04-06-26 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to it, Broncos Country Tonight short show post Rockies. Addition,

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appreciate you guys and gals being along for the ride.
Rockies off to an unceremonious start to start the season,
I think, despite uh maybe a lot of hope otherwise
with the hiring of Paul de Podesta now again very
early and the obviously baseball takes a much longer time
to turn around than a football team. You turn a

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football team around a season, It takes uh seasons to
turn around a baseball season, you know, as far as
that kind of stuff goes. And but the Rockies not
in the uh you know, not in the cellar that
belongs to the San Francisco Giants. So you know there's
at least there's at least that to start the baseball season. Rockies, uh,

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middle of the pack in e R so far this season. Uh.
The problem has really just been getting on base and
uh and and and getting extra base hits, which of
course leadst runs. Rockies going in today were twenty seventh
I think in the league and in generating runs. Now
part of that is getting making Moniac back. He only
played three games so far. It leads a team in
home runs. But you know, I think, I think as

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you look at this thing, there's an idea of you know,
what it is that they they want to do. The
question is whether or not, you know, whether or not
there will be patients to see it through. And I
certainly hope that that they are able to they are
able to do that. We'll see, we'll see how that goes.
Like I said, the pitching hasn't really been been the

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problem this year. I mean, it's been a it's not
been great in the middle of the pack, but the
hitting has been frankly atrocious, and that's sort of I
think the problem with the Rockies early on this season.
We'll see if those bats wake up and how the
pitching goes long in the rest of the season. Real
quick WNBA news and I'll skip over this real quick,

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but it's a headline. Our Angel Reese was traded. The
Sky traded. Angel rees to the dream months of uncertainty
that we'd even have a WNBA season, but free agency
certainly is here for it. The league the players union
reached an agreement on a new CBA. The new CBA,
with the WNB salary cap, will increase from one point

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five million to seven million, meaning the league spending a
free agency will hit an all time high, and the
first big breaking news item out of that was the
Chicago Sky trading all star Angel Reach to the Atlanta Dream.
The Sky will get two first round picks in twenty
twenty seven and twenty twenty eight, while the Dream acquire
Reese and the right to swap second round picks with
the Sky in the twenty eight NBA Draft. And if

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you're a WNBA fan, there's certainly no shortage of elite
star power in free agency in the WNBA. Brianna Stewart
if he'sa Kaier, Edge Wilson, Jackie Young, but not all
of them are expected to explore the free agent market.
Despite being available quote unquote to negotiate. Stuart Ert Liberty

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teammate Sabrina Ionescu I've already announced their intend to resign
with New York. Wilson intends to re sign with the
Las Vegas Aces. Most of that league's veterans strategically kind
of align their contracts to become free agents in twenty
twenty six, which means the pool of talent is deep
and most rosters could look dramatically different this year particularly

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on the heels at expansion draft for the Toronto Tempo
and the Portland Fire. So if you're a WNBA fan,
I've got you covered for the year there with that
little bit on two men's basketball and a kind of
a tie to the Nuggets here. The University of North
Carolina has found its replacement for Hubert Davis, and it's
probably a fairly surprising name. Former Denver Nuggets head coach

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and NBA Championship winner Michael Malone will reportedly be hired
to run the program following Davis's firing. Malone is fifty four,
has experienced as a college assistant, but has never been
a head coach at a university. Malone won five hundred
and ten games as an NBA head coach. The hiring

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mirrors out of unc football head coach Bill Belichick, who
the university hired. Despite the legendary NFL coach, they were
really holding a head coaching job at the college level.
Majority of Malone's head coaching experience came in the NBA,
where he was at the many years as an assistant
elevated to the main role with the Sacramento Kings, he
spent one and a half seasons with that team before

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going thirty nine to sixty seven, was fired and then
landed on his feet pretty quickly, joining the Denver Nuggets
after two straight years of sub five hundred basketball, Malone
turned things around in Denver, helped make the Nuggets perennial
contenders in the West, and after a forty six and
thirty six performance in the twenty seventeen eighteen season that
left the team just out of the playoffs, then he

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led Denver to six straight playoff appearances. The team lost
in the first round just once in those six trips,
often making deep runs the postseason. Malone's time with the
Nuggets reached its zenith during the twenty twenty two to
twenty twenty three NBA season, when he led the franchise
to its first title that was power by Nikolay Jokic.

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The Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat in five games to
win it all. I didn't result in much job security
for Malone. The Nuggets made the playoffs again the following season,
but lost in the Semis to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and
with the team headed for another postseason appearance, during the
twenty twenty four to twenty five season. However, the Nuggets
shocked the NBA world by firing Malone and general manager

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Calvin Booth with just three games left in the regular season.
Assistant David Adelman took over led the Nuggets to the
semi finals, where they fell to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Adelman has the Nuggets in playoff position again this year.
Despite his pretty good run with the Nuggets, Malone failed
to get an NBA head coaching job in the off season,

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instead off the to take a broad casting route, appeared
on ESPN during the twenty twenty four to twenty five
NBA playoffs and then signing on to join the network
for NBA Countdown after he wasn't hired by a team
in the offseason. At un C, Malone will have well
technically have a new but also familiar experience. Following his

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playing career at Loyola. Malone was first was a high
school basketball assistant before eventually moving to the college level
to work as an assistant at Oakland. He then went
to Providence and Manhattan before moving to the NBA to
be an assistant with the Knicks. UNC will be his
first opportunity to be a head coach to a college program,

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expectations will be pretty high. Following a promising first season
from Davis, UNC experienced disappointment and premature exits over the
last four seasons, most recent one a first round loss
to number eleven seed VCU, which resulted in Davis firing.
By all accounts, UNC ran a comprehensive search to bring
in a new coach they elevate the program back to

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what they think are the championship standards. Tommy Lloyd opted
to remain at Arizona after getting a lucrative offer from UNC.
Yahoo sports Dale Wolkin reported on that Alabama's Nate Oates
Florida's Todd Golden were linked to the job, ultimately remained
in place. UNC also reached out to Iowa was Ben McCollum,

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but McCollum declined to interview for the position. Bulls head
coach Billy Donovan was believed to be a target, but
reportedly wasn't going to entertain discussions about the job until
the end of Chicago's season. USC made the decision to
hire Malone today with the opening of college basketball's transfer
portal looming. Portal, of course, opens tomorrow, and not having

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a coach in place would have put North Carolina at
a disadvantage in building next season's roster. Things moved quickly
between UNC and Malone over the past eighteen hours, leading
to his fairly surprising hire today. While the speed may
have been due to Malone's eagerness to take on a
new role after sitting out the NBA season, it probably
helped that his daughter currently plays for UNC's volleyball team.

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With UNC, Malone is going to be tasked with turning
around a program that was previously a perennial contender to
win a national championship. Under longtime coach Roy Williams, the
program managed that goal three times during his eighteen year
run at UNC. Following Williams's retirement, Davis, a longtime assistant
under Williams, was hired to take over for his mentor.
After taking the team all the way to the tournament

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final in his first season, Davis looked like a pretty
strong choice. Repeated failures, particularly in the twenty two to
twenty three season, when UNC opened the year ranked number
one and then failed to make the field of sixty four,
resulted in lowered expectations and a lower ceiling for UNC
given the program's previous heights. UNC needs to bring in
a coach capable of getting the team back to championship

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contender status. Loan managed to do that in the NBA.
We'll see if that carries over in the college game.
I wonder if that hiring lends to this narrative about
blue blood's losing some of their allure. You know, North

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Carolina's failure to land one of its top tier targets
sort of showed that the college basketball landscape has shifted
since the dawning of the Nile era. Being a blue
blood is no longer that much of a built hit advantage.
What matters more now is basically how much green a
program can offer it a prize recruits, and again North

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Carolina tried to coach Arizona's Tommy Lloyd, Michigan's Dusty May
mentioned Bulls head coach Billy Donovan. Lloyd used his interest
to negotiate a new deal in Tucson, May pass. Donovan
wasn't interested enough to engage before the regular season ends
next weekend, and so that left North Carolina out going
athletic director Bubba Cunningham and incoming athletic director Steve Newmark

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without many proven options Alabama's night Oats negotiated a contract
extension Iowa states t J. Oldsberger public removed himself. Ben
McCollum wouldn't even interview, and so with options dwindling and
time running out before the trans portal opens tomorrow, North

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Carolina pivoted to the outside the box hire. And if
this coaching search is a litmus test, and the hire
of Malone is probably further evidence that the blue blood
jobs are no longer as coveted as they once were,
North Carolina has taken a chance on someone who coached
in the NBA for two decades but last coached at

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the college level in what ninety nine to two thousand
and one at Manhattan. Prior to that, Providence was ninety
five to nineteen eighty eight. And that's some pretty public
big swings and misses from North Carolina before coming to
this on the heels of a similar coaching Tobocolate Kentucky
two years ago. Athletic director at Kentucky, Bitch Barnhart's top

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targets were Yucon's Dan Hurley, Baylor, Scott Drew, and Billy Donovan.
He wasn't able to persuade any of those three to
come to Lexington and pivoted to Kentucky, love Mark Pope.
That hasn't exactly worked out very well for Kentucky, as
John Calipari's got Arkansas excellent shape. What that suggests is
that blue blood jobs are no longer leaps and bounds

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above jobs at other Power conference programs who are flushed
with deep pocketed donors or football generated revenue. Shoe companies
don't have as much influence over where highly ranked high
school prospects go to college anymore. Winning tradition, brand recognition,
top tier facilities aren't as important selling points as they
want once were. Now the first thing an agent representing

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an elite player usually wants to know is whether a
school can meet the requisite price tag, and only then
does the program's winning track record or ability to develop
pros then commit to play. Tennessee coach Rick Barnes last
month said quote today, it's easy. You could recruit a
guy now for a week and get him. You know
what I mean, Hey, what's the number? End quote, And

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then is to say that North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky
are still elite jobs. In the current environment, basketball matters
above all else at those four schools. And they will
keep paying top dollar to assemble competitive rosters, But now
there is less incentive to chase those blue blood jobs
for coaches like may Or Lloyd or Oates who have
already built strong programs and already have the resources to

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contend for conference and national titles. North Carolina could have
responded by waiting another week to see if Donahan would
have engaged, or offering the job to a second tier
candidate like Vanderbilts, Mark, Byington, Cunningham, and Newmark instead opt
for Frankly, a surprise hire of Michael Malone, whose lone

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previous tide in North Carolina is that his daughter is
an outside hitter on the Tar Hills volleyball team. One
advantage to going with Malone is that North Carolina doesn't
have to pay millions of dollars in buyout money like
it would for a sitting college head coach, so there
is that at least Byington's buyout was roughly in the
eleven million dollar range, which is a lot for a

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coach who's two years removed from coaching at James Madison
and has yet to advance in the NCAA's tournament's second
weekend people in Denver know Malone has the reputation of
being a shrewd ex As and O's coach with an
understanding of modern basketball and a knack for maximizing the
talent on his roster. His NBA pedigree theoretically should appeal

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to recruits, while his relationship with superagent Misko Raznatovich misco
Rednatovich I always murdered that one should probably only help
North Carolina land top European talent. Still, the track record
of NBA lifers adapted to the college game as if
he at best. It isn't even just the former stuperstar

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players Clyde Drexler, Chris Mullin, Joan Howard, Patrick Ewing, Jerry
Stackhouse who tried and failed. Mike Woodson won a single
NCAA tournament game in four years in Indiana. Dunleavy Senior
went twenty four and sixty nine and three disaster seasons
as head coach at Tulane, and he doesn't want confidence

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if North Carolina Board of Trustees chairman Malcolm Turner had
any hand in this hire. Turner's disastrous tenure as a
Vanderbilt athletic director included the ill fated decision to fire
Bryce Drew after three seasons and annoint Stackhouse as his replacement,
And while a program with the history of North Carolina
probably shouldn't have to make such a high risk higher,

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the good news for tar Heels is better off taking
a swing on alone than sticking with Hubert Davis Well
after five seasons. North Carolina couldn't retain Davis and still
contend to be serious about returning to his customary levels success.
At least there's upside with Michael Malone if you can

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surround himself with experienced staff and learn the nuances of
the college game on the fly, or at least the
modern variants of the college game. Overall. I'm not mad
at UNC for the hire. I don't think it's a
bad higher at all. I think it's interesting. I think

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it's interesting. They got turned down by just about everybody. Now.
I understand some of the turn like Dusty may turning
it down at Michigan, like you're at Michigan, home of
the Fab five, you're on the cusp of a natty.
I get that one. But as far as some of

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the other coaches, I don't know. You would think North
Carolina would be primar real estate. And again this goes
back to the whole blue blood Nil era shaking things up.
It really is about buying recruits who pays top dollar.
Nobody cares any more about your tradition, your facilities. Very

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few kids out there want anything but the bottom line,
and the bottom line is the bottom line in this case.
And I know you know the President put out that EO,
but it's it's unenforceable, nonsense. It's just a piece of paper.
It has no enforcement mechanism. And I see people texting
me on that. Miss me with that one. I got

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more stuff I want to get into here. Appreciate you
guys being along for the rod. Short Show posts, Rockies Edition,
Broncos Country Tonight back after this, Welcome back to it,
Broncos Country Tonight does what. I'll right here with you.
Short Show posts, Rockies Edition as always. Apreciate you guys.
Be long for the ride, end gals. The NFL News
of the day, Giants All Pro defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence

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is reportedly requesting a trade and will not participate in
offseason workouts. That's per Adam Schefter. The Giants and Lawrence
have reportedly been negotiating for two seasons, with both of
them unable to reach a new deal. New head coach
John Harbaugh starts OTAs, which are voluntary for players without Lawrence,

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who was scheduled to make twenty million dollars this season
and has two years remaining on his current contract. The
Giants view Lawrence as close to untouchable. I mean, unless
they get an extraordinary return, they're not going to move him.
Giants new defensive coordinator Denard Wilson is reportedly very high
on Lawrence. The two have already been in contact. Before

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Wilson was the Giants defensive coordinator, he spent time working
with All Pro defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons. Wilson reportedly had
been planning ways to utilize Lawrence, Brian Burns, and Adol
Carter together. Lawrence has spent his first seven seasons with
the Giants since being drafted by the team in the
first round out of Clemson back in twenty nineteen. Last season,

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he recorded thirty one tackles, one interception, four batted balls,
seven run stuffs in seventeen games. After posting a career
high nine sacks in twenty twenty four. Lawrence finished last
year with his half a sack, he has not recorded
a full sack in twenty four games. He left full
sack was October twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. He reportedly

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battled elbow issues last season and did not report to
last year's trading camp in top shape. Giants GM Joe
Shane has heavily invested in the defensive line in recent years.
He added Brian Burns, Abdul Carter came On Thibodeau since
twenty twenty two, and while the Giants have a solid
group of pass rushers on the outside, losing Lawrence would

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leave a three hundred and forty pound void in the
interior defensive line, and even with Lawrence, a team like
depth on that interior line. If the Giants do decide
to move on from Lawrence, aside from Roy Robertson Harris,
the defensive line would consist mostly of young and inexperienced players,
with a few specially free agent options remaining. The Giants

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could address this to the draft, particularly with assets gained
if they trade Lawrence, which will help with the depth
and not the experience issue. The team could also consider
moving on from came On Thibodeau, who the Giants have
reportedly been willing to trade. I will say that our
own Shelby Harris could would and should be in the

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mix there in New York with the Giants, and so
that could help mitigate some of that inexperience. This news
obviously leaked at a very opportune time to bring attention
to the contract standoff between Lawrence, who is a two
time All Pro. The average antal value of his current

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deal is twenty two and a half million, but that's
fallen behind some of the recent interior defensive lineman's signings,
like including New England Patriots Milton Williams the Eagles Jordan Davis,
both now making the neighborhood twenty six million year. Lawrence
would be looking for more guaranteed money since there's none
left on his contract. That's said, the Giants again reportedly

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aren't willing to trade him, but if we wanted to
say that they were, and the head coach John Harbaugh
and senior VP Dona Ponte have different ideas than general
manager Joe Shane. Where would it make the most sense
for him to end up? I get tweeted that earlier
the Vikings would sort of make sense. They need help

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on the interior of their defensive line after releasing Javon
Hargrave and Jonathan Allen this offseason. And so you know,
a gap shooting space either like Lawrence in the middle
could really help, you know, unspool all the monkey disguises
and blitzes that defensive coordator Brian Flores likes to deploy Lawrence.

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It would be a big swing for de facto g
Robert Zinski. Landing Lawrence would go a long way toward
maybe him sealing up a permanent gig for that job
with the Vikings. The Chicago Bears, also in the NFC North,
their interior defensive line was a sore spot last season.
Lawrence could step in and fix that. Chicago sees itself

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as a rising contender, might speed up their timeline in
that regard. The down season last year might be a
bit of a concern, but it could be an outlier.
Bears currently at the lowest cap space in the league,
so your front office would definitely have to get to
work if they were trying to make that work. Probably

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this is my dream from a football standpoint, From a
football junkie standpoint, the Tennessee Titans putting Dexter Lawrence alongside
Jeffrey Simmons in the interior of a Robert Salad front.
The Titans do have the most cap space and effective
cap space in the NFL. They could easily make the
extension work, but they did sign defensive tackle Jordan Elliott
and free agency. You know, the good news is you try,

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you Giants. You're trading Lawrence out of conference. I'm trying
to think of who else here, you know. The Bengals
obviously makes sense if they were to ever get up
off their you know what's get up off their backsides
and do stuff. But they just lost a star defensive
linean and Trey Hendrickson. They didn't want to pay him.
They splashed eighty eight million in free agent contracts on

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two defensive linemen already in Boy Mafe and Jonathan Allen.
Mike Brown doesn't like to spend money in the first place.
The Bengals have extra Day three picks to sweeten the pot,
and Joe Burrow publicly pressing the timeline to contend for
Super Bowls last year. Maybe they would be in play.

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Like the sleeper. There might be the Carolina Panthers. They
need help on the defensive line, really, they need to
add talent to that side of bowl. Overall, Lawrence would
check those boxes. Maybe a matchup nightmare playing alongside Derek Brown.
Lamp Panthers signed Jalen Phillips and Devin Lloyd. But they
don't have a whole lot of cap space. But you

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could kick that thing down the line a little bit
and that might might ultimately work. But those are some
Those are some you know, destination spots I think as
far as that kind of stuff goes. And again I
mentioned the Giants. If they move on from him again,
they you know, our own Shelby Harris could be in
play there. So other news, dan Quinn said that Gerson

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Johnny Newton out of Illinois. They were expecting him to
make an immediate impact, but he thinks he's gonna take
off this year. Dan Quin said, when he thinks of
players who are going to take a big step forward
this season, the first player he thinks about is Newton,
who's healthy and eager to show what he can do.
Newton was on Excuse Me. Quinn was on Kevin Clark

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podcast This is Football. He said, the first one that
comes to mind is defensive tackle Johnny Newton. His first
year was injuries. He had a foot injury to come in.
I think he's a guy he's about absolutely to take off.
There's a defensive tackle, he's quick beating somebody the spot.
His ability as an interi rusher, I think he'll be
somebody to say. I remember talking to Dan and March April,
and this guy turned out to be a heavy hitter.
Newton was only a bit player last year, part time

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player in the Commander's defensive line rotation. Played thirty eight
percent of the Commander snaps, managed five sacks in the
part time role, and Quinn expects Newton to play more
contribute more with the Commander's pass rush. We talked a
lot about A. J. Brown over the last few months.
There was a lot of speculation here that there might

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be in play for a trade for Denver. That was
never a thing, absolutely never, not one time a thing,
and people who were sitting there claiming that it was
what a weird, weird thing to claim because the Broncos
were never in on that. What I will say is
that obviously Brown's been a subject to trade rumors throughout
the off season. Head coach Dick Siriani general manager Higher

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Roseman have kind of played Koy, but there is a
widely held belief around the league that he won't be
I mean, everybody's convinced he won't be on the Eagles
roster when the season began. That probably shortly after June first,
when you know cutting him makes sense. Zach Perman and
The Athletic reported that there remains a widely held belief

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around what team he'll play for. It's the same one
we've mentioned on this show for I think six months quote.
I still think this is a real possibility after June.
One best outcome from a football perspective would be to
bring Brown back. But there's a reason why this story
hasn't gone away, and it's a more complicated matter for
Philadelphia due to a myriad of reasons. Started with salary

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cap Trading before the draft would mean the Eagles front
office is left to deal with like a forty three
and a half million dollars dead cap yet and then
there would immediately be a twenty million dollars cap loss
by moving him. If you wait till after June first,
the deal would just have a sixteen point three million
dead cap charge and a twenty seven dead cap toul

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over twenty seven dead cap charge in twenty twenty seven. Now,
the issue, of course, with moving him after the twenty
twenty six drafts is that it would likely mean the
pieces back are going draft picks in twenty twenty seven, obviously,
and the Eagles, who figured to be a Super Bowl
contender next season, can't exactly afford to trade away an
all pro wide receiver make their offense worse without getting

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something back in return that would make a positive on
field impact for next season. The other issue is trading
Brown could be interpreted as a sign of the organization
moving a player who's been publicly critical of quarterback Jayleen Hurts,
and the issue with that is multiple Eagles sources have
privately criticized the quarterbacks leadership, coachability, and impact. Is a

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critical part of an expose that Tim McManus and Jerry
by Fowler put out on the team's friction last season
with Hurts kind of made at a crossroads. If those
leagues from inside the building were meant to send a
message to Hurts, it doesn't exactly help If the organization

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then trade away the number one receiver who raised those
same criticisms as the quarterback, that move may also send
a message to the rest of the locker room that
coaches can be critical of Hurts to reporters through anonymous leagues,
but players are required to keep everything in house. Everybody
I've talked to thinks that the Patriots acquiring Brown and

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reuniting him with Mike Rabel is inevitable, and if that happens,
I guess it puts the Eagles organization Hurts on her
bigger microscope is coming season while the offense is without
theoretically their best weapon. The Bearers have a little time
before they need to get a Caleb Williams extension done,

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similar to the Broncos, but general manager Ryan Poles is
waiting on a green light from the player in his
performance before moving full speed ahead. Ryan Poles did an
interview with the Chicago Sun Times at the league meetings
last week, and the outline how things are trending in
that direction, but needs to see just a little bit
more before going all in on the quarterback, which he
expects to see in his third year. Poles still sometimes

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quote it's good to almost feel like you've got it.
If you go in the traffic light it went red
as a rookie to yellow. You can creep forward a
little bit and start having those conversations to anticipate it.
But we need him to give us a green light.
I think we'll find out this year about his progress
and as for what he is looking for, the general
manager noted that consistency is what will turn that light

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from yellow to green. So while he waited for the
light to turn, Poles and the Bears are starting to
sketch out what an extension might require. Poles called it
a summer project. Matt Feinstein, who's the Bears salary cap expert,
we'll be digging into that. We've had some preliminary conversations.

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I'm going to take these things into considerations. We build
a team, and Broncos fan should have an eye on
the Caleb Williams extension because that'll set the framework for
a bow Nicks extension. And I believe if you're bow
you're probably waiting till after that gets done and saying, Okay,
look this guy, I'm on the ball faster than this guy.
We got wins, we got to you know, we got further,

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those kinds of things, So just keep your eye on that.
And I wonder if bo Nicks. I wonder if they
wait on the Caleb Williams deal to begin negotiating their
own extension. As far as the draft goes, Raiders are
locked in on Mendoza. So the draft, if that actively

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begins at number two, and we might be trending closer
and closer to it actually beginning at three. Everybody I've
talked to suggests that rvel Reese probably the guy for
the Jets. New York's planning on running multiple fronts on defense,

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Aaron Glenn saying at the recent league meetings, the team
is going to run a little bit of everything on
that side of the ball, and that places a premium
players with schematic flexibility, which is probably Reese's biggest strength.
During his final season at Ohio State, he played two
hundred and thirty eight snaps as an inside off ball

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linebacker and three hundred and fifty six snaps is an
outside linebacker. Jets management attended Ohio State's pro day, they
had dinner with him during the visit, and so a
lot of people believe that rvel Reese is where the
Jets are leaning at number two. See what else we

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got here? Aj Brown not the only terre on wide
receiver getting attention. Brandon Ayuk is getting some as well.
The Commanders remain the likeliest destination for his services given
the chemistry they showed during a season together at Arizona State.
Talking about Jaden Daniels and Brandon Ayut, ESPN Washington Commander's
insider John Kim reported last week the Commander is very possibility,

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but the franchise will not trade for him, as they
expect the Niners to release him. Given the fractured relationship
between the player and the team. The Commanders will not
simply wait around for San Francis going to make a move.
Washington drafts at number seven and could have options like
Carnel Tait, Alcott Lemon, Jordan Tyson. Potentially on the board,
the Commanders could find a guy to put across from

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Terry McLaurin there, although many I think are hoping they
draft a year of My Love if he's there. The
Panthers made a surprising run to the NFC South title,
catch the Bucks as Baker Mayfield and company faded down
the stretch, and despite losing on wildcard weekend, the franchise

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is trending in the right direction. Sitting at nineteen, there
are several options that will be available to them in
the draft. Do they help young quarterback Bryce Young take
another step? Do they address a defense that could use
an effusion of talent. Both look to be on the table.
Dave Canalis last week at the owner's meetings said, who

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can impact our team at that level? Could be a
wide out, could be a tight end, could be a safety,
a couple of dynamic safeties. It could free us up
pass rush class. We still got to kind of see
where they are at the top. Where do you think
the top guys are going? Look at the mocks all
that see where there might be a little bit of
a drop off. But he thinks that they can add
a value player at nineteen and while you mentioned wide receiver, edge,

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tight end in safety honestly look to be the biggest
needs for the team. Options could very well be available
at that spot. Oregon safety Dylan Stamen, for instance, a
guy it's got talked about a lot lately, especially had
a stand up performance of the combine. The Vikings are
a popular spot for his services. Right ahead of the
Panthers at eighteen, Oregon teammate Kenyon Sadik tight ends. You know,

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it's always a tough evaluation but uh Sadik may go
before the Panthers pick at nineteen Yarmia Love might be
one of the most fascinating players in this draft class.

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His combinations skill value. Running backs have been pushed down
boards in recent years, but he's got great game breaking skills.
He contributes as a receiver. You know, a lot of
people were talking about Kansas City at number nine feeling
like a landing spot, but then they added Kenneth Walker.
And one of the reasons that they did that is

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they didn't believe Love would be on the board when
it came time for their selection. Love been linked to
the Titans at four, Arizona Cardinals at three, there's the

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Commanders at seven. A lot of buzz about Dallas, uh
and you know in them possibly trading up. Dallas really
likes David Bailey, so we'll see see how that works.
Lots of uh, lots of stuff. I'm sorry that we
run out of time on this. We'll get into more
of this later on this week. As listening to Broncos

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Country Night here on Kawa