Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts Place Franchise Tag on Michael Pittman Jr.

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Indianapolis Colts have their star receiver under contract for the 2024 season. Well, at least for now. Let's get to it. You are Locked On Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast your first listen of the day. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Make every moment more. Right now,

Starting point is 00:00:45 new customers get $150 in bonus bets with any winning a $5 bet. That's $150 if your bet wins. Visit FanDuel.com to get started. Hello, everyone. I'm Zach Hicks of HorseshoeHuddle.com. You guys know me as your resident film nerd covering the Indianapolis Colts. Glad to be here today. I'm glad you guys could all join me because we have covering the Indianapolis Colts. Glad to be here today. I'm glad you guys could all join me because we have a fun show on deck here. We're talking about Michael Pittman Jr., the star wide receiver for the Colts. The Colts locked him up with a non-exclusive franchise tag today. We're going to talk all about that. And then we're going to have some fun with our final segments.

Starting point is 00:01:18 We're going to talk about your guys' responses to me and Jake's mock draft battle on yesterday's show. We're going to look through some of the YouTube comments and see some of the players you guys want to talk about, some of the overall responses to our mock drafts. We're just going to have a little bit of fun with that segment. And then to close out the show, we're going to talk about the free agent safety market and how something I heard at the Combine from a couple agents is, look, the Colts could be in play for a couple of these free agent safeties.

Starting point is 00:01:44 We're going to talk about that to close out today's show but to start off today's show it's all about Michael Pittman Jr. Pittman Jr. the former second round pick of the Indianapolis Colts he's averaged over a thousand yards a season each of the last three years with the Colts has done some really really great things for this team I mean he's gotten better every single year we've seen the production increase even with the quarterback play not being stellar here. So the Colts had to do the right thing here, which is lock him up for this season at the very least, and still keep that long-term option on the table. So they put the non-exclusive tag on him, which will pay him $21.816 million guaranteed this season. I believe there is injury guarantee with the way the tag works.

Starting point is 00:02:25 So he will get that money regardless, but with the non-exclusive tag, you know, I've seen some people respond to this by saying, okay, look, maybe the Colts want to lose him now. Maybe the Colts are open to losing Michael Pittman Jr. for the right price and yada, yada, yada. Like when teams put the non-exclusive tag on players, I mean, for one thing, it keeps it cheaper because I believe the exclusive tag is a little bit heavier of a price tag. But also the non-exclusive tag, it basically is the common franchise tag we see today. Nobody's paying two first round picks for Michael Pittman Jr. Just like with all these other free agents that got it, you know, Jalen Johnson with

Starting point is 00:03:01 the Bears, no one's paying two first round picks to acquire him from the Bears. So the non-exclusive franchise tag basically is the exclusive franchise tag, if it makes sense. It's just a cheaper version of it. We haven't seen a team take away another player for two first round picks in 24 years with a non-exclusive franchise tag. So Pittman Jr. will be back with the Colts this upcoming season, like Chris Ballard said in his combine availability. But it just comes down to, will that be on on a long term deal? Will that be on this franchise tag? That still remains to be seen. Now, I have a firm belief that the Colts are going to get this long term deal done this offseason. I know they were talking about it today. Even there was multiple

Starting point is 00:03:39 sources from James Boyd, Destin Adams and multiple other people that were saying the Colts were trying to take it down to the wire today just to, you know, get a proper feel for what his market was and try to get that long-term deal done. But ultimately it didn't get done. Colts placed a tag on Pittman Jr. It makes a lot of sense. And, you know, with this non-exclusive tag, him and his agents can still talk to other teams. Again, it's very, very unlikely that any team is going to fork over two first round picks and 20 something million dollars per year for Pittman. But what this does do is it gets a good feel around the league for what teams would have paid him if you were available. Now, again, these teams can exaggerate a little bit. They can say we would

Starting point is 00:04:19 have given you $30 million a year and he can take that back to Ballard and Ballard can laugh about it because that's not realistic. But it does give him a, you know, this opportunity to feel what his price tag would have been because he's still allowed to have those conversations with other teams while he's on this non-exclusive tag. So it's just a bargaining chip. It's a way that, you know, these two sides can come back together after free agency gets all sorted out. And the conversations are had with other free agents for both these sides to get together and say, okay, here's what we want to get to. Here's the number one to get to. Here's the years we want to get to, and let's get this thing done. So look, I'd be really shocked if Pittman Jr. is not given a long-term extension at some point

Starting point is 00:04:58 this off season. It just doesn't make any sense to not get it done. I would expect it to be around four years, probably close to $100 million with a good $40 million guaranteed. And I think that's a good deal for Pittman Jr., especially if it's basically a two-year $40-something million deal. It makes a lot of sense for both teams. Pittman Jr. loves it here. He's a vital focal point of this entire offense. The offense runs through Pittman Jr. We saw that Atlanta game when he didn't play this year, just how abysmal this offense could look without him. So we know how important he is to this offense. The next step now is bringing back Pittman, bringing back all these other weapons, getting a healthy Anthony Richardson out there, and maybe adding another player or two,

Starting point is 00:05:39 maybe a Brian Thomas Jr. in round one, maybe an A.D. Mitchell in round one, maybe a Brock Bowers in round one, whoever that's going to be. It's about adding to the offense and not subtracting it. So ultimately, the Colts could not afford to lose Michael Pittman Jr. this offseason, and they're not going to. They're going to get him back for this upcoming season, and the Colts offense should hopefully be able to just take off from where they were last year. But yeah, to all you people that were a little concerned, a little concerned that the Colts might not bring back Michael Pittman Jr. or for other fan bases that were excited about the potential of signing Pittman Jr. this offseason,

Starting point is 00:06:15 it's officially done. That dream for other teams is dead. The hopelessness for our guys is dead. He is back. Michael Pittman Jr. is back with the Colts. He will be a Colt no matter what this next season. And I'd be very shocked if he's not a Colt for the next three, four, five, whatever amount of years. I mean, the Colts want to get this done. A long-term deal will get done at some point this off season. I feel very, very confident predicting that. But coming up, guys, we're going to have some fun. We're going to talk about the mock draft show from yesterday and talk about some of your guys' responses and other players that you wanted to see mentioned there.

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Starting point is 00:07:58 Already locked on listeners and my beautiful everydayers. Now I have decided to journey where no man should ever go. And that is to the YouTube comment section to find some comments on yesterday's show that me and Jake did. So if you guys follow the show, if you guys watch it every day, like I just mentioned the beautiful everydayers, we did a mock draft Monday episode

Starting point is 00:08:19 where me and Jake did dueling three round mocks with each other. And I asked you guys to comment what you thought about these players and what you thought about some other players in the draft. So I'm going right to the comment section. We're going to talk about some of the other players that me and Jake omitted from our mock draft. You guys want to see the mock draft, go to yesterday's show and watch that. I highly recommend it. We're going to talk about some of these other players here.

Starting point is 00:08:39 So Hustleman Jones commented on the YouTube channel. He said, round one, go Quinion Mitchell, round two, go to Vondre Sweat, and round one, go Quinion Mitchell. Round two, go Tavondre Sweat. In round three, go Ricky Pearsall. So if you guys don't know who those players are, Quinion Mitchell, cornerback from Toledo, Tavondre Sweat, defensive tackle from Texas, and Ricky Pearsall, wide receiver from Florida. Now to start off, Hustle Man, I love Quinion Mitchell in round one. I love Quinion Mitchell in general. He came in a little short on Chris Ballard's typical arm length measurements that he's cool with, but Quinion Mitchell, super athlete, super competitive, really fun player, has that alpha personality that you like in a cornerback. So Quinion Mitchell,

Starting point is 00:09:16 he's my cornerback two in this class. I would absolutely be pumped to get him at pick 15 in this class. So A plus on that first one there. Tavondre Sweat in round two is very interesting. A very productive player from Texas last year. Part of one of the best defensive tackle duos in all of college football alongside Byron Murphy. My big concern with Tavondre Sweat is we haven't really seen players at his size work out recently in the NFL.

Starting point is 00:09:42 Tavondre Sweat came in at the combine at 360 pounds. And he had to work down to get to 360 pounds coming into the combine. We're even seeing players like Jordan Davis, who was at 340 coming into the league at defensive tackle. He's very much a rotational player with the Eagles. And he's much more athletic and just juiced up than a guy like Tavondre Sweat is. So when you're taking Sweat that high, you're hoping that he can cut the weight down and be like a legit 60% snap player.

Starting point is 00:10:10 And I just don't know if he's going to be that in the NFL. I think he's going to be like a 20% snap player. And I think that's a little too high there in the second round. So I love Devondre Sweat's film. I think he was great in college football. I'm just concerned about that fit in the NFL, but you guys can let me know what you think there. And then Ricky Pearsall in round three is so fascinating because,

Starting point is 00:10:29 you know, I think if you were to ask any Colts fan this question last year, like, okay, who were the weapons that Anthony Richland was throwing to in college? We'd all say, oh, he was throwing to nobodies. He was throwing to non-NFL guys. And now a year later, we're all saying, okay, Ricky Pearsall in round one or Ricky Pearsall round two, Ricky Pearsall round three, whatever it's going to be. I like Ricky Pearsall. I think round three is perfectly reasonable for him.

Starting point is 00:10:50 He's got the athletic traits. He's got the hands. He's got the route running on film. I think this is where I'm the highest. I would take him though. Round three. I'm good with round two is too much for me. But for all you guys saying that you want Ricky Pearsall in Indy, I think round three

Starting point is 00:11:04 is fine. I wouldn't go too much higher. Round three is good for me. But for all you guys saying that you want Ricky Pearsall in Indy, I think round three is fine. I wouldn't go too much higher. Round three is good for me. I personally have a fourth round grade on him, but again, I'll take him there in round three. Zine Edwards, 5213. He commented saying, not sure if Worthy will work due to him. You know, it's being a little too high taking him at pick 15 and I don't see Ballard trading up from round two to get him so maybe you can move back and get him or something like that but I kind of agree kind of disagree a little bit with Xavier Worthing now when we're talking hyper juiced up speed receivers and record-breaking speed teams are going to take that pretty early we've seen players of his caliber or players with his archetype go in the teens of the first round. So if there is this massive run on wide receivers, if there's this big run where Brian Thomas is off the board, maybe also AD

Starting point is 00:11:50 Mitchell. I don't know if the Colts would have Mitchell or Worthy higher. And Worthy is your best receiver on the board and you just really want to go wide receiver. I could see taking him at 15. Look again, Xavier Worthy was an 18 year old freshman at Texas who put up nearly a thousand yards. He was the focal point of that offense for three straight season led, led Texas and receiving three years in a row, hyper juiced up great speed, really, really good players. So look, if you take that at 15, me personally, I'm not upset by that. I know I've been very high on, on Xavier Worthy this entire draft process, but if you're taking

Starting point is 00:12:26 him at 15, I'm cool with it. If you're trading back and getting him, I'm even better with it. If you're trading up from round two and getting him, I'm cool with it too. Any way that you can get Xavier Worthy, I'm pretty happy because I'm that high on him as a prospect. I think he's a really, really good player and I would love to have him in this offense. Now I have other guys ahead of him, like a Brian Thomas Jr., who I took in my mock draft Monday, but Xavier Worthy I would not complain about whatsoever at 15. If the Colts took him at 15,

Starting point is 00:12:52 even over some of these other guys that we talk about, I won't complain. I really legit see Xavier Worthy as the next Deshaun Jackson, so if the Colts took him at 15, I'd be pumped. I think the film is good. I think the metrics are good. I think the metrics are good. I think obviously the combine was great with him. He does some things that it's just rare and you always want to add rare players to your offense. So yeah, I'm all for Xavier

Starting point is 00:13:15 Worthy. I really do think at 15 or in a trade back, I'd be all for taking him in round one, but great question there. I do think it's an interesting thing to look at there. We have another comment here about Xavier, another Xavier, uh, Cazell three, two, six, six. It says, I think Xavier Leggett from South Carolina is a steal at wide receiver. He ran a four, three. Now I think this comment actually leaves out how impressive Xavier, Xavier Leggett's 40 time was because Leggett ran a four-3 but he came in at like 220 pounds now he's very much built like an A.J. Brown type of receiver I'm not making this comparison I'm not saying he is A.J. Brown but he's built in a similar way where it's that shorter squattier wide receiver who's 220 plus pounds but also runs like the wind that's what Xavier Leggett is that's

Starting point is 00:14:03 kind of where the comparison ends though because when you look at Leguette on film, he did some good things this year. A lot of his big plays came on taking slants to the house, you know, a little bit of run after catch type stuff. He's got some juice to get vertical. I think my big concern with him is you see the lack of fluidity on film. You see the lack of refinement on film. And also it took him so long to break out in college. I mean, it took him until his fifth season, sixth season, whatever. I think it was his fifth season to finally have like any production at the college level. Now, when he got that production, it was outstanding.

Starting point is 00:14:36 It was over a thousand yards this past year. He was the focal point of that offense, which you love to see. But it took him so long to get to that point to where he was, you know, what a 22, 23 year old man who was dominating 1920 year olds, you know, and I mean, in the SEC. So again, I don't want to downplay it too much. But I'm always wary of players who are very late breakouts in college, and they don't break out until they're essentially grown men playing with college kids. And that's my fear with Xavier Leguette. And then also, again, the lack of refinement for being a fifth year senior, the lack of the route running prowess. And I know a lot of people will look at him and they'll say, okay, cool. This is another AJ Brown type. I'm feeling good about that.

Starting point is 00:15:14 But also you can look at it on the same hand and say, this looks like a Jonathan Mingo type. This looks like a Traylon Burks type. You know, again, we've seen this type miss quite a bit as much as we've seen hit or maybe even more than we've seen it hit. So, you know, Xavier Leggett, I get it. And I think if you take him, you have to have a very specific yards after catch like underneath type role for him. But I do understand the hype there. If you take him on day two, I think you can have a really good role player in your offense. You just can't ask him to be your every down, like number one wide receiver, because I just don't think that's who he is. Uh, but yeah, I love the traits, love the upside, love that he finally broke out this year. It's great to see a player who just

Starting point is 00:15:52 kind of stuck with it his entire career and finally broke out. And I love seeing him run that four, three. So I'm not, I'm not like out on Xavier like yet. I just, you know, I'm a little more cautious with him than I am over, you you know with some of these other wide receivers in this draft class uh final comment we got here is from terry davis 6336 he says i don't know i don't get why you guys are sleeping on wiggins now i'm assuming he's talking about the cornerback from clemson wiggins who's supposed to go in the first round super super good athlete i mean i think you ran the four th threes. We knew this whole draft process. He was going to test like one of the best corners in this entire class. And he certainly showed it at the combine. I think my big concern with him is, you know, maybe I'm just like broken by Chris

Starting point is 00:16:35 Ballard. I really could just be broken by Chris Ballard to the point where when I'm watching draft prospects, I'm only watching them from the Chris Ballard point of view. And when I look at a player like Wiggins, I don't see a Chris Ballard player in the slightest. Would I take Wiggins in round one? Sure. Absolutely. I love the traits. I love the film.

Starting point is 00:16:54 I think he does a lot of great things with the ball in the air. And he has some really good flashes. But I don't think Chris Ballard does because the shorter arms, because he's kind of more like slimmer, like a narrow type player, and he's not a good tackler. He doesn't come up. He doesn't make hits. He doesn't tackle guys. A lot of whiffs in the run department. And then again, the skinnier frame, the shorter arms, it's very anti-Chris Ballard. I mean, when you look at all the corners he's taken, Rakia Sin, the former wrestler, you get Juju Brents, a really big bulky corner, Darius Rush,

Starting point is 00:17:24 Jalen Jones, even going all the way back to Nate Harrison and Quincy Wilson. I'm not saying it's the right path to take. I'm not saying Chris Ballard's always right at cornerback, but we obviously have a type that he takes at the cornerback position, and that's really not what Wiggins is. I just don't really see it when I'm watching Wiggins film. So if we exclude him from conversations of first round corner, if we exclude him from mock drafts, when it comes to the Colts, it's because we just don't see him as a fit with the Colts. And I think that, I mean, I think that makes a lot of sense. You guys can let me know in the comment section and how you respond to this video, but yeah,

Starting point is 00:17:59 I like Wiggins a lot. I just, I just don't see him being on the Colts draft board, or if he is on the Colts draft board, I don't see him being on the Colts draft board. Or if he is on the Colts draft board, I don't see him being higher than guys like Teron Arnold or Cooper DeGene or Quinion Mitchell. So I just don't think he's going to be that high for the Indianapolis Colts. But you guys let me know in the comments section what you think. I think those are all some good players, really great comments there. And we're going to keep having fun with all those things there. So make sure you keep leaving comments on our mock drafts give your input and give some players that you absolutely love in this upcoming draft but coming up we're going to talk about free

Starting point is 00:18:33 agency now free agency is a week away we know which players got tagged and which players didn't and i really do think there is one position the colts are going to be targeting when it comes to free agency but first get buckets with your first bet on FanDuel, America's number one sportsbook, because right now new customers get $150 in bonus bets with any winning $5 bet. That's $150 if your bet wins. Bet on all your favorite NBA players and teams with quick bets, live same game parlays, exclusive props, and more. Just visit FanDuel.com slash locked on and shoot your shot.

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Starting point is 00:19:34 Now, I'm sure you guys have heard there's been a lot of safety movement on the open market. And a lot of it has been pointing towards there being an abundance of good safeties out there in free agency this year. Now, Kyle Duggar from the New England Patriots was tagged. So he will not be available. But pretty much everyone else is going to be out there in free agency this year. Now, Kyle Duggar from the New England Patriots was tagged, so he will not be available, but pretty much everyone else is going to be out there. Safeties Cam Curl and Xavier McKinney were not tagged by their respective teams. And then Rayshawn Jenkins, Jamal Adams, Quandre Diggs, all of them got released today as well.

Starting point is 00:20:02 So it's just going to be a loaded, loaded free agency when it comes to safety. And I think this bodes really well for the Indianapolis Colts. Now, look, I'm not a newsbreaker. I'm not a reporter. So don't take this as some official like super insider report. But I did talk to a few agents and a few NFL people when I was out there at the NFL Combine. And a couple of them did relate to me like, look, the Colts have been sniffing around the safety market. It seems like the Colts are going to be interested in some of these safeties. Now, I know this isn't, again, a game-breaking report or anything. It makes a lot of sense that the Colts are going to be interested in safeties with Julian Blackman potentially walking this offseason

Starting point is 00:20:34 and with the big need at safety alongside Nick Cross. So I do think that there is going to be some movement on the safety market, and at least one or two of these guys will end up in Indy. I have heard there is mutual interest between a couple players and the safety market. And at least one or two of these guys will end up in Indy. I have heard there is mutual interest between a couple of players and the Colts. I'm not going to say which guys it is because again, that's just not how you keep relationships with guys and with agents and stuff like that. But I've heard there is some mutual interest between a couple of these players with the Colts. So we'll see what happens there. My hunch when I'm looking at the safety market and when I'm looking at this Colts roster is that the Colts. So we'll see what happens there. My hunch when I'm looking at the safety market and

Starting point is 00:21:05 when I'm looking at this Colts roster is that the Colts want to keep Nick Cross at free safety. Now that obviously comes with some risk because Nick Cross was very hit or miss in his couple snaps out there last year, had a fantastic pick against the Pittsburgh Steelers, had a couple really bad whiffs and missed tackles against the Atlanta Falcons and against the Raiders to close the season. But I do think there is some potential there. So I understand the Colts wanting to keep him at free safety, keep that development, and kind of go into the offseason with the plan of starting him. And then having a backup plan for Rodney Thomas or maybe some other players that they could sign on free agency. So I do think it's a good start to have Cross at free safety, but where I think they're really going to attack the strong safety position

Starting point is 00:21:48 is in free agency. I think they're going to go find a veteran strong safety to run alongside Nick Cross. That way he can take some of those responsibilities away from Cross. You have a good run defender in the box and a player who has good ball skills also around the linebackers and, and kind of doing those box things that we see in this cover three scheme. So I do think, you know, if you were looking at like free agent safety is, and you're looking at the types that the Colts are going to go after, I think you want to look for, you know, to, to, for lack of better words, you want to look for the cam chancellor and not for the Earl Thomas in free agency. I think you're looking at guys like J Ron curse. You're looking at guys like Jeremy chin, Kyle Duggar, if he were to hit cam curl, Xavier McKinney, I know he can kind of

Starting point is 00:22:29 do a little bit of both, but like Xavier McKinney, uh, Jordan Whitehead, you know, you're looking at these types of guys, Ray Sean Jenkins. These are the types of guys you want to look at when you're looking at free and seeing you're really putting together what the Colts could do in the open market this year, rather than looking at the Geno stones and looking at the Anton Winfields of he worked to have hit and stuff like that. Like, I don't think they're going for a free safety. I think it's going to be the strong safety type that can play in the box. And I'm not saying that Julian Blackman won't be back next year. I'm just saying the Colts are very, you know, they're, they're approaching this with a really realistic thought in their mind where

Starting point is 00:23:02 look, Blackman has been really good when he's played and this season was his best career season but at the end of the day he has not been healthy for any season with the Colts he's he's missed time every single year and a lot of these have been pretty big injuries so when you're looking at you know bringing him back and you're looking at this whole open market sure you want to work back to him and maybe get a deal done and bring him back into camp at least and and get him back on this team but you can't really commit too many years to a player like that because you never know when the next injury is going to be and maybe maybe he'll go the rest of his career like Malik Cougar did like the second he leaves the Colts all of a sudden he's

Starting point is 00:23:37 super healthy never misses a game and becomes a really good safety that's fine but again you have to look at it with the information in front of you. And the information in front of you says Julian Blackman has not finished a season fully healthy like ever. So you have to kind of approach it that way. I think Julian Blackman is a really good safety. And I don't think it's off the table for him to come back. It's just they have to do their due diligence and look at all these other safeties that are going to be out there.

Starting point is 00:24:01 But, you know, we'll see if this is the position that Chris Ballard wants to spend big. He typically doesn't. And I don't think that's a secret. He doesn't really spend, you know, the A money on B players, like he likes to say. But there are options out there. Again, I mentioned a couple of players, but like if they wanted to go big, Xavier McKinney is going to hit the open market. And he's a player that would make this defense infinitely better from day one. Pure ball hawk, a guy who has great tackling ability, can play inside and out, does a lot of great things at safety. And Chris Ballard has tried to spend at safety before he tried to give Landon Collins a big

Starting point is 00:24:34 contract years ago. So maybe this is a giant safety that he's able to lure to Indy. But I think there are a ton of options is what I'm trying to say here. And it could be an older veteran like a Kajay Diggs or like a Jamal Adams, where you're just getting, you know, that veteran type player alongside Nick Cross. So that way your whole defense has better communication. Or maybe it is just a young ascending player like a Jordan Whitehead or Jeremy Chin or, you know, a Cam Curl, like a guy who just brings some more juice and some playmaking

Starting point is 00:25:02 to this defense. But the Colts are going to do their due diligence. There's a lot of good safety talent out there. And I'd be very shocked if the Colts came out of free agency without a new veteran starting safety. I really do think that that's the way they're going to go with this. And they're going to have a new strong safety alongside Nick Cross going into this offseason.

Starting point is 00:25:18 But we'll see how it plays out. Again, I'm not much of a reporter, so we'll see how all that plays out. But again, I feel very confident predicting that for the Colts. They're going to get a safety. out again i'm not much of a reporter so we'll see how much how all that plays out but again i feel very confident predicting that for the colts they're going to get a safety they're going to take a hard look at the strong safety class they're going to bring in a veteran that fits the scheme and fits playing alongside nick cross it's gonna be really cool to see uh before we get out of here for the day guys though i do want to remind you that the indie draft guide uh the pre orders are now open for 8.99 with codeIST. You get access to an essential piece of reading for Colts fans,

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