The guys aren't happy with their own teams (Pittsburgh and L.A. Rams) but there are plenty of kudos and storylines to dive in on. The 49ers were big topic of conversation, along with the explanation of why it is taking Aaron Rodgers so long to decide to go to Gotham and the Jets.
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All right.
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It's Monday, you know what time it is. FRPC football.
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And I am here. With.
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Just all kinds of greatness.
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The Canadian bomber, the Canadian shaman,
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the Canadian Bill Simmons.
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And for this show, the Canadian Mike Tomlin, Nico Micello.
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Monday, how is it treating you?
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Are you OK? What's going on?
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Yeah, I'm I'm doing OK.
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I'm surviving.
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I'm I'm never going to get used to that intro for sure.
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But I am that I'm I'm doing OK.
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I'm disappointed is probably the vibe.
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The vibe of disappointment.
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And that can only mean that we have hit.
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Three agency frenzy.
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Yes, I really, I really hate the title, by the way.
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It's so TV.
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We've hit the we've hit the tampering, the legal tampering period in the NFL.
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Let's just call it what it is.
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Mm hmm. But we got some news
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on some stuff since the last time we spoke.
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We got the Carolina Panthers who now own the number one overall pick.
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They knew they trade with Chicago.
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They are trading way.
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Obviously, the night pick, they are trading away their
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twenty twenty four first rounder and a twenty twenty five second rounder
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and second round this year.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And D.J. Moore.
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Mm hmm. I want some more.
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I want some more.
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Wow. The the Browns are
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making it hard for me to be a Steelers fan this year.
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Honestly, they're just acquiring all my favorite players.
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They almost make me want to jump ship.
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Not that you don't have to worry about the Browns, though.
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You can worry about the bears.
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Oh, the bear.
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The bears is what I meant.
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The bears is what I meant.
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I absolutely love that team, not the Browns.
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Justin Fields, I've always had a lot of love for.
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D.J. Moore is one of my absolute favorite players.
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I think he's arguably the most underrated receiver in the sport.
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And with a little more consistent quarterback play,
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which I'm hoping Justin Fields can provide, I think he could be
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a really elite player.
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And today, there are additions of Nate Davis along the offensive line.
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Showing some level of commitment there to protecting the young guy,
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Justin Fields and Tremaine Edmonds.
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Signing to a contract that was cheaper than the one Roquan Smith signed.
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And they got the second round pick for Roquan Smith.
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So all all in all, this is a great
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series of moves for the Bears,
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creating a new, exciting young core full of guys that I personally love.
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And I'm interested to see how it works going forward.
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I was not in agreement with the Roquan Smith deal,
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but I understood it because they weren't going to be able to sign them.
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They were they're out of impact.
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So I understand why.
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I understand why.
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I just when you have a talent like that in the building,
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I just think you should find a way to get that done.
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But that said, what that means, said all the moves after
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and what has gone on, you cannot fault them at all.
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You know, it's safe or swim time for our guy Fields.
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Right.
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Definitely.
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This is this is the year.
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I would say that they would continue to fortify the offensive line for him.
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I would buy a through free agency or through the draft.
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Right. Hopefully that ninth pick is invested at tackle.
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I was in.
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Yeah, that's what I'd really like to see at this point.
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I I to be clear, I think that the
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I I to be clear, the Roke wants to make a deal in a vacuum.
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I'm not I don't think it was necessarily good, but they replaced
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maybe 85 plus percent of Roke on Smith with also a player
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who's got a bigger body and remain Edmonds today.
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And I think that'll help them in the run game where they have struggled.
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And this is going to be an entirely new defense
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for the most part after moving on from guys like Robert Quinn
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and Roke on himself last year.
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So I I'm intrigued to see this new look defense
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that Ryan Poles is putting together.
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Indeed, their moves so far, like I said,
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haven't had a problem with any of it.
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And I also am a big proponent.
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If you make a mistake or you feel like you let one get away.
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That you probably go ahead and like remedy
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that situation as quickly as possible, don't hide from it to say, all right,
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yeah, we made a mistake.
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And now we're going to fix it.
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There's no shame in that.
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I think the teams that know thyself more
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and do really well with the self scout are usually the better teams.
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I would believe personally.
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Yeah, yeah, I totally agree.
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I think that's absolutely necessary in the team building process.
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There's a few other teams making big moves today as well.
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I was just about to segue for you and say, know thyself.
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So how about know thyself in the Pittsburgh Steelers?
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Yeah, I didn't love what went down today.
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I mean, absolutely no doubt.
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I mean, absolutely no disrespect to Patrick Peterson.
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I love to see him on our team.
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Clearly is on the latter half of his career.
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That being said, he was still incredibly solid last year in Minnesota.
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That being said as well.
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Pat Pete is mostly his own corner at times throughout
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or at this time in his career.
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And in man coverage, he can get beat off.
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And then Steelers were experimenting with more man coverage last offseason.
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That that being said, I do love
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just adding him to the team.
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How about Peterson playing safety?
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Any thoughts on on that situation?
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Because he's he's digging up.
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He is. But I
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the Steelers have Mink of his Patrick currently playing that like roaming
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safety and they use a guy like Terrell Edmonds,
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who's currently a free agent, but was last year's safety and has been
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the team safety for the last five
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as more of like an in the box guy.
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And I'm not so sure that's a role Peterson would fit necessarily.
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The the concerns I have with
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the Steelers moves today stem primarily from
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not only their now entire lack of a single slot corner on the roster
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outside of Arthur Millett, who I don't want to see play very much,
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is the loss of Kam Sutton, who was an excellent cornerback
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for this team, who played every role, wore every hat.
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He could be an outside corner.
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He was a dime corner when he first started.
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And we did some of his best work at Nickel Corner,
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has excellent ball skills, is a sure tackler
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and was really a true leader in the locker room.
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You go through the social medias of
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Steelers on the team currently,
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and you almost can't find a single one
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where there isn't some post in appreciation of Cameron Sutton.
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And even ex players are supporting him quite widely.
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He was an excellent player for us last year,
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who really saved us from our lack of cornerback depth.
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And at this point, losing him, I think, is pretty tragic.
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I feel you, buddy, because we lost Jalen Ramsey.
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We were trading him.
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I knew it was coming.
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But he is now Miami Dolphin.
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And say what you want about.
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The swag or his temperament,
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what he was for that team, how aggressive he was,
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how aggressive he was,
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literally, he was the only guy on the Super Bowl team
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up until the playoffs, who I thought played any with any physicality whatsoever.
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I remember I remember you saying that repeatedly.
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So to see him go was harsh.
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And to see him go for the third rounder,
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I was kind of hoping for a second rounder.
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I was joking on the pod last week about first rounders and what have you.
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But I was hoping for a second rounder, hoping for a little bit better return.
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But hey, you got the best years out of him.
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And hey, if you're getting a third rounder from forum at this stage,
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it's fine, because the one thing I do know is that if the Rams are in the first round,
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the Rams are in a position where they need to go out and get somebody,
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they do identify and go out and get that guy.
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So I don't really have a problem with that.
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This is just pick acquisition at this point.
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I think what you will see more of is that that 36 overall pick
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might get traded to move back a little bit and to acquire more.
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I also believe that that second third round pick would also be a prime situation
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where they will also use that to move back and acquire more picks as well.
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They need to restock the covers at this point.
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This is it's not Baron, but they need to hit on these guys
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and they need to hit on a decent clip as well to replenish.
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So that's that's our cornerback story as well.
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So we we are not in real good moods when it comes to the squad at this point.
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No, not particularly.
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I I thought that Ramsey might get traded for more than the third round pick.
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It ended up being.
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But once it became clear that he wasn't looking to take any sort of pay cut
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and in fact received more guaranteed money to go to the dolphins,
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it was clear that the compensation was going to be smaller.
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To what I'm assuming both of us.
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Well, here's the thing.
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I honestly, if you know anything about Ramsey, he's all he's been all about his cash.
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So this is not surprised me at all.
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That he didn't take a shave.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, he's all about his cash.
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So I didn't I didn't think that.
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So with that's actually now more with that being said,
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it actually even makes more sense that the third rounder
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was the actual compensation, because I knew Ramsey was never going to take a cut.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's that's fair.
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I I guess I thought I was more looking at it
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as he might have needed to take a pay cut like teams
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were going to be a little hesitant to take him on at that salary
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or hypothetically, maybe take him on in a situation
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where the Rams retain some money to just give him a signing bonus right before the trade.
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I was thinking something like that could happen more so than Ramsey
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would just get rid of money.
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But I definitely see what you're saying.
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The one other thing that that I'll say about Miami now,
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they have some studs there already, but there are younger guys will benefit
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with Jaylen Ramsey in the building.
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Yeah.
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Corner that came across Grams, the that was a younger guy.
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Was Mark better by him.
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David Long is his son, his praises.
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Other guys as well has sung his praises about
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the gifts that he were that he just got dropped on now.
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So you're getting as far as a locker room guy.
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Now, the antics on the field and the, you know, all eyes on me type thing
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that comes along with Jaylen Ramsey.
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But as far as locker room in that, in that locker room,
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in that in that secondary
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film role, he is going to be instrumental in it
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and helping any young guys that the Miami Dolphins have.
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So they got a good one.
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Yeah, that'll likely be pretty helpful for a guy like Noah Ibnogony.
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He's first round pick brought in a few years ago,
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has been relatively disappointing to this point in his career.
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However, he's still 23 years old, so there's room for him to improve.
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And maybe under the tutelage of a guy like Ramsey
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rather than a guy like Byron Jones will help him out a little more.
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I that's kind of similar actually to the Steelers situation as well.
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That's kind of the role I see them bringing Patrick Peterson into.
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And is also why I think the Steelers very clearly telegraphed today.
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That they will be drafting a cornerback in the first round.
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The good old Steelers always making it very, very easy for a
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a team that is looking at a particular position
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to go right in front of them.
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Hmm. The draft doesn't I that the Steelers had pretty much earmarked
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where their draft spot.
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And that doesn't happen as often as you think it should, because like
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basically all sides have point to pointed to the last several Steelers picks.
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You look at Najee Harris, you look at Kenny Pickett.
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I was ignoring them, but the signs were there.
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Even guys like Devin Bush.
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The last time I remember them getting aggressively jumped in front of was
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the the draft where the Bengals jumped ahead of us
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and drafted William Jackson, who we also cut today.
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But they drafted William Jackson, who at the time we really wanted.
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And they knew it.
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So the Steelers made it clear the Bengals knew it.
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They hopped in front of us.
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They didn't have a backup plan.
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They just drafted Artie Burns.
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And the rest was history.
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Basically was a pretty big disappointment.
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Yeah, with the guys that you just named.
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So you're talking about Pickett, Najee Harris.
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Those were, if you think about it.
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Nobody was really looking at those dudes like not.
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I'm not listening.
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Najee here is a good running back.
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Not as dynamic as well.
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We'll see what the offensive line is this year.
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But. Like this is that was probably where
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the spot he was going to go.
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And if he wasn't going to go there, he was probably going to go like four slides later.
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Yeah, yeah. It was kind of like, OK, well, you want to drop the quarterback
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because nobody was enamored.
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But like I said, the last couple the last couple of times when it was telegraphed
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to this point, yeah, you're right.
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So the Willis Jackson was a big deal.
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So I just hope at this point.
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They diversify their board.
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I had to see how it all worked out after today.
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That's kind of what I was hoping with the addition of Andy Weidl to the draft room.
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And based on today's moves, it just looks like more of the same.
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It looks like another short board.
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And that that's why my tenor for today is overall disappointment.
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Well, San Francisco also made some moves.
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Sticking with your Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah.
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Hard right signs a four year deal to go to the San Francisco 49ers.
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You know how much I hate this.
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Yeah, because a more physical
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dominant defensive line got way better
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with Hargrave's in the middle of this bad boy.
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Men like.
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Between Bosa, Armstead and Hargrave,
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you have three dudes on the Niners defensive line right now
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who are almost impossible to single team and can I write
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a kid Ken law is a really solid player as well.
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But I think some of the better guards in the league can isolate him.
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Armstead, Hargrave, Bosa are the type of guys you need to chip.
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You need to do something.
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And normally teams can kind of get away with the guarding
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Armstead and Bosa with only three linemen and not double teaming
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both giving one guy kind of double duty.
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But now with Hargrave on the other side locked into a one on one
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in that situation, it's going to be devastating to defenses.
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This is a huge addition to
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what last year was one of the best defenses in the sport,
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if not arguably the best and a team that no one beat the week after
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because of how bad they beat you up.
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Now they're just going to beat you up worse.
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This is Fred Warner approved.
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This deal is Fred Warner approved. Absolutely.
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He will not have anyone on him, so he'll just be free, free to roam.
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And that's all I that's all I ever wanted in my inner sea west
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as a round fan is this Fred Warner free, just not touch whatsoever.
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Free to just accelerate and explode.
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That's exactly what I wanted.
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Yeah. Now, I don't know how big a loss it is.
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And because he was kind of on his way out.
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But McGlinchey goes to Denver.
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He signs a big deal.
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So it was five years, like 87 mil.
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But 50 of it is guaranteed.
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But McKibbett for the San Francisco 49ers
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had already kind of because of his injury situation
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and already kind of served him.
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So I'm I'm kind of like, OK, we get younger and cheaper.
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Sweet. Yeah.
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Yeah, especially like.
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Man, the situation the Niners are in,
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I got to sing John Lynch's praises for a little bit.
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We've talked about how they've collected compensatory draft
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picks through the minority hiring program, bringing in several minority
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people in high positions and giving them autonomy
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to make decisions and showing how great they are.
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And then they go and get hired in other organizations.
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That's excellent. Today.
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Despite signing Javon Hargrave,
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the Niners are going to pick up yet another third round compensatory pick
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because they lost Mike McGlinchey and they lost Jimmy Garoppolo,
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who's going to cancel out the Hargrave addition in the compensatory formula.
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So despite becoming, I think, objectively a better team today,
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they also are picking up compensatory value.
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That is some legendary
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general manager movement by John Lynch.
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Twenty twenty four
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compensatory pick in that third round.
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We'll be looking back at the Jimmy Garoppolo
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to the Las Vegas Raiders to team up with his old buddy.
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His former quarterback coach and offensive coordinator, now head coach.
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What do you think of Garoppolo to Vegas?
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And is this. Is this better?
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Is this better than what they had?
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I think I have a hot take here.
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I'm a big Derek Carr fan, but I actually do believe this is better than what they had.
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Just because primary use can start with the fit between McDaniels and Garoppolo,
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which is obviously there.
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But the contract they got Jimmy on is incredibly friendly.
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He's making like twenty two million dollars a year.
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That's almost half what Daniel Jones is making.
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It's also a contract that a lot of it is guaranteed in year one
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with a little bit guaranteed in year two.
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So hypothetically, if this goes sour, it's not difficult to pivot out.
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I think the Raiders put themselves in the position
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that they are in right now.
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The Raiders put themselves in a much more flexible situation
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to kind of figure out what they have on this roster
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and also put people in place who better understand the system
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and the group that existed last year.
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I'm not convinced that this is necessarily some home run signing
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that's going to bring the Raiders to the next level or anything.
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I think that's the right move.
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My thoughts exactly two real key critical things to this.
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You bring somebody in who's definitely going to understand the verbiage
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that McDaniels is talking.
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Secondly, it's going to make it easier for everybody else
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because even with a year under their belt,
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they're barely a young team except in a couple positions.
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So offensive line, that'll help Garoppolo get them set.
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And it's just like having another coach on the field.
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And the other thing with Garoppolo is this,
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is that I understand that Carr was a dude, not locker room.
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People like Garoppolo, like really like him in the locker room.
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Especially young guys.
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And I think with this young team, that's
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going to resonate incredibly well.
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Jimmy Garoppolo, also well known for feeding tight ends
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to have big games, be it Gronkowski or Kittle.
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So this looks really promising for Darren Waller as well.
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A guy like Hunter Renfro, I think looks very analogous to the Julian
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Edelman slot receiver types that they've had in the past.
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So having a lot of these weapons that are going to be familiar to Garoppolo,
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even though he hasn't necessarily played with them before,
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I think is going to prove itself to be successful.
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And do not forget about the really athletic tackles they have.
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Those will be monumentally important in the screen game
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and the bubble screen game that they will employ this year
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with Garoppolo in that lineup.
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So we are looking for good things from Vegas.
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They got to be better than last year out of that.
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They just have to get that defense will be the key.
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What they can do with their picks and what have you.
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We'll see what goes down from that point.
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I don't know what they did.
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Defense has to get better.
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They need some dudes on that defense.
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Let's see, is is there another free agent deal that went down?
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We got to really kind of hit on.
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I mean, I know Carl went to to New Orleans, so we touch on that a little.
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I can't remember.
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Juwan Taylor to the Chiefs, I think is significant.
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It shows that they're moving on from Orlando Brown.
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He is currently, I would say, the biggest free agent still available
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and likely commanding somewhere in the range of 100 million dollars.
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I think Juwan Taylor is a straight up better player than Mike McGlinchey,
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especially like over the last year.
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He's proven himself to be very good in this sort of role.
00:27:36
So the fact that the Chiefs got him for even cheaper than the contract
00:27:39
McGlinchey signed, I think looks very good on their behalf.
00:27:45
Once again, the Chiefs making another great move.
00:27:50
That that runoff is just has aces all over.
00:27:56
Just I mean, they just do really well,
00:28:00
and they know when it's time to move on from a guy.
00:28:04
And to be as as far as the money is concerned, to only pay this do like 20 mil.
00:28:11
I mean, this is good.
00:28:12
It was a good situation.
00:28:14
There's a couple of the things I want to hit you with, Nico.
00:28:17
We got Daniel Jones on a.
00:28:22
On a contract for 40 million dollars.
00:28:26
Mm hmm. So he's he's locked in.
00:28:32
He is. What are we thinking?
00:28:38
About Daniel Jones getting 40 mil.
00:28:42
I can't believe it on some level.
00:28:46
On another level.
00:28:50
I understand kind of what the Giants were trying to do.
00:28:55
I think this contract is as much a message to the locker room
00:29:00
that we will pay you if you perform well here.
00:29:05
I think contracts like that often get tendered.
00:29:10
That being said, I think this has a ton of downside.
00:29:17
I last year was by far Daniel Jones best year,
00:29:21
and it's not as if he was the type of player that was going out there consistently,
00:29:26
winning them games by himself or anything or making the difference.
00:29:31
He's a good quarterback.
00:29:35
And he functions well in this stable system.
00:29:38
He can do kind of like a C to C plus job
00:29:46
of approximating Josh Allen.
00:29:49
So that's definitely the intrigue behind him.
00:29:54
I just think this deal has limited upside
00:29:58
and a potentially catastrophic downside.
00:30:04
Well, when you see that Garoppolo is basically making like 18 mil a year
00:30:08
with incentives to get get them to 25.
00:30:12
And then you see Daniel Jones making 40.
00:30:15
Yeah, so now here's my question.
00:30:19
Daniel Jones is making 40.
00:30:23
I understand that we are still waiting on Aaron Rodgers.
00:30:30
Supposedly, we are a lot closer to him, to Aaron Rodgers becoming a jet.
00:30:39
But we still do not have pen to paper,
00:30:42
or do you want to go out with me,
00:30:46
hit the yes box or whatever the kids do nowadays
00:30:53
to say they're courting somebody?
00:30:55
So anyway, I got some theories on why Aaron
00:31:02
might actually I think Aaron might be holding this up.
00:31:05
Would you like to hear that?
00:31:07
Absolutely, absolutely. OK.
00:31:10
One, it is a protest to.
00:31:16
Who he thinks the new Batman should be.
00:31:21
In the next DC comic movie.
00:31:26
Fair enough, not a Robert Pattinson fan.
00:31:28
No. OK.
00:31:30
And he feels like if he's going to Gotham,
00:31:33
his Batman should be a lot darker.
00:31:35
Yeah, a lot more. Yeah, yeah.
00:31:40
Pattinson, I think, does a better Bruce Wayne than he does Batman, for sure.
00:31:45
OK. So these are some of the rumors that are out there.
00:31:50
Mm hmm. The other rumor that is out there is that
00:31:58
he has not received a list of socialite
00:32:03
in the New York City area yet
00:32:07
to see who's going to be his new fiance.
00:32:11
OK, so he's waiting on that as well.
00:32:15
And whatever starlet that's coming off,
00:32:19
pretty little liars or White Lotus or whatever other show
00:32:26
that might be real popular with the little 20 year olds.
00:32:30
If they're living in the area, well, so we watch out.
00:32:34
That's that seems to be his type. So. All right.
00:32:38
So that also might be holding it up. OK.
00:32:42
There was one other rumor that really caught my eye
00:32:45
is that it looks like Aaron Rodgers would like.
00:32:53
His tackle Bakiari to be the new Batman.
00:32:57
His tackle Bakiari to go with him because the main on that guy,
00:33:04
the flow of hair just calms Rogers down
00:33:08
while he's in the pocket dissecting the defense.
00:33:12
Thoughts on that?
00:33:13
I see this this theory seems a little too related to football
00:33:19
to truly be something Aaron Rodgers would be concerned with.
00:33:22
But they based on the the behavior we've seen between him
00:33:29
and Bakiari in the past, I think it's definitely possible.
00:33:33
He needs a beer can crusher.
00:33:37
The bromance is strong with those two, definitely.
00:33:41
And they do have similar situations with hair.
00:33:47
They sure do.
00:33:48
Rodgers seems to be enamored with his Bakiari seems to just be
00:33:54
pretty much the end of thought and cuts it with a fork.
00:33:59
And I think Rodgers likes it that way.
00:34:02
Another thing that I just thought of.
00:34:06
He was asking if he would have full autonomy to go into.
00:34:14
A Brooklyn police department.
00:34:18
And have access to a guard room.
00:34:22
They're still working on that.
00:34:24
The mayor and all the city officials are working on that.
00:34:28
OK, he needs he needs a place to store his Ivermectam.
00:34:32
So that makes sense.
00:34:34
This is this is true.
00:34:35
All right.
00:34:36
So, man, tell me what's going on, did I?
00:34:40
What are we doing right now?
00:34:42
I I've got no idea.
00:34:44
The the box, the Bakiari thing you threw out there is not not that it's
00:34:54
anywhere near reality, but that's like the only last thing that I can
00:35:00
possibly logically think necessarily if it's on the Roger side, that maybe
00:35:05
he wants someone to go with him, be it from Green Bay, be it someone in free agency.
00:35:10
That he's trying to find a way for the Jets to add that player as well.
00:35:15
Or the thing I think all Jets fans are terrified of is it Woody Johnson being
00:35:25
unwilling to part with some level of draft compensation.
00:35:30
And at this point, I'm kind of leaning in that direction.
00:35:35
But I, I really hope that's not the case.
00:35:43
To our New York fans who just had a heart attack that you might actually lose out on
00:35:48
Rogers because of your owner.
00:35:53
Listen, calm down, calm down.
00:35:57
Brian Gooden-Kuss wants Rogers out as much as you want him to.
00:36:03
As you want him, this deal will get done
00:36:08
because the hatred between Gooden-Kuss and Rogers is well documented within me.
00:36:16
CQPP in or earlier renditions of my thoughts on the good
00:36:25
and cause Rogers relationship is pretty hilarious.
00:36:28
But Rogers has given us so much good content over the years.
00:36:34
But this one right here, like holding things up.
00:36:38
Because also I think he's a linchpin to the guy that I want to talk about next.
00:36:43
And I guess another conspiracy theory that I need to throw out there is Lamar Jackson.
00:36:50
We got two prime time quarterbacks, Nico, that are holding up the works right now on
00:36:57
what our season is going to look like and how we're going to have to somehow.
00:37:06
Virtually spoon each other when these two, these two quarterbacks are in different
00:37:10
uniforms.
00:37:11
Yeah, I, man, I don't know necessarily what's going on with this Lamar Jackson
00:37:18
situation.
00:37:19
I think it's relevant to talk about the deadline for teams to actually start
00:37:24
negotiating with him being in two days rather than today.
00:37:29
But we've seen all these reports of teams that are not in the Lamar Jackson chase
00:37:36
at this point.
00:37:37
And to me, it seems like gamesmanship more than anything.
00:37:44
It seems like teams are being unwilling to be the first to put that offer on the
00:37:50
table so another team can just come by and beat it and drive up the price.
00:37:54
Well, there is talk of collusion.
00:37:59
That's the word I wanted to get to, because that were right there.
00:38:05
And this podcast will be very, very careful.
00:38:09
Alleged collusion.
00:38:12
Because.
00:38:15
Who knows who hears this?
00:38:19
Who knows?
00:38:20
So I do want to talk about that a little bit.
00:38:24
Yeah.
00:38:27
You tell me.
00:38:30
Is it hard to get a franchise quarterback?
00:38:34
A real difference maker, Nico, in this.
00:38:37
How many we got?
00:38:39
I think we're sitting at five right now.
00:38:43
People can.
00:38:45
And we got we got we got my homes.
00:38:52
Burrow.
00:38:53
Yes.
00:38:54
We got are we throwing Herbert in there?
00:38:57
I'm not throwing Herbert in.
00:38:59
OK, we got Hertz.
00:39:02
Yes, we do.
00:39:04
We got Lamar.
00:39:06
We do.
00:39:06
And Josh Allen is.
00:39:08
Oh, yeah.
00:39:08
Josh Allen.
00:39:09
OK, so those are the quarterbacks that Nico thinks, hey, if the defense stinks
00:39:15
today or if we turn the ball over a couple of times or our special teams
00:39:21
fumbles ball in our own territory and we're behind the eight ball, our QB one
00:39:28
is going to bring us back.
00:39:30
So those names again are Burrow, my homes, Allen, Hertz and Lamar Jackson.
00:39:37
So other franchises send your hate tweets to at Nico FRPC.
00:39:45
And I will say that again.
00:39:46
That is at Nico FRPC.
00:39:50
And if you would like to send tweets to me, then I will retweet and send to Nico
00:39:57
that is at front runner PC.
00:40:00
Yes, sir.
00:40:01
But just so you know, I pretty much agree with what you just said.
00:40:06
The only other guy that I would throw kind of in there, but he hasn't done it yet.
00:40:12
It's probably Herbert.
00:40:14
I like Lawrence trajectory, but I want to see it again, you know?
00:40:21
And you know how I feel about Dak and Kurt?
00:40:24
Oh, yeah, they're nowhere near this conversation.
00:40:27
And you know how I feel about Garoppolo?
00:40:30
Oh, and he's even further.
00:40:32
Yeah.
00:40:32
So these are the guys.
00:40:36
Aaron Rodgers, I think, is another one that people might talk about on the periphery.
00:40:41
There I think he's been that guy in the past.
00:40:45
He can still win you regular season games.
00:40:49
Pray to God you don't come up against the Niners in the playoffs or anything like
00:40:52
that, because there there are certain situations where Aaron Rodgers has not
00:40:58
performed to his standard.
00:41:00
In the playoffs, that's why he's going to the AFC.
00:41:04
He trying to get away from the Niners.
00:41:06
He better.
00:41:07
Yeah.
00:41:08
Boy, you might see him in the Super Bowl.
00:41:11
Maybe at that point, he found the starlet in New York that will give him the
00:41:17
superpowers that he needs to defeat the mighty 49ers.
00:41:22
OK, but here's the thing.
00:41:25
So we don't have a lot of those guys.
00:41:26
It's very smart.
00:41:28
Correct.
00:41:28
Incredibly sparse.
00:41:30
Why do you let them buy you let one walk and also let one walk at like 25, 26 years of age?
00:41:37
I have absolutely no idea what the Ravens are doing.
00:41:41
I I'm shocked they didn't pay Lamar two years ago, to be honest, that we got to this
00:41:49
point in the first place.
00:41:51
This guy has won M.B.P.s for your franchise and you've hamstrung him.
00:41:55
The entire time you've put him with the same offensive coordinator running the same
00:42:01
broken schemes that had been solved in his rookie year and he Colin Kaepernick.
00:42:08
Yeah, that's that's all Greg Roman ever did.
00:42:12
And they brought in the occasional wide receiver, but they haven't brought in
00:42:19
necessarily the greatest ones, as Eric DeCosta said.
00:42:26
However, as Rashad Bateman said, they haven't put the receivers in position to be
00:42:31
successful either.
00:42:33
So it's really difficult to know what's wrong.
00:42:38
But it seems like there might be something a little rotten at the core in this
00:42:42
organization.
00:42:44
Two things I just want to throw out there.
00:42:46
One, the man has won an MVP to that man has been to multiple AFC championship
00:42:54
games, multiple.
00:42:57
All right.
00:42:58
You know, the guys who can say that, Nico, that are in the league.
00:43:04
Not that there's only a couple.
00:43:07
Yeah, Lamar or him in.
00:43:09
Sorry, him in Pat.
00:43:11
I guess Mr.
00:43:13
Brady's gone.
00:43:14
Well, no, the other guy, too, is Burrow.
00:43:18
Oh, Burrow, Burrow, those three, three, three, those three guys.
00:43:22
Yeah.
00:43:23
Are the only guys that have been to multiple at this point.
00:43:28
So your guy is giving you basically to the dance.
00:43:34
Yeah.
00:43:36
With very little help.
00:43:38
Okay. And you put the tag on him where he could walk.
00:43:47
I have a lot of questions that need to be answered.
00:43:53
Well, I don't know if Nico can answer those for me.
00:43:57
One.
00:44:01
I have this question.
00:44:02
Do they like Lamar Jackson?
00:44:05
Do the Baltimore Ravens organization, do they like him and want him to continue
00:44:13
to be their quarterback?
00:44:15
If they do, they sure have a hell of a way of showing it because I, I'm not
00:44:20
getting that impression.
00:44:21
And then my question is, what's the, what's plan A or plan B?
00:44:39
I, I've got absolutely no idea at this point.
00:44:44
I don't think they're going to be a team that goes into the draft this year
00:44:51
with the designs on finding their next quarterback.
00:44:55
Their team as a whole, especially defensively is also too good to bottom
00:45:02
out next year for a Caleb Williams type draft pick.
00:45:08
I think their hope has to be that the Lamar team that they eventually end up
00:45:17
dealing with has a quarterback that they can then get in return.
00:45:23
As I've pointed out guys like Tua and Mack Jones, that they might have some
00:45:28
level of interest in assuming Lamar ends up going to one of those teams.
00:45:34
But hypothetically, if it's another situation like Tampa Bay, where there's
00:45:40
no quarterback in place, it's going to be rough sliding for the Ravens at this
00:45:47
point.
00:45:47
They will have the draft equity they get for Lamar.
00:45:53
So there can be a situation where hypothetically they could trade up, but
00:45:59
likely whatever team is at first overall, this can be very hesitant to give away a
00:46:04
player like Caleb Williams.
00:46:08
All right.
00:46:09
So this is, this is my thought.
00:46:13
Tell me if I'm wrong.
00:46:14
Tell me if I'm on the right path or just tell me that I'm absolutely out of my
00:46:20
freaking mind.
00:46:21
All right.
00:46:24
We have long thought that Lamar Jackson wasn't going to play for the Baltimore
00:46:29
Ravens.
00:46:29
We've been on this for months, basically.
00:46:32
Um, with that being said, their next moves are let's build the team.
00:46:40
Let's let's put all the stuff we need.
00:46:43
Like the defense is good.
00:46:45
Where can we get better at the defense?
00:46:47
Do we have a special pass rusher?
00:46:51
Do we have the subsequent subsequent corners to do what we need to do?
00:46:57
Can we upgrade the weapons for our next quarterback, build the team and then
00:47:05
allow the quarterback aid to either come to you or B you go get whoever is under
00:47:12
Shannon hand in San Francisco and you say, Hey, you come and be our offensive
00:47:21
coordinator consultant or whatever and build the offense and you can probably
00:47:30
get by with Brock Purdy's and the Garocolo's of the works.
00:47:34
Yeah, I think I think Todd Monk and the guy they, they did bring in this off
00:47:40
season to be the new offensive coordinator is a interesting hire at the very least.
00:47:47
He's had success in the league before he's had some less successful times, but
00:47:53
I think it's going to result in a different offense that involves more West
00:47:58
coast concepts and more of a vertical passing game than what we've seen from
00:48:04
them in recent years, especially you can look at the offense at Georgia.
00:48:10
The last two years to see the kind of idea of what we're looking at.
00:48:16
So I think at least on that side, they're currently moving in the right direction.
00:48:25
It just feels a little too late to me.
00:48:30
Well, this saga continues and will obviously stay on it.
00:48:33
If there is a move with Rogers and or Lamar, I am sure that
00:48:39
there will be an emergency podcast for that, because when you are talking about
00:48:44
two franchise difference makers, at least Rogers, a couple of years ago, we want
00:48:52
to throw last year away because of the injury concern and his lack of his
00:48:59
binky Devante Adams, not being there.
00:49:04
We want to throw that away and just kind of say, Hey, when he had his
00:49:07
black ones, he was held with healthy.
00:49:10
He was an MVP candidate actually wanted.
00:49:12
So therefore he's what a year removed from an MVP.
00:49:18
Yeah.
00:49:20
Yeah.
00:49:20
Right.
00:49:21
So I can see two years removed, I think.
00:49:25
Yeah.
00:49:26
He's one year.
00:49:28
Oh, he wanted to, he wanted to go.
00:49:31
Yeah.
00:49:31
Back to back.
00:49:32
Yeah.
00:49:32
Yeah.
00:49:32
So I can see why people can talk themselves into that.
00:49:40
Uh, the Lamar thing is going to be fascinating because once these teams
00:49:45
stop, uh, BSing, uh, the Baltimore Ravens talking about their lack of interest
00:49:50
in a MVP caliber, uh, ceiling and at the, at the very least, uh, playoff every
00:50:03
year floor guy, uh, I don't, I don't, I don't see where that would be a problem.
00:50:11
Taking two draft picks and saying, here you go.
00:50:15
Yeah.
00:50:15
So I, I think the best, most recent example you can find of my belief that
00:50:25
teams are kind of playing cat and mouse and rather than colluding that scary
00:50:30
word is the Deshaun Watson situation that just happened.
00:50:36
Um, the teams were just about every team said the same thing that no way we'd
00:50:44
ever consider going for Deshaun Watson.
00:50:48
Um, and then after the trade finally happens, all these reports start coming
00:50:53
out of these different offers that existed from all different organizations.
00:50:57
Some of the same organizations that are saying they're not going
00:51:00
to trade for Lamar today.
00:51:02
So that weirdly has me hopeful.
00:51:07
It's just weird to say Deshaun Watson and hopeful in the same sentence, but
00:51:11
it has me hopeful that this Lamar situation is more of antics and also
00:51:17
difficulty with him not having an agent rather than some nefarious collusion situation.
00:51:27
You know what I think should happen right now with Lamar Jackson, because
00:51:32
we are in the legal tampering period.
00:51:34
Right.
00:51:35
Uh, not for him, not for him to couple of days, right?
00:51:38
March 15th.
00:51:39
15th.
00:51:40
Yeah.
00:51:40
Two days from my boy.
00:51:44
Don't care about this.
00:51:45
So buckle up.
00:51:48
There's a gentleman who has been skirting the rules for a long period of time.
00:51:53
He has been a pirate.
00:51:56
He is being a, a gangster.
00:52:00
He's going to trailblazer for a long period of time.
00:52:02
He is in post his will on the NFL.
00:52:06
And now he has seen himself and seen his mortality and has decided I need to go all in.
00:52:17
He's talking to him right now.
00:52:20
Bill Belichick is talking to Lamar Jackson right now talking to the fam because this
00:52:27
is like what Bill would like to do.
00:52:29
He don't want to talk to no agents.
00:52:31
He don't want to talk to whoever your emissary is, your publicist.
00:52:41
Lamar, what's up?
00:52:44
You like to wear sunglasses on sideline.
00:52:46
I can do that.
00:52:48
I can do that with you.
00:52:51
So if there was anybody who could get it done with the family members, give me
00:52:57
old school Bill Belichick to get this deal done.
00:53:05
Yeah.
00:53:06
I, when you were first talking about someone who's seeing his mortality and Ben, uh,
00:53:15
moving around behind the scenes a little bit, I was worried we were going to move
00:53:19
in the Jerry Jones direction.
00:53:21
Oh, no, no, no.
00:53:22
He's a clown.
00:53:22
Yeah.
00:53:23
Yeah.
00:53:23
Yeah.
00:53:23
I'm sorry.
00:53:24
Yeah, I know.
00:53:25
Shout out to my Dallas fans, the Cowboys fans.
00:53:28
Listen, I love you guys.
00:53:30
There, your, your fan base along with Buffalo, along with Pittsburgh and a
00:53:35
couple of others out there are really, really good fan bases.
00:53:40
I'm just really sad for you that your owner is Jerry Jones.
00:53:45
So I'll leave it at that.
00:53:47
I have more on Jerry Jones.
00:53:49
He's going to be my new, he's going to be my new Brian Gooden, cause, uh, Nico
00:53:54
this year, just so you know, so buckle up for a lot of Jerry Jones content.
00:53:59
Oh, just like my guy, Tate Frazier has a thing for coach K.
00:54:05
Jerry Jones is now my new guy.
00:54:07
Oh no.
00:54:08
He's my guy that I will find and I will find many away and I will not do it like
00:54:16
Steven and just yell and whatever it will be smart, but it's going to be funny.
00:54:21
So I'm here for it.
00:54:24
Um, but back to what you, you said previously about, uh, Lamar and Bill, I
00:54:33
I'd be hesitant to cross the tampering lines right now, specifically as Bill
00:54:39
Belichick with the history that happened with the Patriots organization and then
00:54:48
with the team in your division, the Miami dolphins and what they tried to go around
00:54:53
and do with Tom Brady, I I'd be very cautious, but on some level, I think the
00:55:00
floodgates are going to open approximately like 30 hours from now.
00:55:07
So when something like that happens, I think me more than most, I see the
00:55:14
Patriots in that conversation just so happens that Bill has a boat.
00:55:19
He's just floating down to Hollywood, Florida, but didn't work for Jeff Ross.
00:55:24
Well, hold on.
00:55:25
No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:55:25
It's different for Jeff because I'm just saying, listen, he doesn't have to
00:55:31
have Lamar on the boat.
00:55:32
He can have parents, they can go out fishing, you know, today, they can go
00:55:38
out fishing today because that's a, that's called a, uh, that's called a
00:55:42
grown person's leisure activity.
00:55:45
That is not called tampering at all.
00:55:48
I mean, Bill, Bill got a first round pick taken away from him for some
00:55:55
footballs that got deflated by the environment.
00:55:58
I do not guess to.
00:56:01
He do not care, dog.
00:56:03
He just don't.
00:56:04
He's going to lose this whole draft.
00:56:06
You don't care, man.
00:56:07
That dude does not care, bro.
00:56:09
I'm just telling you, he doesn't care.
00:56:12
I'm if he, if it comes out that that's the dude that is hiding away from
00:56:19
for Lamar Jackson and then they end up getting him, I will be very interested
00:56:28
in the backstory of how that relationship all goes down because I'm going to tell
00:56:34
you right now, Lamar, you're going to be the one that's going to get the
00:56:37
most down because I'm going to tell you right now, Lamar and Belichick talk on
00:56:41
the field prior to every game.
00:56:44
Yeah.
00:56:45
He's like, you know, he's the only coach.
00:56:47
He's like, you know, I can't do that.
00:56:49
Oh man.
00:56:51
I don't know if Lamar is that type of dude.
00:56:53
He's just, he's cerebral and I think their personalities would match mesh
00:56:58
pretty well as I talked about previously.
00:57:02
Yeah.
00:57:03
It will be interesting to see how that all flows out and, uh, one quick
00:57:08
note on the draft as it starts to get closer and now we're starting to see
00:57:14
moves being made and, uh, you know, the draft board is becoming more and more
00:57:19
clear, I think there'll be a couple more moves that we'll see first rounders
00:57:22
be moved before the draft, uh, probably the next couple of days here, but
00:57:28
I'm starting to think that somebody is going to end up with a premium
00:57:39
defensive star like at six and seven.
00:57:47
Yeah, there there's potential.
00:57:49
It seems like a deeper class for those types of dudes.
00:57:53
It's just unfortunately pretty weak in the middle.
00:57:58
There is no safety is middle linebackers defensive tackles really.
00:58:04
Well, if you're getting probably the best player in the draft at six or at
00:58:10
least in top two, because the quarterback is pushing up, this is working out good
00:58:18
for your teams that are not necessarily looking for a quarterback.
00:58:23
And so, I mean, is Detroit not looking for quarterback?
00:58:28
I do.
00:58:29
They meant they might.
00:58:30
I don't know if they're going for it this year though.
00:58:33
I think they'll, they'll ride another season.
00:58:38
Okay.
00:58:38
I'm going to ask them here.
00:58:40
Yeah.
00:58:41
Can our fans and our listeners in Detroit, get us up at front runner PC at front
00:58:46
runner PC or at Nico FRPC and ask me, just let me know, do you not want to be part
00:58:56
of the Lamar Jackson?
00:58:59
Oh, I think they'd be very interested if that came about, if he had interest in
00:59:06
going to Detroit, I think they'd be incredibly interested, but I just, I more
00:59:14
so think the, the lines just aren't in a position to necessarily draft a
00:59:20
quarterback this year.
00:59:21
If something like Lamar comes around or another quarterback moves that they're
00:59:28
intrigued by, I could, I could definitely see them throwing their hat in the ring.
00:59:33
Oh yeah.
00:59:33
That's the only one that I will want them to go after is Lamar.
00:59:37
I wouldn't want them to touch this draft, this, this particular draft class.
00:59:41
I wouldn't want them to wait till next year.
00:59:43
Yeah.
00:59:43
Maybe our guy, Hendon Hooker in round two, but otherwise they can stay away.
00:59:51
I love him.
00:59:52
Then hooker.
00:59:53
He is honestly my favorite quarterback in this draft class.
00:59:58
Is that crazy?
00:59:59
You think he's the best one of the group?
01:00:01
No, he's my favorite.
01:00:03
Oh, that's, I, I, that's not crazy at all.
01:00:09
I, mine might be Anthony Richardson because of the few splash plays here and there,
01:00:14
but Hendon Hooker is probably a, a close second.
01:00:19
You know, like I tell you all the time, how much I care, how much I like think
01:00:24
of you, I, I don't know how much I love your mind and what have you, but every
01:00:31
time you say something like James Harden is awesome and he's such a good citizen
01:00:37
or you tell me that I really love the few splash plays by Anthony Richardson.
01:00:43
I go like this for real Nico, for real.
01:00:47
It's eye candy, bro.
01:00:48
The eye candy we going with the eye candy, bro.
01:00:51
Well, it's just all traits with Anthony Richardson and the splash plays that
01:00:57
happen are a lot of fun to watch.
01:01:00
I that's, that's why I kind of had trended more towards the, towards the
01:01:05
trend to more, more towards the favorite than I think he's necessarily the best.
01:01:11
That being said, if I'm near the top of the draft this year and you're asking me
01:01:17
to roll a dice on one of these quarterbacks, I'm probably more likely to
01:01:21
roll it with Will Levesse or Anthony Richardson and then Bryce Younger, CJ Stroup.
01:01:32
All right.
01:01:32
Well, I hope you have a really good plan for Richardson because he shouldn't
01:01:38
touch the field first year.
01:01:40
Yeah, probably.
01:01:41
Not should not touch the field at all.
01:01:44
I, I, I think that's probably true with more quarterbacks than we realized.
01:01:52
Yeah.
01:01:52
But with him, especially, yeah, especially.
01:01:57
And I would get mentors on the ground with him.
01:02:02
Like I would go back and I would go grab your Michael Vicks or
01:02:08
whatever resonates with him and say, okay, this is your guy.
01:02:16
He is now your guru.
01:02:18
He is in your phone.
01:02:20
Y'all going to FaceTime, you know, saying you're going to have like little meetings
01:02:25
with him, like every four weeks and all of that, I need to do everything in my
01:02:30
power to set this kid up for success with, uh, because I, I, I just look at
01:02:39
him and go, he's raw and we are going to need time.
01:02:45
Yeah, definitely.
01:02:48
He's, he's incredibly raw.
01:02:50
I just, with how unpredictable drafting quarterbacks is generally, I like to
01:02:56
look at the things on the table that are factual about players and he is factually
01:03:05
a freak athlete, so that makes me more interested in rolling the dice.
01:03:11
He's definitely, I would say fourth of the four, uh,
01:03:18
fourth of the four guys everyone's talking about in this class in terms
01:03:23
of football acumen, but everything else he can do, I, that's the type of guy
01:03:32
I just like to go after.
01:03:37
Or footwork can't read the defense.
01:03:41
Very remedial, offensive concepts that he can grasp at this present time.
01:03:47
Those are all three things.
01:03:49
Oh, and he's a enamored, enamored with his arm.
01:03:54
You're watching tape on your boy, by the way, cause you were like talking to me.
01:04:00
Well, this is your guy.
01:04:01
And I was sitting there thinking, let me, let me go ahead and put some tape on.
01:04:06
Yeah, a lot of throws where he is in love with that cannon.
01:04:14
Yeah.
01:04:15
On his right shoulder.
01:04:17
Yep.
01:04:17
That's why he needs to sit for a year.
01:04:22
And he won't act.
01:04:25
That might be the type of thing you, you learn more on the field.
01:04:29
I think there's a lot of bad habits that are in his game though, that
01:04:35
need to be removed.
01:04:37
And generally that's best done.
01:04:41
Off the field with a year of observation.
01:04:44
So I, maybe they can do kind of a similar thing to what the Niners
01:04:51
did in year one with Trey Lance, where they brought him in for a few plays
01:04:55
here and there and had packages.
01:04:58
But I, I'd like to see him sit on the bench to start.
01:05:03
Me as well, me as well.
01:05:06
My, my only thing with him is this is that for the, for the people who are
01:05:12
really in love with Anthony Richardson, who are following this podcast, here
01:05:18
is his light floor, like he could be like James Winston, early interceptions guy.
01:05:31
Oh man.
01:05:32
I think this dude could be that with athleticism, like he can be super
01:05:39
athletic, get you a hundred yards, get you 250 passing yards.
01:05:47
And on that third and six in the fourth quarter, when you need him to make a
01:05:52
play, he will fall in love with his arm and he will go into double, double
01:05:57
coverage and they will get picked off and you will go, damn, that game was
01:06:02
entertaining.
01:06:03
He did a lot of great things.
01:06:06
Oh, we were so close to victory.
01:06:08
It'll be cool.
01:06:09
The first year, you know, when it won't be cool, started the third year
01:06:17
when he's still doing it.
01:06:19
That's why you got to sit here for a year.
01:06:22
That's just the hope that you can work that kind of stuff out.
01:06:26
You mentioned the floor being James Winston.
01:06:29
I think on that case, I'm probably even lower.
01:06:33
I think the floor is probably straight up, not an NFL player.
01:06:39
I think the full, the floor is going to say, I didn't want to say what I actually
01:06:43
thought because when I actually thought I shades of Jamar Russell, man.
01:06:51
Well, yeah, it is a Jamar, but different things.
01:06:54
It is a Jamar, but different in one way, in one way.
01:06:59
Jamar didn't want to work.
01:07:02
Yes.
01:07:02
He wants to work and he likes football.
01:07:05
He likes football.
01:07:06
Yeah.
01:07:07
But what I'm saying is the, the mental part of the game and the
01:07:14
disfascination with his arm.
01:07:18
He loves that.
01:07:19
That loves it.
01:07:21
That Jamar Russell is actually perfect example of the final reason.
01:07:26
I think I'm currently leaning more towards the traits guys than anything else.
01:07:34
I look at a guy like Jamar Russell and drafting him obvious
01:07:41
catastrophe for the writers.
01:07:43
No doubt about that.
01:07:44
However, you knew pretty quickly with the player like Jamar Russell
01:07:50
that it wasn't going to work.
01:07:53
I would rather draft a guy like that where it burns out than a guy like
01:07:58
hypothetically, Daniel Jones, Joe Flacco, though he did win a Superbowl.
01:08:05
The guys who it's year five and you're still not sure that you're going to
01:08:12
win a Superbowl and you're still not sure that's a good way to end up in purgatory.
01:08:19
But see, that's the problem of the front office at that point, because
01:08:25
you should know by year three, what that guy is and you can go, okay, let's
01:08:30
augment, he's not franchise, different maker guy, he's high end game manager
01:08:37
guy, and we need to put the stuff around him.
01:08:40
Yeah.
01:08:40
We need to put the stuff around him.
01:08:42
So, but it's often hard because quarterbacks are difficult evaluation.
01:08:50
Like example of your team with Jared Goff.
01:08:54
Jared Goff played a lot of successful seasons, ended up getting that big
01:08:59
contract that was bigger than what he deserved, but it was a situation that
01:09:06
kind of made the Rams feel like they had to pay him the money.
01:09:11
And I just, I don't want to end up in a spot where I'm giving a hundred
01:09:19
million dollars to an Andy Dalton type.
01:09:23
I'd rather be in a situation where two years after I make a selection, I can
01:09:28
just wash my hands and move forward and know that I'm looking for another
01:09:32
quarterback.
01:09:33
Okay.
01:09:34
Now you just said something really hypothetical, but I'm going to
01:09:38
hit you with the NFL reality unless you are Ted Thompson or, uh, who doesn't
01:09:48
fire their GMs, Guten Cusco or a Green Bay or a Piscoward for an office that
01:09:56
never gets fired.
01:09:58
Yeah.
01:09:59
Uh, Ballard in Indianapolis seems pretty and Roseman in Philadelphia.
01:10:06
Yeah.
01:10:06
Yes, and these guys do not have that type of job security where I can blow out a
01:10:13
quarterback after year two.
01:10:15
Oh, guess what?
01:10:16
We made a mistake on that one.
01:10:18
You know what will happen this time?
01:10:19
We won't make the same mistake this time.
01:10:22
Yeah.
01:10:23
That GM doesn't get that second chance.
01:10:26
That's that's true.
01:10:27
And as a general manager, I can definitely understand making the decision for job
01:10:34
preservation.
01:10:35
Um, but just as a fan, as myself, I personally gravitate more towards those
01:10:44
style of players now, just because I'd rather have those guys on my team a
01:10:51
little bit, irregardless of my front office.
01:10:54
It also might be telling to you how your front office handles the situation like
01:11:02
that might be a better way to quickly evaluate whether or not you need to make a
01:11:06
change in the front office.
01:11:08
So I, I'm viewing that, I think a little bit more from a fan's perspective than
01:11:14
necessarily a team perspective.
01:11:18
No, great.
01:11:19
I mean, I'm glad we, that we hammered that down because obviously the things
01:11:24
that we want to make sure is like, we're just trying to give a focus of like a
01:11:27
front office and then also as a fan, like we want you guys to enjoy these guys,
01:11:33
but we also want to give you clear indication.
01:11:36
If you are a fan of a team and this guy ends up on your squad, the best case
01:11:43
scenario, as far as what we would think his development would be that would end
01:11:49
up to be the most fruitful in the end for your enjoyment.
01:11:54
Am I pretty much right on that?
01:11:55
Nico?
01:11:56
Yeah.
01:11:56
Yeah.
01:11:57
I couldn't agree more.
01:11:58
I think that's, that's a great way of putting it for sure.
01:12:00
That's, uh, what I'd like to, to try and provide people just, uh, different
01:12:08
perspectives to look introspectively at their own fandom and their own team.
01:12:15
And the last thing that we want to leave the folks today with is that, well, you
01:12:19
got a black quarterback spotlight and the guy that I want to give spotlight to
01:12:25
spotlight to today is none other than Bryce Young because I was hard on him
01:12:35
last week.
01:12:37
I will continue to be hard on him this week because he is small, but the one
01:12:43
thing that you cannot deny that dude has got it done everywhere he's gone.
01:12:52
And the one thing that you cannot teach is his ability to compute what goes on.
01:13:02
At the pace that he does his processor in his head is faster than everybody
01:13:08
else's in this draft.
01:13:10
As far as the quarter, miles faster.
01:13:13
Yeah.
01:13:13
He, he's an incredibly talented young man.
01:13:16
I, I often feel guilty for not having him hire on my quarterback list, because
01:13:25
if you just observe the talent, it's clear he's far and away the best
01:13:30
quarterback in this class.
01:13:32
It's just that saying that Tomlin is that sticks in my head.
01:13:38
If you start making exceptions, pretty soon you'll have a team full of exceptions.
01:13:43
I, I, he's too slight for me.
01:13:47
I was all on board the Russell Wilson of it all, but Russell Wilson was a stocky
01:13:53
dude with mammoth hands and arms.
01:13:58
Bryce Young just is a slight guy overall.
01:14:02
I he's he's got all the talent in the world and arm strength.
01:14:07
That's honestly shocking out of someone his size.
01:14:10
So I, I really support him as a player and I pray he's successful when he gets
01:14:17
in the league because he is so fun to watch.
01:14:19
I just don't know if that's the guy I would necessarily roll my dice with.
01:14:26
If you're a team looking to draft him, your offensive line has to be big physical
01:14:33
and those guys have to be loyal.
01:14:37
Like you have to do like a deep dive on your psychological profiles, on
01:14:44
your offense alignment, do they have like a propensity to be like a savior,
01:14:54
to be like a protector or whatever.
01:14:58
You got to have those guys protecting him because.
01:15:02
Every once in a while, he's going to get hit and those guys are huge
01:15:06
that are going to hit him.
01:15:08
So he has to have a really good offensive line.
01:15:14
If he's coming into this league, it would also probably behoove you to have a good
01:15:20
slot receiver and a good idea.
01:15:23
Yeah, those things should be like there.
01:15:27
Day one, he gets there, especially interior offensive line, because the way
01:15:33
he plays, he doesn't, a lot of quarterbacks nowadays tend to move the
01:15:40
backwards out of the pocket and tend towards rolling out and creating space in that way.
01:15:47
Bryce Young steps up in the pocket, like every time.
01:15:50
He steps up in the pocket, like a six foot four quarterback, you would think.
01:15:54
He would six foot four.
01:15:56
He does.
01:15:57
He plays that way and it's, it's beautiful to watch.
01:16:01
So that interior offensive line needs to be specifically strong to be able
01:16:07
to highlight things like that.
01:16:09
And also it can be too tall because you got to be able to be able to be
01:16:15
able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able
01:16:19
to be able to be able, because you've got to be worried about him seeing
01:16:23
over them on some level.
01:16:25
So six, seven center, six, five guards might not be the right
01:16:32
guys to go after necessarily.
01:16:35
I'd I obviously that wouldn't write someone off my draft board, but it's
01:16:40
something I'd be looking into if I'm drafting with Bryce Young in mind.
01:16:45
He didn't seem to have a problem at Alabama and they have a pretty watch that NFL
01:16:51
Often as far as I
01:16:53
They they definitely do but in the NFL there's a lot more of jumping arms up that whole
01:17:01
Congestion in the pocket that is just gonna be difficult for him
01:17:05
So I think a taller offensive line mate might make it
01:17:10
Difficult for him to make those quick split second reads necessarily when defensive lineman are trying to swap the balls
01:17:18
The one thing I will say is that
01:17:22
He has a whip like
01:17:24
finish to his
01:17:26
Throwing delivery. Yeah, it's it looks like a pitcher almost the way he's able to flex the arm and
01:17:34
And then get the extension out, but he also has different platforms that he can throw it from
01:17:42
For what I'm
01:17:44
I've done a little digging
01:17:47
That's very true, you know, well he seems to be able to throw from different platforms
01:17:53
He's very
01:17:55
Very under control in the pocket if he gets a little pressure. It's not like oh, I'm I'm so scared. No, no, all right
01:18:02
Mm-hmm. He's not flappable in that way. Yeah, he's brave as hell
01:18:11
Yeah, yeah, I am I lost my train of thought there I wasn't sure the direction I'm going but Bryce Young is definitely
01:18:19
Someone who deserves our acknowledgement and someone who we're both looking forward to supporting as soon as he gets into the league
01:18:27
Routing for the kid. I'm rooting for the science experiment to work if
01:18:32
If I had to say of the quarterbacks
01:18:36
I'll probably
01:18:40
I'll probably have them
01:18:44
three
01:18:47
If each Stroud
01:18:49
No, I got him to why am I saying that?
01:18:52
Stroud young Levis Richard
01:18:55
No, am I am I flip-flopping on this? Yeah, I am flip-flopping
01:19:00
It'll be Stroud Levis young Dan Richardson
01:19:04
And the only reason for young is the height and the and the slender bill. That's it
01:19:10
Because everything else screams to me
01:19:14
franchise quarterback
01:19:17
everything so
01:19:19
I just wish the kid well, I know he's gonna get drafted high. I can't wait to see it
01:19:24
I can't wait to experience what this is gonna look like
01:19:28
What kind of offense?
01:19:30
is going to be deployed with him in it and
01:19:34
You're right the interior offensive line
01:19:38
As long as he's in the league and whatever franchise does
01:19:42
Take the gamble. They've got to be able to do that
01:19:45
Whatever franchise does uh take the gamble. They will always have to invest
01:19:51
In the interior offensive line. It is an absolute must you cannot short
01:19:56
That situation ever not one year
01:20:00
And you also have to have good backups in that
01:20:03
definitely the
01:20:05
Uh year the saints won the super bowl with drew breeze the comparable height size guy they had
01:20:11
Arguably the best offensive line in the sport especially on the interior. So
01:20:16
it's
01:20:18
Something that we've seen happen before and I think it's going to be
01:20:22
Very relevant to Bryce
01:20:25
All right, is there anything else that we need to hit today?
01:20:29
Nico, we know we don't have any news on rogers. We can't have any news on lamar jackson. Is there anybody?
01:20:38
that you're just
01:20:40
Enamored with the name and where they're going to go
01:20:44
That is still out there
01:20:46
Oh no one no one's still out there necessarily who immediately comes to mind orlando brown perhaps
01:20:53
He's he's probably the big name that we're going to need to see switch locations
01:20:59
I'm really interested to see what kind of teams will want to bring him in
01:21:04
um
01:21:05
if
01:21:06
if there might be a chance that he could look into the lamar team as well because I know they get along
01:21:14
well
01:21:15
um, and apparently
01:21:19
The chiefs haven't waved off the idea of bringing him back. So I guess we're gonna have to
01:21:25
Wait and see with that one. It seems a little weird after the joan taylor edition today
01:21:31
um
01:21:33
Um, however one guy we haven't touched on who did actually sign today and I think
01:21:38
Is relevant, uh, is jesse bates signing in atlanta
01:21:43
He that's one of the worst secondaries defensive outside of a strong number one corner in aj torrell
01:21:51
One of the worst secondaries in the sport adding a guy of that caliber. I think is going to be huge
01:21:57
And the bangles today losing both safeties jesse bates and uh bond bell is
01:22:03
Going to make an impact on their team for sure
01:22:08
The one thing with bates is that uh, he can get deeped a lot and you can count and pick on him
01:22:15
Uh when he can he allow his physicality?
01:22:20
to just
01:22:22
Just be organically
01:22:24
Unfurled onto the football field. It's it's amazing
01:22:28
Uh, he seems to be in the right place at the right time a lot
01:22:33
Yeah
01:22:34
You know not to the mika fitzpatrick level
01:22:39
but close
01:22:41
Close. Yeah. Yeah close to it. They're a little a little different minka does a little more roaming and
01:22:49
jesse works a little more downhill generally, but
01:22:52
I I think that
01:22:54
They're two of the best safeties in the league. So they're definitely comparable on some level
01:23:00
so atl
01:23:02
Let's shout out our guy
01:23:04
In the atl go ahead shot him out go to our guy out
01:23:09
Uh shout out to my boy kez
01:23:11
I i've been talking to him over the last couple days. He he seems to be doing okay doing
01:23:18
Pretty good lately the the atl eons podcast was the hit on qpbn. I think we can all say we love that show and
01:23:27
uh
01:23:29
I'm i'm happy for my guy kez getting
01:23:32
Jesse baits today. I know he wanted it. I'd uh,
01:23:36
I hope we can have him on the pod here one day soon
01:23:40
Oh, yeah, we gotta do something with all mr. Andrews
01:23:43
Do you have a open invitation?
01:23:45
To the pot and we will talk nothing
01:23:48
but atl
01:23:50
We could bring him off with the basketball pot
01:23:52
Yeah, we can talk about
01:23:54
He can do the state of the union of his beloved atlanta hawks
01:23:59
Mm-hmm. I'm sure jacob
01:24:01
Young jake would love to would like to be on that as well. Yeah
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you know, so
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Got a lot to pull from with that
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So with that being said
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for my guy
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He is all of these wrapped up in the one
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All right, so the canadian bomber
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the canadian shaman
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the canadian bill simons and
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With that being said trust
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There are deals in the works folks trust and believe
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and
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for this pot
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The canadian mike holland my boy nico miotelo
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Send us off man. Let him know what we're doing. We got stuff coming up on friday. I think I don't know let us know
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Yeah, we got we we're gonna have a basketball pod coming up on friday. I don't think we've talked
01:24:57
Necessarily too much about what's going on, but we're in a spot where we can start doing some
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playoff previews
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And up some matchups that are uh seeming to emerge we can
01:25:11
Do some more celebrating of the sacramento kings as it looks
01:25:15
More and more guaranteed that they're securing their first playoff berth in 16 years
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And we can touch on that lakers team of yours
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And how nice they're looking lately. I think uh, they they might be primed to upset someone in the first round
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Sorry, yes, sir, and I will be focused in on one thing and one thing only
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A club fours up all day ucla in the tournament. They are number two seed in the west
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And that's where my attention will be
01:25:49
thursday
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Just let you know that's where
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my attention will be
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Leading into the basketball pod
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on friday
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Definitely make sense where we're gonna have to touch on march madness as well. I put together
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A bracket today. Have you looked at that yet?
01:26:11
Oh, no, i'm i'm i'm analyzing my bracket as as we speak. I am on top of it
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Right now i'm a little upset with a lit some of the things in my region
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Which is the west?
01:26:25
Not excited about gonzaga being in my region whatsoever. Um, i'm really upset about this whole
01:26:35
Why can't we have a actual team from the west be a number one seed?
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Just as lii, I don't know just yeah
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Yeah, whatever I guess so
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but
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So when we move to the big 10, this won't be a problem by the way, just as well. Yeah, that's true
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That's true. I love that. So what what did you end up with your final matchup will give people this to
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To go off your final the end of your bracket
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Um, i'm still working on it because i'm still
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Even though i'm a homer for ucla. I am a realist
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I gotta see if I can get my guys to the finals
01:27:18
Even with the devastating news of jaylen clark shout out to my guy
01:27:24
Who was all world defensive player?
01:27:28
Of the year in the pack 12
01:27:30
Torn achilles we wish him nothing but a speedy recovery and we don't know if he's going in the draft
01:27:37
We don't know if he's gonna go so
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Well, it's good for you
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So maybe maybe we'll save that we'll tease that also for the friday pod
01:27:46
Well, we can maybe reveal our lead dates or something. I will I will have it ready
01:27:54
By then I got a lot of stuff to go over tonight a lot of things comb over tonight
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To figure it all out
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so
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I am uh looking forward to all of this and we got to get off because
01:28:07
We got some news on uh, john moret
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That just came out. So we got to go look at that
01:28:14
Yeah, okay
01:28:15
All right guys, we will see you on friday on this feed and I also believe
01:28:22
That somewhere in the mix here will be a life pod
01:28:27
coming very soon
01:28:29
about my beloved mother, so
01:28:32
Keep on the lookout for these
01:28:36
pods
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And go look at the website too
01:28:40
To www frontrunnerpc.com we got news up there. We've got
01:28:46
All the latest news we get stuff aggregated to from espn and whatever the case may be plus
01:28:51
There's some stuff up there on the site from us and there'll be more stuff to come
01:28:56
Up so with that being said you guys have a good week and we'll see you on this feed on friday
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