Free Agency News + Sensible Transactions for Those with a Refined Palate

A room filled with some heroes - Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler and Gregg Rosenthal recap the latest free agency news from around the league, starting with Orlando Brown Jr. signing with the Bengals (5:58). Darius Slay is staying with the Eagles (11:55), the Giants signed a couple receivers (14:11), and both the Vikings (22:09) and Bears (25:36) made some moves. We hit Odds and Ends (27:40) before reacting to a sampling of introductory press conference clips (31:23), and finally, we close the show pitching a number of sensible transactions for those with a refined palate in such matters (38:12). 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Orlando Brown junior. He's expected to sign with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Sterious Slag going back to Philadelphia. New England has ingreed
to terms mctight end Mike Siki Mariota finally an ego,
Harrison Smith staying in the Minnesota Vikings Defendonah Williams has
requested a trade. What is it about couch McDaniel that's
intriguing to you? Be a little weird top of the morning, Tulia,

(00:27):
It's Morden somewhere. It's around the NFL. From the Chris
Whistling podcast studio, I Don Huns is joined by the
lads Craig Rosenthal and I am Mark Sel And it's
me hope that we are a great way from the
hills of the cemetery. But if the Lord does decide

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that it is our time, it's good to have a
grave digger at points amazing Patty Saint Patrick's everybody, how
you celebrated, you know you will be. I will be um.
My mother side of the family is Irish and we
will be having some guinness after this, throwing some cornhole,

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which is not an Irish activity. But we're gonna have
some fun in the front yard. With some neighbors and
enjoy it. Um how about you guys. I mean I
left my abode and notice that there was already a
string of venues um overflowing it like six am, with

(01:29):
you know, the variety of individuals drinking their green beer.
And I thought, well, I'm gonna go do the work
part of this day and then I might go see
how that figures out later with it. It's definitely a holiday.
I think I feel the difference of living in New York,
which different two years and here the most. But my
parents are coming to town tonight, so you know that
will really tie when they get here again. I love

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that you're gonna have a pint of Guinness, a tall one.
I mean they're getting rather late fighting that lax traffic.
Um man. We I would love to do a live
show in Ireland, and that is a goal, a personal
goal of mine that we can get there. We have
a great fan base over on the Emerald Dial. I
think I've shared some memories on the show of my

(02:12):
trip to Ireland as a teenager when I went to
the Waterford Crystal factory and they told everybody, oh, this
is the Super Bowl Trophy, and I was like, no,
it's not, because it was really actually the NC Double
a championship trophy, but it was cute. They didn't know
any better. Yeah, And then I think about this bus
that we rode up and down the countryside from north

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to south, and it was piloted by this very ruggedly
handsome older gentleman named Tommy O'Reilly, and we all kind
of fell in love with him because he had that
charm that you're looking for from your Irish tour bus.
And I'll never forget what he said at the end
of the trip that we all were just melting in
his hands at that point, and he went, all right,

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it's toime. I have to return to me small wife
and a large family. And we were like, oh, Irish
people are the best. That's his true identity, you believe,
Tommy O'Reilly. Yeah, I mean, I mean it could have
been like Herb Solowitz or something possibly a ruse, but no,
it sounds authentic. Um. All right, so let's get to

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the National Football League matters. This is our fourth podcast
of the week. I believe it's our eighth show of
the last two weeks. Yeah, yeah, and that's for a reason, right, Mark,
This is a big period in the calendar. These are
the weeks when when you dig in and like, that's
why you work on Saint Patrick's sayin I think we
typically work on every holiday and we're continuing that that

(03:36):
effort to remember last Saint Patrick's Day what we were
doing on the show Little Watson, it was the day
I do we we also essentially we had done another
show and then we left to be free and then
it was like a all hands on deck, we have
to announce we have to talk about this guy again.
For Lacia and I were sitting in a bar in
uh els Ugundo and then a text came over the

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wire that had gone down Watson to Browns, and we
did a thirty minute podcast that was our most listened
to show of all time in the history of the podcast,
A Dark A Dark Corner. So do we want him
just to keep getting traded and moved around? Is would
that help us? Ultimately? I don't know. Let's go, let's
get a Lamar Jackson trade later today to ruin the
rest of our day. All right, So we're gonna go

(04:20):
through all the news and we will before we sign off.
But now that you know, free agency is really settling
in a lot of transactions. How many guys are left
Greg in the top like twenty or so of your
original one on one. I believe there are only four
players in the top twenty five. And that's just from Monday.

(04:41):
If you went back to the original one where it's
Gino and Lamar and whatnot, it would be like and
even lower number four or four of the top four
or the four Just that A curious Chauncey Gardner Johnson
still out there. Odell who supposedly wants twenty million dollars
a year. I think that explains why he's not finding
Bobby Wagner, who was pointed out to me waited a

(05:04):
long time last year to sign, maybe not in a hurry,
wants to figure out which there are whispers that he
could return to Seattle. Seattle also Palaces. I think those
are probably the two most like. And then Dalton Salts.
No love for Dalton Salts out there. You know why
loaded tight end draft class. I wonder if that's hurting
his market. Yeah. I may mention Dalton Schultz later in

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the show because we're gonna share some It's a segment
Grave Digger that I call sensible transactions for those with
a refined positional Powell. So it's not just willy nilly
right throwing darts. No, we've surveyed the landscape and we're

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gonna try to match up some players to teams. Only
something like thirty three of the one oh one since
Monday even are available. I mean, the NFL does not
wait around anymore. It's over quick, all right. Let's get
to the news that broke late Wednesday. The Bengals made
a big move on their offensive line, signing left tackle
Orlando Brown, formerly of the Chiefs, four years, sixty four million,

(06:12):
a major move for the team, and he has blocked
Brown for Lamar Jackson in Baltimore, Mahomes in Kansas City,
and now he's going to take over as the left tackle.
This is one of those Domino moves because the left
tackle previously in Cincinnati was Jonah Williams, who he thought, oh,
maybe they'll kick him to the right side. Lall Collins

(06:33):
gets traded or released and it works that way. Well,
then Jonah Williams comes out greggy and says, well, get
me out of here. I'm a left tackle. People see
a move. These tackles really want to play left tackle.
It's like the sexy premier position I get. I guess
that's a big part of because Jonah Williams before the
draft said I do not want to move to guard.

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I only want to be drafted by a team that
it's going to take me as a left tackle. The
Bengals ended up doing that. Orlando Brown's the same way,
where he did not want to play right tackle. He
wanted to find a team that would play him there.
I don't think Jonah Williams is going to have any
trade market. He's due twelve point six million dollars guaranteed
this year. He's coming off a dislocated kneecap in a
bad year, so I think he might end up battling

(07:15):
for that right tackle spot in the end because he
might not have a choice. They're talking about keeping Lyle
Collins and Williams and just having depth, which considering all
the injuries, makes some sense. I love the move. I
love the Bengals not standing pat, you know, and their
offensive line was better last year, but it wasn't amazing,
certainly not at left tackle. And I like that they
found pretty good value too with the price deck Yeah,

(07:37):
the contract. I love it for Cincinnati and it's like
you knew we are looking at big money for Joe Burrow,
for Jamar Chase, for t Higgins. But I love them
pouring more money into the line because as much as
they tried to do that last year, we saw the
chaos that unfurled towards the end of the campaign when
you lost a bunch of guys. So it's like, if
you want to keep Lyle Collins, if you want to
keep Orlando Brown, if Jonah Williams is untradeable, why not

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stack player on top of player and basically not allow
for that to happen. To get depth, Yes, really this contract.
Like I'm a little surprised they got him for this.
I mean he turned down a much bigger offer, a longer,
six year deal from the Chiefs. I wonder how he
feels about all this. Well, you know, at least he
has an agent, because the agents are infallible, they can't
ever lose. Setting the table for for this scenario just

(08:25):
saying yeah, the Chiefs. I think the offer was five
for ninety one last year. It's very guaranteed and a
little bit frontloaded, where it's really a three year, fifty
million dollars deal, but basically the same type of deal
Nate Solder got for the Giants about five years ago,
So a little surprising. Are you going in the interest
of fairness as a journalist? Are you going to when
there are deals that seem player friendly, you're going to

(08:45):
point out that the agent did a good job, um
when their player friendly. Oh, I mean, I think I
don't plan to be fair now, Okay, I mean, but
like the guys that are out there now, Like the
guys that are out there now, like a Chauncey Gardner
Johnson for the most part or assaults, it's because they there,

(09:05):
you don't have the value that they their expectations were,
and so I think Orlando Brown probably had to pivot
expectations were, but he did quite well in the end.
This from Seth Walder, who's a good follow. He's with
ESPN and their analytics department. John Williams Fyi's twenty five
years old left tackle that has played for some big teams.

(09:27):
But his pass block win rate last season amongst tackles
have qualified fifty fifth of sixty four. His run block
win rate, well, at least he's good at that note
forty fourth of sixty four, So this is a potential
big upgrade here for Cincinnati, and uh, we were just
talking about it on our last show. It's like, hey, no, Angles,
let's get yeah, let's do something that. This is a

(09:48):
big move and it makes them potentially a lot better
at really a vital, vital spot. Considering it felt like
a lot of people were leaving Cincinnati. But where they
stand right now, it's they've got their entire coaching staff
coming back. You could have lost both coordinators that was
in the mix, they didn't, and twenty one of twenty
five starters and one of the new faces is Orlando Brown.
That's a good point. Mark Jamar Chase te Higgins, Like, oh,

(10:14):
there was talking about Higgins leaving. He's not leaving. Tyler Boyd,
he hasn't left yet. Joe Mixon, I'm still waiting for
that to possibly happen. But Sam J. P. Ryan's gone,
and maybe they're gonna keep mixing after all, Layout Collins,
like they did resign Jermaine Pratt. They need help in
the secondary, so they have issues. But I really love
this move, especially because I think it's going to help
their ground game too. I mean, Orlando Brown, the rep

(10:37):
on him is like good enough pass blocker, played really
well in the Chiefs championship run. I think at the
fans were upset some of the talk about them in
the coaching staff maybe a little upset with Brown's play
first half of the year. Awesome down the stretch, and
I think they'll be able to run the ball better
with him. And what does this mean for the Chiefs, Well,
they've got Juwan Taylor. They gave him big money. The

(11:00):
talk is that he's gonna play left tackle. I mean,
he got possibly a better contract than Orlando Brown, which
is a little surprised. I think he gets sixty million
in his first three years, forty in the first two.
But there is still this buzz that they might be
in on Laramie Tunsil, and my god, if they find
a way to afford Laramie Tunsil. So Juwan Taylor's at

(11:22):
right tackle, Tounsil's at left. Wow, Yeah, I think it's
Casey's time to make a move because the AFCs were
talking about especially now you're gonna Rogers entering the picture.
With the Jets. This is a really competitive conference. They
lost Juan Thornhill was an important part of their secondary.
Now they lose their left tackle, lost ju Ju I
mean they need they need some things. Yeah, they've lost
they lost both tackles to Andrew Wiley left. They do

(11:43):
have Lucas Niang, who is a third round pick who's
played for them, who I think they are probably looking
at like Taylor replaces Brown and they'll they'll survive if
they don't have to pick up a big name. But man,
that would be amazing if they got tonsil Um. In
other news, the defending NFC champion Eagles, it looks like
Darius Slay was on his way out of town. It

(12:04):
even was reported that that was what was going on
a couple of days back. He went on to the
top one o one and you know, in the top twenty,
and I don't know if he ever technically was a
free agent. Well, it all offends with him sticking with
the Eagles on a two year, forty two million dollars
extension through two thou and twenty five. So he stays there.
And now you have Sleigh Bradberry together moving forward strung. Yeah,

(12:31):
you I mean you also retain Brandon Graham, Fletcher Cox
were a week removed. I think Rashad Penny, if he
stays healthy, is an upgrade over Miles Sanders and could
be in for like a monster season in that offense.
So Howie Roseman, the Eagles, they always find a way,
and you know, I there must be These are players
that obviously we talked about the Nick Sirianni experience in
that locker room, the way that the reason the players

(12:52):
responded to him. It's like when you get guys coming
back like this, it just tells me they believe in
what's happening entirely, and why shouldn't they, But us essentially
are running it back like what there could have been
a massive sea chains for a new defensive coordinator Seawan
to say. Instead, he's got a lot of the same
faces and they do run similar elements to last year's defense.
And you have two first round picks, which is nice.

(13:12):
The number ten overall pick, Gardner Johnson is the one
to see if they bring him back, then it really
feels like everyone's coming back. And it sounds to me
like it's Eagles or Broncos, which led by Sean Payton,
Gardner Johnson's old coach, so he didn't have a problem
with Gardner Johnson at one point in free agency. And
this is dangerous. You know, the socials. Gardner Johnson just

(13:33):
followed like nine or ten different Broncos and the Broncos
organization and everyone got all excited. But he's still He's
still unsigned to bread Grum though. I mean, yeah, I
think he thought he was going maybe. I don't know.
I'm looking at because everybody loves Penny's potential. I'm just
looking He started eighteen games in the list or play

(13:53):
appeared in eighteen games in the last three years. They
brought Scott back Boston Scott Kenny Gainewell played more snaps
in the Super Bowl and played quite well throughout those
playoffs backfield, then Miles Sanders. So I think Gainwell is
kind of their one A or one B, and that
wouldn't be surprised if they bring in someone too that

(14:15):
was This is exactly what I'm talking about. I mean
the Bay Street All Stars or wherever hell that is.
I was. I was just disappointed um that it's on
a New York City doesn't have verses. But then I
got an idea. So I love challenging are listeners because

(14:36):
they're very musically inclined many of well, some of them,
but because they are a large pool to pick from.
It seems like all of them of our listeners are
musically inclined, but like five percent are and we have
a lot of listeners people. That's exactly Cessler taking a
shot at like Fred sitting in his basement. If unless

(14:57):
you're a child with full streams, you know, if you're
after O'Reilly took a shot from the book to top
book depository. Now you got Fred taken heat. I mean,
I'm just sitting around talking about whistle all over town.
I like ord musicians, Um, justin graver, can we provide
our listeners access to this song in some way and

(15:18):
then let them build out some verses, maybe a bridge
getting back to the chorus. See why not, Let's see
what we can do, all right, I'll post something first
things First, they need to have the raw music to
work off, right. All right, that's a fun little project.
Drop that one in the lapse of those listeners. It
did really bother you that there were no um really,

(15:42):
that's just the chorus. The whole track is only one
minute twelve seconds. So challenge to the listeners, that's see
what you can do, right. It's basically here's the skeleton,
do something with it. Right. Also, I was thinking why
don't we have the listeners send in more Colleen Wolf songs?
Open it up to what is it? The Aten podcast
at Gmail? Maybe we should have another um so on competition. Patrick,

(16:07):
to all the listeners out there making music for us,
is you gotta make your own music? You can't steal
an instrumental bad off the wet internet somewhere. We can't
run those. But if you but if you make your
own music and you submit us, that'll be awesome. Angry
lawyers exactly, Just follow the copyright laws and we'll be
all good, all right. The Giants signed wide receiver Paris Campbell,
formerly of the Colts. One year, three million. You get

(16:30):
up to seven million if he hits a bunch of incentives.
He had a pretty nice season for the Colts, which
is significant considering how terrible the Cults were last year
um totaling sixty three catches for six hundred and twenty
three yards and three touchdowns. That wasn't the only move
the Giants made. They bring back Darius Slayton, who's flashed
as a wide receiver for them. These aren't big time names.

(16:52):
It does feel like Mark maybe the you know, giving
giving Danny Dimes a true number one with Darren Waller
there now we're cooking, but this is that's a pretty
good crew with Sequan of course back in the fall. Yeah,
they sit out there as like maybe crew. Yeah, it's
it's but they're missing like that guy that maybe you
go trade for him, which I'm not sure who that
would be right now, but I think this is a

(17:14):
Giants want to get faster in general. I think at
that position Paris Campbell runs a four point three one
forty did it the combine? Um, he is a slot guy.
But they have one deal Robinson as well, so there's
a little bit of redundancy Sterling Shepherd. I mean, they
have a lot of guys and they're going to see
who works. Isaiah Hodgins is there these moves spelled out

(17:34):
to me? Plus the reporting in New York that like
they are not going to be in on OBJ period,
they're not going to be spending that much on receivers
that the Jets actually, according to Diana Rassini, have been
in contact with OBJ. Well. It was demanded. We would
assume that this was it was a demand made by
the incoming quarterback that he might why not call him
up and see what he will be fine. Yeah, I don't. Actually,

(17:57):
I personally, I do think it's amazing to all the
years we've done the show that you have to suddenly
deal with the foil balls and the ups and downs
of Aaron Rodgers personality and it O'Dell it feels and
seven primetimes. I don't have demands. I don't. I don't
really need Odell Beckham and Aaron Rodgers on this team, right,
I'm just gonna put out that. That's my personal You

(18:17):
may not get what you need, but you may get it.
Alan Lazar great, Keep Elijah More on the team, do
not put it. Don't do not send Elijah More to
Green Bay. I could see that happening. I don't do that.
I think they have to. The Giants use their first
round pick on a receiver, though, it's like, you're really
gonna try out this group. Something's coming, I think, and
and that's fine. They're at a spot in the draft,

(18:38):
number twenty five. It's not a great receiver class, but
there's probably like a four five pack of guys people like,
depending on which flavor you like, who are all probably
gonna go in the twenty or eighteen to thirty two area.
So that feels like it because County on Darren Waller
to be your number one. It feels like no. And
I also like that Darius Tony trade to me just

(18:58):
stands out as one of the They've been a pretty
good team in terms of I think under Shane, like
building the roster that to me never really worked. They
couldn't get along with him. All right, let's pause right
here and take a break. We'll be right back in
other news. Matthew Stafford still makes sense to me and
others that he might be traded somewhere to a team

(19:22):
that's looking to win a Super Bowl, which doesn't feel
like the Rams right now. However, the money tells us
more and more that maybe he's not going anywhere. Because
Thursday was a deadline day connected to his contract, and
since he is on the roster still on Friday, fifty
seven million fully guaranteed his thirty one million dollars base

(19:43):
salary in twenty four also a twenty six million dollars
option bonus now must be exercised. You know, it's a
lot of cheddar for a guy coming off of spinal
contusion and an elbow injury and entering his late thirties,
But this is part of you know, the bill Come
and Do for the rims. He's locked in. But the
bill Come and Do is largely the bill that they

(20:06):
were They ordered all the meals last year. Like there's
there's an idea that this is all coming from these
moves they made. No, they signed cup Stafford and Donald
in twenty twenty two, and they signed him basically knowing
they're going to have him three more years or else.
And yeah, Stafford will be what turning thirty seven by
the end of this deal. But if they were to
trade him, I just like, because this is funny, if

(20:29):
they were to trade him for some reason right now,
they would have a trillion dollars. They would take a
fifty four million they not even just the dead the
dead money would be seventy four million, and they would
have fifty four million dollars less available. So I think
we can rule out the trade if it was going
to happen, and I did actually ask around a little
bit if it was, if there was any chance for
it would have had to happen before this. Yeah, the

(20:49):
money's in his banks. This basically ended it. Like, I
think there was a chance that if he was going
if someone really wanted him. You could move him before today,
and it wou'd been in a different situation. He would
have been a perfect sensible Jet pivot if Rogers last Friday,
instead of saying Jets, I want to play with you,
I don't want to play with you, or I'm going
to retire. That would have made a lot of sense
and the next six days would have been very interesting.

(21:12):
Didn't happen, and I don't see like a natural dancing
partner right now. I've been looking up down the list.
I don't either. I think where I where I really
liked it, and they can't do this unless they want
to take that. You would get that. It'd be eighteen
point five million dead money over this season in the
next three if you could move him for a really
high ransom price in August, if you lost a quarterback.
I kept saying that with Jimmy g last year. But

(21:32):
it's like if someone got super desperate and they were like,
we are a super Bowl team, you could sell Matthew
Stafford and as a concept and get something in back.
I mean they are in rebuild mode. They're just not
moving Matthew Stafford because you said build, why move away?
I think It depends where it's not intentionally, just where
it comes in the sentence. It was so nice when
you said, Rubb build. I'll focus on that from here

(21:53):
on out. I'll try to correct then. Sorry, God, you
want to finish that. No, I'm kind of like, I think,
I think, I don't. I think the rams like want
to move on from all these dudes in a way
and cut it down even deeper. They just can't. Sometimes
the bit and the end of the take perfect symmetry, perfectly. Um,
you know who else is looking to move on? The
Vikings are? They seem like they're done with Dalvin Cook.

(22:16):
They resigned running back Alexander Madison to a two year,
seven million dollar contract. There's been a lot of reporting
around from people that cover the Vikings that Minnesota would
be open to moving Cook off the roster potentially be
a release, but he has a shoulder surgery that was
complicating things. But anyway, the pell raiser, I said, the

(22:38):
pell raiser, where the raiser? Where's he based? Minnesota? I
believe it's where he's been. That's been a lot of
issue for us as well. It's not like he's walking
around the NFL network offices where we could you know
come up to him at the water cooler and we
got your nickname? Do you want to hear what the

(22:59):
major branding oportunity that we are literally doing the legwork
on your behalf right? It is impossible to communicate with
people who aren't face to face these days. Can't do
it impossible. No technological advancements were made anyway. Pel rays
are reported about the Madison deal and now we'll find
out greg if Dalvin Cook is indeed heading the Vikings

(23:22):
are in transition, there's no doubt about it. Yeah, that's
why more news is coming. Like the day luge of
like daily podcasts in a huge waterfall is over. But
like the Vikings are one team. I don't know what
else is coming because I think a Cook releases coming.
We know a Harrison Smith's gonna stay. There's a little
bit of a surprise. So they did a nice job

(23:43):
to take a haircut. He did. He did take a
pay cut. Adam Field's a free agent, so he's expectedly.
But there's some weird things bubbling here. Zadaria Smith wanted out.
He's still there. Marcus Davenport, which was widely reported as
signing with the Vikings, was not present with the rest
of the free agents as they introduced him in Minnesota.
So if you go to our lads dot com, uh,

(24:04):
he's on the depth chart, but officially he is not
on the Vikings And there's some talk of like maybe
they have to make another move to make room for
one Davenport or maybe it's one of those moves that
changes as the week changes. It seems like they are
one of the few teams that are really so close
to the cap that like every move has to have

(24:24):
an accompanying move with it. Harrison Smith said what there
was reporting that he stayed out. He took a haircut
because he was genuinely intrigued with Brian Flores and what
he brings. He's also been there since two thousand Twelvey
probably is like kids in school, who knows, you know
what the statue. Maybe he also noticed the the NFL

(24:46):
uh though that top thirty two rankings of team facilities
and whatnot, Vikings number one on the list boom. One
of the things people liked, h was all the free
food they you know, I think that was pretty common
was free food. But the facilities were very nice. But
Byron Murphy, who came from Arizona signed there. Guys are millionaires,

(25:06):
I know, but it does make a difference. You just
the tuna fish sandwich is free. So I am taking
a haircut to stay with the virus. I really just
assume NFL cafeteria is provided food. It's just like a pain.
You gotta go to the computer station. You gotta most
teams swipe the cart and that to that point. Byron
Murphy arrived from Arizona today and they asked them about
that's the right thing, and he was and he said,

(25:27):
well it's like and now it's all you can eat.
He was like so happy living life that in Arizona
he would have to pay for his lunch. Here all
he gets dark. Elsewhere in the NFC North, the Bears
entered free agency with a ton of money. They're spending it.
They signed Donta Foreman, P J. Walker, and Robert Tanyan
Bobby Tanyan. As they keep spending mark, I like Tanyan

(25:50):
paired with cole Comet, you suddenly have DJ Moore, Darnell Mooney,
Chase Claypool, Donta Foreman, Khalil Herbert, Like this is suddenly,
and the Bears just went and did it. There are
pieces of around justin fields, and they went and got
the number one wide out when there may not be
one in the draft that fits them. Andrew Billings was
another defensive tackle who'll be a rotation guy for them.
I'm just like counting the numbers they've signed the most

(26:11):
people and the most potential starters. You could beat them
in the falcon you can count five or six. And
it was important, I think, to get p J Walker
in the building because now you have the chance to
bring back the greatest play of two thousand and twenty two.
Jay Walker to DJ Moore. They traveled to Chicago together.

(26:31):
Oh my god, he loved the blazon. Do you have that?
That would be a big ask, not handy. You're gonna
site the play, right, I mean, let's listen to it. Z.
I'm just making this up as I go at planning.
I mean, I think definitely zz I can put it
in the show and posting no one would ever know.

(26:53):
St We're gonna leave all this in and then here
is the play. Yeah. Three man takes the snap, drops back,
rolls to its left. He's flushed loads up airs it
deep down field for d J Moore behind his bed.
How did that happen? Oh my goodness, touchdown, Caroline. This

(27:16):
is amazing, jazz Man, great job, Grave. It was a
great play. I remember that was a memorable moment from
the season. Um, how in love you were with that play?
Which was me? And it was also it was rolling
left and threw it sixty seven yards to win the game.
I mean, yeah, we don't p J. Walker's playing a lot.

(27:37):
The bears are all right, let's hit some odds and ends,
odd ends, odds and ends. Can everybody tell your friends?
Is anyone else disturbed by that? It is starting to
disturb something settling about it their track. I think that

(27:58):
took it somewhere ominous. There's too many colleagues, feels now
kind of like similar to like an ayahuasca trip and
you're running through a forest and all these colleens are
chasing you, and they all have knives, all of them.
But it's almost Colleen's head on a doll's body chasing
after you. Anybody else getting out? Yeah, and we were

(28:20):
keeping you off the hallucinogenics during this watching Wednesday on Netflix.
I should add that that has added that is the
best thing about that show, Like from a plot standpoint,
it's not really geared toward me. The lead performance is excellent,
as I've stated, Uh, the actor is tremendous, but it's Burton.
I know you're a real cinephile mark that Burton got

(28:43):
at all. But I would say, I've watched the World
makes the first two and a half episodes of Wednesday,
and I'm with you. I think the show's uh got legs.
Tim Burton Beetles, very rewatchable. Beetle just holds up. I
would say I've seen it recently. I've actually not seen it,
so I shouldn't. I'm not sure I've never That's number one.
That's literally not my type of movie. So I like

(29:06):
I went out of my way to notiss their hands.
I could see maybe wun't say their hands ever. See
Peewee's Big Adventure, his directorial debut, that I would say
the classics that transcends Tim Burton, big Fish, a little
bit of math here, a little molled Batman, he changed,
I think tire World. Tim Burton's was that not Batman too.

(29:28):
I believe like it was like he was an disaster.
He ever a movie named ed Wood. You're thinking of
who drove the Batman? Franchise, and I believe I believe
Burton's Batman. I literally did not like from these sequel
Batman too. At least the original he did. The original
was great. I have no problem with the original. Like

(29:48):
I'm not saying, it's just like, you don't tag me
as a Tim Burton guy, which happens on this shows,
Like I am, I'm forcibly telling you you're as Tim
Burton guy. We could have gone and I got you know. Sometimes, yeah,
thank you? Jin Batman Returns is very dark. It's like,
why can't we get a show under seventy seven minutes? Yeah?
Where are you Burton heads out there? Comfort me? I

(30:10):
don't want to hear about it. By the way, Cooper
Rush is back with the Cowboys. That's good. You like
Cooper Rush. Devin Bush a linebacker, and Julian Love the
safety to the Seahawks. They've been very active and they
had a lot of pretty good like under the radar
cheap moves are the Seahawks? I love that question. The
Dolphins bringing old friend Braxton Barrios. He is all over
the afcast and then now it's signed from Miami. The

(30:33):
Steelers cut ties with Miles Jack the former second round
pick of Jacksonville who's now bouncing around a little bit.
And uh, that is well. They they signed to London
Roberts too. The Steelers because you don't have Devin Bush,
you don't have Miles Jack, so you're kind of starting
over at the position. Dolphins also got a old Patriots
probo hunter jack Jake Bailey, who had fallen on hard times.

(30:57):
A lot of receivers there. I could see Braxton Barrio
us having like one big moment in Miami. I liked
Wris He's a charismatic guy. He also had the biggest
drop of the season for New York in the end
zone on fourth down in Minnesota. Now that's part of
the package with Mike White playing his guts out in
that game and cost him that game and they never

(31:17):
recovered after that. But I hope he does well. He's
like their fourth receiver. You got Cedric Wilson there too.
All right, before we take a break, let's check in
with some best of moments from the opening press conferences
across our league, starting with Jordan Poyer, who resigned with
the Bills. I know I said some stuff about the taxes.
I think we can all agree that We're like, what

(31:38):
the hell? Like, Yes, I mean sorry, I said it.
I said, I said the truth. I like that. How
about Jalen Ramsey on the thoughts that he slipped a
little bit on the field as a player in twenty
twenty two. You gotta cut on the field now, yeah, really,
you gotta really watch it. You gotta really watch it.
You know, you know, you don't become this successful, you know,

(32:00):
without actually doing good things on that field. How about
Jacoby Myers, now wide receiver of the Raiders, talking about
a very infamous play with the Patriots at the Raiders
home field and last year, you know the one I'll
be the guy that addresses the question about what happened
here last year. I was waiting on that. I was

(32:22):
waiting waiting on thank you. I appreciate you, man, Thank
you take us through you know, your thoughts about your teammates.
You're already giving you a little bit of crap about
it and how Portance view to create new memories in
Las Vegas story. I mean, now that that was a
that was a humbling experience, you know, as a man,

(32:43):
as a football player, that was that was just tough.
You know, I knew what it meant to the team
that I was on at the time, and so it
really hurt me because, like I said, family is really
big for me. So when I went through it in
the moment, my heart was broken, you know. But days after,
just seeing how guy's kind of rather around me, it
built me up as a person. So now I know, like,

(33:04):
whenever one of my teammates mess up, who I want
to be in that situation. You know, that's a good answer.
That's a qualities I'm seeing you have a you're a
tough situation and you turn it into something positive. That's
sort of I view then of integrity. Absolutely. Yeah. So
I loved Jacobe Myers. Was sad to see him go. Yeah.
I think he's maybe a better player than jujusmis Schuster,
But whatever. How about Alan Lazard, new wide receiver of

(33:24):
the Jets and an ongoing weird situation doing a press
conference talking about a guy a quarterback that isn't actually
on his team right now. But it is a strange
situation leverage gate. But they didn't seem like they were
going to miss me too much, had a strong inclination
that I was going to be my last season. Then interesting,
that's all a little interesting Lazard. We still haven't seen

(33:47):
all the specifics, but got at least like an equal
contract to any wide receiver. He does have the trace
a lot. He looks like a number one receiver, but
the numbers aren't any better than than Jacoby Myers. It
might have been in the man sheet. He may him
the highest paid his Packers players feeling like the team's
not into them while they're playing for them. Not a
good thing, not a great set. How about Derek Carr,

(34:08):
new face of the New Orleans Saints. I just want
to provide um, you know, leadership, you know someone that's
gonna love their teammates. I'm not coming in here to
try and take anything over. Like I'm not taking anything over.
I'm gonna be me and I'll block you on Twitter
if you say anything against what I believe about. Well, No,
I just a little little sensitive. Mins. I think you
hate Derek Carr. I do not at all. I think

(34:29):
actually I gave him appropriately immense credit for I handled
two seasons go with the Raiders. They did him wrong,
and I wish him well. But there's something about the
Derek cart the podium thing that I find a little
bit artificial. At Ton I just double check them. I
doubt he was like on top of my top one
of one rankings, but I was worried after ranking Dana Jones.
I think ahead of him one spot. But no, it's
not blocked. Still, he's like that guy that played Elvis

(34:53):
in the movie Austin Butler. Austin Butler, where it's like,
where is this accent coming from? Is this how you talk?
Is this an affect Derek Carr? Well, no, in the movie, yeah,
he does the Elvis voice, and then he started doing
the press junkets Butler, I feel like I'm talking a
lot Hollywood lately, um, and he kept the Elvis accent.

(35:14):
And then people started pulling junkets pre Elvis and he
talks like a regular dude. And then they pulled the
post Elvis shoot and now he talks like he lives
in Graceland. Well, I mean, yeah, I think that he
got Well there's that. There's Brian Kelly who did that
when he went to LSU. He's like Carr's accent. You
think it's fake. I think there's some type of where

(35:36):
is he from? Like Central California is kind of a
different place. I don't know what the accents are like there,
but it's it's different sometimes like that one was a
little toned down. But sometimes he'll have like a twang
in his voice and it's like, where are you from? Bro? Well,
it would be nice to see him traded to like
the Northeast at some point and then he can adapts
a a'san Bakersfield I think is very set up shop. Okay.

(36:02):
And finally we have Orlando Brown, new left tackle of
the Cincinnati Bengals. Just, you know, for him to believe
in me as a left tackle was enough and uh,
you know, man, I'm willing to put my life on
a lot for that. Boom. Now I feel good about
that guy. Yeah, these guys want to play the position
that they were born to play. He was really making

(36:24):
me laugh talking about how he met with Marvin Lewis
and the pre draft process. Supposedly the Bengals were going
to take him potentially, that's what a lot of people thought.
And he mentioned some memories of that process, including when
Marvin Lewis asked him what the capital of Spain was
and his answer was Portugal and he says, I really blew,
I really blew that one. He always wondered if that's

(36:44):
why he didn't get drafted by the Bengals. I don't
think that question. What is the capital of Spain? But Rids? Okay, Oh,
one more Jimmy g on how coming to the Raiders
affects him from a sartorial sense. It's really cool. It
really is. Uh, just get to wear black, all black.

(37:07):
I mean, that's that's one of the coolest parts of it.
I think. I know it sounds cliche, and I'll tell
you what. He did look good in black and that
opening pressor there's a chefter put out a you know,
a picture of him with like his amazing suit and
like holding the Raiders jersey, and he his whole countenance
in the way that his hair is done, in the
shades of his hair and everything. It kind of just

(37:28):
all fits. Not on it's going to fit on the field,
but like he looks good and that Raiders get up. Absolutely.
You know, we were debating if we have different feelings
about Jimmy ju I mean that had the little logo
on it. Look that would make more sense, but it
was it did all look very Raiders esque, and I
think he had the look down and you know, Daddy
likes Mommy. Daddy doesn't like daddy. But I could tell

(37:49):
you that, man. Thanks, Yeah, I yeah, I just I
think I see him as like I don't. Everyone seems
to think he's a little hotter than I think he is,
but who am I to judge? Thank you, daddy. All right,
let's take a break and throw out some moves that
would make sense. The National Football League's free agency period

(38:22):
is underway, and now we, as analysts of the sport,
are here to offer sensible transactions for those with a
refined palette in such matters. What does that mean? I'm
not sure. I think what I mean is I don't

(38:45):
just go with look at what the team, the teams that,
what they've done so far, what are still who's available
or potentially available? What makes sense fiscally? Let's make the
listen and they're smarter, Greg, And that's why I were
starting with you. No, I think we should start with
you because sometimes with these segments, I don't even totally

(39:08):
know that there's going to be beautiful classical music and sensibility,
and I feel like I want my leader, my host,
my co host, Oh you always happen almost happening to
show me where he's going with this, all right, you
could take it down now, all right, I'll throw it
out there, A sensible transaction for those with a refined

(39:31):
positional palette. The New England Patriots, all right, what have
they done so far? We talked about they decided to
move on from m Jacoby Myers. And you know you
don't think that had anything to do with the play,
do you? No? No, no, right, no, But it was
so embarrassing for Bill. Do you think there's part of

(39:52):
him that would be like, I can't have anything that
reminds me of that around me. Ever? Again, no, I
didn't sense it with this particular player. But who wouldn't
I mean out there? I mean, did did they get
rid of Ellis Hobbs after he gave up that touchdown
to Plextico Burris in the Super Bowl? Maybe I did
keep Rodney around. I mean, there's been some embarrassing moments

(40:14):
that would be justin after the pick six Tennessee Titans
in the AFC Wildcard playoffs. Tom Brady wasn't around no
more after that? Who had that pick six? I know,
you know, justin Logan Ryan, who went to play with
Tom Brady in Tampa Bay, Oh, interesting. That was the
friend where he was going to the puppy farm every

(40:36):
week with the daughters. Yeah, Logan, Ryan's a big charity
revolving around saving and he's like, and I never told
anybody about that until I retired and then we needed
some puff pieces about post retirement. Now it was I
am as a man. It was Ryan's wife who did it.
See now you're just making up fact. It was Logan
Ryan's wife who did that. Sounds good kind person. He

(40:58):
was playing the long game on the puppy He just
knew that he would do that. It was gonna get
out eventually. It's Tom Brady at a puppy mill. You're
just sitting on it, so I'm not He's not gonna
say it, but he knows eventually we'll get out and
they'll be like and Tom never even said anything about it.
It's like a double win anyway. Um So the Patriots

(41:19):
they have Juju in the building. They have Bill O'Brien
as the oc U. Mccarkell Jones is back at quarterback.
Mike Gasecki is signed the tight former tight end of
the Dolphins. That is definitely somebody that can make up
play with the ball in his hands. Um, But there's
something missing here and I mentioned on the last show,

(41:39):
but now I'm going to play it. And thank you
to HBO NFL Films. This was a pregame conversation between
Bill Belichick and a certain former All Pro wide receiver
of the Arizona Cardinals. Glad we only have to play
you every four years. Man, Hello, you kind of career,

(42:01):
your out miss half the season is still gonna be
the league and receiving this. I gonna do my job, man, Yeah,
better he's gonna like that one. I do love as
as Belichick ages, and as I age, I do love
Bill more and more. I think him not going to
the Super Bowl every year is helping as well. Yeah,
being like a walking eight and nine is helping. But yeah,

(42:24):
that I think there's something to take out of that.
That was this past season and now they need a
number one ride receiver to kind of cap off this
like reboot of the offense. It makes so much sense
for the Pats to send you know, second third round
pick maybe a second uh to bring in new Copkins
and then once you have Nuke in there, Greggy, I think,

(42:46):
as Pats fan, you're really feeling pretty good. Then you're
looking at the roster and you're saying, there's my number one.
Juju is a perfect versatile kind of two number two
guy you have. Now you're gonna have Gasecki, who can
make plays at tight end, and you trust the play
calling with O'Brien and his comfortable in the system and
knows Belichick and what he wants. And then you're saying

(43:07):
Mac Jones year three, make that leap. Yeah, you still
have Hunter Henry two. So Gasecki I think at what
something like four or five million a bass salary, we
haven't totally learned in some intensives, like he's a second guy.
You get DeVante Parker off the roster. Basically, DeAndre Hopkins
is a much better version to me of DeVante Parker
who's still there. Taekwon Thornton had some speed, second round

(43:29):
pick Kendrick Bourdon sitting around. Yeah, I don't think that
would be their big weakness. And I totally agree. They
can't draft receivers. They're famous for burning their second round
picks year after year. It's just been like a bad
luck round for them. Let's just use it on a guy,
you know, we'll have one or two years. Yeah, there's
there's a little fly in the ointment though, because first
of all, I think, like Mike Kisiki was recruited by

(43:50):
Bill O'Brien to play at Penn State, so I see
why that fit happens, like as an upgrade over Johnny Smith.
Bill O'Brien did not end things well with DeAndre Hopkins
trained into Arizona. I mean, I'm sure all that stuff
that can be pretty much fixed. But yeah, but is
it going to stop a deal? Well, I don't think
Bill O'Brien's gonna stop a deal, but I just I
think also that it really really fits. And I mean,

(44:12):
I think when Billichick likes a player, it goes back
to when he scouted him, probably before the draft process,
and he admires some of these guys so much that
I think it still would be true. But the Bill
O'Brien thing is just sitting out there as something that
DeAndre Hopkins might think about sensible that that could be
a fly in the ointment. But I would think Belichick,

(44:33):
I mean, who would you rather have Greg, DeAndre Hopkins,
or Bill O'Brien as an offensive coordinator? You already had
Bill O'Brien. Well, I'm just saying like Bill's playing chess here.
If he was looking at my offseason plan and he's like,
I want Nuke on my team, would he bring in
Bill O'Brien if you thought that that would Nuke a
chance to get Nuke. I don't mean these guys can
make it up with one conversation and move on. I mean,

(44:56):
I don't know if he's playing mousetrap. With the way
he hired his offense to the coordinator last year, I'm
starting to wonder, But trap, I don't trying to think
of a very basic game. Actually it does talk a
lot of work setting up Tiddley wins. That's Pong Pongo
mouse trap. Half the fun was, you know, putting all
the pieces together. Then then it became less. It's more like,

(45:18):
but you're going through the motions. I like that, all right,
that move sensible, I think for a refined pal Okay, now,
and I didn't know if you were going to like
extend the whole thing, I would give your heads up.
This is this is all about ball, Okay. I'm gonna
talk about the Denver Broncos and their receiver situation. When

(45:38):
a team puts receivers on the market, in this case,
Jerry Judy and or Courtland Sutton. Interesting that it's like
either or like, yeah, that doesn't happen. History tells us
eventually that guy's getting moved. It's like Darren Waller on
the market last trade deadline, eventually got moved. And now

(45:59):
we're here in reports. Well, the Broncos were just getting
offers from other people, and now they're thinking they wanted
a first round pick, plus they're gonna hold on. Just
put a pin in this. Let's come back around draft
time and let's make a trade for Jerry Judy, who
doesn't have a long term, guaranteed salary like Courtland Sutton.
So I think is a little more tradeable, and there's

(46:21):
a host of teams that could put them on. The
Cowboys would be flashy, but you know who needs them
even more and still plays in the NFL. How about
the Carolina Panthers. You just traded your best receiver in
DJ More. Your number one receiver right now is Teras Marshall.
You're gonna have to play football. And I think Jerry
Judy can fit a timeline of a young team getting better.
He's still younger. Let's send a I don't know, a

(46:44):
second round it makes a ton of sense. They're now
the team without the number one, and like I thought,
the Browns are a target. They are missing some people
at that position, and it's like, what did you do
all this for? If you're not gonna like surround to
Shaun Watson with a ton of weapons. They don't have
a lot of wide receiver, but I think the Patriots
thing with Andre Hopkins doesn't happen, Like one of these
Bronchos wideouts might work there as well. It's like, I'm

(47:06):
so with you that the Broncos, I don't care what
they're saying. They have broadcast it strongly that these guys,
like I didn't Courtland Sun just doesn't really fit what
Sean Payton wants to Sun degree. It's like we're moving
these dudes. Maybe Sutton would be the guy that they
do move. And I know the Panthers just traded away
a bunch of picks. They do have their first, they
do have a second and a third, so they're not
crazy short. But the Cowboys are another team here that

(47:29):
would make some sense to wait it out. Doesn't seem
they're ready to get obj. I have my second one
is directly connected, so I'll just do it real quick.
I all said, Judy. I want to see Judy move
to a team where we could cash in on his potential,
which I still think is very high, and it's been
almost entirely untapped. Injuries of play a role, but a

(47:50):
lot of quarterback dysfunction and organizational dysfunction as well. Since
he was in the first round pick. I remember it
was him and Henry Ruggs in that draft that were
you know, the buzzy wide receiver has taken up top
and we know everything that went down with Rugs and
Judy has been disappointing overall. I was looking at the
Bills as a team that yeah, we've been talking about
like how do you give how do you take Josh

(48:13):
Allen now with Brian dabele gun and you put too
much on his shoulders and you add some more around him.
And we've talked about Derek Henry and I don't know
what's going on with Henry and people connected Sequan to
the Bills, and so far it's been pretty quiet. I
know Isaiah McKenzie was let go this week. Judy and
Judy being unlocked by a talent like Josh Allen with

(48:35):
Stefan Diggs on the field with him is very very
exciting thought. So that's it's sensible, but also some wishcasting
because I do want to see what Judy could do. Yeah,
I like it a lot because I think like Judy
could suddenly have one of these seasons where it's like,
well that was a situation where Denver went through all
this chaos, so we didn't see the player. I can
see that. But I'll think if you're the Bills, it's
like you are you view yourself. It's like this season

(48:57):
right now is super Bowl or bust? Like that guy
you get because they do eat that wide and I
think like has to be rock solid. I just it
seems like a little bit of a you're hoping he'd
be that guy. You'd hope he'd fit. He wouldn't be
a disappointment. I mean they could be in for any
of the big names. Is one of those. Uh, there's
some thoughts Odell Beckham might not want to play in

(49:18):
somewhere that cold. I'm I'm with that. Let's make decisions
on warmth. I'm with him. You know that's who I want.
Those are the Warriors I want. Oh, it's blow fifty.
I'm not gonna try. It's hard. I mean, if you've
made your money though, like where you live. I think
I think that matters. You know, short an NFL career
is greg he they have like ten years, even the

(49:41):
great guys, maybe twelve or thirteen to give it there.
I want twenty million, but it must be in a
tropical environment like it's usually a bit of a red flag. Yeah,
all right, I got one for you here. I mean
this this final chip to fall as Lamar Jackson, and
I think about what happened back on March twenty eighth,
nineteen eighty four, when the Baltimore cults in the middle

(50:03):
of the night. We always heard about this, you know,
when we were young in the early eighties, Like Mayflower
Truck exactly, you pack up the trucks you moved to Indianapolis.
Baltimore is left out in the cold. Well, I don't
that doesn't help the two teams like each other anymore.
But what if we have the odd poetical move of
the Baltimore Ravens trading Lamar Jackson to the quarterback needy

(50:24):
Indianapolis Colts, who signed Gardner Minshew clearly as a backup
and have done nothing else. They're sitting at number four.
You can give the Ravens that number four pickback and
they'll probably want a quarterback. But my one thing about
the Cults sit at number four and doing nothing is
I think you got hop scotched by Carolina. They're obviously
going with their guy. Then Houston's going with their a guy.

(50:44):
Arizona is a ripe team to trade that number three
if someone else wanted to get up against the Cult.
Suddenly you are Chris Ballard once again looking at the
fourth best guy on the draft board. What you have
Shane Steiken, who already did a great job with Jalen Hurts.
You've got other pieces around him. I think there's a
lot to like about the idea of Lamar Jackson staying
in the AFC, going to a team like Indianapolis that

(51:07):
is absolutely going to appreciate them after what they've been
through since Andrew Luck retired. It gives them an immediate
identity they can found an entire offense around him, and
Shane Styken makes so much more sense to me with
that situation than trying to start over with the fourth
best rookie in this draft class. Shane Styken's really rocketed
up like the reputation rankings, just for me personally, just

(51:30):
listening to the impact that he's had with everyone that
he's worked with, and I don't think it's just smoke
being talked. I would love that. Give me somebody, what's
going on with lamar Keith? Is there a better fit
than Indianapolis? We heard I heard um a little bit
of buzz through an unnamed Diano reporter that just like, okay,

(51:51):
just keep keep an eye. And but it's an eye.
I know that there's some some something buzzing, but the
fact that no one is reporting any that nothing is
reportable out there is shocking. I think one thing that
has changed in terms of how everyone is dissecting potential trade.
Initially and it was like, oh, they put the non
exclusive tag on them, which means whoever is gonna they'll

(52:13):
do they will do the contract and then the Ravens
can decide, and if they decide they don't want to
do that contract, they'll send the two picks. It's just
as much just as likely, if not more so, that
it's just more a traditional trade. And in the case
of the cults, it's a perfect example because if they're
giving you the number four pick. They're probably gonna be like,

(52:33):
we're not gonna give you another number one after that.
We'll give you a one and maybe a two and
maybe a two the next year. But calm down about
getting two number ones office if we're giving you a
top five. Yeah, I think that. I think it works
for both sides. And that's why I initially thought, maybe,
like what if the Texans at with that number two
pick and they weren't in love with a rookie. They
were the kind of team that could go after Lamar

(52:55):
Jackson and reboot everything and they've got it the whole.
That kind of fits. You could be Baltimore and say,
I don't want two ones from a team sitting down
in the twenties. I want, like the chance to get
another quarterback to rob put like Lamar Jackson in the
rear view mirror, starting right now, sensible, Mark, I'd like
to think, so find Yeah, Greg, you have another one.

(53:16):
I'm tapped, So I do. I think that Odell to
the Cowboys is so obvious that it feels destined. It
feels like it was destined years ago, and yet it
feels so necessary. They've invested on the defense. But I'm
gonna throw a different Odell location. I don't think there's
that many, and I really do think he can make
a difference as a quality two slash one somewhere in between.

(53:39):
He's not gonna get that twenty million. Hey, Lanta Falcons,
you gotta go win some ballgames this year. Who do
you got a wide receiver? You got Drake Lendon. Great job,
nice pick. Nice job by you, or of like a
physical red zone sideline guy. Very different. I think in
type to Odell Beckham. It's warm in Atlanta. That's important.

(54:00):
Play indoor roof. You play indoors, but it's warm when
you go outside too. Because I liked the Green Bay
idea for Odell just to be like, hey Rogers, now
we got Odell. Eat it. But I don't think he
would want to go there. Um Chick fil A closing
the stadium on Sundays, but it's open the rest of
the Yeah, Um, Odell to the Falcons. Just your number

(54:23):
two receiver right now, by the way, is twenty twenty one,
second round, sixth round pick, Frank Darby. I think outside
you know you don't have a receiver. I'm not trying
to slight mister Darby. He's the only one that's been
drafted by this regime that's on the roster other than
So that's all. That's all I say. Sorry, sorry, missus Darby.

(54:45):
You know, the past two seasons on this podcast, I've
been pushing against Atlanta when you guys have pumped them up,
but they just don't excite me, even though it's not
against Arthur Smith. It just they haven't seemed ready. This
is the year where it feels like they should be
ready to make a move exactly, and I'm just so
like annoyed that they're really gonna go Desmond Ritter and
Taylor Heineke. Hypothetically that's what year three all in Falcons

(55:09):
is and then we're gonna go get Odell Beckham at
age thirty. Man, that's better than not getting him. How
about how about get a quarterback? How about you go
get Smith? I mean, that's not too exciting. You did
get some defensive pieces. I like they brought back Lorenzo
Carter for cheap, Anya mad As a nice signing, Jesse
Bates like Kaden ellis okay. You also changes a little

(55:32):
bit and at the Falcons get back into that. I
think that there was this obviously opening bubble where no
one was in on this guaranteed money situation. And then
like a team gets back in like the Falcons, they've
got a trap again, feel great about then I'd feel
great about the Falcons. But if this is how it's
gonna go down, and then I'm supposed to get excited
about this team because Beckham, off his second ACL reconstruction

(55:52):
at age thirty after missing a year, is going to
be the guy that unlocks Desmond Ritter. You know it's suspicious.
Go sell to somebody. Yeah, that's all back after this, No, um,
anything else. I got a couple of like ideas, we
don't deduct delve deep in them. I will say one
thing that Brandon Bean, because we talked about the Bills
adding like a rock solid we know what we get here,

(56:14):
said that the team has right now just James Cook
and Niheim Hines under contract, that they want to add
a heavier power style running back to the roster. How
about Derek Henry for a I'll say even a third.
I think you can get them for maybe a fourth,
but a third and bang, you suddenly have an offense
that can destroy people in cold weather. Um. I like
this one too as a little just a couple of
quick ideas. If the Lions wanted to start over a

(56:38):
little bit with like, we know, there's this whole Jared
Goff thing. I thought he played great last year. But
what if they went and got Lamar Jackson and sent
Jared Goff to the Ravens. There's that? How about this
the Packers The minute they get rid of Aaron Rodgers,
the sensibility arrows going, that's not that crazy because they
have the ammunition number one and they've got in the
deal to the raven Okay, I mean, I don't think

(56:59):
you keep Jared recern situation. You're discerning his mood. You
don't keep Jerry sad if Goff kept getting traded for
quarterbacks like that are way better than him. Also totally appropriate.
It's like thirty million what is he making this year?
On Green Bay Packers? After Aaron Rodgers, they they stick
it to him by getting active in free agency. They

(57:21):
signed Dalton Schultz to replace Robert Tonyan. They don't have
a lot of tight end right now. And you make
a trade to a Bucks team that's looking at dump guys,
you get Mike Evans, Dalton Schultz. You've got the cap ram,
You've got the picks. I think it's very possible. I
also like Adam feel into the Patriots. It just kind
of fits, I thought, because he's white. Basically. Yeah, that

(57:41):
was the same thing. Like Andrew van Ginkel visited him
as thrade and people are like, oh, that's a Patriots move,
and it's like, just say it. Yeah, well we're saying it.
I thought the whites are at it again. I thought
David staying in Tampa's potentially a sign that Mike Evans
will as well. I think Davis just wants to retire
as a buck. Uh. They might be in the nine

(58:02):
to eight and everything is great club as well this year. Oh,
they would love them some nine and eight if they
could get there. They did keep a lot of their players,
U Jamal Dean, I was surprised ended up staying there
for the most part. They kind of kept the defensive
ship together. We do have some developing news. Let's do
it justin Graver. Oh, right, work, it's appropriate. Drew Tranquil Uh,

(58:32):
who was one of the top ten players still available
on my left us know if it is two overall? Uh,
the one player Bill Barnewell said, I overrated the most,
so I remember that disagreed with Super Bowl champion Kansas
City Chiefs signed him to a one year deal. All right,
what will we possibly lead Monday show with now Barnwells

(58:55):
on the show? Yeah, the whole show. As I was trying,
we're stepping all over. No, no, no, no, that you
did it for me. It was good. It was all
coming together. Like Drew, I think he's a nice set.
Everybody go ahead. He's a nice little winder. That's a
nice little combo there, him and Willie Gay. That's good,
all right, good? He went on I r with a

(59:18):
knee injury last year. Let's period playmaker. Uh yeah, not tranquill,
causing a lot of having good good good. Um. Yes,
Bill Barnwell will be on the show. I think we
have to talk about what we're gonna be doing Barnewell.
But I think a good move would be, let's just
read up on Bill's coverage of free agency and just

(59:41):
riff off his thoughts. Yeah, are they behind a paywall?
And I would hope not for the paywall? All right,
then you could read I honestly, you'd them on to us,
and no one will never do that to the worldwide leader.
I have too much respect for what they do. Then
I'll come over to your house and read it on
your laptop. This is my biggest the most yes, you
can do that, um the respect I could pay Bill Barnwell.

(01:00:03):
I have that subscription for Bill Barnwell. WHOA. I think
they should I think ESPN should understand them. That's probably
true of a number of individuals because his columns are
like completely next level. And that's why we're having on
the show. Yes, friend of the show Northeastern University alum
paywall stretch in other areas not when it comes to
I'm sure there's a lot of but I don't care

(01:00:25):
about their plus. I like NFL Plus. It's all over
a free agency. That's a great product. We also, uh yeah,
have that mail bag. You should just go back and
listen to whatever we answered. You know, we should do
another one will soon NFL Plus check that out around
the NFL. And that's it for this week of shows.

(01:00:47):
Barring something insane happening. I don't know how much long
we have to keep tagging them that way. But you
like Lamar Jackson comes down like eleven thirty pm on St.
Patrick's Day, that will go well, all right, that's it.
This is uh, you're a little weird. Yes, it's happy
Saint Patrick's Day. Everybody, have a nice weekend and we

(01:01:09):
will be back on Monday. Until then, you know what
you gotta do. Mark, do you want to say at time?
Heed a call, Boom,