatnot. I'm like, yo, he pops out
But since then I mean he probably hasn't done a whole lot, but you know at some point
He's gonna pop off he is and so, you know
Defensive coordinators are starting to value
Pass rushers in defensive linemen more they are even GM's
That's why they're putting more money into them because they realize that guess what?
Offensive coordinators are starting to run the ball more. So with them running the ball more you need to counteract that
What's the best way to counteract that?
defensive line
Defensive line now it's not to say that there's gonna be a bunch of Chris Jones's and you know
Aaron Donald's coming out of the league for the next few years, but if you get someone that's productive
Inconsistent someone like a Kenny Clark if you get someone like a Kenny Clark on your defensive line, whoo
Man, oh, man. Do you got problems? You got big
Big
Problems, all right, so I'll leave that be now
I'm just letting you guys know this episode is not gonna be that long be just because I don't want to you know
Give you guys just these long drawn-out episodes. We're gonna try to keep things as compact as I possibly can plus
This is gonna be a double episode upload. That's right double episode upload. So stay tuned folks
Now moving on to the breaking news with Jordan love so according to the athletic
Diana Rossini shout out to her and shout out to the athletic. They definitely do a lot of great reporting
Jordan love is holding out of training camp until he gets a deal done now
Let me stop you right there before you freak out. Okay, all you Packers fans before you freak out before
You hit that red button. That's to your left or to your right
Relax, okay. This is just out of precaution. This is not because he's disgruntled with the organization
This is he's not gonna fall down to tear of Rogers. Okay, so everybody breath
Woosa for bed. Okay, breathe
Breathe drink you some water. Okay, relax. I'm gonna explain why okay?
So with him holding out that's basically precaution because he's trying to get a deal done
Okay, and so with him trying to get a deal done. He's probably gonna hold out just because hey
You know freak things can happen where he can be in training camp
And he drops that's one time and then guess what blows out his knee or tears of killies or anything crazy like that
We literally saw
The the line we saw who was it drae greenlaw. I think it was drae greenlaw in the Super Bowl
Literally tear his Achilles from just from just walking on the field. That's all he did. He didn't do anything crazy
All he did was getting himself ready to to go out on the field and he just he just went out on the field
Boop and he just or so
But I will say this in this in this situation is very unique because both the GM
And the agent have somewhat confirmed that you know, they are close to getting a deal done
They said probably within the next few days will probably get one
So who was to say, you know, maybe it'll happen, you know tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
Who knows but I will say this
The Packers are definitely one of that one of the outliers when it comes to the quarterback position, right?
You are talking about a team who really has you know hit when it comes to quarterbacks
It's I and I want to put it into a perspective like this, right?
They had Bart Starr, okay, cool. Then you had
Brett Farr, cool. Then you had Aaron Rodgers, cool. Now you got Jordan Love
All right, think about that for a second. Remember, remember, remember, remember, remember, I
remember clear as day
People were losing their minds off of that off of the draft and I'm chuckling about it because I was watching the
the Pat McAfee show because they were they were live streaming it and one of one of the guys that actually work
For Pat McAfee one of his friends was just losing his mind because he's like, yo, we could have gotten a receiver
We could have gotten this we could have gotten that but we got Jordan Love and you know when you really look at it
It was a blessing in disguise because
Now when you really look at it the Packers in some ways have won that trade with Aaron Rodgers
Because now you have a productive a young productive quarterback who basically
You know play play the full season
Very well and his stats show it. All right
When you look at his stats for for this past season just as this past season, right?
He had a 64.2 percent
completion completion percentage, excuse me
He was
372 completed passes out of
529 attempted passes. He had
4159 passing yards 32 touchdowns 11 interceptions. He had a
47.6 passing percentage, right? Now when you think of passing percentage, you probably wonder what is that?
Well, I will inform you because as my GM it is my duty to inform you of these new things, right?
So passing success rate, right is basically the successful pass gains at least 40 percent of yards required on the first down
60 percent of yards required on second down in a hundred percent on third or fourth downs according to probe football reference
Shout out to them, right? And so I say all that to say this
That Packers team has not lost the beat. It has it's actually they are a very dangerous
dangerous offense because what you're seeing is
Jordan Love has already shown like hey, I can do this. I
Can do this. I don't I don't care anyone says I know there were a lot of people
I know there's a lot of you know, hey sayers nay sayers people saying this people saying that people saying I couldn't do it
People saying that you know, they should get rid of them. Just keep Aaron Rogers, but guess what I can do it
I'm here. I'm that guy. I am him
Hymn the Hemi Tron Hemi Williams, right? Hemi Jordan. That's who I am
That's what he said. That's what he's showing and so, you know, he has to be fairly compensated for that
You know, I will probably say the best thing for him
Was for him to sit on under Aaron Rogers because it allowed him to be able to see the various
You know situations that you're gonna have to endure with being a franchise quarterback. It does and
you know
History has shown that the Packers have handled the quarterback
Transition fairly well. They had Aaron Rogers sit under Brett Favre
They had Jordan Love sit under Aaron Rogers and my mind both of those situations played out fairly well
It really did now, you know, who was to say that, you know, Jordan Love will continue to do the same thing
I don't know. I don't have a crystal ball. I keep telling you guys that my crystal ball is still charging is on the right side
It was in the right corner of my office. Okay, it's in the right corner of my office still charging. It's about at what?
65 65. Okay. Yeah 60%
Okay, so I'm saying all that to say this Jordan Love has definitely wowed a lot of people
And he's gonna continue to do it. He is you're talking about somebody
who is
You know is going toe-to-toe with some of the best offenses in his own division
Not only in his own division when you look at the Lions offense, that's top tier when you look at the Vikings offense
That's top tier when you look at the Bears. They have the potential not right now
Potential to be a top offense
That's a lot. That is a whole lot
Now who was to say that, you know, this will it'll be this
somewhat offensive frenzy within that division do I believe it's gonna happen possibly
But the only difference is out of all of those teams, right?
The Bears the Lions and the Packers are the only three teams that actually have defenses to
You know to make a critical stop the Vikings really don't
But who knows maybe things will change, but I'm gonna say all that to say this, right?
When you look at Jordan Jordan loves his market value, right?
Jordan loves his market value. It's four years two hundred and eleven point eight
Million dollars
That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money if you would have told me
That we would be having quarterback deals that would crest over it the hundred million dollar mark
Even the two hundred million dollar mark. I would have called you a liar
I would have laughed at you until I couldn't breathe
But it's now become a norm
Now does Jordan love deserve all that money?
Yes and no
I will probably say they still need probably a few more pieces just to just to like really make them like
You know more than a playoff team possibly a Super Bowl team
I do think and I still you know
I still do believe that if a quarterback does take a little a little bit less it gives the team flexibility to
Go after you know a top tier player just to really change things up and to really
Boost their odds of you know making a deep play off right now
You know is there a chance that you know Jordan love could take less? Yes, it is a possibility
but
You know who was to say that he would get another opportunity like this to be making this type of money, right?
So, you know
Congratulations to Jordan love because I know he's gonna get his deal fairly soon and when he does we would definitely report on that
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