Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news.
Zack Martin is retiring, folks.
That's right, after 11 seasons with the Cowboys,
Zack Martin is hanging it up, okay?
So, as I continue to say, every single time,
everything happens before I record,
while I'm recording, or after I'm recording.
This is definitely a curve ball.
We have a lot to talk about with that,
as well as the divisional rodeo continues,
but this time we're in the AFC East, to be specific.
We got a lot of controversy, we got a lot of things
we gotta talk about, okay?
The state of the Jets, Dolphins, Bills, and Patriots.
Best believe this is gonna be a really good episode.
So guess what, you already know my spill, all right?
You already know, this is the 69th episode
of the Football Junkies podcast, okay?
I am your host with the most, okay?
I am your chief, that's right, chief, Bagro Domus, okay?
I am your chief, head of the table,
anything and everything related to the bag and more, okay?
I am currently your GM, who currently
is not on a team right now, but don't you worry about it,
okay, don't you worry about it, okay?
But guess what, I am all these things and more,
but most importantly, the most important thing
that you must remember is, I am your host, Kale.
You already know how these things are about to go.
This episode's gonna be full of twists, turns,
hot takes, truth bombs, all of that and more, okay?
So guess what, on three, one, two, three, let's lock in.
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All right, folks, let's just get into the meat and potatoes
of everything that is going on in the league right now.
So, one better way to start this episode
than with doing something that we haven't done
since around this time last year, and that is,
bag alert, bag alert, bag alert, bag alert,
bag alert, folks, that's right,
Elijah Molding gets the bag, folks, okay?
Three years, 18.5 million, okay?
13.5 in total guarantees, he will be making
roughly around 6.1 million a year.
So, all in all, what better way to start things off, okay?
So, Elijah Molding was originally with the Titans,
got traded to the Chargers,
and literally had his best season so far.
I mean, the stats speak for himself.
Now, the stats aren't something where it's like,
oh man, he's a old pro or anything like that,
but he had 43 solo tackles, three picks,
and seven pass deflections.
Like, that's actually pretty good, I'm not gonna lie.
It's not something where it's like,
it shows you how much of a role he played
in this Chargers defense.
So, all in all, it's a really good deal.
He gets paid while the Chargers keep somebody on their team
that is a really productive young player.
So, all in all, congratulations to him.
Now, moving to Zack Martin, okay?
We all know he's going to be our first battle hallfamer.
We all know he's gonna go down in history
as one of the greatest offensive linemen of this era.
Whenever you was going up against the Cowboys,
you were always going to see Zack Martin.
You're talking about somebody that has been consistent.
You're talking about somebody that has been loyal
to the Cowboys this entire time.
I didn't expect Zack Martin to retire.
I thought at best he was probably gonna play
maybe one or two more years on a competitor.
I think he wanted to in his career
with possibly maybe experiencing winning football
or maybe try to win a Super Bowl at best.
But I guess he probably realized,
listen, I'm getting up in age.
I have nothing else to prove.
I know I'm one of the greatest offensive linemen
in NFL history.
And I know I'm walking into Canton.
So, I have nothing else to prove.
All in all, congratulations to him.
Let's get into this division here.
You know, AFC East, yeah.
Man, so people are not gonna like me
for what I have to say, but it's okay.
It's okay, we are going to get through this.
So, let's start with the Jets, okay?
So, they're gonna have 15 million in cash base
with a rollover cap of $345,919.
You're gonna have free agents such as Hasan Reddick,
DJ Reed, Tyler Conklin, Tyron Smith, Morgan Moses,
Javon Kinn-Law, Solomon Thomas, Chuck Clark,
Isaiah Oliver, just to name a few.
Now, when we come to their draft picks,
you're gonna have your first, your second, your third,
your fourth, two fifth round picks,
and two sixth round picks, all right?
Your positions of need, quarterback, tackle,
outside linebacker, corner,
tight end, safety, defensive tackle.
So, all in all, these are very manageable needs, okay?
The only pressing need that they really have is quarterback.
And even then, I think they could really try to make a push
for someone like adjusting fields, right?
Going after someone like, I don't know, Russell Wilson,
or Kirk Cousins, or Sam Darnold, or Daniel Jones,
will not solve the answer, okay?
Trying to draft one this year
will not solve the problem either.
I think at best, their quarterback is next year.
I think this year, they should not take a swing
at quarterback, and I think they should just try
to build everything else so that the only thing
that you need is the quarterback,
instead of trying to piecemeal this thing.
Because, remember, this offense is trying to recover
from when they had Aaron Rodgers.
This entire team, actually, is trying to recover
from the Aaron Rodgers situation.
And, granted, he wasn't there for a long time,
but his impact has affected that locker room.
And so, now that you have a new regime in place,
now you basically have to rewrite those wrong.
So, you have a few options when it comes
to these different positions of need, okay?
So, tackle.
You can go when you can address it early in the draft.
You can get someone like a Will Campbell,
or a Kelvin Banks, or Josh Simmons,
or any of those different types of guys.
Gray Zable, if I'm not mistaken.
I think he's a tackle as well,
but he can play interior offensive line as well.
But you have options.
Just as you can go and you can get you
a veteran offensive lineman if you wanna take that route.
Because most likely, there's gonna be at least
a few line-free agents that are gonna wanna follow
Aaron Glenn into the Jets.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if one of them
is like a rotational piece of an offensive lineman
or whatever.
I wouldn't be surprised, honestly.
Now, outside linebacker, you can draft them,
but the question is how high are you
on the outside linebackers, right?
Because to me, I think the number one,
well, not really the number one,
but like, well, you know what, yeah, he is.
The number one outside linebacker to me is Mike Green.
And then it's, you know, Jalen Walker,
the Abdul-Carter's, the, what's the dude,
James Pierce's, you know, junior.
It's those guys.
But the question is how high do you value them?
Do you value them high enough that you would
take them seventh overall?
Or would you rather go and get you
a veteran outside linebacker just so, you know,
it's a little bit cheaper and you can, you know,
cut the edges when it comes to the building of this team?
Corner, you're gonna have to address
Corner in this draft because you're not gonna pay
DJ Reed top dollar money and you're gonna pay
Sauce Gardener potentially this year or next year.
You're just not gonna take that risk.
All in all, I mean, you have options even at Corner.
You have Ezra Thomas, Kobe Bryant,
Quincy Riley, Benjamin Morrison,
Will Johnson, Siobhan Revel, Trey Amos.
Like, you have multiple options.
And the beauty of this all is a majority of those corners
are going to fall, unfortunately,
because a lot of them all have the same red flags,
which is what?
Injuries.
So unless they wow people at the combine,
most likely their draft stock is gonna fall
just a little bit.
Or you can go and you can use your first pick
and you can get someone like a Mason Graham
or a Kenneth Grant for your defensive line.
Or Walter Nolan, depending on how high you feel about him.
But even with defensive line, you can double dip.
You can address it in the first round
and then address it in the third or fourth round
if you want to.
There are multiple options at defensive line
that a lot of people are not talking about
that I think if you pair them with someone
like a Quinnen Williams, I think this will be
a really ferocious defensive line.
Because we just saw in the Super Bowl what happens
when you have a defensive line that is able
to create constant pressure on the quarterback.
You can win big games.
Now for tight end, you could get someone
like a Colston Loveland, Harold Fanning Jr.
You can get the tight end from Miami.
I can't think of his name right now.
You could get Tyler Warren.
Like you have options at tight end.
The tight end class, believe it or not,
is actually really good this year.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to get one of them.
Now when it comes to safety, you could get Xavier Watts.
You could get, what's his name,
Malachi Starks from Georgia.
You can get this one safety slash DB from South Carolina.
I forgot his name, but he's like 6'3",
like 2'30", or something like that.
But he can cover.
Like he can cover tight ends.
He can cover spot receivers.
Like he can do it all.
You have options at safety.
And then not to mention, if you want to,
you can bring in, you can bring somebody back
like a Chuck Clark just for a death piece
if you really want to.
So safety is a position where most likely
at least two or three of those safeties are gonna fall.
Like safeties are not valued as high
as what they probably should be.
So you could definitely get someone like a Malachi Starks
or someone like that in maybe the early second round.
But when we look at their candidates for restructures,
extensions, trades, and cuts,
Garrett Wilson, I feel like he might get traded.
I think Garrett Wilson just wants a new environment.
I think based off of his situation with Aaron Rodgers
and how he wasn't really utilized,
I think he just wants a fresh start altogether.
Now when we look at his market value,
it'll be a three year, $69.6 million deal,
which is 23.2 million a year, okay?
Saul Skarner, I expect for him to get an extension
either this year or next year,
but it would be smart to get it this year
because he had somewhat of a down year.
Because if he bounces back and has a better year next year,
you could probably be talking about someone
that's gonna reset the market again.
Do you really want to take that risk?
Because the Bengals, they're messing themselves up now
because why?
They didn't pay Jamar Chase last year
and allow him to play this year,
and now that he's won the Triple Crown, guess what?
They now have to reset the market for Jamar Chase.
There is no if, ins, or buts about it.
So at some point, you are going to have to
be maybe a little bit early
when it comes to one of these players, okay?
Now when we look at Saul's market value,
it's three years, 62.3 million, but it's only 20.8 million.
That's not bad.
That's actually really good.
That is a contract that you could work with, okay?
Now when we look at Alan Lazard,
either he's gonna get traded or he's gonna get cut.
Me personally, I think he's probably gonna get cut
just so they can just move on for him
because even if he was to be traded,
it's not gonna be for a high pick.
At best, it's gonna be for maybe a fourth, a fifth,
or maybe even a sixth round pick at best.
Breeze Hall, you could give him an extension, okay?
Because for one, his market is gonna be as robust.
And two, you don't have to give him a whole lot of money
because you could pay him while at the same time
draft a running back as well.
Because this running back class is diverse enough
to where you can go and you can get yourself
a very productive running back in the day two and day three slots.
And when we look at Breeze Hall's market value,
it's a four-year, $28.2 million deal,
which is only $7.1 million a year.
Not bad.
C.J. Mosley, his situation is a little bit complicated
because of the role that he plays on the team, right?
You're one of the pillars on that defense.
So do you want to get rid of him?
Do you want to keep him?
What exactly do you want to do?
Now, if it's me personally, I probably would approach C.J. Mosley
and ask him, what do you want to do?
We don't want to make that decision for you.
We'll let you make that decision for yourself.
And depending on what he wants to do, you'll do it for him.
Now, if he wants an extension,
at best you'll probably give him a two-year extension.
After that, you just have to let him go.
But if he wants to be traded, trade him.
If he wants to be cut, cut him.
Because right now, the Jets have a lot of cleaning up to do.
This is going to be possibly a two or three year mini rebuild.
It's not going to be a super deep rebuild
like what the Patriots are going through.
But you have to clean up all the players
that were on the team prior to this point.
So Al Lazaard and Vonte Adams
and all those different types of players, okay?
While at the same time figuring out
who do you want to bring back?
It's me personally, maybe I will entertain
maybe bringing back Hassan Reddick.
Maybe I will bring back someone like a Morgan Moses
because he plays such a pivotal role on that offensive line.
You got to bring back at least one or two veterans
for the love.
And Morgan Moses, I think, will probably be the best option.
Hassan Reddick, I don't know.
Because I only say this because of what happened
prior to the season starting.
When he was in a holdout
and there was a bunch of back and forth
and the Jets wanted him to practice
before they started talking about contracts
and Hassan Reddick was like, no.
It was a bunch of back and forth.
So only time will tell with that situation.
Now when we look at the Dolphins,
the Dolphins are already in a bad spot already.
You are negative 7.6 million in the red.
And your rollover cap is only three million.
Even with the boost that you're getting from
the seller cap rising,
that's still not a lot of money to play with.
So most likely you're going to be in the same situation
that the Cowboys is in,
which is not being very active in free agency.
That's part one.
Part two is free agents.
Kendall Fuller, Tyrell Dodson, Raheem Moster,
Kaleus Campbell, Robert Jones, Duke Riley,
Javon Holland, Kendall Lamb, Emmanuel Ogba,
Liam Eichenberg, Elijah Campbell, Anthony Walker Jr.,
Tyler Huntley, Tyrus Bowser, just to name a few.
Now draft picks.
Of course you got your first, your second, your third,
two fourth round picks, two fifth round picks,
and three seventh round picks.
Positions of need, interior offensive line,
safety, interior defensive line, corner, receiver,
linebacker, tight end, quarterback, running back, and edge.
Now for all the people that are probably freaking out
right now, they're saying, you listed quarterback.
Yes I did because they need a backup quarterback.
Relax.
Now when we look at all these positions of need,
you could address this a few ways, right?
You could try to see if you could bring back players
that you really love, and that way you don't have
to really address them super high in the draft,
or you could take a swing at one of these positions
and try to go after somebody that you really love.
Now me personally, we all know that the running back class
is deep, the cornerback class is deep,
the wide receiver class is a little bit deep,
and the tight end class is deep.
Now all the other positions that I did not say,
that's up for the team to decide, right?
So edge.
You know that you're in a position where yes,
you could get a pretty good edge,
but at the same time, wouldn't you wanna get
another weapon for Tua?
Wouldn't you wanna get productive tight end,
or productive receiver?
Because at this point, the choices for first round
receivers is very slim, because all you had is T-Mac,
Luther Burden, Emeka Ibuka, and Matthew Golden.
Everybody else is not a first round talent.
At best, they're probably second to maybe
fifth round selection, okay?
Now do you wanna wait that long?
I don't know, because there might be somebody
that you really have an eye for,
that they may get snatched up early,
just because of desperation, and you don't want this team
to get them and whatnot.
But when we look at defensive line, as I've already said,
the defensive line class is really good.
But I think you wanna pair a rookie defensive line
with a veteran defensive lineman.
And you don't have to pay them a whole bunch of money.
You could get someone like a Sebastian Joseph Day,
or BJ Hill, or a Javon Hargrave for cheap.
You don't have to pay a whole bunch of money for them.
Now when we look at things like linebacker,
you could get G. R. Campbell, or Chris Paul Jr.
from Ole Miss, two really good productive linebackers, okay?
And even then, even if you wanted to take
the free agency route, you can get a linebacker
for less than eight million.
I've seen it before, somebody would be willing
to play for the Dolphins just because it's warm weather,
it's in Miami, and you probably got family down there,
or whatever, something crazy.
Now when we look at quarterback,
I'm not really gonna go super deep into quarterback
just because you can get a backup quarterback anywhere.
I'm sorry, like you can bring in somebody
and have tryouts or whatever during camp,
and they're the emergency quarterback or whatever.
Just saying.
But when we look at candidates for restructure,
extensions, trades, and cuts,
I feel like Jalen Ramsey is gonna want out.
I feel like Jalen Ramsey thought that the Dolphins
were gonna be in a win-now mode type of situation,
but clearly that's not the case,
and clearly this is about to break up soon,
so you might as well wanna get a head start
before it happens.
Now, for someone like a Jalen Ramsey,
the problem is you gave him an extension, okay?
Is a team gonna be willing to pay out that extension?
Probably not.
So at best, you're gonna be taking on some dead cap
from that deal, from that whole situation, to be honest.
Now, when we look at Bradley Chubb, restructure.
Restructure all day, every day, okay?
And the reason why I say that is because
he has a cap hit this year of 28.6 million.
Next year, it's gonna be 29.3,
and then the year after that, it's supposed to be 29.6.
Those are very large cap hits for somebody
that has not been very productive lately
since being with the Dolphins, okay?
Now, when we look at his base salary,
19.4 this year, 19.4 next year,
and then 18.4 the year after that,
you have to give him a restructure,
because right now you need as much cap space as you can
to try to patch as many holes as you can
on this team before the draft,
because yes, you are in a good spot within the draft.
You're in the 13th pick,
but at the same time, you have so many holes
that you have to fill
that you're gonna have to prioritize
one position in the first round.
It's either gonna be a defensive lineman,
it's gonna be a corner, it's gonna be a receiver,
it's gonna be a tight end or edge, okay?
One of those positions, you're going to have to do it,
because right now you are staring at the barrel of a gun
because why?
This team has not lived up to expectations.
This team has not fulfilled the expectations
that was set by the owner,
and right now you are under a lot of pressure
just because of that one game against the Broncos
where you could have almost broken the record
of scoring the most points in one game.
Really think about this.
Since this whole acquisition of talent,
of Tyreek Hill, Tyronne Armstead,
Bradley Chubb, Jaylon Ramsey,
you guys have sucked against real competition.
When you go up against a winning team, you guys crumble,
but when you guys go up against a weak team,
a team that's going through a rebuild or a losing team,
oh, you guys are on them like white on rice.
That's not how you win games.
That's not how you get to the Super Bowl.
You have to be able to face competition,
whether it's somebody that is a playoff contender
or whether it's somebody that's tanking.
You have to be able to do it.
Otherwise, guess what's gonna happen?
You're gonna be in Cancun every single year.
When they went up against the Chiefs in the playoffs,
guess what happened?
They folded.
You cannot allow that to happen.
You've put too much money into this team
for them not to go anywhere, okay?
And honestly, I feel like you could probably put Tyreek Hill
in there as well only because of his comments
towards the end of the season.
I think those comments probably ruffled some feathers
within the Dolphins organization.
And I wouldn't be surprised if somebody picks up the phone
and shows some level of interest
for someone like a Tyreek Hill.
Now granted, they gave him an extension,
but I think a team will be willing to take on
at least 50% of that deal.
Just because, I mean, it's Tyreek Hill.
Now do I think it's gonna materialize
within the next few weeks?
I wouldn't be surprised,
especially with the combine coming up next week.
We all know that once the combine happens,
that's when you start seeing an influx of news.
That's when you start seeing a lot of
credible information coming out.
Now we're in this sort of like dead period
where you're gonna see a whole bunch of people
put out stuff just for likes and clicks and interactions
and things of that nature.
So keep your eye on the Tyreek Hill situation
because that is a very interesting situation to look at.
Now is there anybody else that I could possibly think of
that may get an extension or may stay?
Maybe Liam Eichenberg,
depending on how the team views him,
or maybe someone like an Isaiah Nguyen,
but people like Javon Holland, he's gone.
He is not coming back.
He is looking for the bag.
Kaleus Campbell, he's probably leaving as well.
He's probably gonna try to join the Chiefs
or join the Ravens or the Bills,
just so he can try to see if he can win
at least one Super Bowl and just ride off into the sunset.
But all in all, this is gonna be a very important year
for the Dolphins because a lot is riding on this.
If you do not make it to the playoffs
or let alone make a deep playoff run,
oh, they're cleaning house.
They're gonna scrap this thing from the bottom.
And you do not want that, trust me.
You're gonna be seeing some players,
they're gonna be giving away for basically
chips and a half pack of cigarettes.
I'm just being honest here, folks.
Now when we look at the Bills, okay,
they have negative 12 million in cap space
and they have a rollover cap of 1.3 million.
So you're already in the red, okay?
And we look at their free agents.
You got Amari Cooper, Rasul Douglas,
Austin Johnson, Mack Hollins,
Damar Hamlin, just to name a few, all right?
Your draft picks, you got your first,
two second round picks, no third round picks,
two fourth round picks, two fifth round picks,
and three sixth round picks, all right?
Positions of need, corner, interior defensive line,
safety, wide receiver, running back, all right?
So for starters, you're definitely gonna need
to address either corner or defensive line
within the first round.
Because for one, both rooms,
they just need a breath of fresh air.
Ever since Trudevius White left the Bills,
that corner back room has not been good.
And granted, they tried to make a trade
for Rasul Douglas, but I don't think
Rasul Douglas is coming back to the Bills.
And there's nobody else in that secondary room
that I would say is like, you know,
starter caliber, honestly.
Like who is somebody that you can say
is a legitimate one in the corner back room
for the Bills?
I'll let you answer that question in the comments, okay?
Now, when it comes to defensive line,
you are in a position where if you don't wanna trade up,
you could allow one of them to fall
and you could take a swing on one of them, right?
Now the question is, would you be willing to do that,
or would you be willing to maybe address, you know,
safety or receiver?
Because remember, the last few years,
you guys have missed one receiver.
You guys could have had Xavier Worthy,
but you allowed the Chiefs to make their move
and guess what?
Now they got Xavier Worthy.
Now granted, Keyon Coleman was still productive,
but he's not Xavier Worthy productive.
No disrespect to him.
Now when we look at safety, you can address safety
in a myriad of ways, but my only problem is,
you're so limited to the cap that you're gonna have
to rely on the draft so much to patch up these holes.
Because again, even if you was to do some restructures,
which we're about to get into in just a little bit,
it still won't be enough for you to like make
significant moves to really better this team.
And then when we look at running back,
I would definitely double dip at running back
because who in the world is gonna pay James Cook 15 million?
Now granted, I understand that he just had his best season
of his career so far, but I'm not paying you 15 million.
If everybody had one great season,
there will be no need for the cap
because everybody would be resetting the market
and getting cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs type money.
That's not how this thing works.
And with the running back class being as great as it is,
Devin Neal, Caleb Johnson, Trevion Henderson,
Quenshawn Jenkins, Taj Brooks, Bauschel Tootin,
Omarion Hampton, I can keep on going for days.
You have options.
Make sure you get at least two.
But when we look at candidates for restructure,
extension, trades, and cuts,
Damar Hamlin for sure, you can give him an extension.
Nothing super crazy, probably sort of a deal
that what Elijah Molden just got,
nothing earth-shattering, but just something
that keeps him with the team.
Mack Hollins, you have to give him an extension.
Mack Hollins was balling in the playoffs.
You gotta keep him, okay?
Because right now I think all you will have
is Khalil Shakir and Keon Coleman.
So you gotta bring him back at least.
Curtis Samuel, I just wouldn't do it.
Amari Cooper, he became a ghost once the, you know,
once the playoffs came around and whatnot.
It's just not worth it, personally.
Gregory Russo, I would definitely give him an extension.
I would get ahead of that now
instead of waiting until next year
because if Gregory Russo has a crazy season
like how I think he's going to,
you are going to be paying a lot of money
and you're gonna have to cut somebody
just to pay Gregory Russo
because you're not gonna just let him just walk.
I could tell you three teams right now
that would want someone like a Gregory Russo,
just being honest here.
Because when you look at his market value,
it's a four year, $99.5 million deal,
which is $24.9 million a year.
If he has a double digit sack season
and is a finalist for defensive player of the year
or any of those awards,
you are talking about somebody
that could be making a hundred million.
Well, he could be getting a hundred million dollar deal.
Okay, not a hundred million dollars.
I know there's a bunch of Bills fans,
what are you talking about?
You don't know what they're talking about.
You're messing things up.
Relax, it's okay, relax, it's the coffee.
Now when we look at restructures, Von Miller for sure.
Because man, oh man, his base salary this year, 17.1.
Next year, 19.6.
And the year after that, 29.6.
Do you really think the Bills are going to allow him
to just keep this unscathed?
Oh no, there's definitely gonna be restructure.
And then when you look at his cap hit,
his cap hit this year, 23.8.
Next year is 26.3.
And then the year after that is supposed to be 32.6.
You are going to have to restructure his deal
because for one, he's getting up in age,
his production has gone down.
And at this point, you have to admit
that this deal was a bad deal.
You guys were thinking you guys were gonna get
the same Von Miller that the Rams got.
But the only difference is guess what?
Von Miller was teammates with one of the greatest
defensive linemen in NFL history in Aaron Donald.
That's the only difference in this entire equation.
You don't have somebody else outside of Gregory Russo
that you can say, hey listen,
he can definitely take a lot of pressure off
of someone like a Von Miller.
You don't have that outside of Gregory Russo.
So right now, you have to rely so much on the draft
to patch up your holes.
But at the same time, with you being a playoff caliber team,
players will be willing to join your team
and they'll be willing to take less
because they know that guess what?
As you have Josh Allen, guess what?
You will always have a chance to make it to the playoffs
because right now, there's nobody else in your division
that can rock with you.
Not the Patriots, not the Jets, and not the Dolphins.
It's literally y'all division until Josh Allen gets old,
decrepit, and wants to retire.
Now when we go on to the final team,
that is the Patriots, okay?
So granted, you are gonna have the most cap space
in all the league, but the drawback is,
you have a lot of important holes that you have to fill.
So when we look at their free agents,
you have Jonathan Jones, Jacoby Brissette, Deontre Watch.
I mean why, excuse me, Austin Hooper,
Jermichael Hasty, Jaylon Hawkins, just to name a few, okay?
Your draft picks.
You got your first, your second, two third round picks,
one fourth round pick, one fifth round pick,
and two seventh round picks, okay?
Positions of need, offensive line,
both tackle and interior offensive line,
edge, corner, receiver, tight end, linebacker,
running back, safety, defensive tackle, okay?
So with defensive tackle,
with the uncertainty of Christian Barnborn,
you have to possibly get an assurance policy just in case.
Because outside of him,
there's nobody else on the defensive line
outside of Keon White that has been super productive.
And with this defensive class
having some bona fide starters at defensive line,
you have to get at least two of them.
If you get someone like a Daron Harmon and Jordan Phillips,
that's a lot better than what you have right now.
And then not to mention,
we all know that Mike Raible loves his defensive lineman.
Come on now, he loves his defensive lineman.
Corner, you can address that day two or day three, honestly.
You don't have to address it in the first round.
You don't have to address it that high in the draft.
But D-tackle, I mean, you can get Mason Graham.
If you get Mason Graham,
and then Christian Barnborn comes back,
that's a nasty defensive line right there already, okay?
Now linebacker, you can go about this a few ways.
You can go and you can draft one,
Chris Paul Jr. or Jihad Campbell.
Or you can go, you can try to get
a veteran linebacker for a low.
You can get one for maybe five or six million a year.
It's not really gonna hurt your pockets as much, right?
Running back, as I've already said multiple times,
you can get a running back anywhere in this draft.
I would not be surprised if some of these running backs
become undrafted free agents.
So that might even sweeten the deal even more,
because now you don't even have to waste
a draft pick on them.
You could just invite them to camp
and just see where they are, tied in.
You can draft one.
I wouldn't draft one as high as where they're drafting,
because they're drafting fourth overall.
I just would not do that.
But if you get someone like a Harold Fanon Jr.
or a Colston Loveland or the tight end from Miami
or Jack Besh, because I think he came from being a tight end.
You can convert him back into a tight end,
or you can go and get somebody from free agency.
If you take any of those routes, guess what?
That makes things a little bit better,
because right now, I mean, your tight ends,
they're okay, but they could be a whole lot better.
Now, receiver, you can get T-Mac,
you could get Luther Burdick, you can get a Mecha Bucca,
you could go and try to see if you can make a sign-in trade
for someone like a T. Higgins.
You have options at that position.
But the only problem is,
you guys are not in a position to win,
because if you guys are in a position to win,
I think T. Higgins would be more open to going to y'all.
But because y'all aren't winning,
I don't think T. Higgins would want to entertain y'all.
Even if y'all was throwing him crazy money,
I still don't think he would do it personally.
Now, you could try to go and get someone else,
like a Stefan Diggs or a Darius Slayton,
or I was gonna say De'Andre Johnson,
but no, that's a hell no.
De'Andre Hopkins, you could get one of those
older veteran type of receivers if you really wanted to.
Somebody that's not gonna cost you a whole lot of money,
but you know that their leadership in the locker room
and their productivity on the field
is definitely gonna be felt from the moment, excuse me,
that they joined the team.
Corner and edge.
Corner, you can address it that high.
Me personally, I wouldn't.
At the same time, I think it really depends on
how everybody runs in the comp.
If Will Johnson runs a four, three,
you have to get him that high.
If Benjamin Morrison runs really well,
or Siobhan Revel, or Trey Amos, or Ezra Thomas,
or Kobe Bryant, or any of those guys,
if they run pretty well, you're gonna have to get them.
Because outside of Christian Gonzalez, who else do you have?
Jonathan Jones is up in age.
Now, granted, he is a free agent,
but are you gonna be willing to bring him back?
I don't think so.
But at the same time, you probably could bring him back
just because I don't think his market will be as defined
as what people think it will be,
but you probably will have to double dip at corner.
You could definitely get one in the first round,
then get one in the second round,
or you get one in the second round and third round.
But at some point, you're gonna have to double dip
at both corner and defensive tackle,
and possibly running back.
Now, edge, outside of the first rounder type edges,
I haven't really looked at anybody else.
I probably should, I probably will this weekend.
But I mean, you got the notable names,
the household names, Abdul Carter,
Jaylen Walker, Mike Green, James Pierce, all those guys.
The question is, do you wanna draft them that high or not?
Me personally, I wouldn't draft them that high.
Like, if you're drafting an edge rusher that high,
they have to be like borderline, like all pros, okay?
And they don't come out, you know, every single year.
It's very rare that they come out in the draft, honestly,
especially this high.
Like, shoot, if you would have told me that T.J. Watt
would have been better than Taco Charlton,
which was crazy because Taco got drafted before T.J. Watt,
everyone was like, oh yeah,
Taco Charlton is gonna be a monster.
He's gonna be a game changer.
And where is Taco now?
And where's T.J. Watt?
Just saying, okay?
Offensive line, me personally, I would address this high,
okay, because right now,
all you really have is an aging David Andrews, okay?
There's nobody else in this offensive line
that you should feel very comfortable with.
You have already cut Chukes
because you know Chukes was not good.
Your left tackle is definitely gonna need to be replaced.
I wouldn't be surprised if they put some money
at left tackle.
And then everybody else, you can get that in the draft
or you can get veterans, one of the two.
But you are gonna have to invest a lot of resources
into this offensive line for Drake May
because you don't wanna be in a situation
where he's getting beat up
and by the time you do address the offensive line,
he doesn't wanna play anymore.
So you could get someone like a Dan Moore.
You could get someone like a Calvin Beachiff.
You can get someone like a Tevin Jenkins.
You can get someone like a Kevin Zeidler.
I just named you a few offensive linemen
that you could get right now
that may be willing to play for your team.
You could get someone like a Brandon Sheriff.
You have options at offensive line
and it doesn't necessarily mean
that you have to get these top in offensive linemen
that you have to reset the market for,
but you could go and do it.
Shoot, take a big swing at Trey Smith.
Reset the market for Trey Smith.
If you get someone like him, guess what?
That's gonna be your best offensive lineman.
He's gonna be a great guard
and then you can just build everything else.
You could address it in the draft.
You could address the other positions in free agency
because I don't think Kevin Zeidler's market
is gonna be that high.
Same thing with Tevin Jenkins or any of those guys.
Even Dan Moore.
Dan Moore is not gonna cost a whole lot of money.
Now he's going to get paid,
but he's not gonna get paid, paid.
There's a difference, okay?
Now when we look at candidates
for restructure extensions, trades, and cuts,
Jacoby Brissette I would definitely extend
just because you want him to have a backup.
Every quarterback needs a backup.
And who better than Jacoby Brissette, okay?
His market value is only a one year, $3.1 million deal,
which is only $3.1 million a year.
That's not bad.
It's not gonna break the bank.
It's not gonna mess things up.
You guys are gonna have to restructure in a few years
or whatever.
You don't have to do that.
Now, Jonathan Jones,
if you wanted to take the route to extend him,
it would be a two year, $5.6 million deal,
which is $2.8 million a year.
Do you really wanna do that?
Part of me says yes because of the veteran presence,
but at the same time,
at some point you're gonna have to find their replacement.
And this might be the year for you to do it.
You got a lot of good corners coming out of this draft.
You got people like Darian Porter, Jaday Baron,
people that I haven't even named.
Okay?
You got some really good corners and safeties
that are coming out of this draft class that you could get.
Now, granted, if Bill was still there,
you could get somebody in the fifth or sixth round
and he can turn them into an all pro.
But because that's not the case,
well then, you know, here we are.
But at the same time,
I would not be surprised if some of the former players
that did play for Mike Vraple
would want to join with the Pagers
just because they're so familiar and comfortable
with Mike Vraple and his system.
So I say all that to say this.
You have options.
You could go a myriad of different ways,
different routes or whatever.
The question is, which side do you want to prioritize?
Do you want to prioritize the growth of Drake May
or do you want to solidify this defense
and make it super dominant?
That is the question that they are gonna have to ask
prior to the legal tampering period
and free agency and all those different types of things.
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