March 2, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss how the new NFL Free Agency Report Cards will forever change free agents deciding on a new team, Arron Rodgers finally speaks on a podcast after his darkness retreat, and Lamar Jackson will ultimately depart from the Ravens next season!
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I saw them first ten minutes of it. Really. Kids
came home and kind of went all right, I'm like,
this is the premiere, this is this is this is
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the start of the new season. What what did Chubanca
show up. Yet something needs to happen. There needs things
to happen. I'm like, hey, I love Carl Weathers more
than a lot of people do. But my good, he's
on screen on camera for like twelve straight minutes and
all he's doing is just talking. I'm going, what is happening?
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Yeah he dies? Oh no he doesn't stop. Don't say that.
Don't say you don't know that you haven't seen the end. No,
I don't know that, but you're talking about that grief.
Carca may still make it your problem. Yeah, Frostburg, Yeah,
you're you're the new spoiler if that actually happens. Oh,
because you guys have never spoiled anything. Hey, I don't
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spoil things that aren't more than like twenty five years old.
You're spoiling something that's but you've caused a movie entertainment
business billions and taken a lot of Tom Cruise heavy shoulder,
heavy weight on his shoulders to bring it back from
what you did do and Smith billions and billions billions. Yeah,
it's exactly. Think about all the people that are out
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of work, because now I did watch the first ten
minutes or so, and the whole time. In the back
of my head, I wanted to go watch a Chappelle's
Show skit and I didn't show which one I'm thinking of. Yeah,
I'm yeah, Oh no, no, I'm with you. I feel
we're on the same wavelength. I mean, why do you
get deeper into it and you're going, really, this is it.
You can't do those skits anymore, Mike, I got I
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got this one. You could actually, well, there was one
of the few that you could. There's not met. But
if you were to take all those seasons and and
say all right, we need to this, you can make
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you're I'm still gonna watch it to make you see
see what happens. Hopefully something exciting happened to Gator get
his hand. Maybe maybe Luke shows up or something. I
don't know, maybe something happens. I gotta hope something. I mean,
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I know there was I saw a tease for a
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Drago is now involved in Yes, now that would be something.
Here's Thunderland. But today, finally Aaron Rodgers broke his silence.
He came out of the dark and spoke. I keep
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thinking about that glorious Stefan song coming out of the
dark and finally see the lid now coming out, Yeah,
coming out of the I finally see the lid never
former minority owners of the Dolphins, right, well that was
her and was Serena right? Yeah? Everybody? Yeah? Uh So
(04:05):
Aaron Rodgers finally spoke out of the darkness. He went
on the Aubrey Marcus podcast. So draw your own conclusion
that either he's feuding and is never going to talk
to Pat McAfee again, or Pat McAfee's off. So he
goes on the Aubrey Marcus podcast, which I gotta think
there's something happening there because why wouldn't he wait, Why
wouldn't he go talk? Free agency doesn't begin until March fifteenth.
(04:27):
Why wouldn't he wait and talk to Pat McAfee, So,
can I give you the the first line of the
biography of Aubrey Marcus. Sure, go ahead. He's an experimentalist,
unconventional fitness junkie, and human optimizer. Oh that makes sense.
That's a thing, human optimizer. Evidently, that sounds like it's
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it's the CEO of Wait, it's a guy. Human optimizer
sounds like the sounds like the guy they go visit
in a Transformers movie that's gonna turn a person into
a into an autobot, goes to the human optimize or
what happens. He'll turn you into whatever you want to
What do you want to be? You want to but
you want to be a semi truck, you want to
be a sports car? What do you want? He'll turn
you into anything, the human optimized. I thought it was
(05:09):
a girls podcast. Aubrey Marcus Aubrey No, no, no, no no, no,
Aubrey Martin hup, Aubrey hup. Yeah, human optim Well, okay,
he's got he's got issues. But well, but I'm just saying,
there is precedence for the man. There is Aubrey, there is,
and that was, Uh, we have any other examples? No, no, no,
no, no no, Because what's your name? No, no, no, wait
wait at the camp's character was Aubrey and pitch perfect. Yeah,
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but we were he was wondering if it was you know,
he came out out of the darkness and did a
favor for you know, Mallory Eden's friend or something named Off.
Now that's what I thought, out of the darkness. No, no,
that would be just I'm on the Mallory Eden's podcast,
and that would be I would go straight to that.
There's gonna be there's no waiting to try to figure
that outcast all right, he goes on the easy a Legend,
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he goes on the Aubrey Martin. Frostburg is just happy
because the Lakers had their biggest I was gonna say,
is he had a night off, So happy anniversary. Congratulations,
Oh thank you, Mike, and you came back all positive
and yeah, the Lakers have won two in a row.
Life is good. Frostberg said to me before the show.
I'm never taking off again. I take off one night
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in the King's Trade, Jonathan Quick, I'm never taking a
night off business. Never person Rogers too soon that he
was just a cut. Yeah, but Frostberg, let's think about
the day that was. It was Kane going to the
Rangers like, yeah, no, he's too busy, h with politics,
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Patrick Kane. Yeah so Patrick Kane, Jonathan Quick, But those
were two guys that are in intertwined in NHL history forever.
If not for Patrick Kane, the Kings would have had
like seven Stanley Cups. Let's just dump Jonathan Quick are
two time Stanley Cup winning goalie. Just dump, not even
tell him where we're going to treat It was the
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right move real quick. Fine, but you got to treat
a guy that's done that to a little bit better
and prepare him for the truth. For the cops beat it.
That's kind of what I said yesterday. I asked it
happened prosper goblos forbating them. So Aaron Rodgers speaks and
he talked about his future, and he said that a
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decision is coming well somewhat quickly. There's a finality to
the decision, and I don't make it lightly. I don't
want to drag anybody around. Look, I'm answering questions about
it because I get asked about it. I'm talking about
it because it's important to me. If you don't like
it and you think it's drama. I think I'm being
a diva or whatever, then just tune it out. That's fine.
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But this is my life. It's important to me, and
I'll make a decision soon enough, and then we'll go
down that road be really excited about it. Why is
he whispering on this podcasts? This is there podcast where
it's hey, we're just going to talk like this and
there's going to be no energy. Is he in a
retirement home and he got yelled at by the guy
on the other side of the wall bank and I
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you're too loud. It sounds like his eyes were burning,
like the sun was out or something. I have my
eyes closed, and I'm sitting here in a in a
complete sensory deprivation chamber doing a podcast with you. That's
what I'm doing. I'm just wearing really dark glasses right now.
We're not talking loud. We're just talking, and I'm talking
about the few. In fact, I'm not even speaking. Look
at me. I'm not even moving my mouth. I am
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making you hear me by using just my mind. That's
what I learned in the darkness or treat You don't
have to speak. Speaking is overrated. Now if that's the truth. Man.
Then then I need to go to Guatemala. Like I
was telling you guys, you can just go to Oregon instead.
You know, it's a lot cheaper, Mike, But I've been
to Oregon before. I need to check something else off
on the on the list of places, all the places
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you'll go. I'm not just embracing my weirdness. I am
enveloping myself in it like it's a cloak, and I'm
just to be weird all the way to the end
of it. So if you don't like him, don't watch,
you know, listen now he's right. Look. Look, first of all,
you gotta call him a diva and a drop, yes,
because that's exactly what he is. But what does this mean?
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Decision is coming soon? This is very simple. This is
not Aaron Rodgers on some existential retreat like he would
like you to believe. This is not him. I look
at my future in the shapes of the rocks that
are in front of me. Right, I got tarot cards
in front of me. Oh my goodness, it's the Ace
of Spades, the death card. No, what he's saying is, hey,
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decision is coming, and all of these things I need
to look at in my life. I need to be
at peace. Meanwhile, what's going on is that it's okay.
Can I get to a destination that is good enough
for me. That's all that's happening right now. Because it's
clear the Packers do not want him back. That is
the number one thing you can take away from the
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last few days. Returning to the Packers looks like it
is off the table. The Packers have talked about moving on.
They've said, we don't know what's happening yet. Maybe Aaron
Rodgers is gonna stick us with having to figure things out,
but it is clear the Packers have made their intentions known.
We would rather you not come back. We are ready
to move on. So now the decision is the Jets
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are nobody right, that's gonna that's gonna be what this
is what I'm afraid it's gonna come. Why I think
the Jets are gonna wind up with Geno Smith at
the end, because it's gonna come to Aaron Rodgers, who's
gonna want to play and they're gonna say where can
we go? And the Packers gonna say, hey, we have
a deal with the Jets. They're gonna give us a
first round pick and something else. We figured out the money,
you're going to the Jets. What about the Raiders not interested?
What about some other teams not and what about Nashville
not interested? Oh okay, so it's the Jets are nobody. Yes,
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m I may have to pick nobody. That's my big
fear that that's what it's gonna come out to be.
Because right now he's trying to figure out can I
get to a destination that I will be happy at,
that I can play in the next year or two
and potentially win or at least not embarrass myself. I
want to try to see if I can win, But
I don't want to fall off the cliff and be like,
oh now everybody's got to get out of my contract
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after this year. That's what's happening right now. This is
what this is what all the silence has been, and
all the silence we're getting. Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to
ever seem like he's desperate. You know what, it seemed
like I'm hanging out here to try to figure something out. No,
what's going on behind closed doors is can we get
you someplace where you're going to be happy? Because in
Aaron Rodgers trade will happen quickly. It's not gonna be Hey,
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here's a report and here's some negotiation. It's gonna be boom.
Aaron Rodgers traded to Jets. Aaron Rodgers traded here. That's
what's going to happen, because it's gonna He's not gonna
seem like I may not be as sought after as
I wanted to. That's what all of this is about.
Right now, Can I get to a destination where I
want to? And if I can, great, I'll still play.
And if you're telling me it's the Jets or nobody,
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I got some thinking to do, because I'm telling you, man,
if it's the Jets or nobody, I could just say, oh,
the Jets are running unopposed, and they'll find a way
to lose, and we're gonna get Geno Smith. They will
find a way. If it's the Jets or nobody, they
will find a way to lose this and it's gonna
be nobody. I can see it. I can see it,
Mike Harmon, I see it. I don't even need to
be I could see it in the middle of a
darkness room with the lights off and a blindfold over
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my eyes, twenty thousand feet underground. I could see it happening. Yeah,
I see. You saw the report of New Orleans bringing
the beign Yetts and gumbo and jumbalai and everything to
Indianapolis for Derek Carr. So maybe you don't even get
that one. For Rogers, he does hold the cards in
this one, though. He can make this as easier as
painful for the Packers as he wants, and for him
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it's say, all right, how do I want this to go?
And he gets to exercise that. What the money considerations are?
All of those things the Packers I think in their
press availability, most of which was done to the local media,
they did a good job of kind of laying it
out of you know, Jordan Love it's time for him,
he needs to play. But there's that in Green Bay
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or somewhere else. They still left it to where get
some wiggle room and some weasel words as are he
Ben Maller would say along because he uses that in
conversation with us. Uh, well, like every other week when
we see him. But with the idea that you know,
Rogers just he doesn't want to drag this out because
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it's not good for the energy that he's trying to
go as if we look to the optimizer, you want
to optimize your living and having this hanging in the
balance is not good for your energy. Man, it's just
not see what I did. I bought into the optimization
of his life and compartmentalization, So good for him. It's
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gonna be the Jets or nobody that's gonna say, hey,
it's the Jets or nobody. He either comes to some
eleven hour deal with the packers because they've been moving
money around for all these other guys. There's that sliver
that he just says, I'm going to walk the earth
because he is that kind of guy and he can
go work for on it. O double n I t
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So while we're getting set for free agency in the NFL,
and Aaron Rodgers is speaking breaking his silence in a
very softly worded podcast he did today, the Aubrey Plaza Podcast.
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Something happened that I am stunned hasn't happened before. I
really thought, now that you tie those together, you say
Aubrey Plaza and then something that hasn't happened before. She
had a lot of controversy coming out of the weekend
and her outbate everything nice. Yeah, yeah, you can slip
that one by me. What does she so? What is
she's so mad about? On stage? Why did she say
(15:03):
jac Why is she so mad? Oh? Oh, I get
it because she had a wardrobe bellfunction. Oh now I
get it. Because she's an actress and she likes when
people think she's over the top and great because that's
her whole brand. If you haven't noticed, yeah, somebody wrote
you know when they when um. Somebody wrote on social
media the other day and I laughed out loud. So
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much of it is that, you know, when they talk
about It wasn't a mean to but it was about people.
And someone wrote Aubrey Plasa. To me, seems like she's
somebody who has come from another planet to study us.
But she got really famous and now she can't go back,
so she's gotta stand. Uh all right, I gotta gotta
stay here now. Um So, the NFL Players Association on
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Wednesday released what it describes as free agency report cards
for all thirty two teams. What does this mean? Is
this like how good teams do in free and she no, no, no.
This is the results of a player survey on topics
that rain from quality of team facilities, treatment of player families.
So basically what it is is that, hey, what teams
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treat you the best when you're looking for a new team, Like,
what teams do it right? What teams treat have the
best facilities? What teams treat players families the right way?
And this is a huge deal And I can't believe
we haven't seen this more before because this is something
that would shape many people's decisions. Who's at the top? What, Hey,
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what teams are the most family friendly and player friendly?
Who treats their free agents when they come from from
a different situation, who treats them the best? The three
top ranked teams overall in order, the Minnesota Vikings, the
Miami Dolphins, and the lots that treats your team the best.
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That's the best shot on the whole list. It's eye opening.
The Vikings, the Dolphins, and the Raiders. Okay, those other
three teams that treat people about Well, all the Raiders
have to do is take you down the Vegas Strip
and they're gonna go Is this all stuff you offer
as a team. No, we're just here in Vegas. Don't
you want to come here? Oh? Yeah, that's true. We
don't offer anything. We don't have we don't even practice,
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we don't have any of that. We don't have a
field or anything. Just show up for the game on Sunday.
Just do whatever you want. We'll give you a stipend
for Vegas for the rest of the season. It's all good. Really, Yeah, yeah,
come taking a show, do all this stuff. It's great.
But but what about like like training table and what
about like the cafeteria. Yeah, we have any of that.
We just give you money. Go do whatever you want.
Show up for the game on Sunday. Hey when we'll
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playing away game. We fly out on Friday though. Okay,
so just make sure, you're there for the playing on Friday.
Everything else, we don't care. We're Vegas. Yeah. Both the
Dolphins and Raiders also hold up sign saying you get
to keep eight to ten percent of the salary. There's
no state income tax here. Come on in the water's fine,
because there's been a lot of complaining about that up
in New York State again by potential free agents looking
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to get the to maximize their dollars. The bottom three teams, now,
so those are the top three teams. Who treats you
the best? The Vikings, the Dolphins, and the Raiders. The
bottom three Jets, No, the Chargers, the Cardinals, and the Commanders.
The commander's ranking dead last in how well they do
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free agency key combilities player families charges were thirtieth, Cardinals
thirty first, Commanders thirty second. They treat me pretty well well.
That's They also hold up a big side saying a
third of your check has already been taken out. Yeah yeah, hey,
and justin Frostburg works for them. Oh well, hey, I
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gotta put them down on. So Chargers, Cardinals, and the
Commanders at the bottom. And there's so many things that
go into this. It's player health, and safety. There's facilities
and practice fields and it's everything that you would want
to know about. If you're taking a free agent tour.
What am I gonna lie? It's not always about that.
I mean, look, you want to get paid. And if
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there's a if there's a team that has great facilities
and they're gonna pay you twenty five million dollars, there's
a team with okay, facilities that that is just all right,
and they want to pay you fifty million dollars. Okay, yeah,
you're still going to the one that's gonna pay you
fifty million dollars. But if it's close, if it's some boy,
I could see myself here, I could see myself here.
Look at how well they do it. It's just like
any other job when you're looking to jump. Hey, you know,
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I got an interview at this place I don't know.
And you walk in and you have your interview and
they want to offer you the job, and you're wowed.
They take you around a tour of the facilities, they
take you out to lunch, and they show you all
the different things can happen. I mean, that's what you want,
and you want to go to a company that does
things because it's your life. You make a bad decision,
this holds your career back. Same thing for the NFL.
So I can't believe this isn't something that's been around
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for so long that we haven't heard about or talked
about more than it is right now, because this is
a big deal that you wonder people are staying around. Wait,
whoa the Vikings? WHOA the Vikings? Well maybe I gotta
go see the Vikings now maybe they weren't on my list,
but now they're on my list because they supposedly do
everything right when it comes to all these different things,
which we're gonna get into in a second. But that's
how that's how big a deal this is. This is
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something like the Vikings can put on on a on
a brochure and go, hey, come here, we're the number
one rated team for free agents. Well, it's like a
vacation um destination that is voted number one by on Airbnb,
and you you print that up and put that in advertisements,
say number one destination on Airbnb, this resort, this place.
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That's a really big deal. And now the teams that
do it well are going to get more interest from
players and the teams that don't may get less interest
now and that say, well, now we got to give
them extra money because they're not gonna come play for
us because we're rated at the very body you're putting
this though, just as another data point, well, how much
it affects? Look because behind the scenes, I mean this
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has been done informally by players talking to each other forever.
Oh yeah, quote tampering of it all, and hey, what's
that place like at all? I mean it's nice to
get some quantification of it. You got treatment of families, nutrition,
weight room, strength staff, training room, training staff, locker room,
and travel are the categories that are in the piece
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here put out NFLPA dot com and you can go
through and sort by each and see where your beloved
teams rank. So I think that's that's kind of cool.
I'd love to see the comment cards that went with it,
because you do have is a level of specificity with
some of it that came out. For instance, on the downside,
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when we talk about the Arizona Cardinals that they don't
have enough trainers. Yeah, like just flat out we don't
have enough people in the room to help with the process, right,
Some teams, and this goes to the ravens, and you know,
I went about with the chargers charges out of C minus.
On the training staff side of things, well, now they've
seen some changes, whether what ever spurred that on. They
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put that sea up in the window, Like when you
go to a restaurant, Well, you gotta see I'm not
eating here, see like the bear not eating here. Maybe
they have to do that. Maybe these teams have to
put the have to put it up in the window
of their facility. You're sorry, he's sorry. A overall great
we got to see is a bee stopping you from
eating somewhere? Uh? In the beginning, it did, it really did,
but now not even oh sure, like well why do
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you have a bee? Why do you see what the
reasons are? And it's like, oh, those rat droppings or
something else. Generally that's at a place where they most
of the food is fried, so you let it go. Yeah,
but it's I mean subway, it's not even real. It's
a little bit of no. I actually don't actually don't
have tun I made a nice cheta noodle castrole today.
By the way, listen, subway a subway is subway club
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or the rotisserie chicken. That's that's where I go with
subway man. I had a subway club last night. I
don't doubt it. They loaded up with mayonnaise too. Oh
it's so good. I really couldn't tell you the last
time I ate a sandwich. So here's some of the
things that mark some teams down right. Three of the
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league's thirty two teams don't keep their cafeteria is open
for dinner. I mean, this is the National Football League
where Hey, I'm hungry. I'm here watching film. Oh yeah,
sorrybody's gone home. Can I get any food? Nope, got
to order out dollars and we got a guy that
any any sandwich shop you need? Did it say what
team that was? I was a freshman in high school,
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and I could get in college and I could get
food anytime I wanted to. I'm not played for a
professional football team. And the cafeteria is not open for dinner.
If I don't get there by three o'clock, I can't
eat the same the Cardinals and well, to nobody's surprises,
the Bengals. Jason, you can never play for an NFL
team If that's the case. Oh no, I'm done, man,
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I'm like, I'm not getting up hung By the time
I got up and got in at like noon, they
would be ready to close. I'm like, Noah, I'm sorry,
I can't. Yeah, but how do you like this from
the Bidwells. According to the report, they're willing to box
dinner in season, but they charge box and payroll deduction.
We're gonna box and they also charge you for offseason meals.
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Who what team was this? That was Arizona? This is
the Cardinals, And you wonder why the Cardinals can't win
and people don't want to be in there, like Kyler
Murray tells you to go plague yourself. Yeah, in the
weight room. Uneven floors and peeling floorboards also attributed to
the garden a lot of Wow, they got a lot
of problems. You know what Bidwell got his revenue share,
(24:30):
He didn't give a lot of fs. Can there's those
state tax there? Yeah, now there's that. Uh. The teams
that really take it in the teeth right now, the
Cardinals and the Bengals because a lot of these things
like well the Bengals, of course, the Bengals don't provide
nutritional supplements, no traditional supplements. Can I get a vitamin? No?
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Can I get a vegetable. No, they close the window
on you. No leave, you can't. But wait, but I'm here.
Don't you want me to be at my best? You
go to GNC like Alex Teisher, does it get your
own stuff? Okay? No, offensive line is weak. Yeah, hey
we got nutritional supplements. No way, man, Come on, you guys.
Why Joe Burrow gets sacked a thousand pounds this season? Wait,
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let's see where they're at in the weight room. How
come the offensive line and only bench press like seventy
five pounds a piece? On? They need the supplements. Man,
they don't have any nutritional supplements. You do know what
its chargers one Mike's sorry real quick. The chargers two
f's are are erroneous. Okay, what what are the fs?
Because they that's not even their facility they just rented
because they're building their facility. They're two apps are for Frostburg.
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Well yeah, that's enough. Plus what was it nutrition and
training room? Yeah? Uh so that dozz will change once
they move into their new facility. So yeah. The Jaguars
also have a lot of difficulty because they had a
rodent problem during the season. Okay, there's a rat infestation
in the locker room and laundry hampers that you can
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help that out with. Just you see the next day,
like interns are breaking in snakes and let them loose
in the locker room. Wait, what's going on here? When
we got some pythons either take care of the rats?
Whoa wo wo wo? Why is there a gator in
the jacuzzi? Then we got to bring in the gator
to take care of these snakes. They just keep bringing
in bigger apex predators to take care of what's going on.
You know what, Now there's just the cocaine bear and
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it just cleans it all out. Right. Hey, the bear
is the last one we bring in. Man, you know
we're bringing the cocaine bear and that's the last cleanings.
One more, one more opportunity to clean this up. Or
you know where we're going. We're tabbing the elbow to
get the closer ones. That really amazed me. Where they
how do you get an F for travel? Well, because
they don't. Uh, I'll let their players fly first class?
(26:48):
What does that even mean? It means like if I
if I'm they're all chartered flights, aren't they? If I'm not,
not all of them, not all of them, or it
could have none our commercials and yes they all are no, no, no,
but it could be where if a player is flying
a different day or they're flying someplace else, hey, they're
going to be Well, that doesn't happen in the NFL.
You have every every team member has to be on
the plane. Yeah, but they want that, you know, if
(27:09):
you're if I'm flying someplace else, that you're paying for
the flight for me. Whether it could be hey, there's
a big um. You know one of the players is
having a you know, justin Herbert's having a football camp.
So I'm flying out. Yes, the Chargers will fly you
out there, but we're not going to fly you out
in but it's not so that's not in season but
plane service, I think stuff. Right, But this is all
(27:34):
things that happen that when you may need to fly,
they don't fly you first class. So that that that's
that's what it is. It's not it's not the it's
not that not stop that jack could be it could
be a charter plane. We all like god, coach seats
No exactly right that I think that's I think it's
probably a comfort and amenities on said plane. Hey, you
(27:57):
know I could get was a fourteen seater. We got
fifty three guys on this plane and coaches. Jack it up, baby,
let's go. I just know on the charter and I
mean I gotta I gotta beg them to stop feeding me.
Oh man, it's like you're going to Europe. The only
other thing that was worse for the Jaguars was that
they got a worse grade than the D minus because
of the rats was for family treatment because they're one
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of fourteen teams that don't offer a family room and
players wives breastfeed their kids on the floor of the
stadium's public restaurs I mean really, so you can walk
into a public restauran going, oh that's wait, wait, there's
Trevor Lawrence's wife. What is happening here? I mean, really,
you're you're breastfeeding your kid on the floor of a
(28:41):
public restroom in the stadium. You don't have a you
don't have a room where they could go. Did they
do that? Really? You know? I mean it's Jacksonville. There's
a lot of space. There's a lot of space. You
could do that with Ben, but we're on the floor,
like Kevin James's wife and grown ups. Uh, The Jaguars
also one of eleven teams that don't provide daycare at
the stadium, So when you come to the game, it's, hey,
(29:03):
can make sure you got to watch a kid. Yeah, well,
but they don't watch them for you though there's probably
you know, they don't have a personalized lifeguard. Well how
about you stop bringing sand to the beach. I mean,
it's really, it's it's it's this is so eye opening
for anybody who's looking for a destination. Oh well, they
don't do this. They don't do that because you know, look,
anytime you travel, you go someplace, you like amenities. Man,
(29:26):
I like amenities. Everybody likes amenities, and there's no amenities here.
Not everybody got CBD rubdowns. Okay, you gonna say we
were in Vegas five minutes. It's like, yeah, I'm eating
and I'm gonna go get my massage schedules. Hey, listen,
those women were a little afraid. And how aggressively you
stormed the capsule there. Yeah, let's just say it ended
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like a Disney movie. Oh man, I mean this is
eye opening. This. I can't tell you what a big
deal this report is for players and how it's going
to affect free agent. After free agency begins and guys
sign away from these squads at the bottom. We really
need to make an effort. We don't. We don't do
a lot of random interviews on this show, but this
requires it. So what was the number one reason you
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the ti Irac dot Com studios Now. Eventually and sometimes
your friends wind up breaking up or getting divorce. It happens.
It's part of life, right, like fifty percent of all
marriages and in divorce. Sometimes it comes as a surprise
to you. Sometimes, well I didn't know this happened. Yoh, yeah,
I'm sorry. We didn't talk about it, but it was
something that was private. We just decided. Sometimes you will
(30:54):
get people because they We want to prepare our friends,
We want to be able to be friends with everybody.
We don't want this to be really weird. So they'll
go out and they'll sit down at dinner and they'll say, listen,
we're getting divorced. Look it's nobody's fault. We're just growing apart.
But hey, don't feel weird. We want you to still
be Mark. You can still be my friend, you could
still be her friend. We don't want it to be
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that way. And it becomes a process that is, hey,
we want everybody to understand this is what's happening. I
say this because this is what's happening right now with
the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. Today at the NFL Combine
Ravens GM Eric da Costa talked about how much he
covets and loves Lamar Jackson, but the Raven's it gonna
(31:37):
do what's best for the Ravens. Do we have the
Eric da Costa? Okay, we don't have that. The quote
from Eric da Costa is this quote. I covet great players,
I covet quarterbacks, and I love Lamar. That is not
factored in one time with me. We want to do
what's best for the club. We try to do what
(31:58):
we can for Lamar. We want to make everybody happy.
That's not a quote that says we want to make
everybody happy. That we love Lamar, but we're gonna do
what's best for the club first, and we also will
try to do what we can for Lamar. I mean,
I can't believe anybody still thinks, oh that they're they're
gonna figure it out. They're going to come to No,
(32:18):
he wants more than one hundred million dollars of guaranteed
money that the Ravens want to give him. All right, Steve,
Steve Bischotti. Steve Bischotti is not going to suddenly say okay,
I'll pony up another hundred million. They're not gonna do it.
But they all love Lamar. I look, look, hey, this
is not person. We all love each other. You know,
we love Lamar. But but we're moving towards a divorce
(32:41):
and Lamar Jackson's not going to be a Raven anymore.
Look here's John Harbaugh basically echoing what to cost Us
said earlier today. He's my cornerback, he's my guy. I
love him as a coach. I just I'm looking forward
to see it and get done. But it's not easy.
It's never easy. It's the business part of it. So
but I'm really hopeful and excited, fervently hopeful, and I
can't wait for to get done it. Yeah, he's a guy.
(33:01):
I'm fervently hopeful. I'm fervently hopeful. That's the greatest use
of the word fervently that I've heard this week. He's
my guy. Look, it's it's I love him, but we'll
have to change. Yeah, I love him, but you know, hey,
we really you know, you know we're gonna wind up
bowler man. Look, what's exactly gonna happen is this? You know,
(33:23):
if he was going to stay, they would have hit
a situation by now. And this is not Dak Prescott
where I'm just holding out because Jerry Jones is gonna
pay me. You know, there are big time differences because
Jerry Jones even said we're gonna pay him. Oh, it's great,
all the bargaining power the cowboys at Yeah, we're gonna
pay him. Lamar Jackson wants more guaranteed money than Deshaun Watson.
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He's not gonna come off of that, and the Ravens
have said, we want to guarantee you about one hundred
million dollars less than you want. Ravens aren't coming off
of that. Are they really gonna meet in the middle
say Okay, i'll take fifty million less, you give me
fifty million more. Not happening. They'll franchise Lamar Jackson. Lamar
will say I'm not playing under the TA. They won't
hear from him, and that'll that'll really spook the Ravens
into trading him, because they know Lamar Jackson's not a
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guy that's going to suddenly just say at the end
of all of it, Okay, I had my hold out.
N No, he's going to say I will stay home
because somebody's going to He stayed home with that knee
injury last year where they were making a run for
the playoffs, because you know what, I'm not ruining my
free agency money. I'm not ruining the generational wealth that
I'm going to get. So yeah, it's we're just being
(34:28):
prepared for the inevitability and it's gonna get It's gonna
be game on soon where it's gonna be called the
Ravens for Lamar Jackson, it's coming. It's happening. Well, they
give him the non exclusive right, so go find your
best offer and then we'll look at it. Bashadi'll laugh
at the amount of guaranteed money, and then he'll sign
there and they get two first round picks out of it.
Everybody wins, and Snoopundley is your guy. Hey. Hey, hey,
(34:52):
that's Pro Bowl quarterback snoopun put that respect on his name.
Pro Bowl. Hey, he made it. I wasn't trying to
disrespect him. I was trying to, you know, be efficient
with time. All right, it's time for you to put
my Lamar Jackson Jets meme up on my Twitter page. Okay,
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all he's doing is just talking. I'm going, what is happening?
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Yeah he dies? Oh no he doesn't stop. Don't say that.
Don't say you don't know that you haven't seen the end. No,
I don't know that, but you're talking about that grief.
Carca may still make it your problem. Yeah, Frostburg, Yeah,
you're you're the new spoiler if that actually happens. Oh,
because you guys have never spoiled anything. Hey, I don't
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spoil things that aren't more than like twenty five years old.
You're spoiling something that's but you've caused a movie entertainment
business billions and taken a lot of Tom Cruise heavy shoulder,
heavy weight on his shoulders to bring it back from
what you did do and Smith billions and billions billions. Yeah,
it's exactly. Think about all the people that are out
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of work, because now I did watch the first ten
minutes or so, and the whole time. In the back
of my head, I wanted to go watch a Chappelle's
Show skit and I didn't show which one I'm thinking of. Yeah,
I'm yeah, Oh no, no, I'm with you. I feel
we're on the same wavelength. I mean, why do you
get deeper into it and you're going, really, this is it.
You can't do those skits anymore, Mike, I got I
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got this one. You could actually, well, there was one
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Here's Thunderland. But today, finally Aaron Rodgers broke his silence.
He came out of the dark and spoke. I keep
(03:41):
thinking about that glorious Stefan song coming out of the
dark and finally see the lid now coming out, Yeah,
coming out of the I finally see the lid never
former minority owners of the Dolphins, right, well that was
her and was Serena right? Yeah? Everybody? Yeah? Uh So
(04:05):
Aaron Rodgers finally spoke out of the darkness. He went
on the Aubrey Marcus podcast. So draw your own conclusion
that either he's feuding and is never going to talk
to Pat McAfee again, or Pat McAfee's off. So he
goes on the Aubrey Marcus podcast, which I gotta think
there's something happening there because why wouldn't he wait, Why
wouldn't he go talk? Free agency doesn't begin until March fifteenth.
(04:27):
Why wouldn't he wait and talk to Pat McAfee, So,
can I give you the the first line of the
biography of Aubrey Marcus. Sure, go ahead. He's an experimentalist,
unconventional fitness junkie, and human optimizer. Oh that makes sense.
That's a thing, human optimizer. Evidently, that sounds like it's
(04:47):
it's the CEO of Wait, it's a guy. Human optimizer
sounds like the sounds like the guy they go visit
in a Transformers movie that's gonna turn a person into
a into an autobot, goes to the human optimize or
what happens. He'll turn you into whatever you want to
What do you want to be? You want to but
you want to be a semi truck, you want to
be a sports car? What do you want? He'll turn
you into anything, the human optimized. I thought it was
(05:09):
a girls podcast. Aubrey Marcus Aubrey No, no, no, no no, no,
Aubrey Martin hup, Aubrey hup. Yeah, human optim Well, okay,
he's got he's got issues. But well, but I'm just saying,
there is precedence for the man. There is Aubrey, there is,
and that was, Uh, we have any other examples? No, no, no,
no, no no, Because what's your name? No, no, no, wait
wait at the camp's character was Aubrey and pitch perfect. Yeah,
(05:32):
but we were he was wondering if it was you know,
he came out out of the darkness and did a
favor for you know, Mallory Eden's friend or something named Off.
Now that's what I thought, out of the darkness. No, no,
that would be just I'm on the Mallory Eden's podcast,
and that would be I would go straight to that.
There's gonna be there's no waiting to try to figure
that outcast all right, he goes on the easy a Legend,
(05:54):
he goes on the Aubrey Martin. Frostburg is just happy
because the Lakers had their biggest I was gonna say,
is he had a night off, So happy anniversary. Congratulations,
Oh thank you, Mike, and you came back all positive
and yeah, the Lakers have won two in a row.
Life is good. Frostberg said to me before the show.
I'm never taking off again. I take off one night
(06:16):
in the King's Trade, Jonathan Quick, I'm never taking a
night off business. Never person Rogers too soon that he
was just a cut. Yeah, but Frostberg, let's think about
the day that was. It was Kane going to the
Rangers like, yeah, no, he's too busy, h with politics,
(06:41):
Patrick Kane. Yeah so Patrick Kane, Jonathan Quick, But those
were two guys that are in intertwined in NHL history forever.
If not for Patrick Kane, the Kings would have had
like seven Stanley Cups. Let's just dump Jonathan Quick are
two time Stanley Cup winning goalie. Just dump, not even
tell him where we're going to treat It was the
(07:03):
right move real quick. Fine, but you got to treat
a guy that's done that to a little bit better
and prepare him for the truth. For the cops beat it.
That's kind of what I said yesterday. I asked it
happened prosper goblos forbating them. So Aaron Rodgers speaks and
he talked about his future, and he said that a
(07:24):
decision is coming well somewhat quickly. There's a finality to
the decision, and I don't make it lightly. I don't
want to drag anybody around. Look, I'm answering questions about
it because I get asked about it. I'm talking about
it because it's important to me. If you don't like
it and you think it's drama. I think I'm being
a diva or whatever, then just tune it out. That's fine.
(07:47):
But this is my life. It's important to me, and
I'll make a decision soon enough, and then we'll go
down that road be really excited about it. Why is
he whispering on this podcasts? This is there podcast where
it's hey, we're just going to talk like this and
there's going to be no energy. Is he in a
retirement home and he got yelled at by the guy
on the other side of the wall bank and I
(08:08):
you're too loud. It sounds like his eyes were burning,
like the sun was out or something. I have my
eyes closed, and I'm sitting here in a in a
complete sensory deprivation chamber doing a podcast with you. That's
what I'm doing. I'm just wearing really dark glasses right now.
We're not talking loud. We're just talking, and I'm talking
about the few. In fact, I'm not even speaking. Look
at me. I'm not even moving my mouth. I am
(08:30):
making you hear me by using just my mind. That's
what I learned in the darkness or treat You don't
have to speak. Speaking is overrated. Now if that's the truth. Man.
Then then I need to go to Guatemala. Like I
was telling you guys, you can just go to Oregon instead.
You know, it's a lot cheaper, Mike, But I've been
to Oregon before. I need to check something else off
on the on the list of places, all the places
(08:53):
you'll go. I'm not just embracing my weirdness. I am
enveloping myself in it like it's a cloak, and I'm
just to be weird all the way to the end
of it. So if you don't like him, don't watch,
you know, listen now he's right. Look. Look, first of all,
you gotta call him a diva and a drop, yes,
because that's exactly what he is. But what does this mean?
(09:15):
Decision is coming soon? This is very simple. This is
not Aaron Rodgers on some existential retreat like he would
like you to believe. This is not him. I look
at my future in the shapes of the rocks that
are in front of me. Right, I got tarot cards
in front of me. Oh my goodness, it's the Ace
of Spades, the death card. No, what he's saying is, hey,
(09:35):
decision is coming, and all of these things I need
to look at in my life. I need to be
at peace. Meanwhile, what's going on is that it's okay.
Can I get to a destination that is good enough
for me. That's all that's happening right now. Because it's
clear the Packers do not want him back. That is
the number one thing you can take away from the
(09:55):
last few days. Returning to the Packers looks like it
is off the table. The Packers have talked about moving on.
They've said, we don't know what's happening yet. Maybe Aaron
Rodgers is gonna stick us with having to figure things out,
but it is clear the Packers have made their intentions known.
We would rather you not come back. We are ready
to move on. So now the decision is the Jets
(10:16):
are nobody right, that's gonna that's gonna be what this
is what I'm afraid it's gonna come. Why I think
the Jets are gonna wind up with Geno Smith at
the end, because it's gonna come to Aaron Rodgers, who's
gonna want to play and they're gonna say where can
we go? And the Packers gonna say, hey, we have
a deal with the Jets. They're gonna give us a
first round pick and something else. We figured out the money,
you're going to the Jets. What about the Raiders not interested?
What about some other teams not and what about Nashville
not interested? Oh okay, so it's the Jets are nobody. Yes,
(10:39):
m I may have to pick nobody. That's my big
fear that that's what it's gonna come out to be.
Because right now he's trying to figure out can I
get to a destination that I will be happy at,
that I can play in the next year or two
and potentially win or at least not embarrass myself. I
want to try to see if I can win, But
I don't want to fall off the cliff and be like,
oh now everybody's got to get out of my contract
(11:00):
after this year. That's what's happening right now. This is
what this is what all the silence has been, and
all the silence we're getting. Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to
ever seem like he's desperate. You know what, it seemed
like I'm hanging out here to try to figure something out. No,
what's going on behind closed doors is can we get
you someplace where you're going to be happy? Because in
Aaron Rodgers trade will happen quickly. It's not gonna be Hey,
(11:23):
here's a report and here's some negotiation. It's gonna be boom.
Aaron Rodgers traded to Jets. Aaron Rodgers traded here. That's
what's going to happen, because it's gonna He's not gonna
seem like I may not be as sought after as
I wanted to. That's what all of this is about.
Right now, Can I get to a destination where I
want to? And if I can, great, I'll still play.
And if you're telling me it's the Jets or nobody,
(11:45):
I got some thinking to do, because I'm telling you, man,
if it's the Jets or nobody, I could just say, oh,
the Jets are running unopposed, and they'll find a way
to lose, and we're gonna get Geno Smith. They will
find a way. If it's the Jets or nobody, they
will find a way to lose this and it's gonna
be nobody. I can see it. I can see it,
Mike Harmon, I see it. I don't even need to
be I could see it in the middle of a
darkness room with the lights off and a blindfold over
(12:06):
my eyes, twenty thousand feet underground. I could see it happening. Yeah,
I see. You saw the report of New Orleans bringing
the beign Yetts and gumbo and jumbalai and everything to
Indianapolis for Derek Carr. So maybe you don't even get
that one. For Rogers, he does hold the cards in
this one, though. He can make this as easier as
painful for the Packers as he wants, and for him
(12:29):
it's say, all right, how do I want this to go?
And he gets to exercise that. What the money considerations are?
All of those things the Packers I think in their
press availability, most of which was done to the local media,
they did a good job of kind of laying it
out of you know, Jordan Love it's time for him,
he needs to play. But there's that in Green Bay
(12:53):
or somewhere else. They still left it to where get
some wiggle room and some weasel words as are he
Ben Maller would say along because he uses that in
conversation with us. Uh, well, like every other week when
we see him. But with the idea that you know,
Rogers just he doesn't want to drag this out because
(13:13):
it's not good for the energy that he's trying to
go as if we look to the optimizer, you want
to optimize your living and having this hanging in the
balance is not good for your energy. Man, it's just
not see what I did. I bought into the optimization
of his life and compartmentalization, So good for him. It's
(13:34):
gonna be the Jets or nobody that's gonna say, hey,
it's the Jets or nobody. He either comes to some
eleven hour deal with the packers because they've been moving
money around for all these other guys. There's that sliver
that he just says, I'm going to walk the earth
because he is that kind of guy and he can
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So while we're getting set for free agency in the NFL,
and Aaron Rodgers is speaking breaking his silence in a
very softly worded podcast he did today, the Aubrey Plaza Podcast.
(14:41):
Something happened that I am stunned hasn't happened before. I
really thought, now that you tie those together, you say
Aubrey Plaza and then something that hasn't happened before. She
had a lot of controversy coming out of the weekend
and her outbate everything nice. Yeah, yeah, you can slip
that one by me. What does she so? What is
she's so mad about? On stage? Why did she say
(15:03):
jac Why is she so mad? Oh? Oh, I get
it because she had a wardrobe bellfunction. Oh now I
get it. Because she's an actress and she likes when
people think she's over the top and great because that's
her whole brand. If you haven't noticed, yeah, somebody wrote
you know when they when um. Somebody wrote on social
media the other day and I laughed out loud. So
(15:23):
much of it is that, you know, when they talk
about It wasn't a mean to but it was about people.
And someone wrote Aubrey Plasa. To me, seems like she's
somebody who has come from another planet to study us.
But she got really famous and now she can't go back,
so she's gotta stand. Uh all right, I gotta gotta
stay here now. Um So, the NFL Players Association on
(15:45):
Wednesday released what it describes as free agency report cards
for all thirty two teams. What does this mean? Is
this like how good teams do in free and she no, no, no.
This is the results of a player survey on topics
that rain from quality of team facilities, treatment of player families.
So basically what it is is that, hey, what teams
(16:07):
treat you the best when you're looking for a new team, Like,
what teams do it right? What teams treat have the
best facilities? What teams treat players families the right way?
And this is a huge deal And I can't believe
we haven't seen this more before because this is something
that would shape many people's decisions. Who's at the top? What, Hey,
(16:29):
what teams are the most family friendly and player friendly?
Who treats their free agents when they come from from
a different situation, who treats them the best? The three
top ranked teams overall in order, the Minnesota Vikings, the
Miami Dolphins, and the lots that treats your team the best.
(16:50):
That's the best shot on the whole list. It's eye opening.
The Vikings, the Dolphins, and the Raiders. Okay, those other
three teams that treat people about Well, all the Raiders
have to do is take you down the Vegas Strip
and they're gonna go Is this all stuff you offer
as a team. No, we're just here in Vegas. Don't
you want to come here? Oh? Yeah, that's true. We
don't offer anything. We don't have we don't even practice,
(17:12):
we don't have any of that. We don't have a
field or anything. Just show up for the game on Sunday.
Just do whatever you want. We'll give you a stipend
for Vegas for the rest of the season. It's all good. Really, Yeah, yeah,
come taking a show, do all this stuff. It's great.
But but what about like like training table and what
about like the cafeteria. Yeah, we have any of that.
We just give you money. Go do whatever you want.
Show up for the game on Sunday. Hey when we'll
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playing away game. We fly out on Friday though. Okay,
so just make sure, you're there for the playing on Friday.
Everything else, we don't care. We're Vegas. Yeah. Both the
Dolphins and Raiders also hold up sign saying you get
to keep eight to ten percent of the salary. There's
no state income tax here. Come on in the water's fine,
because there's been a lot of complaining about that up
in New York State again by potential free agents looking
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to get the to maximize their dollars. The bottom three teams, now,
so those are the top three teams. Who treats you
the best? The Vikings, the Dolphins, and the Raiders. The
bottom three Jets, No, the Chargers, the Cardinals, and the Commanders.
The commander's ranking dead last in how well they do
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free agency key combilities player families charges were thirtieth, Cardinals
thirty first, Commanders thirty second. They treat me pretty well well.
That's They also hold up a big side saying a
third of your check has already been taken out. Yeah yeah, hey,
and justin Frostburg works for them. Oh well, hey, I
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gotta put them down on. So Chargers, Cardinals, and the
Commanders at the bottom. And there's so many things that
go into this. It's player health, and safety. There's facilities
and practice fields and it's everything that you would want
to know about. If you're taking a free agent tour.
What am I gonna lie? It's not always about that.
I mean, look, you want to get paid. And if
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there's a if there's a team that has great facilities
and they're gonna pay you twenty five million dollars, there's
a team with okay, facilities that that is just all right,
and they want to pay you fifty million dollars. Okay, yeah,
you're still going to the one that's gonna pay you
fifty million dollars. But if it's close, if it's some boy,
I could see myself here, I could see myself here.
Look at how well they do it. It's just like
any other job when you're looking to jump. Hey, you know,
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I got an interview at this place I don't know.
And you walk in and you have your interview and
they want to offer you the job, and you're wowed.
They take you around a tour of the facilities, they
take you out to lunch, and they show you all
the different things can happen. I mean, that's what you want,
and you want to go to a company that does
things because it's your life. You make a bad decision,
this holds your career back. Same thing for the NFL.
So I can't believe this isn't something that's been around
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for so long that we haven't heard about or talked
about more than it is right now, because this is
a big deal that you wonder people are staying around. Wait,
whoa the Vikings? WHOA the Vikings? Well maybe I gotta
go see the Vikings now maybe they weren't on my list,
but now they're on my list because they supposedly do
everything right when it comes to all these different things,
which we're gonna get into in a second. But that's
how that's how big a deal this is. This is
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something like the Vikings can put on on a on
a brochure and go, hey, come here, we're the number
one rated team for free agents. Well, it's like a
vacation um destination that is voted number one by on Airbnb,
and you you print that up and put that in advertisements,
say number one destination on Airbnb, this resort, this place.
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That's a really big deal. And now the teams that
do it well are going to get more interest from
players and the teams that don't may get less interest
now and that say, well, now we got to give
them extra money because they're not gonna come play for
us because we're rated at the very body you're putting
this though, just as another data point, well, how much
it affects? Look because behind the scenes, I mean this
(20:54):
has been done informally by players talking to each other forever.
Oh yeah, quote tampering of it all, and hey, what's
that place like at all? I mean it's nice to
get some quantification of it. You got treatment of families, nutrition,
weight room, strength staff, training room, training staff, locker room,
and travel are the categories that are in the piece
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here put out NFLPA dot com and you can go
through and sort by each and see where your beloved
teams rank. So I think that's that's kind of cool.
I'd love to see the comment cards that went with it,
because you do have is a level of specificity with
some of it that came out. For instance, on the downside,
(21:39):
when we talk about the Arizona Cardinals that they don't
have enough trainers. Yeah, like just flat out we don't
have enough people in the room to help with the process, right,
Some teams, and this goes to the ravens, and you know,
I went about with the chargers charges out of C minus.
On the training staff side of things, well, now they've
seen some changes, whether what ever spurred that on. They
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put that sea up in the window, Like when you
go to a restaurant, Well, you gotta see I'm not
eating here, see like the bear not eating here. Maybe
they have to do that. Maybe these teams have to
put the have to put it up in the window
of their facility. You're sorry, he's sorry. A overall great
we got to see is a bee stopping you from
eating somewhere? Uh? In the beginning, it did, it really did,
but now not even oh sure, like well why do
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you have a bee? Why do you see what the
reasons are? And it's like, oh, those rat droppings or
something else. Generally that's at a place where they most
of the food is fried, so you let it go. Yeah,
but it's I mean subway, it's not even real. It's
a little bit of no. I actually don't actually don't
have tun I made a nice cheta noodle castrole today.
By the way, listen, subway a subway is subway club
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or the rotisserie chicken. That's that's where I go with
subway man. I had a subway club last night. I
don't doubt it. They loaded up with mayonnaise too. Oh
it's so good. I really couldn't tell you the last
time I ate a sandwich. So here's some of the
things that mark some teams down right. Three of the
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league's thirty two teams don't keep their cafeteria is open
for dinner. I mean, this is the National Football League
where Hey, I'm hungry. I'm here watching film. Oh yeah,
sorrybody's gone home. Can I get any food? Nope, got
to order out dollars and we got a guy that
any any sandwich shop you need? Did it say what
team that was? I was a freshman in high school,
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and I could get in college and I could get
food anytime I wanted to. I'm not played for a
professional football team. And the cafeteria is not open for dinner.
If I don't get there by three o'clock, I can't
eat the same the Cardinals and well, to nobody's surprises,
the Bengals. Jason, you can never play for an NFL
team If that's the case. Oh no, I'm done, man,
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I'm like, I'm not getting up hung By the time
I got up and got in at like noon, they
would be ready to close. I'm like, Noah, I'm sorry,
I can't. Yeah, but how do you like this from
the Bidwells. According to the report, they're willing to box
dinner in season, but they charge box and payroll deduction.
We're gonna box and they also charge you for offseason meals.
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Who what team was this? That was Arizona? This is
the Cardinals, And you wonder why the Cardinals can't win
and people don't want to be in there, like Kyler
Murray tells you to go plague yourself. Yeah, in the
weight room. Uneven floors and peeling floorboards also attributed to
the garden a lot of Wow, they got a lot
of problems. You know what Bidwell got his revenue share,
(24:30):
He didn't give a lot of fs. Can there's those
state tax there? Yeah, now there's that. Uh. The teams
that really take it in the teeth right now, the
Cardinals and the Bengals because a lot of these things
like well the Bengals, of course, the Bengals don't provide
nutritional supplements, no traditional supplements. Can I get a vitamin? No?
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Can I get a vegetable. No, they close the window
on you. No leave, you can't. But wait, but I'm here.
Don't you want me to be at my best? You
go to GNC like Alex Teisher, does it get your
own stuff? Okay? No, offensive line is weak. Yeah, hey
we got nutritional supplements. No way, man, Come on, you guys.
Why Joe Burrow gets sacked a thousand pounds this season? Wait,
(25:13):
let's see where they're at in the weight room. How
come the offensive line and only bench press like seventy
five pounds a piece? On? They need the supplements. Man,
they don't have any nutritional supplements. You do know what
its chargers one Mike's sorry real quick. The chargers two
f's are are erroneous. Okay, what what are the fs?
Because they that's not even their facility they just rented
because they're building their facility. They're two apps are for Frostburg.
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Well yeah, that's enough. Plus what was it nutrition and
training room? Yeah? Uh so that dozz will change once
they move into their new facility. So yeah. The Jaguars
also have a lot of difficulty because they had a
rodent problem during the season. Okay, there's a rat infestation
in the locker room and laundry hampers that you can
(26:02):
help that out with. Just you see the next day,
like interns are breaking in snakes and let them loose
in the locker room. Wait, what's going on here? When
we got some pythons either take care of the rats?
Whoa wo wo wo? Why is there a gator in
the jacuzzi? Then we got to bring in the gator
to take care of these snakes. They just keep bringing
in bigger apex predators to take care of what's going on.
You know what, Now there's just the cocaine bear and
(26:24):
it just cleans it all out. Right. Hey, the bear
is the last one we bring in. Man, you know
we're bringing the cocaine bear and that's the last cleanings.
One more, one more opportunity to clean this up. Or
you know where we're going. We're tabbing the elbow to
get the closer ones. That really amazed me. Where they
how do you get an F for travel? Well, because
they don't. Uh, I'll let their players fly first class?
(26:48):
What does that even mean? It means like if I
if I'm they're all chartered flights, aren't they? If I'm not,
not all of them, not all of them, or it
could have none our commercials and yes they all are no, no, no,
but it could be where if a player is flying
a different day or they're flying someplace else, hey, they're
going to be Well, that doesn't happen in the NFL.
You have every every team member has to be on
the plane. Yeah, but they want that, you know, if
(27:09):
you're if I'm flying someplace else, that you're paying for
the flight for me. Whether it could be hey, there's
a big um. You know one of the players is
having a you know, justin Herbert's having a football camp.
So I'm flying out. Yes, the Chargers will fly you
out there, but we're not going to fly you out
in but it's not so that's not in season but
plane service, I think stuff. Right, But this is all
(27:34):
things that happen that when you may need to fly,
they don't fly you first class. So that that that's
that's what it is. It's not it's not the it's
not that not stop that jack could be it could
be a charter plane. We all like god, coach seats
No exactly right that I think that's I think it's
probably a comfort and amenities on said plane. Hey, you
(27:57):
know I could get was a fourteen seater. We got
fifty three guys on this plane and coaches. Jack it up, baby,
let's go. I just know on the charter and I
mean I gotta I gotta beg them to stop feeding me.
Oh man, it's like you're going to Europe. The only
other thing that was worse for the Jaguars was that
they got a worse grade than the D minus because
of the rats was for family treatment because they're one
(28:21):
of fourteen teams that don't offer a family room and
players wives breastfeed their kids on the floor of the
stadium's public restaurs I mean really, so you can walk
into a public restauran going, oh that's wait, wait, there's
Trevor Lawrence's wife. What is happening here? I mean, really,
you're you're breastfeeding your kid on the floor of a
(28:41):
public restroom in the stadium. You don't have a you
don't have a room where they could go. Did they
do that? Really? You know? I mean it's Jacksonville. There's
a lot of space. There's a lot of space. You
could do that with Ben, but we're on the floor,
like Kevin James's wife and grown ups. Uh, The Jaguars
also one of eleven teams that don't provide daycare at
the stadium, So when you come to the game, it's, hey,
(29:03):
can make sure you got to watch a kid. Yeah, well,
but they don't watch them for you though there's probably
you know, they don't have a personalized lifeguard. Well how
about you stop bringing sand to the beach. I mean,
it's really, it's it's it's this is so eye opening
for anybody who's looking for a destination. Oh well, they
don't do this. They don't do that because you know, look,
anytime you travel, you go someplace, you like amenities. Man,
(29:26):
I like amenities. Everybody likes amenities, and there's no amenities here.
Not everybody got CBD rubdowns. Okay, you gonna say we
were in Vegas five minutes. It's like, yeah, I'm eating
and I'm gonna go get my massage schedules. Hey, listen,
those women were a little afraid. And how aggressively you
stormed the capsule there. Yeah, let's just say it ended
(29:46):
like a Disney movie. Oh man, I mean this is
eye opening. This. I can't tell you what a big
deal this report is for players and how it's going
to affect free agent. After free agency begins and guys
sign away from these squads at the bottom. We really
need to make an effort. We don't. We don't do
a lot of random interviews on this show, but this
requires it. So what was the number one reason you
(30:07):
left outside of the giant check you're getting from the
other team. Give me your top three things that you
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(30:31):
the ti Irac dot Com studios Now. Eventually and sometimes
your friends wind up breaking up or getting divorce. It happens.
It's part of life, right, like fifty percent of all
marriages and in divorce. Sometimes it comes as a surprise
to you. Sometimes, well I didn't know this happened. Yoh, yeah,
I'm sorry. We didn't talk about it, but it was
something that was private. We just decided. Sometimes you will
(30:54):
get people because they We want to prepare our friends,
We want to be able to be friends with everybody.
We don't want this to be really weird. So they'll
go out and they'll sit down at dinner and they'll say, listen,
we're getting divorced. Look it's nobody's fault. We're just growing apart.
But hey, don't feel weird. We want you to still
be Mark. You can still be my friend, you could
still be her friend. We don't want it to be
(31:15):
that way. And it becomes a process that is, hey,
we want everybody to understand this is what's happening. I
say this because this is what's happening right now with
the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. Today at the NFL Combine
Ravens GM Eric da Costa talked about how much he
covets and loves Lamar Jackson, but the Raven's it gonna
(31:37):
do what's best for the Ravens. Do we have the
Eric da Costa? Okay, we don't have that. The quote
from Eric da Costa is this quote. I covet great players,
I covet quarterbacks, and I love Lamar. That is not
factored in one time with me. We want to do
what's best for the club. We try to do what
(31:58):
we can for Lamar. We want to make everybody happy.
That's not a quote that says we want to make
everybody happy. That we love Lamar, but we're gonna do
what's best for the club first, and we also will
try to do what we can for Lamar. I mean,
I can't believe anybody still thinks, oh that they're they're
gonna figure it out. They're going to come to No,
(32:18):
he wants more than one hundred million dollars of guaranteed
money that the Ravens want to give him. All right, Steve,
Steve Bischotti. Steve Bischotti is not going to suddenly say okay,
I'll pony up another hundred million. They're not gonna do it.
But they all love Lamar. I look, look, hey, this
is not person. We all love each other. You know,
we love Lamar. But but we're moving towards a divorce
(32:41):
and Lamar Jackson's not going to be a Raven anymore.
Look here's John Harbaugh basically echoing what to cost Us
said earlier today. He's my cornerback, he's my guy. I
love him as a coach. I just I'm looking forward
to see it and get done. But it's not easy.
It's never easy. It's the business part of it. So
but I'm really hopeful and excited, fervently hopeful, and I
can't wait for to get done it. Yeah, he's a guy.
(33:01):
I'm fervently hopeful. I'm fervently hopeful. That's the greatest use
of the word fervently that I've heard this week. He's
my guy. Look, it's it's I love him, but we'll
have to change. Yeah, I love him, but you know, hey,
we really you know, you know we're gonna wind up
bowler man. Look, what's exactly gonna happen is this? You know,
(33:23):
if he was going to stay, they would have hit
a situation by now. And this is not Dak Prescott
where I'm just holding out because Jerry Jones is gonna
pay me. You know, there are big time differences because
Jerry Jones even said we're gonna pay him. Oh, it's great,
all the bargaining power the cowboys at Yeah, we're gonna
pay him. Lamar Jackson wants more guaranteed money than Deshaun Watson.
(33:44):
He's not gonna come off of that, and the Ravens
have said, we want to guarantee you about one hundred
million dollars less than you want. Ravens aren't coming off
of that. Are they really gonna meet in the middle
say Okay, i'll take fifty million less, you give me
fifty million more. Not happening. They'll franchise Lamar Jackson. Lamar
will say I'm not playing under the TA. They won't
hear from him, and that'll that'll really spook the Ravens
into trading him, because they know Lamar Jackson's not a
(34:06):
guy that's going to suddenly just say at the end
of all of it, Okay, I had my hold out.
N No, he's going to say I will stay home
because somebody's going to He stayed home with that knee
injury last year where they were making a run for
the playoffs, because you know what, I'm not ruining my
free agency money. I'm not ruining the generational wealth that
I'm going to get. So yeah, it's we're just being
(34:28):
prepared for the inevitability and it's gonna get It's gonna
be game on soon where it's gonna be called the
Ravens for Lamar Jackson, it's coming. It's happening. Well, they
give him the non exclusive right, so go find your
best offer and then we'll look at it. Bashadi'll laugh
at the amount of guaranteed money, and then he'll sign
there and they get two first round picks out of it.
Everybody wins, and Snoopundley is your guy. Hey. Hey, hey,
(34:52):
that's Pro Bowl quarterback snoopun put that respect on his name.
Pro Bowl. Hey, he made it. I wasn't trying to
disrespect him. I was trying to, you know, be efficient
with time. All right, it's time for you to put
my Lamar Jackson Jets meme up on my Twitter page. Okay,
I go there, Twitter at ou about a fresca. Mike
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