June 29, 2024 • 41 mins
LaVar and Plaxico talk about the latest round of drama coming out of the Dallas Cowboys, Brandon Aiyuk’s future with the San Francisco 49ers, Tua Tagovailoa’s contract dispute with the Dolphins, what the Patriots can do in Jerod Mayo’s first year, and more!
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the locker room, like I don't play with some dude
that you disrespect them anyway, it didn't matter who it
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same exact quarterback.
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we're an hour two. TJ's taking the day off. That's
all right, we're knocking it down. If you were listening
(01:21):
to Hour one, Plexko was dropping some gyms on y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's why we call to get the show up on game.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Obviously, we're gonna start the hour off with an interesting
topic that's taking place in the media with a team
that continues to dominate the headlines and well maybe in
a way that's not the best way. I mean, we're
talking about the Dallas Cowboys. There's been speculation that Mike
(01:49):
McCarthy uh let it out that he's tired, sick and
tired of the undermining and the different things taking place
from from the ownhip, from from Jerry Jones in particular.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And now the latest, the latest within.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The drama coming out comes from Pro Football Talk, where
teammate of Michael Parsons, Malik Hooker, has criticisms of Michael
Parsons and his podcast quote, my advice for Micah would
be just make sure we are all right, Hooker said,
(02:31):
which I'm thinking is it make sure we are all
right or just make sure we're all right, as in,
don't think that somebody's right in somebody's room. Not really
sure which one it is, but in context, but but
you know, we'll see you anyway, Hooker says on a
Keishawn Johnson podcast. Because if we're at work and the
(02:54):
run games terrible, but you're doing a podcast every week
and you know the run game is terrible, then what
are you really caring about? Are you caring about the
crowd that was watching the podcast or are you caring
about the success of our team and the Super Bowl
that we're trying to reach. Micah Michaeh responded, quote, just
(03:20):
what you said this to me, but instead on some
podcast and you got my number family Malik Hooker twenty
four and you're my locker mate, Parsons.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Wrote, via the Dallas Morning's News.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So you could have said this any day, and you
do realize I shoot the podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
On our day off, on our off day.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Why ain't we talking about everyone preparations and focus?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I face value.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The first takeaway from this is if they beefing like
this internally, because that's beef. That's beef. I mean, how
how are you interpreting? How are you interpreting this man?
Because it just sounds like they can unravel the Dallas man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
It's it's not good man, that's right. Good for a man,
and you know, to be in a locker room and
you know, to let these kind of things ball over
into the media, it's not good for the team. It's
not a good morale that you want amongst your locker
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room and the culture in which a championship. Uh, you know,
you're trying to team, you're trying to become. And I
guess he's right. Both both guys are right being that
Malik Hookers is locker mate. Why can't they just you know,
talk to this out as grown men instead of putting
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it out there for the people to play with. And
now you're creating a strife between the two because now
when you two guys walk in the locker room, we
got to get this off our chests. And you could
have did this in a private setting and nobody never
would have known about it. And you know, we wouldn't
this wouldn't be a topic of discussion now within in
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the media. But this would never happen in the Pittsburgh
STI the locker room. Oh, these things would never happen
because you know what, everybody is their own leader.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They say, if you got a problem with somebody, it's
going to get addressed. Well, if you like it or not.
That is how we governed our football team. Man, you
got a problem with somebody or whatever they're doing, if
you ain't, if they ain't out there given effort that
you think that should be playing with, man, we address you.
We'll address you to your faith as a grown man
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in Pittsburgh. That's the difference between playing in a locker
room with the Pittsburgh Steelers in New York Giants versus
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
These things get handled internally.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You will never even hear about it because we didn't
already got it off our chest between us, between each
other and young man, and now we done came to
a common ground and now we don't dapt each other up.
And because of that, it made us and made the
team better because we done said what we had to say,
and we've been receptive to each other and now we
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understand where we're coming from. And it makes it. It
makes it a stronger football team, is what it does internally.
But now we're doing this Malich Hooker and you're talking
to Michael Parsons, who's arguably the best defense.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Of playing all of football.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It's going to create some you know, some reframh between
the two because now we go to training camp, this
is gonna be the top of good discussion and it's
a Dallas compboyshit, you know, it's gonna be at the
top of the menu for everybody to.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Talk about everybody.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's not a good it's not a good, you know
thing for the team and lockhom especially going into this
season with everything that's going on, and you know, mccaffley's
tired of Jerry Jones underlining him. Who did you think
he was before you got there? He's been the same
Jerry Jones for the last thirty years. Yeah, he's gonna Hey,
he's not gonna change the stripes who he is. He's
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gonna make all the hes, gonna he's gonna make all
the calls. He's gonna do what he wants to do.
He bought you in here as a head coach to
win a championship and not make decisions. So that's who
Jerry Jones has been since he took over the owner
for the Dallas Cowboys. So why are you, h you know,
expecting anything different from him because.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We already know who he is. It's Jerry Jones.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He go, he he he steps to the beat of
his own drum. And that's the way he is, and
that's how he's gonna be forever, until he until he's
no longer the owner of this organization.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Who And that's a lot and and you know what,
I think it's spot on. I think it's so spot
on what you're saying that these are things. I wasn't
a dysfunctional locker room, by the way, And I was
in a locker room where beef took place and and
and guys didn't get along and and people were jealous
of one another. And you know when you get when
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you shoot up that stardom that startum uh you know
ladder and and you're you're as famous and as well
known as Michael Parsons has gotten. And now you know,
being awarded the Bleacher Report gridiron uh grid Iron deal,
being being the president named the president of it. I mean,
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that's that's that's groundbreaking, that's that's next level type stuff
people have, you know what happens. And so many times
when we were growing up and we were playing in
the game, people told you and told us that football
is your business.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Football.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Anything else that you do is a distraction. Coaches would
get upset if you did I did. I did a
reality show on ESPN while I was still an active player,
just starting to transition into media and into entertainment.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And they hated it. Not only did they hate.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It, but then they forced me to miss the season
finale live airing of the show to choose the winner
of the show on Dream Job because I had to
go attend you know, a mini camp or whatever it was.
But ota, I don't even know what it was, but
I know they didn't want me to do the show. Listen, guys,
(09:34):
now understand what building a brand is and really what
I would challenge these guys to think about. And Malie
Hooker saying what he's saying, like make sure the team
is okay and make sure the team is all right,
Like you can do both. Prioritize your life, prioritize what
you got going on. You can be the best time
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for you to build your brand. And where your brand
is the strongest and the most leverageable is right now
for them, guys, even for Malee Cooker, it's right now.
And so you have to understand learning learning that that
business is business, whether it's the football business, whether it's
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other business that that you're a part of business is business.
So when you start, when you start putting it out
there like, oh, well, what does Micah care about because
he's taking on a different business venture.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Plex How many things are you doing business wise right
now in your in your life post football?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How many things you do? You do? What you do?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Fox FS one, you do Fox Sports Radio. You just
opened up a juice bar, right, what's what's the address
to your juice bar?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What's the name?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Oh it's twelve ninety one Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, New Jersey
zero seven four seven zero.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Make sure you go get some juice. Please drove them
from his spot. So you have multiple things that you're
doing right now. Are are you suffering from not caring
about one other that or one over the other?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Are you suffering from not having the ability to prioritize
your family and your personal business with what you have
going on, with the multiple revenue streams that you've been
able to generate and create.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So why why is it okay to act like in
in sport?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
If you're not, if you're.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Not doing football to the the like just football, you
shouldn't have anything else going on. You shouldn't be creating
any other type of revenue streams, especially if it's if
it's media related.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Especially nowadays. How is that?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
How is that okay? How is that even a conversation
like you said today? How is that even a conversation?
I don't I don't understand it. It's confusing to me.
It kind of comes across, as you know, like you
got a little jealousy and a little it in your heart,
and you need to address that because you let it
come out at the wrong time, Like you got comfortable
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in front of key you took aim at one of
the big fish in the pond where it is that
you swimming and for what reason? Like why would you
damage your relationship like that over something as trivial as
that man having a successful podcast? Like you worried about
how many people are watching your show versus what we
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got going on and if we're okay? Like what are
you serious?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Jerry Jones is worried about how many people are watching
his show on Sunday or.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Whatever it is. They play press conference every Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Everybody knows what he holds it every day and this
son comes on too. They hold two spots that they
talk about. All right, listen up, this is Up on Game.
That's Flexico burds of LeVar heretay listen. We're gonna take
a quick break. But on the other side of the break, yeah,
receiver talk Brandon Aiyuk. He has some interesting things to say.
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But TJ's out, Plexico Ursus, he's with me, with him,
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tyrack dot com studios. Uh, your boy Brandon, now youk
like he's been wanting a new contract, uh some more money, wanting.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
To be paid like the next one in line. Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
In terms of top receivers, we've had this conversation in
weeks past.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Uh, they don't want to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So it seems like they're going to go into this
year and play this year out and go from there.
But if there were the possibilities of him to go
somewhere else, he mentioned the Commanders or the Stealers as
possible spots.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Now to me, that's you're putting it out there that.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You want the Stealers or or the Commanders, which I
would assume the Commanders would be a team that would possibly,
you know, maybe go go do it. I mean, just
I don't I mean, at least at least the commanders
that I've known. I don't know this new regime that well,
so maybe that's not a feasible you know act.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But also the relationship he has with James Dames. Okay,
there you got to play. They played together there as
the State. Okay, there you got So they have a
relationship with one another that you know, before Jayden Dames
transferred to LSU. Jayden Dames quarterback in Brennie while he
was playing wide receiver. So they go back, you know,
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five six years ago, so they know, you know, what
a level of success that they had in college that
they can do professional. So that's one of the reasons
why But I look at the whole Brandon Aue situation
like this, A team does not exercise your fifth year
option and give you and.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Give you a long term contract.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Granted, I think Brendan Aiu is in a very very
very good receiver, but thirteen hundred yards last year, seventy
plus catches, and he's averaging eighteen yards of catch, which
is which is dumb crazy. I think I averaged seventeen
in my year three. But the average eighteen yards a
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catch is basically on offensive side of the football, twenty
five yard plays are labeled that's big plays, and he's
almost he's doing that almost every time he catches the football.
So he's going to make fourteen million dollars this year
with the San Francisco year family, San Francisco picking.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Up his fifth year option.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So that tells me that the San Francisco forty nine
ers have no uh, you know, they're not going to
give him a long term deal this year.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
They're going to make him play out this year.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And what has happened in the wide receiver market is
that we have seen the franchise tag go up ten
million dollars in the off season based off of Justin Jefferson,
Jay Lo Wado, Nicocollins, I'm Aron Saint Brown. The franchise
tag for the next season is going to be thirty
plus million dollars. And you're looking at You're talking about
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t Higgins, Brandy YAYU. All these guys are going to be,
you know, in a similar situation. But the San Francisco
forty nine ers are not in a bad space because
basically they still own the rights to Brandon and you.
All they have to do is franchise them after this
final year. Listen, they all want that guarantee money. He's
in that group of receivers with Jaydaenwado and Nicocollins, and
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he's seeing all his colleagues get these sixty and seventy
million dollars guaranteed. Jayawabley was seventy two. He wants to be,
you know, in that group of guys. But I think
for right now he's going to play this year out.
I believe that the San Francisco forty nine ers have
a two year window to get this thing done versus
with you know, Christian McCaffrey staying healthy, George Kittle's getting older, obviously,
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Deepo Sam's getting beat up with some injuries, so they
have a two year window to get to a world championship.
But I'll say this, John Lynch understands and knows you
know that Brandon and I you is a part of
the maturation of Brock Party because he is going to
need that at eighteen to twenty yard guy on the
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outside that he can basically you can throw the ball
with Brandy out and he can make plays for you,
like he'll make those fifty to fifty catches. So I
think I believe that he is a very important part
of his offense. But also they have a scheme to
where they can put somebody else out that they might
not be as successful or as dominated as Brandiyaiku was
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on the edge, but the offense in which Kyle Shanahan runs,
they're going to have success. But I believe but for
Brock Purty right now, for him to continue to take
strides as being this franchise quarterback for this team, Brandy
Yah Yute has to be a part of this offense.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And I don't know what they're going to do.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Because Deebo Saying's making twenty four million, they owe him
what forty eight million dollars over the next two years,
brand Yayut is going to need a deal.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And now you're.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Talking about picking up Brandy Yuk's option of fourteen million,
You're going to have to eat a frameranchise him or
let him go because brock Party is going to need
a contract.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
After He's going to need a contract. That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
So now, if you're John Lynch and this organization, I
believe that they should have got this deal done this
year if they really wanted Brandon out. You to be
a part of this team, because it used to be
you have to be the best at your position to
get paid. Now it's the next man up with this
quarterback situation, and you gotta think, and you gotta believe
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that brock Party, which it sounds insane, is going to
be making almost sixty million dollars a year playing quarterback
for the San Francis Go forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
That is crazy to think.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
But with that being said, the Brandon Naiyuk situation isn't
going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
The question is is there is there a market? Is
there a marketplace for him? If it's not, if it's
not in in the you know, in San Francisco, because
I don't know, I don't is finding a one receiver
is really really hard. And and I think we've established
the fact that Ayuk is a one and and should
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be paid as a one because he's a one not
he should be paid as you know what what.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
The value of what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
It's he's the next up, like he's one of the
next ones up as as a talent at that one
receiver's position. As you mentioned some of the names that
have have gotten paid. So how does that how how
does that play out? That's the biggest question to me?
How does this play out? If Sam Frand didn't want
to do this deal with him, it almost seems as
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though you needed to deal him, like you needed to
trade him get some value for him right now while
the getting is good and and and and cut your
losses and move on versus what like, why why are you?
Why are you dragging it out, letting it get to
you a franchise tagable situation. But if you don't want
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to pay them the money, now, what's gonna make it
any different next season?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Listen, we have seen this take place. It hasn't happened often,
but I've seen it take you know, shape with Walter
Jones as the left tackle field of Seattle Seahawks. They
can franchise a guy multiple times. So now if you
look at a franchise tag for a T. Higgins, you
know he's kind of in that situation where everybody knows
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that Jamar Chase is the mand Justin Jefferson got what
he got, so you gotta think that Jamar Chase is
going to be right there with him, which is not
necessarily a good thing for T. Higgins. So the Brandon
Nute situation is they can franchise him next year he'll
make thirty million dollars. And maybe that is a way
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for the San Francisco forty nine ers with Brandon eye
Yute and it Beangos with T. Higgins to be able
to get these guys guaranteed money in the first two
years of these deals, because if you franchise them in
back to back season, we're talking about thirty thirty one
million dollar salary. That is the way to give these guys.
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Get these guys they're sixty million dollars guaranteed that they
will making the first two years without giving them a
long term deal.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So long term deals don't matter anymore. I mean, if
you get thirty bailiar day I get out guaranteed. I mean,
what does it matter if you get six year deal
or not, you know, I mean.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's just an injury part of it. You don't want
you want to guarantee. You want like you want to get.
You want it right now when you sign. You want
that guarantee. If I'm getting a guaranteed thirty million, I'm okay.
It's not a bad thing for a wide receiver, not
at all. If you get franchise tag, you're making thirty
million dollars a year full wide receiver. You don't have that,
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you know, the comfort of knowing that you know you
you're going to get eighty million dollars guaranteed barn and injury.
But if you can get two years out of a
franchise tag, that is the sixty million dollars that a
Brandon and I would make or a T. Higgins would
make in a guaranteed contract. And I would not be
surprised if we take see teams uses as an option
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instead of giving those guys a big deal up front
and franchising tag. Putting the franchise tag on once or twice.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, Well, we'll see how it all plays out with
Brandon ik and the San Francisco forty nine ers. I
think it's interesting that he would throw out the commanders
and now there's more context to it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
That's his own.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
There's some great that's there's some there's some great places
for Brandon and I. You in the wide receiver market
you're looking at. You can send them to an Arizona.
You know, he can teach the young man Marvin Harrison.
You know you don't have to give him a deal
for the next four or five years. You know, Trevor
Lawrence needs a wide receiver to be in the fact
that Calvin Rilely's in Tennessee. They bought and gave gave
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Davis from Buffalo. But that's not going to be an
enough for Jacksonville. They need a wide receiver. Any Napolis coach,
they need a wide receiver. The play beside Paula puts it,
I believe his name is. There are some places that
Brandon y'all, you can land that is going to add
a tremendous amount of value to this team, to a team.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
To a tongue of Belowa.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
His contract talks, the Dolphins are not offering him that
Jarret Goff, Trevor Lawrence, Ballpark, Louill talk about that, but
let's first get our update from our guy Hi isaiic Oho.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And crun Hi.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Thank you very much, lebar And the huge news in
the NBA The Athletic reporting Lebron James intends to opt
out of his fifty one million dollar player option for
next season. Yep Man that the expectation is Lebron will
return to the Lakers on a new deal. TNT out
of a short time ago that James is considering opening
up a pathway for the Lakers to obtain the full
(25:58):
mid level exception for the right targets. Lakers guard DiAngelo
Russell reportedly plans to opt into the final year of
his contract for eighteen point seven million dollars. Soccer in
the round of sixteen at Euro twenty twenty four, Switzerland
has doubled its lead over Italy on FS one.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Little chees.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
McCall on FS one, they are now in the seventy
third minute with Switzerland holding a two to nothing lead
over Italy, and it's time for a cross cultural exercise.
As you fellas know, when American professional sports teams are
not doing too well, their fans take to social media
to complain about them. So again, as a cultural experiment,
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I'm going to read you actual reactions right now by
Italian fans to their team trailing Switzerland two to nothing
in the round of sixteen at Euro twenty twenty four,
and these have all been translated from Italian into English.
Mario commenting quote, worst coach in history, worst players in history,
shame home with two slaps, Mario wang in lalandonay quote
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the most soulless national team in Italy's history. And Marisa
commenting quote the worst team I've seen in my life,
digging the earth together in disgrace unquote whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's yeah, guys, I appreciate that, guy Lee little.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know what? So is a Hoctua hi greatness?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Do we not doing that today? I'm not doing this today.
Don't don't don't do it? Don't do it? Well, well,
bet I have, I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Not doing it.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I couldn't help myself. So, but Tua is up set,
I think, I mean the reports reports are that he's
growing impatient over his contract negotiations.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Flex Detroit then hooked up Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Jacksonville then hooked up Trevor Lawrence and they are not.
Jeff Darlington is saying, listen, this is complicated. I'm not
saying it won't get done, but right now, well I
believe that. Yeah, this, I believe this is Jeff Darlington
saying this. I'm not saying it won't get done. But
right now there's five words that are looming over this
(28:43):
contract negotiation and they're the words that came out of
Tua's mouth.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yes, so it is Jeff Darlington.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
The market is the market right now, and the Dolphins
are not offering the contract that is the market value
based on those others that we're done.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We're not to panic point just yet, but the Dolphins
are not in the Jered Gay and Trevor Lawrence ballpark.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You we just touched on it, right, we just touched
on It's not about how good you are, what you're
deserving of, it's you're the next one up, and that's
just it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Business is business. How does this play out?
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
First of all, let's just say that this Trevor Lawrence
deal in the contract that he received its unprecedented. I mean,
we're talking about Trevor Lawrence here. I think he's a
good quarterback, but making him giving him this quarterback, giving
him this contract is being the highest paide player in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Basing it off of potential, because it ain't based off.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
It's not based off of what he has done previously,
and it damn showing on be based off what he's
about to do.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So let's just say that.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
So I think this whole Tour situation is I think
that I think is gonna it's gonna be. Darlington is
spot on because Trump, I think Tour is going to
go out and have a great year. Statistically, there's a
possibility that he may go out and throw for five
thousand yards. Tyreek Hill is searching for this two thousand
(30:24):
yard mark as being from a wide receiver standpoint, but
when he hasn't won any playoff games since his quarterback
we know what the market is for the quarter for
the quarterback market has been set obviously with Jared Goff
getting his money and the whole Trevor Lawrence thing. But
to sit here and say that the Miami Dolphins are
(30:45):
eager to give to fifty million dollars a year, I
just don't see that from the Miami Dolphins, and that
is why they have not done it yet because they're
not going to do it and the Miami Dolphins, and
it's gonna be great during the regular season, they're going
to be competing right there in the AFC East with
the New York Jets, but from a playoff standpoint and
(31:09):
them really contending to win the World Championship, they're not
there with the current rocks that they have, even though
they have one of the most explosive offense.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
They're loaded, they are, But do you do you really.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Have Tour the Tour as one of the top five
or top ten quarterbacks in this league? If they if
the Miami Dolphins thought that about Tour, if he's a
quarterback that they didn't need to have to win, they
would have compensated him already. He's going to play out
this contract and if he I don't know what the
(31:49):
franchise that tag is the following year for a quarterback,
but it has to be up up upwards a fifty
million dollars. And the thing about it is, if you're
starting quarterback in the NFL, the magic number is forty
million dollars. And you know who set the quarterback market
this year? The New York Giants. Giants, they set the
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quarterback market with Daniel Jones when they gave him forty.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Million dollars a year, and he well, he is ranked.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Thirty second in the NFL amongst all quarterbacks. So the
starting number for a quarterback is forty million out that's
where we're gonna start at. Anywhere between forty and fifty five.
I've won as a quarterback, So he's going to make
more than forty. He might not get the fifty five,
(32:42):
but no matter where he goes, as far as the
quarterback market is right now, he's going to make north
of forty five million dollars. And I'm gonna ask you,
I'm gonna ask you this question about in the current
state right now of where the quarterback market is going.
I think we are approaching a day and age where
(33:03):
there may be one hundred million dollar of your quarterback
in the next five to ten years. Do you think
the quarterback market is sustainable in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I think it's sustainable based upon what the NFL wants,
and the NFL will continue to pay its star it's
star actor within the production. If if that's a star actor, yes, yes,
that's the that's the talent.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But Trevor Lawrence is not a star actor. He is
because he's a QB. He is because he's a QB.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
So you agree. So you're basically saying it's not performance based.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I'm not saying I agree that it shouldn't be performance based.
It should be performance based, But I'm saying with what
you're saying, yes, that that that market, that number will
continue to go up.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
What Tua is saying is accurate.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
If what he's saying is based upon on this, these
guys are getting these type of contracts.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You brought up Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
There ain't no way you could sit there and say
Daniel Jones play warranted him to get an extension.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Ain't no way.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
So there's a reason why when when they do their
their economic and their their their reports on on performance
and what looks right, what doesn't look right, and forecasting
and all these different things, you're paying these guys based
off of what you're forecasting to make as as an organization.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So to me, yeah, you're not.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Paying Like Tua is a name, he's he's respected and
he's beloved as teammates and the and the fan base,
they should pay them.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
They should pay them.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
And as far as the numbers continuing to go up,
is if it's justified that you have a quarterback that
is in position. They don't have to be Aaron Rodgers
or a Lamar Jackson or Patrick Homes. If they are
just in position and you can talk about them in
a manner that provides hope. Trevor Lawrence is still a
(35:09):
name that provides hope. He can still put seat butts
in the seat. There's still something to it. Dak Prescott,
same thing, Jalen Hurts obviously the same thing, all these
different guys.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Right, So when you look.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
At the potential of what they bring to the table
and the importance of the position is one hundred percent
a lock that the numbers are going to continue to
push up and drive up in terms of what the
value at that position is.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's how it look.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah, And at the end of the day, there's thirty
two teams, and if you're the Miami Dolphins and the
success that Tua has had last year, I believe he's
going to be I believe he's going to play great
this year within his offense because they add OBJ, He's
going to add another option to Jaylen Waddle Tyreek Hill.
(36:01):
I think you have one of the best top two
or three running games in all of football with Raheem
Moister and a chain so too.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Us definitely going to be through the roof.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
But you just got to say to yourself, all the
Miami Dolphins going to give him this Jared Golf type contract.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
But at the.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Same time, if you don't, where do you go from
here from an organizational standpoint of acquired franchise quarterback?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's the out there. That's a question. That is a
question that's nobody out there. So you have to pay him.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well, we're gonna see I don't know the aim don't
sound like they ready to pay him what he want
to be paid. But I'll tell you what, Rob Gronkowski
he saw Drive Mayo as a coaching future in his
coaching future years ago. We'll touch on that before we
wrap the show up. All right, you're listening to Plexico Burst.
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get up out of here, we wanted to talk a
little bit about well. Rob Gronkowski was just on Julian
(37:45):
Edelman's podcast Games with Names Podcasts, and he basically said,
listen draw Mao was just a phenomenon on the football
field with lining everyone up and also in the meeting
rooms as well. Gronkowski said during an appearance on on
the podcast that he knew where every player needed to
(38:07):
be during situation, every situation uh that occurred on the
defense side of the ball. UH. He knew how to
read offenses, and he knew what plays to call out,
and he was also correct when he called a playout
or else. He was just making the whole defense aware
(38:27):
of when the play was going to be called now Plex.
It sounds pretty familiar to me what Giro Mayo sounds like.
It sounds like our ap. How do you think it's
going to play out for Giro Mayo in in New England?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
How? How do you how you know defensive players? Uh?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
You know, I think it's tough for defensive players to
have great success in the league.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
What say you? Oh, not so much? I mean you
look at Tamika Ryans and they did really well last year.
You know Houston Tech. But you know, Girop Mayos has
a very high football like you. I played against him
several times and he wasn't you know, the best athletes
on the field, but he was. He was always going
(39:12):
to put his players in the best best best Uh,
you know, player, defensive call or whatever the case may be.
You get the job done. And Uh, I don't think
this team is going to be that good. I think
they're gonna come in dead last in the AFC East.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
There's obviously been some concerns with Drake may I. From
what I'm hearing, he is not the guy that they
thought he was. Draw Mayo had no say so and
drafting him, so he didn't get the drafted. The general
manager did so I think, uh, he's not going to
be the start on the opening day. Uh, Drake may
(39:51):
is not probably going to start this year at all.
But I'm just looking at this New England Patriot team
and just saying, listen, this is going to be a
year where they're trying to just kind of get some
of the kinks out. They're not going to be able
to compete in the division or get to the playoffs.
I think they're a six seven win team at most.
But from a Gerwid Mayo standpoint, I don't think that
(40:13):
takes away from him hit from his intelligence and how
good of a coach he can be moving forward.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, I think linebackers make the best coaches obviously. I mean,
got Mike Vrabel. You know you mentioned Demiko Ryans, We
got ap up in there. Now we got Gerrid Mayo.
I feel like there's more too. I feel like I'm
missing one, but you know we got the linebacker coach
and your son pretty soon didn't he play.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
At Michigan State? D he play at Michigan.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Stawn Maybe Anyway, I like linebackers a head coach, and
I hope it does work out for Gerrod Mayo. Doesn't
seem like it. They had the best of opportunities to win,
But who knows, maybe he rallies them up.
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Obviously, we're gonna start the hour off with an interesting
topic that's taking place in the media with a team
that continues to dominate the headlines and well maybe in
a way that's not the best way. I mean, we're
talking about the Dallas Cowboys. There's been speculation that Mike
(01:49):
McCarthy uh let it out that he's tired, sick and
tired of the undermining and the different things taking place
from from the ownhip, from from Jerry Jones in particular.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And now the latest, the latest within.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The drama coming out comes from Pro Football Talk, where
teammate of Michael Parsons, Malik Hooker, has criticisms of Michael
Parsons and his podcast quote, my advice for Micah would
be just make sure we are all right, Hooker said,
(02:31):
which I'm thinking is it make sure we are all
right or just make sure we're all right, as in,
don't think that somebody's right in somebody's room. Not really
sure which one it is, but in context, but but
you know, we'll see you anyway, Hooker says on a
Keishawn Johnson podcast. Because if we're at work and the
(02:54):
run games terrible, but you're doing a podcast every week
and you know the run game is terrible, then what
are you really caring about? Are you caring about the
crowd that was watching the podcast or are you caring
about the success of our team and the Super Bowl
that we're trying to reach. Micah Michaeh responded, quote, just
(03:20):
what you said this to me, but instead on some
podcast and you got my number family Malik Hooker twenty
four and you're my locker mate, Parsons.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Wrote, via the Dallas Morning's News.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So you could have said this any day, and you
do realize I shoot the podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
On our day off, on our off day.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Why ain't we talking about everyone preparations and focus?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I face value.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The first takeaway from this is if they beefing like
this internally, because that's beef. That's beef. I mean, how
how are you interpreting? How are you interpreting this man?
Because it just sounds like they can unravel the Dallas man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
It's it's not good man, that's right. Good for a man,
and you know, to be in a locker room and
you know, to let these kind of things ball over
into the media, it's not good for the team. It's
not a good morale that you want amongst your locker
(04:30):
room and the culture in which a championship. Uh, you know,
you're trying to team, you're trying to become. And I
guess he's right. Both both guys are right being that
Malik Hookers is locker mate. Why can't they just you know,
talk to this out as grown men instead of putting
(04:53):
it out there for the people to play with. And
now you're creating a strife between the two because now
when you two guys walk in the locker room, we
got to get this off our chests. And you could
have did this in a private setting and nobody never
would have known about it. And you know, we wouldn't
this wouldn't be a topic of discussion now within in
(05:18):
the media. But this would never happen in the Pittsburgh
STI the locker room. Oh, these things would never happen
because you know what, everybody is their own leader.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They say, if you got a problem with somebody, it's
going to get addressed. Well, if you like it or not.
That is how we governed our football team. Man, you
got a problem with somebody or whatever they're doing, if
you ain't, if they ain't out there given effort that
you think that should be playing with, man, we address you.
We'll address you to your faith as a grown man
(05:49):
in Pittsburgh. That's the difference between playing in a locker
room with the Pittsburgh Steelers in New York Giants versus
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
These things get handled internally.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You will never even hear about it because we didn't
already got it off our chest between us, between each
other and young man, and now we done came to
a common ground and now we don't dapt each other up.
And because of that, it made us and made the
team better because we done said what we had to say,
and we've been receptive to each other and now we
(06:22):
understand where we're coming from. And it makes it. It
makes it a stronger football team, is what it does internally.
But now we're doing this Malich Hooker and you're talking
to Michael Parsons, who's arguably the best defense.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Of playing all of football.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It's going to create some you know, some reframh between
the two because now we go to training camp, this
is gonna be the top of good discussion and it's
a Dallas compboyshit, you know, it's gonna be at the
top of the menu for everybody to.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Talk about everybody.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's not a good it's not a good, you know
thing for the team and lockhom especially going into this
season with everything that's going on, and you know, mccaffley's
tired of Jerry Jones underlining him. Who did you think
he was before you got there? He's been the same
Jerry Jones for the last thirty years. Yeah, he's gonna Hey,
he's not gonna change the stripes who he is. He's
(07:14):
gonna make all the hes, gonna he's gonna make all
the calls. He's gonna do what he wants to do.
He bought you in here as a head coach to
win a championship and not make decisions. So that's who
Jerry Jones has been since he took over the owner
for the Dallas Cowboys. So why are you, h you know,
expecting anything different from him because.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We already know who he is. It's Jerry Jones.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He go, he he he steps to the beat of
his own drum. And that's the way he is, and
that's how he's gonna be forever, until he until he's
no longer the owner of this organization.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Who And that's a lot and and you know what,
I think it's spot on. I think it's so spot
on what you're saying that these are things. I wasn't
a dysfunctional locker room, by the way, And I was
in a locker room where beef took place and and
and guys didn't get along and and people were jealous
of one another. And you know when you get when
(08:09):
you shoot up that stardom that startum uh you know
ladder and and you're you're as famous and as well
known as Michael Parsons has gotten. And now you know,
being awarded the Bleacher Report gridiron uh grid Iron deal,
being being the president named the president of it. I mean,
(08:32):
that's that's that's groundbreaking, that's that's next level type stuff
people have, you know what happens. And so many times
when we were growing up and we were playing in
the game, people told you and told us that football
is your business.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Football.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Anything else that you do is a distraction. Coaches would
get upset if you did I did. I did a
reality show on ESPN while I was still an active player,
just starting to transition into media and into entertainment.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And they hated it. Not only did they hate.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It, but then they forced me to miss the season
finale live airing of the show to choose the winner
of the show on Dream Job because I had to
go attend you know, a mini camp or whatever it was.
But ota, I don't even know what it was, but
I know they didn't want me to do the show. Listen, guys,
(09:34):
now understand what building a brand is and really what
I would challenge these guys to think about. And Malie
Hooker saying what he's saying, like make sure the team
is okay and make sure the team is all right,
Like you can do both. Prioritize your life, prioritize what
you got going on. You can be the best time
(09:57):
for you to build your brand. And where your brand
is the strongest and the most leverageable is right now
for them, guys, even for Malee Cooker, it's right now.
And so you have to understand learning learning that that
business is business, whether it's the football business, whether it's
(10:18):
other business that that you're a part of business is business.
So when you start, when you start putting it out
there like, oh, well, what does Micah care about because
he's taking on a different business venture.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Plex How many things are you doing business wise right
now in your in your life post football?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How many things you do? You do? What you do?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Fox FS one, you do Fox Sports Radio. You just
opened up a juice bar, right, what's what's the address
to your juice bar?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What's the name?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Oh it's twelve ninety one Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, New Jersey
zero seven four seven zero.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Make sure you go get some juice. Please drove them
from his spot. So you have multiple things that you're
doing right now. Are are you suffering from not caring
about one other that or one over the other?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Are you suffering from not having the ability to prioritize
your family and your personal business with what you have
going on, with the multiple revenue streams that you've been
able to generate and create.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So why why is it okay to act like in
in sport?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
If you're not, if you're.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Not doing football to the the like just football, you
shouldn't have anything else going on. You shouldn't be creating
any other type of revenue streams, especially if it's if
it's media related.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Especially nowadays. How is that?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
How is that okay? How is that even a conversation
like you said today? How is that even a conversation?
I don't I don't understand it. It's confusing to me.
It kind of comes across, as you know, like you
got a little jealousy and a little it in your heart,
and you need to address that because you let it
come out at the wrong time, Like you got comfortable
(12:08):
in front of key you took aim at one of
the big fish in the pond where it is that
you swimming and for what reason? Like why would you
damage your relationship like that over something as trivial as
that man having a successful podcast? Like you worried about
how many people are watching your show versus what we
(12:29):
got going on and if we're okay? Like what are
you serious?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Jerry Jones is worried about how many people are watching
his show on Sunday or.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Whatever it is. They play press conference every Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Everybody knows what he holds it every day and this
son comes on too. They hold two spots that they
talk about. All right, listen up, this is Up on Game.
That's Flexico burds of LeVar heretay listen. We're gonna take
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You know, we really be grooving on this show. Man,
we don't you tune in?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Tell a friend and tell a friend listen to podcast
is absolutely phenomenal. But the DJ in that goes on
behind the scenes. Man, you gotta listen to it live.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Shouts out the Chris Purvett on the Ones and the
two engineering the show. Okay, we are live from the
tyrack dot com studios. Uh, your boy Brandon, now youk
like he's been wanting a new contract, uh some more money, wanting.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
To be paid like the next one in line. Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
In terms of top receivers, we've had this conversation in
weeks past.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Uh, they don't want to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So it seems like they're going to go into this
year and play this year out and go from there.
But if there were the possibilities of him to go
somewhere else, he mentioned the Commanders or the Stealers as
possible spots.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Now to me, that's you're putting it out there that.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You want the Stealers or or the Commanders, which I
would assume the Commanders would be a team that would possibly,
you know, maybe go go do it. I mean, just
I don't I mean, at least at least the commanders
that I've known. I don't know this new regime that well,
so maybe that's not a feasible you know act.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But also the relationship he has with James Dames. Okay,
there you got to play. They played together there as
the State. Okay, there you got So they have a
relationship with one another that you know, before Jayden Dames
transferred to LSU. Jayden Dames quarterback in Brennie while he
was playing wide receiver. So they go back, you know,
(16:16):
five six years ago, so they know, you know, what
a level of success that they had in college that
they can do professional. So that's one of the reasons
why But I look at the whole Brandon Aue situation
like this, A team does not exercise your fifth year
option and give you and.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Give you a long term contract.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Granted, I think Brendan Aiu is in a very very
very good receiver, but thirteen hundred yards last year, seventy
plus catches, and he's averaging eighteen yards of catch, which
is which is dumb crazy. I think I averaged seventeen
in my year three. But the average eighteen yards a
(16:59):
catch is basically on offensive side of the football, twenty
five yard plays are labeled that's big plays, and he's
almost he's doing that almost every time he catches the football.
So he's going to make fourteen million dollars this year
with the San Francisco year family, San Francisco picking.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Up his fifth year option.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So that tells me that the San Francisco forty nine
ers have no uh, you know, they're not going to
give him a long term deal this year.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
They're going to make him play out this year.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And what has happened in the wide receiver market is
that we have seen the franchise tag go up ten
million dollars in the off season based off of Justin Jefferson,
Jay Lo Wado, Nicocollins, I'm Aron Saint Brown. The franchise
tag for the next season is going to be thirty
plus million dollars. And you're looking at You're talking about
(17:51):
t Higgins, Brandy YAYU. All these guys are going to be,
you know, in a similar situation. But the San Francisco
forty nine ers are not in a bad space because
basically they still own the rights to Brandon and you.
All they have to do is franchise them after this
final year. Listen, they all want that guarantee money. He's
in that group of receivers with Jaydaenwado and Nicocollins, and
(18:15):
he's seeing all his colleagues get these sixty and seventy
million dollars guaranteed. Jayawabley was seventy two. He wants to be,
you know, in that group of guys. But I think
for right now he's going to play this year out.
I believe that the San Francisco forty nine ers have
a two year window to get this thing done versus
with you know, Christian McCaffrey staying healthy, George Kittle's getting older, obviously,
(18:40):
Deepo Sam's getting beat up with some injuries, so they
have a two year window to get to a world championship.
But I'll say this, John Lynch understands and knows you
know that Brandon and I you is a part of
the maturation of Brock Party because he is going to
need that at eighteen to twenty yard guy on the
(19:02):
outside that he can basically you can throw the ball
with Brandy out and he can make plays for you,
like he'll make those fifty to fifty catches. So I
think I believe that he is a very important part
of his offense. But also they have a scheme to
where they can put somebody else out that they might
not be as successful or as dominated as Brandiyaiku was
(19:24):
on the edge, but the offense in which Kyle Shanahan runs,
they're going to have success. But I believe but for
Brock Purty right now, for him to continue to take
strides as being this franchise quarterback for this team, Brandy
Yah Yute has to be a part of this offense.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And I don't know what they're going to do.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Because Deebo Saying's making twenty four million, they owe him
what forty eight million dollars over the next two years,
brand Yayut is going to need a deal.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And now you're.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Talking about picking up Brandy Yuk's option of fourteen million,
You're going to have to eat a frameranchise him or
let him go because brock Party is going to need
a contract.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
After He's going to need a contract. That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
So now, if you're John Lynch and this organization, I
believe that they should have got this deal done this
year if they really wanted Brandon out. You to be
a part of this team, because it used to be
you have to be the best at your position to
get paid. Now it's the next man up with this
quarterback situation, and you gotta think, and you gotta believe
(20:31):
that brock Party, which it sounds insane, is going to
be making almost sixty million dollars a year playing quarterback
for the San Francis Go forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
That is crazy to think.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
But with that being said, the Brandon Naiyuk situation isn't
going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
The question is is there is there a market? Is
there a marketplace for him? If it's not, if it's
not in in the you know, in San Francisco, because
I don't know, I don't is finding a one receiver
is really really hard. And and I think we've established
the fact that Ayuk is a one and and should
(21:12):
be paid as a one because he's a one not
he should be paid as you know what what.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
The value of what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
It's he's the next up, like he's one of the
next ones up as as a talent at that one
receiver's position. As you mentioned some of the names that
have have gotten paid. So how does that how how
does that play out? That's the biggest question to me?
How does this play out? If Sam Frand didn't want
to do this deal with him, it almost seems as
(21:42):
though you needed to deal him, like you needed to
trade him get some value for him right now while
the getting is good and and and and cut your
losses and move on versus what like, why why are you?
Why are you dragging it out, letting it get to
you a franchise tagable situation. But if you don't want
(22:03):
to pay them the money, now, what's gonna make it
any different next season?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Listen, we have seen this take place. It hasn't happened often,
but I've seen it take you know, shape with Walter
Jones as the left tackle field of Seattle Seahawks. They
can franchise a guy multiple times. So now if you
look at a franchise tag for a T. Higgins, you
know he's kind of in that situation where everybody knows
(22:30):
that Jamar Chase is the mand Justin Jefferson got what
he got, so you gotta think that Jamar Chase is
going to be right there with him, which is not
necessarily a good thing for T. Higgins. So the Brandon
Nute situation is they can franchise him next year he'll
make thirty million dollars. And maybe that is a way
(22:51):
for the San Francisco forty nine ers with Brandon eye
Yute and it Beangos with T. Higgins to be able
to get these guys guaranteed money in the first two
years of these deals, because if you franchise them in
back to back season, we're talking about thirty thirty one
million dollar salary. That is the way to give these guys.
(23:12):
Get these guys they're sixty million dollars guaranteed that they
will making the first two years without giving them a
long term deal.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So long term deals don't matter anymore. I mean, if
you get thirty bailiar day I get out guaranteed. I mean,
what does it matter if you get six year deal
or not, you know, I mean.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's just an injury part of it. You don't want
you want to guarantee. You want like you want to get.
You want it right now when you sign. You want
that guarantee. If I'm getting a guaranteed thirty million, I'm okay.
It's not a bad thing for a wide receiver, not
at all. If you get franchise tag, you're making thirty
million dollars a year full wide receiver. You don't have that,
(23:52):
you know, the comfort of knowing that you know you
you're going to get eighty million dollars guaranteed barn and injury.
But if you can get two years out of a
franchise tag, that is the sixty million dollars that a
Brandon and I would make or a T. Higgins would
make in a guaranteed contract. And I would not be
surprised if we take see teams uses as an option
(24:15):
instead of giving those guys a big deal up front
and franchising tag. Putting the franchise tag on once or twice.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, Well, we'll see how it all plays out with
Brandon ik and the San Francisco forty nine ers. I
think it's interesting that he would throw out the commanders
and now there's more context to it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
That's his own.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
There's some great that's there's some there's some great places
for Brandon and I. You in the wide receiver market
you're looking at. You can send them to an Arizona.
You know, he can teach the young man Marvin Harrison.
You know you don't have to give him a deal
for the next four or five years. You know, Trevor
Lawrence needs a wide receiver to be in the fact
that Calvin Rilely's in Tennessee. They bought and gave gave
(24:57):
Davis from Buffalo. But that's not going to be an
enough for Jacksonville. They need a wide receiver. Any Napolis coach,
they need a wide receiver. The play beside Paula puts it,
I believe his name is. There are some places that
Brandon y'all, you can land that is going to add
a tremendous amount of value to this team, to a team.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
To a tongue of Belowa.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
His contract talks, the Dolphins are not offering him that
Jarret Goff, Trevor Lawrence, Ballpark, Louill talk about that, but
let's first get our update from our guy Hi isaiic Oho.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And crun Hi.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Thank you very much, lebar And the huge news in
the NBA The Athletic reporting Lebron James intends to opt
out of his fifty one million dollar player option for
next season. Yep Man that the expectation is Lebron will
return to the Lakers on a new deal. TNT out
of a short time ago that James is considering opening
up a pathway for the Lakers to obtain the full
(25:58):
mid level exception for the right targets. Lakers guard DiAngelo
Russell reportedly plans to opt into the final year of
his contract for eighteen point seven million dollars. Soccer in
the round of sixteen at Euro twenty twenty four, Switzerland
has doubled its lead over Italy on FS one.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Little chees.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
McCall on FS one, they are now in the seventy
third minute with Switzerland holding a two to nothing lead
over Italy, and it's time for a cross cultural exercise.
As you fellas know, when American professional sports teams are
not doing too well, their fans take to social media
to complain about them. So again, as a cultural experiment,
(26:54):
I'm going to read you actual reactions right now by
Italian fans to their team trailing Switzerland two to nothing
in the round of sixteen at Euro twenty twenty four,
and these have all been translated from Italian into English.
Mario commenting quote, worst coach in history, worst players in history,
shame home with two slaps, Mario wang in lalandonay quote
(27:21):
the most soulless national team in Italy's history. And Marisa
commenting quote the worst team I've seen in my life,
digging the earth together in disgrace unquote whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's yeah, guys, I appreciate that, guy Lee little.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know what? So is a Hoctua hi greatness?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Do we not doing that today? I'm not doing this today.
Don't don't don't do it? Don't do it? Well, well,
bet I have, I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Not doing it.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I couldn't help myself. So, but Tua is up set,
I think, I mean the reports reports are that he's
growing impatient over his contract negotiations.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Flex Detroit then hooked up Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Jacksonville then hooked up Trevor Lawrence and they are not.
Jeff Darlington is saying, listen, this is complicated. I'm not
saying it won't get done, but right now, well I
believe that. Yeah, this, I believe this is Jeff Darlington
saying this. I'm not saying it won't get done. But
right now there's five words that are looming over this
(28:43):
contract negotiation and they're the words that came out of
Tua's mouth.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yes, so it is Jeff Darlington.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
The market is the market right now, and the Dolphins
are not offering the contract that is the market value
based on those others that we're done.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We're not to panic point just yet, but the Dolphins
are not in the Jered Gay and Trevor Lawrence ballpark.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You we just touched on it, right, we just touched
on It's not about how good you are, what you're
deserving of, it's you're the next one up, and that's
just it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Business is business. How does this play out?
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
First of all, let's just say that this Trevor Lawrence
deal in the contract that he received its unprecedented. I mean,
we're talking about Trevor Lawrence here. I think he's a
good quarterback, but making him giving him this quarterback, giving
him this contract is being the highest paide player in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Basing it off of potential, because it ain't based off.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
It's not based off of what he has done previously,
and it damn showing on be based off what he's
about to do.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So let's just say that.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
So I think this whole Tour situation is I think
that I think is gonna it's gonna be. Darlington is
spot on because Trump, I think Tour is going to
go out and have a great year. Statistically, there's a
possibility that he may go out and throw for five
thousand yards. Tyreek Hill is searching for this two thousand
(30:24):
yard mark as being from a wide receiver standpoint, but
when he hasn't won any playoff games since his quarterback
we know what the market is for the quarter for
the quarterback market has been set obviously with Jared Goff
getting his money and the whole Trevor Lawrence thing. But
to sit here and say that the Miami Dolphins are
(30:45):
eager to give to fifty million dollars a year, I
just don't see that from the Miami Dolphins, and that
is why they have not done it yet because they're
not going to do it and the Miami Dolphins, and
it's gonna be great during the regular season, they're going
to be competing right there in the AFC East with
the New York Jets, but from a playoff standpoint and
(31:09):
them really contending to win the World Championship, they're not
there with the current rocks that they have, even though
they have one of the most explosive offense.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
They're loaded, they are, But do you do you really.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Have Tour the Tour as one of the top five
or top ten quarterbacks in this league? If they if
the Miami Dolphins thought that about Tour, if he's a
quarterback that they didn't need to have to win, they
would have compensated him already. He's going to play out
this contract and if he I don't know what the
(31:49):
franchise that tag is the following year for a quarterback,
but it has to be up up upwards a fifty
million dollars. And the thing about it is, if you're
starting quarterback in the NFL, the magic number is forty
million dollars. And you know who set the quarterback market
this year? The New York Giants. Giants, they set the
(32:12):
quarterback market with Daniel Jones when they gave him forty.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Million dollars a year, and he well, he is ranked.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Thirty second in the NFL amongst all quarterbacks. So the
starting number for a quarterback is forty million out that's
where we're gonna start at. Anywhere between forty and fifty five.
I've won as a quarterback, So he's going to make
more than forty. He might not get the fifty five,
(32:42):
but no matter where he goes, as far as the
quarterback market is right now, he's going to make north
of forty five million dollars. And I'm gonna ask you,
I'm gonna ask you this question about in the current
state right now of where the quarterback market is going.
I think we are approaching a day and age where
(33:03):
there may be one hundred million dollar of your quarterback
in the next five to ten years. Do you think
the quarterback market is sustainable in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I think it's sustainable based upon what the NFL wants,
and the NFL will continue to pay its star it's
star actor within the production. If if that's a star actor, yes, yes,
that's the that's the talent.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But Trevor Lawrence is not a star actor. He is
because he's a QB. He is because he's a QB.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
So you agree. So you're basically saying it's not performance based.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I'm not saying I agree that it shouldn't be performance based.
It should be performance based, But I'm saying with what
you're saying, yes, that that that market, that number will
continue to go up.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
What Tua is saying is accurate.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
If what he's saying is based upon on this, these
guys are getting these type of contracts.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You brought up Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
There ain't no way you could sit there and say
Daniel Jones play warranted him to get an extension.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Ain't no way.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
So there's a reason why when when they do their
their economic and their their their reports on on performance
and what looks right, what doesn't look right, and forecasting
and all these different things, you're paying these guys based
off of what you're forecasting to make as as an organization.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So to me, yeah, you're not.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Paying Like Tua is a name, he's he's respected and
he's beloved as teammates and the and the fan base,
they should pay them.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
They should pay them.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
And as far as the numbers continuing to go up,
is if it's justified that you have a quarterback that
is in position. They don't have to be Aaron Rodgers
or a Lamar Jackson or Patrick Homes. If they are
just in position and you can talk about them in
a manner that provides hope. Trevor Lawrence is still a
(35:09):
name that provides hope. He can still put seat butts
in the seat. There's still something to it. Dak Prescott,
same thing, Jalen Hurts obviously the same thing, all these
different guys.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Right, So when you look.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
At the potential of what they bring to the table
and the importance of the position is one hundred percent
a lock that the numbers are going to continue to
push up and drive up in terms of what the
value at that position is.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's how it look.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah, And at the end of the day, there's thirty
two teams, and if you're the Miami Dolphins and the
success that Tua has had last year, I believe he's
going to be I believe he's going to play great
this year within his offense because they add OBJ, He's
going to add another option to Jaylen Waddle Tyreek Hill.
(36:01):
I think you have one of the best top two
or three running games in all of football with Raheem
Moister and a chain so too.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Us definitely going to be through the roof.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
But you just got to say to yourself, all the
Miami Dolphins going to give him this Jared Golf type contract.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
But at the.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Same time, if you don't, where do you go from
here from an organizational standpoint of acquired franchise quarterback?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's the out there. That's a question. That is a
question that's nobody out there. So you have to pay him.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Well, we're gonna see I don't know the aim don't
sound like they ready to pay him what he want
to be paid. But I'll tell you what, Rob Gronkowski
he saw Drive Mayo as a coaching future in his
coaching future years ago. We'll touch on that before we
wrap the show up. All right, you're listening to Plexico Burst.
I'm LeVar Arrington, t J. Huschman's auDA is out. This
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(37:03):
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Com studios. Pluchkoe Burs, LeVar Arrington, TJ is out today,
Stay locked and loaded. Jonas Knox will be coming up
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get up out of here, we wanted to talk a
little bit about well. Rob Gronkowski was just on Julian
(37:45):
Edelman's podcast Games with Names Podcasts, and he basically said,
listen draw Mao was just a phenomenon on the football
field with lining everyone up and also in the meeting
rooms as well. Gronkowski said during an appearance on on
the podcast that he knew where every player needed to
(38:07):
be during situation, every situation uh that occurred on the
defense side of the ball. UH. He knew how to
read offenses, and he knew what plays to call out,
and he was also correct when he called a playout
or else. He was just making the whole defense aware
(38:27):
of when the play was going to be called now Plex.
It sounds pretty familiar to me what Giro Mayo sounds like.
It sounds like our ap. How do you think it's
going to play out for Giro Mayo in in New England?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
How? How do you how you know defensive players? Uh?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
You know, I think it's tough for defensive players to
have great success in the league.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
What say you? Oh, not so much? I mean you
look at Tamika Ryans and they did really well last year.
You know Houston Tech. But you know, Girop Mayos has
a very high football like you. I played against him
several times and he wasn't you know, the best athletes
on the field, but he was. He was always going
(39:12):
to put his players in the best best best Uh,
you know, player, defensive call or whatever the case may be.
You get the job done. And Uh, I don't think
this team is going to be that good. I think
they're gonna come in dead last in the AFC East.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
There's obviously been some concerns with Drake may I. From
what I'm hearing, he is not the guy that they
thought he was. Draw Mayo had no say so and
drafting him, so he didn't get the drafted. The general
manager did so I think, uh, he's not going to
be the start on the opening day. Uh, Drake may
(39:51):
is not probably going to start this year at all.
But I'm just looking at this New England Patriot team
and just saying, listen, this is going to be a
year where they're trying to just kind of get some
of the kinks out. They're not going to be able
to compete in the division or get to the playoffs.
I think they're a six seven win team at most.
But from a Gerwid Mayo standpoint, I don't think that
(40:13):
takes away from him hit from his intelligence and how
good of a coach he can be moving forward.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, I think linebackers make the best coaches obviously. I mean,
got Mike Vrabel. You know you mentioned Demiko Ryans, We
got ap up in there. Now we got Gerrid Mayo.
I feel like there's more too. I feel like I'm
missing one, but you know we got the linebacker coach
and your son pretty soon didn't he play.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
At Michigan State? D he play at Michigan.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Stawn Maybe Anyway, I like linebackers a head coach, and
I hope it does work out for Gerrod Mayo. Doesn't
seem like it. They had the best of opportunities to win,
But who knows, maybe he rallies them up.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
All right, it's been up on Game. Hope you guys
enjoyed the show.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Make sure you stay locked and loaded for Jonas Knox
coming up next. This is up on Game. As I
mentioned Fox Sports Radio, I hope y'all have a great weekend. Man,
y'all take care you're out here.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
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