March 11, 2025 • 37 mins
On today’s episode, Jason discusses the roster purge currently going down in San Francisco, whether or not the 49ers should be willing to pay Brock Purdy top dollar given how quickly the quarterback market has basically dried up, the New York Jets’ puzzling decision to make Justin Fields their franchise quarterback, Nikola Jokic getting his revenge on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder, and why he isn’t panicking about the Los Angeles Lakers’ ugly road loss to the Brooklyn Nets.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Straight Fire by AM.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday, March eleventh.
I could start the show with so many different things
today because what a wild night in sport. Didn't go
great in college oops had two good bets and they
both lost in the end brutal. Even worse yet, remember
how I got injured playing in the basketball semifinals on Sunday.
(00:34):
Had the championship game in the Old Man League on Monday,
and I basically can't barely walk. So I played like
a total of three minutes and we lose.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Unbelievable. I killed that team twice this season.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I had twenty five and twenty eight and I could
do nothing, just devastating the Lakers cover in the first
quarter again, that's fifteen of seventeen guys first quarter covering machine.
Then they end up losing to the Nets. It's kind
of a bad loss given me upcoming stretch. They have
my Jets get a quarterback. But but we're starting with
a bit of a curveball, a wrinkle.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What the hell of the San Francisco forty nine ers
doing I've.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Got to ask you guys, I came super close. If
you guys have forgotten when the Jets were struggling with
Aaron Rodgers and the distractions and all this nonsense. I'm
just I've been so fed up with them, and I
was looking for a new team, and I got a
buddy who's a Niners fan.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
He's like, hey, come to the dark side.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Even Coward on air was like, why don't you start
liking the Niners.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You love rock Perty.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm like, you know, they got some guys I like debo, folks.
What they are doing in San Francisco right now is
an unbelievable tear down. This guy who covers the team
named cam Enman hosted the Super Bowl starting lineups for
Niners Chiefs, which is basically thirteen months ago, right February
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twenty twenty four, thirteen months ago from that forty nine
Ers team, which was a juggernaut. They were favored in
that game.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
They should have.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They were in control, you know, the punt flub and
then it goes over time and they settle for a
field goal and of course Mahomes gets a touchdown. I
will stand by I had lost money on that on
the bet because I had had the Niners.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But I'll stand by I would make that bet again.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They are now down four starters on offense from that
Super Bowl team. You got obviously, Deebo Samuel, you got
your guard. Both guards are gone, and now fullback Kyle
Hughescheck was released late last night. Apparently they tried to
release him last year, but he took a pay cut
to stick around, and now he's gone. He's probably gonna
surf for somewhere else. But he's at thirty three, you know,
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getting up there in age. So four offensive starters, You're like, Oh,
that's not that big of a deal. Jay, They've lost
seven defensive starters from.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That team that went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The only guy on the front four that's back is Bosa.
The only linebacker that's back is Warner. Seven defensive starters,
four on offense. And oh, by the way, the substitue
us are listed. Ten of those guys have been picked through.
The Niners had such a great roster that year that
everybody circled a bunch of players they want, and then
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the Niners underachieve, and now the forty nine ers have
to part ways if people are gobbling them up. Sim
Francisco had a great team. I mean, listen, they didn't
win a Super Bowl, so you can't call it a dynasty.
But I'm fairly certain they went Super Bowl lost to
the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Mahomes comeback.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Then they had the I'm fairly certain they missed the playoffs.
Then it was NFC Title Game loss when Perdy got
injured in the first quarter. Then I'm fairly certain they
lost in the Super Bowl. So I think, and Rob
you can check me on this. I think they had
two NFC Championship Game appearances and two Super Bowl appearances
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in like a five year span, and all of that
has basically been blown up. They took the dynamite to
the forty nine ers roster and they are rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now here's the weird thing.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Is it tough to call it a rebuild when you
arguably the best left tackle in the game, Trent Williams,
who's thirty seven. You have an elite tight end in Kittle,
you have an elite running back in cemac Brandon and
I are just gonna be coming back from the ACL.
He was, you know, a really really good receiver two
years ago. So you've got all the pieces, So why
the rebuild. Well, they're getting long in the two defensively,
But the real reason why the forty nine ers are
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doing this is they are shaking up the offense. I
guess they believe it looks stale, it sounds like, and
it's early that they are not gonna have a fullback
at all, not that they moved on from uscheck and
they are pivoting to a different kind of offense, which
I don't know may surprise the league, but it's all
centered around Brock Purdy.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
At least that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And I say that because as we record this very
very early in the morning of Tuesday, March eleventh, Brock
Bertie still doesn't have a deal.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And it's weird because you're starting to redconflicting reports.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Hey, forty nine ers are holding They're drawing a firm
line in the sand. They are upset with how prior
negotiation what sorry, Brandon Ayuk, and they are not rolling
over for players anymore, Lynch and Shanahan. They are drawing
a hard, hard line in the sand there they're not
going to cross. And I wonder this Rock Purty deal
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is going to be more fascinating than anything we've seen
and we saw a lot obviously, saym Darnald surfacing in
Seattle at the Big Aaron Rodgers will see what happens.
But my read Rob on this brock Party thing, and
I've kind of gone back and forth. I thought, Okay,
maybe he'll sign a team friendly deal because he's Rock
Party and if you give him, I'm just throwing out
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a number, an even number, one hundred million guaranteed. That's
not earth shattering for a quarterback, right, and you know
you give him like a three plus one essentially, you
know you can get him on something to the effect
of forty five mill a year.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Maybe there's only guaranteed money for two years.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Again, I like brock Party, but I don't know that
everyone else does. And Rob, this is the ultimate question.
Let's say the forty nine ers said, Brock we're not
going a penny over forty five million year taking or leading,
and rock Perty says few.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm out look around the league, Rob, who's scrambling for
brock Perty?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Are you asking me or is that a retory?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, question, I'm asking.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I don't know anybody who's like, oh, we got to
get in the brock Purty business.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's go higher than forty five. I don't see that happen.
I mean, Seattle's got their guy, the Jets have their guy. Minnesota.
It sounds like they're gonna rock with McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And you look around the league. Titans are probably drafting
cam Ward Browns. Almost seems like a lockdown that they're
taking Shador after the Miles Garrett deal.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm looking around, where's the landing spot the New York Giants.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't see that in clement weather
in Pittsburgh. I don't see a spot for party. So
I actually think, and I know this is crazy. I
think the forty nine ers have the leverage, don't they.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I don't know how you could think that they have
the leverage right now when you factor in everything you
said about what they're doing with their roster and people,
you know, if they heard you go on that round
that I say, oh, seven starters for offensive and you
know it is what It is a lot of changeover
in the NFL. When you hear the names of the
guys they let go, these are.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Not just dudes.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
These are legitimate Pro Bowl, all Pro caliber players that
have moved on from the Stanpatuisco forty nine ers, Deebo,
Samuel Javarius Ward Moore, who is a guard with offensive
line people don't care about that kind of stuff. Banks'
offensive lineman, Whufanga and Greenlaw, so four Pro Bowl type
players at least if you don't catch the offensive lineman,
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three of which have all Pro potential in Diebo, Hufanga,
and green Law, those are all world type players. And
even still to your point without those guys, Apparently the
reason why they're making this kind of move is because
they want to pay George Kittle, who is an All
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Pro caliber player. They want to pay Fred Warner, who
is an All Pro caliber player, and they want to
play pay Rock Party, who is an all Pro caliber player.
Don't let last season's disastrous season in San Francisco distract
you from what Brock Party did in twenty twenty three.
In twenty twenty three, Rock Party topped almost every major
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statistical category in the NFL passer rating passing yards per attempt,
touchdown percentage, yards per completion QBR, fourth in completion percentage,
fifth in passing yards his passing yards, four and eighty
single season franchise record, and last I checked the forty
nine ers have a pretty decorated quarterback history in their franchise.
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Rock Party was better than all of them statistically. You
pointed it out. They're making this shift in their team.
According to one report, the whole plan right now is
to get away from the twenty one personnel, which of
your football head to running backs, one tight end, and
go into the twelve personnel, which is the one that's
really famous around the NFL. The Rams run it almost exclusively.
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Three ride receivers, one tight end. They are building their team,
not just their offense, their team both schematically and financially
around brock Purty. It's why you have Diana Rossini coming
out so strong to refute a report that the first
offer they made to him was forty five million dollars.
She says said that is categorically false, that she would
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bet whatever you want to bet on it. The tea
leaves suggest that number is going to start with a
five in front of it for brock perty Now.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
To their point, I think the forty five came from
a certain reporter who I don't even think he's at
CBS anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Jason lacanfora Do you know him?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I know who he is I don't know if he's
still a CIB.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, no, no, he I mean a lot of people
do not deem incredible.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I haven't talked to that guy in like fifteen years,
but I know Jay Glazer well, and Glazers like listen
don't steer clear. So that forty five number she's saying
is just totally bogus.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Absolutely, and so everybody's saying it's gonna start with a
five in front of it. Whether it does or doesn't,
I think it's immaterial because what it comes down to
is all of their actions say, Brock Parties, our guy,
Brock Parties, our guy. We're building around Brock Party. He's
the one we're gonna we're gonna go with. But to
your point, with the idea you floated, you know, a shorter,
(10:23):
more guaranteed money is actually something that execs have floated
out as well. There was a report that came out
maybe about a month ago and at the end of
at the end of January, actually it came out January thirty.
First NFL executives. We're talking about Brock Party and what
is salary structure might look like. Because everybody knows they
wanted to get the extension done quickly. And you want
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to know which quarterback they used as a reference point
for how a Brock Party contract is going to look
Daniel Jones. Oh, both in terms of salary shtru sure
and in years. You recall when the Giants made that
offer to Daniel Jones, it was four for one sixty
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with eighty million or eighty one million guaranteed. That means
the people in the know, not the reporters, not the
you know, the whatever the agents tell them. That's just
kind of why this this sauca gets made here. The
people who actually make these decisions are saying, yeah, they
like Brock Party, they're committed to Brock Party, but they
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also don't want to be too committed to Brock Party.
They don't want to do the six year, three hundred
million type deal like that Josh Allen just got. They
want to do a three year, four year you know,
we'll say we'll call it two hundred four years three
plus one yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. So, on
one hand, their actions say that they are committed to
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brock Purty, they're building their offense, they're building their team
around him. But unless that contract comes in and is
commiserate with what you would expect a quarterback with his
kind of resume. There's a lot of mixed signals coming
out of San Francisco right now.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, I think they're in a good spot with Perdy.
I obviously trust their head coach and the GM that
they'll figure it out. Defense a lot more easy to
replace than offense.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I this is gonna be interesting. They will probably.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Get a ton of comp picks, right I think I
saw that they already have twelve draft picks I believe
for this year. Now, obviously you're not going to hit
on half those, but if you can hit, if you
can get three or four starters. Remember, was it the
Rams rob that started two rookie quarterbacks at some point
this year?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So somebody was starting two rookies.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I know the Eagles did that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, yeah, they hit on everything. But yeah, all you
gotta do is hammer a couple of those and boom
you right back. But it is just interesting that the
Rams seem to be ascending. The Niners are getting torn down,
Seattle's getting torn down, but they got Sam Darnold, which
I don't really get to you. I think they want
to become a run first team the way I'm looking
at them.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Well, it's funny quickly where you mentioned the compis I
remember doing the story for the Audica Fox Sports Radio
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their compicks, either with the selections they made or using
those compics to move up and down the draft board,
have selected in their recent history brock Perty, Telenoah, Hufanga,
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and Dre Greenlaw with compis. So few teams in the
NFL are better at navigating that situation than San Francisco
just quiet, quickly go and that's really impressive.
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Speaker 3 (13:46):
We'll wait till everything's finalized here in the next two
weeks or week, the best players will be going. Like
power rankings in the NFC, I think everybody had San
fran at the.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Top one or two coming into last year.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Obviously the egld are gonna be good, but like I
don't Washington Zeno awesome forty eight hours here. I think
the home run and that's also getting Deebo Samuel last
week Eagles. Obviously, I don't know if the Lions have
done a lot. They stole DJ Reid the corner from
the Jets, who was very, very good the last couple
of years. I think the Rams improved. I don't particularly
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know what Seattle's doing. I think Tampa's gonna be fine.
So I think San fran will probably be in the
four to sixth range. And I don't think they're a
lot for the playoffs. Rob, I don't think you could
say that at this point.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's early.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, I mean, well quickly the Lions. I think we
all expect them to take a step back, not because
the roster's not great. The roster is still great. I
mean that DJ Reid pickup they had on Monday, I
think was one of the sneaky big acquisitions of the
day one free agency. The problem is they lost both
their coordinators, and history says when that happens, you're gonna
take at least some kind of step back. Yeah. The
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other thing is the interesting that you bring up the Eagles,
because the Eagles right now, I know they just want
Super Bowl. So it gets a little bit differ than
wapens in Francisco. They are the Niners two point zero
loaded roster, stacked up and down with talent. At some
point the purge is going to come. Yeah, do you
expect that the Eagles are gonna see what's going on
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with the Niners and kind of view him as a
cautionary tale and say, rather than purge the roster of
talent and build around a quarterback who might be good
but not great. You know, as much as I'm a
brock purty guy, I'm never gonna say that he's in
the same category as Mahomes Alan Jackson, Right, Yeah, I
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think the same could be said about Jalen Hurts, even
after a Super Bowl championship. I don't think anyone a
lot of haters out there. I don't think anyone views
him in that kind of, you know range either. He's reliant,
like most quarterbacks, on the people and system around him.
Could you see a scenario here in two or three
years when the bill finally comes due because they made
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basically every major player on their team the highest paid
in this position at one point another.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, well they did the Eagles that they did lose
their O c Kellen Moore's out in free agency. They've
lost Josh Sweat coming off the Ashes very good. Milton
Williams kind of blew up in the Super Bowl, but
some of that was thanks to Jalen Carter being a
wrecking ball and Nolan Smith coming out.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You got to double somebody.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And Milton Williams was able to eat a little bit.
So you lose those two guys, Obviously they lose. I
think they lost three cornerbacks, Bradbury, slayh and Isaiah Rodgers.
So it's like you start losing a lot of players
that were contributed to that defense. You're right, it's tough.
But Jalen hurts his deal so good. Oh and they
lost Kenny Pickett. I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Gay for dr Man.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, they sent him to Cleveland, by the way, And
there's so much happening. I don't want to just ping around,
but I've lost track. When did the Miles Garrett thing happen?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Was that this morning.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Miles Garrett Sunday or Monday, Sunday, Sunday Sunday?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, So we have kind of touched it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The fact that they got Garrett probably Cement Shador Sanders
at two.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Would you agree I.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Would think so, because it doesn't make any sense otherwise. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, so you get the quarterback on the rookie deal.
It doesn't matter if you're giving Garrett massive money. Then
you see other teams like Dallas just screwing around, hasn't
paid Michael Parsons, the Bungles screwing around with Jamar Chase.
I mean, I just look anti Yeah, you just look
around the league. Some teams are really poorly run. And
now let's go to the Jets, which is a perfect pivot,
and they lose DJ Reid. It sounds like they're gonna
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be done with CJ. Moseley the linebacker. They ink, sure
would the young kid to a longer deal. But the
big story is justin fields to the Jets. And you know,
I get all these texts from buddies and just a
few Jets fans. There's not many of them out there,
and instantly it's like the Justin field Zerr's underway, and
I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not buying that. You guys
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saw that the Steelers were interesting in fields, but they
didn't want to commit to him. And I think the
analogy here is justin fields is like you know that
thirty something mom who just really.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Wants to get married.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
She's like, Hey, I'm I'm at that age. I need
to get married. But nobody wants to commit. So the
first person that's willing to commit, boom, you're jumping. Like
Justin Fields, I think he wanted to be in Pittsburgh,
but they would not commit to him being the starter.
The New York Jets who have no quarterback, nobody in
the pipeline over here.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We'll give you the deal thirty mil. I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And that's I think why Justin Fields went there. Is
he gonna have a chance to win.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's reunited with Garrett Wilson the uh they played together
at Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But like you guys saw Fields last year, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What kind offense are we running. You can't have him
drop back doing twenty five thirty times a game. That's
not his game. So you do have Breiese Hall obviously
a line line lost Morgan Moses the right tackle. He's
gone to the Patriots. By the way, the New England
Patriots now they had the most cap space. They're having
a freakin amazing month so far. Well, I don't know
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if we'll get to them today, but I don't know.
I'm not very optimistic about the justin Fields News. He's,
you know, a great college football quarterback who I think
the and I just hate saying this because it's kind
of mean, but I think one of the biggest knocks
on him was that when he drops back, he's got
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slow eyes. And that's what they call it the scouts.
He just doesn't process very quickly. And sure he can
tuck and run and he's dangerous as hell, but is
he dropping back the way brock Purty is CJ. Stroud
young quarterbacks and identifying, Okay, this is what's going on,
bing bang boom, there's my guy.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And there's just not any evidence of that. And you
saw him in Pittsburgh his best play, Let me just
throw it up for Pickens.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You know, he didn't want to throw the ball over
the middle of the field because there's a lot of
defenders there and you can make a mistake like I
don't know, Rob, you know, I know there's gonna be
sacrilegious to the Jets fans listening, but your Raiders could
be in better shape this year than the Jets.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Here's my thing.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't think that's the I don't really care that
much because we were not going anywhere with this iteration.
I mean, we haven't gone anywhere in over a decade.
But you know, I guess Justin Fields is moderate.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
He's more exciting for me than Gino Smith.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
You know, at least I believe Fields is fun to watch.
Do you think Geno Smith is fun to watch?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I wouldn't say fun. That's not the word I was
used to described by Geno Smith. And by the way,
I take offense to you saying that they're your Jets
until the twenty twenty five season starts, they're still our
Jets that I picked them make the Super Bowl, So
I'm rolling with them until the starting next season. Then
I can pick a different name. I don't want to
be mean to you, because you've been a long suffering
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Jets fan, even longer than me being a long suffering
Raiders fan. We talked about this on yesterday's podcast. Justin
Fields is an athlete. He has a good arm, he
is sturdy, he is extremely mobile, one of the best
running quarterbacks you know recent memory. He is a terrible quarterback.
He cannot throw point blank period at this level. He
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cannot throw. I'm not gonna call him Tim Tebow. He's
not that bad, but he cannot throw the football all right.
His QBR through six games as a starter last year
was fifty four, twentieth among all quarterbacks. To make things worse, though,
is as the games went on and teams got more
tape on him and that system and that offense, he
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got worse. Okay, his final two weeks as a starter,
fifty seven percent completion, threw for fewer than one hundred
and fifty yards in each game. I met. I said
this down on yesterday's podcast as well. When he was
under center. Pittsburgh's offense twenty eighth, passing yards per game,
twentieth in points per game, thirty first in the league,
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and early down pass rate thirty second in rate of
yardage via the pass. It's not just that he couldn't throw.
You know, the percent completing it tells you can't throw.
The team was telling you we're not even gonna let
you throw. That's how bad you are at quarterback. I
don't understand what our Jets are doing right now. Say
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what you want about Aaron Rodgers, and and again he's
been a big topic of conversation this podcast for years now.
I don't know how you think it's an upgrade to
go from Aaron Rodgers Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, I would agree it's not an upgrade.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Is it possible? Flow?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Wait, is it an upgrade to go from Russell Wilson
last year in Pittsburgh to Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Maybe? I mean it's probably more of a like. But
we floated this yesterday. We had the tinfoil hats on.
Were the Seattle Seahawks quiet tanking for arch Manning? Right?
And then they make this move for Sam Darnold, So
it suggests that they're not. Are our New York Jets
quiet tanking with this move.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
For Justin Fields, it's very likely I would say.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
That the Jets, they're just they're not playing for this year.
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The so the new boss comes in to the office
and he's got to assess what he's got, give them
a little time and then you know, chop, get the
get rid of the deadwood. It's not all that different
from what Elon Musk and that Doge team is doing
to the government.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They're taking a chainsaw. The Jets aren't taking quite a chainsaw,
maybe a hack saw. I think the forty nine ers
are taking a chainsaw to the roster. But the Jets
are just doing a little chops here and there, and
they've got to get the guys they want and get
some dead wood out and get a little younger and
save money because they've got to pay Breeze, Halls, Gardner,
Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And ideally.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
You're competitive, you win four or five games and you
got a top five pick.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That to me is a winning season.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You're competitive in games, you lose thirty twenty seven every week.
I'm fine with that, right, probably covering a lot of
spreads show showing signs of life. And then at the
same time it's like, okay, good, we're keeping that good pick.
I mean again, Tennessee, they could do all the home
bank they want on cam Ward or they could go Shador.
Cleveland's got to take whichever one the other doesn't want
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out of Tennessee and Cleveland. So yeah, I do believe
the Jets will be in a good position to get
in the mix for arch Manning.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
So as a Jets fan, quickly, Okay, you saw two
years ago the Zach Wilson experiment, Mike White. You know
there was a couple other. They had some random guys
I thought were created players at quarterback. Their defense was great,
the offense was terrible. You say, you want to have
the quiet tank, five wins, competitive, but we lose most
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of these games, develop young players. Would you be able
to stomach easier a team like two or three years
ago where the defense is phenomenal, but we're only scoring
eleven points a game on offense? Or the offense is
Garre Wilson showing out, Prestols showing out, We're getting you
twenty three twenty four, and we're losing twenty seven to
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twenty four.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Everything, Well, the problem with that is if the offense
is showing out, then Wilson and Hall are gonna want
to get big, big bucks. That's probably not great. I'm
trying to think like a front office guy. Let me
bounce a couple teams off you and let me know
your thoughts. So the Broncos quietly pillaged two guys from
the forty nine ers defense, Whu Funga and Greenlaw. I
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figure they're instant starters. There's still need a cornerback too.
They've got certain You look at the the offense, the
offensive line looks pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh, Rob. I don't know. Are the Broncos like a
sneaky threat to maybe win the division next year?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Absolutely, because there are some quality corners that I mean,
Darius Slay who they're looking to make a trade right now.
They may have a you have to cut them at
some point there in Philadelphia. If you have Slay and
certain as your corners, it's not bad. It's not bad
at all. And and bo Nicks may not have the
extreme upside of some of these other young quarterbacks because
it's just his physical limitations, but he can play quarterback
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at a very high level. And and that Sean Payton system.
You know, Javon Ti Williams got plucked by another team.
I think he's with Dallas now. I saw that. Yeah,
he's fine, but I don't think he's irreplaceable. I think
Denver can easily make a run at not not just
in the AFC, at a playoff spot. I did make
him rid of the division because I don't see the Chiefs.
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It's just, you know, I know it's Zack Religiousuk about
him because they went what fifteen and one when they
played other guys, they they were you know, I guess
they were the worst fifteen and one team i've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, and they I think they won like they were
like ten and zero one score games, some ridiculous number
sense they even out. Yeah, who wins more games? Sam
Darnold and Seattle or Justin Fields of the Jets.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
No, No, Justin Fields is a worst division.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh that's a good point. I saw Naje Harris to
the Charger is a kind of like that. He's the
new thumper in place of gust the bus uh Agia.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Harris isn't good though, he's not great.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
No, he's not JK. Dobbins, and he will split carries.
I would assume Zach Wilson Lands is the backup in Miami.
That's kind of big news. No, he's gonna play. What's
what the remember when they got Mike White? Yeah, I
don't know if he ever played once. Anyways, NFL has
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gotten just just.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
A Bonker's week. We're still waiting on a couple of.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Uh decent names, and obviously the draft can change things.
But things are starting to crystallize in the in the AFC,
I think I think this is Buffalo Ji Rob. That's
my early, very early read. I don't know, I'm with you.
I don't the Chiefs have lost I believe two offensive linemen.
They're trying to convert the kid from BYU they drafted
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high to a guard. I don't think they know what
they're doing on the offensive line. And you know the
Xavier Worthy story.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Can we talk about that?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
No, he didn't. I mean it's already been it's already
been washed away, right because they dropped all the charges,
so they did.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
You know, he got arrested something. I guess he caught
his girlfriend cheating. Now Rob and I don't think. I
don't want to delve into this, but isn't Xavier Worthy
the guy who with his girlfriend after he was drafted
did the video with the hundreds and he was just
like peeling him off to you that, yes, and then
this chick goes and cheats on him and he catches her,
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and I guess.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
That what happened. Because I never got that far in
the story.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, I don't know if I should put that, But
there's other people saying that that's what happened, and they've
each scrubbed their Instagram of the other.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Just ugly situation.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But you know, it is good that if he's clear
to that because I don't know, man on the heels
of Rashi Rice and now this, and there's some speculation
that Pickens could be on the move out of Pittsburgh
and Kansas City could use one, or they could just
take one in the first round.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
So I'll tell you what I winn't like. As if
the Chiefs get Coop cut when he's inevitly gets released,
I wouldn't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
That's a good point. Yeah, Cooper cup very very good.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And we'll wrap up with Laramie Tunsell, the guy who
was wearing the gas mask and taking ball hits to
the drafting.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
That was so funny.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Laramie Tunsell was traded to the Commanders. Commanders have rebuilt
their offensive line. Tunsell's gonna start at left tackle. If
I'm CJ. Stroud, I'm like, got, what the hell are
we doing? We're moving on from our left tackle.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Tunsl's been up and down.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
He's had some injuries, but apparently he was very well
liked in the locker room and a lot of the
players on the Texans were caught off guard putting stuff
on social media.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Two years ago, Houston shocked the world with that with
that season, right, then they regress a little bit and
now they trade tunsl and this is a quarterback who
was under duress all last season.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So I don't know what's going on. In Houston.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They get some a couple of draft picks, but it
was really like they got I guess it was a
swap of a fourth rounder, and then they got two
picks and a so no first so it's like, all right,
I guess that's not a terrible deal for Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Washington's all in.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Usually after a meteoric rise like Washington had, you don't
see them load up and then it works.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But for some reason, I think it could in Washington
with Daniels.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, I really liked what Houston did with the Christian
Kirk trade. I thought he was a perfect Tank Dell
replacement temporarily at least. But to your point, to get
rid of when you have such a poor offensive line,
and I guess the narrative is you can't just run
it back, and that's how bad they were, they had
to make changes. I don't think changes mean getting rid
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of your most decorated lineman, arguably a top ten left
back in the league. When your quarterback was sacked fifty
two times last year. Like, I don't know if that's
the move that I would have made. Thankfully for them,
they play in the AFC South, which is probably the
worst division in football. You know, the Colts don't know
what they're in their quarterback. The Titans don't have a
quarterback right now, and I'm sure they get one. You know,
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the Jags, we fundamentally disagree on Trevor Lawrence, but you know,
they're in a situation where they should walk into the
division championship every season. But because of that, they should
not view it as, hey, this is our playoff entrance.
We're gonna get in no matter what. We'll see what happens.
They should view it as, hey, we have six wins
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this season, like the Patriots they'd done Tom Brady, and
our goal should not just be to make the postseason.
Our goal should be first round and a bye every
year because we have that kind of leg up. And
I don't feel like the rest of the moves that
they've made this offseason after that Christian Kirk trade kind
of follow that line of thinking.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, no, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I'm a little lower on Christian Kirk than everyone else,
but I digress.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
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Speaker 2 (32:00):
All right, let's wrap up with the NBA real quick.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
So I didn't even know that the Thunder and Nuggets
had a back to back against one another. And Sunday,
Okac wins, SGA goes for forty one or whatever on
like thirty two shotouts and everybody's, oh, MVP, blah blah blah.
So Aaron Gordon got hurt, right, so everybody's like, oh, man,
Nuggets are in deep trouble. They're gonna get smoked, dumb
No Nuggets one forty Thunder one twenty seven. The Nuggets
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blitz Okac in the fourth quarter and steal the win
and compounding matters for Oka. Se Jalen Williams left the
game Jay Dubb with some kind of hip injury and
did not return in the first half, and they kind
of struggled without him. That being said, Uh, Jokics just
a cool thirty five eighteen and eight NBD, no big deal.
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Rob Jamal Murray thirty four no, no Biggie uh and
the fraudulent Thunder and their free throw merchant SGA ball
and I don't you know you when you take this
game into it and again it's just one result in March,
but these teams were clearly playing for keeps.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
On a back to back.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Jokic played forty, Murray played forty, Michael Porter Junior thirty eight,
Christian Brown thirty six. Like these are heavy minutes in
March for a game that doesn't matter. And you even
look at the Lakers and I'm disappointed to Luca had
to play forty one minutes and take twenty six shots,
you know, Like I again, their March basketball games.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
But what do you make of this real quick rob
this Brooklyn Nets win over the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
It was a terrible game. And I was able, thankfully
to watch the whole one because it was on during
the radio show and we had all those TVs in
the studios. I can watch the whole game. The casuals
are going to look at the box score and say,
Luca was fine, you know, he didn't shoot the ball. Well,
we had a triple double. Luca Dodgers was terrible in
that game, Austin reed was getting frustrated with the refs.
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He was if it felt like he's not getting calls. No,
and that was the issue. He wasn't getting calls, and
rather than trying to score, he was just kind of
throwing his body into contact hoping for a whistle and
he'd miss it every time, which is why a shooting
was intered so low. And then he would stop and
complain about it, and so he got to a point
where his frustration level was boiling over to a point
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where it was impacting him on the other side of
the floor. And as a result, when he's complaining, you're
seeing five on fours in the other direction. So either
he was getting back late and they would score, or
he was getting back and he was so frustrated he
wasn't playing good defense. On top of that, Austin Reeves,
could I hit the red side of a barn? So
you wasted good shooting performances from a good Win and
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Dave Vincent, two guys who normally can't count on to
have good offensive performances. So when you have a schedule
like they have coming up where they got six games
in eight days, you know, back to backs against Denver
and Milwaukee, and you know you're lucky on a good,
fully healthy game to be five hundred in a run
like that. Now you're shorthanded the way you are. This
was the game that you can't trick away. This is
one you had to have. And the way that they
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played was so disappointing as a Lakers.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, great start and poor finish, but I'm just gonna
point out, Okay, eight guys played double digit minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
These are some of them.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Alex lenn, Gabe, Vincent, Trey, j Jemison, Jordan Goodwin. Like,
I'm sorry, guys in a big time series Lakers, ok se,
Jamison ain't playing a minute. I don't think Goodwin's getting
in the game. And I know for sure Alex lenn
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is not Okay, Rui's not there, Lebron's not there, Jackson
Hayes is not there. That's three of their top six
in their rotation.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's their entire starting front court.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And so you know when you see the Nets get
sixteen offensive rebounds, they're like, oh, I get it. Okay,
So let's not overreact. Oh though people definitely will because
that's what they do online. It's not, and the Lakers
are gonna go through some tough times here. I don't
think it's that big of a deal. Rob, I'm on record,
they are, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if Brownie
got to start coming up, you know, cheez throw him in?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Well, why not?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I mean they might have to. The way that schedule
shakes out, you're gonna see. I think Luca's gonna sit
a couple, you know. Yeah, I think it's too. When
they played Denver, I don't know. If it's the first
other thing I have back to back, they might lose
by forty.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
It's possible.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Now the Lakers are hurtling toward the four seed, in
which case they would face Houston. And I'm sure you
saw Amen Thompson, the good young player. So the Rockets
were up like thirty, right, and they wanted him to
get his first or second whatever number triple double. So
they leave him in the game and then he gets injured.
Now he's out two weeks. So like that's what's happening
in Houston.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
If you're curious, Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
They're not a serious basketball team that's gonna threaten the Lakers.
That would mean the second round matchup with Okay, see, frankly,
I'm not terrified of them.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Who would you rather face? Robb will wrap up on this,
who would you rather face? If you're the Lakers, everybody's healthy.
Second round? Would you rather face Denver? Where they have
home field or home court? Or okay? See would they
have home court?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Okay? See for sure?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, exactly, That's all you need to know, guys, exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
So lit'steny College basketball Championship week's gonna start heating up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I think Wednesday is.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
The big day.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Where there's gonna be like a billion games, and I'm
trying to think who we could get on as a
Oh no, shoot, there's some good games today, Cincinnati, Oklahoma State. Well,
these aren't good teams, but they're big named Pittsburgh notre name.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Oh, this is where basketball starts wall to wall. All right,
I gotta grind. I'll be posting picks on ig.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
If you're into tailing, we could just load up, I mean,
just heavy Saint Francis, PA against Central Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You feel in that.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I've got a lot of daycare to wishing to pay for,
so I will follow all of your bets. Okay, makes
some
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Money, Let's go heavy, all right, guys, talk to you more.
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Straight Fire by AM.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday, March eleventh.
I could start the show with so many different things
today because what a wild night in sport. Didn't go
great in college oops had two good bets and they
both lost in the end brutal. Even worse yet, remember
how I got injured playing in the basketball semifinals on Sunday.
(00:34):
Had the championship game in the Old Man League on Monday,
and I basically can't barely walk. So I played like
a total of three minutes and we lose.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Unbelievable. I killed that team twice this season.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I had twenty five and twenty eight and I could
do nothing, just devastating the Lakers cover in the first
quarter again, that's fifteen of seventeen guys first quarter covering machine.
Then they end up losing to the Nets. It's kind
of a bad loss given me upcoming stretch. They have
my Jets get a quarterback. But but we're starting with
a bit of a curveball, a wrinkle.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
What the hell of the San Francisco forty nine ers
doing I've.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Got to ask you guys, I came super close. If
you guys have forgotten when the Jets were struggling with
Aaron Rodgers and the distractions and all this nonsense. I'm
just I've been so fed up with them, and I
was looking for a new team, and I got a
buddy who's a Niners fan.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
He's like, hey, come to the dark side.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Even Coward on air was like, why don't you start
liking the Niners.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You love rock Perty.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm like, you know, they got some guys I like debo, folks.
What they are doing in San Francisco right now is
an unbelievable tear down. This guy who covers the team
named cam Enman hosted the Super Bowl starting lineups for
Niners Chiefs, which is basically thirteen months ago, right February
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twenty twenty four, thirteen months ago from that forty nine
Ers team, which was a juggernaut. They were favored in
that game.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
They should have.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They were in control, you know, the punt flub and
then it goes over time and they settle for a
field goal and of course Mahomes gets a touchdown. I
will stand by I had lost money on that on
the bet because I had had the Niners.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But I'll stand by I would make that bet again.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They are now down four starters on offense from that
Super Bowl team. You got obviously, Deebo Samuel, you got
your guard. Both guards are gone, and now fullback Kyle
Hughescheck was released late last night. Apparently they tried to
release him last year, but he took a pay cut
to stick around, and now he's gone. He's probably gonna
surf for somewhere else. But he's at thirty three, you know,
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getting up there in age. So four offensive starters, You're like, Oh,
that's not that big of a deal. Jay, They've lost
seven defensive starters from.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That team that went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The only guy on the front four that's back is Bosa.
The only linebacker that's back is Warner. Seven defensive starters,
four on offense. And oh, by the way, the substitue
us are listed. Ten of those guys have been picked through.
The Niners had such a great roster that year that
everybody circled a bunch of players they want, and then
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the Niners underachieve, and now the forty nine ers have
to part ways if people are gobbling them up. Sim
Francisco had a great team. I mean, listen, they didn't
win a Super Bowl, so you can't call it a dynasty.
But I'm fairly certain they went Super Bowl lost to
the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Mahomes comeback.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Then they had the I'm fairly certain they missed the playoffs.
Then it was NFC Title Game loss when Perdy got
injured in the first quarter. Then I'm fairly certain they
lost in the Super Bowl. So I think, and Rob
you can check me on this. I think they had
two NFC Championship Game appearances and two Super Bowl appearances
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in like a five year span, and all of that
has basically been blown up. They took the dynamite to
the forty nine ers roster and they are rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now here's the weird thing.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Is it tough to call it a rebuild when you
arguably the best left tackle in the game, Trent Williams,
who's thirty seven. You have an elite tight end in Kittle,
you have an elite running back in cemac Brandon and
I are just gonna be coming back from the ACL.
He was, you know, a really really good receiver two
years ago. So you've got all the pieces, So why
the rebuild. Well, they're getting long in the two defensively,
But the real reason why the forty nine ers are
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doing this is they are shaking up the offense. I
guess they believe it looks stale, it sounds like, and
it's early that they are not gonna have a fullback
at all, not that they moved on from uscheck and
they are pivoting to a different kind of offense, which
I don't know may surprise the league, but it's all
centered around Brock Purdy.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
At least that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And I say that because as we record this very
very early in the morning of Tuesday, March eleventh, Brock
Bertie still doesn't have a deal.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And it's weird because you're starting to redconflicting reports.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Hey, forty nine ers are holding They're drawing a firm
line in the sand. They are upset with how prior
negotiation what sorry, Brandon Ayuk, and they are not rolling
over for players anymore, Lynch and Shanahan. They are drawing
a hard, hard line in the sand there they're not
going to cross. And I wonder this Rock Purty deal
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is going to be more fascinating than anything we've seen
and we saw a lot obviously, saym Darnald surfacing in
Seattle at the Big Aaron Rodgers will see what happens.
But my read Rob on this brock Party thing, and
I've kind of gone back and forth. I thought, Okay,
maybe he'll sign a team friendly deal because he's Rock
Party and if you give him, I'm just throwing out
(05:34):
a number, an even number, one hundred million guaranteed. That's
not earth shattering for a quarterback, right, and you know
you give him like a three plus one essentially, you
know you can get him on something to the effect
of forty five mill a year.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Maybe there's only guaranteed money for two years.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Again, I like brock Party, but I don't know that
everyone else does. And Rob, this is the ultimate question.
Let's say the forty nine ers said, Brock we're not
going a penny over forty five million year taking or leading,
and rock Perty says few.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm out look around the league, Rob, who's scrambling for
brock Perty?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Are you asking me or is that a retory?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, question, I'm asking.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I don't know anybody who's like, oh, we got to
get in the brock Purty business.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's go higher than forty five. I don't see that happen.
I mean, Seattle's got their guy, the Jets have their guy. Minnesota.
It sounds like they're gonna rock with McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And you look around the league. Titans are probably drafting
cam Ward Browns. Almost seems like a lockdown that they're
taking Shador after the Miles Garrett deal.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm looking around, where's the landing spot the New York Giants.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't see that in clement weather
in Pittsburgh. I don't see a spot for party. So
I actually think, and I know this is crazy. I
think the forty nine ers have the leverage, don't they.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I don't know how you could think that they have
the leverage right now when you factor in everything you
said about what they're doing with their roster and people,
you know, if they heard you go on that round
that I say, oh, seven starters for offensive and you
know it is what It is a lot of changeover
in the NFL. When you hear the names of the
guys they let go, these are.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Not just dudes.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
These are legitimate Pro Bowl, all Pro caliber players that
have moved on from the Stanpatuisco forty nine ers, Deebo,
Samuel Javarius Ward Moore, who is a guard with offensive
line people don't care about that kind of stuff. Banks'
offensive lineman, Whufanga and Greenlaw, so four Pro Bowl type
players at least if you don't catch the offensive lineman,
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three of which have all Pro potential in Diebo, Hufanga,
and green Law, those are all world type players. And
even still to your point without those guys, Apparently the
reason why they're making this kind of move is because
they want to pay George Kittle, who is an All
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Pro caliber player. They want to pay Fred Warner, who
is an All Pro caliber player, and they want to
play pay Rock Party, who is an all Pro caliber player.
Don't let last season's disastrous season in San Francisco distract
you from what Brock Party did in twenty twenty three.
In twenty twenty three, Rock Party topped almost every major
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statistical category in the NFL passer rating passing yards per attempt,
touchdown percentage, yards per completion QBR, fourth in completion percentage,
fifth in passing yards his passing yards, four and eighty
single season franchise record, and last I checked the forty
nine ers have a pretty decorated quarterback history in their franchise.
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Rock Party was better than all of them statistically. You
pointed it out. They're making this shift in their team.
According to one report, the whole plan right now is
to get away from the twenty one personnel, which of
your football head to running backs, one tight end, and
go into the twelve personnel, which is the one that's
really famous around the NFL. The Rams run it almost exclusively.
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Three ride receivers, one tight end. They are building their team,
not just their offense, their team both schematically and financially
around brock Purty. It's why you have Diana Rossini coming
out so strong to refute a report that the first
offer they made to him was forty five million dollars.
She says said that is categorically false, that she would
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bet whatever you want to bet on it. The tea
leaves suggest that number is going to start with a
five in front of it for brock perty Now.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
To their point, I think the forty five came from
a certain reporter who I don't even think he's at
CBS anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Jason lacanfora Do you know him?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I know who he is I don't know if he's
still a CIB.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, no, no, he I mean a lot of people
do not deem incredible.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I haven't talked to that guy in like fifteen years,
but I know Jay Glazer well, and Glazers like listen
don't steer clear. So that forty five number she's saying
is just totally bogus.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Absolutely, and so everybody's saying it's gonna start with a
five in front of it. Whether it does or doesn't,
I think it's immaterial because what it comes down to
is all of their actions say, Brock Parties, our guy,
Brock Parties, our guy. We're building around Brock Party. He's
the one we're gonna we're gonna go with. But to
your point, with the idea you floated, you know, a shorter,
(10:23):
more guaranteed money is actually something that execs have floated
out as well. There was a report that came out
maybe about a month ago and at the end of
at the end of January, actually it came out January thirty.
First NFL executives. We're talking about Brock Party and what
is salary structure might look like. Because everybody knows they
wanted to get the extension done quickly. And you want
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to know which quarterback they used as a reference point
for how a Brock Party contract is going to look
Daniel Jones. Oh, both in terms of salary shtru sure
and in years. You recall when the Giants made that
offer to Daniel Jones, it was four for one sixty
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with eighty million or eighty one million guaranteed. That means
the people in the know, not the reporters, not the
you know, the whatever the agents tell them. That's just
kind of why this this sauca gets made here. The
people who actually make these decisions are saying, yeah, they
like Brock Party, they're committed to Brock Party, but they
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also don't want to be too committed to Brock Party.
They don't want to do the six year, three hundred
million type deal like that Josh Allen just got. They
want to do a three year, four year you know,
we'll say we'll call it two hundred four years three
plus one yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. So, on
one hand, their actions say that they are committed to
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brock Purty, they're building their offense, they're building their team
around him. But unless that contract comes in and is
commiserate with what you would expect a quarterback with his
kind of resume. There's a lot of mixed signals coming
out of San Francisco right now.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, I think they're in a good spot with Perdy.
I obviously trust their head coach and the GM that
they'll figure it out. Defense a lot more easy to
replace than offense.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I this is gonna be interesting. They will probably.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Get a ton of comp picks, right I think I
saw that they already have twelve draft picks I believe
for this year. Now, obviously you're not going to hit
on half those, but if you can hit, if you
can get three or four starters. Remember, was it the
Rams rob that started two rookie quarterbacks at some point
this year?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So somebody was starting two rookies.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I know the Eagles did that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, yeah, they hit on everything. But yeah, all you
gotta do is hammer a couple of those and boom
you right back. But it is just interesting that the
Rams seem to be ascending. The Niners are getting torn down,
Seattle's getting torn down, but they got Sam Darnold, which
I don't really get to you. I think they want
to become a run first team the way I'm looking
at them.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Well, it's funny quickly where you mentioned the compis I
remember doing the story for the Audica Fox Sports Radio
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(13:26):
and Dre Greenlaw with compis. So few teams in the
NFL are better at navigating that situation than San Francisco
just quiet, quickly go and that's really impressive.
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Speaker 3 (13:46):
We'll wait till everything's finalized here in the next two
weeks or week, the best players will be going. Like
power rankings in the NFC, I think everybody had San
fran at the.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Top one or two coming into last year.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Obviously the egld are gonna be good, but like I
don't Washington Zeno awesome forty eight hours here. I think
the home run and that's also getting Deebo Samuel last
week Eagles. Obviously, I don't know if the Lions have
done a lot. They stole DJ Reid the corner from
the Jets, who was very, very good the last couple
of years. I think the Rams improved. I don't particularly
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know what Seattle's doing. I think Tampa's gonna be fine.
So I think San fran will probably be in the
four to sixth range. And I don't think they're a
lot for the playoffs. Rob, I don't think you could
say that at this point.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's early.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, I mean, well quickly the Lions. I think we
all expect them to take a step back, not because
the roster's not great. The roster is still great. I
mean that DJ Reid pickup they had on Monday, I
think was one of the sneaky big acquisitions of the
day one free agency. The problem is they lost both
their coordinators, and history says when that happens, you're gonna
take at least some kind of step back. Yeah. The
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other thing is the interesting that you bring up the Eagles,
because the Eagles right now, I know they just want
Super Bowl. So it gets a little bit differ than
wapens in Francisco. They are the Niners two point zero
loaded roster, stacked up and down with talent. At some
point the purge is going to come. Yeah, do you
expect that the Eagles are gonna see what's going on
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with the Niners and kind of view him as a
cautionary tale and say, rather than purge the roster of
talent and build around a quarterback who might be good
but not great. You know, as much as I'm a
brock purty guy, I'm never gonna say that he's in
the same category as Mahomes Alan Jackson, Right, Yeah, I
(15:40):
think the same could be said about Jalen Hurts, even
after a Super Bowl championship. I don't think anyone a
lot of haters out there. I don't think anyone views
him in that kind of, you know range either. He's reliant,
like most quarterbacks, on the people and system around him.
Could you see a scenario here in two or three
years when the bill finally comes due because they made
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basically every major player on their team the highest paid
in this position at one point another.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, well they did the Eagles that they did lose
their O c Kellen Moore's out in free agency. They've
lost Josh Sweat coming off the Ashes very good. Milton
Williams kind of blew up in the Super Bowl, but
some of that was thanks to Jalen Carter being a
wrecking ball and Nolan Smith coming out.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You got to double somebody.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And Milton Williams was able to eat a little bit.
So you lose those two guys, Obviously they lose. I
think they lost three cornerbacks, Bradbury, slayh and Isaiah Rodgers.
So it's like you start losing a lot of players
that were contributed to that defense. You're right, it's tough.
But Jalen hurts his deal so good. Oh and they
lost Kenny Pickett. I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Gay for dr Man.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, they sent him to Cleveland, by the way, And
there's so much happening. I don't want to just ping around,
but I've lost track. When did the Miles Garrett thing happen?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Was that this morning.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Miles Garrett Sunday or Monday, Sunday, Sunday Sunday?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, So we have kind of touched it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The fact that they got Garrett probably Cement Shador Sanders
at two.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Would you agree I.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Would think so, because it doesn't make any sense otherwise. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, so you get the quarterback on the rookie deal.
It doesn't matter if you're giving Garrett massive money. Then
you see other teams like Dallas just screwing around, hasn't
paid Michael Parsons, the Bungles screwing around with Jamar Chase.
I mean, I just look anti Yeah, you just look
around the league. Some teams are really poorly run. And
now let's go to the Jets, which is a perfect pivot,
and they lose DJ Reid. It sounds like they're gonna
(17:34):
be done with CJ. Moseley the linebacker. They ink, sure
would the young kid to a longer deal. But the
big story is justin fields to the Jets. And you know,
I get all these texts from buddies and just a
few Jets fans. There's not many of them out there,
and instantly it's like the Justin field Zerr's underway, and
I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not buying that. You guys
(17:56):
saw that the Steelers were interesting in fields, but they
didn't want to commit to him. And I think the
analogy here is justin fields is like you know that
thirty something mom who just really.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Wants to get married.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
She's like, Hey, I'm I'm at that age. I need
to get married. But nobody wants to commit. So the
first person that's willing to commit, boom, you're jumping. Like
Justin Fields, I think he wanted to be in Pittsburgh,
but they would not commit to him being the starter.
The New York Jets who have no quarterback, nobody in
the pipeline over here.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We'll give you the deal thirty mil. I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And that's I think why Justin Fields went there. Is
he gonna have a chance to win.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's reunited with Garrett Wilson the uh they played together
at Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But like you guys saw Fields last year, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What kind offense are we running. You can't have him
drop back doing twenty five thirty times a game. That's
not his game. So you do have Breiese Hall obviously
a line line lost Morgan Moses the right tackle. He's
gone to the Patriots. By the way, the New England
Patriots now they had the most cap space. They're having
a freakin amazing month so far. Well, I don't know
(19:06):
if we'll get to them today, but I don't know.
I'm not very optimistic about the justin Fields News. He's,
you know, a great college football quarterback who I think
the and I just hate saying this because it's kind
of mean, but I think one of the biggest knocks
on him was that when he drops back, he's got
(19:28):
slow eyes. And that's what they call it the scouts.
He just doesn't process very quickly. And sure he can
tuck and run and he's dangerous as hell, but is
he dropping back the way brock Purty is CJ. Stroud
young quarterbacks and identifying, Okay, this is what's going on,
bing bang boom, there's my guy.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And there's just not any evidence of that. And you
saw him in Pittsburgh his best play, Let me just
throw it up for Pickens.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You know, he didn't want to throw the ball over
the middle of the field because there's a lot of
defenders there and you can make a mistake like I
don't know, Rob, you know, I know there's gonna be
sacrilegious to the Jets fans listening, but your Raiders could
be in better shape this year than the Jets.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Here's my thing.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't think that's the I don't really care that
much because we were not going anywhere with this iteration.
I mean, we haven't gone anywhere in over a decade.
But you know, I guess Justin Fields is moderate.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
He's more exciting for me than Gino Smith.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
You know, at least I believe Fields is fun to watch.
Do you think Geno Smith is fun to watch?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I wouldn't say fun. That's not the word I was
used to described by Geno Smith. And by the way,
I take offense to you saying that they're your Jets
until the twenty twenty five season starts, they're still our
Jets that I picked them make the Super Bowl, So
I'm rolling with them until the starting next season. Then
I can pick a different name. I don't want to
be mean to you, because you've been a long suffering
(20:49):
Jets fan, even longer than me being a long suffering
Raiders fan. We talked about this on yesterday's podcast. Justin
Fields is an athlete. He has a good arm, he
is sturdy, he is extremely mobile, one of the best
running quarterbacks you know recent memory. He is a terrible quarterback.
He cannot throw point blank period at this level. He
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cannot throw. I'm not gonna call him Tim Tebow. He's
not that bad, but he cannot throw the football all right.
His QBR through six games as a starter last year
was fifty four, twentieth among all quarterbacks. To make things worse, though,
is as the games went on and teams got more
tape on him and that system and that offense, he
(21:33):
got worse. Okay, his final two weeks as a starter,
fifty seven percent completion, threw for fewer than one hundred
and fifty yards in each game. I met. I said
this down on yesterday's podcast as well. When he was
under center. Pittsburgh's offense twenty eighth, passing yards per game,
twentieth in points per game, thirty first in the league,
(21:55):
and early down pass rate thirty second in rate of
yardage via the pass. It's not just that he couldn't throw.
You know, the percent completing it tells you can't throw.
The team was telling you we're not even gonna let
you throw. That's how bad you are at quarterback. I
don't understand what our Jets are doing right now. Say
(22:15):
what you want about Aaron Rodgers, and and again he's
been a big topic of conversation this podcast for years now.
I don't know how you think it's an upgrade to
go from Aaron Rodgers Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, I would agree it's not an upgrade.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Is it possible? Flow?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Wait, is it an upgrade to go from Russell Wilson
last year in Pittsburgh to Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Maybe? I mean it's probably more of a like. But
we floated this yesterday. We had the tinfoil hats on.
Were the Seattle Seahawks quiet tanking for arch Manning? Right?
And then they make this move for Sam Darnold, So
it suggests that they're not. Are our New York Jets
quiet tanking with this move.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
For Justin Fields, it's very likely I would say.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
That the Jets, they're just they're not playing for this year.
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The so the new boss comes in to the office
and he's got to assess what he's got, give them
a little time and then you know, chop, get the
get rid of the deadwood. It's not all that different
from what Elon Musk and that Doge team is doing
to the government.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They're taking a chainsaw. The Jets aren't taking quite a chainsaw,
maybe a hack saw. I think the forty nine ers
are taking a chainsaw to the roster. But the Jets
are just doing a little chops here and there, and
they've got to get the guys they want and get
some dead wood out and get a little younger and
save money because they've got to pay Breeze, Halls, Gardner,
Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And ideally.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
You're competitive, you win four or five games and you
got a top five pick.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That to me is a winning season.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You're competitive in games, you lose thirty twenty seven every week.
I'm fine with that, right, probably covering a lot of
spreads show showing signs of life. And then at the
same time it's like, okay, good, we're keeping that good pick.
I mean again, Tennessee, they could do all the home
bank they want on cam Ward or they could go Shador.
Cleveland's got to take whichever one the other doesn't want
(24:12):
out of Tennessee and Cleveland. So yeah, I do believe
the Jets will be in a good position to get
in the mix for arch Manning.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
So as a Jets fan, quickly, Okay, you saw two
years ago the Zach Wilson experiment, Mike White. You know
there was a couple other. They had some random guys
I thought were created players at quarterback. Their defense was great,
the offense was terrible. You say, you want to have
the quiet tank, five wins, competitive, but we lose most
(24:41):
of these games, develop young players. Would you be able
to stomach easier a team like two or three years
ago where the defense is phenomenal, but we're only scoring
eleven points a game on offense? Or the offense is
Garre Wilson showing out, Prestols showing out, We're getting you
twenty three twenty four, and we're losing twenty seven to
(25:03):
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Everything, Well, the problem with that is if the offense
is showing out, then Wilson and Hall are gonna want
to get big, big bucks. That's probably not great. I'm
trying to think like a front office guy. Let me
bounce a couple teams off you and let me know
your thoughts. So the Broncos quietly pillaged two guys from
the forty nine ers defense, Whu Funga and Greenlaw. I
(25:24):
figure they're instant starters. There's still need a cornerback too.
They've got certain You look at the the offense, the
offensive line looks pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh, Rob. I don't know. Are the Broncos like a
sneaky threat to maybe win the division next year?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Absolutely, because there are some quality corners that I mean,
Darius Slay who they're looking to make a trade right now.
They may have a you have to cut them at
some point there in Philadelphia. If you have Slay and
certain as your corners, it's not bad. It's not bad
at all. And and bo Nicks may not have the
extreme upside of some of these other young quarterbacks because
it's just his physical limitations, but he can play quarterback
(26:04):
at a very high level. And and that Sean Payton system.
You know, Javon Ti Williams got plucked by another team.
I think he's with Dallas now. I saw that. Yeah,
he's fine, but I don't think he's irreplaceable. I think
Denver can easily make a run at not not just
in the AFC, at a playoff spot. I did make
him rid of the division because I don't see the Chiefs.
(26:26):
It's just, you know, I know it's Zack Religiousuk about
him because they went what fifteen and one when they
played other guys, they they were you know, I guess
they were the worst fifteen and one team i've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, and they I think they won like they were
like ten and zero one score games, some ridiculous number
sense they even out. Yeah, who wins more games? Sam
Darnold and Seattle or Justin Fields of the Jets.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
No, No, Justin Fields is a worst division.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh that's a good point. I saw Naje Harris to
the Charger is a kind of like that. He's the
new thumper in place of gust the bus uh Agia.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Harris isn't good though, he's not great.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
No, he's not JK. Dobbins, and he will split carries.
I would assume Zach Wilson Lands is the backup in Miami.
That's kind of big news. No, he's gonna play. What's
what the remember when they got Mike White? Yeah, I
don't know if he ever played once. Anyways, NFL has
(27:27):
gotten just just.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
A Bonker's week. We're still waiting on a couple of.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Uh decent names, and obviously the draft can change things.
But things are starting to crystallize in the in the AFC,
I think I think this is Buffalo Ji Rob. That's
my early, very early read. I don't know, I'm with you.
I don't the Chiefs have lost I believe two offensive linemen.
They're trying to convert the kid from BYU they drafted
(27:53):
high to a guard. I don't think they know what
they're doing on the offensive line. And you know the
Xavier Worthy story.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Can we talk about that?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
No, he didn't. I mean it's already been it's already
been washed away, right because they dropped all the charges,
so they did.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
You know, he got arrested something. I guess he caught
his girlfriend cheating. Now Rob and I don't think. I
don't want to delve into this, but isn't Xavier Worthy
the guy who with his girlfriend after he was drafted
did the video with the hundreds and he was just
like peeling him off to you that, yes, and then
this chick goes and cheats on him and he catches her,
(28:26):
and I guess.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
That what happened. Because I never got that far in
the story.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, I don't know if I should put that, But
there's other people saying that that's what happened, and they've
each scrubbed their Instagram of the other.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Just ugly situation.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But you know, it is good that if he's clear
to that because I don't know, man on the heels
of Rashi Rice and now this, and there's some speculation
that Pickens could be on the move out of Pittsburgh
and Kansas City could use one, or they could just
take one in the first round.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
So I'll tell you what I winn't like. As if
the Chiefs get Coop cut when he's inevitly gets released,
I wouldn't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
That's a good point. Yeah, Cooper cup very very good.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And we'll wrap up with Laramie Tunsell, the guy who
was wearing the gas mask and taking ball hits to
the drafting.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
That was so funny.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Laramie Tunsell was traded to the Commanders. Commanders have rebuilt
their offensive line. Tunsell's gonna start at left tackle. If
I'm CJ. Stroud, I'm like, got, what the hell are
we doing? We're moving on from our left tackle.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Tunsl's been up and down.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
He's had some injuries, but apparently he was very well
liked in the locker room and a lot of the
players on the Texans were caught off guard putting stuff
on social media.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Two years ago, Houston shocked the world with that with
that season, right, then they regress a little bit and
now they trade tunsl and this is a quarterback who
was under duress all last season.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So I don't know what's going on. In Houston.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They get some a couple of draft picks, but it
was really like they got I guess it was a
swap of a fourth rounder, and then they got two
picks and a so no first so it's like, all right,
I guess that's not a terrible deal for Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Washington's all in.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Usually after a meteoric rise like Washington had, you don't
see them load up and then it works.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But for some reason, I think it could in Washington
with Daniels.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, I really liked what Houston did with the Christian
Kirk trade. I thought he was a perfect Tank Dell
replacement temporarily at least. But to your point, to get
rid of when you have such a poor offensive line,
and I guess the narrative is you can't just run
it back, and that's how bad they were, they had
to make changes. I don't think changes mean getting rid
(30:39):
of your most decorated lineman, arguably a top ten left
back in the league. When your quarterback was sacked fifty
two times last year. Like, I don't know if that's
the move that I would have made. Thankfully for them,
they play in the AFC South, which is probably the
worst division in football. You know, the Colts don't know
what they're in their quarterback. The Titans don't have a
quarterback right now, and I'm sure they get one. You know,
(31:02):
the Jags, we fundamentally disagree on Trevor Lawrence, but you know,
they're in a situation where they should walk into the
division championship every season. But because of that, they should
not view it as, hey, this is our playoff entrance.
We're gonna get in no matter what. We'll see what happens.
They should view it as, hey, we have six wins
(31:23):
this season, like the Patriots they'd done Tom Brady, and
our goal should not just be to make the postseason.
Our goal should be first round and a bye every
year because we have that kind of leg up. And
I don't feel like the rest of the moves that
they've made this offseason after that Christian Kirk trade kind
of follow that line of thinking.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, no, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I'm a little lower on Christian Kirk than everyone else,
but I digress.
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Speaker 2 (32:00):
All right, let's wrap up with the NBA real quick.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
So I didn't even know that the Thunder and Nuggets
had a back to back against one another. And Sunday,
Okac wins, SGA goes for forty one or whatever on
like thirty two shotouts and everybody's, oh, MVP, blah blah blah.
So Aaron Gordon got hurt, right, so everybody's like, oh, man,
Nuggets are in deep trouble. They're gonna get smoked, dumb
No Nuggets one forty Thunder one twenty seven. The Nuggets
(32:26):
blitz Okac in the fourth quarter and steal the win
and compounding matters for Oka. Se Jalen Williams left the
game Jay Dubb with some kind of hip injury and
did not return in the first half, and they kind
of struggled without him. That being said, Uh, Jokics just
a cool thirty five eighteen and eight NBD, no big deal.
(32:47):
Rob Jamal Murray thirty four no, no Biggie uh and
the fraudulent Thunder and their free throw merchant SGA ball
and I don't you know you when you take this
game into it and again it's just one result in March,
but these teams were clearly playing for keeps.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
On a back to back.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Jokic played forty, Murray played forty, Michael Porter Junior thirty eight,
Christian Brown thirty six. Like these are heavy minutes in
March for a game that doesn't matter. And you even
look at the Lakers and I'm disappointed to Luca had
to play forty one minutes and take twenty six shots,
you know, Like I again, their March basketball games.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
But what do you make of this real quick rob
this Brooklyn Nets win over the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
It was a terrible game. And I was able, thankfully
to watch the whole one because it was on during
the radio show and we had all those TVs in
the studios. I can watch the whole game. The casuals
are going to look at the box score and say,
Luca was fine, you know, he didn't shoot the ball. Well,
we had a triple double. Luca Dodgers was terrible in
that game, Austin reed was getting frustrated with the refs.
(33:59):
He was if it felt like he's not getting calls. No,
and that was the issue. He wasn't getting calls, and
rather than trying to score, he was just kind of
throwing his body into contact hoping for a whistle and
he'd miss it every time, which is why a shooting
was intered so low. And then he would stop and
complain about it, and so he got to a point
where his frustration level was boiling over to a point
(34:21):
where it was impacting him on the other side of
the floor. And as a result, when he's complaining, you're
seeing five on fours in the other direction. So either
he was getting back late and they would score, or
he was getting back and he was so frustrated he
wasn't playing good defense. On top of that, Austin Reeves,
could I hit the red side of a barn? So
you wasted good shooting performances from a good Win and
(34:44):
Dave Vincent, two guys who normally can't count on to
have good offensive performances. So when you have a schedule
like they have coming up where they got six games
in eight days, you know, back to backs against Denver
and Milwaukee, and you know you're lucky on a good,
fully healthy game to be five hundred in a run
like that. Now you're shorthanded the way you are. This
was the game that you can't trick away. This is
one you had to have. And the way that they
(35:05):
played was so disappointing as a Lakers.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, great start and poor finish, but I'm just gonna
point out, Okay, eight guys played double digit minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
These are some of them.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Alex lenn, Gabe, Vincent, Trey, j Jemison, Jordan Goodwin. Like,
I'm sorry, guys in a big time series Lakers, ok se,
Jamison ain't playing a minute. I don't think Goodwin's getting
in the game. And I know for sure Alex lenn
(35:37):
is not Okay, Rui's not there, Lebron's not there, Jackson
Hayes is not there. That's three of their top six
in their rotation.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's their entire starting front court.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And so you know when you see the Nets get
sixteen offensive rebounds, they're like, oh, I get it. Okay,
So let's not overreact. Oh though people definitely will because
that's what they do online. It's not, and the Lakers
are gonna go through some tough times here. I don't
think it's that big of a deal. Rob, I'm on record,
they are, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if Brownie
got to start coming up, you know, cheez throw him in?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Well, why not?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
I mean they might have to. The way that schedule
shakes out, you're gonna see. I think Luca's gonna sit
a couple, you know. Yeah, I think it's too. When
they played Denver, I don't know. If it's the first
other thing I have back to back, they might lose
by forty.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
It's possible.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Now the Lakers are hurtling toward the four seed, in
which case they would face Houston. And I'm sure you
saw Amen Thompson, the good young player. So the Rockets
were up like thirty, right, and they wanted him to
get his first or second whatever number triple double. So
they leave him in the game and then he gets injured.
Now he's out two weeks. So like that's what's happening
in Houston.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
If you're curious, Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
They're not a serious basketball team that's gonna threaten the Lakers.
That would mean the second round matchup with Okay, see, frankly,
I'm not terrified of them.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Who would you rather face? Robb will wrap up on this,
who would you rather face? If you're the Lakers, everybody's healthy.
Second round? Would you rather face Denver? Where they have
home field or home court? Or okay? See would they
have home court?
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Okay? See for sure?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, exactly, That's all you need to know, guys, exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
So lit'steny College basketball Championship week's gonna start heating up.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I think Wednesday is.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
The big day.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Where there's gonna be like a billion games, and I'm
trying to think who we could get on as a
Oh no, shoot, there's some good games today, Cincinnati, Oklahoma State. Well,
these aren't good teams, but they're big named Pittsburgh notre name.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Oh, this is where basketball starts wall to wall. All right,
I gotta grind. I'll be posting picks on ig.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
If you're into tailing, we could just load up, I mean,
just heavy Saint Francis, PA against Central Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You feel in that.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I've got a lot of daycare to wishing to pay for,
so I will follow all of your bets. Okay, makes
some
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Money, Let's go heavy, all right, guys, talk to you more.
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Jason McIntyre
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