Colin Cowherd Podcast - Pt 1. Nick Wright on Daniel Jones Deal, Rodgers/Jets Red Flags, Lamar Franchise Tag Fallout

and the same game parlay. Tryout same Game parlay plus. Start making every moment more and download the FanDuel app today twenty one plus in select states. Fanduels offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas dar

Casino LLC. Gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler or visit FanDuel dot com, slash rg Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia one eight hundred, next step or text next step to five three three four two, Arizona one eight at eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven or visit CCPG dot org slash chat Connecticut one eight hundred and nine with it Indiana one eight hundred five two two

forty seven hundred. Visit ks gambling heelp dot com Kansas one eight seven seven seven seven oh Stop Louisiana called one eight hundred and three to two seven fifty fifty

or visit WWWMA Underscore Helpline dot org. Slash problem Gambling visit www dot MD gambling help dot org Maryland one eight seven seven eight Hope, New York or text Hope New York four six seven three six nine New York one eight hundred and five two two forty seven hundred Wyoming, or visit www dot one eight hundred gambler dot net West Virginia. All right, we're gonna have a special hour long edition of the Colin Coward podcast. So we bring

Nick Wright on once a month. First thirty minute is going to be NFL Talk, Following thirty minutes going to be NBA Talk. It's going to be a two parter. Baby, I can't wait. There are highest rated podcasts. So a little preamble before I go into Nick Wright on Lamar Jackson. So the Ravens, as reported, have offered him a non exclusive franchise tag he won't like it. He being Lamar Jackson, meaning the Ravens are saying, we like you, but test

the market. If somebody makes a big offer, they can match. But the Ravens are rolling the dice thinking there won't be a significant market for Lamar Jackson. Now you all know I like Lamar Jackson dynamic wow qualities when seventy five percent of it starts. Jj Watt went on to social media Twitter and ask the question what am I missing? My response to jj Watt would be, you're not missing anything. Lamar Jackson's missing something. Games He's missed ten of the

ravens last twenty two games not available. Don't care how talented you are. Last two years, he's been banged up by the end of the year. So I've said this before. Bryce Young, I think he's really good. But as the quarterback position has evolved to more mobile, more athletic, more running, smaller quarterbacks, these guys are not all built to play fifteen twenty years. They're not smaller quarterbacks in vogue, running quarterbacks in vogue. I get it. Teams saying listen, we're

gonna roll it for four or five years. We're not giving you big guaranteed money from year five to year nine, Mahomes overwhelmingly pocket quarterback gets his money. Josh Allen runs, but he's six six, two fifty. That's why he gets his money. Cam got his money, and Ben got his money. But if you're seeing a slight, if you're seeing as somebody that has to excel out of the pocket, if you've been banged up more than once. Lamar Jackson has

his last fifteen starts. He's got an eighty five passer rating. A lot of people no longer see him as an ascending quarterback. He's a slightly regressing quarterback. So I can like Lamar, But as the quarterback position has evolved to a more athletic position, people are rolling the dice on guys that move more and guys that are smaller. I've said it with Bryce Young. I think he's the best quarterback. He's five ten and a half. He waited at two or four at the combine. You and I know he's

going to play it about one ninety three. He's twenty pounds light and three inches short. So I draft him, But two years later I draft another quarterback. If he can get you out of purgatory, if he can get you out of the abyss. I'm Houston. I draft him, but I don't think he's at four oh one k here. That's day trading. You're gonna even have a quarterback in

three or four years. And I think Baltimore's come to that conclusion is if the market says Lamar's got four or five teams bidding on him and Baltimore is going to have to pay up, they're betting that is not the case. The Atlanta Falcons already come out not interested. Miami Dolphins already come out not interested. I think Baltimore says Culture coach GM owner Roster. If we can't get the right number, we're gonna load up, get good at every position, and we'll find our Brock pretty in the

second or third or fourth round at quarterback. Let's talk more football, Nick Wright. With the NFL season, over all lines in the sporting world turned everything from the NBA to college hoops to the NHL. Plenty of games to watch, are even better, plenty of games to get out of the house and actually go too. That's why the best way to get your hands on tickets when you want to go to one of these games, check out game

Time fastest growing ticket app in the US. Game Time offer amazing last minute deals on tickets to your best favorite NBA Hockey NCAA teams. Top of that, they sell last minute concert and comedy show tickets too. Download the game Time app. Download it. Redeem code is Colin twenty bucks off your first purchase terms apply again. Download the app and of the code Collins col I n twenty bucks off. Download game Time Today, last minute tickets, lowest

price guaranteed. So let's start with Daniel Jones. You're in New York four years, one hundred and sixty millions, crazy Colin, But go ahead. Sorry, I went back to Duke where he had an offensive coach, a legend Cutcliff David Cutcliffe. Yeah, very Anning family, excellent guy. In college, he had fifty two touchdowns and twenty nine picks. If you add in the fumbles, it's like fifty two to thirty five, it's not even two to one. It's like one and a

half to one ratio. In the NFL, seventy two touchdowns running or throwing fifty seven turnovers fumbles or picks. So Mahomes obviously is the class of the league. Four to one. Other great quarterbacks give you two and a half to three to one. Daniel's not two to one. Daniel is closer to one and a half to one. I got a worse ratio for you, Colin post rookie year. More games played than touchdown passes, more games started at quarterback, then touchdowns thrown. He is Last year was the best

year we've ever seen him. He threw fifteen touchdown passes. It is This is why the franchise tag exists. So if a guy who in a contract year has an outlier season and again everyone's like this, he was great this year. He had fifteen dutchdown passes, you can then be like, okay, show it to us one more time. And I am shocked that the Giants made this decision. All year. This is the thing that's so baffling to me. People were arguing Brian Dables should be Coach of the Year.

I agreed with them in large respect because they were like, look at what he's doing with Daniel Jones. And now they're like, here's one hundred and sixty million dollars Daniel Jones. I thought what they would do this year was franchise Jones and risk taking a step back for the sake of information, meaning they'll say, Okay, Daniel, you actually have to play the real position now where it's not it's not just safe layups, run the ball, run you where

you're gonna have to throw. We're gonna throw a sophisticated passing offense at you and see if you can sink or swim, and if you swim, we'll pay you if you Because now they're in a weird spot where they have paid him, and I think they have to run this this high school offense again. And I'll give a guy credit. Greg Rosenthal, who works for the NFNFL dot com writes good stuff. He's a smart guy because I

didn't think about this. He said. He thinks that ownership maybe got had a say in this out ownership who had a relationship with Eli and held on to him too long, That they like how he carries himself, who he is as a person, and that they put their finger on the scale because I can't imagine Shane and day ball. I want to be tied to him for at least two more years and probably three. No, this has always been my takeaway. This is a blue blood franchise.

When I was in Connecticut, most of my friends were Giants fans and Yankee fans, and and so you know, I listened. I went out and drink and I hung out with Yankee and Giant fans. And there's first of all, Giant fans have had a lot of success, like Yankee fans. Yeah, they're often older. They're like Michigan Wolverine fans. They've been good since the forties, so they tolerate a little more. They're a little more patient, right, sure. And I always said,

even when the Giants win, they're an accounting firm. They've never won an You at, Wow, what a spectacular That's not what they are. Yeah, they take tide in intelligence, grinding, work ethic. That is their brand. Like the Ravens. Have they ever had a good team that wasn't tough as shit? They get they are physical right right. The Raiders want to be fast. There are certain the Steelers want to have great linebackers and play defense. There are certain things

we can know. So the Mara family, he looks like Eli big Lie. I mean their haircuts are the same, southern yep, carries himself yep. And just all that stuff. They don't get. They don't want to get on the carousel. But it's it's just there. There are two moves, because the move that I'm the most agass by is what the Saints did. Listen, I think Derek Carr's is good. Yeah,

I think they'll probably win the division. So this is not an indictment on car The Saints have been operating their franchise like they have inside intel that the NFL is going to fold in twenty twenty five, and none of the rest of us know. They run their team the way I think I would run my AMX if a doctor said you have six months to live, well, fuck it. Everything's free, I guess. And so when you had Drew Brees and it was like, Okay, it's the

very end of an all time quarterback. Let's put it all in the credit card and pay the bill later, I get it. I totally get it. The Bucks did it with Tom. We'll worry about the future and the future. Try to win right now. And now that Tom's gone, you saw today the Bucks cut Donovan Smith cut some other people. They're gonna take their medicine and tear it down and build it back up. The Saints have been

pretending that they're still contenders Colin two years ago. Drew brees Is last year because they had built the team like he was going to retire a year early. Forty four million dollars in dead money. And I know people like, oh, the CAP's fake. It's not fake. If everyone else gets to spend two hundred and you get to spend one fifty, you're handicapped. Then Drew retired the next year fifty million in debt money. Well that's a problem. This year already

forty million in dead money. You haven't even cut my listeners to this. If you're a football nerd, go to the Saints spot rack page and click on Michael Thomas. You know what you'll see that the Saints on their books Burton not this season, but the one after Michael Thomas's cap it Michael Thomas, who once upon a time was a good receiver. His cap it for the season after this is fifty nine million dollars. I'm gonna go

ahead and say that's there. That's not sustainable. And they keep doing it, and instead of taking their medicine, they're like, no, maybe we can win the division, and it's it guarantees you you won't win a championship. You might not bottom out, you won't win a championship. The Eagles, on the other hand, won a title or it all down, took their medicin, got back to the super Bowl. The Bears, I'll give them credit, They the new people, get there. They're like,

we are super far away. Let's not pretend we're not. Let's take they had. Let's take all the dead money this year eighty million will hopefully be really bad, get a really good pick out the number one pick, have one hundred million cap space, no bad contracts left, and then go compete these teams that act like the bill never comes due. It comes due, man. Yeah, And it's just it's just a terrible way to run a team. You know. So I've got a belief on this. You know,

I've always said this. You become your market. All great LA teams have some sizzle. The Green Bay Packers in the conservative Midwest run their team like a post office. Right, they're still licking stamps. They are conservative. They let Aaron Rodgers and far push them around. It's draft and developed. They never take a star receiver in the first round. Right, they play it safe. Yep, what is New Orleans? It's America's party city. It's good time on a Saturday night.

So the Saints know what their customer base is. The party Saturday night with SEC football, it's LSU. We are not going to go slow and small on Sunday. The Saints are a party star and we gotta be relevant and we gotta be in it, and we got it. We can't be two years of in the wilderness. Sure, And Mickey Loomis is one of the absolute sharpest personnel evaluators in the league, and he trusts himself that he's going to find four great players in the draft and

not have to pay him for four years. And when you trust yourself, Mickey's like, I'll make it work. We got this guy, I'll get Davenport. Yes, I get I understand all that, But at some point somebody needs to say within the organization, each of the last four years, our records gotten worse. And in the last four years we have won one playoff game and it was against Mitch Trubisky. How close are we? And Sean Payton's gone now and Drew Brees has been gone. So you have

Dennis Allen, Derek Carr and a stripped down roster. I just I don't know. I think also part of this is my own residue of that's how my team ran its business for my whole the Chiefs. The Chiefs I believe won more games than any franchise in the nineteen nineties and never we're gonna win a super Bowl. That's true, I really, I think in the regular season gone, I think that's true. Because they made it was similar as Kansas City, like we've got to just be in it.

People will be happy, they want it. And then after that they took their shot with Montana. And then for like my entire adolescence, the Chiefs planet quarterback was who's the Niners backup? Because we went like Montana to Bono to gerback like that, That's what they did. Alex Smith

then eventually also did it. And then they finally said, you know, because they had not drafted a quarterback in the first round pre Mahomes, since the Marino Draft when they took black Ledge the year before I was born. So they went forty years, they're the little less between drafting quarterbacks in the first round. They finally did it. And again, hitting Mahomes is hitting the lottery. I get it. But now they're now they're they're a Super Bowl away

from having as many as the damn Niners. Like I mean, it's Enfranchise history. It's unbelievable, Like how quickly it can turn Um and the Saints. Do you know that this was floating round? Do you know the last quarterback the Saint draft in the first round, Archie Manning. Archie Manning his fucking kids have retired. The last quarterback they tracked in the first round. He's gone, his kids are gone, and his grandson's gonna be the number one big suit.

Like I'm not again, I'm not trying to crap on Saints fans because I think it's amazing people, but I just feel like you're on a treadmill of app and not as good as it should be. So by the time this airs tomorrow, I still think Aaron Rodgers will be a packer. But everybody flew out, Woody Johnson, Robert Solid, Joe Douglas, Nathaniel Hacket, they all flew out to California. By the way, I'm sorry, I just have to get this one line around and then you can do your thing.

The irony of the professional athlete, maybe outside of Kyrie Irving, maybe including Kyrie Irving, who has lectured us more on the hideousness of Big Pharma, having literally the air of the Johnson and Johnson Farma corporation. Whoo him go what like, does Aaron know he's about to go work for Big Pharma? I'm not sure, but go ahead. Sorry, as you were,

So they went out to go see him. Yeah, and you know there's multiple reports Mike Silver, somebody as part of the volume Mike Silver breaks a lot of NFL has been all over this. Yeah, he's been all over it. He had in his column for Balis the other day, kind of buried in it like oh him, by the way, keep your eye on Houston with Jimmy Garoppola. And i hadn't seen that anywhere, and now I'm seeing it pop up a few places and I'm like, oh, that's interesting,

but go ahead. So Silver has been all over The packers are done with it. Yeah, so the packers the packers done with Aaron. And Aaron made a point this week to basically crap on Ian Rappaport and Adam Schefter, saying they don't know anybody in my circle. So I think that scares off some reporters. So all the leaks are coming from Green Bay, and all the leaks are the exact same thing, which is, we are done with Aaron Rodgers, so they are. I think Aaron to the

Jets could actually be really ugly. Now he'll make them better. But let me throw this at you, Buffalo's got a better quarterback and a better roster. Bill O'Brien, for all his critics, was winning a division with Brock Osweider. He's a competent offensive coordinator with Bill Belichick. Actually, and I also think Bill O'Brian's actually a good head coach. Yeah, he also doubled as the worst general man I've ever seen. And so Bill Obrian the GM hut out the legs

of Bill O'Brien, the head coach, Juan Mike McDaniel. We're tearing the league up to Thanksgiving, tearing the lead up forget the rest of the AFC, where he's no longer ascending player, He's no longer hungry. Burrow Is mahomestall Is, Alan Is lamar Is Trevor. These are hungry, committed as sending players. Nick, I think it's very possible he's a third place quarterback at this point in his career. Well, so I so let me add a different piece to it.

Year over year, the best offenses pretty much stay the same unless there's a major change. Best defenses change a lot wildly. So that while listen, I think the Jets have awesome defensive personnel, but I also think it happens that a team that was the third best defense in football one year, a couple bounces go differently. A couple you play, a couple tougher quarterbacks, and all of a

sudden you're the eleventh best defense. Yes, so I think that they point everyone's like they won seven games with the worst quarterbacking in the NFL. They did, But so now what if they have the tenth best quarterback in the NFL? Okay, well, what if the defense goes from winning them five games to only winning them three? Games? You know? And so I think that is absolutely in play that that same defensive personnel doesn't all, you know,

have the outstanding years they had. So that's concerning. The division is concerning. Here's what is also concerning. Do you know who the Jets play this year out of division? Mahomes and the Chiefs, Herbert and the Chargers, Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, that that defense isn't quite as highly ranked yet of course, yeah, and so that it's tough, right, And so then there's the So I'm conflicted on this on a principal level. I think the as a union guy,

you know, this abound me. My dad ran firefighters union, I'm a union guy. I'm you know, I'm not management. I almost hate believing this, and I'll explain what this is. Sorry, I'm building a long bridge. During the last CBA, the players wanted more money. The owners wanted them to have less money. The owners said, Okay, we don't want to pay you more. How it we ask you to work less, less offseason, less mandatory days. And the players said, okay, deal.

And I think the owners shrewdly understood we kind of have an know, an unspoken ally in the entirety of sports media that will shame any player that doesn't do the optional stuff. So even though it's optional and now you don't have to do it, you're gonna get killed if you don't do it. So I tend to, you know, be like, hey, I don't show up for a lot of work. I'm not made to, you know, I'm not paid to go to I get it. I do feel one can make an arguments a little different with the quarterbacks.

And it is not lost on me that the guy who held the trophy at the end of the year and not only showed up to everything, organized his own preseason in Texas to work with his new receivers and Aaron it's skipped all of it with the Packers, right, skipped the whole offseason that was optional. And then what did we see the first six weeks of the season.

They're not on the same page. And then and I imagine this is super frustrating for Green Bay all of a sudden, Christian Watson might win damn Rookie of the Year by the end of it. Once they get on the same page, they're clicking. And I'm sure there's a level of damn it if you guys had been there from week one. If we win one more game, we're in the playoffs, we win too, you know. And so so here's why I bring all that up. If I'm the Jets, I really really want to know, are you

here for everything? Are you go? This is a whole new team. I know you know Nat Hackett, so you're gonna know the system, But are you going to spend the off season with my players to get on the same page. If you are, then I am much more interested than if it's I'll show up for the mandatory mini camp and training camp. It's too many young players and knew everything to just parachute in. I just think that is I think that's a legitimate question to ask,

and I don't listen. I don't know Aaron. I don't know what he's gonna do, but the tendency of the last few years makes you think he's gonna say I'm not doing OTA's right. I've got a hike to go on or something. Also, Aaron doesn't like to be controlled by the media. He doesn't have an owner in Green Bay. He controls the small town media. So there are some basic built in advantages that Aaron has been accustomed to.

He didn't go to a football power. He went to cal He had more power green Bay, no owner, more power, pushes back heavy on the media. Why because he lacked power green Bay the organization He's pushed the front office around. Here's something no athlete has in New York. True power right, the media, sports talk, harsh columnists, the fans, talk radio, literally controls GMS. It gets very reactionary. So my question about Aaron isn't the football, it's the off the field stuff.

The paper. Rozzie can't control them. You can hide in La and Malibu. You can't hide in New York. You have to go to Jersey and live in the forest. Aaron's going to have to give up some personal control. He'll get major pushback from a left leaning media. He's not going to get in the Midwest. And I think, I think the football stuff, he'll be better than last year. But New York is not going to be pushed around

by Aaron. They're just not Yeah, and I just this is a good lessons Maybe the wrong word, but there is you people can be as high maintenance as I

try to be. And I actually like I I think I'm not going to obviously like name names or whatever of our colleagues, like industry wide, but I think people know the people that seem to have remained pretty normal people even as the fame and everything has grown, and the people who, in a also somewhat normal way, once they've gotten very famous and very wealthy, have started to act a little differently. And you know what I mean, treat people differently. Whatever it is, I think I will

name this name in a positive way. It seems to me for my interactions Reverstoy, I've ever held heard that Ernie Johnson Scott van Pelt are two of the nicest people in the media, you know what I mean, that treat people well, do all these things, and they're super famous and accomplished. Right, you don't have to do that if you're that level of successful, talented and valuable. But the moment you stop being quite as valuable and talented, man,

people remember how they've been treated. What a pain in the ass you've been. And there's not a lot of like grace, like there's not a lot of and people the Packers seem to be active. Like if I were the Jets, I would have paused by the fact that the Packers are done with this guy. Yeah, whether we trade for him or not, they're done with it. If they have more information on him than anybody, they're like, we've had our full well, you know what I mean,

it was good run, but we're done with it. And that would be at least a little concerning to me because I don't think he's a great player in him. I think he's a good player. Yeah, I don't think he's a great player anymore. People keep saying he won two MVPs. He did, and then this year he was average, not by his standards, by his standards, is the worst year of his career. By NFL standards, he was average. So very expensive. Oldest quarterback in the league, right, he's

the oldest. Now Brady's gone, He's got to be old, expensive, old, deteriorating, Yeah, and a lot to deal with. I don't know, man, I don't know. Well. I mean Trevor Lawrence, Justin Herbert, Josh Allen, They're just bigger, stronger athletes. Lamar Jackson's faster. Mahomes is more accurate. Burrow is more accurate. I mean, it happens to all of us. I'll know it at some point. I can see young talented people out there. Aaron isn't as big as the good ones. Isn't as fast,

isn't as healthy, isn't as committed. We have to just be honest, Burrow. These guys are like when you watch Mahomes, he is the greatest come from behind quarterback, not by a little. Aaron doesn't have a skill. Burrow now and Mahomes are the best situational quarterbacks period on the planet. Josh Allen does things that even Mahomes can't do. He's physical,

He's the best physical. He's the best physical specimen. It's not a knocks Aaron six one and a half, thirty nine years old, and it would like be if I didn't prep for my show. He doesn't commit in the offseason, so he's like a ninety two passer rating guy. Now, get off the bench. Bet the NBA with FanDuel, America's number one sports book. Right now, FanDuel's given new customers ten times your first bat in bonus bets. Doesn't matter

if your first bat is an airball. You'll get up to two hundred dollars in bonus bets, win or loose, okay, all on a top rated sportsbook app at FanDuel that's safe, secure, easy to use, don't miss out. Just visit FanDuel dot com slash Colin FanDuel dot com slash Colin, then place your first bet two hundred dollars in bonus bets guaranteed. Make every moment more with FanDuel, the official sports book partner of the NBA. Twenty one plus in select states.

FanDuel's offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement

with Kansas dar Casino LLLC. Gambling Problem Call one eight hundred gambler, or visit FanDuel dot com, slash RG Colorado, Ohiowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia one eight hundred, next step or text next step to five three three four two Arizona one eight at eight seven eight nine, seven, seven seven seven, or visit cec EPG dot org, slash chat Connecticut one eight hundred and nine with it Indiana

one eight hundred five two two forty seven hundred. Visit KAS gambling HEELP dot com Kansas one eight seven seven seven seven oh Stop Louisiana called one eight hundred and three two seven fifty fifty, or visit WWWMA underscore Helpline

dot org, slash Problem Gambling. Visit www dot MD gambling Help dot Org Maryland one eight seven seven eight Hope New York or text Hope New York four six seven three six nine New York one eight hundred five two two forty seven hundred Wyoming, or visit www dot one eight hundred gambler dot net West Virginia. Do we have time before we go to the NBA to talk Lamar for a minute. This whole this is like so fascinating on a million levels to me, I am like legitimately shocked.

They did the non exclusive tag, so the exclusive tag would have been forty five million. He can negotiate with no one else, right, the non exclusive is insulting flatland. You can't you can't have At three fifteen Eastern, it come down the wire the Ravens are gonna pay Lamar Jackson thirty two million dollars. And at three fifty five Eastern, it come down the wire that the Giants are gonna pay Daniel Jones forty That just can't happen, Like it

just the I mean, it's just a wild thing. It's like hold on the day before Derek Carr got thirty seventy five, Gino just got thirty. I get thirty two with no extra security. And what people are like, well, they want him to go out and test the market. And do I think there might be a little collusion going on? Very odd seeing all the tweets within thirty minutes of this story, like Falcon drought. Panthers are out. Raiders are like this. This is a league that values

quarterbacks so much we overdraft him. Yeah, you give Geno one hundred to give dam Jones one sixty. And there's a chorus of people like Marjacks. This is a due with him wanting the fully guaranteed deal. Of course does. But what everyone seems he's saying is so the Ravens because they can match any offer he gets. Now that's risky because you can try to put a poison pill on there, you can try to, you know, structure it

soil targe to the match. But they can match. They want him to go out and see what his market value is and then they'll match it. I don't understand why some people, and I shouldn't. I'm not trying to like talk shit on anyone. I was arguing with Bruce Arton Wild's about this today because they were talking about it in terms to me that act like there are

not human emotions involved. Yeah, and if and this is I've never been in this situation, I wonder And I'm not trying to get into your old history, your business, but you might have been in something somewhat similar when you left ESPN, which was almost like, Okay, you think you can go get X amount of dollars, go see if you can, and if you can, we'll pay you that.

But we don't think you can. Well, the moment someone says that to you, when you have been the best, the thing that has held the ship together for five years, it's like, well, when I'm here, we win and we scored thirty a game. When I'm not, we're terrible, and we lose and score eighteen. And now you're like, go see if the damned Detroit Lions value you more than we will, and then we'll value you exactly as much as they do. You're ruining a relationship. Yeah, there's no

coming back from that. Here's my theory on this. So the best agent I've ever had is Nick Cohn. And the reason Nick was a great agent of the many reasons. He was a former attorney, so he's a great negotiator. And he was a former waiter so he was conciliatory. He had to wait on people, He's incredibly patient, never loses his cool. But when your mom's your agent. So the reason people treated me well with Nick Kahn network executives because he had Kirk Herbstreet because he had blankety

blankety blank. You screw me, you're screwing Nick, you're screwing twenty eight high end clients. Lamar's mom has one client. Part of having an agent isn't the negotiations. It's protection. It's a vest and so protection on two levels. Yeah, it's not just that they don't want to ruin the relationship with the agent. They also when when even in our world, certainly in the sports world, negotiations that the party that is the agents negotiating for you, the team's

negotiating for itself. So the agent comes in and says, my guy should make what uh Patrick Mahomes makes, And then the team says, well, here's why he's not Patrick Mahomes. Here, you're saying he's an A plus. We're saying he's an A minus. And they tell you all the negatives. In our business, it's like, well, actually, you know the ratings, they aren't this or aren't that or whatever. But if

you're negotiating with the guy, you're insulting the guy. You're hurt, like it's a I don't they're a good Agents don't always tell you all the negative things your employer says about why they don't want to pay, just like we're trying to get there, you know what I mean. But if it's they protect you because they got to keep

relateship together. If it if it's negotiating with your family or you, it's like we are they're gonna say, like when it comes up, Lamar, we don't really trust you as a passers saying that to him, like he's just like you're talking to him saying that. It's so it's an uncomfortable situation. It's personal, and everybody says it's business not personal. Anybody who gives a damn about their career,

their business is personal. And the way that people show you that they value you, there's a lot of ways, but the primary way is compensation. So I've never understood this whole thing of like, oh, take emotion out of it. It's all business. I'm I am not a nine to five god. Like if I if I if I punched the clock left, there's no emails nothing, you know what I mean. If I no dispect, I kind of think this is maybe a happier life. But I was like

a postal worker, you know what I mean. It's like, hey, I come in I deliver the mail, I go home. You're right, then it's not it's business. But if you dedicate your life to something and you really care about it, then of course it's personal. Of course, you goddamn right, it's personal. And for Lamar to have them say to him, we're willing to lose you, and maybe we're not, but we will only pay you what someone else who you've

done nothing for will pay you. That's which is also why if I think Lamar's done there, because if again I get mixed with metaphors comparing myself players, whatever it is. But if I think I've done a pretty damn good job in my run with Fox, yeah I'm proud of it. Yeah, I think you just said it. You just retweeted a thing. The shows are doing well, and I've been I've been the consistent piece of the TV show I've done for a long time, and I work Fox for a very

very long time. But if at some point, like I was like, hey, this is what I think I'm worth, Fox like not even close. We're fifty percent apart, not even close. Can't do it. And then Hulu was like, we'll give it to you. And then Fox was like Okay, we will too. I'd be like, well, what the what do you mean? These people don't even know me, and they'll give it to me. I would immediately feel like, well, they must value me more that site without without me

doing anything for him, they'll do it. And that's how if any team makes Lamar a real offer, I think that's where he's gonna want to be. And so I threw Detroit out there. That wasn't flippant. I think Detroit could probably get a second round pick for golf, so you get some of the compensation back. They have the cap space the NFC. Think about that quarterback thing you did on TV today, where does Lamar go to on the NFC quarterback side top three immediately on tour with

those weapons? They got the kid from Jamison Williams. Was he Alabama that he barely played this year? I like that. I'd have that conversation. There's a number of teams that should be stopping what they're doing and saying, hold on, guest, yeah we can get Lamar Jackson. Let's at least have the meeting. Let's at least talk about it and see what it is. Yeah, I'd be Washington would be top of my list as well. Nick Wright Football This Was

Money Part one, Part two tomorrow NBA. Thanks buddy, No problem, of course the volume. Make sure to check out The dram On Green Show. I brought Draymond Green into the volume because one of the more entertaining voices in sports, unique perspective understands behind the rope. Also chops up with guests like Gary Peyton, Zach Levine, Tracy McGrady. Make sure download The Draymond Green Show wherever you get your podcasts, only on the Volume podcast Network.