Free Agency Matchmaker!

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Speaker 1: Oh before, Hey, now welcome.

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Speaker 2: It's a match maker aka NFL Daily is offshoot where okay, I for swinging singles are fine? Their love connuntion. No, it's for NFL analysts trying to connect some players changing teams this offseason. Here we are. I'm Greg Rosenthal on really the doorstep of free agency, the frenzy starting, and I'm surrounded in the Chris Westling podcast studio today by Patrick Claiban, Jordan Rodrieg and Colleen Wolfe. Are you ready for some matchmaking?

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Speaker 3: I've never been more ready.

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Speaker 4: I was born ready and this music is making me even more ready.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 2: We're not all swinging singles here, you know. But I said that, but I've been married a long time. I just wanted to point that out for the record. Yes, because my son now listeners a Walker. He's a fan of the show. Now he's been listening.

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Speaker 5: Everything's good, everything's good, big man.

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Speaker 2: That's where my mind, where my mind goes. Oh no, he would he would be saying it. He would be. He would be. He's always like, oh Mom, you's divorce dad. He's been annoying.

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Speaker 5: Whoa.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we go with hard, hardline jokes. We've lost the vibe. We need the music back. We need the music back. We need the music. Nothing's off limits in the Rosenthal House. Any jokes on the table. What's not on the table in this matchmaking game is projecting a player to return to his current boring.

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Speaker 5: So here's how it goes about being swinging singles.

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Speaker 2: Yes, in just a moment, We're gonna each pick a piece of paper from a little jar here, Eric, put together, keep it going. Whoever draws the number one, we'll have the first overall pick it. Oh, it's names. Whoever draws What does that mean? Whoever? Whoever?

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Speaker 6: Our conversation, our conversation before the show was you pick.

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Speaker 2: Then who's picking it?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you said, you said, Okay, pick one name, and that is the first overall pick, and we will go to the right, to the right of that person.

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Speaker 2: Whoever has the first pick. Just to keep it simple, we'll go to the right after that, and the first overall pick will go Colleen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: And with the first Oh wait, I got to explain a little more what the game is.

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Speaker 3: You know what the game is.

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Speaker 2: It's I'm struggling. It's it's a matchmaking game where Basically, we take any free agent or potential trade candidate and we put them on a new team. No going back to the same team. Now, the rules, though, are you can pick multiple teams for the same player, like someone else could pick that player if you wanted to, Let's say, go kiris Tonga to the Chiefs. Trying to just pick someone that's probably not gonna get pick. Okay, Jordan could still go kiris Toga to the Titans. If she wanted kiris Tonga to the Chiefs would be off the board. But you can't do multiple examples. And again you can't go back to the same guy. We're going to try to get through a lot of picks here, hit as many teams and players as we can. The winner of this game we will be keeping score, oh right, right through April first. We got to put an end day on it. April first is the end date the winner of this prize will get. And again I did ask Walker, who's now a consultant, what should the prize be? He said, A twenty five dollars Amazon gift card. He knows I've got some leftovers and two many and thirty seven seconds uninterrupted on NFL Daily to use however, you see fit what that's probably the more exciting part.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Locker is already a content.

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Speaker 2: No he didn't. He didn't come up with that part, but I should have given him credit. Yes, but the gift card will be nice too. Got a couple sitting there, Okay, so we're gonna keep track, and we got to think of a tie breaker too along the way. But Colleen, why don't you get.

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Speaker 1: Us going taller?

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Speaker 3: No, well, I'm going to lose every.

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Speaker 2: Patrick's like, please.

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Speaker 3: Go for okay.

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Speaker 5: I want to warn an outright.

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Speaker 4: The number one overall pick okay in the free agency matchmaking draft, yes, is Trey Hendrickson, who congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Buddy, you're gonna get out. You're doing it so good, and he's going to the Colts. It makes total sense.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully it makes a lot sense for Trey Hendrickson's bank account.

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Speaker 3: But this is like a seamless transition.

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Speaker 4: Considering lou Anarumo is the defensive coordinator and they also have Marion Hobby there as their D line coach who was in Cincinnati as well. You can basically plug and play him. And this obviously fills a need for Indianapolis too, Like nobody needs help more at the position than the Colts, So I think that this is a great fit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't talk on our show post tag of the guys who didn't get tagged because we expected there was no surprises. I didn't like what the insiders did when they were like sending out Trey Hendrickson will not be tagged. I was like, you reported that three weeks ago. You can't re report it as a headline because not much is happening. So yes, tre Hendrickson notes for you guys, congratulations. They man their their cap situation. They're keeping the forest buckner at Tarvarius word. It's gonna be tricky. They're probably losing quitty pay. We'll see if Trey Hendrickson gets brought up again on this show. But I like that to start, Jordan, you're up at number two.

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Speaker 7: I am going off of a little possible reporting as well on this one, A little little tidbit from the NFL combine. I think Jonathan Franklin Myers is going to the San Francisco forty nine ers, and I think the reporting aspect of this is I think he's got a nice little market forming ran into some chatter in Indianapolis and sort of just been keeping it in my back pocket for now because Greg won't reply to me.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, I tone on to all of you guys.

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Speaker 7: I'm sure so I think that he is a perfect match. We want to talk about teams that need pass rush help. Jonathan Franklin Myers is a guy who I don't see staying in Denver, who are going to have other needs to attend to in and probably gonna to invest more on the offensive side, in my opinion, and he is sort of a perfect fit for what Raheem Morris wants to do. He can obviously rest the passer passer, but he can kick inside a little bit as well, and I think that he just personality wise, he fits.

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Speaker 1: He's a veteran. Teammates love him.

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Speaker 7: His Broncos teammates apparently were trying to make the case for him to stay there, but obviously there's only so much money to go around. I think that of the teams who I believe are interested in Jonathan Franklin Meyer's a handful at this point. I do think that San Francisco would be a nice.

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Speaker 1: Fit for him.

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Speaker 2: He's one of those guys that, yeah, had a lot of chatter so I think there was some chattering for him being done because he was in that Jeremy Fowler up, you know article with like five teams are interested?

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Speaker 7: Oh when you hang out in the same two line, he's all in Indianapolis, you're going to run into the same people.

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Speaker 2: Albert Breer and Matthew Berry the former. Are he still the talented mister Rodo? I don't know if he still goes by connected him to the Titans, which would make sense with Robert Talott, who knows maybe that'll actually be a pick later. I shouldn't I shouldn't be given.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

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Speaker 2: Are we when all right?

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Speaker 3: Third pick?

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Speaker 2: Well this was this should have been number one? Kyler Murray to the Vikings?

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Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, why am I taking a shot?

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Speaker 2: I just feel maybe I'm crazy at this point. I'd be a little surprised if you didn't. And I know there's like a whole scheme idea. Would Kevin O'Connell want to go from a guy JJ McCarthy who's not great throwing to the middle of the field when so much of the offense is built on throwing to the middle of the field to another guy who you know, hasn't excelled in that area in his career. I just think it's financially an opportunity wise, just a perfect for now match for both of these sides that for this year, let's see what Kyler can do. We want to compete. If we're the Minnesota Vikings this year and we only have to pay a quarterback, like you know, one million dollars something like that, there are other options out there. But speaking of chatter at the combine, I feel like the most consistent chatter. Unfortunately, it was like, oh yeah, the Vikings they're done with JJ McCarthy, Like, I don't know about done.

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Speaker 8: It seems like contradictory messages before and now the quest he's gone either way. With the fourth pick, I would like to go, not based on reporting but purely on vibes. The Denver Broncos and Travis etn relationship where Sean Payton gets another talented runner who is great in the screen passing game.

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Speaker 5: It seems too good to be.

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Speaker 8: True, but they've got the money and the opportunity, so why not make it happen.

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Speaker 2: I would love that. I mostly want moves that will make it more fun for me to watch football and I feel like them getting a great one A to kind of go with RJ. Harvey as a one B would be perfect. I love that all right, probably in Europe.

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Speaker 4: I love Malik Willis to Miami. I had that Miami because obviously the Packers connection with my free agent fits. I love to find some type of connection between a past team and a present team. And with Jeff Hafley there, this is like it just makes sense. He was obviously the Packers DC, and so he spent two years with Willis there, and you have John Eric Sullivan, who was also the VP of Player Personnel with the Packers, so now he's the GM. It just kind of makes sense that they know him, they know what he can do, they saw him develop, they know what else he needs to work on, and that feels like a good fit there.

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Speaker 1: I like it.

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Speaker 7: I while you sort of scooped me on that one, I really like that one a lot.

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Speaker 3: I had that one.

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Speaker 7: I have another quarterback one for my pick, Jimmy Garoppolo to the Arizona Cardinals. Mike Lafleur, the new head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, was actually the one when he has been the plane caller this year or in the last couple of years, Jimmy g has been the quarterback a couple of really solid games. Michael Floer absolutely loves Jimmy Garoppolo. I could see this happening and as a little bonus pick as well, which.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of crazy you're thrown another player, but it's.

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Speaker 1: A it's a hinge. It's like they're attached to if this happens. If this happens, then this one.

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Speaker 2: That's two picks.

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Speaker 7: Oh wait, but you know, since we were so clear on the rules to begin with, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you can't take two picks at once in a draft. Oh. The only thing I was confused with wash yeah taking what guys?

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Speaker 3: This really feels like a family's we need some music.

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Speaker 5: Here we go.

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Speaker 2: The vibe are getting better again once again, you guys have left me. Uh just great value here. Wandel Robinson to the Titans. The only thing I'm worried about with this one is it feels like one of those free agency connections that's spoken about so much. I had a free agency that like, does it actually happen in the end, But usually they do. If you kind of look back at the free agency window opening and then there's like four signings right away. There's always like two or three every year that are just like, oh, yeah, that's exactly what everyone's been saying for a while. I feel like Zach Allen to the Broncos back in the day. It was one of those. I think Wandal back with his coach Brian Dable, just filling a big time need. They need three receivers. People are like, oh, do you really want to spend fifteen twenty million dollars on Windal? Yeah, you need like three different receivers. Probably there. I know they have some young buck guys that they like, but this fills one hole that they're probably not going to use. The number four overall pick.

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Speaker 5: On Yeah, it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Love it quality around cam Moore, Dave.

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Speaker 5: All his guys.

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Speaker 8: So speaking of his guys, with this next pick, I would like to assign PJ Lock to a new relationship with the Buffalo Bill.

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Speaker 2: We're doing PJ Lock in the second round. This is outrageous.

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Speaker 5: J They all counts one. I'm trying to win.

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Speaker 3: We're in one, you and a round.

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Speaker 1: He's Brad Holmes, he doesn't care what round. This is the right pick.

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Speaker 8: A lot of changeover obviously defensively for the Buffalo Bills. You get Jim Leonard coming over, you get a player he's very familiar with.

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Speaker 5: About it being Bata Boom match.

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Speaker 2: Made I love this, all right, this would be the smart way to actually to I shouldn't actually to attack this.

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Speaker 8: I've I have lost some offseason games just look through the like the lower level guys of the coach connections, because for some reason I was just like, well we got.

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Speaker 2: To talk about the top guys, you know, but that's gonna that's gonna be harder, maybe more of a market. All Right, you're up, Colleen rest.

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Speaker 9: Okay, my pick is going to go to the Chargers, who have a huge need now at center after Bradley Boseman retired.

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Speaker 3: And you know who's going to go there.

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Speaker 4: It is a former Raven Well I guess to be Tyler Linderbaum.

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Speaker 3: I like him going there. Chargers GM.

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Speaker 4: Joe Horowitz was the Raven was with the Ravens when they drafted him, so he obviously has that familiarity there and uh yeah, so he's gonna the Chargers are going to finally get some help on their offensive line.

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Speaker 3: I feel like that is always the issue for them forever.

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Speaker 1: The interior just they can't for even It's not for lack of noyes, for sure, it just can't figure it out.

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Speaker 2: I could see them going for him. I could see that the Titans spending a lot of money if Linderbaum's trying to just make the most palpable No, I think Lender Brom's gonna go. I said that in a way because I think Lennar Brom will go back to Baltimore if I had to guess.

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Speaker 7: But still still a great choice. All right, I love it. Okay, mine is for the Denver Broncos. I'm going Kenneth Walker here, particularly because they have been pretty open about wanting and needing to upgrade the way they run the ball. Garret Bowles talked to us about wanting the team to run the ball better, and that could have been a difference maker for them down the stretch. Ken Walker, I think is a perfect fit here because of his creative creativity and his ability.

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Speaker 1: In the past game.

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Speaker 7: Sean Payton loves a running back that he can get his quarterback to throw the ball to, and I think that ken Walker is a perfect match for a team that is really in a win now sort of window right now.

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Speaker 2: What was on my list? Partly because of the Yeah, the Broncos are gonna be shopping big, maybe at running back, partly because that it would be fun to watch. In partly because Patrick Gardy took atn I was just like, well, if they're gonna go big, it's it's one of those.

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Speaker 7: Two guys quietly putting together a stellar draft.

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Speaker 2: He's doing great. I'm going a little more under the radar. I'm gonna go David Edwards to the Texans. David Edwards is a guard who's played the last few seasons with the Bills. I think the Texans, by trading Titus Howard and Juice Scrugs for what it's worth, we're signaling I think they're gonna go big on this market. Maybe they've been listening to NFL daily and would try to do the two forer Connor McGovern and David Edwards as a combo. Again, that's not allowed to two players at once. So I'm gonna go Edwards to the Texans, just thinking that they're going to be swimming at the top end of the interior offensive linepool.

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Speaker 8: Them on the top end of the entire offensive Love uh from from my perspective, I will skip ahead of my Texans.

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Speaker 5: What's a line and maybe come back to it.

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Speaker 8: You could do it, and I'm gonna have another I'm gonna have another region reunion now that you guys have called on, A g needs his people. Uh in New York A Meek Robertson is there. They have a need at cornerback. Make it happen a meet Robertson playing for the Jets.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, this guy's moneyballing this draft. I know I don't like it.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to be a clinic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we want to win.

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Speaker 3: We wanted to be And I'm mad that he.

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Speaker 1: Already has the height the height tiebreaker too.

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Speaker 2: He's not getting the height tiebreaker. We will come up with the tiebreaker during the break. I mean, I mean, he's gotta be doing like long snappers soon, kicker.

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Speaker 1: Tiking up? Who a godfather? Someone's I do like.

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Speaker 2: We're peer pressuring him out of what's an excellen?

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Speaker 4: This is genius, Patrick, stay with it, don't listen to the noise, stay on track, kay Walker, He's gonna go to the Titans. Was okay, this is something that just feels very Robert Salah and as he tries to rebuild this team sort of in his own image and Cedric Gray like he was wonderful, but he needs a partner and it can't just all be him doing everything.

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Speaker 2: That's fun. It's a team I think is gonna spend an incredible amount in free agency, and wouldn't surprise me if they like free agency is defense and then the draft is more offense.

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Speaker 1: Aslute's true, I like it.

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Speaker 7: Okay, My plea to the Panthers is get Dan Morgan his linebacker. I'm going Devin Lloyd to the Carolina Panthers. I don't think they will be shy and investing in the position. They have been all but extremely open about their desire to upgrade that part of their defense, among other pieces as well.

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Speaker 1: But that's Dan Morgan.

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Speaker 7: He sort of held himself back a little bit from going after a linebacker to this point because there's been greater needs everywhere else. And I just say, get Dan Morgan his linebacker, Devin Lloyd to the Panther.

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Speaker 2: I love that. And the Devin Lloyd chatter's been quiet. I don't know if that's worrisome or sometimes that just means like boom, it's a team that's keeping their cards close to the best because I want to see him get paid and I've had a hard time trying to figure where he fits, and that is a perfect fit. I've got a few that could work for the Cowboys, m because I think they're going to be spent.

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Speaker 3: Wait a second, though, I mean, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Just going to pick out one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you pick one.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to start with Nikoby Dean to the Cowboys. Familiarity there, that's my official pick going to the Cowboys. Christian Parker, the defensive coordinator, just had them in Philadelphia, massive needy. They kind of have massive needs everywhere but defensive tackle in Dallas, especially after we heard as Iraku's coming off a hip surgery. So I think they could go big at edge. I think they can go big at linebacker. I think they could go big in the secondary. But I will go Nacobe Dean. There is something about the Cowboys. I think they want to stick it to the Eagles. They're not allowing, like the coach to to interview that like there's a lot. There's a lot going on between those two teams right now.

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Speaker 8: Okay, I woulda go big name. Okay, you know from my perspective, the Washington Commanders and Rashid.

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Speaker 2: Shah, let's go, thank you, there you go.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm done heat.

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Speaker 2: Honestly though, that that makes I think it's like, what do you think is the if we're going to do ten picks here and we're through round four? Now, how much will it take to win this competition?

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Speaker 5: Probably five? Four?

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Speaker 2: No, I think it'd be lower two. I'm thinking two or three. It's it's this is a very difficult game to do because.

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Speaker 3: We're the regular season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're mostly spitballing. It's more just a fun way like good fits. Yeah, she heat there would be awesome though, it be fun. I am really curious what they're going to look like. Let's actually take a quick break right now, we've done four rounds. We're gonna come back. We got six rounds to go. Everyone strategize and get ready. All right, we're going to make up some new rules too.

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Speaker 1: What it's thegular music.

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Speaker 2: Rocks back on Matchmaker. A lot of love connections already established. Do we need to bump up the prize to what do you mean? I just feel like two minutes and thirty seven seconds is that the number of airtime on NFL daily. That's great. The twenty five dollars gift card I think would be great for entertainment purposes only. Oh, that's true. How about some chicken wings from the place that Jordan I'm gatekeeping has been gatekeeping? She does not support local business. She says there's some great chicken wings in the local area, but she doesn't want to tell me about it because she wants it to be her place, which is literally anti small business. And when they have those signs up that they're closed forever, she'll she'll know that in their hearts. So maybe this will help open it up.

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Speaker 7: This is a place a tackle in her place will never need help because they are thriving because their wings are that good. Right, And it is actually directly supporting local business because they are locally owned and immigrant owned.

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Speaker 2: The point is I.

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Speaker 5: Really about keeping greg.

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Speaker 7: From Yeah, I was specifically gates so that.

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Speaker 2: That could be costing them thousands of dollars in chicken wings that I would be buying every year.

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Speaker 1: You're underestimating the amount of chicken wings that I eat.

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Speaker 2: Everyone, Well, I'm not you plus meat were going to have a wing eating yet I don't want I think users.

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Speaker 3: That's the draft.

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Speaker 2: We'll bring in some We'll bring in some wings. They're loving this idea for a contest. All right, we're gonna take the paste lightly and we're going to get to we're in round five here the draft. I hope you guys got a lot of picks.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, tons of picks. Okay, so I felt the pressure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go.

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Speaker 3: This one goes to the Ravens and Eric Tacosta. What does he love to do.

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Speaker 4: He loves to sign veteran edge rusher's two short term deals. And that's exactly what he's going to do again when Khalil Mack ends up in Baltimore, instead.

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Speaker 3: Of retiring, we're rehiring. Oh, he's gonna address that need. And then also Jesse Mintor reunion.

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Speaker 2: Yes again.

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Speaker 1: Colleen Patrick was so fired up over there as she was saying, I knew she.

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Speaker 2: Was on, you know, a heater when she went with the Colts defensive line coach right off the back to start show. She came to play. She's gutting for that gift card Jordan and the Wings.

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Speaker 7: I am going cornerback Alante Taylor to the Philadelphia Eagles. A similar system to vic Fangio's that he will be coming from. You can move him back outside and keep Cooper dejan still inside full time.

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Speaker 1: Take a little the heat off. That secondary a.

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Speaker 7: Perfect, perfect schematic fit for both Joe Casper and Vic Fangio.

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Speaker 2: Since since I had him written down anyways, I might as well just keep the Alante Taylor train going. I'm putting him to the Cowboys and even better fit because he is better on the inside. I think you're losing some of the juice to you know. To me, he is a guy, one of the only guys there's some crazy stat in NFL history to have like twenty tackles for loss and fifty passes defense in the first four years of his career, guy who can play behind the line of scrimmage. And so, to me, the Cowboys would be a nice fit, same scheme, essentially.

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Speaker 1: More wide open, fifth round, heating up.

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Speaker 2: All right, you're f Patrick.

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Speaker 8: Okay, since you guys have gone secondary, I'll take it back closer to the line of scrimmage, Carol, A lot of Panthers got some help from Jordan earlier. Let's give him some more help with some young talent. Kingsley and Barre going to play on the edge outside of two other really good linebackers. Now we've completely fixed the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, Carolina Panther.

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Speaker 2: It does feel like a move that they would make. It just he like fits like the body type, and I can just imagine Kingsley and Igbari.

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Speaker 8: And if you're concerned about the snapcount, you're losing snaps to Michael Parsons Like it's okay, and.

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Speaker 2: You just need guys like they need a guy to fill in six hundred and fifty snaps like good run stopper. It makes sense to me.

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Speaker 3: Collee, Well, I'm gonna go back to Alante Taylor.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, whoa make that money to repueler man, and I am going to put him on a team where Dennis Allen is because Dennis Allen posts him.

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Speaker 3: For three years previously. So he's going to Chicago.

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Speaker 4: And also that makes sense because the Bears were rumored to be in trade talks last year for him, so we know that there was a precedence there that they wanted him, and now there's a connection.

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Speaker 2: To They're so fascinating. We talked about it on Wednesday and I picked up that little crumb Jordan left out there, or they're gonna have to say goodbye to some people in their secondary which is a little little ite of my I clocked because they've got some important people there who we could talk about on the show if we wanted. Jawan Brisker, Naseean Wright is there. Kevin Byerd is.

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Speaker 7: A freezos screens. He's thrown out smoke screens trying to deviate me off course, you're up. Okay, I've got a weird one here. Marcus Mariota to the Indianapolis Colts. If they are not convinced on Riley Leonard, which I do not think they yet are, they'd like to see him play more. The only way to see him play more would have been to have him play more, but he did not do that. And I think that Marcus Mariota is a great a backup and also be a bridge guy who can win you enough games to stay patient with Daniel Jones's recovery and can do a lot of things that Shane Steichen wants to do.

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Speaker 1: In that offense.

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Speaker 7: He's still got the juice. One of the best backups in the league. Great bridge guy.

00:25:51
Speaker 2: This is what I'm paying speaking of Doc Connecting you know, you know, Jordan does a big feature on the Colts last season. I'm putting a little extra in to her Colts analysis year. I would have liked Kyler since I already took Kyler to the Vikings. It would be hilarious if Kyler to if Kyler was the caddy for the Colts for like one million dollars. Because what I was trying to think, he does not really totally fit in the McVeigh tree system. I mean, someone else could take that too. They're not going to do that. It's just is too chaolic. But I was like, he would be a great Shaden Stike a quarterback for half a season, that's sure. Just take a look. Let's stick at quarterback. Let's do Malik Willis to Cardinals. I'm worried about, like what is the market going to be for him? Maybe it ends up settling in closer to Justin Field's contract last year than it then like got thirty five to forty million dollars. Either way, I think he's going to have an opportunity. It's been quiet. No one's showing their hands certainly that they're into maliqualists. To me, it makes sense to me, so let's be smart Cardinals, and let's not shoot for the bottom middle. You've been living there for about eighty years making decisions like out bringing in Jimmy Garoppolo because you're familiar. You don't have a long timeline there, Mike Lafleur and Austin for it. I think you gotta win now. I think Malik Willis is your best chance there.

00:27:10
Speaker 5: It is Milike Willis off the board, I will go offense as well.

00:27:14
Speaker 8: I will go to the AFC North where the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to have Aaron Rodgers back. We don't know that, but I am saying it's gonna happen, and he will throw the ball short to Deebo Samuel who will be catching passes from Aaron Rodgers.

00:27:26
Speaker 5: Oh.

00:27:26
Speaker 1: I love him with the Steelers.

00:27:28
Speaker 5: Yeah too. I love that drafting.

00:27:30
Speaker 1: What a draft Patrick's having.

00:27:32
Speaker 4: I know, Okay, it's fine, that's fine. Patrick's whatever. How about we already mentioned him once? But I have him going to a new destination. Oh yeah, John Franklin Myers is going to be playing once again under Jeff Olbrick, who they were together for three seasons under with the Jets, and now he ends up with the Atlanta Falcons, and I think that that would be a nice little way to kind of free up James Pierce Junior and Jaylen Walker and let them do some more creative things too.

00:28:06
Speaker 3: So that's a nice one. It's a good fit.

00:28:08
Speaker 2: I like that they're lying in the weeds the Falcons as a sneaky, fascinating team. Obviously, the quarterback situation is confusing. They have just got a lot going on. They could be great, they could be terrible.

00:28:18
Speaker 7: I'm going with an NFL Daily Saturday Siko's favorite Nick monterk Buster Brown. I think that he will be going to the Los Angeles Rams. Yes, those Los Angeles Rams who did just trade or trade for Trent McDuffie.

00:28:33
Speaker 1: I don't think they're done.

00:28:35
Speaker 7: I think that they're following the blueprint that they said earlier of bringing in at least two really good corners in one off season. He's more of an under the radar guy, not a heralded draft pick. Plenty of information on him from the staff, connections between Jacksonville and Los Angeles, and it just feels like it just feels like such a Rams move to come and bring in this guy and then he absolutely breaks out in their secondary breaking news.

00:29:03
Speaker 2: Jordan actually in Vegas has been established as the minus two fifty favorite for this exercise. She's been trying to throw the audience off the scent Saint Patrick's had the great draft. Here's the reality. There's only one like, you know, real deal reporter in this room, right that's actually reports on the NFL with inside connections. I would go as far as to say, if Jordan doesn't win, Wow, it's kind of just shame.

00:29:32
Speaker 1: It's shame on my whole family.

00:29:34
Speaker 3: What a whole new strategy this is.

00:29:40
Speaker 7: He changed his entire approach from nagging me at the beginning.

00:29:43
Speaker 3: Uh huh yeah to now now.

00:29:46
Speaker 1: I'm feeling overconfident right now.

00:29:48
Speaker 2: Complex. I do believe it that she that she would be the favorite, and she's got to deliver as a favorite. That's the hardest thing to do in the NFL. I'm going to take Trey Hendrickson to the bucks. It just makes sense to me. We hear them talked about with the Max Crosby potential to do. Hey, how about instead of giving up the farm for Max Crosby, let's just sign Trey Hendrickson for maybe less money than Max Crosby. And what do you what are you saying?

00:30:13
Speaker 5: Well, this this feels like a familiar idea that we might have discussed.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: Did you already try that out there? No?

00:30:18
Speaker 1: No, no allusion, no collusion.

00:30:21
Speaker 8: I can't I can't remember. I can't remember if I thought of said it just sill never mind scratch on this. Not on this show though, now on this episode. Okay, well then it's it's fair game. Chefter threw it out there too. I mean, I'll see my sources. He he threw it out there.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: May it's been it's been making sense that they need a guy over the Hey, look, if you wanted Trey Hendrickson to the Bucks, I'll give you the first six rounds of the draft to take him. And you didn't do it, Patrick, No, I did not.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: I did not do that.

00:30:47
Speaker 8: And so credit to you, Greg. You've got Trey Hendrickson to the Bucks. I will not go with my other Trey Hendrickson team.

00:30:54
Speaker 5: Why not?

00:30:54
Speaker 8: And I will now go back to Jordan's you know, stated relationship acknowledgement between the Los Angeles Rams and the Jacksonville Jaguars. James Gladstone is there. Let's say he has some departures and he needs a cornerback. They needed a cornerback anyway. Kobe de Ramp going to the Jacksonville Jaguars to play in their secondary, you.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: Know, after all the tags and there's been like a resigning or two, the top one oh one's composition changed, and Kobe Durants knuck in there as number one hundred because you don't go to one on one. Jaday Vicfouney is the all time one oh one. Why is that Bruto. That's a great group.

00:31:32
Speaker 1: Number one hundred, that's.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: Hey, number one hundred.

00:31:35
Speaker 5: Sost.

00:31:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an honor just to be nominated. Colleen, you are up.

00:31:40
Speaker 4: I'm right now, just like also trying to put get my head around the fact that David Blau is the offensive coordinator for the Commanders.

00:31:49
Speaker 2: Derante Jones is their defensive coordinator, and neither one of them have ever called plays before and they're both calling plays. Pretty fascinating.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: That is super interesting.

00:31:57
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, the reason I bring that up is because I think Isaiah likely ends up with the Commanders, especially with zach Ertz his future up in the air now. Likely can come out of the shadow of Mark Andrews and be the number one guy.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: That's Daniels.

00:32:15
Speaker 2: I love that, Matt.

00:32:16
Speaker 1: I didn't think it.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: I feel like we should have a lot of commanders Right now, we have one Patrick had Rashid Shaheed going there. They just feel like they're going to go back to old school Snyder era commander's style and spend all the money they need to.

00:32:29
Speaker 7: I have a another destination potentially for Rashid Shahed. I think it is the now Joe Brady led Buffalo Bills. Joe Brady, who at one point worked under Sean Payton in New Orleans, and who Pete Carmichael, who now is his offensive coordinator, is a mentor, was a mentor and has familiarity with Rashid Shaheed. This is basically going to be a team that can't uh ignore the noise around it anymore. Front office that is under pressure, in my opinion, very much, group feeling the heat of if they don't bring in more pass catchers.

00:33:11
Speaker 1: And I think Rashid Shaheed.

00:33:12
Speaker 7: Is a great fit for those gorgeous Josh Allen longballs that we would really like to see actually activated.

00:33:19
Speaker 5: It feels like it would be.

00:33:20
Speaker 1: Cheating in some nos, Yeah, which is why they should do it.

00:33:24
Speaker 2: A great you know, a great offense, a great passing attack, and you get to have the different types, you know, the different components, and he is such a great type to add to the mix, like I think of like the old Kyle Shanahan Falcons team. For some reason, he'd be like a supercharge who is it, Taylor Gabriel, I mean, but like a super supercharge on I think sat taking the top off.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: Hmm, I want to see it.

00:33:47
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go receiver too. Juwan Jennings. Let's put him with the Raiders connection. There would be Clint Kubiak with him in San Francisco, similar system. He just feels exactly like a free agent who's going to get sign by a coach that's worked with him previously, because it's like, we know what we're getting with Juwan. Will pay a little extra than his old team would. He's going to be a rock solid receiver. The Titans also make sense, but since I gave them Wandale, I will give Juwan Jennings.

00:34:13
Speaker 5: To the Raiders.

00:34:14
Speaker 8: Although defensive because it's good business for the Bengals to try to make things look worse for coach loub and so Nick Cross, well, we'll leave and be signed by the Cincinnati Bengals and play in coach Golden Second.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: That may wow lot, and that would maybe cross off some of the safety talk with the Bengals. In the draft. We are all the way to the ninth rounds, I'm going to ask you two picks left for each of us, So keep that in mind when you're making your picks.

00:34:44
Speaker 4: Okay, I am going to get some help for the Cowboys in their secondary and which is which is crazy probably for me to do, but I'm gonna Sendrek Woolen there because he just for some reason feels like he should have already been playing in Dallas.

00:35:03
Speaker 3: Yes, I kind of I almost went back to look if he did play in Dallas. Actually, right, he did not play in Dallas. But I think that's just because he's meant to be there.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: All right. Based on the quality of Patrick's draft, the understanding of connections from Colleen, and the reporting from Jordan, I'm actually raising the over under of correct answers. It's gonna need to get this thing right. I think it's four and a half.

00:35:30
Speaker 3: Wow, Wait, how does that work?

00:35:34
Speaker 2: Like? Four you won't win, five you probably win. That's what I would say.

00:35:38
Speaker 5: You know, Greg's got the itch he's trying to set the line with this, and actually.

00:35:43
Speaker 1: He's getting a little hot under that.

00:35:45
Speaker 2: There's less rules in California about it, and so Polymarket, which we normally hate, actually established that Jordan is now a less of a favorite, but still a favorite, still a favorite minus minus one ninety now after Collins Colleen's good pick, you're up.

00:35:59
Speaker 1: Wow.

00:36:00
Speaker 2: I don't know if any of that to make it into this.

00:36:01
Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll see how this one goes.

00:36:04
Speaker 7: I think Travis etn to the Chiefs would be a really, really solid match.

00:36:09
Speaker 1: I would like to see it. They really want to.

00:36:11
Speaker 2: Show my board. I was right there next up nice.

00:36:14
Speaker 7: And I also pulled a pick away from Greg and the ninth round, which makes me feel a little bit gloady inside.

00:36:21
Speaker 2: Yes you should. That is incredibly annoying, and yet no, and yet I'm now just gonna go off. I'm now just freestyling here and what I want to seek, just in the way that I can totally imagine that too. I really like that one. I should have taken it earlier. I could just imagine a week one starter Tanner McKee for the New York Jets. I just I just can I know I'm just swinging blind here. I'm just it's not just about getting it right. It's about creating some good content. And let's photo shop that Tanner McKee. No, Jerry, why don't we just make that the entire Jet like that there in Florian Park. I want that right, but Bona as something we're sending out. I want the Tanner McKee and the Jets Jersey. I can just see it. He would probably be set up for disaster. But you never know. Patrick here, Tanner McKee, of course, the backup quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. It's for a third round pick. I'll even throw that in. I don't have to get that right to get the you know credit, okay, because trades are allowed. We haven't really done trades. We haven't done really trades because that adds another level of difficulty here. But trades are allowed if you wanted to. So we have two picks left, like Max Crosby, you have two picks left. Everyone else has one.

00:37:36
Speaker 8: So just so I can go ahead to head with you on the Vikings quarterback, I would like to take Eugene Cyril Smith. Thank you to the Minnesota Vikings as a quarterback.

00:37:46
Speaker 2: I've never rooted for you more to be right, that's a good use of the ninth round. I need this, I need I need Kevin O'Connell to resurrect Gino and make it happen. I think it would be fans. That's my favorite rumor I heard all throughout Indianapolis. All Right, your last pick.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: This is my last pick, and it's my most out there. I'm going to go ahead and do like a crazy dark horse and seeing wild card scenario. But I my head says that Mike Evans is going to be back in Tampa Bay. However, if he doesn't go back to Tampa Bay, I do not think that he goes to Buffalo. I think that he goes to the Texans because Houston is his home. He went to college there, he keeps his off season home there, and if he is going to just do a little bit of like an ending type tour to an incredible career, maybe he goes home for the end.

00:38:42
Speaker 1: Wow, that is bold that because they have a lot of receivers.

00:38:47
Speaker 7: But I could see him doing like sort of a pre retirement like Victory Lap. Essentially, I would just like to see him end his career on a happy note. I hate seeing him injured, and I hate seeing him from frustrated. Uh.

00:39:01
Speaker 1: And we need baker Ball. We need him back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

00:39:04
Speaker 7: My beloved Bucks need baker Ball to keep on rolling, uh for maybe maybe a last ride before an extension or not.

00:39:12
Speaker 3: We're all waiting for bragging for it.

00:39:14
Speaker 1: Come on, Roberts, don't do it.

00:39:17
Speaker 2: Don't do it taking notes and playing music.

00:39:20
Speaker 1: You guys, we're getting here.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear. I don't want to hear everybody rolling.

00:39:30
Speaker 2: Minute of it now none.

00:39:34
Speaker 5: We're broke him.

00:39:37
Speaker 2: Aggravated Roberts, this is what's.

00:39:40
Speaker 1: The best, just like.

00:39:43
Speaker 5: Seconds.

00:39:44
Speaker 1: You want it, you got it.

00:39:45
Speaker 3: Here it is. I'm not going to stop playing it now, ice cream Austin here you want it?

00:39:49
Speaker 2: Jeez, are you guys still talking? You got to talk g you know, to the Vikings for the fifth time this week, Like that's that's what's going on in Eric's all right, let's stop it.

00:39:58
Speaker 7: I just want to point out that I've done nothing wrong, so I should not be subjected to this.

00:40:02
Speaker 3: You said the words, do you know what you're doing? You knew what you were doing, so he's just fifteen.

00:40:11
Speaker 2: I will know. We please turn off.

00:40:14
Speaker 3: Turn it out, the love of God, turn it off.

00:40:16
Speaker 2: We are going to check the data and you can find out when people turned off the show. And I want to see how many did it exactly.

00:40:24
Speaker 5: Oh no, they want these last two picks.

00:40:27
Speaker 7: Well, I'm actually really bad if they've turned it off before my last pick, because this is an absolute wild card.

00:40:33
Speaker 1: This is unbelievable.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: I love this.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: This will not happened.

00:40:36
Speaker 7: And yet there are certain teams that I think are led by insane enough human beings to make something like this happen. And I know that for a few years now, the Los Angeles Rams have been discussing certain potentially tradable quarterbacks ahead of the deadline as reclamation projects, seeing how they would like to get guys in their building turn them into capital elsewhere. And if this is my hinge point, if Jimmy Garoppolo, the current backup quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, as I previously picked, goes to the Arizona Cardinals, I would actually like to see Kyler Murray, who does not fit in this system. No, but come to the Los Angeles Rams, where Sean McVay has recently made Cliff Kingsbury the assistant head coach, and had said in his press conference earlier this week that he would like to borrow some ideas from some of the offenses that cliff Ran Kyler would not be a starter. He would be a safeguard in case of an injury to Matthew Stafford and a player who they would want to turn into value down the road by trading. That is my wildest potential matchmaking scenario. And also, Kyler California son a nice break from being having to be the starter. Just taking a rest for a second. I'll a mac Jones coming back to himself, healing up, and then we'll see what he's got.

00:42:06
Speaker 2: Makes a lot of sense.

00:42:07
Speaker 1: But everyone's turned off the show by now.

00:42:09
Speaker 2: I thought you were going. I thought you were going, Anthony Richards.

00:42:12
Speaker 7: I wonder what Chris Pabona thinks of this. I see him looking intrigued behind the glass over there.

00:42:16
Speaker 1: I'll catch it off line.

00:42:17
Speaker 2: That would be a great potential successor what did you think I thought he was gonna go? Anthony rich Yeah, the RAMS is just like a fun weird No. I like this one better reclamation project? Yeah, I like Kyler. I mean, how did how are we feeling about how Kyler and Cliff Ended. I guess after Dennis Allen bringing CJ. Gardner Johnson to the Bears, any reunions as possible, but felt a little weird there by the end, I'm struggling what do I want to go?

00:42:46
Speaker 3: Like logic or do I just want to have a crazy come on, live a little, let your hair down.

00:42:51
Speaker 2: Do I want to have a little bit of fun?

00:42:53
Speaker 3: Think of the Greg of ten years ago on the beat on the beat NFL.

00:42:58
Speaker 2: Now, let's just do the move that that we all talked about. All you're a J Brown of the Patriots?

00:43:06
Speaker 5: Why not?

00:43:08
Speaker 2: The thing that makes me hesitate here is like, he's just gonna. Man, I'm talking myself out of it before I even say it, but he's gonna. He's gonna cost a lot in terms of draft compensation, and man, they cannot give up draft picks. Also, it hurt the Eagles bottom line a little bit. But there there is a logic. I do think they're gonna get someone big in at wide receiver after cutting stuff on Diggs.

00:43:28
Speaker 8: All right, you're up, pet Well, I can't have any of my boring moves after what would be the most like.

00:43:34
Speaker 1: Round ten is the let's get weird round it O.

00:43:38
Speaker 2: I was gonna go like Kobe Bryant to the Ravens, and I was like, it's too safe.

00:43:43
Speaker 5: Wow, okay, so the shade.

00:43:46
Speaker 1: Now's your chance to pick Kobe Bryant to the Ravens.

00:43:48
Speaker 2: Patrick, you can't.

00:43:50
Speaker 5: I can't do that. I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep it boring.

00:43:52
Speaker 8: I will have because Kevin Stefanski has had has never had the type of talent that he has, big talented, wide receive ver tight end in Atlanta, but he has had a lot of Nick Westbrook, Nick Westbrook coming.

00:44:07
Speaker 1: Super I'm going to keep it boring. Pause. Kevin s.

00:44:16
Speaker 2: No, that was great. That was That was a callback. That was you know, you went back to the strategy that got us all angry at you and at the beginning, I appreciate it.

00:44:26
Speaker 3: I'm so excited got us.

00:44:29
Speaker 1: That got us all.

00:44:30
Speaker 2: He says, I'm angry at myself. A J. Brown one. That's a bad one. It's not gonna happen. Just wanted to. I love podcasting with.

00:44:41
Speaker 1: You for there anymore.

00:44:44
Speaker 3: Are you counting yourself in the four yet?

00:44:46
Speaker 2: No, I'm counting Eric. Chris still has to earn my love, you know, Eric's Hey, I've been I said, I love podcasting with with all of you guys. What a week it has been for us. When you hear from us next, we will be starting to recap the frenzy. Who knows Sunday night, Nick Shook and I are gonna go live on YouTube. I haven't told anyone else this, but we're gonna go live on YouTube because the frenzy really starts on Monday, when the Tampaine window all. But here's what I've loved. A lot's gonna happen over the weekend before that even happens, and so actually, let's get let's get a day ahead of it. Let's clear the decks a little bit. There will be more than enough show for a Sunday night show and a Monday afternoon show. Patrick is gonna be live on NFL Network hosting the Insiders on Monday, but Jordan will be with me and Steve Weisch. We're gonna be live on the NFL channel. You can watch us there. We're gonna be live on YouTube, and you're gonna hear us in your ears. In terms of the podcast, that'll be four pm Pacific, seven pm Eastern on Monday.

00:45:56
Speaker 3: So that's our next pressure and I will also be on the network. Yeah, Colleen free Agency friends.

00:46:02
Speaker 2: I didn't even have to ask. I knew she was hosting more important things than this and we couldn't get her. But we got her this week for two shows. Thank you. I love working UH and doing shows with you.

00:46:13
Speaker 3: What a funny think.

00:46:14
Speaker 2: We'll see you on the other side.