March 25, 2022 • 30 mins
In this episode, Rhett Lewis is joined by insider Jeffri Chadiha for his reaction to Deshaun Watson's first press conference as the Cleveland Browns quarterback. Jeffri explains why it's time for Watson to play football again, he reacts to Watson's "no regrets" comments, and then he shares how Watson can win over the community in Cleveland. Jeffri also provides insights into why Tyreek Hill and the Kansas City Chiefs couldn't agree to a contract extension and then he shares how the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes will need to adjust after this trade.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
NFL Inside Report is the production of the NFL in
partnership with I Heart Radio. I'm Red Lewis and this
is NFL Inside Report. I know these allegations is very
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very serious, but like I mentioned before, I've never assaulted
any woman. I never just suspected any woman. I was
raised by a single grand mom who has two aunties
with her sister, and that's what That's what raised me.
I was raised to be genuine and re spent everyone
and everything around me. So I've always defended that and
I will continue to stand on that. And I just
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want the opportunity to be able to show whoever they
am in the community and be hands on and help
people and serve other people. Deshaun Watson right there speaking
as the Browns introduced them as their introduced him as
their newest quarterback as they're starting quarterback a faith now
of their franchise. Deshaun Watson, flanked by general manager Andrew
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Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski, Owners d and Jimmy
Haslm would speak at a later news conference. So much
to get to about this Deshaun Watson news conference, and
we're going to dive into it here in a moment.
We're also going to talk about the Tyreek Hill trade
from the Kansas City Chiefs now to the Miami Dolphins
in the latest impactful trade that we've seen in the
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last couple of weeks here in the NFL, and helping
us digest all of it. Now, our good friend here
front of the podcast, Jeffrey Chidia, is with us. Jeff
always glad to chat with you, man. How are you.
I'm doing well. How are you doing right? I'm good.
Great to be back here with you. Really really interesting
day here, you know, obviously for so many reasons in
the NFL. As Deshaun Watson speaking, you know, not only
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for the first time, you know, since the allegations have
come out, really speaking for the first time since all
of the trade talk began. So much of that. Let's
focus in though, on what was the focus of the
majority of this news conference, which were the twenty two
allegations of sexual misconduct. Against the allegations made by twenty
two women, no criminal charges have been filed, to grand
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juries have been convened, neither one have turned back any charges. Well,
let's first start with your thoughts on Deshaun Watson's response there,
his most direct response to these allegations, saying that he's
never uh, he's never harassed anybody, he's never disrespected anybody,
he's never mistreated women in that way. How did you
take that? Well? I think it was important for him
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to come out and say that. Um. You know, I
think as I've watched this case in fold over the
last year or so, I've tried to remind people. First
of all, I when I first started journalism, I was
a police reporter. So he's spent a lot of time
trying to figure out where the truth is, who's innocent,
who's guilty, And when you have the kind of numbers
involved in a case like this, twenty two allegations, it's
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going to automatically make people think you're more likely guilty
and innocent. Um. And so I think it's it's always
been important people to remember that you are innocent until
proven guilty in this country, and that he's gone through
two grand juries. Um, he has not been there has
been enough evidence found to move forward with a criminal case,
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and that Deshaun Watson's every right to defend his honor.
And no matter how you feel about this, no matter
how you feel about violence against women, the Cleveland Browns
taking on this this contract, all these things that we're
going to talk about here, that at the end of
the day, that Deshaun Watson has had the right to
defend himself. And so I think that I take that
as being expected, um as being important to understand. And
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I don't think we're having this conversations, this press conference,
or he's having that contract unless those grand juries come
back with something positive in his favor. So there's still
a lot of civil lawsuits out there, still allegations, but
as far as I'm concerned, so far, no one has
proven that he's guilty of any of this stuff. That's correct,
And and you know, I think that was his biggest,
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you know message here, and that couldn't get into the
specifics due to the ongoing nature of the civil you
know cases that are still pending, the NFL's investigation, which
is still pending. But the Browns are really the only
entity that is seemingly conducted their investigation and come to
a conclusion, which was that they got as Andrew Berry
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said multiple times, as d and Jimmy Haslum has said
multiple times in addressing the media, have grown comfortable with
Deshaun Watson the person, and thus we're comfortable making this
monetary commitment to him two U thirty million dollars fully guaranteed,
and the compensation sent to Houston, which was, you know, magnitudinal,
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you know, just a huge impact in terms of three
first round the draft picks plus plus more. Andrew Berry
talked about a five month odyssey that he went on
down this path um to vet Deshaun Watson. Any of
what they said about how they became comfortable with Deshaun
Watson the person, Jeff, in your mind, do anything to
quiet the criticism of the trade. Well, I'm lucky enough
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to understand some of the inner workings of the NFL,
and it is not uncommon for teams to hire private
investigators to do these kinds of investigations. It's not uncommon
for them to have x FBI people on staff or
on retainer to this kind of stuff. There's a lot
of dirty things that happened behind the scenes, not just
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in the NFL, but in pro sports in general, and
so a lot of teams can find out what's happening
without having to expose all the story laundry in the
public eye. And so when they talked about the due
diligence that they put into it. I have no doubt
in my mind that they spent the last five months scouring,
uh everything about Deshaun Watson and trying to find out
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where does the truth lying there, because ultimately, like no
matter what happens in this case, no matter what happens
moving forward, there's always going to be a gray area
in this There's always going to be a port where
you have to trust what you're seeing, what you're hearing,
what you're feeling about a person. And I say this
about Deshaun Watson that before this all this stuff happened,
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you didn't hear anybody saying anything bad about him as
as a person. So this was to me is like
if Patrick Mahone was sitting in this seat, or Drew
Brees or Tom Brady, people that that we revere in
this league, I think it would be the same kind
of feeling I would have about it, which is to say,
I never saw this kind of stuff coming uh. And
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so I think it is important for them to go
talk to people who have known Deshaun Watson. I think
it was important to talk about the some of the
complexity of interviewing the women who made the allegations, And
I think that was an important thing that to say
in here, even though people kept pressing the issue of
well did your contact the people? There's no way on
earth any lawyer is going to allow anybody involved in
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the case like this to talk to anybody outside of
the case, outside the courtroom. It just opens you up
to all kinds of other issues you don't want to
have happened as a year. So I've always thought that
was an overblown criticism of this um. Ultimately, the Browns
have to decide do we trust what we're seeing in
this guy? What we've heard about this guy with this
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case is at and I'm want to belief that. It's
fine if you feel like the NFL's policy against domestic
violence is is not strong enough. It's a fair criticism.
I'm fine if you feel like he did this and
he should be punished for it, But I'm not fine
with having somebody sit in perpetuity for the rest of
their careers as a legal case plays out. If he's
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guilty of this, he will be punished at some point
for it. But I think he didn't play last year.
I think it's time from start playing football again yeah,
and um, well and we'll see. You know, I think
there was a lot made about how the Brown structured
the contract in this first year, you know, to minimize,
as they put it, the cap ramifications of handing out
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that much money and doing it with the majority of
it and a bonus structure and a very amitted base salary.
And most people are looking at that like, well, bass
salary is the only thing that gets affected if you
are suspended. And so they were trying to do DeShawn
a solid. They're thinking he might be suspended. Andrew Barry said,
no, no no, no, that was mostly for cap ramifications. And look,
I understand the view of it on both sides. UM.
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One of the things that hit me on that sound
bite that we already played from Deshaun Watson was the
disrespect angle, because I think it's hard. I certainly understand
him defending what he believes is right and his rights
in that that he never you know, assaulted anyone, He
never harassed anyone, UM. But to say you never disrespected
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anyone is tough because that's really in the eye of
the beholder. That's in the eye the one that feels disrespected. UM.
And And so I understand that part of it and
and some of the outcry there as well. Also had
this to say about how the whole situation you know,
has played out from you know, the moment we started
hearing about the allegations until now and was about having
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any regrets as to how all of this unfolded. Listen
to this, Um, I mean I don't. I don't have
any regrets. Um. Like I said before, the things that
that are off the field right now that came up,
you know, caught me by surprise because I never did
anything that these people are are a legend, you know,
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to have that many people come forward, Um, you know,
twenty two people come forward, you could certainly feel like
there may have been a better way to handle those situations,
both individually and as a group. How do you how
do you kind of reconcile the no regret portion of this? Well, like, actually,
what you're asking me, there's a part of me that
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feels like if I'm in issues, if i feel like
I'm righteous, if i feel like I'm being attacked, I'm
gonna say everything impossible to defend myself. And so I
I think I didn't do anything wrong, I'm gonna say
I didn't do anything wrong. Well, regret is kind of
an a sun of guilt exactly exactly, so that that's
the thing to regret, that's the thing. If you're regretting something,
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you are offering up the notion that you did something
wrong here. And I don't think Deshaun Watson in the
middle of a legal battle with somebody wants to even
give that much of an inch in the process. Now,
maybe after the fact that's all resolved and if it
goes his way, he may be more willing to be
more magnanimous in that regard. But you know, this is
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the thing about this case that is so inflammatory is
that it touches on very real issues in our society.
It touches on violence against women, um. You know, and
we've seen that how the NFL has been really put
had their feet put to the fire. But how they
deal with this, um. But I'll go a step further, man.
I'll tell you what, as a black man, I can
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tell you a lot of black men of country who've
been wrongly accused of stuff and have served a lot
of years in jail. I think they didn't do And
if you really want to go deep into it, you know,
Emma Till, which started also investing civil rights movement, was
about a young black man being accused of something by
a woman, a white woman, that ended his life. And
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so that's a part of this too. We don't talk
about it, but I totally feel that sense of I'm
not going to admit to something I didn't do. And
if you're Deshaun Watson, you believe that, and there's and
it's true no matter how many numbers come forward, and
I get Bill Cogby's out there and Harvey Watstein's out there,
but if that's me and Hisshues, yeah, I'm not giving
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a match either. Now, especially as you mentioned, if you're
if you're righteous in your belief that no wrongdoing was
was done there, um and and and then again, it
just it brings back the volume of the accusations, you know,
is I feel like what makes this different from other
players in the NFL who we have video evidence of,
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you know, being violent towards women that are playing right
now in the league. And so you know, I guess
I get that part of it too, But let me
let me let me raise his point though, because that's important.
The volume of people involved on the flip side of it.
If there's that many people involved, you would expect there
to be some kind of evidence that allowed those grand
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juries to move forward. Right, that's the other part of it, right, yep.
And and not all of the women have follow followed
criminal complaints, not all of those with civil cases have
followed criminal complaints. And there are some serious, you know,
intricacies into you know, both the criminal and civil sides
of this investigation and the NFL side, because how do
they reconcile it if no criminal charges are brought? Um?
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You know, it's it's again, it's something that we've seen unfortunately,
far too often, you know, in this league. As we
then look at how Watson tried to frame his position
moving forward as a guy who wants to earn back
the trust and rebuild his name. Um. This was a
man who was very involved in the community in Houston,
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Um and had been since you know he took over.
You know, there is the starting quarterback very early on
in his career and has done some good things in
the community there, all of which you know, are seemingly
undone at this point based on the accusations. How does
he do that at this point in Cleveland, knowing the
vitriol that's out there. You go out and play football.
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You go out and you try to put your best
foot forward. You try to show people who you are. Um. Look,
I've covered this thing long enough to see a lot
of different people um scorned and castigated and looked upon
as being the devil incarnate when they put on pads
and after something went wrong, like I remember Michael Vick
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and the way he was treated, And I saw what
happened when you started winning games the Philadelphia Eagles and
became their starting quarterback. I was in I was here
in Kansas City when they drafted Tyreek Hill and all
the things that came with him assaulting a woman, a
pregnant girlfriend in college. And there are people who said
they would never ever want to for this team again,
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and then two years later like he was one of
their favorite players. And so ultimately it sounds very um
um cold harder to say, but I sometimes chuckle a
people's hypocrisy because it's very easy to condemn the Shawn
Watson right now when he's not playing football. Um, when
he's at the Cleveland Brown with thirteen and four champion
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of the a f C North, I guarantee you, there
will be a lot more people in Cleveland who are
going to be fans of his. I just that's the
way it works. And if they win the Super Bowl,
there will be a parade, and you know, and and
as we move forward, this this will all go on. Um.
It's so I think there's still a lot left to
be resolved. And you know, surely the Browns, you know,
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are hoping that they have some resolution in this way
moving forward. Um. But you know, as we sit here,
you know, on March recording this episode, it's still a
lot left to be determined as Deshaun Watson tries to
rebuild his image, his name and get back out on
the field for the Cleveland Browns. All right, back here
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with you on NFL Inside Report. Our colleague here at
NFL Media, Jeffrey Chadilla, is back here with us and
lives in the Kansas City area. Covers the Chiefs for
us of very often, and you know, it's been a
big part of our coverage of the Chiefs dominance in
that a f C West and in the a f
C in general for the last couple of years and
one of the primary pieces outside of Patrick Mahomes as
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the Chiefs have been on this somewhat dynastic run here,
Jeff has been. Tyreek Hill has been, you know, one
of the most dynamic players we've seen ever in the NFL,
the fastest player in the NFL. In the Chiefs just
traded him away. Traded him away after they could not
come to terms on a contract extension with one of
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the most dynamic players in the NFL today, sending him
to the Miami Dolphins for a total of five draft
picks three this year, including the twenty nine overall, which
now gives the Chiefs twenty nine and thirty overall in
the first round of the draft of April, becoming the
seventh team in the league with multiple first round draft picks.
Dolphins had become the eighth without a first round draftick.
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Crazy times in the NFL. But let's move here to
the Chiefs and let's start here from the from the
money part of this thing, because Jeff, this is really
interesting um to me, and I'm not a cap wizard,
I can't get into the minutia of it, but to me,
it seems like the gap between what Tyreek Hill wanted
and commanded and what the Chiefs were willing to offer
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had to be fairly substantial, right, um, And it couldn't
have just been a million bucks a year, you know,
or two, because it feels like at some point you
can figure that out, right, it had to have been
like do you get that sense that the gap financially
had to have been you know, pretty big, or there
was some other like philosophical offensive stuff, you know, playing
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behind the scenes there that maybe allowed them to feel
okay with us. Well, a couple of things where I
play here on the tyro hill side of it. I've
been told by people in the organization that he wanted
to be the highest paid receiver in the game. He
wanted to surpass Davante Adam Steel he got from the
Raiders last week, and he didn't get that. He had
no interest in playing for the Kansasy Chiefs. There's gonna
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be no hometown discount. There was gonna be no wiggle
room here. And the Chiefs knew going back to two
thousand and nineteen when they signed him to uh an extension.
Then he was going through some off field issues related
back to his issues in college. The same girlfriend, the
mother of his child, had accused him of taped tim
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and said he had done some stuff to the kid,
and there was a lot of questions about whether he
was gonna play football again, and so the Chiefs gave
him an extension at that point that was three years,
about eighteen million dollars a year. Seventeen million dollars a year.
It was a bargain for where he was at, for
what he wanted. There were receivers getting twenty may a
year at that point. You go back to last year
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when the Chiefs were looking to create some salary cap space.
They got it from Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, Chris Joan,
people who are willing to renegotiate their contracts restructure their
contracts to give them space. Tyry Hill said, no, I'm
not doing that. I want all my money. And so
you knew going into this that this was going to
be a big deal for him. And so once the
Damote Adams deal came down the pipe, they were in
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a bad space. They spent a lot of money signing
players like Joe Dooney um signing players like Frank Clark
and Chris Jones and really COVID nineteen really hurt their
cap projections and so the money they were expecting to
have in this salary cap and salary caps going forward
was not there, and so if it got to a
place where they just didn't have a kind of money
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to give to him and he was not willing to
budge on what he wanted, and yeah, I would have
to imagine that being unable to come to a long
term contract extension with Orlean Noe Brown at left tackle
and leaving him on a very expensive one year franchise tag,
all of which hits this year had to play a
part in that as well. You get that sense, oh yeah,
oh yeah, that that was the other elephant in the room.
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They were so concerned about rebuilding their offensive line. They
made that deal for Orlando Brown, and again I think
that not so much Orlando Brown, but so much the
Joe Touney contract and Chris Jones. Those were the two ones,
the big ones where, uh, if they could go back
and do it all over again, they probably wouldn't have
given two any that money and would have been able
to give Tyreek Hill what he wanted. But ultimately, you know,
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at some point, you know, when you're in the chief position,
you've had success, You've had to pay really good players
to be where you're at I was saying it for
the last couple of years. When you're you have the
highest paid safety, which they had with Tyron Matthew, you
have the highest paid guard and Joe Juney, and you
had the highest paid tied end in Travis Kelsey. You
have to go to the perimeter and you have to
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pay defense pass rushers and receivers in corner, which are
way more expensive than those positions. It's hard to make
it happen. And so yeah, I think that Atlanta Brown
played a role in this. And they also, from what
I'm told, they believe that Tyreek Hill would have been
a big distraction without having a deal done this company season,
and they didn't want that either. It sounded like they
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did him a solid because from what I understand, the
Jets had a better offer on the table in terms
of draft pick compensation, but Tyree wanted to go back
home where he spends a lot of his time in
South Florida to Miami. UM, and you know, the Dolphins
forked over, you know, the necessary picks that gave him
the money you wanted. UM. You know, essentially, at least
in most metrics, at least in the average annual value
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getting what he wanted, which was to be the highest
paid white out you know, in the league, and a
better team to be blond, way better opportunity to try
to win games get to the postseason in Miami than
you do with the Jets right now. And so it was,
you know, the way it was sold to me was
the longer they held on a Tyreek Hill, less his vote,
the more his value was going to go down. And
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so to be able to sit here and say, you
look at what Brian Guda Kuntz, the Packer GM got
for Davante Adams, who's a one and the two, and
they were able to get five picks out of it,
and and and basically recalibrate their team for the future.
And I know I live in Kansas City. When they
won their first championship, you couldn't tell that many people
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that they weren't going to win the next five of
the next seven. They thought they were gonna be rolling
and rolling and rolling. And what I would tell him is, look,
the team that won this championship is not gonna be
the team you have in three years. And and they's
going to be players coming and going. I think right
now they've got four starters now left from that championship team.
But if you want to be a long term player,
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a long term contender in this league, you have to
make some tough personnel moves. And it's not just getting
rid of the Tyrn Matthews guys who are getting up
there in age and are losing a step. It's getting
rid of guys like Tyreek Hill who still have tremendous
value and can give you the chance us to rebuild
because the Chiefs have a lot of holes and they
don't have the money to go out there and fiddows
holes through free agency to the draft. Getting draft picks
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makes that easier. Yeah, And I think there's a lot
of you know, speculation out there and and and projection
that the Chiefs will use one of those two picks
in the first round on a wide receiver um and
I think we expect five, maybe even six Whiteouts to
go in the first thirty two picks. Might be that
all of them are gone by twenty nine, but maybe
the Chiefs can use, you know, an additional pick in
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later rounds to package twenty nine and move up some
spots to get the guy that they want. Something that
they could certainly do but then looking at what they
have now wide receiver wise, Marcus Robinson gone Byron Pringle gone,
Tyreek Hill gone all this offseason. Now they still have
Mcole Hardman. They signed you to do Smith Schuster as
you mentioned, and just signed mark Quis Valdez Scantling, who
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was a free agent previously of the Green Bay Packers,
three year, thirty million dollar deal, eight team milk guaranteed.
Now MVS. I think you know is has probably been
a little bit polarizing to Packers fans. Not always, you know,
a consistent guy, but one thing you could tell has
been consistent with his speed. In fact, according to the the
Next Gen Stats, was the second fastest ball carrier in
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two thousand and twenty one, with a speed over twenty
two miles per hour. Nobody's Tyreek Hill. He is a
one of one type of guy. But they're still getting
some speed here. Do you feel like, based on what
they've lost offensively, Jeff and what they've now gained with
Juju and MVS, can they still operate the same way? No? No,
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I think there's going to be a change, And you
saw some of that change in the second half of
last season where they recognized that teams were not going
to allow Tyree Hill to go down the field and
beat them, beat them deep, and so it became more
of a you know type of offense. Yeah, they can
dunk and be patient, and if they're gonna have to
play that way, it probably financially it makes more sense
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to have somebody who's cheaper like NBS doing that stuff
than Tyreek Hill being the highest paid receiver in the
game doing it right. And so yeah, I do believe
with Juju coming in with mvs. Nicole Harman now because
a chance to show what he can do. You know.
The crazy part about this is the only guy who's
under contract that receiver for next year is MBS. Smith Schuster, Ardman,
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and Josh Gordon are all have one year left on
their deals, and so we'll see how it works. But
this is part of being having a franchise quarterback the
level of Patrick Mahomes. And I've said this a lot
for a while too. It's that he's at the point
now where it's not so much about what they're putting
around him, it's about how he can make players better.
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Because the franchise quarterbacks at that level, they make players better.
Drew Brees only had Michael Thomas and a whole bunch
of scrubs around him in New Orleans. Uh, Aaron Rodgers
only had Davante Adams and a whole bunch of nobody's
around him in Green Bay. Uh. You know Tom Brady,
he had Gronk and he had Edelman, But you know
Edeman was the seventh round pick that turned into something,
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and it was they were going out and breaking the
bank to get receivers in for those guys. Those kind
of quarterbacks have to take what they're given and make
those players better so you can actually field other players
and feel other needs around them to feel a complete team.
And so that's what Chiefs are. Now. They're making a
big bet on Patrick Mahomes, make a big bet on
that offensive line, and making a big bet on bread Beach,
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who now has to go out, the general manager go
out and draft well to sustaining what they've built. Because
as much as I like bread Beach and he's done
a good job, aside from Tyran Matthew and Frank Clark,
every other star player in that championship team was somebody
that John Dorsey drafted before he got that job. Yeah. Now,
look it does take a lot to keep him in
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the fold and to keep you know, as much of
the core together as you can. As you mentioned that
CORP is dwindling, especially now that Tyreek Hill has gone.
Haven't really seen anything directly from Patrick Mahomes about Tyreek
Hill leaving. Um that case in the shock bill. How
do you how do you feel like he's processing this
because he's like you're a ship that movie cashed away
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with Tom Hanks on the island. I think he's got
his honeymoon right now on the island somewhere. Just yeah,
right looking were one. Uh. I don't think he's taking
it well. Yeah, He's not a guy who's shy about
getting on social media, so I don't think he's taking
it well. Which is also well, this move is so
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bold for the Chiefs. He did welcome MVS on Twitter,
like quote tweeting a chefter tweet that said that you
know NVS was signing the deal. He did say let's
get it or something like that, which is that any uh,
any sort of reaction front, So let's get it just
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to keep the brand go away. You gotta say something
positive here. The a f C West has been insane.
Jeff you know, and this is the biggest subtraction that
we've seen, whereas everything else has felt like additions to
every roster up and down. I mean, like even include
the Chiefs in it. You know, they made moves to
Justin Reid, you know, comes over as a really good
player on the defensive side. You mentioned Juju now in vs. Um.
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There's been some reaction from players in the a f
C West, specifically to this Tyreek Hill move. When to
get to that here? Uh from Keenan Allen, you know,
one of the best receivers in the division and in
the league, commented on an Instagram post about this Tyreek
Hill situation, said, this one is gonna expose some people.
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Glad he out of the Division two Who I think
he's talking about saying this is gonna expose to me?
Is that like, is that like a shot at Mahomes
at the Chiefs as a whole. I'm curious. Wow, Well,
you know I will say this that there is I
think no I keep using the phrase, but in the
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waters in the West. Based on what happened the a
f C Championship game, the Bengals coming out of nowhere
to win that championship to beat the Chiefs in the
fashion that they did, really dominating them in the second half,
really just Mahomes just melting down in that game. It
really just reinforced the notion that the best way to
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defend the Chiefs is to rush for play coverage and
hope that they just beat themselves. And that's that's kind
of been this the formula for a while and the
Bangles took it to a different level. And so now
you're seeing all these teams in the a f C
West stocking up on pass rushers all they seen in
the a f C West, recognizing that they need to
go out and get some playmakers to get a little
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more offense going. But you know, there is an element
right now out there within the a f C West
of the Chiefs are very vulnerable and that they can
be had, and that you know, it's and it used
to be the Chiefs had their ultimate you know drop
the mic was we got Patrick Mahomes and you don't.
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Now the Chargers have Justin Herbert who've grown up. The
Broncos have Russell Wilson. The Raiders just gave Davante Adams
to Derek Carr, and so it just everything's even out
and so yeah, I think that is a little bit
of shade being thrown towards the Chiefs home Van Heury.
I feel like, uh, let's sneed general manager of the
RAMS is out there, like all right, I see a
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f C West pushing all your chips into the table
at every center of the tel. I'm into this here
needs them. Yeah. But finishing up on Keenan Allen, you know,
maybe he was just talking about two a toungue of viola.
We've surrounded up with all this talente. Maybe it's really good.
Maybe he's not even talking about the f C West,
that part of it to subterfuge Miami. Here's one thing
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we know for sure, the a f C West will
be the most competitive division in the NFL next season,
and I think we are all here for that. Jeffrey,
thank you for your time. Thanks a lot Ritt. All Right,
that's gonna do it for this episode of NFL Inside Report.
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is NFL Inside Report. I know these allegations is very
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very serious, but like I mentioned before, I've never assaulted
any woman. I never just suspected any woman. I was
raised by a single grand mom who has two aunties
with her sister, and that's what That's what raised me.
I was raised to be genuine and re spent everyone
and everything around me. So I've always defended that and
I will continue to stand on that. And I just
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want the opportunity to be able to show whoever they
am in the community and be hands on and help
people and serve other people. Deshaun Watson right there speaking
as the Browns introduced them as their introduced him as
their newest quarterback as they're starting quarterback a faith now
of their franchise. Deshaun Watson, flanked by general manager Andrew
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Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski, Owners d and Jimmy
Haslm would speak at a later news conference. So much
to get to about this Deshaun Watson news conference, and
we're going to dive into it here in a moment.
We're also going to talk about the Tyreek Hill trade
from the Kansas City Chiefs now to the Miami Dolphins
in the latest impactful trade that we've seen in the
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last couple of weeks here in the NFL, and helping
us digest all of it. Now, our good friend here
front of the podcast, Jeffrey Chidia, is with us. Jeff
always glad to chat with you, man. How are you.
I'm doing well. How are you doing right? I'm good.
Great to be back here with you. Really really interesting
day here, you know, obviously for so many reasons in
the NFL. As Deshaun Watson speaking, you know, not only
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for the first time, you know, since the allegations have
come out, really speaking for the first time since all
of the trade talk began. So much of that. Let's
focus in though, on what was the focus of the
majority of this news conference, which were the twenty two
allegations of sexual misconduct. Against the allegations made by twenty
two women, no criminal charges have been filed, to grand
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juries have been convened, neither one have turned back any charges. Well,
let's first start with your thoughts on Deshaun Watson's response there,
his most direct response to these allegations, saying that he's
never uh, he's never harassed anybody, he's never disrespected anybody,
he's never mistreated women in that way. How did you
take that? Well? I think it was important for him
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to come out and say that. Um. You know, I
think as I've watched this case in fold over the
last year or so, I've tried to remind people. First
of all, I when I first started journalism, I was
a police reporter. So he's spent a lot of time
trying to figure out where the truth is, who's innocent,
who's guilty, And when you have the kind of numbers
involved in a case like this, twenty two allegations, it's
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going to automatically make people think you're more likely guilty
and innocent. Um. And so I think it's it's always
been important people to remember that you are innocent until
proven guilty in this country, and that he's gone through
two grand juries. Um, he has not been there has
been enough evidence found to move forward with a criminal case,
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and that Deshaun Watson's every right to defend his honor.
And no matter how you feel about this, no matter
how you feel about violence against women, the Cleveland Browns
taking on this this contract, all these things that we're
going to talk about here, that at the end of
the day, that Deshaun Watson has had the right to
defend himself. And so I think that I take that
as being expected, um as being important to understand. And
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I don't think we're having this conversations, this press conference,
or he's having that contract unless those grand juries come
back with something positive in his favor. So there's still
a lot of civil lawsuits out there, still allegations, but
as far as I'm concerned, so far, no one has
proven that he's guilty of any of this stuff. That's correct,
And and you know, I think that was his biggest,
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you know message here, and that couldn't get into the
specifics due to the ongoing nature of the civil you
know cases that are still pending, the NFL's investigation, which
is still pending. But the Browns are really the only
entity that is seemingly conducted their investigation and come to
a conclusion, which was that they got as Andrew Berry
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said multiple times, as d and Jimmy Haslum has said
multiple times in addressing the media, have grown comfortable with
Deshaun Watson the person, and thus we're comfortable making this
monetary commitment to him two U thirty million dollars fully guaranteed,
and the compensation sent to Houston, which was, you know, magnitudinal,
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you know, just a huge impact in terms of three
first round the draft picks plus plus more. Andrew Berry
talked about a five month odyssey that he went on
down this path um to vet Deshaun Watson. Any of
what they said about how they became comfortable with Deshaun
Watson the person, Jeff, in your mind, do anything to
quiet the criticism of the trade. Well, I'm lucky enough
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to understand some of the inner workings of the NFL,
and it is not uncommon for teams to hire private
investigators to do these kinds of investigations. It's not uncommon
for them to have x FBI people on staff or
on retainer to this kind of stuff. There's a lot
of dirty things that happened behind the scenes, not just
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in the NFL, but in pro sports in general, and
so a lot of teams can find out what's happening
without having to expose all the story laundry in the
public eye. And so when they talked about the due
diligence that they put into it. I have no doubt
in my mind that they spent the last five months scouring,
uh everything about Deshaun Watson and trying to find out
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where does the truth lying there, because ultimately, like no
matter what happens in this case, no matter what happens
moving forward, there's always going to be a gray area
in this There's always going to be a port where
you have to trust what you're seeing, what you're hearing,
what you're feeling about a person. And I say this
about Deshaun Watson that before this all this stuff happened,
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you didn't hear anybody saying anything bad about him as
as a person. So this was to me is like
if Patrick Mahone was sitting in this seat, or Drew
Brees or Tom Brady, people that that we revere in
this league, I think it would be the same kind
of feeling I would have about it, which is to say,
I never saw this kind of stuff coming uh. And
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so I think it is important for them to go
talk to people who have known Deshaun Watson. I think
it was important to talk about the some of the
complexity of interviewing the women who made the allegations, And
I think that was an important thing that to say
in here, even though people kept pressing the issue of
well did your contact the people? There's no way on
earth any lawyer is going to allow anybody involved in
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the case like this to talk to anybody outside of
the case, outside the courtroom. It just opens you up
to all kinds of other issues you don't want to
have happened as a year. So I've always thought that
was an overblown criticism of this um. Ultimately, the Browns
have to decide do we trust what we're seeing in
this guy? What we've heard about this guy with this
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case is at and I'm want to belief that. It's
fine if you feel like the NFL's policy against domestic
violence is is not strong enough. It's a fair criticism.
I'm fine if you feel like he did this and
he should be punished for it, But I'm not fine
with having somebody sit in perpetuity for the rest of
their careers as a legal case plays out. If he's
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guilty of this, he will be punished at some point
for it. But I think he didn't play last year.
I think it's time from start playing football again yeah,
and um, well and we'll see. You know, I think
there was a lot made about how the Brown structured
the contract in this first year, you know, to minimize,
as they put it, the cap ramifications of handing out
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that much money and doing it with the majority of
it and a bonus structure and a very amitted base salary.
And most people are looking at that like, well, bass
salary is the only thing that gets affected if you
are suspended. And so they were trying to do DeShawn
a solid. They're thinking he might be suspended. Andrew Barry said,
no, no no, no, that was mostly for cap ramifications. And look,
I understand the view of it on both sides. UM.
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One of the things that hit me on that sound
bite that we already played from Deshaun Watson was the
disrespect angle, because I think it's hard. I certainly understand
him defending what he believes is right and his rights
in that that he never you know, assaulted anyone, He
never harassed anyone, UM. But to say you never disrespected
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anyone is tough because that's really in the eye of
the beholder. That's in the eye the one that feels disrespected. UM.
And And so I understand that part of it and
and some of the outcry there as well. Also had
this to say about how the whole situation you know,
has played out from you know, the moment we started
hearing about the allegations until now and was about having
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any regrets as to how all of this unfolded. Listen
to this, Um, I mean I don't. I don't have
any regrets. Um. Like I said before, the things that
that are off the field right now that came up,
you know, caught me by surprise because I never did
anything that these people are are a legend, you know,
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to have that many people come forward, Um, you know,
twenty two people come forward, you could certainly feel like
there may have been a better way to handle those situations,
both individually and as a group. How do you how
do you kind of reconcile the no regret portion of this? Well, like, actually,
what you're asking me, there's a part of me that
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feels like if I'm in issues, if i feel like
I'm righteous, if i feel like I'm being attacked, I'm
gonna say everything impossible to defend myself. And so I
I think I didn't do anything wrong, I'm gonna say
I didn't do anything wrong. Well, regret is kind of
an a sun of guilt exactly exactly, so that that's
the thing to regret, that's the thing. If you're regretting something,
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you are offering up the notion that you did something
wrong here. And I don't think Deshaun Watson in the
middle of a legal battle with somebody wants to even
give that much of an inch in the process. Now,
maybe after the fact that's all resolved and if it
goes his way, he may be more willing to be
more magnanimous in that regard. But you know, this is
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the thing about this case that is so inflammatory is
that it touches on very real issues in our society.
It touches on violence against women, um. You know, and
we've seen that how the NFL has been really put
had their feet put to the fire. But how they
deal with this, um. But I'll go a step further, man.
I'll tell you what, as a black man, I can
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tell you a lot of black men of country who've
been wrongly accused of stuff and have served a lot
of years in jail. I think they didn't do And
if you really want to go deep into it, you know,
Emma Till, which started also investing civil rights movement, was
about a young black man being accused of something by
a woman, a white woman, that ended his life. And
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so that's a part of this too. We don't talk
about it, but I totally feel that sense of I'm
not going to admit to something I didn't do. And
if you're Deshaun Watson, you believe that, and there's and
it's true no matter how many numbers come forward, and
I get Bill Cogby's out there and Harvey Watstein's out there,
but if that's me and Hisshues, yeah, I'm not giving
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a match either. Now, especially as you mentioned, if you're
if you're righteous in your belief that no wrongdoing was
was done there, um and and and then again, it
just it brings back the volume of the accusations, you know,
is I feel like what makes this different from other
players in the NFL who we have video evidence of,
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you know, being violent towards women that are playing right
now in the league. And so you know, I guess
I get that part of it too, But let me
let me let me raise his point though, because that's important.
The volume of people involved on the flip side of it.
If there's that many people involved, you would expect there
to be some kind of evidence that allowed those grand
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juries to move forward. Right, that's the other part of it, right, yep.
And and not all of the women have follow followed
criminal complaints, not all of those with civil cases have
followed criminal complaints. And there are some serious, you know,
intricacies into you know, both the criminal and civil sides
of this investigation and the NFL side, because how do
they reconcile it if no criminal charges are brought? Um?
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You know, it's it's again, it's something that we've seen unfortunately,
far too often, you know, in this league. As we
then look at how Watson tried to frame his position
moving forward as a guy who wants to earn back
the trust and rebuild his name. Um. This was a
man who was very involved in the community in Houston,
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Um and had been since you know he took over.
You know, there is the starting quarterback very early on
in his career and has done some good things in
the community there, all of which you know, are seemingly
undone at this point based on the accusations. How does
he do that at this point in Cleveland, knowing the
vitriol that's out there. You go out and play football.
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You go out and you try to put your best
foot forward. You try to show people who you are. Um. Look,
I've covered this thing long enough to see a lot
of different people um scorned and castigated and looked upon
as being the devil incarnate when they put on pads
and after something went wrong, like I remember Michael Vick
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and the way he was treated, And I saw what
happened when you started winning games the Philadelphia Eagles and
became their starting quarterback. I was in I was here
in Kansas City when they drafted Tyreek Hill and all
the things that came with him assaulting a woman, a
pregnant girlfriend in college. And there are people who said
they would never ever want to for this team again,
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and then two years later like he was one of
their favorite players. And so ultimately it sounds very um
um cold harder to say, but I sometimes chuckle a
people's hypocrisy because it's very easy to condemn the Shawn
Watson right now when he's not playing football. Um, when
he's at the Cleveland Brown with thirteen and four champion
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of the a f C North, I guarantee you, there
will be a lot more people in Cleveland who are
going to be fans of his. I just that's the
way it works. And if they win the Super Bowl,
there will be a parade, and you know, and and
as we move forward, this this will all go on. Um.
It's so I think there's still a lot left to
be resolved. And you know, surely the Browns, you know,
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are hoping that they have some resolution in this way
moving forward. Um. But you know, as we sit here,
you know, on March recording this episode, it's still a
lot left to be determined as Deshaun Watson tries to
rebuild his image, his name and get back out on
the field for the Cleveland Browns. All right, back here
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with you on NFL Inside Report. Our colleague here at
NFL Media, Jeffrey Chadilla, is back here with us and
lives in the Kansas City area. Covers the Chiefs for
us of very often, and you know, it's been a
big part of our coverage of the Chiefs dominance in
that a f C West and in the a f
C in general for the last couple of years and
one of the primary pieces outside of Patrick Mahomes as
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the Chiefs have been on this somewhat dynastic run here,
Jeff has been. Tyreek Hill has been, you know, one
of the most dynamic players we've seen ever in the NFL,
the fastest player in the NFL. In the Chiefs just
traded him away. Traded him away after they could not
come to terms on a contract extension with one of
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the most dynamic players in the NFL today, sending him
to the Miami Dolphins for a total of five draft
picks three this year, including the twenty nine overall, which
now gives the Chiefs twenty nine and thirty overall in
the first round of the draft of April, becoming the
seventh team in the league with multiple first round draft picks.
Dolphins had become the eighth without a first round draftick.
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Crazy times in the NFL. But let's move here to
the Chiefs and let's start here from the from the
money part of this thing, because Jeff, this is really
interesting um to me, and I'm not a cap wizard,
I can't get into the minutia of it, but to me,
it seems like the gap between what Tyreek Hill wanted
and commanded and what the Chiefs were willing to offer
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had to be fairly substantial, right, um, And it couldn't
have just been a million bucks a year, you know,
or two, because it feels like at some point you
can figure that out, right, it had to have been
like do you get that sense that the gap financially
had to have been you know, pretty big, or there
was some other like philosophical offensive stuff, you know, playing
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behind the scenes there that maybe allowed them to feel
okay with us. Well, a couple of things where I
play here on the tyro hill side of it. I've
been told by people in the organization that he wanted
to be the highest paid receiver in the game. He
wanted to surpass Davante Adam Steel he got from the
Raiders last week, and he didn't get that. He had
no interest in playing for the Kansasy Chiefs. There's gonna
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be no hometown discount. There was gonna be no wiggle
room here. And the Chiefs knew going back to two
thousand and nineteen when they signed him to uh an extension.
Then he was going through some off field issues related
back to his issues in college. The same girlfriend, the
mother of his child, had accused him of taped tim
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and said he had done some stuff to the kid,
and there was a lot of questions about whether he
was gonna play football again, and so the Chiefs gave
him an extension at that point that was three years,
about eighteen million dollars a year. Seventeen million dollars a year.
It was a bargain for where he was at, for
what he wanted. There were receivers getting twenty may a
year at that point. You go back to last year
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when the Chiefs were looking to create some salary cap space.
They got it from Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, Chris Joan,
people who are willing to renegotiate their contracts restructure their
contracts to give them space. Tyry Hill said, no, I'm
not doing that. I want all my money. And so
you knew going into this that this was going to
be a big deal for him. And so once the
Damote Adams deal came down the pipe, they were in
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a bad space. They spent a lot of money signing
players like Joe Dooney um signing players like Frank Clark
and Chris Jones and really COVID nineteen really hurt their
cap projections and so the money they were expecting to
have in this salary cap and salary caps going forward
was not there, and so if it got to a
place where they just didn't have a kind of money
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to give to him and he was not willing to
budge on what he wanted, and yeah, I would have
to imagine that being unable to come to a long
term contract extension with Orlean Noe Brown at left tackle
and leaving him on a very expensive one year franchise tag,
all of which hits this year had to play a
part in that as well. You get that sense, oh yeah,
oh yeah, that that was the other elephant in the room.
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They were so concerned about rebuilding their offensive line. They
made that deal for Orlando Brown, and again I think
that not so much Orlando Brown, but so much the
Joe Touney contract and Chris Jones. Those were the two ones,
the big ones where, uh, if they could go back
and do it all over again, they probably wouldn't have
given two any that money and would have been able
to give Tyreek Hill what he wanted. But ultimately, you know,
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at some point, you know, when you're in the chief position,
you've had success, You've had to pay really good players
to be where you're at I was saying it for
the last couple of years. When you're you have the
highest paid safety, which they had with Tyron Matthew, you
have the highest paid guard and Joe Juney, and you
had the highest paid tied end in Travis Kelsey. You
have to go to the perimeter and you have to
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pay defense pass rushers and receivers in corner, which are
way more expensive than those positions. It's hard to make
it happen. And so yeah, I think that Atlanta Brown
played a role in this. And they also, from what
I'm told, they believe that Tyreek Hill would have been
a big distraction without having a deal done this company season,
and they didn't want that either. It sounded like they
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did him a solid because from what I understand, the
Jets had a better offer on the table in terms
of draft pick compensation, but Tyree wanted to go back
home where he spends a lot of his time in
South Florida to Miami. UM, and you know, the Dolphins
forked over, you know, the necessary picks that gave him
the money you wanted. UM. You know, essentially, at least
in most metrics, at least in the average annual value
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getting what he wanted, which was to be the highest
paid white out you know, in the league, and a
better team to be blond, way better opportunity to try
to win games get to the postseason in Miami than
you do with the Jets right now. And so it was,
you know, the way it was sold to me was
the longer they held on a Tyreek Hill, less his vote,
the more his value was going to go down. And
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so to be able to sit here and say, you
look at what Brian Guda Kuntz, the Packer GM got
for Davante Adams, who's a one and the two, and
they were able to get five picks out of it,
and and and basically recalibrate their team for the future.
And I know I live in Kansas City. When they
won their first championship, you couldn't tell that many people
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that they weren't going to win the next five of
the next seven. They thought they were gonna be rolling
and rolling and rolling. And what I would tell him is, look,
the team that won this championship is not gonna be
the team you have in three years. And and they's
going to be players coming and going. I think right
now they've got four starters now left from that championship team.
But if you want to be a long term player,
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a long term contender in this league, you have to
make some tough personnel moves. And it's not just getting
rid of the Tyrn Matthews guys who are getting up
there in age and are losing a step. It's getting
rid of guys like Tyreek Hill who still have tremendous
value and can give you the chance us to rebuild
because the Chiefs have a lot of holes and they
don't have the money to go out there and fiddows
holes through free agency to the draft. Getting draft picks
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makes that easier. Yeah, And I think there's a lot
of you know, speculation out there and and and projection
that the Chiefs will use one of those two picks
in the first round on a wide receiver um and
I think we expect five, maybe even six Whiteouts to
go in the first thirty two picks. Might be that
all of them are gone by twenty nine, but maybe
the Chiefs can use, you know, an additional pick in
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later rounds to package twenty nine and move up some
spots to get the guy that they want. Something that
they could certainly do but then looking at what they
have now wide receiver wise, Marcus Robinson gone Byron Pringle gone,
Tyreek Hill gone all this offseason. Now they still have
Mcole Hardman. They signed you to do Smith Schuster as
you mentioned, and just signed mark Quis Valdez Scantling, who
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was a free agent previously of the Green Bay Packers,
three year, thirty million dollar deal, eight team milk guaranteed.
Now MVS. I think you know is has probably been
a little bit polarizing to Packers fans. Not always, you know,
a consistent guy, but one thing you could tell has
been consistent with his speed. In fact, according to the the
Next Gen Stats, was the second fastest ball carrier in
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two thousand and twenty one, with a speed over twenty
two miles per hour. Nobody's Tyreek Hill. He is a
one of one type of guy. But they're still getting
some speed here. Do you feel like, based on what
they've lost offensively, Jeff and what they've now gained with
Juju and MVS, can they still operate the same way? No? No,
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I think there's going to be a change, And you
saw some of that change in the second half of
last season where they recognized that teams were not going
to allow Tyree Hill to go down the field and
beat them, beat them deep, and so it became more
of a you know type of offense. Yeah, they can
dunk and be patient, and if they're gonna have to
play that way, it probably financially it makes more sense
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to have somebody who's cheaper like NBS doing that stuff
than Tyreek Hill being the highest paid receiver in the
game doing it right. And so yeah, I do believe
with Juju coming in with mvs. Nicole Harman now because
a chance to show what he can do. You know.
The crazy part about this is the only guy who's
under contract that receiver for next year is MBS. Smith Schuster, Ardman,
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and Josh Gordon are all have one year left on
their deals, and so we'll see how it works. But
this is part of being having a franchise quarterback the
level of Patrick Mahomes. And I've said this a lot
for a while too. It's that he's at the point
now where it's not so much about what they're putting
around him, it's about how he can make players better.
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Because the franchise quarterbacks at that level, they make players better.
Drew Brees only had Michael Thomas and a whole bunch
of scrubs around him in New Orleans. Uh, Aaron Rodgers
only had Davante Adams and a whole bunch of nobody's
around him in Green Bay. Uh. You know Tom Brady,
he had Gronk and he had Edelman, But you know
Edeman was the seventh round pick that turned into something,
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and it was they were going out and breaking the
bank to get receivers in for those guys. Those kind
of quarterbacks have to take what they're given and make
those players better so you can actually field other players
and feel other needs around them to feel a complete team.
And so that's what Chiefs are. Now. They're making a
big bet on Patrick Mahomes, make a big bet on
that offensive line, and making a big bet on bread Beach,
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who now has to go out, the general manager go
out and draft well to sustaining what they've built. Because
as much as I like bread Beach and he's done
a good job, aside from Tyran Matthew and Frank Clark,
every other star player in that championship team was somebody
that John Dorsey drafted before he got that job. Yeah. Now,
look it does take a lot to keep him in
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the fold and to keep you know, as much of
the core together as you can. As you mentioned that
CORP is dwindling, especially now that Tyreek Hill has gone.
Haven't really seen anything directly from Patrick Mahomes about Tyreek
Hill leaving. Um that case in the shock bill. How
do you how do you feel like he's processing this
because he's like you're a ship that movie cashed away
(26:07):
with Tom Hanks on the island. I think he's got
his honeymoon right now on the island somewhere. Just yeah,
right looking were one. Uh. I don't think he's taking
it well. Yeah, He's not a guy who's shy about
getting on social media, so I don't think he's taking
it well. Which is also well, this move is so
(26:29):
bold for the Chiefs. He did welcome MVS on Twitter,
like quote tweeting a chefter tweet that said that you
know NVS was signing the deal. He did say let's
get it or something like that, which is that any uh,
any sort of reaction front, So let's get it just
(26:49):
to keep the brand go away. You gotta say something
positive here. The a f C West has been insane.
Jeff you know, and this is the biggest subtraction that
we've seen, whereas everything else has felt like additions to
every roster up and down. I mean, like even include
the Chiefs in it. You know, they made moves to
Justin Reid, you know, comes over as a really good
player on the defensive side. You mentioned Juju now in vs. Um.
(27:12):
There's been some reaction from players in the a f
C West, specifically to this Tyreek Hill move. When to
get to that here? Uh from Keenan Allen, you know,
one of the best receivers in the division and in
the league, commented on an Instagram post about this Tyreek
Hill situation, said, this one is gonna expose some people.
(27:33):
Glad he out of the Division two Who I think
he's talking about saying this is gonna expose to me?
Is that like, is that like a shot at Mahomes
at the Chiefs as a whole. I'm curious. Wow, Well,
you know I will say this that there is I
think no I keep using the phrase, but in the
(27:55):
waters in the West. Based on what happened the a
f C Championship game, the Bengals coming out of nowhere
to win that championship to beat the Chiefs in the
fashion that they did, really dominating them in the second half,
really just Mahomes just melting down in that game. It
really just reinforced the notion that the best way to
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defend the Chiefs is to rush for play coverage and
hope that they just beat themselves. And that's that's kind
of been this the formula for a while and the
Bangles took it to a different level. And so now
you're seeing all these teams in the a f C
West stocking up on pass rushers all they seen in
the a f C West, recognizing that they need to
go out and get some playmakers to get a little
(28:38):
more offense going. But you know, there is an element
right now out there within the a f C West
of the Chiefs are very vulnerable and that they can
be had, and that you know, it's and it used
to be the Chiefs had their ultimate you know drop
the mic was we got Patrick Mahomes and you don't.
(28:59):
Now the Chargers have Justin Herbert who've grown up. The
Broncos have Russell Wilson. The Raiders just gave Davante Adams
to Derek Carr, and so it just everything's even out
and so yeah, I think that is a little bit
of shade being thrown towards the Chiefs home Van Heury.
I feel like, uh, let's sneed general manager of the
RAMS is out there, like all right, I see a
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f C West pushing all your chips into the table
at every center of the tel. I'm into this here
needs them. Yeah. But finishing up on Keenan Allen, you know,
maybe he was just talking about two a toungue of viola.
We've surrounded up with all this talente. Maybe it's really good.
Maybe he's not even talking about the f C West,
that part of it to subterfuge Miami. Here's one thing
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we know for sure, the a f C West will
be the most competitive division in the NFL next season,
and I think we are all here for that. Jeffrey,
thank you for your time. Thanks a lot Ritt. All Right,
that's gonna do it for this episode of NFL Inside Report.
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