Alex Curry & Carmen Vitali Preview NFL Free Agency, Talk Shedeur's Draft Stock, Red-Hot Lakers & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with
Carmen Vitali. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with
carme and me, and Happy International Women's Day to us.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I was gonna say, when's.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Lebron coming over to tell to tell us Happy International
Women's Day?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (00:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Come on, Alex, you've seen that. It was a video
from like either you.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Last time when he was with Genie and everybody in
the front row. Okay, did I miss something that happened?
Like now, that's what.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
He was saying. He was like, Happy National Women's Day.
I thought that's what you were going for it. But
I love it. I'm here for it.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Also happy like NFL free agency Frenzy. We're gonna talk
about who's locked up some of the big trades. Geno
Smith to Vegas was the big one yesterday. I think
that was actually yesterday. Who got released? Where will they land? Lakers?
Also in Boston tonight, you guys, is this the finals preview?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I've got something we got thoughts.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Okay, we're gonna talk about all that today. But all so,
I'm really interested in this moment, Carmi, you went to
Harry Potter last night?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Did chirst Child the play at the Pantages.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
At the Pantages, I've been hearing amazing things about it.
We're both Harry Potter stands and not. Carmie's like next level,
like way bigger than me.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
So I actually, after seeing the people that were at
the show yesterday, I leaned over to my fiance and
I was like, You're.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
So lucky that I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Like this, ah, but you I mean, like I I
wore like a burgundy fur coat because I was like, Okay,
I know that I'm Gryffindorhouse, but like I didn't I
didn't go so far as to like wear cloaks and
robes and whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
So I mean, I brought my wand when I went,
I went to.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Martin's nodding like he do you wear ropes?

Speaker 6 (01:45):
I don't wear rose.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
But I also went to the show.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
I wentday night.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, so rating do we need to go see this
in real life? Because I'm hearing just the special effects
for a play are in sane?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
You're insane?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, it's absolutely you kind of you kind of take
for granted that, like you're not watching a screen because
there's so much stuff that's happening on the stage that
like you're like wait a second, Like things.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Are floating, there's like pyrotechnos.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I read the book for that, but I never I
can't even remember if I like, No, so it's it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's like the next like a kids. It's about it's
Harry's kids.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
It's the script of this story about Harry and Hermione
and Ron's kids and Genny by the way and their kids.
But like I forgot about it because I read it
when it first came out. I was I did the
whole thing where I stood in line and got it whatever.
I was like really excited, and I do remember being
disappointed in the plot, and then I when I saw

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the show, the special effects were incredible. The plot sucks,
like the plot is not. There's so many holes in it.
They take for granted so much stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Do we need to go see it?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Though? One like a performance, it's incredible.

Speaker 7 (02:54):
I was there to watch, like to me, when I'm
watching a Broadway show or something of that nature, I'm
there to like kind of watch the same reason I
watch basketball.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's like the the oreography.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm entertainment.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
We love a multifacetted man right now, just like I
love a nex theater, I love Broadway plays, I love
basketball here that's how they're similar.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
That was my life growing up.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
There was a lot of athleticism on stage.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, the changing of scenes really especially thanks.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
For worth that. I'd sit close close.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, okay, so out of mine.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Go see it's mezzanine.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
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Speaker 2 (03:55):
We've got a great show for you guys today. Obviously,
if Harry Potter is involved, we're going to go off
the rails for a little bit here, But we have
the founder of the Sportings Tribune, Rosch Markazi joining us
in about thirty to talk all things NBA, especially Lakers.
Then we have NFL dot com writer Nick Shook in
our two to talk all the free agency. We have
executive producer Ian with us today Technico co producer Chris

(04:15):
Martin wise at the news desk. But let's we're gonna
start real quick with a leading up to the big
trade that happened yesterday, who got locked up this week
and Eagles signing Saquon Barkley to an extension. Already, he
was one year into his current three year, thirty seven
point seventy five million dollar contract with the with the
Eagles with twenty six million guaranteed. They agreed to a

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two year, forty one point two million dollar extension, so
he's under contract through twenty twenty eight and it includes
thirty six million guarantee, most ever by a running back
for a contract for three years or less fifteen million
more in incentives. He's going to be a twenty point
six million dollar new money average. Barkley deserves this and

(04:59):
so much more. He is a huge reason that the
Eagles got to the super Bowl. I argue he should
have been way closer, possibly the MVP favorite. But after
this year, once again we all know this is a
quarterback award, but this is a good starting point for
other teams to take notice and take note. This is

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how you take care of your star players. You show
them their value, show them that you value them, and
you pay them.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I mean, these guys are now there's there's multiple huge
contracts that came down as far as locking guys up
so they don't hit free agency. Saqua wasn't even part
of free agency this year. They're like, that's not even
part of this. I'm interested to see how much, don't.
I don't think he's gonna be able top this season,
but he's still going to be an incredibly high end
running back, especially when you're running behind that line. Don't

(05:54):
forget though the Eagles lost Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore is
now a head coach. He was the offensive coordinator last
for the Philadelphia Eagles. He's the one that built that
offense around Saquon. I think that he did a wonderful
job doing all of that. So now what who.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Comes in and and and it does.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Does that affect Saquon as far as how much he's featured,
how much he's utilized the season he just had.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I we talked about it at length.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
When we were talking about MVP conversations to uh, if
there was ever a time where non quarterback deserved MVP,
Sequan was absolutely and I was like, that was that
was it and it didn't happen. But I just think
that there. I don't think we're gonna see another season.
But that doesn't mean that he's not worth the money.

(06:43):
That doesn't mean that he's not worth investing in in
the long term for what this offense is with him.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I just it's the first time he's been on a
great team where he had protection, he had the ability
to have a season like this. I think it's only
up for Saquon. Will he match these crazy record breaking numbers.
Time will tell. And again, like there's a lot of
changes that are going on.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
I think that's kind of like, I don't, I don't,
I don't know how you do that, because like that's
almost cheapening this year, it's not cheaping.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's just like he finally had the ability to be
great with everyone around him, and now you build on that. Now,
he's someone that you can see is motivated by that
and will get better and wants to be better. And
it isn't just about him, It's about making the team better.
As we saw, it was never about personal stats for him.
We saw him come out when he could have could

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have broken like numerous records this season.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, the the he is in the right place from
the sense of the Eagles aren't afraid to spend money,
They're not afraid to keep retooling. They're absolutely in contention
every year because of what how how Howie Roseman has
built this roster. But your offensive line, part parts of
your offensive line are getting old. There are there are
things that you are going to have to do going

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forward if you're the Philadelphia Eagles, that are going to
be some tough decision, whether that's this year, next year, whatever,
to try and maintain this level of success. And it's
not easy. So it's not I don't want to put
that on Saquon. And that's why I'm saying this contract
wasn't banking on Saquon matching last year and seeding it.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
This kind of came out of nowhere. I was like,
you're at one when you're into your deal.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
It was investing in a core part of your offense
that you want to be part of it for the
long term. No matter who's the offensive coordinator, no matter
who is on that offensive line, you know that he
can run behind whatever offensive line given his years in
New York. But yeah, no, I mean this was this
was a great I'm proud of the Eagles. I'm not
surprised by the Eagles. The Eagles and Howie Roseman know

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how to build a team, and they know how to
build a perennial contender.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
They did a great job. They also resigned one of
their linebackers, Zach Bond.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I was going to say, that's that other one I
want to get to because.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Because he had that bit, he had one of the
big interceptions in the Super Bowl. He was an All
Pro this year, three year, fifty one million dollars. The
Eagles are taking care of their guys.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, and he was making three point five million dollars
when he came over from the Saints.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
He was not making anywhere near that With the Saints.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
They figured out a system, and the thing is they're
not losing Vic Fangio, their defensive coordinator who was the
one that kind of unlocked Zach Bond so.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
They won the Super Bowl. Investing won the Super.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Bowl, investing in a linebacker, in a linebacker like that,
who is so versatile, who means so much to that defense,
who was a chess piece for Vic Fangio.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Again, kudos to Howi Roseman.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
And if we're going to take away anything from the
Philadelphia Eagles, it's the same thing you take.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Away from when you're dating.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
If he wants to, he will thank you.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
If they want to, they will. Don't let any team gaslight.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
You and think they don't have money, or they can't
move the cap around. Figure it out, or they they
can all they can all figure it out. Howie Rosman
does it year after year, and he's probably the enemy
of a lot of gms out there that are saying, well,
we don't have the money to do this and that
and the other. It's like, well the Eagles just did
it after winning a Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I want you want to pay your guys, you should
pay them and pay them early because the prices are
only going to go up for great players. And if
you know you're going to keep them, like you said,
pay them. Now, we had another big payday yesterday two
days ago. There was a lot that's gone on this week.
Max Crosby became the highest paid non quarterback in NFL history.
The deals three years, one hundred and six point five

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million dollar contract extension with Vegas. But he was told
this is not for what you've done, but for what
you're about to do. He is chasing championships and so
are we, and Crosby said, it's an honor to be
held at that high of a standard and I take
that seriously. So a lesson here is get if you
want to get the best out of your employees in

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any line of work, everyone wants to feel valued in life.
And doing this and saying this that it's not for
what you've done, but what you're going to do is
only going to make that person, that employee, that player
work harder and play harder. So let's roll through the
timeline this week, because this decision kind of was all
a part of the Genos Smith trade, which was the

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big blockbuster trade yesterday. Seahawks approached the Raiders about that
trade to get Crosby and give them Gino Smith and
DK Medcalf. Vegas declined and then sign Crosby to a
record breaking extension on Wednesday. Thursday, Gino Smith requests a
trade after him and the Seahawks couldn't find common ground.
Then Friday, Gino Smith is traded to the Raiders for

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a third round pick this year.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, this is what I was gonna say about Max Crosby. Yeah, don't.
I don't put the.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Max Crosbie deal and the Saquon deal in the same
bucket at all, because not that there wouldn't like again,
Max Crosby, they had to make a decision on him
whether they were going to extend him or not, otherwise
he was going to be able to go somewhere else. Yes,
And you're I mean, Vegas's backs were against the wall,
and you can't let a franchise player, one that you drafted,
you've developed, all of that kind of stuff is there.

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So you knew there was going to be other interest.
That's what happened this week is the Seahawks went to
you and said.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Hey, can we have him?

Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
They were not the only.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Team to be to express interest in Max Crosby, nor
would they have been the only team. So there was
a decision that had to be made there and.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's not just it's it's Vegas.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yes, saying like you are a cornerstone franchise peace, we're
going to keep you. But that's not the same as
not having to do anything like the Eagles did with
Saquon and and re upping.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Into that's a respect.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Max Crosby is absolutely a cornerstone of the defense. The
thing there is you had to lock him up too,
because you had to tell him, Hey, we're gonna lock
you up, but we're also going to get you help.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
There's so many holes on that roster. And John Spytech,
the new GM in Vegas, has his work cut out
for him.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
And we're starting to see though that he's not shy
in making some of these huge moves. And kudos to
him for being like, all right, Gino's Gino's on the
trading block.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, cool, let's make this happen.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
I'm not gonna give you Max, no, but I'm gonna
give you something else.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
And I mean they still could use a receiver. I
mean that package. I don't think it would have been
worth giving away Max Crosby. But having Geno now in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
With Pete Carroll, his former coach, reunited there's there's absolutely
like comfort familiarity, yes, which is huge.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
The thing about this move, though.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, is it changes the landscape of free agency?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh yeah, it's another. It's another one of the quarterback
dominoes kind of out of place. And Raiders were a
top draft pick that were in need of a quarterback.
Now they haven't.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
And or you look at guys like Sam Darnold, Aaron Rodgers,
like those things were all being floated of. Hey, Vegas
needs a quarter Vegas is one of the teams that
needs a quarterback. Isn't a good quarterback class?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:50):
These are the free agent quarterbacks that are on the
market now. We didn't know Gino was on the market
until he requested that trade this week. There had been
rumblings and all of that kind of stuff. I mean,
he for as old as he is taking the beating
he was behind that offensive line.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I mean he routinely one of the.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Most he's not that old mid thirties, yes.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
But like to be mid thirties and be sacked all like.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I think he had the most sacks, not this year
because that was Caleb Williams the year before.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
I think he was the most sacked.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Quarterback Okay, so like lower mid thirties. Yeah, but you
have like Stafford what thirty seven, thirty eight Rogers forty.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
The point I'm making is it just it wasn't sustainable
for him to get beaten behind that line all the time,
like beaten and battered and bruised. Yeah, and now you
have the opportunity. Now Vegas has some work to do
along that front too. They don't have the weapons that
Seattle did have. Now they don't what they got rid of.
You know, DK is apparently on the on the trading block.
He's requested a trade and they let go of Tyler Lockett.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
So that's that's.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
All prog understand what Seattle is trying to do here.
This was a great trade for Vegas. I don't think
it was a great move Seattle. You're what are you
going to get right now? You're not going to do
something better?

Speaker 4 (15:05):
There's no clear upgrade to Gino Smith. No, and not
not to mention you're getting rid of weapons too offensively. Yeah,
I mean I really think that they're they're trying to
get younger. That's what's trying, like what they're trying to do,
and this is.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
What a real they get who are they going to
go after what's their quarterback situation? I'm always going to
be the leader. Why are you going to try to do?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I'm gonna be very interested to see what they do
because I think that you have the opportunity to, all right,
if this isn't a good quarterback class and you don't
want to invest in any of these guys in the
long term, talking about getting younger and all that.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Other stuff, do you get a holdover?

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Do you get I don't know, Jimmy g Do you
get like somebody that just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Brands haven't re signed him yet as back?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (15:43):
No, so he I Like, I wonder if you get
one of those, I mean, Gardner Minshew was released by
the Raiders. Maybe you just do a whole swap, like
where you kind of cut your losses this year and
work to get better and younger elsewhere on the roster
before then you go in and and find that quarterback, Like.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
What's their plan? What do they know that we don't
because it just didn't make any sense.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
I mean we always like we always do this though,
where were we like We're like, oh, you know, teams
should just break it down and rebuild, like what's the
point of trying to like, this is what they're doing. Yeah,
and sometimes you just need to let him and that's
that stinks for Seattle fans. Yeah, that's but yeah, I
mean I don't, I don't. Clearly Gino wasn't happy and

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there was an opportunity to go somewhere where he could
be under I mean, Pete Carroll's a defensive guy.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
So we'll see how that all goes. But but he.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Knows him, he knows him. Former coach, you got great leader,
Like I said, now with Tom Brady, the greatest of
all time. Is like in the ownership group, he has
a lot of Yeah, he's a lot to save what's
going on, and Pete Carroll's a legend and he knows
how to work with.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
They still have a lot to do on that offense.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, well still have the top draft pick.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
But yeah, they retain that and it's and he just
got a third round John Spytech does not.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
He's not scared.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
No, it's gonna be fun. We're gonna take quick break here.
But when we come back, speaking of draft picks, well,
Shador Sanders go in the first round of the NFL draft.
That's next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (17:54):
All right, so we kind of ended the last segment
talking about quarterbacks are available after Gino Smith was kind
of the first one snagged up by Vegas because that
was a big landing spot for a lot of the
possible free agents. Because this isn't a super strong quarterback draft.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
It's not a super strong free agent class either. Yeah,
and so that's why I like it was. I guess
it was surprising, but not to see that, Like people
were getting kind of creative there. And as soon as
you saw that Gino Smith wanted out of Seattle, Vegas
took note of it.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
I really thought that it was going to be more.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Of a Sam Darnold situation for Vegas. I thought that
that was going to be the most likely spot for
Sam Darnold to land. But now that's off the table.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
So now off the table.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
We have quarterback needy teams we do and maybe some
that we don't even know about exactly.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
And there's two names that are really floating around this
draft and that Shadoor Sanders and cam.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Ward and in that order, in the opposite r.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Cam Ward seems to be the top quarterback. He is
talked about as the favorite for the twenty twenty five draft.
And since the combine, there's been a lot of talk
around Shadora Sanders draft stock going down, which a little weird,
but we heard a lot of NFL teams of a
couple we haven't gotten specific say that he was brash

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and arrogant in his combine interviews, and teams are kind
of cooling on Sanders for a number of reasons. He
showed little to no improvement in his game last season,
made some poor choices. They were also turned off by
his antics. Since January, he didn't participate in the drills.
A Shrine Bowl was sighted for one instant, I just

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he was viewed negatively. And here's this is hard because
so was his dad. This is kind of like the
brand of Dion Sanders. So this is the family brand.
Why wouldn't you want your quarterback to have confidence? Well,
here's that's that's what it feels like. It's just it's
just over confidence that people are taking the wrong way.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Here's my if you're gonna be brash, nobody cares if
you're brashing confident if you can back it up. And
that's the issue that teams are having because Shaudi Sanders
isn't the top quarterback in this class, if this class,
he's honestly a beneficiary of the fact that this is
such a weak class because.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
If he came out last year, he is not a
first round him.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, absolutely not.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
And so you have to be able to back up
what you're saying. And to be this high maintenance and
to be this confident in your skill set, you have
to back it up. That's not something we've seen from him.
Like you just talked about, he didn't take a step
forward last year. And yes, there were protection issues around
him at Colorado, there's no denying that, but a lot

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of those sacks that he took were also on him
for holding the ball too long. He is not a
guy that I think the end vogue thing in the
league right now is having these mobile, very athletic quarterbacks
that can create in the backfield, that can get themselves
out of issues or whatever.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
That's not Shadar Sanders.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Janry Sanders is a pocket passers saying he has to
stay in the pocket. He operates the best when he
has a rhythm and timing offense, and that's something that
is very specific and it's also not kind of where
the league is trending right now. He doesn't have above
like he has just above average as far as like
athleticism and size, like size, arm strength, all of those

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things that you're looking for in a quarterback to invest
in in the long term.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
He doesn't have it.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
At an elite level. He has it at an above
average level, and he can operate very very well in
an offense that he himself is very familiar with. It's rhythm,
it's timing based, it's all of these things. And there
have been plenty of examples across the league in NFL history,
especially too of guys that didn't like Drew Brees comes

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to mind, where he didn't have any of those things
at an elite level, but his timing, his rhythm, and
with his the way that he operated mentally made him
such a good player.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
So do you think having his dad as his coach
helps or hurt them both?

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Okay, because that's fair. There's no way for Dion to
separate himself. As much as he wants to say that
he can be objective when it comes to his kids,
it can't.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
You can't. But real quick like, when you look at
the top ten teams in the draft that need a quarterback,
and this will probably change because there's going to be
trades and people are going to move around. You got
Titans need a quarterback. Browns most likely need a quarterback
because mister Badman reinjured his achilles. Giants need a quarterback. Patriots, No, Jags,

(22:36):
Raiders just got their quarterback, Jets, Nomah, Rogers need a quarterback, Panthers, Saints, Bears,
those are your top ten. There's a lot of quarterback needs, yeah,
a lot of Do you see him going to any
of those teams.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
I don't think he's a top ten pick.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Now, quarterbacks always rise and there's always a demand.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
And like I said, this is not uh, this is not.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
But this is not a strong quarterback class and it's
not on and to only see one quarterback go in
the first round that happened just a few years ago.
And so cam Ward to me is by far in
a way like the gap between cam Ward and Schadur
Sanders to me from a football standpoint is massive.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
It's cam Ward, He's.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Singularly on his own at the top there, and then
you have to take a step down into the next
tier to get the rest of the guys. And I
do think that Sadure Sanders is the best of those, Yes,
but it wouldn't I do. I still do also think
I said he's not a top ten pick, I still
think he's a first round pick.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Again, because this class is so weak, because there's so
many quarterbacks me.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
But the strength of this draft lies elsewhere, and so
many of these teams have pass rusher needs, offensive line needs.
Running Backs are creeping up the board because now that
we've seen what Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley being paid.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
For it and the values coming back up for the
running I would hope so.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
But it also it also there's a whole other conversation
there about how you need other pieces.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
It can't just be the running back.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
You need protection.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
So does that keep the value down a little bit? Whatever?

Speaker 4 (24:12):
The point I'm making is there is a lot The
strength of this draft is not the quarterback class. There
are needs on so many other rosters that aren't quarterbacks.
Even rosters that do need quarterbacks probably need something else. Yeah,
so I think he's still.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
A first round pick.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Okay, yeah, I will not.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I will not if he's a top ten pick.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Somebody overpaid or they got influenced a little bit. It's
going to be interesting to see. But let's check in
with Martin Wise now and see what's trending.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
Chief wide receiver.

Speaker 7 (24:46):
Savy Worthy was arrested on Friday night in Williamson County,
Texas on a charge of assault of a family member
or a House member by impeding breathing our circulation. The
Bengals and tightened Mike the Seki agrees to a three
year deal to stay with to Cincinnati.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
The Chiefs and Hollywood.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
Brown have grew to a one year contract for the
twenty twenty five season.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Number sixth Saint John's.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
Beat twenty th rank Marquette eighty six to eighty four
in overtime. Nineteenth ranked Kentucky beat Missouri.

Speaker 6 (25:14):
Ninety one to eighty three.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
Arkansas will be twenty fifth ranked Mississippi State ninety three
to ninety two, and Alabama, the seventh thrand team in
the nation, has a sixty seven to sixty four lead
over Number one Auburn with seven to forty five left
in the game. Yukon, it's not even close to Seaton
haul fifty seven to twenty six with about fifteen minutes
left there. Maryland has a four point lead over Northwestern

(25:37):
the terror finser thirteenth ranked team in the nation, fifty
to sixty fifty to forty six with nine to thirty
four left in the second half. At the half, Winthrop
and unc Asheville is forty six to thirty with Winthrop
in the lead in the Big South Championship semi final,
and in the SEC finally, Texas A and M with
a nineteen to fifteen lead over LSU. Earlier today we

(25:58):
saw Iowa State beat Kansas State, Tennessee Beach, South Carolina,
and Louisville beat Stanford Ladies.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Back to you guys, Thank you Martin. You're listening to
Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitally.
We are broadcasting live from the tark dot Com studios
in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon
with carme and me. It is time for our first
guest owner and CEO of The Sporting Tribune, Friend of
the show, please welcome rash Marcazi. Happy birthday, a.

Speaker 9 (26:24):
Rage hid rank you so much.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We're doing fabulous And what a great birthday week and
present you've had from the Lakers because they have been
red hot really since January fifteenth and playing even better
since the edition of Luka Doncic. Do you believe they
are real contenders to win a championship this season?

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (26:47):
Listen, I think anytime that you're in the top four,
if you're number two, seed in the West. Yeah, you
are certainly in contention. And listen, I keep telling people
that I really like the Thunders are the reason that
they're tend to a little heaven games above the rest
of the West. But see them in Las Vegas in
that Cup final game where they had a lot of

(27:07):
money at stake, get a championship at stake and everything,
and they lay to agg.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm like, I'm under pressure.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
I want to see the Thunder in the conference finals.
And so like, Luca's been there obviously, Little Lebron's been
there several times. So yes, they're a championship contender, and
I think that they have a real shot this year.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I want to know specifically what you have observed.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Slash think going forward that Luca the biggest thing that
he's doing for Lebron because at forty years old, I
have to imagine Lebron is like taking a big exhale,
being like, all right now, I don't have to do everything.

Speaker 9 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing is that
Lebron has been hoping to have a complimentary, not even
accomplished ship player. I thought he thought that Anthony Davis
would take the reins and become the guy on the Lakers,
and there were several fort he was, but there was
obviously more often than not where he was obviously hurt

(28:05):
or wasn't capable of being the main guy. He loves
the fact that they have a quarterback now, like Luka
Doncic who was the guy, and Lebron had this great
quote where he's like, I want to be the receiver
and I want Lucan to be the quarterback. And we've
seen that several times already for Luca, you know, to
put up a thirty five point fifteen assist performance. Again,

(28:27):
we've not seen that since Lebron did it or the
Magic did it. It's what's the most surprising thing is
how well they've played together so far.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
It really is incredible. Like Luca cannot stop throwing touchdown
passes to Lebron James, like cross Court, Now, you've been
covering the Lakers for decades, does this Luca Lebron team
remind you of any of those championship Lakers teams.

Speaker 9 (28:51):
It's a little bit different in the sense that there's
normally a guard and a big man. I mean, you
go even historically, you know Jerry West and Will Chamberlain
and Magic and Kareem and Kobe.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
And Check and Kobe and Pout.

Speaker 9 (29:02):
This would be a unique one where it's Lebron and Luca.
But what it does have is two generational Hall of
Fame players, And so whenever the Lakers have won the championship,
they got two of those players. But where this scene
would be unique is that you don't have that guard
big man component. And again, even Lebron and Danthony Davis

(29:23):
when they won, had that. So it's a little bit different.
But I think this is the way like the game
is played now. You know, you go to the Warriors,
I mean they didn't have the superstar big man. It
was Steph and it was Clay and it was Draymond,
and like they found the way to make it work.
So this would be a unique championship historically speaking for
the Lakers. But this is a historical pairing between two

(29:44):
of the best minds, two of the best playmakers that
we've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, but does that leave holes that come when you
know things matter a little bit more, when come the playoffs,
come the postseason, that the Lakers are going to be
vulnerable for undred percent.

Speaker 9 (30:00):
I think that is certainly the biggest question mark with
this team, and we're going to see it tonight. No
Jackson Hayes, or at least he's doubtful to play. I
mean he's not even, to be honest with all the respect,
like not a great big man. He's been kind of
thrust into this role of having to play, so that
is a problem. But I guess the only kind of

(30:21):
pushback would be no with no one is stopping Nikola
Jokic from doing what he wants to do. So it's
not like you're going to have like a head to
head to battle. We do have to change things up.
And so that was really the moment that I thought
this team was a contending team When they went into
Denver and won the way that they did. That gave
me some hope of like, listen, they've they've gone up

(30:44):
against Denver the past two years and it hasn't worked.
Maybe going small ball, maybe that will help them.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
So they're in Boston tonight facing the reigning champs. We
all know the history between the Lakers and the Celtics,
and it's been it's been a minute since we've had
that kind of greatness on both of these teams. How
much are you taking stock in this game tonight.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
It's a huge team. I think anytime you have them
going up against the contending team. Again, like I said,
when they went up against the Nugget, that was a
big barometer test for them. This is a team that
has beating them in the postseason the past two years.
Now you go up against the Celtics team, the defending champions,
the number two seeds in the East, if they're a contender,
and again it's not gonna be an easy matchup, of course.

(31:28):
I mean they're going to Boston, they're they're they're not.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Favored to win.

Speaker 9 (31:32):
But I want to see how they're going to perform
tonight and if they win, and and like even if
it's a close game, these are the kind of barometer
tests where we see are they truly a contending team.
But to your point later Celtics, that is the league's dream.
No disrespect to the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Cleveland Tavaliers.

(31:52):
For the number one season, the league is hoping that
the number two seeds from the East of the West,
they meet up in the finals this year.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
We're gonna talk about it, but that's I have some
thoughts for us about why we're spending so much time
on these guys.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
But yeah, I agree, So okay a rash.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You're around this team a lot, take us into that
locker room, and I mean we see the chemistry on
the court and in the social media videos the Lakers
keep posting, but it just feels like there's a really
deep respect and understanding between Lebron and Luca. And is
that the case when you're seeing it up close every

(32:33):
single day?

Speaker 9 (32:34):
Yeah? And I think the great thing is because of
social media, like you're really brought into the locker room
when even the reporters are up there. So when Luca
gets a birthday cake and when JJ Reddick Esaki to
the team, I mean, there's a different vibe around this group.
But even if you kind of do one of these
deep guys, if you have some time and you go
on YouTube. When Luca was on JJ's podcast, the connection

(32:58):
that they had when Lebron was talking about Luca before
the they were like teammates, Like there is a bomb there.
There's a connection there that I don't think we thought
would happen this quickly. When the trade was made, it's like,
well maybe, but it'll take time. There was a lot
of question marks. The fact that they've become the hottest
team in the league, and to your point, the best
team in the league is January fifteenth. It's surprising, but

(33:21):
when you go into that locker room and when you
talk to the guys, I don't know how it happened
so quickly, but there's a bomb that's been formed. And again,
this road trip's going to be really key. I mean,
if they can find a way to win tonight at
Boston Playoff Atmosphere and all that stuff, I mean, you're
really gonna see, you know, does this team go on
a run and they're already on an amazing run currently.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Now we talk a lot about Lebron and Luca, but like,
how much credit do you have to give JJ Reddick
right now to all of this too, especially since he
has that history in that connection and that friendship with
Luca from when they played together.

Speaker 9 (33:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's the buy in that's been so
amazing with these guys. They really trust JJ. He is
a psychopath. He does homework. I saw him at the
usc Uli and he's watching game film while he's at
that game. Just they know that this guy knows what
he's talking about and the biggest testament to him is
they're playing defense. And in twenty twenty five in the NBA,

(34:15):
certainly if you watch the Sun and gave me a say,
there's no defense now, the Lakers every night are playing defense,
which is why they're in the position today are right now.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's so fun to watch. I'm excited for tonight, a Rash.
Thank you so much for joining us. Happy birthday weekend.
I hope you have an amazing time tonight. All right,
thank you, and we come back. It is the dues
and the don'ts in sports. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here
with Carmen Vitali. We are broadcasting live from the tartak
Com Studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your
Saturday afternoon at carme and me, and it is time
you guys for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
I love that putting a spotlight on the.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Don't The subject brings me no joy.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
That's insane.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Next time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Okay, I go, I gotta do in a don't That
kind of goes both ways. Do confront people, but don't
do it publicly. This week went viral. Lebron James confronted
Stephen a while he was courtside at the Lakers next game,
and it looked like he said something along the lines
of like, keep my son's name business out of your mouth,

(35:35):
something along, though Stephen addressed it on a show the
next morning, saying that that was a father and a parent,
not a basketball player confronting me. And this is hard
because I understand kind of both sides of this. It's
our job in the media to talk about players, and
when you are the son of one of the greatest
of all time, you're going to get a lot of

(35:58):
attention and expectation, and you're a criticism player. It comes
with the job. Now, do I think it's right sometimes
for these young, vulnerable athletes, No, it's not easy. It's hard,
but it's a part of the job. It's even for us.
We get picked apart daily being on TV or radio,

(36:20):
and even if you know things you're hearing are not true,
we're all human and something stick with you and it's
really hard and it's the negative part of our industry
and it sucks. And I understand how that could be
hard for a parent to see that. But your son
also chose this career and to be in this industry,
and this is what we do. People make a livelihood

(36:43):
commenting on what he's going to do in the league.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, it's one of th where I understand both sides. Yeah,
but I also am like, you need to have a
little more self awareness.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Lebron.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
You're a Lebron James, Lebron James, and your son is
also Lebron James.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
By the way, Yes, so you did that.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
You did that, but he did that, y'all. Major's decisions,
y'all are grown.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah, like we're talking about it because it's his son,
but like his son is a grown man. Ronnie is
a grown man.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yes, and he's not He's not a great player.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
He's not a great comes with the territory you.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, and it's it's tough, Like I just I wouldn't
have done it that way confront people if you have
something to say, but like you will do it to
make a seat to also do it.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah, do it in private too.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
It's just like if you're going to give your energy
to that publicly, that kind of stuff publicly.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Like you would be exhausted.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yes, all right, I've got a I've got a do Actually, no,
it's do not. Don't do not.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
Underestimate London Tipton. If you ever watched Sweetlight of the
Zach and Cody On has a channel. The actress Brenda
Song who played London, who was this princess princess kind
of like trust fund kid on the show.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
I actually didn't watch a show. I know Brenda's from
a lot of other stuff.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
But she's also dating Macully.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
She was married to Macaulay married Yea.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
That kid's great.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
I love them. They're a great couple. Anyway, this week
she was on a podcast and it wasn't a sports
podcast by the way, guys, I loved it. It was
hilarious because.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Clearly the host didn't even know what he was asking her,
and he was just given the given the I don't
know direction. He asked her about the Los Angeles Rams.
Turns out, my.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Girl, those ball dude she does.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
She went on a rant about how the ram's biggest
issue and why they couldn't stop Saquon Barkley and the
Philadelphia Eagles in the playoffs is because they lack a
run stopper and she's dead on.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
It's true that she was great.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
She went on a whole rant, you guys to check
it out. It's been all over social media. But don't underestimate,
you know, just looks can be deceiving, guys. She played
a princess on you know, on television, like a trust
fund princess.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Turns out, yeah, she'll take the suprin ball nower.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I saw somebody say it was a meme, like most
surprising ball knower since Timothy Shallamay, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Oh I love that.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Go Brenda, go Brenda.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Okay, do get your Dodgers tickets and swag early. The
Dodgers are kicking off their season in Tokyo, Japan very soon,
and they have three of their superstars on the team
that are from Japan, Yoheyatani, Yeshinobu Yamamoto, and ro Kasasaki.
Ticket prices for that Tokyo series, you guys, right now,
starting at fourteen hundred dollars and go up to twenty

(39:28):
thousand dollars. Madness. Dodgers also dropped a jersey collab with
You're a Kami. Yesterday for the Tokyo series, over one
hundred thousand fans downloaded the Fanatics app just to be
able to have a chance to get the drop. There
were fans lined up twenty four hours before their La
pop up yesterday. Lines wrapped around the street with over

(39:49):
four thousand people twenty four hours before the story even open.
They sold out immediately. But just like this is going
to be pandemonia, like insane of.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Speaking of thing that have gone for a lot of money.
I just saw it and do share the well. Adriane
watching Kowski, Yes, quoat, Yes, all this credentials.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
The auction to walk made a bunch of money for
charity was great.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Oh we love that. Hour two coming up next day're
listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
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Speaker 2 (40:20):
Welcome to Hour two of Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex
Curry here with Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your
Saturday afternoon with carme and me. Happy NFL Free Agency Frenzy.
Last hour we talked about kind of who got locked
up the Gino Smith and Vegas trade. This hour we'll
get into too some other big names where we think
they'll land some other trades. We're also like Carmen and

(40:44):
I just realized, like we're like a week and a half,
two weeks away from March Madness.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Starting well week tomorrow is selection Sunday?

Speaker 3 (40:52):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Lakers also in Boston tonight? Is that a finals preview?

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Also on their way to the East Coast. I love this.
A bunch of the Lakers players shared their favorite like
long flight movie selections. First one off, Gabe, Harry Potter,
Lebron Godfather too. What would be your go to like
long flight movie selection?

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Oh, it's always Harry Potter when I like when I
do long hauls.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
I don't know why I even asked. That's your sleeping
comfort movie?

Speaker 3 (41:22):
It's my Yeah, exactly like it'll it'll put me to sleep.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Also, actually, weirdly enough, Me and Girls is a plane
movie for me?

Speaker 2 (41:30):
My plane movie every single time, crazy rich Asians. Yeah,
I think that is my go to.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
I was gonna say that's like I just saw a
meme where it was like, what's the perfect plane movie?
And why is it crazy rich Asians?

Speaker 9 (41:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's every single time you get excited because she's going
somewhere new and she's on a plane and it's like
so new and exciting that you kind of get that
same exciting.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
It's a very shared experience, according to the memes.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I have no idea why it happened, but it is
every single time I am on a plane and if
I don't have some thing like queued up, that's what
I'm watching.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Yeah, Like I always look through the movie section to
see if there's something.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
That like I wanted to see but I didn't.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Want to like make the investment to go see it
in a theater, yes, or like and I haven't seen
on streaming, yes, Like that's how I've seen. Like actually
that's how I saw Ady for Brady, which actually turned
out to be a really cute movie. Uh that with
like because they had all like you know, changed Honda
and like what just legends in it and I'm like,
I love all of these actresses and like the whole

(42:28):
concept is funny.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Uh, And it was.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
It was a great plane movie. Like would I have
gone to a theater to see that? Probably not as
much as we love Tom Yes, but I like that
wouldn't have been something that I would have invested or
paid money to go see and now I'm like, well,
but if I've.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Got nothing else to do, why not load them up?

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Unfortunately, I'm usually working on planes too.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
But if it's a long haul flight, long flight, hall flight,
it's all Harry Potter all.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Put in like three to four movies, all back to
back to back to back.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
I usually I have to I have to break it
up with shows.

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Speaker 3 (43:35):
That's fun.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
I love that everybody loves nostalgia. I mean, does that
even still exist? I guess it does, look just in
a digital way.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
On cars, I'm like, yeah, I just got a new car,
and so I had to learn how to like reprogram everything.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
But it's a button. It's like it's like a screen. Yeah,
it's that's on the screen, like it's my favorites, the
old cars. It was like a button.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I loved that I had. I had it.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
I liked more than I like. I feel the button.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
See, I was late to the party. I was BlackBerry
all the way I was.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
I missed my like because then I could text without
having to like, look.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
I've got I can do that though I know I
know where they are. I don't have to look. I'm
a pointer and thumb texter. It's it's weird.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Yeah, but like even then, sometimes you're you're not told
like you can't feel it.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Yeah, you just know you just all right, let's we're
off today, but let's get back to the NFL because
a lot of movement happening this week, and my first question,
are the forty nine ers offloading right now? Because they
traded Deebo Samuel to the Commanders this week basically kind

(44:38):
of dumped his contract for a fifth round.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Yeah. Yeah, it was a salary dump. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
And chef to reported this week they're also open to
trading Brannan Ayuk or just about anybody. So do they
know that they're Super Bowl window with this group is
now over? And are they just trying to make room
for Rock Parties contract because that's the going to come
up too.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
I mean, there's Brock Parties contract to think of. Again,
the forty nine ers are getting old.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
They all were, I mean they all like they had
two they had a two. Every one of their top
players had two years left on their contract.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
And then they're just like and you look at their
current the way their current cap is set up, and
you have guys like Trent Williams, who just signed the
three year revised deal right before this season. He's hitting
the cap this year for twenty one million dollars. What
I haven't heard enough about. Yeah, And this is where
I think I'll know what the forty nine ers think
of themselves.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Is George Kittle.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
He's entering the last year of his deal and he's
scheduled to hit the cap for about twenty two million dollars,
which is insane for a tight end McCaffrey.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
And the second like the last year of his extension too.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
I don't know if it's the last year, but he's
he's hitting the cap for like nine million, which is
pretty standard for your number one running back, especially given
who m Chris McCaffrey can be if he's healthy.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
We don't know he was tough.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
But it'll be interesting to see what the forty nine
ers do with George Kittle, because I mean, I know
everybody wants him to retire a Niner, and that's all.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
That's a whole thing.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
But so when they say they're open to trading just
about anybody, do you think he's on there.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
If they release or trade him post June first. This
can't This is not part of the free agency. This
is not the cycle right now. You can also designate
him as a post June one trade and trade him
before that. Okay, if they release or trade him post
June first, they would save fifteen million dollars off the cap,
and for a guy that's in his thirties.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Although, like I said, George Kittle was on one this
last year.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
He especially yes and has become just like a maniac
of the blocking game.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
But he's also a leader. You could tell in that
locker room. He is like the heart and soul and
like personality that brings everybody together on that team.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
I know that Niners fans want him to retire a Niner,
and I want that for George Kittle too, honestly, for
what he's meant to that franchise. But this is the
reality of the situation where you need to figure out
what you think you're actually capable of if you're San Francisco,
and I think that we're going to get that answer
with do they extend George Kittle because they can, or

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do they doing something June again? You can again, you
can do something now and then just designate him as
a post June one trade once the new league year starts.
So that has to that has to happen the the
new league year starts.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
March twelfth, and that's what the Bears what what about
the trades?

Speaker 4 (47:26):
All of the trades that have happened cannot go through
until the new new league year starts. And the Bears,
we also haven't talked about that either because it's not
sexy and I and I'm I've made my career over trying.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
To make the big sexies sexy. On the national scale,
the Bears traded for two Pro Bowl yards.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
It's huge though, because that's exactly what Caleb Williams needed.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
And it's not something that the Bears have done. Like
we have been begging.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Chicago has been begging the Bears, and we thought that
Ryan Pol's coming in instantaneously being a former offensive lineman
himself was going to mean that you were going to
solidify the line.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
That has not happened yet.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
No, and so now they're like Ben Johnson comes in
and he's like, you won't.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Making moves, and like with like big time Kansas City Chiefs,
like two time All Pro guard Tony Jackson from the Rams, they're.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Getting up there in age. Joe Toney, however, played some
really good football. He clearly had He has tackle flexibility.
As much as that didn't quite work out in the
Super Bowl, having that flexibility is paramount when you're talking
about the offensive line. You're trying to keep as much
continuity as possible, but injuries are going to happen. Joe
Toney is also a tone setter, and that's the biggest
reason why I loved that move. Kansas City needed to

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make some really tough choices, and after they franchise tagged
Trey Smith and had to pay him a bunch of money,
there was no way to really make that math work
with everybody else they needed to pay. So Joe Tuney
was a salary cap kind of casualty for them, and.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Bear just had to give up a fourth round pick,
yes in twenty twenty six, Yeah, next year.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
So that was a no brainer.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
But they do have to take on the contract too.
So but the Bears have the money to do that,
and they're finally acting like it, which tells me that
they really Bears really do believe, and Ben Johnson really
does believe that they can turn this team around quickly.
He said it at the combine when we were there.
He talked about how he does think it's possible to

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remake the entire interior of an offensive line and after
and like say, in one off season, and I was like,
guess that was a plan, not just a possibility, because
he's already got two of the three spots and now
you look at center. I think they have to get
creative with that. I would like to see a veteran.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Center an anybody of your eyes on, and you think
they're going to go after.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
It's not a good free agent class for centers really,
So that's why I say they have to get creative.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
I don't know who's like this is they have beauty of.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Free agency at the tenth round or the tenth But
like I'm.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Saying, I want a veteran.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
I want a guy that's done it before, that can
take work off of Caleb Williams plate, that can make
the checks and the different pre snap decisions that can
do for young players. Which is why I want a
veteran to come in. And I've been saying that since
they got Caleb Williams. That didn't quite work out this
last year. This year, however, they're gonna have to get creative.
And that's the beauty of free agency is you never

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really truly know who's available.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Who do you want them to take? Then what position
do you want them to go after?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Which that takes the Joe Toney like the Jonah Jackson,
I don't. I don't want to undermine that either that
that was a great pickup too. I really like Jonah Jackson.
Ben Johnson worked with him, and Detroit clearly liked him too.
He was a cap casualty in Detroit, so that makes
a lot of sense to me. But I think what
the Joe Toney move did for the Bears was allow

(50:40):
them more flexibility. I don't think it precludes them from
taking another offensive line. I'm then with that tenth overall pick,
So if someone that they like, if no one they
really love falls to them at that position, now they
don't have to take it.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
They can go defensive line. They can go pass rusher
like I need.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
I need interior and edge rusher as on that defensive
line for the Chicago Bears. They can go running back
even we're seeing these running back stocks go way way up,
and we know what Ben Johnson likes to do with
running backs. So Detroit Lions two years ago took Jamir
Gives the twelfth overall pick and it worked out pretty

(51:19):
darn well for them. So they already have DeAndrea Swift
on the roster. The Chicago Bears do who Ben Johnson
is familiar with. It doesn't look like they're going to
do anything with him, and they're going to keep him
on the roster because he's still under contract. I don't
think Ben Johnson is satisfied with just DeAndre Swift, because
if you also look at what he did in Detroit
and what his offense was, what the base of his

(51:43):
offense was was David Montgomery and Jamiir Gibbs. It wasn't
just Jamir, and I think a lot of people thought
that was a luxury pick for them to take Jamir
that high and then to go out and sign David Montgomery.
But it worked out and you kind of saw the
vision and so not that the Bears offense is going
to look exactly like Detroit's, but I do think that
the run game, in particular, it all starts with the

(52:05):
offensive line. With Ben Johnson, That's why I've loved him
for years. He understands that he's a proponent of that.
He gets fun and creative with offensive linemen. He goes
into those jump up packages and he does all these
really fun things. But his offenses rely on the run
game and a very diverse run game, and in order
to do that, DeAndre Swift can't do that alone. So

(52:25):
I would love to see the Bears take I don't
know that Ashton Genty will even be there at ten,
but that would be kind of fun. I kind of
expect them to go after a running back at some
point in this draft, whether it's tenth at the tenth
overall pick, that would be kind of rich. If it's
not Ashton genty, But I don't know, go out and
get my guy camp Scatabo in the third round from

(52:47):
Arizona State Ball for you.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Yeah. So it's it's like the landscape.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Has now completely changed for Chicago. It's changed for a
lot of different teams. To go back to the original
point of the forty nine ers. I really I'm looking
to see what they do with George Kittle, and I
think that's gonna tell you everything you need to know about.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Where rebuild, complete rebuild or are they just make in
room for party or both? Right, Yeah, but he also
needs weapons. He needs important like veteran weapons. It's all
he's ever had. He's having the best of the best.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
Yeah, Yeah, I wrote I wrote a whole article last
week about like trade potential trade candidates, and.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Let's repost that. Yeah, to bring that up so everyone
can like do a deep guy.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Some some of it is kind of moot now, but
I did talk about another guy who has been made
available on the trading block dk Metcalf going to the Chargers.
Oh and I did that before, Like that was even
kind of like I think that marccle published last Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Okay, so it makes a lot of sense to me.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
It does make sense. I know there's a lot of
like good offensive veteran players of DeVante Adams being another
one of those wide receiver they have him. I mean
he was said to make what thirty eight point two million? Yeah,
it's a salary cab.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
I mean the Jets huh, yeah, they they they made
sure they had an out.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Yeah, they had to. And he checks in at NFL
dot com did their top one hundred and one free
agents the agency list, and he ranks it number ten.
And there's a lot of there's a lot of need
for wide receivers where like where could he land?

Speaker 8 (54:30):
Where?

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Who needs wide receivers? I had? Yeah, Patriots Packers? Would
he go back to the Packers? Like have you have
you been hearing anything there?

Speaker 5 (54:38):
Like?

Speaker 4 (54:38):
Honestly, I mean I know that he loved his time
in Green Bay. I think it would be weird to
go back there without Aaron and I That's what I'm
curious to see, just from a personal standpoint, he's trying
to go where Aaron goes.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Interesting, Yeah, because he's also available, he's also looking.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
For any and he also knows that Aaron Rodgers is
going to throw in the football. Yeah, Like and that's and
that's like a system in and of itself. It's clearly
not a entire offense, but like that's a leg up wherever.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
What franchise though, would take the package deal? Yeah, I'd
want the package deal.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
That is, I don't know at this point. I like
you thought Vegas he would go back. Yes, Steelers is
an interesting one.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
They haven't like Giants yet. Giants have been Yeah, obviously
the front runner for Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Right, and so like when they would need I mean
having like they have a league neighbors, they have a
league neighbors, but it would be he would have a
veteran guy.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
I don't know if they they split up, if they don't,
that's kind of one of the There's a lot of
receivers that are available or should be available for free agency. Yeah,
And like DeVonta Adams was officially released, so like he's
he's all well and good, But then you talk about
guys like dk Metcalf who haven't been but have been
granted permission to seek a trade. Y Brandon, I you
beingand like that's saying that he could potentially be on

(55:56):
the trader well.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Welling to trade.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
And then you have guys like Tyler Lockan who have
already been released also that are older.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
But like if you just kind of need a guy
to lead.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
That room, pick it up.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
I don't know, it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, it's gonna
be very very interesting.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
There's a lot of quite.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
A few names that are floating around.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Godwin, Chris Godwin. We still don't know because Tampa would
love to keep and sign him. It's the only team
he's known. Him and Mike Evans have been like one
of the most productive. I thought it was very interesting,
but like there could still be a chance that he
wants What do you hear it's one of your teams?
Are you hearing?

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Like if I have one team, okay, Bucks still okay,
have my heart? They always work, So what do you hear?

Speaker 2 (56:40):
On the inside? The thing is are they going to
try everything they can to try to know?

Speaker 4 (56:43):
The thing is that they I thought it was interesting
how they locked up Lavonte David David instantaneously after Bobby
Wagner signs his deal. Yes, so if you don't know,
Bobby Wagner and Levonte David are like neck and neck
as far as how much like they're their stats and
like what kind of player they are, and everybody kind
of compares them against each other to see, like which
one is gonna go in the Hall of Fame or

(57:04):
they're both going to go on the Hall of Fame.
YadA YadA, YadA. Yeah. Literally, as soon as the Bobby
Wagner deal breaks, it's like Bucks are bringing back Levonte
David too, And it's like, you know that he was
waiting to see what Bobby Wagner was going to get
and compare off of that.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Also, Leavante was.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
Very much considering retirement, so it was like is he
is he not? Like it wasn't a question of if
they were going to bring him back, it was how
much and is he or is he going to retire?

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Yeah, And since.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
He didn't and they now know that number, that clears
the way to figure out Chris Godwin's contract. Now, I
think Levante was the first one. I think that they're
still working on Chris Godwin. They do want to keep him.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
They need to.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
They they honestly.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
They draft so well, Okay, they have a lot of
young talent on that roster and it now kind of
goes through the run game.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Although now that Liam.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Cohen is no longer there and he's the head coach
of the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they promoted from within and
so they grizz So keeping this should I was gonna say,
the system should be not exactly the same, but it
should be very similar in that it goes to the
one game family. So you still have Mike Evans, Uh,
you have guys like Jayalen McMillan, Trey Palmer, like some

(58:17):
of these younger receivers that haven't made household names for
themselves but are still very very productive for them. Kate
atten At at the tight end position, durm Pain I
believe also, So like there's there's there's still a lot
of talent, and then you have that wonderful offensive line
still in in Tampa. So like, do they absolutely need
to keep Chris No?

Speaker 2 (58:38):
But also like for him, like if he walks, where
are you gonna go?

Speaker 4 (58:44):
Like all right, the issue is that he's coming off
of another injury, so he has the like it was.
It was heartbreaking this year because this season you finally
felt like he had gotten over the ACL injury from
two seasons ago, and like last season, the season before
this one, like he wasn't quite him and you're like,
is this just who Chris is as a player? Now
that's not the case, because this last season he was incredible.

(59:06):
He was back to the Chris Godwin that we had
kind of gotten to know in those Super Bowl years
and all of that kind of stuff, And so it
was heartbreaking to see him then suffer another injury. Yea,
Now it's not as serious of an injury as the
ACL was. It knocked him out of the last part
of the season and the playoffs, but can he come

(59:27):
back and be more like the guy he was at
the beginning of last season than whatever? So that's what
you have to bank on. The Bucks are going to
be the team that's going to give him the most grace. Yeah,
So do you want to stick with that if you're
Chris and maybe you don't take the most money you
can get because you're comfortable there and you know that
they're going to give you some leeway.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
When you've seen that it can work. You've seen the
system work, and you know that it works with Baker.
I mean, the two teams that have been like kind
of Chris loves Baker exactly. So the two teams that
have been rumored that would like go hard are Patriots
and Broncos. Patriots they still there's still not a win
now team, Like they're still rebuilding.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
They're getting there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
I really think Vrabel is going to change that entire
team very quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
That will help Broncos also getting there. Bonux is only
going to get better with Sean Payton as a head
coach and could be a good situation for him. So
it's just it would.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Be and I mean Chris has gone against Sean Payton's
Saints for years and years and years as part of
his career, so they are familiar. But again, I think
that when you're coming off of an injury and you're
looking at all, right, which team is going to give
me the most grace, It's going to be the takeaway Buccaneers.
It's going to be the team that you've spent your
entire career with. And I know that Bucks fans again

(01:00:47):
want Chris Godwin to stay a Buck. It's just a
matter of I do think that that the conversations and
the negotiations and all that have obviously ramped up a
because you've got a deadline with the new league year
starting next week. And you also know now have gotten
all of like got the Lavante David stuff out of
the way. Yeah, you can now focus solely on that,
you know, one thing at a time, the bucks boshead

(01:01:09):
of time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
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to take a quick break here when we come back,
whom I continue this free agency conversation before we get
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Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
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Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
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Auburn was the home town there, so they end up
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Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Sorry, I'm wearing my Northwestern basketball t shirt.

Speaker 6 (01:03:25):
To the hut for a couple of good years, a
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Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Ago, A couple of good years, a couple of years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
I like that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
Don't listen when I say the LSU score either. It's
been a tough day in your house over there. Yeah,
tenth thrank.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
I don't care about the men's, just give me women's.
Did the women win that's all I care.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
I got you, I got you real quick. Let's see
these basketball I haven't played yet. They play in about
an hour and a half. One Yeah, USC winners basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
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was yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:04:01):
They'd beat Michigan eighty two to two. Seventy see twenty
eight and two on the year. Let's go the Trojans
women's basketball. Twelfth ranked Wisconsin men's lost to Penn State
eighty six.

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
To seventy five.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
Louisville beat Stanford by twenty sixty eight to forty eight.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
Kentucky over Missouri. I already said that one, and you
know what. Back to you guys. Thanks rereading myself.

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Amlex Court here with Carmen Vitali. We are broadcasting live
from the Tart dot Com studios in Los Angeles. It
is time for our next guest. He is a host,
he is NFL dot com writer, he's a football analyst,
and he is our friend, Nick Shu.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Hey, you were actually the first person before Carmen became
my co host that we were talking about this being
a possibility. You were with us at that Super Bowl.
Oh yeah, you were the friend that heard about this
before it actually happened, before like.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Ice came up, right, yea, yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Never remember what happens at those hotel bars at the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Existence we did, okay, Nick? Another quarterback Domino fell yesterday,
Gino Smith to Vegas for a third round pick in
this year's draft. I saw your article right when it broke.
What are your thoughts on this trade?

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Well, it came out of left field. First off, shocked
me in the end of a Friday evening, But that's
that Friday news thump. I had two reactions. One, Okay,
Pete Carroll gets Gina. The Raiders have a stable solution
for right now, even though it's not a long term.
And two, I think Sam Darnold's deaftined for Seattle. If
that's the case, why would they make this move unless

(01:05:55):
they had a plan up their sleeves to find a replacement.
Because this is a team that's on the verge of
the playoffs. Thede the playoffs a couple years ago. They
finished just painfully short in the last two years, and
they have a new coach, but it felt like when
the trade, you know, news came down that they wanted
to turn over a new leaf they needed the Gino
wasn't extremely long for them, and he also a little
bit inconsistent down the stretch contributed to some of the

(01:06:15):
losses and why they missed the playoffs. Not a knock
on him, because he's been you know, very good, above
well of expectation with the Seahawks, but yeah, I thought, okay, well,
that creates a new opening, and that's going to make
things even more interesting, and it also solves the raiders
you know, exhaustive search for an immediate answer quarterback. And
I still think they could draft one too.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
I think the surprising part about this to me was like,
are you really going to upgrade from Gino for the
long term right now? So that's kind of my question
is if Seattle isn't trying to rebuild at this point
and they do believe that they're that close, because they
have been that close the last couple of seasons and
you've got your defense under Mike McDonald and all this
other stuff. Do they then, if they do end up

(01:06:56):
with Sam Darnold, do they think that he's the long
term solution here? And I don't know the answer to
their question, what do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
I think the contract tells you that answer. And I
think that based on the position, I mean, it's obvious, right,
so you know, don't want to stay at the obvious,
but it is obvious. But I think the position in
which Sam finds himself after the way that Susan ended
also speaks a lot to how teams are going to
go about pursuing him. I don't think he gets the
multi year lucrative deal. Maybe it takes a couple of
years on a deal to convince him to sign, but
I think it's Seattle's pitching it to him. They're like, look,

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starting opportunity right here, right now, with a team that's
you know, essentially a playoff contender, why not come over here?
And so yeah, let's say like he gets two years
sixty five, sixty five, seventy five, and they get to
test it out and they frontload that contract, or they
at least like give them an out after year if

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it's a complete disaster and it's a bit of a
trial with you know, lower risk in higher potential upside
and you know it goes one of two ways. We've
seen teams make much more drastic moves of the position
than that. So it makes a lot of sense. We'll
see though, because all that stuff gets going, you know,
tomorrow essentially.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Yeah, and he's still twenty seven years old, so like
not old, not young, but he's kind of in that
like Tweeter spots.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
The biggest thing with Sam Donald is, all right, Clint
Kubiak is now the offensive coordinator in Seattle, So is
he going to be Is that system going to get
the same out of him as Kevin O'Connell's system.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Yeah, that's a big question because Kevin O'Connell earned a
ton of you know, deserved praise for the work that
he did.

Speaker 6 (01:08:25):
With Sam Donald.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
I think the Viking's gonna be good spot, but it's
a it's a big question mark in Seattle where you know,
offensively they simply weren't good enough last year and you
can't bank on Sam coming in and being you know, spectacular.
But if he can be the guy that he was
for most of the season, and that was a guy
who was calm under pressure, who usually had some time
to throw, played in a balanced offense, had weapons at receiver. Seattle,

(01:08:49):
by the way, I don't know about receiver. I was
going to say, question that Tray Jackie Smith and Jigba
is suddenly the most important guy at this company. And
so I think that makes a little bit les attracted.
But again, a starting opportunity for a team that has
slurred with the playoffs the last couple years and made
it a few years ago and looks to be, you know,
on the rise. I don't know how you turn that

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down if you're.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Saying there's a handful of quarterbacks on the market right now.
Aaron Rodgers is another obviously big name. He's he's getting
up there. Now where do you think he lands? Does
he learn if he's still a plant up there?

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Yeah? So, when when the news came down, this was
just the hours for the Super Bowl, I'm sitting in
the super Dome and that they're going to move on
from him, you know, I decided to put out some
landing spots and the second on my list was the
New York Giants, And would it be hilarious that Aaron
just has to take this stuff from one side of
MetLife Stadium to the other side of MetLife Stadium and
just trade green and white for you know, red and blue.

(01:09:50):
That would be hilarious. But if there's anybody who's built
who's essentially impervious to the New York media, it's Aaron Rodgers,
who has his own I don't know of a player. Yeah,
and I think that like Brian Davil had this moment
late in the season when Drew Locke had his career
best game against the Colts and they win in a shootout,
where he told reporters after the game, you know, yeah,
this is possible. Is he a good quarterback? Play almost like,

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you know, a bit of a nod to the front office, like, Hey,
give me somebody who's actually worth something that I can
work with here and stop putting all the pressure on
me in my job. I think Rogers would do that.
It's just that you also know the baggage that comes
with it and his age. So it's a short term solution,
but they're not quite in a position to find a
long term solution as it stands right now. So that's
my first match with him, and now the Raiders job

(01:10:33):
is solved, it feels like the best option for him.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
Yeah, And I mean you also have to take into
account too, though, that Joe Shane and Brian dabl are
coaching with our jobs and is Aaron Rodgers going to
be the one to save your job when he just
got his last head coach fired and all of that
baggage like you're talking about. But I want to talk
about this free agency quarterback is like the best example
of how much the draft and the strengths in this

(01:10:58):
draft kind of mirror what you need done in free
agency and how these kind of two work together.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Nick, you were at the combine all week, you were
at drills in.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Lucas Oil for all of them, and you look at
obviously Shuder Sanders didn't throw, cam Woard didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
I don't believe.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
So when you look at the quarterback situation, is there
anybody that we're not giving enough credence to when we
talk about this class and saying, oh, it's a down
quarterback class for this draft class, you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Should probably solve your quarterback issues in free agency.

Speaker 5 (01:11:30):
If you can't know, I honestly, this is going to
sound hyperbolic. Okay, okay, but this is my seventh or
eighth combine. I've been in the stadium for pretty much
all of them and watched the drills every year. I've
never felt more dejected and sad than I did watch
these quarterbacks and receivers for four on Saturday. The most
consistent guy out there was Brady Cooks from Missouri, who

(01:11:52):
had some injuries in his final year with the Tigers.
And you know, Quinn youwers underwhelmed. Will Howard was probably
the worst one out there. Unfortunately, Jackson dark I didn't
put together a complete performance, but I think he improved
his stock a little bit. I was very excited to
watch him throw, and I wasn't quite you know, blown
away or anything like I was at CJ. Stroudsborg out
but that was a special one. So nobody really did much.

(01:12:13):
Some guys were good in some areas and bad and others.
Jalan Norro is great on deep passes, little inconsistent in
the intermediate throws. So no nobody did anything to help
their stock. And I think, if anything, had justified what
we all thought about this quarterback class, which is that
there's one guy who is clearly the best one in
a scam ward and some people are going to get
intreat by Shador in the first round and then after
that we see where the chips fall and maybe the

(01:12:33):
next half the board is dart and that option really
isn't there for the teams that are looking to solve
their problem with one pick.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Okay, so questions about Shador Sanders because there have been
some negative reports coming out since combined that he was
reportedly called arrogant and brash, and they don't think that
he's a first round draft pick. What are you hearing?
What did you see and where do you actually realistically
see him going?

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
Yeah, you know, I don't know. You know, neither him
or Cam, you know, participated in any of the field stuff.
And yet there was this like consensus opinion when everybody
left in Danapolis that Cam had actually separated himself from Sor.
And the only way that you do it is the
sad Or did something to kind of tank a stock
er at least drop.

Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
It a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
But the thing is is I could understand why he
would be perceived that way. You know, the NFL is
an ego driven business, right, and you walk into a
room with a lot of powerful.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
It's kind of the family exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Yeah, And you walk in the room with a lot
of powerful people and you don't kiss the ring. Maybe
that's been wrong, you know people the wrong way. But
I'll tell you guys this. I was taken by him,
like very quickly in his prep conference, and I'm hard
to convince.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Yeah, Nick, and I've had this conversation, so I'm glad.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
Okay, exactly Like I'm hard to impress because I am
very skeptical about most people. It took me about three
minutes to be like, oh, I like this kid.

Speaker 9 (01:13:51):
He is.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
He's brash, but he's confident.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
You want that in a quarterback, don't you. You You
want them to be confident and be able to lead
a team and not take things the wrong way and
know how great they are. Like, that's an attitude you
need in a leader.

Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
And I think he's going to walk into a locker
room and win his team teammates over very quickly. The
difference will be can he do it with his play
on the field as well? That had but I think
he's intrigued enough that a team is going to take
a swing on him and they may end up hitting
a home run.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
What do you think.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
I think that it's still going to be in the
first round. I just don't think it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
You have you done like a mock possible landing s platform?

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Where would be?

Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
I don't he mocks because I do enough other stuff
that ends up my time. But in my head, I
still see the Raiders as a fit. And even with
them getting Geno Smith, I know that they've you know,
their fan base has been all about him for a
long time, and it's the profile of the franchise.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
I mean, and now getting Raiders fans.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
That's what.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
We drafted. The big play. We love the arrogance and
everything else, but I think that he's it's a good
stick ring because he doesn't have to play right away
with you know there and he can kind of acclimate
and I think that it's probably the best out of
the teams. Then cordacktally, we'll be drafting the first round.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
We love it, Nick. We appreciate you. You were awesome.
Thank you so much for coming on.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
We I always appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
You're the best.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Thanks, Shiki, love it. Have a great weekend. We're gonna
take one more break here when we come back. Are
the Lakers a legit championship team? And is this going
to be tonight a finals preview? Dun, dun du. You're
listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday.
I'm Alex cort here with Carmeen Vitally. We are broadcasting
live for the tartalk Com studios in Los Angeles. Thank

(01:15:34):
you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us National It's
just Women's Say or Women's in Sports Day.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
No, it's it's just National Women's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Every day should be International Women's Day.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
It is if you want it to be. It is.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Okay real quick, because we didn't get to this topic
in the show because we just again we had a
heavy free agency conversation, which we love because that's what
we're in Routtown. That's what's happening. It was very busy
this week, very busy, but also tonight, you guys, the
Lakers are in Boston and could this be an NBA

(01:16:17):
Finals preview? I mean, we got the Dodgers Yankees World
Series last year, so why wouldn't you hope for like
a Lakers Celtics Finals this year? Be im, I know, okay,
but the Lakers are red hot right now, eight straight wins,
fourth best record in the NBA. They've had the best
record since January fifteenth, twenty and four in the last
twenty four games. Something has unlocked, you guys in Lebron

(01:16:41):
James these last few months. Like he's forty years old
but also having like the same numbers that he had
in twenty twelve and twenty thirteen his MVP season, And
he's forty years old. He just became the oldest player
to ever win Player of the Month. It's it's been
fun to work thousand points. Fifty thousand points this week.

(01:17:04):
That was huge. Like he's making history every single time
he plays. Tuesday Night, it was first player with fifty
thousand points.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
But it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Haters keep falling back on, you know what about their defense.
What's gonna happen? But since January fifteenth, the Lakers have
had the best defense, allowing the fewest opponent points per game.
They've had the best record in the league since that
time too, Like I I don't know, I don't know
what the haters are keep gonna like coming up with
right now, because they're just proving everybody wrong and they
just be getting better.

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
My concern with their defense doesn't kick in until the postseason.
Like right now, playing defense all well and good, but
that's not that doesn't impress me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
I'm saying playing defense and like, no, it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
No my whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
Did you get everything out about the Lakers that you
wanted to because I have a whole thing right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Now, go off. We only have a couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
I stand with sir Charles.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
I don't know if you saw this this week, say
Charles Barkley went on this whole rant, and I completely
and utterly agree with him, talking about how no, like
the Luca trade essentially gave everybody the go ahead to
then just just we're only like national media is just
talking about the Lakers and the Warriors, and the Luca
trade validated that. And I get that whole point. But

(01:18:18):
I am here to talk about the other things that
are happening in the NBA. Because the Cleveland Cavaliers have
the best record in the East, the Oklahoma City Thunder
have the best record in the West. Oklahoma City Thunder
have the MVP of the league on their team right
now in Shae Gildas Alexander No one is talking about
that Nikolay Jokic last night recorded the first thirty twenty

(01:18:40):
twenty ever in NBA history, and we are talking about
the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
That is my issue. I want to talk about the
rest of this kind of stuff too across the league,
because there is a whole mess of stuff going on.
There is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
But the Lakers also have been the best team in
the NBA since January fifteenth, so there is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
That's yes, and I'm not I'm not taking anything away
from the Lakers by saying like they're doing well, but
there are other teams that are doing better. They are,
but they're not better records, that are setting better that
are setting bigger things. Nikola Jokic is a three time
MVP and he just did something no one in the
league in league history has never done, and we're not

(01:19:20):
talking enough about it. And this was the whole thing
that the Charles Barkley went on about, where this is
this is, you know, this is dominating the news cycle
and it's all about the Lakers and and the Warriors,
which I think is even less defensible given the fact
that the thunder are the best team in the West.
So they have the league MVP on their roster, who
hopefully actually gets League MVP. So that's my whole thing

(01:19:44):
with and and and this is a national radio show,
so I want to make sure that we are not
just talking about We're in LA, Yes, but I need
to talk about more than the Lakers, because we just
did this last week too, where we talked about are
the Lakers contenders?

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
They probably are.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
It just keeps getting longer and better though. And this
is what sells tickets, This is what pushes ratings. These
are the names, and these are the franchises that push
the NBA to where they need to be because they
were struggling for ratings, they were struggling for viewership.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Yeah, but they aren't cutting.

Speaker 4 (01:20:14):
It, but they're they're giving you performances that absolutely are
cutting it. We just need to pay more attention and
we need as the media, we have a responsibility to
shine light on stuff like that. And so I wanted
to do that with this segment because doing something doing
thirty twenty twenty, like

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Here's all the way, baby, thank you for spending your
Saturday afternoon, if this will see you next week,

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