The Scientists' 101 Top Free Agents

a list together, not as combatants, but as allies. And when they were done, they held it up high the top, one on one free agents of so stupid. They did it. They did it. Boys. How was the exercise this year? All of that just to put Graham Glass call at number forty four? It was better because West insisted this year while we were down in the in the lab to play that Jaws theme on repeat four months. As you saw, I think you mean brain fart there for

two trying to be human there in the backfired. We've been in Indianapolis too long already. I uh, you know, this conversation actually will be the first I think that we had about this stuff. What we never spoke about it. Are you at there? Are you at the Beatles late period? Like let it be era where you're going into the studio and laying down your individual parts and then it's up to the producer two kind of put it all together and make it seem like you're actually a functional unit.

I would say that's an apt in allogy well that I would say that was always it we All it is is we make a top one hundred list and then our editors, um, you know, combined the who lists we did used to kind of talk through once they were together if we wanted to make some corrections. But now it's like we're that much closer to death, and do we need to use that time to uh move guys up one or two? Let's just let the math take care of it for us. So does this mean

that Ali buon Puri is your phil specter? Yeah, and he lets us know if we missed anyone and and

uh so he's he's he truly deserves the credit. Break we break ties, please, I mean please, So if if you haven't heard um the show before the special and we've done it a couple of years down, and if you haven't more importantly read the top one on one free Agents of You could check it out at NFL dot com slash top one of one free Agents, Top one on one free Agents Top one on one feels like a better vanity U R L. But again, I don't make these decisions. Phil Specter does. Phil Specter makes

bad decisions times, as we've learned. Um, So check that out. And it's a great list. And and Mark and I a little bit later on are going to reveal our top one oh one. Uh, it will be the six minutes that I speak during this episode, so stay stay tuned for that. That's where the Jaws music comes in. I don't know, I said, So it's something of a of a mini pod. We'll get right into it now. And gentlemen, um your list, which for the record, begins with Dak Prescott. But right off the top, you weren't

in lockstep on that, were you? We weren't west Head Chris Jones Number one I did. I approached it a little bit differently this year. There's always that question when you're making this list, do you do it by what you're trying to predict the teams will value, or do you do it by who's the straight out better player. And to me, Chris Jones was the best player available

in free agent. And I love Chris Jones. I love putting them second on on my individual list than I have checked out some of the other sites out there. I was shocked ESPN didn't have him in the top fifteen, which is just what a sign that that's why Chris Jones was in the in one list I saw on ESPN that is correct on their insider list, factoring in that they assume he'll just be no. I I don't know.

I just think it was a bad list. But I've seen a couple of others and he's he's generally the top three or four, and to me, he was the clear best position player. I I do my rankings most of just like who I think has the most value, and so I do move quarterbacks up significantly. And I think you must have some degree to West because you you put you know, Dak Prescott number two overall, and

there's some other really great players on the list. But that was one big difference and I was going through our individuals, is that I waited quarterbacks a lot more heavily in terms of giving them value. That they play quarterback because quarterback is more valuable than other positions, Like an average quarterback like Teddy Bridgewater to me, has a lot of value. Yeah, I get that. In quarterbacks are important,

there's no denying that. To me. I struggle with the older guys because I just don't want an old quarterback in in today's NFL. It's a different league than it was four years ago. Five years ago. You can't get away with the statue in the pocket a stone Age pony, as Mark likes to say. I By the way, Greg, I just want to say, savvy, move right out of the gate to go to another media, giant media house. Uh, who creates a list of their own and just absolutely

destroy it. I'm just saying one thing I noticed that's for uh, just for a little context, since we're talking about the stone Age Ponies. Drew Brees came in at fifteen on this list. Tom Brady all the way down at seventh. You know, Phil Specter loved that. I mean, that's a spicy thing you can sell the article with, and they did. Tom ranked QB is in the headline. Phil rivers, it's so predictable. Well, if you remember when the old zeuser took Tom Brady out of the Superstar Club.

That's how they played it as well. Brady moves units or generates clicks when you speak critically of him, so you can't get on Spector for that. Uh No. And it was really west Um that put them lower. I had them. I had Philip Rivers thirteenth, West had him thirty second, I had Tom Brady ninth, and West had him twenty seven. So the average is that's how it worked out. But I don't Chris Sims gave you guys a little what four a little bit. Don't what was?

Now I'm gonna have to look at what. And it was kind of a backhanded compliment in the sense that here more football people I respect, putting Tom Brady too low something along those lines. Don't care. Tell me why you don't care it was. It just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what Chris Sims says a better list. It just doesn't mean. But you like it though, don't care. I like Westling time. West. I didn't know that put in more work than Chris Simms did on

this piece. So I don't care. One one one reason that I don't put too much into it, did I have it right? By the way, the general Yeah, you're he said to smart people. He complimented us, ranking Tannehill ahead of Brady, So that was the thing he didn't like. Um, I I questioned, is Chris Simms running this account? Oh? I mean, we're we're friends with I just don't know. I don't He's a big time star. He's got producers that could do things. Come to World War three. Wet

even know I would. I would think he constructed that tweet on his own. Greg That is a tad cynical. I like Chris Simms. I think he does good work, but I don't care whether anyone's running his account or not. Here's the top ten on the list. Okay, it's Dak Prescott at one, Chris Jones at two, Amari Cooper three, Jadeveon Clowney at four, Shack Barrett at five, Yannick and gock Way at six, Justin Simmons at seven, Ryan Tannehill at eight, interesting Byron Jones at nine, Eric Eric Armstead

at ten. So out of the top ten one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of the ten defensive players, So defensive needy teams have some blue chip options to hunt for next month, and some of those guys will get tagged, like Shack Barrett in gock Way. I don't think they're going anywhere. Well, can I ask you? I mean, I looked at your top ten, which we just read off, and I tried to find the first player I thought that would wind up on a different team, and for me, it was

Byron Jones at number nine. I thought that it's logically and it seems every year the top fifteen is just like eliminated because most of them stay home. But I think Armstead what number was he He was ten and we West had him high, and I like that Clowney is the other one. I I I think Clowney, Anna, MARII Cooper both have better than fifty fifty chances of leaving, and Clowney I would put it quite high because he can't be franchise tagged and thirty two teams are gonna

be bidding. Seahawks want pass rushers, but I just don't know if they'll be the top one. And I think the Cowboys might lose Amari Cooper. There's this weird assumption that he's gonna come back. Why are gonna being against But they don't have all the money in the world, and there's one team. It only takes one team to make him the highest paid player ever at receiver, and I think that could happen. Here's the other bit of logic.

The Cowboys, as we know, as we've been talking about, have some really difficult decisions to make, and you see it right on this list. Um, they could go the route and I don't think it would be necessarily the best one, but they might find it to be the necessary evil to get things under control cap wise, is to go let Cooper go and then invest in one of these hotshot wide receivers and draft class full of them and hope they hit on somebody that could become

an instant guy with that. Like Mike McCarthy spoke just before we got in here, and you know, maybe this means nothing, but he emphasized that he wanted Cooper there absolutely next year, no doubt about it. He he did. He had this one comment where he said it looked like a Mariy Cooper was really in sync with Dac and Randall Cobb, who he lauded and he coached before. Of course, I'd say even more in saying with that,

so that makes he wondered. Does Yeah, he's on the list much lower down, but it makes you wonder if they see Cobb as a cheaper option. It's obviously very different positions, very different players. I'm just saying why I think that's not even in the top ten on this list. If a Mari Cooper never gets traded to Dells that I mean, it's true. Look at his numbers with him without a Maori Cooper. I just think someone could Why wouldn't Amari Cooper I guess make the most money and

wide receiver history. I know he's not the greatest wide receiver and in ustry, but that's just how it happens. When you get to free agency. It's so rare someone that young, that good, and the cap is going way up and we don't know about what. Wouldn't you rather play for the Cowboys at twenty million than like the

Bengals at twenty three million or something? I mean, if it was the Bengals, yes, but there's a lot of teams I think he would he could find uh, he could find attractive, and I think he might make million. I don't even know. It might be wild. Cycling back to the Stone Age, pony quarterbacks in Philip Rivers at twenty three. Every year I play a little game guessing who wrote the blurb, greg Or West, I think, and

then I play a game within a game. It's called bet your life on the blurb, And I'm gonna bet my life that West wrote the Philip Rivers blurb for number twenty three. West, would you mind reading it for the audience? Check LaBrea for contagion like a horse fly stuck to rosin paper or a masted on mired in the infamous tar pits. Rivers furious, flat foot and flailing only served to hasten the end of his story. Charges career.

No longer possessed of the quick jump step or strong arm necessary to compensate for an overwhelmed offensive line, Rivers is reliant upon a deep moat to sharp shoot from the castle tower. Look for Frank Reich and Nick Sirianni to coke their coax their old quarterback to Coke's Kingdom. I love is a beautiful blurb, very enjoyable read overall. I I love this article because uh, I get half

the credit for all of West is great writing. I just like my my my rite upside, Like what Mark sent a nice dex great job on all the ribs, and I wanted to said back, like all the good ones are a hold on. I will say this, and anyone that reads both of you a lot will also identify some of yours. Where you've got you. You dropped some hammers and little shoot some arrows through people in a very great It's not like half of them are

readable and the other are just the other. Let's get back on track, Mark, what what's something that jumped out to you when you went through this top one oh one? Well, I I look at someone like Corey Littleton and uh, he came in where it was I believe came off an awesome season and the Senate sixteen, and I think

that's a very fair place to put it. But my question is when you look at Corey Littleton and he and I think he's going to have a lot of interest because he's versatile, he can do it all, and there's not a lot of players in that position that can do what Court Littleton did last year. Do you think that he could go to any team and be that kind of player or was that partly because of fit where he was with the Rams. I think he can go to any team because I think he's the

linebacker you want where he is awesome in coverage. He can hang with scatt backs, he can hang with tight ends, and he can he's rangey and like Greg said in the Blur, which is what well written. He he also was one of the best special teamers in the league. He UH has a skill set that hasn't been as valued. I do wonder if he'll help UH improve that market. Like these off ball linebackers that are great in coverage, I mean they've barely existed, you know, in the NFL

in the same way that Corey Littleton does. Like he deserves to get paid, almost like an edge rusher that everyone values guys who get sacks so much, but there's there's less Corey Littleton's than then guys who get ten sacks like Robert Quinn or something. We talked to Daniel Jeremiah on yesterday's show about what position groups in this draft class are not so hot, and he did He mentioned tight end right, and I think Hunter Henry it's

gonna point more to a guy. I think he's gonna get a really nice payday for a guy that hasn't done a lot in the league, because when you factor in the draft class and the fact that he has those mouth watering skills, I imagine a team is going to invest in him. They're talking about him potentially right, which if he gets tagged, and I think he probably will, then Austin Hooper, who is lower on our list, is

this gonna make so much money? He's thirty third on our list, which I think is I am, like, slightly higher, but I think that's right. I don't think he's a

unique game breaking talent. He was in a great situation and is a really good plus player, But he's kind of the the perfect example of guys who make a killing in free agency, like a slightly better than average starter who's young in the middle of his prime and uh but isn't good enough to keep for Atlanta, Like they could prioritize keeping him, and they have their own issues and they're not doing it, and he's and he'll get paid like the top tight end in the league.

Can I give you one other just impression of this list? I find, you know, invariably, um, it becomes a bit depressing because there are players that we when they were drafted in earlier on in the career. They were lauded rightfully so, and they changed the game of football. And now I'm looking at Nodami con Sioux at sixty six and Gerald McCoy at sixty and those are both people below linebacker Blake Martinez. I'm just saying, I get it.

That's where again well ranked. But how quickly some of these guys fall off and show borderline borderline Hall of famers, both of them, though, I mean, they've had a great career. It's just an odd site to see Sue and McCoy down at that. You're right, it was, if anything. Some would maybe argue we overrated them, but they were pretty solid players last year for the tour. Blake Martinez like the last couple of months of the season, so his value plummet when he kept chasing after running backs who

were trucking over him. That was your boy. I thought you might do one of the like West, let's make let's make a stand for Blake Martinez and just overrate him, just to stick it in my eye. But we weren't too far away from them. You had a fifty nine item sixty nine. I think that's one of the ones where you have to credit Bob McGain the the excellent beat writer for the Packers, longtime beat writer, where he was just pointing out week after week that Blake Martinez

was getting his butt kicked. Mark then inexorbable, inexorable. March of Time, inexorable, inexorable, March of Time, the prison into which all human kind is born? Whoa right? Why am I? Why am I wasting podcast moments? Battling verbally Father time? The sands are draining through the hour glass. Um where else do we want to go? Oh? I have one editorial note I'd like to fill for Phil Spec, Phil Specter and the crew. Guys that are very likely to get tagged about a little icon next to their name.

Love it, and then you don't have to even include it in the blurb, you know that's addressed with the little badge that it's next to their head shot. I'll go even a step further. Who has his finger on the pulse of tags in this industry more than Greg Rosenthal for the last half day. Yeah, Greg, Greg probably bats about nine hundred on whether it guys getting tagged

or not. So use this and then you get removed. Anyways, it is a little messy, you know, they get taken off the list, I think, or they get a little little tag I I was pleasantly surprised to see sometimes like the guys that we disagreed on the most West Yeah, and I knew one was coming. One I loved because it's one of my favorite players of the last decade. Jason Pierre, Paul Chris Wesley had in his child Top twenty. I had him forty five and I love him, and

I thought that was that was fair. But this is one where like I'm glad West, you know, drag JPPF he wasn't incredible for his when he returned last When you're beating the crap out of the quarterback every single game, you're having the Top twenty. Yeah. I one thing with him in in the list in general is just like you want to you want to give credit to last year, but you don't want to forget you know, the injuries in in the years before that too. But when he's healthy,

he's a beast. Uh. Let's see, you have Kenyan Drake and interesting, he had a really nice season with the Cardinals after that Dolphins trade down at and it did make me think of, you know, where running backs fit in when it comes to free agency. And then I thought about, oh, what what did the two thousand nineteen lists look like? And I checked out and there he was, Laby on Bell number one on your list. It was after a lot of tags got removed. After all the tags.

That's who sat at number one. Uh is, who's your highest running back on this list? Okay, so that makes sense, he's number four. And that was when we disagreed on We were pretty lockstep for the top twenty for the most part. But I had Henry about in west at Henry tenth. Yeah. Again, I was just going by who's the best player, and this is a guy who carried his team really far into the playoffs and he was their identity. They got their identity from Derrick Henry. That

is a good player. I'd be a little concerned he had, however, many carries in the playoff. Yeah, that's that's fair. That's a fair concern. And uh and he's not great on third downs, but we had him pretty high. I still, you know, think that's pretty high. Melvin Gordon, who uh you know, once wanted to be kind of the next Levy on Bell is thirty five. And I still think when He's right, he's like a top ten to twelve back,

But man, he's very streaky. He's had some big up, some big downs in his heart of nice value by because he ended up killing his leverage. It was the opposite of what he sought out to do by missing a lot of season, coming back, not being in shape, and then not playing up to his standards from the year before for a lot of the season. But if he has a full offseason, reports on time, has the chip on his shoulder, maybe signs to prove it type deal, he might end up being a guy you can get

big value from. All of that is true. I probably held it too much against him that he was an awful teammate last year, But what can you do. He's a power back. He can make big plays. I mean, put it this way. We I don't think I'm alone saying I'd much rather have him than our number one free agent from last year, lev and Bell. Oh yeah, that was a pretty big swinging miss. I mean, don't even just bury us a little more for that. I want that, you know, the signing, the time where he

went and it didn't quite work out. Where's Antonio Brown on this list? Interesting question? We did get asked about that afterwards, and uh, and West didn't want to put him on at all. And I thought, he can't really be signed right now because the investigation is still going underway. Technically he is a free agent. He's not on the Commissioner Exempt list or anything like that. But but they said they're investigating and all the things that he did,

it feels like a suspension is coming. So I just thought it wasn't one. I don't want to see him on this list at this point. No, I don't want to see him on this list, and I'm not gonna rank He's not that valuable if he's crazy. If you gave me, if the league gave me clarity that he suspended four games to start the season and he's free to sign with teams, UH, then I would I would come up with where he should be. Great, you signed him, he has like one yard game for a month, and

then he drags your team down to the bottom. I mean, I guess I understand all that, But like I'm looking at Greg slists and he had Gino Smith and a hundred and thirty and it's like, so Gino's ahead of Antonio Brown in terms that was the free agent that was like literally a bit just for me. Uh, Phil Specter in West because I knew Zito would actually not make the list. They tell me, tell me how Antonio Brown does not have negative value? Uh, you know what?

And it's fair. And Kevin Colbert, the GM of the Steelers, uh, made it very clear that the Steelers want nothing to do with him. That ship is sailed And the same thing was done when Mike Mayok was asked about it. We're out of the Antonio Brown on business. I think he might have barges Bridge. It's still a little bit crazy to me, and I know he seems like he is. But this guy was arguably the best wide receiver in football. He's still should be in his prime. He's about thirty

thirty one now and he's completely out of football. And he's not. He's not, you know, um, like I said, on an exempt list. He's just a guy that's been deemed poison. Yeah, but think correct. Yeah. The question is what does a you know, a forward thinking front office decide to pay him. How do you actually you know, prepare for next season around a personality like that, and

is it in the best interest of Antonio Brown? To even be part of a football team where there seemed to be, you know, multiple black clouds of other issues happening in his actual life. And do all the women in your city you have to leave town when he gets there. I've I've got all fair questions. I've would be a logistical issue. I've got one point I do want to make on Gino Smith, which you brought up. Wow, okay,

circling back. I'm circling back. So um to two quarterbacks have made it to the division around of the playoffs in the last two years total total. Okay too. You want to know who they were? Pat Patrick Mahomes and Gino freaking Smith. You bring Gno in, You're gonna have a winner. You're gonna win a playoff game. Who does Russell Wilson and Philip Rivers look to for guidance? Gino on the sidelines? Hey, what are you seeing? Gino? Yeah? I mean Gino Smith's job at this point is to

like turn on the VCR in the tape room. And around two straight years. Eric Ebron at sixty three, he was an interesting guy to me. He's a couple of years removed, um from what about fifteen touchdowns with Andrew Luck disappeared a little bit last year. Uh, maybe in the right situation he could return to being a big time red zone threat. He's a guy that's still very young or young. Your analysis on this list has been on point, man, and I agree with you everything you said.

He is a guy in the right situation who could make you look really good. But what are the odds that he lands in the right situation and his hands don't fail him and he comes up big like he did for that like three months stretch with the Colts when he was on fire. But that three months stretches an outlier for his right That's that's the thing. A

six year career and a lot of mental airs. Even in that year, the Colts never quite fully embraced him as a guy they'd play every snap because they didn't think he was reliable, so he'd be He's an interesting pick up. Though you got you got Greg the leg Zer line. On this list, he is in the eighties six spot. We have any other kickers? I just need to be plugged in on Well, Mason Crosby just resigned or else he might have made it, So that's not I think that Crosby was on my he was in

my top ninety I think. But someone's leg up. Yeah, you get you get the nickname West. I have a question for you, what you said you knew this was coming. One player that we disagreed on I don't think it was Jpp. No, there was only one that I was really like, come on, Greg, and we talked about him in December, and it was Nick Kwatkowski, the Bears linebacker who I had in the top fifty and Greig must

have had like ninety eight or something. A guy who when Danny Trevathan went down, quiet Kowski went in the lineup and just made play after play after play every week. He sandwiched in between Sue and McCoy. I put him on my list. That's just a little love to you. Eight one. You know, he's a fine, fine backup middle linebacker that came in and and made some plays. I'm not gonna go crazy. You like these slow middle linebackers.

You put Dave David Mayo on your Listide, where do you get You're right, Dan, I have a quick quiz for you on the who wrote this blurb? Now? I know that when you get to number eighty and Marcus Mariota sitting there. Yeah, we hear about the Japanese Garden of Quarterbacking, the art of quarterbacking and Mariotta sphinx like regression already, footwork, arm strength, and pocket prisons. I know West wrote that, but then let me hit this one.

Linebacker Devandre Campbell quick blurbs, so that kind of threw me off. Is this West is a Greg? The Falcons once held high hopes for Campbell as an athletic three down sidekick to Dion Jones. But Robin never stepped out of the shadows to thwart potent offenses with cruel intentions when bats wasn't around, because Greg would never make a Batman and Robin analogy. It's have you ever? Have you ever?

Have you seen any Batman film? Or ever watched any vehicle cartoon or television wise about back yes, back in the day. You know I would see the original Batman, certainly, But Batman begins the one with Christian Bale I believe is actually the last superhero movie I've seen in the theater. It's kind of a slog I haven't seen the first one that brought about Katie Holmes not bringing a lot

to the table. The blurbs are so distinct that there really are you this bet your life thing, like when we go back to the Batman thing, the second thing those are Those aren't just comic those are Christopher Nolan movies. Yeah, that's why I went to see it. And I'm such a Christen Bale fan that Dark Knight is one of the classics. I've never seen any of the two thousand's. The Dark Knight Rises was good, not as good. I don't vouch for any of the Marvel stuff, But I mean,

you're coming on Nolan's corner. I'm not saying it's back. You're trying to like lump him in with Iron Man seven. It's like, come on, this will come as no surprise to you. But when I was thinking of this blurb, it was like he was award I watched. I watched a little of that. How about the fact that here in Marcus Mariota's biggest fan over the years buries him. That's Chris Wesley, by the way, buries him at one

oh eight on his list. I actually put Mariota at in my top sixty just because I thought, you don't know Mariota in a new spot, he'd be a top shelf back up at the very worst, and to me that that has a lot of value. I disagree on the value of a top shelf back up. I mean that we hear too. We heard this week that you know the Browns are excited to bring in Chase Daniel Give me a break at backup quarterbacks have value of

Chase Daniels value. Marcus Mariota has more. Jimmy Smith, who was four four spots below Marcus Mariota, came back about halfway through last year and played really well down the stretch. I'd much rather have Jimmy Smith on my team than Marcus Mariota. He was someone I buried just because his injuries seem at the point where he misses three or four games every year. The name another player you guys disagreed on, you know significantly in terms of the placement.

Is there another player that jumps out well? If I rated quarterbacks higher, I think West put some of the path rushers who I like, like the aging pass rushers who are more like one or two year guys higher. He had Robert Quinn quite high top thirty. I thought that was one of the best years of Robert Quinn's career. It was downright explosive last year he was. I just that he's some unwe are you're looking at the last four years and has like ebro as he put together

long stretches where he's great. I put him fifty one. But man, there's a lot of those guys. If you need someone for a year or two that can sack the quarterback, there are a lot of players available. What are you guys doing taking my man Mario Addison, who I went to Italy and Germany with and sticking him down at number a hundred just disrespect well. I will say this though he it's not like he vanished for the past three years. He's been productive last year. We

might be a little underrated on this list. I think you're right is that's a fair quibble. And I think one of the tricky things with pass rushers how do you rank the guys who gets sex but not hits or hurries. And it seems like every time Mario Mario Addison gets to a quarterback, he takes him down, but he's not causing a lot of disruption on the other downs. All right, So that's cool. We're having a great talk and we're gonna you know, get back to in a second.

But Mark, I think I think it's only fair that we get the Jaws treatment as well. It us to the stormy waters. Because while while the scientists were in the lab, Mark and I were up in the kitchen and we weren't making eggs. I seen Mark was a mcanny Mark called krem rule before we started today, burnt looking cheese. It's a very standard dessert that's beside the park.

As we have long teethed, we have put together our version of the Top one on one, Yeah, Flames, you heard it, heads and Mr fancy Pants our Top one on one of two thousand twenty free Agency start take it away. Well, it does not arrive without controversy. I think that's very fair, because you know, I spent half the morning reading through your list and and and looking at your work, and then I went back and cross checked. I cross checked your list with the list that Dan

and I made up in the kitchen. And this, to me is either the most stunning thing that's ever happened in the history of list making in sports, or or I don't or something very dark has occurred. But our list was from head to toe identical save four on one spot. You guys have uh Bills turned Eagles quarterback Ronald Darby at number seventy three and Carlos Hide at number seventy four. Dan and I on our list, the only discernible difference that I could detect had Carlos Hide

at seventy three and Ronald Darby. That's ridiculous, though, that's really ridiculous, Dan, what conclusion did we come Carlos Hide had a really nice season, not a superstar season, But I just think with Darby and his injury issues with the knee, um, Hide was just the guy he was seventy three and it just makes it a better list. And we believe you and I had a nice conversation about that before we flipped it. But you won me over with your you know, Hide sort of comeback story,

and I thought, yes, you're right. It's time for me and Greg to take a long, hard look in the mirror. And we're not saying the same you had DJA. Everything else was. There was a period where Dan and I were not at thee for a couple of days and I missed this. I should not have done this. This is on me. But I printed out our list, UM and I put it on Dan's list to look at when he came in, and then he had a family issue and couldn't be in there for a day or two.

And then suddenly bang alibon party. Which is your guys list that looks just like ours and ours it's not even put on the website, so I don't want to connect, you know, a billions phil spect. So you know, I am just saying that, I I let's just leave it there and let the lawyers take the baton. Surprising you guys both you had How are you? That was a no brainer that I mean, that's actually where we started our list, and then we worked our way in each direction.

Um last game mark for the who wrote the blurb, it's a tough one number thirty six my boy Robby Anderson. Deep speed gets paid, and Anderson has plenty of it. He often disappointed his Jets coaches, however, and it's too talented to have fewer than eight hundred yards in each of the last two seasons. Well, and this is Greg. Greg has a lot of specialties. One of them is he is very when it comes to these players, you know, focused on the money they'll make and the in coming

the earnings in the year over years. So the minute I heard gets paid, I went, Greg, I could be wrong, but it's also a nice brief clip blurb. If you if you deep, did you die of? A little deeper into the subtext here could be a little risky. It's all I'm saying. I think I don't where you're going, right, I mean, definitely more pithy than I am. I'm you're saying. You're saying, Oh, the guy with the last name Rosenthal, That's that's where you're going with it. You are you have?

When about Mark is wearing a star lace right now? I mean I When it comes to player contracts, West says he doesn't understand time management scenarios. I also do not, but I also do not do much when it comes to smart I'm right, of course he's right. Robbie uh Anderson could be well, he's not as highly ranked as Lady and Bell a year ago, but we we might have vote he he'll he's a boom er bust guy. Either he'll be like a terrific pick up or he'll be a total disaster. You think he's the land in

the right place. He's on the knucklehead list and he's he's he kept his nose clean last year. But if you do some research on his past, give him a lot of money, how is he can handle it? You don't know these guys. You gotta worry about certain guys that have the history. Like if it was my team and you have a choice between Emmanuel Sanders and Robbie Anderson, obviously they've provide two very different skill sets. But I'm just taking Emmanuel Sanders and not worrying about the risk

of Robbie Anderson. I think that's fair. Alright. Final thoughts, final takeaways on the free agency top one on one list of well I now my number one takeaway is that we need to put a franchise tag symbol by these guys like we suggested. But um, I do think if you look at this list, the original list before the tags come in, you look at front seven on defense and say it's pretty loaded. That's where you can get help this year, even after the tags come in.

I think you're you're right because those guys that we mentioned j PP, Quinn Everson, Griffin, Dante Fowler, the guy guys that aren't the top shelf guys, there's like depth there where those are above average quality starters, and like we just went through tight ends and it takes like one name until you get to at tackle, it's like a couple of names. It's Brian Bulaga maybe. Whereas pass rushers defensive lineman like Hargrave and DJ Reader, who I like a lot, you can you can find some of those.

And my last, my last takeaway, just taking one war glance at it is jadeveon Clowney. He has a chance to be paid as much as anyone on this list. And I think, you guess, we'll see and we know the the analysis, and I see you guys went with this angle. A lot of people do. Like what he

does doesn't always show up in the box score. But I if Seattle Seahawks aren't going after him aggressively, a team that desperately desperately needs a pass rush and they decide we're gonna just buy two guys instead of paying for Clowney, I mean I would just be a little worried. Like the Giant has been connected with clown AGAs some people see that given that guy all that money, when statistically health wise it hasn't. He hasn't always put it together. Well.

I had a three sacks season, three sacks, but he could be the highest paid player, and he might make more than Aaron Donald. It's possible Saddle wants him back. They said they did what right if you? If you believe him, he falls under that parcels planet theory. There's only so many people on the planet that have this guy's athleticism and body back to back. Clowney at four and he's the biggest risk on this list to me, I know it sounds like a broken record, but Shack

Barrett at five. They're gonna pay him. He's probably let it. He'll probably stay right in Tampa Bay. But does it ever concern you? No, no, no no, does it ever concern you when a player has like one huge breakout season and then do you just you just say, we assume that's the way the future is gonna happen. I hope it is. I think he found a great landing spot and it works. There was like a eight week window where he had about three sacks, I believe, and then

he just went nuts in the beginning. At the end of the season. It was his real first big breakout years. So I get, I get what you're saying, but you have a lot of tauld work factor of factoring a lot of things with these guys, and that's one thing you factor in. But then you also offset that a little bit by saying when he was in Denver, he was behind von Miller and DeMarcus Ware or von Miller and Bradley Chubb, and he was still getting pressure when

he was coming off the bench. So he was a guy who was disruptive even when he was a rotational guy there. And one, one last one is just man. Bill Belichick has a chance to just sweep sweep out this whole era. Not just Tom Brady, which would be the way to really do it, but Van Noy, Devin mccordy, Jamie Collins, Stephen Gostkowski. I think could get cut and end up at the back end of this list, or maybe not even but I guess he would make it,

but he could get cut. There's just a lot of chances here, a lot of big names that Kyle Annoy, I don't know what about your other team, Scarneckia, he's here in Indianapolis. He'll be back on that coaching staff in six weeks. Can't wait for you can't wait for one of these Belichick disciples to sign Kyle van Noy and then he has like two sacks and thirteen tackles next year. Thank you. And I do like the Patriots saying let's sweep out the entire team after we went

twelve and four. You know, it's untenable that we lost. Just it's natural. They're they're kind of time to reboot a little bit. All right, great job boys. You did it Mark and I did it as well. I mean I think we initially did it and then you know, here comes the bells and whistles for these guys. But that's that's fine. I really thought we were so high on Shelby Harris. That was a unique take from both of us. But you guys had the exact same out.

What what was it you liked about Shelby Harrison? You were pouring orange juice when you mentioned that tremendous motor um. All right, check it out NFL dot com, slash top one oh one free agents and good work, guys. Thank you. We will be back on Monday. We'll be back in Los Angeles as well with uh full week of three shows, three shows every week through the draft. Um, so we continue that new trend. And thank you to everybody for listening, and we are now getting on an airplane smelling later.

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