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free agency. Still a lot of big names out there. Is
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the aims for the tournament week start in college basketball,
and I have to say this right.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You know I'm gonna come in here, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Syracuse smu here he's has to run the table because
we're thirteen and fifty. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
But you know what I found out today, I did
not know this.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Documentary was just released that says that Jim Morrison of
The Doors, who died in nineteen seventy four, seventy two,
seventy four, Jim Morrison is alive and living as a
maintenance man in Syracuse, really where he has been. He
is a maintenance man in Syracuse. I read a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I didn't see the document I read a TikTok I
watched TikTok about the documentary. Apparently a documentary says that
he somehow met a guy who and he was able
to gain his identity or something like that, and I
kill him. He killed the guy, just like in so
many movies. T she was just able to just assume
the guy's identity for reason I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
And he's living and he's a maintenance man in Syracuse
Jim Morrison.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I mean, given the fact that they sold tons
of albums after his death, yeah yeah they did, Yeah right,
I mean they were popular. But then, but if then
you could live off the residuals, you know, with your
estate being given to some random pro Who is that guy?
Don't know that's actually Jim Morris. Why is Frank and
skinny Atlas guy getting all of this money. I don't know,
(02:20):
so July third, nineteen seventy one, but if if the
date of his path because they say Elvis lives upstairs
in Graceland.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Okay, sure, so they go and visit him up there.
If you're getting the.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Money, you probably don't need to work. But that's not well,
but maybe maybe you're just bored. Okay, all right, he'd
already done and made your living as a poet. So
what are you gonna do in retirement? It's I'm gonna
go working on us. Yeah, it's like a real life
goodwill Honey. He's doing he's doing instead of math problems
on the board, he's writing song lyrics.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, that's it. Hey, okay, who came to the class
I'm right and wrote this? You know that I would
be untrue? Who wrote that? Someone? Tell me who wrote that?
Who wrote? Come on? Come on, somebody tough. You think
it's a janitor?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You think I'm gonna go back get stelling stars guard
to watch Goodwille Come on, not gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Tell me who wrote that? Tell me who wrote that?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I mean so, you know, while Feliciano had some other things,
like he he did a version of one of those
uh New York Galla things honoring Sting that didn't go
over quite so well. His version of my fire was
really no. Wait, wait, which Sting the wrestler or the singer?
The singer?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He was still in the balconbody.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This wrestler knows the Sting the singer nobody. He's doing
another album and tour with Shaggy wait Sting the singer?
Wait okay, hang on, so wait, So it's Sting the
singer or w w E so Sting and it's Shaggy
the character from Scooby Doo or the singer you say
these things? D wasn't me guy?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Okay? Yes, So they've collaborated.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
For years and they've done tours and albums. They've come
together again for another single Sting from the police and
singer and Shaggy wasn't me.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They've they're collaborating and actually doing a bunch of press
like they've been on all the late night talk shows
and whatever else.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, we play the music, but it's horrible. Reggy says,
it wasn't me. Bro bro bro bro bro bro.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Whereas Steve Steve the wrestler has said this is the
final year that he will do any appearances with makeup on. Okay,
so kind of like kissed it all those years ago,
and then they realized how much money here? Yeah, okay,
so sting the wrestler, no doubt a year from now
will be like, eh, you know what, not as many
(04:29):
people coming. When I'm standing here as Steve Borden, it's
like all as opposed to stink. It's like all the
Motley Crewe retirement concerts. This is this is our last.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Well, this is it. We're this is our last. Okay,
we'll do another well.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And then they because they claimed it was like all right,
makes it bad health and this and that, and then
they kicked him out of the band and said outa
hell with it. We're gonna keep too. We're locked the
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is the way tire buying should be. Well Yes day
three in NFL Free Agency, we are still waiting for
what we thought was going to be one of the
big stories today because we've been on a great schedule. Right,
we had two quarterbacks on Monday, we had Daniel Jones yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Great.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now we have Aaron Rodgers Russell Wilson ready to go today.
Aaron Rodgers officially released by the New York Jets at
four pm. No decision for both of them. We've got
Mike Williams going back to the Chargers. Another nice move
for them. Charge Charge is making us some nice little
sneaky moves here, although they should have got Havn ingram
eron Ingram to the to the BRONCX is a big deal.
But uh, still waiting for the next shoot a drop
(05:39):
for Aaron Rodgers and for Russell might be waiting while
And I want to say this. I want to say
this because you know, the last couple of days, this
Sam Darnold Vikings take that we've had people hate incredibly
viral has been insane and mainly a lot of people
that you know Vikings fans are disagree with my take
that the big Hey, how do you let the guy
(06:01):
come in, do what he did and walk out and
you don't get anything for him? You get a compensation
pick that's basically a fourth round pick.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Ah, that's I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, that's because that's exactly the value of a quarterback
that throws thirty five touchdowns, four thousand yards, goes to
a Pro Bowl, leads you to fourteen and three.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That's the exact value.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What's loss for everybody here, though, is that you got
back on the Sam Donald bandwagon with this take. Because
remember as soon as it was Sam Sam Sam saying
I could play the tape, Yeah, celebrated everything and it
was Sam Donald's gonna be the greatest thing. And then
as soon as he was no longer a jet, I
mean he was bully and good calls three thousand bucks
for a lifetime. Ah Now, And this is why I
(06:39):
bring this up again because I want to say this right,
because I want to say this, and I don't care
one way or another, but I think this should what
happened if the Vikings sign Aaron Rodgers, because the two
teams we've been hearing for Aaron Rodgers so far has
been the Steelers are the Giants, right, that's Steelers Giants,
the same thing for Russell Wilson, Steelers Giants, Steelers Giants.
(07:00):
Vikings have been a team that we've seen some insiders
say that's where he really wants to go. That's why
I'm like, really, the dude wants to do exactly what.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Brett far did. Come on, man, it's funny. It was.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was a good story for us because it would
be some comedy tonight. It would be insane tragedy tomorrow,
comedy tonight. But there's a lot of insiders and seeing
reports that Rogers and the Vikings they are waiting for
some kind of mutual interest for Rogers to go to
the Vikings. And I'm saying to myself, so he wants
to go there where Allegedly there they love JJ McCarthy
(07:33):
and they want him to be the quarterback so much
so they told Sam Darnold, Hey, we're gonna let you
go for nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We'll get a compick for you. Good luck, Sam, and.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Then we're gonna go spend all that money on all
these because they've done a great job in free agency.
They did right. They could have signed Darnold a week
and a half two weeks ago to sort of franchised
him and traded him. You didn't have to wait until
the first day of free ag There is another thing
that all the Vikings maan, oh, but.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Look at the money we spent.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, you could have done this anytime in the two
weeks before if you could have franchised himyet up till
March fourth to make the decision. You could have franchised him,
take him two weeks to figure things out. But no, no, no,
nobody wants to see the facts. Okay, that's had forty million,
they might have been stuck now, which wouldn't have been
the worst. The Seahawks gave him one hundred million, he
wouldn't have been stuck at forty million.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
They still get.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, But they didn't want to give him forty eight. Okay,
forty million for a year, and the six say okay,
how about three years and one hundred and ten, But
the guarantee is only fifty five, right, But three years.
They still still could have done that. They still wanted
him that bad. They still could have found out a
way to say, okay, well it's forty it's seven million
more than we wanted to spend. But again, we're upsetting
the apple card of our franch we're trading away our quarterback,
(08:38):
we're bringing you, and we're making your guy for three years.
They would have been okay, swallowing ex jets that we're
having these arguments somewhere in the bowels of the you know,
your stomach. It's a it's a bit of good queasiness
that the rest of the world now wants the guys
you your team couldn't figure out how to make work.
What people don't know is every free agent that signed
(08:58):
this off season has been with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Every single one, no matter what, got some way, he
was with the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But I want to say this, that is what I
want to say this right, is that if the Vikings
sign Aaron Rodgers and so, their strategy was, Okay, we
have a twenty seven year old quarterback who was one
of the top three quarterbacks in the conference, great year.
We could have kept him for a year and for
we could have kept him. No, no, no, we're gonna
(09:25):
let him go because we love the guy behind him
so much. Okay, we love him so much. We're gonna
bring in an older guy not as good to be
the quarterback until he's ready. If they do that, every
single person, every single person's commented in my time this,
you owe a Yomi apology or b get off Twitter.
(09:47):
If that happens, then you have absolutely zero leg to
stand on. Frameing because now it's yeah, we watched a
guy come in who is great and decided, oh yeah, yeah,
for a year, we're gonna have a guy that's worse
and is older and we don't know what he has
left any and that's our decision. Like, if that's what
the Vikings wind up doing, yes, apologies, and everybody leaves,
and by this point Twitter would go out of business
(10:09):
because I think everybody is commented on this, So that's
what would happen. I want everybody if the Vikings do that,
I mean, I don't know. I don't what you could
say to defend that franchise.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I don't know. I didn't want to Sam, but we'll
let Rogers come in. Oh but not JJ. So not
only would it not be Donald or JJ McCarthy, it's
door number three of a forty year old quarterback that
nobody else wants. Nobody else wants. Okay, great works, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The general rule of thumb is someone wants to be
the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
How does that make you the smartest guy room?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I know it doesn't mean that you are, but you
want to convince yourself that you can do something. And
we've seen the reclamation projects. That's what Sam Donald was
with O'Connell right that he had a little bit of
a run with one of the quarterback gurus. So it's like,
all right, now we're gonna take him and if we
have to break glass case of emergency, we can make
him something. And then he goes out and has a
(11:03):
monster year. So if you're O'Connell and you're the Vikings,
and now you've built this roster and we can go
through and do the dramatic reading of all of their
acquisitions in the post Sam hours because it's been plentiful,
like they've done a lot of work for the roster.
Is you're taking Aaron Rodgers out his word and be
curious to see what the dollar value is, right if
he signs in the mid twenties or something like that,
(11:25):
or thirty million dollars. And he's really looking to be
that mentor for JJ McCarthy. Because all along, my whole
thing is are we sure that physically JJ McCarthy's gonna
be ready to go? Didn't he have to have a
second procedure to clean up whatever that happened and he's
gotta be surgery.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
He decided we don't want sam donold. We're okay with him,
oh now, but now we want somebody else. This is
like this, here's what the Vikings are doing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Say I'm the Vikings, and you come and you go, Jason,
here's the best sandwich I could possibly make for you
in the time, right because getting samd Okay, what is
Edit's got perscudo and it's got horse radish and cheddar cheese,
and it's got onions that are so crisp and they're
so tasty, and it's on the softest bread possible. And
I can go here, you can have the whole sandwich.
(12:09):
And I'm like, okay, great, and I take a few
bites of that sandwich. I go, wow, this sandwich is
really good. I got three quarters of that sandwich left.
This is the best You're right, this is the best
sandwich I could possibly I can't believe this is so great.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Great. So you're gonna finish it?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
No, no, no, no no, I'm not gonna have any
more of it, and I'm gonna push it to the side. Well,
do you want to save it for later? Nope, I
want to throw it away. I'm gonna take it and
just put it in the trash. There you go boom,
I can't have it anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And said, for the rest of my meal, I want
that old sandwich that was in there. It was stuck
in all the way in the back. That's got the
crust on it, and maybe the bread is really stay
a little bit and the meat is kind of dried out.
Bring me that. That's the sandwich I want to have.
That's what I want to fight. But you had that, Yeah, No,
I know I had that, well, but I don't want
it anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I want that. I want that instead. That's the decision.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Some folks choose a harder path, and it might be
like Homer Simpson, Oh, sandwich, I can't stay mad at you.
This new sandwich can.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Never possibly compared to what you were.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And he's every fight he takes, he goes, oh, and
that it's in the trash and it's he's turning. Yeah,
but he can't be mad. But the idea with Rogers
is that you get whatever like, because look, that's been
the hyperbole of his last six or seven weeks of
the season. Look how much better he was. Look at
those two big games against Miami and Jacksonville that inflated
(13:26):
his second half stats to get him where he was.
Look at his final stats, because all of a sudden,
we're back of the football card, as we talk about
all the time, we're reading those numbers and ignoring everything
else he did. But that's fine. But the hey, he
could be a great mentor and he's ready to be
that guy for your club, as opposed to I'm gonna
(13:47):
stab that guy in the heart and I'm gonna take
his job, which is exactly what Aaron Rodgers is looking
to do.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
This is this is it would be the I I
really it would be.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, we need to have an intervention with how to
run a football team if that, But you hear so
many Rogers and the Vikings, Rodgers and the Vikings, Rodgers
and the Vikings.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It was a fun theory, and now it might actually
come to fruition completing the Brett Favre trilogy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So great, apologize and leave Twitter in that order.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
They'll come back. They'll come back like Hydra with four
other accounts to mock.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
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Russell Wilson the harsh the harsh reality that he might
(14:44):
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(16:43):
agency a few minutes ago. Is here we are you
a day three, Day three of NFL free agency, And man,
what a lot of teams said? Well, they've said that
to him before and saying it again like doubling down.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I mean, and you wonder why he was so okay
to stay with the Jets. I'll do anything to stay
with the Jet. I really want to stay. Really, he
knows nobody wants him, right, but potentially there could be
a landing spot for him. I don't know that there's
a landing spot for Russell Wilson. And we may have
seen him play his last down in the NFL unless
he's willing to go some place as a backup, a
(17:15):
true backup coming in. This is our guy, and if
something happens, maybe you can get in there. And I
don't think and look and guys like Russell Wilson that
are Hall of famers at the end, that's when you
just walk away. Because think about it this way. When
you're looking at the teams that need a quarterback, right
the teams at the very top of the draft, Titans
(17:35):
and the Browns and the Giants. Right, they all do Okay,
Titans have shown no interest in Russell Wilson. Wilson went
to visit the Browns. But are the Browns really gonna
do that when they pick second? Probably not. There's a
quarterback there for them, that's more. Is he Russell Wilson
trying to just you know, get interest out because the
two teams that he would be the fit for are
(17:56):
the Steelers and the Giants.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And that's it, right, Steelers and Giants. That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And for all of this, he could go back to Pittsburgh.
If the Steelers really wanted him, they'd have signed him already, right,
they decided brought him back. He was a Steeler, he's here,
he's a free agency. You don't let your quarterback hang
out there if you want to bring him back, if
he really wanted to be, if this Steelers really wanted
him back as much as Mike Tomlin loved him, maybe
(18:21):
there was a big intervention of some kind and they said, Mike, dude,
you know this guy really isn't great. Okay, get off
my back. I'm not gonna admit I was wrong, just okay, fine.
If they wanted Russell Wilson, they would have him, And
the same is true of the Giants. If the Giants
wanted Russell Wilson, they would have signed him because it's
an easy signing for Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
For the Giants, it's easy because they could say, well, okay,
we need somebody because we're picking third.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
We like to think a quarterback we like is gonna
be there.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
But maybe we don't like Shador Sanders as much as
everybody thinks we do, but we need somebody. So Russell
Wilson would clearly be either the bridge guy to get
us to Shador Sanders if we wind up taking him,
or maybe Cam war drops because you know, Abdul Carter
goes one and Travis Hunter goes to I mean probably not,
but it covers us. We have the we have the
(19:08):
veteran to get us to Shador Sanders or the veteran
to get us to whoever we want that we take
in the second round of the draft, because they pick
early second, which is where guys like Milroe and Ewers
and McCord and Jackson.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Dart is moving on.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I keep saying mc cordy, I keep drying I still
think I think he's still at the back end of
the first what it's all said, Yeah, it could be right,
but but the Giants can easily then move from early
in the second round move up, so they would have
that covered. They don't want to go in with what
they have right now, which I think is Joe Pisarcik.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So it's your.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Buddy Tommy Cuts. I mean, they didn't re up him
the other day, so you know you got that going
for you. So that that's to me, that's the biggest
key to everything is what are the Giants gonna do
if they believe they're gonna get a quarterback or if
maybe they don't trust this regime to make that quarterback pick,
Because you wonder what's going on behind closed doors there,
right we saw the hard knocks last year. Mara comes
(19:56):
down and says, boy, I got a real problem if
Saquon Barkley goes.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
To the Now, we know we're doing. We know we're doing.
Uh Okay, maybe you don't.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
So maybe hey, Shane and and and uh and Dable
are back, but we're not gonna allow you to pick
another quarterback. So you got to figure something else out
here and there could. I wouldn't be surprised if there
was a big discrepancy between the we got to get
a quarterback early, we have to wait and draft one
and the you know in a year when whatever one
of our guys come, when we get a new regime
(20:23):
in here, whatever it is there's got there's gotta be
some sort of friction going on and a battle in
New York about what they're gonna do a quarterback. But clearly,
no matter what they decide to do, Russell Wilson would
be the guy. Right Aaron Rodgers is not gonna go
to the Giants, they're not interested in him, but Wilson's
the guy. It's either Wilson or you're figuring some some
kind of crazy ass trade out, or you're waiting for
(20:45):
the draft and you're tanking for arch Manning, whatever it is.
So for Russell Wilson, if these teams wanted him, they
would have gotten him already. You see how fast teams
move on quarterbacks. Darnold was out there for eight minutes,
justin fields, out there for nine minutes. Daniel Jones been
everybody way, or maybe Roger Adel said, hey, dude, can
you wait a day so we can have the new cycle.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, sure, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I mean these guys come off the board really fast,
and now they're out there for a reason. So while
Rogers seems to have a little more heat, I really
wonder if that's it for Russell Wilson, because I don't
see where else the fit's gonna be. Yeah, the obvious
fit was me to go back to Pittsburgh from a
pure playing style and aptitude, right because Russell Wilson, what
did we hear all the time we talked about it
a little bit last night when you were sad for
(21:26):
these two guys. I still am sad. I still am
sad that it's ending with them looking so desperate. They're
sweaty with their hats in their hands and they're wringing
their hands, going do.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
You have a job for me? Do you have a job?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They're all Lookabrozia going into the dawn on the Hey guy,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. During this busy time of free agency,
I have to ask you for a favor, but I.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Really need to do that. That's the day.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I mean, they can't refuse a favor, So if you
have one that you need, I mean, that's the day
to do it. I mean, it may feel you know
you're gonna pay a heavy price in the end, but
of Hall of Fame career shouldn't end like this, with
being so desperate to stay well. But it's the decision
of what's your expiration date? Right, Not everybody's Tom Brady
where we're playing into our forties or Warren Moon who
(22:09):
didn't get a shot till he was forty, or all
of those kinds of things. Obviously I exaggerate, but the
point being that, you know, we've just gotten so accustomed
in all these sports of guys playing much longer. I mean,
Drew Brees at the end, what did he have left?
Peyton Manning at the end, what did he have left?
When when we're getting toward turning the odometer over for
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Aaron Rodgers, we had a pretty good half a season.
For Russell Wilson, you had a couple of good weeks.
A lot of reports that he and Arthur Smith, who
I think you could throw over the side of the
boat and go find another oc. But that's just me.
But look at those cuddlefish where whoa But the reports
that he and Arthur Smith did not get along is
obviously not helping his cause to come back to Pittsburgh.
(22:53):
The Russell Wilson side of it. With the Giants, it's
the all right, Pat Shermer was their coach in twenty
nine team right, he was the guy that had the
Daniel Jones the beginning of that experiment. And then for
Dable and for Shane it was all right, you'll either
fix him and it'll be you get to carry him
to the next level, have this success like he did
(23:14):
with Josh Allen. Well, unfortunately the guy got hurt, including
a couple of really severe injuries like neck injuries are
no joke, right, We watched that. Whenever a guy gets
that on his report card for the end of the year,
it's like, all right, are we trusting this going forward?
And they decided to move on. So is Dable that
guy or are they supposed to bring in a placeholder
(23:36):
for a year because they like the twenty twenty six
draft that much more. You mentioned Archie Manning. We talk
about it all the time, all the other quarterbacks that
will be in that class that maybe everybody likes a
little bit more. And so you're thinking, we have a
roster that's only going to be so good no matter
who we bring in be it rookie, be it veteran.
(23:59):
And for Mara again, you know what, you could have
just ordered them pay Saquon Barkley whatever the hell he wants. Okay,
you're the owner. You could have done that, right, You
could have done that. You didn't, and they would have
still stunk because like all of a sudden, Barkley is
playing on a dust see. But that's the thing behind
Andrew Towman. Oh wait, he got hurt and the rest
of the offensive line was if I say the word pedestrian,
(24:21):
we all know what I mean. Okay, So that's kind
of where we're at in this process. I look at
it like this, and and this is how I am
sure teams like Pittsburgh and the Giants are looking at
Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Are they near the end? Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Do we want to be in on them a year early?
We don't want to be on them a year too late.
And last year might have been the final year where
you got the best that you're going to get from
both of those players. Because Aaron Rodgers MVP is still
MVP player up until a couple of years ago. He
goes to the Jets he gets hurt, he comes back.
He does have a nice back half of the year,
(24:58):
right the top ten in touch, top ten in yards,
but you see that he's not really the same guy.
So now another year and you think you're gonna get
that same production or is this the year where he
just looks like he's finished when you're in the middle
of week two, and it's the same thing for Russell Wilson. Hey,
here he is third team. He had a little bit
(25:18):
of something left in the middle of the season where
he played where he played okay, and he sparked him up.
But then he saw the end of the season, Russell
Wilson was done. And I get why the stock is
higher on Rogers because he had a better end of
the season than Russell Wilson did. But it's the same
philosophy of Boyd was that the last hurrah for Wilson
was that little bit of run he had middle of
the season when Mike tomlin s thumping is just.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Going, this is why I do what I do.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's why I die, why I get paid what I do.
Right now, we want do we want to get in
for this year, which could be again awful and he
could be washed and why did we do this? So
that that's the big debate that's happening right now. And
if the side of let's go get these guys was
winning again, we'd see them somewhere. But for Wilson especially,
that's the thing where I don't know. I don't know
(26:02):
where things can go. I don't know where the fit is.
If it's not one of these two teams that could
have had him already, I we may just sit out
or decide I'll be a backup. I don't I don't
think that's Russell Wilson's I don't think that's part of
his moo. It shouldn't be part of your remo when
you can't do it anymore, when you're a Hall of
Fame player, you can't do it and say, Okay, you
know I did as long as I could. It's time
for me to go. I'm not going to be this
(26:22):
diminished version of myself. Whoever long it is just to
stay in the game right now. Is Russell Wilson a
Hall of Famer eight seven, seven ninety, I mean Aaron
Rodgers most certainly, his sure is Russell Wilson. I think
he was on the path too. Yeah, And and and
he's got a super Bowl. Right, he's got a super Bowl.
You know I almost had two. But this is this
guy's had a hat he got picked. Well, no, well
(26:46):
it's it's not his fault because they should have taken
the ball out of his hands. It was a bad
pass he gets. He gets more of a pass than
he should for throwing that ridiculous pass that was off
target the bat. But anyway, it's more of a play
call because you don't throw a pass like that. We'll
ask Jason call that. You know about Russe Wilson's Hall
of Fame, but that that's how it. There's a certain
standard you need to own up to and live up
(27:07):
to when you're that kind of player. And it's it's
just it's embarrassing for you, it's embarrassing for us that
it doesn't nobody wins. But if you think you still
have juice and a couple of years ago, the stats, right,
Wilson put up stats for Denver, were they empty? That
he makes a lot of bad decisions. Yes, he was
not very good.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Years ago, and then last year wasn't even as good
as that year.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But if you still think you're better than that guy,
that guy Look, we always talk about how long retirement is. Like,
if you could find someone that's still gonna cut you
a check to keep doing the gig whatever, whatever the
job is, if you can find that team and it
may smack completely of desperation on their part that you're
still there. Like Cleveland's a couple of years removed from
(27:50):
being a playoff team. Now. It took Kevin Stefanski pulling
the string like the greatest puppeteers that we've ever seen,
the greatest marionette right where we finally we got Joe
Flacco off the leaping couch to get that team through.
So Miles Garrett took the giant bag. He stays tough division,
no question, But Cleveland, I mean, And Captain Kirk's over
(28:11):
there in Atlanta, he's the wild card and all of this.
He's that guy sitting in It's like Roman Reigns came in.
You had cm punk fighting the other night against Seth Rollins,
and all of a sudden Rains comes running in to
create chaos. It's the same thing. Captain Kirk sitting over
there and he's torched everything in Atlanta by Oh yeah,
I was hurt.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I was hurt.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They didn't you know you weren't on the injury report,
And when asked about it by local media, Hey, I
you know, I'm just here like I'm not doing media
right now. He basically thumbed his nose at them. And
while they say, hey, he'll be the backup, he's still
in play. He's still circulating and waiting to run into
the ring. Well, to go back to earlier with your
(28:51):
sting analogy, he's up in the rafters with the baseball bat,
ready to charge at any time. Now, I hear your foot,
but I'm I'm gonna counteract with this that Yes, you
may think you can still do it, but in the end,
it's not you that gets to the side, right.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I always, I always go back to the to.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Ron Darling pitch for the Mets in the a's long time,
and and I remember asking him one saying, hey, when
did you know it was time to retire? And he said,
I didn't. The hitters told when it was time to retire.
In this case, this is the NFL telling Aaron Rodgers
and Russell Wilson it's time to retire, but as of now,
but they don't have teams, but as of now they
they're still empty seats. They don't have teams, but they
(29:29):
could have them if you want it. But his Pittsburgh
gonna run with Mason Rudolph coming back if they're gonna,
I mean, obviously, did you do.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
A run run Rudolph?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
There?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I like it. I like that run run Rudolf.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Do you like the Chuck Barrier the Keith Richards version
Chuck Berry is better muzzle?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
But yeah, think about a frostburg How.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Bad is Aaron Rodgers literally eight forty nine dollars for
him not to play there? Following in the footsteps of
that's how bad Russell Wilson eating forty nine million?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
How many Hamburgers?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That has a lot in New.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
York, It's like forty nine hamburgers a less yeah, well yeah,
especially with the Kobe beef, it's that bad or the
wagu or maybe maybe get some that gold flake nonsense
that they like to do.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
So just get right.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
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Oklahoma City thunder beat. The Boston Celtics in Boston tonight,
just Boston's twelfth home I mean twelve home loss of
the year, one eighteen to one twelve. Shay Gildess Alexander
with thirty four points, seven assists, and uh, let's.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
See chet home, We're gonna have a double double.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Jason Tatum thirty three points, eight rebounds, eight assists in
the loss.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Right now, two games going on.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
The timber Wolves leading the Nuggets twenty eight to twenty two.
Yokich with an eleven points randal. Leading the Bowls was
six at the end of the first quarter. The next
lead the trop Blazers twenty six to twenty one. Clar
Anthony Towns has six points. Games that already got wrapped
up games a note. The Clippers beat the Heat one
nineteen to one oh four. Bognon Bogdanomits with thirty points
(31:56):
on eleven rebounds.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
The Rockets beat the Suns one to eleven to one
oh four.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Bradley Beal with twenty five points in a losing effort,
Jalen Green with twenty nine seven and three, and a
fight here is Mason Plumbley and Steven Adams got into
a back and forth and it's like a real NBA
back and forth.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Like if you look at the still of the video
on ESPN dot com right.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Now, Mason Plumbley is a form tackling Steven Adams. So
it's not just your average Hey, no, you hold me back,
hold me back? No, no, no, they could have used him
holding back here.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He's lucky he got an older Steven Adams, like Steven Addam,
like a few years ago, Steve.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
That wouldn't have been close. Oh yeah, I would not
have been close.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Steven Adams is a guy if you ask for his autograph,
he waits for you to say please. So what's he
gonna do when he's in a scuffle with a guy
is getting after it?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Spurs beat the Avericks one twenty six to one to
sixteen dearon Fox with thirty two points and eleven assists.
The Seahawks just came to terms with DeMarcus Lawrence, who
previously played his last eleven seasons in Dallas. He's now
got a three year, thirty two and a half a
million dollar deal eighteen million guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
We saw.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Damar Hamlin went back on a two year and win
a one year deal to two million dollars with Buffalo.
Mac Jones is going to join the Jacksonville Jaguars on
a two year contract with five million dollars guaranteed. I
think seven and a seven million overall, and I had
one more here. Here you go, Mike Williams back to
la former Chargers wide receiver. He moved on and went
(33:25):
to the Jets and the Steelers last year were back
in Los Angeles. Six million dollars the max on that
one year deal. Back to you guys, Thanks a Bunchmartin.
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That's eight hundred and four Rocket. You used to sweat
every minute of a Syracuse game, and now you don't
even care. Dude, we're fourteen and nineteen. Unless we run
the table, which is gonna happen. We're not going to
the postseason. Man, the long road begins with the first step.
(34:46):
We're tanking for arch Manning. This is the worst season
Syracuse basketball has had in fifty years. Fifty not fifteen,
fifty four years in a row of no NCAA tournament,
like the accuses of Syracuses and sports stone hens, right, boy,
And they used to be really people cared about them.
They were a big deal. But I don't remember why.
Like that's Syracuse basketball now. Well, but again, you gotta
(35:10):
rise back up. I mean, Beaheim's got to get out
there and get the message. No, no, no, you know what
it is is next year is Carmelo's kid has to
be the guy to bring He's got to be the
guy all these years later, because if not, they may
just die. Band the basketball program play we're a football school?
Are we completely a football Is that? Is that what
we're selling?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
What we are because earlier today I got I got
the to have the glory even though they couldn't hit
a free throw to save their souls of a Northwestern
victory in the first round of the Big Ten turnsitions
on that. Yeah, where you're purple with pride differ one
more day? You know we're in purple tonight. How come
it's a victory day for you? You're entirely in black tonight.
You're Johnny Cash. Why are you wearing all black? Why
is there no purple tonight? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I lost. This should be a night you should Why
do you have my purple shoes on?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah? I guess that, but no, no, but you're gonna
wear those anyway like this should have been.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
You decide I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I had my Travis Matthew black victory Wednesday. I'm gonna
come in victory winning again. Victory Wednesday in purple, and
then they're gonna beat Wisconsin tomorrow and I'm gonna be
ensconced in purple there.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Okay, then are you really are you gonna not do it?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
You?
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Sure? Okay?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
All right, beat the Badgers? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Okay, let's go now Day three in NFL free agency.
You thought all the quarterback drama was either behind us
or waiting on Rogers and Russell Wilson. However, some fun
stuffs emerged from the Falcons when it comes to Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Oh yeah, forgot about Kirk captain Kirk Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I remember we talked about him all last off season
and now he's not good anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
No, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
That's a guy who's just sitting there staring at a
pile of money and laughing at everybody. His name is
not come up once, not in trade, not in playing
someplace else, not sources Team X calling for Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Why Well, we've seen a couple of reports today that
the Falcons aren't lying and not bluffing when they say
we are absolutely okay with having Kirk Cousins one more year,
and even though he's gonna be the backup. We have
told him he's going to be the backup. We're eminently
okay with that. Now, are they really okay with it? No,
because they don't want to carry this cap charge on
(37:14):
him for guys gonna be your backup quarterback.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But they were stupid last year by saying, okay, here
Kirk Cousins, here's all this money. Oh now we're gonna
get Michael Penick Junior. So they don't want to really
appear stupid two years.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
In a row.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
So they're gonna do something more stupid, which is keep
Kirk Cousins, even though it's not good for Michael Pennock's development.
If suddenly the guy that was the starter is now
in the backup there, that never works anywhere. So the
Falcons saying we don't want to be stupid two years
in a row, what they're really doing is being more
stupid than they would be. What they're doing, what I
hope is they are pushing putting it to Cousins, saying dude,
(37:49):
we can't move you. Nobody wants this contract that would
that would be due to you. Right, we have dead
cap coming away, but it's fine, it's not something that
we have to really worry about. But this money, you due,
Nobody wants that, so if you want to start somewhere,
we got to figure this money thing out. We got
to figure this out somehow. And that's what they're doing.
That's all they can do because everybody else is saying, hey,
(38:10):
Aaron Rodgers is free, right, Russell Wilson is freel Daniel
Jones was a short deal. Justin Field is a short deal.
Sam Darnold got the longest of any of them. It's
three years, right, So these guys are all for Kirk Cousins. Now,
it's a lot of money for three more years that
you don't know how good the guy is. But would
teams take take a flyer in absolutely, But the money
(38:31):
is so prohibitive, and the fact that he was injured
allegedly and playing badly and got bench last year. What
else do you want to do? The Falcons are just
stuck right now, and the only thing you can do
is let's try to play poker and figure out the money, right,
Because that was the whole thing with Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets two years ago. I'm old enough to remember
when it was, oh, they'll never happen. They got to
figure out the money.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
You can't do it. They can't do it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
It's too much money, too much money, too much dead cap,
too much, it's too much that Hey, what happened.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
The Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Packers figured out a way to trade Aaron Roddy to
the Jets and the money worked out for both sides. Right,
able to figure it out, So you can figure something
out with Kirk Cousins. But this is what they're telling him. Dude,
we can't we can't move you right now. And if
you want to stay here as the backup quarterback and
you're not gonna play, that's the reality. So this is
where Kirk Cousins has to decide, what do I want?
(39:19):
What can I do to try to get someplace where
I can actually start? Yeah, the Atlanta I'm sorry the
Browns beat writer for the Athletic Zach Jackson.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Or the athletic beat writer for the Browns.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Putting out the idea. Yes that Cousins likely goes and
reunites with Stefanski in Cleveland. Here in short order, He's
got a ten million dollars roster bonus due on Monday,
so perhaps over the weekend we get some activity and
where comra they come to and agree on a price
(39:51):
to where as you say with Aaron Rodgers, commerheads prevail
and they move on. Now he's done everything he can
to talk his way out of the situation again trying
to make the Falcons look bad with their use of
him down the stretch that trying to excuse that one
touchdown nine interception stretch as Hey, I wasn't bad. They
(40:14):
were putting me out there and I was playing hurt.
I was taking one for the team.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
I e.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Michael wasn't ready. So I'm still going out there, as
opposed to the Falcon side of it, saying he practiced
all week, he wasn't on the injury report, but one
week and now he's gonna come to Super Bowl week
and in his first media he's gonna try to torpedo us.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
So, yeah, it's a terrible situation. Yeah, I mean this
is what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Looking stupid right now, Yes, and doubling down on looking stupid.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
You think we can look we can look more stupid.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
You're gonna lose this poker game with Kirk Cousins. He's
in the Business Hall of Fame. Exit ab out of
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and I have to say this right.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You know I'm gonna come in here, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Syracuse smu here he's has to run the table because
we're thirteen and fifty. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
But you know what I found out today, I did
not know this.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Documentary was just released that says that Jim Morrison of
The Doors, who died in nineteen seventy four, seventy two,
seventy four, Jim Morrison is alive and living as a
maintenance man in Syracuse, really where he has been. He
is a maintenance man in Syracuse. I read a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I didn't see the document I read a TikTok I
watched TikTok about the documentary. Apparently a documentary says that
he somehow met a guy who and he was able
to gain his identity or something like that, and I
kill him. He killed the guy, just like in so
many movies. T she was just able to just assume
the guy's identity for reason I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
And he's living and he's a maintenance man in Syracuse
Jim Morrison.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I mean, given the fact that they sold tons
of albums after his death, yeah yeah they did, Yeah right,
I mean they were popular. But then, but if then
you could live off the residuals, you know, with your
estate being given to some random pro Who is that guy?
Don't know that's actually Jim Morris. Why is Frank and
skinny Atlas guy getting all of this money. I don't know,
(02:20):
so July third, nineteen seventy one, but if if the
date of his path because they say Elvis lives upstairs
in Graceland.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Okay, sure, so they go and visit him up there.
If you're getting the.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Money, you probably don't need to work. But that's not well,
but maybe maybe you're just bored. Okay, all right, he'd
already done and made your living as a poet. So
what are you gonna do in retirement? It's I'm gonna
go working on us. Yeah, it's like a real life
goodwill Honey. He's doing he's doing instead of math problems
on the board, he's writing song lyrics.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, that's it. Hey, okay, who came to the class
I'm right and wrote this? You know that I would
be untrue? Who wrote that? Someone? Tell me who wrote that?
Who wrote? Come on? Come on, somebody tough. You think
it's a janitor?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You think I'm gonna go back get stelling stars guard
to watch Goodwille Come on, not gonna happen?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Tell me who wrote that? Tell me who wrote that?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I mean so, you know, while Feliciano had some other things,
like he he did a version of one of those
uh New York Galla things honoring Sting that didn't go
over quite so well. His version of my fire was
really no. Wait, wait, which Sting the wrestler or the singer?
The singer?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He was still in the balconbody.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This wrestler knows the Sting the singer nobody. He's doing
another album and tour with Shaggy wait Sting the singer?
Wait okay, hang on, so wait, So it's Sting the
singer or w w E so Sting and it's Shaggy
the character from Scooby Doo or the singer you say
these things? D wasn't me guy?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Okay? Yes, So they've collaborated.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
For years and they've done tours and albums. They've come
together again for another single Sting from the police and
singer and Shaggy wasn't me.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They've they're collaborating and actually doing a bunch of press
like they've been on all the late night talk shows
and whatever else.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, we play the music, but it's horrible. Reggy says,
it wasn't me. Bro bro bro bro bro bro.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Whereas Steve Steve the wrestler has said this is the
final year that he will do any appearances with makeup on. Okay,
so kind of like kissed it all those years ago,
and then they realized how much money here? Yeah, okay,
so sting the wrestler, no doubt a year from now
will be like, eh, you know what, not as many
(04:29):
people coming. When I'm standing here as Steve Borden, it's
like all as opposed to stink. It's like all the
Motley Crewe retirement concerts. This is this is our last.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Well, this is it. We're this is our last. Okay,
we'll do another well.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And then they because they claimed it was like all right,
makes it bad health and this and that, and then
they kicked him out of the band and said outa
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three in NFL Free Agency, we are still waiting for
what we thought was going to be one of the
big stories today because we've been on a great schedule. Right,
we had two quarterbacks on Monday, we had Daniel Jones yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Great.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Now we have Aaron Rodgers Russell Wilson ready to go today.
Aaron Rodgers officially released by the New York Jets at
four pm. No decision for both of them. We've got
Mike Williams going back to the Chargers. Another nice move
for them. Charge Charge is making us some nice little
sneaky moves here, although they should have got Havn ingram
eron Ingram to the to the BRONCX is a big deal.
But uh, still waiting for the next shoot a drop
(05:39):
for Aaron Rodgers and for Russell might be waiting while
And I want to say this. I want to say
this because you know, the last couple of days, this
Sam Darnold Vikings take that we've had people hate incredibly
viral has been insane and mainly a lot of people
that you know Vikings fans are disagree with my take
that the big Hey, how do you let the guy
(06:01):
come in, do what he did and walk out and
you don't get anything for him? You get a compensation
pick that's basically a fourth round pick.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Ah, that's I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes, that's because that's exactly the value of a quarterback
that throws thirty five touchdowns, four thousand yards, goes to
a Pro Bowl, leads you to fourteen and three.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That's the exact value.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What's loss for everybody here, though, is that you got
back on the Sam Donald bandwagon with this take. Because
remember as soon as it was Sam Sam Sam saying
I could play the tape, Yeah, celebrated everything and it
was Sam Donald's gonna be the greatest thing. And then
as soon as he was no longer a jet, I
mean he was bully and good calls three thousand bucks
for a lifetime. Ah Now, And this is why I
(06:39):
bring this up again because I want to say this right,
because I want to say this, and I don't care
one way or another, but I think this should what
happened if the Vikings sign Aaron Rodgers, because the two
teams we've been hearing for Aaron Rodgers so far has
been the Steelers are the Giants, right, that's Steelers Giants,
the same thing for Russell Wilson, Steelers Giants, Steelers Giants.
(07:00):
Vikings have been a team that we've seen some insiders
say that's where he really wants to go. That's why
I'm like, really, the dude wants to do exactly what.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Brett far did. Come on, man, it's funny. It was.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was a good story for us because it would
be some comedy tonight. It would be insane tragedy tomorrow,
comedy tonight. But there's a lot of insiders and seeing
reports that Rogers and the Vikings they are waiting for
some kind of mutual interest for Rogers to go to
the Vikings. And I'm saying to myself, so he wants
to go there where Allegedly there they love JJ McCarthy
(07:33):
and they want him to be the quarterback so much
so they told Sam Darnold, Hey, we're gonna let you
go for nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We'll get a compick for you. Good luck, Sam, and.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Then we're gonna go spend all that money on all
these because they've done a great job in free agency.
They did right. They could have signed Darnold a week
and a half two weeks ago to sort of franchised
him and traded him. You didn't have to wait until
the first day of free ag There is another thing
that all the Vikings maan, oh, but.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Look at the money we spent.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, you could have done this anytime in the two
weeks before if you could have franchised himyet up till
March fourth to make the decision. You could have franchised him,
take him two weeks to figure things out. But no, no, no,
nobody wants to see the facts. Okay, that's had forty million,
they might have been stuck now, which wouldn't have been
the worst. The Seahawks gave him one hundred million, he
wouldn't have been stuck at forty million.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
They still get.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, But they didn't want to give him forty eight. Okay,
forty million for a year, and the six say okay,
how about three years and one hundred and ten, But
the guarantee is only fifty five, right, But three years.
They still still could have done that. They still wanted
him that bad. They still could have found out a
way to say, okay, well it's forty it's seven million
more than we wanted to spend. But again, we're upsetting
the apple card of our franch we're trading away our quarterback,
(08:38):
we're bringing you, and we're making your guy for three years.
They would have been okay, swallowing ex jets that we're
having these arguments somewhere in the bowels of the you know,
your stomach. It's a it's a bit of good queasiness
that the rest of the world now wants the guys
you your team couldn't figure out how to make work.
What people don't know is every free agent that signed
(08:58):
this off season has been with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Every single one, no matter what, got some way, he
was with the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But I want to say this, that is what I
want to say this right, is that if the Vikings
sign Aaron Rodgers and so, their strategy was, Okay, we
have a twenty seven year old quarterback who was one
of the top three quarterbacks in the conference, great year.
We could have kept him for a year and for
we could have kept him. No, no, no, we're gonna
(09:25):
let him go because we love the guy behind him
so much. Okay, we love him so much. We're gonna
bring in an older guy not as good to be
the quarterback until he's ready. If they do that, every
single person, every single person's commented in my time this,
you owe a Yomi apology or b get off Twitter.
(09:47):
If that happens, then you have absolutely zero leg to
stand on. Frameing because now it's yeah, we watched a
guy come in who is great and decided, oh yeah, yeah,
for a year, we're gonna have a guy that's worse
and is older and we don't know what he has
left any and that's our decision. Like, if that's what
the Vikings wind up doing, yes, apologies, and everybody leaves,
and by this point Twitter would go out of business
(10:09):
because I think everybody is commented on this, So that's
what would happen. I want everybody if the Vikings do that,
I mean, I don't know. I don't what you could
say to defend that franchise.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I don't know. I didn't want to Sam, but we'll
let Rogers come in. Oh but not JJ. So not
only would it not be Donald or JJ McCarthy, it's
door number three of a forty year old quarterback that
nobody else wants. Nobody else wants. Okay, great works, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The general rule of thumb is someone wants to be
the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
How does that make you the smartest guy room?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I know it doesn't mean that you are, but you
want to convince yourself that you can do something. And
we've seen the reclamation projects. That's what Sam Donald was
with O'Connell right that he had a little bit of
a run with one of the quarterback gurus. So it's like,
all right, now we're gonna take him and if we
have to break glass case of emergency, we can make
him something. And then he goes out and has a
(11:03):
monster year. So if you're O'Connell and you're the Vikings,
and now you've built this roster and we can go
through and do the dramatic reading of all of their
acquisitions in the post Sam hours because it's been plentiful,
like they've done a lot of work for the roster.
Is you're taking Aaron Rodgers out his word and be
curious to see what the dollar value is, right if
he signs in the mid twenties or something like that,
(11:25):
or thirty million dollars. And he's really looking to be
that mentor for JJ McCarthy. Because all along, my whole
thing is are we sure that physically JJ McCarthy's gonna
be ready to go? Didn't he have to have a
second procedure to clean up whatever that happened and he's
gotta be surgery.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
He decided we don't want sam donold. We're okay with him,
oh now, but now we want somebody else. This is
like this, here's what the Vikings are doing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Say I'm the Vikings, and you come and you go, Jason,
here's the best sandwich I could possibly make for you
in the time, right because getting samd Okay, what is
Edit's got perscudo and it's got horse radish and cheddar cheese,
and it's got onions that are so crisp and they're
so tasty, and it's on the softest bread possible. And
I can go here, you can have the whole sandwich.
(12:09):
And I'm like, okay, great, and I take a few
bites of that sandwich. I go, wow, this sandwich is
really good. I got three quarters of that sandwich left.
This is the best You're right, this is the best
sandwich I could possibly I can't believe this is so great.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Great. So you're gonna finish it?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
No, no, no, no no, I'm not gonna have any
more of it, and I'm gonna push it to the side. Well,
do you want to save it for later? Nope, I
want to throw it away. I'm gonna take it and
just put it in the trash. There you go boom,
I can't have it anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And said, for the rest of my meal, I want
that old sandwich that was in there. It was stuck
in all the way in the back. That's got the
crust on it, and maybe the bread is really stay
a little bit and the meat is kind of dried out.
Bring me that. That's the sandwich I want to have.
That's what I want to fight. But you had that, Yeah, No,
I know I had that, well, but I don't want
it anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I want that. I want that instead. That's the decision.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Some folks choose a harder path, and it might be
like Homer Simpson, Oh, sandwich, I can't stay mad at you.
This new sandwich can.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Never possibly compared to what you were.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And he's every fight he takes, he goes, oh, and
that it's in the trash and it's he's turning. Yeah,
but he can't be mad. But the idea with Rogers
is that you get whatever like, because look, that's been
the hyperbole of his last six or seven weeks of
the season. Look how much better he was. Look at
those two big games against Miami and Jacksonville that inflated
(13:26):
his second half stats to get him where he was.
Look at his final stats, because all of a sudden,
we're back of the football card, as we talk about
all the time, we're reading those numbers and ignoring everything
else he did. But that's fine. But the hey, he
could be a great mentor and he's ready to be
that guy for your club, as opposed to I'm gonna
(13:47):
stab that guy in the heart and I'm gonna take
his job, which is exactly what Aaron Rodgers is looking
to do.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
This is this is it would be the I I
really it would be.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, we need to have an intervention with how to
run a football team if that, But you hear so
many Rogers and the Vikings, Rodgers and the Vikings, Rodgers
and the Vikings.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It was a fun theory, and now it might actually
come to fruition completing the Brett Favre trilogy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So great, apologize and leave Twitter in that order.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
They'll come back. They'll come back like Hydra with four
other accounts to mock.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
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Russell Wilson the harsh the harsh reality that he might
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the Aaron Rodgers portion of the equation of NFL free
(16:43):
agency a few minutes ago. Is here we are you
a day three, Day three of NFL free agency, And man,
what a lot of teams said? Well, they've said that
to him before and saying it again like doubling down.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I mean, and you wonder why he was so okay
to stay with the Jets. I'll do anything to stay
with the Jet. I really want to stay. Really, he
knows nobody wants him, right, but potentially there could be
a landing spot for him. I don't know that there's
a landing spot for Russell Wilson. And we may have
seen him play his last down in the NFL unless
he's willing to go some place as a backup, a
(17:15):
true backup coming in. This is our guy, and if
something happens, maybe you can get in there. And I
don't think and look and guys like Russell Wilson that
are Hall of famers at the end, that's when you
just walk away. Because think about it this way. When
you're looking at the teams that need a quarterback, right
the teams at the very top of the draft, Titans
(17:35):
and the Browns and the Giants. Right, they all do Okay,
Titans have shown no interest in Russell Wilson. Wilson went
to visit the Browns. But are the Browns really gonna
do that when they pick second? Probably not. There's a
quarterback there for them, that's more. Is he Russell Wilson
trying to just you know, get interest out because the
two teams that he would be the fit for are
(17:56):
the Steelers and the Giants.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And that's it, right, Steelers and Giants. That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And for all of this, he could go back to Pittsburgh.
If the Steelers really wanted him, they'd have signed him already, right,
they decided brought him back. He was a Steeler, he's here,
he's a free agency. You don't let your quarterback hang
out there if you want to bring him back, if
he really wanted to be, if this Steelers really wanted
him back as much as Mike Tomlin loved him, maybe
(18:21):
there was a big intervention of some kind and they said, Mike, dude,
you know this guy really isn't great. Okay, get off
my back. I'm not gonna admit I was wrong, just okay, fine.
If they wanted Russell Wilson, they would have him, And
the same is true of the Giants. If the Giants
wanted Russell Wilson, they would have signed him because it's
an easy signing for Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
For the Giants, it's easy because they could say, well, okay,
we need somebody because we're picking third.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
We like to think a quarterback we like is gonna
be there.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
But maybe we don't like Shador Sanders as much as
everybody thinks we do, but we need somebody. So Russell
Wilson would clearly be either the bridge guy to get
us to Shador Sanders if we wind up taking him,
or maybe Cam war drops because you know, Abdul Carter
goes one and Travis Hunter goes to I mean probably not,
but it covers us. We have the we have the
(19:08):
veteran to get us to Shador Sanders or the veteran
to get us to whoever we want that we take
in the second round of the draft, because they pick
early second, which is where guys like Milroe and Ewers
and McCord and Jackson.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Dart is moving on.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I keep saying mc cordy, I keep drying I still
think I think he's still at the back end of
the first what it's all said, Yeah, it could be right,
but but the Giants can easily then move from early
in the second round move up, so they would have
that covered. They don't want to go in with what
they have right now, which I think is Joe Pisarcik.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So it's your.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Buddy Tommy Cuts. I mean, they didn't re up him
the other day, so you know you got that going
for you. So that that's to me, that's the biggest
key to everything is what are the Giants gonna do
if they believe they're gonna get a quarterback or if
maybe they don't trust this regime to make that quarterback pick,
Because you wonder what's going on behind closed doors there,
right we saw the hard knocks last year. Mara comes
(19:56):
down and says, boy, I got a real problem if
Saquon Barkley goes.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
To the Now, we know we're doing. We know we're doing.
Uh Okay, maybe you don't.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
So maybe hey, Shane and and and uh and Dable
are back, but we're not gonna allow you to pick
another quarterback. So you got to figure something else out
here and there could. I wouldn't be surprised if there
was a big discrepancy between the we got to get
a quarterback early, we have to wait and draft one
and the you know in a year when whatever one
of our guys come, when we get a new regime
(20:23):
in here, whatever it is there's got there's gotta be
some sort of friction going on and a battle in
New York about what they're gonna do a quarterback. But clearly,
no matter what they decide to do, Russell Wilson would
be the guy. Right Aaron Rodgers is not gonna go
to the Giants, they're not interested in him, but Wilson's
the guy. It's either Wilson or you're figuring some some
kind of crazy ass trade out, or you're waiting for
(20:45):
the draft and you're tanking for arch Manning, whatever it is.
So for Russell Wilson, if these teams wanted him, they
would have gotten him already. You see how fast teams
move on quarterbacks. Darnold was out there for eight minutes,
justin fields, out there for nine minutes. Daniel Jones been
everybody way, or maybe Roger Adel said, hey, dude, can
you wait a day so we can have the new cycle.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, sure, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I mean these guys come off the board really fast,
and now they're out there for a reason. So while
Rogers seems to have a little more heat, I really
wonder if that's it for Russell Wilson, because I don't
see where else the fit's gonna be. Yeah, the obvious
fit was me to go back to Pittsburgh from a
pure playing style and aptitude, right because Russell Wilson, what
did we hear all the time we talked about it
a little bit last night when you were sad for
(21:26):
these two guys. I still am sad. I still am
sad that it's ending with them looking so desperate. They're
sweaty with their hats in their hands and they're wringing
their hands, going do.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
You have a job for me? Do you have a job?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They're all Lookabrozia going into the dawn on the Hey guy,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. During this busy time of free agency,
I have to ask you for a favor, but I.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Really need to do that. That's the day.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I mean, they can't refuse a favor, So if you
have one that you need, I mean, that's the day
to do it. I mean, it may feel you know
you're gonna pay a heavy price in the end, but
of Hall of Fame career shouldn't end like this, with
being so desperate to stay well. But it's the decision
of what's your expiration date? Right, Not everybody's Tom Brady
where we're playing into our forties or Warren Moon who
(22:09):
didn't get a shot till he was forty, or all
of those kinds of things. Obviously I exaggerate, but the
point being that, you know, we've just gotten so accustomed
in all these sports of guys playing much longer. I mean,
Drew Brees at the end, what did he have left?
Peyton Manning at the end, what did he have left?
When when we're getting toward turning the odometer over for
(22:31):
Aaron Rodgers, we had a pretty good half a season.
For Russell Wilson, you had a couple of good weeks.
A lot of reports that he and Arthur Smith, who
I think you could throw over the side of the
boat and go find another oc. But that's just me.
But look at those cuddlefish where whoa But the reports
that he and Arthur Smith did not get along is
obviously not helping his cause to come back to Pittsburgh.
(22:53):
The Russell Wilson side of it. With the Giants, it's
the all right, Pat Shermer was their coach in twenty
nine team right, he was the guy that had the
Daniel Jones the beginning of that experiment. And then for
Dable and for Shane it was all right, you'll either
fix him and it'll be you get to carry him
to the next level, have this success like he did
(23:14):
with Josh Allen. Well, unfortunately the guy got hurt, including
a couple of really severe injuries like neck injuries are
no joke, right, We watched that. Whenever a guy gets
that on his report card for the end of the year,
it's like, all right, are we trusting this going forward?
And they decided to move on. So is Dable that
guy or are they supposed to bring in a placeholder
(23:36):
for a year because they like the twenty twenty six
draft that much more. You mentioned Archie Manning. We talk
about it all the time, all the other quarterbacks that
will be in that class that maybe everybody likes a
little bit more. And so you're thinking, we have a
roster that's only going to be so good no matter
who we bring in be it rookie, be it veteran.
(23:59):
And for Mara again, you know what, you could have
just ordered them pay Saquon Barkley whatever the hell he wants. Okay,
you're the owner. You could have done that, right, You
could have done that. You didn't, and they would have
still stunk because like all of a sudden, Barkley is
playing on a dust see. But that's the thing behind
Andrew Towman. Oh wait, he got hurt and the rest
of the offensive line was if I say the word pedestrian,
(24:21):
we all know what I mean. Okay, So that's kind
of where we're at in this process. I look at
it like this, and and this is how I am
sure teams like Pittsburgh and the Giants are looking at
Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Are they near the end? Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Do we want to be in on them a year early?
We don't want to be on them a year too late.
And last year might have been the final year where
you got the best that you're going to get from
both of those players. Because Aaron Rodgers MVP is still
MVP player up until a couple of years ago. He
goes to the Jets he gets hurt, he comes back.
He does have a nice back half of the year,
(24:58):
right the top ten in touch, top ten in yards,
but you see that he's not really the same guy.
So now another year and you think you're gonna get
that same production or is this the year where he
just looks like he's finished when you're in the middle
of week two, and it's the same thing for Russell Wilson. Hey,
here he is third team. He had a little bit
(25:18):
of something left in the middle of the season where
he played where he played okay, and he sparked him up.
But then he saw the end of the season, Russell
Wilson was done. And I get why the stock is
higher on Rogers because he had a better end of
the season than Russell Wilson did. But it's the same
philosophy of Boyd was that the last hurrah for Wilson
was that little bit of run he had middle of
the season when Mike tomlin s thumping is just.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Going, this is why I do what I do.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's why I die, why I get paid what I do.
Right now, we want do we want to get in
for this year, which could be again awful and he
could be washed and why did we do this? So
that that's the big debate that's happening right now. And
if the side of let's go get these guys was
winning again, we'd see them somewhere. But for Wilson especially,
that's the thing where I don't know. I don't know
(26:02):
where things can go. I don't know where the fit is.
If it's not one of these two teams that could
have had him already, I we may just sit out
or decide I'll be a backup. I don't I don't
think that's Russell Wilson's I don't think that's part of
his moo. It shouldn't be part of your remo when
you can't do it anymore, when you're a Hall of
Fame player, you can't do it and say, Okay, you
know I did as long as I could. It's time
for me to go. I'm not going to be this
(26:22):
diminished version of myself. Whoever long it is just to
stay in the game right now. Is Russell Wilson a
Hall of Famer eight seven, seven ninety, I mean Aaron
Rodgers most certainly, his sure is Russell Wilson. I think
he was on the path too. Yeah, And and and
he's got a super Bowl. Right, he's got a super Bowl.
You know I almost had two. But this is this
guy's had a hat he got picked. Well, no, well
(26:46):
it's it's not his fault because they should have taken
the ball out of his hands. It was a bad
pass he gets. He gets more of a pass than
he should for throwing that ridiculous pass that was off
target the bat. But anyway, it's more of a play
call because you don't throw a pass like that. We'll
ask Jason call that. You know about Russe Wilson's Hall
of Fame, but that that's how it. There's a certain
standard you need to own up to and live up
(27:07):
to when you're that kind of player. And it's it's
just it's embarrassing for you, it's embarrassing for us that
it doesn't nobody wins. But if you think you still
have juice and a couple of years ago, the stats, right,
Wilson put up stats for Denver, were they empty? That
he makes a lot of bad decisions. Yes, he was
not very good.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Years ago, and then last year wasn't even as good
as that year.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But if you still think you're better than that guy,
that guy Look, we always talk about how long retirement is. Like,
if you could find someone that's still gonna cut you
a check to keep doing the gig whatever, whatever the
job is, if you can find that team and it
may smack completely of desperation on their part that you're
still there. Like Cleveland's a couple of years removed from
(27:50):
being a playoff team. Now. It took Kevin Stefanski pulling
the string like the greatest puppeteers that we've ever seen,
the greatest marionette right where we finally we got Joe
Flacco off the leaping couch to get that team through.
So Miles Garrett took the giant bag. He stays tough division,
no question, But Cleveland, I mean, And Captain Kirk's over
(28:11):
there in Atlanta, he's the wild card and all of this.
He's that guy sitting in It's like Roman Reigns came in.
You had cm punk fighting the other night against Seth Rollins,
and all of a sudden Rains comes running in to
create chaos. It's the same thing. Captain Kirk sitting over
there and he's torched everything in Atlanta by Oh yeah,
I was hurt.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I was hurt.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They didn't you know you weren't on the injury report,
And when asked about it by local media, Hey, I
you know, I'm just here like I'm not doing media
right now. He basically thumbed his nose at them. And
while they say, hey, he'll be the backup, he's still
in play. He's still circulating and waiting to run into
the ring. Well, to go back to earlier with your
(28:51):
sting analogy, he's up in the rafters with the baseball bat,
ready to charge at any time. Now, I hear your foot,
but I'm I'm gonna counteract with this that Yes, you
may think you can still do it, but in the end,
it's not you that gets to the side, right.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I always, I always go back to the to.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Ron Darling pitch for the Mets in the a's long time,
and and I remember asking him one saying, hey, when
did you know it was time to retire? And he said,
I didn't. The hitters told when it was time to retire.
In this case, this is the NFL telling Aaron Rodgers
and Russell Wilson it's time to retire, but as of now,
but they don't have teams, but as of now they
they're still empty seats. They don't have teams, but they
(29:29):
could have them if you want it. But his Pittsburgh
gonna run with Mason Rudolph coming back if they're gonna,
I mean, obviously, did you do.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
A run run Rudolph?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
There?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I like it. I like that run run Rudolf.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Do you like the Chuck Barrier the Keith Richards version
Chuck Berry is better muzzle?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
But yeah, think about a frostburg How.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Bad is Aaron Rodgers literally eight forty nine dollars for
him not to play there? Following in the footsteps of
that's how bad Russell Wilson eating forty nine million?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
How many Hamburgers?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That has a lot in New.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
York, It's like forty nine hamburgers a less yeah, well yeah,
especially with the Kobe beef, it's that bad or the
wagu or maybe maybe get some that gold flake nonsense
that they like to do.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
So just get right.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
This could have been the end. We might have already
seen the end of Russell Wilson. Oh, you had a
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(30:34):
the Russell Wilson of Fox Sports Radio because he does
high knees at thirty thousand feet whenever he flies.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
It's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I thought you were going to say a marrying and
beautiful pop star.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
But I heard about the highees thing you like to
do when you fly back and forth to Detroit, so
I said that instead.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Yeah, it's Spirit Airlines, Curious Swiftly, I still going on.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I think that's allowed. I think that's one hundred percent allowed.
You can buy it.
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No, he's got to pay extra to do that.
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Yeah?
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Speaker 5 (31:09):
Too, apparently, And you can't even check a towel. No,
you can't even check a towel to wipe off the
Oklahoma City thunder beat. The Boston Celtics in Boston tonight,
just Boston's twelfth home I mean twelve home loss of
the year, one eighteen to one twelve. Shay Gildess Alexander
with thirty four points, seven assists, and uh, let's.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
See chet home, We're gonna have a double double.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Jason Tatum thirty three points, eight rebounds, eight assists in
the loss.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Right now, two games going on.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
The timber Wolves leading the Nuggets twenty eight to twenty two.
Yokich with an eleven points randal. Leading the Bowls was
six at the end of the first quarter. The next
lead the trop Blazers twenty six to twenty one. Clar
Anthony Towns has six points. Games that already got wrapped
up games a note. The Clippers beat the Heat one
nineteen to one oh four. Bognon Bogdanomits with thirty points
(31:56):
on eleven rebounds.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
The Rockets beat the Suns one to eleven to one
oh four.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Bradley Beal with twenty five points in a losing effort,
Jalen Green with twenty nine seven and three, and a
fight here is Mason Plumbley and Steven Adams got into
a back and forth and it's like a real NBA
back and forth.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Like if you look at the still of the video
on ESPN dot com right.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Now, Mason Plumbley is a form tackling Steven Adams. So
it's not just your average Hey, no, you hold me back,
hold me back? No, no, no, they could have used him
holding back here.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He's lucky he got an older Steven Adams, like Steven Addam,
like a few years ago, Steve.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
That wouldn't have been close. Oh yeah, I would not
have been close.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Steven Adams is a guy if you ask for his autograph,
he waits for you to say please. So what's he
gonna do when he's in a scuffle with a guy
is getting after it?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Spurs beat the Avericks one twenty six to one to
sixteen dearon Fox with thirty two points and eleven assists.
The Seahawks just came to terms with DeMarcus Lawrence, who
previously played his last eleven seasons in Dallas. He's now
got a three year, thirty two and a half a
million dollar deal eighteen million guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
We saw.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Damar Hamlin went back on a two year and win
a one year deal to two million dollars with Buffalo.
Mac Jones is going to join the Jacksonville Jaguars on
a two year contract with five million dollars guaranteed. I
think seven and a seven million overall, and I had
one more here. Here you go, Mike Williams back to
la former Chargers wide receiver. He moved on and went
(33:25):
to the Jets and the Steelers last year were back
in Los Angeles. Six million dollars the max on that
one year deal. Back to you guys, Thanks a Bunchmartin.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
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that red line.
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Speaker 4 (34:00):
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That's eight hundred and four Rocket. You used to sweat
every minute of a Syracuse game, and now you don't
even care. Dude, we're fourteen and nineteen. Unless we run
the table, which is gonna happen. We're not going to
the postseason. Man, the long road begins with the first step.
(34:46):
We're tanking for arch Manning. This is the worst season
Syracuse basketball has had in fifty years. Fifty not fifteen,
fifty four years in a row of no NCAA tournament,
like the accuses of Syracuses and sports stone hens, right, boy,
And they used to be really people cared about them.
They were a big deal. But I don't remember why.
Like that's Syracuse basketball now. Well, but again, you gotta
(35:10):
rise back up. I mean, Beaheim's got to get out
there and get the message. No, no, no, you know what
it is is next year is Carmelo's kid has to
be the guy to bring He's got to be the
guy all these years later, because if not, they may
just die. Band the basketball program play we're a football school?
Are we completely a football Is that? Is that what
we're selling?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
What we are because earlier today I got I got
the to have the glory even though they couldn't hit
a free throw to save their souls of a Northwestern
victory in the first round of the Big Ten turnsitions
on that. Yeah, where you're purple with pride differ one
more day? You know we're in purple tonight. How come
it's a victory day for you? You're entirely in black tonight.
You're Johnny Cash. Why are you wearing all black? Why
is there no purple tonight? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I lost. This should be a night you should Why
do you have my purple shoes on?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah? I guess that, but no, no, but you're gonna
wear those anyway like this should have been.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
You decide I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I had my Travis Matthew black victory Wednesday. I'm gonna
come in victory winning again. Victory Wednesday in purple, and
then they're gonna beat Wisconsin tomorrow and I'm gonna be
ensconced in purple there.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Okay, then are you really are you gonna not do it?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
You?
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Sure? Okay?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
All right, beat the Badgers? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Okay, let's go now Day three in NFL free agency.
You thought all the quarterback drama was either behind us
or waiting on Rogers and Russell Wilson. However, some fun
stuffs emerged from the Falcons when it comes to Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Oh yeah, forgot about Kirk captain Kirk Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I remember we talked about him all last off season
and now he's not good anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
No, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
That's a guy who's just sitting there staring at a
pile of money and laughing at everybody. His name is
not come up once, not in trade, not in playing
someplace else, not sources Team X calling for Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Why Well, we've seen a couple of reports today that
the Falcons aren't lying and not bluffing when they say
we are absolutely okay with having Kirk Cousins one more year,
and even though he's gonna be the backup. We have
told him he's going to be the backup. We're eminently
okay with that. Now, are they really okay with it? No,
because they don't want to carry this cap charge on
(37:14):
him for guys gonna be your backup quarterback.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But they were stupid last year by saying, okay, here
Kirk Cousins, here's all this money. Oh now we're gonna
get Michael Penick Junior. So they don't want to really
appear stupid two years.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
In a row.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
So they're gonna do something more stupid, which is keep
Kirk Cousins, even though it's not good for Michael Pennock's development.
If suddenly the guy that was the starter is now
in the backup there, that never works anywhere. So the
Falcons saying we don't want to be stupid two years
in a row, what they're really doing is being more
stupid than they would be. What they're doing, what I
hope is they are pushing putting it to Cousins, saying dude,
(37:49):
we can't move you. Nobody wants this contract that would
that would be due to you. Right, we have dead
cap coming away, but it's fine, it's not something that
we have to really worry about. But this money, you due,
Nobody wants that, so if you want to start somewhere,
we got to figure this money thing out. We got
to figure this out somehow. And that's what they're doing.
That's all they can do because everybody else is saying, hey,
(38:10):
Aaron Rodgers is free, right, Russell Wilson is freel Daniel
Jones was a short deal. Justin Field is a short deal.
Sam Darnold got the longest of any of them. It's
three years, right, So these guys are all for Kirk Cousins. Now,
it's a lot of money for three more years that
you don't know how good the guy is. But would
teams take take a flyer in absolutely, But the money
(38:31):
is so prohibitive, and the fact that he was injured
allegedly and playing badly and got bench last year. What
else do you want to do? The Falcons are just
stuck right now, and the only thing you can do
is let's try to play poker and figure out the money, right,
Because that was the whole thing with Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets two years ago. I'm old enough to remember
when it was, oh, they'll never happen. They got to
figure out the money.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
You can't do it. They can't do it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
It's too much money, too much money, too much dead cap,
too much, it's too much that Hey, what happened.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
The Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Packers figured out a way to trade Aaron Roddy to
the Jets and the money worked out for both sides. Right,
able to figure it out, So you can figure something
out with Kirk Cousins. But this is what they're telling him. Dude,
we can't we can't move you right now. And if
you want to stay here as the backup quarterback and
you're not gonna play, that's the reality. So this is
where Kirk Cousins has to decide, what do I want?
(39:19):
What can I do to try to get someplace where
I can actually start? Yeah, the Atlanta I'm sorry the
Browns beat writer for the Athletic Zach Jackson.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Or the athletic beat writer for the Browns.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Putting out the idea. Yes that Cousins likely goes and
reunites with Stefanski in Cleveland. Here in short order, He's
got a ten million dollars roster bonus due on Monday,
so perhaps over the weekend we get some activity and
where comra they come to and agree on a price
(39:51):
to where as you say with Aaron Rodgers, commerheads prevail
and they move on. Now he's done everything he can
to talk his way out of the situation again trying
to make the Falcons look bad with their use of
him down the stretch that trying to excuse that one
touchdown nine interception stretch as Hey, I wasn't bad. They
(40:14):
were putting me out there and I was playing hurt.
I was taking one for the team.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
I e.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Michael wasn't ready. So I'm still going out there, as
opposed to the Falcon side of it, saying he practiced
all week, he wasn't on the injury report, but one
week and now he's gonna come to Super Bowl week
and in his first media he's gonna try to torpedo us.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
So, yeah, it's a terrible situation. Yeah, I mean this
is what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Looking stupid right now, Yes, and doubling down on looking stupid.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
You think we can look we can look more stupid.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
You're gonna lose this poker game with Kirk Cousins. He's
in the Business Hall of Fame. Exit ab out of
Fresco exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Coming up next,
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