August 23, 2024 • 47 mins
On this edition of The Best Of The Doug Gottlieb Show: Dan Beyer and Kerry Rhodes in for Doug as they discuss the likelihood of 49ers' receiver Brandon Aiyuk getting moved soon, and make a case for the Commanders being the team that trades for him.
Dan and Kerry talk about Anthony Richardson's development as the Colts' quarterback starts his second year in the NFL. The guys welcome former NFL Executive Mark Dominik on to talk about the Colts, the 49ers and all of the other major headlines around the NFL.
Dan, Kerry and the crew put a drink in their hands on a Frosty Friday and share what they are looking forward to most this weekend.
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At this point August twenty third, entering the final week
of the preseason. Are you Are you shocked? Are you surprised?
Are you taking aback at all that Brandon Ayuk is
still a member of the San Francisco forty nine ers,
but it's still being a holden and his status is
in limbo.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Is any of this shocking to you? I'm shocked that
he's not signed. You know, well, he is signed, I
guess by the letter of the law. But I'm shocked
that he's still he's still on that team right now.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, that there hasn't been a trade.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
If something hasn't happened or taken place yet, I mean,
you get to a point obviously they do not want
to part ways with Brandon, but they're at a stillmate,
and it doesn't seem like there's any tracks happening there.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So either make a move and move on with.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The guys you got, or make something happen and get
him signed. So I'm I'm I'm taken aback by that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
By that notion, I think that if we said Trent
william is still a holdout at this point, I'm not surprised.
Veteran offensive tackle, you know, left tackle, all pro, all everything,
probably the best tackle in the game. That he's holding
out right now. I don't think is a huge deal,
and I think that's part partly due to Brandon.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Right, they're trying to stretch out that money there to
get that situated.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They're gonna take care of Trent for sure. This second.
I got Brandon Ayuk collin right now. Yeah, let me
live breaking news. What we got? What we got? Yeah,
let me let me hear. Hey, what's up? Okay there
it is? Huh all right, yeah, all right, there it
is right. Brandon Ayuk has just called me and told
me that he wants to go to the Washington Commanders. Wow,
because that franchise needs a break. Okay, maybe that wasn't
(02:44):
Brandon Ayuk, but I believe that the Washington Commanders need
a break. And the reason that we start this yere
is because there was a story yesterday from Mike Silver,
longtime NFL reporter who is now ready for the San
Francisco Chronicle. But I think by and large most people
know who Mike Silver is. Mike Silver is locked into
the San Francisco forty nine ers. He was speaking on
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canbr and basically said this, some of this reporting that's
going on with Brandon Nayuk right now is pretty ridiculous.
Some of the people saying that it's a done deal,
he's on his way to Pittsburgh saying that's not the case.
We have heard stories over this past week that the
forty nine ers in Ayuk have closed the gap, that
there is some stuff in that contract that maybe needs
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to be taken care of by ownership. Silver heard some
of the reports, dismissed some of that, But what Mike
Silver did not dismiss is that the Washington Commanders are
completely out of the running for Brandon Nyuk And to me,
as we get to this point entering the final weekend
of the NFL preseason and seeing where this landscape is
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and how the forty nine ers are trying to set
up their team for a super Bowl run, which I
think is the last in this window. Once you pay
brock Party, it's a completely different scenario. You lose in
the super Bowl in overtime, You're this close, you are
so close, and I know you can't see it on radio,
but my fingers are mill you know, like centimeters apart.
(04:11):
This is how this is how close they were to
winning a super Bowl. You want to run it back,
but I'd rather look at a team that has squandered
opportunities over the last decade or two because of their
crappy owner, Dan Snyder. And now Dan Snyder has gone
new regime is in there. Ana Peters is the team's
general manager. He came over from the San Francisco forty
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nine ers. Dan Quinn's the new head coach. He has
super Bowl head coaching experience. You've drafted Jayden Daniels of LSU,
previously of Arizona State Heisman Trophy winner. He's your starting
quarterback for a week one? Why not give him another
familiar target, Like like, let's do something for the Commanders
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and let's do something for their fans. I know, winning
football games cures all, but right now, how exciting would
that be? How great would that be in this true
new era of Washington football. And I understand ownership change
took place last year. But you have Dan Quinn there,
you got Adam Peters there. Now you have your new quarterback.
(05:16):
You have him and Terry McLaurin lining up on the
outside for your Heisman Trophy winning quarterback that manything could
be the best quarterback, even better than Caleb Williams from
this draft. Let's do something. Let's roll the dice. I
think the Commanders need to get Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So you think the Commanders need just any sort of
win right now? You think that bringing in Brandon would
give them cashe.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
A little pizzazz or do you think they will win
not a night. That's the second part of this, because
I do think it would help them. I do think
that they would be a drastically better football team. And
you have a Terry McLaurin contract that he signed a
couple of years ago, but he's not signed up for
the next three or four years. If you wanted Brandon
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Ayuk to be the one, you're not investing all of
your money in McLaurin and Ayuk at this time. But
let's make it easy on the rookie quarterback. Let's make
the transition easier. They do have to improve on their
offensive line, which is one of the worst in the
NFL last season. They also punted at the end of
the season last year because they wanted to get one
of those top picks. They completely threw in the towel.
(06:23):
But let's look at that division carry realistically, no one
believes the Giants are going to be any good. No
They've got a great defensive line, but offensively, we have
huge questions about Daniel Jones and what that offense is
going to be now without Saquon Barkley. So then you
have the Dallas Cowboys. Are you sold on the Cowboys? No? No,
(06:45):
I don't think a lot of people are right.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think they'll make the playoffs, but that doesn't mean anything,
and that would be maybe ceiling right now.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know if they're going to win the division.
Philadelphia is probably the best team in the division because
of their talent, and if you added Brandon ay you
can have Terry McLaurin out there may not be better,
but it's sure rivals what Philadelphia has on the outside.
You just traded Johann Dotson to the Philadelphia Eagles. You
picked up a third round pick, So now, no, no, only
have you made room on your roster with moving Dotson out,
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you've also gained another pick to possibly do another deal
that you could use to acquire Ayuk. Jalen Hurts has
more cachet in the game right now, but if Jayden
Daniels is what people think he is, he could rival
Jalen Hurts. Point is is you're not as far away
from the Philadelphia Eagles as you think that you may be.
We think that the Washington Commanders are maybe years and
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years away, but I think they're a lot closer than
they are within that division, within where the playoffs are
right now. Adding Brandon Ayuk to the Steelers when you
have no idea who their quarterback's going to be, you
don't know what the future is going to be with
Russell Wilson or Justin Fields, doesn't make any sense to me.
Brandon Ayuk going to the Washington Commanders makes a lot
of sense to me, And I think that they owe
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it to their fan base to let's do something big.
Let's show them that we're in it with all these
new pieces.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, I mean that part makes sense for sure. I mean,
the Commanders aren't that far away. They really aren't. You
watch them play, and I watched them the last couple
of years, I mean right around five hundred down down
the stretch of the last couple of years, and a
couple of wins here and there, a couple of blown,
crazy losses that they had in that mix. They could
have been playoff teams in those past two years. And
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so they're not that far away Brandon Aiyuk. Adding them
to the mix with the young quarterback and Jayden Daniels
with their offensive line, though, it would be a problem.
Now you'll have the talent, but we've seen talent any
NFL doesn't do anything if you can't block it up right,
And so that would be my only worry in this situation,
and that's my worry with them this season.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
They have to protect the young guy, and if he
gets hit too many times this early in this rookie season,
it can cause big, big, big damage. And so I
hope they're able to get some packages, some movement with
him and let him move around and make plays because
he's capable of doing that. But I'm excited to see
what they can put on the table.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Wouldn't you say though that, Like I've been using this
phrase a lot lately. You know how you get stuck
on a phrase. Hey is in the bar and has
been like my phrase of August twenty twenty, everything work
has done, work is done. I feel like with the
offensive line, you've done what you've done, it's gonna be
what it's gonna be. So adding Brandon Ayuk another weapon
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could help Jaden Daniels, who's gonna need to probably escape
a lot more pressure, and he's shown that he can
do that. But I just don't see any hurt in
adding someone like Brandon Ayuk, who you can keep in
the fold, which, by the way, who also has a
personal relationship with the starting quarterback from their time at
Arizona State, so there's there's that connection as well. It
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just makes a lot more sense to me than the
Pittsburgh Steelers. And look, Brandon Nayuk is probably going to
stay a forty nine or because the forty nine Ers
have so much invested in it. But man, I just
and I'm not a fan of the Commanders. I do
think that that the NFL feels a little different when
Washington is good. There's a different feel in the National
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Football League when Washington is a team to beat. But
it's been so long that I think people have forgotten that,
and I think now here is an opportunity where you
can add another piece and maybe let's fast track some
of this success. We're looking at the Bears in all
of their additions that they've made this offseason, and they're
likely still going to be led by what is a
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great defense and allow Caleb Williams to use DJ Moore
and Keenan Allen, Roma Dunze and DeAndre Swift and in
the best way possible. But why can't you do that
if you're Washington as well? I agree you kind of
reset defensively. Washington and the Bears made a deal last
year Montes what you ended up being dealt to Chicago.
But there's still pieces there for Washington on the defensive line.
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Allen's there, Pain's there, Their pieces for Washington to be
competitive and maybe make that wildcard spot, which I think
would be great for that organization, great for the fan
base and give them something positive about whether the NFC
East is a little more a bit more guttable than
people realize.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, no, I like to take I really do. I mean,
it would definitely bolster their team. I had some depth
at the playmaking position. But again, yeah, this is all hyperbole.
If San Francisco takes care of their business and retains
the man, I really believe he's their their best receiver.
And I know Debo does a lot of things, but
(11:27):
I think Brandon is their most complete receiver.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
We just had somebody tweet in, send back McLaurin and
make the deal happen. That was from PAULI c Wow, Yeah,
tweeting in. Something the forty nine ers would want is
a veteran receiver. I think Brandon and Ayuk would be
more of the long term than than Terry McLaurin would
be in Washington, even if you wanted to look, just
because of the way the contracts are said. I mean,
if you're acquiring Brandon Ayuk, you're signing him to the
(11:51):
new deal that he wants, and so he would be
there in the long term. Forty nine ers want a
veteran wide receiver. I think in the end it's probably
gonna He's probably gonna stay in severe. But man, if
Mike Silver is opening this door for Washington Commanders, you
do that deal yesterday, take advantage of it to your
fan base a solid get the deal done.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I'm not bringing an eye. You can then send
in McLaurin away that that just you're just pretty much
standing standing that Pat there. I do think Brendan is
a better He would be a better number one, but
not by it, not by a lot. So I don't
think that would be the deal you do.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The Browns were a team that were in the conversation
for Ayuk as well, and some people people wondered if
if Amari Cooper was going to be a part of
that deal. Yeah, I don't think it would make sense
for Pittsburgh. We thought maybe a deal was going to
get closer this week from some of the reports we heard.
Silver kind of warned on that. But I'm just like, hey,
let's throw Washington a bone here. Let's let's get them
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back into the into the conversation of National Football League relevance.
Because the only thing that we've talked about them, honestly,
even when things were good carry, they weren't that good.
RG three amazing than the injuries and everything in all
the fallout came from that. Their Kirk Cousin era was
a few you like that, you know, and wild card
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appearances maybe here and there, and that was about it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And the crazy part about that, I don't even remember that.
I mean, I know RG three years, I mean I
remember that big year and then making the playoffs. I'm
getting hurt in the playoff game. I remember that. But
even with the Kirk Cousins stuff like, it was so
under the radar and so kind of pedestrian.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It didn't make any any headway. Yeah, and the NFC
East was pedestrians, so you could win a division title, right,
you know in that and host a wild card game.
I remember they hosted Tampa a few years back with
Taylor Heineke. You completely forget about that stuff. I think
they also hosted the Packers in a wild card game,
I believe a few years back, if memory serves correct.
But it's nothing that would that would make it memorable
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or think that the commanders were here to stay. I
think this could go a long way in doing that.
He's carry roads at Carrie twenty five Roads. By the way,
I have this new Navy golf hoodie that I wore today.
My wife goes, I love that on you. And this
guy comes in, okay body of Adonna's here. NFL athlete
(14:10):
has his own Navy hoodie and is completely showing me
up on camera like this is like, what's what's Can
I get a break here? You know? It's a new top? Like,
am I wrong? Iowa?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Sam Dan, you have a nice shirt that carries is
like it is like kind of mesh it like it's
very looks.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
So cool like and I feel like it's like and
you compare it like We're both wearing Navy hoodies and
it's just completely rat in my style.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 6 (14:40):
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
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GM to talk all things NFL. Do you believe Anthony
Richard sim will be a long term starting quarterback in
the National Football League? I do not have that answer.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He sold flashes last year before he got hurt of
being a dynamic player. Now I don't know what that means.
Dynamic players don't last a long time usually, especially a
guy like him who doesn't understand NFL defenses yet yet.
Not a lot of the starts coming out of college
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out of Florida, and so you go into a situation
where you get a chance to star from day one
and you get hurt, so you don't get enough reps
of it. Again, we saw flashes up, you know, early
on him making some plays with his arm on the
move and being able to run and make some big plays.
But I really have no indication of anything with him yet,
so I want to see what happens. But I'm not
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going to be so hard on him. I know that
he's going to catch flack and you have Flacco in
the waiting, but I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's you know, he's getting flack. And he got flat
from the Bengals all week as they had joint practices,
and there was a point the reports were saying that
the Bengals defenders were basically yelling, he can't throw, he
cannot throw the ball. He doesn't want to throw. That's
not his deal, and it's gonna have to be his deal,
of course, and sooner rather than later. And Shane Stiking
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kind of supported his quarterback as he should. But last
night the preseason finale against Cincinnati ends up throwing a
pick six. Did throw a touchdown pass, but it's not
on one of the passes where you would say that
is a strong quarterback throw. Obviously, the jury is still
out with this. My question is is how long does
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the jury deliberate because I don't think that there's tons
of time that you can have with Anthony Richardson if
you've put him in this spot, if you're the Indianapolis Colts.
I actually, you know, there was a conversation a few
years ago when Richardson was in the draft and you
have the Dolphins still trying to figure out what they
wanted to do, who they were going to take, and
(17:26):
I said, listen, if he's your guy, this is the
guy that you want trade up and end up making
him the number one overall pick and hope that he
turns into Josh Allen because that was the comp There's
really the comp of a guy who is raw, not
a lot of college experience, but is everything that you
would maybe want in a quarterback if it can translate
to the National Football League. But this isn't a Jordan
(17:49):
Love situation where now he's sitting behind anybody. And in fact,
your point about Flacco is the point that I think
is really important is they are putting a quarterback behind
him that has proven he can take a team and
lead them to the playoffs, even if he's been sitting
on the couch, and a quarterback that I don't know
if I could find a more opposite quarterback for what
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Anthony Richardson is than Joe Flacco. Richardson's twenty two. We
don't know if he can throw. Flacco as old as dirt.
We share the same birthday, by the way, I'm a
few years older than he is. But the point is
is that's only does his throw sometimes he does throw interceptions.
But when he led the Browns last year to what
they did, yeah, you're thinking, Okay, Flacco still got it,
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so you have so Like the point is, with a
jury deliberating and with the Colts deliberating, it's the fact
of I don't know if it's an ideal situation for
him in Indianapolis. If now you've obviously surrounded him with veterans,
but veterans that can perform a lot better, which would
make you question what Richardson could do further, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I guess the whole I guess the story here really
is is the Colts. Are they going to win this year?
Are they a team that has has high hopes? I mean,
I know they outperformed what a lot of people thought
last year. Yes, Gardener came in and kind of studied
the ship and they played well. But are they a threat?
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And if they're not a threat, you go with the
young guy and you stay with the young guy. And
that would be my thinking about it, just from a
I'm not super knowledgeable about who they're like what their
expectations are there. I've seen them, but I don't know
what that is yet.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I just wonder on when you decide to move on? Yeah,
and like this is the question, like we're gonna find
out if he can and the Bengals players are taunting him.
They know the weaknesses, you know it, you know what
a quarterback can and can't do, and they're they're bringing
it to light. And I'm not saying that they're giving
up an Anthony Richardson, but it's the question of he's
not sitting and waiting for a few years where he
(19:47):
can develop and then come through like Jordan Love, He's
still young enough, but him being the starter I think
actually makes it more difficult. It would be completely different
if Joe Flacco was the starter now and then Anthony
Richardson is behind him. But now richard Which has to
prove that he's he's worthy of this spot. And if
you're Indianapolis and you go through the second straight year
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of maybe needing your veteran to come in and save
the day, I just don't think that bodes well for
Anthony Richardson indian Indianapolis, no matter how early it is
in his career.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, I think there is a little inherent pressure that
comes with you when you sign a veteran guy like
a Flacco, right, because if you are a young guy,
you kind of know that that least could be small,
especially if your team is in contention, and obviously you
know coaches want to win. They don't want to not win.
Trying to use a project to go out there and
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see what he can do. That's not how it works.
But he's a top pick. He's going to get the
benefit of a doubt until he doesn't. And last year,
you know, he had glimpses and he played well in
certain spots. So you can only go off of that,
and that's where I think they're operating from right now.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, and the four games that he played, two of
which he had to leave because of injury. Yeah, you know,
like in the games that he did play, he did
farewell at rushing touchdowns. He had more rushing touchdowns last
year in the four games than he had passing touchdowns.
But he had a concussion. Then we mentioned the shoulder injury.
I do think it's a very interesting situation in Indianapolis
and really how they're handling it. Because if Joe Flacco
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is a free agent, I'm sure there are thirty one
other teams that would love to have him as the
backup to their starter. But the Colts were able to
reel him in. And I think that the Colts look
at it it's like, maybe we're not as different as
the Cleveland Browns. Are. Browns have a better defense, yes,
you know, for what they are, but in terms of
a quarterback who maybe is dealing with injury and you
need someone to save the day. Yeah, I think that
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that's why the Colts brought Flacco in.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And that division they're in, it's not like it's not
like it's stone cold. I mean I guess people woul
think Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Right, but Houston probably actually not. That's right, Yeah, you're right,
but still, yeah, you don't know what Jacksonville's going to
be in Tennessee's obviously got you know, new things with
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dot com studios. We mentioned the Browns is is Deshaun
Watson the answer for Cleveland. I mean, we have more
evidence on him than we do have Anthony Richardson. But
last season injured again. Yeah, it's been a guy who's
(22:27):
dealt with injuries if you're a Cleveland Browns fan. And
by the way, I do want to promote this. Mike
Harmon and I do the I Want Your Flex podcast,
and we recorded an episode yesterday that's going to launch
next week. But we were talking about the quarterback position
Deshaun Watson when it comes to fantasy football, bottom third
of your leagues if you're looking for fantasy potential. Really, yeah,
(22:48):
that was not the case with Deshaun Watson. That's where
he is right now. So now, jumping out of the
fantasy perspective, what do you think of the Browns in
Deshaun Watson, who, by the way, at a sore arm
in practice this week?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I saw that this is I think this is it.
This is one of those years. This is to make
a break year for him. We saw the flashes of
greatness and brilliance that he exhibited for a while in Houston.
Has some unfortunate things happen where he had to take
some time off, and it's not been so warm since
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his return has been back. So this is I'm excited
to see him have a breakout year again because I
know how talented he is. I saw him a lot.
He played against Louisville a lot, so I saw him
in college as well, a different, different quarterback when he's
healthy and right. So I want to see that. I'm
not sure if he's the guy. I can't say that
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right now because it hasn't shown in Cleveland, but want
I hope it is.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I want to see it again. I think It may
border on USh being unfair to Anthony Richardson for being
a twenty two year old and saying that, okay, like
is it going to be his job? That may be
a little unfair to the kid, but it is the NFL.
He is the starter right now, and if it isn't
in Indianapolis, then maybe it happened somewhere else. Yeah, I
think it's completely fair to talk about Deshaun Watson. The
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problem with the Browns is they fully guaranteed his contract,
so there's no opportunity for any outs left in that deal.
But we are entering year three of that contract, so
he's only got twenty five in twenty six after this,
where he is still under contract making that absorbent an
amount of money. But he's also going to be thirty
years old next year. And you talk about a guy
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who has dealt with not only knee injury problems now
and dealing with a shoulder injury. Yeah. I've got some
serious questions on Deshaun Watson and the Brons, especially because
I think that defense is so good. So it's it's
it's a situation that Cleveland doesn't want to squander.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Where do you rank him in that division as the quarterbacks.
I mean, it's pretty pretty clear probably, but where would
you wh would you rank?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think you'd have to be third just because of
how bad it is in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I think, I think, I really, I think he can
be second in that division when he's right. And so
I'm not going to tell you who that who I'm
kicking out, all right, but I think he can be
second if he's right, and I hope that's what we
get to see this year.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Mark Dominic, former GM of the Buccaneers, our friend of
the program here on Fox Sports Radio, joining us Mark
Happy Friday. Let's get right, Let's get right to it.
Kerry and I were just having an Anthony Richardson conversation.
Bengals players kind of mocking him in their joint practices
this week, saying that he can't throw through a pick
six last night in their preseason game. I get he's
twenty two years old, but you have a veteran in
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Joe Flackwise's backup. You know how much room do the
Colts and can the Colts allowed to give Anthony Richardson
to turn into the quarterback they want him to be.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
They don't have a lot of room guys at all.
And the reality is their general manager Chris Ballard, who's
a great guy. This is his what sixth quarterback in
the seven years or whatever it's been. I mean, it's
been a revolving door there at a quarterback position and
richards They're just gott to find out where Richardson is
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and they're going to live and die by it. I'm afraid,
and I agree Anthony Richardson looks like more of a
roller coaster. There's gonna be parts you're gonna really like,
but I think you're gonna be a parts you really
can't stand.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Mark to piggyback on that on that topic a little bit.
As a GM, if you have a young quarterback, a
quarterback that you obviously believed in to take at such
a high pick, you have the first year that ends prematurely,
so you saw a small sample size of what he
can be. You bring in a veteran guy that just
came from Cleveland, that took a team to the playoffs.
(26:37):
You bring Are you bringing in a guy like that
as insurance or you're bringing in a guy like that
to push the younger guy?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
What's your take on that? Usually I love that.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Question, and I think there's a lot of answers to
the way I understand why they did it. Number One,
Flaco's a great teammate, doesn't mean he's not trying to
be the starter there, but also understands what it takes
to be a starter and to mentor and to go
through that. You're bringing in Flacko because I think not
because you're worried Richardson was going to bust. You're worried
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that Richard can't stay healthy. Yeah, you know that's mean
you're gonna have to play this guy and it might
be a six game stretch or an eight game stretch.
So you can't just have an okay backup. You've got
to have something that you think can actually win. And
I think Blaco coming off the couch last year showed hey,
look I'm ready to go still and has a lot
of drive and still desire to play. So it wasn't
because I think Placo is going to push Richardson to
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be the starter. I think they did it because they're
trying to protect themselves because they realized what happened with
Richardson last year wasn't just one injury, it was multiple ones,
but one significant one, and that's something I think that
you can go back in his life and kind of
see that that's been somewhat of a repeating patterns happening
for Richards.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
At this point, former Buccaneers GM Mark dominic joining us
here on Fox Sports Radio. He's carry roads on Dan Byer.
Mark with twenty plus years in NFL front office, is
it's time for our weekly Brandon Ayuk question to Mark
Dominick here on Fox Sports Radio. All the things going
on a lot longer than I thought it would be.
Mike Silver we touched on this earlier in the show,
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reporting that, hey, don't rule out Washington. I'm all for
the Commanders making a push, but he's still a forty
nine er. Where do you think this ends up? As
we sit here now on August twenty third and still
no official deal one way or another with Ayuk?
Speaker 8 (28:20):
Yeah, you know, it's it's obviously very interesting. It's taken
so long to get this point and yet we're still nowhere,
right guys. Yeah, it feels like the agent continues to
try to spend anything he can to get the forty
nine ers to offer more money. And it was close
in New England thirty million dollars plus fell apart. Tried Cleveland,
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that sounded pretty good. Will, Let's try Pittsburgh. That sounded
pretty good. Was Washington, but then, oh wait, they just
traded to run their receiver, so now they're interested. I
think of Washington really wanted brand Ayuk. It wouldn't have
mattered what they did with John Dotson. They were going
to go ahead and just go with it as is.
So I don't think they had a bit to do
with the difference in their situation terms of deciding whether
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or not they want to sign Brandon Ayuk. I just
don't think Washington is interested enough, even though Adam Peters
was to the assistant GM. It speaks volume if you
really thought Ayuk was a legit number one, NonStop I
seek they have already traded for him. But you also
got to realize that affects Terry McLaurin too, So if
you make a move for U, because you're gonna have
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to adjust Harry's contract as well.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I got a question for you, Mark about my New
York Jets. I'm gona I'm gonna throw that out there
in my New York Jets.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I know.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The what the whole Hassan Reddick deal.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Like, if you go into a situation and you know
that a player is having contract problems or stalemates happening
at a different location, and you trade for that guy,
don't you go into it with the game plan saying
we have to extend them or we've got to have
these talks early before the guy even gets in the building.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
You absolutely should have and you're allowed to do that, right,
you're allowed to sit there. And if you're getting to
talk to Howie Roseman and you were thinking about training
for Hassan Riddick, one of the things you have to
notify the league office if you have the right to
communicate with them. And the second thing is you should
be on the phone with the agent going what's the problem, Like,
tell me what do you want you? What are you
looking for? What kind of contract? How many years now?
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Did you get tricked by the agent? I don't know.
I don't think so. I think that they've been pretty
clear what they wanted. And that's even makes the whole
thing more surprising to me. Why did you trade for
a guy that you felt can't get anything done or
you can't get anything done, You can't get any movement
on this contract. It speaks to me that somebody dropped
the ball in the Jets organization or they got sold
(30:41):
a bell of goods. But that's not going to do
a player any good. An agent shouldn't do that because
they're just putting the player in the same spot as
he already was and frustrated. So I feel like the
Jets somebody kind of got ahead of themselves and didn't
really cross off all the i's and t's to make
sure that they're ready to go.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
With this movie. All right, all right, last where we
let you go? Mark? It is a different NFL than
it was a few years ago. Are you a fan
of cutting everybody now? Or did you like this staggered
cut down that you would have in the previous years
of the NFL when it was a four game season?
Sometimes teams were playing five games and they played in
the Hall of Fame? Do you like this process better?
(31:18):
Do you like the old way when it was staggered? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
I like this much much better. I like less preseason games.
And you know what was what the problem was for
us back in the day was that fourth preseason games.
Terry knows that was all those young guys were playing,
Like no no, no, no, those dudes are out there,
and you know how hard that was for me as
a general manager to come up with a team that
was going to go on the field because we just
(31:42):
had to cut twenty five thirty guys. I think those
are the guys that were going to play the game.
And also, uh, you know, it just it was. It's
so much better now because you can see clubs are
looking at this differently. But now you can still if
you decide you're going to bench all your starters like
some clubs are doing, you can still give up guys
the opportunities, but at least you're got better players out there,
or all these players out there better options. In one game,
(32:04):
I had to take a guy from safety, then move
the corner and finish the game at running backs because
he play high school running back.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Are great stories. Yeah that was a great one.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, maybe maybe crazy newer is better. Mark, have a
great weekend. Yeah, safe travels to wherever you're headed, and
we'll talk to you next week. Thanks about just stuff, Mark.
Speaker 8 (32:26):
Terry chose nice to talk to gud.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
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It's a Friday. I know it's warm in a lot
of places, but we're about to chill out, if you
know what I mean. On the Doug Gottlieb Show, he
is Carry Rhoads. I'm Dan Bayer sitting in for Doug
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Anthony Richardson is going to be the starting quarterback of
the Indianapolis Colts, but it doesn't mean that we are
sold on Anthony Richardson being the future quarterback of the
Indianapolis Colts. There's some stuff that happened last night, some
stuff that happened this week that gets this conversation going,
(33:43):
especially after Richardson's rookie season that was cut short by injury.
There was a concussion, there was a shoulder injury. You
had Gardner Minshew there. Now Anthony Richardson doesn't have to
worry about Gardner Minshew, but he's got Joe Flacco as
his backup. A lot of buzz going on right now
about the Indianapolis Colts and what to expect this season,
(34:05):
something carry and I will dive into in about fifteen
minutes or so. Plus at the bottom of the hour,
our good friend, former Buccaneers GM Mark Dominic, a good
friend of the show, will join us to give us
the latest on what he thinks the Niners will do
with Brandon Nayuk. And if you missed it, I am
all for the Washington Commanders to bring him in and
to acquire him in a deal. We'll find out about
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that latest, plus the Cowboys and so much more. As
it's cut down weekend in the National Football League. But
checking the calendar, it's August twenty third. It's a Friday,
but it's not just any Friday.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
I got some beers, strike them us. It's that time
of the week to crack open a cool beverage it's
frosty Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Is this your first frosty Friday? This is my first
frosty Friday? Right for sure. This is the brainchild of
one Jason Stewart because I'm uh wish I was sitting
back right now, and you're gonna be surprised about what
I'm I'm gonna say. Kobe Bryant uh had body the
(35:14):
body armor drink. There was like a special Kobe Bryant
drink on Kobe's birthday today. I wish I was sitting
back sipping a nice grape and strawberry Body armor was
my favorite flavor of those. Yes, load me up with
some body armor, especially, I'm gonna need to be hydrated
for the amount of golf that move about to play
in the next week or so. That's right, I've never
(35:36):
tasted that. Was it was? It? Is it tasty? It's good, yeah,
and I feel it's relatively cheap, and there's sugar in it,
you know, of course, but it makes me feel better
thinking that it's an energy you know, like a you know,
sort of rehydrating sort of drink. Yeah. Yeah, But the
strawberry and grape I think is delicious. Nice not nice.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
Well, carry strikes me as a guy who doesn't do
those flavored energy drinks.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I do not do those at all, and I'm not
even a drinker. So I would say the one thing
that I do, I would put I guess a cold
on a frosty Friday, I'll have a cold like kombucha.
That's that's my that's my drink of choice when I'm
at that at the house, or even if I try
to go somewhere to eat, I'm gonna get like a
(36:21):
I would do a kombucha to to give me a
little a little taste.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
So what are you drinking on this Friday? At Jason Stewart,
I'm gonna uh.
Speaker 9 (36:31):
So, there's a brewery out of San Francisco, Anchor Steam.
Anchor Steam Beer. You can find it down here like
a Trader Joe's and stuff, but delicious. What would you
call that? Was craft beer? Sam, you're the beer?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Well like an Sam was so in the Lover Boy.
He didn't even say turning next to him.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
So pour me an anchor steam to start to start.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Us there it is. By the way, what had Doug
called this song this week? Didn't he call it like
something that it wasn't like working to the weekend. Yeah
it he got the main where it's correct, but the
middle there was out working and weekend. But you played
this on a Wednesday, which, I to Doug's defence, was
(37:16):
a little strange, but we were talking about something that
was related.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
But I think when you get to hump Day and
you get to Friday, like those two days are like
you're looking ahead to the weekend. You know, you're like, oh,
halfway through the week, yeah, I'm working for that weekend, man.
But last weekend I was working on the weekend. So
that's maybe that's what Doug men.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
That sort of a Sam could not keep his day
straight because it's like, you know, Bud, just straight days
for him. What are you drinking on this frosty Friday?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well, right now, I'm drinking a virgin strawberry dackery in
this cup right here.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
You can see it in the star phone cup. Oh no, nice.
It may be coffee, but it looks.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Like one of those old school be bops remembered the
old school frozen kool aids.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yes, yes, very refreshing. Still summer for another month. Tonight
I'll be watching Caitlin Clark visiting the Minnesota Lynx and
I'll probably be having maybe a little craft brewery.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
She's playing at the Links.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
She's playing at the Links.
Speaker 9 (38:12):
The head coach that hates her more drama.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I think they play tomorrow. What, No, it's today? Uh again,
Sam not getting his day straight. It's Friday, frosty Friday.
They play tomorrow against the Minnesota Lynx. But hey, how
did I how did I misread that some fan? You
are a virgin in there? Yeah? Right, Sam, I'm at work, Sam,
(38:44):
Sam was here last weekend, so these days are messed up.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
The Links are playing tonight against the Aces. Your schedule
just freed up. So good news for you Isai Blow
and Crown just sipped a little something of what do
you got in there that old mug, Isaac.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
It's coffee. Unfortunately, it is not Irish coffee, if I
can put it that way. It is plain, old homemade
black coffee. It is incredibly well tasting thanks to the
brilliance of the person who crafted it.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Wah.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
It is the best legal performance enhancing substance out there.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Oh, it's a frosty Friday, but it is also a
Friday that I'm sorry I've heard it, been hearing it
for the last few weeks. I don't know if it's
my age carrier roads. I'm excited for the football season,
but it doesn't mean that I'm excited for the summer
to go away. This is it, this is done. I'm
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not a huge week zero guy in college football. Yeah,
which explains why I have a flight tomorrow so I'll
be in the air when Georgia Tech and Florida State
are playing in Ireland. But like, this is it? This
is the final Weekend's right? And really is it? Because
Labor Day weekend feels like the final weekend, but it's
(40:05):
your final normal weekend of summer where you still have
summer the week after when you go to Labor Day weekend, Yeah,
you have the extra day, but then it's completely done.
I'm sad to see summer go. I love football, and
I love everything about it, and I love football weekends.
But as I've gotten older, I've appreciated summer more and more,
(40:26):
and I'm sad to think that, all right, it's already
gone past, Like it feels like it was just the
other day. I was watching the US Open. It was
mid June and brighthing the Shambo and Rory McRoy are
going head to head those two months ago. Now it's
over like this is I feel sad that the end
of summer is almost here.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
That's the sadness coincide, that's the sadness of summer leaving
coincide with golf for you?
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Is that the toy it does, Yes, it does. PGA
Tour is wrapping up FedEx Cup playoffs going on right now.
Next week we'll have the Tour Championship to end it.
That is a big part of it. Now living in
southern California, you don't necessarily have that problem, but there
is different golfing. Weather days gets shorter, which I'm not
a fan of. After November, I'm leaving work and it's dusk,
(41:14):
so there's really no opportunity to do that. Yeah, it's
a big part of it. That's why I have this
big golf weekend. It's almost tradition. It's like the last
or big golf week it's the last opportunity to do so.
I've just enjoyed summer way more, I would say, over
the last decade than I ever have. As much as
I love football and can't wait for the games to
count and seeing all the action, you know, I don't
(41:37):
get misty eyed. But I think it's always too bad
when you got to say goodbye to summer.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
It's so funny because that was flipped for me as
a youngster. Obviously, summer was everything, you know, even in
my late twenties maybe early thirties, summer was everything. Now
it's all about getting to fall, getting to the shorter
light because I go to sleep early, so I like
for the game, Damn, just a little bit so so
(42:01):
I can get comfy, you.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Know what I mean. How early are we talking about here?
Eight thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
I'm in bed, yeah, I mean seriously, So when you
sit in those texts day at midnight, I am.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I'm on my I'm almost making up. Yeah, I did
send one thats like sorry, it's late, and it's like
eleven twenty. Jason Stewart's an early to better as well.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
Yeah, and I'm a bad wetter early to better and
a bad wetter.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
To your real self, promoter. There you go.
Speaker 9 (42:30):
You know what I'm looking forward to this weekend and
it's so rare. The Al East is coming to town.
The Dodgers have the best record in the National League.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 9 (42:40):
They are very flawed, but they still have the best
record in the National League. They're welcoming the Rays to town.
I mean, I don't know how many times the Rays
I've ever played at Dodger Stadium. Kershaw goes tomorrow night,
but I think it's a chance to maybe sweep up
on the Rays and then we welcome the Orioles to town.
So looking forward to a cool Dodger weekend. Carrie, what
(43:01):
are you looking forward to on this the weekend? I'm
ken tomorrow road show on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
That's right, that's that's number one. Obviously, my show Sunday
two to five pm on Sunday, right you and Harmon?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
That's right? No, no, no, it's it's my show. Okay, Yeah,
I won't tell Mike. Yes, yeah, I forget about this
my show.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
But tomorrow I'm I'm going to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
and I'm going to watch the Nightmare before Christmas outside
and it's going to be nice. Have some blankets out,
have an energy drink.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
I don't want to be macab but do me a favor.
Say hi to my grandparents. That's where they are.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Are they there? I got just sibity directions to the plot.
I'll go put some flowers off for you. I love,
But that's where I'm going. That's where I'm going Saturday.
So that should be fun. You're you seem to be
a person who loves to end summer a lot. Sooner
you're already watching uh exactly, yes, the night before Christmas, Iowa, Sam,
I know what you're not doing tonight. That's watching the
Indiana fever. What are you doing tomorrow? Watching the Indiana fever?
(44:06):
Tomorrow I will be watching the Indiana fever. Yes, and uh,
that's really ten to my flowers. You know, my little
garden you can grow it.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Think about living in La you can you can start
and grow a garden at anytime of the year.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yes, as long as you get light.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
It's warm enough and the sunlight is ample, and so
you know, that's one of my littles.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Also, like this fall growing season that you don't get
in other places, true, like where you're like, if you
need to do lawng work you wanted to, like, you
can do that in September October where the temperatures aren't
as hot and yep, you end up having to maybe
trim your bushes. That's what a frosty Friday's about it's
what you're drinking, what you're doing on a weekend, today's Friday.
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There is a point as well, and I and I know,
like if you're a listener, I hope that you can
you can feel what I'm saying about summer. But the
one thing and you, as a professional athlete, probably have
it a little bit different. But I know, and looking
across the glass from me and Isaac and Jason and Sam,
(45:10):
there is also this point in sports media where August
is the start and now when the NBA kind of ends,
like that's where your season goes. So it's a ten
month grind, almost like school. So this summer sort of
thing is an ending of the summer and it's the
starting of your seasons. Because all these things kind of
(45:31):
coincide with each other. It is the feeling of a
school year. And so there is like a little remorse
that a summer is over with because now we enter
a stretch again. For as much as we love football,
maybe we put it in cruise control a little bit
in June and July because there's not as much once
the NBA season ends up ending and now you got
to buckle in. I know, beat writers everywhere covering football
(45:53):
teams like their work starts and it's NonStop until the
Super Bowl. This year's in New Orleans on by the way,
it's part of the new TV deal, so uh yeah,
so we'll go straight and then you hand into everything
in the spring, as I mentioned, into the NBA.
Speaker 9 (46:07):
And by the way, just it's good to put a
button on that I'm very envious of, and I actually
hate the people that thought about this and put put
thought into it and took next week off like the
last real week of our summer in the media, I'm
very resignful of planners, people that plan that stuff, namely
Dan Byer and Colin Cowhert. They're going to be off
(46:28):
all next week. Actually Dan's going to be doing a
couple of shows, but I'm reasonful that you guys thought
ahead on them.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
I also think ahead because of where I live in
southern California. When everybody gets out of town, everybody's on
the road, so you'll notice, like on a Labor Day
or a Memorial Day, I'm like, I don't want to
deal with the traffic. And Jason doesn't live too far
for me, and he's usually in studio, and I'm like,
if I could stay home. I'm going to stay at home.
I'll I'll do the show from the home studio if
(46:55):
I can. Because traffic is oddly enough in southern California,
can be a headache.
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for one fan base in the National Football League that
has had enough and they don't need to take it anymore,
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(00:42):
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At this point August twenty third, entering the final week
of the preseason. Are you Are you shocked? Are you surprised?
Are you taking aback at all that Brandon Ayuk is
still a member of the San Francisco forty nine ers,
but it's still being a holden and his status is
in limbo.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Is any of this shocking to you? I'm shocked that
he's not signed. You know, well, he is signed, I
guess by the letter of the law. But I'm shocked
that he's still he's still on that team right now.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, that there hasn't been a trade.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
If something hasn't happened or taken place yet, I mean,
you get to a point obviously they do not want
to part ways with Brandon, but they're at a stillmate,
and it doesn't seem like there's any tracks happening there.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So either make a move and move on with.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The guys you got, or make something happen and get
him signed. So I'm I'm I'm taken aback by that.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
By that notion, I think that if we said Trent
william is still a holdout at this point, I'm not surprised.
Veteran offensive tackle, you know, left tackle, all pro, all everything,
probably the best tackle in the game. That he's holding
out right now. I don't think is a huge deal,
and I think that's part partly due to Brandon.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Right, they're trying to stretch out that money there to
get that situated.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They're gonna take care of Trent for sure. This second.
I got Brandon Ayuk collin right now. Yeah, let me
live breaking news. What we got? What we got? Yeah,
let me let me hear. Hey, what's up? Okay there
it is? Huh all right, yeah, all right, there it
is right. Brandon Ayuk has just called me and told
me that he wants to go to the Washington Commanders. Wow,
because that franchise needs a break. Okay, maybe that wasn't
(02:44):
Brandon Ayuk, but I believe that the Washington Commanders need
a break. And the reason that we start this yere
is because there was a story yesterday from Mike Silver,
longtime NFL reporter who is now ready for the San
Francisco Chronicle. But I think by and large most people
know who Mike Silver is. Mike Silver is locked into
the San Francisco forty nine ers. He was speaking on
(03:06):
canbr and basically said this, some of this reporting that's
going on with Brandon Nayuk right now is pretty ridiculous.
Some of the people saying that it's a done deal,
he's on his way to Pittsburgh saying that's not the case.
We have heard stories over this past week that the
forty nine ers in Ayuk have closed the gap, that
there is some stuff in that contract that maybe needs
(03:28):
to be taken care of by ownership. Silver heard some
of the reports, dismissed some of that, But what Mike
Silver did not dismiss is that the Washington Commanders are
completely out of the running for Brandon Nyuk And to me,
as we get to this point entering the final weekend
of the NFL preseason and seeing where this landscape is
(03:50):
and how the forty nine ers are trying to set
up their team for a super Bowl run, which I
think is the last in this window. Once you pay
brock Party, it's a completely different scenario. You lose in
the super Bowl in overtime, You're this close, you are
so close, and I know you can't see it on radio,
but my fingers are mill you know, like centimeters apart.
(04:11):
This is how this is how close they were to
winning a super Bowl. You want to run it back,
but I'd rather look at a team that has squandered
opportunities over the last decade or two because of their
crappy owner, Dan Snyder. And now Dan Snyder has gone
new regime is in there. Ana Peters is the team's
general manager. He came over from the San Francisco forty
(04:33):
nine ers. Dan Quinn's the new head coach. He has
super Bowl head coaching experience. You've drafted Jayden Daniels of LSU,
previously of Arizona State Heisman Trophy winner. He's your starting
quarterback for a week one? Why not give him another
familiar target, Like like, let's do something for the Commanders
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and let's do something for their fans. I know, winning
football games cures all, but right now, how exciting would
that be? How great would that be in this true
new era of Washington football. And I understand ownership change
took place last year. But you have Dan Quinn there,
you got Adam Peters there. Now you have your new quarterback.
(05:16):
You have him and Terry McLaurin lining up on the
outside for your Heisman Trophy winning quarterback that manything could
be the best quarterback, even better than Caleb Williams from
this draft. Let's do something. Let's roll the dice. I
think the Commanders need to get Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So you think the Commanders need just any sort of
win right now? You think that bringing in Brandon would
give them cashe.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
A little pizzazz or do you think they will win
not a night. That's the second part of this, because
I do think it would help them. I do think
that they would be a drastically better football team. And
you have a Terry McLaurin contract that he signed a
couple of years ago, but he's not signed up for
the next three or four years. If you wanted Brandon
(06:00):
Ayuk to be the one, you're not investing all of
your money in McLaurin and Ayuk at this time. But
let's make it easy on the rookie quarterback. Let's make
the transition easier. They do have to improve on their
offensive line, which is one of the worst in the
NFL last season. They also punted at the end of
the season last year because they wanted to get one
of those top picks. They completely threw in the towel.
(06:23):
But let's look at that division carry realistically, no one
believes the Giants are going to be any good. No
They've got a great defensive line, but offensively, we have
huge questions about Daniel Jones and what that offense is
going to be now without Saquon Barkley. So then you
have the Dallas Cowboys. Are you sold on the Cowboys? No? No,
(06:45):
I don't think a lot of people are right.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think they'll make the playoffs, but that doesn't mean anything,
and that would be maybe ceiling right now.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know if they're going to win the division.
Philadelphia is probably the best team in the division because
of their talent, and if you added Brandon ay you
can have Terry McLaurin out there may not be better,
but it's sure rivals what Philadelphia has on the outside.
You just traded Johann Dotson to the Philadelphia Eagles. You
picked up a third round pick, So now, no, no, only
have you made room on your roster with moving Dotson out,
(07:12):
you've also gained another pick to possibly do another deal
that you could use to acquire Ayuk. Jalen Hurts has
more cachet in the game right now, but if Jayden
Daniels is what people think he is, he could rival
Jalen Hurts. Point is is you're not as far away
from the Philadelphia Eagles as you think that you may be.
We think that the Washington Commanders are maybe years and
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years away, but I think they're a lot closer than
they are within that division, within where the playoffs are
right now. Adding Brandon Ayuk to the Steelers when you
have no idea who their quarterback's going to be, you
don't know what the future is going to be with
Russell Wilson or Justin Fields, doesn't make any sense to me.
Brandon Ayuk going to the Washington Commanders makes a lot
of sense to me, And I think that they owe
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it to their fan base to let's do something big.
Let's show them that we're in it with all these
new pieces.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, I mean that part makes sense for sure. I mean,
the Commanders aren't that far away. They really aren't. You
watch them play, and I watched them the last couple
of years, I mean right around five hundred down down
the stretch of the last couple of years, and a
couple of wins here and there, a couple of blown,
crazy losses that they had in that mix. They could
have been playoff teams in those past two years. And
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so they're not that far away Brandon Aiyuk. Adding them
to the mix with the young quarterback and Jayden Daniels
with their offensive line, though, it would be a problem.
Now you'll have the talent, but we've seen talent any
NFL doesn't do anything if you can't block it up right,
And so that would be my only worry in this situation,
and that's my worry with them this season.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
They have to protect the young guy, and if he
gets hit too many times this early in this rookie season,
it can cause big, big, big damage. And so I
hope they're able to get some packages, some movement with
him and let him move around and make plays because
he's capable of doing that. But I'm excited to see
what they can put on the table.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Wouldn't you say though that, Like I've been using this
phrase a lot lately. You know how you get stuck
on a phrase. Hey is in the bar and has
been like my phrase of August twenty twenty, everything work
has done, work is done. I feel like with the
offensive line, you've done what you've done, it's gonna be
what it's gonna be. So adding Brandon Ayuk another weapon
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could help Jaden Daniels, who's gonna need to probably escape
a lot more pressure, and he's shown that he can
do that. But I just don't see any hurt in
adding someone like Brandon Ayuk, who you can keep in
the fold, which, by the way, who also has a
personal relationship with the starting quarterback from their time at
Arizona State, so there's there's that connection as well. It
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just makes a lot more sense to me than the
Pittsburgh Steelers. And look, Brandon Nayuk is probably going to
stay a forty nine or because the forty nine Ers
have so much invested in it. But man, I just
and I'm not a fan of the Commanders. I do
think that that the NFL feels a little different when
Washington is good. There's a different feel in the National
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Football League when Washington is a team to beat. But
it's been so long that I think people have forgotten that,
and I think now here is an opportunity where you
can add another piece and maybe let's fast track some
of this success. We're looking at the Bears in all
of their additions that they've made this offseason, and they're
likely still going to be led by what is a
(10:26):
great defense and allow Caleb Williams to use DJ Moore
and Keenan Allen, Roma Dunze and DeAndre Swift and in
the best way possible. But why can't you do that
if you're Washington as well? I agree you kind of
reset defensively. Washington and the Bears made a deal last
year Montes what you ended up being dealt to Chicago.
But there's still pieces there for Washington on the defensive line.
(10:49):
Allen's there, Pain's there, Their pieces for Washington to be
competitive and maybe make that wildcard spot, which I think
would be great for that organization, great for the fan
base and give them something positive about whether the NFC
East is a little more a bit more guttable than
people realize.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, no, I like to take I really do. I mean,
it would definitely bolster their team. I had some depth
at the playmaking position. But again, yeah, this is all hyperbole.
If San Francisco takes care of their business and retains
the man, I really believe he's their their best receiver.
And I know Debo does a lot of things, but
(11:27):
I think Brandon is their most complete receiver.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
We just had somebody tweet in, send back McLaurin and
make the deal happen. That was from PAULI c Wow, Yeah,
tweeting in. Something the forty nine ers would want is
a veteran receiver. I think Brandon and Ayuk would be
more of the long term than than Terry McLaurin would
be in Washington, even if you wanted to look, just
because of the way the contracts are said. I mean,
if you're acquiring Brandon Ayuk, you're signing him to the
(11:51):
new deal that he wants, and so he would be
there in the long term. Forty nine ers want a
veteran wide receiver. I think in the end it's probably
gonna He's probably gonna stay in severe. But man, if
Mike Silver is opening this door for Washington Commanders, you
do that deal yesterday, take advantage of it to your
fan base a solid get the deal done.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I'm not bringing an eye. You can then send
in McLaurin away that that just you're just pretty much
standing standing that Pat there. I do think Brendan is
a better He would be a better number one, but
not by it, not by a lot. So I don't
think that would be the deal you do.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The Browns were a team that were in the conversation
for Ayuk as well, and some people people wondered if
if Amari Cooper was going to be a part of
that deal. Yeah, I don't think it would make sense
for Pittsburgh. We thought maybe a deal was going to
get closer this week from some of the reports we heard.
Silver kind of warned on that. But I'm just like, hey,
let's throw Washington a bone here. Let's let's get them
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back into the into the conversation of National Football League relevance.
Because the only thing that we've talked about them, honestly,
even when things were good carry, they weren't that good.
RG three amazing than the injuries and everything in all
the fallout came from that. Their Kirk Cousin era was
a few you like that, you know, and wild card
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appearances maybe here and there, and that was about it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And the crazy part about that, I don't even remember that.
I mean, I know RG three years, I mean I
remember that big year and then making the playoffs. I'm
getting hurt in the playoff game. I remember that. But
even with the Kirk Cousins stuff like, it was so
under the radar and so kind of pedestrian.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It didn't make any any headway. Yeah, and the NFC
East was pedestrians, so you could win a division title, right,
you know in that and host a wild card game.
I remember they hosted Tampa a few years back with
Taylor Heineke. You completely forget about that stuff. I think
they also hosted the Packers in a wild card game,
I believe a few years back, if memory serves correct.
But it's nothing that would that would make it memorable
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or think that the commanders were here to stay. I
think this could go a long way in doing that.
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My wife goes, I love that on you. And this
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Speaker 4 (14:20):
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Speaker 5 (14:27):
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you compare it like We're both wearing Navy hoodies and
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GM to talk all things NFL. Do you believe Anthony
Richard sim will be a long term starting quarterback in
the National Football League? I do not have that answer.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He sold flashes last year before he got hurt of
being a dynamic player. Now I don't know what that means.
Dynamic players don't last a long time usually, especially a
guy like him who doesn't understand NFL defenses yet yet.
Not a lot of the starts coming out of college
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out of Florida, and so you go into a situation
where you get a chance to star from day one
and you get hurt, so you don't get enough reps
of it. Again, we saw flashes up, you know, early
on him making some plays with his arm on the
move and being able to run and make some big plays.
But I really have no indication of anything with him yet,
so I want to see what happens. But I'm not
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going to be so hard on him. I know that
he's going to catch flack and you have Flacco in
the waiting, but I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's you know, he's getting flack. And he got flat
from the Bengals all week as they had joint practices,
and there was a point the reports were saying that
the Bengals defenders were basically yelling, he can't throw, he
cannot throw the ball. He doesn't want to throw. That's
not his deal, and it's gonna have to be his deal,
of course, and sooner rather than later. And Shane Stiking
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kind of supported his quarterback as he should. But last
night the preseason finale against Cincinnati ends up throwing a
pick six. Did throw a touchdown pass, but it's not
on one of the passes where you would say that
is a strong quarterback throw. Obviously, the jury is still
out with this. My question is is how long does
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the jury deliberate because I don't think that there's tons
of time that you can have with Anthony Richardson if
you've put him in this spot, if you're the Indianapolis Colts.
I actually, you know, there was a conversation a few
years ago when Richardson was in the draft and you
have the Dolphins still trying to figure out what they
wanted to do, who they were going to take, and
(17:26):
I said, listen, if he's your guy, this is the
guy that you want trade up and end up making
him the number one overall pick and hope that he
turns into Josh Allen because that was the comp There's
really the comp of a guy who is raw, not
a lot of college experience, but is everything that you
would maybe want in a quarterback if it can translate
to the National Football League. But this isn't a Jordan
(17:49):
Love situation where now he's sitting behind anybody. And in fact,
your point about Flacco is the point that I think
is really important is they are putting a quarterback behind
him that has proven he can take a team and
lead them to the playoffs, even if he's been sitting
on the couch, and a quarterback that I don't know
if I could find a more opposite quarterback for what
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Anthony Richardson is than Joe Flacco. Richardson's twenty two. We
don't know if he can throw. Flacco as old as dirt.
We share the same birthday, by the way, I'm a
few years older than he is. But the point is
is that's only does his throw sometimes he does throw interceptions.
But when he led the Browns last year to what
they did, yeah, you're thinking, Okay, Flacco still got it,
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so you have so Like the point is, with a
jury deliberating and with the Colts deliberating, it's the fact
of I don't know if it's an ideal situation for
him in Indianapolis. If now you've obviously surrounded him with veterans,
but veterans that can perform a lot better, which would
make you question what Richardson could do further, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I guess the whole I guess the story here really
is is the Colts. Are they going to win this year?
Are they a team that has has high hopes? I mean,
I know they outperformed what a lot of people thought
last year. Yes, Gardener came in and kind of studied
the ship and they played well. But are they a threat?
(19:10):
And if they're not a threat, you go with the
young guy and you stay with the young guy. And
that would be my thinking about it, just from a
I'm not super knowledgeable about who they're like what their
expectations are there. I've seen them, but I don't know
what that is yet.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I just wonder on when you decide to move on? Yeah,
and like this is the question, like we're gonna find
out if he can and the Bengals players are taunting him.
They know the weaknesses, you know it, you know what
a quarterback can and can't do, and they're they're bringing
it to light. And I'm not saying that they're giving
up an Anthony Richardson, but it's the question of he's
not sitting and waiting for a few years where he
(19:47):
can develop and then come through like Jordan Love, He's
still young enough, but him being the starter I think
actually makes it more difficult. It would be completely different
if Joe Flacco was the starter now and then Anthony
Richardson is behind him. But now richard Which has to
prove that he's he's worthy of this spot. And if
you're Indianapolis and you go through the second straight year
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of maybe needing your veteran to come in and save
the day, I just don't think that bodes well for
Anthony Richardson indian Indianapolis, no matter how early it is
in his career.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, I think there is a little inherent pressure that
comes with you when you sign a veteran guy like
a Flacco, right, because if you are a young guy,
you kind of know that that least could be small,
especially if your team is in contention, and obviously you
know coaches want to win. They don't want to not win.
Trying to use a project to go out there and
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see what he can do. That's not how it works.
But he's a top pick. He's going to get the
benefit of a doubt until he doesn't. And last year,
you know, he had glimpses and he played well in
certain spots. So you can only go off of that,
and that's where I think they're operating from right now.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, and the four games that he played, two of
which he had to leave because of injury. Yeah, you know,
like in the games that he did play, he did
farewell at rushing touchdowns. He had more rushing touchdowns last
year in the four games than he had passing touchdowns.
But he had a concussion. Then we mentioned the shoulder injury.
I do think it's a very interesting situation in Indianapolis
and really how they're handling it. Because if Joe Flacco
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is a free agent, I'm sure there are thirty one
other teams that would love to have him as the
backup to their starter. But the Colts were able to
reel him in. And I think that the Colts look
at it it's like, maybe we're not as different as
the Cleveland Browns. Are. Browns have a better defense, yes,
you know, for what they are, but in terms of
a quarterback who maybe is dealing with injury and you
need someone to save the day. Yeah, I think that
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that's why the Colts brought Flacco in.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And that division they're in, it's not like it's not
like it's stone cold. I mean I guess people woul
think Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Right, but Houston probably actually not. That's right, Yeah, you're right,
but still, yeah, you don't know what Jacksonville's going to
be in Tennessee's obviously got you know, new things with
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dot com studios. We mentioned the Browns is is Deshaun
Watson the answer for Cleveland. I mean, we have more
evidence on him than we do have Anthony Richardson. But
last season injured again. Yeah, it's been a guy who's
(22:27):
dealt with injuries if you're a Cleveland Browns fan. And
by the way, I do want to promote this. Mike
Harmon and I do the I Want Your Flex podcast,
and we recorded an episode yesterday that's going to launch
next week. But we were talking about the quarterback position
Deshaun Watson when it comes to fantasy football, bottom third
of your leagues if you're looking for fantasy potential. Really, yeah,
(22:48):
that was not the case with Deshaun Watson. That's where
he is right now. So now, jumping out of the
fantasy perspective, what do you think of the Browns in
Deshaun Watson, who, by the way, at a sore arm
in practice this week?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I saw that this is I think this is it.
This is one of those years. This is to make
a break year for him. We saw the flashes of
greatness and brilliance that he exhibited for a while in Houston.
Has some unfortunate things happen where he had to take
some time off, and it's not been so warm since
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his return has been back. So this is I'm excited
to see him have a breakout year again because I
know how talented he is. I saw him a lot.
He played against Louisville a lot, so I saw him
in college as well, a different, different quarterback when he's
healthy and right. So I want to see that. I'm
not sure if he's the guy. I can't say that
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right now because it hasn't shown in Cleveland, but want
I hope it is.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I want to see it again. I think It may
border on USh being unfair to Anthony Richardson for being
a twenty two year old and saying that, okay, like
is it going to be his job? That may be
a little unfair to the kid, but it is the NFL.
He is the starter right now, and if it isn't
in Indianapolis, then maybe it happened somewhere else. Yeah, I
think it's completely fair to talk about Deshaun Watson. The
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problem with the Browns is they fully guaranteed his contract,
so there's no opportunity for any outs left in that deal.
But we are entering year three of that contract, so
he's only got twenty five in twenty six after this,
where he is still under contract making that absorbent an
amount of money. But he's also going to be thirty
years old next year. And you talk about a guy
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who has dealt with not only knee injury problems now
and dealing with a shoulder injury. Yeah. I've got some
serious questions on Deshaun Watson and the Brons, especially because
I think that defense is so good. So it's it's
it's a situation that Cleveland doesn't want to squander.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Where do you rank him in that division as the quarterbacks.
I mean, it's pretty pretty clear probably, but where would
you wh would you rank?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think you'd have to be third just because of
how bad it is in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I think, I think, I really, I think he can
be second in that division when he's right. And so
I'm not going to tell you who that who I'm
kicking out, all right, but I think he can be
second if he's right, and I hope that's what we
get to see this year.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Mark Dominic, former GM of the Buccaneers, our friend of
the program here on Fox Sports Radio, joining us Mark
Happy Friday. Let's get right, Let's get right to it.
Kerry and I were just having an Anthony Richardson conversation.
Bengals players kind of mocking him in their joint practices
this week, saying that he can't throw through a pick
six last night in their preseason game. I get he's
twenty two years old, but you have a veteran in
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Joe Flackwise's backup. You know how much room do the
Colts and can the Colts allowed to give Anthony Richardson
to turn into the quarterback they want him to be.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
They don't have a lot of room guys at all.
And the reality is their general manager Chris Ballard, who's
a great guy. This is his what sixth quarterback in
the seven years or whatever it's been. I mean, it's
been a revolving door there at a quarterback position and
richards They're just gott to find out where Richardson is
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and they're going to live and die by it. I'm afraid,
and I agree Anthony Richardson looks like more of a
roller coaster. There's gonna be parts you're gonna really like,
but I think you're gonna be a parts you really
can't stand.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Mark to piggyback on that on that topic a little bit.
As a GM, if you have a young quarterback, a
quarterback that you obviously believed in to take at such
a high pick, you have the first year that ends prematurely,
so you saw a small sample size of what he
can be. You bring in a veteran guy that just
came from Cleveland, that took a team to the playoffs.
(26:37):
You bring Are you bringing in a guy like that
as insurance or you're bringing in a guy like that
to push the younger guy?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
What's your take on that? Usually I love that.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Question, and I think there's a lot of answers to
the way I understand why they did it. Number One,
Flaco's a great teammate, doesn't mean he's not trying to
be the starter there, but also understands what it takes
to be a starter and to mentor and to go
through that. You're bringing in Flacko because I think not
because you're worried Richardson was going to bust. You're worried
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that Richard can't stay healthy. Yeah, you know that's mean
you're gonna have to play this guy and it might
be a six game stretch or an eight game stretch.
So you can't just have an okay backup. You've got
to have something that you think can actually win. And
I think Blaco coming off the couch last year showed hey,
look I'm ready to go still and has a lot
of drive and still desire to play. So it wasn't
because I think Placo is going to push Richardson to
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be the starter. I think they did it because they're
trying to protect themselves because they realized what happened with
Richardson last year wasn't just one injury, it was multiple ones,
but one significant one, and that's something I think that
you can go back in his life and kind of
see that that's been somewhat of a repeating patterns happening
for Richards.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
At this point, former Buccaneers GM Mark dominic joining us
here on Fox Sports Radio. He's carry roads on Dan Byer.
Mark with twenty plus years in NFL front office, is
it's time for our weekly Brandon Ayuk question to Mark
Dominick here on Fox Sports Radio. All the things going
on a lot longer than I thought it would be.
Mike Silver we touched on this earlier in the show,
(28:05):
reporting that, hey, don't rule out Washington. I'm all for
the Commanders making a push, but he's still a forty
nine er. Where do you think this ends up? As
we sit here now on August twenty third and still
no official deal one way or another with Ayuk?
Speaker 8 (28:20):
Yeah, you know, it's it's obviously very interesting. It's taken
so long to get this point and yet we're still nowhere,
right guys. Yeah, it feels like the agent continues to
try to spend anything he can to get the forty
nine ers to offer more money. And it was close
in New England thirty million dollars plus fell apart. Tried Cleveland,
(28:41):
that sounded pretty good. Will, Let's try Pittsburgh. That sounded
pretty good. Was Washington, but then, oh wait, they just
traded to run their receiver, so now they're interested. I
think of Washington really wanted brand Ayuk. It wouldn't have
mattered what they did with John Dotson. They were going
to go ahead and just go with it as is.
So I don't think they had a bit to do
with the difference in their situation terms of deciding whether
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or not they want to sign Brandon Ayuk. I just
don't think Washington is interested enough, even though Adam Peters
was to the assistant GM. It speaks volume if you
really thought Ayuk was a legit number one, NonStop I
seek they have already traded for him. But you also
got to realize that affects Terry McLaurin too, So if
you make a move for U, because you're gonna have
(29:21):
to adjust Harry's contract as well.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I got a question for you, Mark about my New
York Jets. I'm gona I'm gonna throw that out there
in my New York Jets.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I know.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The what the whole Hassan Reddick deal.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Like, if you go into a situation and you know
that a player is having contract problems or stalemates happening
at a different location, and you trade for that guy,
don't you go into it with the game plan saying
we have to extend them or we've got to have
these talks early before the guy even gets in the building.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
You absolutely should have and you're allowed to do that, right,
you're allowed to sit there. And if you're getting to
talk to Howie Roseman and you were thinking about training
for Hassan Riddick, one of the things you have to
notify the league office if you have the right to
communicate with them. And the second thing is you should
be on the phone with the agent going what's the problem, Like,
tell me what do you want you? What are you
looking for? What kind of contract? How many years now?
(30:17):
Did you get tricked by the agent? I don't know.
I don't think so. I think that they've been pretty
clear what they wanted. And that's even makes the whole
thing more surprising to me. Why did you trade for
a guy that you felt can't get anything done or
you can't get anything done, You can't get any movement
on this contract. It speaks to me that somebody dropped
the ball in the Jets organization or they got sold
(30:41):
a bell of goods. But that's not going to do
a player any good. An agent shouldn't do that because
they're just putting the player in the same spot as
he already was and frustrated. So I feel like the
Jets somebody kind of got ahead of themselves and didn't
really cross off all the i's and t's to make
sure that they're ready to go.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
With this movie. All right, all right, last where we
let you go? Mark? It is a different NFL than
it was a few years ago. Are you a fan
of cutting everybody now? Or did you like this staggered
cut down that you would have in the previous years
of the NFL when it was a four game season?
Sometimes teams were playing five games and they played in
the Hall of Fame? Do you like this process better?
(31:18):
Do you like the old way when it was staggered? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
I like this much much better. I like less preseason games.
And you know what was what the problem was for
us back in the day was that fourth preseason games.
Terry knows that was all those young guys were playing,
Like no no, no, no, those dudes are out there,
and you know how hard that was for me as
a general manager to come up with a team that
was going to go on the field because we just
(31:42):
had to cut twenty five thirty guys. I think those
are the guys that were going to play the game.
And also, uh, you know, it just it was. It's
so much better now because you can see clubs are
looking at this differently. But now you can still if
you decide you're going to bench all your starters like
some clubs are doing, you can still give up guys
the opportunities, but at least you're got better players out there,
or all these players out there better options. In one game,
(32:04):
I had to take a guy from safety, then move
the corner and finish the game at running backs because
he play high school running back.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Are great stories. Yeah that was a great one.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, maybe maybe crazy newer is better. Mark, have a
great weekend. Yeah, safe travels to wherever you're headed, and
we'll talk to you next week. Thanks about just stuff, Mark.
Speaker 8 (32:26):
Terry chose nice to talk to gud.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
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It's a Friday. I know it's warm in a lot
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know what I mean. On the Doug Gottlieb Show, he
is Carry Rhoads. I'm Dan Bayer sitting in for Doug
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Indianapolis Colts. There's some stuff that happened last night, some
stuff that happened this week that gets this conversation going,
(33:43):
especially after Richardson's rookie season that was cut short by injury.
There was a concussion, there was a shoulder injury. You
had Gardner Minshew there. Now Anthony Richardson doesn't have to
worry about Gardner Minshew, but he's got Joe Flacco as
his backup. A lot of buzz going on right now
about the Indianapolis Colts and what to expect this season,
(34:05):
something carry and I will dive into in about fifteen
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our good friend, former Buccaneers GM Mark Dominic, a good
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to acquire him in a deal. We'll find out about
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that latest, plus the Cowboys and so much more. As
it's cut down weekend in the National Football League. But
checking the calendar, it's August twenty third. It's a Friday,
but it's not just any Friday.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
I got some beers, strike them us. It's that time
of the week to crack open a cool beverage it's
frosty Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Is this your first frosty Friday? This is my first
frosty Friday? Right for sure. This is the brainchild of
one Jason Stewart because I'm uh wish I was sitting
back right now, and you're gonna be surprised about what
I'm I'm gonna say. Kobe Bryant uh had body the
(35:14):
body armor drink. There was like a special Kobe Bryant
drink on Kobe's birthday today. I wish I was sitting
back sipping a nice grape and strawberry Body armor was
my favorite flavor of those. Yes, load me up with
some body armor, especially, I'm gonna need to be hydrated
for the amount of golf that move about to play
in the next week or so. That's right, I've never
(35:36):
tasted that. Was it was? It? Is it tasty? It's good, yeah,
and I feel it's relatively cheap, and there's sugar in it,
you know, of course, but it makes me feel better
thinking that it's an energy you know, like a you know,
sort of rehydrating sort of drink. Yeah. Yeah, But the
strawberry and grape I think is delicious. Nice not nice.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
Well, carry strikes me as a guy who doesn't do
those flavored energy drinks.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I do not do those at all, and I'm not
even a drinker. So I would say the one thing
that I do, I would put I guess a cold
on a frosty Friday, I'll have a cold like kombucha.
That's that's my that's my drink of choice when I'm
at that at the house, or even if I try
to go somewhere to eat, I'm gonna get like a
(36:21):
I would do a kombucha to to give me a
little a little taste.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
So what are you drinking on this Friday? At Jason Stewart,
I'm gonna uh.
Speaker 9 (36:31):
So, there's a brewery out of San Francisco, Anchor Steam.
Anchor Steam Beer. You can find it down here like
a Trader Joe's and stuff, but delicious. What would you
call that? Was craft beer? Sam, you're the beer?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Well like an Sam was so in the Lover Boy.
He didn't even say turning next to him.
Speaker 9 (36:52):
So pour me an anchor steam to start to start.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Us there it is. By the way, what had Doug
called this song this week? Didn't he call it like
something that it wasn't like working to the weekend. Yeah
it he got the main where it's correct, but the
middle there was out working and weekend. But you played
this on a Wednesday, which, I to Doug's defence, was
(37:16):
a little strange, but we were talking about something that
was related.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
But I think when you get to hump Day and
you get to Friday, like those two days are like
you're looking ahead to the weekend. You know, you're like, oh,
halfway through the week, yeah, I'm working for that weekend, man.
But last weekend I was working on the weekend. So
that's maybe that's what Doug men.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
That sort of a Sam could not keep his day
straight because it's like, you know, Bud, just straight days
for him. What are you drinking on this frosty Friday?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well, right now, I'm drinking a virgin strawberry dackery in
this cup right here.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
You can see it in the star phone cup. Oh no, nice.
It may be coffee, but it looks.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Like one of those old school be bops remembered the
old school frozen kool aids.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yes, yes, very refreshing. Still summer for another month. Tonight
I'll be watching Caitlin Clark visiting the Minnesota Lynx and
I'll probably be having maybe a little craft brewery.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
She's playing at the Links.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
She's playing at the Links.
Speaker 9 (38:12):
The head coach that hates her more drama.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I think they play tomorrow. What, No, it's today? Uh again,
Sam not getting his day straight. It's Friday, frosty Friday.
They play tomorrow against the Minnesota Lynx. But hey, how
did I how did I misread that some fan? You
are a virgin in there? Yeah? Right, Sam, I'm at work, Sam,
(38:44):
Sam was here last weekend, so these days are messed up.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
The Links are playing tonight against the Aces. Your schedule
just freed up. So good news for you Isai Blow
and Crown just sipped a little something of what do
you got in there that old mug, Isaac.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
It's coffee. Unfortunately, it is not Irish coffee, if I
can put it that way. It is plain, old homemade
black coffee. It is incredibly well tasting thanks to the
brilliance of the person who crafted it.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Wah.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
It is the best legal performance enhancing substance out there.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Oh, it's a frosty Friday, but it is also a
Friday that I'm sorry I've heard it, been hearing it
for the last few weeks. I don't know if it's
my age carrier roads. I'm excited for the football season,
but it doesn't mean that I'm excited for the summer
to go away. This is it, this is done. I'm
(39:45):
not a huge week zero guy in college football. Yeah,
which explains why I have a flight tomorrow so I'll
be in the air when Georgia Tech and Florida State
are playing in Ireland. But like, this is it? This
is the final Weekend's right? And really is it? Because
Labor Day weekend feels like the final weekend, but it's
(40:05):
your final normal weekend of summer where you still have
summer the week after when you go to Labor Day weekend, Yeah,
you have the extra day, but then it's completely done.
I'm sad to see summer go. I love football, and
I love everything about it, and I love football weekends.
But as I've gotten older, I've appreciated summer more and more,
(40:26):
and I'm sad to think that, all right, it's already
gone past, Like it feels like it was just the
other day. I was watching the US Open. It was
mid June and brighthing the Shambo and Rory McRoy are
going head to head those two months ago. Now it's
over like this is I feel sad that the end
of summer is almost here.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
That's the sadness coincide, that's the sadness of summer leaving
coincide with golf for you?
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Is that the toy it does, Yes, it does. PGA
Tour is wrapping up FedEx Cup playoffs going on right now.
Next week we'll have the Tour Championship to end it.
That is a big part of it. Now living in
southern California, you don't necessarily have that problem, but there
is different golfing. Weather days gets shorter, which I'm not
a fan of. After November, I'm leaving work and it's dusk,
(41:14):
so there's really no opportunity to do that. Yeah, it's
a big part of it. That's why I have this
big golf weekend. It's almost tradition. It's like the last
or big golf week it's the last opportunity to do so.
I've just enjoyed summer way more, I would say, over
the last decade than I ever have. As much as
I love football and can't wait for the games to
count and seeing all the action, you know, I don't
(41:37):
get misty eyed. But I think it's always too bad
when you got to say goodbye to summer.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
It's so funny because that was flipped for me as
a youngster. Obviously, summer was everything, you know, even in
my late twenties maybe early thirties, summer was everything. Now
it's all about getting to fall, getting to the shorter
light because I go to sleep early, so I like
for the game, Damn, just a little bit so so
(42:01):
I can get comfy, you.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Know what I mean. How early are we talking about here?
Eight thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
I'm in bed, yeah, I mean seriously, So when you
sit in those texts day at midnight, I am.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I'm on my I'm almost making up. Yeah, I did
send one thats like sorry, it's late, and it's like
eleven twenty. Jason Stewart's an early to better as well.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
Yeah, and I'm a bad wetter early to better and
a bad wetter.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
To your real self, promoter. There you go.
Speaker 9 (42:30):
You know what I'm looking forward to this weekend and
it's so rare. The Al East is coming to town.
The Dodgers have the best record in the National League.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 9 (42:40):
They are very flawed, but they still have the best
record in the National League. They're welcoming the Rays to town.
I mean, I don't know how many times the Rays
I've ever played at Dodger Stadium. Kershaw goes tomorrow night,
but I think it's a chance to maybe sweep up
on the Rays and then we welcome the Orioles to town.
So looking forward to a cool Dodger weekend. Carrie, what
(43:01):
are you looking forward to on this the weekend? I'm
ken tomorrow road show on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
That's right, that's that's number one. Obviously, my show Sunday
two to five pm on Sunday, right you and Harmon?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
That's right? No, no, no, it's it's my show. Okay, Yeah,
I won't tell Mike. Yes, yeah, I forget about this
my show.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
But tomorrow I'm I'm going to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
and I'm going to watch the Nightmare before Christmas outside
and it's going to be nice. Have some blankets out,
have an energy drink.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
I don't want to be macab but do me a favor.
Say hi to my grandparents. That's where they are.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Are they there? I got just sibity directions to the plot.
I'll go put some flowers off for you. I love,
But that's where I'm going. That's where I'm going Saturday.
So that should be fun. You're you seem to be
a person who loves to end summer a lot. Sooner
you're already watching uh exactly, yes, the night before Christmas, Iowa, Sam,
I know what you're not doing tonight. That's watching the
Indiana fever. What are you doing tomorrow? Watching the Indiana fever?
(44:06):
Tomorrow I will be watching the Indiana fever. Yes, and uh,
that's really ten to my flowers. You know, my little
garden you can grow it.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Think about living in La you can you can start
and grow a garden at anytime of the year.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yes, as long as you get light.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
It's warm enough and the sunlight is ample, and so
you know, that's one of my littles.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Also, like this fall growing season that you don't get
in other places, true, like where you're like, if you
need to do lawng work you wanted to, like, you
can do that in September October where the temperatures aren't
as hot and yep, you end up having to maybe
trim your bushes. That's what a frosty Friday's about it's
what you're drinking, what you're doing on a weekend, today's Friday.
(44:48):
There is a point as well, and I and I know,
like if you're a listener, I hope that you can
you can feel what I'm saying about summer. But the
one thing and you, as a professional athlete, probably have
it a little bit different. But I know, and looking
across the glass from me and Isaac and Jason and Sam,
(45:10):
there is also this point in sports media where August
is the start and now when the NBA kind of ends,
like that's where your season goes. So it's a ten
month grind, almost like school. So this summer sort of
thing is an ending of the summer and it's the
starting of your seasons. Because all these things kind of
(45:31):
coincide with each other. It is the feeling of a
school year. And so there is like a little remorse
that a summer is over with because now we enter
a stretch again. For as much as we love football,
maybe we put it in cruise control a little bit
in June and July because there's not as much once
the NBA season ends up ending and now you got
to buckle in. I know, beat writers everywhere covering football
(45:53):
teams like their work starts and it's NonStop until the
Super Bowl. This year's in New Orleans on by the way,
it's part of the new TV deal, so uh yeah,
so we'll go straight and then you hand into everything
in the spring, as I mentioned, into the NBA.
Speaker 9 (46:07):
And by the way, just it's good to put a
button on that I'm very envious of, and I actually
hate the people that thought about this and put put
thought into it and took next week off like the
last real week of our summer in the media, I'm
very resignful of planners, people that plan that stuff, namely
Dan Byer and Colin Cowhert. They're going to be off
(46:28):
all next week. Actually Dan's going to be doing a
couple of shows, but I'm reasonful that you guys thought
ahead on them.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
I also think ahead because of where I live in
southern California. When everybody gets out of town, everybody's on
the road, so you'll notice, like on a Labor Day
or a Memorial Day, I'm like, I don't want to
deal with the traffic. And Jason doesn't live too far
for me, and he's usually in studio, and I'm like,
if I could stay home. I'm going to stay at home.
I'll I'll do the show from the home studio if
(46:55):
I can. Because traffic is oddly enough in southern California,
can be a headache.
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