August 27, 2024 • 36 mins
NFL Network Insiders Tom Pelissero, Ian Rapoport, and Mike Garafolo talk the big news of CeeDee Lamb and the Cowboys agreeing to terms on a 4-year, $136 million contract extension. Jane Slater joins the show to talk the impact of Lamb’s contract on the Cowboys offense. They also talk Lamb’s contract’s impact on other receivers seeking new deals including Brandon Aiyuk and Ja’Marr Chase. Bridget Condon reports on the Steelers QB competition between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Steve Wyche joins to discuss expectations for DeShaun Watson and Aaron Rodgers who did not take part in the preseason. And, Michael F. Florio’s fantasy draft advice with “Hot Takes,” fringe first round players and first rookies off the board.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The wait is over for Cede Lamb to get his
money in Dallas. The week continues for that bag in
Cincinnati and San Francisco. We'll tell you what the CD
signing means for those other wide receivers.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is it Russell Wilson or Justin Fields? Is QB one?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
In Pittsburgh we will explain Mike Tomlin isn'tsane just yet. Meanwhile,
preseason is over, So what do we make of which
quarterbacks did and did not see the field in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'll tell you this much. We always come to play
right here.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Ian Rappaport at Mike Garrifolo,
I am Tom Pelvisero. James Slater is going to be
joined us Shorley Bridge at Condoll be here, Steve Whitch,
Michael f Florio has some scalding hot fantasy takes. As
you get in your final drafts here over the coming days,
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you better hurry as you know what fellas. We got
ten days, just ten days until regular season football.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's Right's the kickoff game.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The Ravens, the Chiefs Lamar Mahomes cannot wait for that time.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Ass are running short stif he got.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, I don't know, a superstar holding out the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well they got that in the nick of time.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ceedee Lamb and the Cowboys Today, after months of on
and off negotiations, after plenty of questions, after about six
hundred and fifty three Jerry Jones formal and impromptu.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Press conference, has got it done.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Four years, one hundred thirty six million, with one hundred
million guaranteed for Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Howx heender are you? Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The reaction obviously was was great. Everybody in office was
fired up. You know, he can play outside, he can
play inside. He has the speed play outside and also
has the you know, agility in the in the quickness,
and you know he has the whole packets, you know.
And one thing about TV is he CD he's as
tough as they come. So yeah, he's definitely a complete,
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complete player.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know, if I got a thirty eight million dollars
signing bonus, you know what my first purchase would be
money gun, you know, to get some of those dollar
bills up in the air, because what are you really
gonna do with a thirty eight million dollar bonus? Then
a wild guess Ian's probably at least thought through this
over the course of time. But he I was talking
about how I did a.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Darry Jones money guns thing one time, and you both
laughed at me.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
See, money guns they're a thing, right, But we well,
you don't want to get fined though, because if you
do the money guns in the wrong spot, they'll actually
take some of that money.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh wait, anyway, he's got millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now you gonna talk about how this got done, Ian,
because really, for the last ten or eleven days, the conversation,
the negotiation kind of picked up.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It felt like it was coming to a head.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
As we got under two weeks before the regular season
opener for the Cowboys against the Browns, they finalize it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
To tell me more, First of all, the number really
is where it should be.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Thirty four million dollars per year, four years, one hundred
and thirty six million, one hundred dollars million dollars guaranteed
a record for a wide receiver, thirty eight million dollars
signing momus.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It all makes sense. And we all spoke for months.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
About whether or not CD Lamb was going to try
to be the highest paid receiver.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In the NFL.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
It didn't sound like that conversation really got off the ground.
It was pretty clear that he was going to get
just under Justin Jefferson with really strong guarantees.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's exactly what he got.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I get a million dollars per year less than Jefferson,
but gets paid really what he deserves. And just to
hear Mike McCarthy gush over the type of player, person, receiver, teammate,
all the things that Ced Lamb could do.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
These are the guys you want to pay.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
And obviously there's been so much conversation Mike about the
Cowboys not paying free agents. Part of the reason is
these are the guys they want to pay.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you're right.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
It really ramped up, I would say, over the last
ten days or so, this was always the target so
he could get to the practice field by tomorrow for
their first practice.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Did it need to take all this time? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
But what would we have talked about had we not
had the CD lend thing hanging over us?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Mike got it.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
We're not upset at all.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, I could have taken five minutes right after Justin
Jefferson did his deal to come in right behind that,
but they spent a couple of months saying, you know,
you're you're a cowboy, right, you could take a little less.
There was also the length of the deal that was
being discussed, and they finally got him down to that
four year extension. There there was cash flow, there was
other considerations. There was also a you know, and the
teams in the non state tax states, and that was
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non income tax states, that's Texas where they were saying, well,
justin Jefferson, yeah, he's at thirty five, but you could
come in a lot less than him and make the
same as him. And CD He's like, no, no, no, let's
get up there, because now if you factor in a
non state tax state, he's actually over Justin Jefferson. And
I know Jane Slater, resident of Texas, is going to
join us shortly, and she's listening. She said, yeah, but
the property taxes went up in Texas recently. Well there's
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no picnic in Minnesota either, So look, long story short,
it was the pressure of the start of the regular
season and getting in enough practice time.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That was part of the conversation. Seriously, per my reporting,
that's what we do here, we report.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But yeah, enough time to get him into football shape
because there is no shape like football shape, nothing like
playing football to get in football shape.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I said it several times on the ERA over the
past several days here, knowing that CD Lamb was not
trying to outshoot the Justin Jefferson number. This wasn't a
super complicated deal to get done. It was going to
come in right under Jefferson. Flip side of that, Ian,
you have Dak Prescott, who I think that everybody looking
at this situation on his face, has so much leverage
there would be a surprise if he does not reset
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the quarterback market.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That spot right now is fifty five million dollars per year.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Dak's already been franchise tag twice because they had to
burn that second tag to get the paperwork through a
few years ago when they did an extension. There has
been conversation, there has been negotiation about a new deal
to keep Dak off the market next March. I would
certainly anticipate that is the next thing that Jerry Jones
and company try to ramp up here in the coming days.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, you mentioned a second franchise tag for Dak Prescott.
That was not a given that was one of the
I would say better negotiating moves from his agent, Todd
Frents to get the Cowboys to tag him a second time,
basically making it impossible to tag for the rest of
his career. That's one reason why Dak Prescott has all
the leverage he has right now, and make the mistake,
he has literally all the leverage. The Cowboys would clearly
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like to get a long term deal done. If it
gets done, he is no doubt going to be the
new highest paided quarterback in the NFL. And here are
really the options. It is either taking deal that resets
the quarterback market. That's something that Dak Prescott is proud of,
that his agent is proud of, that the union, that
the whole world knows this is a great deal, or
just go be the biggest free agent in NFL history.
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Those are really the options for Dak Prescott. That's the
situation he's in. And I would say the Cowboys have
a week or so maybe to get this done, but
the stakes are redibly high.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We spent so much time this offseason, almost a much
as Cowboys fans talking about the Cowboys. Why aren't they
getting these deals done? Why aren't they signed anybody. Well,
in recent days, they've made trades. They have signed some
veteran defensive players. They might not be done just yet.
It's a tweally short time ago. Four time Pro Bowl
running back Dalvin Cook is getting on a plane tonight
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to go to Dallas and potentially join Ezekiel Elliott in
that backfield. We know that things didn't work out last
season for Dalvin. Aaron Rodgers goes down after four snaps.
They never really established the mix in the backfield they'd
intended with the Jets what the vault were actually had
a long run in one of those playoff games here.
But this time around, he's not coming off a shoulder
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injury anymore. He's been spending time within the gym. As
you see right there, a very interesting potential addition for
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
For now we know this.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's one hundred and thirty six million dollars for CD
Lamb right there. You can split these numbers in different ways,
but certainly CD getting a very good deal as he
comes off of a career season. As welcome in our
Jane Slater, who is of course there in Dallas. Jane
as Ian mentioned here Cowboys knew that they were kind
of running short on the clock to get CD ready
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for Week one against the Browns.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So what is the plan moving forward? What does this
mean to.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
This Cowboys team that's got high aspirations to finally know
officially they got CD back in the full.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Deadlines mcdill's Stephen Jones says it all of the time,
and this is one of those triggering weeks when you
consider they've got to make cuts to the roster, and
when you look at what they had out at training camp,
it was always inevitable that they were going to get
this thing done. So he's been away from the team
for three months now. He's been training a lot in
Houston with his uncle. He's been down in South Florida
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working out with doctor Sharif Taba otherwise known as Doctor Reef.
They've been working on things like film sessions on field work, explosiveness, stability,
dealing with release, dynamic timing, reads and coverages. All that
to say, he's been putting in the work this offseason.
I talked to a couple of people in the building.
I said, what's the next plan as.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
You ramp them up?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Well, there's been some minor adjustments to the terminology as
it relates to the offense. No one's worried about whether
he's going to get up to speed or not. One
person telling me he's about as smart as they come
when it comes to knowing this playbook. Mike McCarthy, Aside
from the clip that you shared earlier, guys, you know
the words he used was relief and exciting to get
him back in the building. The biggest thing with him is,
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obviously you've just given this huge deal. You want to
make sure that you don't have any soft tissue injuries.
It's very different than when you're trading by yourself or
you're working out in the sand. This is sort of
that real game temp But we talked about this on Friday,
very similar to what they did with Ezekiel Elliott, who
by the way, had an even shorter amount of time.
When he signed it was September fourth, and then he
played in a game on September night. Scored in that game,
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was fine. He was in a bit of a pitch count.
Mike McCarthy says. The big thing is you just want
to make sure that CD's not doing too much. He
loves to run, loves to go hard. His focus on
is making sure he doesn't do too much, but I
don't anticipate that we're really going to see too many
limitations based on some of the work that he's done
this offseason.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Thirteen days away, it's the Cowboys, it's the Browns, it's
Tom Brady on the call and wild guests. Jane Slater
might be in Cleveland as well. Jane, thank you very much.
As always, we will look forward to talking with you
again soon. Okay, we mentioned some of those other wide
receivers still waiting for deals.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Jamar Chase is on that list.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
One key difference with Chase is that he's got two
years remaining on his rookie contract.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The math is a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Another key difference, Jamark Chase has been there throughout the
course of training camp. He's been a hold in, not
a holdout, and that appears to be ending with him
getting back on the practice field starting on Sunday, when
for the first time since training camp began, he was
a full participant. So ian the question still remains here,
when potentially could we see a Jamar Chase contract and
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what impact, if any, is of CD's deal getting done
with Dallas.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll start with the first part.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
The Bengals and Jamar Chase's agent, Rocky Arsenal are still negotiating,
still trying to work out.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
A long term deal.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
As Mike Brown has said, it is a challenge, a
big time challenge, mostly because it's early and the expenditure
for the Bengals would be massive, But it is still possible.
They're working and the landscape of the receiver deals got
much more cleanly defined, clearly defined with this Cede Lamb deal.
You can't argue that Justin Jefferson's thirty five million dollars
per year was an anomaly. Cede Lamb, who's also awesome,
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came in right below it. Jamar Chase, of course, is
going to want to come in at or one cent
above his good friend Justin Jefferson. So the landscape is
there to do a deal. They do have some time
to make it happen, though, And look, the fact that
he has been practicing, I think is at least a
good sign. It does give an indication that he'll probably
be on the field when this season starts. But the
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two sides are simply trying to get there, and we
just don't know whether or not that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
When I say that, the math is different too.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
When you get two years left, it's really a matter
of these extensions are on top of what you got
left on your rookie deal, right, What's hard to move
enough cash up in the deal that the numbers actually
look right on paper here. In other words, a thirty
five million dollars year extension for Jamar Chase really add
up differently than a thirty five million dollar year extension
for Justin Jefferson. Could be next year, but the Bengals
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have been open to a deal. We'll see if they're
able to push that thing forward. Brandon Ayuk, of course
you might have heard a little bit about this, and
though I don't know, the past six months, still looking
for a new contract as well. He was at the
forty nine ers preseason game against the Raiders. He was not,
as multiple league executives point out to me, wearing team
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gear on the sideline, which is something that you're supposed
to do. There have been a lot of twists and
turns in this, Mike, tell me where we stand right
now with Ayuk, the forty nine Ers, and god knows
who else.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, the traveling to the game, the other night felt
like some kind of show of good faith on Brandon
Ayuck's part. And I've been saying that the sides have
been relatively close on the forty nine ers last offer
and just nobody moving as they're really that close to
getting something done and we're still kind of there. The
offer hasn't changed since I believe it's two and a
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half weeks or so since the forty nine Ers made
that offer, But this past weekend sort of felt like
somewhat of a reset. And I don't know how many
resets this is. I mean, I haven't seen this many
resets since it involved blowing into a Nintendo cartridge. But
we're getting closer to the start of the season, and
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thank you, I think that was a compliment. We're getting
close to the start of the season here. So at
some point, is it going to be staying in San Francisco?
Is it going to be a trade to the Steelers?
Is it going to be a trade to another team?
Remember there were other teams involved way back. Can they
circle back and try that route again? And all this
stuff has been discussed by understanding, according to the sources
in that forty nine Ers building.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So it's getting close to.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Nut cutting time, and one option on the table is
for Brandon I used to play out the last year
of his contract. That doesn't seem to work for anything.
I just don't feel like that's a good solution for anybody.
So if we get to that point, this saga is
going to continue into the regular season. Auks do about
fourteen million dollars. Obviously the forty nine ers at any
point could say, hey, you're coming back and playing on that.
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You could also have the right to say I'm willing
to give up close to a million dollars a week
at least up until the middle of the season, where
he'd have to prevent his contract being from being told.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
One guy, we do know where he's headed.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Juju Smith Schuster quickly finding a new team, which also
happens to be his own team back with the Kansas
City Chiefs, who was actually already out there on the
practice field earlier today.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Some interesting decisions for the Chiefs to make.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
With that wide receiver room, but with Juju they got
somebody they know already has the chemistry with their quarterback
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
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Speaker 1 (15:00):
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Speaker 2 (15:04):
The aforementioned Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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Speaker 2 (15:15):
We don't want to see Mahomes. We don't see Lamar
Jackson in week one.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Well we see Russell Wilson or potentially will we see
justin Field.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Mike Tomlin has still not said for certain.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We'll get into why and what might play out here
in the coming days right after this, as The Insiders
rolls on. Every time we think we know what direction
the Patriots are going to go with their starting quarterback,
there's some type of little twist there. Night it was
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Jacoby Brissett banging up his shoulder and Drot Mayo said
he was actually fine. The plan was to hold him
out after only one series, which seems like what you
do with the starter, not a guy who's competing with
Drake may Here's a little bit more of what may
has had to say over the past couple of days.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Would Drake may play if Jacobi's not available?
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Uh, I would like to see here and say one
hundred percent he's our second best quarterback on our Russer
right now?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Is that yes? Or next question?
Speaker 9 (16:18):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure until until I West
of Fame. You know, he's climbing the ranks and to
Kobe having a better overall command of the operation. But
who knows. They may change. And you know, we said
it all along, we had one A and one B.
It's a competition. That's definitely a huge conversation here over
the next couple of days of how we want to
approach it. I would say, you know, we came into
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the preseason with the plan for Drake. You know, he's
a you know, number three overall picks, so you know, uh,
the expectations and things like that are high, and the
pressure from the outside, from the fans and from the
media will be to put Drake in. But you know,
after speaking with a VP and Eliott, we feel we
still feel confident about the plan we have for Drake.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pella, Sero Rapport, Mike Garafollo.
We don't have as much of a track record on
Drod Mayo quotes Ian in terms of I think we
all had kind of a Belichick.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Translator through the years.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You can bring it into the various grunts and non
answers and things like that. When you hear girod Mayo
after the game say break's our second best quarterback, then
today say Drake is outplayed Jacoby Brissette. I still get
the impression that basically they're saying, hey, even though one
guy looked really good, we can't put him out there
right now with this team.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Let's put Jacoby out there.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
What do you make of what you've heard and seen
about New England's decision?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
First of all, listening to Drodmeo, it's clear there is
no firm decision yet, which is okay, there doesn't have
to be obviously this week you would think one would come,
but no firm decision yet. And it really is a
multifaceted decision. It's simply not okay, who throws the ball? Well,
who played better in the last game? You know, then
you'd say, okay, we'll cool, Drake may get on out there,
go play. It is also having a veteran who could
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come in and withstand all the different things that come
in an NFL game. Is the offensive line good enough
to block for someone who mightn't take a split second,
more in making decisions with Obviously Drake may is a
good athlete. You want to put a rookie quarterback who
you're really really high hopes for, You want to put
him out in a position to have some success. Is
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this Patriots team right now in a position to have success?
The answer is, I have no idea, But I don't
know that anyone else does either. Because it's the preseason,
there's so many questions. I think that's why you get
these sort of non answers or half answers from Jid Mayel,
because a lot of this really is up in the
air now. I would also say that when we talked
to Jacoby versaid, and he's said this publicly several times,
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he believes he is the starter. He was brought here
to be the starter. There's nothing wrong with having the
first round quarterback. Just take a deep breath and wait.
And I would finally add this mic everything we have
seen from Drake May the last couple weeks. The Patriots
have been excited about him all camp. I know there
was some sort of narrative like they've been excited about
him all camp. It's just a matter of when he
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actually gets out there.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Well, he in the control room. Please leave him up
for this.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
It's getting close to nut cutting time, which according to
wictionary dot org, which is not the best source, but
trust me, this is true. Means quote the optimal time
to gather nuts before they are seized by other animals
or buried in the snow. No, the last block in
this block. Understand that that's what nuts about. But I
would say this to Girodmeo. Fine, you know, in relation
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to what you said with regard to the offensive line
and everything around him and all that stuff, there was
a fumbled bubbled snap there that he picked up and
was able to kind of still make.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
A play there.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
There was a third and fourteen where he scrambled for
seventeen yards when nobody was open.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
There was a play where he lost his shoe last night.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The shoe came off, still completed a pass. Like Drake May,
who is a cool customer if you've been with him
through the draft process, like I'd been with him a
couple of times and talked to him, and yeah, I
got him. But as your quarterback, as a head coach
and you see all this going on, you know, maybe
he's got more resilience than the average rookie.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's all I would say, is anything good ever come
from somebody's shoe coming off?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All I can think back was, you know herschel Walker
lost the shoe one of his first games with the
Vikings that obviously ended poorly here. I don't know if
that's a harbinger of bad things to come.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I would say it was. It was a hall of fame.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I think we're not a hall of fame career because
I think he was in the Black Sox again. But
Joe Jackson, right, and then a movie came of it,
a really good movie, Feel the Dreams.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, didn't it great for Joe Jackson? But he met out. Anyway,
we're way off topic here, all right. How about this?
We had another team that does not yet have a
starting quarterback named You might have heard about this one too.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It's in Pittsburgh, Russell Wilson justin fields. They have proceeded
in terms of the reps as if Russell Wilson is
the guy. He only played one series through three passes
the other night. And yet here we stand allot a
firm answer from Mike Common, who's says that he is
going to wait untiled the end of this week as
we welcome in our friend Bridget Condon to the conversation. Bridgie,
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you were at that game the other day against the Lions.
It was a very brief and actually pretty effective in
terms of the offense outing for Russell Wilson Justin Fields.
We saw some of the dynamic movement skills he has.
We also saw I yet another botch exchange. What do
you make of where we stand right now in terms
of how Pitchburg's looking at that QB position?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Well, Tom, you mentioned it.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
Mike Tomlin said after that game, We're going to wait
until the end of this work week, so they're going
to have three days this week of Steelers on Steelers.
He said, why not do that and then we'll make
a decision. But all eyes really are pointing towards Russell
Wilson being the starter Week one against the Falcons. But
let's have some fun, right Why not compare the two
quarterbacks to this preseason. Justin Fields had eleven drives whereas
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Russell Wilson had just six drives. They have a very
similar passer rating this preseason, Russell Wilson with a ninety
two passer rating, Justin Fields with a ninety one point four.
But again, this is the difference, right. You kind of
mentioned it coming to me off that toss. Russell Wilson
was in the game, led the team to a touchdown
in his first drive, then was pulled out of there.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Justin Fields did the same thing. He led the team
to a.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Touchdown on the first drive of that game against the Lions.
The difference he stayed in for another two drives. It
looks like Russell Wilson is their quarterback one, right, That's
what you do in the preseason. You get your quarterback
in there, let him score a touchdown, get a little rhythm,
and then pull him out of there. But it's going
to be interesting to see what they do come the
end of this week. All eyes again pointing towards Russell Wilson.
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Some of the conversations I had at that game on Saturday,
that's the sense I got to. It felt like, yeah,
there was a little bit of concern with a calf injury,
but once he got back out there and was able
to do everything, there was no limits in terms of
scheme for him in the game. It felt like because
of his experience. Again, look, he's entering his thirteenth season
in the league. Justin Fields, just his fourth season, it
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felt like he always had the edge over fields. But
that's not to say at some point this season that
we won't see Justin Fields in there as QB one
for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I think that's also evident, Bridget is that this is
a team that's gonna have to play defense, and I
think the defense is gonna be pretty nasty. They're gonna
have to run the ball to We know they have
Naji Harris Jalen Warren dealing with the hamstring injury the
last several weeks. It sounds like there's some optimism there
that he gets back week one. That's what he's told
reporters today. We'll see, but that at least is a
good sign that that is what he believes. So being
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full go offensive line and run games certainly something that
will help. And Bridget, That's not the only good running
back news we got today. I'm talking specifically about the
Lions budting star Jamier Gibbs.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
What do we know there, Yeah, he was back on
the practice field just to walk through today. But the
Lions got a lot of guys back. As we inch
closer to Week one against the Rams. Sam Laporta, their
tight end, was also back and a big boost on defense.
Dj Reader was taking off the pup list. In terms
of if he'll play week one, that's not been ruled out.
Dan Campbell says they're getting week two against the Bucks
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for his return, but they're going to see how he
does over the next couple weeks before making a decision
on when he'll be back. But Dan Campbell is saying
today this is going to be a tough couple hours
for them until cut down day tomorrow when they try
to get to that fifty three one position. That's really
interesting that you guys, I'm sure have been talking about
keep your eyes on, is that wide receiver number three
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position behind Amen Ross, Saint Brown and Jamison Williams.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Josh Reynolds.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Remember how big he was for this team, both in
terms of size at six to three, but also you
know what he did on the field. He was their
best deep threat. They have a couple players that are
in contention for that. Donathan people Jones is one of them,
and also de Reese Fountain, both big guys at six '
to two, but also this undrafted rookie. Have you guys
heard of him? Isaiah Williams, He's making a name for
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himself this preseason for the Lions. He's just five '
ten though, and Dan Campbell says they'd love to have
that size, you know, for the wide receiver room. But
it feels like Isaiah Williams has done a ton this
preseason and might just have made a spot for himself
on this roster.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I don't know if we know.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
If we know Brad Holmes, he also know he's going
to be on the phone potentially adding to that room
among other places as we go through these next several days. Bridget,
thank you very much. Talk to you again soon here
back in the top story coming up after this, Ceedee,
Lamb got a big old bag of money. So what's
next for the Cowboys? Yes, it turns out there actually
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are other people on the team. Jane Slater will be
back to break it all down.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Coming up right.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
After this on The Insiders, Back to Thriller lets him
from the safety spot, and Pruscott of states that lunch
to his life, throws on the.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Run the middle of.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
The Atlantica fifty. You want to get anywhere near him,
Lamb crawl if we wanted to CD Lamb, Lady who
yours well, get guest out for the Dallas touchdown.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Pay the man already pay?
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Oh they did, They did pay the man.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Case you missed it earlier, Ceedee Lamb and the Cowboys
agreeing to a four year, one hundred and thirty six
million dollar extension with one hundred million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
So he is back in plenty of time to.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Practice and get ridy fur week one as a member
of the Dallas Cowboys. Jane Slater, get back in here.
We talked CD earlier. That's the good news. Let's talk
a little bad news because we you know, we tackled
the good and the bad here on the Insiders, And
let's talk about Deron Bland. The Cowboys losing one of
their big defensive playmakers.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Yeah, that was a tough one. You know. Earlier in
camp they lost Sam Williams, and granted they were able
to go out and get some help there at defensive end.
And they also have their rookie Marshawn neland they are
going to once again be calling on a rookie to
help out here. Mike Dearn Bland.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
For the fans that.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
May not have been familiar with them, very saft spoken,
but he let us play do all the work. Nine interceptions,
five of those returned for touchdowns. Last year, he really
stepped up when remember Trey Vaughn Diggs went down last
year with an ACL injury in early September. So Mike
Zimmer was sitting here thinking he had an.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Embarrassment of riches. And now you need a rookie to
step up here.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Kaylin Carson, the rookie that they're going to be turning to.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Who is he?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
He has a fifth round pick out of wake Forest.
Now I asked around one of your thoughts on him.
Super competitive, quick learner, tough, he will tackle, he won't
back down from a challenge. But you know, in order
to impact the run game and provide pressure, you need
two good corners. And so the question here is do
they have that I've been reaching out to see if
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you know, you've got a couple of free agents out there,
guys like Patrick Peterson, You've got Eli Apple. It doesn't
look like they've got those guys in coming in just yet,
but they've been known to surprise us. The Dalvin Cook
thing happening today him coming to Dallas, got that confirmed
along with Tom Pilisaro that he will be doing a workout.
So looks like Jerry Jones is flexing out there, as
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he did in a profanity laced interview with our boy
Clarence Hill, telling us what a good GM is. So
he is scanning the rosters in the waiver wires, see
what's out there. We'll see if they do something at corner.
But looks like they're right now going to be looking
to the rookie about.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Six to eight weeks from now.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Even on the back end of that, you're looking at
mid October, so they would have bland back potentially before Halloween.
So the Cowboys may be thinking we've got enough in
house to get us to that point.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We shall see what tack they take.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Thank you, Jane Tom.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
A lot of moves out being around the NFL. Not
all cuts good news, bad news for the Browns. No surprise,
Nick Chubb going to remain on the physically unable to
perform lists.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Coming back from that e injury.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The Browns always knew was not going to be there
in September, but there is hope that as we get
into October and November, we'll see Chubb back on the field.
Little good news Jack Coughlin Jedrick Wilson are starting tackles,
both past their physicals off the pup list today. Be
while for the Rams they got Pooking the core back
in the mix, so at least going out there and
doing some individual drills. He had been sidelined because he
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went down awkwardly, even with a knee issue. Sean mcfado
had said that it was only going to be a
couple of weeks at that time. Full expectation, I in
the Puka is ready to roll a couple week one.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Not a similar sitching for Uchenna Nuoshu, the Seahawks standout
ed really not a household name, but he is a baller.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Nasally been having a great, great training. Kip sources that
he is going to miss.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Multiple weeks with a knee injury that he suffered on
Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Could actually begin the season on.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
IR That is one of the reasons they traded earlier
today for Trevis Gibson from the Jaguars, and.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Then we had a quarterback tree.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Malik Willis, the former backup quarterback for the Tennessee dun
was probably exlated to be certainly was slated to be
their third rounder with Mason Rupe coming in and playing
really well.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
He is headed to the Green Bay Packers, likely to
be their backup.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
That is a fresh start. Leak willis a really good situation.
The fact that he gets a backup his good friend
Jordan Loves surely something that will help kickstart his career.
You want to talk about quarterbacks, let's talk about quarterbacks.
Aaron Rodgers and Deshaun Watson. Both awesome quarterbacks, both highly productive.
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Both didn't do you know anything in the pre season.
Is that going to matter in the regular season? If
only Steve Weisch was available to ask, where is Steve Weisch?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's coming up.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
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before a draft I had last weekend. Welcome back to
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up here.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I sent this to you if I had text Michael left.
But there were a lot of names.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I'm right in the middle there.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I'm listening is Tommy, Uh, what do you think of
this draft? Because in the middle rounds you gave me
all stuff that you said on the show last week
I should do.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
So it's hard for me to make out the exact names,
but I remember on it was like Friday or Saturday,
you had texted.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
It to me.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
I remember going over it and being like, I really
like this team and ranted.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
A lot of it is because there's players I like.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
But I remember you got you.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Got Josh Allen with a couple of bills back there.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I look, I thought you came.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Away from a great team with a great team.
Speaker 13 (31:48):
I don't think, like I said, about either of Mike's teams.
I've yet to see anything that they have drafted. But Tom,
you did a good job this weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, so take that to the AI thing that grated
my draft as a D plus.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
We'll see about that as we think out later in
the season.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, Florio, you're here, for a more important reason
than that. I think a fantasy hot take from me.
There's still a lot of drafts going on around the country.
Give me something that you think that nobody else is
thinking as they get ready to draft.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I got through freeing Tom the first.
Speaker 13 (32:19):
I think Trey McBride is going to be you tight
end run in.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Fantasy football this year. No tight end is going to
score four points than Trey McBride.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I know it sounds like a hot take.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
Last year with Kyler Murray, he was the tight end
one in fantasy points per game and in target share,
and of all the top tight ends from last season,
he had the fewest percentage of his fantasy.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Points come from touchdowns.
Speaker 13 (32:42):
I think this offense is going to be better with
a healthy Kyler Murray, which should just lead to more
scoring opportunities for McBride.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
I don't worry about Marvin Harrison or anything like that.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
And then I think Isaiah Pacheco is going to finish
as a top four fantasy running back this year.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
People might even hurt me, say this a right.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
This is gonna be the take of mine this summer
that I think gets most remembered for. So check out
already dominates groundwork in Kansas City, especially near the goal line,
but he's got a really thin RB room there.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
I think he's going to be a three.
Speaker 13 (33:13):
Down back and I think the Chiefs might be three
best offense in football.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So at three down back on.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
The best offensive football with Andy Reid. Yeah, it seems
like a hot take now come January. I don't think
it will.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
That was like six hot takes.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
But it's our pretty flamming I appreciate you putting yourself
out there. Why don't you tell us as I continue
to get ready for my fantasy draft on Monday, once
you give us a couple fringe first rounders that you like.
Speaker 13 (33:40):
Ruka Nakua is a player that last season I pounded
the table for all summer and we all know really
went on to.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Post rookie records and catches and yards.
Speaker 13 (33:50):
He won a bunch of people their fantasy championship that
I will say. I'm a little bit nervous this year
having to pay full price.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
It's like when I was younger, I always.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
Went to this bar and I had fifty cent win
and then I wrote there on a regular night and
they wanted like twenty bucks for ten wings and I.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Was like, I don't want to pay that price.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
That's kind of how I feel right now.
Speaker 13 (34:07):
With Puka, but he's fallen to around two in a
couple of my drafts and I love getting him there.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And then Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 13 (34:15):
I'd have been a Jonathan Taylor fan since his Wisconsin days,
and I'm not stopping now. I get the concerns Anthony
Richardson maybe could vulture a couple of touchdowns away.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Maybe he's not going to throw the ball to Taylor
as much, but those two running the option should be
a ton.
Speaker 13 (34:29):
Of fun, should lead to a lot of big plays
for Taylor.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
And he has been in RB one in points per
game in all but one.
Speaker 13 (34:36):
Of his NFL season, so I think with a running
quarterback we could potentially see even more upside.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Out of him.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
All right, backing out Florida, there's a reason you haven't
seen my fantasy team.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I haven't had my draft yet.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
It is Tuesday, this coming Tuesday, not tomorrow the next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Nice and my.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Seven pm Eastern, which is when this program now. A
lesser man, a lesser man would probably take off.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm gonna work my way. I'm going to draft live
daed roll back. We don't have the graphic. We are
gonna draft live on Tuesday. Would you like to join
and help me and be a phone a friend and
be a ringer here? Yes, you would, Florio ignat with
us on Tuesday. You're gonna help me draft my team.
You got to tune in for that. See if I
can focus on anything other than my draft during the show.
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Speaking of focus, time for me to focus on the question,
I have to ask you, which is a rookie that
you believe will be the first off the board?
Speaker 13 (35:27):
First, good luck to you because doing a show and
drafting is not easy, and you're not even doing a
fantasy show.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
So good luck Mike. But warmn Harrison Junior, first wide
receiver off the board.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You've heard his name for years.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
He is finally here. He is a great field stretcher.
Speaker 13 (35:43):
I think he's going to be the Cardinals number one
red zone.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Option from day one.
Speaker 13 (35:46):
And those two things are huge because long catches and
touchdowns is how wide receivers score points.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
In chunks.
Speaker 13 (35:53):
We have seen Kyler Murray already support a wide receiver
one in his career. I have Harrison ranked as a
wide receiver one, but you get him in round two,
and then the second rookie off the board is Malik Neighbors.
He continues to climb up and up and up draft boards,
but you could still get him in the fourth round.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
In a lot of drafts.
Speaker 13 (36:10):
He was my wide receiver one actually throughout the NFL
draft process because.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
He can do everything.
Speaker 13 (36:15):
He could stretch the fields, he could win after the catch,
he could win in the red zone.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
He is a future star in this league.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
And I know people have concerns about his quarterback, but
he is going to be the focal point.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Of this offense.
Speaker 13 (36:25):
Nine to ten targets a week is in play, and
with his talent, that is someone that you want on
your rosters.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Michael, thank you very much for being here.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And I think it's actually illegal if you join Mike
on during rout next week, Lee's league may not be
overly thrilled. Weekday six, Fan Eastern Time Fantasy Live. He's
not being there, Mikey, thank you very much. We'll look
forward to talking with you again next week. A lot
more to come tomorrow be here, We'll see it
The wait is over for Cede Lamb to get his
money in Dallas. The week continues for that bag in
Cincinnati and San Francisco. We'll tell you what the CD
signing means for those other wide receivers.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is it Russell Wilson or Justin Fields? Is QB one?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
In Pittsburgh we will explain Mike Tomlin isn'tsane just yet. Meanwhile,
preseason is over, So what do we make of which
quarterbacks did and did not see the field in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'll tell you this much. We always come to play
right here.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Ian Rappaport at Mike Garrifolo,
I am Tom Pelvisero. James Slater is going to be
joined us Shorley Bridge at Condoll be here, Steve Whitch,
Michael f Florio has some scalding hot fantasy takes. As
you get in your final drafts here over the coming days,
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you better hurry as you know what fellas. We got
ten days, just ten days until regular season football.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's Right's the kickoff game.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The Ravens, the Chiefs Lamar Mahomes cannot wait for that time.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Ass are running short stif he got.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, I don't know, a superstar holding out the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well they got that in the nick of time.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ceedee Lamb and the Cowboys Today, after months of on
and off negotiations, after plenty of questions, after about six
hundred and fifty three Jerry Jones formal and impromptu.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Press conference, has got it done.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Four years, one hundred thirty six million, with one hundred
million guaranteed for Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Howx heender are you? Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The reaction obviously was was great. Everybody in office was
fired up. You know, he can play outside, he can
play inside. He has the speed play outside and also
has the you know, agility in the in the quickness,
and you know he has the whole packets, you know.
And one thing about TV is he CD he's as
tough as they come. So yeah, he's definitely a complete,
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complete player.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know, if I got a thirty eight million dollars
signing bonus, you know what my first purchase would be
money gun, you know, to get some of those dollar
bills up in the air, because what are you really
gonna do with a thirty eight million dollar bonus? Then
a wild guess Ian's probably at least thought through this
over the course of time. But he I was talking
about how I did a.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Darry Jones money guns thing one time, and you both
laughed at me.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
See, money guns they're a thing, right, But we well,
you don't want to get fined though, because if you
do the money guns in the wrong spot, they'll actually
take some of that money.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh wait, anyway, he's got millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now you gonna talk about how this got done, Ian,
because really, for the last ten or eleven days, the conversation,
the negotiation kind of picked up.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It felt like it was coming to a head.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
As we got under two weeks before the regular season
opener for the Cowboys against the Browns, they finalize it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
To tell me more, First of all, the number really
is where it should be.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Thirty four million dollars per year, four years, one hundred
and thirty six million, one hundred dollars million dollars guaranteed
a record for a wide receiver, thirty eight million dollars
signing momus.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It all makes sense. And we all spoke for months.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
About whether or not CD Lamb was going to try
to be the highest paid receiver.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In the NFL.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
It didn't sound like that conversation really got off the ground.
It was pretty clear that he was going to get
just under Justin Jefferson with really strong guarantees.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's exactly what he got.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I get a million dollars per year less than Jefferson,
but gets paid really what he deserves. And just to
hear Mike McCarthy gush over the type of player, person, receiver, teammate,
all the things that Ced Lamb could do.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
These are the guys you want to pay.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
And obviously there's been so much conversation Mike about the
Cowboys not paying free agents. Part of the reason is
these are the guys they want to pay.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you're right.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
It really ramped up, I would say, over the last
ten days or so, this was always the target so
he could get to the practice field by tomorrow for
their first practice.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Did it need to take all this time? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
But what would we have talked about had we not
had the CD lend thing hanging over us?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Mike got it.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
We're not upset at all.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, I could have taken five minutes right after Justin
Jefferson did his deal to come in right behind that,
but they spent a couple of months saying, you know,
you're you're a cowboy, right, you could take a little less.
There was also the length of the deal that was
being discussed, and they finally got him down to that
four year extension. There there was cash flow, there was
other considerations. There was also a you know, and the
teams in the non state tax states, and that was
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non income tax states, that's Texas where they were saying, well,
justin Jefferson, yeah, he's at thirty five, but you could
come in a lot less than him and make the
same as him. And CD He's like, no, no, no, let's
get up there, because now if you factor in a
non state tax state, he's actually over Justin Jefferson. And
I know Jane Slater, resident of Texas, is going to
join us shortly, and she's listening. She said, yeah, but
the property taxes went up in Texas recently. Well there's
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no picnic in Minnesota either, So look, long story short,
it was the pressure of the start of the regular
season and getting in enough practice time.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That was part of the conversation. Seriously, per my reporting,
that's what we do here, we report.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But yeah, enough time to get him into football shape
because there is no shape like football shape, nothing like
playing football to get in football shape.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I said it several times on the ERA over the
past several days here, knowing that CD Lamb was not
trying to outshoot the Justin Jefferson number. This wasn't a
super complicated deal to get done. It was going to
come in right under Jefferson. Flip side of that, Ian,
you have Dak Prescott, who I think that everybody looking
at this situation on his face, has so much leverage
there would be a surprise if he does not reset
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the quarterback market.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That spot right now is fifty five million dollars per year.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Dak's already been franchise tag twice because they had to
burn that second tag to get the paperwork through a
few years ago when they did an extension. There has
been conversation, there has been negotiation about a new deal
to keep Dak off the market next March. I would
certainly anticipate that is the next thing that Jerry Jones
and company try to ramp up here in the coming days.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, you mentioned a second franchise tag for Dak Prescott.
That was not a given that was one of the
I would say better negotiating moves from his agent, Todd
Frents to get the Cowboys to tag him a second time,
basically making it impossible to tag for the rest of
his career. That's one reason why Dak Prescott has all
the leverage he has right now, and make the mistake,
he has literally all the leverage. The Cowboys would clearly
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like to get a long term deal done. If it
gets done, he is no doubt going to be the
new highest paided quarterback in the NFL. And here are
really the options. It is either taking deal that resets
the quarterback market. That's something that Dak Prescott is proud of,
that his agent is proud of, that the union, that
the whole world knows this is a great deal, or
just go be the biggest free agent in NFL history.
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Those are really the options for Dak Prescott. That's the
situation he's in. And I would say the Cowboys have
a week or so maybe to get this done, but
the stakes are redibly high.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We spent so much time this offseason, almost a much
as Cowboys fans talking about the Cowboys. Why aren't they
getting these deals done? Why aren't they signed anybody. Well,
in recent days, they've made trades. They have signed some
veteran defensive players. They might not be done just yet.
It's a tweally short time ago. Four time Pro Bowl
running back Dalvin Cook is getting on a plane tonight
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to go to Dallas and potentially join Ezekiel Elliott in
that backfield. We know that things didn't work out last
season for Dalvin. Aaron Rodgers goes down after four snaps.
They never really established the mix in the backfield they'd
intended with the Jets what the vault were actually had
a long run in one of those playoff games here.
But this time around, he's not coming off a shoulder
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injury anymore. He's been spending time within the gym. As
you see right there, a very interesting potential addition for
the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
For now we know this.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's one hundred and thirty six million dollars for CD
Lamb right there. You can split these numbers in different ways,
but certainly CD getting a very good deal as he
comes off of a career season. As welcome in our
Jane Slater, who is of course there in Dallas. Jane
as Ian mentioned here Cowboys knew that they were kind
of running short on the clock to get CD ready
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for Week one against the Browns.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So what is the plan moving forward? What does this
mean to.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
This Cowboys team that's got high aspirations to finally know
officially they got CD back in the full.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Deadlines mcdill's Stephen Jones says it all of the time,
and this is one of those triggering weeks when you
consider they've got to make cuts to the roster, and
when you look at what they had out at training camp,
it was always inevitable that they were going to get
this thing done. So he's been away from the team
for three months now. He's been training a lot in
Houston with his uncle. He's been down in South Florida
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working out with doctor Sharif Taba otherwise known as Doctor Reef.
They've been working on things like film sessions on field work, explosiveness, stability,
dealing with release, dynamic timing, reads and coverages. All that
to say, he's been putting in the work this offseason.
I talked to a couple of people in the building.
I said, what's the next plan as.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
You ramp them up?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Well, there's been some minor adjustments to the terminology as
it relates to the offense. No one's worried about whether
he's going to get up to speed or not. One
person telling me he's about as smart as they come
when it comes to knowing this playbook. Mike McCarthy, Aside
from the clip that you shared earlier, guys, you know
the words he used was relief and exciting to get
him back in the building. The biggest thing with him is,
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obviously you've just given this huge deal. You want to
make sure that you don't have any soft tissue injuries.
It's very different than when you're trading by yourself or
you're working out in the sand. This is sort of
that real game temp But we talked about this on Friday,
very similar to what they did with Ezekiel Elliott, who
by the way, had an even shorter amount of time.
When he signed it was September fourth, and then he
played in a game on September night. Scored in that game,
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was fine. He was in a bit of a pitch count.
Mike McCarthy says. The big thing is you just want
to make sure that CD's not doing too much. He
loves to run, loves to go hard. His focus on
is making sure he doesn't do too much, but I
don't anticipate that we're really going to see too many
limitations based on some of the work that he's done
this offseason.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Thirteen days away, it's the Cowboys, it's the Browns, it's
Tom Brady on the call and wild guests. Jane Slater
might be in Cleveland as well. Jane, thank you very much.
As always, we will look forward to talking with you
again soon. Okay, we mentioned some of those other wide
receivers still waiting for deals.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Jamar Chase is on that list.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
One key difference with Chase is that he's got two
years remaining on his rookie contract.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The math is a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Another key difference, Jamark Chase has been there throughout the
course of training camp. He's been a hold in, not
a holdout, and that appears to be ending with him
getting back on the practice field starting on Sunday, when
for the first time since training camp began, he was
a full participant. So ian the question still remains here,
when potentially could we see a Jamar Chase contract and
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what impact, if any, is of CD's deal getting done
with Dallas.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll start with the first part.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
The Bengals and Jamar Chase's agent, Rocky Arsenal are still negotiating,
still trying to work out.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
A long term deal.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
As Mike Brown has said, it is a challenge, a
big time challenge, mostly because it's early and the expenditure
for the Bengals would be massive, But it is still possible.
They're working and the landscape of the receiver deals got
much more cleanly defined, clearly defined with this Cede Lamb deal.
You can't argue that Justin Jefferson's thirty five million dollars
per year was an anomaly. Cede Lamb, who's also awesome,
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came in right below it. Jamar Chase, of course, is
going to want to come in at or one cent
above his good friend Justin Jefferson. So the landscape is
there to do a deal. They do have some time
to make it happen, though, And look, the fact that
he has been practicing, I think is at least a
good sign. It does give an indication that he'll probably
be on the field when this season starts. But the
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two sides are simply trying to get there, and we
just don't know whether or not that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
When I say that, the math is different too.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
When you get two years left, it's really a matter
of these extensions are on top of what you got
left on your rookie deal, right, What's hard to move
enough cash up in the deal that the numbers actually
look right on paper here. In other words, a thirty
five million dollars year extension for Jamar Chase really add
up differently than a thirty five million dollar year extension
for Justin Jefferson. Could be next year, but the Bengals
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have been open to a deal. We'll see if they're
able to push that thing forward. Brandon Ayuk, of course
you might have heard a little bit about this, and
though I don't know, the past six months, still looking
for a new contract as well. He was at the
forty nine ers preseason game against the Raiders. He was not,
as multiple league executives point out to me, wearing team
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gear on the sideline, which is something that you're supposed
to do. There have been a lot of twists and
turns in this, Mike, tell me where we stand right
now with Ayuk, the forty nine Ers, and god knows
who else.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, the traveling to the game, the other night felt
like some kind of show of good faith on Brandon
Ayuck's part. And I've been saying that the sides have
been relatively close on the forty nine ers last offer
and just nobody moving as they're really that close to
getting something done and we're still kind of there. The
offer hasn't changed since I believe it's two and a
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half weeks or so since the forty nine Ers made
that offer, But this past weekend sort of felt like
somewhat of a reset. And I don't know how many
resets this is. I mean, I haven't seen this many
resets since it involved blowing into a Nintendo cartridge. But
we're getting closer to the start of the season, and
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thank you, I think that was a compliment. We're getting
close to the start of the season here. So at
some point, is it going to be staying in San Francisco?
Is it going to be a trade to the Steelers?
Is it going to be a trade to another team?
Remember there were other teams involved way back. Can they
circle back and try that route again? And all this
stuff has been discussed by understanding, according to the sources
in that forty nine Ers building.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So it's getting close to.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Nut cutting time, and one option on the table is
for Brandon I used to play out the last year
of his contract. That doesn't seem to work for anything.
I just don't feel like that's a good solution for anybody.
So if we get to that point, this saga is
going to continue into the regular season. Auks do about
fourteen million dollars. Obviously the forty nine ers at any
point could say, hey, you're coming back and playing on that.
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You could also have the right to say I'm willing
to give up close to a million dollars a week
at least up until the middle of the season, where
he'd have to prevent his contract being from being told.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
One guy, we do know where he's headed.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Juju Smith Schuster quickly finding a new team, which also
happens to be his own team back with the Kansas
City Chiefs, who was actually already out there on the
practice field earlier today.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Some interesting decisions for the Chiefs to make.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
With that wide receiver room, but with Juju they got
somebody they know already has the chemistry with their quarterback
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
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Speaker 1 (15:00):
When the twenty twenty four season begins put the Baltimore
Ravens against.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The aforementioned Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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Speaker 2 (15:15):
We don't want to see Mahomes. We don't see Lamar
Jackson in week one.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Well we see Russell Wilson or potentially will we see
justin Field.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Mike Tomlin has still not said for certain.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We'll get into why and what might play out here
in the coming days right after this, as The Insiders
rolls on. Every time we think we know what direction
the Patriots are going to go with their starting quarterback,
there's some type of little twist there. Night it was
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Jacoby Brissett banging up his shoulder and Drot Mayo said
he was actually fine. The plan was to hold him
out after only one series, which seems like what you
do with the starter, not a guy who's competing with
Drake may Here's a little bit more of what may
has had to say over the past couple of days.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Would Drake may play if Jacobi's not available?
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Uh, I would like to see here and say one
hundred percent he's our second best quarterback on our Russer
right now?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Is that yes? Or next question?
Speaker 9 (16:18):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure until until I West
of Fame. You know, he's climbing the ranks and to
Kobe having a better overall command of the operation. But
who knows. They may change. And you know, we said
it all along, we had one A and one B.
It's a competition. That's definitely a huge conversation here over
the next couple of days of how we want to
approach it. I would say, you know, we came into
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the preseason with the plan for Drake. You know, he's
a you know, number three overall picks, so you know, uh,
the expectations and things like that are high, and the
pressure from the outside, from the fans and from the
media will be to put Drake in. But you know,
after speaking with a VP and Eliott, we feel we
still feel confident about the plan we have for Drake.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pella, Sero Rapport, Mike Garafollo.
We don't have as much of a track record on
Drod Mayo quotes Ian in terms of I think we
all had kind of a Belichick.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Translator through the years.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You can bring it into the various grunts and non
answers and things like that. When you hear girod Mayo
after the game say break's our second best quarterback, then
today say Drake is outplayed Jacoby Brissette. I still get
the impression that basically they're saying, hey, even though one
guy looked really good, we can't put him out there
right now with this team.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Let's put Jacoby out there.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
What do you make of what you've heard and seen
about New England's decision?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
First of all, listening to Drodmeo, it's clear there is
no firm decision yet, which is okay, there doesn't have
to be obviously this week you would think one would come,
but no firm decision yet. And it really is a
multifaceted decision. It's simply not okay, who throws the ball? Well,
who played better in the last game? You know, then
you'd say, okay, we'll cool, Drake may get on out there,
go play. It is also having a veteran who could
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come in and withstand all the different things that come
in an NFL game. Is the offensive line good enough
to block for someone who mightn't take a split second,
more in making decisions with Obviously Drake may is a
good athlete. You want to put a rookie quarterback who
you're really really high hopes for, You want to put
him out in a position to have some success. Is
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this Patriots team right now in a position to have success?
The answer is, I have no idea, But I don't
know that anyone else does either. Because it's the preseason,
there's so many questions. I think that's why you get
these sort of non answers or half answers from Jid Mayel,
because a lot of this really is up in the
air now. I would also say that when we talked
to Jacoby versaid, and he's said this publicly several times,
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he believes he is the starter. He was brought here
to be the starter. There's nothing wrong with having the
first round quarterback. Just take a deep breath and wait.
And I would finally add this mic everything we have
seen from Drake May the last couple weeks. The Patriots
have been excited about him all camp. I know there
was some sort of narrative like they've been excited about
him all camp. It's just a matter of when he
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actually gets out there.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Well, he in the control room. Please leave him up
for this.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
It's getting close to nut cutting time, which according to
wictionary dot org, which is not the best source, but
trust me, this is true. Means quote the optimal time
to gather nuts before they are seized by other animals
or buried in the snow. No, the last block in
this block. Understand that that's what nuts about. But I
would say this to Girodmeo. Fine, you know, in relation
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to what you said with regard to the offensive line
and everything around him and all that stuff, there was
a fumbled bubbled snap there that he picked up and
was able to kind of still make.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
A play there.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
There was a third and fourteen where he scrambled for
seventeen yards when nobody was open.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
There was a play where he lost his shoe last night.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The shoe came off, still completed a pass. Like Drake May,
who is a cool customer if you've been with him
through the draft process, like I'd been with him a
couple of times and talked to him, and yeah, I
got him. But as your quarterback, as a head coach
and you see all this going on, you know, maybe
he's got more resilience than the average rookie.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's all I would say, is anything good ever come
from somebody's shoe coming off?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All I can think back was, you know herschel Walker
lost the shoe one of his first games with the
Vikings that obviously ended poorly here. I don't know if
that's a harbinger of bad things to come.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I would say it was. It was a hall of fame.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I think we're not a hall of fame career because
I think he was in the Black Sox again. But
Joe Jackson, right, and then a movie came of it,
a really good movie, Feel the Dreams.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, didn't it great for Joe Jackson? But he met out. Anyway,
we're way off topic here, all right. How about this?
We had another team that does not yet have a
starting quarterback named You might have heard about this one too.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It's in Pittsburgh, Russell Wilson justin fields. They have proceeded
in terms of the reps as if Russell Wilson is
the guy. He only played one series through three passes
the other night. And yet here we stand allot a
firm answer from Mike Common, who's says that he is
going to wait untiled the end of this week as
we welcome in our friend Bridget Condon to the conversation. Bridgie,
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you were at that game the other day against the Lions.
It was a very brief and actually pretty effective in
terms of the offense outing for Russell Wilson Justin Fields.
We saw some of the dynamic movement skills he has.
We also saw I yet another botch exchange. What do
you make of where we stand right now in terms
of how Pitchburg's looking at that QB position?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Well, Tom, you mentioned it.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
Mike Tomlin said after that game, We're going to wait
until the end of this work week, so they're going
to have three days this week of Steelers on Steelers.
He said, why not do that and then we'll make
a decision. But all eyes really are pointing towards Russell
Wilson being the starter Week one against the Falcons. But
let's have some fun, right Why not compare the two
quarterbacks to this preseason. Justin Fields had eleven drives whereas
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Russell Wilson had just six drives. They have a very
similar passer rating this preseason, Russell Wilson with a ninety
two passer rating, Justin Fields with a ninety one point four.
But again, this is the difference, right. You kind of
mentioned it coming to me off that toss. Russell Wilson
was in the game, led the team to a touchdown
in his first drive, then was pulled out of there.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Justin Fields did the same thing. He led the team
to a.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Touchdown on the first drive of that game against the Lions.
The difference he stayed in for another two drives. It
looks like Russell Wilson is their quarterback one, right, That's
what you do in the preseason. You get your quarterback
in there, let him score a touchdown, get a little rhythm,
and then pull him out of there. But it's going
to be interesting to see what they do come the
end of this week. All eyes again pointing towards Russell Wilson.
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Some of the conversations I had at that game on Saturday,
that's the sense I got to. It felt like, yeah,
there was a little bit of concern with a calf injury,
but once he got back out there and was able
to do everything, there was no limits in terms of
scheme for him in the game. It felt like because
of his experience. Again, look, he's entering his thirteenth season
in the league. Justin Fields, just his fourth season, it
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felt like he always had the edge over fields. But
that's not to say at some point this season that
we won't see Justin Fields in there as QB one
for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I think that's also evident, Bridget is that this is
a team that's gonna have to play defense, and I
think the defense is gonna be pretty nasty. They're gonna
have to run the ball to We know they have
Naji Harris Jalen Warren dealing with the hamstring injury the
last several weeks. It sounds like there's some optimism there
that he gets back week one. That's what he's told
reporters today. We'll see, but that at least is a
good sign that that is what he believes. So being
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full go offensive line and run games certainly something that
will help. And Bridget, That's not the only good running
back news we got today. I'm talking specifically about the
Lions budting star Jamier Gibbs.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
What do we know there, Yeah, he was back on
the practice field just to walk through today. But the
Lions got a lot of guys back. As we inch
closer to Week one against the Rams. Sam Laporta, their
tight end, was also back and a big boost on defense.
Dj Reader was taking off the pup list. In terms
of if he'll play week one, that's not been ruled out.
Dan Campbell says they're getting week two against the Bucks
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for his return, but they're going to see how he
does over the next couple weeks before making a decision
on when he'll be back. But Dan Campbell is saying
today this is going to be a tough couple hours
for them until cut down day tomorrow when they try
to get to that fifty three one position. That's really
interesting that you guys, I'm sure have been talking about
keep your eyes on, is that wide receiver number three
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position behind Amen Ross, Saint Brown and Jamison Williams.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Josh Reynolds.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Remember how big he was for this team, both in
terms of size at six to three, but also you
know what he did on the field. He was their
best deep threat. They have a couple players that are
in contention for that. Donathan people Jones is one of them,
and also de Reese Fountain, both big guys at six '
to two, but also this undrafted rookie. Have you guys
heard of him? Isaiah Williams, He's making a name for
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himself this preseason for the Lions. He's just five '
ten though, and Dan Campbell says they'd love to have
that size, you know, for the wide receiver room. But
it feels like Isaiah Williams has done a ton this
preseason and might just have made a spot for himself
on this roster.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I don't know if we know.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
If we know Brad Holmes, he also know he's going
to be on the phone potentially adding to that room
among other places as we go through these next several days. Bridget,
thank you very much. Talk to you again soon here
back in the top story coming up after this, Ceedee,
Lamb got a big old bag of money. So what's
next for the Cowboys? Yes, it turns out there actually
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are other people on the team. Jane Slater will be
back to break it all down.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Coming up right.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
After this on The Insiders, Back to Thriller lets him
from the safety spot, and Pruscott of states that lunch
to his life, throws on the.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Run the middle of.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
The Atlantica fifty. You want to get anywhere near him,
Lamb crawl if we wanted to CD Lamb, Lady who
yours well, get guest out for the Dallas touchdown.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Pay the man already pay?
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Oh they did, They did pay the man.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Case you missed it earlier, Ceedee Lamb and the Cowboys
agreeing to a four year, one hundred and thirty six
million dollar extension with one hundred million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
So he is back in plenty of time to.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Practice and get ridy fur week one as a member
of the Dallas Cowboys. Jane Slater, get back in here.
We talked CD earlier. That's the good news. Let's talk
a little bad news because we you know, we tackled
the good and the bad here on the Insiders, And
let's talk about Deron Bland. The Cowboys losing one of
their big defensive playmakers.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Yeah, that was a tough one. You know. Earlier in
camp they lost Sam Williams, and granted they were able
to go out and get some help there at defensive end.
And they also have their rookie Marshawn neland they are
going to once again be calling on a rookie to
help out here. Mike Dearn Bland.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
For the fans that.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
May not have been familiar with them, very saft spoken,
but he let us play do all the work. Nine interceptions,
five of those returned for touchdowns. Last year, he really
stepped up when remember Trey Vaughn Diggs went down last
year with an ACL injury in early September. So Mike
Zimmer was sitting here thinking he had an.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Embarrassment of riches. And now you need a rookie to
step up here.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Kaylin Carson, the rookie that they're going to be turning to.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Who is he?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
He has a fifth round pick out of wake Forest.
Now I asked around one of your thoughts on him.
Super competitive, quick learner, tough, he will tackle, he won't
back down from a challenge. But you know, in order
to impact the run game and provide pressure, you need
two good corners. And so the question here is do
they have that I've been reaching out to see if
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you know, you've got a couple of free agents out there,
guys like Patrick Peterson, You've got Eli Apple. It doesn't
look like they've got those guys in coming in just yet,
but they've been known to surprise us. The Dalvin Cook
thing happening today him coming to Dallas, got that confirmed
along with Tom Pilisaro that he will be doing a workout.
So looks like Jerry Jones is flexing out there, as
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he did in a profanity laced interview with our boy
Clarence Hill, telling us what a good GM is. So
he is scanning the rosters in the waiver wires, see
what's out there. We'll see if they do something at corner.
But looks like they're right now going to be looking
to the rookie about.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Six to eight weeks from now.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Even on the back end of that, you're looking at
mid October, so they would have bland back potentially before Halloween.
So the Cowboys may be thinking we've got enough in
house to get us to that point.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We shall see what tack they take.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Thank you, Jane Tom.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
A lot of moves out being around the NFL. Not
all cuts good news, bad news for the Browns. No surprise,
Nick Chubb going to remain on the physically unable to
perform lists.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Coming back from that e injury.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The Browns always knew was not going to be there
in September, but there is hope that as we get
into October and November, we'll see Chubb back on the field.
Little good news Jack Coughlin Jedrick Wilson are starting tackles,
both past their physicals off the pup list today. Be
while for the Rams they got Pooking the core back
in the mix, so at least going out there and
doing some individual drills. He had been sidelined because he
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went down awkwardly, even with a knee issue. Sean mcfado
had said that it was only going to be a
couple of weeks at that time. Full expectation, I in
the Puka is ready to roll a couple week one.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Not a similar sitching for Uchenna Nuoshu, the Seahawks standout
ed really not a household name, but he is a baller.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Nasally been having a great, great training. Kip sources that
he is going to miss.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Multiple weeks with a knee injury that he suffered on
Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Could actually begin the season on.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
IR That is one of the reasons they traded earlier
today for Trevis Gibson from the Jaguars, and.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Then we had a quarterback tree.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Malik Willis, the former backup quarterback for the Tennessee dun
was probably exlated to be certainly was slated to be
their third rounder with Mason Rupe coming in and playing
really well.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
He is headed to the Green Bay Packers, likely to
be their backup.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
That is a fresh start. Leak willis a really good situation.
The fact that he gets a backup his good friend
Jordan Loves surely something that will help kickstart his career.
You want to talk about quarterbacks, let's talk about quarterbacks.
Aaron Rodgers and Deshaun Watson. Both awesome quarterbacks, both highly productive.
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Both didn't do you know anything in the pre season.
Is that going to matter in the regular season? If
only Steve Weisch was available to ask, where is Steve Weisch?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
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(31:14):
up here.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I sent this to you if I had text Michael left.
But there were a lot of names.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I'm right in the middle there.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I'm listening is Tommy, Uh, what do you think of
this draft? Because in the middle rounds you gave me
all stuff that you said on the show last week
I should do.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
So it's hard for me to make out the exact names,
but I remember on it was like Friday or Saturday,
you had texted.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
It to me.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
I remember going over it and being like, I really
like this team and ranted.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
A lot of it is because there's players I like.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
But I remember you got you.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Got Josh Allen with a couple of bills back there.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I look, I thought you came.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Away from a great team with a great team.
Speaker 13 (31:48):
I don't think, like I said, about either of Mike's teams.
I've yet to see anything that they have drafted. But Tom,
you did a good job this weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, so take that to the AI thing that grated
my draft as a D plus.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
We'll see about that as we think out later in
the season.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, Florio, you're here, for a more important reason
than that. I think a fantasy hot take from me.
There's still a lot of drafts going on around the country.
Give me something that you think that nobody else is
thinking as they get ready to draft.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I got through freeing Tom the first.
Speaker 13 (32:19):
I think Trey McBride is going to be you tight
end run in.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Fantasy football this year. No tight end is going to
score four points than Trey McBride.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I know it sounds like a hot take.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
Last year with Kyler Murray, he was the tight end
one in fantasy points per game and in target share,
and of all the top tight ends from last season,
he had the fewest percentage of his fantasy.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Points come from touchdowns.
Speaker 13 (32:42):
I think this offense is going to be better with
a healthy Kyler Murray, which should just lead to more
scoring opportunities for McBride.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
I don't worry about Marvin Harrison or anything like that.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
And then I think Isaiah Pacheco is going to finish
as a top four fantasy running back this year.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
People might even hurt me, say this a right.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
This is gonna be the take of mine this summer
that I think gets most remembered for. So check out
already dominates groundwork in Kansas City, especially near the goal line,
but he's got a really thin RB room there.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
I think he's going to be a three.
Speaker 13 (33:13):
Down back and I think the Chiefs might be three
best offense in football.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So at three down back on.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
The best offensive football with Andy Reid. Yeah, it seems
like a hot take now come January. I don't think
it will.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
That was like six hot takes.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
But it's our pretty flamming I appreciate you putting yourself
out there. Why don't you tell us as I continue
to get ready for my fantasy draft on Monday, once
you give us a couple fringe first rounders that you like.
Speaker 13 (33:40):
Ruka Nakua is a player that last season I pounded
the table for all summer and we all know really
went on to.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Post rookie records and catches and yards.
Speaker 13 (33:50):
He won a bunch of people their fantasy championship that
I will say. I'm a little bit nervous this year
having to pay full price.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
It's like when I was younger, I always.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
Went to this bar and I had fifty cent win
and then I wrote there on a regular night and
they wanted like twenty bucks for ten wings and I.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Was like, I don't want to pay that price.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
That's kind of how I feel right now.
Speaker 13 (34:07):
With Puka, but he's fallen to around two in a
couple of my drafts and I love getting him there.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And then Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 13 (34:15):
I'd have been a Jonathan Taylor fan since his Wisconsin days,
and I'm not stopping now. I get the concerns Anthony
Richardson maybe could vulture a couple of touchdowns away.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Maybe he's not going to throw the ball to Taylor
as much, but those two running the option should be
a ton.
Speaker 13 (34:29):
Of fun, should lead to a lot of big plays
for Taylor.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
And he has been in RB one in points per
game in all but one.
Speaker 13 (34:36):
Of his NFL season, so I think with a running
quarterback we could potentially see even more upside.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Out of him.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
All right, backing out Florida, there's a reason you haven't
seen my fantasy team.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I haven't had my draft yet.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
It is Tuesday, this coming Tuesday, not tomorrow the next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Nice and my.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Seven pm Eastern, which is when this program now. A
lesser man, a lesser man would probably take off.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm gonna work my way. I'm going to draft live
daed roll back. We don't have the graphic. We are
gonna draft live on Tuesday. Would you like to join
and help me and be a phone a friend and
be a ringer here? Yes, you would, Florio ignat with
us on Tuesday. You're gonna help me draft my team.
You got to tune in for that. See if I
can focus on anything other than my draft during the show.
(35:20):
Speaking of focus, time for me to focus on the question,
I have to ask you, which is a rookie that
you believe will be the first off the board?
Speaker 13 (35:27):
First, good luck to you because doing a show and
drafting is not easy, and you're not even doing a
fantasy show.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
So good luck Mike. But warmn Harrison Junior, first wide
receiver off the board.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You've heard his name for years.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
He is finally here. He is a great field stretcher.
Speaker 13 (35:43):
I think he's going to be the Cardinals number one
red zone.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Option from day one.
Speaker 13 (35:46):
And those two things are huge because long catches and
touchdowns is how wide receivers score points.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
In chunks.
Speaker 13 (35:53):
We have seen Kyler Murray already support a wide receiver
one in his career. I have Harrison ranked as a
wide receiver one, but you get him in round two,
and then the second rookie off the board is Malik Neighbors.
He continues to climb up and up and up draft boards,
but you could still get him in the fourth round.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
In a lot of drafts.
Speaker 13 (36:10):
He was my wide receiver one actually throughout the NFL
draft process because.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
He can do everything.
Speaker 13 (36:15):
He could stretch the fields, he could win after the catch,
he could win in the red zone.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
He is a future star in this league.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
And I know people have concerns about his quarterback, but
he is going to be the focal point.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Of this offense.
Speaker 13 (36:25):
Nine to ten targets a week is in play, and
with his talent, that is someone that you want on
your rosters.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Michael, thank you very much for being here.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And I think it's actually illegal if you join Mike
on during rout next week, Lee's league may not be
overly thrilled. Weekday six, Fan Eastern Time Fantasy Live. He's
not being there, Mikey, thank you very much. We'll look
forward to talking with you again next week. A lot
more to come tomorrow be here, We'll see it
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