March 9, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Fitz & Buck Reising fill in for the guys and react to the breaking news that the Dolphins are releasing QB Tua Tagovailoa, discuss what's next for both Tua and the Dolphins organization, the interest in former Alabama QB Ty Simpson, Would You Rather?, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today starts the moment of healing for so many NFL
fans as you start to believe that your team is
going to get drastically better with free agency. But what
are we going to do for some of the biggest
brands in the sport that don't have a clear path
to a quarterback? It's Bucking fits. He's Buck Rising on
Jason Fitz hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio
in for two pros and a cup of Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I'm thinking about the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Here for a second, all right, because Aaron Rodgers may
or may not come back to the Steelers. I'm trying
to figure out what makes the most sense because Buck,
as we well know this year, teams like Pittsburgh they
need a quarterback. And what I can't figure out is
the whole Ty Simpson versus the quarterback market that's out there.
Do you overdraft in the eyes of some Let's just
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admit that Ty Simpson is going to rise on draft
boards already has as he went from being well, he
could be a second rounder to being a he's a
top half of the first rounder, all in one workout. Suddenly,
that's how much everybody changed, all of their opinions on
ty Simpson. But I'm looking at a team like the
Steelers that are picking twenty first. I don't know that
you can trust that ty Simpson is going to make
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it all the way to twenty one at this point.
So if you're Pittsburgh, you might have to be aggressive.
Is ty Simpson worth being aggressive over?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't really think so.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is ty Simpson even worth it at twenty one? I'm
not one hundred percent sure. But if your answer is
ty Simpson or Tua, like, who's going to be the
quarterback in Pittsburgh this year?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
If it's not Aaron.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Rodgers, well that is a question that we are going
to continue to ask ourselves until August. So a lot
of quarterbacks are going to have made their decision. A
lot of these guys will be drafted already obviously into
their respective roles as we get closer to the.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Draft, and uh, what is it like a month and
a half at this point in time.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
If you're Pittsburgh specifically, you have to have your contingency
plan right. You can't just say, well, Aaron's our guy
untill he's not. Because I think he said on McAfee
the other day that he hasn't been offered a deal yet,
so you know there is some sense to Okay, well,
what is Pittsburgh. What is Pittsburgh's plan here? And how
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is Omar Kahn and Mike McCarthy the general manager and
the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, how are they
going to how do they foresee their vision for this
organization in year one versus year three, and how they
can kind of plan for that. They're going to have
to plan for Aaron Rodgers post Aaron Rodgers at some
point that starts immediately if it didn't already start last year,
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So they will have some idea of what they can do,
both with Rogers and without Rogers, depending on how much
he wants to drag his feet on this. What's more
likely I know that we have would you rather in
what about forty five minutes from now? But what's more
likely ty Simpson gets drafted in the top ten or
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Ty Simson falls to the early to mid twenties, because
I think it's more likely he gets drafted in the
top ten.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Man, that's tough.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, but okay, so let's work through this thought exercise.
Fitzy was Daniel Jones overdrafted when he was sixth overall
in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yes, no, that's not correct.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It was not an overdraft situation because New York identified
the best available quarterback option to them in the draft.
They took him because that was both their need and
how they saw the draft playing out. And then they
were still able to take Dexter Lawrence. That I believe
picks seventeen because you could have said, well, take take
Dexter Lawrence at six and then wait until seventeen to
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take Daniel Jones. But if Daniel Jones isn't there at seventeen,
anymore than you've missed on your opportunity to draft your quarterback.
I'm not saying that Daniel Jones was worthy of the
sixth overall pick. I'm saying, was it an over in
that particular situation, given what New York identified Daniel Jones
to be. If Arizona right sitting there at three, having
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just released Kyler Murray says no, we think that's our guy,
and then we have to figure the other stuff out.
Why wouldn't you just take Ty Simpson at three?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I guess to me, if you reach and you're wrong
at the quarterback, it sets you back five years. Like,
that's just the general It sets you back at least
three right, So if you reach and you're wrong at
the quarterback, like use a more recent example, I think
JJ McCarthy was a reach at the quarterback position where
he was drafted for the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I said that when he was drafted at the trail
Lance Trailin's right.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So most of the time if you reach, well, now
you've got to give it three years to see how
it plays out, and then you're figuring out, all right,
are we going to draft somebody, which then.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Restarts the clock.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So that's why I say if you reach in the
first round at the quarterback, if you draft somebody too
early and you are wrong, you end up setting your
organization back five years. Part of the reason the steel
are where they are today, for example, is the Steelers
reached on Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
They needed a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He was the best one available, so they took the
quarterback in the first round.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That clearly to the in the eyes of most.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
People that covered the sport, he was not going to
be an answer as a starting quarterback. Now, Ty Simpson
is not as clear cut. There there are differing opinions
on Ty Simpson. But I have a hard time like,
if you believe Ty Simpson is an epic, oh my god, quarterback,
then sure take him in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
If you believe not. I don't really care about where
people think.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Somebody like to me, it's not an angle of like, well,
I think we can get him in the twenties, so
let's trade back.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't think you get cute in the draft. Go
get your guy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I think where it gets into reach category is like, look,
if you're the Browns and you really believe Ty Simpson
is the guy that he's gonna lead your future, your
franchise for the next twenty years, then who cares if
you take him at six one hundred percent? Like, go
take him at six. I just I feel like that
would be there. That's different than turning around in Cleveland
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saying in this example, Cleveland saying.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, man, we just really need a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We're not going to have a better shot at one,
so let's take Tie and see if we can make
him work.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's where it gets a little hairy for me, like, and.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We don't know, right, we don't know specifically. I'm sorry
to interrupt you, but we don't know how these teams,
Like somebody is going to be a surprise to us externally,
that is not a surprise to that team. Right, it's Bonix,
It's Michael Pennix. These kind of situations where Sean Payton
deliberately identified Bonis as being worthy to the Broncos of
the twelfth overall pick because that's a guy that will
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work well within my system. I know that I can
use that player to accomplish what it is that I
need to accomplish based on who he is, what his
competitive makeup is, how what we learned about him through
years and years of college film. Right he at one
one hundred thousand starts in college, did bon Nicks. There
was a huge sample sized. Ty Simpson is an interesting
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an interesting piece of this, right because I think it's
fifteen total starts that he has in one collegiate season
being a starter, despite being in college as long as
he was. It's the rare guy who stuck through it
with the program that we I'm not going to say
that we know very little about, but that we know
less about than your average starting quarterback, starting college quarterback
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who spent as much time for one program as he did,
but wasn't able to break through until his final season
with that program. And I mean, in theory, could have
gone back and made more money from another program in
NIL if he wanted to. And sounds like he was
pretty intrenched in the idea of only playing in his
career for Alabama because you know, it means something more
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to him than it does your average person who's bouncing
around college football at this point in time. But he's
he's a fascinating he's a fascinating case study because of
what a huge domino effect that will happen. Now the
free agent quarterback situation will be decided long before we
get to the NFL Draft, and that that takes a
little bit of the drama out of it. But he
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he has the ability to affect basically everything else in
this draft depending on where he goes.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, you asked where he could go at top
ten or in the twenties. And this is where it
gets really interesting to me. The teams that are picking
in the top ten, the Jets and the Cardinals and
maybe the Browns. I think all three of those might
be in the quarterback market.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Might be.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They're all in the quarterback market. I'm not sure they're
in the quarterback market for ty Simpson this year.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Where it gets really interesting though, is Miami's picking at eleven.
Like Miami doesn't have a clear cut. Also, for even
though we mentioned earlier the Rams traded a first round pick,
they didn't trade both of their first round picks. The
Rams still sit with the thirteenth pick in.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
This year's draft.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I know we have this concept that they're all in,
but if they like ty Simpson, they could draft their
future replacement right there. The Jets may not like ty
Simpson at two overall. I wouldn't like Ty Simpson at
two overall, but they might love.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Him at sixteen.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So even if you're the Steelers, like this has to
factor into the way you approach today, doesn't it. Because like,
if you're the Steelers picking at twenty one, even if
you like ty Simpson, you have to acknowledge that there
are at least three teams in Minnesota also picking at eighteen.
Don't know what they're gonna do. There could be four
teams ahead of you, all between ten and twenty that
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could be in the quarterback market. So if I think
we'll get a sense of how people feel about Tie
and how people feel about the draft board and the
way it's gonna fall over the course of the next
seventy two hours. Because if you were, if you're the
Steelers and you believe you've got a really good shot
at Ty Simpson, and you believe Ty Simpson could be
the future, you don't need to be aggressive over the
course of the next seventy two hours. If you don't
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think you have a shot at Tie, or you don't
think Tay is the future, you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Gotta have something. You gotta have some plan. A quarterback
you didn't, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Part ways, however, we want it with Tomlin, with the
concept of you know what, what's to figure out the
most difficult position in all the sports. Wow, we figure
out this McCarthy thing who's not exactly a spring chicken,
and we're gonna make it all work quickly and efficiently
with no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
What our plan is A quarterback.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Mason Rudolph, Come.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
On, no, no, don't do that to my guy. Don't do
that to my guy. Mason Rudolph, all he does is
fill in a in a in an admirable way when
called upon. You know, dunk and Dunk's way down the field.
But like that's the thing though about this Aaron that
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the the variable here is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Are they actually interested in maintaining Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I think we'll find out this week whether or not
they consider Aaron Rodgers to be viable because the ty
Simpson element of this, it really it does not impact
it doesn't have to impact them. If they want, if
they if they don't want it to if they are playing,
if they want Aaron Rodgers back, then they will make
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him an offer and Aaron Rodgers will do whatever he
needs to do, and however long it needs to take
to decide, they will find a backup quarterback situation that's
viable so that they at least have somebody on the
roster that can play the position. If this thing goes sideways,
and then if Aaron Rodgers takes too long or they
don't have at least some indication by the draft, then
you do what you need to do in the quarterback
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element of the draft. And if that requires you to
be aggressive and try and get up ahead of some
of these teams, that's just the nature of the business.
There is the draft, and there is the quarterback draft.
As our dear friend coach Dave McGinnis likes to say,
and that is something that you will have an indication
on if you're Pittsburgh and the Steelers' front office by
weeks and no later, because you are going to have
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to make a decision on whether you even want to
offer Aaron Rodgers this week.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There is some element to me where I will continually say,
like Aaron Rodgers, even if you believe Aaron Rodgers is
worth making your starting quarterback, Aaron Rodgers isn't worth at
this point pressing pause on your plan.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's the biggest thing to me is like.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Aaron Rodgers isn't worth waiting on right, Like Aaron Rodgers
isn't worth suddenly Hey, we're gonna give him all the time.
We need to go into the darkness and figure it out.
Whenever it comes out, we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Be good with it either way.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Like all of those things, even if you believe Aaron
Rodgers is worth making your starting quarterback, you cannot, to
me believe that Aaron Rodgers is worth suddenly destroying your
entire timeline just to get it going. So you know,
at some point, I think that's a big part of
what this all means we have to have our eyes
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on the timing of Aaron Rodgers, because even if Aaron
Rodgers is their plan, he can't be their plan.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Without a backup plan to.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What you're gonna do, you can't just sit around, wait
and think about it. So I think maybe the Steelers,
like I want to believe the Steelers come into this
with some version of a plan.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
At least I want to believe.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That the Steelers have some idea of what they're going
to do. We'll find out in mere hours. I think
what it all means, and.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
What does it mean for specifically the value of one
I don't know. Malik Willison.
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
Something You're gonna hear a lot today because of the
day of the calendar it is. We have some breaking news.
It's two pros and a cup of Joe hanging out
with you on Fox Sports Radio. But it's a Bucking
Fits takeover Buck Rising Jason fitz and in a move
that surprises no one, the Dolphins are releasing quarterback to
a tongue of a lowo with the post June first designation. So,
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according to Chefty By cutting to Miami takes on an
NFL record ninety nine million dollars in dead money split
over two years. Ninety nine million bucks over two years.
So it took all of what three seasons for the
massive cap hit of Russ to just be squashed ninety
nine million dollars in dead cap money. But this is
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what had to happen. In my mind, Buck, this was
very simple. The Miami Dolphins knew that Tua wasn't going
to be part of their future. Everybody in the league
knew it, which meant it was going to be difficult
to try and pull off any trade. Given you trade
for the player, you trade for the contract. They tried
to find some creative ways to do it, but at
the end of the day, the writing was on the wall.
New organization at this point, new GM, new head coach,
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knew everything.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
This starts an absolute rip up rebuild.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I believe that the Dolphins are telling us right now
that they understand that this is step one of a
massive reset for the entire organization and they'd rather go
into this season and just suck and figure it out,
then go into this season with Tua as their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
This is the statement that the team put out on
behalf of John Eric Sullivan, the new GM, I recently
informed Tua and his representation that we are going to
move in a new direction at the quarterback position and
will be releasing him after the start of the new
league year. As I shared with Tua, I have great
respect for the person and player he is on behalf
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of the Miami Dolphins. I express our gratitude for his
many contributions both on the field and in the community
during his six seasons in Miami.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
As we move.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Forward, we will be focused on infusing competition across the
roster and establishing a strong foundation for this team as
we work towards building a sustained winner. So it sounds
like they tried a million different ways to move him
because they didn't want to have to eat the capit.
They're on the hook for fifty four million dollars in
twenty twenty six, minus whatever another team ends up paying him,
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which he can play for the league minimum, so it's
not like that. It's not like anybody's going to be
doing the Dolphins any favor by giving to a significant deal,
So he will likely play for the minimum somewhere this year,
and Miami takes the rest on and of course you know,
we'll still be on the hook for a chunk of
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that money in twenty twenty seven. How are we going
to remember the to tenure with the Dolphins, is my question,
because that for a moment where he spans two different
coaching staffs. Right when he gets drafted in the first
round a couple of years ago, Brian Flores is the
coach there, Brian Floora. The Brian Flores situation never felt
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like a match. Flores didn't seem interested in drafting Tua.
They kept trying to start Ryan Fitzpatrick that first season
at every turn. Then they had a decent string of success.
They weren't a disaster under Brian Flores, if I remember correctly.
They had like a seven or eight game win streak
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a couple of years ago with Tua and Flores that
ended actually here in Tennessee. They ended up losing a
game by a substantial margin to the Titans. That ended
that win streak, And that was about the height of
the Miami Tua experience with Flores. Then Mike McDaniel comes in,
He says, two was my guy. I know exactly how
to make this guy work. They put together one of
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the best offenses we've seen in the NFL recent memory,
and they trade for Tyreek Hill, who I mean was
an MVP candidate or should have been thought of as
an MVP candidate. How many votes he actually got those
two years where he was operating an incredibly high level.
You could say, there's not a better offensive there was
not a better offensive weapon in the league then Tyreek
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in that Mike McDaniel system and two of putting up
MVP type of numbers. But he's just he's such a
he's such a complicated one. And this is the thing
that Dolphins fans have to be sick of. How many
times are they going to go through this with a
quarterback who you know, you can't ever really figure out,
like Tua was probably shot at the end at the
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end of this situation in Miami way more so than
another you know reference for me here locally, Ryan Tannehill,
who was good enough in Spurts got them to the postseason,
got injured before that playoff game. Matt Moore ends up
starting a playoff game against the Steelers. So Ryan Tannehill
actually never made or plays in the postseason for Miami
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gets shipped off to Tennessee. In twenty nineteen for pieces
and parts. They have to end up paying some of
his salary for him to come here and be the
backup to Marcus Mariota at the time, and then when
Mariota fails, they put Tannehill in the Titans maker run
to the AFC Championship Game. Tannehill resurges and ends up
signing a fat contract in twenty twenty to become the
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Titans franchise quarterback. There for a period of time. I
don't think that two has got that same trajectory.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Maybe I don't remember the dialogue around Tannehill back in nineteen,
but maybe people were also calling it a career on
Ryan Tannehill at the time and he ended up having
a really nice resurgence. How are we going to remember
to his time in Miami, because I have to imagine
Dolphins fans thought they really really had something and then
of those first couple of opportunities for them to go
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to the postseason where they spun out as badly as
they did, and we all know the record in Cold
Weather for two a tongue of aloa.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I don't know that the they view it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Much different than the Tannehills experience, even though there was
a little bit more postseason opportunity than there was with Tannehill.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
There's a trajectory with every young quarterback.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Right when you watch your young quarterback play really well,
everybody falls in love. This is just like immediately, no,
we got our guy. We got a guy for the
next fifteen years, and then all of a sudden a
few years in, unless your guy really elevates and becomes
that clearly that same tier as Joe Burrow, as Josh Allen,
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as Patrick Mahomes, for everybody else that's on that next tier,
even all of a sudden, that same level of praise
that you were being given, that hyped you up, is
now being thrown on your shoulders as weight.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So to your.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Point, early on into his career, there was this moment
where when he comes off of the twenty twenty two
season where he throws for thirty five hundred yards twenty
five and eight, right like the year after that forty
six hundred yards twenty nine and fourteen on the touchdown
interception ratio. You're talking about an offense that was becoming explosive,
and just this moment where you saw it, Dolphins fans
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everywhere believed they had their guy. I think we're going
to remember a lot of the Tua era, right or wrong.
For the concussions, because if you look at the games played,
twenty twenty three is the only season in his career
where he played more than fourteen games. Every other season
in his entire career, he's missed at least three games, right,
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So you just start to factor all this together. I
think what we think about is sort of the size
of Tua, and we think about the hits the Tua
has taken. And I've long said repeatedly he talked to
his own doctors, team doctors. Everybody around Tua believes and
believed that it was safe for him to get back
on the field. But collectively, I think most of us.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Hold our breath every time he takes a hard sack.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Every single time he hits the ground hard, everybody takes pause.
And so if you're the Dolphins and a new organization
coming in, you're coming in with the guy that at
the quarterback position is made.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
He's and I love you, man.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He needs to be supported. He needs to have coaches
around him that make him feel value. That's the environment
he thrives in. You got to figure out if that
guy is your guy, he costs you.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
A ton of money.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He's got injury issues, He's missed a lot of time
in his career, and he may or may.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Not have recurring concussion issues.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like if I was the head coach of the Dolphins today,
I look at it and say, you know what, I'd
rather just cut ties and go through this period to suck. Unfortunately,
I think if we're grading this chapter of Tua, the
fair grade is really kind of an incomplete We never
really saw the best of what I think he could be.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't think that we ever saw the.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Worst in a way that made it easy to just
say this guy sucks. And if certainly, if he goes
somewhere else buck and he's healthy, If he goes somewhere
else and that portion of it takes care of itself,
you never know, right system, right place, maybe two has
got something left in the tank. I just certainly would
not be banking my franchise on Tuatunguavlowa as my future
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starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
No, and now a franchise doesn't have to, right because
he can play for the league minimum. It will give
you a low end flyer opportunity for them to try
and Russell Wilson Pittsburgh Steelers their way through a season.
He's probably, I don't know, a starter somewhere in the caliber.
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If you were if you were saying one to thirty two,
where would you slot to, You'd probably say low twenties
to early thirties As far as where he falls amongst
starting caliber quarterbacks, high end backup situation for sure. Right,
he's got a lot of experience. He's played a lot
of football, despite how much time he's missed, he has
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at least a level of understanding of NFL defenses that
will give him an advantage to an extent. But that's
who is going to be in the market to make
to of their starter like that. That reeks of a
desperation type situation. How many teams really understanding that there
are eight open for big business? And one of them
was Miami? Right, So let's just theoretically say seven, Who
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is gonna who is gonna do that with two of those?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Like Russ? I got right, Russ, and Russ was.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Right, I'd rather have two of them Russ.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Russ was washed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well, yeah, now no, I said that. I was clear
on that at the time. Russ was clearly washed.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
When he went like that, there was no when if
you're Sean Payton and you look around and say I'd
rather pay eighty million bucks to not have this guy around,
that to me, it was a clear indication that he
was absolutely washed.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Like, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But I'm also looking at right now, according to multiple sites,
but if you look at the best top ten free
agent quarterbacks available, I'll just pull this one ranking up.
These are the names that are available. You mentioned there's
eight openings. Number one, Kyler Murray, number two, Malik Willis,
number three, Kirk Cousins number four, Aaron Rodgers, number five,
(24:54):
Joe Flacco. Like that's what? So so to your question,
I might I mean, we get to Flacco and Mariota
before we've even had the chance to blink, right, Like, so,
I think that there's gonna be a market for Tua
simply because there aren't enough quarterbacks out here. Look, you
got to have somebody, You have somebody as you're starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
No, but what are the Jets actually gonna do at
quarterback this year?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Don't see the reporting from Connor Hughes at s n
Y that Carson Wentz is Frank Reich's preferred option.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
My God, and the Cardinals saw the reporting. The Cardinals
are all in on Jimmy G. The Cardinals want to
acquire Jimmy G. Like, we're gonna Carson Wentz and Jimmy
G are gonna be viable starting quarterbacks this year?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Okay, well, let's they can be starting quarterbacks without.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Being viable, right, Look, that is a fair pus.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And and I don't you know, I don't mean to
make light of of of Carson Wentz or Garoppolo or
Flacco or any of these guys.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You're just out here trying to make I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I felt bad for Carson Wentz last year man in
that Minnesota game where he's just clearly not right and
they leave him out there and he's battling through injuries.
All of a sudden, you know, two days later he's
done for the season. And like, I can't remember what
the shoulder injury was exactly, but it sounded awful what
he was playing through.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And the Carson Wentz is credit he battled.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I I think that the Tua thing, well, because it's
not just the caliber of the player, right, how much
do we factor in the personality stuff with Tua, because
he's had some weird I know, just weird press conference
moments these last couple of years. He's had weird dynamics,
(26:41):
it seems, with his coaching staff and his teammates as
far as how much do these guys actually respect him
and view him as a leader. Some of the erraticisms, again,
you don't know what to attribute to some of the
some of the head injuries that he's had versus you know,
maybe he's just a bit of an eccentric guy and
(27:02):
handles things differently and says too much at press conferences
like whatever. I don't want to read too much into that,
but I don't know he he feels like a bit
of a sideshow situation. I don't know that he's more
viable than Garoppolo or.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Like I mean, Winz. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Winz was just in the league last year and he
wasn't that much worse than Tua. I just kind of
I kind of view them the same way. At this point.
They can start, because a lot of quarterbacks end up
starting in the NFL. I think in the last couple
of years we've had anywhere between sixty and sixty five
players start a game at the quarterback position. So yeah,
(27:43):
Tua and Wentz and Jimmy g they can all start games.
Flacco is still starting games. Hell, we just saw Philip
Rivers start games at forty four years old, how many
years removed from being in the NFL. So it's not
a question of can he do it, it's a question
of is it worth it to you to give him
that opportunity to be the front facing member of your organization,
(28:06):
because I just don't think he handled it well in Miami,
and maybe he can learn and grow from that. Right,
This is a humbling experience for anybody, if especially if
a team is willing to eat, you know, in principal
ninety nine million dollars to make you go away at
the end of the day, maybe that makes you reevaluate,
all right, this is this is what I did right,
this is what I did wrong, This is what I'll
do differently the next time around. And I hope he
(28:27):
gets that opportunity. But I don't ever remember having as
much conversation about should a player actually continue to play
this sport as I do too, given the concussion stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But I think that's the dangerous part about it is
that like we so many of us that cover it.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Have spent our time with Tua arguing about whether or
not he should continue to play.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And you know, I had the opportunity several years ago
to talk to Talia, his brother, who at the time
was the starting quarterback in Maryland, and I asked him
when I was interview, I'm like, what's it, what's it
like with Tua in the head injuries? And he made
it clear He's like, look, he Tua has sat down
with his own doctor, We've sat down with family doctors.
Everybody involved has said it's fine for him to continue playing. Now,
(29:07):
I know that's hard for all of us to believe,
but I'm sitting here saying I'm not going to pretend
to know more about the man's brain than the doctors
that he's hiring, not.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Even talking about Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Doctors like his own family and personal doctors all looked
at it and said, yes, I get it. I think
what's weird is that we've all decided that it's just
so uncomfortable for us to watch too a play that
that's an indictment on why he shouldn't play. When conversely, again,
I'm gonna keep going back to this, Malik Willis, who
(29:37):
everybody has decided is the number one quarterback in this
year's free agency class. Malik Willis through thirty five passes
all year last year. I mean Malik Willis in his
career is one hundred and five out of one hundred
and fifty five passing in his career. We're talking about
Atua that just came off his last game. He played
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against the Steelers. They lost, but he was twenty two
twenty eight for two fifty three with two touchdowns. Like
I've actually seen Tua play well. I haven't seen Diddley
Pooh from Malik Willis other than a few games as
a backup where he's running around throwing the football, and
we're gonna sign that as a reason why Malik Willis
should turn around and make thirty million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I'm not sure that Malik Willis is any better than Tua.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Like if I was ranking the quarterbacks right now, of
all the quarterbacks that are available, we've seen more good
football from Tua than we have from Malik from Kyler,
like we've seen good moments from Tua. I don't know
why am I only taking you believe in Kyler more than.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Toa no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'm saying that that I've probably seen as much good
football from Kyler as I have from Tua. And I'm not,
you know, saying that is as an argument to support Kyler.
I'm just saying that they both have had significant highs
and significant lows in their respective NFL careers. I think
Tua has been the more consistent player, but I don't
(30:59):
think it's it's that kind of a golf And to
your point about Malik, I think I brought this up
either the last time we filled in for the guys
in the morning or at some point on our Saturday
show fits Here on Fox that and I still don't
remember the outlet that went through and looked at Malik
Willis's passes and narrowed it down to it's twenty eight
(31:22):
true dropbacks like not screens. Twenty eight to twenty eight true
dropbacks in the last two seasons.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Two seasons.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Okay, that's but that's you know, that's what the sample
size for Malik was, and that's what Green Bay needed
to do to win. The question is not about is
has Malik Willis been better than Tua? Of course, not
Malik has not been a starting caliber quarterback for the
bulk of his NFL career. The question is, can you
put Malik Willis in a similar situation of what he
(31:53):
was in Green Bay and get similar results to whin
Green Bay had to play Malik Willis versus what we
know Toua to be right now, which is he's already
hit a ceiling. It's never gonna get better for Tua
at this point in his career. Right the opportunity, the
idea of Malik has more legs than the idea of
Tua right now, because what you understand is with Tua,
(32:16):
you're getting what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
You're not wrong, You're not wrong, And I don't love
like Look if it was the usual year where there
were three or four options in the draft that people liked,
and there were two or three guys that you know
had bounced around a minute, like you know, at least
again Daniel Jones, we'd seen some good football, and how
much of their just how much of the grossness from
Daniel Jones were we putting on the Giants coaching versus
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Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
So I liked Daniel Jones, Sam Donald, We saw enough
could from that, you knew that Sam Donald could walk
in and really.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Play at a high level. Of question is could they
get the right things around him?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I think if it weren't for and it's a big
if it weren't, But if it weren't for the head
issues around Tua, I wonder how we would perceive that
quarterbacking the open market. And that being said, in this
open market, I don't know that I wouldn't feel just
as comfortable, if not more comfortable with Tua, who I
can probably get on a one year VET minimum, you
know if that's the case, because I'm not having to
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pay him anything and he can come in. I like
the idea of Tua pushing my my quarterback and just
coming in to see what we have. If I was
just going to roll the dice and take a chance,
I heck of a lot more than I like the
idea of three years of money invested in Malik or
three years of money invested in Kyler.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
How about this from Jason over the cap, Tua earned
just under one hundred and twenty five million dollars of
his contract FITZI, how many years have that new contracted
to a play?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh my god?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
What two one.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh my god, man, that is that is wild.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Like this is where all of us sit there and say,
like to it, just just time off, dude, Just go
hang out with your family.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh good, you're dirty rich dude. Just go just like
go hit some motivational speaking.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Love of the game, baby, love of the game?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Buck?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Anything? Is there? How much? How much did you say
he made on that new contract?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Just under one hundred and twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
If you had one hundred and twenty five million dollars
that you earned, would you actually show up to work
with me today?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Oh? Yeah, first would you? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I I could be, you know, just disgustingly rich, and
I would still do this on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I like to work. That's just me. You know.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I love ball with me.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
No specifically, you just like working with me. That's that's
when it comes up to thank you so much, buddy.
I I feel the same about you.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
No, I will buy a new co host with one
hundred and twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
He'd pay me half of that just to go away.
It'd be the lottery split. He's like, how much? What's
what's the number it takes to get you to go away,
all right, coming up next to the single greatest game
show in the history of sports talk radio.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Would you rather coming up?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It's fucking it's filling in for Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
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Speaker 3 (35:13):
We've tampered enough on this Monday morning here on Fox
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We appreciate you all letting us hang out here in
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(35:36):
I bought them out. I said, you know, it's not
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Speaker 4 (35:43):
Get out of here. But we sent them away to Yahoo.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
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seven pm Central.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Time where I am here in Nashville. He's in Connecticut,
of course.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
And if you know our show on Fox Sports Radio,
then you know it's time for Would you rather?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It's easy? Guys, don't think too hard more. Would you
rather buckets?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Or face it? What do we got? Team?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
All right, We're gonna start off with one.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
And I think this is a good one. Since Fifty's
always commenting on your wardrobe during your little FaceTime sessions here.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
He does treat me a bit like a piece of meats.
I do not appreci shape being objected final like that?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
All right?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
Would you rather have to wear every shirt inside out
or every pair of pants backward for the rest of
your life?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Oh? I feel like a shirt inside out?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And you know, maybe this is I'm sure it's different
for women, but for me, I feel like a shirt
inside out. Would be a lot easier than wearing pants backwards. Right,
You can at least adjust a shirt to make it
feel like normal if you're wearing it inside out. If
you're you know, you've got your pants turned around, You're
dealing with a whole bunch of different stuff in the
(37:40):
wrong place. You know, it's it's not convenient by any
stretch of the imagination. What's that, la Rita?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Using your like the restroom with your pants on backwards?
It's really awkward.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yeah, at that point, I mean you're like, you're like
a woman in a jumpsuit. You got to just take
the whole thing off and then go to the bathroom.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
That one, all right, We've got a sports one here.
Would you rather have season tickets where the seat moves
randomly to a worst spot every quarter or period or
inning or front row seats, but you have to stay
perfectly silent the entire game, No cheering, no reactions, nothing, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Front road seats. But that's just because I'm a cloud
monster and I want to be seen. I'm a peacock.
I want to preen, so I can do that quietly.
I can be you know, seen in all the background
of all the best moments in that particular sport or
for that particular team.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
But I can do that quietly.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Hell, I sent in a press box to do my
job on a regular basis, and there's no cheering in
a press box.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Baby, all right?
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Would you rather, and you have to this would have
to be forever, you can't change it. Would you rather
have a mullet or a ponytail?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Ugh? Hmm, I'm probably gonna go ponytail. I don't know this.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Maybe maybe now that I'm in my thirties, I'm thirty
two at this point, and I don't understand. I'm starting
to become my parents. I feel like where I just
look at some of the trends that people are doing
in fashion or clothing or with what they.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Do with their hair, and I'm like, well, what are
you doing that? For the mullet thing I've never understood.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
And again, it's like a Morgan Wallen influenced type of situation,
and there's different variants, kind of like COVID, there's different
variants of the mullet the ponytail. I feel like I
don't think I could make either of them work necessarily,
but I feel like I got a better chance with
a ponytail, the mullet.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
I just think, you know, go get a real haircut.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yes, I agree.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
Would you rather have Hussin Bolt's top end speed but
only for ten second bursts once a day, or tom
Brady's football IQ but in a body that's always slightly
out of shape?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Well yeah, I mean tom Brady's football IQ in an
out of shaped body, right, because at that point you
could do x's and o's analysis. You all got to
be in shape to talk about football. What am I
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
What purpose does usein bolt speed have for me in
any given in any given moment. I don't think they
think that's terribly practical.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
All right, Well, that squiot one. Would you rather be
able to fly but only as fast as you can walk?
Or be invisible but only when no one's looking?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
I guess give me the flight, you know.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That might that might make uh, it might make something
a little more convenient. Outside of that, I'm not sure. Again,
the practicality of these things not quite there anyway. I
don't know that this has been practical, But stick around.
It's Fox Sports Radio.
Today starts the moment of healing for so many NFL
fans as you start to believe that your team is
going to get drastically better with free agency. But what
are we going to do for some of the biggest
brands in the sport that don't have a clear path
to a quarterback? It's Bucking fits. He's Buck Rising on
Jason Fitz hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio
in for two pros and a cup of Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I'm thinking about the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Here for a second, all right, because Aaron Rodgers may
or may not come back to the Steelers. I'm trying
to figure out what makes the most sense because Buck,
as we well know this year, teams like Pittsburgh they
need a quarterback. And what I can't figure out is
the whole Ty Simpson versus the quarterback market that's out there.
Do you overdraft in the eyes of some Let's just
(00:45):
admit that Ty Simpson is going to rise on draft
boards already has as he went from being well, he
could be a second rounder to being a he's a
top half of the first rounder, all in one workout. Suddenly,
that's how much everybody changed, all of their opinions on
ty Simpson. But I'm looking at a team like the
Steelers that are picking twenty first. I don't know that
you can trust that ty Simpson is going to make
(01:06):
it all the way to twenty one at this point.
So if you're Pittsburgh, you might have to be aggressive.
Is ty Simpson worth being aggressive over?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't really think so.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is ty Simpson even worth it at twenty one? I'm
not one hundred percent sure. But if your answer is
ty Simpson or Tua, like, who's going to be the
quarterback in Pittsburgh this year?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
If it's not Aaron.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Rodgers, well that is a question that we are going
to continue to ask ourselves until August. So a lot
of quarterbacks are going to have made their decision. A
lot of these guys will be drafted already obviously into
their respective roles as we get closer to the.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Draft, and uh, what is it like a month and
a half at this point in time.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
If you're Pittsburgh specifically, you have to have your contingency
plan right. You can't just say, well, Aaron's our guy
untill he's not. Because I think he said on McAfee
the other day that he hasn't been offered a deal yet,
so you know there is some sense to Okay, well,
what is Pittsburgh. What is Pittsburgh's plan here? And how
(02:13):
is Omar Kahn and Mike McCarthy the general manager and
the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, how are they
going to how do they foresee their vision for this
organization in year one versus year three, and how they
can kind of plan for that. They're going to have
to plan for Aaron Rodgers post Aaron Rodgers at some
point that starts immediately if it didn't already start last year,
(02:37):
So they will have some idea of what they can do,
both with Rogers and without Rogers, depending on how much
he wants to drag his feet on this. What's more
likely I know that we have would you rather in
what about forty five minutes from now? But what's more
likely ty Simpson gets drafted in the top ten or
(02:59):
Ty Simson falls to the early to mid twenties, because
I think it's more likely he gets drafted in the
top ten.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Man, that's tough.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, but okay, so let's work through this thought exercise.
Fitzy was Daniel Jones overdrafted when he was sixth overall
in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yes, no, that's not correct.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It was not an overdraft situation because New York identified
the best available quarterback option to them in the draft.
They took him because that was both their need and
how they saw the draft playing out. And then they
were still able to take Dexter Lawrence. That I believe
picks seventeen because you could have said, well, take take
Dexter Lawrence at six and then wait until seventeen to
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take Daniel Jones. But if Daniel Jones isn't there at seventeen,
anymore than you've missed on your opportunity to draft your quarterback.
I'm not saying that Daniel Jones was worthy of the
sixth overall pick. I'm saying, was it an over in
that particular situation, given what New York identified Daniel Jones
to be. If Arizona right sitting there at three, having
(04:10):
just released Kyler Murray says no, we think that's our guy,
and then we have to figure the other stuff out.
Why wouldn't you just take Ty Simpson at three?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I guess to me, if you reach and you're wrong
at the quarterback, it sets you back five years. Like,
that's just the general It sets you back at least
three right, So if you reach and you're wrong at
the quarterback, like use a more recent example, I think
JJ McCarthy was a reach at the quarterback position where
he was drafted for the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I said that when he was drafted at the trail
Lance Trailin's right.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So most of the time if you reach, well, now
you've got to give it three years to see how
it plays out, and then you're figuring out, all right,
are we going to draft somebody, which then.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Restarts the clock.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So that's why I say if you reach in the
first round at the quarterback, if you draft somebody too
early and you are wrong, you end up setting your
organization back five years. Part of the reason the steel
are where they are today, for example, is the Steelers
reached on Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
They needed a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He was the best one available, so they took the
quarterback in the first round.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That clearly to the in the eyes of most.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
People that covered the sport, he was not going to
be an answer as a starting quarterback. Now, Ty Simpson
is not as clear cut. There there are differing opinions
on Ty Simpson. But I have a hard time like,
if you believe Ty Simpson is an epic, oh my god, quarterback,
then sure take him in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
If you believe not. I don't really care about where
people think.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Somebody like to me, it's not an angle of like, well,
I think we can get him in the twenties, so
let's trade back.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't think you get cute in the draft. Go
get your guy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I think where it gets into reach category is like, look,
if you're the Browns and you really believe Ty Simpson
is the guy that he's gonna lead your future, your
franchise for the next twenty years, then who cares if
you take him at six one hundred percent? Like, go
take him at six. I just I feel like that
would be there. That's different than turning around in Cleveland
(06:02):
saying in this example, Cleveland saying.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, man, we just really need a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We're not going to have a better shot at one,
so let's take Tie and see if we can make
him work.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's where it gets a little hairy for me, like, and.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We don't know, right, we don't know specifically. I'm sorry
to interrupt you, but we don't know how these teams,
Like somebody is going to be a surprise to us externally,
that is not a surprise to that team. Right, it's Bonix,
It's Michael Pennix. These kind of situations where Sean Payton
deliberately identified Bonis as being worthy to the Broncos of
the twelfth overall pick because that's a guy that will
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work well within my system. I know that I can
use that player to accomplish what it is that I
need to accomplish based on who he is, what his
competitive makeup is, how what we learned about him through
years and years of college film. Right he at one
one hundred thousand starts in college, did bon Nicks. There
was a huge sample sized. Ty Simpson is an interesting
(06:55):
an interesting piece of this, right because I think it's
fifteen total starts that he has in one collegiate season
being a starter, despite being in college as long as
he was. It's the rare guy who stuck through it
with the program that we I'm not going to say
that we know very little about, but that we know
less about than your average starting quarterback, starting college quarterback
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who spent as much time for one program as he did,
but wasn't able to break through until his final season
with that program. And I mean, in theory, could have
gone back and made more money from another program in
NIL if he wanted to. And sounds like he was
pretty intrenched in the idea of only playing in his
career for Alabama because you know, it means something more
(07:39):
to him than it does your average person who's bouncing
around college football at this point in time. But he's
he's a fascinating he's a fascinating case study because of
what a huge domino effect that will happen. Now the
free agent quarterback situation will be decided long before we
get to the NFL Draft, and that that takes a
little bit of the drama out of it. But he
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he has the ability to affect basically everything else in
this draft depending on where he goes.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, you asked where he could go at top
ten or in the twenties. And this is where it
gets really interesting to me. The teams that are picking
in the top ten, the Jets and the Cardinals and
maybe the Browns. I think all three of those might
be in the quarterback market.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Might be.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They're all in the quarterback market. I'm not sure they're
in the quarterback market for ty Simpson this year.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Where it gets really interesting though, is Miami's picking at eleven.
Like Miami doesn't have a clear cut. Also, for even
though we mentioned earlier the Rams traded a first round pick,
they didn't trade both of their first round picks. The
Rams still sit with the thirteenth pick in.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
This year's draft.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I know we have this concept that they're all in,
but if they like ty Simpson, they could draft their
future replacement right there. The Jets may not like ty
Simpson at two overall. I wouldn't like Ty Simpson at
two overall, but they might love.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Him at sixteen.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So even if you're the Steelers, like this has to
factor into the way you approach today, doesn't it. Because like,
if you're the Steelers picking at twenty one, even if
you like ty Simpson, you have to acknowledge that there
are at least three teams in Minnesota also picking at eighteen.
Don't know what they're gonna do. There could be four
teams ahead of you, all between ten and twenty that
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could be in the quarterback market. So if I think
we'll get a sense of how people feel about Tie
and how people feel about the draft board and the
way it's gonna fall over the course of the next
seventy two hours. Because if you were, if you're the
Steelers and you believe you've got a really good shot
at Ty Simpson, and you believe Ty Simpson could be
the future, you don't need to be aggressive over the
course of the next seventy two hours. If you don't
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think you have a shot at Tie, or you don't
think Tay is the future, you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Gotta have something. You gotta have some plan. A quarterback
you didn't, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Part ways, however, we want it with Tomlin, with the
concept of you know what, what's to figure out the
most difficult position in all the sports. Wow, we figure
out this McCarthy thing who's not exactly a spring chicken,
and we're gonna make it all work quickly and efficiently
with no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
What our plan is A quarterback.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Mason Rudolph, Come.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
On, no, no, don't do that to my guy. Don't do
that to my guy. Mason Rudolph, all he does is
fill in a in a in an admirable way when
called upon. You know, dunk and Dunk's way down the field.
But like that's the thing though about this Aaron that
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the the variable here is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Are they actually interested in maintaining Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I think we'll find out this week whether or not
they consider Aaron Rodgers to be viable because the ty
Simpson element of this, it really it does not impact
it doesn't have to impact them. If they want, if
they if they don't want it to if they are playing,
if they want Aaron Rodgers back, then they will make
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him an offer and Aaron Rodgers will do whatever he
needs to do, and however long it needs to take
to decide, they will find a backup quarterback situation that's
viable so that they at least have somebody on the
roster that can play the position. If this thing goes sideways,
and then if Aaron Rodgers takes too long or they
don't have at least some indication by the draft, then
you do what you need to do in the quarterback
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element of the draft. And if that requires you to
be aggressive and try and get up ahead of some
of these teams, that's just the nature of the business.
There is the draft, and there is the quarterback draft.
As our dear friend coach Dave McGinnis likes to say,
and that is something that you will have an indication
on if you're Pittsburgh and the Steelers' front office by
weeks and no later, because you are going to have
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to make a decision on whether you even want to
offer Aaron Rodgers this week.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There is some element to me where I will continually say,
like Aaron Rodgers, even if you believe Aaron Rodgers is
worth making your starting quarterback, Aaron Rodgers isn't worth at
this point pressing pause on your plan.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's the biggest thing to me is like.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Aaron Rodgers isn't worth waiting on right, Like Aaron Rodgers
isn't worth suddenly Hey, we're gonna give him all the time.
We need to go into the darkness and figure it out.
Whenever it comes out, we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Be good with it either way.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Like all of those things, even if you believe Aaron
Rodgers is worth making your starting quarterback, you cannot, to
me believe that Aaron Rodgers is worth suddenly destroying your
entire timeline just to get it going. So you know,
at some point, I think that's a big part of
what this all means we have to have our eyes
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on the timing of Aaron Rodgers, because even if Aaron
Rodgers is their plan, he can't be their plan.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Without a backup plan to.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What you're gonna do, you can't just sit around, wait
and think about it. So I think maybe the Steelers,
like I want to believe the Steelers come into this
with some version of a plan.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
At least I want to believe.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That the Steelers have some idea of what they're going
to do. We'll find out in mere hours. I think
what it all means, and.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
What does it mean for specifically the value of one
I don't know. Malik Willison.
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
Something You're gonna hear a lot today because of the
day of the calendar it is. We have some breaking news.
It's two pros and a cup of Joe hanging out
with you on Fox Sports Radio. But it's a Bucking
Fits takeover Buck Rising Jason fitz and in a move
that surprises no one, the Dolphins are releasing quarterback to
a tongue of a lowo with the post June first designation. So,
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according to Chefty By cutting to Miami takes on an
NFL record ninety nine million dollars in dead money split
over two years. Ninety nine million bucks over two years.
So it took all of what three seasons for the
massive cap hit of Russ to just be squashed ninety
nine million dollars in dead cap money. But this is
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what had to happen. In my mind, Buck, this was
very simple. The Miami Dolphins knew that Tua wasn't going
to be part of their future. Everybody in the league
knew it, which meant it was going to be difficult
to try and pull off any trade. Given you trade
for the player, you trade for the contract. They tried
to find some creative ways to do it, but at
the end of the day, the writing was on the wall.
New organization at this point, new GM, new head coach,
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knew everything.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
This starts an absolute rip up rebuild.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I believe that the Dolphins are telling us right now
that they understand that this is step one of a
massive reset for the entire organization and they'd rather go
into this season and just suck and figure it out,
then go into this season with Tua as their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
This is the statement that the team put out on
behalf of John Eric Sullivan, the new GM, I recently
informed Tua and his representation that we are going to
move in a new direction at the quarterback position and
will be releasing him after the start of the new
league year. As I shared with Tua, I have great
respect for the person and player he is on behalf
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of the Miami Dolphins. I express our gratitude for his
many contributions both on the field and in the community
during his six seasons in Miami.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
As we move.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Forward, we will be focused on infusing competition across the
roster and establishing a strong foundation for this team as
we work towards building a sustained winner. So it sounds
like they tried a million different ways to move him
because they didn't want to have to eat the capit.
They're on the hook for fifty four million dollars in
twenty twenty six, minus whatever another team ends up paying him,
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which he can play for the league minimum, so it's
not like that. It's not like anybody's going to be
doing the Dolphins any favor by giving to a significant deal,
So he will likely play for the minimum somewhere this year,
and Miami takes the rest on and of course you know,
we'll still be on the hook for a chunk of
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that money in twenty twenty seven. How are we going
to remember the to tenure with the Dolphins, is my question,
because that for a moment where he spans two different
coaching staffs. Right when he gets drafted in the first
round a couple of years ago, Brian Flores is the
coach there, Brian Floora. The Brian Flores situation never felt
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like a match. Flores didn't seem interested in drafting Tua.
They kept trying to start Ryan Fitzpatrick that first season
at every turn. Then they had a decent string of success.
They weren't a disaster under Brian Flores, if I remember correctly.
They had like a seven or eight game win streak
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a couple of years ago with Tua and Flores that
ended actually here in Tennessee. They ended up losing a
game by a substantial margin to the Titans. That ended
that win streak, And that was about the height of
the Miami Tua experience with Flores. Then Mike McDaniel comes in,
He says, two was my guy. I know exactly how
to make this guy work. They put together one of
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the best offenses we've seen in the NFL recent memory,
and they trade for Tyreek Hill, who I mean was
an MVP candidate or should have been thought of as
an MVP candidate. How many votes he actually got those
two years where he was operating an incredibly high level.
You could say, there's not a better offensive there was
not a better offensive weapon in the league then Tyreek
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in that Mike McDaniel system and two of putting up
MVP type of numbers. But he's just he's such a
he's such a complicated one. And this is the thing
that Dolphins fans have to be sick of. How many
times are they going to go through this with a
quarterback who you know, you can't ever really figure out,
like Tua was probably shot at the end at the
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end of this situation in Miami way more so than
another you know reference for me here locally, Ryan Tannehill,
who was good enough in Spurts got them to the postseason,
got injured before that playoff game. Matt Moore ends up
starting a playoff game against the Steelers. So Ryan Tannehill
actually never made or plays in the postseason for Miami
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gets shipped off to Tennessee. In twenty nineteen for pieces
and parts. They have to end up paying some of
his salary for him to come here and be the
backup to Marcus Mariota at the time, and then when
Mariota fails, they put Tannehill in the Titans maker run
to the AFC Championship Game. Tannehill resurges and ends up
signing a fat contract in twenty twenty to become the
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Titans franchise quarterback. There for a period of time. I
don't think that two has got that same trajectory.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Maybe I don't remember the dialogue around Tannehill back in nineteen,
but maybe people were also calling it a career on
Ryan Tannehill at the time and he ended up having
a really nice resurgence. How are we going to remember
to his time in Miami, because I have to imagine
Dolphins fans thought they really really had something and then
of those first couple of opportunities for them to go
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to the postseason where they spun out as badly as
they did, and we all know the record in Cold
Weather for two a tongue of aloa.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I don't know that the they view it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Much different than the Tannehills experience, even though there was
a little bit more postseason opportunity than there was with Tannehill.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
There's a trajectory with every young quarterback.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Right when you watch your young quarterback play really well,
everybody falls in love. This is just like immediately, no,
we got our guy. We got a guy for the
next fifteen years, and then all of a sudden a
few years in, unless your guy really elevates and becomes
that clearly that same tier as Joe Burrow, as Josh Allen,
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as Patrick Mahomes, for everybody else that's on that next tier,
even all of a sudden, that same level of praise
that you were being given, that hyped you up, is
now being thrown on your shoulders as weight.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So to your.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Point, early on into his career, there was this moment
where when he comes off of the twenty twenty two
season where he throws for thirty five hundred yards twenty
five and eight, right like the year after that forty
six hundred yards twenty nine and fourteen on the touchdown
interception ratio. You're talking about an offense that was becoming explosive,
and just this moment where you saw it, Dolphins fans
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everywhere believed they had their guy. I think we're going
to remember a lot of the Tua era, right or wrong.
For the concussions, because if you look at the games played,
twenty twenty three is the only season in his career
where he played more than fourteen games. Every other season
in his entire career, he's missed at least three games, right,
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So you just start to factor all this together. I
think what we think about is sort of the size
of Tua, and we think about the hits the Tua
has taken. And I've long said repeatedly he talked to
his own doctors, team doctors. Everybody around Tua believes and
believed that it was safe for him to get back
on the field. But collectively, I think most of us.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Hold our breath every time he takes a hard sack.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Every single time he hits the ground hard, everybody takes pause.
And so if you're the Dolphins and a new organization
coming in, you're coming in with the guy that at
the quarterback position is made.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
He's and I love you, man.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He needs to be supported. He needs to have coaches
around him that make him feel value. That's the environment
he thrives in. You got to figure out if that
guy is your guy, he costs you.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
A ton of money.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He's got injury issues, He's missed a lot of time
in his career, and he may or may.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Not have recurring concussion issues.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like if I was the head coach of the Dolphins today,
I look at it and say, you know what, I'd
rather just cut ties and go through this period to suck. Unfortunately,
I think if we're grading this chapter of Tua, the
fair grade is really kind of an incomplete We never
really saw the best of what I think he could be.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't think that we ever saw the.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Worst in a way that made it easy to just
say this guy sucks. And if certainly, if he goes
somewhere else buck and he's healthy, If he goes somewhere
else and that portion of it takes care of itself,
you never know, right system, right place, maybe two has
got something left in the tank. I just certainly would
not be banking my franchise on Tuatunguavlowa as my future
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starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
No, and now a franchise doesn't have to, right because
he can play for the league minimum. It will give
you a low end flyer opportunity for them to try
and Russell Wilson Pittsburgh Steelers their way through a season.
He's probably, I don't know, a starter somewhere in the caliber.
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If you were if you were saying one to thirty two,
where would you slot to, You'd probably say low twenties
to early thirties As far as where he falls amongst
starting caliber quarterbacks, high end backup situation for sure. Right,
he's got a lot of experience. He's played a lot
of football, despite how much time he's missed, he has
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at least a level of understanding of NFL defenses that
will give him an advantage to an extent. But that's
who is going to be in the market to make
to of their starter like that. That reeks of a
desperation type situation. How many teams really understanding that there
are eight open for big business? And one of them
was Miami? Right, So let's just theoretically say seven, Who
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is gonna who is gonna do that with two of those?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Like Russ? I got right, Russ, and Russ was.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Right, I'd rather have two of them Russ.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Russ was washed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well, yeah, now no, I said that. I was clear
on that at the time. Russ was clearly washed.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
When he went like that, there was no when if
you're Sean Payton and you look around and say I'd
rather pay eighty million bucks to not have this guy around,
that to me, it was a clear indication that he
was absolutely washed.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Like, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But I'm also looking at right now, according to multiple sites,
but if you look at the best top ten free
agent quarterbacks available, I'll just pull this one ranking up.
These are the names that are available. You mentioned there's
eight openings. Number one, Kyler Murray, number two, Malik Willis,
number three, Kirk Cousins number four, Aaron Rodgers, number five,
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Joe Flacco. Like that's what? So so to your question,
I might I mean, we get to Flacco and Mariota
before we've even had the chance to blink, right, Like, so,
I think that there's gonna be a market for Tua
simply because there aren't enough quarterbacks out here. Look, you
got to have somebody, You have somebody as you're starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
No, but what are the Jets actually gonna do at
quarterback this year?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Don't see the reporting from Connor Hughes at s n
Y that Carson Wentz is Frank Reich's preferred option.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
My God, and the Cardinals saw the reporting. The Cardinals
are all in on Jimmy G. The Cardinals want to
acquire Jimmy G. Like, we're gonna Carson Wentz and Jimmy
G are gonna be viable starting quarterbacks this year?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Okay, well, let's they can be starting quarterbacks without.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Being viable, right, Look, that is a fair pus.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And and I don't you know, I don't mean to
make light of of of Carson Wentz or Garoppolo or
Flacco or any of these guys.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You're just out here trying to make I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I felt bad for Carson Wentz last year man in
that Minnesota game where he's just clearly not right and
they leave him out there and he's battling through injuries.
All of a sudden, you know, two days later he's
done for the season. And like, I can't remember what
the shoulder injury was exactly, but it sounded awful what
he was playing through.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And the Carson Wentz is credit he battled.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I I think that the Tua thing, well, because it's
not just the caliber of the player, right, how much
do we factor in the personality stuff with Tua, because
he's had some weird I know, just weird press conference
moments these last couple of years. He's had weird dynamics,
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it seems, with his coaching staff and his teammates as
far as how much do these guys actually respect him
and view him as a leader. Some of the erraticisms, again,
you don't know what to attribute to some of the
some of the head injuries that he's had versus you know,
maybe he's just a bit of an eccentric guy and
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handles things differently and says too much at press conferences
like whatever. I don't want to read too much into that,
but I don't know he he feels like a bit
of a sideshow situation. I don't know that he's more
viable than Garoppolo or.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Like I mean, Winz. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Winz was just in the league last year and he
wasn't that much worse than Tua. I just kind of
I kind of view them the same way. At this point.
They can start, because a lot of quarterbacks end up
starting in the NFL. I think in the last couple
of years we've had anywhere between sixty and sixty five
players start a game at the quarterback position. So yeah,
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Tua and Wentz and Jimmy g they can all start games.
Flacco is still starting games. Hell, we just saw Philip
Rivers start games at forty four years old, how many
years removed from being in the NFL. So it's not
a question of can he do it, it's a question
of is it worth it to you to give him
that opportunity to be the front facing member of your organization,
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because I just don't think he handled it well in Miami,
and maybe he can learn and grow from that. Right,
This is a humbling experience for anybody, if especially if
a team is willing to eat, you know, in principal
ninety nine million dollars to make you go away at
the end of the day, maybe that makes you reevaluate,
all right, this is this is what I did right,
this is what I did wrong, This is what I'll
do differently the next time around. And I hope he
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gets that opportunity. But I don't ever remember having as
much conversation about should a player actually continue to play
this sport as I do too, given the concussion stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But I think that's the dangerous part about it is
that like we so many of us that cover it.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Have spent our time with Tua arguing about whether or
not he should continue to play.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And you know, I had the opportunity several years ago
to talk to Talia, his brother, who at the time
was the starting quarterback in Maryland, and I asked him
when I was interview, I'm like, what's it, what's it
like with Tua in the head injuries? And he made
it clear He's like, look, he Tua has sat down
with his own doctor, We've sat down with family doctors.
Everybody involved has said it's fine for him to continue playing. Now,
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I know that's hard for all of us to believe,
but I'm sitting here saying I'm not going to pretend
to know more about the man's brain than the doctors
that he's hiring, not.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Even talking about Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Doctors like his own family and personal doctors all looked
at it and said, yes, I get it. I think
what's weird is that we've all decided that it's just
so uncomfortable for us to watch too a play that
that's an indictment on why he shouldn't play. When conversely, again,
I'm gonna keep going back to this, Malik Willis, who
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everybody has decided is the number one quarterback in this
year's free agency class. Malik Willis through thirty five passes
all year last year. I mean Malik Willis in his
career is one hundred and five out of one hundred
and fifty five passing in his career. We're talking about
Atua that just came off his last game. He played
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against the Steelers. They lost, but he was twenty two
twenty eight for two fifty three with two touchdowns. Like
I've actually seen Tua play well. I haven't seen Diddley
Pooh from Malik Willis other than a few games as
a backup where he's running around throwing the football, and
we're gonna sign that as a reason why Malik Willis
should turn around and make thirty million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I'm not sure that Malik Willis is any better than Tua.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Like if I was ranking the quarterbacks right now, of
all the quarterbacks that are available, we've seen more good
football from Tua than we have from Malik from Kyler,
like we've seen good moments from Tua. I don't know
why am I only taking you believe in Kyler more than.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Toa no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'm saying that that I've probably seen as much good
football from Kyler as I have from Tua. And I'm not,
you know, saying that is as an argument to support Kyler.
I'm just saying that they both have had significant highs
and significant lows in their respective NFL careers. I think
Tua has been the more consistent player, but I don't
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think it's it's that kind of a golf And to
your point about Malik, I think I brought this up
either the last time we filled in for the guys
in the morning or at some point on our Saturday
show fits Here on Fox that and I still don't
remember the outlet that went through and looked at Malik
Willis's passes and narrowed it down to it's twenty eight
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true dropbacks like not screens. Twenty eight to twenty eight true
dropbacks in the last two seasons.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Two seasons.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Okay, that's but that's you know, that's what the sample
size for Malik was, and that's what Green Bay needed
to do to win. The question is not about is
has Malik Willis been better than Tua? Of course, not
Malik has not been a starting caliber quarterback for the
bulk of his NFL career. The question is, can you
put Malik Willis in a similar situation of what he
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was in Green Bay and get similar results to whin
Green Bay had to play Malik Willis versus what we
know Toua to be right now, which is he's already
hit a ceiling. It's never gonna get better for Tua
at this point in his career. Right the opportunity, the
idea of Malik has more legs than the idea of
Tua right now, because what you understand is with Tua,
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you're getting what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
You're not wrong, You're not wrong, And I don't love
like Look if it was the usual year where there
were three or four options in the draft that people liked,
and there were two or three guys that you know
had bounced around a minute, like you know, at least
again Daniel Jones, we'd seen some good football, and how
much of their just how much of the grossness from
Daniel Jones were we putting on the Giants coaching versus
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Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
So I liked Daniel Jones, Sam Donald, We saw enough
could from that, you knew that Sam Donald could walk
in and really.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Play at a high level. Of question is could they
get the right things around him?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
I think if it weren't for and it's a big
if it weren't, But if it weren't for the head
issues around Tua, I wonder how we would perceive that
quarterbacking the open market. And that being said, in this
open market, I don't know that I wouldn't feel just
as comfortable, if not more comfortable with Tua, who I
can probably get on a one year VET minimum, you
know if that's the case, because I'm not having to
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pay him anything and he can come in. I like
the idea of Tua pushing my my quarterback and just
coming in to see what we have. If I was
just going to roll the dice and take a chance,
I heck of a lot more than I like the
idea of three years of money invested in Malik or
three years of money invested in Kyler.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
How about this from Jason over the cap, Tua earned
just under one hundred and twenty five million dollars of
his contract FITZI, how many years have that new contracted
to a play?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh my god?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
What two one.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh my god, man, that is that is wild.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Like this is where all of us sit there and say,
like to it, just just time off, dude, Just go
hang out with your family.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh good, you're dirty rich dude. Just go just like
go hit some motivational speaking.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Love of the game, baby, love of the game?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Buck?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Anything? Is there? How much? How much did you say
he made on that new contract?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Just under one hundred and twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
If you had one hundred and twenty five million dollars
that you earned, would you actually show up to work
with me today?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Oh? Yeah, first would you? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I I could be, you know, just disgustingly rich, and
I would still do this on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I like to work. That's just me. You know.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I love ball with me.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
No specifically, you just like working with me. That's that's
when it comes up to thank you so much, buddy.
I I feel the same about you.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
No, I will buy a new co host with one
hundred and twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
He'd pay me half of that just to go away.
It'd be the lottery split. He's like, how much? What's
what's the number it takes to get you to go away,
all right, coming up next to the single greatest game
show in the history of sports talk radio.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Would you rather coming up?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It's fucking it's filling in for Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
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a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington, and
Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern, three am Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
We've tampered enough on this Monday morning here on Fox
Sports Radio. It's two Pros and a Cup of Joe.
Jason fitz and Buck Rising filling in for the guys.
We appreciate you all letting us hang out here in
their stead. They'll be back with you for your regularly
scheduled programming the rest of the week. I sent Fitzie away.
(35:36):
I bought them out. I said, you know, it's not
going to cost quite what toa costs fifty five million
dollars to.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Get out of here. But we sent them away to Yahoo.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
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own with the great folks making the show happen out
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Speaker 4 (36:22):
Time where I am here in Nashville. He's in Connecticut,
of course.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
And if you know our show on Fox Sports Radio,
then you know it's time for Would you rather?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It's easy? Guys, don't think too hard more. Would you
rather buckets?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Or face it? What do we got? Team?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
All right, We're gonna start off with one.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
And I think this is a good one. Since Fifty's
always commenting on your wardrobe during your little FaceTime sessions here.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
He does treat me a bit like a piece of meats.
I do not appreci shape being objected final like that?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
All right?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
Would you rather have to wear every shirt inside out
or every pair of pants backward for the rest of
your life?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Oh? I feel like a shirt inside out?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And you know, maybe this is I'm sure it's different
for women, but for me, I feel like a shirt
inside out. Would be a lot easier than wearing pants backwards. Right,
You can at least adjust a shirt to make it
feel like normal if you're wearing it inside out. If
you're you know, you've got your pants turned around, You're
dealing with a whole bunch of different stuff in the
(37:40):
wrong place. You know, it's it's not convenient by any
stretch of the imagination. What's that, la Rita?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Using your like the restroom with your pants on backwards?
It's really awkward.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yeah, at that point, I mean you're like, you're like
a woman in a jumpsuit. You got to just take
the whole thing off and then go to the bathroom.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
That one, all right, We've got a sports one here.
Would you rather have season tickets where the seat moves
randomly to a worst spot every quarter or period or
inning or front row seats, but you have to stay
perfectly silent the entire game, No cheering, no reactions, nothing, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Front road seats. But that's just because I'm a cloud
monster and I want to be seen. I'm a peacock.
I want to preen, so I can do that quietly.
I can be you know, seen in all the background
of all the best moments in that particular sport or
for that particular team.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
But I can do that quietly.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Hell, I sent in a press box to do my
job on a regular basis, and there's no cheering in
a press box.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Baby, all right?
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Would you rather, and you have to this would have
to be forever, you can't change it. Would you rather
have a mullet or a ponytail?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Ugh? Hmm, I'm probably gonna go ponytail. I don't know this.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Maybe maybe now that I'm in my thirties, I'm thirty
two at this point, and I don't understand. I'm starting
to become my parents. I feel like where I just
look at some of the trends that people are doing
in fashion or clothing or with what they.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Do with their hair, and I'm like, well, what are
you doing that? For the mullet thing I've never understood.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
And again, it's like a Morgan Wallen influenced type of situation,
and there's different variants, kind of like COVID, there's different
variants of the mullet the ponytail. I feel like I
don't think I could make either of them work necessarily,
but I feel like I got a better chance with
a ponytail, the mullet.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
I just think, you know, go get a real haircut.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yes, I agree.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
Would you rather have Hussin Bolt's top end speed but
only for ten second bursts once a day, or tom
Brady's football IQ but in a body that's always slightly
out of shape?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Well yeah, I mean tom Brady's football IQ in an
out of shaped body, right, because at that point you
could do x's and o's analysis. You all got to
be in shape to talk about football. What am I
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
What purpose does usein bolt speed have for me in
any given in any given moment. I don't think they
think that's terribly practical.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
All right, Well, that squiot one. Would you rather be
able to fly but only as fast as you can walk?
Or be invisible but only when no one's looking?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
I guess give me the flight, you know.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That might that might make uh, it might make something
a little more convenient. Outside of that, I'm not sure. Again,
the practicality of these things not quite there anyway. I
don't know that this has been practical, But stick around.
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