The NFL offseason is off to a fast start, as future Hall of Fame pass rusher and franchise icon J.J. Watt was released by the Texans, freeing him up to choose his next team. Jenny and Gary discuss Watt's potential landing spots, but also examine what he might have left in the tank and why it was a bit of a head-scratcher that the Texans didn't trade him and try to get something in return.
Also, the Carson Wentz trade saga drags on in Philly, where the Eagles thought they were in line for a Stafford-type return then realized they were in more of a Goff situation with their QB. It's too late to turn back now, and if the Colts indeed offered two second-round picks (as reported), should Philly do the deal?
Finally, a look at Russell Wilson perhaps flexing some more QB muscle, and the Seahawks' very odd reaction to it. Could this have to do with the play-calling, the failure to sign Antonio Brown, neither, or both? A look at what's next in the Russ-Seattle marriage.
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Hello, and welcome to the m m QB Monday Morning NFL podcast. I'm your host, Gary Grambling. I am joined by Jenny Brentis of The weak Side Podcasts and Jenny we are We are just dipping our toes into the off season here, and uh, it seems like the news cycle is going to keep us plenty busy. Here we have we have storylines on three more big names here, a Lot, Went and Wilson. I'll begin with w that's also weird. That is weird. I was thinking Gary that it does feel like a lot of these players on the move is it's happening earlier in the offseason than normal. I don't know if that's because there's not going to be a normal combine type environment where maybe you wait till you're there to have conversations, or maybe teams are there's just more high profile players on the move this year, so that's accelerated the rate at which you know, these conversations are taking place. But it just feels like we barely got out of the Super Bowl and already we're looking for the next US the nations for players that like j. J. Watt, you know, generational players like j J. Watt also top quarterbacks. It's just a really unusual year. It fits in really nicely with with all of our sort of really shortened attention spans at this point. Fills the news cycle quite nicely. But yeah, it's been a little where that's that's a great point about the combine. I thought about that you're not going to have the uh the sort of I don't know, Uh, I mean, what would you call that. It's sort of a big get together for the league to to discuss all these things and it's not gonna happen this year, so that might play into it. I mean, I don't know if the uncertainty with a salary cap plays into it or should play into it, and that team should be more hesitant with what they want to do at this point. But uh, yeah, we have teams, if not outright making moves, sort of telegraphing moves are going to make, and we will will start with the big one from the weekend because this is one that we know is a done deal now. J. G. Watt has been released by the Texans. Uh sort of laid out as a mutual decision here. Um, I guess not surprising that that what didn't want to be part of what was going to be a rebuild, and sort of a rebuild with a rather bumpy start in Houston. But uh, the one that the part of this kind of leaves me scratching my head is what was in line for I think it was seventeen point five million dollars this season. That is not out of line for a guy who played at the level he did he did last season. Now you can look back at his recent injury history and say, Okay, well, you know, we can't trust him to to stay healthy for sixteen games or but you know, he's not a guy who's fallen off a cliff. He's not the world beater he used to be. He's not defensive Player of the Year. But he's still really good. I mean, he's he's you know, I would put him in sort of a Pro Bowl class as far as his performance went last year. So to sort of not test the trade market before releasing him, just um was odd. I thought, Yeah, I agree, Gary, and I think you would expect there to be a pretty healthy market for J. G. Watt. There are a lot of teams that want an extra piece on defense to maybe get them over the hump. Certainly you would think that the trade market would be more robust than it has been for other players that we've seen get mid round picks in exchange. You know, let's say, um, even Carson Wentz for instance. Things have kind of slowed down, and the question is what's the price that people are willing to give up? And I think a big reason that things are slow there is that there aren't that many suitors. For example, Uh, think about Gronk where he wanted to go to Tampa Bay. So it was a small market, but the Patriots still got a fourth round pick in exchange. So it's hard to think that the Texans couldn't have gotten a mid round pick for what. So it does you know, it seems like they had some conversations. They arrived on this one thing that seems to be important for the Texans right now. Gary is quieting a lot of the concerns both inside and outside the organization. And so you do wonder if they said, hey, we'll we'll release you, but don't contribute to the noise. You know, we've already had Watson requests the trade, We've already had Andre Johnson speak out against the organization. We can't afford to have what do the same could be uh, something that they would think. I mean, certainly, if what were to publicly speak out against the Texans, that would be a significant blow to the organization. So you do wonder if that played a factor in some of the conversations they've had since the season ended. Now that's a that's a great point. And look, obviously, you know when you see in the in the transactions AGET page. If I assume everyone out there still subscribed to the local paper and they probably saw this news on Sunday morning when they open their Sunday paper to look at the transactions, but when it says like the Texans ever leased uh J Well, I mean, this is a favor to Watt at this point because now you can choose the team he wants to go to. He's not, you know, trying to trying to work something out with the Texans to try and sort of land him in a place that's going to make both the franchise and UH and him happy at this point, and we're gonna get to potential landing spots. That's the other thing. Like this potential landing spots list that I sent you is like a third of the league. So yeah, it seems like there probably would have been, uh, a fairly robust trade market for him. I'm not saying that they're gonna, you know, pull down a monster hall of multiple first round picks, but you know that there was a value to be had out there. Um. And I'm just looking at what the market is overall for for edge guys. I you know, Shack Barrett, I think you take over J. J. Watt at this point. Uh, I'm not sure there's another guy. I mean, the other guys in that conversation are probably like Yannick and Gockway, Melmoan Ingram, uh Hassan Reddick. If you really buy what happened late last season, I think guys who I consider more complimentary, very good complimentary players like Bud Dupree and Matt jude On. Uh. That's that's it. I mean, that's not a bad market. But I think Barrett's the only guy you look at there and say, like, boy, yeah, you know he's He's better than one. As far as the draft class goes, there's no there's no Chase Young in this class. It's a pretty good deep past rushing class. Uh. And I think teams are aware at this point. One thing, uh, one thing I talked about all the time by myself in my house is, uh, you know, team when fans look at this stuff, they tend to look at the draft class and say like, you know, like if you're looking at the receivers last year, you say like, oh, well, Justin Jefferson, you know, we could have had him instead of signing this guy or whoever it might be. And it's like when you're talking about the field of the draft class as opposed to one individual guy who works out, it's it's a little bit of a different calculus at this point because if you ended up with and not to say that he can't become a good player down a lie, but if you are the Eagles and you ended up with Jalen Reager last year instead of Justin Jefferson or Brandon Iak or something like that, you were kind of bummed out you didn't sign a free agent wide receiver to to fill that role because you didn't get a whole lot from Reagor last year. So that's kind of how it how it goes. I mean, what gives you a certain amount of uh, I don't know, just just reliability of certainty with you know, with with your acquisition that you don't get from a from a draft pick. But um, as far as what he has left in the tank, I mean again, I thought he was borderline Pro Bowl last year. I think he's still uh somewhere in the realm of very good and uh, you know, at his age, maybe you worry about durably durability a little bit. But he did make it through sixteen games last year. Yeah, I agree with you, Gary. He he'll be thirty two in March, so he's obviously on the back end of his career. And as you stated before, you know, he's not the world beater he once was. But in those days he was. He had a peak unlike really any player that I can think of. In the last second, I mean, he was regularly taking on triple teams. He was playing every spot along the line, literally lining up in every position. Um to just have this immense flexibility. But he still is effective. And with the defensive line, it's a position where you rotate guys in and out and you can modulate the workload a little bit. There's always a benefit to adding a veteran presence on the defensive line that you know, you can get some consistent production. Maybe he's not playing of the snaps, but he's still playing consistently. He's giving you something up front. And also he has such an immense knowledge of the game. Because he has that experience lining up across the line, he knows what to look for. He can teach his teammates what to look for. He has this vast repertoire of moves. I mean, it's no secret that t. J. Watt had such a fast transition into being a productive sack artist in the NFL. He had this, you know, base base of knowledge from from his older brother in terms of how to match up with past protectors and what moves to use, and how to get a jump off the snap, and so those are all things that he also brings in addition to his individual production. This is something I throw out all the time, and I don't think we've ever discussed it. And since you know uh science better than me, you can you can correct me if I'm wrong. But along it's it's a great point about the the fact that you know, edge rushers, you tend to be a rotational positions. So you're not talking about a full, full, full time workload anyway. But I always thought the guys who play positions that are not reactionary, that are sort of the the aggressor positions, uh, have a chance to age better because you're not really getting your body caught in some of these uh positions that maybe you are if you're a three pound offensive lineman who has to react to things going on in front of him and and therefore maybe contort yourself in a way that your body does not want to contort itself. So uh, I always thought that's why you saw you know, you think of guys like Cameron Wake who played you know, he was effective into is uh even well, I don't know thirty seven is considered late thirties or mid thirties at this point, but um, we've seen Ed Rusher's play well into you know, age thirty five, age thirty six, stuff like that, and I think, what can be one of those guys. That's a great point, Gary, I hadn't considered that if you are the aggressor and you know where you're going, and you know you sort of have the you control the motion, you control uh, you know, if this is a play where you're going all out right, I mean there's some place where you might not be as involved. Um, I guess that's not true on the defensive line, but at other positions I suppose. Um. But yeah, I think that is an interesting point. I mean, I guess the balance of the both sides on a collision absorb and equal amount of force. But if you know where you're going and you're the one that's leading the way, I do think there's a solid point there about not sort of being contorted and caught in these dangerous positions. So I sent you the list of basically like twenty nine of the thirty two teams, where where J. J. Watt might land next? And do do we just want to pick our favorites? Okay, this is who I put down. It's like eight teams. I put down Green Bay. I think that makes the most sense. Green Bay is my pick. Uh, Pittsburgh. Every wants to see Pittsburgh, especially as a former sandwich artist at Subway restaurants. I can give you the inside information that that the Subway Corporation will be thrilled with J. G. Watt and T. J. Watt in the same city here. I think the Colts are my are my dark horse here. You know, obviously Watt is looking for a place that can compete immediately in The Colts have a question mark at quarterback. Literally, we don't know who their quarterback is going to be in UH one, but uh, I think that's a great fit for him schematically, and I think it's a team that if they find the right quarterback, they're right there in the conversation, and then I had also put down Browns are are interested in that makes sense. Titans reunite you with Mike Rable. There forty Niners, Ravens, especially the Ravens don't uh resigned Yannick and got Way and Matt Judean uh and then the Bucks in the Chiefs because they were in the Super Bowl last year. This is a great list And to our earlier conversation, this is why we thought there would have been an ability for the Texans to get some kind of draft pick back for him, because there're a lot of teams that make sense and needs someone like what I agree with you. I mean the Packers I think would be at the top of the list. He wants to join a team that's ready to compete for the Super Bowl. They've been the NFC Championship Game the last two years. They certainly could use someone like what on their defensive line. And yeah, of course Pittsburgh the brother factor. I'd say Bucks would be in play as well. That might be my second pick after the Packers. Now they have the Tom Brady factor. And you know, it's if you're looking for a short term place to potentially contend for a championship, now Tampa Bay is that place. Okay, Jenny, hang out one second, because it is time for the SI Fantasy Segment, brought to you as always by Draft Kings and Michael Fabiano joins us once again and Fabs. Obviously we're through the season. Everyone's got their eyes towards one and you have some dynasty rankings coming out this week, which is uh, which is always interesting. I'm always fascinated by the guys who who sort of make the big jump during the season as far as the dynasty, uh sort of sort of sort of Lens goes. But maybe we'll maybe we'll hit a couple of those, starting with the start of the quarterbacks here, you know, obviously the biggest riser, uh, the well, there's a few. Josh Allen came out and had a breakout season, and so I have him right in my top three. Obviously, Mahomes is going to be the most attractive dynasty quarterback, and then uh, Kyler Murray's up there too, young guy, mobile guy, but Josh Allen had a big jump, and of course justin Herbert. Of course, you also have to remember too that quarterbacks, regardless it's dynasty or or traditional redrafts or keepers, still don't hold as much value as running backs and wide receivers. So that's something that you need to keep in mind. Joe Burrows moved up even though he did get hurt, but he showed me enough where this is a guy who's potentially a QB one in the dynasty space for you know, the next ten years, very good player, and Cincinnati hopefully will do well by him in the draft and take a whole bunch of offensive lineman and uh, you know, get Joe Mixon right and maybe get a tight end in there as well. He could end up being a very a very attractive fantasy player. Jalen Hurts also with the with the expectation that Carson Wentz is gonna be traded, Jalen Hurts also has moved up uh in my Dynasty rankings as well. Love that mobility. Uh well, let's let's hit the headline or something. Let's go running backs here. The the guys who have moved up are a lot of the rookies who showed flashes from this past season. So Jonathan Taylor is in my top ten and Clyde Edwards Hilaire even though you know it wasn't all that great, but he was good before they signed Levian Bell, He's in my top fifteen. DeAndre Swift really like him. Same with j. K. Dobbins, my guy out of Baltimore, cam Akers has also moved up for obvious reasons. His seven game stretch at the end of the year, including the playoffs, was pretty impressive. And we know that Los Angeles offense can be conducive to success the running back position. Uh just look back at Todd Gurley before the knees went all wacky on him. James Robinson went from who to Wow, he's in my top forty, you know, like so, and they're gonna have Trevor Lawrence in that backfield with him as well, So that moved him up without question. Some other guys Antonio Gibson, who I really liked coming out of college, and I think he's just gonna get better every single season here for the next couple of seasons. David Montgomery's value went up as well with his late season heroics, although it was against very bad run defenses. But that's all part of being a fantasy star man. You gotta make sure you take care of business when those matchups are favorable. And then a couple of other guys who who are are moving up. Ronald Jones, even though Leonard Fournette was so good in the playoffs, Fournets a free agent and we're not sure if he's gonna be back in Tampa Bay or not, so he has moved up because if he's the feature back, he showed some flashes that you know he could be. He could be a pretty impressive, pretty impressive player. And Kareem Hunt also moved up. Although you know Nick Chubb was the guy a lot of a lot of the season, Greem Hunt still showed enough at twenty six years old, which you'll be when next season starts, that he's at the very worst in the low end RB two conversation. All right, and what are we we're looking at for receivers? Do you know who the biggest mover is. I mean DK metcalf boom. You know, he went from being a wide receiver three to be in a top five wide receiver and I have him sixth among all players at wider. He's actually my wide receiver too in Dynasty right now. So that's that's saying a whole heck of a life. And Justin Jefferson is in the top twenty. You know, he's right there. I have him ahead of Michael Thomas. I mean, he's twenty two years old, and Michael Thomas is coming off a bad season and we don't know his quarterback is gonna be. So Michael Thomas is a guy who who dropped. I have him. I still have my top thirty. But Ceedee Lamb moved up. He's at twenty six right now. Terry McLaurin moved up. He showed that, you know, he's got what it takes to be a number one in the National Football League. Deante Johnson moved up. Kenny Golladay moved down, but not significantly. I still feel like if he stays in Detroit, he'll be fine. With Jared Goff under center, they're gonna be thrown a lot because they're gonna behind a lot, So that's good. Jerry Judy, even though, like Jerry Judy didn't have a great season, I still have him right right there in my top fifty ish, you know, top fifty five overall. He's got a ton of upside. Denver's gotta get a better quarterback. And then Debo and Brandon Ayuk are basically like hand in hand. I've got a Yuk ranked like two spots higher than Debot, but they're both ranked very highly. Uh in in Dynasty and Will and will they should be. Jalen Raagor's He's in my top eighty, top seventy actually, so he's got some potential. But I do feel like Philadelphia is going to add a big wide receiver, maybe even a free agent, but maybe more likely through the draft. The tight ends, Travis Kelsey's forever. What do we have there? I still I still have Kelsey though in my top five, and he's he's gonna be thirty two or thirty one. He's gonna be thirty one. I believe when the season starts he'll be thirty two. When the season, I think he's his birthday is somewhere in this season. I'd have to go look at that, but uh, he's thirty one going into and then it's a lot of the it's a lot of kind of like the obvious guys like Darren Waller, I mean he really moved up. George Kittle didn't really move up. T J. Hockinson did move up after having a very strong campaign. Mark Anders didn't really move maybe a spot or two down, and no offense moved up. Dallas Scoddard could move up, especially when zach Ertz is gone. If zach Ertz is is traded, ultimately, I'd love to see him go to the Colts in that whence scenario. That would be really good for him, so he could move up right now. Art has obviously moved down. He was well, he was the tight end five or six in most drafts this past season and and everything went wrong for him. You know, I got cold commit at a decent spot because he's just young, and typically first year tight ends don't do much. You can't, you know, devalue them too much. Mike is sick. He's moved up somewhat as well. The tight end position. Logan Thomas obviously has moved up after coming off of a pretty good, uh second half of the campaign. So I mean the position has got a shot to be a little deeper next season because you've got a lot of these young guys who UH like like Cole Commit for example, who Mike is sick. He is another one no a fan who could be on the on the verge of of breaking out. Someone's got to give there. I had one league where I didn't have Kelsey and it was a nightmare every week. Yeah tough. I mean, he's great, He's You do wonder though, and I'm trying, I'm trying not to be a negative Nancy here. You do wonder if the numbers that he produced this past season are something that he can replicate. I don't think they are. But even even if he gives you eleven hundred and seven or eight touchdowns, still great numbers at tight end. Absolutely. I mean, honestly, I worry a little bit about the extra workload. I mean, they go so deep into the playoffs every year, and now he's hitting that age, Well, will the decline come fast? But you always have to I say this to everybody every single year. You always have to be war the magical season only in so far as you gotta temper your expectations. I mean, Kelsey's coming off of like one of the greatest seasons any tight ends ever had. He broke the record for receiving yards by the by at the position. I mean, you know, he had over a hundred catches, he had eleven touchdowns. It was it was his best season. Uh, and what's what's shaping up to be a Hall of Fame career. And a lot of folks out there talking about in redrafts he's the first round pick. Not for me. I just can't do that. A lot of folks out there saying because he is so much better than every other tight end that he's worth the first round pick. I would argue that he was that much better than every other tight end. Yeah, it doesn't mean it's gonna happen again. Will he be top three? Yeah, and all likelihood he's been the top tight end for five straight years. But Darren Waller is pretty good. George Kittle's gonna play a whole season, you hope, We're not sure gonna be there. But Elsie's still the guy, man. I mean, it's it's hard to look past him. Yeah, this is something to be said for the peace of mind of getting one of those three dudes next year, because yeah, I mean, you know, God Art though, like if Earth is gone, he's gonna move up, right, I mean, Noah Fans showed some flashes. T J. Hockinson was very reliable. Hockinson just didn't have like any huge games. You know. I think I think his his high water mark on the season was like sixteen or seventeen points, but he was almost always better than ten or eleven points, Like, he was always in that in that range. So he never killed you. He didn't win you weeks, but he certainly didn't kill you either. Alright, fabs, we're going to have you back next week. But uh, for those of you who can't wait, I mean, I'm not sure why you're not already subscribing to the SI Fantasy podcast or he's got stuff all the time SI dot Com slash Fantasy, including the dining superrankings coming up uh later this week midweek, I'll say, well, we'll we'll leave that intentionally vague. I believe they'll be up there. Jenny, we have to talk about Carson Wentz right now. Who, Well, I'll kind of unpack what I thought when I saw the report super Bowl weekend that he was going to be traded as early as what would have been last week. Uh, it was confusing because I don't know what the market would be, especially after you saw Jared Golf as part of that Stafford deal, felt like he was kind of moved as Uh. You know, however, you want to do the math on the deal. Maybe they gave up the third for the for the Lions to take Golf off of their ends, and Wentz certainly has a higher ceiling than Golf, but he also, as you saw, kind of as a lower floor. So just this assumption that you know, the Eagles were one looking for Matthew Stafford baggage, which was seemed a little bit out there anyway. Uh, and then that the trade was was potentially imminent, which suggests that there was at least one, maybe two suitors who were ready to give up pretty significant package here. It just didn't it didn't add up in terms of logic and reality. I felt, yeah, agree, Gary, And the earlier point I made might have been a little convoluted sort of comparing a market for what with Wentz. But I do think the point I was trying to make was just that with what there are multitude of destinations that could make sense and where you would expect the other teams would want him, whereas Wentz, I don't really know what that market is beyond the Colts, maybe the Bears. Because Wentz has had such an uneven start to his career, you don't really know what you're getting if you bring him in. I mean, if if Frank Reich brings him in, he certainly knows what he's getting. He's worked directly with him, but it's not a known commodity, and I think you know less. Bone from the Philadelphia Inquir wrote a story about why things were taking so long, and I think he laid it out really well, And one point he made was Roseman might have been looking at the Stafford golf trade in terms of the compensation that that Stafford fetched, but he really should have been looking at it more as well. Golf was just kind of this adden and once is more of an equivalence to golf than to Stafford. So if the Eagles are waiting for some large return, doesn't seem likely they're going to get it? Yeah, I mean, the gap between Stafford and Wentz right now is is immense. Even though we did see Wentz obviously back in seen play at that level. And it's just it's it's a very difficult puzzled to solve here, because if we were talking about a thirty eight year old guy, you'd say, well, he was really good four years ago, But what about I mean once he's twenty years old, So you know, there there's it's stuck to figure out why it went south so fast with him. And really, even as recently as twenty nineteen, he was he was having a good season with a very shorthanded roster. Uh. And certainly if he hit the market last year, you'd probably have a little bit of a different thing going on. But as far as uh, you know, you said Jenny golf had to be moved because of his contract. Uh, even if you are, you know, I think most people would accept that Jared golf Is is a starting caliber quarterback. But you know, the Rams are kind of stuck with him at at thirty four million annually. Uh. The Eagles right now, they owe Carson went sixty six million over the next two years. If they trade him, and I screwed this up him my in my column last week, Uh, if they trade him, he would cost a new team forty seven point four million or the next few years, which is still expensive. But I think that the important takeaway there is the sixties six million. You're doing the Eagles of favor by taking Wentz off their hands right now. And I think when they hired Nick Sirianni, there was kind of an opening to say, like, Okay, well Sirianni is here to fix Wentz, and you know, they're going to see what they have in Carson Wentz and see if they can fix this thing now that they've sort of put out there and I'm not saying it was definitely the Eagles who leaked this imminent trade, but it seems like a fairly likely scenario. But now that it's out there that Wentz is on the virgin mating trade, they can't go back. Now. They can't go back and say, well, actually no, we are going to have him compete with Jalen Hurts and and Nick Sirianni is going to try and fix them. It's too late. They have to move him right there's no uncertainty. Now you can't backtrack. There hasn't been any effort by the organization to publicly repair the situation, and it seemed likely what maybe five weeks ago that we'd go into the season and Wentz and Hurts would be competing with each other for the starting job, and then everything changed really quickly. So now they've got a trade Wentz and teams who are looking, who are making calls about once they know that that drives the price down, once this contract drives the price down. So yeah, I don't I don't know what what they're going to get. I know two second rounders hasn't mentioned, and if that has been offered to the Eagles, they should take that. Yeah. I believe that was Ron Jaworski who who reported that, And that seems that seems like an overpay if you're the Colts, even if you're saying we think we're going to be picking at the end of the second round, I think two picks uh in the fifties is is more than enough compensation to do the Eagles with favor of of taking once off their hands at this point. So we will see where that one, uh, where that one ends up. And we had, I mean, look, another another potential op en QB hitting the market here, Russell Wilson. You know, we're reading the tea leaves a little bit and we're sort of uh, you know, we're we're I don't know, extracting things out of statements that maybe we're overthinking. But at the same time, Russell Wilson doesn't say a whole lot when it comes to criticizing his own franchise, and when he does, it is a headline and it seems like he's saying these things for a purpose. Uh. He has suggested that, you know, he has not been protected well enough and and you know he wants some say in personnel decisions. Uh. And I guess there's sort of two things that stuck out to me that went down this past season. Uh that might have been a little bit upsetting for for Russell. And that's along with the fact that they were one and done in the playoffs. But you had the fact that they did the whole let rust cook thing earlier in the year, and then he had that string again. Games they went out to Buffalo, they got it handed to him by the Rams in l a and he had a ton of turnovers in that game. And they really pulled back after that, and they really turned it more into the kind of offense that they've run in Seattle the last couple of seasons under Brian Schottenheimer. Now it's it's Shane Waldron is going to be the new offensive coordinator there. We don't know exactly what he's gonna do. He's uh, you know, he's a off the Sean McVeigh tree there from the Rams. So we'll see what they're gonna be offensively. But one you think Russ would probably want to go back to that, you know, just let me chuck the ball, uh as much as possible kind of thing. And those sort of historic numbers he was putting up early in the year. And the other thing is he wanted Antonio Brown. He really did not hide it either, and he put it out there and they did not get him, and the Bucks got him. And you know, Tom Brady's lifting the Super Bowl Trophy. How much Antonio Brown had to do with that? Uh, and probably not a whole lot. But uh, that's the kind of thing that maybe when you're talking about personnel, because they have invested in the offensive line, they maybe haven't picked well, but you know, they've they've made that effort. At least it's amazing that, you know, let's say Brown is a factor. Gary, It's amazing that a player who hasn't earned and yet another opportunity in the NFL who didn't do anything to earn this. This current opportunity had with the Bucks would play a role in two of the top quarterbacks divorcing their teams for Tom Brady in New England. And let's you know if it if it is a factor, I don't know that it is, but it's an interesting point to make Gary, because you know, he could see what happened with Brady, right. Brady was frustrated that the Patriots released Antonio Brown, and he was frustrated with the lack of skill position players. And he goes to another team that's kind of already made roster. And so if Russell's looking at that, and quarterbacks around the league are looking at that, they have sort of a blueprint. Um, you know, I thought, I thought, will say in while he did show a candor that we are not used to seeing from quarterbacks or him, he was clearly trying to choose his words carefully. And I watching the video clip on the Dan Patrick Show, it was like he wanted to be honest, but he didn't want to throw the organization under the bus necessarily. I mean, it wasn't like he went into that interview and was like, I'm going to trash the Seahawks, but he was asked questions. He it seemed like, took great pains to not lash out, but couldn't couldn't help himself on some topics that obviously have bothered him. So seeing the report that Seahawks management was unhappy with that seat, that to me, I think is the wrong response from them. They should say, you know what, your concerns are valid, and let's talk about some of the moves were doing this offseason. I mean, if they do have a divorce, I wonder if it was the response to his public comments more so than what led up to the public comments. Does that make sense? Yeah, No, that's that's a that's a great point because look he also he quite obviously has a point here. They haven't been great around him. He has taken too many hits. Uh. And it was weird to see, really, it's weird to see the team having any sort of reaction that leaks out because you know, someone in the front office leaked it to someone that they weren't happy about it. But um, it was a strange sort of CounterPunch to Russell Wilson's comments here. Uh, and look, if if you were to end up out on the open market, you know, he's gonna he's gonna fetch. He's he's only a year younger than Matthew Stafford at thirty two, but he's like, he's never missed a game in his career, and we saw what he did in the first half last season, and you know he's gonna fetch obviously, uh a monster return. But it's another guy like you can't you can't really replace him. I mean, you're you're not getting the number one overall pick of the draft for him, so you're you're downgrading in the most important position, and you're losing a guy who has been your franchise player for I mean, even if you're going to argue he was, you know, sort of complimentary to the legion of Boom early in his career, he's been a franchise player for like the last five years here. Yeah, And one key difference between quarterbacks who are looking at what Brady did is that Brady let his you know, the contract lapsed. He was a free agent and he got to pick where he went. So for Wilson or Watson, and both of them have valid frustrations Watson's are certainly at another level given the way the Texans have conducted the franchise over the last year. Um, but they do have to consider the reality that whatever team gets them will have given up a lot to get them and that affects their building process. So um, it's it's not a one to one comparison of Brady going to Tampa and winning a Super Bowl the first year, because you are then going to a team that's paid an additional price, whether it be draft picks or say, you know, a defensive player or whatever the case may be. All right, Jenny, you will have plenty on the week Side podcast this week, and look, I'm not going to name names here, but they are one of two one or two of you who have not yet subscribed to the week Side podcasts and that is a that is just not going to do anymore. So I will start naming names if I have to, but you know who you are, so subscribe to week Side Podcast. Jenny and Connor will will have more on what is just It's just been a wild start to this offseason here, no breaks for us, it really has been, and lots more to come. The MMQB Monday Morning NFL podcast is Jenny Brentis and me Gary Gramling. We are produced by Shelby Royston Sis. Executive producer of podcast is Scott Brody. 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