8-28-25 Hour 3: Adam Schefter joins us/Lets Football Go

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I know you're already on with the Morning show this week,
but it's great to have you on our show. Welcome back, Adam.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Gentlemen, it is great to be with you had a
great time last year and I'm always happy to get
you again.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
And you're adjust at the cameras so we could see
what what does that shirt exactly say? I mean you
probably want to get out there.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Let's got this.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Champion Yeah, Champion circle. It's a Michigan thing.

Speaker 6 (00:52):
Yeah, you wouldn't understand exactly.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
That's okay, you know, that's all right. It's a Michigan thing.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Who's Michigan this week?

Speaker 5 (01:02):
New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's not like a question he answer The Mountain West
to start the year off good luck on that. Yeah,
that goes Adam. What is going on with Micah Parsons.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Holy moley moly, Like.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
This has gone on all off season and now we're
at a point where we're waiting to see if the
two sides can get it done. The Eagles, let me
remind you, open the season one week from tonight in Philadelphia.
The Cowboys do against the Eagles, and Mica still is
in practice. He was in California visiting a back specialist.
They said they don't want to trade him, but they
also have not had any discussions about a new contract.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Since late March early April. Nothing's gone on.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
They have talked to some teams about their potential trade.
They say they don't want to trade them, but they
have talked to teams. So, you know, we'll see what
comes to this. But I would think it's going to
come to a head here relatively soon. I don't know
exactly what, but relatively soon.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah. This the reason why we are very interested in
Denver about this is there's a belief that the Nick
Benito deal won't get done until the Micah Parsons deal
gets done first. So and in fact, George Payton was
asked about that this morning and said, we're gonna keep
that to ourselves. You know, he wasn't gonna spill the

(02:18):
beans on it, but that question was literally asked with
George Payton this morning. Does that make sense to you
that there is a some sort of dominoes that may
fall in that direction?

Speaker 5 (02:28):
You know what, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
First of all, you got Mike out there, like, it's
always possible the Lions could extend Aiden Hutchinson before the season.
There's been talked about a new deal there potentially, So again,
Nick Benito has been great, great. Is he gonna get
with Micah and and Aid and get I don't know
about that. I don't know about that. So I guess

(02:51):
the numbers go up. So if they get a big number,
he comes in under that right.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Exactly, exactly like, yeah, Michah Parsons gets know, what do
we talk about, Adam, Give me a number, Give me
the top number, forty three, forty three? What did Nick
Benito want? Thirty six or something, thirty two? Whatever?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
We're right now, you can probably seven.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
But by the way, if I'm Denver, I'm just gonna
say right now, Trey Hendrickson just took thirty.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yep, all again, sort of, I mean to keep him happy.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
He's gonna be thirty yeah. Oh what, by the way,
as Crosby is at thirty five?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh, we know, we're we're quite aware now, you know,
Like what, all right? Where do you think Nick Benito
fits with all these guys?

Speaker 5 (03:38):
He's a great players. I'm not arguing that. I'm what
U is?

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Right?

Speaker 5 (03:43):
You know, we're not here to debate whether he's great.
He's a great player.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
He's a great player. What's the number? I don't know
it's I don't think it's. My point is I don't
know that.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
Mike is relevant. That's my point.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Gotcha, what I don't know?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now now to Nick Benito Mike, you might think that's
why I got it, But I would say the Broncos
probably would say, we don't need to see Micah's new
deal to have any better idea of.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Nick Bniro's value. That's what I would think. On the outside.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
If Michaeh. Parsons does get traded, what do you think
that value is?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, I think the simplest way to look at it
is if we go back. I think it was about
seven years ago the Raiders traded Khalil Mack on a
Saturday before Labor Day, before the season beat and just
take out that deal. And I think that's the starting point.
That's the starting point for a deal for they're about

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the same age, they are of similar talents, they are
elite players, and I think Khalil went for like a
couple of ones, a few other picks, but then they
got back Khalil on something like it was a whole
convoluted thing. So I don't know how you boiled down
the deal, but in the end it probably came out
to me about two ones.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Hey, when you're going around leg I know you're talking
to right now. Is there anybody that that any of
your contacts are buzzing about, any team and or player
that your people are buzzing about more so than maybe
somebody else.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, I mean, I just everybody's ready for the start
of the season.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I you know, I have my own ideas about how
I think the season will go, you know, and and
some of the teams will be better and worse like
last year we talked about. I believe I was pretty
resolute my idea that I thought Denver would better than
people thought. I feel that way about a couple other
teams this year, Like, I think New England will be

(05:39):
better than people think. I think the New York Giants
will be better than people think. I think Arizona maybe
a little bit better than people like. There's some teams
like that that that'll take another step. I don't know
whether that means they'll make the playoffs or or win
a game in the playoffs, but I think they'll be
better than people are expecting.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
It's my point now that Trey Henderson got extra fourteen
million bucks or whatever it was for the year Terry
signed his deal, is there are Is there any other
drama outside of Mike Parson's going on in the NFL
player wise?

Speaker 5 (06:15):
You know, Mike is the big one. Obviously, that's a
huge domino. It's gone all summer. Cam Hayward's been out there.
Nobody's that's true. That's true, O that that'll.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Be interesting to see what happens before they're opening, because
he's a guy that's a team captain, incredibly popular, has
always done the right thing. You know, he was the
one that came out I said that, you know, Aaron
Rodgers take the deal or don't you know? And he's
supposed to make I think fourteen million dollars this year,
wants to raise haven't given him one start to retiring.

(06:46):
We'll see what happens there, So that that's the name
I'd be watching. Obviously, a lot of players get extensions
before the season. Tampa is talking to a couple of people.
But but Micah isn't. It isn't his own category. He
just because it's the Cowboys. He's an a lead player,
he's young, he's great, So that to me belongs in

(07:07):
its own category.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Andam I want to ask you something and I'll probably
set it up because it really has struck me. In
the last two or three days, there's been so much
talk about the early demise of the Kansasy Chiefs.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
They're on their way down, They're not.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
They got they got a great quarterback and an aging
tied end a great coach, but what else they got?
And it hit me last night, I go, wasn't these
the same conversations we had for years about New England
and Tom Brady and Belichick and yet they were still
always twelve wins, great teams, winning Super Bowl? I mean,
are people trying to bury the Chiefs a little bit

(07:43):
too soon?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I haven't heard of people trying to bury the Chiefs,
but I would just say that I think they are
as formidable as ever, and maybe you could make the
argument that they'll be even better. And I say that
because where they've struggled and years when they've been a
great team, where they struggled is at left tackle. They
haven't had a left tackle to protect Patrick Mahonmes' blindside.

(08:07):
They went out this year and drafted a player that
a lot of people didn't think would be able to
make it back in time for the season or would
be limited in some type of way, Josh Simmons, the
left tackle from Ohio State. And if Josh Simmons hadn't
torn his pattel attendant last year in November, I believe
it was maybe it was October in season. If he
hadn't done that, I would venture to say that Josh

(08:28):
Simmons probably would have been a top ten draft pick.
But he did tearist patel attendant, and the Chiefs drafted
him at thirty one, and he's come back quicker than
people thought, and he's been all the player that people thought.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
So if we take a.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Top ten talent who's been playing at a high level
in training camp by all accounts, and have him protect
Patrick Mahomes' blindside, and you basically locked down and secure
a position that had been a problem on your team
in recent years. Don't you think that that team right
then and there? Just think about what happened when Denver

(09:03):
traded for Gary Zimmerman back in the day. Did the
Broncos not take a huge jump when was protecting John's blindside?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yep, no doubt, Adam. Is what is happening in Cleveland
similar to what was happening in Denver with Tebow, withdur
and all this stuff going on.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I you know, I don't know about that. Who is
Tebo trying to Unseade? Is the start of Kyle Orton?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Orton?

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, yep. And by the way, if you don't remember
this story, Orton, Yes, unseating Orton. He got a shot
because they fired McDaniels in the last three weeks of
the season. Tebo did start. That's in twenty ten. In
twenty eleven, they tried to trade Orton to Miami and
they couldn't get it done and so it fell apart.
And there's Kyle Orton trotting out getting booed by the way,

(09:49):
in training camp as Tebo's out there, because Tbo's the
you know, player of the people at him and everybody
wanted him, all the fans want them. And that's what
we're hearing about Cleveland, right like, oh, you know, you know,
at least Travis Kelsey said that, and we wish Travis
and Taylor you know, much love and happiness. Of course
goes without saying of course, of course, OLiS here and
we're listening to some of the talk shows there in Cleveland, Adam,

(10:11):
they're screaming at each other about this stuff, and it
does feel reminiscent of the Tebow stuff, where just play
him already. We want to see what he's got. It's
nothing against the other guy, but come on, man, give
us what we want.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh, you know, listen, I think Joe Flacco is a
capable of starting Cory. He's want a Super Bowl, super
Bowl MVP like. He's a pretty good quarterback. And so
I don't think the Browns want us to plant Joe
Flacco right now with one of these rookie quarterbacks. And
they named Schador number three today. Dylan Gabriel is going
to be the backup. They added Bradley Bailey Zappy to

(10:49):
the practice squad today. We'll see how it on folds.
But they moved out. Can you pick it this week?
Got a fifth front pick back for him?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, say, all right, time out? Why is he there?
Why is he in Cleveland?

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Who?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Who wanted him?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Somebody wanted him? And by the way, you know what
it is, hold on at the point they took him, Like,
I'm surprised that somebody.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Else didn't take them.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
He you know, there were teams that were interested and
they just didn't pull the trigger. So it got done
where he went one for four. I'm not all that.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Into and I don't really care that much who took him?
Like what you like?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
What you think the owner walked into the war room
and goes, guys, you better take Shador Sanders, right. I
don't think it went like that. Like, I just think
they're having Maybe I'm wrong, they're having an organizational guys.
We got we got this guy. We never would have
thought he would be here at Big one. He's still
on the board. Uh we we didn't have a terribly
high grade on him, but he's greated higher than these
other guys.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Right, let's take them that.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think it's like that is a terrible plan for
a quarterback. I'm just gonna tell you, man, maybe that
works for a defensive Like come on.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
You've got Joe Flacco and you've got Watson that they
think it's gonna be back sometime this season, maybe in October.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
That will be fascinating. If he gets cleared, that will
be really fascinating.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
I you know, to me, at some point in time,
the Browns will probably take a look at what they
have in Dylan Gabriel and maybe shud Or Sanders. Let's
keep in mind the Browns have ten picks in the
twenty twenty six draft in Pittsburgh, including two in the
first rounds. They have two first draft a draft in which, wow,

(12:35):
you know, look, remember the quarterback draft last year with
Caleb and Jaden and Drake May and Bo Nix and
Michael Pennix.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
And JJ McCartney.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I believe, I'll say this now, we are gonna have
a similar quarterback draft in twenty twenty six, similar levels
of talent, similar types of quarterbacks. It's going to be
another quarterback rich deep draft. And I've never seen a draft.
I've never seen a draft in which the supply of

(13:08):
quarterbacks exceeded the need for quarterbacks. I've never seen one
in my thirty five years, so it ain't gonna be
the first win in Pittsburgh. I guarantee that I don't
know which quarterbacks have struggled this year. I can't tell
you the teams that will won't be in the quarterback market,
but I guarantee there are more teams that want quarterbacks,
good young quarterbacks, than there are good young quarterbacks available.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
All right, as quick with a question? Uh, because we
always get into this. We usually wait the season, but
who are the coaches won two or three? They're on
a hot seat to start start the season.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
I've learned this. I know it's a question.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I'm just telling you, like We've gone into years where
I've had this conversation with people and you're sitting here
saying to yourself, I'm making this up. Well, you know
these coaches are safe. They're coming up playoff teams and
all the some of the playoff teams, like we could say, okay,
we can say today the obvious answers, right.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Uh, Brian day Ball in New York. Who else would
be on the hot seat?

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Let me just take a look here, hold on, I
don't think.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Hold on, okay, uh, Brian da Ball Uh about Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Mike McDaniel, Fine, can you give me three names?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Like I don't know, I don't know u uh.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
By the way, like.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
I don't feel like there's teams that make so many changes,
like they they're in and out. My point to you is,
we would not name we will not name a few
of the names whose teams are going to struggle, whose
teams are going to struggle, and those coaches are gonna
wind up on the hot seat, and we're gonna talk
about these guys today in August twenty eighth or whatever

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the hell today is, like Mike McDaniel and whoever else
you brought up there, and and a couple of these
teams are going to surprise. And when they surprise, and
they're none in the hot seats, like why did we
even have that conversation? Like the steam the season never
really goes exactly the way you plan it to go.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
What about Kevin Stefanski? What what what about him? Because
that that that's curious to be in regards to the
quarterback decisions.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Well, Tyler, you mean the guy that's won the coach
of the year twice.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
That guy I know, and I'd like that. I think
he's a hell of a coach. And I honestly do.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
The front office and owner who wanted to bring into
Seawan Watson, that guy's in trouble.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Okay, Yeah, a lot of coaches fall for owner's bad decisions.
I mean, they wouldn't be the first one that lost
his job because of it.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, man, I doubt he was banging the table for
twelve quarterbacks.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
You know, I listen, Kevin Stefanski is a great guy.
He's a great coach.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
If they want to fire him, go fire him, like whatever,
like and and the one thing Scott also is you.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Just think you want to have one of these years.
I think we had a lot of coaches two years ago,
like it was like ten coaches fired and last year
was six.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
And you know, at some points like these people got
to say, you know what, let's just keep riding it
through with our guys.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
They but how come you haven't got Sanahan in the
Hall of Fame yet?

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah, Adam, total bs, total bs, like ridiculous. And first
of I'm not a voter, and I'm glad I'm not
a voter, but I can't help it if they're making
a ridiculous mistake by not putting him in, Like.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Don't get me started.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Down last last one for you really quick ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
I meant.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's and I love these people that are in charge
of people's lives like that, Like you know, they're happy initially.
Let's put Ken Stabler in. Now he's gone, he left
the earth. You can't enjoy it. That that's brilliant. Let's
make Robert kraftwait when he's been one of the most
influenced Let's I know he's on the doorstep, but but
we won't put him in.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
No, you know, you know, let's let's make people Mike congrin.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
I think last year was introduced, he was like a
finalist and then he doesn't get the eighty percent or
whatever the number, Like he had enough support to be
brought to the doorsteps of can Ohio, but not but
a couple of ose shorts that he can't get in.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
Oh, that that's great, that's great. That I I Oh
my god.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
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Speaker 6 (17:47):
But my teammate.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
By the way, there you go. Good for him, and
Portnoy does nothing but represent Michigan to the well degree.
How soft does Ohio State for banning him from coming
inside the horseshoe.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I mean, I wasn't aware that Dave Portnoy had anything
to do with the fact that they lost to Michigan
each of the last four years.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
But I guess.

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Great to see you again.

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Speaker 7 (19:00):
I gave us some gold today, you use it, I
got you. All right, Hey, let's talk about bow Knicks,
and specifically with Drew Brees. Drew Brees has been making
the media rounds the last couple of days. Obviously, we
know that Bo spent a couple of days in San
Diego working with Drew, picking his brain on a guy
who played for Sean Payton. So what is Drew Brees

(19:20):
expecting from year two bow Nicks.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (19:23):
Look, I saw him grow and develop as that season
went on. You know, I think early in the season
what I most recognized was here was a guy who, yes,
had played a ton of college football sixty one starts
between Auburn and Oregon, but heavily shotgun offense, right, I
mean that that's kind of the nature of college football now.
And now he's in a system with Sean Payton where hey,
you're under center a lot, turning your back to the defense,

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play action, having to come back around, and hey, does
your pre snap and match your post snap? Reed? And
you know, you could tell that there was a little
bit of a development that needed to take place. But
as the season went on, I saw him become more
and more comfortable in that system.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
Obviously, is an incredible athlete.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
So his ability to to extend plays and then really
take off down the field and make kind of big
splash plays with his legs is evident. Look, I think
think that's an incredible marriage there. Sean Payton loves a
guy who has that type of versatility. They can do
a lot of things, do QB specific runs, and he's
got a little Taysom Hill quality to him with his
speed and athleticism and strength and his ability just to

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distribute the ball both in the short and intermediate passing
game man down the field.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
Okay, So with year two coming up for Bo and Sean,
what do you guys want to see those two do
more of this year that they didn't do a whole
lot of last year? I mean, is it taking more
shots down the field, more play action, have more design
run plays for bow?

Speaker 6 (20:38):
What would you like to see that?

Speaker 7 (20:40):
How would you like to see that relationship evolve coming
up in year two?

Speaker 6 (20:45):
And theory, the only thing that should slow down this
defense is being on the field too much. So if
you want to put a great defense at risk, wear
them at right. And the biggest problem this offense had
last year was three and outs. They got to solve
that cannot be leading the league in three and outs.
You gotta be you gotta be on the opposite end
of the spectrum.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Win close games. Mm hmmm, said it, he said, what
I like to see different now those two. I thought
it was a great answer. One win close games one
and six and close games what he'd sense to me?
You know, it was definitive.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Seeing bow run less would be probably a good thing.
That means you are running the run that much last
year though, okay, well even less, you know, if you
don't have to be scrambling around.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
But I, okay, I don't disagree with that, and in
terms of like designed runs, but I do want him
to pick up two or three third downs with his
feet every.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Single game if he asked to. But there was a
lot of times he's figured he's running. I think this
is what you're saying, don't run because all of a sudden,
protection is classed when you get you gotta save.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
This, Listen. He turned out to be a much better
athlete than anybody predicted because he just didn't have to
scramble like that at Oregon. How about that we aren't
aware of how athletic he really was. Because he didn't
have to be like that, right, it turns out he was,
which is really cool.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Well, and Josh Allen, I know he's been in the
league a lot longer than both Nicks. But Josh Allen,
there's a big article I think since you guys yesterday, Well,
my big thing this year is I don't want to
run as much.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
You get I get it getting older.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Too, And that's why he didn't he didn't take a
snap in preseason. He said, my body hasn't felt this
good going into the interest game one since I've been.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
In the league.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Interesting, So they're trying to.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Save hits from his body and he's really realizer too.
What is he old man? At twenty nine?

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now it gets like that, you know, you take it.
The hits would probably asia that about it? All right?

Speaker 7 (22:38):
Next story, Dan, all Right, we talked a lot about
the upcoming potential contract extension for Nick Benito, But what
about John Franklin Myers. He's in the final year of
his deal. George Peyton was asked about that today.

Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yeah, John, he is a really good player, man, big bonus.
We're able to get John last year and like a
number of other of our players in the final of
their deals. We'd like to have them all back and John,
John's no different that. We have a number of players
and it's a puzzle kind of like your roster management,
like the fifty three man, and so we're working through
a lot of that now. But we're excited to have

(23:14):
John Franklin, We're excited to have you know, Wattenberg and
a lot of these guys in the last years of
their deals.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
So how big of a priority should that be for
for George Peyton to try to get a new deal
done for John Franklin, Myers.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Zero priority next year whatever? And you know what, he's
probably gone, and so is Wattenberg, by the way, they're
both on expiring deals. And like, wow, I mean George
Payton talked about it today.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Wasn't me a rookie last year?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I don't think so. I think I don't know. Listen,
correct check my math. But George Payton mentioned Wattenberg today
for whatever reason. I think frankly Meyer's just gone. You
can't pay everybody. I'm sure they like him.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Fine, many how many in tear guys did you keep it?
How many do you have on the practice squad?

Speaker 2 (24:07):
You got a Millie well you got a bunch. He
ain't the only one.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Making less than twelve million dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
You can't pay him all, right, So nothing against John Franklin.
Meyer's great pickup by the Broncos. But I do not
expect him to be on the team next year, do you.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
He's an Iced on the Cake guy. Yeah, I don't know.
Like I I think you might be able to retain
him because I don't think it's gonna be an earth
shattering deal. He'd probably be happy with money that is
not even close to what we're talking about with these
other guys, right, But I do in terms of priority, yeah,
he's and man on the list and iced on the

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cake if you're able to get it done.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
But I think the show above is said he makes
twelve Okay.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
He's doing okay, So I'm sure he wants to get
paid big dollars like, but he's making twelve.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
I thought that's what they should That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'm not feeling that bad for him. And you can't
keep everybody. Well, we'll see how it goes. If they
nothing against him, If they can keep it, great, sure,
But I mean priority. That was the original question. Priorities
priorities were Cortland, Sutton, Zach Allen, Nick Benito and that
what do you got?

Speaker 6 (25:17):
Well, I know, twelve billion is a lot of money,
I got it, dude, that would put him at like,
I'm not even in a count that far. I'm just
gonna guess maybe twenty twenty five. And the highest paid
players at his position, dude, Chris Jones making thirty one,
Milton Williams twenty six, Zach Allen twenty five. You've got

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You've got about fifteen dudes, literally, about fifteen dudes making
over twenty million dollars in that.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Position, and his is only seven and a half, seven
seven and a half with eight million the cap.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Hit. Yeah, I get why he wants to get paid.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
Right.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Next story, Dan, we'll go get twelve sacks and guess
what some short Yeah, it might not be.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Us, all right, Last one for you fellas. So Indianapolis
Colts GM Chris Ballard emphatically declared Anthony Richardson will not
be traded, despite naming Daniel Jones as the starting quarterback
over the first round pick back in twenty twenty three.
So Ballard addressed trade speculation during a Wednesday news conference,

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responding with certainty when asked if Richardson might be available.
The decision comes after Richardson was bench twice last season
and lost the starting job despite having his best training camp.
He said emphatically, we're not trading him. So if you
guys were the Colts, do you try to stick it
out with Anthony Richardson and develop him or do you

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try and trade him now and get as much value
as they possibly could.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
He's so young that I think you got to hang
I would hang on to him.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Didn't play him? Why I would do the opposite. I'd
trade his ass. If I wanted to develop him, then
I would develop him and I would play him.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
I would, I would play him. And why do you
got them? What are you doing here? It's fair if
you've given up on the guy, get rid of them, right.
But that being said, he's so freaking young. It's crazy
how young he is compared to everybody else, even though
it doesn't feel like it. I don't know. Again with
the quarterback stuff, when I see teams that don't know

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what to do with quarterbacks and how to develop him
and whatever, it's just they're they're they're the worst organizations.
And right now Indy is not looking like a good organization.
By the way, do you see the stuff on Jim
Mersay what he was into so not great? You know,
like he was having some relapsed problems and health problems,
some serious issues. So it's understandable if that's an organization

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that just had some boy ownership. Man, it is if
you don't have a solid owner and they get it,
they know what they're doing, it is oftentimes it does
trickle down and impat you on the field.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
You know.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
It's amazing about her, say though, with with whatever personal
demons he he adult, he's beloved by players. Yeah, I've
never I have never talked to a dude that played
for the Colts. They didn't like Jim Mersey. I mean
thought he provided what they needed, thought he was top class.
Just I mean, nothing but great things to say.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, my guess is My guess is that a lot
of people were trying to cover for things. And I
do think that was the case with the Broncos too,
before the the Walton Penner group came in here, I
think a lot of people were just trying to figure
things out and it just was not connecting. And I
don't know about the Cowboys. Did the players on the

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Cowboys love Jerry Jones.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
I would have said yes before this thing.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
But I don't know how this.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
You've got Dak talking out, You've got Ceedee Lamb talking out.
I know this team.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Doesn't Prescott say that about Jerry Jones?

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Get the deal done?

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oh for Micah? Yeah, but I mean on a personal level.
My god, he's at the end of the day, he's
got Dak Prescott's back.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Well, he's got mic is back in this one.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, all right? What is what does Dak Prescott make
a year? Sixty I'm gonna keep my mouth shut about
the guy paying me sixty million dollars about anything. My
opinion might not matter if a guy's paying me sixty million.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Dollars, especially it's a guaranteed. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to say.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
I think guys get sixty million dollars they feel like
their opinion matters more than anything.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh, that's fair too. That is some significant few money,
isn't it. That's the you know you got it in
your wallet. It's in your wallet. Okay, I can't I
don't know what to say in see, Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Football's nuts mad because the disparity from the top earners
to the bottom burners. There's no other league like it.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Nothing.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
You've got five dudes, maybe eight dudes on any NFL
team that is taking up ninety five percent of the
salary cap, and then the far majority guys are making
league minimum, which nobody's going to complain about. Good money,
but the disparity is insane.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, how many? All right? Little? Uh, no, dumb question here.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
His weekly checks is three point five million, three.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Five Hold on, do you know they only get paid
during the football season seventeen? Oh, so you divided by seventeen.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Seventeen checks and three three point five two nine, four,
one one and seventy six cents.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Uh, but then how much does Tom Cruise get? Well,
I don't know. You keep going in that. That's stupid.
That conversation points on the end. How many? How many
players on a team and you can still have a
healthy team? Do you guys think you could pay more
than thirty million dollars a year and you could still

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have a good football team.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
Probably not more than you might be able to eke
out three I's gonna say.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Three because the Bengals right now have two receivers four right, Well,
they're about to have four if Henderson Zeal gets done.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Well, he is getting thirty this year, so they get four.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, but but that doesn't mean they're a good team.
They missed the playoffs last year. I mean, is that
the cost?

Speaker 6 (31:26):
That's what the Dolphins did.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Also, they're an entertaining, a non playoff making team.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Like if you get that fourth guy on your team
making So where would the Cowboys be they'd have?

Speaker 6 (31:36):
Really, I mean, man, as much as we would like
to make fun of Cincinnati, it really does make you
understand the dilemma they had with Trey Like we love you,
we want you, but we're already paying three dudes thirty
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
My question is why in the world would they carry
two wide receivers making more than thirty million dollars.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Well, T's just a shade under but your point stands, right.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Like, you couldn't trade t Higgins And was he an
unrestricted free agent or was he they have time left
when they signed him.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
I think he was a free agent.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
He was a free agent, Okay, so you didn't have
a choice, so you got yourself in that stick, so
you couldn't trade him. I guess that's my point. You
would have had to get rid of him last last
year where they were still contending.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
Yeah, he's making twenty eight point seven.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
So they got if. So he's he's a free agent.
They got a little just we were we're trying to
win last year, we're trying to win.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
You know, do you know what Jamar's making? U?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I guess not. I thought it was thirty five? My wrong?

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Forty?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh my god? Like god, who's their running back? Is
it mixing? Is mixing their running back?

Speaker 6 (32:50):
No? No, No, he's with Houston.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
He's gonna miss who's their running back?

Speaker 6 (32:56):
Right? Like?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
What kind of world have we entered with the NFL?

Speaker 4 (33:01):
It's not guaranteed money.

Speaker 6 (33:02):
Most you know Chase Brown and his backup it's j p.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Right, Oh my god, you think they're gonna run the
ball this year?

Speaker 6 (33:12):
No? Remember that? Remember that clip in quarterback where Deepen's
Blindman's like, hey, Joe, you run the ball? F no
pool touchdown?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
You're running backs? Are those two guys? And you're paying
these guys a collective Joe j seventy million dollars?

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Joe? He was why eighty. Why Joe, you run the ball?

Speaker 5 (33:38):
F No, So.

Speaker 6 (33:42):
You have sunk.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Wow, what a team man, you've sunk? So what's Joe?
Is Joe fifty?

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Uh? Yeah, I think so?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Those those two are seventy? Yeah, those two are seventy
Joe Joe fifty.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
I keep going really sixty.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
So between three players, you have one hundred and twenty
five million dollars and your running.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Backs might be fourth player in trade.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Well, I'm just talking on one side. I'm just talking
about offensive the salary cap. I don't even know to something.
But you want to talk about a team that should
be throwing on every down.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
So, like I said, the disparity in the NFL between
the top dogs and everybody else.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
That means you better be If you're paying that many
guys that much money, you better be hitting in all
your dress.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh my god, you don't have a choice. And you
and maybe their owners not cheap. Maybe they're just stupid.
It's not a good organization though. It's a bad way
to run a team. It's just it's not good. And
then and the Broncos got to face them. You know,
I'm liking the Broncos chances.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
We're talking about l Way Manning Brady. There's been quarterbacks
about the years that have taken a little less so
the team would have money to spend on other positions.
Those if you're playing for a Cincinnati, those guys are saying, no,
we need to get ours. Screw what they do with them, Hey,
we just need to get ours.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
Stand corrected on Chase Brown. Dude, not one thousand yards
last year?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
There you go, Okay, how much does he make? You
gotta look up what he makes a Chase Brown salary.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
I'm guessing two point seven.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Okay, the twenty twenty five season, Yeah, one point oh three.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Million dollar million? Hey you may Hey, do you remember
the days we go those four? Hey, imagine the days.
Let's go back at the time and scene.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Can you imagine thirty five forty years ago?

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Listen, since they got a million dollar running back?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Right nowadays?

Speaker 6 (35:54):
You go, Ohally sucks? Yeah, yeah, now he sucks.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
I do Hey, between all four of them they make
on twenty six million dollars.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
I got to remember the story clinics we used to tell,
he's a rookies on the steps going out with the rolls.
George Begg goes, Hey, look, let's get five hits tonight,
I'll get four, you get one.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
That's it. That's the way that goes. PhD on ninety
All right, couple of updates for you. Rockies lost to
the Astros this afternoon, four to three. Jordan Beck with
Mickey Moniac on first base, did not offered a two
strike inside pitch. That was a ball. But we don't
have robot umpires and we don't have an appeal system,

(36:37):
and uh yeah, there you go. You got to swing
a close pitches. So they win, went out of three,
and then we get to the most annoying week of
the year hosting the Cubs. So home games for the Cubs, and.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
You're not in studio tomorrow. I'll be interested to see
what Craig when.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
You know how what Cubs Geary's wearing.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Deck Daddy is, I'll be able to tell you what
I see tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
It's uh is that right? You're gonna see it tomorrow.
What was that passive aggressive thing?

Speaker 6 (37:07):
I mean only two in one show.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
That was Huber Not passive aggressive.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
No, No, that is Hubert. That is passive aggressive disguised
as humor. That was humor.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Okay, did you guys see the tennis thing? Yeah, no, actually,
I got asked Tyler. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Tyler actually
goes really deep in tennis. Your sisters were, or at
least one of your sisters tennis player, right.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Yeah, they both were were and one ended up playing
number one at University San.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Diego, right, and then an injury risk injury or something
like that.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
Yeah, it was terrible. She made it to the semi
finals n C Double a's or junior year, got a
wrist surgery that was supposed to be totally routine in
the off season, doctor butchered it and she never got
to play again. Mister oles senior season, Well, she definitely
would have been making Like I'm not saying she would
have been Serena Williams, but there's a lot of ways
to make more he playing tennis, Like, she definitely would

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have made a living playing tennis for it.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
So help me out with like the the the unwritten
rules of tennis, Okay, because this is the nature of
this argument. And maybe you know him and maybe you don't.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
I just laughed of one unwritten rule that I had
a as a young kid, I played tennis also, yeah,
and I and I pursued it like pretty aggressively. I
bet I had had a personal coach and everything right,
and I had like a weird little tick that I
didn't know that I had. And before I would serve personality,
well there you go, before I would serve, I would

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spit on the baseline. Really, and this dude like wrote
me up in like his notes afterwards, like, don't spit
on the baseline. This is this is not okay in tennis.
You don't get to spit on the tennis court, Tyler.

Speaker 10 (38:50):
I've kind of felt the same way about the microphone too. Man,
some good old fashioned and I'm hoping it rubs off
on me. The tea levels through the roof, so.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Uh. Taylor Townshend is playing Jolana's Swats of Aakova or
something from Latvia and she wins and and apparently there
are two things that that bugged the the Latvian player. One,
during warm ups, Townshend did not warm up the right way.
She didn't start on the base line and she went
to the net. It's something that you're supposed to do

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and warm up she didn't do. But the other thing
that really caught me by surprise that the Latian player
got upset with is if the ball hits the tape
of the net right and it goes over and you
win the point you're supposed to apologize, you're supposed to.
I swear to God, just just quick, a little like
my bad sorry?

Speaker 6 (39:46):
You know you there?

Speaker 2 (39:50):
So have you ever heard of that? You Scott? You
haven't heard Have you ever heard of it? Tyler? No?

Speaker 6 (39:55):
But it kind of makes sense.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I guess, ah, sorry, you know, like that stuff like that, like.

Speaker 6 (40:00):
Maybe not a sorry, but just like an acknowledgement that
I got lucky.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Okay, Well that was apparently the root of the argument.
When the match was over and Townshend said this, Taylor, congratulations,
fiery match, start to finish. We'll get to it all.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Can you fill us in on the conversation you were
having with Lena out there?

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (40:18):
I mean, you know, it's competition. People get upset when
they lose, and you can't. Some people say bad things.
She told me, I have no class, I have no education,
And to see what happens when we get outside the US.
So I'm looking forward to it. I mean, I beat
her in Canada outside the US, I beat her in
New York outside the US. So let's see what else
she has to say.

Speaker 10 (40:38):
Man, did tennis just become cooler than the WNBA?

Speaker 6 (40:41):
I love it?

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh that was pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Yeah, I love it. That was some good beef.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Man.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
I beat her here, I beat her there.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
I'm not going to allow though she said, she said
I beat her in New York outside the United States.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
She did say that. Did she just just called New
York outside.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
Of the extracized kind of his No, she said she's
beating both in New York and outside of the But
she slips, she said it backwards.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
She's yeah, she got to screw her words up just
a little bit. But if you watch the confrontation when
they split and she goes back over to her chair, right,
she is like wow, like let's to the crowd, the
US Open crowd, and she's getting going like like like wow.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
This was It was a tough first set seventy five,
but she kicked her butt six one in the in
that closing Hey, hold on though unwritten Rules of Tennis,
it says it right here, apologize for net chords and
lucky shots with the simple hand raise or raise.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
Of the racket.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
How about that? So that is a thing.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
So that's a thing.

Speaker 10 (41:44):
Yeah, okay, Wait, so if you make a shot, but
it's so lucky if.

Speaker 6 (41:48):
You, if you, if you, if you tip the net
and it falls over, if you if you make it
like lucky, just like raise your your racket, just like hey,
got you there? My bad?

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Oh that is that?

Speaker 6 (42:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Well, I mean you remember they used to play in
all white and white balls too. I mean there was
a a pristine, kind of old world kind of rules
to this game, which probably when they were established.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
Also, unwritten rule is with the warm ups, acknowledge and
stick to pre batch war ups that is cooperative and
not aggressive by either side.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yeah, and it's supposed to start at the baseline apparently,
and then you move in or what, I don't know,
whatever you do, really wild man? Who knew that there
were unwritten rules like that?

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Well, and then of course American society when they said,
you know, the educate yourself or you're uneducated, we all
take it as a racist comment that.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
She was saying, you're uneducated about the rules.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
So these rules, by the way, we were uneducated until Tyler.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
All right, if a guy steps in your line and
you're playing golf, I mean, educate yourself with the rules.
That's not a you don't lose. Was a stroke for that,
but you're not supposed to do it.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
I find it interesting little tip of the racket or
a little nod of the head on a lucky shot.
It probably just happens instinctively in the game, and it
became part of part of it, part part of the
the unwritten rules of it. Because you think about it,
it's like, ahh, one of those like eh.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
It would be hilarious though if you if you tip
the net it fell over by two inches. Give an
aggressive tiger Woods fist pump.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I think it