Mega Bag Alert, Mega Bag Alert, Mega Bag Alert, Mega Bag Alert folks, that's right.
We got our first Mega Bag Alert of this offseason.
We got a multitude of people that got paid.
Originally, it was supposed to be a quad bag alert, but then it just grew even more.
So let's just go down the list of the people that got paid.
Sequan Barkley gets paid again.
Max Crosby gets paid again.
Zach Bond stays in Philly.
Theo Jackson stays in Minnesota.
Tutu Atwell stays in LA.
DK Metcalf requests to trade.
Tyler Lockett is out.
Joey Bosa is out.
Kristen Kirk is out.
Garner Minchu is out.
Joe Thuny gets traded.
And the divisional rodeo goes to the east.
We are going to a very historic division.
That is the division that has the bearer, the Vikings, the Packers, and the Lions.
All of this and more on the 72nd episode of the Football Junkies podcast.
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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.
And man, oh man, do we have a lot going on in the league?
Things are starting to cook.
Okay.
And we're not talking about with just no olive oil or just with a little bit of butter.
No, we're talking about hot grease.
Okay.
Hot fish grease.
Okay.
So let's just get into these baguettes before we get into the divisional rodeo.
Okay.
So first one, say, come on, bark.
We okay.
The quad God himself gets a surprise extension.
Okay.
So we got here is 41.2 million, 36 million guaranteed at signing that is 20.6 million
a year.
He is the first running back.
If I'm not mistaken fact check me out to get 20 million a year.
He reset to the market.
Do we really even need to go over the stats?
You know what?
I think we just do just cause so 345 attempts for 2005 rushing yards, 5.8 rushing yards per
10, 13 touchdowns and 46 rushes of 10 plus yards or more.
Folks, this will probably go down in history as one of the greatest off seasons for running
back.
I will argue with any person that says otherwise because this guy did it all in one off season.
He could have easily broken Eric Dickerson's record, but he decided not to out of respect
for him and, you know, he wanted to preserve himself.
You become a Super Bowl champion and you get another extension, only one season.
Come on, man.
And then not to mention, you know, you leave a toxic situation with, you know, Joe Shane
and the giants and you finally get a taste of winning and, you know, the Eagles want
to reward you for all the hard work that you put in.
And so this is what happens.
Best believe, Saquon Barkley is not going anywhere.
Saquon Barkley is probably going to end his career as an Eagle.
Okay.
If he continues with this, we're going to have to have a different conversation about
Saquon Barkley.
Now, let's get into Max Crosby.
This was a little bit of a shocker.
I'm not going to lie to you.
So let's get into it.
Three years, 106.5 million, 91.5 million guaranteed.
That's 35.5 million a year.
He reset at the pass rusher market.
When we look at his stats, 45 tackles, seven and a half sacks and 53 quarterback pressures.
This is what I will say about this.
Honestly speaking, for one, I did not expect this.
Two, I would have thought he would have wanted to trade.
Here you have this person that's talking about how he's not happy with winning and,
you know, he's disgruntled about where the direction of the team is going and all these
things and rightfully so.
And so you have all these reports coming out of how, you know, he's disgruntled and now
he's angry and frustrated and then you signed this deal.
So then that lets me know that it was fake.
You're not going to stay in a crappy situation and then just continue to reset the market.
I'm sorry.
At some point, I want to be able to experience the confetti coming down.
I want to be able to experience holding up the Lombardi trophy.
I want to experience all the things that lead up to the Super Bowl.
I don't want to be just somebody that just ends the regular season when everybody else
does and then, you know, you're one, two, three, cancun in and cancun.
I don't want that.
I want to be able to experience more.
I'm one of the best pass structures in the league.
And so to me, this moves signals that you value the money more than winning a championship
and that's perfectly fine.
If you do, I'm not going to, you know, be mad at you for it, but it makes it seem like
you're sort of a hypocrite because here you are someone who literally, there were teams
waiting to see what was going to happen this off season.
If you was going to declare for a trade or not, and instead of you doing that and possibly
going into a better situation, you decided just to, you know, take the money.
You know, this team is far away from being, you know, a really competitive team.
So if that's what you want to do, hey, more power to you, brother.
Now when we look at Zach bond, okay, three years, 51 million, 34 million guaranteed at
a 17 million a year.
He is one of the highest paid linebackers in the league right now.
And when we look at his stats, 150 tackles, three and a half sacks, 14 quarterback pressures.
This is the perfect example of what happens when you take a risk on yourself.
He doubled down on himself.
He signed a one year deal with the Eagles.
Didn't know how they were going to use them.
And then Van Gio say, you know what, we're going to put you in this role.
We're going to have you play off ball linebacker and it worked.
And he became a Super Bowl champion in that same season.
And now he got rewarded for it.
How we let it be known.
I forgot where it was, but I know it was like at a, at a, like a event or something with
Jason K. Ford's podcast.
How we let it be known that they were going to lock up Zach bond.
So this isn't a surprise, honestly.
And like I said, when we were doing the divisional rodeo and we started with, with the Eagles,
I said, Zach bond is going to be worth more than what spot racks of market value had for
him.
Just because of how much of a role he played on this team and how much of a role he played
in the Super Bowl alone, like he did a lot.
So all in all, the Eagles make sure that they prioritize taking care of their players while
at the same time creating a lot of cash space, while at the same time potentially positioning
themselves to go after someone like a mouse Gary.
That's what all of this boils down to.
Are they going to pull the trigger and get someone like a mouse Gary?
How he has, has already let us know that listen, this team is going to be different than what
it was last year.
There's going to be a lot of changes.
So I need you to follow me and he's starting already.
Now when we look at Theo Jackson safety for the Minnesota Vikings, he inks a two year,
$12.6 million deal, $6 million a year, which it's a fairly, you know, team friendly deal.
It's nothing, you know, super crazy or whatnot.
And even when we look at his stats, 11 tackles for one pick and three past deflection.
This isn't a deal where like I've said before, with other smaller deals, it's earth shadowing
or it's one of those deals that's, you know, that's going to make you scratch your head
like they're just taking care of a person who plays a very pivotal role on their side
of the ball.
That's all what it is.
You know, you're too out.
Well, one year, 10 million fully guaranteed to be specific.
Okay.
And we look at his receptions.
Well, not his receptions, but his stats, 42 receptions for 562 receiving yards, 13.4 receiving
yards per reception.
This is somebody who contributes a lot when they give him the ball.
This isn't somebody that's going to wow you with, you know, 10 touchdowns and three touchdown
game or something like that.
This is somebody that plays a very pivotal role on this offense.
And with the potential departure of Cooper cup, you want to make sure that you bring
back at least one or two receivers that are familiar with the system and familiar with
Matthew Stafford.
So most likely this receiver core is probably going to be a Puka to to out well, and then
they'll probably draft maybe one or two receivers.
Okay.
Now let's get into the juicy stuff.
Okay.
Let's get into the, the fire.
Okay.
So, Anthony Medcalf has requested a trade folks.
And this was shortly after Tyler Lockett was being informed that he was going to get cut.
Yeah.
A lot of, a lot of toxicity is happening in Seattle right now.
So when we look at it, this is the crazy thing with this entire situation.
Okay.
So this year, he only has one year left on his deal, but it's not guaranteed.
So his market value is three years, 78.2 million, which is 26.1 million a year.
When we look at his stats this year alone, this, well, this past season specifically
66 receptions for 992 receiving yards, five touchdowns and 15 receiving yards per reception,
which is a little bit of a down year compared to, you know, previous years, but all in all,
DK Medcalf is a top 10 receiver.
I don't understand why people are so hesitant about making a move or someone like a DK Medcalf.
DK Medcalf is a game changer.
Okay.
This is somebody that can change the trajectory of a game with just one play.
He's done it multiple times.
You got a big body dude that can win those 50, 50 balls.
There's not a lot of people that can do that on a consistent basis.
DK Medcalf has been able to do that.
And so when we look at this, according to Diana Rossini, the report came out this morning
basically detailing that the Seahawks won a first and a third round pick for DK Medcalf
and rightfully so because he's a top 10 receiver, like I just said, but he is somebody that
he's a number one receiver on a lot of teams.
He's not a two.
He's a one not to mention they're sort of positioning themselves to go through someone
of a soft rebuild because you still have to figure out what you're going to do with Geno
Smith.
You still have to figure out what you're going to do with other players on this team.
So there's going to be a lot of turnover between this year and maybe the next two years.
So they want to be able to position themselves for the next two years and rightfully so.
DK Medcalf has already let it be known that he wants 30 plus million a year, which again,
rightfully so.
Because when he signed the deal that he's on now, it was only a three year deal.
It was actually a really cheap deal to be honest, but now that the receiver market has
you know, grew so quickly so fast that you're going to have to you know, catch up.
So if I was a team, I probably will want to trade for DK Medcalf now and I would pay
him now before Jamar Chase because if you don't, you run the risk of someone like a
DK Medcalf wanting to get close to what Jamar Chase is making.
Now when we look at teams that could possibly you know, be in the running for someone like
a DK Medcalf, I would say maybe the Chargers.
I would say maybe the Texans.
I would say maybe even the bills.
I would even say the Steelers.
I think those teams would love to have someone like a DK Medcalf on their team.
Now the question is this, who is going to be the team that is going to meet their demands?
Now me personally, I think it's going to be the Chargers because for one, a lot of the
needs that the Chargers have, they can be addressed in day two and day three.
Now when it comes to receiver with the receiver class being not as strong as it is, I think
if you get someone like a DK Medcalf that automatically erases a lot of the needs that
they have.
So you give them that first round pick, you pair him with Labrconky and Quentin Johnston
whatnot.
It's great.
Not to mention you can give them a pretty good deal because why?
You have, I mean, a decent enough amount of catchphrase too.
Texans, it may be a little bit shaky for them because they need to address offensive line
and they need to address it with their first pick.
Okay.
And this is sort of like a teaser into the AFC South and whatnot, but they have to be
able to address the offensive line.
CJ Straub was getting beat up this past season.
So I don't think they can try to make that type of move.
Now the Steelers, they could try, but do I think they're going to do it?
No, only because they value their draft picks and drafting so much that I don't think they
will pull the trigger on something like a DK Medcalf.
Just saying.
Now, when we look at the Tyler Lockett situation, okay, he got cut.
Okay.
And this is something that I sort of predicted when we went over that division because for
one, you have three people that have very large cap hits and very large base salaries.
And you're in a situation where you're trying to position yourself for free agency and potentially
signing your rookies.
So you're going to have to make some major moves.
And so the most important thing that they had to do was he read it out of lock and I
don't blame them.
Okay.
Get there.
The financials of this situation, the Seahawks take on 13.8 million in debt cap while freeing
17 million.
So all in all, they put themselves in a really good spot.
Okay.
And when we look at his stats this past season, really wasn't the best 49 receptions for 600
receiving yards, two touchdowns, 12.2 receiving yards per reception.
He is still a very productive receiver, but I think it's come to a point where the Seahawks
realized that listen, it's time for us to go into a different direction.
It's time for us to possibly cut bait, cut weight.
Excuse me, of some of these players that have these big contracts because not to mention,
you're going to have to pay Tyreek Woolin fairly soon.
And there's other players on this team that you're going to have to take care of as well.
So the only way that you can curve all of that is you have to cut some of this dead
weight.
You have to trim the fat as, as I say, when it comes to these large contracts.
Now granted, I would have liked for title lock it to be a Seahawk for life, but clearly
that wasn't in the books.
And so when we look at this, do I think he's going to probably play?
I don't think so.
I think he has nothing else to play for your Super Bowl champion.
You definitely played a very pivotal role in the Seahawks in recent years.
Like you have nothing else to prove and that's perfectly fine.
But if he wants to continue to play, there will be a market for him because again, the
receiver draft class this year for day one is not that strong.
And I think someone like a title lock it will garner interest somewhere just because of
his veteran leadership and what he brings to the table.
Now am I saying he can be a one on any other team?
No, but what I am saying is this, he can be a solid contributor on a lot of teams.
A lot of teams will love to have someone like a title lock it just saying when we go to
the Joey Bosa situation, this was something that I expected as well.
And the reason why I say that is because for one, you have somebody that has a large contract
to you have somebody that really hasn't been that impactful like he was in those first
what three years of his career, three or four years of his career, excuse me, like it was
needed.
Like when we look at this really analyze this right.
Khalil Mack, old Khalil Mack show more at his age than what Joey Bosa has.
Khalil Mack has been able to stay healthy than what Joey Bosa has.
When we look at Joey Bosa stats, I'm just going to read it off to you just for sacks.
Okay.
In 2019 11 and a half 2020 seven and a half 2021 10 and a half 2022 two and a half 2023
six and a half this past season five and a half.
It's just continue to go down and down and down and down and he hasn't been able to stay
healthy.
Like I don't like to use the, you know, healthy thing I really don't because I feel like it's
an easy way out, but he has not been able to stay healthy.
And I'm sorry.
The best ability is availability.
And if you are not available and you're making a boohoo amount of money, there's no point
in me keeping you on the team.
I'm sorry.
I'm just not going to do that.
Now will Joey Bosa have a market?
Yes, for sure.
There are a lot of teams that would love to have someone like a Joey Bosa on their team.
Now do I think he'll probably go and play with his brother?
Yeah, probably wouldn't be surprised.
Now do I think he could probably go somewhere else?
There's possibility.
All options are on the table for someone like a Joey Bosa.
When we look at the financials for the chargers, this frees up 25.3 million in cash base, which
is very much needed because they're in the position right now where they could be a legitimate
playoff caliber team.
So you have to cut dead weight, which you did.
You got rid of Joey Bosa.
Now you need to make some moves, sure up the receiver room, fix up the running back room
as well, make a few adjustments for the defense and then boom, you're going to be better this
year than what you was last year.
Now when we look at Christian Kirk, this one was a little bit confusing because the GM
originally said that he liked Christian Kirk and whatnot.
But then all of a sudden you go to, oh yeah, we're just going to cut you.
You should have just traded him.
If you would have traded him, you would have gotten some interest.
No one's not going to give you a first round pick for Christian Kirk, but somebody would
have gave you at least maybe a fourth or fifth, maybe even a sixth round pick.
You could use that pick to get somebody that plays a very pivotal role in your team or you
could use it to move up in the draft or you could use it to trade for somebody.
You could have used it in different ways, but you didn't.
So now the Jaguars take on 13.5 million in dead cap while creating 10.5 million in cap
shakes.
Now we all know his stats last season wasn't really the best because he broke his collar
bone.
We all know that.
But before that season, he had three touchdowns and then 2022 he had eight touchdowns and
so on and so forth.
Me personally, the first team that I think of when it comes to Christian Kirk is the
commanders because when he was under Cliff Kingsbury, that was when he was really contributing.
I don't see him going to the Steelers.
Just saying.
I don't see him going to, I don't know, the bills or any of these other teams.
Christian Kirk will have a market, but he won't have a solid market like what people
are saying he will.
Like I think somebody will be willing to take more of a risk on, I don't know, a Mecca,
a Bucca or somebody in the second or third round before they give a chance to Christian
Kirk.
Just saying, don't hurt me.
Okay.
Now when we look at Gardner, Menchu, he gets cut as well.
Originally I thought they were going to do a restructure.
Okay.
But for them to cut him, not surprised honestly because his contract was a little bit way to
expensive me personally.
Like you're a backup quarterback and you're making that much money.
No cut.
Now when we look at the financials for this, okay, the Raiders take on 10.8 million in
Deccat while Gardner Menchu is guaranteed 3.1 million of his 2025 salary.
Now when we look at his stats this past season, sure you threw for 2000 passing yards, you
had nine touchdowns, but you had 10 picks.
You averaged 6.6 yards per attempt.
I mean, it was okay, but again, the Raiders are trying to clean house.
They're trying to position themselves to win.
And so the best way to do it is to cut bait, get rid of Gardner Menchu.
They'll probably draft a quarterback or pay for a quarterback.
Okay.
Then they'll bring in, you know, a lower tier backup quarterback or they'll just bring back
Gardner Menchu.
Okay.
At a lower price and then just go one from there.
Because again, taking way too much money, he had a base salary that was too high and
a cap it that was too high.
No need to do that.
They're trying to position themselves to take a few big swings to really catapult themselves
in a different stratosphere.
Okay.
Who?
Well, too well, too well, too well, too well.
Joe Thune, okay.
Joe Thune gets traded.
He goes to the Bears.
All right.
So the Chiefs receive a 2025 fourth round pick and the Bears of course received Joe Thune.
With this, and this is sort of going into the divisional rodeo a little bit, he's on
the last year of his deal.
Okay.
His base salary, this, this upcoming season is 15.5 million and his cap hit is only 16 million.
All in all, he is still a very productive guard.
Now for all the people that say, well, the Chiefs should have been trying to find a way
to keep them.
No, you can't because they're about to reset the market for Trace Smith.
May I remind you folks that the Chiefs cap situation is a lot more complex than what
you think because you have three people that are taking up over 50% of their cap space.
So instead of them doing what the Eagles do, which is they sort of spread out the money
a little bit.
No, they put it into Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey and Chris Jones.
Everybody else.
You're either on the boat or you're not.
And so Joe Thune wasn't on the boat.
But for the Bears, this is a major upgrade because you have someone that is a seasoned
veteran, a Super Bowl champion, someone who has pedigree with his game and was still playing
at a fairly pretty good level.
I'm not saying he was the elite version of himself.
No, but he was still, he was still a very good productive guard and not to mention the
Bears have been trying to rebuild their offensive line this offseason because they have to prioritize
protecting Kayla Williams.
Kayla Williams, this past season was taking way too many hits.
And so if you want to be able to preserve your quarterback, you have to make sure that
you that you build a good offensive line around that is the only way that you can prolong
his career.
Otherwise, he'll be like Andrew Luck.
No disrespect to him.
Now let's get into the divisional rodeo folks.
And so you already know how these things go.
Okay, we're going to go through an entire division.
We're going to talk about their salary free agents, draft picks, positions of need, candidates
for restructure, extension, trades and cuts.
Okay, so let's start with the NFC North of Bears, Packard Vikings and Lions.
So we're going to start with the Bears 45.3 million in salary cap, the rollover cap
of 5 million.
Not too bad.
Okay, free agents, Kenan Allen, DeMarcus Walker, Gerald Everett, Tevin Jenkins, Matt Pryor,
Daryl Taylor, just to name a few.
Their draft picks, they got their first two second round picks, a third, they don't have
a fourth, they do have a fifth, they have a sixth, and they have two seventh round picks,
position some need defensive line running back edge receiver interior offensive line.
This one is going to be fairly quickly and fairly simple only because for one, this team
is still fairly young.
A lot of the main players on this team are still under contract and the people that aren't
under contract are either older players or players that don't really contribute a whole
lot to this team.
So there's going to be a lot of turnover with the lower half of the roster, as I expect.
Now when we look at positions of need, okay, you can go about this a few different ways.
You can address defensive line slash edge in the first round, or you can address wide
receiver and running back in the first round.
Either way you look at it, I think you have to be able to like really bring in somebody
that can be a contributor with the run game.
Granted, the Andre Swift is good, but I think you're not going to make the type of moves
that the Bears have made, especially to the offensive line.
If you're not eyeing someone like an Ashton Gentie, or at least a Caleb Johnson or Devon
Neal or Taj Brooks or RJ Harvey or O'Marion Hampson or who else, who else, I can't even
think of anybody else, but the list goes on and on.
Now if they get Ashton Gentie and you pair him with the Andre Swift, and then you pair
him with DJ Moore and Cole Comet and then Roma Dunze and Caleb Williams, that's a really
good offense.
That's a really good run game.
Okay.
Now do I think they're going to do that?
There's a possibility.
The Bears are a team that you really can pinpoint and say, oh, they're going to do this or oh,
they're going to do that.
No.
With them having been Johnson, I feel like they are definitely going to prioritize the
offense high.
Because again, with the defensive line class being as big as it is, they can bring in a
quality defensive lineman in the second and third day of the draft and it won't really
hurt them.
You could go and get someone like Adarius Alexander or a Jordan Phillips or what's his
name?
You could be a non-walker for instance.
You could go, you could get one of the edge guys if you wanted to.
Because you already have Montez Svett.
You just have to find him a partner.
If you find him a partner and then you bolster up the interior defensive line, the defense
is really good because you already have Jaylen Johnson.
You still have Tremaine Edmonds.
You have pieces.
The Bears are in a really good place right now.
Then with you bringing an offense of mine that has been Johnson, I think it takes things
even further because I think what was missing last season was a good productive offense.
The defense was doing his thing at first.
Then it fell off and then it was trying to pick itself back up and it fell off again.
Then by then everybody was just mentally checked out.
Matt Eberfluss was basically a phone call away from losing his job.
A lot of the coaches were basically done.
A lot of the players were mentally checked out.
It was just a bad situation.
But bringing in someone like a Ben Johnson, an offense of mine, it's somebody that we
all know and saw what he did with the Lions.
If he does just half of that with the Bears, I think we're having a different conversation
about Caleb Williams and the Bears moving forward.
Now when we look at candidates, well actually no, I'm awake.
I'm awake because I want to go a little bit more in depth with the positions I need.
So when we look at receiver, you can go about this a few different ways.
You can get Jaden Higgins.
You can get Jack Best.
You can get Ty Filton or any of those different types of receivers.
Because again, I will continue to say this, the day two and day three slots for receiver
have a lot of upside than the day one slots.
The only reason why I say that is because each and every one of them have their own set
of skills.
Okay.
Ty Filton, Speedster, Jaden Higgins, big body receiver, good when it comes to the blocking.
Same thing with, I forgot what was his name, but he goes to Stanford.
I forgot.
It's no disrespect to your dog, but you have him as well.
If you want a more faster slot guy, you have Xavier Restrepo from Miami.
You have options.
Do you want to spend your first pick on a receiver?
Probably not.
Are you going to spend on TMac?
Maybe.
Do you want to spend on Luther Burden?
More of a Yacht guy.
Do you want to spend on a Mecca Bucca?
Do you want to spend it on Matthew Golden?
Now Matthew Golden, I think that could be an interesting investment, but you've already
made an investment at receiver with DJ Moore and Roma Dunzi.
You could go about this so many different ways.
It's ridiculous.
Okay.
Now when we look at interior offensive line, I think the number one person that they should
really go after is the center from Atlanta because he's supposed to be a free agent.
If you get him on that offensive line, you have him and then the guard that they got
from the Rams and then Joe Thuny and then Darnell Wright.
This might be really good offensive line.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying the Bears have let it be known that we are prioritizing,
protecting Caleb Williams while at the same time trying to open up the offense and making
the offense so diverse in so many different ways that it's going to confuse defenses,
which I don't blame them personally.
Now when we look at candidates for restructure extensions, trades and cuts, the only person
I listed was Joe Thuny.
There's nobody else that I could think of that is up for an extension, a trade or a
cut because everybody is fairly under contract.
DJ Moore is under contract.
Dylan Johnson is under contract.
Remain Edmunds is still under contract.
All their top high paying players are still under contract and are still contributing.
Now if they fall off a little bit or if they become disgruntled with the situation, then
we have a whole different conversation.
But for the time being, I don't see that happening.
And when we look at Joe Thuny's market value according to Spotrack, two years 40.6 million,
which is only 20.3 million a year, which I think is pretty decent.
He's a two time Super Bowl champion, still one of the best guards that you play now.
I think that's not bad of a bargain.
Now me personally, I would try to bring that down just a little bit.
And we can maybe make the 20.3 just a little bit more on the incentives.
Maybe we can work that thing out.
But for the time being, I think this is probably the best situation that you can do with Joe
Thuny.
It's a two year deal.
It's not a traditional four because he is getting up in age and you don't want to tie
him with this long contract and then a lot of dead capping whatnot.
So let's see what happens with that situation.
Now on to the Packers.
So with their situation, man, is it a deep dive?
Okay, so let's just get into it.
So salary 46.6 million with a roll over cap of 15.1 million.
Really good.
Free agents, Eric Stoltz, AJ Dillon, Corey Ballantyne, Josh Myers, Eric Wilson, Andre
Dillard, Tyler Davis, Robert Rochelle, and Tedaro Slaton, just to name a few.
Okay.
So they're first, they're second, they're third, they're fourth, they're fifth, they're
sixth and two seventh round picks.
Cool.
Positions of need, corner, receiver, interior, offensive line, and edge.
Okay.
So when we look at this, yes, corner, very much a top priority, especially with Jair Alexander
possibly getting traded, definitely has to be a top priority.
Now is this a good, you know, outside cornerback class?
When you compare it to the last two years, not really.
Okay.
Sure, you have your Jaday Barons and your Ezra Thomases and Chavon Rebels and Benjamin
Morrison and Will Johnson's of the world, but the problem is the only person, well, the
only two people actually that you can say, Hey, those are true first round picks is who?
Jaday Baron and Ezra Thomas.
Everybody else is a little bit of a, you know, iffy situation because why they have injury
red flags, especially Benjamin Morrison, he's coming off of a hip surgery.
So there's a lot of questions saying, Hey, can you, how flexible are your hips and, you
know, will that be a problem moving forward?
Like all those things, same thing with Chavon Rebels, he's coming off of ACL surgery.
Will Johnson, he's coming off of injuries as well.
So there's a lot of question marks there.
Now most likely you can go about this a few different ways.
You can go, you can get somebody in free agency and then draft one, or you can just draft
all of your corners.
But I feel like the slot corner room is a little bit better because you have Jacob Parrish,
you have Quincy Riley, you have Maxwell Hereston in company.
So I say all that to say this, Jaya Alexander, you have to prepare like, like he's not going
to be on the team.
Okay.
So you really need to make sure that you address corner because corner for the last few years
really haven't been the best.
Now granted, Eric Stokes, and do you really want to keep them me personally?
No, you could probably bring in somebody that's a little bit more, actually, not well, I don't
know.
I really don't know.
Cause my only problem with this is you don't want to have a complete makeover of the corner
back room, you want to at least bring somebody back.
So if you bring someone like Eric Stokes, that could be good and not to mention he can't
demand a whole bunch of money anyway.
So you could do that.
What else?
Corner, see the problem with corner is there's not like, there's not like a lot of options
like it has been for the last two years.
Like the last two years we've had Nate Wiggins, Christian Gonzalez, Quinneal Mitchell, Cooper
Dejean, Julius Branson in company.
This year, not so much.
Now there are some, some corners that not, that's not getting talked about as much that
should be getting talked about a whole lot.
Darian Porter from Iowa dog.
Absolute dog.
Almost six, four, six, four.
That man is an avatar.
That man is one of one.
Okay.
You could go and you could probably double up that corner if you really wanted to.
Now receiver is the same thing with Romeo dogs, probably getting traded.
You're probably going to want to bring in somebody.
So you have a few different options.
You can get a speech or like a tie felt it, or you can get someone like a Matthew Golden,
or you can get someone like, you can get the receiver from, from Stanford, or you can get
Jaden Higgins, or you can get Jack Bess, or you can get, who is that receiver?
I was just looking at, I was just looking at his footage.
I was just looking at his footage this morning.
I forgot who it was, but it'll probably come, you know, probably at the end of the episode.
But you have a lot of options day two and day three.
Okay.
Interior, offensive line, you can go about a few different ways.
You can go and draft someone like a Gray's apple or Tyler Booker, or you can pay for
one.
Now see with interior, offensive line, the guard market is starting to rise.
So do you want to invest into a young guard that has a lot of upside with their game?
Or do you want to go and get someone like a veteran who's already established, who may
not ask for a whole lot of money?
Because you could get someone like a Kevin Zeigler, you can get someone like a James
Daniels, you have options there with interior, offensive line.
Okay.
Now edge, you can, you can draft the edge.
Like I forgot who it was, but there's an edge from Alabama that, that I have my eye on.
There's an edge from Boston colors that I have my eye on.
I cannot remember their names right now, but you have options that edge in this draft that
are legitimate options.
So you can take that route as well.
The Packers are in a situation right now where all fensively they're in a really good spot.
It's the defense that just has to pick up a little bit more.
And it's mainly the secondary and maybe a little bit of the pass rush.
Okay.
Because for Sean Gary, we all know Sean Gary, he's doing his thing.
You all know that you have Kenny Clark.
Okay, cool.
But outside of them, you got to have, you know, more production out of what you already
have right now, plus what you're getting ready to bring in.
Because the Packers are not a bad team.
The Packers are a really good team that could be a playoff caliber team.
All they have to do is just stop falling on their own sword.
We have seen multiple times where they just flopped like they flopped in the second half
of the season.
Why I don't know, but you have to be able to maximize the potential that you have on
this team.
You have a Christian Watson, you have Josh Jacobs, you have a really good offensive line,
you have some good tight ends, you have pieces on this team.
So you have to maximize it.
Now granted, you do have a very competitive division.
I'm not going to hold you.
It's a very competitive division.
But still, you have Jordan Love, who's a really good quarterback.
So you have to figure this thing out and they can do it in this offseason.
Now when we look at candidates for restructure, extension, trades and cuts, Jair Alexander,
like I just said, trade them.
Especially with the large contract that he has.
16 million for his base salary this year and then next year it's 18 million.
And then the cap hits.
The cap hit this year is 25.4 and then next year is 27.8.
You might as well just want to offload that contract.
Because what it sounds like to me is it's a relationship that's going back.
So just cut your ties with it.
Romeo Dobbs, trade them.
But with him though, he does have a market.
It's not a strong market, but it's a decent market.
His market value, if he was to get traded and then extended, would be four years 47.4
million, which is 11.9 million a year.
That's not bad.
That's actually really good, honestly.
That's a pretty good team friendly deal.
Just saying.
Christian Watson, I probably would start talking about an extension now.
I wouldn't put it off until I would start doing it now just so you're ahead of the gun.
Because if you don't, you're going to be like the bangles where you take a risk.
And then if that risk doesn't go in your favor, then guess what?
You're going to have to shell out twice or three times as much more money than what you
didn't have to do, had you just pay them right then and there.
So when we look at it, they don't have a lot of people that they have to pay.
There's not a lot of people that are demanding big contracts.
They made sure that they take care of their people fairly well.
And they made sure they take care of the big players on their team.
So all in all, you're in a good spot.
I looked at the salary cap situation for every single one of these teams.
All of them are in a really good salary cap space.
All of them are, you know, they have cap space where they can, where they can make moves,
but they don't have the type of cap space where they can bring in two or three big fishes.
Okay.
Malik Willis, give him an extension.
Good backup quarterback option.
He actually did pretty well when joining love was out this season.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying you have to keep him just saying.
Now when we look at the Vikings, okay, 63.8 million in cap space, roll over capital 5.9
million, you have free agents that include Cam Robinson, Sam Darno, Byron Murphy, Staff
on Gilmore, Aaron Jones, Shaquille Griffin, Jerry Tellery, Jonathan Bullard, David Quessenberry,
Jiha Ward and Patrick Jones, just to name a few.
Okay.
Draft picks.
You don't have a whole lot of draft picks because you have to use them to, you know,
to get some people.
So of course you got your first.
You don't have a second.
You have a third.
You don't have a fourth and you have two fifth round picks.
You don't have a six and you don't have a seven.
Okay.
Positions of need.
This may be a little bit controversial, but who cares?
Cornerback.
Inside linebacker, excuse me, safety, running back, defensive line, interior offensive line
in tight end.
Okay.
Now with corner, the reason why I say that is because it depends on what happens with
the Byron Murphy situation.
If they don't pay Byron Murphy, I feel like corner should be the top priority.
But if they do keep Byron Murphy, then that can be a day two or day three option inside
linebacker outside of Jiha Campbell.
Who else do you really want to invest into?
Now, granny, you have Barrick Carter, you have Carson, a Swaringer and company.
You do.
You have pretty good, you know, inside linebacker options, or you can bring in somebody from
free agency if you want to, because again, the linebacker market isn't as strong.
You don't have to pay 20, 25 or 30 million for a good productive inside linebacker.
Now safety, safety is a little bit of a question mark.
And I only say that because granny, you have some really good safety options.
You have Malachi Starks.
You have E-Man, you have Xavier Watts, you have Jaylen Reed, like you have some really
good options at safety.
Do I think any of them are going to fall that far?
No.
I don't think Malachi Starks are going to fall that low.
I don't think E-Man is going to fall that low, especially with E-Man having the data
he had at the combine.
I just don't see it.
Now I could be wrong, but sometimes you just need a little bit of luck.
But I think for safety, I think you probably have to start bringing in Harrison Smith's
replacement because I think this might be Harrison Smith's last year.
I'm just being honest here.
I think you have to bring in his successor so that they can sit and that they can learn
on Harrison Smith.
So that way when Harrison Smith gets ready to pass on the torch, there's no problem.
Now running back, for some people you'll probably say, well just bring back Aaron Jones.
No.
The only reason why I say that is because with the running back class as big as it is
and as diverse as it is, you have to pluck at least two of them.
If you bring in someone like a Dylan Samson and a Caleb Johnson or a Trayvon Henderson
and a Taj Brooks, that's good.
That's really good productive running backs.
Why in the world would you want to pay eight or 10 or 12 million a year for a running back
where you can go and pluck two from the draft and it won't even hurt you?
Not to mention, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these running backs do not get drafted
and then become undrafted free agents.
And in that case, you can get them for more of a steal, unfortunately, but that is the
business side of football, unfortunately.
Now defensive line.
Have the position where they are right now, sure, you can prioritize that in the first
round if you wanted to.
You can get someone like a Derek Harmon.
You can get someone like Darius Alexander, Jordan Phillips, Deon Walker.
Did I say Walter Nolan?
I probably didn't.
I don't know.
But you have options there.
You could, and I'm just saying hypothetically speaking, you can make a trade for someone
like a Jonathan Allen if you wanted to.
You can bring in someone like Javon Hargrave because Javon Hargrave is said to be released
so he will be a free agent next week.
You have options at defensive line.
You can bring in someone like a BJ Hill.
I will continue to say this for any team that has a defensive line problem.
This is the year that you need to address it because you have a really good defensive
line draft class this year that you could bring in two or three really good quality
defensive linemen.
You can bring in someone like a Shamara Stewart.
You can bring someone in like a Shamara Turner.
You can bring in someone like, who else haven't said, there's so many, like so many defensive
linemen that I still haven't even been able to look at, but you have options of line.
So you might as well want to make that type of investment now, especially with you making
the investment of getting Dallas Turner.
You might as well.
So when we look at interior offensive line, you can bring in someone again like a Grey
Zable Tyler Booker or you can get the veteran approach.
Me personally, I sort of like the veteran approach a little bit only because sometimes
it can be a little bit cheaper depending on who it is.
And you already know what you're getting out of them compared to drafting somebody and
you're having to show them the way.
Now granted, there are some people that you draft, they can, you know, they can hatch
latch on pretty quickly and it's no problem.
And then there's others that may take a little bit time to, you know, groom and really see
the potential out of them.
So you have options there.
Me personally, I feel like Tyler Booker and Grey Zable are interior linemen one and two
for me because both of them were pulled to the side to practice at center.
So I think if you bring in someone like a Grey Zable, I think that would be perfect.
I think that would be a match made in heaven.
Personally, just saying.
Now when we look at tight end, for some people it's a little bit controversial because they
had TJ Hawkinson, but the fact of the matter is he is getting up in age.
He has been having a lot of injuries lately.
And I think you need to bring in somebody that can take some of the snaps off of him.
I think if you bring in someone like a Harold Fannon Jr. or you bring in the tight end from
Miami or you bring in Colston Lovelin or a Tyler Warren, if you bring in one of those
tight ends and you pair them with TJ Hawkinson, that expands the offense even more because
now you're going to have Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hawkinson, another tight
end and then two really productive running backs.
On top of this offensive line, we haven't even gone to the quarterback position yet.
So I say all that to say this, Vikings, if you want to go back to where you just were
or if you want to go further, you have to make more of an investment into the offense
at certain positions.
Now you can go at this a few different ways.
You can go and bring in some young talent or you can bring in proven talent.
The choice is yours.
But remember, you are staring at the barrel of a gun when it comes to the quarterback
position, which we're getting into right now.
When we look at candidates for restructure, extension, trades and cuts, okay, Sam Darno,
this is going to be the most talked about situation because on one hand you have somebody
that played really well.
You have somebody that at one point in time in the season, people were saying he could
have been an MVP.
I'm dead serious.
That is how crazy they were doing in the first half of the season.
But then they fell off a little bit and then they just flopped when it came to the playoffs.
So you can run it back with Sam Darno or you can go and you can just stick with JJ McCarthy.
Now the thing is this, the Vikings in some ways can finesse Sam Darno just a little bit.
The reason why I say that is because he can't demand 45 or 50 million a year just because
of how bad things went when they needed him the most.
You could probably get him from maybe 35 to maybe 42 million a year at best.
I don't think anything after that you can do it.
Now when we look at his market value, it's a four year $160.4 million deal, which is
40.1 million a year.
Me personally, I feel like that's the sweet spot.
I think anything over that you're reaching hard.
So you have this decision where do you want to run it back with Sam Darno or do you want
to go with the rookie because he's still a rookie at this point.
This is going to be the first official season that he's going to be able to play.
So you have a decision that you have to make.
Now, when you make this decision, I think you have to weigh the outcomes with what you
already have on the team.
I think you have to weigh in with Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and TJ Hawkinson because
this team was on a whole nother level when Sam Darno was in.
If you put JJ McCarthy in, they're going to have to relearn a new quarterback.
And I don't think someone like a Justin Jefferson wants to do that again.
So I say all that to say this, even you pay Sam Darno now and you have JJ McCarthy weight,
which it wouldn't hurt him.
Honestly, it'll give him time to develop and really be the best version that he can be.
Or you can take the risk.
You can let him walk and then you can run it with JJ McCarthy.
But I think it all depends on if JJ McCarthy is fully healed.
If his knee is fully repaired and it's good to go, give it a shot.
But if not, and in the contract negotiations with Sam Darno continue to draw out and the
number continues to be a crazy number that you guys aren't willing to pay, well then
by all means, let him walk.
But don't look back.
Don't be the person saying, come on, come on back.
Come on, we need you.
We need you.
No, no, no, no.
Please come back.
No, just let him walk.
Okay.
So, you know, I'm going to ask you a question.
You have a tough decision that you have to make.
Do you want to pay him the amount of money that he's probably going to be asking for?
Because he's going to be asking for a lot of money.
He had a really good season.
Like his market value is four years, 88.3 million, which is 22.1 billion a year.
That's a lot of money.
Do you want to do that?
I think you have to.
I think right now the Vikings are in a spot if they hit on their draft picks and free
agency signings.
Let me just say this.
Let me also say this as well.
When we think of free agency, a lot of times we think of the big flashy move.
We think of the first person that signs the big deal that resets their position on market
or whatever.
But a lot of times it's the free agent signings that not a lot of people talk about that are
the most effective ones.
And we see it every single year.
Think about it.
Zach Bond signed a one year deal with the Eagles.
There was a lot of uncertainty with him.
Vic Vangio saw the potential in him.
They worked and then guess what?
Super Bowl champions and he got paid for it.
The same.
So with Byron Murphy, you could pay him, which I do expect for them to pay him simply because
they pushed the contract deadline.
So they're pushing it back for a lot of people.
So if they're pushing it back for a lot of people, that lets me know that they are trying
to hash out a deal fairly quickly.
Dalton Reisner extension.
And I only say that because it's not a lot of money to pay him.
Two years, 6.7 million, which is only 3.4 million a year.
That's not a whole lot of money.
You still have to be able to have deaf pieces and people that aren't making a whole lot
of money.
Understand this here, fellow junkies.
A roster isn't just composed of people that are making double digit amount of money.
It's not about a team that has a whole bunch of players that are making 12, 11, 22, 28,
45, 52 million a year.
It's not about that.
It's about prioritizing certain positions.
And then the other positions outside of those prioritized positions, you make sure that
you pay them, but you don't overpay them.
Now when we look at someone like a Patrick Jones, I think you can give him an extension
as well because he's coming off of a seven sack season.
He played a really pivotal role with his defense in the patch rush.
I think you have to reward him.
Same thing with Andrew Van Ginkel extension.
Three years, 45.8 million, which is only 15.3 million a year.
Now do you want to give him that type of money?
That's for you to decide, but me personally, I would try to knock it down just a little
bit because again, you still have to pay other people.
You still have to prioritize other positions.
So you want to be able to maximize what you have while at the same time, position yourself
to where if anything crazy happens and training camp or somebody wants to come to the Vikings,
guess what?
You can make that move and you don't have to do a bunch of restructures and cuts and
all of this financial stuff that a lot of teams have to do.
So all in all, this is what I have to say about the Vikings.
You're in a great spot, continue to build, continue to prioritize certain positions and
you will be fine.
You will be right back where you just were.
Now onto the Lions, okay?
Your salary, 51.3 million with a rollover cap of 23.7 million.
Not bad.
Your free agents, Carlton Davis, Marcus Davenport, Kevin Zyler, John Kaminski, Levi, Anwan Zinkari,
I know I just butchered your last name.
I am so sorry.
Alan Robison, a few too, Metal Fano, Dan Skipper, Michael Bagley and Juan de Donne Alexander
as I call him.
Now when we look at this, all right, your draft picks, you got your first, your second, your
third, your fourth, you don't have a fifth, you have your sixth and you have three seventh
round picks.
Positions of need, DB, Edge, Interior, Offensive Line and D-Line.
The only reason why I say Interior, Offensive Line is because of Kevin Zyler.
If he leaves, then that's position that you have to prioritize and take care of.
Now when we look at this, all right, the Lions have had a lot of turnover this off season.
You lost both your offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator and you've lost a majority
of your positional coaches.
So you've had to elevate a lot of your assistance into replacing the positional coaches positions.
I know, confusing, right?
Say that three times.
So here you are in a situation where you're trying to get over the hump, you're trying
to get to the Super Bowl and then this happens.
So now you have a lot of questions that you have to answer moving forward.
Is Jerichoff going to be the same Jerichoff that we've seen in the last three years?
Is this offense going to be the same offense that we've seen in the last four years?
Is this defense going to be the same that we've seen in the last few years?
There's a lot of questions right now with the Lions.
And I think right now, if you are a Lions fan, you have to have a lot of questions because
right now it'll be different if you lost one of your coordinators, right?
If you lost Ben Johnson, but you kept Aaron Glenn for another year, okay, all is well,
right?
But you lost both of them.
And then on top of that, you lost their assistants as well.
So like everyone's having to learn a new system, everyone's having to learn, you know, everything
all over again, because it might be different philosophies with everybody.
So I say all that to say this.
Sure, you're in a really good tap space, but you have to figure out exactly what are you
going to prioritize first?
Are you going to prioritize making sure that you take care of your own players or trying
to figure out who else could we bring in that could be an instant upgrade that can take
us to the next level?
Because right now, your division is about to get a whole lot more competitive.
And the reason why I say that is because a majority of the teams in your division all
have really good offenses, as well as really good defenses as well.
This division last year outside of the Bears, no disrespect to y'all, was really competitive
all the way to the end.
Lions and Vikings fought tooth and nail all the way to the end.
Okay.
Packers, they were putting up a fight at first, but they just lost their grip.
Okay.
But when we look at everything for DB, the problem is where you guys are positioned.
So you have the 28th pick in the draft.
So most likely you're not going to have a really good choice when it comes to who you
really want at DB.
So sure, you can take a risk on someone like, you know, Siobhan Reville or Will Johnson,
if he's there or Benjamin Morrison or all the corners that we all know and love, or you
can take a swing at somebody in day two and day three if you want to.
But I think if you want to be aggressive, you may have to trade up to get somebody that
you really like.
Now granted, Carlton Davis is a free agent and then a few too, Malifano is a free agent
as well.
And then not to mention Kirby Joseph, I think he's about to be a free agent after this season
begins and ends and whatnot.
So you have to figure out exactly what do you want to prioritize first?
Do you want to prioritize corner?
Do you want to prioritize safety?
Now with safety, again, as I've said before, the two main safeties that I think everyone
is going to want to go after is Malachi Starks and E-man.
You are in no position to get neither one of them.
So the second best thing you can do, we sign them, we sign some of your players and then
try to see if you can take a swing at someone like an Ezra Thomas or Jade Barron.
Because if they fall to at least 22 or 23, I think you can make that move and you can
trade up and you can get them.
And that would be great because let's be real here.
Inside of Tarion Arnold, who else can you really rely on?
Because you've had a lot of turnover with this secondary in the last few years.
You thought getting camps was going to be the answer.
We all know how that ended.
I'm not going to get into it.
You bring in Carlton Davis.
Carlton Davis does his thing, but now he's a free agent and now he's going to be more
expensive than, you know, than when he was before.
Kirby Joseph, he's going to want his money as well.
So you have to figure out exactly what are you going to do moving forward?
Because even with edge, you can attack that in the first run if you want to.
I feel like someone like a James Pierce, he's going to fall out of the first round because
apparently he has attitude issues.
There's a red flag with him that not a lot of people are talking about.
And I really want to find out exactly what it is.
Defensive line, as I've said before, and I will continue to say, you can address it
at any point in the draft.
You can address it in the first round, second round, third round, so on and so forth.
Okay.
Interior, offensive line.
I feel like you can address that in free agency because right now you can't really be in the
position to go after another, you know, really good edge rusher.
I mean, sure, you could probably get someone like a Khalil Mac or Joey Bolsa if you really
want to take that route.
But do you really want to do that?
I don't think you really want to.
You want to mention you have to get ready to pay hutch as well.
And with Max probably resetting the market hutch price probably just went up just a little
bit more.
So you have a lot of decisions that you have to make this off season.
My fellow Lions fans.
So when we look at, you know, positions of need, well, no, not not not position need.
What am I talking about?
Candidates, excuse me, for restructure, extension, trades and cuts.
As I just said, Aiden Hutchison extension.
Okay.
Market value for years, 122.1 million, which is 30.5 million a year.
That price may have just went up maybe five or $6 million even more.
Just saying Kirby Joseph, like I just finished talking about extension market value for years,
92.8 million, which is 23.2 million a year.
I'm sorry, you're going to have to take care of these guys.
You could not let Kirby Joseph play out the rest of the rest of this year.
I think you have to make sure that you lock him up because who's to say that he's going
to hold out and train camp?
Do you really want that?
I don't think you do.
Who else?
Jameson Williams.
I feel like you could give him an extension as well because he can't really demand a whole
lot of money because you're paying a lot of money to Amon Ross and Brown.
So with his market value, it's only three years, 59 million, which is only 19.7 million a year.
That's not bad.
That's actually pretty good.
Honestly.
I feel fine.
Extension.
Levi, I forgot how to pronounce your last name.
I'm very sorry.
Extension.
Even when I looked at his market value, I was actually surprised.
I would have thought it would have been in the double digits, but for it to be only two
years, nine million, which is 4.5 million a year, I feel like that's a bargain, honestly
speaking.
Marcus Davenport, you could give him an extension or you could try to get somebody that could
be a little bit of a better upgrade. Like the choice is yours. Honestly, you don't have to bring back markets that important. I feel
like that's a decision that you can make, you know, later into the summer. I don't feel like that's something that's like a pressing
need. Honestly, Carlton Davis, that is a little bit more of a pressing need because when we look at his market value is three
years, 41.3 million, which is 13.8 million a year. I think you have to bring him back. You may not like it, but you might have
to bring him back. That is not really that big of a deal. I think 13 million, I think that's pretty good compared to what, you
know, Tyreek Willen or sauce gardener or a lot of these other bigger name corners may try to gardener in free agency. Kevin
Zyler, that's a question mark because you have to figure out if you want to play or not. If he wants to play, you can give him an
extension because the extension is not going to cost you a whole lot. One year, 9.2 million, which is again 9.2 million a
year. That's not bad at all. So I say all that to say this, I think you have to do a little bit of dabbling and dabbling. You
have to prioritize taking care of your players, especially the players are going to be a lot of money while at the same time,
trying to repatch any positions that you have on this team. Because let's be real here. The only reason why the Lions didn't make it as
far as they did was because of injuries. That defense got riddled with injuries and they were just trying to find somebody to be able
to play on Sundays. It was so bad that they were getting people from other people's practice squads and just trying to do some
patchwork. They had Jamal Adams, Mr. I'm the best in the nation. Playing for them. They had Juan Alexander playing for them.
They were riddled. This person was out for the season. This person was out for the season. This person was out for the season like
injuries did their thing with the Lions defense. For one, you have to get healthy to prioritize who you want to prioritize.
And three, if you're going to be aggressive in the draft, be aggressive. If not, play it cool. See how the board falls and then just go
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Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news, breaking news, folks, Trey Hendrickson has been given permission to seek a trade.
Yes, that Trey Hendrickson. Now, when we look at the financials of this, all right, he has one year left on his deal, which is
non guarantee. All right, the bangles save 16 million in cap space while only taking on 2.6 million in dead cap. Now,
automatically, I can tell you two teams right now that would love to have someone like a Trey Hendrickson, Washington and the
Eagles. I think if either one of those two teams get Trey Hendrickson, that automatically up upgrades them and puts them in a
different stratosphere. Okay, especially the Eagles, because they're about to lose Josh sweat and Brandon Graham. So if you
bring in someone like a Trey Hendrickson, I think that patches things up. I think that addresses that need. Now for
Washington, this is an automatic upgrade over what you already have. Now granted, not a Fowler and Frankie Lover were very
productive, but Trey Hendrickson is on a whole other level. And I think you can talk him down his price. This is an ongoing
situation. Stay tuned. There's going to be more probably within the coming days. So as always, love you guys. Peace out.
Later. Now this was definitely expected only because the Bengals were not going to be able to pay T Higgins, Trey Hendrickson and
Jamar Chase and one offseason. You're resetting the market for Jamar Chase. You're probably playing 28 to maybe 30 million for
T Higgins. And Trey Hendrickson, I don't even know what his place is, especially with Max Krobs beginning his deal yesterday. So
Bengals, what are you guys doing? Sam Hubbard just retired yesterday. You essentially have nobody on your defense. You are
literally back to being the Bengals of old. Bengals will be the Bengals, I guess. Double breaking news, double breaking news,
double breaking news. Just when you think this episode was over. No, it is not. Christian Kirk has been traded to the
Texans, folks. So the Texans are inheriting Christian Kirk in the one year that is left on his deal, which is non
guaranteed at 16.5 million. The Jaguars are getting a 2026 seventh round pick for any person for any Steelers fan that wants to
argue with me moving forward and say that, oh, we don't need to go after DK Metcalf. You are wrong. All of you are all
wrong because you know why we literally went from a point to where you had Debo Samuel available. Brandon I you would possibly
available again, Metcalf and Christian Kirk. And now it is basically gone all the way down to pop and I you in DK Metcalf.
That quickly. What are we doing here, folks? What are we doing? He can no longer sit in our hands and just play the waiting
game until next week. Teams are making moves now prior to the start of free agency. So what are we doing? What are we doing,
Omar? You have to get DK now. That's the only way that you could consider this offseason to start off.
On the right foot. I know I'm probably saying that wrong, but I'm just so frustrated because it doesn't make sense that we
continue to go through another offseason where we play the waiting game instead of being aggressive. If you want to win, you
have to be aggressive. Washington has been aggressive. Houston has been aggressive. The 49ers have been aggressive. I wouldn't
be surprised right now. By the time I am done recording this little bit for this episode, that Washington would have made a trade
to get trade Hendrickson. People want to win. If you are not willing to win, if you are not that pissed off of not making
a goal and not holding up a Lombardi, then what are you doing with yourself? You no longer need to be a GM. If you don't want to
take this thing serious, whatever the asking priority for a DK Metcalf, give it to him. Give it to him. What's it going to hurt
you? It's not going to hurt you at all. The going price for a top 10 receiver is probably 30 plus million a year. That's just
the price. It's no longer 06 where you can get an all pro pro bowler future Hall of Fame player for 6 and a half million. You
can no longer do that. The price is the price. You have to go and you have to be aggressive. Even if it needs a give up a player just so
you don't have to give up a first round pick to get someone like a DK Metcalf, do it then. Do you really need everybody in your team? No, you
don't. Ship away Mario. Ship away Cole Holcomb. Ship away Roman Wilson. Ship away people that you know are not going to make it to the
field. You need productive playmakers. Y'all said it yourselves. Y'all wanted playmakers. You wanted to win a playoff game. But if you want to
play off game, you have to start now. This is where teams are built. This is where championships are created when when GMs want to make
aggressive moves and position themselves over everybody, not only their division, but everybody in the league. I'm off my
self box. I don't even want to say what else I wanted to say later.