Bunkercast II: Free Agency is Coming!

four am on a Sunday during a pandemic. Well, we just went up to Mr Glover. Yeah, well the difference, Mr Glover. Mr Glover will be rewarded for having done any amount of work. We will not be rewarded at all. So we will be rewarded by our listeners appreciation, in our in our growing fan base. This is like when they do the documentary about our podcast, will be like it was really during the pandemic that they took it

to the next level. Like those eight ten guys they were around and they were doing great work, and they had they had a solid fan base. When that pandemic hit. Oh my god, they took off, you know what, to borrow one of their terms, they made the leap. It's the guy what's his name from the NFL Films Countdowns with the name, the Italian name Damon Alma Dalaro Oh Adela, Yeah, like his his His greatest career accomplishment is that somehow he managed to be in every single NFL Top ten

episode ever aired on NFL network. Mandela take a show. Oh no, Mandela has had a nice career. I think up there in New England and all that, But what in terms of the greatest accomplishments, imagine beyond every It's like the equivalent of Jennifer Anison on every episode of Friends. He somehow did it for a clip show. Although as we as we are aware, they don't pay you for that clip show. So it's like there's a fine line between wind and desperate that most get. We'll get like

a pound cake from like Southampton, England. That's at most what we received for this effort. So, okay, where are we right now? Well, we're across Los Angeles, same thing. It's a bunker cast two point oh. So I'm in the throwback podcast garage at my place West. You're in front of the pretty lights with a good function, got

the good backyard lights. Going on to your abode, Greg, you are in the same room as I'm in my bedroom now I move that is that has a lot to break down there where all the magic and Mark Mark You talk a lot about how your house is always overrun by children at this hour. They in bed right now. And where are you? Are you in the shack the backshack? I'm in parts unknown. I'm not even at my home address. I'm not going to get into any further details about that. Wait really, oh no, he

did it. I convinced the NFL to put put him up at all. I've not convinced them to do anything. It's just that whenever this podcast comes around, it will cost me something, and this time around it's cost me greenbacks, dollars, human dollars. Did the dedication the dedication that I have to this show. You spend five minutes five minutes in my house and act as walk around, prance around my home and act like you could broadcast a football show

about Ryan Tannehill. I guarantee you you couldnot, so you know, but but let's but let's be real, You're never really um it's not hard for you to come up with an idea of why you need to be out of the house and in the hotel somewhere. So this just lined up nicely, right. This is kind of a nice coincidence. Once again the pandemic coming up big for you. Separate issue are you going to are you going to sleep there? What?

That is a personal question, Greg, that's not for like, it's not for the British and the you know, the Scottish to know is that and that's that more of a motel? It is no, Actually, I will to be honest, we are in a this is a very a ton of people watching this are in the same situation. You have two parents working, You've got kids that have been suddenly released out of their structure onto the home front.

And the wife and I, very collaboratively as a as a duo, came up with a solution where we can both work and uh, this is my day to work here and we have found a home base for her to work here on her days, so you know she will not be joining the show. But going on, it's hard to explain. It is hard to you guys, have booked a hotel for the week. We found a very a very low level accommodation where we can both have

essentially an office space. Uh if you know, And I think that a lot of people think my children are wonderful and mine are, but like they are also quite loud and destructive at times, and it's not the most work friendly environment to do, uh something on microphones. So like about you know, taping tonight, it's because you had a big date with you know, Skinn and Max a little bit later. What's going on? I don't Greg, I don't think that that network even exists at this point.

So that is I don't know where what area again, I'm not sure what area you live in, but that is that that is not an active channel at this point. And what's the rate per what's the rate per hour at this motel? Have a friend's house or something. I think I've answered enough questions, like I like I it was a stretch that I signed up to do this. I don't need to be grilled the entire time. Move on into the low level signings that have plagued the day. Okay,

so we're plague right now. Yeah, let's address this because we wouldn't be doing this. Mark, Um, I know you're annoyed for it. If it was not it was the opening of the show is slightly annoyed. But yeah, if it was like Ryan Tannehill and Calais Campbell deals which will get to happening, I don't think we would have done this show. But this really was like a day

the NFL unlike the NFL has ever had. The fact that you agreed to a collective bargaining agreement basically would have been the high point of Roger Goodell's life in career, and that by the end of the day it felt like kind of like a minor story. I mean, a lot of things in the NFL feel like a minor story right now, but um to like to go to the seventeen game season and everything that happens with the new c b A and then by the end of it,

the fact that free agency is still going on. It's just I don't know, there has never been anything like this in our lives NFL related, but certainly just in terms of the world. And yet how the NFL fits into it is fascinating because it seems like it's the only major business that's in sporting event that's trying to not be effective. Do you think an urban motel is COVID nineteen safe, Like is it? Do you think it's a place or But he's in the clear right now.

It's a good question. I mean, if anything, I brought the COVID with me. It's not that it. You know, I didn't arrive into the COVID. I brought it with me. But I think Greg Gregg made a very salient point there. That was a nice introduction. And let's dive back into and by the way, Erica is in the middle of Erica's with us Ricky Hollywood, in the middle of hosting an online movie marathon book Smart, and you're not able to comment on the movie at all because you're doing

this with us. So, you know, let's shift. You're on live tweeting my my hashtag Virtual Movie Night VMN Lakeisha's watching, Colleen's walking, watching Cynthia Freeland's watching. We're all live tweeting, you know, uh, and Dan sent, Dan sent the text and here I am locked away in my bedroom. Thanks. But you know, Greg brings up the good point because this is also Yeah, that was a nice shot by Greg.

Good job there. But but like this was we're here because we we kind of thought like everybody thought that this free agency was gonna get pushed back. Now where we are now, it is nine pm Pacific time, so it's after midnight on the East Coast. It could still happen. I mean, the reports aren't there now is that the league it's gonna start on time and you're probably listening

to this and maybe it already has. I mean, and they sent a memo to the team's you know that it's starting out on time, and they sent that seven pm Eastern time, right, But this is also a world and I'll quote the New York Times here, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Sunday that no gatherings with fifty people or more, including weddings, festivals, parades, concerts, sporting events, or conferences, be held in the United States

for the next eight weeks in one of the federal government's most sweeping efforts the slow the spread of the coronavirus. These are unprecedented times, so anything could change. But we are proceeding right now. Is if um the NFL is about to go off as it does every year in this week of free agency, starting with Monday's legal tampering period.

So what we thought would be a good idea since we're gonna have so much unpacked when we do a show later Monday, was to kind of catch up on the news that has happened since we left you Friday. We taped Friday early afternoon here on the West Coast, and there's been quite a lot of it, Mark, including you mentioned Ryan Tannehill, which I thought I find to be rather saucy league news, but at all, of course,

you have to keep everything in perspective. It is, but I think that I think the bigger news and you know, not to constantly cycle back to Greg's intro, but it the cb A getting the timing of the whole thing, because we we have been hitting on this in the

lead up for weeks. That the c ba's timing with the launch the potential launch of the new league here and all the other stuff is like feels like unlike anything we've experienced as NFL fans, And it was really I don't know about you guys, but I was like on Twitter all day long today trying to find out is tomorrow's free agency bum rush gonna happen or is it not? Like it's like, if you're us, you've got to find out what this week is about, because it

was one it was very two distinct options. One either we're heading into a waterfall of fire or everything goes totally silent for ten to fourteen days or more. And we got and I thought all along, I was told by someone actual fleet, you know, and I sent this to you guys, someone very confidently told me this is

not happening. The league year is not happening. You can sit back in your easy chair if I owned one, and you could just put your legs up, and it's time to go like everyone else, start reading a ton of books and watching all the movies you never watched. But a little mark, a little lesson, mark, a little lesson in single sourcing there, huh, A single source, A single source, a single source. And you know what, I paid the price. I paid the price because right now

I'm paying the price. So it's like we I think that I think the NFL and the NFL p A had no idea themselves how this would end tonight. And here we are, all right, So let's get into it a lot to break down, starting yes with the collective Bargaining Agreement, which is in itself huge news that's worth its own show. So let's get into let's hit the news. Ricky, You're sorry, sorry for purchasing, Sorry for buying all of this. No,

I don't think that I would. Yes, that is a story that that was came up in the New York Times. A man but seventeen thousand, seven hundred bottles of hand sanitizer. Uh and his goal was to sell them online at a premium markup of almost seventy dollars. Uh. And it kind of blew up in his face. Uh. And now he's decided just to donate him. So he's taken quite a financial hit. And you know what, that's what you got.

You can't be greedy in times like this. Humans. I think the proper level of shame was applied to the situation. He got killed. I mean, the New York Times did an article on him. He sold three hundred bottles of hand sanitizer at a markup on Amazon before the company removed his listings, and Warren sellers that they could be suspended for price gouging. So he he did regret it. He did regret it apparently. Anyway, all right, let's get into it. These are weird times. Everybody let's start with

the news. Uh, the NFL Players Association Yes, voted to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement that was previously approved by the NFL owners in February. The final tally one thousand and nineteen to nine fifty nine, very close vote that concluded at midnight Saturday. The players signed off on the new CBA that will ben begin with the upcoming season, extends through the twenty thirty campaign. And what are the notable changes? Okay, so we know it. The addition of

two more playoff teams uh starting this season. Also the option to increase the regular season into seventeen games starting in the minimum salary shoot up, performance based pay and player revenue will go up. Uh. And there's certain a bunch of other things of course too. There's so much. It's a very dense agreement, but those are kind of the big takeaways. It's a done deal and that allows things to move forward in a time of such great uncertainty in the world, in the NFL world, everything would

have been kind of torn asunder. If this is a vote no, it was close, but it was a vote yes. Well, the NFL got what it wanted with the seventeen games. Uh, they get to take this deal and shop at to all the TV networks at the most optimal time for them, or what they had planned to be the most optimal time um with with league peace, and the players get what hasn't been reported a lot. The pensions for about

eleven thousand former players go up. That's good. Guys can get pensions now after three years instead of four if you've only been in the league for three years instead of four. And then you know, the rosters go to fifty five. Taxi squad goes up, so there's there's quite a bit they did get well. They also, you know, get the seventeen games. If you're the owners. It doesn't seem to me like they had to give up that

much to do it. If you had said when the last lockout happened that they ever would have added games to the schedule, I would have been surprised. It just felt like that was a no go forever. And the fact that they got an extra game and they did it with a year to spare before this c b A even came up is amazing to me. And I think it was a good deal for the players to UH for a lot of reasons, and if they're willing

to play seventeen games, you know that that's fine. You get rid of the preseason game and on you go.

But it's amazing listening to Mike Garrett Folo talk on NFL Network today that he thinks that there was like a late vote and and it's hard to really get the data on this, but that basically the situation changed so much from when the voting opened to when the voting closed that he said he talked to some players that had voted no that maybe would have changed their mind and voted yes by the end of the week because we're entering a period of unprecedented uncertainty, and that

maybe there were plenty of owners who wouldn't have been that disappointed if the players had voted no, because they wouldn't have offered such a good deal. Like it felt like a lot of the players voting late in the NFL p AH tried to get them to vote as much as they could late in the week, maybe voted

more to pass it, and it barely passed. I think it's notable also that the one of the side stories was that I believe it was five plus players that didn't vote at all, and you've got certain players they talked about leaning on their their reps to kind of represent them um, which I don't know if that's for a lack of having really studied what was in the c B a UM or just disinterest. The same way with any vote that some people just decide not on either side or want to see if it gets rejected

and we can renegotiate, we're happy with that. I'm just wondering, is anyone like I'm kind of warming up seventeen games basically, because like with anything at work, where they say here's what's happening now, and you either just have to accept it or decide not to work there anymore, Like it's I'm warming up to it. I don't. I've never really been a fan of seventeen games because I find it unnecessary. I find it asymmetrical, which I think we've talked about before.

I have always been a fan of the five record, where it basically tells you you are um raging, Lee, mediocre, you're eight in eight and now none of that exists anymore. Well, just it's it's very It was a penalty. It was a penalty, right, you know what I mean? It was like you are middle LINKD team. But you know what, to me, this is one part of this is yes, it's gonna be asymmetrical, but it's also deal with the

devil is strong because that's not a good connotation. But there's a Pandora's box element to this that it's seventeen, it's gonna be eighteen eventually, because it just makes too much sense. If it's at seventeen, eighteen is going to happen as well, and then they that will be the

next thing that gets pushed for guarantee. What so I do to me that I think that this CBA matters because from compared to the last one, there's always these changes that matter for the players, but for the football fan, this CBA has to be one of the biggest of the last three or four decades because you're getting seventeen

games and suddenly you're getting a seventh playoff team. And if you look at the teams from last year, and you know there are years where it would pan out where you get that team in there that you everyone wanted in the playoffs, that's cool. I can sign up for that. Last year would have been the eight and

eight Steelers and the Rams. We know that some people love the idea of the rams being in there, but it's still it wasn't well it's I mean, I'm looking at one of them right now on my that but you know, but it's just I'm saying, like you're not, you're not. It's like you're not. It's like a twelve and four teams haven't been left out of the mix here.

So my one issue is that I always thought the NFL restricted, for the most part, um half ass operations from January where is like if you're if you're an NHL fan, every team but like the New Jersey Devil slips into the playoffs and the playoffs go on for four and a half months, Like are we creeping are into that world? Or I like when Mark pretends to know anything about any other sports, listen to listen to

like seven thousand hours of w fan. I know that like two hockey teams get in and and you don't need that much. But I I'm cool with all of it. I just some of the playoff teams that would that would slip into me or do not deserve to be in that area. Mark, we got Mark. I'm not going to just say one thing though, you I think you referred to it as half asked teams getting into the class. Mark, You and I both root for half asked teams or whatever your turn was. But I don't. But I don't

find it right. I don't find it right that like, for instance, it is but at the playoffs, if last year's Cleveland team had knocked off Pittsburgh in that second meeting, they would have essentially been in line to make the playoffs. They are the quintessential team to me that did not do anything deserving of football. But let's just fast forward to January, Mark and the nine and eight Browns sneak into the You're You're gonna be on fire, don't it seems.

And that's what this is about. It's about, you know, it's better for fans, I think ultimately, and I do like that. The buy now is this total, it's this golden thing. There's only one in each conference and you that's one person get one team gets it and everybody else has to claw and fight their way through the first round. I kind of love that. So I'm not in on this the extra game, but I love the extra teams of the playoffs. I'm loving market in the motel.

I mean, so far we've got raging Lee mediocre, which is a great turn of phrase, and a waterfall of fire of new Yeah, I love the waterfall of fire, just like the Game of Thrones. Not a motel. Is it? Someone's up? You're keep picking up your little investigative journals. You're not, You're not any close. You're at someone's house. I just saw I just saw a parasite last night. Is there a parasite situation? What's that wacky poster behind you on the wall? Not familiar with it? Where do you?

Where are the where are the bodies of the people that own the house? As also not describing that. I do want to say before we move on to there's a couple like little small things where you have extra guys. You know on game day the seventeenth game will not be around until one at the very least, So no nine and eight teams uh this year, but you do have the playoff teams uh this year. And and it's funny that, like I remember, everyone thought that Roger Goodell

was going to retire after this. This was like his big like mission in life was to get them through one more C, B, A and one more TV deal, and it's very like Roger Goodell, just how his career has gone, like this should have been the best of his career, but instead like they have been fighting and on the phone trying to figure out what's next, and in taking a lot of grief for it because it's kind of an impossible situation for everyone. He is a

bit of a fascinating figure in NFL history. We're living it in real time right now, but when you fast forward twenty five years, I'm interested interested to know what his legacy is. There are certain areas of the country where will it will not it doesn't matter, and I'm referring to New England, but you could probably point to other places where he's never going to be liked or respected. But what what he presided over in terms of the

league's growth, um and getting these deals done. We're now going to be by my math, which is never to be trusted. After this c b A, assuming everything goes off without a hitch, it will be forty three seasons without a lost game UM or game with replacement players. So that's that's unrivaled labor piece that the NFL has

pulled off. Well, Pete Roselle is the best commissioner the history of sports, the NFL commissioner in the nineteen sixties, seventies, and eighties, and what he went through in the eighties from a legal perspective, was way more dramatic and confrontational than anything Roger Goodell's had to go through. Who's the guy in between? Hall of Famer between, that's my guy. I'll go with. They love him in New Orleans, Paul Tagley Boo saved the scenes more than more than their ownership.

By the way, then, I think he might have been a full decade off on your uh, like a season without a skipped game, if you were going to the eighties season that was thirty three years ago, not forty three. But I I appreciate what you were attempting to do. Well, he's saying, by the time this one ends, yeah, you go lay down on your bed bug infestival. But that's not years ago? Are you saying to the end of this deal? Oh? Please? Well, what are you done? You

have no idea? What do does this week not tell you that you have no idea? What could happen with the next ten years? Mark is now predicting the NFL will be over before. It's not stopping at the NFL. Mark, I preface it by saying, barring something unforeseen, I think I covered the basis well. I thought I covered the basis with about twenty of my sandwich bets, but no one wants to bring that up. Well, I like, again, it is a very it's a very thing with the

Sessler sandwich bets people popping up in my timeline. Well, Mark has done it again. Pay him up sandwiches. Anything that comes even remotely close to mark prediction, we need to give out sandwiches. I'm not saying you have to give me anything, but I would say that, like it's

because there's a pandemic. Now we all say anything about the fact that, like you know, like if you're just trying to see into the future, which is a hazy um employment to begin with, like you you're not sure of dates, but you're getting somewhere close and then bang, here we are. I mean, what were you saying, m v P. You know, candidate, well, you know you were much closer to nailing this one than the Philly special. Oh please, I'm gonna I will walk to the door

of this establishment that I'm in now. I want to do that. It's probably in a very seedy neighborhood of let's move on, Ryan Tannel. Oh yeah, he's locked and loaded in Nashville. The Titans and their quarterback have agreed to terms on a four year extension worth a hundred and eighteen million, including sixty two million fully guaranteed one million in total guarantees. Yes, there is a difference. Rap

Sheet had those numbers. So the Titans after, you know, we don't know if they ever flirted with the idea of Tom Brady. We we all had a lot of fun with the Syracuse game with Brady and Edelman doing the FaceTime call with Titans coach Mike Brabel, which gave more thoughts to the idea that this could be a landing spot for Tom Brady. Also, Tom Kern of um NBC Boston threw it out there that it was essentially Pats,

Titans or Niners. Well, it looks like the Titans were all in on their guy, or at least that's how it ended up. So Tannehill is locked in with Nashville, and that also West clears them if they choose to go the franchise tag route with Derrick Henry they now have that option because Tannehill is on the books. I

love this one. All the people who can't acknowledge that the Tennessee Titans exist from September through the end of December now decide that they've overpaid for the quarterback because they saw a couple of playoff games in which Derrick Henry ran for two hundred yards and Tannehill didn't have to do much. They've all decided that their quarterback can't

play and that the running back carried the team. Well, you would love for your quarterback to have a one seven team passer rating, ten yards per attempt, some of the best numbers we've ever seen. Is there a risk? Sure, Derrick Henry carried the offense for a long time, But as Gregg pointed out in his deepbrief, Tannehill wasn't just great in play action, which he was. He was right without play action. He was great on everything he did. We talked about it during the year. We talked about

during the playoffs. Tannehill played the way everybody wants their quarterback to play. If you're a fan of a team, you want your quarterback to play like Tannehill did. He's athletic, enough, he runs well, he threw into tight windows, he threw deep, he was aggressive. He earned this. He earned this contract still young enough. He's not a guy that's in the wrong you know, he's not done the wrong side of thirty five, so he should have a lot of good

football left in him. It would have been really risk, I think to let him go and people getting on the contract that quarter That is just what quarterbacks are paid. The only thing that was surprising to me about it is that it's basically a three year deal. So the contract to be said a lot. I think it's said that Tom Brady stuff was always nonsense, because the fact that they announced this deal right after the c b A was agreed to shows that it was essentially agreed

to beforehand. And Ian Rappaport had said it was always gonna be Tannehill. You just put a deal this complicated and important together at the last minute. So they were waiting to see what the rules were gonna be, but they probably knew they were gonna have Tannehill as their quarterback. Brady was never a primary option based on them finishing it so soon and the fact that Tannehill thought and and and he did have enough leverage to get sixty

two million guaranteed. So that's the first two years of the contract. In theory that Titans could get out of it next year in a Nick Foles type way, but it'd be so painful and so terrible that he would have to be absolutely terrible for them to consider that. And if he's on the team next year, the third year is guaranteed. So it's basically a three year contract that they were in on Tannehill and I am with West. Yeah,

it would have been risky. It's like everything is risky at quarterback, but it would have been way more risky to try to get Tom Brady or anyone else. I think it's instructive that Mike Rabel, friend of Brady, former teammate of Brady, John Robinson in ex Patriots front office lieutenant, and a bunch of Patriots or ex Patriots on the Titans roster did not create some sort of title wave

to pull Tom Brady to Tennessee. That they are the team that knows the current version of Ryan Tannehill better than anyone else in the NFL, and they made the decision, and this was not made today based on Tom Brady saying no to them. We heard this, you know a lot of these like fresh reports from the last twenty four hours that the Titans were in on Ryan Tannehill. Ian had this a week plus ago. This has been on our show already, and the Titans were married to

the idea of of bringing him back. And the one thing that stands out to me what I saw about Tannehill over and over it was just and I it sounds almost like a cliche football phrase, but just throwing his body into the fray, totally sacrificing himself for that team week after week down the stretch. He fits the mental and physical psychological makeup of the Titans, and why break away with what they had going on? I I have no problem with it. I don't like Tannehill anywhere else.

I would have liked him going to another team. But I love them bringing him and Henry back, and that they showed I thought, sort of a clarity of vision from the start. You know what they wanted. It wasn't really a Brady thing. That was more on Brady side that Yeah, I think it was the right move. And you know people that are surprised that's how the NFL works. I just I finally caught up and saw the Mike Vick thirty for thirty four hour saga, and it was

a good reminder. So Vic as an example, Um signs a one million dollar deal after his rookie contract with the Falcons. Of course, then he runs into major trouble at the law with the dog fight and goes to prison, gets out of prison, signs with the Eagles, and then once he gets a chance at the starting job, he has one good season and based off that one good season, he got a set get one hundred million dollar deal in his career, not all guaranteed money, but it just

shows you that's how it works in the league. And these guys that in our league, in this league, and and the Titans saw enough to say, this is the guy we believe in. And I'm with you guys. It would have been and totally unnecessary risk in my mind to bring in Tom Brady based on name value and familiarity with the head coach. This was the right move.

And I'm looking forward to watching the Titans for the first And and Ian did report Derrick Henry Is is expected to get that franchise, Like he said, their long term negotiations with Henry are basically non existent and and Tannehill's money by the by the time he gets to the third year of this contract, he's going to be like the fifteenth or sixteenth or seventeenth highest paid quarterback. The money won't seem that much. All the contracts are about to go bananas because of because of the c

v A uh. In other Big Star news, the Jacksonville Jaguars are trading Calias Campbell to the Baltimore Rave It's an exchange for a fifth round pick. The Ravens. Uh then quickly got to work on a new contract for Campbell, according to rap Sheet, and they are close to finalizing a two year, twenty seven million dollar deal that will include twenty million guaranteed. Greg This seems to me like your classic whin now moved by a team. Campbell is getting older. He's thirty three years old, but he is

a proven contributor. He's still maybe maybe he's not at the height of his powers anymore, but it's still a disruptive guy. That is a great piece to add to a defense that could use another disruptor on their front seven. Yeah, if they had a weakness, it was in the front seven and getting pass rush pressure and Campbell still does that. He's turning thirty four, but you wouldn't you wouldn't know

it based on his play. His He's still been ranked in the top five of PFF in terms of interior guys, or if you put him as a three four defensive And it's just the type of trade. We've all been around each other too long. I just start thinking like how Mark would have thought, and it just I just like, the second this trade happened, I just imagined Mark being like, oh, the raven you know, just like a Ravens. He's gonna be said back in Baker Mayfield three times in week three.

Wait are you forgetting about Mark's headline from Super Bowl Week? He's looking forward to the Ravens finally hoisting the Lombardi

for the first time in several years. Well, hold on, So I my one note was winning the Super Bowl they are going to and I just think that there, um, you know, we watched these teams that go from far to Rogers and Montana too young at quarterback, and you have Eric to Costa, who spent sixteen years under Ozzie Newsome and is on a run right now to potentially match what Ozzie Newsom did if he went another fourteen years, because what they got, how did how they unearthed mark

Ingram and how they unearthed all these cast of characters in the last couple of years for the very little cost in the low level of draft picks, and what they do when they get four thousand compics of year. They are the one of the best run teams in sports. And this is another example, like he only certain teams should even trade for him, and they're one of those teams. He fits perfectly. He's one of the best locker room

guys in the league, a lot like mark Ingram. He's a perfect raven And they're gonna go fourteen and two and roll through the a f C. And next year, I mean, why even play next season? I don't care at a seventh playoff team, have a nice time. It's seven and ten, you know, Detroit Lions or whatever you are. Please January twenty Lamar Jackson among ten NFL figures. I want to win a Super Bowl. Well you know, because

you know what, because you can't fight it. You can't fight it if you are if you have to just let the Earth energies take Lamar Jackson and the Ravens where they are get flushed them through the system the same way we did with Patrick Mahomes. And maybe at some point one of these lesser you know, half baked operation like your team or mine sneaks into this situation will never happen. Why am I so you're doing this

show at this point? That would be the question. So you've seeing that the Ravens had two fifth round picks, right, they had their own fifth round pick which went from Marcus Peters, and then they had this fifth round pick from the car a ved vict trade when they traded their backup kicker to the right Campbell, Yeah, Vick, their backup kicker who didn't make the team. He was traded and then got cut and then signed with the Jets

and lost the Jets of game. That guy got them Clais Campbell like, well, that guy in a million dollar contract, Calais will have to have a good year because he's gonna take up I think about fifteen million of their cap. But this is a guy his numbers were down a little bit, still one of the better I thought about him as a finalist from my All Pro team. Um probably at this stage more of a run guy than

a than a pass rusher. But he also was forced to play quite a bit inside last year because they wanted to get um Josh Allen on the field more often. This is a super Bowl or bus season coming up for the Ravens. Uh wellmar Jackson entering the third year of his rookie deal. He's now the reigning m v P. There's going to be a massive contract coming down the

line for him if they're gonna win it. And statistically, when you look at these guys, and it's why you look at the Cowboys and you have to worry about them a little bit. With Dak Prescott his contract coming up, he kind of gotta win. You gotta cash in when you have that window that Ravens have to cash in.

Interesting that like Leonard Fournette, I don't know if he was on a radio show or doing something in the same way we are with just headphones in front of a a screen grab camera, but like he was calling himself the Tim Duncan of the Jaguars because everyone is coming and people were saying the analogy actually doesn't really work, and I will leave it to you. He was just saying,

call me the Tim Duncan. It's like, wait, I mean, if anyone was on essentially three years in a row of like totally hot water scenario, it felt like Leonard Fournette. But now he is be constant there. So would you like me to pick that apart? Yeah? West, we could. We could see if less for about an hour straight on that one. Give me what Tim Duncan. First of all, he and Popovitch were the infrastructure around which they had two decades of excellence. Leonard four neck can't even average

four yards of care, give me a break. So Tim Duncan is arguably the greatest power forward of all time. He won what six titles? West, So Leonard Fournette would have to be the greatest running back arguably of all time. He'd have to be Jim Brown level good, and he'd have to have almost as many Super Bowl rings as Tom Brady for that to play. I would say give it a week, Leonard, you might not be on that

team anywhere. Had a tone for the entire organization and not the one where you don't work out in the off season. Uh. In other news, Anthony Costanzo, the Colts left tackle, He has agreed to terms with his team The team announced it on Sunday. Tom Pallisera reported the deals with two years and thirty three million. UH. He is thirty one years old. He becomes the highest paid left tackle in the league for now. UH. And um Costanzo, who is a guy who has been very, very steady

for the Colts. Uh. They decided to stay in business. And remember this is despite a team that disappointed last year. One of the best, if not the best offensive line in football. They could turn around very quickly with a good offseason. Had big win for them that they got him to not retire. He was going to be a free agent. He's someone where if he actually went to

free agency, he took a hometown discount. You don't hear players taking hometown discounts too often, but like, there's no question he would have made considerably more money if he just decided to become a free agent. Yeah, he was at the I'm playing for the Colts or nobody's stage of his career and had one of his best years last year. Struggles a little bit at times with the faster ed rushers, but still, like you said, very solid

at left tackle. One of my news is I do not trust teams that find a way to lose their left tackle. If you're one of these teams, it's like, hey, we can't hang on to our left tackle. We're gonna go into a season with like, you know, Joe Flabek playing Booken and you're screwed. Like I just you're you're out of my wheelhouse. So the cults then let go

of me sworts. I guess that's right tackle basically. Yeah, like exactly when you have Brett Beach saying and you have Andy Reid saying, we had four Cleveland Browns playing our on our offensive line last year. Oh excuse me. That's a coaching staff that understands what the sport isn't designed to do. I think it's possibly you can get Greg Robinson back in a discount this offseton. Yeah, I think so. Well, now that the marijuana laws have changed, you know in the c b A, which we should

have mentioned, and other players staying with their teams. News Patriots have resigned safety Devin mccordy to a two year, three million dollar deal seventeen million guaranteed. He's been with the team since two thousand ten, when he's picked overall uh and he plays every week He's a rock on that team. And now I will tee up Erica to give her thoughts on the Devin mccorty resigning. She's clearly

not paying attention. Well, Katie is bringing me a new glass of wine because this was supposed to be a quick one and we've been going for so damn long. But I'm excited. I think there's a lot of good there's a lot of good stuff coming out of the Paths organization, Dan and the fact that they resigned the mccorty twins and Slater like, there are some pieces that we're geting in place, and that gives me some extra news there. I love it. I love it. Tim Post

she she got the Jason mccorty. She and uh, you know, there's maybe good news if you want Tom Brady back. Chris Sims reported, uh today that and he has Kyle Shanahan's initials tattooed somewhere on his body, So I feel like he's a good source. This is a true story. Uh, that they are not interested at all in Tom Brady. So the Titans are out, forty Niners are out. It's probably Bucks Pats and maybe, but I don't really think the chargers, boxes, boxes too depressing. You got he has

to just go back. I will, I will, I will give I will give a wet kiss and handshake to every person in Los Angeles right now. If Tom Brady signs with the Bucks, well no one wants that. No, but you don't. How's that the pot? Bring that Colvina nineteen my way? Um No, it is not Covina nineteen. That is not the technical tournament. So in this situation, Chris Simms is Rex Ryan and Kyle Shanahan is Mark saying no, it was a group of them. I think. I think Kyle Shanahan also has Kyle as Chris Sims

initials on him. It was like a group of five or four or five bros that they all they all got their initials from from ut. But I'm and he's a good source. Mark. You should know that I could actually see little green microbes floating behind you in your motel room. Well that's fine. If this is the end, you know, this has been a joy to do this at Pacific standard time? Uh, anything else? Real quick, Let's hit a few more things. Bradley Roby and the Texans

degree they do they do paper three years. Um, so Greg, you wanted to talk about No, I was saying we're good, But we're good the Texans they don't have anyone to play cornerback. You gotta sign someone, I think, Ricky, what is happening with your what is this the viral um? Yeah? Virtual Movie Nights hashtag VMN and we all just start a movie at the same time and can tweet and talk about it. And so you can watch a movie

with someone even if you're alone. It's fun, you know, it's it's I want to say that that intellectual property I p might belong to me because I launched that with the Love is Blind after show live texting party that happened with us. So maybe I get a cut on this if you end up monetizing it. Yeah, what are you going to jump in on the next one and not schedule a podcast? And well, what the film is coming up next depends on the film. John Colleen's husband.

John says that he wants Yeah, he wants to watch I don't have any sound drops. Can you stop like setting me up for them like I'm literally in a bunk? Yeah? Shut up? Uh? Where he wants to do Little Women next? So maybe Greg, that would make you interested. I love the New Little Women? Is that out and being able to watch at home at this point? Maybe it is? It is? Can we can? We isolate Gregg saying I love the New Little Women. That's my love, this book

of all time I love. Dan suggests that he actually came up with the concept of multiple people watching movies together. This is fool property that this is. This started with Dan Ricky. This is working out great for the virtual virtual thing because now everyone who listens to the podcast gotta know about it. I mean, based on the hashtag it's only you and co working. Yeah, Colleen, Lakisha Sully, it's it's a fun group. But you could be doing it over text. We might have to steal so an

away from you. What else do you have on? Yes, that's a good point. We should launch a competing movie and just do a better movie. No, we go dirty? I like that? How dirty? You gotta play through the cheap seats take away? All right, let's do it um, all right, let's do Roadhouse with Swazy. I feel like that could get a good crowd. That's what are we doing.

We're doing podcasts every day this week. The crazy thing is they'll be if if free agency really happens as normal, which I guess is is gonna happen like this, pretty much most of the NFL news for the year will be done like or for the off season will be done by Friday. That sounds good, but yeah, we're gonna be all over this. So you got you, you you got your a t N Bunker pod late night style, uh

in your ears right now? You'll have a show? What Sorry? Sorry, there there was a I've been live tweeting my virtual um and Lakisha just just tweeted at me something really like off out the way, Who's going to be editing and posting our podcast to night when you're in your fourteenth class of wine watching your move Definitely me. I want to say that you're multitasking, but you're only doing one task and it's not it's nothing to do with

this show. So so you know, God willing, we are going to run the table well this week and attempt to do a show every week just like this, keeping the date every day, excuse me, keeping you up to date and recapping everything that's happened in the free agency week. Because while the world is spinning out of control, the NFL has decided they will stay the course, So we will stay the course with you. Follow along with us. Thank you for listening. Stay safe. Remember wash your hands

for twenty seconds. Got to get the inside of the hands. Everybody does the inside of the hands. We gotta do the outsides, and you gotta get the webbing area, you know, the connecting area. Get the cuticle two. Thank you very much. Well, some people have a webbing situation, and I want to be sensitive to the web people out there and at the web guy and Mark. It's probably not gonna matter if the if the person that's looking for what's sewn into the mattress wants what they want. But put the

chain on your door. Alright, farewell, and if you that odor that's coming from that closet, just keep the door closed. I'm in a delightful area. By the way, I think that you if you were to see the entire compound that I'm in, you would you would have a different narrative. So that curtain has been used as a transportation device for dead bodies. Yeah alright, alright, well if if, if, what you're saying is correct, that sounds like a very nice set up for you. So you enjoy it and

get a good night's sleep. Buddy, all right, thank you very much. I know it's good to know that you are you are, that you care very much, that you're plugged in on a deep level. Ah. This is Dan Hands, a signing off for the Quiet Storm. God be with the Quiet Storm tonight. Keep him safe. We love him, the mailman, the Old Boss, and Ricky Hollywood, who's got a lot to do tonight. Thank you for listen until the legal tampbreak period later