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But you know what I found out today. I did not know this. That Bud documentary was just released that says that Jim Morrison of The Doors, who died in nineteen seventy four, seventy two, seventy four, So Jim Morrison is alive and living as a maintenance man in Syracuse, really where he has been. He is a maintenance man in Syracuse. I read a little bit. I didn't. I didn't see the document I read a TikTok I watched TikTok about the documentary. Apparently a documentary says that, uh, he somehow met a guy who and he was able to gain his identity or something like that, and I need kill him. He killed the guy, just like in so many movies. T she was just able to just assume the guy's identity for a reason I don't know. And he's living and he's a ma It's man in Syracuse. Jim Morrison. Well, I mean, given the fact that they sold tons of albums after his death, yeah yeah they did. Yeah, right, I mean they were popular. But then but if then you could live off the residuals, you know, with your estate being given to some random pro who is that guy? Don't know. It's actually Jim Morris. Why is Frank and skinny Atlas guy getting all of this money? I don't know so July third, nineteen seventy one. But if if you're the date of his path because they say Elvis lives upstairs in Graceland, Okay, sure, but if they go and visit him up there, if you're getting the money, you probably don't need to work. But that's not well, but maybe maybe you're just bored. Okay, all right, he'd already done and made your living as a poet. So what are you gonna do in retirement? It's not gonna go working on us. Jut, it's like a real life goodwill. Honey. He's doing he's doing instead of math problems on the board, he's writing song lyrics. Yeah, that's it. Hey, okay, who came to the class I'm right and wrote this? You know that I would be untrue? Who wrote that? Someone? Tell me who wrote that? Who wrote it? Come on, come on, somebody tough. You think it's a janitor? You think I'm gonna go get stelling stars guard to watch Goodwille. Come on, not gonna happen? Tell me who wrote that? Tell me who wrote that? Yeah? I mean so, you know, while Feliciano had some other things, like he he did a version of one of those uh New York Galla things honoring Sting that didn't go over quite so well. His version of by Fire was really no. Wait, wait which Sting the wrestler or the singer? The singer he was still in the balcony. Wrestler knows the Sting the singer? Nobody. He's doing another album and tour with Shaggy wait Sting the singer? Wait, okay, hang on, so wait, so it's Sting the singer or w w E so Sting and it's Shaggy the character from Scooby Doo or the singer say these things?
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Yes day three in NFL Free Agency, we are still waiting for what we thought was going to be one of the big stories today because we've been on a great schedule. Right we had two quarterbacks on Monday, we had Daniel Jones yesterday. Great. Now we have Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson ready to go today. Aaron Rodgers officially released by the New York Jets at four pm. No decision for both of them. We got Mike Williams going back to the Chargers. Another nice move for them, charge charge making us some nice little sneaky moves here, although they should have got Havn ingram eron Ingram to the to the Broncs is a big deal. But still waiting for the next shoot a drop for Aaron Rodgers and for Russell might be waiting a while. And I want to say this. I want to say this because you know, the last couple of days, this Sam Darnold Vikings take that we've had people hate incredibly viral has been insane and mainly a lot of people that you know Vikings fans are disagree with my take that the big Hey, how do you let the guy come in, do what he did and walk out and you don't get anything for him? You get a compensation pick that's basically a fourth round pick.
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That's so I get it. Yes, that's because that's exactly the value of a quarterback that throws thirty five touchdowns, four thousand yards, goes to a Pro Bowl, leads you to fourteen and three. That's the exact value. What's loss for everybody here, though, is that you got back on the Sam Donald bandwagon with this take. Because remember as soon as it was Sam Sam Sam saying I could play the tape, Yeah, celebrated everything and it was Sam Donald's gonna be the greatest thing. And then as soon as he was no longer a jet, I mean he was Paully and good Fellas three thousand bucks for a lifetime.
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Now, And this is why I bring this up again because I want to say this right, because I want to say this, and I don't care one way or another, but I think this should what happened if the Vikings sign Aaron Rodgers, because the two teams we've been hearing for Aaron Rodgers so far has been the Steelers are the giants, right, that's me Steelers giants. The same thing for Russell Wilson Steelers, Giant Steelers Giants. Vikings have been a team that we've seen. Some insiders say, that's where he really wants to go. That's why I'm like, really, the dude wants to do exactly what Brett Farve did. Come on, man, it's funny. It was. It was a good story for us because it would be some comedy tonight. It would be insane tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight. But there's a lot of insiders and seeing reports that Rogers and the Vikings, they are waiting for some kind of mutual interest for Rogers to go to the Vikings. And I'm saying to myself, so he wants to go there where Allegedly there they love JJ McCarthy and they want him to be the quarterback so much so they told Sam Darnold, Hey, we're gonna let you go for nothing. We'll get a compic for you. Good luck, Sam, and then we're gonna go spend all that money on all these because they've done a great job in free agency. They did, but they could have signed Darnold a week and a half, two weeks ago, to have franchised him and traded him. You didn't have to wait until the first day of free ag There is another thing that all the vikings maan, oh, but look at the money. We spect. Yeah, you could have done this anytime in the two weeks before, if you could have franchised him yet up till March fourth to make the decision, you could have franchised him. Taken two weeks to figure things out. But no, no, no, nobody wants to see the facts. Okay, that's fine. I had forty million. They might have been stuck now, which wouldn't have been the worst. The Seahawks gave him one hundred million, he wouldn't have been stuck at forty million. They still get right, But they didn't want to give him forty eight. Okay, forty million for a year, and the six say okay, how about three years and one hundred and ten? But the guarantee is only fifty five, right, but three years they and still could have done that. They still wanted him that bad. They still could have found out a way to say, okay, well it's forty it's seven million more than we wanted to spend. But again, we're upsetting the apple card of our franch We're trading away our quarterback, we're bringing you and we're making your guy for three years they would have been okay, swallowing it ex Jets that we're having these arguments somewhere in the bowels of the you know your's stomach. It's a it's a bit of queasiness that the rest of the world now wants the guys you your team couldn't figure out how to make work. What people don't know is every free agent signed this offseason has been with the Jets. Yeah, every single one, no matter what he was with the Jets. But I want to say this, that is what I want to say this right, is that if the Vikings sign Aaron Rodgers and so, their strategy was, Okay, we have a twenty seven year old quarterback who was one of the top three quarterbacks in the conference, great year. We could have kept him for a year and for we could have kept him. No, no, no, we're gonna let him go because we love the guy behind him so much. Okay, we love him so much. We're gonna bring in an older guy not as good to be the quarterback until he's ready. If they do that, every single person, every single person's commented in my time this you owe ami apology or b get off Twitter. If that happens, then you have absolutely zero leg to stand on friending because now it's yeah, we watched a guy come in who is great and decided, oh yeah, yeah, for a year, we're gonna have a guy that's worse and is older and we don't know what he has left any and that's our decision. Like, if that's what the Vikings wind up doing, yes, apologies and everybody leaves. And by this point Twitter would go out of business because I think everybody is commented on this, So that's what would happen. I want everybody if the Vikings do that, I mean, I don't know. I don't what you could say to defend that franchise. I have no I don't want to Sam, but we'll let Rogers come in. Oh but not JJ, so not so. Not only would it not be Donald or JJ McCarthy, it's door number three of a forty year old quarterback that nobody else wants. Nobody else wants. Okay, great works, Yeah, but the general rule of thumb is someone wants to be the smartest guy in the room. How does that make you the smartest guy in the room. I know, what does it mean that you are? But you want to convince yourself that you can do something, and we've seen the reclamation projects. That's what Sam Donald was with O'Connell right that he had a little bit of a run with one of the quarterback gurus. So it's like, all right, now we're gonna take him and if we have to break glass in case of emergency, we can make him something. And then he goes out and has a monster year. So if you're O'Connell and you're the Vikings, and now you've built this roster and we can go through and do the dramatic reading of all of their acquisitions in the post Sam hours, because it's been plentiful, like they've done a lot of work for the roster. Is you're taking Aaron Rodgers out his word, it'd be curious to see what the dollar value is, right if he signs in the mid twenties or something like that, or thirty million dollars, And he's really looking to be that mentor for JJ McCarthy. Because all along, my whole thing is are we sure that physically JJ McCarthy's gonna be ready to go? Didn't he have to have a second procedure to clean up whatever that happened, and he's gonna be surgery. He decided we don't want Sam Donald. We're okay with him, oh now, but now we want somebody else. This is like, here's what the Vikings are doing. Say I'm the Vikings, and you come and you go, Jason, here's the best sandwich I could possibly make for you in the time, right, because he's getting samed. Okay, what is Edit's got perscudo and it's got horse radish and cheddar cheese, and it's got onions that are so crisp and they're so tasty, and it's on the softest bread possible. And I can then go here, you can have the whole sandwich. And I'm like, okay, great, and I take a few bites of that sandwich. I go, wow, this sandwich is really good. I got three quarters of that sandwich, Like, this is the best You're right, this is the best sandwich I could possibly I can't believe this is so great. Great, So you're gonna finish it? No, no, no, no no, I'm not gonna have any more of it, and I'm gonna push it to the side. Well, you want to save it for later, Nope, I want to throw it away. I'm gonna take it and just put it in the trash. There you go, boom, I can't have anymore. Well, what do you want and stead for the rest of my meal? I want that old sandwich that was in there. It was stuck in all the way in the back. That's got the crust on it, and maybe the bread is really staale a little bit and the meat is kind of dried out. Bring me that. That's the sandwich I want to have. That's what I want to fight. But you had that. Yeah, No, I know I had that, well, but I don't want it anymore. I want that. I want that instead. That's the decision. Some folks choose a harder path, and it might be like Homer Simpson, Oh, sandwich, I can't stay mad at you. This new sandwich could never possibly compare to what you were. And he's every fight he takes he goes, oh, and that it's in the trash and it's he's turning. Yeah, but he can't be mad. But the idea with Rogers is that you get whatever like, because look that's been the hyperbole of his last six or seven weeks of the season. Look how much better he was look at those two big games against Miami and Jacksonville that inflated his second half stats to get him where he was. Look at his final stats, because all of a sudden, we're back of the football card. As we talk about all the time, we're reading those numbers and ignoring everything else he did. But that's fine. But the hey, he could be a great mentor and he's ready to be that guy for your club, as opposed to I'm gonna stab that guy in the heart and I'm gonna take his job, which is exactly what Aaron Rodgers is looking to do. This is this is it would be the aby I I really it would be. Okay, we need to have an intervention with to run a football team if that. But you hear so many Rogers and the Vikings, Rodgers and the Vikings, Rodgers and the Vikings. Okay, okay, it's it was a fun theory and now it might actually come to fruition completing the Brett fav trilogy. So great, apologize and leave Twitter in that order. They'll come back. They'll come back like a Hydra with four other accounts to mock you. Speed up your hiring process with Express Employment professionals reduce time to hire, cut costs, find the right talent for both contract and full time roles. Visit expresspros dot com today transform your hiring process. That is expresspros dot com. Well, there's your Aaron Rodgers aspect of it. What about for Russell Wilson the harsh the harsh reality that he might be facing he may have played his last down in the NFL. We'll explain what that's all about. 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Jackson Dart is moving on. I keep saying mc cordy, I keep dying. I still think I think he's still at the back end of the first what it's all said, Yeah, it could be right, but but the Giants can easily then move from early in the second round move up, so they would have that covered. They don't want to go in with what they have right now, which I think is Joe Pisarcik. So it's your buddy Tommy Cuts. I mean, they didn't re up him the other day, so you know you got that going for you. So that that's to me, that's the biggest key to everything is what are the Giants gonna do if they believe they're gonna get a quarterback or if maybe they don't trust this regime to make that quarterback pick, because you wonder what's going on behind closed doors there right We saw the hard knocks last year. Ma comes down, it says, boy, I got a real problem if Saquon Barkley goes to the Egel. Now we know we're doing we know we're doing. Uh okay, maybe you don't. So maybe hey, Shane and and and uh and Dable are back, but we're not gonna allow you to pick another quarterback, so you got to figure something else out here, and there could I wouldn't be surprised if there was a big discrepancy between the we got to get a quarterback early, we have to wait and draft one, and the you know in a year when whatever one of our guys come, when we get a new regime in here, whatever it is there's got there's gotta be some sort of friction going on and a battle in New York about what they're gonna do a quarterback. But clearly, no matter what they decide to do, Russell Wilson would be the guy. Right Aaron Rodgers is not gonna go to the Giants, they're not interested in him, but Wilson's the guy. It's either Wilson or you're figuring some some kind of crazy ass trade out, or you're waiting for the draft and you're tanking for arch Manning, whatever it is. So for Russell Wilson, if these teams wanted him, they would have gotten him already. You see how fast teams move on quarterbacks. Darnold was out there for eight minute, justin feels out there for nine minutes. Daniel Jones been everybody wait a day, or maybe Roger Adel said, hey, dude, can you wait a day so we can have the new cycle? Yeah, sure, that's fine. I mean, these guys come off the board really fast, and now they're out there for a reason. So while Rogers seems to have a little more heat, I really wonder if that's it for Russell Wilson, because I don't see where else the fit's gonna be. Yeah, the obvious fit was me to go back to Pittsburgh from a pure playing style and aptitude, right because Russell Wilson. What did we hear all the time we talked about it a little bit last night when you were sad for these two guys. I still am sad. I still am sad that it's ending with them looking so desperate. They're sweaty with their hats in their hands and they're wringing their hands, going do you have a job for me? Do you have a job? They're all lukabratzia going into the dawn on the Hey, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. During this busy time of free agency, I have to ask you for a favor, but I really need to do that. That's the day, I mean they can't refuse a favor. So if you have one that you need, I mean, that's the day to do it. I may feel, you know you're gonna pay a heavy price in the end, but Hall of Fame career shouldn't end like this, with this being so desperate to stay well. But it's the decision of what's your expiration day? Right, Not everybody's Tom Brady where we're playing into our forties, or Warren Moon who didn't get a shot till he was forty, or all of those kinds of things. Obviously I exaggerate, but the point being that, you know, we've just gotten so accustomed in all these sports of guys playing much longer. I mean, Drew Brees at the end, what did he have left? Peyton Manning at the end, what did he have left? When when we're getting toward turning the odometer over for Aaron Rodgers, we had a pretty good half a season for Russell Wilson. You had a couple of good weeks. A lot of reports that he and Arthur Smith, who I think you could throw over the side of the boat and go find another OC. But that's just me. But look at those cuddlefish where whoa. But the reports that he and Arthur Smith did not get along is obviously not helping his cause to come back to Pittsburgh. The Russell Wilson side of it. With the Giants, it's the all right, Pat Shermer was their coach in twenty nineteen, right, he was the guy that had the Daniel Jones the beginning of that experiment, and then for Dable and for Shane it was all right, you'll either fix him and it'll be you get to carry him to the next level, have this success like he did with Josh Allen. Well, unfortunately the guy got hurt, including a couple of really severe injuries like neck injuries are no joke, right, We watched that. Whenever a guy gets that on his report card for the end of the year, it's like, all right, are we trusting this going forward? And they decided to move on. So is Dabel that guy or are they supposed to bring in a placeholder for a year because they like the twenty twenty six draft that much more. You mentioned Archie Manning. We talk about it all the time, all the other quarterbacks that will be in that class that maybe everybody likes a little bit more and so you're thinking, we have a roster that's only gonna be so good no matter who we bring in, be it rookie, be it veteran. And for Mara again, you know what, you could have just ordered them pay Saquon Barkley whatever the hell he wants. Okay, you're the owner. You could have done that, right, You could have done that. You didn't, and they would have still stunk because I like, all of a sudden, Barkley is playing on a dust. But that's the thing behind Andrew tom Oh wait, he got hurt, and the rest of the offensive line was if I say the word pedestrian, we all know what I mean. Okay, So that's kind of where we're at in this process. I look at it like this, and and this is how I am sure teams like Pittsburgh and the Giants are looking at Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. Are they near the end? Yes? Do we want to be in on them a year early? We don't want to be on them a year too late. And last year might have been the final year where you got the best that you're going to get from both of those players. Because Aaron Rodgers MVP is still MVP player up until a couple of years ago. He goes to the Jets, he gets hurt, he comes back, he does have a nice back half of the year, right top ten in touchdowns, top ten in yards, but you see that he's not really the same guy. So now another year and you think you're gonna get that same production or is this the year where he just looks like he's finished when you're in the middle of week two, And it's the same thing for Russell Wilson. Hey, here he is third team. He had a little bit of something left in the middle of the season where he played where he played okay, and he sparked him up. But then he saw the end of the season, Russell Wilson was done. And I get why the stock is higher on Rogers because he had a better end of the season than Russell Wilson did. But it's the same philosophy of Boyd was that the last hurrah for Wilson was that little bit of run he had middle of the season when Mike Tomlin is s thumping, is just going, this is why I do what I do, That's why I die, why I get paid what I do. Right now, we want do we want to get in for this year which could be again awful and he could be washed, And why did we do this? So that that's the big debate that's happening right now. And if the side of let's go get these guys was winning again, we'd see them somewhere. But for Wilson especially, that's the thing where I don't know. I don't know where things can go. I don't know where the fit is. If it's not one of these two teams that could have had him already, I we may just sit out or decide I'll be a backup. I don't I don't think that's Russell Wilson's I don't think that's part of his moo. It shouldn't be part of your remo when you can't do it anymore, when you're a Hall of Fame player, you can't do it and say, Okay, you know I did as long as I could. It's time for me to go. I'm not going to be this diminished version of myself. Whoever long it is just to stay in the game. Right now, Is Russell Wilson a Hall of Famer eight seven, seven ninety. I mean Aaron Rodgers most certainly his sure is Russell Wilson. I think he was on the path too. Yeah, and and and he's got a super Bowl, right, he's got a super Bowl. He was you know, almost had too. But this is this guy's had all picked. Well. No, well it's it's not his fault because they should have taken the ball out of his hands. It was a bad pass. He gets, he gets more of a pass, and he should for throwing that ridiculous pass that was off target the bat. But anyway, it's more about playing call because you don't throw a pass like that. We'll ask Jason called that you know about Russe Wilson's Hall of Fame, but that that's how it. There's a certain standard you need to to own up to and live up to when you're that kind of player. And it's it's just it's embarrassing for you, it's embarrassing for us that it doesn't. Nobody wins. But if you think you still have juice and a couple of years ago, the stats, right, Wilson put up stats for Denver, were they empty that he makes a lot of bad decisions? Yes, he was not very good years ago, and then last year wasn't even as good as that year. But if you still think you're better than that guy, that guy. Look, we always talk about how long retirement is. Like if you could find someone that's still gonna cut you a check to keep doing the gig, whatever, whatever the job is, if you can find that team and it may smack completely of desperation on their part that you're still there. Like Cleveland's a couple of years removed from being a playoff team. Now it took Kevin Stefanski pulling the string like the greatest puppeteers that we've ever scene, the greatest marionette right where we finally we got Joe Flacco off the leaping couch to get that team through. So Miles Garrett took the giant bag. He stays tough division, no question, But Cleveland, I mean. And Captain Kirk's over there in Atlanta, he's the wild card and all of this, he's that guy sitting in It's like Roman Reigns came in. You had cm punk fighting the other night against Seth Rollins, and all of a sudden Rains comes running in to create chaos. It's the same thing Captain Kirk sitting over there and he's torched everything in Atlanta by Oh, yeah, I was hurt. I was hurt. They didn't you know, you weren't on the injury report. And when asked about it by local media, Hey, I you know, I'm just here like I'm not doing media right now, he basically thumbed his nose at them. And while they say, hey, he'll be the backup, he's still in play. He's still circulating and waiting to run into the ring. Well, to go back to earlier with your sting analogy, he's up in the rafters with the baseball bat, ready to charge at any time. Here your foot, But I'm gonna I'm gonna counteract with this that yes, you may think you can still do it, but in the end, it's not you that gets to the side.
Right.
I always, I always go back to the to Ron Darling pitch for the Mets in the a's long time, and and I remember asking him one saying, hey, when did you know it was time to retire? And he said I didn't. The hitters told when it was time to retire. In this case, this is the NFL telling Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson it's time to retire, but as of now, but they don't have teams. But as of now, they they're still empty seats. They don't have teams, but they could have them if you want it. But his Pittsburgh gonna run with Mason Rudolph coming back if they're gonna, I mean, obviously, did you do a run run Rudolph?
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I like, I like that run run Rudolf. Do you like the Chuck Barrier the Keith Richards version Chuck Berry is better Mozle, But yeah, think about Frostburg. How bad is Aaron Rodgers literally eight forty for him not to play there? Following in the footsteps of that's how bad Russell Wilson eating forty nine million dollars? How many Hamburgers? That is a lot lot in New York. It's like forty nine hamburgers a less Yeah, well, yeah, especially with the Kobe beef, it's that bad or the lagu or maybe maybe get some that gold flake nonsense that they like to do. So just get right. This could have been the end. We might have already seen the end of Russell Wilson. Oh you had a good run. Speed up your hiring process with Express Employment Professionals, reduced time to highre cut costs. Find the right talent for both contract and full time roles. Visit expresspros dot com today and transform your hiring process. That's expresspros dot Com. Time out to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called the Russell Wilson of Fox Sports Radio because he does high knees at thirty thousand feet whenever he flies. It's Martin Weiss.
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Apparently, and you can't even check a towel. No, you can't even check a towel to wipe off. The Oklahoma City thunderbeat the Boston Celtics in Boston tonight, just Boston's twelfth home I mean twelve home loss of the year.
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One, eighteen to one twelve.
Shay Gildess Alexander with thirty four points, seven assists, and.
Uh, let's see chet home. We're gonna have to double double.
Jason Tatum thirty three points, eight rebounds, eight assists in the loss.
Right now, two games going on.
The timber Wolves leading the Nuggets twenty eight to twenty two. You'll coach with an eleven points randal. Leading the Bowls was six at the end of the first quarter. The next lead the Troil Blazers twenty six to twenty one. Clar Anthony Towns has six points. Games that already got wrapped up games a note. The Clippers beat the Heat one nineteen to one oh four. Bognon Bogdanoviits with thirty one points on eleven rebounds. The Rockets beat the Suns one eleven to one oh four. Bradley Beal with twenty five points in a losing effort. Jalen Green with twenty nine, seven and three and a fight here is Mason Plumbley and Steven Adams got into a back and forth and it's like a real NBA back and forth. Like if you look at the still of the video on ESPN dot com right now, Mason Plumbley is a form tackling Steven Adams. So it's not just your average Hey, no, you hold me back, hold me back?
No, no, no, they could have used him holding back here.
He's lucky he got an older Steven Adams, like Stephen Addam, like a few years ago, Steve. That wouldn't have been close. Oh yeah, I would not have been close. Steven Adams is a guy if you ask for his autograph, he waits for you to say please. So what's he gonna do when he's in a scuffle with a guy is getting after it.
Spurs beat the Mavericks one twenty six to one to sixteen dearon Fox with thirty two points and eleven assists. The Seahawks just came to terms with DeMarcus Lawrence, who previously played his last eleven seasons in Dallas. He's now got a three year year thirty two and a half a million dollar deal eighteen million guaranteed.
We saw.
Damar Hamlin went back on a two year I went a one year deal to two million.
Dollars with Buffalo. Mac Jones is going to join the.
Jacksonville Jaguars on a two year contract with five million dollars guaranteed. I think seven and a seven million overall, and I had one more here. Here you go, Mike Williams back to la former Chargers wide receiver. He moved on and went to the Jets and the Steelers. Last year we were back in Los Angeles, six million.
Dollars the max on that one year deal. Back to you guys, Thanks.
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Beat the Badgers? Are you kidding me? Sure?
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Let's go now Day three in NFL free agency. You thought all the quarterback drama was either behind us or waiting on Rogers and Russell Wilson. However, some fun stuff has emerged from the Falcons when it comes to Kirk Cousins. Oh yeah, forgot about Kirk captain Kirk Oh, I remember we talked about him all last off season and now he's not good anymore. Yeah. No, Kirk Cousins. That's a guy who's just sitting there staring at a pile of money and laughing at everybody. His name is not come up once, not in trade, not in playing someplace else, not sources Team X calling for Kirk Cousins. No, no, no, no, Why Well, he's seen a couple reports today that the Falcons aren't lying and not bluffing when they say, we are absolutely okay with having Kirk Cousins one more year, and even though he's gonna be the backup, we have told him he's going to be the backup. We're eminently okay with that. Now, are they really okay with it? No, because they don't want to carry this cap charge on him for guys gonna be your backup quarterback. It's just stupid. But they were stupid last year by saying, okay, here Kirk Cousins, here's all this money. Oh, now we're gonna get Michael Penick Junior. So they don't want to really appear stupid two years in a row, so they're gonna do something more stupid, which is keep Kirk Cousins, even though it's not good for Michael Pennock's development. If suddenly the guy that was the starter is now in the backup there, that never works anywhere. So the Falcons saying we don't want to be stupid two years in a row, what they're really doing is being more stupid than they would be. What they're doing, what I hope is they are pushing putting it to Cousins saying dude, we can't move you. Nobody wants this contract that would that would be due to you. Right, we have dead coming our way, but it's fine. It's not something that we have to really worry about. But this money you are due, nobody wants that. So if you want to start somewhere, we got to figure this money thing out. We got to figure this out somehow. And that's what they're doing. That's all they can do because everybody else is said, Hey, Aaron Rodgers is free, right, Russell Wilson is free, Daniel Daniel Jones was a short deal. Justin Field's a short deal. Sam Darnold got the longest of any of them. It's three years, right, So these guys are all for Kirk Cousins. Now, it's a lot of money for three more years that you don't know how good the guy is. But would teams take take a flyer in it? Absolutely, But the money is so prohibitive, and the fact that he was injured allegedly and playing badly and got bench last year, what else do you want to do? The Falcons are just stuck right now, and the only thing you can do is let's try to play poker and figure out the money. Right, because that was the whole thing with Aaron Rodgers and the Jets two years ago. I'm old enough to remember when it was, Oh, they'll never happen. They got to figure out the money. You can't do it. They can't do it. It's too much money, too much money, too much dead guy, too much, just too much time. Hey, what happened? The Green Bay Packers figured out a way to trade Aaron Rodgers to the Jets and the money worked out for both sides. Right, able to figure it out, So you can figure something out with Kirk Cousins. But this is what they're telling him. Dude, we can't. We can't move you right now. And if you want to stay here as the backup quarterback and you're not gonna play, that's the reality. So this is where Kirk Cousins has to decide, what do I want? What can I do to try to get someplace where I can actually start? Yeah, the Atlanta I'm sorry the Browns beat writer for the Athletic Zach Jackson or the athletic beat writer for the Browns putting out the idea. Yes, that Cousins likely goes and reunites with Stefanski in Cleveland here in short order, He's got a ten million dollar roster bonus due on Monday, so perhaps over the weekend we get some activity and where Comra they come to and agree on a price to where as you say, with Aaron Rodgers, cammerheads prevail and they move on. Now he's done everything he can to talk his way out of the situation again, trying to make the Falcons look bad with their use of him down the stretch that trying to excuse that one touchdown nine interception stretch as Hey, I wasn't bad. They were putting me out there and I was playing hurt. I was taking one for the team. I e. Michael wasn't ready. So I'm still going out there, as opposed to the Falcon side of it, saying he practiced all week, he wasn't on the injury report, but one week and now he's gonna come to Super Bowl week and in his first media he's gonna try to torpedo us. So yeah, it's a terrible situation. Yeah, I mean this is what they're doing looking stupid right now, yes, and doubling down on looking stupid. You think we can look we can look more stupid. You're gonna lose this poker game with Kirk Cousins. He's in the Business Hall of Fame. Exit ab out of Fresco, Exit swalling down. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon coming up next, great injury news for one superstar Jason and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio.
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They're strong sellers right now?
Yeah? Sure, hey both. I mean really, you know, Jake Cole, when we sit here the end of day three of free agency and all this talk about Rogers and Wilson, and I just keep saying to myself, if somebody wanted both of those guys, they would have probably had him by now, wouldn't they, Like I said, sound like Russell Russell Wilson. If the Steelers wanted him, they really would have. Had the Giants wanted him, they really would have signed him. Somebody else would have figured out a deal with Aaron Rodgers knowing he was going to be released. Then what happened by now? No or not at all. I think he decided he didn't like the tone of your question. He just didn't want to talk about Rogers and Wilson. Maybe done. I'm done talking about these guys. I'm done with them. It's every off season the last three years it's Rogers and Wilson or legitimately, he went to work researching a little Golden Books version of his biography. Oh, Golden Books for I like that. They're making a comeback. Yeah they are. They are like little display as if you go to a tar ja or something, you'll find you want to quit. Golden Book story so good. One of my friend's house this weekend, we go over to have lunch, and he's from Philadelphia, and so he's got a Golden Books Phillies like alphabet, like an alphabet book for his daughter who's two. So they read the book and an A is for you know, and they're going different players. Yeah, they go through the whole thing and he goes, look at that, had just bought it for a frame. I said, oh, this is Does it Does it end with the Lindor Grand slam in the.
In the n L d S.
Heartbreak?
I start flipping through the pages, going does it end with that?
Does it end with that? It ends with him fighting in a postum in the dugout. You should see how big the rat was. I believe we have Jason Callback was taking a couple of deep press understand that. Yes, for the third straight off season, we're gonna have to talk about Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson.
I think, isn't it sure?
Very nice? Okay, very good?
That's good for Mickey Morandini, sure sure.
Geez for Gary Matthews. Wow, that's great. Ben Zerbers didn't play for them, did he? So? And Rogers? What are we doing? Like, Hey, what are we doing here?
Wouldn't be if if anybody wanted either of them already?
No, Well, Aaron's probably going to take his time and be a bit of a diva and thinking that everybody in the world wants him and his you know, like, I don't think Aaron's gotten to the point where he's figured out that people are tired of the act. And Russell probably has figured it out because he had to, you know, he had to settle for the situation in Pittsburgh last year. But Aaron still has lives in a certain sense of dissociative reality, and man that I feel like such a psychotherapist. Good, yeah, but yeah, I think that Aaron doesn't understand that the world not all that like him to him anymore. And I would really think, if I'm Pat McAfee, might be time to pull that contract, might be not to pay that million dollars a year because people might not be tuning in as much. Although you never know. It's served like a car accident waiting to happen. Look, I think Aaron can still play, or at least I think there's something there that I would bet on if I was Pittsburgh and hope for something. But you know, like, I think he's better than Justin Fields, which is sort of ironic given the situation that just played out this week, because obviously the Jets that's agreed, But it tells you a lot about the Jets that they were so tired of the Aaron Rodgers world that they wanted they preferred justin Field to as a backup for the Steelers and not a very had one. And as your partner in crime will say, not great when he was in Chicago either.
Well, you picked me right up there, Jay Call. Thanks. I'm rob excited about the season again, Slat.
You're a Jets fan. Why would you ever be excited about it? Seeing them.
Did I tell you? Did I tell? My wife said to me the other day when when when the Jets signed Justin Fields, I said, oh, hey, I got to go back up with a computer. A couple of big signings just came down. The Jets just got Justin Fields. And she goes, oh, how do you feel about that? I go, well, Aaron Rodg named Aaron Glenn's building the culture. I mean, boy, you can really run the football. Well, he did some things good last few of you. A couple of times in Pittsburgh. I'm telling young on, hang on, love the guys. And I said, you know, and I feel good about it. Right, he did some good things good in Pittsburgh last year before he had the job taken from did some good things. And in Chicago he ran for a thousand yards. So I feel good you did not have the job taken there, And she said, sure he did. Bike Tomlin decided I'm going to give this job to Russell Wilson was five and two as a star. Why would you take it rid of your quarterback? No, give it to Russell Wilson. So anyway, I say this, and my wife looks at me and says, you say that every year, you're excited about the Jets quarterback and every year and every year it doesn't work. And I said to her, I only have to be right once about this, that's all. You just have to be right.
In the world of psychotherapy, where we referred to this as the Carmazzi syndrome.
The Ken Dorsey syndrome, whatever.
Yeah, Carmzi geo is coming back. Oh my god. Like, I don't know what kind of culture you're building with Jessin. Like he's a good dude, Like he's a good teammate. You know, he handled he handled the situation last year very professionally. But there's a reason they took the job from him, if you, if I want to grant you your dissative reality, that they took the job away from him. Like he just wasn't that good. Like when you don't see wide receivers in the end zone as they're as they're you know, becoming open, and they're in the middle of the field in your line of sight and you don't see them, that's a problem as a quarterback. I don't, I don't. This is not deep quarterback analysis, but when you just don't see them and the guy is open something's not working, just not just not you know, like and again I'm not talking about read progressions or anything else like that. I was wide open in the middle field. You know, he's running there, he's in, he's right there, and you don't throw him the ball. I don't know what else to tell you, Like, it's just not working, all right.
That's myel Perry positive in all of this, that we're all depressed. Why why why.
Why are you trying to lie to your best friends why?
Well, no, no, no, I was just going to take it back out to the thirty thousand foot view of the NFL and all the money spent this week. No, no, no. I mean, look, he's got his Jets thing, and I've got everybody trying to build an arc to carry all the New Bears fans based on a couple of offensive linemen showing up. So I gotta deal with that for the second straight year. Baby Tuney Toney and Jacks and Dolman and everybody's showing up. So yeah, yeah, So the bandwagon is really getting overloaded right now, which means you need to short that. Normally when the public gets on the side, I was just going to ask you from the thirty thousand foot view. What team did you get excited about the moves they made this week?
I like Denver because I really liked Dray green Law. I mean, assuming you's healthy, I really like that move. And I like who he sometimes gets himself out of position, you know, and gamble little too much on run place because he wants to come up and hit people. But I like that and improving and improving those are like, those are two good buys at a time where you know, people are throwing a lot of money at guys because they just have the money. Like I. This is why I always say to people, like, don't tell me about the court, you know, the franchise quarterback number being a real problem anymore. It's not because you can pay all sorts of guys anywhere between ten and twenty million dollars a year and you're doing fine. So I like, I like those moves. I like, you know, New England picked up a couple of guys who were good, play, good, solid players. The problem is that like you're just you're paying guys like their superstars, and the fans expect that these guys all of a sudden are going to be serious stars and where it is is the cap has gotten so big, where two and eighty one million dollars this year, you're paying a lot of you know, like average starters ten, fifteen, even twenty million dollars a year, and so there's too much of an expectation on those guys and not enough perspective. So I worry a little bit about like about that, Like when Sam Darnold is rated as the fourth best player on the free agent market, that tells you that the free agent market is really not very good. That's how That's how we looked at it. Okay, Milton Williams was number one on somebody's list, and I'm like, Milton Williams, like he should give half that money to Jalen Carter because Jalen Carter made him look so good and made his life so much easier all season long, and like, like, Jalen Carter should be his agent basically and get paid even more money than his agent would get. So yeah, I just this is n exciting. I love what I did. Love what the Bears did because I thought they didn't overpay too much for the guys that they got. They made some wise moves. I really think Tony is a is and I hate the word culture, but I think he's He's a great pro. The way that he played this last year by moving to left tackle, even though you know it didn't make him look great all season long, he sacrificed that and went out there and played and gave it the best shot he could. So I like guys like that. I think that's going to help the Bears a lot and you know, hopefully turn around. You know the situation with Caleb.
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Oh, I forgot to tell you. I love what the Cowboys did this week.
No, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. They said.
They're all all all in, baby, all in. I have a friend who's a big Cowboys fan, and the first day he's like, oh, we're we're about to pick up Jonathan Allen and then he signed with the Vikings.
Go cash do SMU ticket, Jacob, I think you mispronounced Javonte Williams. Oh great, thanks, Eric, later say you money. Have fun. There goes Jason Cole. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tire Rack and dot Com Studios. Hey, Uh, you know you can stream this show and all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four to seven of the new iHeartRadio app. Again, just search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream us live. So, the thing with the situation, and I understand where he talks about Sam Darnold being here in free agency, but this is kind of the game, and I get that. Yeah, teams can say I don't want to go spend a lot because we're getting average starters. But you've always had average starters, right, this is where you've always gotten because it's gotten too much money. Where else are you gonna spend your money? Right? This is I'm sorry, but this is the game. The cap goes up, and this is what the best. This is why players love free agency. I can be an average player, I get way more money than I normally would. It's why people love hitting free agency. Teams take care of theirs, and most of them get ahead of the game of keeping their stars around.
Right.
I get that you may not like it. But where we're not gonna get people on other places, Jerry Jones, you're not gonna get You're not gonna get talent anywhere else but the draft. There's no special Cowboys draft that they're gonna have just for you in early July. That's not happening.
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