March 21, 2022 • 38 mins
In hour three on 2 Pros and A Cup of Joe, Brady, LaVar and Jonas stick with the Mayfield conversation because it’s just so awkward. Matt Stafford keeps his strong year up after getting an extension with the Rams. Jonas wants to know if Brady is a Tik Tok guy. Then, the BQ News!
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Fox Sports Radio. Obviously, the big news in the NFL
over the weekend h the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes have wrapped up.
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The Cleveland Browns get it done. The Browns have a
brand new quarterback, into Shaun Watson. They get a trade
done on Friday after we were hearing reports that, uh,
the Browns were considered out of it. But as it stands,
UH the three first round picks over the next three
years twenty three and twenty four. Uh, and then Cleveland
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go aheads and they go ahead and sign them to
a five year, two hundred thirty million dollar guaranteed contract.
So Deshaun Watson is now a member of the a
f C North in competition with Joe Burrow for the
best quarterback in that division. Obviously you've got Lamar Jackson
still there, but a loaded a f C. Uh continues
(01:45):
to churn out storyline after storyline this offseason. Today for
four pm, Like that's that's quite the dilemma, right, So
was seven seven point five if roster bone? If he's
on the roster at four pm today? Is that West
coast or East coast time eater? Um? Well, it was
(02:09):
early today. Then it's one one pm, right, one pm Pacific.
They gotta they gotta make a decision ten am in Hawaii.
How about it? If he was in Hawaii, he know
what his fate is you're getting off that surfboard next thing.
You know, there's there's some speculation that they're gonna have
(02:32):
to maybe uh sweeten the pot a little bit, just
you know, listen, we apologize that we're you know, poking
the you know, seeing what was out there with Deshaun Watson. Uh,
you know, we'd love to have you back and maybe uh,
you know, kind of do something different. There was a
report over the weekend that said, I think it was
lanzer Line who said that, uh, you know, Matt Ryan
wants like uh it wants like a new deal, you know,
(02:54):
in order to make this work. So it just feels like,
why not, Yeah, I mean why not he you know,
Baker is kind of the only one that we've heard
come out in the public and had something to say
once a team courted, uh courted Deshaun Watson. I mean,
we didn't hear anything out of Carolina, we didn't hear
anything out of Atlanta, you know. So I found that
(03:14):
to be pretty interesting. I mean, if anybody would have
the right to be able to say, huh, I'm offended,
it would be my Ryan. Out of all that. That's
not his personality though. I Actually the other thing about
Matt Ryan is he's made two million. How how much
has he made his career from the Atlanta Falcons, And
I want to say it's around like two hundred million.
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It's north of one fifty I know that much. So
it's a little different in the sense that this team
has invested in him and pay him a bowload over
the course of a great career. I don't know that,
you know, he feels maybe as offended. You know, I
think to some degree he gets it. He hears what's
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being said out around him and how the past few
years of gone on. I mean, they've the bottom line
is they've been on a decline since their Super Bowl years.
It's one m v P. So it's a bit more
understandable when you've already made all that money and you're
looking at what's around you, going all right, I may
not be the biggest problem here, but I don't know
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that I've necessarily been the solution either. You know, as
you stripped away what's been around him, you started to
see that game deteriorate. And he's the style and type
of player that needs more help out around him in
order to be successful. You know, Watson, because of his
ability to run and move and buy time. He helps
make it easier to go on a team that's not
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quite as gonna make them competitive. He did that in Houston,
with the exception of maybe his last year, but you know,
even then, he's still what led the league in passing yards,
you know that year I did, by the way, and
and Brady, you're gonna have you are much better at
this contract stuff than me. But I can't believe that
this is true, although maybe I shouldn't be as surprised.
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So go ahead and guess what do you think Matt
Ryan's career earnings are. Uh, that's obviously before um taxes
and all the other things that probably two Okay, I'm
showing two hundred and sixty seven million. Yeah, you forget
he's been in the league for fourteen like that. I
didn't realize he would make God, I mean, here comes
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the question if you're if you're Atlanta, I mean, wouldn't
you rather give up a decent draft pick to to
get him if you're gonna move on, to get him
off your books and go in a different direction before today,
I mean before four pm. Yeah, well you can potentially
you can do that, but the reality is you know
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you're gonna you're gonna have to probably pay a portion
of it one way or another. Right if you cut him,
wouldn't Well, if you cut him, you've got a huge
as a roster bonus. Well, but you've got a huge,
huge hit on your dead cap for this year. So
I don't think that's what you want to do. I
think you're either looking at keeping him and drafting someone
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who's going to eventually replace him, or you want to
try to move on from him and realize they're gonna
have to pay a portion of it in order to
make it work. But I mean, if you cut him,
I believe it's dead cap hit this year will be
forty million dollars. Yeah, that's as I think, as big
as it. I don't even know what they're reporting about.
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Is because this is one of this is this is
one of the uh, I guess the conversations coming off
Matt Ryan is enjoying Hawaii and Matt Ryan is is
enjoying massage overlooking the Yeah, he's good, he's good. He's
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really good. Two and sixties seven million, my god. But
so this is one of the things, though, it is interesting.
This is why I always liked Jimmy Garoppolo. Here's why.
So Baker Mayfield is upset, and we get it. The
Browns went out and we're trying to court somebody else.
Maybe Matt Ryan's a little piste off Garoppolo. Every year,
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every year, like every year, there's reports about and they're
on it, like John Lynch and uh and Kyle Shanahan.
Remember John Lynch even said, yeah, you know, we asked
about Tom Brady. Yeah, of course, yeah, we asked about
like every year, and you never hear Garoppolo saying curious,
never says anything. I'm curious to see if it does
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in fact turn into well, no matter what it is,
if it's a trade, if it's waivers, if he clears waivers,
and his side as as a true free agent, I'm
curious to see what they pay Baker Mayfield, especially if
it's if it's a trade, because they don't have to
necessarily take take the contract that he has and keep
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them on the fifth year. They could redo the deal.
So to be interesting to see do they see the
value in him to give him a deal, or do
they see the value in him to say we'll take
this fifteen for the year and we'll negotiate as we
see fit during the course of the season. And quite frankly,
if he gets if he were to get released, what
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would they you know, where does that number start? Do
you start at that fifteen million number or do you
go below that number? Like where does the value lie
with Baker mayfit today? Is that he makes eighteen this year.
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I think that's That's the tough conversation. He's gotta be
happy with his agent is you know, teams might be
enquiring about him, and they'll work with the team to
work with the Browns, and they'll work in conjunction with
his agent, and his agent might say, well, you know,
we don't want to go there if you're not gonna
sign us to an extension, or this is the numbers
we were talking about with clear of one and they
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didn't want to do it, or however you're gonna handle
those conversations the routies. He's in a tough spot. Um
if he if he gets released, he wants to sign
a probably a one year prove it deal and knowing
him so he can capitalize on it after the year
which he ended up making less than he was gonna
make on his fifth year option but you know, he
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he might just get traded for what ends up playing
for that one year under what he currently has. But
I would imagine that would be to an NFC team
like Seattle for example, would make a lot of sense
in this scenario. I just I think he's in a
tough spot because he he's the type of players uber competitive,
and he wants to get paid what he thinks his worth,
and he thinks he's worth he's better or or worth
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more than Deshaun Watson. I could promise you he thinks
that every NFL quarterback thinks that about themselves. Am I crazy?
I just don't think people are sort of laughing at
Baker Mayfield almost and saying, oh, you know, good riddens
this and that, and the Browns are happy because they
upgraded and Deshaun Watson isn't upgrade over Baker Mayfield. I
don't think he's that bad. I really don't think Baker
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Mayfields a bad quarterback. I'm sorry. I know that last
year was a disappointing year that we've talked about the
injuries and and you know they were not the same
team they were the year before. He didn't play great
um at times last season, uh going even before the
injuries started and all that. I just don't think he's
as bad as a lot of people are portraying him.
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It just feels like whatever it is about his personality,
some people don't like they've carried that with him. But
I think you put him in a spot he can
win games, and Baker Mayfield piste off with something to prove.
I think it's a fun quarterback to watch. So I
just I don't buy the uh, the slander on Baker
Mayfield just a little bit insulting. Gotta be honest with you.
(10:47):
Sticks little insulting there. That's your guy? Are you the
one that's insulted? It's yeah, it's a it's insulting to see, Uh,
you know a guy like that, Baker Mayfield number one,
pick it, you know, thrown under the bus to take
everyone behind the scenes. Why Jonas is offended because he
is a huge fan of the crotch grab, which also
Baker Mayfield is, so anytime he wants to prove a point,
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he'll just grab his crotch. That's what Jonas does that
he is he is in defense of Baker Mayfield has
used that a number of times. His opponent so what
you're saying is they're they're getting rid of a Oh god,
I didn't want to go there exactly. Man. Yeah, it's
different that Yeah, and you out, you know, back then
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we're on the same parents. It's kind of it's kind
of soon is It's kind of like the stranger it's
too soon. Alright, So we should pay way more so
that they can you pay way less when they do
it themselves. I was wondering if we were all in
the same car on that together. It is, so there
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it is, And that'll conclude our cop bridge of the
Cleveland Browns quarterbacks one for all right. It is a
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huh start your Monday, Um all right, coming off this
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Who knows what sort of goodness Brady Quinn has lined
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enjoyable conversation here later on sour here on fs are. Hey,
how about uh, you know Matt Stafford? Huh getting getting
some new money there Brady Quinn, the l A. Rams
and their Super Bowl champion quarterback Matt Stafford. Uh, they've redone.
(14:12):
It's now he gets the extension done. It's the four years,
a hundred sixty million variety. One hundred thirty five million
of that is guaranteed. And in talking to some people,
I heard they were going to make it all fully
guaranteed had he not thrown that woman off the stage
at the parade. So I know that that's a reckless allegation.
(14:35):
What do you mean, watched anyone who watched what happened
nowhere near touching the woman. Um. Now that was more
of the problem because after she felt he was very
very good. Um, hopefully something that money goes to anyway, No,
like he won a super Bowl. He got there in
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one year's time and won a super Bowl. And you know,
you look at what else is happening in the NFL
right now. Everyone's trying to utilize the leverage that they have.
You know, Aaron Rodgers utilized two back to back m
VP seasons to get the contract he got Deshaun Watson
because he knew he was no longer want to play
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for the Houston Texans and you know that the criminal
cases got dropped, say what you want. He utilized that
leverage then to work with the market of four maybe
five teams, maybe there was more who were interested in
his services, and his agent, you know, did what he did.
What you do? You know, you go around every single
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opportunity and you go, yeah, all right, you know what,
what do you want to offer? What do you want
to offer? And the Texans obviously felt comfortable with the
trade compensation, but it then became how can we sweeten
the pot? And for the l A Rams they've sweetened
the pot from Matt Stafford, not because he was, you know,
ever thinking of leaving, but because they just want a
Super Bowl and and they wanted to make sure that
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he was paid and compensated, you know what, basically what
his market value is and and awarded for that and
then moving forward. I think it helps their cap structure
as well, which is you know, usually how these things
work out. And here's what's happening if you if you
noticed in the NFL, and this used to be the case, uh,
(16:19):
probably when I first started getting in the league, but
early two thousand's what happened with quarterback contracts is you
became the mortgage company. You became the lender if you will,
for NFL organizations because when you had a franchise quarterback
you believed in, they would just restructure your contract. It's
it's why when Patrick Mahomes did his deal, people are like, well,
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who gets surpassed or you know that deal is not
gonna you know, stand you know, you know, stay with
the test of time, because more guys are gonna start
doing their deals. He's gonna get surpassed with his average
annual salary guarantees. Yes, so what because when the kN
City Chiefs want to change their cap structure, they come
to Patrick Mahad, They pay m a gigantic signing bonus
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and restructure his deal. They don't have to worry about
him ever getting close to free agency again. And and
that's more of what you're seeing happen right now is
teams are using their quarterback as that lender, as the
bank to create more cap space. And the reason why
I say this is happening now is it's It's always
existed to a degree, but what became the in vogue
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thing to do was, Hey, if we're not sure about
a guy, don't worry about investing, and I'm just draft
a guy. Go draft another guy, you know, because it's
really all about building around that quarterback on his rookie deal.
That that's what everyone will lie and tell you that
formula very rarely works. It worked with Russell Wilson, it
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worked with Patrick Mahomes. You know, Joe Burrow got to
a super Bowl. But the reality is, eventually gotta pay
the guy, and so you might as well agree to
some ridiculous mega deal or whatever kind of deal you want,
but you're gonna restructure and that guy is gonna stay
your quarterback for the duration of his career if you really,
if you really think he's the guy. And so that's
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more of what we're seeing right now in the NFL.
And every quarterback is using what leverage they have to
get that deal and get that new money. And by
the way, there's a sense that the CAP's gonna jump in,
and so they want to make sure that these quarterbacks,
you know, aren't trying to utilize the leverage that they
have next year. I mean in the NFC, just by
by way of the fact that they've got a top
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three quarterback, the Rams are going to have a good
shot at making another run next year. Just I mean,
if you're just like looking at the NFC right now,
it's Rogers, it's it's Brady, it's Stafford, and I like,
I just I feel like they're in a spot to
where it's like, Okay, I mean, yeah, maybe we don't
have the the youngest guy in the world, but we
did just win a Super Bowl. He played it was
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a little bit up and down, even though he was
forced we were forced to hear about Matt Staffords m
v P all throughout the off season and in the
last season. I just think, if you're the Rams, you
look around and go in this conference, we're gonna be
a playoff team. Um. We don't know what the Niners
are gonna have in Trey Lance. Um, we don't know
what their situation is going to be like next year.
We don't know what Seattle is gonna look like in Arizona.
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Based on this odd offseason with with Kyler Murray, We're
not sure that. I just think the Rams look at
this and go, we're at least in a good spot
with a top three quarterback in the conference to try
and make another run of this thing. The likelihood they
win it again obviously a long shot. Repeating is really
tough in the NFL, as we've seen over the previous
how many years. But I just think the Rams are
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in a spot right now to where you got the guy.
He's a top three quarterback in the conference. You're gonna
be a playoff team. Now. You just wait and see
if health and everything else goes your way and you
can get a couple of breaks here. They're they're in
a good spot. To me, they're in a great spot.
I mean, it's as you said, Bucks and Packers, that's
pretty much it in the NFC. I mean, maybe Baker Mayfield,
if you go somewhere in the NFCS Saints Seattle, you know,
(19:54):
he changes how that looks. But I think if you're
the forty Niners, there's a lot of anticipation of what
Trey Lance will be. It will not be, but I
think you gotta see it in order to feel comfortable
with where it will be. I just I I look,
I look at you know, with what's happening on the
landscape the NFL. Because people will come up all the
time to be like, man, don't you wish you're still player?
You're born later so you could come to a league
(20:16):
that's paying out money like this. You go, well, I guess,
but like, how how can I control that? Like people
ask you, all, isn't this crazy money? It's like, well,
not really. The NFL is the best professional sports league
in the world, and I know soccer fans will try to,
you know, dispute them. I don't care, all right, our
(20:38):
ratings are better. Sorry, yeah, but but the truth is
is these players should be getting compensated this way. This
this league should be with the money they make, the
exposure they have, they should be getting this sort of money.
So I don't look at it and you know, think
that you wanted jealous or anything else. It's it's this
is the reality of what this league would be making
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and what some of these players should be making for
what they bring in with the partnerships with the networks,
the gambling, the fantasy football, the streaming, all the other things.
I mean, look, former quarterbacks who are broadcasters who aren't
even good at their job, like Tony Romo, are getting
what eight million a year? Like, what do you think
an actual quarterback is going to get? I mean, just
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just look around. The price of gas is going up.
Uh and by the way, it's not going down anytime soon.
From from people that I've talked to, it's apparently not
going down anytime soon. I just saw a great, great point. Okay, yeah, alright,
what's that? Would you rather tune in to watch Baker Mayfield,
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who's making eighteen million dollars a year play football, or
Troy Aikman or Tony Romo who's making about the same amount. Okay,
that's um now, does it have to be Troy Aikman
and Tony Romo it's I said, or okay, in order
because they're both making ballpark around that figure. Okay, So
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um here here is my order, because it's actually four
levels of the order. All right. So Number one, I'd
rather watch Baker Mayfield play football because I want to
see Baker Mayfield on eighteen million dollars with a point
approve next year, So that would be number one. Number
two would be Troy Aikman calling games because I like
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Troy Aikman. He was phenomenal here at Fox, and I'm
curious to see how that new look on Monday Night
Football goes. That's number two. Now, fourth on the list
would be Tony Romo, all right, he would be fourth,
uh and and third on the list would be watching
um you know, pick any player you name it fart
into a cup for three hours, because I would rather
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sit and listen to that than here Tony Romo call
out wrong plays uh and then shout over Jim Nance
because he's trying to cover up his mistake. So I'm
gonna put him forth behind the guy farting in a cup,
and then also behind Troy Aikman and Baker Mayfield. That's
my top four, okay. Um, so you kind of got
to confuse it was a woman who was doing this,
(23:12):
all right, she was putting it's not now I know,
I know exactly who that was, but now I'm just yeah,
they're just you know, points you're thinking of Piero Mancini,
who was I think it's the Italian artist who used to, um,
you know, poop in a can seal and then sell
it as art. I'm not what you're talking about him.
I'm not really sure what that is. That sounds like
is that just fertilizer? Like, isn't that just like when
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you're buying fertilizer? That's what I don't know, but I
think you can buy like little statues of it as
well as like the tin cans with its still sealed
an inside. You can literally I think his name is
Piero Manzini or something like that. Interesting, um, Irish guy,
Thank you, Thank you, Vin Vin Scully chiming in here
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huge Now. I don't know, are you a big TikTok
guy there, Brady? Are you on TikTok a right there?
I don't really understand it, but yeah, it's uh, you know,
it's people who stand in public and uh do dance videos, um,
and and think that it looks cool on camera when
anybody surrounding the camera on the outside looks at you
(25:24):
and goes, what are you doing? Man? Are you like
a mime? Are you like some some drunk looking to
make a you know, some scratch with a little cup
in front of you out in front of a shopping
mall somewhere. But apparently it's a big thing. I've never,
you know, not big on the TikTok either. I don't.
I don't even understand how it works or why anybody
would want to do that. Um. But um, I guess
(25:46):
TikTok is going to be moving its headquarters to Kansas
City because Juju, Smith Schuster and Jackson Mahomes are on
a collision course for TikTok supremacy. Uh, this is gonna
be bananas here at some point or another. This is
gonna come to a head. I don't know who you
got in the TikTok off, be careful that you say that.
(26:06):
Uh wait, we're good, We're good. Uh We're we're good. Uh.
I don't know how how this is gonna play out.
But Juju versus Jackson all TikTok all the time in
Kansas City, how about it? Um, It's it's definitely not
for me. I am curious to see who ends up
(26:28):
winning the battle of this one. Um. It was rumored
that Patrick Mahomes maybe said something that Jackson Mahomes this
offseason that he needs to calm down with with all
of these things I wonder if I'll have the same
conversation with juju Um. But he should calm down because
it's an incentive latent contract you sign. It's a one
year deal when you're proven deal, and it's really about,
(26:50):
I think, one trying to win a Super Bowl. He's
a great addition to what they already have there with
Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey and Miko Hardman Um. But
it's it's also not the amount of money. I think
he thought he was gonna make. I remember him signing
back in Pittsburgh this past offseason. He thought he was
gonna be able to, you know, couple that into a
bigger contract. Well it's going the other way. You know.
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Now he's getting it's not leag minimum, but it's getting
closer to that. And I think the tick talking and
the distractions and all that stuff ends up making it
harder for a team to want to sign him, even
though he has shown ability, but he's been banged up,
he's had injuries, and on top of that, people don't
know how much he loves football or he loves the
(27:32):
things that surround you in football, and and that's really
what this comes down to. As an opportunity now to
prove that you know, he is legit, he is gonna
be a big portion of this team trying to get
back and winning another Super Bowl. Uh. And it was
I think it was last year. Didn't he say that
he turned down more money elsewhere? He was reportedly going
to get more money elsewhere, but he wanted to come
(27:53):
back to Pittsburgh. And it's like, okay, dude, like what
are we talking about here? Who who would do that?
Or did he think let me come back to Pittsburgh
on a one year deal and I can, you know,
strike it big the next it just to your point,
it just feels like it's gone completely the opposite direction.
And I think the thought there was they just assumed
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when Antonio Brown left that he was going to take over.
Like they've seen so many times before when a receiver
walks like a Mike Wallace or a Plexico Burst or whoever,
there was always somebody that stepped right in and Jujus
never did it. Like same thing with James Conner. They
just assumed he was going to step right in for
Levy on Bell when he left, and those two guys
just never turned out to be what they expected him
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to be once the the guys before them walked and
went elsewhere. This other thing about Connor is he did
have his moments, but he was more of a product
to me and their offensive line. You know, Levian Bell
left at the right time. He was looking for more money,
maybe because he knew what was happening in front of him,
and he's like, man, you don't understand how bad this
offensive line is gonna get and to be compensated for
(28:58):
taking these hits on Karen the ball this much. But
I digress with with juju that might have been with
the Pittsburgh Steelers were thinking the truth is too and
maybe from his perspective, like he was hoping for that
opportunity to be the guy to be number one. Why
receivers start to realize then, like you better be special.
You know, you better have ungodly amount of speed, You
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better be a precise route runner, great hands um or
have ridiculous size and be able to make that contested
catch because you know, you get these dvs coming to
the league and based on least the forty times we
had this year at the combine, everyone's getting faster and
faster and faster, and if you you know, over the
period of your career. Can't keep pace with that, you're
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gonna have some problems. And I think that's been one
of the issues for him is is he's not the
biggest guy. He's not the fastest, so you know, when
you start suffering injuries, and that's only gonna slow you
down to a degree. At the end of the day,
what really are you? And as a wide receiver, you
better be able to perfect your craft, your route running,
you know, your ability to know kind of the you know,
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kind of timing and chemistry that you need to have
with your your quarterback to find the windows of the
defense to be where you need to be or where
the ball is going to be, and there's all those
sorts of other things because he doesn't have the speed
to dictate where that quarterback either needs to change his dropper,
where he needs to put the football. You know, he
doesn't have that sort of size where when Calvin Johnson
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was playing in Detroit with Matt Stafford, Stafford could just
throw the ball to a spot. Literally, if you go
back and watch tape with the Lions offense, when Calvin
Johnson was running an eighteen yard incut, he dropped back hitch,
throw it to a spot it will be about you know,
two to four yards outside excuse me, you know outside
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of the inside edge of the numbers, if that makes sense. Uh,
And then that would be the spot every single time,
and he would just rolls incut right to that spot,
jump up, go make the catch. Because he was so big,
no one else could get to that spot. No one
else could stop that. You know. That's that Those are
the rarities that you have when you have a wide
receiver like that. You as a quarterback changed the way
you throw. You're gonna change the way you play to
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adapt to that because no one else can cover that
or stop that. There's nothing that Juju Smith Schuster does
that you know, is unique in this league right now.
And I think that's what he's trying to get back
to and trying to prove that there is something about
him that makes him one of the best. You mentioned
the the Steelers offensive line that started to deteriorate. Um,
you know, before we get to break should be noted.
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Apparently the Bengals have identified the offensive line was the
priority this offseason because they've made some moves. Yeah, they've
Alex Cappell, hey man, look they they spotted and they said, yeah,
we don't like the fact that Joe Burrow is the
most sack quarterback in the NFL, although you did point
out he did hold on the ball a little bit
too long at times. But they have drastically improved that
(31:51):
offensive line. So you know, Cincinnati seems on paper, Yeah,
because because because even that group, if you hold on
the football too long, there gonna give up some sacks.
So it has to be two fold. Ask me what
they're doing up front, and they've gotta figure out ways
getting ball on us out of his hand. Quicker, it's
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Brady Quinn. Yeah, Old Santa Barbara, California, where a Chick
fil A county quote unquote public nuisance. Yeah, that's right. Um.
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The city council actually had to do a study because
traffic has gotten so bad it's so backed up that
basically this one lane, this one lane for the drive through,
that's a drive in lane. Yeah, it blocks it for
up the ninety minutes on week days. That's how busy
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and successful this Chicka fil A is. But they're now
trying to figure out a solution, but they're calling it
a public nuisance. Uh, people got to eat. I mean
we see that. We see that way in and out
a lot too. Though their lines are long, they're ethically
it's crazy to where you like, people are like, it's
no longer you can get through a drive through. It
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at in and out fast. It's no longer in and out.
It's you get they have to take your order at
the car like five or ten down the way, like
Chick fil A is on that now too, and they
do it with two lanes and merge you in the one.
So I mean there's there's a couple of Chick fil a,
uh and and out they're doing they're they're they're doing
real good. They're doing some real good business. Might have
(34:44):
to drop a dime on them. Let me tell you
something that I don't like that. All right, you want
you want to fix the traffic issues in Santa Barbara.
Why don't you fix the freeway to get that figured out?
I just I went to Santa Barbara about a month ago,
and it took way longer than it should have based on,
you know, the inability to get the freeways fixed in time.
Just kind of like that too. There's always road construction,
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like what is there not? I don't know, I don't know.
What a tough tough world, you guys. Moving back across
the country where a man was crushed at death by
a bulldozer while using the porta potty. Oh yeah, that
is unfortunate that they say he left family behind. Was
(35:30):
he married to the kids. There is no details about
the individual that was crushed. The only thing they could
say is he was working obviously I guess as a
spotter at this particular site. Um and again the person
operating the bulldozer. It was on landfill. They had no
idea that porta potty was there. And clearly this wasn't
(35:54):
you know, man, it wasn't meant to happen. It was
an accident. However, while I was using the porta potty,
you had to be inside and cut it up. I mean,
was unbelievable. If that's the eulogy that I have to deliver.
He was a good man, and he went out doing
(36:15):
what he enjoyed doing like that. That would be horrible.
Didn't Elvis die in the toilet? I heard he didn't
die yet, So I don't know that's true talking about
that's true. Shame on you. I did, I did. I'm not.
First of all, you went at Mike Chewsky earlier. Were
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not just played a toilet flushing? All right? Like that's
that's the classiest thing that's ever been done here. I
just don't understand how you don't see a porter potty
from a bulldozer. I mean that one, just that one.
Just I'm I'm a little bit, you know, kind of
mystified by that one. All that kind of bumps me out, Actually, attle,
I don't know how that works. Now, how do you
(36:57):
not see the porter pot But look, we've got plenty
of time right now, we have plenty of times. Yeah, well,
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the last time you guys used a porta potty? H
I'll say this much. I mean for number one, I
don't know, but never number two. Yeah, never number two.
Trying to I believe it's gotta been a couple of
years back. It's gott have been a few years. I
remember it too, because it was just really just just
(38:02):
just had to happen. What do you mean, I just
happened just I mean it was either that or a
soda bottle or like a gatorade bottle. Ah,
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Fox Sports Radio. Obviously, the big news in the NFL
over the weekend h the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes have wrapped up.
(01:03):
The Cleveland Browns get it done. The Browns have a
brand new quarterback, into Shaun Watson. They get a trade
done on Friday after we were hearing reports that, uh,
the Browns were considered out of it. But as it stands,
UH the three first round picks over the next three
years twenty three and twenty four. Uh, and then Cleveland
(01:25):
go aheads and they go ahead and sign them to
a five year, two hundred thirty million dollar guaranteed contract.
So Deshaun Watson is now a member of the a
f C North in competition with Joe Burrow for the
best quarterback in that division. Obviously you've got Lamar Jackson
still there, but a loaded a f C. Uh continues
(01:45):
to churn out storyline after storyline this offseason. Today for
four pm, Like that's that's quite the dilemma, right, So
was seven seven point five if roster bone? If he's
on the roster at four pm today? Is that West
coast or East coast time eater? Um? Well, it was
(02:09):
early today. Then it's one one pm, right, one pm Pacific.
They gotta they gotta make a decision ten am in Hawaii.
How about it? If he was in Hawaii, he know
what his fate is you're getting off that surfboard next thing.
You know, there's there's some speculation that they're gonna have
(02:32):
to maybe uh sweeten the pot a little bit, just
you know, listen, we apologize that we're you know, poking
the you know, seeing what was out there with Deshaun Watson. Uh,
you know, we'd love to have you back and maybe uh,
you know, kind of do something different. There was a
report over the weekend that said, I think it was
lanzer Line who said that, uh, you know, Matt Ryan
wants like uh it wants like a new deal, you know,
(02:54):
in order to make this work. So it just feels like,
why not, Yeah, I mean why not he you know,
Baker is kind of the only one that we've heard
come out in the public and had something to say
once a team courted, uh courted Deshaun Watson. I mean,
we didn't hear anything out of Carolina, we didn't hear
anything out of Atlanta, you know. So I found that
(03:14):
to be pretty interesting. I mean, if anybody would have
the right to be able to say, huh, I'm offended,
it would be my Ryan. Out of all that. That's
not his personality though. I Actually the other thing about
Matt Ryan is he's made two million. How how much
has he made his career from the Atlanta Falcons, And
I want to say it's around like two hundred million.
(03:35):
It's north of one fifty I know that much. So
it's a little different in the sense that this team
has invested in him and pay him a bowload over
the course of a great career. I don't know that,
you know, he feels maybe as offended. You know, I
think to some degree he gets it. He hears what's
(03:56):
being said out around him and how the past few
years of gone on. I mean, they've the bottom line
is they've been on a decline since their Super Bowl years.
It's one m v P. So it's a bit more
understandable when you've already made all that money and you're
looking at what's around you, going all right, I may
not be the biggest problem here, but I don't know
(04:17):
that I've necessarily been the solution either. You know, as
you stripped away what's been around him, you started to
see that game deteriorate. And he's the style and type
of player that needs more help out around him in
order to be successful. You know, Watson, because of his
ability to run and move and buy time. He helps
make it easier to go on a team that's not
(04:40):
quite as gonna make them competitive. He did that in Houston,
with the exception of maybe his last year, but you know,
even then, he's still what led the league in passing yards,
you know that year I did, by the way, and
and Brady, you're gonna have you are much better at
this contract stuff than me. But I can't believe that
this is true, although maybe I shouldn't be as surprised.
(05:00):
So go ahead and guess what do you think Matt
Ryan's career earnings are. Uh, that's obviously before um taxes
and all the other things that probably two Okay, I'm
showing two hundred and sixty seven million. Yeah, you forget
he's been in the league for fourteen like that. I
didn't realize he would make God, I mean, here comes
(05:26):
the question if you're if you're Atlanta, I mean, wouldn't
you rather give up a decent draft pick to to
get him if you're gonna move on, to get him
off your books and go in a different direction before today,
I mean before four pm. Yeah, well you can potentially
you can do that, but the reality is you know
(05:48):
you're gonna you're gonna have to probably pay a portion
of it one way or another. Right if you cut him,
wouldn't Well, if you cut him, you've got a huge
as a roster bonus. Well, but you've got a huge,
huge hit on your dead cap for this year. So
I don't think that's what you want to do. I
think you're either looking at keeping him and drafting someone
(06:08):
who's going to eventually replace him, or you want to
try to move on from him and realize they're gonna
have to pay a portion of it in order to
make it work. But I mean, if you cut him,
I believe it's dead cap hit this year will be
forty million dollars. Yeah, that's as I think, as big
as it. I don't even know what they're reporting about.
(06:28):
Is because this is one of this is this is
one of the uh, I guess the conversations coming off
Matt Ryan is enjoying Hawaii and Matt Ryan is is
enjoying massage overlooking the Yeah, he's good, he's good. He's
(06:53):
really good. Two and sixties seven million, my god. But
so this is one of the things, though, it is interesting.
This is why I always liked Jimmy Garoppolo. Here's why.
So Baker Mayfield is upset, and we get it. The
Browns went out and we're trying to court somebody else.
Maybe Matt Ryan's a little piste off Garoppolo. Every year,
(07:14):
every year, like every year, there's reports about and they're
on it, like John Lynch and uh and Kyle Shanahan.
Remember John Lynch even said, yeah, you know, we asked
about Tom Brady. Yeah, of course, yeah, we asked about
like every year, and you never hear Garoppolo saying curious,
never says anything. I'm curious to see if it does
(07:36):
in fact turn into well, no matter what it is,
if it's a trade, if it's waivers, if he clears waivers,
and his side as as a true free agent, I'm
curious to see what they pay Baker Mayfield, especially if
it's if it's a trade, because they don't have to
necessarily take take the contract that he has and keep
(07:57):
them on the fifth year. They could redo the deal.
So to be interesting to see do they see the
value in him to give him a deal, or do
they see the value in him to say we'll take
this fifteen for the year and we'll negotiate as we
see fit during the course of the season. And quite frankly,
if he gets if he were to get released, what
(08:19):
would they you know, where does that number start? Do
you start at that fifteen million number or do you
go below that number? Like where does the value lie
with Baker mayfit today? Is that he makes eighteen this year.
(08:40):
I think that's That's the tough conversation. He's gotta be
happy with his agent is you know, teams might be
enquiring about him, and they'll work with the team to
work with the Browns, and they'll work in conjunction with
his agent, and his agent might say, well, you know,
we don't want to go there if you're not gonna
sign us to an extension, or this is the numbers
we were talking about with clear of one and they
(09:01):
didn't want to do it, or however you're gonna handle
those conversations the routies. He's in a tough spot. Um
if he if he gets released, he wants to sign
a probably a one year prove it deal and knowing
him so he can capitalize on it after the year
which he ended up making less than he was gonna
make on his fifth year option but you know, he
(09:21):
he might just get traded for what ends up playing
for that one year under what he currently has. But
I would imagine that would be to an NFC team
like Seattle for example, would make a lot of sense
in this scenario. I just I think he's in a
tough spot because he he's the type of players uber competitive,
and he wants to get paid what he thinks his worth,
and he thinks he's worth he's better or or worth
(09:44):
more than Deshaun Watson. I could promise you he thinks
that every NFL quarterback thinks that about themselves. Am I crazy?
I just don't think people are sort of laughing at
Baker Mayfield almost and saying, oh, you know, good riddens
this and that, and the Browns are happy because they
upgraded and Deshaun Watson isn't upgrade over Baker Mayfield. I
don't think he's that bad. I really don't think Baker
(10:06):
Mayfields a bad quarterback. I'm sorry. I know that last
year was a disappointing year that we've talked about the
injuries and and you know they were not the same
team they were the year before. He didn't play great
um at times last season, uh going even before the
injuries started and all that. I just don't think he's
as bad as a lot of people are portraying him.
(10:26):
It just feels like whatever it is about his personality,
some people don't like they've carried that with him. But
I think you put him in a spot he can
win games, and Baker Mayfield piste off with something to prove.
I think it's a fun quarterback to watch. So I
just I don't buy the uh, the slander on Baker
Mayfield just a little bit insulting. Gotta be honest with you.
(10:47):
Sticks little insulting there. That's your guy? Are you the
one that's insulted? It's yeah, it's a it's insulting to see, Uh,
you know a guy like that, Baker Mayfield number one,
pick it, you know, thrown under the bus to take
everyone behind the scenes. Why Jonas is offended because he
is a huge fan of the crotch grab, which also
Baker Mayfield is, so anytime he wants to prove a point,
(11:09):
he'll just grab his crotch. That's what Jonas does that
he is he is in defense of Baker Mayfield has
used that a number of times. His opponent so what
you're saying is they're they're getting rid of a Oh god,
I didn't want to go there exactly. Man. Yeah, it's
different that Yeah, and you out, you know, back then
(11:34):
we're on the same parents. It's kind of it's kind
of soon is It's kind of like the stranger it's
too soon. Alright, So we should pay way more so
that they can you pay way less when they do
it themselves. I was wondering if we were all in
the same car on that together. It is, so there
(11:58):
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enjoyable conversation here later on sour here on fs are. Hey,
how about uh, you know Matt Stafford? Huh getting getting
some new money there Brady Quinn, the l A. Rams
and their Super Bowl champion quarterback Matt Stafford. Uh, they've redone.
(14:12):
It's now he gets the extension done. It's the four years,
a hundred sixty million variety. One hundred thirty five million
of that is guaranteed. And in talking to some people,
I heard they were going to make it all fully
guaranteed had he not thrown that woman off the stage
at the parade. So I know that that's a reckless allegation.
(14:35):
What do you mean, watched anyone who watched what happened
nowhere near touching the woman. Um. Now that was more
of the problem because after she felt he was very
very good. Um, hopefully something that money goes to anyway, No,
like he won a super Bowl. He got there in
(14:56):
one year's time and won a super Bowl. And you know,
you look at what else is happening in the NFL
right now. Everyone's trying to utilize the leverage that they have.
You know, Aaron Rodgers utilized two back to back m
VP seasons to get the contract he got Deshaun Watson
because he knew he was no longer want to play
(15:16):
for the Houston Texans and you know that the criminal
cases got dropped, say what you want. He utilized that
leverage then to work with the market of four maybe
five teams, maybe there was more who were interested in
his services, and his agent, you know, did what he did.
What you do? You know, you go around every single
(15:37):
opportunity and you go, yeah, all right, you know what,
what do you want to offer? What do you want
to offer? And the Texans obviously felt comfortable with the
trade compensation, but it then became how can we sweeten
the pot? And for the l A Rams they've sweetened
the pot from Matt Stafford, not because he was, you know,
ever thinking of leaving, but because they just want a
Super Bowl and and they wanted to make sure that
(15:59):
he was paid and compensated, you know what, basically what
his market value is and and awarded for that and
then moving forward. I think it helps their cap structure
as well, which is you know, usually how these things
work out. And here's what's happening if you if you
noticed in the NFL, and this used to be the case, uh,
(16:19):
probably when I first started getting in the league, but
early two thousand's what happened with quarterback contracts is you
became the mortgage company. You became the lender if you will,
for NFL organizations because when you had a franchise quarterback
you believed in, they would just restructure your contract. It's
it's why when Patrick Mahomes did his deal, people are like, well,
(16:40):
who gets surpassed or you know that deal is not
gonna you know, stand you know, you know, stay with
the test of time, because more guys are gonna start
doing their deals. He's gonna get surpassed with his average
annual salary guarantees. Yes, so what because when the kN
City Chiefs want to change their cap structure, they come
to Patrick Mahad, They pay m a gigantic signing bonus
(17:02):
and restructure his deal. They don't have to worry about
him ever getting close to free agency again. And and
that's more of what you're seeing happen right now is
teams are using their quarterback as that lender, as the
bank to create more cap space. And the reason why
I say this is happening now is it's It's always
existed to a degree, but what became the in vogue
(17:24):
thing to do was, Hey, if we're not sure about
a guy, don't worry about investing, and I'm just draft
a guy. Go draft another guy, you know, because it's
really all about building around that quarterback on his rookie deal.
That that's what everyone will lie and tell you that
formula very rarely works. It worked with Russell Wilson, it
(17:46):
worked with Patrick Mahomes. You know, Joe Burrow got to
a super Bowl. But the reality is, eventually gotta pay
the guy, and so you might as well agree to
some ridiculous mega deal or whatever kind of deal you want,
but you're gonna restructure and that guy is gonna stay
your quarterback for the duration of his career if you really,
if you really think he's the guy. And so that's
(18:06):
more of what we're seeing right now in the NFL.
And every quarterback is using what leverage they have to
get that deal and get that new money. And by
the way, there's a sense that the CAP's gonna jump in,
and so they want to make sure that these quarterbacks,
you know, aren't trying to utilize the leverage that they
have next year. I mean in the NFC, just by
by way of the fact that they've got a top
(18:27):
three quarterback, the Rams are going to have a good
shot at making another run next year. Just I mean,
if you're just like looking at the NFC right now,
it's Rogers, it's it's Brady, it's Stafford, and I like,
I just I feel like they're in a spot to
where it's like, Okay, I mean, yeah, maybe we don't
have the the youngest guy in the world, but we
did just win a Super Bowl. He played it was
(18:48):
a little bit up and down, even though he was
forced we were forced to hear about Matt Staffords m
v P all throughout the off season and in the
last season. I just think, if you're the Rams, you
look around and go in this conference, we're gonna be
a playoff team. Um. We don't know what the Niners
are gonna have in Trey Lance. Um, we don't know
what their situation is going to be like next year.
We don't know what Seattle is gonna look like in Arizona.
(19:11):
Based on this odd offseason with with Kyler Murray, We're
not sure that. I just think the Rams look at
this and go, we're at least in a good spot
with a top three quarterback in the conference to try
and make another run of this thing. The likelihood they
win it again obviously a long shot. Repeating is really
tough in the NFL, as we've seen over the previous
how many years. But I just think the Rams are
(19:31):
in a spot right now to where you got the guy.
He's a top three quarterback in the conference. You're gonna
be a playoff team. Now. You just wait and see
if health and everything else goes your way and you
can get a couple of breaks here. They're they're in
a good spot. To me, they're in a great spot.
I mean, it's as you said, Bucks and Packers, that's
pretty much it in the NFC. I mean, maybe Baker Mayfield,
if you go somewhere in the NFCS Saints Seattle, you know,
(19:54):
he changes how that looks. But I think if you're
the forty Niners, there's a lot of anticipation of what
Trey Lance will be. It will not be, but I
think you gotta see it in order to feel comfortable
with where it will be. I just I I look,
I look at you know, with what's happening on the
landscape the NFL. Because people will come up all the
time to be like, man, don't you wish you're still player?
You're born later so you could come to a league
(20:16):
that's paying out money like this. You go, well, I guess,
but like, how how can I control that? Like people
ask you, all, isn't this crazy money? It's like, well,
not really. The NFL is the best professional sports league
in the world, and I know soccer fans will try to,
you know, dispute them. I don't care, all right, our
(20:38):
ratings are better. Sorry, yeah, but but the truth is
is these players should be getting compensated this way. This
this league should be with the money they make, the
exposure they have, they should be getting this sort of money.
So I don't look at it and you know, think
that you wanted jealous or anything else. It's it's this
is the reality of what this league would be making
(21:01):
and what some of these players should be making for
what they bring in with the partnerships with the networks,
the gambling, the fantasy football, the streaming, all the other things.
I mean, look, former quarterbacks who are broadcasters who aren't
even good at their job, like Tony Romo, are getting
what eight million a year? Like, what do you think
an actual quarterback is going to get? I mean, just
(21:22):
just look around. The price of gas is going up.
Uh and by the way, it's not going down anytime soon.
From from people that I've talked to, it's apparently not
going down anytime soon. I just saw a great, great point. Okay, yeah, alright,
what's that? Would you rather tune in to watch Baker Mayfield,
(21:43):
who's making eighteen million dollars a year play football, or
Troy Aikman or Tony Romo who's making about the same amount. Okay,
that's um now, does it have to be Troy Aikman
and Tony Romo it's I said, or okay, in order
because they're both making ballpark around that figure. Okay, So
(22:06):
um here here is my order, because it's actually four
levels of the order. All right. So Number one, I'd
rather watch Baker Mayfield play football because I want to
see Baker Mayfield on eighteen million dollars with a point
approve next year, So that would be number one. Number
two would be Troy Aikman calling games because I like
(22:28):
Troy Aikman. He was phenomenal here at Fox, and I'm
curious to see how that new look on Monday Night
Football goes. That's number two. Now, fourth on the list
would be Tony Romo, all right, he would be fourth,
uh and and third on the list would be watching
um you know, pick any player you name it fart
into a cup for three hours, because I would rather
(22:51):
sit and listen to that than here Tony Romo call
out wrong plays uh and then shout over Jim Nance
because he's trying to cover up his mistake. So I'm
gonna put him forth behind the guy farting in a cup,
and then also behind Troy Aikman and Baker Mayfield. That's
my top four, okay. Um, so you kind of got
to confuse it was a woman who was doing this,
(23:12):
all right, she was putting it's not now I know,
I know exactly who that was, but now I'm just yeah,
they're just you know, points you're thinking of Piero Mancini,
who was I think it's the Italian artist who used to, um,
you know, poop in a can seal and then sell
it as art. I'm not what you're talking about him.
I'm not really sure what that is. That sounds like
is that just fertilizer? Like, isn't that just like when
(23:33):
you're buying fertilizer? That's what I don't know, but I
think you can buy like little statues of it as
well as like the tin cans with its still sealed
an inside. You can literally I think his name is
Piero Manzini or something like that. Interesting, um, Irish guy,
Thank you, Thank you, Vin Vin Scully chiming in here
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(25:02):
huge Now. I don't know, are you a big TikTok
guy there, Brady? Are you on TikTok a right there?
I don't really understand it, but yeah, it's uh, you know,
it's people who stand in public and uh do dance videos, um,
and and think that it looks cool on camera when
anybody surrounding the camera on the outside looks at you
(25:24):
and goes, what are you doing? Man? Are you like
a mime? Are you like some some drunk looking to
make a you know, some scratch with a little cup
in front of you out in front of a shopping
mall somewhere. But apparently it's a big thing. I've never,
you know, not big on the TikTok either. I don't.
I don't even understand how it works or why anybody
would want to do that. Um. But um, I guess
(25:46):
TikTok is going to be moving its headquarters to Kansas
City because Juju, Smith Schuster and Jackson Mahomes are on
a collision course for TikTok supremacy. Uh, this is gonna
be bananas here at some point or another. This is
gonna come to a head. I don't know who you
got in the TikTok off, be careful that you say that.
(26:06):
Uh wait, we're good, We're good. Uh We're we're good. Uh.
I don't know how how this is gonna play out.
But Juju versus Jackson all TikTok all the time in
Kansas City, how about it? Um, It's it's definitely not
for me. I am curious to see who ends up
(26:28):
winning the battle of this one. Um. It was rumored
that Patrick Mahomes maybe said something that Jackson Mahomes this
offseason that he needs to calm down with with all
of these things I wonder if I'll have the same
conversation with juju Um. But he should calm down because
it's an incentive latent contract you sign. It's a one
year deal when you're proven deal, and it's really about,
(26:50):
I think, one trying to win a Super Bowl. He's
a great addition to what they already have there with
Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey and Miko Hardman Um. But
it's it's also not the amount of money. I think
he thought he was gonna make. I remember him signing
back in Pittsburgh this past offseason. He thought he was
gonna be able to, you know, couple that into a
bigger contract. Well it's going the other way. You know.
(27:11):
Now he's getting it's not leag minimum, but it's getting
closer to that. And I think the tick talking and
the distractions and all that stuff ends up making it
harder for a team to want to sign him, even
though he has shown ability, but he's been banged up,
he's had injuries, and on top of that, people don't
know how much he loves football or he loves the
(27:32):
things that surround you in football, and and that's really
what this comes down to. As an opportunity now to
prove that you know, he is legit, he is gonna
be a big portion of this team trying to get
back and winning another Super Bowl. Uh. And it was
I think it was last year. Didn't he say that
he turned down more money elsewhere? He was reportedly going
to get more money elsewhere, but he wanted to come
(27:53):
back to Pittsburgh. And it's like, okay, dude, like what
are we talking about here? Who who would do that?
Or did he think let me come back to Pittsburgh
on a one year deal and I can, you know,
strike it big the next it just to your point,
it just feels like it's gone completely the opposite direction.
And I think the thought there was they just assumed
(28:15):
when Antonio Brown left that he was going to take over.
Like they've seen so many times before when a receiver
walks like a Mike Wallace or a Plexico Burst or whoever,
there was always somebody that stepped right in and Jujus
never did it. Like same thing with James Conner. They
just assumed he was going to step right in for
Levy on Bell when he left, and those two guys
just never turned out to be what they expected him
(28:36):
to be once the the guys before them walked and
went elsewhere. This other thing about Connor is he did
have his moments, but he was more of a product
to me and their offensive line. You know, Levian Bell
left at the right time. He was looking for more money,
maybe because he knew what was happening in front of him,
and he's like, man, you don't understand how bad this
offensive line is gonna get and to be compensated for
(28:58):
taking these hits on Karen the ball this much. But
I digress with with juju that might have been with
the Pittsburgh Steelers were thinking the truth is too and
maybe from his perspective, like he was hoping for that
opportunity to be the guy to be number one. Why
receivers start to realize then, like you better be special.
You know, you better have ungodly amount of speed, You
(29:19):
better be a precise route runner, great hands um or
have ridiculous size and be able to make that contested
catch because you know, you get these dvs coming to
the league and based on least the forty times we
had this year at the combine, everyone's getting faster and
faster and faster, and if you you know, over the
period of your career. Can't keep pace with that, you're
(29:41):
gonna have some problems. And I think that's been one
of the issues for him is is he's not the
biggest guy. He's not the fastest, so you know, when
you start suffering injuries, and that's only gonna slow you
down to a degree. At the end of the day,
what really are you? And as a wide receiver, you
better be able to perfect your craft, your route running,
you know, your ability to know kind of the you know,
(30:03):
kind of timing and chemistry that you need to have
with your your quarterback to find the windows of the
defense to be where you need to be or where
the ball is going to be, and there's all those
sorts of other things because he doesn't have the speed
to dictate where that quarterback either needs to change his dropper,
where he needs to put the football. You know, he
doesn't have that sort of size where when Calvin Johnson
(30:24):
was playing in Detroit with Matt Stafford, Stafford could just
throw the ball to a spot. Literally, if you go
back and watch tape with the Lions offense, when Calvin
Johnson was running an eighteen yard incut, he dropped back hitch,
throw it to a spot it will be about you know,
two to four yards outside excuse me, you know outside
(30:45):
of the inside edge of the numbers, if that makes sense. Uh,
And then that would be the spot every single time,
and he would just rolls incut right to that spot,
jump up, go make the catch. Because he was so big,
no one else could get to that spot. No one
else could stop that. You know. That's that Those are
the rarities that you have when you have a wide
receiver like that. You as a quarterback changed the way
you throw. You're gonna change the way you play to
(31:06):
adapt to that because no one else can cover that
or stop that. There's nothing that Juju Smith Schuster does
that you know, is unique in this league right now.
And I think that's what he's trying to get back
to and trying to prove that there is something about
him that makes him one of the best. You mentioned
the the Steelers offensive line that started to deteriorate. Um,
you know, before we get to break should be noted.
(31:27):
Apparently the Bengals have identified the offensive line was the
priority this offseason because they've made some moves. Yeah, they've
Alex Cappell, hey man, look they they spotted and they said, yeah,
we don't like the fact that Joe Burrow is the
most sack quarterback in the NFL, although you did point
out he did hold on the ball a little bit
too long at times. But they have drastically improved that
(31:51):
offensive line. So you know, Cincinnati seems on paper, Yeah,
because because because even that group, if you hold on
the football too long, there gonna give up some sacks.
So it has to be two fold. Ask me what
they're doing up front, and they've gotta figure out ways
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Brady Quinn. Yeah, Old Santa Barbara, California, where a Chick
fil A county quote unquote public nuisance. Yeah, that's right. Um.
(33:40):
The city council actually had to do a study because
traffic has gotten so bad it's so backed up that
basically this one lane, this one lane for the drive through,
that's a drive in lane. Yeah, it blocks it for
up the ninety minutes on week days. That's how busy
(34:01):
and successful this Chicka fil A is. But they're now
trying to figure out a solution, but they're calling it
a public nuisance. Uh, people got to eat. I mean
we see that. We see that way in and out
a lot too. Though their lines are long, they're ethically
it's crazy to where you like, people are like, it's
no longer you can get through a drive through. It
(34:22):
at in and out fast. It's no longer in and out.
It's you get they have to take your order at
the car like five or ten down the way, like
Chick fil A is on that now too, and they
do it with two lanes and merge you in the one.
So I mean there's there's a couple of Chick fil a,
uh and and out they're doing they're they're they're doing
real good. They're doing some real good business. Might have
(34:44):
to drop a dime on them. Let me tell you
something that I don't like that. All right, you want
you want to fix the traffic issues in Santa Barbara.
Why don't you fix the freeway to get that figured out?
I just I went to Santa Barbara about a month ago,
and it took way longer than it should have based on,
you know, the inability to get the freeways fixed in time.
Just kind of like that too. There's always road construction,
(35:08):
like what is there not? I don't know, I don't know.
What a tough tough world, you guys. Moving back across
the country where a man was crushed at death by
a bulldozer while using the porta potty. Oh yeah, that
is unfortunate that they say he left family behind. Was
(35:30):
he married to the kids. There is no details about
the individual that was crushed. The only thing they could
say is he was working obviously I guess as a
spotter at this particular site. Um and again the person
operating the bulldozer. It was on landfill. They had no
idea that porta potty was there. And clearly this wasn't
(35:54):
you know, man, it wasn't meant to happen. It was
an accident. However, while I was using the porta potty,
you had to be inside and cut it up. I mean,
was unbelievable. If that's the eulogy that I have to deliver.
He was a good man, and he went out doing
(36:15):
what he enjoyed doing like that. That would be horrible.
Didn't Elvis die in the toilet? I heard he didn't
die yet, So I don't know that's true talking about
that's true. Shame on you. I did, I did. I'm not.
First of all, you went at Mike Chewsky earlier. Were
(36:37):
not just played a toilet flushing? All right? Like that's
that's the classiest thing that's ever been done here. I
just don't understand how you don't see a porter potty
from a bulldozer. I mean that one, just that one.
Just I'm I'm a little bit, you know, kind of
mystified by that one. All that kind of bumps me out, Actually, attle,
I don't know how that works. Now, how do you
(36:57):
not see the porter pot But look, we've got plenty
of time right now, we have plenty of times. Yeah, well,
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really yeah yeah up A factor in this point. When's
(37:41):
the last time you guys used a porta potty? H
I'll say this much. I mean for number one, I
don't know, but never number two. Yeah, never number two.
Trying to I believe it's gotta been a couple of
years back. It's gott have been a few years. I
remember it too, because it was just really just just
(38:02):
just had to happen. What do you mean, I just
happened just I mean it was either that or a
soda bottle or like a gatorade bottle. Ah,
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