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March 22, 2025 • 13 mins

A selection of the best Kyle Brandt cuts from the Week of March 17th:

  • From Who Dey to Who Pay!
  • Fav sporting event after Super Bowl
  • Rewriting Myles Garrett Presser
  • Making the most sense for Aaron Rodgers
  • The most interesting player to watch this season
  • Should Cam Heyward want Rodgers on Steelers?
  • Barefoot in New England

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
It is a very cool day. It is a very
cool day for a lot of different reasons. It's exciting,
it's famous players getting huge money. And I'm actually really
impressed with the Bengals because right or wrong, they had
this reputation and their front offs so their organization of
won't pay it is gone from who day to who pay?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
And they pay, They pay their guys.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It just wouldn't be me, guys if I didn't say,
also like, okay, this is a really good day for
the Bengals offense. It's a very good day for the
Bengals offense. I don't know yet if it is a
very very good day for the twenty twenty five Bengals record.

(01:03):
I don't know that, Higgins. They got Jamar Chase. That's
a wonderful thing and everyone can do their tweets about
they got that bag and they got all paid all capitals.
Are you picking the Bengals go to the Super Bowl
next year? Are you picking the Bengals to win the North?
You're probably picking the Bengals to win your fantasy league.
But I picked the Ben Affleck meme for Bengals defensive
coordinator Al Golden who was sitting outside.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
With a cigarette, like, what am I gonna do? Guys?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
There is still a very very good pass rusher who
was out there. I don't know if he's going to
be part of the team moving forward. His name is
Trey Hendrickson. And if he's not, who is? I have
to put the cards on the table. Exciting day, sure,
but nobody wants to have the best offense on a
team that doesn't make the playoffs, and right now there
are shades of that. My favorite sporting events other than

(01:50):
the Super Bowl. You know, I've actually cried at a
sporting event before and you would think, you know, was
the Cubs winning the World Series in twenty sixteen?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Was it the Bears winning the Super Bowl in January
eighty sixth.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I cried at WrestleMania last year. I did it. I've
never been to WrestleMania before.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I went to the Linking Financial Field with the Eagles
play this last year.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I brought my son. I brought my son who was
in fourth grade.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
You will not believe how amazing this experience is and
the presentation. Imagine if you combined a sporting event and
a rock concert, and.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's somewhere in between.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
In the last main events, they're doing all these cameos,
and the rocks walking in and John Cena's running in
and I'm getting so emotional. And in the middle of
all this chaos, they turn the lights out and you
just hear and it's the Undertaker's music. And the Undertaker
when the lights come back on, is in the middle
of the ring, as if it was magic.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
My son is screaming at me and he looks in
the ring.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
He looks at me and goes, are you crying out?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, a little bit. I'm getting a little worked up.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I had one tear going down my cheek like grima
worm tongue. Looking at Saramon's army, I couldn't believe what
I was seeing, and it was just an amazing product.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I've been to a lot of Super Bowls. I've seen
them all. I was at.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Twenty eight to three, I was at that horrible Jason
mccordy rams Patriots one.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I was at this one.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I have never come close to shedding a tear, But
when the Undertaker stood up and choke slammed the rock,
I'm sitting there. I needed a tissue that was the
power of WrestleMania.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm the fan and I'll never forget it.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
What I learned during this free agency period is that
after really decades and decades of trying to do this
with the media and with the athletes, we still have
not solved the it's not about the money quote and
all the fallout that comes from that case. In point,
Miles Garrett, we know how this went down. He goes
around Super Bowl week, he does n't a bunch of
different interviews after posting a letter that he wants out

(03:46):
of Cleveland, wants to go win a super Bowl, uses
the phrase it's not about money to rich Eise it.
In many other places, he's gone, it's done. He just
wants to win. Cleveland pulls out a massive contract out
of nowhere, and for a brief period of time, Miles says,
let's go, and I'm the most expensive, most highest paid
non quarterback play ever. He had a media session that

(04:06):
was just a few days ago, and we haven't gotten
to talk about it as a show.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And it was actually very cool.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
And there's dinosaurs everywhere, and you know he's a dinosaur enthusiast,
and it was looked at as a really cool moment
for the Cleveland Browns, and there's cupcakes with dinosaurs and
all this type of stuff. There was just a period
where he made his statement, and of course he got
a bunch of follow ups from the media about you know,
you said it was this.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
And this, money this and money this and not wanting
to win this, and it was just a little awkward.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And in a day that he was trying to have
you about celebration, he's getting these follow up questions about money.
So honestly, as well represented as he is, there's part
of me, as a fan that wishes that I could
have personally written the remarks or the speech for Miles
Garrett to sit down and speak to the Cleveland media,
because if I could have, this is how it would

(04:54):
have gone. It would have gone like this, all right,
here we go, Miles Garrett, massive deal, said he wanted.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Now he's here.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, good afternoon. How's everyone doing. Good
to see everybody listen, Like you wouldn't have come back
for that deal, no, listen. I was so impressed and
proud and grateful to the Cleveland Browns for making an
offer of that stature. Number one, it would be irresponsible
to my family to walk away from that level of
financial security.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Part of the.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Reason I'm here is the money. I'm going to shoot
you straight. However, number two, the Browns organization also showed
a great deal about how they feel regarding the future.
The fact that they wouldn't let their best player leave,
wouldn't trade me, and made me an offer I can't refuse,
tells me, in fact, how serious they are about winning.

(05:40):
I understand they could have traded me for many picks
and began that very rebuild that I told you all
I wanted no part of.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
But they didn't.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
I saw them like I've never seen them before, because
they've never made a deal like this before. It was
about the money, and the money said we want to win,
and we want to do it now, and we don't
want to do it without you.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
There are many dinosaurs here today.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm an enthusiast for the Jurassic Period, and I felt
like my life as a Cleveland brown was reaching extinction.
But this organization reminded me life finds a way, and
to quote John Hammond, they spared no expense.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Now I'd like to open up for questions that should
have been the statement.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And I am here for hire for a far, far,
far lesser number than Miles Garrett. Is there for hire
for any athlete who wants to hit all the right
notes when saying.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, hell yeah, the money matter, you stupid. Of course
it's the money, but there's also some real substance behind it,
and that's why I am here. Well, the Jets segue
is easy.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
The guy that they took the right steps to a
couple of years ago, Aaron Rodgers is still taking steps
on the beach, wrapped in some sort.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Of blanket and looking out into the future.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
As far as I know, we might as well be
because we still don't have the decision.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
And as here's where we are, let's to pick up
at this as.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Russ Tucker is a great friend of mine, we've had
him on the show, and I'm going to paraphrase, but
he's making the point about listen, both things can be true.
Aaron Rodgers deserves all the time to make this the
career defining decision, because a guy with twenty years served
and he can take whatever time he wants, and the
fact that he's waiting and waiting, waiting, and all the
media circling around him kind of just underlines the reasons

(07:18):
some franchises don't want him because it's always something, and
even if he does something that makes sense, like taking
his time to make a decision, it becomes a news
story that then comes to your franchise and your company.
I'm still the same place with Rogers as a fan.
I'm done seeing him play. It's fine if I'm trying
to see where he has to land someplace. I think

(07:39):
Pittsburgh is the best spot for a million different reasons that.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
I've talked about at nauseum. So is everybody else the.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Most fascinating one and the tastiest one if you're just
want some sort of titillating media. As he goes to
the Vikings and there's the New York Times article that
comes out, there's written by a few people who say that,
you know, O'Connell's interested, and the Vikings are interested, and
of course Rogers is interested. My take on it is
the elephant in the room would be, of course, oh
my god, he's doing the Brett Farv thing again. Where

(08:05):
by some very infinitesimal odds, he goes from the Packers
to a brief stop with the jets to the Vikings
and he gets to play against the Packers. It is
a crazy coincidence if it happens, and I do think
it's a coincidence. I think Brett Favre genuinely and passionately
wanted to go against the Packers.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I don't know if Rogers is like that.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
In fact, if you had to ask me, I don't
think it's that. I think Rogers' motivation of play with
the Vikings as he's looking at the wide receivers and
the coach, and if they were in the NFC North
and they didn't have the Packers on the schedule, I
think you would have the same desire to play there.
That is a team set up for Rogers to cook.
The fact that he goes into Lambeau, I don't know,
you're gonna go in there and you can get.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
To get booed.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
You have everybody make these signs about you know, you
suck this, and like, I don't even know if he
wants that in his life. There's nothing taking medicine out
in the jungle that says go take revenge on the
team where you.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Spent eighteen years. I think it is so.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I think the Vikings would be the most interesting. I
don't think Rogers is waiting around for them to offer
him a job just so he can go and stick
it to the Packers.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I want the end.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
He wants that job, so we could throw it to Jefferson,
and who can blame him at this point. If you
made me choose one that would be the most fun,
it's the Vikings. I still say, if he's going to
go somewhere, the one that makes the most sense for
the football I still think is the Steelers. I think
Sean McVay is the best coach in the NFL, I
really do. And it's they left us with that bittersweet
taste at the end of the season where it looked

(09:26):
like they really were going to pull off the impossible
and somehow beat the Eagles in the snow, and then
the Eagles just flexed on them and it was over
the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Listen, it's the Sam.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Donald conversation, right, and we're gonna have the same one
until next six months, and the schedule is going to
drop and you know, in a matter of weeks in
the offseason, and we're going to look at that first
primetime game that the Seahawks have on the road against
a really good NFC opponent, and we will pull up
with popcorn and see what Sam Donald has. I can't
really answer any questions definitively out the Seahawks until the

(09:55):
games happened, because anybody else does.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Is just guessing what we're going to get from Donald.
It's such a mixed.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Bag resume the good, the high, the low, and that
could be just last year.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
So it is. I've said this before.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I think he's the most interesting player in the league
this season. Interesting because you do not know how the
movie is.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Going to end.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So that makes the Seahawks one of the most interesting teams.
They're physical, they run really hard, they have good defensive players.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Do they have a big game quarterback? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
You don't know, and really I don't think they know.
I like Cam and I like what Cam stands for.
I think in most eras of Steelers football, I would
agree where the Steelers it's an honor to join us
like the Packers, so honor and accept the invitation or GTFO, But.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Not in this era.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
This era for the Steelers is we can't find a
quarterback and our coach can't find the divisional round era
Cam says he's not going on a darkness retreat. He's
already on one. Cam has not won a playoff game
since twenty seventeen. He and his whole team have been
on a darkness retreat for eight years. Rogers merely adopted

(11:05):
the dark Most of the Steelers on this team were
born in it.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
So no, the pitch is not just Pittsburgh Steelers. It's
Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Aaron, just play as well as you did last year
and you'll be the best quarterback we've had in a
long time.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Cam has nothing to prove.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
We know there's a Super Bowl champ, Walter Payton, Man
of the Year, universally respected.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
He has nothing to prove. Mike Tomlin does. Though.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Mike Tomlin has to prove he should still be the
coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he needs a quarterback
to do it with. Of Course, of course it's annoying
to wait for Rogers. Of course Cam is tired of
talking about it, But he's got to be more tired
of talking about losing every January, right, because I listened
to Cam's podcasts after this most recent playoff loss of

(11:51):
the Steelers. He talks about letting the fans down, letting
themselves down, and he says it's unacceptable, and that's exactly
the right word.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
It's unacceptable. I respect that.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Waiting around for a forty one year old quarterback to
decide if he wants to toss a bouquet to the
Pittsburgh Steelers feels like it's beneath the Pittsburgh Steelers. But
right now, you got to keep on waiting because I
don't recognize a lot of these Pittsburgh Steelers. Waiting until
late July is better than losing in early January. The

(12:23):
weight continues. Matt Collins is out there. He feels like
he's been on fifty different teams. He's very well liked,
he's good at media. He's like the Kyle van Noy
of wide receiver. I like him right now in New England.
He's going where he's going to go back with Jack McDaniel.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
We got this.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Can we just take a second for everybody at the table,
this type of character, the barefoot thing dude walks around
three sixty five with no shoes or socks on Van
Noy and Derwin.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
What do you guys think of it?

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Hey man, I definitely believe in the grounding before the game.
Definitely get that feel of the atmosphere out there. So
I'm with you, hey, KB, It's something I like to
do to get grounding. Mac is actually a former teammate.
I've been in the league so long. I feel like
everyone one's been my teammate.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
But Max awesome for me too. Max awesome for a locker.
I think he's gonna do great in New England. He
did really well with Josh Allen last year. I felt
like he was a great teammate to everybody and played
really really good football. Expect to see Max feet everywhere
in Boston.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
All right, guys, Yeah, that's that's that's there's the list
right there, Kems, you have the list. But grounding yourself
before the game is one thing. This guy's going to
the grocery store.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Bearefree. It's a totally different deal. You're not doing that, right, No,
I really do that.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
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