August 19, 2025 • 35 mins
Matthew Stafford is back at practice. Everything. Is Fine. The Rams are fine. HOWEVER. Enjoy this...b/c this'll be Stafford's last year with L.A. They know they're tempting fate relying on him/health/off-season contract demands. They'll do something bold at QB next off-season.
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putting this content out for you every single night. Well,
we'll get to dart time in a minute. But as
you were, Steve de Sager just mentioned a couple seconds ago,
Matthew Stafford back at practice day for the Rams the
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first time in training camp he had been out, And
let me just say this what I've said when he
was sidelined. I said, it's fine, He's fine. He doesn't
play in camp anyway. Everything is fine. He's got ten
twelve practices to go before you get ready for your
first week. Everything is fine. He's been in the league
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since nineteen ninety two. Everything is fine. But the league
since nineteen ninety there's a butt. There's a butt. But
but everything is fine. But enjoy it because this is
the last year you will see him with the Rams,
maybe his last year in the NFL. As it is,
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the Rams know we are tempting fate every year. And look,
it's hard not to rely on Stafford because when he's
in the lineup, when he playing well, he is fantastic. Right,
he was great the last half of last year. Right,
he's won a Super Bowl with them. You can you
still see why he is your favorite quarterback's favorite quarterback.
He still makes plays at a high level and throws
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that the majority of other quarterbacks still can't make. But
he's nearing the end. The Rams are kind of done
with the yearly dance about Stafford's contract and wanting more
money and staying here. This is it. This is his
last year, This is last year for his deal, and
after this they know we need to go get somebody else.
We're tempting fate, continuing to put him out there, knowing
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that the closer you get to forty, you don't get healthier,
you don't stay in the wine up for longer. Just
like Aaron Rodgers knows this is it, Russell Wilson knows
this is it. Matthew Stafford knows, at least in LA,
this is going to be it for him because the
Rams are gonna have to move on. They'll do something
bold in the draft or in free agency after this
year because they'll want him. They're going to keep it
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going that. No one keeps that window open for the
Super Bowl quite like the Rams do. They just keep
cycling through great players year after year, and they supplement
them with draft picks. Where you go, where did they
get this guy? Now suddenly he's playing an All Pro level.
This is how the Rams do it. So enjoy Everything
is fine, but enjoyed because this is the last year
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for Matthew Stafford in LA. Yeah, I mean last year
it started oddly right. You have a bunch of guys hurt.
They're struggling out of the gate. We were talking about
trade rumors and whispers and involving a number of guys
from the Rams, including Matthew Stafford. Last couple of years
you've had the dances with retirement fueled of course, with
Aaron Donald walking away, it's like, well maybe Matthew Stafford
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does too, and it's a complete reboot. Did not happen?
Comes back and now we're talking about back injuries, and
that is when you start going down terrible highways. You know,
it's not like he caught it from his buddy Clayton Kershaw,
who's been dealing with back injuries for years. But you know,
Clayton is obviously still getting the job done, had a
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great start this weekend and that fuel that series against
the Padres. But for Matthew Stafford, the fact that this
is your first team workout this late, it's one thing
to put him in bubble wrap. It's one thing to
not be wrong. You got a lot of moving parts
right in your next year because you look at the squad,
it's a different looking squad. Yeah, you paid Kyron Williams.
Expect him to be run until the wheels fall off. There.
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You've changed out some weapons in your receiving core. But
the curiosity, right, it's stetson Bennett's back. Jimmy Garoppolo is
there nine and a half. It's the over under on
wins the break glass in case of emergency, guy is
Garoppolo didn't play this week? It's like, nope, not even
gonna see the field because we need to make sure
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he's at least upright, you know. McVeigh trying to say
all the right things in the post workout here. I
think we put the cartway before the horse. Think he
did a good job today, twenty six plays of team,
twenty six plays. I did a really nice job of
managing the huddle. I thought thought he saw the well whatever,
go back to a week what almost two weeks prior
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is when he did the throwing session and sixty sixty
passes about a week and a half at this point,
and then was unavailable, right, was supposed to work out
a week ago Monday and suddenly was unable to answer
the bell. So yeah, this is concerning great expectations. Eventually,
more of these guys need to get paid. So you've
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got that deal that you're working with. To your point,
front office and coaching staff have done a great job
to that at this point. Curious within the division, right,
you and I are both I think a little bit
higher on the Arizona Cardinals than most forty nine ers.
The injury bugs shouldn't hit them quite the same way
it did a year ago in Seattle. With your guy
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Sam Darnold getting ready to go, division's tough to navigate, right,
There's no freebies on the schedule, So all of that
with the guy that week to week, how are you
protecting him? Like his whole hallmark? The thing that has
made him the core that you love is his willingness
and ability to stand in the pocket for that extra beat,
knowing he's about to get hit, knowing that he is
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gonna get drilled if he waits for the perfect window
and for the route to break properly, et cetera. How
does that work with the guy that you've had to
put you know, essentially, you know, whatever this sleep regimen,
he might be sleeping standing up like he's a horse
at this point, so he doesn't injure his back, Like
what's gonna happen the first time he takes a hit?
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Like it's and we asked that for a lot of quarterbacks.
But once you have the the back listed as one
of the giant, red blinking things on your injury scale,
we we have to worry that much more. So listen, Matthew,
everything's fine. Everything's fine out everything, everything's fine out. Just wait,
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m's voice raise three octaves like yours just did. Who
are you trying to convince? It's fine? Enjoy everything? He's great.
Enjoy it because this is it, nobod, this is like
that Leslie Nielson, no more major League Baseball, Steve how
last chances. This is Matthew Stafford's last year. W Also
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he mentioned a few minutes again, Steve How, I did, Yeah,
I did. This is Russell Wilson's last year in the NFL.
Don't know if he knows that or not. It's also
there else he maybe only have one more month past
August to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. I
told you last week. If Jackson Dart has a big
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game against the Jets, that accelerates his timeline to start
immensely right, Like initially coming off Week one, he had
a pretty good Week one. He's been really good in
camp so far. Giants Glowing things about him, and basically
it's much different from Russell Wilson, which who was the
chosen one last year in Pittsburgh. This year is look
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at Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart's doing this. Jackson Dart. His
teammates were saying this, coach is saying this. What about Russ?
Oh yeah, yeah right, Russ is good? Okay, so you
know they don't have the same capital locked into Russell
Wilson that the Steelers did last year. And Mike Tomlin
decided I'm going to be blindly loyal to him even
though he's killing us, because he played good for a
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few weeks and then showed that he's done. Jackson Dart
had a good game against the Jets, and the interest
level to see him play by fans is at at
all time high. Right now, that's one thing you're talking
about fans versus a team. The Giants are gonna stink. Okay,
let's understand this. The Giants are going to stink. The
defensive line will be okay, they'll run the football all right.
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Maybe Cam Skattaboo is good, but they're going to stink.
The Giants are basically starting over. Jackson Dart is a
first round pick he is going to play because first
round quarterbacks don't sit right. They especially don't sit when
you're head coaching. Gm who were basically in a lane
duck type year want to be able to continue in
their jobs a year from now. So, like we talked
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about with Flacco and John Harball a few minutes ago,
Remember in twenty eighteen when John Harbaugh had to make
that tough decision where Flacco was still playing really well
but Lamar Jackson was could be a superstar. He knew,
I I'm sorry, Joe, but Lamar's my guy. I want
to stay coaching here. And if I stay loyal to
you and keep playing, you guess what if it doesn't
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work out, I'm fireding the offseason and somebody else knew
was coming in here and coaching Lamar Jackson. So he
chose Lamar Jackson made the right choice. He's still there
all these years later. Lamar Jackson's got MVPs. This is
what the Giants know. They can't be loyal to Russell Wilson,
and Wilson is the best case scenario will play well
for a few weeks and then that'll be it. And
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with a Giants team that's not very good. That's not
gonna last very long. Initially I thought we'll see Dart
by week eight, no problem, and Russell Wilson's going to
spend the rest of the year on the bench, trying
to find a way to rehab his image where he
can try to spin it in the offseason. I can
still start for somebody. But now with Dart playing so
well against the Jets, that's moved things up immensely. The
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pressure to see him on the field from both the
locker room, front office, fans, city, everything is gonna be
too much, and they know he's got to play. So
let's get Jackson Dart out there sooner right now, Russell Wilson,
I'll put the over under for him of October first,
because the Giants need to start three to one and
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they need to be scoring points for him to keep
the job over Jackson Dart. Now that's not happening. Look
at their schedule. It's too tough. So that's gonna be
the only thing that starts. If they win games, will
he will get there. But unlike last year where even
though Justin Fields was winning, Mike Tomlin said, no, I
gotta go to Russ. Russ is like, yeah, I'm the guy.
He's got the reverse of it last year Russell Wilson, Hey,
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I don't care how you're playing, boy, I gotta go
to Jackson Dart at some point. That's gonna happen. By October,
he cut his waiting time in half because they do
want to see, Hey, get prepared for the NFL. Go
through a few weeks of what preparation is, like Monday
through Fry did get ready to go that firm. We
believe that. I'm not saying he should start week one,
but by October first, unless it's a three to one
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Giants record, it's Jackson Dart, that's not going to happen.
It will be dark. Well, you just know, going back
to the Pittsburgh thing, they weren't beholden to either Justin
Fields or Wilson. Unfortunately, Wilson was injured in camp but
wasn't available at the jump right, So Justin Field gets
to run and literally that's what he did. And your
defense is good enough and they made enough plays to
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where the record was solid. But then he goes to
Russell Wilson. So you start getting the moon ball involved
and make a couple of big plays, try to keep
George Pickens happy, or as happy as George Pickens is
ever gonna be. The long laundry list of wide receivers
who've come and gone in Pittsburgh, unhappy with situations, offensive coordinators,
et cetera. Is really a very long book at this point.
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But for Russell Wilson, like he turned into a pumpkin again,
it's a bad decision making, holding on to the ball
too long, and ultimately the defense can only carry you
so far. So but Mike Tomlin was quick to point out, Hey,
look how much better it looks with Russell Wilson. This
is why I get paid the big bucks, et cetera.
I don't know that Justin Fields would have ever seen
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the field if Russell Wilson had been a healthy Week
one this time. Yeah, you have the first round pick,
you trade back in to go get Jackson Dart, deciding
that he's your guy. You bring in Russell Wilson, You
bring in Jameis Winston. So now you have two guys
with a lot of quarterback experience, and Russell Wilson you're
hoping some of his veteran savvy can rub off on
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Jackson Dart on the practice field and in the meeting
rooms and all of that stuff. But your point about
Dable and Shane is exactly it. It's like you want to
stick around for a while. You don't have a lot
of a lot of leverage anymore, like you don't have
a lot of No, no, no, it'll work. Just wait, No,
you're gonna have to see that proof of concept with
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Jackson Dart on the field. You start with the Commanders
and Cowboys on the road, a couple of division games, great,
maybe one on one Cowboys, I don't know. And then
then you got the Chiefs coming into town. And then
the Chargers could send him into a believing that they
can f five their asses straight Insburg. You can. You
can fire Russell Wilson. You can retire Russell Wilson with
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a winning Week four, you can retire. And then Week five,
guess what road game against the Saints. All right, So
and that's Jackson Dart's first game. Hey, we're gonna start
you off for the October fifth. There you go, TJ.
It'll be an easy one in the big easy for
Jackson Dart. And then the following three weeks you get
the Eagles, Broncos, Eagles, the Giants, will no longer be
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able to dodge dart. They will put him in to
start TJ whether it's three oh one or cricket, you
will see dart being thrown in Giant Stadium exit out
about a Fresco. Wait till I get to the Julians.
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Don't give in. They're terrible. Uh, but you want to
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talk about a couple of traits potential for trades. One
team is said today we are open for business. We
want to make a big move. Another one probably should
make a trade. We saw today that the Browns made
their decision. Joe Flacco is their starting quarterback for the
beginning of this season. They have also signed him to
an eight year, hundred and sixty million dollars extension guaranteed. Uh.
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They have side he's going to start this year. I
figure I could get a jersey shipped out early enough
for opening week, right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, Flaco
celeb one last time now, but Brown's jersey. The big
story is really this because this was expected to happen.
Dylan Gabriel plays this weekend play's okay, throws a really
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bad pick six in a little bit of controversy after
the game because potentially was he throwing shade at Chador
Sanders by saying I don't care about entertainers. Oh wait
a minute, Sanders entertainer. Right, okay, First of all, I
don't think Dylan Gabriel is that dumb that he's going
to actually cause a fight with Chadoor Sanders. But he did.
He did crack that door open. Yeahvols to interpret it. No,
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this is like in the SNL the land Shark when
they go I'm not opening the door. You're that land
shark Western Union. Oh okay, But look the most interesting
part of this situation is now, I want to see
what the depth chart for the Browns looks like now
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leading up to Week one. Right, Flaco the starter, I
get it, right, I get it. But Shador Sanders had
a really big week in Week one and was still
the number four quarterback was going to start in week two,
but he was hurt. Okay, but Dylan Gabriel was able
to play, Tyler Huntley played if somehow despite the fact
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they didn't play as well as Shadoor Sanders, that Gabriel
and Huntley and or Pickett, who has still not been
able to practice in a while, if they stay ahead
of Shador Sanders going into the season, you know one
of two things is going on. Either there's a big
difference of opinion amongst the Browns as to what the
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direction with Shadoor Sanders could be, meaning that the front
office wants him to play, the coaching staff doesn't think
he's ready, or the coaching staff wants him to play
but the front office doesn't think he's ready. There's some
kind of disagreement going on within the team, which we've
seen with the Browns before. Or the other side is that, hey,
the Browns aren't telling us. He's got to take care
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of some things that you don't see that we want
him to understand. You have to take care if you're
going to be the face of the franchise, whether it
is Hey, make sure you don't get caught with anything
bad driving, don't insult a reporter after your first big game,
whatever it is, one of those things is most likely
the answer. Now here's the thing that's not the real question.
If that's the case, you know, and he's still like
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fourth string, you know, one of those things is true.
The brown should just trade him because clearly he's not
part of your present and not part of your future
because you are holding him back. All right, It's gone
from Oh, are they put him in a position to succeed? No,
clearly they're holding him back. There is no team in
the NFL that has nobody at quarterback, that has a
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forty year old guy who they know is just marking time.
Do you have a guy show up with his first
real taste of the NFL and his first real taste
with the Ones and he has a weak shador Sanders
has two touchdowns, poison the pocket, everything else, and doesn't
immediately increase his reps and give him a bigger role
on the team. But the Browns have not done that.
So this tells me, Hey, if some reason whatever, whether
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he was drafted because somebody wanted him and part of
the team doesn't want him, it doesn't matter whatever. If
he doesn't move up the depth chart. You know he
has no future there, and if I'm Sanders, I just say,
you know what, released me so I can go sign
someplace else or trade me, which is what the brown
should do, because clearly Chador Sander's stock is a little
bit higher now than it was at the draft. He
had that big Week one. Teams have got to see
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what they did. Boyd. Really, his second touchdown pass was
a thing of beauty. It was everything you want to
see out of a quarterback. So you could potentially say,
all right, we'll get out from under this and we'll
flip a fifth round pick into a fourth round pick,
or a fifth round pick into a third round pick,
and they give us back a fourth round pick something
where you're moving on. Do it for both sides. Do
it for both sides, because she do. Sanders should have
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to be able to go to a team where, hey,
they want to work with him and make him and
make him a good player, or cut him so he
can go someplace else and continue his GIRs because clearly
his future is not with the Browns. If he is
still running fourth string or threat, then you know they
that they really do not want him to be a
part of the solution. In Cleveland, or he's a guy
that was drafted in the fifth round for a reason.
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I mean, it's not just personality conflict, and they wanted to,
you know, show him up or show his dad how
he played week one against backups. Well, no, I mean
consistent with this, How excited your Bears fans are when
Tyson Bagent does what he does against back I'm not
those dopes. Don't go putting that in my face. What
how excited you were when Caleb Williams was good against backups?
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I mean the bills were terrible, but still, hey, Sean
mcderritt is concerned all of that to say, Look, I
get your point. I don't know that you're spinning him
off into anything. And I'd be curious behind the scenes
and an honest moment, if we had the fun and
excitement of say a very invasive hard knocks, like what's
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going on in meeting rooms, what we're seeing in practice.
We're not getting a lot of practice stuff, right, Like
go back to week one of practice. You had a
couple of oohs and ah's and throws, and then you
had a lot of pretty non descripts. Yeah, okay, and
then all the reports of who he's working out with,
who he's throwing to whatever, and and take from that
what you will. You've got a Browns team. The expectations are.
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That's the thing. You know nothing at quarterback. It's not
like you have something you have to overcome. You might
overcome anything. But but it's the thing we talk about.
Right with Jackson Dart, it's the you drafted him in
the first round. You got to see what he is,
right and and certainly he's been the part in what
he's done in the preseason. Again, I take it all
with a nice big grano salt. Maybe it may be
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a pinch of salt. I don't know, whatever it is. Oh,
you need more than that. You're you're talking about getting
that Morton shaker and opening up into your mouth swallowing it. Well,
you could do that, and now you're bloated. Your nickname
is NaCl that's pretty good. I like that. Yeah, I
didn't think you'd know that one. That was good. But
all of that's all that to say, all right, you're
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you're trying to keep your job with Stefanski. I don't
think he's in any job security issues. And you've got
a team that despite what Miles Garrett will say, remember
he wanted to trade. Things were so bad, and then
as soon as they sign him to a big deal,
we're super Bowl bound. That's really does he really care? Ye? Look,
I got money. I want to get to the quarterback.
That's all I care. But all of that is to
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say that you've got a squad that you're you don't
have a munch of expectations on, but you also don't
have a lot invested in him to where you have
to accelerate things. So if he's got a long path
to just guess what you signed him to a what
is it a four year, eight million dollar deal or
seven million dollar deal or whatever it is. Gabriel's is
only six hundred thousand dollars higher. You don't need to
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make a decision right now. You just don't. If he's
if he sits and he learns, and Stefanski's supposed to
be a wizard. I've been told this for years, right
he and Shane Steichen, two of the smartest guys that
never won a game, that we're going after it that
you don't have. But what do you do to that?
You know why you're either holding him back for no
reason or you're holding him back because you have a reason,
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which case, if you are holding him back for that,
you should get rid of him. Well, but maybe long term,
he's a guy that if he learns under you, it's
not twenty twenty five, it's twenty twenty six. And guess what,
you're paying him nothing. It's like you're paying him nothing
at he learns, and then next year you say, okay,
forget it. He's he's no nothing more than a camp arm.
Then move on. Let's say you're dating somebody. Yeah, right,
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say you're dating somebody and what's going on? Well, I
don't I don't really know if I want to hang
out with him that much. Why, Well, I'm not sure
if well, the she's doing things that I really don't
like that she does, so she kind of has to
start doing things a little bit differently if we're going
to stay together, or you say, uh, you know, I
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don't know. I don't know. If we're thinking we have
different goals in mind, I'm thinking one thing, she's thinking
another thing. No matter what that answer is, you should
break up because clearly there's no well let me tell
you this. Let me let me break it down to
brass tacks. I brought up dollars and cents a couple
of times. Let's bring it down again. You don't need
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to play him, and he's making you money. It's like
when the Lakers drafted old Bronni kept Lebron happy. Guess
what sold a lot of merch with the Bronni James.
Same thing here. Browns are making a lot of money
off the having the Shador Sanders around, So there is
invested interest in him being good. Like it's good for
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them if he actually grows into that quarterback. But it
doesn't have to happen overnight. But they wouldn't be I'm
not saying all of a sudden you gotta say you're
the starter and forget it. But you gotta be able
to after the night. You have week one with no
time with the ones, and look at what you did.
You got to say, Okay, we got to give you
a little bit more. That's a nice step. A little
bit more do boy in stead, No, we're gonna give
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you less to do. Wait, why that doesn't make.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well get hurt anyway?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So what the hell is the difference? Now? They could
play now the other trade, right, because there's two trades
now The other trade involves the Patriots, who had a
really interesting press conference today. As a VP of Player Personnel,
Elliott Wolf said today the team is open for business
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if a significant trade opportunity presents itself. Quote yeah, absolutely,
he said before practice. We're talking to all thirty one
teams and trying to do what's best for us. You're
not talking to the Jets. I think those things are
often a lot more complicated than the fans and some
others would like to make you believe. But if there
is something we think can help us, we definitely be
open to it. Clearly now, at this point in the
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NFL preseason, there are some highly rated and big stars
who are either unhappy or could be traded potentially Terry McLaurin,
Trey Hendrickson, Michael Parsons. Uh, let's be honest, what are
the Patriots doing here? They are sending up a flare
and telling Jerry Jones call us we want Micah Parsons. Okay,
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because the Patriots is starting over and Mike Vrabel, I
hate to say it, because I'm just now I'm competing
with the Patriots again. Mike Vrabel's building a great culture there.
The defense is gonna be good. He knows what he's
doing offensively. They're bringing Drake May. They're expecting Drake May
to have a bow Knicks type season. I know. And
now in a year I'm gonna have to say, boy,
the Patriots are on their way up and the AFC
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East is good top to bottom. I'm gonna not I
can't state it, but that's what's gonna happen. But this
is not a team that's going to go crazy to
go get Trey Hendrickson who's thirty, or Terry McLaurin, who's
twenty nine. It doesn't It doesn't line up with their
time frame, right. They want someone young who's gonna come
in and be a star. And the fact that they say, hey,
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they have more salary cap room than anybody else in
the NFL. Right, at least Bill Belichick left the cupboard
bear there. Not just talent wise. They can sign up
anybody they want to. They have the draft capital to
make moves. They are saying, Jerry, we can make you
happy for Michah Parsons, the best defensive player in the NFL,
who is gonna come in and be our lynchpin for
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the next five or six years. You call him, we
are ready, we'll call. This is not about anybody else
other than if we can take that big swing at
Michaeh Parsons and Mike Vrabel defensive coach wants to see it. Hey,
who's my guy? Micah Parsons will make him happy. He's doing.
The Patriots doing this to tell the Cowboys, let's do
it to tell Michaeh Parsons and his people we love you.
We want you. Give us a call. We'll communicate through
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back channels. You will be our guy. Come to New England,
be part of what we are. We love you. We'll
give you the money you want, whatever you need. And
the Patriots are also telling the Cowboys, don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid. We're not gonna nickel and dime you.
We're gonna give him a big contract. We're gonna give
you what you need for him. Don't They're not doing
this unless they are saying we are open to a deal.
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We're not a team that's gonna call and say yeah,
we like it, but we're gonna kinda really get through
fine points and say, well, this is what we see
his value as it's gonna be. We're gonna overwhelm you
with picks, and we're gonna give him a contract. Let's
do it, and let's convince you to part with the
best defensive player in the NFL. That's what this is about.
Do you have major upgrades in your house you don't
want to deal with, sell me your house for cash tonight.
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I'm Elliott Wolf and behind him are a bunch of silhouettes.
The black and white silhouettes. Is like, hey, that kind
of looks like it could be MICHAEH. Parsons. Not quite
a Ruarshack tennis, but that kind of thing. And if
I can't sell your house, I'll buy it. That's it
a right, So here we go, Right, you have a
distressed problem. Yeah, so it's you know, Trey Hendrickson. You
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got Terry mcglourin over here. But no, that the one
we keep circling back to kind of looks like a
celebration by Micah Parsons. And I get it, and I
dig what you're laying down. You got ten draft picks
a lot of cash, but those are only the three guys.
You have no idea what else is going on in
camps across? I mean, look at the look at Washington.
Brian Robinson didn't play tonight. Again, it's the Bengals, and
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after the end they more or less it. Yeah, he
doesn't fit what much, so hey, make an offer. Maybe
you want a little bit of depth at running back.
You already have two guys there. You paid Ramandre Stevenson
a year ago. Henderson's going to be a stud. But
all of that to say, there might be other defensive
players that are circling in the background. Right you found
a younger, cheaper guy in the draft and undrafted free
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agent that maybe's making some play. We saw some guys
flying around defensively here. Hey, that guy's a fourth round pick.
That guy's a third round pick that maybe you can
get a displace a higher price veteran. But also McLaurin
and Hendrickson. Yeah, they don't fit the profile of what
you want to do. You might win a little more
now you're building towards the future, and the last thing
you want to do is be committed to thirty five
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to forty million dollars a year for those guys. No, no, no,
Michael Parson's a guy is a different maker, and he'll
put butts in seats and he'll sell jerseys and all
of that money will work itself out that way as
well as I think a player in his prime. He
was on Twitter today getting after it in terms of
Clarence Hill going, hey, this is why you don't play.
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They say play your quarterbacks. That's what they tell me.
You know what. That Joe Burrow Boomer would be going whoop, whoop,
whoop as he scrambled, and Michael Partson said, hey, we've
gone soft in this generation. You got to get out
there and learn. It's like, I love it that can
I play? Call him up, Call Jerry Jones, Call the Patriots.
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Call the Patriots. They will make you happy, Jerry. I'll
address this tomorrow. I have no doubt. I called Belichick
and he said he can't make trades anymore. So then
I called Pioli and he told me he's not there either.
Then I called Scott Wolf and he told me he's
not on Party of five anymore. He's doing Hallmark movies.
(30:49):
So I would call the Patriots, but I don't know
how to get in touch with anybody. Yeah, I don't
know that you want to invoke that guy right now?
Didn't he get in trouble recently? Scott Wolf did he Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he had some family drama. Oh let's go to the
wolf with Harvey Gottel instead, Let's talk to someone who's
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been called the Micah Parsons of Fox Sports Radio. I've
seen many times on social media him post I no
longer want to be here. It's Steve to say.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I thought you were going to say because his contract
is out at the end of the year, to which
I say, contract, what is then? The Bengals wanted Washington
in an exhibition today. Thirty one seventeen quarterback Jayden Daniels
did have a fourteen yard touchdown run on his only series.
Washington running back Brian Robinson, out today, could be traded
on the team's first two drives without him this evening,
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six carries one hundred and six yards and two scores.
Washington wide receiver Terry McLaurin is still out with his
contract situation. Bengals QB Joe Burrow with a short touchdown
pass tonight. He played three series. Jake Browning two TD
passes late in the first half. Evan McPherson a fifty
four yard field goal. By the way, with the new rule,
there were ten total kickoffs, one touchback tonight. The NFL
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preseason ends this Saturday. The Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford with
the bad back, practice for the first time in this
training camp, but the team had no further update on
his health. Vikings white out Justin Jefferson after a strain hamstring,
practiced on a limited basis for the first time in
nearly a month. The Browns name quarterback Joe Flacco as
their starter and he will start Saturday's exhibition finale. Miami
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reportedly signed linebacker Matthew Judah. The Colt signed veteran defensive
back Xavian Howard to college football. Ohio State named Julian
Sayan as a starting quarterback. He played a little for
him last year after transferring from Alabama. Eight piece preseason
All Americans includes three players from Texas, three from Penn State,
and the first team QB is Clemson's Cade Klubnik. There
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is a college football game this Saturday on Fox TV,
Fresno State at Kansas.
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It is zero Week, Stephen.
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In college football Zero Week, there's a handful like five
games on the slate and then most people open the
final weekend of all August. That's when the big newon
kickoff will happen with Texas at Ohio State August thirtieth.
The WNBA was off tonight. Five games on the Tuesday
schedule to Major League Baseball. The Dodgers are still up
two games over the Padres in the NL West. Colorado
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beat the Dodgers with a run in the bottom of
the nine, four to three. The Rockies had lost ten
straight head to head against La By the way, Kyle Freeland,
rocky starter, left after four innings due to a blister.
His Colorado team has won six of seven now. San
Francisco led four to nothing in the first and held
on four to three at San Diego. Robbie Ray the
winning pitcher. The loser, Nestor Cortes, gave up three homers
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in the first inning. The Padres had a home run
overturned due to fan interference in the second inning, wound
up losing at home by one. The Reds are just
a game out of the last NL wildcard behind the Mets.
Cincinnati a winner for to one at the.
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Angels, two games in the lost columns, two games in
the lost call.
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One total game Brady Singer. The wins six innings on
the Hill Cleveland and Kansas City with victory. White Sox
ended the four game losing streak. Saint Louis won to
end a five game losing streak. Wins for Baltimore and
for Pittsburgh, which beat Toronto five to two, and Vladimir Gurero,
junior Blue Jays first baseman left with hamstring tightness. Philadelphia
got two homers from Bryce Harper and beat Seattle twelve seven,
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Detroit ten to nothing over Houston. Milwaukee won the first
of a scheduled doubleheader at the Cubs seven to nothing.
The nightcap was reigned out. They'll play two on Tuesday.
The game one winner was Freddie Peralti's fifteen to five.
The Cub's Kyle Tucker went ozer for four in the opener.
He'll take a few games off now. He's betting one
ninety five since the start of July. Back to you, Thanks,
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we'll get to dart time in a minute. But as
you were, Steve de Sager just mentioned a couple seconds ago,
Matthew Stafford back at practice day for the Rams the
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first time in training camp he had been out, And
let me just say this what I've said when he
was sidelined. I said, it's fine, He's fine. He doesn't
play in camp anyway. Everything is fine. He's got ten
twelve practices to go before you get ready for your
first week. Everything is fine. He's been in the league
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since nineteen ninety two. Everything is fine. But the league
since nineteen ninety there's a butt. There's a butt. But
but everything is fine. But enjoy it because this is
the last year you will see him with the Rams,
maybe his last year in the NFL. As it is,
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the Rams know we are tempting fate every year. And look,
it's hard not to rely on Stafford because when he's
in the lineup, when he playing well, he is fantastic. Right,
he was great the last half of last year. Right,
he's won a Super Bowl with them. You can you
still see why he is your favorite quarterback's favorite quarterback.
He still makes plays at a high level and throws
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that the majority of other quarterbacks still can't make. But
he's nearing the end. The Rams are kind of done
with the yearly dance about Stafford's contract and wanting more
money and staying here. This is it. This is his
last year, This is last year for his deal, and
after this they know we need to go get somebody else.
We're tempting fate, continuing to put him out there, knowing
(02:33):
that the closer you get to forty, you don't get healthier,
you don't stay in the wine up for longer. Just
like Aaron Rodgers knows this is it, Russell Wilson knows
this is it. Matthew Stafford knows, at least in LA,
this is going to be it for him because the
Rams are gonna have to move on. They'll do something
bold in the draft or in free agency after this
year because they'll want him. They're going to keep it
(02:54):
going that. No one keeps that window open for the
Super Bowl quite like the Rams do. They just keep
cycling through great players year after year, and they supplement
them with draft picks. Where you go, where did they
get this guy? Now suddenly he's playing an All Pro level.
This is how the Rams do it. So enjoy Everything
is fine, but enjoyed because this is the last year
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for Matthew Stafford in LA. Yeah, I mean last year
it started oddly right. You have a bunch of guys hurt.
They're struggling out of the gate. We were talking about
trade rumors and whispers and involving a number of guys
from the Rams, including Matthew Stafford. Last couple of years
you've had the dances with retirement fueled of course, with
Aaron Donald walking away, it's like, well maybe Matthew Stafford
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does too, and it's a complete reboot. Did not happen?
Comes back and now we're talking about back injuries, and
that is when you start going down terrible highways. You know,
it's not like he caught it from his buddy Clayton Kershaw,
who's been dealing with back injuries for years. But you know,
Clayton is obviously still getting the job done, had a
(03:56):
great start this weekend and that fuel that series against
the Padres. But for Matthew Stafford, the fact that this
is your first team workout this late, it's one thing
to put him in bubble wrap. It's one thing to
not be wrong. You got a lot of moving parts
right in your next year because you look at the squad,
it's a different looking squad. Yeah, you paid Kyron Williams.
Expect him to be run until the wheels fall off. There.
(04:20):
You've changed out some weapons in your receiving core. But
the curiosity, right, it's stetson Bennett's back. Jimmy Garoppolo is
there nine and a half. It's the over under on
wins the break glass in case of emergency, guy is
Garoppolo didn't play this week? It's like, nope, not even
gonna see the field because we need to make sure
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he's at least upright, you know. McVeigh trying to say
all the right things in the post workout here. I
think we put the cartway before the horse. Think he
did a good job today, twenty six plays of team,
twenty six plays. I did a really nice job of
managing the huddle. I thought thought he saw the well whatever,
go back to a week what almost two weeks prior
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is when he did the throwing session and sixty sixty
passes about a week and a half at this point,
and then was unavailable, right, was supposed to work out
a week ago Monday and suddenly was unable to answer
the bell. So yeah, this is concerning great expectations. Eventually,
more of these guys need to get paid. So you've
(05:24):
got that deal that you're working with. To your point,
front office and coaching staff have done a great job
to that at this point. Curious within the division, right,
you and I are both I think a little bit
higher on the Arizona Cardinals than most forty nine ers.
The injury bugs shouldn't hit them quite the same way
it did a year ago in Seattle. With your guy
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Sam Darnold getting ready to go, division's tough to navigate, right,
There's no freebies on the schedule, So all of that
with the guy that week to week, how are you
protecting him? Like his whole hallmark? The thing that has
made him the core that you love is his willingness
and ability to stand in the pocket for that extra beat,
knowing he's about to get hit, knowing that he is
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gonna get drilled if he waits for the perfect window
and for the route to break properly, et cetera. How
does that work with the guy that you've had to
put you know, essentially, you know, whatever this sleep regimen,
he might be sleeping standing up like he's a horse
at this point, so he doesn't injure his back, Like
what's gonna happen the first time he takes a hit?
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Like it's and we asked that for a lot of quarterbacks.
But once you have the the back listed as one
of the giant, red blinking things on your injury scale,
we we have to worry that much more. So listen, Matthew,
everything's fine. Everything's fine out everything, everything's fine out. Just wait,
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m's voice raise three octaves like yours just did. Who
are you trying to convince? It's fine? Enjoy everything? He's great.
Enjoy it because this is it, nobod, this is like
that Leslie Nielson, no more major League Baseball, Steve how
last chances. This is Matthew Stafford's last year. W Also
(07:12):
he mentioned a few minutes again, Steve How, I did, Yeah,
I did. This is Russell Wilson's last year in the NFL.
Don't know if he knows that or not. It's also
there else he maybe only have one more month past
August to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. I
told you last week. If Jackson Dart has a big
(07:34):
game against the Jets, that accelerates his timeline to start
immensely right, Like initially coming off Week one, he had
a pretty good Week one. He's been really good in
camp so far. Giants Glowing things about him, and basically
it's much different from Russell Wilson, which who was the
chosen one last year in Pittsburgh. This year is look
(07:55):
at Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart's doing this. Jackson Dart. His
teammates were saying this, coach is saying this. What about Russ?
Oh yeah, yeah right, Russ is good? Okay, so you
know they don't have the same capital locked into Russell
Wilson that the Steelers did last year. And Mike Tomlin
decided I'm going to be blindly loyal to him even
though he's killing us, because he played good for a
(08:16):
few weeks and then showed that he's done. Jackson Dart
had a good game against the Jets, and the interest
level to see him play by fans is at at
all time high. Right now, that's one thing you're talking
about fans versus a team. The Giants are gonna stink. Okay,
let's understand this. The Giants are going to stink. The
defensive line will be okay, they'll run the football all right.
(08:38):
Maybe Cam Skattaboo is good, but they're going to stink.
The Giants are basically starting over. Jackson Dart is a
first round pick he is going to play because first
round quarterbacks don't sit right. They especially don't sit when
you're head coaching. Gm who were basically in a lane
duck type year want to be able to continue in
their jobs a year from now. So, like we talked
(08:59):
about with Flacco and John Harball a few minutes ago,
Remember in twenty eighteen when John Harbaugh had to make
that tough decision where Flacco was still playing really well
but Lamar Jackson was could be a superstar. He knew,
I I'm sorry, Joe, but Lamar's my guy. I want
to stay coaching here. And if I stay loyal to
you and keep playing, you guess what if it doesn't
(09:20):
work out, I'm fireding the offseason and somebody else knew
was coming in here and coaching Lamar Jackson. So he
chose Lamar Jackson made the right choice. He's still there
all these years later. Lamar Jackson's got MVPs. This is
what the Giants know. They can't be loyal to Russell Wilson,
and Wilson is the best case scenario will play well
for a few weeks and then that'll be it. And
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with a Giants team that's not very good. That's not
gonna last very long. Initially I thought we'll see Dart
by week eight, no problem, and Russell Wilson's going to
spend the rest of the year on the bench, trying
to find a way to rehab his image where he
can try to spin it in the offseason. I can
still start for somebody. But now with Dart playing so
well against the Jets, that's moved things up immensely. The
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pressure to see him on the field from both the
locker room, front office, fans, city, everything is gonna be
too much, and they know he's got to play. So
let's get Jackson Dart out there sooner right now, Russell Wilson,
I'll put the over under for him of October first,
because the Giants need to start three to one and
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they need to be scoring points for him to keep
the job over Jackson Dart. Now that's not happening. Look
at their schedule. It's too tough. So that's gonna be
the only thing that starts. If they win games, will
he will get there. But unlike last year where even
though Justin Fields was winning, Mike Tomlin said, no, I
gotta go to Russ. Russ is like, yeah, I'm the guy.
He's got the reverse of it last year Russell Wilson, Hey,
(10:46):
I don't care how you're playing, boy, I gotta go
to Jackson Dart at some point. That's gonna happen. By October,
he cut his waiting time in half because they do
want to see, Hey, get prepared for the NFL. Go
through a few weeks of what preparation is, like Monday
through Fry did get ready to go that firm. We
believe that. I'm not saying he should start week one,
but by October first, unless it's a three to one
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Giants record, it's Jackson Dart, that's not going to happen.
It will be dark. Well, you just know, going back
to the Pittsburgh thing, they weren't beholden to either Justin
Fields or Wilson. Unfortunately, Wilson was injured in camp but
wasn't available at the jump right, So Justin Field gets
to run and literally that's what he did. And your
defense is good enough and they made enough plays to
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where the record was solid. But then he goes to
Russell Wilson. So you start getting the moon ball involved
and make a couple of big plays, try to keep
George Pickens happy, or as happy as George Pickens is
ever gonna be. The long laundry list of wide receivers
who've come and gone in Pittsburgh, unhappy with situations, offensive coordinators,
et cetera. Is really a very long book at this point.
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But for Russell Wilson, like he turned into a pumpkin again,
it's a bad decision making, holding on to the ball
too long, and ultimately the defense can only carry you
so far. So but Mike Tomlin was quick to point out, Hey,
look how much better it looks with Russell Wilson. This
is why I get paid the big bucks, et cetera.
I don't know that Justin Fields would have ever seen
(12:12):
the field if Russell Wilson had been a healthy Week
one this time. Yeah, you have the first round pick,
you trade back in to go get Jackson Dart, deciding
that he's your guy. You bring in Russell Wilson, You
bring in Jameis Winston. So now you have two guys
with a lot of quarterback experience, and Russell Wilson you're
hoping some of his veteran savvy can rub off on
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Jackson Dart on the practice field and in the meeting
rooms and all of that stuff. But your point about
Dable and Shane is exactly it. It's like you want to
stick around for a while. You don't have a lot
of a lot of leverage anymore, like you don't have
a lot of No, no, no, it'll work. Just wait, No,
you're gonna have to see that proof of concept with
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Jackson Dart on the field. You start with the Commanders
and Cowboys on the road, a couple of division games, great,
maybe one on one Cowboys, I don't know. And then
then you got the Chiefs coming into town. And then
the Chargers could send him into a believing that they
can f five their asses straight Insburg. You can. You
can fire Russell Wilson. You can retire Russell Wilson with
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a winning Week four, you can retire. And then Week five,
guess what road game against the Saints. All right, So
and that's Jackson Dart's first game. Hey, we're gonna start
you off for the October fifth. There you go, TJ.
It'll be an easy one in the big easy for
Jackson Dart. And then the following three weeks you get
the Eagles, Broncos, Eagles, the Giants, will no longer be
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able to dodge dart. They will put him in to
start TJ whether it's three oh one or cricket, you
will see dart being thrown in Giant Stadium exit out
about a Fresco. Wait till I get to the Julians.
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new quarterback for Ohio State at DJ Ohio State just
saying they have their quarterbacks. I hate you uh. Coming
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. So week two
officially in the books, Bengals win tonight in preseason. Their
defense looks terrible. Trey Hendrickson, congratulations. Yeah, don't give in.
Don't give in. They're terrible. Uh, but you want to
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talk about a couple of traits potential for trades. One
team is said today we are open for business. We
want to make a big move. Another one probably should
make a trade. We saw today that the Browns made
their decision. Joe Flacco is their starting quarterback for the
beginning of this season. They have also signed him to
an eight year, hundred and sixty million dollars extension guaranteed. Uh.
(16:03):
They have side he's going to start this year. I
figure I could get a jersey shipped out early enough
for opening week, right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, Flaco
celeb one last time now, but Brown's jersey. The big
story is really this because this was expected to happen.
Dylan Gabriel plays this weekend play's okay, throws a really
(16:26):
bad pick six in a little bit of controversy after
the game because potentially was he throwing shade at Chador
Sanders by saying I don't care about entertainers. Oh wait
a minute, Sanders entertainer. Right, okay, First of all, I
don't think Dylan Gabriel is that dumb that he's going
to actually cause a fight with Chadoor Sanders. But he did.
He did crack that door open. Yeahvols to interpret it. No,
(16:49):
this is like in the SNL the land Shark when
they go I'm not opening the door. You're that land
shark Western Union. Oh okay, But look the most interesting
part of this situation is now, I want to see
what the depth chart for the Browns looks like now
(17:10):
leading up to Week one. Right, Flaco the starter, I
get it, right, I get it. But Shador Sanders had
a really big week in Week one and was still
the number four quarterback was going to start in week two,
but he was hurt. Okay, but Dylan Gabriel was able
to play, Tyler Huntley played if somehow despite the fact
(17:31):
they didn't play as well as Shadoor Sanders, that Gabriel
and Huntley and or Pickett, who has still not been
able to practice in a while, if they stay ahead
of Shador Sanders going into the season, you know one
of two things is going on. Either there's a big
difference of opinion amongst the Browns as to what the
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direction with Shadoor Sanders could be, meaning that the front
office wants him to play, the coaching staff doesn't think
he's ready, or the coaching staff wants him to play
but the front office doesn't think he's ready. There's some
kind of disagreement going on within the team, which we've
seen with the Browns before. Or the other side is that, hey,
the Browns aren't telling us. He's got to take care
(18:14):
of some things that you don't see that we want
him to understand. You have to take care if you're
going to be the face of the franchise, whether it
is Hey, make sure you don't get caught with anything
bad driving, don't insult a reporter after your first big game,
whatever it is, one of those things is most likely
the answer. Now here's the thing that's not the real question.
If that's the case, you know, and he's still like
(18:35):
fourth string, you know, one of those things is true.
The brown should just trade him because clearly he's not
part of your present and not part of your future
because you are holding him back. All right, It's gone
from Oh, are they put him in a position to succeed? No,
clearly they're holding him back. There is no team in
the NFL that has nobody at quarterback, that has a
(18:56):
forty year old guy who they know is just marking time.
Do you have a guy show up with his first
real taste of the NFL and his first real taste
with the Ones and he has a weak shador Sanders
has two touchdowns, poison the pocket, everything else, and doesn't
immediately increase his reps and give him a bigger role
on the team. But the Browns have not done that.
So this tells me, Hey, if some reason whatever, whether
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he was drafted because somebody wanted him and part of
the team doesn't want him, it doesn't matter whatever. If
he doesn't move up the depth chart. You know he
has no future there, and if I'm Sanders, I just say,
you know what, released me so I can go sign
someplace else or trade me, which is what the brown
should do, because clearly Chador Sander's stock is a little
bit higher now than it was at the draft. He
had that big Week one. Teams have got to see
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what they did. Boyd. Really, his second touchdown pass was
a thing of beauty. It was everything you want to
see out of a quarterback. So you could potentially say,
all right, we'll get out from under this and we'll
flip a fifth round pick into a fourth round pick,
or a fifth round pick into a third round pick,
and they give us back a fourth round pick something
where you're moving on. Do it for both sides. Do
it for both sides, because she do. Sanders should have
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to be able to go to a team where, hey,
they want to work with him and make him and
make him a good player, or cut him so he
can go someplace else and continue his GIRs because clearly
his future is not with the Browns. If he is
still running fourth string or threat, then you know they
that they really do not want him to be a
part of the solution. In Cleveland, or he's a guy
that was drafted in the fifth round for a reason.
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I mean, it's not just personality conflict, and they wanted to,
you know, show him up or show his dad how
he played week one against backups. Well, no, I mean
consistent with this, How excited your Bears fans are when
Tyson Bagent does what he does against back I'm not
those dopes. Don't go putting that in my face. What
how excited you were when Caleb Williams was good against backups?
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I mean the bills were terrible, but still, hey, Sean
mcderritt is concerned all of that to say, Look, I
get your point. I don't know that you're spinning him
off into anything. And I'd be curious behind the scenes
and an honest moment, if we had the fun and
excitement of say a very invasive hard knocks, like what's
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going on in meeting rooms, what we're seeing in practice.
We're not getting a lot of practice stuff, right, Like
go back to week one of practice. You had a
couple of oohs and ah's and throws, and then you
had a lot of pretty non descripts. Yeah, okay, and
then all the reports of who he's working out with,
who he's throwing to whatever, and and take from that
what you will. You've got a Browns team. The expectations are.
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That's the thing. You know nothing at quarterback. It's not
like you have something you have to overcome. You might
overcome anything. But but it's the thing we talk about.
Right with Jackson Dart, it's the you drafted him in
the first round. You got to see what he is,
right and and certainly he's been the part in what
he's done in the preseason. Again, I take it all
with a nice big grano salt. Maybe it may be
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a pinch of salt. I don't know, whatever it is. Oh,
you need more than that. You're you're talking about getting
that Morton shaker and opening up into your mouth swallowing it. Well,
you could do that, and now you're bloated. Your nickname
is NaCl that's pretty good. I like that. Yeah, I
didn't think you'd know that one. That was good. But
all of that's all that to say, all right, you're
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you're trying to keep your job with Stefanski. I don't
think he's in any job security issues. And you've got
a team that despite what Miles Garrett will say, remember
he wanted to trade. Things were so bad, and then
as soon as they sign him to a big deal,
we're super Bowl bound. That's really does he really care? Ye? Look,
I got money. I want to get to the quarterback.
That's all I care. But all of that is to
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say that you've got a squad that you're you don't
have a munch of expectations on, but you also don't
have a lot invested in him to where you have
to accelerate things. So if he's got a long path
to just guess what you signed him to a what
is it a four year, eight million dollar deal or
seven million dollar deal or whatever it is. Gabriel's is
only six hundred thousand dollars higher. You don't need to
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make a decision right now. You just don't. If he's
if he sits and he learns, and Stefanski's supposed to
be a wizard. I've been told this for years, right
he and Shane Steichen, two of the smartest guys that
never won a game, that we're going after it that
you don't have. But what do you do to that?
You know why you're either holding him back for no
reason or you're holding him back because you have a reason,
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which case, if you are holding him back for that,
you should get rid of him. Well, but maybe long term,
he's a guy that if he learns under you, it's
not twenty twenty five, it's twenty twenty six. And guess what,
you're paying him nothing. It's like you're paying him nothing
at he learns, and then next year you say, okay,
forget it. He's he's no nothing more than a camp arm.
Then move on. Let's say you're dating somebody. Yeah, right,
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say you're dating somebody and what's going on? Well, I
don't I don't really know if I want to hang
out with him that much. Why, Well, I'm not sure
if well, the she's doing things that I really don't
like that she does, so she kind of has to
start doing things a little bit differently if we're going
to stay together, or you say, uh, you know, I
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don't know. I don't know. If we're thinking we have
different goals in mind, I'm thinking one thing, she's thinking
another thing. No matter what that answer is, you should
break up because clearly there's no well let me tell
you this. Let me let me break it down to
brass tacks. I brought up dollars and cents a couple
of times. Let's bring it down again. You don't need
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to play him, and he's making you money. It's like
when the Lakers drafted old Bronni kept Lebron happy. Guess
what sold a lot of merch with the Bronni James.
Same thing here. Browns are making a lot of money
off the having the Shador Sanders around, So there is
invested interest in him being good. Like it's good for
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them if he actually grows into that quarterback. But it
doesn't have to happen overnight. But they wouldn't be I'm
not saying all of a sudden you gotta say you're
the starter and forget it. But you gotta be able
to after the night. You have week one with no
time with the ones, and look at what you did.
You got to say, Okay, we got to give you
a little bit more. That's a nice step. A little
bit more do boy in stead, No, we're gonna give
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you less to do. Wait, why that doesn't make.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well get hurt anyway?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So what the hell is the difference? Now? They could
play now the other trade, right, because there's two trades
now The other trade involves the Patriots, who had a
really interesting press conference today. As a VP of Player Personnel,
Elliott Wolf said today the team is open for business
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if a significant trade opportunity presents itself. Quote yeah, absolutely,
he said before practice. We're talking to all thirty one
teams and trying to do what's best for us. You're
not talking to the Jets. I think those things are
often a lot more complicated than the fans and some
others would like to make you believe. But if there
is something we think can help us, we definitely be
open to it. Clearly now, at this point in the
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NFL preseason, there are some highly rated and big stars
who are either unhappy or could be traded potentially Terry McLaurin,
Trey Hendrickson, Michael Parsons. Uh, let's be honest, what are
the Patriots doing here? They are sending up a flare
and telling Jerry Jones call us we want Micah Parsons. Okay,
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because the Patriots is starting over and Mike Vrabel, I
hate to say it, because I'm just now I'm competing
with the Patriots again. Mike Vrabel's building a great culture there.
The defense is gonna be good. He knows what he's
doing offensively. They're bringing Drake May. They're expecting Drake May
to have a bow Knicks type season. I know. And
now in a year I'm gonna have to say, boy,
the Patriots are on their way up and the AFC
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East is good top to bottom. I'm gonna not I
can't state it, but that's what's gonna happen. But this
is not a team that's going to go crazy to
go get Trey Hendrickson who's thirty, or Terry McLaurin, who's
twenty nine. It doesn't It doesn't line up with their
time frame, right. They want someone young who's gonna come
in and be a star. And the fact that they say, hey,
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they have more salary cap room than anybody else in
the NFL. Right, at least Bill Belichick left the cupboard
bear there. Not just talent wise. They can sign up
anybody they want to. They have the draft capital to
make moves. They are saying, Jerry, we can make you
happy for Michah Parsons, the best defensive player in the NFL,
who is gonna come in and be our lynchpin for
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the next five or six years. You call him, we
are ready, we'll call. This is not about anybody else
other than if we can take that big swing at
Michaeh Parsons and Mike Vrabel defensive coach wants to see it. Hey,
who's my guy? Micah Parsons will make him happy. He's doing.
The Patriots doing this to tell the Cowboys, let's do
it to tell Michaeh Parsons and his people we love you.
We want you. Give us a call. We'll communicate through
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back channels. You will be our guy. Come to New England,
be part of what we are. We love you. We'll
give you the money you want, whatever you need. And
the Patriots are also telling the Cowboys, don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid. We're not gonna nickel and dime you.
We're gonna give him a big contract. We're gonna give
you what you need for him. Don't They're not doing
this unless they are saying we are open to a deal.
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We're not a team that's gonna call and say yeah,
we like it, but we're gonna kinda really get through
fine points and say, well, this is what we see
his value as it's gonna be. We're gonna overwhelm you
with picks, and we're gonna give him a contract. Let's
do it, and let's convince you to part with the
best defensive player in the NFL. That's what this is about.
Do you have major upgrades in your house you don't
want to deal with, sell me your house for cash tonight.
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I'm Elliott Wolf and behind him are a bunch of silhouettes.
The black and white silhouettes. Is like, hey, that kind
of looks like it could be MICHAEH. Parsons. Not quite
a Ruarshack tennis, but that kind of thing. And if
I can't sell your house, I'll buy it. That's it
a right, So here we go, Right, you have a
distressed problem. Yeah, so it's you know, Trey Hendrickson. You
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got Terry mcglourin over here. But no, that the one
we keep circling back to kind of looks like a
celebration by Micah Parsons. And I get it, and I
dig what you're laying down. You got ten draft picks
a lot of cash, but those are only the three guys.
You have no idea what else is going on in
camps across? I mean, look at the look at Washington.
Brian Robinson didn't play tonight. Again, it's the Bengals, and
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after the end they more or less it. Yeah, he
doesn't fit what much, so hey, make an offer. Maybe
you want a little bit of depth at running back.
You already have two guys there. You paid Ramandre Stevenson
a year ago. Henderson's going to be a stud. But
all of that to say, there might be other defensive
players that are circling in the background. Right you found
a younger, cheaper guy in the draft and undrafted free
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agent that maybe's making some play. We saw some guys
flying around defensively here. Hey, that guy's a fourth round pick.
That guy's a third round pick that maybe you can
get a displace a higher price veteran. But also McLaurin
and Hendrickson. Yeah, they don't fit the profile of what
you want to do. You might win a little more
now you're building towards the future, and the last thing
you want to do is be committed to thirty five
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to forty million dollars a year for those guys. No, no, no,
Michael Parson's a guy is a different maker, and he'll
put butts in seats and he'll sell jerseys and all
of that money will work itself out that way as
well as I think a player in his prime. He
was on Twitter today getting after it in terms of
Clarence Hill going, hey, this is why you don't play.
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They say play your quarterbacks. That's what they tell me.
You know what. That Joe Burrow Boomer would be going whoop, whoop,
whoop as he scrambled, and Michael Partson said, hey, we've
gone soft in this generation. You got to get out
there and learn. It's like, I love it that can
I play? Call him up, Call Jerry Jones, Call the Patriots.
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Call the Patriots. They will make you happy, Jerry. I'll
address this tomorrow. I have no doubt. I called Belichick
and he said he can't make trades anymore. So then
I called Pioli and he told me he's not there either.
Then I called Scott Wolf and he told me he's
not on Party of five anymore. He's doing Hallmark movies.
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So I would call the Patriots, but I don't know
how to get in touch with anybody. Yeah, I don't
know that you want to invoke that guy right now?
Didn't he get in trouble recently? Scott Wolf did he Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he had some family drama. Oh let's go to the
wolf with Harvey Gottel instead, Let's talk to someone who's
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been called the Micah Parsons of Fox Sports Radio. I've
seen many times on social media him post I no
longer want to be here. It's Steve to say.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I thought you were going to say because his contract
is out at the end of the year, to which
I say, contract, what is then? The Bengals wanted Washington
in an exhibition today. Thirty one seventeen quarterback Jayden Daniels
did have a fourteen yard touchdown run on his only series.
Washington running back Brian Robinson, out today, could be traded
on the team's first two drives without him this evening,
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six carries one hundred and six yards and two scores.
Washington wide receiver Terry McLaurin is still out with his
contract situation. Bengals QB Joe Burrow with a short touchdown
pass tonight. He played three series. Jake Browning two TD
passes late in the first half. Evan McPherson a fifty
four yard field goal. By the way, with the new rule,
there were ten total kickoffs, one touchback tonight. The NFL
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preseason ends this Saturday. The Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford with
the bad back, practice for the first time in this
training camp, but the team had no further update on
his health. Vikings white out Justin Jefferson after a strain hamstring,
practiced on a limited basis for the first time in
nearly a month. The Browns name quarterback Joe Flacco as
their starter and he will start Saturday's exhibition finale. Miami
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reportedly signed linebacker Matthew Judah. The Colt signed veteran defensive
back Xavian Howard to college football. Ohio State named Julian
Sayan as a starting quarterback. He played a little for
him last year after transferring from Alabama. Eight piece preseason
All Americans includes three players from Texas, three from Penn State,
and the first team QB is Clemson's Cade Klubnik. There
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is a college football game this Saturday on Fox TV,
Fresno State at Kansas.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It is zero Week, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
In college football Zero Week, there's a handful like five
games on the slate and then most people open the
final weekend of all August. That's when the big newon
kickoff will happen with Texas at Ohio State August thirtieth.
The WNBA was off tonight. Five games on the Tuesday
schedule to Major League Baseball. The Dodgers are still up
two games over the Padres in the NL West. Colorado
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beat the Dodgers with a run in the bottom of
the nine, four to three. The Rockies had lost ten
straight head to head against La By the way, Kyle Freeland,
rocky starter, left after four innings due to a blister.
His Colorado team has won six of seven now. San
Francisco led four to nothing in the first and held
on four to three at San Diego. Robbie Ray the
winning pitcher. The loser, Nestor Cortes, gave up three homers
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in the first inning. The Padres had a home run
overturned due to fan interference in the second inning, wound
up losing at home by one. The Reds are just
a game out of the last NL wildcard behind the Mets.
Cincinnati a winner for to one at the.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Angels, two games in the lost columns, two games in
the lost call.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
One total game Brady Singer. The wins six innings on
the Hill Cleveland and Kansas City with victory. White Sox
ended the four game losing streak. Saint Louis won to
end a five game losing streak. Wins for Baltimore and
for Pittsburgh, which beat Toronto five to two, and Vladimir Gurero,
junior Blue Jays first baseman left with hamstring tightness. Philadelphia
got two homers from Bryce Harper and beat Seattle twelve seven,
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Detroit ten to nothing over Houston. Milwaukee won the first
of a scheduled doubleheader at the Cubs seven to nothing.
The nightcap was reigned out. They'll play two on Tuesday.
The game one winner was Freddie Peralti's fifteen to five.
The Cub's Kyle Tucker went ozer for four in the opener.
He'll take a few games off now. He's betting one
ninety five since the start of July. Back to you, Thanks,
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Steve l.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
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