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Three episodes in a small amount of time. Okay, you cannot tell me that your GM does not love you guys
Okay, we got a lot to talk about okay Tyson Campbell and Christian Daris all gets paid the sound ready cuz holding out
We have a double. No not double. We have a triple
Rant alert. Okay triple rant alert folks
Why because the bangles owner doesn't want to pay tea higgins nor Jamar Chase
Seyquan is telling his side of the story. What's going on with the Giants?
Najee finally has spoken and we finally know what's going on and
Matthew Stafford gets a restructure and
And I'm our Cooper as well all of this and more on the 17th episode of the greatest
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Teaches you new stats to breaks down money for you and three gives you insightful
Information every single time I am your host your GM who still is not on the team, but
Who still is on the road?
Prospecting scouting looking to find my next all pro first ballot Hall of Fame player kale. Let's get it
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All right folks, you know what there's no point in us trying to delete that little trying to you know walk our way into this thing
No, we already in the driver's seat seatbelts is locked in key ignition has already been turned buckle up
We're going in for it. All right now if you guys do not know
Cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars Tyson Campbell has eight a four-year
76.5 million dollar extension to stay with him. He gets 40 he gets 53 excuse me 53.4 million guaranteed
He will be making 19.3 million a year right okay cool now
Just a few things with Tyson Campbell right this past season he had 42 solo tackles one-force fumble one pick five
Past afflictions we look at someone like a Tyson like a Tyson Campbell, right?
You're looking at somebody who one is still is still fairly young to it has definitely started to become a
major piece within that secondary and
Three who at this point it's better to lock him up now
Then to try to scramble and try to figure out what are you going to do once free agency hits next year, right?
I mean, it's not really that big of a that big of a deal honestly. I think it's a fairly pretty good deal
It it doesn't crest, you know, the the top ten highest paid
Cornerback list, but it's like right there. So it's like
He's he's getting paid
But it's not to the point where it's like it's a situation where you know
This contract may hurt them like two or three years down the road. Okay?
Even when you look at the highest paid corners by annual average salary, right?
You have Jaheer Alexander a 21 million Denzel Ward at 20 at 20.1 million J. LaRamsey 20 million Marlon Humphrey
19.5 March on Larmor 19.4 Trevon Diggs 19.4
So literally if we can be real here though, those are just those are just the top six now
Tyson Campbell is probably there but at the same time this also sort of paints a picture for future corners that are going to be
You know, you know free agents come next year, right? You have your AJ Turrell's and
Whoever else that you know that may be available as well
Now when you're going to look a little bit down the road into the future when you have someone like a
PS2 or a sauce gardener this sort of you know gives you an idea of like, okay, this is low
This is the high. This is the medium. This is probably how much I'm probably want to be asking for
You know all those different type of things. So, you know congratulations to him now to show the big boys
Love man because we love our tackles. We love our offensive linemen here, right?
Left tackle for the Vikings Christian Derisaw, right?
ain't a four-year
113 million dollar deal
77 million of that is guaranteed
43.7 million is guaranteed at Simon. He'll be making
28.25 million a year
Now when we break this down here folks Christian Derisaw has been an anchor on that offensive line
Okay, he he is in that group of
Young and up young and up and coming tackles who you know have been very productive since coming into the league, right?
He's in that group with Penae Suel
And Tristan Werffson whatnot. He's in that group because he has you know, he has consistently been
One of the best young tackles
In the league, right? You're talking about somebody who you know is definitely a focal piece for that offense and an
Offense where you know, it's still fairly young, right? You have a quarterback who's on the rookie deal
The biggest contract on the entire team's roster is only Justin Jefferson
It's the biggest deal and then under that is probably now Christian Derisaw
So I say all that to say this the Vikings are following the the recipe which is you build around
The quarterback your rookie quarterback within that period where you don't have to pay them
So that by the time it gets to you know to to talk about contracts and whatnot. Guess what?
The office is already established. It's already went throughs its highs and lows already went through, you know
You know a draft player, you know probably didn't do well someone getting traded someone getting moved
You know various different types of things, right? And then not to mention the Vikings, you know
Their top priorities aside from you know getting their future quarterback was also making sure that they you know paid their left tackle
As well as the star receiver because both of them pay both of them play a very pivotal role on that offense
And when they are not on the field they are that that offense is just it's not the best, right?
And so, you know, how does this affect future tackle, you know deals?
I don't know especially for someone like Tristan Werves who you know, he's still looking for money as well
So it's a matter of okay, is he probably gonna want more money than Christian D'Aresal?
Is he gonna want more money than you know?
Pineso, well, what what exactly is Tristan Werves looking for? Okay?
I think that's the million dollar question in all of this right now now
Moving on to other things because we have a lot to talk about okay, but first before we get to the rent
I'll let I think we do have to talk about Hassan Redick just a little bit now
When we look at the Hassan Redick situation right Hassan Redick, you know since being traded from the Eagles to the Jets
Basically has been holding out because he wants a new deal rightfully so no problem with that. However
There really hasn't been a lot of communication
As far as you know, what exactly is Hassan Redick's number?
Why are the Jets not willing to pay him is there you know what exactly is going on right and so you know
The the Giants I mean other Giants
Excuse me because I was watching hard knocks before before I started recording the Jets GM is in a situation where
You have to figure out exactly. What do you want to do with with Hassan Redick at this point?
because he's probably looking for top dollar money and you realize that you know
this this
Not the roster, but the the the contracts are starting to pile up just a little bit right you have Aaron Rodgers
Deal you have Quinn and Williams deal. You still have CJ Moseley's deals
You still have a lot of you know moving pieces, but at the same time
You want to be able to have a little bit of cap flexibility
Just in case you want to try go after you know some people to Fonte Adams or Brandon are you awake? Who knows right?
So you have you want to be able to figure out what you want to do now granted
if you if you would have told the Jets that Hassan Redick would have you know be doing things that he's doing right now I
Think the Jets probably wouldn't have tried to trade for Hassan Redick, but clearly
That's not the case and so now they're in a situation where?
They have to figure out exactly. What are they going to do?
with him because training camp has started right and
You know you don't want something like this to continue to linger on as training camp continues to go by you don't especially
If you have with them having someone like a Hassan Redick on that defensive line that definitely elevates things to another level
Okay, because you have Quinn and Williams in the middle. He's gonna have to get double team
You have a sign ready who can play both the left and the right side
You have you know, you still have Jermaine Johnson and you also have
The other patch rusher that they drafted as well
so you have somewhat of a
Rotation on the defensive line and that cannot be you know done successfully if
You know if you're supposed to star patch rusher isn't even there practicing
Right like there there has been
There has been so much drama with the Jets lately that it's just like do you even paid any mind at this point?
Like granted, I'm I'm I'll always say that I'm pro player always want you know players getting paid and whatnot
But at this point you are hurting yourself more and you are hurting the team by you by your negligence
Instead of just trying to you know come into the building trying to figure out exactly, you know
What what mutual ground do you and the team has?
What's a number that that benefits everybody is it too high is it too low is it just right and
Just go from there at that point you would conquer more
There if you was then you know then just you know holding out over there
It's different if you was holding in if he was holding in you know
He's just doing his own personal work
Workouts to the side and not with the team then that's perfectly fine because he's in the building and that means that you can you know
Have a physical conversation with him compared to him not being involved with the team at all not learning the defense not
Understanding and building chemistry with other players on that team
Especially on the defense so I say all that to say this and this is for any player
That you know that that may be trying to look for a deal it would be better for you to do a hold in
Than a hold out because at least with a hold in you can still have that
Communication with the front office and with your agent to try to find and get a deal done as quickly as possible
Because the longer this thing holds out
The more attention is it's going to be brought and it's just it's sort of like a fire you the more oxygen
It gets and I could be wrong the more oxygen it gets the stronger the
The fire gets and you don't want that because you already have drama already with you know
Aron Rogers, so now you're gonna have this like it's just all it's just a
big ball of just
Bull crap. That's really what it is and you know
Kudos to all the Jets fans that endure all this. I don't know how the world you guys do it
But if it was me, I would not be doing it at all now. It's time to go into these rain alerts
Okay, we got a lot of rain alerts. Okay, so I'm gonna let you know right now
You probably don't want to listen to this out in public. Okay, you probably want to have headphones on
Or you know, whatever else how however it is. Okay, so let's let's let's let's get into these rain alerts, okay?
So the bangles owner bangles owner. I think his name is Mike Brown if I'm not mistaken
So he put out two quotes lately
About both T Higgins and the Jamar Chase
Contract situation. So let's go over the quote that he put out on why he's not paying T Higgins
So he said and I quote according to Miles Simmons from NBC Sports Pro football Network shout out to you for the reporting
He said quote-unquote the pie is not going to grow
It's only going to be a certain size but when you reach a point where with your quarterback that you have to pay him a
Big contract that takes a disproportionate price out of the pie
Which means you have less to pay the others
Sometimes the impacts whether you can get get the other sign
You can't just pay the people willy-nilly
You're restricted on how much you can pay and we really like T Higgins
We would wish to sign him but it has to be a certain level to fit within the cap or it can't be done
Right now when you look at all of that
And in some ways he he does make sense, you know once you do pay the quarterback
It does limit the ability to pay other players
However, you did know that this was coming up soon, right?
You knew it you knew that pretty soon you're gonna have to pay T Higgins
You're gonna have to pay Jomar Chase and you're gonna have to pay Joe Burrow, right?
You already knew that so for you to say something like you can't just pay the people willy-nilly
Yes, you can technically speaking
Because you could have paid T Higgins last year had you paid T Higgins last year
You wouldn't be in the situation where you are right now
Because now the word the wide receiver market is so crazy right now
And you still have one you still have two more players that are going to get big contracts in both
His mind just his name just just let my mind up Brandon IE week and CD lamb
It's gonna mess you up more it is
Whether you realize it or not the longer that you wait out
The worst it's going to be for you because guess what the minute somebody else gets as close as they can to Justin
Jefferson's deal or even surpasses it it messes up the entire negotiation
It does and you literally have two receivers right now
Who are ones on any other team?
Right, and you know that if you let one of those two walk or the both of them walk, that's it
It is for Nito. It is done, right when you look at T Higgins market value
It's still five years ninety eight point five million which would equate to nineteen point seven million
On average according to spot right now when you look at your mark Chase's market value
It's a three-year ninety one point five million dollar deal. He'll be making thirty point five million a year
When we look at these deals those deals aren't really that bad, right?
Because okay, yes Joe Burrow is you know, it's hit his deal is sort of like ironclad because he's the quarterback
Okay, perfectly fine, but you have to be able to find a way to make sure that you take care of both T Higgins and
Jamar Chase, but even then with with the you know recent reports coming out that you know
They haven't even had a discussion about contract talks since last March for
For T Higgins that says a lot that says a whole lot of folks
That is something that you in some ways you have to be concerned about
Because why in the world didn't you not have these discussions?
You know since since last March and
T Higgins has basically let it be known like listen once this season is over with I'm going
I'm going and so you know that bridge is basically burnt
And I don't think it'll probably be rebuilt who knows but when you look at you know
But when you go back to the bangles owner when you look at his quotes about Jamar Chase
It's somewhat of a similar thing as well. He said according to Adam Schefter
He said and I quote it's not so likely that this is the good time to negotiate
The offseason is a better time for that and we're going to try to keep focus on the football part
I'm not going to rule anything out, but I will tell you that the die has already been cast, right?
This is the offseason
Mr. Brown, it's that this is this is the offseason, right?
That's this this right here this this area this this time. It's the offseason
So why on God's green earth?
Would you say something like this when you know dad going well that CD lamb is still looking for a deal and
Brandon I you look is still looking for a deal
You know damn well that you are not going to pay neither one of these receivers
And you know damn well when you don't pay neither one of these receivers
You guys are going to go back to being the fourth best team in this division. You know it. I know it everybody knows it
That's ridiculous. That's honestly ridiculous
You should have prioritized making sure that you take care of your offense because guess what your offense is the reason
Why you guys win so many games your offense is the reason why you guys made it to the Super Bowl
Your offense is the reason why you guys continue to go toe-to-toe with Patrick Mahomes
Without that offense you guys are nothing and I don't care what any Bengals fan may say
It's literally your offense. That's the best part of your team. You take away that offense
You have nothing that defense that defense is deplorable
You have Trey Hendrickson who was on the edge right now who is basically saying I am willing to retire
Unless you guys give me more money. You've lost DJ reader. You've lost Larry open Joby
You've lost a lot of the people in that secondary and you think just you know, oh, it's just not the time to do it
Well, when is the good time to do it?
When when is the time for you to finally decide? Oh, okay? It's time to pay
The receivers now. No, you should have taken care of this now
Because now the receiver market is so jacked up and it's not going to be able to somewhat
Um fix itself that guess what now you're gonna have to pay more money and
Let's not hope and pray that CD land gets a deal done soon or Brandon
Iewe because if one of those two get a get a deal done soon
The whole playing field is destroyed. You know it. I know but hey, guess what?
I'm a bankers fan. So guess what? I have to deal with this shit. I don't who cares, right?
Nobody cares, but this is the type of stuff here folks
That some that at times can make you a little bit
Frustrated with the team because it's like, okay
Why are you so unwilling to not pay?
You know that your players take care of your players now great
I understand that you know, not everybody can get paid. I understand that I respect that all those different type of things
But you have to know it but you have to have active
negotiations with the team in order to understand and probably come to a conclusion on hey
Maybe it's just best that we just part of separate ways. We play we play the season now
Maybe we'll come, you know, maybe we'll come back and you know figure figure something out
I you know post the season maybe we can you know rekindle something and try to get a deal done
Or we'll just let you just walk in free agency. How easy is that?
I literally just solved the problem and I've only been a GM for only six years
But I'm still not on the team right now, but that's another storefront another day
That's all I'm saying, right? And you know, if you're a bangles fan, you should be concerned about this because guess what?
If the bangles don't pay neither T. Haggings or Jamar taste
It's gonna look
And this is about to be a load of barnacles
But again, I am not a bangles fan now moving on to this whole
Giants and say quant situation because now we finally are able to see
Say quant tell his side of the story and sort of break things down on
What exactly happened between those contract negotiations between him and the Giants because hard knots did show
You know the phone conversation and whatnot, but they didn't really go in depth
With everything but with say quant doing an interview with Diana Mussini and her podcast shout out to scoop city
You know now we are finally able to sort of pick apart and sort of understand exactly what happened, right?
So, you know, these are just sort of like a few notes that sort of you know, jot it down when when I was
listening and looking at the
Looking at the interview. So basically he said and I quote it was over after the phone call in my opinion
It was over after after that because I never in my heart truly believed
They were going to match it or they only wanted me for a lower price
Joe made a comment that it took 10 years off his life like if it took 10 years off your life
What do you think it did for me?
Right now from that alone, you can definitely tell
That this situation especially that phone call probably, you know
bothered sequan a little bit because
When you look at it, you know, he's definitely been a very focal piece for that, you know for that offense
So for the GM to basically go out and say, okay. Yeah
Uh, we're just gonna let you hit free agency and let you test the market and hopefully, you know, you come back, you know
You know, there's any other blah blah blah all the same rhetoric that every GM says
But in sequan situation, it's a little bit unique because
He's a focal point. He's the focal point of the offense. That's what he is, right?
And you know as a GM, there are certain players on your team that you have to prioritize
And if you don't prioritize them guess what's gonna happen
They're gonna go to a division rival and then they're gonna run your ass over
Every single time that the that you guys face one another and that's exactly what sequan is going to do when he goes up
When he goes up against the Giants
He went to the Eagles
The owner literally said
I would I don't want to lose sleep
Off of this sequan situation in translate in translation. Do you know what that means?
We need to sign sequan. You need to find a way to get sequan. I don't care
What the general norm is about running backs and paying them a whole lot of money?
None of those things you need to find a way to get him because he realizes that sequan
alone
Does so much for that offense and when sequan is not on that field when he is not making plays and whatnot
That offense becomes stagnant and he cannot do anything with it
That's what it is, right?
even when you look at some of the
Some of you know some of the things
Um that that sequan said, you know, he he he said, you know, he felt, you know frustrated that the that the Giants didn't prioritize
Um didn't prioritize him and sort of give him a fair negotiation compared to what they did for you know
um
You know dexter lorenz and daniel jones and anthony tom is right, which is
rightfully so
You you didn't try your hardest to try to find a way to keep sequan
Sequan already told you where he wanted to be
So if he told you where you where he wanted to be you should have worked something out to get it done
That's what you should have done instead of you trying to talk yourself into believing into daniel jones
You should have been trying to figure out a way to do something with sequan
Because you know damn well if you
lose sequan
That's it for the offense because no matter who else you bring they will not be able to match the production
That is sequan barkley brings
Perfectly fine. No disrespect to him at all great great opportunity for him to get you know to get more money or whatnot
But at the same time
Do you really think devin singletary can do the same things that a sequan barkley can do no
No, not at all not even not even on the best day of the week
Could devin singletary do the things that sequan barkley do and they know it
So if you think that's going to work perfectly fine, but just know you messed up
But even when we go and we go a little bit deeper into this interview, you know
sequan won the first two years of the deal guarantee
But when as joe shane basically said he was going to take it up with ownership
And you know there was never an answer giving back to sequan on if they can do that or not
Me personally, I feel like that was somewhat of a simple fix that you probably shouldn't you shouldn't have to go to
management for because you're the gm and
You should just basically say somewhat of a yes or no answer
You should have just run that you know with the money people and then you know just go from there honestly, right?
And you know, I would definitely say throughout this entire interview
He definitely emphasized a lot that he felt disrespected
You know throughout the entire process and rightfully so because you know when you look at it
Sequan really didn't have a chance to really negotiate. He did it and so
In his mind, he's like to hell with y'all
If y'all don't value me as as a player if y'all don't value me
You know what I do on the field off the field for this organization
Then what is the point in me trying to give you guys a chance to?
You know try to get a deal done or try to come back. There's no point
The bridge is already burning you said what you said whatever you
What when when you said what you said when Joe Shane basically said we're gonna let you hit the free agency market
That's it. That's the nail in the coffin. That's it. That's it. There's nothing you can do or say that's going to change that
It's not
And so now you're gonna have to do with the repercussions
You know what the repercussions are say quan steam rolling that defense two times a season
And guess what and guess what Joe Shane?
You got the best seat in the house
So you get to see it for two games this season. So guess what?
So when it happens when seguan barkley goes off and seguan does seguan things
Just know we're all going to revisit that conversation that you had with him on hard knocks
Where you basically said, oh, yeah, I'm just gonna let you hit the free agency. Let's go. Let you just test the market
See what happens. Okay. That's what happened now moving on to
You know just just some very small key points. Um, amari cooper
Basically
Agreed to a restructure of his deal. Um, basically the browns are giving him
five a five million dollars somewhat of a
Arrays it if you would say but it's mainly in incentives while giving half of the 20 million dollars that he was supposed to get
And change it into a signing bonus now me personally
I think it's more of a somewhat of a cleanup type of
Um deal
I think it's more of a way to create a little bit of uh cap space for them and give them a little bit of
Flexibility just in case if they do want to go after somebody and add to this team
But at the same time try to take a little bit less off of his contract because they know
that you know
Maybe they want to get rid of them. Maybe they want to trade them. Maybe they
Maybe they want to try to add somebody else into the receiver room or to the offense or let them know the defense
Who knows right the browns have been able to do very small little things when it comes to their contracts and their books
You know lately and you know to some people it's like, you know, it's nothing really, you know major but to me
It's like okay
They're trying to set themselves up to probably go after one more big time player possibly but who knows right?
Now same thing with uh the matt matthew staffer situation, you know, he agreed to a restructure deal as well
He only had 15 million guaranteed. Um after after the 2024 season
Um, but unfortunately there there is no details about that restruct as well
But what it sounds like to me is he didn't he wanted more guaranteed money
He had it after this season after this upcoming
Season and so basically the Rams probably gave him a number
They probably agreed to that number and so they probably broke it down
And so, you know, here's the situation that you have right here now
Here is something that we have to talk about because this just came up, right?
So nonji here is finally has spoken
You know about, you know, what what has happened with the Steelers and you know them not deciding to pick up his fifth year option
Um now all my Steelers fans, you know, don't don't get upset with me because I am a Steelers fan myself
I mean I sound like it all the time, but yes, unfortunately. I am a Steelers fan
So according to Brooke prior shout out shout out to Brooke by the way, um
This is basically the quote that that um that nonji basically said at trading camp, right?
So basically, um
They he said that the Steelers told him that they were declining because they didn't know which direction the offense is
headed
I'm gonna say that again
The Steelers told nonji Harris the person who's had a thousand rushing yards
Three seasons in a row that they don't know which direction the offense is headed
Meanwhile, the Steelers hired
Arthur Smith who runs a run heavy offense
Oh, by the way
The Steelers drafted two tackles in the first round with both project Jones
and Troy Futano
And you mean to tell me
That the bullshit answer that you give nonji Harris is oh, we don't know which which direction the offense is headed
Bullshit
Straight up bullshit. You cannot you can't tell someone like that
That okay. Yeah, we don't know which was direct
You know because you made the moves that dictated what direction the offense is going to go
Which is what we're going to run the ball and we're going to have a physical defense
That's the identity of the Pittsburgh Steelers going into the 2024 season
Everybody knows it
They've been rebuilding the offensive line. They've been prioritizing running the ball more
They got an offensive coordinator who ran the ball when he was the offensive coordinator at tennessee
So why in the world would you tell me something like this? And let's not forget folks
The fifth year option for nonji Harris wasn't even that expensive
It was only six to eight million dollars if i'm not mistaken
So what in the world are we doing and that's probably going to be that that's probably the name for this episode. Bam
GM does it every single time
But what are we doing here folks? What are we doing?
It's one thing if nonji Harris wasn't being productive
It's one thing if you know, you want to go in a different direction and whatnot. Okay, cool perfectly fine
But to say something like this, you don't know which direction the offense is headed
I'm sorry. That is a lackluster answer. Um, because clearly your actions
spoke louder than your words
Especially, you know with previous interviews leading up to this point basically
You know both the GM and the head coach and the owner basically emphasizing that they wanted to run the ball more
That's what they emphasize
So if they emphasize that they wanted to run the ball more then guess what guess what they did
They got an offensive coordinator who does what run the ball more. They got one offense of linemen so they can do what run the ball more
Come on guys. Come on. Can you know what? I'm I'm I'm done. I'm I'm I'm I'm just
Wow, you cannot make this stuff out folks. I'm just gonna end this right here. Thank you guys so much for listening to another episode
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