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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things to discuss NFL wise, because you got some players that are going to be released, you got free agency, the draft is coming up. You got a transitional tag with Daniel Jones. The NFL surprises you every couple of years, and you know the commissioner's exemp list.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that existed.

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Speaker 2: The Colts have placed the transition tag on Daniel Jones. That means we're not going to franchise you. We're going to let you seek other offers if you want, and then we get to have the finals say.

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Speaker 3: If we want to keep you.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of like saying we like you, but at a cost, at a price because Achilles surgery in the off season and you're not quite sure what you were going to get. We saw that in the first what nine to ten games of the season. It played really well. The Colts were one of the top stories in the NFL. Ven he gets hurt, Now are you going to pony up how much money? And I think he's going to make around thirty seven million dollars if he comes back to the Colt set one year deal for thirty seven million dollars to maybe prove yourself again and then get another contract. The move that I'm really curious about, or the next move for this player, is Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 3: You know, my good buddy, Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 2: Because if I look back when he first started with Arizona, those first three years are respectable.

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Speaker 3: I'll run down the numbers here.

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Speaker 2: First year in Arizona, he completed sixty four percent of his passes. He threw for thirty seven hundred yards, and he had twenty touchdowns twelve interceptions.

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Speaker 3: He was the Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 2: The next year, completed sixty seven percent, threw for thirty nine hundred yards, twenty six touchdowns, twelve interceptions, all very respectable.

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Speaker 3: The third year.

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Speaker 2: He completed almost seventy percent of his passes. He had almost thirty eight hundred yards, twenty four touchdowns, ten interceptions.

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Speaker 3: We're good. And then they signed him to the contract extension.

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Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, it was sixty six percent completion, twenty three one hundred yards, fourteen touchdowns, seven interceptions. Now there are rushing yards to go along with this, And then all of a sudden, the next year it was ten touchdowns, five interceptions, and eighteen hundred yards. Now, he did come back in twenty twenty four almost sixty nine percent completion, almost thirty nine hundred yards, twenty one touchdowns, eleven interceptions. These are all respectable. So there's one, two, three, four, four seasons that are respectable that most teams middle of the road and lower would go sign up for that. In fact, a few teams in the upper tier might go, hey, I'll take that any day. Then you had last year he completed sixty eight percent and he threw fro under one thousand yards, six touchdowns, three interceptions. Now they of course he was a healthy scratch, it felt like, and they were done with him. Now the question is what Kyler Murray can you get? Can I bring back what he was those first three years? Four of his first six years? Very respectable, But a team like Minnesota, you got him inside on turf, you got some receivers, we like Kevin O'Connell as a head coach. Maybe that is sort of his reclamation because we see this and we're going to see this again this year, like who is this year?

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Speaker 3: Sam Donald?

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Speaker 2: And maybe we just named the award after Sam Donald because it's the Reclamation Award goes too, and maybe it's Daniel Jones. But you have some of these players, you know, Gino Smith might end up in Minnesota, end up starting in Minnesota. You have a couple of the you know is Tua Tua will be a reclamation project. The question is will he be good? Where's he going to land? Is he going to be a starter wherever he goes? But Kyler Murray, to me is fascinating because I think it might have been last year where I said, I just feel like he's going to end up on the Jets. And I don't think that's a bad thing because I do think Kyler Murray is better than any other quarterback who was going to be coming out in the draft, aside from Fernando Mendoza.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the Dolphins. But it feels like.

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Speaker 2: Malik Willis is the front runner there in Miami. But if I got Kyler Murray, now, do I want him in a big media market? Not necessarily. He doesn't put himself out there. I don't know how approachable he is. Does he want to do interviews? Does he want to be the face of the franchise? But then you have that negative, that cloud that's always going to be hanging over him.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he wants to be great.

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Speaker 2: I think he's so talented he can be great, but I don't know if he wants to be consistently great or better than that, a leader of a Hall of Famer. I don't know if he wants to do that, And that's what would make me take pause. Do I think he has the talent, Yes, but he's always had the talent. I just don't know if he has motivation. And when they have to put something in your contract that says you got to study, man, that blinking light is not going off anytime soon, and that's what would make me nervous. I don't know if he wants to study. He wants to be the first guy in, the last guy out. And I know it sounds like a cliche, but for him, it shouldn't be a cliche. You got to shake this reputation, and if not, then go play baseball. But he's had so much talent that in high school, if you look at his high school video, it's not fair. Even in college he was electric. But when you get to the pros, I don't care how good you are. I don't care what position you're playing, you have to then put in the time, put in the work, because now you're playing against equals. And for Kyler Murray, I would certainly kick the tires on him. If I'm the Jets, he's not going to cost me a lot, or if I'm Minnesota, he's not going to cost me a lot. But can he give me an upgrade? And I would say yes. But you have to have that meeting with him where you say and you have to look him in the eye as I once did, and you just have to ask him, tell me how you're going to lead this team, tell me why we shouldn't believe anything that we heard with Arizona, and then let him tell you. I believe he can show you, but I need him to tell I need to hear it. I need him to actually believe the words he's telling me. Johnnie Manziel Combine interview where he's going to be what do.

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Speaker 3: You well, let's see what do you need? Yeah? And then I'll ask him about his wife and then what's his wife named?

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Speaker 4: Mary?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll ask him about Mary. They're going to love this, Kyler Murray. I just want to know, do you want to be great? Are you willing to put in the time. And Daniel Jones, you got a one year deal that you're going to have to prove yourself again. You get thirty seven million dollars, which is kind of where I see him anyway. I think he's in that, you know, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold three years, one hundred million. But coming off the Achilles, somebody wants to come in and pay a little bit more. But then the Colts they got rid of Anthony Richardson, so you you don't have real negotiating power. I don't think with Daniel Jones. If he decides he wants to go someplace else, somebody gives him a better offer, you don't want to match it, and then the Colts are back to square one. But the Kyler Murray situation, I think bear watching. We'll talk to Florio about this. And you know you're gonna have pro days coming up. You're gonna get artificially inflated where you're gonna go, oh my gosh, did you see that guy on his pro day? Happens every year and you got to really be cautious. You almost have to remind yourself, Okay, let me see what he did on Saturday, not on a Tuesday in Bloomington eight seven, seven to three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com Twitter handle a DP show the World Baseball Classic getting underway. Some of the backroom guys were watching Puerto Rico against the Red Sox in a tune up there classic match. Yes, everybody was excited about that. Stat of the day brought to you by a Pennini America, the official trading card said the Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 6: I have a couple of ways to word this one. I'm not sure which one one of them feels too mean, But the basic idea is is Kyler Murray a better quarterback than we think? Okay, so I could say, is Kyler Marry a better quarterback than we think? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Or no?

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Speaker 6: Very easy. The way I originally worded it was Kyler Murray is a bad quarterback. Wow, perception or reality a bad I.

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Speaker 2: Can't say he's a bad quarterback. I think he's got the talent to be very good, so I don't.

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Speaker 6: But what is the perception of him. The perception of him is he's not very good, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I think the perception is he doesn't put in the time, he's not a leader. Maybe he doesn't care like Anthony Richardson. You might say, now he's a bad quarterback, but he does have talent. But Kyler Murray, there is proof of concept here, like all right, he's gone out and thrown for almost four thousand yards a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of teams.

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers would take those numbers right now, the Jets would take it. I mean there's quite a Dolphins would take it. Quite a few teams that would take those numbers. The problem is the name attached.

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Speaker 3: To those numbers. So I wouldn't be mean spirited saying it's a bad quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: What was the other way you worded it?

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Speaker 6: Is Kyler Murray a better quarterback than we think?

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Speaker 2: Or maybe you could say, what kind of quarterback is Kyler Murray?

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Speaker 3: Is he very good? Good? Average, stay away? Yeah, Paul, is this.

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Speaker 7: A shared blame situation where the Arizona Cardinals they can take the on a lot of people. They've disappointed a lot, And it's almost like the Jets and the Cardinals are the places quarterbacks don't really want to go. And I'm wondering if Kyler Murray will get the same treatment Sam Darnald got when he left that it's partially the fault of the team.

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Speaker 2: Well, it took a while before Sam proved that it was the Jets who were the problem. And Kyler was better with a bad team like Arizona than Sam was with a bad team like the Jets. So Kyler Murray is talented enough to win games. I think Sam Darnold was brought in. He was drafted because he was the safe choice. He's not a difference maker where he's going to win the games single handedly, like Kyler Murray has shown that he can.

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Speaker 6: Yes, he also had to kind of prove that the Jets and the Panthers were the problem. Yeah, yeah, forty nine ers. He didn't really get a shot Vikings he did, but he did well there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know how you freeze that with Kyler Murray because it feels like he has proven that he can be very good. And yes, it is a franchise that is guaranteed to disappoint, but okay, Arizona got a great tight end Trey mcbrian. They got Marvin Harrison Junior, the third that everybody thought, this is a generational talent and it's been a slow build, so they did surround.

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Speaker 3: Him with talent.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sedon what if I said, Kyler Murray's Murray's biggest problem is perception or reality. So I feel like he has a big perception problem, all right, for a guy you never see him, you never hear anything, but the little bits that he did bubble up. They're like, man, that's not great.

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Speaker 2: Kyler Murray's problem is Kyler Murray. In my opinion, it goes back to those who are extremely talented. And I always point out, you know, Jordan had all this talent, but he worked so hard when he got to the NBA. Tyger had all this talent, but when he got to the PGA tour, he worked tirelessly. He worked, you know, harder than anybody, did you know, JaMarcus Russell had incredible talent. He just he's always had incredible talent. HEAs didn't want to work. And that happens with these players that it's so easy for you. You are the star. You're the star there in high school, star in college. Now you're gonna be the number one overall pick. Hey, I could have played baseball if I wanted to. Hey, I'm gonna do. I'll go back to Michael Vick. And that's the cautionary tale. And I think I even told Mike when I've had him on before, he should talk to Kyler Murray because it's very similar. You know, Michael Vick didn't put in the time. He was just an elite athlete that you feel like, I don't have to until you do. I don't care who it is you do. And Kyler is sort of like, you know, maybe a right handed Michael Vick, not as explosive, you know, straight ahead speed, I don't think, but quickness. And he's completing sixty seven, sixty eight sixty nine percent of his passes like those are pedestrian and you're throwing for twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven touchdowns. You're throwing for thirty eight thirty nine hundred yards. Okay, in today's NFL, those are all respectable, but I just think Kyler is Kyler's problem.

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Speaker 2: Bringing Mike Florio Pro Football Talk Live co host and of course, Football Night in America Insider. Where do you want to start? Which situation piques your interest the most?

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Speaker 5: Mike, Well, you're already talking about the man of the moment, Kyler Murray. He'll be released next week and the key here is Dan. The Cardinals owem thirty six point eight million, fully guaranteed for twenty twenty six. He can do what Russell Wilson did two years ago. Take the minimum on a one year deal, stick his former team with the balance, because nobody's gonna pay more than thirty six point eight million for twenty twenty six, and you go to a team at a low cost. That team saves millions in cash and potential cap space to put a good team around you. So that in and of itself makes him desirable because he can sign for one point three million. In fact, I would suggest if he's got multiple suitors, his position should be I want to know trade and I want to know tag clause I want a true one year arrangement and I go wherever I want next year. And you don't get into this Daniel Jones situation where you got the transition tag. You are a true fe agent a year from now if you have the kind of year that sets you up for a big payday.

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Speaker 2: Okay, If I look at his first three years in Arizona, those are respectable numbers, and then I think he had another season that he threw for what thirty eight hundred yards as well, So there's what four years out of six years with Kyler Murray. I mean that's that's a good sample size. I just don't know what the perception is around the league with him, either as a football player or is it everything attached to that football player.

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Speaker 5: Well, Dan, I think the relationship with Arizona went off the rails after his third season and it was time for him to get a new contract. The worst thing the Cardinals could have done was jam that stupid ass study clause. Can I say stupid ass? I just said it twice?

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Speaker 3: He did it twice and.

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Speaker 5: Two contracting Because, as I said earlier today on PFG Live, the moment that thought enters your brain if you're Michael Bidwell, the owner of the Cardinals, the moment you actually say it out loud and put it in writing, that's when they should have traded him. If you have those kinds of misgivings about a guy that you've had three years with, and if you think he doesn't work hard enough to the point where you're willing to put it in writing that he's got an obligation to put it in twenty hours a week of study, that's when you sell high. That's when you trade him to another team. Look where they are four years later, What have they done? In the four years since then nothing. They would have gotten so much more if they had flipped Kyler Murray once they realized we've got concerns about him, but they felt compelled to pay him. They felt compelled to justify using the first overall pick on him. And here's where they are not just letting him walk away for nothing, letting him walk away and owing him net thirty five point five million if he does a one year deal for the veteran minimum.

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Speaker 3: I would still take a chance on it.

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Speaker 2: If I'm Minnesota, Atlanta put him indoors, and I would take a chance on him.

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Speaker 5: Mike Dan last two year, as we were getting close to the trade deadline, I was casting a wide net to see which players who we might not be thinking of could be available in trade. And at the time it was obvious something odd was going on between the Cardinals and Kyler Murray. He hadn't played in several weeks, and I poked around whether or not he could be traded now. There were too many moving parts, the contract would have to be addressed, too much needed to be done in a short time frame for a trade to have But I was told at the time there were two teams. He wanted to play for the Raiders because they had Chip Kelly. Well, that ship has sailed, and the Vikings because of Kevin O'Connell. And where are the Vikings right now? They've got JJ McCarthy. They're clearly looking for anyone in everyone that potentially could come in and bolster that depth chart. A year after they made the bad decision of not having an established veteran on the roster, here's Kyler Murray for one point three million. How could they say no to that unless Kevin O'Connell is in the camp And there's a camp out there of coaches who just don't want a guy who's south of six two, No matter who it is, I don't want a short quarterback. There's gonna be coaches like that. But you mentioned the Falcons. Kevin Stefanski's already had short quarterback in Cleveland and Dylan Gabriel. I think the wild card in Atlanta is whether or not it's six foot five inch. Matt Ryan, the president of Football Operation, says no, no, no, no, no, no no. We can't have a guy who's under six feet tall playing quarterback.

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Speaker 2: In Stefans Gad Baker Mayfield as well in Cleveland. Right to what got a chance to be a starter next year?

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Speaker 5: It depends on where the other dominoes fall. I love the quarterback carousel. You know, the coaching carousel has to come to a complete stop. We know where all the head coaches are, we know the coordinators are, and now we can start trying to figure out where these quarterbacks are going to land. And there's a chance somebody's going to talk themselves into two kuah based upon the good things he did with the Miami Dolphins. He wasn't horrible. He did enough to get them to give him a market value contract, even though that was ridiculous that they paid him when they did. They weren't bidding against anyone but themselves. He was under contract for another year. Sure, let's give him fifty five million a year. That was a huge mistake. That was almost of Deshaun watson lovel mistake by the Miami Dolphins. But if you get him in the right circumstances, you put him in the right offense, he can make things happen. The problem for him is that when the play that's there or the play that's called isn't there, things kind of short circuit, but he's not alone. Kirk Cousins falls into that camp. There are plenty of quarterbacks who do a fine job at the NFL level who aren't capable of the Patrick Mahomes Josh Allen make magic when things go sideways. So there will be someone who will talk themselves into the possibility of giving him an opportunity. And he's going to be in that same boat as Kyler one point three million on a one year deal because the Dolphins own fifty four million fully guaranteed this year.

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Speaker 2: Mike Florio Pro Football Talk Live co host the Transition Tag with Daniel Jones. You've allowed Anthony Richardson to seek a trade someplace else. You've kind of taken away your leverage here a little bit, I would think with Daniel Jones, haven't you if you're Indianapolis?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the Colts are content to see what a team will offer him on a long term deal, given that he's still recovering from a torn achilles tendon that happened less than three months ago. And for him, he's got a great bird in the hand here thirty seven point eight million. All he's got to do is sign his name to the offer and he gets it with no exceptions, no limitations. I don't have to pass a physical it by this day to day. You know, sometimes you'll see contracts that have those in there. When you got a guy coming off a serious injury, he gets thirty seven to eight. Last year he got fourteen. It's been a good year for Daniel Jones. And now let's just see if someone offers him kind of long term contract that he would accept and then the Colts would have the opportunity to match it. And I don't know that anyone's going to do it, but the worst case scenario for Jones, well, the worst case scenario is the Colts rescind the transition tender and then he's a free agent after all the money has flowed. But if he just plays under the transition tag this year, that's thirty seven eight for a guy that we thought when the Giants cut him his days of making big money in the NFL were over.

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Speaker 3: We do this every year.

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Speaker 2: I caution teams every year, look at what happens on Saturdays, not what happens on a Thursday or Friday. In Indianapolis at the combine, we fall in love with these moments here these players here, and I still go back to what did you do in an actual game situation? But can you see, can you give me a couple of names since you were there, where you go what they did is going to elevate their draft status, and rightfully so.

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Speaker 5: Pa, I mean, you look at what Sonny Styles, the Ohio State linebacker did just off the charts across the boards. You've got the Arkansas quarterback who had eye popping numbers and he's six four two twenty five. Those are things that can help. But you're right, Dan, we have seen what a guy does when it's eleven on eleven. But doesn't mean if you.

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Speaker 2: Pause, though, Mike, when you go look at all of that talent that guy has and then you go, well, what did he do on Saturdays? How did Sonny Styles not reek havoc where we go, oh my god, he's the next Micah Parsons.

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Speaker 5: And that's a great question. Well, you got a bunch of you got a bunch of other great defenders. Maybe the other guys were getting the ball before he took. I don't know, but Dan, you know, this is where I think bad teams, dysfunctional teams get infatuated by measurables, by analytics, by numbers, and they lose sight of the eyeball test as it relates to what the guy does on the field. Remember Vernon Golston, he was the pass rusher from Ohio State and he ended up going a lot higher than he should have because he had all the measurables. But what happens when you get in a game, what do you do to make a difference when it's time to go out there and use those skills in a very different setting. So the good teams get it. The good teams know it's just one piece of a bigger puzzle, and sometimes the bad teams put too much emphasis on the wrong things, whether it's what a guy does in underwear in Indianapolis, or you know, sometimes they put too much emphasis on what a guy does in college because you look at what he did in this game against a MAX school and you get infatuated by that, and you overlook what he did when it was time to go play one of the top schools if he didn't have a big day that day. So it's complicated, and we see that certain teams have figured it out and certain teams have it.

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Speaker 3: The market for Malik Willis is what.

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Speaker 5: Well a GM told me last week that the thinking is between twenty to twenty five million dollars on a two or three deal. Shorter term is better for Malik Willis because if he goes somewhere and he plays for a full season like he did when he got opportunities in the last two years with the Packers, then he'll be in line to get paid a much bigger salary. I think there's two teams to watch who are going to be the the ultimate litmus test here, the Dolphins and the Cardinals, because you've got two guys from Green Bay the past two years who are now calling the shots in Miami, and John Eric Sullivan and Jeff Hafley. They know Malik Willis, not just when we see him play. They know him all the time. They know him in the meeting room, they know him on the practice field. They know what he can do. If they're not in on Malik Willis, that's a red flag for anyone else who doesn't know him. And with the Cardinals, Matt Lafleur the head coach of the Packers, his brother Mike is the head coach of the Cardinals. Now, I'd like to think that Matt would say to Mike, Hey, man, I know you need a quarterback. This may be a guy that you want to take a look at, because I think he can do it. I'll see Longen because when he played the last two years, the numbers one hundred and thirty four plus passer rating, averaging more than ten yards per attempt, seventy five percent plus completion percentage. The guy has been very good. But as I was cautioned last week, you got to understand why he wasn't very good in Tennessee. As part of the overall picture, the Titans gave him away for a seventh round pick.

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Speaker 2: Dan, you make great points there before I let you go. The Drew Dolman situation with the Bears. Here's a high end center who just got paid last year. He's twenty seven. He walks in, he says, I'm retiring. Do we know anything more about this?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know when I thought about the situation last night, and the Bears could try to seek four million back from him because he got a six million dollar signing bonus on a three year deal. Technically he hasn't earned that four million in the collective bargaining agreement. Lets the Bears go get it if they choose to. And I thought last night, when you look at what he did on the first year of his contract, he had a career seison, played every snap in the regular season, started nineteen games if we include the playoffs. Pro bowler, you know, was he maybe looking for an adjustment and the Bears said no, and this is part of a broader leverage play. And I poked around a little on that. My understanding is that's not the case. He's just done. And nobody knows their body better than the players. Five years of wear and tear. And you know, I say this all the time with anyone. Remember when Vonte Davis retired during a game, Like the moment that you're no longer willing to go out on the field and subject yourself to that physical toll, the risk that happens on every snap. The moment you're not willing to do it, then you shouldn't And I respect it. Whenever a guy decides he's had enough, and by all indications, Drew Dolmen decided he'd had enough.

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Speaker 2: Vonte Davis retiring at halftime. Though that feels like a thirty for thirty, Mike, Well, it.

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Speaker 5: Was a hell of a story when it happened, But again the moment that you don't want to do it for whatever reason. It takes so much to go out there and subject yourself to that. And I think if you're out there and you don't want to be, you're just asking for an injury, You're asking for a bad outcome. You've got to be all in to survive, not just thrive, but survive in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: What's the Combine's future.

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Speaker 5: Well, fortunately, guys like Jerry Jones have realized the prospect of making it a traveling road show, which was a hot topic five or six years ago. That's died down because we already see coaches not go. If this thing was less convenient than it is in Indianapolis, and it's perfect in Indianapolis. Everything is close together, the city isn't overrun by fans, The coaches, the scouts. They they can get to where they need to be quickly. If it's in La or something like that, you got to drive two hours here and two hours you'll have fewer coaches go. I think what happened Dan a decade or so ago, it felt like the Combine was on a trajectory to become a massive offseason tent poll for the NFL. I think we've gotten to the point where it kind of is what it is. You know, last year on the Saturday for the quarterback, receiver and running back workouts average four hundred and eighty four thousand viewers. That's nothing as relates to what the NFL usually does. So I think they recognize it for what it is. It started as a way to get everybody together so you could do medical examination of all the players in one spot so you don't have to drag them all over the country and getting poke, poked and prodded here and there. I think people recognize it for what it isn't and they recognize it for what it is, and I think it's going to stay in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna try my hardest, guys, But as.

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Speaker 2: You said, all of those people who have been mean to me about my small hands, and don't you think it's ironic that I flip them off with my small hands? I go no, I don't think it's ironic at all. I think it's wrong the full circle moment. Yes, you can't, it's not the circle of wife. Just don't do that again. You flip people off Scottie Scheffler, Rory McElroy, the PGA Tours Elite take on Bayhill. It's the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Master Cards. Saturday and Sunday to thirty Eastern on NBC and Peacock coming up, we'll play the Reclamation game.

00:31:10
Speaker 3: Which quarterback? Who is going to be this year's Sam Darnold. We'll have that.

00:31:15
Speaker 2: We'll actually have a draft. Is that what you want to do? That will do a snake draft?

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:31:20
Speaker 7: Quick, two round snake draft.

00:31:22
Speaker 3: Okay, all right?

00:31:23
Speaker 2: Eight seven to seven to three DP Show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls. Are Kyler Murray? Poll questions today kind of dominated the first two hours. What are we going to go with the final hour of the program, Seaton? Well, I have a.

00:31:36
Speaker 6: Few other options here from topics. We haven't really got to one off of Todd's topic. But more legit TGL or liv?

00:31:45
Speaker 8: Oh?

00:31:45
Speaker 2: Well, well, I would say live is more legitimate than tea TGL?

00:31:51
Speaker 3: Is it though?

00:31:53
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:31:53
Speaker 2: Because now they're playing four rounds. I don't know if they're doing the music anymore. I do our short, Yeah, don't. I think they can still wear shorts.

00:32:02
Speaker 5: But you know.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: I've played at a country club where you have to wear long pants every single time you play, no matter what the temperature is, it'll be ninety five and you got to wear long pants.

00:32:17
Speaker 3: I don't play it very often.

00:32:20
Speaker 2: In fact, I get invited, but I don't want to play because golf's hard enough. I don't want to be out there in ninety five degree weather with my long pants on. I need to show these legs. You know, that's going to be a distraction to the people that I'm playing with. They focus on that instead of their golf game.

00:32:35
Speaker 9: Yes, todd to a certain extent, it's already a snooty sport. You gotta add you gotta wear pants even if it's one hundred degrees.

00:32:41
Speaker 3: On top of that, we get it, you're better than everyone else.

00:32:43
Speaker 7: That's golf.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: Also, when you go into the grill area, have to take off your hat, you have to have your sure tail tucked in. Now, there are golf courses in America where you can basically not wear anything, and it's all men's club and they don't care what you wear and don't wear. Although I don't think I want to play golf where I'm not wearing anything.

00:33:07
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, but the kiss of death. If you ever go to a golf course and see someone walking out with jeans on, that may be worse than anything. You cannot wear jeans whilst golfing.

00:33:17
Speaker 2: No you can't, you cannot, no, no, no, but I've seen it before cutoffs, yeah, certain golf courses.

00:33:26
Speaker 3: But yeah.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: The Bayhill Invitation on the Arnold Palmer is coming up this weekend on NBC and Peacock, which is where you can find this program. Download the app if you haven't done so. The pole question for the final hour Seaton did you tell me?

00:33:40
Speaker 3: And I forgot?

00:33:41
Speaker 6: Well, you kind of poop pooed the live versus TG. I'll put that up there any kay, just to see. We also had another topic this morning that we haven't really gotten around to, but it was controversial the donut should be a breakfast food or dessert.

00:34:00
Speaker 7: It's breakfast.

00:34:01
Speaker 2: Why you just get something quick, you start your morning, you be a little energy, and you're on your way.

00:34:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, we couldn't it just be sort of universally loved throughout the day. Why is it? Why is the donut of breakfast foot? It's more desserty than anything else you could think of.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: Well, you don't have dessert at lunch, and if you're gonna have dessert dessert at dinner, it's not gonna be a donut make dessert lunch again, is that what I would say? Your donut is your breakfast. It's just something quick. You don't have to have somebody whip up eggs and bacon. Its just like heh, grab a donut, Get what todd.

00:34:38
Speaker 9: A donut should not be breakfast, I understand it. Or you grab it and you think of dunkin or whatever and you get your coffee, whatever. But if a donut was shaped like a piece of chocolate cake, none of us would consider it, Oh, what do you have for breakfast?

00:34:47
Speaker 2: Cake? So you're saying the shape of the donut is the reason why we don't embrace.

00:34:52
Speaker 4: It, as I think a lot of people see a donut.

00:34:54
Speaker 9: We're so used to being like a type of maybe a breakfast thing. But if the donut was shaped more like a dessert where we had the same kind of ingredients as desserts, So it's kind of insane because it's shaped like a circle with a hole missing, all of a sudden, it's breakfast. But if it was shaped like a cake, it'd be like, what are you eating cake for breakfast? For even if it was made of the same exact ingredients but not shaped like a circle.

00:35:13
Speaker 6: Slow Down Take arguably the best oriantids ever had on this show.

00:35:17
Speaker 3: Support Take a breath.

00:35:19
Speaker 7: Yes, a couple things. If we were putting donuts in a lane, are they a breakfast item or a treat?

00:35:27
Speaker 3: I would say they're a breakfast item.

00:35:29
Speaker 7: I look back at the history of donuts, which I always have on my screen at the ready. It was more of a daytime treat to have with coffee and tea than a breakfast item back when it was originated.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're having coffee and tea in the morning and that could be breakfast.

00:35:46
Speaker 7: Early donuts were an all day treat.

00:35:50
Speaker 2: I'm not a donutter Like, I'm not big on we had donuts brought in yesterday.

00:35:55
Speaker 3: I'm like, eh, you know, yes.

00:35:58
Speaker 9: DoD I don't think you're going to the right dotor like if there's a Krispy Kream. There are some donuts shops that are like they are to take that real seriously, some'mores donuts and.

00:36:06
Speaker 3: Apple for ther donuts.

00:36:07
Speaker 9: There's like fifty different types of donuts in some of these places.

00:36:10
Speaker 2: I remember when Krispy Kream opened up a store and people went crazy crazy, and I went.

00:36:17
Speaker 4: What are you doing?

00:36:18
Speaker 6: There were lines like miles long waiting to get into Krispy Kreme to get a box of donuts.

00:36:23
Speaker 3: I know, crazy.

00:36:25
Speaker 9: You know what's signed? They didn't say next to Krispy kreame come join us for breakfast and have some donuts. I'm pretty sure that I'd say, we're opening six or ten am for breakfast.

00:36:32
Speaker 4: Here's the donuts.

00:36:34
Speaker 3: It's just Krispy Cream donuts. I got it. You fired up today man with your donuts. Yeah.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: I'm not big on but if I'm gonna grat I have half a one. But then it drives Polly crazy because if I cut it in half, and then it'd be like, just take the whole thing, take it with you, and I go, I don't want the whole thing. Then I'll eat the whole thing. Any other questions, any other pole questions, any other thoughts before you get Oh, I mentioned this yesterday. I come in and I say to Paulie, I said, hey, I don't know if you know Charles Barkley's got an interesting job during March Madness. So I don't tell Paul. Go through the entire show, and Paul sends me an email and he goes, hey, by the way, Charles Barkley is going to be working with Dick vy Tal. He's going to be doing one of the first four games on True TV, And I go, damn it, I was going to tell you that he was going to do this with Dicky V and Brian Anderson. So Charles is going to do a game with Dick EV and that'll be great. It'll be awesome, baby, True TV. That'll be that opening Tuesday of the NCAA tournament.

00:37:44
Speaker 9: Yes, uh, which is interesting because Dick mikeel always says everything is awesome and Barkley always says everything is terrible. Accord it to Frank Callendo's a quession. So you got awesome and terrible. The dichotomy is fascinating.

00:37:55
Speaker 2: So Charles got a fun gig there. That'd be interesting to hear him do a game. Let me see, is there anything else that needs to be mentioned? And we'll play the Reclamation Project game. So the idea is to choose the quarterback who will have the most success with the team that didn't draft him heading into next season. Okay, So that's a player who has already improved but can still have more of an upward trajectory. Now, Daniel Jones said to be a free agent or well ish, but I think he I'm not going to put him in the game. Okay, Malik Willis, I'll put him in the game. Kyler Murray and Tua they'll be in the game. So Kyler Murray, Malik Willis. See Mac Jones isn't available, but he could be, could be. We'll put him in. Tua, Anthony Richardson, Davis Mills, spent, Spencer Rattler, Tanner McKee who was in Bad News Bears. I think no, No, he wasn't. Sounds like a quarterback, Joe Milton. Joe Milton.

00:39:05
Speaker 6: So I'm literally looking at Joe Milton right now to see where where is he going to fall in this because I am taking him first.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Uh how about we use arm length. That'll be who goes first here?

00:39:18
Speaker 7: Yes, Paul is Aaron Rodgers available in this draft?

00:39:22
Speaker 3: Is he a free agent?

00:39:24
Speaker 7: Yes? I think I think he would be in this draft.

00:39:30
Speaker 3: All right?

00:39:31
Speaker 6: See reclamation project worthy though, I mean.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna I'm going to rule no. I'm going to say no that he is not a reclamation project. These other ones are. He's a squeeze one more year out of them, the project.

00:39:47
Speaker 3: That's all. That's just a farewell tour.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray, Malik Willis, Mack Jones, Ta Anthony Richardson, Davis Mills, Spencer Rattler, Tanner McKee and he's the Eagles backup quarterback.

00:39:59
Speaker 3: And Joe Milton.

00:40:00
Speaker 2: All right, we have to throw another one in there because there's five of us and we're gonna have so can he picket Will Levis, Trey Lance, Zac Wilson. So it's a two round draft. The shortest arms Todd or see Paul your fall. Yeah, Paul you go.

00:40:22
Speaker 7: First, man. I don't think they're gonna let mac Jones go. I have to go with Malik Willis as my number one draft.

00:40:30
Speaker 3: All right. Next on the list would be that would be Seaton at.

00:40:34
Speaker 6: Four for four. I am taking Joseph Joe Milton because I love that dude.

00:40:41
Speaker 3: That brings us to the massively long armed Fritzy.

00:40:46
Speaker 7: I'm gonna take Trey Lance.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:40:50
Speaker 9: I think there's still something about him that we haven't heard the last of Trey Lance and his ability is under centered.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: Hey, yes, Paul, is Russell Wilson on the board if you want to put him on the board, just check. You can get Zach Wilson, not Russell. Who would you rather have better? Wis I'm gonna take Kyler Murray Junior the third, now the incredibly long armed Marvin Prince, Zach Wilson. Then it comes back to me. I am going to go with Chew a tonga Iyola. Next up Tom's.

00:41:29
Speaker 6: If it's a snake draft? Does doesn't Marvin pick twice?

00:41:33
Speaker 1: Oh?

00:41:34
Speaker 3: Oops?

00:41:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, so sorry, Dan, you have to give that pick.

00:41:37
Speaker 3: Okay, I give that pick.

00:41:38
Speaker 4: Oh no, you can keep yours.

00:41:40
Speaker 3: Oh you don't want to.

00:41:42
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going Spencer Rattler, Okay, Todd, I'm.

00:41:50
Speaker 9: Gonna grab Anthony Richardson.

00:41:52
Speaker 2: Okay, Paul, I'm gonna go with Gardener. No, it's seating, it's Seaton. I'm gonna go with Gardener. Now I'll take mac Jones.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: All right. We don't know if he's going to be available.

00:42:06
Speaker 6: We don't know if he's but that's someone's going him.

00:42:09
Speaker 3: You're betting on him, Paul having to go.

00:42:12
Speaker 7: With Gardner Minshew with the Chiefs.

00:42:13
Speaker 2: Okay, anybody interesting who didn't get selected. Davis Mills is pretty good, Will Levis, Yeah, Will Levis, Kenny Pickett.

00:42:26
Speaker 6: Sam Howell, Ow Tanner McKee.

00:42:30
Speaker 3: To no one did.

00:42:32
Speaker 6: When we're Stanford quarterback, I mean there's enough for one more round.

00:42:36
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm good.

00:42:37
Speaker 2: I'm good. Who is going to be this year's Sam Donald? Who is going My money is on none of them? Well, you'd have to win the super Bowl, right exactly?

00:42:50
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:42:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, And maybe that's not fair to say who's going to be this year Sam Donald? Because any of these guys going to be a Super Bowl winning quarterback and the answer would be no.

00:43:00
Speaker 6: Hey, this year's Indiana. They did well, Yeah, Indiana was this year's Indiana? Yeah, Yeah, Sam Donald's gonna be this year Sam Donald.

00:43:10
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, I was only going off of Sam Donald with the vikings, like, you know what, he'll be a Pro Bowl player, have a really good year. I wasn't thinking about winning the super Bowl because if that's the case, I didn't want any part of this draft.

00:43:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's the thing.

00:43:23
Speaker 2: You can't say it's the Sam Donald Award because Sam won a Super Bowl. If this was Sam Donald in Minnesota or Baker Mayfield in Tampa, then that would be different. But yeah, the super Bowl attachment there, that's a pretty lofty goal.