Pep Talks For NFL Fanbases

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2:09your people welcome to NFL daily where we want to feel tender about our restricted reagents I'm Greg Rosenthal I'm in the Chris Wesley podcast studio I'm with Patrick Leibon and Jordan Rodriguez just one of those words in the NFL lexicon that I always like just I'd like I'd like to be offered a tender yeah the thing about the languages you can go any number of ways with so many different words and tender is one of them uh like I tried to explain it out my son was asking like well what does that even mean right it's like it's hard to explain but we do have I'm talking big news a restricted reagent on this show we also are gonna make some sad fans feel a little bit happier Jordan well maybe not even sad but maybe just maybe nervous or maybe very vocal at this time just like just we're gonna just settle some people we're gonna boost some confidence we're gonna give pep talks however range of a pep talk one might need I love to

3:13give pep talks I'm always the emotional support friend I love to give my friends pep talks and gas people up so let's do this to a couple teams it's a it's a good exercise to align myself with it with a group of fans who make this game so great and allow us to do what we do famously uh you just you you're not a fan you just you just watch from above no I I am one of them but sometimes they like to segment yes uh I you know whatever laundry you wear I support you we see you and we hear you yes both we we love you too and look we we've graded every team this week well except for one uh coming up a little later and you know some people have some hard feelings some people aren't feeling good and I I know the resident optimist and executive producer Jordan Rodriguez wants to make people feel a little better the offseason there is a lot more to go we will hit a couple items of news quickly honestly the one the Texan sign Wyatt teller two years sixteen million dollars that that eliminated one of the teams I was going to give a pep talk really yeah because they everyone's

4:15just all they're thinking about Houston is the offensive line like how we haven't done enough we traded away our best guy like we haven't done enough on the offensive line and I checked with a resident Texans correspondent Seth Paine and I was like okay how are you feeling does it does they even make sense for a segment like this now and he's like no I think the Wyatt teller thing now everyone feels okay they looked at my top 101 freeings are like wow he's the highest offensive lineman still available in the 40s two-year deal eight million dollars per year everything I've heard I've asked people around Cleveland to that like look I know he got benched it was a weird situation he's playing through injuries and stuff but the general feeling was like he was at a solid level he's not maybe not a pro baller anymore so they added a solid offensive lineman and at this point at least the Texans are at the very worst back to where they were maybe to end last season on paper on the offensive line and this season off season I think it's going to be a little bit more about extending their good players yeah they have for me that was my main question about them was what were they going to continue to do up front and they just showed us what they

5:15were going to do and and setting a baseline or setting like a control group and free agency at a position of need it doesn't eliminate them from also investing at that position in the draft coming up either but it just means that they're not having to reach desperately for things that are so obvious as holes on their roster and so I like it I you know I like pretty much everything the Texans have done this off season and sometimes the total five are ultimately what matters the individual pieces will have success or not success in different places it's going to be a new group and so we'll have a new opportunity to see what things are going to look well they they believe around the nursery their left tackle played pretty well at the end of last season that was probably the best part of his season they signed Braden Smith from the Colts now they get teller in the mix they like adding room who they just gave a lot of money to Blake Fisher is hanging out there kind of as a swing guy you might still need a center but they have you know they signed up and brown they have Jake and they're not in a bad spot speaking of teams that were in a bad spot at a certain position and I would say the Lions still are DJ want them went to the Lions on a low cost deal

6:20and since I called them out as one of the thinnest positions in the league right now it was Aiden Hutchinson and nobody else I just figured I'd mention okay DJ want them there's an NFL player yeah you've got two now at that position from the vaunted uh 2024 2025 Carolina Panthers defense uh perhaps Brad a copy of have something else going on and the draft time the Lions will setting the table setting the table they need more they need more Ali help talk me off the ledge when we were doing grades a little bit uh or no now he actually talked me on to the ledge that they they need to do oh good more but like like the thinking makes sense they're trying to get younger and we'll see what they do hey step up there yeah hey what could go wrong the Lions and I don't like the world where the Lions aren't like a favorite or the favorite but we'll see if they are when we get to the season the Vikings I would think and I and I checked for the first time some odds of like who's favorite of winning division that's coming up a little later on something I'm going to mention the Vikings were pretty solidly like picked to come in last place I don't know if I agree

7:21with that especially after they break the ice on restricted free agency first team of the year to sign a tender Ryan Van Denmark it's a real person he was on the bills I mean time to an offer sheet I just wanted to say what a Vikings name Brian Van Denmark can't say I'm like overly familiar with his work but he's played he started some games and then they they've got an eye on him it's I don't even know who their GM is they don't have one yeah kind of cool they didn't like the other one and so now they see it they see a tender that's available where they go ahead and right I guess it's Kevin O'Connell's Rob Brazinski it's it's all the staff they pretty much just fired quests the more you guys say the word tender it it is amazing it's starting to get into that territory where like the word moist is for me where it's just like I just don't really want to hear this a lot more it's a tender relationship situation with the GM position right so everybody you know these guys are all going to the same parties now they fit in with each other so nobody is going to be you know fired at the at the senior bowl and so that's how you get

8:23Van Denmark off the tent and to be clear yeah that's the biggest problem yeah a tender offer that you know they were offered him this this offer sheet they signed it they signed it he signed it the bills the bills have five days to match it and they don't get anything back if they don't match it because he was on the no cost like undrafted free agent type of type of tender where you get nothing so there was a report from the Wall Street Journal oh that the NFL season will start in Seattle on a Wednesday we work for the NFL so this isn't like officially confirmed I'm sure they want to announce it yeah there's a there's a whole schedule release right but the whole idea of starting the season on a Wednesday is new but it's because they can't plan Friday this year there's the whole rule with not going opposite high school football the reason they were able to last couple years it was just because the first Friday fell at a you know different time because it went Labor days blah blah blah the season's going to start on a Wednesday the Melbourne game

9:25the amount I'm starting to use the local you know that's going to be on Thursday but the Seahawks will get the honor of having the NBC kickoff game that'll just be on a Wednesday opponent could be determined here's my question I understand that that's time I'm terrible with time zones I'm just gonna put that out there right now for for the listeners to please I'm genuinely asking like please correct me wherever I'm wrong on this I'm terrible at time zones it's messed me up on travel cross country frequently in my time traveling as a as a reporter like it is it messes with me constantly and I for some reasons like a blank space okay my brain will it actually be a Thursday in Melbourne well that's a great question it probably will be a Friday I said it up like I knew it was a dumb no it'll be a Friday you gotta be a Friday the pronunciation by the way I don't think so I just copied it it'll be a Friday their day ahead you know I mean that depends what time of day it is here for them to be a day ahead but for us yeah it'll be Friday in Melbourne but I still be Thursday it'll

10:26be Thursday they don't have the high school rules to worry about our daily and yes Thursday here yes it'll be Sunday night football on a Wednesday so we just need one more day or two if I could count I can't count much let's say Melbourne okay Seahawks home games by the way let's let's have a prediction because you guys are doing great on that more on that yikes yikes their home opponents include the Rams and 49ers who would be ineligible since they're gonna be in Melbourne the Cardinals and Giants who I'm gonna say are ineligible because they were bad last year I mean Giants I guess wouldn't be that great but they're not gonna get off me that leaves five really good candidates for the Seahawks to play opening night the Patriots which would feel a little weird the chiefs my homes injury and then I think the three strongest candidates the chargers bears and cowboys what do you think who you think so we want I would I would lean bears I think that would be spectacular open

11:29that was my choice too it just feels like something they would do I'm gonna swerve then I'll go Giants I know you rolled them out but it's a John Harbaugh Jackson Dart new era Giants that wouldn't you think the league would love to put them on TV and you know they fair yes a lot and on Sunday night football plenty week one is a little much for one of the worst franchises in the league recording you know based on wins and losses we have a league where you evaluate how the franchise is doing right why are you laughing I loved it I appreciate it I thought it was funny okay in the last I'm just swerving I've just swerved I hear you know how my track record is famously very good at victim games in the last three years combined they've won 13 games that just that's an average of you know four so that just feels like a step too far finally just a couple little notes the cult sign camp Taylor Brit who had some nice moments with you boy Lou and rumo in Cincinnati I think that could be a fun signing and the Raiders sign

12:31Spencer Buford a former 49ers guard who's played plenty and I mentioned that just because he can play football and they need offensive lineman and I saw that it caused a couple chargers fans that I follow on Twitter to spin out like now it's a bit that they're just not signing any of the guards they're letting all the guards go and they're not in my pep talks because I already basically gave the chargers fans a similar pep talk a week ago and didn't want to repeat myself but like don't worry about Spencer Buford signing elsewhere you guys can find you can find people I think we'll count that as a pep talk okay let's start the pep talks it's executive producer Jordan Rodriguez by the way we need some executive producer play on Joe's coming up oh yeah we'll see what we can do okay yeah I really haven't asked I need it I mean just offer him yeah definitely ask on air that's a good way to get it I mean you could probably come up with something by the end of the show this guy already hosted NFL fantasy live for two hours today he can do it all the capacity

13:33at which you were able to go from stage also feed yourself and then come here all one motion was pretty pretty insane yeah gluttony is a skill let's hear your pep talk this was your your vision to Jordan I'm gonna give you the floor to start with the first pep talk for any panicking fans well and panicking or just maybe fretting a little bit maybe they are in a certain head space that I'm gonna try to talk them out of maybe I'm gonna try to give them a big picture look at a little short-term chaos and in that category falls a at least a portion of very vocal Miami dolphins so Miami dolphins fans like it's gonna be okay right the caveat here is assuming the people now in charge of the franchise are competent which we don't know yet but we also don't know that they're not competent so they hey there's the silver lining so far I actually see the vision here it's a similar it's quite similar blueprint to what teams like the 49ers in the Rams

14:36just executed over the last couple of years the Broncos the bucks it's a sprint rebuild and I know it's a sprint rebuild because of a couple of core and key qualities that I will outline for you momentarily but I do want to say because it is that you as a fan base are about to have so much fun along the way as this thing comes together even if the outsider's friend and fuss over what the roster looks like on paper or screenshot how many vacancies you might have on the roster heading into training camp this is a sprint rebuild because it wasn't just about taking on the dead money in one rip or two rips in this case and stockpiling draft picks it's also the 15 free agent contracts that combine to rank in the bottom third in the league in free agent spending this off season it's an important part of the strategy that tells me it's a sprint rebuild or an attempt at one and not taking I agreed with Ollie's take on you guys a show earlier this week I won't repeat him he said it very well it's not just taking on the dead money and amassing the draft picks it's key elements

15:38of sprint rebuild you also have to have two other things very cheap free agents acquired in volume to set a roster floor and to give better clarity importantly on needs as time goes on and a quarterback that gives level clarity by level clarity I mean you know exactly what you're going to get out of that position good or medium in this case I think and hope it will be good but good or medium which means you have a control group around which to build the rest of your roster it's a cheap contract in case it doesn't work out and what I have seen a lot of is fretting about what this means for Malik Willis how tough the road becomes for him I wouldn't panic about that either he doesn't have a lot around him right now I've seen that worry quite a bit as I've said but he also doesn't have to play in NFL game right now it's safe to assume that the roster gets more juice on offense and defense in the draft and they can really allocate a lot to both of those phases because they have 11 draft picks this year so far including two first rounders and seven total picks in the first three rounds including four third rounders which is just great draft capital including to help them move up

16:42or back at will and so dolphins fans if you're down to just ride the roller coaster and enjoy the journey with me I think you're going to have so much fun during this phase of the process because I do believe that what we're looking at here is not a rebuild it's not a tear down it is a sprint rebuild which means that they will be ahead of schedule if all goes well again caveat on competence if all goes well I do believe this is about to be a lot of fun I think they're feeling great I think they hear that and they wanted something new I think for the most part and I know there's a segment of the fan base it's going to be angry with doesn't make sense I think the smart ones that I that I know Henry Hodgson and some of the good journalists out there covering the dolphin Simon Clancy chase pace Kaufman I believe it's for now they I think they see the vision they wanted them to be real with themselves instead of just being in the middle the the difference I guess would be who are the the weight bearing walls you know that the Rams in the 49 they had some real

17:43deal players they had a real deal quarterbacks at the time when they did their kind of sprint rebuild I think Willis can be there but he hasn't actually played football it's too much at the end of the important thing and and that's you'll note in my pep talk I did not mention that you have to have a star or above average quarterback you could have you could have a really really strong quarterback but and that would that would help are you just going to keep talking as someone passes by our studio with the sign held up that says hot rabbi yet was that a reference to me to me I come on bro it's all I got it's all out in the open now Greg's Greg's uh Greg's got him so a little nickname I mean I wish a nickname in the makeup room hot rabbi I mean I if only I could be you know Adam Brody if I grew like half a foot or so they you know what I I hear a lot that I think Adam Brody wishes he could be more like I'm sure sorry to interrupt your point

18:43that's I wasn't incredible I love it she just walked by holding that sign yeah because you have to have the sign hold it up incredible I have some questions that we should get a picture of it and share it to the to the listeners because it's not you if I've got to be Adam Brody then yeah no I I support that um they they got level clear it they want what what really was more important almost even than the skill level of the quarterback because you're looking at a combination of Brock party and Mac Jones also in San Francisco wasn't that it was like an elite quarterback now I brought parties very good Mac Jones played awesome Stafford's elite it wasn't just that it was proven though it was clear it's but it was clarity of what you are going to have at the position good or medium now if it's bad then you're then you might be in some trouble a guy they gave it you know a hundred million dollar kind just just played more I think it'll be bad I think it'll be I think it'll be fine and we believe in them what they're looking for is clarity because if you if all you have is it is a clear answer to a question at a foundational point on a roster you can do a lot more with that you can do a lot with that when you're recouping around the rest of

19:46the roster well I think a big part of it is being able to not just evaluate talent on your team and coming into the draft of the talent around the league and sure you get you get the picks and you get an opportunity but I would like to see some veteran lot receivers to be able to play with Malik Willis just because I like watching football you know and defensive fans who maybe didn't necessarily like that move I definitely understand why they're upset and totally Devon H&N that's why I want to give him a pep talk yeah because I could see it I'm a big Jalen Waddle fan as you guys know so I wanted to give them a pep talk the ones who are sad about this I wanted to lift them up a little bit and a report from ESPN that came out on Wednesday that H&N is they've been telling other teams not available wait bearing wall and so I think H&N Aaron Brewer they're center wait bearing wall that's about it Patrick Pollock's pretty good as a future love tackle the peace word don't sleep on the tight end over there I'm just saying that calling my shop before the season dolcic don't sleep on him sure but he got paid three million dollars and a one year deal I mean that's that's a that's a that's like a sand castle all right you're up you're up

20:49and he's gonna outplay it Greg yeah I hope so a pep talk for somebody who does not need it because Jason light knows what he's doing and there's evidence of that extensive evidence included coming on this very program and sticking it to Greg Rosen's all the season didn't necessarily work out bucks fans and I would like to address you and to try to make you feel better because a guy that is Mr. Buck who is going into the tam into the pro football Hall of Fame probably is a Tampa Bay Buccaneer is gonna be catching passes in Santa Clara this season I understand that that's unfortunate it's not something we want Mike Evans will be back long term Mike Evans will always be a Tampa Bay Buccaneer nobody will be overly concerned about that but what do you get this off season you need it help at linebacker incomes Alex Anzel only that helps AlQadin Mohammed an underrated contributor on the defensive line coming into Todd Bolz's defense making that a little bit better and you've gotten you've got the Steelers team MVP and Kenneth Gainwell Super Bowl champion Kenneth Gainwell to have one of the best receiving backfields in all of the NFL which is so much

21:52better for Baker Mayfield as we've seen you know shoulder injuries kind of do in a lot of great quarterbacks with big arms Baker Mayfield has a huge arm. He's got a lot of violence in that motion so what better to to make the receiving game no matter who's on the field and you keep Sean Tucker as well to add into that there's so many reasons to feel good about Tampa not to mention there was a guy who was on pace to be the rookie of the year last year everything kind of fell apart when Baker's shoulder did I believe in Jason like I believe on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers I'm sorry Mike's not going to be there but he will be back. He started the opposite in the right put in a good place they are the favorites by the way to me and I agree with that but considering that the world that was out there I'm I'm underwhelmed by Alex Anzeloni AlQadin Mohammed Aisha and Robinson it doesn't seem like a great value or great pop and I just wanted more from

22:52where they where they are in their team build that they were in a nice position in the off seasons not over but to make me happy make their fans happy I don't think they're happy no but I do think that you made some good points in your pep talk because one of the most exciting like my on my list of things I cannot wait to see manifest this season is in like Kenny G and Bucky Irving in that backfield and what they decide to do with them you know as a one two combination especially in the past game I think on this show we're really massive Mike Evans fans and I also think that I I would like to see him win a Super Bowl I would like another one I would like to see him thrive well that I would like to see him etch himself not only into the lore forever of Tampa Bay but the work that he's done for that community and the presence that he is and has been I would also like to see him go almost take almost a career victory lap in a way and maybe start think about ending his career on a positive note and being etched into the lore of these great 49ers

23:56receivers that get these teams over the home we it is if you're watching on YouTube his highlight video that we're showing right now starts with Mike Clinton yes and and then we get a chance to see James there was he's been through a lot of course he got the greatest quarterback of all time thrown on balls as well but just a you know I mean he was there he was there for Josh McCown as his starting quarterback Josh lovey Smith as his head coach I I just find that reason that we want to see him win a Super Bowl depressing because because yeah because like if he wants to win a Super Bowl the Buckeneers should be a better option than the 49ers if you believe in like what this team has been building towards but I hear you that there's a lot to still be happy about even if you you can pick some nits with the last couple weeks let's take a break and we'll come back with yes a team that was forgotten and I feel very bad about when we did the NFC grades we graded 31 off seasons this week this message is brought to you by apple card apple card members can earn

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28:21Eagle eared listeners will know before the break you might have missed it Jordan Rodriguez favorite new drop on NFL Daily what a treat uh what pipes you know we got it we got to lean into that more on the show it's always when you never think anyone's actually listening okay so we buttered you up just to take you back down I did want to provide a little bit of an update on our matchmaker games since three of the four of us are here from free agency the dumbest thing I did other than a lot of bad picks was say that it would take between four and five correct picks to win it's not over but the standings as of right now I have two hits that is unfortunately for the group uh in first place you know by myself uh Jordan you got a hit in Devon Lloyd to the Panthers uh Colleen Wolf also has a hit she got Malik Willis Patrick you're sitting on a goose egg but here's why it's not over hell uh you have

29:24Debo Samuel to the Steelers that could still happen you also have one more Nick Westbrook Akine to the Falcon so I can't be the greatest comeback of all time because Patrick if you come back to tie you win off height yeah that's at this point I will accept that as the tiebreaker since it's such a lot of happening so we don't have to worry about it I mean it could the I had said April 1st is officially the day I I technically have one sitting out there which was Tanner McKee to the Jets as a trade that's probably not going to happen although the Eagles acquired Andy Dalton in the trade and so who knows maybe maybe they could maybe Sanders on the move they've done it they've convinced the world that Tanner McKee is the greatest quarterback of all somebody's also Joanne Jennings I have on the board too for the Raiders Jordan unfortunately you can be eliminated none of your none of your players are are still out there I know I was so close on Jonathan Franklin Myers so we will be updating that as news develops but I just wanted to update all the

30:28listeners yeah I'm sure you do and take an early victory lap let's go you never um I'll take it you know it still counts it's like the Patriots 13 to three Super Bowl win like it it's still you still shining that Lombardi um let's talk about the team uh I've been teasing all show oh who is that Greg it's the New Orleans Saints you know you matter Saints fans uh yeah we might have forgotten you and by we I mean me I didn't even write any notes down about your offseason when we were doing the grades just completely forgot about you as if the Saints need anymore talk on this program you get plenty uh but look I don't even think this pep talk is necessary like we forgot about you but according to Saints fans I have a feeling like the Saints can kind of do no wrong and that's that's the case with a lot of teams right now um you are out of cap hell you never once admitted it when you were in cap hell you always said that wasn't a real thing it didn't bother you at all but

31:31now that you're out of cap hell and not doing void years and everything uh you're celebrating because you're a normal team again that feels great just don't look at cash spending where you might be the cheapest team in the league on average over the last three years that's something to watch um you have Tyler Schuck who at this point in the minds of Saints fans is somewhere between like 1984 Dan Marino and Heath Ledger in the dark night like that is basically what Tyler Schuck is right now I can't get any better than this moment in Tyler Schuck everything is possibly throwing beads out on Marty Garff floats he has impeccable restaurant taste he's always taking new teammates out to restaurants and he's always picking the best ones he just played for the Savannah bananas like he honestly is doing a better job making himself part of that community than any Saints since Alvin Camera like he's just he is that dude right now uh you have an offensive line that no exaggeration has

32:32two first round picks you're you're last two uh in terms of and you're really excited about Calvin Banks and what he did uh a real deal guard that everyone believes in David Edwards who you sign Eric McCoy uh who's been great when he's on the field and a first round pick in Caesar Ruiz just don't watch the film or like talk about Fulaga's health or McCoy's health or anything like that uh you brought Kate and Ellis back that's fun to replace Demario Davis but that's like fun for vibes unless you hear Kim Jordan talk about the fact that he doesn't trust any saint that goes to the Falcons even ones that come back uh kind of that's a little weird and that came in came Jordan's gonna out there stating the Saints right now something's out up with that he's a free agent you're a cornerback factory you got Paulson Adivo and Alante Taylor paid and back-to-back seasons that's fun to do it's good for cooler the data sense is absolutely happening and then

33:34that Derek Carr unretirement third round picks coming any day now right Saints fans um look you can be told with complete sincerity you are the second favorite right now in the NFC cell and I think in the minds of Saints fans they are the favorites if you had told all our Saints fans that we love out there like Adam and Ryan at the Saints block party podcast a year ago at this time that you would guys would be in second place and that the bucks have had such a bad off season that they needed a freaking pep talk and they're they're the favorites I don't think you would have believed it you would have been flying high let's go Saints fans you didn't even need a test. They got one they got one on there. There it is. It's weird that mine is so much bigger than the audience. I don't even think I can. Wow I'm excited. I'm excited for uh thank you thank you and apologies to

34:35the Saints for not giving them I'm going to put you guys on the spot give them a free agency grade since we didn't do that this afternoon this week uh consider considering they were able to you know snipe their old coach and and get a uh get the running back they wanted to come come back home to give them a B plus yeah 86 I'm going 87 okay uh B plus firmly a B plus I I like everything that they did I think they reset their floor in a lot of ways they got younger although not that much younger in terms of you know 37 versus 30-year-old defensive players but still younger in a way that will help them bridge to the next phase of their team build and I think keeping the Lonte would have been the point they didn't know the Lonte was going to be the highest paid corner through free agent I think they're shocked honestly I don't think Saints fans are sad about that they didn't they were kind of over it and more power to them and you're also I should have mentioned this in the pep top helping Travis at she and like kind of reconnect with his roots and correct the record and uh I like that their middle class running back contracts are back

35:38I think the contracts find 24 million dollars guaranteed Edwards got 40 million dollars guaranteed the guard so you you're spending a little bit of money even though yes as I mentioned they spent the least amount of cash last year 28th this year 27th the year before so that's a little on my radar Alvin Camaro might be retiring a couple other little minor signings I'm trying to like do the free agency great stuff here I'm just like jamming it in Thai Chandler they know you know what fans are on the same now they know we care and they I don't think they ever doubted that you care no and yet somehow it it's up my mind uh you're up next Patrick oh I I will go and I will enlist Eric he's not up next because he is we put it right oh no I I had put it it got sorry because I had two more I said I didn't want to go back to back yeah just too much me talking we love you talking why don't you do the New York football giant you might not have two more either I honestly my one for the Giants is is short but sweet because I think that the Giants fans

36:39are right now are so cautiously optimistic and and waiting for the other shoot to drop and worrying about what could go wrong my pep talk here is like what if stuff doesn't go wrong like I could really just talk myself into the Giants being pretty solid this year I could I could if I tried really hard and and I I've been trying really really hard to talk myself in to this version the John Harbaugh version of the New York football Giants and because I I liked that they're moving to a heavy heavier personnel roster bringing in the tight ends and the fullback I think it really matches well to Jackson Darts play style Camp Scataboo's running style particularly I love the Denard Wilson signing uh excuse me as a as a coach I I love that he had the Titans playing so creditably creditably the defensive coordinator season they're they're new defensive coordinator I love how he coached that team even when all was lost in in general they had them playing hard playing pretty well relative to a the roster b expectations and see that the dumpster fire all around them at that point and I

37:42really like that they have even though they only have two picks in the top 100 they still have seven picks they have number five without needing a quarterback it's a really good spot to be if you want to trade back and get more picks and 37 will be coveted by teams trying to jump over as these position runs start to happen on day two or to package again if if a team wants to get back up into one so I I'm intrigued and interested by these New York Giants and again I could talk myself into asking fans what if what if just nothing goes wrong I think they're going to be a trendy worst of first pick going into the season tough to predict like what's going to be trendy but I think it just makes sense I think everything you said makes a lot of sense I it's why I was horribly like some of the reasons why I was horribly wrong about them last year I thought they were kind of a sneaky they could be good team last year win eight nine games because their best players are awesome and now you're adding John harbott to that mix hopefully Malik neighbors gets back healthy but like they're they're top tier players you have two great tackles you have a promising quarterback

38:44as you said like you're elite players obviously on the defensive line and everything like there's not a ton of huge holes here at least just be credible incredible is that I'm glad and maybe you know John harbott where we saw things get a little bit stale you get a combination of the structure the experience with what it takes to accomplish those things combined with that talent and like a year one masterpiece could take place let's do I I think they like they might have had plan A's in free agency that were a little splasher than than the plan B's they ended up with and yet I'm fine with what they did I like I like what they did all right let's go Patrick now you're up now now I'm sorry and you know I had to reach deep to think about connecting with the people of Arizona so here it is as of right now the experts in Las Vegas have you at plus 25,000 to win the Super Bowl they call them experts in the desert but you know Cardinal's fans

39:46you know the Glendale Phoenix reason region has had 0.6 inches of rainfall this year they aren't showing you the respect of being the actual desert for your biome much less your football team a team that features the best tight-in and football in his first four seasons Tremick bride has more in receiving arts that you guys ready for this Rob Gronkowski and Antonio Gates that's the rookie season where he had 39 targets six games started by David Blow, Colt McCoy and Trace McStorley yes whoo Trace McStorley they don't respect you but you know the truth you know that Jacobi percent much like this franchise has had some stewards that frankly didn't know what they were doing this day some forces are actively trying to replace him with Jimmy Garoppolo who eight years ago got 41 million dollars guaranteed in one calendar year after less than 100 dropbacks and almost achieved greatness with what we thought was the best play caller in the game before eventually leading the Hall of Fame receiver to lament his potential death due to his passes

40:48on the sideline this time Jacobi percent has been fighting his time being better than the starter at almost every spot he's been including once when they got with the worst contract in NFL history for some reason got a chance to play with him instead you are Jacobi percent Cardinals fans and he like you knows that Walter Nolan leads to a defensive rookie of the year season if he's able to play you know Will Johnson is on trajectory as a pro bowl corner and you know that Johnson as a name reminds you of another phallic name Peterson who was very good at cornerback these are what we call foundational pieces you add to that foundation with Isaac Seymalo Super Bowl champion you see an up close impersonal what Kendrick Bourne can do Devon Duvernay ads in the return game and receiving game for years across multiple regimes the plan was to blame Kyler well Kyler's gone now and maybe other people will be gone too but the foundation mananes because you demand the foundation you keep the foundation and if Monty Mike Nathaniel if anybody threatens that foundation you make

41:54them pay because the foundation is in the desert and so are you all fans let's give it up but let's go oh yeah see you took us on sale now on a new episode of flight plan or whatever wow I just we talked about the exercise and I was like who am I standing for I'm standing for the people who have had to deal with this and I want better for if if if we knew that was coming Patrick that would have ended the show that was it we say thank you it's been a great week we should end it there no no no we totally should have plan I I love the connections I love the detours I love being inside of Patrick's friends in mind whenever you were people talking about the week was like that was 2018 when Jimmy G got that contract that's fair what were you were you did

42:58you forget that Devon Tay Adams was was lamenting his like overall well-being no I just like I just like that in the middle of the pep talk for for the Cardinals we went down that road I just I but I don't know me right though it randomly throwing strings at somebody you know like I am someone who loves lore I think you guys know this about me by now the lore that you reached into and that was incredible it was incredible it was beautiful and it's why Patrick Leibon not only a host and an analyst but a Thespian a showman back in the day were you ever in any school plays and stuff I can see it yeah no I bet you were it was I didn't know that then seasons started to conflict oh you chose the athletic course yeah it was actually the plot of high school musical all right Jordan wrap us up here oh I can't follow that are you okay it's okay well you know I actually worked which camera am I looking at this one right here okay I just I want to have more of like a heart to heart kind of pep talk here and and I don't know if there's any like sad piano

44:01music or anything we could plan this right now I should probably should have made a note of that yeah now be my pep talk to you tell the producer like two hours before like I do thanks Eric I know that a lot of bills fans have redirected their anger and worry about the possibility of underachieving toward our show and particularly my criticism of their free agency to this point by the way one week of it has passed so far and grades were very loose loosely applied I just want leave that there last year people were mad that I was worried about their defense I'll just leave it there one person even told me that I was too hard on the team because they did well considering their situation entering free agency to which I say the same front office created the situation that they are now navigating both can be true and I did talk about how much higher I am on the DJ more trade than like probably the general consensus of said trade I love DJ more I think he's fantastic so allow this to be maybe the one and only time I explained the route of my

45:05criticism nicely done Eric you only need to give him a minute I am not sorry for wanting more for you guys I love the bills particularly the fan base and you have one of the best quarterbacks we've seen and we'll see in our generation and I want you to know what it feels like to walk into a season and feel inevitable not worried about roster holes or depth or what happens if or we still need I don't want the same patterns and the same results for you I want you guys to know you're going for it with everything you've got I want you to feel the sweet pure heat of what it means to fly so close to the surface of the sun that you must either win a Super Bowl or melt into the abyss I want you to feel alive my message to bills there it is music came in because at first it wasn't a pet talkers people get in the face they are in a tough spot and they do feel a lot I think that's a great that's a great shout out there it was I saw Ethan Hawk on the the red carpet of the

46:10Oscars to love is all that matters he did that great quote he was saying and I and I love I do definitely love the bills and that's why I'm hard on them the the sun doesn't care if if the grass is is noticing it's sunshine it's just shine beautiful um and yet yeah the bills are in a kind of the toughest spot to be as a sports fan where it's like you have these incredibly high expectations and yet you're very defensive about anyone poking holes at you and yet there might be a little part of your heart that has a nagging feeling that the best but I I think it comes out of love yeah and maybe misdirected and misappropriated love turning into anger which welcome to relationships folks but that just I'm just I'm just going to leave it there because that is I love the bills hard and I want more for them and I feel like I'm talking to my friend in a troubled relationship they've they've done their best I think in the Josh Allen era in the seasons that had lowered expectations maybe this will be one of them although I check and they are pretty significantly heavily favored to to beat the patriots in that division for instance and they're still one of those

47:14okay they got rid of the problem speaking of feeling alive and celebrating and being in the moment I did not intend for this to happen but as we were taping I have some massive news out of Indianapolis the cult have signed Nick Westbrook Akine oh and that means it's over we could call it Patrick at best can get one play the music please oh thank you again I am the matchmaker King I should have kept him in the division it's in the same division as whole career what about I want the music let's get out of here please um what a week really fun uh make you go with you I want it to be celebratory uh this thing's over um what a great idea a big win for you Patrick and

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