June 18, 2025 • 38 mins
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Deep Detroit kool-aid, Detroit kool-aid drinkers, what's going
on? Everybody's your host Derek Okra
right here on the Detroit kool-aid cast talking about
those Detroit Lions. And I told you probably what was
it a week, maybe 2 weeks ago? I don't even know at this point.
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That was about Dang time that westarted dollars.
Makes sense. Every year we do the series, we
talk about contracts, money, players, everything we got to
get into this. So I I don't have time to mess
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around and like sometimes when we do, dollars make sense.
I get my notepad out, I start going through these.
I'm making notations, I'm highlighting players, I'm
highlighting clauses. I got out this year just due to
life craziness and everything that's going on.
I was like I'm literally just going to do this first one,
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especially on the fly. I haven't even been to spot
tracks website in a while. When I went there I was
surprised on all the changes. Some nice adjustments they've
made. It's always a great website.
If you're talking about dollars,that makes sense.
SENSE. And I told you guys I was going
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to do interior offensive line aswell as interior defensive line.
That's a lot of players on both sides of the football.
And you know, we normally go long here on the flagship show.
If you want a tighter, shorter show, you can listen on Mondays
or Fridays when we're serving upthose Detroit Kool-aid packets,
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10/15/2025 minutes Max usually. And this past one I did, I
talked about Lions players you got to watch in 2025.
They're going to break out. They need to break out that Hope
breakout. So go check that out if you did.
We've also got solo shows from that shops in the D out there
for the kool-aid packets. We've got guests on all types of
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shows. So go back in the archives.
You want to hear all the crazy stuff we've said about players,
draft picks, Lions, opponents, who knows what we've done here
And almost like it's got to be going on about 600 some
episodes. I mean, I don't even know
anymore. I lose track.
It's we've been doing the show for a long time.
It's a ton of fun. So let's not mess around.
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Let's get right into it. Let me start on the interior
offensive line, and the first name that jumps out to me right
here is Graham Glasgow cap hit. Oh boy, $7.4 million cap hit.
That's around 2 1/2% of the teamoverall.
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It's not Jared Goff's cap hit, which what is like, you know,
30% of their cap or something. Cookie for a quarterback who has
trouble throwing spirals. But I like him because he wins.
He wins ball games getting that.I didn't really like this
contract when Glasgow signed it.He was decent, he was good then.
He wasn't so good and people arerunning them out of town now.
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I do think he's going to be the starting center come day one and
I'm looking at this deal, most recent deal, three years, 20
million bucks, signed that in 2024.
He's a free agent 2027. I'm looking at this.
There's a classic Brad Holmes void year in 2027, but both this
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year and next, I mean that base is five and a half, 6 1/2 his
cap hits 7.4. As I said, jumps up to 8.4.
If you cut him after this year, you know you can't you can save
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a good chunk. You know, you got a dead cap of
2.8. You know, if you wait till
later, it goes to 1.4. So you can get out after this
year without too much of an issue.
I I don't see them paying him. I mean next year, but we need
them this year. We definitely need Graham
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Glasgow not only need a body, weneed him to play really good
football. So hey Graham, Glasgow, Michigan
man, hashtag go blue. Done some nice things in the
league. Played pretty good last year
till the end where he really didn't play well.
He's probably going to be raringto go Frank moving on, probably
have him at center. I've heard him complain before
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about like, I don't like center and guard.
I'd rather just play 1. I don't love center.
I like guard. Hey, we're going to need him I
think at center because I see Tate Rat playing right, Mahogany
playing left. But that's the contract on
Glasgow. Average annual value on NFL rank
370th. I'm not exactly sure.
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I would assume that's just from,I was going to say this, just
offensive line, but I don't think so.
It's hard to tell if it's position based or overall, but
they have my 370 cash, NFL ranks394 and yeah, he I can't see
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them moving on. I can't see the rookies being
that good to just roll. So that's the numbers on
Glasgow. That's kind of the one that's
probably gonna hurt the most because the next guy down I see
is a guard is our chica. A lot of people are starting to
like this guy. He's kind of come on over the
last year or so, seems to be playing decent football.
I wish out our Chica Coyote. He he, he's at a $1.3 million
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cap hit, you know, going into, you know how old he is at this
point. He's kind of a guy that caught
on a couple years ago and he's always been that rotational guy,
almost like Fluellen where you just like see him one day, next
day he's cut, then they bring him back, then he's on the
practice squad. Next thing you know, he's
starting. Definitely a revolving door, but
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I wish she could only been in the league three years.
The guy's only 26 years old, so team seems to love him.
You can't not love this contract.
One year here in 2025, one point, $1 million base guys got
a workout bonus of 15 KA total cap hit of 1.3.
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As I said, so assuming he's going to be around somewhere
based on those dollars, that makes sense.
And he seems to be getting better, you know, or the at
least the team likes, let's put it that way.
He's not my favorite, but when he's been in there, he's been
decent. Dan Skipper, everybody's
favorite. Reporting for eligible Dan
Skipper. They have him on spot track
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listed as a left tackle. Let's pray to God he never has
to play left tackle. I know he likes to play left
tight end or left blocking big man or whatever you want to call
it. Easy plays these jumbo sets.
But we need Taylor Decker over there at left tackle.
So I'm actually going to skip dancing.
But I think he's a guard. I think he's more of an interior
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because he plays so much tight end.
He's not an actual interior player.
So I'm gonna skip him for now. They also have Geo Manu listed
as a tackle. We have so many interior guards
now. That's my hope for him as well.
So let me scoot down to Natani Mutti.
This is one of my favorites in the draft.
When he came out, to be honest, I love to move T.
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He couldn't really move that well, but he's a big, powerful,
nasty run blocking type son of agun.
Somehow he made his way from I think Denver drafted them.
They bounced around. He made his way to the Lions.
I think he was hurt all last year.
Never saw him after training camp.
He's got a one year $1.1 millionbase.
Tell me if that sounds familiar.Same as Ashika, no real bonuses
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mixed in. Cap head of 1.1.
No dead cap if they cut Muti here this season.
Again other only 26 year old player.
Like I said, I liked his draft profile.
He hasn't done a ton in the league but could be a nice depth
player. But let's get to Christian
Mahogany, everybody's new favorite pencil.
A man Hall of Famer no doubt. Baller, you guys know that's my
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boat. Christian Mahogany, I loved him
in the draft. Chops, tries to claim him after
he's good. No, there's my boy Christian
Mahogany and my boy Brian Bryant.
So let's get that right. Christian Mahogany.
Incredible. What?
Sixth round draft picks? So cap hit of not even 1,000,000
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bucks cap allocation based on the team .34% that cap hit on
the NFL ranked is 1742. Absolutely unbelievable
contract. His average annual value on the
deal is only 1.034. If you're roundup like I love
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everything about this deal. This player, I want to see if
Mahogany is also about 2526. I think he's a bit older coming
into the league, but this guy isa dude.
He's nasty. He's physical, 24, going to be
25 pretty soon. Head into the league, love it.
We have this dude locked up for 2025. 2020, 6/20/27 and his cap.
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It never gets above 1.2 million per.
This is why draft picks are important.
This is why you don't give away draft picks.
This is why you find gems late. This is why those middle round
finds are absolute gold. I love Christian Mahogany, was
going to show me a little bit more before I fit him for a gold
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jacket or just make him my starting whatever interior but I
think he will be there this year.
Backup center type. Michael Niece 960K.
He's a depth player at best. I I don't see him making a big
impact on the team. Miles Fraser, AKA Miles Boom by
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I I, I think Boombaye is going to be a great player here in
Detroit. I don't know if he's going to
start from day one, but I'm looking at his contract because
that's what we're here to talk about dollars.
That makes sense. And Miles Frazier makes 920 K.
Let me pull up this rookie deal so you guys can get a real feel
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for why these rookie fines are so incredible.
Miles Frazier out of LSU was picked in the fifth round, 171
overall this year. He makes a cap hit a 920 K this
year, 1.1 next year, 1.2 the year after that, and 1.3 the
year after that. All locked up under team
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control. This dude is 23, going to be 24
years old. He's big, he's physical, he's
smart, he's got the right mentality.
Like his 2025 cash contract on the team is 1.2 in total.
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Absolute gold. Guards in this league are
getting paid 1520 million if you're really good or you can
just take studs in the 4th, 5th,6th round and they make a a
million. It's it's absolutely incredible
for how much these guys put their bodies through, how much
of A beast these guys are. I love me some Miles Frazier,
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AKA boom by a he's about to killsome dudes this year, no doubt
on the field, just blowing people up.
Who else we got here on the interior?
Kingsley Ebu Khan. This guy came out of Florida.
I actually liked him a little bit in the draft process.
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I think he went undrafted. Lion scooped him up, coached him
up last year. They seem to like what they
have. I don't know what he has.
I've heard good things, but I like this contract, 840K.
Let's see how long we got Mr. IBU Khan on a undrafted 2024
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contract this year. 840K nothingif you cut him no dead cap so
that that's a no brainer. If he gives you anything even as
a depth center or a good practice squad player, that's
obviously last guy see here on their list is Tristan Cologne
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Castillo. I believe this is the cat we got
from what we give Arizona. They have no contract details on
him and I'm looking through so these are the contracts that
they're showing. Where's where's my guy Tay
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Ratledge on this list? Is he not officially signed or
why is he why is he not available right here?
Based on what I'm seeing like I I feel like that's a a no
brainer. I'm looking at the tackles.
I didn't skip over him. He's just not on this list as a
contract. So I know his rookie deal is
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incredible. You know drafted even in the
second round. I'm sure I can get this while
I'm chattering away here. I'm sure I can get you his
rookie deal or just what the general terms are going to be.
But good old Tate rat is going to is going to be an absolute
bargain for years and years to come.
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And my favorite thing about him,to be honest, is just how much
like this guy not only loves ball, but he's just a, he's just
a football playing dude doesn't care if he's inside center,
wherever the team needs him, could probably kick out if you
really need him to. And the Lions have done really
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well both before. And I was really impressed with
this draft how they, gosh, they just replenish their old line.
They really did on the fly with second, fifth.
He got mahogany last year. Yeah, you're going to see what
Geo can do. It's like very tactful, you
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know, placement and focus on theoffensive line to both have it
now in the future. Tate ratledge like this dude was
taking 57th overall in the second round.
His gosh, you're making it difficult on me right now.
I don't know why the why they'rekind of hiding his deal, but his
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rookie deal when you're picked the 57th overall is like a 1.9
to 2.2 ish. You know, type annual value,
annual value at like a 1.9. It looks like here only 2.2 in
total for a signing bonus and he's here for four years with a
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total value. Get this, you want to just give
away seconds, thirds, fourths for a bag of peanuts because you
want some big name player and you don't care.
You you Mike Valenia 97.1 you just say give away all the picks
for one player or tank because that's the only two ideas
original thoughts he ever has every day.
Like, dude is here for four years at 7.7 total for those
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four years. That's absolutely ridiculous.
You want to know what we got Ty Leek Williams for?
I know we're not, but, uh, great.
We're not talking about in tear it off it.
Not yet, but we're about to. I'm about to flip over and Ty
Leek Williams four years, 16.5 in total.
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Dude's going to make 4 mil for basically all four of those
years. A total bonus of eight .6 as a
signing bonus. Like rookie contracts are
absolutely incredible for your football team.
You can't give them away. You got a hit and I think the
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Lions got a couple DAW GS and TyLeague Tate and Miles Frazier.
So that that pretty much does itfor my interior offensive line.
I did a little rapid fire, kind of just randomly went to certain
players, didn't get to a ton of sound drops or gimmicks.
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But I'm here to talk dollars. That makes sense.
And and I'm really just here to talk about that Monday.
You know what I mean? Like I need to find out where's
the money at on this football team?
Where's my money exactly? I'm here to talk about that
money, money, money. Ain't that right, Shane McMahon.
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Here we go, money talks, Here comes the money, that dollar,
dollar. So what I'm going to do right
now is that dollar, dollar and pay some bills.
As you guys know, we have to mixin a bunch of ads on the show to
keep this thing rolling. And obviously we love the people
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and the people consist of the millions.
I don't know what's going on here.
I do like cut a second because random ads are popping up and
playing while I'm trying to workthis website do my drops.
But you guys know that we're allabout the dollars that make
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sense here on the Detroit kool-aid cast.
We're all about looking at our trying to figure out where are
they putting this money? How was it impacting the team?
Are these good contracts? Should these guys get booted and
go start working the, you know, shoe return at the bowling
alley? Or maybe they go track down that
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ball to get stuck halfway or maybe they get promoted to, you
know, something exciting like like cashier.
I, I, I don't know, but I feel like the Lions are set up really
nice from a cap perspective and just looking at their old line
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just as A to finish out this segment. 15 players in total on
the old line. I only talked about the interior
players for the most part here. 51.5 ish million cap hit in that
position. That's 17.74% of the team's cap.
At 16th in the National FootballLeague and spot track has them
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here at 60 million plus in cash,which is 14th overall.
So an obvious almost you know, not well, not even a not top 15,
not top 20 or not top ten. I mean, but a Top 14, top 15 is
a big time investment. But yet you look at the total
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numbers, not even 20%. So I'm looking at offense 50%
and you, you know 30 plus percent of that goes to the
quarterback. So definitely a good
appropriation of resources for this football team.
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OK, RIE talking about Lions, Michigan, Wolverines, fantasy
football. Lots of fantasy football right
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of. Let's get to the interior
defensive line. I went about 20 minutes there in
the first. You know, this is the flagship.
Probably going to go 404550. Try to keep it under an hour.
But this is going to be a big list because starting out at the
top is DJ. That's my DJ Reader, go DJ,
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that's my DJ, go DJ. DJ Reader's a big dude and he's
got a big contract. He has a cap hit of nearly $13
million in 2025. Everybody is very down on DJ
Reader. I'm not very much down on
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because dude was hurt, had a badkind of the ho hum year.
But I'm looking at this contract.
He signed A2 year, $22 million deal with the Lions.
But Brad Holmes has multiple void years.
He has a, he has a void. He has three void years
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basically to spread this money out.
He has a 2025. What is this?
There was a potential out beforethis year which it doesn't seem
like they used. I don't know what the deadline
is, but I'm assuming they're they're not going to move on
from him at this point. You've got a base of 6.6.
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He got a roster bonus of 4 million.
So if he doesn't make the team, you save 4 million.
His cap hit then to that 19 point or 12.9, nearly 13.
That's almost 5% of the entire team's cap.
And let's see here, if you cut him post June 1st, cut not much
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dead cap both now or in the future, you could save nearly
$12 million if you cut him post June 1.
So basically if DJ Reader balls and wants to be here, you can
pay him that money and wait for Honey Bun AKA Twinkle Toes AKA
Plump AKA The Mac to get back from injury.
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Or if he's not doing his thing is not right, save 12 million
bucks after training camp heading into the season.
Or you know, trying to save somemoney for those extensions or
even for a possible trade down the line.
I just mentioned that Lee McNeilwith all of his nicknames AKA
AKA AKA. Dude just got Pisaid but his cap
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hit is only 6,000,000 bucks thisyear.
Obviously we know he's hurt, butdude's an absolute ballplayer,
man. He just learned to get after the
quarterback. He's got his diet right.
He's a great teammate, seems to be a good leader as well.
Four years, 97,000,000 that he signed last year.
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It it, this is how the crazy Brad Holmes does these deals.
So this year, unfortunately, he's hurt and whatnot, but his
cap hits only 6. But here's the crazy part.
Next year his cap hit is nearly $29 million.
Against the cap, that's almost a10% hit for the team.
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That's a huge increase. His base next year goes from 1.2
to 23.9. There is a built in potential
out in 2027 which would only make it a three-year $56 million
deal. But if you keep him IN20272028,
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those numbers even get bigger $28.28 million cap.
It basically a $30 million cap in 2028.
So I feel like that's a deal that's either probably going to
need to be redone or moved around because it goes from
like, hey, we like this player and this deal, even though he's
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hurt to, oh boy, you better be an all pro every year to to make
that work. So kind of an interestingly
structured deal for Lee McNeil. We love the player.
I can't say I love that contractwhen I look into the details.
Then we get to this guy, the enigma of the football team.
Levi owns Enrique, AKA Denim. He he's gotten healthy with
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hope. We think maybe let's look at
this deal. Dude ran out his Ricky deal.
We didn't get much. Let's be honest, he could have
went anywhere he wanted. People were like, oh, Levi's
going to get 10 million from a team.
The way these teams were throwing around money and free
agency, I, I wouldn't have been surprised.
Dude came back to Detroit one year, $1.5 million base cap hit,
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4.23 point 5 dead cap if you cuthim.
Little bit of incentives not much.
Basically a one year $5,000,000 deal for for Levi once Enrique.
Like yes go ball out, show your healthy, make a bunch of plays
and then make the Lions either pay you or go ahead and walk and
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go get paid somewhere else. But give us a good season, would
you Levi Roy Lopez 3.6 mil cap hit.
You know, brought him over from Arizona, had a lot of hype Bula
Bula and now he seems like a good guy, depth player, limited
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snaps. I don't mind the deal.
I mean he's he's got some intangibles, but 3.67 million
for Roy Lopez might be a little much, but they love him.
I'll see what he does and I don't mind the hit.
I already kind of talked about Tyleek Williams, but just
looking at this year, what it's showing me, not even just under
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3,000,000 for a cap hit for Ty Leek.
I mean, that's NFL rank of 523rd.
His cap hit for the team is 1%. I love that for this young
player. And I'm starting to like Ty Leek
more and more. The way his body looks, the way
he moves, his mentality, you canhave two of Lee Mcneil's in the
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middle, one that makes no money and hopefully one that doesn't
make as much as I just read off when I looked at his contract in
the actual Lee McNeil that that'd be tremendous.
Let's see who else they have here is the interior player.
Ah, everybody's favorite player.Everybody's favorite.
Got to have him in the third round, trade everything.
We got this. We got to have this big bodied
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player. His name is Broderick Martin.
Oh, man. Broderick Martin.
Oh boy. Third round Number 96 overall.
Hold on, let me queue up exactlythe highlight reel I actually
have here somewhere. Let me find it.
I know it's here somewhere. We have the actual audio
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highlight reel of Broderick Martin that we can play for you
before I get into his contract details.
Exactly. You can go back and listen to
this tape. I didn't love all the stuff they
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gave up for Broderick Martin. Yes, I put out a couple things
saying people were confident to like a poor man.
Jordan Davis, I'm looking at hisdeal.
He's given us nothing in 2023, nothing in 2024.
In 2025, his base is 1.2. He has a cap hit of 1.4.
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He has another year after that on no money.
But this dude needs to start nowand making plays but showing
improvement to even make this football team.
You can keep him around for nothing, but the fact that he
gave up three or four pick or assets or whatever to move way
up and had to have this player, he's done absolutely nothing.
The contract is fine to keep himaround, but man, he could have
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done so much better in the thirdround than Broderick Martin.
At this point, Broderick Martin's a big dude.
I'm sure he would crush me like a grape.
So Broderick, you're the man, but I'd love to see a nice leap
forward from you, keep you here for the next couple.
And if you're really ball out, it will give you a team friendly
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second contract. When we're talking dollars, that
makes sense. But moving down the list here,
Makai Wingo, this is a dude that's been forgotten.
He actually flashed as a rookie,got hurt.
Imagine that. Our whole team was hurt.
He makes no money. He was taking in the fourth,
fifth round. Let me see where they took
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Mallet Kai Wingo sixth round 189overall.
He makes less than a million this year, just over 1,000,000
next year 2027 no money. This dude has some pass rush,
physicality, you know, leadership, intangibles.
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I I like almost everything aboutMakai Wingo, especially that
contract. Chris Smith was an undrafted cat
out of Notre Dame. He's hung around a little bit.
We hear buzz all the time. Oh watch out for Chris Smith.
Chris Smith's coming on. He's a good dude, a a effort
type player and a guy that I think will stay here.
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Both either as depth or practicesquad.
Same type of thing. Under $1,000,000.
Nothing much to talk about aboutthe contract.
Roquan Williams is here as an active player, same thing 960K,
just one of those bottom of the roster deals and and that's what
they have for interior players. So you know, when we're looking
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at all these other guys that could slide inside, I mean they
have Pascal as the D end. They've got Hassanian.
I mean Hassanian, I mean Hassanian as an edge player.
Obviously some of these other big bodies that we talked about,
I know me and chops were all be up like why are we going to have
so many big bodies? We got 8-9 guys in the interior.
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Well, they're going to try to get by while a couple of these
guys are hurt. So you're going to ride it out.
I think with DJ Reader, even that's a big time number.
You really can't get rid of DJ Reader and just really rely on
Tie Leak, Levi and what Broderick to hold down the
middle for you for the most part.
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Like I know some of these other guys, Pat O'Connor, he can slide
inside. You know, I'm looking at who
these other big bodies are. You got Roy Lopez, he'll give
you some snaps, no doubt about it.
But the other guys are mostly edge outside type players.
So you need beef in the middle is kind of get you through until
Lee McNeil is back rolling. But I like the lions have beefed
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up both the interior offensive and defensive lines.
And when I beef up, I mean spending money, big dudes
physical mentality. I think that helps you on both
sides of the trenches as well Asfor the most part, these are a
lot of like rookie contracts, low end deals, you know, Alim
and DJ kind of the two big deals.
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Even on the offensive line now that Frank's gone, that was the
big money contract. Now you got a bunch of young
rookies and Glasgow was the highest paid interior player and
then you got your money spent where you need to at both tackle
spots with Taylor Decker and Penne Sewell.
So I think the Lions are really spending their money in the
right places. You need big DAW GS on the
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inside, on both sides of the football.
Push people around. Those are dollars.
That makes sense to me, SENSE everybody.
I'm a cut it short there 'cause I got a million other things to
do. But I appreciate everybody for
listening to this show, checkingout the show, repping the show.
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I didn't even fill up your glassto begin the show, so I better
give you a little extra bit of that today.
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I'm doing two position groups, one offense, one defense next
Wednesday for dollars that makessense series.
We'll work our way through the entire roster on Friday.
I'll probably have another Detroit kool-aid packet talking
about news and notes, rookies, training camp dates.
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You know, hopefully we're getting closer to Inside the Den
draft episode, which they said was going to be out in June and
then July, mid-july. I mean, I don't know when this
thing is coming out, but hopefully we'll have content.
The Lions don't have any more mini camps, OTAs, mandatory
camps, anything like that until they show up early for training
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camp 'cause we got the Hall of Fame Game.
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Deep Detroit kool-aid, Detroit kool-aid drinkers, what's going
on? Everybody's your host Derek Okra
right here on the Detroit kool-aid cast talking about
those Detroit Lions. And I told you probably what was
it a week, maybe 2 weeks ago? I don't even know at this point.
(01:11):
That was about Dang time that westarted dollars.
Makes sense. Every year we do the series, we
talk about contracts, money, players, everything we got to
get into this. So I I don't have time to mess
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around and like sometimes when we do, dollars make sense.
I get my notepad out, I start going through these.
I'm making notations, I'm highlighting players, I'm
highlighting clauses. I got out this year just due to
life craziness and everything that's going on.
I was like I'm literally just going to do this first one,
(01:52):
especially on the fly. I haven't even been to spot
tracks website in a while. When I went there I was
surprised on all the changes. Some nice adjustments they've
made. It's always a great website.
If you're talking about dollars,that makes sense.
SENSE. And I told you guys I was going
(02:14):
to do interior offensive line aswell as interior defensive line.
That's a lot of players on both sides of the football.
And you know, we normally go long here on the flagship show.
If you want a tighter, shorter show, you can listen on Mondays
or Fridays when we're serving upthose Detroit Kool-aid packets,
(02:37):
10/15/2025 minutes Max usually. And this past one I did, I
talked about Lions players you got to watch in 2025.
They're going to break out. They need to break out that Hope
breakout. So go check that out if you did.
We've also got solo shows from that shops in the D out there
for the kool-aid packets. We've got guests on all types of
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shows. So go back in the archives.
You want to hear all the crazy stuff we've said about players,
draft picks, Lions, opponents, who knows what we've done here
And almost like it's got to be going on about 600 some
episodes. I mean, I don't even know
anymore. I lose track.
It's we've been doing the show for a long time.
It's a ton of fun. So let's not mess around.
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Let's get right into it. Let me start on the interior
offensive line, and the first name that jumps out to me right
here is Graham Glasgow cap hit. Oh boy, $7.4 million cap hit.
That's around 2 1/2% of the teamoverall.
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It's not Jared Goff's cap hit, which what is like, you know,
30% of their cap or something. Cookie for a quarterback who has
trouble throwing spirals. But I like him because he wins.
He wins ball games getting that.I didn't really like this
contract when Glasgow signed it.He was decent, he was good then.
He wasn't so good and people arerunning them out of town now.
(04:06):
I do think he's going to be the starting center come day one and
I'm looking at this deal, most recent deal, three years, 20
million bucks, signed that in 2024.
He's a free agent 2027. I'm looking at this.
There's a classic Brad Holmes void year in 2027, but both this
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year and next, I mean that base is five and a half, 6 1/2 his
cap hits 7.4. As I said, jumps up to 8.4.
If you cut him after this year, you know you can't you can save
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a good chunk. You know, you got a dead cap of
2.8. You know, if you wait till
later, it goes to 1.4. So you can get out after this
year without too much of an issue.
I I don't see them paying him. I mean next year, but we need
them this year. We definitely need Graham
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Glasgow not only need a body, weneed him to play really good
football. So hey Graham, Glasgow, Michigan
man, hashtag go blue. Done some nice things in the
league. Played pretty good last year
till the end where he really didn't play well.
He's probably going to be raringto go Frank moving on, probably
have him at center. I've heard him complain before
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about like, I don't like center and guard.
I'd rather just play 1. I don't love center.
I like guard. Hey, we're going to need him I
think at center because I see Tate Rat playing right, Mahogany
playing left. But that's the contract on
Glasgow. Average annual value on NFL rank
370th. I'm not exactly sure.
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I would assume that's just from,I was going to say this, just
offensive line, but I don't think so.
It's hard to tell if it's position based or overall, but
they have my 370 cash, NFL ranks394 and yeah, he I can't see
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them moving on. I can't see the rookies being
that good to just roll. So that's the numbers on
Glasgow. That's kind of the one that's
probably gonna hurt the most because the next guy down I see
is a guard is our chica. A lot of people are starting to
like this guy. He's kind of come on over the
last year or so, seems to be playing decent football.
I wish out our Chica Coyote. He he, he's at a $1.3 million
(06:47):
cap hit, you know, going into, you know how old he is at this
point. He's kind of a guy that caught
on a couple years ago and he's always been that rotational guy,
almost like Fluellen where you just like see him one day, next
day he's cut, then they bring him back, then he's on the
practice squad. Next thing you know, he's
starting. Definitely a revolving door, but
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I wish she could only been in the league three years.
The guy's only 26 years old, so team seems to love him.
You can't not love this contract.
One year here in 2025, one point, $1 million base guys got
a workout bonus of 15 KA total cap hit of 1.3.
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As I said, so assuming he's going to be around somewhere
based on those dollars, that makes sense.
And he seems to be getting better, you know, or the at
least the team likes, let's put it that way.
He's not my favorite, but when he's been in there, he's been
decent. Dan Skipper, everybody's
favorite. Reporting for eligible Dan
Skipper. They have him on spot track
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listed as a left tackle. Let's pray to God he never has
to play left tackle. I know he likes to play left
tight end or left blocking big man or whatever you want to call
it. Easy plays these jumbo sets.
But we need Taylor Decker over there at left tackle.
So I'm actually going to skip dancing.
But I think he's a guard. I think he's more of an interior
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because he plays so much tight end.
He's not an actual interior player.
So I'm gonna skip him for now. They also have Geo Manu listed
as a tackle. We have so many interior guards
now. That's my hope for him as well.
So let me scoot down to Natani Mutti.
This is one of my favorites in the draft.
When he came out, to be honest, I love to move T.
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He couldn't really move that well, but he's a big, powerful,
nasty run blocking type son of agun.
Somehow he made his way from I think Denver drafted them.
They bounced around. He made his way to the Lions.
I think he was hurt all last year.
Never saw him after training camp.
He's got a one year $1.1 millionbase.
Tell me if that sounds familiar.Same as Ashika, no real bonuses
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mixed in. Cap head of 1.1.
No dead cap if they cut Muti here this season.
Again other only 26 year old player.
Like I said, I liked his draft profile.
He hasn't done a ton in the league but could be a nice depth
player. But let's get to Christian
Mahogany, everybody's new favorite pencil.
A man Hall of Famer no doubt. Baller, you guys know that's my
(09:22):
boat. Christian Mahogany, I loved him
in the draft. Chops, tries to claim him after
he's good. No, there's my boy Christian
Mahogany and my boy Brian Bryant.
So let's get that right. Christian Mahogany.
Incredible. What?
Sixth round draft picks? So cap hit of not even 1,000,000
(09:45):
bucks cap allocation based on the team .34% that cap hit on
the NFL ranked is 1742. Absolutely unbelievable
contract. His average annual value on the
deal is only 1.034. If you're roundup like I love
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everything about this deal. This player, I want to see if
Mahogany is also about 2526. I think he's a bit older coming
into the league, but this guy isa dude.
He's nasty. He's physical, 24, going to be
25 pretty soon. Head into the league, love it.
We have this dude locked up for 2025. 2020, 6/20/27 and his cap.
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It never gets above 1.2 million per.
This is why draft picks are important.
This is why you don't give away draft picks.
This is why you find gems late. This is why those middle round
finds are absolute gold. I love Christian Mahogany, was
going to show me a little bit more before I fit him for a gold
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jacket or just make him my starting whatever interior but I
think he will be there this year.
Backup center type. Michael Niece 960K.
He's a depth player at best. I I don't see him making a big
impact on the team. Miles Fraser, AKA Miles Boom by
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I I, I think Boombaye is going to be a great player here in
Detroit. I don't know if he's going to
start from day one, but I'm looking at his contract because
that's what we're here to talk about dollars.
That makes sense. And Miles Frazier makes 920 K.
Let me pull up this rookie deal so you guys can get a real feel
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for why these rookie fines are so incredible.
Miles Frazier out of LSU was picked in the fifth round, 171
overall this year. He makes a cap hit a 920 K this
year, 1.1 next year, 1.2 the year after that, and 1.3 the
year after that. All locked up under team
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control. This dude is 23, going to be 24
years old. He's big, he's physical, he's
smart, he's got the right mentality.
Like his 2025 cash contract on the team is 1.2 in total.
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Absolute gold. Guards in this league are
getting paid 1520 million if you're really good or you can
just take studs in the 4th, 5th,6th round and they make a a
million. It's it's absolutely incredible
for how much these guys put their bodies through, how much
of A beast these guys are. I love me some Miles Frazier,
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AKA boom by a he's about to killsome dudes this year, no doubt
on the field, just blowing people up.
Who else we got here on the interior?
Kingsley Ebu Khan. This guy came out of Florida.
I actually liked him a little bit in the draft process.
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I think he went undrafted. Lion scooped him up, coached him
up last year. They seem to like what they
have. I don't know what he has.
I've heard good things, but I like this contract, 840K.
Let's see how long we got Mr. IBU Khan on a undrafted 2024
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contract this year. 840K nothingif you cut him no dead cap so
that that's a no brainer. If he gives you anything even as
a depth center or a good practice squad player, that's
obviously last guy see here on their list is Tristan Cologne
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Castillo. I believe this is the cat we got
from what we give Arizona. They have no contract details on
him and I'm looking through so these are the contracts that
they're showing. Where's where's my guy Tay
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Ratledge on this list? Is he not officially signed or
why is he why is he not available right here?
Based on what I'm seeing like I I feel like that's a a no
brainer. I'm looking at the tackles.
I didn't skip over him. He's just not on this list as a
contract. So I know his rookie deal is
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incredible. You know drafted even in the
second round. I'm sure I can get this while
I'm chattering away here. I'm sure I can get you his
rookie deal or just what the general terms are going to be.
But good old Tate rat is going to is going to be an absolute
bargain for years and years to come.
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And my favorite thing about him,to be honest, is just how much
like this guy not only loves ball, but he's just a, he's just
a football playing dude doesn't care if he's inside center,
wherever the team needs him, could probably kick out if you
really need him to. And the Lions have done really
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well both before. And I was really impressed with
this draft how they, gosh, they just replenish their old line.
They really did on the fly with second, fifth.
He got mahogany last year. Yeah, you're going to see what
Geo can do. It's like very tactful, you
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know, placement and focus on theoffensive line to both have it
now in the future. Tate ratledge like this dude was
taking 57th overall in the second round.
His gosh, you're making it difficult on me right now.
I don't know why the why they'rekind of hiding his deal, but his
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rookie deal when you're picked the 57th overall is like a 1.9
to 2.2 ish. You know, type annual value,
annual value at like a 1.9. It looks like here only 2.2 in
total for a signing bonus and he's here for four years with a
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total value. Get this, you want to just give
away seconds, thirds, fourths for a bag of peanuts because you
want some big name player and you don't care.
You you Mike Valenia 97.1 you just say give away all the picks
for one player or tank because that's the only two ideas
original thoughts he ever has every day.
Like, dude is here for four years at 7.7 total for those
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four years. That's absolutely ridiculous.
You want to know what we got Ty Leek Williams for?
I know we're not, but, uh, great.
We're not talking about in tear it off it.
Not yet, but we're about to. I'm about to flip over and Ty
Leek Williams four years, 16.5 in total.
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Dude's going to make 4 mil for basically all four of those
years. A total bonus of eight .6 as a
signing bonus. Like rookie contracts are
absolutely incredible for your football team.
You can't give them away. You got a hit and I think the
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Lions got a couple DAW GS and TyLeague Tate and Miles Frazier.
So that that pretty much does itfor my interior offensive line.
I did a little rapid fire, kind of just randomly went to certain
players, didn't get to a ton of sound drops or gimmicks.
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But I'm here to talk dollars. That makes sense.
And and I'm really just here to talk about that Monday.
You know what I mean? Like I need to find out where's
the money at on this football team?
Where's my money exactly? I'm here to talk about that
money, money, money. Ain't that right, Shane McMahon.
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Here we go, money talks, Here comes the money, that dollar,
dollar. So what I'm going to do right
now is that dollar, dollar and pay some bills.
As you guys know, we have to mixin a bunch of ads on the show to
keep this thing rolling. And obviously we love the people
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and the people consist of the millions.
I don't know what's going on here.
I do like cut a second because random ads are popping up and
playing while I'm trying to workthis website do my drops.
But you guys know that we're allabout the dollars that make
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sense here on the Detroit kool-aid cast.
We're all about looking at our trying to figure out where are
they putting this money? How was it impacting the team?
Are these good contracts? Should these guys get booted and
go start working the, you know, shoe return at the bowling
alley? Or maybe they go track down that
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ball to get stuck halfway or maybe they get promoted to, you
know, something exciting like like cashier.
I, I, I don't know, but I feel like the Lions are set up really
nice from a cap perspective and just looking at their old line
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just as A to finish out this segment. 15 players in total on
the old line. I only talked about the interior
players for the most part here. 51.5 ish million cap hit in that
position. That's 17.74% of the team's cap.
At 16th in the National FootballLeague and spot track has them
(20:29):
here at 60 million plus in cash,which is 14th overall.
So an obvious almost you know, not well, not even a not top 15,
not top 20 or not top ten. I mean, but a Top 14, top 15 is
a big time investment. But yet you look at the total
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numbers, not even 20%. So I'm looking at offense 50%
and you, you know 30 plus percent of that goes to the
quarterback. So definitely a good
appropriation of resources for this football team.
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OK, RIE talking about Lions, Michigan, Wolverines, fantasy
football. Lots of fantasy football right
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of. Let's get to the interior
defensive line. I went about 20 minutes there in
the first. You know, this is the flagship.
Probably going to go 404550. Try to keep it under an hour.
But this is going to be a big list because starting out at the
top is DJ. That's my DJ Reader, go DJ,
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that's my DJ, go DJ. DJ Reader's a big dude and he's
got a big contract. He has a cap hit of nearly $13
million in 2025. Everybody is very down on DJ
Reader. I'm not very much down on
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because dude was hurt, had a badkind of the ho hum year.
But I'm looking at this contract.
He signed A2 year, $22 million deal with the Lions.
But Brad Holmes has multiple void years.
He has a, he has a void. He has three void years
(25:37):
basically to spread this money out.
He has a 2025. What is this?
There was a potential out beforethis year which it doesn't seem
like they used. I don't know what the deadline
is, but I'm assuming they're they're not going to move on
from him at this point. You've got a base of 6.6.
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He got a roster bonus of 4 million.
So if he doesn't make the team, you save 4 million.
His cap hit then to that 19 point or 12.9, nearly 13.
That's almost 5% of the entire team's cap.
And let's see here, if you cut him post June 1st, cut not much
(26:29):
dead cap both now or in the future, you could save nearly
$12 million if you cut him post June 1.
So basically if DJ Reader balls and wants to be here, you can
pay him that money and wait for Honey Bun AKA Twinkle Toes AKA
Plump AKA The Mac to get back from injury.
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Or if he's not doing his thing is not right, save 12 million
bucks after training camp heading into the season.
Or you know, trying to save somemoney for those extensions or
even for a possible trade down the line.
I just mentioned that Lee McNeilwith all of his nicknames AKA
AKA AKA. Dude just got Pisaid but his cap
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hit is only 6,000,000 bucks thisyear.
Obviously we know he's hurt, butdude's an absolute ballplayer,
man. He just learned to get after the
quarterback. He's got his diet right.
He's a great teammate, seems to be a good leader as well.
Four years, 97,000,000 that he signed last year.
(27:37):
It it, this is how the crazy Brad Holmes does these deals.
So this year, unfortunately, he's hurt and whatnot, but his
cap hits only 6. But here's the crazy part.
Next year his cap hit is nearly $29 million.
Against the cap, that's almost a10% hit for the team.
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That's a huge increase. His base next year goes from 1.2
to 23.9. There is a built in potential
out in 2027 which would only make it a three-year $56 million
deal. But if you keep him IN20272028,
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those numbers even get bigger $28.28 million cap.
It basically a $30 million cap in 2028.
So I feel like that's a deal that's either probably going to
need to be redone or moved around because it goes from
like, hey, we like this player and this deal, even though he's
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hurt to, oh boy, you better be an all pro every year to to make
that work. So kind of an interestingly
structured deal for Lee McNeil. We love the player.
I can't say I love that contractwhen I look into the details.
Then we get to this guy, the enigma of the football team.
Levi owns Enrique, AKA Denim. He he's gotten healthy with
(29:13):
hope. We think maybe let's look at
this deal. Dude ran out his Ricky deal.
We didn't get much. Let's be honest, he could have
went anywhere he wanted. People were like, oh, Levi's
going to get 10 million from a team.
The way these teams were throwing around money and free
agency, I, I wouldn't have been surprised.
Dude came back to Detroit one year, $1.5 million base cap hit,
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4.23 point 5 dead cap if you cuthim.
Little bit of incentives not much.
Basically a one year $5,000,000 deal for for Levi once Enrique.
Like yes go ball out, show your healthy, make a bunch of plays
and then make the Lions either pay you or go ahead and walk and
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go get paid somewhere else. But give us a good season, would
you Levi Roy Lopez 3.6 mil cap hit.
You know, brought him over from Arizona, had a lot of hype Bula
Bula and now he seems like a good guy, depth player, limited
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snaps. I don't mind the deal.
I mean he's he's got some intangibles, but 3.67 million
for Roy Lopez might be a little much, but they love him.
I'll see what he does and I don't mind the hit.
I already kind of talked about Tyleek Williams, but just
looking at this year, what it's showing me, not even just under
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3,000,000 for a cap hit for Ty Leek.
I mean, that's NFL rank of 523rd.
His cap hit for the team is 1%. I love that for this young
player. And I'm starting to like Ty Leek
more and more. The way his body looks, the way
he moves, his mentality, you canhave two of Lee Mcneil's in the
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middle, one that makes no money and hopefully one that doesn't
make as much as I just read off when I looked at his contract in
the actual Lee McNeil that that'd be tremendous.
Let's see who else they have here is the interior player.
Ah, everybody's favorite player.Everybody's favorite.
Got to have him in the third round, trade everything.
We got this. We got to have this big bodied
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player. His name is Broderick Martin.
Oh, man. Broderick Martin.
Oh boy. Third round Number 96 overall.
Hold on, let me queue up exactlythe highlight reel I actually
have here somewhere. Let me find it.
I know it's here somewhere. We have the actual audio
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highlight reel of Broderick Martin that we can play for you
before I get into his contract details.
Exactly. You can go back and listen to
this tape. I didn't love all the stuff they
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gave up for Broderick Martin. Yes, I put out a couple things
saying people were confident to like a poor man.
Jordan Davis, I'm looking at hisdeal.
He's given us nothing in 2023, nothing in 2024.
In 2025, his base is 1.2. He has a cap hit of 1.4.
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He has another year after that on no money.
But this dude needs to start nowand making plays but showing
improvement to even make this football team.
You can keep him around for nothing, but the fact that he
gave up three or four pick or assets or whatever to move way
up and had to have this player, he's done absolutely nothing.
The contract is fine to keep himaround, but man, he could have
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done so much better in the thirdround than Broderick Martin.
At this point, Broderick Martin's a big dude.
I'm sure he would crush me like a grape.
So Broderick, you're the man, but I'd love to see a nice leap
forward from you, keep you here for the next couple.
And if you're really ball out, it will give you a team friendly
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second contract. When we're talking dollars, that
makes sense. But moving down the list here,
Makai Wingo, this is a dude that's been forgotten.
He actually flashed as a rookie,got hurt.
Imagine that. Our whole team was hurt.
He makes no money. He was taking in the fourth,
fifth round. Let me see where they took
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Mallet Kai Wingo sixth round 189overall.
He makes less than a million this year, just over 1,000,000
next year 2027 no money. This dude has some pass rush,
physicality, you know, leadership, intangibles.
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I I like almost everything aboutMakai Wingo, especially that
contract. Chris Smith was an undrafted cat
out of Notre Dame. He's hung around a little bit.
We hear buzz all the time. Oh watch out for Chris Smith.
Chris Smith's coming on. He's a good dude, a a effort
type player and a guy that I think will stay here.
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Both either as depth or practicesquad.
Same type of thing. Under $1,000,000.
Nothing much to talk about aboutthe contract.
Roquan Williams is here as an active player, same thing 960K,
just one of those bottom of the roster deals and and that's what
they have for interior players. So you know, when we're looking
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at all these other guys that could slide inside, I mean they
have Pascal as the D end. They've got Hassanian.
I mean Hassanian, I mean Hassanian as an edge player.
Obviously some of these other big bodies that we talked about,
I know me and chops were all be up like why are we going to have
so many big bodies? We got 8-9 guys in the interior.
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Well, they're going to try to get by while a couple of these
guys are hurt. So you're going to ride it out.
I think with DJ Reader, even that's a big time number.
You really can't get rid of DJ Reader and just really rely on
Tie Leak, Levi and what Broderick to hold down the
middle for you for the most part.
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Like I know some of these other guys, Pat O'Connor, he can slide
inside. You know, I'm looking at who
these other big bodies are. You got Roy Lopez, he'll give
you some snaps, no doubt about it.
But the other guys are mostly edge outside type players.
So you need beef in the middle is kind of get you through until
Lee McNeil is back rolling. But I like the lions have beefed
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up both the interior offensive and defensive lines.
And when I beef up, I mean spending money, big dudes
physical mentality. I think that helps you on both
sides of the trenches as well Asfor the most part, these are a
lot of like rookie contracts, low end deals, you know, Alim
and DJ kind of the two big deals.
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Even on the offensive line now that Frank's gone, that was the
big money contract. Now you got a bunch of young
rookies and Glasgow was the highest paid interior player and
then you got your money spent where you need to at both tackle
spots with Taylor Decker and Penne Sewell.
So I think the Lions are really spending their money in the
right places. You need big DAW GS on the
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inside, on both sides of the football.
Push people around. Those are dollars.
That makes sense to me, SENSE everybody.
I'm a cut it short there 'cause I got a million other things to
do. But I appreciate everybody for
listening to this show, checkingout the show, repping the show.
(36:59):
I didn't even fill up your glassto begin the show, so I better
give you a little extra bit of that today.
Honolulu blue flavored kool-aid.Drink it in, everybody.
Drink it in. You know what goes good with
Honolulu blue flavored kool-aid?Double sided cornbread,
cornbread, cornbread, everybody.That's what I got.
(37:23):
I hope you enjoyed it. I'll let you know either on the
Twitterverse. You just got a TuneIn.
I'm doing two position groups, one offense, one defense next
Wednesday for dollars that makessense series.
We'll work our way through the entire roster on Friday.
I'll probably have another Detroit kool-aid packet talking
about news and notes, rookies, training camp dates.
(37:47):
You know, hopefully we're getting closer to Inside the Den
draft episode, which they said was going to be out in June and
then July, mid-july. I mean, I don't know when this
thing is coming out, but hopefully we'll have content.
The Lions don't have any more mini camps, OTAs, mandatory
camps, anything like that until they show up early for training
(38:09):
camp 'cause we got the Hall of Fame Game.
But everybody drinking in doublesided cornbread, that's what I
got for this week on the DI. Could do better than that.
Everybody. That's what I got and that's
what I got here on the D Troy Coulee cast to everybody.
I think that was better. I'm out.
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