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Okay, So here's the story. In the last half hour, Lamar Jackson. This has been weird. You don't get, like, you know, an athlete in their prime and a stable organization having an ugly negotiation very often. Lamar Jackson sent out a letter he said, Mark second, I requested a trade from the Ravens. They've not been interested in meeting my value. I love the game of football. Thanks raven fans for everything. So you know, the question immediately is what's the market. Well, here's the thing we've talked about with Lamar Jackson. We said it last week. It's very Kawhi Leonard. It's very unorthodox. He uses a family member as an agent. He's non trusting, and it's it's odd. It's it's just not the way generally it goes. It makes it tougher for the league, it makes it tougher for the player, it makes it tougher for the team. Baltimore is looking at it very simply. We like you a lot, but we won before you. In the Tom Brady and Peyton manning eras in the AFC, Baltimore was fifteen and eight in the playoffs with two Super bowls. Flacco and Dolfer. They're like, we love you. We won super bowls with those guys in the Brady era, in the Peyton Manning era, and Lamar is one and three in the playoffs since twenty eighteen. No quarterback that has had multiple playoff games has a worse passer rating or a worse completion percentage. And now he's noisy, and now he's hurt. And I'm not saying Lamar's unrealistic. He's a dynamic player that wins seventy five percent of his games. I think Atlanta, the Colts, Washington, New England, Tennessee. If the Aaron Rodgers things falls apart with the Jets, you gotta look Atlanta. To me, I said this last week, cap Space an offensive coach week conference in division, and their star tight end and star receiver. You don't have to pay him for three years. Lamar Jackson and Atlanta feels like a home run. But he's got the injuries, he's unorthodox. There's the money if he wants a fully guaranteed contract, Folks, there's just not much of a market for him. There's not. Well. Well, Deshaun Watson, I know, and Kirk Cousins got a guaranteed deal. It didn't mean the Patriots and the Packers had to copy him. Yes, Deshaun Watson was overpaid and fully guaranteed. The Ravens are like, why would we follow the Browns? Their attire fire were the Ravens. We're fifteen and eight, two super Bowls in the Brady and Manning era. So I think Baltimore looks at it and thinks, we'd love to sign you, but we're not going fully guaranteed. Think about it simply, it's a big company with a lot of success before you. The employee showed up. You show up, your dynamic and they love you, but they were very successful without you. You've gotten a little unorthodox, not had quite the high level success the company hoped. And now you want a fully guaranteed deal because a poorly run company across the street did it to their employee. And Baltimore is like, we're not going to do that. We're not going to cave. We'll give you a contract, it'll be a good contract, but if you're not guaranteed to play on Sunday, we're not guaranteeing all the money, which I think is completely realistic. But I also think Lamar Jackson looks because he doesn't have a super powerful agent, he looks at the market and goes look at to Shaun Watson, got I'm better than him, and he is better than him. So that's the situation today. Remember Aaron Rodgers and Brady Tom Brady left New England, he had two teams after him. Aaron Rodgers doesn't have a market. So when you're expensive, you've been hurt and you kind of do business from unorthodox style. And here's the thing, you know, I've learned this with kids. I got six different kids, step kids, biological kids. They're all different. Some are more emotional, some are more thin skinned, some are more sensitive. And I see this all the time. It's not a bad thing. But Kawhi Leonard does not trust kind of the system. I think Lamar Jackson tends to be a little untrusting. That's why I took his mom as an agent, or Kawhi took his uncle as an agent. Maybe they're not on trusting, a little sensitive. I'm here for it, like everybody's different, but I do think it can hurt your value, especially on the heels of Aaron Rodgers and Kyler Murray. That teams look around. This has always been a copycat league. Everybody looks around and you're like Hey, we don't want to get into it. We don't want to get into an Aaron Rodgers situation. We don't want to get I mean, the Packers are like, we'll take Jordan's love. We don't even know if he's any good. We're gonna get rid of Aaron Rodgers, who's won two MVPs in three years. We want to get out of the drama. So the question is, is this recent drama for Lamar is it just temporary or is this who he is? Because if it's who he is, I can see the market shrinking even more. You know, when Mahomes goes on the market, all but about three teams would be interested. You know, the Chargers got their guy, Buffalo's got their guy. Cincinnat he's got their guy. But now let's say you added a lot of injuries to Mahomes. The market shrinks. He wants fully guaranteed, it kind of shrinks. He's gotten unorthodox, it kind of shrinks. So I think the lack of playoffs success, the demands for a guaranteed contract, it's shrinking very few players. I don't care what industry you're in. I don't care if it's movies. Not every director wants to work with every movie star. That's okay too, and your market shrinks based on what you're demanding. How easy are you to work with? Can we find the right people around you? I think Atlanta fits. Hey, listen to New England has everything needed to win a Super Bowl except speed and playmaking. They could solve it with Lamar Jackson. I said this last week. They got the coach, the defense, the special teams, the culture, they got cap space. I mean to me, if I'm New England, I'm not beating Josh Allen with Mac Jones. I don't know if I can beat Mike McDaniel consistently. If Aaron goes to the Jets. New England's got everything but playmakers and speed. You could solve both with one guy. I think New England right now, New England's Super Bowl odds or like plus six thousand. That's worse than the Saints. So I mean, if you can, maybe Belichick wants to slowly get to the most wins ever for a coach and get seven to eight a year year, or you can get twelve with Lamar Jackson. So I think you have to absolutely seriously consider that if you're in New England. But I think Baltimore is looking at it and I think they're being very reasonable. In the Brady Manning era, fifteen to eight in the playoffs and two Super Bowls, Flacco got us one, Jil forgot us one. I mean, we watched at the end of last year. They were on second and third string quarterbacks, and they give the Cincinnati Bengals, who I really believe could be the second best team in the NFL, at worst third. They gave them Fits with Joe Burrow absolute Fits needed a quirky defensive touchdown to the Bengals, or they could have lost the Ravens with a second, third string quarterback. So Baltimore saying, we're not selling the farm here, and this is getting personal. How do I know it's getting personal because Lamar Jackson dropped this tweet this morning at the exact same time that John Harbaugh in the NFL meetings was going to speak in the coaches meetings. Somebody in that room tipped him off. Somebody in the organization tipped him off. Harball goes to the podium, boom, Lamar drops it. So it's personal, and you don't want it to be personal. It generally doesn't get personal. But in both instances, I get Lamar looking at Deshawn's contract and saying, well, back, I got who's that guy, He's right, he's better. And I get the Ravens saying we're a good company. We win a lot of different ways. We've won super Bowls with defense. We're not giving you a guaranteed, fully guaranteed contract. So I read one story this morning that said the Colts with that number four pick, remember Baltimore gets two first round picks. The minute they give up Lamar, So Baltimore saying we'll go get our quarterback. Keep your eye on the Colts number four pick. Colts could go all right, let's get cheap at quarterback. Let's redo it, let's go find the next Lamar. Very possible. But this is fun. This is really good, is it not? Jim Mack? What do you make of it? Loving it? M I do want to push back a little bit on what the market is for him. So right, so we had Aaron Rodgers. Not a big market. Well he's thirty nine years old, that's true. Russell Wilson, not a big market. He's thirty three. Remember last year, Yeah, Lamar Jackson just turned twenty six cons he is entering the prime. I know the history injuries behind him. Well that's not a but don't just throw it. You know, the injuries are he's young and hurt, and it's like NBA centers young and hurt doesn't get old and healthy. So Russell Wilson didn't have a history of injuries. Aaron had a collarbone surgery and in the last in the last twenty two games, he's missed ten. So like there's it's it's a it's the injuries aren't just a you know, I mean we Buffalo's coach um this Sean McDermott this weekend with six six, two hundred and sixty pound Josh Allen said, never miss his games is like, we have to change our offense. He who never missed a game. He's getting hit too much. We literally have to change our offense. Lamar is much more spindaly and gets hit much more than Josh Allen. At the same time, not to defend Lamar, he can win from the pocket, but when you don't have any receivers as Baltimore has not provided him with, it's a little tougher. And he his numbers say he was excellent from the pocket last year. I think he could do that now. I know he's very capable running in dangerous but Colin I cannot envision a scenario or Baltimore lets him go to New England, right Like, if you're Baltimore, you've got a match. You can't let him go to Bill Belichick. Well, he sounds like it's very personal now, like if you're getting if you're breaking up with somebody and it gets personal, that's different than you know you guys really are good together. People don't people forgive, they don't forget. It sounds like it sounds like Lamar Jackson is very much feel slighted by the organization. And I'm pro Lamar, but I'm not pro guaranteed, fully guaranteed contract. That would be idiotic at this point for an incredibly stable, well run organization who would get two firsts if they moved him. How about this, are you pro exclusive franchise tag where he would have got forty five million this year versus non ex Well, he doesn't want that. He wants yeah, fully guaranteed and long. I would have no problem doing a fully guaranteed for a year, But I don't think Lamar wants that he doesn't, but he definitely doesn't want the thirty two million dollars. Well that was the Ravens basically saying, go to the market, kid. So listen, I've been saying this. I'm Atlanta, Washington gotta jump in there. Somebody has to. This is if you're Washington, you're gonna sell six thousand tickets to ten thousand tickets a game from Lamar fans. Who'll just go across the river regionally? Yep? Yeah, I mean everybody in Washington knows how he's the most popular pro football player in that entire region. Now go get him as a guy who comes from the website background. Have you seen him pushing his website this morning? Who Lamar? No? Yeah, it's not a great look. He's got some kind of generic url, the email addresses Gmail, it's just Lamar ours. I don't think he's fully thought this through. You know. I'm rooting for him. I hope he does well. But between the non agent thing and this website and the last week, what was that infomercial thing with the weights, it was pretty crazy. I don't want to say it feels Mickey Mouse, but I don't think he's getting great advice. I agree for self promotion, like there's a lot of people who know what to do with starting a website and building it up and selling yourself, marketing yourself. I don't think he's doing a great job of that. He's leaving a lot of money on the table. Yeah, so it's fascinating. I do think the league's better with Lamar. The league is better with exciting quarterbacks. Whether you like his style or not. I've been defending him the last couple of years. He is. I had real doubts about him. Everybody had doubts about him. But he's become much more competent. You know, I pivot when I see new stuff. He's become much more competent in the quarter, in the in the pocket than people get him credit for. But listen, if I was Lamar, I would rather go to the NFC. It is why if I don't have to face Alan and Burrow and Herbert and now also with Sean Payton, and I'm Lamar and I want to prove everybody wrong. Get me over to the NFC tomorrow. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox sports radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app Headline in Dallas melt down with the Mavericks over the weekend Friday. They got beat by the awful Hornets, didn't show up. Jason Kidd after the game, not in a rosy mood. What is you think of the first It was awful dogs, you know, I think just understanding, you know, to talk before the game of what we're playing for, playoffs or championship, and to come out, you know, in that first half, but more or less the first quarter and give up thirty seven. The interest level wasn't high. Listen, I'd rather businesses be aggressive than play it safe. So like Kyrie was a big swing. They gave up a couple of second round picks, an unprotected first couple of guys. The MAVs rolled the dice. You got to do something. Luca was unhappy Kyrie Irving's career since he joined this team, they've become awful defensively. We predicted that you can't win a title. We predicted that with Kyrie and Luca and out without a great rim protector. But Kyrie's career is two careers with Lebron excellent. That's three years. The nine without him. A team killer, a chemistry killer, a coach killer, a franchise killer, and you can't deny that. But Luca also comes with challenges. Luca's temperamental, he's young, doesn't give you much in the defensive end, constantly bickering with officials, not easy to play with. Brunson struggled with him, Kyrie struggles with him. Poor Zinga struggled with him. He's a remarkable talent. We said this last week, finding a superstar is the hardest thing in sports. The Mavericks have now done it twice. The second hardest thing, and it's not easy, is finding a number two that can play with him. A Clay Thompson, a Scottie Pippen, Kevin McHale with Larry Bird. It's hard, not only the game, but the right temperament. Obviously, here's what doesn't work with Luca, Brunson, Kyrie, somebody that needs the ball. I'll say it again. The perfect player for him is Anthony Davis of the Lakers. Unlike Luca, he plays defense. Unlike Luca, he'll give you twenty nine a night and you don't have to design any plays for him. He's got a chill personality, and Luca's young and plays a lot, and AD's aging quickly and is often hurt. That's why A D and Lebron now suddenly are a bad fit. Luca and a D's a great fit. But who knows what happens to The Lakers want Kyrie Irving, But I do think teams roll the dice. It's very hard to find it too. I mean, I'll give you an example. You guys all think Steph Curry and Clay Thompson joined at the hip. First of all, Steph played three years until they found him at Washington State, and then it took him three full years together before they won a title. So it was like, if you count the overlap year, it was like six years before Steph and Clay were joined and started winning titles. And even then it's hard to win him back to back. Right, you bring in Kevin Durant to do it. It's it's hard to find twos in the right temperament. But Kyrie, they roll the dice. They took a big swing. You can you can still move him. It's the NBA. He's got a nice uh lay up package. As they say, he's got good handles. So in the NBA. You'll be able to move him. And he's very, very gifted. He's a great finisher for a guy his size. But m Dallas took a big swing and it's not working. And I would say Luca, though, comes with his own challenges. I mean, it'd be great if every star was like Janis and Tim Duncan, if they were all like Magic Jonathan, it would just be perfect. Some guys are temperamental. They can be high maintenance, they can be a little needy, they can be temperamental. And that is Luca and he's pouting a little bit these days now suddenly doesn't like basketball. I mean, yeah, it's really frustrating, as you know, I think you can see it with me on the court sometimes though I don't feel it's me, you know, I'm just being on there, nice, really fun, smiling on court. But it's just been so frustrating, maybe for a lot of reasons, not just bestball. Yeah, well, you know it's a Kyrie thing, but again, porzingis Brunson Kyrie. This has inflamed very quickly. The others took a little longer. But it's it's hard to find that too. I appreciate teams taking big swings took Michael Jordan a few years pre Pippin couldn't get along with Orlando Warwich, couldn't get along with some talented teammates, guys that wanted shots. That's okay, Nobody said it's easy. What would work with Luca is a catch and shoot guy, like a Clay Thompson. That would be perfect. Somebody that doesn't need the ball can catch it and shoot it. That's why Clay works so well with Steph Curry, who's got the ball in his hands. I think Anthony Davis works. He'll give you twenty seven a night and you don't have to design plays around him. He defends the rim, he'll do the dirty work. The number two sometimes has to be on the boards, has to be the great defender. Is not going to get that much credit. Is often going to be the scapegoat. It's hard to find the mcales, it's hard to find the Clay Thompsons. You know, Tony Parker ended up being great. It's not easy. The Mavericks have found the superstar twice. There's organizations that have done that once in forty years. They've done it twice internationally, So give them credit for that they took a big swing and now it's imploding. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd Weekdays and Noon Easter ninety Empacific. The Lakers have seven games left, five on the road. Lost at home to the Chicago Bulls yesterday. Give Chicago credit, they shot really, really well. It was just one of those games where they shot really well. So let's keep it real with the Lakers. Okay, they're not gonna win a championship. Teams in marks that are under five hundred, like are not going to win the championship. Get over it. They're not beating Milwaukee or Boston or a Philly or a Denver. Probably let's just get let's get over it. But that doesn't mean there's not value. Job number one in these remaining games. Showcase Anthony Davis. You can call it the play in tournament, knock yourself out. I'm gonna call it the ad showcase. Dallas now has a Luca problem. A d could solve it. He defends Warriors lack size in the front court, not getting any scoring from their begs. Celtics Jannis, how do we defend him? Come up short again? Nicks found their star point guard like Julius Randall a lot. You're not winning a championship if he's your two holding onto hopes that Anthony Davis is the answer is ridiculous. You cannot team him at this point with his body with an old guy that misses games. A D needs to be teamed with a young guy that is overwhelmingly healthy. So Lebron and a D were a very good pairing for about two years, but they have quickly become a bad pairing because of his physical inconsistency. Lebron's not available for thirty forty games and ADS not available for twenty five to thirty. So you've got to team him with young, healthy stars and he can add tremendous value. We saw this with the Rams. They brought in Matt Stafford. It looked like it was brilliant for a year, but Stafford's not mobile. He'd always been beat up a little behind bad offensive lines. And then the Rams offensive line fell apart, don't have a lot of depth, and suddenly Stafford the Rams is not a great pairing. Now they need a quarterback who's younger that can move it. This happens to businesses all the time. It feels great until it doesn't and Ad and Lebron doesn't work. A d has to be connected did to a younger star that is consistently available to play, so you can call it the play in tournament. You gotta showcase him, you gotta put him out there, let him score. Austin Reeves is a wonderful story. I love the Austin Reeves story. Anthony Davis is a really cool trade package. Celtics. If they don't have an answer for him, beat in Janie and Robert Williams. Yeah, Robert Williams gets hurt, Adi gets hurt. AD gives you a ton of the offensive end. I think if the Celtics lose again and they can't and Robert Williams is not available, they're gonna make a move. Can't keep running the same thing back. Marcus Smart's getting older, Robert Williams can't stay healthy. Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown maybe need a third. Maybe you have to move Jaylen Brown. I'll say it again, Warriors are getting no scoring from their front court. If they get rolled by Yokich in the playoffs. They need size. They don't need it every night, they just need it in big games in the playoffs. You go get a D. Luca now doesn't defend. They need somebody who doesn't need the ball, who can defend and drop twenty eight. That's Anthony Davis, Austin reeves a wonderful story. A D's a wonderful players, the top six or seven players winning Telsey. Let's not get caught up in all of this. We're gonna win a championship. Stop. Go look at NBA history. Teams under five hundred and late March don't win the title. It's not gonna win a championship. Even if they got in the play tournament and had like a Denver first round and then had to go. They're not gonna roll through Denver and it goes seven games. You think you're gonna get Lebron and a D in another seven game or after that. They're not good enough to sweep teams. They're not Milwaukee, right like, this team's not gonna roll through teams in the playoffs. They're gonna be six and seven game series, one after another after another after another. You're not winning four and five series. Isn't a four series? You're not going six and seven for all of them. Get out of that space. Seek value with a D. I think he's got it. My big takeaway from the NC Double A Tournament, so I've told my wife this for years, is that I don't want to, you know, go to Palm Springs, play golf and get old fast. I want to be around young people. So I've said i'd like to I'd like to retire at least part of the year in a ski town. Young people. They party, they ski, it's fun, it's active, there's hiking, biking. I don't want to be around a bunch of old people complaining about their taxes. That's not how I want to age. I want to have some juice, some energy, and I think hanging around young people keeps you young. So Jim laranagas seventy three and he's in the final four. He's been around forever, but he's he was one of those guys that embraced the nil immediately Nick Saban embraced it. He's seventy one years old. Both college coaches around young people. Meanwhile, you've got Greg Popovich who still won't embrace the three point shot in his seventies, and from what I can tell, Bill Belichick is completely tone deaf to offense when you hang around as a pro coach, you hang around an older owner and executives, and the players are older. And that's not to say Andy Reid hasn't hit it out of the park. But I think Pete Carroll was starting to feel old. They traded Russell Wilson, they hit on a bunch of draft picks. Seattle now is a younger team, and Pete feels younger. Age is not like an issue anymore with Pete. Hang around young people. It'll keep you young, It'll keep your relevant. But that's what my takeaway is. In this college environment, it forces Saban. Whether it's the kids music, their language, their sayings, their terms, their tech, their friends, what they're eating. You hang around young people, it keeps you young. And I think Saban and Larnage are just two of men. I mean, to the very end, Coach Can his mid seventies relevant, Roy Williams to the end at seventy relevant. Popovich still won't embrace the three. He's hanging around older guys. He falls in love with his culture, his ideas, and so I don't know if Miami's gonna win it. I will say this, I thought they were the second best team on the floor. For most of it. I'm not going to entirely blame the refs. I do think Larenega is a really good coach, but I love what he's done at Miami. I think I think he's fantastic. I don't think the Final four is going to be the most riveting final four of my life. I do think the officials drove everybody crazy over the weekend. But I will say this, you know how you can kind of see certain things coming, like you know, whether it's politics or whether it's tech. I told friends this years ago. I said, for years and years, we know that England's highly educated. In Europe and their educational system, they speak multiple languages, the French school system. It's not that Europe's not educated, probably more educated than us. But their fans are crazy. They're nuts. You hear the term soccer Hooligan's right, You're like, wow, why are they so nuts? Some of it is and I love gambling sports gambling. Once there's gamble, when fans pour on the field, who do they go after? They go after the refs. And I said this to a friend a couple of years ago. I am a huge advocate of sports gambling. It's got a one percent disorder rate. Alcohol's got six and a half. The average bet by the average American sports fan is four dollars. Go ask fan duel and DraftKings, it's four dollars. You know, most people have it under control. You and I have it under control. Most people do. But I told a friend years ago, I said, with legalized sports gambling, the officials are going to get more crap, and fans will now solely blame officials because now you're losing money, not just your team losing. And as we have this rollout in legalized gambling, which I'm for, Supreme Court said you can gamble rolling across the nation. I don't know how many is that legal in thirty states now we'll eventually probably forty five. I have noticed in the last year, every loss is the refs it used to be, I mean everything now. Bottom line is Texas is not a great college basketball team. Every one of these teams except Yukon is good. How many NBA guys are playing this weekend, it's it's these teams are not They're not great, very deluded, lot of chemistry, transfer portal. It's it's average. It's not a great year. Now, Duke Kentucky next year, both bringing in like four or five star guys could be very very good, very young, very good. But you know, this weekend I made this prediction. I said, you go watch Europe, who's been way ahead of us on legalized gambling. You watch every loss now is the officials. My entire life, there's go either way calls, the San Diego State foul to go either way call, but the immediate it wasn't the player, it's the refs. So I think that's here to stay. These are not great teams. Yukon's the best, I think by a notch. And I said this last week, I said, Yukon's gonna beat Gonzaga. Yukon I think's the best team in this thing. They're kind of working team. They're getting ahead of teams fast. They just I mean good coaching, They have a dominant big, they have a lot of depth. I mean, Ukon's really good basketball team, really good. They're not great. They're not the Christian Latner, Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill team. They're not a Georgetown championship team. It's not like they have worthy in Jordan with North Carolina. These teams are not great. The two sports in my life that have gotten worse. Boxing there's too many other ways to make money. Boxing divisions aren't nearly as good as they used to be. There's just too many ways to make money without getting your head beat in. And the second thing is college basketball, where guys like you and Tim Duncan would come back for three and four years. Now, if you're good, you're out. So these teams are not good enough to overcome mistakes and miss free throws. They're just not They're all pretty good. All right. This is Jay Glazer. And you may know me for the world of football or fighting, or even shows like HBO's Ballers. Well you don't know it is for my entire life. I have lived in something I refer to as the Great Anxiety. So now I'm coming out with a new podcast, Unbreakable, a mental health podcast with Jay Glazer where each week, well we talk about mental health. I hope to describe it, give it words. Listen to Unbreakable with Jay Glazer on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, it's Colin right, Colin wrong. On a Monday. Here we go where Colin was right, Well, we said last week. Even though I love my Zags, I thought Yukon was the best team in the country. They had a dominant big, They're very very well coached, they're deep, they're winning by twenty two a game, and I think that my guess is they're going to roll to the title role being you know, eight ten, twelve point wins. They had the biggest blowout in Elite eight in since nineteen I don't even know when they blew out the Zags and Gonzagas doesn't get blown out. They lose, they don't get blown out. So um, I mean, I think you're looking at a storied program that is now back to being potentially a storied program where Colin was raw Well, I had the Zags in the title game before the tournament against Duke, so let's just give me a big and wrong. Oh for the entire tournament, Drew Timmy got in foul trouble. The problem though, is they are so reliant this year on Drew Timmy that when he got into foul trouble scores twelve against Utah con they get blown out and has the window closed? No, it's it's a remarkable program, but you know they may have to. I don't know if they have a Drew Timmy on the way in. They became very Drew Timmy centric. Foul trouble meant they were in big, big l category. Where Colin was right. I said Kyrie of the MAVs would be fun and dynamic and interesting, but they would suddenly get awful on defense. They are now since arriving, they went from twenty first in defense to eighth. They're eight and thirteen. Lucas now miserable. We just tend to forget this because the Warriors dynasty has also been marked with great defense from Clay Thompson in his prime and Peyton and Draymond and Wiggins. And you gotta defend if you want to win in this league. You can't win one twenty eight, one twenty six. And I said they're gonna be terrible defensively. The people that argue they were a title team, the opposite's true. They'll be more fun to watch with Kyrie, but they can't stop anybody. Where Colin was wrong, Kevin Demoff, the COO of the Rams, said, listen. They sent a letter to season ticket holders. It was never the plan to give up draft picks forever I'm wrong on this. They went from super Bowl champs to total rebuild much sooner than I thought. The old line is just not that talented, and when Andrew Whitworth left, it fell apart. Their offensive line, their secondary, their linebackers are just not good enough. They're selling off parts now, defensive parts, primarily to get picks. I'm wrong, I all, and they did get a super Bowl out of it, so I'm for that, and the Niners would take that in a second. But it fell apart much much faster than I thought. Where Colin was right, well, I said on the Ravens a couple of months ago that I thought Lamar Jackson was veering into noisy and odd territory and the Ravens weren't going to play that game. I still think they want to sign him, they just want it closer to their terms. But this morning he requested a trade. John Harbaugh sort of smirked at it, but he used his mom as an agent. Now he's got a representative who the league is sending memos to teams not to contact or take his calls. I liked Lamar a lot, but he's kind of veered into a Kawhi Leonard category and this is just more of it this morning requesting a trade where Colin was wrong. Well, when John Morant had his personal issues, I thought it would sabotage and derail the Grizzlies. Well they're nine and three since joss personal situation, they've won nine of ten. He came off the bench and did well. He started last night and scored twenty seven. So it's a very well coached, deep team. Jaws rebounded from it. Like we said from the very beginning, kids make mistakes. It's a lot of money, a lot of fame thrust upon him. He's a remarkable, dynamic player. But I thought they'd be derailed much more and they're not at all their back and rolling a two seat in the west. Where Colin was right. Alan Lazard talking about Aaron Rodgers this weekend, that's if Aaron Rodgers arrives, do I get another right on Aaron Rodgers. This thing is turning out to be exactly what we said over the last year to two on Aaron. If you do business with Aaron, it's gonna be high maintenance because Aaron is needy. He's got to be the smartest guy in the room. He doesn't want anybody to think they have control. And if you're an employee, even a highly compensated one, you're going to be controlled by somebody. Even billionaires have bosses. It may be the market, but they've got bosses. So this Jets two teams now hanging in Limbo, is very much on brand where Colin was right. Well, I've been saying this now for a year. The Bill's got to fix their offense. Josh Allen takes too many hits, and his coach Sean McDermott said yesterday at the start of the NFL owner meetings it absolutely concerns him that Allan gets hit on sixty six percent of the runs and the organization and team needs to do a better job. Part of it is McDermott has been incapable of developing a consistent run game. But they are acknowledging what we have been acknowledging now for two years. We saw it with Cam, we saw it with Big Ben. I don't care if you're six six and two fifty, your career will be significantly shortened if you play the way Josh Allen plays. Get him an old line and protect him one more herd. The herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Within the iHeartRadio app search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like. Well, the NFL owner meetings are in Arizona. Albert Breer is now joining us live Monday Morning Quarterback. Okay, so we just saw Harboss sort of smirked and sort of laugh at the Lamar Jackson trade request. What's the buzz there now in Phoenix regarding that? Albert Well, I mean, this felt like a nuke, you know what I mean? Column Like if you look at like the way this happened. He Harbos sat down at seven forty five at a table and Lamar had send on that tweet at seven forty eight. And I think that this is sort of where the situation is that trade request over three weeks ago. There's obviously the person that's representing Lamar out there to teams, and it feels a little bit like Lamar's camp has gotten a little bit desperate. Now. In the end, I think that both sides are so invested in each other that there eventually will be some sort of resolution here. But it's very very clear that Lamar Jackson's looking at the idea of leaving the leaving the Ravens in a very very serious way. And you know, I think to some degree the communication with the Ravens has been cut off to sort of plant that point. This further approves that point, and I mean, we'll see where things go from here. Obviously there's nothing happening inside the building with players yet, but I mean we're just a few weeks away from offseasons and programs beginning OTAs a few weeks after that, so you know, obviously the Ravens are gonna have to, you know, try to find some sort of middle ground with Lamar Jackson between now and then. And you know, certainly, I think what happened this morning was a sign of where things are. Let me ask you, I the Ravens have two Super Bowls and we're fifteen and eight in the postseason in the Brady and Peyton Manning era. So they've won before Lamar, and they'd get two first round picks if they moved him. They'd went after Lamar. They've proven that. I also think Lamar has a point at that Deshaun Watson contract. He's like, guys, you're not gonna offer me one hundred million less? What if Jamax said this earlier. They said, okay, we'll give you all. We'll give you a franchise tag for a year, fully guaranteed forty five million. Would that statiate him? Or is that not enough? Either? Is this just long? If? Does a contract have to be fully guaranteed and law? I think that the question is how long you know at this point? Like to me, like the solution has always been maybe a Kirk Cousins type of deal with more money involved, but maybe a three year, fully guaranteed deal. I think that that's where the middle ground is. I think a big part of this column for Lamar is principal. And look, I know that sounds silly because of how much money he's turned down, but if this was really about the money, I think he would have just taken the money. I think the way that Lamar looks at this is all right. So for five years, I took on a precedent amount of damage for a quarterback. I played out my contract, I played out my fifth year option. And now you're the one that wants injury protection three years from now. I'm not giving you that. And so, like, I think the middle ground here, instead of doing a traditional top of the market quarterback contract, which is what the Ravens have offered and doing it Deshaun Watson type of contract, which is what Lamar Jackson wants do. The Kirk Cousins deal, where you say, let's do three years full guarantee. We'll give you a no tag provision. So if you want to be a free agent in twenty twenty six, you've got a freeway to get there, and let's go forward for the next few years and see how we can make this work. To me, like that would be the middle ground, But it feels at least like things have gone off the rails to a degree where there's going to need to be some relationship mending before they can come to any sort of compromise. Okay, So there's a lot of different reports on the Carolina Panthers, the number one pick. Again, you're in Phoenix, you're at the owners meetings, you hear this stuff. These are great conferences to go to to just hear the rumors. Yeah, I still think Bryce Young's the best, but I don't know if he fits their plans. What are you hearing? Yeah, I think Bryce Young has been the leader in the clubhouse throughout for them. You know, and I think going back to you know, when they were talking about moving up to the number one overall, Bryce Young was sort of the bassline. So you know what I mean by that is when you trade for him, you got when you get trade for that pick, you got to be comfortable like somebody here is worth the first overall pick. And that's somebody I think for the Panthers was Bryce Young. And now they do work on all four of the quarterbacks, Levis and Richard center of course CJ. Strout, and see if any of those guys pass Bryce Young for them. But as of right now, I think that that bassline for them and who they take first overall would be Bryce Young. Now I think the guy who's closest for them would probably be CJ. Strout. I think they're like both those guys, and they'd view both those guys as worthy of the first overall pick, and I think they'll be sort of parsing things between the two of them, and then they'll do all the work on Levis and richardson well to see if either of those guys who actually are probably more physically gifted like just as far as the way they look like the figure they cut his quarterbacks. See if those guys have a chance to catch either the either the other two between now and the draft. But as of right now, I think it's it's it's price young at a baseline with CJ. Stroud running a close second. Listen, green Bay's got their quarterback they want, they want Jordan Love to take all the snaps in OTAs. They're in no hurry at all. I presume they're saying, give us a first round pick or we're not picking up the phone. That's what I presume the Jets, or in a situation where they got a new receiver, they got a young receiver. It's a new team. I feel like the leverage is all Green Bay. Am I wrong? No, because I think that like the leverage is always in the hands of the person who hasn't doesn't have to do them anything. And until September first, the Packers literally don't have to do anything. They have their quarterback, they have their team. Rogers cap had actually goes up after they trade him, so they're not saving any cap space by trading him. They would actually lose cap space if they trade Am. So really, you know, between now and September first, they don't have to do anything that fifty eight point three million dollars is fully guaranteed. But the genius is the way the contract was written was they can pick that up whenever they want and start the payment on it whenever they want, and so that gives them flexibility. The Jets have to bring in Aaron Rodgers. Derek Carr's off the market, Jimmy Garoppolo's off the market. We see what's happened with the Lamar Jackson situation. I mean to me, for Joe Douglas and Robert Salad, this has sort of become a zero sum game. You either get him or you don't. I think ultimately cooler heads will prevail, But I do think that there's more pressure on the Jets to get something done here than there is in the Packers, at least until we get to the end of August. Very exciting. So again, Lamar Jackson, let me throw this at you. If you're the Colts and you know you're not going to get the first two quarterbacks, they may not light anybody after the two. That's whether or not moving up to three. They're like, we're not in love with these guys. I would think the Colts would have a eating over Lamar right like this the third Lamar win seventy five percent of his games, or a kid from Kentucky who may be a miss. Well, if we're talking about it generically, Colin like teams that are picking in the top ten, if you don't want to give up a top ten pick to get Lamar, you can wait until after the draft, and then as part of signing an offer sheet, you'd be talking about picks in twenty four to twenty five. So say you're the Colts and you're not wild about the quarterbacks that are going to be available to you at four, you can sit there for the next three weeks. Look at Will Anderson, look at Jalen Carter, take one of the two, and then get past the draft and sign Lamar Jackson to an offer sheet. And now you're giving up your first round pick in twenty four and twenty five instead of the fourth over I'll pick this year. Yeah, and if you think it would be pretty good with Lamar's your quarterback, now you're talking about maybe the twenty fifth pick next year instead of the fourth pick this year. So I do think that that's one piece of all of this that people aren't paying attention to when it comes to where other teams stand with Lamar Jackson. If you're a team that's picking in the top ten that needs a quarterback that isn't wild about this year's quarterbacks, I mean, it would definitely behoove you, potentially to wait until after the draft and then make your move on Lamar Jackson. So I don't have the sense that any team is doing that quite yet, but could it happen. I mean, logically it would make sense if it did. Yeah, that's really interesting. You could get the pass rusher and then get Lamar and you give up the preton the net because they also need a pass rusher, they need a quarterback, they need a pass rusher. They could probably use another receiver, they could use picks. That's that's a good call. Albert Breyer at the owner meetings, Well, Scarfa up all the free food they offer. If they do, you know, take advantagement, you know conventions. I'm not staying here, I'm staying down the street, all right, Albert, good seeing you all right. Thanks calling