00:00Powered by Men's Tea Clinic, it's time to go around the entire NFL and dip into some
00:06gridiron gravy.
00:11Dip it and rip it.
00:13So, I guess my first question is, what's up with Trey Hendrickson?
00:18What do you mean?
00:19Something wrong with him, you think?
00:21Is his price tag too damn high?
00:23Yeah, I think he wants, I think if the price tag is in that $30 million range and his age,
00:29I'm curious as to what years, like 31 years old, this is bad timing.
00:35Yeah.
00:35This is an unfortunate bad timing situation.
00:38He wanted to experience free agency.
00:42Hey, I want to go through the whole process of getting courted and all these things.
00:48He wants that.
00:49It doesn't seem like he's high up on people's lists.
00:52And people are like, 31.
00:54And Kevin, you brought up the, hey, 30 years old is this number.
00:59Yeah, that's the drop off.
01:00That we're putting it at.
01:01And he's like, but I can beat that.
01:03And everybody thinks they can beat it.
01:06Terry McLaurin did, yeah.
01:08But I think that's one of the things is 31 years old and the number.
01:15And again, I don't know where the years stand on things either.
01:18Do you think the Bengals have, like, things on people too?
01:23What do you mean?
01:23Or they're just like, hey, you guys sign these guys.
01:26We're going to expose all of you.
01:28And that's why the Bengals have been able to get away with, you know, short, you know,
01:33shortchanging people this entire time because they have things on people.
01:37I'm going to say no.
01:39Then I'll go with the age and the years.
01:42Okay.
01:43But, I mean, I'm intrigued by your hypothesis.
01:46Absolutely.
01:47How much money, not to say this will all get paid out,
01:50how much money do you think was doled out in overall contracts yesterday?
01:58I'm going to say $600 million.
02:01That's a lot.
02:02Alec, what say you?
02:04It's actually less.
02:05I'd say, ooh, I don't know.
02:09$400 million?
02:10Between 11 a.m. yesterday and 7 p.m. yesterday, $2.3 billion in total contracts were handed off.
02:22Yeah, because there's a bunch of people that you're like, who gives an F?
02:24But they got $40 million.
02:26You know, like, you get 25 of those and that's a billion dollars, my friend.
02:32Now I realize not all of that money is guaranteed,
02:34but that is still just an astonishing number to consider.
02:41But you have teams that are going to scrap over a million dollars.
02:45Absolutely.
02:45You know, with a player that could really benefit them.
02:48But, I mean, Hendrickson's number, I'm sure they're like,
02:52he'll come off that number at some point.
02:54Because his projection is 3 for 99.
02:57Yeah.
02:58Do you think he's already today having to be like, hey.
03:00I guess I've got to back off of this just a little bit.
03:03But he's the top guy still left out there, right?
03:08Yeah.
03:08For this current group, which is not the best group,
03:13it's an unfortunate free agency group this year.
03:16Now, supposedly the offer to Daniel Jones,
03:20the initial offer the Colts made,
03:21was somewhere in the neighborhood of kind of like that Sam Darnold deal.
03:25Whereas the Athletic is projecting he gets four years, 168 million.
03:31And supposedly Daniel Jones' camp was asking for 50.
03:34So, you've got the Colts offering about 33 and a half.
03:38Daniel Jones' team supposedly asking for 50.
03:41The Athletic saying he'll get 42 million dollars.
03:44At four years, 168 million.
03:46I know he got hurt.
03:47But you could see some signs that it was about to maybe fall apart.
03:52Do you pull the trigger on Daniel Jones or are you like,
03:54that is madness and you can sit there on the transition tag?
03:59This is an interesting question.
04:02I really like this question.
04:07Because I don't believe in Daniel Jones.
04:11But if I'm the coach, I have to sell to my team
04:15that they have to believe in their quarterback.
04:18And so, if I'm the coach, I have to go fight for my quarterback
04:22to tell them, hey, this guy is going to get us there.
04:24We saw it.
04:25We have it.
04:26We just need him to be standing upright and all these things.
04:29But then you start looking at that part where it started to fall off.
04:33Yep.
04:33They had taken advantage of a very poor first part of their season.
04:37Like, their opponent's schedule was awful.
04:40And then all of a sudden it got a little tougher
04:41and they started to fall apart.
04:43So, I don't think he should get that money.
04:46I always want the best for people.
04:49I want them to get paid.
04:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:50But I just, I would not, if I'm the GM,
04:53I would be looking elsewhere for the position
04:56because for the next five years,
04:57I don't think Daniel Jones is going to be at that level
05:01for the next five years.
05:02Okay.
05:02I get what you're saying.
05:03All right.
05:04Let's go from that to the Titans.
05:07And John Franklin Myers agreed to a three-year,
05:10$63 million deal.
05:12The Steelers yesterday, they lost Kenneth Gainwell,
05:15who went to the Buccaneers, for two years, $14 million.
05:19And in exchange, the Steelers picked up Rico Dowdle
05:22on a two-year, $12.25 million deal.
05:25I know that the Cowboys were not in the market for running back,
05:29but do you think that is a good deal for the Steelers?
05:31Dowdle, two years, $12.25 total.
05:34Yes, absolutely it is.
05:35Yeah, dude, too.
05:36That dude can run.
05:37He can play.
05:38And Mike McCarthy knows him very well.
05:40Reed Blankenship.
05:42I know the Cowboys, they did pick up a safety yesterday.
05:46But former Eagles safety Reed Blankenship is signing
05:49with the Houston Texans on a three-year, $24.75 million deal,
05:54so about $8.25 million per on a name that I know some people
05:59had said, hey, let's get him on over to Dallas.
06:02Somebody that you talked about a lot in the playoffs, Alec,
06:07Rashid Shahid, three years, $51 million deal.
06:12That includes $34.7 million guaranteed.
06:15How vital did you think it was for Seattle to hold on to him?
06:19I think they needed to keep some sense of continuity
06:22because it felt like they won the championship and they said,
06:25screw it, franchise is for sale.
06:26We're going to let the Super Bowl MVP walk.
06:29You know, like they literally have stood pat on everything so far this offseason.
06:35So knowing John Schneider, he's probably going to obliterate the draft again this year
06:39and he's going to have a competitive team next year.
06:42But you need some sense of continuity, especially with a quarterback
06:45that I still don't totally believe in.
06:48How do you make his life easier?
06:51You bring back the same crew that made his life easier last year.
06:54And I think Shahid earned it.
06:56I totally thought he was going to walk away after they didn't get something done
06:59before the window opened.
07:01Kind of like the Alec Pierce situation.
07:03I thought it was going to be, well, if they don't get something done before the day comes,
07:07somebody's going to overpay.
07:08And I thought they got a good deal for him.
07:10All right.
07:11What about we talked about what were the commanders going to do with all of that money?
07:16Especially after they missed out on Linderbaum.
07:19They say, oh, to Fay, oh, way, come on down.
07:22Four years, $100 million deal, including $68 million guaranteed.
07:28I know this is somebody, by the way, congrats to David Molageta for continuing to be awesome
07:33at getting his clients all of the money.
07:36I know we had talked about this player, and you don't usually get great bargains on day
07:41one of free agency.
07:42But would you have thought four for $100 for O-Way?
07:45Because I would not have.
07:47Um, it's interesting where that market is right now for that position.
07:53It's a good time to play that position.
07:55And, you know, that's another thing, too, is, Kevin, we're looking at a draft that, Alec,
08:00do you agree it's kind of full of potential young edge rusher guys out there?
08:05Yep.
08:05I think, and again, some teams want to win now.
08:10Uh, and we pointed out last year that those young edge rushers aren't always hyperproductive
08:18in their first season.
08:20But there's a lot of them there.
08:22So I wonder, you know, where that spending, that decision comes from.
08:2525 is a good number, though, for a player that's going to get you some about 10 sacks.
08:3126, I know you don't love this player.
08:36Right now, the Cardinals have Jacoby Brissett.
08:40They have Gardner Minshew.
08:42Are they going to go for Kirk Cousins?
08:45Should they go for Kirk Cousins?
08:47Or are you like, ah, man, we got those two guys.
08:50What's the difference?
08:51We should trade up and get Fernando Mendoza.
08:53They do have the third pick?
08:56That could be viable.
08:58You'd have to trade, I think, a lot to get the Raiders to go away from that.
09:03But, man, that would be crazy.
09:05I mean, if they go get Kirk Cousins, Kevin, it's like it's the stable of old horses that
09:13are just, you know, waiting their time to go out into the field and be in the pasture
09:17for a while.
09:18Look at the flowers.
09:19Yeah, exactly.
09:20Like, that's basically all that group is right there.
09:23Jacoby Brissett is fine, but he's not going to get you a championship.
09:26But Arizona, I don't know if they are looking at their current place, thinking they're even
09:31close to that.
09:32That is very fair.
09:33Now, I know this is going to be shocking to you.
09:36Tom Brady and the Fanatics flag football classic, well, they're moving away from Saudi Arabia,
09:42and they're just going to have their event in Los Angeles.
09:45They said the geopolitical happenings of the world probably make it make sense to just bring
09:51to the United States and not have in the Middle East.
09:54What's going on?
09:55I'll tell you about it in the break.
09:57Okay.
09:57I appreciate it.
09:58There's been a lot happening.
09:58I like to be up to date.
09:59Okay.
10:00No problem.
10:01No problem.
10:01I'll walk you through it.
10:02We don't have to run through it.
