You're the GM Returns! (Trade Deadline Edition)

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Speaker 1: Pick up bick gone, Hey Joe, Shane Here, Hey Joe, what's up? It's Dan Campbell Lions. Danaw you're doing out there? Oh? You know, it's been tough. It's been tough. It's not what we expected now, I mean, we thought we were going to have that a similar type of year. But we're having a great time. I want to talk trade, man. The deadline is coming up. Let's me and you, let's talk trade. I need some stuff, all right? What's on your Where's Brad Holmes, by the way, the actual general manager of the team. I don't don't worry about Brad. Dana. What are you drink? What are you drinking over there? Um? Don't what's going on? Ginger le Okay, let's get into it. Okay, I'm a little busy, so no, no no, no, no, don't don't hang up, Please, don't hang up. I need I need something. I need grit, And I know do you giants have plenty of grit? Because I see what happens every week. You're the team that I wish that I wish I was. I understand that, and uh, I need grit, man, and I'm willing to give up anything for it. How about how about two first round picks for Grit all the great you got two first? You have these two because you've been stocking again. I'm at would wonder where Brad Holmes is your general man. Well, I mean I will quit, I will get we will get the paperwork done, and I would say yes to this two first round picks for Grit. I'll send you my rounds coming in. He's coming in on a second. Hold on, I think here's the version of the hard knocks them when someone gets cut or if somebody does, it's much better than the other one. Okay, I'm back. I don't have a lot of time, but your whole music and give you everything again. I'll agree. I um, I need you to send some official paperwork over. We'll make sure that we get this agreement done officially as soon as possible. Exact. I gotta go. Wow, it's amazing to get an inside looking just like that. Welcome to the version of your the GM back Dan Hansas with Mark Sessler, not Joe Shane. That's the team of a t L similar voice, Gregg Rosenthal and Colleen Wolf. You know, the people have asked, Connie, The people have been asking for a long time. I don't know if I can survive by more. I was surprised by the way that Joe was like, you know, agreed to the Grit transaction and you know, didn't let Dan know that grit is more a state of mind than Dan doesn't know that. Then I think I've think I've won. Let how did what does he even send along for the you know what? I bet he was one of those things where he just kept Dan on the line old d C yeah, and was texting I said, I will send my version of Grit your way desperate times though, uh in Detroit, because I don't know, like what Dan Campbell's expecting to arrive from the Giant. He's just a giant box being shipped into my head. I was going to ask you guys, like, what how how is the grit being packaged? Maypically, it's just like two empty boxes, show another case another case of beer. Probably I would think if I were if I were the Ends, and I know they're Tiffany organization and they don't do these sorts of things, but I would just have a giant barrel from the local seaport and then just like hard hat put on there, like put on like stamp on it grit and then just put it in a big wooden shipping container and send to send to Dan Campbell. He won't know any difference. Brad will be confused. It's like, wait, I don't have any first round picks a Colleen will if we talked about large boxes, you are the tiny box. What an intro? You're the GM back after all these years. I can't believe it. By popular demand, a very special edition of Around the NFL. So, unless anybody has anything to say, I feel like with the trade deadline coming up November one, UM, we do have these lines tapped. So should shall we check in with some other teams and see what they're thinking as they try to improve their rosters? Why not? All right? What do you got? I'm okay, all right, I'm up. So I definitely doesn't know the rules of the game. That's that's kind of my corner. Would you like to start first? I'm gonna go I'm gonna figure this time, so I am going to have Sessler answer the phone, UM for this one, and you are going to be omar Con of the Packers, okay, or of the Steelers of the Steelers, okay, okay, alright, so here we go. Can I get a ring Omar here? Hey, Omar, it's a it's goody in Green Bay. Um. Oh, hang on a second. Alright, sorry about that. Um, that was Kevin Colbert calling me back because I accidentally called him thinking he was still the GM. But anyway, music, you were saying, Omar wants his his own hold music. Listen, I'm called about the Claypool kid. All right, he's uh, he's all right. It looks like George Pickens has been getting along pretty well with pickets, so maybe we could work out a deal here. Well, here's the situation that's a little bit different between the Pittsburgh Steelers in the in the Green Bay Packers my team and your team is when we bring a young receiver in, I mean within a year, we've almost fully developed them. This has been going on for a long long time in Pittsburgh. So what we're giving you in a situationally that you're not the only team that's called. So it's like, I'm just to let you know, Um, he's a wanted individual. You're getting a fully developed product who can step into your wanting offense. Uh right away. Omar is not going to give that away for free, so I would need to hear what you're offering here, Tom. All right, listen, listen, I got Aaron Rodgers breathing down my neck. I can't handle it anymore. My wife is all over my back about this too. So let's just try and get something done. I'll tell you what I'll give you. You're not even gonna use him that much. It feels like he's fallen out of favor at this point. So how about a third rounder? About a third rounder next year? I first of all, let me just tell you about how these deals work in the a f C North. You don't Elmar, how I'm going to be using my player, or where I'm at with my player. Just to set the table, if you try to call the Ravens or the Browns or what everyone well else about one of their guys third round pick, A little bit more, a little more we'll give you. Let's just get this done, all right. We can both walk away and both be in a better spot next season. I'll give you a second round pick this year and a third next year, and I'll tell you what. I'll sweeten the deal and throw in some cheese wheels. Omar is freaking out and saying, yes, all right, listen, I gotta I gotta go procure some more cheese. But we'll talk, we'll talk some more about this is official. We're shipping them there by first class flight tonight to Green Bay. All right, wonderful, great, great stuff. Tell the family. I said, Hey, did Goody just give up a second and a third for Chase Claypool and cheese? Steelers? Look? Oh wow, that's a pretty nice trade for Pittsburgh. Goody is feeling the heat. We talked about Claypool with Mike Garre follow on the Tuesday show. Really like, I love this trade, Connie, I think it would be beneficial for the Steelers. Uh, well, the terms of the trade are wildly um one sided and would be a steel to get that. The Patriots once gave up a second for most a new a second and the third second. But you also, like, we understand our league. These gms, especially with the second and third round picks, get super cute and love them so much so. Clayp Well, I don't think he's proven quite enough to bring that back. But that's kind of a side point. I just want to say, like Chase Claypool and Aaron Rodgers. You know, I talked about Jerry Judy too and Claypool, like put them at a different offense with a stud quarterback. I'd love to see if they have m v P or superstar potential to them. I feel like he's been a player, uh that's maybe not known for getting the details right, like being like a technician and route running, and he's kind of getting quickly passed by picking. I don't think it's a crazy trade. And it does raise the question of like how desperate does Goody this year of all years where it feels like Rogers is very much on a year to year basis and Rodgers is very unhappy and uh, he's prized those draft picks in the past, but maybe it's the time for him, and who knows. Maybe in Tampa two that you get a little desperate and you get a little lot of character because they're feeling the heat, you're feeling the They talked passage of time. They talked about the front office figures in Green Bay exiting their box. They're like luxury box before like Rogers and the Packers had that final crazy play, they just got up and walked out and saying there is maybe a little bit of a disconnect, I mean the coaching staff. And I'll say, while the logic checks out there, Greggy, I feel like urgency is one of the things that the Packers have lacked. I agree, it would be totally out of the extremely frustrating to a fan base that knows that windows closing. All right, Greggy, Uh, let's let's tap those phones again. Okay, Um, this is Broncos general manager George payton Um calling Less sneaed and you know, since Colleen has a close personal relationship with back in the day channel, I think yeah, and his wife Karen Anderson. Okay, so I'm Less, Okay, good set, Greg? Hey Less here, Hey, it's George Baying doing buddy. No, it's really good to talk to you, just like I really appreciate like everything you're doing, thinking, thinking things differently. In Los Angeles, how's it going this season? How's the family as Cara? Oh, the family is great, the kids are great. Malibu is awesome. I love it out here in Los Angeles. You know, the team could be doing a little bit better. We're working through some things. It'll get there. It'll get you and me both right offense right this season it's crazy. So you know I'm calling about a receiver. I have wait a sec, wait a sec. Hey yea, Georgie, Georgie, are you talking twades without me? Jus, Nathaniel, We've talked about this. I said you could listen in um, but you have to hit the mute. But hey, George, Jamy, Judy. So it's a real life trade trade too. This is cool. It's like the real life No offensive, George. Everything going okay, it's fine over here. No, no, Nathaniel, So I told you about the mute, but now I know Georgie. I hit it right away and I wanted to make sure, so I hit it again to be totally sa. No, No, you see, Georgie, if if you hit it twice, then on mute. So hit it to one times, Georgie, don't hit the mute. Just forget that. Wait less less less he's still there. But uh, everything's fine. I mentioned Judy like, I know you're tight now, don't worry about that. That's our coach. He's really new at things, you know. You know, Nathaniel, he's just very um energetic and he's just wanting to learn about different sides of the business. It's like you know what Sean Sean McVeigh, you know, teaches all of his coaches to do different things. That's what we're trying to do here. He's doing a great job. But Jerry Judy like he's a he's a guy that like hasn't you know, fully developed I'll admit it, like and done everything we want. That's why we're that's why we're calling you about him, and the coaching staff like a struggles, uh to use him at that way? A second, Jerry, Jerry doesn't like me. No, he likes you. He likes you, Nathaniel, he he likes you. It just like we haven't been getting the most. Oh, he's wide open all the time. It's like that quarterback never sees him anyway. Now he's he's just Nathaniel. Hit the mute button again. I think, Um, this is a situation where I can help you. You can help me. We can both help Nathaniel. Here again, mute button one time. Uh, And I think a second round pick. I'm looking at your picks a year from now. You don't have that. You know, Odell is gonna want to go to a winning team. I don't know if that's you. Guys right now. But like a second round pick I feel would be like a beautiful thing for me to give you. You You know you get back for j Well, what a beautiful argument you've put together, George. It's really sound. It's it's tough right now considering we don't have a first, fourth or a fifth. So if we if we get rid of a second round er, we only have a third and then a bunch of six round picks. Right, you got what if you said the third, Nathaniel. Now we can't. We can't, Um, you can't jump into the negotiations like that. We we talked about that. No, I'm sticking at a second. You also have four picks, so it could be second and third, seven second that that's way in the field. Now, that's not how the rules work. You can you can only get three in a lovely conversation? Why sound like Chris mad dog Russo that's a nice job. Okay. He just seemed like really energetic. I think he loves being a head coach in the league. The segment meaner this year, I don't know, but I'm enjoying it so far. Mark, You're up next, alright, Well, let's snee is busy? Um? I will be rams GM less Snead calling Brown's general manager Andrew Berry, who will be played by Dan A. B. Hey, it's LS out in l A sneeedy. How you doing well? You know, I'm cool. Everything else sucks, but I feel like, uh, I still believe in myself and I believe in this team. I'll tell you something. You gotta look back on some of the early years that I survived with the RAMS man. Take draw your inspiration from that. Totally. I do, And I think about you a lot. Always be reading. I'm reading three books right now, by the way, increasing my vocabulary. Not into reading as much, but I do. I think about you a lot. All right, Well, I know we had a great talk when we sent Troy Hill to you and then back to us. We're always talking about Troyal, but I got a transaction. I got a different Uh. I think you tracked what's going on out here. We're a super Bowl team that is struggling, and we've got some issues on offense, and I like to just deal with you straight. I think you've got to play. Always thought that's L, S and L all the time. Well, you know what, it's mutual. I just think we vibe and so like, you're the first person I thought of when I thought we've got to address our backfield. Why do you wear a hat? You've got such a nice hair. I don't understand that I don't always wear one. Okay, okay, go ahead. You have a player i'd like in Kareem Hunt is not going to be on your team next year no matter what. So you can you can either ride out this storm in the a f C. North Browns. We get it. Uh, you already have Nick Chubb. You don't really need Kareem Hunt. We know that it's a nice luxury, but you you could use some help in some picks down the road, because let's look at your draft picked catalog. Future draft picks very thin at this point because you did something a little naughty. We all know that. So how about how about, uh, you send us Kareem Hunt and I'll give you. I'd give him, but we don't really have any other draft picks. But it's better than nothing. It's called got sexy here. Suddenly it's better than nothing. You're gonna get nothing for him right now. He didn't he he asked for a trade, and now you've got this malcontent. I mean sitting on your roster, who cannot wait for January first to strike to get out of there. I'm giving you a fifth um, you know less. I would love to help you, you know less. I would do anything for you. You understand that, anything but one little hiccup here. Cream Hunt's not on the team anymore. We don't We don't have Kareem Hunt anymore. What happened to Kareem Hunt? I don't know. I have no idea who he is. We don't use him. He's not on the roster. He was there. Less he was still on the team, I would absolutely again, I would die for you less. You know that. So I basically just need to find him because he's not rostered anywhere. If trust me, if Creem Hunt was on the team, we'd be using him because we know what's going on with Jacobe Brissette and his limitations as we wait for my my DeShawn to be ready to go. But instead, I'd just like to give the ball to Nick Chubb like ten twelve times. Uh. If we had Cream Hunt of the team, we'd certainly use me. He's very talented. But sorry, I can't help you, man. Say one last thing. I want I want to come over to your house. I want to come over. Yeah, I bet you do. If next Sunday I see Kaream Hunt carrying the ball in Cleveland. You and I are relationship. It has been a very good relationship, is uh, it's history, alright. I'm gonna look into this immediately. Thank you, Les call me anytime. A little disconnected scene there. I feel like there's a history between these two that I just don't really I wasn't picking up on anything there. I don't just feel like that was just like Andrew Barry was just I mean, they're just saying things that aren't even true to get off the phone, that seems I think maybe the miscommunication has been the criminal under use of cream Hunt in the Browns offense. But uh, and maybe that's just you know, it's been a very hectic year in Cleveland, for no doubt, everyone involved with the Browns brass. But once Andrew does I so like check with an underling and he learns that cream Hunt an all pro level running back one given the rock um, he will either start using him for the balance of the season or look to trade him. And it sounds like that he would do pretty much anything to be in the good graces of less needs. So aren't they the draft pick team? Like I actually do think Andrew Berry and the Browns are the most one of the most likely teams to just start trading players, which sends a weird message with Deshaun Watson coming, But Josh Johnson is there has not worked out at all. Uh, maybe the Rams would. I think Hunt is a candidates go, but I think there was a little more under Saucy. I mean all i'd says they gave away all the traft picks socks right, and they think they would like some draft pickback. It's weird how big this weekend, this weekend being weak. Eight yes is to these trade talks because it's like, if the Browns get the three and five, I feel like they would feel differently about trying to get back into the mix then they might at two and six. That's why I proposed to Mike care follow, let's push this trade deadline a little bit. I mean they already did. They did twice, I think like once a week each time. But it's still not far enough. You mean John Johnson correct, What did I say, Josh the quarterback? No, Josh Johnson who's currently the backup quarterback for the Broncos, would not make sense. It already been on a converse conversation John Johnson would make sense. Let's take a break and do one more round of calls. All right, welcome back, and you know I gotta be honest. Welcome back, and to of course the You're the GM edition ahead of the November first trade deadline. UM, I actually had something less Need related, but I think Less as some stuff going on with Less and we've heard a lot from Less, So let's move away from less Need, okay, and instead, um I will be telling you guys about a line that I've tapped with a phone call going to the San Francisco Forts, and it's actually a direct call to the head coach, who's a power player over there, played by Greg Rosenthal. Um So, Kyle Shanahan gets a call from a man that everyone in the league admires greatly. Yeah, this Skuyle go to Bill, Oh, Bill, Bill. It's always an honor to hear from you, sir. You know, what are you gonna do? How you doing out there? Raining a lot? All right? It rains a lot there. It's probably annoying. Stupid weather out there. It's pretty cold New England all the time. But I just got used to it is. You know, the winners are tough, but falls are beautifully here. You just wait. Sometimes the spring takes a long time to show up. Yeah that's cool. How are you. Yeah, I've really grown to to like the San Francisco weather. The family loves it. Uh, sunny this time here, it's a beautiful time. Actually, Uh Santa clar again. So it's not we just want to say thanks again. It's not raining. No, that's Seattle and where it really rains a lot. I mean it doesn't just go to um but there's a lot of fogs that I heard that that could be a problem. Yeah, we're not too near the water, like we we live a little inland, so it's a it's like, yeah, it's crazy you get different weather patterns in Napa than you do in San Francisco. It's a whole thing. You would you wouldn't be interested. That's really good. Kyle. Hey, um um, I kind of stepped in it. Um not that i'd never tell any of these it's in the media, but you know the whole you did you watch the game on Monday. Yeah, it's well, it's earlier out here in the Pacific times. Once I was doing some work, you know, some tape, but I had it, I had it up. Yeah it looked like that. That's why I said this stuff with the rain because in the Pacific area, I think about the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, that's not technically where you follow geographically. I understand that it's close to the border. So I could see, I could see how you would, uh, you'd get it confused. It's it's very you know. You know, I'm really a big fan of UM world history and all that, so, but geography not my strong suit. Hey, can you Um, I know obviously you hate your quarterback, UM, but you know, Jimmy means a lot to me. Um. Jimmy was a guy that I that I drafted and once upun a time, thought I he would be the successor to Tom, and then Bob took it away from me. Um, And that's still smarts. Um. That's why I didn't go to the wedding. But now I want. I want Jimmy, and I'm going to give you the guy that I know you wanted all along and the dre process last year, obviously I'm preferring to former Alabama star Mac Jones. I was very healthy right now, and I know you could start fresh. So what do you think one for one baby? Yeah, because like the borders, you know, Washington, Seattle, it's all it's close. I understand that. But no, I've I've focused because I need to pass George Hallis immediately. I gotta, I gotta say this. This is it's confusing to me. It's it's tough because I think it's Jimmy, give him back. You should have never left. Bob took him from me, and I want him back now. You we're in those conversations. I remember you offered you know Tom initially or we wanted what I want. I did, like Mac, I gotta say, uh, sir, um, we had him graded very highly. I know you like him a lot. I have to Jimmy is such a good guy. Jimmy's Jimmy though, you know, he's so handsome, like I bring him home to the family, just kind of hangs out on Friday afternoons, plays guitar. I would need like a little more Max, sir, Like how about Mac? And uh like a future No, actually, okay, I'll do it. I'll do it. Yes, thank you very much. I'll see you the next meetings. Hopefully the weather is better. All right, thank you, sir. Wow, big trade there, that's a big one. You went to a very dark one. Yes, I stand as lobskin. I just it is what it is, and I think everybody wins there, to be honest with you, I do too. I think that's why Kyle in that spot ultimately not only respected Bill and didn't talk to John Lynch, but he's happy with this. Alright, very healthy Mac Jones. All right, how about you, Connie. Okay, I am going to be Eagles GM, Howie Roseman, and I'm actually calling Broncos GM. George Peyton. I'm really hoping that Nathaniel Hackett is out of the building at this point, so Dan, I'll have you play. George Peyton alright. I feel like Greg potentially was automatically rolled out from decided that. Yes, alright, George, this is the general. Yeah, George, it's Howie. I'm bored. You're bored? What does that mean? Yeah? Well the Eagles they weren't around to win again this week, and I don't care about the stupid Phillies and nobody's even talking about me anymore. I hate it. Wow, you you sound like a bit of a petulant Brad. What is Philadelphia? Is that? What's going on over there these days? You guys? Nothing? You're so used to everything happening for you and good things and good times that even a bye week annoys you. It's just like, I'm just so sick of winning all of the time. It's not even fun anymore. Like I just need something new in my life. I'm not in the headlines. Nobody's talking about me. I need to get back in it. So I don't even need anything really right now, if you think about it. But I don't want to shop. All right, Well, the general's here, how can how can the general help you? Well, you got a new players you want to move? Oh you're asking me to offer you a trade? Yeah, I got anything? Oh this is unusual. Um yeah, well, I don't know what's the story with Chubb's a nice player. I like Brad, but we made a huge franchise altering mistake with the quarterback. So we're gonna be bad for about twelve to seventeen years. So I would say everything everybody's for sale, but we also have to do it in a way that doesn't get me fired because Russ is my boss. Um. So that's that's the tough situation for the general is that there's a lieutenant here. It's a lieutenant, a head of general maybe over president lie behind the glass, Gregg and Mark, none of us, all right. Anyway, whatever is higher than general general is an officer of the highest ranks. Okay, well, let's go with the emperor. The Emperor of the Broncos is Russ. So I need to be smart about this because otherwise so fired me. Well we both know that you need this more than I do, because again I don't really need anything right now, and you need a lot. All right, all right, how about this, I'll throw one out there. Okay, you want Chub, you want that final piece of your defense. Sure we could use some help to number one wide receivers. Send me one. So I'll give me Davanta Smith and I'll send you Mr Chubb. You are hilarious. I had no idea that you had a personality like I feel like you're wasting my time any of the biblical lamor Sir, listen, why is this conversation even happening? You know we have an extra first rounder. Okay, just hanging around. I don't have first rounders anymore because we made that move I referred to earlier. He might be listening right now. We could give you our extra first rounder. Are you on the line, Bradley? Hey? Then, what's going on? Mr? Limited? We get a pass rusher, you get some draft picks, everybody. I got Scott Fitter calling on the other line right now. This guy won't get off my back. We're talking about Ryan Burns with him. What do you want to do for the first uh? Russ? Is it okay? First round pick? I I'm Russell Wilson, not throw a sex the deep ball? All right? Okay? But should I do this trade with the Eagles? Of course? I'm also here to share some things I've learned. Come on, George, let's ride. All right, Let's do it? Alright, good talk. I gotta go blow off Scott Fitter now later, all right, Russ, even with that slightly torn hamstring, carries a big stick in that. I just like that in any situation, Colleen can find a way to dunk on the rest of the NFC East Eagles superiority. The good news for Eagles fans like Colleen is that nothing can never change. This will continue unabated for alternative. Enjoy it, why you can, That's what I'm doing. How Roseman sounded like he was on his third glass of white wine and this board. Okay, that's a drop. Um, I'll be Chris Ballard, Colts GM, Colleen, Scott Fitter. What's your favorite type of frogs? Played by? Played by Mark? Okay, Scotty F here. Hey, Chris Ballard, Hey, it's Scotty f. Chris. Hey. You know, uh, you know where we're at. You know I'm calling. You're the team that everyone calls at this point of the year. We're looking at what you're doing, trading away Christie McCaffrey. We're just wondering who else might be available there. Let me just give you a list of players, like the Cults, wild Like tell me DJ More, Brian Burns. I'll throw a little Derek Brown in there, because you gotta say, Chris right now, we're in a little bit of a situation. We need to win. Our owner is basically at our next in our office every single day. If we don't deliver a playoff spot, uh, we're gonna get fired. Well, Um, one little issue, I this is still my phone for another couple of hours. But my owner is all so um, a little tough to deal with, and I and no longer going to be uh, the general manager of the Panthers. So I'm gonna hand you over to Ralph g Um. Second, let me go find him. Ralph g huh, Ralph, why do you have such a similar accent to Scott? Is this I have using a fake accent because we're not supposed to be speaking with anyone right now. Okay, let's get down to brass tacks here the colts um. Check out the GM rankings of Greg Rosenthal two thousand and nineteen. I was number one, ranked number one. Now I fell, I'm you know, fell number seven last year, fell to eleven year after that. Now the owners in trouble I need. I don't care about building a perfect little what are these rank roster? I don't care about raft picks. I'm ready to sell it out. I'm really ready to get real. I would give a first round pick for Brian Burns in a separate or combined deal, I would give a second round pick for d J. Moore. So you can take one, you can take both, you can put them together, you can separate them but then you'd only get one pick, or I would take Derek Brown, the defensive tackle. Could use a little beef up front for fourth round. I hope you heard from Adam Schefter that Brian Burns was offered for two first round picks last weekend. Now we all know Chefter just makes that stuff up that I'll do it. Why not? Okay, I'm ready to Well, I'll just yeah, I'm new to this position and it feels good to help you. You've got a couple of freebees. More Burns. Let's ride to the seventh seeds to very god good? Where's he to get some business? Who's Ralph g Again? Well, I just Scott. He was just like he was probably a lieutenant under Scotty f Right, just one that's he's been a low profile so we wouldn't be international people brought over. He's actually program. He was like a pathway program. Was a pathway program. Again, I thought he was more like a second in commanding David Tepper's other businesses. Who has just come in and now he's very posting football. You know, Jordan's my latta uh Maurice Bowinger and now you get Ralph I mean Hodgson and Company. F a obada, unbelievable. All right, let's finish it off with one final because there's only a here's a finite number of phones we could tap before the league gets smart to it. We're doing this from inside their building. It's incredibly brave, quite honestly, to do what we do for them. We could get fired, we could. It's a risk that we take for you. The listeners, Mark, we have one more call. What are we gonna what are we gonna? Hear you? All right? This is um I will be Chargers general manager Tom Tolesco. He's still the GM. Yes, dialing across America to Saints general manager Mickey Loomis played by Dan Okay. Hey, this is McGee Tom to Let's go out in l a Hey, Maggie, I got the Pelicans, got Pelicans basketball, I got Saints football. How I got so much going on? It's just about to say, I am a Pelicans fan. You don't tell the Lakers the Clippers of it? Like, what are your thoughts? I know football is different than basketball, yes, um, totally different sports. Some say, um, but Zion, what do you think about Zion Williamson and Superstar? What do you like about his game. You're two and one. He's powerful, He's extremely powerful. I mean, you're talking about a different type of NBA body up rating at high at high velocity. I've not seen a player like them that I can easily comp and as a general manager, I can think of other things that there's no comp for that I'm looking. But I'm looking at fall as completely different than basketball. You've got something that you can't have, but I want. I want to say that again. You have it, but you can't have it. I have it, but I can't have it, Okay, and I want it. Okay. What it is? A man? Okay, it's the couch, it's your best friend, BICKI is Sean Payton Sean Payton? Well never, I my wife is friends with Sean Payton's uh female friend. And that's as much as I'll say about that. That I know that Sean Payton will never be returning to the New Orleans Saints. It's you can you can blow the door up with seven pounds of dynamite. I'm going to give you something. You hold the rights to him, and I just want to I'm gonna let you in on a little secret um And do remember that I need you to keep this secret. We were at that owners meetings together. I still have that stack of polaroids that's been floating around on the GM hotline. Uh, so you're gonna need to listen to what I say here. Our coaches is floundering. You know a year ago, all these think pieces being written about him on the athletic Look at this hands, this guy on eight T and he always seems to be ahead of ahead of the game. There, he's he's really good. Dan Hands is shouted. I love that guy. He's does a great job. Does a great job to Dan Hands. Shout out. Brandon Staley. We are all we're partying ways. The universe is collapsing. We're out with Brandon Staley. I just want to let you know ahead of because I'm trusting you and I need you to trust me back that we could forge relationship here where we get Sean. You want Sean Payton on the Dallas Cowboys dealing with the Saints left and right. No, we we don't want that. No, And that's that's we all know. That's what's gonna happen unless you trade Sean Payton far away from the NFC to the l A Chargers, a team that you'll face at most once every four years. I can't offer you Sean because I still believe that Sean might want to come back and rejoin us, and I believe in that and I know that. But what I can offer you is UM, an alternative at a much more economical price to you. And I think this option will be a service and upgrade UM. Someone who's battle tested, that knows the insides and outsides of an organization, that has been a loyal consigliari of Sean Payton for many years, and now he's about to hit the open market. Dennis Allen, I will give you Dennis Allen for a second round pick. How about Brandon? Still really for Dennis Allen? Straight up throwing Brandon Cooks? I know more about Brandon Staley than you do, that's all I'm telling you. Well, no, but it's great talking to you. We'll meet again. Wow, believable, the conversations that you just never think, you never think that's the way it goes down in our league. The fact that he didn't hang up when he offered Dennis Allen for Sean Payton or wait, Brandon, Dennis Allen for Brandon Staley is telling it's sad so how Brandon Cooks was involved in the negotiation, hasn't been on the Saints and just made guys it is um. Thank you everybody for listening. And keep it yeah, keep it under your hat. Put it that way that this is something that we're able to do inside the building because we have access to the hard frame than the data wires, the mother board, the hard framing data wires are absolutely what someone in the know when it comes to technology say all the time. All right, we'll see you around maybe next year. You're the g F. And remember, all right, West, I am Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve come dan Is Colts general manager Chris Ballard Here, we're going I like circus peanuts. What I thought I was calling a general manager? Chris Ballard here? Oh hey, this is Kim Bomb. Come bomb. I'm a kind bom. What's up? I need a quarterback? I got quarterbacks. We're selling Sam Bradford. Booie, you guys gonna get injured tomorrow. Oh he's beat up. Yeah, we need a quarterback. And I'm dangling David Johnson. I know Frank Gore's gone, y'all, haven't had a hundred yard games since nineteen seventy three. It's been it's been tough sledding. Yeah, I'm selling. David Johnson and pick fifteen. Hold on, please, Kim d ch Kim d ch Did you fall out that ween, Kim d J, kimd chh. No, your draft stock is falling to Kim d J, Kim d J. Did you crash out that window? Kim d ch, Kim d H. This is your last chance to prove yourself. Don't fall once more? Are you still there? Still here? David Johnson? All right, and pick number fifteen? Whoa for are running back Marlon Mack and your sixth pick that gives you you're up there with like Sashi Brown's hall. Can we can? We can? We repeat this? David Johnson and pick fifteen for Marlon Mack and the number six pick in the draft? What am I missing here? Moving up to six is nice. We're getting Josh Rosen. Baby, you're going to get a quarter back. I get it. No guarantee he's following. He's dropping like a bag of hammers. Get Josh Allen. All right, I feel like given our situation here in Indianapolis, and you know that we are um moving forward. I've got a I got a ton of positive press remarks Sessler on the Round the NFL podcast based on my press conference performance after the Josh McDaniel's incidents. So a lot of good will you got, Sessler, I got its approval. Sessler's on my side, and based off that, I'm feeling really bullish about the future. I think Andrew luck is gonna think Andy's gonna be playing this year. So I'm not gonna be thinking about a quarterback at six. I'm gonna think about getting my roster better. It's gonna be a great talent at fifteen. It's a nice draft, um. So it's hard for me to turn down an all pro like David Johnson. And I know he's coming off that knee injury. What what's the paperwork on that? He's great, never been better, best shape of his life. Okay, now I've heard it, so I have no worries there. Marlon mc and nice little player, He's not David Johnson. So I absolutely will take this deal. I gotta take this deal. I'd be crazy not to. I mean, You're I'm again co bomb come bomb gets deals done. Tick tick tick. That could be your your job security. Uh, if this doesn't work out, if you end up getting stuck with Josh Allen or something, Hey, he doesn't work out, it's it's never easy to rebuild. We lost Bruce Arians, we lost Carson Palmer. I'm in a pinch. I understand my job securities on the line, but you know this as well as I do. Job securities on the line every day in the NFL. We gotta make bulld is. We need a quarterback. You can't win in the NFL without a quarterback. All Right, we got a deal. One question I have for you. What's your favorite type of frog? Kermit? All right, We're done, nice doing business with you. D see the headline now kind bombed? That is a steel for the cults. Yeah, that's that's troubling me. If they know something about David Johnson that the Colts don't know that feels like especially ahead of him and takes you know, Josh Rosen. NFL teams don't build around running backs. Come on,