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Schopp and Bulldog — Where will the best free agent QBs end up. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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I got a wonder what kind of working relationship you'd have with Satan. It's Mike Shope. I've often wondered that he, they, I don't know what his pronouns are, they're their pronouns. Anyway, Satan. And the Bulldog. What's the upside of doing well, well maybe they're too busy making everyone else's life hell. Oh boy. And you might just be able to do your own thing if you're partnered with Satan. It's Mike Shope and the Bulldog. It's too busy, you know, making Scott Norwood missfield goals. Oh come on. Now WGR sports radio 550. Special invite to anybody in the arena last night. It looked like there were a few of you who were there. Just like put it, put it into words. I was not there, but I'll be there when Tampa comes back as luck would have it. Here I am right now, Bulldog is on deck in a draft. That doesn't sound like you at all. Are you following the quarterback movement or lack thereof today? When a guy doesn't go to a new team, that's not really movement, right? Reset.
No, right. He's staying in Arizona. He's going to be there, he's going to be their starter. Yeah. So they're trying. Poor Reset. Yeah. Fantasy gold last year, however, even though they never won. Yeah. I think they had one win under him. Oh, McBride and even Michael Wilson Atlanta and Tua. Two left handed quarterbacks on the same team. I don't think it's ever happened. I wonder. I wonder if it's ever happened. There's not that many of them to begin with, but yeah, I think maybe I saw a 33 all time. All right, I'm not sure that's right. Maybe I'm confusing that with a different stat, but does that seem right? It's low, doesn't it? Right here. I don't know. It doesn't seem that low to me. I read from Thorneistram that the Falcons have two of the three active left handed quarterbacks. The other is Dylan Gabriel from Cleveland and Atlanta's new coach is the coach from Cleveland.
So he knows his way around, right? They just picked Dylan Gabriel last year with him there. Cleveland. Yeah. Two Miami is a fancy one. He'll be on the bill schedule twice now. Malik Willis. It's funny. Something that is not surprising can also find a way to be surprising. The connection to the coach, former Green Bay defensive coach is now the head coach in Miami, right? Halfly. Is that the name? Yeah. So the connection was there. It was thought all through the, you know, the couple of months from the end of the season to now that he was going to get paid off of what he did in some, you know, spot duty, but still he impressed both running and throwing the ball very accurate down the field. He was going to, somebody was going to give him, you know, a good amount of money, a great amount of money for not having really proven a lot. I still, and the connection to Miami was always there because of this coach.
I still just don't see it from Miami. They're so starting over. And you know, he's not an established veteran, you know, franchise quarterback guy, but if you want to give him a shot to see if he can do it or not, I don't know that you're going to find that out this year. I mean, you know, you're signing them for more than one year. That's what you got in mind anyway. But you, and you can't buy that contract, I think you can't put them into a competition. No, he's got to be, he's going to go play for you. I mean, he's never been in a competition even. Right. But this, this is Justin Fields and the Jets. Like, this is, all right, maybe not for long, but you're our starting quarterback, make it work. Yeah. And I, I feel you on this, how good are his chances? And if they don't click, then they're going to be looking for his replacement before they know it and the coach, right? That's a big risk. I just, I'm done carrying around bulky drinks.
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So if you're right, you maybe get him cheap now to start and in two years when you're more fully formed, he's, you know, he's your guy, like that's the ideal scenario. I don't know, man. To me, if I were Miami, I would have just played Queen Ewers and gotten through the year and taken my shot next year, which is kind of what Arizona's doing, right, with a veteran, but still like there, there's, they're going to say all the right things about, you know, how he did, you know, well in a tough situation and whatever. But yeah, no, they're going to get through the year and draft Kyle and Murray's replacement. That's what they're going to do. Where does Murray go? There's still Minnesota. Yeah. There's still Pittsburgh. I feel like I want to predict Aaron Rogers for Minnesota. Oh, wow. How about that? Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Jets. What are they doing? Is there anybody that's obvious there? Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz. Frank, Frank Wentz. The church connection.
The church connection. Over that. Who else is left? Good question. Who else is left? Cleveland. Cleveland. Sure. But they've got, I mean, there's, there's talk about Watson. There is. Right? Yeah. I mean, so he's there. Maybe that, maybe that happens. Raiders are going to draft their guy. I'm just, I'm buzzing through teams that still need guys. Well, I can name you four guys that are going to be, that are still on the market as far as I know. I mentioned Rogers, if he wants to play, still playing his games again. Kyler Murray. He'll be released. Yep. If he hasn't been already, Geno Smith. The Raiders have said, I think, that they're moving on from Geno Smith. That'll be Mendoza, and did they bring in someone else yet? Maybe not. I haven't seen anyone else. And Cousins. Right. Cousins. Where does he go? Because he's someone, Minnesota. Yeah. He's someone you sign to just come and play.
Right? Like, that's not, you know, I think, um, Minnesota has to do one of those two, Rogers or Cousins, I think. Well, I guess Geno Smith could rate. Right. You're Murray. Somebody with the way I see Matthew writing about the connection. I don't know what the connection exactly is. Maybe he just thinks Murray's, I just feel like every tweet I see from him is defending Murray, which tells me he thinks Murray's coming there. Like, he's sort of laying groundwork, like, just, I know how that works. Right? I don't know how, I don't know. I haven't talked to Matthew about this specifically, but our old friend Matthew Kyler covers the Vikings and it's feel like he's setting up for, no, Murray's a good idea because of this, like a lot of what I'm seeing from him. So I'm not sure if there's more than just, you know, him throwing darts or if he knows something there, but I feel like that, because of that, that Murray going to Minnesota would not surprise me. Well, I wonder, I've been talked to Matt in a while. I did his podcast every week during the season and we talked about Cousins and talked
about Murray as ideas because we went through the playoff weeks when the season had been, you know, after the season was over, they fired their GM really late. So it doesn't seem like maybe it's the most well organized when you do that. I mean, they were just not ready to move until weeks went by, but that has to be a veteran, I think. I don't think Cleveland does. I don't think, I mean, the Jets, the Jets have to do something, whether it's Wentz, which is hilarious or, I mean, Wentz, you can't at different team every year. You can't just sign Wentz and go like, that's our plan. No, you can't. Can you? No, it's 2026. He's going to break in like a week. He just cannot, guys are walking back spasm. You can, there's our plan. What? No, you definitely can't just do that. His fields still under contract. It was a multi year commitment. Yes, so well, we didn't ever play that game the quarterback carousel game, but it now
it's too late. I mean, there's still. Yeah, right. We do, we do, you know, not that we can play a game out of it, but we've got to find a new guy here. That's right. Trubisky went to Tennessee. That could be a game on a two year deal. You know, just thinking I've, I've been looked at the list in a while, but I feel like I'm, I know who I'm going to gravitate to when I look at the list. So I'm pretty sure Tyrod Taylor's name is on it. And I don't know the, there's a reason I got to his name very quickly. The first time I did this exercise is because I looked at the list and went, okay, Tyrod, there's another, there's another name that they, oh, Maryota, maybe Maryota, I don't find, oh, we did Washington. He stayed in Washington. Oh, was that today? Or did that already? Okay. I think that happened. Thank you. Okay. I did not see that. Min Shu is out. He's going to Arizona. Yeah.
Can he pick it? Oh, could that happen? Yeah. There's the Washington one year, seven million. Maryota. You know who else? I'm thinking of my guy Pete Oversett, who is the ship chasing Overlord and did a pre, did pre-game work for the game in Brazil, wasn't it? Like he went to, I'm thinking out loud now. He went to LA. Yeah. It was on sort of a fantasy analyst, but a pre-game host for YouTube. This sounds familiar. Sure. And he had Derek Carr on the set. And I didn't click on it, but I saw Peter tweeting about Derek Carr, about a text exchange he had with him. I think he wants to play. It doesn't seem to mean anything to you. Yeah. Just Derek Carr. No. He'll always play. No. He'll play anything. Derek Carr could be a name. Bills? I don't know that that's perfect. Yeah. Flacco wants to play Bulldog. Okay. I'm going to, looking at this list now, you know, it's tricky because it's a bliss from
before for agency began. It's a list from 2009. Maryota. Maryota's gotten picked off like you just said. And my eyes go right to Tyrod Taylor. After that, Huntly resigned in Baltimore, right? That's gone. Yeah. That was over the weekend. Tray Lance. Like I said. Sam Hall. Josh Johnson. Teddy Bridgewater. I mean, we're in tough. Case Kenam sign somewhere today. That's another name that I just overlooked here and didn't have the part to say as an idea. But yeah, that's right. He's been here. But he signed somewhere else already today. I think so. Didn't see that either. Boy. I mean, he's keen into the bears. Bears. All right. Bumping someone out of a spot. He was, he was in Chicago to begin with. He's, so he's staying. Yeah. It's also been podcasting. Kingdom has. In between.
Yeah. That's good for him. Or is that my count? I don't know. Is there Kyle Allen's on this? Is that a guy that Josh has a relationship with? He's been here. That's Kyle. Okay. Brandon, Brandon Allen's on the list too. Another Allen. That's why I asked. I didn't know which one of them was the one that Josh had a relationship with. Or maybe he knows them both. I don't know. It's the name that really brings them together. Sure. Yeah. I'm looking for a better idea than Tyrod Taylor. How many starts? Well, I mean, that's a, that's a, that's a 300,000 word. Yeah. I don't think I'm going to find him. I'm looking for him. I mean, that's the last decade. I like Taylor. Do respect. Oh, what? I just had something else before that brilliant thought came to my mind. The last thing I said was I'm looking for a better idea than Tyrod Taylor. How many starts does Trabisky get under your guy, Cam Ward? None.
There's, wait a minute. You like Cam Ward a lot. Mm-hmm. I don't really have an opinion of him like a walking off point, but he did not have a good season. It makes sense that they would try again. New coaching now. Yep. One or one in the draft. You don't have to give up. Wasn't that bad, I guess. They did win how many games, three. But okay. You know, three and 14 was the record. This happens. This is not that surprising when the team's going to do it. I went to a bad team to begin with. But he doesn't get all year. Well, I think it's going to go well enough that he will. So I'm going to go with, I mean, injury, who knows, now I'm going to go with zero starts for Trabisky. I think Cam Ward, I think Brian Debal, unlocks Cam Ward. You know how I love to bet the long shots on the divisions, but Tennessee is going to be interesting again. You know, who knows about that division? Daniel Jones is coming back from injury. DJ Stroud couldn't hold on to the football last year.
How long will that defense hold them up? Just one more here. I'm already, yeah, Jackson. It looks like maybe one of the best teams on the league, but you know, I'm making lemonade over here. I mean, if there's an injury, it's no bet, but Trabisky, you know, his, I wonder if it would be cool to know him today and have him tell you about the whole process. Like how was this year, maybe unlike last year, I'm not sure that he was a free agent last year, but I'm guessing he would have been maybe if it's not the same. Okay. I think he came here on a two year deal the last time he came. So, okay. Well, even then, even two years ago, what are my, what are my options? You know, money is probably about the same. It's modest. Yeah. But go somewhere with a chance to take over because that's what you would want. Malik Willis got how much money? Who's he again? Right.
He was a third round pick who was kind of a bust looking player because not because a third round guy has to hit, but when the draft process started that off season, he was maybe going to be a first round pick. Ends up going much later, doesn't, that's 10 to see. And because of that barely really got a chance because that's how that works. They might have still had Tana Hill then. They also brought in Will Levis with what, like the second pick of the second round the next year. And where's he, by the way, because he's somebody to talk about, right, because he doesn't, they don't need him now. Yeah, maybe, maybe Will Levis can be the built back up. Is that the type though? He's like sort of a crazy player. Yeah. That's right. I don't need the upside. Yeah. I need the floor. Steely, trustworthy, don't, don't, don't fumble the snap. Don't get me killed. Yeah. Yeah, that might not be him. Yeah. Good point. Just, you know, if you knew Trabisky, what's it, what's it, if you would tell you, right,
what level of this guy's going to get me killed or fired, Will Levis might rate pretty high. He might. Yep. Yeah. But I could also see somebody who needs the upside wanting to consider it. That, maybe that's the Jets, the Jets. The Jets have to have, you have to have the floor first. And then you can go, you can play for the upside, right? You have to have the floor first. Who's that team? Kippie, Minnesota, the floor is too low with McCarthy, right. Indianapolis might need somebody to start week one. That's right. And Richardson, by the way, has been given, I didn't hear about a trade. It didn't really come, or what, don't tell, you're looking at it. No, no, no, no, no, because that, I don't hate that. That idea has the bills back up. I would say, if he doesn't find something better out there, was it a day you were here? I apologize. When the Richardson news happened, I might have been alone. And I just said, I think I was, isn't this, shouldn't this be a player?
For as scary and maybe like a non-starter, no pun intended, the idea of his starting for you as like your QB1 is, nobody wants to do that clearly. It seems nobody wants to do that. But with that said, shouldn't he be somebody that every offensive coordinator in the NFL would love to get their hands on? Not even just like development wise, but what a weapon he could be. You've got, I know, I was a monologue, because I mentioned Darnell Washington. How excited we were for five minutes about him coming into the league. This massive six foot eight, three hundred and forty pound tight end. Right. Like, how do you cover this guy? Right. And he ends up going to Pittsburgh. He's done a little bit for Pittsburgh, but that guy, only he can throw bombs, he can throw dimes Richardson. Yeah. You know, he was not always bad. So man, I would love it if he, it doesn't have to be here. I mean, I don't want to get too greedy. But if he had a role like that somewhere, I would be so into it.
Just depends on how much you can trust whether he's, whether he understands what he'll be asked to do. I say that because like a guy that doesn't know enough to not do what he did do when he was in the apples to stouter, you just might wonder, I said this the day after that happened when he tapped out in the middle of a drive, I'm tired. What else don't you know about how football works? Like you're the quarterback and you don't know that. That would worry me if he's supposed to be in a support role, you know, like the athleticism, no question. Like that, what he's got in the toolbox is super appealing to try to see if you can be the one to unlock it. I just wonder whether the kids got the aptitude to unlock himself. I just, I'm really worried for that, that part of it. So I wonder where he ends up. There's no way he's done. Like he'll, he'll go somewhere. Um, I don't know, you know, well, you, you, you set it there.
Like if there isn't, if he just, just doesn't have the energy for it or the, you know, the work ethic, whatever it takes, like, then he won't get a chance. He could be someone's third, like a training camp in flight and just like, no, because they're not going to owe him any money. Right. Right. So he's got to avoid that pitfall. Yeah. Which I don't know. Maybe that's not a given. Yeah. I'm being reminded by a friend of mine that Shane Bouchel is on the bills. So there is that. Like that, that, you know, I don't, to me, that's a, that is not, that's, that is not a lateral move from Trubisky to Shane Bouchel. But there is another guy here that the organization really thinks highly of anyway. They went out and brought him back in here. I think on one of those futures, well, there's, but including the bills. There still is, um, plenty of action that we'll get here in the next few days at quarterback around the league. Um, it would seem some, some news today, though, that's interesting. Miami's the big one. I like to show up in the bulldog here. Paul Hamilton joined us earlier. That's next on WGR.
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