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this podcast and before we get to the quarterbacks i want to let everybody know about today's sponsor today's episode brought to you by fanduel right now new fanduel customers can get 150 in bonus bets if you win your first five dollar bet just get started at fanduel All right. So there's a million ways to slice this as the quarterback carousel is ready. There are numerous teams that not only need a quarterback, but like flat out don't have a guy to play for them.
I think there's six right now that basically don't have a guy. Yeah, so let's name the suspects here, and then let's start to put some teams to players and see where the fits actually are. If we're looking at just the clear quarterback needy teams, and then we'll talk about which quarterbacks are available and then draw those lines. Who needs a quarterback, Matt? Can we start with your Pittsburgh Steelers? Because not only do they need a quarterback.
Do they have one under roster period? Like you need three quarterbacks in Pittsburgh, right? Right. Dorian Thompson Robinson is currently the only one under contract in Pittsburgh. And that was something that they did like a month ago or as an exclusive or whatever, one of those weird deals. So no, they have nobody.
DTR from Cleveland? Oh, no, no, no. I'm sorry. It's Skylar Thompson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how impactful it is. One of those guys who's probably not going to make a huge impact. DTR in the Cleveland Browns is.
Might start week one right now for the Browns. You got a lot of third-string quarterbacks on your mind right now because that's who these teams are rostering currently. Right. So they basically don't have a rosterable quarterback. Even their third-string dude, one of the bad Allens, is not. is not under contract. There's a really good Allen quarterback, and then there's the bad Allens. He was one of the bad Allens. Anyway, I have these six teams. The Steelers...
which I know we're going to have a little conversation about because they kind of stand alone. They're actually not terrible where it's all the other bad teams. I got the Browns. They don't have a quarterback. I'm not going with DTR or Watson for that matter. Vegas, at least O'Connell's in the building and probably will be in the league for the next five to ten years. But that's not the answer. Tennessee.
Even the most optimistic of Levis people can't possibly think that that's okay. You know, I mean, Steelers and both New York teams. I think those are pretty clear in New York. Yeah, so we got Browns, Giants, Jets, Raiders, Titans, Steelers that have to add some level of high-end startable quarterback. Titans, I guess you could make a little bit more of the argument. I think that...
You let it go with Levis, but we'll go down that road. Maybe. I would understand that if you did Hunter or Abdul Carter and build everything else and see one more year and probably end up back in the top five and do it again next year. I can understand that.
And, you know, I think we know the suspects as far as draftable players go. We got Cam Ward, who seems to be consensus quarterback one. Shador Sanders, who seems to be consensus quarterback two. A huge gap between, you know, maybe it's Jackson Dart, whatever other quarterback you think is quarterback.
three those guys probably it'd be shocking to me if any of those quarterbacks sniff round one and probably even sniff round two so you're talking about a lot of good backup style quarterbacks in the nfl draft mid-round types but those are the two first round guys at quarterback and they might not be top five guys for every team and maybe not any team we'll see where cam warden and shooter or sanders end up going so let me stop you super quick bp because i think
Those two, it's safe to say whether they're opening day starters or not, they will be the plan for their new team at least. You know, whether it's one of these six or not, at least they'll be the plan. Maybe Daniel Jones starts the season. You know, like Penix didn't get in right away, but obviously he was the plan. He's going to be a first-round pick. So those are two of the seats that are going to be filled in some way, shape, or form.
Absolutely. And they're going to be paired likely with a stopgap of something. And so if it was Tennessee, the stopgap would probably just be Levis, who's already there. Or O'Connell. Right. And yeah, O'Connell and Las Vegas. But for the other teams, they might add a...
free agent quarterback and even then if a team signs or trades for in this case uh kirk cousins and we'll see how that situation goes if you bring in kirk cousins i mean the falcons just showed you it doesn't matter you can still draft the quarterback Top eight, right? So it's not going to affect you in the draft just because you brought in cousins. So there is a fit for a lot of these veteran quarterbacks, even if that team drafts a first round.
So the free agents or potential trade for quarterbacks that are available, Matt, and I have enough names to fill the teams, but I don't know if the fits are. Me too, but. Yeah, so who do you have? We got Aaron Rodgers, who's a big question mark if he's even going to play next year, right? But he's available. I don't even know if it's gone through yet, but he's going to be released by the New York Jets. Both of the starters last year for the Steelers.
russell wilson and justin fields are both free agents they were both on on what one-year contracts last year right i mentioned cousins you got sam darnold coming off a huge year with the minnesota vikings And then a couple of other names I'll throw out there that are veterans. Are Stafford and Carr available or are they not? So here's how I kind of lumped in different ways. So, all right, let's go back two seconds here.
There were six open seats, right? I think the Rams and Saints could just shuffle the seats. You know, if you lose Carr, if you lose Stafford. You filled a seat over here, but you opened a new one. You know what I mean? It's not like they're not going to go with Rattler or Jimmy and be happy about it. And then there's two other teams, and maybe I'm missing one.
that could come from nowhere and draft a guy earlier than we think on day two. Dark horse teams. But I don't know. I can't spot that off the top of my head. But my other two are the Colts. Are they thrilled? They can't just give it to Richardson and be thrilled. They have to do something. I mean, sign Daniel Jones or do something. And I wonder about Seattle. You know, is it time to at least...
draft Jackson Dart in the Levis neighborhood at the top of round two or something like that. You're okay with your guy now, but it's top gap. You've got to develop the next guy. Could be aggressive. So those four teams probably do something. Maybe the Rams just sit on Stafford. Maybe the Saints just sit on Carr. But if they move, they at least fill one of the open seats. Yes. So my available quarterbacks are two rookies. They're their own neighborhood. Darnold, to me, stands alone.
Because whoever pays him is going to say, that's my answer. In his prime, too. In his prime. He's going to be expensive. It might not be a $50 million contract. Right. The Baker Mayfield. Sort of this guy showed enough. He's going to be my starting quarterback. It's not just stopgap for one year. And we're not going to go sign Darnold and then draft Ward. We're going to sign Darnold because he's going to be here for three years. That's the Raiders or the Titans.
They're out of the market in the first round, probably. So I think he stands alone. Although, if Minnesota franchises him, that could... gum up the works a little bit here. But they're not going to roll with McCarthy and Darnold. If they franchise him, they're going to move one of the two, which is probably Darnold. So he at least fills one spot, in my opinion. Can we...
Can we eliminate that? No way they would just keep Darnold and trade away J.J. McCarthy, right? Because I think teams would line up. I do too. I mean, I doubt that's the case, but you at least have to have a conversation inside the building. So then it gets hairy after that, though. You named them. Fields and Wilson. But are they definitely, I mean, hey, Giants fans, if I said you get Russell Wilson or Justin Fields.
Are you like, oh, my problems are solved forever? Well, if I'm a Giants fan, I would have been like, why didn't you get Justin Fields two years ago, right? Or last year. I hear that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I guess Wilson picked the Steelers over the Giants. Oh, did he? Okay, I didn't know. Yeah, I think so. Well, I liked the Justin Fields-Dable thing. I thought the Bears should have hired Dable to coach.
fields like whenever that was three or four years ago when they got by the giants instead and i guess the interview table but i thought that was like if you're trying to find a coach to fix fields and you want him to have that leap from like oh man things are weird let's find a quarterback a guru that can fix our quarterback like he did to Josh Allen in Buffalo Brian Dable was the fit there and they couldn't figure out an offensive coordinator for fields
so i don't know if that ship sailed or not but if you're the giants you're just let's let's pause here because okay we got a lot to talk about right yeah because when we start getting specific with teams
I think the Giants and I want to do that later because I just want to even like just name the candidates and let's continue naming the candidates next. And then we'll get into the teams. And I'm going to start with the Steelers and the Giants. We get into the teams. I think those are the two most obvious.
teams in what the plan should be the answer might be different but I know what the plan should be for the Steelers and giants because of where they are and then we'll get to the rest of those teams and and the fits and who are the best fits in this quarterback carousel in 2025 next
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There are options, you know, and chances are in this quarterback climate, they're probably going to be opening day starters somewhere, I would say. But uncontested? I don't know about that. You know, Fields has injury history. Wilson's old. Neither one's great. And then there's two guys that kind of stand together. You mentioned them, Rogers and Cousins. They're old.
They're not for everyone. If I'm a terrible team, do I want Rodgers or Cousins? Do we know both are going to play this year? I assume Cousins is. I assume both are. But they're far from long-term answers, to say the least. And then I have Carr and Stafford as my trade guys. And then I think, especially trade for Stafford, you're pretty happy, but maybe use a third round pick. Carr, your fan base isn't doing cartwheels. And then down, down the line is...
Winston and Daniel Jones, that maybe they're placeholders, maybe they're competition for Fields or Richardson or something like that. But no one's going to be like, that's my guy. Or that's the next Sam Darnold reclamation project. For my purposes in this conversation, I think we leave, once we get that fear of Winston and Daniel Jones, we leave them out of the conversation because they're not a big enough impact. And I really think that...
The Vikings, and it was probably smart on their part. I think they told us what their plan is. They're going to have Daniel Jones be the backup and the breaking case of emergency veteran quarterback. Darnold's going to be somewhere else, and it's a J.J. McCarthy era.
I totally agree with the Vikings. So, so I think I would take all of that off the table, including the Vikings McCarthy. And that means Darnold is the, you know, the prime in his prime quarterback. That is probably the free agent guy that you're going to be like, he's going to be our guy for a little while.
Yeah, we're going to pay him a four-year deal, three-year deal, and with the intent of him filling the hole, you know, filling that need. Rodgers and Cousins are slightly different in that Cousins would probably take any job just so he could be a starter somewhere because it's not going to be in Atlanta.
but he's not a free agent. The Browns keep getting linked to him because they have no money. It's a Russell Wilson contract where it's like a million a year, which is appealing. For Cousins, you want to be a backup in Atlanta or a starter in Cleveland? He'd probably be like, I'll be a starter.
Or maybe if Carr gets traded, since the Saints have no money, they grab Cousins. You know, somebody like that. Yeah, and so for Rodgers, it's like, who does he want to play for? Do you go play for the Browns, or do you just retire? There's no good teams. There's no teams you could project with Aaron Rodgers as the starting quarterback to be playoff teams, except the Pittsburgh Steelers. So that's why, in my opinion, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Run the 2025 quarterback carousel as far as the veteran quarterbacks go, because anybody who's available in a quarterback would be out of their minds if they didn't want to choose the Steelers first out of all those teams. Including Stafford, I think you mean too, right? Stafford, Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Hudson, Wilson, and Fields would both want to return and be the starter. Fields won't want to come back if Wilson's there. Or Wilson, I guess if Wilson... They don't want to compete.
Wilson doesn't really care, but they won't want to compete. They both want to be the clear guy. If it was Wilson, Fields would not come back. They love each other. They're good buddies. But I just think he says, I'd rather go back up Anthony Richardson and maybe beat him out, you know, or something like that.
So if the Steelers run this, which I suspect they do, because I think every quarterback would choose the Steelers over those other situations, you know, stable franchise, good ownership, good head coach. You could go quarter. You'd be a starting quarterback for a historic franchise and be a playoff team. That that is.
They're clearly better than those other five open spots. That is such a better situation than any of the other five teams we're talking about. I'm glad you said that because I hope some of my listeners from the local media believe that because... I get every day who on earth would want to play for this middling franchise that never throws the ball and Arthur Smith. And I'm like,
Do you have any clue what else the other options are? It's better than going for the Browns. Yeah, how about the team that has one for your entire life? How about that? Right. Going to the playoffs isn't terrible.
I get that a lot locally here too. Kyle Shanahan was like, okay, let's slow down. Like maybe Kyle Shanahan needs to be better at this. Niners can improve here and there, but my goodness, he can get a lot worse than, than where you're at. So, you know, that's it. That's local fan bases will be that way.
Last week, someone put a fired Tomlin billboard up on the south side of Pittsburgh. Like, what are we doing here? Steelers run this. So that means they get their choice. So what is the Steelers' choice at quarterback there? Well, we know they kind of move like a glacier. You know, they are not going to be a super reactive organization. The owner at his final press conference, wrapping up the season, and he's the last.
Mr. Rooney is the office at the end of the hall that all big decisions go through. I mean, he is involved. Now he's not the dictator so much, but he is going to put his stamp on whatever decision they make. But his exact words were, I would prefer to bring back one of the two from last year. Now, to your point, I believe if they put a reasonable contract in front of either one of them, they would sign it immediately.
Because if I'm them, I'd rather run it back here without the other guy than go to the Raiders or Jets. You know what I mean? Especially Fields. He's like, can I just stay with the same team and get a second coordinator?
for once like the first time ever in my career right same offense twice yeah and this is just a hunch i don't know this but i think the coaching staff prefers fields and ownership prefers wilson but i just that's just the educated guess wilson says all the right things he looks like a qb1 great in the locker room But I think coaches say, give me Fields. I want to turn him into something. And I do know Tomlin.
really has an affinity for a running quarterback. Because a defensive guy, he hates playing as running quarterbacks. I could see that, the dynamism that Fields has. But man, Wilson flat out won the job. How could you be on that coaching staff and think that Fields is the better option in the short term? Maybe Fields was just younger and you think, okay, we can sign him. But the end was ugly.
We're all involved in a five-game losing streak against good troops. That's true, yeah. So maybe Wilson won the job and then lost it. And then kind of lost it, right. That's possible. Neither one changes your plans in the draft, but the Steelers are drafting 21 as well, which is why the Steelers also not only are they the best team and probably the preferred landing spot for all these quarterbacks, they're also not going to draft the first round quarterback.
No, I don't think so. I do think they could draft Tyler Shuck or the Ohio State dude or something like that, especially if Wilson's there. They might take a day two guy. It sounds like... You personally, or I don't know if this is you personally, or you think the Steelers would be much more likely to sign Wilson or Fields than Rodgers or even trade for Stafford than sign Rodgers?
I think those, I'm going to be down at the facility tomorrow, but they're not going to invite me into the meetings. Trust me. I do think those talks are ongoing. Like I said, this organization kind of moves at a glacier's pace, and they don't make decisions until they have to, which has treated them well. I don't know how you don't inquire about Stafford, though.
He's better than all these dudes. And we've talked about this. First of all, how is he available? I don't know what the Rams are doing because this isn't the year to go draft the guy either. Unless they secretly... And I don't remember if it was Breer or Schefter or somebody. They're like, yeah, Jimmy. Do they really just kind of love Jimmy Garoppolo? And they're like, no, we're cool with Jimmy G for a year. You just won the division. You're in the playoffs.
You played the Eagles better than anybody in the playoffs? And then you're going to move away from your quarterback? If you want to buy 10 years and pick up a second and a fifth for Stafford and pay Darnold. That I understand. You get 10 years younger. McVay puts his hands on a younger, talented, ascending quarterback. And you go from there because you didn't want to pay Stafford. But if I'm the Steelers.
I think the ones that give me the best chance to win are clearly Stafford. Rogers and Wilson, who's better? I guess Rogers. I would take Rogers over Wilson. Yeah. Kind of talking to you now, I get why you would say, okay, let's go Fields and then draft the wrong guy. But that's probably the avenue why.
you're stealing the lowest floor a little frustrated and a little right right you're like no we want something better we don't want that same old place and lamar twice and right trying to beat the homes right exactly that's the frustration And just knowing ownership, they don't ever want to be five and 12 and they never are, but fields could get you there. Wilson and Rogers won't get you there. You know?
But that also frustrates the fan base. Rodgers got the Jets there. He did, but I don't know that he could get Tomlin. Could he drag Tomlin down to four or five wins? I don't know. I mean, Doc couldn't. Rudolph couldn't. I do think Rodgers is better than Wilson. I do, too. There's just so much involved with him, though. Is he going to run the Arthur Smith offense? I mean, maybe you get Devontae Adams to come with him. That part I like. Next, that brings us to the New York.
giants and they're attractive to me too they would be my second choice if i was a free agent let's get into them next because they're fascinating because of where they are and what they have to do this offseason so giants next we'll talk about the rest of the fits and who goes to the crowns the uh the raiders jets tennessee titans as well who have the number one
picking the draft. So they're a super important team that has control over their destiny if they want to go that route as well. Next. Okay, Matt. We didn't get a name. Who's the Steelers quarterback? Oh, I answer this every day. Sounds like you're going to get Fields. Except ownership's, I think, once Wilson. And I say this all the time on the air. Like, if you made me either one's lawyer, and the judge and jury was Omar Khan, Mike Tomlin, Arthur Smith, and Mr. Rooney.
I can make strong cases for my client. Maybe Fields is $10 million, $12 million a year and actually is the long-term answer. That's the beauty of him. If the Rams called and said pick 21, does it? Stafford's a quarterback. No, but I think a two and a four would or something like that. You know, two and change. Which is why I think the Stafford story is not about Stafford's available and being shot.
I think the Stafford story is the New York Giants called the Rams, and they're like, we got stuff we could offer. We might offer number three for Stafford because we don't care because we're going to get fired. Yeah, throw us a third with them or something. The Steelers want to give you 21. We'll give you pick three in the stinking draft, Rams. We are going to be fired. I'm the GM that's going to be fired if I don't figure out quarterback, and drafting Cam Ward is not going to save my job.
That's what I think is fascinating. And ownership said it on camera. The New York Giants are on the hot seat. Coach and GM. They got to figure out quarterback. And drafting a guy isn't going to get them to enough wins to save their jobs. So I think that's the Stafford story is it comes from the Giants side and the Giants might be willing to give up a lot. And it's clearly the best option for them because they need to win right now. And he's the best quarterback if he is available.
I tend to think so, too. You know, like if I'm the Rams, that's a team I want to talk with, you know, for sure, too. Now, someone might cut and paste what is about to come out of my mouth and make me look really, really stupid around Thanksgiving. But I think the Giants with Stafford are a playoff team-ish. They have a defense. I mean, Dexter Lawrence and you bring Andrew Thomas back, throw into neighbors.
especially if you could hold on to three, which I think you probably could, but, you know. The division is tough. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you could make the argument for sure that Stafford and the Giants, like, so. Wilson or Fields, Steelers, Stafford, New York Giants. Yeah, and then Darnold the Rams.
I don't think the Rams just sit around and do nothing if they trade Stafford. I think they end up with like Darnold or somebody good. I can see that. And that might be the thing for the Rams is if you're the Rams, you're like, okay, we're only going to trade Stafford because he's 37 years old.
And we can get something overwhelmingly good from, say, the New York Giants. And it might not be the number three pick. But the Giants are high two and next year's one. And the Rams are like, oh, next year's one? Because that could be Arch Manning? If the Giants go really south, then Stafford's elbows. It could be 20 if they go to the playoffs, too. Yeah, right. So that could be a really interesting one, and the Rams are not afraid to make moves.
And the Rams might say to themselves, look, man, we'll be okay with Darnold, and that'll get us through this season, and then he can be the stopgap for the guy we draft next season, and then we're rolling for a 10-year process, not just a... one, two year process with staff. So I guess that's really, it would have to be a pretty darn good offer. And I don't think the Steelers second and the four would, would even budge. Right. Yeah.
So New York Giants or Stafford are nothing. I feel like that's kind of where that story is. I lean that way too. The Rams are too good. Why would you get rid of them? the best quarterback available for, for less than a, like a smart organization that might have a desperate organization on the ropes and cash out now and have Darnold lined up with, you know, that maybe that just happens as 1201, the day free agency opens.
I don't mean to put you on the spot. I just know that I know nothing about pop culture. I can't even say it. And what these guys do off the field. But I know Stafford's wife is an influence. Kelly, I think her name is, and I know she had. medical stuff and she does mattress commercials with them and all that but she's been vocal in the in the media and Some podcasts I was listening to implied that she would like to get to the great big city of New York, too, for whatever reason.
I could buy it. Maybe Stafford's leading it. Maybe he's like, yeah, finish our career somewhere over there. The Jets open up. And another side note, again, I'm talking wives here. Russell Wilson's married to a very famous Sierra. Maybe he should want to go to New York. I don't know. Russell Wilson's wife might be worth more than him. Do the...
Do the Jets get the Steelers sloppy seconds? Like whichever player... That's what I'm thinking too. That's what I'm thinking. Or Fields ends up with the Jets in a short-term sort of a let's just see what our... team is and evaluate this year because the jets are in a rough spot because they're behind it they can't sit at seven and expect they're going to get one of the top two quarterbacks so the jets and you want a rookie quarterback you're trading up
And they're probably the team that would trade up if I had to guess there was a team that was going to go up to get a quarterback in the draft. Are those quarterbacks worth it? Or if not, you're sitting back, you're evaluating. And I guess Fields and Wilson could be plausible short-term starter for you there in New York. yeah i kind of like that too i mean stafford of the giants wilson to the jets yeah so stafford so here's the does darnell do anything for you if you're the giants
Or do you just hope... No, and does he want to go back to the Big Apple? That's true. A lot of people thought they should have drafted him instead of Saquon in the first place. Right, right, right. They dealt with that media, and it's a good world. I keep thinking about Tennessee, the Raiders in particular, or the Rams if Stafford goes. I think that if Stafford goes, that's a great landing spot. I didn't think about the Darnold to L.A. That's where he's from.
California kid. Yeah. Would be the perfect fit. Kid loved to work with McVay. On the Rams. He's been in that offense for a couple years now, right? Yeah. With Shanahan and then with O'Connell. I know moving on from Stafford sounds crazy, but you just rebuild an offensive line through the draft. Puka's young. Cup's going to go. You might have a nice young roster with all those picks you get from Stafford and your own.
And a new era, you know. And you're better for it in the long term. A year or two from now, yeah. Maybe you're not as good this year at quarterback, but you have all the draft picks to help you. close that gap potentially. And your coach, you trust to the nth degree to get the most out of Darnold. Work with one of your disciples in Minnesota. Okay. Let's go there. I think we figured it out.
I like that. Stafford to the Giants, Darnold to L.A. Jets end up with Wilson or Fields. Whoever doesn't stay with the Steelers. So we're just going par for the Steelers with Wilson or Fields, most likely. Now, where does Tennessee and Cleveland and Vegas? Probably one of them, at least, is a rookie. So here's the thing. I'm going to lump Tennessee and Las Vegas together because...
In mock drafts, they're the most common landing spots for Ward and Shador Sanders. But also, if you threw in, like for Las Vegas, they have O'Connell. But would Brady bring in Rodgers? Would that be like a, let's go...
stop gap Rogers with our rookie quarterback. Cause we still don't know if that player is going to fall to us at pick number six in the draft. If it's Shador Sanders, I do like Sanders to Las Vegas. I think everything kind of fits there. I think he's kind of wants to be there for some reason. It seems like a, a match. Brady could look at Sanders and be like, yeah, I can see some of myself in him, the way he went. It's not like a laser show, but a pocket passer.
So Sanders to Las Vegas, I like. O'Connell probably stopgap, but also could Rogers end up there? Would Rogers want to go to the Raiders? Would Rogers want to go to Tennessee? And that wouldn't change anything for the Titans, even if they wanted Ward. But it would also help them be like, we're going to do something else and not draft Ward at one because we think there's other blue chippers here. And we're going to go with Rodgers for a short term.
If I'm him, I'd rather go to Tennessee than Cleveland or certainly New Orleans if the car got traded. I mean, I heard something that I don't believe at all. the Colts are interested in Rogers to back up and fight with Richardson. I'm like, I mean, that's, they're nothing alike. And they're so, I mean, like what's going on here. I mean, unless you're going to trade Richardson, you know, cousins more than.
cousins more than Rogers in that scenario, potentially. And I guess in the team, we'd haven't brought up in a long time since the beginning of the podcast. I feel like the Browns get the sloppiest of seconds. They get kind of the sloppiest situation. Yeah, for sure. But they're picking two. So they might say themselves. They can screw us all up, you know, and take one. That's the thing is so the Browns might sit there at two and say, look.
We're never going to convince a veteran because now we just traded Myles Garrett. You know, we're sitting here in April. That's where it's gone now. We've traded maybe some other pieces away. Maybe we even trade somebody else during the draft that's a veteran player. We're rebuilding. What's Cousins going to do for us anyway?
The only way that we're going to rebuild this thing is by drafting and developing. I would do it next year if I were them because I think they're going to be terrible, but I hear your point. No one's going to be calling them. Can you afford anybody? Here's the thing.
That's why I go to Cousins. Cousins cost nothing. If he gets released. Yeah, only if he gets released. I'm not trading for him in his contract, but I'll do the Russian rules for $1 million. You would have to be like, sweetheart, short-term, cheap deal. It's the only marriage of cousins to start. Nobody else might call cousins. I mean, they might just look at each other like, I'm a musical chair. You're the dude that has to sit on me. I have no money. You don't need any money.
If you want to play football this year and start, that's your only option. Again, they're the last musical chair. So in this scenario, I think Rogers is the odd man out because he's like basically retiring. Yeah, maybe he just hosts Jeopardy or something. Yeah, so we got, let's go Cousins to Cleveland. We got the Stafford trade going on to the New York Giants. Jets, Rodgers already left there. So you're going Fields.
or wilson maybe cousins as a stopgap potentially for the for the jets i like sanders to las vegas maybe ward falls to you there but i feel like that's the most likely rookie landing spot if i had to bet on one team that's going to end up with one of the rookie quarterbacks i'd probably go las vegas um because you know one of those top blue chippers probably not going to be there for you and you're going to have an opportunity to draft a quarterback without moving up potentially um tennessee
Ward? Is that where we're going with Tennessee? Just quarterback? QB1? Maybe Rodgers. So maybe Rodgers. Ward's going to land somewhere, of course. And both could go together. Rogers and Ward could go together. Absolutely. As good cousins in Ward or, you know, right. You know, the a hundred percent old guy in Ward. And for the Steelers, I've got written down either Wilson or Fields, whichever they choose. The other, we got in New York with the Jets.
And there's this dude, Shug, that you've been talking a lot about. Maybe you're going mid-round quarterback as well, right? Because the Steelers got to add a couple. Especially if it's Wilson, the mentor in a third-round pick. If it's Fields. I might just roll the dice like crazy and maybe a bottom out and deal with the next year. I know we're up against it. And maybe this is even a tomorrow conversation, but the thing that could screw up all this is if the saints cut car.
Maybe he's a Jet. Or a Steeler? Or a Steeler, but I think they prefer Wilson or Fields than Carr. Yeah, I mean, just the immobility, I don't think, is what you're after. But maybe Carr ends up with the Jets, something like that. But I don't know if the Saints would be buyers. If they were a seller. maybe they end up with cousins for nothing or something like that, you know, and just totally punt this year with Rattler. And I think by.
the best i can tell i think that like our recommendation is not going to happen with the saints and we should probably know no i think they're pushing more to the kick the can down the road thing into uh into uh eternity essentially there which We'll see. So it's funny. Two days ago, I tagged Jason from over the cap. He was a superstar cap guy. And just said, what cap situations were, Saints or Browns? And he said, Saints by 1,000.
Yeah. So then I wrote back, they'll move on from car. Right. And he says, and I don't know what his connections are, but he says, I think they're going to try to win it with him again. I'm like, that's so dumb. But if you don't ever learn from your lessons, I mean, maybe I thought that a year ago. I mean, to where they are currently. And it seems what's the.
Definition of insanity? Yeah. Was it Mark Twain that said it? I don't know, but yeah. Keep doing it over and over, right. Expect different results. That's where we are with the Saints. You got to blow it up, but I don't know. You know, the cousin of Rogers retire. So, you know, I mean, something weird will happen to influences too. Someone will get hurt or retire or, you know.
if cousins is released and isn't just an expensive backup for the the falcons i will say if he's cheap he could be a a fit for a lot of teams and don't be shocked Don't be shocked if he goes back to hang out with Shanahan and just be a backup to Brock Purdy. Yeah, yeah. Or maybe ends up with McVay. They were together. Or he's the total placeholder. him and sanders end up in the same place or him and ward end up in the same place you know much like atlanta did right yep exactly
All right, there we go. Crazy. I think we figured it out, though. It's simple. You should see what my notebook looks like from all this. Oh, I can imagine. It looks like the ramblings of a mad person, and that's what the NFL offseason does. The folks like us. All right. Thanks everybody for making this your first listen. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcasts, get those mailbag questions in Matt and I back tomorrow right here. Peacock and Williamson.